skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And so the challenge is similar to the TOR challenge, in a sense. If you want real security it requires a certain amount of inconvenience (such having to use an OS and a device for which you can verify it is doing what you think it is, or using a protocol that slows down your already slow internet connection) and because inconvenience is not popular this means using a tool that only people who are "afraid of being caught doing something" would want to use.

In a sense, you are an instant target for suspicion, you have created a "reasonable and probably cause for suspicion" by using such a device or software system.

I remember driving through my neighborhood in suburban Philadelphia and seeing a young man walking down the side of the road and being shocked by this act. Nobody walks in that neighborhood or along that road. Nobody bikes there. Frankly, it's ill advised because of the winding nature of the road and the absence of sidewalks or even a shoulder. I could feel myself become immediately suspicious of his presence and his actions.

All he was doing was going out for a walk. Frankly, I was the weird one.

At some point, as technology becomes embedded in our culture we expect people to use it and we look at those who do not as odd balls and are suspicious of them (think the Amish).

So if you are avoiding using the "latest and greatest" and opting to use a "secure system", people are going to look at you like you are crazy and be suspicious of your activities. This will probably drive you to keep it secret, which will only make it look more incriminating.

My point is: how do make these things mainstream in such a way that ordinary people who aren't interested in the security aspects can and will use them, but those who want or need the added security can use them without garnering suspicion for doing so?
Wait...it was tested?
Learn to Ask
Vancouver has quite a few talented engineers but the teams can be a bit insular. The meetups are good and you should definitely go to either the Ruby on Rails one, or Node Brigade. CascadiaJS is happening soon too.

If you want to get some introductions I'd be happy to grab a coffee.
Update to a newer Firefox. Your FF is dead old and doesnt support the new HTML5 methods... and @author, maybe add a polyfill?
Here is a box.

You can choose to have it filled 90% of the way or 10% of the way. Most would choose 90%, right? But guess what—

THE BOX IS FILLED WITH BEES!
A lot of "decent backup systems" would be vulnerable to this too. Say you back up all your local stuff to a RAID that you've mapped as a drive, as well as a mapped Google Drive?

It's still all toast.

That level of backup would handle any kind of physical failure - a dead drive, the destruction of your house, the failure of Google... but still, this thing would kill it.

There's only so much you can expect from a person when it comes to keeping their personal documents and family photos.

I mean obviously, if you're running a company you need a real backup solution, but for family files or a one-man-show business? There is no reasonable precaution.
I know how wheels work. Look closely with a bike that is internally-geared or that has a drum brake. The hub is secured to the frame or has an antirotation washer installed to prevent the hub from rotating.:

http://sheldonbrown.com/sturmey-archer_tech.html

Remember Newton's law of motion here: for every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction. As the motor drives the wheel forward, the resistance from the street will try to spin the motor backwards, causing the hub to spin in the dropouts. That's why a quick release alone isn't adequate for internally-geared hubs, drum brakes, or motors.
High-res Nexus 5 official Press shot
Surviving a SEO duplicate content attack
Great. Do you have a website that showcases your product and gets you new clients?
Indeed. This is why Apple sending your AppleID and password in the clear inside the SSL connection to Apple is troubling. That makes it relatively easy for the right IT people to steal those credentials. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
I bike about 5000 miles a year in the city and have never needed to carry my bike down stairs while riding. Once you get it home, you might need to lug it up to your apartment, but it's well within the realm of possibilities for a healthy adult to carry a 40 pound bike up a few flights of stairs. (Then again, it's also rather easy to pedal the bike around without a motor. But I digress.)
Why do some parts of legal documents appear in all caps
Nvidia, AMD, or Intel?
Proprietary or open source drivers?

I often have problems during upgrades using the proprietary drivers. The solution is usually:
1. Uninstall proprietary drivers.
2. Reboot, make sure the fallback mesa/vesa works (i.e. you can boot to graphical login).
3. Install proprietary drivers again.
4. Reboot, make sure the graphical login works, then run glxinfo | grep -i opengl, and make sure the renderer is GeForce or Radeon or whatever, NOT "Mesa".

