skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that Psion 5 Series was almost perfect. I do think there would be at least some market for it, but it's not likely to be a huge one anymore which is a shame.
This is like a placebo, intended to trick you into perceiving cold or less-cold when it isn't there. But when there's a real matter at hand placebos only work very temporarily – then eventually reality catches up to you. So if it's actually hot, and my body needs to react to that to regulate my temperature, this doesn't change that. But I suppose it would let you turn the temperature up a couple degrees.
No, not QR codes since it would require the webcam capturing the screen directly. The screen may be used as a light source for the transmission and the webcam can capture the light reflecting from the walls...
Who owns the filename? If the user owns the filename, than it is incumbent on the system to be able to handle arbitrary names. If the user doesn't own the name, then the system must not expose the name to the user. c.f. filename extensions.

If a human script is read top-to-bottom, then the computer should handle that without complaint. This may not be possible in all cases immediately -- there's far too much Unix braindamage weighting the world down to throw it all away at once -- but we should all be trying to liberate humans from the dead hand of New Jersey.
Or clip out the speaker and replace it with an oscilloscope.
"I bet with the currently developing standard (C++11, C++14) more people will start loving C++ again"

I doubt it. C++11 takes C++ even further from where it needs to be. Every high-level feature is bogged down by low-level annoyances. Do you capture variables by value or by reference? Do you need a weak pointer to break this cycle, or can you use a weak pointer somewhere else (or maybe just not both with smart pointers at all?)? Your destructor has an error to report -- now what?

The reason nobody likes C++ is that it is overly complicated for low-level programming and too low-level and annoying for high-level programming. At best the only thing people can say about C++ is that it is "good enough" and popular.
This article was not written for you or I. This is an attempt by Chris Bosh to make the world of technology accessible to those who wouldn't normal consider it a career path. I feel that his attempt is successful.
People are buying Vista on Ebay for $88
When I finally got around to putting some old parts on ebay I almost didn't even bother with some copies of Vista. To my shock the first one just sold on ebay for almost $90.

Are these becoming collectors items or do some folks _really_ not want to upgrade in 2013?

Vista rocks?
Wasnt it so that in France you can get unemployed benefit while starting your business?
Do you play an analog instrument?
I wrote POS program for my uncle and a friend of mine. Look for some non-profits to build wesbites for. Open source. start your own business.
Although I respect your opinion, I highly disagree. In fact, many of your problems with the film are some of the things I actually liked about it.
Wait, what?

"On Wednesday, Microsoft quietly announced in a blog post that the company will give marketers the ability to track and advertise to people who use apps on its Windows 8 and 8.1 operating system on tablets and PCs. The company will do this by assigning each user a number—a unique identifier—that monitors them across all of their apps. (The system doesn't block cookies in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser.) Industry players think Microsoft-powered smartphones and Xbox game consoles will be a natural extension of the system, but Microsoft kept mum on the question."
When I stick a AA battery on a Peltier, to work out which side is which on unmarked unit, it actually does "feel" very cold really quickly. Hot side is obviously also very hot, very quickly.

I'd think it's more likely that the hot side is going to be the problem. Dissipating that heat without something like liquid cooling and active fans.
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Design by Committee doesn't give you well-thought-out designs. It gives you crap like WEP and USB, where many competing voices try to drive the design in their own way.

In fact, being well-conceived and svelte is evidence that it was just a few very smart people, perhaps just one.
How are you supposed to dump it? It's like hacking slot machines: you can always make a rootkit which returns exactly the data you're expecting...
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Way to be patronizing.

I like to tinker as much as anybody else but this phone doesn't get me very excited.

Not long ago there was almost no way to get custom code running on your phone. Now it's getting easier and easier.

Not to mention the various ARM boards you could fit with a GSM module and use to make a custom open phone of your liking and tinker away.

So basically either I want a good everyday phone and I won't go with that or I want to play with phone hardware and there are already a lot of ways I could do that without waiting for this project to deliver.
one has to make sure that market prices do not rise enough to negate the effect of basic income. this may seem obvious but ideas like basic income and other socially important programs don't really look into the possible reactions society and culture will have.
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But he doesn't need pirated media for, say MacOS on his MacBook Air, or Linux machines. Seeing as though he's a security researcher, I'm guessing he is capable of md5ing his FreeBSD ISOs...
I have nothing against all the energy efficiency development however many articles display a tone that everything was going well before but now due to emerging countries we are facing this havoc. Pathetic.
Yes, especially coupled with the "been going on for 3 years" and yet no actual analysis of the virus, no oscilloscopes, digital signal analyzers or spectrum analyzers put on the task, no third party researchers confirming this. Sounds very odd indeed.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031206082643/http://stony-brook...

