skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but at the same time was still interesting enough that I'm glad I read it.

In addition to wanting an actual explanation on his claim that it makes you very suggestible, I also want details on whether this could be avoided by a good interrogator. If it makes false confessions easy then for sure I wouldn't support allowing it in legal proceedings, but if it's possible to be used both safely and effectively then perhaps it might be useful still in some cases. For example you wouldn't convict someone of kidnapping based on a confession on this, but if they confessed to where they were holding their captive then it could be well worth doing. Possibly even as an internal, non-admissible, form of investigation (e.g. "under this drug he said he's not a killer so we believe him slightly more now"), as long as red tape is in place to prevent abuse.
IOS 7 breaks windows authentication
maybe the fact they have to deal with non http incoming traffic makes them an easier target?
Gibson is prone to hype and proclaiming that the sky is falling which is why I rarely listen to his show. However, a lot of these are nitpicks where he either gave the wrong meaning of an acronym or oversimplified something while trying to explain it.
Thanks for digging that up. Given that the article is dated June 2003 and ends with "the hearing continues" I'd love to know the eventual outcome.
Kinda sounds like a jab at all the entrepreneurs that have appeared on the show already in exchange for an automatic stake.
A good step forward. But will be tough to match the likes of Raspberry pi. Beaglebone Black will be hard to replace too. Given it's raw power and number of pins and interfaces
Warden is similar to Docker, every container gets a read-only and a read-write filesystem assigned and Warden provides an API for creating and destroying containers.
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Can somebody who is not brain dead (as the author of the article seems to be) summarise what Gates actually means? I can't watch the video because I'm at work and the article itself is completely devoid of meaningful content.
Seems like a normal potential issue upon hitting debris.
That does nothing for future intercepts.
> they just don't realise that

Their parents didn't raise them very well if they don't realize that denying access to an important resource to tons of people is really, really lame.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. - The fourth Baron Rothschild.

This is news because it's the first time it's happened, to a new technology. Had I a brokerage account I would be buying.
The worst thing about Android...
I really don't get why dude didn't respond to the requests for information with a totally straightfaced, and factual, "we do not have the technical capability to recover messages for a user using the encryption software". Not "we could possibly defeat our own system, but we don't want to." Just the "we do not have the technical capability to do that, but we're happy to turn over any other information which we can provide, pursuant to lawful order or warrant." Be polite, totally responsive, completely honest, but don't go into the "yes, we could possibly build something which would possibly do what you want, but we don't want to."
I would have kept sending printouts with ever so slightly larger fonts (i.e. 10 steps from 4 point to 5 points.)
Some of us don't like to lie.
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It would be absolutely factual. There's a difference between "we could build x, given months of engineering effort, possibly including outside experts" and "we can do x in response to a court order in our current system, on demand."

There is no prior requirement for an email provider to be CALEA compliant, so there doesn't need to be a particular LI function built into the system.
Probably just MySQL being MySQL. Never rely on database triggers.
Another aspect of context switching is that its a time killer. With a co-founder who you trust to do as good a job as you would yourself, you can separate your roles in the company and reduce the context switching required by each of you.
Isn't this basically what Stephen Wolfram was describing in "A new kind of science"?
Simple, these people don't care about the rest of the world. You can't lose sleep over something you don't give a shit about.
Just a hop, skip and jump into drinking water.
And I thought SpaceX was the dangerous company here. Maybe Tesla will be the first of Elon Musk's companies causing a disastrous accident.

Innovation and quick iterations are great for R&D but come with a price when released on the market too soon. That's why I put my money on Orbital and the other dinosaurs instead.
DDOSing Github reminds me of a study I read about a while ago. It showed that many burglars tend to break into homes close to their own instead of targeting wealthier neighborhoods.

Many of the reasons for that will be very different from this attack on Github as there is no money in attacking Github. But one reason may be similar: Lack of imagination, or in other words stupidity.
OCR? Nearly impossible.

OCR only works decent in combination with a dictionary.
Even then, the shell company would just dissolve leaving the parent company unaffected.
That is looking great! I saw something similar called http://www.computingobjects.com/qrauthinfo/ but Cleft is looking much nicer.
"Many" is meaningless. There will also be "many" who will do exactly this as soon as possible. It's already possible to run certain tests during pregnancy, and it's legal to have an abortion based on the test results. One of my friends in high school was pre-nataly diagnosed with spina bifida and the doctor recommended an abortion.
Yes, but the top lawyers in the field can do this pro bono, because it's a good case (or it could be paid directly by other organizations, using staff attorneys).
This sort of thing happens all the time with high-end cars without any external factors like hitting debris.

