skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bunch of my Friends Made a Video on NSA for a Class
In the world outside of stack ranking, you aren't winning/losing against your peers, you are being paid what you are worth. Backstabbing somebody else does not change your worth, it just makes them less valuable than you. So your salary does not change, theirs just goes down.

Far more importantly, I have spent my 25 year career in non-stack ranked companies, and I have never seen the behavior you describe. Yet just about everyone at stack ranked companies report back stabbing behavior. I think empiricism wins over speculation.
There are apps that use Canvas to such extent that it's kind of like a distinct UI layer.
plug the security plug and make a call to someone and see if they can hear you?
That vid @ 0:25 - 0:39 ...it grew three thousand percent from last year to now? O_o;
I know people like to keep things positive, but this is completely useless. Apart from a few cherry picked examples, subtracting words makes no sense most of the time, and there is no clear advantage for their method when it comes to adding words.
A shame they don't say what the app is anywhere in the article. Sounds like snap chat?
They don't need a way into the government's supply chain if the keyboards and mice have processors whose firmware is updatable over USB. Which is not exactly rare. PoC: http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/1658258/apple-keyboard...
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I was in enlisted Air Force and the term is annoyingly over utilized there as well.
In the hypothetical in which the phone has been created to act as a bug, surely it would be easy to detect the security plug and disable the microphone for normal uses while leaving it enabled for hidden use. The security plug is only secure if the wiring means that when plugged in, software cannot access the normal mic - if software can access it, it can trick the user into thinking anything.
It's not the point who the fault is, it's that if MacRumors/VBulletin grows the amount of users, they (jointly, the former, the latter) need to take into account security.
Since there seem to be backblaze staff posting in the thread, is there anyway as a 'personal' (non-business) user to have multiple PCs configured with one account? Think of something like a family plan.

Can't seem to find relevant information on the website anywhere for this.
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What is DX work?
Buy the "Ziotek ZT1212590 Flat 18-Inch Power Strip Liberator, 5-Pack" on Amazon.com. They are awesome for solving this problem. I'd post a link, but I know commercial links are frowned upon.

I'm still blown away that no one out there sells solid like 3 inch extension cords. I'd buy them in a second. It would also be awesome if they came in a 3-1 variety like in this image:

http://www.ac-powercord.com/products_img/UL_3_Conductor_with...
Similar thread from two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6709601
Smart TVs not so smart when it comes to security, privacy
Depends on your definition of "Sherpa".

I am pretty sure a very VERY large percentage of people[1] consider the "Sherpas" to be "The badass people who guide tourists up everest" with little consideration (or knowledge) of the group as a distinct ethnicity.

Personally that is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word "Sherpa"

[1] yea yea, citation needed, I have none, anecdotal evidence..
Have you ever had an ambulance ride and 6 hours in the ER cost you ~$15K USD? This is normal in the US.
Mouahaha you killed your argument with this example. Matz is not really a typical Japanese. He is a mormont, he's fluent in English, and lived extensively overseas. There's almost no Japanese like him. So let's forget about this case.
I really, really, really wish that GoPHP5 Round Two [1] takes off and all the popular blog & forum programs get on board.

PHP 5.3.7 is the first version of PHP that is guaranteed to come with a proper implementation of bcrypt. All versions before 5.3.7 either don't support it at all, depend on the OS to support it, or have the wrong implementation. phpass won't help you; it just produces a weaker, "portable", md5-based hash, as it does in WordPress by default.

As a result, no open-source blog or forum program that needs to support PHP versions lower than 5.3.7 can use bcrypt by default. Since the world isn't going to abandon PHP any time soon, the only option is to force every web hosting company to upgrade PHP to 5.3.7 or higher.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/php-fig/ogp03OHbVJ0
You forgot silent data loss.
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[Slides+Video] Botnets of the Web - How to Hijack One
> They require programmers to think and program solely within Haskell's lambda calculus and lazy evaluation framework, which is neither the way people think nor the way computers do (the latter is important when doing performance analysis on your code). This constrained framework also takes its toll on software engineering, then.

