skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The REAL issue is accountability."

You are very naive. Nature hates a power vacuum. Accountability, requires being able to enforce, if the other party is not accountable. Otherwise, it's just a matter of time before you are being used in some, or many, ways. The asymmetry of power between Joe Doe, you, and a huge multi national, assures that you can't enforce, and so you can't keep the other party accountable.
yeah seriously- the government will demand user data and then fine the company for misusing it... corrupt.
A battlefield.
why not just use openssl or another command line tool?

To encode: openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in secret.zip -out secret.zip.enc

To decode: openssl aes-256-cbc -d -a -in secret.zip.enc -out secret2.zip
This is useful; I've been puzzled by the actual behavior of a garbage collector. For instance, you might be dismayed, after implementing generational GC, that it benchmarks worse compared to reconfiguring for pure mark and sweep. Some visualization could help explain why. Raw execution profiling isn't all that helpful because it is entangled with the program, so you have to rely on collecting and logging various statistics from the collector.
I really wish Django default doc site would default to latest production version in urls. I have to keep changing dev to 1.6 and now 1.7
"Potential threat" is an unbounded set. If you're going to guard against every potential threat you will not be able to spend your time doing anything else.

I asked because I was curious about what sorts of unique threats are presented by, for example, a database of location data. So far I haven't seen any that aren't already present via far simpler means.
The 50% Rule for Traction
Government Datasets Available Across 22 Federal Agencies in Data.json Files
I'm intrigued by the combination of last-mile ISP and neighborhood social networks. It seems that if you were organizing a Google Fiber "fiberhood", or municipal ISP, or some sort of cooperative ISP, these sorts of local social networks are the ideal organizing tool. My Facebook friends all whine about neutrality but are scattered all over the world. My Nextdoor neighbors are largely within a box of CAT5e from each other.
Storing anything of value in the cloud, regardless of encryption, is the very essence of stupidity. How many times does this fact need to be reiterated in the news before people get it.
The best example I can think of in this category is Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University.

http://www.daveramsey.com/fpu

It's a comprehensive course on putting your finances in order. $100 per person or family taking the course. Scholarships often offered to callers to his show and others who demonstrate motivation but lack of means to pay.

Many Americans are poor not due to having no income, but getting themselves into too much debt through scams like credit cards and student loans.

Of course this is also useful to people with decent incomes, which means the business is not exclusively reliant on the low income market.

Maybe that's one trick for serving the "unexotic underclass", a problem experienced by enough non-poor people to pay the bills, but also offered to poor people at a lower price or free.

Maybe there are some high income single mothers to subsidize a business solving a problem experienced by all single mothers? Etc.
How would it distinguish from mobile cell sites[1], which are deployed by carriers to areas where temporary higher capacity necessitates their use, and IMSI catchers operated by law-enforcement?

It does mention protection against attacks which downgrade secure connections to insecure connections, which is good.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_cell_sites
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Put in Pangea, Chicago, 2009-2013, got server error, running Google Chrome on Macbook Air 2013 Snow Leopard.
Former patent examiner here. This is the truth. Only thing I'd add is, read the claims broadly. Anything that could possibly be meant by the words in the claim.

If it's broad enough to contemplate what you're doing, look through the spec, correspondence (the "file wrapper"), and general knowledge at the time for arguments to restrict interpretation of scope. Also, talk to a lawyer :(

edit: linked to this in another comment, and it also belongs here: "Broadest Reasonable Interpretation" http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2111.html
3 guys getting guillotined. 1st... blade gets stuck, goes free. 2nd ... blade gets stuck, goes free. 3rd "I see the problem".

What kinda retard-nigger is jolly for galilao the day he learns God exists?
In other words, 1080p.
I think it's because you have misunderstood the convenience of having three separate bluetooth profiles that can be switched with a simple toggle i.e. I bet I can switch from device A to device B faster than you can repair.
But it's not a flat fee. According to the FCC, it's actually the largest fine ever for misuse of data for marketing purposes.
Putting Your APKs on Diet
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261505
Disappointed to see this is about "American Football", not "Football".

Seriously, I'm curious about the ever-stricter rules about contrasting uniforms in football outfits - enough that national sides can't play in their classical colors anymore, and club teams have four to six alternate uniform sets; I thought that was to facilitate the automated analysis of games, as I've already seen some contrast-jacked still shots used to overlay tactical diagrams.
I'd say Yes.

A) Frankly, channels result in prettier, more maintainable code. I've seen enough questionable uses of LinkedBlockingQueue to last me a lifetime. Inability to so much as "close" a BlockingQueue in the face of multiple concurrent consumers is an unbelievable cramp -- it won't bother you until it does, but when it does, it's just a bellyflop-onto-concrete sort of sensation.

