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You seem to be under the misapprehension that quantum computing threatens all asymmetric cryptosystems. It doesn't. McElice is an example of an asymmetric scheme that uses binary error correcting codes as its trapdoor function, rather than discrete logs.
I don't think jQuery will get dropped. It's more likely more and more parts of jQuery will be replaced by native components.

Also, remember jQuery is not the first css selector library. What made it popular is not because of the selectors, but because of its large plugin community.
Microwaves aren't Faraday cages as it's too difficult to manufacture a perfect seal, instead the size of the holes in the door act as a tuned RF choke.
I didn't say AES was "unbreakable"; that's a meaningless term. I said it wasn't threatened by quantum computing.
who said that NSA is limiting themselves only to reading your emails.

"Bush advisor: Hastings crash ‘consistent with a car cyberattack’"

http://rt.com/usa/michael-hastings-cyber-car-218/
Michael Hasting's friend was just interviewed on TV:

"His friends and family that know him, everyone says he drives like a grandma, so that right there doesn't seem like something he'd be doing, there's no way that he'd be acting erratic like that and driving out of control"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEIjna7672Q
good point

but maybe this is a different thing conceptually
i think i would call that a stamp or a seal
..sort of like a wax imprint of a key
Remember that the shaking you see in Parkinson's patients is not due to the disease, but that a side effect of the medication. Untreated Parkinson's patients "freeze".
I hope I didn't come off nationalistic...esp given my criminal record.

Why I linked those old articles, I imply that the US didn't want China to do what it was doing (which is what PRISM revealed) to have a backdoor into US infrastructure through Huewei routers, and that the administration wanted to possibly make it easier to monitor China's chatter by pushing for it to tear down the "Great Firewall."
Seriously. I knew right away that I also had "rhinobat"s and "assdragger"s.
The issue here is that you then have to do everything client side. Search,spam/malware filtering etc. So you need a copy of all of the mail on the client. Basically you go back to the days of POP3 or having your gmail account taking 10 minutes to log you in while it downloads everything to local storage.
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Published in 2012.
The best way to make people use it is to make it seamless.

I am talking about something like a Chrome/Firefox extension, which creates a GPG key pair for you, uploads the public to some central server and encrypts stuff like the text in your hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail, etc, after you press "send" and before the text is sent to google.

Then, at the other side, the a user with the same extension opens the new message and as soon as it appears, the extension detects that it is an encrypted message, reads the id of the sender and decrypts the message.

There are lots of details which makes this difficult to implement... but that would be the only way to make the vast majority of people use public key encryption.
On Monday, Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) wrote to the head of the spy agency alleging that one of the documents was misleading and inaccurate. The senators claimed, without elaborating, that a fact sheet “contains an inaccurate statement about how the section 702 authority has been interpreted by the U.S. government.”

NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander responded to the two lawmakers Tuesday, and while he didn't admit inaccuracy, he said the documents could have been clearer....

Separately Tuesday, another NSA official said the removal of the fact sheets and letter from the senators were unrelated.

Just a coincidence!!!!
I used to develop nintendo DS games and once received a very memorable bug report - something to the effect of "got error [error message] when playing the game in a microwave".

We weren't handling lost wifi connections gracefully so the user would get the wrong error message if their wifi dropped. The tester was simulating this by placing the DS in a microwave.
Will a GSM phone ring if only the paging frequency is received? It's possible it couldn't bring up the CS session but still rang.
The point was to demean, not enlighten.
I have an Electrolux.

Here's a report about variable-power compressors:

http://www.panasonic.com/industrial/includes/pdf/invertercom...

I was introduced to refrigeration nerdery by talking with a friend who designs the cryocoolers for JWST (http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/cryocooler.html) who nodded sagely and said "more efficient that way" when I mentioned my new fridge did not cycle on/off. Now that's a fridge nerd!
I wrote a similar essay called "How to get your Professors’ Attention — along with Coaching or Mentoring" (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/how-to-get-your-pro...), which is also about the need to explain culture issues that are often absorbed tacitly instead of articulated.

One point I make that's important and related to "specifity is king:" be ready to prove yourself in some way. It might be large or small, but a lot of powerful people get more requests for help or knowledge than they have time; they use various proving methods to weed out time wasters.

