skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that list. A family member was recently stopped at one of these; I'm amazed there are so many. (I was also stopped once on a Greyhound bus, I think by CBP; they asked each person "are you a citizen?" — on a bus ride that was entirely within the US, of course. This was a few years back.)

> "air travel is a privilege, not a right"

Travel is a right. It's a constitutionally granted right.

I find the whole argument that interfering with the travel of every single person on a single _particular_ mode of travel is somehow constitutional a bit vacuous. What about that mode of travel is so special? (AFAICT, "safety"). That the government is also interfering with road travel is ridiculous.

Travel, within the United States, is a constitutional right, one that has been upheld by the Supreme Court (see [1] and [2]): "Since the Constitution guarantees the right of interstate movement…"; the decision in [2] cites even earlier [3] Supreme Court cases that asserted this right.

This Court long ago recognized that the nature of our Federal Union and our
constitutional concepts of personal liberty unite to require that all citizens
be free to travel throughout the length and breadth of our land uninhibited by
statutes, rules, or regulations which unreasonably burden or restrict this
movement. That [394 U.S. 618, 630] proposition was early stated by Chief
Justice Taney in the Passenger Cases, 7 How. 283, 492 (1849):

"For all the great purposes for which the Federal government was formed, we are
one people, with one common country. We are all citizens of the United States;
and, as members of the same community, must have the right to pass and repass
through every part of it without interruption, as freely as in our own States."

We have no occasion to ascribe the source of this right to travel interstate to
a particular constitutional provision. 8 It suffices that, as MR. JUSTICE
STEWART said for the Court in United States v. Guest, 383 U.S. 745, 757 -758
(1966):

"The constitutional right to travel from one State to another . . . occupies a
position fundamental to the concept of our Federal Union. It is a right that
has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized.

". . . [T]he right finds no explicit mention in the Constitution. The reason,
it has been suggested, is [394 U.S. 618, 631] that a right so elementary was
conceived from the beginning to be a necessary concomitant of the stronger
Union the Constitution created. In any event, freedom to travel throughout the
United States has long been recognized as a basic right under the
Constitution."

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Guest

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro_v._Thompson

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crandall_v._Nevada
The demo reported 192.168.56.1 as a local IP. Now they know I have VirtualBox installed. I wonder what other IPs can leak information about common apps and network configs.
> a locked door is security through obscurity, because the cuts of the key unlock the door - not the physical key.

I don't know, that's not such a bad analogy. To put it another way, a key is just a really funny way to write down a bunch of numbers, and a key-lock is just a really esoteric number-pad.

People have actually broken into houses by cutting working keys from pictures they took of victims unlocking their doors—so it's not even obscurity aiding the security per se (or rather, it used to be, but then we greatly standardized the way key-locks work.) Instead, it's just concealment, like the concealed face of a credit card in your wallet.
Twitter hacking exploit
I just realeased a twitter hacking program using an exploit i found. Enjoy it while it last. You can either watch the video or just directly download it:

youtube video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxfH3F9O5Zw

Download; http://ge.tt/8CWYeK92/v/0
Oh they were happy to replace my 180W panel with a 165W panel, but at the time such systems (like mine) are built as 'strings' of panels in series. So putting a 165W panel in took all of the other panels down to 165W (which in my case effectively removed one panel equivalent). The higher wattage panel was too large for the roof mount. We ended up replacing the panel with a Chinese equivalent (which was 180W and the right panel size) and basically threatened to sue Sharp for the panel cost. (which they ended up paying).
Great point. Lately we have been reconsidering the request manager matrix shown in gngr. It was inspired by HTTPSwitchBoard's matrix, that has a separate column for XHR.

However, like you pointed out, there are other ways than XHR to leak data if JS is enabled.

If JS is not enabled, the kinds of data that can be leaked is fewer (perhaps screen resolution and size).

