skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been on the pointy end of the DDoS stick a couple of times I can tell you that it's not necessarily somebody that has something against YC.

I once tracked down a guy that DDoS one of my sites. Turned out he was only testing his new botnet and needed a target. The DDoS took down the whole ISP of my hosting provider, and it caused my them to ask me to find another place to host my stuff.

With 10 Gbps DDoS costing less than a dollar a minute it does make sense to protect one self as soon as you reach the point where somebody would find it funny to take down your site.
Ok, Wikipedia tells me that the Nexus One supports 3G on 1900 MHz, but not 1700 or 2100. It looks like T-Mobile had switched 1900 to be a 3G band in some but not all cities as of 2012[1]. So I'd guess that you were in one of those areas that hadn't switched over, and only had Edge available in the frequencies your phone supported.

[1]http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-4988
Yep. Mad props.
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But even then – 20 deaths over 60 years is basically nothing (compared to, say, car accidents).
The citation element relevant to Glass appears to be:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27602.htm

which partially reads:

Television

27602. (a) A person shall not drive a motor vehicle if a television receiver, a video monitor, or a television or video screen, or any other similar means of visually displaying a television broadcast or video signal that produces entertainment or business applications, is operating and is located in the motor vehicle at a point forward of the back of the driver’s seat, or is operating and the monitor, screen, or display is visible to the driver while driving the motor vehicle.

(b) Subdivision (a) does not apply to the following equipment when installed in a vehicle:

(1) A vehicle information display.
(2) A global positioning display.
(3) A mapping display.
(4) A visual display used to enhance or supplement the driver's view forward, behind, or to the sides of a motor vehicle for the purpose of maneuvering the vehicle.

(5) A television receiver, video monitor, television or video screen, or any other similar means of visually displaying a television broadcast or video signal, if that equipment satisfies one of the following requirements:

(A) The equipment has an interlock device that, when the motor vehicle is driven, disables the equipment for all uses except as a visual display as described in paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive.

(B) The equipment is designed, operated, and configured in a manner that prevents the driver of the motor vehicle from viewing the television broadcast or video signal while operating the vehicle in a safe and reasonable manner.

[ there is more regarding displays in vehicles operated by utility companies]
Google doesn't actually own the underwater cables though. So isn't the analogy more like sending things through a LAN in a building that you're renting?
I'm slowly creating something similar to learn rails.

I want to track how much spend, consume electricity or gas, what are my goals.

The problem I found that I forget to enter the data into the app so it is fairly sparse. I can only get meaningful data on a monthly base.

I imagined it would be capable to compare gas (heating) consumption with the weather on the same day but it is not really working (without some automatic data input, that I don't have).

Among others I though about adding mood tracking, attaching 1-3 picture/day so when you want to watch back on your vacation you are not overwhelmed with 5000 photos, tracking locations. I would like to think about it like a social network where I am alone or something like this. (Codename: Track My Sheet :-) )

Showing trends, adding watchers like "you now need 1 year 3 months on your Y Account to reach Z amount at your current rate +Q USD / day, but these kind of things are faster with an excel sheet. Here is a dashboard mockup: http://snag.gy/OozTi.jpg

It is similar to the reportr.io app, actually I started mine on the same week before I first saw it on HN. :-)
Twitter hit with $124 million lawsuit over private stock sale
One step closer to a two-hour marathon
You're not required to use the ® and ™ marks to denote trademarks. Look at the web sites for Apple, Twitter, Facebook, etc. No ®s to be found.

IANAL but as far as I understand it, the purpose of a trademark symbol is to save you from having to send C&Ds to unwitting infringers. Your trademark doesn't lose its status just because you left of the registration symbol.
I would definitely recommend checking out Conlon Nancarrow as well, who was mentioned at the start of the article. A lot of his stuff is somewhat abstract, and sometimes his rhythmic patterns are really too odd to be heard (e.g. 7:17:27). But then he also has pieces like Study #3a, which is just a bluesy boogie-woogie that just builds. (I would love to actually be in the physical presence of a piano playing that piece; it would be like it was possessed.)
he probably just spends time gazing at them and wishing to own them.... people do stuff like that. Me too, but now with apple products. With me it's more likely to be a travel site
And if you did hire that person, I would never trust you again with my business.
I guess the way it solves it is that there is no central entity that gets ALL the data anymore. Instead, the data is spread across many, many servers.
US 'spied on future Pope Francis during Vatican conclave'
I suggest you contact the IECC. They should be able to provide guidance on what you can share and how. It's old enough that they might allow separate hosting provided you link back to their site.
Here, Google - show us how much you care about user privacy and security, and join Lavabit and Silent Circle's alliance for the "Dark Mail" protocol:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/10/30/lavabit-a...

