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If you think a review is bogus you could always click the "no" button to indicate that the review is not helpful.

You can also report the review and tell Amazon that you think the review is bogus.

Do you have any data to back up the claim that most of the recent reviews are bogus?
Here's a pastebin of his last tweets: http://pastebin.com/yk8bgru5
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I would suggest getting a lawyer, this is clearly discrimination and you have a civil case against Facebook.

Have the lawyer write a letter to the lawyers at Facebook with proof that you are over 20 and what your real name is, because Facebook is not taking you seriously.

Huffington Post did a lot of gender equality on Facebook before, you might want to contact them about your issues if they are based on non-standard gender issues.
Right.. Baidu had 2/3rds of the market when Google left in 2009 (google had the other 1/3rd) [edit: and that 1/3rd was the peak for google in China too]

http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/21/google-baidu-internet-intel...
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Ugh. Assholes. The tactics you describe remind me of Matt Taibbi's book "The Divide", where he recounts the experience of people in NYC being asked to empty their pockets (which the police shouldn't do unless they had probable cause) only to be charged with "possessing narcotics in public" when they found they had a joint.

The existence of such a loophole, and the fact that the police knowingly uses it with impunity, is evidence of how fucked up the system is. They are supposed to be there to protect us, not to entrap you for whatever power game they are playing.
I don't think he was actually raped. Sounds more like he resisted a body-search upon intake processing for jail.
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Search for "M2M" (machine to machine) communications.
There's a lot of this going on over old 2-way paging networks. It's how the non-vaporware "Internet of things" works. There are thousands of air conditioning compressors, refrigeration units, elevators, pumping stations, and other boring but important pieces of infrastructure sending their short messages every few minutes. Often they're plain text, something like "Pump 1: OFF. Pump 2: ON. Inside temp: 71. Outside temp: 52. Faults: NONE." There are little M2M modules for such communication. They tend to be rugged, reliable, and cost a few hundred dollars.

Some of these use cellular service. There are special low-data-rate M2M plans for this. AT&T charges $3.33 a month for 1MB/month if you pay by the year. If you have a protocol that doesn't bloat its data traffic by using HTTP, HTTPS, XML, JSON, and other data hogs to send a few bytes of payload, this works out well.

There's something new called LoRa.[1] This is a standard for low-bandwidth wireless network devices with a claimed 10 mile range. Data rates range from 300 bps to 50 kbps. They run in the 900MHz ISM band, so they have good building and foliage penetration, although the range then drops to a claimed 2-3 miles. Units start around $56 on Digi-Key. There are Internet gateways available, so that many of the little cards can be connected to the wider world.

[1] https://www.lora-alliance.org/
His other motivations for his act aside, the deeper societal (as opposed to personal) issue here is police abuse.

This incident shows nicely how this kind of thing can happen to anyone -- even a nice person (as say all who worked with/knew him), with no violent past, having built a huge community project, a family, working in a prominent startup, etc. White, too.
>Please let's not dig up links or make speculations about what happened.

Why? Seriously asking (I sometimes sneer, but I never troll).

Perhaps the exact things that went through his mind to make this do this are not productive to speculate upon, but the overall incident with the police etc, is a public issue.
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Success can have a strange effect. It raises the bar for you. The merit of your accomplishments become relative to what you did yesterday. If you don't out-perform past results, you're failing. And if you're failing... then aren't you a failure?

I think we forget that failure is the default state. Which redefines success to be making any attempt at all. Like Edison said: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
I can't fucking believe it.
How does something like that happen?
That's what the allegation was, on his Twitter feed, so that's what I wrote.

For the record, I agree that you're probably correct.
Some of them are.
An interesting point.

I think ultimately he has the same problem of first causes that the argument for God does. In both arguments you have to draw a box around the universe/timespan/laws you will consider and then make an assumption about the initial state. In Christianity, the box is drawn outside the universe itself by considering God to exist outside of time and space and predating the universe itself. Dawkins just draws a slightly smaller box, but neither argument is without assumptions.

Besides, these arguments all sort of start on shaky ground anyway because the nature of faith is that it's not based totally on things that are empirically provable. By it's nature it isn't something that claims to be rooted in empiricism. No matter what side of the argument you fall on, at a certain point after weighing all the evidence there is a chasm you have to cross between what is actually provable, and what you believe to be true.
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Upset Microsoft stashes hard drive encryption keys in OneDrive cloud?
Please let's not dig up links or make speculations about what happened.

Is there something you want to hide?
That's my theory. I've seen the same effect keep organizations away from working, encrypted email.

User: "What do you mean I can't access my emails because I lost my password?"

