skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is a slightly larger risk than that because a joker could plant say an arduino with a bluetooth shield, or an old throwaway android phone somewhere and script a program of actions, or maybe use a bluetooth antena (do those exist?)

Also, is this a specifically short range bluetooth? Because my old junky bluetooth headset still gets enough range to reach my phone in my room from the bathroom nearby.

I agree with you that the short range makes the threat much smaller, but it doesn't completely eliminate it.
I can definitely connect to other bluetooth devices through walls, over 10 ft away.
No, reality in NYC is dirty. The rest of the country isn't. It's always amazed me how New Yorkers think their city of 8 million defines a country of 330 million.
The same results can be derived from different instructions. By simplifying; you can perform multiplication by repeated addition, or combinations of both, or even more clever tricks which would hardly make the original intent of simply making a multiplication obvious.

Running the code in a simulator would give you the final output, but would do very little to explain how the code itself is working, which is what you usually are after.
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It says 404 Not Found
Being clever is only half the battle. Turing (amongst many others) had the perseverance to apply their intellect. Plenty of smart people - including geniuses - are happy to glide through life on their intelligence while applying the minimum effort they need to.

I am going against this HN mantra in this special case: if you are a genius like Turing, I mean a genius of genius of genius of ..., someone who is a genius at another scale. Then you don't need too much effort to move forward or the effort flows and you don't need to transpirate it.
i haven't seen a good answer from tesla for apartment dwellers, or rented parking spaces. both of which are more endemic in NYC. to own your own property and own the parking spot so that you could install a charger is a lot.
But credit card companies maintain records of time and place sold, so unless you travel to a foreign country to make your purchase, you're still leaking your location.
After hearing all of this stuff, I feel like the television show The Wire was either way ahead of its time or had really great law enforcement consultants. I'm leaning toward the latter.
You mean that it's "usually" and "generally" a limitation, right?
Yeah, it's going to take a lot more than debt to come anywhere near equalling slavery.

But in fairness, let's note that declaring bankruptcy does not nullify student loans, so it is somewhat like an indentured servitude once you've got them.
typo in description on the front page: missing "are": Our team constantly enhancing the functionality of our software and adding new features to provide the best web service.

Also, can you explain how this is different from Alexa - what extra information it provides?
I have commit hooks on our repository that look for things like this and prevent the user committing it!

We've got 30 odd rules so far that have saved us from all sorts of pain from exception swallowing to adding test ignores as well.
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Greenwald now discussing it live here: http://www.democracynow.org/

Edit 1: Has ended, will post a link when in archive.

Edit 2: The interview starts at 18:00 and a direct link to the MP4 file is http://dncdn.dvlabs.com/ipod/dn2013-0805.mp4

Edit 3: Starting 43:15 pertains to DEA SOD
Previously posted, 28 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6146306
It took about a day before anyone figured out what exactly the exploit was doing; I guess all the normal researchers are off at Black Hat without their usual tools.
Here is Mozilla on the vulnerability: [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/08/04/investigating-s... It would seem that Tor released Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) with 17.0.7 on the 26th of June: [2] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-browser-bundles-and... (note: lack of an Obfsproxy bundle!) 17.0.7 is the Firefox with the patch for the JS bug that was exploited, assuming [1] is correct.

IF this was what is exploited, then it would seem that the latest non-obfsproxy Tor Broswer Bundle [2] will be ok. It seems that Tor released a new TBB the day after upstream Firefox vulnerability was patched.

Double check though.

Here's what seems to be the original security advisory [3] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.ht...

Also, Tor have responded here: [4] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-services-current-eve...
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As far as I'm concerned, the US's cultural acceptance of prison rape should be enough to stop any extradition to the US for any crime that would garner prison time.
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Ancient languages: Perl (2004)
Seems ironic to have a "lifetime" pro option, as its predecessor's lifetime was cut short.
The next question: How come with all this, the cartels continue to exist?
Have you tried Instamojo?
Please there is absolutely no difference between supplying unquestioned hosting or supplying unquestioned passage for unquestioned data.

Let's put in daily means, either if you are a landlord or an hotel owner you are not obliged to question your guests criminal activities nor if you are a road provider you are obliged to question your passengers intends. This is exactly the job of the law enforcement.

If you are served for denying access to some criminal and you do not comply matters change.

In this case you are expected to take measures even if it is not your business to judge someone and you are held responsible.
Because the U.S. government secretly loves to profit off of both the direct selling/transportation/etc of drugs and the prison industrial complex.

