skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and it's out of control. There are at least three different, huge co-working spaces that have popped up near my place. All were formerly businesses that were interesting and useful. Now they're just deadzones of douchebaggery.

Not only are these places generally providers of really lame office space (the people who congregate at co-working spaces are often the worst kind of wantrepreneur -- all talk and "hustle" and zero ability to produce anything of value), they drive up the rents for everyone else, drive out street-level retail and other businesses that help make a neighborhood livable, take up parking spaces during the day, and cause an urban flight problem, wherein everyone leaves the neighborhood when the sun goes down.

IMO, the city needs to change the zoning laws to make these sorts of office desk sublets harder to produce.
U.S. documents detail al-Qaeda’s efforts to fight back against drones
Soon every child will be born with its own "startup".

I've come up with a formula...

<large font><made up word - typically something like boopnik, slurpio, cloppertrin, etc>Do <something that has been done 5,000 times>, <faster, better, more, gooder, bestester, more better, simply, less hard, more easier></large font>
blah blah blah blah blah, here's a picture of us sailing and helping the homeless, because we're unique. Give us money. Thx.

...because in order to really protect your customers' data, you should share it with more clueless children who think javascript should be used for everything.
It causes me discomfort, yes, because if a beginner over-estimates what they are doing then they are in for more disappointment when they discover what they are really doing.
I'm completely oblivious to non-US law, but I think, in general, you cannot both have your cake and eat it. As far as I can see it, there are two choices:

* Publish the standards and practices of the government. Lawbreakers know what to avoid, ala Denmark.

* Keep the S&P secret. The law-abiding populace has no say in the rule of law, ala the US.

I'd love if there was some middle ground here, but I think there is none. In direct response to your question, it could be argued that the US's actions (specifically, the interception and storage of telecommuniques by government entities) have been completely in accordance with the law, though I won't be the one to make the argument.
Unfortunately you are looking at Classic Maps. Classic Maps was perfectly usable, I agree.
Didn't mind the UI once I read the help, not disappointed with 26/75 (34.67%). That was fun!
In this instance clearly there was no scripting involved; your point addresses a straw man, not the reality of the situation in the original article.
Maybe she's a business user and pays for it. Business version also has the same bad layout.
Exactly where you just stated yourself... the platform.
Jonathon Fletcher: forgotten father of the search engine
Bodybuilding with steroids, if we had some drug to make us super smart I imagine the cost would be the same, and I would be tempted by it.

Edit: after thinking, I would be afraid of the worst side effect of quitting, just like a steroid user would fear weakness, I would be afraid of my own stupidity
I have a couple of questions for those who have gone before.

I'm currently building a smaller business. Decent recurring revenue, very unlikely to scale to big proportions. Basically aiming for financial freedoms. Not technical, but learning to make websites for what I'm working on.

Is this worth my while to apply for? My time is flexible, so I'd just be looking at cost of flight + booking to attend.
Wouldn't any backdoor used in a criminal prosecution have to be disclosed to the defense?
Future of confectionery has arrived
Very appreciated, fixing...
I can get 350mbit-ish out of the Dreamplug - do you know of any small devices with two Ethernet ports that can do better? I'm looking to upgrade.
I was thinking that 'metal is better' myself.. as I enjoyed the heft and solid feel of my Motorola Droid.

Then I got a Galaxy Nexus and revised my opinion on plastic phones entirely, it feels good in hand and has ruggedly endured all kinds of accidental abuse at my hands.
Rand Paul wants to defund them and was detained by TSA for refusing a pat down. He may very well be the Republican nominee for President in 2016.
Worth mentioning that truecrypt volumes can be hidden inside playable video files. Yes, it's security through obscurity, but hey, it makes me feel a little safer.

http://keyj.emphy.de/real-steganography-with-truecrypt/
And really a lot of you are over blowing the issue that there's white people listed on the page. WHO CARES. What did you first look at that in your racist attempts to point fingers at a supposed different racist? Grow up.

