skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stuff made in sweatshops pays a wage to extremely poor workers. Stuff made locally pays a wage to workers in a developed country with reasonable safety net protections. Why would you expect the human rights defender to privilege the comparatively wealthier worker over the poorer one?
Actually the onus here is on Google. They could create a pre-condition of using someone's chip that the blobs for the GPU can be released. But they didn't do that.
But it's not. Not THAT easy. I'm a developer, with a fair bit of experience, and I'm nowhere near the average defcon attendee. (Unless I'm badly overestimating their abilities).

My mom? She asked a shop owner, two days ago, 'do you have a, uh, online thing? You know, with the pictures?'

And yet, "Mom, experiment: type 'chrome://settings/passwords' in my browser and see how many passwords you can steal in 60 seconds".
While I think this is needed, the question has to be asked: How is this open? Is it open source, or open as in freedom?

There might be a promise not to sell data, but you aren't doing any client/server encryption to prevent yourselves from reading it. If a government sent a request you couldn't deny, data could still be collected. Gmail has HTTPS, but everyone agrees that only protects from MITM attacks from the hacker in the coffee shop, not the one in the datacenter.
Think even bigger, what will happen when traditional jobs such as bartender, waiter, salesman will be replaced by automatic dispensing machines, robots and online transactions?

If you think about all the kinds of jobs that can be replaced by automation you'll see that this only leads to a grim proposition: mass unemployment.
They always have been. The new XIB format is the same as the current Storyboard format.

It doesn't completely prevent merge conflicts though.
> It sounds like this Google Chrome security policy will most likely not change until some significant leadership changes are made over there..

If someone starts their first sentence with name calling, you know they're not mature enough to have a real discussion.
Now that I notice that behavior it is really weird. Anyway, if that is a problem/annoyance for you, then you could try switching to insert-mode by using append ('a') instead, which will bump the cursor up a character and counter ESC bumping you down one.
> The best part about their $5,000 is that most of it will be profit.

There are significant fixed costs associated with the development they did so far. I doubt $5,000/month would break them even considering just the salaries and office expenses such as rent.
Then bridge the gap by infecting pendrives. That's how e.g. Stuxnet worked.
Yeah, this is what I'm talking about - a fuller explanation would require more text. :)

The question is what you're doing with z. As long as you're also adding and removing your hypothetical panels in turn with bind, you're good:

div {class: 'container'}, bind -> [
if show.get()
div {class: 'z'}, bind -> x.get() + y.get()
else
div {class: 'nothing'}
]

The question is what happens at the top level or when you want to break out and do your own thing. We don't have the luxury of weak refs in JS, and as a result it's less forgiving if you do "silly" things like create binds that go nowhere and that you don't want to keep. But even with weak references, one can't tell if you added a bind only to subscribe a console.log caller to its changes, save to localStorage, or some other side effect that you do want to keep. In any case, it's incumbent on us to fully document what "silly" means, include simple-to-use API calls to capture and dispose entire subgraphs (for when you want to do your own thing manually), and provide good debugging introspection tools for finding these `bind`s to nowhere, in case you really don't want them lingering around.

We've also been bouncing around ideas for reversing the reference DAG and having cells named by the reversed paths through the DAG, which we may experiment with. You then get to deal with the converse problem of manually needing to hold references to the sinks in the DAG. In any case, we're very open to learning from how things play out in practice, and shape the direction of the library accordingly.
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Or, they'll just accelerate the automation plans they're already pursuing, and simply fire people. What good is an higher wage, if you're unable to get a job?
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Scientists shouldn't fabricate data, but some fudge their numbers to make results look more impressive. Rarely do we see the inner workings of some labs like this...
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Good question - the reason why we built the library this way was exactly because we find declaring expressions to be more natural than wiring together streams by combinators—which, BTW, Flapjax does support. Far from academic-without-impact, Leo's work was actually directly influential on me—esp. since he worked in PL and I didn't, so much of my initial exposure to reactive programming came from a few projects including his.
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> The fact is that Google tries to make their devices as open as possible.

Well, sort of. Keeping GPU drivers closed is a charade. There is no secret sauce of any great value in these drivers. There might be embarrassing coding horrors. But there is no good reason to keep these drivers closed.

In this case, not even the binary blobs are available. That's gratuitous pig-headedness from the GPU licensor and SoC maker. Google could have extracted at least that concession. When someone with as much integrity as JBQ quits, it's not just the run of the mill SoC vendor crap that caused it.
found it!

