skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big issue with using access control and security cameras for tracking people is that they are some of the worst possible ways to track someone. As you discovered, it really comes down to a bunch of tedious scrubbing through video trying to find the few seconds of interesting video. Access control makes it somewhat easier, but then you have issues when people just follow another person in instead of using their fob. Tracking people via cellphones and other similar methods is far easier and effective right now.

You could make a lot of money in security if you were able to come up with a reliable way of tracking people via surveillance cameras, particularly in mapping persons movements and identifying when they aren't behaving as expected. Unfortunately this is exactly where it gets too easy to invade people's privacy. It is just a matter of time before we are able to do this, and we really need to have some way of limiting the invasion of privacy while still allowing for these systems to be used in positive ways.
How would asm.js break backwards compatibility? It has to be executable javascript; it can't change execution semantics without changing JS execution semantics. It is the case that support for a wider set of features could be added, and that stuff wouldn't get AOT-compiled in older browsers, but nothing would break. It'd just be slower.

'seriously less than asm.js in the past few years' is a blatantly fallacious claim. asm.js, as a spec, is barely a year old (going by the date of dherman's first public commit to his github repository) and the first implementation is younger than that. Mozilla turned the implementation around in a few months with a handful of engineers.
Well sure, but even if 150 chinese yuan were equal to 11 USD, turning 20 yuan into 150 yuan wouldn't be like turning $3.25 into $11, it would be like turning $3.25 into $24.375. It might be metaphysically more like turning $1.47 into $11, but absolute quantities aren't really at issue when you're talking about return rates (I'm assuming the cockroach farm, which by implication earns in the tens of thousands of USD per year, can scale up beyond a return of 150 yuan). It would have been easier and less of a gaffe for the reporter to say "you can invest 20 yuan and get back 150 yuan, or $20 for a return of $150". Why did they bother to print a conversion at all?
Personally, I think one of the best ways to prepare is to look for common trends in other successful applications. I helped write a VentureBeat article on this very subject [1]. As part of that article, we (Lollipuff, YC W13) released our entire application [2], and of course YC provides plenty of application advice too [3].

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/20/how-to-write-a-winning-y-c...

[2] https://www.lollipuff.com/blog/102/lollipuffs-ycombinator-ex...

[3] http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html
I don't really care about that new feature, but man, I love that background video playing with the animation.. Is there a library to help create that? Seems like it's a <video> with some animation css on top of it?
A dictionary attack? Are you kidding me?

You don't know it's alphabetic, you don't know it's an actual English phrase, you don't know how long it is, you don't basically know jack shit to be able to effectively use a dictionary attack against a password like that. You don't know it's a passphrase, basically.
Oh for the love of god. MT was one decent hosting company, now bought out by the people shits all over themselves and their customers.
What were the specific cases of Mongodb doing 'media manipulations', dschiptsov? I am curious to read up on the history.
I did notice that there is a cancel link in the original email - a very small link at the bottom - but they should make it possible to remove any of the transactions it tries to compile together on the sending screen. Having to go back, find the email, and hit the cancel link after you realize that they are including transactions that you had no intention of completing isn't exactly intuitive. There is also nothing anywhere that says that this is the procedure required.
Apparently TrueCrypt still has the crazy license which no one can quite figure out if it's an amateur attempt to write an open source license, or an extremely subtle trap to lure people into thinking it's an open source license so that they can later sue.
Apache 2.4 is no slouch, pinning it as good for home server use only would be ridiculous.
In Firefox, head to about:config and find dom.event.contextmenu.enabled, double-click it to turn it off. That way it will show the normal context menu on top of any custom menus.
For any interesting open source project, why would you think that the NSA wouldn't be deeply involved?

If I were a spy agency and an open source project was being spun up that several countries would use, I'd get at least a dozen devs on it. And if I'm thinking that, then you know they all must be...
For someone not from the world of 3D rendering and animation, can someone please explain in layman's terms exactly what a scene description format does beyond the obvious?
Google's New Rules: You're in the Ad Game Now
But we also know overnight successes don't really happen overnight. So I imagine you also don't want to be the person creating new apps every month because you're misguided about how hard it is to achieve success. So again, it doesn't seem like a useful metric.
Make that a <$10 SDR:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_sop=15&_n...
I believe Amazon Payments charges 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, which would not make it an effective way to rack up reward points.
Keep in mind this is a Series B. By now the team already has some momentum and track record, so it has been vetted before. The question is not the team anymore; is this line of business really going to explode with more money?

The first 60 seconds is key for any presentation (pitching investors or not). But even on a seed round, I wouldn't start with a team slide, unless it sends a powerful message of why this is a team of rockstars (but chances are, if this is the case, you wouldn't even need to talk about team upfront. Your reputation precedes you).
Now potatoes are in more cuisines of the world than any other food.

