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"Do we know how much entropy is in those? They could very well be sequential or date derived."

Even if entropy is low are - how are you going to randomly select a person, and know their serial ID ? Unless you know what units are distributed to what hospitals/doctors - at exact times - at exact shipments and then from the sample delivered know the exact unit given to any person at any particular time.

Sure, if you know a "set of id's" you could try each one sequentially until you finally get a hit - but even then, you must somehow ensure the person being targeted has remote connection turned on. I'm pretty sure walking up to them and saying "oh, hai 'dere! ... plz turn on ur remotz connetz'n 4 me?" [ said in this voice - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_9QhRzJEs ] - is going to make them pretty suspicious.

There's a lot of "ifs" in there and frankly - if your aim was kill them - it would be a lot faster to do it some other way because to actually get all these things to line up perfectly .... your chances are pretty slim.
Brilliant

There's a reason StackOverflow is so popular - it makes it easier to find the 'well trodden paths' ("correct way") along with someone pointing out caveats.
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Feels like the author of this article (and the people he quotes) are super bitter about the "new generation". Perhaps things did not work quite well for them, but there is no need to blame it on the kids : /
The main reason Russia is not the next outsourcing hub is because it's too expensive country already.

And you still think there is one box you can fit most Russians ("other Russians") into.
Color lasers are still not at the consumer commodity level.
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Just what I always wanted. Hats off to you sir. My code documentation is going to get a makeover.
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This is assuming you only want to control the pump. If the individual is unable to view any information on their monitor, or their monitor is displaying improper data, it may cause other serious health issues in high risk patients.

Not to mention that some devices may be controlled by the monitoring device and it may require a constant stream of good data.

I agree that not all setups and individuals are at risk but some most likely are.
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I see. Thanks for educating me.
If Chrome was a proper part of Android; it'd lose one of it's primary strengths, namely seamless automatic updating. Android's constrained by the certification process of carriers, and thus can't move nearly as fast as Chrome can on it's own. Seems like a small thing, but attaching the Chrome name to a browser that can't quite match the real thing would drag down desktop Chrome's reputation.

A more cynical attitude could be that Chrome intends to be it's own platform (see Chrome OS), and the Android team doesn't want to wake up one day and end up as nothing more than the gory bits between Chrome and the hardware (as Windows already is is for some people).
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If I told you that the Sun revolved around the earth, would you consider it holier-than-thou to tell me my education has failed me? The knowledge that the original solution (threads in Ruby for handling large numbers of concurrent connections) does not work is not a secret. Even with a peripheral following of Ruby it is well known that this solution would not work, not only is the base Ruby implementation slow but threads have been a known issue in it from day one. The solution is so misaligned with the problem that it is really difficult to validly argue this knowledge is too difficult to find. Yes, scaling to Twitter is another issue, but we're talking about the basics here.

But don't put words in my mouth, I didn't call anyone dumb, I said his education has failed him. This could be himself failing to properly research the problem space, it could be his school for not properly introducing him to the subject, it could be a whole host of things. I never argued he was incapable of learning (clearly he did). And I do spend a lot of time educating people, don't take a singular snapshot of a comment on HN as indication of how my entire life is spent.
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Well, since this question dropped below the radar, let me answer it myself for completeness.

I emailed ARINC through their contact form, and a gentleman replied within one day that ARINC didn't have a problem if I just state that my product is ARINC compliant (consistent with that standard).
Objective C is a superset of C. Why does it need to be ObjC?
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Awesome! Same dreams and hopes but my problem is that I'm exactly 30y. old :) I'm working on my way up, 32 is my goal.
Do you guys see much of a community of tech in Kenya? are there adhoc events like barcamp and other meetups going on? Any preferred development language? What do you see as hindering individuals from freelancing for foreign countries or making products that they sell overseas?

I am super fascinated by tech development in emerging economies.
And are usually adult, white, heterosexual males in technology (like me). It wasn't until I got married that I realized how naive some of the beliefs that I had held my whole life.
Simply because you may be an exception, it doesn't disprove the general case. Many self taught programmers (which php brought a rush of) lack programming fundamentals. They are blissfully unaware of the implications of the Von Neumann architecture, and don't understand how their actions translate down the various layers that support their code. If this was written 10 years ago, the author would have likely cited Perl, or VB.
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Well, if the only proof is a 'broken' pump...
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Is it actually true that the markets have gotten more efficient, though? Profit margins are one indication of how much cost efficiency is being squeezed out by the market, and I don't see evidence that businesses' profit margins have declined (if anything, they've gone up a bit recently).
“If you examine a system’s security and it’s weakened, that system is flawed,” says Ormandy.

