skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it was one of those ellipsoid shaped twisty things. and there was no deadbolt on the door. (i.e. there was one bolt, no separate lock to doorknob)

it took a lot of effort, my intent was to hit the far side of the spinny thing and hope that the momentum would be enough to get through the catch and click it - i did this by extending my arm through the letterbox as far as possible then angling the spanner back and twisting my wrist to provide the impacts - feeling through the spanner if i was hitting anything and trying to guess from the response if it was the right thing. i found the right thing quickly by feeling around it and working out that it wobbled and made little clicks in the right ways.

the biggest problem was that the spanner was quite fantastically heavy when wielded this way - although the impact that knocked it open was not especially hard or directed I was quite tired by that point and it was a pleasant surprise when it popped open so i can't honestly say it was the technique that worked more than the determination. my arm was struggling to continue raising the spanner and i was probably 20 minutes at most away from complete exhaustion and giving up... my arm was quite fantastically stiff and painful the next day - both the elbow and the wrist, and lingered a couple more days after that as a mild irritation.

I had no expectation that it would actually work it was just desperation... but it was 2am and nobody inside would answer their phone... I was not in a good enough situation to afford an expensive locksmith and similarly breaking the door in was not an option.
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I use workflowy and it works pretty nice
"Shanghai is extremely wealthy..."

Seriously? The mean household income is US$4,700/year [0] (nominal conversion). Your link claims it's $12,000/year for an individual, but if you investigate further, that's the mean of the high-income expats who visited that English-language website about international costs of living and filled out a survey. The very existence of this large expat population skews the mean; I'd guess "typical", median wages are a lot lower than $4,700.

[0] "Average annual income for a family in 2012 was 13,000 renminbi, or about $2,100. When broken down by geography, the survey results showed that the average amount in Shanghai, a huge coastal city, was just over 29,000 renminbi, or $4,700, while the average in Gansu Province, far from the coast in northwest China, was 11,400 renminbi, or just under $2,000. Average family income in urban areas was about $2,600, while it was $1,600 in rural areas."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/world/asia/survey-in-china...
Mild OCD has been something that has given me undue stress in my life at times; thankfully, it's not very prevalent in my life these days (intentional exposure to the anxieties seems to have worked for me). But, I most certainly agree; which is why I included, "This can be a good motivator, but can lead to unnecessary anxiety if not used in moderation."
Are you open to candidates from Europe? Not sure how things are going with H1B's nowadays...
cool. i'm surprised a stick would work - but i'm guessing it was quite chunky. :)
Conspiracy nuts have been screaming this from the rooftops for years and suddenly because of Snowden they're finally listening? ... but this is not something new by any stretch of the imagination.

Those of us paying attention knew something was going on, yes. For my part, I believed that there was much more spying going on than they were letting on. It seemed clear that the FISA court was a rubber stamp, and the refusal to release exact numbers of wiretaps approved pointed to them hiding a surprisingly large number.

However, the revelation that there was, in effect, just the one giant umbrella wiretap authorization, came as a big surprise to me. I never dreamed that the extent could be that great.
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one similarity you called out is "They also share a risk loving profile (though maybe not to quite the same extent)."

I don't really follow this. Maybe it's true that engineers in early-stage startups have greater risk tolerance than average, but this is more related to the startup part, not the engineering part. There's nothing in software engineering that is inherently risk-loving (you could probably argue the opposite).

Overall, I like coding, and poker, but I don't really see this as a super apt comparison IMO, outside of general things like logical thinking, working hard, and liking money.
What kind of revenue are we talking about? A few ads on each page can bring in a few grand or more a month. I'm not sure this is rapGenius's end-game though.
It's nice seeing that Zappos is able to experiment like that even after being acquired by Amazon.
It's just a matter of how do you quantify a crime against the almighty Google? I understand that Google have rules and regulations in place to protect themselves and consumers from these "online black hat thugs" but even the justice system have standard jail time for certain crimes. Now maybe there is a "standard jail sentence" in the Google justice system for voliating the rules, but what if there is not one? Do we allow Google to impose a death sentence for whatever they see fit?
I might see if I can come up with something approximating the test... The tricky part about making it so that people online could take it is that I'd need to give you an avenue to play around in a query editor and run queries on a database I've created. Short of making a publicly available database on my own domain (which uses a different database platform than what we use at work), is there a good way to accomplish this?
It's transparent alright... they use Gmail!

