skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an occasional DHS client, I partly agree, but there's one crucial thing they severely fucked up in the new layout: the "client" has no idea when "someone" will come fetch them. So you get an intensely frustrated mob of people waiting off to the side, wondering if they'll be stuck there for 10 minutes or three hours, and straining to hear when every few minutes one of the geriatric case workers shuffle over and mumbles horrible mispronunciations of random last names. Which means you can't work, can't listen to music or concentrate on anything, really, just sit on the edge of your seat.

Compare with the normal take-a-number bank queue system, when you have a fairly good idea of how long it will take to go from "now serving 123" to "your queue number is 567".
I tried analyzing all outgoing traffic on my laptop for a couple days, there is a surprising amount of noise [1]. Very hard to spot anything nefarious. It's challenging to find anything meaningful without some sort of automation.

Unless it's a low traffic device, like a TV.

But in my research I didn't come across any router level software that did this in a meaningful way (with a GUI).

Maybe a startup opportunity here? +1 with network intrusion detection for home networks. I'd donate to a crowdfund for that.

[1] http://www.tcpdump.org/
A reason to get emotional
… or use http://fritz.box/html/capture.html if you have a Fritz!Box router – it's a great device anyway but especially useful for capturing your own LAN and WAN traffic.
TOR is bullshit because it's a festering pile of assholes all trying to pretend that no one knows what no one is doing, without knowing who's doing the pretending not to know.

C'mon, guys, I'm serious. Please don't sniff my
exit node. It's not nice, you know! We're all
supposed to be mysterious strangers, and not know
each other, but still implicily trust all participants
even though we'd never do that in real life. And oh, by
the way, here's a browser bundle that still uses
third party cookies, and runs javascript by default,
but fuck the world, because javascript is hella
convenient, and animated web pages are just super cool!

Yeah, that sounds really fucking secure to me.
Motorola lets unlocked Developer Edition handsets keep their warranties
For anyone else who has never heard of it, very cool:

Ready is a program for exploring continuous and discrete cellular automata, including reaction-diffusion systems, on grids and arbitrary meshes. OpenCL is used as the computation engine, to take advantage of the many-core architectures on graphics cards and modern CPUs. OpenCL also allows rules to be written in a text format and compiled on the fly. Ready supports a compact XML-based file format so that images and rules can be shared easily. Ready supports 1D, 2D and 3D data, as well as polygonal and polyhedral meshes.
The implications are troubling. Your TV collects and broadcasts for the permanent record of anyone who can snoop the cleartext (your neighbors, your ISP, whatever the NSA looks like in your country, etc) all the media it can find on your network.

We used to need firewalls at the edges of our home networks to keep bad actors out. Now we need firewalls that point the other direction to keep the bad actors on our networks in.
Low friction sign ups that require just an email address and pw are preferable to me. I use disposable emails unique to each site and besides remembering passwords, I don't worry if one site gets hacked because they won't have access to any others.
They just haven't finished burning through the world's biggest lead.
I hope nobody takes offense at what I am about to say. I don't care if Linux becomes more popular with the general population, as long as I can use Linux or any other Unix-like OS I am happy. Trying to convince people to use Linux is useless. Whenever there is an opportunity I tell people I use Linux, I express why I like Linux but I also make sure I talk about the downsides of Linux.
Is this true? i still use Winamp when i get bored..So sad
100 no-equipment workouts
I am an introvert but when trying to communicate something complicated that requires lots of roundtrips, I'll take a 15 minute face-to-face meeting over a day long email chain full of misunderstanding any day of the week. Any company where this is understood will move fast and kick ass.
Soaring price of Bitcoin prompts CryptoLocker ransomware price break
Apparently it was due to Azure dying: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/azure_blips_offline_...
8 is too many. I've heard many say that 5 is too many (co-founders). 4 is still pushing it.

Also, in my opinion, anyone who isn't working on it full-time becomes at that point an employee, not a co-founder.

