skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the original developers behind OpenSSH (Dug Song) started a competitor to RSA called Duo Security just a few years ago.

They sell Gemalto IDProve 100 tokens and support Yubikey, but advise using their patent pending push based 2FA authentication because: "Login requests are signed with an asymmetric PKCS#1 v1.5 key pair, which provides a stronger identity assertion than passcodes and prevents “RSA-style” breaches." From https://www.duosecurity.com/duo-push

They're used by companies like Facebook, Twitter, Sony, Arbor Networks, MIT, etc.

So yes, RSA has some strong competition.
It depends on your project.

For most things, as soon as one feature is functional. In some edge cases (i.e. games), when you think it's ready for primetime :)
Utility reliability requirements are set by PUCs and Federal Regulators. Unless the neighborhood microgrid is always islanded from the grid, there are quite a few problems to solve:

1) Who will respond to outages and make repairs. This includes issuing clearances to crews making repairs.
2) Who will issue protection settings (reclosers/relay settingsfuse coordination, etc) and perform fault analysis?
3) Unless you have generators then they'll need to provide power when your PV systems don't meet demand
4) Someone needs to investigate power quality problems
5) Generation dispatch to meet demand and maintain a system frequency of 60Hz.
6) Someone must handle interconnection requests. Who is going to stop your neighbor with a 50Hz generator that can handle 50% of your microgrid load from connecting to the system, causing a big frequency drop and damaging appliances? Your microgrid doesn't have enough inertia to absorb something something like that.
7) Are the micro grid operators subject to the same reliability requirements as utilities?
8) Are you going to install your own poles and wires? That includes permitting, responding to joint use requests per regulatory requirements, etc.
The Relationship between Vectorized and Devectorized Code
> (over 7 million downloads in its first few days),
> Apple will have not simply lost control of the
> platform to a bunch of power users

How about checking the number of iOS devices sold, comparing to your 7 millions and stopping big claims about Apple losing control over the platform?
I'd also argue, that there are lot less reasons to jailbreak iOS 7 compared to iOS 6.
Seriously, can we have one thread without NSA?
Hehe. Thanks for the vote of confidence. :)

(Tip: You can auth with Github by clicking the octocat-icon, so you can save revisions of your query and get history through the gist. An often-missed feature I need to make more obvious. :)
Ha! Excellent.

Thank you.
Thanks for the high school reading list flashback :D
Euros or dinars, or anything that looks less of a ponzi scheme than the USD.

What will the CIA be able to do? What I said, overthrow their democratically elected leader, create terrorist groups, etc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

You might also have heard of Libya...?
There were 2.5M deaths in US in 2010: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

If you take other leading causes out (accidents 120k, diabetes 70k, influenza 50k, suicide 40k), it still leaves about 2M deaths related to ageing: heart, cancer, chronic respiratory, stroke, alzheimers.
MessagePack: http://msgpack.org
Do you also claim that buying Wii, Xbox, PS also support "the war on general purpose computing"?
What kind of ideas is this? If I buy milk do I support the war on grain based food?
Do those buying Android phones without any intention to develop for the platform or rooting their phones also support the war on general purpose computing?
Hi, I'm the creator of dogr actually. I'm not sure who posted this to HN :)
Thanks for the feedback! Doge-as-a-service is a just funny name. Not sure who would have a need for such a thing.
How is nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) synthesized, such that their estimates for cost are "about $50,000 a day for a human."?

I would expect that any such estimates on cost would be based on the predicted cost at scale and not the cost to produce it one off for lab experiments. Is this a PR ploy to start staking a high price, so that people view it as a bargain when it is released at some absurd price like $1000/day.
I loathe it when people use "Google" as a synonym for "search". It's legitimate when you use to describe conducting a search using particularly Google, but as a synonym for "internet searching" it gives unnecessary focus on a single search engine, one backed by a company with questionable policies.