Yes, it's stupid, and yes, we shouldn't have these problems in 2013, but the proprietary drivers tend to just have more compatibility issues.
Oh, you mean when I can't buy things because they aren't on the shelves because there's nobody available to move them from the loading dock to the shelf, and I don't want to shop there anyway because the entire store is in disarray because there aren't enough employees to clean up the products that sales might drop?
You have "500K unique visitors a year". Just want you to use terminology that means what others think it means.

$2CPM isn't too bad for remnant. Good luck growing the traffic.
It all starts with the term "climate change". Back in the day it was global warming, but when reality didn't fit the models, suddenly climate change became more palatable. That is a minor peeve, actually. The killer factor is the hysteria. It's not that I deny that man is changing the climate - heck, we change just about everything else in our environment, climate would be the exception. I just can't bring myself to defend the position that we must reduce per capita energy usage. Reducing energy usage is equivalent to de-evolution.

Putting it another way, environmentalists defend that we can't change anything about the environment to such an absolute extreme, that I smell religious-like zealotry.

Fortunately, the solution is a couple of decades away, through electric transportation, coupled with solar/wind renewables. No CO2 but also no "pristine Earth" nonsense.
Since you mentioned the Iranians killed in the Iran-Iraq war, the US and other western countries were an ally of Iraq while they knew Saddam was gassing Iranians with chemical weapons, their hypocrisy is astounding.
Installing into %AppData% is, iirc, Microsoft's intended approach with ClickOnce installers (which Chrome uses). The difference is that ClickOnce installers have a far more restrictive permissions model than old MSIs.

ClickOnce-installed applications are limited to "Internet Zone" permissions. This can make them immensely frustrating to develop with, actually, since many of MS's own development frameworks fail miserably in Internet Zone even when they have no reason to do so (mostly they generate temporary files in places they aren't allowed).

I'm not sure how Google Chrome gets permissions to save files into your documents and whatnot from there - I don't recall Chrome requesting a permissions escalation during install or anything.
Wait, Netflix works on Linux? When did this happen?
I just switched to At&t today, so I can't comment on history of service. I would recommend using their automated system so that you don't have to call back and waste your time.

https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/client/en_US/

Secondly, if that doesn't work, your 50 minutes of time is definitely worth more than $5-10. There are a lot of alternative ways to unlock your phone that you might consider. I'm not going to post any links, but I know for a fact many exist.

Good luck to you, and I'm sorry about your bad experience. Your mileage definitely varies while talking on the phone to a huge company.
Hmm, just curious, have you used rdesktop, http://www.rdesktop.org/? It's been incredibly fast for me.
Yes, but UAC has the same weakness as Linux permissions - it only protects the OS and programs, not the user-data. Programs can screw with userland data all they like without user permission.
>>Because of the sanctions in the 90's there were also up to half a million excess deaths of children aged under 5

Saddam wanted to get rid of the sanctions, it was in his direct interest to inflate the statistics. (There were reports of e.g. multiple funerals for a given dead child, too.)

His regime also had "extra" income from smuggling, which could have been used to alleviate suffering of civilians under his boot. These resources weren't used for that, as far as I've read.

I never got a good answer to my standard point, when this was a hot subject:

It is arguably bad to give in to extortion from dictators. In this case a dictator isn't using his resources to alleviate the suffering of civilians in his own country!

To let dictators get their will through by the suffering of their own civilians is obviously a very, very bad precedent.
Now and then I see a project which is soul crushing to me when I compare myself with other programmers. This is one of them.
DoorDash (YC 13) is hiring. Come build the future of local, on-demand logistics
"every Rush Limbaugh in the world advocating for elimination of government"

As far as I know a strawman, unless you can come up with some telling quotes. You really think he's an anarchist???

