skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is standard behavior for encrypted DMG's. It's standard behavior for almost all crypto to use a key derivation function when using a user supplied password as the "key".

Noticed the PBKDF2 in there, that is a key derivation function, given a password it will then spit out a 256 bit key to actually use for the encryption/decryption of the content.
Why don't they write anything about the actual contents of CISPA? I went looking in Wikipedia, and noticed that:

"CISPA is supported by several trade groups containing more than eight hundred private companies ... in addition to individual major telecommunications and information technology companies like ... Facebook ..." [1]

Why would Facebook support CISPA?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_...
When 'tzs says "a prior version was so bad" --- a point that many people dispute --- what he is saying is that the bill that actually got voted on by the full house had none of the characteristics this site imputes to it. So, no, the argument does not make sense.
So at the time of voting, ignoring for a moment third party candidates... I can vote for someone who claims that they will make my life better (but might not), or someone who campaigned on and is a member of a party who's platform is decidedly against making my life better (but... he might be on my side anyway secretly?). Isn't it obvious who I'd vote for? (keeping in mind that I didn't actually vote for either of the two)

But yes, Romney signed the NOM pledge, funded NOM heavily, said that same-sex hospital visitation rights was a "privilege" and needed no guarantee or legal backing, and was against ENDA; additionally, Paul Ryan voted against the DADT repeal and against the Matthew Shepard act and said something along the lines of "LGBT issues don't matter".

edit, for what it's worth, I think you're right in many ways and I'm sorry to see you downvoted. Romney's record was vastly different before he became a GOP puppet, particularly in MA and him having expressed interest years ago in progressing gay rights. Unfortunately, I also liked McCain before he (was) turned in a GOP prick as well.
Water proof cow?

No need for barns, they can't get wet
What is Angelica Archangelica Root, Herb and Plant?
Some of your statements pretty much contradict what Gabe has been stating in talks and interviews the last few months.
The only way to adjust business practices in a society that fetishizes deregulation is transferring money around. If the businesses can't/won't self-regulate, some action will be taken within the boundaries of what America will tolerate.

A much better action would certainly be to regulate, empowering the EPA and international health/safety standards bodies and skip over the middlemen entirely.
Great stuff, agree with every word.
Because CISPA promises (a) to allow Facebook to receive threat intelligence from the federal government, which collects massive amounts of it in ways that it is currently forbidden by statute to share, and (b) to allow Facebook to coordinate with Google and AT&T to track down attacks without worrying that someone's bogus interpretation of ECPA will land it in court for 5 years.

Worth noting here that CISPA is entirely opt-in.
The point of the petitions on whitehouse.gov is to get your view seen by other people and perhaps get some answer from some official under the executive. If that's good enough for you, do it. If you believe that posting a petition on whitehouse.gov and getting a few thousand people to "Like" it should automatically result in legislation, or an official saying what you agree with, then don't bother.
To the original question: no idea what do you mean by package, but you can't send a TCP/IP packet to the "Internet" that will be looped forever - there is a field in the header called TTL, that gets decremented by each host along the way. When a host receives a packet with a TTL of zero it will discard this package. Therefore, to transfer a packet ad-infinitum you need a router to modify the TTL in-transit. The other option would or to configure several routers to not decrement the TTL and loop a packet between them. But that's not "Internet" anymore.

After your elaboration: There is a nice concept by Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf) to http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/juggling_with_packets.txt make a transient storage between servers where the data will be stored in packets that are always in-transit.
Have you tried?: How to Unlock a PayPal Account http://www.ehow.com/how_7657756_unlock-paypal-account.html via @eHow

Also, other comments have stated that if the lock msg. came via email it could be a phishing scam. Try to avoid supplying personal info if looks like a suspicious email.

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Criticism
or money are you paying cash?
I was just wondering: In the case that the confiscated electronic devices are encrypted, are you obliged to decrypt them or do you have the right to politely refuse ?

If not would claiming plausible deniability (I.e I don't know the password) be a viable alternative?
> linux desktop users not valuing their time as evident by thier use of linux as a desktop in the first place.

You lost me here. I dual boot Windows and Linux - Windows is currently the best platform for games, Office, and a few legacy and specific apps; Linux is the best platform for programming (unless its for Windows or Apple specific programs)

I don't think using Linux is a waste of my time.
In the anecdote in the article, the guy who had his laptop searched was asked for a password. As far as I know, there is no legal basis for compelling a password at the border. He could've just said no. The price would probably be losing the laptop.

