skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Know your system administrator
If I was AT&T looking for unauthorized tethering folk, I'd focus on the people that are using > 2 GB a month + other various heuristics. Something deff smells funny if someone is using substantial bandwidth and much of the traffic is with a UserAgent like Firefox or Chrome
About 11 yrs ago I was in a chat room talking to someone, he was using this sort of language, was about 16 years old, told me he sold his security company for millions. Of course I wrote him off. Later he sold another company for 35 millions, and today has another one on the market for 100 millions. That's before 30 years old. We're good friends today, and I learned my lesson. Don't write people off because they sound or look "unprofessional".
That's not half as exciting as to write into the raw, uncharted territory of your virtual address space...
There are real references in JavaScript - when you pass objects. This case is completely ignored. I want to get the same pointer when it's the same object, even if the properties have changed. This is stubborn. I have solved this problem in a library - and you need to add the id to the object itself.
Anyway, explicit pointers are pretty "pointless" in JavaScript and should only used for recursion detection.
its times like these (among others) that makes me happy my browser automatically updates behind the scenes
I really never know what to say to posts that so ineptly and incorrectly support the correct conclusion.
Considering the business they're in, I'm not sure lying about that would be a good idea.
No, it just means that it doesn't violate one part of one law: the anticircumvention provision of the DMCA.

And the exemption only applies if "circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such [software] applications, when they have been lawfully obtained..." One could argue that skirting carrier rules on tethering is different from enabling interoperability.

Further, it has no bearing on any contract you may have with your carrier.
That should be "TI [Texas Instruments] makes an embedded watch kit".

This watch and the Chronos are made by the same manufacturer.
Judges hand down the law with help from Bob Dylan
ARM Unfazed By Intel's New '3D' Chips
Alan Turing has enough of a tragic hero charisma to serve as one; it's ridiculous his name isn't even mentioned in the post. It's another question whether popularization is a good thing in the first place. According to one sentiment, medicine is perceived as being "too popular" (no doubt at least in part thanks to the popular medical dramas you see on TV), filled with people who are in it exclusively for money rather than for intellectual challenge or desire to help people. As a result, many bright people who would have made great doctors do not go into it.
What To Expect At Google I/O
Heh.. I never _met_ in real life single person studying CS and being a good at programming. So what? =))

I also was studying network engineering, not CS, but I still believe I am good programmer and clients willing to pay for my work only prove it more.

This is regarding your aggressiveness of the last line...

Now - what you are saying is basically what I meant - do not just learn (as memorizing) algo, but try to implement it yourself, or better - stuck with a problem where you have to implement algo yourself not knowing such algo already exists and described. (of course, this is not applicable when you work for a client, that's why 'fun' period is necessary =))
Or just assume that high data users are all tethering.
WebKit now supports remote debugging in nightly builds
Inside LaunchRock- A behind the scenes look with co-founder Jameson Detweiler
seems odd to me that they don't publicly disclose the vulnerabilities, but they do publicly disclose the software versions affected by their "weaponized exploits", thereby giving the heads up to whomever might be targeted to avoid using that newly compromised software.
I'm not arguing that that is necessarily the best possible end-state for copyrights, but I do think that this sort of radical move in a western economy would have very interesting, and probably very positive, for that country, consequences.

For a start, a shedload of startups would spring up to monetise all the music and movies and books that are suddenly available. They would quickly iterate through business models before settling on whatever the customers actually want. Once the dust settles, then it would make sense for the government to step back in once again, and say, "ok, now we have a reasonably stable distribution system, let's see how we can enforce some kind of compulsory licence to ensure artists get a share of the pie too."

But the only way to get there is first to eliminate the current copyright holders, shove them out of the picture entirely.
Just so you have a heads up, it's an iTunes link.
Conversely, Americans can't listen to Spotify, or watch many of the european broadcaster's online streams (e.g. Eurovision)
so many words... this is probably a better place to start
http://singinst.org/singularityfaq
Sometimes you really do just want to pass a value by reference. It turns out that most of the time you want to do this the variable already is an object or array already, nevertheless there are cases where this would be desirable, so it's not a bad idea when used carefully.

Having said that, malloc is a bad idea and completely unnecessary, and a nicer way to do the functionality might be to do:

function pmk(val) { return { v: val }; }
function pget(p) { return p.v; }
function pset(p, val) { return p.v = val; }

Doesn't need free'ing, at the minimal expense of creating one object per "pointer".

