skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the guy is truly a nuisance, get all the neighbors to pitch in and buy tons of drones and just take a day off work and follow that guy around constantly.

That would be harassment, which is illegal. You don't want to break the law even if this guy is (debatable).

If the neighbors are really that concerned, and the guy is really that annoying, here's one possible neighborhood response: snap the guy's photo and send postcards around with the photo, including a short explanation of what the guy is doing. No accusations need be made nor should they be, just an exercise of your first amendment rights...

(this is roughly the same treatment sex offenders on the offender registry get when moving into a new neighborhood in my state)
Anybody who made it through a couple levels of our crypto challenges want to take a run at evaluating this?
Why not just be honest, and let everyone know that the fate of (2.4Ghz)802.11a/b/g/n/ac residential/commercial/enterprise/carrier grade rests on an unencrypted management packet framework(that some may argue is defective-by-design).

Until 802.11ad implements alternative methods of handling client/station management, it only takes one deauthentication packet to cause client(s)/AP interference, and possible interception/eavesdropping.

:-\
No, but that's a tempting idea...
A company that claimed to have built a general-purpose quantum computer, which would speed up a lot of computationally-intensive tasks, may have actually built a weaker device that does something called quantum annealing, which allows it to solve only a subset of problems - those that involve finding the lowest value state in a field of lots of values.

Furthermore, it doesn't look like the device solves those problems any faster than well-optimized code running on normal computers. Which cost about 10k times less.
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The post you responded to addressed sending an email from one Gmail account to the same Gmail account. If you read the first paragraph [1] of the page you link, you will note that this does not require registration, so that does not appear to be the issue.

[1] We are excited to see how you plan to use schemas in email. You can start testing your own integration today. All schemas you send to yourself (from x@gmail.com to x@gmail.com) will be displayed in Google products. So go ahead and try it out now!
I can try to give it a shot, however, I'm no expert and everything I write may be completely wrong.

Quantum annealing is essentially a quantum algorithm for searching in O(n^0.5) (as opposed to classical computing's O(n) )

D-Wave is attempting to build hardware that can perform quantum annealing

The news is that D-wave managed to perform quantum annealing

The author is sceptical that this is as impressive as it sounds because there is no evidence D-Wave actually did quantum annealing with a O(n^0.5) algorithm, and in fact it appears that it was in fact slower than simulated quantum annealing (that is, a classical machine attempting the quantum algorithm, which of course can be no faster than O(n))
> applications that use the camera dramatically drop battery power even if the app isn't "active"

Do you have any evidence of this? Have you run a controlled experiment? Because that makes zero sense. I'm 99% sure that you've been conditioned to press a placebo button.
It depends on your definition of 'sanctioned'.
I hear Buffalo, NY has a pretty high violent crime rate as well.
Theoretically, I agree with you. But since the conversation itself (comments, related posts, recognizing merit, etc.) is not the focus of Twitter - it is a good tool for emitting news, but not built as a platform/environment for meaningful dialogue or eco-system.
I'm not an expert on quantum computing, but it looks like two points to me:

1) D-Wave devices have finally been proven to meet a fundamental requirement to do quantum computing. This is a significant scientific advancement.

2) Despite this, they don't seem to answer any computational questions more quickly than commodity electronic computers.

Again, I'm not an expert. The author's reasoning does seem sound. Still, I'm not qualified to assess either of those claims directly.
I just have a stool next to my standing desk. Makes it easy to switch it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Monte_Carlo ?
Immigration is pretty low in Scandinavia. Coming from Paris, it's quite bizarre to visit Copenhagen or Árhus and wonder what happened to the non-white people.
Boom - and that includes Google Analytics:

"At Google, we are keenly aware of the trust you place in us and our responsibility to keep your privacy and data secure. As part of this responsibility, we let you know what information we collect when you use our products and services, why we collect it, and how we use it to improve your experience. The Google privacy policy & principles describes how we treat personal information when you use Google's products and services, including Google Analytics."

http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
The alternative seems to be Ubuntu OS for phones.
Daimler appears to have pulled back on the S-class traffic jam assist
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Clustered databases are actually older than mapreduce, hence the hilarity.
Quantum annealing can be used to factor integers [1] (if those guys are correct) but the current D-Wave machines are probably unable to factor any interesting number. Here are some more hints [2] what is possible or not.

[1] http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/11063/can-quantum...

