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> Although very few people would ever come across the bug, Intel allowed every processor to be exchanged. No matter if you were a gaming consumer or a giant corporation using coprocessor-heavy software.

Initially they only wanted to exchange CPUs if this bug was likely to significantly affect you. I had to prepare a letter describing our use of AutoCAD to get a replacement CPU ordered. As the media seized on the bug and it became more widely known they revised the policy to update everyone.
I'd be surprised if they don't have additional security. Here's some info on what Box did to add authentication and authorization to Hubot commands.

https://cloud.app.box.com/dodatx2015
> Not if it isn't connected to your network.

Not if it isn't connected to a network. But its hardly as if devices with manufacturer-paid cellular connectivity built in and preconfigured don't exist, so there's no reason that it has to be your network.

To the extent that manufacturers are either monetizing networked services or deriving useful data from them, making them independent of end-user networking choices has a pretty clear benefit, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it become a common thing in Smart TVs.
The basics, yes. But you are gauging the wrong complexity here.

Dwarf Fortress has no concept of 'hit points', for instance. A character (monster, undead or whatever) can die for several reasons. For instance, they hemorrhage to death, or a vital organ is hit. The can be crippled for life. All 32 teeth in a dwarf are modeled, and they can all be individually damaged/lost.

It has complex social interactions. One reddit thread was asking why one of his engravers was engraving pictures of rats over and over in a room. He got asked to check if said dwarf had a grudge against whoever owned that room. Sure enough, he did - the owner was a noble that happened to be afraid of rats.

There's a legal system, dwarfs can commit homicide and you need to try to track down the perpretator and bring to justice, assuming there are no witnesses.

Heck, even the world generation is way more advanced than anything I've ever seen.
I too have tried this. One of the founders walked me through the controls (which you can set to as mild or as uncomfortable as you like).

Once on, you're supposed to try and forget about it. I think you'll notice that if you try to think too hard about your shirt collar, it will feel uncomfortable too.

So if you "try to feel something", you may not like it, but if you attach it and walk around mingling at a party, you will notice soon that you feel quite easy-going.
This is wonderful! Is there a GitHub link for the source code for the plotting tool you wrote?
Well, huh. "bc" is still that bad:

% bc -l
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
(824633702441.0)*(1/824633702441.0)
.99999999224129613242
(824633702441.0)*(1/824633702441.0)-0.999999996274709702
-.00000000403341356958
((824633702441.0)*(1/824633702441.0))/0.999999996274709702
.99999999596658641539

Python on the same machine is not:

% python
Python 2.7.10 (default, May 26 2015, 13:01:57)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> (824633702441.0)*(1/824633702441.0)
0.9999999999999999
Thank you! Yeah, it was pretty easy to build and use. A real joy. Yesterday, I was hunting for my vertical mouse and trackball. Sure enough, box #2 :)
I'm not because:

1) US and UK are the forefront of pushing for such laws recently first in "X Eyes" countries and then in others as well, because it's actually the NSA and the GCHQ proposing them

2) The UK is bound by the Human Rights Charter in the EU and some of the data collection and spying laws are actually illegal (even if they keep going for now). Through this "international treaty" (that supposedly the EU countries would sign, too) they could probably bypass that.
The machines running your VPN are presumably not the same machines you're trying to access via SSH. A compromise in your VPN should't give anyone execution access to anything interesting.
Chas Freeman is 100% spot on in this article and provides a sound rebuttal to the portions of the TPP that we've been able to see.

The reason that he is able to so effectively dismantle the economic arguments is because the real intention of the TPP is not for economic benefit of the United States; it is to set up a supra-national framework for supra-national corporations to override national sovereignty.

Compared to the money and power at stake, the cost to buy the political establishment in DC is next to nothing, and so they do it. Ripping the TPP apart as failed policy is good, and I'm all for that... but the problem can really only be solved by hacking at the root, which is the fact that our governments and the rule of law have been hijacked by entities that have no soul to save and no body to incarcerate.
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You're right, red states have less censorship. The Economist ranked Singapore as having more censorship than China. In another study it was 133rd out of all countries.
It's hard to directly read a license plate from an aircraft. However that's not necessary as the plates are being recorded as part of a separate system all it takes is continuous footage of a car from aircraft and you are recording everyone. https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-trac...