Lamborghini - http://editorial.autos.msn.com/blogs/autosblogpost.aspx?post...

Ferrari - http://www.autoblog.com/2010/09/01/ferrari-458-italia-recall...
I am pretty sure that possesion of device and typing PIN into the same device qualifies as 2FA. A spy that watches you type your PIN can't log in without your device. At the same time, a thief that steals your device, but doesn't know your PIN, also can't log in. You need both; hence TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION.
It's not quite as spectacular as it sounds[1].

I've not read the paper, but it seems as if they've just found a convenient way to describe supermultiplets in 1D using doubly even codes[2].

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4124

[2] http://planetmath.org/evencode
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It might make you hug the interrogator but not much more.
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>When a judge orders you to do something, you have to comply with the substance of the order, not evade it by sort-of technically complying while actually avoiding it.

Attorneys do this kind of crap all of the time. Often, when ordered to provide docs for discovery, they will print pdfs and re-scan them in (sometimes over and over again, to make them barely legible) to make opposing counsel's task that much harder. The judge in this case may not have had much appreciation for Levison's wit, but it may not be as silly as you think. Perhaps Levison knew he was at the end-game and merely needed a brief delay to tidy up some loose end, in which case his tactic worked well.
It's been confirmed that this was actually a fire in the battery pack (one of the 16 cells of the pack). However, the fire did not start spontaneously - it was caused by the driver hitting a large piece of metal debris in the road. The fire was also contained to part of the battery pack and did not cause a runaway reaction like in some laptop battery fires. The driver was alerted by the computer system and could stop the vehicle in a controlled manner, and evacuate. There was no explosion, and the fire did not spread to the interior of the vehicle. The fire department was able to put out the fire with a single truck.

All in all, I think this is actually a positive mark on the engineering of the Tesla Model S. Statistically, there have been fewer fatalities with Model S than the average for the number of miles driven - this is in line with the car's crash test ratings. This is also the first fire after the 12 crashes which have been recorded. A fire like this was inevitable; gasoline cars also occasionally catch fire when they crash. The energy content of a full gas tank is also a lot higher.

However, investors are very fickle when it comes to Li-ion battery pack fires. Even if this is evidence that the Model S is probably safer with regards to fires than a traditional gasoline car, naywayers will jump on it. Not a fun day to be a Tesla shareholder :P
> To make use of these keys, the FBI would have to manually input all 2560 characters...

My reaction to that was "oh boo hoo".

When people my age were kids (get off my lawn) we used to type pages of raw hexadecimal from the back of magazines into a machine prompt. We didn't cry about it, we were just careful.

I can't find a hexadecimal example at the moment, but look at some of these TRS-80 programs (pp. 110-111, 143) which have multiple pages of data/digits to transcribe:

http://archive.org/stream/80-programs-for-the-trs-80-1979jim...

Btw, the originals were often bad photocopies. So maybe not 4 point font, but certainly ambiguity in some bits.
Is not so good if you are invalid.
Yeah, sure. On a 4pt font. With none of the pattern in a dictionary....
Cuban wasn't on the show in season 1. He joined later.
Thank you. This whole article seems like so much sci-fi-conspiracy-theorist-gone-pseudo-physics-fanboy with no actual description of what Gates is talking about.
> Just like the parent said, while he kind of technically complied. But, again, it's more than obvious to everyone that it's not what was expected/demanded from him.

Government and judicial institutions do this all the time, so to anyone with a common sense, it's more than obvious to everyone that it's exactly what was expected/demanded from him.
I went to a Tesla owners group meetup a few months back. It turned out that although they loved their new cars, every one of them had problems with their Model Ss that required a trip back to the dealer.
This would be perfect as a thin client. Is it available anywhere yet?
I wouldn't be sure, I'm pretty sure legal entities are allowed to employ entrapment in a lot of cases. Watch episodes of Cops, for example, they will attempt to buy drugs and arrest the dealer, or attempt to get people to solicit prostitution from an undercover (female) officer.

Basically, people should stick to the law; dealing drugs or soliciting paid sex are both crimes, no matter who you do it to/with.
Sure, but that's not the point of this gem. This just allows deploys to continue when GH is unavailable.
This is a link to Gate's layman writup of the work http://www.onbeing.org/program/uncovering-codes-reality/feat...

Hamming codes are in the equations, which he thinks is a sign that someone put them there. Or alternatively, perhaps its impossible for an information preserving universe to exist without them (anthropic principle)
McAfee dismisses the D-Central story
If so, under what, if any conditions do you believe the use of power against other people is legitimate?