Meanwhile I'll be waiting impatiently.
Right now Firefox uses system codecs where available. In the future it will also have the Cisco codec as an option.
Breaking: most people, even most people in the tech community, don't look on the NSA with that level of contempt, if any at all.

This is unfortunate--in a just world everyone doing this would be imprisoned for many years and have all their ill-gotten gains stripped from them--but a real fact. And the typical NSA software developer is certainly highly qualified and very, very smart. Going purely by business concerns, if you have a need for someone with the skill set that'd come from working for the NSA, you can't afford to pass them up just because they worked with the NSA.

You can also be sure that, even if the NSA were disbanded fully and all its employees hated so much that they could not get domestic employment anywhere, many international actors would be extremely excited to pay top dollar for their talent. And by top dollar, we're not talking piddling six figure salaries.
I believe some ISPs have a TTL threshold under which they use their internal default. i.e. a TTL of 60 seconds would be ignored and become 86400, whereas a 3600 second TTL might still be respected.
>MIDI sequence for a pure sine-wave synthesizer

Interestingly, we do have this, and it is a crucial component of lossy audio compression techniques such as MP3 - it's the Fourier transform. Essentially you can convert any audio signal into sine intensity per frequency over time, and vice versa. The space-time resolution is somewhat adjustable, so quicker reaction time can be obtained at the expense of squishing nearby frequencies together. I would not describe a lot of music that I have observed as spectrograms as being "black," in fact there are visible patterns that correspond with the harmonics of the sounds being played.
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How will Mozilla guarantee/verify that each blob being downloaded by the users of Firefox is built from that same source code?
I just looked at the chapters, and it's kind of funny that it gets these accolades despite being written as a 80-char-width text-only file.

Edit: I don't say that to disparage it; I actually think that's an impressive accomplishment.
This should make it clear I think: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-06/business/41831...

"Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said Friday."
The biggest reason for having Gmail is that it is backed up and accessible anywhere. But this is easily replicated in local caches:

You can make it accessible anywhere with a smart phone. You can back up by encrypting the data with a public key and sending to a drop box type service; with the private key stored offline. Most web apps could be easily replicated by storing the data in an append only structure with timestamps. The internet then just becomes a messaging system.

I think the VPN tunnel approach should be pushed by everyone. Lots of companies could secure most of their communication by creating a few tunnels to key clients. Email would be immediately secure without any PKI.
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Based on the fact that they decided to accelerate their internal encryption projects back in September, 2 months ago ( http://www.informationweek.com/security/government/nsa-fallo... ), I'm guessing they thought it might be possible, and in the wake of the Snowden revelations they decided it's very plausible (or someone showed them that slide ahead of time) and so they now effectively "know", though they're not keen to cooperate.
...and, eventually, there will be no other language than JavaScript.
click-gravy-train; almost certainly.
Tell me if I understand this right: Google thought it was okay to not encrypt that 'internal' traffic, because even when trans-continental, that traffic was on 'private' Google fiber carrying only Google traffic, not the public internet. It was theoretically on a network that only Google had access to.

That's why it seemed okay not to encrypt it, right? (Otherwise, I don't know why Google would have thought it didn't have to encrypt it).

But the NSA managed to tap into this 'private' fiber anyway, perhaps with the cooperation of the actual telecoms that run it?

Do I have that right?
you probably shouldn't trust your leased fiber with unencrypted data.

Or even your own fiber (Google owns tens of thousands of miles of it). There's nothing to prevent the black-hat guys from digging down to a cable in the middle of nowhere and installing an optical tap. Especially if they did it before commissioning, after which signal levels would start being monitored.
As someone who routinely makes fun of libertarians, let me assure you this is not what we (or I) make fun of libertarians for. Lots of progressive-oriented folks I know are at the forefront protesting these things. Hell, Richard Stallman -- the man who's been all about resisting the cloud even before a lot of us were born -- is a self-alleged Green Party affiliate.
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Can anybody trust Google services anymore? It seems like it's pretty much a no-go at this point. Even if Google hands over select data from within their systems, it appears we cannot even trust that it makes it that far without being compromised.

Every business that can should be ditching their Google services right now.
If I scroll the Reddit frontpage (without being logged in), I am not seeing any NSA stories, despite being on the top of /r/WorldNews, /r/news, etc. Anyone know the story behind that?
I use a Nexus 10 and the weight is fine for a JFK-SFO flight. (It's 1.3 pounds.) Sure, you shift it around a few times, just like you adjust your legs or get up to use the bathroom.

Lighter is better, but I don't think it warrants so much discussion.
Thanks for the answer.

So just to close the loop and make sure I got it, a couple follow ups

'processing' in this case would refer to integrating signals/voltages/neurotransmitters from more than one neighboring neuron?

How do they show that this was processing/integrating and not just particular sensitivity to one external stimulus?