B) I'm even more pessimistic than Pron's sibling response about scalability of threads. A minecraft server with a even a few dozen concurrent players is starting to feel the limitations of naively scheduled threads, as an anecdote. Part of this comes down to the choices of concurrent data structures, how interaction with shared data strucutures is batch and the resolution of locks, the devil is in the details etc etc etc, but I'd venture that the abstractions with green threads and channels make good code a heck of a lot easier.

Truly trivial apps with one "compute" thread and one "UI" thread are unlikely to see serious performance gains. Similarly applications that have workloads that are highly parallel (say, somewhere around $num_cpus threads which exchange information only once every few hundred millions of cycles -- spitballing a bit, but for context I think the Doug Lea talk I linked in earlier (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq0MX3fHkro) mentions thread unpark can take up to a million cycles in a worst-case scenario) are unlikely to see serious performance gains. So there are situations where green threading can't help you from a purely performance perspective, yes. But in practice, it's my observation that it's startling how quickly "simple" apps end up doing enough concurrent UI or network operations that naive threading starts getting unpleasant.
Implicit population selection biases can lead to all sorts of fun.

One that I saw a paper get wrong a while ago was one which claimed to find an inverse correlation between two different traits that individually improved intelligence. The catch? The sample population was chosen from university students at no name school X. But people who did well on both traits would have done well enough to go to a better school and so were underrepresented in the population sample!

(I forget the paper, but pay attention and you'll find lots of other examples...)
Ask HN: Books/Resources on Product Development?
Looking for some books and resources on product development. Especially geared towards a tech company/startup with a software/web app product.

Our product has been in development for years and the perpetual cycle of growth => new features => bloat may be getting out of hand. Need help!

Any suggestions?!
Very neat. It's interesting to see the NFL logo from the corner of the original footage moving around in the stabilized footage. Future feature: automated watermark removal?
psc, meet pgrep and pkill
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Wow Samsung turn around time is definitely Impressive. Google Cardboard Giveaway at Google I/O turned into production hardware with software partnerships in 2 months.
For example, there's NSO Group, which has exploits against common smartphone basebands and can use them to activate sensors in the device:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/smartphones-become-next-front...
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/01/can-this-israeli-star...

In addition to the use of IMSI catchers for MITMing calls and text messages, and the use of IMSI catchers for detecting the presence of devices, there's the use of IMSI catchers for delivering baseband exploits.
Show HN: An iOS App for Crowdsourcing Fantasy Football Advice
Hey everyone. Last year me and a friend started a service for crowd-sourcing fantasy football matchups (called Who Do I Start? for NFL Fantasy Football Leagues). The season went alright. I got the idea on opening kickoff last year, took a few days to think things through, then we hacked together a prototype and had it on the App Store for week 4 of the regular season. We ended the season with about 10 000 users, 25 000 matchups, and 270 000 votes on those matchups. Yesterday was the start of the 2014 season, and in the past 3 weeks we've doubled our userbase. We've currently got 1100 matchups created (since yesterday), and already have 90 000 votes. It's looking like we're going to far eclipse what we did last year.

We ran into a bunch of scalability issues yesterday, and have since moved to Linode. Things seem to be working much better. We ended up being 3rd in accuracy results unofficially, according to one of the leaders in the market: http://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/accuracy/#2013 (our accuracy was 60.70%).

App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/who-do-i-start-for-fantasy/id715044633

PS: We've heard of some users on iOS 8 having issues, so forgive us if that's your case!
and nevermind. The doc explain why (large teams, key sharing, etc)
Can't heroku do that automatically and scale to meet demand? I thought that was one of the selling points of "the cloud"?
In other words, 1440p.
If you enjoy 70M+ Excel files: http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/docs/py2014q3/H-1B_FY...
It's hard to agree or disagree without the chance to play with the physical object, but I would place my bets on manual dexterity (as in manus, the hand) overcoming any obstacles, if there's an overall benefit to usability.

People already perform feats of dexterity (as in dexter, the right hand) with the featureless blocks of slippery glass we currently have. My supposition is that, if people were asked to list problems with phone usability, software factors would rank above physical ergonomics. I'm sure they can learn to work a raised ridge on the edge of the phone with big button target areas, if it helps control the software better.
How much do you think is appropriate? What Verizon did is clearly wrong and I'm glad the FCC is on top of it... but this ain't exactly the crime of the century.
Looking forward to seeing you in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area ASAP for my own use, we have a great hub airport here - lots of cargo planes! :D
I agree that's a problem. I don't think the issue is that this database exists. I think the issue is that there are people conducting a witch hunt in the first place. If they are that bad at finding terrorists, they'll misuse whatever information is available to them. The solution is to not give people the power to conduct secret investigations and trials etc. in the first place.
Yea kinda annoying by the time I finished reading/watching the no-gc and reference count gc the animations were all done. Even better if they were side by side.
Unfortunately 40k per person isn't likely to get the attention of the someone trying to maximize the amount of good done per dollar (those of us who follow GiveWell) when the money would go further with the charities they currently recommend. The "exotic underclass" has the "advantage" if you can call it that of benefiting a lot from small amounts of money per person, so you can help more people.

