skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your second link:

"We had an air-gapped computer that just had its [firmware] BIOS reflashed, a fresh disk drive installed, and zero data on it, installed from a Windows system CD," Ruiu said. "At one point, we were editing some of the components and our registry editor got disabled. It was like: wait a minute, how can that happen? How can the machine react and attack the software that we're using to attack it? This is an air-gapped machine and all of a sudden the search function in the registry editor stopped working when we were using it to search for their keys."

There are four claims in here:

- firmware is fresh

- OS is fresh

- system is air-gapped

- infection happened

The next two paragraphs introduce the network-over-audio theory, which requires an already-infected system (although with no causal link).

This could also be HDD firmware infection or similar, or maybe their flashing attempt was unsuccessful (when done internally, not with an external flasher, that would be reasonable).

Still, articles like this are probably the reason for people (myself included) remembering a claim that infection happened through audio channels.
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Maybe he is against war? Against cancer? Against GMO?
Maybe he is just reading the wrong websites?
maybe he is writing critical comments on HN?
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It kills me we're not gonna orbit Pluto.
Bringing Windows Server to Google Cloud Platform
I don't have much experience in java, and don't want to get just for this project. Although I would love to participate... This is my dream competition.

Seems weird to see a coding competition with only one language available.

Maybe you'll be able to improve that in the future?

EDIT: It would be great to have python available. But an API that any language could use would be the best way to go as the other comment mentions.
They will probably have a lot of really cool flybys before that happens.
* Streaming of live video using a single protocol across all browsers. (Some browsers don't even support a live streaming protocol)

* Adaptive bit rate video streaming (recorded or live)

Nice to have but not required:

* Full H.264/AAC support across all browser.

Unfortunately Flash is the only viable solution for the above right now.
Assuming regulators don't step in and call it a fraud, presumably it's the sort of product which can do just fine as the placebo effect will work its magic for at least some portion of users.
>>> You'll be rapidly overwhelmed by bragging from Europeans, about how they're superior.

Very few of those people are actually European. For one, nobody introduces themselves as European :)

I heard they're just American teenagers trying to troll people.
Regardless of how people feel the post was handled, I appreciate this line: "These last few months have been incredibly painful for me, but at least I didn’t have to worry about how to pay the rent. They did worry about rent. I f* up and my employees paid for it." This is responsibility. No couching of the event in non-blame company-speak. He owns up to that experiment being a failure that it is on his shoulders.
Look up Computrace; it's very similar in operation but is installed by default in most BIOS' as a theft-prevention measure.

Admins managing servers can also opt to buy a server with physical BIOS write-protection, wherein the user will need to put a jumper or turn on a dip switch in order to update the BIOS.

Motherboards with hardware write-protected BIOSes were common around the turn of the century, when flash EEPROMs started replacing EPROMs for BIOS storage. Too bad the amount of tiny extra BOM cost and what seems to be increasingly buggier BIOSes that require frequent updates has made them mostly disappear...

I wonder how much the "it can always be updated later" mentality prevalent today has lead to a higher defect rate in code - it seems to me that if it's harder to change something once it's released, there is more incentive to get it right the first time. I can't remember there being any significant bugs with BIOS in the early machines I used (386/486 era) and those basically never needed to be updated; although PCs have gotten considerably more complex since, especially with things like UEFI, perhaps not all of that complexity is warranted and it wouldn't have manifested itself if BIOS' had remained difficult-to-modify?
Snap in some new Lego blocks until you can super glue a more permanent repair.
Not really, he started the site as a hobby project to learn ASP.NET. He obviously didn't know how to build a big site at this time.
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> UEFI's modular design is a single attempt at keeping it simplier and removing unneeded code.

That's why with the introduction of UEFI, flash parts finally grew in size again? (not that I complain, that's quite useful to burn coreboot + Linux on them, to have a _real_ OS around to drive the boot process)

UEFI is _much_ larger than BIOS, conceptually and in terms of code size.

It's also _much_, _much_ larger than coreboot based solutions implementing the same purpose (my tests indicate that UEFI takes 6 times the LOC over coreboot for a minimized code base that provides a boot menu and the ability to load a signed Linux kernel from disk)
> I'd be interested to hear a rational argument for why it's okay for Israel to pursue nuclear weapons but not a neighbouring county?

