skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's how to do it:

1. Contribute a driver to the kernel. A network driver would be ideal, but any driver will do. Include a binary firmware blob, because including binary firmware blobs in drivers is how linux kernel devs roll (or how they used to roll). When creating the binary firmware blob, use a SHA1 preimage attack to actually create two versions with the same SHA. One is benign, and one runs your back door.

2. Root git server. Replace object containing firmware blob with the alternate version.

This attack should be detectable by comparing blobs from old git clones with blobs from new ones, using a hash that has better preimage resistance than does SHA1.

There are other ways to get your SHA1 colliding binary blob into a git commit in ways that are unlikely to be noticed. I demonstrated one (without actual SHA1 preimage attack) here: http://github.com/joeyh/supercollider
But a binary firmware blob is pretty much ideal.
Somewhere in the YouTube settings there is a Google Adsense sign up procedure. It is a bit of a trick but if you can figure it out then your set for life!
One would think that CO produced by combustion would rise before it fell.
Hi. I ran a small service business with some expensive ass keywords.

Adwords was a fantastic customer acquisition tool for me and, in the early stage, drove 80%+ of my business for a relatively small cost of acquisition compared to traditional channels like direct mail. In fact, there is an entire industry dedicated to helping SMEs build and optimize their SEM. I can't remember the numbers exactly, but they make up a sizeable portion of Google adwords revenue.

So I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you and the google conspironuts that are crawling all over this thread have no idea what you're talking about.
The shittiest project I ever worked on
Literally nobody I know has cable, just isn't worth it. Anything worth watching has a way to download it online easily and hassle free and if you don't feel like paying there's a million ways to download it regardless.
I realise this is a bit trolly - but:

> .... privacy IS a fundamental human right

"Rights" are not universal. Individual rights are not universal. It feels a bit like exporting a Western style thinking on the world and saying everyone should agree with it.
Overall I find it very reminiscent of Trebuchet, but I happen to like both fonts.
Another fellow Oaklander checking in here (working in Mountain View though). You, myself, and Jared should all get a beer sometime (and whoever else).
It doesn't seem like you disproved the claim that Brazil aggressively spies on its own citizens and, thus, that this is hypocritical populist rhetoric.

> if every citizen take care of its own country actions.. so they do not interfere badly with the other countries.. we would be just fine..

The US's spy complex is a MUCH bigger threat to those of us here in the US than it is to those abroad, and anyway there is nothing we citizens can do to stop it anytime soon, so don't hold your breath.
They were very important. There was a large gap in the mid to late 90s - early 2000s where we would have had to use floppy disks if not for CDs. Broadband wasn't widely available until the mid 2000s.
What I learned replacing the top case of my Mid-2010 Macbook Pro
Not so subtle plug.
make that the standard everyone is converging on so we don't have to wait

No, I don't see any benefit in it as a standard. I only said it's the only way for Flash to exist in the future. It doesn't mean it has to be used with that. In vast majority of cases Flash now is used to decode video. HTML5 video suffers from crooked companies like Apple and MS who refuse to adopt open standards. When situation will improve, Flash will surely hit the ground for good. And to clarify, I don't think there is a point for Flash to continue.
Huh? Never important? Jumping from 1.44 MB to 700 MB of storage made a pretty big difference in all sorts of media.
Indeed, right on the page: clang!

"The IDE will be integrated with Clang Analyzer, so that more than 2000 code inspections and error diagnostics results from Clang compiler would be shown right in the editor. Of course, you also would be able to review them in a bulk mode."

I use QT Creator for C++ authoring today primarily because of the Clang integration. Pretty excited to see it well-implemented by JetBrains.
Yeah, that system was beta-tested on 9/11.
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im hoping
One reasonable approach is that after 20 years, the copyright holder must submit an annual fee to the copyright office or it goes into the public domain.

That way Disney can have their copyrights, and abandoned works go into the public domain.
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It might depend heavily on what type of app you have made and who users are.

On one end of the spectrum of human behaviour, you have people who skip the manual entirely and go straight to trying to figure it out themselves. They will be pissed if you don't have a tutorial when they get stuck.

On the other end, you have the type of people who will carefully follow every instruction you provide them, and will be upset if you don't provide a guide or instructions upfront.