We need different arguments for why we should help people closer to us. One reason might be that it's less abstract than people in a different country that you'll never meet, but I think that argument needs to be developed.
There's also the Edge variant of the Note 4, with an independent curved display on the right side, http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/3/6097297/samsung-galaxy-note...

"The sloping screen’s default status is as a quick launcher of sorts, with easy access to a bunch of your most-used apps. There are a number of widgets, though, tickers of sorts that let you flip through news or tweets or information about how many steps you’ve taken. And you can do it all without ever changing or disturbing what you see on the larger display. In some apps, the edge acts as a toolbar, offering easy access to font menus or camera modes or in-app settings. At night, it can be your alarm clock, the time displayed on the side of the phone so you can see it without taking your head off your pillow. It’s an odd idea, turning this vertical rail into essentially an always-on secondary display"
This is basically a BSD/MIT license plus a CLA/DCO style clause. Please don't create a new license; just use ones that already exist.

https://julien.ponge.org/blog/in-defense-of-contributor-lice...
http://elinux.org/Developer_Certificate_Of_Origin
1. store secretes in separate repo from code itself. Problem solved.

2. You still need to manually decrupt and encrypt files when you want to work with them.

3. It's written in shell. I'll never trust shell programs to be stable. They are too fragile to external changes and will break in runtime. I'm never ever work with secrets with shell wrapper.
Possibly not though. NextDoor has my location and EveryBlock only has Philly and Chicago, it appears.
VPSs with no IPv4 address?
Found the promo code: INTROLEBT (assuming still valid) for 50% off.
"Comprising" means having at least all of the listed elements.

"Consisting of" means having all of the listed elements and nothing more.

"Consisting essentially of" means having all of the listed elements, with more stuff that doesn't materially change the character of the invention (that's where the lawyers come in).

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2111.html
First rumor I could find goes back well before I/O, and certainly was a real project before that: http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/22/samsung-vr-headset/
The Click Clique: Amber Venz and the Business of Fashion Publishing
Extreme typographic control with Blast.js
Well, as this graph[1] clearly shows... Red is the winner! Also... this graph doesn't seem to match up with the data provided in the benchmark PDF[2]... unless you truncated it for some reason. At least one of them should be 50% of the red bar.

Two more things:

1) Is there a reason you don't list what version of RDP you are using? There is a big bump in quality with 8.0

2) Is there a reason you don't include other paid offerings in your benchmark? Since you offer paid versions it seems like that would be fair.

[1] http://anydesk.com/_static/img/benchmark-framerate.png

[2] http://anydesk.com/benchmark/anydesk-benchmark.pdf
There are a few different strategies for detecting IMSI catchers (though I'm not convinced that everybody working in this space has completely thought the threats through: some of the tools seem very focused on a single attribute they expect to see from the IMSI catcher). The mobile sites may conceivably still have proper encryption support, so if the feature you're looking for is "ciphering absent or downgraded", you shouldn't necessarily get false positives from them.
As the watermark is static in the original footage, it should be easy to remove before processing.

I'd like to see the players remain, perhaps somewhat transparent, once they are cropped out of the actual shot. Otherwise the zoom/pan just erases them.
git-crypt[1] also does per file encryption

[1]: https://www.agwa.name/projects/git-crypt/
Perl Scripts Used to Extract Slitscan Effect Images from 2001 A Space Odyssey
Wonder what happened with this thread. Has a few votes but doesn't even show up on the 5th page.
I mentioned this in my post ("given nonlinear activations"), but you're correct to point out its importance. The combination of linear functions is always linear. Full stop. You need at least one non-linear layer to get reasonable results.
Iconic a new iOS game
David Chaum also invented blind signatures[1], which as I understand it make truly anonymous electronic cash possible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature
Sure I agree.

My sense is that Karma may correlate with what is substantial and awareness of its trends may correlate with awareness of one's own patterns. That awareness can produce, as you observed, heightened self editing.

