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Reaver 101 - WPS hacking
Actually, in spite of Eric holder's memo stating otherwise, the raids have continued. As recently as November: 17 raids in one day in CO.
Don't forget Kickstarter too. More hardware stuff seems to be showing up on Indiegogo also (eg Canary).
Top Bugcrowd Security Hackers of 2013
>How would you weight a naive implementation of the DFT vs the FFT?

Luckily he didn't specify the dimensional requirements, so we can get away with f^[0] = f[0].
> it's hard to resolve "authorized" versus "unauthorized" deterministically without coming up with absurd situations

Like in other cases when computers meet the law, it's often a "colour of bits" distinction. I recommend this article:

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
The Path to Starting a Startup
"Okay, no problem. Welcome to our pen company! My name is Patrick- and you are? Circa? Great, nice to meet you."

Is this the first time you have been to our pen company Circa?"

:)
> It's also consistent with the fact that 17th century mathematics could make so much headway unravelling the laws of physics and we're still fumbling trying to understand bacteria.

Keep in mind that's pretty relative. 17th century physics was low-energy, newtonian, and euclidian. No insight into the microcosmos whatsoever. No insight into the high-energy macro-structures. No science of complexity.

In other words, a very narrow slice of the whole range of existence.
No, it's annoying as fuck.
It was enough for the author to write a good story on it.

Wastefulness be damned, it got the job done.
Am I the only one to see $90.00 pledged of $90,000 goal with only 5 backers ?
It would be nice if the email could be modified, but that's just a small thing. Or a custom message.

What language did you use, if you don't mind my asking?
I was wondering if this is the issue. I hit that damned key probably 2-3 times a week. I am a terrible typist. It doesn't really slow me however as the limitations to my work speed are not my typing. However if my typing is what is causing me to hit that key, this changes everything.
Unless you claim that the officials of MGU went great lengths to keep young Edward Frenkel out of the university for some other reason than his Jewish surname, you are giving an ex post facto excuse for the continued and long-standing discrimination against Jews that the Soviets inherited from the Russian Empire.

Although it was nowhere as bad as in the Old World, Jews were historically discriminated against in the U.S.—universities had Jewish quotas, for example. This had nothing to do with "being white", even if we limit ourselves to white European Jews. The whole "reverse discrimination" angle you try to bring in is neither here nor there.
Very good questions to ask, though I'm not sure it's a valid premise.

Can we measure or track morality similar to technical progress? How could we really know that we're on a "right" or "wrong" track on morality? We could say, "If we kill less of each other, we are on the right track" but how do we know that what might appear a small morale roadblock isn't setting us towards progress? For example: At first blush Hiroshima looked awful, though even there we had some ambiguity as generals defended national interest. But what if the experience in Hiroshima allowed us to keep our wits and not escalate Korea, Vietnam or Afghanistan into a nuclear war? There's no way to know if we made morale progress.

But I do like the question, which is, "How can we make sure we're increasing our ability to get along with each other, as we develop better weapons to hurt each other with?"
Well, for all those who say "a free market does exist": I don't consider a market as strictly regulated in terms of manufacturing (FDA) as well as in pricing (at least in Germany, and IIRC in the US anywhere Medicare/Medicaid is involved) as a truly free market.

Not only that, but sick people are making choices that, while technically free choices, are typically dilemmas, Catch-22s, Hobson's choices or worse: Sophie's choice.
Probability is a fact about you, not a fact about the coin.

Huh? It's a coin. You flip it. It has no knowledge of the past and no idea about the future. It lands and it's either heads 50% of the time and tails 50% of the time. It's all about the coin and nothing about what you've observed in the last N trials.

That's the simple logic that the OP is trying to see if you understand.
This is the simplest explanation, thank you.
Couldn't you just condition voting and commenting on a signup?

Seems pretty extreme (and bad for growth) that you ask me to give you my email before I can validate the product.
Can we please begin to penalize the phrase "growth hack" on HN?
> for pity's sake, will you comment in response rather than editing? It's a lot easier to keep track of the former than the latter.

Repyling gets delayed the further down the chain it goes. I didn't see the edits as they came up live, but that may have been why.

> which is that "against vulnerable minorities" is a problem. If you're going to shoot for a utopia, why not aim as high as you can?

