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Anonymous hacks Indian ISP Reliance's Internet filtering server
Brilliant iPad game teaching programming concepts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_dilemma
I'd love for this to exist, being a hater of needles. But it seems a bit odd to say:

"""The new injector has yet to be tested on people, but has been used on animals, like sheep, without apparent discomfort. "The sheep did not seem to even be aware that they were being injected," Hunter says"""

Are sheep not herd animals that almost never show discomfort or pain? Something to do with not wanting to get picked off by predators? I've never seen a sheep act hurt. I've even seen one get its back broken by a horse and it just lay there like it was fine.
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Syria Using American Software to Censor Internet
Surprisingly accurate prediction.
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I found something from ChromeFans.org which seems to be working quite alright, although it's not the official Google extension.

Edit: In the Chrome Store
Sounds good - definitely a valuable resource, sir!

Cheers, and have a great Memorial Day Weekend!
Internet Privacy
Makaseh is exactly what Prof Lessig has advocated. The free version is slated for distribution on the 1st of July. Please check our 2 min video at http://makaseh.wordpress.com

It will be seen that Makaseh would create an environment that

a. allows cyberspace users to securely store their data in their own computers or on the cloud.

b. provide a user id that could be used globally in different environments such as family, business, friends and general public environments.

c. Generate a user friendly coding and transmission protocols that would make sharing data between users simple and secure

d. Make cyber space a congenial and secure environment without the threats of being hacked and bruised.

“It is time that Internet privacy is protected and cyberspace made a congenial and secure environment for anyone to transact their business” asserted Mr. Beracah John Martyn, Marketing Director for Owtsar Technologies. We have conceived this system putting into use the enormous experience we have gained through the year in developing good encryption protocols, sharing methods and office utilities. Combining all of them together we have put Makaseh in place.

Social networking, chats, sharing documents, files, online businesses, even placing information on the web for users without being harassed by manipulative SEO’s are the features that will be available free to all users.

The enterprise version with corporate emails, documents and file sharing and management will be offered for a small fee. Banks can use the Makaseh id of customers to transact online business without any concerns whatsoever. Even if someone has the card details, still they wont be able to transact any business if it is done with a Makaseh id.
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i read a few days ago about a large-scale-y investigation about "obfuscated" and real email-addresses. it seems that it is better to just write me@example.com instead of me(at)example.com as you can find the second pattern through google queries while you won't find the first one. i.e. google is smart enough to not let scrapers use its index for easy listings.
As long as it doesn't look like a "real" hypospray, you can avoid the CBS legal team: http://code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Tricorder
If I was using a similar product and Coda2 provided more/better features, maybe. Since I'm not, no.

I've downloaded it yesterday out of curiosity but I didn't expand the archive. If my general lack of interest for the Panic hype machine is a good indicator, I suppose it will stay untouched in ~/Downloads for some time before going straight to the trashcan.

But why do you ask? Are you going to switch if enough HNers answer yes?
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Your bias against ruby is astounding. You recommend node and Django but recommend against rails? Rails isn't magic. The Michael Hartl book is a great place to start after Chris Pine's 'Learn to Program.' Of course the Pine and Hartl books might be a little too magical for an avowed Pythonista.

As far as MySQL, you've lost your damned mind. For relational databases, why not build a heroku site and use PG? Who the hell still uses MySQL?

My suggested 'Learn to Program' path would start with Kids Ruby, then followed by the Chris Pine 'Learn to Program' book followed by the Michael Hartl tutorial followed by the Big Nerd Ranch Objective C book. The Nerd Ranch book starts with an intro to C before getting into OOP concepts.
Bottle is great, not sure if this is really news though?
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I sort of hope you’re right because the idea of a technology that could inject things into people without them even knowing freaks me out a little bit.
I wonder how this could impact the Indian IT outsourcing industry. Will customers be happy to have the Indian government being able to peek into everything they do from India?
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Sounds like an easy way to bankrupt people. Buy every one of the producer's dresses, put them in a pit, burn them, and now the producer is bankrupt and destitute.
This is an absolutely terrible idea.

20 years ago people where hailing the Internet as a bastion of freedom and espousing how it would liberate people around the world, it was supposed to be the death knell of censorship.