Now perhaps we disagree that more self editing is or is not a good thing or whether it outweighs the negative effects of deleted comments. Personally, I think more comments could stand self deletion and have observed few instances where a deleted comment has had much impact on an important discussion.
I read this in print and it is an absolutely fascinating read. Take the time with your morning coffee or lunch to take your time with it. Here is another take:

http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/faking-galileo#
That's possibly a valid workaround (can't test - my K811 keyboard is at the office) which on my international keyboard is not nearly as convenient as just depressing shift with my pinky, but it does not change the fact that the K811 keyboard is not able to do what the standard Macbook keyboard does. And the fact that Logitech is aware of the obvious bug but is not interested in fixing it.
would love to hear Gruber's take on this.
Spoom - We never agreed that our brands could be confused, because we are nowhere close to what Square does. Games and processing is very different. But to avoid costly lawsuits, losing focus and if the compensation would be right (that would cover all our re-branding costs - 6 figures) we would consider it...However i must underline that Square started using the brand "Square Cash" just a couple months ago, which makes it very clear why Square really wanted our brand name. as an example they use the email: cash@square.com.
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I don't know why it's not implemented like traditional Bluetooth, by pairing. Each beacon vendor could generate a 6 digit code from a private key implemented like 2-factor auth. A corresponding iPad or device in a physical location could show the same code so users know they're pairing to the beacons in a store or location.

Then they proximity-fence these pairing requests so it only activates when they tap a device on a "pairing beacon."
Very cool. A friend of mine has a Note 3 and I've spent some time dorking around with it, and was fairly impressed. I think if I can find a sweet deal on a Note 3 I might just go ahead and go that route.
"so instead of having an email address like sexy_asian_chick88@hotmail.com, I just used my name. It's a little less embarrassing"

Nice, loaded example. Strange you didn't use "I'm a naive idiot" as an email example, to "explain" why using your real name would be better. ..And, btw: Sexy asian chick? Pics or it didn't happen.

"And really, what am I writing online that is so private and secretive that I need to firewall it from my actual identity?"

You may be boring, unimaginative, and a herd follower, but that doesn't mean everybody else is.
No person faced an existential threat from that.

Corporations are people, my friend.
What languages use numbers to name the week days and months?
How i followed 300k people in an hour
Possibly, but not on the free tier. Anyway, our current plan can only handle 20 concurrent connections to Postgres and I am not planning to pay more to satisfy spikes.
It's a Historic Year for Temperature Extremes
One of my favorites is Lean Analytics. Goes over all aspects of product growth metrics.
Which major Google site is built in Angular?
Are there any major installations yet?
I use http://visadoor.com for the same info, and I believe from the same official source:

http://visadoor.com/perm (Daily PERM results)

http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-database (H1B )

http://visadoor.com/greencards-database (PERM, more detailed info)
Toddler Gets Emotional Listening to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
I would like to think that they at least approached him.
Hi, good question!

We're deciding which IaaS to use, and are currently running on top of Google Compute.

That being said, nodegear isn't currently profitable.

Its possible the price might change, but we'll let everyone know (in a newsletter/blog).
Does this include bonuses? Many companies (mine included) pay 40%+ extra in bonuses to bring people to the market level.

(site is also down so I can't see)
Server Error 500... boo
Have to ask, why are you providing the etymologies of these words?

Sure, we can get better at holding things, but having a screen on the right side means you can't grip the right side of the device. The blocks of glass we've been gripping are mostly safe areas all along the edges, with small active zones for buttons. This design means you can't grip the phone on two sides, which is the way human hands naturally grip a small tablet-shaped object when the front can't be touched.
Which post should we keep, this one or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264718, which has the story?

Edit: since this thread has all the discussion, we'll keep this one.
Heroku doesn't automatically scale it for you, though you have the ability to increase the number of dynos. There are services that will do that for you, but it's probably better that you have to explicitly scale so you don't get hit with a sizable bill you weren't expecting.

In any case, there are other constraints than just the amount of webservers that could be causing the outage e.g. the database.
He said in his podcast a few weeks ago that he thought it was unnecessary, as the ambiguity allowed for different flavors with different uses. I'm assuming the reference to the Yankees being the best team in baseball is directed at Gruber.

During that podcast, Gruber encouraged that group to consider not calling what they were doing Markdown. Something to the effect of, "Come up with your own thing, and see if it catches on." He noted that the ambiguity is probably what has made Markdown useful to such diverse groups with different needs, and should be preserved.
"I mean, think about it - is a public forum the sort of place that you would want to be posting private content you don't want linked to you?"

So, "subversive", against the status quo ideas, should only be limited to my neighbor? So that there is not enough exposure and they just die out? How cute.
Git-annex encryption
Oh, I didn't say/mean that it had to be a quadrocopter/multi-rotor vehicle... I was just saying that it'd be a pretty large vehicle. While it's a cool idea, I suspect that a lot of people would be very wary of something of that size flying around their house/building without a human pilot onboard. It's basically the "not in my backyard" syndrome.
I live in the Midwest and I don't know anyone living in abject poverty But if you looked, I am sure you would see it. The organization http://www.embarcchicago.org/ works with kids who live a couple of miles from Lake Michigan, but have never seen it, nor have they seen a supermarket.

This is not a political thing.
Darpa has made its publicly released data more discoverable