I recommend you read the following for more details and proof:

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

http://www.amazon.com/The-Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_South...

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

http://www.amazon.com/Acid-Dreams-Complete-History-Sixties/d...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1595586431
Seriously? Making a driverless car isnt innovation?
If your owning a beach house in Oregon prevents me from building one just like it in Hawaii, it's a monopoly too.
The Freemium Plugin Model – Why It Works (and why you shouldn’t bitch about it)
I can rich and you can too!
Not just prison rape, but the very idea of "prison should be as harsh as possible" is absolutely awful.
For speed, nothing beats Genymotion. If also want to test the latest android, I found installing the latest Android-x86 image under virtualbox to be painless. If you want to run ARM code, be sure to install the Intel ARM translator. There are also several very fast Windows options too, such as Windroy[2], YouWave[3], and BlueStacks[4]. All of these solutions run faster than the official android emulator.

[1] http://www.android-x86.org/documents/virtualboxhowto

[2] http://www.socketeq.com/

[3] http://youwave.com/

[4] http://www.bluestacks.com/
we live until we die, and unfortunately sometimes we die earlier than we want to :)
"they probably could have shipped three more features in the time they spent blocked waiting on agreement" - because what we do is a race against time of volume shipping products crammed with features before everything else! This, is the kind of cowboy-developer I am trying to stay away from. (Here I am making a difference in terms between the general "programmer" and the "developer" which for me is not usually involved in later maintenance, testing and other kind of "boring" tasks that the work might require. That kind that only develops and tags it "done" jumping on something else.) This talk is focused on efficiency on development, deliberately ignoring the need for a system of development's checks and balances for other dependent tasks. I am sure that "We’ve all hated those jobs." and prefer a job where we'd be able to externalize the mess.
The brain's GPS: Scientists find neurons linked to navigation
Even though it seems that in this particular there is no extradition, it's somewhat concerning that there are so many countries that would extradit their citizens to a foreign country, although those citizens might have never visited this country (Gary McKinnon is another example). My home country has a policy to never extradit its own citizens and up until now I assumed that this is the norm for most countries. ("never extradit" means that you can still go to jail if you're doing something that's illegal in the foreign country and in your home country. But in that case you are sentenced by a local judge and put into a local jail.)
About a week ago, the author posted a report to his blog http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/doli/2013/7/darling-progress-re....

Summary:

* It can run basic console programs like Midnight Commander, vim
or bash, so compatibility of system API is rather good.
* Dynamic loader is being refactored, because it can not unload
dynamic libraries now. In the future there will be API that
would allow loading OS X library into native code.
* There is a FUSE module for read-only access to .dmg files, so
that it is not necessary to unpack them.

GNUstep is a problem; it does not seem to be very alive. It does have three backends, but none of them works reliably. The long term (slightly crazy) plan is to implement the basic Cocoa classes over Qt.

Right now the target application that should work is Angry Birds.
> People are still using SVN for new stuff?

OMG YES GURLS EVRYBDY SHOULD USE TEH GITHUB LOL!
Here's hoping that everyone who was convicted via this method gets their sentences overturned, because that's about the only way this will stop.
A government that hides its actions is a government that is overstepping its bounds and needs to be slapped around a bit. I think we're decades behind in the slapping around department.

Make everyone a criminal and spy on everyone so you can control them and scared them to death. What a wonderful way to run the "land of the free"

I bet most people thought the spying was for terrorists.
Genymotion looks interesting... but they only allow alphanumeric characters in your password? What the ...
Karma of zero, with an account created 11 hours ago.

You, you really aren't persuasive for anyone.
IANAL, but I did take an IP law course. If I recall correctly, you have copyright from the moment that you create the work. You can have it officially registered at a later date, however, you might be limited in collecting damages to infractions after the registration date.

I'm not sure what happens if they registered the copyright. Presumably you could sue them if you can demonstrate that you were the true creator.

I don't understand the part about sending a passport.

I do think that filing a DMCA notice is certainly the easiest way. Google has to listen to that.
It wasn't a "joke" it was a lie.
No, but it does mean you could technically create a ridiculously more complicated scheme, which means they'll probably be more ways than ever to break it, dumb system design choices, etc. Also more patents will tie things up and create more artificial limits. (If I were more of a jerk, I'd probably be filing an internet era/style patent along the lines of "I now patent the XOR... in functional encryption") The net effect is probably slightly weaker DRM.