I'm not a powerful person, but it took teaching for me to realize how useful and pervasive that technique is among the powerful or knowledgeable.
You're right, there's lots of money being made by contractors in the faraday-room business:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Informa...
A Faraday box might be more fun for higher trust environments. Starting your staff meeting? Family dinner? Watching a movie? Everyone puts their phone in the Faraday box and they get it when it's over. Similar to "The Phone Stack" game, but enforced. A nicely designed box in bright colors with a padded, felt-lined interior with separators (or even chargers).
Let's compare results/stats on the map "Hacker News"
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#1: 166.15 d:161.48 h:-4.4/4.12m (gen 195)

It was a very tough track...
Obama has his own Faraday tent: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12810675
Unless I cut off blood flow to my brain while napping, the author is not understanding prototype methods. The code below has nothing to do with the prototypal inheritance method as asserted in the Class manipulation subsection:

$('div').addClass('myClass');

Also, this could be reframed as "Is it time to drop jQuery 1.x and move to jQuery 2.x?" because if you still need jQuery 1.x, you're going to have a bad time writing vanilla JS.
He's no ordinary system administrator. This whole thing seems very well thought through.
I don't know anything about what Microsoft has done in particular. But I can tell you what other WebGL implementations do, for example: rewrite shaders to ensure their memory accesses are safe, not accept as valid shaders code that is dangerous (but would be valid GLSL in general), validate input to the graphics card (e.g., buffers are bound, avoids depending on the GL driver to check that), do fuzz testing, maintain blacklists of known buggy drivers, etc. etc.

I would guess Microsoft is doing much the same, but it does have the extra advantage of only caring about one OS and also owning that OS.
The NSA has been lying through its teeth of late.

Tell me again why I should believe it.
Have people actually had the course completed? I've been using 'genghisKhan' as my track seed and they always stop around 2/3 to 3/4 of the way it seems.
Releasing 250k classified documents is a news story itself, so it was inevitable that the story would shift to wikileaks. (shifting to Julian Assange was some DC spin, though, but he sure didn't help things.)
NSA probably just wants to look more approachable /s
Awesome! A really cool version of this would let the user write their own algorithm and then have users compete against each other for whose algorithm can evolve the best car.
http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2013/04/adam-and-eve-in...
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"it is only as good as your tests; you must make sure they thoroughly exercise the concurrent properties of your code so that the race detector can do its job." <-- it's not a magical tool but man it's great to have such a tool, debugging concurrency bugs is a real pain.
World seed "schnoo" has a particularly tough hill from 125-145 that several different models can almost but not quite overcome. Anyone able to get over it?
> There really is something to this that needs exploration as a multiplayer game. The aleatoric quality makes it infinitely watchable for me.

This quality?

http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0038.html
Is it soundproof? What if a phone records your conversation and just waits until it has signal to upload the audio to a server somewhere?
It took only about 9 generations to the evolve the Tron lightcycle. Way too cool. This is like the marble races down hotwheels tracks we used to do as kids while recording the times, only way less work.
If you have access to apple developer videos from WWDC for the past few years (not sure about 2013) they've talked about the translateZ(0) trick in the webkit / safari / css videos. It has been awhile and I don't currently have access but the impression left with me was "you don't need to do this anymore".
I am not denying the possibility that there was fowl play. I am denying that "the wreck looks like something from a movie" is evidence of anything at all. Keen difference there.
I like to counsel that the best teams are often defined by what they choose not to do.

Too very true. I usually over complicate my projects as well...and what every colleague, firm, and even business class taught me...a refined niche is more valuable than a swiss army knife.

There's a reason the saying "there's an app for that," exists, because it solves a purpose and fills a clear and concise niche. If I can't pitch the core idea in one statement, I've failed before I've started.
The same thing happened when Aaron Schwartz died, and earlier with Steve Jobs' death. It's the mark of a community that cares. Sometimes, I agree it's frustrating, but I prefer that it happens and I have the minor inconvenience, than for it not to happen at all.
It was funded a year in advance. "Ordered" a year in advance makes it sound like they had the thing ready and complete and have just been sitting on their asses instead of getting the things built. This was early access--in some cases customized--hardware.

I got mine, I'm not too happy with it, but it was $100. Maybe 6 months from now I can crack it open and fix the major problems with it. But I helped get a company started that is doing something unique. That was worth the $100 alone.
Related: a presentation by DARPA about car cyberattacks http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3D6jx...
The seed "HN" produces a fairly stable world (1 car makes it quite far). Eventually crashes.
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There seems to be some evidence directly contradicting this statement.
>I would love it if you provided an actual IMAP mailbox I could connect to and read RSS with my email client.

You can actually do that, all you need to do is set a filter+label in your email client or server. Works really well is you use Gmail but also works very good with the other email servers.
The point is not that your comment was itself nationalistic, rather that you fell in to the trap of interpreting everything from the standpoint of a world divided in to nations. Why is this an issue? The totalitarian trajectory at issue here is one of importance globally, which will affect the future of all humanity. (Contrast: Einstein famously defined nationalism as an infantile disease; the measles of mankind.)
I have used the Safe Browsing API for one of my projects and if I remember correctly, you are supposed to sent hash of the root domain along with the hash of the URL. Assuming it works similarly for browsers, once the root domain is blacklisted randomly generated URLs won't be able to get through.
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I was reacting to your claim that nothing in the arts is cheaper to produce than music. That obviously is not true.

