skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One option is to store your data on Amazon's S3 instance in Dublin. You can use https://www.jungledisk.com/ or other tools to do that.

Edit: There is also a good overview of options (inc. location) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_ser...
This is pretty awesome, but the following is noteworthy:

> creates a random sequence of 30 letters chosen from S, D, F, J, K, and L, with no repeating characters. This equates to around 38 bits of entropy

Which is not so bad for certain applications, but certainly isn't the 180+ bits you'd have in a true random 30 character password.

I wonder what applications they have in mind where this password system could be used.
That would be a really bad idea unless you have real-time replication to another server. SSD or not, you don't want to write data to the ephemeral store without a real-time backup, unless you're willing to lose it all.
Extreme training is already "screwing up the body". Look at many marathon runners drop dead from heart attacks before they're 40.
The dirtiest picture - The Times of India
I bet many of the other applications were also to top institutions. It wouldn't be a good fit for most labs even if a Nobel Laureate were the one wanting to do it.
Several cloud storage vendors including SpiderOak, Wuala, and Tarsnap do encryption client side, encrypting the data before it leaves your machine and only decrypting it back on your machine. In the SpiderOak case, all we see server side are sequentially numbered containers of encrypted data.
Every time an ISEF article pops up, I always sigh out loud and begin a diatribe [1] about why the winner (invariably in medicine or biology) and the title (invariably "teenager cures XYZ") is misleading.

To my surprise, it looks like this guy actually did a lot of the research on his own. At the very least, it appears the ideas was authentically his own, and then he enlisted the help of a lab to accomplish it.

[1] http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3329605

Edit: Because HN is killing old permalinks: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3328995
> blatant manipulation of the mob

I am sorry but a LOT of the big, influential NGOs are very guilty of that and of abusing polemic and demagogy. They seem to think their generally just causes/ideals justify almost all means. Sometimes they are more clever to play their cards right like in this case, sometimes they do a really terrible job and it backfires like when they attacked Apple over the completely made-up energy consumption of a shared hosting facility. But either way they are and always have been consciously using rhetoric means to manipulate people or to at least be heard. This is nothing new - haven't you ever been stopped by them in the streets when they are trying to sign you up for monthly donations? The tactics they are using there are nothing short of slimy car salesmen and ripe with psychological mind-frakks. This is nothing the internet allowed to happen, it has always been there. But the "good old days" when mostly techs were using the web and when the general signal-to-noise-ratio was better are over.
>"Steve Jobs, former Apple CEO, may finally get his wish and see Android devices ... completely taken off the market."

Was the author not reading the news last October?
I think this is inevitable, when the body has a limit, people will look for ways to push those limits. Augmenting and enhancing the human body has to be considered and may end up being beneficial for other purposes. I prefer bionic myself ;)
hilarious that this gets a downvote.

Apparently commenters here feel that I must be irrational, because I feel free to express my freedoms every single day in the US without repudiation. I'd love to hear the personal stories of those who downvoted me for how they know that no rational human being in American can express their freedoms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seX7jYI96GE
I viewed this video last week from HN. I guess this is what you are looking for.
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>Steam has it's own usability issues though. For example it won't let me play a game and download a game at the same time.

You can do it manually. Activate the game to play, alt-tab to Steam. Library, view the downloads. The download will be suspended, pause it and then you can unpause it and it'll resume downloading. Alt-tab back to the game.

Lots of work, but it works (or at least I think it did when I last tried it).
The OP is "wmpowerusers.com" (Windoze Mobile Power Users) yet the site doesn't even scale to my mobile device?

Someone needs to clue in on "viewport" either in meta or CSS.

That said, I don't see this as a newsworthy item. It's more of a crybaby thing.
> If a judge or policeman orders you to hand over your password, you can plausibly say that you don’t actually know it

Surely for this system to help in allowing you to plausibly say that, you'd have to reference this system (or equivalent) and demonstrate that it is indeed used for the authentication the police want access to. And in that case, surely the police could just say "in that case, please authenticate for us"?
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This is interesting in regards of the brain, but not so much when it comes to waterboarding cryptoanalysis... I mean, instead of asking for the password, they'd ask you to play the game: same difference, right? Or am I missing something?
You mean the preview that isn't licensed for production use? That Microsoft warns you away from using for anything useful? That preview?
I don't really trust anyone to properly interpret patents.
Really? A giant cat?
Evidence for the controlled use of fire by Homo erectus beginning some 400,000 years ago has wide scholarly support.
If Apple decides to use them it'll take years for it to litigate, and they'll probably be proved invalid in the process.

