skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If defense firms are constantly under attack then maybe a good counter attack would be to embed exploits in documents that would "phone home" when opened outside the firms networks.
Both `ssh` and `sudo` will only ask you for a password from a TTY; they'll refuse to work if they can't find a TTY (unless, of course you have a graphical prompt configured).

The `expect` suite of tools uses a TTY/PTY pair to script programs that might otherwise be unhappy with not having a PTY. Same with the `script` program, which on my system is part of the 'util-linux' package.

On GNU/Linux, `systemd-nspawn` (a chroot-like tool) uses a TTY/PTY pair to isolate the child process from the outside world.
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NPR One
This is a pretty cool idea! I will see what I can get out of it, thx!
Yep, that seems fair to say. Must note that it seems that the damage that Phineas endured was much more substantial.

Considering the complexity of personality and behavior and our lack of understanding of their representation in the brain, I wonder how far we would get than this type of anecdotal evidence if given the change to investigate. Personality tests are mostly, if not completely useless.
I try to make it clean having different JS for each individual HTML response. Plus, JSON parameters.

The alternative is usually having script tags with written JS inside, which is ugly.
Some of the very early imagery in the New Mexico area is very interesting also.
It seems like every time I see an interesting deal Qatalyst Partners are involved (Priceline/OpenTable, Elance/oDesk, Yahoo/Tumblr, probably some more I'm missing). Those guys get to work on some really interesting stuff.
Actually no. The DMCA is a nationalistic piece of absolute garbage, but it does allow you to file a counter notification, google does not.
Two possible motivations:

1. Help political dissent in countries that cannot crack tor.

2. There's a reasonable chance that they can crack tor, at least to some extent ,especially with the help of the 5-eyes countries. Having that ability while "evildoers" think tor is safe is valuable.
I wonder if they plan on recovering the satellite and the geckos. Cameras are ok, but it would be much more useful to have a live sample of space-born geckos to research. Looking at the pictures of this thing, it looks like it might have non-destructive down-mass capabilities, but then I question whether the eggs will survive landing.
> these were both very public forums

Only in the sense that you can view them on the Internet. But there are lots of forums that anyone can view on the Internet, with a wide variety of norms. Just as in the real world, there are lots of "public" places where in theory anyone can show up, with a wide variety of norms. Anyone who doesn't like the norms of a particular place is free not to go there.

> the fact that there were in fact two very different presentations here from Linus is further proof of the fact that one of them was uncalled for

No, it isn't, because, once again, the two presentations were made in different contexts for different purposes. On the GCC bug tracker, Linus' purpose was to inform them of the issue and try to help resolve it. On the kernel mailing list, his purpose was to make sure that the compiler issue did not result in problems with the kernel. The latter purpose may well require a different style of presentation than the former; and since it's Linus' kernel and mailing list, he gets to judge what style is required to accomplish his purpose there.
In order to enjoy VPN on all of your devices you can either flashing your current router with DD_WRT firmware or by a VPN router but cause DD_WRT is free, it might be better you give it shot first before looking for VPN router. DD-WRT is a free open source project aimed at developing a Linux based firmware solution that removes the restrictions placed on routers by their default programming. Fortunately, it has the option of selecting different VPN configurations like: PPTP, L2TP or OpenVPN and Once configured, users on the network don’t need to enter a log in process when they need to activate the VPN. It just starts automatically, so any device connects automatically and easily, giving you all the benefits of using a reliable VPN service.

In order to check whether your router is DD-WRT supported or not, please check your router here : http://dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database

And here is a configuration guide that will give you better idea of how you can config it on your router: http://www.purevpn.com/config/router/
Yes, I got two threads mixed up :( .

I agree that the original content owners shouldn't have to contact the creators (it would be nice though, most are way too overzealous).
A blueprint is not a diff but it doesn’t matter
> Now, here's the deal breaker, all of the above coconut waters are total trash compared to RAW coconut water.

