skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Second, if the LED fails to a short your camera won't get any power.

One never puts an LED on the power line directly. That will certainly blow up most LEDs. Power rails are typically 5V or 3.3V. LED drop is about 1V (+/- 0.3, varies between part numbers). There is always a resistor in series with the LED, to drop the rest of the voltage, and limit the current. So, LED getting shorted is not a problem. This is the case even when we're driving LEDs from an o/p pin. Besides, Hobbyists often blow up LEDs because they're still learning. But how often have you seen these tiny LEDs fail in professionally designed products? I have never ever seen it happen. Degrade and lose brightness over the years? Sure. Fail? Never.

> LEDs have a very small leakage current even in their off state.

Are you talking about reverse bias? That makes no sense in this context. When you don't supply any power to it, there is nothing to leak.

> the desired led might work off a configurable controller output

That is what has led to this mess of surreptitious filming, in the first place. It's time they went back to the old ways.
This has NSA in the title, how could it possibly not be on the front page?

Edit: Anyways, I'm on to page 154 by now. Seems well-thought out to me about the need to respect civil liberties, utilizing surveillance only when actually beneficial and not just 'nice to have'.
agreed!

I'm a bit confused about the "need to work in a university provisioned space". Theres so many ways i'd rather interact with / collaborate with folks at universities than use their office space. Though If that meant I could have zero pay wells for papers I need to look up occasionally, that could be tempting!
Yeah I think so, seen that mentioned somewhere.
Nonsense. New York is not nearly as bad as SF for rent. I know someone who just rented a studio in the heart of lower Manhattan for $1500 and that includes heat and water. On top of that you don't need a car or Uber or any of that. Unlimited subway pass and/or a bike or CitiBike membership and you're set. That is absolutely manageable for a tech professional and well worth it for all the benefits of living here and access to opportunities. If you're doing a startup you're probably not that concerned with income taxes in the first few years. The one real downside is that office space is pretty expensive.

And I've lived here almost a year now and have never had a cockroach in my apartment, or even so much as a silverfish in the bath tub.
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unauthenticated Diffie-Hellman key agreement is known for MITM attack.
$1500, does that include the cockroaches and bed bugs? Because you better believe it.
If there's anything that's certain, it's the progress of compute power. The fact that his statement lasted 14 years is impressive. I mean, 640K ought to be enough for anyone.
http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/videos/Robinson-PS4Toolchain-...
Glassdoor has a lot of issues, but it looks like most salaries listed range between $100-250k. It looks like Directors and above make above 300k, but they'd typically only be 4-8% of total employees ... or 2-4k people at Google.

Maybe all the salaries on Glassdoor skew low, but even doubling that still means 85% of Google employees make under 300k.
Anyone here surprised? No? I didn't think so.
Reposting because I know someone else is about to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
DOD official: Snowden ‘stole literally everything’ | The Daily Caller
>You want me to find citations for other peoples claims about hard work as a reason why some people make it and other don't?

I want you to find someone who's claimed hard work was the reason for their success.
You're changing the subject to something which is not in dispute.

You said that the standard approach on HN is to silence criticism -- a stupefying statement, given that at the time you posted it, this conversation had maybe 100+ comments and had been on the front page for a while. Also, in that same comment, you linked to another voluminous thread criticizing Coinbase. Amazingly, the existence of your comment strongly mitigates against your thesis being true.

I think you must realize this at some level, as you have chosen to employ the age-old tactic of the inescapably wrong: quietly change subjects and hope nobody notices.
Marketing Strategy #724: Create Controversy

(regardless of the product, they succeeded in a cheap way to get launched, very likely at a cost of $0)
There needs to be a LittleSnitch for I/O (camera, mic, USB, Thunderbolt, FireWire and Bluetooth)
> ~sigh~ Enough. Save your unsupported observations and your fucking breath.

I think this kind of statement speaks for itself.

> other libertarians

I'm not a libertarian. I think libertarians are terribly mistaken.

> the disasters that history has shown repeatedly arise only when those same laws are weakened

That's right. When "deregulation" actually means something like "let's allow private ownership and operation of a coropration that has a government-granted regulatory monopoly," it is a total disaster. You have to get rid of coersion from the market completely for it to function as a market. So I agree with you---a mixed economy is complete and utter crap.
Property owners in general should not suffer from deflation more than anyone else who has purchased any asset.

People who have gone into debt in order to purchase an asset during deflation, however, will face problems: http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/meltzer/fisdeb33.pdf
What is a reverse shell?
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Those 3 locations (all at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn) are "representative of the types of properties that may be available following submission of an application by the relevant university/college and approval by ESD and/or the Start-Up Approval Board". So, you could work with any university in NYC, not just SUNY Downstate (although the campus is a really nice spot for startups as well!)