Now, a return to the Founder's vision of a limited government, the pre-Hoover, not counting e.g. Woodrow Wilson during the war era and other Progressive excesses, that's another thing altogether.

Which your vent strongly supports. Basically, seriously reduce the size, scope, and most especially control of the Federal government, and return to the spoils system. No matter how bad it was and would be, it's still accountable in a way we can see the Civil Service isn't. And if the Federal government isn't trying to control just about everything, the need for a huge, "professional", "apolitical" (like the National Park Service, anyone???) "Civil" (again, the NPS is our current poster boy) Service is much less compelling.

If you can't admit to yourself that the Rush Limbaughs of the country have some good points, you are part of the problem, and will remain so.
yep, thank god Harper wasn't PM then or we would be still in Iraq
> This requires a very different model of access control and user/application privileges, and unfortunately I don't think any mainstream OS is even close to solving this one yet.

I'm not sure it does require a different model of access control. It just requires people to actually use the access control mechanisms that exist already.

You should not access banking details or any other sensitive information in the same user-level context as you use to generally browse the internet. The privileges needed for each task ("browse the internet" vs. "check bank statements") should be different. I personally have a separate user account on my machine set up specifically for "sensitive" tasks.

Separation of data access via privileges is nothing revolutionary, nor is it something that can't be done on any modern OS. Unfortunately, online services are still behind. For example, I would probably switch to an online banking provider that let me create one account for viewing balances and another for transferring cash. But these services will get there in time.

User education is a different story.
"The brain only has limited energy at its disposal and it appears that it must choose between two different functional states - awake and aware or asleep and cleaning up,"

Sure sounds like part of the wake-sleep algorithm, which is impressive given that the wake-sleep algorithm was named in the mid-90s.
Aaron Swartz hackathon
How about a Lenovo x230?
Adding core i7 and 16GB RAM takes the price to USD 1300. Still weights around 3 lbs.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x230/
>(if I understand it correctly) the cryptography is solid

The issue is that iMessage outright ignores a long understood challenge in the APPLICATION of cryptography, namely knowing when to trust that someone is REALLY giving you their public key rather than being man-in-the-middled.

While this is a thorny challenge there are well understood, if imperfect, ways of addressing it that have been around for decades. At minimum it works like ssh, where you get a warning when an unfamiliar new key is presented and decide whether to trust it or not. More sophisticated is the certificate infrastructure around TLS/SSL where some effort is made to bring semi-trusted third parties into play.

These are all flawed solutions, the problem remains essentially unsolved. But any truly secure system based around public keys has some mechanism that addresses this challenge.

The issue with iMessage is that 1. Apple did not attempt to address the key exchange problem, which would maybe be fair enough on an "easy" consumer product with weak security claims but then 2. Apple made strong security claims very publicly and 3. even said a counterfactual, that it had no capability to intercept messages.

THAT is what is disingenuous: Apple implements public key cryptography, which since its inception and at its very heart raises difficult challenges around key exchange; Apple chooses to ignore these challenges; Apple then claims strong public key security. Either attempt to address the challenges like everyone else, or don't make the security claim, you can't do both.
The ten thousand readers of HN who don't know these acronyms can use a search engine to look them up, or someone can ask a question and someone else can answer it and save 9,998 other readers the bother.

1 Google search = 1/35 of a boiled kettle.

So asking the question just saved about 285 boiled kettles of carbon footprint.

(http://green.tmcnet.com/topics/green/articles/216400-google-...)
I think this is the perfect counterpoint to all the articles over the last week about letting the government fail as long as tech keeps making money.

We only make money because a huge infrastructure of transport and a mass of non-sexy industry is there to support us. The tech industry is as the artists of old. We are a small number at the tip-top of a pyramid. Remove anything below us and we topple.
That sounds like an awesome blog, if you expand a bit on the characters ;)
Or Ignatieff. Honestly, I suspect Harper's stand was just one of the usual efforts of the opposition party to differentiate themselves from the ruling party despite having basically zero real platform differeces. It would be great if this country's politics started being more about policies than personalities again!
So if I get this right, the vulnerability is that Apple could sit in between you and your friend, impersonating each to the other while relaying and reading your messages.

