skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, very easy. In a mac you just plug in a Firewire/thunderbolt device[1]. More extreme measures involve freezing the RAM. Both require physical access to the machine, but a bit more scary that plugging your laptop into a public display/TV gives an attacker control of your computer and passwords.

Full disk encryption TrueCrypt/BitLocker/FileVault can act as countermeasures[2] and modern versions of OSX don't allow DMA from the login screen anymore.

[1] http://www.breaknenter.org/2012/02/adventures-with-daisy-in-...

[2] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/49277520_Cold_Boot_M...
I find the factor theory much more plausible for 4000 years ago than the finger tip theory. Why are there 24 beers in a case? Because 2 * 3 * 4 and the geometry of efficient packing. This would have been as true then as now.
Interesting concept. Simplify the sensors as much as possible and do all of the work in the software. I'm guessing they have profiles that allow you to determine how a sensor's data is interpreted. I wonder if they allow you to define custom profiles or at least have access to the raw data.
Vulnerability in MSOffice 365 allows unauthorised Administrator access
Sounds like a good idea until you realise that some people will bombard their doctor with questions all the time.
Stupid question: even if we use checksums and parity files and such to verify the integrity of our data, how do we verify that these integrity measures don't themselves become corrupted? Is it just "that's very unlikely to happen"?
Yes, mother weighs your poo.
Ubuntu phones likely delayed to 2015
What if I have just erased my USB-stick with good dose of /dev/random and haven't actually formatted it to any filesystem yet. Good encryption is indistinguishable from randomness, so could they blame me for not giving up password and jail me for carrying randomness in my pocket?
Probably CMM Level 5
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The story focuses on programmers. It uses gendered pronouns, but no more than if the article were about the sanction-beleaguered for-pay wifi down at the bazaar and the IT guy who owns the business.
with no way to detach/reattach or deal with disconnection reasonably
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The only thing missing in the video is Julian Assange as the narrator ;-)

Basically, this seems like a lifestyle device for pseudo-"hacktivists". And I expect people to install WhatsApp and Facebook on it. There was this article a few days ago: "When I was young there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you're a hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin' down MasterCard. But there's no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I'm mad about that."

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230463640...
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Hey! It sounds like you're describing ori [1]. Be sure to read the paper [2] because the website is a bit sparse on info. It's still young but the syncing, cheap snapshots, auto backups, etc. have been really nice. (it's only encrypted over transport though, I wish it were encrypted locally too).

1: http://ori.scs.stanford.edu/
2: http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=2522721&ftid=1403940&dwn...
The biggest fuckup here is that the NSA allowed this kind of info about their core work, which is fully in line with their defined agenda, to leak out into the open.

The damage through the Snowden leaks is massive, he did not concentrate on the misuse of the NSA against US citizen, this reveals core assets in their spying ablities. What a setback. Might as well invite foreign entities a tour of the NSA data centers.

My guess is the next guy that tries such a thing gets treated very differently, too late for Snowden, he is too famous now. The next one disappears if there is only a whiff of a leak. Ms Manning might be a better example of things to come.

The people overseeing Snowden's work/access should be tried though. Gross negligence, massive impact on national security.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've had good fortune with webfaction (affiliate link)

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Yeah, that was the issue. I didn't register the bike with insurance, so it wasn't covered.
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I strongly recommend this book, it's a really fun read. It explores different ways of measuring time and items used over centuries in various cultures. It clarifies why the invention of zero was such a big deal, and why latin numerals looked like letters (same reasons as runes! They were trivial to carve on measuring sticks). Heaps of trivia! This should be a mandatory book at schools, it explains how development of mathematics affected our life, with numerous examples.

More on topic, the book makes a good point how base 60 came to be. It appeared when two natural bases merged: base 12 and base 10. Base 12 is natural, because you can conveniently count to 12 using fingers of one hand. To do that, you use the thumb. Notice that each of your remaining fingers consists of 3 segments. 4 fingers left * 3 segments = 12.

Base 60 allows cultures using bases 12 and 10 to coexist. It's the least common multiple. Naturally, it ALSO made it easier to avoid fractions.
Ubuntu phones likely push to 2015, says Ubuntu community manager
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> somebody saying their house is in America, but not in DC or any of the states

I live on Midway Atoll, you insensitive clod! ;-)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_State...)
Thief is unlikely to be an avid bike enthusiast, and very likely he will be trying to sell it ASAP.

Monitor local classifieds ads (craigslist, kijiji, or whatever in your area) about related items. Visit "potential" thiefs. If bike found - agree on price, leave deposit.
Come back to "pickup your bike" together with police officer.

