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Fairly obvious practical detail --

I'm at someplace new, where I don't have internet. I see if there are any open networks, no dice, but I see an encrypted network as www.wifis.org/poop. I think "oh, great, maybe my neighbor is friendly and I'll just go ahead and emai-- wait, I don't have internet, so I can't even visit the link."

Later I'm at a coffee shop seeing if FiOS is available in my area or double checking whether or not I live in Kansas City, and I think "oh, right that URL", but by then it's already disappeared from my SSID list.

Who's gonna have the forethought to write the URL down?

Explicit instructions in the SSID itself might encourage people to jot something down when they do finally get internet access. SSIDs are limited to 32 chars. The best I could come up with was:

ask me for access:hi@domain.com

Of course, even better would be to do something clever like -- make an SSID called "Friends in Building Wifi", that's open access. Upon connecting, you get pushed a page that says "Want to share my bill? Send me a message with this form". The message then gets passed on to you, and then you can go walk downstairs and chit chat, or whatever. This way your neighbor can message you without requiring internet to do so, as wifis.org does. (And then, naturally, put your actual internet on a different WPA2-protected SSID.)
Here are all 8 of them. If you more ideas, let me know, so I can add them.

http://checkthis.com/learnstreet-goc1
http://checkthis.com/learnstreet-goc2
http://checkthis.com/learnstreet-goc3
http://checkthis.com/learnstreet-goc4
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His improved graph actually still doesn't hit the peak at all frame rates. The right way to do things from the usability perspective would be the calculate the peak and make sure the player can hit exactly that at some point. Otherwise areas that are supposed to be reachable may not be, as he says. The code for that wold be a lot more complex, though, so it may be the wrong thing from a business perspective, spending large amounts of your dev time on a small edge case of users and user situations.
I'm a gamedev and I actually use this as in interview question. Getting people to understand this distinction is the difference between pass and fail.
Thanks for the invite, will probably be after the holidays before I can participate but I look forward to doing so.
Should we restart the buggy whip assembly lines to "re-create" all those jobs? What about all the jobs lost to car assembly robots, which probably pushed down the cost to make said cars?

Increased automation doesn't have to mean increased inequality -- ideally, it would lead to a gradual reduction in average work hours. Working hours for people in first-world western nations are evidence of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Gradual_decrease_i...
Found his site, and this link is interesting

http://www.iapf.org/en/2012-08-10-10-37-18/rhinouav
I live in Flint, MI (which has been #1 in violent crime for the past few years) and the thought of people around me potentially possessing and, possibly, carrying firearms around never crosses my mind when I'm out and about. Maybe I'd just prefer to not give myself a heart attack over worrying about someone nearby carrying a gun, but in one of the cities where one should be worried most about it, it doesn't even rank on the scale of things to think about generally.
Not really a prediction, is it? That article is dated December 10th. This one is dated December 7th.
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An amazing demo. I never imaged about such a WM. Really hope to build my own desktop one day with the powerful wayland compositor.

And one more link here on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXS3xKV-UM0
This is exactly why simply hiring a PR firm when you want to build awareness is never enough for a startup. I don't think what the Observer is pointing out is new, it is just more easy to see and measure on the Internet. Building your own audience is very difficult to buy in a single event, its an incremental thing.
Given the huge amount of disagreement in this thread and in the world, about what religion one should have, it is more than a little ridiculous to imply that people who don't swallow some dogma whole are 'reinventing the wheel.'

I don't accept your implication that it is bad to think for yourself. What kind of spiritual life are you living if you are only repeating what other people say rather than actively engaging with the subject?
What I really don't understand about this argument, is if hard to regulate guns/drugs or anything illegal, it seems completely impossible to actually stop a bullet black market! If you could get your hands on 20 bullets (a really tiny amount!), you could most definitely cause a tragedy.

I'm not saying regulating guns is the solution, it may or may not be, but regulating bullets? That seems naive.
Yes he did. There is a strange cognitive dissonance between email and regular mail. If someone broke into an apartment lobby, picked the lock on the mailboxes, took out a set of film prints [1] from the drug store, made copies of the 'private and personal' pictures contained therein and then shared them with their friends for prurient reasons, what sort of punishment is deserved there?

The "virtual" nature of email makes it seem so much more distant than the reality of breaking and entering into someone elses home for the purposes of stealing their mail.

[1] Well presumably not surprising but there was an interesting arrest of a guy who did this at CostCo by searching through the finished pictures boxes looking for interesting pictures for his "collection."
Exactly. It's the kind of thing that for a large portion of the internet seems to be OK if it's celebrities and not OK if it's your girlfriend. I cannot comprehend how people think what he did is OK.

