skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: Use a template with nicely defined fonts & pictures

a blog post about wordpress is equally informative
> How can MAC spoofing be stopped?

802.1x
Giraph was definitely inspired by BSP and resembles it to some degree. I'm not an expert on Giraph, so I'm not sure exactly how closely related they are.

I don't know much about YARN, so can't really speak to that.
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Heya bobonaza, I see you're new to HN (welcome!) You might have more luck getting people to contact you if you fill out your profile - try adding a few website links of what you're working on and maybe an email address or Twitter handle :)
An interesting perspective. John Gruber does a much better job at refuting it here (under "Defining Innovation Down") than I ever could: http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/the_iphone_5s_and_5c
>Imagine trying to scan a diamond-plate floor panel. The diamond design pattern would be perceived as noise, and the optimizations would attempt to normalize the data to be a flat surface.

I bet you could get around this somewhat if you matched the 3D data up with a normal 2D image, processing it to figure out textures and subtle features.
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Before you download iOS7
There are a few courses doing that. I offered one that had student teams present a chapter each; Ric Holt at Waterloo was also doing something similar with reports. You can read a bit more about it on my blog [1].

[1] http://neilernst.net/2013/01/25/teaching-advanced-software-e...
Since it was one of the very few semi-modern systems programming languages other than C used to build an OS, I would love to see some form of Oberon gain more nerd traction.
Agreed, the beaurocracy is unbearable, I'd love a no-handcuffs F1.
Good to see more mBaaS solutions in the open source arena. Particular using Node.JS which is a great fit for mobile backends.
Exactly. The entire reason Git was created is because a proprietary version control platform (BitKeeper) was given too much trust and power over Free Software projects, which it inevitably abused.

The whole point of Git is that you don't have to surrender control. GitHub is just another BitKeeper. If you really want a Web interface there's Gitorious (which has been around longer than GitHub) and GitLab.

The number of Git-backed Wikis, bug trackers, filesystems, etc. is huge too, judging by the New Packages I see in aptitude every few weeks.
> It makes me wonder if everyone is in the same shoes.

I can tell you that I am, for what that's worth.
The Weather app had been powered by Yahoo! previously so they could have partnered with them after the release of their app to do the default app and update it for iOS7.
Why is Google announcing this company? Will Google own it? Invest in it?
Thanks for the explanation.

The network I'm on has a bunch of people connected, but `arp -a` only prints one line. Is this the access point isolation the article refers to?

Also, why do they bother replaying the session, if changing the mac address is all that it takes?
Even though iOS is sandboxed, has no files and no folders, lets not forget
AirDrop on Mac doesn't do folders either. It almost
looks like attachments: you drag (send) a file to the receiver. iOS handles mail attachments fine. I think this is something apple will implement later via software updates. Like for example obvious but long awaited OS X features like iBooks, Maps, Messages and Finder tabs. We're are wondering why they just didn't include it from the start, maybe they need a reason to sell OS X 10.10.
Eh most elite status programs have been severely nerfed. AA doesn't do unlimited upgrades (like Continental and now United) except at the highest tier. (Upgrades are only mostly domestic AFAIK.) Gold level bonuses on miles are like 50%, and it depends which fare class. Lounge access on United only happens if you're Gold and going International.

They reduce or eliminate the fees for certain things like award booking, and same-day flight changes. Changing tickets still also depends on the fare class of the ticket. If you buy a low-end restricted fare, you'll pay heavily to change it. They aren't magically turning your tickets into full fares.

Depending on where you work, a great benefit of status is that you can expense economy tickets (Y/B fare) but have a near 100% chance of upgrading.
I've been using iOS7 on my daily driver since the first beta release and never had any problems whatsoever with battery life. In previous betas I've noticed this problem, not this time though, and certainly nothing close to what you were describing
Yes! All OS vendors should try new stuff, all the time, even if it's really awful!
I am only about a quarter of the way through the book, but thus far I would have to say the chapters on BerkeleyDB and Eclipse were the most interesting, both containing a lot of history and insight into how the projects changed over time. The chapters on Audacity, Bash, and CMake were all pretty good, but I did not find them as enlightening.

I guess that means, thus far, the book is about a third of each: very interesting, modestly interesting, and mediocre. Not too bad considering each chapter is written by different individuals.
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Makes a lot of sense, thanks!
It's a language mimicking ruby, inspired by coffeescript, which is a language inspired by ruby. We've come full circle!
Maybe it presents a higher cost to iPhone/iPad users?
I'm still a bit agape at what they seem to have done to the in-app back button. I mean, it's always been maybe the worst thing about the iOS UI, a wart thrown into a convenient corner of the screen where it's easy for unsophisticated users to forget about or miss entirely. Obviously, it's just the outer symptom of a real, hard-to-handle problem - the different layers of 'back' or 'escape' in a full-screen mobile OS - but what have they done with it? Is it still a button, or just an indication that you can swipe left-to-right across the screen to go back? If it is still a button, then why in tarnation have they made it (possibly) harder to notice and (certainly) to identify as a button? Maybe the free-standing left arrow makes it harder to miss the 'go back' meaning compared to the cutesy border of the old button, but it looks like one step forward, one back at best.
It's self-interest to the extent that needs be to get some traction in quality of life issues.