Ok, joking aside, the article is about how they use email filters in Google Apps instead of mailing lists.
The BeagleBone Black also sits in that range in that it is both an ARM-based general purpose computer but also has 2 real-time programmable microcontrollers onboard. Which isn't to say that this Rex project has no value, if it is produced it would be a much easier out-of-the-box experience for someone to just plug in some garden variety I2C motors and get going than it would be on the Black, but this sort of combined computer/microcontroller design isn't unique to it.
Well, technically they didn't break the TOS, because you don't sign a TOS to get listed on Google. :-)
git patch support is more feature complete. Atomic application by default and using parent information for three-way merge to apply patches if requested.
> If it is API data that needs to be protected I would hope to see some HTTP code saying unauthorized. If it is a public feed then I probably would expect a 201 when successfully called.

If I leave my apartment door unlocked, and you go in while I'm at work and steal my television, you are still liable for unlawful entry and burglary. There is no legally admissible argument that my not having locked the door confers upon you authorization to go through it.

Of course, that's a much clearer case than API access tends to be, but the point I make from it is that "nobody stopped me from getting to this" does not imply "it must be lawful for me to make use of this".
The thing I hate about modern political economic rhetoric is how basic econ 101 has become political, or even moral. In fact as you can see by my entire last paragraph, I in fact do not have blind faith in "the free market" to always function perfectly with no intervention, but thanks to the thought-destroying moralizing that accompanies our political discourse, I know that the instant I say "free market" about 75% of my audience just shut off their brain.

Even that might not be so bad, if a huge chunk of the audience did not consider it their moral duty to shut off their brain.

Yes, what a free market does is match supply and demand via price signals. It is the aforementioned Econ 101, using mechanisms discussed in Econ 101, which are all mostly math and border on physics. What people don't like is that it does so entirely a-morally (not im-morally as some would like you to think, but actually a-morally, with no particular regard for human morals), so you will sometimes not like how it does it (thus, price gouging laws during emergencies; the free market is trying to balance a sudden supply shock with skyrocketing prices, and we don't like that), and sometimes we have to intervene to prevent it from amorally doing something we don't want to happen at all (hence the need to sometimes straight-up ban things; a free market will efficiently price slaves, drugs, or hit jobs perfectly amorally), but in the normal case, what a free market does is match supply to demand with price signals, regardless of whether we "like" the result or not. It is sufficiently efficient at this that a long-term failure to match up supply & demand is extremely strong evidence (though not quite 100% proof) that there is not a free market where the mismatch is occurring; something's fiddling with the prices outside of normal supply and demand mechanisms. (An interesting example in the other direction is that our War On Drugs has been rather ineffective, as can be shown by the fact that supply and demand are often quite well matched up via pricing; despite our best efforts there still is a fairly free market in drugs!)
If his goal was to beat high school kids and he did just that, then yes. If your goal is to pick locks and you successfully pick the locks you want to open, then you're good at picking locks.

Can you be a good programmer without being the best programmer or even a world class programmer?
I couldn't find the brand anywhere, although I found a good picture of his boots here:
http://www.kjonline.com/news/NY-lobsterman-rescued-after-12-...

That article has a quote that explains why the brand of boot isn't mentioned: << His father, John Aldridge Sr., joked to his son not to reveal the brand name on the boots to reporters: "Not until we get a contract offer." >>
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Re replying: True, and I should have mentioned it, but I think most people don't know about it (evidenced by even older HN members still side-replying to messages far down a thread).

Re main topic: I'm trying to state my position and view more clearly. I'll either edit this later or post another reply. Short version: In my view violence is a product of the cultures it occurs in (or cultural boundaries).
DSL is provided over a POTS ("plain old telephone service") line. The demarc for POTS, at least in my neighborhood, is a grey box on the side of your house, well upstream of your DSL modem.

I don't know why exactly it worked out that way, but the telephone system is designed to deal with consumer electronics and the coax cable system is not.