With things like encryption schemes, definitely. But is this true for detecting malicious behavior? If you show your criteria for finding it, doesn't that tell malware writers how to avoid detection?

If I'm wrong - if openly saying "there are our criteria for identifying bad behavior" won't help people avoid it - then shouldn't Google release its criteria for identifying spam sites? I don't see Ormandy advocating for that.
I'm unsure where I stand on this subject, but this excerpt from Jaron Lanier's "You Are Not A Gadget" seems relevant:

"There are respectable academic conferences devoted to methods of violating sanctities of all kinds. The only criterion is that researchers come up with some way of using digital technology to harm innocent people who thought they were safe. ...

"If the same researchers had done something similar without digital technology, they would at the very least have lost their jobs. Suppose they had spent a couple of years and significant funds figuring out how to rig a washing machine to poison clothing in order to (hypothetically) kill a child once dressed."
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For the record: Everyone who calls themself an engineer should have tried to machine cast iron (or some kind of metal; better to start with aluminum) at least once. And everyone should know how silicon is made, hands-on if possible (which it generally isn't; fabs are expensive).

Why? Because these things are awesome, and form the foundation of our culture.

Now, having said that: No, having hands-on experience with these things doesn't really help with programming. ;)
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“One of our core pieces of DNA is empowering people to make a change,” says Mike McCamon, Water.org’s Chief Community Officer. “The people in the developing world, we don’t just give them a well, they’re involved in it, it’s community driven.” Closer to home, Water.org encourages its audience to donate more than its money — the organization wants your voice and your social status, too. It was only fitting, says McCamon, to honor those efforts by donating Water.org’s own voice for a week.
After learning a bit of Prolog and seeing its beauty you may wonder how to leverage the paradigm in your own work. Lispers in particular have pondered this for nearly 3 decades - Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence famously includes a Prolog interpreter/compiler.

The Reasoned Schemer also continues in this tradition. I used that as my introduction into the beauty of Prolog and created core.logic - https://github.com/clojure/core.logic

If you're interested in being able to mix functional, object-oriented, and logic programming techniques in a single practical language - I think Clojure is a great place to start (yes, yes, Mozart/Oz is good too ;).
I love speed optimization over what I am mostly payed for at my workplace (usual business applications). I am also better in what I love. Unfortunatelly no one really wants to pay me for optimizing the hell out of an algorithm. They want me to maintain their boring Java enterprise applications.
I've searched for such tasks here at Hacker's News also, no one was interested. Not a single company. So I don't think it is a skill which is really in demand today.
This was a clever use of unit tests to help you "pass" each lesson. I've read a bunch of tutorials on closures, but this one really helped me "get" it. Sure, it takes liberties and glosses over things... but seeing it grow right before my eyes was really helpful.
If the printer itself is significantly cheaper overall and the toner is cheaper then many companies would see it as the more sensible option.
And you can always use financing options to spread any up-front cost out, which would probably work out cheaper in monthly charges as well.
RSA is a little bit too computationally intensive for these devices I'm afraid
As per the other post:

tl;dr

Scott's most relevant points:

1. "This is a key fob that looks like a car alarm beeper that some pump users use to discretely give themselves insulin doses. However, I feel the need to point out as a pump wearer myself that:

Not every Insulin Pump has a remote control feature. Not every remote-controllable insulin pump has that feature turned on. Mine does not, for example."

2. "all he requires to perpetrate the hack is the target pump's serial number. This is like saying "I can open your garage door with a 3rd party garage door opener. Just give me the numbers off the side of your unit..."

3. If you are a diabetic on a pump who is concerned about this kind of thing, my suggestion is to turn off your pump's remote control feature (which is likely off anyway) and turn off your sensor radio when you are not wearing your CGM. Most of all, don't panic. Call the manufacturer and express your concern. In my experience, pump manufacturers do not mess around with this stuff. I'm not overly concerned.

--

Also - someone asked how much entropy was in the serial ID's on these units ?

Even if entropy is low are - how are you going to randomly select a person, and know their serial ID ? Unless you know what units are distributed to what hospitals/doctors - at exact times - at exact shipments and then from the sample delivered know the exact unit given to any person at any particular time.