I'm also in favor of this goal, but you seem to be thinking we can target all violent or violence condoning cultures en masse, which is a much harder proposition. You're also suggesting that we leave step 2 with just ??? and go to step 3 "world peace", we have to finish step 2 first and define it. It turns out it's really a thousand steps, some that can be taken together, and some that enable the rest. Consider just the general anti-gay culture in the US, it would be awesome if we could wake up tomorrow and see a free and open world. It's not going to happen, but there are steps in that direction. Until 2 years ago a number of friends and some family members who were in the US military couldn't openly discuss their relationships because of DADT, if they had they risked being discharged from the military. That same military now provides benefits to same-sex couples that used to be reserved for opposite-sex couples. Is the problem solved? Hardly (see Oklahoma), but it's getting there. We have to choose the battles that we can win, the battles we want to fight even though we will lose (at least this time, but maybe tomorrow), and the battles we'll have to wait to fight. It's not a surrender, it's not quitting, it's accepting that sometimes with our finite lives and finite energies we can't solve every problem at once. If one group wants to take on transphobia as a cause, and another wants to take on homophobia as cause and another wants to take on misogyny as a cause (opposition to these things, I mean), they aren't at odds with each other. And a victory with one often leads to victories in the others.
That would be a good start on a site that doesn't require authentication. :)
I disagree; as long as we're generalizing about how "Hacker News" any one comment is, let's call yours the perfect HN comment: Bikeshedding (as if the world is black and white, no less) about who is the most wrong in a discussion. The commenter above you was at least still on the point, made an attempt at an alternate solution, and still left reasonable room for shades of gray.

The only thing that could top your comment is mine; now we're two meta levels deep, not even discussing the original article anymore.
You should try the Desert Bus game.
I simply imply that people are responsible for their actions. People were given the knowledge to make nuclear weapons by those smarter than them.

The fact that others may very well have eventually given them the same is neither here nor there, and your weird obsession with requiring it be angels and aliens does nothing to alter that. If you assume many groups of aliens, each species of which might have given out nukes, then you're in the exact same position as our theoretical physicists - 'of course humans weren't entrusted with nuclear weapons, after all, aliens aren't all part of a great alien conspiracy....'

The two scenarios are functionally analogous but for the fact that ALIENS is posted into the second.

You're just dancing with semantics.
I don't want to turn this into a continuous argument, but I studied WWI a lot so kinda wanted to comment on that.

As far as WWI goes, the reason Americans think that we saved the day is because about the time we sent several million troops over, Russia had surrendered and the Germans diverted their veteran soldiers from the Eastern to the Western front. Further, we think it's important that we prevented the continued unregulated use of u-boat warfare, which had been crippling the UK.

As for WW2, it's probably because the USSR was the bad guys so we couldn't acknowledge their success.
Managing Multi-Cultural Call Centers
The memorabilia that one can see as they walk into the Focus Services headquarters not only speaks to the wide ranging cultural footprint we have left, but to the individual agent who has contributed to efforts which allow them to reach outside themselves and serve other communities giving each employee a sense of a company-wide culture which places great emphasis on the value of service.
Agreed. It's a bit of a tradeoff. Definitely companies that need to hold prices in, but I'd venture that a lot of mid market companies that are opaque about their pricing should actually be more transparent.

Good rule of thumb - more custom product or custom customer, then more customer/opaque pricing.

You can still do much better than a "contact us for pricing" page though.
Believe it or not, but this whole "stunt" (including this deck) hasn't generated that many signups in the long run. The best of my "hacks" would be creating the AngularJS module (http://timothy.userapp.io/post/69135125206/day-25-minimizing...) and then writing about it on Stack Overflow (http://timothy.userapp.io/post/70136752527/day-31-answering-...).
Building a living photo frame with a Raspberry Pi and a motion detector
Tor Hidden-Service Passive De-Cloaking
Do others get this? I don't. 11 and 13 air, Mavericks and wifi.
“Oh, you don’t have a pen anymore. Supply and demand, bro.”
Anything in the range U+0800 to U+FFFF takes three bytes per character in UTF-8 and two in UTF-16 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Unicode_encodings...:

"Therefore if there are more characters in the range U+0000 to U+007F than there are in the range U+0800 to U+FFFF then UTF-8 is more efficient, while if there are fewer then UTF-16 is more efficient. "

That same page also states: "A surprising result is that real-world documents written in languages that use characters only in the high range are still often shorter in UTF-8, due to the extensive use of spaces, digits, newlines, html markup, and embedded English words", but I think the "citation needed]" is added rightfully there (it may be close in many texts, though)
This seems to be a softspoken opinion on this thread, but I definitely agree. Would love to see data on different products and the results of their pricing strategy. I think the major differentiator is SaaS that is sold in bulk (the entire company will start using the service after the buying decision is made) versus single license from a user that is making a buying decision only for themselves. The data could help to show how SaaS relates to a long tail distribution, where the tail is made up of the sort of single license purchases I mentioned.

Also, what the article doesn't talk about is Free Trial options. This might not really be related to pricing pages in general, but are definitely important to how buying decisions are made.
For me the best choice is still an analog alarm clock, because it doesn't tempt me to check my mails or read my feeds in the morning instead of preparing for truly important work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birobidzhan

This Birobidzhan? Doesn't particularly look like a wasteland.
As a picture the graph may be worth a thousand words, but in this case all of them are nonsensical.

