skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tasker for Android can help notify you if this is happening to you.

From the documentation I've gathered stingray devices appear to impersonate a cell tower with a stronger signal than the real one in order to get the device to associate. This means that stingray devices likely have their own cell ID so as not to trample the real one. If it didn't, it'd be a jammer not an interception device.

A simple PoC Tasker script (I wish it had an actual text-based language..):
Add a new state, "Cell Near", Scan and pick the tower with highest signal. Invert the action. Tie it to a Notification task.

Whenever your phone associates with anything other than that tower you will get a notification. If you're good with Tasker it can be expanded to use GPS/Expected-tower pairs and alert you if something strange is going on.

Yes, someone should write an app for the general public. Maybe even see if the EFF can help promote it!
I finder interesting that they don't do a good job at breakin up no American English. We ain't just one big ole' dialect, ya know?

I hail from downeast Maine (downeastah) and it thought I was a native dutch speaker, some fucking horse sh## right there, let me tell ya.... My linguist friends can do a much better job at pinnin me, spot down to the county, after college and WITHOUT my tryin. Aight.

Seriously, might want get some pronunciation questions in there—at 314M people the US is a pretty big chunk that they group into only two (that I saw) dialects, ebonics and standard. Of course being a youngin and gone to school, I've probably picked up one or two outa townah habits in my talkin.

FYI I'm ampin it up, if haven't noticed; but I do talk this way around my "muddah" so I don't get muckeled up one side down the otha—still no idea what that means but it doesn't sound nice, maybe a slapping, bitching, no idea... but holy hell do I need a translator to understand my grandparents are saying, this isn't American standard down here (and why is it always down?)
No, I don't use requestAnimationFrame right now. I think when I wrote it, it was not supported by IE. But can't remember.

I calculate as close as the machine can but with a window.setTimeout(Update, 0);
in order to be responsive.
This seems like an excellent way to teach Programming. I tried it out with some sorting problem. Pretty cool.
I can't find the post, but there was an article about this stuff on here a while back. Like large sheets of dry erase contact paper.

http://www.amazon.com/GoWrite-Dry-Erase-Rolls-White/dp/B0037...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_English

"Welsh English, Anglo-Welsh, or Wenglish (see below) refers to the dialects of English spoken in Wales by Welsh people. The dialects are significantly influenced by Welsh grammar and often include words derived from Welsh. In addition to the distinctive words and grammar, there is a variety of accents found across Wales from the Cardiff dialect to that of the South Wales Valleys and to West Wales."
And here is Farbrausch's repo, which includes the .kkrieger code along with a lot of other interesting stuff.

https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public
I half-expected a "toolbox" more like Orange.

(http://orange.biolab.si/)
China state media calls for 'severe punishment' for Google, Apple, US tech firms
I was at the Escape from the Moon Base [1] in SF two weeks ago and it was a lot of fun. I went with some coworkers, but I'd also recommend going with friends, and would definitely participate again.

The puzzles are fairly challenging (no one in my session of 30 teams/180 people) finished with an entirely correct solution, so it's satisfying when your team solves certain parts.

[1] http://realescapegame.com/sf07_mb/
Right, but that is not Welsh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language
Ask HN: what are the best practices for Show HN?
Here's the real question though: does knowing that there exists prior art to a certain patent in question at all change the need to go through a painfully lengthy and exorbitantly expensive legal process to prove that one's innocent?

Or does this still require a company to be as well capitalized as Newegg in order to be able to withstand a patent attack, and thus doesn't really matter for the majority of us?
My understanding of this is that it's "A git style CMS for all your data"... so you can't nuke things as there's history of it, and you can put any data you want into it.

Where I struggle is that either the definition of "your data" is narrow, or I shouldn't be using it for all my data.

Back in 1999 when I first learned about MP3, I started ripping my CDs. I have several thousand CDs, this took a lot of time. Before I completed the task, at a rate of a few CDs each evening, FLACs came into my life and I started back at the beginning. I deleted the MP3s as I replaced them with FLACs.

