skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What follows is a brief outline of my post above:

I. points out incoherence. {first he says show it isn't happening, then he assumes it's happening but it stops or reverses}

II. you could show warming is not happening this way (data)

III. if it was warming and then started reversing falsification might happen this way (new theory/model)

IV. additional considerations about falsification
What do you think is the best free online tool for entrepreneurs?
I just got back from participating in my first Startup Weekend event (honored to be asked to join as a coach) and was wondering what this seasoned entrepreneur community would recommend in terms of project management tools, landing pages, bug tracking, etc.
you'll be free-diving like a champion

Note that this can be dangerous while free-diving. You are essentially temporarily disabling your body's CO₂ buildup alarm thresholds, which is a proxy for too little O₂. So you need to take care to make sure that you don't run out of O₂ without noticing while under 30 feet of water, possibly while weights.

The Wikipedia page on shallow-water blackouts¹ has a nice little diagram illustrating the issue. I don't know enough about freediving and O₂ consumption to really have any clue about the margins of safety typically are, but it certainly seems like something worth understanding before messing around with too much.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_water_blackout
The checkin says "Win32/Sirefef.gen!C" uses it somehow. A virus that acts as a CA?
Textbook plagiarism.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/09/13/south-korea...
Very useful for any Linode user.. Compare to AWS, I find it hard to manage security on Linode boxes.. Need concept of security groups like AWS configurable and manageable from UI..
They had at least two phones (N9 and N900) running Linux already, though.
I used to run SSH over some port != 22, does the trick to some degree.

After I picked up a Cisco ASA, went back to standard port 22 but only allow access for connected VPN users.

Of course if the ASA goes down, so does the entire network, yelp. SmartNET contract/warranty comes in handy, and the data center having backup ASAs on site for quick swap is pretty useful as well.
I keep the tabs with the registration in the glove compartment, and the plates in the trunk. If I ever get pulled over and it is an issue, it will be a fix-it ticket. Since a cop has to write you a ticket for something, a fix-it is better than a speeding ticket.
> Within the intense electric field that results, ions push neutral air molecules from the wire to the plate, generating a wind.

It sounds like the same technology as those those Sharper Image Ionic Breeze air cleaners, and from around the same time period.
> FWIW I think the formula to beat wikipedia is obvious: mirror it, get rid of notability, get rid of anonymity and hire the most prolific editors.

I would mirror the 100,000 most important articles. I'd then fact check them vigorously. Emphasis would be on truth, not verifiability. I'd keep anonymity, but I'd throw out the Wiki - editing would be done by paid employees from "suggested improvements" made by visitors. I'd pay people to create excellent quality diagrams, and include plenty of them. I'm a fan of translating STEM information into Portuguese, Spanish, and French.

Again, this would require lots of cash.
Linux Performance Analysis and Tools [pdf]
I like that, downvotes but not a single explanation about how the hell google can install arbitrary programs without user interaction.
I've got a few pretty reliable lucid-dream indicators too, but I'm always too afraid to actually take advantage of them, just in case I'm actually not really dreaming. I wish I could fly in my dreams; that'd be a good safe "this is definitely a dream" indicator.

For me, it's mostly that feeling of wanting to run but not being able to make my legs work properly. Which, from what I understand, is due to some of the same brain chemistry that contributes to sleep paralysis.

I've only experienced something like sleep paralysis a few times, and I think it must have been a very mild version of it -- just a couple seconds of "wait a sec, my body isn't moving when I want it to!" and then it goes away.
Presumably the log is required for any vehicle that's used by multiple drivers, like a delivery van. The log seems a reasonable legal requirement.
If our SIGINT collecting organizations can't do it without breaking the most important laws of our country, yes.
BlackBerry could be torn apart as potential buyers weigh their options
Better yet, netstat -nltu (--numeric --listening --tcp --udp). You probably want to shut down anything unwanted that binds an udp-socket too.
Share what precisely you find disturbing in the new interface and what would you want it to be instead.
I used to hit the [random] link and know I'd get something interesting.

Now, not so much. I'll get a tiny stub of something programmaticly dragged in from some huge database - a town name with maybe some population figure and location; an obscure politician with party affiliation and birthdate.

For people who enjoy gnoming these kind of articles are tedious - what's the point of correcting a comma if no-one is likely to see it?
The research is clear - the majority of anonymous edits are good edits.
Acrobat is a PDF renderer, ghost view is a postscript renderer, Chrome includes an HTML renderer. Notepad renders text, Word renders word documents. They are also editors, but that is not relevant to the definition.
Um, just to be clear, gexla - 6.002 requires diffEq as background, as well as physics E&M. I'd suggest that what he did is an extremely substantial achievement for a 15 year old.
There are ICs that do this negotiation already.

