skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people who write malware to steal banking info should be prosecuted when possible. It will be interesting to see whether this goes to trial and if so how solid any evidence against him is.

However, I do not doubt that a mix of fear & incompetence could have resulted in his arrest as much as any concrete evidence of his involvement in Kronos. I think there's (perhaps rightfully) a culture of distrust and paranoia around law enforcement's interaction with ethical hacking. It's difficult to detach from that when legitimate prosecution happens.
Ah, but it's not really an example of Russian in that sense, since he made them separate distinct letters rather than reusing Ь as a modifier, as Russian did. So semantically a rather different approach that just looks similar because it appropriated the shape.
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I hate this because it suspends my suspension of disbelief. I can only think of three instances of tv shows and films that get it right: the US version of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (at least she uses a terminal emulator and ssh); The Social Network; and Mr. Robot. It's so commonly botched that I get really excited when someone gets it right. It doesn't even have to be perfect; just not laughably ridiculous.
What's your point? Should the BBC which is an independent news organisation just not publish this article?
> that we believe everything we hear

So if I see lots of stories by doctors who had difficulty getting their patients the drug even with this program making it available for "free" I should assume all the doctors are making that up?
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> If it where not for the artists ease of use and fast iteration, nobody would use the script languages.

Aren't those core tenets of game production? :)
What does "anonymous" mean in this context? Simply because I get to post a message without registering a nickname, it doesn't mean I'm anonymous...
The concern is that a lot of behaviour that a security researcher would do in the course of their research, taking over C&C server addresses such as with Wannacry, soliciting for samples of malware, such as Hutchins did with the Kronos trojan, and having contacts with black-hat hackers, might look to the DOJ as if he is the culprit who created the malware.

People think that an innocent white hat hacker could get swept up in this kind of arrest, and there has been so little evidence released, nobody knows what actually happened.
Not if your hosting company or ISP takes you down. Same as when Youtube/Facebook remove your content.

It is in their right to bow to pressure from outside, from players bigger than you. After all, they are companies, they can do whatever they want, right?
There was one good podcast (that sadly not in English with) Nick Atamas (senior engine programmer in Epic).

They had serious reason to not provide any official scripting support in UE4. Basically there no single language and runtime that would work well across all platforms: between Python, Node.js, Mono none of them work on every platform Epic target. Some don't have good support for consoles and other for mobile platforms and maintaining fork is hard even for Epic. So instead they try to extend blueprints instead since for them there are no such problems with C++.
Well, that's true, but the article seems to suggest that his brash persona/public conduct made it hard for him to win the case.
I've found him to be an interesting character, a potent symbol of the greed, arrogance, and indifference of the pharmaceutical industry. A PR firm couldn't have invented a better villain, young, brash, flouting decorum by his openly fleecing the public. He was the perfect scapegoat.

I think we all know nothing has changed, and his conviction today has no relationship to his role as CEO, but I wonder if public opinion of the industry will improve, as if the bad apple is rooted out.
I've read plenty of reports over the last year of people who had great difficulty getting the drug, even though it was supposedly free. I posted one such article elsewhere in this thread.
Haha no idea, I wasn't even thinking of phones at all, but I guess it's a consideration too.
Was Marcus Hutchins arrested for selling malware online?
I might be misunderstanding your point but I don't understand what they did that was so dishonorable? I thought that this guy produced malware
If that is the case, it would not be remarkable. Prosecutors have a responsibility to only pursue cases that are likely to result in conviction. If extradition was considered impossible, then there would not be much point in pursing an indictment.
Then he lied to me, our business concludes, and I testify that he lied to me when asked. Pretty simple.
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Replacing the headlight bulb (let's not even talk about the headlight assembly!) on the driver's side of a Chrysler 300 is very difficult.

The "easy" way involves removing the air filter housing. Fortunately that's only held in by one screw.
If clojure/script didn't exist, I'd be doing the same thing! Kotlin is a great language!
Great, then get the FDA to approve more people to make lifesaving drugs? A system where you're counting on the generosity of companies to charge low prices seems rather flawed.

Only a couple thousand people use Daraprim in the US. He claims 2/3rd of sales are to the USG at 1c per pill. So if there's 700 full price patients at $100K a course, that's an extra $70M on 3 trillion?

Companies were doing this before he did, and keep doing it now. So get the FDA to change or have a "dire needs" import rule or fix the system.
Exactly! Just because the flaw is there, that doesn't give you the right to gratuitously exploit it. Do we really want to force people to implement super-strict security for relatively trivial things like this?
Ok... but what does that have to do with this article or these comments? In this case a banking trojan creator was arrested.

He wasn't middle eastern, he wasn't arrested for using Tor, Linux, or Telegram.
And how do matching test vectors ensure there are no timing attacks? Or memory leaks that disclose private keys?
> There were no books that survived to tell us of all the lost knowledge uncovered before us.

