skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A PR stunt that's been going on for 5 years and this is the first mention of it? Heathrow is generally a pretty miserable flying experience but you'd think that they'd be able to get it in the press a little sooner if it was just PR.
It sounds like a lot of passive-aggressive behavior on everyone's end and observing from the sidelines without bringing things up like an adult.

Conflict is good in healthy doses.

But if a disgruntled employee can't even maturely say "Look we've got a problem. This is the way I see things and this is the reason I disagree with you, nothing personal...", then there's a problem with culture.

A CEO, or any decent leader, needs to be decisive, communicative and live with the consequences and risks of a decision while learning post hoc. People do get territorial. People do act like dicks. People do threaten to quit. Be a leader and learn to manage these people and situations. Firing someone or moving someone to a corner without first talking to them is a pretty dickish move too.

A good CEO will hire people that complement his or her skills.

If you're too worried about directly confronting someone who is too valuable to you, at some point you should hire someone with the people skills to diffuse these situations in a way that minimizes the damage.
Bill Gates, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg.
In my opinion the way iMessage works natively on an iphone/pad is awesome[1]. You don't ever have to think about it. No separate apps, just one place for communication.

I wish there could be some commonly agreed standard that would include all of the smartphone OS and be implemented similarly.

[1] except when I forget to check 3g before sending a photo and get charged for an MMS :(
I would be surprised if #1 was the case. Given the amount of volume of traffic that this app will generate, the traffic for identifying a rapidly signing in Message.app will be pretty unique and easily blockable by Apple.

Additionally, I know that recent efforts in the hackintosh community had problems with Message.app because the latest protocols incorporate being able to access the serial number of your machine (or something along those lines). Apple goes through some extensive hoops verifying that access to OS X -only and iOS-only services really does come from their devices.
Wow, this guy got downvoted fast and unfairly in my opinion. He stated a fact.

I don't know what the Nigeria attack is, but in the three other attacks he listed the enemy is known and in two of those attacks they wore uniforms. Drones have been used against at least one of those groups.

I think people don't like the term "Islamic" being used, but they were done by groups claiming to be Islamic, and reported in the media as Islamic.

I am tired of the constant straw man arguments "but we have killed more people", "but christians are also terrorists" etc. Debate the issue at hand instead. Who are our enemy (if anyone) and how do we deal with them?
Um, how is it an interoperability fiasco? If I message someone who doesn't have iMessage it just falls back to SMS.
I don't think the author is saying that there's no difference between productivity between engineers, it's exactly the opposite, there are so many differences and nuances that it's almost impossible to measure all of them. Your mood, chair, coworkers, boss, temperature, programming language, editor, task, etc. all have some influence over your productivity. You can't say "all things equal" because things are not equal in the real world. That's not to say that performance measure is hopeless but that it's as complicated as weather forecast: you have a huge ammount of variables.
I just tried it, and I couldn't get it to update my facebook, it just kept saying "command not found". Though I have to admit, I don't use Siri. It did seem that I would have been able to place phonecalls, but the numbers I tried were International, and I don't have an international plan.
Steps to become 10x engineer:

1. Be one of the first in the project.

2. Make project messy (for example, by practicing narcissistic design [1]).

3. Don't do any kind of mentoring for newcomers, don't write any docs.

4. Be an asshole to kill newcomers' confidence.

5. When all other founding engineers leave, you will be 10x even by fair metrics.

[1] https://github.com/stuarthalloway/presentations/wiki/Narciss...
I dunno, I would say my web programming, data structures, and algorithms classes have direct application to what I'm doing now. Compilers/software engineering also taught me quite a few design patterns. Graphics taught me about the idiosyncrasies of display systems and using coordinate systems in a complicated way to create complex images or systems of graphical entities. I could go on, but I think most STEM classes have direct application to work in those fields.
>> "I don't doubt you can understand the difference between a government law enforcement agency reading your messages and some guy off the street reading your messages."