Don't fear poor Android phones, you're safe for now.
Hmm... I don't fully understand following sentence from Microsoft Services Agreement ( http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/microsoft-se... ):

> We also don't control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the service.

Isn't scanning my private content for nudity a verifying? Or what does it mean in this context.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/538/

Only this time you'll have to log-in/decrypt on the spot rather than cough up your password.
It's kind of disgusting to encourage people to fuck up their bodies to win an athletic competition.

By what standard? Who are you to say what other people should do with their bodies? I mean, I can just as easily say that it's disgusting to suggest that an individual shouldn't be able to mod his body any way he wants. Why not acknowledge self-ownership, and just accept that you can do anything you want to yourself.
Don't be silly, that would mean that something would change in the patent system.
My version of that was taking an afternoon to edit the wiki from home one day when my first daughter was born. (I took a few weeks off, then worked from home for a few more weeks).

And I'm a co-founder. People really do overwork themselves (myself included). The most important thing is to make sure you spend your time well. If that means sitting around for a week doing as little as possible, in between busting ass on the important stuff when it comes along, by all means it's more productive to chill out for a bit.

Part of the reason I took so long away when my daughter was born, was to set an example in the company that we can be more productive if we treat ourselves well.
I really don't understand this assumption that all performance enhancing substances will destroy your body. Not all doping is steriods. Some of it is for enhanced healing and recovery, something that should be researched. And in many cases abuse is the problem not use - as they say, the dose makes the poison. As we increase our ability to track and monitor drug response, internal vital statistics, and homeostasis; the notion of side-effects will become less nebulous. The problem is we are flying blind at the moment.

Do you know what site specific genetic therapies, drugs for cancer, HIV, malaria and performance enhancing substances have in common? In order to not do collateral damage they all require precise delivery to targets and an understanding of how a person's genome, protein networks and metabolism interact. Any understanding that comes from a better model of these interactions will have positive knock off effects on all the other areas. Just like we have the video game industry to thank in part for modern performance computing - monetarily motivated "doping" could also impact conditions like osteoporosis, obesity, Parkinsons and ALS.

Then there is an assumption that anything good must come with a cost. While it is true that nothing is free, it is not always the case that the negatives will outweigh or balance the positive. For example, in the short term it looks like anything beyond our current silicon based mouse, touch, keyboard paradigm is just pie in the sky. But if you were to go back to when computers were built from relays and vacuum tubes, their prediction of the future trajectory of computing would be drastically different from today's because transistors, ICs and VLSI did not exist yet.

Biology is very complex but not all the complexity is inherent. Some of it is due to approcah. And this is changing as quantitative approaches become more prevalent and biology continues to increase the ability of its practictioners to fix radios.

http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v69/pdf/bcm_14...
I've done some more reading on this issue, and I don't think what you are saying is correct.

First, class loading is more granular than JAR files. From what I can tell, the JARs are just repositories (if you will) for the actual class data. Once a class has been loaded from a JAR, it is distinct from it, and there is no need to keep the whole JAR in memory.

Second, there are many class loaders at play, not just one. At the least, there will be one class loader for Tomcat and one class loader for each web app. This is necessary to keep web apps from breaking each other (and Tomcat!) by loading incompatible versions of classes.

Third, once a class is no longer used (i.e. there exist no objects that are instances of it) it can be garbage collected, and will be if more PermGen space is needed.

Fourth, once a web app is unloaded, its class loader is no longer needed, and it too can be garbage collected (along with any memory it was using to store the aforementioned JAR files, although presumably that memory would be outside of PermGen).

Taking all of this into account, one might (like me) naively presume that once you unload a web app, all of its objects will no longer be referenced, and this will propagate up the tree of references (servlet -> object -> ... -> object -> class) until nothing from that app remains.

HOWEVER, this assumes that references exist in a tree. A singleton class would cause problems: it stores a reference to an object of its own type. This creates a circular reference pattern (class X -> object -> class X) and keeps both class and object in memory.

A possible solution might be to associate each class with the web app that loaded it, then when you unload a web app, you can walk through all of the classes it loaded and null out all of their static fields. This will allow the referenced objects to be garbage collected, and in turn, the classes of those objects.