Not always true. We do have surviving technical documents (reports from governors to kings) dealing with water management in Mesopotamia. Unfortunately, the specialized vocabulary in those documents is untranslatable because we don't already know the details of Mesopotamian water engineering.
The quotes came from people who only knew him as a WannaCry researcher, due the fact that the DoJ took forever to say why they were arresting him. It's as if a prominent anti-spammer were to get arrested with no explanation. A naive guess would be that it was due to their anti-spam work. Even though this arrest wasn't related to his WannaCry, that was his most recent exposure to the public and I think assuming it was related to that can be forgiven
I can't even imagine the rage that lab technicians and forensic pathologists must have felt when shows like CSI, NCIS and Bones were popular, and their job was portrayed as all sexy quirky people using lasers and holograms.

And lawyers - the "CSI Effect[0]" has apparently made proving cases with real science more difficult.

[0]https://www.thebalance.com/csi-effect-1669447
There are a lot of details that people seem to gloss over or haven't heard about. I am not sure if its to be believed or if he was just trying to repair his reputation, but he claims that jacking prices up on common drugs was to fund R&D into medicines for less common diseases where treatments are very expensive or don't exist at all. I found that to be a compelling argument because as far as I see it, at least he is (supposedly) trying to do something for these people, while others ignore them. Basically getting insurance companies to pay a lot for some drugs (even if it leads to premium hikes) will socialize the costs of developing other drugs.
I'm a fan of anything that will help ease the pain induced by the ever-growing Electron cancer on the desktop. Hopefully this will catch on before I need 64GB of RAM...
In a jury trial that would absolutely sway things
As has been stated previously, the drug was available free to those who needed it.
OK, so he's just indifferent to the harm caused by his actions, rather than a cackling sadist. So what?
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Yes. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912524-Kronos-Indic...
The same reason they fail at representing the Occult. 95% of it is not flashy.

I spend a great deal of my time reading, be it new tech documents, papers, or other findings that interest me. Or I read musty old tomes, scans from Oxford library and wherever on mysticism and occultism.

Do you know how exciting it is to show someone reading for hours? Not very. No, people have very low attention spans, and can barely read a facebook post or moderately sized comment. Discussing intricacies of anything on TV is verboten. Small bites are acceptable, and even better if they have flashy and pretty graphics or effects.

So instead, dramatic "interpretations" are used, to ill effect. Insert CSI "zoom - zoom - zoom - caught them", "uber hackers" that can make blenders turn on remotely, to "evil warlocks" that kill at a glance. It's all theater, and badly done at that.
You state he is a malware creator b cause the FBI and their indictment told you he is.

The FBI claim he created the software in July 2014, the exact month that he asked on twitter for a copy of the software. Now I am not saying he is innocent but I am also not assuming his guilt because the FBI said he was guilty.

What proof do you have that he is a malware creator selling malware?
A little bit unrelated, but serious question. Mono and .net core are not going to converge? I mean that would be awesome. Since most of game developers nagging about Mono's bad performance
You're commenting on an article about how the FBI arrested someone for creating malware. If you haven't been creating malware, then I don't see how this article has anything to do with the issues you face as someone with a middle-eastern last who uses privacy tools like Tor. Hutchins wasn't targeted because of CBP's stance on things it associates with terrorism. He was targeted because the FBI believes he authored malware.
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Trolling is lying. Either you believe terrible things, or you lie about believing them to make people angry. Normal lying is usually intended for personal gain, trolling is just lies intended to hurt other people.
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Yes, I wasn't calling for no sentence, or not guilty, just that the details do provide mitigating circumstances IMO, and that might merit a lenient sentence.

Also of note, in the NY Times article[1], they call out how his defense tried to mount a defense based on the financial profit or personal gain portion of the definition.

The defense asked why Mr. Shkreli, if he wanted to commit fraud, didn’t commit fraud: He ultimately paid back his investors with shares of Retrophin, which became valuable, along with cash. His lawyers also asked how Mr. Shkreli profited, painting him as a hardworking oddball who, rather than throwing in the towel after his funds imploded, vowed to get his investors’ money back. He paid them back late, they argued, but he paid them back.

Apparently, that wasn't successful.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/business/dealbook/martin-...
> He's not a "hacker" who is doing security research, he's a malware creator selling malware.

There's no reason he can't be both. We can both like him for stopping WannaCry, and dislike him for (if true) marketing/distributing malware based on Kronos.

Although I agree with your general sentiment, I'm confused as to why the security community is chilled by this. The court case should be public, so we'll be able to judge the evidence ourselves.
Still a horrible person for so many reasons (including this one [1] the other day).

