skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like "use a passcode on your phone and NEVER unlock (enter the passcode) while the phone is plugged into this charger" is also a defense.

Unlock to check your email while plugged in? Compromised.
Teacher forces student to do math to unlock phone
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"There's some hard evidence that all this privacy stuff just doesn't alarm us all that much."

I wish all these articles would stop the reinforcement of apathy in every spying article's opening paragraph. It sets the tone for the entire piece.
OFF Pocket: a privacy accessory for mobile phones
> "oh well what can you do, we need to be safe".

I think that's a touch of a generalization. I'm a guy that flies 4+ times a month, and I'm on a team of people who keep the same travel schedules. Not once has anyone I've ever known mentioned "safety" when the subject of TSA, or any invasive government program, comes up.

No, the thing that we're scared of is not some vague notion of a terrorism, but being caught up in some power tripping TSA agents wet dream. You get groped because the alternative is causing a scene, getting detained, missing my flight, and thus missing out on the job which was my entire reason for entering the awful airport in the first place. A missed job means that there's no repeat next year, which puts my line of work and lively hood in jeopardy. Is it exciting? No. But it's reality.

Talk of standing up to "the man" is easy, but action is several orders of magnitude harder. I have student loans, I have an apartment and family which would go under if not for my income. Things really aren't bad enough yet to put all of that on the line. So you go through "security," get your balls groped because it's better than the alternative, and you press on.

I suspect that there are more like me than there are mindless "Gotta catch the terrorists at any cost!" people. Things would have to get much worse and actually tip the balance to where it makes sense to fight before I actually will.

Don't think of us all as terrorist fearing surrender monkeys.
"Jumping to conclusions" is a funny phrase to use. It seems to imply that there were actual conclusions being drawn out of the initial suspicions, instead of a "Hey let's look into this thing".

Now what if the child had cried wolf for the very first time and some of the villagers were all like "Shuttup you stupid kid, who do you think you are that the wolf would wanna eat you anyways! OOH LOOK THE WOLF IS GONNA EAT MEEEHHH! Stupid idiot."

Then once it was determined that there was no wolf, those same villagers proceeded to deride and mock the few people who actually tried to shine a light into the forest to see if there was a wolf in the first place: "I can't believe you fell for that you stupid idiots. Told ya there was no wolf!"

In conclusion, let's not allow our relationships and decisions rely TOO much on children's tales.
But that's how I learned to ssh into a machine. :( And how to setup Apache. That kind of "procrastination" is how I learn about 90% of the stuff I use to make my living.
We don't know the whole story, when the police interviewed the employers they may have described the employee as unstable or disgruntled which, with the internet searches, warranted a visit to the former employee. This story reminds me of a story by Adam Savage [1] where he was ordering a movie prop and received a call by the FBI and it was quickly dismissed but the agent still had to follow up the tip.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7I0...
My implication is different (altho I agree some people use it as a racist argument). My implication is that social cohesion policies are not easy when you have a ethically diverse population with different cultures and values. It's perfectly natural for people to form into groups and not trust 'others' (which isn't racist). This natural tendency makes it hard for social policies to be successful. When 95% of your population is white, with similar cultural values, its easy to have a policy where you spread the wealth to fellow group members you identify with. It's a lot harder to have policies when your population is split into 3 different camps.
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Yep. Reminds me of the time WalMart paid a couple to blog about their RV trip across the US, without the couple disclosing the entire trip and blog was a WalMart marketing experiment:
http://kevin.lexblog.com/2006/10/13/fake-blog-walmart-gets-c...
A fork can be a spoon for you, if you choose to use it that way. Nobody is telling you what you are supposed to use it for, but still JSON was designed as data format.

If you don't like the format or feel that JSON is too restrictive/bad feel free to extend it or create your own format from scratch.
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You know it's bad when the hosts site is down and they announce "code red" on twitter.
I found this http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/671390578/juicebee recently which looks like a good compromise. There are many similar products on amazon as well.
I'm not so sure, really. If a reasonably well respected employer phoned in a tip about an employee looking up what they thought were terrorist-y things on a work computer (we'll never know what they actually phoned in, I'd love to know though!), I'd have expected that to generate an investigation for quite some time now.

The worst I can possibly think of to accuse the cops with in this case is showing up with too many people. One or two uniformed officers was all that was necessary.
Well, considering that the vast majority of its users have already signed up, and that information is already stored, their accounts can already be researched. Same goes for most sites which implement a "new" security scheme.
So a British judge has placed an injunction against publication in the USA. How does such a conference fall within UK juristriction?
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Noam Chomsky: Manning a Hero
Thanks for the feedback. I totally agree with you.