See also: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html (and particularly "Photoshop")
Am I the only one who thinks this makes evad3rs look even more shady?

One example: they carefully avoid denying the presence of malware in their jailbreak. Instead,

"We are saddened by the accusations that we would ever do such a thing, or sell weaponized exploits.
If anyone ever attempted to include malware in a jailbreak, we are confident that the many
security experts combing through jailbreak software would find it."

The explanations about Saurik and piracy in their Chinese pals' app store comes off as similarly evasive.
Not a bad point, especially given that the current consensus seems to be that the agricultural revolution[1] was a net negative for most individuals in society (evidence of significant wear on the body from bending all day, evidence of worse nutrition), but it was a winning adaptation at the group level. Underscores the point that progress can make us less happy.

That said, I strongly believe that we can do anti-aging right and improve the lot of humanity.

[1] We only started needing a designated place to poop because we stayed around in one place and became numerous.
Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots
What are you talking about? (serious question)
I'm 54, so I suppose I'm one of the people you have never met but still choose to label as an "old fart." Whatever.

For what it's worth, I don't care about any "balance that has existed for millions of years." I care about my life and the many people in it, whom I choose to love and respect.

As I write this, I'm recovering from a sleeve gastrectomy, where about 75% of my stomach was removed. This was voluntary on my part, to help me lose weight. I paid for it myself, out of my own pocket. My BMI last week was 36, and I've lost 12.5 pounds in the last two weeks. This morning, I walked four miles in the Seattle rain.

I did this because I love my life. It's my property, not yours. My only agreement is to respect individual rights as best I can. Don't expect me to die any sooner than I must out of some self-less concern for others.
It seems that the Bay area is weaving a story that blames tech for displacing everyone else earning less money, rather than fix the artificial scarcity of housing that drives prices up.

Edit: suggestion for people riding the busses: be prepared with fliers to hand out to the demonstrators, urging them to fight for city growth as a way to combat the high housing costs. This could help turn their energy to positive benefits for everyone. I can already imagine how the news articles would cover the scenario of trapped bus riders handing out fliers.
Agreed. In my experience fish just runs a heck of a lot faster than either zsh or bash as well as adding some features I love, like the command syntax highlighting and autocomplete. I couldn't see myself going back to either of those after using it for an extended period of time.
This is a good opportunity to apply the "reversal test": you say the status quo is better than an envisaged alternative, so let's see how it looks if that alternative is the status quo and someone proposes to switch to what we have now.

So: Imagine a world in which people (let's say) stay at 25-year-old health until the age of about 90, and then die quickly. And suppose, in this world, that someone comes along and says: "Hey, I've had this great idea. You know how sometimes it can be difficult for young people to be successful because older people are more effective? Well, I know what we can do about it. I've got this stuff we can put in the water, and what it'll do is make everyone degenerate with age, so that they lose energy and brain function and strength and so on. Most people will have stopped paid work entirely by the time they're 70. A lot of people will find themselves practically unemployable before they're even 60. What's not to like?"

I can't imagine that the response would be very positive.
Obamacare won't cover it, then?
Do you know your username when you are using connected to a tmux over ssh that may or may not have another, very similar, server running inside of a screen?
Fuck you and your condescension, Loren. You are a coward and a liar, unless there is some grand plot the NSA has helped unravel, Clancy-style, that you just can't tell us about (I will apologize and retract my statements when it comes to light).

I won't even do that. I've read enough history to understand that losing a few planes and buildings once in a while is no big deal compared to what eventually happens to a country governed by the ethos exposed in the Snowden documents.

The ends do not justify the means.
Yup, that's definitely coming.
Anti-aging technologies are going to introduce many philosophical questions

Charles C. Mann (of 1491 and 1493 fame) wrote extensively about this in The Atlantic Magazine (which is distinct from their website) in 2005: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/05/the-comi... .
But you haven't cracked their encryption and some amateur Russian did the real job and got $100k. Not that Telegram is more secure than ever you should be ashamed!1one
Chrome seems to detect the encoding of this page wrong -- find the deeply-buried "Encoding" menu and set it to UTF-8 for more readability.
Could sound be used to calculate and compare articles.
This is a valid point, but if 20 year olds are now treated like children and the fertility window doesn't change, procreating becomes somewhat difficult.

