skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latest release is ONLY seven years old..

http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape9/en-US/9.0/
As a user, I can say it is a useful site, and the score prediction engine is very accurate, in my experience. Shame about this, it's truly a security clusterfuck.
Denying permissions breaks most apps (I'd say, 8-9 out of 10 just crash due to unhandled exceptions), so XPrivacy returns fake data (no contacts, no Internet connection, spoofed MAC and IMEI etc.).

But, then, some companies are really upset about spoofing. For example, Swype had serious issues with that to the extent they cried they won't even be able to release their famous keyboard if they weren't be able to get personal data for their analytics. [1] So, CM team decided to not built any spoofing (the only practically working solution to the problem) in.

Dancing bunnies 1 : Security 0

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[1]: http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/05/25/swype-cyanogenmod-pe...
Repeated addition is just one multiplication algorithm. I think a much better way to think of multiplication is as an operation on numbers that is related to addition by the distributive law. That law gives the "multiplication is repeated addition" algorithm, as well as the "shift and add" algorithm that most people learn in grade school. Of course, there are more efficient multiplication algorithms than either of those, which is why it is better to think of multiplication independently from addition.

I would also point out that the repeated addition algorithm makes a lot of sense in base 1, but that shift and add makes far more sense in base 2 or higher.

As for integration, I would say it is better to think of it as a limit involving both addition and multiplication.
You'd think Boingo would have explored this from the start with their Wifi connection.

Even though it's consumer-facing, I'm sure they could have reserved a small subset of bandwidth to experiment with realtime flight data.
Source code for messaging app Telegram
When I type "powder" into Google I get random games, not sure which one you are referring to. Could you give an URL?
Not trying to excuse Criticker, but from my POV as a user, this isn't exactly Mt.Gox or a bank; it's a website to rate movies, and all the information you put there is already public. All someone can do with my password is rate movies on my behalf.

Again, this doesn't excuse them, especially since we all know people reuse passwords. I'm just saying that the site is useful even if you know everyone can get in.
I do not see any basis for the statement 'very fast performance on integer values', given that simple calculations like substraction and checking of simple equality require many operations in the proposed standard.
Yes I think you're on to something. The complaint is how long it takes to have a definitive answer. But I'm not sure how significant a problem that is. For relatives and friends it may create a little closure but probably not much given it doesn't change the main issue. It's possible that there could be data collected that, if modified on other planes, would reduce or remove the chance of a similar tragedy. It doesn't seem though like that is the case in any disaster to this point.
> There are things that are open source but not "Free Software" in the FSF sense of the term.

This is not true. As I note above, the OSI's definition of "Open Source"[0] and FSF's definition of "free software" are equivalent in practice; they are simply backed by different motivating ideologies.

The entirety of Android is neither Open Source nor free (as in freedom), but individual components are. The portions of Android that are free (as in freedom) are also Open Source, and vice versa.

[0] http://opensource.org/osd
>I don't see how this is an issue

Stealing 2853 user's passwords, which are stored in plaintext, sent over HTTP isn't an issue? This wasn't an SQL injection, the API gives it away.
Depending on the scope of the project, you might pull it. I just signed up, although I would probably have only 3-4 hours each day.
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> The most generous American employers barely meet the minimum legal requirements in Europe. Americans tolerate conditions of employment that would be utterly unthinkable to most western Europeans.

Yea, googlers live like shit. Oh and work visas for Europe aren't in huge demand and don't run out early every single time. Also, we don't have dramatically more immigrants from Europe than visa-versa. OH OH and italy, spain, and greece don't have a huge unemployment problem - all those riots are celebratory of that fact.
The problem here is that the blackbox should continue collecting data to the very last second until it no longer can. So trying to time it to get it out before the "end point" undoubtedly reduces the value of what it's collecting.
It's a DB dump, so this is exactly what it is.

If they had the public keys to all Mt Gox's wallets whey would be able to check them for funds, but there would still be questions about who controlled the wallets and if they had found them all so it would still not be proof of fraud (but the more evidence collected the more likely there will be something confirm-able discovered)
I'm not at all certain that's true at the extremes for which black boxes are designed. A difference between thousands of Gs and tens-of-thousands of Gs wouldn't matter for the airplane fuselage, but it might matter for solid-state electronics. I don't know if you'd get that kind of force differential between a water impact and say, slamming into a solid granite wall. But I'm to ready to discount it.