Like the MAX14636: http://www.maximintegrated.com/datasheet/index.mvp/id/7968
Internship is over
Surprised noone has posted http://www.theonion.com/articles/nations-math-teachers-intro... yet.
I agree and have thought the same thing. When I got sleep paralysis in my teens I had the terror feeling and had the feeling of a ghost in my room.

The only time I was able to relax during an episode, I had the experience of moving out of my body. If it is possible to think that with the brain in a state of sleep paralysis then it could be possible at other times too.
Yes - yes - camera button, please!!
I made the mistake of accidentally setting the firewall too strict on a remote server, killing my ability to SSH. A neat little trick I found was to setup a scheduled task to kill the firewall in 5 minutes, and then restart it. If it's too restrictive and locks you out, wait 5 minutes. If you did it right, then kill the scheduled task.
An Inside Look at Google BigQuery
There's also http://arakoon.org/
NSA has been murdering people?
The AI is impressive, but it mostly fails when you just go for a horizontal four at the lowest row. I won 4 out of 3 games like that.

UI is good, gets the job done.
There aren't many better examples from Hollywood out there, so we have to take what we can get...
Prolog is a big surprise here. If anyone can explain that, I'd be interested

I'd just about be willing to bet money that it's just bad data. Github try to autodetect the primary language for repos, and their detection isn't always right. In fact, I've found it to be wrong quite often. I'm guessing they have tagged more than a few repos as "prolog" that aren't really prolog at all.

Personally, I really think they should let the repo owner configure this, or at least let them override the auto-detected value if it's wrong. But so far, there doesn't seem to be any way to do that (at least not that I've found).
This is very lightweight.

There are many more steps used in more serious situations... chiefly, these come to mind: Validating installation media. Validating/upgrading firmware. Installing a minimalist kernel. Securing BIOS and IPMI. Taking an inventory of part numbers and identities to detect tampering at later stages. Locking down network access on the switch to the appropriate MAC address. Determining administrative access methodology and distributing appropriate keys or credentials. Testing.

Probably most servers today are automatically set up, and live in large scale server farms. They probably boot via PXE, using custom auto-provisioning code. Other than physically taking delivery of the unit and inspecting it and logging its presence in inventory, such machines are literally just plugged in and boot up. Probably most of them are preconfigured to PXE boot by the vendor. A strong setup will also override BIOS settings automatically upon boot, ensuring further boots have 100% pretested/tuned configurations.
The SD card switch is actually read by an external physical sensor (a tiny button like the write-protect buttons inside of ancient 3.5" floppy drives), at least on most SD cards. I had an SD card whose switch wasn't quite thick enough to trigger the writability sensor of an SD card reader, so I had to wrap it in tape.
While I agree with your argument in general, you obviously haven't been to Mongolia lately. The average Mongolian is dumping his plastic waste into the nature, trying to get a car and TV set as large as possible and is extremely envious if his neighbour is accomplishing this goals earlier than
himself.

Really, I wasn't able to find a place in Mongolia, where I couldn't spot a plastic bottle on the ground and that's not what I would describe as constructive culture. However, Mongolians can be really warm people, but the society is totally broken at the moment. This country is currently transitioning from socialism to turbo-capitalism.

http://english.news.mn/content/96843.shtml
Entrepreneur Sympathy
Dutch police happy with the iPhone 5s fingerprint reader
Back in an earlier version of Meteor I actually implemented drag-sortable and drag-drop lists with jQuery UI and Reactive data sources and it wasn't very difficult. I can't post the source - but there is a simplified demo here: http://grass-freight.meteor.com/
The nearest grocery store to my house is about 35 miles away. The nearest Sams Club (big discount grocer) is about 60 miles away.
Similarly in New Zealand, the highways agency isn't interested in catching people who are speeding. They certainly help the police with live incidents and co-operate on lots of levels, but they don't keep camera footage forever or feed data streams of toll/traffic-management users to Police. "It's not our business".
MR. clean Magic scrub vs. generic challenge
Thank god the coal companies of the day discredited them. Oh no, it was science that discarded phlogiston? Carry on.
Have had this experience periodically for most of my life, although more so during my teens and twenties (41 now, happens maybe 10 times per year).

Imagine waking up and not being able to move anything but the tip of your left pinky; furthermore, you're not in your bed but in some kind of nether twilight limbo that has nothing to do with time as we know it in waking life.

So, that's the starting point, basically awake in a coffin. Rarely I've been able to relax into the experience and fall back asleep, but more often it's been the herculean struggle to migrate the movement of that pinky to the hand, to the forearm, upper arm, and finally, somehow, roll over on my side and wake up.