Self defense. I hold basically the same position as Bastiat, in thinking that government can only legitimately be considered the "collective extension to our individual right to self defense".
Before seeing Cuban on the show, I really didn't like him much. I had read things by him and heard things. It was all just impressions. I've watched (with my son) every episode of Shark Tank. He is now my favorite investor on the show. By far.

I remember on one show it went off on a guest for their having a patent on something stupid. Cuban went on a tirade about patents and it really warmed my heart.
This was humour.
Git is not an acronym.
This news was also combined with Baird downgrading (which probably has more to do with the drop). TSLA is a great stock and a good long term hold but if you're in the short-medium market it's probably overpriced.

I say all this of course as a smug fucker who bought at below $30 :)
Delete them before he was ordered to hand them over?
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Typical/classic Arduinos are not based on ARMs, they are based on Atmel's much smaller 8-bit series of "AVR" microcontrollers (for instance the ATmega328 presented here: http://www.atmel.com/devices/ATMEGA328.aspx). This is the brain of the bog standard Arduino Uno (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno) which is €20 in Europe.

To these, Intel's Quark seems very, very advanced indeed, but perhaps Intel's version is to be compared to the more recent ARM-based "big Arduinos", such as the Due (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardDue). For comparison, the price for the Due is €39.

By the way, the Wikipedia page on the Quark is the deadest page I've seen on there in a long while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark. :(
why is 7500 rounds the optimal number?
You're the one that's being rhetorically empty.

>people can ignore the rule of law, so don't say they can't!

I'm quoting this just to agree with it. Continued survival within civilized society depends on people ignoring the rule of law when morally necessary.
I believe it comes down to personality and maturity.

My own experience is with solo success and a few projects with co-founders dying in early prototyping stage.

In short, some of the things people benefit from externally from a co-founder, I learned to internalize.

I have needed to consciously increase my introspection, know when to trust my instincts and when not to and be 100% self-motivating all the time, even when I am feeling low. I don't think 24 year old me could have done this. I don't think I would know when I was wrong or recognize want vs. need fast enough to prevent serious failures from happening. 36 year old me is very good at it. The maturity, willingness to question my choices in a positive manner and self discipline I gained in that time has made it possible for me.

edit: I also think it has allowed me to be a better bootstrapper and avoid the need to seek out seed money. 36 year old me is comfortable with both knowing what should be done, doing it. For example, YC would be worthwhile for me, but I would never change a thing about my plans just to get in.
He should have printed one character per page, and put it in a 2,560 page 3-ring binder.
Just went to a great debate in SMW 'Data versus Creativity'. Looking forward to the analytics course!
I love how you think we are being incredibly naive because we believe that the evidence provided to the court system is in fact real.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0kjI08n4fg
and a funky font that is difficult to OCR.
It baffles me how somebody willing to buy TSLA would become scared so easily. I don't pretend to understand markets so could anyone explain how such behavior is possible?
Nope, and here's why: If you take a valid code and flip one bit, you get an invalid code. But if you take a particle and (somehow) change one attribute, you get a completely valid particle. It's impossible to change just one attribute at a time, but you can wander around the graph and eventually arrive at every point.
I think the point here is that, even though the letter agencies would not have ignored it... they surely got a lot more "incentives" internally to focus on SR when it got more mainstream attention. More analysts, more easily approved wiretapping/surveillance actions (not that they need approvals of any kind nowadays), essentially more money into it.

People slip, it's inevitable. How fast that happens probably got accelerated by SR's owner appearances and the dent it was making in the agencies' reputation.
Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6322998
5TB hard drives arriving in 2014 using Shingled Magneting Recording (SMR)
full length unedited pitches might make for interesting DVD extra material
"Shares of Tesla Motors Inc. fell $12.05 to $180.95 — the stock's biggest one-day decline since July 16."

Wow, the entire value of the last 14 days worth of growth was wiped out in a day. It's not a "tumble", it's a full-on bloodbath!
Ask HN: Health Exchanges--How Would You Have Launched?
Lost in the debate about the government shutdown is the fact that the rollout of the health exchange websites has been nothing short of a debacle, at least in Maryland. We are into day 3 and on the Maryland exchange I can't even get past the privacy policy. For reference, Maryland is one of the states that went all out on health reform and developed their own exchange.

There are people here who run sites with high traffic. Given that 1)the launch date was fixed so you knew EXACTLY when the traffic was coming months in advance. 2)The traffic, though very large, was somewhat predictable. 3)Most of the people using the site will be from a single geographic region.

How would you have implemented the launch?
Given that it's a public statement intended to be read by as many people as possible I find it completely unironic.
4pt on a 600dpi printer is about 35 dots per character, should be more than enough to get a clean read.
Why? Given the company's graceful response she has probably done them a huge favour with all the extra publicity.

