skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like fruit of the poisoned tree to me. Their probable cause was obtained in an unlawful manner. A police officer (federal or not) cannot enter a premises under bad faith to gather evidence. Any evidence obtained in that manner can't be used against the defendant, nor can it be used to get a warrant.

I worked in law enforcement alongside detectives for 14 years, and they were always very careful about probable cause and evidence gathering, because they knew the risks to the case they were building if they didn't do everything on the up and up.

Why the FBI wants to risk blowing what is obviously a very important case using illegal evidence gathering techniques is puzzling. The fact that the Justice Department is apparently in on it is even more mind-blowing.
In my experience, recruiters that don't name companies will often cut and paste part of the job description from the company. Often a search with some choice phrases from the job description will find the company the recruiter is trying to hide.
Looks nice, but the 1-year warranty is a huge dealbreaker. If I'm going to be spending $1900 on a PC, it had better be guaranteed to last longer than that.
Note that all the graphs in this post
are interactive, so you can hover and
do other fun things.

502 Bad Gateway
nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
Nope, there is nothing questionable about it. Linus himself has stated it: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20110322014831...
Sadly not surprising. All the other stuff aside, they really do have a massive target on their forehead
From papyrus to pixels, the future of the book
Commenting so I can find in the future.
I think the poster above is talking about the trends, not the absolute level of wealth.
The standard of living in the US has been stagnant (even declining, for the lower-middle class) since 2000. Japan has been stagnant since the real-estate bubble burst in the 80s.
Looks like you get 1 free article a month, then get hit by the paywall.
Interestingly, some technologies have made me take the opposite route. Now that I have chromecast, I find it more convenient to buy a movie on Google and cast it rather than pirate it and watch on a laptop.

Of course, you can open the video in a chrome tab and cast that, but I've found that's not as smooth. And nothing beats the convenience of a simple touch :)
The graphs are using plot.ly, which are externally hosted.

I don't understand the appeal of interactive charts for simple, static data.
you're arguing that there's a clearly defined category of broadcasted signals that can be clearly defined as public; i'm arguing that at least in ethical terms, what matters is whether the person behind the device knows and understands that their signal is leaking, where, and how that information could be used. for most people most of the time, i don't think that's the case. maybe we should agree to disagree :-)
Why do you need to lock a binary on disk when a copy of it is running in main memory?

Because the copy in memory may still want to use the old version. Raymond Chen explained it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.11.windowsc...
It honestly doesn't even matter anymore... Dell sells Ubuntu machines, Steam OS exists, and between Chrome OS and Android a ton of Linux machines (even if they're not really 'GNU/Linux') are sold every year.
Good point and good article, thx!
I think you can do a cookie-delete trick though.
by testing for IE as well as ff/chrome throughout the build process
> I know that a lot of people are not aware of the privacy consequences, but those people are not the ones making a point out of this.

Of course they are not making a point - they are not aware. How would you expect them to make a point?

What you saying is: if they don't know enough about the subject to decide if a point should be made, then we should ignore the right to give (or not) an informed consent (because you can decide for them if the SSID is "intrinsically revealing" or not).
Let's wait a bit then:

"Availability of the end to end HP 3D printing system is planned in 2016, as the product and HP partners’ solutions meet the requirements and quality stand ards that HP customers expect."
> I read HN articles every day and yet, I didn't have enough background to connect the dots. I didn't know B&N had a download button. My amazon ebooks account doesn't have that. I had no mental picture to understand what this download button was about.

I agree, because I've never purchased from B&N before, I didn't have that context available either to fully appreciate the author's point. Hence why your link was useful to me as well.

That's not to say the original article was without interest. It was, but superficially, (to me) it seemed like a disaffected customer upset with a UI change/removal (which is understandable).
I've been thinking about sending them a letter as well. I spend a lot of money at B&N, but some of their recent actions have really annoyed me, and bn.com has sucked donkey balls for far too long. I don't know if one letter from a long-time customer will influence anybody or not, but I feel compelled to at least make the effort.

Once you've identified a list of emails of people to send to, do you mind sharing? If not with the world, would you consider sending me an email at least? No sense duplicating effort and all...
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Thanks for your comment. UI comes first as every user will hit it. API comes next. We planned DigitalOcean-compatible API altogether with a CLI. Looks like we removed this from our website by mistake (will get it back real quick), but it's listed in our IGG campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/virtkick-take-cloud-back
Meteor is awesome, congrats to the Meteor team for their 1.0 release! I've been using Meteor for over a year now, and it is staggering how far it has come. They've addressed and continue to address just about any concerns the community has brought up, from security to speed to tools, etc. And where they haven't, the community has stepped up huge. Seriously, Meteor is amazing, but what makes it even better is the awesome community surrounding it. Congrats again.
It's so great to have people like you, who are so much smarter than the average person. Continue to bless our internet with your wisdom!

