skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, AFAIK the NSA doesn't publish what their fabs are capable of or what they do with them. Maybe someone here knows better?

I'd assume the NSA's fabrication capability is more on the scale of the pilot plants fabs build at each new process scale. Some universities certainly have fabrication equipment testbeds as well, so the NSA effort may be more that modest scale.

If I were tasked with the problems the NSA faces, I think I'd at least focus in on:

1. CMOS reverse engineering equipment that can shave down dies, image and analyze the structures, etc.

2. Small scale fabrication for extremely sensitive infrastructure. These roles probably aren't performance critical. Eg if you have some microcontroller that plays a role in say nuclear weapon arming protocols, you need that to be pretty much beyond suspicion.

3. Some way of sampling commodity parts for unexpected behavior non-destructively. If this could be done efficiently enough, you could use it in combination with #1 to get reasonable confidence for off the shelf parts.

One thing I'd suspect is that if the NSA did find highly targeted flaws they probably wouldn't disseminate that fact unless absolutely necessary. Keep an adversary using a strategy you know rather than provoking improvement.

Personally I doubt the NSA forces backdoors into commodity chips. In theory there might be some way of introducing a flaw that would cripple specific large computations like crypto-analysis of a particular code, or biasing a particular random number generator. But that just seems too likely to backfire.

I'd always thought it was interesting that the pentium FDIV bug was most easily found by code calculating twin primes. But there may be a mundane explanation for that rather than cloak and dagger stuff.
Check out Maria Montessori's works, methods, and materials.

My 3-year old daughter has been at a Montessori school since August last year and the progress she's made --in manual work, counting, drawing, and reading, is incredible. Her vocabulary is now equivalent to a 5-year old.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcgN0lEh5IA for a fun, decent exposition of what a Montessori education does by contrast with traditional schooling.
http://www.robg3d.com/?p=949
It maybe worth noting this lecture is from 2003.

It took me a while to work out why it wasn't showing up in my Stanford eCorner iTunes subscription.
1. The most immediate thing that would happen if that were the case is we'd already know. We could tell if the magnetic field were quickly changing. A lot of instruments people use every day would be affected by major changes in the magnetic field.

2. The magnetic field could completely disappear and we wouldn't get bombarded by radiation. The atmosphere itself protects us from radiation. Remember all that talk in the '90s about the ozone layer and how we'd get irradiated if it disappeared? That's in the atmosphere. The magnetic field doesn't do much for that AFAIK.

3. Based on the same evidence that leads us to believe the polarity switches, we believe it doesn't happen quickly. We are talking about a geological timescale here. The field won't flip by the end of the year any more than a new mountain will appear by then.

4. I think the biggest consequence if the field suddenly flipped is that we would have to fix a lot of navigational equipment.

5. You're more likely to get killed by the consequences of silly superstitions — say, based off a calendar ending on a particular date — than you are from a magnetic field polarity reversal.
Putting your Myers-Briggs personality type in your CV suggests to me that you probably believe in horoscopes, too.

That was harshly said, but the OP appeared to be looking for constructive criticism, so that comment is warranted. The unvalidated Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® is no more useful to employers than horoscopes, and likely to expose employers who use it to legal liability. Here are some standard references on the subject:

http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html

http://www.psychometric-success.com/personality-tests/person...

"Overall, the review committee concluded that the MBTI has not demonstrated adequate validity although its popularity and use has been steadily increasing. The National Academy of Sciences review committee concluded that: ‘at this time, there is not sufficient, well-designed research to justify the use of the MBTI in career counseling programs’, the very thing that it is most often used for."

http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/deve...

http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Personality-Testing-Miseducate-Mi...
I don’t understand what you’re arguing for or against here.
Ask HN: dropbox for saving project files
Hi HN!
I'm always moving, or using different platform to code and it's always a hassle when nothing is synchronized.

I'm not considering git or SVN because it's only for my personnal projects. I've recently started using a dropbox file to save my projects and it works great.

