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Myspace data breach
Notice of Data Breach

You may have heard reports recently about a security incident involving Myspace. We would like to make sure you have the facts about what happened, what information was involved and the steps we are taking to protect your information.

What Happened?

Shortly before the Memorial Day weekend (late May 2016), we became aware that stolen Myspace user login data was being made available in an online hacker forum. The data stolen included user login data from a portion of accounts that were created prior to June 11, 2013 on the old Myspace platform.

We believe the data breach is attributed to Russian Cyberhacker ‘Peace.’ This same individual is responsible for other recent criminal attacks such as those on LinkedIn and Tumblr, and has claimed on the paid hacker search engine LeakedSource that the data is from a past breach. This is an ongoing investigation, and we will share more information as it becomes available.

What Information Was Involved?

Email addresses, Myspace usernames, and Myspace passwords for the affected Myspace accounts created prior to June 11, 2013 on the old Myspace platform are at risk. As you know, Myspace does not collect, use or store any credit card information or user financial information of any kind. No user financial information was therefore involved in this incident; the only information exposed was users’ email address and Myspace username and password.
> Assert dominance

IMO this is discrimination. You may get away with suggesting a specific role, maybe a negotiator, would need to have/develop this ability. As a very accepting and peaceful guy, I really feel bad (insecure, even) when people assert that I need to be dominant to be successful.

BTW, I'm not trying to explain why you are being down-voted as I didn't, wouldn't (and also can't) down-vote you.
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That is a big difference though: It shows that these comments are not welcome on HN.
In my understanding the attack vector was anticipated for the executeProposal() function, but the attacker is using a recursive call of the splitDAO() function.

This blog post[1] from the Ethereum Team describes the possible attack.

[1]https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/10/smart-contract-security...
It's inferred by people being in the area to laugh at everyone picking up the remote.
I think a tutorial on OpenRESTy would be very appropriate.
I see where you're coming from but I disagree with the argument, because it only holds up under the assumption that they acted this way mainly to preserve the group identity. The simpler explanation is that the group made a democratic choice and she was unhappy with thre result.
What's demand shifting?
When I worked with Cygwin I discovered that Windows still locks files such that they can't be deleted. An example: I write a paper with LaTeX. When Adobe Reader has the PDF open, pdflatex fails. It's annoying because it's interrupting the workflow.

On Linux however, the file can be deleted. Processes which still have the inode can continue to use the file. This is used by log-rotate: rename the log file, and the server process continues to write to the renamed log file. Then restart the server process and a new log file is created.

This discrepance which Cygwin can't overcome led me to give up on Windows with Cygwin completely.

And now: Does the Windows Subsystem for Linux allow deleting locked files such that software like Adobe Reader believe they still hold on the file?
True! It's definitely a situation where the 'market cap' of bitcoin gives it some extra stability. If the DAO contained bitcoins, it would be a far smaller % of the total and there would be fewer calls to roll back the logs.
Well, I'm male and I've been in the same exact situation multiple times. I do not like sports. I find watching sports on tv to be an absolute boring waste of time.

Try suggesting in Europe, that you don't want to watch a soccer match and instead would like to watch Friends (which I like incidentally). It'll be met with ridicule.

If there's something on the tv and soccer match is coming, you can be 100% sure that people will change it to the soccer game without even asking.

I don't think that's a question of sexism, it's just a question of shared culture and the fact that most people cannot imagine that there are people that do not like soccer. For some people, someone not liking soccer is as shocking as someone declaring himself an atheist during the times of the inquisition.

There are a lot of problems for women in tech but I think that in the case of sports, it's a behavior that touches equally men and women who do not like sports.
I think the way the community has reacted to this post is pretty disgusting and I think says way more than the actual post does about sexism in engineering
Why did you have to punch him? One could imagine why you would want to, but...
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>Is sustainability even possible anymore?

Yes, but it clearly involves population control.

We should be sending birth-control, not food, to developing nations.
From that perspective, democracy is bullying.
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Professional traders get paid to trade, not necessarily to win.
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I haven't really thought about this before, but that coin might be the biggest coin I know of. And the 10 krona is the smallest one compared to its value (smallest coin, highest value within the Swedish coins) that I know of anyway.
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> knowledge of the winds between 60,000 and 100,000 foot altitudes

Haha, well I just started taking this complaint a lot less seriously.
They do if the developers suddenly come up with schemes to block the attack or hack the DAO. vbuterin has posted on reddit a plea for any DAO holders who were about to 'split' their holdings to contact him - presumably he has a way to hack the DAO more effectively and so grab the money before the attackers grab it.

