skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A while ago I found out that the D-Link router I had (655), had some XML output available for DHCP Lease status and interface statistics. I also noticed that these stats only became available after logging in initially from a certain IP/MAC (no session state kept). The router gives a salt that is valid for a while and on the client side that salt is used together with the password to generate a hash which is used to login. You can then proceed to retrieve the XML data.

In case anyone is interested, the (very hacky) scripts are on Github: https://github.com/michielappelman/router-stats
I think what most people are afraid of is the fact that you can predict unexpected human behavior fairly well, you can't with a machine.

If you see a car moving weird, you can make stuff to reduce the risk of an accident happening, when a self driving car suddenly turn and kill you, you weren't able to do anything.

Now I love the intellectual challenge to it, however I don't think we'll ever see the today's situation only with self driving cars, way too many cars. My guess is self driving stuff will improve a lot public transportation and people will only travel that way.
Facebook and DigiCert just created a new Tor link for users to stay anonymous
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0143036769
The Unix Shell as a Fourth Generation Language (1991) [pdf]
That's exactly the point.

"Just" being a "not Google" just might make you a trillionaire.
By the way, if somebody wants to hack on it with me, then just email me a message (email is in readme of the project), so we can collaborate. And if you feel like you can just submit a PR.
Well, with the drive assist stuff that is already on the road, we get to see how they do with an in between problem.

(The early evidence is that they treat it as a serious engineering problem, but I'm sure no hands on the wheel needs a lot more complexity to fail safe than anything that is shipping)
What we want, for understandable reasons, is a predictable way to just make ourselves happier, smarter, and more effective.

Psychedelics seem to be able to do that for some people, but not for others, and the effect overall seems like it has this "journey" component as well as a hefty dose of non-determinism.

I suspect that the thing we really don't like about that is what it says about self-improvement.

What if there isn't a neat, linear, deterministic path from "worse" to "better?" What if it always takes some kind of winding journey, whether involving psychedelics or not? What if there is no happy pill, or at least not one whose brand of happiness we would really want?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhXC4SKOGfQ is from the @scale conference last month that goes into more technical details about the architecture. Presented by the same person as the author of the article.
Walkway.js
Buy commercial displays / signage displays. Like the ones they have in airports.

I have a NEC commercial display as my TV. It's great and is built to last forever. Oh and it has no network capability or "smarts" of any kind. It's as dumb as a monitor gets.
More on Empire Node
It seems that once again I've been censored by the Y Combinator Thought Police. I wanted to respond to @duncan_bayne so I'm starting a new thread.

Duncan, I'm glad you disagreed with some of what Ms. Perch had to say: "(in particular those [statements] surrounding 'demanding the time of a representative', and criticism of the term 'meritocracy')"

Regarding your differing assessment of the tone, I would submit that that has a lot to do with the fact that you were not there in person.

As I said before, she was quite literally yelling. This doesn't quite come across in the video. If you are audio savvy you might notice that her vocals are over-modulated, or "hot" in layman's terms. However, on video it doesn't hurt the ear the way it did for audience members sitting in the room.

I'd also like to point out that it's easy for you not to take it personally. You did not take a day off from work to experience that "presentation." You did not experience that "presentation" with the expectation that it would be about Node JS because after all, you signed up for a Node JS conference.

Regarding your quip about the anonymous nature of my post, I will refer you to an excerpt from another reply: "...I wouldn't anticipate them taking your complaints very seriously at all, and you'll just get labelled for even having the gall to express them here."

Finally, when your two-year-old son is an accomplished professional software engineer you can make comparisons between he and I. Until then it's bollocks.
Making PostgreSQL Scale Hadoop-style: Benchmark Numbers
Heracles' Marathon to Olympus – From Boston to Athens with an Expired Passport
Look the other poster said, check out powerlifting gyms in your area. I've heard good things about BarbellBrigade and MetroFlex
What's the precedent for Hollywood directors copying each other's interesting new techniques? I ask because I genuinely don't know, but it seems like that would be a decent analogy. If Cameron invents/discovers/whatever a new shot or method or angle, can Bay use it without paying? If so, I think that's your answer.
Thanks for asking the question.

I saved all the tools to the box :) Will check back later.
http://www.hackertoolbox.com/tags/email%20hosting
I think the relevant thing is the d-pad.
I've commented this before, but Amazon's white background patent stresses that it achieves a seamless background with no need for post-processing.

There is a very good reason for this.