Do you guys have a better solution? Or do you think it might annoy dropbox if I save my files too much?
I think Facebook should cozy up to Mozilla and use Boot2Gecko. Facebook's strength is in their web presence, and by leveraging a web-oriented phone, they could offer something that doesn't compete directly with other handset makers.
I'm well aware. It comes down to the right combination of an algorithm and heuristics. And it's the heuristics part that is rarely transferable from problem to problem, the part you laid out in bullet points for your hired gun.

I'm just interested in understanding the methodologies, and "cherry-picking" what's applicable to my problems.
A duplicate of this link was posted 15 minutes before yours, plenty of time to check to see if the link had already been posted.

I'm sure you just logged on and contributed, but please check next time.

Upvote for effort either way.
From Robert at Open Goldberg Variations:

I believe that this was a mechanical problem with the pedal which we unfortunately didn't detect. It's worse on some speakers/headphones than others. Hopefully you'll still be able to enjoy
I have Gnus and Emacs on my computer because I have myself convinced that with enough macros I could create a completely automated version of my digital self. I imagine it would use a private/local NNTP server for all my notes, documentation, and organizational reference across computers, and emails would handle the communicate with the digital world even to the point of creating snapshots of online articles and posting comments on sites like Techcrunch under the articles using some combination of Jabber/cURL and my public Facebook profile.

But I just never get around to learning elisp.
The Math of Search and Similarity
where's the torrent?
Meshing Microsoft With Skype
Skanect creates 3D models of you and your house using Kinect sensor
I think "lecture" is stretching it a bit. This video is 1 minute 12 seconds long.
the Landowska recording of Goldberg really is excellent
> I'm confused why Gould came up at all, since his recordings of Bach are lousy

You're not confused. You're just taking this opportunity to voice your (minority) opinion on Gould. I love his interpretation of Bach, and so do many others. His Goldberg Variations are among the most popular classical recordings. Of course his name is bound to come up.

As for "As for greatest pianist of the 20th century," why didn't you respond directly to the (single) person making that claim?
My 25 came from the same source: Second City Cop blog. They're a collection of anonymous Chicago police.

The scare quotes refer to gang shootings.

SCC tends strongly towards alarmism and, often, hyperbole. Your odds of getting shot in Chicago, even if you go to Woodlawn for Lem's barbeque, is extremely low. Unfortunately, your odds of getting shot if you're a kid living 24/7 in Englewood or Humboldt Park are unacceptably high. Also: lots of racist cops. Blue collar job.
I actually thought the exact same thing when I was browsing the Flattr blog. I spent a good 10 seconds looking for a link to the real site before giving up and manually changing the URL.
Why I Hate Test Driven Development
Assad's opposition will secure chemical weapons
You need to download the individual clips and load them sequentially into a media player to get the entire lecture.
What is 2 in 1, 4 in 1 Card Reader?
Card Reader can support many kinds of memory cards, such as Compact Flash or Smart Media or Microdrive and so on.

What is 2 in 1, 4 in 1, 5 in 1,6 in 1,7 in 1 ...12 in 1, 18 in 1, 23 in 1, 24 in 1, all in 1 card reader?
I know jailbreaking doesn't immediately imply piracy, but this is another example in the fine tradition of pirates getting the better product. The recent Quasar window manager for iOS is another example.
How is wkhtmltopdf not a "command-line tool"? Both your tool and wkhtmltopdf require a (virtual) framebuffer, so neither are lightweight.
If they release a phone, they're competing directly no matter what.
Yeah, he was almost certainly reusing his byte[]s. My takeaway is that if you program a high-level language as if it's C, expect C-like bugs.
Author John Birmingham on eBook Piracy
In reply to: Three Good Laws of Software Architecture
Ask HN: How do I turn off the low-battery warning on my android ics 4.0.4?
I know this question really belongs on an android forum, but I cannot stand the clutter and idiocy on those websites.

