skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Binary vs. text is one dimension and it shouldn't be conflated with the overall alleged complexity of the HTTP/2.0 proposal. You can have robust and non-robust binary protocols.

I don't buy the "argument from visibility", for example.

HTTPS and DNS are both binary protocols and you need tools to parse them in order to get telnet-like visibility. Does that mean when it comes to those protocols "we are forced to rely on other tools to hide the underlying complexity and dumb things down to a point where they are manageable", as the author says?
A solar panel can run this. Or, to be more specific, a small (3" x 3") solar panel could charge a 3v battery which could power this device. I have solar-powered holiday lights which operate on 3v, this application would be simply replacing the lights with this chip. I've actually replaced the charging circuit with a TI MSP-430[1], and powered it directly with solar power.

[1]a microcontroller similar to Arduino which operates on 3.3v and was intended to cost $4.30 for the entire development kit. http://www.ti.com/msp430
New Invention Makes Ocean Water Drinkable
Where Design Goes to Die
You should be able to run Skyrim on that, probably not on the absolute highest settings of course but most games look good enough on medium these days.
Because Rapgenius hasn't profited out of the lyrics yet. DMCA focused on monetization of other people's content as one of the main criterias for violation. It doesn't matter whether it's UGC or not.
40 nL of desalted water per minute, for a minute, using 3.0V voltage (from article) and 0.7 A current (standard AA, "store-bought battery" from article), yields 3.2 GJ/L.

Even if we give it the benefit of the doubt and say we're overestimating the current by a factor of 100, 32 MJ/L still a ridiculous amount of energy, and ~10x more than just distilling water through evaporation, which is 2.23 MJ/L.
That is AWESOME! It's a shame we won't get to see the code for it anytime soon.
I suspect you got downvoted because English isn't your first language.

Something like:
"Is the water from the ocean clean enough to drink? Hope to see this product available to buy soon" might be better
Not to mention JS. There's a LOT you can do with that.
http://libgen.org/scimag5/10.1002/anie.201302577.pdf
>Function: Work out what has changed

>Dev Method: git diff

>Normal Method: Open two documents at the same time, look through to work out what the differences are.

I don't think non-programmers are all manually comparing documents. In Microsoft Word, people can use any of the following methods:

- "Track Changes" when they edit

- use Word's compare documents feature

- view Previous Versions on Word Wep App

- Use Sharepoint (if they're in a large company).

I agree that version control is still an issue, but it's not like nothing exists yet. I think Microsoft or Google will probably be able to improve their version-control/collaboration tools though, so it might be hard for a third-party to beat them.
The paper linked from the article is behind a pay wall but the abstract[1] is very brief: "A simple power supply is used to apply a 3.0 V potential bias across a microelectrochemical cell comprising two microchannels spanned by a single bipolar electrode (BPE) to drive chloride oxidation and water electrolysis at the BPE poles. The resulting ion depletion zone and associated electric field gradient direct ions into a branching microchannel, consequently producing desalted water."

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201302577/ab...
It's already being commercialized: http://www.okeanostech.com/
That's a great/terrifying link.

I'd love to know the justification the city of San Leandro use to explain why they're keeping photographic records of cars, owners, and their families - and just how uptight the police/city-officials would be if I took photos of them and their families in their driveways at the rate of "1000s every eight hours"…
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I can understand your position with DHS. But CANN is hardly the man. Would you prefer a world where ICANN is unable to find competent security people because working for ICANN is some how associated with evil?
interseting times we live in
1% of movies, maybe, but I bet the majority (or at least a very significant portion) of TV downloads are shows that are broadcast free for anyone to watch/record. Those need subtitles just as much.
Doesn't DSL use the same lines? There's got to be a market for that. Or is the tech not competitive with cable and wireless?
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This thing is producing nanoliters per minute with that power. Sure, you can power this device with a small panel, but you'll die of thirst before it makes enough water to fill one glass.
You are equivocating the NSA and script kiddies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation
Ironically, there is a security issue with that page. The links for each name go to some sort of CMS edit page for each record. It says access denied, but having the URL scheme for editing pages wouldn't be the most useless thing in the world for the type of person interested in editing such things....you know like the type of people that attend Defcon.

https://edit.dhs.gov/homeland-security-advisory-council-memb...
I know we're in different jurisdictions, but if I haven't paid my registration, I'm uninsured.

