skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, but if I want to do more than passing browsing then I would want to do it on a device other than my phone. My phone's net connection is for finding out quick info, like transport schedules or the current score in a sports match. It's not for doing extended browsing. Hence to me, a bigger screen is detrimental.
Probably not. As pointed out above in the open you'll usually have stars which, away from light sources, give off a fair amount of light on their own.
If you are not making sign-up mandatory, you would not be able to validate the pain point of the problem. People normally would give you their email address(or even pay through their credit card) if you are solving burning problem for them. For self funded start-ups, this may not work.

However, this technique discussed in the article may work for consumer start-ups where you think of making money later and your present problem is to get millions of users.I assume you have sufficient runway(could be in the form of venture funding) to follow this approach.
> Just by measuring a few simple indicators, and plugging them into a baysian probability algorithm, we've been able to detect spam accounts with a very high accuracy.

slight nitpick: the word is "Bayesian", not "baysian"
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Why would you need to reset biometrics (point 1)?
fwiw, I can tell you haven't watched hans rosling recently either.

We seem to have lost perception of it, but with all the crappy meddling from businesses, UN, ill-managed or bad willed NGOs etc.. life expectancy in sub saharian africa has doubled in the last fifty years, infant mortality has halved or more and many nice things have been happening along the horrible ones.

I do not care for the new iPhone though, that may explain my different world perception.
I didn't say that I trust mail clients. I said mail clients shouldn't accept arbitrary HTML markups and tags in emails. That's a serious problem that needed to be addressed, regardless of Google Scholar being exploited to send emails with arbitrary links or not.
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Not only that but facebook may block your account at a whim. Happened to me once for posting 'explicit pictures'. The picture was not even explicit, apparently something tripped their automatic 'skin detection system'. But the result ? I couldn't log into any 'facebook connected' sites.

Better to create separate accounts on each site and minimize dependencies. Also, if you lose your facebook password, it's just your facebook account that'll potentially get affected.
Your comment is incoherent.

I know what "Free Software" means. Your definition has no connection to what you assert here: "Apple could still have audited free software into its appstore as it does for nonfree software currently."

So, unless you're suggesting that apps be distributed as source code, and compiled locally on your phone, there's no way to determine if the binary the App store distributes is an accurate uncompromised representation of the original source. Furthermore, expecting normal users to examine source code for security holes is an unreasonable burden. The security of iPhone apps is based on how much we trust Apple to maintain that security, and to review the apps. Not in our personal freedom to examine the source code, which we can do already, for many apps.

You confuse developer control/freedom with user control/freedom. They are very different things. A user doesn't have programming skills, and their personal interests are in freedom from malware- freedom from developers that have the ability to do whatever they feel like with the user's data. They have no interest in being able to compile their own apps and run them on their own hardware.

On the other hand, developers are interested in having the freedom of not being in a sandbox. not having to go through an app review/approval process. The freedom from security restrictions. The freedom to slurp address books. The freedom to override any hardware button, use any API, without limit.

Do you not see how developer freedom and user freedom are in conflict?
I'm feeling rather good about myself because although I'm a complete novice at linux, I knew the cal command. Yay me! I read about it here:
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
American, Schmerican. What we have here is a group of nationalistic government-employed hominids enforcing their paranoia upon the rest of their species. Justice shouldn't wave flags.
That sort of split seems to be fairly typical of user-generated content sites. For example, Amazon takes 65% of revenue from self-published Kindle titles, and Apple takes around 55% from music sold in iTunes[1].

[1] http://www.innojazz.com/2013/03/revenue-split-of-itunes-albu...
This is the reason I started working on Streme (http://streme.co). I just wanted to be able to collaborate on a list of links (for sharing music recommendations with my brother) without needing to register for something and then also without having to convince him to register as well.
Agreed, although the integration with a schematics editor and PCB board design tools seems nice.
Named pipes are filesystem objects you create with mkfifo.