I really don't ever need to keep some data. But maybe it's not the kind of data that I should be putting in Camlistore? I think of it as my data, after all these are my CDs.

I struggle with the concept of Camlistore as I have an 18TB NAS in RAID6, 12TB usable... and it's 80% full. If I had history I'd have a storage problem today.

I'm perhaps an outlier, I chose to self-host my data locally rather than rely on cloud based things. And I chose to keep everything... photos, documents, email, video, music. And everything I keep is in the highest possible quality: FLACs, DVD VOBs, raw photos, etc.

But then... who is Camlistore aimed at if not the people who like to store and have control over their own data?

I guess I just find delete too valuable a feature for the larger data I store.

And perhaps I'm just wrong on the use-case, maybe it's really "for all your data (that you cannot re-acquire)". I just don't want to ever rip those CDs again. But if I do, those old versions are dead to me.
What's the difference between ray casting and ray tracing?
Some of the new docs I've seen let you select Objective-C, Swift, or both.
It's an incredibly admirable thing to be doing.
> most times when they have their big to-do [...] HN should have a lot of Apple on the front page

That's certainly what was going on yesterday. Microsoft had even more stories on the front page when they held their big to-do a month or so ago. It's a side-effect of the major tech companies stockpiling their big announcements for annual conference days.
http://english.people.com.cn/n/2014/0604/c207959-8736319.htm...

Not good news for Cisco or IBM...
I feel an emotional attachment towards Gittip. Here's my story:

This is my GitHub profile https://github.com/HashNuke and this is my Gittip profile https://www.gittip.com/HashNuke/

I've been writing opensource software full-time for the past few months. A few weeks ago, I checked my Gittip profile out of curiosity. I found out someone was anonymously giving me $0.5/wk, for the last 4 weeks. I had $2 as my balance. I was in tears when I saw that. I felt that mattered. Someone cared about my work.

I'm excited that in a few weeks it can pay for the domain name for my next opensource project.

Thanks to Chad, the Gittip team and the community. I hope Gittip works out well for them financially to sustain themselves and do more.
Steelcase And Susan Cain Design Offices For Introverts
OpenDNS to stop hijacking NXDOMAN
It'd definitely be a new code-base. In terms of comparison, I'd guess this uses "cheaper" algorithms, that use less memory, and don't scale as well. There are many things that CPython does behind the background that most people don't fully appreciate.

Edit: Here is a good document on the differences https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/Differences
Why do you want ipv6 support? There are already ipv6 mechanisms like mobility aren't there (although not set them up yet).
I don't get it - why does the page keep calling me Bob?
alt-shift-enter, go fullscreen, ditch the windows chrome. I don't understand how you would want a Metro UI for vs.net - such a waste of screen real-estate!
I've been using Gittip for my free software projects, and while I am nowhere near being sustainable, it's more than I expected to get. There is certainly room for two players (see Kickstarter/Indiegogo), and I much prefer Gittip's minimalism and lack of flare.
It's an afterthought, usually brought in as part of the C++ standard du jour. We'll be lucky to see C11 in 10 years.
Hi there, what do you mean by stopped working? To check if an URL has already been submitted you can ping: http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=%22http://www.algo...
Affected?
I'm Dutch as well, and I got:

1. American (Standard) 2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics 3. Singaporean

1. English 2. Dutch 3. Swedish

I think it's cool that my English is good enough for it to judge me a native speaker, while it still has enough information to see similarities to other Dutch people who took the quiz. Swedes' English is quite good as well, so that makes sense as a third guess.

No idea where "US Black Vernacular / Ebonics" and "Singaporean" are coming from, however. I'd be interested to see which choices exactly make my English similar to those dialects.
Interesting visualisation, but if I'm reading it correctly, a smaller number means more similar, and the number for Australian->Welsh is the third highest number for the Australian dialect, suggesting that they're more dissimilar than others.