Oh? Not even onions?
CloudFront Uploads via POST and PUT
Taobao's fork supports dynamic module loading with other enhancements. http://tengine.taobao.org/
What anti .net kneejerk? At time of this comment there are 28 comments, only 2 of which are anti .net / Microsoft (with no replies) and they are already well on their way to being downvoted into oblivion.
Or maybe we had, but lost them in the history.
The Nature of the Oculus Rift
Is everything a political litmus test? This is a great article making a logical rational argument for why, even if we were to grant that a court order is legitimate, we should still build systems that make them hard to support.

This is an article about designing systems to be secure, but sadly the discussion descends into an echo chamber of "boo bad government, stop enabling them".
Wow, <i>this</i> is a trivial first world problem.
"Posts like yours demonstrate that you're arguing fervently about asm.js without having used it. One obvious error:
"

Sorry, but no. Also, I was addressing points made about LLVM IR, and the asm.js specification, as well as it's suitability as a compiler IR. I've used asm.js, i've read and understood the current optimizing compiler implementation, as well as the published roadmaps and mailing lists.

I don't appreciate the unrelated attack, it was completely unwarranted and unnecessary. The fact that I don't agree with you does not mean "I haven't used it".

" So the behavior isn't 'undefined', it doesn't work."

You completely misunderstand undefined behavior.

The behavior is undefined, it is simply verified at compile time that the program does not perform it. That does not make it less undefined, it makes the program "statically checked" as opposed to "dynamically checked" or "not checked at all" (like most C, though it's worth pointing out it's entirely legal for a C compiler to reject code producing undefined behavior, it's only required to accept implementation defined behavior).

Exactly as I said, C programs (or others) that exhibit undefined behavior are in fact noncomforming, in exactly the same way that the asm.js program would be noncomforming. The only difference is when and whether checking and rejection of nonconforming behavior is performed.

If you are going to argue about language specifications, and make claims about them, you need to be precise.

pcwalton likely meant to make the claim that asm.js itself is safer because it has no undefined behavior at runtime, as it rejects programs that may exhibit undefined behavior at compile time (or something similar), which is at least possible to be true, though i would have a lot of trouble believing it without some formal proof (the spec offers none). It is incredibly hard to actually come up with things like this that are completely statically decidable and still useful.

Your definition of behavior that does not meet the spec as "defined" because "it works the way it all regular JS normally does" is a hilarious new definition of 'defined behavior'.

Also, would you like to refute any other point I have made about how pcwalton has completely misrepresented a lot about LLVM IR?
Yes, if "四字成语" counts.
That's why companies like Google and Microsoft should provide as much end to end encryption for their users as possible. So the government doesn't even bother asking them about the data.
The only way it can be removed from circulation is by providing the labour in the first place. That effect has already been accounted for.

On another note why would this a problem?
I also wonder if crickets or grasshoppers wouldn't be more efficient, being less chitinous?
Cool. Never knew about Bitballoon and seems like it fits the project I'm working on right now perfectly.
You should also check out Chapul Bars [1], they are the original cricket flour bar. The Chaco bar is very tasty, I haven't tried the other flavors yet. Unfortunately, Chapul doesn't seem to be on their marketing/media hype game like Exo is.

[1] http://chapul.com/
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HAL 9000 Writes a Book
A phrase like that is very easy to crack actually. People have been cracking brain wallets in the Bitcoin world (think storing all your money behind a passphrase that anybody can access, madness!) with greater complexity than that. From the person in questions posts, they're trawling wikipedia, quote databases, movie scripts, anything you can imagine to find phrases that people might use for passwords. It seems to work too, judging by the number of times I've encountered this person saying "hey, that's me, I stole those!".

The fact that there's google results for that phrase means it's a useless passphrase.
Haha.

Just noticed that part.

From Wikipedia:

Started as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is now published
47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-
week spans.

Perhaps that's when its slated to appear in the print edition?
In the present context, I think you make a good point.

But it's worth noting this deck is from 2004, and thus should be judged in the context of contemporary designs.
TPMS sensors already have enough problems, adding moving parts would be the proverbial straw...
"How would asm.js break backwards compatibility"

See, e.g., pcwalton's own comments:

"Most of the changes needed to fill in the few remaining holes in asm.js help everyone. SIMD and 64-bit integers, for example, are something the entire Web would benefit from, asm and non-asm writers alike."

Such changes would almost certainly be backwards incompatible with what exists now.

"'seriously less than asm.js in the past few years' is a blatantly fallacious claim."

Errr, given asm.js has changed a lot in the year it's been around, and LLVM has not changed in any backwards compatible way in that time period, it's actually what you would call "trivially true", not "blatantly false".
This is really the browsers fault, not the designers.

