skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some countries with broken economies, usually end driving a interesting amount of entrepeneurship.

I am from Brazil, here for example 50% of the entire economy is underground, most of these are composed by small 1 or 2 person business, the normal tax-paying economy also has a huge amount of small business...

What happen here is that normal jobs are so problematic, that people then rely on creating business (legal or not) a lot.

I am very sure if you got a bunch of tech here, and invested into the people ideas, some really cool things would flourish... I frequently hear people wanting my help with several cool ideas! (I do not help them beside advice, because I need help myself too anyway... My business is make educational but fun games for children below 6, and I am finding no funding, the education market is seemly very scary and hard to understand, most investors avoid it entirely)
What if Marissa Mayer went to jail
Exploits like this have actually happened already against Android at conferences. Developers particularly almost always have the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) enabled on their phone. Then someone made fake USB charging stations that used ADB to pull all the files...
WPA2 is probably ok with a long passwor(d|phrase). The problem is nto WPA2 per se but another bundled technology in many rounters. WPS -- that is crack-able very easily. Many routers that even say they disable it don't really do it.

Search for it there is a list of routers that are better than others. With WPA+WPS we are mostly back to WEP days where any kid with a laptop and some googling skills can get access to many wireless networks.
Is this used anywhere at all, or is it just an easter egg ?
But that doesn't mean it is better than fast. I would say "if not fast, be responsive"
Actually, they can be quite a bit safer. If they're small enough the NSA might not have any existing targets on them, which means they won't have tried to find a way to intercept their traffic yet. They could just do SSL traffic inspection, but it's too costly (and practically impossible) to do that everywhere, so they have to do it on specific target networks, which involves a lot of work to get the thing in the right place on the network.

It would be a huge pain in the ass to cover all the smaller providers.
This is how it used to work (and maybe even still does) in parts of the subcontintent, (e.g., India, Pakistan). There are divisions for each grade - e.g., there's 8A, 8B, 8C, and that's how the kids - by "intelligence". If you're in a B class and do well, you might move into the A class for the next higher grade next year, and so on. It could work the other way too.

It's a horrible system where everyone in a B or C automatically feels inferior, and so do their parents/family. Sure, you can change the name to be something more acceptable than A, B and C, but it's going to be tough to get away from the underlying concept that one kid is better than the other.

I support that education should suit the person's interest and strengths, but "grouping kids by intelligence level" is highly subjective no matter what purpose-specific metric is used.
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7 bucks shipped. And you can't save on shipping with a batch order. Not as disposable as a floppy but getting close.

I foresee the day we can buy $1 flash drives at the local dollar store. Relative to inflation.
So, apparently I'm "Only The Best Yahoo CTO"...
My favorite real life bullshit job title is "Chief Innovation Officer".

Care to stand up and be counted? I know you read HN. ;)
I'm unsure, but doesn't WPA2 password knowledge allows to decrypt your traffic? (Possibly with an active attack to re-initiate handshake?)

I.e. someone who knows your password could drive by your home, listen to the air and see what you're doing online.
> Not "you should have known better."

If by this you mean that ignorance is a defense, Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted specifically, in the wake of Enron, to remove this defense. CEOs sign a statement each year attesting that they do know, and they can be prosecuted for lying about it.

From a speech Cynthia Glassman gave:

Recognizing that awareness must precede action, Sarbanes-Oxley and the
Commission’s rules require the CEO and Board to make certain that procedures are in
place to ensure that they hear bad news. Under the Commission’s recently adopted
rules, these procedures must ensure that all material information - both financial and
non-financial – gets to those responsible for reporting it to the investing public.
Are you threatening me mate?
It wouldn't be a good way to obfuscate at all! The step before the eval would be completely decipherable.

Also, not cheap!
Agreed.

The real issue is that too many programmers apply their own cultural norms to the issue of naming, in ways which privilege their particular culture at the expense of others'.

(You want to be able to identify people uniquely? Fine: allocate them a globally unique ID string within your own system. Then let them link this to whatever the hell they want -- be it an Anglophone forename-middlename-surname string sequence, or something entirely different that fits their cultural requirements. Once you get into designing a procrustean name storage architecture and insisting that everyone uses their true name, then you are inflicting your own culture's naming requirements on them, which is offensive at best. Especially when it isn't necessary.)
Space Invaders for finding relevant jobs. Translation services (Bayesian webapp)
I'd rather like to see an article about the opposite - mutables in math, or better, programming in math.
I know iterative algorithms and math do not have much in common, but it would be fascinating to explore some possibilties of opening up math to such kind of sequential calculation.
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In a C codebase, I would prefer '#define struct union' tucked away in a shared header. Compiles just fine.
Is Volvo? My wife has an XC90. She previously had an S40. I've had two C70's (both generations) and an S80.

