skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt a collection of incidental packets from random unsecured access points recorded years ago would be terribly useful to them.

I personally don't think sniffing packets on an open WiFi network should necessarily break wiretapping laws. Or at least not the same laws. Bugging someone's phone just feels like a more serious crime to me than packet sniffing an unprotected network.
I stand corrected, downvote away.
>But you are accomplishing absolutely nothing here. Being annoying and ineffective doesn't help your cause. Do you know that Jesus loves you and he wants to save your soul?

To quote him. Please explain how he "did no such thing"
Good! I find it depressing how sites like that sponge value off of actual content creators.
Fun hack but since it relies on JS it's difficult to see why cutting IE8 out makes sense for such a negligible speed up (assuming said speed up actually exists).
MOOCs are solution for highly motivated students who are generally able to get accepted by traditional universities, ace classes and graduate with little to no debt. They are not the solution for sub-par students who go to for-profit universities, could not get a job afterward and could not repay loans.

I consider myself reasonably motivated, graduated with almost perfect GPA and I still struggle to complete MOOCs. It's just too difficult to force yourself to study without outside pressure and peer support.
My initial reaction is that you would need an additional moving part to turn this into a vulnerability. Say you had the ability to permalink to a filtered view -- the querystring param could carry an XSS payload... breaking out of the CSS context early, or maybe (and this is off-the-cuff speculation) staying in the CSS context but adding a rule which refers to an attacker-controlled file.
Who says there's a shortage of software developers? Outside the Valley and the Bay Area in general, who says mean and median software salaries are going up?
As you mention in your article, copyright infringement is not theft. You have a legitimate claim against BuzzFeed, but don't start using the terminology of MPAA/RIAA , unless you want to be hated as much as they are.
She is like an unrelenting ant!
She says: "The thing I was missing is that math is just a bunch of symbols that you manipulate to get new symbols out. Coding is basically the same thing. The meaning isn’t in the math or the code itself. The meaning comes from the interpretation of the mathematics or similarly, what your code is doing for someone."

This is, I think, the most important thing to understand about mathematics, and failure to understand this leads to the travesty that is K-12 mathematics education in the US. I find it impressive that she came to this conclusion on her own, having started as someone for whom "Math was never [her] favorite subject".
"Snark" is one of those words that people first learned on HN and now reuse whenever there is a comment they don't like.
The deep irony is that iOS is based on BSD, which is free.
Through airports it's always happened to me. Through the Canadian border at Niagara Falls it didn't.
Yes- the chicken produces the egg
would love to see this done in space: http://www.biosphericproject.com/frontpage
(A biospheric greenhouse project in Salford/Manchester, UK.
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Wow. Sounds like somebody isn't paying enough attention.

> In one case, after the government learned that a foreign intelligence target had ordered new computer hardware, the American manufacturer agreed to insert a back door into the product before it was shipped, someone familiar with the request told The Times.

> At Microsoft, as The Guardian has reported, the N.S.A. worked with company officials to get pre-encryption access to Microsoft’s most popular services, including Outlook e-mail, Skype Internet phone calls and chats, and SkyDrive, the company’s cloud storage service.

Please do your duty as a human being and read more.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet...
I wonder how the GeeksPhone Peak+ fares in this context. I pre-ordered one a few weeks ago.
> No you can't. I'm not aware of any commercial Android phone that doesn't need binary firmware blobs running in kernel space to work, i.e. for display drivers, WiFi, the radio stack etc.

Using an open source operating system is a step towards a fully transparent phone, even if it doesn't solve all the problems at once. It opens a market space for a company to release a phone with open-source drivers. Consumers need to force companies step-by-step towards the solutions we want, not just expect them to be delivered in a gift-wrapped package.
Presumably the fingerprinting issue is more of privacy than essential freedoms. Even if we believe Apple when it says that fingerprint data (and authentication?) will remain solely on the device, it's potentially only one vulnerability before someone collects or accidentally exposes millions of iPhone users' fingerprints. And unlike your private keys, you can't change your fingerprints.
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Yes, I think they failed to make a strong point in their blog post.

I will be glad if Apple makes fingerprint scanning mandatory, as it will at least introduce the concept of securing your device to the 50% of iPhone users that currently do not use a passcode. I'm really surprised Apple have implemented this before Google.
Looks like Visual Studio's default project setting is -W3 but cl itself has a bunch of crazy historical defaults like -W1 and C++ exception stack unwind disabled (wtf?)
Math isn't the symbols, it's the ideas. The symbols are just a crude way of communicating the ideas.
I had not considered the privacy implications of fingerprint readers before. So I, for one, got a little benefit from the ancestor post.
There are so many people that underestimated the potential success for Arduino, and the rPi. Also, experienced hardware folks tend to forget how unforgiving hardware can be to non-hardware folks, and beginners; a good example of which was posted here the other day. http://www.jwz.org/curtain/
That's interesting. Something I've never thought about before.
Generally speaking, because some regulatory agency or other would refuse or revoke certification of a device that has a "disable radio" feature that doesn't work.

