skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not hash collision, that's hash preimage attack.

If you can perform hash preimage attack, then faking a JS library is aiming really low.

• You could forge any SSL certificate.

• You could forge any PGP/GPG message (public key crypto is not applied to whole messages, only hashes of them, same with certs).

• You could maliciously modify Git repositories, even those with GPG signed releases like the Linux kernel.

• You could inject malware into any package repository, MITM software updates for all OSes, etc.

Basically security of the entire Internet and all secure software distribution depends on the fact that preimage attack against crypto hashes is impossible (i.e. time and/or energy required to perform a brute-force attack is literally astronomical).
Every organization would have to say to itself, "Option 1 or option 2"
Ugh. I'm going to guess Sky TV?

Lawyers ruin everything.
> who sent the previous president to jail

Not a previous president, but his political opponent.
In trademark, generally what matters is when the mark is used in commerce, not filing date. This is because trademark is all about consumer association. From what I can tell, Candy Crush Saga came first.
At first I thought, what is the point?

Then I clicked next a few times and visited random parts of France, Lithuania, Norway, and Harju County, Estonia on the coast of the Baltic Sea.

This is really cool.
Start your day off with an inspiration and motivating quote
I've been enjoying a similar site, http://www.mapcrunch.com/, for 2 or 3 years. It is very well done. You can select one or many countries in the options menu. It's a great way of enjoying the world from your couch.
God was this put together by some kind of secondary school student on work placement? It 6 pages with close to zero actual content that isn't just copy/pasted from the links they cite.

Awful.
...you have already been placed in a predicament where you have to accept the financial downside either in the form of taking a pay cut or having to find a new job. Again, the downside has already manifested and you are left dealing with the situation.

You seem to be confusing your wages with a bond or perhaps a call option. Just because you sold something at a price $X does not mean you own some right to continue selling it at the same price.

And if someone chooses not to keep paying you an old price, you have lost nothing - you simply have not gained as much as you thought you might.

Being a salaried employee protects your 50 year old blue collar worker from downside because the 30 years worth of savings he piled up is completely safe even if the company goes insolvent.
Who said they had to buy stock in the company they work for?
The Startup Pivot
What issue(s) are you having with GA right now? I've done some advanced configurations with GA and maybe can help.
They have the Google Street View Trekker program[0] where they have the backpacks similar to the units mounted on their Street View cars. They tend to do "tourist attraction" type areas like monuments, parks, and so forth.

[0] http://www.google.com/maps/about/partners/streetview/trekker...
Ahh no, I've just submited to HN my new library https://github.com/salboaie/harvests (simpler replacement to promises and flow control libraries)
So is torture. And we've got laws against laundering money for criminal enterprises.

If anything, the last 15 years has shown me that 'anything' is possible.
Fantasy Grounds plus TeamSpeak.

After attending a reunion with a bunch of college friends, we started up a gaming group again. Of course, we are now scattered all over the country, but using Fantasy Grounds solved that problem. It's a decent piece of software for remote role-playing and has lots of support for different systems. We are using Pathfinder because it's the best spiritual successor of the original AD&D.

After a couple months we started using Skype, which made the game move a lot faster, and later migrated to TeamSpeak, which makes for a really good environment for getting a geographically-diverse group together weekly. 6 years on and it's still going strong.
Yet another example of the problem of companies being beholden only to the interest of their shareholders. They can follow a stupid law, even go beyond it, but it never occurs to them to spend some of that cash pile on, instead, trying to fix a broken system that would allow them & others to trademark common words like "candy" or "saga" in the first place.
Or more broadly, civilians vs. people in power, whether they're a part of the government or not. (E.g. the French revolution which targeted the aristocracy.)
GitHub Undergoing DDOS Attack
Ugh, I didn't see that post. Implying that the probability that the US government engaged in COINTELPRO is significantly below 1 requires far more paranoia than belief to the contrary, given that the program was exposed, studied and publicly reported on at just about every level of government, and that the FBI itself confirms[1] that COINTELPRO did in fact exist.

