skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that are definitely a valid concerns I prefer that closed undocumented system over others that have actively been used to steal money(sometimes even undetected for some days). The probability that a virus infects my computer is (even with up-to-date software and AV) magnitudes greater than someone breaking the debit card transaction authentication.

So until something better comes around chipTANs "hopefully/maybe some level of cryptographic based security" beats "sheet of paper with no verification at all" ;).
Didn't RSA do this before EMC bought them? It's not clear how much, if any, involvement EMC has in RSA.

Should we boycott Redis and RabbitMQ?
No, I work for iovation. We do large scale realtime fraud prevention for many of the largest banks and internet businesses through a shared network of device reputation.

There's a lot more to Portland than just Puppet, though we do use a ton of their product. We love those guys.
In the context of this post, you indeed take and mangle samples. Generally speaking, you can create/synthesize samples, nothing wrong with it.
I doubt they will respond. I think they are unlikely to ever really find out. If they find out it is better for them to ignore it because an official response could be picked by main stream media and turn into bad PR for them. By ignoring this story will remain within 'our' very small community and the intersect of those that are Brazilian.
> GVR himself has acknowledged everything I said

I hate to be picky, but he only acknowledged portions of what you said.

> but a couple decorators held this one back.

@classmethod and @staticmethod are somewhat important language features to not break.
If it's so bad why are they waiting to 2016 to ban it? Aren't there people who are forced to use this like food workers and hospitals? Not to mention schools, public bathrooms and people who just don't know any better buying it for their home?
Forget about banks. Police, hospitals, all sorts of more impactful places.
> So why would you willfully pick to use C when C++ is around?

There are many reasons to not use C. But C++ existing is not one of them. Over the 15 years or so that I've used C++, there is always the constant nagging feeling that I don't really know what is going on. My programs tend to work. But I often find that there are incredibly subtle nuances buried deep in the C++ run time model that are simply beyond comprehension.

If you can keep all the rules of C++ in your head, then you are a god among gods.

Today there are few reasons to even need C++. I tend to stick with C or go to Perl/Python. I don't really need a language that attempts to straddle the middle. Especially one that more often than not, gets it all wrong anyway.
https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/20111229_9C_Hepting_Opini...

"II. The 2008 Amendments to the FISA

While the underlying actions were pending in district court,
and partially in response to these suits, Congress enacted the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, Pub. L. No. 110-261, 122
Stat. 2435, codified at 50 U.S.C. § 1885a. Among the amendments is § 802, an immunity provision and related procedures that are triggered if the United States Attorney General certifies to one or more of five conditions. In such case, no civil action may be maintained “against any person for providing assistance to an element of the intelligence community.” § 802(a)."

This to me says such an action would not even get off the ground let alone them having to answer the "what did you think the $10m was buying" question.
Odd... I was under the impression that Google was created over a decade ago, and that it still looked and quacked (?) like a one-trick pony for all intents and purposes.

But who knows... Perhaps, after purchasing a zombie business for $12 billion and multiplying its staff by nearly an order of magnitude in the process, it might learn another trick or three.

And yes, isn't it very weird that Google makes more from ads displayed on iDevices than it does from ads displayed on Android devices, in spite of the fact that the latter are reputably ahead in terms of market share?

How could we possibly explain that? Is it that Android devices are used as dumb phones? That Android tablets are gathering dust in drawers? That iDevices are so superior that users don't mind the extra ad annoyance? All of the latter? Other things? I honestly wonder... If you've a sane explanation, then please, do tell, because I'm at a loss to make any sense of this myself.
I think the parent's point is that she made the mistake in the first place at all, which lessens her credibility reporting on nuclear-power-related material.

Which I agree with, but I still feel better about the accuracy of this article over pretty much anything else I've read about seawater contamination due to the Fukushima disaster.
I am confused. Is it that the transfer speed was limited by the compression algorithm rather than the speed at which the images can be retrieved from the photo sensor array? I had assumed it is the latter.
While your approach works most of the time, there are many cases where there isn't such a thing as a 'critic section' or a 'hotloop'. Performance relevant sections can be spread out into hundreds of places and reimplementing all of them can be less efficient than a complete rewrite. Guessing the performance characteristics of complex programs (e.g. not just computational in nature) is hard, and therefore so is the language choice.
Disturbing to see the number of reports of data loss. I am using Evernote heavily for my PhD research. I haven't found another tool that works as well as Evernote for this.

