skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perfectly within his rights.

Yep (well, maybe, I don't really know. But for the sake of argument: Yep). But dick moves are the type of thing that cause bounds of rights to be changed.

We're not lawyers here (or are, and are already aware that we're not before a court). In a conversation of what actions are tolerable to a society, laws can be changed. Without going on pedantic tangents about this or that, I just want to point out that: in general appealing to the law without making a case for the law looks like circular reasoning because changing the law (or using other, existing, laws to alleviate problems caused by the first one) is within scope of the conversation. That's probably why your post is currently gray.
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Show HN: SupportKit embeds Zendesk into your iOS apps, with one line of code
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Pretty sure that's what the device really is. The project is more about the distribution of marketing of it.
Last year it was a card with nfc, hardware encryption and usb: https://www.google.com/search?q=keepod+card

You could also download the software back then: http://keepod.com/keepod-os-12-4-cave-man-is-released/
The story is - he closed off a private road on his private land that leads to the "public" beach.

Before him, the previous owner charged a fee to use the private road/property.

The media seems to be avoiding these points at all costs, which completely changes the story.
I suppose that SCRUM meeting really _was_ shit?
Correct. However stolen credit card numbers are a much smaller problem than that.
Should write another post - How not to setup a blog!
> ... I can't come up with an idea that doesn't suck...yet

Don't be hard on yourself, Sir James Dyson's invention of the bagless vacuum cleaner sucked loads, yet he's made millions.
I remember Keepod a few years ago, back then they were trying to market these same devices to developers and security enthusiasts. I always thought that Keepod was more compelling for emerging markets. Glad to see them pivot.
Well, actually: Recovering from a SIGKILL will (or at least used to) take much longer at startup than shutting down with SIGTERM, so it could handle that better. I still agree with you that it's reasonable, but others may hold a different opinion.
From other comments here, having someone on-site there improves the odds. But why bother? If you're a startup, you are creating one more unnecessary problem. Also, if you're a startup, you probably are going to be changing things frequently, resulting in constant software updates. In my experience, outsourcing works best (or least awfully) if the task you are outsourcing is completely specified, with no ambiguity. If you are going to be changing specs on them, it won't work so well.

I understand a startup needing to save money, but doing it this way seems crazy to me. I've done five startups by now (four with successful exits). If I were to join another, outsourced software development would be a red flag -- I'd stay away.
The joy of C isn't just in writing it. It's also about getting back a program that runs unreasonably fast at the end. Sometimes you really can tell.
I've heard it described as excel with a 3D engine bolted on the front of it.

Maybe one could market a tool that turns mundane corporate data entry into an exciting battle for galactic domination, and make your white collar peon employees battle each other mercilessly to increase shareholder value. If you die in the game, you get fired.

EDIT: actually, please don't do that. unless you do this first: http://www.richardkmorgan.com/novels/market-forces/
> I'm unsure how many other languages/toolchains give you that sort of flexibility down to the linking level. Also it's self contained and doesn't require some kind of "virtual machine" or interpreter to run it.

Almost every language that has an ahead of time compiler to native code.
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Why should I? Courts don't. As I wrote in another post, courts have a more pragmatic view than you give them credit for and take intent and context into account. This is why torrent files and magnet links and other levels of indirection won't shield piratebay and other such sites from liability, and also why HN linking to a Gawker story (which links to copyrighted material) isn't going to cause problems for HN.
I'd suggest that the authors consider how this missing feature reflects on their efforts when people are forming first impressions. I've made my opinion clear, and the developer pals that I brought into the loop were, without exception, similarly aghast.

I'm reminded of how some Python devotees are unable to see how the v2.7/v3.x split turns of newcomers. The impression given is that the community can't make up its mind on which way to go and that the best approach is to avoid the language all together.
That would be one sentence - never use openshift.
Why ironic?
Geez, installation of the enterprise python software seems to be very complicated...
We had an un-official 'dogs allowed' policy at my last job. It all began with the owners wife bringing their dog in when she'd come to visit.

Then one day I brought my Bullmastiff in because not many people were going to be in the office that day, and she's content with just sitting under my desk for hours on end. Girls in the front office would bring in their dogs who were pretty well behaved. It was nice meeting other peoples dogs.

Then another developer brought in his Beagle. A dog howling every 10 minutes is very, very distracting, especially in an open-layout office. Someone in customer service brought in their 1 year old Labrador, who I'm convinced was fed a diet consisting of canine Red Bull.

At some point, people in graphics started bringing their cats in. I came in one morning to find a cat on my chair. I did not bring my dog that day or things would have probably gotten very interesting.

