skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't confuse the two things. Force is not 100% or 0%. In your system the "men with guns" still come to evict you from your house when you fail to pay the rent, therefore you are coerced into earning money.

You pay attention to the "force" used on the taxpayer. When you do business in a jurisdiction then it often imposes taxes, but you are free not to do business there.

But what about the "force" used on the person living paycheck to paycheck? The government enFORCEs property rights (or, without government, it would be private mercenaries that do it) and so the wage earner is still forced to do what he doesn't necessarily want to do.

So although it may be that neither your employer nor any individual is coercing you to work for that industry, nevertheless you can be coerced by the system. Because what is force, really? Can you give me an example of force? Perhaps nanobots in your bloodstream forcing you to do something is force. Because if someone puts a gun to your head, you still have a choice: you can choose to die, or do what he says. The point is that force is whenever your alternative options are completely unacceptable to you. And homelessness / hunger for days are such things. Exposing humans to market discipline without ANY safety nets results in many of them being coerced -- not by an individual -- but by their circumstances -- to continue in a path that may not benefit them or even others. J K Rowling was for example able to make Harry Potter into a billion dollar industry only because she was able to afford to write it. She was a welfare recipient at the time.
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You can reach me at the 121,860,143rd-121,860,152nd digits of Pi
Yeah, but I don't think preventing people from using electronics is really helping in making them see the beauty in the engineering feat. Though I can definitively relate to that feeling.
They want him to be like Kevin Garnett or Shawn Kemp. Big guy, tough attitude, strong, prototypical of PF instead of "smart with spacing", "helping team in an invisible way", etc.

Doesn't matter.

He got 2 rings, 1 (gold) Olympic Medals, and knows his 1's and 0's as good as X's and O's.
How We Grew Our Blog to 5,000+ Subscribers in Five Weeks
Are there any indications that turning thermostats down (or up) impacts weight?
Does anyone know how to make TogetherJS work on IE (just the chat/presence/co-browsing stuff) ???
The article is awkwardly formulated, but gets clear later on: the attack happens over a USB flash drive, but air gap doesn’t remove communications from the infected machine until you remove the mike/speakers.
I like the design. I'm particularly fond of large, thin typefaces.
I think I find hipster-bashing more annoying than hipsters. So there's a group of people you don't like - what's the big deal? Why spend so much time shaming them? Are we 5 years old?
How well does BTSync work in terms of a large team collaborating together? Dropbox has a habit of just working, with surprisingly few hiccups (none so far except during massive folder migrations). Does BTSync work that well with a team of 10? 20? 30? that work on the same set of documents (though not on the same document simultaneously, so no need for e.g. git).
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He posted some files that were "created" by it on a Windows 8.1 machine on Google+:

https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365/posts/K7WeA1gq...

Anyone want to try and download it?

Edit: Really odd. Closing on a 1GB archive on Mega -- it seems unlikely that the network equipment can store that much anywhere.
It's funny AND condescending! Let us together make fun of people who all do the same thing because we're way more unique than them. Hipsters. Feh.

It's good for a self-deprecating chuckle but the comments on the article... hipster-hate needs to subside.
Vince Carter is hated by Raptor fans for quitting on the team. He has since admitted to not trying while he tried to force a trade. [1] Many Raptor fans enjoy booing Vince nearly as much as cheering for a winning Raptor team.

[1]Keep in mind, this was immediately after the trade that he decided to start working harder. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/raptors...
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If you don’t consider OSC to be obviously anti-gay based on the Wikipedia sources, I’m not sure what would convince you.

Yes, he’s not personally driving a pickup truck around Utah with a gang looking to do some gay-bashing. But he obviously cares enough about the issue to write a lot of articles expressing clearly an anti-gay standpoint.

Examples from the Wikipedia article:

"The dark secret of homosexual society—the one that dares not speak its name—is how many homosexuals first entered into that world through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse, and how many of them yearn to get out of the homosexual community and live normally."