In fact, isn't that what's happening in all the countries where longevity has shot up and the fertility rate plummeted?
Hi, thanks for the feedback. Upload to imgur is definitely coming!
I do not believe that helping a Chinese company that is related to Qihoo360, which has a very bad ethical record will in anyway benefit the Chinese users. I also don't see how is this benefiting the jailbreak community, except for the compensation they took in.
I think it's fair to call most medical treatments unnatural. That doesn't make them bad, but it should make us thoughtful and careful. Natural systems are often, thanks to evolution and adaptation, complicated and delicately balanced.

I think reflexive appeals to tradition and novelty are both kind of dumb. But if people are going to err, I'd rather they erred on the side of tradition: at least that shit has been demonstrated to work in one fashion or another. I always try to keep in mind examples like Eben Byers [1], the THERAC 25 [2], and rabbits in Australia [3]. All sorts of stupid ideas look appealing at first.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers

[2] http://courses.cs.vt.edu/cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Therac_1.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia#Effects_on...
For $24, you can get enough orange filter gel to make a filter for your 27" screen, then have enough left over for a couple of iPads and several iPhones.
Lavabit Proceedings Unsealed [pdf]
Bitcoin amateur hour continues.
"In fact, it is the computer that makes no sense, and doesn't act like any other object in your house."

I really appreciate that you wrote this, thank you.
"Bob sends Alice his scent. Mallory intercepts the smell, pretending to be Alice to Bob and Bob to Alice."

Ahem.
This is silly. You have absolutely no clue what a future with a "25-year-old health until the age of about 90" would look like. Not even close. There are literally millions of things, from the economy to social structure, that would be impacted. It's not possible to even remotely predict.
Using the sharing economy to monetize your closet
New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning author Tom Friedman talks about the sharing economy and companies like airbnb and tradesy
I really wish I knew how this problem pans out in the next 15-20 years.

Make no mistake, it is a problem - one that desperately needs attention.

If you think for one minute you will be sheltered from the concenquences of such income inequality, with your exorbitant compensation and home on the peninsula, you are sadly mistaken.

We are all interconnected; the generation of children raised in cites like San Pablo deserve an equal shot at success - the same as any privileged white, Asian or Indian child attending a private school in Palo Alto, Atherton, or Los Gatos.

I wish I had a solution. I really do.

I think it starts with wages; but it's hard to put that cat back in the bag.

I'm not sure when we decided it was okay for CEOs to make 300x what a worker does; or even that an engineer was worth 200k/year with a 100k signing bonus, while a skilled welder is worth half that, sacrificing their health and vision I literally build and grow this country.

Next time you negotiate another 30k on your employment contract, trade that for 2 weeks vacation and volunteer your time, ideas and money to those who could really benefit.

Reject the ever-rising insanity of our regions real estate, and try to be just a bit happier with what you have. A BMW 328i will get you to work in style - you don't need the M3.

I'm seeing the same conspicuous consumption that was often only seen in LA. If you want to see a pissed off populace, go ahead and get that Land Rover and Panerai.