Sure, if you know a "set of id's" you could try each one sequentially until you finally get a hit - but even then, you must somehow ensure the person being targeted has remote connection turned on. I'm pretty sure walking up to them and saying "oh, hai 'dere! ... plz turn on ur remotz connetz'n 4 me?" [ said in this voice - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_9QhRzJEs ] - is going to make them pretty suspicious.

There's a lot of "ifs" in there and frankly - if your aim was kill them - it would be a lot faster to do it some other way because to actually get all these things to line up perfectly .... your chances are pretty slim.

I'm a bit of sceptic on this 'hacking' - not to say that it's great that it has been uncovered - but your dealing with minute hardware where every single ms of processing power counts. Simple encryption should be utilized [but then this might be easily hacked anyway ?] but for units placed inside the body [pacemakers and the like] - splitting the units resources between keeping the patient alive vs. encryption for wireless protocols seems to weigh more heavily on the former than the later given how unlikely - for the majority of the world - these 'attacks' are going to be.
I think his general premise here is that the ease and ability with which one can generate and publish content instantaneously -replete with instant feedback loops- sets up bad mental habits and subroutines that begin to inhibit the ability for John Mayer to make great content.

There is a gestational element to most great creative work that cannot be denied. I think to protest this too much this suggests an infatuation with tools and process, not the product.
case-sensitivity, gotta love it
I disagree. If you are able to achieve your goals without going low-level, please do it. If you need to understand low-level stuff to get the job done, please start learning. But please don't fall for the "every programmer should know this" meme.
It's a slippery slope to generalize and I acknowledge that but, nonetheless, there are characteristics that are based around demographic similarities. As an Englishman I know that, in the main, there are certain English characteristics that stand out in comparison to other national groups, if only thanks to consuming a lot of the same media and dealing with the same types of bureaucracy and institutions.

Nonetheless, no-one ever agrees on this topic, so my best defence is that I was clearly making an observation of the Kenyans I have met. Naturally, that doesn't mean every Kenyan is the same.
Nice! Age doesn't really matter imo. For proper goal setting, you need a quantifiable goal and a timeline, that's why I chose 30. Good luck!
Looks cool, but I'm more impressed that I've finally seen someone using the same theme that I use for http://BugMuncher.com

I figured it would happen eventually, as it's had nearly 700 sales on themeforest
I'd have liked a medical approach to this FUD.

Can anyone with more insight than me (medical background perhaps? Or 'experienced' diabetic, since I think this leads to a specific background just as well) tell me what attack vector this could open?

I don't want to play this down, the argument just doesn't match with what I (think to) know, so - please educate me.

Isn't the maximum dose limited by the pump? And the models I've seen seem to take a long time to inject something (with a step motor, for these things).

What could you do to the 'victim'?

Supressing the basal/ongoing rate would send them on a high level of blood sugar, something that I'd expect leads to a very clear reaction: The person, if ~experienced~, will feel nasty, check the pump (maybe the battery died and you didn't hear the alarm. Maybe something with the injection needle went wrong), measure glucose level again and - depending on the result - apply a 'fast' insulin via direct injection. Am I glossing over something here?

Injecting a large(r) amount of insulin would, with a delay that seems to be related to the type of insulin used, send the person into dangerous low levels of blood sugar. Unless this hits at once though, I'd again expect the person to _know_ that there's something wrong if you start craving for every food you can imagine. Probably you'll feel like shit and start shaking etc. pp. I assume this is the more dangerous route, but again the first reaction is probably 'Fuck diabetes, what's going on with my levels', a check of the current sugar levels and direct counter measures (if it's not too bad: Juice, fructose etc. Otherwise you probably have again an injection nearby).

After typing all this I DO wonder what happens if someone causes this in your sleep though...

So - can someone tell me how wrong I am and tell me about the purely medical dangers?
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Do you have a roadmap to reach your first million? It's only 32 months so you have to earn 31k per month on average. Or are you just hoping for a (lucky?) hit?
If these social network policies just end up forcing people to use less 'internetty' (all lower case no spaces with leet accents) pseudonyms online, like authors and movie stars, it will definitely devolve to where papers are required for everyone getting an account.