Unless you meant the poster on here was saying that you'd have to be paranoid to believe that there is any sort of modern form of COINTELPRO. We are quickly going into the unknowable (to outsiders) and therefore faith-based, but certainly I wouldn't call it crazy to think that the US government might be engaging in some sort of covert operations today that are similar to covert-but-exposed operations from 40 years ago. To rule that out as inconceivable or stupid requires quite a lot of faith.

The DoJ itself has called various 21st FBI investigations of political dissidents troubling or improper[2]. And as far as I know, not one person in the FBI even so much as lost their job over COINTELPRO, so I'm not sure how one could suggest that we live in a world today where COINTELPRO-like programs simply couldn't exist. Of course the tactics would be different today, but that's probably more a reflection of the fact that technology enables all sorts of surveillance that wouldn't have been imaginable decades ago, than any sort of fundamental shift in what is or isn't considered reasonable or possible by the top echelons of the intelligence and law enforcement communities.

[1] http://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#Post-COINTELPRO_oper...
I wonder if this will be the next step for them; mapping all indoor and outdoor locations, integrating relevant ads into the street view of certain stores?
The one thing that is most important in a file-sync solution for me is cross-platform support. And very few players in the field handle this well (Android/Linux/iOS/Windows/Mac). I doubt MS is even thinking of going cross-platform for SkyDrive, so meh.
We'd know by now with XBox One.
I don't know anyone on the team, but Om Malik was not impressed and he's usually reliable:

https://twitter.com/om/status/427653907766972416

> A $400 million talent acquisition with little talent. That's how Google rolls now!

There's also word that it was more than $400m, perhaps as high as $500m. That's a lot for talent any way you slice it.
They should have named it this anyway, it makes me immediately think of OneNote, which is an MS app that TONS of non-power/non-technical users know about. If you told someone you could put your notes in OneNote and it backs them up to OneDrive that would probably make a lot of sense to most people.
The dispute was with BSkyB.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/27/following-trademark-dispute...
I read it as "UrTheCat" which I thought was a cat meme website like ICanHazCheezeburger. Why are they live streaming a camera install...
This is really awesome, thanks!
Did you include HHS hospital charge data? If not, might be a nice fit: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2013pres/05/20130508a.html
How we made the video game Doom
I'm wondering about the merits though. Does the Mac pro really pack so much more power per m^3 so as to justify not to use regular pizza boxes?

I guess there must be a certain market of clients asking for powerful 24/7 mac's...thinking buildhosts or something like that.
The Costs of Keeping Your Rails App Up to Date, Or Not
I don't want to be an IP abolitionist, per se. I know enough artists who would be outraged at the very suggestion, even though they make essentially nothing from direct sales of their work. Still, examples like this give one pause. It is hardly an isolated case, that the large company acts with impunity, and the infringed party is limited to at best a moral victory and perhaps some trivial restitution. If the system is designed to favor the interests of those with the greatest ability to protect their own interest, as seems to be the case, then is it not superfluous, if not indeed harmful?

The actions of King here are certainly fuel for the discussion, but clearly the self-serving justification is enough to leave a bad taste in the mouths of all but the most devoted adherents to their cause. On the other hand, they seem to say often enough that they are an ethical company and do not attempt to restrict the rights of others. The pessimist in me fears this is true.
Watch Bill Gates get wiped out in chess.
The developers' statement is wrong. King is not preventing Stoic from using the name "The Banner Saga." That would be the case if King filed a trademark infringement suit. What they have filed is an opposition to Stoic's application. Thus, what they're doing is trying to keep Stoic from claiming exclusive use of the name "The Banner Saga" in the context of a casual online game.
I've never understood the point of such services (i know there is somehing similar for raspi as well) - why is this better than using any Iaas / Paas provider ?
How does it work without flash?? I was never able to use street view because in google maps when you zoom in it just says in a popup:

To use street view, you need Adobe Flash Player version 10 or newer.
Get the latest Flash Player.
There is a SkyDrive/OneDrive client for all of those OSes except Linux.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/skydrive/download
I definitely dogfood Duet (http://duetapp.com), but I learned VERY quickly that it's not enough. My customers use the app in ways that would have never occurred to me and if I rely solely on dogfooding a lot gets missed. Especially since I use the product differently than most of my customers - I don't do much client work these days. Regardless, dogfooding is still a great way for me to catch most bugs immediately.
Pathfinder is great. The 3.5e rules really did a great job of maintaining the spirit of the 1e rules, while addressing their many inadequacies. 4e was a real shark-jumping move, but Pathfinder carries the 3.5e goodness on.

It will be interesting to see what 5e is like. Will it be a New Coke/Classic Coke type move? Or Vista/Windows 7... where an obviously flawed product is replaced by something much better that it should have been in the first place?
I guess I'm somewhat of an anomaly in that I really like the Microsoft ecosystem. I have a Windows Phone, a Surface Pro 2, an XBox One, and so on, all the way to Office and Visual Studio.

But, and I don't even know what a gorge is, as forgiving as being a fanboy makes me, sometimes Microsoft makes my gorge rise. I'm sure OneDrive will be nice. But WTF are they doing with Xbox Music on SkyDrive (and it seems OneDrive won't change it)?!?

Windows 8 crows about its ability to upload my music (that I paid for) to SkyDrive, allowing me to play it anywhere. Except on my fucking XBox One. Which insists I purchase an XBox Music Pass to play my own music.

WTF. Seriously, really, WTF-a-doodle-doo?!?
Not surprising. BSkyB owns Sky TV.
OneNote has been around for a while. It might have provided some of the inspiration?

Also, as mentioned Canonicals reaction might be interesting.
Excuse my lack of knowledge in terms of mail encryption, but wouldn't the knowledge of communication be enough to warrant further investigation, even if the text itself is encrypted?
The "X" means 10. The previous version was MacOS 9.
So, what are you saying?

1. We're so much cleaner it couldn't happen again

2. History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme

I'll go with #2
XPP – quirky but declarative and interactive
Install Android 4.4 Kitkat on PC
Either GitHub is making headway in mitigating the DDoS attack, or not all GH pages sites were affected. (My repos pages are working fine.)
> It's tough. I was at a place where another company ripped off our stuff, including our typos

We had a customer who complained, off-hand, that a Chinese company had ripped off their (carrier-grade) router design down to the English silk screening on the PCB's.
This would be pretty awesome as a screensaver.
An honest breakdown of the Playstation Vita
They were obligated to rename it after losing a case in the UK. Nothing to be done.
Not sending Referer headers to Google.

(Yes, it becomes a problem when you use private browsing, since the cache is cleared when you end the session.)
That was the best part... and I created lots of modifications to the rules when I was very active in the 1980s... a detailed initiative system, an alternate magic system... etc.

Unfortunately, TSR got into this fascist "if it's not official, it's not allowed" kick for a while, but eventually that nonsense was left behind and WotC has done a fine job with the property (4e notwithstanding).
Omnidirectional Treadmill
Well OneDrive and UbuntuOne are in exactly the same area (cloud hosting of stuff, integrated with an operating system) so it's a lot easier to sue imo (thank god ianal)
Github gets DDoS'd a lot more than I'd expect. How did they even make enemies like that?
This appears to be a document from a Canonical Sales Engineer summarizing the UK government report.
Why don't you guys split Ukraine into two parts? The western part (pre-WW2's part of Poland) is pro-western, speaking Ukrainian, the eastern part is mostly inhabited by Russians that gravitate towards Moscow. Why nobody suggests this solution?
From the original guidance I don't see the government making any claims about Ubuntu being in "First Place" https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/end-user-devices-s...
This is incredibly cool. I'm consulting for a company right now that does Power over Ethernet Lighting to enable fine grain control of lighting scenarios. I've definitely shared this link with the team. If anyone is interested in checking us out, www.igor-tech.com. My email is in my profile if you'd like to contact.