Please don't be that uninsured driver…
The actual paper ( http://libgen.org/scimag5/10.1002/anie.201302577.pdf ) says they manage an efficiency of 25 mWhL^-1 (90 joules per litre)

Where did you get that 0.7A number?
http://dir.yahoo.com/regional/countries/switzerland/business...
NZ govt trying to quickly allow spy agency to intercept communications of public
Right, but that precedent was only set by incorrect implementations existing in the first place. Using setTimeout(,0) recursively in lieu of (a then unavailable) requestAnimationFrame or a non-zero timeout period is in my mind equivalent to while(true){}/infinite tail recursion.
The question OP would also have is whether you can do the whole backup-RAW-and-delete-locally thing instead of "simple" RAW sync-backup
I do not mean to be so negative about higher education, or any education. I just believe getting a CS degree to learn how to program contemporary technologies is a poor path to take.
It would because the article makes a big deal about using the game for charity purposes, and one specific iOS game can be expected to possibly route a percentage to that charity. I think you misread my post, confusing "this iOS app" with ALL iOS apps.
> (D) the slide doesn't actually say 'direct access', but says 'collection directly from the servers of', which is different. My browser pulled the comment I'm replying to right now 'directly from the servers of' HN, but I don't have 'direct access' to HN.

The slide I'm talking about ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-... ) states: "collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers."

Since there's currently no way to "browse" private data on, say, my Google search history or my GMail inbox, the conclusion seems to be that they either have broad backdoor access, or a specific way of directly downloading from these companies.

In a traditional warrant situation, the data would be collected by the companies and sent to the requesting agency that provided a warrant. Police officers that request, say, HTTP access logs do not download those logs directly.
It's not quite that clear-cut even for CoC though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825158
A MacBook Pro?

edit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5219#dispnum
0.7A is the current of the "store bought" (AA) battery, suggested by the article.

To make this technology energetically favourable to boiling, it must not exceed ~700μA in current, and it has to be far less than that to be worth its complexity.
Recruiting for IT jobs at alphabet agencies.
Can you put the files back again? If you can write data back again then you've got enough for a full platform.

If it allowed that and directories. I've already written the environment that would give you a full desktop.
Wouldn't that be assaulting a federal agent?
I'm sorry, but no. A game shouldn't qualify as worst ever if it's intentionally bad. It has to be a game where the publisher was intending for it to be fun. I present to you, IMO, the worst game ever created - Big Rigs Over the Road Racing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rikTiT2OwqQ
You have to work awful hard to beat Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing for sheer unmitigated badness -- a standard Desert Bus doesn't quite meet.
> Navy drones fly autonomously with the planes’ robot brain making the split second calculations necessary to conduct an arrested landing on the deck of a moving ship.

Is anyone else a little freaked out that this is one more step towards aerial ED-209's?
You don't exactly have a plan for the money yet.
Your plan so far is to bootstrap and fund via revenue.
If your idea is good, and you have clients, you will continue to have a future in clients and revenue.
You have not made a case here that you need to launch by a certain time.
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Yes, this. Makes crazy amounts of sense. Can be two vendors, I don't care.. but whoever does cold-storage exposing an API and having a business model that supports enough margin for the other business is great, and seems totally feasible.
...but will likely be replaced by one of many technologies currently in development before it runs out at the end of the decade
Not just following his death...before it too.
> We're getting better and better bandwith. We're getting more and more computing power. A few milliseconds doesn't hurt anyone.

Yeah, but the speed of light isn't getting any faster, and little guys can't afford to have their servers everywhere. If HTTP 2.0 reduces the round trip count, then it will make a big difference in download times for small pages.
There has been license plate blocking technology for sale for quite some time now, which is definitely more low-tech than James Bond style license plate changers.

http://www.phantomplate.com/photoblocker.html
Uh? No battery[1] delivers a constant amount of current: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm%27s_law

Solving for current, Ohm's law is I = V/R. You only deliver .7 amps of current into a 4.285 ohm load.

If you connect a 3 volt battery to a 1,000 ohm resistor, then only 0.003 amps of current will flow, which is 9 milliwatts.

Connect a 3 volt battery to a .01 ohm load (a dead short, almost) and 300 amps of current will flow, (900 watts!) very briefly, until the battery voltage sags under load.

1: Or any voltage source in general, barring some trickery that you can't do with a simple electrochemical battery.
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thanks for the info noob! quit bothering people.
Defcon is cancelled.
Salary trends for all companies
A matter of time? It's already happened. See how documents submitted to the IRS magically appear in the hands of political opponents. See how political opposition was thoroughly disrupted (tea party groups' tax-exempt purgatory + all of the raids and interrogation which followed) while political friends sailed through immediately.
Thoughts by an American at Oxford (2003)
I take it you have never tried some of the Xbox Live Arcade/Indie "titles." Big Rigs looks like Final Fantasy compared to half of the arcade/indie titles.
You emphatically denied that morality is defined by people, but have provided exactly zero support for that idea. Backed into the corner of your own illogic you are now accusing me of being unthinking. Which is odd since all I've done is expect you to support your argument.