[2] http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10496/what-can-th...
Oh, I was actually thinking of ChromeOS. But the point still stands, since they owned the copyright, and therefore they did have a choice to keep the userspace closed.
If the government is fighting to maintain a legally mandated purchasing power, that just guarantees even higher inflation. Either they are willing to suspend the guarantee, or let the currency dissolve in (yet another) hyperinflation.
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Hey - just got myself a new iPhone but don't have a max for xcode or a similar IDE. What's the best IDE for development on windows? Preferably free, I'm a bit broke after spending all that on a new phone...
But Go has Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. And a BSD license. I feel like that's as safe as it gets.
For the ones that don't want to read the whole post, the Truth is that the 3600 speedup claimed in this article: Commercial quantum computer leaves PC in the dust [1](HN discussion: [2]) isn't worth much.

Quoting Scott Aaronson's post:
As I said above, at the time McGeoch and Wang’s paper was released to the media [...] the “highly tuned implementation” of simulated annealing that they ask for had already been written and tested, and the result was that it outperformed the D-Wave machine on all instance sizes tested. In other words, their comparison to CPLEX had already been superseded by a much more informative comparison—one that gave the “opposite” result—before it ever became public. For obvious reasons, most press reports have simply ignored this fact.

[1] http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23519-commercial-quant...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5697619
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I like that he addresses that his main fear that, if D-Wave does not succeed after riding the marketing hype-machine, a "QC Winter" would likely happen, not unlike the "AI Winter" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter) that occurred in the late 80's. The AI Winter was caused by a huge amount of over hyped claims and promises by the companies taking part which were never (and could never be) met, leading to the eventual collapse of the whole industry which is now only starting to see a practical recovery with the resurgence of Machine Learning.

D-Wave might be the belle of the ball today, but once the crowd turns, it could ruin an entire industry for a very long time. That's why skepticism is important when it comes to their claims.
> Whatever happened to the Unix philosphy? 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well'.

Its still a valid and important way of constructing software systems. But users mostly don't want a separate UI for each of those components, they want them strung together in a way which provides a simple experience that allows them to get the things they want to do done.
Agree Ziko, was a bit too strong of an exaggeration so I changed the title to be less black and white. Thanks for pointing that out!

My point is that, I personally have had a lot of great ideas, but just the simple idea alone is what has brought me success in the small things I've done. It's both idea and execution of the idea working together that bring great things.

Really appreciate your thoughts!
Now they have GPG, that's pretty much enables the same kind of functionality and better outside of Google+ Games. So it makes sense, I guess.
I wish that databases did "speculative" queries.

In the simplest form, you could say, "I have 2 reasonable plans, let's try A, and if it takes above time X, then start B in parallel and go with whatever finishes first."

You could ramp up the idea to handle changing query plans based on updated statistics by sending some fraction of queries to one plan, and some to another. Then keep stats on how that worked out for you.

Basically never simply flip the switch in production to try a new, unproven query.

Incidentally 12g advertises that they will actually collect statistics during query execution and based on those will validate the query plan. If that works, then this problem should get better. But of course that comes with overhead, and is likely to be a complex piece of code, so you tell me whether you trust them to get it right right away.
Please send me any data regarding Google shutdowns.

http://jensenbox.github.io/timeline/
It's not for hacking into other people's network, it's for communicating wirelessly invisibly. It hides in other people's wireless signals so that an eavesdropper doesn't even see it's there
The way one solves other problems on the D-Wave is by reducing them to the D-Wave problem, so save in extraordinary circumstances the answer will be "Yes."
Violence has more to do with how poor people are and whether there are gangs in the area.
How difficult do you find typing while walking on the treadmill?
"doesn't hinder the use of the protocol outside of their services"
looks like Reddit's leaking again...
Thanks, we've gotten a lot of mileage out of the following ethos:
Let users ignore danger, but never let users ignore the fact that they're ignoring danger. Always give users a way to learn exactly what the dangers are.

In the case of the query optimizer we haven't gotten to giving people a way to ignore these dangers yet but we will eventually.
Bunny basically sends raw packets are that build around a model of 802.11 packets that it has seen. It spoofs all the fields and then injects little bits of data into certain 802.11 fields that are rarely used or have someone random data when they are. So this means that bunny is essentially a ad-hoc style network that hides is traffic to look like whatever wifi networks are around.
Kim loved to pose with automatic weapons and is a felon, the only thing NZ had to apologize for in regards to how they handled the raid was not realizing he is a clown.

Edit: No one seems to be arguing that he is not a clown, but I can't blame them as that is a hard argument to make.
Check out this fiddle =)

http://jsfiddle.net/TjMgh/4/
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> Google is not obliged to create an app for any platform. Regardless of user count. WTF.

