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Facebook Hacking and Recovery
Over the years I have been an avid user of social media, specifically Facebook, and have even been a satisfied investor.

I am writing this blog as I have had quite an unfortunate experience as a user of Facebook.

Essentially, I was in Europe with my father on vacation, where his Facebook account was hacked. We were fortunately able to change the password for the FB account, however it locked my father out until satisfactory identification is provided. The hacker did maintain access of the messenger account, and has contacted many of his friends requesting funds to be transferred. The hacker was apparently quite comfortable in making conversations, and would allude to being in “Ukraine” and in a dire financial situation, and would hence request transfer of a few thousand dollars. Given my father’s reputation, and good standing with never asking for such support, many friend came close to sending the requested funds. Fortunately, my father was able to send WhatsApp messages to many contacts. Further I was able to post on my wall and get the message of the hacking to many.

Given that I am more tech savvy than my father (post 70), I have been supporting him with the communications with Facebook, and trying various avenues to get the situation rectified, all in vain so far.

We have tried to upload the required documentation to verify the identify multiple times, however keep receiving the same notification from FB– stating the ID is not a match or doesn’t meet the list of required ID’s. We have sent the passport and drivers licenses, each with picture, name and date of birth. They match the exact information which is stated on my father’s FB page. Its been almost two weeks since the incident, and despite multiple attempts to send across clear and legible scanned documents, no progress has been made with Facebook.
Ask: job is a single point of failure
tl;dr how to diversify sources of income so that one (bad) job doesn't hold you hostage.

Having worked in Europe on freelance / contractor assignments I can observe that quite often the job is not as advertised / expected. Often I am considering going back to the previous client but this isn't possible due to contracts already being broken, new contracts already signed etc. Essentially you're stuck with new client for at least 6 months otherwise you're being stigmatized as a jumper.
So you should just become a malicious actor and actually break the law? Good plan.
Yes - and a different economic model for maintenance than the Library of Alexandria.

In this case, the library didn't fail. The ecosystem around it did.
Unfortunately, map updates to car navigation systems are quite expensive.

Anecdote: My father used to drive an Audi that showed all kinds of places on the map: restaurants, gas stations, Audi dealers. All could be switched off.

Except cemeteries. Those were always shown, quite prominently. You were driving overland, and you were constantly seeing cemeteries.

Maybe Audi's contribution to traffic safety education...
TL;DR: It doesn't.
Apparently not:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855
> but by then Tesla will have over 50% of the world's battery production

I'm not sure whether you are referring to control or consumption, but in case it's the former: the cells Tesla uses are produced by Panasonic, so technically, they would be in control.
I use make to make things
As much as I love the idea of people going out and doing it for themselves, this sounds like a liability minefield. If somebody goes over and wrecks themselves coming down these stairs, is the hero of the piece liable for damages? It's a pity really.
Yet we keep passing laws and performing studies that assume or find otherwise.

Though I do think AI will be able to drive cars in the long term - I'm very pessimistic about the immediate short term ~5-10 years. It's not the technology that will need to get there - its the laws, and support infrastructure that makes certain assumptions about there being a human there.
No BMW i3s? They're everywhere here in Copenhagen.
The gig economy has been getting a lot of criticism by politicians who are fixated on "jobs" or who complain about the lack of "protections". But the gig economy is a very efficient way to allocate resources in a dynamic environment. The fact that the gig economy was widespread hundreds of years ago and today lends credence to its utility.
I'm using ruby's rake in almost every project, even when it's not ruby otherwise.

It has much of the same functionality, but I already know (and love) ruby, whereas make comes with its own syntax that isn't useful anywhere else.

You can easily create workflows, and get parallelism and caching of intermediate results for free. Even if you're not using ruby and/or rails, it's almost no work to still throw together the data model and use it for data administration as well (although the file-based semantics unfortunately do not extend to the database, something I've been meaning to try to implement).

Lately, I've been using it for machine learning data pipelines: spidering, image resizing, backups, data cleanup etc.
How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community
I disagree. It's more akin to trying the handle on the door, and noticing it's unlocked, and then telling them, and being arrested for touching the door handle.
Interesting! I built Gitcussion for the exact same reason few years ago. https://gitcussion.com/
>Yet, German manufacturers have no competing product to offer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_e-tron

I had an hybrid A3 rental just 6 weeks ago. If I could, I'd never drive something else. It's smooth in the city like you would expect from an electric car, and you can travel long distance at over 100mph and still stay arround 33mpg.
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Range will suffer greatly, but in terms of top speed and acceleration a Tesla does not have to hide. This is one of the better videos of a Tesla accelerating, as it does not show the passengers but just the road / speedometer. The driver stops at the end of the on-ramp and then goes straight from 0 to 220kph (136mph) in a few seconds: https://youtu.be/x-BlQCpZ6UM?t=68
I don't think any "data" companies get any edge out of their data. Big data is about spending big efforts for nothing.