My galaxy nexus will not shut up about the battery being low on charge. It beeps and pops up every 2 or 3 seconds, relentlessly annoying the hell out of me. Not only that, it's wasting the little battery I have left by turning on the screen.

I have googled, and tried everything, and still cannot change it's behavior.

My phone is rooted, so if any of you has a trick that requires root (or not) please share it.
RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rUgW4NbNEg
Unrelated to this particular lecture, but the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar is a really excellent source of interesting interviews. I always get excited when I see a new podcast sitting on my phone, waiting to be listened to.

The whole series is really high quality...definitely recommend.
I think this code is much easier accessed when hosted on GitHub so I'll maintain the repo for now:
https://github.com/dybskiy/redactor-js
I wouldn't take that seriously. The guy is most likely some bored teenager posting to reddit with an iPod Touch or something.
The Flame worm "might be the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed"
Daniel Kahneman on the Trap of ‘Thinking That We Know
Social network movie algorithm in javascript
Says the Skype website: "Skype is not a replacement for your telephone and can't be used for emergency calling." It's also not possible to port an existing phone number to Skype.
I'm 99.9% sure that is NOT a shot spotter. We have Shotspotter in some areas Minneapolis, as well as city-wide wifi. Those little cans are all over the place and are part of the WiFi System. I took a photo of one just down the street from my house: http://i.imgur.com/OqYEA.jpg
Interesting to watch him talk about SpaceX only days after their successful mission. In this clip (http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=382) he says based on historical data it is unlikely the mission will stay within the 15 billion dollar development cost and 2012 timeline. Not sure about the budget, but they made their deadline. Makes their recent success even more impressive.
Bookmarked - I don't do facebook or twitter though, so no content from me... Wheres tumblr integration?
“If the police are utilizing these conversations, then the issue is, where does it stop?” he said.

Libertarians consistently make slippery-slope arguments when most everybody else is just happy that some immediate problem is solved. This line of debate is freaking getting old, and I'm the first person to do it.

The problem is that it always is a slippery slope. No bullshit. Changes take place over years or decades, so there's no single time you can raise an alarm. Right now it's gunshots. Next it will be car sounds -- estimating speeders and the conditions for traffic accidents. Then somebody will work out screaming. Then, perhaps conversations. And let's not forget that the systems will be justified by talking about the horrendous inner city. In actuality the vast majority of the time these systems will be used in places nowhere like that. When you read stories like this remember that these guys are selling equipment just like any other startup. You're getting their best pitch.

Big cities need this stuff, so it's a good thing for them. (Although I imagine we'll just start seeing a lot of silencers). What concerns me is that 90%+ of the time there's no crime being committed, save for discharging a firearm. So there's all these thousands of "criminals" discharging firearms that haven't been arrested before but could be now. Yay? Is it always a good thing with the grip of the state tightens, as long as we can point to something good coming of it?

Hopefully the cops will be so overloaded with gunshots they'll ignore the system and use it only for forensic purposes. But I doubt it. Instead I imagine we'll see these discharge numbers added to the crime reports for cities in an effort to secure more funding for even more police presence. Whether that's a good thing or not is debatable. There's obviously a real problem in Chicago and several other cities, but the rest of the country not so much.
In 150 words (the transcript):

"I think successful entrepreneurs probably come in all sizes, shapes and flavors. I'm not sure there's any one particular thing. For me, some of the things I've described already I think are very important. I think really an obsessive nature with respect to the quality of the product is very important and so being an obsessive compulsive is a good thing in this context. Really liking what you do, whatever area that you get into, even if you're the best of the best, there's always a chance of failure so I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing. If you don't like it, life is too short. I'd say also, if you like what you're doing, you think about it even when you're not working. It's something that your mind is drawn to and if you don't like it, you just really can't make it work I think."
I submitted this. The author is Vladimir Kolesnikov: https://github.com/voloko

His version has not changed in 8 months[1] (even though this guy seems to be doing some progress[2]).