We don't have lcd touch screen switches yet, but it is certainly on the radar.
Snowden: NSA conducts industrial espionage too
Because the descendands of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms
perpetrators will want an ethnically pure Ukraine. And East/South of Ukraine will not allow it.
US state department is interested in the break up and pushing west ukr down the throat of EU(Germany) which really
is not interested in that right now (EU is going down with PIIGS, but US needs even weaker EU with +50mil dirt poor Ukrainians with extremely corrupt political system ). Russia probably wants the split too, east ukr will be easier to control and they get rid of western ultra-right/nazi/Bandera followers.
If you haven't started building your audience do so before the app is finished, or even before you start building your app. Nothing worse than building a better mouse trap when there's no mice. Best of luck on all your apps.
Twitter + Triage = Twiage, a new way to save lives
This question is more related to websockets. I have seen that they use different protocol and doesn't work behind proxies or firewalls most of the time. How do you handle this?
The ratio of "seeking work" to "seeking freelancer" has increased considerably, and the quality and variety of jobs decreased. The number of comments and votes has also dropped, the last one barely showed up on the front page. Looks like merely being on HN is no longer a good filter, for either side.
"Why nobody suggests this solution?" - I don't know what your definition of "nobody" is, but eg. Dmytro Tabachnyk did suggest that
So they are subjecting Banner Saga to a lawsuit, harming them, their reputation, with full knowledge that it's not an applicable argument. So they are knowingly causing monetary harm to another company not affecting them, who will then have to deal with legal costs. These guys are evil. And a blog post does not refute that.
Most Ukranians speak Russian due to eastern/southern parts larger than the western part. A lot of Ukranians speak "surjik" which is a mix between Russian and Ukranian and Western Ukranians speek a mix of Polish and Ukranian. I'd say there aren't many people that speak perfect Ukranian. Do you count people speaking "surjik" as Russian or Ukranian speakers?

There is no civil war, if it was a civil war the western part wouldn't survive a day. Nor the Russian speaking Ukranians want "Russian" Ukraine.
Thanks for the link. Binomial walk makes sense.

So it isn't 2^n, but a convolution summation over n-choose-r. Yeah... I don't feel like doing the "correct" math on this one.

But the concept is still correct. It is exponentially harder for the malicious user to double-spend based. It is much harder to break ten "one minute" confirmation, than one "ten minute" confirmation.
It's just as likely that the questionably sourced information will be used to guide a parallel construction case.
Microsoft OneNote has been around for over 10 years.
I don't understand your angle with respect to this particular situation. Stoic is filing for the right to enjoy exclusive use of the term "Banner Saga" with respect to online games, and prevent others from using the term. King filed an objection to that application, not saying that Stoic couldn't use the name, but saying that they shouldn't get exclusive use of the name because King already had a series of games with that naming pattern. What's the outrage here?
Our public facing demo at http://www.careprice.co/compare/ utilizes the full CMS data set (200,000+ records) and is freely available. While this data is useful, it doesn't directly represent out-of-pocket costs for consumers and doesn't factor in things such as in-network and out-of-network costs as well as the specific insurance provider plans for a companies employees.

Our vision is that the paid backend version of the site will utilize insurance provider data for each individual's insurance plan to accurately price out healthcare procedures/issues.

We have a grandiose vision and we're looking for a pilot partner insurance company.
Already discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7117725 Carlsen is just playing trick chess, and Gates fell for it. Funny, but doesn't really say much about their actual chess ability.
I'm in England and also see this contract clause a lot. Personally I've always assumed that it would be unenforceable if it was work unrelated to the business, but I've not yet had reason to hire a solicitor to find out.

