skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living with no key is great. Just need to remember a 4-8 digit pin code. All I carry now is a key fob for my car. I live with my girlfriend and we each now have our own pin codes on the Yale lock, super easy to use and I've had installed now for 1 year and have not had to change the batteries yet. The auto locking feature is also nice so no one forgets to lock the door, it just locks after about a minute. If I'm expecting friends or a maid I can input a new code for them in 2 seconds right from the lock.

My ideal lock is pretty close to the Yale:
- Physically tough (not sure if the Yale lock is but it feels pretty hefty to me)
- No key hole
- 4+ digit pin codes
- Multiple pin codes
- Auto lock only when door is closed (the Yale does it based solely on time)
- Easy way to plug/unplug a z-wave or zigbee module. Although I don't see much benefit to having my lock hooked up to the internet. I can simply tell people my guest code that is programmed on the lock if I need to let someone in and I'd prefer not to open up another possible attack vector.

I also have a Samsung EZON 3120 which has been discontinued but I like that it locks only when the door is closed.Also when typing in a pin code it makes you hit two random numbers on the key pad before entering your pin code to make it harder for someone looking over your shoulder to figure out the code and/or leave fingerprints of your code on the touch pad.
Can anyone who knows about this recommend an accurate and neutral title for the post?
Thanks for clearing that up, yes, as I've said, you should not use custom verbs if you have to interop with firewalls or proxy caches that perform DPI unless you've tested them.
A portion of these jobs that are very left out are the security world jobs. Yes twitter is a great company and has many interesting challenges. Yes it will garner a subset of 10xish people. Yes, they have a lot of great resumes.

But the DoE, CIA, and NSA will always pay better, have greater challenges, and have a much wider net to cast than twitter, The Zuck, or Google ever will. Why? Capitalism doesn't work at the end of tank barrels.

It not google that twitter is really competing with, its the Air Force and DoD.

Also, thank you very much for pointing out the gender wage gaps here. It is an obvious and clear example of sexism distorting market capitalism.
The large 70db next to "hush the world" makes it sound like the earplugs offer 70db of noise reduction.

Which I know is BS, because the best earplugs made offer 33db of noise reduction.

I can only assume that the 70db number is the sum of the noise attenuation and the speakers' volume, but specific claims about the earplugs performance would be nice.
man i so thought this played music, it would be the perfect headset for me. i like listening to audiobooks before sleeping and every single bt headset i tried doesn't let me move around while laying down (mostly because the wrap around the back of my head).
This is quite legally weird - the Governor of Missouri just declared a state of emergency. However, nothing is happening right now - this order is preemptive for response to the upcoming grand jury decision.
Myopically considering the individual piece of code, it's easy to say that a permissive license is more free. The question of "what leads to more freedom in total" is more important, and not as easily answered.
Ah, too bad there aren't any fixes listed for Bluetooth. I've been having all kinds of issues with device pairing and, once paired, connections dropping. I also suspect Bluetooth (or rather, searches for nonexistent BT input devices) to be the cause of very long delays when resuming from hibernation.
I like (/don't care) about the new UI look in Yosemite but I have not been very impressed with it as a whole. The install took over 3 hours (I use homebrew and minor research I did pointed at that being the cause, well the cause being lots of data in /usr/local which is where HB puts it's stuff) and this [0] issue was causing me to pull my hair out until I just disabled per-display spaces to "fix" it. That menu bar issue would cause a 1-3 second delay between clicking on a monitor different from the one with the active window which was infuriating.

I was unaffected by the big issues (wifi) plaguing iOS 8 and didn't get burned by the 8.0.1 issue. I have the 6+ and I do have some weird issues still like BT Audio sometimes skipping a second or two when the screen rotates (I know... odd) or just screen rotation issues as a whole (I shouldn't have to shake my phone or switch orientations multiple times before it works!!). Also the healthkit stuff not working at release (because of a security bug) was annoying, where is the homekit integration?, handoff is gimmicky and I have found little/no use for it so far (I have a MBPr + iPhone + iPad, I expect better), keyboards where glitchy as fuck on release, Apple Pay didn't support either of my CC's and the process to setup a card was far from what I would expect from Apple.

All in all: Yes, both releases were shit if you ask me and that's coming from someone who loves Apple products and owns quite a few of them.

[0] http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152038/prevent-redr...
I'm not sure why this was downvoted, it's a legitimate question.

The problem is the sheer quantity of transactions that occur on the various exchanges. Adding that volume to the public chain would make the public chain significantly larger than it is. The bitcoin.cc wiki Scalability page [1] does a better job of documenting the constraints than I could in this space.

The flip side of this is that there's a required level of trust when doing business with an exchange. Thus far no exchanges that I know of are actually publishing their ledgers - so we really have no way to know that all trades are made in good faith and all funds are properly managed by the exchanges.

