skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The primary purpose is to reduce the impact of password reuse or the user interactively disclosing their password to an attacker. Primarily leaked password hashes and phishing attacks, but it also combats sslstrip style mitm attacks and keyloggers on public computers. Nobody is going around typing in ASPs.

It's not designed to mitigate your personal computer being compromised - the only solutions that can move the needle in that situation are far beyond anything normal folks are willing to put up with.
The water doesn't just "disappear". If it's not in the ground, or on the ground, then it's in the air above the ground. And if you put enough water into the air above the ground, it will fall back onto the ground somewhere. Or maybe into the sea...

The problem we have is that we're reproducing too much in areas without enough natural resources, and too little in areas with enough resources. Humanity is incorrectly distributed around the Earth.

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A coworker just sent me this article about a billboard that devaporates water from the air, and provides it from a tap at the bottom:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/billboard-air-water-per...
MSFT is big and a corporation, like CSCO; therefore both are evil. Pretty airtight logic.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/calc#Browser_co...

Looks like calc is supported in Chrome 19+, Firefox 16+, IE9+, Safari 6+.
Client-side MVC is not a silver bullet
But don't you think that if it were common for people with serious illnesses to come to the US, we'd see much more made of it than we do from those with a large vested interest in noting the influx?
You're making an impermissible correlation. Just because there's an element of vitriol in the author's language, doesn't imply that he wasn't also a victim in his story.

Inferring that the author's language is coarse and therefore he deserved what he got is tantamount to saying that those who aren't well-spoken deserve ill treatment. This is decidedly untrue.
Meh, it's rare that those self-same western countries got their current governments without some form of conflict. No regime change is 'plug-and-play', and it's naive to think so from the outset.
Creating Chinese Characters by SVG
this kind of nonsense is what people want to prevent the federal government from doing...bring on the sequester!
Say what shit? Swartz shouldn't have been in the networking closet.
We definitely agree that this can apply to more than just apps and we may extend to more kinds of data over time. We just opted to focus on apps for this first release.
Why America is Broken
This country needs to fail. The world needs a bold example to realize that no economy exempt from corrosion due to inner perversities.
Sorry, slipped on the mod. It is pretty funny myopia.
Technically, C1M is basically a solved problem and now people are working on C10M. Economically, I like the idea of making social media experts pay their own way.
I actually did try it out when they first introduced it, but when I installed Chrome on a different machine and tried to get my settings there, the sync server got totally confused and re-enabled all sorts of settings that I'd disabled (like syncing my entire history and removing my cookie-blocking exceptions.)

Agreed, this was a long time back, so I actually decided to give it another try today, but now it seems to have a problem with 2FA... I gave it both my master and app-specific password, but it consistently comes back saying the app-specific password is wrong. Has anyone else noticed this problem?
You know, you're probably right. I was one of those FB users who ended up with a large number of connections on FB, and then it felt like a runaway train. I tried to adjust the privacy settings but they seemed to be designed to trip users up every step of the way. Finally last week I deactivated my account. For me it has been wonderful, I don't waste time on long "quick breaks" any more. FB might be our generation's TV - a huge time-sink and a major productivity black hole.
It is easy to believe both that Swartz's actions were wrong and that the prosecutors actions were wrong. Or even that the prosecutors were more wrong than Swartz. That's what I think.

So the feigned incredulousness of that comment upthread isn't particularly convincing.
A little off-topic, but I'm very impressed that when I selected, copied, and pasted the emoticon into a Google search, Google gave me the explanation of the emoticon

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/%E0%B2%A0_%E0%B2%A0-look-of-di...

as the top search result.
AFAIK, the compiler version used to compile any MS product can be figured out from the linker version stored in the PE header.
My Google Glass Application
Don't most of the services listed in the article already have multiple user accounts?

Github, Salesforce, Box, Google Apps, WordPress. These all support using multiple accounts right?
Http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2009/december/code_122409
If the hash map in infinite_cache.cc is broken, how about a footnote explaining why? The lack of specificity here was a bad blog smell, in my eyes.
Why do so few projects use SJCL? Whenever I see a project like this I always have my fingers crossed that they will be using sjcl but it never pans out.
According to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5282855 it looks like they log in and get a session cookie for the site on their side and send that to your browser.
If it's truly a one-time thing, maybe not.

But I would claim that in "WEIRD" societies, we're constantly engaged in a game of iterative prisoner's dilemma with a string of strangers. So you're not forgoing your gain for nothing: you're forgoing your gain for one round to ensure equitable treatment in future rounds.

It's like a two-layered prisoner's dilemma.