See what happens when you're waking back to your car in the Mission.
K&R (V7) cc happily handles implicit casts of char* ; void* is just char* with a new name and a pair of handcuffs. If you're writing a linked list, though, you'd be using a 'struct listnode *next' in any dialect.
This is interesting. The jailbreak community is a weird place on the edge of free software- normally, "just open source it" is an easy answer to security concerns, but there are understandable reasons not to open-source exploits. However, the whole competition thing between evad3rs and saurik seems kind of strange. Honestly, I wish Apple would just get with the times and allow an appropriate degree of freedom on their devices; even if evad3rs are as innocent as they claim in this instance, forcing users to install potentially sketchy obfuscated third-party system-level code in order to do basic things like set default apps seems like a recipe for eventual disaster.
Sounds like they're shooting for an Ig Nobel prize.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
Malware should be easy enough to detect by MiTMing the device, assuming the baseband is unmodified and cellular is shut down. (edit: no, it doesn't-- shouldn't post before I'm awake) I have just updated my phone and I have no traces of the chinese app store mentioned here, for what it's worth.
I actually didn't know web servers started sending packets before I was done with writing to the stream.

Interesting.
Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon (2008) [pdf]
Though I get the name, I wish it was named something other "on wheelchair". It feels a little degrading. Other than this, it's a nice conceptual work.
Yes, but the internal ones that are behind VPNs etc - there's no way to link to those. The one where the client didn't choose such security I could link to, but that's one site out of approaching-a-dozen using a mix of frameworks...
"BNSF is the rail road of the world’s fourth wealthiest man, Warren
Buffet. Through San Pablo it pulls thousands and thousands of tanker
cars filled with hazardous crude petroleum and refined petrochemical
products. Warren’ Buffet’s net worth of $53.5 billion is 45 times
greater than the total assessed value of all the land and buildings in
the city of San Pablo. In 2013 Warren Buffett’s wealth grew by $37
million a day. In contrast, the average worker living in San Pablo
earned $106 a day."

Yes, it would be nice if every one of Warren Buffett's investments never did no wrong, but I found this to be a supremely unfair criticism of Warren Buffet, since the overwhelming majority of those $37 million dollars per day is going to go toward philanthropist aims once the man croaks. Furthermore, he's is the most ardent promoter of getting most wealthy people to most of leave their money to charity as opposed to their heirs.

At the end of the day, WB didn't invest in the chemical plants their. He invested in a railroad company that built the road to the plant. I guess you could say his company is an enabler, however that railroad was going to be built one way or another because a wealthy customer willing to pay for it existed and there is nothing illegal or immoral about paying to have someone build you railroad access for your business.

If the author wants to villify someone, he should focus on Shell and Valero instead of WB.
So how come most of the lines don't have a link to their website? I mean most of the lines congratulate the author for their excellent blog post.. Is that really spam?
I found this by a link from another Slashdot comment and thought it was interesting.
You can disable region coding easily on most of big brands also. For example, Philips has simple for digit unlock code enterable via remote.
Sure, pip is easy enough, but you have to know about pip, DDT and set up a requirements.txt file if you want to share it with anyone else. There are LOTS of handy third-party Django tools, but you need to know about them. That's the part that isn't as easy as it should be. It would be nice if Django came with a few "recommended" requirements.txt files that documented the third-party tools.
One thing I don't understand... why do you think it is wrong for them to make money out of their work? I am not saying that what they did was good for the community but what if the alternative was not getting anything? They are still offering it for free...
Dunno, if person A goes to gets a PHD in distributed systems and spends 40 hours a week furthering their knowledge of computing topics, while person B spends 6 years after university uninstalling viruses from windows computers, and spends their time after work watching cartoons, it seems very plausible there would be a significant difference in their worth to a company due to a significant difference in skills, even if they are both hired on as "developers".
The first attempt at this upgrade did have some issues:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-325

The software reset and booted back into the older version. There are some really good safeguards against bricking anything, but it's still scary. Especially with the data latencies involved - in this case the team had several hours between knowing "something's wrong" and getting more data.
I don't think this really helps evad3rs build credibility.

They put a giant, user-facing blob payload into their jailbreak with no transparency about how it got there or what it is. Reading between the lines they were paid for it, but they don't even manage to come out and say that outright in this "letter."

There's always some level of faith involved in installing an early iOS jailbreak, because exploits often aren't documented or open-sourced until long after their release (for a variety of reasons - vanity, ripoffs, weaponization, etc.). But at least most of the jailbreaks released in the past have been transparent and configurable.

