skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically the client connects to SIP server using ssl connection authenticated on both sides.
When placing calls the clients A and B are negotiating SRTP session key using DH key exchange. It is done
over SIP (and not over RTP channel as in ZRTP).
Each client upon registration generates public/private key pair and submits a CSR to the registration service which signs it and stores the public key (which is later used to authenticate the above mentionned ssl connections) in the SIP server's DB...
The server has no access to the client's private key nor to the SRTP session key
This reminds me of the recent ShowHN of criticue (http://criticue.com/).

You could do something similar (or those guys could do it) where you provide feedback on other people's repositories in exchange for feedback on your repository. Sort of a community code review process.
How would Antigua measure $21 million of copyright? For music and movies, would it be the publisher-suggested retail price of albums and blu-ray discs?

If they want to sell the content online, how do they even find out content pricing when publishers don't sell direct and give different prices to different retailers?

If they want to sell content subscriptions, how can they guess how much content they could stream for $21 million?
What's GitHub up to? They've been releasing cool features more frequently this week it seems. Was this part of the plan? Developers decided to finish their tasks almost at the same time? What are we going to see tomorrow? It's exciting. :) Features please!
I did the same thing. my Asus + tomato firmware = sanity. I couldn't believe how easy it was I've had the thing for about 4 years and never have to reboot it or anything.
I like to believe that there's always room at the top of any industry for people who really have a superior talent. I have to say, their boot-strapped scrappiness does give them a little special cred for me, but mostly, I just love their music. Their song, "Thrift Shop" is a trifecta, great tune, great lyrics, great social commentary.

Also, bonus points for their ability to describe odors. "Smells like R-Kelly's Sheets."
I suspect that you may like me substantially less when I get to discussing the trade-offs that are inherent in Bayesian statistics.

I know how wonderful it can be to feel that you have realized The Truth, but the frequentist school of statistics does not remain in existence just because statisticians are too stupid to recognize the obvious superiority of Bayesian methods.
If I weren't crying so hard right now I'd think about clapping. Too soon.
Is my computer on?
What do you use for voting? A custom implementation?
Here's a very recent audio interview of its founder: http://techzinglive.com/page/1269/223-tz-interview-zak-homou...
I know next to nothing about networking hardware, so fuck me, but...

I always had to power-cycle my routers, no matter the brand, for years. Some once a week, one every other day. Then I bought a Time Capsule from Apple. It seemed kinda pricey, but I wanted the convenience of the backups.

This was in 2008. Five years later, that thing still works perfectly. Never had to power cycle it. Entirely reliable. So Apple will keep getting my money for consumer networking gear.
I actually have been hoping to get feedback on whether people think https://github.com/ChickenProp/ds-debug is/could be useful.
Way to go Chef Surfing! I've been fortunate enough to meet Chef Nancy in Santiago thanks to them.
Yeah, these days Asus makes great routers while Linksys has languished.
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In chess, they call this a fork.
BMW could launch a bargain basement 0 series, or Wal-mart could start selling quality products.

Fundamentally there isn't much point for either because it's not the right customer base. This is what branding is about, if Apple acquires a whole bunch of customers that don't care about quality and then complain that their devices don't have half-baked features it doesn't do the brand any good. These customers will destroy the brand.

I don't want to have to walk into an Apple store and wonder which is the low margin device that will fall apart / fail to perform, if I wanted to ask those questions I'd go to Best Buy.

The low margin Apple market is craigslist, if you want a 3 year old Apple device that's where you can get it.

The most confusing thing about AMZN and APPL are their respective PEs. They are priced as if each are going to adopt the other's business model.
What are you, a little neckbearded basement dweller? There's probably little ten year olds girls ballerinas that could kick your wimpy ass.

Just, heads up, it was a girl that got wrecked on, and your comment is offensively sexist and, disregarding the situation, just generally inappropriately so.
does anyone know why Cisco sold Linksys? As far as I recall, Cisco wanted to enter the consumer market (as opposed to their enterprise presence).
Did they fail?

