skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also in Brazil, everything Apple is VERY-VERY expensive, because of the taxation system.. so the market share for Androids and Nokia are bigger
Snowden willing to go to Germany under asylum as his letter to Berlin revealed
Someone's obviously champing at the bit to write the comment about t-shirts versus bug bounties. Before they write that, they should consider that a company that doesn't already have a bounty can't simply create one on the spot; those programs need to be reviewed by counsel.

I think it's inevitable that most tech companies are going to end up offering formal bounty programs, but you should remember that only a select few do today.
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explain.

No one's willing to gives these guys work.
then we won't need a 4.0.2 and the next version will be 4.1
Yeah, it would be crazy to think that a corporation like Apple would ever replace their CEO.

I'm reminded of the phrase, Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it.
If recruiters from the company well known for free hackers culture are doing this today - I would assume that less open companies could start free working month practices tomorrow.

It seems like it was a mistake and miscommunication. I could not expect Facebook to make such mistakes, but rather change policies. Thankfully I was wrong.
Gonna add an autoplay checkbox and bail button tonight!
In that case Bob is required to send the game to us for verification. Nothing change hands until that is resolved. Bob gets credits to cover the shipping costs to send the game to us, if it's a legitimate claim.
A comparison could be made to the journalistic debate over "false equivalence" in political reporting. For reference, see: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/a-bounti...

For entertainment value, I took a paragraph from Gruber's post and made a few substitutions:

If you want to argue that the whole budget debate stinks, and that all of
these politcal parties are abusing it, I agree. But if you want to argue that
conservative Republicans and Tea Partiers are in the wrong, and poor Democrats and
liberals are victims of one-sided abuse, I’m going to have to disagree. If
there’s a difference between Republicans and Democrats in this war, it’s
not over nobility, but rather over how well each side has played the
game. It’s looking more and more like Democrats made a strategic blunder...

Though you should not take this too seriously, the structural parallels are amusing, superficial or not.
You may be right about #1, that was to be my next attempt at monetization. Right now you can only do keyword searches on the past month, I was going to offer a service to let people search the full index for maybe $10/month. But I am now involved with another startup that is taking all my time and I am not sure when I will get the chance to try this.

I have talked to many people about #2 but was unable to figure out something compelling to sell.

Tried #3 with Peecho for about a week, not one sale!
Since Google apps tie into Google plus, how long before Google touts how every phone call made to and from an android phone is a G+ activity? Sounds like a huge headline opportunity to me.

[Edit]
Thinking more about this, and how G+, gmail and hangouts are melding together, you have to wonder how Google plans to leverage this new feature/info. Will people who call me suddenly appear in my gmail IM list as contacts?
Added to my todo list, thanks for the suggestion!
If you want to visit my city and see its sights, you can "kick back" into the damn kitty that it takes to keep those sights maintained.
Indeed, for many Airbnb hosts occupy their property at least part of the time. In fact, I think that's the niche it has filled best. There were already rental agencies (indeed, online ones!) to deal with permanent short-term rental properties. Airbnb offered a particularly hassle-free conduit for those who just want to rent their property out some of the time, such as folks who have multiple properties in various locations, occupy it seasonally, travel a lot for work, live abroad part-time, etc.
I would prefer an actual check or some sort of evaluation of the time he spent on the phone/email trying to explain the fix to linked in. Sending him a bunch of advertising materials with logos all over them is kind of disrespectful I think.
Modern Macs have UEFI, which is a form of BIOS.

(edit: actually called UEFI: EFI is an old name...)
What's the name of the condos if you don't mind me asking? I'm looking for something similar.
No, it's simply a model where you continue trading those credits for games. Naturally there is some risk involved, but you can simply buy games to spend down your balance.
You need to say somewhere that:

python kit/run.py yourcode.py yourothercode.py map.py --render

is required to view the simulation. The "--render" argument doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere on the site.
> I think he claimed that packet counts increased with the network hardware pulled from the system - maybe it knows how to stuff them into the loopback interface's queues.

Ignoring that this doesn't make any sense as a symptom for communication over an audio channel - the whole reason he believes that it is communicating is because a packet counter increased. Not because he has any logs, or because he observed it being controlled, or because he saw any code doing this.

Why are we even discussing the feasibility of the covert channel if the only reason that this topic was even introduced was because he saw packet counts increasing?