I've never had data loss, but I was very disappointed by my one interaction with Evernote support - a simple bug report, (you cannot select more than one line of text in a bullet list in the Android app), turned into a series of 6 or 7 email interactions asking me to do things that were unrelated to the problem and clearly weren't going to (and didn't) help. It was obvious that no human had bothered to even attempt to reproduce the issue or even read my bug report in any detail. I don't know if they've outsourced their bug report handling to some untrained / unskilled off shore group, but if not they were trying extremely hard to emulate that. I don't like to think about interacting with these people in the event that I have data loss or other kind of bug that actually matters.
All tokens distributed by banks I've seen until now here display the amount and the receivers account number prior to generating the transaction confirmation number. So you can double check that everything is correct
The Rich Country Trap
Take a strong position in your writing at the beginning. After the climax of your piece (write cinematically also), you can be a bit more conciliatory and critical of your strong position, because your reader will be also, but only after hooking them pre climax.
Yes, I know Microsoft put "LINQ" over the entire thing, but calling map, filter, fold etc. "LINQ" seems to be a huge stretch. Method-based query options were around in .NET and C# before the LINQ name existed.

It's not really "Language INtegrated" if there's no real language aspect, is it?
That is an amazingly well delivered monologue. Never heard of this guy, must keep tabs on him, I have new-found respect for mainstream journalism.
I whole heartedly support public shaming. It's about perception management.

RSA is no longer regarded as invincible, infalliable.

I met some cocksure RSA shirts (sales engineers?) waiting for their espresso. I cheerfully congratulated them on their employer's security fobs getting pwned [1]. I'm sure they were visiting our company for damage control. They tried to play it off "Gee, whatever are you talking about?"; I'm sure everyone got the memo.

I just looked them in the eye and said "Don't play stupid. I read the news." Their demeanor completely changed. Real contrition.

Like everyone, I have some skin in this game. As an election integrity enthusiast, I'm exhausted by the techno utopian stooges promoting crypto as a cure all.

The more the public understands the emperor has no clothes, the safer we'll be.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurID#March_2011_system_compr...
At first I thought your handle 'digisign' was the name of that Dutch certificate authority (DigiNotar) that got hacked last year. That would have been so funny :)
The millions they have spent are simply PR and damage control.
In Berlin, weed is ...liberally treated by the police. A park with a huge refugee population is known for its open-view dope dealers, and the distric parliament is even thinking of using a loophole in controlled-substances laws to open an experimental coffee shop (Germans, read http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2013-11/berlin...).
Not sure if these corrections are needed, maybe it was just sloppy wording, but here they are nonetheless:

Depends on why they survived I guess. If they lived because they happened to have particularly thick skulls and managed to pass it on to their children, you could indeed argue that overuse of truck dropping can lead to resistance in the human population.

And even in the real case of bacterial resistance it isn't that they (the individual bacteria)actually become more resistant; they were already resistant and now they have the opportunity to pass on their genes to a much larger fraction of the population, changing the gene ratios significantly. By definition that is evolution.
> their response time is pretty impressive

That's because it's PR triage rather than actually addressing the issue. It shows they are listening and care about their image, which is good, but not much more.
“Chinese Women, Please Don’t Sleep With Foreigners” (2010)
In vancouver, yes you can smoke it in public places but most people don't except around beaches and parks or in dedicated vapor lounges (BYOS, bring your own stash) most people don't give a shit, but some old timers might be give you a stare and quickly look away because obviously marijuana is dangerous like heroin and that you are a thieving junky.

A police officer should you run into one, the worst he can do is take it away from you, if you happened to have a lot of it on you.
Protesting with a mirror
Or http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5499_-_en_-_... (incl download option in mp4 hq and lq and webm).
Well you probably get shit-tons of spam addressed to you, though it might not make it all the way to your inbox proper.
I live in Idaho and I'm glad this is happening. I've noticed an interesting trend lately where libertarians are starting to take non-conservative and non-republican stances that are more in line with what progressives like me might align with.

Those living in the coastal blue states may not realize how conservative Idaho is. We have similar politics to Wyoming (Dick Cheney was elected to the US House of Reps there) but with more emphasis on ranching, timber and mining. There are small pockets of liberalism in Boise and Hailey. But for the most part there are no progressive politics here. Nearly all state votes toe the republican party line. So when a controversial topic comes up (global warming, alternative energy, healthcare, endangered species, conservation, sustainability, etc) we already know how the vote will fall and it can be disheartening.

For example I have never been able to participate in a presidential election (I still go to the polls for the popular vote though). I think people living in Austin, TX or Boulder, CO know what this is like. It's like South Park. But sometimes it becomes so obvious that a policy is failing that it crosses party lines and gets reformed.
You're probably right. My comment wasn't actually directed towards Triclosan, but since Triclosan is the subject of the article here, it makes my comment kind of out of place.
New module for form-scoped input navigation on touch devices
Well, the cars that google are developing also (AFAIK) rely on an existing 3D map of the environment of similar detail to what they scan in.
It won't contribute to resistance. There is a possibility it could become resistant to the chemical itself at best, but it's not like it would become resistant to antibiotics or anything from that. If anything the resistance would make it weaker, since adaptions that make organisms resistant usually make them reproduce slower and less fit.

