skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the SSIDs but the BSSIDs that end up in the database, isn't it?
> This is actually a bit of a boondoggle, because your university will either not recognize your community college credits, or they will have their own requirements likely to be incompatible with the credits you took at community college, leaving those first two years basically wasted.

Well, you certainly can't do it willy-nilly - you need to have a idea of where you're going after community college and what your major is. Generally, most community colleges work with local universities to ensure that their programs will transfer wholesale if you take the prescribed courses, which do not necessarily match up with what the community college recommends for other students.

I have indeed heard a lot of horror stories about transferring credits in general between universities or colleges - if the institutions don't have a relationship that keeps transfer students in mind it seems you're pretty much boned.

I did this, following community college direction, and all my courses transferred and I wasn't set back at all, though I was highly front-loaded on general education rather than CS-specific courses. At the time community college tuition and fees was $800/semester, while university tuition and fees was $5000/semester. That would have been a substantial savings! As it was, I really lost money, because I would have qualified for a full scholarship to my university academically anyway, but I lost it since transferred in and ended up paying the next three years (one year of grad school) out of my minimum-wage-earning pocket.
Cool, so basically it brings something like WQL to nix, because this is something that exists in Windows already:

SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE FreeSpace < 2097152
I'm sure the core rocket technology is sound but I've gotta think the sensors and computational capabilities are literally decades out of date. Which is really where SpaceX has a commanding advantage, for example, being able to abort a launch at T-0 and reschedule for later that day having identified and corrected an anomaly.
I have a feeling the MCX participants and card issuers are going to come to an impasse over their respective agreements. All the issuers have to do is require that terminals capable of NFC (for the purpose of accepting PayPass/PayWave) not have the functionality disabled. This will put the merchants in a bind and force them either to replace the terminals altogether, or re-enable NFC.
I live in a WG (a group rents a flat or a house and everyone gets a room, common kitchen and bathroom) and spend around 600€/month including health insurance (you need that, 70€/month, don't know about foreigners).
Depending on the city, it's harder or easier to live on that because rent can differ a lot. (200-400€/room, I pay 250€.)

edit: To clarify - the university requires you to have health insurance, but there is a special tariff for students. Students below 25 are mostly covered by their parent's insurance here, after that you need to cover yourself.
I don't think it would be that hard to have a computer program scrape a form, compare it to industry predictions and take a position in well under a second.
I don't see a point to arguing this. Both are harmful. You can end up like CurrentC at the top of hacker news, or you can be 1 day behind.

Both are bad. You can maybe prevent yourself from having to make this decision by being security aware from day0
It takes up more space in my wallet. If my wallet gets stolen then that money I'll never get back. And sometimes it takes up more time when making a transaction.

I always prefer cards. It's nice that all the transactions are recorded for when I'm reviewing taxes and my budgets.

When I had moved to SF my biggest annoyance was how my bank only had a few locations in the entire city. To escape ATM transaction fees I'd either have to haul my ass to one of these faraway ATM locations or get cash back from a store. I could've applied with another bank or credit union, but mostly didn't have to because the convenience of a credit card made mostly solved this issue as I never have to be concerned about how much cash I had on hand.

Furthermore, getting % back on my card is better through rewards than 0% using cash.
Doesn't it make it easier to spy?
Because you know where the numbers of the pin are located, you don't even need to look at the keys, but can easily cover it with your hands to prevent "shoulder surfers".

If I have to look where the keys are located, I can't really cover the pad and it'll be a lot slower and not more secure.
>“Why would you spend a quarter of a million dollars and four years to learn to code in Python?”

He's right. That is insane. But so is spending $27,950/year for 5+ years to "be taught how to think." Coupled with their absurd acceptance rate, I've gotta agree with the other comments that point out that they simply recruited brilliant kids who were already independent thinkers.

Reminds me of a Department of Labor(?) study that concludes that ~80% of people can do a job if you tell them what to do, show them how to do it, and manage their progress, ~15% of people are able to do a job if you tell them what to do, and <5% of people are able to figure out what needs to be done and do it. Cool, Minerva, you might have some "success" by finding people who are already capable of doing what you say you do for them.
I will make an unpopular statement, "college is not for everyone". The good news is not every one needs a college degree to succeed, even in this very field of software, college degree is "unessential". I am sure if the person below 3.0 GPA is passionate about learning and attaining college degree avenues should be open.
>>and everyone published in English.

