skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theres plenty of research into this kind of matter. As part of the nuclear weapons development program they deliberately 'fizzled' a number of devices in order to see what would happen in the event of a miss-fire.
Smaller scale industrial accidents involving 'dirty bomb grade' material has produced ample evidence to the effectiveness of the various materiel that might comprise a dirty bomb and the biggest of these industrial accidents such as The Chernobyl disaster have produced mountains of data on the long term effects of such contamination and its spread on a near global scale.

Depending on the size and type of material used. A dirty bomb could be anything from a local nuisance to a national disaster. car-bomb packed with mixed nuclear junk, is on the low end of danger & the authorities could contain & remediate within months anything like that. carefuly chosen isotopes ground to borderline areosol size, used via a sophisticated delivery device, you could seriously harm a double digit percentage of an entire state/country.
The correct command is actually pnmtopng, FWIW.
It's the posting on a personal website that sets off my awkwardness meter. I think recommendations in general, though, are quite useful.
Camming for money, basically. I am too tired to read the whole thing but interesting article.
They may be doomed but they are giving their stock holders a nice return. (disclaimer I hold FB stock, not a lot but whatever).

The weird thing here is that Google wouldn't be so damned focused on ruining their primary product (search) if Facebook wasn't doing as well as it is. So I measure Facebook's success by that, how much Google is willing to damage their bread and butter properties to compete. By that measure they are doing just fine.
I would suggest not to use anyone's configuration, add config/plugin as per your need. And yes, don't forget to take a look at learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com
Both. Many people think if it's not happening to them, it's not a problem. And the agencies involved aren't really under any oversight from anyone outside the executive branch. I, for one, am disappointed the civil libertarian / Constitutional scholar I voted for isn't stepping up to do something about these things.
Err, like I care about downvotes. I care only about understanding people's thoughts. Unfortunately, your content didn't display many, boiling down to: "Use of meh sux", "Even though I don't know because I haven't played it, I'm going to claim there's no relationship", and "stop whinging". This place is going downhill.
For opening each file the first time:

https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim

For switching quickly between the 10 most recently used buffers:

https://github.com/vim-scripts/LustyJuggler

I suggest adding this to your .vimrc (the default mapping is <Leader>lj; my leader key is the spacebar, and I find space space to be much better):

let g:LustyJugglerDefaultMappings = 0

nnoremap <silent> <Leader><Leader> :LustyJuggler<CR>

For very quickly jumping between the current buffer, and the last buffer I have a mapping:

nnoremap <leader>dd <C-^>

because <C-^> is a bit awkward; <leader>dd could be anything that's very easy to type.

So most of the time I'm alternating between two files using the <C-^> mapping. When I need to jump to a less recently used buffer I double tap <space>, opening LustyJuggler, then double tap the appropriate home row key to jump to the buffer I want. If the buffer I want isn't in the ten most recently used, I open Ctrl-P, type enough characters from the file path of the file I want to make it the first choice, then hit enter.
MasterCard is also a big player with a lot of outlets (MasterCard Prepaid Everyday Cards).
Police in NZ are not routinely armed, at least, not with anything more than some pepper spray and a batton.

I am aware that this is not the case in many other parts of the world, but I still pay attention to the difference between 'normal' and armed police.
I've played braid and FEZ is definitely very much more connected, being built around oddities of 3D geometry and projections. It's almost like a platformer meets nintendo-retro meets Flatland. Honestly, you'd like it, you should try it!
Stanford is actually making a concerted effort to start a VC fund now officially, so they're admitting to the world that thus far their actions have been amateurish.
OK so they're using phishing techniques. Definitely cracking if that's the case. Arguably the entire site is one big phishing scam.
It might be a good filter for the other side as well - one most likely won't want to work for the "company" which can't afford to pay two salaries.
What an appropriate comment for your username. I'm still trying to figure out what LinkedIn have done to my email, but basically my wife and I are inundated with spam from them. It's non stop. I only signed up to learn more about the person who hit our car and has been slow to pay. It was helpful, but despite opting out of every option I could, somehow its learnt that my wife exists and is nailing us both with spam.
"Low Aggregate Balance Fee $5" - always a pleasure to see on a statement
I had the same experience when I graduated and worked as an engineer. Ended up deciding that I'd learn the business side myself and do an MBA. Now I see the other side of the page, lots of business students who want to start something up but can't make a product.
If you want to commercialize go find someone who's as passionate about business as you are about the engineering and you'll have a much better chance
No, I have never installed their mobile app.
Your first link is actually debunking that. They had prototypes that looked like Blackberry devices, yes, but in the same video they show a prototype with a touchscreen-driven UI as well.
Close the N.S.A.’s Back Doors
Do any of those products actually use Dual_EC? Have you checked?
BlackBerry postpones launch of BBM for iOS and Android
What Classifies as Flat Design?
If you want to make your own, like Fabian Sanglard did, take this block of binary numbers and draw your initials (left-justified) with 1's:

0001110000010001110
0010000000000010000
0100000000010010000
0100000000010001100
0100000000010000100
0010000010010000010
0001110001100011100

That's my initials, cjs. If you unfocus your eyes, you can see the letters pretty clearly.

