skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notice how the thing is signed,

"Gale Rossides
Acting Administrator"

In other words the TSA still doesn't have a permanent head even though the new administration has now been in office for a year.
I think that it'd be really cool to have email notifications when someone replies to our post/comment.
/agree
don't bother.
Same day. Had customers lines up before launching.
Stephen Fry is a public figure with a large following. He is mostly concerned with political matters, and he uses his influence to affect their outcomes. These days he is more accurately described as a political figure than an actor.

Whether he is seen as a good or bad person is immaterial. Public figures like Fry are not immune to attacks on the basis of their personal qualities. If someone's account is going to be accessed unlawfully, then Stephen Fry's is as good a target as any other. Fry is as much fair game as Britney Spears.
It is when you also authored that article.
If you wrote the article, then yes.
“What he is doing would be illegal in Britain and the United States.”

Hmm, guess which two countries he is not doing this in. I am not sure how this is relevant, except to say, "oh fuck." (If you can't attack the argument, attack the person who's arguing.)

To do this while supposedly being concerned about privacy is beyond me.

Now I know for sure that I need to encrypt my calls in another way. Before this announcement, I figured it was handled for me; I didn't assume that criminals had already broken the crypto and had kept the information secret. Now I am sure they have, and that my non-encrypted calls are obviously being monitored. (I exaggerate a bit, but it's clear how this disclosure enhances my privacy.)

Not sure why the GSM folks are taking this so seriously. Computers are fast. 64-bit encryption has been unsafe for nearly a decade. Everyone knows that this was going to happen eventually.

Edit: after reading the slides, I am really amazed by this. I remember when I was a kid and I used to listen in on cordless phones and baby monitors with my radio scanner. It was really, really interesting. The thought of sitting on the train and listening to both sides of people's cell-phone calls appeals to me in a way that I can't quite explain.
What's the pollution like there?
Here are two points that I've realized. I think that the ThinkGeek website is pretty well-done, I mean they're in a relevant market as you guys, so you should definitely look into their website at: http://www.thinkgeek.com/

The elements are really aligned in a logical fashion. It's pretty aggressive on the eyes when you see huge yellow boxes with the prices on the right.

The stuff that's supposed to grab my attention, doesn't. "Invest in yourself: learn by doing. Read on to learn how the NerdKits philosophy is implemented in our kits, and why other electronics kits will leave you intellectually unsatisfied." is DISTRACTED by the "Updated Thursday, December 17th, 2009:" div.
I still lost. Can somebody give me an example of what an "improperly escaped include" would look like?

Was the site author (not the hacker) taking a get parameter and passing it to an include? That seem odd.

I need a little more help understanding this.
Microsoft Student Web Development contest for Illinios
What does Microsoft have to do with the cracking of the GSM encryption code?
Great job on the list!

@simonbelak
Ah sorry, I meant in NYC.
To read the WallStreet article: http://www.google.com/search?q=Adjusted+for+Inflation,+Dows+...
Nope, no wi-fi either, as far as I know.
I think this is a fantastic idea, but the people who look at it as a source of jobs will probably be sorely disappointed. Farming is already highly mechanized and automated. And starting new commercial farms from scratch, as these guys will, means that they'll begin by automating as much as possible. Great for productivity, not so great for employment.
Popup & Focus URL Hijacking
Ten years of BlackBerry
Yeah, that's when I first read the piece, after reading yours which linked to it.

It's a fantastic point, that we have an idealized view of how the critical elements of our infrastructure are created, so we make movie geeks with super powers... I guess we do the same with firemen and police and other parts of society that we rely upon and we have all those lame TV dramas.
Hah, the list of things wrong with the NYC subway that would have millions of people screaming (in other cities or countries) is already very long -- dirtiness, lack of punctuality, or even a fixed schedule, no notifications of arriving trains, constant rerouting of lines due to construction, bums and panhandlers, etc.

Lack of phone service is just one more thing to deal with.