I've very curious about the legality of password compulsion in the US. With so much moving to cloud storage, the feds are going to lose their picking rights if that don't have that one.
apt-get install miredo

That works as a last resort. Or sign up for SixXS using an AYIYA tunnel, apt-get install aiccu and enjoy.
I have an additional

60 read.more.at.beaglenetworks.net (206.214.251.185) 133.716 ms 135.338 ms 136.504 ms
61 FIN (206.214.251.190) 137.242 ms * *

So see http://beaglenetworks.net for more info :)
If they can force you to login to your laptop could they not also force you to login to your Dropbox account?
It's so easy to forget to mix things up and yet it makes SO much difference when it works. Also, a change really can be as good as a rest
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Why would you ever need to when you can frame it as a charity drive forever?
On this note, maybe someone want's to program an application that would select random unused portions of hdd and write random data to them? Something like a daemon/windows service that would take care of the data that hasn't been fully purged by os delete. I would do it myself, but I lack knowledge in low level api's
It's a shame the keyboard cover isn't stiff enough to not require the stand. In that picture the stand makes it look sort of awkward.
Well ... first - games are different type of code than Photoshop. If you want to see whether Linux people like to pay for content - you better check their video rental and music histories.

Second - there is good portion of linux users that are not die hard Stallman followers. They are just not the vocal ones. Some people know that you sometimes just have to ship the binary for various reasons.

The fact that Sublime Text has version for linux that is supported, means that it is profitable enough to do so.

People don't mind paying for good software. They mind being ripped off and feeling powerless. And there is sizable group of people for which the games are the only major dealbreaker of switching to Linux.
The executive's party or position on civil rights has very little to do with the stance of a bureaucracy the size of DHS.

Such entities likely cannot change course even in the length of a full presidential term. They configure and operate themselves for self preservation and growth of scope and power, with deep defense mechanisms against political whims.

They are often incompetent at their charter, while obscenely effective at self aggrandizement.
Legal issues and medical opposition was the explanation I read for why http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MYCIN never went into practical use.
Woah, I never knew the blue screen of death was at one time functional.
It's more than a search engine it aggregates the information from say 10 different studies or cases about a disease into a set of information which it then compares against the current case the doctor is looking at. At that point it posits some diagnoses or some treatments.

Calling it a search engine is pretty dismissive.
Impossive Google search queries is equal to porn results
Yeah. Or at least gave us a ballpark figure. I mean if they said "over 30K units" for example, that is good enough for me.
Please don't confuse the market which can be built on Linux with your colleague's subjective, snarky opinion of current Linux users.
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Good. The Box web app really could use some work.
> any that execute code at boot. Boot-sector virii died off in the late 90

Are you sure? It looked like rootkits/bootkits are still pretty rampant?
In general practice, you will find that doctors become less accurate as they get older; whereas in surgery, older doctors generally perform better with less complications. The reason is that the feedback loop in surgery is instant -- you do something wrong, you have to fix immediately -- wheas in general practice, it is often the case that the doctor never even knows of the prescribed treatment worked so the feedback is a lot "weaker". Therefore, I think Watson could be hugely beneficial and counter-balance the biases and decline in skills that plagues many doctors who work in general practice.
I'm impressed that not only did this run on my Android phone in the stock browser, but that it was relatively smooth (hitching infrequently but for probably 300ms when it did).
> WellPoint’s chief medical officer Samuel Nussbaum said at the press event today that health care pros make accurate treatment decisions in lung cancer cases only 50% of the time (a shocker to me). Watson, since being trained in this medical specialty, can make accurate decisions 90% of the time.

That sounds very impressive if the number isn't being cooked in some way.
This is hilarious - though I wish they had more of an artificial delay between the hops to keep the suspense. If you're curious how you might implement this without actually needing a whole bunch of different hosts with routes between them, see this tool by Moxie Marlinspike:

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/fakeroute/

You still need a big block of IP addresses though since you want the reverse DNS lookup for each IP address to return a different line from the scroll. Definitely a waste of IPv4 addresses; someone some do a IPv6 implementation ;-)

Edit: I just noticed http://beaglenetworks.net/ at the bottom of the traceroute - this was implemented by carefully setting up routing tables and VRFs on a Cisco router. fakeroute seems easier but not a bad way to keep busy during a blizzard.
> http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/juggling_with_packets.txt

Great answer, exactly what I was looking for/had in mind. Thank you
They originate from small New England towns where they would have been progressive. Now that the rich and the poor don't live near each other they're regressive.
Not all of us. I'm graduating this spring and the top of my fucking awesome hire list was the Watson group in SWG @ IBM.
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Haven'tried. Suggested fix: on http://deadsimplescreensharing.com/#tutorial
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newrelic ruby agent is unusable on ruby 2.0 yet anyway. It breaks the whole app. Pretty much everything else works for me though!
Imagine if it turns out, in the future, such a "specific place" runs on Samsung laptops.
I never quite got Box. Why would one use Box over Dropbox with it's native Finder/Explorer integration and ability to use 1Password.