I like the fact that Cisco is not afraid of letting go stuff they acquired. Last time I heard was when they acquired tribe.net and later put it up for sale? correct me if I am wrong. And then there was the acquisition of Flip camera, that flopped (no pun intended).
Will Larry Page's Mobile Websites Slam Affect Google's Ad Policies?
My curiosity has overcome my propensity for courtesy, so I must ask: what was the original title?
Along these lines, I like what Talib Qweli said about Lil Wayne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbmTj-u1LMg
It's a modified version of Pippin Williamson's "Love it pro" plugin. http://pippinsplugins.com/love-it-pro/

I had to extend it to handle comment voting.
The real comment sounds like someone knows that Aleksey was suicidal, and says, in order:

"Nobody sell this guy any pills" (so he does not kill himself)
"You selfish bastard, who's going to take care of mom?" (if you kill yourself)
"You could always sell the source code and fuck off to costa rica" (an alternative to killing yourself)
"Paypal would pay you couple of hundred thousand for it" (saying that the above-mentioned source code is very valuable)
"Pick up the phone bitch" (apparently he is ignoring the phone calls from his worried friends, and they wish him to stop doing so).

Does that help?
The vast majority of the government's revenue through gambling comes from taxing the casinos. Taxes on personal gambling gains are trivial.
The body does finish them off in a way. They wall off areas of the lung for example, making "tubercles", that contain tissue and latent bacteria.

Future ill health allow these to reactivate.
There's a very unfortunate [dead] comment by Intermernet in this thread. Unfortunate because it might be a good solution for someone who administers the affected hardware and wants to remove the backdoor after patching (as per the Workaround section in the OP, "Barracuda Networks offers an expert option that disables the SSH daemon.
For assistance contact the Barracuda Networks Support.")

Note, I have no idea why the user is dead, nor if this solution actually works, but I'm posting Intermernet's post below:

The workaround mentioned involves:

1. Log in to the device and go to the "Advanced" tab on the web GUI.

2. Add "&expert=1" to the end of the URL.

3. Click on the red "Expert" button.

4. Scroll to the bottom and disable remote support.

You will need to reverse this process if you ever actually require the barracuda remote support.
Make can certainly generate multiple outputs, and can trivially be coerced to redo any step you like.

Provided you add your code as a dependency in the analysis, then it will happily redo only what's changed, giving you nice tight iterations.

I think it's real limitations are with multi-machine setups, as in the HDFS problem you're mentioning. Then you need a new tool.
Definitely the right way to think about it - lawyers (or network technicians) as cost-saving tools, rather than direct expenses.

Hire the $2600/hr guy and be done in ten minutes because of his fifteen years experience and deep knowledge of the system; spend $433 very quickly. Pick the $50/hr rent-an-intern and you're down for a day while they're googling the fixes. Spend about the same amount, but avoid the losses from 7+ extra hours of downtime.

Time is money, after all.

Same thing with an after-hours/emergency call to a plumber. Yes, you'll spend twice as much - but that's nothing compared to what it will cost to repair the structural damage to your house because your toilet overflowed and you ended up with three inches of standing water soaking into your everything.
Great, but when I read their PDF, I didn't see any context at all. I'm guessing this was an undergrad submission or something.
I followed his resume story pretty closely when it broke simply for the outrageousness of it all and this is correct. I can't speak to what he achieved afterwards. The ones I remember distinctly:

- Video of him skiing in the video is stock footage he bought on craigslist.

- Video of tennis serve at 140 mph.

- Plagiarized an economics paper in his resume

- Claimed to be one of a limited number of people in Connecticut certified for nuclear waste disposal

ivygateblog.com seemed to be the biggest follower of his and may still have a lot of the articles and the paper resume.
Facebook Has Apparently Blocked Vine's Friend-Finding Feature
That study only looks at the deterrent effect on existing criminals, not the general populace. I think there is confusion about the word "deterrent". I always thought about 'deterrent' in this context as: "Prisons are a deterrent.. just the thought of serving time in jail will deter anyone from committing a crime." Whereas the study you linked reports: "We have found that criminals who serve longer sentence are no more deterred from committing another crime than those who served short sentences."
> From what i've seen, belkin understands better than most that consumer networking equipment should be silent and invisible - it doesn't need to install software packages or pop up messages in your notification tray.