Basically, aircraft follows car X, it passes by a scanner, you now know every car with timestamp that passed by the scanner and can look it up on the video. Doing this automatically is just a question of having enough video coverage and some fairly basic video analysis. They don’t even need to do this in real time as you can write the software after the fact.

In other words because they already have license plate scanners and are doing OCR + lookup they just need a video of the cars after that point.

Note: I doubt they have nearly enough footage to track everyone right now, but the cheaper it is to add one more camera and archive the footage the closer you get to that point.

PS: You can even back track cars so if you have a lot of footage of a car that then passes near a scanner you then know its path from wherever the footage starts.
I read about one of these devices once, vendor info said that it runs a small and "verified" kernel (probably seL4 or something like that) that does the TCP stuff and took care not to let any real information flow in the other direction.
Apart from FTP, it support SMTP, probably others as well that I forgot.
It did not sound very convincing to me. Even if the kernel is totally secure, you could probably have a side channel via ACK timing?
I think the realities of statecraft in the twenty-first century has made stuff like this to be impossible to do without, from what it seems like these agencies are not evil and they have merely had to evolve to the realities of this era.

I do not like it nor enjoy it but it seems like Russian/Chinese intelligence have free reign in america whereas our agencies are under constant assault by the public and all other nations versus us. Sometimes I fear we are bringing down the state with out actions.
Police on the hunt for nose-picking break-in suspect
Geeze. Didn't realize they'd hit 11B in valuation, though we don't talk about them as often as AirBnB and Uber.

I guess the question then becomes does Pinterest see it as being worthwhile to buy Etsy out or do they just run them out of the market? Etsy shop owners could simply "pin" links to their stuff and voila off we go. It'll probably come down to the cut Pinterest takes from the sales. If they offer a lower % than Etsy, they'll stand a chance at running Etsy out of the market and seeing a higher conversion rate.
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I was one of the people grounded this morning. They said they were having mechanical problems. They took the plane out to the runway and taxied it around "to try to figure out what's wrong," then let us on.
JJ,

I love your research on this, with SDR Dongle.

I'm building up my ADS-B receiver with a NooTech SDR. One question, you talked about capturing squawks with your SDR - did you try for ADS-B or do you know if these aircraft employ it? This would give you location.

Kudos to you, man!
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Yeah, but isn't a similar argument made with regards to license plate readers, and isn't the common counter-argument that there's a difference between a license plate being readable by a random schmuck vs. all license plates systematically scanned, recorded and kept as records by the government?
No, that was immediately after their IPO:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AETSY&ei=kPttVdibCc...
You can try. Though sneakernetting your malicious payload into the cockpit while in-flight is not recommended.
The parent refers to the fact raw SAT scores are normalized, thus largely dependent on the relative strength of your cohort's performance[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Raw_scores.2C_scaled_scores...
almost like they weren't trying with that last point.
Google Maps update adds real-time public transit arrivals
Awesome to see KA add SAT prep to their training material. When my buddy and I were prepping for our GRE tests, we used KA in conjunction with http://meli-lewis.github.io/GRE_Khan.html to prepare.

Any friends that a worried about their math sections as they start to prep, I give them that same link and so far I'm battling a thousand on people who've gotten accepted
They were not always free; that's a recent change.
I hoped my key wasn't effectively public by using it with github, but I honestly tend to assume the worst whenever I use a service like it.
I use block selection so often that I've switched the mappings in my vimrc. I have v mapped to visual-block selection and ctrl-v mapped to visual selection. It's very rare that I miss normal visual mode as I use block and line selection more than anything.
How is harmful treatment of animals required to preserve intelligent lives?
Thanks =). I'm planning on putting it up on GitHub as soon as I clean the code up a bit.
Well this is a government who had a manifesto pledge to abolish the Human Rights Act. And they won. So, indeed, maybe I shouldn't be surprised.

