skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. The first time I traveled to USA I was super nervous about customs going through all my emails, not because I have anything to hide but I want privacy. From what I have seen/heard/read TSA is pretty much a minimum wage job and they arent the pinnacle of professionalism. It is only a matter of time before this kind of mass searching is used to blackmail and extort people.
according to the snapchatdb page, they've blurred the last two numbers of the phone numbers so as to not cause complete damage.
It always impresses me how Bezos can make Amazon operate as both a non-member store and a membership store using Prime. Unlike Safeway or somewhere that says "member price X, non-member price Y" Amazon can say price is X, shipping is Y unless you're a prime member. And they bury the uplift in that shipping cost to the non-prime member.
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You must have a thicker wallet than I.

The mid-range laptop I am currently typing on has trouble displaying video fluidly at times which is most likely due to it's lack of a dedicated video card.

My desktop which is running the exact same operating system and core programs plays video much more fluidly, and it has a dedicated (still extremely weak and outdated) video card.
Did you fix the edit also?
1) Yes and no... the QT client has default/"suggested" transaction fees, but unless a block is completely full you're not likely to see any difference in processing time if you exclude a fee entirely [a]

2) As of recently [b], yes... you can add a small amount of junk data

3) When you send a transaction using input address(es) that don't add up to exactly the desired amount, there will be some "change", which needs to go to a new address. Thus, some of your change comes back to you at a new address.

4) Yes, that's possible. But you probably don't want to do that, since it leaks information [c]

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[a] subject to some limitations: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees#Sending

[b] https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=290

[c] https://medium.com/p/7f95a386692f
I believe being forced to hand over your passwords is still a murky gray area. But, even if it "protects" you, there's probably a chance that you may not get your device back for a long time.
This is only useful in wide-net fishing attacks, most of which I'm guessing no one here would fall for.

Anyone interested in you particularly will quickly get your phone number, email address, facebook profile, social security number, or whatever they want if they're determined enough.

Even then, I'm not sure what information this database really provides that could be used to gain some fraudulent or exploitive benefit.
It's not about whether merchants will adopt bitcoin. They'd be happy to take digital cash, or any method that pays out less to consumers.

The question is whether consumers will adopt it.. for more than the cases where anonymity is paramount. As it stands cards offer much better protections and benefits than cash, which is where most of the high fees go.

Not 100% of it -- networks and banks still do make money on the system. But the opportunity is much smaller than the gross processing fee would suggest. Between one and two orders of magnitude smaller. And when compared with the adoption and rollout costs of a new system, it's far less of a compelling case than cd's essay might suggest.
Best current practice for crossing "hostile" borders remains wiping all data off the devices, traveling with them in close to factory state, then bringing them back to your baseline once inside the country. It's a little tricky and a bit of a pain, especially if you have a lot of stuff you want to download (for me, I usually work with VM images, so I need to download many many gigabytes, and hotels often have bad Internet). It also makes "getting any work done on the plane" a real pain.

(There's also the "travel loaner laptop pool" concept, and the restricted access for remote people. Works a lot better for an organization than for individuals; this would be kind of an interesting appliance or service for individual professionals and for SMBs.)
I Am Going To Utilize My Brain More In 2014
The top comment on Reddit r/netsec's corresponding coverage has mirrors on Mega.co.nz for the files [1]

I couldn't find my own data in the set, and actually it seems like lots of entire area codes are missing.

Assuming `cat schat.csv | uniq | cut -c1-4 | wc -l` is the proper command, there are only 76 of 322 [2] US area codes represented.

It appears there are two Canadian area codes represented in the database: 867 and 204. There are also 248 US area codes which are not represented in the database. Assuming a relatively uniform distribution of phone numbers in the US (which is not at all a safe assumption), the average US snapchat user has better odds of not being in the list than being in it. Sampling from the set of my snapchat friends who are not in my area code, 3 of 13 can be found in the database.

If your phone number is in any of these states, you're not in the database: Alaska
Delaware
Hawaii
Kansas
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Mexico
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
Utah
Vermont
West Virginia
Wyoming

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1u4xss/snapchat_phon...

[2] I'm matching a regex against this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_Numberin...
What sort of options do you have for curation, filtering? How do you find the wheat from the chafe?
Plus indirect fees due to the exchange rate volatility.
Congrats Randall! If you can answer, I'd love to hear a bit more about the unknown-guy-vs-major-broadcaster relationship :) Did you have any issues as such a small company dealing with a big giant like CNN?
I would agree with you if Apple hadn't released 10.9.1, but honestly, Apple has fixed the Finder issues for me.