“Card stated that he regarded any government that would attempt to recognize same-sex marriage a "mortal enemy" that he would act to destroy”
According to the article, he plugged a (presumably) infected USB drive into the fresh computer, providing the most likely means of infection.
Matthew Green and Paulo Barreto were making fun of this on Twitter. No, the use of a hash does not mean bitcoin will survive quantum cryptanalysis. As Green --- not a stranger to the workings of bitcoin --- puts it, "if the elliptic curve discrete log problem is solved, bitcoin is toast".

Further, the "smart" curve choice bitcoin made was simply not using the NIST P-curves. But lots of stuff chose not to use the NIST curves; that's why we have Certicom's curves and the Brainpool curves. Unfortunately, bitcoin didn't do that much better than the NIST P-curves; the Koblitz curves they use also have problems that researchers are exploring.
This sounds really fishy.

> Ruiu said he arrived at the theory about badBIOS's high-frequency networking capability after observing encrypted data packets being sent to and from an infected laptop that had no obvious network connection with—but was in close proximity to—another badBIOS-infected computer. The packets were transmitted even when the laptop had its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards removed.

Observed how? If not a standard interface (i.e. disk, network, etc), using what? How could he know they were encrypted unless he intercepted a payload?

> With the speakers and mic intact, Ruiu said, the isolated computer seemed to be using the high-frequency connection to maintain the integrity of the badBIOS infection as he worked to dismantle software components the malware relied on.

What would be the point of this communication? It's BIOS would already need to be infected in order to be able to communicate via sound. The situation I can see this being useful is using another infected machine's Internet connection to download an OS specific payload, which makes some sense.
Pretty sure it won't just be the mass storage device contents that are causing the problems. More like the USB driver supplied by the stick when plugged in does the infecting. And you don't see that when you download the stick's contents.
There are markets where Opera has significant marketshare and cannot be ignored; I'm unaware of anywhere where that is true of Chromium, however.
Given that it's using the Bittorrent protocol (Basically) to handle the actual transfers, yes it will work; the issue you may run into is that there can be a lot of files and data available in the share and every client will try to download all files.
Yes, I can also see myself demanding one of those clit mouse keyboards.

However, this doesn't mean I can impose it on everyone.
I've been wanting to cancel Dropbox as well. But I choose a different path which includes Bitcasa. I wrote a blogpost about it earlier: http://blog.noort.be/2013/08/02/backup-in-2013.html
Did I say anything about opposing NSA spycraft? Did I say anything about racism, for that matter?

I'm talking about hating Americans. It's irrational, unconstructive, and not a novel thing to do. It's certainly not going to accomplish anything against NSA spycraft.

If anything is going to change about NSA spycraft, especially on behalf of the rights of foreign nationals, having the rest of the world consider all Americans enemies is going to be counterproductive.
Does this thing even support C++11? I see no mention of it on the home page...
My issue with the PayPal dashboard is not that I can't get the information I need quickly.

My issue that I can't quickly get to where I need to go to do some specific task.

I already know my account balance and transactions from things like Xero, and when I login to PayPal it is to:

1) Manage user subscriptions

2) Withdraw money

3) Manage the API and callbacks

And I'm sure that other people doing the same.

The thing begging for a re-design at PayPal is their entire navigation and menu system.

It's so damn hard to find the right page to do the thing you want to do, and that's the problem.
Hard for me to buy the sound transmission stuff. Keeping in mind the noise, sound diffusion etc. I suppose the packet correction takes an error limit before dropping out the entire packet.
They forgot an important keyword: 'curated'
I could expect ONLY the DSP, ONLY the windows-individual portion, maybe 4 or 5 BIOS exploits and maybe 2 or 3 BIOS patches, about the same for Ethernet cards, maybe the CD controller, maybe 1 or two different USB firmware exploits and patches, maybe the entire PSU manipulation logic

but ALL of that? In the BIOS?