Right click is a useful way to interact with something, but it's unfortunate the browser only offers all or nothing.

Either have a browser context menu, or override it and have nothing.

We need a way to have both. I suggest the browser give the designer a fixed size box (size queryable at runtime) and the designer can put anything in there.

This box shows up together with the regular context menu, but with a special border to mark it as part of the page.
Okay, seriously, what could someone possibly send over snapchat that is important to national security?
I understand your point and would agree for most parts, but I'm not sure how standard is that behavior. I.e. Before seeing your message, I've never really right-clicked on anything.

Maybe to bring the web inspector on an element?

What I often do that is I see more and more not working is the ctrl+click to open a link in a new tab. Oh, actually, if I ctrl+click and it doesn't work, I will usually right+click and "open in a new tab".. So, yeah, if both doesn't work, then I won't be happy.
“Networking improvements: A new Network Address Translation (NAT) option allows virtual machines to talk to each other on the same host, and communicate with the outside world. ”

This feature alone is worth the upgrade.
That's not true. The financial system does not primarily rest on technical safeguards. It rests on legal safeguards and risk management (i.e. it puts the onus to strike the balance between security and convenience on the company in the best position to decide what's a legitimate request).

If I have read-only access to your bank, or to Mint, or if I can steal your mail, and I've ever received a check from you, I can set up an ACH relationship with my broker. I could probably even pull money out of your account. The transfer would be quickly reversed, and I'd be easily caught.
You make some excellent points, especially the one about banks and molasses. Scraping websites in general is subject to so much arbitrary change you tend to give up after a while.

With reference to the rant about importing data directly into one's accounting software of choice, the random nature of bank data formats is more likely to render it impossible, especially for the application developers who I'd say would be weighed down with maintaining the core application.

I think the best option would be for the core accounting application to have a well defined format for import/export, leaving the work of getting data into that format for another application or project like the ones mentioned in other sub-threads here (simplefin.org looks interesting aready).

I currently use a FOSS (I think) Windows application called TurboCash (turbocash.net) which does a pretty good job, but also requires some working to get bank data in. I'm thinking of trying out ledger-cli, with some hack work on getting bank data in. With my recent drive toward the command line, I'm hoping this may be my accounting Valhalla.
This reminds me of BMW's asymmetric design concept car X-Coupe [0]. I remember reading something like "a little bit of asymmetry is more beautiful than perfect symmetry" in an auto mag back in 2001.

[0]http://www.netcarshow.com/bmw/2001-x_coupe_concept/
Had Lavabit had in place measures to prevent disclosure of
its master key, it would have been unable to comply with
the ultimate court order

Is this possible? Can you have a system that allows you access, but doesn't allow you to give access to others? Or is it possible to make a system that not even you have access to and still be maintainable?

Edit: Upon thinking about this further, couldn't a solution to the byzantine general's problem like how bitcoin works solve this?

e.g. Thinking outside the box here, what if every person who uses the mail system has to collectively solve some hashing problem based on the source code or system change where the solution allows the software patch or upgrade to be applied. If 50% of more of the users solve the hashing problem after inspecting the code, the patch would be applied.
Indeed, sure it's long(ish) but it's trivialized by the commonality of the words it contains.
The article mentions law enforcement. I reckon these warrants are all for sex crimes.
The Guardian is actually one of the few organisations with its ownership structure set up for editorial independence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#Ownership. I guess Greenwald knows what he's doing but I'd struggle to give more credibility to a news organisation backed by some billionaire than one with an editorial board deliberately structured to provide independence.
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> Beat aimed to create a new online journalism model with paid subscriptions and respectful comment threads

Well good luck with that. To lose faith in humanity, one has to look no further than comment threads on news sites. The current comments on the Reuters article are already facepalm-inducing.
Except all those are seeds, while cricket is insect.
I use checking and savings in this way. I think it's pretty common to do so that checking is a revolving fund and doesn't hold any significant money, but it's also common to just have all your money in the one account.

Anyway, good description of ACH above. Very few people understand how it works.
Are you doing Social Media in your Pajamas?
"Machine learning: Explore vs exploit"
-from his wiki

Great way to view "data science". Augemented intelligence will usually beat artificial intelligence.
Let's not forget that an enormous number of people in the world still use Windows. We need a secure, reliable, and free solution for them. The only app that currently fills these requirements for Windows is TrueCrypt.

