skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you think that he wanted to get caught eventually?

I think this was the safest way out of criminal lifestyle that could probably lead him to premature death.

It worked out great for him. Just selling movie rights would earn him loads of cash. Not to mention being most renown bank security consultant in the world.
giving it a go as my default chrome search engine too. nice work gabriel! i love the infinite scroll.
That was actually one of the less impressive things the demo did, since it replaced the tree with what is essentially a smooth gradient. This is something that can be done by early image inpainting algorithms, such as this one from SIGGRAPH 2000:

http://www.iua.upf.es/~mbertalmio/restoration.html
To read the article, you'd think VoIP was a completely new, unheard of technology.
Considered it, but honestly have no idea how to approach it. Ideas appreciated!
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and go!
Not on the bluff side, fortunately. It would have to basically double in measurement to even come close to jeopardizing the Pyramid.
Do you have any contact info or email?
That's a good thing then, that he videotaped cool and impressive stuff he did and kept records from security cameras that were in place while he was operating.
Don’t misunderstand: I don’t think it’s a real problem that I can’t change the capacitors in my television today — I think that the most interesting surfaces for tinkering tend to evolve over time — and today the primary tinkering substrate appears to me to be the open web.

This is so true. Growing up, what I remember most was playing with web tech - buying my own server space, hosting my own sites, installing random stuff like Wordpress and Drupal and messing with the code running these sites; learning CSS, HTML and doing random stuff in PHP ...

So what if we've lost the ability to mess with TVs, and computers, and iPads? It may very well be that the TV/computer/Heathkit equivalents today are Wordpress/Rails/Opentape installations, that kids run on their servers and play around with. We may not have another Apple on our hands (which resulted from arguably the king of tinkerers himself, Wozniak) but we might have the next Larry Page/Sergey Brin/Mark Zuckerberg.

And that's not entirely a bad thing.
No news? Seems to me like it's not really moving.. hmm...
Maybe he didn't steal it for cash but just for the thrill of it? Do you sell in your cups and diplomas?
Looking at Alexa's numbers for a rough comparison of pageviews it looks like Digg gets about 10x as many as SO:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com#trafficstats
"Withdrawing from thousands of cards, thereby circumventing the security of financial institutions (who have billions available to them) qualifies as taking on stronger forces."

No. He stole money from people. Thousands of them. Actual people's actual cards. If someone did this with your card, I doubt you would say they stole from your bank.
used to solve a problem != meant to solve a problem

Let's bring up the age-old vehicle analogy. Any vehicle fundamentally solves the the same problem but that's naïve outlook that doesn't acknowledge any specific use-cases. I can drive a truck down the street to get a Coke or ride my bicycle across Canada but that doesn't mean bicycles and trucks are meant to solve the same problem. The differences are obvious when you need to move a pallet of Coke (or 50).
I'm thinking about giving this a try: http://github.com/slact/nginx_http_push_module
This was my first thought as well.
That'd be awesome.
Is reusing IVs that bad? Does that leak enough information to make the result useless?
If you were him how would you make a safe transition between criminal world and legal world that would guarantee that you will be able to sleep well every night till you die of old age?

He is not mafia type guy. How long do you think it would take for him to start being the target for guys that hurt people that would want to use such skill as his?

He's a clever guy, don't you think he might be asking himself similar questions?
MySQL is at the bottom of the pile of what qualifies as "RDBMS" so the bottom-feeder comment might be trollish but it's not flat out wrong.
Exactly what I'm asking. Anyone can make read benchmarks fast. He's adding index optimizations such as clustering that kill write performance. Balance please.
How do you like duplicity? That looks like a good solution for my work backups.
Backward Compatibility vs Innovation - Why Apple Leads
The article underestimates kids -- but the sentiment is understandable given the short history of computing. These guys witnessed the birth. Now things are vastly improved, just like how you open the hood of a car and it looks like an amorphous plastic object ("Back in my day, you could see how everything worked."). So while I enjoy the nostalgia, I suspect kids will be tinkering far into the future. That kids have the web to learn from is still amazing to me (I can't imagine programming without it) -- and it is itself a great platform for tinkering.
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Linked articles, technical details and philosophy:
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With enough $/CPUs, it's all weak.
What part of "eat less, exercise more" didn't you have? What part of "not so much fat, meat, and carbs" was unknown to you?

This information isn't obscure or hard to find. In the US, we're inundated with it.

Do you really believe that you'd have acted sooner if someone had given you the book earlier?