Quicklook is still slower compared to Mountain Lion for me, so I hope they make it faster still.
Also, if you get your device back, especially if you had encrypted data on it, please don't just naively keep using the device. (You may be able to sell it to a security researcher!)
I assume it was created by iterating through every valid US number.
If you think they registered using their real name and address then you are the delusional one.
I'm using my Win7 media PC to connect my old Brother Laser to GCP. Once you have the printer set up, it's only a matter of adding it in a local Chrome installation.
From now on when people ask me why I use Linux instead of OSX and why I refuse to install closed-source, copy-protected software, I'm going to send them to Rob Pike's eloquent description of his self-inflicted torture.
Here's an idea.

Leave everything up and running on a desktop safely inside your own home and connected to the internet 24/7.

Bring your own barebones laptop with nothing installed on it to COUNTRY_PARANOID_OF_EVERYTHING.

Using X11 forwarding, one must only remember the password to their home desktop in order to gain full access to it and all of it's graphical programs.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Secure_Shell#X11_forwar...
w-ll was talking about the original BTC address in my profile being on the known list for cryptolocker. The same address I linked to in my reply to her/him. When you say "we", who are you?

Also, that whole reddit thread about chasing the SMP stolen coins I thought was too hard to actually pull off. For example, I use coinbase to buy BTC, to send to BTC-e.com, to buy Litecoins and ultimately store them in the offline address that's in my HN profile. Can anyone show me the blockchain.info URLs that would prove my actions? If the SMP people changed coin-types, that's how it'd end up on BTC-e.com's wallet. In fact, maybe that same flawed logic is how my BTC-e.com address ended up in that list - capturing addresses that BTC-e.com uses for its customers or internal operations.
CSV: https://mega.co.nz/#!dcUhWabJ!dgiGrQCbRm6RqWCssewbmWzfV48B_B...

SQL: https://mega.co.nz/#!QJklSRJA!WrVeARPvcYgyKI3KENiPu0A6hlRCLf...
Google is already reporting over 30 users of my little photo importer, which is more success than I've ever had the first week of an Android or iOS app, haha. Maybe there's some real demand building up for these things.
I live in a city. Noise is a problem, but so are bugs and dirt and soot.
So just like any company, the bigger your price, the more people who have to sign off. So given that we're really really inexpensive compared to most other companies, it's actually really easy for us to get spun up inside most broadcast companies.

CNN was a total non-issue. We showed them a demo at a conference, and then it was just a matter of getting the actual "button pressers" ready to use it on TV. Really simple.

Typically, we can just work with an individual production team, show our vision (the vision helps a lot. People love that we're not just hackers, we're broadcasters too) and get on the air really quickly.

CBS, for instance, had a production team for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And the day before, they called us so they could use our system to get Instagram photos on the air. Normal broadcast procurement processes are like 6 weeks minimum.

Most local broadcasters are in "station groups", and sometimes when we get presented to the higher ups, it's a less-than-pleasant sales cycle because they do things the old way. (a billion meetings, back and forth on contracts, etc.) For the most part though, we're able to avoid that headache.

Does that answer your q? I think you were one of the first people I showed the prototype to at startup school a few years ago, so it's fun to talk about how far it's come since then! :)
> No one in their right mind is spending time on the site with the empirical goal of getting points.

But isn't that exactly what Michael was doing? He was posting help for two languages he loathed — help he probably wouldn't otherwise give — just because it got him points.

In addition, the Java help he was giving was not even his own knowledge. Just a Google search.

I like that you believe points aren't the point. That's good to hear. However, my experience on SO is as Michael describes.

The most helpful answers I've posted (especially the ones that are obscure workarounds for difficult bugs) have gained very few points. Most of the time I've gotten good answers to very difficult questions is when I either: answer them myself later, or offer a bounty. People strongly react to the points.

That's not to say SO isn't helpful. It helps me five to ten times a day — I find code snippets that achieve the effect I'm looking for. I could spend more time and read the documentation, figure out the right APIs, but that's a waste of time when I develop the same understanding by reading someone else's implementation.

It would be great if the point system scaled by the complexity of the question and answer. Though that seems impossible to determine.
Pictures of your girlfriend.
Yes but there are a few problem that haven;t quote mapped out. While what it said there are true, it is build on the fact that previous node and growth were driven by PC market. Now that maths dont add up well because the market is shirking or not growing fast enough to keep up with the pace of node invention and wafer cost.
The more wafer used, i.e the larger scale it is produced the lower the cost per transistor. With Tablet, wearable computing and Mobile Phones, these blooming market could drive the cost economics of Moore at least to 10nm or 7nm.
There are initiatives doing both of those things, luckily. Little Miss Geek, Technovation, et al for the first; and various changes including anti-harassment policies for the second (though some companies/events remain quite "bro"-y). Not to say there shouldn't be more of them, or that more hacker role models aimed at all genders and demographics in the early teens aren't needed. There are also more visible female tech role models than there used to be, from Marissa Mayer to Sheryl Sandberg -- but that doesn't stop 15 year old girls drawing a spotty, overweight, badly-groomed man as their idea of a "technologist" when asked. (source; Little Miss Geek TEDx talk)