The capital us youngins have is time and ability if not money. This is a great example of moguls and companies willing to put that resource in given an availability of the talent and ability.
And don't forget to clench your butt.

I'm serious. It gives the energy somewhere to go so you aren't fiddling with your hands or fidgeting around and it's invisible to everyone in the audience.

Also improves your posture. Win-win.
Cyanogen may be better for the end user, especially the technically savvy end user, but the metric of success for manufacturers' Android variants are a mixture of end user experience and other factors like brand differentiation. It's possible that they're achieving exactly what they're trying to, which basically boils down to being able to produce an ad that shows off the features that their phones have that their competitors' Android phones don't. Once the sale is made it doesn't matter too much how awesome the user experience is or isn't.
I hate javascript but this is pretty cool.
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I like this a lot more then I like CoffeScript.
No, researchers could theoretically slip a difficult-to-detect trojan into Ivy Bridge if they controlled the manufacturing process for the chip. The paper is extremely interesting and important, but this headline does it a grave disservice. There is actually nothing specific to Ivy Bridge about the technique; Ivy Bridge is simply a case study in the paper for how the technique might be valuable to an attacker.
I agree with your second point, but the code is monospaced for me.
Yep, yet another Gogo "exploit" disclosure. This one is actually quite pathetic.

Here's my security disclosure for the day:

You can walk out of most stores without paying for their merchandise if you hide it in your pocket.

Which vendor do I talk to about getting paid for this information?
So... you have the right idea, but your statement about passing is technically wrong.

Everything in Go is passed by copying its value.

However, slices, maps, channels, and interfaces all have small values, which are just a pointer and some other small data (length, type, etc), so passing them directly (rather than by pointer) is not a big deal.
Not pretty, at least. I'd look towards the TCP fingerprinting techniques that FreeBSD has in its packet filter/firewall.

With that, you could make a rudimentary decision how many machines are on the network, regardless if some are bad actors.

However, we will still get this problem regardless how much security we do over wifi, as wireless is inherently an insecure protocol. Ideally, we could make decent security with IPSEC, but that would be so cumbersome, as well as in opposition to "Pay us money for easy access to internet." A few non-payers aren't that big of a deal, considering the profit margins I would assume that make.
If Trello's user base is average people using iphone and want a fun todo list, this is brilliant. Nerds probably won't get it, but there is a reason that Geocities, Myspace, etc... were terribly popular - making ridiculous things that express your personality is fun for a lot of people.
Who is a 'journalist'? People who can afford to be
Quite the change from the typical story like this. He actually tells you how little he makes (with an exact number) doing what he loves.
As I have stated on numerous previous occasions: no, the DMCA is not at the heart of unlocking (assuming it is relevant at all, an argument I have also made); we don't even have an unlock right now for the iPhone that involves bypassing the software restrictions (near as I can tell, third-party unlocks you get right now "fell off the truck" in AT&T's customer support division), nor have we for years; to a customer base that wants to unlock their phones, making it legal for third-parties to do it is a crapshoot, while everyone (from the White House now to those originally involved in the first DMCA exemption) think the FCC could have any interest in just hanging the laws regarding carriers locking them in the first place (and this petition from the White House seems to nail it, requiring the carrier to do the unlock even if you are still under contract: from my reading it largely argues that locking shouldn't even exist).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5202461 (one of my previous public comments)
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So you have zero proof or sources that Apple deliberately held back better camera parts in order to sell more iPhones the next year. Such a thing could only possibly have been the case with the iPhone 3G, as all later models have had best-of-breed cameras. Unless you want to tell me that at the time Apple made the original iPhone they could have bought the 3GS camera in volume.

Both the original iPhone reviews you linked to are positive about the iPhone camera’s photo quality compared to other phones. They mention the quality was bad compared to point-and-shoot cameras, but that was the case with all camera phones.

At the time the iPhone was announced, I had just bought a SonyEricsson P990. It was SE’s top-of-the-line product and it cost Euro 700. It had a 2MP camera, just like the iPhone, but the photos it took were terrible compared to those taken on an iPhone.
Theodore Tso is a Linux kernel developer.
i think they were referring to the requirement that all of the engines are the same type.
I think there's a pretty big misconception about Silicon Valley executives hating each other. (My guess is this comes from our media-driven obsession with the good vs. evil narrative.) In reality, a lot of these companies aren't that different, and the skills+personalities+struggles of CEOs are actually remarkably similar.