I disagree. People don't automatically think in certain terms unless they're taught to.

I personally never took CS in University, and I'm completely self taught as far as programming goes. Haskell feels quite natural, so does Lisp. Java and C feel foreign.

Maybe if someone's had imperative languages drilled into their head for 4+ years Haskell will feel foreign, and maybe that's why mathematicians, financial people and others who don't quite fit the typical programmer paradigm are into Haskell (or so I hear - I always hear about Haskell and OCaml being for 'academic' types).

To me, Haskell has nice syntax, makes sense, is fast, and feels like a dynamic language for the most part with its type inference and great interpreter...
Meet India’s New Billion Dollar Club
Wait, are you saying it is possible to force feed a phone in theory, or in practice right now?
Wal-Mart has 8-inch ones in 3-packs (in store for like $6), which are actually just long enough since 1.5" on each end is the plug itself.

http://i.imgur.com/B4Tg2rP.jpg
https://wikileaks.org/freesnowden
"That other information not subject to the warrant was encrypted using the same set of keys is irrelevant"

Oh, that makes sense...said no one ever.

Let's trust our involuntarily-transparent government not to go on a fishing expedition through troves of data that users intentionally chose to encrypt, and then not find justification to get warrants against them for other reasons that can bring the investigation full circle. /s
I don't work for ninja blocks, but I'm familiar with this exact problem. It's not trivial to get the licensing right so that you maximize your economic potential, but still leave the option open for people to host their own setup.

They want to get rich and give the world maximal freedom. That's a hard problem.
Funniest thing ever
These already exist, for example it is very difficult to build biomedical software that gets hooked up into a living thing - even if you use it only for research. In practice such a hard realtime guarantee can only be met by a devices like an FPGA. All of this is in a code.

Real issue here is why such codes don't exist for for this particular problem.
Why Comcast's Price Discrimination Strategy Makes Me Hate Them (2012)
I'm partial to a form of syndicalism where ACME is owned by everyone who has an interest in it, and the syndicate is simply a consensing subset of those people. Other syndicates may form and will have equal "ownership" of the ACME "assets". Usage rights are negotiated then through social norms around divisibility (we cut the cake until it'd be pointless to cut it further). Essentially, there is no property.

I'm not sure if there is a term for this. I always thought that was what anarcho-syndicalism was, but reading on Wikipedia says that term indicates this "worker-owned" setup that you're describing.
How to find and work with your technical co-founder
I don't believe the form factor makes much sense because it appears to take up more space then required and doesn't look like it has room for any indicator panels. Can we have a box?
He may have to, but it will be a desperate move. Think about the risks involved.

The US government:

- spends billions on illicit surveillance tech

- officially sanctions kidnapping ("extraordinary rendition") as a tool of security policy

- brought down an Ecuadorian diplomatic flight over European airspace, on the mere possibility that he might be on it

- fully intends to lock him up in a cage forever and ever and ever
What would happen if he ran out of money? Wouldn't Russia just... give him some? I can hardly think it would be in the diplomatic interest of Russia for Snowden to become unable to pay his lawyer.
Yeah, that'd be awesome. He could PGP sign it so we know it's him.
Debt collection agencies hounding you for years. Re-possessing assets if possible, garnishing wages, placing levy's on your property ETC.

Of course if you file bankruptcy, this all changes.