I really doubt that. I am sure we can both provide anecdotal evidence, but there is no way 100% of papers are published in English. And you picked a very specific example, because an overwhelming majority of Dutch people speak English at a very good level.
A simple idea to fund Space Exploration for centuries
Sure, but there's no reason for a Windows enhancement to be framed as a Linux vs. Windows thing, except as antagonistic clickbait. As somebody who uses both Windows and Linux, I'm not sad that Windows is becoming more usable. I'm happy - it's one less thing to complain about using Windows.
there is a really good page if you are interested in Studying in Germany. https://www.study-in.de/en/
Just wanted to say that this name is already used by (quite popular) emacs Clojure IDE plugin. https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider
Based on the fact that it will save merchants the credit card processing fee. They'll most likely pocket the difference instead of passing along the savings to the consumer, especially since there's no risk that their competitors will pass along the savings.
Is this the type of thing that could have been built in to a fork of Homebrew and perhaps if people liked it been incorporated into the main distro?

I understand why things proliferate like this but it can be frustrating.
Thank you... appreciated. Will be curious to see as well.
We'll work our asses off to get into Summer batch.

How about just "work your ass off to make a great product that satisfies your users, and grow your company", where getting into YC (or not) is just a side effect? Pointedly working to get into YC sounds, to me, like a micro-optimization, that may or may not make much difference in terms of your end goal(s).
Biicode: C++ dependency manager
I would like to thanks all the HN members, taking time to comment on this thread.... you guys are awesome!

I can only improve my product with your suggestions....

please keep it coming.... feel free to directly reach me at, nish at joday

Nish.
I do consider it inappropriate. I'm also looking and I'd be a bit irritated if it got back to my current employer. That said, there's no rule against looking around and it's in your best interest to always know what you're worth to the market and what else is out there. And that's the answer you give them if they find out.
I think it is because we accidentally introduced the concept of time, which is a foreign concept to maths (but not to us), when talking about "machines" and the process of "taking [x] and giving you back [y]".
Press Release is a bit dry, here's more from each company:
https://blog.twitter.com/ibm
http://www.ibm.com/big-data/us/en/big-data-and-analytics/ibm...
I have this issue too. It's kinda several problems in one. Photos spread out between various homes in the family, different devices etc.

As a wedding photographer we use Zenfolio for our customers and often create our own galleries to share with friends & family.

Most albums now are photo books instead of prints in an album. I've used Cewe - good books but software is a pain.

It would be nice to have them all together. A simple iPad app connected up to Dropbox might work. Easy to navigate but then the print ordering is a whole other issue.
Agreed; this seems like the most explicit way to do it. Of course it means you have to actually take the time to form the whole argument before firing the first tweet out there, but that's almost certainly a good thing.
Note that the grading systems in most European countries are very different from the one in USA: We use the whole range. No "B is ok, A is good". Here A is mostly excellent, and C is an acceptable grade to get. It's good to keep in mind when researching our universities. So you don't get put off if the acceptance grades are low or if the average grade is low.

It's weird going the other way (from Europe to USA). They told us we couldn't continue the studies if we got below B-, and we were like "???".
You can run, but you can’t hide: Google expands real-world surveillance system
The point is that the incentives are such that it's not necessarily rational for a young startup to ensure their product stays perfectly secure.

Startups are so precarious and need so much attention on other areas that for most types of startups, security holes are not the biggest existential threat.

And those incentives partially come from users who are more than happy to sign-up for a website someone threw together in a month without any thought about whether it's secure.
Hmm. You're right that the two concepts were muddled in my mind. Are you sure that basic income won't be implemented via the "print money" approach? It seems like people may have major problems with the idea of transferring a large amount of wealth to others if they also see their own money dwindling as a result. In other words, people seem to notice inflation less than taxation.

It still doesn't make sense to me that basic income will reduce costs in other sectors, but I'm probably just not smart enough to understand how.
Couldn't the power supply be induction?
Hacklang: Overriding Constructors, “new Static”, and __ConsistentConstruct
Perfect! I wanted to host my own DO type thing for personal projects and I tried "webvirtmgr" which has a nice control panel for libvirt, but the creator insists that ssh key injection is out of the scope of his project. I'm glad to see this happening!
"solution is built on HP’s proprietary synchronous architecture and multi-agent printing process."

I will always be annoyed when I see proprietary as a touted piece of marketing speak. Its not a feature, its a problem or at best a dissapointment
I think I know the food delivery service you're talking about (free delivery, no tips). They use Stripe as their processing backend, and they said that their connection to Stripe is over HTTPS, however, I gave up trying to explain that of the initial transmission to their servers is unencrypted, it doesn't matter.

I thought about reporting this to Stripe, but I don't know if that is an appropriate thing to do.

I still gave them a try, but I generated a virtual card number to use.
I do get your point, generally, but your specific example is kind of dated - I have been using GNU/Linux on my desktops for about 14 years now, and I do remember how much editing xorg.conf / xfree86.conf sucked. But it has been years since I have had to do that. The last time I checked was in Ubuntu 10.04, where xorg.conf consists only of a comment that says that xorg can detect the hardware and configure itself, making manual configuration unnecessary nearly all of the time.
My program was 22k/y to foreign students. And that was 10 years ago. Don't forget that tuition is 75% subsided.
More battery than generic performance. Performance may have improved but components haven't shrunk much and batteries definitely haven't shrunk.