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The software used in the mail stack is purely open source software. Looks like they are running a fairly standard Postfix stack and are using roundcube for webmail [1].

I'll stick with my current solution of lavabit (which encrypts all mails stored on their server) [2] and running my own roundcube instance for when I need webmail.

[1] https://openmailbox.org/licences.php

[2] http://lavabit.com
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Mr. Wright's Law - "I could care less about Newtons 3rd law, I want to teach you something that you can use outside of school".
And exactly with AOSP is not open?
If there are official Linux-branded devices, and Linux refers to them as much as it does the kernel, then the answer is yes.
Can you tell me the story or provide links for that?

I make apps for children and I would very much appreciate information on the subject of OLPC and Marvell
ObReference: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Android is "open" because there's a lot of GPL code in there. And the irony is that with all this "openess" is still the most fragmented OS out there. The whole situation is ridiculous.
Hold on ...

Life in India and China for the middle class isn't as bad as your comment makes it out to be (perhaps unintentionally). Human beings have an amazing ability to adapt. Health care and other costs in many developing countries aren't totally insane. The big difference is hope for progress - the middle class is growing in many developing countries. Also, people have a support network that would seem surprising to a westerner. E.g. the joint family system.
they should multiply the height with the current market price for the phone you used. so you have to keep throwing to stay in the charts as your model devalues.

Also, a multiplier for the case you describe.
I'd say that is a case of them not be incorrect, per se, just evil as fuck.
What good is automation if your customers don't have any money?
So we can now lump all Qualcomm devices along with Verizon (CDMA) devices into the 'may never be properly updated' pile.

You'd think that Google would have the foresight to listen to the maintainer of the project; perhaps they did and this is just the way it is now?
This is a dupe of a post a long time ago, but if you haven't read it, it's a great read and shows how well-architected Redis is.
You are badly overestimating their abilities, for instance by assuming that the typical Defcon attendee can code. We're talking past each other. Just take my word for it that bypassing the proposed "master password" is even easier than I've managed to make it sound.
OpenMailBox use HTTPS, and that's all well and good, but how are my emails stored on your server(s)?

EULA: "The mails are stored on our server in a directory name. Person or even administrators can not access".

I don't see any client/server encryption, so how is that no one can access and/or read my emails?
You are already giving an unclear definition when you use terms like "mining hash power." What rigorous definition can you give for that term? What sort of model of computation are we working with (or is the definition based on information theory?)?

For comparison, consider the definition of security used in this recently published paper:

http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/443

The definition is long, but very clear. Probabilistic polynomial time Turing machines are used as a model of computation; the adversary is given more power by being allowed to be non-uniform (i.e. the adversary can be a different machine for different security parameters). The security properties are clearly defined in terms of this model of computation, and a construction is given and proved to meet the properties (under certain hardness assumptions).

Note that there is no possible way that Bitcoin could meet the security definition given in that paper, because that definition requires the existence of a bank that issues the cash. This is true of previous work on digital cash as well, including the work that preceded Bitcoin. That is why it is necessary to develop a security definition that makes sense for systems like Bitcoin -- digital cash systems in which there is no bank. That is the complaint I have: no satisfactory definition has been given.

"This is not part of any proir school of economics, but it's close to common sense, and is strongly supported by the success of bitcoin thus far."

Economics often defies common sense, so I would be wary of using common sense as the basis for a currency.
Not to mention when the first comment is about the layout of the linked website, or its technology, or whatever, but not about the content.
So, how do you describe how to install a package without looking like "scripting"?
Did you update to version 5.9 of Twitter for iOS, released 8/6, featuring support for login verification? Maybe the notification should mention that requirement.
It's sort of a game theory thing because the future is uncertain. With Amazon they're better off today, but maybe without Amazon they push politicians to solve the bigger issues of unemployment sooner and thus would be much better off sooner than if they slave away in the sort of futuristic assembly line dystopia that the Amazon warehouses are portrayed as.
As Eliezer says, if personal maids, cooks, and servants suddenly become affordable, only then might we have an unskilled labourer problem (http://lesswrong.com/lw/hh4/the_robots_ai_and_unemployment_a...)
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Or better: more than one. Most games I worked on had a few different allocators specialized for different uses.
The obvious question that arises with companies like this is if I don't trust Google, why should I trust you? Using open source software isn't a signal that you are trustworthy. Especially considering none of your customers can verify the actual code you are using. What would prevent a similar company from starting with open source software and inserting all sorts of evil code before deploying it on their servers?
> Give a knowledgeable person physical access to a computer

Or in this case, give anyone physical access to your computer, and they have all of your passwords.

