skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can include or exclude particular exit nodes in your torrc file, syntax is:

ExcludeExitNodes <node>, <node>, <node> ..

to exclude. to only use particular nodes:

ExitNodes <node>, <node>, <node> ..

where <node> can be a fingerprint, IP address (CIDR), country code.

Examples:

Use only US exit nodes:

ExitNodes {us},

Block the nodes listed in this report (we block all of Russia, since listing each node slows down the matching):

ExcludeExitNodes {ru}, 8F9121BF, 229C3722, 5A2A51D4, E455A115, 02013F48, 02013F48, 02013F48

edit: blocking by IP/range might be a better idea since fingerprints are easy to regenerate:

ExcludeExitNodes {ru}, 64.22.111.168/29, 121.54.175.51/32, 111.240.0.0/12, 89.128.56.73/32, 117.18.118.136/32, 178.211.39.0/24, 24.84.118.132/32

edit 2: also make sure strictnodes is set to true:

StrictNodes 1
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I don't see how transmitting the power 10 inches would make charging any easier.

The MIT spin-off WiTricity has been working on a better(?) solution since 2007, they have been consistently overpromising and underdelivering, but recently they showed this nice-looking device: http://gigaom.com/2014/01/09/video-wirelessly-charging-your-...

Personally I believe it would need a few meters' range before it becomes really useful - the point where you rarely need to consciously charge your phone because it is always charging when you're at home.
Just in the middle of getting this up (was a way of teaching myself Rails) that works as an Affiliate style site for gadgets and cool gift ideas. http://fmhgifts.com/
Couple of reasons why this might be news.

1. Under /features check out the 'Certification and Compliance section'.

>> Dropbox's storage is SSAE16/SOC1, SOC2, ISAE 3402 and ISO 27001 certified on Amazon S3 and may provide data mirroring across other secure data centers

SSAE16/SOC1 compliances were not present in the earlier versions and this is a decent step forward for adoption of dropbox in larg(ish) IT departments. This will imply "firewalls are in place at all externally facing access points".

2. From a usability point of view, the promise of a seamless way to integrate both your personal and work accounts from the same device.

3. "Seamlessly upgrade existing Dropbox accounts to Dropbox for Business and transfer files to a co-worker when someone leaves", although this is in Beta currently, this reduces a lot of headache for IT departments during employee exits.

Seems like most of the other features remain the same, though.
You get space when linking your Dropbox with Twitter, and things like referring friends. If you participate in the yearly challenges, you get space for every step you complete successfully.
Um, have you ever seen a WinXP box with anything but 'allow all' for every permission on every file? Running with everything as administrator? Simply having a permissions model is not enough if it's never used. If OSX had everything chmod 777 by default then it would be equivalent to WinXP.
First of all, it's not that big of a problem. While our list looks long and scary, there are around 1,000 exit relays, so the chance of selecting a bad one in your circuit is not high. Furthermore, Tor's path selection algorithm is weighted by a relay's bandwidth for load balancing (one of the many performance/anonymity trade-offs). Many of the fastest relays of the network are run by well-respected people and organisations such as the CCC. Also, the Tor Project "removes" malicious relays from the network (see Section 1.1 in the paper).

Finally, we published our scanner for a good reason: to crowd-source the hunt for more malicious relays :)
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Ask HN: Web Developer looking to move to Systems Programming seeking advice
I've been working as a PHP developer for almost 7 years now. I started doing small PHP projects while still studying for my CS degree and it sort of progressed from there. This career path worked more or less fine for me as it always provided decent income, jobs were fairly easy to find and at times projects were fairly interesting too. However at a personal level I was never really interested in the subject and on my free time I always found myself hacking on something else.

At this point I feel that to continue working as a programmer I need to change my field. Programming can be very interesting and rewarding experience to both programmer and surrounding community, but it can also turn the other way around if you lose your motivation.

