skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could have a Nike-style sensor in the shoe, connected via bluetooth, with a manual override of some sort. Plus a smartphone-based accelerometer and gyro.
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I have a feeling there's more to it than a clear account number reference in the URL. It was probably a base64 encoded account number or a non-salted hash of the account number (ie. rainbow table-reversible) and the quality assurance analysts probably never questioned this.

Disclaimer: I worked in product development making banking software and simple URL hacking was always a standard test.
I feel very fast (faster than with any normal editor) with MacVim but what if that also is just an illusion?
There's a nice post by Jeff Atwood from 2008 that says this is crap for modern systems, but he does a nice job of putting it in historical context. There's just no way going to the File menu, scrolling down to Print and then clicking is faster than "Ctrl-P" (or Cmd-P) with your left hand.

Link: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/revisiting-keyboard...
I was going to say the exact same thing. No, I don't think being able to easily hack into security companies and effectively launching DDOS attacks is a laughing matter, but the onus is on the companies, not LulzSec. I'm glad they're exposing how weak and vulnerable much of the web is, but I don't find it humorous at all. Frankly, I don't think they do either.
>It takes two seconds to decide upon which special-function key to press. Deciding among abstract symbols is a high-level cognitive function. Not only is this decision not boring, the user actually experiences amnesia! Real amnesia! The time-slice spent making the decision simply ceases to exist.

I wonder if mussel memory ever catches up to make the time benefit break the other way. I want something closed, hitting f3 is the same as typing any other letter. I had to look down to see what F-button it actually is.
I've gone cable free for two years thanks largely in part to Netflix (and Xbox 360 for my ESPN3 stream). Cable was one thing that should have been getting cheaper over the years, but instead kept getting more expensive. Like Blockbuster before it, I don't think anyone will be too sorry for Comcast and the rest of their lot.
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I'm not surprised at all. Here's my comment on a previous HN thread a few months ago related to Color: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2367621

If you're building any kind of social app you'd be a fool not to think about the possibilities of the big players integrating your features into their platform, and what your long-term gameplan is going to be.
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They were; I just picked that as a convenient example of a non-reversible idea. Once you dump the iron in, you're committed. It turns out that in a dynamic system (ahem) that just smashing one of the inputs doesn't guarantee a linear response, but regardless, you're committed once you've done it.

(It turns out that in this case the system tends towards stability. There are good reasons to believe that most changes we can make will also be neutralized. But there's no a priori reason that the same experiment couldn't have experienced a wildly disproportionally large response instead.)
If this really was the "hack", you can be sure that Citi is has opened themselves up to a whole world of negligence lawsuits. This is the same as having a vault where any customer could walk in and just browse around the safe deposit boxes. Sure, it might be tough to be authenticated to get into the vault, but once you're there...

This is something that should cause the immediate dismissal of the CIO, but sadly, probably won't.
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"Chromium is good."
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Or report it anonymously using Tor or a remailer. If you do it anonymously, you also get the benefit of being able to safely threaten the bank that you will release the information publicly if they haven't fixed it within x days.
In particular, the reasoning that other court cases have adopted is that the Copyright Act only allows suits by "the legal or beneficial owner of an exclusive right under a copyright", and then goes on to list six exclusive rights: reproduction, production of derivative works, distribution, and three kinds of public-performance rights (e.g. of audio transmissions, of public film showings, etc.). So, Righthaven would need to own at least one of those six rights regarding a work to sue over it, which it doesn't.
Climate is a chaotic system. Any action on the part of humans can produce ANY result (within certain -wide- limits).

"but there is conservation of energy" - true, but the earth has more than enough energy stored up to heat up the surface to 6300 degrees celcius (at least). The fact that these stores exist means that they got their energy from somewhere. If said energy intake were to increase temperature would obviously drop, potentially by a lot (well, not by that much, it can only drop another 300 degrees after all, but if it were to drop 30 degrees we're all dead anyway, so small changes suck as well). We don't know what affects heat transfer from athmosphere/oceans <-> mantle and reverse, we just know big transfers exist. Suppose, one of the variables had something to do with co2 ... "whoops"

So you want to change earth's climate in a controlled manner ? Too bad. It's the same kind of problem as walking on water. It's perfectly possible to walk on water, you just have to generate the correct amount of force in the correct direction by pushing water down with your feet. You might actually succeed in doing this for the first step, but then you get waves. There is no law of physics that states this directed splashing can't work, but I'm sure you can see what is going wrong in practice.

If we modify earth's climate, we'll be creating all sorts of different waves, which will affect our future modifications to the climate, and since we won't be able to correctly predict those waves, we can't know beforehand how things will interact.