Unlike regulated government currencies, there are no audit requirements. This means there is nothing that actually requires an exchange to be operating in good faith. I'm actually surprised that there are not yet any private exchanges[2] with public/open ledgers, in response to Mt Gox and various other scams (both for bitcoin and other currencies). Seems the market has to be there for it, after people have been burned so many times.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
[2] that I know of. I know there are protocols under development intended to handle this, but no actual exchanges that simply publish all transactions for the world to see.

[edit] can't believe I used 'shear' instead of 'sheer'.
Apple didn't drop support for 3rd-party SSDs, nor did they drop TRIM support, as it was never supported on 3rd-party SSDs. Rather, signature verification meant that an unofficial kext patch to make TRIM work on 3rd-party SSDs stopped working.
Hopefully they require a password or a PIN each time you send a message with cash in it.

Otherwise anybody could steal money from you as long as they can get into your phone and open snapchat.
There's a fix for that!

Firefox has:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliget/

and it's sorta built-in on chrome:
https://coderwall.com/p/-fdgoq/chrome-developer-tools-adds-c...
Yep, same as CoffeeScript.

All CoffeeScript's `class` stuff does is set up the prototype chain for the exact way that every JS dev under the sun does their manual prototype stuff.

AFAICT you're doing the same thing you're just making it look more function-y. Not that I hate that I just think it's an incredibly minor semantic difference, and I probably slightly prefer the outright 'call it a class' approach of CoffeeScript as it feels more like calling a spade a spade.
To be fair it's a voting system, i.e. a program whose main function is to count, and unless the definition of "novice" these days is not what it used to be, it should be well within the ability of a "novice" programmer to write one.
"Relatively poor" is letting them off easy, comically incompetent would be closer to the truth. Hopefully Square doesn't trust data from Snapchat.

Lucky for Snapchat their users and potential investors don't care about security in the slightest.
I don't want to get into details of my contract with 10X. I'm not in breach, I certainly wouldn't be posting about it here if I was. I negotiated the terms of my contract with 10X when I signed up. All contracts are negotiable. I've worked through other consultancies and placement firms that have similar contractual terms. I've had full-time job agreements that included strict non-compete clauses and claims of ownership of any inventions or work I did while employed there, and sometimes extended one or two years after employment terminates, subject to applicable state law.
Just what college athletics needs, more fake awards designed to only be winnable by a few parties.
Hacker News just broke our website, LOL

You could check out what we're doing on our Kickstarter, haha.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hush/hush-the-worlds-fi...
Its age requirement + debit card. I think that is a fairly effective blocker. At the very least, it'll almost completely stop any chance of children under 15-16 from joining the program and sending/receiving money. There will always be chances of abuse with any platform that allows sharing. I just don't understand how this announcement is anymore scary than other social media adding into social payments, except for the typical stereotype of Snapchat only being used for nude pictures.

If you are speaking about adults selling pictures of abused children back and forth, this'll be no different (even less secure) than current technologies that pedophiles use to avoid detection.
Let's not be dramatic ("the devil", really?). Are you really saying that no Netflix is better than Netflix with browser DRM? I don't like the Hollywood players either, but it certainly shouldn't surprise anyone to learn that they don't want their content to be trivially copied and distributed outside of their control (read: death grip.) Personally, I'll take the Netflix we can have over no Netflix at all.
Disappointed that the update doesn't seem to mention graphics fixes. Many people (myself and my colleague included) are having issues with the dual gpu mbp retina. Graphics corruption, forced logouts, big black blocks - seems to happen while switching from intel to nvidia.
This 10000x over!!! I posted in that thread [0] & [1] and ended up having to just disable "Displays have separate Spaces" because my clicks wouldn't register for 1-3 seconds when clicking into another monitor. Very annoyed by this issue and hope they fix it soon!

[0] http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152038/prevent-redr...

[1] http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152038/prevent-redr...
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I suspect this is a common feeling, but boy did I waste my time at university. Spent it running a bar, chasing women instead of knuckling down and doing things like this - I would love to take a year off and go back and just learn again.

It's probably a case of the grass is greener, I could find more time if I really wanted. Anyway, I had a helluva great time. Should have attend some lectures though ...

Hmm, less than 10,000 lines of C (quite a lot less). Has anyone any experience of this OS/ course ? Could you comment?
The focus on the "widget engineering" is misleading. Are these the right widgets? dunno. The bigger questions are about the widget business. The stock is under-performing the market, despite major influexs of market inflation (ie, price bias), and huge shifts in the secular demand for bit-throughput.

The company has had the leading position in the widget business for a generation. But this raises questions about the future viability of the widget business if ROI is essentially zero (?).

Is the widget business inherently not-profitable? Or is the company mismanaged (outside of widget engineering?) I don't know the answers, but it seems people should be thinking about them.