(note that I'm not arguing about the harshness of the sentence, or how it compares to each and every other sentence for each and every other crime. I'm just saying that what he did is not remotely OK).
Wait, can't the same argument be applied to certain sociopaths?
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Hacker Who Leaked Nude Scarlett Johansen Photos Gets 10 Years in Prison
Technically, the article is flawed. It's easy to make your own ammo.

Legally, the article is flawed. The Supreme Court is very very very clear that restricting someone's ability to exercise a right is a restriction on that right; they've said it over and over again about free speech, political donations, the exercise of religion, the right to avoid self-incrimination. and many other areas. Including the right to own and bear arms. Like it or not, the Supreme Court has said - twice! - that you have an individual right to own a gun for, among other things, self defence. That doesn't mean "so you can bludgeon an intruder with it" it means "so you can shoot an intruder with it". With bullets. And any law you make that meaningfully restricts the ability of law abiding citizens to shoot an intruder in their home will not fly without a constitutional amendment which is - needless to say - not happening. And anything which does not restrict the ability of a law abiding citizen to shoot an intrude in their home will not stop future school shootings.

(Yes, I know. It's crazy, and it's not how it is in other countries. But it's also objective reality.)
> users should demand to pay

People have a hard time paying for parking space, yet some claim those same people should demand paying for the ability to upload a small file to the internet. I don't think anybody outside of the tech bubble treats such advice seriously.
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But I think (and what do I think; I know a little here and there but certainly not conversational in another language) that we can immerse ourselves easily in a programming language, so if we're drawing equivalences, it should be easier to learn a programming language than a spoken one in the same levels of culture immersion -- and most of us are here, aren't we?
I don't know much about this story and certainly don't condone the behaviour, but from the article it seems all he was doing was abusing the password reset system offered by the service providers, which as anyone reading hacker news will know is a very flawed security model (I use random data for answers when they force security q/a). Not exactly high level hacking (it's no firesheep session hijack for example) so seems a bit harsh considering. Surely this is really an issue of a very bad security hole being abused, more responsibility should be directed to the email providers to get better with their security. Again not saying such behaviour should go unpunished, he deserves jail time certainly, but this should also be a clear signal that service providers need to get more serious about security and take more responsibility.

edited for clarity.
Again thanks for the feedback. Yep, I hear you and these are the names I had initially:

"appiconswarm.com", and "1414apps.com"

The reason why I included "only" was to create urgency and the word "apps" in todays world normally means an app on a phone... And there are 1,414 app icons available so I think it's the best I could come up with :-)

Heck, I even purchased only1414androidapps.com just in case :-)
Arguing about the merits of second amendment (or first amendment, for that matter) is reasonable. Suggesting that the government pass laws that subvert The Constitution is not.
Nobody I know who is on the list has a publicist.
I'm surprised Windows wasn't mentioned in the article. Although the latest version has been met with mixed reactions, I think the fact that Microsoft has embraced "flat" design will have a measure of influence on the future of the aesthetic.
I would consider a weak encryption, even if it's never attempted to be broken, to be a failure of a crypto system.
This isn't exactly a new development, as the article in question was first posted on May 13th, 2000.
Would it really surprise you that they ARE coming out with a phone?
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Did you read the article?

"in the 18 years before the law, Australia suffered 13 mass shootings - but not one in the 14 years after the law took full effect."

The laws were introduced as a direct result of the massacre you're referring to.
It would be nice to see some usability studies to see if users actually find the actions on a page as easily despite the lack of 3D, bevels, shadows, gloss, gradients, etc.. We programers often reason things out, like the above article did, just to watch users try to use the app and prove us completely wrong.

At one company where we had flat buttons we made the most commonly desired action on the screen really huge and had a block of smaller buttons below it. In usability tests, no user ever hit that huge button. They all thought it was just a page title or something. We even tried giving them tasks that required using it, but they would go into a different section of the app like the settings and never figure it out.
I'm between doing that course or doing this one: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-03sc-differential-...

Anyone has any insight into the strenghts and weaknesses of each one? I've been unable to find any comprehensive review online about them. I don't have time to do both simultaneously, but can do one first and the other later or alternate between them.