Would welcome expert comments on our issue tracker:
https://github.com/UprootLabs/gngr/issues/90
Considering we're talking about people choosing to visit my site, your analogy seems almost exactly backwards. They're walking up to me, not the other way around.

And, come on. The ad on my site takes up a miniscule fraction of the space above the fold and probably less than 1% of the total area of content on an average page on my site. Following people around showing them ads? That's a heck of an exaggeration.
A lot of things on HN aren't useful - there are games and experiments and little fun things all the time. And as someone else in the thread already stated, if you think a submission is uninteresting then not commenting or upvoting it is probably the best way to express that.
Awesome - would love some :)

Corby
You can be sure that if Tor was main stream that would happen, but there aren't enough potential customers right now to justify the risk.
I know basically nothing about wikileaks. Given what the CIA/other agencies have done in the past, I guess it seems plausible.
Prometheus – An open-source service monitoring system and time series database
In an imperative language, you still might want an optional return to jump out of the middle of some code.
It seems to me that encryption can be great in some ways, but too much could lead to a very closed system. Something that I view as the opposite of progress.
>But California has net metering, which is a huge, non sustainable subsidy.

Net metering can be a subsidy, but the act of paying for power is not inherently a subsidy, and should continue. There is no reason why people who generate power should not be paid market rate for it.

>Ad absurdum, consider if everyone purchased enough solar for their household to be net zero. The power companies would not be able to charge anything, but need to maintain the grid and provide power at night, cloudy days etc, with capital costs mostly the same as with 24x7 generation.

You're right, this is absurd. You've just declared power generation to be a cost free exercise.

>There's no way power companies would agree to net metering in a free market

I think it's absolutely hilarious that you can un-ironically use the phrase "free market" in the context of defending monopolistic power companies.

The reason why power companies don't agree to net metering is precisely BECAUSE it's the furthest possible thing from a free market (monopoly on infrastructure) and they don't like pesky competition.
Food for Thought: The Beauty of the First Draft
How to approach interconnected problems of world
I can imagine using something like keepass to manage such keys.
Reading this as an Australian, where managing invasive species is a multi-million dollar problem, this is just...extraordinary.

> "It's just like this crazy wildlife experiment that we're left with," says San Diego University ecologist Rebecca Lewison. "Gosh! I hope this goes well."

You...hope this goes well? How about you shoot them all, while there's still a countable number of them? It's not like there's a conservation question here. There's almost no genetic diversity in the herd, and hippos aren't threatened in Africa.
Well, then let's wait until then to report the debut. This hype over nothing is dumb.
Ha! I'm picturing a guy rolling out of bed, looking at the alarm clock like: "Oh wow, I feel so rested after only 2 hours...no...wait...how is it Sunday?"
No one is surprised when corporate reptiles act like corporate reptiles. The remarkable circumstance is that they act like themselves, but talk as if they are courageous paragons of the Enlightenment. The complaint is not that Zuck attempts to maximize revenue from the Turkish user base, but that he simultaneously highlights a conflicting "commitment" to free expression. The net impression is one of an odd, misplaced pride in a complete surrender of ethics to pragmatism.
Or maybe he's just a jerk who can't learn from experience?
They want to position themselves as data 'freaks'. They have an interesting post when they released a book.

http://priceonomics.com/everything-is-bullshit-a-book-by-pri...
Which means that you are also saying that the court system is not based on evidence.
Good links, thanks for the product leads. Are there any more ergonomic versions of these?
Edhat also allows lots of nasty racist commenters. Not so great overall.
Can anyone comment on why all builds are not currently "reproducible"?

I mean, if a package is compiled on the same system, with the same compiler, with the same build script -- should it not produce the same output?
Why do you need a straw man to justify your point?
He surely wasn't an expert before this, though I bet he's learned a lot during the process of reporting on it, as we have reading it.
That's not the political reality we live in though. You can push for some subsidies and tariffs or push against. There is no mechanism to eliminate all of both, even in one country (let alone all countries).

