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I agree. Briefly looking at the description of it, it is some sort of compressed sensing. The differences from traditional CS are minimal in fact, but the scheme is in line with some of the work undertaken in manifold signal processing. The differences are:
- the proposed hash is deterministic, generally in CS, you want to rely on random projections (yet there are some results for deterministic problems) in order to get some sort of universality and by the same token some sort of robustness.
- step 3 and 4, are the most fascinating steps because they are clearly one of the approaches used in manifold signal processing for images. To summarize, in order for pictures to be close to each other on a manifold, you really want to defocus them. I'll put something on my blog on the matter. This is the reason why the has of two images next to each other are close in the "hash" or manifold space.
- for one image, the hash seems to provide 16 measurements (16 bits of the hash result). That would be OK if the initial picture was at the size and color of the picture after step 1 and 2. So in effect, that information is lost. However, in CS you also have "lossy" scheme such as the 1-bit compressed sensing approach (there you retain only the sign of the measurement!, i.e. a little bit like step 6). The reconstruction of these 1-bit pictures are not the original but they are close).

(ps: I write a small blog on CS).
"This Film Is Not Yet Rated" talks about some of the American film propaganda machine. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/

Want to shoot a war movie? Need access to military assets? You're going to have to run the movie by the Pentagon first to make sure it portrays "The Right Side of the Story".

Also the US has tax credits for scripts which incorporate messages in support of the war on drugs. This is why you see ridiculous bullshit on CSI like kids dying after falling off a roof while high on.. GASP.. MARIJUANA!

Land of the free, home of the brainwashed. This is why I try not to consume very much mainstream media. It's not exactly on the level with denial of historical events - people wouldn't stand for that. It has to be more subtle, and it is, and it works.
REST is good, SOAP is bad

The irony is that SOAP is a lot closer to being RESTful than RPC-over-HTTP aka "REST API", because SOAP actually attempts to have a uniform interface driven by hypertext (WSDL). That doesn't mean it's easier, but REST is not supposed to be easy.
There's nothing wrong with that. Your testing tool just doesn't have DigiCert installed as a trusted cert.

Use this instead: http://www.ssllabs.com/
>to have to register with the government every time you move

Well, the US keeps track of where you are based on tax returns. The difference is that in Switzerland I'm somewhere on a map and if I move I show up in a new place on the map the day I move there. In the US I'll still be where I was until tax returns come in, at which point everyone's location is updated. It's like a population status screen where Switzerland has a real-time refresh rate and the US has up to 1 year lag time.

>and, by extension, the US

No, not by extension the US. He probably mentioned this specifically because he saw you were American. Brits take particular delight in telling us yanks about how they don't have any constitution that outlines what their rights are.

>differences between English speaking and non English speaking developed nations.

Again, these are some pretty broad strokes. A Swiss friend of mine pointed out the difference between Germany and Switzerland is that for Germany the people are there to serve the government, while in Switzerland it is the other way around (and that's a broad statement of itself, but there are fundamental difference between the two. See tax rates). So the demarcation is not English/non-English.

>is the importance of face time at work.

I have yet to find a place where this wasn't the case. Perhaps it's more extreme in Asia but every place I've ever been has it. Personally I think "face time" is more about tradition than culture. The internet has created new ways of providing value and not everyone has caught up yet.
> Moments after the release I accessed multiple accounts on both gmail, hotmail, yahoo and facebook using password and usernames found in these files

Thanks for letting us know. We'll see you soon.

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"I’ve never been one to base my actions on others’ expectations. Just ask my dad, with whom I was having arguments about moral relativism by the time I was 13."

I bet this guy is a blast at parties.
How about independently upgradable system components ?
I'd love my Android to support "aptitude dist-upgrade" to upgrade WebKit, the Android Browser…
Apparently it's Andrew S. Tanenbaum (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum), and the actual quote was:

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
The focus should be on the effects, not on the medium. A concerted attack that targets infrastructure, for example a nuclear power station or the national power grid, should be considered an act of war. But an attack against email accounts will generally fall under the category of espionage. To call theft of information an act of war would seem to be yet another excuse to go out starting new wars.
This seems to me like spook marketing. They wanted to get in on a little of the lulz action and dislodge it from its antiestablishment roots.
What do you mean fewer features? Intents are how everything is done. Android is basically four major components: Activities, Intents, ContentProviders and Services (Views are not really a components, just a nice hack which uses reflection & XML to make the GUI DOM-like .. but without having the foresight to allow for DOM-like manipulation -- why can't I configure layouts & content with xpath-like selectors?)