If I took anything away from that, I'd say pets are okay on Fridays, or holidays when not everyone is in the building. But for every day, pets are just too dang distracting. Eating out of trashcans, snooping around the office, scaring visitors, and just people in general wasting time playing with pets all day. The biggest benefit is taking your pooch for a walk at lunch time is a great break.
> Linode CLI is a simple command-line interface to the Linode platform.

https://github.com/linode/cli
If I went onsite say as a consultant to a company and was bitten by a dog that had been approved by management, I would be looking to sue them into oblivion.
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Isn’t it obvious why a director would be pissed off by his script getting public before the movie is released? Now why act like a jerk and help spreading the script? This doesn’t have to be a philosophical debate, it’s just common courtesy.
I was able to read the RFID card at an Aloft hotel (they were mentioned in the article) using NFC on my phone. In principle, it should have been possible to clone that room card to my phone so I could have just used my phone, but I didn't pursue that.
Usually, reported EVE player numbers are a lie; it is dishonest to mention player numbers when account numbers are what is actually meant (and everyone knows that regular players involved in alliance warfare have and use multiple accounts more often than not).
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Can I have a quick micro rant here: I don't want to know about perks when I'm job hunting. Tell me about the type of work (not a wishlist of skills you want), the ball park pay (not a range), the location (I'm looking at you, agencies), the level (entry level vs management) and the type of hours (I'm the type of weirdo that has a life outside of work). I don't care if you have free lunch or free t-shirts. I expect to work hard and get paid for it. P.S. Forget the marathon gauntlet interview with multiple skype calls; that's why I send you a copy of my resume and give you references. OK, rant over. Please carry on. Nothing to see here.
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Show HN: Cgroup on JVM
jcgroup is a cgroup wrapper on JVM. You could use this library to limit the CPU shares, Disk I/O speed, Network bandwidth and etc of a thread.
As someone who works at a company about the same size as Sparkfun, that also allows dogs, I am surprised by two things: the number of dogs they have coming in and the vitriolic responses to it here.

We have probably between one and two dozen dogs that come in regularly. There is a "doggy committee" made up of volunteers that meets about once a month. No software to manage them yet, but a little bit of occasional drama about them. I can imagine it being more intense if we had three dozen dogs each day.

I get along with cats easier than dogs, but I love having either around. They and their owners are one of my favourite parts of the place I work. I sit beside someone with a dog who greets me every day, and it might be the best part of my whole day.

Anyway, I just want to throw some non-hate into the top level of this post. I get that some people do not like dogs or are unfortunately allergic. There are clearly reasons to not have dogs around, and it simply would not work in many environments. But there are also a lot of dog owners and people who are just cool with the companionship, and for them dog-presence is a serious plus.

Either way, it's great to have insight into how other organisations dealt with this stuff.
Someone will eventually break down the gate and just drive down the road anyway.

It will be interesting to see if the cops prioritize showing up when they do.
Interesting concept, I was working with a company on a reasonably similar idea last year that was ultimately shelved in the end, but for a different target market.

You basically have to charge a reasonable amount for it, because it's not super straight forward. Sure you can buy a USB drive for $5 but it's not likely to be that great, you have to try and source drives that are reliable for a large number of R&W cycles and the really, really cheap ones generally aren't. Then you need to have a batch write process, so you can either spend time cobbling hardware together to do it or send it off to a company to do it, which costs a reasonable amount. Then marketing, then staff costs, then distribution costs. There's a lot involved in it, I'm surprised they're down so low, I'd assume they're running as nonprofit.
jcgroup is a cgroup wrapper on JVM. You could use this library to limit the CPU shares, Disk I/O speed, Network bandwidth and etc of a thread.
You still can, just not as obviously: https://www.google.com/?tbm=dsc
Heh I went to try it and sure enough it was in the manpage but didn't work on the commandline because.....manpage was for /bin/kill but from the commandline I was using the builtin kill. WOW!

% kill -L
kill: unknown signal: SIGV
kill: type kill -l for a list of signals

% which kill
kill: shell built-in command

% /bin/kill -L
1 HUP 2 INT 3 QUIT 4 ILL 5 TRAP 6 ABRT 7 BUS
8 FPE 9 KILL 10 USR1 11 SEGV 12 USR2 13 PIPE 14 ALRM
15 TERM 16 STKFLT 17 CHLD 18 CONT 19 STOP 20 TSTP 21 TTIN
22 TTOU 23 URG 24 XCPU 25 XFSZ 26 VTALRM 27 PROF 28 WINCH
29 POLL 30 PWR 31 SYS
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is it for web or mobile or does it just work for both?
Except the attack would not actually be done via HTTP, but just by blocking access to its ports.