EDIT: If Box came out with Finder/Explorer integration, I would strongly consider switching.

And thanks for the comments pointing out the administrative controls.
Nice page, but I don't think _Simon realises he made an ad hominem attack on Ed Bott and ZDNet. _Simon's language is rather vague ("needless name calling" -- where exactly?) and sloppy (its where he means it's; "hardly partisan" - what does he think he means?), so his command of English may be part of his problem.

Either way, based on long experience, I always suspect that anyone who says "To be honest" really means "I am just about to lie".
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The price would probably be losing the laptop.

… probably after spending hours of uncertaintity in some DHS waiting areas, interrupted only by DHS officers shouting at you from time to time – in case of an American national. For a foreigner, the result could be even more unpleasant.

The first part of my just-written paraphrah by the way is standard for the so-called DHS secondary check if you enter the US and some system (or some officer) does not like you for some reason.

Regarding cloud storage, most data in the cloud is not encrypted, and if encrypted, only with a provider and not with a user key. Dropbox is a well-known example, i.e., authorities can always ask such providers for data access and they will usually get it.
Ranking multiple measures in a stack of stars/circles without labeled 'better / worse' margins seems like a pretty terrible data visualization.
The real problem is that the font is too small.

The gray on white is actually ok. Even better would have been black on light gray. Too much contrast is a pain point when reading text with a backlight.
Ask pg: Should I be more active on HN?
We're working on building a pretty cool startup (if I do say so myself) and will be applying to the summer HN batch. I've noticed that YC people (especially pg) are saying that activity on HN is a good way to raise visibility for your application [0 (also one of his essays, can't figure out which one)]. Like usual, there's no statistics, so I'm asking here.

I'm not very active on HN, using it to drive attention to my blog [1] and the occasional comment. I've got complete confidence that we'll be accepted if we can make it to the interview, but I'm a bit worried about standing out among the thousands of other applicants to make it to the interview.

Should I spend more time saying "smart things" on HN? I'd rather work on improving our startup but my priority is getting YC's attention.

Essentially, is the extra visibility provided by commenting worth the time now to get the benefit of YC later?

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4133608

[1] http://recoding.blogspot.com
"rayiner, I often see you as the lone man arguing on these things "

Probably because it's so futile to argue fundamentalists. I know I have gotten better better at restraining myself from getting dragged into this sort of 'discussions' with people who are not susceptible to any form of reasonableness.

FWIW, it used to be that on this site, the creators were the ones celebrated. Nowadays it seems to have shifted largely to celebrating the freeloaders, or enablers of them.
The latter is the right pronunciation as far as I know.
well i'm sure suing google's ass was in their business model when they bought sun. But hey , it is their products, someone needs to pay for it. Oracle is not known to give away freebies like that. Sun did not manage to make money with Java , Oracle will not.
This is what TrueCrypt is for: giving you plausible deniability.
This application fits your needs on the Windows platform:

"Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Eraser is currently supported under Windows XP (with Service Pack 3), Windows Server 2003 (with Service Pack 2), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2."

http://eraser.heidi.ie
Yes, you're right. So if the OP works for 3 months this summer, he can still do 9 months of post-completion + 17 months if he has a STEM degree.
If they can force you to login to your laptop, they usually don't have to force you to login to your Dropbox account: Most users are already logged in to Dropbox and all Dropbox data is available in the Dropbox folder by default anyway.
Just to put a bit of context here, you should visit Death Valley. It is the strangest and most wonderful place you can walk around and find amazing mineral deposits, geologic formations, and generally odd sorts of things.

Mars has had during its life a very active volcanic system, these systems imply magma, and magma implies melting and cooling of basalt. 'Shiny' objects in volcanic fields are typically obsidian or some other form of basaltic glass. Erosion by wind of a piece of obsidian can carve it into a pretty bizarre shape.

So all said and done, the geology is fascinating. And one of the differences between having a rover up there and having humans up there was that this would have been a 15 minute news story with humans, "Oh look, shiny!", "What is it?", photo, photo, chip, chip, "Some sort of <analysis result>, what is over where you are?"

Now its 'next day' at best, and 'in a month' if there is a long list of things to do before you get a break at worst. Sigh.
I've noted for a while that a significant fraction of those successful in business, especially in certain sectors, are basically glorified street hustlers.

