skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... what does the clock rate look like when you've got a network of billions of those things? Propagation delay, rise times, fall times... have they managed to make a simple little CPU out of these graphene transistors yet? Because that would be really cool. The paper's abstract seems to imply that they've found (what they believe to be) a viable way to mass fabricate these, though it makes no mention of an actual network of transistors yet. I can't wait.
Generally, defense of property must be proportional to the harm threatened, and use of deadly force is not authorized: http://www.volokh.com/posts/1176499503.shtml (interesting blog post in the context of "hacking back").
I like this article. I've been learning Node on the side (I'm a Java developer so Node is pretty foreign to me) and really enjoying it, but as it's very different from what I'm used to these kinds of guides are a big help.
In Sweden, we have a similar system. The major Swedish banks issue BankID, which is typically a Java applet you run on your computer which is provisioned with a certificate you use to sign things.

You need this to use the online benefits and tax systems and so on.

And it works horribly.

The hassles I've seen people have running Java and so on is horrifying. And the security - or lack of it - is staggering. It basically only works under Windows and on increasing insecure legacy browser configurations and so on.

They also use some PDFs with scripts in sometimes for forms that you have to 'sign'. I don't understand why they do this, but they do.

All in all, No No NO!
git add -p, then "s" until it can't split the hunk any more, then "e" to edit the hunk manually?
It is fairly amazing that any non-"Five Eyes" nation would use non-auditable and non-buildable software on systems they want to secure for quite a while now. I suppose the recent revelations have drained the last drop of credibility from the "we could but we wouldn't" argument.
To be honest, the distancing was only because of nuclear powered ships (NZ being proudly nuclear free and refusing US ships right to take harbour in the country cost us the ANZUS alliance). Unfortunately it only took a new threat (cyberterrorism) to get us back in again. restrains self from saying something about John Key
Dice rolls per Einstein.
In your utopia, when all the “foolish men” who have been led astray by the evil teachers unions are retrained as web designers, what will you do when your roof needs to be replaced?
Also, note that specifying a brain simulation is much more difficult (takes more bits) than specifying a universe simulation. A brain simulation needs to have moods, emotions, headaches, sensory processing, etc. A universe simulation just needs a few equations (our best guess at the moment is general relativity plus the standard model).

The chance that a universe simulation appears at random is much higher than the chance a brain simulation appears at random, even though a universe simulation may take vastly more resources to run.
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Another way to look at it was The Guardian was perfectly fine with consequences being meted out when people were illegally invading the privacy of others.
Yes. Scandinavian countries and Australia have a lot less low paying jobs that are dangerous. Guess what - teaching system is also working better there than US/UK.
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The file is named flowtype.jQuery.js and you call it with $(selector).flowtype();? What made you think it wasn't a jQuery plugin?
A sensational article.

Let's say 'cloud' goes the way of the dodo. What's the alternative that is NSA proof? The only thing I can land on is building and hosting one's own apps.

Do you really see consumers rolling their own email servers so the NSA can't access them?

Cloud apps are as important as the content stored on them, the vast majority being benign.
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TPMs can't be used to control which software you can install. All they can do is prove what software you're running, which means that a remote provider can choose whether or not to provide a service based on what you're running. Trusted Boot is about providing proof, not about enforcing local policies. Secure Boot can be used to restrict which software you can install, as demonstrated in Windows RT. But that has nothing to do with TPMs - iOS behaves in the same way without using any TPMs.

So I don't really understand the article. Placing trust in TPMs to maintain your secrets obviously depends on you trusting the TPM manufacturer not to hand over any of the secret keys, but having a TPM doesn't mean that you have to place trust in it.
who cares, my n900 using maemo is still doing the job
Yeah, a "patent office guy" who knew nothing about physics at all until he suddenly overturned the entire world through sheer force of will. Certainly not a guy who already wanted to be a physics teacher with all the requisite training and credentials, including published papers in prestigious journals in his first year of working in the patent office, but had to find a job to make money in the meantime while he searched for one.

Einstein was someone who went up the academic course for physics, but had a brief detour during a jobless interval. I imagine many of us here can relate to that. He's not some sort of quintessential outsider.