IMO people should have to pay back money they have borrowed no matter how long it takes. I have known too many people who rack up a bunch of debt with the "I want it now and I will pay for it later" attitude. It is easy to have this attitude when these people can just declare bankruptcy if they get in too deep (as many people I have known have done). With no strong deterrent, of course people are going to be lackadaisical about this.
I'm digging all the new home automation stuff that's been coming out the past few years. I've slowly been starting my own collection of networked sensors and controls, reverse engineering the various protocols, and adding them to a custom dashboard. It's voice controlled (Chrome has a speech input JS API built-in now that makes building that easy), and responds to voice commands with dialogue from Star Trek LCARS responses (sound clips taken from the show and cleaned up). Lots of fun.

http://i.imgur.com/G4SYEiJ.jpg
Apple hit with U.S. injunction in e-books antitrust case
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/06/us-apple-ebooks-id...
I'd be interested to know where the demographic center of the world is, presumably somewhere around the middle of this circle.
I don't like the "right tool for the job" analogy. When you use a hammer to put in a nail, the hammer isn't a part of the building when you're done with it. But when you choose a DBMS, you're stuck with it in your architecture for a long time and it's a huge cost to migrate.

(I'm a postgres community member, so of course I'm glad it's working out for them, but I just don't like the analogy.)
Thanks for pointing that out but, to be clear, this fund is to feed the lawyers, not Mr Snowden.
Baseband Hacking: A New Frontier for Smartphone Break-ins
You pretty much just described Batman.
The SIM card, however, is indeed running it's own little OS.
He probably did; but at this point you have to assume that any media you receive on the topic of Edward Snowden is a calculated ploy for someone's agenda. Whether it's Wikileaks trying to embarrass the US .gov or the Intelligence Community trying to discredit Snowden and by extension all whistleblowers. Anything you read about Snowden has been pushed or spun by by someone. The man himself may be miserable, or comfortable; we have no idea and I'd guess he likes his privacy. But the persona of Edward Snowden that is reenacted on blogs, television, etc.; that is a complete fabrication that is always already a lie in some direction or another.
Ansa is a secure messaging app that lets you communicate without leaving a record behind. We let you decide how long your conversations exist by giving you options to chat off the record, send self-destructing media, and take back the messages you change your mind about.
Police deactivating controversial WiFi network in Seattle
First of all, all that code must be open-sourced. It's so obvious that it really hurts. Next, hardware needs to become "open-source", too.
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Ah... best comment all year!
That's legal defense, and I'm sure that's expensive. But what if we just want to send him some some money to reward him for making the sacrifice for all of us?
> Roland Tscheinig gave $4,000

> Thanks so much, Mr. Snowden,

> Your sense of initiative is commendable and should serve as a guiding light for all of us.

> Your contribution to our common future has been absolutely invaluable!

Holy crap, this guy puts his money where his mouth is.
Rails makes me think of the unix way, one task, one tool, and do it well.

The key with rails is not to modularize the site, but modularization at a service level. Give your rails app a REST API and use it from the other apps.

eg. Instead of shared authentication classes between sites, setup an auth app that supports oauth, and use an oauth module for devise.
Just me or frequency of hacks going up?
Can anybody share data on the frequency of cyber attacks? Wonder if it's just getting more press these days or if we're significantly more at risk.
Does Google use this internally? For example are they using it as an optional faster frontend to their apps?
Benchmarking NodeJS vs. Async PHP properly
Interesting point. Which side do you think the Caped Crusader would take?
It makes perfect sense if you trust the government...which unfortunately the law (as in the written stuff) tends to do.
I am not sure how easy it is to get money in/out to/of bitcoin from within Russia, at least in New Zealand it is generally a PITA and involves many hoops.
Google Updates Its Octane JavaScript Benchmark
He's run a shop selling similar kits for years, I think he's got this covered pretty well already.
HW Raid is a PITA for the following reasons:

1. you have to muck around with more firmware and sometimes reboot in order for changes to take effect

2. if a controller dies, you have to replace it with (almost) the exact same controller in order to read the data

3. Datacenters rarely lose power, take the HW raid money and instead put servers on true A+B power feeds.

CPUs are so fast these days that they can easily handle in software all the "stuff" that HW raid used to do.
Exactly.