I've seen 9 square mile cities of nothing but white trash and 1 sq mile cities that would give even the worst parts Compton or Camden a run for it's money (and actually is recognized by people in the hood of Compton - I lived in a different part of LA, check out central falls, RI or west warwick, RI).

And no crime maps are not population density maps, either.

A lot of you obviously haven't lived that many places.

And I don't know why the heck I'm defending this but wow some ignorant lack of intelligence on the hacker news boards - sorta disappoints me.
Bodybuilding with steroids is like launching a startup with VC money.
I really can't see the line between the top-most comment, about bugs, pg's special insight into Jobs, and the conclusions you've drawn. What Jobs has to do with the class of issues bulleted, in the top-most comment, is beyond me. There's not even any proof being shown that what Page or Google is doing is wrong; just a bunch of parroting of blanket statements.

I really didn't want to compare Apple and Google or Page and Jobs; that's the point. We're not even comparing the same things, and you don't have to look far to find power users scorning The Apple Way. We can go on all day with issues pertaining to Apple's HIG -- forced consistency -- and the degrading of usability.
Disadvantages of Hiring Younger Employees
Great experiment, but I wonder how usefull can be a bunch of people playing a game without any knowledge of biomedicine.
List of web-based code sandboxes, and a few other things.
If you know of any that I missed, let me know.
Just finished reading, and that was a seriously terrifying article. I have no idea how anyone could go through all of that work just to have a more muscular body that barely works. Thank you to the author, writing that is a public service.
I'll try to come up with more ideas as they pop into my head, but given that you consume a binary, I'd like to see a service that consumes core dumps and does what "
Automated Debugging for Arbitrarily Long Executions" (HotOS'13) does (a sort of reverse symbolic execution for find the root cause(s) of a the failure). An extension of this idea would be to operate on arbitrary program images, perhaps multiple images, as a mechanism of doing concolic execution.

Are you using concolic execution, or thinking of going in that direction as a way of generating more runtime-specific info, e.g. execution interleavings, data sharing, common values for memory locations, hot paths, etc.

I suppose a bunch of this is probably outlined in your API or integration with one's build system, but it would be great if a lot more about the process and capabilities of this system were detailed up front. For example, I think it would be useful to make some case studies of some programs, in a similar way that the Viva64 guy does for PVS-Studio, as a way of showing people how to use your system effectively.

Otherwise, I find the traces hard to digest. Unless there is some better interface for reading things, I think it would help convince people that your product is useful if, for example, your system reported the bugs it found in a very clear way. If debug info is in the binary then that should also be referenced, etc.

Finally, a passing note: I think your biggest "competitor" is going to be a tool like AddressSanitizer and other compiler extensions. I mean, I know solving more bugs is good for everyone and whatever gets the job done means better code out there, but I assume eventually you need to make money and convince people that you're going to solve a problem that a compiler extension can't. This is kind of the situation for DBT systems now :-P
17 y/o kicked out of house - seeking devilishly motivated partner
Mentioning a steganographic technique implies that you use it, negating the point.
However, I do not agree with letting the general public rate places...this is more something people who've lived in quite a different number of environments should be doing...
The latest moto X has always listening chip inside. That's pretty significant. There's robocars, ibm watson, siri/gnow. The CEO of the quantum computer recently said that machine learning is progressing faster than people think, having seen some of the secret internal stuff brewing up at big G. Microsoft is developing improved versions of the kinect internally as chips.

