skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking forward to some blog analysis on all this.

And the inevitable vs PJAX conversation (ie: is it flexible enough? Does it need to be?)
Interesting... Was there any code written to demonstrate the attack?
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You can get a decent amount of hardware for that price, as long as they aren't going to want to make a profit. Apples vs oranges I know, but look at the (made in UK) Raspberry Pi for $35.
Not exactly current - the article is something like 5 years old....
The sheer sight of that simulated model makes me wonder if you're being sarcastic, but the story doesn't say whether it's a simulation or just made up.
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I register, and then nothing. Isn't this tool already released?
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Asus have aparantly already denied this, not that it means much. [1]

It seems pretty unlikely to me, most of the $99 tablets available on AliExpress are significantly underpowered, especially around the areas of battery and screen quality. Google haven't released a sub-standard Nexus device yet, I'm not sure why they'd do it now, when according to all the reports I've seen the Nexus tablet is doing pretty well.

1 - http://www.reghardware.com/2012/09/27/asus_rumored_to_reject...
pardon me, I don't understand your reasoning. Why would apple be less happy with 70% of the market than with 40%?

Do you mean that you expect the total size of the market to double, and then expect apple to own 40% of it (so they have a total number of customers which is slightly more than what they had initially) ?
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it is also kind of silly that you need a college degree and a credential to teach elementary school. Shouldn't everyone be proficient enough at elementary school concepts when they graduate high school that they could then teach the basics to others?

This is a really important issue to understand. Good teaching is difficult, even at the elementary level. Good teaching includes:
- responding to each student's learning style;
- answering questions in a way that sets students up for deeper learning in later years;
- meeting each student where they are at, and allowing them to progress at their own pace each year;
- dealing effectively with students who come to school hungry, abused, neglected and so forth;
- a host of other situations that are difficult to deal with effectively, but for which solutions have been developed.

This ties in well with one of your other observations:
I also believe that teacher credentialing has backfired. Credentialing programs are basically made up of $10,000 of busywork and make it so anyone that can put up with doing busywork can get through (exceptions exist).

In my experience as a teacher, I have seen this consistently. There is one local teacher ed program where I live, and the administrators pride themselves on running a "challenging" program. It is challenging in the volume of work required, not in the intellectual effort required. There are so many bad effects of this approach, and so many potentially good effects if an intellectually rigorous and challenging program took its place.

I have also had an incredibly frustrating experience dealing with certification. I started teaching in one state, and taught there for 7 years. When I moved, I was granted temporary certification based on having held full certification in another state. I have hosted student teachers, and generally been recognized as an effective teacher. But after a few years in my new state, I was told I had to go back and do a student teaching program because the paperwork from my old state didn't fill in the right boxes on the paperwork in my new state. Utter BS, and this is exactly the kind of stuff that drives good teachers out of education.

I chose to stay in education and not let myself get pushed out by stupid bureaucratic issues. I resolved to do my part in addressing these issues, though, and I am grateful to be working with a staff that is tackling hard education issues effectively.
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BYO memory card storage perhaps.
Not entirely. While the best cryptography is that which is secure against everyone (duh), there are a vast number of perfectly legitimate use cases for cryptography where it doesn't matter if the NSA can read your encrypted data.
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The apparatus of state security being turned against its people is not a fact to just be brushed aside. So no, our feelings about the individual subject or subjects of illegal spying in some specific case or other is not 'the real question'. We have plenty of opportunity to air that discussion, separately.

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Having just read the PM's statement[1], I can't see any signs of actual corruption in the procedure that was followed. It seems reasonably likely that this was just a mistake.

[1] http://beehive.govt.nz/release/inspector-general%E2%80%99s-r...
I nearly failed my damn GCSEs due to original CS. I was doodling map plans on the back of scrap paper in exams.

Good times.
Given that we still have 88 years to go, isn't it a bit early to discuss who is the greatest of this century?
I have been training to start doing this again. I have been out of shape for the last 2 years(health complications), but used to boulder all the time. It both scares the hell out of you and clears your mind absolutely. Often I would find myself able to nail problems as soon as I returned that I had been spinning on for hours before.
Any way to develop a business model off this problem? Orbital garbage collectors. They would have to be traveling in the roughly the same orbit to collect a single piece of trash; surely a head on collision with a small piece of debris traveling at a relative speed of 10mi/sec would be devastating.
Set to be released this fall, if I remember correctly. So it's not that far off.