When this technique was developed, post-processing was done with a wand in a darkroom and electronic computers were yet to be built.

edit - actually, if you replace the camera with an audience, the effect predates photography. Infinity cycloramas being a popular set building technique in 19th century German theatre.
So they should be marketing it in the US. That's all we buy over here: carrier-subsidized phones that cost as much as a used car.
You don't have to call them stupid. The product is a book aimed at young children. Older people are more likely to be parents or grandparents. So those that are more likely to use IE are also more likely to be the target audience.

The book seems really cute, as well, and a clever idea. If I was older and had a kid, I might have even considered buying it.
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2006/06/podcast-042-–-“us...
The only language I know of that takes newbie-friendliness and accessibility seriously without compromising on technical vision is Racket.

Seriously, read the prologue of How to Design Programs: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/part_prologue.ht... It's clear and accessible, but introduces programming in terms of values and the idea of animation as a reduce/foldl of a function that returns image values over a list of frame numbers. Incredible stuff. And as a bonus DrRacket is simple enough for kids without compromising much on capability.
Not taxing capital gains does wonders for concentrating wealth on the rich and ultra-rich.
In the U.S. The admissibility of evidence is based on relevance.[1] The modern formulation asks: does consideration of a piece of evidence increase or decrease the probability of some material fact being true?

A retweet is certainly relevant. The evidence makes it more likely that two people are friends than the baseline where there is no retweet.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_under_Bayes_theorem
I disagree with that argument. Great solutions require great problems, and moving things between LA and Tokyo just isn't anymore. Right now, shipping a person costs some $1k (return included) and takes less than 12 hours; a 40 ft container of cargo around $800 and 22 days.

Launching a satellite still costs millions. The closest thing to inexpensive space flight is probably Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, which is still in testing. Space remains interesting and unsolved. And as such, I'll bet you a beer we'll have a space elevator sooner than either a bridge or a tunnel directly connecting LA and Tokyo.
Snel vermageren met het vegetarisch dieet – Leef Nu Gezonder
> I suppose the economics aren't as straightforward, but I'm of the opinion that Chromecast, Roku, AppleTV, etc are the next layer of crippleware. A small form factor Windows box or a Mac Mini are superior to every set top media player on the market in every category but price.

Price is a pretty big deal. The SFF Windows box or Mac Mini, however, are inferior to Chromecast in a number of other ways, however: size, power consumption, setup effort, etc.

> A wireless mouse always trumps a remote.

A wireless mouse requires a surface. A remote doesn't. Nor does my phone (the main control I use with a Chromecast). So, no, I don't think a wireless mouse always trumps a remote, particularly for typical living room media control use.

> The best interfaces for all of those services are the full websites.

I've used Netflix on a number of devices, including using the full website. IMO, the full website certainly has the most appropriate UI for desktop/laptop use, but equally certainly is not the best UI for typical living room use.

> Not to mention all of the other features you get with a full blown computer.

Sure, a full blown computer is great, but tying it up as an STB isn't a particularly efficient use of resources given most people's STB use cases. Especially when with many much cheaper set-top devices you can get much of the effect of having the full-blown computer that you use connected to the TV without having it dedicated to that purpose as an STB.
I'd definitely fund a company based around this.
Truthfully, I'm not entirely sure the capabilities of snmptable, but from your statement I assume it allows joining of different sets of data in ways to show specific correlated data (I'm not seeing that when searching, but I'll assume my search skills are to blame here). In that case, the real benefit of this is SQL the language, which while it would be overkill if it was designed for just this application, is well understood and utilized and a has a large existing userbase.

I'm not sure how to use snmptable, as I've never had the need, and while I suspect in the simple cases it may be easier to learn and use than SQL, I'm highly skeptical the medium complexity cases that SQL handles are even possible in it (unless it has a fairly well fleshed out query language of it's own, as opposed to specifying parameters on a command line).
I really like it. There's a fair amount of crapware, but it's not too difficult to get rid of. And after that, the hardware is wonderful. Good camera (not fantastic), small, water proof, and two-day battery life.
Chatbotify
It's not only that congress has no clue - the whole world has no clue at all. Not even allies, partners or whatever some states on earth are called these days. No one. And this is a shame.
I'm guessing the developer tasked with implementing this didn't have access to any other device-unique state, and getting the hardware team to have a new unpredictable value flashed onto each device was impractical.
Under the upper-right menu there's a "@ Recent Mentions" item which might solve your para. 3 problem.
Does firing up a Linux box on an AWS instance?
The Haskell-like syntax? Yeah, it's possible that this could be confusing for a beginner. What in particular are you skeptical about?
> "The reason to have income tax is to have people who can afford it contribute to society. I can see how that is a good thing."