(He's not a quintessential insider either; while the rumors about his poor grades are overstated, he did have a rough relationship with any academic subject he didn't really care about. He certainly wasn't the valedictorian type or a groomed, perfect academic from tip to toe. But neither was he an outsider. He's just an average everyday genius who combined tons of hard work with immense native talent.)
So don't buy an iPhone ;-)

But you do have a point - I suggest you lobby your MEP/Senator/MP to ban totally walled gardens or to use anti trust to split the app side of Google and Apple etc from the parent - this is what caused IBM so much trouble in the 60/70's
I like this, skip the political bull and jump straight to subversion, bravo!

Idea for a new service; trusted tor homed token vendor (a la dpr or similar bonded agency), takes advantage of the trusted third party model whlist providing a jackboot-thug resistant party to verify the full transaction. For bonus points add duress challenges which will fail authentication in a non obvious way or provide fake but plausible data instead of the real thing.
Each time someone attempts to make email more secure, the HN response is "no use! need to start from scratch, do it right!"

So, I guess what I'm saying is:

1) Are you working on an inherently-secure messaging protocol? Awesome! Link to the project?

2) If you're not, shut the fuck up. Any improvement is better than no improvement, and dismissing any attempts to fix some of these problems while you wait for The Perfect Solution™ is why we're in this mess in the first place.
Exactly. It really can't get any more obvious than that.

If we don't take money out of politics our country is going to go down for good.
Or they are not simulating nearly seven billion people.

Or they are "cheating" a lot (most people aren't nearly as original as we like to think).

Or they are simulating it at a massively reduced speed.

Or all of the above.
My impression is that this is considered the norm in the XML world: you're supposed to edit it via a specialized editor, not directly as raw text.
This is absolutely useless. Emacs Lisp? Really? XSLT? What? CSS? Woah. I love that the internet has made it easy for anyone to share their opinion, I hate when noise is presented is as useful information.
> They have the ability to create a standard and make it stick.

This is rarely, if ever, the case. I can't actually think of any technical standards whose dominance originates from a successful government mandate.
It's sad to see this die :(. Hope it will rise from ashes some day.
It doesn't make sense. TPM is only "less secure" for running a non-Windows OS, which isn't possible. Windows is the problem (security-wise), not TPM (which has many other problems) - isn't it exactly as secure for running Windows as running Windows on a non-TPM computer?
Pay a more reasonable rate for the dangerous job. I don't only think about my own personal needs, I'm also thinking about the welfare of those low paid men and their families. Roofers deserve more pay than hipster designers.
Personally, I do not think freedom of speech is a human right. It is a cornerstone of modern civilization, and, where we have it, we ought to protect it, but restricting freedom of speech is not at the same level of "wrong" as systematically allowing people to die.
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as much as i'm loving that coldfusion (my primary language of choice) is included on this chart and ranked in the top 10, i would really like to see how the job market compares to the other languages on the chart.

on a side note: really? xslt is second on the list? i remember using it to create a code generator years ago. probably one of the poorer decisions i've made in my life :P
I would be pleased to see the addition of the « fun » factor.

In the article, they're comparing the job security, high pay, etc. of a mathematician with the « it's not much, but I like it» of the lumberjack. Working as an actuary, I am impressed by how many of my coworkers got there because « hey! It pays » and are in fact (not so) secretly dreaming of changing jobs.
We shouldn't be relying on for-profit companies to provide a service as basic (in today's modern world) and powerful (education, health, etc) as internet access... because they have nefarious motives in mind.

Instead we should be relying on our governments, who have our interests in mind and whose primary job is to protect our rights. ... ..

um...

oops

never mind
In that case, why on earth would you want to retrain them as web designers?
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I thought the Guardian destroyed their own hard drives, to prevent them from being taken?
> From the perspective of the U.S. and U.K., the Chinese and Israelies and French are undoubtedly doing their best to spy on as much of the Internet as they possibly can, and they're probably pretty successful at it, so why would we unilaterally disarm?

From the perspective of the US: It doesn’t really help to assure your so-called ‘allies’ that they are indeed your ‘allies’ and not your vassals if you spy on them to such an extreme. Since you furthermore still rely on said nations for logistical reasons (and being friends with them likely couldn’t hurt anyhow), you might want to scale down your spying to accommodate the public perception. In addition, you’re hurting your own industry, especially service providers such as Google, Microsoft & Facebook, by giving the impression that it is unsafe to provide them with data.