So you might get the impression I generally like Volvo and would be happy to hear this. ;-) It was my impression they were on their way out of the US market though.
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With Ghostery on, there's no content on this page unless you unblock the SoundCloud widget.

In this case, it's definitely worth unblocking. :-)
I wish the audio didn't have noise artifacts ("clicks") from SilverLight's encoding that make it a bit annoying to listen to after a while, and that Microsoft had listened to it after encodeing or would have been so kind as to fix after it was brought to their attention years ago.
There are actually charging only USB cables out there as well. Heck, I suspect the cable that came with the Chromecast is one, just to save money on data lines that would never be used.
> Implementing Apple product charging is somewhat convoluted, for example, and has changed over time.

It is? I've never had any problems with cheap AC to USB power adapters.
[2009], by the way.
The "direct access" that the NSA has to Google accounts probably requires sending a request for some set of information to Google. It likely needs to be signed off on (even if it's all automated). I'd imagine the NSA would like to hide some activities, especially corporate espionage, even from the watchers at Google--it reduces the risk of anyone at Google growing a spine.
I think the message is this: fast is an impossible standard to meet since there will always be inconsistent user experiences, so aim to be responsive before being fast.
And that's why everyone should be referred to by their assigned 128 bit GUID
But they could ride buses and write something good? Like web sites/apps for charity or something. I don't understand why they would use bikes.
USB Data Isolator.
I am a U.S. citizen who recently moved to Japan. When I entered the country, my first and middle names were combined to create a 20 character given name that appears on my Japan-issued ID.

Ignoring the more common issues of computer systems not accepting non-Japanese names, it has been a bureaucratic nightmare, struggling with applying for credit cards, opening banking and investment accounts, and linking things together, as each system has different lengths limits for names, and in some systems my name is input as Unicode "double width romaji", which in some systems will not match the otherwise identical ASCII version of the name.

I truly wish I was offered the ability during immigration to just drop the middle name, but even then my first name is longer than some systems' 5 character limit, where I am often put in as "Cortl".
Did you note that she lives in Hawaii? Screwing up foreigner's names is one thing. Screwing up the locals is another.

The locals in this case still resent the way that the USA took over in a coup. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Kingdom_of_Haw... for the history.
If you think your example is on one end of the scale you got too little imagination =)
Why shouldn't my culture be privileged in my country? I understand that you British are almost done giving away your country for some bewildering reason, but I certainly don't want that where I live.
Good luck and enjoy, it's not quite as cheerfully warm as it was during the TdF but I'm sure cycling through France will be just as lovely anyway.
It's also on the Pirate Bay.
Physically moving a webserver using public transport without downtime
Predicting the future in tech is a fools errand.
"when stories about the effects of drugs on the brain are promoted to the neglect of the discussion of the personal and social contexts of addiction, science is servicing our collective anxieties rather than informing us."
This.

Also, for who missed the link in the article: http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/
Your analysis is spot on. My first assumption on reading this was, "What does it matter?" I think the starting assumption for everything online is, "This will be read by someone other than it's intended audience until proven otherwise." This is doubly true for Wifi.
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> "Poor people don't need smartphones they need food"

Burt Wonderstone: Marvelton's Magic Gift To Poverty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVwiaKsQMq8
For what I consider to be an informed opinion on the matter, I'll cite the head of the 80's Savings and Loan scandal investigation and prosecutions. He was interviewed on public radio the other year.

This is someone with expert knowledge who has actually been through and on the inside of a similar, if smaller, situation.

He pointed out that, in that case, they pursued investigations and prosecutions and were able to win settlements and judgments in circa 1000 instances including criminal prosecutions.

As I recall, he described what has happened this time around and a real shortfall and travesty. One that was not necessary, had justice been more aggressively (or, at all) pursued.

I'm not an expert. But this guy, not just through credentials but also experience and demonstrated results, is. And that's what he had to say on the matter.

Sorry, but it's been long enough that I don't recall his name off the top of my head. If I have time, I'll look for it and perhaps for that interview, as well. Or maybe someone else has a name and/or reference handy.
I agree with it very much. When I'm zipping files on Linux and my system grinds to a halt due to hard drive contention, I don't want faster zip times, I just want the damn thing to be responsive while it zips in the background.
The problem is that the banks never became "too big to fail" and they should have been left to fail, and then we wouldn't have this problem.

But some politicians were all "oh no!!! we can't let these banks fail!!! the stock market would collapse and unemployment could spike over 10%." And then the stock market collapsed anyway and unemployment spiked over 10%.