Which means that if there is a market distorting subsidy to one market that you hate (e.g. coal/fracking at the federal level), often the only way to deal with it is create a subsidy or tariff in another (e.g. solar at the local level) as a counter-distortion.

It's also worth bearing in mind that "fuck all subsidies and tariffs" and "let free markets rule" are ideas pushed by carbon-industry funded think tanks (e.g. CATO) when it serves their agenda, but is swept under the carpet when it doesn't (the only solar panel tariffs CATO complained about was the feed in tariff).
Hmm, "ad-lib" -- given that slide, what did they plan to say? Anyway, it's interesting to me that the pics of mostly-naked men and ASCII Goatse hardly get mentioned, overshadowed by a verbal remark. Maybe the con has changed its policy in response, but did they preview the slide deck?
Ask HN: Whats an OK developer to do?
I'm an ok programer / developer in my early 30's.

I've been working as a professional (full-time job) developer for almost 3 years, been doing freelance during this time and a little before while I was at school. I've got a University degree in Biological Science and a 2 year degree for web development.

I don't want to be a programer anymore, what kinds of jobs could I more easily transition into?
CLRS is quite 'academic' and requires good understanding of mathematics. It's a great book, but not a good one for beginners, imo. It will be difficult as self study for first timers. You can start with Datastructures and Algorithm Analysis in C by M. A. Weiss[0]. One more alternative is The Algorithm Design Manual by S. Skiena[1]. It's also good and focuses more on algorithm, implementation (as opposed to math-y stuff of CLRS). If I were you, I would get both the books and read alternatively. Don't miss out on exercises, they are very important.

I also suggest you to join this Coursera course, Algorithms: Design and Analysis by Tim Roughgarden[2]. Currently the course is open, so you can sign up for classes. The course is offered in two parts[3], complete both of them.

Once you are comfortable with basic concepts start solving questions/puzzles online on sites like SPOJ[4], UVa[5], (YC-funded) HackerRank[6]. You could try TopCoder[7] also, but the questions are bit difficult. Hope this helps.

PS - You should study math, because it is important in Algorithms Analysis. You could try reading required parts of Concrete Mathematics by Knuth[8] or as you come across new concepts, Google and understand them.

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/dp/8177583581

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1848000693

[2] - https://www.coursera.org/course/algo

[3] - https://www.coursera.org/course/algo2

[4] - http://www.spoj.com

[5] - http://uva.onlinejudge.org

[6] - http://hackerrank.com

[7] - http://www.topcoder.com

[8] - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201558025
Cool, HN is listed as the 2nd "News" result for that query.
What is the core problem this solves?
There is a 70% loss in generation and transmission. Standard coal plants convert 30-35% of the energy in coal to electricity, ~7% is lost in the lines.

https://www.nema.org/Products/Documents/TDEnergyEff.pdf

Runaway catastrophic warming is what we will be dealing with if we stay on the business as usual approach: http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/2001/2012...

I'm basing my argument on the work of Dr. James Hansen from NASA. The IPCC's predictions keep coming back as incorrect, too conservative. The IPCC has had to rewrite their predictions, the situation is proving worse than they thought.
4 travel rewards credit cards for startup CEOs
seems like a pretty sweet deal
I'm going to have to go with no. I'm not going to kneel before some spectre of Actors on the Outside (ooooOOOOooohhh).

We live in perhaps the finest times of this specie's history, and it's foolish to limit and harm ourselves out of an unspecified anxiety that somebody, somewhere could do something to harm us. We cannot live in fear.
Elevator Saga – An Addictive Programming Challenge
Doesn't need to be AI, just has to automatically execute contracts given certain parameters and human inputs.
Good example, thanks! Apple in fact did nearly crash and burn and all that kept them alive at some point was a hand-out from Microsoft.

And from a utility point of view: if all the apple hardware in the world would disappear tomorrow we'd get on just fine, but if all the IBM hardware (and software) would disappear tomorrow the world would grind to a very swift halt and it would be quite a while before we could say we're past the worst.
> Go fuck yourself.

