skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a thought but would a inverse keylogger work?

I would guess something like this- an arduino hooked up to
something you can operate (BigBuddy?). This could then ask you for your PIN code (2 taps, 3 taps, 2 taps)

Once arduino is happy it will quirt a pre-stored key sequence into the USB port, acting as a keyboard, and unlock what you need.

I have no idea if it is really viable but its the best I have.
Teaching myself Drupal to build an online community.
I am just wondering how successful others are at learning code, marketing and how to run an online business.
There's an application that lets you lock individual applications, but which should allow you to unlock it with dictation, as the rest of the OS is still working. Mac App Blocker (http://knewsense.com/macappblocker/)

There's also QuickLock which was/is a workaround to lock OS X quickly without using the screen saver + immediate password requirement. http://www.quicklockapp.com/

Note: I haven't used either, I'm just googling and looking at videos.
I need to stop watching my security cameras...
Maybe some kind of NFC device that you could wear so that the computer would lock/unlock when you were near it ?
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Product companies require a higher level of talent than consulting companies do.

The larger companies get, it just gets harder to maintain that level of quality, and the consequences show up in the output. A Google at 50K employees looks very similar to a MS or an IBM when they were at that staffing level.

Look at Intel they have been stuck at 100k for decades.

The only exception I can think of is Samsung but this is really over a much smaller time frame so doubt it will sustain.
James I didn't realise Bugsnag was you - in that case we'll give it a roll. I've been wanting something to switch to
An opposite perspective on this: http://www.zdnet.com/why-you-shouldnt-worry-that-the-nsa-is-...
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> I want my personal information secure from casual passers-by who after having a quick peck on the keyboard would more than likely give up; I'm not looking for PRISM dodging security here
In iOS 6, turning the calculator sideways reveals more buttons. It might be the same in iOS 7.
> For a company that just threw out skeuomorphism as a design principle

No, only the iOS team did. And bets are still up to whether it was a good decision or a catastrophe for the iOS platform.
Ben, pat yourself on the back... you potentially thwarted a world renowned, best-of-class spy agency from collecting invasive personal data from your very lifeblood, your children. This may be the difference between your kids being ordinary nerds taking pictures of themselves hiking through a wildlife sanctuary while uploading their location to foursquare and being falsely implicated in a plot to overthrow the government and thrown into Guantanamo Bay.

And thankfully, you didn't stop at merely declining getting your kids' DNA tested, ignoring the peer pressure of all your cool yuppie friends who did so with their kids. Instead, you blogged your decision, and thereby recording your extreme intelligence and wit in a free permanent form for the masses to consume and benefit from.

I salute you, sir. A freedom fighter to which we all should bow to.
Well, in the meritocracy that is LKML, she has a leg to stand on. I'll make sure to send her a "thank-you" for USB 3.0 support. Thanks for answering my question, btw. :)
Thanks. I was curious since I've worked on some projects where that would be a concern.
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Hi, do you have any movement or dexterity in your fingers at all? If so, please offer details of this or any other control you have that might be exploited. I have a colleague who once-upon-a-time built a system of low-force buttons and other goodies that enabled a quadriplegic person to work a telephone very effectively, as in they were subsequently employed to do some kind of work over the telephone. Would something like that be of use?

I think you might also be able to make use of a kinect or Andriod/iPhone and some eye-tracking.

Also, do you know of these guys? It's where my colleague worked about twenty years ago. http://www.tirrfoundation.org/
For the .NET crowd, ELMAH (https://code.google.com/p/elmah/) is the way to go.
I'm not sure why a startup CEO making a sexist job post looking for Ruby devs in a Ruby forum should give Ruby a bad name, more than, say, (in decreasing order of relevance), the particular CEO, the company, tech startup CEOs, and tech startup culture more generally.
I always thought using fans to repel mosquitoes was common knowledge, but thinking back it was a trip to China where I learned about it. In fact, it was the same trip where I discovered the plug-in hormone packs AND the electric fly swatters. The rest of the world, where mosquitoes carry disease and there aren't spraying programs, seems to have figured out how to repel the bugs better than we have, and for lower cost.

I'm lucky enough to have an air conditioner that points right at my bed. While the main purpose is to keep cool, I haven't been bitten in bed this summer (unlike in the spring when the aircon was off).
Here's a simple idea (lacking in specific implementation details, sorry):

- Figure out how to add a text filter between DragonDictate and your system.

- Program the filter to look for a special sequence, e.g. "cipher_mode"

- When in cipher mode, feed characters through a simple cipher. E.g. A -> C, B -> D, etc. No passerby is going to be able to figure out what you're doing.