I'd feel more secure with just some guy off the street reading my messages. Fortunately I don't ever send CC#'s through messaging services so there's very little else he could do.
Haha, same here. Instead I wrote an app that uses the iMessage Mac client to insert a mail address into the to: field and check whether it supports iMessage. And then I use pixelbuffer data to figure out whether the mail address has the correct iMessage supported color in the ui. Works great, but is a bit slow.
I don't know think this is a fair assessment; wouldn't having users fall-back on the vesa driver be sufficient for what you are describing? The nv driver supports extensions like xv, so I've always found it was fine for my 2D needs.
If finding such a numbers is much more difficult than checking if a number satisfies the requirements then it could be used in cryptography as an alternative to finding prime numbers or generating hashes. Although I am not sure there are enough of these numbers for any arbitrary number of squares to make it practical.
> Also, a landing card is required for transit to Ireland. (But no where else.)

I don't want to defend Heathrow but you need a landing card in this case as it is your entry point to the Common Travel Area [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Travel_Area
This will surely be pulled very quickly. For a start it's using the name iMessage. Secondly this is a big selling point for iDevices. Apple gets no benefit from it being available on other platforms.
well, all these analogies are interesting, but hackers don't get there by accident. They don't just spot the door, because these doors are invisible to regular visitor, right? You have to actively look for "doors", which implies that you have a premeditated intent of finding the "secret doors". And you also know very well that owner didn't want you in there...
Not the case at all. Travel to Europe and see for yourself. :)
If this is all true I honestly don't see much wrong with this law. 6 years might seem like a lot for a non-violent crime like this but with the amount of money those sites can make anything less probably wouldn't be much of a deterrent.
Minecrafting with OS OpenData
You can even wear a mask

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/seeing-the-human-pulse-06...
> Heathrow is generally a pretty miserable flying experience

Am I the only one who (so far!) hasn't had any issues with Heathrow? Every single time I've been it's gone smoothly and on time. Last time I went through there wasn't even a queue at passport control(!)

I just thought it better to speak up because otherwise there's a bias with only people who have complaints commenting :)

Good on them for doing this for this kid though. Definitely not just a PR stunt if it's been going on for 5 years...
TLS is secure?
I'm successfully using PyPy in production. It's about data processing. The most important dependencies: redis driver, beautiful soup.

PyPy cPython
jobs/sec ~60 ~8
mem usage 1.5G 2G

When using lxml on cPython, the jobs/sec increased to 10 (on that time lxml wasn't supported by PyPy, now it is). I really encourage to give a try to PyPy.
Certificate authorities are secure?
Asperger's has been pushed off of the Euphemism Treadmill by the APA from their DSM book, the same organisation that had homosexuality down as a mental illness. It's replacement: "Autism spectrum disorder".

Now when you put something in a 'spectrum' it allows you to talk about somebody with a very mild tick, and someone with an extreme condition in the same breath. Some examples: "homosexuality"(sic), "perversion", "alcoholism", "racism" and "substance abuse". You can put any of those on a spectrum and it will allow you to make some very unfair comparisons between two very different people.

I disagree that putting anything on a spectrum provides a great deal of insight. I think it's intellectually lazy and actually quite dangerous an idea. I find as you found, that people can use it to blur lines that should not be blurred.

A relative once said that the autism spectrum helped her understand that her son's and husband's predisposition to use logic to justify their behaviour was a genetic fault. She found that concept comforting, because otherwise she couldn't understand why they don't agree with her on certain matters. Neither of them have been diagnosed, and they seem perfectly fine to me. I pointed out to her that that didn't represent a huge leap in understanding them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychiatric_Associati...

[1] http://www.aane.org/about_asperger_syndrome/as_dsmv.html

[2] http://englishcowpath.blogspot.com/2011/06/euphemism-treadmi...
:) It's not 0 hours investment, just 0 hours investment this year. All of that work last year was investment that's now paying off, bit by bit.