Sadly it seems more likely that it will be used to reduce the freedoms and liberties of all men across all nations, unless we stand firm in our convictions and remain unafraid to raise our voices in protest.
What game would you recommend instead?
The author completely fails to understand that there are a large number of people who would benefit from programming but have been deterred from doing so.
You know how people tell stories about kids learning not to touch hot stoves after getting burned too many times?

No, you clearly don't.
ssh-keygen (from OpenSSH) doesn't even let you create keys that short-- 768 bits and the default is 2048 bits for RSA keys, according to the man page.
I'm really interested in this, but I have an extremely shallow knowledge of applied game theory. Can you point out some papers or textbooks you'd recommend on this subject? Particularly about the design of strategies that will dominate evolutionary strategies.
Or use scatterplots with points that have opacity < 100%.
C'mon there is still a bunch of cases where a scatterplot is much much clearer than that kind of 2d histogram, for example when there is a non linear relation with very high correlation.
This reminds me of ~10 years ago, when downloading Linux distros, they came in “US” and “non-US” flavours. I vaguely remember this having to do with “exporting” crypto from the US. I guess something has changed since I no longer see this, but I would love if someone could shed some light on that piece of Internet history.
"20 years ago people where hailing the Internet as a bastion of freedom and espousing how it would liberate people around the world, it was supposed to be the death knell of censorship."

But it still is. Now more than ever. It's toppled regimes, unmasked government secrets. If authorities try to take away what has once been given to the people, there will be protests.
I don't agree that this is some sort of foolproof way of getting out of doing any work studying, but I definitely think this method could be really useful.
40 bit key length for RSA is just trolls. 768 bit keys have already been cracked, so you could probably crack these with a calculator.
Inject drugs into people without making them notice? This makes a dangerous weapon.
Horrible idea. Can anyone explain what is motivating the Indian government to require such access? We all basically know what the deal is with China and certain oppressive regimes in the middle east, but India is an actual democracy (maybe with a somewhat high level of corruption.)
It wouldn't work and they would be even deeper in corruption and legal system inefficiency.
I guess they want just that, stupid humans.
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I don't think this is a direct result of Bernstein v. US (as that covers source code rather than executables), but it's related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
I love the broken images at the bottom of the page.

This proposal is just one way of destroying their call centres and any Internet based transaction system they may want to develop with the outside world.

You might also want to note the following:

14. The ISP should block Internet sites and individual subscribers,
as identified by Telecom Authority.

15. The Government(Licensor) reserves the right to make changes in
the security considerations.

Don't forget the following kicker:

Every international gateway location and/or the ISP node with a
router/switch having a capacity of 2Mbps or more shall be equipped with
a monitoring Centre at the cost of the ISP."

These are all excellent ways of destroying their IT industry, which is currently about 7% of total GDP. No organization with critical data who have any sense will transmit data over these sort of links.
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well done Anonymous.i was euphoric when i saw this .. please bring more companies to light ...
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I think this is only for international gateways using foreign satellites physically located within the country. No? Does this effect users of, say, Airtel? Didn't Airtel use Singtel's gateway (located outside India)?

And this does not look like a proposal, more like a TOC for establishing a gateway.

Nevertheless, a terrible thing.

EDIT: Nope, it is for everyone - It is same clause in Cable Landing Stations for ISPs using offshore Gateways. See here - http://www.dot.gov.in/isp/landing_station.doc

Now I wonder why aren't ISPs already blocking. The documents don't look old, they are still linked on their site.

EDIT 2: Document is too old. Doesn't hold.
This may be one of the strongest arguments for stopping this. US companies will certainly not want their business to be compromised by competitors because of this rule.
It's wikipedia, you should fix it :)
Has anyone yet done a successful launch with a NK-33 based design? According to Wikipedia Antares will be doing test launch this August with a design based on the NK-33, though.
news to me.
something changed, indeed. djb vs. usa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
You say to want less; do you have specific examples of how you apply this?
Apparently no one has submitted the page before. I love bottle. I switched from RoR and never looked back.

Of course I just use it for tiny basically desktop apps, where I just wanted to use the browser as an interface to avoid writing UI code.
I think it is a very old document.
If your variables aren't doing anything wrong, what do they have to hide?
This document is from 2001.

http://toroid.org/ams/etc/dot-india-crypto-nonsense
All this, just because John McAfee wouldn't drop some coin into the local politician's "campaign coffer"? Either we're not being told the full story even by McAfee, or life in Belize is a real dog (excuse the pun).
Somebody should make a "draw any shape" converter into css.
I am 60 and for almost my entire life I have only worked 32 hours per week, first for large companies (e.g., SAIC) then for a few smaller companies, and for the last 13 years as a consultant. Lately I have been trying to cut back and partially retire but that is tough since I usually enjoy my work.