As for what which arts have value, I think the costs have little to do with that. There are art projects that cost millions that I think are shit, and there are street musicians who can barely buy a deli hero who I think should get million dollar record contracts.
Luckily not, I was on the edge of 2 evac / power out areas, glued to twitter and Facebook for updates and pictures.
PS: I will, I have some before / after pics
What would that be collecting when the main application processor and baseband processors are not powered? The battery referenced in the article is likely to backup a RAM chip and isn't even used in most modern phone/smartphone designs, which use Flash EEPROMs instead. There have however been phones which have a small internal battery powered by the external battery which has to be charged to operate the radio.
The "course" always gets longer. No matter how long it currently is.
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Great post by Mark Suster. I constantly struggle with analysis paralysis and saying 'no' to opportunities that sound like a great idea at first. It's easy to forget about added complexity and cost (e.g. technical debt, positioning, marketing, support, documentation, expectations, …)
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Searching for files added by mistake on github
If I understand properly, having Google's private key only allows you to do MITM attacks, not to passively decrypt traffic using PFS algorithms.
"Any browser that doesn't implement WebGL will soon be considered crippled"

Really? I don't think WebGL is that important. What's it really good for besides laggy browser games? What's with the hype on browser games anyway? They're always going to perform much slower than native code. I don't see WebGL becoming such a critical aspect of browsing that the average user would consider IE "crippled" for not supporting it.
A Linux boot CD would be secure but I think it's awkward to have to reboot your computer all the time. I use Linux but I have stopped using my computer for anything like banking. Instead, I use my bank's app on my iPhone or iPad neither of which are jailbroken.
This happens in nature, actually. When there's a genetic disparity between individuals, although offspring is possible, it ends up infertile. That's nature's way of doing a U-turn.

When the hybridization is managed by humans though, it can be useful (e.g.: citrus, mules).
In this blog post the author corroborates most of the points made by Bloomberg. That is not a takedown.
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This is the kind of thing which may help keep him physically safe, but massively hurts him both in the court of public opinion (which matters a lot, if his actions are to have any positive effect for the public), and should he stand trial in the United States (although, one could argue that if it gets to that he's lost either way). It puts the people arguing for a pardon for him in a much tougher position.
Can we make function calls cheaper?

From my observations in pretty much any unoptimized Python (CPython interpreted) code function calls is nearly always a bottleneck. And speed is directly bound by the number of function calls being performed, not by ponderous data structures.
> Using "do this or you're fired" to get an employee's attention is disrespectful and manipulative, it's not funny - unless you are Michael Scott.

Or Tony Soprano.
I was already familiar with the late Tony Judt, and I don't wholly agree with his thesis. If there's one thing I find annoying it's the assumption that disagreement must be the result of ignorance. Bashing me over the head with Judt's accomplishment is little more than an argument from authority. I didn't say that europe was all a-OK with diversity, but that it was more diverse than the post above appreciates.
I remember, years ago when I was working for BMW, reports that security researchers had been able to gain control over a vehicle by compromising the wifi that the Tire Pressure Sensors used to communicate with the central onboard computer. If a few security researchers could develop that capability, I'd be stunned if intelligence organizations weren't doing the same.
Thread's dead, baby.
Rubber Hose Cryptanalysis:

"Good morning Mr Snowden? How was your sleep last night? Oh yes, that's right, you didn't get any.

So to begin with, No I will not get that light out of your face, What was this you or Mr Greenwald mentioned about having your distributed files securely backed up, and have you a deadman switch Mr Snowden, you understand, in case of your demise? .... a bash shell script? Why the hell you didn't you use python?! This is going to be a problem. How are we going to fix it?"
Not to mention by the time you burned it it would be well out of date (security patches). If you're going to go that route you'd be better off buying a USB stick with a write-lock (Kanguru sells some).
The same point applies to the poll whose results you like.
People are speculating that the controls in his car may have been compromised. [e.g. [1]]

I'm not saying this is true; just that it is what people are speculating. Frankly I don't know whether or not it's possible to remotely take over that particular car's steering/acceleration mechanisms.