Your hourly rate from last year will look slightly better now if you add in this year's earnings...though it's still a rough game to play. Good luck!
Seminário de Climatização de Edifícios na Ordem dos Engenheiros
Notably missing from this piece: An argument that valid responses to perceived abuses include massive, indiscriminate data dumps, repeatedly bypassing MIT's network access controls and/or taking laptops full of classified information to Moscow.
I was reading up on Jeremy Hammond as I knew less about him and this caught my eye:

The judge's husband has an email address released in the Stratfor disclosure and works with Stratfor clients, but the judge refuses to recuse herself (while threatening Hammond that he faces a life sentence).

Unmitigated gall.
Heil Obama!
Here's what I see in Aurora (26) on Mac, no zooming or anything:

http://i.imgur.com/wlfEBHC.png

So even if there is a bug, it's apparently been fixed :)
The prejudice here is amazing. Has no one here ever made a free app? Has anyone heard of Linux? Is it possible that out of all the people in China, at least one talented developer just thought that this would be a fun project that they could contribute?

I still don't recommend allowing your conversation to be MITM'd, but the assertions that China = steal your password and charge your CC are a bit crazy. Propaganda works I see!
But you haven't shown that there is any risk, and neither has anyone else.

Shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't the onus be on proving that there is no risk, not that there is?
One of the most interesting reads was Internode's submission [1] under the "Take 2" heading. Even a layman like myself can see that Telstra's behaviour was anti-competitive and bullying. I can't imagine the headaches that competitors must have gone through to try and get their services to end customers!

[1]http://www.archive.dbcde.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/...
Managing the Transition to High-Availability Linux
VMware to customers: STOP INSTALLING OUR SOFTWARE NOW
Though the author may be right, there is lots of speculation here, and some incorrect facts, which unfortunately for me, limit the validity of these arguments.

"In early March, at a meeting for the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, CIA Director David Petraeus..." David Patraeus left the CIA in November of 2012.

One of the interesting things I find about all of these stories is that in this case, it is actually US that is making these tools and giving the government these capabilities.

As much as we may rile against the government data-mining massive amounts of phone records, in the end, it is hackers who are writing the programs to actually get the data. None of this would be possible if we weren't complicit.

Is money the only reason these devs are taking this work? Or do you think it is more of a 'boil the frog' issue, where they do one small, somewhat questionable thing, then another, then another, until we get to the point where we don't know right from wrong anymore?
There are such standards, they're called SMS and MMS, it's just unfortunate that some greedy bastards are charging through the nose for them, not unlike printer ink.
Fedora Linux Turns 10: What's Next?
It is also extremely easy for your acquaintances (or even patient thieves) to learn your PIN, unless you unlock in a weird, secretive way that is sure to cause teasing or funny looks.

In this way Touch ID is a far far superior defense against snoopy acquaintances unless you happen to be unconscious around them.
I am tired of that people equal introverts == intelligence and extroversion == ordinary. Have you actually bothered to learn any type classification system like MBTI or Jungs theories?

If you had (have?) then you know that extraversion and introversion are simply attitudes(positions) of any cognitive function and they can be rougly translated as objective or subjective position. Take me, i get ENTJ ( dominate function: Extroverted Thinking ) on a typical test and i identify with William.

Based on the text i guess William also is an TE dom or aux (auxillary function). This is because TE (Extroverted Thinking) is interested in knowing and structuring the world. Example is when William lead his mates for plays, what i know an TI (Introverted thinker) would Not have done so. Also William reads lots of facts, history books. He is interested in widening his Knowledge before his Understanding, an Ti is interested in understanding first. Ti are more the classical intelligence loners, that is because they focus on structuring their thoughts and internal models, a Te measures and structures the world.

