skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW if a fed has an account with the service (which is fairly likely for big services like Gmail et al), and knows the hashing algorithm (if they've successfully got the passwords this is pretty likely too) they could prove it easily by hashing their password themselves and comparing it to the stored version.
that's interesting. can you link to any research supporting the claim that depression doesn't fundamentally differ for people with varied IQ levels?
Better to switch to authentication protocols where the server never sees your password.
> Are you saying that yours is the definition that should apply across all cultures and creeds, suitable for enshrinement in national law?

1. I'm just stating what the common definition is.
2. I personally don't even believe in this distinction at all, however my views are not common.
3. Conservative muslims would probably share the same distinction, but argue that all pornography, 'hardcore' or 'softcore', is immoral.
Sadly that is the problem with a lot of R&D in this kind of area.

Imagine a search & rescue robot able to navigate in hazardous environment, being able to identify a human being, opening doors, to reach them, to deliver medicine, or a transport-possibility.

And now imagine an mountainous area in Afghanistan and the robot not delivering first-aid...

The R&D is the same. That's why DARPA is funding exactly these kind of challenges. Or am I wrong here.
Thanks. PDF is PITA to read on anything but paper anyway, but every little bit helps I suppose.
I'm surprised by how dramatic the difference is between the speed of C and Haskell. One of my professors (at The University of Glasgow, so appropriately a Haskell fan) once claimed that it had "c-like performance".

I suppose that's the point of this paper though, that "c-like performance" is a terribly vague term, meaningless without knowledge of the specific comparisons being made.
So inventing scenarios so we can feel better is the solution? These middlemen businesses make their money by controlling the sales channels and giving as little as possible to the actual producers. It's basically cultural imperialism.
This is a great paper; it is very readable and motivated and I learned quite a bit. I'm also now looking forward to perusing the 2012 Ninja C paper.

One small change I would make to the preprint would be to better normalize the graph symbols. In particular, failing to read the legends of each graph carefully might cause readers to misattribute results in subsequent graphs (for example, my mind wanted to associate Intel's HRC with "the lighter gray ones with the boxes", which is not a stable representation across all graphs).
It still kills me a little inside when I think of the day I helped Ed Catmull load a Pixar box onto a bus to the airport knowing I was going to turn them down on their job offer to go to work at Silicon Graphics instead.

Pixar just didn't feel stable enough and I had a wife and newborn. Sure enough, I was a hardware guy, and Pixar dumped hardware two weeks after the date I would have started and I would have been out of a job.

That's too bad. I would have been thrilled to work there.
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> Let's be clear: government has not just passed a law requiring packet inspection
Correct. That happened in the past already when ISPs were required to block access to the pirate bay.
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So.. hold on.

If the companies have no profits, and investors get no return.

..why would you want to invest?
this piece about hacking should give you a good example of aggressive networking.

'aggressive networking' is right, don't some of these tactics get you blocked or reported?
I would be more useful if someone made a sticker of some sort that allows you to cover the camera when you don't need it, and pull off easily when you do. Maybe a little magnet would do the trick.
You're not concerned about the social, economic, and environmental impacts of this laundry service? This has a far greater potential footprint than a simple neighborhood dry cleaners or wash-and-fold. Especially when it's billed as a 'startup' and pitching for venture capital or other investment to reach the point where desired economies of scale will only increase that footprint in order to provide any level of viability and persistence.

I find lack of concern for the variegated impacts any business has on social, economic, and environmental dimensions far more problematic than exhibiting and evaluating such concern. At least engaging the concern can allow someone the ability to assess such impacts in determining whether or not to fund and/or celebrate such a service.
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Ah, then I got the wrong idea about them mentioning SQL Server.
I think they're probably competing with non-consumption rather than with their suppliers. Note the market segmentation and markedly higher prices, for example. (I have some accidental knowledge on this due to previous HN threads attempting to value laundry services as a perk from Big Daddy G, so I happen to know that weekly laundry pickup costs about $800 a year in SV, which is a sizable discount relative to this.)