Perhaps you could say it's an attack on TCP/IP.
Nope; I live in the country, and I'm curious about how rural people around the world live. The cities are neat too. Random is good.
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I'd be inclined to believe you'd be more likely to end up flying a Titan if you were to invest the training time into it, given that the larger corporations have hundreds, if not thousands of Titans lying around. Your WoW comparison is apt in that respect, Titans aren't exactly commonplace, but there's plenty more of those around than there were 'back in the day'.
This perk would be a huge bonus for me as a potential hire. I think its amazing.
If it works I like this idea. At least it'll solve the problem of phones deactivating keycards.
It's not a PC, it's a bootable USB drive.
It's not going to "bridge the digital divide" as it still needs an x86 processor and a monitor.

This is a more practical approach to connecting more people to the digital universe.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aakash_(tablet)
So is this.
http://m.androidcentral.com/intel-introduces-yolo-android-ba...

I don't know what this company aims to do by handing people who can't afford a square meal a USB drive.... If you guys are on HN and reading this, please stop sensationalising your USB stick and make a real piece of hardware that gets people connected.
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Just place a "special" charger in the lobby that charges, but also powns the phone and gathers not just all their precious data but gains access to their room. They might not have much to steal, but you'll know there's at least a phone to take.

My guess is because none of they crypto is mentioned, its probably some self developed snakeoil, so you might not even need to own their phone. Could be as simple as "bluetooth address whatever, which happens to be in the central DB whitelist, says open sesame" and the door opens.

Amusingly I have a moto-X and my BT addrs is 1 less than my wifi MAC so if the security protocol is weak enough to depend on BT addrs, you could sniff the wireless for awhile and then just subtract 1 from each sniffed wifi MAC and have some fun with known good BT addrs. Or perhaps on other phones BT addrs = wifi + 1 instead of minus 1. Whatever.
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The problem with banning dogs now is that it has become an actual benefit to working at this company. Like rescinding work-at-home privileges. You will get very unhappy employees who feel they were misled and picked the wrong job offer.

So not exactly an easy solution as suggested.
The Java language is designed to be compiled to a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which is a software implementation of a computer that doesn't exist (easy there existential freaks, I'm trying to keep this brief). The VM abstracts away the hardware differences between platforms, in theory allowing the Java language greater freedoms. Simple things like endian-ness are no longer a language issue as the VM says all machines are big endian. Compare this to C where the code is compiled to a native format that is very much tied to the hardware/OS platform.
Cheers, I had a look and I found this, very interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Hiedler
I've used it in cases where there isn't interaction with the user and I want to keep the screen on. I don't think it handles any type of security.
It's a $7 boot stick, not a PC

Better idea just give people $3 microsd cards with $1 usb adapters.
Now it’s not anymore thanks to the Installer and all the improvements we did (as explained at the blog post).

But normally it is, yes.
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> Just how serious does a bite have to be, anyway?

When there are medical bills involved.
The .htaccess file is important for SEO. For the context of the blog (seogadget.com), it's worth noting that SEO is more important than performance.

The .htaccess is used to 301 redirect www.bennet.org to bennet.org. Important for SEO so that Google only indexes one domain instead of the domain and the subdomain. Only indexing one domain gives it a better chance of ranking higher.

Also.. do you really think the traffic and 453k of bandwidth is really going to put any strain on performance?
>> This is a complete privacy and security nightmare both from the potential of cracking it and from installing an app that will probably grab every permission it can.

Aren't hotel room locks already easily cracked? I remember seeing it on HN last year. As for permissions - if you don't like them don't install the app, they aren't going to deny you a key.

>> It's also going to be entertaining seeing people with dead batteries begging a charge from people in the lobby.

Presumably in this case they would give you a key.
Large fleet battles in a nutshell, yeah. That's the downside of allowing >2000-man fights, both the server and the clients have a lot of trouble displaying all of it, and an up-close view is pretty much useless. I wouldn't be surprised if CCP introduces a 'headless' client that just shows the overview without the 3D view and the brackets overlays for instances like this.
The whole games industry uses 99.999% floats.
Omg, enough with the dog madness. I already have issues with domisticated animals whose sole purpose is to entertain a human. You have this aninal who does nothing all day, except wait for you, this is cruel. My advice, get some human friends, it will probably cost you less money also.

I had heard about offices with dog, and I never understood how this could be tolerated by employees without dogs. I can only imagine trying to work, but all I hear is random people talking to dogs with their dog talking voice.
If it hurts, bring it forwards. We need feedback, so why not do it more often? That way it will hurt less.
I'd be totally okay with this. If I owned a beach the last thing I'd do is to build a condo there. Just keep the current infrastructure (looks way more than enough) and maybe bring a sleeping bag if you want to sleep under the stars.
>Aren't hotel room locks already easily cracked?

They are, but this will only make them worse.
What you say feels right intuitively, but I can't figure out the logic behind it. Does participating in a marketplace automatically make one partially responsible for the crimes of others who participate in it? That doesn't seem quite right. There's a lot of violence in poor inner city areas, is it morally wrong to own a gun shop in such an area? Are we morally responsible for the actions of the corporations we buy from? What about our nation's foreign policy? To take an extreme example if you sell food to enough people, you know that eventually you'll feed a murderer. But intuitively there's a big difference between selling food and money laundering. I don't know.