(I'd like to point out I am nowhere near the caliber of the man who's supposedly experiencing all of this. I do not know the true size of any of the aforementioned payload.)
Uh, wrong team :P

01000111 01001111 00100000 01001101 01001001 01000001 01001101 01001001 00100000 00100000
Previous occurrences/discussion of same thing here:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=oldest+domains...
Everyone who's looking to run their own private Dropbox should check out ownCloud[1]. It's free, open source, you install it on your own server (or Raspberry Pi), and it's not P2P like BTsync is. It works more like Dropbox, with a centralized server. You just run that server yourself.

They have apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. I've been using it for about two months now with no problems.

[1] http://owncloud.org
This looks like an attempt to preserve, rather than innovate.

Even if this does actually get legs, what's next?
Finishing What you Start
I have coded up one pass solution in ruby, check it out!

https://gist.github.com/pencilcheck/7252934

A lot of solutions here doesn’t seem to take account of multiple puddles, my solution does take that into account.
It is the parents' job to make sure their child is being educated. If the school is doing a poor job, the parent should switch schools or supplement the education at home.

I say this because I think people used more common sense about money 100 years ago. They likely learned it at home, not at school.
I agree, I think having a CONFIGURABLE option in the kernel where admins can decide "what is allowed" would be a big step forward. (1) Enable requiring UTF-8 encoding, and (2) list what bytes are allowed/forbidden at the beginning, the middle, and the end. Then you could have a local policy like "UTF-8 only", "no control chars", "no dash at beginning", and "no space at the end".
Or want to run an app on very few servers instead of hundreds.
Or likely the NSA firmly has their tongue in their cheek teasing and scaring us because they can.
Young People With A Moral Purpose Should Work For Goldman Sachs, Not Google
Link to the FAA.gov page: http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId...
In the words of xkcd:

every level of meta-opinion on hipsters represents the same tedious navel-gazing by insecure people
What do you mean by valid characters? The file name usually can include any characters except the forward slash. There are, of course, filename limitiations, which are implementation specific.
Empathy: The Key to Successful Startup Communities
FAA allowing most electronic device use throughout flights
>"We had an air-gapped computer that just had its [firmware] BIOS reflashed, a fresh disk drive installed, and zero data on it, installed from a Windows system CD," Ruiu said. "At one point, we were editing some of the components and our registry editor got disabled. It was like: wait a minute, how can that happen? How can the machine react and attack the software that we're using to attack it? This is an air-gapped machine and all of the sudden the search function in the registry editor stopped working when we were using it to search for their keys."

I read this as the computer being infected without a USB plugged into it. "Air-gapped" would mean no USB, right?
I invented this exact concept 2 months ago. Heat sink on a wrist band. I did nothing with it, good luck to these guys.
That's a response I use whenever people tell me compulsory schooling as it exists now is essential so kids can function in the real world. You learn little-to-no real-world skills in a basic K-12 (US) curriculum.

If you'll let me put my tin foil hat on, I would say its possible that personal finance isn't taught deliberately - banks want people to be worse at money and debt management so they can make more money off them.
Miami Heat though
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I just want to be able to read my kindle on takeoff and landing. I hope this goes into effect soon. The device uses the exact same power sitting in my lap with the case closed as it does while I'm reading it.
It doesn't do anything:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/SJZxi...
Yes - I'm having the same issue.
This seems nonsensical to me. The microphone and speakers in a typical laptop(yes even a macbook air) are hardly quality enough to a) transmit any data at a high enough frequency to have any bandwidth and be "undetectable" and b) the microphone would be of even worse quality.