Data is saleable to advertising guys thought.
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All I can think about, what a shame can this be for the developers releasing this software. There must have been a bunch of people working on this and wasn't there no one to say this is wrong?
Stopped reading at "Wi-Fi antennas send information". Antennas don't send anything, they just match the impedance of the feedline into that of the medium.
Yes Microsoft made a series of terrible decisions, but if Android hadn't existed they would have been able to lose that time and still come out on top. The problem wasn't just that it took Microsoft executives about a year to even recognise that the iPhone was a credible threat, it was also that they took even longer to recognise Android was even more of a threat. By then, it was too late.

When Windows Phone 7 and 8 came out, other than Android what other alternatives existed for OEMs to use as an OS to compete head to head with the iPhone? There was only Android. Without Android, in 2010 and 2012 they'd have had no choice but to form a queue and sign licensing agreements with Microsoft for 7 and 8.

Even if the Pre had succeeded, that wouldn't fundamentally have changed anything because it wasn't a licensed OS, aside from the persistent hardware and software quality issues that held it back. Microsoft would still have been the only viable option for companies like Samsung, Sony, HTC, etc and Windows Phone 7 and 8 were fine platforms. They could absolutely have competed with the iPhone just as successfully as Android did. They were just too late because Android was already out there and already had the apps.
We have several examples of such situations right now.
There are 3 non-overlapping 2.4Ghz channels (1,6,11) for 802.11b, because of the channel spectrum shape. Not only "b" uses 22Mhz channels with is just a bit too wide, but also, due to the way how single-carrier PSK modulation works, especially on older hardware, "b" has considerable amount of spurious emissions adjacent to the main carrier that widen it even more - could be seen here as smaller "hills" to the left and right [1],[2].

802.1g/n/ac can easily have 4 non-overlapping channels (1,5,9,13) because (thanks to OFDM) channel spectrum is much neater with rather square 20 (40) Mhz channels with practically no energy outside [3].

Yet, everybody's stuck with 1,6,11 channel scheme which is wasting precious bandwidth. [4] (middle graph) Notice gaps between the channels that could be eliminated by moving 6->5 and 11->9, and gap on the right where channel 13 can fit after that.

[1] https://villagetelco.org/2009/11/rf-hacking/

[2] http://ecee.colorado.edu/~ecen4242/wlanb/index_files/image02...

[3] http://rfmw.em.keysight.com/rfcomms/n4010a/n4010aWLAN/online...

[4] https://www.codify.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Central-Ro...
That's really interesting and something I never knew. Is that just something to simplify writing a decent bot, or is that something human players think in terms of?
Using firefox too, I cannot replicate the behaviour. Could it be something from your side of things causing this ? Have you tried turning it off and on again ?
Note: the nature of the reported vulnerability was such that the teenager didn't even have to access the servers to do it —only change a value that was sent by his own browser.

If that was tantamount to not-breaking & entering, it means the it is okay to legally forbid step by step debugging on your own computer. That it may not be legal to inspect code from another company, even if it runs on your computer. That whatever the code decides (here, the price of the ticket), must be observed by the rest of the system (here, the price sent in the HTTP request wasn't the price decided by the web page).

The consequences of such thinking are chilling. If this is the kind of cyberpunk we're heading to, I'll seriously consider becoming a Runner.
If understanding isn't important, wouldn't a halfway decent AI kill most players in the game?
What's the usecase for this?
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>Range: 120km. Who needs that shit?

I will, if it has sane price, but most likely it wouldn't. For as long as there are countries with huge lump sum EV subsidies, there is no need for EV makers to go below ~35k.
Right, hardware people just can't do software (The only exception is Apple). Nokia was making phones then at the last minute picking an OS to bodge in there.

Car companies don't write software, they outsource it.

Musk's first companies were software based, and he doesn't have an existing business to prop up, that's the main advantage.

If he manages to make his one car factory as fast as he predicts it will be able make as many cars as Ford's 30 factories, leaving Ford with 29 worthless factories. He'll need self driving cars just to get them out of the factory fast enough.
I think business software here means software like: https://github.com/reddit/reddit, https://github.com/circleci/frontend, ERP, e-commerce and so on, against general application like library/framework/language compiler/database/OS
>There's always work to be done.

In theory wages can be negative. So there will always be infinite demand for work to be done unless the government sets a minimum wage.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Germans trained professional car trainers to drive up and down the popular crash sites.

Engineers should just engineer.

