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Most startups fail. The media only talks about the outliers that have amazing success. Most struggle for a couple of years and then disappear. The lucky ones get bought.

If you are feeling unfulfilled, then maybe you should be looking at bigger, real problems. Of course, big problems are typically too big for a solo founder to tackle.

I cannot fathom your thinking about joining an established company being an answer. Generally, such companies stifle innovative thinking.
Were never at risk as a result of this pentest. Obviously, there is still a risk of data loss... but that risk is present among nearly every company on Earth.
Just FYI working with GSM can be highly illegal in many places, especially without asking for and getting "permission" and then following the regulations regarding transmit power and shielding.

Please note that when you fuck with GSM you don't only screw around with your cellphone, you screw around with the guy or gal on the street calling 911, or with your upstairs elderly neighbour's emergency SOS/Telecare device, burglary alarms, fire alarm etc. so be very very careful in order not only to not get caught but to also not be an "asshat" on "blocking an ambulance" levels because you can easily just become that due to a mistake on your part.
Ever heard of workspaces?
No. Top management sees the company in quite a different view than its employee. They also see their own future. So, what they decide for the company might actually not much to do with what the company does. For example, the president of a big car company can have a big interest in making polluting car. So it'll make sure the company is a bit dysfunctional on environment protection. Of course he won't say it. In exchange, the top manager will be rewarded and might event get some more power to help the company in a more positive way later on. I experienced that 2 times. One in a huge japanese tyre company : we were given small book explaining us how the company was ecological, while a te the same time rubber extraction was pursued in an absolute non ecological way. In a gov't company, we're continually told to work for those we help but at the same time, the top mangement decision make that work super difficult.

My thought is : manager are human, and their in position where they have lots of pressure (they've chosen that). so most of them behave has human : they do mistakes, they act more selfishly than they care to admit and they mask the truth with lies or on-purpose ignorance.

As I prefer to act with real good intention and produce tangible results, I know I won't ever make it to the top. I'm not interested in making compromise.

Moreover, when I'm with people who are at the top or who want to be at the top, I can clearly sense that their core-values are very different, even opposite of mines... And I'm sure they instantly feel I'm not part of the tribe. Because that's a tribe with values, customs, dress, etc.
So, who will take the bet that it was only the red team doing the pentest that managed to get this level of access?

The one saving grace here is that the red team had to be 'let in', in other words, they started from a position that is substantially different from being a complete outsider.

It also makes you wonder what else was leaked besides the report.
In some cases, they do care very much. Just not from a legal standpoint.

Many nation states prefer not to be detected when conducting espionage. And if they are detected, they really prefer to not have the attack be attributed to their country. At the very least, they want some plausible deniability; ideally full-on anonymity or framing, if they can.

Sometimes they really don't care if the source of the attack is known. It depends on the political rationale behind it. But when they do care, they're definitely at more of a disadvantage than a hired red team. The red team has no real anxiety over whether they're caught or attributed, and can act more quickly and aggressively.
LuaJIT is GCed and being used in many system software projects from SnabbSwitch to NetBSD kernel[1]

[1] https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/mbalmer/fosdem2...
I think your issue is that you're trying to wrap Google's auth in your own jwt implementation. This setup can only prove your own trust of the tokens you create.

You can have a user auth with google and provide you a user id, you can then slap that id into a token and know that you gave that token to the right user and the info inside that token is what you put there. It does NOT let you keep other sessions alive on its own. You won't be able to get around Google's expiry this way if you need a valid auth to Google's APIs.

What it does do is let you auth a user through google once at the beginning of your own app's session, and not have to keep track of session in your own database or hit google multiple times in a user session.
What is the standard measures taken to protect against spear phishing? Mostly educating users and trying to filter out the mails?

Palantir basically started the red team in a position where they had successfully spear phished someone and that seems to be common practice. Is trying to protect against it just a waste of time and should the resources be invested into proper segmentation to protect against the successful spear phis case? Or are people usually 80/20ing this and taking anti spear phish measures but only to an extend that covers a lot of ground at relatively low cost/time?
What an interesting fellow! I'd like to subscribe to his newsletter.
>At the risk of veering off topic, would you mind explaining what this meant for you?

Well first of all you need to understand I will never vote for Hillary Clinton so I needed to rationalize voting for the Republican candidate.