First, imagine the simpler dilemma: you have to players, the Chooser (who chooses the split) and the Decider (who decides to take it). You just play the same game over and over again, choose and decide, choose and decide, with no role switching. If you're the Decider, you could settle for a 30-70 split, but over the dozens or hundreds of iterations that's a lot of money lost. It's worth it to forgo some short term gain to keep the Chooser in line. Eventually you end up with a 50-50 split, and your profits are maximized.

In the second layer, imagine you have two pools of Choosers and Deciders. In each game, a Chooser and a Decider are randomly matched up. In this game, you might imagine there's no incentive to forgo short-term gain for long-term, but there is. The trick is that you -- the Decider -- are not just in a Dilemma with your Chooser on each round, you're also in a Dilemma with your other Deciders.

Imagine you have two Deciders, A & B, who have each been offered the same 30-70 split by their Chooser.

If Decider A and Decider B both reject it, maybe on the next round they get each other's Choosers, who then offer them each a 50-50 split. In the long run, their profits are maximized.

If Decider A and Decider B both accept it, on the next round their Choosers might offer them an even worse split. They profit, but far less than before.

If Decider A accepts and Decider B rejects, Decider A profits maximally (next round he gets a 50-50 split from Chooser B, without forgoing any profit) and Decider B profits minimally (he forgoes profit this round and gets a 30-70 split or worse next round from Chooser A).

This is now reduced to the classic Prisoner's Dilemma. If the Deciders cooperate (by rejecting bad offers from Choosers they may never see again) they all profit, if they all defect they're all worse off in the long run, and if some defect (and accept the bad offers) while others cooperate they profit even more to the detriment of their good compatriots.

Throwing away $200+ dollars to spite a stranger cheating you out of $200+ more dollars isn't just about spite; it's about forcing them to cooperate with other strangers so you have a better ecosystem of strangers to cooperate with.
I won't speculate on why people make the technology decisions they do - and in this case I'm somewhat distant from the WebKit team.

I am pretty familiar with Chrome's multiprocess webview harness. This is one case where approx. 2 years ago it was incestuously tied with a lot of Chrome-the-desktop-browser internals. Part of the technical debt accumulated with the sprint to ship something. So I can see why back then it wasn't appetizing as-is.

A heroic effort by a team of engineers finally managed to separate it in 2012 into "content" (not Chrome, get it?) and set up its own shell, suite of tests, and public API for use by embedders (one of which is src/chrome, but there are others now even within Chromium). It's still not as elegant as I think any of us would like, but it is now usable from a standalone app.

One of these days I need to write a series of posts about some of the "big C++ app design" lessons we've learned as a team over the past few years.
Rehashed content from a HuffPo piece citing the "impressions" of "anonymous staffers", plus something we already knew (months of prison time, 13 felony convictions). This is at least the second story to show up today linkjacked from that HuffPo piece, by the way.

Definitely a great excuse for us all to beat each other over the head with pointless flame wars.

What's crazy is that there is as much heat on this thread as there was on the excellent WBUR piece that took on Ortiz' record in MA:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5264200

Go listen to that, instead of yelling at people on this thread. Ortiz' office is a mess. People who recommended her for her appointment are backing away from her. WBUR did actual reporting to back this up, rather than playing telephone with HuffPo.

Flagged.
As another replier suggests, the use is pretty infrequent. If the itch is no longer that itchy, maybe the drive to use the site is a bit weak for other users too?
everybody with this argument is assuming the scientists didn't take the relative value into consideration for the experiment, I don't see it mentioned anywhere that they didn't
I guess my problem is that you're defining journalistic contribution to society as merely 'being trustworthy', nothing else. Nothing about information dissemination or airing of issues. The sole contribution. It'd be like saying the sole contribution of police to society is looking recognisable by wearing a uniform.
2007 Wired Article: Argo
For full redundancy, yes.

You get redundant power supplies by plugging both into the same power feed.

However, you can gain some extra redundancy by plugging each power supply into a different circuit, and reducing the common point of failure (shared power source).
> He broke the law.

That's an opnion, not an established fact. What is a fact is that to establish whether you broke the law or not will bankrupt you regardless of whether you did or not.

See, you are not a judge, you simply are some guy on a forum arguing that Aaron broke the law. If you want to know for sure then you go before a judge and you defend yourself. Unfortunately that is now no longer affordable, tough luck.

The law does not 'view' things, the law is made by people and interpreted by people, ordinary Americans should - and plenty of the them do - view these things as strange and inscrutable. They don't understand why high profile banker criminals walk free but some kid that tries to do the world a service gets hounded to the point where he sees no way out.

I'm pretty sure that you as a kid already were a 'good boy' but there is more to this life than obedience, sometimes you have to think for yourself and figure out what is really right or really wrong. The results may surprise you.

Making things 'expensive and difficult to upset' is not a hallmark of civilization, it's a hallmark of a system that has gone wrong.