On the other hand, they considered it reasonable to MITM your HTTP traffic to insert ads: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1039_3-5104863.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belkin#Criticism
I tried to make a PHP-based (it's my primary language at work, so easy enough to dabble in) version of the classic BBS game TradeWars. (https://github.com/brianseitel/oasis-wars)

I got universe generation down (though it's slow), and I started on populating it with ports, but I couldn't quite figure out how to properly figure out how much the traders should charge for goods.

Anyway, it was fun while it lasted, but I got distracted by other projects. Maybe some day I'll come back and work on it some more...
In some hospitals they have rolling columns of UV lights that they leave in rooms after chemically cleaning them to provide an extra cleansing effect and also reduce airborne transmission of disease.
Not sure about Linksys but Cisco did acquire Meraki a few months back. http://www.meraki.com/company/cisco-acquisition-faq
I'm a bit confused by this. Antigua is a party to the Berne Convention, which requires them to recognize the copyright of works by authors of other Berne countries the same way it recognizes those of its own authors.

Can the WTO override this? I'd expect that all the WTO could say is that it is not a violation of treaties and agreements that the WTO oversees for Antigua to pursue this remedy for the WTO violation, but that wouldn't relieve Antigua of obligations under non-WTO treaties.

It's been a long time since I've read the relevant treaties and agreements, so maybe I've forgotten or overlooked something.
Why on earth this is the first news on the front page? In the end this article is rumor-like and just speculating on the cause of his death...
It referred to him as an "Internet laughing stock".
Straightforward? I'd love to know your secret.

Compile this odd package with this patch. Now these three more. Oh they don't compile? That's right, they haven't been maintained for 3 years. Etc, etc.
If that was the rationale, then why aren't US virtual casinos (which are subject to IRS requirements to collect W9s and issue 1099s) allowed?

There are tons of affiliate marketers online making money from non-US affiliate networks. By the same logic we should ban affiliate marketing in its entirety too - none of those networks issue 1099s...
> How would Antigua measure $21 million of copyright?

I think the bigger question is: How would the US verify that only $21M of infringement occurred?
You don't need to be a woman to have an opinion on affirmative action. I don't see what the problem is with running a piece that is specifically about a male perspective and having mostly male guests. Especially considering that this is a show that caters to women's issues and female guests are (I assume) the norm.

They probably decided to run a piece about equality in the tech sector and, on discovering that there are men with strong opinions about the problem, chose to take the opportunity to take a male angle. An opportunity that problem doesn't come up all that often for them given that most men are fairly apathetic about sexism.
In July 1969, just before the first manned lunar landing, Life magazine had a special issue about the astronauts. Many of the astronauts were profiled. All of them did some sort of athletics --- running, racketball, etc. --- except for Neil Armstrong, who was quoted as saying (paraphrasing from memory): I believe every man comes into this world with a finite number of heartbeats allocated to him, and I'm damned if I'm going to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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From my reading, context and interpretation were two domains that IBM specifically had to target with Watson [1], to get it to process natural language. If Jeopardy is solved, legal advocacy might be a next harder problem?

Like Jeopardy, the task involves a lot of "soft" information, but results in an easy to measure pass/fail decision. It could be run in real-time, as an advocate in a courtroom, or off-line as a legal adviser. Also like Jeopardy, it offers the opportunity of a public contest, and the associated PR.

[1] http://www.research.ibm.com/deepqa/faq.shtml

---

Edit:

It seems like at least one person inside IBM is already thinking this way. To quote [2]:

"Law, Patent and Trademarks"

"Not only could a Watson-like capability minimize filing through existing databases on laws, prior cases, rulings, hearings, opinions, it could also be used as a method of testing witness questions. or suggest a series of inquiries and questions for litigation. It could be used to simulate certain judges, prosecution and defense lawyers, based on prior cases."