All "bike recovery success" stories and "how i screwed my bike thief" stories started exactly like that.
> It's pretty amazing that Adobe is doing particularly bad.

Adobe has historically been bad at playing well with Windows. They like to reimplement large parts of the UI.
I was under the impression that Tahoe-LAFS doesn't work offline. Is that not the case?
Do tell, what's coming in a few weeks?
The raw memory itself isn't safe either.

Ed Felton did some great work (2008) where he physically removed the sticks of DRAM from one computer, stuck them in another, and read their contents. But doesn't DRAM lose it's content without continuous power? Not if you turn a can of compressed air upside down and spray the chips first, cooling them to -50C! He used this to recover encryption keys and defeat whole disk encryption.

Pretty crazy stuff: https://citp.princeton.edu/research/memory/

update: link to images/videos: https://citp.princeton.edu/research/memory/media/
In my language we have an ancient term/story called 'Yaanai Kanda Vaadham' meaning the 'debate on the elephant' (the origin of the story is controversial so lets leave that out). Perhaps you have heard the story, four blind friends come across an elephant, each one holds a part of the elephant and equates it to what he knows and understands. Hey! there is a wikipedia page on it

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

When merits of processes are discussed devoid of its purpose (delivering quality software in business relevant time), the argument is similar to the story. The process is just the means of reaching the purpose isn't it? It is not like successful software was delivered only in the last decade, we have been to the Moon and back before that.

Unfortunately, processes are always made in good intention to achieve a purpose, this when transmitted from one person to another becomes a system, as there is no guarantee or way of enforcing 100% knowledge for all people in the chain. This deviates it pretty quickly from the purpose with focus only on the practice and soon the system becomes a religion.

Then surprise! people shed blood over it after that demanding that their book is the only truth :-)
Funny Fact: People Who Like Dogs are more likely to purchase an iphone by 37%.
>Should the US just not have any spy agencies?

Absolutely. The US should interact with foreign governments via the diplomatic process, pull up all its foreign bases, and stop playing "world policeman."

Not sure why this is so hard to understand. The justifications for actions like these either fall into "but we can't be world's policeman without these intel programs" or "the other guy does it" which are both morally bankrupt.

Being a citizen of a nation state does not require me to approve of that nation's foreign policy or military actions. In fact, I'm compelled to be extra critical of these things as they are often abused and cause not only domestic issues (large tax load, dead soldiers, blowback, etc) but worldwide issues as well.

We have yet to see any evidence that these dangerous and provocative technical programs have actually resulted in anything used to thwart attacks or other justifications from the usual defenders of the status quo. If anything, from a dollars per result perspective its a major tax dollar waste and a massive opportunity cost. If we had a Russian-like military budget my tax load would be lower and arguably allow me and others to invest and do things that can actually help domestic life, instead of watching my dollars get burned up in spy games and the slaughtering of completely innocent Iraqi and Afghani civilians over the last 10 years.
I'm in a co-working space and there is a guy who is a consultant who sites nearby and helps his clients "do agile".

His interpretation of this seems to be "Wing it, and if questioned just explain that we're reacting to change which is the agile way.".
In the current pro line, I'm not sure I would get anything other than the retina ones. Given that the 13 inch non retina has an older cpu, and a fairly low screen resolution. I've had no problems doing rails, sql, and vagrant on my 2012 13 inch MBA with 4gb of ram.
Also, that if they wan't to go offensive, they should try methods and techniques that have not been detailed in the headlines of every mayor newspaper in the world for six months.
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The hour. Is this supposed to be a trick question? 90% of the time, if I give the hour to quarter-hour resolution then I've done a good enough job of saying what time it is. I don't even think about minutes.
Not exactly the same thing but I found the following books quite useful for understanding how a lot of kernle code works:
- The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
- Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture

Still, nothing beats reading the source code :-)
Japan for example is strict about some drugs used to treat ADHD or anxiety in US and Europe, better travel with papers from a doctor.
I like it. How about adapting the background color gradient to the major colors of the picture? E.g. using https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6905547
The worst aspect is the real cost of interacting with both metric and imperial systems in America. Those costs manifest themselves in things like the crash of the Mars Climate Orbiter, or closer to home, the fact that I have to have both metric and standard wrench sets at home sitting in my garage to work on a range of projects.
> Seriously, human beings are going to choose (partially) negative experiences sometimes and you should let them. It's part of being a person. Use of (physical|emotional|technological) force to prevent this is both disturbing and ultimately futile.

O.o

Have you, like, seen children? My roommate's one-year-old regularly chooses to throw himself headfirst off the couch. She uses physical force to prevent him. Disturbing and futile, apparently!