NYU Poly operates incubators at Jay St/MetroTech in Brooklyn and Varick St in Manhattan. Columbia has a biotech incubator (AUDOBON) in Washington Heights. Cornell has 22k ft^2 in Google's building in Chelsea. All of those sounds like they would qualify (if you could get the right people on board)
Another option is to monitor your accounts yourself. Most credit card companies allow you to setup email/sms alerts for charges (or charge attempts). This gives you an immediate notification if unauthorized charges appear rather then logging in and checking it every so often.

Another advantage of this approach is that for most legitimate charges the email comes right after you used the card when you'll remember the specific details(ie no trouble remembering lots of small purchases at the end of the month).
I was so goddamn pissed off that the phone rep, who could barely speak English, had typo'd my number, which I had been very, very careful to say slowly, and to repeat back to him twice, and then be asked to prove myself by faxing a physical piece of paper in order to get my money back, after a total time investment of > 3 hours, after taking into account driving to the store, waiting on hold, etc, that my mindset was very much "fuck this shit." So whatever you say, man. I didn't accuse them of theft. I accused them of being so excruciatingly awful that recovering the $50 was not worth spending more hours of my life dealing with phone reps who could not understand what I was saying.
it is just as simple as put the LED in parallel, if you want it to stay on for a "little while" put a capacitor in circuit too. Extremely basic EE.
ok - so this is just for the corporate environment that there would be these issues? But couldn't they just have a similar getup sending all their processing to their own data center in the background?

My intuition has us going back to the dumb terminal mode, albeit with a very fancy screen.
You are lucky that someone actually responded to your support ticket/email. Most of us never heard a thing from them.
> Deflation, by providing a risk free return for sitting on currency, leads to a slowdown in the real economy by reducing both output (reduced consumption) and productivity (reduced investment).

1. Money does not have to be fiat money to be inflationary. The government could achieve the same end in a fairer, more controlled manner without deceit simply by issuing a wealth tax, or a currency tax. However this would reveal the robbery too plainly and thus be unpopular. Inflation is an easier way that relies on deceit, sophistry, and obfuscation.

2. The people who benefit the most from inflation are people in government (who can fund themselves without taxing the populace) and banks/borrowers (who can create money to lend without the explicit cooperation of savers.) Neither group engenders sympathy.

3. Saving is a good thing and we need more of it. Many of society's problems can be directly traced to a lack of savings: pensions for the aged need to be provided because people do not save enough during their working years; health care must be provided because people do not save enough to be able to pay for it themselves; and investments must be funded by government because the savings are not available privately. Inflation discourages savings.

4. The wording "risk-free return for sitting on currency" is deceptive, implying that people who can have a risk free return won't work. This is not true and is best illustrated by computer technology which has been undergoing deflation since its inception decades ago. One can simply wait five years and likely be able to obtain today's hot, expensive technology for very little, likely for free. Yet despite this risk-free return for sitting on currency, people still choose to spend on technology they know is depreciating.

5. Contrary to the deception promulgated by those who profit from inflation and by the people who are deceived by them, a deflationary currency would encourage saving and sound investment while discouraging speculation and irresponsibility. For example, rather than allowing venture capitalists to fund risky new ventures with their own money, our inflation-funded government officials use public money to fund politically-connected companies like Solyndra. In a hard-money world, government would be a lot smaller, more focused on providing the services the public actually agrees to pay for, while the general populace would be more responsible and future-oriented, knowing that their savings now will determine their retirement.

For more on this, see the writings of Murry Rothbard, e.g. http://mises.org/daily/1829.
A hammer used to smash the camera component has been effective with this issue.
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I was thinking that 12 cores would be to cut a compile time from hours to minutes, or shorten a scientific calculation, no? Or pricing a complicated bond.
Yeah, they did for mine and tried to charge me for it. The invoice for the charges was a "misprint" was was hastily taken out of my hands and replaced with a blank one when I mentioned that the warranty period was two years.
It's simple unauthenticated Diffie-Hellman key agreement, which is known for MITM attack. Yes, you ask A to accept B's identity upon key exchange, but to what extend A would know B is really B not the server playing along? A plausible method would have A and B exchange certificates separate from the Diffie-Hellman key exchange process, and use those as the identity verification mechanism.
... Where each one of us has to memorise a web page in html format.
I run a curated freelancing platform for creatives called Coworks. Being part of the industry it's really interesting to read your thoughts on the merger. Even though I've followed them very closed for two years as a competitor I was really surprised by the move. My take on it is: 1. They can lower their acquisition costs by not competing with PPC and in their content marketing. 2. Their real competitors, who are still sleeping behind the wheel, are Manpower, Randstad etc. With the merger they get the muscles to battle them for the online staffing market. 3. Last but not least- they'll ditch one of the platforms (elance?) and save half the money on Tech.
There is zero ambiguity in the PG quote

> Strictly speaking I should have killed the post entirely

And this was 9 months ago. We are left to assume that the policy was enforced (after all, if the post were killed, it wouldn't show up in a search).