The only (slight) benefit of the NYC subway is that it runs 24 hours.
Uncovering the truth behind the U.S. government's economic numbers
Pushing the boundary of Real Time Web with Twitter and XFactor
Microsoft has more experience handling security disclosures than any other organization. The GSM manufacturers apparently have very little comparable experience. I'm just contrasting the two.

(I upvoted you; it's a fair question.)
Sugru - plastiscine meets blue-tack meets glue
There's a division. Asimov and Herbert are science fiction, but not so easily grouped with Stephenson.
Simplicity in Good Web Design : Advantages & How -to
Given the factor of an 80-fold difference in this record-parsing benchmark, we suspect the absolute numbers for the Hadoop benchmarks in the comparison paper are inflated...

Whoa! Those are some serious fighting words!
'De-listed' stocks are another factor - the worst performing stocks are removed from the exchange, giving a higher average. Inflation itself is a very tricky thing - technology is very deflationary but this is ignored by the market basket.
Download YouTube Porno Atau Download Buku Gurita Cikeas?
Gurita adalah hewan moluska dari kelas Cephalopoda (kaki hewan terletak di kepala), ordo Octopoda dengan terumbu karang di samudra sebagai habitat utama. Gurita terdiri dari 289 spesies yang mencakup sepertiga dari total spesies kelas Cephalopoda.
I imagine a plane crashing into a major city will bring far more terror than bringing a plane down in a desolate forest. Not only will be people be afraid to fly, they'll be afraid every time they see a plane overhead. Also imagine the the epic problems that will be caused if the powers that be declare in response that no commercial flights can fly over cities.
Small problems cause more deaths in planes. A condom-sized bomb could make an airplane unstable enough to crash and kill everyone on board. On a train, a bomb that size would do little more than burn up a few rows of seats. They would just need to uncouple that one car, move everyone to the car behind, and continue running the slightly-shorter train.
sparkfun.com is more in line with what they do, also a very good site.
To be fair, this would be an amazing engineering project. The technology needed already exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen

LHR to JFK would only take about 9 hours. By train.
i would bet that it is real, if someone was trying to fake it in photoshop, they would make it look overly "realistic" by dimming the eye glow and adding a shadow and stuff...

the fact that we're arguing that the wolf lacks a shadow and has overly bright eyes might be a hint that it is real simply due to the fact that an original photoshop artist probably wouldn't include all those "abnormalities"
In fairness, or whatever, the problem with A5/1 isn't simply that it's got a 64-bit key, but that it's a uniquely bad stream cipher prone to linear equation-style attacks and precomputation. Nate, Colin, or Bruce may smack me down for saying this, but I don't think you can apply the same attacks to, say, RC5.

For roughly a decade, pretty much anyone who attended more than one local 2600 meeting got the tech demo on snooping cell phone calls --- they were analog. Everything old is new again. It's nice that encrypted digital calls were so successful that the loss of their security is major news.
Akira Remotely Controls Computers Using Dropbox
Posted before...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=976007
I don't know how many signs Microsoft needs in order to understand that the success of their operating-system is not correlated to how many features it has or secure it is; in fact, it is almost the opposite. . .if Microsoft spent less time building Cathedrals and more time sharing their source code (a portion at a time given the problem and the community) then maybe they could finally start iterating in the right direction, rather than attempting to integrate their next-gen 'space station' of an OS on planet made up of pueblos.
I agree 110%. I think what I mean is that, the purpose of the security is 2-fold, to prevent the loss of expensive equipment, and to make people think that the security is for their benefit so that they continue to fly/ride/whatever and keep those businesses afloat. It just so happens that lots of the things you have to do to keep an airplane (the equipment) safe are the same things you need to do to keep people safe.

