skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PDF really is the most dangerous file format around today.

Did you know the PDF spec includes its own LISP-like language? As well as basically anything else you can imagine. It is surely impossible to write a secure, conformant PDF reader.

If I ran any kind of super-sensitive organisation I'd include an outright ban on PDF renderers in my security policy. If anyone really needed to look at PDFs, I'd require them to be rendered down to TIFs or something on a "cleanroom" machine, preferably running some sort of locked-down linux build.

This talk has all the shocking details: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XYqsf4JEY
To be completely honest, $10/year seems a perfectly reasonable price to avoid the nuisance of having pennies in my pocket, or bothering to collect them all up and cash in every six months.
I have a motto that I think is useful to all:

"Fuck the pennies - look after the pounds"
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Then build the customization into the product, also, are you sure they really want to spend three hours with you? Can you not do the Henry Ford method of any color as long as it's black?

If the customization is purely the skin, then create a system for skinning, and get local designers to make skins. Then create a market place for them, and hire a bunch of people to make skins. (I assume it's skinning b/c your a graphic designer).

As an aside:
I used to do custom wordpress themes but stopped because it was so much easier to have nice printed themes. Walk into the client with nice glosssy prints. I could buy the theme for $35 bux and resell for much more rather than deal with the nuances of the customer. Most customers just want it to look like some other guy's site anyway so why not provide that?

They actually would pay more for a standard theme because I could turn it around faster, and they were happier because it looked like everyone else's site. As a designer I never understood herd mentality, as a business man, I love it.
Philosophy doesn't really give answers - it only states interesting questions, and if we can answer some of them - a new science is born.
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Build and set up the environment to compile your first program is not a complicated thing, both using GNU tools or Visual Studio Express and the Windows SDK. Troubleshooting included.
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Warning: file_get_contents(http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_n...) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/content/w/i/l/willieohwillie/html/twitter/twitter-cacher.php on line 86

Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/content/w/i/l/willieohwillie/html/header.php on line 319
I don't think it would be too many lines of code, tbh http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.0/api/all.html#child_process.exe...
Wasn't "the internet" created by the gouvernment too?
It might take a long time to reach that possibility since public facing automations usually require a human near the robot for the comfort of the other humans using the service. Think: pilots on airplanes (mostly not necessary), trains drivers (not necessary at all), human ticket dispensers (not necessary at all). Just thinking out loud.
I used Fiddler to sniff traffic between iPad 2 and Jailbreakme during jailbreaking but I did not found where the PDF files are located. Could you help me find out where are PDFs that contains the exploits?
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is scheduled for release on December 16, 2011. It will star Tom Cruise and be written by Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec. J. J. Abrams will not return to direct the next film, but he will produce with Cruise through his Bad Robot Productions.[1][2] In May 2010, Cruise confirmed that Brad Bird (who is famous for directing The Incredibles and Ratatouille for Disney and Pixar) will direct the film.[3] Returning cast members include Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell and Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn. New cast members include Vladimir Mashkov, Josh Holloway, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Samuli Edelmann, Anil Kapoor, and Michael Nyqvist as the film's villain
Have they since closed that loophole? I can't see a way to use it.
Can someone please give a few examples for what this could be used for?
we soon go back to central planning with google or facebook dont worry :)))
Central planning never works.

But the Internet was the spin-off of a centrally planned government network. I am not sure it's accurate to say the failure of "competing" services was due to the failures of central planning, but more related to the onward march of technology(cheaper & faster). Even now the Internet is far from decentralized & some of the biggest services on the Internet are centralized and proprietary.
TIL Carmack's been using Objective C since the Doom days.
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Wikipedia has some: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Uri#Examples
Because making money for providing useful information is wrong and evil!
When you can rewrite your bootloader from the web, I think it's safe to say there is a nasty browser & userland exploit out there for all iPads. Just like rooting an Android-phone without adb or pre-rooted images usually involves OS-level exploits.

The only way to be safe from these is usually to root/jailbreak your system and then patch it up using your newly acquired powers to close the hole before anyone else gets cheeky.

Will be interesting to see if any virus-makers will decide to exploit this before Apple patches it up in a later iOS release.
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The early days of Internet were funded by the US government but not in the same way as Minitel. The French government massively subsidized the deployment of Minitel by giving away millions of terminals (in exchange for not giving the subscriber the white pages on paper) and that helped launch it.

