skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A year or so ago I was contracting with a military supplier. The company makes rugged Windows CE handhelds and was looking at jumping to Android. $15 per device was the quote they got from Google.

Now that you mention the number of activations, it's obvious Samsung is not paying that price.
back then, making a worm was way different than it is today. Today, most of them are intended to do damage today, back then, it was a technical feat to be able to write something like that. Look for the good part as well, like his the son of a UNIX co-founder.
Of course, there does seem to be another aspect you are leaving out. It is probably easier to worry about these properties when your userbase is tiny.

Additionally, it may be easier to copy features from a "clean, consistent, proven implementation," but it is not always easy to copy features into said programs. Consider that few things are as "proven" as the Linux kernel. Or the TeX codebase, for that matter. Neither are usually considered "clean" or "consistent." While the later is seen as an interesting example of a completed code base that is no longer changing, few things have stood additions as well as the kernel.
For those interested in learning more, Simon Singh's "The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography"[1] has a great chapter explaining in detail the creative breakthroughs that allowed Turing to break the Enigma machine when it was stumping pretty much everyone else at Bletchley Park.

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[1] http://www.amazon.com/Code-Book/dp/0385495323
Who really knows what he would have gotten. rtm could have faced jail time, and the prosecutors apparently wanted it according to this contemporaneous essay:

http://potifos.com/morris.html
Not only an economic case, but also being able to use your tech advantage without being bullied by an established competitor. "Oh you're using this weird contraption to outsmart me ? Cute, I'll use daggers in the hands of assassins, whatever bailiffs use to enforce trumped up court orders, or something of the kind." In other words, you need the protection of the law as an upstart.

It can be argued that this was missing in the Roman world, while the economic case existed and even the tech was known.
Right. I definitely don't mean to imply that there's not room to improve on the "traditional publishing" model that MSP uses. I only mean to point out that the Nature article is rather over the top in terms of the prospective changes that it attributes to the Episciences Project, and that an enormous amount of good work has already been done in the "reforming math/science publication" space in the past 10 years or so.
I'm probably projecting a bit, but it's always struck me as the domain of non-creators who cannot find anything meaningful to do with their lives, so they ladder-climb everywhere they can.

Many people never graduated high school in that sense.
As janzer said, that's not the URL patio11 is talking about, however this redirect is here for a good reason too. It's needed to preserve the search terms in the referrer header for links that are triggered by JavaScript - which is needed if webmasters want to see which search terms are driving traffic to their sites.
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Apologies for missing this while this article was live. Not sure if you'll see my response.

My assertions are A) more that richer people generally just have more than they realize, and B) having help decluttering is huge. It is easy to have the appearance of less stuff when you have a 5 bedroom house. Or, multiple houses. Not so much when you live in a 2 bedroom apartment. Similarly, if you can hire cleaners, it is not shocking that you can stay clean. Even relatively inexpensive cleaners. ($50 every two weeks, for instance. Easily doable for anyone wiling to drop cable. So, not exactly reserved for the super rich.)
Yes, all of what you said. It's absolutely changed as it became popular - I'd guess most of the new users over the past 1-2 years have heard about it via reddit and thus you get that same commenting style/quality here:

- lots of puns in replies

- people being very snarky

- people who downvote b/c they disagree

- people who reply just to point out mistakes

- lots of "+1 here too" replies

- a mean tone in many replies

- people who upvote off-topic stories

- people who submit/upvote White House petitions

- increase in psuedonyms like "throwaway235" or "anonymous354"

I think most of the old timers prefer the old days because we don't enjoy the above. In 2009, for example, HN was HN and reddit was reddit and you went to each for different reasons. Today nearly every non-Ask HN post on HN is either on reddit soon after or on reddit first. I'm not saying that the above didn't exist on the "old" HN - it did - but it was much less common.

That being said, I'm one of those who believes that not showing comment scores causes some of this behavior. Not my site so I don't get a "vote" per se but I do not agree that hiding comment scores has made things better.
Pretty much my thoughts. If you ever find anything on this, I'd be interested.
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Thanks! I'm not a techie, so forgive the stupid question: is HN running Reddit code or something custom built?
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هناك العديد من شركات سياحة داخلية وخارجية تدعم العديد من الرحلات بالعكس من شركات سياحة اخرى لا تدعم تلك الرحلات التى من المفترض تدعيمها للحصول على اكبرعدد ممكن لزيارة تلك الاماكن ولكن ما تفععله شركات سياحة هذه هى انها ترفع التكلفة ولا يستطيع الجميع القيام بتلك الرحلات
When you walk into the office, your so called degree "BS Electronics" here, sits at home, what you carry is the things you learned while doing it, and you need to figure out, which company would want those skills. If you don't have that type of mentality, perhaps, it might be another 6 years, before one can find a job. A degree, is in no way a guarantee to get a job to keep it simple.
From the article, it seems google-agnostic:

So they’ve developed a (as yet unnamed) protocol for device-based authentication that they say is independent of Google, requires no special software to work — aside from a web browser that supports the login standard — and which prevents web sites from using this technology to track users.
Hence the old saying that:

"The politics of the university are so intense because the stakes are so low"

Certainly in my six years working in academia I was surprised at the long term vendettas and bitterness that seemed to be common in what was, in reality, really a rather pleasant working environment.
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i don't get all the fuss - and i've been following this story for a little while now, trying to work out exactly what is so important about this all... considering how many worse things are going on than self entitled pricks topping themselves to avoid being punished by law (whether excessive punishment or not).

this may be insensitive, but why don't school shootings result in the same kind of critical look at gun laws?

or killing pakistani civilians with drones in breach of international law

or the idf killing more palestinian /children/ than israelis have ever died at the hands of palestinians, which is indirectly funded by 'aid' money totalling some $3 billion from the US at a time when the country is suffering economic problems and is cutting benefits for its own citizens that cost a lot less.

trade embargo against cuba because of a revolution that installed a government chosen by people through a fight for freedom that happened to not align with the ideology of the administration in the 60s

pick one, they all kill more people and are vastly more important and worth spending your time being angry at your government for.

this is a piffling tragedy of people who can't deal with first world problems... i shed no tears for anyone involved.

downvote at will.
Isn't that solving an orthogonal problem
>almost literaly forced

AKA not forced. I use earplugs instead of loud music to counter outside noise. I rarely need them, though.
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This reeks of immaturity. Not since high school has the sentiment of "I'm wearing headphones to be left alone" been a popular or reasonable one. At least during those years, peers could look at you and make the mistake that you're so deep that music has more influence/meaning than the world around you. If this is, as I feel, an attempt to legitimize this kind of "signal" to other professionals who want to collaborate with you, I feel pretty sorry for the kid who's hosting this.

I can appreciate individuals who don't have the capacity to swap context throughout the day, but only when they can be mature enough to explain themselves to me like an adult; and I certainly don't need a visual accessory to que my interaction with them.
> The plea system is institutionalized torture.

That is going to far. The plea system seems to be loaded with problems, but if you don't want to make a plea bargain you can still simply go to court. Which is what you'd be doing without a plea system anyway. A sufficiently scary threat won't make you confess, it will make you choose the court route.
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If it isn't based on a shared secret, but on public crypto, then it wouldn't suffer from this kind of vulnerabilities.
Otherwise a webpage has to escape its own sandbox, bypass the native client's sandbox (in a different process) composed of the inner and outer sandbox and then access the native client.

Or there could be just some really dumb bug that somehow enables cross-process access. With javascript. You know, one of these silly brown-paper-bag bugs that are not supposed to happen.

Either way, this is the second door. It may be a shiny steel door, but it's an additional door.
sounds like Nazis defence in Norymberg to me. Technically, they just followed the orders (law)... makes me sick.
that claim was not made.
>>>Has any software produced by Samsung ever made you say "I wish I could use more of this"? Touchwiz?

From what I have seen from users on YouTube, the multi-window feature Sammy brought to Android looks good. And actually does screen splitting better than Windows 8 (no fixed width presets).
Yubikey's are different in that there isn't (well, doesn't have to be) a centralized location where management of the keys is handled. Yubico offer a solution where you can authenticate/issue/revoke keys from within your own infrastructure[1]. So long as you keep that secure (say with HSM) you should be OK.

[1]http://www.yubico.com/products/services-software/validation-...
Just offer a lower price, then.
Some geeks look rapey.
This is actually why two factor authentication is great. In this instance, users were still protected (at the least) by their PIN.

This is somewhat equivalent to losing your ssh private key. Yes, it's bad, but your passphrase should ("should" -- at least it's not an immediate breach like losing a password or clear text private key) buy you enough time to revoke and replace the key.
The man she fell in love with was short fat and balding. The man she loves has gone from balding to bald, but made up for it by graying.

One of the things I love about her is that she isn't inclined to take shit from people. Functionally, this includes me. My best friend isn't a bauble. She's a grown-ass woman.
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Public backlash against individual prosecutors who overreach is one of the best tools available for changing the system.
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I am a bit surprised Richard Feynman does not figure in this discussion possibly because he existed "before PC". Paul Graham in his essay "The Word 'hacker'" writes [0]

Believe it or not, the two senses of "hack" are also
connected. Ugly and imaginative solutions have something
in common: they both break the rules. And there is a
gradual continuum between rule breaking that's merely
ugly (using duct tape to attach something to your bike)
and rule breaking that is brilliantly imaginative
(discarding Euclidean space).

Hacking predates computers. When he was working on the
Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman used to amuse himself
by breaking into safes containing secret documents. This
tradition continues today. When we were in grad school, a
hacker friend of mine who spent too much time around MIT
had his own lock picking kit. (He now runs a hedge fund,
a not unrelated enterprise.)

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
I am an academic mathematician. Happily, I have observed little of what you described. Ego, sure, but pettiness and vindictiveness, no.
If only we the people had that kind of power. Unfortunately we've submitted ourselves to staggering invasions of our rights to safeguard our illusion of security. The train has left the station and it ain't coming back.
The Yubikey would only work if there was an absolute guarantee that a hacked kernel/drivers would not be able to access the memory.

The way I can see it working is if there is a private key on the device, inaccessible to the host hardware, and the crypto stuff is done on the device - so the Yubikey was effectively the client. Auth service sends challenge to the browser which sends it to the driver which asks the yubikey wtf, the yubikey responds to the challenge, and the response is sent to the browser and back to the host.

But this would all fall down if there was even the slightest chink and your host hardware could be modified to access/save the keys on all of the Yubikeys when they are plugged in.
>All it does is act as a USB HID keyboard and pump some text down when you press the button on it.

Not necessarily. They can be configured for challenge-response auth: http://www.yubico.com/products/services-software/personaliza...
You forget a few further steps:

- the defendant is charged with crimes that carry a maximum sentence of 35 years

- the prosecution offers a deal of 4-6 months (plus no-computer etc etc)

- the defendant refuses

- the prosecution files another 9 charges to push the maximum up to 50 years

- the prosecution signals that a plea bargain now will likely carry around 7 years

- the defendant kills himself

- the prosecution says "but we always offered 6 months!"

Nope, no lie at all there, nossah.
On top of my head I can think of it being stolen. Unless you need a password on top it (ironic, no?)

and then ..." Under threat of a boycott, Intel Corp. backed down slightly yesterday from a controversial plan to add a security feature to its computer chips, but privacy advocates said the change doesn't go far enough to ease their concerns.

Privacy groups fear that the new feature, sort of a Social Security number hard-wired into computers, would be used to monitor Internet users' activities online, allowing companies to collect marketing data on them. "
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20126770-245/intel-chips-l...

Personally I'll stick to passwords, little by little they will add code and "features" to that usb stick. Call me paranoid but Google has more than enough info on me and what I search /ed for.
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cPanel should have started this much much sooner:

Much like Y2K, this issue requires a proactive solution rather than a reactive response. That is why cPanel has been working diligently on research and analysis to incorporate IPv6 support into our products.

A proactive solution would have been having this already implemented by the time that IPv6 day happened last year in 2012...

cPanel has been promising some sort of IPv6 support for years now, and so far it still hasn't come. I guess it is good that they are publicly committing to it now rather than just in the support emails sent to them. I do feel that it is too late, and they could have been way more up front about it.
CPanel needs to hire a) some decent UX guys and b) some decent English-speaking translators. I've used dozens of CPanel-based shared hosting providers—enough to deduce that their product must be mostly technically sound. Everything seems to get configured properly, there are no major security holes, etc. etc.

But the interface downright sucks. It's slightly more polished (read: glossy) than it was about five years ago, but still an unorganized, cluttered list of unhelpful icons. Plus the text throughout the UI constantly misuses idioms (or sounds like it was written by an eight-year-old).

I know it's de facto standard, but a little cleanup could go a long way.
What's so great about MSP? They're not-for-profit, great, but it's still prohibitively expensive. (http://msp.org/forms/orders/). Clearly their articles are far from open access as all science should be.
Related HN thread of a post from the PoV of the "other side":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3909409

(spoiler: for MBA types, headphones = bad employee)
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Seriously, I really hope that some iOS devs would steal the UI from it too :)
I sometimes use clamshell headphones that are isolating enough that I can play quiet music or nothing at all, and they still make a big difference over not using them.

More often than not I have them on playing nothing, it both helps with the noise and sends the message that I don't want to be bothered.
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AKA almost literaly forced because while there may not be any bullet points in the contract forcing one to use headphones you'll get fired if you don't get your job done. And to get your job done in a noisy environnment you need to stick something into your ears.

A tacit unwritten condition to get a job done is still a condition.

On a side-note I find earplugs don't really work on the long-term. Sound is drowned out but not enough (for me). Moreover, if one has develloped tinitus, earplugs will make bearing it worse over time.
I would not particularly want to write a compiler in Tcl, Perl, or Ruby; on the other hand, if I were free to choose, I would pick Lisp, ML, or Haskell over C for compiler writing any day. For what it is worth, I have written a compiler in C and I have written one in Lisp, and doing it in Lisp was far more pleasant.
Um, re: Napoleon Hill: http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/1921-napoleon-hill...
I made a geeky version of this using an industrial stack light, an Arduino, some MOSFETs, an RFID card reader, and node.js.

Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/dX33N
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bButG4EWSfE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQK0fW6-7jA

As my desk is in the far back corner of the office, and the light is visible from anywhere in the room, people know if I'm heads-down on something, away from my desk, or available for interruptions without having to come over and potentially interrupt me by asking. I can change the light by scanning my building ID card or using a web interface.

Note that this was done as an experiment to learn a bit about electronics, and a bit of an evolving joke to see how much random technology I can cram into a project. While I may be socially immature, I'm not as bad as "YOU CAN'T TALK TO ME WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON". I think it is useful, nevertheless, as an ambient cue when I am really trying to focus on a problem.
A more sensible rule: If I'm wearing headphones in/over both ears, it's possible I can't hear you, so you might want to make sure you have my attention before you talk to me from behind for ten minutes then get upset when I don't respond. Actually, forget the headphone part of that rule.
Also, as someone pointed out on the Linus post, Aaron Swartz himself wrote about his prosecutor's behavior:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis
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Thanks. Sad, sad topic, but probably the best take on the topic I have read.

And not only on the recent context. This is a story, that sadly fits so many contexts, that it could be shown day after day after day.
The middle of Wisconsin. But don't mourn for me. I always find things to do.
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I'm slightly confused by his description of:

"Oh, but it’s clever, you see, because the Enigma machine [...] translates ordinary messages into code through an ingenious method by which no letter in the code ever repeats, making it almost impossible to decode in the ordinary ways."

Since it used a standard alphabet of symbols, and messages >26 chars exist, that statement is wrong.
I presume he actually means that plaintext symbols will not code consistently to the same ciphertext symbols (i.e. not a simple substitution cipher), due to the rotation of the rotors.

But it's also not entirely far from another very interesting property (and one which significantly aided in the breaking of the code), by which no plaintext symbol can ever map to itself (due to the reflector design)
The lack of a proto-internet by the Greeks and or Romans was as much a sociocultural issue as it was technological.

The author seems to ignore the basic requirements for the technology to exist to begin with (a mistake Orwell made in 1984 for example). It is my opinion that an unfree society would not have invented the Internet.
Interesting. I figured it was something like that, since the images didn't match any though patterns I was having.
I haven't checked YibiKey myself, but it is been supported by Fedora for some time now: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Yubikeys_with_Fedora

According to Fedora wiki they're used to create OTPs (one time passwords), but still... I don't like the idea of a physical token that can be stolen and used without verifying the user (meaning that you still need user/password or any other auth mechanisms to complement the Yubikey).
Exactly. Until we can come up with a better system the rule of thumb is:

1) Know something

2) Have something

Its somewhat easy for a potential cracker to gain access to either one of the two, but extremely difficult to have both.

Hell, when I used SecurID at one of my first jobs you had a PIN to go with the token number, almost like a salt to your password. Even if they had the key they wouldn't be able to access my accounts.
"If the Romans had built a practical semaphore, not only would we all be speaking Latin"

There is a reasonable argument that Spanish, French, Italian, et cetera are but dialects of Latin. It is only Euro-centrism which treats them as separate languages while dumping diverse tongues into Chinese.
Guy...

What are you talking about?

I never made that claim.
I haven't been in the US for just over a decade. What is keeping Americans so concerned about terrorists all this time later?
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When it comes to breaking the Enigma Machine, the guy who actually did is a polish mathematician named Marian Rejewski.

All credits to Alan Turing. But in all fairness its Marian Rejewski who did it.
He may have been duped initially, but he has claimed to have met the girl on multiple occasions.

The best case scenario for his credibility is that he was fooled, felt like an idiot and kept lying to prevent everyone from finding out.
Except that Rob Pike later in the golang-nuts groups expand on exactly that question: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/bfuwmhbZHYw/di...

Qoute: "Goroutines are not garbage-collected. They must return from the top-level function (or panic) to have all their resources recovered."
Is there a reliable way to stop this browser tracking, apart from quitting Facebook?
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