Only a small percent of bacteria would be exposed to the soap so it wouldn't have a huge selection pressure. Chemicals used to kill bacteria outside the body are generally much harsher and harder to build resistance to than antibiotics which have to avoid killing human cells. So I don't think resistance is very likely.

I don't know if there is an advantage of antibacterial soap, but humanity hasn't "survived just fine" with regular hand soap. Washing hands to prevent infection wasn't even common until the past century or so.
broken link: http://gitsense.com/developers.html
The "empty your pockets" trick is particularly disgusting.
That's not true. There are many thinks inherently wrong with PHP security. And while you can write crap and insecure applications in any language, PHP actively encourages it.
concurrent.futures is available for Python 2.x.
What "viable search engine competition" really looks like
My bad, the parent comment's logic contains multiple fallacies:

False dichotomy of a slippery slope all-or-nothing boycott with the all option there is another false dichotomy of "limited alternatives." Sounds like rationalization BS for doing nothing to me.

If the options were so "limited," why isn't there more crowdfunding of open source hardware &| software security modules?
Does golang support reified code/expression trees/quoted code/whatever you wanna call it? That seems to be a rather critical part of making it work.

Or you use RethinkDB's RQL approach, which implements a bunch of functions that record what you did, at the cost of not being able to put relatively arbitrary expressions inside the query.

Or how else do you translate ".Where(x -> x.Age > 10)" into SQL?
I think the solution to that problem should be that if a programmer doesn't understand the difference between RSA the company and RSA the algorithm or the difference between a random number generator and an asymmetric algorithm, for God's sake don't let them anywhere near any crypto code.

Of course that probably won't happen since programmers who don't know what they're doing implementing crypto seems to be as popular as ever.
Though if press releases were customarily haikus, I think everyone would be happier.

I'd settle for limericks.

For all the perceived annoyances of rigid formats they seem to have the benefit of forcing you to really think about what you want to say.

I've done a few Ignite talks, and one talk following the pechakucha format, and they are fairly demanding. I generally start preparing for such talks by writing out an essay of what I hope to cover. It's always way too long. So then comes the hard part: culling the cruft so that your limited time is well spent.

I've come to believe that this is a good way to prepare for any talk. First create the Ignite/pechakucha version, then think carefully about what deserves expansion.

I've not done this with essays. Perhaps, though, there's something to be gained by first drafting an essay as a sonnet, or a series of haikus (or limericks, for that matter).

Then expand as needed. If nothing else the final result should have a number of memorable poetic phrases. Or double-entendres.
IFixit Mac Pro 2013 Teardown 2: Chunk of gold in the top
There's a new alternative to pyqt, though its name escapes me now.
Javascrippled and no response from https://www.faroo.com/
Thirded.

I'm likely a textbook CSS "hater" according to wisty's post in this thread.

But I don't hate CSS because I don't believe it is powerful, rather because the amount of concepts and context-specific modalities you have to understand to do things that would be trivial with any other layout framework (like vertically center one thing in another thing) is absolutely bonkers.

CSS gurus will often knee-jerk defend it from people who say things like that, but objective third-parties need only read through CSS questions on a site like stackoverflow to see a mountain of questions where someone is trying to accomplish something that is conceptually quite simple and they are faced with page after page of jsfiddle "answer" links that don't actually even fix the problem they were having because their layout implementation was using a different display model on the divs in question (or whatever other random context-specific thing that makes the actual solution non-universal).

Being powerful is nice, and CSS is powerful, but there's something to be said about keeping the simple things simple and CSS fails massively on that.
There are no legal ways to obtain marijuana in Barcelona. If it's Sativex what you're talking about it's not the same and it was a trial on 600 patiens.
I think this is just semantics. If Google's technology is powering my self-driving Honda Civic, someone has to pay for it. The hardware, the software, the service, all three of those are going to cost money. Google is not going to give away the hardware, someone will buy that, but that's not where the money is. They might give away/open source some of the software, that's irrelevant.

The big question is if the live navigation and driving service is going to be like Google Maps or Google Apps.

I don't think the division between paid vs ads has anything to do with consumer vs business. It has to do with if someone will pay for it, plain and simple, or if they have to monetize it through advertising (directly or downstream.) Android they had no choice and were willing to do anything to ensure they didn't miss the smartphone train. Here, they have all the leverage and no competition.