But when did he know how to do this? Was it a secret that he was sitting on, or has he only learnt about it from the existing attack?
> I think she blogged about this because it's a very small incident, but it had a very powerful effect on her.

If it's a very small incident, why is it such a big deal for her? Especially compared to the real harrassment by her mentor in the car?

> Over time this began to really bother me simply because of how small and benign it should have been.

Well, did you ask your coworker why she did that? Being an adult also means standing up for yourself (it doesn't have to be overly confrontational, just ask politely), especially since it apparently was just a single person, not bullying by your entire team.
The fact that many scripts written suffers similar vulnerabilities unless extensive (and, seemingly failure prone) mitigations are applied, suggests that the root cause is a known design flaw in the ethereum smart contract architecture.

Doubly so when the latest reviewers of this systems and custodians of the DAO include the system's creators.

When building systems that provide irreversible transaction processing, safe only under perfect use is not sufficient.
But she was explicit in saying no one even asked if anyone was watching. Instead, each person in succession walked in, recoiled in horror, and decided to flip the channel without a word. One person doing this is unexceptional. Two? Less than chance, but possibly coincidence. Three or more, however, suggests a gestalt of in-group sports dickery existed around her.
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I think that Symfony is SpringMVC for poor, and slower, and crappier.
There goes $50m...

http://www.coindesk.com/the-dao-just-raised-50-million-but-w...
> while OP was loudly ridiculed for wanting to change the channel in a more polite way

No. OP wanted to change the channel away from THE established channel.

Had OP been a male, and a woman changed the channel back to baseball, the situation would have been the same.
You should probably check out the "Evolutionary Game Design" book, which does exactly that. The resulting game, Yavalath, was actually published and is indeed quite nice.
Say you were on a baseball team for a couple of years. After every game, your team always goes out to Bob's Pretty Good Pizza for beers. What do you think would happen if you one day suggested that instead of Bob's, the team should go to Carl's Seafood Shack?

You'd probably get laughed at.

It wouldn't be because people thought seafood was dumb. It wouldn't be because you looked funny, or were female, or played poorly that day. It would be because you misunderstood why the team went to Bob's week after week. The team doesn't go to Bob's because they've got a taste for pizza, they go to Bob's because they want a comfortable routine, shared experiences, and customs to uniquely identify their group.

The suggestion of giving those comforts up because you had a taste for fish sticks instead of pepperoni would be funny to the people who really appreciate them.

And so it goes with baseball on the TV.
Sure. Neither one is about sexism, though.
For the people talking about automated or evolutionary design of board games, this has indeed been tried. The most successful one I know about is Ludi¹) which produced the game Yavalath²), which I think is a pretty darn good game.

¹) http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~sgc/papers/browne_cig11.pdf

²) http://cameronius.com/games/yavalath/
TTP, TTIP, BITS, and TiSA are a set of conjoined multilateral aggreements. Yes, individually seperate and with distinct members, but broadly similar.
Or, they could just plow that currency into BTC at diminishing value as fast as possible. That's presumably what I would do if I discovered a bug like this and wanted to make bank.
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It's tongue-in-cheek.

You don't have to be dominant to be successful. But you can't be a pushover.

If something bothers you, you have to speak up. Immediately and decisively. The first time it happens. Not when it becomes the established social norm.

If you speak up, normal mature people will say something like "Oh, sorry. I didn't realize that bothered you. I'll be more careful.". They might push back, if they think you're pushing too far or too hard because of whatever pre-existing beliefs.

But it's a dynamic balance. Both sides have to push and pull. Without active participation from everyone, teams become imbalanced and less effective.
> You don't need to. Provide the basic capabilities that all languages provide, restrict what isn't possible when it's embedded into an environment. Keep it simple.

Well, that makes sense but wouldn't it make more sense that the environments supply what's meaningful on top of a very light base? Like window.document.querySelectorAll in browser and require("fs") in node.js?

I, although, also think that stuff like what underscore/lodash provides could very well be in that light base, before we start discussing a standard for observables.
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I think they could also be shorting ETH, in dollars/euros/rubles/yuans, in which case destroying the currency would be excellent business for them, even if they can't extract what they stole.
The problem with this read is that Sanders will never be the dem candiate (even if Hillary drops dead tomorrow the backup is Uncle Joe and maybe Sen. Warren) and Hillary could emulate the Cheetoh Jesus' claim and shoot someone dead on 5th avenue and she is still going to be the next US president. Releasing to WL is also a good move if the leak were to have come direclty from the Clinton camp, as there are few information sources more biased and discredited among the general public than WL.
Why not MTTaaS - Misleading Technology Terms as a Service.
This makes much more sense, thank you for your explanation.
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so every social site lately required fake users?

this is not as direct as reddit own staff posting but pretty close
The API gateway made me smile. In the 90's we had message queues. In the 00's we had service busses. Today we have API gateways. All they do is route requests - they're all the same thing.