Neither of the solutions give you an "address of" type behaviour though :(
I'm willing to bet any of their Government customers wouldn't be able to confirm the exploit anyhow. Seems like an easy way to keep a lucrative Government contract...
I have avoided subscribing to Netflix for this exact reason. Hulu is bad enough, and that's all the TV I watch.
Does this thing actually transmit at 433.92 MHz? That's right in the 70 cm ham band!
In the iOS games we made, we opted out explicitly. The games weren't ones that people would quit and relaunch with great frequency, so it made sense to just not bother. By the time they relaunched it, it probably would have been terminated in the meantime by the OS anyway, just due to normal use of other apps.
Sorry, didn't see these replies. But I just wanted to add, that at our busy bar, the manager's IDs were passworded. Actually, I assume they were passworded. I do not that for certain functions, the managers had a mechanism to go in a delete items or change price/add discounts etc. I'm not sure of what scenario you could commonly avoid by passwording the server ID. Maybe messing around with other server's checks happens at other restaurants (but then I assume they have a slew of other problems.)

We did however have situations where I would need to enter alternate server IDs for different things. What comes to mind is that we had an ID for bar comps so that we could keep track of inventory.

Perhaps discoverability makes sense in certain restaurant scenarios. At our sushi restaurant/bar, I don't know that I ever had to "discover" something?
"With 20 to 25 binary analysis and private exploits/PoCs released each month, the VUPEN In-Depth Binary Analysis and Exploits service allows organizations and corporations to evaluate and qualify risks, and protect national infrastructures and corporate assets from emerging attacks."

If you are interested in protecting your network, patches and workarounds are your first priority, not "proof of concept" exploits.
nothing; nor does anything stop you from doctoring video. but it doesn't seem like faking this would be very beneficial for anyone involved.
> In these situations you currently have to know two things: what time it is over there, and what the cultural norms for work and mealtimes are. If time were internationally uniform, you'd only need the latter.

For some time now I've included my time zone in the mouseprint of my email signature block; it'd be easy enough to include one's usual hours of availability as well.
Why do I get the feeling that this line of research invariably ends with "thanks for all the fish"?
Looks like you took my last line very personally. :)

Agree fully with what you say in last para. No disagreement there.

Peace.
I think this is fair, but it would be good form to admit when you don't have a good alternative solution.
It's interesting to jump between his opening comment on society 'tolerating' the uncooperatives (as long as they're not too numerous or too effective) to his end-point that the dishonest minority serves as a catalyst for social change.

His statement of toleration of uncooperatives doesn`t seem to capture that society is better off with some of them (the dissenters) and that its actually in the interests of the governors to tolerate a certain amount of uncooperatives - not just because it overly onerous not to, but because otherwise stagnation will make the whole society vulnerable to an outside competitor.
What's the best e-learning platform (SaaS) for instructor-led courses?
So you've traded timezones for lunchzones. Instead of calculating the timezone, you need to calculate when the local lunchtime is.

There is no net benefit.
Err I meant "load the results on the same page", not ads.
I love these 'founder predicts massive growth in near future' items. If you added up the market share that everyone expected to get in 4 years I would be surprised if the number was under 1000% of the actual market size at that time.
Actually, solving most practical instances of NP hard problems is doable and quite tractable.
At the very least, they will threaten to charge you with... whatever.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110303/ap_on_re_us/us_gps_track...

> the agents who showed up to collect the device were "hostile," threatening to charge Afifi if he didn't immediately cooperate and refusing his request to have a lawyer present.
>The problem is that they sold you "all the water you could carry" and then reneged when you pulled in with your truck (with the bucket they gave you duct-taped to the inlet with a hole in punched in the bottom).

What they sold you is in the contract, which specifies non-tethered data access. To continue your water analogy, they sold you all the water you could carry in that bucket, and you signed a contract saying you wouldn't try to connect the bucket to anything else.

This is really straightforward contract law. If you want to do something, don't sign a contract promising you won't do it.
I have to say inception wasn't too difficult to understand. I still don't understand Primer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film) though.
When you get downvoted, just wait a bit. It seems in the last two years or so we acquired some trigger-happy idiots. It still usually balances out in the end.
It sounds like a very low-tech imitation of the
Great Firewall of China.
SpaceX designed Dragon for Mars
I'm glad you found us here. I should've posted a comment on your blog.