Take each line, top to bottom, and convert to decimal:

http://www.mathsisfun.com/binary-decimal-hexadecimal-convert...

Edit Paul Heckbert's code (lines 12-13, the "G" array), replacing the numbers from right to left with the decimal values. In other words, the last number in the array is the top line of the binary block above.

Clean up the justification and you have your business card raytracer, courtesy of Mr. Heckbert.

I probably could have coded this in the time that it took me to draw my initials in binary pixels.

Also, here's a version with the camera moved slightly farther out so that the letters don't clip:

https://gist.github.com/chrissnell/6656963
In many states, that won't work. The state just goes after the employer. A bank account is not a requirement for many states to grab your cash.
In addition to the other comments here, I think it must be said that you don't care mostly about share, you care about profit.

Here's one smart take on this (from 1.5 and 2.5 years ago, clearly seeing where things were headed):

http://www.asymco.com/2012/04/24/unforgiven-the-consequences...

http://www.asymco.com/2011/06/02/does-the-phone-market-forgi...

From April 2012:

"The rumors swirling around RIM and LG are centered around exits and some suggest Nokia will follow. [...] Earlier last decade the exits were prompted by loss of brand value and subsequent loss of distribution. This decade disruption brought upon by mobile computing brings with it new business models centered on ecosystems and value captured through software and services."
> (1) The NYT article says NSA generated Dual_EC, but does not present evidence that it's backdoored.

So all of the following is just a coincidence then?

* Publicly-released document states that as part of a project to enable SIGINT collection, the NSA "influences policies, standards, and specification for commercial public key technologies"[1]

* NYT reports "Classified N.S.A. memos appear to confirm that the fatal weakness, discovered by two Microsoft cryptographers in 2007, was engineered by the agency"[2]

* NSA was the sole editor of Dual_EC_DRBG[3]

* Dual_EC_DRBG has a property where if you know the discrete log of one of its parameters, you can predict its future output. Since it's not explained how the parameter was derived, it's possible the parameter was chosen not randomly, but in a way to ensure its discrete log is known. (Shumow and Ferguson show how this is done[4].)

> (2) Schneier isn't a subject matter expert on elliptic curve random number generators.

It's not Schneier who raised the prospect of the backdoor - Shumow and Ferguson did. It's not like the NIST
curves where Schneier says he doesn't trust them, but can't specify how they could be backdoored. Here we know exactly
how Dual_EC_DRBG could be backdoored. Schneier doesn't need any elliptic curve expertise to postulate that it is actually backdoored,
just his intuition as a security expert (which you must respect, as you quoted him to make a point above).

> It helps here to understand the gist of the purported backdoor. Basically, a (sketch of a) way to think of the issue is, NSA's ECC CSPRNG is built around curve parameters in such a way that generating numbers with it involves a public key operation, and only the public key is in the standard. The obvious question is, "what's the private key?". Obviously, you're not happy that NSA (which until recently wasn't even the confirmed author of the construction) won't say.

No, that's not quite it. The question isn't "what's the private key?"; it's "does anyone know the private key?" If the "private key" (e in Shumow's and Ferguson's presentation) were in the spec, everyone would be able to break it. We want assurance that the only way anyone could know the "private key" is by actually solving the elliptic curve discrete log problem (which is probably only possible by generating the Q parameter yourself).

> I've already addressed the "billions of deployed device" point.

I must have missed that...

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/05/sig...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet...

[3] ibid

[4] http://rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf
Did you check out the "Adventure" Mode?
> which allows the company to slurp up the contacts list of the third-party e-mail account with which the member signed up, if the member is logged into that e-mail account in the same browser.

Is this a thing? Can any website slurp my contacts if i have hotmail or gmail open in the same browser? How are they doing this?
I also clicked it thinking they meant Canada customs.
Just a bit of warning for anyone on a data-limited mobile plan: that's one spare hour and the better part of a GB (for the not-so-HD version of the video). You may want to watch this one wired.
> I HATE this. I previously shopped at Trader Joe's with confidence

Um, this has NOTHING to do with Trader Joe's! Is it too much to even read the title? Never mind the actual article?
They can't unless there's a vulnerability in Gmail that they're exploiting, and that wouldn't go down at all well.
> a modified(?!) Salsa20

Other concerns aside, XSalsa20 is undeserving of your indignant reaction: it was created by DJB himself and was proven by him to be secure if Salsa20 is.
I don't think not having a LinkedIn profile is weird unless, perhaps, you were applying to run my social media campaigns. (And even then, hardly a deal breaker.)