As to its origins, not sure. Perhaps it's preparation for the final sleep, who knows; if so, still work to be done here ;-)
In web development, render is often used to describe the process of turning a template and data into html either on the server or within the client. More generally it is used for any template+data=>result function.
5 Apps that could turn your Smartphone into a WebCam
I wonder how much of this is due to the good top-level leadership, and whether this will change under different leaders.
I said don't don't punish teachers, simply fire all of them. Let charter schools compete to lure students.

Personally, I'd want to see self-directed curriculums with a core of entrepreneurship and computing.
If Bruce Schneier thinks that strong symmetric crypto works (the math behind it is sound) I think I will also trust it.

The attacks are usually on the implementations or subverting the rng. Or plain old thermorectal cryptoanalysis - it obtains both symmetrical and asymmetrical keys in fixed time.
Tasker can remap long-presses on the volume buttons to open the camera app[1]. But yes, I'd like a dedicated button too.

I had a Nokia E71 with a physical keyboard. I'm not convinced that really was a big advantage for me personally.

[1] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1976077
Goldman's use of ODP as an example is really funny; all the ODP employees left for other projects within Netscape & AOL soon after ODP was acquired. And that's why it went downhill.
Device to check fuel refills - from IIT Delhi students
Renting a car is inconvenient because you have to go somewhere and pick it up and fill in forms, try to rip you off with insurance and petrol charges.

Taxi's are inconvenient as they can take a long time to arrive and are relatively expensive for the time you are using them. They don't always turn up when you request them because the human drivers have motivations of their own. Added to this is some people don't love interacting with the drivers.

These factors are not a "wee bit" of an inconvenience. They are a pain in the ass.

Driverless cars will solve a lot of these issues. They will arrive more reliably, they will be far cheaper, they don't have a driver that makes you feel uncomfortable if you don't want to talk. They will be ordered with a few clicks of your smart phone.

Sure, some people will want to continue to own a car. But a large percentage will opt for the the convenience of getting "short term rentals", especially in big city's where parking is at a premium. How large a percentage? I guess that is the point of contention. I think it will be larger than you think.

Personally, I can't wait to get rid of my car: http://jamespmcgrath.com/why-i-am-not-buying-an-autonomous-c...
Watch-like device to alert kin of women in distress
Excellent question.
I would answer this question from system perspective. What are the challenges faced by existing online learning solution.

There are problems with the learners itself and there are problems with existing solutions.

Problem with learner:
1. Not being self Regulation

Existing Solution problems:
2. Different mental make up of user but similar intervention for all.
3. Challenges in Learning interventions discovery

Lets go in detail:
1. Regulation results into failure of self discipline. We are conditioned to be externally regulated and not internally. Our current system have conditioned that there would be someone who will tell them what to do. Be our school system or our parents. They will prevent us from doing something wrong or tell us what is the right thing to do. What we need is to make students feel they are responsible for their own decision and action. When you feel responsible for your action, you take things seriously. You get self disciplined. (Learned partially from: Paul Kim)(Reports on not using system regularly or in a disciplined way)

2. Different mental make up. We all are wired differently, but the courses offered are from one perspective in one way only. Every learner has a different level of understanding, learning gaps, misconception and learning style (MI theory by howard garnder) But courses today treats them same way. There might be a student struggling to learn compare fractions because he doesnt understand LCM. System needs to first dissect a learner to understand what he needs to learn and how he learns best and then offer the most effective learning intervention. That brings me to the last point.

3. Learning intervention: How do we find the right intervention for the student. There are lots of learning content online. Lots of curated content also available. But finding the content that suits me is a painstaking process. I have to keep trying till I find the right content.

I hope you guys find this useful.
You can reach me at @aakashbarot if I can be of any help further.
This exercise shouldn't be done underwater. This is an exercise for being aware of the diaphragm reflex, to go thru the sensations without panicking, which helps you to stay relaxed and develop a proper routine while diving.

By relaxing and exhaling you post-pone CO2 saturation as much as possible, but it still happens before O2 deprivation (it's only a problem when you reach <85% O2, and it takes a while for that).

Here's some great footage of a native from Philippines spearfishing the old way, showing a lot of self-control:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDspP4BhlTw
I think the most troubling aspect of this case is that the FBI modified the computers systems before Ireland seized them as evidence. It seems absurd that law enforcement can effectively tamper with evidence before it is secured, then use that tainted evidence as part of a prosecution.
My main goal in building this is to demonstrate that at this point (with HTML5 & V8) Javascript is not only good for UI but also for computationally intensive tasks like AI. Human vs human is also interesting, though.
I find https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall to be much friendlier to use when setting up firewalls.