But even if we assume that there really isn't a meaningful difference in the physics of a ground vs. water impact, I think there still might be an advantage to having your conventional black box optimized for maximum survivability and having an auxiliary black box which sacrifices some degree of survivability at the extremes in exchange for improved discoverability after an accident.
"I know lives may be at stake"

What lives are at stake? An enhanced black box won't prevent accidents, and, with very few exceptions, it won't help us find out the cause of accidents. I think your take on the "cost-benefit" analysis made the most sense.

Your 1 in 17 million scenario is interesting - how many times per flight is that scenario evaluated, or is that per flight? If per flight, and suppose we have about 20,000 Boeing flights a day, then we would have a Boeing explosion every 3 years. (Adjust the numbers based on how many Boeing flights there are) - I would say it's worthwhile making the change there.
I would argue that Torvalds merely built upon already established OS principles, rather than being a pioneer in OS design. Linux, by design, is nothing more than an open-source UNIX equivalent. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. It's just not some groundbreaking work. I completely agree with Carmack, however.
I think they made only 300 or so million revenue in the last 3 years, and as for profits much less, which completely out of proportion with the proposed fine (no sources for this, just word of mouth). India is still a developing market, advertisers don't pay as much as in the developed world.

The ad is probably ran because of the government...they want to build some support with the people so they are treated better.
posted to hacker news which is about as complex as a BBS system
Most of the Ubuntu knowledge is likely transferable to Debian. Dame with CentOS and RHEL. I believe yast is a bit different than both RPM/DEB? I could be wrong.

Anyways, if those are the choices, they make sense to me
I believe XPrivacy[1] looks more promising than OpenPDroid. First of all Xposed Framework feels easier to integrate - no need to mess with full-fledged ROM embedding, just light patch to the Dalvik and reboot.

And the things I really fancy about XPrivacy is that current versions have learning mode (like `su` GUI prompts, configurable to automatically deny or allow after a timeout) and yet-underdeveloped but very promising argument-level permission controls (i.e. allows WebView's loadUrl for one URI, but not another).

[1]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320783
Thanks for the pointers. Although it doesn't invalidate the fact that ridership in the Northeast Corridor is a huge percentage of that in the overall system.
I don't care if this comes off as trolling, but here it is: as I read through this, I thought to myself, much like the author, "how appaling!" - then I saw the word "PHP" - and went "oh, well, that figures".
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
At the end of the day, it doesn't even really matter that much. The fact that it appeared in the Skype window doesn't indicate that the targeting of that ad was determined solely by your Skype history.

If you visited a site mentioning pizza, and later saw a pizza ad, normal everyday web targeting is a far more likely explanation than Skype secretly violating it's privacy policy as a routine matter of business.
This one is 8.8 lbs. Not sure if this is the type used in a 777. http://www.uasc.com/documents/products/CVFDR.pdf

TRW makes them as well, but couldn't find data sheets on theirs.

You might also find this relevant. http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/manuals/FDR_Handbook.pdf
I was referring to essentially this view: http://www.perl.com/pub/tchrist/litprog.html

In particular, my understanding of the original concept requires that you be able to create and reference macros for arbitrary pieces of code.

I hadn't seen any mechanism in litescript to allow you to split up your code beyond what is normally possible with functions (e.g. to defer the explanation of parameter defaulting or early return code to later), although perhaps you're referring to the preprocessor functionality which is an interesting feature, or maybe you think that you can extract functions for every meaningful lump of code these days?
Scientists find new manmade, ozone-depleting gases
I finally created an account on HN, just to thank you for telling me about Paul Lockart's essay. Only now do I realize why I don't like, nor properly understand mathematics - at least not mathematics as it's presented in schools.

Things like Conway's Game of Life, fractals, etc are all so insanely interesting and their results so beautiful. But in school they have you calculating boring functions that no one really knows what they're about.
Cultural production of ignorance provides rich field for study
No, it isn't. Its average speed is around 80 mph.
what makes it overdesigned?
I'm not convinced by your argument. I'm not sure what you mean by 'something catastrophic happens'. 'Something catastrophic' is the result of a certain chain of events. Telemetry data about those events can be sent before they lead to 'something catastrophic' that makes it impossible to send anything further. It is not as if the plane hits a meteor in mid flight and everything suddenly explodes with no prior indication of anything going wrong. And even if that's the case (as being accidentally hit by a missile during training - this happened before) - the lack of telemetry will also tell us something.
It looks about 2002-2005 to me.
I guess it's with "Generally considered" [citation needed]
On point: http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/03/mistake_by_newark_...
TLDR is actually older than choosealicense
Doesn't this resolve the issue that you describe?