I wouldn't assume that a device is incapable of accumulating GPS tracking information in "airplane mode" and forwarding it when the radio is turned back on, however, or that intelligence and law enforcement agencies would never quietly disable "airplane mode" in the course of specific investigations.
I've tried other fonts, nothing compares to Source Code Pro. You never really notice how much a decent font impacts how you read until you replace it with something else.
Well Reverend ... I think your claim has merit but I'd be interested in knowing what denomination ordained you with language like that. I'd recommend you avoid curse-words like that in your court filing and in the event you talk with officials involved in your case.
Fair enough, I probably used the wrong words there. My point was that it's not like Google had some project to build better advertising profiles of you by driving to your home and sniffing your traffic. Assuming they didn't actually do anything with the collected data and had no intentions to do anything with it, the fact that it was collected doesn't seem like that big a deal to me.

I'm not sure it's fair to expect privacy for your unencrypted data that's being broadcast on any unencrypted network. To me, that feels like reading someone else's postcard. It's not a cool thing to do, but is it really like wiretapping?

I agree that their response to this news does not inspire, but I wonder if that was an attempt to minimize what had the potential to be really bad PR.
This is an academic project - the main goal is typically to publish a paper, not to release a demo or product.
I agree. The only distiction mentioned is Wind River (owned by Intel) and MacAfee security. There's nothing singular about that whole package beyond branding.
I assume you mean Amazon services like EC2. Because there is no reason you should need to create an account to buy something on Amazon.com.
Where is it written that a Reverend shall not use such language?
Wrong.

> In one case, after the government learned that a foreign intelligence target had ordered new computer hardware, the American manufacturer agreed to insert a back door into the product before it was shipped, someone familiar with the request told The Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet...
It's not about your fingerprint though. It's just that cheap scanners are easy to trick and you leave fingerprints everywhere, including on the very surface you scan it on.
> I don't agree that it has in the past.

Good for you. The rest of us can look at history with less bias on this subject.
I feel your pain. On the plus side, you take great photos and now I'm aware of your work (I know, I know — doesn't do much to help).
I think most people would understand the difference if asked. There are all sorts of reasons, but no great ones:

1) Tutorials usually use 'int' (self-referential)
2) 'unsigned' is one more thing to type.
3) It can be hidden behind a typedef.
4) Negative numbers can serve as error codes.
5) Wraparound can cause bugs for either.
6) Occasionally safer (if x - 3 < 0)

I've usually taken to using explicit width unsigned integers (uint32_t) unless there is a reason not to.
I've noticed this myself as well, with a similar timeframe. In college, right when I started coding, I would regularly type up a 8-10 page paper (for non-CS assignments), find 2 typos in spell check, and then just ... turn it in. No grammar snafus, no syntactic boo-boos, no problems at all.

Nowadays even a short email can't measure up.

I think it's because I edit code much more "interactively" than I used to write prose: editing a previous line as I think through the current one, deciding to change a variable name or edit a loop construct or what-have-you. That habit has transferred to writing prose, and I think it's for the worse.

Rather than having a complete sentence planned out before I start it, I find myself getting partway through and then thinking "huh, I'd rather rephrase the beginning like so". And so I change the beginning and go back to the end, but often a conjunction or phrase-transition gets messed up in the middle and I don't notice it.

EDIT: typo!
super nice idea ... great execution
> what denomination ordained you with language like that.

Huh?

How about I grew up on the other side of the world, in a completely different culture, where we don't care for words like 'denomination' and 'ordained'.

Welcome to the internet, which as you don't seem to understand, is global.
It makes sense on paper, but I'd be interested to see actual benchmarks, just to see how much of a speed boost you get with this method. I certainly didn't notice it on my machine (tested against the jQuery UI Autocomplete)

I chuckled after reading the article at the somewhat misleading title. I was assuming it was pure CSS, no JS...and was wondering how the CSS was firing events! :)

This is still pretty neat, IMO, and I like how it emphasizes the "markup as your data model" concept.
I've been working in tech for 20 years. The key to getting decent gigs/clients is to avoid tournament situations (i.e. a conventional job application/interview process).
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I was in the US a few months ago and did experience what you are talking about on the interstates, so I get where you are coming from. It was actually kind of a strange experience to be out of service so often.

But here in Canada, where I spent almost all my time, the only place I've ever had any significant coverage issues is when I was in the far north, and I've only been there once. It's essentially a non-issue for me.
From the article: "On Slate Jonah Peretti goes on to say ”would love if every image contained some secret metadata and a way to license that image. But the practical reality is that it is pretty challenging“."