My real passion lies in systems programming I believe as I was always interested in operating systems, programming languages, algorithms and related stuff.

I would be very interested to hear if anyone did a similar transition to systems programming and how did it go. How long did it take for you to learn everything? Did you take a more general approach or did you target a very specific area? How long did it take to get your first job as a systems programmer and what it was?

Any kind of related experiences would be very helpful to me when making this decision. Thank you.
The schedule for Austria's Developer Conference is online (and awesome)
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No! Thats the funny part.. I am putting only IAds..
Hey Charlie,

Thanks for taking to the time to answer.

I'm currently looking at a few opportunities and am actually launching a workshop next month. I dont want to link to it yet, as it's currently only available for folks who bought my book. However, it's an area that I'm interested in expanding upon.

With regards to Luke and Gabriel, this is probably more the area I had in mind when writing my question, it would be quite interesting to develop something more along these lines, it would certainly take me out of my comfort zone.

Thanks again Charlie, you've given me some food for thought.
A few things stick out to me from the hacker's perspective:

1. Poetry seems like a medium that is inherently difficult not to plagiarize. Unlike regular prose or journalism, you don't have the room to do gracefully do attribution (e.g. "According to the Times, two roads diverged in a yellow wood") and the shortness of the phrase necessarily reduces the space you have to make something unique.

2. It's great to be involved in an intellectual pursuit, like open source software, where copying and remixing is not only encouraged, but is a best practice.

3. It says a lot about the ephemeral state and nature of poetry that someone could plagiarize Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath, in this age of Google, and almost get away with it.

edit: poor wording on my part. I meant more that it's difficult to avoid unintentionally plagiarizing, in that the form of the medium seems to make it difficult to show that you were trying to "remix" (speaking from a layperson's perspective). The examples given in the OP seem to obviously be ripping off, though.

But yes, it also seems from a layperson's perspective that there would be collisions in how things could be expressed...but I'm thinking as a layperson who doesn't appreciate all the ways that poetry can break common rules of language and expression.
Middle-school girls 'play soccer with concussion symptoms'
1. It's equally wrong for retail stores to have that protection. No particular class of business should be entitled to more protection than other types of businesses or ordinary citizens seeking to detain someone who committed a crime against them. I also highly doubt retail stores have a federal law giving them this legal protection.

2. This law doesn't just permit theaters to detain you until the cops arrive; they're permitted to detain you for the sole purpose of questioning you. I think it's extraordinarily problematic for private security forces to be given the power to do that. Such a detention could go on indefinitely, leaving it up to a lawsuit to hash out whether it was "reasonable" or not. If they're just detaining you until the cops arrive, at least the length of detention is upper-bounded by the response time of the cops, and there's no opportunity for shady or coercive questioning techniques.
I won't speak for the parent, but, some people have been know to use Virtual Machine that pretend to be a "Friend" and take advantage of Dropbox's customer acquisition technique.
I know. I was referring to the message-passing syntax or dot syntax.
Nice! That's worked out well for you - congrats! :)
My iOS app that teaches you what a tesseract is and lets you manipulate it in 3D and 4D.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-fourth-dimension/id50420...

It blows my mind that people still find out about this app and happily buy it every day even though it occupies such a small geeky niche.
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Good tips, too! I tried to stay away from more stylistic things, but I do agree with you.
That's not strictly speaking passive income, but capital gains.
I love this objection because it uses my own argument against me. I think any argument from here goes away from moral principles and towards politics.

My personal view is that rights are most greatly abridged in crises, and that the voluntary cooperation is less likely to beget oppression than is the unrest and crime prevented by cooperation. Moreover, I think a culture of forcibly requiring information is more likely to arise in a culture of reticence.