It didn't used to be - until the federal government busted AT&T's monopoly, it was illegal to connect non-AT&T equipment to the AT&T network, at least electrically. This is why in old movies you see people dialing ISPs by hand with a phone and then setting the handset down on a cradle - the cradle was the modem, and it interfaced with the telephone network acoustically. The demarc (at least as we know it today) was presumably introduced after the government told AT&T they had to let people have their own networks, rather than considering everything up through the phones to be part of the telco network.
"It is virtually certain"

so hum its not certain,i guess. people need to learn how to write stuff that makes sense.
Very cool. I'd recommend adding something about callbacks defined in loops, ie:

for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
$('.thing').click(function() {
alert(i);
});
}
Of course it is valuable, but why limit the choices a priori? Let your clients choose by themselves, maybe some of them will prefer to sacrifice face-to-face meetings in exchange for finding the best candidate...
Hang around Cambridgeport where Harvard is expanding and ask them how they feel about non-profits.

This "non-profits are good!" vibe is why these companies set themselves up that way. Instead of profits going to shareholders, they just go to the executives.
While I agree that the NFL is certainly not a charity, I'm not sure that the NFL's nonprofit status is necessarily indicative of the league exploiting loopholes. I have always been led to believe that all league profits are shared among the league's for-profit teams who pay the appropriate taxes.

Can you explain how the NFL is a prime example of a nonprofit exploiting loopholes?
Pardon the self-promotion, but this hits a bit close to my area. If you'd like a much more comprehensive guide:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL66CD42F86F3A1F85&feat...

I also cover disc detainers, and a bunch of other stuff. I'm shooting a new series on lock forensics presently, just got a great microscope that can take my DSLR for high def microscopy.
The only "real world AI" example we have is us, human beings ourselves.

Humans manage to be able to both learn from their environment and to learn by being told rules - a person would have a hard time demonstrating intelligence if they weren't able to be instructed in things and so it seems like anything intelligent we construct would have to have those abilities too.

I suppose it's a natural overreaction for people to believe that if intelligence is not just rule-following, it must be not at all rule based. I believe the truth is in the middle.
True, but meteors that burn up on entry can still cause damage -- see the Chelyabinsk meteor last year. It exploded in the atmosphere but still shattered windows and damaged thousands of buildings in the nearby town. Few would have survived if it had happened directly over the town.
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I don't think that the president has the effective power to do any harm to the security apparatus. He didn't even try so far, though it was rumored that he might go Bulworth some day.
They probably have too much power and info over him. But at least he is still alive. JFK tried too but was eliminated by them, and afterwards only the Church committee tried to limit their power a bit, but not their budgets. The fact the Obama completely turned 180° on all security and constitutional matters from his senate times should tell you.
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Here's the thing ... the BEST to-do list is the one you use. Its that simple. For me, that's Workflowy.
That's where you always bury key features to business (AD/LDAP integration) in a "call me" plan. That way you grab the early adopters with purchasing cards and get the service implanted in the customer's business process.
I like Wunderlist. Cross platform, syncs and all kinds of other goodies. Can send to-do items to other people via their email addresses also.

https://www.wunderlist.com/en/
Then again La Defense in Paris is similarily mind blowing.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Arche
actually i find that 'mechanically' opening these kinds of things is usually easier - I remember getting into one of those lockable little cashboxes (that every office seems to have) when I lost a key for it by prying the lid open and bending the case just enough to get one of my fingers far enough in to unhook the catch from the inside with it - pointless little boxes really.
This was mentioned already, and probably one of the most famous and exhaustive org-mode practical tutorial.
He doesn't need to be mean, but we as a community should probably be more excited about quality over quantity. Software that has an impact should be the goal.
Sure, but how much is the instant-interest on the amount withdrawn compared to a $3 ATM fee?
Nice, after all this time watching all the history channel and other non-exact-scientific documentaries like the Aliens and Ancient Egyptians and others related that said they used the techonological power of the sound waves to lift the stones is finally real and proven not impossible.

I wait for the day when it's finally proven they were advanced civilizations or helped by aliens :D.

This could be extremelly useful, I'm excited for more news about this.
Great idea. Aside from the viewing angle are there any other differences?

The viewing angle is terrible

That's annoying but could be useful to get the viewer to stand in an intended path or spot to participate in some reactive art.
Another crutch for the general public's pathetic listlessness to bettering their diets. It's addictive in the way that marijuana is addictive: People are so used to it and therefore trick themselves into thinking they need that good feeling it provides; quitting overly-sugary stuff or marijuana cold turkey will not cause one's body to go into any sort of physiological distress (pulled that phrase out of my ass) as one would with heroin.
I hope there was plenty of prototypes over the course of the year. A year seems dangerously long to work on an app without testing it with users / the market.
Is there a similar explanation for poor design of merge sections which IMO cause the vast majority of traffic jams?