For 'processing' to be meaningful, would it not have to share the result? In other words propagate the action potential or release neurotransmitter?
There is no need to reverse engineer H.264. The spec is not secret. VLC operates out of France--not the U.S.
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I'm building a mobile app, called DidSum, that focuses on your #2 "Avoid Data Entry, but Make it Easy" (and putting an API around the data). It's almost ready for broader use.

I use DidSum to track running, blogging, eating healthy, sex, coffee consumption, and more.

DidSum allows you to define the actions you want to improve at. You can track publicly with friends and family and encourage/compare/compete with each other. You can also track privately (some actions I only track with my wife). It has basic analytics, which will get more powerful with time.

We're in a closed beta right now, if you're interested in helping test I'd love anyone interested in this thread's feedback: http://didsum.com/auth/register.html
I worked at a competitor company in the late 90s. Their marketing muscle was nearly impossible to overcome. You either died (like the company I was at) or you became acquired, like Aldus, Macromedia... Photoshop.
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Aeromobil takes to the skies: Is the age of flying cars finally here?
And even if you got straight A's in school does not mean that you are going to be very good at your job. It just means that you are good at studying things.
It's very interesting research, but I have to say I'd have a hard time being clinically detached with regards to probing a live mouse and working with it, knowing I was going to kill it when my testing was done.
to do what ? it's not Google's problem,it's the glass user's problem.
I remember starting a company several years ago focused on using advanced analytics to improve personal decision-making. This idea morphed over time to a specific use: budgeting. Visualization and making the process quick and super easy are of the utmost importance for "personal analytics".
It's mind-boggling, but possible. Here's the wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

The idea is this: I encrypt my data and give it to the cloud. I also encrypt the algorithm I want the cloud to use. In this case, it could be a search algorithm with the search query hardcoded. Right now, it would have to be encoded as a circuit and then encrpyted from there into a different circuit.

The cloud runs my encrypted data through this "transformed" circuit, yielding some encrypted output. The cloud tells me the output. I then decrypt it with my original key.

It's crazy that this works (longstanding open problem solved in 2005 or 06 I think). The name "homomorphic" comes from functions f, like homomorphisms, in which "order doesn't matter":

f(data) = f(Decrypt(Encrypt(data))) = Decrypt(f(Encrypt(data))).

Hope that makes some sense.
Yup. Google got royally screwed by the NSA.
Part of the problem here is a matter of conflating people and government.

"Death to America" =/= "Death to Americans"

The better translation is "Regime change in America" -- they want a "better" (in their eyes) gov't in America, and an end to the obnoxious (in their eyes) American foreign policy. (Obviously, chanting does not automatically grant such. But whatever.)

And that works the other way around. "We support regime change in Tehran" translates into "Death to Iran". Iranians understand this. Americans do not.

When an Iranian official says "We believe that the unjust Israeli gov't will eventually fall, and only be a memory in the history books", they may mean exactly that. "Somehow" that gets translated into "Kill all the Jews" in certain Western media.

Of course, "kill all the Jews" is provably wrong, because there are tens of thousands of Jews still living in Iran. (The number has been declining, but the rump of a once thriving populous still endures.) If the Iranian gov't actually believed killing Jews was a positive thing in the eyes of Allah, they could rack up tens of thousands of bonus points in short order. They do not. Their quarrel is with the existing governments of Israel and America, not with the people in general.
That's my (apparently missed / poorly made) point, in broadening what they did to literally everything in life. People pass judgement by collecting info from multiple sources, from related things they've done, etc. So calling someone out for doing so without having experienced something is pretty naive / willfully ignorant of how they live their life.

Absolutely, argue, you might inform them of something new and swing their decision. But dismissing their opinion entirely is wrong in many ways.
I think that the other way round, Go on the JVM, might be nice. It could actually be faster than native Go; Go function dispatch might benefit from the HotSpot JIT inlining optimizations.
At this point I suspect Snowden has become a bit of an Emmanuel Goldstein. Any leakers who want to get their stuff out with some modicum of safety just need to get it to one of the usual suspects in the media, if the latter are willing to play the game (this does violate normal journalist ethics, then again this is not a normal situation). The leak can then be ascribed to "Snowden".
According to Vivek Wadhwa:
"In a follow-up project, we looked at the backgrounds of 549 successful entrepreneurs in twelve high-growth industries. The average age of male founders in this group was 40, and the average age of female founders was 41. The majority had two or more kids."
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-12-02/national/35284...
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In the C64 days I programmed my TI99/4A to play Bach.
It sounded awful. The interpretation had no soul.