I also want to point out on the lowering standards front, I'm a female hacker who's been coding since age 6, and I was rejected from YC. I'm actually proud of that fact in the light of this discussion. I'd hate the whole foundation of my startup to be the source of such rabid debate, and for folks to think I just got in because I'm a unicorn and we need more unicorns in tech.
On a somewhat silly but related note:

A game I wrote a while ago uses GLSL, geometry shaders and transform-feedback to simulate and render a large number of particles. The particles can be dynamically created, bounce on the height-map and fade and die after some time.

Last I checked, you can easily render 350,000 particles with several viewports on my HD7970. Although the amount of hearts on the screen is a bit too much at that point.

https://github.com/ginkgo/pink-pony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3wy1Nh8-KA&t=0m20s
Our peg is simplicity. So really, people can search by keyword, filter out unwanted keywords, ban users, filter RTs, etc.

We don't do any big grouping or the sort yet... we just rely on producers to find the posts they're looking for.
If we have our way, we'll replace them anyway. :)
Phone numbers are hardly private information.
Actually in this case the absolute best thing would be for Snapchat, Inc. to go full court press against snapchatdb.info, as what is actually important here is to communicate both the "snapchat security is a lie" message, and "companies which flagrantly suck and then piss on those who report vulnerabilities responsibly will suffer" message, rather than the actual snapchat phone/username db. Streisand will help that more than "go to this site which is really slow and download a huge file which you can't easily use to find your own number or that of your friends" (without a minimum of "how to use a computer" skill).
By definition, dynamic linking will be less of an hassle (and give better performance) than statically linking. After all, this is the original purpose of dynamic linking.

It is also more secure for the user of an computer system.
The only Canadian area codes are for Manitoba and the Far North. Not so bad :)
Re/code
How does this work with Chromebooks? For example if I disable all local storage? What is the distinction between what's "on my device" and what's not, if the simple act of "logging into my device" actually involves connecting to the cloud and automatically accessing stuff?
Tails is a good use case for this.

https://tails.boum.org/
Happy new year to you as well :)
Welcome 2014
Yah.
2013 in retrospective
All Linux Distributions Store Wi-Fi Passwords in Plain Text
I actually had my laptop searched once.

First of all, if you won't enter your password, they confiscate your computer.

Since I wanted to keep my computer, they opened windows explorer and searched for all JPGs and GIFs. Then they asked me, "What kind of photos am I going to find on here?" It was a female agent, and the conclusion I came to is that they're looking for kiddie porn.

I had no exciting photos on my computer, but I did have a shit-ton of boring photos so it wasted 30 minutes of my time and made me think that they think I look like a perv.
And sometimes the bliss and fear happens at the same time.
I do this too. I manage it by periodically reviewing my open projects and either pruning or building a kind of mission statement–go or no go. If they make the next step it doesn't mean they have to get to the end, but it means you should spend some time scoping and figuring out what completion might eventually mean.
Put a linux live CD in your drive and set that as the priority in the boot sequence.
Point of clarification: TSA is not involved in border searches, that's the realm of Customs and Border Patrol. CBP and TSA both fall under DHS but they are not the same agency and there are some very important differences. TSA aren't law enforcement for one.
I'm currently enrolled in an online degree program at the University of Illinois, and while the teachers are good and the material is interesting and challenging, the class is fundamentally less engaging. The closest analogue I can think of is the difference between IM and a video chat. Many conventional college students use study groups to boost their success rates. What is preventing an online course from using video chat or something similar to the same end? (mandatory forums do not encourage engagement amongst students).
Only if bandwidth, latency, and network connectivity are an issue.
By defining it as BSD project or and GPL project, one basically make two stand points.

1: The license choice is a political one. Picking the BSD license (or GPL) is equal to doing a political message.

2: The key feature of the project is defined by the circumstances that permission is granted to use, copy, and distribute.
10 high growth Indian startups to keep a watch on in 2014
Threw together a quick script to check if you're affected... http://robbiet.us/snapchat/
Sure. The one where you observe things as they arise is called insight meditation, or vipassana. Other commenters have referenced this :-D If you are looking for a book, "Mindfulness in Plain English" does well, but for many folks, it is easier to learn when someone walks you through it. There are also 10 day Vipassana retreats that can jumpstart your practice. (It is easy to fool yourself into thinking you are being mindful when you are not).
One of the nice things about my Lenovo T430 is that it has both an SSD and a hard drive. You can pop into the BIOS and set the boot order so if you want the 'windows xx' thing to boot for the security theatre you can set it that way when you travel.