Secondly it seemed Trump was addressing concerns people actually cared about. Money, security, and the bullshit fed to them by politicians in that order. Up until the Curiel scandal you could have argued the statements made by Trump were not racist. This actually mattered to me since one of the things I love about America is that anybody of any ethnicity could emigrate here and call themselves American. Also some of his positions seemed somewhat rational when you make them somewhat less extreme. For example, some sort of barrier or technology that assisted border patrol in their mandate could significantly curb the problem of illegal immigrants coming into the country and also curb the amount of drugs coming into the country. I also think there are certain countries in the middle east that terrorists almost always originate from, so while I think a complete Muslim ban is unnecessary and unenforceable I don't think we should be accepting anybody from war torn nations with signs of extremism.

Him being against the Trans Pacific Partnership and H1B visas and also being for lowering the corporate tax rate (three things which would affect my family and I significantly). He got my vote over Hillary.

(also Hillary's anti gun stances are another negative for her)

His "almost reasonable" positions led me to take him as my candidate of choice after everybody else I wanted was eliminated. I also believed his "almost reasonable" positions could resonate with voters if he did not make them more extreme. After Curiel he has been doubling down on his extremist rhetoric rather than toning it down which has removed any possibility of me voting for him.

Also it's interesting to note that until Curiel, Trump hadn't made any significant gaffs. Since then he has only made gaffs such as patting himself on the back like a buffoon after the Orlando massacre and he only doubles down. It just serves to make him seem unhinged and not capable of managing a mcdonalds let alone a country.
An app to track and shame friends who are late
I don't want to go into too many details for obvious reasons but you really do not need to spend a 2000$ on an amplifier to get more than 10 feet of range if you are building say a DIY IMSI catcher.

Just suffice to say are over the counter (if you are willing to order from china, or heck Dealextreme) cell blockers and boosters that cost <200$ that can block cell reception over a much much greater area than a 10 ft radius.
If you want to build your system from scratch, there is LFS.
Like most invasive species, humans face significantly less predation and parasitism in foreign lands.

The mosquito in question doesn't live in colder environments, this is the same reason why Massachusetts doesn't have a Malaria problem.

"Although the climate in some newly invaded areas is conducive to reproduction and survival of this mosquito, in other areas, harsh winters may prevent survival of overwintering eggs into the spring."
See http://jme.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/07/jme.t...
i agree with that!
http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=APAM explains why they are not more popular:

"Because of their vining nature, groundnut would be hard to grow on a field scale, and their annual yield appears to be quite low in comparison to other crops. Groundnut is difficult to cultivate mechanically, because each tuber can sprout and grow in the spring, filling in spaces between rows."
Thanks for context!
There is a large fraction of the country that regards termination of pregnancy as literal child murder. Severe microcephaly is as good a reason to terminate a 'viable' pregnancy as can be found, with care for a microcephalic child costing far greater wealth than the average family has in their future; Most of the women not being identified will choose to abort.

"Abortion is murder" is something we've been deadened to through repetition, but the literal proclamation of abortion to be "murder", and "murder" to be murder, ethically requires extreme measures to fight it, to the believer. It is only through utter cowardice or lack of true belief that we manage to operate abortion clinics with a rate of violent assault in the last few decades cumulative of around 10%. These people are potentially dangerous, but within a family are also likely to do things like shunning/disowning relatives or seeking a divorce if this info becomes public.
Not only for indie games, mainstream games like Stellaris could be vastly improved by this. I already posted a link to their forums. :)

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/space...
Mexico

About my previous reply, that is if I recall correctly, I remember being able to cancel numbers of lost phones providing the number and the name of the owner (in this case, one time I lost my number, other times my dad lost his')
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There's a forum thread on 6502.org discussing the porting of the visual6502 schematics to Minecraft. It would take a lot of effort, and so far not much progress has been made.

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3531
It's actually pretty surprising how much you can achieve with these 8 bit processors. My favourite example of pushing the 8 bit Arduino processor to the limit is this - 3D rendering at 320x240 x 16 bit: http://hackaday.com/2016/01/02/better-3d-graphics-on-the-ard...
https://www.amazon.com/Spillover-Animal-Infections-Human-Pan...

