skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>One of my family members turned down an offer of double his salary because it would entail working on military systems, and he's a conscientious objector.

This happens a lot in my field (cognitive neuroscience). The Army Research Lab is a huge recruiter at cognitive neuroscience conventions, but there are many who refuse to work with them on principle, citing gitmo/drones/abu grahib/mk ultra/extraordinary rendition/etc...

At the end of the day, Army research tends to be shittier than public research, and I attribute this to two equally-weighted factors:

1. Army research is done in relative isolation. Collaboration of ideas is difficult because of OPSEC rules.

2. The best researchers, by and large, tend to be wary of Army laboratories, in no small part because the majority of them are foreign.
EDIT: Found 'em - http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=2...
So, almost entirely different from the Bronx. "Joe from the Bronx" would never trust a bank that made him do everything online, and to be honest, neither would I. He gets most of his income in cash under the table so what does he care about automatic direct deposit?

I get it, you live in Sweden, you don't have an underclass, you're completely digital, but you're out of touch with what reality is for most people.
> Unfortunately, and unlike a QR code, the data is not encoded in the drawing itself.

Obviously, there is data in the drawing. Just that data is a symbol which is resolved through some proprietary app, which maintains the association in a private database where it is subject to expiry and such.

Just some third party has to develop an independent app to open up access to the data in the drawing and use it outside of the original system.

There might not be enough data in the drawing for it to satsify the same use cases as QR codes.

For private labeling, it could be good enough.

For private labeling, though, I'd prefer something that just scans alphanumeric labels, and not some silly triangles. I don't want to rack my brain inventing a triangle code for my Lady Diana collectible #153 that is different from those which I tacked onto 1 through 152. :)
> what's the word you use for people who kick puppies or otherwise cause harm to the world?

Well, Google did buy a company that makes military robots....
The equivalent fix for the Android Google Voice app is... not needed, because it still doesn't handle MMS.

Yes, I know that Hangouts has GV integration, but it's pretty subpar. There isn't, for example, a decent Hangouts Chrome extension.
He very well wanted to run for the second term if he was elected unopposed. Go and read some news articles of the time period when the Presidential election happened.
The most standout part of this attack (to me) is that it can be 100% silent. The fact that the bug hits before the text notification is fired means that an exploit could potentially stop the notification, delete the message, and go on tramping throughout your phone doing whatever it wants leaving absolutely no indication to you the user that you've been hacked.
The airforce is testing a cruise missile defense balloon in Maryland. It's a blimp tied to the ground.

I'd imagine most of US civil air defense is just sending up fighter jets.

But on 9-11, US air defense got caught with their pants down. I wouldn't expect much.
As for monetization, I figured why the hell not. If somebody really wants to buy a simple meshtag that they can memorize and reuse (maybe it has their contact info), I'm not gonna stop them :). This isn't really a moneymaking scheme, this is a side project and my first Android/iOS app.

As for anonymity, it's anonymous to other users. If you deselect the anonymous checkbox when editing the tag, other users will see your name, and that's it
Wow, what the, I stand corrected.
Anybody know if Textra is affected, if I turn off MMS auto-downloading?
I've had a shootout of sorts against a robot. The robot was armed with an airsoft gun, and I with a Glock pistol. The goal was not to kill the robot (since it was expensive and the owner and I had spent a long time getting the machine vision software workin) but to avoid being hit by the robot while engaging some other targets.

The course had to be carefully constructed to avoid an immediate robot victory, and the robot wasn't mobile. I wouldn't take the human side in a confrontation with an armed robot driven by a defense budget.

The disadvantage of a robot is limited mobility and difficulty distinguishing friends from foes, the same disadvantages which plague landmines. The advantage is that a robotic force could provide the same area denial as landmines without the long-term consequences: set 20% of the robots to come home and recharge every day, with a week-long battery life, and you've got a very short period during which problems can happen.
There is no doubt that S Radhakrishnan and APJ Abdul Kalam were two greatest Presidents India had who made the most impact out of a ceremonial post (and not in a political way).
Depends on what level you are talking about.

For ICBMs there are naval vessels like the Aegis, as well as land based systems surrounding the CONUS.

Within CONUS however they are largely relegated to military installations. For example there are batteries on military installations in the D.C. area, but not outside of those reservations.

[1]http://theweek.com/articles/549964/futuristic-air-defense-sy...
There are a good number of stories now out about this:

http://www.techmeme.com/150727/p8#a150727p8

It seems one of the original reports is here:

http://blog.zimperium.com/experts-found-a-unicorn-in-the-hea...