Overall your post is very biased and uninformed. "extroversion" could be any of: extroverted thinking ( Archetype: General, CEO, Scientist (because Te is interested in measurements and result in the real world) ), extroverted intuition ( Archetype: Eccentric millionaire, eccentric professor, inventor), extroverted feeling ( Archetype: great writers, psychologies, political leaders ) or extroverted sensors (Archetype: Great athletes, competitors, chefs, sensor type critiques). All of the archetypes that i have listed usually are considered intelligent also, as alternatives to the Archetype of the Introverted thinker: philosopher and mathematician.

According to your stereotype text i guess you associate extroversion with extroverted sensing and extroverted feeling in a dom or aux place in individuals.

I would recommend that you expand your knowledge before posting more biased texts about extroverts.
Newell's history of porting Doom to Windows to show it can be a gaming platform
Bear in mind the first pic is of day 5.

Now I'm doing 2 sets a day, so 14 minutes. I'll update you on the status soon.
Perhaps their goal is not to "calm and reassure". Perhaps their goal is to be as transparent as legally possible. In the legal brief they include an exhibit showing how their transparency report would have looked if they had included the national security requests -- go read it and tell me if you think it is more "reassuring".
Are you offering to pay?
Its almost like the Obama administration are the real terrorists.
Yes, I stand corrected on that.
I would recommend not being so open and candid, emotionally and concerning life events, on the internet. This is doubly true when your handle is linked to your photo, location, and real name.

I wouldn't hire you for freelance work due to your seemingly incredibly unstable situation.
This is essentially trolling: you can't start a meaningful discussion with an opening comment like yours.
Star Wars Pinball designer wants to make an Uncharted table
it's nice to see their internal projects as open source.
Then either you go to war - actual, declared war - with that country, or you put up with it.
Oh no, the powerpoint presentation that tells which companies are in bed with NSA will doom us all.

Moscow probably knows most of it, this isn't information/news for them.

I'd like to see all the men that were killed hurt by WikiLeaks data dumps. I mean cables were fucking benign, nothing people already didn't know or heavily suspected.
As far as I am aware this is intentional behaviour, with the ability to opt-out.

These guys should turn the "Allow access to Siri when locked with a passcode" option to off.
US can't impose trade sanctions on a EU members without incurring the wrath of the EU so very unlikely.
> My concern is that if this app was created by Europeans or Americans, I would trust it my password and account, because I would have a tiny fraction of luck in case my account gets compromised and I loose money. There would be a possibility of an investigation, a court and a punishment

There's also the possibility of an investigation, court case and punishment in China.

And I wager the chances of you getting any money back in either case is about the same.
It is, and I could even understand it, but then why do you go and ratify the UN convention for the rights of people with disabilities and the optional protocol on top of it? Including Article 18 on Liberty of movement and nationality. It is very pretentious. Why preach on inclusion? It is like saying whites were discriminating against blacks not because of racism but because of the additional cost for extra "colored" toilets! Also I have contributed like 100k in taxes in around 2 years and I am an asperger's myself. Sorry for the rant, I am frustrated...
It's trivially easy to show that there is a risk of interference, the question is just how big the risk is, and whether turning devices off during takeoffs and landings is worth the inconvenience.

And as mentioned elsewhere there had been reproducible incidents of interference reported, which was the initial reason for the ban.

While I have long maintained that the ban is most likely not necessary, I'd much rather have he FAA make that decision and wait a few years until they have done enough studies and collected enough data.