Can anyone tell me how it's possible to transfer coconut water from a coconut to a bottle without contaminating it with bacteria/yeast from the air? I'm a bit skeptic about it actually being raw, but I hope it's true.
I recommend trying to find something that you would want to use yourself to work on.

I have a neglected project at work - The Mechanical MOOC (https://github.com/p2pu/mechanical-mooc/) is a tool we use to run signups and mailing lists for large online courses.
Would something like "Listen to the favorite tracks of the musicians you love" be better?
For a moment, I thought this was the: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_World_News
and sucks. since sucks is a word thats apparently free to use anywhere now.
> Isn't the MLS run by the real estate agents that RedFin is trying to disrupt?

Redfin is disrupting the brokerage model of paying agents price-based commission. As far as I can tell, they are happy to use the existing MLS for listing data, and then put a nice interface on top of it.

> Are you sure that Zillow isn't just scraping the MLS data from broker sites?

Oh, I'm sure they are. But they can't reasonably do this for 100% of regions, and have 100% coverage. My point about the coverage differentiator of Redfin is that in the regions Redfin serves, it has 100% coverage. Zillow claims to serve nationwide, but does not have 100% coverage nationwide.
I bet NSA is willing to pay much more.
Third Party Sellers Need to Rethink the Amazon FBA Program (2013)
NuPIC: https://github.com/numenta/nupic.
Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing: a brain-inspired machine intelligence platform, and biologically accurate neural network based on cortical learning algorithms.
@ownagefool, you are correct in your assumptions. We are staying a bit high to put our resources to the most efficient use.
It'll be good for towing also.

Electric vehicles are excellent for towing, I've seen lots of places use normal electric golf carts to tow huge boats, it's all about torque.
They launched a satellite with geckos and insects onboard to observe their mating behavior in zero-g, then lost control of it. Now they've gotten control back. The headline is indeed surprisingly accurate.
I can't imagine hackers being as stupid as to allow scripts run in the documents. Actually, most modern software prevents such "phoning home" AFAIK (e.g. your mail client, Word, Excel, ... all ask you before loading remote images and executing scripts).
GNU FM is a FOSS implementation of Audioscrobbler, so that could be one reason.
What's the provenance of this information?

Where's the opt-out, both for individuals with individual phone numbers, and for businesses who own large blocks of numbers?
I went through a similar experience recently. My solution:

1) Find a place where startup people hang out (in San Antonio, there's a co-working space designed for this called Geekdom). Startup people are rarely found in big companies.

2) Find ways to get involved in the startup community by volunteering or just helping others. You'll determine very quickly who are the quality people and who you'll like working with.

3) Get an idea and go talk to everyone about it. Ask for their advice and get mentored. Even if it's a bad idea, you'll develop relationships and they'll connect you to other startup people who can help or possibly get involved.
Yeah, except he himself described the first app as "simple" and the next 9 apps after the first consisted of nothing more than changing the YouTube channel id the app pointed to and changing the app's name.

$50,000 seems pretty exorbitant for a "simple" app that does nothing more than embed YouTube videos.

$50,000 for the literally 5 minutes of work involved in changing the channel ID and app name is downright comical.

There's no way to spin this as $500,000 worth of work. I don't care what his billing rates are. (And I suspect his billing rates aren't very high to begin with — he doesn't strike me as the sharpest tool in the shed.)
If JS is disabled, it shows an unstyled page with text "Please wait".

Would make sense to make it downgrade nicely, at the very least for the landing page.
They bring lots of data and patterns to the table mostly -- because they spend all day every day dealing with it.

- If you tell your agent "I'm looking for a good investment property" they'll be able to tell you why this house on this side of the street is a good investment, and why the house 2 blocks away isn't.

- They can use this data during negotiations. You don't really know what price a home can be bought or sold for, but they can work off of a more educated guess. Should I try to sell my home for $x? or $x*1.25? They'll know how much and why. Should I try to negotiate down when buying or do I need to make a stronger offer? They'll know market conditions and can help you.