I'd also note that it seems this is research that will be presented next week at Black Hat and then again at DefCon.
I don't see anything on your blog about how that QR code can possibly work (I just scanned it, it does work, but my eyes tell me that's impossible)

You have any background on how that QR was constructed?
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The Nike system was a last line of defense against bomber formations. The main idea near the end of the program was to set off a surface-to-air nuke in the middle of a formation and take it out. (Yes, that means near the population centers which the Nike sites were situated around. ICBMs nullified the usefulness of the Nikes and they were all decommissioned around 1974.)

Modern air defenses are the anti-ballistic missile stuff, interceptors located at the borders, etc.
Actually many TI 6000 series DSP chips are also VLIW.
http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~bevans/hp-dsp-seminar/01_Introd...
You could probably do that relatively safely with bit operations, but I expect to be proved wrong.

Something like this should work:

/* Swap char for uint<register_size> for speed */
#define CMP_TYPE char

/* Assuming char* sha256(char* input); */
CMP_TYPE* input_hash=(CMP_TYPE*) sha256(input);
CMP_TYPE* token_hash=(CMP_TYPE*) sha256(token); /* Precomputed? */
/* max_pos=32 for char on most systems */
int max_pos=256 >> (3 + sizeof(CMP_TYPE));

char cmp=0;
for (int i=0;i<max_pos;i++) {
cmp = cmp | (token_hash[i] ^ input_hash[i]);
}
return (cmp != 0);

The reason for the CMP_TYPE #define is so that you can optimise the comparison by replacing char with uint32 or uint64.
Lots of promises, but little details.
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> The 27th of July should be a national day of recognition for his genius.

Slightly off-topic, but there are already too many "national holidays" in India. Added with the "state holidays", there are barely any workdays left.
> The Fourier Transfrom was developed to help determine if nuclear weapons tests were taking place

{{citation-needed}}

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/310301/how-was-the-f..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_analysis#History
Stagefright Vulnerability Exposes 950M Android Devices
I really doubt #10, there is no way that they number of people using gcc and the number of people using VSC++ are even close. The only time I've seen someone use gcc on windows is to test some cross compiler errors.
To the contrary. This isn't an uncertain case, and it proves the rule that prosecutors go after easy, sure cases. Here, you've got eight employees of a small bank admitting to originating false loans.

The employees in question were highly placed: "The accused employees include Yiu Wah Wong, the bank’s chief credit officer, who reported directly to Jill Sung; and Wai Hung 'Raymond' Tam, the loan origination supervisor, who trained the bank’s loan officers and processors."

This isn't a case where you have to connect a chain of events between a third-world branch of a megabank all the way to someone who matters. It's neat and self-contained, and easy for a jury to understand.
I've been confused about Google+ for the longest time, wondering what reason there was for Google+ to exist in the first place, other than the (perceived) low cost of getting users (via marketing on their search page).

What new value does Google+ add? Does anybody sign up for Google+ for reasons other than 1) Google Hangouts, or 2) accident? How is Google+ "quickly becoming a place where people engage..." and yet I don't know anybody who uses it? Am I hanging out with all the wrong people? I don't really actively engage with people on Facebook, but everybody I know uses Facebook in some capacity and people talk about it from time to time. I've never heard a single person in my life talk about Google+, other than, "I think you have to have a Google+ account to..." (e.g., Hangouts).
When using this, how do I get the information and token for the authenticated user in my app?
A very very admirable person. Always inspired Kids, Always motivated them to dream, And he died also while motivating them. A true marvelous brilliance and down to earth guy. And that's the reason, Billion+ people are now mourning.
Does anyone else think there might be a significant security value in not allowing a web browser access to a font associated with messages from the operating system?
I switched to http://digg.com/reader
>In this hypothetical scenario, those 10 years in prison would, practically speaking, have consisted of six months for his original crime (the sentence Ortiz actually thought he deserved) plus a nine-and-a-half-year prison term for exercising his constitutional right to a trial.

This is really the core of it. You are punished for daring to exercise your right to a trial. The only solution for this that I've been able to see is to end plea bargains. This, combined with a right to speedy trial, will result in prosecutors only being able to go after a small fraction of the cases they currently pursue. Which means less focus on victim less crimes (assuming the prosecutors have any morals left which is admittingly a dubious assumption).
That is American/Japanese nonsense. You don't have to be defined by your work.
> The 27th of July should be a national day of recognition for his genius.