Exactly. The Economist article lost me at the point where it said this:

The top 1% have seen their incomes soar because of the premium that a globalised high-tech economy places on brainy people.

No, the top 1% have seen their incomes soar because they have been allowed to game the system in order to siphon wealth from other people's pockets into their own. Exhibit A: Wall Street investment banks.
My preferred method of setting up many apps on a new PC is using ninite.com's installer, which includes Java as an option. Does anyone know if this path to installing Java bypasses the cruft the article speaks of?
Sorry, I will fix the typo.
I don't think it would hurt the game industry to do more projects which cost less than $50 million to produce, and sell for less than $60. Deer Hunter and Barbie type games (accounting for a huge proportion of US sales) sell for more like $20. And iOS games sell for more like $1-$5. But for some reason the latter causes people to ask where they can find the opportunities more than to sit around complaining about how iOS users are cheap and their data doesn't count because they aren't paying $60.
There weren't any good third party candidates.
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the correct calculations are 72^42 (1.0e78) and 72^6 (1.4e11)
A lot of the books on consulting I read emphasized client at best in the long run can pay only proportional to the actual value of the engagement. And clients are often coming to you for advice beyond the step they are paying you for. So I like the article, there really is no reason not to tell the client not to pay for pursuing what you feel is a bad idea. It is certainly up to the client to make the final determination, but you have to be honest and very generous in communication.
This may be the difference between being a contractor and being after a permanent position. For the latter, with the exception of very senior roles, you don't often hear people talk about them as anything better than a necessary evil.
Two sentences from the book [1]: "A possible relation between sets, more elementary than belonging, is equality." and "Two sets are equal if and only if they have the same elements". These already seem to be contradicting each other -- how can equality be more basic than belonging if the former is defined in terms of the latter.

Axiom of extensionality states that the sets A and B are equal if and only if they have the same elements.

The point here is this: if A and B are the same set, then whenever some x belongs to A, it also belongs to B, because B is just a different name for A. Similarly, if something belongs to B, it also belongs to A. So, the implication "A is B implies A and B have the same elements" is just a logical tautology, axiom of extensionality does not say anything new in this case.

Now suppose you have two sets, C and D, such that whenever something belongs to C, it also belongs to D, and when something belongs to D, it also belongs to C -- in other words, they have the same elements. Can we conclude that C is the same set as D? Without extensionality axiom, no. That's why we usually assume axiom of extensionality, which tells exactly that whenever sets the same elements, they are the same, so that we don't end up with a weird situation where we have two sets that are indistinguishable with set theory, yet are different.
Firstly, I hoped I made clear I didn't think the fact someone disagreed with me made them stupid.

Secondly, lots of people spend a lot of money on tutoring. I believe it helps people get significantly higher exam results, which then allows entry into significantly better universities. Do you disagree?
Unfortunately I don't think there is enough mass in the keyboard to allow for any amount of stiffness make a difference.
Overwriting data to safely delete it is usually enough, most of the recommended additional overwriting is snake oil. Unfortunately, overwriting data still takes a lot of time.

Using system encryption is therefore easier: You delete the key and your data is as good as overwritten a million times … all modern operation systems offer system encryption by default.
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I checked online inventory at all Minnesota Best Buy and Staples locations at 8:30 and all were out-of-stock for the 128. I was also at the Microsoft store this morning in Minnesota for the 'launch'. There were about 40 people in line before the doors opened. Even before the doors opened, they came to each of us and told us that the 128 was already sold out and that we would be 'first' in line on the waiting list. It seems to me that the only 'stock' at any of the stores were the display models.
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So, the reason that hangs win9x is that cli disables interrupts, then foo: jmp foo runs into an infinite loop. With interrupts disabled, it's impossible to preempt the process, so it just hangs everything.

This shouldn't work from a win32 app, though, since that runs in ring3 where cli is an illegal instruction; it should only work from VDMs.
Please tell me if anyone is facing delay or latency issues.
Thanks
Looks great -- only tweak would be to add proper depth sorting to avoid the "popping" effect (more visible with the darker textures).
I'm a Canadian and I was pulled over and questioned at a dhs check stop a few years ago, within this 100 mile zone. It all went fine, but the did ask what I was up to when I went through the same check the next day. (I was sightseeing).
Don't forget to put a zip bomb on all your devices. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
The present 6,000 / 250,000 ratio of signers versus the signing goal might be a measure of the remaining idealists among Web netizens. Modern corporations have turned their back on customers in order to face the stockholders, the only players that count.