Or, if we assume an exception for physical injury, I would certainly have chosen to spend my childhood indoors playing video games if my parents hadn't used emotional force to get me to go to school. I suppose you can try to derail onto the failings of public education if you like, but I wasn't interested in alternative education either; I just wanted to play video games, which would probably have resulted in me still living at home at 35 instead of having a degree and a satisfying, well-paying job. Clearly they should have just "warned" me that I was going to ruin my entire life, then stood aside and let me learn, eh?
The digital native myth AND the myth that people only click ads by mistake both need to end. Sometimes people use Google with buying intent, and the ads are the best and most appropriate result returned.

If anything younger users are likely to see ads as a valid part of the Internet and not as a corruption of the old web they used to know, unlike grizzled fogies like us.
Nice image. Thanks.

(upvote nonetheless)
"I think the worries of getting sucked into another Vietnam, or getting bogged down like the Soviets in Afghanistan have been debunked. As long as the political will is there, the US military can operate successfully in almost all combat scenarios."

You must pick your definitions of "operate", "successfully", and "combat scenarios" very carefully here to be a useful statement.
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One important thing this analysis points out: using a truecrypt volume (ie: a USB stick) on a non-truecrypt system is dangerous.
>women and children

I guess bombing men is okay for you?
I think the previous submission link was to the home page of the blog - this is to the actual post so that's why it was able to be submitted twice. Always a good idea to check the front page before submitting something though.
Ahah, I had that idea too, but there's a security problem with images from Instagram. Long story short: they don't allow cross-origin resource sharing, so that doesn't work.
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So not safe?
No, I'm not dense, I see property as property. You act as if I don't know what's going on technology wise. But I do know and understand, it's not a difficult situation to comprehend. Implying I'm dense or any other derogatory term is just an attempt to dismiss me without having to actually consider what I'm saying. You shouldn't do that because that's typically the defense of someone who has little to back up their side of the debate.

You simply want to redefine things so you can apply your alternative interpretation of ownership in a way that allows you to obtain someone's property without compensating them for it. You feel entitled to someone's work because it's easy to duplicate it. It could take an artist weeks or months to create their work and you feel they deserve nothing because you can copy it in seconds. That's a sad justification.

Whether the fact it can be easily duplicated is irrelevant. Someone created that work with their time that they can't get back. They spent a moment of their life away from other things creating this that they can't get back. They spent resources (not necessarily money) creating this that they can't get back. None of that can be duplicated in seconds. If they wish to be paid for granting you access to that work then they should be compensated as they wish. If you don't agree with the price of admission then you don't get access. Thinking otherwise is admitting you feel you are entitled to it because you simply want it and the original creator can suck it. You are saying the creator's time and effort is worth nothing.

I simply cannot agree with that way of thinking.
Yeah perhaps I could have worded my comment better. I meant Python (just like Java) supports parallelization as well, plus it seems to have better scientific libraries.
Super links, thanks.
It is not unthinkable that this was an approved and planned 'leak' for any number of reasons.

Also this doesn't appear to have been a leak associated with Snowden. But it is certain that the Snowden leaks even being possible is a huge f'up on the part of the NSA who is supposed to be all about secrecy and data security.
Windows was originally designed to be DPI-independent.

After all, Windows 1.0 had to run on 320x200 CGA adapters -- complete with non-square pixels.
Basically, yes. In the old days, integrity was ensured by using 1 bit in 8 parity, that is for every eight bits there would be an extra bit, and counting the bits set to 1 should always be even (or odd, depending). This meant that if there was a single bit flipped, you were guaranteed to detect the failure, but powerless to correct it. However, if you had two bits flipped, the parity would pass.

Nowadays, we use something more like a hash function, where we take the block of 4kB or so and produce a 64-bit hash of it. In order for this check to fail, the failure has a 1 in 2^64 chance of guessing a correct checksum for the corrupted data, which is very unlikely to happen.

Also, we have the possibility of using Reed-Solomon error correcting codes in some applications, which can not only detect errors but also correct them.
It doesn't matter that much which t-shirt or which dinner. People choose bad t-shirts and bad dinners all the time.

Even when people choose these things well, it isn't because they are "original" but because they are attending to context, e.g.: an automatically generated t-shirt on Amazon referencing rape is not appropriate to wear in public, and if I eat pizza so often I may develop diabetes.
It is quite remarkable how far things have come in a very short time.

When I was in undergrad (early 00's - Not that long ago), "geocoding" basically meant "linear referencing".

Linear referencing refers to taking a linear feature and returning a point some percentage along its length. For example, you take a database with the coordinates of roads and a record of the start and end address numbers for each segment, zip code, etc. (If I recall correctly, the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics used to provide a very nicely formatted shapefile for exactly this purpose.) It's quite easy to naively interpolate an address to a specific location from this. You can even easily incorporate odd/even road side designations, etc.