This seems about as vulnerable as the certificate authority/public key infrastructure system used for SSL, code signing, etc... We're always delegating to another party the responsibility of authenticating the person on the other side of our messages/web browser/signed software that we run. In the case of iMessage, Apple is responsible for authenticating your friend. In the SSL or signed code case, the certificate authorities are responsible. Seems that both Apple and CA companies might be subject to the same legal pressures to eavesdrop on people.
Around the World in 80 hours
In regards to your P.S.

Because Hussein, Saddam's last name, is attributed to a greater person (where the name originated from):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_ibn_Ali

Just a hypothesis though..
The title of the article is "...the Road to 1.0", you can imagine that they are continuously improving it to get there.
Yep, at least on Ubuntu 12.04:

http://lifehacker.com/5963726/netflix-finally-comes-to-ubunt...
SEXUAL VIOLENCE, THE WAY OUT
This is not a rant, because it's the truth. To outsiders, this attitude seems hyper-negative because it's difficult to comprehend the level of ineptitude found in federal government IT. As a non-national who has done some (very non-sensitive) on-site IT work for the U.S. government, I experienced this firsthand for several years. (And before I get accused of elitism, my home country doesn't necessarily have the answers either.)

When all of the Snowden and PRISM stuff broke, my first thought was to chuckle and ask, "How?" Based on my experiences with federal IT workers, it's hard to imagine there is a room of crack coders underground in some basement or deep inside some mountain just knocking it out of the park.
Hadoop Job Turns into 'you also sound like a nigger or some other human garbage'
From: Stephen Wyatt

<47d5188d7f4336b38a1df057e811402f@reply.craigslist.org>
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013 1:12 PM
To: "6xft3-4135313544@job.craigslist.org" <6xft3-4135313544@job.craigslist.org>
Subject: Re: Open-Source Big Data/Hadoop - GUI Engineer/Architect. HTML5/Javascript (Open to 100% Remote)

you also sound like a nigger or some other human garbage, but for sure, a stupid cunt capable of nothing else other than being a recruiter, the lowest of low-life jobs.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:47 PM, craigslist 4135313544
<6xft3-4135313544@job.craigslist.org> wrote:

Perhaps the frustration you have with Recruiters stems from the rejection that you prob
often get from them. You have no com-sci eduction as specifically mentioned within the job posting. You have no Hadoop or Big Data experience (your resume is all about Wordpress Websites and iOS apps) and companies you've
worked for are not even in the same league as our company or other companies in the similar space.

#delete

From: Stephen Wyatt <47d5188d7f4336b38a1df057e811402f@reply.craigslist.org>
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013 12:25 PM
To: "6xft3-4135313544@job.craigslist.org" <6xft3-4135313544@job.craigslist.org>
Subject: Open-Source Big Data/Hadoop - GUI Engineer/Architect. HTML5/Javascript (Open to 100% Remote)

I can help with Hadoop 2.0 or 2.2 for Windows.

You can contact me directly at
StephenMWyatt@gmail.com <mailto:StephenMWyatt@gmail.com>

I can help if you are not a recruiter or in the staffing business.

I am avoiding recruiters and companies that use them.

Steve - http://stevo.azurewebsites.net/

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sof/4135313544.html
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f.lux is an awesome little thing I had installed for months. Then on the excitement of moving to a new place, I removed it. And I could stay awake thru the night again. So it wasn't old age after all. Now I will put it back again.
No contradiction. The telcos are the owners of the org keys.