Who cares if we don't know how the brain works in detail, we still haven't built bird-like machines that flap, but we do have machines that soar through the sky faster and higher than birds. Same is happening with AI.
I wonder what percentage of people will get the VMS reference.
20 Habits that will make you highly successful
Apologies for external link. I am limited to 2000 character description.
Page 16 has some wonderful lines:

• “Fruit of the poisonous tree” can be circumvented
• The use of backdoors cannot be detected or proven
• Vendors are legally and commercially prevented from
acknowledging their backdoors. Defense will not be
able to prove their existence
• The files can be described as “forensically obtained”
Truecrypt is open source. Can anyone find the backdoor?
Is it ironic that this GNU/Hurd newsletter is published as PDF? Or is that format now considered sufficiently free?
Don't Freescale have a bad reputation for not being particularly open?
The US does conduct investigations in accordance with the law without tipping off those investigated.

FISA is the law. The PATRIOT Act is the law.

The law is corrupt.
It depends on the type of book. For fiction this is definitely true. For textbooks and technical books, there is a massive used market with high resale prices, which is more what I was thinking of. I suspect a lot of these vendors simply won't jump on the bandwagon without some kind of reassurance.
Scroll down a bit; all they have to disclose is that the files "were forensically obtained."
Parallel reconstruction...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/uk-dea-irs-idUKBRE9...
Ever try playing with plan9? It persuaded me that, yes, the modern tree filesystem sucks, but not because organizing persistent data into heirarchies is bad, but because you don't always want the physical translation presented to you. Plan9 was pervasively virtual, with an applications filesystem view being radically different than anothers, and with everything accessable through file read / writes (including OS system calls besides open, read, write, and close).
This is actually a good thing. I've always wanted to get better at HTML5 / "web 2.0" programming. Now I have an incentive. I think I'll just go ahead and make my own web mail client, with imap support, and host it on my own server (or AWS account). Can't think of a better way to learn than to have a good project (necessity and invention, and all that).
"Bastard child" as IBM is the father to the unwed MSFT?
I've gone with the WDTV series for my media needs - the earlier gens were very hackable but they've turned on codesigning in the latest WDTV Live Media hub range. They're not bad and play everything I throw at them (Sigmatek decoders, afaicr)
EDIT: Ignore that. I figured a slide show would not skip slides when you use arrow keys for navigation.

Can I get a direct quote? I'm not seeing any mention of TC on p15 or any other page.
I wear a shirt that says "Free Hugs", and I've had many adults take advantage of it. The other day, a kid asked me and I got all weird and "can't"... I don't wear that shirt anymore.
Awesome work on this.

Another idea for you: I'd like to put in multiple competing places to see which is optimal. Should I go to Wendy's or Burger King on the way?
No. First sale doctrine.
As in, Google takes a bigger cut?
> Charges $700 to $800 a month for a “desk"

Wow. Not even the Hub charges that much and IMO, the Hub has a far better community and workspace.
"Reflections on trusting trust" [1] may be necessary here. When you install Truecrypt, do you download a packaged binary app? Or do you compile it from source? Do you trust your compiler?

Until you know what the backdoor actually _is_, please don't stop just because you audited the source code.

[1] a good summary is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_%28computing%29#Reflec...
I had a FitPC!

Do these have the same problem as the other Freescale and Marvel Armada based boards that the GigE is hanging off USB2?
If you're such a heavy gmail user, I'd recommend using keyboard shortcuts for linking, formatting, adding cc/bcc, etc.

Once you enable them, you can easily check if you've forgotten by hitting ?, and within a month you won't have to touch your mouse (or navigate the UI) for anything save for the esoteric features.
A few gems in here besides the TrueCrypt statement, mainly that Apple iCloud and Dropbox are named, and the legal framework is touched upon.

All cloud stored content are automatically hash-scanned
and image-analyzed by their service providers and
infringing content reported to NCMEC (p16)

Mobile content are automatically scanned when they are
synced with cloud storage like Apple iCloud or Dropbox.
Mobile devices that are not cloud-synced can be accessed
by their respective vendors (p16)

If I am reading this correctly, when you upload something to Apple iCloud or Dropbox, there is a background process which generates a hash of your content, then compares that hash with infringing content? What defense do companies have? What about proof that these claims are true (sources, etc)? Can anyone just leak a document that claims XYZ tech company spies on its users and everyone takes this as fact?