Admin: "For privacy, it's designed so that your password is only thing that unlocks the keys. If that's gone, then the email is gone. That's how it's supposed to work."

User: "Well, that's bullshit. Now, we might loose all kinds of money over this crap. And for what!? It's not like there's people snooping our traffic on the internal network."

Scenario plays out in so many situations. In business, it's availability first, integrity second, and confidentiality maybe. Almost always.
I think the replacement of products with services inherently tends toward monopoly, and your last sentence illustrates why: once a business is focused on servicing the immediate need rather than providing tools to service the immediate need, then customers will naturally gravitate toward whichever service fulfills that need best.

When you sell a physical product, there are inherent inefficiencies in distribution & usage that allow for some differentiation; this allows multiple firms to exist in the same market. When you sell a service, your distribution goes straight to the consumer at the moment they have a need, and you have the opportunity to tailor your service directly to the customer. It becomes more efficient to buy up small companies that offer slightly-differentiated variants of your service and incorporate them into your own offering than to maintain separate firms.

Interesting. This seems like a tradeoff of efficiency vs. freedom: the more you outsource a task, the more convenient things become for yourself, but the less agency you have over the terms under which that task is conducted.
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>Co-founder @creativetim.

This sort of behavior is frowned upon on HN. Voting rings don't really work. Even if you wait 30 minutes after the post.

You aren't being non-obvious when you do this, FYI.
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What was up with all the racist stuff? Totally bizarre
> I think he'd support the idea of calling out managers who hide their opinions from you.

I suspect even the managers would support that... until it's their turn in the barrel.

One of the problems with "treat others how you wish to be treated" is that a lot of people have very funny notions of both how they are treating people and how they would wish to be treated.
Can I ask why are you interested in 1 gig and not a full time job?

Your skills seem pretty much what 2 out of 3 companies in WWR[1] are looking for. If your skills are what you say they are, you'll get hired in no time IMHO.

I wish you best of luck and happy new year.

[1] https://weworkremotely.com/ and SO careers are the best job-boards IMHO.
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Privacy is important because people are assholes.

My wife has an ex-boyfriend who went to prison. She was pretty terrified when there was an internet trail to our current home address (which I have since closed). Largely because of our Macy's wedding registry which showed up when you searched her name, which had my name, and there's only one of me in the US.

We know he found the registry because he emailed her about it. But he had to be a bit technical to connect the rest of the dots, and I don't think he did.
Just guessing, but they probably just post Yiddish only job ads in the local Jewish paper (there are plenty in North Jersey and NYC).
Perhaps I could be wrong, but isn't bail returned when one successfully shows up in court until the matter is adjudicated regardless of the outcome? The only way bail is forfeited is when the defendant skips out on returning to court.
Again, why not? Citizen (and internet/crowd-sourced) journalism has worked wonders in the past, getting to reveal things that happened etc.

Of course we won't ever be able to read his mind, but we can find much about what happened in the incident before he decided to commit suicide.
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I was thinking it would be effective to have a variation of your first solution. But rather than having special rules for big vs small cases, just have a rule that the instigator has to set aside money for the defendant, equal to it's own court and legal costs. Then, if they win, the defendant has to repay it (although if you are suing a tiny company, they may cease to exist after, leaving no means of collection). So, if MegaCorp sues Little Guy, Inc, and puts 5 mil into it's case, it has to stick another 5 mil into a trust account for Little Guy to use for defense. So, it better be willing to lose that much or be very certain about it's case, and Little Guy has nothing to worry about or any reason to cave unless there's a significant chance of losing, even with equal resources. Seems to me the defender should have an advantage in most cases.
I wish I could upvote this more. One reply mentions how easy anti-sodomy laws would be to enforce if we had no privacy. Considering how much faith people put in democracy and the democratic process, you'd think that people would concede that it's the law and our influence over it that's the problem, not privacy.

One question I like to propose to those who disagree with this sentiment is as follows:

Imagine you live in a hypothetical world where all things you consider moral, just and socially acceptable were legal and societally acceptable and where everything else was illegal and societally reprehensible. What role would privacy play in such a society? What benefits would it provide?