Bbm is only secure if you run your own bes.
If they are really losing 0.05% + 22¢ every transaction, then Venmo should use Square Cash to make a lot of large transactions, forcing them into bankruptcy.
NOTE! The submitter linked to the second page of a two page story. For those who want to start at page 1, try this:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/09/25/wal-mart-re...
Why would this be surprising. It's a project with huge scope, with dependencies that they can't fully control (IRS, Social Security etc), with likely changing requirements, and a tight deadline.

It's not like they could have released in beta and iterated, or waited until it was perfect. It's the nature of the beast - if the major annoyances don't get fixed in a reasonable [1] amount of time, then it's worth writing reams over.

1. Undefined.
You are describing differences of physical structure. We had been discussing features of temperament and cognition, attributes like "nurturing", "risk-averse", "emotionally expressive", "competitive", "risk-taking", "emotionally flat".

It is an entirely unsettled question as to what degree these mental characteristics are correlated with physical sexual differences, and to what degree any such correlation derives from cultural influences; that is the whole point of this thread.

I've yet to encounter a software house where birthing or nursing babies formed any part of anyone's job description...
I find my favorite use of GNU parallel is as a parallel drop in replacement for xargs.
False, none of the sales mistakes discussed have been known to cause death.
Please stop repeating this incorrect number unless you have a source for it.
Oh my gosh, I could have sworn I was on the first page.

Sorry about that.
I've known a couple of NSA programmers in the late-80s and through the 90s, and they were very good to the very best. I don't find it difficult to believe they can manage to get good people ... well, before Snowden et. al.

Whoever they got to do the power system for their new Utah site ... failed rather hard.
I will make no bones about the fact I don't think Obamacare was a good idea on any level. But I say that just to put my cards on the table. Forget politics. I'm also a software engineer. Take off your politics hat and look at this with your software engineer hat. Tell me, with a straight face, that this shows any sign of being functional any time soon. Tell me that every software engineer alarm bell you have isn't going off. Tell me that this website, which consists of multiple pieces (insurance info in, user info in, user selection mechanisms, user information flowing back out to the insurance companies, and with every last one of those bits having endless, endless business rules associated with them, and this a gross oversimplification of what's there) only has problems with the user parts, coincidentally isolating all the problems into the only part we've really collectively looked at, and once those are ironed out it'll all go perfectly smoothly because this is an isolated occurrence and not indicative of the whole project.

Republicans and Democrats and bureaucrats and judges and media and internet commenters and everybody else can say whatever they like about whatever they like in whatever forum they like with as much or as little truth as they like, but the software doesn't care. It either works or doesn't. It can't be cajoled, can't be bargained with, can't be threatened, can't be ideologically swayed, and it's too stupid to be capable of any kind of cover up regardless of what its motivation may be. It is what it is, no matter which way you voted in the last election or which way you vote in the next.
> Observations and models are repeated and challenged far more in climate science than any other field.

That may be an overstatement; see the Standard Model of physics.
>>since without the invasion, there wouldn't have been a civil war.

Uh...

This happened: A starts a war W with B. As a follow on effect, some groups inside B starts a civil war W2 with others in B.

You say that A is responsible for the second war W2 too, which they didn't start and even actively tried to stop?!

After the war, when does A stop being responsible for everything bad that happens to B, done by B themselves? After 10 years? 100?

You just blame A for everything, including the weather? :-)

(It is easy to make a good argument that the W2 war would probably have happened anyway, at some point. Or that Saddam was already doing a continuous civil war with his army/police against everyone but his supporters, to keep power. You might even argue, but not with your definitions, that USA is responsible for all those killed by Saddam when they didn't topple him in the first Gulf war...)

Edit: Clarity.
True, but your body only produces 0.5 liters (~17 fl oz) over a 24 hour period, and has 0.15 liters (~5 fl oz) at any one moment. So, being well hydrated when sleeping might positively affect other systems, but the effect on your CSF would be negligible.
That, or we buy a car to commute.
It's not truth, it hits residential users all the same. As much as we nerds might wish it, you don't deserve to be extorted because you don't understand computers.
Study reveals brain 'takes out the trash' while we sleep