That's why I think it's a great idea to do a security audit of TrueCrypt since that's the best available solution for a big segment of the world's population.
That's simply because of our culture. Some years ago I was offered fried grasshoppers and ants in Zambia and my initial reation was repulsion. Then a thought similar to the last sentence in the cockroach article went through my mind: »You will regret your whole life not trying them.« Turned out the hoppers and the ants were both delicious.
Finland's Algorithm-Driven Public Bus
I'm trying to imagine a parallel circumstance and I cannot. Most governments would not use truecrypt, but rather something they have control of themselves. The people using truecrypt illicitly are ordinary criminals: Gangsters, child pornographers, terrorists (maybe), money-launderers, drug dealers, etc. The information revealed by a crack is not something that can be used in the manner of that by espionage. (ie, it won't tell us that Rommel will be approaching Cairo at such-and-such a date.) Information via espionage can be filtered down as if it were from other intelligence sources, or even guessing. And so the exploit can be concealed as with Ultra.

But to use truecrypt against the people who are actually using it for crime you would almost certainly have to reveal the exploit publicly in a court.
Why Demand for HTML5 Application Development Service Arises?
This is simply a user acquisition mechanism for the rest of the Square business. They lose money on every transaction.

Read this: http://www.quora.com/Square-Inc-1/What-are-the-details-behin...
Haha, I would hope he.net is still going strong, since they're Hurricane Electric and provide a lot moelre than just hosting.
https://vpsdime.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0 is amazing?
Really interesting idea of having two keypairs, including one that corrupts the data. Are there any actual examples of such a system?
Maybe not out of necessity for the ruler, but to convince the people to eat them out of necessity. (I'm just guessing, would also be interested in learning more.)
This does not changed the fact that chrome crushed the competition just like gmail crushed others. It took a very long time others to keep up and they are still behind in most cases. IMHO v8 deserves all the credit for the advance of JavaScript performance race.
Well, not all videos will work with the HTML5 player.
According to my tests (with many dongles of E4K and R820T tuners) it takes about ~50 milliseconds for everything to happen. Use keenerd's experimental branch for fast tuning with R820T tuners. I'm not sure the main branch has fixed the driver yet. My best guess is that something in libusb is slowing down the process which in theory should only take ~8 milliseconds.
I prefer the old version. i have a 13 inch screen.
All i see is a big header and little content. I think the new design has a whitespace problem and lacks of personality. It feels like it was designed by developpers , not by designers.

As for the content,i prefer ArsTechnica, I like long articles about specific subjects instead of news about "dirsuptive app X".
Yep - Kapil is correct. Any serious payments company manages accounts in various banks and uses its internal systems to manage credits and debits at the individual account level.
Good point, does he take the snowden documents with him, or is that "owned" by the guardian?
I don't think so. Its a user acquisition cost. Instead of putting up Ads, they're offering a free service. Good tactic.
http://sensuapp.org/

and

http://riemann.io/
Not easily, but this can be implemented by having NGINX proxy to Haproxy and have Haproxy do the health checks.

Scales well enough.
Cryptoparty in Oakland, 10/20 from 2-5pm at Sudo Room
PARTY LIKE IT'S 1984!!1

We're having monthly cryptoparties from 2-5pm every Third Sunday at Sudo Room, a hackerspace in Oakland located at 2141 Broadway (two blocks from the 19th St Oakland BART!). The next one is this Sunday!

• Learn security techniques & software.
• Understand why responsible security is important.
• Meet with other proactive residents!

We'll have talks on why digital security matters, mobile phone security, GPG and encrypted email, OTR (secure chat), and SSL / perfect forward security.

Bring your laptop! Bring your phone!

All skill levels welcome, from novice to expert!
royce, if you're ever interested in connecting your data to an online accounting app for nonprofits (with integrated fundraising CRM and payroll), I'd be happy to chat!
TechCrunch is a hype machine. The writers tend to be bandwagoners. Creating awards for best start-ups misses the point of a start-up, to become a great company, not a media darling.

I look at TechCrunch the way I look at Deadspin, Gawker, or any tabloid website. Not for content, simply for splash.
I fail to understand why the new opaque icon makes it "much worse" compared to the icon in previous iOS versions.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading through some of the old applications. Here's Drew Houston's app for Dropbox back in 2007 - everything is plain and concise.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27532820/app.html
Actually, you can.

1) ACH. Everyone has mentioned that already. I'd need routing and account number, and likely need to know if it's checking/savings or business/personal. Like they've said, everything that I can find on a check. You could contest it for ~ 60 days, but you'd have to sign something at the bank, and you're out the money till you do.

2) Drafts. They're like checks, but not. Some health clubs (Curves, iirc) do this as well as some other less reputable businesses. Basically, once you sign an authorization (that they keep on file, not like it gets passed to the bank or anything), they can print a check like thing and put some specific language in the signature block area, and deposit it. Typically, this is done in bulk. Often times, it's then immediately converted into an electronic equivalent check (Check21 law) and then deposited in one big file. Return rates on these are astronomical. Most banks won't touch them. They should die.
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