Adding easy syntax highlighting is my next step to address this problem.
Until the NSA issue actually has an effect on the every day lives of the american population, it's going to be hard to get much support, when there are issues will actually make a difference in people's lives. We, the hackers and geeks, all see the frightening potential for abuse, but as it is now... the NSA does not make one bit of difference in the life of the average american. Taxes, health care, gun control, immigration, minimum wage, etc.. These are issues that will (or people feel will) have an impact in their day to day life.

Furthermore, as a political issue, it's actually a problem that this is not a partisan issue. In the current polarized political climate, what politician wants to be seen working with the enemy? The democrats can't go after the spying as it's their party and president who are currently doing it. The republicans can't go against it as they originally started it and are the tough on terrorism party. When it comes to the NSA, the political machine is attempting to divide by zero.
FYI this entry was just still among the top 30 stories on HN and is currently listed at #169. Can somebody explain this please?
But do you really care? Or are you more like my dogs, who
can be distracted at any moment by a rustling in the
leaves. "Oh, look, a squirrel!" their alert little faces
seem to say.

mmm hmm... Is all Stevens work this misdirected?
Pyrodogg, we need to talk about your tabs :)

I have tabs out of 100% the same reasons as you, however I try to save my sessions with Session Buddy, but I kind of like your forest fire attitude. Sounds cleansing.
If he used wget (or similar utility) he could specify password as a command line argument. It's not a very good practice security-wise but people do this sometimes.
I don't know, but I remember seeing USB cables that split into two male adapters a while back. The idea was that one of them had power + data lines, and the other only had data lines. This was at a time when most USB ports strictly adhered to the standard (i.e. limited power to 500mA per port). If someone still had one of these lying around, they could just use the male adapter that had only data lines (IIRC, that connector was red to distinguish it from the other one).
Indeed, once the existence of a flaw is known, but not the specifics, it's often easy to find the flaw since you know where to look.
Something along the lines of America's Got Talent where people upload videos of a certain talent they have and they compete against other people doing similar things, allowing the crowd to determine who moves on in some type of contest/challenge model. You can just see somebody like Ryan Seacrest saying something like "Soooo, can YOU top that?!" Everybody loves to compete and win - get corporate sponsors to put up prizes depending on the number of views and votes the site gets. It's a site that has a legitimate possibility of going viral.
Groan...
for that matter, just do:

{

"comment":"this is a comment";
"value": 45;

"comment":"this is also a comment";
"value2": 64;

"comment":"we like overloading the comment field";
"stringval":"but these stay the same";

}
But it does impact companies that might otherwise try pre-installing Linux. Whichever distro they pick, they lose 100% of the Windows market plus the 97%* of the Linux market who bitch about not getting their fave version.

* Made up number but I remember Acer shipping netbooks with Linpus Lite...
Strange how embarrassed I feel writing it down. Even weirder is that I feel like recommending ADD medication legitimizes me recommending meditation and breathing rituals. I actually find them complimentary.
Are you opposed to practicing?
I have the exact same experience. Coasted on FB viral apps for a while, some days making 10K+ then the crash. Felt shitty when I had to find a job again and do the 9-5.
Quadruped Linux robot feels its way over obstacles
Once targeted by something like this, how does one go about finding a competent lawyer? How do I evaluate their competency?
SF is an amnesty city, with a lot of immigrants from central america. Many other US cities have an active deportation policy, SF does not. SF does not push out the homeless either.

My point was if Stockholm had the same weather and immigration policies as San Fransisco, it would be facing some of the same challenges with poverty and homelessness.
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There's not a lot of people in the world that are this dedicated to making other peoples' days just a little bit better.

Thanks Randall.
libc alone took ~48 hours on my P2-266 with 32MB RAM...

(My gentoo experience may be somewhat out of date)
Before I went to med school, I was similarly skeptical about the med/pharma industry. But like the global warming debate, once you understand the science, you begin to realize how facile the conspiracy theories are.

Here's the science behind ADHD: Functional MRI allows us to image actual brain activity. And there are clear differences between the brains of those diagnosed with ADHD and those diagnosed without (and yes, they do these studies blind, so researchers can't be biased).