Vendors are legally and commercially prevented from
acknowledging their backdoors. Defense will not be
able to prove their existence (p16)

Great, blanket denial either way! I hope this is a hoax!
The Guruplug and Dreamplug. They're still limited by the USB to about 350mbit throughput.
Have to comment anonymously, as I still work in PR.

Quentin has a reputation for being easily pitched by PR people... and well, you can see for yourself:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h...

Stories that are just pitched by flacks, and written up.

This "trend" piece reeks of the same.
What I struggle to find is whether we're finally seeing USB3, or GigE that can go faster than 350mbit.
I'll quote it here anyway, for the benefit of other readers -

￼What’s A Backdoor?
• A method to bypass data encryption or security
• Does not require the password or passphrase to be known
• Saves time, cost and effort to access encrypted or secured data
• Allows data to be accessed, copied and even modified without tipping off the owner
• Currently available for major encryption software – Microsoft Bitlocker, FileVault, BestCrypt, TrueCrypt, etc
• Currently implemented by major cloud storage provider to comply with NCMEC requirements
Oh now I see the confusion. No the cut is about the same, it's the platform itself as in its users. I don't know what it is but I suppose they just tend to spend money and click ads less. I can't pinpoint the exact reason but many other developers have experienced the same trend.
This really doesn't sound legit. I suspect they might be thinking of backdooring the truecrypt client, which, really wouldn't make it much of a feat.

The container format itself is really just a giant mathematical mess -- there really isn't anything to backdoor there.

And then the client doesn't exactly dial-out to anything when you mount an encrypted volume. Therefore I would suggest that this is probably a matter of using alternative means of access to the machine in order to patch the client itself.

That wouldn't exactly be worthy of the attention of the NSA, given that truecrypt is open-source.
More information about the bug:

https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/intel-microcode/1.20130...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/intel/+bug/1212497

Intel.com link for downloading the raw microcode update: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&Dwnl...
There was an episode in "Through the wormhole" where it showcased some experiments in how the subconscious mind can be utilized more. I bet this will become normal in coming decades.
A bit of Googling got me:

"Is Truecrypt A CIA honeypot"
http://www.privacylover.com/encryption/analysis-is-there-a-b...

Seems like paranoia is looking just in general more plausible today.
Hi!
I'm also in high school with some similar goals to you on teaching people CS. I'm going through my school directly, trying to set up introductory classes, but I imagine that could be pretty different from school to school. Mine's private so they have functionally unlimited discretion on how to arrange their curriculum, particularly their non-core ones.

Also, a big obstacle I've faced with my proposals is the AP Computer Science course. The course is taught in Java which is not great, but the curriculum is definitely not the best even for Java. Being a junior, you may or may not have taken that yet, but that might be a thing to think about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

There's your backdoor.
As someone who's been around the web platform and standards orgs for a number of years (on browser-side stuff, since 2006; working at Opera 2009–2013), I'd like to say that I think almost everyone working on browser engines (be it at MS, at Apple, at Google, at Mozilla, formally at Opera — and hopefully again in future) really care, quite deeply, about making the web a better place. From my viewpoint, what differs most is the views of those higher up in the organizations.

Certainly, the amount of resources people put behind stuff varies (Mozilla obviously cares deeply, to the extent of it being their foremost mission; Opera has historically cared about it deeply — it used to be a point that a disproportionate amount of specs were edited by Opera employee — and it is part of their "vision"), but at the end of the day, as an intern you're likely to be working with those directly alongside you almost exclusively.