I have friends and business associates who thrive on long work hours.

We all need to figure out what we need out of life.
The guy who made the original scatter plot is even a math teacher... yikes.

The post author provides some nice python code to create the plots, though the choice of hex bins when the original data was rounded to the nearest integer is a bit strange. Square bins set to some integer size would be better I believe.

If you're using Matlab, I've recently found cloudPlot (http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23238-cl...) to work rather nicely for "dense scatterplots".
I would hope so. Do you have any citation on when was this published?
There's a documentary about the NK-33 called "The engine that came in from the cold".
Pretty amazing story - the Russians had these engines hidden in a warehouse for over 20 years before the Americans found out about them and they were better than anything that had been developed in the meantime.

It's on Google video here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5787437371570928
If you have enough point density for this to be a problem there's surely something better you can do though, whether it be binning the data or something a little more sophisticated like plotting a kernel density estimate.
How do you find and select your advisers?
We are taking the plunge and starting our own company and was wondering how you guys find and select your advisers?
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How many creators actually become rich? I thought the marketers of innovations are the ones who become rich. To but people back on earth you could show how many great creators end up with nothing after years and provide practical solutions to combat this.

Charles Goodyear, Eli Whitney, and Robert Kearns come to mind as people who never profited off their creations or suffered greatly trying to receive just compensation.
Surprisingly many of the indian IT workers (outsourced) I am in touch with support the increasing limitations of freedom in India.

I am not sure why, maybe they are just brainwashed or simply not used to having as many rights as people in the western world are accustomed to. In any case, terrorism is a real threat in India and I suspect they are all a bit touchy.
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India will get a Darwin Award for killing it's relevance in global IT services business.
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One more thing: I have a general problem with not having enough time for everything that I want to do. I find that cutting way back on TV and stop watching movies or reading books that I decide just aren't worth the time helps a lot.
I'm trying to rein my relationship with work in, and limiting myself to 30 hours a week is one way to do that. Now that I consult, I just have to learn to give myself vacations. :)
This clearly indicates Govt of India acting on behalf of wested interest. This doesn't seems to be a thought about policy to the least. How can they still consider 40 bit encryption a worthy one?
My heart skipped a beat as I misread the sentence as "[...] Forges $75 Million Payout". I agree with the other commenter in here regarding it being a conflict of interest, as Cook is personally responsible for handling the divident payments to the shareholders.
What's really weird is how different 2008 and 2009 are for "same teacher, different subjects".

In 2008, it looks like a blob (no real trend). In 2009, some teachers obviously learn how to do well in VAM (excelling at both math and english "teaching"), and others don't. I guess that some teachers learnt what it takes to get good VAM scores.
This makes me want to xerox a kleenex.

(My point being: it's strange how we punish success by taking away successful brand names.)
I've only briefly used VS but I'd say that the risk for VS10 users could be that MS stops supporting it and that future versions of the Metro SDK or whatever may not work at all in VS10.
You say "at least in Chrome," but have you tried other browsers? This phrase leads me to believe it may be a browser problem and not a Dropbox problem.
Not trying to be snarky, but the USA is supposed to be the paragon of freedom and democracy, yet even its government is spying on its own citizen via the NSA. A democracy is no guarantee against a surveillance-expansionist regime, especially when a large portion of the electorate are highly uneducated and below the poverty line, as is the case in India.
"It will not be particularly useful to a developer..."

Right there on the project page.
The linked post doesn't provide any source.

According to the internet archive, it's from 2006 http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dot.gov.in/isp/g...
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See also http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/19280-bi... amongst other density estimators, for a nice smooth plot of the estimated joint density.

(Downside being there's still a somewhat-arbitrary choice to be made for the smoothing bandwidth, and it's not quite as visually obvious as the choice of number of bins in a histogram plot.)
Because it's completely different? Credit cards are designed to be accountable and refundable. The credit card is sold with a guarantee that it cannot be used to steal money from me. They can do this because credit is not "real" money; it's credit.