Do you really want to hang your argument on "free"?

(1) It's actually quite easy to find free nutrition info if you're interested.

(2) It's even easier to find modestly priced info. I doubt that $5 makes a significant difference.

As far as Shakespeare in school goes, the only folks who remember it were the folks who were interested.

I saved the best for last. You've claimed that nutriton education would make a difference under the assumption that the US doesn't do it. It turns out that most US public schools do nutrion education. It doesn't seem to have the effect that you predicted....

FWIW, I'll bet that Canadian public schools also have nutrition education. Ig so, it sure made an impression on you....
I wonder how many days until Zynga clones this game.
Though I agree with you on this particular issue, I don't think the broader one is quite as clear-cut. In particular, littered taskbars and desktops are seldom the consequence of user intent. It's far more likely that the user lacks either the knowledge or the motivation to go and change things. While they are technically customizable, they get mucked with and messed up every time you install something on the computer. (talking about windows, clearly) I suppose it's a difference between an opt-in and an opt-out system.
Selectively remove Chrome history (for Mac)
You can disable it at http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html

(You can also change the fonts and font sizes and a few other things.)

It's the only infinite scroll implementation I've run into that I don't dislike, though. I don't find it jumpy at all.
I use rdiff-backup too, and since it stores the diffs, you can go back in time.

I also backup the rdiff-backup tree itself to a remote location.
It's not completely absurd. Reincarnation is how some Buddhist traditions are passed down from generation to generation.

China now has official control over such transfers.

Whether that works out as de facto control is another issue, but they're trying.
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After the obligatory vanity search yielded positive results (this rarely happens because I'm a nobody), I'm giving it a one week trial as my default search engine.

[Edit]
It seems to be giving way better results than Bing. Nice to see that smart dudes in garages can still give megacorps a run for their money in their own backyards.
What the stuff is "meant for" is often not important in real life situations.

If you have pallet of Coke to move, a bike and no driving licence that you don't care what the bike was meant for.

If you have to hammer a nail but you only have pilers in your close vicinity you hammer it with pilers and don't care what inventors of pilers meant them for.

I'm not trying to draw any parallels to RDBMS vs NoSQL just pointing out that what often matters in real life is what problems are solved with which tools and why. What the tools were meant for is pie in the sky.
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Yes in Australia. I was talking about Westerners in China.
You really think we're free to do that because we are Western?
Towards a more secure web, and better TLS | Brad Ideas
No one thinks in gigabytes, or kilowatts for that matter.
When I searched for my own name, immediately my official site, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and blog (among tens of other profiles) appeared.

When I searched for mine, 6 people and places (that aren't me) came up. I had to click a second time on "Try Web Links" and had two entries at #15 and #27. On Google I have 3 results in the top 10.

For a search that actually matters I did "ruby blog." Ruby Inside was #2 but junk results contaminated positions 1,3,4,5, and 6. In Google, all top 10 results are relevant and high quality. From what I can make out doing various searches, Google's "trick" has been to rank popular/high traffic sites higher, whereas DDG doesn't have the benefit of Google's DNS and Google Analytics data.. if DDG somehow weeded out the results with very poor Alexa (or better) scores, though, I suspect the results would be stronger.

Kudos to Gabriel for doing a top notch job though. DDG has a long way to go before I could use it instead of Google (who are too far ahead right now), but it's the best alternative I've seen for sure and competition is good.
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Why thinking that other people are stupid is such prevalent? It leads to so many misunderstandings.
I'm going to take the contrary. I switched to DDG for a few weeks, but since have switched back to google. DDG is fine with general things ("Java", "Vim tutorial", and so forth), but fails with the specific (programming errors, how to set up esoteric programs, etc).

So DDG could do the job for about 60-70% of the searches I would make, but it sometimes would just turn up absolutely nothing and just say "why not try google?" It was cool to see DDG admit they aren't perfect, but I started wondering (as it happened more) why I wasn't just using google anyway. So I switched back. Really, using DDG so much has made me appreciate google more for being able to really scry into the crannies of the internet and 5 year old forum posts for the answers that I need.
I guess it wouldn't be as much fun if we admitted that this is one good path to take to a good game, but that there are also games that use words to wonderful effect.
And yet we still haven't completely replaced those old, inflexible systems, even as we are inventing new ones.

So, were relational databases and spreadsheets really the answer, or just an alternative?
If this WAS it, then they should be shut down. I'm not saying the video shouldn't be released or that the contents should be covered up, but the encryption algorithms that pertain to DoD COMSEC are classified and I think they would be breaking federal law by even cracking them.