[1] https://twitter.com/laurenduca/status/890960104262180865
I am a complete font newbie, but looking at the standard (https://www.iso.org/standard/66391.html), it seems like there exists a feature called "contextual glyphs", which means you can supply alternative glyphs (like ligatures) given a particular sequence of glyphs.

I imagine you could crack open the font file itself and find out how this works - I'm not familiar with any of the tools to do this though.

Here's (I think) more detail: https://fontforge.github.io/editexample6-5.html
> You might be willing to accept a bunch of trade-offs, but that will limit this to a niche product

Several years ago I was helping a guy that had a home automation product with a scriptable interface. This was when X10 was prevalent.

He was very proud of it and described all the behaviors he'd coded in loving detail. But one stuck out in my mind: "When I get into bed, the lights go out!" "But", I said, "what if you wanted to read in bed?" He glared at me: "The Bed is for SLEEPING."

These systems need to work for us, and not require us to bend to what they're capable of.
That is actually a concerning fact that the alpha hasn't been stabilized. I do know the stable release does work in production though.
I wonder if the other big Oracle project being pawned off to the great retirement home in the sky, NetBeans, will be pulled out of Incubator and thrown in the trash.
I don't have much understanding of wider picture of drug prices and insurance to know it, but there certainly could be such issues. I think the comment I replied to was edited or I might have accidentally replied to wrong comment, I am not sure. On similar issue, here's Martin Shkreli proposing his own idea on this matter to keep prices down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbkz2VVUBLE
Shouldn't it be "Arrest of malware creator sends chill through security community"?
Outside of the mess that is Bitcoin they are much cheaper than what credit/debit cards charge. More advanced coins like Ethereum take under a minute for an appropriate number of confirmations.
Lot's of comments about moving DEFCON out of US jurisdiction. DEFCON officially flaunts the fact that both criminals and law enforcement attend the event.[0] If that is the approach of the con, this interaction is built-in.

This isn't about DEFCON.

[0] https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-faq/dc-faq.html
>FWIW, he claims that he gave the medicine away for free to people who could prove they couldn't afford it,

Sorry, I find it hard to take the word of someone who was convicted of committing fraud. Fraud that was committed before these claims were made. I guess defrauding his investors was also some 11th dimensional chess move designed to show the weakness of the financial industry, right?

Move over Jesus, we have a new martyr who suffers for our salvation.
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Thanks for the added detail - but I didn't mean to assign blame to Oracle or oversimplify it. I'm just saying AOO isn't a fork motivated by Oracle copyrights as stated in the posts I was replying to. LibreOffice would more correctly be called the fork, and copyright really wasn't the motivation.
I think the line between "making up new letters" and "adding diacritics" is rather blurry, and really hinges on your definition of "new letter", which is largely defined by convention. Most (all? I can't think of any that don't) Cyrillic alphabets have some letters with diacritics - ё and й in Russian; й, i and ї in Ukrainian; j in Serbian etc.

But speakers of those languages don't consider the diacritics to be a modifier in this case - we treat them as completely separate letters, that just have a disjoint element in their overall shape. I don't see why e.g. c vs č can't be treated in the same exact way as и vs й (and indeed, I wonder if Czech don't already do that?).
I think I got an epiphany watching this - is this what the missus sees when I'm tapping away at a bunch of (to her) garbled text flicking between text editor tabs, webpages and CLIs
"consumer rights" wouldn't be a relevant issue in this case, even today, considering that the people killed weren't necessarily customers.
> Clojure tends to redefine words describing concepts with a new or restricted meaning. Typically a general concept like 'simplicity' would have more than one dimension.

Sure, but that happens all the time in programming. When we talk about "objects" we don't mean "a material thing that can be seen and touched".

> I would not do this at all. Having slots or not are low-level artefacts and writing methods which are fine-grained to slots of an objects don't expose the domain-level.

I guess because it's not at all idiomatic, even in an object system as rich as CLOS.

But in Clojure it is idiomatic, and to my mind it leads to a more precise definition of what a function wants. We don't say, "this is a method that operates on a Student object"; we say, "this is a function that takes data that includes a student's email and enrolment date".

Again, I hasten to add that my experience with CLOS is virtually non-existent, but compared to the OOP languages I am familiar with, Clojure has a far richer way of describing the structure of data.
No, but it was on Reddit a few years ago so it should be possible to Google it.
So in order to save ~100% on a $100,000 treatment, they have to "jump though the hoops" and prove they need it (otherwise everyone would just do that?). OK?
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I never said he was a great dude, but the media's portal of him is inaccurate (shocker).
Try:

1) turn off a light in the app

2) physically disconnect and reconnect power to a light (e.g. unplug and plug in)

3) note that light is on by default (at least for Hue lightstrips, not sure about others)

4) note that you cannot turn the light off without turning it on in the app
There was a joke floating around somewhere (Matt Levine I think?) that one strategy to avoid a jury trial proceeding was to become so publicly infamous that it would be impossible to select an unbiased jury. Clearly didn't work out for Shkreli in this case.
I had something similar happen when I was watching a movie on an airline flight... I gave up after the third or fourth time it reset.
Actually the leak is quite good. I just watched over a guy's shoulder in a flight as he watched episode 4. It was obviously not for public dissemination but it was very good.
>Sure, but the solution is not to wish that people like Shkreli don't raise prices on their drugs. Instead, we need to reform the US healthcare system to stop problems like this.

