skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find surprising is that insecure email and wireless had existed for quite some time before this. Almost all IMAP/POP/Gmail used to flow over regular HTTP. It is only recently (read, last year) that a lot of major email traffic has been https-ified.

Why suddenly jump on FB, Twitter etc with self-righteous anger when many of these same geeks were using insecure email until less than a year ago?
On many machines, MAC addresses can be changed. I obviously wasn't attempting to avoid detection since I posted about it under my real name, but anyone could pick up a $200 netbook, pay cash, walk into a Starbucks with sunglasses on, do their business and leave undetected. MAC addresses are useless if they don't tie to anything else and aren't fixed.
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Offer HN: Office space in Hyderabad, India
In the spirit of the recent Offer HN.
We have a fairly large Office, and we aren't using it right now fully. So I would like to offer it to any local startups. We can accomodate 2 people.

Location: Madhapur, Hyderabad. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=agiliq+info+solutions,+madhapur,+hyderabad&sll=37.09024,-95.712891&sspn=27.423305,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=agiliq+info+solutions,&hnear=Madhapur,+Hyderabad,+Rangareddy,+Andhra+Pradesh,+India&ll=17.444132,78.398223&spn=0.015067,0.027595&z=15&iwloc=A

Obvioulsy, when we need it you would have to move. But we should be good for 3 months. We have one spare desk and fittings, so the second person would have to bring their furniture.

(Just to be clear, you don't have to pay anything, and we aren't looking you to share any expenses.)

mail: shabda@agiliq.com
That's essentially a one time pad where you are using SSL for pad distribution.
I am with krug sounds like an injection into the wordpress theme - I have had a few of thesae.

check you footer and header espesialy
The article's stenched with dramatic license to exude noir excitement. In reality, it's just like most Asian cosmopolitans. I've lived there.

This writer could write ten pages about the terrors of your own dark basement if he wanted to.
Clearly, and I am at the mercy of the American justice system.
Interestingly I recently attended a talk by Loic Wacquant[1] about prisons in the US, the US as penal state. This somehow fits.

[1] http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/wacquant/
Ask HN: do you use theirdomain@yourdomain.com when registering accounts?
I don't know if there is a name for the practice, but when I register a new account somewhere I tend to sign up with the email address foo@mydomain.com where foo = their domain minus the TLD.

Recently it's helped me see that a large email marketing firm has been hacked as many versions of the same spam message have arrived in my inbox sent to specific email addresses. It also prevents some of the cross-federated identity detection some "services" like RapLeaf try to do.

However, it becomes a pain with Gravatar, single sign on and places where email addresses have a provenance.

On that last point, I recently signed up for Qwiki, using the email address qwiki@mydomain.com. I also decided to sign up my girlfriend as well. Long story short, she got an invite and I didn't. :(

If Qwiki used any social media tools to discover "valuableness" of a given user from their email address, hers would have had great provenance and mine would have nothing.
it looks very nice, really!

* do you write all your code without comments, or do you strip them out afterwards to get to save locs? imho you should forget the 200 loc constraint and make your code pretty instead - it looks anorectic. seesh, yes i know the 200 loc promise is your main selling point to make the project stand out ;)

* a namespace would be a good idea here. "Builder", "Db" and "ResultSet" aren't that uncommon.

* defining the connection credentials as a class with consts smells funny.
I'm often driving in and out of London around 7am (I drive my girlfriend to the station so she can go to breakfast networking meetings around town).

There are also some confusing bits - a friend told me he got charged for doing a U-turn that took him partly into a congestion zone. He was trying to avoid being in the congestion zone, and wasn't sure whether he did manage to avoid it, but had no way to check (and so ended up penalised).

The auto-deducting thing is due to come in in January - until then you have to manually go and pay the charge if you think you should, without any way of knowing whether you should.

Considering the bad faith of the system as it is, although I probably will sign up for the auto-deducting system, I am concerned about giving direct access to my bank account to such people.
Well here a lot of my friends had problems with Powerbooks and simply abysmal service from Apple, while Dell Norway for us was impeccable on several occasions. Can be just a regional thing.
I baked something the other day. Does that make me a baker?