To put it another way: they don't have to create more dirty laundry, they just have to successfully sell people on "You've always thought that poor people use the laundromat, middle class people use their own washer, and rich people have hired servants, but guess what, people just like you can actually outsource laundry without any of the squicky associations you have with hiring domestic help. It's as easy and natural as ordering a pizza."
And what prevents me to create a simple page that redirects to plaintext on login if given an order after the audit. With NSL currently the situation is whatever lola wants, lola gets.
It is specifically mentioned in our privacy policy. We also use Google Analytics, so that ship has sailed.
Oh for fucks sake. There are no secret courts that can issue indictments.
Perhaps tangential, but is there any way to be certain whether the webcam light can be controlled by software?

I often wonder if my MBP camera is necessarily off just because the ominous little green light isn't shining.
Hey JD,

Thanks so much for reading.

I've never been reported or blocked. With FB, a lot of what I did was in-conjunction with a contact at FB. Twitter is the only slightly more dodgy one but even then, I've never had any issues.
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I don't think so. It seems like software controls whether that little green light is on. Unless the green light is on whenever the webcam is powered.
Nah, China is relevant.
Can you give more details. Presumably the filter is just dropping traffic sent to/from any of the IP addresses or domain names in the blacklist.

What are the glitches you're seeing?
Or just microbial life, which lasted 3 billion years, which is 15x longer than the 200 million for dinosaurs.
I've been saying the same thing for a while. Many companies need to form some sort of alliance against government censorship and surveillance, not just in US, but globally. One company alone, even one as big as Google, can't stand up to a government like the Chinese one. 100 big American companies that are vital for their economy, might be able to do it.
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> The question doesn't really make sense: The equivalent is supervisord running inside the lxc container.

So the solution is to "batch up" a load of apps into one container and run with supervisor or something as per my last bullet? I had pretty much envisaged a one docker container per application type of model...
It's a government. Their natural desire is to govern lives.
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No, but they have been targeted by drones without a trial...
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Well, combinations to a safe are viewed quite differently from a physical key to a lock. Compelling the latter has been viewed as permissible, while the former has not.

Where compelled disclosure of a password falls on that spectrum is, indeed, a matter of debate.

However, this is not the same. This is compelling a company to turn over either a user's password (which the user [debatably] could not be forced to turn over without potential infringement of 5A) or specific technical details necessary to business, security, and privacy operations to help them decrypt an encrypted password.

My examples were specifically not about compelling a person criminally charged or investigated to divulge combinations or produce keys. It was about compelling the safe-makers and key-makers to do the job as an end run around users being unwilling or unable to provide the demanded result.

Tangentially, this revelation makes me think a bit more about the CISPA requirements that were discussed regarding protecting employees from being forced to surrender passwords to their employers. Can't help but wonder if backdoor conversations on that proposal were engineered by executive wishes to be able to compel employers to turn over employee passwords because they haven't been successful with service providers directly.

[edit: mixed up my former/latter statement. added last comment. fixed spelling/grammar mistakes.]
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So all your comments are lacking is a bag of dicks. :3
The fact that you haven't been noticed yet doesn't make this an acceptable method. Basically the article is all about gaming the social networks and getting away with it in favor of publicity for your product or service. I don't think anyone can go very far with such dodgy methods
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Buy one of those stickers and nobody will ever have to know!
If only because if you don't wash it right away it tends to start walking around all by itself, and a few days later it will talk back to you.
Why didn't we know about this beforehand? I wonder how much China bribed the UK to get them to use Huawei.
How likely is it that the pre-pres Obama was as-advertised, but he's now operating with top-level knowledge about the US's place in the power struggles of the world? And that knowledge pushes him to act against some of the friendlier statements he's made in the past?

Could the strength of the US WRT China (for example) be on a knife-edge that warrants the back-pedalling we're seeing?
After 1000 hours with Google, all of those things are completely plausible. Moreso if you have a mentor to turn to. In fact, I would think that if you haven't reached that level of basic competence after 1000 hours, you're probably a pretty slow learner, or just not getting programming.

I was maybe 40-80 hours into finally putting serious effort into programming when I started playing with hand-crafted ELF binaries and trying to beat GCC at optimizing simple routines (never had any real trouble with pointers again after that; assembly makes it all make sense). Hoverover effects are not the sort of thing I would have been struggling with.

Incidentally, she's probably spent many more hours coding in the last six months than I have in the past year, and it's nominally my full-time job. It's amazing how little actual code you can end up writing as a professional software engineer.
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Even so, it is used in the majority of European countries and usually it is more important than the Birthday! Quite surprising as it could be an optional feature.
I notice the payment form is US-centric (it demands a state, I told it n/a). Really quite fitting, given that the NSA isn't supposed to spy on Americans.
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It bothered me that the two co-founders are wearing creased unironed t-shirts with their company logo on them.