Anyway, I wonder if you might be able to give us some insight as a game designer as to what goes into creating a game. Do you start with a theme? Mechanics? A particular goal (like the one you've set out here to create a thousand year game)?
Why and how leaders should use social media to connect with young people
I think it's a reference to the Pwn2Own contest - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Pwn2Own

Chrome's historically performed extremely well in the competition, which is why it's notable they've actually found an exploit.
"Whore" is vernacular, but that doesn't mean the FBI uses the word when they announce they've cracked a prostitution ring.
"Non-commercial" is apparently a huge can of worms. You could try something along the lines of "if you distribute binaries, you must do so under an OSI-approved license" (or pay for a "commercial" license, obviously). This isn't perfect (people could use your compiler to compile serverside software "for free"), but at least it's unambiguous.
what ide can this language be programmed in.can i use eclipse
The problem with the Dawkins title is that there are two ways to parse it. The correct (imho) way is to read it as a declaration that genes as a class are selfish. It is easily (indeed, I'd say more easily) parsed as an introduction to a gene that codes for the trait of selfishness.

Whatever faults you might have with Schneier's title, I don't think you can say that there are multiple ways to parse it.
Another place for viruses?
Unless Google is one of their customers it may actually be a little while before this exploit is fixed. VUPEN does security research and doesn't disclose to original vendors unless they happen to be customers.

I both love and hate them. They are extremely talented and find absolutely awesome bugs that are hard to discover without a lot of work, and I hate them because they don't disclose their work unless it is for money. While I can understand that they have to make a living too, it just feels wrong to not protect everyone in the world when possible.
It has to be a joke. Its just a closure.
vupen: "Hey Google, your browser has a very nasty bug that allows for potentially horrible things to happen. We thought we'd share that with the world. If you'd like to know where it is though, you'd better give us money."
Internet boom 2.0 is here, starts to look bubbly
PlayStation Network not to be Restored Before May 31
Where would you put your proxy to be clear of both "think of the rights holders" and "think of the children" as valid reasons to filter your access ?
Give me the same app on Android that identifies edible plants and I'd be shelling out some serious money for it, either for the app itself or to license the technology.
missing :: Midnight Commander
easy way to manage files. It is part of the Orthodox File Managers crowd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_mana...
The reality is that there is probably no chance that they would ever find these bugs if they weren't funded to do it and the only way to be funded is to have customers.

The net result is probably safer software for all.
The Righthaven model as seen by a pro-IP-monetization lawyer
Manuscripts come filled with errors, and it takes a lot of time to find all of them and correct them. Errors include punctuation, spelling, grammar, word choice and even style. It's not just something you can leave to a speedreader or a computer program.

Typesetting is the precursor to (web) page design. There's a lot of work involved. Programs like Adobe inDesign streamline the tedious aspects of page design, but not the work that goes into actually designing the look of each page.
Nothing keeps you from doing it, their reputation keeps them from doing it.
No idea why you were being downvoted. I was just curious, as people were using the terms interchangably and they aren't always used that way.
The proverbial "this." When friends and family ask if I've seen this or that, I usually reply "no," but if pressed ("Turn on channel 6 now! There's a dog driving a lawn mower!") I politely remind them I don't have a TV.

The fact is, I do have a small (wait, 32" is small now?) one in the bedroom, but it's hooked up to AppleTV and Roku, for the sole purpose of putting on podcasts and informational videos (like TED Talks or Khan Academy) to fall asleep to.
Oh, it's probably not about making it impossible. Just about inconvenience. The Chinese firewall can also be easily circumvented.
And how did we get to this point from the word "dishonest", which is what we're talking about here?
Since were going with the "songs and music and anything digital are just bits...".

What about identity theft? It's just words on a piece of paper representing you as a person. Should we say the same thing when someone "steals" (just like with digital items, nothing is actually stolen) your identity?

What about your bank account? In most banks it's just numbers representing money...but it's just 'bits'..right?

Currency is also just ink and paper. Like digital goods, it's only as valuable as what people are willing to pay. Why should I be put in jail for copying ink that is on a piece of paper?

"IP is just a way for established players to be lazy and avoid finding business models that acknowledge reality. Unfortunately, their laziness and greed also cost us civil liberties since freedom to copy a string of bits is indistinguishable from free speech."

You want to talk about greed? The greedy people are the ones that download music and movies for free and devalue the work of people that put hundreds and thousands of hours to make it.
> No, it's actually not their choice.

That's incorrect. See below.

> Society has long recognized that there is a tradeoff between benefits to the creator and benefits to society. As evidenced by e.g. the US copyright clause which says that Congress can (not must) extend copyrights to further the progress of the sciences and the useful arts (not to reward content creators, that's a means, not an end).