Hrm, that's if you mouseover Australian. If you mouseover Welsh, Welsh->Australian is indeed the lowest number of the list. So, according to these numbers, Welsh is most like Australian, but Australian is least(ish) close to Welsh.

Weird.
Does it really matter ? While I think Swift is an amazing language, it would be much less useful outside the closed ecosystem of Apple. The same thing happened to C#, it never really took off outside Windows.
I learned Objective-C before I learned C, back in the early 90s. Before that I'd learned Basic and Pascal. Objective-C clicked with my brain pretty easily.
It didn't catch my northeastern either, suggested I was native dutch :/
Because it would be nice to have a DNS entry that resolves to my dynamic IPv6 address that I am given by my ISP...
It is. But it is also the wrong thing to be doing.

"Gittip’s mission is to enable an economy of gratitude, generosity, and love". In order to affect such a thing one needs leverage. That is, one needs a lever and a place to stand on. If two years in and after several times at the top of HN, Chad still can't make a living - then he has neither. The mission will fail. It is better to let go.

Just my own meandering experience.
Cuz our company is called "MobiusBobs"
Bob is the most commonly used placeholder name in CS...
That made me a bit paranoid at first, since my name is Robert.
The same is true of the other dialects as well, even good old Mother England's. Compare the ways in which the upper class and the chavs talk. North versus south. Different vernacular, different grammar types, innit?
Look at http://leoeditor.com/screencasts.html if you want to quickly see what this is about.

My impression is that it's a neat idea, with some features borrowed from Emacs and others borrowed from Smalltalk and Morphic, but packaged in a single easy to use editor. Which is nice. I'll definitely try it out when I get some free time.
Hahaha! Yeah, it could look like DZone lately - "I see dead people...and jQuery and JS frameworks"
When a patent application is in its larval stage, 6 months after initial publication, at least in the US it can be murdered by prior art submitted by anyone, online, for free. A number of open source hardware and software communities I try to keep up with are now under direct threat of patents, and a centralized place where we could get a simple listing of patent app link, time until vulnerability period is over, and possibly a forum to discuss possible directions of prior art and coordinate submission would be extremely helpful. That way, it's possible to eradicate the assheaded attempts to restrict ideas before they become enforceable by law.

For an already issued patent, I understand it's worth trying to put the trial on hold while it gets re-examined. A reexamination is generally much cheaper than a patent trial.
At this point I really have no idea how much of the awesomeness I see in Visual Studio is coming from ReSharper and how much is actually Visual Studio itself. In the past, it was nearly 100% R#. Now it seems more like 50/50.

The only way I ever find out is through blog posts like this where they announce "new" features that I'd already been using for six years such as the "introduce variable" and "extract method" refractors mentioned here. Evidently that was ReSharper.

Makes me think I should go read up on what's new in R#. I bet there's a bunch more cool stuff that I'd never learn about until VS.NET 2020 if left to my own devices.
For some additional context, the OP is working on fuzz-testing the network stack in Mirage (and she has a bunch of great posts up).

http://openmirage.org/blog/welcome-to-our-summer-hackers
A bit confused. Is this for tunneling localhost like ngrok (https://ngrok.com/)?
'Welsh' refers to the variety/locality of English - just like all the people reporting the test as giving them 'Swedish' or 'Portuguese'.
Awesome, glad to hear that GitLab was a good tool for this. Please let us know if we can help in any way.
The superlatives are being laid on a little thick and likely to invite criticism. There are lots of similar features here that have been introduced in other IDEs and environments before.
slide #6 "Fake, fun numbers"
I've never heard of Gittip nor Patreon before reading this article. Looking at both websites the website for Patreon is much more engaging and less cluttered. Gittip looks intimidating with all those small pictures and numbers going around.
A good redesign for the index would propel the business more than all those commits. Love both ideas though :)
At least HP's public cloud is based on Ubuntu as host:
http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/public-cloud/1913...