Security through obscurity is not security, but it still has practical uses. You could say that hiding the passwords behind the few clicks it takes is not real security, but it's still more useful than having the passwords displayed plaintext on a sidebar at all times.
What's the actual risk for the vendor when releasing the drivers? Isn't all the magic in the chip itself and driver only serves as an interface?
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If some "tech-of-last-week-skilled" workers can't become "tech-of-next-week-skilled" workers in that proverbial week, then they already are unskilled workers and should be treated as such.
I think you might be confusing "regulated" with "controlled". Setting aside the question of whether it should be regulated, of course it CAN be regulated. For example, if you're a corporation accepting bitcoins, in order to maintain corporate status, you have to keep good records of who you're receiving bitcoins with, and pay equivalent taxes, etc. etc.
Doesn't Elysium come out this Friday?
time zone aware obviously, yes.
> if you're targeting mobile, there's usually only one thing that matters:

There are two things that matter, actually:

1. How quickly can you get your app up and running and responding to user input?

2. Once that's done, can you continue to maintain 60 fps?
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Um, duh? That one is literally right in the Constitution (between regulating Coinage and control of interstate commerce).
I don't understand what you're replying to. Physical access is a great way to bypass network security, but it has nothing to do with websites.
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Sure, here's a paste of a CSV file containing the data I recorded. This was taken on a Nexus 4 running Android 4.2.2. There are two columns for each bench - the right column containing nine individual scores, and the left column containing their aggregate stats:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/5960016/
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That is kind of like saying, "Good luck collecting taxes!" At some point you need to exit the Bitcoin system -- maybe you need your nation's currency, maybe you need a new computer, maybe you just need to buy your lunch, but regulations can and mostly certainly will be enforced at the exit points.
Perhaps, but that's still something you just wouldn't do in native code. If you were to write code that way you wouldn't be writing C++ in the first place (I would hope). I understand the reasoning, but I also think it's misleading in terms of results.
I agree with you overall but find the Linux analogy a bit flawed since it doesn't apply to any laptops that are officially "blessed" in the way Nexus devices are with Google/Android.
Thank you for posting this, it's an awesome project for cheap. It would be nice to include my feet in my workflow and not just my hands.

It would be cool to implement the pedal as a hot-key reader. Say you press the pedal down and type 'ff' and let it go and firefox launches, or type 't' and a terminal opens.
In a bout of realtime support, it looks like they've fixed this now!
For what it's worth, postgresql supports intervals (ranges) as of 9.1. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/rangetypes.html

There's also a fantastic ip4r extension for postgresql that lets you efficiently query IP ranges (which the article says was the motivation for adding interval sets to redis).

I use it for storing maxmind's IP database to figure out where our visitors come from in SQL queries -- given an IP address, I can find the city. zip code, lat/lon, etc. Which lets me easily figure out things like "what percentage of our users that purchased something this year are in this particular UPS shipping zone?"
USA is probably the only place in the world where a car accident may do less long-term damage to quality of life than the ER bill for that accident.

In all of the "first world" and many of the "third world" ER is actually quite okay, and all of them will fix noncritical damage pretty much equally good, in EU probably even better than USA. But only in USA it carries a risk to be billed with something moderately comparable to an annual salary.
I am not familiar with this issue myself, but this appears to be a decent summary of it:
http://www.cmosnetworks.com/OLPC-MarvellIssue-MyWriteUpOfThe...
According to his logic, something like a post it note stuck to my monitor, containing all my passwords, is just as easy to read as Google chromes password file, so there's no benefit in trying to hide the post it note.
I personally see the lack of a Factory Image for a single device as being very minor. An overwhelming majority of Nexus users still choose to use stock Android and have no use for the source code. So what if there are a couple of devices missing from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images , it's really not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, especially considering how rapidly Google is pushing out new devices.

Android is still open-source and the AOSP is still very alive and will live on.
All the code to the benchmarks is available, and all the tools use to compile them are open source, so please make that comparison, would be interesting to see!
The Internet had more non-academic users in July 1993 than CompuServe, AOL or Prodigy. Most of those non-academic users connected "through work" (either at work or by dialing in to a pool of modems maintained by their employer).

If you remove people who connected through work from the definition of ordinary users, then AOL or Compuserve might have had more ordinary users than the Internet, but not vastly more. There were at least a dozen ISPs offering shell-account-style access to the internet in July 1993, Netcom, Best, Panix and The World being big US-based ones.
>The tabletop market is already small and the only reason they can turn a profit is because their costs are low.