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0280.html#disabling
I don't see how G+ was any less civil before the stupid name policy.
...or your dad.
It's not particularly sensitive data being jeopardized- isn't it just movie reviews?
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Sure, but you wouldn't have so many of them.
then I don't see any easy ways of checking if all those coins are still valid.

Every client holds a copy of the blockchain, that is the full transaction history of the bitcoin network.

Consequently it's not just easy to check the balance of a cold wallet,
it is trivial.

Here's the balance and history for a SatoshiDice address:

https://blockchain.info/de/address/1dice8EMZmqKvrGE4Qc9bUFf9...
So I'm spending the weekend learning JS using Light Table and Node.js.[1] What's really funny to me is how little anything has changed. If you told someone in 1988 that one day you'd have desktop apps where the app backend was on the server, and the app UI ran on the client using a combination of formatting language and general purpose programming language . . . they wouldn't have blinked an eye: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS.

[1] Snark aside, these are pretty neat!
Yeah but Apache gives you an explicit grant to patent rights whereas MIT, although doesn't explicitly restrict it, doesn't grant it either.
My day job is web developer and i sit in an IRC channel where roughly half the traffic is making fun of security issues of sites. Such a glorious combination of fuckups doesn't come about that often. I'm honestly more apalled that the passwords are in plaintext than that they expose them like that.

I cannot say i am surprised though. A general amount of carelessness, undeserved self-confidence and ignorance is a given in most websites, especially when it comes to PHP.
> Multiplication is a way to do adding faster, and division is a way to do subtraction faster.

Can you elaborate? If you need to do 13 + 13 + 13 + 13, you can do that as 13 x 4, which I guess is what you mean by the first part; but what analagous subtraction could you replace with a division?
This reminds me a bit of the "A Biological Solution to a Fundamental Distributed Computing Problem" paper that I believe came up here, especially the probabilistic approach with (implicit, synchronized) clocks in the last paragraph of the wiki page.

I made a little simulation of the former algorithm here

http://jberryman.github.io/fly-mis/
The problem is that the app uses the same API key no matter what device it is installed on. If you download the app today you can find the API key and use it to retrieve the passwords for any users that have signed up to Criticker using the app - just as the author has done.
Your family comes first. Let go of the idea that you can continue to put in extra time at work, do hobby projects, and learn new technologies. You will have to do those extra curriculars during the 8-9 hour work day. Home time is family time (for the most part, of course you should find a few hours a week just for yourself). Forget about programming when you get home. Babies and new moms need a lot of attention and help. That should be your #1 priority for the next year minimum. It gets easier after year 1.

There is more to life than work and programming. Don't sacrifice time with your new baby. It never comes back. You will have plenty of time to advance your career and reach career goals.
Why use satellites? There is plenty of long-range terrestrial radio tech that could do the job. Land-based and or even cargo ship based listening posts would be much cheaper. Aircraft-to-aircraft comms could also potentially do the job.

Granted, aircraft fly high in the air, but there are no line-of-sight problems as with terrestrial radio links, so even high frequency comms are possible.
Ah man what a beautiful looking idea. Too bad I've been burned so many times that I'll never pay for an 'alpha' or 'beta' game again, let alone a kickstarter for one.
There's another great application of spherical harmonics in (non-real-time) lighting, used by Weta for Avatar. Instead of precomputing the terms for a particular lighting setup as above, they use SH to store an environment map for every point on an object, including the effect of occluding geometry. This is independent of the camera and light positions. At render time it's then cheap to rotate the environment or move the lights, and still get correctly occluded diffuse lighting. They won a technical Academy award for it.

Easy-ish overview: https://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-science-of-spherical-ha...

SIGGRAPH 2010 paper, focusing more on the creation of the SH cache than it's use: http://dbonline.igroupnet.com/ACM.FT/1780000/1778774/037-pan...

Slides about same: http://wwwcg.in.tum.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Lehrstuehle/Leh...
I've been trying to pivot the discussion around the NSA towards these greater harms and away from the gross illegality of the metadata program.
If you consider that route pretty bad just consider this:
Kentucky and TN do not have Amtrack. [Well TN has a small segment on its western side that goes N to S but its pretty much a desert.

This means that if you wish to go from ATL, Raleigh/Durham, etc to Chicago, you have to make "connections" (good luck making that on amtrack) in either Charlottesville VA or DC. After that it is still 24 hrs at best.
To present a theory is to specify a family of structures, its
models; and secondly, to specify certain parts of those
models (the empirical substructures) as candidates for the
direct representation of observable phenomena.
— van Fraassen. The Scientific Image. Page 64. 1980.