What's in use here is more widely known as “process substitution”.
Tom states about monetary compensation, "Even if this vulnerability doesn’t qualify for a reward, I strongly believe that it should be fixed promptly to protect end users." But then you guys are experienced, so maybe know more about the impact. {1500 bug reports sure earns you that (and it shows :p)}
I would like to hear your side of the story.
Sometimes the dictionary definition isn't enough to understand the meaning of a word in a new context. "Hacker", up to about a decade ago, certainly meant "an expert at solving problems with a computer", but that meaning is not what people are referring to now. The dictionary hasn't caught up with modern parlance yet. Today's meaning is more along the lines of "A person whose expertise in a subject allows them to do things in new and innovative ways." To be described as a "<something> hacker" is a compliment.
You're not playing fair with your comparisons. In the case of bottled water, you want to count all the costs of making the bottles, filling them, transporting, them, etc. In the case of digital content, you want to ignore the cost of producing the original, and focus only on the subsequent copies.

When you take a bottle of water, the cost of inventory (which captures the entirety of the amortized cost of production) is less than half of the harm to the shop keeper, because the markup on bottled water is well over 50%. The primary harm is the revenue the shop keeper will forego because he cannot sell that bottle.

In the digital realm, using a copyrighted piece of content without permission causes the copyright owner--who did have to invest in the original creation--to forego revenue as well.
Hacking means "playful cleverness". A hacker is a person who employs playful cleverness in things he/she does. He/she may or may not be a programmer.
Except for APL / K / J programmers!
One of those pornstars is wearing a shirt that reads "@eat24 is the official sponsor of my muchies." I'm not sure how that could be less organic without removing all the carbon.
"The whole spiel has made several rounds on HN, though [1]"

If you look at this discussions, HN commenters were very skeptical this was an NSA backdoor. The speculative possibility isn't news; the fact very much is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580434
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Apple don't trust the AUD not to drop further than it already has in the last 3 months.
You lost me at:

"Government Announces Steps to Restore Confidence"
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I think that is over-reaching, too.

But pragmatically, the more data they have, the more likely you are to show up as a false positive. Worst case; you handle something in a hardware store and it's later made into a bomb by a third party. You're going to need a solid alibi for that one.

Or you get placed at the scene of a protest even though you weren't present for it. Now you're on the terrorist list.

Additionally they can catch you more easily for victimless crimes, like if your fingerprints are on a bong they collect. I figure it's easy enough for them to stick you with a felony even without actively helping them get more data. So I'm trying to minimize the felonies I can be stuck with.
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Go may be the last of it's class, but there are still mind games such as marketing, haggling and hostage negotiation where currently humans are far superior.

Now, when computers will be better than us at those things, then it's game over (and hopefully start of something new).
Knowledge is not binary. Knowing more about what your phone is doing is better than knowing less.
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But your comment was obtuse too.

Throwing the NSA thing at Apple is ridiculous frankly. It seems that the vast majority of tech companies were involved, including the likes of Google and all seemed to be far more embroiled is the sordid affair than Apple. So why are they more likely to be sharing stuff that anyone else? It's all very disingenuous from where I'm standing.
Sold to Nestlé in 3.. 2.. 1..
NYT lost THIS much credibility together with the US govt altogether.
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I only find this to be a problem when I travel abroad. Because in my home country (Spain), the vast majority of residential buildings have blinds like this:

http://www.persianas-ruiz.com/Contenidos/NotaA1.jpg

These blinds don't go behind the window frames, but in the window, fitting in grooves carved in the window itself. With that, absolutely zero light will enter through your windows at night.

I have seen that most other countries don't use this kind of blinds, and I wonder why that is. They seem like a win-win to me. If you want an absolutely dark room you get it, and if you don't, you only need to not lower them 100% and then little rays of light will get through the horizontal grooves that you see (which close if you fully lower the blind).

When I travel abroad I always have to do all kinds of involved stuff (like you describe) to get my room reasonably dark, and it's so incredibly easy if you have the right kind of blinds...

I think it may be the only thing where Spain can give the rest of the world a lesson :)
It's morning here and I (not literally) spit my coffee reading those same words
Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on
Date: Wednesday September 11, 2013 02:22.30 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 47043

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him, seeing he delighted in him.