Stupidly naive answer: because Israel didn't sign the NPT and is voluntarily evasive about the subject, while Iran did.
what, re-implementing their tech on a multitude of different browsers on desktop machines that previously worked fine?
I'm just pissed because IMO flash is being removed before the cross platform media objects in html5 have been implemented in full across all the browsers.
Nope, half of 1 tonne of Radium is still a half of a tonne of Radium. Also Radium and Curium first decay into other radioactive elements like Radon gas.
Not forgetting the US uncessingly trying to undermine the weapon inspections to their own end, according to Blix [1]

Before Blix was sent in, again the cover of "International" weapons inspection (note, not US inspections) were subverted by the US spying and constant attempts to discredit the results if they were wrong (wrong as in not the US version of events) [2]

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2966639.stm
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/07/world/us-spied-on-iraq-und...
Out with the old code, in with the new
well if they care, you shouldn't be then surprised that this approach would go against the fur of quite a few people (safe to say more than 1000% of US population?). and since even people with different mindset, like me, find it a bit distasteful and unnecessary, not-so-positive reactions are to be expected. btw welcome to the internet, where people complain about stupid things, all the time :)
thanks for articulating this nicely. I agree with your statements.
Not necessarily. Used Tesla Model S's will come down in price, and still have fairly extreme (in my estimation) reliability (which may actually work to keep the price from coming down as much as an ICE vehicle, but still...)
You can setup a Content Security Policy in your web server that will only allow the browser to load scripts from some domains/subdomains.
Writing games in AS3 is actually pretty nice. It will run on any OS/Browser that has the Flash plugin installed, without compatibility issues, and can export to all the major mobile devices as apps.

Flash for desktop browsers, apps for mobile devices, even Adobe agrees on that. And if you just have a simple website, make it in HTML5 (Adobe also agrees on that)

People confuse website content (which should be built on HTML5, I agree) with rich 'clients' such as games. If you want to build games for the web, good luck with HTML5.
How many SV VCs would have turned him down because his team and his pitch deck weren't cool enough, and they "weren't looking for investments in that sector"?

I'd love to see more examples of successful bootstrapped and/or lifestyle businesses, but - unlike PoF - most of them they don't get the same PR as the mainstream startups, which makes them harder to find/follow.
I've been to plenty, and at the national level there is ample patriotism for one's country, regardless of nationality. I do agree with your point. I just don't think it's quite as clear-cut as you suggest.
Why would a developer work in such a place? I imagine you would be forced to be all professional yet always play second fiddle to the traders, no matter great your skills were.

But then again I am probably the only one who is disappointed over this announcement - the game sounds really boring to me.
> As a non educated (in that matter), it's impossible to understand anything without the feeling you end up as a fanboy for some party.

Well, if you care what the outcome is and you decide you want to see one party prevail, that doesn't turn you into a fanboy.

Because maybe there really are good guys and bad guys, or at least massively powerful overdogs who will crush entire underdog nations for realpolitikal advantage.

Look, Greece is fucked. Tsipras failed. Varoufakis failed. I like them, but they couldn't outwit Germany. The screwed up. They'll be remembered for that, just as Merkel will be remembered for destroying the founding principles of the EU.
>"they can run anything they like in the context of your site"

Some of them actually depend on that. We seen weird stuff show up on our sites because we made a deal with a company that sells ads for us. Suddenly we're pulling in stuff from companies we never heard of because the ad reseller made a deal with a third-party, which then again outsource part of their infrastructure to a fourth company. It's hours of detective work when you need to figure out who has misconfigured https.
From what I understand, dating sites typically experience a valuation headwind since the purpose of the site is a high userbase turnover (i.e. match making). Is there any reason to think that controlling market share can somehow offset this effect? (other than the standard price-setting power of monopolies)
I drink more water than ever after buying bottles. I especially bring bottled water to places where they only have well water.
Vincenzetti ends several emails with clear neo-fascist slogans ("Boia chi molla" etc). Some circles in the Italian hacking scene have long had right-wing connotations.

> are authoritarian world views the inevitable result of working in the defense industrial complex?

Is this even a question? If your livelihood depended on selling batons, you'd be extremely supportive of the police, wouldn't you?
OHhh that's true. I've been curious why stuff like this breaks for months now. I use OSX at work, Ubuntu/Windows at home, and jumping between this many OSs I sometimes forget about the system bindings if I'm not in an IDE. Thanks!
Anyone knows if it is technically possible to have the old "copy to clipboard" function without Flash?
Will this have an impact on the Standard Model? If so, does this have any ramifications on proving or disproving any particular quantum theories?
I don't buy the marketing blurn. How are potholes going to be repaired?

As for asphalt's CO2 footprint, that's the figure for asphalt mixed with cement. Extracting asphalt and bitumens from crude oil is literally the bottom of barrel.

