skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's now a front page HN item submitted by alexduggleby which points to

https://www.sba-research.org/wp-content/uploads/publications...

which is a new academic paper on catching IMSI catchers. Their Table 1 (on page 5 of the paper) lists 12 possible ways of detecting IMSI catchers.

I suspect there are still others, but that list is pretty thorough! I would add "implausible service area overlap" (the basic case being seeing a tower of carrier A and a tower of carrier B simultaneously, when carrier A and B serve different countries that don't have territory within 50 km of one another). For example, there was a report that a Uganda Telecom tower was seen near the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Julian Assange is staying. Even without a tower-by-tower location database, you could conclude that Ugandan and UK base station signals shouldn't be observed at the same location.
Intelligence Community Supports Ending NSA Bulk Collection
Discount for HN readers?
Really? I've been on sites many times and have seen supers answer their cell phone. Is this province specific?
For a more thought-provoking variation, suppose that intelligence and test taking ability are independent, and IQ is the sum of the two. What, then, does your IQ score say about your intelligence?

See http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-is-intelligence.ht... for some of my thoughts on that from a few years back.
Someone once told me (but, I don't know if it's true) that you need the VP title to be able to sign off on trades, which is essentially a contract. That started a culture of proliferating the VP title.
I'm very familiar with whats necessary to clean credit, debt validation letters, things of that nature. I feel like you do a very poor job of describing what the site is. I'm not sure what I get if I sign up. I get a registered mail service, that's cool, but what else? What is the inbox? Do the letters go out from you, and you receive the replies, and then put the replies into the inbox? A lot of these letters require a SCARY level of information, I just wrote one to TransUnion that required my social, last 3 addresses and several other things- can't wait to find out that was accidentally grabbed out of the mail.

How do the letters go from your mailbox to the inbox? Programatically? Does an intern see all of my info?

Is that even what happens? I have no idea because your site doesn't explain WHAT it is actually capable of doing.

What templates do you have? Can I import my own templates? What is consumer protection resources?

How do you plan to market this to someone less familiar with credit repair?

I just signed up to hopefully answer these questions but this should be laid out on the first page.

Edit: This is meant to be wholly constructive, I'm just in the middle of a few tasks right now so it's pretty jumbled up.
Unfortunately, I'm not a software engineer. I could fairly easily switch jobs, but the choices are all other major oil companies. The work environment is essentially identical at all of them.

Supposedly, we have lots of nice perks like a 9/80 schedule (every other Friday off), etc. It's just difficult to take advantage of them.
The mystery Vegas casino you can only visit once every two years
Yes, but if you hire software engineers and label them as computer programmers (see my post here), employers completely side step the "meet or exceed prevailing wages" requirement.

In fairness, blue chip US tech companies don't do that.
Ditto on the Darwin builds.

Since Apple ditched the Xserve forever ago and the legal issues of Mac OSX on non-apple hardware, builds on mac are a pain in the ass for everyone. You get to buy your Mac Pro, deal with VMware when you want to build for more than one OS (which of course means someone always loses days at a time doing something minor), and hope you have a nice 6U square peg available for your cylindrical trashcan peg.
Asiana 214 Accident Report [pdf]
I'm not sure how well this would actually work, but someone (or group of people) would own the air/water quality. In order to pollute you would have to come to an agreement with them and pay the agreed upon value of the damage to their property.
Ben is listed on the site and works at Stack Exchange right now.
How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future (2013)
That's essentially what I've automated with transcrypt (which uses Git's clean/smudge filters) to do that for you transparently:

https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt
I'm actually kind of happy that tables are complex

With the use cases for markdown, table seem inappropriate.

What I mean: tables are good at representing arbitrary data, particularly sets of data stored somewhere.

Maybe it would be better to simply describe the data with json embedded in markdown and delegate representation to something else.
Why are legal costs so ridiculously high in the states?
I really like founder stories. I just finished reading Jessica Livingston's Founders At Work which has many similar stories, although they are typically further along in their careers. Reading founder stories at an earlier point is just as interesting I think.
Major Fail on motorcycle
I'm not sure if that's an ad-hominem, but I'll bite.

Yes, I am boring - I'm not afraid to admit it.

I am just another of the 6 billion or so souls floating in this rock in space. I don't think of myself as a special snowflake, or as some secret government operative, or somebody who's smarter than all the plebs around me. And I sleep perfectly fine knowing that =). You use the word herd follower as if it's some kind of grave insult?

I'm not an anarchist, nor am I V from V for Vendetta. Ergo, my argument, I don't really have any issues with people seeing what I post online, since most of it's just banal rubbish. You're not going to get any national secrets from reading all of my online postings.

I have friends who are paranoid with security/privacy - and I respect them for that, I just don't understand it. I'm more likely to be the target of an online spammer or phishing attack, than a government agent trying to see if I am against the Party.