Android has the cleanest architecture of any visual environment out there, bar none. D-Bus is far lower level than Intents (you can't send a D-Bus message to fire up the default "camera" application to take a picture, then fire up another message to the default "email" application sending the picture you just took as an attachment.)

Java libraries ARE better than anything on win32. They're equally verbose, but java has better tooling, and it wears toddler gloves, so it doesn't scratch itself and doesn't gouge your eyes out while you feed it.
I think that quote is typically accredited to Andy Tanenbaum. But who knows if he was the first one to say such a thing.
I can't see any legitimate technical reason to restrict passwords.

In my example, they could put a sensible account system on the front end, and do whatever they need to in the back end to link it to my phone number and a random 8 digit number, if that's what they need.

Same with banks. They can set up a real user name and password from you, store it in a modern system, and link it to the older system behind the scenes. Perhaps there's some arcane legislation that prevents this, but it seems unlikely.
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Yeah, I get irritated when autocorrect automatically "fixes" unusual words I wanted to type, but it's also nice to have correction available. So I'm really happy with ManualCorrect on my jailbroken iPhone - it makes it just correct when I tap the suggestion, instead of automatically. Not a real solution, but nice for my particular case.
Assuming your site is something your users find worth inviting their friends, your best bet is to A/B test the hell out of your invitation process.

What percent of your user's send out invites? What can you do to improve this? What percent of sent invites lead the recepient to your site? What can you do to improve this? What percent of these convert to an account? What can you do to improve this? What percent of new accounts stay active? What can you do to improve this?
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Some thoughts of another hacker: The story is about a cure, not about the sources of cancer.

When a program runs slow on a device you could add memory as the cure, but you could also start with the source.

Skin cancer as example: You can find a cure for skin cancer but you could also tell people not to stay in the hot sun for too long.
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I read the bit about your family and dues to society and thought they were being silly. Then I realized you must be a rich kid who has the option of playing entrepreneur for a summer, and lost sympathy. The reason society thinks you need to wait is because one is expected to become self-sufficient and somewhat financially secure before pursuing such endeavours.
How could they have attracted the first critical few thousand users without leveraging an existing audience?

Borrow someone else's existing audience.

There are a couple ways to do this. The most straightforward is literally asking them for it. Somewhat surprisingly, people do say "yes" to this. (Joel Spolsky had a subreddit back in the early days, to share links with his fans. </trivia>)

There are various flavors of this in many services. Lady Gaga says all good little monsters follow her on Twitter, etc.

There are, of course, less savory options. The go-to option for many people is spamming Craigslist.
>First you have to buy Zurisache (sp?) for like 2 CHF each. Throwing them out in anything else can get you fined.

Depends on the Kanton.

>Then you have to separate your trash into three different types of glass (white, brown, green), other recyclables and non-recyclables.

Depends on the Kanton and possibly even the city. When I first came here we just had one sack for everything and didn't have to buy the bags.

It has changed now, but we have this in the US too. Sure, if you live out in the sticks you can pile your trash as high as the trees or even burn if it you like. There are a lot of places where you have to buy trash bags, etc. and how tidy you have to keep your property depends on zoning. I knew a guy who got fined because he didn't mow his lawn enough.

>The anmelden/abmelden (registration) system, which is the norm on mainland Europe, is extremely weird

It's not weird. It's an upfront and efficient version of what we have in the US. In the US most people don't know their location is tracked when the file returns. Most people probably don't know that the government can look in their bank account either.

>Some cantons also prohibited "excessive noise" or work on Sundays (for the entire day).

The interesting thing about Switzerland is that much of the law is actually voted on by the people. These noise laws are there because the people wished it so. We have noise laws in the US as well in certain places but not because a majority of the people effected voted for them.
"Pretentious" is among my least favorite words. It usually says more about the speaker than the people that the speaker is labeling with it.
Very nice description of the Android architecture. I understand that all the applications have to be written in Java. But how did Firefox port its browser to Android? I doubt they have ported it from C++ to Java. At least from the article I do not understand what is necessary to write Android applications in non-Java languages. Can anybody please explain or give a link?
There's no way to contain it without big, heavy equipment.
> So I do not see how this would make for a general argument for working at a large com[pa]ny.