The engineering teams are mostly like not the main issue. The lack of more lucrative product/market fit seems to be a perrenial issue for the higher level exevutives.
WordPress is also far from the most secure or correct system in the world.
> If it is more to impress than to communicate: Christmas tree.

Or "kitchen sink".
I had to go through similar machinations with getting the latest subversion on rhel 5. I feel your pain.
I think he's saying that the corner cutters which are part of the industry make the whole industry look bad.
I have the same SSD (Samsung 840 PRO) and had no issues at all. I highly recommend this script to enable TRIM: https://gist.github.com/return1/4058659
UCSS – Utility CSS
Phonegap Air – Put your web app in the iOS App Store and update it whenever
I just want to share a small project made for fun that I ended up using it on other projects.

UCSS is a configurable collection of reusable utility classes that aims to be used as silent classes or directly at your markup.

Every property is defined as an array of values that will auto-generate multiple classes (optional) and silent classes.

We support an extensive list of properties and most of them are already pre-configured with generic values that should be adjusted to your project needs.
Setting up a PayPal account and setting up an age-locked account that requires an associated bank account (in the form of a debit card) appears to be more effort on the SnapChat payments side, at least to me. The only reason for this fear (which really should be associated with any social media micro-payments system) being touted here is because of the reputation of SnapChat as an app for sending nude pictures. The same exact concerns exist in other places and have been dealt with by a large number of companies at this point.
Australia has just delayed it, we are still letting people borrow more money than they can ever hope to repay (interest only loans on owner occupied places) now with our relationship with China growing tenuous (they're making deals with the USA and Russia instead of Australia), it spells bad news.
...Not that anything is wrong with exchanging nudes for money.

But I do expect some scrutiny due to the oh-so-popular puritanism Americans hold in public life towards sex (both democrats and republicans) yet largely ignore in private.
> Supported everywhere != used everywhere. In my experience, extremely few people use FLAC,

Way more than ALAC. Music in FLAC is provided by many music services and digital stores. Music in ALAC? I never saw it being sold anywhere.

> because there's almost never a reason to care about having a lossless audio codec.

That's utter nonsense. Any time you want to reencode your music, you care about the lossless codec for the source, otherwise you'll degrade your quality. For example if tomorrow some state of the art lossy codec comes out which reduces size / computational complexity of decoding (such as Opus for instance), you can reencode your audio library in it for usage in mobile devices and so on. But without lossless sources that won't be an option. Lossless codecs are functionally equivalent to audio CDs. Lossy ones are not.
Yeah, Boston has something funky going on. It's hard to pin it down exactly. It's cultural. Seems like it's changing, but slowly.
> Find out more about Jan's reasons for donating here. https://www.facebook.com/jan.koum?fref=nf&pnref=story

That page is inaccessible to me, does somebody have a mirror?
Fair, but even without the information of who/what Square is beforehand, you can look them up. I'd be more likely to trust them than Snapchat simply because they've been around and have multiple payment solutions out already. And even if you can't be motivated to do a few quick searches, you could likely make some assumptions that snapchat didn't pick up some random company off the street to handle their finances.
The funny thing is that given maintainers do this all the time so they'll work faster, and he's apparently figuring it all out the hard way the first time, by the time he's done the maintainers have likely already uploaded. Probably. Or at least they could have.
Well, as its name implies, REST is intended for resources, and is basically a "database on the Web". There is nothing wrong with using other types of Web services -- particularly those based on procedures and messages -- where appropriate. Religiously adhering to "pure REST" just because it's en vogue is as dangerous as ignoring it completely.

EDIT: If we consider adding methods to HTTP, it is easy to imagine a new method, named say CALL or RUN, which would allow arbitrary procedures to be run bound to the requested resource, allowing for a sort of "object-oriented" RPC over REST...
Paid for porn industry will carve out a niche - probably disrupt entire industry. Other users wont touch it. Guaranteed revenue for snapchat though.
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For anyone interested in this space, i recommend looking into ethereum, a bitcoin-like network. There's been lots of talk of "smart property" relating to blockchain technology, and imho, locks are the perfect starter use-case. I mean, locks are all about proving ownership, so what better arena to test the idea of using a cryptographic ledger of ownership. I've spent a little time considering how to port the lockitron api into an ethereum contract, and I don't expect it to be too difficult
Just to make it clear to everybody, this is not an electronic voting system. This is only a set of applications to accelerate vote counting before the official results. All of the votes must be counted and submitted the "old fashion way". You couldn't mess with the actual results by hacking this "appkenstein".
Wrong

It's also Front running and illegal to pay a Broker for prior knowledge in front of their clients trades.