- They're familiar with all the oddball paperwork certain kinds of property deals have to work through. Like, are you buying a deprecated farm unit in an independent but not registered municipality that's been rezoned for mixed-use development but you'd like to rezone back to agricultural use? There's a form for that and they just saved you 6 months of back and forth with the state/county/city getting it sorted out.

- They can dig into property history and find out things that you might not know from looking at the property. Like, the foundation was recently rebuilt, or the property has a history of flooding and needs a sump-pump, so you might be looking at $20k in charges to put one in, or you can use it to negotiate down.

- If you are selling, connecting you into the broker network to find a buyer. It's a lot more than just putting something up on the web, a good agent will spend quite a bit of their time hunting down a good buyer for you.

Here's a longer list

http://ohiorealtors.org/consumers/184-tasks-agents-do-for-yo...
I imagine it would be relatively easy for them to operate as actual brokers also. I wonder what has stopped them.
I already posted publicly online how to find the identity of a Tor user.

To reiterate:

1. Get the Tor user in question to visit a website controlled by you ( or at least a site where you can cause JS to run; such as an advertisement )

2. Know which ISP the user is on, and be allowed to install a high speed device watching all traffic for a sequence of specific sized packets.

3. Use the JS to send a specifically crafted sequence of sized packets with specific time periods in between them. After sending this preamble, send sized packets to send the 'pseudo identity' of the user ( whatever pseudonym you wish to attach back to their real IP )

4. Use your monitored ISP device to detect the preamble, then log IP and the data.

Note this method could be done en-masse and would only require high speed FPGA devices at each ISP "trunk". Inject JS code correlating users back for any system which you wish to identify the users.

Done. Whichever Russian demonstrates this and wins the $100k; throw me a bone please. :)
I was of a slightly different impression, but have no idea what is the "truth".

"Tor was not started by the US Navy. The US Naval Research Labs (NRL) started a project in the 1990s called onion routing7. Tor uses the basic onion routing principles and applies them to the Internet. The volunteer Tor group started in 2001. The formal charity, The Tor Project, started in 2006. We continue to work with Dr. Paul Syverson from NRL on improving onion routing and therefore Tor."

Source: https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/sida
ASCII DEL (^?) is natively a ‘forward delete’ operation; it erases the character under the cursor while advancing to the next character. That's why its value is 0x7F: on paper tape it's all holes, so it can punch over any other character.

The problem arose from two later, non-Unix (and arguably deliberately anti-Unix¹) influences.

One, as the Debian notes linked in a sibling comment mentions, was GNU Emacs, whose bindings came from custom non-ASCII, bucky-bit² devices, and gleefully stepped on ASCII control characters like Backspace (^H) and Device Control 3 (^S).

The other was DEC's new VT2x0 series of terminals, with the VMS-oriented LK201 keyboard³, that hid Backspace and Escape on unlabelled function keys (F12 and F11 respectively) and made the key in the typist's backspace position send DEL. (The VT100⁴ had had both Backspace, in the typist's location, and DEL, where US PC keyboards have \|.) This was the big one, as BSD 4.2 for the VAX spread and dragged the LK201 along with it.

¹ http://richard.esplins.org/static/downloads/unix-haters-hand...

² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky_bit

³ http://deskthority.net/wiki/DEC_LK201

⁴ http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VT100
> So, you are saying, if the NYT did not allow casual use

The NyTimes is not doing that for "casual use" they are doing it to allow Google's crawler access to the site so it can be indexed and show up on search engine result pages. This is why the incognito trick works on so many news websites.

> that you need to keep killing your cookies

I don't kill my cookies, I just cmd+shift+n to open incognito.

As for supporting sites I value, I visit so many of these sites, and read them, that I would potentially face financial ruin if I had to pay for them all. I get it, I want to support them, but I cannot, not at those prices, not when I can just open my incognito window, and not when even though I pay for the site I still have to deal with ads that roll down content as I'm trying to read it.