I don't have a strong calculus background though I'm above the average "programmer" or compsci graduate. I'm interested in simulation and numerical problems (specially finite element method) but theoretical background is welcome when its not overwhelming (i.e. when its there for you to understand but its not the focus of the course).
So you can't just produce good, solid output without congratulating yourself in public? Interesting.
There's a great deal of value in popularizing, mass producing, and otherwise making technology accessible to the general public. And it's real work, too - it's just not the strictly technical stuff we all love, but solving other problems like organization, publicity, fundraising, etc. etc. Presumably that's why her award is "Entrepreneur of the Year" and not "Circuit Hacker of the Year". IMO it's worthy of celebration.
I suppose you could consider IRC and IM to have some significant feature overlap, but I'd still regard them as essentially different things. IRC's core feature is larger-scale many-to-many conversations, and IM's core feature is one-to-one conversation, and this in turn leads to significant differences usage patterns, interface conventions, network protocols etc. that even further differentiate them.
Would rather lose a TV than get hit by a bullet.

I live in Australia. Lived in the country and the city. Home invasions are not an issue here.
I like how simple and easy it is, perhaps if you just load the website in an iFrame below for "desktop" loading, and then show images for the smaller view ports? IE: I see a lot of value in doing iPhone/mobile based viewports and providing a qrcode so we can load quickly on our own devices if wanting to test further.

Also - I've found that in some cases it's hard to tell if they want just an individual page critiqued or an entire website - perhaps something needs to be done to clarify this?
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Seeing history of reviews would be good - as well as building some kind of feedback as to whether a review was helpful or not. I think providing some kind of positive feedback to reviewers is just as important.
More extreme sentencing. Long live the prison state.
<- ...were users to like paying for such things or even demand to do so (which they aren't, hence why this article was written at all, but this is a cool universe in which we could live: imagine it!)...
Allen Grinshtein of Layervault may have coined the term “flat design” originally.

Oh dear. This is what happens when your design perspective is limited to the past few years of popular UI design.

“Flat design” was not invented by designers at tech startups. The concept was not popularized by Microsoft. Yes, there has been a recent trend away from the use of shading, texturing, and depth cues. It is a resurgence of something that began much, much longer ago.

Who invented “flat design”? Maybe Josef Müller-Brockmann, 1951? El Lissitzky, 1932? Dribbble users may not care about these names, but the current seasonal trend toward formal simplicity is little more than a rediscovery of the 20th Century's defining graphic design aesthetic, Swiss Modern.

If you're interested in the history of design, and understanding modern visual design in a broader context, I'd suggest Philip B. Meggs' A History of Graphic Design. For something a little more readily available, you might also want to take a look at Guity Novin's History of Graphic Design. Here's the relevant chapter on the Swiss Grid: http://guity-novin.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-42-swiss-gra...
Hitting a small moving UAV (30+ km/hr) at any reasonable altitude (500 - 1,000 ft) would be a very challenging shot. Doing it at night...
Doing something for free doesn't get you any cash as a side effect.
... so because the attempt is futile, you are saying we should pretend he didn't say it, and interpret the rest of his article in that light?

FWIW, I have a friend in the planning division of the city I live in, and just a few days ago we were having a discussion about the issues with parking.

http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/1932...

People certainly can and do make arguments that people should demand to pay for parking, as to do anything else causes even worse problems.
Are you implying that sociopaths should just be thrown in prison and left to rot?

Does anyone in the US pretend that prison should be rehabilitative? I'm sure that this guy serving 10 years in prison is going to be a net-positive for our society. /not
Freedom to self defense is pretty fundamental in my book. As we like to say, when seconds count the police are only minutes away.

It's probably different in your country, with no crime or violence or anything.
He may have been better off murdering someone.
Awesome! This looks really useful.
"We’ve decided that access to guns is more important than our safety, that more guns equals safety, or that it’s a settled political issue."

This clearly shows a desire for stricter gun laws.
With an armed citizenry you need less of the military on your side.
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I'd rather not have that kind of relationship with an employer. It's a perfectly rational position, I just think it will eventually hold you back from your full potential.

I didn't learn to program because I wanted to keep my job. I learned programming because, frankly, it was fun and challenging.
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Right. This is the Scalia philosophy. Don't like the constitution? Go ahead and amend it.
I am aware, but since the advice was to move and the guy lives in America, I localized my answer.
While it is true that AES was designed with practicality in mind, that is not what the difference between a theoretical construction and a practical construction is about. The theory of cryptography is based on complexity-theoretic arguments (or in some cases, information-theoretic arguments) about cryptographic constructions, essentially showing that any algorithm that can be used to violate some security property of the system can be used to solve some hard problem. For example, in the case of the Goldwasser-Micali system, any chosen plaintext attack can be used to solve the quadratic residuosity problem efficiently. On the other hand, there is no such proof for AES; the evidence in favor of the security of AES is heuristic, based on a combination of statistical tests, resistance to known attacks on block ciphers, and other measures that have been developed over the past few decades.

