skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The open source drivers for my ATI card are pretty good. Performance isn't spectacular but it's acceptable, and I've not run into any serious bugs for years, and I have no trouble changing resolution at all.
I don't think they're saying it is limited to dogs. It's just proven in dogs. Dogs behave really oddly when a natural disaster is about to occur, would it be that surprising that they had an unique sense that us humans don't have such as what this study is suggesting?
We're on Hacker News, so https://github.com/jigish/slate
Ultimate solution.
sizeof (foo) would not be known until link time.

static_assert(sizeof(foo)==64, "you didn't align foo correctly") would not be possible.
Did you even read his comment?

"dig @www.facebook.com news.ycombinator.com" does not use the ISP's DNS servers at all. It sends a DNS query to Facebook for Google, which should normally fail. His ISP hijacks the request and provides a response. In this scenario, the advice in your comment is pointless because they will hijack requests whether they are directly to authoritative servers or if they are to recursive servers.
I created a marketplace for small coding tasks where buyers pay upfront when they post a code bounty (bountify.co). In practice, the pay-upfront model has worked well- there have been no disputes after several hundred bounties, and about 90% of bounties have received working solutions. However, bountify's domain (coding tasks) is probably better suited to upfront payment than proofmarket's. It's easy for code buyers to estimate the difficulty / value to sellers of small coding tasks, so buyers are reasonably assured of getting a solution within the one-week time limit. It seems like proof buyers would have a harder time estimating the difficulty of creating a proof, and that they might therefore be dissuaded from posting btc up-front for fear of nobody furnishing a solution.
TLDR of the presentation: found a service that returns all the configurations on the router (including admin username, admin password, wifi password, etc.). Also, found a bunch of buffer overflows.
Without making a judgement call on the virtue of his of actions: I consider myself very skeptical of the notion that this administration, which has cracked down on whistle-blowers/leakers as much (or more) than any other, is about to offer anything other than the "full weight of Justice" on Snowden.

I enjoyed Philip Bump's piece from the Atlantic about this:
"Why Does CBS Keep Asking Its Ridiculous Amnesty Question About Snowden?"

http://www.thewire.com/politics/2013/12/why-does-cbs-keep-as...

What can Snowden promise them, anyway, that they would make this deal? The toothpaste is out of the tube.
Not even sure why this needs an article. The great majority of people in the world are "can't-do" people. It's entrepreneurs who buck the trope and create the things that end up being valuable. It's risky and scary and you'll probably face opprobrium. Fuck the noise.
Is there an IE 8 countdown?
Sure do. Drop me a line. mr.rich.sin@gmail.com
I'm probably somewhat the person you are complaining about here. The current desktop 3D printers are pretty useless for anything functional (but fine for initial aesthetic models). All these people have grand ideas of being able to print functional products at their desk and there are some significant technical challenges that need to be solved yet. I don't believe that any of the current printing methods are ever going to get to the point where typical consumers will truly be happy with them, especially when compared to injection molded parts. I think the technology that may eventually accomplish what I consider to be fully functional will not look at all like we have today and it at least 15-20 years away.
I find it pleasantly surprising -- almost unbelievable, in fact -- that a highly sought-after fugitive accused of treason and practically certain to be found guilty of serious crimes is so widely supported by the public and the media.

Has there ever been another person whom the executive has done everything in its power to paint as a dangerous enemy of the state, whose approval rating was several points higher than the President's and several times higher than that of Congress? Or is this a never-before-seen situation?

The inverted totalitarianism[1] we live in can seem almost invincible, but this to me is a big glimmer of hope that some people at least are still unwilling to swallow the (two-)party line.

I hope this leads to some real change, but then again, I can't exactly hold my breath.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
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>you aren't really affected negatively by them doing it.

Even if you are fine with your ISP committing fraud, you are negatively effected by the complexity (points of failure) and latency this adds to the network.
I wouldn't worry about the cost. Those billions go to maintaining the capacity to produce ships in the future -- the engineering talent, the shipyards, the metallurgy, and other related industries.

In Canada, we worried about cost in the past couple decades, and are now reduced to buying second-hand rust buckets, or trying and failing to make up for the lost capabilities. Our supply ships cost three times more than your combat ships! http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-supply-ships-1-5b-o...
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In reality there is no sufficiently-safe way to wipe drives today. If you really care, you destroy the drive. With AES-NI, there's little excuse for not doing disk-crypto-by-default, so if the drive never saw unencrypted data, and your data is only slightly to moderately sensitive, you could probably get away with logical deletion and then a precautionary drive-level or multi-pass overwrite, but if it's something genuinely high security, no sane policy allows drives to leave in any form but dust.

(Within an organization at the same security level, deletion and then wipe is enough to re-issue a laptop, but not going from top researcher to intern, and certainly not from inside to outside.)
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Hello!