Pardon typos, fat sausages on moving bus.
The undelying point Schauble is subtly trying to make is that you cannot switch back to an alternative currency without help from outsiders. Iraq needed US help, as was recently noted in the Guardian:

"In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a
year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the US military’s
might, three printing firms and hundreds of trucks. In the absence of
such support, Grexit would be the equivalent of announcing a large
devaluation more than 18 months in advance: a recipe for liquidating
all Greek capital stock and transferring it abroad by any means
available."

You think France could go back to the Franc without outside help? I highly doubt it. The point Schauble is trying to make is that if France wants to go the way of Greece, it would only involve lots and lots of pain. Abide by their rules, or else.
To be fair, he's been talking about the relationship between theory and empiricism with regards to neural networks for some time now. See, for instance, page 12 here [1] (the titles of his talks all seem to be provocative questions; almost in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way).

One of the problems (in my opinion) with networks is that the analysis has always been post hoc. Personally, I think it's more preferable to build a method starting from theory [2] which can then be tested empirically to see if the assumptions of the theory hold. Then augment the theory, the method, and experiment again.

Now, there's nothing inherently wrong with post hoc analysis - it's just a different start point in the loop of science. However, because we didn't start from theory, the burden is then to extract some theory from empirical observation. Again IMO, this is can be problematic because:

1) It more easily allows for confirmation bias.

2) It leads to a multitude fragmented theories.

The second is why everything surrounding neural networks seems so incredibly ad hoc.

[1]: https://www.cs.nyu.edu/~yann/talks/lecun-20071207-nonconvex....

[2]: The principles could be based on statistical learning (see SVM), neurophysiology (see work by Poggio or Olshausen), mathematical invariants (see work by Mallat), etc...
When I was just an ignorant kid, I was fond of building stupid little website where I could put adsense ads (they used to approve almost everyone) and have a small pocket-money income. In the best month, I made around $300. I could never figure out how to get traffic and people like Marcus and Amit Agarwal used to be my heroes.

Although, people like us on HN, won't feel excited about making a little websites and earning through Adsense income; a good business / startup seems more worthwhile but sometimes, I do get tempted to enter that territory again seeing people making thousands of dollars a day with just re-hashed content and a little effort but I feel it won't be something to be proud of in the future.
Iranian here , and I am commenting from Iran.Iranian people maybe most pro usa people in middle east. and about government, they just need keep people busy because of they systematic corruption. Thats all. 10 years before , Ali Khamneai said following : "anyone who says we should communicate with USA is or idiot or our enemy/traitor".

and guess what ? today , FM Zarif have record in our history for maximum time negotiation with a USA FM.

Thats about it , they just want money , they don't care about Israel or otherwhere a little bit , they don't care about people either , they just care about themselves. Look at the whole picture . When there was serious threat about Iran regime existence , they negotiate , and they accept what they called 10 years ago a traitor would do.

They just love money.And they only weapon they have for keeping people in iran busy and afraid of any kind of protest, is "imaginary" enemy.That's all.

I cannot find the exact link . But I read a DoD Analysis about Iran , and the first paragraph they mentioned was this : "Iran regime only care about himself" (meaning of the first paragraph) .

As Iranian I can assure you , They don't even care even about Israel/Palestine.They just need imaginary enemy keeping people in scared position.

p.s. sorry for my broken English.

p.s-2: Yes I know and accept this is so simplistic, we have all kind of majority in our society , but If you see the level of corruption in our economy , You will understand nothing can stand against money.Not even supreme leader.At the end at least in my view (I served in high-level military base in my mandatory military service_sadly was two year waste of my life), at the very end alls boils down to money and keeping regime safe. They interfere in Lebanon , Just because they want to propagate , NOT BECAUSE OF ISLAM OR ANYTHING ELSE , they just feel safer if they have more poppet.
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And before that, water was made out of "water", wood was made out of "wood", and the world was a much simpler place. Your point being?
I guess it's a matter of density? If you've only got two or three apartments in a building street parking works but for more than that it's really not feasible. If you like living in less dense areas that's great but my sense is that most of the urbanization that's happening is at densities where street parking isn't feasible.
The website built on spam to extract money out of desperate guys? (I could write a blog post on this - Badoo is legitimately deception across the board).
I'm looking forward to his take on the recent thing about memristor machines being able to solve NP-complete problems...it was on HN a couple of days ago.
You know what's actually kinda interesting? There's going to have to be an independent flash file player in order to view a lot of content that was produced when Flash was king. Like, I mean a lot of games and videos are going to be strictly inaccessible without downloading a tailored piece of software to specifically view them. Think about all the other common file formats that your computer will just open for you now. All those flash files are going to be basically in the dustbin.
Last week's Sunday was July 5.