> If it is, it's pretty stupid - I'd never hire her for anything that entails responsibility after seeing this.

To be honest, I hate this attitude. Therein lies the expectation that my whole life and every public statement has to be optimized for my next job. And as so many people now live huge parts of their life on the internet, for them it is only natural to talk about their work life publicly. If you don't complain about being praised by a happy employee publicly then you should not get the right to complain a about honest criticism online (and she even praised them in the same video).
There are specific terms in the GPL[1], and probably elsewhere, that address this issue:

[3(a)] Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;

It's still open to some interpretation, such as exactly what constitutes "customary media", but probably does rule out the printed on the side of a cow[2] approach taken here.

[1] from v2: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

[2] http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/cowcheck.asp
>"we could build x, given months of engineering effort, possibly including outside experts" and "we can do x in response to a court order in our current system, on demand."

That sounds almost like a solicitation for work, and I suspect that is the way that others (Google, MS, friendface, et al) replied.
with Play and Laravel catching up, its hard to see Rails surviving long...
Looks like its front trunk is burning.
have you never seen CSI? They just need to press the "enhance" button, stupid.
What format was that? Edit: Thanks!
The malicious site in the middle can download the legit QR server side (e.g. using PHP) and simply spoof the referer, then present it to the visitor. Where will a referer check help?
I guess using Occam's razor doesn't apply to this case. Because a lot of people seem to be in complete denial about this whole thing.

What's most likely? That he in fact was running the Silk Road and did do these deeds that we see provided as evidence to a court system, or that it was all made up and it's just "too neat", and it was all a grand conspiracy to frame this guy?
Thinking that the genotype adds value to a person's existence. If this is good, then eugenics is good as well, or at least 'not that bad.'
"Shares of Tesla Motors Inc. fell $12.05 to $180.95 — the stock's biggest one-day decline since July 16."

Wow, that's the biggest drop two and a half months. Truly the end is in sight for Tesla.
Oh, sorry, I forgot the FBI has that technology. Silly me.
The obvious solution to this would be to cycle randomly between fonts every few characters (or keep a running total of the font used for each particular symbol, and ensure it stays below some threshold). For bonus points you could convert the key from base64/ascii to unicode or similar.
To say that asm.js and WebGL are "narrow in focus" is like saying x86 is "narrow in focus". They're general-purpose primitives that can be used for a wide variety of purposes. UDK, Unity, Gamemaker, Construct all export to HTML5. Flash has achieved a huge degree of success, so if it goes away maybe the next contender will be less damaging, but the mistake can be remade at any point, and with the power of asm.js/WebGL almost any framework can be ported.

People have always abandoned the pure, semantic HTML way as soon as the power has been there to do so. Sometimes this has been for good, sometimes for evil. You need to either turn it into a general purpose computing platform (Mozilla have been fighting this for a long time and finally lost) or leave it as a pure document browser (in other words, an application rather than a platform). But since people always want cooler, shinier things delivered faster, and the web provides fast, sort-of-safe delivery, there will be pressure from many places to start trying to eat up some of the native pie, which is how we got here in the first place.

The web people got everything wrong. They pushed a ton of waffly high-level rubbish trying to hang onto a restricted, comprehensible model, but in the end they had to cave and stick all the powerful stuff in anyway, and on a C-machine that means something like C (hence asm.js, which is a C compile target). And what we've ended up with is, frankly, pretty shit. The whole idea of nice, semantic HTML only works as a restricted application with no client-side programming facilities. Maybe in 30 years someone will have the sense to lift it out into the "user land" of the browser where it belongs.
Must be my manager.
Why would you forget that it's Snowden? In order to offload the responsibility for participating in a crucial way in a terrible act?

It's not Snowden, it's a "criminal."

This kind of logic screams for Godwin. Or to be more precise, Milgram.
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I'd love to know the story behind that. It looks like the SUV hit head-on due to the positioning of the SUV and the damage to the front-end, but the rear-end is also significantly damaged. Did the driver get rear-ended as well, with the other car out of frame?
I think any reasonable person already has contempt for our current US courts.
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You get three people to independently input the codes and take a vote on the characters (or inspect the disagreements)

Voilà, information is transported reliably over a noisey medium! error correcting codes in practice 101

EDIT: voilà typo fixed :p
Agreed... but sites like these are probably targets for a bunch of reasons... http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/02/dev-site-behind-appl...
You assume that the attack was limited to their web stack. For all we know it could be the systems that handle the git-over-ssh connections.

I may not be too versed in CloudFlare, but I didn't think they would be able to protect a service like SSH.