Now there's an interesting startup idea.
Eh, I think we understand what "theft" means in this context. It's "theft" more in the "theft of service" or "theft of value" sense: Buzzfeed has taken something that would otherwise cost money to use and has used it without payment ("theft of service"). And has potentially sapped value from it by making it tougher for the author to use as he wants (like in a book -- "theft of value").

"Theft" works, here.
Agreed. Browsing the Play store is like looking at one of those download pages that has 7 download links--one of which is the real link.
MPAA/RIAA aren't hated for abusing terminology. They're hated for extorting exorbitant payments from people (some of whom don't even own computers, let alone download copyrighted material) by abusing legal process (threatening people with lawsuits that are probably groundless, but which the defendants can't afford to pay a lawyer to defend). I doubt that the author of this article could ever deserve that amount of hatred.
Or instead of digging through docs, we could do

cout << is_unsigned<string::size_type>::value;

and check it ourselves.
Not just that, I can't wait to see what else Apple has in mind for this thing. I've been waiting for the day where my phone/mobile device is the thing that logs me into Facebook, Google, et. al., and not a stupid password that's auto-generated anyway. It's really hard to crack your password when you don't have one! And who's going to "hack" my fingerprint??
Well, nine women can make nine babies in nine months, so effectively they are working at a capacity of one baby per month. If you want to twist physicality for your standpoint, I can twist sampling range for the opposing standpoint.

This is not saying I fully agree with EM's case in point here, as much a fanboy of his as I am.
On the flip side, the people on your side need to stop thinking privilege is absolute instead of relative to context, and stop imagining that individuals can be judged based on what group they've placed them into. Yes, even if those things are true statistically, that doesn't make them true for every individual.

Also, feminists need to stop being so fucking transphobic. It's a major issue and it is not being addressed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6364315
Points scored, pat yourselves on the back.

Apple says the info stays on your device. "They're lying." Ok, but is there ANYTHING that could possibly convince someone of this mindset otherwise? I'm guessing the answer is along the lines of, Open source the whole thing. Oh well. Like I said, points scored.
Non techies that I know hear 64 bit and immediately think that it's better. When friends show me a new lap top or whatever else, they say it's 64 bit. When they're shopping they ask if something is 64 bit. They don't understand why it's important, but they think it is.
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Although only mentioned in a single line in this article, `git bisect` is well worth reading about by itself. I found the following tutorial to be extremely helpful:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect....
You know you're a hacker news reader when your first thought after reading this isn't "order food!" or "watch porn!", but "I wonder if any fast food delivery websites have affiliate schemes...."
It already exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Digital

Unfortunately, it's easy to thwart. (just transform the image slightly)
This kind of gotcha really should be a warning at default warning level.
How can a designer become an investor of a product?
In a nutshell, i started helping some of my friends in separate with ideas for products they wanted to take forward. But I rapidly saw that becoming founder of several projs at once could make things confusing, so I distanced myself a bit and made myself design investor of the projects. I own a stake in the product, support with vision and design, but let them be founders.

This became a thing: http://designer.vc and by seeing some milage in it I decided to extend it a bit further beyond my circle of friends. My question is, does this have milage? Owning stakes in ideas that are not yet incorporated is usually about trust and friendship and managing those relationships with a written agreement signed by both parts seems a bit dodgy..

What do you guys think?
Wow, super impressive. And meanwhile, Silicon Valley is working on the gazillionth social photo sharing app.
Isn't that a little extreme? Don't see how a person protecting the claims on the photo of his/her own child that is being exploited for commercial gain by someone not authorized by the creator to do so is even in the same context as MPAA/RIAA stuff...
Checkout from svn, modify, generate patch, and attach patch to sourceforge?
I'd say Lua. It's simple and well designed.
Ask HN: Can we agree to a ceasefire about the NSA?
Hey Hacker News,

Could we please try to not mention the NSA on topics that are only related by about six degrees of separation? I'm not asking for changes to the Hacker News forum, just that we only talk about it if it's directly relevant.

I believe the NSA needs reform as much as the next guy. But it's kind of really annoying to read legitimate tech news and have sprawling arguments in half-page-long threads about the NSA, and privacy, and how America-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket, and etc. etc. etc.

I respect those that believe everyone should be aware of the ever-looming NSA, just as I respect those that respond with skepticism. But the resulting arguments are equal parts religious fervor and skeptical backlash where nobody benefits.

I'm not saying it's not an important topic. I'm not saying the NSA is squeaky clean. Go ahead and keep submitting stories about it; I'm just saying, mentioning the NSA on an unrelated topic, and then arguing about it, is like repeatedly quoting that really dark movie everyone saw that won a bunch of Academy awards while we're all trying to watch that cool new comedy.