I honestly think you should have an upfront conversation ASAP instead of trying to be nice and keep everyone on the team.

Also, is every single one of those 8 equally talented? I'm pretty sure there are some people who you already know are better than the rest.
Recalling the The Pentium FDIV bug, I'd say yes. Chip level.
I have heard this criticized on the grounds that it is patronizing and it connotes an expectation to conform to gender norms ("act like a lady.")
EnerJ, the Language of Good-enough Computing for smartphones to supercomputers
It may have been breaking but they did well to state that it would be breaking and was in development long enough (with RCs) that no-one should be caught by surprise.

I say this as someone who launched a site based on 2.3 as 3.0 entered RC status.
It was fine for Oracle v. Google as reporting that one straight provided an obvious bad guy, too.

And Samsung v. Apple I also provides many obvious bad guys if you follow the case and understand the industry and read the patents. Apple's claims are garbage but Samsung had so much contempt for the process that they let their lawyers utterly fail to make the case. The judge lost control of the case and ended up with vague and useless jury instructions and a self-contradictory verdict (parts had to be retried recently). The jury foreman admitted to bias and misconduct in public interviews. The PTO keeps gyrating back and forth in 'final' decisions about the validity and meaning of claims to patents at issue. I never saw coverage anywhere else but Groklaw about most of the pathetic failures in the case.

Let's hope the Apple ][ and Apple /// cases are handled better.

The Motorola v. Microsoft case, on the other hand, revealed bizarre bias on the part of Groklaw. Even when Microsoft was obviously right, Groklaw manufactured sympathy for Googlerola on every issue.

But that's not really the question. The essential thing about Groklaw was that they would recruit volunteer reporters to go to court and make extensive and informative reports about what really happened they very same day. Nobody else's reporting ever came close.
I think people get riled up because the humble browser is rapidly turning into this: http://i.imgur.com/XNRtCGh.jpg
5 on board.
You're right, but for the wrong reasons. As far as I understand it, the Pi foundation doesn't have much in the way of open-source roots. Their aim wasn't to produce an ideologically pure device, but to create a dirt cheap but fully functional computer as an educational aid to teach kids to code. Open source software
just happened to be a cost-effective way of achieving that goal.

I think they were were so focused on the educational side that they didn't realise how interesting the device would be to hackers and hobbyists. Remember the problems launch where the demand hugely outstripped the initial manufacturing runs.
But the thing is, you did consent to be a part of your community and thus bound by the social contract. If you don't like it, that's fine, commit a felony. It's just that by doing something like that, you will no longer possess all the rights and protections a normal citizen does. But you'll have all your rights.
Meteor did, at least in the beginning.
OpenWRT allows you to track connections with LUCi.
> If stocks are doing so well. why does the Fed continue easing polices?

The Fed doesn't really care (directly) about the stock market -- the Fed's key concerns in monetary policy are (1) managing inflation, and (2) promoting full employment.
You'd be hard-pressed to find an RSS reader that polls more often than every 5 minutes, and I would wager all of the RSS services have a longer refresh timer than that. If you're trying to keep up with breaking events, being 5+ minutes behind everyone else is pointless. You're just going to end up glued to Twitter.
Success Made Me Afraid To Experiment
Sweet. The world needs more freemium, gamification, ads, subscription plans and "social."
Frankly speaking, I don't like the 'naturally talented' or 'natural genius' or ...

I think you will enjoy reading the book Mindset. It's for parents, and it explores and expands on the very idea you have described ... which is the opposite of how every Indian parent thinks, so the total addressable market for the book is a big one!
' Grapevine TX, United States (bigguy.gte.net) - Down' So we definitely didn't hear it down the grapevine?
Kudos to the author - I am impressed how well Alex Matchneer understands Angular.

Few thoughts of my own:
- Ember is a long term relationship with one particular way of doing web FE, a way invented by someone else for you. Ember philosophy is "one size fits all".
- On directives and transclusion - it's like Lisp's dotted pair.
these new concepts may be hard to understand, but experiments like that often fascinate programmers, and for a good reason - one day those experiments will revolutionize the way we build software.