If they were serious about the security of the people on the aircraft, they'd make it really simple instead of complex. Simple things like no carry-ons whatsoever and every flight has a marshal. None of this Monty Python-esque "only 1 carry-on unless it's a 'personal item' in which case you get 2 or it's a Thursday but you can only get in it during the flight above 20,000ft and no later than 60 minutes before landing, but only if your point of origin is Minnesota during the month of November or Kansas during the Spring -- and if it's electronic in any way shape or form, forget about it, unless it has an 'airplane mode', or is a watch that can resist depths up to 60m".

edit the top story on reddit right now has this right
"Only two things have made flying safer since 9/11: the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers."
Introducing BitMe.Me -- a Bitly-based meme tracker
Even though his site's security was not completely up to snuff, he did have a pretty good password.
Baaaa!!!!
It seems likely that to the extent that things like the GSS-ProA suitcase interceptors crack A5/1, they do it with special-purpose hardware. A practical software attack is news.
No, the Motorola/Verizon tablet will be called Tabloid.
Is there some econ credibility to The Fairfield County Weekly I didn't know about? Someone tell me and I'll unflag.
Whole article could be argued to be fighting words, considering they basically point out flawed assertions in the comparison paper" over and over again. Though catching an 80-fold difference is pretty ridiculous.
Sure. Anytime someone wants to bring up the awesomeness of his magic ninja 18th-degree blackbelt sensei who is mysteriously afraid to enter into widely available and legal real combat competitions, I'm there.
The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap)
Torrent Search Engines Unlawful, U.S. Judge Says
Thanks.. that explains the generation of the pulse - the link I posted probably relates to fine tuning the shape to get the desired color.
> Is there a way to map retweets to see the scope of a false link/post?

I can't access twitter at work, but I'm guessing yes, since retweets are now a first-class function on twitter.
Are you saying that most of the Firefox codebase (with the exception of the JS engine) is written in JS? The DOM parsing?
Pretty sure there is no credibility here. It's just a blog rant with nice formatting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_tunnel

On the other hand, it doesn't exist, and would be crazy expensive.
The master programmer is to the novice programmer what the Martial arts master is to the student.

The master moves with little effort and achieves his ends efficiently and easily.

This is not to say that a programmer is a kung-fu expert, instead that mastery is about efficiency.

Between master and student is a third step called "expert" where the student has the required skill but does not yet possess the efficiency mindset. I too have witnessed skilled programmers doing far more work than necessary for no reason.
Could you do something for 15-30mins before or after watching Top Chef? If so, try it for a week and see how it goes. I think you can get surprisingly far with short bursts of activity. Also, how about taking some of your vacation time - maybe a week to jumpstart something?
Ask HN: Is it wise to build products on twitters API?
I'm currently developing a heap of little apps on twitters platform and just as i finish one i get an idea for another.

Then i started thinking. Is it wise to dedicate so much time and resources into developing someone else's product. What's to stop twitter from replicating your product or limiting access to their API?

What do you guys think?

You can check out my latests projects at.

Vevite.com
140inabottle.com
Ask HN: Please critique (harshly if necessary) Movie Tracker
This is a second cut at a new application I am developing. I would greatly appreciate any feedback you have. The point of this is to allow users to track movies they've seen and get recommendations for new movies and there is a lot more other stuff being added. You are also able to subscribe to the site and receive discount movie theater tickets.

http://movies.blinkindustries.com

Thanks!
http://movies.blinkindustries.com

Clickable
Yeah, you are right. The impression that I got from the NYT article was that this was "given a trace and a bunch of computers, you can get the voice data... maybe, eventually", but the impression that I get from the talk is that it is actually realtime. That requires weaknesses in the crypto that are embarrassing for anything 1980s or 1990s vintage. I don't think this attack would be feasible if they used DES instead. (I will defer to you or cperciva for that one, however :)
Not if you etch a pattern of holes in the layer!

http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/aktuelles/presse/2009/116.en.htm...
Arduino-powered Baby Bouncer
Where to go from being a young, intermediate Programmer?
You all know the "Hod do I start?" questions, which are asked by people who want to learn how to program or worse how to "hack". But what happens after you did everything on the list?
I am now seventeen years old, I am fluent in three languages (C++, Python, Lisp), know Linux and Windows quite well, can operate hardware etc. I've also participated in many projects and competitions concerning programming and such. Soon I'll have a traineeship in a IT company producing search engines.
But what should I do until I hit university (apart from improving my English)? Pack on more languages? Continue with Projects on Sourceforge? Do something completely else? How would a professional answer the question "How do I continue from here on?"?
>"Not everybody wants to be a rough person. Some people just want to escape their life for 45 minutes, put on a costume and kick their feet a bit."