But seriously, go talk to an average person. They'll care a bit more than you think especially if you drop the condescending attitude toward them.
If they told you the company, what would stop you from just bypassing the recruiter and going straight to the company?
It's the same thing, but Mozilla is cool and everything they do is good :), while Google is evil <:[

Remember that public opinion is an extremely mutable thing [1].

[1] Henrik Ibsen
Really neat concept and (it appears) fine execution!

Right now, it's a really niche product, but I'm looking forwards to see if this is improved and adopted more widely.

Also, the main video doesn't show much. This is much better:

http://bcove.me/0mvq74jn
The landing page was an experiment and has been slated to be replaced for several months.
Not at this point (we mount an ISO as CD), but we've got it planned: https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick/issues/6
Tech news audio podcasts collected in one place
Installing and updating Windows programs is painfully slow and complicated compared to Linux. Instead of searching for a program and clicking "Install", you have to find and navigate to the website, download the installer, execute it, grant permissions to run, uncheck adware boxes, choose install options and click exit. For every single program. Many programs still make you do the same for every update and that's one of the reasons most users don't keep their software up-to-date.

Installing and managing software is easily my biggest gripe with Windows right now.
The FBI has been breaking the law and been guided by a machiavellian attitude for decades now. They are simply above the law and no oversight has ever been applied to this agency. Has there ever been a FBI agent sent to jail for subverting the legal system and breaking laws? Absolutely not.
I've seen a few merchants using a touch screen, including a few Gap stores in Montreal.
I agree. The analysis seems weak. Population growth isn't uniform across the state, so why would districts be uniform? You'd constantly need to tweak each one to keep the same number in each. Unless you want to completely redraw all the districts each election.

"In those six states, Republicans picked up about 11 more seats than you'd expect from simply looking at the parties' vote shares."

The fact is, we don't decide representation based on state-wide vote share, so it's not a good proxy for "how it should be".

Keep in mind, I'm not supporting the current districting process. It should be non-partisan and the folks getting elected should have no say in how they are drawn.
I bought my mom a Verizon iPad a couple of years ago. Unfortunately I was actually sold an AT&T iPad. There was no indication either way on the box.
They sort of lost me when their promo video showed computer renderings of circuit boards. This feels a long way off..
How programmers can improve the Asp.net web API performance
Ask HN: What Book Has the Most Page-for-Page Wisdom?
Curious to hear from HN'ers, What Book has the Most Page-for-Page Wisdom?

Inspired by a recent article by Shane Parrish > http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/10/the-most-page-for-page-wisdom/
What's to stop somebody from stealing this right off the counter and gaining access to customers' data?
Ask HN: Career change How can I become a software developer?
I currently work in Marketing but have been working on side projects that involve coding in python (django), css, html, ajax. I would like to gain more experience. What do I need to do, where should I start, in order to get a full-time job in software development? What kind of salary can I expect to make?
In a perverse way, I am enjoying this game. It's sort of fun seeing the occasional karma drop and imagining the motivations and rationalizations....

Ah well....
IMO Our "phones" will soon be a service we login to rather than specific to any one device? If your physical phone breaks you just buy a new one for $50 and log into your cloud based phone. There are already services like that but I suspect it will tip soon for everyone. Aka Google is trying to commoditize the phones AND the carriers.
>> My entire physics lab watched this happen live.

Now imagine how people felt back in '86 when the challenger exploded with 7 people on board including a teacher. Shuttle launches were common by then but a lot of people were watching live due to the teacher on board aspect. It brings a whole different set of emotions to the event. Nobody made a joke that day.
Remember Facebook's "Chairs"?
Twitter and IBM partnership
It's a democratic republic, to be specific. Republicanism is the form of the government (representation of the people), democratic elections are the mechanism of selecting those representatives. You could have, e.g. a technocratic, plutocratic, or a constitutional monarchial republic.
I admit the second thing I thought of after finally figuring out what this thing does, was how are they going to sell this for $50 and what will be the equivalent of the required every three months $75 ink cartridge?

The first thing I thought of was whenever you see something like this, its to goose the stock price. Generic investor types will fall for anything, as generations of AT&T and IBM advertisements have shown. I checked finance.google.com and this must be either very new news or older than a week news.
I didn't think I'd find this kind of site very useful, but after playing with it for a couple minutes I quite like it. Once you've implemented a few more features (e.g., options for filtering, combining, hiding, etc.), I could actually see myself using the site and paying a small amount for the privilege — say, $5/year.

