skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java was not free'ed by the GPL. Its a mirage. You've been deceived.

The specific implementation of the OpenJDK is available under the GPL, but the TCK, which is basically all of the test cases, is essentially proprietary.

Can you imagine Google writing Go, but keeping the Test cases for themselves? Well, they would let you use the test cases, but only if you used Go in way Google wanted you to. If you wanted to compile Go on the Raspberry Pi, or on anything 'like' a Phone, well that was off limits, and you could no longer use the test cases.

It's bizarre. It's evil.

The JVM is a great platform, but it is not "free".
There are many ways to learn about abstraction, and abstract algebra is not the only one. I.e., assorted facts about groups are mostly irrelevant, and if you can learn how to think abstractly by studying, say, graph theory, why would you need abstract algebra?
> Anyway, think of a single-page web-app, where the page is stored along with your private identity file on a USB-key (this avoids the security hole of having to download it every time).

You've just made it unusably hard for a majority of people, and hard enough not to bother for anyone else but 0.1%.
cheers but I really would like to have those problems you mention and for that I need a script, without the mvp there’s nothing I can do.

Hope someone will know a way
Maybe! Although (for better or for worse), it's a word you rarely hear in the software industry.
> I don't understand how people can make statements with this when it is so at odds with the facts.

I do understand. People have one explanation they like that fits with their politics, and anything else is to be made to support this or discredited. Think of this as a religious approach to policy.
The whole internet misses the previous focus on RSS...
cheers, have sent them a message
The government's personnel office has been hacked by China
> Europeans have their own sets of problems ,believe me,

Yes, and arguably 50 different sets of problems.
Even if this doesn't get added to HN, I'd like to see a plugin for this. If HN was in PHP and open source I'd have it done by tomorrow.
It's OK, I'm sure whoever did it had a warrant.
Well, they could confront the issue instead of publicly ignoring it for a change. Haven't heard much about China's massive DDoS against github. Even github won't point the finger at China even though it was clearly done at the Great Firewall.
>Otherwise, we should stop pretending that it doesn't.

Rather, we should stop pretending that it does.
Then they are perfect for each other. I like the story of how Ellison will violate smaller airports no-fly times (due to the noise and close neighborhoods), and land his private jet anyway and just pay the fines.
>Java Applets, a technology noone cares about

I care about them as a security hazard. See "Java Primary Cause of 91 Percent of Attacks: Cisco" (2013) and similar.

http://www.eweek.com/security/java-primary-cause-of-91-perce...
Looks like officials suspect it originated in china https://grasswire.com/data-breach
Obama actually denounced the Chinese government for pressuring companies into giving up encryption keys, that same week he had criticized U.S. companies for not giving up encryption keys. I was blown away by the immense cognitive dissonance. This was earlier this year, I'll have to see if I can dig up the article.
Large Hardware Validation
I just got out of some big-time VC meetings in SF and was kind of stumped by one of their questions.

We were raising a seed round for a large hardware project and they wanted to see "market validation". They were specific in that they wanted to see someone paying for the hardware product. Our business is B2B and our solution costs 50k - that's a hard sell to make to a company without an actual product.

We thought about creating a landing page and trying to fish sales that way but people can definitely tell a difference between a hardware rendering and the real thing, on top of that, pre-selling at 50k is quite a bit of a leap.

Does anyone have any advice on how to go about creating a market validation?

Founders Fund just invested in Transatomic Power (http://www.transatomicpower.com/), I wonder how they proved their product-market fit?

Specifically the market validation question came from Founders Fund as well
On the Witcher 3 and Racial Quotas in Art
I wonder how many terrorist attacks have been prevented BECAUSE OF encryption?

Having all information in plain text frankly scares me more...
General thought...

Two things strike me about these issues. Firstly there is a disconnect between a lot of citizens and those who are supposed to be there to protect those citizens; and second, we need to decide how much risk we are prepared to accept for freedom.

The FBI, MI5, and their ilk are there to protect the people. Yet an awful lot of the people talk about the likes of the FBI as thought they are just doing what they do because it pleases them, and them alone. But Im pretty sure the FBI believe that they are there to protect the people. To that end, I believe the people who work in the FBI are sincere. Somehow this must be reconciled.

As must freedom v's risk. I think there needs to be a rational debate about how much risk we are prepared to accept for an agreed amount of freedom. We simply cant have freedom with out risk. The only way to eliminate risk, is to eliminate freedom.

