skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better question and one that has to be answered before this is: 'What is Consciousness'. Recognising yourself in a mirror seems about as scientific as throwing someone in a pond to see if they are a witch.

It's quite hard to pin consciousness down in the brain. And what is this sleep thing anyway? Are you conscious when you sleep?
There are a lot more than 12 million iDevices out there, so why only 12,000,000?

The small number leads me to think that the UUIDs might belong to people the FBI are particularly interested in tracking. If your UUID is in there, fasten your tinfoil hat.

Just a thought.
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> 'Yip\'s iphone(in the memory of steve jobs)'
Or it may be have been released by some dude making a fart app.
This story is seriously worth your time, both if you have any desire of selling things in Japan (I am in perpetual awe of people who can succeed at that) and for the generic startup-y relentlessly resourceful "Well, if the market is fundamentally irrational about how they buy this product, then let's figure out how to work that to our advantage" rather than just giving up when things seemed difficult. (Disclaimer: they're friends of mine and we work together on stuff occasionally.)
How is this gonna help? You will not find "the" traitor. You will find only the most common intersections and it will not be useful at all, nothing to prove.
Thanks Sacha! Definitely pointless now :) Think there are some cool opportunities down the line though (i.e. mixing with jQuery facial recognition on profile pages, etc.). Really looking forward to seeing how these sort of CSS3 filters develop in production...
Ask HN: An app to analyse my own browsing history?
I'm an analysis junkie through and through. I love gleaning any kind of qualitative judgement from accurately quantified data. Like judging that office IT departments suck because most visitors to a site I'm analysing use IE7 during normal working hours, but IE7 drops to nothing at the weekends.

But it's not enough. Those judgements help me in my job, but do little to help me. I want to see what my own habits are in a crystal clear way, and to see if I can optimise my own behaviour online. How long do I spend on particular sites within a certain date range? How often do I click? Can I make a judgement on productivity rates based on how often I'm on procrastination sites at different times of the day? etc...

But all I have to help me do this is a slightly optimised history extension for Chrome. And all that lets me do is search my history better. I want date ranges, graphs, click data, user journey, time on site, bounce rate. All from my perspective as opposed to a single site's perspective.

It's possible, easily possible, but I've never seen it done. Unless one of you knows? And if so, show me. I'm dying to check it out. Google Analytics for Me.
Disclaimer: I'm not a DB person, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.

I only used a few SQL and NoSQL products and have done it from statically compiled languages. The immediate benefit I perceived when using language constructs instead of SQL was type safety and compile time validation of the query. I hate the chained function calls, I find SQL easier to read, but I would not trade the type safety for a more pleasant syntax.
While not LTE, here's GSM stuff:

* http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/

* http://openbts.sourceforge.net/

Some related videos:

* Fuzzing GSM handsets - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGPOscdLPFQ

* Running your own GSM network - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_9hPRF5fzA

* OpenBSC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWPom6JIsr4

Here's one building a satelite phone receiver/sniffer:

* http://gmr.osmocom.org/trac/

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSW-V94uZZQ

Open Source GSM protocols (on handsets):

* http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/
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I wholeheartedly believe that if this came out back in 1987, we'd have more women in tech/science and I'd have guns and body armor made out of wool.
Theoretically, it is possible to create another file, which after encryption will give you the same checksum. I doubt that someone will be able to do it in a reasonable amount of time though.
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If it was exploited through the JRE, then it doesn't really matter...
is it possible to get invited? or do I need to have a mac book pro and be a ruby fanboy?
i'd use that.
Can someone explain what a UDID is (sounds like a MAC address or similar) and what the privacy or security implications are?
Why "least hospitable"?
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The 1,000,001 line file is 136MBs uncompressed, so 12M should be around 1.6GB
Or maybe the FBI are secretly releasing fart apps in order to get UDIDs.
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Not sure about IQ, but I remember when I had to prepare for some exam, in a subject uninteresting to me, I was procrastinating a whole day and only starting to study at 00:00 midnight till 3:00-4:00.

For me, it also depends on where I am. In the city - get up late, go to bed late. In the village/farm house - get up 5:00-6:00 morning, go to bed earlier, usually 21:00-22:00.
Reminds me of us tuning mopeds back in the day.

The Aprilia SR50 Ditech with direct injection had an ECU that was limitied to make it's power output street legal. Our finest moment was when we got our hands on a debug cable for that ECU. You connected it to an outlet on the moped. The other end had a GameBoy cartridge that went into your GameBoy.