I can think of a million benign reasons why packet counts would increase on an unplugged system. That in no way means that the system is compromised or communicating externally. It's not even a reason to be suspicious.
hacking around indecisiveness ftw!
Spaceman takes Enda for a drive in his Batmobile
Is Cyanogen or any other Android distribution ready for prime time?

I happily run Debian everywhere but my phone, but it seems like hardware is still changing too fast for FOSS to keep up and maintain stability. If there's a sustainable and usable open solution, please comment.

I can't make the time/expertise to contribute directly to a project, but I'm happy to bug-test at the level of Debian 'testing' and do contribute monetarily to software/distros that work.

One thing that must work, always: 911.
I really wish netflix would let me create 'channels.'

I wish I could pick 5 or 6 television series, group them together, and just hit 'play random.' Netflix then randomly selects an episode from one of the series, then plays it!
From there website looks like they're still trying to ramp up product. Maybe he has an early unit though.
But:

http://blog.reddit.com/2013/08/reddit-myth-busters_6.html#in...

> Then in 2012, reddit was spun out into a re-incorporated independent entity with its own board and control of its own finances, hiring a new CEO and bringing back co-founder Alexis Ohanian to serve on the board.

And from just below that:

> reddit has 3 sets of shareholders: The largest shareholder is still Advance Publications. The second-largest set of shareholders are reddit employees. In the spin-out that occurred in early 2012, Advance voluntarily reduced its sole ownership to that of a partial owner in order to put ownership in the hands of current and future employees.

So, not sole ownership by Conde Nast or it's parent corporation, and an independent board and management.

Now:

> There are lots of stories removed and the justifications given are rather weak. It's either personal politics or they're taking bribes.

Or the stories are shitty and people refuse to acknowledge that fact. Or maybe just politics. Or some reasons neither you nor I have managed to figure out. Which is why I asked for evidence of an assertion that there's bribery going on, because it's not obvious that's what's going on to a non-conspiratorially minded person.

> Whatever it is, the moderators are abusing their authority which I don't seem to recall anyone agreeing to.

It's a privately run website. You agree to the moderation system by deciding to use reddit. If you don't like how the company chooses to manage things (i.e., through moderators) then stop using reddit.
I am unconvinced that traffic is all a site needs to be a real business. Sites like pinterest & snapchat convince us otherwise. And those business operate at a loss. Trying doing that as your side project...and you probably wont go very far unless you have VCs with some deep pockets...or publicity from sites like hacker news & tech crunch.
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Is it? I managed convicts on work-release recently. Some of them had quite a bit of trouble clocking in and out. I'm talking basic "fill out this form" stuff.
I get an IndexError exception when starting a challenge right now.
this is only true is you judge "satisfying" by upvotes and downvotes

Right, exactly, they are saying you cannot properly (completely) judge "satisfying" by up/downvotes.
Lehman Bros collapsed because their computer models excluded the possibility of a major decline in real estate prices. Investor confidence is a contrary indicator.
The guy in question stayed in the apartment himself and let friends stay for free. So he's off the hook; short-term rental wasn't the sole use of the property.

Easy!
None. Some subreddits banned Gawker, not for "reporting about reddit protecting" anyone, which they didn't, but for posting what was then only his suspected real name and encouraging an internet-wide witch hunt which resulted in death threats, the man in question being fired and his marriage ending, etc.

You might claim that that's what he deserves for moderating subreddits whose content you don't like (I'd disagree), but it could easily have been a case of mistaken identity and an innocent man's life would have been ruined. That's why witch hunts are bad, and that's why Gawker was banned from those subreddits whose moderators felt, as I do, that encouraging that kind of behaviour is immensely irresponsible and should not be tolerated.
Wow, really like the visuals. A quick suggestion would be to have the route shown on the map. It would provide a visual tie-in with suggested itinerary.

Keep up the great work!
AirBnB offers insurance.
I wonder if this experience had any effect on how the author writes code. He basically backed into making the code testable. The process of identifying the clock as part of the problem would presumably have between much easier if he had adhestrongertronger SOLID principles.
No geographical coding system is sane. None of them. Map projections, area codes, zip codes, time zones, nothing. They're all fucked up bonkers.
> How much memory do you think you need per exploit if you have a carefully coded C program that uses system libraries?

.... except, at the BIOS level, there aren't many "system libraries". It's basically bare metal.
Norway was pretty important. Hitler wanted lots of coastline from which to send hidden submarines to torpedo British shipping. And Norway has lots of coastline with convenient fjords to hide stuff in.