This argument justifies all taxes that a person can afford, which makes the reasoning here obviously wrong. The exact same reasoning applies to an internet tax, a premium toilet paper tax, or a smart phone tax.

Taxes are not justified solely because people can afford them or because those taxes contribute to society. Taxes are justified on an economic basis and on that basis alone. When pooling money under government control according to some distribution scheme results in greater economic output (accounting for all externalities) than would be produced by the same money used for solely private purposes, then and only then is such a tax justified.

The near impossiblility of assessing the relative utility of each approach is why individual taxes are largely a political debate rather than an economic one.
Startl: Startup Implementation Language
Was the parent talking about RDRAND? In this case the randomness used by the machine for both cryptographic protocols and key generation could be compromised, making AES, implemented in AES-NI or otherwise, moot.
First thought: "Why is Google VC investing in Slackware?"

Made my heart rate accelerate I little bit.
Too interactive? That's like saying a type of food is too healthy. Pointing is essentially random access. It's the difference between RAM and cassette tapes. Why punish me for having lots of content?

It is _completely_ about how many steps it takes.
I've seen people take anonymized screenshots of the app in a test environment and then write a case study explaining the app. I think it's something you could write into a contract or politely request from past clients.
PayTango – simple invoicing + $50k free credit card processing
Charge more. Just humor me and pitch the next client at $125/hr, which is more in line with market in your neck of the woods. (And the necessity for this post, folks, is one of the many, many mechanisms by which a norm of salaries being hidden screws over employees via information asymmetry.)
Refs disciplined for accessing web content made available to them
How does HyperCard compare to Scratch?

http://scratch.mit.edu/

It's on iPad: http://www.scratchjr.org/

It also integrates with hardware: http://education.lego.com/en-us/preschool-and-school/lower-p...

Do we still need to revive HyperCard?
The LiveCode open-source effort was funded on Kickstarter, and was successful. I'm glad to say I was one of the sponsors.
Show HN: Augmented Reality Zombies in Our Office  Happy Halloween
How to Search Stack Overflow for a Stack Overflow Exception?
Otto's Diary
> We switched from Hipchat and we didn't really have a good reason - it just felt better.

This is interesting. How many employees are using it? Slack costs 4 times as much as HipChat ($8/user/month vs. $2/user/month) so it seems silly to jump to a much more expensive product for no reason.
I was trying to express frustration (I think unnecessary argumentation often damages discussions here), but I take your point, such things can come across poorly.
Ambulance drone will fly in a defibrillator
As you seem to already know (but I find saying it explicitly help conversation), the purpose of taxation is government income. Taxation has a side effect of dissinsentivicing that which is being taxed. As a simplification, suppose income is only acquired through labor. In this case, taxing income is equivalent to taxing labor, and therefore dissinsentives labor. If we could transfer some of this task to something that we are more okay with dissinsentivizing (such as pollution) then we should do so. We could also view the dissinsentiving as a way of reducing usage of some government funded service and thereby reducing costs. For example, the gas tax is effectivly a tax on road usage. In this perspective, taxing is similar to the government charging for a particular service. Of course, given either of these perspectives, and internet tax is still stupid.

The reason that income tax is generally preferred is that it allows much more government income without effective incentives significantly. This is because the marginal utility of money seems to decrease, so for a linear increase in 'utility-payment' laborers receive a super-linear amount of money; and we can therefor tax it progressively while maintaining a constant incentive burden. This is a clear case a price-discrimination which is far from "natural" in a pure economics sense of the word.
Good job, that looks interesting.
> All the in-home routers i've seen come with the WPS pin set in NVRAM and written on the bottom of the router.

Well... I'd guess that this D-Link router also has a sticker with the WPS pin on it. So that means that the same (stupid, predictable) algorithm is used in the factory for printing the labels.

Also: Even for the devices which have the PIN stored separately in the NVRAM there's no guarantee that some stupid/lazy guy didn't just copy the algorithm for label-printing used for the former devices, to generate the NVRAM-PINs for the latter ones.
Fair enough. I missed that line.
Datalog isn't what I was talking about. I would like to see a programming language where both the basic data type and the representation of code itself are relations, as is the case with Lisp and lists.
> I do not want to support both providers in parallel for new customers.

