skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't exactly an app or traditional tuner, but I recently put a TronicalTune unit on one of my guitars (Les Paul Studio -- it's my project guitar) and it's the coolest thing I've ever played with: http://www.tronical.com/ Makes it so easy to switch tunings, the locking tuners are great (learning to string it up properly takes some time, but it's worth it), and it doesn't add too much weight to the headstock. Can't recommend it enough for guitarists with compatible equipment; really wish they'd make one that would fit on my 8-string or my PRS!

(Note: Not affiliated with them in any way, just become a huge fanboy lately!)
Looks like they weren't checking the hostname in the certificate. This would allow anyone with a certificate signed by a trusted CA to do a MITM attack on iOS devices. Very very bad vulnerability.
That's still vulnerable to statistics though. I would just use timestamps.
Yup.

Here of all places I think we should be open to provocative & "dangerous" views but in this case one should be aware of the source.
Yes, normally certificate errors would be thrown.

In this case Apple is not performing the domain validity checks on the presented cert. This allows an attacker that is performing an mitm attack to present a valid cert for another domain and establish an SSL connection with the victim.
Searching for Truth in Venezuela
Analysis of the Linux/Ebury trojan
VIMTIP Register Basics
Those are for a single serial signal - as the note indicates, mostly to replace very-short-run fiber optics. The challenges with routing DDR4 signals through connectors, etc are mostly about skew: if any signals are delayed by anything approaching 1/2 a clock period (~1cm on FR4 board) relative to each other, everything is fucked.

In addition, some digging on the MAX3800 referenced there indicates that it has a power consumption of 200 mW, and a "budgetary" price of $6.90 each. Since a typical DDR interface is 100+ signals, you're looking at spending 20+ W and the price of a midrange PC just on signal integrity, and that's assuming those chips even do what you want.

There are systems that work like Christine - but they are things like IBM mainframes that don't suffer from cost constraints.
I think its pretty clever:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)#The_Hitchhiker.27s_...
Haha just replied to you.

I'm not saying take it down or anything like that, but folks should know vdare is a collection of bigot shitkickers.

They just need to be exposed, that's all
Presentation on Git and GitHub, and how to use them
How much is your time worth though? Let's say you make $50 / hour (which I'm assuming is on the low end, given the audience). Even if you only grocery shop twice a month and spend about an hour getting there and back and putting away the groceries, you've already dropped $100 for your time.

Then consider the much bigger time-sink: cooking the stuff! Even if you consider a mere 30 minutes a night for cooking and cleaning dishes, you're talking another 15 hours a month (or $750 given our aforementioned rate).

Just a thought.
And the fact that we have other rights that may not be clearly defined anywhere is explicitly spelled out in the 9th.
I wish someone would try this again for Emacs :(
I did this presentation for work today -- we've hired a bunch of new people and we wanted to make sure that everybody had an idea of git and how to use it.
Write a Book and Get It Published. (Yes, You) Seven Key Strategies
I'm guessing this is not an engineer designed product. I can see there will be a lot of technical issues to solve. Also the kind of connectors displayed can easily cost hundreds of dollars if they are custom made.
My role isn't changing at YC. I'm sure our clever son will have PG working on all sorts of projects for him in no time.
A smart, young, relatable person of the next generation to grow the company. Looking forward to seeing what Sam's got under his sleeves. Has Sam done anything in the entrepreneurial world after Loopt was acquired? Or has he just been an investor?
Flagged for spoiler in the title.
It's not just cURL. It's much bigger, and much worse.

http://pastebin.com/Yb6pUvr6
> If by usable we mean "one can be productive in it" then yes that's correct, vim is immensely usable and I've been using it in that sense for six years.

Usable means an interface which is (i) consistent and (ii) well suited to the task at hand. It does not mean you should not require any training nor that you should be able to intuit the functionality without looking at the manual.

vim is an example of software that is both highly usable and intended for use by advanced users.

> I spent all of university using vim purely as a way to indent and colour my code; but intelligently using splits, buffers, tabs, code folding, ctags etc should not require luck to discover and exacting patience to use.