"A Watson-like system could generate questions for a prospective patent claim based on it's ingestion of the entire patent and trademark database."

[2] https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/davidian/entry/whe...
New Asus routers like the N66U used TomatoUSB as a base, creating their own custom version of it. Then there are custom versions of Asus's firmware, such as the AsusWRT Merlin builds.
He did not attempt to apologize, he defended his position. He wasn't being underhanded or antagonistic, he was attempting an objective justification. Nothing in there resembled passive-agression or "dickishness."
Not everyone gets the most expensive product or service. Shouldn't people be able to get cheaper lawyers? Why don't some of the unemployed lawyers create budget practices? No person or business would be willing to use them?
4:08 "He passed away from cervical cancer..."
How about pulse sonar of some sort that is so detail-oriented it can detect gun shapes and alert authorities.

So in a school, every half hour -- or even based on motion detection -- some sort of pulse goes out to detect gun shapes.

Could technology for that be developed? Is that even possible? Just an idea..

If I were to guess, SONAR is currently very imprecise for something as small as a gun. But what if you had hundreds of SONAR pulses from different locations? Or what if you had many thousands of different analyses run on it?
Yeah I'm sure Apple is just SOOO frustrated at Amazons low margins. It's not like Apple is generating record profits or anything now is it?
Switch lightbulbs have been released
ASk HN : Let's guess what features GitHub would release tomorrow
Looks like GitHub is killing it this week with feature releases and it's exciting. What features do you think they will release tomorrow? (or next week or in a very short term?)
This project is definitely not dumb to me. I have many fond memories of TW2002 and I still can't find anything online that matches its level of involvement (fairly low with the turn limiting) and excitement. EVE is out of the question - it's just too much for me.

I seem to recall finding a text file years ago that laid out the algorithm for port material buy/sell pricing. Can't seem to locate it now but if I find it I'll report back.

Keep up the good work. :)
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The Australia remark is utter bullshit. From Wikipedia:

> In Australia, carriers can choose whether to SIM/Network Lock handsets or not and usually tend to only SIM/Network lock prepaid handsets. There does not appear to be any regulation or law on SIM locking in Australia.

Most phones can be unlocked for free by the carrier after a few years, but if you want it unlocked upfront (usually before passing n years or sometimes $k of credit in the case of prepaid phones), you'll have to pay the carrier.
I am looking at his wikipedia page (in particular the "other details section [1]) and see a prolific amount and variety of "accomplishments". Coupled with HNers in this thread suggesting that many of these claims by Aleksey have been proven false, I am wondering if he suffered from Pseudologia fantastica (pathological lying) [2].

I once worked with someone in his 50's who was undoubtedly a highly intelligent with an intense attention to detail -- super productive. However, he was known for claiming, among other outrageous things, that he was (1) a former Army Ranger, (2) a former Navy Seal, (3) a former Marine, (4) former Secret Service tasked with protecting Ronald Reagan, (5) Grandson of a 4 star general, (6) Leg press 800 lbs, (7) broken 3 aluminum "forks" on bikes (the part connecting your front wheel to the frame). This really is only a tip of the iceberg of the things he claimed. After several months, I found out that "pathological lying" is an actual psychological condition. The moment I found out, I was convinced that this coworker suffered from this condition.

I wonder if Aleksey was the same. My coworker was unusually bright, physically strong, and was good soul. I couldn't understand why he would need to inflate himself through lies, given such obvious strengths of his -- until I found out about this psychological condition. Aleksey seems to have been the same way.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_%28video_...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudologia_fantastica
This isn't a perfect comparison because it's a larger screenshot, but the non-flat interface is 2010 was laid out the same way. In my opinion, it's a much clearer interface: http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/story/61/44/001475/out14-revis...
For more about the significance of this bulb, see "Lights in Shining Armor: Are LED bulbs ready to save you from high energy bills?" at http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/...
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I do not get the logic most of you are running through:Lawyers have had a lot more education AND there are many of them out there,so they get paid more?
I bought a Buffalo router a few years ago based on Newegg reviews, and have had very good luck with it.