However, _if_ I were an anarchist, do you really think I'd be posting my secret plans to overthrow the US government on a YouTube comment?

This is precisely my point, everybody seems to be making a mountain out of a molehill. Who cares if Google makes you actually identify yourself when you comment on the 50 billionth cat video.
I am not surprised. I have, never once in my life, felt that a piece of software from a hardware OEM was well written. They tend to be universally highly buggy, heavily bloated, have highly confusing UI, prone to crashes and full of security holes. This includes software from Sony, Asus, HP, Samsung, RealTek, Nvidia, AMD, Logitech etc. I guess software development just not part of their culture and is an afterthought. The worst is that they bundle this software as a value add that the other OEMs don't have, thus wasting money on something that people almost never use instead of just discounting the price with that money.

My favorite UI gripe is having to get the idea to click on the folder icon on this screen to disable the front panel audio detection for a RealTek sound chip.

http://cdn.windows7themes.net/pics/enable_front_audio_jack_w...
Title is likely a reference to Firesign Theatre's "Everything you know is wrong"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKZtt2yEwfs
In the United States bonuses are taxed as ordinary income.

Companies may withhold a higher percentage than a standard paycheck, but this is generally because they treat the bonus as if you will continue to receive that income throughout the entire year, and withhold at the corresponding higher rate. When taxes are filed you will receive a refund for any taxes overpaid.
Why not buy a Mac Mini?
I modified the renderer to output React DOM instead of an HTML string if anybody's interested

https://github.com/vjeux/markdown-react
Have you had any interest from others in seeing your commercial project unencumbered from legal restrictions?

That would open up your options considerable.
When Users Miss the Front Door (And What to Do About It)
Interesting... Very similar to my golang project.

https://github.com/rphillips/gosec
Good call :p Oops.
I wonder what the lower weight limit is on these. The solar panels produce 1kw/kg the batteries store 350 watts per kg. The whole thing weighs 50kg and has a 23m wingspan.

Training gliders weigh about 600kg, and they have a 41kw gas engine to self propel and have a wingspan of 18m (based on the one linked on the wikipedia article). Average weight is about 80kg for a male. So these can likely get 160-200kg airborne with ease. RTGs produce about 500w/kg.

Basically we could have done this in the 1960s with a payload of about 80-120kg of equipment.

I wish we could get over our fear of nuclear. It would be very easy and efficient to build one of these with an RTG and you would have the ability to include redundancies and even in the event of engine failure you're not at risk of losing equipment and it can be glided to land. It could also carry its own landing gear and you could automate take off and landing schedules so you need minimal overlap on craft. One goes up to take the place while another gets serviced. With redundancies you could keep them flying with a fixed pitch for potentially years.
7 ways to get addicted to completing your goals
For a company, I would look at a pair of small Juniper SRXes (e.g. SRX240), optionally with clustering enabled.
Does this include Apple?
There was a whole other paragraph that did.
<trolling>How is this any different than unions or other stupid government regulations?</trolling>
> You're referring to the dealership's working line of credit

And also the cost of the space taken by the car.
The point is that in some cases, there are things that cannot be "paid off", whatever the currency. Not everything can be bought and sold.
Author here. That's a nice trick to put the animations side-by-side. Thanks!

I had looping versions of the images, but changed them to stop because it seemed confusing to not clearly see the initial and ending states. Refreshing the page to replay an image seemed to work ok, but maybe not in all browsers?

The github project has versions animating longer runtime programs. They are linked from the smaller images in the blog post and might be useful to open side-by-side when reading the text.
Entrenchment is, to unfettered capitalism, what the tragedy of the commons is to libertarianism.
Every other Friday off is 26 days off per year, the equivalent of 5 work weeks. Edit: oh I missed that part where you still work 80 hours in the 9 days. :(
Book is part of Kindle Lending Library, so if you have prime and kindle, you can get it for free (borrow).
Sometimes, even with his tortured intellectualisms, Zizek finds some kernel of truth. What he says here is spot on. From their leader's Swiss watch, to their rampant need for social media validation, ISIS have just "iternalized our standards and measure themselves by them".

The problem is unlike the Western iGeneration, they can never see their faces mirrored in the screens; that future does not exist for them.
Challenge of the week: square root of two
Related: http://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodmain/dodmain.html
There is a typo on the main page http://standardmarkdown.com/, in the section “How can I help?”:

“Read the spec, run the test suite, and exercise our reference impementations.”

“impementations” → “implementations”

I couldn’t find a GitHub repository for the code of the website itself, or I would have made a pull request.