But if you ignore the arguments about who funded what there are lots of aspects of Minitel that are interesting because it helped to kick off the wide use of smart cards, the underlying network was packet switched (X.25) and the servers handling Minitel were distributed through the network (so service providers ran their own services).

It wouldn't view Minitel as a failure, however, just because it was replaced by the web. The French were years (probably 10) ahead of the rest of the world in terms of electronic communication and commerce. They had a large internal market online in the 1980s handling a huge amount of commerce.
i think its 4.3.2

Ive not bothered to update yet. iPad 1
Found: The Mythical Google 404 Page
Well you COULD just share a link to the people wo want to join: https://plus.google.com/up/start/
Don't forget that you need an Google Account to join.
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Is this specifically for Google App customers? You're right I can get the same black bar and You+ in the upper left corner. But going any further results in "Google+ is in limited Field Trial, Keep me posted".
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PDF version available here:
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~afek/ConcurrentDS-MS04.pdf
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Double your prices, then double them again.

Outsource any task that you don't add unique value to.
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There is no PDF file, the pdf is a base64 encoded data-uri in the javascript, in the page itself, not even in a separate asset.

For those who fancy doing some analysis, here's the curl command with the required ipad UA string:

curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5" http://www.jailbreakme.com

EDIT: here's the b64 pdf: http://pastebin.com/69tnPMdV

the PDF is very invalid, because it never needs to masquerade as a real document, it doesn't have to pretend to implement the PDF spec correctly. This makes it somewhat resistant to analysis, it doesn't even have the required '%%EOF' marker so many tools choke on it immediately.

EDIT: There's an unterminated stream object in there which doesn't have a type, and it also has a declared length of 61 bytes and an actual length of well over 400. I think we have a winner... Unfortunately iOS shellcode analysis is waaaay over my head so I'll have to do something useful instead.
text only cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:esCUDVy...

colouring book: http://mailchimp.com/guides/guide_LoveWhatYouDo.pdf
This is interesting, perhaps HTC is going to license ARM tech for their own proprietary package w/ integrated S3 graphics. That would essentially cut out Texas Instruments, Qualcomm & nVidia from one of the largest handset manufacturers. Obviously it's probably not going to be an overnight transition.
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Still, he dodges the question as to what it means that something exists. But I admit I haven't really read him. It is just that whenever I pick up a philosophy book (very rarely), I tend to hit upon false premises immediately.
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+1. flawless.
You're not wrong; I'm still eagerly awaiting a Google Reader account that uses my actual email, rather than dumping me out to the root Apps address!

(I've been eagerly waiting for 2 years)
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I have studied maths, and I enjoy thinking logically. The difference is that while mathematical axioms are also arbitrary, they never claim to not be arbitrary. Therefore it seems more honest to me.
How is that legal? Do they also charge a fee for replacing torn/damaged bills?
Food. I would like my supermarket to deliver me stuff twice a week without me ever going there.
And here's the straw that broke the camel's back:

file_get_contents(http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=williamMalone) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/content/w/i/l/willieohwillie/html/twitter/twitter-cacher.php on line 86

Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/content/w/i/l/willieohwillie/html/header.php on line 319

Add some error handling and skip showing your timeline when this arises and be on your merry way.
Wireframe Sketcher has become my favorite tool of late.

Clickable PDFs, simple text markup for control data, story boarding and eclipse integration. No real time collaboration but that hasn't been an issue for me.

The free version nags you a bit but the price was so low I just paid for it.
I agree to an extent - there is a lot of stuff that I know just enough about to be able to say "I know of it", but there are only so many hours in the day.

When it comes to starting a project all the stuff that I know of comes in useful, because I can fairly quickly determine which particular tools will be most useful in that circumstance and then start learning about them in more depth.
I work for Lightning Source, a POD provider, and I can tell you that the "production-on-demand" model is working out pretty fine and dandy :-)
I don't think its a loophole, It must be intentional.

Second way which is popular now, you can add the gmail ids in your circle and share a comment to the circle. This will send a invite to everyone in the circle :)
Why does HN timeout so fast?
If I dont use HN for a few mins it expires and clicking on next link shows an error message saying link expired. Why is this? Its a pain that I need to go and reload the main page and the click next to come back to the page i was on.
You're right about architecture and location of homes.