Removing the limit on the ECU would of course have been illegal. Let's just say that we could have done that if we wanted to...
I don't understand. How is the color adjusted? Does the picture OP posted show the landscape with earth's atmospheric conditions?
> If they say they didn't, then they will imply FBI obtained it illegally

Huh? How? Most companies who have an iOS app with over 12 million users could have given it.
Why do people keep assuming that the FBI is actually involved in this? The only evidence of that is from the pastebin page. They could just as easily be lying.

We know nothing. Other than that there are 1,000,001 leaked UDIDs. Everything else is just speculation and needs to be regarded as such until such time as proven otherwise.
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After reading this, I'm still a bit confused as to why this is a catastrophe?

Should we change our paypal passwords? Or worry about getting more spam? etc Why should an end user (eg my mom) care?

I'm not saying there aren't serious repercussions, just having a hard time seeing exactly what they are.
Overall, there was no discernable difference between the nutritional content, although the organic food was 30% less likely to contain pesticides.

Reducing their pesticide consumption is important to many people. Also I believe that food with fewer pesticides is by definition healthier.
Ask HN: How Do You launch Your MVP?
I'm in the process of launching my first website project. It's a visual search for finding local design furniture.

Should I do a "stealthy" launch and let Google first index the first hundred pages/product or do PR and marketing from the beginning?

What are Your experiences?

Thanks for help
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FBI: "Just give it to us as CSV, kthxbai."
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The whole FBI story is not credible, it's the least likely explanation. I'd start looking for the app that all these UUIDs have in common. This data is probably a dump of that app's server-side database. And what about the zip codes? GeoIP.
I'd give a lot to be on the briefing where that was agreed on.
We've recently discovered that even though the Apple docs suggest the APNS tokens may be unique to each app and may change over time they are NOT unique to an app and they also do not change (at least not over the last 18 months).

So if you have two apps on the same device they both share the same UDID and the same APNS token.

Whilst on the surface this may seem like a huge security issue it is not as bad as it seems, because in order to send push notifications to a device you must have the correct APNS .p12 certificate generated by Apple for the app AND the app must be installed on that device.

I would see the UDID's as more of a security breach given the fact that many developers are still using the now depreciated udid to interface with web services.

On a similar note, If you are developing an app and need to have a unique identifier you should be using Secure UDID or something similar https://github.com/crashlytics/secureudid and if you're sending data to you're own webservice, don't just use SSL, use encryption such SHA to prevent mitm sniffing of your data - Both iOS and Android both allow installation of root CA certs which is amazing for developing and sniffing API's but dangerous if your writing webservices and ONLY relying on SSL and no other encryption.
Can't blame them. So far it's just rocks.
At least it's better than C. And Java is also a place, Python is an serpent.

The key to Googlability for everything is to put the right context keywords. Nobody just google's "go" (or "java" for that matter). They google stuff like "go string type", "go programming", "go install", etc.

That said, the bare "go" search term gives the go website as the fourth result in Google when I try it.
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Fair enough. I made some spelling and grammar mistakes. Although a lot was due to the fervour of all of yesterday's events.

However, your comment was about how you skipped through a post and made a snap judgement. This doesn't help anyone - nor does it make your comments relevant. The post was not about anyone's spelling or grammar and you were the only person out of the thousands who read it who had a problem.

As for judgement which no doubt you're spitting vitriol at your screen, it can be spelt either way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement
Wait, are syou serious? I didnt know anyone could be _that_ delusional about Apple. You _really_ think Apple cares about privacy? They aren't "that kind of company"? Where the hell do you get the idea that Apple cares about the morality of their decisions? Could it be that you are a fanboy? Wait, I know the answer to that already.

..."shit HN says", right here.
As far as I can see the original intent was to back artists and musicians - not necessarily to produce a product, but to create something.

I am a first time backer for Planetary annihilation - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/planetary-anni...

Decision process for me was.

- Very cool - loved Total Annihilation.

- 900K is not much of a budget for a game with this scope - it may be a stretch for the team to deliver this.
- Team has experience with RTS.

- The pay off in terms of what I get is great.

- There have been no ground breaking RTS for the last 10 years.

Ultimately what got me over the line was the reputation of the company and the team.

I am fully aware that there may be nothing to show for it... I am sponsoring an opportunity for something great to be produced. Something not that far from music or art in my opinion.
Thank you for explaining it more eloquently than I was.
If you are listening to orchestral music it's going to sound very bizarre to have the orchestra reversed.
Encrypting it, at least, makes sense: They can take their time distributing the file without anyone peeking at it before they're suppose to. Then, when they release the decryption key, the file is already copied all over the place and really hard to shut down.