There are a few clues saying that the article wasn't meant to be a general argument, but an argument why many people who are attracted to the idea of founding a start-up might be better suited to corporate life.
I wonder if publicly calling yourself a hacker could be used as proof by law enforcement that you admit to engage in illegal activity.
So it seriously runs in the family and my family has a high survival rate because of the family tradition of looking to nutrition and the like and not just putting things in the hands of doctors.

Couldn't it be that your family's survival rate isn't due to nutrition?

It might be, but it might not be. Our ignorance is just as likely to kill us. For example, perhaps your family does have some natural survival mechanism activated by certain foods, but maybe it has the opposite effect for someone else.

This isn't just hypothetical speculation. When the Black Plague hit, some people were convinced that cats were contributing to the problem, so they killed them. But the rats were the carriers, not the cats. And so by killing the cats, the rat population ran rampant, which seriously deteriorated the overall situation.

They had the right idea --- "some animal is carrying the disease, therefore we should kill that animal". But they didn't know, so it wound up killing them instead of helping them.

Maybe you have the right idea about nutrition, but you don't know --- so you're gambling with people's lives by telling them things that may only make the situation worse.

On the other hand, your family is basically conducting research. You should document and publish your methods and observed results. Maybe you're onto something.
I doubt many users do that kind of distinction between low and high security sites. Watching my mother I don't believe she got more than one password at all and that's the sort of user that is affected the most by these attacks.
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What are the advantages of Scala over C++ and Haskell?
"Because it's too much work" tends to be a bad excuse, though.
If you are looking to make the most money there is no faster way of that I know of than building your own company (I could be wrong here, feel free to point something out). It is risk vs. reward. A subject value again.

Nah, if you are looking to maximise your chances of making enough money to retire by the time you're in your late 30s, join an investment bank, not a startup.

Do a startup if you can't imagine doing anything else with your time.
I'm sure it does in China. There are other foreign mega-corps like this that you probably don't hear much about in the US, specially, Tencent comes to mind.
What you're looking for is the NDK. Here:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html
Is that true? How interesting! How do you know this? Do you live in India?
Yesterday's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2622731
I suspect PG/YC's involvement led to Joel's subreddit, at least indirectly. It also wasn't particularly successful IIRC.

Can you think of ways of borrowing an audience that don't rely on existing status (like being the host of a TV show[1])?

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1_YoG7lqI4
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If you ever had a look at PCs in China, you would know why. You get copied Windows CDs for a few cents everywhere, no doubt pre-loaded with all sorts of virii and trojans. The botnets in China must be massive.
Well, if your reputation is good enough you tend to get job offers. In many cases this means it's just rubber-stamped paperwork for HR.
Why so defensive, China?
If you were to implement this in a procedural language with side effects, what would you do about "finally"?
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This is from 2006 and there's been a lot of water under the bridge since then. Ian is an exceptionally smart guy and one hell of a hacker, I wouldn't care to hazard a guess as to what he thinks now. Perhaps he'll drop in and enlighten us.
Also, if you are cheap enough to fret about one fucking dollar, you probably would not buy it if you could not pirate it.
And also what is the difference between this scenario and a scenario where you can get a saving account that has a higher rate than inflation ?
If I understand it correctly, it's targeted against the NATO alliance's "act of war" against hackers.
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So, what do you do, exactly?
Remember kids, when the civilians hack other people's webservers it's "cyber-terrorism", when is the Government the one that does it, it's "cyber-warfare".
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I do understand that the current web infrastructure is not made for this, but given demand, it /could/ be adapted for the sort of reading that we are nostalgic about. There are obscure forums that I sometimes read on the portal bsh.co.il - this is an Israeli social work portal. Click on a message in a forum like http://www.bsh.co.il/forums/AllMessages2.asp?Fnumber=10 - there is going to be a checkmark next to the message you clicked from now on, even if you reload the browser (presumably, there is a cookie). This is a small custom-written forum with very little programmer muscle behind it, I doubt it's more than a couple of guys. If they can do it, everyone can do it - and it's a small step to hiding threads completely, etc., etc.

