skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who want to dislike the Heat's formation can take a quick look at his stats and see that they dropped substantially since Toronto, ignoring that he went from being by far the best player, to the third best player behind two of the best in the world. His rebounding numbers dropped, but he no longer plays down low as much, because LeBron and Wade need space there. They also ignore that he's become nearly as good as Dirk Nowitzki at long 2's, which is generally an inefficient shot (unless you hit it at the rate the two of them do), which spaces the court very effectively, especially given Miami's 3 point shooters. He redesigned his game to fit into a really unique system that has ended with them in the Finals every single year.

He then tops all of this off with really insightful thoughts for a high level athlete (not saying athletes aren't capable of this, but they unsurprisingly tend to dedicate the vast majority of their mental bandwidth towards their sport), and a fantastic sense of humor. In Toronto he ran a YouTube campaign to get support for n All Star bid (or maybe dunk contest invite?), and he's become a meme because he loves photo bombing interviews. This isn't normal HN material, but since Chris Bosh came up, please, look at this GIF at explain how you can't like him: http://slacktory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Chris-Bosh-M...
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BCD was my thought as well. For the uninformed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal
I still have my N900 in a drawer, and I have zero interest to use it as a phone/pocket computer anymore. I really would like if it was possible to install Debian on it, and use it as a small headless network server. I remember this used to be possible to do in a very convoluted way, and only install to SD card.

What is the best option for doing this today, is there an up to date guide somewhere?
Yea, perhaps disable auto pilot mode when you are in less crowded areas.
Awesome app very fun
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Interesting to hear he was even picked on. I've liked Bosh because of his photo bombs. Now a better reason to like him.
Creating a network connection over audio allows an infected, but airgapped, computer to remain in contact with the malware controllers. This would enable the exfiltration of information, as well as the infiltration of updates to the malware.
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I was going to say something about it providing 5 points of magic defense :P
First, I think you're wrong. My wife does roller derby. I have gone to roller derby events with her. What do you think the male/female ratio is there? How many women there thought I was flirting with them? Zero.

Second, I think your response deliberately discards context. If socializing at "dance class" made women think I was flirting with them, and I was thus disincentivized from going to dance class, I'd... what, be a poorer dancer? Britta's story is about a career problem, not a "not fitting into dance class" problem.

Finally, I think your response totally misses the point. You do not win any kind of rhetorical award for coming up with some kind of table-turning scenario about "feminist conferences", because those scenarios don't have anything whatsoever to do with Britta's experience. She wasn't trying to score points. She was explaining why a piece of standard advice given to people about making connections in their profession is difficult for women.
I don't know Boost / Ensure, but given how they seem to be (based on the parent) sold as a medical food replacement, I can imagine they're rather expensive.

I wouldn't call Soylent cheap, though - $65 a week for one person is quite a lot if you're on a tight budget, and it doesn't scale to family-size who can be cheaper off by buying and cooking food in bulk. Wouldn't feed my kids slop like this either tbh (and I'm pretty sure that they would rebel (if I had them and tried to feed them this for any duration of time)).
I'd settle for not having to click through three screens of "yes I'm sure" and opt-in doublespeak every time I want to "really, really, I promise you" use my credit card.
Bosh is awesome. I know that some Raptors fans dislike him for leaving Raptors to Heats. Before Bosh, it was Vince Carter who got some haters for leaving to Nets. Raptors fans get pretty attached to players because really good players come so rare to them.
So the oldest mention I did find, is from the 21st of October [0] and then more at the 23rd. [2,3] So until I see an actual zombie, my money is on a ghost story for Halloween.

[0] https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/392348130101829632
[1] https://kabelmast.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/badbios-and-lotsa...
[2] https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365/posts/9fyh5R9v...
This story is false. Not intentionally so, but evidently some technical misunderstandings and a lot of paranoia have led to the claims being made. I'm using a throwaway because I don't want to get involved in a public battle, but I've analyzed everything that he provided, and he jumped to wrong conclusions for everything so far. I am sorry that I'm making this claim without data, but I ask that you consider that he has also made extraordinary claims without providing any data.

The entire audio channel theory is based on a simple twitter suggestion from a third party, and Dragos saying it must be correct because he has also been unable to remove audio interference from his home audio system.

He has yet to provide anyone else with anything but perfectly clean files, with signed and matching hashes from clean Windows 8 installations.