The Ross Ulbricht case doesn't really help. Ordering hits is morally wrong whatever the context, so that doesn't help in figuring out whether his other actions were wrong.
As I posted just recently today, Assad's Syrian state news posted a story about Pope Francis being held hostage in Homs Syria. Homs is subject of a starvation blockade by the regime with their representative for the Geneva 2 delegation denying aid into siege, opting to suggest evacuation of women and children leaving males for the military and militia to deal with.

Now as peace talks are used to further expunge Homs artillery rains on it's population.
Use it every day. Habit tracking app. https://m.routinetap.com
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Fair points. I agree with you.

Cheers!
That would imply the recession ever actually ended for most people, with unemployment dropping to non-recession levels and real wages rising significantly for the first time in decades.
Thanks for this, I didn't realize it.

You can disable kill (or any built-in)

Under zsh:

disable kill

Under bash:

enable -n kill
Permanent and dramatic failure caused by SIGKILL presents a candidate for deletion, but it depends on your definitions of permanent and dramatic.

It wouldn't be unexpected for a SIGKILLed process to fail to flush a cache, or to exit with persistent state ...inconsistent. That can be permanent (changes lost) and dramatic.

You can wrap operations in transactional overhead to greatly reduce the chance of data loss, but you can't eliminate it entirely without assistance from peers.

kill -9 is the equivalent of unplugging the machine in the middle of operations. It might be fine, and with careful design it might be fine almost every time.
I can see this (cloning a hotel key) being used in Person of interest.
>Just place a "special" charger in the lobby

Now this idea, I like.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/08/beware-of-juice-jacking/

>My guess is because none of they crypto is mentioned, its probably some self developed snakeoil, so you might not even need to own their phone. Could be as simple as "bluetooth address whatever, which happens to be in the central DB whitelist, says open sesame" and the door opens.

I would seriously hope for this not to be true, but I've seen too many security fails to think it won't. Access is amazingly rubbish with security, especially when some RFID chip makers actually put a proprietary encryption algorithm as a selling point, when many of those (e.g. mifare) are provably broken.
I'm with you. Dogs are NOT people, and when dog owners think they are, they place their dogs happiness above actual people. We had someone that brought in 1 dog, it was a Border Collie and it was peaceful and still a distraction. I'd immediately put in my 2 week notice if I had to put up with more than 1, no joke. I go to work to work not babysit, smell, or listen to barking dogs. Even if they were quiet just having something roaming around from desk to desk with those jingly dog collars that sound like eternal Christmas is annoying. Some people have no respect for silence anymore. It's bad enough many offices have an "open space" setting which disrupts thinking, pisses off and stresses employees, and lowers productivity, the last thing I need a bunch of dogs walking around, making noises, watching me eat my lunch, begging for food, needing to be let out, farting, smelling like dog pop after coming back in, smelling like wet dog after a rain, etc. Combine that with my distraction of cute things and I won't be able to get any work done.

Who is the company taking care of? Dogs or Humans? From all my unfortunate experience having to put up with my immediate neighbor's dogs, dogs in my neighborhood, and dogs at work, I've noticed a certain percentage of dog owners are the dog equivalent of a "crazy cat lady". They think "dogs are people", should have access to every place humans do, should bark all they want, and usually value a dog's happiness over the happiness of real human beings.
>If only it were so easy as just making these cute little computers, dropping them off in some slum with no supporting infrastructure, and saying "Good luck!"...

Actually, people have had great success doing exactly that:

http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html
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IIRC they did publish subscribed player statistics a while ago, I think the number then was around 500.000. Usually there's around 50.000 players online during my playing hours.

As for the conversion, whether it comes from real money or not is debatable, but given that PLEX is pretty much the measure for real world vs ISK value, a conversion is easily made - just like for example Bitcoin is often converted to USD in articles.
FileZilla had 600K downloads in the past week alone, 260 million total give or take. Kudos to Avast for digging this up. Hopefully between this and Chrome Web Store shenanigans there will be an elevated interest in hunting down and exposing such things and pressuring devs to be more careful (if this were an accident) and coming up with ways to root out the problem.

Or we may all be forced to turn to userscripts.org where somehow none of these problems exist...
I think the idea is that because a actual computer is too expensive to give, they are buying referbs for sharing such as in a school, and giving people their own personal OS on a usb stick.

Then these people can go to school, plug it into the shared computer, and get their own experience, then take it away with them. Giving them the sense of ownership that it's their own personal computer.
Well, in neighboring Russia and Belarus that took nothing because such laws were introduced and then never abolished there. The grip is airtight.

So I only have to congratulate Ukrainians in being a nation, not just a set of "former soviet citizens".