skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about this: it's much easier for an attacker to physically compromise the device than it is for them to attack your network AND attack random.org.

Is that not good enough? It's about as secure as your average desktop. You can't make a device more secure than the access to it, and there is no such thing as perfect security.
> "why wouldn't I just buy and iPad?"

There's exactly one answer to that question: office. 9 hours of office in a device the size of a pad of paper.

But the problem is, the exact people who would buy RT for that reason cannot use it or would not want it for a range of other factors (for example, it cannot join a domain).

And now with the new Intel chips there is no reason at all, because you can get 9 hours of office from a full Win8 tablet.
I wonder what they must be trying to hide then, because this looks pretty bad itself. I wonder if the same person may be behind both unreasonably disproportionate reactions...
Makes me wonder if the responsible thing to do when running a web service is to constantly dictionary-attack and brute-force your own server, and whenever it gets a hit, email the user and force a password change. In theory, the userbase would evolve towards better passwords over time.
In Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area rents for 1BR's are approaching 2K. So I find it hard to believe that MV PA is $1500.
What great timing. I was just looking for this. Thanks!
I love the dialog box prompting the user to authenticate their "buddy" with the caption:

> Why is this security dialog (present in other encrypted messaging tools) missing from Skype?

Why? Because that dialog is horrifying.

First, because my parents (Skype users) don't want to have to understand public key cryptography just to talk to their kids and see a video conference of their grandkids. They want to make a phone call and video conference inexpensively. That the medium is encrypted is an implementation detail and one that they don't care about; certainly this impedes their barrier to entry.

But also because I read that dialog box twice and I still don't understand it. Am I expected to change the combo box to say that I have verified his fingerprint before clicking Authenticate? What happens if I don't change the combo box and click Authenticate anyway? Anything? That would be unexpected, so maybe it's nothing. But if that's true, why isn't Authenticate disabled?

That's why.
Well, technically, yes. However, if we had a court case where the prosecutor thought the defendant had a key for some encrypted data, and they claimed that they didn't, and they weren't thrown in jail for "refusing to divulge a key to the data that we totally know they have", then I might call that a theoretical win for the plausible deniability "defense".
I think it's possible to build services that enable users to evade the dragnet, whether criminal or potentially governmental.

If either of those communities is targeting you in particular, it's much harder. How many people use universal 2FA? How many do it from their phones, which are potentially vulnerable? If not using 2FA, how many have typed passwords in front of security cameras?

And if you are targeted, as someone else pointed out, rubber hose decryption is always possible. The thing that is having people feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis (credits to Tom Lehrer) is the concern about the scope of information capture and the security of the systems and people that have access to that information, and I think one can build sound services to help address that level of privacy.
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The first one to add real encryption will have to figure out how to deal with the angry users who don't understand that if they lose their private key, all their encrypted data is completely gone, forever.
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I'd recommend learning C++ using Qt and Processingjs.
It really is amazing. I run office 2007 without issues on ubuntu. As well as some obscure utility windows software without issues. WINE really is a damn great open source project.
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I had the same disturbing thought. What if it was some muckety-muck at MIT leaning on the prosecutor's office the whole time in order to teach those meddling kids a lesson. Now that would be mucho-embarrassing if it came to light.
Whats gonna happen? People are not going to stop going to MIT. The market it is in is education which is always growing and (sadly) the majority of people don't care what happened to Aaron Schwartz. MIT will still retain its top position and frankly I cannot fathom a scenario where it would have to face any serious consequences. So its most likely trying to hide something thats worth the loss of 'face' by filing this. But even if it fails, I don't think they give a fk.
Hmm. I've been thinking about your comment for a while.

I don't see the feedback loop. In normal bankruptcies, or any other mistake in management, there's a feedback loop to help self-correct and prevent this from happening again. So politicians made a lot of promises they couldn't keep, got in bed with the folks running the city and created all sorts of sweetheart deals, made lots of speeches about making the city a better place and so forth while running it into the ground.

The lawyers come in, nullify the promises made to many of the participants, including bond holders and dedicated employees, all of whom acted in good faith. The politicians walk away. Heck, some of them are probably busy right now continuing to move up the political ladder.

