skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because those cheap AC to USB power adapters are specifically designed to charge iDevices http://learn.adafruit.com/minty-boost/icharging
It looks ok now for us (appfluence.com), but even when it was down, our website was still up, only the sync services went offline. And even then, they were accessible from the web server...
Allowing insider trading brings along with itself a whole slew of perverse incentives. The biggest by far is that most categories of 'insiders' are also in a position to materially impact the value of companies. Parties like tax auditors, advisory services around mergers & acquisitions, management consulting, that sort of thing. Insider trading is therefore partially a protection against conflict-of-interest.
Also to/too in "to technical"
Aren't most wi-fi networks trivial to crack anyway?
As everyone else is saying, this article is spreading fear for no reason. Working with financial markets is a key technique for commodities companies and always has been, particularly to hedge. The net result is that food prices are lower and more stable.

The exception is onions. Onion futures were outlawed 50 years ago for "reasons" given in this article, and onions are more volatile than oil, which is the _most_ traded, speculated-on, and manipulated commodity.

In summary, the author of this article is calling for forcible action that would hurt peoples' lives, potentially even disrupting world food supplies.
Design and Use of Pushbutton Telephone Sets [1960] [pdf]
These are all great points but let us know for God's sake. You trust them, and I sure trust them with a lot of secrets. But they have to ask. I would have no idea if not for Hacker News.

CyanogenMod is on my list.

EDIT: Oh, and "backing up" my contacts without asking me. That made me livid, that's the height of arrogance. And yet I still use Android.
The M7 motion coprocessor in the iPhone 5s is a big deal
When people attempt to do these things, I hope search and rescue bills them for their expense.
Lets assume that a school can properly separate kids based on intelligence, (which they can't) and that separating kids based on intelligence is a good idea (which it isn't). You will still run into a couple problems if you wanted to try something like this:

1) Kids that don't make it into the "Smart" class will think they are stupid. That is probably one of the worst things you can do to a kid.

2) Having their Kids in the "Smart" class will be much more important to the parents of borderline kids than anyone else. If a school is politically pressured into putting a kid into the "Smart" class that doesn't belong (and this will happen all the time), and that kid struggles to keep up, he's going to feel like he's stupid (see #1).

3) Kids look for any opportunity they can to bully each other. Doing something like this would make it really easy for them to identify which kids to bully because you're defining two different social classes for them. Whichever is larger will bully the other.

PS. Don't call kids dullards.
Symantec's CIO: We're Going To Predict If Your Employees Are Security Risks
That's not fraud.
Yeah, but I use them often enough that that's a PITA.
One gentle problem with DDG is that results tend to be heavily US centric. I'd like some way to filter those, even if it's not perfect.
If you wanna read short messages from which you won't benefit in any way, might as well try:

http://whatthecommit.com
As a person who attended a Title 1 high school, I saw a lot guys who came from single parent homes get kicked out after freshman year. I mean a lot them didn't understand the concept of not talking, but at times I felt like a lot teachers where just out to get them.
It's great seeing all the replies about how systems should be designed to handle this situation. But given the scope of the pedantry, it's surprising that my point was missed.

That point being that I was surprised that it wouldn't even occur to someone that there would be some difficulties with this in the world in which we currently live.
Post-Clinton, Post-Obama: The Rise of the New New Political Left
VPS providers usually use Virtuozzo/OpenVZ which is an older but more secure technology than LXC.
the next next step would be to provide in place edition with validation :)

Definitely! Take a look at http://createjs.org/--it will probably help (in fact, I've been using it for a different project and if I have time I might be submitting a pull request to you in the next week or so).
Or even better, Array Mapped Tries: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/64394/files/triesearches.p...
A human would have probably noticed the "6 characters" part. I bet this was done automatically.
Document your code: part 3
about removing quotes from strings, I tought about it, and I think as long as some other display property is different (to differentiate the number 4 from the string "4") and something more than color to avoid causing trouble to colorblind people I think it's a good idea.

the array indices I was thinking on having it as an option, I would like 'something' to make them standout as lists even when no index is displayed, any idea?

will open issues for both:

* https://github.com/marianoguerra/json.human.js/issues/5

* https://github.com/marianoguerra/json.human.js/issues/6
Building a Better Workflow: A Case for Enfocus & ClojureScript
Bit Hacking (2011)
Contribute One-Click Services via a Github Pull Request
It would also stand to reason that the court/LEO requests to Google for data are just a CYA/formality with respect to them "legally" getting the authorization to read the data.

They likely have the access to all the data they want. They use the legal vectors for requests just to see what the companies would give them on the request, and can compare the difference between the provided data vs the slurped data.
It might be good enough (and less complicated) to just optionally prettify camelCased and underscore_separated field names (to "Camel Case" and "Underscore Separated", respectively).
I wish there were more stories of people who've gone "post-PHP", talking about their experiences.