I read some of the paper. Maybe an intro before you even read the paper's intro would be a wikipedia article like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_encryption

And a blog post about a similar problem that doesn't work from about a decade ago like this:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~boaz/Papers/obf_informal.html

The 2001 paper TLDR is something like, there exists at least some hash functions that can't be obfuscated. Don't flame me too hard, there's a reason the paper is longer than eleven words.

That probably gives enough background to understand the intro to the paper?

As you can see by list list of authors in the paper Boaz coauthored, Sahai has been involved in this for a long time and this has been researched and pondered for a long time.

Maybe this is way too gross of a summary of the paper, but if you think of how unix filesystem permission bit masks work, you can already do something of that complexity with crypto keys (basic boolean stuff) but the paper proves you can run more complicated "programs" in the crypto key (not just basic boolean, but access_level >= 5 or whatever).

Another relatively ancient crypto concept that you probably need as a background is at least an understanding of what SSSS can do. Maybe not how it works, but the idea that keys can be screwed around with other than just one unitary thing.

Being stuck with the analogy in head that a crypto key maps 1:1 with the idea of a physical tumbler lock key isn't helping too much... well maybe unless you start thinking about master keys and stuff like that.

Maybe another awful TLDR analogy, this time of the 2013 paper, is I can make at a system level a powered smartcard that executes arbitrary code to do all kinds of stuff with and around a key .... as per the paper at the algorithm level (not the system level) you could execute arbitrary code in the key.

Which brings us back to the original DRM topic that smartcards have not been all that successful in the crypto world (insert debate here) so being able to "do computin'" in an algorithm rather than a chunk of slightly tamper resistant hardware probably isn't going to be much different for the endusers. And it'll be a lovely tasty new patent minefield. So I wouldn't expect much if any DRM impact.
Ties directly into this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6154302
It's snarky, flame-ware inducing comments like this that are bringing down the the quality of conversation here.
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People have been shitting on toilets for years.

Now that they're getting smarter, we should not be surprised that toilets are now fighting back.
I made this yesterday, played it with my kids, and they seemed to like it - so I made a webpage with the rules. You only need a pack of playing cards and a token per player to play.

Let me know if you like it!
The subject is Bootstrap. The landing page is just a way to show some of Bootstrap...
Counting Citations in U.S. Law
Night Owls are Smarter - A Study
Your example looks much like AR and AR will sanitize the given parameter at least in this case so that's a non-issue here. Same would be true if you'd call a prepared statement in PHP and hand it a GET parameter. The problem with the given PHP samples is that they do neither: The take the unsafe user-provided parameter and use string concatenation to build a query - the textbook example of an SQL injection vulnerability.
Google has flaws like all companies and individuals. I'd be careful to share sensitive information with them. That said, they have a long track record of contributing back to the community (e.g. release stuff as open source like chromium); generally support open and royalty free standards (WebM, SPDY); and generally do nice stuff like Summer of Code.

If they'd turn evil over night or just stop existing, we'd still have a big net positive left. Not something that can be said for some competitors.
After a sudden influx of traffic years back, HN had an Erlang Day where the only thing upvoted was articles about Erlang. I can't tell you if it helped HN get better or not, because it caused me to come back after seeing how much the community cared about the quality of the site. Perhaps it's time to make HN proud of its boringness again?
Reads like a marketing junk to be honest. I don't doubt that they have invented something interesting, but this is not a way to announce it.

> This is known in computer science as "software obfuscation," and it is the first time it has been accomplished.

No, of course not. See Fravia, see skype.exe.

> "The real challenge and the great mystery in the field was: Can you actually take a piece of software and encrypt it but still have it be runnable, executable and fully functional"

A mystery? Is this edited for an O magazine? Again, Fravia, Skype, Carberp/bootkit.

> According to Sahai, previously developed techniques for obfuscation presented only a "speed bump," forcing an attacker to spend some effort, perhaps a few days, trying to reverse-engineer the software.

Uhm, no? Again, see Skype that withstood reverse-engineering attempts for several years with its incremental decrypting loader and other tricks that it was stuffed with to the brim.
ahem...

"Show me all VPN startups in country X, and give me the data so I can decrypt and discover the users.

*~These events are easily browseable in XKEYSCORE"*

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/xkeysc...
He doesn't seem to like bacon.
This is one of the few times I am with the US point of view. Stealing thousand of bank accounts isn't a small crime. If anyone here found his bank account empty, would he be ok with a top of 5 years of jail time for the culprit? If one person commited suicide, or lost his house, etc due to a theft caused by these guys, is it ok?