Seriously, what the fuck is the graph mean supposed to mean? Is it really trying to show the delta's of technology and morality? How is that supposed to be measured? Or is it some aggregate amount of technology compared to an aggregate amount of morality? And even if it is, how was that measured?

On the other hand, those who have suggested that what is meant by morality is unclear, are mistaken. It is very clear. It is a traditional Abrahamic view - eating from the tree of knowledge is evil. And though we could just blame Eve, it doesn't go with the pseudo-scientific presentation.

So let's blame the Gateses. Gateses took our precious Netscape. Nasty dirty sneaky Gateses. We hates the Gateses.
Yes, this "list of techniques" revealed by the German newspaper Der Spiegel is another thing that will be someday used against Snowden in a U.S. court...

Reason I say that is because as long as we're operating under the assumption that the U.S. will have a branch of the government somewhere that is able to engage in cyber-conflict activities (offensive or defensive), those cyber conflicts will be dependent upon weapons with which to fight them.

Even those who are mistrustful of NSA ever looking at domestic data seem to at least be aware that U.S. networks are constantly under attack (e.g. the Aurora attack on Google, countless attacks on U.S. defense contractors), and that it might be good for the U.S. to have similar capability.

And now the list of secret (cyber-)weapons is out for the whole world to see.

Contrast what would happen if this was a top-secret military weapons program (like, say, a stealth helicopter). How would the spy who leaked it have been treated?
It's not correct to say that "Jews were deported." It was most definitely a choice for most of the Jews that went there (my grandfather's family was among them,) and the government incentivized migration there with a stipend of several thousand rubles to those that decided to stay (most families didn't and the huge influx of population in the 1920s, again in the late 30s and early 50s was balanced out by an enormous population decline that continues today as the population leaves for America and Israel.)

Those that did not want to stay (and who would? the government organs in Moscow didn't coordinate with ones in the Far East. As a result, housing was rationed in an extremely inefficient way: land was parceled out without first having been surveyed so that some plots didn't have running water and weren't ready for settlers) could ultimately go back to the cities they came from.

The reason Stalin didn't want to settle the Jews within the Pale of Settlement is because that experiment had already been tried with Jewish communal farms in the 1920s in Crimea[1], and the Soviet government had found that the people there weren't huge fans of Jews, so Birobidzhan was established to ease tensions there, "solve the Jewish problem," and to secure the Sino-Soviet border.

It's true, however, that many American Jewish groups in the late 1930s and again in the early 1950s were fed stories about how amazing life was in the Autonomous Jewish Region, complete with shining pictures of hearty, hale pioneers smiling near their plots of land. Ambijan (American Committee for Birobidzhan) [2] was an especially popular one that had celebrity spokespeople, starting with Einstein.

[1] http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Crimea
[2]http://www.swarthmore.edu/Home/News/biro/html/panel30.html
A Close Encounter with a Pay-to-Pitch Investor
Yes, and the streets were paved with blood.

The arc of history is long, but it turns toward justice, and away from onanistic nostalgia.
Just saying, this was the first shutdown in something like 17 years. Not exactly a common occurrence.
Our answers to your question may match, but I very much doubt that our answers on the original question match. The crux is that your question is not equivalent to the original question. If you are interested in learning why that is I can explain it further, but it doesn't look like you are?
I'm also a huge fan of todo lists. I like the simplicity of this approach. I still feel like Trello is better though. Trello is almost perfect. It's heavier for sure, but you gain a ton of flexibility and power.

My wife and I put an old iPad up on our fridge and use Trello to maintain needed groceries, chores, household repairs, and upcoming events. Even better, these lists automatically sync to our phones and PCs. I can just head to the grocery store whenever I have a free moment and my grocery list is always up to date and ready for me.
I'd rather give you the pen and sell the ink...
Counterproductive from an individual perspective; the only means of productivity from an organizational perspective.
So, I think that tge question is ambiguous, and a little more direction could clear it up. If you want to know the probability, taking into account the 10 heads results thus far, I would tell the interviewee, "I am going to do this process repeatedly (picking a coin and flipping 10 times), and I'm going to keep track of what percentage do the all one side thing. What will that percentage be approximately?".
Noooooooooooooo. :)
Ask HN: Which books changed your life?
What books inspired you? Changed your worldview?
I too wish there was an easier way to distinguish this.

One of my weekend projects involved stripping actor, genre, and director information from IMDB for the AFI Top 100 movies. The prototype was simplistic but still gave some interesting data to mine (e.g. Robert Duvall has been in the most AFI Top 100 films, credited 6 times).