But this is probably much easier said than done (it may even be impossible due to limitations on the JVM), and there are probably other issues I'm not even aware of and thus not considering. Never mind JNI, which just adds even more fun to the mix.

So ultimately I must agree with the recommendation to restart Tomcat when you're deploying web apps. From a developer perspective, I would also recommend eliminating static data in your libraries and web apps as much as possible.
They could have picked much worse...
Apple fanboi that I am, freely admitted, my Nexus 7 is wonderful, and I think the granting of this entire patent is insane.
The edge swipe behavior is new, and a pretty big change, but it's consistent. I didn't find that it took that long to get used to. It took longer to get used to the missing Start button. There's a lot of muscle memory there, so I've opened IE (first icon on my taskbar) on accident a number of times.

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I have some "questionable content" in my Dropbox, and nothing has happened to me.
Quite the login method:

1) Tell me who you are, so I can load up your secret 30 character "password" from some database (the fact that this needs to be stored in a retrievable way makes this entire system insecure)

2) Here's one random sequence of 30 characters. Look at it for a little bit, ok now try to reproduce it from memory.

3) Repeat several times (not stated how many).

4) One of those attempts was your specific password, let me check to see if you did significantly better at it than the other (random) ones.

==========================

EDIT: Upon re-read, it sounds like 2-4 are a bit different:

2) Play a long sequence of characters "Guitar-Hero" style. The computer will "slip-in" the true password and watch to see if you do better on that section.

Still storing the password in the clear and still susceptible to being watched several times and finding the "common" sequence.
I can't comment on whether these drugs affect someone or not, but it is interesting to note that Feynman tried LSD once and then dropped it because he was worried about the potential effects it would have on his brain. In fact, a lot of the smartest people I know say that they don't do drugs not for any moral reason, but because they are worried they will damage their mind in some unforeseen way.
So it'd be like motor racing -- stock and modified classes?

Heh yeah... as they used to say "run whatcha brung."

I'm not sure how a "claimer rule"[1] would work though.

[1]: http://www.circletrack.com/techarticles/ctrp_0703_low_cost_c...
Still can't figure out why this little toaster costs so much.
I have no objection to the actual existence of the article. I just think it's important for people to understand this fact, that seems to be increasingly misunderstood these days, that "technology" is about expanding the frontiers of human knowledge. Just because someone types program-like things into a computer doesn't mean what he is typing is technology.

If the defining property of your activity is that you are trying to negotiate messes that other people have made in order to make things happen, where the things you are making happen are not novel in themselves, that is pretty much what working in a bureaucracy is like. So you can think of it as "working in a vast decentralized computer bureaucracy" rather than "working in tech".
* These are submitted with a form (over POST, hopefully) *

I don't think that the author implies that using POST prevents CSRFs but the article seems to imply it. In case anyone thinks it is the case: using POST won't prevent a CSRF.

Cross Site Request Forgeries occur when a user opens an "evil" page on site B, while being logged on site A. If site A solely relies on cookies in order to identify logged users, there is a risk of CSRF. The attack exploits the fact that the user's browser will always send the auth cookies when issuing a request to siteA.
If the evil page on siteB embeds an image (or script, or any resource that can be loaded using an URL) whose source is an URL on siteA, the browser will request the resource on siteA with the auth cookie coming along.

In order to issue a POST request to siteA from the evil page, the attacker only has to submit a crafted POST form using an iframe.
Thank you. How the above comment poster somehow read that I don't think excess calorie consumption is part of the chain of weight gain is beyond me.
It analyzes the performance of your sequence compared to the benchmark random sequences. It's no longer a black-and-white comparison in cryptography.
"Yes, of course you have to identify the "experts" in order to know what their perspective is. In this case, the vast majority of knowledgeable people have settled around the consensus that the "official" explanation (two planes crashed into the WTC) is indeed plausible."

See? That's sophistry. Instead of explaining (or rather, thinking about) how one would identify knowledgeable people, you skip to what they are allegedly saying. Also, citation needed.

"In fact, by not knowing the underlying science, you can't even participate in the debate."

But here's the thing, I do, and I do have eyes. So I'm all up for the debate, but it's mostly hand-waving like you just did. 9/11 was stonewalled and swept under the rug. I payed attention back then and nothing new came up since then, you didn't post anything either.

"what about what I said is spreading fear?"