A typical laptop has a +- 3db audio frequency response of 200hz - 8khz if you are lucky, even if you wanted -10 or 20db I doubt you would get much above 12khz which is detectable by most people without significant hearing damage. I'm very skeptical about this article...
I might agree with you if the article wasn't posted on Wired.
Be first to get a Nexus 5
for (( ; ; )); do if curl "https://play.google.com/store/devices" -L -s --compressed | grep -q "exus 5" ; then echo "Nexus 5 is Launched" ; fi ; sleep 10 ; done ;

Enough said :D
Nice redesign, I often wonder why many successful companies neglect the aspect of their websites. Take IMDb for example, it has a dated design and it could be made more useful and accessible. Is it a technology problem (UI closely tied to the backend, very broad scope) or there's another reason?
Since you are a site that sells SSL certificates, it would be appropriate for you to enforce HTTPS when communicating with your website.
They probably did. Parents assume that their kids will learn anything they need to know in school, rather than ensure their kids know something by teaching it themselves.
From TFA: "he suspects badBIOS is only the initial module of a multi-staged payload"
Developers are becoming jacks of all trades
I can't really speak to the programming part of it (but it almost certainly has a lot to do with Perl), but this article has a pretty, um, interesting conception of what makes something postmodern.

The basic idea is that modernism is the idea that there exists a state that is somehow better, more advanced, more organized, for a given system, and the goal of human endeavor is to move towards that. Postmodernism is basically a skepticism towards that viewpoint, trying to pull the teleological aspects out of it, saying that there's no intrinsic metric by which a given system can be measured to determine its relative state of progress towards more advanced forms.

The idea the article is getting at is that there's an analogous approach to programming which says that there's no intrinsic measurement by which a program can be measured which will tell us its quality.

It's kind of flawed as an analogy really, for a variety of fairly subtle reasons. I should write a "Pomo for Programmers" and post it here some time.
You should include a link to the examples in the copy
They already tried to sneak this in a previous version of IE. I think there was a way to opt out, but it was not the default.

IIRC they had to make it opt in after user backslash.
Explain to me how a non-infected machine would receive and process data from an audio channel so that it ends up interpreted as code and executed.

Yes, back in the day of computers with rubber keyboards, software was recorded on audio tapes, and you could listen to a program loading (sounded basically like a prolonged modem handshake). But even on devices specifically designed to receive data this way, you still had to initiate the procedure. There was code already on that machine that processed the audio stream, loaded it into memory and called the initial JMP.

If I put my tinfoil hat on, I could speculate that yes all the hardware has been made in China for decades, and yes nefarious forces could have very well implemented an always-on listening layer, which by the power of copypasta has now spread to every BIOS-having device, and now it lay in wait waiting for D-day when all your base are belong to us.

TL;DR: the audio attack vector would be like causing a buffer overflow by whistling the right tune into a microphone. This seems impossible without the machine already being compromised.
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He should have made ESPN post it.

Everyone would be so confused.
> The technical aspects are all known to be practical.

No, they aren't. Not by a long shot. They sound vaguely similar to some that are however, so people are overlooking the details that would take this from advanced malware to hollywood fantasy.
Carpal tunnel symptoms can be reduced by properly stretching/exercising the wrists. In Aikido, we do a lot of wrist locks, so before each class, we stretch them out. I think the exercises are the reason I'm the only techie I know without CTS. Just like an athlete stretches before they work, so should coders. I find myself unconsciously stretching my wrists all the time now.

As for Bosh's opinion, this is what every parent should be pushing for. When I started getting into acting, they didn't stop me or dissuade me, they simply asked that I have 'something to fall back on'. In my senior seminar for my BA, our acting professor made sure to hammer it in, because a lot of actors chose to only go for acting, which makes the stereotype of actor/barista.