You can likely reclaim some space by making a really tiny chipset, but batteries and screens combined are over 70% of your phone's total size. Project Ara makes components larger (due to connectors and housing), so you need to find space from somewhere, and there isn't a lot to be taken from most components (they aren't very large already).
Given that it's not legal to shoot people for trespassing unless you have a reasonable expectation of harm, I suggest you don't test this theory. Trespass is a crime, but your response has to be proportionate to the harm you anticipate; so if someone is forcing their way into your house it's OK to shoot at them, but if they're just making a nuisance of themselves then you could march them off or call the police if you weren't able to do so.

Last month, for example, a Michigan man was sentenced to 17 years for shooting a drunk woman who came to his porch and banged on his door after crashing her vehicle. While it was reasonable for him to be nervous, the jury felt that fell far short of a justification for shooting the unwanted visitor: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/us/theodore-wafer-sentence...
Well, it's arguably rational, if perhaps unethical.

Any time not spent working on security can be spent working on the startup, and presumably increasing the chances they get used. Most startups die because they don't get used, not because they weren't secure enough.
Yes, but they need to have their payment apps on the devices to make those physical transactions.
I don't believe you are truly understanding the potential. Nor is that even close to proper analogy. You are presuming that all of the desktop software will be running on the mobile device, which will need all this power and can't possibly handle it.

I would instead focus on the work done with virtual machines. If instead I had a subscription service to access a virtual machine that had the ability to run any application I wanted, streamed to my mobile device that would then display it anywhere I wanted. My mobile device could connect me to any amount of computing power I need (in reason and with a large enough budget).

Why on earth would I buy this whole separate machine to do this? My personal computing device that I carry around with me everywhere could allow me to perform any function possible, I could have a full desktop computer anywhere I wanted as long as I have a internet connection and a screen.

Gaming could take place anywhere as well. You wouldn't need a gaming rig, the processing power would be handled elsewhere whilst your device handles the graphics processing and streaming.

Internet speeds will have to increase exponentially, but are we really that short sighted to state that personal computers will never be replaced by mobile devices? Yes it may not happen tomorrow, but it will come
Hey, Mike Arpaia here. You're totally right in that the SQL interface is very similar to WMI. Some core differences with osquery are:

- it's cross platform and supports many *nix operating systems

- adding new tables is very well supported via a simple API: https://github.com/facebook/osquery/wiki/creating-a-new-tabl...

- several tools and utilities exist to leverage the power of SQL at scale (osqueryd is a full operating system instrumentation tool which allows you to use SQL to instrument your whole infra): https://github.com/facebook/osquery/wiki/using-osqueryd

All in all, WMI is great, no doubt about it, but osquery has a few unique features which make it a cool, interesting product that you can use all across you internal infrastructure.
The demographic that buys lottery tickets is largely die-hard anti-tax red that would never vote to fund education from raised taxes on anyone's income... a bit ironic when you think about it.
I can't wait for the day when displays are all available for pairing.

Even now, I'm frequently wishing my laptop screen would just accept video input, for instance.
What's popularity got to do with it?
Coincidentally, that's how I justify my crack-dealing and murder-for-hire sidelines.

edit: If not from me, than from someone else, right? If that's not a vapid argument, you should be upvoting my entrepreneurship (even though it's in a well-trod space.) I also donate to open source projects...
> losing 15% of size/weight efficiency to achieve flexibility

It's funny because our phones have already become more than 15% bigger than they were a few years ago, and people were saying then that phones couldn't get any bigger.

There are definitely people who don't like large phones, but the sales of the Samsung line alone (not to mention recent entrants to the "phablet" market like Apple) prove that our earlier assumptions about device size were wrong.

I definitely would appreciate having a slightly larger phone in exchange for some of the modularity you describe.
through hole might not be so trivial...
You are ignoring the argument - a fundamental tenet of economics is there is a scarcity of resources - this is even more true with a startup, and, you need to make a decision as to where you will spend those incredibly limited resources.

The point being made is that in the beginning, the primary focus has to be getting traction with your potential customers.

Yes, you need to take make commercially reasonable efforts to secure your website, but, dedicating too much effort to prevent criminals from hacking you, to the point that you are not focussing on building your business, is counter productive. You may end up with a perfectly secure site that absolutely nobody is using - far better to have an incredibly popular site, that may have some security issues, that you can then lock down once you have the resources to do so.