You're doing it wrong. Read the bloody manual.
Maybe it was a ploy to get a bunch of traffic to their server and temporarily DDoS it?
I dunno, but not the author of that piece, as far as I can see; the only printf() in there is in the occc entry, isn't it?

Maybe your stackoverflow neurons put the extra 'f' in the pseudocode print() calls, or maybe the author edited it after seeing your comment :)
Another browser with a similar approach: http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/
That's a good point, but I dunno if pricing my free time at precisely the same amount as the cost of one hour of my work is a good idea.

Frankly, I'd value it higher, though that only further supports your claim. :)
No, apparently. See https://twitter.com/winocm/status/436923366147375104 and https://twitter.com/winocm/status/436923608762695680 for a jailbreak developer saying that it doesn't seem to fix any jailbreak bugs. He's not one of the developers of the iOS 7 jailbreak, but he knows what he's talking about.
I have a 6 digit also. It's kind of funny because I had forgotten my password but remembered the number, and I saw that I had my old ISP's email address in there so I couldn't reset it. What I did was sign up for a trial dialup account on my old ISP so I would get assigned the same email address, and then did the password reset and cancelled the ISP account. Just so I could keep my 6 digit icq number.
Why didn't they allow strings for username? Technical limitations?
Doesn't his argument discuss the fact that Android has 80% market share. Android was suppose to win because of this but it hasn't.
University of Bedfordshire is a result of a merger of a Bedfordshire campus of De Montfort University and University of Luton.

http://www.beds.ac.uk/aboutus/history

The linked story is from before the merger (2005), and before the center Bax works at was founded (at a third campus).

I wouldn't say that story has much relevance here. You'd want to look into the credentials of his language center and Bax himself (which look decent to me, though I don't know anything in particular.)
lesstif?
How are you planning to do that? (Honestly curious.)
hmm...

i predict you will surprise us all ;-)
No. We didn't manipulate the scores of these (or any other) posts. Presumably the reason Sam started writing a lot in 2012 was the same reason I started trying to recruit him then: he was finished working for Green Dot.
180662 - I am still using mine.
Ask HN: Advice for proxy while in China?
Is there a piece of free proxy software you recommend? I used to have friends in China who gave me one called FreeU24 but that's not working anymore. I have mac but vmware so also linux and xp. I don't have any friends in China now and online searches don't yield much here.
that means you're oooooooollllllllldddddddd
As an old co-worker used to say, "We're not saving lives, we're just building websites." I don't care how much money your site loses per minute its down, or how bad your company looks because you lost some of your uptime stat. Its a far cry from someone dying because of what you did.
nope, sorry but safari does not yet support the web audio api features necessary for this. I think they might be on the way.
Yes, that's me. Where is the "comment below"? Couldn't find it.

I just want to point out that I don't dislike Lua at all, it is a small neat language with some very nice features. It just isn't something on which I would base a parallel system as it has too much sharing and other things which don't go parallel easily. Using it as plugin to erlang for doing "business" logic works quite well, either by communicating with a Lua system or doing like Luerl and implementing it Erlang. This means that Luerl meshes completely with Erlang.
Zuckerberg’s Data Stance Faces Privacy Backlash in Europe
Gotta love unsourced blog posts that existed before people could fact check on Wikipedia!
It's pretty dubious that he says "I hit on the idea of identifying proper names in the text", like it was a novel idea.

One recent attempt: same method, drastically different results: http://cms.herbalgram.org/herbalgram/issue100/hg100-feat-voy...
I actually didn't notice the date on this, and thought after Whatsapp, another one?!

We are in a bubble now I presume.
I didn't get "canned" first of all. I left because Chris and I believed Jon was stealing from the company, but he blocked me from raising my concerns up to our investors citing that it would breach my contract to make communications with anyone outside the company.