Denmark was important both as the gateway to Norway, and to control the gateway to the Baltic. With those two in German hands, they didn't need Sweden anymore.
It's like the Mitch Hedberg bit: "Whenever I walk, people try to hand me out flyers. And when someone tries to hand me out a flyer, it’s kinda like they’re saying, 'Here—you throw this away.'"
I think you are mixing up a couple things here: Converting JVM languages that result in bytecode sequences that dex or Dalvik would never otherwise see in their test suites could uncover bugs. Since all that is open source, and unlikely to rank high on Google's priorities, the answer is to fix those bugs. Unless you mean to say this somehow falls outside Dalvik's coverage of Java semantics.

Other things, like loading Java bytecode dynamically at runtime are limitations of not using Java(TM) bytecode.
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The GrooveIP app allows VoIP calling through Google Voice on Android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gvoip&hl=e...
Is there a special reason the 'k' is lowercase?
Oh, this is right up my street. I love the minimal UI.
>so it wouldn't offend eyes and noses of our sensitive citizens

If we would just provide adequate shelter, then we wouldn't have to worry about offending our noses.
But the users are idiots. The users on the thread you linked think that filtering out shitty new sources is some kind of right-wing conspiracy.

r/politics is the opposite of a place you would visit for reasonable political discussion. It was so bad that it got dropped from the list of default subs, and even before that, people created accounts just to filter out stuff from that sub. The sub needed quality control for a really long time, and now it's finally getting it.
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This brings us full circle to the original question, though: Did the security researcher write a program to dump the contents of EEPROM rather than desoldering the chips? if so, then he may have been hoodwinked by the virus.

Is this different than getting a dump of the BIOS before flashing it? Are we talking about different chips on the motherboard?
He does address the high-frequency sound thing though. Basically, your laptop speaker will be lucky to transmit at near 20KHz and your laptop microphone would be even less likely to be able to pick up any ultrasonics that are supposedly being transmitted.

As for the specificity of the BIOS environment - he's saying you'd need to compile the BIOS code against the manufacturer's libraries AND make versions specific to board revisions. ESPECIALLY if you're doing stuff like initializing and using the soundcard (which he also addresses).

So for it to be true, this malware would be created by someone with access to several codebases and hardware docs, etc, of different motherboard manufacturers. Not to mention the test lab they must have to make sure this all works.

Not to mention the fact that in THREE YEARS none of this has been made open. OR a USB analyzer hasn't been tried, etc.

Way too many red flags here.
Right, so as I said, it's not illegal to have a screen on your dash.
For like 99% of Android users it does.
For students it's easy to criticize Jobmine as users of it. But given the even worse (or in many cases, non-existent) co-op application systems at other schools, Jobmine is light years better.

I remember working with some Waterloo alumni from the 80s/90s and they spoke of the chaos of the application and ranking process when everything was done on paper. I personally can't even fanthom how UW managed to do any of this (although obviously there were less than half the number of students then to what we have today).
I never got a reply to my email responding to your post in last month's thread; should I resend?
Is it open source?

It would be really nice to see this come to Linux eventually too (though, the KS FAQ indicates they're not looking at Linux at the moment).
Netherland also expected to remain neutral, but was invaded anyway, because North Sea coast and close to England.
That may be true, but for a Canadian a big advantage of taking software engineering is that it makes it much easier to work in the US later. An engineering degree lets you easily qualify for the "engineer" category of the TN visa, but with a CS degree it's considerably harder.
The WSJ is far more liberal than it was a generation ago.

The WSJ is far more conservative than it was before Murdock bought it. My friends that get the paper delivered are disgusted by the slanting of the news, since the purchase.
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RTFM. Funny, I guess I never paid attention to that.
But it took that share from Motorola, not the leaders. A better headline would be "Nokia ships more smartphones than Motorola, this quarter."
You should be making a lot more than you're making. With a few tweaks to your ad placement you should be making more than enough to live off of.

I only say this because your current ad placement is kind of annoying and intrusive (especially on the content detail pages), yet they seem to be placed in some of the worst places to actually generate clicks. Of course, I don't have specific data or testing from your site to back that theory up, but if your site follows the trends I've seen in other sites this is certainly the case.

Feel free to reach out to me at the email address in my HN profile and I'll help you get them placed right/help you test out placement to start generating some real revenue. 6 million uniques is nothing to turn your nose up at, and it should be enough for you to make a living off of quite easily.
Romneycare is Obamacare, at the level of detail you're talking about. Endorsing one is endorsing the other.