I have yet to get a good answer to that question; if peeing in public was ok with me, everyone else and perfectly legal, what reason would I have not to do it? (You can mention shaming and whatnot, but I posit that in this hypothetical world based on my morality, if I didn't shame people, no one else would either).

tl;dr: the problem isn't privacy, the problem is law and our inability to influence it, for which our best tool for the problems that arise from our lack of influence is privacy.
In general people want trigger warnings for the more obvious things. So, content that delves deeply into abuse, assault and the like.
Are we more likely to follow through with goals we post on social media?
Its interesting to think about why this enterprise succeeds and yet Quirky, for example stumbled: this one starts with a known selling product and iterates on it based on market demand, rather than just coming up with cool ideas, perhaps. (I'm actually a fan of Quirky so this isn't really intended as a dis, but one of these two has "nine-figure" (really?) sales, and one doesn't)
Very Sad to hear this.
My heart goes out to his friends and family.
Rest in peace, Ian. You will be remembered forever.
Real time OSes used in high integrity systems, mobile radio stacks, car control systems, ...
This is even the case in Canada though. I tried to overdose when I was 16 and someone found me. The cops were unfortunately first on the scene and started screaming at me, calling me all sorts of horrible things. When the ambulance arrived they then handcuffed me to the ambulance bed while I was getting my stomach pumped. I could barely move at that point. The cops are poorly trained and incompetent. I agree, never talk to the cops.
There are zillions of academic solutions that if implemented properly would be better than the industrial version. Academics are just notoriously bad at building real-world systems. I think this is mostly because it's a waste of time and money as far as publications are concerned.
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>But frankly, the problem with IoT is not technology. Internet is fine, putting microcontrollers in stuff to optimize or enhance it is also fine. Pretty much every single issue with IoT is either greedy business strategy or dishonest marketing.

Also think about the implications of IoTs infrastructure + a modern dictatorship (or merely a government in bed with big corporations).

I also have this idea but all it takes is a totally fucked up tech event [1] to make people surviving it think "Yeah, tech was nice, but we might have been better off without much of it to begin with".

[1] E.g. "singularity apocalypse", nuclear war, a 4th Reich armed with modern surveillance capabilities, drones, fighting robots and IoT level reach, a huge ecological meltdown, etc. Suddenly technology's blessings like the ability to play "Legends of Zelda", send instant massages across the Atlantic and study new cancer drugs would look silly against billions dead.
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the pastebin is self-explaining and it seems true too, I'm sad, upset and speechless.
It wasn't racist. As others have pointed out, Ian was making a statement about certain demographics being ignored when they speak about police brutality. It's very clear for those who have known Ian personally over the years what he meant (I agree it sounds weird for those who may not have known Ian very well, I guess that happened because he was in a very panicked state of mind and didn't really think how things could be taken)
Ha! Good luck creating open-source CAD software that engineers and manufacturers will trust and use.
Obligatory mention:

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How about a fridge that can detect when some food is going bad? "your eggs will be off in the next 3-5 days. here's some recipes that fit your lifestyle and taste, and will let you use the eggs vs throwing them away".
Oh, here's another I noticed:

> Year 2015 welcomed us with 134 vulnerabilities in one package alone: WebKitGTK+ WSA-2015-0002. More eyes, less vulnerabilities you say, right?

Glancing through the list that was linked to, most of these vulnerabilities affected Chrome on Windows/Mac and/or Safari on Mac too. It's not fair to use general vulnerabilities in widely used Web browser engines as an indictment of Linux specifically. Nor is "look at the number of vulnerabilities in Web browser engines!" a particularly good proxy for anything other than how popular, and security-critical, Web browser engines are. (Some of the other security criticisms, for example of X, seem fair though—e.g. DRI2 is really bad.)
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I feel like it would be more effective to keep the account open and badger them every day about the issue. Worst case: they close his account (which he's already willing to do). Best case: they fix the problem :)
The problem with digging/speculation when emotions are high in general:

Person A makes a speculation.

Person B interprets Person A's speculation as the most likely explanation of the situation.

Persons C, D, and E overhear Person B describing Person A's speculation as fact, and start a mob over it. (Person A was wrong, by the way.)

This continues to snowball until people who were originally close to the situation (and are themselves still struggling to put the pieces together) are put through even more unnecessary trauma by complete strangers, in the middle of one of the most upsetting moments of their lives.

The alternative is to wait until the people most directly affected have had time to cope, get affairs in order, and figure out how to adequately convey what's happened to the greater population.
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> You think his closing implies the XSS was fixed...

If "the XSS" means "Any XSS/mixed-content issues presented by pages on the two whitelisted domains, as mentioned in Comment #7 of the issue in question.", then no, I don't think that at all, and don't understand how you'd think that I thought that.

As I've repeatedly said, Ormandy believes that the original issue reported by Ormandy is fixed. For the avoidance of doubt, "the original issue" is the issue reported in the issue description.

> ...I have a ethical problem with his actions... I think Google shouldn't publicize information on a currently active XSS ...

Oh, that's very obvious, and has been from the start.

> ...partly because they seem to violate Google's policy...