this one is the latest worthy snapshot
I hope someone else analyzes that USB stick to see what it's doing or trying to do when plugged in. It sounds too fantastic to be true, but I guess it's somewhat plausible.
I bought a N900 and it may have been ahead of the iPhone in tech specs but it was way behind in the feel of day-to-day usage. True multitasking could drain the N900's battery in an hour even if the phone was idle. Because the stylus was included many apps required it, so a lot of time was wasted unholstering the stylus. The resistive single-touch screen doesn't support gestures. Maemo didn't support portrait orientation for one-handed usage.
Thanks for sharing Andy — I'm preparing a talk "Applying Lean Startup to the Enterprise" and will reference your post :)

Great looking Ghost blog too, btw.
Have you ever played a Bösendorfer Imperial?
In recent history I've had multiple family members suffer from long, drawn out illnesses ending in death. In these cases they generally get tired of what they're drinking and don't want to drink it anymore.

It's nice to see more products in that segment for people in that state, so there's the possibility of more variety because I feel like people with medical needs have additional desires from their food/drink other than just being sustained.
Perhaps you need a civics lesson. The national parks service is part of the department of the interior which is run by the Secretary of the Interior who reports to the President. We can't constantly keep blaming underlings. At some point the President of the United States is involved. He certainly didn't shutdown Healthcare.gov yet other HHS sites were shut down. Interesting. No money for Pubmed but plenty for Healthcare.gov
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It doesn't need to be a USB 3.0 drive. The RPi is USB 2.0 only.
Please explain this one:

Strangest of all was the ability of infected machines to transmit small amounts of network data with other infected machines even when their power cords and Ethernet cables were unplugged and their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards were removed
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As I read the article I thought, "Gee, my phone has a USB port and a radio or two."

By the end I'd added, "And a speaker and a microphone."

If I was [metaphorically] a state sponsored espionage agency, that's the way I would go. I wouldn't be fooling around with USB sticks. That 1990's vector has been publicly outed and people can easily live without them.

And by writing this, I've just now tinfoil-hatted my way to the belief that pretty much every electronic device, if it isn't p'wned, it's just by the blessings of laziness or disinterest. After having read about the scale upon which the US pursued cryptography during the Second World War in Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II by Stephen Budiansky, I'm not betting on either.
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"Facebook's new ad service, launched earlier this month, gets around the traditional third-party advertising cookies by doing the tracking on its own. When a person visits a website selling shoes on a work PC, a piece of Facebook code placed on that site—Facebook's own cookie—recognizes that the person has logged into Facebook using that browser before."

How does this even work? Is the shoe seller placing some kind of JavaScript snippet on their website in order to allow Facebook to track users? Is this coming from their "Like" button?
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As many have noticed the blog is being seriously crushed by the heavy traffic. We are mirroring the content here: http://leaningtech.com/duetto/blog/2013/10/31/Duetto-Release...
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I would have agreed before Swype/FlexT9/etc existed. Now I find I can type faster on gesture-based keyboards than I ever could on the hardware keyboards anyway.
I'm glad to see I'm not the first person to consider the interaction, but (correct me if I'm wrong) none of the people addressing this are actually involved with the development of Soylent, right?

And yes, I realize there are people getting blood tests. The human body can be surprisingly resilient, and whether or not the deficiency is in iron or something else, it may take a long time to present. My main objection is to them marketing this essentially as a beta release of an end-user product already.

If the purpose behind all the testing were to explore whether a meal replacement like Soylent might be a viable method of maintaining peak human nutrition, with years of planned research before jumping to conclusions, I would be all for it. But it seems as if they've already presumed that an all-in-one formula CAN be engineered to provide for a healthy diet, and are focusing exclusively on arriving at the optimal balance of nutrients to deliver.
Probably someone who can't use 7 due to missing driver support.
When I read this it sounded like a weaponized version of Chirp.. http://chirp.io
A company that's standing on a burning platform.
The part I find humorous is constantly redefining terms. I thought "lean" referred to budgets. In that light, I would have refuted the headline's premise with a reminder that the 'outer' company was footing the bill for salaries.

No, what they're discussing is yet another methodology (or an existing one with a tweak, requiring a new name...) for creating a product, getting it to [a subset of] customers, and refining it.
I was thinking about this the other day with all the smartwatch news. I can picture attendants telling passengers to shut off their watches.
You aren't being forced at gunpoint by the IRS to drink tap water. You are free to buy whatever water you want. You are being forced to buy insurance. A very big difference.
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BBN built the Interface Message Processor that routed ye olde arpanet.
Using any random quad-SPI programmer and soldering it to the chip that contains your BIOS. If dragosr is suspecting a BIOS malware, I can't understand that he hasn't done that yet. From what I've read on his Twitter and Facebook account, he would have spent 3 years investigating this malware and is just now thinking of dumping the ROM of his "infected" USB devices.