Regarding interactive messages, I recently used this plugin on a recent project. If a new user opted to take the tour, they could follow along down a series of options, interact with the form fields or UI that was being highlighted and close the tour at anytime. They could also opt out and start the tour later if they got stuck. One week in and we are already seeing an impact on the KPI for the project. http://usablica.github.io/intro.js/
Larry Wall released Perl 1.0 in Dec 1987 - two years before Guido started writing Python. First usenet release of Python was Feb 1991, with 1.0 coming in 1994, with Java coming approx 1 more year later.
Minecraft's lack of borders is certainly part of why it has managed to outsell the entire Myst series (though it's less impressive when you consider how much larger the market is these days, and how much easier it is to get to 12 million sales). But the atmosphere of mostly-peaceful exploration of a different world is something that Mincraft and Myst undoubtedly share, and something that hasn't been recreated by very many games in between. Bethesda's RPGs do an okay job of allowing exploration, but they come with a heavy emphasis on combat and a very in-your-face plot line that completely changes the mood of the exploration. Minecraft and Myst just drop you into a new world without any preface, challenge, or goal.
Because there are a lot of ways to make a fast thing slow in cases where "slow" improves security. And at the same thing you're not hurting performance in cases where a slow function doesn't significantly help security and performance might be important.

Making your hash function twice as slow means you've halved the number of hash operations you can perform with fixed computational power. On the other hand, in many situations the resultant doubling of your security margin makes absolutely no practical difference since the existing margin is many, many order of magnitude away from any attacker's capabilities. Making things twice as hard on an attacker sounds impressive, until you think of it like asking someone to travel 2 billion light years instead of only 1 billion. Both are ridiculously outside of our current capabilities, but anyone able to travel 1 billion light years is likely going to be able to travel 2 billion as well.

In more specific terms, making a function with 256 bit security 10x slower has a pretty dramatic impact on performance with a resulting security increase to about 259 bits of security. You have a fairly marginal security increase for making your function 10 times slower. Modern cryptography is fast, but it's not yet fast enough that running at 1/10th the speed won't be noticeable in many situations.
International copyright agreements make things easier in Brazil: we have only a subset of the first step and then the last one.
I honestly don't know. It's one of the benefits of not living in the San Francisco Bay area.
Yea my aunt was running an Ebay business selling vintage clothes/ art/ jewelry (I was helping her out and putting in a lot of hours)

4 bad reviews from the same person within an hour locked her paypal account and all the money inside for 6+ months. She wasn't allowed to sell more than 10 items a month when she was averaging 100+ items a month. It was feeding her and her kids. Weeks went by and she didn't have any money so she went on food stamps for those 6+ months. Paypal simply didn't give a fuck and after 1 email where she asked very nicely why she couldn't sell more than 10 items they locked her account indefinitely. 2 years later she still doesn't have the money and she isn't allowed to sell under any other ebay usernames.

Well if that didn't happen she wouldn't have found her new job making triple the money at an actual store front.

Besides that story I would recommend using something like braintree in order to make them stronger and grow.

Paypal can suck my dick :)
> Do Snowden or Swartz have the domain knowledge of the workings of civilization to make a decision like that for everybody?

They didn't make a decision "for everybody", they just made a decision that happened to affect a lot of people. It is part of the romanticism that surrounds the modern state to assume that every action with implications for a Government must be a decision for everybody. No it isn't. The NSA isn't "everybody". The Obama administration isn't "everybody". The fate of human civilization does not depend, and has never depended, on the actions of one Swartz and one Snowden.

The good thing about changes that take place over generations, like what I was trying to describe above, is that they take a long time. We're talking about 30-50 years here, if not longer. The boomers won't be dead until the 2050s, and it will probably take just as long for someone who grew up worshiping Swartz and Snowden to occupy the White House. As Max Planck said, progress happens one funeral at a time. Guess what, modern medical technology has made funerals rarer than ever before.

One Swartz and one Snowden won't change the world. I'm not even sure whether the kind of behavior they exemplify should be encouraged at all. But the thing is, those leaks weren't one-man attempts to re-architect the USA. Rather, they are symptoms of a wider political and psychological change that has been going on for a couple of decades already, and will likely accelerate whether we like it or not. This is not about some violent revolution, it's about social progress, and progress takes a long time.

Patches are coming. The pull requests won't be as polite as they used to be. Not a single line of code will be taken for granted, not even those written by the BDFL himself. But none of this needs to involve a complete rewrite. Just a series of incremental improvements.
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Yo Pete,

When you say "prototype", do you mean breadboarding and plugging stuff into the headers? If so, the next step would be to make a PCB, which is exactly what this course is about. It would be "custom" but it's built on top of the Arduino. Plus it's all Open Source Hardware, which means the design files are open no matter what.
'Texting Zones' Are Now Being Installed On New York State Highways
"In America the goal of copyrights has always been to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."

That is the stated purpose of the power given to Congress. The manner in which Congress has exercised that power since the constitution was drafted has been essentially a clone of the Statute of Anne, a British law created following years of heavy lobbying pressure by the publishing industry. The payment of artists comes secondary; in theory, the businesses that benefit from copyrights need to gather their material from creative workers, and those workers demand payment (in practice the people who create copyrighted works get the short end of that stick).