The debate of a small set of flexible tools vs one tightly integrated system is not new. We had Linux vs Windows, Django vs Flask, etc. It's funny to see it pop up in yet another area.

Thank you for this great write up and raising a bar of this long going discusiion on Ember vs Angular.
Most people have negative net worth, not hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting in a bank waiting to be used to carry out a federal lawsuit.
They could have just put it in the non-free repositories, but noooo-nooo it comes preinstalled. Obviously an attempt to push non-free software - just like MS pushing VS with Dreamspark.

Looking at the frighteningly informative article on the Wolfram page, your theory doesn't seem far out at all.
I have successfully done this with Angular. It was easy and convenient. No idea about Ember, so far I've only watched its tutorial video.
Sweet you have no imagination.
An old web icon ends up repurposed as a spamblog
What you see is what you mean
- There is nothing wrong with taking a risk since you already know what you have in mind but how are you sure the "expected internship experience" will be mediocre/not great? Still if we are talking about a summer internship (and we are still in the middle of November), I think it is best you hold out for a great one. Just be prepared to hustle harder if the "great" internship doesn't come easy.
Microsoft Launches Node.js Tools For Visual Studio
There are two traditional ways you can incentivise someone outside your company to do custom work for you.

If you pay them a fixed price for the job, their incentive is to do as few hours as possible, to ignore your phone calls and e-mails, to test/mitigate risk as little as possible, to push work back to you, to produce no documentation, to refuse any change of scope without a big cost increase, and to deliver the least they can within your contract. IT example: Elance

If you pay them by the hour, their incentive is to increase complexity, to investigate every possible risk in painstaking detail, to re-do work you've already done, to call and e-mail and hold meetings with as many people as possible for as long as possible, to produce more (and more carefully produced) documentation than you want, to interpret every cough and sneeze as an instruction to widen the scope, and to deliver late and over any estimated budget. IT example: Government IT and defense projects.

Theoretically it's possible to come up with an agreement that doesn't have either set of flaws - but in my experience if you've got the expertise and to do that, you've got the expertise and time not to need to hire outsiders.
Technet DNS entries was gone for mediacom DNS servers about an hour ago in Northwest FL.
Breaking News: The Dow goes above an arbitrary number!

I know we as humans have a tendency to assign meaning to things like this, but the truth is it doesn't make much difference.

Especially the Dow. Stop paying attention to it. It's a terrible measure of anything but what the Dow weightings are. First, it's only 30 companies, which is a tiny slice of the economy. Second, it's based on share price, not market cap, so companies that split less frequently tend to have a much larger effect on the average. Finally, it's not adjusted for inflation, so all of this "first time ever" business is meaningless.

If you're going to use a common index, at least use the S&P 500. Or better yet, the Wilshire 5000.
Coming soon to an episode of CSI
Well, the Fed is getting towards the end of its easing policies, assuming the promising employment data trend continues into the new year. What the article is saying is that the market seems to be getting past its anxiety about what that will be like:

“The market is becoming more and more comfortable with the tapering talk,” said Andrew Zimmerman, chief investment strategist at DT Investment Partners, in an interview.
There are plenty of good readers who aren't hackers, who will appreciate well-written, on-point "walls of text" – as long as such text is easy to find, matched to the reader's sophistication, well-organized, quick-loading, and readable on any screen.

That's "easily accessible" enough, especially as a start!
FTA:

Just like an email list...

That was what I was thinking. Email is technically not push but there's not really a noticeable difference.

His Broadcast Twitter is richer and looks slicker but you have to sign up for another service and download an app to use it. I can't even browse what broadcasts are available. Why would anyone (who hasn't already drank the Kool-Aid) sign up?