Sure, but they should come out and say they don't want to create a YouTube app for Windows Phone, instead of hiding behind the excuse of WP8 not having enough users to monetize but having enough users to cause revenue shortfall.
No one is voting this up, but it's certainly interesting if true, or if I could actually understand it.
> I have travelled but I don't see what great experience I was missing out on. Could you give some examples of yours so when I try it again I'll know what to look for?

As an example, in 2011 I went to Europe for the first time; Spain and Italy. We went to Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, Venice, Florence, Rome. How did we get between cities in each country? High speed rail. It wasn't as inexpensive as I thought it would be, but the experience was much much better than flying. Sure, the US is a lot larger and it might only work well in some places, but it opened my eyes to a different, more pleasant and more efficient (from the travelers perspective at least) than flying is.

In Barcelona, we rode the subway a bunch. The stations we were in all had a clock on the wall that counted down from 5 minutes. Not once did a train not show up before that countdown got to zero. I'm generally happy with the frequency of service of BART during commuting hours, but there are frequent train breakdowns, track maintenance, etc. that totally screw things up. I'm sure there are issues in the Barcelona subway as well, but maybe there is something to be learned about the appeal and utility of public transit seeing how it's done in other countries.

Just two relatively minor things that you could read about in a book but not truly appreciate until you've experienced them in person.
From my reading of the included proposal.txt, it uses steganography to have side-channel communications that look like other wifi communication near you.
My fiance absolutely never updates and also never clears her notifications. She only uses her phone when she wants to... use her phone.

And actually, I think that's the rational approach. Updating is a horrible experience. "Hey, guess what! You can't do anything while these 10 apps are updating. And guess what, the one you need is in the back of the queue. And a large game is in the front. You're not getting anything done for a while!"

Background auto-updating should be the default on all OSes.
> > it doesn't hinder the use of the protocol outside of their services

> To hinder: to add difficulty. I'd say it certainly does hinder use of the protocol.

How does Google requiring registration before actions are displayed in Google properties hinder use of the schemas in email outside of Google services?
I'm shocked and surprised! How is that possible? after all this was going to be yet another amazing google product built by bunch of smart people that made it through 12 rounds of interview process. To paraphrase, "people with no imaginations hire people with no imagination" :)
...said the person with the username "onemorepassword".
I have some concerns over that too, but ingress is completely independent, which means, if they really don't see it fitting into their strategy they can either spin it off of sell it to another company, hopefully.

Yes Google reader is somewhat independent too, but at least it has "Google" in its name. They can't spin it off of sell it.
Yes-- that's what it does. Nodes need to agree on a pre-shared AES key, a modulus, and a remainder, and with that information they can monitor the wifi network to locate Bunny frames.

I glanced over the "proposal.txt" file and I think a reasonable summary is as follows: Bunny monitors a wifi network to build a model of the types of common packets it "sees". Once it has built the model it can transmit data covertly by sending packets with a crafted length (based on a couple of pre-shared values) that are similar to the "average" traffic on the network. Bits of AES-encrypted data are stored in some of the various header and payload fields that are "sloppily" defined in the 802.11 standards. Other Bunny nodes are able to recognize these frames because their length modulus the pre-shared modulus value will equal the pre-shared remainder value.
Google wants you to participate in an "identity system that follows you everywhere", so they can learn your behavior and preferences and show you relevant, timely ads. Facebook wants exactly the same thing, for exactly the same reason. Both services want you to stay logged in as long as possible. Both services offer authentication for 3rd-party sites to give you even more reasons to be logged in. The author sees a difference that I don't believe exists.
I used car2go almost daily. It was fairly reliable, but walking up to a mile to get to a car once in a while was annoying when you had things to do (I was living in SoCo). Other times, it was nice to walk. I would have simply walked to downtown when I wanted to go, but 25 minutes was just a tad too far.
I completely agree. This felt like such a bait-and-switch post.

And as someone who works from home - I have as much a social life as earlier (in a "real" job).
Yes! Let's save some bandwidth. It is great that there is no licensing involved. What is also wonderful with the speed that browsers are being updated we can get a high percentage of adoption of new codecs without depending on proprietary browser plugins AKA Flash.

I'll also mention that the ON2 people write great code which is also well documented. I had an opportunity to work with their VP6 decoder in a previous career / life time.
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Right. My comment is more on the adoption rather than availability of open standards.
I love Mission Creek, but it smells … not so fresh.
Let's not forget the distinction between currency and money. And this gentleman is right - most peoples lives are built around their job not vice versa.

Creating passive cashflow greater than monthly debts should be everyone's first goal.
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Take a step back and think about the ritual of what you are doing. You are babysitting something that doesn't actually matter to you (maybe it does to you specifically, but it shouldn't have to matter).