22:9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me
hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my
mother's belly.

22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to
help.

22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset
me round.

22:13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a
roaring lion.

22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint:
my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth
to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
Looks like Hacker News has also killed your DB!
Is it a FIFO queue?
This type of vulnerability can be used to aid phishing attacks but it cannot be directly exploited by an attacker to obtain or modify user data. Phishing attacks are not listed as qualifying in the Program Rules http://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/ although they are evaluated as security issues on a case by case basis.

In this case a bug was filed, but it took some prodding to get it fixed.
I remember reading a definition for a hacker that was something along the lines of "someone who modifies something to do something that it was not originally intended to do".

It was better worded than that, and might not be entirely accurate, but I liked it.
is voice(instead of text) message available fro the current API?
They also should complement them so that the combination remains revokable. Using a biometric marker standalone is dangerous if that marker is somehow compromised.
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And have made this statement through nothing but supposition.
under some secret order, they are thinking the oposite
You are right. Block migration is definitely the way to go. Unfortunately it is poorly described in openstack docs for KVM. http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/cont...
The onus is still on Google - the rule of the web is that any clients that one allows connections from are fair games that one has to address.
Was it Eric Raymond?
From webhooks to the evented web (2012)
We have the same in Italy, and I still don't understand why other countries don't use the same blinds everywhere too.
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I know what fanboys will say "OMG Motorola copied the feature long before apple launched it ."
i don't get how "Contoured and perpendicular keyboards make you tilt your fingers (need photo), hands, and forearms, which throws them off balance,". I use one. My hands are more relaxed with this keyboard.
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For such "optouts", the "report spam" button works as intended. If I didn't opt-in to the mailings, it's ethically spam (even if I'm your customer), and thus all your emails rightfully should be treated as emails from a known intentional spammer.
Software for use with 3d printers. Modeling stuff for printing is really hard right now, definitely a big barrier.
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Indeed.

What scares me is the idea of a cop at a random checkpoint forcing your finger onto your iPhone against your will to gain access to its contents.

A password is so much better in such a scenario.
start a crowd-funded reward like reported at http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2290380/crowdfunded...
I can assure you that Google takes VRP reports very seriously. Two members of Google security (f- and adobkin) have provided context elsewhere in this thread on the bug described in the post.

As for the Chrome report you mention, if you provide the bug ID I can check. However, given your description, it definitely seems like the bug was closed because you were observing the intended behavior of terminating the renderer process on an out-of-memory condition. The bug reporting form links to guidelines on reporting security bugs, and explains why this specific case is not a security issue:
http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/reporting-sec...
Nice, I've been wanting to motorize my curtains for awhile. Glad jwz did the hard work for me.
I believe that it's the lawyers that get $10k, and we get a gift certificate for a free ice cream cone. At least that's how every other class action lawsuit I've seen has gone.
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I think it's a valid security bug report.

We welcome all reports of security vulnerabilities, we try to fix them quickly, and we credit the researchers - but we offer rewards only for higher-impact flaws. You can check out this page for more info:

http://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/

In this context, phishing issues are tricky. Because many of our products simply have to do things such as displaying snippets of potentially attacker-controlled text and multimedia, we try to evaluate phishing concerns on a case-by-case basis. In essence, we ask ourselves how easy it would be to exploit a particular behavior to mount a convincing attack.

My take on this bug is that the attack vector is severely constrained in well-behaved e-mail clients; and that in badly-behaved clients, the existing exposure is already considerably worse than any incremental hazard caused by this flaw. It's valid and worth fixing - but does not quite meet the bar for the reward tiers set up for higher-impact bugs.
Moonman? Like Neil Armstrong?
Anyone participating in this program are cheap employees if you look at it from Google's perspective.
I'm an academic who is 13 years into his career. I see my job as consisting of three phases: 1) find important, unsolved problems. 2) find convincing answers to these problems. 3) communicate the answers to people who can use them. I usually get to organize my day around these principles. I feel very satisfied with my career.