But:

* there's a discernable trend in my social circles to locate well away from cities (and the first world) - but I can't find good statistics to back this up as more than just anecdote

* companies such as IBM claimed that due to the expansion of teleworking, they're able to save USD700m per year (but I keep finding secondary sources for this claim, and anyway they probably sell telecommuting solutions, so decreasing the trustworthiness of the numbers)

* growth in creatives filling my local cafe as their office makes it almost impossible to get a table to drink an espresso and have a slice of cake - again hopelessly anecdotal

It's actually maddening that there don't appear to be any good statistics (or even academic papers with theoretical models) on this.

Anyone with any national or urban statistics that correlate things like economic growth, percentage days worked from home, average growth in peak commute time traffic-kilometers in urban and suburban traffic systems versus actual? Extra points for urban transit ridership growth or shrinkage during peak commute time.
We're using the BackType API and it is frustrating that they're discontinuing the API. They've also just announced the discontinuation of the service with no word about timescales that this entails. For all we know they could discontinue it tomorrow.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be anyone offering a real alternative to the BackType APIs. There is Topsy which doesn't seem to have as much data coverage. Other alternatives require handling live streams of considerably more data.
Actually, philosophers do seem to be interested in questions of existence. For example, Bertrand Russell probably mentioned that "I think, therefore I am" is wrong — what does "I" mean? Particularly if the mind is a collection of things, and the notion of "I" is a useful illusion, an oversimplification. Maybe an improvement is, "Something thinks, therefore it is."

I think that there's various parts of philosophy, and not all topics will interest any given person, nor will the work of all philosophers. Maybe various institutions (like universities and priesthoods of professional philosophers) promote practices one doesn't like, like big software companies enforcing only Java-the-language. But I think the subject naturally attracts people who ask themselves why they're doing what they're doing, and other such questions.
Really? Wow. Then it's as someone said: I won a lottery. I'd rather have cash.
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> Eventually the French Post Office hopes to turn a profit by charging companies for making their names available to Minitel subscribers.

30 years later and ISPs are trying to do this again.
>rooms in a dormitory instead of housing vouchers, standardized cheapo clothing instead of money to purchase Modern Couture

I totally agree with the idea that instead of just giving money we should give them work. Personally I would farm out most government jobs to the unemployed. Many of those jobs that have a fixed employee are low skilled themselves and could be done by someone looking for work with just a couple of training courses, if that.

However, I would pay them real money. I hate this idea of stigmatizing the jobs. If they're happy staying in these jobs, we always need something done. The problem with your idea is that once a person ended up in these "stigmatized" jobs, they could never get out. They can't go to an interview for a nice job in "standardized cheapo clothing". The class stigmatization will ensure that once in, one can never leave this class.
Fair enough. You make a good argument. Maybe lowering the price would increase revenue; I don't know.
>>>some of the biggest services on the Internet are centralized and proprietary.

Which all tend to eventually fail. The Source, CompuServe, Delphi, AOL, all failed.
Same thing here, I get this even though I have an invite.
I never bothered with any Jailbreaks before. I have a 3GS since 2 years back.

Visited the site with my iPhone. Pressed Install. No confirmation or anything.

Now I have a Cydia app on my phone that I can move but not delete. Was that all it took to jailbreak my phone? (It took like 10 seconds)
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Fundamental truth = no code should ever trust its input. Break this rule never. If you have optimization problems, then don't worry because they're better than security problems and the hardware will likely solve it for you by the time you release. Trust relationships between bits of any codebase mean 'not loose coupled' = fundamental design flaw for simple, maintainable and secure code. Unix design philosophy: "do one thing and do it well" (and that means checking all your input religiously for every function)
The euro has 8 coins (€2 €1 50c 20c 10c 5c 2c and 1c) and here in the Netherlands, they've pretty much phased out the 1c and 2c coins.

All stores round up or down the nearest five cents, evening the system out. You're only charged the precise amount if you pay electronically. Banks and some government transactions will result in a 1c or 2c coins, but it's pretty rare for them to end up in your pocket.

I suppose you could game the system if you paid in cash when the rounding was in your favor, and paid in debit when it wasn't. I doubt it would be worth the effort.
Extending COBOL with Brainfuck is wonderfully twisted, but you know what I want? A Brainfuck-to-COBOL interpreter implemented as a Turing Machine. Now, there's a nice weekend project for somebody....
With node and similar projects, notion of stable/unstable is closer to geological notions (earthquake) and applies more to version branches (continents) than individual releases (states).

