skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“These problems can’t be patched,” says Nohl, who will join Lell in presenting the research at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. “We’re exploiting the very way that USB is designed.”

‘In this new way of thinking, you have to consider a USB infected and throw it away as soon as it touches a non-trusted computer.’

So now we need a USB abstinence campaign?

When you have a USB with someone, you are having a USB with everyone they had a USB with for the last ten years, and everyone they and their partners have had a USB with for the last ten years.

Also, we're just calling it a USB now? Not a USB thumbdrive, USB hard drive, or whatever? This article sounds like it was written by my mom.
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Game about Squares – [Official Version] on Google Play
They'd enforce it by banning the site from the EU netspace.
High population densities encourage smaller homes and more crime (even if the crime rate is the same, more people = more crime) However there is no inherent reason that cities should have worse schools than suburbs. Larger facilities should have more capacity for specialized courses and and extra-curricular activities. I have to conclude that poor city schools are the result of a deliberate policy.
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How about that, I actually thought the Ampera was a full electric, but they've thrown in a small combustion engine. They hide it well in the specs, though.

Edit: You could always get a G-Wiz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REVAi
I agree that the given example is not compelling.

> "but in practice there are really few scenarios in which it is actually useful"

Not true. Parallel mapping is a useful tool for multi-core systems. Clojure (and other languages) include a `pmap` because it provides a simple, elegant way to do parallel computation.

If you want parallel mapping with more control, check out Claypoole:

> Basically, we just wanted a better pmap. Clojure’s pmap is pretty awesome, but we wanted to be able to control the number of threads we were using, and it was nice to get a few other bonus features.

http://eng.climate.com/2014/02/25/claypoole-threadpool-tools...

HN commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7299309
Looks like Andrey Shevchuk has now posted an official version of gameaboutsquares.com on Google Play.

Also see, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107359

p.s. Just bought it despite already completing the online version. Just £1, thanks Andrey!
_Sir_ Tony Hoare.

Anyway, he's goes to a lot of conferences so it's not uncommon to see him. I wouldn't act like a big fanboy, trying to ask him clever questions about null or anything like that.
I wonder why, if the IP is solid and promising, the company is not outright bought out by ARM or Intel.
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Is it possible to graduate from developer+ to the startups programme you guys run if the situation would allow for it (startups requirements met, all that jazz)?

Obviously you'd hope to be bringing in enough to cover hosting by year 1 but out of curiousity really

Edit: A second question, is it possible to attach developer+ to an account that already exists? Reason my account's a bit unloved at the moment is because I'm not at a point where I can afford Rackspace prices
Putting in heat over a short time, to recover from low temperatures, is different to putting in heat over an extended period. If your heater has very low efficiency at high heat output then it seems highly possible that extended low output could be better. It's a financial efficiency we're talking about primarily when people are looking to more efficiently heat their house.

If you're heating with electric for example you can sometimes buy electricity far cheaper at night (demand is low and traditional production can be easily spun-down). Thus buying electricity all night and keeping the house warm, whilst using more electricity, could be cheaper than paying for peak rate electric.

Physics alone could explain it in very rare circumstances - board construction that expands in warm air closing gaps, cool air opens gaps and causes more cooling. Heat exchange rate from in- to outside is then possibly greater at lower temperatures. Houses aren't simple to model.
If you haven't previously seen them before, the World Digital Library has a number of Aztec manuscripts to view:

http://www.wdl.org/en/search/?item_type=manuscript&additiona...

> For the rest: it's amazing to see how back then simply writing was way more of an art than it is now

It's a really interesting trade-off – books used to be rare luxury status symbols and then the number skyrocketed as machine printing became an industrial-scale process. I do sometimes wonder if we're going to see a slight reversal of that with people paying for art prints as a way to get something which you simply can't have on a tablet.
Just because there's no simple objective way to categorize and measure something doesn't mean it's automatically invalid.
I've always liked Shazam but I like what http://www.soundhound.com/ did with their app better.
I've been a loyal Rackspace customer for years. The machines have performed well and been ridiculously reliable, and overall I've been pleased with the experience.

I guess this isn't targeted at people like me.
'The definition of "interesting" needs to be loose, but the beneficiary has to prove that he or she hasn't only been watching youtube and facebook.'