I don't know how many other people would be willing to pay for such a thing (probably not enough for it to be your full-time income, I'd guess) but you could give it a shot and see.
Ancient Viruses Lurk in Frozen Caribou Poo
Printer will cost $100. The building material is $500/lb though.
I was big into experimental interfaces in around 2006. There was a similar peripheral for the Mac whose name escapes me. (I only ever saw marketing material for it.)

It had a sensor to detect the depth and positions of your hands above your desk. Its software would then cast a hand-shaped shadow on your screen, so you could see what you were about to interact with. The UI was like a touchscreen, but you'd abstract the touching away from the displaying for ergonomics.

It was a cool concept. Bummed it never went anywhere. Sprout could be interesting, but it would be a lot more interesting if it came from a brand that moved platforms (like Apple). I don't know if HP has the developer mindshare (or sales volume) to have a "revolutionary" product that people get excited about. There are too many other Windows machines (both inside and outside HP) for this to get the attention it deserves.
I think you summed what attracts a lot of non-socially conservative folks to the Republican party.
Say what you want about it being vaporware, but this actually does look pretty promising as a new 3DP process.
Wow, thanks for noting that – I'm now watching the 4.7MB and counting HTML trickle in.
I found the use of slightly different shades of the same color to differentiate data bars to be incredibly frustrating, which made me assume this was written by a marketer and not someone with a technical background. Fair or not, that instantly made the message less interesting to me.

Anyways, just an interesting take on another type of factor that can impact recruiting messaging.
This might be the future! I think that HP has got something that is the "Next big thing". This revolutionary computer has the potential to be for everyone, especially Children.
See DT's first look at http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/hp-sprout-multi-jet-f...
> I find Evans' analysis of mobile a bit hyperbolic.

Spot on. I've been a follower of his for some time now and while he's obviously smart an insightful, he does sometimes veer into hyperbole bordering on know-it-all snark. There's nothing wrong with it, per se, other than that the audience might not take it as seriously as an argument made more rationally.
I don't have the cite on me but there's a 1970 case in California where the cops knocked on the door, the occupant of the house told them to come in, they came in and arrested everybody (no warrant). Court found for the people.

Anyway I'm not even saying that the FBI will definitely prevail here. I am saying that the whole thing will hinge on the question of consent. Your rebuttal seems spurious because you cannot have been coerced by someone if you thought they were the cable repairman. That's incompatible with the rest of the defense.
Most places I've traveled to outside of the US have devices similar to this that staff carry around a restaurant to complete the payment process table side. They've all been PIN+Chip devices as well.

Aside from that one would hope that they aren't storing PII or financial data on the device itself.
VODKA indexes are still experimental and exist only as a branch in Alexanders own repo (https://github.com/akorotkov/postgres/tree/vodka). I do not think they are anywhere near production ready, and even if they are they are not an extension.

Alexander is working on allowing new index access methods (the type of index: e.g. hash, btree, gin, gist) to be added in extensions.
This is just the beginning.

Anyone who has account information stored in their care should pull it now.
The fact that they've already had a data breach within the first week or so of launch is not exactly a strong argument for how secure their platform is.
They compete with Apple Pay and Google Wallet as well as Isis (or whatever name it was changed to.)
Nothing slows down a test suite like test duplication! I would definitely suggest a refactor, it will help. But remember you don't eat an elephant all at once, take it one bite at a time. A small amount but consistent level of test refactoring will go a long well.

It sounds like you have a good workflow to me but obviously you feel you have a problem or you wouldn't be posting here. I've working in environments where the failing tests are assigned out on an individual basis, where there was a bouncer who took on all broken tests, and where each individual engineer would run the tests often enough that they would just fix what they broke. The latter method is my favorite. But it is not always feasible.

I guess the answer really depends on your environment. I would be very happy to give my advise (for what it's worth). If you would like you may email me. My address is my Hacker News username at googles very large and famous free email service.
Yes, indeed. The whitepaper details the process:

http://h10124.www1.hp.com/campaigns/ga/3dprinting/4AA5-5472E...
So is this basically taking Ninite's business model?
Yeah, I was expecting that when they mentioned something along the lines of "leveraging years of experience in the consumer printing business".
The best Android experience I ever had was an HTC Touch Pro 2. Amazingly, this was a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone that you could install Android on with a bit of a hack. The keyboard was sublime; running a terminal was a thing of beauty. Now every touch screen is a pathetic piece of junk where you have to retype stuff three times just to get the right word, and of course typing while using the full screen is out of the question.
That's a really good point, I hadn't considered the translational benefits from surgical automation.