If you want a mobile phone that you control, you need to buy something like a samsung galaxy player (contains no baseband processor, contains no mobile phone infrastructure) and then attach a USB modem to it (or carry a MIFI or whatever).

There's one problem, however, and that is all of the fancy noise cancellation and voice smoothing are actually done on the baseband proc, and userland implementations of this for VOIP apps are typically pretty crummy.

Me, I am sticking with my MOTO FONE / F3 for now.
Who makes the baseband software? Those who make it I guess are more inclined to fix the bugs (because there are paying customers), at least in areas that they can fix...
Indeed. And any statistician worth their salt doesn't reject chance, they fail to reject the null hypothesis.
Logan River Academy targeted By Anonymous Hacker Group
TL;DR

> A U.S. email provider can promise its users all the security and privacy it wants; it still has to do whatever it takes to give the government access.
By correctness you mean consistency? You don't have to be consistent all the time, i.e. you can trade consistency, but never correctness.

If we could have traded correctness, we could have optimized everything and gone home by now :)
Why not just register it then? (Also, he mentions on his website that he's shipped this set to all 50 states in the past)
It is the hipster world, where an application created to show documents has been subverted into a virtual machine.
I was wondering about this the other day. I'm sure someone will help him out.
His parents could set up a kickstarter/indiegogo/paypal. They wouldn't have to name Snowden in the plea for funds, could be named the "Freedom Fund". So, donators wouldn't be charged with aiding a felon.
This is a one-month old reddit discussion and article, about something that's no longer true (Groovy's now at number 32, see http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... ).

Also, the primary source of the information in the headline is two links away, pointing to a reddit discussion about a jaxenter.com article, that then points to the Tiobe index. The Tiobe index page for the relevant month isn't even archived so that info's no longer reachable.
I've seen this a few times at MSFT. Except that the product didn't really die because nobody wanted to take responsibility for the actual killing. And every now and then there would be a re-org, the former exec would "move on" to his next atrocity and a "recycled" exec would go in front of the team and declare his passion for the product and that this time it will be different.
Why Google Drive Has Become Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare
He sells mercury on his site.
Don't see why not...
So what? It needs to be adopted by other vendors, otherwise it is just literature for sleepless nights.
You're allowed to leave your apartment if people come to your door. Since the officers did not touch him there's no possible way he could be under arrest.

It's a free country you can leave and enter your premises as you see fit.
> One day, I will be able to compile my golang apps to work on browsers without losing considerable performance, multiple threads and concurrency. That day, I'll be very happy.

One day, the browser will be used again just for documents. That day, I'll be very happy.
Let this be a warning to all you crazy kids out there thinking you can take on the man and not get busted.
.. and by unfettered, we mean it has DMA access to the application processor. It's not a hook or an API call or some functions it can call - it has low level bit for bit access to manipulate the CPU that your OS (like android) runs on.

Further, your carrier (verizon, att, whatever) can push OTA updates and commands straight to baseband via the radio, bypassing the CPU and OS (like android) and manipulating the phone on a low level bit by bit basis.

Even the most well secured, rooted, reloaded phone has every piece of it totally owned by the carrier, via the baseband processor.

Yes, that includes your photos.
marcopolo: Wondering if you have similar data security concerns regarding SMS, especially those received via an SMS gateway?
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Having the government pay for your lawyer and being broke are not mutually exclusive (and that's assuming Russia sees some benefit to providing him counsel). Not sure why Russia would give him any money, what does the money buy them? They could probably put a roof over his head if they really wanted but that's still a far cry from not being broke.
Wow! Great info in here!
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But isn't it cheaper on the long run if your drives fail less often?
I don't know the answer in this case, but a few thoughts:

* Why don't you think the optimizer is a consideration? That's a big deal, because it helps the database choose the right algorithms as your data changes. Continuing gracefully while the input data is changing sounds like scalability to me.

* Postgres is generally considered to scale to many concurrent connections and many cores. Useful for OLTP.