You're right that it's a difficult line to walk, though -- defending a cultural value of openness and strong rights to silence and privacy is a subtle point.
I don't think this is a valid argument. It seems to be "I'm right because I believe people in the future will agree with me". Maybe so but the author can't know that until the future comes.
There's also apropos(1). :)
That's not necessary. Most of the relays in the report were already BadExited by the Tor Project. That means that the network consensus has the "BadExit" flag set which tells Tor clients not to select a particular relay as the last hop in its circuit. In fact, by interfering with your path selection algorithm, you reduce your anonymity over time.
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You can just let nmap run over it if you don't know the port anymore...
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My entire office is in the same boat, so I tried to figure out whether it’ll be possible to convert back to a personal account before being re-added to a business account (of the new kind), but I couldn’t find anything.

Do you know for a fact that this won’t be possible?
The developers of Dwarf Fortress (Bay 12 Games) do a financial/game report every month (though I'm unsure if you are not talking about disclosing what each monthly donor give):

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=135038.0
Light Table wants to give you coding superpowers
I used a $100 Google Adwords coupon to advertise Dropbox on Google with my referral link. I did it to proof it could be done, not that I needed the extra space. Many others have done the same in the past http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/11/max-out-your-dropbox-re...
Open data is worth 3 trillion
... What constraints are on poetry that make it difficult to not plagerise? Are you suggesting there is a finite amount of expression in language?
Income is often called passive but essentially there is always something you need to do, monitor, improve or change in order to keep cash flow steady. If you don't, your income will decrease over time until reaching zero. It is surely easier to maintain "passive income" than to start from scratch.
That's great to hear. I'm very happy to stand corrected!
Just pirate your films instead!

Oh wait...
I've also been doing this on an open source project (play-silhouette). It's quite handy.

I don't like doing a force push, though.

This is the script I'm using to update API docs and the website only in commits to the master branch, and not when pull requests are validated:

https://github.com/mohiva/play-silhouette/blob/master/script...
Funny thing is that they probably have some UI-expert on site.
The only reason we still use Dropbox rather than Box is that Dropbox is ubiquitous.

For us this means one thing: There is a well-supported and maintained Linux client that just works.

I've no doubt we'll be giving Dropbox for Business a try, but it's pretty much because of the ubiquity rather than anything else.
Being incapable of originality and being compelled to plagiarise are very different.
I've got a job where i do almost nothing. It's my passive income.
It's amazing how many "full operating systems" want to support something as weak as Raspberry Pi, and how many things can be done with it. I can't wait for Raspberry Pi to come to a more powerful architecture like ARMv8 (at relatively the same price-point) and see what comes out of that.
Theoretically there may be infinite ways to construct a string of words, but practically, there may be collisions in the kind of things you want to actually express. With poetry, there is an additional reduced physical space to reword things...Arguably, there's an increased artistic space, though, as you aren't restricted by the normal bounds of grammar and language.
Google buys Impermium, a startup with two Indian co-founders
A very reasonable, or perhaps just obvious, list of languages. Not a particularly exciting list though. A much more interesting list would perhaps be R, D, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Go, Processing, Dart, Python, Opa, and Chapel. Although, to be fair, only CoffeeScript, Clojure or Python are will get you a job from that lot.
What kind of work do you do?

My experience is that ESA lets the industry (and maybe universities) do most of the SW/HW development and ESA does stuff like requirements and high level management. But I have never followed a project from start to finish, only been in the aforementioned industry :)
Researchers find reactions occur faster in micro-droplets
Could you elaborate on why manually blocking known bad exits is worse for anonymity than letting the network decide this?
RemoteMyApp - looking for feedback
Hi,

We are a new startup - RemoteMyApp. With our applications you could run games and applications from Windows/Linux/Mac on mobile devices or any other computers (Windows->Mac,Linux->Windows etc.).