I still think we're a long way off from automated dissection though. An AI performing these tasks would need very high level of situational awareness to be able to interpret the internal structure of a moving animal.
There is no loophole, the Linux license explicitly allows usermode apps to use the (GPL-licensed) interface headers without requiring the app to be GPL. See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/COPYING
Any info about how multiple fixes are integrated to approximate the true location of a fix?

I remember reading how Wigle Wardriving calculated fixes and the method seemed unsophisticated and lame.

For example, if I bike down a street then fixes would be detected 100m ahead of me and always pinned to the road at my current location.

If I bike down the road in the other direction the next time, will be fix become more accurate?

Normally higher SNR fixes should have more weight than weak fixes. Do they?
I have a Kindle Paperwhite (gen 1) but have been itching to get out from under Amazon's thumb. I hear a lot about the Kobo devices. Are there any alternate e-ink readers that aren't tied to a particular ecosystem? I would love a simple device that's just a reader supporting the common formats without network connectivity, online stores, or any of that other cruft.
To be fair, that's because you're buying a phone/tablet with limited, non-replaceable hardware and the software has been customized by the manufacturer to work with that hardware.
You know, maybe it's time to see about sourcing a small keyboard, 4.5" or so display, and trying to squeeze down an Odroid to make your own phone. Might even make sense to make it wifi only and rely on Voip for some use cases.
Is America one of them because if you go to any state school (better than most schools in the rest of the world) and you dont have enough income you pretty much get a full ride + stipend.
This is failed-state class, in my opinion. But what to do? How to free the media from corporate control, strengthen the central government, actually collect taxes, resist bribes and fight the unions? It's a colossal task.
Circuit boards seem pretty straightforward — you need a substrate material and a conductive material. A lot of the other stuff seemed much more fanciful.
Probably from all the backlash. Reminds me of when Sony updated their PlayStations to not support Linux and subsequently got hacked.
I have used your scripts and I'm quite grateful for the time they have saved me. However, the end result is not a fully functional OpenStack installation. I have no idea how much longer that will take, I'm still working on getting public and private networks configured properly, getting floating IPs to work at all, etc.

With Juno imminent, I might just start over and hope the Juno installation isn't so difficult, though that doesn't seem to be a top priority for the developers.

VirtKick is closer to a scale that I have time to manage, I think. Of course there are tradeoffs; with the big players running OpenStack in production, security fixes are available quickly and I love/hate the short release cycle. VirtKick has layers of security risks and (so far) no big-money contributors who need to get fixes out quickly.
RuneAudio 0.3-beta for Raspberry Pi is out
The week-end freedom test
10 things you probably don't know about Go (2012)
Is anyone else a bit wary of the use of the words "crowdfunding" and "campaign" when it's basically a shop for customisable merchandise?
Not sure why the above statement was downvoted.
The three major expense areas in every family's life:
- housing (the rates depend on the market)
- health care (12-15%/year)
- college tuition (5-8%/year, perhaps a bit lower recently)
have been inflating at a rate far greater than the official CPI rate for quite a few years now. The declining price of big screen TVs cannot offset the above.
They were hacked before even launching publicly. I suppose they're trying to build trust in their service early on.
We can only hope this uber-data mining [1] app has a swift death.

[1] - http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/25/currentc/
Salary range & company is stupid games.

Sometimes this is recruiters trying to maintain power. More often it's hiring managers being poor communicators. A lot of people have similar problems with simple marketing communication, like an elevator pitch, ad headline or a CV. Vague generalities feel like they capture more and they don't want to limit themselves. An SMS gateway that also does email brands itself Total Digital Communications Solution. Nice and broad. People who need a way of sending text messages do not look at that and go, I have a digital communications problem that needs solving.

"What are they looking for?" is a harder problem. This one is hard to know so inherently hard to explain. I always feel that describing it in terms of "skills and experience" is the problem. Wouldn't it be better just to say what they will be doing.

You will need to be the primary person maintaining and adding features to software written in PHP & C++ over the last 8 years. You will be assisted by a tenured intern and a graphic designer. We have a long wishlist of features and no documentation.

Our finances thus far consist of three bank accounts, six credit cards, a shoebox full of receipts and an audit conducted by the Republic Of Dagestan Tax Authority. We are a 2 year old startup experiencing hockey puck growth. We've added up all the money investors gave us and the money that came through stripe. We then subtracted the money in our account and came up with an estimate of the content of the shoebox. Your first task will be to open said shoebox and make sure that its content is similar to the product of the above arithmetic.
Basic date and time functions in MS SQL Server
That is quite an accomplishment, considering that the world record is currently only 1102 pounds, set late last year.

You clearly must be using a much smaller unit of measure, perhaps grams (1.6 kg, or roughly 3 pounds) or ounces (105 pounds). Either way, that amount of weight is considered below average for a male of average height who has been weight training for more than a few months.