Yes, and society has decided that the proper balance in that tradeoff is to give creators the choice in deciding when particular copies of their works are made available to the public, which means that it is in fact their choice.
If by poor you mean lazy, then say lazy. Right now you are poor in karma because you were too lazy to articulate your idea more clearly, and have obviously offended several people enough to get downvoted. I wasn't one of them, but statements like 'the poor are a parasitic element' are pointlessly antagonistic.
How SBNation Marries Talent and Technology in Sports
A Conversation with Steve Blank: Why Entrepreneurship is an Art - TNW
The weirdest thing is that I know this guy. And I thought, "Oh, Chris would love this." Only to find out that this was him. Weird. Agreed to the other guy about Primer -- I couldn't follow..
If you're selling a product you have to get the word out somehow.
Yeah, usually I travel on weekends so I wind up losing a Saturday and gaining an additional Monday.
It's possible. Owning a company and working at company and living in a dorm/going to college all give you different experiences.
Reddit announces meetups
It's not like "hacked" is a much better to the professional technical community.
Why not? This is highly specialized research that not even well-paid Google employees were able to do.

This is actually quite common in recent years for bug hunters and exploit developers. I can think of a dozen or so companies that do the same thing. Immunity is another example.

Trying to use a moral argument to get out of compensating someone when you have the resources to do so is shameful. Sorry, but this stuff is worth far more than the (up to) $3133 they are offering.

No More Free Bugs, as they say.

They can either pay a nominal fee for doing their security work for them, or they can hire some equally talented people and fund this type of research on their own internally. Fair is fair. There is no reason this isn't worth compensating but something like pagerank optimizations is.
Obama: “Justice has Been Done”  What?  So, how many US civillians died that day?
Linkin park | In The End video unpublished
LinkedIn IPO: 7.84M Shares at $32-$35 Each
It could have easily been a lot worse. It's a quirk of geography that the part of the world exactly 180 degrees from London, which just happened to be the capital of the world when the human race got around to setting up sensible time zones, happens to be a north-so-south slice of mostly unpopulated ocean, where only a few minor islands need to worry about this kind of thing.

Heck, there are a lot of possible globes where there's no sensible place to put an international date line at all... every north-south slice goes through a populated landmass.
Sports and social media is ripe for the taking and SBNation is making all the right moves to be the preeminent player in the space
Direct link to device gallery:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxto...
That's surprising. At places I've worked, when people get fired it is immediate (access cut off to accounts while the employee is getting the news). I've seen severance conditional on not filing for unemployment (2 weeks to 1 month pay) as well.

I worked a lot of service jobs before getting into more professional fields. No one ever got severance/extra pay.

I'm sure it depends on the sector the employer is in and the size of the employer, though as you said they are all customs, but traditional implies predominant, and while I hope that is the case, it hasn't been my experience.
Letsbuy Discount Coupon Code May 2011
Show HN: our startup weekend #swbay project
imaiku.me is a real time photo search engine. type in a word and see the most recent photos taken and tagged with that word all over the world.

some of my favorites: paris, love, sundaystreets
I think the version disclosure here was less of a "This version has a bug" and more of a "The latest version has a bug." It's a lot safer to tell people which haystack the needle is in than to give away the needle anyway.
Yeah but if company A spends x million in production budget, how is it fair for company B to sell the product without paying company A? Or perhaps A isn't a company but an author or software developer.

My point was that this isn't creating a boost in an economy because while B makes money, A loses money. How about these startups creating something of value them selves, that they can then sell?
I worked full-time on readwarp.com for 8 months. When I started I was terrified that I'd run out of money. But when I finally gave up I found I had more runway than I'd projected. What I ran out of was ideas. I'm hoping next time that having a cofounder will help keep up a stream of ideas.

---

It's not about finding an interesting idea fully formed. It's about constantly generating new things to try, new trails to blaze.

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"As if I don't have enough things on my to-do list."

If it's closing you to new ideas your todo list is too much baggage. I've grown super sensitive to this; I prune my todo list all the time[1].

It's hard to be open to new ideas all the time, of course. Being too open can interfere with actually doing anything. The author of "Flow" says successful people tend to alternate between being open and exploratory, and being closed/focussed on getting something out the door. I imagine it as weaving alternately on either side of the ideal line. It's impossible to perfectly balance both sides, but you don't have to be perfect.

[1] My todo list is in version control for many years now, and every now and then I check out what it looked like a month or a year ago. It's amazing to me how rapidly items turn over. Most ideas form and die within 2 weeks.
Acne Vulgaris and having Jay Leno Mock Me
What problem does this solve? What problem do either of these ideas solve? Is the question, "What is the best way to troll programmers on the internet?"
World of Warcraft to go IPv6