From the perspective of the UK: I never quite got what you want to do, but you can’t expect to be even part of a free trade zone if you spy on the other member states of this free trade zone. This holds in particular if it is revealed that said spying is not necessarily restricted to catching terrorists, but also might get your domestic companies some trade secrets, which really doesn’t bode well in other member states that pride themselves on their innovation. Of course if you want to provoke being kicked out of that FTZ and join the union of your over-seas friends, that might actually make sense. Just don’t expect candy from the rest of us, then.
> just having "Super secret spy details" on Powerpoint means its not being handled by "our top people"

So if it was being handled by the top people, they would have outsourced the documentation to a graphic design company, to generate a super-professional looking PDF?

(Seriously, how do you expect the high level management to communicate with each other?)
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I think they know Snowden accessed a lot of stuff, but they don't know what subset of it he took.
What do you mean by "instead of"? Is there any reason to think that it wasn't happening before?

They were caught, so they're making it 'legal'. Key still told a bunch of lies to sell it. It is more dignified than continuing to deny and stonewall, but only by a tiny degree.
Yes, kind of a pity, but we still have all this to start with, and I'm really happy for it: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices
This would be a nice user script / bookmarklet, but I don't think websites (except for Readability-type apps) will ever need this. Proper responsive design and usability testing are the correct solution, not this... "hack". But since we're at HACKernews after all, cool effort and props for a very comfortable + practical landing page! Kudos!
You can blame the tech industry for this one. Criminalizing copyright infringement didn't get much traction until Microsoft, Oracle, etc, made a big deal about it in the context of large-scale piracy by the Chinese, etc.
Startup idea: Security Snacks - one-time pads printed on pairs of snack foods
The article lists household income, which makes it just about useless. Household income will be higher if you are married. People who are married are more likely to chose a more stable job working for a large corporation. Such jobs require languages more like Java, and less like Haskell. Such people might also have less spare time to play around with new languages due to family engagements, or a dozen other differences, all masked by this chart.
Probably because most people commenting here don't know it. ;)
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That's an ambitious goal for crowd sourcing...
Hidden volumes?
> I hope HN doesn't have Slashdot levels of ignorance concerning Windows.

Only Windows? HN also has Slashdot levels of ignorance concerning the legal system, patents, copyright, and the music industry, and these are only the topics I know something about. I avoid political discussions, but from what I'm told, those are just as misinformed.

Note that I am no expert in those topics either. I just took the time and effort to research those on my own rather than accept the sound bites media puts out.

When it comes to technology, there's probably no better place. (And even that I would caveat with an exception for Microsoft technologies, where you'll find more FUD than knowledge.) But basically for anything else, don't expect much from HN.
I am amazed this crap made of GMO soy is even taken seriously enough to write about.
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Maxwell's Demon applies to heat in the form of brownian motion.

What donquichotte suggests applies to radio waves in the infrared band, basically creating a crystal radio running off light.

We colloquially equate infrared to thermal heat because the former induces physical motion in atoms.

And the suggestion is stark raving awesome.
This. Salaries are based upon more than just skills and languages.

It seems like this article is biased towards California or New York salaries. I once jokingly told a SF based recruiter that $55k might not seem too much, but those aren't California dollars, which are worth less than Pittsburgh dollars. If I wanted to make six figures right now, I'd probably move.
Most of the time I don't care about the de facto HN rule that only early adopters can downvote comments, but once in a while there's an occasion where it's really bloody annoying.
and you don't think they have enough time in those 9 hours asking you for your truecrypt password?
Remember: You have to give them your password!

The only way is encrypting your disk and not knowing the password. Sounds impractically, and it is. But maybe your phone could use geofencing to look whether you reached your destination and then display the password on the lock screen? But you should hope nobody steals your notebook and phone and travels to this location xD
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I was in Shenzhen in the spring, and there are many companies offering to make electronics for you. Minimum Order Quantity 1000. Many phones were available for under $200 that looked fairly deluxe, clones of the Samsung Note 2 and Galaxy 3, as well as some with more features like FM, TV, Dual Sim.

Why did this project need to raise so much money? And why so high of a price for the handset? I think that this project would have succeeded with lower goals. We are reaching what Bunnie Huang suggested, the era where screens are pixel-filled, batteries are long lasting and improvements are incremental. http://boingboing.net/2011/09/27/bunnie-huang-the-best-days-...

Surely they could have done a phone in the $300-$400 range?
The article is 4 years old... Not that the ranking has changed much in that time, but might be worth it to have a date originally published somewhere in the title, as I read it four years ago, and assumed that this was a different article.
Would hitting 'pause' in the simulation count as genocide?

Neither 'yes' or 'no' really make sense as answers and 'depends for how long' raises it's own set of problems.