I just made my first web app with Sinatra. It is a REST API that helps people add two-step verification to their websites or apps. I am a complete noob in web development so please criticize me and let me know how shitty this whole thing is. :)

http://two-step.herokuapp.com/
The idea is to run just below the Bohm limit (see eg pg 13 in [1]), where the temperature and density required is much lower than that for Tokamak-style inertial confinement fusion. They adiabatically pre-heat and then inject a field-reversed configuration plasma immediately before implosion. So the plasma is at thermal equilibrium and the magnetic confinement minimizes conductivity loss during implosion.

Los Alamos has an MTF program that has demonstrated fusion under these conditions, and there are several other programs. See [2] and [3] for recent experimental and simulation results (different driver mechanism, but same ignition region).

[1] http://fire.pppl.gov/fpa04_wurden.pdf
[2] http://fire.pppl.gov/IFE_NAS3_MTF_Wurden.pdf
[3] http://sites.apam.columbia.edu/SMproceedings/11.ContributedP...
1. Changing resolutions requires a restart for you? Why in the world would that be? Do you use ubuntu? Do you have to save settings with the GUI and then restart?

For instance I run a shell script which does some xrandr commands to make my external desktop work on Xubuntu (same for debian).

2. Agreed

3. LTS means more stable and packages are more tested. Getting newer packages will mean testing less, meaning less stable packages.

I think I better solution is game developers using the newest stable version of dependencies on popular LTS's instead of using newer ones just because. Basically this requires communication between game devs and linux package maintainers for mesa/xorg/nvidia/fglrx.
Absolutely. This will be another big year for 3D printing coverage in the media so hopefully educating the public continues. And it almost seems like schools are the best place for 3D printers because there isn't the barrier of expectations and criticisms from adults.
You and others that are curious about what end user equipment management controls are possible might enjoy reading about specs like TR-069, etc.

http://www.lightreading.com/tr-069-still-sexy-after-all-thes...
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The New York Times, which has stood up countless times for freedom of speech and constitutional principles (New York Times Co. v. Sullivan regarding free reporting of civil rights violations without fear of libel, and New York Times Co. v. United States regarding the free dissemination of the classified Pentagon Papers) has once again, delivered a masterclass in defense of Edward Snowden.

I know some of you may have doubts as to the ties between the media and the government, but the historical record does indicate that the New York Times has had a flagship role in challenging government abuse on many levels. I don't see why it would not have a similar role in this debate.
I don't mind conflicts of interest which happen to work for the greater good.
Is there any kind of hardware acceleration for 3D graphics? If no, then those drivers are pretty much useless for gaming.
The problem is that .COM is de facto the universal entry point.
Unfortunately this isn't adequate. Drives contain "extra" storage space above rated capacity, as well as reduce delivered capacity, which gets periodically unmapped by wear leveling, or due to errors, etc. This is a bigger deal on SSD than on spinning-rust, but even with rust, it was an issue (esp with 4K sectors, or when worried about things like keys).

It's certainly better than nothing, but not sufficient practice in a business or high-security-professional environment.

An attacker is willing to load custom firmware onto the drive, or to move the chips into a new device, or otherwise read it out raw, and will have access to more material than your dd can write.

The standard should be "can I prove this will work reliably, given all the layers beneath me", and for that, the only adequate answer is physical destruction. You could possibly design a drive where you're guaranteed to know if everything is fully deleted, and as long as you trusted the design/implementation/current-status, you could rely on it, but then you'd have a $100k 100GB SSD. So much easier just to replace old drives, or to guarantee that nothing interesting every touched the disk unencrypted, or ideally both.
>Time Warner had left a backdoor in all their modems that gives them administrative access to my private connection

Yes, their modems. On the connection that they provide for you.

A cable modem is considered CPE (customer premise equipment), meaning it is part of the infrastructure a telco uses to provide you with connectivity. Usually they own it, but in any case they have full control over it, as they should - it's part of their network. They may choose to delegate some configuration via a web GUI, but that's at their discretion -it's theirs to administer.

Business telecom has a formalized notion of a demarc (demarcation point), the place where the telco network ends and yours begins. AT&T owns and is responsible for the fiber/T1/POTS lines as they come through the wall, as well as the CPE (often a large rackmount Cisco router) to which it connects. Their contract is to provide connectivity on specific ethernet ports/fibre GBICs/whatever of that CPE. Whatever happens downstream of those ports is your problem, and whatever happens upstream is their problem.

Both sides will treat this connection as hostile - you'll have your own NATing router up and the telco's router, if it even has a configuration interface listening on your NIC, won't let you in. It would be inappropriate for AT&T to have any sort of access to the router you own and inappropriate for you to attempt any sort of access to AT&T's CPE.