Guess all the verifying means they are afraid someone will distribute "altered" versions. Checking it twice is maybe a little drastic? Don't know how hard it is to generate a file that compresses to the same as their file (collision). But it's at least theoretically possible.
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So because the law doesn't prevent all fradulent investment schemes we shouldn't bother complaining about any?
From the last time this was posted[1] there was a significant amount of discussion and some decent rebuttals[2] of this post.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3202081

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3202959, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3202181
UDID = Unique Device Identifier.

It's a number that uniquely identifies your device
My sennheiser ones have a small raised dot on the left one, similar to Braille. Works very well.
Have a quick read through the posts linked in the article this story points to. I show that using just a UDID, you could access the user's geolocation, games they played, private messages and friends lists on many of the affected social networks, and in some cases (which affected millions of users) completely take over Twitter and Facebook accounts. This is with _just_ a UDID. Some of the companies I notified a year ago are still vulnerable today. And remember, I only looked at social gaming networks - small slice of the app ecosystem. I know that there are similar systemic issues in many other places. So yes, this is definitely a catastrophe.

Unfortunately, there's just not much an ordinary user can do. There's no way for a user to tell if an app accesses and broadcasts their UDID (if you're an expert you can use mitmproxy or a similar tool), and certainly no way to tell if the UDID is being used safely. I would recommend de-linking your social media accounts from all apps unless you know they're safe, but that's the kind of drastic advice that people tend not to take.
So why don't you swap them when you noticed the difference? If you can't what is the problem?
Sure. It's great when it works. The worry is what happens when a hard-working project is unable to deliver, or when a con artist takes the money and runs.
If you want to lookup your UDID but afraid to expose it, use partial search at http://pastehtml.com/udid
It's rather like the FBI having a list of 12,000,000 wifi MAC addresses. Would the mere possession of such a list by the FBI be illegal? What if the MAC addresses supplied by Starbucks are from customers who voluntarily connect their devices to Starbucks' network and transmit their MAC address as part of the connection negotiation?

Similarly, what if the UDIDs are from people who installed a common app on their devices and agreed as part of the terms and conditions to allow information about their hardware (including device name, UDID, etc.) to be transmitted to the app vendor and to other parties including law enforcement?

EDIT: the question of whether they should have this information is completely separate from whether it's illegal for them to have this information. And, as noted by others, no proof has been presented that it was obtained from the FBI.
If anyone is interested, the top device names sorted by popularity :: http://maxnanis.com/files/apple_udid_top_device_names.txt
But we do know that good IT implementation do help:

"There is significant evidence that CDSS can positively impact healthcare providers' performance with drug ordering and preventive care reminder systems as most clear examples." (from a literature review)[1]

[1]http://jamia.bmj.com/content/18/3/327.short
Sorry, I don't think this strategy is workable. Consider - 74% of apps I tested sent the UDID to one or more upstream servers. Furthermore, Flurry alone received UDIDs from 15% of apps I tested. That's just one aggregator, and they surely have nearly 100% of UDIDs on file. The APNS tokens narrow it down somewhat, but not too much. It's also not at at all clear that there is a single source involved - this could be an amalgamation of a number of sources.

See this post for the source of these figures:
http://corte.si/posts/security/apple-udid-survey/index.html
Nice one! Works just fine in Safari6 as well.
Move over Google Streetview; make way for Terralink's StreetCam3D.
"Being quite the audiophile, I prize myself with high-quality audio."

So why do you even care about the Apple headphones? Mine have never even made it out of the box from the various iDevices I have owned.
>Why do you feel so strongly that this guy with a pension must be screwing you, but not the far more numerous, far richer people in our world?

Its not that worker, but that system in which that worker is employed which is the problem. It encourages a behaviors where hardworking are supposed to pay up and carry everybody else's burden. Sooner or later that kills the whole system.

There are somethings that you need to think about his statement- Which is-

>Today I heard on the radio that sa government worker is retiring with a pay of $301,000 pension FOR LIFE. Yes, that guy owes his success to government as I can almost guarantee you that he did nothing to have earned or deserved that pay.

Right there you see what he is trying to point out. Among all people who are retiring. Some might be exceptionally good performers, some exceptionally bad, some mediocre. But all are paid equally. This directly means some of them are paying up and working for others.

Next you say:

>>Don't you think it's ridiculous that you've picked a guy earning a government pension at $301k a year and you're castigating him, when there are loads of people in the private sector earning up to tens or hundreds of times more than that?

If they are making it from their work, its theirs. That's totally different than the pension argument which I mentioned earlier, where a few people pay for everybody else. Thereby there is no incentive for actual hard workers to do their work as they want. Why the hell should anybody work so hard ultimately only to find he and the guy who did absolutely did no work at all get the same rewards?