It means that you baked something.

Now, someone might look at it and say "That thing that gruseom baked is really good. Gruseom has the Baker nature." You might then gain respect from other bakes that you made and people consider you a baker.

I wasn't attempting to argue with pg - Do people only reply to him in order to stir things up? (I think, perhaps, that I've seen this pattern.) I was only throwing in what I consider to be a good definition of the scope of hacking from someone who has written a lot about the hacker culture (esr).
That's kind of like refreshing the session key on every page request except you send over a list of session keys that will be used on subsequent requests. Probably not done since it's usually a hit to the session storage on every page request. Still doesn't encrypt the actual content though, and since SSL would encrypt it and make this unnecessary that's probably why it's not done.
Greetings from India. Just purchased eBook + Print. Thanks a bunch for discount. I look forward to become a LISPer. Cheers!
I often drive around 7am. How do I know that they're using the same clock as me?
Magic? Only simple math:

y times 1.05 raised to x = z

Where y is your currenty number, x is the number you want to solve for and z is the number to reach.

x = (log z - log y)over log 1.05

All you need to know can be seen on(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm)

edit: forgot a log
Don't forget numpy. I managed to get his code from 2 seconds to 0.2 seconds by a simple 60 second rewrite using numpy and arrays.
Thanks for those numbers. Singapore's (official) homicide rate has gone down even further in recent years, but maybe the others have too. (edit: never mind; my memory/googlefu is failing me)

A nitpick: Germany (and many other countries) don't really have free speech because of Holocaust denials laws; the laws are written rather broadly [1]. But sure, it's less onerous than in Singapore.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial
yeah, fstr.net/arcade-game is better than fstr.net/651

for memorability but also hugely important for SEO.
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I use a variant of this, I sign up with myusername+uniqueid@mydomain.org, where uniqueid is something I will later recognise, often a shortened version of the target domain name.

This has the advantage of being easy to filter and see where from a particular message originated from, and at the same time, it does contain my username, which makes it easier to search for me.
Unchecked undocumented immigration is a problem. There are a lot of people that want to come here for the right reasons and some that want to come here for the wrong reasons. The goal of any immigration reform should be to parse those two groups. Make it easier to be here legitimately to avoid the ongoing exploitation of the people that are here to work. Then focus enforcement on those that are not here legitimately because they are now not hiding among the crowds of people that just want to feed their families. This is what most people in AZ want, but the only lever they have is enforcement, it's not like Arizona can decide to unilaterally grant amnesty.

The idea of "papers please" is reprehensible, but where is the anger at the federal border patrol checkpoints between AZ and CA? An AZ cop asking for a drivers license during a traffic stop is supposedly "draconian fascist evil", but stopping people for no reason driving between two states is considered ok?

Imagine that after 9/11 the rest of the country said "good luck dealing with that terrorism problem NY. We're going to put checkpoints up to make sure those problems stay in your state and not ours."
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Another quote along those lines:

Why work 8 hours a day for someone else for a living wage, when you can work 24 hours a day for yourself for free?
>I would venture to say that [Hong Kong] is poster child of libertarianism

This is the problem with the post. Libertarianism does not lead to market freedom. It does for a very short time until someone becomes dominant and uses that dominance to buy or force out everyone else. The US is closer to libertarian ideas, which is why it has a less free market than other places that understand that capitalism can't work without regulations (the right regulations).
I believe Derek Sivers wants to get this developed as well - http://thoughts.pro/ampm/
so, what's the solution? That's the question.
What time do you folks intend to stay till? There is an Android meetup going on at the same time and I am in a dilemma
If you only feel like "an unlucky afternoon can result in a death sentence", it is ok. But it is really far from the truth. Oh.. unless your daily life include smuggling drugs, kidnapping or something hideous.

I don't fear for my life everyday when I go to work. I am more concerned that I am late.
How about "Defying Gravity"?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319690

IMHO, it was at least as good as the endless Cop permutations on the tube. Probably better. It still bombed.