* Sometimes the right feature or extensibility hook can make a huge difference allowing you to do the work in the right place at the right time. For instance, LISTEN/NOTIFY makes it easier to build a caching layer that's properly invalidated -- not trivial to get right if the feature is missing, which might mean that you're not getting as much out of caching as you could be.

Tuning for SSDs, compression, buffer caching, etc., are the antithesis of scalability. Those things are pure performance issues. Scalability is about a system that adapts as input data and processing resources change. (Your point about replication does concern scalability, of course.)
All this amounts to: society is better when we're motivated for things other than money. The best development is done for other reasons. Capitalist claim that profit is the main motivator is nonsense, and FLOSS developers know that.

So: the answer is to keep FLOSS development from getting funded????

The real answer is for everyone to have a Basic Income so that we can all eat and have a roof and healthcare at a minimal level. Then people can make all this great FLOSS and do it even better and it will pay off for the world FAR more than if we tried to pay directly for the development work in a type of market exchange system.

But given the actual state of the world, giving a FLOSS developer some money to pay his rent while he focuses on FLOSS is NOT a bad thing.
I can't really comment on other countries, but at least in Germany you have a (pretty) difficult time trying to fire somebody for 'under-performing' as long as the person doesn't mess up unrelated things (like repeated misbehavior, e.g. feigning illness, theft, sexual harassment, ..) or your company isn't doing all that well from an economic point of view.
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What would be the legality of sending Snowden money? He's been charged with a crime and donations would enable him to live outside the country. Isn't that aiding and abetting a fugitive?
Netflix ditches Webkit to roll out new UI for smart TVs, Roku boxes, consoles
Please do not joke about rounding errors. It is offensive:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-pinochet-affair-i-saw-...

It was during the first three days they were held captive that Mr Schesch and his wife became aware of the lines of people being formed up and then led out of the stadium - almost certainly to concentration camps - or else inside, to face the firing squad.
Often the RTOS is not exactly free, but not entirely closed either. A while back, i used to work on Nucleus RTOS by Mentor Graphics with a pretty impressive global foot print http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleus_RTOS. It used to be sold as an api (with source code given to customers) who developed applications based upon it. I have written portions (IPsec/IKE, SNMP, Ipv6) of its networking stack and at least all of its customers have access to source code. It is pretty well written with very decent coding conventions and can be compared to any good well known open source project (VLC, even Linux kernel). Then there are others such as Wind River's VxWorks among the more popular ones. Though i am not very sure of its licensing model, but it is pretty well recognized and established in the embedded world. Just that these are not as well known in the over all software community but rather more restricted towards those in the embedded industry.
It's vbulletin default, which is md5(md5(passwd)+salt)
What? Treason doesn't pay?
He was given asylum by the Russian government, snatching him from Russian soil would be a major thing that could possibly start a war.
The CSS transition that crashes Safari
I use wildcard email for my domain, and can easily take this a step further. I don't even use the same email for any two sites.
Agreed. I was, for instance, very excited about the new nest smart-smoke-alarms and just stopped reading and went away when I saw the first mention of my "nest cloud account" or "nest login" or whatever it was...

Thank god Sonos came out back in 2005 (or so) and was built without all of this nonsense - no doubt if it was released today there would be a mySonos web login account cloud identity blah blah blah...
Many of us here can afford to do the same. A very close friend and business partner gave a similar amount to help Star Simpson with her situation because he believed very strongly that she was a victim of the War on Dignity.

Star Simpson: http://boingboing.net/2008/09/22/star-simpson-one-yea.html
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are these services safe?
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Couldnt have come at a better time for me. I am Java dev and started on Opengl Mobile Development. I have been scratching my head on the GLSL. But this i feel like i can actually learn GLSL and build something useful
no story yet where you can print metal's gun?
Ohh every phone of mine crashes in a 20 min subway travel since 10 years no matter Android, Symbian.. It must be this RTOS.
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