Time Warner has been shifting recently towards placing WiFi on their side of the (logical) demarc. Which makes sense, since most people would rather not be responsible for administering any infrastructure - they just want Time Warner to deliver them WiFi. It sounds like you have this kind of setup, in which case Time Warner's access is not "backdoor" but "building owner" - you're renting a room.

If you'd prefer, you can (have them) turn off their WiFi, go buy a nice wireless router, and connect it to the modem. In this case Time Warner is providing you with a connection on an ethernet port; the device you've plugged in is your own (your side of the demarc) and they have no right to touch its configuration, nor are they responsible for it working correctly.

EDIT: The obvious analogy that would have simplified much of this is that a cable modem is like an electrical meter.
"The shakeup of Kleiner Perkins exposes the short comings of venture capital" (gigaom.com)

Posted 18 days ago -- December 14.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6906635

http://gigaom.com/2013/12/13/the-shakeup-of-kleiner-perkins-...
It's a fine line.

There's a world of difference between skeptics and haters, with the latter not deserving comments.

Some skepticism may be indeed healthy and comes naturally with experience. But it's also easy (particularly for the curious and well educated types, like the HN crowd) to become overly skeptic and jaded with time.

The problem with skeptics is that they tend to default to "yeah, saw that before", which makes you more conservative and ready to shut down others' ideas y. That's why innovation is often associated with people with limited experience in the field, as the Steve Jobs no-people-with-phone-experience-on-the-iPhone-team story above.

The hard part (for me, at least) is to always balance a healthy dose of skepticism, and still think outside the conventional way, and keep a can-do attitude.
There is hardware acceleration for the open source fglrx (radeon) drivers, nouveau (oss for nvidia), and closed source nvidia drivers.
Same here. MacBook Air 13", 2013. Can't remember ever hitting the power key by mistake. Can't understand how this is even a problem. Make people here should take up a typing course?
I got one myself the other day and am amazed how neat the device is. Great capabilities and great battery life. Love the ability to use it with usb keyboard/mouse once in a while. I wish there was a standard micro-usb based dock for all these windows tablets popping up.
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The performance is acceptable. The problem is I have a weird flickering issue when I run Steam on a multi-monitor setup. The fix is to run a command like this:

xrandr --output DFP6 --auto --left-of DFP7 --output DFP6 --scale 1.0001x1.0001

I only had this issue with AMD (not Nvidia).
Yes hash-n-slash is bad for domain names, that's what I meant: it is a good poison, it will accelerate it's death.
+ the adrenalin rush when running from trouble (the fun in danger)
I read the article looking for one thing. Them mentioning the potential for false sense of security. I was very pleased and Happy they mentioned it. As it was my first thought. After reading what they were doing. I may have overlooked it but did they mention any estimates about how many sharks there are in that area? Even if a wild guess? To reflect are there only 300 of 10,000 sharks tagged or 100,000?
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Why should we take Argentina as an example and not Iceland[1]? Because it fits your view, or because you have a deep understanding of economics?

BTW Argentina followed the IMF as many other countries. None ever recovered. Iceland did not, proved to be better off.

Stiglitz and Krugman (both Nobel prizes) share the same view on this matter and Greece (should have opted out of the Euro and defaulted in 2008, in 2011 everything would be fine).

ps. Another fact that you're missing here is that you think this Crisis in Europe and US has to do with economics, while it's clearly a political crisis. The numbers never turned up right, Greece will never pay the debt, there were no financial reason to punish Cyprus other than sending a political message, etc. Even the IMF said that the Greek program was mis-calculated because doesn't wont to be part of the eminent epic failure...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Icelandic_finan...
Because their whole field has become centered around a government monopoly over the issuance of money, rather than on human choices in a free market.

Since Bitcoin is violence-resistant, economists (and the bureaucratic institutions that employ them) view it as a threat.
I'm not sure what you are trying to imply. :)

Vista (at least after the first service pack) is a solid OS. I still run it on my gaming PC (which also dual boots to Ubuntu) and I don't see any reason whatsoever to "upgrade" to W7 or W8.
Reading "BP6" felt like "Obi-Wan... Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time."

http://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/3q99/bp6/bp6-1.html
Odd that the iBand seems like the most "important" of your predictions even though it's objectively something we could do without with no loss of capability from today. I guess that's the definition of being a nerd :) (as well as v long AAPL)

I'm curious if funds will have enough freedom of action to stay out of fixed income more than they otherwise would. I honestly have no idea why even a 50-65 year old now would put anywhere near the "traditional" levels of money into bonds; longer lifespans, prolonged low interest rate environment, and a diversified global equity market seem to make going underweight bonds, even with the risk of a 20% (or even 50%) market correction in equities, rational.