This is totally out of line. Please don't do this on HN again.
Some insights:

My guess is this network is something the government have under control, and they are just experimenting to see how people behave in a connected environment.

I worked as freelancer in Cuba for over 10 years, so having internet was top priority for me. I started while studying in the univ, stealing professor's accounts who had internet access, some friends were separated from the university when got caught, fortunately I made it through. After graduated the real "illegal activities" began, met a friend of a friend who was selling "legal" internet dialup connections (56bkit/s) 120 hours a month for $160 (yes! dollars), "legal" meaning: foreigners students in cuba are allowed to have internet from their rentals, so someone inside the telecommunication company (only one in cuba ETECSA) created one of these accounts for you. Eventually this guy was caught too, and my hunt for connectivity started once again. A bug on an government controlled intranet allowed you to navigate (only HTTP no HTTPS) if you happened to know a magic query string, hmmm need outside help, talked to a friend outside cuba who had a hosting to put a tunnel/proxy on port 80, this didn't last long either, next option, a guy in a government company was selling internet (illegal dialup, but only at 33kb/s for technical reasons), this was "technically" 24h, but you shouldn't used on working hours for obvious reasons, $250/month, for the first time I was able to download something greater than 50MB without resume. Oh!! HTTP 1.1 what a relief!! websites serving files without resume don't know the pain they cause to us. Well, all sorts of these stories happened until I found the "GUY", this guy had internet via satellite, he paid the subscription to HugeNET through a third party. He built a wifi network with APs and some handmade antennas, but to join to his network you needed to have an potent AP at least 50 ft from the ground and be located nearby one of his APs. After managing the infrastructure I finally had a decent internet connection, at a minimal cost $150. At some point HugeNET cancelled all the connections in cuba, and happiness ended.
The bright side of the lack of internet in cuba is that you really need to focus and learn the hard way, there's no way you can see a youtube video, skype, play games, or load endless facebook pages; every time you have an error, the answer is not two google/stackoverflow clicks away.
You need to learn about everything, from communication protocols, to how the browser's cache works, to repair your own computer. No technical support, no skype, no G3/4 on your phone, nothing, just 56kbit/s max 5~6h a day, and a hard drive full of pirated books.

There are a lot of people freelancing in cuba, so if at some point you had outsourced some work and your provider disappear for a couple of days, don't be so hard at them, they might be fighting harder than you think to deliver.
According to the Pond docs:

> What a global, passive adversary (one who can observe all Internet traffic) can achieve:

> A GPA can learn who is using Pond and where their home servers are located.

It's probably a great piece of software, but how exactly does it fit into the theme of cover over concealment? At its current level of popularity, simply using Pond, without a proxy at least, paints a giant target on you in the eyes of such an adversary. GPG and Tor, for all their faults, do not have this property.
Convert your coal fired plants to natural gas fired plants. It can then be idled, and its pollution controls are much easier to implement and maintain. Did I mention its carbon footprint is lower as well?
List of common resume typos
That's a heck of an assertion. Just because there are bad people we can't know what our government does?

Let's stipulate all the bad wickedness you would like me to think there is. How much of that has the actual means to threaten the US in any economically or militarily significant way?

With radical transparency may find that we're harming ourselves more by overspending on security theater, and that, for all their wickedness, most of those wicked people can't afford a bus ticket to the next town, much less to actually do anything with their wickedness.
> I didn't provide these estimates in the void.

Actually, that's exactly what you did.

You made a specific claim about a specific piece of software and you failed to back that up with so much as a shred of evidence.
Considering that the concept of a colored belt system arose sometime around the 1880's [0], a nice image is likely all it is.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_belt_%28martial_arts%29#O...
Maybe an organization only trusts friends or friends of friends. The NSA isn't the only one that can put people on lists.
Data Entry should not exist because of such advancement in Software bots
Looks like the H-alpha emisison line at 656 nm. It's a pretty strong line in many astrophysical sources.
For a few examples, see the third paragraph of the article. Things like filesystem ordering, system time, ...

