skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with Umair haque on this one when he says our educational institutions need serious reform, first. So how does paying super smart kids to create the same old paradigm change anything?
Even for lisp, you would have to define an extended syntax for it and modify the parser to additionally read and store whitespaces, comments and newlines.

Note I said AST + stream of lexical tokens. If you store the whitespace and comments as tokens, such information can be preserved, including formatting hints.
Warning: extremely gruesome video. Imho this has no place on HN.
Hopefully Remote Wipe will still work by shedding the keys altogether.
How did his domain change break the main site?
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From three weeks ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515612
So... you can use brute force to break encryption? Is that news? It doesn't sound like there was any security hole in the implementation or a leaked cryptographic key, so in what sense is the encryption "cracked"?
Eric Fisher is fully credited at the bottom of the post, with links to him and the photostream this is taken from.
I believe that is what the site developers are asking themselves at this very moment.
Tourists take pictures of public works. People take pictures of their houses.
The encryption hasn't quite been cracked. This tool is just brute-forcing the passcode, which by default is 4 digits long, so it wouldn't take that long to brute-force that anyways.

Also, the tool seems to perform an online attack with the phone connected, which means that Apple will be able to stop this from going on.

Seing that only an online attack can be done hints at the fact that the key derivation method that turns the 4 digit passcode into the AES key isn't known (yet).

I'd say that you are (still) pretty save if you use the longer password instead of the passcode and as long as the tool requires the phone to be connected, we can count on Apple patching the issue.

It's funny how these articles always talk about having "cracked the AES encryption" when all they do is brute-forcing a password.
I completely agree. It's tiresome to repeat yourself over and over, specially when you know it's also in the clients' best interest to not work with someone who guesses (and therefore often overestimates to be on the safe side). I'm hoping our prospective clients will read this blog post first and then -still- want to contact us. They are the gems you want to work with.
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Oftentimes preconceived notions about tech will cloud your vision on implementation. If you are aware of a certain challenge, you will, more often than not, change your design to simplify the challenge. Someone without the experience will not be bound by those limitations and can always figure out how to do it later.

When we look to high profile businessmen, more often then not they do not have the education behind them. Nothing wrong with getting some training, but I'm not sure it is beneficial when it comes to business. There is no evidence that supports it.
I'd be somewhat more interested in a program like this if it were being run by someone I believed actually wanted in good faith to improve education/business, rather than having ulterior political motives. Thiel is quite open that his main motivation is that he thinks universities promote politics he dislikes, so he'd like to destroy them for that reason. He also claims that in doing so he'd improve education, but it seems like a secondary motivation. My guess is that he would be willing to accept education even getting slightly worse as a tradeoff, if it got rid of the negative influence (in his view) of universities for libertarian politics.

(See Woz and Salman Khan for examples of education reformers who seem to have education reform as their actual #1 goal.)

edit: Of course, as full disclosure I'm in academia, so perhaps have my own ulterior motives. =] But honestly I think Salman Khan's approach is a bigger threat to the higher-education status quo than Thiel's is, mainly because it's much more scalable. So from a pure self-interest point of view I ought to dislike that one more!
So what's stopping you? Do you need a hundred thousand before you can proceed any further? At the age of 30 you'll have a much easier time with the traditional angel funding slash venture capitalist route than a nineteen-year-old kid would.
Doesn't seem like that much money to quit college over. You could just go get a job I guess and make that in a couple years or less, if these are really the "whiz kids." Also, I'm sure these kids are very smart but some of those ideas look extremely lofty. Are these kids really at that level in their education and is 100K really even close to enough money to fund a 1-man research lab? I'm just a bit skeptical.
Although I'd love to fund my idea using my credit, the fact is that the sins I'd committed in college follow me today. I literally can't finance a toaster. Is that a black mark on my profile? Perhaps. But I don't think I should live in a permanent state of poverty simply because I blew off a few cards years ago.
I'm blown away that you can change the font for cmd.exe, but you only get one other option: Lucida Console. Still, it beats "Raster Fonts".
While not hard, it is not super-easy either, they are encrypted etc. Anyone with a bit of knowledge about python and debugging a Windows application and a few hours can do it.
Well, if you order images from a US company, you get limited resolution over US military bases and Israel. But say a Russian company will give you full resolution everywhere.
Seems to me that the maxim 'put nothing on the internet that you don't want exposed' should be applied to cell phones as well. Given the decreasing protection provided by the courts, this sort of tool will be used more and more often. Those who talk of unreasonable search and seizure need to pay attention to today's realities.
Nice exposure for DJ Paul though.
What argument? Let them put forward a justification for what they propose, rather than a naked power play in their own self interest. Let them participate in an actual forum instead of this contrived horseshit. Then they'll hear all the arguments they can stand.
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On this topic we've just launched a hosted competitor monitoring service, http://www.webalertpro.com

It's a website content monitoring service that generates daily reports for all content changes for all your competitors websites.