We are looking for feedback and ideas what we can do better than others.
I have two left feet, of clay :-)
If you're looking for some dropshipping insights (which the OP's link suggests), here's a nice story:
http://www.ecommercefuel.com/selling-an-ecommerce-store/
Leaving the Nest - Tony Fadell on Google/Nest at DLD conference
Nothing as of yet. I used to receive donations from my blog and some Windows programs I've written: http://www.softpedia.com/developer/James-Brooks-12392.html but that seems to have dried up. I probably generated £100~ from all donations.

I'm now working on several iOS (http://james.brooks.so/contare-my-first-ios-app/) applications (paid) however I do intend to offer free versions with iAds.

I've also got an Android app on the Play Store that's made me a few quid; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jbrooksuk....

Apart from my iOS applications now, I intend to develop some SaaS apps that I can use to generate some more income.
dude, the entire business model of dating sites is predicated on fake profiles. there would be no badoo otherwise
Show HN: Node.js driver for Cassandra with row and field streaming
Fit.js » Fit things into other things
No, the output in the box is from the web console, which uses the GET-style URL as a concise way of showing POST requests.
we tried box and dropbox and went with dropbox as it supports LAN-Sync (tremendously helpful when you are shoving around Photoshop files) which box didn't at the time and the Linux client.
Basically Tony says that the acquisition allows them to focus on new devices and to rapidly expand globally without having to build up the support networks and regional customisation work that needs to be done for hardware products.

I believe it will allow them to quickly buy up regional similar services that have focused on the hardware interfaces. Here in Munich for example we have a startup that seems perfect for an acquisition, since they never focused on the hardware design, but only on the interface to the heating systems, which are very regional in Europe.

I wonder if this is an opportunity to build up an interest network to share the regional variances and offer a testing service for new hardware products focused on the home, since their biggest challenge is global scalability.
I wish the FreeBSD hardware pages gave a description of what is supported. The OpenBSD hardware pages really do stand out in this regard.

Compare OpenBSD's BeagleBone[1] Black vs FreeBSD's BeagleBone Black[2]

From the OpenBSD page I can see at a glance that the Ethernet is supported, but USB is not available. I would like to port FreeBSD's USB implementation across if it works, but how do I know if it is worth pursuing without doing an install.

[1]http://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html

[2]https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/BeagleBoneBlack
@fontana, while I think Red Hat's Fedora CLA is better than most, I still think it's problematic that its fallback is a highly lax, permissive license, rather than "license of the project". I still don't understand why Red Hat won't default to inbound=outbound for Fedora.

FWIW, I collected a lot of links to various anti-CLA materials in my anti-Harmony blog post: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/07/07/harmony-harmful.html
wally is that you? SCNR
That's great Dan. I have a couple of questions.

Do you have an in house affiliate program that you use or a third party one? How did you get affiliates interested (other than existing customers)?
Private beta invite: Helium (simple web automation)
Boggie - Nouveau Parfum
Not much of a loyalty bonus, that - one year of discounted pricing with a week's notice.
Do some freelancing during office hours & double the income.
Government or big co?
SearchTempest.com got to the point where it was my main gig about 5 years ago, although it's since leveled off. Like anything, you end up being pretty active if you want to continue making that "passive" income. :)
Show HN : Doccler.com writing platform
Doccler is a platform for people to write journals, create communities and build a following.
People can post http://filmscrape.doccler.com/any-given-sunday

Create communities http://doccler.com/music

Any feedback would be very valuable,

Doccler
Features aren't free.
No, I just don't understand why you'd even bother 'breaking the law' at that point - I can't imagine the rewards would be all that compelling for a 'glass-copy' bootleg.
Wow this looks really cool. I have been flipping through the book for a little bit, and it seems to have pretty lucid descriptions of some of the more unusual algorithms, especially those based off of physical processes, such as search algorithms based off swarming ants and bees, jazz musicians finding harmony, metallurgy and even the human immune system to name a few! Have to admit I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff. Not only that but it has tons of pointers to other reference material for more advanced applications.

The algorithms themselves are presented both as pseudo-code and as a ruby implementation.