There's merit in serverless, no doubt. There are many things that worry me. Not owning the infrastructure means I don't get the telemetry I'd like, making triage difficult. Direct access to the database is a good idea said nobody ever. And at what point does my own infrastructure become more cost-effective than cloud?

Those concerns don't invalidate the applicability or relevance of serverless though. I think its value as a protyping tool, or to validate a proof of concept is huge.
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I think the main problem is the use of Friends as an example of alienation? To most Americans watching that show was like dripping hot wax into the ear canal.

I understand reruns are popular in other countries. I kinda get it. No one on the show was hungry, and their biggest problem was whom to love.
(That show was the first show, I recall, that treated Homelessness with an air of frivolity? I grew up in an era where you did not make fun of homelessness in any fashion. You never used it as a funny sitcom line. You just never joked about it. That America is Gone.)

That's said, real harrasement/alienation is aweful.

These examples do not fit my definition of alienation.

As to the lack of female tees. Most guys are stupid when it comes to female sizes. Plus, if the buyer of the tee shirts bought anything snug fitting, or tailored towards a female physique; they might be accused of being a creep, perverted, or worse. Personally, I never liked wearing clothes I didn't buy. Wearin those stupid corporate advertisements always rubbed me the wrong way. I would usually slip them off when it was safe--kinda like my Scouts uniform.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311234/
Alcohol is incredibly bad for your body dose by dose compared to marijuana.

Sidenote (not from this study): Mushrooms are supposedly the least harmful to the human body... Who'da thought?
Rolling back the blockchain would have some pretty serious ramifications, as the possibility of that becomes greater it makes sense to sell as quickly as possible into another chain to retain value.
I found this video gives you an instant boost of energy to not give up as it's never too late...START NOW!

https://www.facebook.com/TheGaze.IO/videos/751544754983806/

What are the best motivational videos out there for when you are feeling downright lost in life?
I always though that Etherium had a huge attack surface. Each script has to be security audited, etc. That's the thing about Bitcoin. It's as simple as possible while still being secure and useful and has been beat up and audited by the best security pros in the world. Distributed Systems are not easy. Secure distributed systems with Byzantine fault tolerance are even harder. Etherium is just trying to do too much.
This is a great idea. Thanks. PostgreSQL is a very complicated and feature rich system but has a steep learning curve once you deviate from the basic CRUD. Even though the documentation is decent its not very beginner friendly - hopefully the screencasts will grow in number and topics to help make Postgre more mainstream.
It seems so: «Linux has some different semantics surrounding unlinking and renaming. Specifically, a file can be unlinked even if there are open file descriptors to the file. Similarly, a file can be overwritten as the target of a rename operation even if it’s still open. In Windows, if a file is requested to be deleted, it will only be deleted once the last handle to that file is closed, leaving the name visible in the file system until then. To support Linux unlink semantics, VolFs renames unlinked files to a hidden temporary directory before requesting deletion.»

This is really good news. It seems that I have to evaluate WSL.
Most people really don't understand the difficulties involved. It's an incredibly hard thing to get right.
I also fondly remember "The Show with Ze Frank" from back in 2006:

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvL6NITEozY (sadly the frame-rate in this reupload is messed up)
How will you tell who is the shooter and who is another "good guy with a gun?".
Not everyone uses (I'm assuming) Twitter
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Ethereum, just called for a DAO and ETH trading halt at all Ethereum exchanges:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oif2x/dao_attack...
With CFCs it helped that a single company manufactured 25% of the global supply (according to Wikipedia anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont#Chlorofluorocarbons) and when presented with evidence that they were harming the environment, led efforts to find alternatives.

CFCs were a great victory, and encouraging when it comes to battling CO2 emissions, but also much easier to curtail both politically and technologically.
Also remember that this isn't the first time this idea of 'lets rollback a blockchain due to a hack/attack' has been floated or even tried. The first major blockchain rollback almost completely destroyed the cryptocurrency [1]. Since then, some major hacks have happened and the community/developers rejected the idea of a rollback [2][3]. That was a hard lesson, and hopefully the current developers will learn from the short history.

Also to your point, yes, Ethereum is not as decentralized as some would like to claim, either from a stakeholder perspective, or from a mining perspective, or even from a 'who holds the power' perspective. I suspect that's what makes it so efficient though, in terms of changing protocol, or making decisions on behalf of stakeholders.

[1] http://247cryptonews.com/vericoin-lack-integrity-bailout-min...

[2] https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/official-nxt-decision-blockc...