Germany will simply have towing cables in the road and make all cars self-driving, electric, 300 km/h etc

By 2022 non of them will have engines.
So does Russia. And many African countries.
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Could this be used to fund Universal Basic Income? A starter is looking at the wealth fund in Norway or citizen dividends in Alaska.
NASA’s cold fusion tech could put a nuclear reactor in every home car and plane
Not Just former Warsaw pact countries, This is a common form of low level corruption in many companies I was told that in British Telecom it was the most common form on financial misconduct that people got disciplined for.
The title is, of course, misleading. They are offering employees a microchip implant. It's not required.

Still crazy that anyone would opt-in to do this, but a misleading headline all the same.
Not a psychiatrist but I am schizophrenic. I agree, medication should be the first line of treatment. I developed major symptoms in my early 20s but didn't get diagnosed until I was in my early 30s. No amount of therapy would have made a difference. It fundamentally changes your perceptions. All the paranoia and delusions make perfect sense and seem completely logical when you're in that state. I never knew to seek treatment because I didn't know anything was wrong, even in spite of my life being in complete shambles. It wasn't until I got on medication for the first time and didn't experience major schizophrenic and psychotic symptoms that I finally realized the full extent of what I had been experiencing. I do agree with environmental factors being a major contributor to the severity of the symptoms but the symptoms themselves are a major contributor to the environmental factors. The symptoms prevent you from achieving or maintaining any semblance of normalcy or stability which in turn create stressors that exacerbate the symptoms. Without medication there's no way to break the cycle.
Not exactly creative but KISS. I use only Makefile for a C project that compiles on both Linux, BSD and Mac OS.

Point being that autoconf is often overkill for smaller C projects.
"Democratically elected government" implies that it is not a democracy but anything from aristocraty to plutocracy with q few things inbetween such as kleptocracy, oligarchy, etc.

The very definition of election means aristocracy. To have a democracy it requires sortition instead.
My favorite use was during my PhD. My thesis could be regenerated from the source data, through to creating plots with gnuplot/GRI and finally assembled from the Latex and eps files into the final pdf.

It was quite simple really, but really powerful to be able to tweak/replace a dataset hit make, and have a fully updated version of my thesis ready to go.
I drive daily my german Autobahn. With no exception, I haven't seen a Tesla drive faster than 120 Km/H. Most of them trail behind a truck, probably to conserve energy - less wind resistance.

I almost laugh when I see them crawling like that.
The paper has full study text and images, no paywall.
Covariance can be thought of as a mechanism for overriding functions. Assume there is a (base) function

f: X -> Y

We want to override it by providing a new mapping from U to V:

f: U -> V

This mechanism is said to be covariant if the new function guarantees that

If u <: x then v=f(u) <: y=f(x)

This means that for each more specific input u in U the function returns more specific (not more general) output v in V.
The inevitable future of private tech worker towns
It is a good quote, isn't it? And very nicely stands the test of 118 years.
The problem is that effective allocating of resources might benefit society but not the individual.
I don't know of it happening in hacking lore, but certainly it might be a strategy for a malicious actor to report a flaw so as to gain trust in order to exploit another flaw.
Not really. Unless you get efficiency gains, all the income from the government charging itself rent gets eaten up as expenses for paying itself rent. Basically what it's doing is making imputed rent an explicit budget item, and then allowing financial ~stuff~ to be done with those budget items explicitly (say, letting a department save money by using real estate more efficiently).
"Democratic" and "market-based" decisions are two different things. You get a democratic decision when a majority of people believe that a good should be available to everyone at a price less than their share of the additional taxes needed. You get a market-based decision when an individual person believes that a good should be available to them, at a price less than the offering price.

Most public goods are public goods precisely because a majority of people will purchase them under the former conditions but not under the latter. There are a wide variety of public services which you personally would not be willing or able to purchase for the total cost of providing the good, but would happily go in on if the rest of a large population could be made to pay their fair share.

A number of die-hard libertarians believe this is theft, which it is in a way, but relatively few of them are willing to move to a remote location and live off the grid to avoid this. Perhaps this is because they know that the alternative is also theft (or worse), because the common defense and the legal system are also public goods, and so you have no way of enforcing your property rights without relying on taxpayer-funded systems.
is HN hugging shop.bkk.hu to death?
Funny story :)

> Unfortunately, map updates to car navigation systems are quite expensive.

I thought cars would get their updates via a connection to a cell network?
I dunno, I'm surprised you thought it was mandatory. Pretty confident in the state of Wisconsin you cannot force someone who does not have life threatening ailments surgery.
Hmm? Most MMI in Audi's lately ( mine included ) have voice input. It does work really good, but only in German, though.
My understanding for business application, the short answer is: software with special business purpose
An OS should be a blank system for running applications. Less bloat is always better, and if anyone wants to paint there is no shortage of art applications to install and use at your leisure.
OK, maybe I'm old or old-fashioned or just not creative enough...