So where's the feedback loop? The fact that bondholders will be more careful next time around? That's all I can see, and it's a very flimsy thing to hang that much optimism from. My bet is the state picks up the bonds, takes over managing the city budget, and gives everybody involved a 30-40% haircut. This may prevent the particular city named Detroit from repeating the same mistake for a few years, but it does absolutely nothing for all the other mismanaged cities. I'm not even sure Detroit will remain in the doghouse very long. In fact, from a certain political angle, looks like a very well-played strategy. At the end, all the players walk free and continue making speeches about how awesome Detroit is and "if they had only listened to me" things would have worked out.

Doesn't look too encouraging for anybody, but heck, maybe I missed it.
There are (at least) two ways to look at it:

1) They have no idea how it will be perceived from the "outside looking in."

2) They do know it will look bad, but they believe that it is worth it to protect the reputations of whomever might be revealed to have participated in the persecution.
Whose point?

People don't pirate 360 games because it's probably fairly annoying - you need a 360 console to begin with, then mod it which might need an older one running an out-of-date OS, and likely can't play multiplayer without the risk of your account being banned. Plus the size of games means torrents which means letters to your ISP. And if it's a couple years old you can probably buy the game for $10-20.

Pirating games for older consoles is trivial in comparison - any computer you have and most smartphones can emulate a PS1 or older almost perfectly. And the game sizes are tiny.

If you were asking about a moral justification, there's always the "it's not being sold new, so the makers won't get my money if I buy it used anyway." Though by now at least 95% of games that people actually play have been re-released, so that justification doesn't hold much water.
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There's simply no comparison. Wine is a much more complex project.
There are two games that we love: Amazing Frog and Bombsquad. The rest don't get played much. Hopefully this situation improves.
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(Note, this is purely informational, I completely disagree with what MIT is doing in this case)

It is interesting that they have never heard of third party's intervening in FOIA cases because it actually is a common occurrence in academia.

Many times, a professor at another university will file a FOIA request for your grant application. If you feel your research plans are threatened by having the details of your grant passed along to this other professor, your university will intervene on your behalf in the FOIA request. This is especially true if there is patentable material in the grant that they fear will be threatened by wide dissemination of the contents of the grant. Even if they fail in blocking the FOIA request, they usually can at least delay the release long enough to file a preliminary patent on the material described in the grant application.

I can understand reporters not having heard of this tactic, but I'm surprised an expert FOIA litigator would be unfamiliar with these cases.
I need help moving forward
I've wasted enough time trying to figure out things on my own. I'm willing to pay for a coach or try to find some help to get me out of being stuck.

I am completely changing careers from a non-CS based engineering job into creating or owning some sort of business or income. It is do or die for me, I won't go back to doing what I did before.

I do not know what I want to do, but I want to figure it out and get started so I stop wasting all this time.

Willing to do anything at this point. Someone please help me. I am 31, no debt or commitments, I have saved up a lot of money, and I currently make enough to live on just from my investments, but I want to continue to grow money instead of just coasting.

I dream to be very wealthy, and I think some of that is preventing me from getting started on anything without being completely overwhelmed.
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What's the point of video when programming? That's just a distraction.
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I don't think that Google, or any of these other companies, can simply bail and go into hiding while continuing to do business from the unincorporated portion of a Russian airport.
whats Qt and processingjs?
No, it’s not. Thanks for catching that (too late to edit, unfortunately).
Why not? Is there data about how much of GOOG or other stocks is owned by "individual investors" vs market makers?
The 'iPad Killer' folks.
The Streisand effect will come into play here. If they fail in their bid, everyone's going to pay extra attention to look for what they were trying to hide.
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Finding the problems with FOSS (or really any body of closed or open source or object code) usually requires at least challenging assumptions (not "oh yeah I sort of see what's going on" but digging in) or real creativity.

The thing that seems to drive that is profit or geek-respect motive, so the folks doing said verification would need to be probably not your average bear doing a job or even person pretty interested but multitasking.

I think it'd be hard to find and manage such a work and/or volunteer force at scale well enough to really think that a creative and hard-core security review had been accomplished.
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He said a "bedroom", not an apartment. That actually seems high to me - if you're willing to live with roommates you can find plenty of places for around $1K/month, or even a bit less.