Edit: I see there is already a thread about this: http://talk.standardmarkdown.com/t/site-typo-s-one-to-start-...
Not long gone; 1945 wasn't very long ago. My grandmother would have been graduating high school.
Completely concur. Dumping my car and moving to downtown SF actually saves me a ton of time and money. Lyft / Instacart / Shyp take care of everything I need and I always have Zipcar if I need it. I can go out on the weekend and not have to deal with parking or potentially unsafe driving.

I can see this not working as well in a place like LA due to sheer size, but it's perfect in SF.
There are a lot of alternatives in this space (I wrote transcrypt [1] for just this purpose), but I think the killer features here are that you don't need shared credentials since you can have multiple keys, and that it's generic enough to work with multiple VCS's.

With transcrypt, I do the encryption/decryption transparently once a repository has been configured by utilizing Git's clean/smudge filters, but it uses OpenSSL out of the box rather than GPG. A different workflow, and there are certainly pros and cons to both ways.

[1] https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt
Awesome, that's definitely a feature I was hoping for :)
It doesn't include Apple or Microsoft(which is a Surface OEM I guess).
For those in the UK, the accompanying Horizon episode is now online.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04grp09/

The 60 minute running time meant the programme had to skim the surface for some topics. Nevertheless, I thought the programme was well-made and informative. Recommended.
That's a subjective thing. Personally I can't stand split view :)
Because we have many rich people and corporations willing to spend a lot of money to make sure they don't lose their cases. According to Wikipedia, Aleynikov was making over $1m per year at a Goldman competitor after he left.

And it looks like he got his money's worth. There was no dispute that he took the code. His "open source" defense apparently fell through, and a jury convicted him. He only won on appeal because he convinced the Second Circuit that software wasn't a trade secret within the Electronic Espionage Act, something which Congress went and explicitly my added in response to the court case.
Oh No Facebook Crashed What Will I Do with My Lunch Break Now?
If you find this interesting, you might also enjoy "A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection" by Bacon et all: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf
woah http://h1bwage.com/employer.php?q=372401&sortby=2
How to successfully recruit a data scientist?
How Well Is Google App Engine Actually Performing?
Hard to comment, but I'll say that this is fairly common in the world of Global companies. Good decisions vs. Bad ones, or decisions at all can often happen by chance more so than choice. Location, there are many variables that come into it. If you end up having a ton of talent, it all works out no matter what, but if you would have told me that before I had experience in it, I'm not sure I could have believed it.

10 years ago in startups, it seemed a lot like bootstrapping. Paying newish guys to fill in the ranks to not spend money. Now, more and more enterprise PHD guys are being hired by startups draining the talent pool. Will be interesting to see 10 years from now if that continues to play out, or if it corrects itself in some way.

I'd assume that has to do with the influx of capitol in startups. I used to think startups couldn't pay for Enterprise guys, but in the 2 years that's changed. Would be interesting to hear more thoughts from VC perspective if they see this as well.
Ah yes - I was being a bit thick and I hadn't read your blog post at that point.

NB I left a comment there but it didn't format correctly. What I suggested was having the subject line be similar to the first line of an HTTP request i.e. <verb> <path>
Q: How To Read a Patent
A: If you work in a company, then the answer is very simple: "Don't!" - Don't even try to pretend that you've heard it, or that it exist.
I wouldn't say these are pitfalls of OO. They are merely antipatterns in OO game programming (I might add, with any high-throughput data programming).
Hacking Scene from the Social Network
Why NY when you have other cities like Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose on your doorstep and huge territories like LA within the same state? Do you need a certain minimum residential density to break even?
Ask HN: Good discussion about designing an sdk for RESTful services?
So I have a Restful service that allows users to build basic data pipelines on the fly and kick off jobs on really huge datasets so a user needs to poll the API in order to figure out whether her actions committed successfully.

Now I'm trying to wrap this around a Python SDK. I was wondering if there is any discussion on building a good SDK for non-trivial REST services, something like AWS SDK for example.
Now everything wrong about my LG tv makes sense!
The images are shown at a fixed sizes on the site; some are far larger and more impressive at full size. Copy the image URL and paste it in to another browser tab for best results!

Compare http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=oem200... to http://photogrammar.research.yale.edu/photos/service/pnp/fsa... to see the difference.
Older, more beatup cars tend to have higher "value" for the police officer. Someone driving a brand new Audi isn't going to have the same potential ticketing "value" as a 20 year old rusty car with a beat up bumper, as an example.
Watching ‘the clock’ at the LHC
Travis CI Gets a Little Rusty
fair warning: This, absolutely awesome and actually well written, fanfiction is by now longer than all the books combined.
The V838 Monocerotis Star Still Has Astronomers’ Heads Exploding
webOS is the #1 reason I am considering LG for future TV purchases. If they screw that up then forget it. They will never be more than a second-bit player. And here I was hoping they would eventually get webOS back on phones. How sadly myopic can corporations be?
Action Films May Spur the Need to Feed
It's not the equivalent, as you're still required to work the same number of total hours. (You work 9-hour days -- 7-5 instead of 8-5.)