Unless, of course, you're somewhere where the address system doesn't work that way. (i.e. Most of the world.)

Now geocoding systems actually work for other countries. Therefore, they're amazingly complex and really interesting beasts.

For that reason, geocoding has mostly gone to a SAAS model. You can still build your own geocoder, but people have come to expect it to actually work.

It's interesting to see the change, at any rate.
I think this is obvious and also painful that no one is working on such fundamental internet infrastructure.
That's 1.3 million since 1775.
In the last 50 years, we're around 7 thousand.
The hash you're looking for is in the _Finished_ message; both sides are implicitly required to hash all handshake messages except for _HelloRequest_. The ClientHello message is most definitely authenticated in TLS; I think you're straightforwardly mistaken.
I've always felt that a race to the bottom has been inevitable for telepresence robots. Just look at what happened to Android tablets.

This 50% subsidized pricing on a new product tells me the race has already begun.
Linux has an easy to install port (http://zfsonlinux.org/). I remember OSX as having to use it via FUSE. I guess that leaves only Windows.

OS/2 had installable filesystems. Does Windows have something like it?
Thank you for pointing out that book!

It looks like it has a very good description of how C and generated code are used for object-oriented implemetation of VFS. Plain C is not immediately useful for object-oriented programming.

The goal of my blog post series is to describe how VFS works on a higher level.
It's interesting that all the work being done on this "secure" phone is being done on non-secure hardware and networks. Presumably if interested parties think this is a threat, they can access all comms/data about this new phone, inject themselves where they see fit and compromise the final product.

Oh, and never mind compromising the people involved.
It sounds like you have a specific policy recommendation. Do you mind stating it?
This is rather disappointing.

These smartphones will run Android rather than some version of webOS. I really enjoy my TouchPad still.
What does this mean for me? I have all my interal + external hard drives encrypted as well as my system drive.
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I've only had one cup of coffee so far, but...

The problem would be if the checksum AND the data _both_ became corrupted in a way that the checksum were still valid. After all, if the checksum were to change, you'd get a failure, and then you could just verify that the data was not actually changed and/or lost. Not to mention that if you stored the checksum in two places, it'd be pretty easy to see that it was the checksum that itself changed.
Not sure why this is so hard to understand.

Because diplomats demonstrably don't always cut it when you are dealing with bad-faith actors, and the world is not so full of love and sunshine as to have eliminated all the bad-faith nation-states.
There are so many hidden penalties for seeking medical help. When I went through a bad breakup, I saw someone and he thought a mild antidepressant would help. I saw him twice and took the medication for 9 months.

Almost four years later, I'm trying to get a pilot license for recreational purposes and now I have to admit to having had a mental disorder, get written statements from all providers, and go through special review from the FAA. I can't imagine what a special ops guy or airline pilot would go through.

That's not even mentioning the hell I went through for pre-existing conditions as a result of this prior to the ACA.

There are very strong disincentives to seek treatment.
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The same reason I litsen to Soma FM. Some good channels:

http://somafm.com/spacestation/

http://somafm.com/deepspaceone/

http://somafm.com/dronezone/

http://somafm.com/beatblender/

http://somafm.com/events/ (Def Con Radio)
I haven't had a chance yet to examine Linux VFS in details, so at the moment I can only talk about Solaris and FreeBSD ones.
TIL. I upgraded to Windows 8.1 but I didn't know about this. Anything Java doesn't handle high DPI and will simply be doubled and is a blurry mess. I actually turned off DPI scaling just because of Java but if I can control it on a per-application basis that would be preferable.
Structure types?
Amazon Kinesis tutorial - a getting started guide
Anyone has any idea about how far this research is nowadays?

The applications could be life saving beyond neonatology:

- Pregnant women being diagnosed with illness that would threaten the baby.

- Pregnant women being diagnosed with illness for which the cure would threaten the baby.

- Pregnant women in very serious accidents (mother dying, such a device could save the baby).

- Infertile couples not wanting to use a surrogate mother.

- Like "alexeisadeski3" said, gay couples wanting to have a baby (but then, which one gets to be the biological father?).

In the crazy science department, this would render the cloning of extinct species more viable.
Unfortunately, it could also reduce the hurdles to create genetically modified beings.
Hi. Author of the piece here. Thought this might be of interest to the Hacker News audience. I'm interested in hearing people's feedback and reactions to the piece.
The usefulness of cups comes from the fact that you create your own home unit depending what you need eith out needing to weight anything. It's just giving proportions, you can use a small cup for one portion size, or a big kettle for a battalion.