Is a good and accessible read on the subject. Though it won't do anything good for your ability to sleep.
Could you explain why Ceylon fits the bill while Kotlin does not please ?
Well, I did study BA 1.5 years (for free in DK) and I have mixed feelings. From one end, it's just what the author says as there is a lot of fluff floating around. From another end, though, we did a lot of field studies, which included inferencial statistics, that focused on teaching how to properly test theories. Look, the business world is full of complex issues that need research, humans are difficult. The problem with MBAs is that they don't take BA research very seriously - they pretend to teach academic papers just by reading the abstracts and the easy material. Core competency is actually a great line of research, unfortunately by the time it reaches those doing an MBA it has been stripped of all the useful parts and it has become a mere slogan.
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It's so that if the JWT is stolen in transit, the thief only has access to the token for a shorter period of time. This is why they should expire quickly. Whether or not you think that matters, is not up for debate. That's how it is.
I see that your website is on squarespace and cant see much tech being used in your company so for you CTO might not make much sense but it cant be generalized.
That and labor laws that make it just about impossible to let someone go, financing with 'strings attached' (see 'dailymotion') and a whole raft of other differences.
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Keep in mind that "Prior to java 8" is a time that belongs to the distant future for the android world
In the US, corporate and wealth welfare combined are on the order of several trillion USD including subsidies, tax breaks and other incentives. Welfare proper is on the order of 700 billion. Or: all the rich people take around a dozen times more than all the poor people.
True, but then Endurance from Seveneves had to evolve rather 'aero'dynamic (oblong) shape to protect from space debris by the huge piece of metal in the nose. If I interpret the text correctly, of course.
Genocide is the systematic eradication of an ethnic or religious group. You can't look at China's actions over the last fifty odd years and come to any other conclusion.

The reason given by the instigator (either for the top level or individual actions) is of interest but probably doesn't have much truth to it.
Never mind Alan Cox's Fuzix project.

https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
> Like most invasive species, humans face significantly less predation and parasitism in foreign lands.

Right. Good point!
Hey, you're making an awful lot of assumptions here. For the record, you won't find a microwave oven or Wonder bread in my kitchen either. I've had a rye sourdough for the past ~2.5 years. Not exactly sandwich bread, but the point stands.

Making the bread themselves is exactly my point - the ingredients are not the most expensive bit. Staff time is.

Now I don't know the restaurant from the article and how high-end it really is, but for $18 I would expect them to make the bread themselves and not use cheap supermarket ingredients. Staff is still the most expensive part.
That's precisely what I said: a lot of people are helping both causes, so they are trying to cure cancer or solve poverty. Possibly including the author of the comment above.
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Scala actually has two (official) targets, JVM and Javascript and will pretty soon have a third, "native", using LLVM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArWWlwQl37A
In the place of litigation fees you pay software development fees. Not that I am really against it as a developer.

Smart contracts are different from self-driving cars in that the former have competing intents within while the latter have a common goal of "not hitting anything".
> In everyday life, you may find yourself “loading” your mind in various ways: memorizing a list of groceries to buy later at the supermarket, rehearsing the name of someone you just met so you don’t forget it, practicing your pitch before entering an important meeting. There are also, of course, the ever-present wanderings of a normal mind. And there are more pathological, or at least more chronic, sources of mental load, such as the ruminative thought patterns characteristic of stress, anxiety and depression. All these loads can consume mental capacity, leading to dull thought and anhedonia — a flattened ability to experience pleasure.

This claim might well be true, but it isn’t at all proven by the experiments done on people trying to keep a string of numbers in short-term memory during a word-association game. Both of those demand deliberate conscious attention, it’s little surprise they’d interfere with each-other.

I doubt many people continuously dwell on their grocery list items throughout the day; once the list has been memorized, I doubt it’s seriously taxing problem solving or creative thinking. I’d suggest anyone who finds this to be a problem should try committing the list to paper.

Someone who is practicing a pitch before an important meeting either (a) prepared enough, and doesn’t need to fill the entirety of their mind with the narrow content of the memorized pitch, or else (b) didn’t prepare enough, and probably should be focused on the narrow content, to make sure they don’t screw it up.

If making sure you don’t forget someone’s name leads you to anhedonia, I recommend making an excuse up front and not worrying about it. Personally, I’ve never found learning a small number of names prevented me from paying attention to a conversation, but I’m not great with names, so perhaps the wrong person to ask.

As for a wandering mind: it’s entirely possible to both be focused acutely on the details of the environment, and simultaneously free-associating / letting the mind “wander”. The main time I find thoughts intrude sharply on paying attention to the immediate environment is when I’m trying to solve some very difficult technical problem.

I’ll certainly back the author up that depression and anxiety make it difficult to think creatively. These involve hormonal changes which give thoughts a narrow short-term focus. I find about ½–1 alcoholic drink helps relieve minor/temporary anxiety. Someone depressed should probably seek professional help.
Is the reasoning that you then don't have to test what happens if you pass a parameter of the wrong type to a function?
The top comment on /r/ethereum agrees with you on it not being a typo: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4onbkj/deconstruc... . Hopefully in a few days we will have an authoritative explanation. Otherwise this might become a HN urban legend.
Thanks. Looks like a great read about zoonotic diseases.