One of the pluses was that it came pre-loaded with DD-WRT.
Standing up for themselves against what?
so they are going to open a site to sell that which pirates pirate for free?
I don't see the economic sense of it.
I use a home-built router and a TP-link WiFi access point, works great! Building your own router is as simple as having a Linux box with two ethernet plugs and installing a DHCP server, and some iptables tweaking for NAT.
I totally agree with this. Considering some of the recent threads happening around suicide, people being civil about reviewing open source code etc., I thought mocking someone who recently died was in very poor taste.
This is clearly a contentious issue, but when I spoke to the Women's Hour producer this morning, they said they specifically wanted a male perspective on this issue. I did not know that anyone had been bumped or that I was the x choice guest...!

Therefore, I am keeping an open mind going into the show tomorrow, but I am very much looking forward to talking about how Computing At School (CAS) is trying to change the perception of computer science and tech careers in the UK.

@DrTomCrick
I'm still stuck thinking that 2015 is 10-15 years away.

But 2 to 3 years from now? Damn that is ambitious.
Breaking news, people on the internet have opinions and criticize things. Just don't take it too seriously and have your own opinions.
There are different versions of SICP around, depending on what you use for your reading pleasure:

As mobi for Kindle: https://github.com/twcamper/sicp-kindle

As ePub for iPad/Nook (I think?): https://github.com/ieure/sicp

As PDF for whatever reason: http://sicpebook.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/sicp.pdf

And of course, the original HTML for the browser of your choice: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

Note: Especially the epub and mobi version have different forks floating around so maybe there are better links for these, anyone got anything?
Cisco is built bottom-to-top around enterprise sales. Linksys is a consumer company. Combining those two after-the-fact requires a lot of willpower that few companies successfully manage.
Is it bad if I thought this article was going to be about Froggy Fresh?
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Right, there are a handful of grammatical errors and colloquialisms that a person who knows some Russian may take for Ukrainian. But it's Russian.
Didn't Amazon post a loss last quarter?
Sorry, I might be very ignorant of make - could you please give me a command to re-build a particular target and everything that depends on it?
This reminds me strangely of L. Ron Hubbard, who claimed similar superhuman achievements throughout his life that he couldn't live up to. Hubbard desperately wanted to be seen as awesome, and that alone may have contributed the larger part of the motivation for the founding of Dianetics and Scientology.

My current guess is that Vayner killed himself but not in a Swartz-like way: he simply OD'd on recreational drugs (something a lot of egoists, including Hubbard to say nothing of HN's friend John McAfee, make a hobby of).
FYI, the upverter homepage looks like this to me http://i.imgur.com/SFD01HX.png on os x using chrome Version 24.0.1312.52, firefox/safari work fine. Clicking any of the Simulate|PLM|Manufacture buttons does nothing.
I hope Node can keep it's frontier attitude up. Rails and Rake have been very homogenizing boring exercises in top-down fascism. So much of Node's spirit is in tiny modules, in the freedom and ability to hack up and try new things, to always be inventing: it's cost to create are low, the assumed body of knowledge one has to bring into a new project are tiny, the conventions are borderline non existent, and that's all a huge boon for staving off fascist boring mundane dead-end consensus. Keep iterating, stave off the little death, don't become your entrenched patterns.
This is so amazing, but I'm really hoping that they release a way for mod developers to recompile their mods to work... Do they have the multiplayer aspects working?

Obligatory plug for my favourite HL1 mod:
http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/

Edit: Yep, sure enough HL1 shows up in the Steam Linux CDR (http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/), and interestingly enough, so does Counter-Strike - albeit with the message "Not Marked for Linux"...
Impressive, That works for my needs. :)
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