This isn't even a case of you and I disagreeing about the importance of certain facts, you made a bald-faced denial without even a shred of an explanation. I was waiting for something like claims about received wisdom, but nada, nothing, zilch.
You encounter a lot of this behaviour in students when they show up in a research lab for the first time, having taken only lab classes and lectures before, and it isn't at all confined to East Asians. It's always a shock to see that your experiments don't turn out as intended and to recognize that all the class exercises have some bearing in real life, so to speak.

Some people never make the transition to independent work, and those are handed their ass fairly quickly, at least in a working lab. If what the fellow writes in this article is true, KAL and friends have some work to do.
What happens when Google Ventures’ design team helps redesign a startup’s site
Fire trucks do more then put out fires by the way. People seem to forget that a lot. They also have car tools, ladders, and other stuff.
Although I wouldn't be surprised if somebody somewhere has a list of accredited investors over the age of 80 who are likely to have Alzheimer's, that is not going to happen in significantly larger numbers as a result of this change.

There is an entire industry dedicated to this based out of New York. It gets hungry guys in early 20s to wake at 8am and begin cold calling high net-worth individuals offering them "investment opportunities". This industry flourished before the Internet and is depicted in movies like Boiler Room. The internet ate up a lot of their business because people no longer needed to be on walstreet to get data from walstreet. However, I can see these guys jump on this opportunity and begin shilling startups to the relatively high net-worth but naive retirees wanting to invest in the next facebook.
I bought the acer chromebook for my 5yo. He loves it for playing Lego games, watching YouTube and Kahn Academy vids, as well as using code academy and getting emails from gamgam.

I borrow it for business trips and works well enough. Best laptop I ever bought.
Also, in LoL, you unlock runes the more you play(or masteries, can't remember exactly). These give small bonuses (e.g. +4% attack speed, turrets do splash damage). This means that people who have played the game more have an advantage in terms of stats and also champion choice.
As mentioned, DotA 2 only sells cosmetic items, or access to streams of events. This means that the game itself doesn't change whether you're new or experienced. You have access to the exact same heroes, and no extra bonuses.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that the key word is trivia and tbh the things you mentioned (item and skill builds) are actually quite static and you can even just follow a guide if you want. I think you are putting too much emphasis on the reflex-based combat at the detriment of the more general "macromanagement" things like predicting the position of the opponents, managing resource aquisition, etc. I'd say that Dota is much more like an RTS without worker units and base building than it is an FPS where each round takes 30 minutes.

Not to say that there isn't a fair share of unintuitive things. A good example is how even though the objective of the game is destroy the enemy base most of the times a team will avoid attacking the enemy buildings until the very end of the game.
Why not a web version for low $ per month?

Secure / SSL connections, perhaps encrypted at the data storage end (you the app maker's end).

But also available locally for non-connected occasions.

If it's good enough for a keyboard-less machine (which is not much fun for data entry), it is good also for the web.

Make it useful on all my devices. Make it easy for my data to be portable to all of them.

Let me make my data portable to my other locations and devices.
Why are software development task estimations regularly off?
I'm pretty sure this is a joke since DT himself can be considered a fed, and there are lots of Defcon leadership that work with/for the feds as well.
binary protocols can be easier to develop, because generated and parsing the protocol stream is usually straight forward: if there's a variable length field, you will typically get the length first and then the field; no need to scan byte by byte for a terminator(s) or handle escaping of terminator(s). There's often less need to be liberal in what you accept too (but that may depend on how the protocol is versioned)

But if you're developing for a protocol with garbage documentation (or no documentation), a text based protocol at least offers some amount of intrinsic documentation.
O'ahu is NOT the Big Island...