Bitcoin is designed to be easy to steal because cash is easy to steal.
On that site's front page they recommend you to use IE 4.0. :(.
Actually... is this current policy? I just checked the wayback machine, and this has been there since at least 2006. See http://web.archive.org/web/20060222081026/http://www.dot.gov...

Is this really still in effect?
This sort of device has actually been in use for a number of decades. There are associated downsides like biological transfer and the infiltration of skin cells. I'm afraid you'll have to suck it up for a while yet.

edit: A citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector
The idiots in our government are jealous of China & have identified censorship & suppression of freedom as the one thing they can quickly compete with China on
If encryption higher than the proposed limits are required, they want us to seek permission from authority and deposit decryption key.

Considering how corrupt and inefficient government and the officials are there, its not gonna work well or will be too frustrating and may require bribing.
Here's an article from 1999 http://www.rediff.com/computer/1999/jul/26gatewa.htm

Last week it announced the 'Guidelines and general information for setting up of international gateways for Internet'.

Another quote:

There is a view in the industry that 40-bit key length is too weak for most commercial applications and can be easily broken.

Surprisingly, Singhal [secretary, Internet Service Providers' Association of India] is not very worked up over this. He clarifies that it is just an initial step. "It is not a hard and fast rule that higher bit encryption is not allowed. If encryption over 40 bits is used then the key will have to be given to the government. The DoT seems to have taken the worldwide standard. As and when they receive complaints that it can be easily broken, they will consider going for stronger encryption.
> When it's so easy to do it right the first time, why not?

a) Because it isn't "right" as such. It's just "better" if the code is going to be reused. Which it isn't.

b) The code style serves as documentation. I can clearly read from this code that it's not a reusable component. It is now easier for me to get an idea of how and where this code is being used in the site.

c) Personally, I'm wary of "pre-emptive generalization". Every layer of abstraction makes the code slightly less readable. Also, unless there exists at least two use cases right now, you're not likely to get the reusability right anyway.
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A biography of Paul Dirac. Very good.

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The Fabric of the Universe - David Deutsch

What picture can we paint of the universe if we take together the best theories we have about fundamental things like time, life, virtual reality, cosmology etc. Easily the best book i've read in recent years.
Consider that Deutsch is a very distinguished scientist in the field of quantum cryptography/computing. He is really good at explaining things in terms that non-physicists and experts alike can learn a lot!

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Here is a hexbin of a highly correlated nonlinear relationship (y=x^2 + gaussian(0,0.1)), together with a scatterplot with opacity:

opacity=35%: http://i.imgur.com/VB1E0.png

opacity=20%, and 2x bigger bins for the hexbin: http://i.imgur.com/yDR3j.png

Which image do you think better displays the image?

Just to make it interesting, I set it up so that the x values are not uniformly distributed. That's very easy to see in the hexbin, but still hard in the scatterplot.

The hexbin will always have a higher visual resolution than the scatterplot because the hexbin uses multiple colors to differentiate different densities. The scatterplot uses only one color.
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This is more of an expose on the corrupt practices of Reliance.

Reliance companies (of both Mukesh & Anil) are known for corrupt practices. This isn't really a surprise but credit to Anonymous for confirming and informing customers.
It is from 2001, It can be verified by using google search with a date range.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Individuals/Gro...

My apologies for jumping the gun. Its easy to get confused as there was no date on that page.
I'm not that surprised by this. More developed countries use their scientific prowess to build massive organisations like the NSA to decrypt and monitor communications in the name of national security, the Indian government tries to legislate it instead. This is what they insisted on doing with RIM's encrypted Blackberry services as well. Technology's progressing too fast for the government research agencies to keep up with and eavesdrop on.

(ref: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018084)

I'm not too concerned because of the standard 'I've got nothing to hide' line, but there's always the chance of corrupt officials and poor data security in their wiretapping centers. Anyways, it doesn't seem like this rule is enforced since the document has been there for a while and SSH traffic works just fine.
Since you can already easily achieve this through the use of food or drink as the delivery mechanism, I don't see how this changes things much.
I used his book in my class.
Ah, good distinction. Thanks for the explanation.
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Square bins set to some integer size would be better I believe.

I agree - a gaussian regularization would also work nicely. But matplotlib comes with a hexbin, so that's what I used.
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