Presuming that the time spent on youtube and facebook was not actually valuable (and I will quickly grant that there are ways to spend time on both that are not) I think this is part of a much larger issue we have with motivation and addictive/avoidant behavior. Push to "get a job" can help some people with this, but I think it's actually destructive to others; I think in general we need some better approach - which might be as simple as better mental health care (at the level of helping people meet their goals most effectively) but I'm open to ideas. I think this is needed whether we implement BIG or JG, or not.
No one ever said it could account for 20 lbs. Merely that you should expect weight loss when you're cutting carbs and weight gain when you reintroduce carbs.
Why not stack flat plates like a car battery?
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I'm not so sure that security should be built into peripheral connect protocols like USB.
We could just as easily treat a usb device like we do a network device, and harden the drivers against attack.
> You'll find that while maps are in theory lists of vector pair

They aren't. When you seq over a map you get a list of MapEntry, like so:
(clojure.lang.MapEntry. :a 1)

MapEntries aren't vectors, and while they can be destructured like vectors, you can't make empty instances of them.

(empty) still is useful in a variety of cases. See for example this bug report that I've filled: http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1476
Well I have two suggestions, go aboard a mega cruise ship to see how you can make an enclosed area look inviting and varied at that. I would aim for an enclosed space even with separation of buildings and such simply because it will allow you to heat and cool it efficiently and have open areas pretty much immune to weather.

There are some amazing resorts constructed this way and no reason a whole town cannot be as well.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used/cars/postcode/l331ze...
"I'm not going to bust my ass off for 10$ an hour with zero benefits."

Unless it's to an end I feel passionate about. Then I might do it for $5 or for free.
It most surely can be patched. Allow a USB device to offer up a signature that the PC can verify. The CA would be the manufacturer which has a private key for each USB key manufactured (so hackers can't steal one private key and copy it). Make sure the manufacturer revokes keys that are compromised. Bam, instant manufacturer guarantee that the hardware is genuine. That is, until the private key is uncovered by the hackers, but that's what expiration dates are for I suppose.
The data is hard to analyze on this point, because the government has a very different definition of "urban" than I think we're using in this thread. In particular, it tends to lump what we think of as urban areas and suburban areas into one "urban" category.

New York State has 19.7 million people. New York City has 8.4 million people, or about 43% of the state's population. But it has 61% of the state's total medicaid recipients: https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/health_care/medicaid/el....
My argument is that you'll need better developers who cost more money. Not only that, but you're making the project more complicated. i.e if the project is to create x, then you have to also create y first and, it's harder to debug. and you've also got the added overhead of running xen.

all in all it's a nice trick, but it's not very practical, because if it was practice we'd all be using dos for our vms, since you get the bare metal, and a little bit of a environment to bootstrap from.
A coworker has one, looks like a decent and relatively cheap choice, but it seems the others recommended have better battery life.

Edit: looking on Amazon, there's a 2-battery version which looks good.
For the source of these codes, check out my answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8113746
In my opinion, this site is lacking a solid demonstration of the game/product. My interest has been piqued but the website fails to inform.
/me has a deja vu.

Looks like this is Transmeta v2. :-)
Linklet caches the linked page, but doesn't cache referred files like stylesheets or images.

I think the cached text should be able to help the user to find another copy of the content online using Google.

I developed it without knowing Pinboard. Linklet is at least an alternate to Pinboard. It took a subtle difference approach towards the information management problem and may have a different goal.

What do you mean by "email increases metadata exposure". Your automatic signature in the email message? Linklet is not a social site. All bookmarks are private to yourself.
First hydroelectric water towers, and now vacuum-sealed spinning flywheels? Come on, batteries, get it together!
No the process to procure a contract is broken. What doesn't seem to be broken, at least from my perspective, is how you manage the contract once it's been won. I have a background in which I was responsible for putting out an RFP, grading the vendors, granting the contract, etc.

Unfortunately there are still a LOT of people in state government and elsewhere, whose eyes glaze over at the simple mention of IT. For them, it's a relief when you hear names like Oracle or IBM or Microsoft who win contracts. "Surely I've heard of Oracle. They're a big technology company and surely they'll know what they're doing". Relief ensues because NO REGULAR PEOPLE WANT THE BURDEN OF MANAGING AN IT PROJECT.
Old cities are kind of like trees, rings after rings after rings. If you look at one from far away, you can make some solid guesses as to when each "ring" of the city was built because the roads get wider and tend to get better organized as they optimize for logistics costs.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Barcelona,+Spain/@41.39479...

Look at Barcelona. It's a Roman colonial town so it's old. Can you guess which part was built first? How about which parts were built in the 18th 19th and 20th centuries?

As nice as the medieval quarter is for shopping, nobody really wanted to continue on with that kind of plan. By the 19th century (before cars) you ended up with a grid of broad roads and open boulevards. These things didn't happen to accommodate cars, they happened because medieval city plans scale poorly. It turns out cars fit really nicely within this plan.