People like the cop,doctor,lawyer shows because they are all the same. They don't have to trouble their brains loading a new context. Its just the same show over and over with a slight ratcheting of the shock value of the crimes and or medical problems. Toss in a "very special episode" dealing with some social problem du jour and you've got it done without much effort from viewer of producer.
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Out of interest has there been any response from Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and so on?

I've had a quick look and not seen anything but it's entirely possible I've missed something.
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Thanks for spreading the word. Just scheduled the next one for 25th November. See the link above
I am from Germany and I know the law as well as all the other laws that make freedom of speech in Germany not quite as free as freedom of speech in, say, the USA. I would personally much prefer US-style freedom of speech but I also think that freedom of speech is not a binary property and that Germany as a whole is doing quite well.
I've already commented on the blog - but I'll say here as well - Looks like a great project, but seriously look at nodejs over PHP since JSON is native to nodejs, and you'll probably get more throughput on it.

Also, check out nStore and node-supermarket for existing native key/val stores already done in nodejs
If I may ask, you mean you will like the government to "force" or "regulate" the airline to take over the recruitment so that there is one male and one female in every cabin and at every age group? Where is the "freedom" in that? :)

And with regards to looks, you got to be kidding me. I assume you are implying they are only getting beautiful ladies. :)
>a key reason there weren't any Walmart types in Hong Kong was because it was more profitable to the Triads to keep all the mom and pop shops in business than to work with larger corporations

You're claiming Hong Kong isn't start up friendly because it doesn't support devastating monopolies like Walmart [1]??? Are you seriously telling me that if you went to a country where everywhere you looked you saw people in business for themselves you would find that less entrepreneur friendly than a place that just had one Walmart and nothing else? Monopoly is the exact opposite of free market.

[1] http://www.walmarteffectbook.com/

It never ceases to shock me when apparent free market proponents hold up Walmart as an example to aspire to. Are people not aware how much special treatment from the government Walmart gets? They do produce innovations here and there, but with the amount of money flowing through their fingers they bloody well should.
Where in the World Is Eduardo Saverin? In Singapore Funding Facebook Games.
What makes you think Microsoft and Apple won't support WebM?

My hope is that WebM takes off and becomes really popular. Then they would be fools to not support it.
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Aaargh! :)

Why am I being down-voted? Others on this page have stated that Microsoft shall not be as profitable going forward for reason X or Y or Z. I have stated why I think this is the case. I can't of course _prove_ it which is why I said that I have a bias up front. But if you look to the mobile phone landscape you have a situation where Android and Symbian are free software. It took a long time to happen and it took two technology giant neither of whose core business was operating systems and office tools per se. Don't you think that this is significant? Let's repeat this, nobody had any success competing with Microsoft at its core competencies until open source competition came along and even then the market that Microsoft "owns" is still firmly within their grasp. Somebody else on this very page expressed their opinion that the technology disruptor would be thin clients/cloud computing and didn't get down-voted for it. But I do. Please do not down-vote me if you disagree with my opinion, express yourself and tell me why you think I merit down-voting. Thanks.
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No. That'll happen when the Chinese reach the Moon.
ShedSkin is great if you don't want Python interoperability. Remember the excitement when they announced that Jython now runs Django? Cython allows you to run Django plus some optimized code, whereas there's currently no convenient way to make ShedSkin and CPython talk to each other. (And it's also the reason why hopes on PyPy are so high: A specializing JIT would allow you to combine all the flexibility and monkeypatching from CPython with the speed you normally only get from a compiler).
How does this prevent a MITM attack?
Do you still have a link to a picture of the stand? I don't seem to be able to find it in the comments.

Your post made me register for a HN account after lurking for a long time because I too run a non-software online business. I manufacture my own products, do our own web development etc.

You don't need to be distracted with raising funds and the what-nots like Luke has pointed out. When I first started out, I made a few samples and took a few pictures of them. I coded up my own website, loaded the products in and launched. All this was done with around $700.

With the amount you have raised up now, you should quickly start putting your products online (your own site, or perhaps even marketplaces like Etsy). Focus on getting customers and then keeping them.