I agree that we can't run the entire civilization on a precautionary principle, but then again that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about 10-20 minutes of inconvenience during critical flight phases. And believe me I hate the beurocracy and often overreaching rules of the FAA (or EASA in my case), but again I appreciate that we would not have he current air safety record without it. In fact, the FAA is usually reactionary in that they usually only act when fatal accidents have happened. (Pilot and crew rest hour limits is one very recent example).
well not high for europe, maybe berlin but in hamburg 5 years of expertise could very well get you 60k+
Making a Collaborative Piano Using Functional Reactive Programming
How the f* did you made this if you can't even speak English decently? No offense.
As seen on the first group of leaks from wikileaks, Joe Biden pressured and threatened spanish government till they made a law then called Biden-Sinde or Sinde , as it was not enough for RIAA/MPAA lobbies, now we are going to have the new one and they have removed the right to remove DRM for backup personal copies also (which existed before) , when the corporation masters order the US politicians obey when the US politicians order the lame spanish politicians crawl and obey to their masters.
Edited to add that the piracy numbers they usually use for Spain are all lies.
When the alternative is to not post the report at all, I think I'll take the chance.
The 4 digit PIN is not at all easily removed. This meme needs to die.
So, I put the money, they tell me that:

1. I am gambling

2. They decide when to cash in. Usually it takes up to 10 years...

3. I would be a "bother" for the founders (true, but no nicer way of saying this?)

To me, and I am happy to waste HN points on this comment, this feels snarky and offending. They seem to say "we are the cool guys", come join us, maybe you ll be cool too, just gives us the money.
Just aim for similar to non-startup companies, unless there's huge relative career value in working at the particular startup.

Europe employee options won't be worth jack. The liquidation preferences are worse than is typical in the US. Your options will be totally wiped out. Don't be fooled by comparisons to US startups, in this respect.
It should be:

Microsoft Surface 2, Surface Pro 2 Tablets for People Who Know What They Are Doing - All Others Need to Get an iPad
http://thecodingbrain.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/evidence-sugg...
Well actually Silicon Valley is an OS X loving region so its hardly representative.
The remaining 10% of geeks who have more sense than that, have been diagnosed by their friends and or families. It can be used as a stick to control them, so I can see why it provokes a reaction.
> did you made this

Seriously? You're going to complain about his English?
Obviously this has been weighing on you to come back 8 hours later and add that.
It is not the objectivity of it that makes it just, it is the availability of it.

Additionally, your thought experiment is utterly useless at illuminating any debate over the merits (or otherwise) of universal healthcare. Beyond the obvious absurdity of a drug of such potency being known about and deemed effective on such a small group of people lies the fact that were such a drug possible then the correlate for the rest of the population would doubtless follow. But I'll play. If it was possible, then the question of whether to make it available to everyone would be a matter for the government of the day. But having been tangentially involved with healthcare consulting the debate would go as such -'we have a drug that costs $x, but will make a person with blue eyes live forever (and, presumably, never need medical treatment again and be a productive tax-paying member of society). If we give everyone with condition a this, our healthcare costs to down by y, despite the one off cost'

So I'm not sure the point you're trying to make. Is it that the government shouldn't be involved in healthcare? Is it that people should be forced to suffer unless they can pay? Is it that you just want to strongly argue on the internet with a perfect stranger with lots of time to waste? You keep on shifting the goalposts on where you want this argument to head, it is clear to me that you have no concept of how a universal healthcare system works because the points you are raising seem really absurd to me; conversely I have no idea what sort of system you are trying to advocate for/against because most of your arguments seem directed against a fox-news image of universal healthcare that Has no basis in reality and that just don't understand.
Quite possibly but there is no way 60k is the minimum as stated above.
Also notably missing from current discourse: A valid argument that valid responses to perceived abuses include using the traditional whistle-blower channels.

People go to Moscow because there seems to be no other way to blow the whistle any more, not without ending up like Pfc Manning. Snowden said that right from the start; missing that part is either ignorance or disinformation.
A report telling me what it can't say is not precisely informative. Because I know that they can't tell me much about NSA.

Not to mention these two claims are contradictory:

"This report doesn't include national security requests."

"Unfortunately, the government allows services to disclose only the aggregate number of all law enforcement and national security requests received "

Does it include the NSA request, or not in the aggregate? First sentence says no, second implies yes.