I also said it's "as bi-partisan as you can get". That's not a very high bar to clear, I hope you realize. My point is not that there's some imaginary outpouring of Republican support for the idea, but simply that Republican opposition to it is not rooted in any alternative. Obamacare is as bi-partisan as you can get. There is nothing that would be more bi-partisan than that, unless you count "nothing" as something.

Based on history, based on candidates, based on policy, Republicans should support Obamacare. It's their plan! But they don't, because they've become a mindless opposition. Their policy is whatever the Democrats are against. They no longer define themselves, but merely are the negative of their opponents.

That's all I'm saying. There's no alternative health care form that both parties could get behind. Obamacare is the closest you can get in the current climate. The idea that we should delay Obamacare in order to figure out a true bi-partisan reform bill is fantasy, because there is none.
Part of it is that it's very different as a neighbor. My whole building is zoned residential. My neighbors are semi-stable, living here 1+ years at a time, usually longer. I recognize them, we feel reasonably comfortable about the people in the building, we have some idea about how to handle noise in a way that doesn't cause huge problems for people, etc. For example, my building at least has some informal etiquette about posting a notice that you're having a party in advance.

If the apartment next door turned into a hotel, there would be random people coming and going and I wouldn't be able to count on any of this. I would expect more problems, but even worse, rotating problems, where someone comes and goes and then another person comes. At least if it's one person you can talk to them and work things out, but if it's a new person every 2 days, it's all over again from the beginning each time, and they may not even care, because they aren't invested in living here.
Seems like a clever way to skirt labor laws to me.
Simply: side projects trains your skills in other areas that your current job don't.
There is a benefit to society getting access to fast and affordable communications.

There is no benefit to denying society this option.

Therefore, preventing it, especially in the name of your corporate interest, is "bad". To say what they are doing is good is sociopathic.

Legalities have no relevance to this at all.
Or have it charged to an entirely separate card, one that gets reloaded with money every month to cover planned MT expenses. Annoying, but the safest option, I suspect
> It just seems like another excuse for technically-oriented people to laugh at non-technically-oriented people.

With Ted Stephens, it's probably more accurate to say that it was one more reason to dislike someone who a lot of people already had a lot of reasons to dislike.
> Also, Murdoch is not American. Most people consider the UK Conservatives left of center of even US democrats

Uhmmm, you do know that Fox News is also owned by Murdoch? And clearly it is thereby evident that the logic you're operating on is not really working?

Second point, Murdoch is Australian. Right wing of Australia, in parts, can be quite comparable to America's right wing. Consider the considerable opposition to immigration policies, there being lots of racist activity (foreigners being referred to as "boat people" -- something that was a key issue in the last election cycle). Gina Rinehart, Australia's richest person, is routinely in the news saying ridiculous things, like how people should work for $2 a day [1]. But all of this is actually immaterial, since we shouldn't be generalizing. It doesn't matter what popular politics are in Australia or UK, Murdoch could have radical or reactionary views no matter where he is from.

[1]: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/05/business/la-fi-mo-ri...
> But the users are idiots.

Since mods come from the userbase, what does that say about the mods?

> The users on the thread you linked think that filtering out shitty new sources is some kind of right-wing conspiracy.

Some do, sure. Many others, including ex-mods, see it for what it is: censorship.
And, of course, I already give the same information to my phone company. But really it's an issue of combining that data with what Google already knows about me (location throughout the day through Android location services, phonebook through Android sync, gmail, web search history, web browsing history through its tracker network, and so on). I do appreciate that my argument and my actual use of the internet are inconsistent, my only defence is I am just in the process of working out how to move to some different services, to at least fragment where I'm sending my data.
Well the UI is much more than a launcher. The N9 / MeeGo had the most redefined and brilliantly designed user interface on smartphones, both visually and functionally. Miles ahead of current-gen Android, for example. IMO It's the only interface that had the same 'magic' of iOS through simplicity, yet it was way more powerful. Here's couple of nice animated examples to get a glimpse of it:

http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/ux/pages/PB_Opening_and_...
http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/ux/pages/PB_Backstack_an...
I never use either. I open Firefox and tap my search terms into the awesome bar.
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Question: what CPM are you getting for your ads?

Depending on how much you're getting, I may know some people who would be interested in beating that price.
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Or, more notably, Robocode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocode)