skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation, version one) is a way to describe on-the-wire representation of messages."

Well, technically, no. ASN.1 is a way to define messages and multiple representations for them.

It would be possible, I believe, to describe an Internet Protocol message and there might exist an encoding that would allow you to read and write IP packets, but the first is likely not easy and the second is definitely not standard.

Here's a description of the fun I had a while back attempting to talk to an Active Directory server using AD's variant of LDAP (which is an import from the ISO OSI stack and uses ASN.1):

http://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2009/09/authenticating-against-a...
Tabletop rice hullers on taobao for <$50:

http://s.taobao.com/search?initiative_id=staobaoz_20140712&j...
You can't make money this way since you can not be paid more than your pro-rata share of the flight costs. By definition that means the money you get from passengers is going to be less than what you paid to fly.
Ask HN: How does the paid iPhone unlock work?
I am overseas and want to use a local sim in my AT&T locked iPhone. I found people to unlock it for 180 dollars. How do they do it? And of they can do it why can't I? Do they have access to some system/software that is not available to the public? Also why does it take multiple days to unlock?
A JSON or YAML structure, like http://jsonresume.org/, may be a better approach. Markdown is great at doing regular content, not so much when it comes to dealing with structured data, which is mostly what a resume is: collections of objects for education, experience, etc.
Well, the three astronauts were selected from a pool of test pilots, itself a pretty highly selected group. You might have a few problems widening all that out to a larger population.

Looking at the astronaut training, its procedures, procedures, knowledge of all the systems and practice on ground simulations.

Does anyone run simulations? You know a small network that simulates various disasters and lets your systems admin crew work through e.g. triage
Discussions of threat mitigation are irrelevant so long as the threats and their countermeasures remain undisclosed. There can be no productive debate when one side knows everything and tells the other side nothing.

It doesn't matter if surveillance is used only for good (evidence suggests otherwise, though); if the surveillance organizations have all the power to operate in secrecy and distort the truth when questioned by the legislature, their "trust us" assurances are wholly untrustworthy.
i replied to a few threads about this re: "re-evaluate your job post descriptions" - i did not draft those descriptions, they are linked to the actual original content by ERE. everything on the site is not original content. i find the descriptions could use some work, but do a decent job of illustrating the point that language matters, especially when the goal is simply to expand the pool of people that respond positively to your post.
Also, can you make it work for previous versions of iOS? like 6.0 so Ipod 4 gen will work.
Damn that Google spelling correction. I can't edit the original now either. Thanks
Well, no, it isn't. It's a cost-split: there is no way to make money from this as a pilot. What it does do is reduce your costs of operation.
Don't be a tease. :(
seems kind of expensive for what it does.

imagine a game with 100k DAU (big, but not huge)

2 sessions per user per day

say 10 "saves" per session

100,000 * 2 * 10 = 2 million synchs / 10k * $0.15 = $30/day

for $900/month you could do FAR better just rolling your own

these numbers are all reasonable for a mobile game... so it seems to me that the main use pattern would be for apps that don't need to synch very often. and if an app doesn't synch very often, why even bother throwing an auth wall at your users?
Bill links to the Amazon version on the "Xerox Xerox Xerox Xerox" download page: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L1TPCKW/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...
UX Metrics
it's minimal and that's why it's cool
It wasn't costless. The VPN providers paid for the bandwidth rnovak consumed.
> Because such leaks will be used selectively, against anyone the data collecting agencies see as a worthwhile target.

So because they don't remove all corrupt officials, just some, its a bad thing.

Okay. I guess I don't really see that as any different as now and is completely unrelated to the quantity of recordings.

> And no, blanket recording of all phone calls is not the "valid and good purpose" of the security apparatus, even if it occasionally exposes political corruption.

That isn't what I said. I said exposing corruption was the valid and good purpose. It had nothing to do with recording all phone calls, merely some conversations in restaurants which is what you were talking about being recorded is a valid and good purpose.

You don't get to just flip flop around and re-arrange the context of the subject you brought up [recording people having private meetings in restaurants involving illegal corruption] and [recording everyone's conversations].

These are two separate things.
Apple, Coca-Cola Among Firms Signed on to White House Plan for Small Suppliers
Or $0. If you're talking about self-driving cars, you also need to consider that more than one family may share one car without any need for Uber, or that car manufacturers or dealers may go into taxi business themselves.
I can't remember the last time I had to open anything in Word format. I did have a copy of OpenOffice installed on my last laptop - I'm sure eventually I'll get around to installing it on my current one. But I only trust OO to read Word files, I would never send someone a .docx generated by OO.
I thought like this once.

Futurists have a tendency to imagine a world of changed human behavior and it's compelling to do so. The reality is that the future rarely arrives as sweeping change, but rather as metaphor and specialization.

Whereas you can imagine others adopting new patterns of behavior because you understand the underlying reasons why such behavior is reasonable, the metaphor through which you explain this change is not readily understood. Why, as a User do I want this? If the answer is control and privacy, you might be barking up the wrong tree (time and again we've shown that those are not things consumers want or are willing to pay for).

If you want to drive dynamic change in the world, you have to change the underlying structure of complicated systems while steadfastly avoiding changes in user behavior. It turns out this is quite hard.

I applaud your efforts but encourage you to avoid the rabbit hole of endless specialization and to improve the marketing metaphor/rhetoric.
How to Choose the Right UX Metrics for Your Products
They are not allowed to spy on US persons without a warrant. Full stop. The law is quite clear. Further, the court ruled that metadata was exempt from protection because, in part, it was voluntarily handed over to a third party by the end user.

I'd love to hear how you came to your conclusion that only politicians, et. al. enjoy such protections.
From the video:

> Building the backend... is a lot of work. You have to build it, deploy it, and manage the infrastructure that it runs on."

To me, it certainly sounds like they're trying to market this as an alternative to having your own backend system.

And to be perfectly honest, if you do use your own backend system for anything, authentication and simple data storage are not hard to add - especially if you're going to use a SSO service like Amazon, Facebook, or Google (which Cognito uses). There are drop-in solutions for most of those things that require little more than a couple lines of app code to authenticate users. I really just have a hard time seeing the value in what Cognito offers.

Also, assuming you do just use Cognito for the auth and storage/sync parts, how do you plan to use that data in the rest of your backend system? Are you going to pull down all that data from Amazon's servers just to do what you need with it (will they even offer that ability)? If so, how do you make sure the rest of your backend infrastructure stays in sync with Amazon's user data? It just sounds like it creates a lot more complexity than actually solving anything (except in the most basic scenarios without a need for a separate backend system).
911 will accept test calls. You can call the office ahead of time and arrange a test call.

Alternatively you can dial 911, inform the operator it is not an emergency but a test call, and have them verify the phone number and location.
Drat, kinda bummed about this acquisition (as a customer), but congrats to the RIQ team on a great exit.
It sounds like you skimmed or didn't read the entire article. The author addresses many of your concerns. The situations you describe are already happening and we are barely in the first inning. My own experience with Uber is that it works even better in the suburbs where all alternative transportation (taxis, towncars, shuttles, Zipcar, bus, rail, relayrides, etc) is substantially worse.
In your opinion, what would Dropbox need to do to become a long term business?
I would finish it. You'll be pushed to do courses like analysis of algorithms and operating systems, very tough and important topics you might not cover otherwise on your own.

While these may seem disconnected, the fact is you will build much more intelligence here than continuing to make (likely trivial, sorry) iOS and web apps. Basically with a proper CS education you will learn the fundamental skills needed to adapt to new technologies, rather than being a "trade worker" of the tech industry whose experience and knowledge is confined to languages and frameworks that can fall out of style at any point.
> Has W3Schools released any official response to all the hatred?

This moderator on W3Schools forum attempt to answer some questions that W3Fools raised on a topic back in the day: http://w3schools.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=35836&....

Dunno how the guy relates to the people that actually maintains the website.
Can you send an email to help@avp42.com with some examples of alternate phrasings (to avoid spoilers)?
Yeah, that seems like an important distinction. Thanks.
I use Bean (for Mac, no longer supported) for reading documents. Open Office and Libre Office also work.

Honestly, I use Word for writing formal documents on the rare occasion when it happens, such as letters to the government. But not for resumes. The formatting is just too frustrating. I've been using HTML and markdown for that. www.rocketships.ca, for example. I never send .docs to anyone - .pdfs or raw text only.
Back then the key words were "echelon" and "carnivore". People had suspicions, IIRC there was an EU inquiry, but only now do we have concrete evidence.
I see that, but the examples were introduced as examples of removing gendered speech. I was expecting the bad examples to be the kind of jobs that are posted to the techcompaniesthatonlyhiremen tumblr, pepperd with 'he', 'him', and 'goto guy' kinds of language.

Given that they weren't, I think that calling them 'gendered', but not explaining the specific connotation of 'gendered' in that context is what caused my confusion.
It is. Additionally the person who gets the Coin also gets an extra card in their starting hand. You can "mulligan" this card, or swap it out of your starting hand for another draw. Although this might seem relatively trivial, having an extra chance to mulligan a card increases your chances significantly of getting a card that you want in a specific matchup.
Users won't care, until someone else builds on the liberated data of your app.
Resource efficiency has a lot to do with that, I think. Crawling sites twice will add not only to the burden of the bots but the sites too. Admins may disapprove of this.

I wonder if users can be motivated to do the checking themselves when they post the link.
The law was written in the 1970s to apply to some entities in some ways, to other entities in other ways, and not at all to yet other entities. This was intentional on the part of those who wrote it. No theories are required to observe such a basic fact.

Unless maybe your point is that there weren't any lobbyists in the 1970s, that there were but they weren't corrupt like now, or that any political era you didn't hear about from CNN was some golden age? That's cute.
The call in Afghanistan is just satellite calls - those satellites are all US owned. Tapping them is trivial given the very limited number of satellites.

US telecommunications is geographically disperse, and my original point anyway was that the volume of calls is enormous - storing and processing that much data is hardly a trivial problem since it's both storage AND CPU intensive. From the US black ops budget you could make some reasonable estimates as to the total size and capability of the NSA to do this.
Yes, I read them and they are ridiculous. In the suburbs where my parents live, its a 10 mile round trip to go to the drug store. Over $20 on Uber X in DC. The only reason anybody uses cabs in the suburbs is to go to the airport. I can imagine Uber taking over that market, but its not going to grow it and take market share away from personal autos.

Again, your post is highly myopic to the unusual situation of San Francisco. Its a place that's dense enough for people to mostly forgo cars but without sufficiently good transit to allow them to forgo a car entirely. In the vast majority of the country, you'd have to reduce Uber's costs by an order of magnitude to compete with personal autos. And you're not doing that without self-driving cars.

You could get there with self-driving cars, but I don't see Uber uniquely positioned to capture that market. The companies developing the technology, like Google, will make all the money in that space.
Control-F "asm.js", found nothing, Control-F "emscripten", found nothing, closed window.

Dude, JavaScript is the new assembler. Forget about JavaScript. It's irrelevant. Cat's out of the bag, IE+Safari are going to have to step up, and when that happens, it's game over. I, for one, welcome our new compiler overlords.

https://www.scirra.com/blog/132/more-about-asmjs-powered-phy...
LeBron: I'm coming back to Cleveland
Defaulting to HTTPS would be great, except for the fact that different apps can run on different ports. Port 80 != port 443.
Shipping vs. Launching
Split Testing via Beard Length
If her "stuff" is that portable and the service provider has at least some kind of read access, how would one prevent the service provider from simply keeping a mirror of Grandma's data on their own servers?
It requires multiple actions, not a single press, and smartphones still have emergency-call-without-unlock functionality (at least, my Galaxy Note 3 does) like the emergency-text-without-unlock this system provides.

Sure, the old one-button emergency call feature is gone because of excessive accidental calls, but that's not what this is (even substituting "text" for "call".)
I don't think anyone suggests that it's that simple. This entire space is young and evolving quickly. Identity and data sync is a good place to start, though.

For your example of a leaderboard, Parse has Cloud Code. It's designed to do exactly what you describe -- define a function that sits on Parse's server, handles client queries against your data, and returns the relevant data. Their example is for computing the average rating for a movie from your users' reviews: https://parse.com/docs/cloud_code_guide#functions

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft aren't there yet, but I can only imagine it's on their roadmap. And Parse's implementation only works for fairly easy stuff. But I think things will look very different in 5 years.
(author here)

I thought about this too, but came to the conclusion that since markdown (or, more precisely, the pandoc internal format) does offer enough structure in the form of lists, tables, headers, even footnotes etc, it makes sense to stay in markdown because it's much more human-friendly than, say, json.
I live in downtown Atlanta and Uber is huge among the intown population. I know people who have sold their cars solely because Uber X was introduced. Perhaps intown Atlanta is in a similar position to SF of density and lack of transit. Cabs here are simply awful. They don't take cards, you're lucky if one will show up within an hour (And I live one block from the central subway station), and they a guaranteed to try and rip you off somehow. Uber arrives in minutes, is cheaper, and the drivers are friendly. I was shopping for a car until Uber X arrived, but now uber fills the gaps in our public transit system.

As more and more young people are moving into the cities again, especially cities in the sunbelt that lack the public transit and availability of cabs of NY/Chicago, there's huge opportunity for uber. When you consider all the people now moving back into downtowns and wanting to live the urban walkable lifestyle, but in cities with subpar transit, the opportunity is massive.
What are some other good resources for learning X? It seems like quite the dark art.
Show HN: Zone.Js integrated into Meteor
I use HTTPS Everywhere, so even if links are posted as HTTP, I will be directed to HTTPS for sites that support it. It rewrites the URL browser side, so there's never an HTTP 426.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Google and Facebook are kind of extreme cases - I would not be hired by Google in spite of my Master's degree - in most of these companies one may have to look at the CS degrees from Elite Universities. An A.S degree from Collin County Community College or BS from TAMU-Commerce is not same as Stanford or UT-Austin.

You can cherry pick the data all you want, are there biases - apparently not White Engineer Bias for sure, if there is.
I do not know all the variables, but I prefer uneven organic growth over over-curated even growth that sucks resources and energies from vital parts of the company.
It's interesting to read the linked letter from FAA counsel. The interpretation is that if the pilot was going to fly from A to B anyway, they can take passengers from A to B because the passengers and the pilot have a common purpose of getting from A to B. But if the pilot is only flying from A to B because the passengers want to do it, then the pilot has a different purpose than the passengers, and it's illegal. The pilot should also in theory have "business to conduct" at point B, rather than just flying there for the fun of it.

Applying that distinction to real life would be pretty messy though.

Letter (PDF): http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/agc...
This may sound stupid, so I apologise in advance for my ignorance....

I watched the video and the focus of this service seems to be on storing user data in a way that can be accessed by any device. I'm an API developer, isn't this just what every mobile app that uses an API to store data does, right? I personally don't write a different backend datastore for every device type that could connect to it, nor do I 'permanently' store data on the device! user data is always synced 'for me' over an API. I don't get this, can someone explain why we need this service? Do people develop apps different from me? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely interested.
OpenResty caught my attention in the most recent TechEmpower Benchmarks. It definitely deserves your attention if you need something that can handle concurrent requests at a large scale:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9
Your link appeared twice on the home page. The karma is strong with this one :)
This is sort of strange (but great) because at least once at every single Berkshire Hathaway meeting someone asks Buffett and Munger what they're favorite books are, and I have never heard them mention this one. There is 20 years of in in-depth content about Buffett in books, articles, meetings, and interviews. "What's your fav book" must be one of the top 5 questions he gets and I've never heard about this book. This is great.
And then you reach 10, and you know that you're on the right path! Should have a look at this great article from Jason Lemkin: http://saastr.com/2013/01/09/if-you-have-10-unaffiliated-cus...
Sounds like it saved you a lot of time getting your app up and running and I'm assuming they would give you a lot of time to migrate before just shutting it down. I wouldn't worry about this, however, this is something to consider any time you use a 3rd party to manage a service for you. I've had issues with fully managed RackSpace servers where the OS hit its EOL and it was on me to migrate everything to a new server. I've had this issue with fully managed database providers when they migrated to a new infrastructure and I had to move my data into a new database. There are other examples but most of them are pretty minor and none of them were too big of a deal.
Yes, it does offer offline mode. I didn't have any plans to make it backwards compatible since 87% of all devices are running iOS 7+. If there turns out to be a large demand, I will definitely look into it.
1 of 107 people in the U.S, adult population are imprisoned
Google has talked about doing this, but doesn't seem to have rolled it out yet.
The process has to start somewhere. People in tech like to call themselves egalitarian and progressive, so they should be open to encouraging more people from different backgrounds to enter the pipeline.
Yep, same here. I hate when products (companies) I use get acquired. It always come with not-welcoming product changes.

Hope it doesn't happen to them.
Is Uber more disruptive because of its experience or the fact that it technically violates the rules/regulations in the taxi cab market? Cabs can't compete on price because, the prices are regulated and fixed, and of the cost of medallions and compliance etc are non-zero. Similar remarks for the hotel industry and AirBnB.

Can this/should this be done in other markets? If someone built an equity crowdfunding platform that ignores SEC rules (and the JOBS act) but investors like it/use it, would it succeed? In the cases of Aereo and Silkroad, they didn't succeed in fighting the laws.

The rules and regulations exist ostensibly to "protect" consumers, but we see that when consumers don't agree with them, huge companies get created.
Flexport (YC W14) is hiring a great copywriter
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If you like this, you will probably be interested in this:

Everything you Never Wanted to Know about PKI but were Forced to Find
Out, by Peter Gutmann: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/pkitutorial.pdf

Also, this, by the same person: X.509 Style Guide

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt
pvideo is great but there is an overwhelming amount of material. I was just hoping for a "curated" list.

e: a couple of my favourites by Raymond Hettinger

http://pyvideo.org/video/1780/transforming-code-into-beautif...
http://pyvideo.org/video/1669/keynote-3