I'd be surprised if they were the only ones.

DigitalOcean, Amazon, Microsoft(!) all list Ubuntu as the most popular VM for linux servers.

Can you point to stats or facts about RHEL deployments backing your point of view? I'm genuinely curious.
What strikes me is that this article seems to conclude with a focus on changing society's perception of work as a means to changing its nature (I think we need to start by redefining labor itself, maybe, start with classic “women’s work,” nurturing children, looking after things, as the paradigm for labor itself and then it will be much harder to be confused about what’s really valuable and what isn’t. As I say, we’re already seeing the first stirrings of this sort of thing. It’s both a political and a moral transformation and think it’s the only way we can overcome the system that puts so many of us in bullshit jobs.) whereas Debt: The First 5000 Years focuses, to my mind, essentially on proving the heterogeneity of value and value-exchange systems (ie. psycho-social and concrete economies) in past and present human societies that deviate significantly from our present-era global neocolonial capitalist system.

I wonder if this represents a change in Graeber's own mindset, or is merely representative of the interviewer.

PS. I've had emails with Graeber and he's every bit as personable and intelligent in private communications as in his conventional written output.
PyPy has a much slower startup.
Sorry man. Maybe I should fix this later, Bob.

(Ok Robert I will fix this I promise)
Took me some looking around to find a link on bottom of the (gittip.com) page to actually find out what gittip does.

First thought was - is it a way to get paid by submitting patches through GitHub? No, actually thats a site where you give/receive donations to people on Twitter/GitHub/Bitbucket
They did a blog post on it that I can't find right now. Essentially, they made it quite a while ago (2002? I don't recall exactly), and all other options were too slow. Their backend apparently has to do a lot of work calculating match scores when users search.
In the AIA 2011, there are some new post-grant opposition procedure that speeds up and reduce the legal cost such as PGR, IPR, CBM. Although opposition application is about $30k USD plus some paper work. This is not super cheap, but it is still a lot cheaper than going through discovery and superstar trial lawyers by litigating, which would be in the millions $$.
Automate all Front End Development with Grunt.js
Plenty of best practices on how to use grunt to automate your day to day tedious FED tasks and get to concentrate on building amazing app and a happy team that does continuous deployment.
You can also play with the soccer team. Which team do you play with at the university? I play with the soccer team. (rather than the rugby or netball or basketball or whatever teams)

And yes, they should have used 'football', and let each locality think they meant a different sport :)
Great job. I like it how peole are moving to and developing for C++11 as I think it's a huge step forward in the standard. The one cosmetic complaint I have is that the slicing syntax is not verbose enough for my taste. Also, what hash algo did you use? Asking just out of curiosity. I remember running a benchmark a long ago of different non-cryptographic hashes. The collision resistance was pretty consistent across all of them, but some were really slow and some were really fast, and that could directly affect the performance on hashtables and other structures that rely on hashes.
People are constantly running Java on mobile and that's very heavy. With phone storage into the gigs. There's no reason Python couldn't have been used before Micropython, except that vendors didn't want to allow it in.
Meld Apple's iProducts with Google Play, then launch it at a team's media event: iPlay at the soccer team.
Funny thing is most top earners don't even seem to code.
I've worked on the merging logic in a version managed database and merging structured data is not an easy problem, especially as consistent output options tend to lose more data than the user would like or expect, so you have to write intelligent merging routines that understand the datamodel at a pretty deep level. I haven't looked at this library yet, but if it does provide a merging framework then it will still require significant work in each app to produce good results.
Quite simply, this project cut most of the features that big programs depend on, in order to make a smaller, faster core. Things like most of the standard library, meta-programming, and general scalability are included in these cuts. Most people don't realise how much python does underneath for them, which is why cpython is so "bloated" in comparison to this.
What are you doing that you are noticing this routinely and finding it to be a large annoyance?
It would be nice if they included a statement as to how they will replace revenue otherwise earned through hijacking errors.
Guys i would love to hear your comments on the article, and how you think i can improve my writings and advices. And also would love to know more practices that will help me and my team on our goal to "automate everything".
This scenario has been reported to Google as a "bug". Google's response, as of the time of this writing, is:

I don't have further comment for now, but we hear you :)
I think you probably have to worry more about the general security of your servers. Its really quite easy to do something stupid which can leave you exposed.