Skype (when not yet acquired by MS) shelved any plans of producing a Windows Phone version, so Microsoft (after the deal went through) probably had to start at near-zero with its version. At the same time they were likely working at the more native integration for WP8.

Just how many people would you expect them to throw at a problem that likely won't generate that many new customers? It all comes down to that in the end.
"... It's just that arguments on both sides seem to be spacious ..."

"How is privacy a spacious argument?"

spacious

1. Generous or large in area or extent; roomy.

specious

spe·cious (sp sh s). adj. 1. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.
Sorry, guess some of the release text made it into the beta signup, we'll have a working app ready in the next day or so, if you signup i'll make sure you get first access—promise!
I've noticed that even the most frivolous of websites feel somehow dignified when viewed from my kindle (which forces them to appear in black and white). I'd be interested to hear how using this long-term changes one's web experience.
Nobody used this random number generator.
There was essentially no Google Android tablet market before the Nexus 7, only the Amazon & Nook forks. Manufacturers will be happier having a market with no margin, than no market at all.
Well, we won't know if Dotcom is not guilty or not until there's a trial. So you can't justify the means (illegal spying) with the ends. You are assuming guilt before any proof is offered, and any determination made. That's the big flaw in your argument.

This may be because of your cultural heritage. In the English Common Law tradition, which New Zealand, and in he past the USA, is part of, the state isn't entitled to collect evidence in any way possible. People representing the state have to follow the law themselves. They can't torture confessions out of "guilty" people, they can't manufacture evidence, they have to use legal methods to obtain the evidence.

If the NZ Spy Agency broke New Zealand laws to get evidence, then that evidence is inadmissible in court, at least traditionally, under Common Law.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

If shown to scale even the biggest satellite wouldn't take up a pixel.
Well yeah, I was just talking about content owners.

The interesting thing about Apple is they are the first ones with a credible shot to outbid MSOs. Not that it will be easy, but no one parts customers from their cash like Apple.
I was under the impression that those already didn't qualify for patents. At least, this is what my friend told me years ago when he was either in or had recently graduated from law school at UT.

Is that not the case?
Irritating headline (and summary) makes it sound like some kind of hard number at which ice (starts) to form. The abstract states "Spectral features indicating the onset of crystallization are first observed for n = 275 ± 25"
My guess is that Google will subsidize each one, to grown the Android market/install base. Many video game consoles are/were sold at a loss.
That's a good question. I suspect if so, it was alongside an academic paper and this stuff just doesn't get attention from journalists. I'd be curious to find out but I don't have the skills to pore over the material myself.
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You'll notice the "[2007]" in the post title.
Man, Kasparov has been salty about that loss for decades. This is probably the tenth article I've read about it. An interesting new theory though.
...or switched back to their old one...

Switched back to their old what? Tablet? So these are tablet owners who bought another tablet, didn't like the new one, and went back to their old one?

Edit: Oh, so everyone who has tried a tablet went to a laptop, either an old laptop or a new one. Thanks for clarifying :)
If this is true, I would wager it has the same specs as the current Nexus 7. The Tegra 3 that is currently used is printed on an out-dated 40nm process:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_3

Printing the same chip on say a 32nm or 28nm process (Like the iPad 2,4) would dramatically reduce the cost.

This would also allow them to use a smaller battery and achieve the same battery life.

The major challenge is the LCD panel. It's plausible they could continue to use the same IPS screen, but using a nice TN screen is another place they could cut costs. They could also just wager that these are going to sell like crazy and work out a deal at volume like Apple does.
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You don't have to take Schneier's advice in order to not end up with an elliptic curve random number generator. Nobody does that anyways.
Are there? If I knew something had a backdoor, I'd always wonder who else has figured it out.
Clarified - thanks :)
The screen is by far the biggest component of the BOM in the Nexus 7. Compromising that is the only way to substantially reduce the price. To hit $99 everything will be on the table, but RAM is cheap, and so are capable ARM SOC's. It won't be Tegra 3, but it will be good enough.
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Same here. I love food and experimenting with flavors, but honestly doing prep work is some of the most relaxing things in the world. And when I bought myself a decent couple of knives(Shun's pairing, chefs, bread and a Global boning) my mind was blown.
Oddly, this led to me finding grocery shopping relaxing as well (I live near Whole Foods flagship store) and I walk in, find something fresh and wander around trying to piece together a meal.
This is quite interesting, as the NSA on the one hand needs to provide secure algorithms for the public to use, but on the other hand has an interest in being able to break algorithms.