I just wanted to see what HN members think of it.

[1] https://github.com/voloko/uki

[2] https://github.com/Nathanaela/uki
Reminds me of these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helio_(wireless_carrier)

and their TV commercials in which there was always a teenager shouting "it's got MySpace mobile!"
> Graphene is fundamentally vanilla Windows Phone, except with all Windows/Microsoft branding removed in favour of Facebook

Not a chance. Microsoft would never compromise their branding. They're not THAT desperate yet, and their still in a stronger position than Facebook in terms of having money to throw around.

> phone functionality swapped with a custom Skype UI (integrated with Facebook contacts)

You'll never get the carriers to agree with that. Not yet. Even Apple couldn't do it.

> For data service, Facebook makes a deal with one carrier in every region on Earth to become a "dumb pipe" of unlimited 4G/3G, negotiates a reasonable globally consistent rate, and handles billing with users (acting as a middleman between users and carriers, effectively becoming its own carrier with borrowed infrastructure).

Again, for the same reason, it's extremely unlikely that carriers would agree to this on any level. Not yet. They've still got a few dying gasps yet.

> In the end, we get a Facebook-controlled and Facebook-powered "Facebook Phone" which shuns legacy telephony technology and seamlessly moves between regional 3G/4G and Wi-Fi networks (and makes Facebook, Microsoft, and Nokia a ton of money).

I still disagree that Facebook are in any position to heavy-hand away the branding of either Microsoft or Nokia. Especially Microsoft. They're not going to hand over the OS they spent a lot of effort developing for no recognition, even if it makes them tonnes of money in licensing.

It's a good idea, but I don't think it's likely at all in this climate.
I would not have. Their link on HN was the straw that broke my back and finally pushed me to write my post. In fact, I say as much in the post :)
There are 23 videos, some more geared towards entrepreneurship like "Qualities of an Entrepreneur", "When is the right time to sell", "History of Zip2", "Viral Marketing", etc.
One of the most rational discussions of piracy and DRM I've ever read.
The apps 'Sound Manager' and 'Light Flow' will help.
I'm CoCoNuts for CoCoNut HeadPhones
I'm trying to find a better source, but this Boston Herald article claims they've put in a little over $1 billion. http://bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view/20120522p...
Beats studio on sale
I love that the tl;dr is at the bottom. Humor intended, I hope.
Mozilla would curl up, sell/give their assets to charity and die before partnering with Facebook. Boot to Gecko is free, open source, and arguably more "open" than Android. There's no need for a partnership.

Mozilla and their leadership care very much about privacy and freedom. Facebook does not jive with that at all.
Game Onet For All Windows on Downloads App
I feel like I may have missed something with all of this new talk about the Facebook phone.

About a year ago, it was announced that Facebook had partnered with HTC and would be releasing a phone in 18 months. I believe it was reported to run on a forked version of Android with an HTML5 front end (presumably to avoid the software update issues that Google is facing)

Is there any reason to believe that's changed? I feel like they still have 6 months before I really expect to see anything
is there a torrent available?

[update] pb says: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4961721/Musopen_Complete but no seeders

[update2] and the ID3 tags on the downloads are empty!
To be fair, audio support on all web browsers was an awful embarrassment, especially on mobile, until just recently. Thankfully recent versions of Chrome and Firefox are changing things, and I expect Safari (both Mac and iOS) will soon improve.

Hell, it's not like Android is a shining example of audio support: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9372
Me, myself and my own needs
Codename: simple-multiblog
CotDC (only saying this because the list of features reminds me of an article I read years ago about MS Back Orifice)
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Elon once said: "I always knew that there was a chance of failure in all my endeavors. But I felt that they were important enough that I had to try, even if I thought the probability of success was less than 50%."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjuvIlskUf4#t=7m20s
Just look at Elon's excitement at the 9:36 mark of this video as well as all of SpaceX employee's enthusiasm. This was truly a huge success despite the challenging odds.