And I imagine you might have adblock enabled while you're sitting there judging me about not giving them cash for accessing the site. ;)
Nobody's arguing that the product isn't solid. Such claims are just a recipe for negative attention and are almost certainly not correct. And actually it'd be very odd for a marketing team to not verify their front page claims with the engineering team. This is a tech company afterall.
Yeahh.. I'm finding it really hard to have much sympathy here. Spammy single-content-source apps like this are a plague upon the store.

Furthermore, the author's ignorance of trademark really doesn't win them any points.
The $35,000 will be starting after rebate, so $42,500 out the door with zero upgrades. I'm pessimistic they can get that low of a price with 300 mile range, so I'm predicting that is an optional battery upgrade from the base price. There are options you will want like the tech package which is $3k+ on the S.

I snagged a 40kwh S before they discontinued it. Had it for a year, never needed to charge anywhere but my home. I get about 135 miles on a charge and it has been more then enough for commutes around the metro.
Building Mobile Apps: The Tools
I'm in the process of buying my first home, and it's been hugely helpful to have an agent. Services include:

- Tours of homes; seeing something online and seeing something in person is an impressive difference. Some houses look amazing online and terrible in person, or vice versa. Cannot possibly overstate the value of this.

- Negotiation; he's a professional negotiator, and he has years of experience negotiating in the exact market that we're buying in.

- Documentation; there's a RIDICULOUS amount of paperwork to file, and all I have to do is read/sign it.

- Inspections; he has handymen and inspectors on file, and knows that they're trustworthy.

- Knowledge; he's done this dozens/hundreds of times. He knows about how long things take, he has reasonable estimates of how much things will cost, and he has the patience to answer all of my questions.
A little about patterns
Really cool idea. I've been digging around soundcloud a lot lately, and it's as challenging as any other site to find good stuff. My immediate feedback is most musicians like their own productions the most. So I keep getting "artist123 likes this song by artist123". Any way to filter out themselves?
Music that inspires the artists you listen to.

Not a new concept, but this one is hard to use. Only one track is presented at a time. Very slow to discover.
I met a business guy at a meetup in Boston last week who was doing something in exactly this space and looking to build an engineering team. But it looks like I threw his card out. Shit, sorry.
"Fair-use" is a legal defence, when you get sued. Just like 'self-defence' is a legal defence if you murder someone.

It does not mean you have the right. (Like in countries like Korea, or Australia, where you do have the right).
For me is the best important tool password manager. I can't imagine my work without it, it stores all my passwords, fills forms for me and I can focus only on work. Currently I am using Sticky password manager because I don't like to store my personal data to clouds. I am also using Toggl for time tracking because I used to waste my time a lot :) .
that's true. zillow lists their source at the bottom of listings.
Our church has members from age 0 to 80. Some of the oldest members have never used a computer, but we'd want to include their pictures in a photo directory. Does this software support adding pictures on behalf of someone? Can you designate "editors" or some lower-level admin ability for that?
Yeah, that's interesting. In cities, a couple blocks can be wildly variable. However, in my boring suburb, you probably wouldn't know one part from another 2 miles away. I suspect it's an algorithmic problem, using the same concept for a city in the 'burbs.
> an object system for Perl. It not only offers a much nicer syntax for making objects, but provides features like read-only accessors, roles, introspection, and even types!

and even metaobject protocol
I DID NOT CHOOSE TO BE A MAN WHEN I WAS BORN.

DO NOT GO SO LOW AS TO CALL ME A 'PROBLEM' BASED PURELY FROM THE OBSERVATION OF MY GENDER.
Though, I think we're starting to see a lot more crossovers appear in the US (as opposed to full-sized SUVs). A crossover doesn't imply off-roading prowess, as one of the common characteristics of a crossover is being built on a car platform.

I'm hearing the term more in everyday discussion, and I'm seeing as many or more crossovers than SUVs these days in the US southeast.
I'm sure weight matters a little but torque is what gets the vehicle moving and regenerative breaking puts more back into the batteries with more weight.