The original stock certificates I received from Jon in 2011 have turned out to be completely fraud. Can you please elaborate on how anyone besides Jon Mills embezzled funds from the company? Also who is this anyhow? You can just say your name.
I don't agree that because a metaphorical 'decision' is a part of a development, that it isn't inevitable.
I remember I used to enter the chat rooms by saying "Ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?" Being a popular quote from the original Batman movie and it went well with my screen name (xsatanx) it usually got a laugh...

... until I stumbled into a religious chat room.

Got my account disabled and had to have my mom call as well.
Heh...

"congrats to the Apple iOS team on adding SSL/TLS hostname checking in their latest update! very cool feature."

https://twitter.com/will_sargent/status/436985812878491648
Snowden is not a threat.
Crushing Debt Drove Me to Kosovo – And Then to Iraq
The easiest way is usually to run a 'whois' on the IP of the server (not the domain).
I think you mis-read that sentence. The 'because ...' applies to 'has to be gibberish' not 'handwave away the 80%'. He's saying that it is impossible to be a natural language because the information density is too low and that this author as well as all others willfully ignore that reality.
I don't actually disagree with you on most points, but just out of curiosity why do you have the impression that Latex is slow? I used it to write my thesis (> 200 pages, full of images) and was re-rendering all the time, it only took a couple of seconds on my slow netbook.. When I'm working on a shorter paper, I barely notice the time between hitting "render" and seeing the result. (I realize I could even set it up to automatically render while I'm writing but prefer to concentrate purely on the text editor as much as possible and curb my urge to re-render constantly)
SoundFocus Raises $1.7M to Protect Hearing in Post-iPod, XBox Era
Rails Girls is pretty damn popular here too, though not _quite_ as much as Europe, it seems.

It's pretty wonderful.
Amen to that. I also feel like there is an 'OCD' part of me that allows me to do the soul sucking stuff, this drains me. I prefer it when the 'creative' part of me is expressing itself, this recharges my batteries.
How is it we all still remember these numbers however many decades later??

http://www.icq.com/people/20687859/en
The Internet of (dumb) things
You're selling basically a bunch of static quotes for 1.99? Wow. Not to be flame-bait, but man, that takes some guts.
Only after it actually is.
David Walsh’s wisdom beats the odds
I have been building up a quote file for many years. :-)

And I'm a homeschooling parent too, though my son is still quite young and we will play it by ear.

For me, it was Scouting more than sports that gave me something meaningful to succeed and fail at. There are many good ways beyond classrooms.
how do these nudity detection API work? Is there a crowdsourcing going underneath the hood? Are they using some clustering algorithm to detect a range of skin color (if 90%), it's nude.
Hate to burst your bubbles, but this isn't the result of more women getting interested in compsci... it's the result of far, far fewer men getting interested in post-secondary education.
WeChat Will Soon Allow Users To Make Money On Their Platform Through Ads
Hard to say. Sounds like you have until 2/26, at which point something(?) happens: http://help.testflightapp.com/customer/portal/articles/14527...
Show HN: 2 Nonlinear Match-3 Fueled Birds, my Flappy Jam entry
Yes. Be aware of the source, viz, $PLC exposed...and it ain't pretty to look at...)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/king-fearmongers_7145...

"Critics have charged that the way the SPLC counts hate groups renders its impressive tallies essentially meaningless. One of the most vocal critics is Laird Wilcox, a self-described political liberal in Olathe, Kansas, who has been tracking radical-fringe organizations on both the left and the right for five decades, amassing an enormous documentary archive that is now housed at the library of the University of Kansas. According to Wilcox, many of the organizations on the SPLC’s expansive list “may be two guys and a post-office box,” while others might not exist at all. “Their lists of hate groups never have addresses that can be checked,” Wilcox said in a telephone interview. “I’ve had police departments across the country calling me and saying we can’t find this group [on the SPLC’s list]. All they can find is a post-office box, so I have to tell them that I don’t know whether they even exist.” In a self-published book, The Watchdogs, he criticized the SPLC for having “misleadingly padded” its list of white-supremacy organizations. In particular, Wilcox faulted the SPLC for maintaining that three men accused of killing a police officer in Cortez, Colorado, in 1998 had belonged to a supposedly racist and anti-Semitic militia group called the Four Corners Patriots for whose existence no evidence ever emerged. “People have tried to track down these groups, but they couldn’t find them,” Wilcox said."
> No, you're changing the meaning of usability. It doesn't mean it can be used, but it means that it's easy to learn and use. And vim is powerful but it's not a good example of usability.