Unless there are major errors in the theory, changing the climate in predictable ways is impossible.
And it doesn't matter how hard you protect the data from your side, once it gets into an Excel spreadsheet, it will be e-mailed around unencrypted for anyone who wants to get at it.
Legally obligated? no. It's not your system, it's not your problem in that sense.

Sure you can offer to fix it, but since you don't know squat about the system (save for a small flaw at the surface) and they have teams of developers who do, they won't be interested in paying you to fix it. Offering to explain the bug for a fee won't be blackmail unless you threaten to reveal the bug to others if they don't pay up.

Be a decent chap. Send 'em a nice letter explaining the problem. It's your bank, remember, and they're humans like you; work with your service providers to improve the service. Assume you're not the only one who knows about the problem, that someone who also knows isn't as nice as you, and it's YOUR bank balance that is at risk.
Excellent! And I love the browsing and picture in picture recursion: HackRSS -> HackRSS :-)
I think their claim is trivially disproven just by watching someone who's been using computers long enough. I don't think about the overwhelming majority of special-key presses, I just do them. Same with vim wizards and their tool of choice.

But, then, this was written in Ye Olde Days, where people hadn't really grown up with computers and may not have had that instinctual comfort with keyboard commands.
You're right. Ubuntu's repos only have Chromium, which (IIRC) has things like Instant Search disabled.

You'd have to add Google's repo to download Chrome, but why would a Linux distro make a closed source browser their default?
Is there anything Citi has done right over the past few years? I'm asking honestly and not with sarcasm, because I just haven't seen it.
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Sorry I oversimplified. What I meant was that if you wanted to steal some money, and you knew what you're doing, it would be way way way easier to directly target an individual that a bank.
This is unacceptable, obviously. It's a massive failure of their security testing protocols. I'm not particularly surprised that an vulnerability like this would get written into the code, it's an easy mistake for an inexperienced developer to make. But I'm not going to pile on the developer. We laud "separation of concerns" in our architecture, and this pattern applies to the organization of software development teams.

I don't expect every developer to be aware of every vulnerability. But I do expect that a financial institution has a specialist somewhere that audits the code before it is sent for testing ("white box"), and then I expect them to have an independent audit team probe for vulnerabilities ("black box").

After the inexperienced developer has had his code rejected for various flaws, he will become quite aware of the obvious ways things like this can go wrong.

Don't get me wrong, I expect that the vast majority of developers wouldn't make this mistake in the first place. But if you aren't a specialist, it is pure hubris to think that you write code that is hardened against all of the attacks out there. And if you have a vulnerability, it really doesn't matter if it's an embarrassingly simple vulnerability or one that requires sophisticated techniques to uncover and exploit. Either way, you're road kill.

High-value targets like banks need two security specialists (the code audit and the penetration test) to accompany the development specialists. That's simple separation of concerns, and it works as well in team organisation as it does in code organisation.
I got rid of my cable service about a year ago and haven't regretted it. It seems to me there is a lot of room for cable companies to easily improve their service, yet IMO it remains consistently poor.

- On demand selections are limited, and the interface is usually pretty clunky. If I have a DVR, I have to remember in advance to record something, rather than being able to just grab it after the fact.

- You need to have a physical box, which either arrives outdated or quickly becomes outdated, and they never replace it.

- It costs $60-$70/month for decent cable service where I live, versus $8/month for Netflix. Combine that with Hulu and free on-demand streaming from major TV networks, and it's a great bargain.

The only thing I miss about having cable is being able to channel surf when I'm bored. Honestly, I am probably a more productive human being without wasting my time doing that, so I'm not too disappointed.
This argument is flawed in several ways:
1. Repetitive tasks get progressively faster with the keyboard as the motion gets smoother as your practise it.
2. He allows two-handed using editing Ctrl+X/C/V as a special case but there are other similar situations.

I'd like to see the exact methodology. 2 seconds to decide which key press to use sounds fishy to me.
Between Hulu (free) & Netflix ($8/mo), the only bill I pay to cable is for internet.

It seems to me that Hulu is way worse for cable companies than Netflix, as Hulu lets me watch current shows nearly immediately. If I didn't have Hulu, I might get basic cable for current shows.
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Workaholics are (most often) passionate about their work.

It's interesting to see how often the word "passion" comes up with regards to worker productivity, especially when written from the company's perspective. The common refrain seems to be that "more time spent at work = sign of a more passionate employee". I have a hunch though that if all companies had to pay overtime rates for every hour an employee spent over 40 hours per week, you'd see fewer articles that equate "more time at work = more passion", and start seeing more more articles that equate "more time at work = bad time management skills".

As it is though, companies arguably have an incentive to focus on measuring the amount of time you spend at work, simply because the more time a salaried employee spends at work, the less it costs the employer on an hourly basis.