"Of course this is done by giving the authors exclusive rights over their work"

You make this sound like the most obvious thing ever, yet this was not always the case. Prior to the invention of the printing press it was common to encourage people to copy creative works -- to prevent them from being lost forever. In fact, the Library of Alexandria, one of the important stores of human knowledge of its time, existed because of a law that required books to be copied regardless of the wishes of authors.

You brought up the progress of science, but most scientists give zero thought to exclusive rights over their writing. The point of writing a research article is to share knowledge as widely as possible. You can often find PDF copies of published articles on the authors' websites despite the fact that the authors signed over their copyrights. The only reason scientists ever bothered with publishing companies was that prior to the Internet distributing articles on a global scale required industrial equipment that publishers happened to have.

Frankly, do you really think that a system which requires expert lawyers to draft contracts, enforce royalty payments, and settle disputes by arguing before a judge is the sort of system that is meant to protect the interests of individuals? Everything about copyright screams "made for business." That artists happen to be paid for their work under this system is merely a side effect; the real purpose is to confer an advantage to certain businesses, who (sometimes) happen pay artists/authors/programmers/etc. for their work.
You forgot (c), wars financed with borrowed money. These have happened in conditions regardless of currency configuration (fiat, pegged, silver, gold, bimetallic, whatever).
I don't think the fastest hobby RC guys are doing anything particularly different from regular RC builders, and they're up over MACH 0.8 now:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1609281

(Amusing fact-of-the-day - the fastest RC models in the world do not have motors. Specially built gliders flown in big winds on just the right shape hills can go a couple of hundred mph faster than even jet powered RC planes…)
Yeah, except it's pretty much a given that all govt's who can spy do spy as much as they can on each other, overtly and covertly.

She's just using this to foment fervor in her favor.

Who cares if other countries use the RMB or Euro as trade currency. And no country with significant trade with any other is going to commit economic self-inflicted wounds to "send a message". The US doesn't retaliate economically against any significant partner itself, neither does China. It'd be silly.
I remember listening to an episode of This American Life many years ago on the subject of the saying "build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door". The long and the short of it was that that particular saying was untrue because there is no market for a better mousetrap. The $1.00 mousetraps work just fine, and though they're not perfect, anything better won't be better enough to justify the additional expense.

I feel precisely this way about smoke detectors. I recently bought a house, and the first two things I did were: a) purchase a nest (which I love) and install it, and b) go to Home Depot, pay $50 for 4 new well-rated smoke detectors, and install them. Are they ugly? Sure, although the fact that every interior space in every developed nation on the planet has them tends to take the edge off. Do they occasionally false alarm when We're cooking something? Sure, it has happened once or twice.

Neither of the above are justification for me to spend more than $10-15 on a smoke detector. It would have to do something truly marvelous to be worth even $30 a unit for me. The thermostat was worth the extra money to me because it's cool and saves me a bit of money and I wanted to give my money to a company that was doing right by the energy consumer. I will withhold judgement on the smoke alarm until I see one, but the exuberance around here for it seems premature to me.

Also, if my house burns down, I will already get a smartphone alert in the form of a phone call from my neighbors.
>If she was so 'tough' why she did not grant asylum to >snowden??

This leak over the spy actions happened months after snowden has vanished in Russia..

Im sure if it was now, he may get it..

but also, dont know if it would be diplomatic proportional.. since i dont think any councious president, with a big country in hands at least, would risk commercial relations, because of that.. i dont think its very wise..

also its not a communisty party.. it has very little of the left wing.. its more like the french Hollande kind of left (literally none)

I was not saying that Brazil was something to fear about.. only, that the times are tough now.. everybody need every help they can ..
even the richiest and independent countries
The sauterelle(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauterelle) was a kind of crossbow.
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I've seen the Flash player source (we had a source code license at chumby) and even modified parts of our version of it.

It was in fact a giant and difficult to understand and overly abstracted piece of shit. But it mostly worked and a lot of the horrible abstractions helped it be wildly backward compatible.
I love Alfred and use it all the time, often for app-switching, but I also use Witch [1]. Big time-saver, especially for referring for documentation. Killer feature is switching between windows in the same application, something that is woefully impossible using the native OS X app switcher (something vanilla Windows has over vanilla OS X, hands-down).

[1]:http://manytricks.com/witch/
Hands on with HP's new touch screen graphing calculator
Heh, somehow I missed that.