Seems very self defeating though. Data could end up being siloed in countries where the users are based so their government can decide who can see it.
That's its home page, but I suppose the submitter chose the other URL because it gets you into the details straightaway, which an HN audience tends to appreciate. Both links are good.
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Pinterest Brings E-Commerce to Social Bookmarking with a Buy Button
not to be too snarky, but perhaps "looking backward" would be a better title =)

(don't get me wrong, I love my ssh and am glad to see msft supporting it for real)
To be wildly pedantic, GitHub wouldn't charge him with anything, the DoJ would, regardless of what GitHub does/doesn't do.
This link isn't working for me, but this appears to be the same story:

http://www.voanews.com/content/fbi-behind-mysterious-surveil...
Still,can convey be important to the growth/diversification of micron, a ~$35 billion company, without being big and creating at least a medium change in the market ?
This a good point. The internal incentives of the previous ranking model used by HR there create these behaviors.

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9598015
yeah good catch, i didn't think about it, that data would be gold.
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According to a 2009 blog post[1]:

> Thanks to our new servers, known bad keys[2] from Debian and Ubuntu are now blacklisted. We estimate that about 1000 keys in our database were impacted by this. If you get authentication errors using keys that worked a day ago, please double-check that they are not on our blacklist. If they are, you should ensure your software is updated and generate new keys. We’ve got a guide to help you out with this.

[1] https://github.com/blog/500-state-of-the-hub-rackspace-day-0

[2] https://github.com/blog/63-ssh-keys-generated-on-debian-ubun...
Turns out, the Crucial drives' "power loss protection" doesn't actually preserve data "in-flight" at the moment of power loss. It just prevents data "at rest" from being corrupted.

This appears to apply to all the consumer-grade Crucial drives.

See [1], money quote:

"In the MX100 review, I was still under the impression that there was full power-loss protection in the drive, but my impression was wrong. The client-level implementation only guarantees that data-at-rest is protected, meaning that any in-flight data will be lost, including the user data in the DRAM buffer. In other words the M500, M550 and MX100 do not have power-loss protection -- what they have is circuitry that protects against corruption of existing data in the case of a power-loss."

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8528/micron-m600-128gb-256gb-1...
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> Specifically because, at least theoretically, it could be used to derive your private key.

What theory? I'm unaware of a current working theory that could be used to derive a private key from a public key of sufficient complexity.
I believe this surveillance can be slowed down? We need to stop being so complacent with our photo being taken? We could start be not shopping at stores like Home Depot. Home Depot takes my photo multiple times for the purchase of a screw? I know all stores treat their employees and customers like convicted felons, but some are worse than others?

Then, maybe we could slow down on the posting of pictures? Show up at local town hall meetings--questioning the need for so many cams, and license plate readers? Especially, if said town doesn't have a problem with crime?
It doesn't make sense and wouldn't for a while. I don't think the potential would justify the market overlap, the work surrounding an acquisition of that size, and the risk of pissing off other large partners that Pinterest needs right now. Pinterest is still in the very early stages of monetizing and I'd imagine they want to get the current stuff right first.
Yes, literally.

Employees are not essential the way a founder is. That is obvious.
With any luck that will mean the return of a ~24" 4k screen along side a new ~27" 5k
I don't think so. Cost is one side of the equation, but usability is another. And at the end of the day, I don't think there's enough consumer demand to push IoT where it could be. I think eventually we'll get there -- at some point in the future, it will just be cheaper to buy an Android SoC than a handful of cheap analog micro controllers -- but for the next 10+ years we're going to keep hearing about IoT as "the next big thing" because there's no consumer demand for it.

The situation with your daylight system is a perfect example. People think "Oh, that's cool" but won't actually get off their ass and spend a few hours setting it up and configuring it to their liking. Unless it comes out of the box, it's a non-starter.

IoT devices as they are today require a systems integrator to come in and tie everything together and configure them. So your lighting system is integrated with a presence system that is also integrated with your thermostat. Each of these has to be configured on a case-by-case basis, because no two homes are alike. But if your products require an integrator, suddenly the integrator is your customer, and you begin sacrificing end-user focus for things that make the integrator's job easier.