The week of July 12 is this week.
I am still waiting for someone to avoid building a normal building from bird kill concerns. Until then, it really seems like FUD.

Edit: And yes glass buildings do actually kill millions of birds / year. It's just not considered an issue as there are a lot of birds out there.
As with Java, the problem is not Flash per se but the browser plugin implementing SWF runtime. Flash can and probably will live long and prosper as the Flash "creator" app will switch to generating JavaScript+HTML5 istead of SWF.
try using http://www.compesis.com/en/website/sell
We already have commoditised math solvers for any number of (relatively) trivial problems.

What we haven't automated is mathematical creativity, which is a completely different class of problem.
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Golang makes total sense for the kind of programmer who wants everything to be there on the screen in front of them. It’s like C in that regard - write code, the computer does what the code says, programmer is happy: No constructors, no destructors, no exceptions, no weirdness

But C has weird bits & odd corner cases. C isn’t type safe. C requires you to do all your own memory management. C is in fact full of landmines for the ordinary programmer (which is all of us, even the very best on a bad day) to step on inadvertently. What if you could have a language that acted like C, but was type safe, did do memory management for you, and had a decent standard library so you didn’t have to spend time writing yet another linked list implementation? Oh, and the one true concurrency scheme (Hoare’s communicating sequential processes) is built right in to the language, so you can write type-safe asynchronous systems without tedious boilerplate.

That language is Golang. Like C, it’s a wysiwyg language, unlike C it’s much harder to shoot your own foot off with it.
It's misleading to equate treated water with untreated water.
I think that that in addition to the price-setting / risk-spreading nature of the "monopoly," they're also trying to control new "experiences" as it relates to dating. OKCupid / Match offer a fundamentally different experience to Tinder or HowAboutWe.

IAC seems to be making a macro-bet: we don't know what online dating will look like in 5-10 years, but we want to control it.

Interestingly, they "incubated" Tinder via Hatch Labs (where I was an employee). Pretty impressive control of that vertical.
Pretty much every virus scanner since the dawn of viruses can be set to only scan on-demand.
In my experience at least, when I talk about "Flash programming" I'm not just referring to Actionscript, but the whole package, the whole Flash suite including manipulating the timeline and multimedia objects programmatically.

Sounds like you favour Perl over Actionscript. From what I know of both, they are not commonly compared! But as with many things in this business, it all depends on your needs, likes, and the project requirements.
Maybe the doctors are being scammed as well? Gilmartin specializes in sleep medicine

http://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Geoffrey_Gilmartin/profile
I used to be exactly like that. As a consequence I never really picked up any in-depth knowledge through school because hitting the basics was usually enough to "get the grade" and there was precious little "reward" (of whatever form) for pushing it further.

When I was 18 a tutor - who I didn't really know well - said to me in passing, and seemingly pretty randomly, "Your problem is that you want to run before you can walk with everything."

I had an epiphany over that and slowed down my "gets" for small, insignificant objectives and spent the time trying to really understand things.

From that point on I actually learned how to program properly rather than just doing enough to get by, for example.

As I've gotten older I've learned that my chasing the "gets" was a self-imposed restriction because there was always a small but sufficient reward for the accumulating of praise, etc. I've taught myself to very stringently prioritise (recent book suggestion: Procrastinate on Purpose) and categorise the things I "have to" do and instead of doing a hundred things that don't really matter (but they were easy and I get a "thanks") I work out which things I "have to" do will actually add value and make a difference, even if achieving them will take much more effort.

As my career has developed I've moved into being a specialist and now find myself coming back out into being a generalist but the "real" grounding in my skills sets me apart from "career generalists" and "credential whores" that my industry is plagued with nowadays.

EDIT: thinking about it, this "get" behaviour started when I was in junior school. I used to read encyclopaedias for facts and tell people. My parents used to praise me for what I knew, and my friends jokingly called me an "information magnet". I liked my cursory knowledge of "everything" and I guess I became addicted to it.
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Likewise, a cap on a convertible note may be used by investors in the next round as an anchoring point to restrict the valuation in the next round.

Both of these effects are what a layman would think "shouldn't be real". From experience, both are extremely real.

Too bad that the TV shows present these as sort of jokes. That disappoints me. No joke, these are dead real.
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One notable exception is Major Geeks. However, it's important to donate them a few bucks for staff and bandwidth because they are giving up a ton of money by not bundling crapware and confusing people.
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