- When the filter sees "cipher_mode" again then it stops filtering.
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Linus Torvalds defends his right to shame Linux kernel developers
The article starts out by claiming Windows's _NSAKEY[1] provides "backdoor access", then goes on to claim that Linux is compromised because SELinux[2] was originally developed by the NSA, and then concludes that porting SELinux to Android means that Android has been compromised.

The author notes that all of the SELinux code is open-source, but appears to believe that the NSA is capable of writing backdoor code that eludes extensive auditing by the entire world's security community.

In other words, this site is Timecube for techies.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux
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PS re: "I want my personal information secure from casual passers-by who after having a quick peck on the keyboard would more than likely give up; I'm not looking for PRISM dodging security here :-)"

How about an RFID tag fixed to your wheelchair, and a transceiver for it mounted on your computer desk?
[disclaimer: I helped proofread the book]

FWIW, I worked with Dave at LivingSocial and took over a bunch of code that he wrote. Whatever a senior developer is, DaveC is that. He wrote great code, was excellent in terms of executing on tasks, made major contributions to tons of projects, was helpful, cheerful, all that good stuff.
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I've open-sourced one part of our company's Q framework -- the library we use on the front end.

It contains a lot of stuff that took us a while to design and write and test on all browsers. If you wind up using it, I would love to hear your feedback. Ask me any questions if you get stuck. You can also contact me here: http://qbix.com/about
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> What was one recent example?

System Apache unable to listen on non-standard port.

> Not possible.

Tell me of a vulnerability on a fully-updated RHEL 6 image running only SSH and a basic Apache configuration serving static files which would be prevented by the stock SELinux configuration.

> You mean labels? No, that's pretty fundamental to SELinux.

Exactly. So my explicit decisions about file permissions must be duplicated. No thanks.

> Try setroubleshoot.

So, no.
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The threat model was casual passers-by. That may not seem much but severe disabilities change things a lot.

I am assuming that the OP is simply taking steps to mitigate an ever present fear of "being taken advantage of". There are some real arseholes out there, for example a friend of a friend was a blind dumb mute who was mugged in the street - nothing stolen except her cane and cards she used to communicate. She had no way to communicate with anyone, and they had no way to communicate with her.

She had to walk home...
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The pitch corrections stuff works by using Fourier Transforms to determine what frequencies of a sound have the most energy at any given moment, which can be used to determine pitch. Then, to transform the pitch, they (most likely) use an algorithm/process called Granular Resynthesis (not to be confused with Granular Synthesis, which is related but used for a very different purpose).
This response lacks empathy and imagination. Imagine being a child that for as long as he can remember has been told by his mother that he's worthless and that she should have had an abortion. You think that's 'not real' and that it only hurts 'to the extent he allows it'?

Not everyone has grown up in the enviable position of being strong-willed and independent of thought, especially considering societal expectations. Suggesting anyone can just 'grow a thick skin' is as silly as suggesting you can change your gender by willing it.
I wouldn't jump to that conclusion, Mac software is priced as bait for Apple hardware. Professional recording equipment is very expensive, and high-end producers have no qualms spending a few grand on Pro Tools plugins. Logic isn't the Photoshop of recording, it's more like Sketch.
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You can set LastPass to prompt for the password every time you need to login to a password[1]. This presumably disables password caching in the plugin. Would that solve the your first problem?

[1] https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/account-settings/security/
I used bookdesigners.com and was totally thrilled with them. I used to be a graphic designer, and discovered what you mentioned: good web design is not the same as good book cover design. They were pricey: $1500, but I figured an excellent cover was the best place to put marketing $$. I haven't made that money back in sales yet, but I still think I got good value for what I paid.
Of course others can afford it. Whether they want to is another matter, but other companies like Propellerheads make lots of money selling software in the same price range.

Also, don't forget that most of the Apple Pro Apps came about because pretty much none of the creative market vendors were initially on board with OSX, that only happened later when they saw OSX grow.
Summary - (1) make money fast, (2) say no to new features unless necessary, (3) dominate small core markets, then expand, (4) really listen to feedback, (5) really listen to your team, (6) trust your users.

Every time I see one of these letters, it saddens me to think how strongly the current SV model pushes growth before value. You might say it's best for VCs but not for founders, but does even the VC see the upside they might have gotten with more patience?

What these stories seem to say...Groupon isn't a deviation; it's the most successful incarnation of a broken and widely promoted growth model whose typical end state is this.
Does anyone on here have engineering knowledge related to bicycle disc brakes? It seems like they would have a harder time stopping the bike as the friction surface is closer to the hub and thus has less mechanical advantage. So what's the appeal? Because clearly a lot of bikes have them now.
This is a very perceptive observation, but you're ignoring the reciprocal trend in the evolution of language: The development of abbreviation, shorthand, and idiom. The conceptual open-endedness of language allows for infinite flexibility, but at a cost of efficiency of communication.