It was a quite an interesting technical challenge since most sites generate loads of small unimportant changes (and text moving around in lists, dynamic news reels, dates etc..) of no interest to anyone. So the approach we tool was to rank each change. So when a user adds a new site to monitor the first few days of crawling it are spent learning where the important content changes take place on the site. We can then report assign to each change alert a score between 1 and 10 (ChangeRank!).

We're getting quite some interest in the applications of this, from campaign monitoring, marketing compliance and figuring out what content changes your competitors are making for the purpose of SEO.
Source?

I hope you're not implying that the point of the Fellowship is to destroy academia.
Amazing how often this happens to even large corporations. Sign a very expensive contract with a supplier at a "flat fixed fee", requirements are never detailed enough and always changing. Much better off paying time and materials or create a partnership where both benefit from the outcome
> Speaking of worlds, climate change is real. Even my amateurish, admittedly clunky analyses makes that glaringly obvious

A warming trend in Boston does not make global climate change "glaringly obvious", and for somebody with an obvious statistical training to say so is even more disappointing.

(Please read my argument carefully: I am not arguing anything at all about the existence of global climate change!)
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Yes, you'd still own taxes on this, since it's considered income. The only way you're going to skirt the tax laws is if you get paid under the table, and whoever's paying you is willing to risk not sending you a 1099 form. Your best bet for this is by finding smaller jobs from Mom & Pop shops.
Forensic Software Breaks iPhone 4 Hardware Encryption
Bill Gates on the future from 1995
Shopping trolley with sat nav to help you find your way in a supermarket
Finding the Right Business Mentor is Value Squared
Don't shell out big bucks -- lots of open source BI suites are available
Mentat, to your second point, I have had the same experience.

Even in classes and curricula that are supposed to be interdisciplinary, the boundaries are still rigid and the connections superficial. That compromises learning. And, I think one of the reasons for that is professors are afraid of being wrong and they're not trained to travel outside their domain of expertise. The ivory tower thrives on specialization. If the gatekeepers are not bold enough to cross-pollinate ideas, students are disadvantaged.
I am torn on that because I'm not sure that choosing not to attend was a wise decision.

But anyone who didn't back the interests of mass media going into that forum had to know that the deck was stacked against them. That is, that they would be regarded as a sideshow - a token representative from outside the sphere of consensus. That's all John Barlow is here. Let's have EFF put together a similar event and see how many representatives from the copyright regime show up. Let's see if they get Jim Gianopulos from 20th Century Fox.

Let's not pretend this entire conference was anything other than a PR stunt. These are the same assholes behind ACTA.
There's nothing special about getting something like that done. There's nothing special about people who spend time on that kind of stuff either, save for the fact that they spend time on it. It's not difficult to be at the top, what's difficult is getting there and having enough resolve and persistence to do it. Only change is painful.
I think the posts have quite a lot of value and are really relevant to this audience.
Wow, thanks! I've been looking at some of the fonts (mainly Inconsolas-dz, Anonymous Pro, Droid and Vera) and this is a great font. Love it!
This seems like it could be really useful when paired with "The Gutenberg Method" (http://entropysite.oxy.edu/morrison.html), which basically asks students to do the assigned reading at home, along with some type of annotation of "Here's what to look for".

Then, in class the next day, the teacher answers any questions, briefly covers any difficult concepts, and they can spend the rest of the class-time engaging with each other instead of lecturing.

My suspicion (disclaimer: I was, at one point, a teacher) is that if you want people to use this service, you'll have to show how it improves instruction, and you'll have to do so in much more concrete terms than you have here.

That said, if I ever have a classroom of my own again, I can see myself using this tool when appropriate.
These kids' parents must hate Thiel. What does this guy know about what's good for their futures?
I don't want to start the whole global warming debate again (those threads can be a real pain on here) something did bug me here

The author says...

"Speaking of worlds, climate change is real. Even my amateurish, admittedly clunky analyses makes that glaringly obvious. Boston’s temperatures are on the rise and we’re getting heavier rain. "

But that's an erroneous statement. What he means is that warming is real but that's not a fact that anyone I know of disputes. The question is to the cause of that warming and if that cause represents a change of climate due to our behavior or a naturally cyclical trend that we don't have enough data to measure.