The next step of the project would be to strip more data from IMDB, but I hesitated since I didn't want to get my IP banned or something. I had never considered that what I was doing could potentially be illegal.
How often do people use the power button versus accidentally hitting it? I'd say that my primary intentional use of that button is restarting the computer after hitting the button by mistake. Shutting down and powering up are rare activities for me.
Edit: waking from sleep rather than powering up - however it is often I restart I am doing as the wake from sleep is flakey for some reason.
My only concern is this... If you've convinced yourself your whole life that you're going to die at a certain date will the placebo effect come into play and actually make you die prematurely around that date?

Other than that it works and it works well. I'm 27, the average male lives to age 72, which means I've got 45 years of life left. It's boosted my productivity, helped me focus on the things that matter, helped me manage my fear of what others think of me (I don't care anymore).

My next experiment is to have a countdown timer on my desktop that counts down to my demise. A bit morbid but I've accepted things like this long ago so it's not depressing.
"Add more than 100 entries per month for $3" is brilliant. People won't know they're locked into the app until halfway into the month.
I work in an office with a hundred lawyers. They do NOT spend their own time staying current.
I think you're incorrect because your conceptual model of what constitutes "probability" is incorrect for this type of problem.

Try thinking about it in a more brute force way: imagine literally all possible outcomes of performing this experiment. In other words, create a list like this (each coin in the jar is numbered from 000 to 999 with 999 being the only biased coin, and coin flips are represented by 0 being heads and 1 being tails):

Picked fair coin #000, flipped 00000000000 (eleven flips)
Picked fair coin #000, flipped 00000000001
Picked fair coin #000, flipped 00000000010 ...
Picked fair coin #000, flipped 11111111111
....
Picked biased coin #999, flipped 11111111111

Now select all of the lines above where the first ten flips are heads. Of these outcomes, how many have an eleventh flip of heads and how many have an eleventh flip of tails? Unless my idea of probability is flawed, this should be the same answer that the mathematicians in this thread are providing, so something right around 75% heads.
Well, Obama not only supports it, he definitely has the power to do something about it if he wanted to. He doesn't want to. It's not that it can't be stopped; if the President wanted to do so he could conceivably fire the CIA and the NSA.
I have a hard time believing that the design was arbitrarily changed.

The request to add string-APIs to the bytes object have been brought up before [0]. I think the reasoning is quite clear: byte-strings are not textual objects. If you are sending textual-data to a byte-string API, build your string as a string and encode it to bytes.

[0] http://bugs.python.org/issue3982

For working with binary data there's a much cleaner API in Python 3 that is less prone to subtle encoding errors.

edit: I realize there is contention but I'm of the mind that .format probably isn't the right method and that if there were one it'd need it's own format control string syntax.
Words matter. To quote Frank Chimero:

"I think words are abstractions, and abstractions become expressions that frame our understanding of our experiences, expectations, culture—everything. Language is an interface, and if an interface can mold behavior and perception, than language does that to your life."
What are your qualifications? What's your track record in product design that we should be so interested in enlisting your help?
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It's really interesting to watch this thread. I'm not saying that you should simply trust what the other commenters are saying, but the user crntaylor is the one that originally posted the question, and his solution is that the likelihood of the next flip being heads is 75%
The app is missing Moldavan leu (MDL)[1], which I wanted to use. The password protection is a must have for me too. Or maybe a simple pattern lock.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_leu
Email Transparency at Khan Academy
This is solid logic; if the free market can do anything,

Whether it can in principle, versus whether it does in reality are of course two very different things.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
-Fourth Amendment, US Constitution

It's pretty hard to square the alleged seizure of all privately transmitted data with the Fourth Amendment.

Attempts to justify it that we've heard about so far, like the assertion that it's not a seizure until the data is "looked at" is clearly a post-hoc rationalization which, put nicely, strains credibility.
This is great, simple and easy. I wish that it didn't save a revision every time you checked an item. I'm more interested in keeping revisions on how my list items change. Granted, there could be some value in knowing when I completed items, but that being said, when you check an item is not necessarily when it was completed.
Organization Web Apps For Web & Graphic Designers
Lightning unofficial cable trick for iOS 7
I always maximize my browser windows. There are a handful of applications that's true of, browsers, video players, IDEs, and games for the most part always get the fullscreen treatment. Chat clients, terminals, certain kinds of editors, etc. I usually tile. Of course my screen is only 1920x1080 so results may vary (I miss my 1920x1200 monitor, but they're so hard to find at a reasonable price now).
This might be interesting for positioning radiation targets without support structures. I wonder how well this would work at high-pressures or in liquids.
For me, it's still paper. Specifically, this paper:

http://www.amazon.com/Strathmore-Visual-Journal--Mixed-Media...

The spiral bound means it can be left open to the right page, and the thick paper is great. Version control (new pages) is built in. And the best part is that it's always right there in front of me, and I can glance down.