"Don't declare a holiday on my death. Instead work an extra day if you love me." - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
It's about time, though mostly for Google's sake. I personally don't care if I can't review apps or create YouTube channels or do anything that requires Google+ as the features that have required it are mostly useless or I have found alternatives. It is annoying that I would even be asked to review apps constantly, however, when I'm not signed up for the idiotic Google+. I actually wouldn't mind reviewing some apps, but not at the expense of having to start Google+. The Google+ fiasco has mainly hurt Google itself by making them lose all their customers who didn't sign up for Google+ from such features as well as the unfortunate developers who rely on good app ratings that they won't get now because Google essentially put up a nasty firewall around that system. Then again, there's nothing new about Google or Apple pushing its own woes onto developers, so I assume mobile developers have made their peace with the tactics of their industry.
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myopic article.. the guy is taking a single set of specific requirements and extrapolating that to the general argument of rent vs buy...
Just looked it up. Interesting. Thanks.
It's infrastructure so far as it is a supplementary good to physical infrastructure. You could think of it as virtual infrastructure. By the time you are cooking dinner, there is no difference between having an accessible grocery store vs Instacart. Similarly, when you are at your destination, there is no difference between having taken the subway and having used Uber.
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A bit over a year ago, I bought the first generation Moto X from... well, Verizon "sold" me the phone, but it shipped directly from Motorola, then owned by Google. For reasons I'll mostly skip (signal/reception), I needed to stay with Verizon.

I bought the Moto X largely on the... assurance ("promise"?) that this particular phone, coming from a Google-owned Motorola, would actually be updated expeditiously by not just the manufacturer but also, downstream, Verizon.

Well, about a month ago my still 4.4.4 phone received an update. FINALLY. Then I looked at the version information; still at 4.4.4 .

I tell you, Google, I'm about done with your mobile products. Not that I hate dealing with them, with Android, but the U.S. (and elsewhere?) ecosphere for them simply sucks.

At least I am at 4.4.4 . Were I at 4.4.3, the last I read I would be subject to a web component vulnerability that Google has refused to fix below 4.4.4 . I suspect there are a lot of phones and tablets stuck at 4.4.3 or below. In fact, my parents have one, a Samsung tablet sold to the by... VERIZON, about a year and a half ago. (And they didn't buy at the cheap/old end of Verizon's tablet offerings.)

I am DONE with this bullshit. Meanwhile, Apple seems to have added some efficiencies to iOS that now allow a 4s phone (not sure about 4) to work reasonably well.

I was staying away from Apple's rather closed ecosphere and attitude. I am seriously reconsidering, at this point. I need my primary phone to fucking work and be reliable. I'll keep the more experimental stuff to other platforms.
You're looking at the benefits to the common man of productivity. That stalling doesn't mean productivity has stalled, it just means it is offset by people like Obama stealing more and more of those benefits for himself and his crony friends.
Blame whoever has the power to stop it. I wouldn't blame a janitor because they likely have nothing to do with what's happening. An interesting form of slippery slope.
The Show HN prefix should be used only by the founder of the startup. (EDIT: Was removed)

Notably, the "About Us" page doesn't say who the founders are.
HN does prefer original sources generally, but breaking stories like this one often produce articles with additional reporting as they develop. So it's not obvious that the original post has the most relevant information at this point. If someone wants to figure out which URL does, we can change the HN thread to use it. It's currently pointing to the npr.org story rather arbitrarily, but perhaps that's as good as any.
> A fire-and-forget missile is a single directional device with minor corrections for targeting.

No it isn't. A fire-and-forget missile is a missile capable of dealing with every issue between the launching platform and the target. This much more complex than "minor corrections for targeting".

> It can't hover, back up

These are a function of a particular propulsion system, not guidance system. The vast majority of non-rotorcraft cannot hover or back up.

> select its own target

That is exactly what a fire-and-forget weapon does. The firing platform directs the weapon at a particular target to start, but the weapon makes the decision about what to hit. If it loses lock, it tries to reacquire. It does not necessarily reacquire the same target. In fact, you could blindfire most FF weapons and let the seeker pick a target in its path of travel, if you really wanted to. Rules of engagement typically prohibit this, but it is technically feasible.

> avoid return fire

Evasion is certainly something current weapons are theoretically capable of. It is not typically in the package, though, because it adds cost, size, and weight. Once these systems get to the point that they can be added to drones in a cost-effective manner they will likely be added to single-use weapon systems as well.

> So, no we haven't had this tech for three decades.

It has been a constant march of progress, but yes we have had weapons that can make targeting decisions for themselves for over three decades. The Mk-48 torpedo[1] has been in service since 1972 and has had since then the ability to travel a predetermined search pattern looking for targets and automatically attacking whatever it finds. The Mk-60 CAPTOR mine has a similar capability to discriminate and engage targets. The RGM-84 Harpoon[3] is launched by providing one or more "legs", then activating the missile's seeker to find and acquire a target; it is not actually fired "at" a particular ship in the conventional sense of the word.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_48_torpedo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_60_CAPTOR

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon_(missile)
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Possibly, if Google is logging everything on their servers. It should be relatively easy for them to find out who got infected.
Unless the font is particularly distinctive to the most casual reader, such an approach seems like pseudosecurity. San Francisco is not distinctive enough from other well-designed serif fonts that people will intuitively notice a spoofed message.