They might have different opinions or frustration with the competition, but most of what they focus on is not letting the company die from the inside. i.e: AOL/Palm/HP/Netscape couldn't innovate and imploded.

Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board up until the day shareholders (implicitly) deemed it to be a conflict of interest. I'm sure he was a great asset for Apple learning the importance of internet services. It's a shame that short-sighted investors are too captivated by competition to realize how cooperative Silicon Valley really is. There are only a handful of situations in tech where crushing your competition is actually a positive strategic move.

The rising tide floats all boats.
Both Page and Brin turned 40 this year. There's also Brin's heightened risk of Parkinson's. His mother has it, and according to Wikipedia "both he and his mother possess a mutation of the LRRK2 gene (G2019S) that puts the likelihood of his developing Parkinson's in later years between 20 and 80%". He's donated to Parkinson's research in the past, and this investment is certainly along the same lines.
This doesn't seem like a Google Health type service.
It's short term thinking like that, that leads to people actually accepting Apple's "walled garden".
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This sounds super interesting. I couldn't find a site for the company; do they have one?

Calico.com is registered to Oracle and there's nothing there.
I dont find it odd. In my team, out of eight members, we have two female programmers and a female scrummaster.
Google BigQuery launches streaming inserts, time-based queries, and more
Title should match that of article: Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music
Landscape mode is where?
>>Seems like they can temporarily boost the horsepower to overtake

On street circuits HP isn't the issue. Take the F1 Monaco track. There simply isn't space to overtake. There are maybe 2 viable overtake spots and they're seriously borderline.
Actually, it is his fault, at least partially.

If Apple was judged on its merits, instead of through the reality distortion field, and managed to hit it out of the park every time, that would be one thing. But that's not how it works.

Apple has its cadre of reviewers, Gruber included, that manage to find something good to say no matter what Apple does, generally ignoring or whitewashing over the negatives.

Remember Apple Maps? It was a disaster. People got fired over it. Yet, Gruber found a way to write positively about it.
FWIW, I had been trying to get the FixTheDMCA people in the backend (my name is on their site) to realize this would happen since before they even started (as you maybe also know, but you might not have seen my numerous rants on IRC as maybe you weren't online at the time or were on other channels).
Will Wright raises $5M for Syntertainment startup
hovering over ratings: "Overall JSDB.io Rating (derrived from combination of the other metrics)"

So I guess that means the rating are based on some formula of: stars + average time between commit + forks + contributes

My only problem is that doesn't this rating favor larger projects (Angular or Ember) as opposed to smaller projects that are perfect for solving small problems? The only way I can see around that is if stars has an overwhelming weight in the formula.

Anyways, looks helpful none the less (will look though it)
NSA paid VUPEN to develop software exploits
Here's an interesting probabilistic way to sample up to the median:
http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2013/09/16/sketch-of-the-...
But the hard stuff is actually scaling, optimizing and administrating databases, not the SQL stuff right? I mean, sure optimizing SQL queries is important, but I find stuff like sharding, making sure the CPU load doesn't get too high, partitioning, archiving, and scheduling autovaccuum jobs the hardest part about databases. Joins and group bys? Piece of cake in comparison.
Can anyone find meaningful detail in here about how Google hopes to solve the problem of death? Beyond the name of the company and the guy running it, this seems like a stock profile of Google X.
<3 the Trojan Horse from Burning Man 2011 :D
Gogo offers free internet to Blackberry users.

Just change your User Agent (via chrome dev tools) to blackberry. Authenticate and you have free internet!
> If you really want a Web interface there's Gitorious (which has been around longer than GitHub) and GitLab.

and recently https://rhodecode.com/ which kinda looks like an opensource version of BitBucket.
>This is not what racing is about.

Why? Swapping cars isn't that much of a jump from the real world solution Tesla is proposing with the battery pack switches. Remember not so long ago F1 had a team car which was essentially switching to another car in case of emergency too.
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BTW: Calico... what a non-ValleyHipster name...

Yeah... they should have gone with Doctr.
I should say manning's MEAP program, of which I have been buying a few recently and don't believe make it to safari.
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I think it would still work. I think you'll end up both getting all of the network packets, in which case the higher-level protocols will ignore the ones meant for the other device. TCP and UDP both have source ports as well as destination ports, but the source ports are usually picked arbitrarily, so the different devices will have connections on different ports and will discard any packets bound for ports they don't have open. And TCP also has sequence numbers (which should be chosen randomly), so even if you ended up on the same port for a TCP connection, your packets are very likely to have different enough seqnos that you ignore each other's packets.
Erm, I think you're the one who's new here. Proprietary Web services and walled gardens are a recent thing. FTP, email, HTTP, etc. are all open systems.