But, this is about startups. CurrentC has millions and millions of dollars to spend - they have zero excuse for getting hacked.
I was surprised that the author did not mention anonymity in group brainstorming sessions. In group decision-making scenarios, anonymity drastically changes the way that people generate and respond to ideas[1]. This won't work if one person is writing on a white-board and people have to vocalize their ideas, but anonymity can work using modern software.

[1] Jessup, Leonard M., Terry Connolly, and Jolene Galegher. "The effects of anonymity on GDSS group process with an idea-generating task." Mis Quarterly (1990): 313-321.
Let's clarify that, shall we?

"Certain races" are not a protected class. Race itself is a protected class in that you cannot be let go for reasons of race.

Of course, as you already said, that really doesn't matter. If they want you out, they'll find a way.
FACT forces GitHub to remove open-source sport streaming software
Louisiana has a similar program. If you have a 2.5 GPA and at least a 20 on the ACT, your in-state tuition is paid for (for the base award). You can also qualify for an additional stipend for having higher GPA/ACT scores.

Myself and many of my friends got our degrees with $0 debt.

http://www.osfa.state.la.us/MainSitePDFs/TOPS_OPH_brochure_8...
> Middle East Technical University. One of the best 100 universities in the world.

According to which ranking?

Does not appear at top 500 in the Shanghai list ranking: http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2014.html
horrible intro; tl/dr. Someone tell me specifically WTF I give a shit about this, what the pros/cons are. And write a concrete intro.
That's excellent, but it seems insane to not make this available for people with drug arrests.
Averaging in and Averaging Out
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If you need something a bit bigger and fancier, I can recommended The Interface from Boom Library: http://www.boomlibrary.com/boomlibrary/products/the-interfac...

It's considerably more expensive but also considerably larger.

I'm a huge fan of everything Boom do. Their nature stuff is amazing. SFX design is in my list of fantasy jobs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2prl_DTrukc
The concept of a phone running on an internal network is really amazing. I can't believe they got it going fast enough to be watching Colbert on this thing (like the article says).

Fairly useless article though. The whole thing just kind of rambles until the one sentence at the end where they describe the working demo.
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Thanks! I totally agree with you. That is certainly one of the things that inspired me to try writing explanatory article on maths.

And well, that escalated quickly.
Yes, anyone in my state who qualifies.
Georgia has a good way of dealing with this as well. As recently as a few years ago(they made some recent changes, I'm not sure about now) you could go to a college, get a 3.0 GPA and become eligible for the scholarships. There is also a fantastic exchange program that allows academically late bloomers to transfer to better schools once they start performing better. Both of my brothers took advantage of these means. They both transferred from community colleges to Georgia Tech from community colleges once they got their act together.( and both ended up graduating with highest honors and with less than 10k in debt) If you are that confident you are capable of college but werent able to prov it in high school, i think having to put up a years worth of costs before the state will help you out is a good gatekeeper to making sure only those for whom that is actually the case benefit from the system. At a minimum, it raises the stakes of you succeeding.
Walter Isaacson on the Early Days of Bill Gates
"Keep using Perl 5 for production."

I'd really love to see and outsider do writeup on why Perl 6 is where it's at. It'd be a great lesson in project management, time and scope boxing and feature creep. I mid-career now, and Perl 6 was announced when I was an intern. At this rate, production releases will come out when I'm deciding on early or standard retirement.

Meanwhile, Perl 5 seems to have gotten all kinds of wonderful new life breathed into it.
If it ships at all it isn't vaporware. But my argument was that it would never ship, which is why I used the term.
Perl 6 was not written with Perl hackers in mind. It was written with programmers from other languages in mind in hopes to draw them into the Perl ecosystem and I think that was a bad idea. It basically made Perl 6 DOA.

What we really needed was a Perl 5.5. A cleaner syntax and OO that isn't shoehorned onto the language. Many of the "features" of Perl 6 aren't really features at all, and in many ways Perl 6 doesn't stand up to other languages that it might compete with (JavaScript, for example).
They shouldn't, but they do tend to have a large quantity of memory backing them that gets added to when grown into. The kernel uses 4k, 8k, or 16k stacks; a quick test on a Linux x86-64 system suggests that userspace has 8M stacks by default.

Hackish test code to recurse infinitely and print the stack pointer until a segfault:

#include <stdio.h>

static inline unsigned long get_sp(void)
{
unsigned long ret;
__asm__("mov %%rsp, %0" : "=r" (ret));
return ret;
}

void main(void)
{
printf("%lu\n", get_sp());
main();
}

Running this and comparing the first and last values shows a stack size of about 8M.
There's a difference between having a couple friends upvote your post, and having over 20 friends upvote your post (this submission has 28 points, but your real karma is only 4).

Everyone thinks that their submission is good. That's why a fair voting system is necessary to let the community decide what is genuinely good.
It's the BSSID that is made far more readily available, not the SSID.