Just goes to show that topics with >5 upvotes aren't necessarily linking to legit sites.
That is a false dichotomy and you are ignoring the fact that we never spent much time setting up any other system for compensating artists. This also ignores the fact that the vast majority of artists have to do some other work, usually full time, just to pay their rent. It also ignores the large body of art and entertainment that existed prior to copyrights, much of which was produced without any hope or guarantee of payment.
These days the thing that strikes me about games is not so much the texture and model quality as the jerky, buggy movement. A 1950s 12fps Warner Brothers cartoon has better walk cycles and way better dynamic action than any 3d videogame I've seen.
I've watched tons of tutorials on different languages and frameworks but all the generalized tutorial projects were boring... it wasn't till I got hired to work on something cool.. something that i honestly had no idea how to do or where to start.. I just decided I'd pick a php framework ..laravel being most elegant ..this was after coding the MVP in rails but not being able to deploy it on shared hosting (hostgator and site5 both lacked support for rails 3.2 and Ruby1.9..)..so I ported what I had in rails to laravel and discovered how easy beautiful and rails like laravel is.Moral. ..drop tutorials and just build something. Pick a framework and build it... Don't know what to build? Build someone else's idea via a freelancing site...working day in and day out is the only way to become a programmer.
It is indeed interesting, but IIRC most of the funding for satellite launches (R&D for III-V semiconductors) came from intelligence, not NASA.

So, um, thank you, NSA! :P
"Is it actually possible for people not to believe anything, in our society or any society?"

"We are nihilists, Lebowski! We believe in nothing!"

Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

With all due respect to Peter Thiel, who is much smarter and more successful than I am, I'm really baffled by the statement that "people in our society don't really believe in anything anymore." And I am especially baffled by the implication that this putative, ubiquitous nihilo-cynicism -- even if we accept it to be true, which I don't -- necessarily precludes the formation of bubbles. Did people not believe in anything back in the mid-2000s housing bubble? It seems as if they believed in housing, for one thing. The belief was "widespread and intense" enough to cause a serious freakin' problem.

I'm going to give a guy like Peter Thiel the benefit of the doubt and assume that I'm missing a lot for lack of context. But that quote, at least out of its original context and so presented, is really strange.
Great Article, HATE the title. I think it gives the wrong impression. The title should be:

How we tripled our revenue by understanding our users better

Yes by adding a button you tripled your revenue, but what you really did was understand your customers/users better and identified that you could have them spend more by offering a certain deal (which you then implemented by adding a button).

It (title) gives people the impression that they should be A/B testing button locations/colors/<insert (99.99% of the time) random property/> when what they should really be doing is learning more about their users and how to provide the most value for them which in the end gives you more revenue or profits or candy :)
Unofficial Apple iMessage app removed from Google Play Store
"I sense another false flag"

I would like to know how many times that poster senses "another false flag" a week, let alone a year.

That person probably blames a red light or the corner store being out of milk on a "covert operation in progress"
If you use Alfred, go to Alfred Preferences and click Usage, you'll see:

"Since 26 Mar, 2013, @alfredapp has been used 72,034 times. Average 393.6 times per day."

http://cl.ly/image/1L1S1a2B1R3M
Off the top of my head there's also breach of trust and possibly trading while insolvent.

If you take money from A in order to give it to B on A's behalf, you are a trustee of the money -- it belongs to you in common law but not in equity and you cannot repurpose it for something else. If the money cannot be conveyed to B, you must return it to A.[1]

Lawyers and accountants typically keep funds held on trust in a completely different bank from their own business accounts, just to avoid even the possibility of error leading to a breach of trust. To avoid even the whiff that funds on trust might be comingled with regular income.

Trusteeship can arise without anyone signing anything and it comes with high legal standards. If you have a business model that involves doing something like this, you need to consult a lawyer in your jurisdiction about the local laws for trusts.

IANAL, TINLA.

[1] As an aside, I suspect this is part of the problem Readability had with their "we have money waiting for you to collect, Mr Webmaster!" growth strategy.
This might be the killer feature I mentioned in a previous post on this article. I own a 120 year old house with odd nooks and crannies and strange airflow. My thermostat knows the temperature in my living room, but not upstairs by my bedroom, which can be 10°F warmer or cooler, and we have to set the downstairs thermostat to odd temperatures at night just to make it remotely comfortable, and it's rarely the same temperature from night to night. That hassle would be worth some amount of money to eliminate. $150? Hell no. $100? Probably not. $60? Sign me up!
No It DID NOT.

Snowden Tried All south americas country.
And only Bolivia tried to send a plane but was stopped at Europe.

Serious Do you really believe or you are paid to defend Our 'glorious' Govt.

Brazilian Here too
Super-sized Seed and Series A deals are an anomaly - not the new normal.
Cabotage (the right for a foreign flagged carrier to transport passengers/cargo between two points inside a single nation) is quite rare outside of the EU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air#Ninth_freed... Those US rules are in no way unusual.
Ironically, I have used my vpn service to access Canadian Netflix because you were the only ones who had for instance Community.
Also, streaming from Canadian servers were better than from the U.S. for a while.
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