This is not to say that AES should not be trusted. AES is a fine cipher, it is efficient, and unless someone can show us a practical attack the heuristic evidence is pretty strong.

Now, as for Merkle puzzles, that system is not considered secure by cryptographic standards. A cryptographic construction is not secure unless it requires the adversary to do work that is exponential in some parameter in the system (the security parameter), while parties that know some secret (such a key) only do work that is polynomial in all parameters of the system. In the case of RSA, for example, parties that are aware of the secret key must do work that is cubic in the security parameter, while the adversary must do work that is exponential in the cube root of the security parameter. Whether such systems actually exist is still an open question, as it turns out; a positive answer to this question would imply that P does not equal NP. Cryptographers generally assume certain truths about complexity theory, beyond the P vs. NP problem, and cryptography research has actually opened new areas of complexity theory that are based on such assumptions (such as the notion of knowledge complexity, which emerged from the work on zero knowledge proof systems).
I cringed when I read that sentence. Thanks for helping to make this clear.
The it will be a more than adequate preparation. In fact, it just might be overkill :-) But read it nevertheles.

Plenty of materials out there, it might help you to learn a Lisp dialect, Scheme is excellent and closest to the lambda calculus.
You nailed it toward the end. Journalism is struggling to catch up with instantness, and bloggers have muscled in and dirtied the field; the current decline, I think, started with 24-hour cable news and was only accelerated by the Internet. News channels airing opinion -- MSNBC, Fox News -- is also troublesome.

It's not entirely journalism's fault, either, as culturally we have begun to demand instant gratification and journalism responds as the market expects. Same with entertainment news. As Aaron Sorkin wrote, there is a debate between ratings driving content or content driving ratings -- sadly, too often, the former holds true.
I could not agree more. Though I would replace "minor" frustration with "major".
10 years is far too long.

I agree the punishment for hacking emails should be harsh, because your email is your life. But not 10 years... because reading or leaking someone's email is not akin to killing them.
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People aren't saying that what he did was OK. They're saying that a 10-year sentence is overkill.
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I was curious if somebody will bring this title to the table as I've found this book some time ago on Goodreads, but frankly, 800p about this subject is a TLDR for me.

My point was, while I think people should be comfortable paying for services, claiming they should demand to pay instead of getting it free is a bit absurd. It's not like there are no paid more feature-rich alternatives for uploading photos, or that web users just don't pay for online; it's just that Instagram, Twitter & co wouldn't grow to those numbers if they were a paid service. Prove me wrong, but I also got the feeling Pinboard users are there for the statement, not because they believe bookmarking links is worth $10.
Last week, I showed requests to a class of sysadmins to whom I was teaching Python and they were blown away. Great work.
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>note that I'm not arguing about the harshness of the sentence

Yes you are -- albeit implicitly. You're arguing against a straw man that takes the extreme position that what he did was "OK". Very few people here (and certainly not "a large portion of the internet") believe that. Even the post that triggered this discussion didn't call his actions "OK", even though richforrester understated the severity of the "hacker"'s actions.
This particular article beats an already dead horse, but it does it pretty well. Better than that: the rest of the blog containing the article is pretty darn good. Give it a read.
The issue with louder low flying drones is not the risk of being shot down the problem is alerting the target. But in a anti-poacher situation this may be less of an issue than in a armed conflict.
I really admire what the Internet Archive does, and I'd be very willing to donate to them, but for one caveat: IA's robots.txt policy retroactively applies the current robots.txt on a particular domain to the entire archive of previous captures for that domain. This means that if a website goes offline, and an unrelated third party later acquires the domain, and uses a new, restrictive robots.txt, then the older site is no longer accessible in the archive.

I know this may seem somewhat trivial, but I've run into this problem more than once, and I find that it undermines the value of the archive: if you're trying to preserve history, making that preservation contingent on the the state of things in the present defeats your purpose.

I'd much rather see them adopt a more sensible policy of obeying whatever robots.txt is contemporaneous to each particular site capture.
Wasn't app.net largely using similar sounding arguments to reasonable effect? This isn't anything new.
Looks like you've made sure any recursion only goes one deep? (Awesome)

http://scratchpad.io/5mqq98D51P

Every change forces a reload on the iframe. I wonder if there's a way to prevent that.

<html>
<body>
<h1>Heading</h1>
<iframe width="640" height="480"
src="http://scratchpad.io/5mqq98D51P">
</iframe>
</body>
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And the WWF's release[1] is dated December 4th.

[1] http://worldwildlife.org/stories/google-helps-wwf-stop-wildl...