I'm pretty sure you'll see auto manufacturers paying for the service in a license-like fashion to put it in all their cars or consumers will pay directly for the service. I don't think anyone expects their car to drive itself around for free, and will be willing to pay for it, just like they don't expect free internet service and pay google for Google Fiber. I said "licensing" but what I meant really is "pay for the service directly."

edit: Oh, and even if it turns out consumers get a free ride (literally :)) you're still looking at absurd revenue from all the commercial entities that will have a need for this technology, both traditional ones (shippers, commercial transportation) and new ones we haven't thought of yet that become possible once the tech is available, like car-sharing services or micro-shipping. Google certainly isn't going to let them use it for free.
The story is naive, particularly coming from the New York Times. The governor in NY has nearly unlimited power to push through legislation with the budget process.

Its a way for a governor with presidential ambition to earn some progressive street cred. Some sort of highly regulated medical pot regime supplied by police seizures sounds like a very minimal step forward.
>a sales tax on a state level

Some states have taxes, some don't. Some states allow cities or counties to have taxes, some don't. Some tax different items differently. Most places have no tax on food in grocery stores, but tax restaurants (as it is a service). One city can tax clothes, but one does not, etc.

For example, in New York City, there is a small tax on most/all (a fraction of a percent) taxable items to fund the mass transit system there, the MTA.

Some places make up for lack of/lower sales tax by larger property taxes, or other types of taxes (lotteries, etc...) High tourist areas can tax things like rental cars and hotels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_State...

I think it's more part of the United States culture, with things being done on a more local level. It's in the long run, confusing.
Sure, I'll bite.

One of the practical challenges we ran into was powering the damned things in embedded environments--PoE can handle this neatly. Another part was working out if cooling became an issue in our chosen environment...we figure we'll cross that bridge after alpha testing shows how things go. I suspect a small fan and convective cooling will be sufficient, if not a big heatsink built into the case.

We also looked at using BeagleBone Blacks for the same application. The main draw of a Raspberry Pi was that you can replace them easily and they're good enough for an MVP until you can justify developing a real embedded system.
So that's why macs are more expensive! Maybe there's a gold bar tucked away in your macbook pro right now.
> What do normal soaps advertise as. "Non-anti-bacterial soap"?

"Probiotic"!

I'm only half-joking. Maybe "polarizing"? That's essentially what soap is doing: it's a polarizing agent that helps bacteria wash away. It's a word that's sufficiently confusing sounding to pass as a decent marketing term, and it's not wrong!
FLOSS Weekly had one of the lead OwnCloud devs on recently. Of course, he was asked ‘why PHP’. Answer: to make it possible for as many people to deploy it as possible, on commodity shared hosting (or anything better they might have).

There's basically nothing that can achieve that level of deployability besides PHP.

Hearing that reasoning helped me with some of the concerns I had about its implementation language. It sounds like they know what they are doing, and are very careful (including careful code review), they just want the software to be as widely usable as possible.
One idea would be to pay the race facilities directly, rather than paying the organizers. Now someone trying to rob you will need to set up 2 identities to do it...
As it turns out, the very LAST thing you want is "a government that's run like a business".

Running a city or state for (ever growing) profit is a fast trail to hell.
The Aladdin Etoken looks pretty nice. It seems that their FIPS 140-2 Level 3 is basically a full blown HSM.

However, it's the same company that makes CRYPTOCard (do a search for "fortezza" to read up on the history).

Edit: The parent to this post originally said "Aladdin Etoken" instead of "open source soft tokens".

Open source software tokens aren't really acceptable since you need to run them on a multi-purpose device which has several paths to exploit. It's not a "false dichotomy" if there aren't any reasonable options. I'm not willing to settle for a device that doesn't solve the only problem it exists for.
It's possibly worth mentioning that the original moon shots were - in a sense - exercises in publicity. OK, that's putting it a bit crudely, but if you read Kennedy's speech announcing the goal of putting a man on the moon (http://www.space.com/11772-president-kennedy-historic-speech...) he emphasizes how impressive a feat this would be, and he frames the whole enterprise in terms of a battle with the Soviets for hearts and minds of mankind.

While I can't say that I'm personally very keen on the whole idea of Google Glass, and I don't know how genuinely innovative these "moon shots" are. But even if they are not particularly innovative at all, I don't think there's anything inherently dubious about Google engaging in publicity for their vision of what the future could be.
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Yes, and yet that is what brought anti-bacterial into the mainstream here in Norway.
Why did you have trouble powering them? No access to regular plugs in your environment?

And yeah, we'll have to see if we encounter any issues with cooling as well.