Look at London. With 1/3rd the population density of Barcelona, it's cramped, and tight everywhere. Basic logistics costs are high because getting goods into and out of the city is difficult and time consuming. It's one of those weird cities that developed right along the traditional medieval plan like what's being advocated here and it's an expensive cramped and often unpleasant place to live. Even if London suddenly started building up and increasing density, the city road system couldn't handle it. It has to spread out because this kind of city plan scales poorly.

In some very old towns, ones that never really continued to develop, so they're left with the medieval "bones". Getting things like groceries to the shops is a circus of people physically moving hand trucks throughout the city. What's more expensive? 50 trips back and forth throughout the city with handtrucks? Or backing a truck up to a loading dock and spending 15 minutes unloading a few palettes of goods?

Other than tourists, this is why nobody likes to live in Venice, despite it being one of the specific examples given here as a model city. In the slow seasons, Venice is one of the most beautiful, walkable cities in the world. It's perfectly human scale. But it's a terrible, expensive place to live because every item in your local grocer had to be hand carried there.

> If it were, I would assume that living in one of those places would be cheaper than living in other places

Expense isn't just because of popularity. There are fixed costs to existing in places. Just like it's very expensive to live on an island, despite there being relatively few people there. These kinds of city plans are inherently expensive, they create almost an island in a way.

However, cities have other benefits, mostly in terms of job availability, and that attracts people to them. Because earning money can outweigh almost any other downside.
What other resources have you been using?
Rackspace is a tarnished brand for me. I immediately associate it with ridiculous pricing and bad "cloud" (mosso). With closed eyes it refused to see the quicksand of commodity it built its tower on.

I was hoping to come up with ways that companies with poor brands can recapture a lost audience. But I'm drawing a blank because it's a competitive market. It's like the car industry an the generational memory people have about various manufacturers. So, the only advice I have is: don't fuck with your brand.
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I love Edinburgh, I was there last year and found it an amazing city.
IMHO you need parks (between large and small, squares, public open spaces) not more than 5 blocs away from any street. It really makes the city breath.
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>I'll set a fan to move air until the walls and other surfaces are dry. //

Aren't you just ensuring the whole house is damp then, unless your humidity is low enough in the first place I suppose.
Awareness of privacy is important, thanks for the article.
On the site? It looks good. You might consider adding an option to share the site via social at the bottom. It might drive more traffic to the site.

Also- icantthinkofone is right. You probably want a game info page with screenshots, video or a guide, you know.
I feel this comment is getting downvoted, not because it is wrong, but because it is crude. I actually hope Tesla "Fs them in the A", because the entire industry has sat on its laurels for pretty much 20 years. Instead of innovating, they have been, essentially, polishing a turd.
My only complaint is that these sites all look the same.
Particularly for BIG, you would need some mechanism of determining uniqueness of users, ending payments to the deceased, &c. That does away with much of the benefit of a system like bitcoin, without some technologies that (as of yet) no one has figured out. If you can solve the relevant problems, then I agree it would be interesting!
I need to do more research on the Leaf but yeah that is a close contender.

The Zoe is a problem. I love Renault cars, my Clio was my favourite thing in the world, but the Zoe has DRM in the battery which you have to rent from Renault for a fee based on your mileage, which as far as I could tell, worked out to more than I would pay in petrol.

I believe, although it may have been FUD, that if you go over the mileage you have pre-arranged with Renault, they will disable your battery remotely.
Sometimes the scroll experience is so bad that I lose sight of what I'm supposed to be reading and sit here wondering what on Earth is happening with the page jumping up and down when I just wanted to read the next bit.
Yes, pseudo-random permutation.

The basic algorithm goes like this. To generate the codes

generate_codes(range valid_range)

for(i in valid_range)
encoded = RSA.Encode(key, i)
code = base32.Encode(encoded)
print code

and then, to verify a code

verify(string code, range valid_range)

encoded = base32.Decode(code)
value = RSA.Decode(key, encoded)

return valid_range.contains(value)

where of course RSA is an implementation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem) and base32 refers to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32.

On top of that, we needed codes to be of a specified maximum length and with a specified alphabet. Thus, instead of base32 we used a different base with different letters, but the same algorithm. To fix the length of the codes, we needed the output of RSA encode to be less than a specific value. In RSA this can be controlled by choosing the modulus part of the key.

There are more subtleties to this, but the gist is there.
Perhaps I am wrong, but my take on that was that, although he would most likely have had a successful career in physics, he didn't seem to be content with just being another physicist in the crowd. His decision to switch paths may have been more predicated on his drive to become an "alpha dog" of his field, rather than his self-perceived "averageness" in physics.
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Reps. Eshoo, Connolly, Hanna and Swalwell unveil bill to fix IT procurement
Compared to the php workflow, this is pure technobabble.
Only USA should have the power to seize domains. ICE FTW!