Aerodynamics seem to be a more critical factor for electric vehicles. You want the vehicle to be able to cruise while using as little energy as possible, and weight doesn't matter as much for maintaining speed.

It's the same reason that most modern trains are electric or diesel-electric rather than pure diesel.

Many aircraft tow tractors are also electric these days, and they haul some fairly heavy loads.
I don't know why anyone would do this for $110,000. Especially after the entry fee, probably wouldn't make much money after the hardware costs, though if you're good enough to take on TOR, you probably also have a botnet. Also, why the hell would anyone give it to the Russians? Of all people, they're definitely who need exclusive access to a TOR hack. Especially if you consider that some of those people who are using it in Russia could be regular people who are trying to not be persecuted for their sexual orientation. Bad idea overall.
Well. We have a much more bigger phone number database and provide very compelling profiles associated to each phone number. Full Contact doesn't focus on phone numbers. We do.

As a matter of fact, our API powers our core services like our Contactive Caller ID app which has more than 1 million downloads in the Google Play Store with a consistent 4-5 star rating.
Google Docs for Drawing with Collaboration and Offline Usage
I don't think QM or GR really change anything here. Matter and energy in must equal matter and energy out. So if the "bounce" produces the same amount of matter that went in, then it seems in general to lack the energy to reach escape velocity. If some (significant?) amount of matter is converted to energy, then maybe it works.

I glanced over the paper and I don't see anything that specifically addresses this, but I might be missing it, because I only skimmed, and I'm not particularly knowledgeable about physics.
Very expensive though. A lot of the time you can use frequent flyer miles to subscribe though, which is much more reasonable.
That's a great case. I believe we should be careful with historical biais, because some it could lead to focussing results on a particular music style. In my case fore example, I listen to electonic, jazz and classical music depending on the mood of the week...

It is not open source, but you may be willing to give a hand ;)
Sounds like this case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Pitchfork

Particulary interesting to me is the fact that the initial mass screening did not find the perpetrator, because he had paid somebody to give a sample for him. But he was eventually caught because the stand-in couldn't (or didn't want to) keep a secret.

Wikipedia mentions no controversy, although of course that doesn't mean there wasn't one.
Chinese hackers have been incredibly good at infiltrating defense contractors around the world. This is just the latest in a very long list. These types of intrusions really do reduce any technical military advantages the "West" has over China.
I'm the founder of http://pricify.com and we've had several iterations of the product and focusing on various experiments. Currently we land users on a landing page and thats a test we've been running for a while, but we've also had it where products are listed upfront with infinite scroll. Both seem to achieve hit different goals.

We've spent a long time establishing landing page messages so it makes sense to users as soon as they get there - otherwise they just bounce, including HN users! I've not signed up to try this out, but there is just not enough info before asking a visitor to sign up. So may want to add some info there on the value prop?
> Apps are not people.

Not yet.
That's what a minivan is for.
Quod Libet [1] is a mature but "lesser known" audio project written in Python and GTK+ (3).

Whilst there are probably some quite high barriers to entry (the user community is very tech- and music-savvy, the project is fairly feature-complete, and the codebase quite complex), we're fairly welcoming and try to take care of our (large) backlog of tickets whilst welcoming useful contributions where possible, or at least discussing / explaining their considered rejection.

In particular, we could really do with a dev (or in fact buildmasters / testers) who are Mac-based ideally with some knowledge of building and testing Python and GTK+ apps on OS X. Probably best to email the list for further details.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/
Maybe an encrypted document which phones home for the keys? And to force the user to run the script, make it so that the encrypted blob is generated by running the script (and it's painfully obfuscated to prevent reverse engineering)
Zillow 2013 revenues: $225M, profits: -$12.5M

Trulia 2013 revenues: $175M, profits: -$17.8M
Which online stores? All of them?
I assume a Tor user with js turned off would be immune to this?