>>You could find people on Hacker News that make that much writing iPhone apps where people pay to click on pigs, or who figure out new ways to make ads harder to avoid.

You can't decide others taste on what they consider valuable.
If you have 20 servers, it's probably time to move on to a more robust monitoring solution.
I'm struck by the negativity of the post. While the arguments listed are valid user interface design points, the "flick to TV" just works (assuming you have the right hardware), and it's pretty simple. If you wanted to get everything correct, you'd probably end up with a more normal user interface with buttons and whatnot, plus you'd spend more time developing it to get it right according to how you're supposed to be doing it.

Instead, they went out and developed a neat little feature that yes, has its problems, but it works and it's a little more innovative than a button-based interface.
Don't know, but I find it a great way to read on laptops & desktops. Of course, a nice html would work as well, but that's rare. (also, the pdf reader in KDE remembers what page you're on and lets you annotate etc..)
I just showed my wife this, who is currently sitting opposite me knitting a blanket and was greeted by a "hmmm".
obscure != innovative
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Se você esta a procura de um bom piso, o eucafloor é uma boa opção. Há quem diga que o piso é ruim, mas o que realmente acontece é que muitas vezes a pessoa que fica responsável pela colocação pode não ter feito um bom serviço, e assim o piso pode acabar se quebrando com facilidade. Então primeiro de tudo se você for comprar um piso eucaflor tenha certeza que o profissional é competente, tente saber de outras pessoas que já o haviam contratado se o trabalho foi feito direito, e fique sempre de olho. As vezes acontece da própria loja indicar um profissional da área para colocar o piso eucafloor na sua casa, e geralmente o serviço já é cobrado junto ao piso e sai por uns 49 reais cada metro quadrado.
You might like to take a look at my Mac app, it allows you to switch between Chrome and Safari tabs with cmd-tab and type to search for a tab by name:

http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/
Except he isn't:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/03/bruce-willis-itunes-music-l...
> Taking credit has an implied "all the", as in, "take [all the] credit."

I'm sorry, but this is complete nonsense.
http://corte.si/posts/security/apple-udid-survey/index.html
As for page down, I think the nicest piece of it is that when I hit page down, I know exactly where to reset my eyes when reading something that's longer. Now, space usually worked in safari, but it was suprisingly unpredictable. Of course, pages meant using option+up/down or scrolling.. We all have our quirks, I guess. :)

I have the upgraded 1600x900 screen, so I can't speak to the quality of the lower resolution screen. I've heard it isn't as good, but I will say that for programming, the 1600x900 has been great. (I forgot to mention how much I hate glossy screens as opposed to matte...) From everything I've heard, the upgraded screen is much better.
Very few (probably only one) companies' lists would have ALL of the 1000001 ids on the leaked list.
Thanks for that. Not super worried about people knowing my location or games I played :p

However, this is of interest:

>and in some cases (which affected millions of users) completely take over Twitter and Facebook accounts

How is that possible? Are we going to see mass defacements/malware links or other bad stuff on Twitter and Facebook as a result?

Also what is meant by 'take over'? Surely it doesn't mean from a UDID alone, a hacker could log into that associated account with full permissions?

I'm assuming any scripted attack would only have the permissions that any other FB/Twitter app has, and could be blocked in App settings if it started doing 'bad stuff'?
Has anyone verified that this UDID leak isn't just the old "Goatse Security" leak re-branded? I'm not saying I have any evidence to that, but it seems strange that the "ownage" document didn't mention anything about how the hack was done.

Along those lines, has there been any talk of the attack vector? To get a list like this, it would seem that AT&T (as was the case with "Goatse Security") or Apple would need to be compromised to get this list.
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The term is "plug-in".
It wasn't working well, and it was as much a walled garden as the chrome approach. XUL extensions were/are very strongly tied to mozilla, and allegedly a cause of its enormous memory leakage.

If you want an open approach look to userjs (e.g. userscripts.org); with a little bit of effort you can make a script that works across FF/chrome/opera/probably others. Of course, you'll still find idiots writing things that only work in firefox.
Unless you're busy making or avoiding patents, I'd argue that the innovativeness of a feature shouldn't be a factor unless it works better than the normal solution.
Some insecure apps and services use the UDID as a way to identify users. For example you can get some profile data from OpenFeint with the UDID. There are probably a ton of other small things like this, but overall I wouldn't worry too much.
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Its just a farce, wondering how this reached front page.
Because if you put them on and off multiple times a day, that becomes annoying?