IIRC, during the standarization of DES, the NSA has also modified some S-Boxes without giving any explanation. Only later, when differential cryptoanalysis became known to the public, it was clear that this was to strengthen DES against this particular attack (which was already known to the NSA).

The case here is more interesting though: It seems like you need to know some secret numbers (a sort of "private key" if you will) to be able to attack the PRNG. So it seems that the NSA could place a "safe" backdoor that even an attacker with the same cryptography knowledge as they have cannot break unless he himself possesses the "private key".
Well technically it's 'infinitely' big. Most people's brains breakdown when you start trying to tell them about the idea of a 4th dimension that holds the universe.

I think this is why humanity defaults to religion as explanation for the unknown; the God factor is easier to process, and there's a reward at the end for a life of good deeds.
What kind of art are you into and/or making?
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I'd rather err on the side of keeping them in the dark all the time. Encrypting data differently based on whether I mind if NSA sees it leaks information. Specifically, that this data doesn't matter but that data does and NSA should focus their efforts on breaking that data or analyzing that social graph affiliated with the data.
Soooo excited about this!
I think he means, in layman's terms, Apple wants to sell Mercedes...

Someone else can sell Kia's.

Edit:
Not sure how that will work out in the tablet market, but it certainly works with cars and laptops.
I work in film on the distribution side (streaming film), so I see everything you're saying first-hand. However not sure what your point was with "for the time being". What specifically about my statement is temporary?
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So a body of water won't turn into ice if the body of water has only 274 molecules?

Can we make a kind of "ice-steam" of below-freezing water molecules suspended in air or another medium?
I wouldn't be so pessimistic. I've seen more and more attention to this in mainstream discussions. Some things just take a little longer to build momentum...
Maybe someone here can patent the act of making trivial, over-reaching patents and put a stop to all this?
What I took from the article is that its author would like supplements with drug-like effects regulated as drugs. That generally means they'd need clinical trials demonstrating that they're safe and effective for treating a specific disease, with extra-strong requirements to be sold without a prescription. I don't want that.

In his conclusion, he advocates milder measures for enforcement of purity and policing dubious advertising claims, but his use of "at least" implies he wants more rules.
I have this bug/feature as well, switched to nginx as a result.
What sense does it make to backdoor an RNG that no normal system is ever going to use, and to do so in a public standard, and further to do so by using deliberately broken curve parameters?

It was an interesting story because it was so weird. But even had Dual EC not become known to the world exclusively as "the CSPRNG with the backdoor in it", nobody would have used it anyways.
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You would still have a scope, right? And I assume you would give the client a quote or approximate duration of the project, right?
I'd actually label it as both of their faults. I'll give you an example from software development...

The product manager comes to me and says "I need you to add this field to the set of data stored for this thing". In the specific scenario I'm talking about, there's two ways it can go:

1. I blindly add the field for them. Later on, it turns out this field duplicates another field in that it can be calculated from that one. The fact that there's two fields that have the same "data" means that users get confused.

2. I ask the product manager what it is they're trying to accomplish by adding the field, so that I can make sure the implementation being asked for is the correct one. We find out it isn't and, instead of adding the field, we add an additional view of the data that allows the user to specify it two different ways. Everyone is happy.

My point is that the person going into the Apple store should make sure to describe what it is they are trying to accomplish, not just what they want the person to do. Similarly, the Apple worker should know to ask for what the person is trying to accomplish rather than implementing it. Both individuals could have done things better, both are responsible.
Genius, however, I had already patented getting a patent on patenting the announcing of a domain name registration on a social website.

times infinity...
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Did you get the idea for this from that one footnote to Bret Victor's recent essay? If so, that's some impressive turnaround time.
Why would apple be less happy with 70% of the market than with 40%?

I think the point is that Apple would lose a segment of the market that generates very low margins (or zero, if > $99 is a barrier to them).
Maybe eventually the Britishisation will extend to returning the 'u' to colour so I make far, far fewer typos.

Although it's interesting see the cross-pollenisation that seems to be happening linguistically thanks to media shifting both ways across the pond. Often used to be American imported media flowing into Britain with very few things leaving, but it seems like there's more American Doctor Who fans than British ones now.
> The punishment for this crime is "[c]riminals winning cases on technicalities".