If that is the case, then here among bright people we can acknowledge the reality behind it and ignore the BS. There is fantasy and escapism in traditional white-pajama martial arts marketed towards people that want to look tough but don't want to risk actually getting hurt.
I still say the potential market for tablet is small. Can't fit in your pocket, no keyboard, no protection for the screen :/
This is the guy from the hanselminutes interview...

Solver Foundation is not a port of Excel Solver - it is a ground-up implementation in managed code (C#). As TriinT said, the focus is on addressing optimization problems that commonly occur in finance, engineering, supply chain, etc. It's fair to say that there are things that Excel Solver offers that Solver Foundation currently does not (e.g. nonlinear programming), and things Solver Foundation offers that Excel Solver does not. In particular, there is a roster of solvers that are all accessible from a consistent, .Net friendly API.

It's not open source, but there is a solver plug-in model which allows you to use other solvers in place of the ones supplied by our team. In particular, open-source solvers such as lp_solve are supported.

Nathan
As if people that want to listen to phone calls cared about copyright laws.
I think your first step would be to get a designer to make it more visually pleasing, and then maybe consult with him or her about the layout of content.
Probably a directory of php files like,

sections/food.php
sections/shopping.php
sections/fryclub.php

with different content, then an index page like,

<!-- common header -->
<?php include("sections/" . $_GET["section"] . ".php") ?>
<!-- common footer -->

And then when you access,

http://fry.com/index.php?section=fryclub

you get the content of fryclub.php with the correct headers and footers. Or you access,

http://fry.com/index.php?section=/../.[snip]./../etc/passwd%00

and get any file you like, treated like a php file.

Find a file that you can write to (such as the error log), use the above trick to treat it as a php file, use it to make system calls, and the box is yours.
Sure, those are martial arts. But karate pretends to be a martial art for unarmed combat. If it is not useful for unarmed combat, then it is not a martial art.
There's also evidence of it, recorded in iron-rich lava in areas like the Transatlantic Ridge.

The thing to be concerned about isn't the flip itself, so much as that the fluctuations could lead to a period where the magnetic field isn't strong enough to deflect the solar wind. While it (most likely) wouldn't be permanent, it would be a pretty unpleasant period. :)
After mangling a number string operations (and the program memory space) when first learning C I realized how terrible they could be. If I can mistakenly destroy my memory space, what would a malicious mind do with such a thing?
Go to conferences. Make friends with like-minded people. Get another job.

Then you will be closer to your dream than you are now.
Great stuff.

Am I correct in this statement of why a continuous-deployment model does not suffer from an increase in bugs:

In a non-continuous-deployment model: With a huge QA process, a lot of bugs are found and fixed up front so the product is more bug-free once shipped.

In a continuous-deployment model: A less tested product is shipped often, however due to having an engineer-client feedback model in place, bugs can be quickly and easily reported to engineers. In addition, since it is shipped often, it can be fixed quickly before most clients will see it.

Overall, continuous-deployment results in more and happier clients due to the quick response the company provides?
Perhaps I assume too much of the attackers, but their decision to post "from Russia with love" vs "Sorry, X is dead, please unfollow" probably depends on whether they think the guy is a good person or a bad person.
You know, I use Torrent search engines to time-shift TV (we pay for pretty much every piece of premium cable except Cinemax), and so I get a lot of value out of sites like Isohunt, but even so it's hard to escape the fact that these sites are deliberately coming as close to the line of "overtly criminal" as you can get.