"PHP developers", by which I mean developers that know PHP and PHP only, are the first to throw a fit when their language is criticized.

This is especially awkward as most PHP developers don't even observe best practices for developing with PHP, insisting on using obsolete versions, write hazardously bad SQL queries with so much moaning about how it's not a big deal, and get absolutely irate when you suggest they use an application platform instead of rolling everything by hand.

There's something to be said for using a language where the community encourages people do to it properly, and everyone's trying to make an effort to move forward together.
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Phonebloks: A modular phone you update a piece at a time
The problem is -- and the author explicitly states this -- this is all total speculation. This may be wants happening, but it's certainly very _possible_ that Apple is storing something more closely resembling your fingerprint. Or that they aren't discarding extraneous information. Or ANYTHING, really. We just don't know. So while the info box at the top suggests that the author is trying to "Address some of the concerns" with Apple's fingerprint scanning, it does not do that at all. Only Apple can do that. And even then, you have to trust that Apple is telling the truth. And, further, that the NSA hasn't already served them some kind of sealed order that doesn't allow them to disclose the truth.

It's entirely possible the author is correct, too. We just plain don't know.
Not for photos. The iPhone appears as a normal digital camera.
These lectures are awesome if you have already encountered the material and want to start over from scratch really internalizing it this time. If you use them as a first-time learner you are likely to be pretty confused.
No, Martha Stewart went to jail for obstruction of justice because she lied to the investigators about someone giving her a stock tip. She likely would have been fine if she had just told the truth (or had just refused to talk).
"In December 2011, researcher Stefan Viehböck reported a design and implementation flaw that makes brute-force attacks against PIN-based WPS feasible to perform on WPS-enabled Wi-Fi networks. A successful attack on WPS allows unauthorized parties to gain access to the network. The only effective workaround is to disable WPS.[4]"

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup#Security

[4] http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/723755
Twitter Doles Out Stock Grants to Keep Key Talent
meople.net is free and allows to view your streams of more than 10 social networks in one place. Even more: it doesn't require your email: all you have to do is login into your favorite networks.
Except they maybe... will learn some physics?
I was originally tempted to incorporate for liability protection as well, also provided that I may be stepping on the toes of someone big companies who might cause me trouble. (they've caused trouble in the past to startups that my lawyers have worked with)
I actually think the source example on that page is far more readable than the HTML formatted output.

Maybe I'm not human. Captchas have been telling me this for a while.
you got a few backers - thats better than I can say about many things I've worked on over the years - so cheers to that!

question is: "have you tried turning if off and on again" :)

..I've heard rebooting a campaign is a totally reasonable thing to do. Maybe reboot after a little more work and some beta testers play with it?
To The Programmers, On Programmers' Day
Andrew, Andrew, Andrew ...

Well, IANAL, but since the beginning of time we humans -- but of course I mean homo sapiens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens) -- have encountered this existential, if I may, conundrum. As it were, there is a veritable plethora of solutions to this modern variation.

Now, given the constant that my time is assuredly precious, I cannot tutor you in even a fraction of them right now. But I do wish to instill in you great confidence that you are in no immediate trouble. It is well known and accepted that this country -- and even "cyber states" like Hacker News, if you will -- of course believes down to its core that you are innocent until proven guilty. So read on, good sir. Read on! Ask on! Hack on!
https://www.mashape.com/community/github-zen#!documentation
that would be cool, let's track it here: https://github.com/marianoguerra/json.human.js/issues/7
Unfortunately, I have had to enable WEP a few times for certain OS / network card / router configurations, so there are or can be compelling reasons to do this. Pretty sure it was XP though my wife's XP box is working fine with WPA2 on my current router.

However, I try to treat even my home WIFI as if it were a coffee shop. The password is there to keep leechers out, but I still vpn into a more secure location for some tasks, use SSL when connecting to sensitive services, and keep my ports locked down.
It depends on the kind of trie that you build - it's worth taking a look at Hash Array Mapped Tries http://lampwww.epfl.ch/papers/idealhashtrees.pdf

The Clojure programming language is completely designed around several immutable variants.
Zombie Ant and the Fungus That Controls Its Mind
Yes finally! But I want to see Behind the Scenes blogposts about the development! :O
Yeah, I was expecting point-free also.
Yes, that's what I thought, too.

If only she could bring herself to getting hooked on a creative endeavour, she would achieve remarkable results.
That's all well and good, and I agree with a lot of this, but why is the content category a play on the word "vagina"?
Time is a lot like shelving. When you have empty space, you want to fill it.

Filling your time with the right responsibilities and being strategic about how you qualify what is a "right" responsibility relative to your personality, is "Doing It Right" IMHO.