The big problem I have is securing my private keys. I use multiple devices, and haven't found a secure and convenient way to share the keys across devices securely. I'd love ideas..
That reminds me of a story I read about how the satellite companies foiled carders by slowly building up a new decryption system out of apparent garbage released across a long string of updates. I don't dare to search for it though, so I don't have a link.
Encrypt your content with AES-128 with a random (from /dev/random) key; write the key down as 32 hexadecimal digits. Nobody is going to break it, ever.

Don't you advocate the use of urandom, or is there a subtlety I haven't got yet?

Over the last days I've been looking into the whole "never use urandom for crypto" meme that permeates practically every Linux and general tech message board (and that I had believed for years).

And I've come away with the conclusion that not trusting AES (or another modern block cipher) to be "good enough" for the CSPRNG, but using the output for... AES (or another modern block cipher) is quite comical.
I started writing some API standardization to include ruby gems int he package search, and it's on my list of things to do this weekend.
If he can establish a strong recognizable brand in the relatively niche scooter industry, the Chinese clones won't hurt his business at all.
I wish you'd made your point more gracefully, because then it would've been taken seriously. I had the exact same concern about him using USB sticks.
Germany's best-selling PC magazine c't periodically distributes "Bankix" on their CD.

It's a Linux live system (with permanent storage on a USB stick) geared specifically towards online banking.

I believe that quite a few people actually use it.

Of course the hardware is the same, but you get a clean single purpose software system.
The new product I see is 100% open hardware (in addition to open-source software). All the way down to the chip.

This should be the new market: Companies inviting the whole world to inspect their hardware (in addition to firmware, software).
The answer is don't: use an unique key for each device.

But this doesn't solve the problem you have to connect to each host to reject the lost key. (But you have the same problem with 1 key, so no worse.)
That tells you who has a certification for it. Note must people have certifications for multiple RNGs, including openssl (indeed a few of those modules are wrappers around openssl)

There is one company that only has a cert for EC_DRBG and thus can reasonably be inferred to be using it is Lancope, a network security/firewall company. For the rest of them, we don't know.
I linked to the facts. You posted opinions. You do know the word "science", yes? And that modern times are steered by evidence, not opinion?

> Are you reading what I actually wrote?

Are you reading what I have linked to? Are you prepared to challenge your own fantasies?
"They" are me.

What's up with this belief that anybody you haven't heard of is a member of some shadowy organization? I'm a well known security researcher, I give several presentations a year at cybersec conferences, and my blog gets regularly link to from news.ycombinator.com.

Also, the post above excludes the first part of that: "We are happy to add your IP addresses to our blacklist so we won't ever scan you again".
How hard would it be to reprogram the random button to only hit pages in the top X00,000 or with at least Y words?
Being able to ascertain how an unknown player operates by analysis of their name could conceivably aid players in competitive team FPSs like CS:GO. Or could it? I don't play competitive FPSs, but have followed the CS:GO scene somewhat and so many pre-game elements can help a team get just enough of an edge to pull the rounds for a match win.
This doesn't make it secure, but this DOES save a lot on having a log full with login attempts from all kinds of IP addresses.
Precisely. And much like burglars, people trying to access your WiFi fall broadly into two groups; those who want to access any of the WiFi in the area and those that want access to your specific WiFi. My guess is that in the vast majority of cases it's the former and as long as your 'locks' are better than your neighbours you'll be fine. However if it's the later, then just like burglary you've entered a whole new problem space.
Speaking of which, there's publicly available security software that can (try to) identify original sources of phrases, identify links between websites and who said what first, etc. One example: http://www.paterva.com/web6/products/maltego.php
See also http://plusbryan.com/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server-or-essen...

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5316093
Those kinds of people are the worst. I've seen a few "do their thing" and it's not a pretty sight.

Not only can they kill projects, they spread misery to those around them, almost like a cancer. It's up to management to deal with them, but of course, if management is part of the problem, there's little else you can do.

In such a case, you can perhaps voice your concerns, but I usually tidy up my CV because I know I won't be working in a place that tolerates (or in some cases promotes) people like that for long.
> that incident doesn't demonstrate a positive relation between administrative costs and abuse ...

Greg Mortenson abused his foundation to the tune of over a million dollars by withdrawing administrative funds for his personal use. That demonstrates a positive relationship between administrative costs and abuse.

Have a nice day.
My scanner doesn't try to brute-force the logins. It's just grabbing the banner.
Those billion dollar checks didn't float Nokia for long.
Dogs Are Perfectly Happy To Socialize With Robots
Try rewriting that sentence without passive voice, see what you find.
Stuxnet jumped an air gap.