The reason I point this out is because badly defined debates don't get us anywhere. Unless we're clear on what the actual questions are we can't accurately debate the answers.
This is such an awesome idea. I wonder why nobody give a real world use to games like Angry Birds. Given the right methophor there must be a way of putting an useful angle on mindless entertainment.
He certainly appears to be a real DJ.
Ask HN: Good place to publish a security model
Dear Aunt Irma,

We've been working for a few years now on a very nice web development platform with a considerable array of security defenses. It's now high time to document & publish the security model. Any thoughts on where to do this? Project Blog? Academic Journal? OWASP Project Page? etc.

With coding love,

Yoric
It's not just the passcode they are recovering. That recovery requires the phone, but there's also the key reocvery and bit-to-bit image copy. The ElcomSoft describes the 3 statges:

- Extract hardware-dependent keys, file system keys and escrow keys from the device;
- Recover the passcode (subject to passcode length and complexity);
- Obtain bit-to-bit copy of device storage.
Woah, that information should definitely be in the introduction, as is customary for blog authors who are presenting the work of others. I didn't know it isn't your work until I read this comment.
I do think the author overstated the case; I think when he says a Nobel prizewinner is 'winging it', I interpret it to mean in their process of coming to understanding. By definition, people like Nobel prizewinners or billionaires had multiple turning points in their careers where they made decisions under uncertainty. And by definition, uncertainty means chance is involved. At those points they were winging it and could easily have been wrong. Just like our coin flipper.

Similarly, in a championship chess match there will be points where even the most skilled player in the world may be uncertain as to which move is best. At those points, they too are winging it. If they intuitively make the best move without being able to fully explain why they are making it, does that not prove the author's point?
I experiment with this a lot, my fonts folder is full of fixed width fonts. But I somehow always go back to Monaco (11pt) white on black background. This is using TextMate, non anti-alias. (Example: http://tinypic.com/r/2hnayq8/7 ) Perhaps TextMate is too limited in this respect (it doesn't handle proportional fonts well).
I totally agree and think that even if these awards aren't going to the "right" people it is still a worthwhile process for all of those involved. I was nominated by my school for the Goldwater scholarship and also applied to the NSF Graduate Fellowship and found both to be incredibly worthwhile. It wasn't until I wrote (and rewrote) my Goldwater essays that I had a good grasp of what I really wanted to do with life. Sure, at that point I had been doing 'research' and other creative activities, but I had never forced myself to really self-reflect and figure out how my interests come together.
Really? That's unfortunate.

I spent my first three years at university learning complicated sciencey shit until knew enough to be set free on real research problems; then I spent the rest of my time doing research.
Show HN: Byword for Mac, a simple text editor with Markdown support
Byword 1.2 added Markdown editing, previewing and exporting to HTML.

While version 1.0 was positioned as a distraction-free/minimalist text editor, we now feel the need to detract a bit from that space. We are currently investing a lot more in the efficiency and needs of web writers, listening carefully and working hard to put out new updates (3 Mac App Store updates in less than 2 months--not recommended).

If you feel like trying the app, we are specifically looking for feedback on what Byword can do to help creative/web writers. There's a free trial for download at http://bywordapp.com

Thank you.

Also, we'd like to thank Fletcher Penney for his contributions to MultiMarkdown. Byword is now a better piece of software because of him.
It does show a glaring change in Boston's climate. If you read the page carefully, nowhere does the author say anything about global climate.
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Aesthetics -- nothing else.

As for the grid alignment, I never make block-style comments and normal indentation works just the same. I am not sure what you mean with "randomness".
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Bostonian here. The lady and I have been convinced that this winter was significantly worse than usual, and wondered why no one else seemed to think it was so weirdly awful. Glad we're not alone, and that we weren't wrong. Wow, did it suck. Excellent article and research by Mr. Dobres.
The 100K is meant for living expenses. Getting outside funding is encouraged (just not a job). A lot of these kids are frighteningly smart, and yeah some of the ideas are very lofty (asteroid mining!) and probably will change in time, but pivoting is also encouraged. Also bear in mind that Thiel is offering access to an astounding network of mentors, which for the lofty projects is even more valuable than the money.
To read the article, a bunch of these kids seemed to have already decided to leave school. Though I'm sure you're absolutely right about some.
If they don't fix it, DJ Paul Phusion will soon be a household name
Sounds useful, but I hardly see myself spending 20$ on something that looks trivial. Did I miss any complicated feature?
Reminds me about a big site in (www.bilddagboken.se)

Its a site where people can register and post pictureblogs. If I register as ryan the adress to my page would be ryan.bilddagboken.se.

