skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually ran into this issue with the `argus` network flow generator/processor project, run "by one dude." As a non-developer, but a user, I spent time grinding away at understanding it, mostly as a hobby, and wound up realizing that the "one dude" set his bar pretty high at what he expected of his users' skill sets. I can sincerely appreciate that, but that bar should be lowered so that folks can at least use the software effectively without pissing off the entire mailing list :D

I did just as stated here; lowered the bar for non-developers by producing "on boarding" documentation that takes you from no-to-go in about 30 minutes, massaging my inane questions and failures in mailing list etiquette into an accessible wiki doc (accessible at nsmwiki.org for anyone who is specifically interested).

I take pride in it and it even sits on my resume.
The quote from the article is actually "...it costs Beats a mere $14 to make according to some experts." I'm assuming they factored the tooling costs into the cost of making these.

At the scales Beats is operating the tooling chain costs, while initially high, get distributed over millions of units.
I'm a little surprised that this BBC article doesn't mention the ongoing DDoS attack on GitHub by China.

Does it seem like this programme could give US authorities the power to sanction the Chinese government over something like a DDoS attack?

EDIT: Ah, looks like GitHub is back to normal. Maybe the attacks are over now?
> In London you could happily be earning $200,000 - $300,000 with IT skills, avoid tax, keep 90% of that, and have the state benefits.

How? Which particular state benefits are you talking about?

(And it seems like you're talking about evasion - which is illegal, rather than avoidance which is a mix of normal tax planning (a contractor registering for VAT and claiming some of that back) and loophole-manipulation).
I have mixed success with AirBnB as a traveller. I would say 80% of my requests to stay in a place are either ignored or rejected. I'm mainly talking about hosts from the UK.

In the end I just stay in Hotels, it's less hassle, often cheaper.

As for Cuba, very surprised if they have 1000 properties available. Getting internet access in Cuba is pretty much impossible.
That bit of the article is not particularly detailed, but it sounds like the $14 would include the molds and everything else. It doesn't say "$14 in components", it says "it costs Beats a mere $14 to make".
Well, like I said. It's basically instinctual. Humans are social animals that form into groups and groups need in-group out-group signaling to define themselves. Joining a group identity like this is basically our animal bits controlling what we do. It's subtle, and people are often surprised when they realize that this is what they're doing. But if you buy into a group identity and you can't rationally explain why, or have to post-rationalize, it's probably this effect.

But it's also one of those things that, whenever you see it, is a reminder that humans have a long way to go and aren't as different from the rest of the animals as they'd like to believe.

Why Apple purchased beats, is that it helps tie together several different social tribes, with Apple now able to try to cross-sell between them, something very hard to do.
A sufficiently sophisticated man in the middle can be anywhere between origin and destination and have arbitrary distribution. Proving that a particular node is responsible for a particular alteration requires using a trusted trust computer to send packets into the great wall on their first hop.

The experiment in the article required trusted trust of packets destined for the great wall passing through US infrastructure. That this infrastructure can generally be considered neutral is no guarantee that it was in this case. Any router or switch can use arbitrary tables and conditional logic on any packet. The purpose of the experiment was prosecuting a particular suspect not arm's length analysis.
CNNIC,you deserve it!
Well, that was fun. It took a lot less than 20 minutes though
Yeah, I really concur with the sound quality argument. I got a pair of Beats on the cheap from a friend, but I got tired of wearing them after awhile and eventually switched to earbuds to just listening to my music cause of the sound quality. Ordered a pair of Sennheiser Momentums though, should be getting those by Saturday, so I'm hoping to return to a solid pair of over-ear headphones again.
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And ties - what purpose do they serve other than social signals?
> sanction "individuals or entities" that pose a cyber threat to the "national security, foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States,"

If you detangle the weasel words, this is basically "emergency executive powers to do whatever we want to people we don't like, as long as we can tie it back to the internet". Combined with the existing surveillance dragnet, that's horrifying.
Not bad but check out these, they're super comfortable and I love the wood panelling! They might even sound good too...

http://www.thehouseofmarley.com/legend-anc.html
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Ask HN: Anyone here make Atlassian Plugins?
I have made a couple plugins internally But have never published anything. How's the marketplace?
Funny story:

The four years I took for my bachelor were the only four years with study-fees in Germany. So I paid more for my degree than the Americans who study here now.
The US makes about 8 million barrels a day. The Tupi field discovered off Brazil makes about 100,000 a day and best-case contains a few years of American oil production total.