BUT... I don't think you should delete it. I think mastery of one job speaks to the type of person who can master another. The real red flag is people who can't point to any big accomplishments in anything...
They don't throw you out on the street - they just cut your funding or string you along.

One story I heard about a physics PhD candidate at UCSB (this isn't me, I wasn't in the physics department). A MechE prof he worked with stole his research and got a tenure track offer at another school, leaving him behind. He was living in his car for a while and was a paintball aficionado. One day he happened to pull up outside KITP just when some of the more senior professors were walking by. He, in a disheveled state, opened the car door and mounds of paintball ammo spilled out. Looks were exchanged, emails were sent and phone calls were made, and he was PNGed from the campus soon after.
Do you have a recognized dictionary agreeing with you that you can cite?

If not, you are wrong, simple as that. Using "of" instead of "have" in 2013 is a spelling mistake, period.
The original is also 1337 bytes, which might explain any padding!
The FDA may not require a sell by date, but other governing bodies might. There has been an ongoing dispute over sell by dates stamped on milk in Montana. Montana requires that the sell by date be set to 12 days after pasteurization.

http://m.billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana...
Walmart went a bit farther and teamed up with American Express on their Bluebird card.

http://www.walmart.com/cp/Bluebird/1099170
Ask HN: What process should I use to present large amounts of data?
eg. When looking at a large table of open government data (locations, money spent, why it was spent, benefits/costs of the money spent), do you have a suggestion as to how I could aggregate all this information into several different presentable forms? Each presentable form should show different ways to interpret the data.

I am a very amateur programmer, but this project really interests me.
Maybe in biology and chemistry this was true before 1960 or so. It's not anymore.

edit: Incidentally, JHU is where I've gotten offers to continue. How did you like living around there?
Well, they better hurry and get this out before they go bankrupt.
Probably doesn't work with the workflow, but you could send an electronic image of the postcard that was sent to the sender instead of a physical copy.
How is this a "good thing" ?

Take something they rightfully have to give away and instead make profit from it.

I already see grocers giving out tons of food to the local food bank, if they can convince governments to let them profit from it, that is one more path against poverty taken away by corporate entities.

Another way to eliminate waste would be to price the product lower?

If a regional grocery throws away tons of bananas each week, why not make the bananas half the price and run out of bananas each week?
Ahh, obviously the solution to the problem is to lower it further.
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Both were due to cost, especially the servos. But I think a microcontroller capable of usb would not be particularly expensive, though more expensive than not having it.
Ah. LibreOffice's Drawing program opened it. Thanks :)
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Well the company website said "don't wear a suit"... but I feel like kind of an a-hole going to an interview and not wearing a suit...I always thought that "don't wear a suit" stuff was just there to trip up super-awkward devs...the interview went well - I make it a point not to act or communicate like a guy in a suit, so maybe that helps...
After the IBM commercial, "Ideating" became code for "I'm going to take a nap" where I worked at the time.
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The people waiting for their money on Mt.Gox should change it back to bitcoin and take the possible hit. The ones waiting for cash withdrawal are playing chicken with Mt.Gox's liquidity problem, and that is the risk they take in exchange for the ~$20 premium they have now.
There is a very obvious cult-like mindset among a huge number of Crossfit members. You're being really dishonest by pretending it's not there, and it makes you seem like one of them.

I know several people who started doing Crossfit and they became fucking lunatics about it. It's got that bad smell of crazy on it, like Scientology and pyramid-scheme scam companies.
AN is "attractive nuisance"
The kickstarter video mentions using audio io to reduce cost. Using USB would require a microcontroller and the usb interface. The microphone jack is used for scanning, so as long as your device has 16 bit audio out, I'm assuming you could print just fine.

And yes, I am going to get one just so I can see how Pink Floyd compares to Daft Punk when printed.
It's more the fuzziness of terms like "hard problem" that is causing confusion.

The way I would put it, the things that CS PhD's typically end up working on in industry, are usually things that would require a CS PhD. E.g. almost all the cool computer vision stuff you see on HN is developed by people with PhD's or PhD students.
Ditching BBOS and using Android is exactly what SGI tried to do by ditching IRIX and going with Windows NT. It destroyed the company. Not that BBM has any hope at this point, but getting rid of BBOS is not the solution, because they will lose their current fans, and they will not migrate over any existing Android users.
String theory set to a rock anthem "Bohemian Gravity"
Why does it matter if the dollar is devalued? A less valuable dollar makes American goods cheaper, and foreign goods more expensive. People in other countries would rather pay for cheap American things, than something made in their home country. That money goes directly to the pockets of Americans.