The main problem is the culture of working through those Fridays off and many weekends. You may not be "required" to, but you're certainly expected to.
Great to hear it!
Blank for me, on Chrome with adblock/disconnect.
That's an unlikely assumption.

A better case might be for students at big name university's where GPA (proxy work etc) and intelligence (proxy SAT score etc) need to be over some threshold for admittance.

If that's the case bankers and others that want both a big name school and high GPA are actually negatively selecting for intellect. Which may account for a lot of fairly dumb behavior at banking institutions etc. As they might have a lot of people that can talk about statistics without actually understanding it.
How do you know the risk is low?
This is similar to nuclear gamma-ray imaging, such as in medical application, where the number of counts is inherently low because the high energy photons are more penetrating and thus escape the camera.
We have no power to discount on Amazon, but you can get the first 3 chapters free here - http://snip.ly/5Wwo
I found this here, it's a really good paper that backs the idea that goals are pretty tough.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6114.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7897662
Tesla selects Nevada for battery plant
This is all last hour's news. I just came to Hacker News from Facebook, where everything was working just fine.
Protein sources by calories, value and portion size
With Note 4 Release, Samsung Still Betting on Big Phones
Ken Collier on Agile Analytics
How to use OData for CRUD
As a fossil[1] user, this is something[2] I've been enjoying for some time. Nice indeed.

[1] http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki

[2] http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/info/214b1d0a37487c94d0...
@rare_cooking, here. Thanks for checking our our project. Let us know if you try any of our recipes (as we cooked them or otherwise) and how it turns out.
This only works with pure python modules but if you really need an app engine environment with the freedom to install whatever python modules you want you can try AppScale http://www.appscale.com.
Installation is straightforward and if for whatever reason your ISP is blocking ports preventing ntpdate from working (AppScale installation requires ntpdate) you can run your own ntp server on your LAN by following this article http://brainwreckedtech.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/howto-run-y...
I miss my palm pre... Best phone user interface i ever used and it was actually less sluggish than my galaxy running jawah with twice the computing power.
But I admit the small screen, bad battery life and lack of apps was kinda shitty too...

After they replaced google- with bing-maps i had to put it down for good :(
How do they compare with Google Loon?

http://www.google.de/loon/
These days, if you have a portable project that builds on both Windows and Linux, it's fairly easy to set up a MinGW-based cross-compiler and do all your builds on Linux. Does anyone have a useful cross-compilation environment for OS X? Clang and GCC should both be quite capable, so the primary issue would be obtaining the necessary headers and (possibly stub) libraries.
I am super excited for developers to see the true power of ODataHQ and I built it for you!
I don't know how well genericization applies to this, markdown was a loosely defined specification, intentionally encouraging modification. all the "incompatible" versions of markdown are within what he intended.

further, its just the name of a spec, should the owner of a spec really be expected to continuously hunt down and test/validate every implementation of their specification? that doesn't exactly seem possible in the slightest.

I don't think he would have trademark protections for something like this for other reasons, I do wonder if there is anything similar that applies in this situation
Monkey leaders and followers have 'specialised brains'
I was poking fun at people who say SQL doesn't scale when what they really mean and don't realize is that normalized schema doesn't work at large scale. I agree that you pretty much have to shard data and "join at the app level" at sufficient size, but the definition of "big data" changes every day.

10 years ago 1T would be "big data" whereas today, 1P would be "big data". I'm waiting for the time when you can get 1P ssd drives for your laptops :)
Square the circle! [] () Just like the old geometry problem. :)
Nice work. One minor quibble, Quorn isn't plant based. It is a fungus grown in egg albumen.

It would also be nice if all of the "complete protein" sources were included.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein
This depends upon how the court defines a car sale.
The best thing about OData is that doing basic and advanced CRUD is easier than you think.
Standard investment bank titles. At BofA, where I worked, the progression was Officer -> Assistant VP -> VP -> Director -> Managing Director.

In the software world, this is something like SWE II, SWE III, Senior SWE, Staff SWE, Senior Staff SWE. The titles in the software world don't make much sense either.
American Psycho's use of VP was a reflection of the existing banking culture: It is not becoming truer; it already was.
On the discussion forum (http://talk.standardmarkdown.com/t/the-inevitable-markdownex...), a project lead said they are leaving that for later:

> Extensions can come later. This project has the limited goal of standardizing “core” markdown features. There’s plenty to worry about there before we go to extensions.
I'm betting on phones + tablets merging, so yes, its a good bet.
I don't see anything about math and in particular embedding equations via MathJax. Is it considered unimportant or did I just miss it?
it seems like a lot of people now think that git == github.
On Maleness and Deep Springs College
Can We Get a Wrench on the Crowdfunding Spigot?