You think the US Fourth Fleet reactivation was intended to steal that production? And risk war with most of South America?
Besides hacker curiosity, what's the appeal of ARM from our perspective? I'm not seeing a cost advantage here compared to Kimsufi (dedicated) or a good SSD-backed VPS.
Inferior and better are subjective. I'm not sure the 14 year old judges by the same metric as you.
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Google banishes China's main digital certificate authority CNNIC
Hi Kevin, thanks for great comments.
I wanted to share a hack with you: Penn Treebank is included as part of OntoNotes which is free-of-charge :)
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Google says a future update in Chrome will remove trust for all certificates from China's main root certificate authority.
"It don't understand how we've gone so far in the McMansion direction."

My theory is two parts. In the old days, your kids could play outside and weren't expected to be in the house until dinner and then before bed. Now, your kids are probably in the house more, and let's face it, space creates harmony sometimes.

The second part is simply that people want to keep up with their peers and McMansions were sold "cheaply" enough for people to jump on. That big family home is still a measure of success.
I don't see a link?
I've always had trouble making friends, I'm weird and kind of intense, while at the same time painfully friendly.

Back in the internets earlier days it felt like I could find friendly people everywhere. It became a safe haven for me, a place I could meet people who shared my interests. I found one of my better friends to this day through an online radio station.

Hell, even early Xbox live was friendly, I had lots of really good conversations with people while playing Gotham Racing.

It really feels like now though I can't even get a conversation started online anymore. Everyone with mics on black is in private parties, IRC rooms seem increasingly unfriendly. The attitude has changed.

I feel increasingly isolated, I feel much like I did before the internet.
Good point, but email is understood to indicate remote people, even if in truth your boss is sat next to you.

Printers don't really fit this model - when you tell something to print (for the printer on your desk), getting it sent to the other side of the world just to come back is daft, energy inefficient and wasteful.
1. Google is simply buying more politicians these days: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&year... - helps to get pesky investigations blown over, I guess ;-) I don't blame them either, just the way the world works. Microsoft's mistake was not doing it sooner when they were getting investigated.

2. PJ's analysis might have been useful in the SCO days, but really, her knowledge of other topics that I'm more conversant with (specifically, patents) was woefully lacking. Not sure if she'd have done any better with antitrust laws.
Have you got a plain text version of the highlighted source examples somewhere? I want to compare it with emacs' default highlighting (I think default emacs highlights almost as much as the "After color_coded" screen shot).
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I'm curious, what is a specific zoning ordinance which prohibits small houses? In my county, the building code does not mandate a minimum size, but many HOA covenants do. Or is it just the grouped houses that are outlawed, like minimum parcel size of 0.25 acre or something?
>It's funny how a hobby (hi-fi, audiophile, whatever you want to call it) dominated by white men just happens to get so incensed over something marketed by and to the urban crowd.

Isn't peddling overpriced shit to underprivileged (and underinformed) population the actual problem here? You have there a white guy, Jimmy Iovine, selling shit product to poor urban youth, and it's audiophiles who are at fault for exposing this fact?
I've bought it, and bought a licence for ST2 a couple of years ago as well. I use it every day and feel kind of morally obliged to support the developers. I even spend money on Photoshop and Spotify every month.
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Am I the only one here who thinks that "Molecule" would have been a better name than "AtomPair"? ;)
I'm curious - did Apple make available easy toolchains for integrating Safari on iOS into selenium webdriver tests? Or did the Selenium community do that?

Of course, your argument would be that of course Safari on iOS has a large mobile market share, so it qualifies as 'modern', in spite of the fact that it doesn't run on a UNIX system that can be easily scripted.

But are you going to really argue that Windows doesn't represent a significant marketshare of users?

If you're willing to buy all your windows developers macbooks to help them run unit tests, what's to stop you ordering all your UNIX developers a windows laptop to host windows-only browsers running tests driven through a remote webdriver just like the ones that you run on iOS devices?
My bad, I assumed it included highlighting, but it appears it is just auto-complete from Clang.

https://github.com/brianjcj/auto-complete-clang

That being said, if the core infrastructure is there, the hard part (Clang backend) is there, how much more can semantic highlighting be?

(I duck because I write amateurish code and do not do C/C++ yet, but would hopefully learn to do something awesome like that one day.)
It's not directly answering your situation but I really hope that one day the open source movement will move beyond software and for that we need non-technical people from almost every profession.

I hope the leading product in almost every market category is open source and developed at least partially by volunteers.

Open source beer, where small brewers collaberate with breweries all updating the recipe in github?