Now consider the ethical dilemmas posed by a 'rewind' button. Is it murder to rewind the simulation and edit things so that someone was never born?

Words like 'murder' and 'genocide' cease to have a real meaning when you consider the god-like role of someone outside the simulation.

For the record I don't think stopping a simulation is genocide. I think the ethical dimension of murder needs to consider the human context and removing the entire universe also removes the ethical problem. There are no ramifications within the sim as it no longer exists.
This is actually a minimum viable product (MVP), with lots of crucial features omitted on purpose. The idea is building an online project management board with features targeted to software development teams (API, integrations, Kanban features such as WIP and lead time metrics etc.). We really appreciate any feedback: what features do you need in such an application, what is wrong in current implementation etc.
It's not considering that everyone's privacy is being violated. You have no rights if it's in digital form. Your speech is monitored. You are physically removed from a country because of a misunderstood tweet. [An example : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312].

The threats of violence and detention against your will by nation states are real, and having Google and other tech companies being complicit is scary. Why are they complicit? Because of the same threats of violence.

We are slaves. Maybe not whipped, maybe not starved, but threatened, poisoned and our children's children are in debt slavery because of the rainbows and unicorns we think is just around the corner if we borrow a little bit more. And by the sweat of their brow will we pay for the NSA / GCHQ, the wars and such like.
This is nice. Cant wait to use it!
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But who audits those who set up audit systems? Presumably he was one of the "system administrators" from what I understand.

I guess they haven't solved the problem technically yet as they have instituted "no lone zones" policy. They'll just have everyone work with an accountabil-a-buddy.
Yea, let me clear – I'm not saying a huge multi-national corporation is squeaky clean because of one positive thing they've done.

The point I was trying to make is that the motivation of said company may not be to "save the world", but the results (and the impressive efficiency of attaining them) may do a lot of good, even if indirectly.
So on small screens this will make the font even smaller.

This is the wrong solutions.

There is a reason why 16pt is the standard font-size. And its no problem to design a responsive website with columns that use 'between 45 and 75 characters per line'.
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It's indeed sad to see this die but frankly it didn't stand a chance from the very beginning. $32 million is way too ambitious.
Then, presumably, it wouldn't be any different from other phones that exist on the market already, which completely defeats the point. This project is for better phone hardware, not just "Ubuntu on a phone" for which you can already run the development preview on existing phones.
Torture? They affair at the london airport has shown, that you do not need any torture: You have to tell them your passwords or you get in trouble.
As a peaceful protest / 4th Amendment exercise, please consider attaching an encrypted file with EVERY email you send from now on. It's easy enough to do using TrueCrypt. It needn't be a file the recipient needs to decrypt, or keep. You needn't even remember the password. If everyone did this every time they send an email to anyone, it would flood the Internet with literally millions, then billions, of encrypted files, thereby demonstrating our resolve to maintain some level of privacy, and protecting most if not all of us "fish" in the "school" from the "sharks" who prefer to eat us one at a time (a la Edward Snowden and Ladar Levison). When fish in a massive school move together in coordinated ways, it frustrates predators. If this idea seems worthwhile PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE

This accomplishes three things. 1) It makes you familiar with encryption for when you actually need it. 2) It increases the cost of surveillance and 3) It gives you an opening to discuss the topic with non-tech friends when they ask about your gibberish attachment.
The British government looks like a farcical bully in this. A playground bruiser that intimidates his way down the hall before promptly slipping over.

Destroying the hard drives was an exercise in dominance, 'do as we say or face the consequences' which had no impact (aside from inconvenience and the cost of a couple of Macbook Pros) to The Guardian but has made the UK .gov look foolish.

Pulling Miranda, abusing the terrorism laws, sending a message is another dominance play but it's back fired awfully. Brazil is annoyed, GG is annoyed, America has calmly washed it's hands and said "leave us out of it". In terms of strategic decisions it can't be described as an excellent one. What's the UK .gov gotten out of it? Some encrypted data and social network passwords, it's not a win.

If you're in the UK and you think this is unacceptable for our government to be trying to intimidate the journalists who're revealing the uncomfortable level of surveillance we now live under, and what the security apparatus has become, then write to your MP. That's what they're there for. We can't just hope that it'll surge through the halls of Parliament, we need to be heard that we think it's not acceptable and not representative of what we want Britain to be.
I can't wait! More ways to keep us safe! /s
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Yeah, that's not Kickstarter. They're keeping that money.