For instance, given 52 weeks per year minus 4 weeks vacation/holidays/sick-leave, a salaried employee has around 48 weeks per year to work, which translates into the following number of hours:

48 weeks * 40 hours/week = 1920 hours
48 weeks * 50 hours/week = 2400 hours
48 weeks * 60 hours/week = 2880 hours

Going forward with this, let's say the employee's annual salary is $85k, then disregarding benefits/social security/etc. he's costing his employer the following:

40 hour work weeks: $85000 / 1920 hours = $44/hour
50 hour work weeks: $85000 / 2400 hours = $35/hour
60 hour work weeks: $85000 / 2880 hours = $29/hour

"The more hours you work, the less I'll pay you (on an hourly rate)" doesn't sound quite as good as "passionate employees spend lots of time at work." Of course, the salaried employee could be working longer hours in anticipation of future rewards such as a raise, cashing in stock options, etc. The point though is that simply framing employees who spend lots of time at work as being more passionate is a little disingenuous.

When companies hire contractors there is often a clause in the contract that limits the number of hours the contractor can bill. This isn't because companies are trying to limit how "passionate" a contractor can be. It's because, unlike a salaried employee, a contractor's hourly rate doesn't go down over 40 hours/week.
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The linked blog post even talks about Ubuntu having it. GP just missed that part.
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This kind of UI would work well on other HN-like sites, e.g. links to pretty web designs, but the nature of HN links means the screenshots are almost all the same thing: an article, a possible image, some ads or links on the side.

Because of the extra space taken up by screenshots, the most important thing - link title - has to be truncated, and it's not showing vote/comment counts.

It's always good to experiment with UIs, but in this case, I think the experiment shows the UI is more suited to other kinds of links.
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Up in Vermont it has really taken off in the past 10 years. And it is people doing it for recreation, not for transportation.

The problem it seems to me is the size of the roads. Most of the time you can not cleanly get around a biker without going into the oncoming lane. On a 50mph road with bikers going 20mph you constantly have to judge the speed of oncoming traffic to see if you can safely pass or get hard on the brakes to wait. This happens a lot and is annoying.
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We all know the caveats on http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang... , but I would point out over the last few years, more and more languages are creeping up into the < 3x range on C. Go and Haskell I have some hopes that within a year or two they may well show up in < 2x, Scala's there, and Mono's putting up credible numbers in C# and F#. Given how much even "performance critical" code is still IO-bound nowadays, and how much not-IO-bound code is moving to the GPU anyhow, the age of "We have to use C++ for the performance" should be rapidly coming to a close. The last bit missing is just the people bit, now.

I don't know what the first non-C practical OS will look like, but I hope I live to see it. I can't believe in 2011 my OS is still getting buffer overflows and memory mismanagement and all of the foibles that despite everyone loudly declaring is all the programmer's fault and not the langoage's fault, still seems to follow the language around like dog poo stuck on its shoe.
To be more explicit, Chromium has a large, but high quality codebase with a relatively low rate of errors.
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Yes, just replace the brainstem with an ever increasing amount of hardware.

Of course, it will be problematic when you accidentally leave the wireless on your smartphone turned on and kill the battery.
link to WSJ article sited
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230456310457636...
"well I knew it was risky, but I didn't know HOW risky!"

Right, but a contract is a contract. I bet all but one of Donald Trump's ex wifes wished they could get out of the pre-nup. But as suit happy as our society is, contracts actually work.

Secondly, say things go badly and the patient is horribly hurt but not killed. Now he/she needs expensive medical treatment every day. Is the government going to pay for that?

No. Today we have medial trials on humans. Today when something horrible happens the companies take over the costs. It has always been that way, nothing new here.

You could ask, well what if the companies don't want to take on the extra costs which would result of testing drugs on humans earlier? That is perfectly fine. No one will be forced to rush to market.

If you could really, truly waive all your rights to recourse and help, maybe you could get any procedure you want. But if you could do that, wouldn't you be pressured to do so when you didn't want to?

How is this different from Do Not Resuscitate? We have that, it's legally binding, people could be pressured into signing one.
It's actually an interesting solution. If you reduced the time waited to a microsecond, then it would take about a second to sort 1M elements. Definitely not an optimal solution, and has a bit of potential for race conditions (if one thread/process got hung up on I/O), but interesting none the less.
It could have been coincidence and an offline compromise for your wife. There are a lot of skimming operations out there. Plus when you give your card to a waiter at a restaurant, nothing stops the waiter from copying your information.

In my case the fact that the purchase was made from Turkey suggests that it was an online compromise.
Possibly for print, but then again I don't press print very often.