I think on Obamacare you're letting your desire for a good future override rational analysis of what's most likely. I believe healthcare reform is a good thing, and some of what's in Obamacare is good, but it is a big change, and has people actively opposing it, and hasn't been implemented with much competence, so we're going to end up with a clusterduck for the next year at least.
As a general rule, I think the press doesn't push itself very hard- it largely does whatever it has to do to sell papers (or equivalent).

Here's what I think: Intelligent commentary on difficult issues emerges into popular consciousness whenever the difficult issues are serious enough that the intelligent, thoughtful folk are forced to have conversations with the general masses. In this simplistic sense, major issues "shake up" sociopolitical reality.

I know this sounds a little elitist. I don't consider myself to be one of the "intelligent, thoughtful folk". I'm a veritable moron. But whenever these shakeups happen, there's an increased demand for intelligent commentary, and the press moves to fulfill that demand.

That's my theory. I could be totally wrong; would love to hear input/criticism from others on this.
Yes, I use Ubuntu but I am considering moving to Debian or Suse.

To be fair, changing resolution does not always require a restart (but for my multi-monitor setup it often does). I can do most changes without a restart with Nvidia not AMD. Also, why should I change the resolution within the driver software...why not do it in the desktop like Windows or OSX.

I am really curious to know how Intel graphics drivers work on linux. Intel seems to be more linux friendly compared to AMD/Nvidia. Is the support a lot better?
Are you really going to write
"var getData = function getDataF () {
};"

instead of
"function getData() {}"

for pseudo benefits like

* 1. Makes it easier to understand "functions as an object".
* 2. It enforces good semicolon habits.
* 3. Doesn't have much of the baggage traditionally associated with functions and scope.

?
While I had the same thought at first, this post delivered on a well documented reverse engineering case that should be perfect for the intended audience here. Which is why I think your tone is out of place.
This implies a very straightforward "either the NYT is the POTUS's bitch, or it is independent" situation. I think there's a win-win outcome to be had, from the NYT's perspective, where the NYT prides itself on being the authoritative source that even the POTUS relies on.
One thing to ponder: this is a strong counterpoint to the "Lean Startup" culture, which basically states that unless you have people telling you not just that something can be done, but that they will pay you for it yesterday, it's not worth working on.
For the occurrence of this editorial we can chiefly thank Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, for presenting Snowden's documents and handling the journalism carefully and with great influential power. Lesser journalists wouldn't have known what to do, or who to consult to figure out what to do, how to word and interpret things precise enough, and one bad step could have led to disaster, whether in terms of the story, or of Snowden's/their own safety. People can point out potential imperfections in their methods, but today they have this editorial (on top of everything else, including the federal judge rulings) to show for themselves.

They convinced the "Paper of Record," one with a history of party-blind fealty to power, to put out something like this. What has any of us done?
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From the perspective of the advice-giver you can still choose how to phrase your hard-learned lessons though.

Over the past few years I've learned to never try to shoot down someone's passion.

At most I'll acknowledge that what they're trying to do is going to be difficult, but the brunt of my communication will be focused on what I believe will give them the best shot at achieving their objective.

Unless they're betting the house, bank or their marriage on a truly hare-brained scheme of course.
The generic term is “VCS” (Version Control System). CVS is a specific implementation.
A sense of security from shark attacks is probably not false, given the unlikelihood of it.
I'll go first.. Why in the world would you feel a need to make this post?
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confirmed as working on an old (2005/2006) Diamond DSL642WLG / SerComm IP806Gx v2 TI based modem router, btw
This might be more successful on Reddit in the startups/entrepreneurship subreddits.
An NBC/WSJ poll from late July [1] (the most recent poll I found that assessed general favorability of both President Obama and Edward Snowden, lists Snowden with a favorability of 11%, 37% behind Obama's number at that point in time.

A Harvard poll of millennials [2] (defined as 18-29) show that 22% consider him a "traitor", 22% consider him a patriot, and the remainder are "not sure".

Of course, polls which pose questions about approval of his release of documents may differ substantially, but then again, so do polls about specific actions the President has taken. I don't know where the data for your assertion comes from.

[1] http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/_Today...

[2] http://iop.harvard.edu/blog/iop-releases-new-fall-poll-5-key...
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I use xubuntu with xmonad window manager and it works fine with a tweak (same tweak for fullscreen flash videos though).
I was also thinking along these lines, but I wonder if they chose the distance to match the behaviour patterns of sharks. How quickly would a shark approach a beach when feeling hungry?
The point is this, person who built the first brick never realized Pyramids could be built using them.
Never really been a problem for me.
HN is less and less about hacking and more about feelings, I am actively looking for a more technical news site, this site is turning into Jezebel.
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