If they did, he would no longer be working for Google.

> ...and partly because he's revealing a 0-day in a chrome extension without even removing the extension from the store.

Strictly speaking, what you say is true. OTOH, XSS vulns are everywhere on the internet. Additionally, you have to consider that The Bad Guys were likely already aware of the problems that Ormandy uncovered.

> It still seems like it shouldn't have been released before AVG finishes the audit, or decides not to, or whatever.

Think about this:

* The broken extension allowed any MitM, or any evil webmaster to inject code into and effectively disable SSL for every site on the internet.

* The fixed extension only exposes its users to XSS from pages on two domains, both managed by AVG.

Given that Google can't remotely remove the extension from Chrome browsers if it has been installed, what would you do? Refuse to permit AVG to update the extension in the Web Store until they fix all of the XSS issues on those two domains? If so, why?
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I didn't read it as him being racist. The wording may have been harsh, but I read it as saying that police brutality isn't something that only happens to black people.

I would think any racist feelings he had would have come to light long before now.
I think he's proposing that it's not privacy that's the problem, but society's laws and morality that require us to use privacy to protect ourselves.

If no one had to be punished under unjust laws for living a decent life transparently, why would privacy be beneficial?
> Adobe CC is far cheaper than buying the full version every couple years.

Many people wouldn't buy the newest version that only included 1 or 2 extra "features". No longer can you buy Photoshop and use it for 5 years.
A single Redis instance uses a single CPU core so yeah, hitting the its limits (no matter how high) is always a possibility. OTOH, there's always the possibility for sharding and clustering a Redis database to scale it up 'n out, thus making "overwhelming" it less trivial.
I'm sure he used said language in a provocative and mocking manner, not because he was actually racist or racially insensitive. I'm sure the stress and pain of the situation didn't help him choose his words thoughtfully.
He tweeted a couple days ago or so that he was going to kill himself. Very sad. :(
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I think he's not being racist, rather intending to highlight the racism of others: "They don't care when the victim of brutality is black, maybe they'll care when it's a wealthy white man"
This is the most fundamentally immoral comment I've ever read on HN. I can't even imagine the scale of community outrage if this comment were made after Aaron Swartz passing.

The world has lost a tremendous value with Ian's passing, and there is evidence directly from him that he was pushed into it. It appears from his twitter feed that his dying wish was to expose a tremendous and violent injustice committed against him.

Ask yourself: if evil pushed him to end his own life, then is it good or is it evil that benefits if we fail to demand a full investigation? And given the widely publicized difficulty of holding the police the account for anything, do you think there is any possibility of such an investigation without widespread and vocal community outrage?
Could be a major head injury that is later fatal if untreated - that can cause immediate personality changes. I don't think Ian was used to be beaten regularly to withstand that...
I've got an idea if someone really wants to go on a hunt... This might seem incredibly nosy, but I don't think it would be too personal - check RadioReference for his city, they archive police scanner feeds, if you pay them a little, you can access the archives.

If something happened and he was having some sort of mental health or drug problem, hopefully that would be mentioned, if something really did go down with the cops, you might hear a bit of that too. Might be interesting to see what exactly happened to him, just don't go jumping to any conclusions and starting witch hunts. This is crazy enough as it is and probably won't lead to a full picture in any case, but it might shed some light.
It is also quite telling that micro-kernel haters fail to acknowledge that they won in the embedded space and software systems for high integrity deployments.
> Privacy is a protection from the massive amount of failure states otherwise present in systems by refusing them information to operate on.

Then that means he has it right and you might have it backwards: the problems are the massive amount of failure states for which privacy is a protection.
They aren't so bad. I live part of the year in a seagull rookery. If you carry a stick that reaches above your head they can't hit you. If you are working outside with an aggressive individual interested in you, you can time how long it takes them to circle around for another attack and raise your hand or tool just before they get there. Wear a hat and a jacket. After a while your standards slip enough that it's only gross if its warm. There is a constant noise, but I live the rest of the year next to train tracks, so the change is nice.
I used to work for a major financial exchange like this. When I joined, the root password was known by /everyone/. They also used telnet instead of ssh.

Another company I worked for used rot13 for their back end risk management system's password storage. Found it completely by accident when trying to add the platform I was supporting at the time. I had a setting to the effect of 'resolve data from defined functions' enabled, so every password stored would be resolved to plaintext instead of showing their 'hashes'. It was batshit scary - scariest being the production r/w credentials for the credit card and mortgage databases.

When I reported that one to the devs, they responded with, "We know. We needed to push the code out as quickly as possible, so we got lazy". Fuck. That.
Aaron Swartz, not Schwartz.
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