In the Dev Team jailbreaks, all userland packages were optional and if a user wanted, they could uncheck the "Install Cydia" box in the payload configuration, configure their own Cydia (because the source is open, imagine that!), or install a completely different set of user-land applications. Plus a variety of parties with various interests in the development community were given previous jailbreaks early, which provides at least a cursory level of auditing and sign-off. This evad3rs release offers none of these reassurances.

I certainly wouldn't call any iOS jailbreak "trustworthy" in the truest sense but this one is definitely the worst so far.
The Mohawks Who Built Manhattan
A form of basic income is the only answer I see - I don't think enough good jobs are coming back on a reasonable time scale.
It's also cool that the update was sent partly through the MRO spacecraft, then forwarded down to the surface.
HubMeme: How big a meme are you on GitHub?
> but there are understandable reasons not to open-source exploits

Legit question, What reasons could there be?
> In San Francisco the have-it-alls are now as busy purging the middle class as they are the remaining working class communities of color.

Uh huh.

I'm no fan of San Francisco and was quite happy to leave a number of years ago, but it seems to me the problem is one of housing supply, rather than some kind of vast conspiracy to rid the city of working class non-white people.

Who votes this kind of bullshit up, anyway?

Edit: there are real problems with poverty that are serious and very worthy of our attention, but this whole bizarre attempt to blame everything on people who happen to be making some money in that area just seems like so much horse shit to me.
> My original joke on Twitter was that I was waiting for Alan Kay to tell everybody how Smalltalk did reactive programming and FRP first.

I would bet that it did.

Xerox PARC, Atari, Apple, HP, ... - lots of research labs where Alan Kay worked on his vision. Few people did more research on dynamic languages then him. Catching up to his research at PARC and Apple would take you some years.

Currently he is president of 'Viewpoints Research Institute'.

http://vpri.org

The recent writings can be found here:

http://vpri.org/html/writings.php
I see. Well, good to know either way, thanks for the feedback
And like nearly all audio players on the web it’s tiny. I don’t know what it is that causes all these players to be so tiny. They are often the central thing on their page – the thing people come to the page for – but they are nearly invisible. Practically all podcasters are especially egregious offenders.

Some are starting to get it. Soundcloud, terrible in every other way, at least has this really big player with a big and obvious play button. That’s how it’s done.
I believe that the software technically falls under certain US export restrictions which is probably one reason it isn't made public.
> I'm not sure when we decided it was okay for CEOs to make 300x what a worker does

"we" didn't decide anything - the markets did.
Looking from outside:

How did you happen to land in such an unfortunate racial/cultural* segregation situation?

* What you call 'latino' isn't a separate race for most part, sorry.
Jeepers, if I'd actually read the last slide, I'd have seen that the paper explicitly mentioned telehash.org with the sha1(ip:port) proposition.

That was v1 of the Telehash spec, and plenty of intervening feedback (along the lines of nly's comments) in the last three years has lead to the current v2 draft.

Telehash aims to be a bit more generalized than BitTorrent, stripping out the file seeking behavior and focusing on the lower level mesh network overlay. BT-like behavior (or other application patterns) can be implemented via "channels" between nodes.

Telehash also switched from sha1 to sha256 (and thus from 160bit to 256bit nodeIDs), along with NIST and now Microsoft (see wikipedia). That aside, sha(address) versus sha(pubkey) isn't really a surmountable difference. You're doomed to "pick a side" here. :)

But Telehash is extremely non-controversial and boring, otherwise. Within this Kademlia-based framework, it's following the best practices of the latest TLS specs (RSA + ECDHE + AES [GCM, I think]), subtracting X.509.

The spec is public domain, and most of the current alpha implementations (7 of which are interoperating at last count), have been MIT licensed since the get go.

whew That sums it all up, I think.