For scrolling down a couple of pages, copying 3 lines of code, moving back up, pasting, and then changing a couple of characters, I actually believe I am faster with a mouse than keyboard, after quite a bit of trying to master vim.
I posted this yesterday, IMO Npr's write-up is more interesting: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/13/137029208/heart-with-no-beat-o...
I'm not going to shed a tear. Cable companies had to know their business plans weren't going to work forever when pay-per-view movie rates started exceeding the cost of renting a DVD, or in some cases actually buying the DVD.

Now... about those pesky 5000% profit margin usage-based-billing rates...
Are you still on Froyo? Gingerbread for the Galaxy made things a lot smoother. (even the first update to the original release firmware made a noticeable difference. See which version you've got.)
Ho, I knew there was a reason I kept the SS10 lurking under the bed. Somehow I didn't realise that OS3.3 would run on it.

Now to find the 3.3 sparc disks, and copies of Improv and WriteNow. This looks like it might be tricky...
Regardless of the original claims on keyboard versus mouse (there is more recent work on that subject), there are some really nice gems in the article and comments, that are still relevant for current interfaces:

"
Guideline: The keyboard interface must not dictate the design of the visual interface.

Guideline: The work to design and build the keyboard interface should not sap resources that are needed for the creation of the visual interface.
"

Nolan Larsen from WordPerfect Corp. puts it nicely:

"
... When scrolling the text horizontally in a window we would refresh the text by redisplaying each line starting at the top. This resulted in a wave of text rippling down the screen, and many complaints that the screen refresh was too slow. The remedy was to scroll the bits already on screen and then redisplay each line from the top. The second implementation was actually slower than the first because we incurred the overhead of scrolling the bits before we even started to display the new text on the screen. However, the perception was that there was an immense increase in speed. We stuck with the second implementation because it increased the overall satisfaction of the user even though it actually decreased the throughput of the product.

In my mind, perception is stronger than reality. A user’s perception of a product is what causes him to purchase it and influences his satisfaction with the product...
"
I absolutely loved Uniracers and Link to the Past in middle school! The latter had neat visuals that didn't sacrifice from the feeling of immense speed it gave...
Unrelated anecdote:

When working with a substantial financial organisation, there were strict rules prohibiting my team from communicating with the code audit and other security teams. Going for coffee with one of the internal audit people would get you both fired. The external testing was done by a security consulting firm. Their reports were passed on to me with the identifying details stripped out so that I wouldn't even know who they were.

Talk about "low coupling!"
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Have you upgraded the tablet to 3.1 yet? The upgrade became available for I/O tablets as of last Friday. I had the same issues you talk about with mine, specifically the Gmail scrolling issues and some really infuriating rendering & touch event bugs in the browser.

But that seems to be an issue with whatever cobbled together version of Android 3.0 that was on the pre-release devices. The difference under 3.1 is like night and day in terms of stability. I find the device extremely usable now and I enjoy it more than I do my iPad.
Adrian Lamo? isn't that the guy that ratted Bradley Manning to the FBI?

This is getting curiouser and curioser...
If MMORPGs existed back then, this would not have been written. I don't know if anyone here is/used to be a gamer, but ever tried using your mouse to click skills/gear swaps? It takes forever, and completely distracts you from the flow of the game.

I used to play RO, and in /bm mode, I had access to 24 hotkeys (qaz rows). Enough? Hell naw. Even after they gave us access to another 8 keys (total 32), I still had macros set up for playing. On 31ms average ping to the server, I could dodge .3s casts - absolutely impossible by clicking.

While the mouse is more intuitive in the beginning, for anyone who actually uses their computer a lot, the keyboard becomes increasingly faster. Having to find the developer tab on excel and then hit export, save, and yes is much slower than Alt->L->E->Enter->Left->Enter for example. The idea of hotkeys, is just like ctrl+z, ctrl+c, and ctrl+v, they become intuitive.

A funny anecdote: I used to use ctrl+z (undo) hundreds of time a day when I was designing Worms Armageddon maps in paint. There came a time, where when I made a mistake in class on paper, my left hand would automatically go into the ctrl+z position, and move down even when there was no keyboard.
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Yes. Another way to put this is that there's a difference between "designing to be sufficiently performant" and "optimization".
I've been without cable TV for over 10 years and don't miss it at all. Just another industry with lazy incumbents whose lunch is being eaten by a competitor that is giving customers what they've been asking for for decades.

Now I wish someone would just break up the sports broadcasting cartel. ESPN has way too much power to dictate how its customers can view its contents. What the hell is an ESPN 360 compatible cable internet provider? One that is willing to pay their tariff?
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> You know something is wrong when you can make money from suing others alone.

You mean like ... lawyers?