You actually allude to this in your example: "Scrunchie on door" is a cultural idiom for "please do not enter the room as its occupants are currently engaged in intimate activities" – we can imagine the occupant chose an iconographic symbol for this rather than writing out the aforementioned sentence in marker on a piece of paper solely because it was more efficient (there are plenty of euphemisms that could be written out longhand as well, negating any argument that the icon would be chosen purely out of discretion).

Ultimately, this sequence of abstraction be seen as a loop: Ancient pictograms led to written language, which may be optimized to idiom and icon (the scrunchie), which again serve to inform language (texting about the scrunchie). Iconography is not a one-way path to language – it's a communication tool that works in conjunction with language.
Thank you. Soothing like the Windows event viewer ...
Average website design gives a feeling it could correlate to average design in other fields.

I couldn't disagree more. I personally see no correlation between the design of his site and his software engineering ability. It's like saying you don't trust that engineer to design a bridge because the ring he's wearing is all jagged along the edges. What?
They cite NSAKEY as a qualifying example of an NSA software backdoor... am I ignorant and/or naive or has it never actually been proven that that's what it was?
What do you want to bet these data protection laws will do a better job of protecting authorities, than they will "protecting" users?
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There are plenty of ways to pay for "overtime" without it being official overtime pay. eg. bonuses, time-off matching extra time worked during an unavoidable "crunch", etc.

Of course, there are still employers that won't even consider giving you any of that but make it a regular practice of overworking their employees. Don't work at these places.
Hand-written lexer in Javascript compared to the regex-based ones
Have you looked at AppNeta?
From what I've read a lot of them can be spoofed with either a printed picture, or a video playing back.
I wonder what the impact of completely eliminating mosquitoes from the ecosystem would be.

If we could quantify that, and the outcome was enticing, we could release a bunch of genetically modified sterile mosquitoes that would quickly erase whole populations.
Yeah, if you read the whole thing he seems a little frustrated that his efforts to get the attention of ruby developers haven't been working. That's my impression at least: http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2013-July/0090...
Yubikey would work if you could mount it so that you can touch the touch-pad with your nose. I don't know if that's acceptable to you?
This comment is verbally abrasive. I find the site very clear, legible, and intuitive.
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Hm .. maybe this could be implemented based on Perl ...
Nice job. I also did this. I got tired after twenty some years of repeating myself to juniors, so I wrote "Coding: On Software Design Process". -- Jonathan

http://www.amazon.com/Coding-On-Software-Design-Process/dp/0...
I'd like to point out that $25 is probably not too much to pay for a book that might earn you an extra $X,000-$X00,000 over the course of the rest your career. There's of course a chance that you could read this book and increase your earning power by exactly zero, but I have a hunch that there's at least $25 worth of good advice here.

The design is FINE! It communicates what the book is about in a way that takes very little effort on the visitor's part. I think Dave did a perfectly okay job with it.

I've actually been saving up thoughts and writing scraps to write a book like this myself, but I'm probably not qualified and I'm glad somebody else did a better job first. Nice work.
Forgive the off the cuff suggestion here, it's the quickest and simplest thing I can think of though not an optimum way to use your laptop and you're probably hoping for a more elegant solution.

What if you install virtual box w/ some free OS (like ubuntu). Store all your personal information within the virtual machine which is configured with a secure login. Then you can leave the laptop unsecured so you can use your other apps to dictate the password to the ubuntu OS for login.
That could be stolen though.
The point is to treat the people like people. Treating women, in context, like exotic treats is not a good way to "value people."
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NFC would be excellent, but if Bluetooth-enabled phone is all you have: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-your-smartphone-automatica...
If access to another device is just as problematic then a 13.56mhz MIFARE RFID sticker could do the trick with a Sonmicro USB RIFD reader.

The interface could just be a python script reading for serial over USB. I built some Raspberry Pi based RFID terminals that ran a python script in a loop, no problems running them for days on end.

That's the extent to which I know, someone else would have to chime in on exactly how to interface the script with access control.
At first I thought - "Who's Carl?"...
Plus, it will sell Macs, both laptops and Mac Pros. Smart.

Plus? No, _first_. Apple is a hardware company. They sell computers. Their software, while excellent and profitable, IMO exists only to sell more hardware.

All companies have a core competency & purpose. Everything else must feed that core; a product may be excellent on its own, but must still support the core. Deviate from that core, badness happens. Logic Pro is awesome on its own, but was created to give a niche a reason to buy into the Apple ecosystem, buy hardware, and buy more hardware.
18 days is more than 3.5 weeks of paid vacation. You also have to consider that the additional 14k will be taxed at a high marginal rate. You won't see 14k of that money. Less than 10k more likely (perhaps far less).