Although some of the methods he claims are rooted in things that have been demonstrated as a proof-of-concept in previous research, his claims represent added twists in ways that are very difficult to swallow. More importantly, it's based on assumptions, and not anything that has actually been analyzed.

(For what it's worth, I analyze malware professionally)
Commute depends on where you live and where you work, obviously. There's a lot of public transportation and its a pretty good system. Almost impossible to end up with a commute that takes more than 1 hour. My commute is about 45 minutes and I'm going Brooklyn (Park Slope) to Manhattan (Flatiron district).

Rent is high pretty much everywhere. You're in the Bay Area though so you already know about insane rents. New York is in the same insanely too high range as San Francisco. However, NY based jobs usually pay a bit more to help compensate for the high cost of living.

There's a burgeoning tech scene here. The so-called "Silicon Alley" runs along Broadway between Soho all the way up Flatiron. Its not as large of a community as in San Francisco but its pretty well established at this point. Many of the tech companies in New York are doing web based services that are linked in some way to one of New York's other major industries (real estate, media, advertising/marketing, finance).
Yeah, maybe. That isn't the sense I got from reading all this stuff, but I've been wrong about bigger things before.
You are absolutely right, it is a severe problem and I apologize for this. We are adding a warning on our examples page right now.
Huh I thought the article suggests that you can indeed start a business while being part of the safety net?
Hi guys. I smiled at the "no shit sherlock" rejoinder. I want to say that some people thrive in hardship and don't desire a safety net. Maybe we are in the minority. I like redundancy in the things I make--to make sure they work even if one part fails. (NASA loves redundancy) But I don't like it for my own self. I think a social safety net would be restraining and antithetical to the whole idea of being groundbreaking.
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Nice.. except most professional sports players should spent as little time in front of the computer as possible. Carpal tunnel syndrome is something you don't want someone you're paying $100 million to have when he's out in the court, or in the mound.
Yes, presentation (and motivating the design) is key here. Just learning the IEEE floating point standard in itself is dull. Learning about the standard's history and design trade-offs might enliven the lesson somewhat. Same with group theory.
I think it means that the infected airgapped computer can communicate with an infected non-airgapped computer over audio. The malicious code would already need to be there but once it's there it could (albeit slowly given the transmission rate) send data out from the air gapped machine.

I was going to add a line like "Who has a mic and speakers on their airgapped machine?!" but obviously every laptop does.
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Great article, had no idea about that side of him. I'm sure he's no expert hacker, but it doesn't matter - hopefully his message gets out to the millions of kids who think a passion for coding, computers, and tech in general is worth teasing someone over, or inspires those who are being teased to stop caring about others and do the damn thing.
Generally the value in recruiters is in passive candidates and not active ones so in those cases it's unlikely that the candidate is working with a significant number of recruiters.

Even in the case that a candidate works with multiple recruiters they'll generally all have "preferred clients" who get first look at candidates. And at 15% you're unlikely to be a preferred client for any recruiter except the bottom-feeders who spam every CV to every client.

And you don't want any bottom-feeder recruiter to have your CV because many companies have a policy of instantly rejecting any candidate that comes in through multiple recruiters because they don't want to get into a legal dispute over priority.

The recruitment market is a fairly complex one (I had a startup in the space so I've been neck deep in understanding how the different players interact).

(You're right that if you're recruiting for lots of roles you can get a discount, but it's a tricky path, you really need to exchange information with industry competitors to get a good idea if you're being passed over for good candidates. In some industries like banking this does happen albeit on a semi-informal basis)
You can keep moving the goal posts but the fact is that Soylent is not new.

> [about use of word "interim"] Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

> [about safety of Soylent for sole use nutrition] I have no idea whether Soylent is actually safe as a permanent sole-source nutrition solution

This is an amazing sentence. It's fucking mind-boggling the amount of cognitive dissonance that the Soylent marketing guys have created. They deserve the funding for that alone. Like, God-Tier troll and God-Tier marketers.
From reading the facts in the article, it seems totally unrealistic. Post some dumps of executables, network packets or SOMETHING besides a story.