But what exactly are the advantages of this implant over NFC-cards or something like Apple Pay? That I cannot forget my card or my phone? I don't even know when this last happened to me...
http://www.piercingtime.com/images/323/silver-dermal-third-e...
As every other country on earth right now, Hungary is not a democracy at all. So there's that.

At some point we need to understand the novlang used here, by squatting the word democracy to label the political system based on elections, people in power manage to prevent to emergence of an actual democracy.

Please stop misusing this word so we have a better chance of actually having a democracy somwhere at some point in the future.
I'm doing something similar.

I'm building a static(ish) site generator, that features a built-in "configure" command to generate a makefile, so that only changed files and their dependents need to be rebuilt.

That's also part of why it's called a 'static-ish' site generator - it can render stuff into pure static html, but it can also use things like SSI or ESI to embed common things, so e.g. a nav bar/footer could be injected using SSI or ESI, and then when that changes, not every page needs to be re-built.

Edit: s/script/command/
Exactly. Often to validate the door is unlocked one needs to use the knob and open it a little - shall one get a permission for that just for a sake of a check. Is this already a breach to open the door without crossing the threshold?
Lighting/laptops/phones take a tiny amount of energy. For example, a phone battery nowadays (e.g. iPhone 6) is about 10 watthours with say 5 hours of screen-on-time. Disregarding it's on doing background stuff all the other hours, it approximately uses just 2 watt on average.

But the very first microwave (oven) I looked up on Bestbuy used 1500 watt, and if you've got something cooking for 40 minutes in there you're easily using 1 kWh, or about three months of iPhone use.

> Curious, what is the need for a 5kW array? Do they typically only produce at 5-10% of peak?

As for peak production, well yes-ish. The average peak solar hours in the US is about 4 per day, Europe is probably at 3, in Texas it's probably 5. That means a 5kW array will produce about 25 kWh a day, or 750 a month in Texas, saving about $85 a month / 1k a year in electricity purchase at 11.5c a kWh. So yeah, on average a panel in the US produces at roughly 15% or so of peak. (±4 peak hours per day).
Imagine you are CEO of a german car company- and you see the change coming, you want to change your whole company to adapt to that.

Now first thing you would have to break is the "Zyklus". The "Zyklus" is a 5 year period, in which a care is designed, everything is specified, prototypes are produced and tested, part-deliverers are driven in "netherland"-auctions to go to the lowest price for a specified part (like the software), assembly lines are errected (and "Sonder-maschinen" are ordered for that) and finally the car is produced.

Each of this departments is in more or less open rebellion against your intentions. And they got good arguments. Electric cars are not green currently. They are coal cars - says the marketing department.

Methanol-Cars, using re-synthesized straw is a 100 % green fuel and could re-use our existing technology not dropping our advantage says engineering. And there have been some small-scale breakthroughs there recently regarding method efficiency. Fuels are definatly a better storage then batterys.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BtL-Kraftstoff

All parts vital for a electric cars are easy to get at any time, except batterys, so lets avoid those and switch later, when we dont have to re-invest so much for the tech - says the "Einkauf".

Its a death by a thousand stings. The best thing they could do, is basically form completely seperate companys inside there old mother companys, that are not bound to these cycles and rules.

This is where the power-structure comes to kill you. In any feudal-hierarchical power-structure creating a new department - creates a rush of power-thirsty individuals who want to get to the top. So far so natural. These individuals, will migrate from the old-parts of your company into the new part- bringing along the experience and the mindset of the old company.

And thats it. Thats is how a dinosaur dies. Willing to change, but the body wont rearrange.
In my experience it doesn't. My every attempt at improving this shit ends up in laying more wires everywhere.
visiting https://bkk.hu/ (and watching the dev console) shows that they obviously develop their page http-first (various resources won't load in firefox due mixed http(s))
Try harder then. And do not campaign against an innocent young boy even if you think your point of view harmonises with the outdated Hungarian law that bleeds from hundreds of wounds.
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So... the only way to stop a bad guy with a GAN is a good guy with a GAN?
Here are some Google Maps things I would be pretty hard-pressed to give up:

- search along the route for things like gas stations, etc.
(showing the amount of travel time added for each option)

- light grey lines showing me different turns I could take if I wanted to, and Google's estimate of how much slower they would be.

I'm glad to hear that these manufacturers aren't putting bad products in their cars though.
and after switching to english the search on the top of the page is broken