Of course to lawyers that's a great thing, it means more gravy for them.
That's a reasonable place to start. I do think crowdsourced money could often go further outside academia, especially in areas with less required lab equipment, but requires more vetting on your part.

One idea could be to branch out of academia starting only with "less risky" areas, e.g. fund independent mathematics research but require medical research to be through existing institutions.
It actually has a chance of working.
You should be able to pull-to-refresh when at the top of the page.
Doesn't Asymptote also help build a database for Aaron Greenspan's for-profit legal offering?

I wish he'd be more up-front about this stuff.
Researchers find yet another way to get around iOS 6.1 passcode
I doubt it's a local proxy since it's a Chrome/FF extension. Or maybe I've not kept up with the state of Chrome/FF extension development and it is completely possible to write a proxy that runs within the browser.
> If a Canadian goes outside of the country to get services that are deemed medically necessary, not experimental, and are not available at home for whatever reason (e.g., shortage or absence of high tech medical equipment; a longer wait for service than is medically prudent; or lack of physician expertise),

Oh, yes. You try getting that through. It doesn't happen. It's something people trot out to say "see, everything is paid for" but the reality is far from different. And try to get that through for long term care.

And you want something else: "not experimental" That's not determined by the medical establishment. Rather, it's done by the government. So, even if every medical professional says otherwise, real treatments can be deemed experimental.

So no, the Canadian government does not pay for much of that treatment.
Developing for a jailbroken Surface RT -- dare I disturb the universe?
I hope it's fixed on 6.1.3, but, again:

The best fix will be to include a Emergency.app that
displays a num keyboard and it's called from the
'Make an Emergency Call' button, instead of the full
Phone.app.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5225756
the link with the "www" doesn't work. http://pickmegoogle.com/ is accessible.
Solr Distributed Search and the Stale Check
It sounds like your company ripped off the public schools, and that's why you are anti-government?
The newbie's statement sounds like a romantic platitude.

You should've shown the newbie programmer that programming is the art of abstraction and that there was never a pre-modern era where "we" were all toiling away with omniscient domain knowledge.

We lean on other people's abstractions because we're mortal and the things we decide to abstract have a surface area that overwhelms the problem we're trying to solve.

Rather than being poorer for it, we're immensely enriched with the ability to solve the problems of our domain with the same vernacular that expresses our problems. Total providence.
I'd like to know how much of that $5 million savings would have been burned up in the capacity studies. My guess is a lot.

Given the choice between a fixed cost and an unbounded cost (being the capacity study referenced throughout the article) I'm not surprised they went with the fixed cost.

I'm not saying WV didn't get swindled, but I can sure see how this might have happened:

WV Rep: Do we really need these $20k routers for all our locations?

Cisco: We really couldn't say what your exact needs are without a proper study.

WV Rep: What will that cost?

Cisco: It's really hard to say. We'll have to visit all of your locations and speak with the IT Manager there. We'll have to measure average and peak load. Of course, we'll want to plan for future growth so we're not at this same point in two years...

The real crime is that they didn't open the RFP to multiple bidders. A little bit of competition can go a long way.
Which makes it even more horrifying. Why would you cause someone to lose something because they gave you some of it?

It's pure evil.
Human beings are irrational and sometimes do things that aren't in their economic best interest out of principle or ethics. Think about it: if I murder somebody, then offer you $100 not to tell anyone, would you take the money? I certainly hope not.

And yet, from a strictly economic perspective, that's a fundamentally terrible decision. Not only will you lose $100, but you'd lose tons of time you could be working talking to the police, testifying in court, etc.
Have you run into the travel restrictions others in this thread have mentioned?
But we do.

Any type of editing software (open source or not) has some kind of "project file." Trent Reznor was called the first open source musician because he shared his .band files from Garageband.
sometimes i feel like thats the beauty and fatal flaw of our system. people are gonna basically do what they're gonna do. if it benefits enough of us (with relative/proportional amount of power) it'll happen but if it pisses enough of that demographic off it will get stopped eventually.
Religion seems more an emergent property of human experience. Or should I say "spirituality" out of which religion emerges.
I'm just saying you can easily reconcile Ecclesiastes with the Christian notion of heaven by considering its context. I don't know if there's any such problem to be reconciled in Judaism.
Thanks for pointing that out! NearlyFreeSpeech and their canonical links...
Why couldn't he have gotten free legal services from his bud Lawrence Lessig?
The idea with homomorphic encryption is that you can have the host perform computation against the cyphertext without decrypting it. They've gotten this to work, but it's still much too slow to be of practical value. It'll get faster naturally though, even if they don't actually refine the algorithms.