Open source mac and cheese showing up on your grocer's shelf?

Open source farm equipment?
So that experiment would need to be repeated in a distributed manner from as many points of origin as possible.

A friend of mine runs a honeypot service that uses servers all around the planet, someone like him would be in a good position to run analysis like this.
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I'm not saying I'm not dumb at times.

FWIW, I have a $20 pair of Sony unknown model # headphones I picked up at Ross. I bought them because they were over ear and cheap not because they're white, have Sony logos on them, or because I wanted to make a statement about what group I'm in or not in.

But yeah, HN is also very group membership oriented and people spend extraordinary amount of time to build things with things that signal that they're part of this group. The trope is "yet another photo sharing app" right?
$14 might include the tooling chain - unless I read the article wrong. Even if it doesn't the injection molding, etc in China will be nothing after the first few thousand units and even less after millions of units shipped.
That was exactly my thought.

1.6 seconds is entirely too. fucking. slow.
The reason for the LTS versions is in large part for enterprises that are stuck on older versions of Python because of RedHat support contracts and the like.

Django can move ahead and drop support for (honestly very outdated) Python versions like 2.5 and 2.6 so that newer Django releases can take advantage of additional features and nicer syntax in newer Python versions.

And companies stuck on python 2.6 because that's what's bundled in whatever version of RHEL can still get security patches to Django.

It's unreasonable to expect the (volunteer) django maintainers to indefinitely support every version of python or every version of Django.

And if you have no choice of upgrading to Django 1.5 yet, I'm sure you'd rather continue to get security patches until you can upgrade to 1.8.
Looks interesting; I wonder if it suffers with horrific word-wrapping lag like all the other editors in Android? If I type an SMS, anything approaching 3 SMS length causes slowdowns on my 2014 Note 10.1.

The same happens with Gmail - try replying to an email and write a few paragraphs and observe the horrific slowdowns, which I can only attribute to an inefficient word-wrapping algorithm?

I can only wonder if they only expect you to write tiny emails?

Using it on my Motorola Xoom was a nightmare.

Anyway, I'm going to grab the sample and have a look.
I would have said breakout, and pong.
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Scaleway is a brand of Online.net (in fact while it was in beta it was called Online Labs). They have DDoS protection on their network: https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/ddos-arbor

For the best protection you need to pay more - in the case of Scaleway, their pricing page (https://www.scaleway.com/pricing) says it's available with the "premium" bandwidth option - but anecdotally I've heard even the basic protection is pretty good.
The US spent more than 50 years protecting its residents from Cuban sugar and Cuban cigars and sunburns on Cuba's beaches. Such are the absurdities of powerful sovereigns.
No, by definition, group identity replaces and/or subsumes personal identity.
A Better AngularJS Model Layer
$ngResource is kinda a pain. It lacks a lot of common features. There are a ton of alternatives but they are either heavy or don't really fit the AngularJS pattern.

In the search for the perfect model for Angular, I kept coming up short. So I decided to take the challenge face on.

I give you angular-model-factory. It implements the same pattern as ngResource but adds everything it should have!

https://github.com/Swimlane/angular-model-factory
Very well done. There's also a Python version:
https://github.com/gregmalcolm/python_koans

Coincidentally, we're looking for London based senior, test-driven Ruby devs (contract).
Very true about the AIM messages - I had many great conversions on MSN back in the day.

A good memory.
Funnily enough Bose are a tad unhappy about how successful Beats by Dre has become and are suing them: http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/caseys-pch-sue...

Beats by Dre are made by PCH International, a contract manufacturer.
There's lots of newer research on trust-based systems that could be applicable here, e.g. a game-theoretic approach where entities are gauged based on ratings over repeated transactions. Think iterated prisoner's dilemma crossed with PageRank, which effectively wards against many types of collusion including simple sybil attacks. Most of it hasn't been validated in the real world on any scale, but I believe it is possible to do quite a bit better than we have seen - the only web-of-trust stuff I've seen in practice is ancient compared to the state of research.

One outstanding problem that comes to mind is certificate revocation when you have lost control of the private keys. I think a multi-sig solution could probably mitigate this to a fair extent, so you still have some level of pseudo-trust between entities and a way to effectively call someone up and say, "hey, I screwed up and need to kill this thing".
There's a FAQ at the bottom which says that it's €0.02/hr and if you reach it, then €10/mo is the cap.