And now the banks are even bigger. :P
As far as I have followed the discussion there are no hard facts or claims at all, just the general suspicion against a completely closed system of an US company.

I, too, don't believe that Intel adaptively generates its RNG to spoil the Linux RNG. But be reminded that what would have been wild conspiracy theories just half a year ago is now common believe (NSA deliberately introducing vulnerabilities in software and even in cryptographic standards, routinely by-passing TLS).

Given all we know (and don't know) I think it would be prudent to mix Intel's RNG with the other randomness sources using a cryptographically strong primitive and not just XOR. Personally I'm enthusiastic about Keccak as a reseedable RNG, but these modes will probably be standardized no earlier than fall 2014.

> Assuming the chip is detecting that the Linux RNG is in play is already way out of the realm of simplicity

I meant simplicity of my argument. As an answer to this paragraph I argued that it is indeed possible to generate malicious output that appears completely random:

> If this were true and you set up a repeatable test situation in which you force the other parts of the RNG to generate the same numbers prior to RDRAND and then did the RDRAND and captured the results then I don't see how one could argue RDRAND is compromised in this way if the results coming out of it over time even appear to be statistically random.
As someone that has smoked [1] I think legality is important - but it's also the relatively mild effects.

If you're getting frustrated at work, you can take a break, give yourself a quick "boost" by stopping for a cig, and then go back to work. Something that's not really possible with heroin, or marijuana or any other "drug" apart from caffeine.

[1] ten years on and I still don't say "ex-smoker" as one of the mental tricks to help me deal with it

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I don't understand your question.

Bigger targets are always more interesting for mass surveillance, because, by definition, they have more users.

And that's what the recent revelations are all about: Mass surveillance.

Obviously, bitter targets are also more interesting for private/non-NSA/non-state hackers.
"Then what does? If they're using claims they can't back up, or that they know are false, to sell their product, that's pretty clear-cut fraud to me."

Why do you think they know the claims are false? Do you even know the claims are false? It doesn't seem so clear to me based on a quick bit of searching. They don't have to back anything up, they only have to reasonably believe it to be true.

"I think my standard is more useful for preventing harm and sending scammers to prison, however, so I'll stick with it."

Your standard would prevent harm. It would also render a large fraction of all advertising illegal. Fortunately we don't go around sending everybody to prison just because their company included some questionable claims in their marketing.
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That's how they can give internet for free, now I get it.
I knew someone would toss out the multiple pages with tables example. In terms of HTML that's called multiple tables. I agree that it's not efficient.

Nor did I say that such a feature was unreasonable, I'm just saying that people are complaining about a lack of feature that wasn't built in before the expectations of that feature. People want it and there have been people seriously attempting to implement a solution. But that kind of thing takes time and the problem is it isn't happening in a time table that makes enough people happy. So they complain and toss out unfair criticisms.

Your last bit proves my point, people are attempting to use these technologies in ways they were not designed to do and yet complain about them not being able to do it. You might as well hate your car because it doesn't fly.
Exactly.

The article says that the cost of flash will stay at approximately 10x the cost of traditional hard disks. Given that traditional hard disks are expected to decrease in price, the title is not just misleading, it's flat out wrong.

This prediction does mean that it will decrease in price slower than it has in the past, but that's all.
What model laptop? I am still using my Studio 17 laptop from January 2009 and other than the hinge getting loose every few months (which means I need to pop the plastic off around the screen and tighten again with a standard phillips screwdriver) it has been the best laptop I have owned. It has outlasted my ThinkPad's which is the biggest shock to me. Maybe I just got lucky but I couldn't be happier with this machine. It has lasted way longer than I expected it too considering it is a consumer laptop and not a business line such as the Latitude. When I have to replace it I am not too sure what I will do as now I expect my laptop to last me at least 5 years :-/
You don't have to go too far. Twitter doesn't let me put my full name either.

I have a typical Russian name (Vladislav) and a last name that consists of 11 letters. Is that really too long for Twitter to handle?
"By the same logic, you shouldn't start a company because 90% will fail, you should start 10 or 15 to try and have a winner or two in your portfolio, right?"

That's not at all the logic I was following, but interestingly enough, that's basically the VC portfolio strategy: counting on 1 company to earn 100x all the others combined. Spreading out the investment such that any one, or two, or ten can afford to fail so long as one wins big. Remarkably similar economics, in fact. It's how the TV networks have operated for so long. Networks aren't like founders; they're like VCs. The series creators are like the founders (sort of), the studios are like angel investors or accelerators, and the networks are like VCs.