If they're not fussed about wearing clean ironed clothes for a photoshoot why should I trust them with my laundry.
The ones I feel bad for are the incidental employees: the people working at the front desks, the secretaries, some of the HR people.. all of those people for whom Zynga is just another relatively unremarkable company. They don't have a part in the unpleasant aspects of the company, and could hardly be expected to evaluate the company before deciding to work there. If they start losing their jobs, they will be the only employees there I feel bad for.
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Could you post the bug reports?
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

This has worked for me and it's down to the individual to decide how aggressive you want to be.

I'll let you know how far I go...or when I fall.
The Pirate Bay block was not a law imposed on all ISPs.

It was a court order imposed by a judge for a specific case brought by the recording industries against the few largest ISPs individually.
Part of the case was basically that the ISPs already had filtering systems in place (in that case for the IWF child abuse blocks - again, not required by law but installed "voluntarily"). So the industry essentially said that adding TPB to the existing blocklist wouldn't be too much of a burden.

(I believe that similar orders have expanded it to cover a few more sites since, but not sure whether those cover all the same ISPs again).
That would be hardware-specific, but probably _always_ independently controllable. It's not like the IC manufacturer is going to link the CCD to an LED.
This is more apt advice. At Hacker News we are swimming in a sea of start-ups, who are constantly evangelising the 'cloud' (it's often their bread and butter). But if you genuinely want privacy then keep it local and locked down. Stick to mainstream open source products and keep things as simple as possible.
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WTF, why is this crap on HN homepage? A front camera sticker? Seriously guys.
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"Now get in there and do some work to do with computers!!!"
My laptop has a sliding piece of plastic that covers the webcam http://i.imgur.com/zRnNOEQ.jpg
There was a Quora by a Pixar employee (who did distance himself from Pixar, so not official statement) comment on that. I'll paste info here because Quora sucks:

It's a wonderful example of how, given a sufficiently large dataset,
one can cherry-pick what one needs to construct almost any narrative.

My daughter broke the time line, though, by pointing out
that Heimlich has a cameo in Toy Story 2. I do want to
give the author props for inventing the idea of the
Monsters Inc. doors being time portals. It doesn't really
work, but it's witty.

As in the case of Andy's father the real reason Pixar
films contain references to other Pixar films is rather
mundane. It's only because somebody thought it would be
funny and the director agreed. In the cases of things like
John Ratzenberger's voice and the Pizza Planet Truck,
it's tradition and a challenge.

Source:
http://www.quora.com/Pixar-Animation-Studios/What-do-Pixar-e...
It would be interesting to compare Talk Talk latency with other providers. Surely this packet inspection cannot be free in terms of performance.
What about us developers? Don't we get a little love?
> People may not realize it yet, but the recession is over. If Amazon values the work these people do, they shouldn't assume that there is an unending supply of people waiting to fill these positions.

Your grasp on the theoretical situation is quite firm, as is your apparent ability to ignore reality.
All Thinkpads have a "no webcam" option and all W and T (and X?) series come with a free hardware kill switch for your microphone.
After the leaks we've seen, wouldn't publicising protection of whistleblowers potentially motivate more leaks of state secrets? I can see how the government would be nervous about that. Clearly they think that some abuse of authority is justified to maintain global power.
Why not? It's easy. Turn the LED on when there's current on the CCD's power input.
Cisco helped China government build the Great Firewall 10 years ago. It's very advanced and powerful.
I don't think Huawei can beat Cisco in the 'net filtering' business at GFW level.
I guess it's just a budget limited version :)
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Hardware-based can mean two things.

1. The CCD IC controls the LED
2. A intermediate IC has firmware that controls the CCD and LED

It is safe to assume that the LED is always controlled either by an OS driver, or by an intermediate firmware. I doubt it would ever be controlled by the 'final' camera IC.

This means that, for Macbooks, running the CCD without the LED is _very difficult_, but, if the camera supports firmware upgrades, it is possible. And there could be undocumented commands to enable video without the LED.

If you're afraid of script-kiddies watching you read Reddit, you can probably trust the LED. If you're afraid the NSA has identified you as a special target, you probably cannot.
Really? Well, maybe it's a bit blunt to resume it to that, but that's pretty much it. Have you read the article?
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Awesome notes, I've found http://targetpattern.com to be the most effective for gaining targeted followers on twitter, I haven't seen tweetadder before.
Sorry for late reply.