If the dollar is strong, then Americans will buy more goods made in other countries. So when Americans travel around, they will buy more things in those other countries. That money goes directly to the pockets of other countries.

Is that in the best interest of the American people?
I have always felt bad about fresh produce going to waste in my fridge.Between my buying the produce and it going bad, there is always a point where I know I am not going to be able to use this stuff and in 2-3 days it will be unusable. I have looked for services in my area where I could take these items to. Something like soup kitchens who can then incorporate them into their cooking. But all the organizations I found took only canned goods and prepared food from large scale organizations like restaurants.

I had even thought it would be a great program for a charity register homes that are willing to give away soon-to-go-bad food. Then have volunteers stop by these homes on a predetermined schedule (once a week or so) to stop by and collect anything that the home might want to donate.
LinkedIn has tried phishing people to take email account using username(so the email address)/password entered when login.

I really scared on it when I discovered it. I could avoid this because I was using different password for mail account, anyway I think many people gave their email account to LinkedIn silently.

And now they are finally getting punished.
Maaan, we're here wasting our times.

If anybody is angry/upset/whatever about it just do your search excluding W3Schools from the results:
"your_keyword -site:w3schools.com"
Key theme on this one is the continued breakdown in workplace relations and citizen/government relations, omnipresent surveillance and class society.

The full ten stories are available from over here:
http://www.nesta.org.uk/news_and_features/future_londoners
10 Future Londoners, 2023
Ahh this is why I've always gotten an account that can not overdraft, and I refuse to opt-in to any overdraft crap. If I am out of money, I want to be out of money, and to not be able to buy things, period.
They're all good, but Gail Goodman's talk was—I think—also a cut above the rest: http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-...
Biological entities found in stratosphere
real answer: it always happening to other people, I have to hide, blah blah....

The border agent has a lot of power and his /her judgment is trusted. Of course a US citizen has the right to get in but they hold you for hours and hours based on suspicions. Just a cavity type search for your luggage will set you back a few hours and I suppose they can justify it with "he was acting nervously.". Go ahead and dispute that
Good calories, bad calories by Gary Taubes - a very good book about what you eat and what you should eat
This is my personal favourite: Gail Goodman on the SaaS long slow ramp of death.

http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-...
Alternatively, they had full funding (even during the summer), focused on research and graduating (so it didn't take them 10 years), and didn't realize they needed to get an internship to be competitive once they graduated.
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This one post had me learn a lot better than any fancy game or blog post about vim.

Thank you.
This is actually the reason I stopped CrossFit.

I was never injured or anything, but I wanted to treat oly lifting with more respect than a WOD provides.

Every lift should be your best lift with a maximum focus on technique.

I would probably do CrossFit again if I found a box that did not include oly in WODs.
I agree. Last month 1 successfully revived my domain after requesting more than 4 times via email and phone call over 2 months. This must be checked. If mercantile is unable to handle this there is definitely much better alternatives.
Now explain IBM.
Another reason chocolate tastes better everywhere else in the world is PGPR, an emulsifier derived from castor oil that's been replacing cocoa butter since 2006. Most European food standards heavily restrict the use of vegetable oil in chocolate.
This is really single piece of sh*t I like most for a while... simple and elegant
This will go on until an adorable child dies and everyone--even the aunt that has never seen the child--sues
Right after you log in, they display a page that looks almost exactly like a login page asking for your email address and password.

I didn't read the page -- I assumed it was either a "verify your email" or "authentication failed" page of some sort, so I entered my Gmail email address and password. (No, I didn't enter my Gmail password. Read below.)

There is REALLY easy-to-miss "skip" link (I forget the exact text) on the page, but the page looks so much like a login window or "verify your address" window or some other window like that that you don't realize it (and think the "skip" link is probably saying something typical like "Forgot your password?"), so you go ahead and type your credentials -- even though you've already logged in.

The only thing that saved me was the fact that Google asked me if I wanted to "Allow Access" or not, and that made my heart skip a beat and I finally realized what had happened. Thanks Google.

The scary part is that you DON'T have to type in your Google password for this to work! In fact, I typed in my LinkedIn password (I'm not quite stupid enough to type in my Google password on LinkedIn's website) -- but Google still popped up a window asking me for permission, because I was already logged into Google and it didn't even bother checking my password.

So LinkedIn almost got my permission without me ever entering my Gmail password... I almost granted access (thinking it might have been an OpenID thing) before I came to my senses and thought, WTF just happened right now?! Hell no!
I know the article's title calls rhabdo a secret but if you read the article - and the comment at the top of this thread - you'll notice that Glassman and every CrossFit coach I've ever met talks about it all the time. In fact, I bet you can't find one person who does CrossFit who doesn't know what it is.