We get it. The NSA sucks. But not everything has to be about the NSA. It's getting obsessive - and I mean that in the most polite way possible. Could we just reserve it for all the Guardian articles that come in every day? And not on, y'know, Apple's new iPhone announcement?

Thanks. That's all.
Well that's the point, isn't it. The code is purposefully sloppy and should fail or hang, and the programmer can then fix it like you did. But with c++, it "works", but for the wrong reason, so it never gets fixed and may cause problems someday.
How so? I'm pretty sure RMS would pop out of the bushes right now and yell "told you so!!" That's why he went with GPL over BSD license.
Digimarc did this years ago but the problem has always been enforcement, not detection. As noted in the article, BuzzFeed knew where the image came from and could have figured out a way to license it pretty easily- but they didn't want to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimarc
"As the kids grow up I’ve been collection various “Parent Hacks” were I’ve discovered useful ways of doing things, with the aim of one day producing a “10 Neat Things I Learnt While Being A Parent“. Now one of those things has been splashed all over the internet, which kind of devalues the usefulness of the list I was planning."

The above is the thing I find most amazing. If you are compiling a list so that you can one day produce "10 neat things I learned" etc. then the last thing you should be doing is putting that info anywhere on the internet. The saying that comes to mind is "possession is 9/10th of the law".

By posting it online, multiple small parties will potentially take it, spread it around, and you will never have enough legal resources to police it. Effectively it is gone forever.
I think it's unfortunate that this is the case that is forming a discussion around Google and privacy. There are important, unanswered questions about what Google and similar companies do with data about you. But what they do with packets they saved essentially by accident a few years ago is not one of them.
TERFs go way beyond Tumblr, and the fact you likely don't know what TERF means is a big part of the problem.
This was hilarious and definitely worth the read. The ads alone have definitely persuaded me to try out their service. The company seems like a breath of fresh air, considering how everyone else avoids associating with porn sites like they're the plague.
More realistically, fingerprints aren't considered "testimony" for the purposes of fifth amendment protection against self-incriminating testimony.
It's a pretty lame reason. A "HVAC giant" should easily be able to lean on a software vendor to get their software running on anything (sane) they ask them to.

(McAfee security software? really?)
I stopped reading at "at least use Bitlocker".
Question for the entrepreneurs: how would one monetize such a cool algorithm? I come across plenty of cool stuff like this, but without any idea how they can solve real problems.
Any weakly typed language like Forth is likely to have this behavior.
Apple should spend its cash on things that matter, like new product ideas.

http://fakevalley.com/apple-investing-in-black-magic-to-get-...
It would be just as doomed as any other DRM scheme. You can't stop anyone from copying an image, removing any metadata that might be there, or even if they're clever, from cloning out a watermark.
This guy is recounting struggles teaching beginners to program, not his own difficulties. There's no reason to assume he's a basic programmer. He's also not calling C++ a bad language, merely saying that it's frustrating teaching it to newbies - what's wrong with that?

Even though he wasn't ragging on C++ as a general-purpose programming language, it would be nice if the programming community could have honest conversations about its shortcomings without resorting to defensive, ad-hominem attacks.
I see the statement as not a re-iteration of FSF's take on Apple but rather re-establishing the meaning of free software and its importance to people while the tide is high.
Yeah right. They're hated because they look at the people ripping off their stuff and sites like ThePirateBay profiteering on their content and try to stomp on that sandcastle.
But people need to learn things like OO and memory anyway, why not do it with a language that teaches you both? It's not like the introduction to programming in Java would have final bufferbuffers everywhere to avoid garbage collection. C++, as bad as it is, teaches you both how memory works and how OO works.
>You don't need a hardware backdoor when you can just put a backdoor in the binary blob your users run

I'd really, really enjoy a deep dive on some entrepid Xorg dev walking through what it would take to really backdoor a video driver blob such that it could be remotely activated or used to spawn a remote shell or whatnot.
It's theft of money. You do something that incurs a debt, but instead of paying that debt you simply keep the money in you pocket - money which is, by right, no longer yours. It's like bouncing a check. Generally speaking, that's chalked up as theft.

By focusing on the infinitely reproducible media (which cannot, strictly speaking, be stolen) the RIAA/MPAA made themselves look like idiots. But just because they failed to correctly identify what was being stolen does not mean that no theft was taking place. Focus on the money not changing hands (which obviously can't be duplicated) and the picture becomes a lot clearer.

Edit: Downvotes? I guess the truth stings, especially when the logic is airtight.
Religious arguments frequently don't work like that. Where is it written, for example, that Catholics must not use condoms?