[1] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-ca...
Spot on. I also found that "doing" too many things at the same time makes me err on 'thinking' vs 'execution'.
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This was a lot of fun. A suggestion for improvement might be to weight where the changes can come (so more or less likely to change wheelbase, or more or less likely to change height, etc) But overall very nicely done.
Are you saying this software can inject malicious code into a disk image and/or falsify the integrity report if you look at the md5 checksum of said image?
Or break down and invest in a VMWare license, and run everything (_everything_) in a virtual machine.
Why on earth would you need a "perfect" seal?
Well unfortunately, such a price structure wouldn't be sustainable for us
1) a company of ~50 people doesn't sound like a start up to me, and calling themselves one just reeks of opportunism at the cost of the employees
2) there's plenty of work in Vancouver
3) as others have commented, constant crunch is neither healthy nor productive
4) talk it over with HR, if they continues to seem unreasonable, go somewhere else. Your mention of two others that came before you but left after a short time raises a red flag
Unless you actually enter a seed string it generates a 256 byte random string each time you open it for the first time. I used firefox debugger to retrieve the string, it is stored in a variable called "floorseed".
Cool. Now make a version with legs and you'll freak some people out.
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You didn't actually respond to what I said.

I don't know why you're talking about the NSA. And if you are, anyway, do you really think they can't ask Verisign for an arbitrary cert already? And won't the same tools that modern network programs use to protect against these attacks (certificate pinning, convergence, etc.) work equally well when applied to DNSSEC KSKs?

NSEC3 is good enough. I gave you a trivial way of acquiring jabberwocky.bankofamerica.com, even with DNSCurve deployed. If BOA wants network accessible services on a network accessible namespace to be private, they should make a zone cut at internal.bankofamerica.com and restrict access to the delegated NS (which can be the same machine). The easiest way to do this is to run a VPN, which they already do.

I am asserting that having a global key-value store, where namespace owners can sign their own entries and make delegations, is a valuable system to have in place. That is what DNSSEC is. Unless you can argue against that, you are simply beating on a straw man.
Doesn't SSL/TLS use a per-session symmetric key that is exchanged using the asymmetric server keys? Is the point of this article that even that per-session private key would be logged or re-generated and therefore prone to attack if the server private key were exposed?
I'm guessing at someone else's motives here. These aren't necessarily my feelings...

> 1. I don't see how it would be hypocritical.

If you loved giving, you'd give everything you owned. To stand up and say "I love to give" when you have no intention of giving 100% to charity is hypocritical. You don't love to give, you're just buying attention.

> 2. It should steal credit form the recipient. The money is what makes charities work, more than the work in itself.

Depending on the charity, it's the people who donate their time that are the valuable ones. In any case, giving half a percent of your annual income is hardly backbreaking labor. To the obscenely wealthy, its often just a tax write-off. It's valuable to the charity but less of a sacrifice than others are making. You're getting re-rewarded for your wealth, while others who are poorer are giving more (as a percentage) and receiving less. Hardly a charitable distribution of gratitude.

> 3. What's so great about selfless giving? If donations can increase by publishing the donor's name, so be it! Is there even a single downside to selfish giving? Money is money, no matter the intent.

Jobs was a Buddhist and selfless giving without receiving anything in return is considered a valuable trait to Buddhists (true humility). Otherwise it's not giving, it's more receiving.
Personally, I'm intending to move mine off a mostly dead Wordpress install on Dreamhost over to something hosted on S3 and generated using Awestruct: http://awestruct.org/

I've been using it to build out a major project at work and so far I've been very pleased with it. The support for partials is a particularly attractive feature, and has worked well with the ways I've been abusing it.
It would be an interesting project. You should go ahead and test the current implementations! Actually, would you even need webgl to hunt for GLSL exploits?
Looks like it's already in the works guys: http://offpocket.com/
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Unlike those cars we can move in three dimensions, so you're free to find another set of hurdles to overcome. :)
It's the reality of the situation. Unemployed men or men who earn less than their wives are more likely to be divorced. He needs to manage the situation with his wife carefully. Don't show her that you are worried. Don't share your problems with her.
Why would they have to prove anything? This is a secret program and nothing it turns up will show up in a non-classified arena.
Even if it is, who designed the designer?
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Yes, it's normal. Unfortunately, startup companies in the 50-200 employee phase rank amongst the worst working situations.
The article really doesn't do a good job of answering why was it developed. Why do we need feathercoin? It's a litecoin fork. What improvements does it offer? "4x more coins"? Ok, but how does that add value? I'm all for innovation, but feathercoin doesn't seem to be doing it.
Complex? You can't get simpler than brute forcing a problem.
| it is non-trivial to get it right.

But malware writers / botnet owners have been doing it for a while.
I take your point. I'll be honest with you though: one of my goals was to get highly-ranked for the phrase "javascript pivot table" because that's what I had initially searched for. I would likely not have found something called "coffeescript pivot table" or something similar. So I mostly mean "pivot table invokable via javascript" rather than "originally written in javascript".
There's an interesting interview with Julian Fay of Senetas @ http://risky.biz/RB282 discussing homomorphic encryption. (Also mentioned in a couple of comments above.)