Also, the goal is to make it reproducible across machines, since one of the motivations is to enable everybody to verify that the binary distribution matches the source.
streamjoy.tv, its a streaming movie search engine, gets data from amazon, imdb ratings, itunes, used to be able to get netflix data.
Yeah, I love it. There are some good modules out there for installing it too.

https://github.com/simplereach/chef-nsq
https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/2265
You could check out the following resources:

1. Coursera Algorithms I for formal university-style learning. See https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI

2. Algomation.com for visualising algorithms. See http://www.algomation.com/

3. http://bigocheatsheet.com/ for time/space complexities for the most common data structures & algorithms.

4. The book - Cracking the Coding Interview which goes through the questions that top companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft ask during interviews. For their solutions, see https://github.com/gaylemcd/ctci

Hope that helps in some ways.
Snapchat's new discover content feature launches
It's absolutely stupid to argue that we can only subsidize fuel poverty OR electric cars while we spend a trillion dollars on evil wars and another trillion dollars on subsidizing a parasitic banking system.

Added to which, subsidies are how almost all countries build up their industries which provide jobs and wealth for all. China didn't get rich by letting its currency float and letting free markets reign.
It can transmit continuous variable state rather than discrete state in pulses.

Of course you can still transmit continuous variable state indirectly using pulses (for instance, using pulse width modulation or frequency modulation) but it requires a bit more hardware.

Probably there is some kind of cross-over in complexity of the neural structure (density, length of the individual neurons) where it makes more sense to switch to a digital mode (cross talk for instance).
I don't think so, red has a smaller wavelength than the other colors we see, but I don't think that could translate into us seeing it faster (whatever that even means).

It's pretty rare to see red in nature that isn't blood or fire, and when you do it's often on dangerous things (like those frogs in the amazon). Maybe red is so striking to us because red things in nature are things we need to pay attention to?
Huh.

The reason Flumazenil is used in treating benzo addiction is that benzos, in hyper-stimulating the GABA receptors, downregulate them—which leads to what is commonly referred to as "Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome", but really just means "not enough GABA-mediated activity."

Flumazenil, then, in suppressing GABA, upregulates production of the receptors for it—and therefore makes the benzo-withdrawal symptoms go away. But it does it by making the symptoms, for a short time, worse.

Now think about what these people are doing by using Flumazenil to treat their high-GABA hypersomnia, and apply it to the body's quick re-regulation of GABA receptor activity mentioned above.

It would seem that, pharmacologically speaking, by taking this drug, they're actually making their problem worse in the long term. If an initial anesthetization caused their GABA up-regulation, they're only making it worse by up-regulating GABA receptor production. Rather, it would seem that what they should be taking is, in fact... benzodiazapenes! (As long as this would not, in fact, lead to benzo-overdose-associated respiratory depression more easily than it does for regular people, I mean.)
Also, Kafka guarantees message order, where NSQ does not. This can be dealt with in the client, but something to note.
> I used to think we could escape surveillance using technology. Fool's errand. We'd need an entire culture change. It's gone.

True. Network effects negate the advantages of encryption. You can't use TOR to hide when posting to FB, in other words.
> If you think Kendo is real, see what the guys from Iaido have to say about them...

Wikipedia has some interesting reading on this:

> Iaido encompasses hundreds of styles of swordsmanship, all of which subscribe to non-combative aims and purposes.

Well, that's a not a good start at all, is it?

> Iaidoka are regularly prescribed to practice kendo to safeguard that battling feel; it is normal for high positioning kendoka to hold high rank in iaido and the other way around.

Oh dear... They not only allow, but maybe even encourage them do both?! What is this world coming to?
Red actually has a larger wavelength. Red is at ~600 nm, while green and blue are at ~500nm and ~400nm respectively. Red has a lower frequency though.