He isn't a teenager who downloaded a song, he isn't a security researcher who was just playing around, he isn't a whistleblower who wanted to protect our privacy by informing us, they didn't ran a service to help oppressed people reach out; they are bank robbers, top notch bank robbers if they compromised so many accounts.
> I've evaluated what they are doing on their technical merit

That's your problem. Google is phenomenal on their technical merit. It's the softer, people skills (support, listening to bug reports, etc.) where they constantly shoot themselves in the foot.
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I don't think a lot of people think about it but stop lights are position coded for the color blind. These things would cause a lot of problems for those of us with the disability.
If writing compilers in C++ sounds like a pain, there's also an OCaml version of this tutorial: http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/OCamlLangImpl1.html
Why it's bad in America to live with parents? Why is it a taboo? Even the most open minded brilliant people believe it. In India, from where I come, families live together, always. There's no taboo.
The title of the post is "Should I stop developing for google?" If you answer it, you're actively dissuading someone. He answered and posed an alternative.
Car Crashes - Head On Collision
Car crashes head on into incoming vehicle, flips it over. Dash cam video of the terrible accident. Hope this footage will be taken as a lesson by 'wanna be' race car drivers. Keep yourself and others safe, drive responsibly.
What resources are required to grow meat in the lab?
Are you suggesting the batteries won't last much more than 2 years?
The strength of using a parameterised query (i.e. $dbh->prepare) is that you are letting your database's type system do the work for you. You tell it where your variable should land in your query, and before it even looks at the variable the database works out what type to expect. Either the data you give it fits into the hole you tried to put it in, or the query fails gracefully and your existing data is safe.
Speaking from my personal experience as a Turing-level genius who hasn't accomplished much due to a lack of perseverance, I disagree.
I kindly direct you to search for "formmail.pl".
Perhaps slightly off-topic: The name, GmailSharedTasks, doesn't look like one that Google's legal department would agree with. Your brand/product name incorporates a Google trademark. It might have been better to call it "SharedTasks for Google Tasks™" or "SharedTasks for Gmail™".

See "I'm a developer and used Google's developer products/tools to create a new product. Can I use the Google name?" on http://www.google.com/permissions/faq.html
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Ignorance of the law and imagination can get you pretty far.

Lets be frank here, Political limitations are the only thing stopping government agencies from shooting Laser Microphones half-a-mile away listening to your entire house. (4th Amendment, Illegal Search) You have no idea of the abuses that can be possible with law enforcement equipment, and are probably just scared of a little bit of the possibilities or powers afforded to them.

Keep your wits about you, this can get much much worse before it may get better. And hyperbole now will only harm your argument in the long run.

Reality is, intelligence agencies are under DoD. They aren't supposed to be investigating Americans, period. If they manage to nab information about American People (which includes legal immigrants btw), they are not allowed to forward it to law enforcement.

We know that anything pulled out of the NSA system is recorded and checked by the FISA courts, to ensure that Americans were not part of the targets. (Edward Snowden admitted it himself, although he wanted more than just 5% random checks on this log).
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I'm glad you put community in quotes. The problem is not endemic in the PHP community.
Too bad that UK didn't have such good jugment as Latvia in case of Richard O'Dwyer.
You're quite welcome to make a movie "just like" Transformers 3. But that's not what Falkvinge is advocating for. He's not advocating for your right to "create" or "build". He's advocating "copying", "appropriating", "using" the work of others without compensating them.
It's a blog post by an SEO company. Did you think it wouldn't use a link bait title only vaguely related to the article's content ?
In CA you see them everywhere, but I live in OH/WV/PA area and I've seen a handful. There is one heading the opposite way of my commute every day.
Yes, you saw through me. I created this account 11 hours ago to make a fake response to a news article submitted 4 hours ago. I do not see how my credability increases if its 1 or 1000 days, you are still need to have the trust of an anonymous user which you pick to have or not. Usually you pick not to have to if it disagrees with your already established oppinion.

I usually lurk, I probably make an average of 5 comments per month. When I do make a comment, not only on HN I usually make a new account.
An entertaining way to spend time on HN articles about theoretical work might be to provide a "practical" example.

My interpretation of the paper and the "state of the art" is that its previously possible to submit "bunchadata" "iamakey34335" and "clearance=T OR NOT fired=F" (edited) to a decryption algo and your key and boolean stuff mix together to decrypt the data. The point of the paper is its now possible to submit a more complicated program than just the boolean like "clearance_level+seniority_years>0x10".

The entertaining part of the discussion would be if I got the basic concepts right or wrong, not so entertaining to debate if the greater-than symbol was proven or other tiny details like that.