Honestly, this type of paranoia sounds more like someone on the brink of a breakdown. Can you imagine spending years working on this and still having no 'data' about it? If its infecting stuff from this USB drive, just post the contents of the drive for analysis.
In my opinion, s/he did.
First thought; Brilliant. Second thought; E, F, Gmail…
I'm fairly curious about how you did that, and if the same is doable for larger load devices (60Hz -> 50Hz or 50Hz -> 60Hz).
People that had Vista on their previous computer and had recently bought a new laptop with Windows 8, and found out that it sucks?
0100001 0010001 0101000 0010101 0100001 0000001 0011000 1000001

Fixed with less code.
I'll find this even more useful in short, 1-hour type flights. Out of the whole flight, you usually only get ~30 mins at altitude to pull out your tablet or laptop.
The wristband is a controller for a new video game that blows Assassin's Creed away.
I'm saying that Mayor Bloomberg has been highly proactive in pushing the tech and startup sector forward. It would be hard to deny that he's partially responsible for fostering the growth that's occurred in NYC. I don't know that the next mayor will be quite as bullish on tech as Bloomberg was. Also, I'm suggesting there may be a reduction in growth, not a decline. I wouldn't necessarily call a reduction in growth a 'negative impact' - just less of a positive impact.
maybe, there are problems with the story.
My main question was regarding the power cords not being plugged in but apparently these are laptops.

As for communications via speakers and microphones, that makes as much sense as any other outrageously insane theory I've ever heard.
Is the "git" name the synthesis of Linus Torvalds personality on the internet?
Hi, I'm doing something similar,
but instead of BTsync, I use ssh & unison/rsync.

The remote pi calls back the main pi by ssh. The main pi uses this connection to sync files. So the remote pi can be behind a firewall and no issue.

Im interesting in sharing the setup - and improving it,
if anyone interested let me know.
Im at padrone.nl
Damn meteor is cool beans...
Yeah, add a "<number> <nouns> that <verb>" and you've got yourself an allround blog title generator.
My point was that English is inherently non-simple when it comes to this. I'm guessing that most employers are just looking to put up a job ad to hire someone, not deliberately exclude women.
1) Discovery - New initiatives are on their radar early
2) Business - Nobody said they should do it for free. Most (local) accelerators and VCs are not exactly raking in the millions, so this could be an easy 2nd business model.
A lot of people buy a lot of crap on ebay for outrageous prices. Might be Microsoft trying to prop up the market!
"If someone in school would have explained to me that coding could reach millions directly or indirectly and make their lives better, it would’ve sparked my interest much sooner." - completely agree, programming was not introduced to me correctly until after college. Even if public schools don't have the resources to hire a teacher who is, by training, a programmer, there is no reason why students can't be exposed to things like Codecademy, Coursera, and Udacity. Online courses with syllabi could even be offered to students (a teacher could simply verify that the work was being completed and that the code works) as replacements for the joke of a "computers" requirement that I had to complete, where the final was just making a PowerPoint, and half the class just played Oregon Trail during. I don't think "everyone should code!" should be the goal, it should be that "everyone should be truly exposed to coding while in school."

Now that I am talking about it, there are so many basic things that people should be introduced to in public school, some of which used to be mandatory (I believe). Things like basic accounting/personal finance, some intro level cooking course (make sure people can boil water and follow a simple recipe), some kind of shop like class, etc. California has a "visual arts" requirement that is much less useful to most students over the course of their life than most of the courses I just named. Visual arts are great, but time is limited, and prioritization should go to preparation for life in the real world.
> Are you just assuming these are laptops with a battery?

Did you even read the article? It's a laptop. That would be the safe assumption, anyway. Laptops far out-stripped desktop sales years ago, they're what most work happens on now.

> And saying that computers are communicating by speakers and microphones over long distances (i.e. > a few inches) is patently ridiculous.

It's not. I've done it myself. Go grab a couple laptops and some PSK31 software and you can do it, too.
Great article. We need more like him in the tech community(and in general).
Yeah this really reads like quite paranoid delusions. Connecting events but ignoring the incredible leaps that have to be made.

I don't understand why he hasn't posted 'infected' USB sticks to a bunch of high profile security folk with "POTENTIAL BIOS MODIFYING TROJAN ONBOARD" written on it? It would be a matter of a day or two before someone monitored all communications with it passively and proved or disproved his theory.
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I'd just like to see more than 20 transactions at a time. I'm sure the sheer number of table rows isn't the reason it takes 6-10s to load the page! (Kudos to OP for mentioning the endless scroll.)
No, the 'lean startup' has never meant a small budget and while I love the concept, it is a pretty terrible name as it's not really cheap to do it properly.