[3] http://www.newsbtc.com/2014/12/17/opal-recovers-1-7-million-...
New blog post on dao hub. Seems pretty grim:

https://blog.daohub.org/the-dao-is-under-attack-8d18ca45011b...
Damn. Should have more than just thought about it.
Local maxima!
Yup, and it sucks and I would personally not be part of that kind of circle. Ofcourse in a work environment this is hard to avoid. That's why "Culture fit" is stressed so much in recruiting.
A screencast on using PG to handle stuff that is often stored in noSQL databases would be interesting. I'd be interested in both using PG's new noSQL capabilities but more importantly also in walking through creating a Schema for the data (and the tradeoffs).
I'd suggest mining some Tweets with metadata from the streaming API (JSON) and using that as a running example.
and how do you know that..?
Well, or they've managed to grab over 2m eth from their creation...
If you are interested in this kind of thing, you will like this book: http://www.asecretoftheuniverse.com/

It goes into the existence of Jesus but through the story of a pilot with an interest in philosophy. The author released the entire audio book as a podcast but is was only available for a limited time. I listened to it as it came out. Very nice, the book, although it is fiction contains real existing characters and a lot of foot notes to build arguments. I will not spoil the end, but the theory it builds is quite interesting.
Any (presumably buoyant) entity actually offering that possibility?
>eth is traded to and from bitcoin on various exchanges, so it's a parallel.

eth is also traded to and from USD on various exchanges, so that's a parallel, too?

Listen, I'm no ethereum fanboy here, but logic, let's use it.
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> And at what point does my own infrastructure become more cost-effective than cloud?

I am no expert at all, but one idea came to mind: say you have this small festival each year (or once) where you have 1 month (or less) you can buy tickets. Instead of setting up, securing, etc a whole server stack you can simply run te ticket-purchase code on a FaaS and have a database with results. Running your single page app all year on a very simple host, but having this database and compute thing only one month.
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So is the USD and a bunch of other currencies, what's your point? You can also trade ETH for USD on most big exchanges.
Doesn't this show an issue with the Distributed Systems on Ethereum, with every script that has to be audited individually, and not with the platform itself?

I'm with you on the fact that proper auditing is an absolute must, as this DAO fiasco shows, but I don't think this event exposes any flaws in the Ethereum platform itself.
I read a book involving that once. People had been bred using a lottery system over generations, this made them incredibly lucky.

Ringworld? I don't quite remember.
It seems that most of the warnings in the article are not in the JVM proper, but in AWT.
How did this came to be known as serverless?
It just seems to be an extreme case of microservices running on someone else's computer?
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Oh, it is absolutely right (as far as we know). But "exactly as programmed" doesn't mean "exactly as intended" it means "exactly as programmed", with bugs and vulnerabilities and all.

' “This is the land where dreams–dreams, do you understand–come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.” There was about half a minute’s silence, and then with a great clatter of armor, the whole crew were tumbling down the main hatch as quick as they could and flinging themselves on the oars to row as they had never rowed before. . . . For it had taken everyone just that half-minute to remember certain dreams they had had–dreams that make you afraid of going to sleep again–and to realize what it would mean to land on a country where dreams come true. ' - C. S. Lewis’s Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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> They're pretty sandboxed, but every Android app gets a JVM, no exceptions allowed (even Android's pure C++ API is just a wrapper around JNI calls). And in the case of the old Dalvik VM, it's a terrible JVM.

Wasn't Dalvik deprecated & replaced by ART (Andriod Runtime)? ART compiles apps AoT - IIRC; upon installation pre-Marshmallow, and while charging/idle Marshmallow going forward
That's not NIMBY.
In that case, my right of light is violated by a neighbor.
One could argue that at this point in its history it stands to benefit more from that efficiency than it would from more robust decentralization.

When adoption is low it stands to reason centralization would be high, and so it enables them to move faster to increase adoption, and hence lower centralization as other players and stakeholders enter the game.

However it does also stand the risk of allowing the current influential parties (the developers or miners) to influence the system in their favor. So far though, I don't think this has been the case, but we'll see how this situation plays out.
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Okay, didn't know that :)

But still you can view a reaction of substance X with DNAzyme Y to be the hardware X taking apart the storage of software Y in order to read it. A destructive read operation, so to speak (or non-destructive in some cases).
If you had read my original comment you'd see that I said most people should never directly trade individual stocks. I completely agree that putting money into low cost trackers for things like the FTSE250 or S&P500 is sensible. You're giving your money to a pro, who then keeps your bets balanced and trades cheaply.
That can only be true for melodic music. Genres like drone, techno, or ambient, which rely on sound design and often have no tonal content whatsoever, obviously can't be "played" with a music instrument or transposed to a different one.