Because, give me a f'ing break: the first link in the categorized breakdown of indexed Torrents on Isohunt is to "Videos/Movies"; it is only the fact that Isohunt is a crappy torrent search site that results in that link not being entirely composed of trivially regexable horrific copyright violations.

For what it's worth, I'm slightly queasy about calling "torrenting whole seasons worth of shows I paid for" "time-shifting"; to whatever extent that that's a reasonable definition of what I'm doing, it also ignores the fact that many (most?) torrent peers haven't paid for the content in any form and are free-riding with my assistance.
Not sure what an imperfect one-way mirror is. Do you mean, something that is mostly one way? Because, no, you can't.

And you can't make an active one-way mirror either (at least not without inputting energy) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwells_demon
Advocacy groups urge FTC to bar Google-AdMob deal
The last startup I was involved in had two customers lined up before launch. We (well the two founders, I was technically the first employee) started by pitching their product to their contacts in the relevant industry and didn't actually launch until they had a couple of at least potential customers lined up.

The product was quite niche and quite expensive so we didn't really need many customers. So the plan was to grow largely by word of mouth and by using our network of contacts to get future leads.
This guy covers some of the same ground, but much funnier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI&;
feature=player_embedded
@victusfate good work
I have to say, it all sounds a bit thin - but even then, I would think you deserve the effort of a reply to your situation.

If you are able to provide genuine valuable content to users through an integrated API service (no matter who the provider of that API is), Google should place high 'content' value on that as well. After all, Google wants the web to be of 'value' to users, which in the grand internet cycle, brings them money through Adwords, etc.

It could be all coincidence. In order to clear it up, it makes sense that open, honest communication between Google and you (Ron) starts again.

Best of luck - I certainly hope it can be cleared up, as I hate to think of the potential business ideas (and revenue!) that will be discarded if developers feel they can't trust Google and its services.
Thanks for that. I wasn't aware that this was a common practice. I assumed it must be something like that, but I wanted to make very sure I understood exactly. Don't want any hacker news stories about my sites!

EDIT: Errr, at least, not this sort of story.
Programmer Conned CIA, Pentagon Into Buying Bogus Anti-Terror Code
cool idea! @sngtwt
Ask HN: Rate my startup idea "Be Caller Nine"
I have always been fascinated with telephony programming (thanks, "War Games") and radio call-in contests where you have to "be caller nine" in order to win a prize.

Well, I have now developed a system that would allow any person/group/event/company/podcaster to run one of these call-in style contests just by administrating the incoming calls through a browser (instead of a giant 300 line switchboard like radio stations have). I have a working prototype, and the few people that have seen it thought it was a pretty neat idea.

My question is, would there be a market for this sort of thing? Would people/groups be willing to pay to be able to run such a contest?

I imagine this being used for things like: live podcasts that have sponsorships; conferences; internet radio stations; college radio stations; school fundraiser events; ad-hoc internet events (think twitter chats); etc...

What do you think?
Running Selenium tests in parallel: Clojure
Good work

@janitha
Can you attach this to a wave server easily enough? Might be a good start for tweaking from for folks that dig UI design.
Is there a way to make it useful in an asynchronous context? I think the kernel is smart, but the 9th caller issue seems less pertinent in a web-based world. However, the notion of creating a reward system for attention and action could be the start of something big.

Right now I imagine the evaluation of such a purchase would be: "cool, but I can just say "the first person to send me an email with an answer to X" wins something."

Cool idea though, stick with it.
This seems like a legitimate opinion. Why the -4?

EDIT: No, if you agree, upvote the other guy.
The "global" in global warming implies more than the
"world" in world series baseball. When you had those storms, it was pretty hot over here.
I mean, he initially wrote git too..
It looks sharp, but my main concern would be that anyone who's the type to watch and track movie watching already has Netflix and won't want to invest time in something else.

How are you swinging ticket discounts, by the way?