Still it is outrageous that a court feels this is not a violation of your 4th, 5th, and 14th amendment rights.
"Good job sighting your sources."

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

Also:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korean_peninsula_at_n...

"Both the North and The South have had dictators and have caused unnecessary trouble to the other"

The fact remains that South Koreans are allowed to leave the country, and North Koreans aren't, your attempts to spin some kind of bogus moral equivalence between "dictators" notwithstanding.
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In other words, it works as much as you want it to work. Similar to how a "real" college experience works, with the difference being a significant financial investment.
For the ultra paranoid I would suggest learning what Tails is comprised of, how to build your own arch linux system, and then re-creating your own flavour of Tails.
'Sir, have you been giving advice that could potentially aid terrorists in some site called "Hacker News"? And by the way, does that mean you are hacker? One of those who like to break online banking and stuff?'
My number is present.
No thanks, after seeing a perfectly valid DOS question get closed by incompetent moderation.
Genetics prof: Why I won’t waste my money on a DNA test in 2014
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Are u nuts?
I don't think any of them are particularly hard. Most of the problem with MOOCs is that the courses just aren't engaging without classroom participation by instructors, and most of them have no penalty for failing to complete the classes. Hell, I'm pretty sure I signed up for that MIT course. Then real life got in the way, and I was spending about 60-80 hours a week trying to get a project out the door.

I think the best solution is to have students learn at their own pace using MOOCs and supplement that with teachers in classrooms. I remember that I was way behind in classes until I hit 2nd or 3rd grade, and then our teachers allowed us to work through various workbooks at our own pace. Within a couple weeks I not only had caught up to my peers, but I was outstripping them at a very fast clip. I think that a lot of really smart kids probably have similar issues... the pace of lowest common denominator teaching which dominates both public and private classrooms can cause really bright kids to be frustrated and ultimately apathetic.

There is a social aspect to schooling that causes a lot of hangups with both teachers and parents alike. Kids who are smarter than their peers have no recourse other than being pushed up grade levels, which brings about its own set of negative challenges. By creating a system where students can learn though MOOCs and have teachers who can aid them, the 3rd grader who should be learning at an 8th grade level can stay with his age group and get that social education which is ultimately just as important as the mathematical and science education.
The American Middle Class and Intellectual Economy In Jeopardy
Anything for data :)
So instead of taking the one in a thousand chance that its the wrong thing to do (which, from what I've seen, is generous) they should let edits languish for days or weeks until someone sufficiently knowledgable shows up? That just doesn't sound like a worthwhile tradeoff.
GPL was designed to create a legal protection against people who want to take software offered for free and then go and sue their users if the user dare to modify or share the newer version of the program.

There is little chance that GPL can be made into anything that would allow such behavior. I for once would ask what the point would be. If you do not want that legal protection, then you don't have to. There is no helmet law for software developers.
I think you could approach it a little differently.

You should try and do/create cool/interesting things/projects which help you learn the skill a little more.

Rather than going at it with the intention of learning xyz
Not only is it possible, it's been done: http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/

It runs a few commercial games, but probably not all that well. I wonder why not a lot of people bothered to contribute.
ship an encrypted backup disk to your destination (hotel?) and restore from it on arrival, and install/pave clean os for travel?
JavaScript Performance Analysis: Keeping the Big Picture
This reminds me of that Sono device, which seems more convenient.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv6sBuwzLhk
http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/06/sono-window-noise-cleaner-...

Haven't read up on whether it works as advertised. Anyone have insight?
What is a "peg"?
Much more fun than shooting tennis balls out of tin cans taped together. There is a bit of a problem with the description however which is that while air speed will be limited to the mach number that is the net air speed. Generally in a projectile weapon the accelerating gas is moving along with the projectile and so within the moving gas cloud the projectile can much much faster than the surrounding air. That is why your typical 30-30 hunting rifle will have a muzzle velocity >2000 fps which is in excess of the mach number (and the speed of sound).
Totally off the top of my head....

Like you say, there is little a spot check could easily and quickly find. Therefor, IMHO there must be another reason. So, what if they are not looking for anything? What if its just to put people under pressure in the hope of having the "suspect" give away signs of guilt? That would be my rational.

Oh, another thing, checking to see that it is actually a laptop and not a banned fruit.
check out http://www.lugolabs.com/blog/2013/12/24/create-circular-svg-... - when the page loads you can see the circle animations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_labor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_labor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficial_charm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression_management

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_branding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_capital

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingratiation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_supply

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_manipulation