"Easy to learn and use" does not mean "I don't have to learn anything". In particular, vim is easy once you learn something about how it works with text. For example: "d" is used to delete text. It is used as part of a command sequence that usually goes:

[action][times][position]

One of the first things you learn for example is that "dw" deletes to the end of the current word. d5w deletes to the end of the next 5 words. "yw" copies to the end of the current word. "y5w" copies 5 words.

Later you might learn about cursor movemen. You find out that "j" for example moves the cursor down one line. Guess what? These cursor re-positioning commands fit into the command structure you've already learned. So you can easily intuit that "d5j" will kill everything to the end of the next 5 lines.

Later in your vim journey you might learn that "D" is shorthand for delete to the end of the current line. Hmm, but there is also this "y" command that yanks text. Guess what? "Y" yanks to the end of the line!

That's what usability looks like. You take what you've learned and apply it in a new context in order to produce expected and consistent results.

In short: vim is amazing. It's consistent, intuitive and immensely usable -- but only after you invest some time learning how to use it. The only time vim is not intuitive is when your expectations are that it will behave somewhat like TextEdit or Notepad or whatever other lesser text manipulation tools are out there.
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Comedic derision appreciated :)

However this is a pretty damn serious oversight.

I've just shut down my MacBook and picked up my ThinkPad.
Ask HN: Are there no irrational/incorrect valuations? [Re: WhatsApp and others]
Whenever a big acquisition is made, e.g. Instagram for $1B or WhatsApp for $19B, there are lots of posts here on HN about "why is it worth so much? this is insane! we are in a bubble"

And those posts are invariably met with responses that mostly agree with the valuation, and make several rational-seeming arguments why the valuation makes sense.

It seems there is no valuation for which one cannot come up with rational arguments supporting that valuation as the correct one (at least correct for the company making the acquisition).

So, I have a question for people who defend these valuations: Are there no incorrect/irrational valuations?

Off the top of my head, some reasons for valuations that can turn out to be wrong are:

1) The due-diligence on the acquired company was not thorough enough, or missed an important point

2) Expectations/predictions of where the market will be in a few years are wrong

3) Collusion between investors/stakeholders at the acquired and acquiring company, which increases the value of the acquisition so that investors in the acquired company get handsomely rewarded [how often does this happen?]

I would assume there are several more possible reasons for a bad valuation, but what I read on HN and related news sources are back-and-forths between people who are flabbergasted by the high price and people who claim that it is a perfectly good price.

Are there more nuanced positions between the above two? If yes, what are they, and why don't we see them more often on HN?
"I was initially shut out of all the non-remedial math classes after that, and over the next couple of years I fought to get into the regular or accelerated classes."

This is one thing that "gifted programs" in public schools are actually good for. At least while I was in public school, being declared to be "gifted" allowed you to take any accelerated course that you wanted, even if you did not even come close to meeting the academic requirements.

This allowed me to, among other things, without any opposition transfer out of regular classes that had teachers that I did not get along with (10th grade (standard) english teacher and I had problems, so a third of the way through the year and after one failed quarter I had myself bumped into the honors english class so that I could have another teacher.)

The system is wildly unfair to those who cannot take advantage of it, but I am fortunate that I could. It also bred in me a general disrespect for education, rules, and authority in general. If I could flaunt the system just because some doc once said I was clever, why would I respect that system?
If I believe [1], 4% of all the iOS devices are still on versions earlier than 6, and will not be patched to this specific issue. This is pretty severe. I wonder (but presume not) if Apple is going to issue patches for earlier versions.

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/12/31/ios-7-now-installe...
I don't get it. How is a real-time update of your personal data "getting out in front of it"? Making surveillance easier doesn't mean we're somehow avoiding a surveillance state.