And even in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931168

> I've been keeping my mouth shut here about Coinbase after starting that thread 9 months ago.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear others echo the same sentiment (concern about expressing grievances about Coinbase) especially after PG's responses in the original conversation.

Others in the original thread refuted the argument you are presenting, so I recommend you start https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428757 before rehashing arguments that have already been addressed
Also, I don´t think they will jack up the prices. Everything is moving towards 0% on all global transactions. Rather the opposite: They will offer enterprise solution with 0% commission pretty soon.
No need for a hammer, I use tape.
No, not necessarily. What's true in physics is not necessarily true in economics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
Secret Service is now investigating: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/secret-service-inves...

This could turn out to be a big deal, especially if debit cards and PINs were compromised.
The C-to-Go transmogrifier (my phone's autocorrection of "translator" :) well be an interesting artifact, but what other C programs are good candidates for Go? Does a Python-to-Go translator exist? Now that could be a very interesting tipping point for Go.
One Time A Guy Gave A Homeless Man A Computer...
The end of US tech dominance is at hand.
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Two words: Masking tape.
You think that Goldman Sachs, for example, had exactly 263,674,000,000.00 of cash and cash equivalents at the end of 2012? You don't think that's likely rounded to at least the million?

In fact it seems that most Fortune 500 companies, regardless of industry round things to the million. It's pretty easy to lose a few hundred thousand if you are doing that.
Couldn't you put sales in NYC, but everything else in NJ/CT? Lots of banks have finally wised up to that.
> Networking is for people who don't know what they are doing...

"Networking" is simply the process of meeting other people with whom you might one day establish a (professional) relationship with. It takes place everywhere people meet. That includes university classrooms and the offices of employers.

> So if you go to a networking event, understand that you are automatically putting yourself into this class of person.

You must have a very narrow view of what constitutes a "networking event." A lecture with a reception is potentially a "networking event." An conference is an opportunity to network. Are you seriously going to suggest that folks who attend lectures and conferences are all hapless fools? If so, I take it you rejected your invite to the Allen & Company conference in Sun Valley?

> If you are someone who provides a lot of value, other people will go out of their way to meet you...

This akin to the mistaken belief that if you build it, they will come. If nobody knows who you are and what you do because you've "cloistered" yourself for half a decade, nobody is going to seek you out because they don't know you even exist.

> Do you think Elon Musk goes to a lot of networking events? Do you think Steve Jobs went to a lot of networking events?

Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak through a high school friend. Elon Musk is a member of the "PayPal Mafia." If you believe that Steve Jobs and Elon Musk built billion dollar businesses on their own while holed up in a bedrooms in a house on a quiet street in Silicon Valley, you might want to read up on their stories before trotting them out as examples of business titans who never networked.

> If you are early in your career and legitimately aren't providing a lot of value yet, because it's early, then I would offer that your time is much better spent cloistered away becoming excellent at what you do...

Excellence often does require focused, individual effort, but it's a lot harder to achieve if you refuse exposure to folks who have more knowledge and experience than you.
Yes, I've been thinking about Kickstarter a lot lately. I am mildly convinced this might be a the best approach.

I am not concerned about you being 20-something. I am looking for perspective I might not be generating on my own. All input is valuable.

My own advise to you and others around you age is simple: Finish school. If you don't, you might just live to regret or question your decision not to.
That's a claim that the authors aren't making. As has been repeatedly pointed out, the attack depends on timing the execution of blocks of code which take much longer than a single instruction, so the 44.1kHz sampling rate described in the paper is sufficient.
The fact that Python is dynamically typed would hurt. I suspect you'd end up with a lot of `interface{}` everywhere.
Yes. Nancy was inspired by Sinatra :) and named after Nancy Sinatra :)
They don't seem to get much love, but I really enjoyed his later novels Extro, also published under the name The Computer Connection, and The Deceivers.

I've always thought that The Stars My Destination would make an awesome movie but it has never been made for some reason.
What financial companies are adopting Mongo for accounting/customer transaction storage?