Smells fishy to me.
If the BIOS (or some commonly used FPGA) already have builtin some kind of backdoor could be used for this.
Now, if it was over a hardware backdoor in so many models it should be pretty widespread.

http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/05/bogus-story-no-chinese-bac...
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Secret-3G-Radio-in-Every-Inte...
Is this a computer ghost story for halloween? Now I'm never going to be able to get my laptop to Sleep.
Yes, but it's a 3 row keyboard. I upgraded from the G1 (5 row qwerty) to the G2 (4 row, numbers-on-the-qwerty-row) and it's next to useless.

As a phone, I need to use the number line a lot. As a computer /terminal, I need to use letters, numbers & symbols a lot. 3 and 4 row keyboards are bad for both of these use cases.

If someone makes a decent, interesting 5-row qwerty phone, I will buy it tomorrow.
Pentagon agency to spend $70m on brain implant research
With many (most?) desktop motherboards, the flash chip is desolderable and can usually be taken out and read on a dedicated flash reader if you have the equipment. There would be no way for the rootkit to bypass that.
Come hang out or ask questions via irc.thegeekgroup.org 6667, many cool projects and people. Web based live stream and IRC client http://thegeekgroup.org/live/.
The post announcing discovery of the HF audio was made October 15th, 2013. Remember you're reading a reporter's dumbed-down summary of what someone else has found.

https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365/posts/3reWRqDM...
I don't understand why people in the Sports world tend to not like Chris Bosh. Not only does he have a great all-around game but he got passions beyond basketball and is a family man.

Keep doing your damn thing Chris Bosh. I'm a fan.
Yeah, but we don't have a time machine, so we don't get to pick the reality where all UNIX-native filesystems restricted filenames like FAT. This isn't something that you can retroactively change, so we are stuck on this reality and need to find ways to cope.
Too bad it turns out that Obi-Wan wasn't the brightest guy.

I like to view myself as more Chewbacca or R2-D2, since they are the only ones that seem to have their minds set right. Except for that one time R2 was memory-wiped, but even then...
If this is the case, why haven't you replaced the food you eat with currently available meal replacement shakes?
I wonder how this compares to wt (http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt) in terms of performance.
No, the TI99/4A had no understanding of music.
You have to have emotions to understand music.
A Computer does not have emotions.
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I don't think that was meant literally. It was an allusion to your subconscious intuition of physics being contradicted.
So wait, it's a BIOS virus that covers the platforms he tested (multiple BIOSs to exploit/patch)...

that can communicate via Sound (Requires DSP)...

that can defend itself against the registry editor (Deep integration to the OS, for at least windows, linux/OSX noted as well)...

that can alter data...

that can infect network cards (implied in the article)...

that can possibly use the power system to communicate (Ok, on a laptop, that might be possible. Otherwise, PSUs aren't completely isolated from the computing system's logic?)...

that all still fits within a BIOS chip?
Either BIOSs are complex (read space-intensive) enough to stop being Basic, or they can fit this AND a functioning BIOS in to a payload that would be delivered by sound, USB, network cards...

Can it modulate the fans to transmit data too? Or change the screen brightness faster than the human eye can see, but can be detected with cameras? How about using the Wifi, HDD activity, sound mute, caps lock, numlock, scroll lock and power indicators to transmit?

How about opening and closing the HDD to transmit data?

I can't agree more with MacsHeadroom's assertion that this is a situation where the simplest explanation wins.

Not to mention I REALLY don't want this kind of thing to exist...

EDIT: Added fans paragraph
It is explained. HF audio via speakers and microphones. In other words, a modem. Your username is highly ironic.
You can, you know, remove it and dump it with an eprom/flash programmer...
The hardware and software being open source, will other companies be able to take the design and produce their own (closed or open) products based on this product?
The callingcode endpoint only returns one result even when there is more than one that qualifies, as is the case with 1 and USA and Canada (and others that are part of the North American Numbering Plan)
I'm curious, does anyone use Unix for day to day use anymore? Or have Linux, OS X, and other Unix-like systems taken over the hacker preference?
Yeah, people seem to forget that the largest operator of nuclear reactors is, if I recall correctly, the US Navy.
Or else he simply picked up the malware simply by borrowing a usb key from someone else who'd been infected. I bet the majority of security researchers are only a couple of hops on their network of acquaintances from people who are pretty much guaranteed to be targets of <pick your state security agency of choice> and they would certainly have the resources to develop something like this if they chose to.

We know that Stuxnet spread beyond it's intended target - that's how it was discovered by the wider security community in the first place. Malware this pernicious could spread fairly stealthily through a large number of people without being noticed I'd imagine.