I disagree. The punishment is to find the person or persons responsible and, at a minimum, fire them. That should serve as a warning to others that you either do it right, or not at all.

The "[c]riminals winning cases on technicalities" is a side-effect of erroneous judgement.
I don't see most consumers being interested in buying their electronics from eBay.
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Can do that anyway, with any amount of water: put it in a vacuum. It vaporizes and freezes at the same time.
look up on ebay. Many tablets under 100 are available with decent specs. Availability of low priced tablets is not what is keeping the market from exploding. It's the utility.

There's plenty of utility in a tablet. The problem with the current low cost ones is they suck as devices. The N7 is the first relatively low cost device to change that (plus having JB). A $99 N7 would basically take off.
I've found a tablet to be handy for maintaining work-life balance.

My laptop is the "work device", and I do not open it at home except if I actually need to do work. The tablet (currently Nexus 7) in the other hand is the "browsing device" that I use for reading stuff, social networking, etc. while at home or travelling.

I've been using internet tablets ever since the early Maemo days of 2006, and that has probably given me time to get used to the idea and integrate it in my daily routines.
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I'm from Romania. Coding in your native language is likely used as a safeguard....it means it will be very hard to outsource the product :) .
Coding in your native language on a OSS project is even worse.
True, but 'the average buyer' is wary of buying these tablets - some might be good, but there are also a lot of bad ones, with batteries that only last 2 to 4 hours tops and drop off over weeks of use, and and no simple way to return one for repair or replacement without forking out to send back to China etc.

If it's from a well known brands I am SURE they would do a lot better - heck even Binatone (and low rate cordless phone manufacturer) was able to shift a good number of their android 'ebook reader' (I got one for £30 from ebay, OK for reading books on the tube, not for much else).

So once someone like Google, Asus or Samsung sell a well made unit that stands up to the test of daily family use, then these things ae going to fly.

99% of what I do at home with a laptop (or ipod touch) is basic consumption. These will be a welcome replacement for many users.
Back when DES was being designed, IBM had a bunch of values in their S-boxes. NSA told them "don't use those values; use these values instead." People freaked that it was a backdoor the NSA put in.

About 15 years later, differential cryptoanalysis was publicly discovered. The original S-box values would have been very vulnerable to the attack, but the ones the NSA used were resistant, suggesting that NSA knew about differential cryptoanalysis way ahead of time and were suggesting ways to protect the public against its eventual discovery.

It is possible that there is still some magic in there to let the NSA magically defeat DES, but we still haven't found it. Similarly, it's possible that this random number generator exists for some nefarious purpose, but we have no evidence for it.

Also, this article is 5 years old (the headline didn't say so when I first read this). Schneier was in pretty big self-promotion mode at that time.
Smart pointers and move semantics in C++11 completely smoke GC and memory management everywhere else.

Aside from having to enforce proper pointer usage at runtime, whereas Rust does it at compile time.
I think people are taking the lean startup method of throwing a landing page up to gain intrest a little too far, this feels quite deceiving and to be honest has annoyed me that oh.. I'm just signing up to a mailing list and have to actually invite my friends to be 'front of the line'.. makes me feel like nothing has actually being built at all apart from a pretty landing page.
Yeah that is rather weird. A botched attempt maybe?
His use case is writing libraries that can be re-used broadly.
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Lol, bgr.
Between this and the great pacific garbage patch, I think the human legacy is going to be litter.
This is just ridiculous. Where does it stop?

And after reading articles like these - http://www.law.com/corporatecounsel/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202... - makes one feel the legal system is aware how outdated and broken it is.
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iLock just doesn't like tablets. Most geeks are going to want more from any device they own (including a typical computer). The average consumer thinks otherwise though. Consuming and posting little blurbs is the majority of what consumer do, and tablets are great for that use case. The N7 is the first non-Apple tablet that I think really challenges the iPad for that average consumer. The N7 at $99 could change the tablet landscape.
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Thus continues the reddit-ization of this website. A shame. At least cite the man; "inside jokes" of this sort are tired.
Fancy, but as you may have discovered, blind link traversal is likely to come up with tons of really bad data. If you follow a Google Plus link, you'll inevitably get your own Google Plus information.

The company I work for does this as an API and I know the challenges behind it, so for a JS project, nice work!
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