Besides, malware authors generally cannot be expected to follow copyright law. They can just steal the system font OTF and convert it to a web font, or render text as an image (which may not even be illegal), or any number of similar things.
So this is a program that can analyze an image for a structured drawing, encode it as a unique bit-stream, and translate that bit-stream into a URL.

I can very easily draw "https://goo.gl/e0aeeD" on a chalkboard. Android users could use Google Goggles to grab the text without typing it in, and paste the URL into Chrome. If I had to, I could leave off the "https://" part, and it could still work.

I get how it's easier to process the triangle-based image into a usable bit-stream than it is to do OCR, but how does that make things easier for the user?
Do small, single-purpose apps really make money?
I was just looking at the settings the other day. Per other comments in this topic, I'd look at disabling the MMS features; IIRC TextSecure also has user settings for this.

Edit: Just had a look. I do not have TextSecure as my default client. There is MMS configuration information, but not a simple "disable automatic retrieval" or similar setting, as there is in my default SMS/MMS client. I don't know whether one appears when TextSecure is the default client; I suspect not, and maybe this should be addressed?
So what will an open letter do to stop it?

My assumption is that open letters only work on people who are willing to rationally discuss alternatives. The countries you mentioned probably don't care about anything.

I'd like to see change at least in the US. I'm not worried about "rouge" militia either, I'm worried about the Army et al.
What is the easiest and smallest way to get started/to help, without getting a job with the gov (which may not be possible for many folks) or without bidding for contracts? In other words, how to help from outside the gov? Is there a list of tasks somewhere that someone maintains that can be done independently?
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How many bytes would it take to make the whole game?
I'm not sure we're reading the same article. The 'neat and self contained case that was easy for a jury to understand' fell apart completely.

And the bank is (fortunately) wealthy enough to defend itself. That of course did not stop the prosecutor from going after the employees.

Really. Bank discovers internal fraud, goes after the main perpetrator who then turns star witness for the prosecution. It's a giant mess with the prosecutors having considerable egg on their face.
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How would you filter out the offending MMS messages? People send legitimate videos as well; is the bug such that it's obvious which videos contain exploits?
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Without even a single reference to "get to know your users"? Sorry, but no. It's not a nice summary; it's actually what I wouldn't give to students or someone wanting to get a grasp on UX.

This kind of "guidelines-based" approach is detrimental to UX, as it enforces the idea of focusing on details instead of considering UX as a whole.
In traditional economics you want to look at marginal cost versus marginal revenue. If it costs you $10 to produce another widget you can sell at $10.01, you will in order to maximize profits.

You will hire people up until the point where the marginal revenue that employee provides is equal to that of the marginal cost of that employee.

Of course companies make profit, but that's because the marginal cost curve is upward past a certain point. So on average, the average cost is less than the marginal cost

A visual representation explains it well. When you talk about profits, you're talking about average cost. When you're talking about whether you should hire an extra worker, you're talking about marginal cost versus marginal revenue.

https://apecon3.wikispaces.com/Marginal+Revenue
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Ah, sorry, reading fail on my part. I've been trying to watch my carb/sugar intake recently so I pay attention to those numbers, but I've yet to figure out which matters more for my own body chemistry.
I'm not really sure what this is supposed to mean.
It's a little confused. Stagefright is just a library containing the exploit. The component being (presumably) exploited is the mediaserver process. This is where almost all video decode/encode handling happens in Android (and other related stuff, like audio and camera).

And yes, the mediaserver has internet access so that it can fetch and decode streams on its own without forcing all I/O to go through a user process. Basically it's a performance optimization, though indeed probably one necessitated by having to wall off all that DRM handling in the first place.

That said, mediaserver, while it has lots of access to things that Android apps don't (e.g. open file descriptors to kernel vendor-specific drivers with lets-just-say-questionable security practices), is not a root process. And it's reasonably sandboxed in recent Android versions using selinux. An exploit into it may not be quite as device-cracking as is being claimed.

Still, not a good thing at all.
Do you know if you get that with other sweeteners like sucralose or stevia? Because if not, you might just be sensitive to the phenylalanine in aspartame. It can have psychoactive effects in large enough quantities, and can cause adverse reactions in certain people that are consistent with the symptoms you're describing.

Personally, I prefer aspertame drinks for this reason; they feel more stimulating to me, and I suspect it's due to the phenylalanine since it can potentially get converted into dopamine/norepinephrine/epinephrine, which is useful for me cause I have adhd. Though the effects from that are minuscule compared to the effect of the caffeine that aspartame is usually paired with.

For the record (for people downvoting), there's nothing wrong with phenylalanine, most of the anti-aspartame propaganda labels it as a "neurotoxin"/"excitotoxin"/whatever, which is just FUD. It's just a psychoactive amino acid and half of what makes up aspartame (aspartic acid being the other half). And a few people do have allergic reactions to it.