More people need sex than food, yet we pursue it with greater fervor than food.

More people don't need social networks, yet HN is filled to the brim with new social network or social site.

You got a point about it being a more desirable/glamourous job than selling food.

My point was that people get away with that kind of abuse of employees (and yes I'm aware its due to supply/demand).
This part implies some kind of answer, right? "They also used the trap to store and then retrieve an image consisting of three stripes".

I'm not sure that answers exactly how the "Reader" work, though.
I have a light next to my webcam that turns on when it's active. Is it possible the webcam can be activated without that light turning on?
This week they open sourced a version of their core, I am curious to see some real project insight regarding this version as well

https://twitter.com/OAuth_io/status/360280255358963714

https://github.com/oauth-io/oauthd
And LA used to be la la land.
As a seller I'm willing to give up information about you if you're willing to give up the ability to charge back your money.
The corporate systems for this (usually) operate by proxying all HTTP traffic, so any sites which don't play nicely with a HTTP proxy are affected. I've seen "interesting" problems with some more esoteric HTTP 1.1 features and all sorts of things with streaming sites.

You're probably right that this system isn't proxying everything, so its impact would be a lot lower. It all depends on what layer it tries to operate, which we don't really know. I'd love to see an investigation from someone on TalkTalk.
I seem to recall Canada has it's share of tech-ignorant, pro-censorship legislators?
Naive

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Weird, isn't it? Especially considering it was acquired by Github, where almost anyone here has an account. Maybe Github is not advertising it enough.
Usually the saying goes "Build a great product and users will come". Reading this reminds me more of "Build whatever product and drag users to come". But in the end, for a real business, it's all about being able to pay the bills, stay alive and make some profit. And for that last one, I think some of the points in the article can gain you some advantage against another average product you compete with..
Two points:

1) The general (non-Marxist) idea is not that 'the market price is unfair, so we should set different prices ourselves', but rather that the market isn't magic, and does not appear ex nihilo, but is impacted by many things. Some of those things (such as law about hiring, firing, welfare, safety, and so on) can materially affect the negotiation in a way that is patently not fair. For example, if unions had the kinds of powers some ascribe to them (ability to set wages however high they wanted with all staff being unfirable no matter what they did, with employers being powerless slaves) that would be obviously unfair. The power dynamic in many countries (including the US) is roughly that slanted at the moment, but in favour of employers rather than employees - in the US, for example, this is the effect of things like no cause firing, binding arbitration agreements, 'temp' positions and 'internships' being allowed to be offered in place of actual jobs, no real socialised healthcare, limited unemployment insurance in most states, low minimum wages, no 'union shops' in most states, anti union laws, limited occupational health and safetly laws in many states, and so on. So, to make things 'fair', these things have to be fixed - then the market will be 'fair'.

2) The general (Marxist) idea is not that 'the market price is unfair, so we should set different prices ourselves', but rather that capitalist-worker relationships are always unfair and exploitative due to the worker always having to sell their labour for wages, rather than capital, where the capitalist simply gains more money through the actions of capital - neatly setting up a coercive power structure. The (tl;dr version of the) Marxist response is not that this means that we have to set 'better' or 'fairer' levels for wages, but that we have to destroy capitalism and abolish wage slavery.
On my desktop PC, I plug in the webcam when I need to use it for Skype, and unplug it when it's not in use. Nothing can be used remotely when it's not plugged in!
Do you see any opportunity for Pixar to get back into hardware?
The article says it's only TalkTalk's traffic that is monitored by Huawei, not all the traffic in the UK.

Cameron just thinks it's awesome and would be happy if it was all of the traffic. Which actually is probably even worse.
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I would like to point out that this article does not state that all UK traffic is being filtered by Huawei. The article mentions David Cameron praises the filtering system used by a single UK ISP, TalkTalk, and has demanded that similar measures be enforced by other UK ISPs. The article then describes the filtering system that TalkTalk uses, which is provided by Huawei.

Ofcom (an independent regulator) reports (http://media.ofcom.org.uk/facts/) that TalkTalk has a 17% market share at the end of 2012. So not all of the UK's net traffic is filtered through a service provided by Huawei.
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