I certainly now manage a semi-new pseudonym (based on an old irl joke between me and a few friends) that looks like a boring, unnotable real name. I'm not sure how it will keep me from being an asshole on the internet.
Kris Rudin, Senior Developer and Associate Partner at digital marketing agency Ascentium says, "One 'lost skill' that I see all the time with new developers -- how to debug without an integrated debugger. When I started programming (in 1986, just after punch cards, using a mainframe & dumb terminal), we didn't have any IDEs and debuggers, we had to put trace statements in our code to track values and execution.

"Today," says Rudin, there are occasionally times with you can't use the integrated debugger in your IDE (usually with some weird web application frameworks and server configurations), and younger programmers are at a loss as to what to do, and resort to hack-and-slash coding to try to randomly fix a bug, using guesswork. Me, I just calmly put in some code to display output values on the web page, find the bug, and fix it."

Oh come on. What he's describing isn't some "lost skill". If you can't figure out to use print statements for debugging you're not much of a programmer in the first place.

Most statements in that article describe really basic, common sense stuff.
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This still comes back to the basic guideline; "learn your fundamentals". You don't need to learn them all (designing CPU instruction sets??), but you do need to know the primary layers you interact with. A web programmer generally doesn't need to be aware of the machine code generated by his application, but should be knowledgeable in networking (layer 3 and up), caching, databases, and so on.
Disclaimer: I'm speaking in no way for my employer, who built the laser printer in question.

We've put a generation's worth of engineering into our printers and have a huge supply chain advantage so for any price point you pick it would be very hard to build a competitive laser printer, since printer manufacturers typically take a very large loss on each unit sold.

But that's not really the question here - on my homebrew projects I usually don't try to be cost competitive, it's about the learning, fun and pride in the finished project.

I think the main reason there aren't any open source printers is that the refill/counterfeit ink and toner markets somewhat solve the problem of expensive supplies - you already get better hardware than you can build yourself and you can get cheap non-brand toner/ink.
Yes, Apple does that sometimes, but it doesn't always have to be a bad thing, see http://www.marco.org/2011/06/06/safari-reader-and-instapaper

As for learning Obj-C: yes, it's only widely used for building iOS/Cocoa apps. There's also Cappuccino (http://cappuccino.org/), where you can reuse your knowledge for web development. Even if you use another language, your code will probably still heavily interact with the Cocoa framework and effectively lock you in too.
To be honest, the facts are kind of boring, and the fear-mongering is kind of dramatic.

I can definitely see how, if they didn't care about the abstract concept of truth, people could prefer to pay attention to the fear-mongering.
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Reminds me of old Sun RPC Directory.
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There is overlap. I hope HTML5 will dump registerProtocolHandler() and extend Intents API to use scheme in addition to MIME type.
How does this affect services like Vyprvpn? Are they an "ISP"? Or is that a loophole so as long as you're using a VPN, you're save from government snoops?
Ah well. No idea about Mac. Might be different there for all I know, but the Windows-version has been like that since FF 4, at least when the window is maximized.

When not maximized it sort-of looks like in the linked screenshot. Running the latest "UX-builds", I can see that it now has the maximized-behvaiour for all Window-states, so you are right in there being some changes.
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I speak from total ignorance; I've just read a few of these stories, so take my comments in that context, please.

It seems to me that these "locate your device" companies would all do themselves a world of good if they found a way to work with local police departments to allow verification of theft and get past the "we can't help you, no proof of a crime or evidence" walls. If average person calls the police to report the crime, they get rebuffed (and we've seen this multiple times with stories here on HN; they all start by "the cops ignored me, so I tweeted or posted for help"). If there were a verification process where you report the device missing with a possible location, and the cops can easily verify that you do own the device, it has been reported stolen, and the location is in their jurisdiction, it would seem like an easy win for a nearby car to visit location, question suspect, and arrest if necessary, adding a solved crime to their credit.

Otherwise, we continue to rely on friends and forum-mates to stalk a thief until we can convice someone, anyone in authority, to help out. This seems dangerous and only works for those with reasonably large, friendly, and distributed followers/social networks

I look forward to one of these location companies actually hiring an ex-cop as a "liason" and working out processes to get law enforcement engaged quickly to grab a suspect when much of the work (evidence of theft, location of stolen property, evidence of locations) has already been done.

Again, I am not a lawyer, and don't know much about this stuff, just what I've read online, so feel free to correct me if this is really impossible in the US.
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Not in detail. But it's a very good idea to make one, I completely agree. I do have some ideas about how to get there. I'll write another post on that later!
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