I've seen many things from Wikileaks that are classified in nature and if they think that it's ok to do that they're mistaken, IMO.

I do however applaud their efforts with respect to net censorship and scientology secrets.
The first time I was swerving to miss a dog in the middle of a dirt road and the car spun out of control and nearly ended up in the water. The next day all my tires were flat from the sand and gravel that got lodged between the rubber tire and the rim. My windows were down and the inside of the car was full of sand and dirt and plants.

The second time, I fell asleep on the interstate. The sound of the tires on the dirt woke me up and when I pulled back onto the road, the car started doing 360ies until I crashed into a guard rail. I never fell asleep again and no one was hurt either time. I was really amazed both times that the car didn't flip. The second time, the people behind me saw me spinning out of control and like, 5 cars pulled in behind me. I feel really lucky, not only for myself, but for others I could have hurt.

I ride motorcycles too, not in a long time, but I remember times when I'd be going through a turn and hit a patch of sand or dirt and lose traction. It's quite scary. Almost went off the side of a mountain when I got my first bike and still didn't know to handle high speed tight turns. Sure knocked the invincibility out of me.
Thanks. I appreciate the detailed feedback. Certainly some queries are better than others. Your name hit a disambiguation page, which currently gets treated completely differently than other names. I should merge these in some much more useful way, but I haven't done this yet.

The ruby blog results do suck. Sorry about that. Better blog results are currently in process.
In the head of the site look for this "Run This Blog In Mobile Or Console Mode..." click Console mode.
You are solving a ridiculously difficult problem, so I don't want to seem like I'm ragging on you at all, but yeah.. on the disambiguation pages, I'd love to see the first set of Web links appear below regardless (a bit like how Google does with its new-style "Did you mean" results) - it just aids instant scannability.
It's unlikely that a psychopath would refuse to testify against his partners in crime in return for a shorter prison sentence.
Thanks. This problem should start going away now. I just added Bing as a live backup, so if I find nothing through my various indexes/channels, it should back fill with a modified Bing call.
> This makes the CPU core a fair bit more complicated, meaning larger silicon footprint are higher power consumption.

Is 5% a "fair bit"? I ask because the MIPS folks said that their 64 bit instruction set cost them less than 5%. And yes, their 64 bit CPUS supported both their 64 and 32 bit ISAs.
Or if security isn't a (top) priority.
Bernanke Running Amuck
I think we're getting a little hung up on 'complex numbers' and things they might be isomorphic to. My point was that in order to come up with the Mandelbrot set in the 13th century you need bits of mathematical apparatus that were not invented till centuries later. I liked the piece, it's just that the eye-poking anachronism right off the bat sort of gave it away too early, for me.
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Thanks for trying it out! I'll consider adding that link.
No, it's not. The amount of computing power that would be needed to break the kind of encryption we should expect them to be using would be immense. It would likely be impossible, or at least impractically expensive. This is a very interesting part of the story.
The contradictions of success!

Don't get me wrong, I have worked with Rails - I admire what 37s have done and a good rate of churn in new ideas in any profession can be healthy and welcome thing.

I just wonder if 37s have gone from being the underdogs? What do you rebel against when you are the status quo - at least among the opinion formers and alpha geeks?

It is like when a renegade leftfield music act become mainstream. Look at Rage Against the Machine (with their leftist anti-capitalist music) becoming millionaires after signing up to one of the biggest capitalist music corporations on the planet.
There was a well publicized policy change between the two events.
For what it's worth, I think Mixergy is useful just as it is. Why does everyone want people to "cough up their secrets"? There is value in discovering some of this stuff for yourself. The founders Andrew talks to certainly didn't have Mixergy there when their companies were founded, simply spitting out "secrets". Yet, in an hour of listening to Andrew talking to these guys, I learn quite a bit, not just about tactics (which many founders are hesitant to reveal), but about the way that successful people think and formulate ideas.