Mountain View rents for a 1BR are running around $1700/month in a not-so-great neighborhood, or about $2k/month if you're close to the Googleplex or downtown (except for a few smaller family-owned apartments...owner-rented places tend to have smaller rent increases than manager-rented places, since usually a family just wants to find a good tenant and have them stick around rather than take the risk of getting a bad tenant).
When joining the hn_feedback, the edit button seems to fail:

discarding because event origin is
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Connecting to https://floobits.com:8448/ ... b8cb474e2761.js:427
Joining workspace Floobits / hn_feedback b8cb474e2761.js:445
room_info
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Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'path' of null b8cb474e2761.js:205
(anonymous function) b8cb474e2761.js:205
x.event.dispatch jquery-2.0.3.min.js:3
y.handle jquery-2.0.3.min.js:3

Chrome on Windows 7. Seems like none of the buttons (like delete) work, either. I don't see any activity other than people in the chatroom. Just a black center screen.
It is an imaginary speech to Ben F. apologising to all the Founding Fathers for forgetting to keep watch.
Massively over-simplifying, the price of shares is what the last trade was at. So it does not require a high volume to change the price - just buyers and sellers agreeing on a different value.

And what is that value? The value of a share is the market's best estimate of the present value of the future revenue earned from owning that share. Those earnings can happen from dividends, stock buybacks, a takeover bid, etc. But fundamentally they are an estimate of future profits.

So why does it move so fast? If you tell me that a major metric, the revenue/ad, dropped 5% and all else held the same, unless you have a good explanation for the anomaly, my simplest estimates of your future revenue just dropped 5%. If I am afraid that the drop could be a long-term trend, my estimates might drop further. If I believe that the metric has reasons to recover, my estimates might drop less.

But the natural tendency is to base estimates of future revenue on current rates of revenue. So a one quarter drop in current revenue results in a corresponding drop in share price. (And vice versa.)
The server might be watching something else. Maybe he has an account on, say, Slashdot, and the server watches his account login date - if that account doesn't log in for a week, the switch gets tripped. Perhaps there's a series of such websites, and any of the requisite accounts will do? The actual server with the deadman switch doesn't need to be accessed frequently, or perhaps at all.
I tried to do ubuntu + thinkpad (also fedora + thinkpad), but after two weeks I still couldn't get external monitors to work, and neither could anyone in IT.

I'd rather just get back to hacking.
They can make money on volatility, up or down. My uneducated guess is that they use the quarter figures as an indicator to make it easier to push the price down.

I don't think there is any long term reason for the stock to go down based on the latest quarter. Google are putting more ads in front of people, which means those bidding lower are getting more clicks, that will be why the average cost per click is down.

Google is making big changes in shopping and ecommerce ads which they stand to make a lot from long term.
Been there done that. This is my second tour of duty in SF-SV. Opportunities in the tech industry are unequaled by any other region in the states. India is getting there I suppose.
I couldn't agree more: mine runs XBMC well and, for me, is worth the $100 just for that. That there are emulators that work well and some fun games are pure bonuses, really.

It's something that slots in alongside other consoles rather than replacing or even competing with them.
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You also might want to check out Bourbon Neat for your grid system, which has been doing this for awhile. Rather than extends, it does a lot of this through mixins. Their breakpoint system is also pretty nifty.

In general although I appreciate the larger CSS frameworks from a documentation and organization standpoint I find that their expanded use over the last year to lead to the "Oh, this was built with X" sameyness in a lot of new projects across the web. You even see newer frameworks like purecss.io that are trying to remove the actual styling from the framework itself, concentrating instead on base elements. I'm curious to see how this will all transition over the next couple years.

I'm a frontend designer myself so I'm biased, but I think relying heavily on any of them too much can limit your product once you get past the prototype stage. That said, I've learned so much over the past year just being able to look through their documentation and see proper smacss principles at work on large projects.
Detroit becomes largest US city to file for bankruptcy
The mathematician had a better point.
Isn't the $350 figure after the recent price cut?
It should be noted that moderators are well aware of this loophole, and upon repeated abuse will ban accounts. If you're just submitting what you see, don't worry. If you're submitting your articles over and over again, though, well, don't do that.
But it wasn't optimized for tablets. It's the same experience you would've gotten with Office ten years ago on "tablet PC's". And why would you want real Office on a tablet anyway? Fost most of the stuff you'd be doing on a tablet, you're probably better off with a free/much cheaper Office alternative that's also touch-optimized.
Who was the owner of Skype before Microsoft?
I think those parties are more connected than meets the eye.
As a practical matter, for the next year or two, Detroit will be run by Kevyn Orr and a U.S. bankruptcy judge. After the bankruptcy, the governor might keep an emergency manager around, otherwise, the mayor and council will retake the reigns. But they'll be bound by: 1) the political fallout of the bankruptcy (it will be painful for everyone involved); 2) agreements entered into as part of the bankruptcy; and 3) more skeptical creditors going forward. Significantly, I think the bankruptcy is going to greatly reduce the power and influence of the public unions, as the emergency manager and the bankruptcy court spend a year or two restructuring things while going over their heads.