I would never turn in what I have now - I have a startup, a lot of responsibility, a structured day, obligations to fulfill, and people that look to me execute on my promises. More so than I ever have at any point in my life. Is it stressful sometimes? Sure it is. Do I have less freedom? Only in the sense that I knowingly structured these responsibilities and obligations in such a way that yes, they are binding, but they are also enhancing my ken ineffably. That is my ultimate goal, to ensure my responsibilities aren't void of meaning for me - I also aim to not repeat them and when I do it usually means I wasn't paying enough attention.

The experience that you have less or more freedom is always relative. Freedom is always in the mind (sorry if that sounds wishy washy but my argument for that is not appropriately short for a comment).

We are bound by our own nature, we are impelled by archetypal forces (psychologically, biologically) most of us aren't even conscious of and realizing that you can structure what responsibilities or obligations you think will serve you the most is exercising freedom in the face of that which you cannot change.
The HSTS commits /maybe/ suggest that Google thinks a Verisign intermediate was signing MITMs for Google properties. They just blacklisted "VeriSignClass3SSPIntermediateCA"

See: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/23523051

Note that the associated bug is private (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=173460).

There's a good explanation of the "bad_static_spki_hashes" parameter here: http://ritter.vg/blog-cas_and_pinning.html
I always format the internal disk when I send in a computer for hardware repairs. I don’t expect to get the same computer back and I don’t want my data to be out there.
I actually find easier to read raw json....
I'm in the middle of reading "Surely you're joking, Mr. Fenyman!", and so far, it is a FANTASTIC read. He has so many interesting stories about fiddling with stuff as a kid, working on the manhattan project, picking locks, interactions with Oppenheimer, Einstein, etc.

Even if you aren't at all interested in physics, math, or anything science related, I would still recommend this book.

That said, I now have a lot more reading to do. I know almost nothing about physics, and this collection looks like the perfect introduction. I'm going to read it in Mr. Fenyman's voice, and try to have the same curiosity as he did as a kid. Very excited to see this post.
Fox News Explains GitHub
Grouping kids by perceived intelligence could actually be a net harm in the socialization aspect of school. Public schools are currently a more or less heterogenous mix of everyone in the community. Splitting by perceived intelligence would homogenize groups of kids, probably along economic lines (college educated parents likely to be more involved in their kids education, more able to afford tutoring and such than blue collar or poverty level parents)

You're also assuming that grouping "smart" and "dumb" kids together harms both parties. In my experience the opposite is often true. Being forced to help someone understand a difficult concept often leads to new insight and deeper understanding. Similarly the kids who have trouble understanding a concept have access to the quicker students for help whereas in a homogenized class the only help would be the instructor, who has to divide their attention among all students.
That is the agency problem and bans on insider trading do not directly address that. The agency problem is addressed through bans short-selling and put options, as long as the officers and directors have along exposure to the share price, their interests are aligned.

The ban on inside information is intended to attract capital by ensuring that stock markets are fair and transparent. If the investing public believes that the stock market is nothing more than a con to take rubes' money capital will stay away, and keep capital from flowing to productive firms.
You're still begging the question. Shall I jump on the regress treadmill with you and ask why women have a "comparative advantage" with respect to caring for their children? I suspect you'd like us eventually to land on some innate, hard-coded difference between men and women that makes women's relative absence in tech and under-representation in pay and seniority in other industries okay, but that's bullshit.

Men are every bit as capable of looking after children as women, and it is a convenient insult to men to suggest otherwise: convenient because it just happens to uphold the gender imbalance that leaves men in much more powerful positions, relatively speaking, than women.
You know, it's funny but I find the pretty-printed JSON easier to read than the formatted HTML.
Twitter rolls out new beta update for Android
I wouldn't call writing "ui large red labeled icon button" in HTML semantic anything. I'd called it confusing orgy of style and content.
I have 2 rat pets. I can confirm that they LOVE sugar.
It probably is the single thing that makes them fight each other for it (if one finishes candy first etc)
The only thing I am confused about is why he was fired for this tweet and not fired when he posted a string of tweets using the N-word and other homophobic and racist slurs[1]. In comparison to his past behavior, these latest tweets seem rather mild.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/10/pax-dickinson-fired...
Network connectivity issues in us-east-1
I think the main problem is that lots of people who have heard the "try it once and get hooked" story realize that they did try it once without problems, and therefore assume that addiction won't be a problem. From once to a few times to regular use to addiction is a slippery slope that most avoids, but for some it can take several years. But none of them started it with the assumption that they themselves would get addicted, and along the way made up many rationalizations for their drug use. So in that way, this anecdote is interesting.
thanks, fixed and pushed.