People need to address these two issues fairly soon, other wise, I think we are all in a while lot of trouble.
It could be playful ribbing, but if not that's incredibly assholeish.
I'm a huge fan of BSD. This was a good read.
He who controls the alfalfa controls the universe.
Google finally got design right
First I wasn't talking about the UK. Did you even read TFA? It's about what the US did, it just happens to be on Guardian, a UK newspaper.

Now, he who helped create ISIS, funded its operations, and enabled it to reign and kill people, in order to sell weapons and destabilize a region, is worse than ISIS.

What exactly is controversial about this?

That said, since you mentioned the UK: the UK had a billion people in Africa and Asia as slaves in its colonies just until 50 years ago. This, besides enslavement and resource-grabbing included countless executions, rapes, torture, aggression, war etc. ISIS has a lot of work to do to match up the numbers.

Don't make the mistake that the villain with the suit and the clean shave is much better than the crude foreign-looking fundamendalist villain.
what differentiates a 'cyber database' from a 'database'
The problem here is that, like the folks mentioned in the article, I wasn't the one opening the file on Excel. I'm generating a CSV file from a webapp to be sent to clients for processing. They would double-click the file, and see those mangled fields.

The real issue here is that Excel doesn't respect quotes on a CSV file for some inane reason. That is a bug on Microsoft's end.
Use 7zip to extract the files from the exe (it is just a self executable archive).
What incentive would they have not to? Our hypothetical government isn't concerned with victimless and/or trivial crimes.

Of course, no government can ever be forced to do anything (that's what makes it the government), but having everything clearly expressed and in the open, and with a tolerant approach to those who are not violent threats to society, is a far better situation than the government conducting surveillance programs in secret with secret scopes, where it may or may not have secret backdoors into commonly-used crypto, and lots of people are left hanging in a legal limbo hoping that the NSA doesn't develop a viable quantum computer before the statute of limitations runs out on their Silk Road drug transactions, etc.
Making material design [video]
This is part of an ongoing cyberwar between great powers - the largest adversaries to the US being China (mostly smash and grab) and Russia (primarily sophisticated and surgical).

It would be nice if there was some place where we could see the scoreboard to know how effective and how often we hack the Chinese back. Right now it looks like our tax dollars are being spent getting hacked, but the US government has doubled down many times on offensive cyberwar capabilities and now have professional cybersoldier career tracks in the DoD.

What's the assessment?
This is a great example of why the NSA & FBI should invest in strengthening American encryption standards, instead of trying to weaken them.
Huge data breech and the FBI is screaming from an Ivory tower that encryption is hallmark of all evil and that backdoors are a really good idea.

""Privacy, above all other things, including safety and freedom from terrorism, is not where we want to go..."" FBI Associate director Michael Steinbach
I wonder how much social engineering was involved in the hack. No matter how great is your tech, if your staff is not trained to be paranoid you're going to suffer the consequences.

"Hey I just found a usb pen on the floor. I wonder what it's inside it..."
Why don't you recommend it? And how does ArangoDB solve that?
If they don't, they will soon.
actually, i personally witnessed C&C based on BBS :)
Oh for sure, but a majority of Persians during the Islamic Golden Age. I have no horse in that race, just a random fact I noticed while reading about each.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medieval_Persian_mathe...
The former was built for millions of dollars by the low bidder with a great sales team.
Thank you for the insightful link. I wasn't aware of such project!
Odd not to mention Dalvik or Android in this at all.
The timing of this report is very "interesting", given recent news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9659784
Thanks for the additional context. Have you tried collecting feedback from those who cancelled (20 of 30)? You may also want to consider editing a subset of articles into a themed ebook and distributing it via softcover.io, since that business model has been proven to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ruby developers.
Someone made a reddit FUSE filesystem (I don't know if it still works though)

https://github.com/ianpreston/redditfs
Thanks for the suggestion, WITH keyword looks interesting
Ha. I've been collecting deleted Instagram photos taken in NYC for a couple of months now.
* cyber attack
* cybersecurity system
* cyber-intrusion
* cyber databases (twice!)
* cyber threat

Use of the word "cyber" adds virtually no insight or context to this article.
If you had a language model (say, trained on existing comments from Reddit), you could encode the data in the comments in English, and make the abuse a little more subtle.
During this process you will lose data. A lot of data.
the first one is cyber, the second is not.
Packet juggling over RFC1149-compliant networks.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
The reason techies find solutions like these unpalatable is because there is no technical way to provide these capabilities without simultaneously weakening protections against attacks from other entities (criminals, other governments, etc).