It's an amusing contrast of how Elon was like "Yeah that's pretty cool I guess." when director Jon Favreau based Iron Man on him and donated an Iron Man statue to SpaceX headquarters signed by the whole cast. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CECAda_XCDU
Why cheap customers cost more
I have 100 gigs of music on my laptop, much more than can fit on my ipod. This is perfect for me.
> Microsoft would never compromise their branding.

Seems that Sidekick and Kin are counter-examples to that statement.
The BBC did a great Horizon documentary on The Core recently where they visited some researchers and looked at some shiny machines which attempted to replicate the conditions at the core and grow iron crystals or something. It talks about local variations in the earth's magnetic field as well. I recommend it.
My apologies for the new post, I mistyped the url!
honestly i didn't expect it to work at all on iPad. truely amazing.
Also real customers are a source of good ideas.

Great point. Getting the problem to fix straight from the source is ideal. Do you have any examples of how you have used that to your advantage?
Number 5 should read (not that it matters):
print map(lambda x: "Happy Birthday " + ("to you" if x != 2 else "dear Name"),range(4))

In general, I was expecting more. I was hoping for some slightly more obscure examples, though I guess the point is that many common problems are 1 liners in Python.
I'm enjoying the talk, but if you rely on the captioning, know that it is wrong in many places.
Speaking on Myers-Brigg.

One thing I am realizing is that they put ISTJs/ESTJs in the interviewer seat. Your liked minded INTPs are all developing, not interviewing.

They don't find certain fluffy things as impressive. They like concrete, palpable information.

That's why you have to take it off to increase your chances...you'll be with your other INTPs after your hired...just have to make it through those SJs...
That's what we do in Decal[1]. It's very hard to get right - we're reasonably close but it's still a little finicky. Basically while you drag the image around it follows your mouse but when you drop it, it tries to guess the best place to insert it into the HTML so that it will most closely approximate your desired position. You can see it in action without signing up in our instructional video on placing images: http://www.decalcms.com/page/Support/#instructionalVideos

[1]http://www.decalcms.com/page/4_minute_challenge
Direct laser hits make camera sensors pretty unhappy:

http://www.hdcamteam.com/2011/07/10/report-cmos-ccd-cameras-...

If camera toting quadcopters on microphone equipped poles become common, I'd expect West Oakland gangs to start handing out high powered laser pointers to all the local kids…
Here's the pattern I've seen at a lot of companies:

1. let's have a meeting!
2. let's make it a regular meeting
3. let's have more meetings
4. let's make them regular too
5. how come we don't get as much work done as we used to?
6. let's have a strict agenda for each meeting and try to be brief
7. let's have less meetings
8. let's only have meetings that are strictly necessary, and call them ad hoc
9. back to step 1

Whereas my own evolved preference is something like this:

1. let's only have meetings that are strictly necessary, and call them ad hoc
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Where is this setting? I don't see anything about Circles in any of the Google chat settings.
Why I'm not using Kickstarter for my new campaign
Ryan, Just a note but I'm assuming you're going to take action on the emails you send to users that are likely to cancel rather than just having the act of the email be the deterrent to cancel.
In rough agreement with you, but have a quibble about your second point. As far as I understand it, while the lower atmosphere does provide significant protection, the ionosphere does have a substantial role to play as well.

Here is a very brief outline of this from everyone's favourite experimental nutter-magnet/atmospheric testing facility, HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/ion3.html

[edit] Just thought and realised that the ionosphere is very little to do with the issue. I should really be talking about the magnetosphere and how it helps protect us from highly energetic particles in the solar wind. So my quibble still stands, but my reasoning was a big steaming pile of monkey poo.
I've noticed the same issue with that gem. It only happens randomly and with high density asynchronous traffic.
I am in same position where most of my team comes in during different parts of am time. Would it be effective to have daily status meetings right around lunch or at end of the day? Suggestions are welcome.