But that's beside the point. My logic is that a pilot is a lower-cost proof of concept of a series (and even a pilot is extremely expensive and often wasteful). If anything, production companies and studios (not networks) should be making them, and should be finding faster, cheaper, and more minimal ways to do so -- eventually rendering the necessity for a full-fledged pilot obsolete. There is no reason why Lean series development and product/market testing can't happen, especially if a company like Netflix is the buyer.

To a certain extent, this is actually starting to happen. A lot of studios (again, not networks; let's be clear about that distinction) are pre-marketing and pre-releasing proof of concept videos and other materials before pitching them to networks and going down the tradition pilot path.

"If Netflix can assess the content pre-pilot and then give the creators the money and space to tell their story, they don't need AMC or any of the old media, the creators will come to them."

I never said Netflix needs AMC; in fact, I recall saying the exact opposite. Currently, FYI, Netflix is playing the "old media" game in going to, paying for (at a premium), and developing with the "content" marketplace in Hollywood. I don't think enough people quite grok that. As I said, this seems like a necessary step until such time as Netflix commands enough respect and power within that market to rewrite the rules and change the economics of distribution.
By disc media you mean optical disks? A hard drive is, at least to me, disc media.
Basically, from a fundamental investment analysis standpoint Tesla is way more logical than Facebook.

Tesla makes a tangible good for sale with a straight forward business model. You can evaluate Tesla using the same criteria that Ford was evaluated with 90 years ago, same way that Westinghouse, or GE were evaluated. They are a new technology with a potential to revolutionize a major industry, with a high risk of failure and high return on investment if they succeed. For Facebook or Twitter a savvy investor has to first theorize how to even evaluate them.

The investment potential in a facebook or a twitter is there definitely... but its much easier for an investor to evaluate a tesla compared to a facebook.
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You make the false assumption that people in different divisions of a very large company

I'm assuming that people within a company are more likely to know each other and know what areas they work on versus simply "working at google." They have all kinds of opportunities to rub shoulders - previous projects they've worked on together, company social events, even just riding the google bus to work each day.

While outsiders are also a risk, working for the same company substantially increases the opportunities.
I'm really only critical of spelling mistakes for anyone who, in the document containing the mistakes, claims to have good attention to detail.

Essentially it's a job rejections on the grounds of irony.
FTA - "For his trans-Atlantic crossing, the basket in which he was riding was actually a lifeboat that could have been used if he ditches in the ocean."
My internet traffic anyways is wide open and can be probably be tapped by giving a beer to a teenage techie in my local ISP ; or going to a router in our attic (last time i was there, it was behind a tiny padlock) where the wires split out to apartments.

If I use https/ssh, then my traffic is safe even if wifi is open; if I don't, then my traffic is unsafe even if WPA2 is used.
At $10 per cigarette, in a neighborhood where you're likely to get shot.

But they're illegal in order to keep us safe.

Right.
This sounds like it should be the subject of a Dilbert article!
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Nirvana, according to some.
> should we really worry about the 0.01% outlier

1. Yes, this is sometimes known as discrimination.

2. Yes, you have no way of knowing the size of the market if you are excluding them - this may be disguising a group that's significantly larger than 0.01%.

3. Yes, if you cater to these people when your competitors cannot/do not, you have a captive market.

4. Yes, everyone is 0.01% in some fashion - if you continue to apply this reasoning, you will eventually exclude everyone other than yourself.
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Jet fuel is definitely not tax free.
Boston Logan airport has certain benches dedicated to power charging, and for the most part they all have two power sockets and two dedicated USB charging ports.

I've also seen dedicated cell phone charging stations at other airports that have USB charging ports alone.

USB-only chargers in airports definitely exist, and are sometimes fought over in busier airports.
Regulatory capture is just one form of regulatory failure.
Let's for a minute assume that we as developers will be able to agree on some sort of best practice. The "Falsehoods" article and the W3C page mentioned in the comments are good, valuable resources and I really hope developers across the world will take them into consideration.

Then it is time to show your form to the client and he/she goes nuts!

"People must enter their full name". Okay they can just write their full name into this text input. "No they must enter both first and last name". But not everyone in the world has a first and last name. Icelandic people? "Just require a space in the name". Like nobody in China has? "Don't argue with me, I am the client, require a space!!!ONE!"

It's discussions like these I feel I can't really win. Most clients aren't technical, they are chock full of assumptions and they are not paying me to argue with them, they are paying me to require first name and last name and quick!

I understand that education needs to happen but there are limits as to how much education your client accepts from you before he goes to a different shop.
Nothing is left and the human life is truly devoid of meaning.
Note that all cows (and some other farm animals) in the EU are already subject to legally-mandated "inventory tracking", of movements between farms. This is for epidemic control purposes following the last outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

I knew someone who did a PhD on analysis of the cattle movements database..
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