You cannot possibly know everything, better ask the experts. (Who are the experts? Ask the expert experts?)
Beside the title being misleading (it's a 30-symbol password, not 30-character, as "character" implies printable ASCII to most people), the math doesn't quite make sense:

Before running, the game creates a random sequence of 30 letters chosen from S, D, F, J, K, and L, with no repeating characters. This equates to around 38 bits of entropy

So that's 6 choices for the first character, and 5 choices for each of the next 29 gives us log2(6*5^29) =~ 70 bits of entropy. Does anyone know where this 38 bit figure came from?
Hopefully stress means that you won't be able to do it properly anyway, which means coercion is useless.

The real problem is the device stores the password, so the real defence is the tamperproof-ness of the device, not whether you can be tricked or coerced into outputting the sequence.
Dropbox policy says you must not use the service to:

+ publish or share materials that are unlawfully pornographic or indecent, or that advocate bigotry, religious, racial or ethnic hatred;

+ violate the law in any way, or to violate the privacy of others, or to defame others.

https://www.dropbox.com/acceptable_use

Apple says you can't use their service to:

a. upload, download, post, email, transmit, store or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harassing, threatening, harmful, tortious, defamatory, libelous, abusive, violent, obscene, vulgar, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise objectionable;

http://www.apple.com/legal/icloud/en/terms.html

Google doesn't seem to mention content beyond the DMCA (maybe I'm missing something):

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

http://www.google.com/policies/terms/
I hated it too and then I installed the "Tree style tabs" add-on. It's great, they should add that functionality in the vanilla Firefox IMO.
I'm curious what happens if you're wrong though. Suppose they successfully push on this and android devices are taken off the market, or priced so high to cover licensing fees that people won't buy them.

What recourse does Google have? Presumably they can't sue the patent office for granting ridiculous patents that ultimately drive them out of business.
My previous personal trainer was Netherland's best 'natural' (undoped) body builder.

It works fairly well and the cheating is, similarly to say a Tour de France, limited to the extent it can go undetected by drug testing.

It is however looked down on and seen as 'the minor leagues' in practice and switching to the 'doped league' later in the game just doesn't work as there's a surprisingly large amount of skill involved in doping up effectively.
Cyberspy program targets victims in Iran, Israel, companies say
If Exxon made a net income of $41 billion last year (http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/04/16/whi...), then it's pretty much money for nothing.

BP's deepwater disaster indicates that not enough is being done to protect the environment, it hasn't stopped risky drilling. That should never happen again. Some of those profits could be turned over into environmental preventative protection. These companies smack of pure greed to me.
So? That doesn't have anything to do with what I just said/asked.
Hacker breaches 50,000 ITWallStreet.com accounts, posts data online
The issue here is that it's private content. Scan the stuff I make public, sure. But there is zero reason to be scanning private content- no-one other than me is going to see it.
I was browsing on an iPad 2 in Chrome and had similar problems. SVG displayed as text, PDF and JPG were blurry and wouldn't zoom correctly. Once I got on my laptop the SVG still displayed as text but the PDF and JPG were perfectly clear. Still not sure why the others are PNGs and the english version is JPG; clearly PNG is better suited.
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Yeah, but extreme training plus lots of drugs is probably worse than extreme training on it's own, right? I mean, HGH could make extreme training healthier but it would probably be more than counterbalanced by steroids and the rest.
Encfs encrypts each file on its own. It also encrypts the name. So if you edit your 1KB "passwords.txt" file, Dropbox sees an updated 1KB "mOvTBivPznAWPrQSuflgVXFJ" file.
I've been doing that for Dropbox, indeed, since the last security scandal, many months ago.
Might I ask how do you go about creating those worksheets/problem-sets, etc?

I've noticed in Staples that they have paper templates for those but I'm wondering if anyone actually uses them at all.
Another good one is the hypoid gearset (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoid) , as used in automotive rear ends. For some reason I've always found them pretty.

Cone drive sets and harmonic gearing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_drive) are neat, too. And then there's the Torsen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9iPqIQ_8iM), which I still don't really understand.

From the service manuals I've seen, I think some of the smaller 4 cylinder cars, especially from Japan, use a mainshaft/countershaft arrangement (like a traditional manual transmission) in their automatics, rather than planetary gearing.
Ridiculous headline (the submission simply mirroring the original article) that is the sort of hysterical end-of-times interpretation of patents that has yielded so many nonsensical, time-wasting discussions before.
I use http://sugarsync.com personally which provides versioning and also lets you arbitrarily sync directories, not just the 'dropbox' one.