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I don't know why this is being downvoted. Elon Musk himself confirmed that S, E, and X was supposed to make fun of how sex is used in marketing to sell.
Nice article though some of the code is less elegant than it could be, normally you would match the option to unwrap it and then match it's value, instead of doing a lot of 'Some( .. )' matches.

let first_character = match line.chars().next() {
Some( v ) => v,
None => return
}

match first_character {
'# => println!("Comment"),
...
}
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That will work in the same way that DVD copy protection worked - briefly and ineffectively.
This resonated a lot with me as a golfer. Golf is a very individual-focused activity, with a large amount of minutiae to consider. Each shot is a new opportunity, and no two shots are ever alike. Mechanics are massively important, but focusing on them in the moment is often disastrous. It's more important to observe, in a meditative way, the body's motion after the mental decision and assess, learn, and grow in preparation for the next shot.

In (slight) contrast to your ending quote, I offer Bruce Lee (un-verified, but interesting nonetheless):

":I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
Works well. Minor nitpick: needs a dark icon option. It's the only colour menu bar extra I have.
It would increase bureaucracy more than a bit, I think.
I think it is meat to be difference between putting headphones on and going to run for an hour versus having good training plan that is based on training best practices and focuses on your weaknesses.

Or a difference between just playing songs you like and between playing 30 seconds of some difficult song over and over not because you like it, but because you need to learn that kind of notes sequence to progress.
the long hair and beard makes me think this is legit.

joking aside, seeing this talk makes me nostalgic for college and the long nights spent in the CprE labs. I ended up not in hardware/firmware because 4/5GL are so much more fun to work with and let me be so much more expressive. However, this shit is seriously cool. Can't wait to learn more.

edit: also wanted to say the presentation is a perfect example of awesome UX. The animations are not superfluous as in most presentations and are quite meaningful and help the audience better understand the material. It is also an example of something with great UX, but poor aesthetics. Green/yellow text on a blue background, eck. Could have been worse though :)
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That's fair, but in my eyes every bootstrap site looks the same too. I think the photography is the key to standing out.
So instead the US is the only country that "owns" domain names, since ICANN is an American company? If the domains aren't property then how can they be seized? Is a distinction made between domain names and ccTLDs?

edit: Downvotes? Really? For asking a question that seems perfectly on-topic.
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The worst thing about living in Uruguay is being right next to Them. Now this happens, and we're going to get the fallout.
You'll notice that this additional burden caused significant development delays and issues over what, 3 or 4 different owners? IIR, the Northern Line extension deal was with one of the previous owners who went out of business trying to service that requirement.

Getting the developers to foot the bill has significantly increased the financial hurdle for developing that part of London.

The Battersea project is a poster child for why developers can't shoulder this kind of expense.
More frequent stopping and starting would actually be an advantage here. If you're driving a long route between bus stops and don't brake frequently, you're only taking energy out of the flywheel when you initially get up to speed, and you're only putting it back in when you stop at the end. Regenerative braking is a lot more valuable in stop and go traffic. Every time you accelerate out of a stop light you're burning less fuel.
I have also been rejected service at a Wendy's in a similar manner. I had a couple drinks but was not belligerent, and I thought it would be smart to walk almost two miles to the nearest Wendy's to both take some time for the alcohol to go away, and to grab a bite to eat.

The employee informed me they could not serve me in the drive up unless I was in a vehicle. I had money, I was asking nicely, and the door to inside was locked so I could not walk up to their standard front cash register to pay like in the day.

As I waited, hoping they would just let me get my burger on foot, another car came, ordered food, and received it. I asked again and was dismissed for not having a car.

Doing the responsible thing was frowned upon that night.
"but parks, walks and schools mean everything."

Walks? The suburbs are terrible for walking. The pedestrian permeability of suburban streets are low, so walking to the store or to school often means going far out of your way, or crossing an arterial highway. This forces suburban residents to depend on their cars, even to places that should be a 5 minute walk.

If suburbs were redesigned to encourage walking, this wouldn't be a problem. The question is, how do we design an area equally suitable to walking and driving?
I haven't found an RSS feed for the most emailed articles. Do you have a link? That would be awesome!
Thanks for this. I just completed my Kickstarter and the product is in print. I'm going to add a video to the home page once I have the physical product ready. Here's the old video. Does that help clarify a bit? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/LenKendall/cartegram-fi...
The emergence of kinetic energy storage in the shadow of chemical storage is pretty interesting. Oftentimes I think of progress as moving away from mechanical things and toward electrical solid state things.
Not sure how I forgot this. #Facepalm