Also this whole App.net thing is pretty weird. I thought it was intended for paid users only? Or did they find it hard to have a lucrative developer platform with no users?

sidenote: Snark and cynicism are the two hallmarks of shitty HN posts so I'm sorry. I feel like I'm in some alternate universe where people are building weird shiny things that nobody wants. Maybe this is a sign I'm getting old.
It isn't: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/03/05/173515767/the-dow-...
I'm not sure how well it scales - the developers seem to be thrilled b it.

But this week I'm backing up, and migrating datomic from AWS to our own hosted hardware.

Doing this for our dev environment? Man, it Just Worked. I couldn't be happier. I'm still rsyncing the files from AWS to hosted, but I couldn't be a happier systems administrator at this point.
Or boycott LG and any businesses that acts in this manor.
this is one of the nice things about angular. You can just drop it in to make a component of an existing site use angular. I attempted to get that to work with ember, but I don't think it's possible.
You are essentially correct. Even today, all chips fresh off the fab (of the same family) cost essentially the same to make for the same die area. However, do to natural variance in the process they don't all perform the same. So chip makers 'bin' the chips for different speeds and very different prices, essentially based on scarcity. But then with each lot and stepping the FAB starts to get better and better at making the top bin chips, and variance reduces. That's where the marketers take over, down-binning perfectly good fast chips to serve low-end customer segments, under-clocking, fusing off perfectly functional areas or features of the the chips to protect their segmentation strategy etc. Intel, AMD, Nvidia do this all the time. That's how they get dozens of SKUs out of only a couple of chip designs in production at one time.

That's why, at many points in history, you'll find bargain priced intel chips, that if you unlock them, turn out to work exactly as well as 'extreme' or luxury-priced chips, that had just been artificially down-binned and handicapped to meet demand for lower priced PCs, and to be able to sell a chip at every price point for maximum price discrimination.

TL/DR - Yes, all chip makers basically price their products like airplane seats.
Interesting, I was just thinking about a variable width item on the disk expanding or contracting, and if it had to be arranged in a serial physical order it would (necessarily) be forced to move the other bits if it wasn't inserted at the end.
DreamObjects, an S3-compatible storage service for $0.04/GB
I believe the idea here is to prevent exposure to similar free software such as Sage by exposing students to Mathematica first. Once they learn it, they may be reluctant to learn something else.

It's actually a simple concept. Apple used that in schools for ages, first with the Apple II, then with low-end Macs. The software you use in high-school or college stands a good chance of becoming your choice later in life.
We’re Being Driven to Distraction by Clamorous Computing
Can you explain the benefit of defining media queries with em's rather than pixels? It seems like an unnecessary layer of mental translation for developers, given that you deem it necessary to list px-equivalents in the CSS comments. [1]

Also, the medium/large screen sizes in Interchange don't align with the media query sizes. Interchange says 1024px wide is large, [2] but the media query says 1024px wide is medium. Or is it just a documentation error?

[1] http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/media-queries.html

[2] http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/interchange.html#...
An interesting article about the Dow Jones Industrial Average by Adam Davidson: Why Do We Still Care About the Dow?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/magazine/dow-jones-problem...
Ansible has worked really well for us at Pathwright. We initially played a lot with Chef and Puppet, as they're two really safe bets. This is kind of petty, but we're a Python shop, so the Rubyisms were a bit jarring. Both were also a bit harder to pick up while short on time. This new thing (at the time) called Ansible caught our eye, and it only took a few days to see that it was a great fit for us.

While Ansible is developed in Python, it doesn't leak through to the UI and the playbooks. It's all just YAML. Learn a little Jinja2, grok the directory structure, and you're set.

The playbook format is simple, and even people without any Ansible experience can pick through and get a basic idea of what's going on. Pythonistas, Rubyists, whatever. It's just YAML.