But what I'm wondering is whether zoonotic diseases from Central Africa generally represent more serious threats than do those from the rest of the world.
Surely it was the company who performed the pentest. It's the best publicity they can get.
I think that's the point : it's much simpler ( but requires you to do more manualy) and thus has more chances to work.

In the end, as op mentionned, the goal is the same : save something on a server to fetch it later when you need it.
The conflict wasn't created by a culture of hate and intolerance, as you'd like to believe. The conflict was created by millions of people immigrating to a land that didn't belong to them and then declaring a sovereign independent nation over it- something that would lead to a conflict in any part of the world (try this in the US).
Israel doesn't want peace in the region - it wants its opponents rendered harmless in order to keep whatever has already grabbed and possibly keep grabbing more. It's just shameless.
For me Kotlin is almost a perfect replacement for Java. It has very few drawbacks, but generally it's much better and it's a pleasure to use it. Not to mention solid IDE support. I've used Kotlin in two small projects. One project was completed year ago and now I'm improving it. Kotlin is just awesome when it comes to refactoring or generalising. Much better than Java.

I don't want to compare it to Scala, they target different auditories, IMO. I tried Scala, it's a lovely language, but it's too complex. I had to spend a month before I was able to write a quality code using Scala and I still had a lot of problems reading scala collections source code or even understand scalaz. On the other side I spent one evening reading about Kotlin (awesome and very complete, yet small documentation definitely helps) and I knew the language, could read its standard library and write production-quality code. For me that's a deal breaker.
What do you mean by "racism and bigotry aside"?
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You can think of the random possibilities as exploring one path through a huge tree of possibilities. You can then pick 9 paths for the next step and have the user choose the one they prefer and keep repeating until the user feels that they're done.

We used to use this sort of approach to produce random shapes for animation and display on large screens in clubs in the mid-90s. You can also animate by tweening one or more parameters at particular branching points or between branches. If you pick the right places on these ships that could produce some interesting movement in the craft as well.
Having had no idea what made thiel hate gawker so much, suddenly it all becomes clear.

Holding the rich to account. How very non politically correct and unjournalistic of them.
Those diseases traveled just as much as we did since the time of 'Lucy'.

The reason you see more of these from Central Africa (and that's one of the reasons I linked the book) if I understand it correctly is that there are some traditions there that make the species jump that much easier.

But all it really takes is a large number of people and a large number of animals in close proximity. Nature tends to find ways to exploit such opportunities.
Is this the legal version of "don't shoot the messenger" ?
Your DNA doesn't change very much throughout the course of your life. One a program is on a blockchain, much less energy is expended to maintain it compared with the POW used to create the block..
> I was fine with using a binary only version of Solaris, IRIX, and HP-UX; so long as I could get those gratis,

That's not the point at all. You didn't have any software freedom -- how did you modify your software? It's great that you could distribute it in your country, but you didn't have the means to practically modify software.

Also, gratis isn't the point. I don't care if I have to pay for GNU/Linux or any other software, I just care about whether or not I get software freedom as a result.

> not everybody grew up in the United States which has fascist copyright laws

I didn't grow up in the US.

> don't make the error of assuming that the entire world was mis-fortunate and lacked freedom in this sense.

You lacked the practical freedom to modify software (okay, so you didn't have copyright but if you don't have the source then you can't pracically modify your software without spending far too much time reverse-engineering it). I hate to break it to you, but you did lack freedom.
There is no way to screen for deadly pancreatic cancer
A better example of 'engineering not academy' would be explicit vectorization, memory layout support and a good FFI. (all the stuff that in theory is better managed by compilers, in practice it either doesn't matter at all or else should be left to humans).

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Kotlin doesn't improve on Java in these areas.
>>doomed to crack under the economic strain

Actually any normal country would not have wanted to match the US's military spending. It is precisely, this crazy, paranoid, militaristic bureaucracy that people criticize - not the mention any human rights issues.
With time, creativity and motivation a good offensive security team will always win. All we can do as defenders is to find ways to raise the cost of such an attack.

A bit disappointed they seem to have started on the internal network rather then coming in from the outside :)
I find it saddening that so few people care for culture that he and his peers have even had to consider busking, instead of playing formally at a concert.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11760307
'Look at how great we are at finding security vulnerabilities. Almost matched by our utter lack of discretion and confidentiality!'

Hardly a good advert. I would have thought a pen testing firm would make client confidentiality an extremely high priority.

My guess is a Palantir employee who feels that due to the volume and nature of the data they handle that it needs to publicly known their security isn't up to scratch.
Some people enjoy reading for its own sake.
Even searching for IPFS the first result on google for me is,

https://www.ipfs.com/ lol
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