There's a great article on this: http://www.freep.com/article/20130603/NEWS01/306030014/City-....
To be honest I'd hate to be working a job, that only exists because managers are being 'nice
I like that you have free organization plans, but I think you need some sort of intermediate option for a classroom type environment and student groups. The ability to a teacher or TA pair program, or set up students to work in small groups on a semester long project would be awesome.

However A 12 week class with 30 students is 1.5k, if I am understanding how your plans work correctly, and I don't see that happening. Given that it's less likely to be always on programming when it's students and teachers, I think a significant deduction would be reasonable.

Alternatively, you could spin off a classroom focused version.

Maybe something that will need to wait for when you are more profitable, but if you get people used to your service as a student, they will carry it with them.
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Eh, scandals come and go on a weekly basis. People are inured to it at this point, thanks to the 24-hour news cycle. Personally, I think the circus is about making other Snowdens scared of following suit, rather than chasing Snowden himself. Regardless of whether he gets a fair trial and judgement, he is already being punished - kept on the run and looking over his shoulder. He's not imprisoned, but he's also free like we are.
Agreed.

That said, the idea of targeting characteristic differences that show up when those controls are turned off was somewhat novel to me. But I'm not in the field, and that might be old hat as well.
I'm not sure if it's more accurately described as a middle ground or as a niche: Casual gamers who want to play cheap games on their TV, with a controller, and/or with friends. (Another possible interpretation of "midcore.")

I think Towerfall's popularity is due in some measure to hitting that specific formula: cheap & fun same screen multiplayer; "mobile philosophy" on a television.

I do think overall you're right that the casual market wants to play on devices they already own. It would not surprise me if Apple released a WiFi controller & added a dedicated Games store on the AppleTV (using touch screens while looking at a TV just feels awkward).
Or it could be that an 82% black population indicates $SOMETHING, rather than "black people killed Detroit". When Gary, IN started to fall apart with the steel mills closing, my theory was that the only people left were the ones too poor to get out. Could be the same with Detroit. Or not, I don't know. But the demographics remain, and a drive down Woodward Avenue will confirm the numbers.
>are they selling shares because they predict other people will sell shares and so they are simply 'beating' the rest of the market to avoid the predicted loss? Or are they selling the shares because they actually believe they are worth less due to the report?

Those are two sides of the same coin.

Stock prices are probabilistic in nature, because we're all operating with incomplete information. Consider an envelope that has randomly been prepared with either a $1, $5, or $10 bill inside (let's say someone rolled a die to determine the bill, put the bill inside, then gave it to someone else). Assuming equal probabilities of each bill, the envelope would have a market value around $5.30. If you wanted to buy it, that's about what you'd have to bid to win. Now imagine the person who prepared the envelope revealed that the $10 was not inside. Everyone bidding more than ~$2 would retract their bids, so now you only have to bid ~$2 to win it. They don't believe the value of the envelope actually decreased (the bill stayed the same), but now they have information that changes the market price.
Yeah. That would be floobits dying under load. Basically, you can download the static resources from our webserver because they are cached, but you can't retrieve the meta data necessary to load the workspace from our api because there are over a hundred people in the workspace copy pasting huge chunks of text and deleting them as rapidly as possible.

We are scrambling to fix the problem right now.
I wrote to John Kiriakou & in his reply he said...
In the letter I wrote to John Kiriakou I let him know that I could relate to being imprisoned since I too had spent a year in jail, and that I remembered one of the worst parts of it being the fact that I couldn't get online. I was always glad when friends would print parts of websites & mail them in to me so I could read them. So I offered to do that for him.

He let me know he's interested in reading about anything that has to do with Greece, but he didn't elaborate as to where to source any particular content. I don't know where to begin.

So I'm writing in to ask if any readers here can suggest high quality websites &/or blogs about life in Greece that I can print up & mail to him regularly.