PayPal offers CC processing without requiring PayPal accounts. Most of those services require a few day approval process and then charge about $30/month. But their APIs suck and you generally want to subscribe to someone who sells services built on their API. However, that might be an ideal route to keep both options.
Killer idea. Imagine one of those auto-follow drones mated with this camera...
I find sleep to work most of the time. But yeah, once I was so stressed out I was constantly breaking out into cold sweats and felt like I was gonna vomit. Went camping on a Saturday and took acid. Left feeling more refreshed than I have ever had in my life.
> This is incorrect.

Eh ... did you have a look at the "standard" library?

> `println!` certainly doesn't count, because even if Rust
> had varargs you'd still need a macro here to do typesafe
> compile-time string parsing

Yeah, but you could do it without exposing all the horrible mess to users.

The usual "OMG!!! Look at that random `!`. Stand back, I'm using a macro here and would like to warn you that semantics will be totally different!!!"-dance is just embarrassing, especially given the fact that you can design printf-like functionality without needing varargs in the first place.

With or without macros, if your API requires warning signs it just sucks, and you should fix it instead of using "hey, but I warned people!" as an excuse.

> varargs can already be trivially emulated using vectors

Oh right! So how do we create a vector?

vec![1, 2, 3, 4]

Oh well ...
Users report slow Wi-Fi, dropped connections on OS X Yosemite
Why Digital and Social Media Conferences Are a Waste of Time and Money
>my need to automate is greater than ever, there is simply no time to do so using, say, Python

What kind of tasks do you need to automate? Zapier and IFTTT are both pretty powerful tools (and I say that as a programmer who uses Python to automate most quick, mundane tasks).
I love the idea behind scratch, but I've found the implementation to be a bit lacking at times. It's buggy in ways, the support for variables is quite basic and difficult to use, and there's just a lot of rough edges around stuff that should work like copy/paste and shared functions.

Perhaps we just need to focus some open-source energy on it.
VA court rules passcodes are protected by 5th amendment but fingerprint are not
You two both right :(

I don't use numpad keys so i forgot to add them to the whitelist.

And yes - there is a small bug with the binary input. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

I'll fix these two issues!
Facebook launches Tor site
HipChat integrations can be frustrating/lacking and I often find myself resorting to Zapier. The integration with JIRA is a joke and a huge pain to setup/manage for large workflows, which is especially surprising since HipChat and JIRA are both part of Atlassian.

I do like the newest version of the HipChat Mac app a lot though.

I'm not sure the integration frustrations merit the 4x cost increase in switching to Slack though. Hard to justify that unless your team is very small.
There is nothing in your comment to support your claims. You claim an exception to a rule but provide no argument to support this exception. And then say that the largest revenue producing tax in the U.S. has the least impact on the populace.
Free advise on your financial planning
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You would? Why?
I will add this to the list of things that I thought can never be worth so much :-(

/me just do something already
Yeah it could use help. Scratch is really just a heavily modified version of Disney's flavor of Smalltalk. I think it was called Squeek.

To continue the conversation it's important to remember the environment that Hypercard was born in: there was no Python, Ruby, or Javascript. The major alternatives were just C or C++ (right?). That is no longer the case. Consequently I'm not really sure it needs to be reborn.

Speaking of Javascript:

http://codecombat.com/

http://www.kuatostudios.com/games/hakitzu-elite/
Oh nice! This looks sick!
> But where were the hard numbers that pointed to bias, be it in the selection of professionals or the publication process, skeptics asked? ... Maybe it was the case that liberals simply wanted to become professors more often than conservatives.

Interesting. I wonder if those same people would explain a lack of gender diversity in tech as "women aren't interested in tech", or an analogous feeling in other fields? I guess I do not have an understanding for how much of that reaction is a general attitude towards diversity versus a reactionary stance in regards to the suggestion of a lack of diversity in one's own domain of work/expertise/culture/experience.

> But the percentages varied. Regarding economic affairs, approximately nineteen per cent called themselves moderates, and eighteen per cent, conservative. On foreign policy, just over twenty-one per cent were moderate, and ten per cent, conservative. It was only on the social-issues scale that the numbers reflected Haidt’s fears: more than ninety per cent reported themselves to be liberal, and just under four per cent, conservative.

Certainly the social issues are more extreme, but having a ~70% to 10% ratio of liberal to conservative thinking for foreign policy is still very lopsided. I think all three categories would be considered too lopsided, not just the last one.
Microsoft Band Wagon