My business is still young and I am nowhere near what some HN'ers have accomplished, but if you ever need a little help, feel free to contact me.
What's the point? How often do you disassemble your computer?

I'm pretty happy to go and look up some instructions (or, y'know, just undo all the screws) rather than having ugly stickers all over my laptop.
You're not worried the world seems to be shifting under our feet because of us simply doing what it takes to live?

If you were a programmer adding an extra feature to an existing system, and after a few days work you realize that 90% of the system has been modified by you in some way or another, won't you be alarmed?

In 200 years, many species have been driven to extinction by our activities, entire forests were chopped away, and countries are now sinking due to rising ocean levels "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives, and you're still not worried?

It's fine to be "disconnected from nature", as long as everything can keep going the same way, but I don't think they can. Our own artificial infrastructure is like a ponzi scheme, requiring ever increasing amounts of resources to support it. Until you can find a way that it'll support itself without killing everything around it (I'm not exaggerating, your roof is a desert.), it is not sustainable.
What is it about hollywood that makes people who work there think they are qualified to speak about technical matters?

70% of species? Seriously? That's just pure nonsense.
Hi Panos. My younger brother is in your class and I feel it is my duty to inform you that the kid has the creativity, work ethic, and street smarts to do big things, remarkably taking after his older brother. He's got my last name, and he deserves an A.

We were talking about what the legalities were for a class project like this if a student were to upload pirated content, etc. Who'd be responsible?
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1) Install WinSSHD on your home computer/server. Open port 22 in your home firewall/router.

2) Install Tunnelier on your laptop, flip to the Services tab and enable SOCKS at 127.0.0.1 and port 1337. Login in to your home computer.

3) Change Chrome target to chrome.exe --proxy-server=socks5://127.0.0.1:1337

Mostly used for obtrusive proxies though it will make you as secure as you are at your home network..
I included no clues as to my identity, less because of fear of retribution, and more because invasion of privacy is all the more frightening when it is committed by an absolute stranger with no chance of discovering their identity.

Disgusting. Sowing fear is not education.
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You probably want to have a look at this:

http://github.com/guillaumebort/play-scala/blob/master/docum...

Also, when you can life with some Java code that actually isn't very Java like, you can try the normal approach and later enhance with Scala.

They use compile time extension and Groovy in views to get a lot of syntactical sugar going on.
Yes, I did that, and it fixed the lag. Froyo is even better.
They aren't stickers, they are simple icons printed directly next to each screw hole with a table under the battery. It's very slick. Not vital as you say, but very nice. Especially if your manual is a pdf, the task is 20 pages long, and your only computer is the laptop.

Thinkpads have a lot of nice little touches like that. Mine even has drain holes for the keyboard in case of beverage. How often have i spilled? Never. Do i appreciate their presence? Very much so.

I have to inquire as well, how many laptps you serviced? 'cause they are usually a complete pain in the *#?!$.
if it were somehow deemed illegal, i'm sure github would get a subpoena requesting a list of everyone who downloaded firesheep... and then everyone on HN would be looking for a lawyer.
Gee I was really hoping for some magic, I guess this will do.

Thanks ;)
Add me to the list of curious.
Really? Users shouldn't be afraid of the consequences of something they believe to be benign? I didn't send Starbucks patrons home weeping to cry themselves to sleep. I fully concealed my identity in the same way an actual attacker would.
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sure everyone knows this already, but gmail allows

YourGmailAccountName+TheirDomain@gmail.com

I'd love to see people share stories and name names of companies they've caught spamming using this technique.

I just noticed that facebook won't validate if you try the "+" gmail alias.
It doesn't. Is it possible to do a MITM attack on the person at the neighboring coffee-shop table?

The only way I can think of involves being really clever about timing and being physically between the other wireless client and the AP: create enough interference to prevent their transmission from getting through to the AP right after you read the transmission, then quickly forge a request using the same one-time key.

Of course, if someone has access to the packets upstream from the AP, you're always hosed if you're not using encryption. This certainly isn't meant as a replacement for AES. :)