I'm also in a field that has low financial barriers to doing research. The lab model that is predominant in the natural sciences is very very different.
I'm not sure you can separate those. If NIST is being systematically interfered with by the NSA, how can you have confidence in them?
You apparently think that "commercial" and "making money from software" must, must mean "proprietary" and "closed source" software.

RMS and the FSF disagree strongly with this and see no inherent conflict between the two. Either you didn't know and were honestly ignorant, or you were deliberately trying to confuse the issue.
Well thanks ^_^.
which documentary? I'm always on the lookout for good documntaries.
IPhone 5C is not cheap enough for India,China and Africa
I highly recommend http://www.mindfold.com/

The branding is a bit silly. But. You can open your eyes and it remains pitch black--zero light leakage. I started using them on flights, now use at home when I really need the extra z's.
This is not necessarily a good thing. As a "middle manager" I had to ditch 80% of all the developers my bosses and company founders had hired before me because they were pretty much incompetent. I found exactly one "diamond in the rough" amongst the people they hired. (And by "rough" I mean the guy landed himself in jail twice while he worked here...).

We could function with a third of the head count in competent people. And by function I mean be more productive, make better products and have more fun doing it.

Taking a chance, sure, but in my experience CEOs and founders are not particularly great at hiring. Even technical founders are often too young and inexperienced to get it right.

Also, if they hire middle managers and HR people that only play it safe, that is pretty much part of the same pattern.
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Sounds like an interesting game. Too bad I can't see any of the images.
I really shouldn't be getting into this, but whatever:

Let's assume that you believe that "all men are born equal" and you know for yourself that you are not a war-mongering, savaging monster and that this are also not typical traits for other people around you. Then, from your believe that "alle men are born equal" it's just far more likely that people in africa would default to a similar, peaceful, state like you and the thing that drives people in african war-torn countries must be outside factors.

(Also, let's be realistic and just admit that it's mostly just racism if you state something negative about a particular group, and not when it's something positive)
off - the site is not mobile friendly and I hate that.
A simple way of defeating the compiler backdoor attack
Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on
Date: Wednesday September 11, 2013 02:42.22 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 34243

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19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is
come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto
Hezekiah, saying, 19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers
have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of
Eden which were in Thelasar? 19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and
the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena,
and Ivah? 19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the
LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of
Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even
thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven
and earth.

-----

lock ness == Lachish
What this is, is basically an admission, isn't it? They've gone beyond denial to mitigation now.
Genuinely ascinating article!

Pity their search threw nonsensical errors when I put in my home address. ETA: Ah, I see the problem. They can't seem to give a message as useful as "We don't provide service to that city/ZIP code/etc." and instead just say, "Oops, something went wrong" or suggest that the ZIP code is invalid.

At least their ad strategy is smarter than that.
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...and if you solve this one be sure to write it up and let us know won't you.

For what it's worth in my experience on both sides of the interview panel you've basically made an 80-90% decision on a candidate in less than 5 minutes (probably less than 1 in most cases). Everything that follows is gathering information to support that decision and maybe, just maybe push on that 10-20%.
So what do you compile TCC with? It's written in C, so it needs a compiler.
BUT BUT BUT, APPLE INVENTED FINGERPRINT SCANNERS!

In all seriousness though. Apple would never make claim to fingerprint technology on their phones. IBM Thinkpads past and present still have fingerprint readers you can use instead of a password. It's all about the execution and well, Apple executed way better than the Atrix.
I agree. The dictionary needs an update, but attaching the suffix to everything is just a tad annoying. My cousin told me that somebody asked her to "hack the computer" when she wanted her to just turn the darn thing on!
This is a procedural, not technical problem. It almost seems like the standardisation process open to everyone just enables everyone to insert their own backdoors into the standard.

One interesting way to solve the problem would be to allow differenct mutually hostile entities to define their own standards (US, Russia, China, FSF, Pirate Bay, whoever) and then encrypt using all of them.

That way, even if there is backdoor in each protocol, the only way to decrypt would be all those disparate players to cooperate. It would be like a vault with multiple keys possesed by different people.