0.4 branch is and should be stable, meaning we can build on it and they'll try not to make big changes that could break what you built.

0.5 branch is unstable in the sense anything could change, even features added in 0.4 or older although they'll need compelling reasons to do that.
"What does it mean to exist? Again, philosophy does not seem to be interested."

Seriously? A monumentally vast number of volumes have been written by philosophers on what it means to exist.

I find this sort of academic partisanship bizarre. There are no rigid distinctions between philosophy and science. They are both attempts to gain knowledge and insight about the universe, and their methods largely overlap. It could be argued that science is a subset of philosophy.

By the way, your critique of philosophy is itself a piece of philosophy. Critiquing philosophy is one of philosophy's favorite pastimes.
Reality is that this has gone backwards. In poor countries, moderately wealthy people still employ household staff in the way that the European upper classes did 5 generations ago. Drivers, maids, gardeners, cooks. In most nova rich and even old money countries this is pretty uncommon. Wealth disparity (wealthy person can hire poor person with a small fraction of her income) doesn't seem to increase the instances of such things.
BTW Your quotes are unclear.

> I'm not allergic to facts you just haven't cited any

Right. I've only mentioned them and left it to you to do some research.

>> "Your country has killed millions in wars of aggression."
> Cite this please?

Okay, but next time will you try to look it up first?

Estimates of deaths in Iraq due to the war are up to 1.5M: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq

That's more than one million so technically I can stop there, but

In the Philippine-American war between .6 and 1.4M died:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Philippine%E2...

Then consider Vietnam, the American Indian wars, etc

> You clearly have made up your mind that America=evil

Just those of you who support unjust war (murder). You've clearly decided you must justify all their actions.

> but you still can't even answer if America is so bad, who is any better?

Anyone not fighting unjust wars. Anyone who doesn't murder innocents on false pretenses. One unjust killing is too many.

You can't fall back on past deeds (especially when they're largely propaganda) to justify current atrocities. Nobody cares if your grandfather was selfless (newsflash, he wasn't - see the Philippines/American war) when you clearly are not.
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In France, before the Euro, things would be priced at 99 centimes, but the smallest coin was a 3 centime coin (worth about half a cent). This meant that when paying cash, some form of rounding was often necessary to give the correct change, but the rounding (in my (childhood) experience) would always favour the customer.

I'm amazed that shops in the US can get away with rounding up.
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Yep, your phone is now jailbroken.
But they all start with the premise that they exist.
One of many fun facts: Xavier Niel (controversial CEO of Free, disruptive French ISP) made his first $ - sorry Francs - by selling adult chat on the Minitel.
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Doesn't work in Chrome on OS X. I get the name of the file and no URI. Worked in FF5, though.
I think a well done cyborg prostitute could make prostitution more mass market. No way to make it illegal, guilt free and 100% sanitizeable.
And lets be honest, a for pay 15min intercourse just doesn't benefit that much from the human touch. Plus you can make em look like manga characters or whatever. Big opportunity ahead.
Ya I'd like to know too...anyone tested?
> I'm not sorry because we haven't done anything.

"You" have cooked up false evidence against Iraq, both in linking it to 9/11 and WMDs.

In revenge for 9/11 you've killed over 500 times more innocent people. You've almost perpetrated a 9/11-squared, killing an entire 9/11 death-toll for every US citizen who died. A 9/11 every week for the last ten years.

It's as if I'm rumored to have killed your friend so you go to my last known address and shoot the current tenants, then cook up a story about the neighbors and shoot them, then start drone-bombing their neighbors, etc.

> a global wiretapping program? sigh How naive and gullible are you?

Do you believe the NSA is not running quasi-secret wiretapping programs? Or do you just believe that it's not worldwide?

> You're clearly mentally unhinged

Oh, obviously. Psychotic, you said. You on the other hand are well hinged.
That's a bit of an overstatement where Springer is concerned. Right now, they have 15,000 titles from the past 5 years available as print-on-demand, which is impressive enough, but they publish 6,500 titles per year, and have been for decades-- so they are still a long way from having even half of their titles available in that form. Not exactly "almost entirely".
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"Why is polycarbonate not allowed for ordinary cars?"

Go to a parking lot and look at the plastic headlight covers on high-mileage cars. Many are frosted to opaqueness because of impact with grit.