I'd suggest you ask a solicitor rather than an internet though.

p.s. To everyone saying "It depends if it's in the contract" that's not very helpful, as it likely is in the contract but that doesn't make it necessarily enforceable. Plenty of contract terms aren't enforceable when you actually get a lawyer to look at them. In UK contract law, contracts cannot have unfair clauses.
Why don't Americans split the USA into two parts, the red one and the blue one?
Check this out. Apparently it's a Google employee walking on foot.. in Bangalore.. with a government official trailing him every step of the way. I walked around for a while and got bored, but every step I took, the guy was right behind me:

http://randomstreetview.com/#7q78d_1a77zm_1lb_a_-7
This sounds really cool, I don't know how I did not hear about this so far.

Any word on what the cost of getting a camera up to the space station (and getting it installed) actually is?
Interesting to see that they have gone for minimal Microsoft branding on the site and not on a .live.com sub-domain. I wonder if this will continue once launched....
The main reason for these clauses is not to steal employee's personal IP, which in reality wouldn't be worth much according to expected value. The main purpose is to prevent employees suing their (past) employers for copyright and for companies to assert full ownership of their IP in situations such as acquisitions and IPOs. It removes doubt that any critical IP might belong to employees.

A contract is just an initial template to speed up the negotiation. You can often request exemptions as long as you're specific about it. I've seen this clause plenty in the UK and I've also seen it amended.
They also say:

In general, you should only use the NDK if it is essential
to your app—never because you simply prefer to program in C/C++.

Which continues to annoy me even now.

I recall the fireside android team chat one time (two years ago?) that went something like:

Question: So what about the NDK? You can't beat native for performance...
Android team member: *laughs* ... well, you can't beat java for portability
Comment from audience: Unless you want to use your code on another platform...
<awkward silence, discussion moves on to next question>

That's certainly how I feel about it.
I don't know much about this subject, so can you explain what "our government has destroyed the IPO exit" actually means? What was the investment model with a four-decade run that is now over, and how does it differ from the current model?
Don't forget games, the vast majority of popular games are likely running native code.

I don't have any stats on that, but you can check out the following games made using the open-source C++ framework Cocos2d-x that the developers asked to be featured:

http://www.cocos2d-x.org/games/all?p=8&page=1
Yeah, you're right. This is why Skydrive will be a major player, but as a Linux user, its just not for me :(
A search on arxiv for DeepMind[1] finds that in the last months they have been publishing some first-class stuff.

[1] http://search.arxiv.org:8081/?query=DeepMind&in=
OneDrive is Microsoft’s Rebranded Name for SkyDrive
It was attempted once before.
Also based in the UK, and as far as I know you're right. To reiterate, speak to the a solicitor, but I've been told informally by several solicitor acquaintances they're usually unenforceable.
Collecting tracebacks is the sort of plumbing you would expect a 'batteries included' library to do. I didn't expect the workers to receive the ctrl-C, I'd expect the main process to terminate, along with its children; none of that happens.

I think it's clear that these sorts of details belong in the library. Everybody could hack together their own traceback collector, segfault handlers etc., but it's difficult to get right and in a scripting language you should be able to forget about such things.
They've not had much luck recently on that front. Both Skydrive and Metro had to be re-branded.
Yeah except that it's not one drive.

I have SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro running on my desktop. SkyDrive Pro is the one that's supposed to be connected to my Office Online account. Yet when I try to save a new Office document the directory defaults to ... SkyDrive. There seems to be no way to change this behavior.

They should call it TwoDrive.
It is possible to make a substantially "NDK-only" app. Mainly for porting games.
> I think you greatly reduce your risk by spreading it around.

That only applies if loss of data/access to data is a greater problem for you than exposure of the data. Spreading it into multiple locations/services gives more choices for an attacker to breach to expose it and they only need to get into one of them.
The divide between "red" and "blue" is not geographically consistent. The general political views of both groups are similar. They're not in active conflict at the moment.