Bosh's statement really talks about science instead of technology. Physics, Biology, Math, CS - all of these are 'how the world works'. Replace 'computer' with 'tools of your scientific interest' and you get the idea.
I'll just leave this here:

Let’s say you decide one day you want to build a table. This table is going to be made using wood, nails and a hammer. All things being equal, let’s say you build this table with hammer A that has a utility of 10. You build a second table with hammer B and it has a utility of 15. You, the carpenter, have now created two tables, table A and table B, respective to their hammers. The tables are identical, but the utility is different. Now let’s say your utility as a carpenter is 5 (we’ll call this carpenter ‘ME’). The value of the tables is now: Table A – 50 and Table B – 75. Now, my carpenter friend (we’ll call this carpenter ’FR’) has a utility of 4 and he builds the same tables using the same respective hammers. He now has two tables at the following values: Table A – 40 and Table B – 60. So we can build a simple comparative matrix now. Table B built by FR has a higher utility than Table A built by ME but it was built by a less skilled carpenter! We therefore logically assume the hammer is the key driver for the overall utility, not because it has a higher multiplier, but because we believe we have better ability over assessing what the utility of the hammer is. We then therefore place much more importance on it.

http://www.techdisruptive.com/2012/06/29/the-cyclical-nature...
You can just check "is it UTF-8 encoded?". Then it doesn't matter when a new code point is added, it would still be correctly encoded. You could make this a configurable kernel option; when enabled, filenames can only be created when they encode with UTF-8.

The next big problem is control characters. But really, the only people who need control characters embedded in filenames are people breaking into computers using them. It doesn't matter if you use a GUI or a CUI, people generally don't embed newlines, or escape, or tabs in filenames.

The leading "-" is probably more controversial, but the POSIX standard specifically notes such filenames as nonstandard.
You can use http://uptimerobot.com/ I monitor wikipedia censorship using it ;)
A lot of the comments are missing the point. This isn't about "hipster hate," per se. It's about how this style of logo design, and the common tropes it contains, are overused.

This is a quick, tongue-in-cheek piece about a design trend. It's not a condescending critique of a certain population.
F.A.A. Allows Use of Electronic Devices Throughout Flights
Existing code and talent and probably it. It might sound very silly, but if someone does a COBOL[1] or RPG IV to Javascript translator there would be a demand.

1) There is at least one company located in MN whose website is done in COBOL.
He has posted files he said were infected. All of these files were clean files from a Windows 8/8.1 install, signed by MS, unmodified.

Of course, no recording of HF audio communication channels, no USB drive "ROM" dump, no hard drive controller ROM dump, no BIOS dump, no PCI card BIOS dump, no USB analyzer data, no really infected file. The excuse he uses is "the files become clean when I put them on a CD!".

Hard to take him seriously.

Also read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6647467 for a second opinion.
That phrase irked me too. Why the magic around airplanes? Saying "seemingly defy physics" would be a huge improvement, though it retains the tired metaphor. After all, it's a lack of sensible scientific thinking which led to the FAA maintaining this ban for so long!
snip

EDIT:

After some consideration, I've removed my post. Though the irony is great, the fact is that this is a cool use of LLVM and a pretty interesting thought-experiment made live. I know I wouldn't appreciate the kind of heckling I'd just posted were our roles reversed.

Good work on the technical stuff folks.
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Graphic designers are enraged at the thought of this one simple tip.
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The confirmation of the USB vector also makes the title of the article redundant. Any malware spread by USB will "jump airgaps".

The possibility that compromised machines communicate via audio is interesting in its own right, but the wording of the title, combined with the opening few paragraphs, allows for the suspicion that the malware is spread to uncompromised hosts via audio, which is of course not happening.

The article as a whole is unsatisfying. It makes the research into this malware seem completely inadequate.
I've stopped reading when he really recommended that you get a USB 3.0 drive to connect to a RPi :P
Roofing also plays a part in cooling your home. The old cedar shakes roofing systems are naturally porous and enable ventilation.

Unfortunately, most people forget about this when the re-roof with asphalt shingles and rubberized underlays. The combination of the two lock in the heat.
The driver is not provided by the stick. That's just not how things work.
I don't think it's that much like a placebo. A placebo literally has no effect.
This device actually has a cooling/heating effect that your body just perceives as being greater than it actually is.