The solution is both. Just because a broken system allows you to get away with being a monster doesn't justify you being a monster.
All true, but my memory is that timber framing is only 20% more expensive when looking at whole-house costs. So it's not prohibitive by any means.
Yeah, the first seasons felt like they were book-based, with the detail, development, and pacing, etc.

But, this season (7) particularly feels like an episodic TV show. Much faster paced, with less subtle-dialogue, and kind-of hit-you over-the-head plotlines and dialogue. For instance, in the first episode, Jaime painstakingly described to Cersei their predicament as if he was talking directly to the audience. It felt a bit dumbed-down and beneath previous seasons, wherein Tywin might've talked strategy more cleverly.

They are also using somewhat gimmicky cinematic devices, like Tyrion narrating alternative attacks on Casterly Rock; and Sam emptying toilets, cut with him serving food.

Altogether, I am still enjoying it though. Some of the book's plotlines weren't conducive to the screen (e.g. Bran's). So, reducing time spent in the tedium there was good IMO.

OTOH, it feels a little rushed and more "obvious". Don't know if it's because they are so far from the books now or they are just trying to wrap it up.
There's a tweet dating back to 2014 [1] where he asks for a sample of Kronos.

A number of people have pointed out that would be taking the extremely ridiculously long game for an alibi - why would the author ask for a copy of his own code?

There's also little/no published information to back up the statement that he ever sold Kronos.

[1] https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/48837379416825446...
I'm still waiting for github to release some machine learning api that suggests bug fixes or possible changes based on changes-sets derived from github issues. They are sitting on SO MUCH DATA...
I believe it has stopped, or it had stopped a little bit before the acquisition. Other commentors indicated it has not trickled to Unity yet.

I am not up to date on the state of this in the latest Unity releases, I just know games I play on PS4 and OSX made with Unity stutter in places where they don't stutter on Windows.
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> I think you should try to be more civil on HN. You can't just bash someone because of their guess.

I asked politely, my friend. I'm suggesting your guess, leveled as an authoritative position, is misleading. Its you, taking my story away from me, asserting your narrative based strictly on preference. It's a narrative I disagree with, so I'm not inclined to let it slide.

It's crass to do this. There are many, MANY other ways you could have decided to open this subject. You could have related to YOUR experience, you could have asked for explanation of how these problems are perceived or surmounted. You could have simply expressed skepticism about the team size.

But you didn't. Here we are, on the wrong foot.

> I don't want to get into some argument with someone who feels he is the only guy capable of achieving a failure.

Then worry not! I am not: a guy, the only one capable of achieving, nor do I consider the product that made me a millionaire a failure.
Sounds like he may not have laundered it, just took the risk. As far as I know, there's not much proactive work in the US to ferret out illicit income on its own. It's typically some other activity that manually prompts a look into your finances.
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Which, all things considering, is ridiculous. People shouldn't be able to be convicted because they're assholes (even if they are).

I don't live in the US, but being convicted by a "jury of your peers" is frankly, ridiculous. When has the average person been able to grasp complex matters relating to say, securities fraud? Most people aren't even able to stay out of debt.

A panel of judges with specialised experience often makes a lot more sense than a jury.

Edit: and for those voting me down, at least explain why you don't agree.
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Well, the legal system's that state that buying and/or selling a restricted or illegal item is punishable by law. I'm not familiar with the laws of every jurisdiction on the planet in this particular manner.

I'll admit I'm assuming that in cases where it is illegal to possess the item it is also likely illegal to sell said item. But I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule.
Bumping the price of a drug is not illegal. Shkreli was found guilty for fraud unrelated to the drug price hike.
>deal with it

Why is his solution (suggesting the behavior is poor) a better implementation of "dealing with it" than your implied implementation (doing nothing)?
To where?
Because it's a partial agonist, it is almost impossible to overdose from buprenorphine alone. Narcan can be purchased OTC at many pharmacies for around $100.
Yes, take this for an example, if someone were to deliberately sell firearms to someone that they knew would attempt to murder someone with their firearm, do you think they should be partially liable for the murder?
Maybe he started it all, became the hero, withdrew his BitCoin balance and then tried to gamble it all to look like he won it legitimately at the casino in Vegas.

Can see a movie plot coming on...
If only we lived in this world.