And more recently they have found that stimulants such as methylphenidate (aka Ritalin) and others actually reverse these changes. Here is a recent study, plus a metareview (which compared several such studies):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23247506
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23660970

Of course, we could still have an interesting philosophical discussion about what we label a medical condition and what are variations of normal that nevertheless have a biological basis. Clearly, ADHD is not on par with debilitating psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia or a bipolar manic episode.

But ADHD can cause functional impairment in school, jobs, and personal relationships; it can lead to decreased happiness and satisfaction in life (and not only for the person affected, but also their families, partners, and colleagues); there are clear neurophysiological differences underlying it; and we have treatments that can make an important difference. So why not use them?

And as for the big drug companies? Most of the ADHD drugs are generic these days, so they don't profit.
JSON isn't a configuration language, it's just another data encoding format with the added benefit of being readable by humans. That and its ubiquity make it an appealing choice for stuff like ad-hoc configuration at first glance, but it's not the best choice. If you want a config language for shared human and machine consumption, use one designed for that purpose. JSON is pretty much just an encoding that is easy for humans to inspect and debug.
That's certainly interesting, but you know how news reports come up in your area of expertise and they are almost always wrong? It might be because the reporter is trained as a reporter and is just passing on whatever they hear. They have a large blindspot of 'unknown unknowns' (see Malcom Gladwell's "Igon Values"). The same thing happens when a cartographer strays away from geographic data.

Looking at the beer map at the bottom of the article, some of the claims are just silly. All of the hops in the USA are grown in four small regions in the northeast? Piffle. Grains are certainly not boiled to release the sugars either. You also get the impression that there are two yeast producers in the country (I'm not sure what the criteria is for being 'major').
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AppUrl tries to bring URL-based deep linking to mobile apps
Is this a guide for stoners?
Exactly. I built streamjoy.tv as hipmunk for streaming movies. I've been so busy with consulting work though that I haven't finished it.
Can they afford to? What was stopping them before?
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Purely speculatively, I find it interesting that:

- The described timeframe for the transition to update-able microcode corresponds roughly with my vague memory of when the U.S. government started to give up (in practice, if not on paper) on "keeping the lid on" strong cryptography in the commercial and microcomputer worlds.

- We read that Lenovo is "untrusted". Are they piggybacking on such a feature -- which I've little doubt their more competent scientists and researchers would have thoroughly explored -- trace by trace, if and as necessary? If so, are Lenovo products then untrusted because a Chinese firm has control over their update process -- via BIOS or however else?

In other words, did... "Western" agencies provide part or all of the mechanism by which the Chinese are now supposedly compromising Lenovo PC's?

----

P.S. I'm now further put in mind of all the industrial et al. espionage that is now fairly well attributed to the Chinese government and agencies. Were details of this functionality one or more of the prizes they obtained?
Buy a cheap one. USB 2 and 3 aren't any faster at power transfer.

Cut it open. There are four wires and a braided shield inside. Look up the USB spec to figure out which wires to cut.

If in doubt, cut the wires that are not black and red. In general, red is power and black is ground.

Voila. Surgery. If it doesn't work, you're out a $3 cable.
This is misguided. You don't need comments in a JSON config file. Why? Because you don't use JSON for config files that need comments.

JSON is like duc(k|t) tape. It's really easy to stick two things together with it. That doesn't mean you always should. It's the simple thing that gets the job done so you can focus on what matters.

One shouldn't pick JSON for your config files and then hold it up as good design. "Look at me, I'm daring and _not using XML_!" Using JSON is crap design, but good engineering means sometimes picking something crappy and not wasting effort on things that don't matter in the end.

If your configuration files become both complicated and important enough that you need comments, then you should stop using JSON. If your duck tape job starts needing additional reinforcement, then you should probably just get rid of the duct tape and do it right.

If one of your requirements is a sufficiently trendy yet commentable config language, look into YAML. Also, gaffer tape. The white kind is easier to write on.
I think so. I'm not sure on the details (I'm an engineer) but we have non-us-citizen engineer and scientists thanks to various overseas collaborations. The job submissions site goes through HR who can let you know for sure.
…and by now you've seen the rest of the story: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-k...

tl;dr: It was a former employer of her son or husband who called the local cops because of searches for "pressure cooker bombs" and "backpacks" in a work computer's browser history.
Conflict resolution is not very sofisticated. You can choose to always take server side version (the default) or client side version (see https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/wiki/Confi...). My main use case is a single user working on the client or on the server. So the scenario is not of a collaborative app.
Debatable, if the contents are harming fish after use.
Amen. I knew of affiliate managers and their employers (CEOs of companies) who knowingly allowed certain types of activities for high-rollers and openly condemned it for the rest. Affiliate marketing is a shady industry where the only person who benefits is the scumbag who started his own program and succeeded at attracting a few large blackhatters to promote some offers. I've been on both sides of that fence as a publisher and an advertiser. ( I guess I should mention that advertising pays quite well and takes far less work once everything is set up ie. coreg)
What horse shit.