It's bigger than ever and steadily rising.

Blocks for building dungeons made 2 million on Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dwarvenforge/dwarven-for...

I can see a single mind-blowing tabletop demo selling pretty damn well. The audience isn't huge and mass market, but it's decent sized, and willing to drop very high amounts of money on cool stuff.
Props to National Review for its honesty... some of the Buckley integrity still exists. It's a shame that the "conservative" viewpoint has been mostly taken over by the corpratist mouth-breathers at fox news.
Some people were (hypocritically) claiming that Bitcoin is not money and thus any regulations of money do not apply.
Yes.

Beyond that, there's really no excuse for not using SSL everywhere now. If a site has user data, or requires any sort of login, it should use SSL everywhere.
You could just subscribe to their status-page located here: http://meta.statuspage.io/ ;-)
There are skeleton keys and lockpicks to open any lock on any door, so am I giving myself a false sense of security by locking my door when I leave for work?

Sometimes just having basic security that keeps a casual attempt from opening my door / accessing my password from succeeding is enough.
The psychopaths that demand we accept their "protection" want to regulate the exchange of information at all costs.

Exchanging numbers is speech. The war on the 1st continues.
verbing words is perfectly cromulent in english
i preferred pythonista.
Especially when Qualcomm is the only decent player in town.
Now, there are bad prosecutors out there. People motivated by politics and self interest, but they are the few.

Indeed but even more, even a "bad prosecutor" wants discretion. When a prosecutors become the mere cog in a concocted theater, they are just window dressing and the "parallel constructors" hold all the strings.

I suppose we can take some comfort that even not-perfect people can want democracy because they don't want one person who isn't them holding the strings.
Or procompetitive, depending on one's outlook.
Chrome flaw lets anyone view saved passwords in clear text
Who's your 1GB Xen VPS provider? It sounds like you got it at a special?
Daniel,

I think you are confusing old Bluetooth we used for headsets or car audio and the new Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy protocol.

It is new, completely redesigned protocol that is supported by Apple devices from iPhone 4S and is more similar to Zigbee than Bluetooth.

Users still need to turn it on, but have measured in retail stores that most of "normal" people (not geeks) do not turn it off. Please also note the Bluetooth Low Energy is used and promoted by Apple in features like AirDrop or to communicate with Apple TV.

Bluetooth Low Energy different than old Bluetooth does not require pairing and connecting.

You just walk-in to the store, e.g. IKEA and approach sofa you like the most and you see the picture of the sofa on your screen.

Blueooth SIG (organization behind Bluetooth standard) projects strong growth in the number of devices that support BLE: http://blog.bluetooth.com/os-season-what-it-means-to-you/
Heh. I'm assuming this is some weird sort of parody. In which case: Well done, sir.
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> see that pervasive surveillance without meaningful oversight is always, always abused at some point

I think that being more specific and using more examples would help a lot here. It's one thing to say "this will be abused" in some sort of abstract way. It's another to point to specific detailed examples of abuse (either here or in other similar societies).

I'll take it as a given at this point that a bunch of my emails and phone calls are sitting on an NSA hard drive somewhere. How is that going to come back to haunt me?

Keep in mind that the guys on the other side of the argument are using this as a specific negative outcome: http://derecjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Twin-Towers...

That's your competition.
What if the driver is only unlocking part of the GPU's capabilities? A vendor can spin one chip for n customers, all paying different royalty and licensing fees based on need.
We've averaged about 18% week over week growth for the past few months so we're well on our way to being profitable before the new year..even with a decent amount of slowed growth. Here's to hoping it keeps up!
What's the overhead of Vagrant for production purposes? Maybe I'm too old school for all of this, but I still don't understand what docker is or what it does.
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Not true. GSM texts are encoded in a 7-bit scheme, and twitter started using 8 bit encodings. 7 * 160 = 8 * 140.
What are some interesting ideas you can think of that could come out of this?
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At some point, you'll have to make a payment to someone who doesn't accept Bitcoin, which is the point of failure. While cash may be anonymous and Bitcoin may be anonymous (the second one is dangerous, in and of itself), you will have to make a conversion to real-world currency and that transaction can be as heavily regulated, including the requirement for non-anonymity.

And if you stick to Bitcoin transactions only, it would be very easy for authorities to declare tax-evasion, for starters, which opens up a whole different can of worms, as transactions are occurring in a non-regulated space.

On the whole, it seems like Bitcoin-enthusiasts would be far safer in a more regulated environment.