I've heard of somewhere like ADP using it but they are using it as an analytics database, not for actual payroll processing.
Didn't Saab go under? Or was that just their automotive division?
stderr is what I expected, and what I've found.
>> Instead of networking for networking’s sake, focus your efforts on activities that will bring you revenue. If networking can drive a sale, great. Otherwise, you might be better off going heads down and executing internally.

The thing is that if you only focus on executing internally you might work VERY HARD on a not-so-good opportunity. Networking is not just about "meeting important people" but also being on the lookout for new opportunities that may arise.
In anycase, if I wanted to know if my drive was being trashed, I'd look at command like 'top'.

If people can perform remote admin on machines 1000s of miles away without the need of green LEDs, I'm sure consumer tech will do just fine.
How did you conclude the actual loss was > $12K? He got the bitcoins at today's price + $50. That seems like there was no loss?
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I actually agree with the motivation behind your argument -- it's ridiculous to pull out unknown NSA capabilities as a foil to every crypto argument.

I just wanted to point out that there were times when money was not a very good motivator for someone who could break a given encryption system.
Hear, hear.

Also applies to crypto-accelerated CPU instructions.

With OSS and OSH, at least there's a chance of auditing what one has is what was released, and a chance to audit that there's no funny business going on.
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1. register numbers close to the target.

2. wait until sender mistypes destination on one message.

3. claim prize.
> It's a far easier problem economically to focus on those who can't afford a car than to build out public transportation networks.

That's a very shortsighted statement. The costs of universal driving in terms of property damage, human injury and death, unproductive time spent commuting, traffic, inefficient urban design, resource expenditure, road maintenance, etc. are significantly higher than those of public transit.

And if you don't believe me about people who simply can't afford to drive, what about people who physically can't drive, like the blind? Or people who physically shouldn't drive, but are sometimes forced to do so, like people who suffer from narcolepsy or get intermittent seizures?

The only reason people don't have the option of avoiding driving is because of poor public infrastructure decisions and in some cases poor personal decisions when we can easily afford to do otherwise. Why do we make these poor decisions? Because we think driving our fat asses around in 5000-pound behemoths is a "right" that needs to be accomodated everywhere, but walking and cycling aren't. It's not science fiction--people managed to do without cars for thousands of years.

Setting all of that aside, if you're operating a motor vehicle that could easily kill people out of inattention, you're putting the public at risk and you have a responsibility to demonstrate you can do so competently and responsibly. Not being killed by cars is a more important right.
In light of http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/report-snow... - I'd say it was pretty tough to make any credible case that NSA wasn't at the crux of the matter. Frankly to suggest otherwise just sounds like so much spin.
It would be insane for employees to accept payment in scrip without a promise of a fixed exchange rate. Even with such a promise it would not be especially sensible (because if the company implodes you lose your job and some of your savings...).

(I mean sure, you could trust that management with their total control of the scrip would not manipulate it to the advantage of management, but good luck with that)
In the video for Walker and Company (owner of Bevel), it says that the company's mission is to make health and beauty simple for people of color.

http://walkerandcompany.com/
Yeah, this is a bit disappointing.
> It is pretty well established though that if you live in a

> poor black community your chances of making it to middle

> class are many times lower than making it to jail.

To what cause or causes do you attribute that?

> Make of that what you want.

I'd rather not make of that what I want; I'd rather try to determine the cause(s).
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Why can't you file a small claims lawsuit? It should cost you about $50 and a few hours of your time.
Without taking party, I am deeply impressed at an increasing rate and with honest respect to the ingenuity of the research that's coming from Tel Aviv, Israel and from Switzerland. There is no other country except the USA which makes such leaps in technological progress. That's my honest image of the research. I'm personally reading many of their publications and from various other journals too.
If you use Array.map (or underscore's map, etc.) then you won't run into this problem. The functional programmer in me gets a little angry whenever I see a for loop in a language that supports higher order functions.
This explains why there is "goto" keyword in Go spec. Nobody uses it, except state machines and reducers for compilers. They probably thought they'll rewrite compiler in Go and didn't drop that keyword?
“… and how, as a result, it couldn’t be faked.”

Except, you know, they never actually said that.
For comparison, the original Rust compiler was written in OCaml. AIUI, the Rust compiler build now has three stages: a blessed binary snapshot of Rust+LLVM (stage0) compiles and tests a new build (stage1) from source, then (as a bootstrap sanity check) the stage1 compiles and tests a new build (stage2) from the same sources. Needless to say, this is a time-consuming process. :)
Right. Who has rallied hard against BTC? The Chinese government and Bloomberg News. Are those people you trust?
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