HN is like a free proof reader as a service :P

when two words have similar pronunciation I may write the wrong one.
I am sure you did not intend it, but the "chef to waiter" statement is such a big disservice to what solution architect people do. Using your analogy I also certainly don't believe that writing code equates to being the chef. I love software development and see the tremendous value it brings but in most major businesses its relegated as a cost centre rather than revenue generator.

I don't equate being in a solution architect role to not writing any code or being a bad developer. It actually takes a much broader skill set to do a solution architect's role. The best solution architects have reasonably high communication skills, strong understanding of business drivers and are able to articulate well to non technical people and most important see technology as one cog in a business rather the be all and end all. These are not skills that any typical developer will necessarily have.

The term is also abused a little bit but in major corporations it has a lot of weight. I would also say that just like any role, there are the best and worst people doing it.

The reason I mentioned it is that for people who still have a strong love for technology but don't want to be relegated to being a developer when they are much, much older (and frankly who want more advancement) the solution/enterprise architect seems to be a good fit.
You can read the first answer to this Physics SO question (http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29355/reading-the...) to see how these lectures fare in light of later findings.
It's completely ridiculous that Google "backs up" passwords in clear text without encrypting them. Mozilla does that properly in their Sync service. So why can't Google do that?
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Paypal scrambles for fix after freezing two more crowdfunded games
I personally don't like this flat take on logos lately. It seems like designers are taking the easy way out. No shades, no shadows, no depth. It's just a 2d logo. I like the new Firefox log thought, it's flatter but not all the way flat-looking.
Judy arrays are a straightforward, highly optimized implementation of a HAMT.

Unfortunately, they were highly optimized for 32-bit machines.
This would be a fantastic option for the admin interface's of JSON document stores like CouchBase, ElasticSearch or RethinkDB.

JSON is easy to read, but can get hard to visually parse when the payload is large.
The icon still needs the words "dropbox" which was dropped.

As a brand they are not "nike" or "apple" or an automobile. That aren't that famous yet. And the logo isn't that memorable.

Seeing that logo (w/o the words) has one effect on knowledgeable users and another effect on newbies and people to whom dropbox means very little as a company (people outside of startups).

As an aside the logo (imho of course) isn't that good and makes your eyes go in different directions. It really could benefit from the words appearing in proximity.

Above opinion based on my many years in the graphics business and observation of business and branding over time.
In the Loop: Chocolate.js, a Simple Webapp Framework Built on Node.js
if that's the case, how did they get the private key from verisign? was it stolen? did verisign simply give them it? or was it obtained under some kind of legal process? if it was under a legal process, doesn't this raise additional questions about the judicial overview - did they realise how broad this was?
Because no-one noticed them, it would seem. I imagine someone did a Twitter search for 'Titstare' and stumbled across his feed.
except that it still DOES dilute everything except the thing that was added
Nadbor Drozd – creator of Turing “Don’t take game advice from non-gamers”
You may find sshuttle interesting [1]. It's essentially VPN implemented via SSH tunnel.

[1]: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
I'd like to point out that Google also has devices that they control within 100 feet of almost every WiFi hotspot in the world.
Ah! You're right. Confusing.

Also confusing that "false"[[1]] works.
I know I sound like a broken record, and I don't want to derail discussion of what is a great post... but just watch this post disappear from the front page.

Every time gender is so much as mentioned on Hacker News, it is immediately flagged off the site. The community's lack of courage to even discuss these issues is pretty depressing.
I'm glad to see this here, even though it will doubtless bring the HN gender inequality apologists out in droves. It is my hope that each additional exposure to the argument that it's not okay for men in a male-dominated industry to continue acting in such a way as to keep that industry hostile toward women will in some small move us toward the point at which most people will no longer be able to accept the persistent sexism.
Navigating Detroit: A VFA Fellow Discovers Ideas, Energy, Opportunity
This is a great idea, however the website needs some work I keep getting struck scrolling because the code boxes have overflow scroll on them. Also the navigation arrows at the top don't work :/
Depends on when you look at it.
> it will take a complete tear-down and rebuild to make the tech world the kind of place we’d want to be

Rebuilding the world to fit the whims of people who are horrified by tweets or apps is not a good idea.
At the time, he had only a thousand or so followers and there was not yet a major outcry.

As I said in an earlier comment:

I can remember reading quite a few [of his tweets] and
thinking "wow, this guy's gonna get called out one of
these days". Guess it finally happened, and by someone
with a big enough megaphone to really make it go viral.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6364769

edit: Especially since he had his professional title in his twitter bio.
I should hope that is illegal to lie during such a transaction. Real estate disclosure laws don't cover that, though. They cover information you are required to volunteer to serious buyers. In the absence of such laws, you would not need to say anything about the state of your basement unless the buyer specifically asked.
whoa whoa whoa there is a command-line vorlon available? what?