Im sure the russians have better things to be doing rather than looking at you (no offence).
Compressing Scrabble Dictionaries
hm, interesting calculation. however, isn't McDonalds a franchise? where did these numbers come from?

also, i am not that crazy to think that this would not cause ANY cutbacks. the money does indeed have to come from somewhere. it's just that there would be nowhere near a proportionate response in firings compared to the increase in the life quality of the people affected, and also in the consumption driven by their new incomes.

ultimately, this is like a collective bargain on a wider scale, supported by the democratic process in Seattle. it is correcting for the unfavorable effect of market forces on the pay of uneducated workers. due to their abundance, the downward pressure on the pay of this category of workers can only be stopped by minimum wage or social security.

EDIT - i've been googling around, and found a much lower number of employees, 440k employees (source: http://www.macroaxis.com/invest/market/MCD--McDonalds-Corp - don't know how reliable..) which, following your calculation through, gives ~ $6 net income per employee hour. also, another point is flat out ignored - prices can be increased, shifting part of this burden to the end consumer, which in the end only seems just. any business that is already giving a fair wage to it's workers is being driven out of business by competition exploiting lack of minimum wage rules and abundance of low skilled labor.

EDIT 2 - Also, the crucial problem with executive pay is not so much that people think that from their pay some huge increases in workers' pay could be given, it's in the purely subjective feeling of injustice, when on one side managers are showered with millions (and I presume McDonalds has more than just 1), while workers are given advice on how to get food stamps. this quite understandably pisses people off.

EDIT 3 - Sorry for all the edits :D Another thing worth noting is that it seems very unlikely that ALL McDonalds employees are working on a minimum wage. This would also reduce the effect of minimum wage hike on their profits.
Sounds somewhat like murder mystery dinner parties. Also: why does NYT hijack the left and right arrows to take me away to another article?
Seems to be okay for older articles, but not for more recent. You can try this directly in the web interface for the search engine. e.g.

The following brings up no results:

https://hn.algolia.com/#!/all/forever/prefix/0/http%3A%2F%2F...

But search on the title of the article:

https://hn.algolia.com/#!/all/forever/prefix/0/The%20Minneso...

And it finds it.
Safari is less power hungry than Firefox.
Let me preface this by saying: I want Gittip to succeed. I really want them to succeed. I would love to be able to spend my time getting paid by a community to develop open source software. However... those growth curves look linear, if not sigmoid. More importantly:

>The Gittip team receives $20,339 per year (averaging the past ten weeks). There are 39 people splitting that money.

$500 per person per year? That's not within two orders of magnitude of sustainability.[1] In addition, even the greatest collector of revenue on Gittip can't make a decent living from it. $40k per year is quite close to minimum wage in California.

I truly wish it were otherwise, but this post makes me seriously worry about the future of Gittip. Apparently, they did not make something people want.

1. I realize that only a few people are full-time on Gittip, but that's still a huge red flag. Unless the author is being extremely generous with his profit sharing, those numbers are inexcusable.
I guess the perception is that MBAs are trained to become a part of an already established traditional business and not a ground-breaking start up, their skills are specifically trained to support the current form of corporations. This notion is supported by entrepreneurship courses from people like Steve Blank. Moreover, MBAs are perceived as being unable to grasp the technological advancement, "getting in the way" of technology and insisting on leading because they have such a degree and not because of their real-world skills (and often insisting on non-sensical and "trendy" priorities), and this sentiment is pretty common amongst typical techies.