I can't wait until I have some more free time to implement some of these algorithms and see how they compare against the techniques I would previously use.

Additionally, it seems this book is available off its own website: http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/ and in fact it is under the Creative Commons license, and is up on github! The one on the website seems to be more recent than this version posted here.

https://github.com/jbrownlee/CleverAlgorithmsMachineLearning

While I have not yet implemented and tried out any of these algorithms listed in the book, it looks very interesting, and seems to have clear descriptions. I'd definitely recommend checking it out.
I'll try to start an ecommerce for France, following the other ones who specialize themselves in just one kind of well made product, like socks (www.archiduchesse.com), or underpants (www.leslipfrancais.fr).
Coming soon ;)
pretty cool. how do you syndicate products? through amazon's API or by hand?
We're trying to address that in the flow-based programming community: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-kickstarter-launch/

Freeing code from the constraints of text files would allow different ways to interact with it. Visual programming, REPLs, etc, could work more smoothly in the same workflow as a traditional text editor.
The node approach of making dependencies as tiny and reusable as possible is a good model. What C++ needs is a package management, not bloat.
Oh wow, this looks like exactly what I've been looking for for my not-so-passive income project, textbooksplease.com, for tracking conversions.

...any chance of an HN discount? :D
Even without new technology, I wish more devices incorporated current fast charging tech.

My X1 Carbon laptop may not have the world's best battery life, but being able to recharge it to 80% in ~30 minutes is fantastic. It's saved me on many occasions when I've been heading out of the house and realized that I forgot to charge it or needed to charge in a coffee shop where I couldn't sit near the outlet.

I can only assume the lack of this charging speed in most products means that it's either quite detrimental to the battery longevity or the cost/weight of the electronics outweighs the benefit, or both.
It's possible with intervention from Dropbox staff. When I first set up the business version, I didn't quite understand what was going to happen (and it is all very non-intuitive, I found) and long story short I basically lost my personal account. I freaked out but support restored it and I used another email address for my business account. Then I used dropbox portable to juggle two dropboxes on one machine, but that was a pain in the ass, so I just used some computers for personal and others for business.
Getting things done is more than just checking boxes
Owning a flat in Moscow and renting it out? Easily 1000$/mo. You can live in Thailand on that money.
Boost has a very liberal license, unlike Cairo. C++ libraries, at least the GNU C++ library, have directly based some of their implementations on Boost.

This might lead to C++ library vendors not implementing the standard and requiring using a third party library, perhaps later integrating them into their own libraries.

Thinking about it, it is not probably a bad thing, it will just take longer than with other parts of the standard. Of course, this is just pure speculation and things might turn out very differently.
It's run through ShareASale [1]. They take care of tracking sales, cutting checks, sending 1099s at the end of the year, and all the other boring parts of running an affiliate program. As for getting affiliates interested, there's a link to the program in the footer of the site and a link within the app for existing customers. When I come across a site that seems like it'd be a good fit for some kind of partnership, I just send a brief e-mail and see if there's any interest.

1: https://www.shareasale.com
DJgqYc7eALj3GsF4DNNgG9RLt2wodgTNuC

Thanks.
Plagiarism checking software exists. Universities use it all the time. Surely, with a relatively narrow corpus of work like poetry, this is a trivial problem to solve.
It's about the new features, which make quite a difference (being able to use both business and personal from one account).
Well thats my next project
UKIP Parody Twitter account gains 80K followers in 3 days
Snowden is in no way equivalent to King.

Never in a long run. King stood up to his foes, Snowden ran.
I praise his curiosity for actually digging the problem and trying to understand how he got his server hacked. It makes a much better post than: I nuked my installation, and installed everything from scratched crossing my fingers that this will never happen again in the future.
This would not be passive.
Diesel is still cheaper both absolutely and by distance driven in most European countries even if the penetration of Diesel vehicles is much higher than in the US.