So the question should be "Would you trade less than 10k of after-tax income for 3.5 weeks of paid vacation?"

If my alternative is a paltry total of 12 paid vacation days per year? Definitely. I have a family that I want to enjoy life with. An 80k salary is more than enough to live comfortably in my neck of the woods.

In general, I've found that North American employers will give you a raise much faster than they'll allow you more paid time off.
This is an unnecessary personal attack.

Like it or not, women and minorities often have different life experiences than white men. There is a range of experiences within each group, and there is overlap, and economics play a big role, but it's a leap to assume that someone looking for a diverse workplace is self righteous or clueless.
You've got that slightly backwards. GigE always has auto-MDIX support, slower Ethernet ports might not support it but generally do in all semi-modern hardware.
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Couldn't someone hold up a picture of the OP's face to the camera to bypass this?
My guess: if Linus would behave in a nicer, politer way, the Linux kernel would be much more awesome than it already is. Through his behavior and that of the people he has attracted (those that will deal with his shit and have a higher incidence of behaving in the same way), hundreds of would-be contributors have been annoyed, alienated and scared away.

If you questioned every developer on this planet, for every kernel contributor, on every level of expertise, there are two that simply wouldn't deal with his shit and have been lost. The Linux kernel could have been much better.
I would posit that aggression is generally unwarranted. I would consider aggression to be the non healthy alternative to, say, being matter of fact, blunt, terse, and other such ways of giving negative feedback without directly attacking the person.

I'm sure there's no perfect dividing line between non-aggressive/aggressive. But it's generally clear when something is nearer the extremes.

"Alice, that's completely wrong because X, this code needs to be rewritten from scratch following principle Y."
"Bob, what is this retarded shit? You stupid fool, go RTFM and do it again."
You don't need to use Gmail as a business. There are a ton of alternatives, from all places.

And precisely because a company like Microsoft or Google would do this, you need to fear them, because they would do this with other governments, too, including the Romanian one. It's not just NSA you have to fear. If the laws allow it, the Romanian government could get all your secret documents from Skydrive or Gmail, just as easily.
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Unlocking a computer programatically is hard and should be so. Locking on the other hand isn't. Perhaps you could lock upon fail to NFC authenticate every x seconds.
That only answers part of the question, since the attacker would still have x seconds to snoop around every time he logged in, but would be such a nuisance that he probably would give up.
loving it, definitely
I was playing with these sort of things these months and eventually I was ending with something similar, but that is far away what I was doing.
I think I will contribute to this lib if i can instead of continuing my shit :)
Sorry to hear about this, but to clear up a point of confusion, Path.To is not Path the social network
We've been using Airbrake also, have been experiencing quite some issues with exceptions not showing up and slowness of the web ui.

I've been using Sentry [1] lately and it has been excellent.
Only issue has been that using SSL from Java was quite troublesome as their certificate is not supported by the JVM by default [2].

[1] http://getsentry.com
[2] https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/issues/903

Edit:
Rollbar looks interesting. Too bad they don't have an API for Java.
Something like this? http://www.map-pin.com/tokenlock-home/
lol, yeah it's a bit hard to read. I thought about writing it out as: Car Incentives.com
If it's any kind of open track, it'll have problems with sonic booms. 400 miles in 30 minutes is 800 mph, a speed which exceeds the speed of sound at sea-level (~ 760mph). The neighbors aren't going to like that.
I wonder what the impact of completely eliminating mosquitoes from the ecosystem would be.

A scientist has considered that issue, and the conclusion is that we could all live quite happily without any mosquitoes in the world.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
SELinux is open source. At least you can verify and prove they it has a backdoor in it. Good luck doing that with Windows, Skype or Skydrive.

Did you read about the Cryptocat security bug? We learned about it because it was open source. Maybe NSA found out about it even earlier, but at least we did, too, and fixed it. Now imagine the same type of bug was in Skype. Then NSA would be the only ones who know about it.
That's not totally true. I've heard from several professional musicians who use Reaper ( http://www.reaper.fm/ ) and it sells for $225.
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Why would releasing sterile mosquitoes help erase the population? Do they eat each other or something?
It's probably enough for stopping the casual interference the OP wants to prevent.
How would a GM but sterile mosquito help? It can't pass its unique trait to offspring.
This article in MotherEarthNews had a commenter who stated that this trap also attracted other insects, including bees (which the boric acid is also fatal to). So, even if it is effective, unfortunately it seems that it's too indiscriminate.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/homemade-mosquito-trap-zm...