Also, while you, personally, may think it's okay to buy and sell cocaine over the internet, many of the other people signing/writing this social contract would disagree.
> 5. Experian displays your mother’s maiden name on your profile page. There is no way to hide this, obscure your mother’s maiden name, or select a different security question.

Not to detract from their incompetence, but still: never answer a security question with a true answer. That's what password managers are for.
It's hard not to make this trivial comment so let's make it:

At least it may give a taste to US nationals of what it feels like to have your country hacked by a foreign power, like most European countries nationals felt after the Snowden leaks.
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There should also be an article on how Asian (Indians, Chinese, Filipino, etc) students get graduate degree for free in the USA. Thanks US for my free Masters and PHD ;)
it is enjoyable and relaxing for you and may be many out there, but not all. that was a point about finding what your mind and body will not fight. i personally hate walking, but i love to play outdoors with drones and getting better with my training kite. same end result (moving) but much easier to incorporate, since I already want to do it.
Yeah, I wrote something that stores data to Flickr last summer: https://github.com/namwen/hoardr . I kind of had a reason but it was more for the enjoyment of getting it to work.
As a former government contractor, I wish I could say I'm surprised. Unfortunately, computer/network security in many government agencies frequently has more to do with policy documents than with anyone technical actually determining whether the system is secure.
>Even as a student I'm asked to do work enough times that I don't doubt I could switch jobs in a matter of weeks.

That's true, no one should ever be unemployed if they have infosec on their resume.

Do everything you can to learn how to bypass anything. Hack as much as you get your hands on. Break everything. Code all the things. It's really good for you and good for your career.

But I've had enough interns come work with me and then the company gets a letter from HBO because the intern thought no one was watching him torrent off our 2Gbps pipe. I've had college hires who spent the day browsing porn in incognito mode thinking the company couldn't see it. I've seen people using VPNs to mask the fact that they're getting paid to watch Netflix. And every single one of them wonder how in the hell we knew what they were doing.

Companies spend literally millions of dollars in security products to know exactly how their employees are misuing company property and company time. If you think there isn't a security tool that shows people using Tor, I think you're wrong.

I'm not telling you to stop. I'm not your manager. I just like helping people in infosec keep from making rookie mistakes. I've seen it way too often.
What makes you think the diffuser is all that important? Even the "state of the art" in full disk encryption doesn't reliably protect the integrity of disk sectors (this was part of Rogaway's critique of XTS during its standardization).
Hound internal demo
If the cost of employing someone is above the profit they generate, then you don't hire them. US corporations don't have a legal right to purchase labor at a price that makes their businesses viable. If they can't make money employing people in the business they're in, then they need to rethink the structure of that business or their investors need to put their capital elsewhere.
Can you give some examples of problems you've solved?
Like Omar Little?
Interested in hearing the details about this one. How much of it was facilitated by phishing or social engineering? Are there any government systems that require two-factor auth? So much of federal web infrastructure is based on old code/systems that, while invulnerable to a mass exploit of Rails/WordPress/Bash, have not even remotely been tested and studied against edge cases in the way that large scale open source platforms have.
Convert data to binary. Use Amazon Mechanical Turk API to create tasks for people to remember the index of each bit (the value of the task would be $0.01 for binary 0 and $0.02 for binary 1). And, for reading memory, a new task to input the index they remembered and the value they were paid.
Ray Kurzweil: If someone hasn't invented brain uploading by 2030, I'm probably screwed
I can show you my balance and even give you the number in case you're so nice as to transfer me something. And I'll live happy knowing that if you try doing something funny, you can be tracked down and held responsible.
.. Much like how gfycat encodes their links

eg.:

- https://gfycat.com/JaggedIdealFrillneckedlizard

- https://gfycat.com/ThirstyAmbitiousBuzzard

- https://gfycat.com/AlertSpicyBlueandgoldmackaw
Seems like it is getting to be a trend to write your own workflow engine and open source it. Spotify has luigi, LinkedIn has Azkaban and Airbnb has Airflow. I wonder at what market capitalization companies start rolling their own language like .net, go and swift?
You know how you know you're on the right track? When the fascist scumbag terrorists say what you're doing should be prevented "above all else"...
Pebble's new app for the Time is stuck in App Store purgatory
Sounds like a blogpost you should share with everyone :-)
The US government has some of the best CNA/E defense anywhere in the world - certainly better than almost all of industry - even departments that you would otherwise think are puny.