Of course some companies did try to flog proprietary services and protocols decades ago too, but the users were clued up enough to avoid them and let them die.
NSA bought Hacking tools from 'Vupen', a French based zero-day Exploit Seller
We just moved away from Drupal (to CakePHP) for our admin panel over the last couple of years. "Boondoggle" is an apt word.
I believe it was the great prophet Flava Flav that said, 'Don't believe the hype'.
I argue that the issue is that now the "anti-DMCA" crowd and issue that had been built up looks "satisfied" when Congress comes to look at that issue, as there is a more effective solution at hand to what had been placed at the core of their debate. It isn't that comex is saying "damn, rather wouldn't have this FCC rule, as the rule itself might be negative" but more "damn, the end result of this entire fiasco might be negative".
SVG is great, the only feature I miss is word-wrapping. Does any of these libraries have automatic support for breaking long strings in paragraphs?

I have done myself something similar [1] for PHP's Zend\Pdf library, calculating string lengths and breaking lines.

Also, it is worth mentioning Dojo's GFX library.

[1] https://github.com/rhengles/Ari-PdfHelper
The cltq story.
There's a somewhat similar actual occurrence. It turns out that retailers get something like 7 cents a can for soda bottles, but the way the deposit law is set up they only have to pay 5. I guess it's to encorage them to collect the cans. Anyway there's one store in Brooklyn that started offering 6 cents instead of the usual 5. Apparently there are lines around the block and people using the machines 24/7.
Why is it better to force them to verify the email and then just start sending them email as through they confirmed that they wanted to receive any?
He's now a "trusted reviewer" who is given access to pre-release units. That helps him write these articles before anyone else, which helps him get page views and eventually revenue. Therefore, he is corrupted. Given how Apple treats its reviewers, it is completely reasonable to believe that he might lose his "trusted reviewer" status if he wrote a negative review of a new product. He is not independent, so his reviews cannot be seen as independent.
I guess Apple wants you to use iCloud...
So what you really want is a torrent tracker?
No it's not. The die hard tests don't help against malice.

Consider this PRNG:

`"random"_bitstream` := AES('00000000...', NSA_KEY)
I'm kind of amazed that this comment is the one that gets downvoted to hell. I'm not complaining, just surprised.
I for one welcome my immortal transhumanist cyborg overlords.

But seriously, the fact that the first thing they do is start a corporation to control the science is not exactly comforting to me. Genentech is known for selling Avastin, their drug that fights cancer for $55k after they received harsh criticism for the proposed cost of $100k+/year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevacizumab#Costs

I fear a future where "all men are created equal", but only some can afford to become immortal and others cannot. We already see some of that now. Tons of ethical questions around this topic.
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I code best after 5 too, but am fairly sure it's due to lack of distractions. Have you tried coming in on a weekend? I have to do that sometimes, and with the office empty I have the same productivity as at 6 when they have all gone home.

Maybe for me, and for you? the answer is to work from home...
That's not really fair. Some would say some fanboys think no matter what other companies do it is right away awful. MS did try the flat look.. looks like at least that caught on a little.
I can relate to most of what you're describing but wanted to point out that your business (any business) is a lot more than "core" of your business. If you're content with the rate of growth, you are already profitable or don't need additional funding etc. than you may not need the VCs. PG's essay repeatedly states not to raise money. But if you do want to make strategic investments, accelerate growth, etc. you will need to do many things that are outside the "core" of your business. In that case you may try to find VCs that have experience doing that, or at least can open doors for you so that you can find the right people to help you get there, etc.
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I am curious what the business model is for a company like this. Google and Microsoft use their mobile OSes to sell services while Apple and Blackberry use their mobile OSes to sell hardware. What does Cyanogen use its mobile OS to sell?
Worst headline ever. Ars is very bad at reporting on security issues.
Networking is key and a lot of times students forget to leverage off of their current networks. Networking doesn't necessarily have to be connecting with new people but getting referrals from friends and family can be huge. I've noticed in my experiences that a lot of times students don't know how to ask someone to help them find a job.
This is great if they do take the engineering approach of SENS and Aubrey de Grey. Ideally they would partner with SENS.org since they already have a lot of the infrastructure set up.
Slashdot still generates some great discussion and has quite a few smart people participating. The moderation system is brilliant and keeps the perceived signal-to-noise ratio of the comments high, even if there are a lot of pointless comments (they're just made effectively invisible).

I still worry what Dice will do to the site when they inevitably get around to redesigning the desktop interface. The new mobile interface is IMHO much less functional than the old one.
Just don't try to walk while you're doing it.