And the term "infinite" is misleading, as it's actually just 1GB of data that you can transfer as much as you want.
I understand that in the campaigns for upcoming elections, some parties pledge to arrange a referendum about whether UK should stay in Europe, or float across the Atlantic.
Suburbs in America are a byproduct of racism. They were invented when sharecroppers (freed African-American slaves and their children who then became indentured servants/laborers) from the south migrated en masse to the cities of the north and started moving into urban neighborhoods, and the white people fled to the outskirts rather than let black people live among them.
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Would this work for teaching programming remotely too?
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What mobile browser doesn't support web apps? They may not support proprietary app stores and the nonstandard "web" (but not really) apps tied to them, but actual web apps are generally supported on major mobile browsers.
"No highs or lows? That'll be Bose!"

I jest...
That ship sailed, badly. Democrats don't like mental institutions (evil, scary, and corrupt) and Republicans don't like in community projects (bringing the insane to our homes), so both solutions got trampled. To be fair, both sides have their points, but the problem is a spectrum. We really do need top flight institutions that are safe, healthy, clean, and well monitored. We also really need community outreach and assisted living. Our current policy of drugging people to the key of G is not really solving the problem (looking at you VA).
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There's nothing to expose. Go show some measurements of the sound quality of Beats vs cheaper brands that those users believe in, and the next day you'll still see them buying Beats.

It's not a shit product. You're just unable to appreciate what the buyers see in them.
But how much?

At the remote university in Hagen I paid ~120€ a year for the student union. Every course is 60-100€.

At the university in Stuttgart I paid ~300€ a year and all courses were free.

There was a time I paid 500€ per semester extra, but they are long gone.
yeah, I would wonder why your continuation line has to line up perfectly with the previous one. When you start laying your code out so that everything is perfectly aligned to everything else, it just leads to headaches and heartbreaks when other developers don't share your passion for perfectly manicured code. :-)
And white people were given favourable mortgage rates for these new properties, while black people were denied loans.
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Oddly though, Beats are nowhere near cheap!

For the daft money they throw at headphones with an inline EQ, they could get some great Beyerdynamic headphones that sound brilliant.

Fashion over functionality.

EDIT: Yep, I missed the point! Functionality = fashion. You can clearly tell I am not fashionable.
Speaking of those words, it's worth noting that those points (national security, foreign policy, economic health/financial stability) are the same that GCHQ [is charged][1] to protect (I'd cite NSA, but I'm not familiar with where to find a list of their responsibilities).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCHQ#Legal_basis
First of all, this article doesn't have a single criticism of this?

It is really scary to me that our lawmakers are enacting legislation for topics they have absolutely no personal experience with. Their decisions are based on what can only amount to 100 hours, optimistically, of information sessions given by people representing multinationals with agendas.

All I want to know is what the hell constitutes a "malicious cyber activity". Is that as innocuous as U.S. v Auernheimer?
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That's an overstatement. They do not have 7000+ temperature and voltage sensors per pack.

Each of the 16 modules is split into 6 blocks where the 70+ cells within a block are all wired in parallel -- so they are going to have the same voltage. The blocks within a module are wired serially and the modules are also wired serially.

Each module has a battery monitoring chip:

http://www.ti.com/product/bq76pl536a

It has seven voltage measurement inputs (between each block and before/after the outer blocks) so it can tell the voltage of each block. It can also control a bleed resistor per block (for balancing). There are two temperature sensors per module.

Each module also has an 8051 (C8051F530A) that talks to the battery monitoring chip and to the data network connecting the modules to the "global" battery management system which has a Altera CPLD and (probably) an ARM CPU.

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/34934-Pics-Inf...
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That would only occur if the sites referenced exactly the same version of the same library on the same CDN with the same URL.
It's sad that this is the exact same conclusion I came to. I have zero confidence that executive powers like this won't somehow be abused to target Americans that pose no threat to national security.
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Useful for blowing your nose on?

I suppose if you wear one around your head it signals something, socially.
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The professors always told us, that the US is much more expensive with their education, but the people know this and have many options to save this money till the children are old enough to study, so it shouldn't be so bad...
No, it doesn't mean that the executive branch can do "whatever [it] wants", it means that the executive branch can seize US assets from certain people outside the US or prevent them from accessing the US financial system.

That's a lot of power, but it isn't unlimited power.
> I just don't know what certificate is supposed to prove? That someone at some point in time had 100$ to spend on a cert? How's that more secure than self signed cert?

A standard domain-validated cert proves that the CA saw you as in control of the site's DNS. Because spoofing DNS for client machines is generally much easier than for servers this is a big improvement in security over a self-signed cert.