After YEARS of running the place (around 800.000 users) someone registered the username "www". This resulted in all visitors that typed www.bilddagboken.se (or used a bookmark) was directly redirected to the user "www" page. His/Hers page had thousandths of angry comments accusing him/her of hacking bilddagboken.se
They weren't selling it directly, but they are making money off of it without giving her a cut.
Clickable links:

Website: http://bywordapp.com

Mac App Store: http://bywordapp.com/mas
There are a few successful businessmen with no or very limited higher education... but they're quite few. You'll find more CEOs with PhDs than with high school diplomas.
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Updated the post, Eric Fisher is now credited both before and after the photos.
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Maybe you should experiment with the size and chrome and fonts of the screenshots at http://bywordapp.com a bit. The text is very small, and somehow the monospace font looks ugly to me (certainly a matter of taste). Testing (by measuring the clicks on the trial and app store links) might bring some objectivity to that.
My own first experience in trying to contribute where far from that pleasant and successful.

This was some years ago; I was working on one of those (back then) much beloved projects of integrating Linux file servers into an existing Active Directory domain.

This works pretty neat and well with samba, kerberos and samba's "winbind" daemon. Now, that winbind daemon can store its users/user-mappings on an LDAP server thus several Linux file servers would share a common user database. Typically this was done by setting up or using a separate OpenLDAP but with a few tricks, one could actually use the Active Directory itself to store all that along-side the user and not have the hassle of having to set up yet another directory server or tree.

I tried contacting the samba team but never really got a reply other than "they will look at it" and after months of not hearing from them, I asked again and that was it; haven't heard from them since.
I write program "A," which I copyright. Somebody translates A into representation "B," which is functionally identical to A, without being literally identical. This seems parallel to the following case:

I write a blog in English. Somebody translates my words to Russian, creating a document that is semantically identical to my words.

Copyright seems to apply here in a most appropriate way.
> The question is to the cause of that warming and if that cause represents a change of climate due to our behavior

and, even if you assume that it's due to our behavior, that doesn't tell us what to do about it, or even if we should do something. (There are significant benefits to a slightly warmer planet.)

The proposals, while very expensive, aren't predicted to make a significant difference by their proponents, so it's unclear why we should adopt them.
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My searching on this topic turned up this interesting book - http://www.amazon.com/Remote-Sensing-Archaeology-Interdiscip...

Seems like these techniques are going to radically change how we find new archaeological sites. Tech. project idea: Build some tools to help archaeologists learn and share from each other with this data. Build a world wide database of IR imagery just a few meters below the surface?
As a fellow Bostonian, I completely agree. I mostly came to the same conclusions (three straight weeks of snow with no melt days), but it's good to see it written out in numbers.
Limiting your keyspace to 10000 combinations is insecure, there's nothing more you need to say really.

The difference between the simple passcode and the complex password is the difference between a little padlock and a vault door. It shouldn't be news, except that the fundamentals of encryption aren't well-known by the public.
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No hacking here, just a simple misconfiguration in our Rails app. Nothing to see here, move along. ;)
There is such a show, it follows Suze Orman on CNBC on Saturday nights (I forget the name off the top of my head, something about being married to debt). It's not all low-income people, but it meets the rest of the criteria.
It's ageist only because it's targeting college students before they accumulate tons of student loan debt.
There is some discussion on this bug report, and a possible temporary fix.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=69253
YAYAY Its fixed!
DOn't ask me why but I can see this going horribly wrong!
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Apparently Duchamp actually went to great lengths to create or to modify the items he "found", and then denied changing them at all, in what is perhaps yet another level of irony. Or so I've read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readymades_of_Marcel_Duchamp#Do...
I have no idea on how I would use this, but it definitely sounds interesting.

Giving it a try on our websites immediately.
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The issue of web accessibility is as valid as ever. Laws such as the Disability and Equality Act in the UK and the Americans With Disabilities Act in the US mean that accessibility is now a matter of legality and not just courtesy. It’s always important to remember that inclusive design is great design – and a keen eye for accessibility and usability can mark the difference between a good designer and a great designer. As such, the following are ten pro-active tips – designed to help you improve the web experience for disabled users.
Would you drop out of school to get success in silicon valley?
Privacy preserving P2P data sharing
so then it's not your age that's condemns you, but your credit score.
Microsoft retracts Ballmer's Windows 8 in 2012 comments
Oh, nice job making the encapsulating characters extra bold.
I was trying to find the CDixon tweet that said something to the effect: "In a year personal payments will be revolutionized."

Between BitCoin, Square, and everyone elses entry into the market its hard not to agree.
It would be nice if one could overimpose those graphs to a google map.
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