And then you realize that the largest consumer of IoT platforms isn't consumers themselves, it's installers like ADT. Their focus is on selling simple products that require minimal support, not feature-rich ones. Why? Because users simply aren't interested in paying any amount of money for advanced features. Until that changes, IoT is going to be a niche hobbyist market. Even if it's built in to every device you buy, if it's not worth anything to you, you're not going to configure it in the first place.
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This reminds me of the rumours that Apple would release a TV. Frankly I never believed it and (IMHO) you have to be pretty ignorant of Apple to think the rumours had any credence whatsoever.

The upgrade cycles are simply too long for TVs.

But more importantly, Apple's whole model is to treat things like this as just "dumb complements". Your mobile device is, from the carrier's perspective, is increasingly becoming an a dumb Internet pipe (first with the App Store, later with the likes of iMessages and how LTE works, etc).

The TV for Apple is simply a dumb display to stick an Apple TV into. A sub-$100 device you can replace every other year if need be. A $3000 TV is replaced a whole lot less often.

Why would Apple want to be in the business of (eventually) supporting 5+ year old TVs for such a low-margin business? Or what makes you think users would pay for the Apple brand and/or upgrade more often to make it worthwhile?

So as far as IoT goes, I have trouble seeing a future where someone says "I need to buy new lightbulbs because mine don't get firmware updates anymore" or "I need to buy a new fridge because it can't talk to my new phone".
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Well, either way, I'm glad they have finally decided to go for SSH.

I'm still not sure I really like PowerShell, but whether one likes it or not, it has become too useful to ignore. And even on days when I really dislike it, it is still a huge improvement on cmd and vbs. I still do a lot of my Windows scripting in Perl, mostly because I am familiar with it, CPAN still rules, and I am not sure I want to learn the .Net framework just so I can do some admin-type scripting. But it's good to have options.
These were merely examples, not hard deal breakers. If I wrote in hypotheticals without examples, I would have been lampooned for not providing examples. My point was that freedoms in Singapore are dictated by the government and not inherent. If Temasek holdings, err I meant the SG gov, doesn't say that something is legal, you can bet that you'll get arrested for doing it. It's a much more controlling atmosphere than anything you'll find in Silicon Valley.

Yes, you can live a very high quality of life as an expat with a family in SG. My brother does it and isn't going to be leaving anytime soon. However, he's merely stationed there at a large multinational corporation's request. The thought of starting his own company or joining a startup would probably kill him. He's not the startup type and most people who live in SG are not startup people. They like what SG offers them and in return they give up a lot of freedoms.

Re day laborers not getting paid. Don't mistake freedoms with efficiency of law.
Research/creative work is difficult to automate, and it seems that only a smallish percentage of population excels at it. Small population -> falling behind in those areas, unless the Japanese somehow revolutionize their education system.
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Open source? No?
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I felt sad when I finally completed Braid. It's still one of the best games I've ever played and I knew I was never going to find something like that again. This paper brought me back to that sense of wonder that I had the first time I played Braid.
All well and good until the "smart" part fails and makes the "dumb" part unusable. It's only a matter of time until it happens.
I would rather take my chances with a "dumb" TV and add the peripherals I want.
Which suspects are they parking the surveillance planes over?

The fear is that the answer is "none"--they're flying planes continuously to see what they can see across the whole city.

What if they started parking a surveillance van with listening equipment outside of EVERY single house in the city? Still ok?

Americans are ok with surveillance technology as long as its use is limited. The American system for limiting it has always been focused on the exclusion of evidence. If the state violated the 4th Amendment (like parking a listening van without a warrant), the evidence could be excluded from trial and the surveilled person is less likely to convicted.

The government is now pivoting to the concept of national security to get around all these limitations. If the FBI is not investigating a crime, it does not care about the 4th Amendment. Terrorism is defined as an act of war--not a crime--so as long as the FBI is doing "counter-terrorism" it can just collect all information about whatever it wants, whenever it wants, with no limitations. And it can keep the entire process secret.
Maybe it doesn't happen directly but through downloading some preconfigured Linux VM with the private/public key already set up.
You mean besides it being the canonical example of an unrealistic plan for becoming rich? Nothing.
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Exactly. Forcing a browser extension I may not want on me is a quick way to get your application uninstalled from my machine.