My only criticism is that the documentation isn't organized very well just yet. This is common with projects that are rapidly growing/improving, and I expect it to get better. In particular, I think the doc index needs to be trimmed a LOT, with more content being delegated to sub-sections: http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/

Overall, great utility, very helpful community, loads of potential.
Decorators would be your best bet, but it won't be quite as nice.
Wolfram + Raspberry Pi?
What does the site do? Once my order is stored, then what?
Managing Macs at Google Scale
A lot of individual projects make Linux and any other open source Unix-like system possible, I don't see why GNU deserves more credit than those other projects. I think I'll stick with Linux.
Seems it's time to put your closed-source consumer devices into a DMZ, with carefully limited access to both the internet and your home network.
Have a sales team? Use a Script
State of Mozilla and 2012 Financial Statements published
https://github.com/hcatlin/sassruby - Written by the same guy, ruby wrapper around libsass. I am pretty confident that a Rails gem is the eventual goal.
Why not? It is a good solution for lacking good library documentation.
Based on what I have heard, the issue was caused by a bad active directory GPO that caused firewall rules to refuse DNS requests. Neither outlook/xbox/etc would have had any control over it.

I heard that the issue has since been solved internally from 4.30 PST, though DNS changes often take time to propagate externally, taking TTL settings and ISP caches into consideration.
This is an awesome idea!... But I guess this type of dating has its advantages and disadvantages, just saying... (",)
Absolutely love this site. It's incredibly well written, informative, and on point.
I agree that poker has too much randomness, but I don't think that games with zero randomness (like chess) are ideal for spectator events.
I worked in a new office like that. The management were oh-so proud of how smart they were in selecting that design. Of course every one of them had his own office.

The problem with focus booths is that it's not "your" space. You don't come back to the same one every day, you can't have pictures of your family on the desk, etc.

Focus booths are a small courtesy to allow people to make phone calls and hold 1:1 or very small meetings, but that's about it.

It was an awful work environment, even though it looked very modern and stylish. It was one of the main reasons I quit that job.
The Future Stack conference badges are wifi and NFC equipped boards you can hack
Hey man; it's manner, not manor. Manor is more akin to a large house or mansion.

I am often hesitant to offer this kind of correction because I feel like it sometimes sounds conceited, or as if I am trying to be superior to you somehow. I honestly don't feel that way and am just offering the correction because I feel like I would like to be corrected myself. I respect you for having learned a second language, it's more than I can say for myself.
> Dart meanwhile is Google’s open-source Web programming language, which has an ultimate goal of replacing JavaScript. Polymer is Google’s library for the Web, built on top of Web Components, and “designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers.”

Go, Dart, Angular.js and now Dart and Polymer. Am I the only one seeing the next wave of confusions?
CaVirtex fee structure is flaky a bit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1845hf/1_million_fo...

On the other note i do not think accepting bitcoin will open a floodgates of donations.

You are doing great job helping education system, why would being anonymous is of any advantage to potential donors?
Here is the list of domains from the original doctor beets post linked in the this story to block on your router to stop this:

ad.lgappstv.com

yumenetworks.com

smartclip.net

smartclip.com

smartshare.lgtvsdp.com

ibis.lgappstv.com
...which can be verified (as I did earlier in another thread) by querying the nameservers directly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778272
Wouldn't getters solve this better?
Because the web was simple and homogenous before this?
>> "Healthcare.lov came in second and won $50,000 for its service for people"

Excellent job picking a big market
Google billionaires jet-setting to exotic spots on taxpayer money
There's a certain no-BS authenticity about sites which choose this aesthetic, that I and many others appreciate.

But you raise a good point, that the look can also make people think they're seeing an old site, which lacks current utility and fresh updates.

So a suggestion to the creator (and others choosing this spartan sensibility): balance the plainness with some other prominent indicators of freshness.

This might include "last updated" dates, including the year, in prominent places. And, even where info is not changed for years – because it remains valid – add other indicators that it's still current. (This might be a "Reviewed" or "Valid through" date that's never more than a few months old.)
Pirate Party Gets Observer Status at World Trade Organization
Actually no. The first step would be to go directly and query the nameservers set in the whois record (not the registrars which could be wrong but the registry).

For xbox.com that is:

Name Server: NS1.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS2.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS3.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS4.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS5.MSFT.NET