Soul is not blind testable, like art, because it comes from the heart, not the brain.
Police ticket Google Glass-wearing driver for watching “TV” in car
No and 2013 is the year of Linux on desktop.
For what, the magical service that can't compromised by the NSA if it wants? At least Google has more resources to throw at the problem than a lot of other companies -- but really you can't trust anyone.
Great job! I have been waiting for this app for a while!

Here is some of the things I think you should improve upon:

1. The sliding UI on register page is a bit confusing. Perhaps add some UI guide tutorials? You probably know this, but I want a easy way to invite my Facebook friends!

2. Since you know the available field locations, you should show it on the map to encourage the user to make the "Create Game" UI smoother.

3. There is a lag after completing the "Create Game" form.

4. Instead of just games, where can I find out about leagues around where I live?

5. Are you thinking about having people check-in during the games?

6. This might be complicated, but I wonder if it would be worthwhile to add score keeping and gamification feature with this app, to build reputation and game records. With this record, people could challenge each other.

7. Is e-sports going to be added in the future?
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Don't read HN, instead, post in HN and promote your blog!
I finished the game back then (thanks for loss of my weekend by the way :p)

Did anything change now?
They ignore patents and hope it isn't a problem. Not an option for a us-based corporation.

"Q: Does FFmpeg use patented algorithms?

A: We do not know, we are not lawyers so we are not qualified to answer this. Also we have never read patents to implement any part of FFmpeg, so even if we were qualified we could not answer it as we do not know what is patented. Furthermore the sheer number of software patents makes it impossible to read them all so no one (lawyer or not) could answer such a question with a definite no, those who do lie. What we do know is that various standards FFmpeg supports contain vague hints that any conforming implementation might be subject to some patent rights in some jurisdictions. . ."
http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html
I bet if ESPN and shows like American Idol, etc. were knocked offline until we got our government back on track things would get done pretty fast.
As someone who (very occasionally) needs to manipulate PSDs, are there any alternatives to Adobe? My version of Photoshop is woefully out of date, and I'd prefer not to pirate. I was just looking at shelling out $30 a month to try out Photoshop CC, and then saw this!
Where you see a taunting smiley, I see a developer who's just happy to have made a breakthrough on his project.
Chrome has not said it will support H264 in WebRTC.
Well now it's your responsibility to write a follow up: "Reporters fail to notice the lack of new technology. Are Reporters turning a blind eye?"
I admit, yes, if you are in the middle of nowhere, you may have a problem. I myself encountered some blackholes between Chicago and middle of nowhere Nevada, and on my way back through Yellowstone to Chicago.

No carrier is going to have perfect coverage. This is something I'm willing to live with for unlimited connectivity @ $50/month.

I mean, seriously! I get coverage in the Virgin Islands! Included! And with their new rates for International travel, I'm willing to let A LOT slide.
Eh. I'd have to slightly disagree.

Having some experience in one of those frameworks is certainly useful but it's not really a requirement of being a front-end dev.

As long as you're intelligent and can use Google you'll pickup working knowledge of a language or framework quickly. This is why the best companies hire people based on who are they are, not what they know.

There is also the semantic issue of how deep one must understand a language or framework. For example; I build custom WordPress themes and have a general knowledge of PHP but I'd never put on my resume that I know PHP. Not because I don't want to work with it, but because working knowledge doesn't constitute extensive knowledge.
Very good point; very well made. Thank you, good sir.
actually today i just discovered how cool DuckDuckgo is. i queried "is HN down?" it automatically searched on those kind of sites and showed "no, HN.com seems up for us. We got a reply from <IP> in <Time> "

I thought, ooo! This looks interesting! And i tried "is news.ycombinator.com down" and it said yes, we got no reply, so that is down.

I tried the samething on google, apparently they are too stuck up to ask other sites to do this (though they did provide links to them). But I apprecaited the automatic answer more, just like i appreciate when google automatically converts currencies and fetches timezones and solves expressions.
Did you just look at the Gemfiles?

Especially things like CoffeeScript get put in the Gemfile by the default generator and there's still a big chance, that no line of CoffeeScript is in the project after all ...
And Mozilla's (mothballed) Narcissus:
https://github.com/mozilla/narcissus
My personal favorite: --patience

It tends to produce more "this looks like what I did" diffs, with code at least.
This isn't necessary for systems that already have H.264 decoders provided by the OS, but it's useful for platforms like Windows XP (which still accounts for 20-30% of web usage) that don't have built-in H.264 decoders.

Firefox already uses cryptographic signatures to verify other code that it downloads (including updates to Firefox itself); it could do the same for the Cisco H.624 decoder.

Windows XP users already need to download a third-party binary plugin (e.g. Flash) to play H.264 videos in Firefox. Cisco's code has the advantage that it is open source and could be signed and distributed by Mozilla.
AT&T has a clever tactic for monetizing disconnected phone numbers
You seem to be ignoring one alternative; no distractions whatsoever.