But the Big Island is Hawai'i, and I've lived on this island for my entire life, with the exception of military service.
Misleading article title. (What better to expect from The Register?) HP admitted there's a vulnerabiity that with customer provided access and permission can allow HP support to access underlying os of the storage device. At most a reboot is possible not data access. So this is just another stupid vulnerability that'll be fixed soon - not a backdoor.
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A slightly cleverer device could get even better. If it only enumerated as the "evil" device (whatever it is) after several minutes or even hours after some amount of activity followed by inactivity, then it would be quite likely the user isn't at their PC to notice any messages from their operating system, suspicious behaviour, or other warning signs. Someone attempting to scan hundreds of mice for malicious ones would have an even worse time: Because it waits until the user appears to be using the mouse, simply plugging them into a test computer won't immediately reveal the evil. This can be taken further, including fingerprinting the host operating system, time of day, or any other number of factors.
That's what I look for, and on every single car driving without plates (that I've seen for years now) it's not there.
I've never understood that, what does not having a terms of service do?
This is a great question. Distillation has the side effect of removing all of the microbes from water and sanitizing the output, but if this method only removes the salt will the output water be clean enough to drink?
This is quickly becoming the HN community's favorite little project. It's nothing new yet I just like seeing it flourish and get excited about it. Because there's no PHP code allowed it forces you to keep it simple. The anonymity just lets people really vent their frustrations or ideas without fear of messing up or having their credit card or name associated with it. And static CSS & HTML sites is where so many of us got started. I love it. Keep up the good work.
They don't get a booth.
Sorry to ask the obvious but what is MD in this context? Where I work it stands for Managing Director. It didn't seem to quite fit right in your post though.
They get sub $5 gas. That's what the money is being spent on.
Interesting, that surprises me as well. Thanks for sharing!
Just confirmed on IRC, Defcon is cancelled.
I'm helping build Photofeed, a platform that stores and organizes your private photos from your different devices in the cloud.

Photographers with the problem described in the article are within the target audience, even if we didn't implement some of the key features for them yet (e.g. storage of images in RAW format).

We'd love having some early feedback from you guys! (Didn't officially launch yet.)
You forgot the part where every time somebody drops a catch / pitches a ball / gets a strike the other team gets stronger and faster and if one player were to get struck out / get a walk the game often becomes a forgone conclusion.
This seems somewhat hard to believe. If you were actually pumping that much energy into the chip, wouldn't you end up boiling the water anyways?
I considered that. And yeah, DT is definitely a federal employee.

I guess it depends on what you consider a 'fed.' Is a sysadmin at NASA a Fed? They are employed by the federal government...

Law enforcement--especially intelligence--is not going to be particularly well received this year. In the years I've attended, it's always a friendly sort of cat and mouse game. "You're the Fed, I'm the hacker, let's get a beer!" What with PRISM and domestic surveillance, though, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a serious effort by the con to reduce drama and distance itself from the intelligence and law enforcement communities.

Is General Alexander still keynoting Black Hat?
I don't put much stock in those who make claims like "the next world war will be over water", because we have a massive supply of water (the ocean) and a massive supply of energy (the sun) to power whatever we need to do to make it drinkable.

A floating desalination plant powered by an x000-acre floating solar platform, pumping clean water back to shore, and dispersing slightly saltier water across a wide area, doesn't seem like science fiction to me, and doesn't seem very destructive. The process doesn't even have to be super efficient, we may even end up using old-school techniques like distillation or electrolysis to keep the mechanisms simple.

(granted this helps coastal regions more than inland ones, but moving population-heavy coastal areas to this system will preserve more of the natural water supplies for the inland needs).
or just assault?
Mavericks (10.9) has it as part of Activity Monitor.
I would say otherwise, seeing as that it was a known vulnerability, and left in intentionally. Very much a backdoor.
Water shortages are political in nature. The technical and logistical parts have been solved for a while.
Precisely why I, too, believe Perl was chosen.
It is Saudi-backed military coup in Egypt, Obama just dragging his heels over it http://rt.com/op-edge/military-coup-egypt-saudi-889/
What about something like mod_dir? Maybe just ftp for the interface? Would that require more overhead or dangerous permissions? Maybe.
Hrmmm, looks like socat expanded the concept to any socket. Very nice.
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>That isn't unions' fault — other countries with more powerful unions don't jail themselves like this.

Well, actually, prison guard unions did lobby for things like three-strikes laws to increase incarceration rates. [1] And yes, unions in general are weaker in the US, but public employees' unions haven't waned in power anything like their private sector counterparts.

[1] http://caprogressivemessage.com/2011/03/04/the-california-pr...

(I know, I know, "it's a left-wing California site!" But it's well-sourced and one of many articles saying the same thing when you google for who is lobbying for three-strikes laws and whatnot.)
Great response, you articulated a lot of my thoughts here much better than I could have. Creating different rules for different people is insidious. It's very very difficult for an individual to know whether or not they are an actual 10x-er, so everyone will just trend toward following the rules made for 10x-ers.

Physical face-time with your team is also very important, and there is some cognitive load on the rest of the team when you have to remember which days someone is supposed to come in, etc.

I'm not a fan of part-time, but obviously there are certain roles/companies in which it turns out to be an ideal situation. Of course, I know amazing designer who really does make this work well for herself and her company; however, I worry that she's the rare exception ;)!