The backdooring and lack of encryption in software is because the US is still a primary exporter of technology and we want to be able to continue to hack, surveil, message and control those who get US technology. US FedRAMP and other compliance minimums insist on the use of properly configured encryption in private industry to protect government information and cyber sharing programs enable both the sharing of data between private and public sectors for surveillance and for the detection and analysis of foreign cyber attacks. The US government has state of the art encryption (for the most part) and some of the most heavily monitored perimeters.

None of this is enough to stop cyberattacks, which have all of the advantages in their favor.

So while I'm inclined to agree with you that the US should stop mandating backdoors and weak encryption I don't think its a fair characterization to suggest this anything to do with why the US was breached.

China and the US are battling each other in several arenas of influence, as are Russia and the US. In this case the US is trying to stop Russia and China's global and regional power projection and these countries do not accept the US world order and their current place in it.

Conflict is inevitable. It will be interesting to read the history books to see what gets written about the role of the information warfare space and what role it plays in whatever outcome we get.
A suitable response would be to present proof of what happened and who did it, then pursue law enforcement solutions and public shaming.

If this had been a land incursion, and the public Army had been the responding department, there'd be no question, and we'd have pictures of tanks and AK-47s on the front page of every newspaper. Congress would be discussing nothing else.

However, it's the spies, and FBI wannabe-spies that are probably handling this. The proof is not as obvious as a tank in North Dakota, but I suspect that there's is enough evidence and forensics to prove to the NSA and their ilk who did it and how.

But a spy's natural instinct is to hide the fact that they know something. It's a card up the sleeve, and their concern is more about being able to continue to spy than to stop a currently ongoing crime.
From http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-terrorism-statistics-every-... :

"– You are 35,079 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack

– You are 33,842 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack"

So terrorism clearly isn't the issue they are trying to address. That's what makes the people that run the various fiefdoms within our government - people that are not elected, do not answer to the public, and who rarely leave their jobs - so scary. We know they are lying, but to what end? What will their successors do with the power they garner using fear of terrorism? We are rapidly approaching Orwell's worst nightmare.
Furl - Storing data in URL shorteners and aptly refers to itself as "parasitic storage". Some precursors referenced on its homepage.

https://code.google.com/p/furl/
"Fast forward to the mid-2000s, when Google ushered in the NoSQL movement." ... Hubris? Fanboyism? Or not knowing history?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL
One thing to note, GNU/Linux definitely did not crush Microsoft. Android/Linux maybe, but Android/Linux and GNU/Linux are pretty far apart. There is almost nothing GNU in Android. Honestly the whole "GNU/Linux" naming things makes a whole lot more sense in light of Android than it did when we Linux was basically only popular in conjunction with GNU based desktops & servers.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.en.h...
While you're obligated to pay it, none of that money actually goes to the university. It all goes to the student union and student services which are two legal bodies distinct from the university.

So the education is free, you're just paying for some of the services (transportation, meals, housing, etc.) around it.
I wonder if there are any libraries that can do this? I was thinking of writing a password generator web-app that creates full diceware sentences (TheBlubberyPythonFloatedDownThePurpleFunicular == lots of entropy and easy to remember), but I'd need a decent language model for that. (And I don't feel motivated enough to write my own.)
Is it just me, or is the irony of this story colossal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9662421
Every time I see an api for sending and receiving any type of file or text, I think botnet/building a secret chat system on top of it.
Np! Mind it is technically possible to do, check out my sibling comment if you haven't already.
Pretty sure this happens in Washington DC when bills need to be reviewed by various departments.
The point of gun control isn't to keep the guns from the hands of real criminals (much less gangs), it's to keep guns from the average not-really-law-abiding citizen, who gets drunk and shoots his ex-wife, or leaves his gun accessible to his kids (hello school shootings) or just gets mad at his boss (just happened around here, the guy had a hunting rifle).

Whether that justifies preventing people from arming themselves for self-defense is arguable, of course.
Of course, China. How is it they are incompetent to protect the data, yet competent enough to know immediately who did it.