This is Wittgenstein's family resemblance concept applied to Popper's notion of "conjectures" in "the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language".

It is not only agreement in definitions but also (odd as it
may sound) in judgments that is required.
— Wittgenstein's PI, somewhere deep in there around 200.

The "unknown language" is itself the outward bounds of possible sense data for which we must cultivate a scientific description framework — or, if you will, RDF (Resource Description Framework).

From the perspective of a Hilbertian mathematical ideal, all conjectures are a kind of "paradise" for which we must apply method and tools. Strictly speaking, linguistic items serve as the material edifice in which we make experiment and theorizing about "propositions" and "mathematical objectivities" insofar as their existences are palpabable (by Occam's Razor, and various other First Principles) which would appear repugnant to reason to flout, ignore, or misplace.
Given the prevalence of password reuse, exposing user passwords is never a good idea.
Sorting out user agents is one of those 'hard problems' but I thought that was the _whole point_ of this site. This is an incredibly basic mistake.
> it could be of great value to have instant access to events just prior.

Why is it a significantly larger value than having access at worst two years later? No plane went down due to the same problem while they were looking for the AF 447 black box.

> Anything that can be done to reduce the time needed to locate passengers who are injured or trying to survive on the ocean or in difficult conditions deserves a look, in my opinon.

Passengers might survive reasonably successful ditchings, after which currently-fitted ELTs activate and transmit location as you expect. An event that results in ELTs not activating is generally not survivable in the first place.
Extremely good advice. You sound very balanced and mature for 21!
Don't try to build a one-time pad out of /dev/random.
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Here is my take about the difference between Mathematica and the Wolfram Language: Mathematica is the combination of an interactive front end for writing code/functions etc., sending them to the Mathematica Kernel, and the displaying the results in the form specified by a functional wrapper you specified. The Wolfram Language is what you use to talk to the Mathematica kernel.

But you can also write and save WL code and submit it to the kernel directly. It will do whatever it's supposed to do: acquire and process data, save the results, and it includes all of the familiar Mathematica capabilities: image processing, integrating functions, finding the solution for an equation. You can do this in the kernel now.

The current development seems to be an extension of the range of the current WL as used in Mathematica (the front end/kernel package) into a general purpose language that includes all of the WL's current capabilities plus various new ones that were missing. The WL preliminary documentation site talks about the new stuff, but it's hard to know what's new if you aren't familiar with the current version.
Agreed - He didn't even say that it was an issue at all. He seemed more concerned that the users are scoped to particular API keys and that he will lose his reviews.
Looks very promising - I will check him out.
Does Stormpath have a painless way to extract user data? I worry about lock-in.
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Micropayments has come to pass.

And with that, Charlie Brooker's scifi television show becomes more apparent.
Countries make themselves special too.
Authoring Tools Framework
A lot of people reuse passwords across multiple sites - so nab their plain-text password + find out their email address, and you likely able to log into various other services using their credentials.
wtf, that's where we do all our leagues every year! can't believe it's just 2 guys and one techie.
From Richard Feynman:

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The next Monday, when the fathers were all back at work, we kids were playing in a field. One kid says to me, “See that bird? What kind of bird is that?” I said, “I haven’t the slightest idea what kind of a bird it is.” He says, “It’s a brown-throated thrush. Your father doesn’t teach you anything!” But it was the opposite. He had already taught me: “See that bird?” he says. “It’s a Spencer’s warbler.” (I knew he didn’t know the real name.) “Well, in Italian, it’s a Chutto Lapittida. In Portuguese, it’s a Bom da Peida. In Chinese, it’s a Chung-long-tah, and in Japanese, it’s a Katano Tekeda. You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You’ll only know about humans in different places, and what they call the bird. So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing—that’s what counts.” (I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.)

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iamshs's cousin doesn't need to be straightened out on the NAME of his situation. He needs help on DEALING with it.
Have We Reached a Consensus on a National CS Curriculum?
The attackers here broke in and stole a DB copy, they may not have been able to tamper (e.g.: they had access to a backup of the DB but not the running copy)

It's probably still a good part of a "we're incompetent not malicious!" defense, if that is how they decide to handle things.
AT&T cuts wireless data charges for individual customers
Jitsi on your desktop and CSipSimple on Android for SIP+ZRTP (ostel.co provides accounts, for example). Jitsi does support Video-Chats, CSipSimple does not.

Maybe tox.im if it becomes stable (experimental releases are available).
...or your uncle.
Bingo, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611

Or other examples that manage to disable enough of the flight controls but don't immediately break up the plane