Heck, on 880 in San Jose the highway goes from 3 lanes to 2 lanes and back to 3 again. WTF!
It's not just startups that have this problem with Lean management. I've told a few clients in more traditional industries that they were confusing "lean" and "thin." Lean is about efficiency, continuous improvement, and learning as an organization - not budget and headcount minimization.
not-for-profit and tax-exempt are different things.

Tax-exempt entities are also not-for-profit but not all non-profit entities are tax-exempt (Political parties, professional organizations, the NFL,...).
Include that in the calculations. There's a certain absolute sideways g-force (decreasable by slowing or straightening), and a certain absolute downwards gravity. These add up to a single total force. So long as the magnitude is at least 1g, there exists a seat orientation such that the passenger feels 1g toward the seat and something on the back.

How much you can spin the seat without those movements causing problems is an open question.

Airplanes are an encouraging precedent. They often make quite sharp turns at extremely high velocity, but tilt into them such that there's almost no perceived lateral acceleration.
Job Recruiters asking for Last 4 of SSN.  Scam?
How many people looking for a job lately have gotten very pushy calls from supposed Job Recruiters wanting your last 4 digits of Social Security Number, and even birthdays ?

I've concluded there is a huge Identity Theft ring(s) using this technique very successfully. They will spend huge amounts of time and energy (emails, calls) to try and talk you into giving it up. What about it? Anybody want to share experiences? After researching this, I ended up joining LifeLock today, just in case!
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Lisp systems legacy I suppose, the core is ~tiny, everything else is a library.
List of artists who died in 1943 and the copyright has expired
I always wonder with these boards why wifi isn't just built-in. It seems like a delightfully simpler interface than any wire, and means the base system can integrate with anything else over the network. Sure you can always add wifi, but the point of these boards is that they bundle all the basic stuff, and often include things like development environments that can't make use of wifi if they don't know if it is available. Power is a concern, but you can still turn it off.
For those interested in deeper understanding and more interesting facts (yes, distribution of Jewish Math university entrants was not even, and applied sciences in the USSR gained a lot from that) - the classy article by Mark Saul, Kerosinka: An Episode in the History of Soviet Mathematics. Notices of the AMS, vol.46, no.10, November 1999. (http://www.ams.org/notices/199910/fea-saul.pdf)
An old perspective
With the leaks of Mr. Snowden, I felt that this comic has taken on a new meaning that you all might like to ponder at. Happy New Year all, may this comic continue to evolve with us.
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With the leaks of Mr. Snowden, I felt that this comic has taken on a new meaning that you all might like to ponder at. Happy New Year all, may this comic continue to evolve with us.
Microsoft quietly upgrades Surface Pro 2 with new processors
Ask HN: Phone or Money?
Most of us carry our "Phone" and "Money" everywhere we go. If you can only take one thing with you leaving home, which one will it be?

Phone or Money (cash/credit cards)?
Wow. That's pretty interesting. I'm sure it posed quite a few interesting architectural questions. Cool that it doesn't even touch the building while passing right through it.
Well if I can count:

00000 00000 0
00000 00000 1

for 999 fair coins = 1998
+ 1 for fake coin = 1999

1000 of which has 11. flip 0

So 1000/1999 ~ 50%
True. In some places, they overbuild and seize property for reasons other than the natural expansion of the population. Japan is notorious for growing GDP through endless useless road construction and river paving, often at the expense of local landowners.
HackerRank looks interesting. I see there are some Functional Programming challenges [0].

[0] - https://www.hackerrank.com/categories/fp/intro
Can anyone explain how the pins getting "set" works? I understand there is torque applied to the entire cylinder, but once you push a pin up, why does it stay there, is it just the torque? How can you push many pins up when the torque required for each pin to become set is presumably variable?
A new year and a new bunch of expired copyrights. Here's a list of musicians who died in 1943 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_in_music
check out picked locks under an electron microscope.

http://pumpingstationone.org/2013/12/lock-picking-and-sem/

you can actually tell which ones were picked.
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I'm not trying to equate traffic to success or future income. But the original comment was snarky and implied that Rapgenius doesn't make money so there's no financial loss. This loss of traffic will hurt the future monetization of the site and its products.