Think about needing to use an app when you have 10 updating and it is the last in the queue. Remember what computers are for, for getting to information you need.
Sounds an awful lot like Monte Carlo to me as well.
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D-Wave is trying to make use of the quantum properties of matter in order to solve a particular kind of problem. They want to find the ground state (lowest energy) configuration of spins (a non-classical degree of freedom) in a 2D lattice composed of N atoms. Each atom is allowed to interact with its neighbors obeying rules that are defined by the way the computer is built.

They're essentially setting up a number of "qubits" (which is not related to "binary digit" other than they're both units of information) to naturally converge on the lowest energy state. All the qubits need to be entangled (fundamentally linked) in order for the system to work. This is a necessary but insufficient condition for quantum efficiency gains, which is the point Mr. Aaronson is making. The computer is not, according to recent evidence, providing computational gains. He then goes into the details, which you might or might not be interested in.

If you have other questions, please ask. I'm not an expert, but I understand his argument.
To play the contrarian to the normal sentiment on investors lately I beleive that investor founder relationship are obviously symbiotic both sides need each other and should go into with eyes open and truly understand what each other needs and expectations are. Sometimes I get the feeling that most people look at investors as parasites or neccessary evil which is a little unfair
Perhaps better to say, "Windsor is as close as you can get (geographically) to Detroit".
Why did you specify 2.4Ghz? Is there something different about the 5Ghz protocols?
I think they meant that once you injure your foot, physical activity is so painful that you stop exercising or walking around and then you put on more weight which makes the injury worse.
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As a shareholder of Google, it's encouraging for me to see that Google shuts down products that didn't work out really really fast (Nexus Q and now Google+ Games).
It's fairly simple

When the Matrix was written the Lisp source code could not hope to compute the position of every quantum particle in the simulated universe in real time. So entanglement was invented as a means of linking quanta that were outside of each others relativistic cause-effect bubble thus reducing the number of actual positional calculations needed across the universe to a manageable amount.

However the perl code used to stich it altogether allowed entanglement in some cases within relativistic reach. The hope is that this will allow us to force a buffer overflow and introduce our own qubits to be processed on the Matrix substrate.

This will eventually lead to a sex party in a cave hundreds of miles below the surface. No quantum mechanics professors or students will be invited to the party

HTH
Once this TODO is completed and real PKCS#5 is used, CBC padding oracle attack?

https://github.com/mothran/bunny/blob/master/libbunny/AEScry...
> People that reply with color coded text to denote who's speaking cause me a unique type of pain

Not all of us do it on purpose, sometimes it's Outlook helpfully changing our text color to blue after we've copy/pasted from some text from a correspondent. I usually notice this right after I send. Sometimes if someone has a name that's unusual to me, you can tell I had to copy/paste it because it's blue and the rest is black. Always love that one.
> The ones critical of Google?

Your reply, which totally misses the point, is an elegant demonstration of just how fucking awful these threads are and exactly why they need to be buried.

There's no real news here. There's nothing deeply interesting. And the comments are just full of people who have deeply held polarised opinions bickering with each other.

The fact that you think I chose to bury something because it's critical of Google (I say plenty of anti-Google stuff) shows that you are over-sensitive and incapable of rational discussion. That's why threads like these are fucking terrible.

> You're basically abusing your mod privieleges.

No. This is a shitty thread. I'm proud I flagged it. I'd flag it again if I could.
Mass has very little gun violence, in fact, ~ 3.1 per 100k. "Plenty of violence" isn't a helpful statement.
The crypto is super simple currently. I have spent a long time trying to figure out a better solution but currently there is a single round of AES-256 in CBC mode, each message gets a random IV.

To answer the first questions from this, 1) yes I know there is no MAC I am working on that and could use some ideas 2) forward security is not built in, but if you can find a quicker way to renegotiable mpOTR we might be in business.

Any feedback would be great, I would really like to improve Bunny to be more solid in its use of crypto.
When it comes to multitasking, if a user has to use a task manager, they [the developer] blew it.

-- Steve Jobs iOS 4 introduction http://www.pcworld.com/article/193590/liveupdate.html

You don't need to do that to save battery life. Trust the iPhone.
-- Steve Jobs email http://www.johnsphones.com/all-articles/steve-jobs-trust-the...
The best google products have largely succeeded on their own merit. Google+ is not one of them. Google+ is the product you start shoving in your users' faces because you are angry they are not adopting it. And the less people adopt, the more you force it on your users. Ultimately, this is why good companies fail and while google is far from failing, I really don't think google+ has added much value in this world which is extremely uncommon for a google product that gets so much press.

It is the worst product to come out of google to date. I wish it dies.
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