I'm not saying this isn't possible. I'm just saying that there is absolutely no evidence provided that this has happened.

Shit claims like this discredit actual claims backed by evidence.
> secure HTTPS

sigh
This is a terrible and purely speculative article.
Can someone else with the proper background confirm or deny the idea in theory?

If it's possible, it would be a shame to loose the thread here.

Whether or not Steve Blank is qualified to make the observation seems like a Red Herring to me.
You should take a new/better look at OCaml, as most of the information you mentioned is wrong and/or out-of-date. For instance:

* F# is not a superset of OCaml. OCaml has a number of powerful features missing from F#, like functors, polymorphic variants, and first-class modules.

* I disagree that the ecosystem is "stale". There's lots of recent activity around the language, and you can find libraries for almost everything.
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It's not exactly a basement operation. I mean WikiMedia is basically one of the busiest destinations on the web running on donations alone, so even if the majority of sites aren't affected that much by switching to HTTPS, at the volumes they're serving, it must have a pretty significant impact.
Tabs are an extremely poor way of managing your space. In this case, your space is your screen.

The issue with tabs is that once you are past 10, you are significantly degrading the readability of your content. In order to reference 'x' material, you have to parse through all your tabs until you find the right one. This is a valuable waste of time and energy.

Over the last year I've slowly moved towards finding a solution to the tabbing dilemma, and how to actually have a huge number of different windows open, and I found it's already been solved. Workspaces.

If you've used a Macbook, you probably found out about 4 finger swiping, which switches between different 'workspaces', different, full-sized screens.

Similarly, on Linux distros, workspaces are usually enabled by default, and accessed via CTRL+ALT+ARROW_KEY.

On Windows, I found the free program Dexpot to be similarly as useful, except that the swapping is definitely not as smooth as on Linux/Mac.

The main benefit of workspaces is literally to section off your activities according to workspaces. For example, I will have a text editor open in one workspace, and a terminal open in another. I swap to one to compile, I swap to another to write.

I will then have several workspaces of pure reference material. C++ documentation, other specific documentation, random .pdf files, stackoverflow on Chrome and similar things.

And finally I'll have another workspace that's more of a play/irrelevant to activity theme. This way, tabs don't really build up (30+) unless I explicitly ignore the way my workflow is designed. This has been part of my evolution from Bookmarks to Hotkeys to now, efficient workspaces. I'm working on Macros.

However, for casual business, I'll usually have 20+ tabs open. :p
> What was stopping them before?

That's the question we should all be asking.

Mallory has always been out there. NSA is certainly a member of Mallory, but is not the only member.

So while it's nice that NSA is bringing attention to the idea of securing your communications, it shouldn't have had to come to this. It's been recommend practice for years now to use TLS for everything unless there were good reasons not to, to the point that it's baked-in to SPDY.
There is tools that do that for you incl conversion monitoring and more sophisticated targeting.

Check: http://audiencebuildr.com
> especially a sophisticated criminal gang

Yeah right, like the theorized "sophisticated gang" can't break into and steal the paper/research. Or, more easily kidnap/extort/blackmail/bribe scientists to give them the info.

Criminalizing information means only the criminals will have access to it.
It loads some weird page which proceeds to This page is a 403, forbidden page.
A couple of years ago, I was extremely ill and couldn't work. In my periods of relative lucidity, I was able to hack together websites and make approximately $4K/month, which was enough to live on if you ignored the $8K/month in medical bills.

My experience with them suggested that you needed to go through and do an entire new thing every three months, because that's about the time it would take any efficient scheme to be overwhelmed by other people discovering the efficiency of that scheme.
Most IFE systems are air-gapped from flight control systems, if that's what you're worrying about.
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Litecoin as well? I think the goal (forcefully allowing a wider base by reducing the ability of big players) seems like a good one. It prevents centralization, which is kinda the point of the whole thing.
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How many times have you used the "ATM machine"? ;)
Russia enacted its own SOPA the day it granted Snowden asylum
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A (legible!) hand-written letter would probably fare even better ... as it shows that you care enough about the issue to take the time to write it by hand.