From what I can gather from this link they are just concentrating on encrypting the data stored in something like S3, and having an application that you've developed handle the decryption/encryption.
Every time you end up in a thread with Rayiner you do the same frustrating thing, Jacques. Your point isn't incompatible with anything he said, but you framed your comment as a retort, which has the effect of moving the goalpost around on the thread.

There is a very widespread belief that Swartz faced decades in prison. Rayiner is a lawyer, but you don't even need to be one of those to learn that Swartz didn't face decades in prison. His own attorney wrote a long, detailed post about the situation Swartz was in. The prosecution threatened 6-7 years, and his attorney thought it was unlikely that Swartz would have received a custodial sentence at all even if convicted on every charge.

All Rayiner is doing is correcting a misconception.
Postmodern feminists are so transparently Orwellian.

Could a particular essay make men feel less than included, many of whom are disenfranchised by the specifics of their situation? Yes? That's perfectly fine! Not all essays' audiences have to include men, so stop being so selfish and demanding.

Could a particular essay make disenfranchised women feel less than included, many of whom are disenfranchised by the specifics of their situation? Yes? Oh, that's just wrong. Step up, make a difference, and accuse that author of casual misogyny.
The Homeric epics and the Old Testament are both much, much larger works in terms of scope. You'd be better off comparing Gilgamesh to the Book of Job, or the Book of Ruth, or the Book of Esther, or something.
Opera is planning to use this, for example.
A tutorial on MFCCs for Automatic Speech Recognition
What makes you say homomorphic encryption doesn't have a chance of working? I grant you that it will be at least 15 years before a commercially viable homomorphic encryption product is released, but to say it has no chance of working is silly.
My research advisor likes to tell a story of his friend going to see Rivest give some of the first lectures on RSA circa 1977. All the systems people in the room laughed at the naivete of this young cryptographer and his hope that such an absurdly slow encryption method would gain widespread adoption.
Why do you think crowdfunding is more efficient than VC? The liquidation preference might be lower but you're also not getting any advice or connections and there could be a significant investor relations time sink. If I had a choice between VC and crowdfunding I would take the VC in a second. I would look at crowdfunding if every VC passed, but that essentially makes it a sucker's market.
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe in California at least that you have to disclose to the applicant/employee that you're doing a background check.
If you want to try it here is an iTunes link http://www.itunes.com/apps/luma-camera
Again, no doctor turns away a patient who has insurance that he takes. Insurance contracts are signed by doctors years in advance. Insurance companies learned long ago that they can get away with being obnoxious as long as they're not so obnoxious that doctors would drop them. They walk that line rather well.
That's a pretty bold fact. Samsung apparently generated $60 billion dollars in revenue from Android devices last year, about a third of their total revenue.
Read my book, I'm cool - you're not
The article makes it clear that religious ones lasted much longer.
Explain It to Me Again, Computer
This from the person equating 3 months in a Western prison with having your hand chopped off?

How is any logical, reasoned debate supposed to follow from this? How is having a limb amputated supposed to compare to Aaron's case?
But the drawback, according to the article, is an increasingly expensive impact on cache lookup over time.
I suspect Crypton is for people writing apps now, not 15 years from now. Who knows what moral panic we'll be getting worked up about in 2025?
There are certain special cases for which homomorphic cryptography should would acceptably. Blinded signatures are one example of something essentially a special case of it.

IMO, the right way to do hostproof is some combination of trusted computing (HSMs, TXT, etc.), protocols which can prove things clearly but not keep them confidential (like bitcoin -- something which used certifications to prove source code hasn't been altered and compiles to the binary you're talking to would be a great leap forward), special-cases of homomorphic crypto, and client side execution (either all the time, or for some statistically significant subset of operations, to catch cheaters eventually).
I hope you have a bright future back in the country where you grew up. Let us know in a while what you think of that place after you spent time in America and saw a different place. (In my experience of moving back and forth between both sides of the Pacific Rim, reverse culture shock is actually more challenging to your thinking than the culture shock of first going into a new country.)
The only time I've filled out an application for employment is when I was a teenager and worked at the Dairy Queen. From what I know about the software industry, it's very rare to do a background check unless it's for a position that requires a security clearance.
It seems absurd but I'm going to have to side with the state/library on this one. It can literally cost more to make a choice to use the cheaper unit than to just buy the big one.

"Some libraries need smaller routers. Ok. Which ones?" could easily run in the millions before any routers were purchased. Unfortunately, that's just the nature of government purchasing.
Gosh, it seems like state bureaucrats can't figure out how best to spend money, and don't care to hire anyone who can. How might one's political preferences change in response to this shocking revelation?
Remember the wasteful spending back in the UNIX workstation days - a Sun 10 in every administrator's office for e-mail, and nobody ever had the training to use the things?
Funny that ASP.NET had the same thing, called Smart Navigation, back in 2003.