I made the same mistake until I started reading about what they were actually talking about.
This is incredible...it makes me wonder who wrote it...
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Going back to the accounting/personal finance piece, I did a year of law school, and it was absolutely stunning how many of my classmates had no idea what compound interest was (more insane given that most of them were debt funding their education with high interest, non-dischargeable loans that now compound immediately upon taking them out), or that opportunity cost was something they should have considered when evaluating the cost of school.
I often print out code and mark it up on paper. For some reason I get a more holistic view of the code on paper than I can paging or searching through it on the screen.
I never owned one, but I did have a couple of friends that let me use theirs. The touchscreen was a bit dodgy and the battery life was suspect - but IMO those are minor complaints compared to the main, insurmountable problem: the UI was extremely slow.

Like, tap-the-screne-wait-multiple-seconds slow. Even before the revelation of swipe gesture and smooth 60fps animations on iPhone, it was slow by the standards of its own era. I remember trying to use the phone to type out a quick text and being infuriated. Response time between keypress and UI update was atrocious, and even closing a window took well over a second, if not multiple seconds.

It may have been FOSS-friendly, but it wasn't really a good software stack otherwise.
Then there are git-annex assistant (No Windows version) and SparkleShare, which are both Open Source and should be able to do the same.

Missing from both though is a mobile version. I quite like my Elements (A text editor for Dropbox files).
Yes because no one has built real business logic in node.js. and clearly node.js is only good for piddly todo lists. I've worked with python/Django, rails, and node.js on real complex apps with huge amounts of business logic built in them. Each one had advantages and disadvantages. I will say that MEAN certainly compared very well to both type of apps once in production. I was more productive in the other two but performance and scaling were far easier on node. You like rails, that's great but if you dismiss node and other approaches that's your loss. You'll be a poorer developer for it.
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I've heard of the term postmodern being used in literature and media, but I am not sure how it's related to technology. Can someone explain how postmodern tools are different from just tools in general? And how postmodern programming is different from programming in general?
"They claim they didn't need the loans in the first place"

How can you say that if applied for the loan? Nobody's stating that these loans should be compulsory...
> Basically it is a terrible technology for small devices and barely usable without a pen.

That's only true of old and crappy resistive screens. The N900's resistive screen works great without a stylus, but the stylus is there if I need ultra-precision, which of course you can't get with a capacitive screen.

The N900's screen doesn't support multi touch, although even multi touch resistive screens are technically possible: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/stantums-mind-blowing-mul...
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Chirp is doing some really interesting work in this space, trying to improve the user experience of fast-forming short range communication.

My understanding is that Chirp uses audio to basically detect WHO you are standing near, but the actual data transfer happens over more typical links.

"An inherent limitation of the audio protocol is its highly limited transmission rate.

To send larger amounts of data, we have built a RESTful network infrastructure which allows arbitrary pieces of data to be associated with Chirp shortcodes. A sending device can thus upload a photo to the cloud, and obtain a shortcode representing it to be send over the air. A receiving device hears the shortcode over its microphone, and resolves it with a GET request."
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What if the BIOS code dynamically compresses/decompresses crypts/decrypts code and data?

You then put the code on another machine and you are in the same situation, it seems to me like a vicious circle if you don't know where to cut.
Booting from a CD would [let you replace the infected BIOS](http://www.flashrom.org/Live_CD). Restricting the boot devices presumably helps preserve the BIOS infection.
the further out in the fields the less the fence hurts, we would get a couple city cousins to grab them way out in the field, see they were safe.
Then back closer to where the line started, just tell them to go pee on the corner fence post.... its safe...
The question that came to my mind was, how is he capturing these "network packets" that are being transmitted over the audio channel?
Pray tell us, where does C++ need to be?

All C++ programmers who I have talked to welcome most things in C++11. It simplifies their C++-code in many ways. As an example: specifying how to capture variables was something they were already dealing with when writing functors manually, now they have a shorthand syntax for it.

As for the reason why non-C++ programmers don't like C++, perhaps you are in a better position to say.
You read too much AppleInsider. The truth is nothing like that:

Sir Robin Jacob said Apple had published "false and misleading" material, and
suggested the firm had shown a "lack of integrity" by saying staff would need
two weeks to make "minor changes" to the company website.

This month the court of appeal ruled against Apple after Samsung complained
about a notice Apple posted online acknowledging defeat in a design dispute
at the high court. Samsung said Apple had added an account of court proceedings
in Germany and the US which was "inaccurate and misleading".

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/nov/09/judge-appl...
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