I've concluded that there is just no demand for sophisticated threading/reading software of the type we had in the '90s. If there was demand, there is certainly technology to fill it. If they can run Linux in a browser complete with a little C compiler, they can run the equivalent of trn. As you pointed out yourself, Gmail covers the basics already - why not make it more sophisticated and bring the technology to Google Groups? No demand. Otherwise, one of the sources of innovation in this industry - big corps, startups, or academic/open source, would have filled it. Even if it required extending HTTP/HTML somehow - these extensions happen quickly when really needed.
Ask HN:
Hello,

I am trying to set a RSS feed using Microsoft outlook from hackernews , here. Outlook is my mail client to check my office mails. (email server using - POP3)

Bu when I say Subscribe now, it it opens outlook on my windows-PC ,but gives an error as below :-

"Outlook cannot download the RSS content from http://news.ycombinator.com/rss because of problem connecting to server.

1.What is the problem here. Do I need to change some setting in outlook for this RSS feed?

2.How can i fix this to see Hackernews RSS feeds using my outlook?
"at least 50 orders of magnitude"

Definitly not a physics major.
Not math either probably considering he used a two digit number in the first place.
I think they simply create a paste with the source code of pastebin itself.
So what does "The New Student Union" do beyond be "an online magazine run by and for college students covering the issues that they care about."?

The term "startup" is thrown around WAY too much these days, you aren't a start up, you have no business model, you are basically just a multi contributor blog. What are you doing that other student publications aren't?

When you say "If you have a game-changing idea" do you honestly thing NSU is "game-changing"? What game are you changing?

You come across as incredibly entitled and arrogant in your post, I hope for the sake of the success of any future "start ups" you participate in, it's not the case.

"I have no deference to authority figures and have never been shy to voice my opinions, oftentimes to my detriment." This doesn't make you a good entrepreneur, it makes you an asshole.
Your revisionist history is another thing that makes me angry. Ruby and Python were getting popular long before Rails and Django came on the scene so before you go running your mouth about core people ignoring the needs of people you should think long and hard about subverting the needs of an entire community just so you can develop another web app.
Cool, but doesn't run on CentOS. Init files are coded exclusively for Debian, and I don't have time to convert them.
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This is interesting, but I wonder how many other projects will need to do this, was the duplicity just an artefact of the previous unusual ownership?
Earlier this year Pastebin was under heavy attack by a hacker.
This person was creating about 500 new pastes per second, all
which were very much alike. Each item contained an email
address and a message saying that I had to contact that email
address if I wanted this attack to stop.

The requests came from thousands of different IP’s, but I
managed to stop it for a few minutes until the hacker came up
with another type of attack. Eventually I contacted the person
in question. He replied that he was very impressed with my
infrastructure, and that he wanted to know on what kind of
hardware and software I was running.

He was a big fan of Pastebin, and simply wanted to test the
infrastructure. Of course I was fuming with anger at the time
of the attack. Funnily enough, over time we got to know each
other, and since then he has helped me guard off various other
attacks.

This quote from the story is the more important to me. It's a great example to explain to people what is a hacker when all they know about the word is what the television says.
you can't embed external resources (e.g. tracking pixels) in PDFs, adobe stopped that a few years ago.
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So you do a lot of work and achieve what you might call "near-perfect real-world security" and are not hacked, are you secure?

When you later find out you were vulnerable. Were you secure?

Does knowing that an undetectable root-kit could have been installed during this time, change your perception of the state of your current security?

Would it matter if the newly-released insecurity was a one-in-a-billion thing?

For instance when's the last time you actually took measures to guard against a trojaned compiler?

If you did get hacked because of a one-in-a-billion thing which nobody could have predicted did it happen because you weren't secure or did it happen despite your security? It's a subtle difference in perceptions.

Does your perception of your security level change if you realize the crooked CEO conspired with the security consultant to arrange a back door and that the one-in-a-billion thing was a virtual certainty?

It goes deeper than simply being all relative, you always make some assumptions - even incredibly large ones. Even a tiny mistake can totally scupper system robustness. In crypto and security a system is often weaker than its weakest link and that includes designer assumptions, operator errors, and customer specifications as well as expected issues such as programming errors. Speaking of security as a thing that can be achieved is mostly wrong and confuses many.
Seems to me that there are tonnes of new languages being developed all over the place, I wish they'd have a short list of intended uses/features... but not just all the features, rather the ones that are the selling point, why should I investigate this language further.