Why the remark on your web page about "nothing to hide, indeed"?

I do agree that a technological solution is more likely to work at avoiding a complete surveillance state than a political one, short of some miracle.
13-year-old boy faces felony charge for hitting Chicago cop with snowball
A few others (all based on webkit, like uzbl):

http://surf.suckless.org/

http://mason-larobina.github.io/luakit/

https://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji/
I was sitting in the David Russell Hall tv room in St Andrews watching the stock market crash and various students get financially wiped out.
Unless you invert the relationship and install biztalk which we dub in the office "Unix done wrong". Both are useful. One is painful :)
Additionally "faceofboe", whom I don't know who you are... the stock certificate I have that was issued by Jon himself has recently been verified by our attorneys to be fake and invalid. I'm not really sure what embezzlement I could have committed, As the CTO, I never had direct access to any of our funds, I didn't have a checking account, a bank card, or the ability to spend the companies money, I'd love for you to show some details of your claims.

I don't think it's a good idea for you to make these sort of statements either.
Hard to tell from the snazzy-but-vague renderings, but it looks like the intent is that every module has "in" and "out" bushings for water-cooling - the larger circles on either side of the electrical connections - with the large radiator in the bottom.

Would make "hot-plugging" more like "wet-plugging", one suspects...
Your best bet is to rent your own server, e.g. OVH, Hetzner or any other host (though it MUST be a real server, so-called VPS or other virtual servers will not work reliably), set up OpenVPN on it and be done.
The USB Condom
It is an economic inevitability.

Even if lawmakers passed rules preventing the government from doing it, you can bet the private sector would fill the market gap. The value of the data is quickly outstripping the cost of obtaining it.

Better to focus on safety than on prevention.
Here are these models in interactive WebGL:

The classic Utah Teapot.

http://clara.io/player/8d9a8181-f1ce-4340-b24f-e36bbaf318f7

Blender's Suzanne:

http://clara.io/player/fdcbe819-ec7d-4468-99c0-3cc34ede9782

The Stanford Bunny:

http://clara.io/player/616bf87b-c7f2-4925-b0d5-688069aee331

To start editing these (or change the material, even render it via V-Ray, or export as STL) in your browser, just click the "Edit" button in the top left.
I don't know what you think that pastebin shows, but that error is not specific to OS X or to ssl.apple.com. OpenSSL is failing to validate the server certificate because you forgot to specify the -CAfile option.

EDIT: I'm an idiot, see below.
I wouldn't be surprised if many of the Christine modules were adapters for standard interfaces. The graphics card module could just be a mounting bracket with a PCIE slot and would fit most consumer GPU's. Similarly the S/Hdd modules would have power and sata attachment points. Those cases could be sold for less than 100$, and if Razor wouldn't make them I bet a third party would.
Except it isn't failing.
I honestly think that we are in a bubble right now. Somebody today posted a 1998 AOL article highlighting the purchase of a chat company and the languages are very similar to what we read today about these type of mega buyouts. Having said that, I think that the financial forecast of Facebook is questionable at this point, if they need to keep buying billion dollar price tag items without making money from it's core product, it's a no brainer math that at somepoint in the future they will lose investors confidence and ultimately disappear. I have similar views regarding Twitter.

If Google bought this I wouldn't be worried but it seems that Facebook is more concerned about portraying the image that they are powerful and too big to fail without making enough revenue like their rivals.

Google and Microsoft have enough cash to fail many many more times than Facebook has relatively fewer chances to fail.
Doesn't affect any app using SSL pinning.

I have been trying to work on an implementation of TACK to mitigate headaches involved in pinning. Wish I had more free time.

http://tack.io/index.html
Just stating the obvious here, but "Rule #1" obviously doesn't apply to service provider networks, who are specifically built so other people's equipment can be connected on almost every point. Customers on the access layer. Datacenters, colocation and these sorts of boxes on the distribution layer, and peers on the "gateway"/peering layers.

The second paragraph is wrong too, there are much closer relationships possible. They're much deeper than that today, and I would expect in the future to see CDNs much deeper in provider networks.