Hearing other people's stories and ideas is great, but at the end of the day, it's just fluff. Only by trying to start a successful company will you actually figure out what works for you and what doesn't. Obviously, no one wants to hear that. They'd rather hear convenient doctrine, packaged up nicely in a book or podcast, that makes founding a successful company as easy as baking cookies. Here's the newsflash for those people: That recipe doesn't actually exist.
Leaked PDF with secret plan to install child porn blocking filter for Europe
NoSQL vs. RDBMS debates are like traffic accidents. I slow down to look, but I'm happy I'm not involved.
K, upvoted simply for mentioning The Reasoned Schemer, a book that I'm having great fun simply picking up occasionally. Time to really start cranking on it.
Oh noes, another one defending the banks . . . look, it's very SIMPLE: overcharging clients that much simply because the bank in question CAN is predatory to the point where it amounts to stealing, there is no justification for charging that much, specially in a country as poverty ridden as this one. If you like overpaying that much, suit yourself, but defending such institutions at this point is beyond ludicrous.
About 6 months before I launched something, which was really a MVP, if that. I've invested in infrastructure, but not a ton. I crawl some from the cloud and some from my own machines.
Oops, bnomis, misunderstood your question, thought you were asking what freedom we have here over the Chinese. Sorry.
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It's news, and it's noteworthy, but I think the IE8 flaw Vreugdenhill used is a bigger deal:

http://vreugdenhilresearch.nl/Pwn2Own-2010-Windows7-Internet...
No worries; both will be bailed out by Bernanke's printing press. Not to mention Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Michigan, Florida .....
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This is pretty shocking.

We're talking about an EU wide filtering and logging capability that will require deep packet inspection at the provider level.

Of course nobody can be against it because we're fighting child pornography and terrorism here.

Never mind the detail that once such a filter is in place it can be used for other purposes.
What I'd like to see are articles that discuss design techniques. Like, how to incrementally develop a key store db without inconsistencies? There's no schema so .. I'm worried about partial records after adding values to the non-schema.

First these addresses didn't have a zipcode field, but now they do. What about relationships between records, isn't there going to be redundant data? What if the user changes their email in the account record, do I have to manually update their contact record? This is what foreign keys are for. OMG, Where am I ... Where's the exit? We're all gonna die!

That's basically what I go through every time I think about it. It's a big scary fully loaded gnarly nested hash table aimed directly at my foot.
Yeah, they will load automatically if you do the scroll wheel now or down arrow, but I agree I should just show them initially. Another issue is those Web links aren't triggering the name-detection code, which pulls out the social profiles and such.

Out of curiosity, do you like these ruby blog results any better: http://tmbg.duckduckgo.com/?q=ruby+blog (staging server) ?
Yes, but you have to give it some credit for deciding to use a smooth gradient, when it is clearly not the only choice. (Also, it's hard to tell in this video exactly what it really replaced it with, at the pixel level.)
I use rsnapshot and rdiff-backup, the big difference is rdiff-backup chokes on larger file volumes. I have a backup with a million+ video and image files, at around 600 gigs. rdiff-backup doesn't like this very much, and spends way more time backing it up than rsnapshot. There were other more serious problems, but I made the switch a year or two ago and I can't remember what they were.

Additionally, the braindead simplicity of rsnapshot makes it much easier to verify backups without having to do a restore first.

That said, I use rdiff-backup to back up /etc on all my systems to a local backup directory for quick access if anything gets accidentally fucked up while reconfiguring a service. It really is better for small datasets.

My backup hierarchy, in terms of complexity / size of the job, generally goes:
rdiff-backup (small stuff) -> rsnapshot (bigger stuff) -> bacula (mammoth stuff)
Usually chimping just means checking your shots from the LCD.
Why did you choose Bing?
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This story was first broke by the New York Times:

"Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts"
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html
My favorite: "JohnResig == awesome, but DouglasCrockford === awesome"
mechanical turk seems to be based more on the idea that "labor (in general) is cheap" You know, programming and having humans execute the code. It is less focused on taking advantage of the large pool of cheap but educated/experienced writers.

seed is interesting, and sounds a lot more like what I was thinking about. thanks for pointing that out.
Yes, and he comes off sounding like an expat that doesn't realize that his freedom is merely derivative of Western freedom and enhanced by his economic standing. Of course he feels freer. Here's a challenge to him. How about I start blogging about all the problems with the government (right or left) in the U.S., and he starts doing the same with the PRC. We'll compare notes; see how many swat teams run up in my house, vs. PRC troops raiding his place. How much censorship happens. I predict he'd start to feel quite a bit less free once he comes face to face with the extent of his perceived freedom.
I express total incomprehension.
Silly us. The engineers at Google and Amazon also don't know what they're doing either. They should go back to computer science class and let the big boys and SQL Server run the shop.
Because I'm already using BOSS for some things and it will probably become Bing at some point. I'm open to others.