If you care about working somewhere where people are truly passionate about what they're doing — go for any browser vendor working on an engine (I say this as to exclude Opera — while there are some contributions flowing from there, they are relatively sparse in number — though I wouldn't be surprised for this to change back to them investing heavily in their browser engine as their Blink-based products enter the market). Yes, in many ways Mozilla are probably the best (as there's no question that this view goes all the way to the top), but don't rule out the others.
My $100 Hacker Dojo membership sounds like a steal in comparison to their rates.
user:	xarball
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Any reason you're using a throwaway?
State is preserved?
Call me paranoid but I'm scared as well to mess with hormones and other stuff I do not see. The body is a machine perfected over the millions (or billions) of years so no way in hell am I going to add all of the sudden, and on my own, 6 times the amount of testosterone.
FOTPT: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
But I feel both pg and yc have been quite consistent about this: They're not trying to optimize for proven consistently good performance, they're looking for potential to be great. They're trying to discover the next Einstein, not merely put together a decent physics faculty.
How can people "talk to customers" when they're packed in so closely? The proximity of those desks looks like phone calls would be awful for nearby developers' productivity. Well, it would kill my concentration -- headphones just don't cut it. Even movement in my peripheral vision is distracting (thankfully our cats sleep most of the time!).
The only reality that is acceptable on HN is that Google is unstoppable and benevolent to geeks. An optimistic view of their competitors counts as shilling.
If you want to be understood, you have to make sure your point is clear. Throwing in an unnecessary controversial point, especially about someone as divisive as Jobs, just muddles pg's main point.
YC already has the ability to accept more startups from the thousands of applications it gets. Most high-quality startups are applying to YC even if they apply to other incubator/accelerator programs and the number of high-quality startups that apply to incubator/accelerator programs but don't also apply to YC is going to be fairly small.
Nope, this is what Ginsburg would call an instruction manual for how to defeat the 4th amendment.

The use of backdoors cannot be detected or proven

Vendors are legally and commercially prevented from acknowledging their backdoors. Defense will not be able to prove their existence
I've tasted both. Not much difference.
What a Welcome to a New Country
The Op is using commodity in the sense that wood is a commodity.

Now anyone can grow wood, but the big money is turning that wood into furniture and that takes a skilled carpenter.
What I'd give to see a textual diff of the source code to that microcode update (which is, for the record, encrypted and signed).
Looks like Google just updated their Authenticator app. Works fine for me on iOS7
Yeah, I was shocked by the "dad" test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU

And when Gabe talked about 8, I winced:
http://www.neowin.net/news/valves-gabe-newell-calls-windows-...

But watching a few "tips" / "best of new features" videos for 8.1... I start to feel a little left out.

Just type to search. Re-engineered file copying. Hot corners make it seem like someone at least skimmed an article on Fitt's Law. And, ooh, Win + Print Screen? Just make the screenshot a file. Yeah, should have been fixed back in 95.

So, er, maybe they got a few things right?

I haven't upgraded yet, but... the dissonance is mounting.
You missed a big one there.

Mobile devices that are not cloud-synced can be accessed
by their respective vendors

Essentially; iOS and Android have a remote backdoor available to the US government.
Nutritional info.
My favorite part is that it doesn't work with the hardware search or menu buttons.
Good heavens, that's alarming. I wonder if part of the problem was that he did all this in 4 months, and whether he could have taken lower doses with less intensive training over a year or two...but then I think of the few times I've looked at magazines like Men's Fitness or suchlike, and it was all about maxing things out, downing vast quantities of supplements, and generally overdoing it. I don't know whether this means that most of their readers are juicing or that having a big physique is simply a full-time commitment, but this article makes me happy to stay skinny.
Well, here is the one for last year. How many times do they have to tell us?

http://www.ndsaa.org/Computer_Forensics_for_Prosecutors.pdf
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@bigiain - Seems promising, feel free to let me know how it turns out. Goodluck.

@unimpressive - true dat. Hopefully, one day we'll hold the word "security" to a higher standard again.

Thanks for the advice guys.

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...but how is the prosecution able to prove the files exist on someone's device if they don't have to disclose how they determined that the files were present? If all they have to do is assert that the files exist and were "forensically obtained" then why bother with the backdoor in the first place?
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&...