Also, the term may apply to using insider knowledge. Khan & Lu (2008: 1) define front running as "trading by some parties in advance of large trades by other parties, in anticipation of profiting from the price movement that follows the large trade". They find evidence consistent with front-running through short sales ahead of large stock sales by CEOs on the New York Stock Exchange. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running

" "Front running" is sometimes used informally for a broker's tactics related to trading on proprietary information before its clients have been given the information.

For example, analysts and brokers who buy shares in a company just before the brokerage firm is about to recommend the stock as a strong buy, are practising this type of "front running". Brokers have been convicted of securities laws violations in the United States for such behavior. "
Because often the most interesting contribution is something off-topic.

If that were the case, I'd still make the contribution. I don't blame those that do.
"Last week, I donated one million dollars to the FreeBSD Foundation, which supports the open source operating system that has helped millions of programmers pursue their passions and bring their ideas to life.
I’m actually one of those people. I started using FreeBSD in the late 90s, when I didn’t have much money and was living in government housing. In a way, FreeBSD helped lift me out of poverty – one of the main reasons I got a job at Yahoo! is because they were using FreeBSD, and it was my operating system of choice. Years later, when Brian and I set out to build WhatsApp, we used FreeBSD to keep our servers running. We still do.
I’m announcing this donation to shine a light on the good work being done by the FreeBSD Foundation, with the hope that others will also help move this project forward. We’ll all benefit if FreeBSD can continue to give people the same opportunity it gave me – if it can lift more immigrant kids out of poverty, and help more startups build something successful, and even transformative."
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You can always reenact it in Kerbal Space Program ;)
A package name != the actual name of the directory in the source tree. My point stands.
Square uses the CVC number on the back of the card as a pin for this currently. It's not the most secure way to handle it imo, but it does stop the general user from picking up a phone and stealing all their money from snapchat (if this feature carries over to snapcash).
I'm not a fan of the point-by-point redressing so I'll just say a few things and leave you the last word if you want it. And I'm sure that there are some fascinating differences when trading as a hedge fund, and maybe you can share more about them. The process I laid out is generally "how orders get filled" for just about everybody reading this. If you know enough about how your specific orders get filled, I suppose you're not the audience I was writing for.

1. Brokers don't only send orders to 3rd party market makers because they're being paid for order flow. You're right, they won't get order flow for free, but I didn't mean to imply that they did.

2. Quoting and buying at their published bid/ask is precisely their function. Possibly we're just disagreeing on terms. The SEC's website is fairly good at explaining this flow. http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/tradexec.htm

3. What I'm discussing is the actual mechanism for HOW nbbo is fulfilled. Competition in the marketplace -- third party market makers and arb firms -- absolutely play a role in ensuring the efficiency of the market. If brokers had to run this infrastructure themselves, it would be non-trivial and without any financial incentives that I can think of.
Nice move. I think it is awesome when folks do that.

Has anyone thought what an 'opensource' endowment might look like? I'm thinking an endowment manager and a policy for distributing 2% of the endowment annually to folks who contribute and against costs (like hosting repos and mailing lists etc.) The thought being you end up with some "project" with a $100M - $250M endowment and it operates 'in perpetuity' on a budget of $2 - $5M annually.
Snapchat has come under fire because a significant portion of those nudes are technically child porn.
The UI does look terrible and, as the link I provided shows, many things people complain about are not a matter of personal taste, but actual reductions of usability.
Well, if Uber ever becomes a bank, they'll just push that off to the cashier or end user and problem solved.
I'd love to know who was responsible for this. The state seems to be taking the blame:

"State officials allowed oil and gas companies to pump nearly three billion gallons of waste water into underground aquifers that could have been used for drinking water or irrigation."

It looks like the company applied to drill the injection well and the state said "yeah, that's fine".
There doesn't appear to be any fixes for FileVault, which is rather disappointing. Under certain circumstances, particularly with new installs, FileVault can get into an inconsistent state and the only known cure (so far) is to erase the disk and reinstall.

Edit: Nope, FileVault is still broken after the patch.
I agree that it sounds like a math/astrophysics/trajectory nightmare, but I remind myself that is the kind of thing these agencies are really good at. Remember, they just shot a comet some 400 million miles away.
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I love reading HN's wild speculation about other companies businesses that they come to after reading a headline or two.

Just like the countless comments here, years ago, expecting Twitter to die because it won't make money.
They also aren't currently sending each other money. I hate to be a naysayer to what I think is a pretty cool product, but Snapchat's terrible security reputation is well-deserved. But also this isn't very much differentiated from sending money with Gmail, Square, etc.
I think it's not actually how the activities of governing are carried out. It's more about how personal representation is authenticated yet anonymized. That's the reason the author brings up voting.
Better it be the team account, to avoid having donors try decide "who contributes how much"... let the team decide. Also, please offer it as an alternative to PayPal on the project website.