(If it really is using high frequency audio to leak data then that would be strong evidence that it was originally designed to target some group using air gapped computer networks to protect their high grade information. If your top secret & merely secret grade computers are laptops in the same room & they can communicate over a back channel like this then suddenly your air gapped computer network isn't cut off from the internet any more!)
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I think they mean to say it was a computer that was previously infected and then airgapped, wiped and reinstalled. But because the executable load is in the bios, it persisted and reestablished communication with its peer via HF audio.
Our memory management approach is still not tuned and optimized. There are quite a few low hanging fruits that should provide great improvements, but we have not yet implemented them - Alessandro of Leaningtech
Would it be possible to infect device firmware? If this guy's airgapped computers keep getting infected, assuming he's smart enough to not plug a USB drive into the computer, perhaps a hard disk's or CD drive's firmware was infected.
Exedore: A thoroughly Mac-native Python IDE
As a Mac developer learning Python, Exedore is the single-window, graphical Python debugger with Mac-native text editing, auto-completion and tab triggers that I've always wished I had. Exedore is heavily inspired by Xcode.
Everytime I read BTSync mentioned... i hope it's been open sourced.. then get disappointed, and move on.
What Google knew when, and how Google co operated with the NSA and other agencies is something we will probably never know. Or at least not for a long time.

The first files that came out seemed to speak of direct access for the NSA into the datacenters done with the support of Google.

These speak of even more intrusive surveillance.

Personally I dont believe for a second that Google has not been fully cooperative with the needs of the American Intelligence community all the time. However Google needs a bit of good PR to ensure that they are not hit too hard with a backlash. As long as Google can maintain plausible deniability they are fine.

I dont see anything criminal that the NSA does as far as US law goes, unless they are spying on American citizens (which they are doing).

Spying in any way possible on other countries is not only legal but a bit reason for the existence of NSA, CIA etc.
There is an understanding in the international community that
spying may occur.

However there is also a long tradition that if someone is caught with their hand in the cookie jar, a harsh response is expected. The expulsion of diplomats, dropping trade deals, dropping mutual agreements (think US/USSR) and so on.
Also the criminal persecution and interrogation of enemy agents discovered.

A couple of points to make

1) Europe has so far not really reacted much to the news.
Some blabbing in the press, a bit of travel, but aside from
that little has changed.

2) the biggest threat over this for Europe is not so much the disposition of troops, where and how bombs are kept etc, its industrial espionage and leverage for getting EU countries to sign deals to buy American. A good recent example is the sale of JSF. The embassies were very heavily involved in ensuring that nations in Europe bought JSF. I find it impossible to think that intelligence gathering was not offered to ensure that this took place.
You are defintely missing out. Food and it's preparation is without a doubt one of the things that lead us humans to develop the tool making abilities that make us what wwe are today. Food has always been the most primal and important cultural aspect of any epoch in our history. It can be hard to get into when you have not been properly introduced to food culture (e.g. your mother fed you a TV dinner and a passive cigarette every evening), but it is one of THE aspects of being human.
Don't speakers/mics tend to have a built-in cutoff? I've played with generating higher and higher frequencies before, and I was able to hear it up to 18kHz. That's probably hitting the high range of my own hearing, but there was an audible pop when the speakers started playing that frequency. The sound card seemed to simply refuse to play that high.

I suppose the malware could be working at a low enough level to override a cutoff in the sound card's firmware. But then wouldn't it have to implement drivers for almost every kind of sound card in existence?
I don't think I am.

Technology is a tricky word (is twitter a new technology?) to define clearly, even for a limited context. We got used to lumping together companies creating technologies with those building on big new technologies like the internet. So, an online store could still be called a tech startup (or dotcom or web startup)

But, imagine this exact same product coming from a company similar to one of the existing nutritional supplement companies. Would you call it a tech startup?

We're dealing with subjective definitions obviously, but I think this is substantially different. One thing that stands out is that there is no good answer to the question "why now?"
Interesting story. The use of audio is fascinating, even with 20khz carriers, using FSK[1] you're looking at maybe a 6666 baud which is 666 bytes per second. That is about 2 seconds per 1500 byte packet. So not exactly a "fast" way to communicate.

You might use QPSK (basically two FSK ranges using phase to indicate 00/01/10/11 states but that would still make for a pretty small pipe. Perhaps enough for a C&C channel be not really enough to exfiltrate data.

[1] Frequency Shift Keying - generally takes three complete cycles to of a 'tone' to reliably recognize the frequency. So 20,000 / 3 = 6666.666 bauds per second.
You misunderstand my point. I'm saying that the actual specific divergencies and problems with the film that fans of the book can easily spot - the music, the small plot changes, and the acting - those aren't big problems. They're small problems that are easy to get past.

But as a whole, the movie is a mess even though there's nothing you can put your finger on as "see here? this is where they ruined Moore's vision!".

That's what I mean. The movie is a great and faithful attempt, but it still had a weak outcome. The book is unfilmable.