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> they have backdoor-ed every ISP, nation, router, HDD, what-have-you in existence

This is exactly the kind of hyperbolic nonsense I'm talking about. You can't claim that every HDD in existence has an NSA-installed backdoor installed in it without providing any evidence.

If the NSA's capabilities were nearly as extensive as you're claiming, the US wouldn't need to bother maintaining a military. They could just remotely command all of North Korea's computers to shut themselves off, then sit back and wait around for their surrender.

I'm not saying mass surveillance isn't a problem, or even that the NSA doesn't have a backdoor installed in IME (I certainly don't have evidence to the contrary); just that people need to stop exaggerating the threat, or making claims about the NSA having compromised any specific system without providing any evidence to back those claims up.
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The size of the data taken seems large initially. However, the method/timeline of NK's op data exfiltration is an unknown in the story. I am curious of the details if ever available. Obviously if this is over a period of enough time and a proper transfer protocol or tricky entropy based method that much data may go unnoticed. The real concern would be network security and method exploit and breach into the network.
Many visual languages are limited to specific application types, but there are also general purpose ones.
As soon as you see “syscall translation”, those are the magic words and they mean that the support is pretty complete. Sure there might be edge cases but if glibc can make a Linux syscall and get good data back, that’s it.
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Are you saying he shouldn't do all the preparation and simple insurance precautions first? Your message doesn't make that clear.

OP says they have time. It would make sense to do proper packing and the simple photos and videos of the house.

I doubt anyone is saying to do this stuff if you're in serious imminent danger. And overall following what local authorities are saying is a good thing to do too. Perhaps there's a reason OP shouldn't leave right now. We don't know what's happening there.
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Thanks for asking! The thread's article links to NCBI which links to Taylor & Francis providing the paper. They charge for access to it, though. As I was interested in reading it, I searched for it on Google and found it on the aforementioned ReasearchGate site, accessible for free.

As I was not sure if free access to it is legal but I also wanted to enable others to find it, I named the name of the page allowing everyone with the paper's name to find it, without getting into trouble because of linking to it directly.
I'm not saying you need at least a 5500, I'm just saying it works for me and that's what I have.
True. Then again, all the protected creations are also artificial constructs.
I don't see how that's related to my comment. I'm not discussing whether IME is a good idea or not, I'm just objecting to the unsubstantiated claim that the NSA is involved in pushing it.
> Kaspersky has [...] actively pursued state actors that are hostile to Russian interest, for example The Equation Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group), which wouldn't be an organic part of the function or activities of a normal civilian cyber-security company.

According to that Wikipedia page, The Equation Group refers to "a collection of tools used for hacking". Targeting hacking tools seems to me exactly what a security software company should be doing.

>Such an "innocent" company would have no reason to get involved in cyberwarfare between state-actors, while Kaspersky is heavily involved in such activities and pouring considerable resources into them.

Even if we assume these tools can only target governments and not businesses or individuals, perhaps Kaspersky wishes to obtain contracts with the governments targeted. I don't see how this is particularly sinister or illegitimate.

> This is especially damning since they are clearly targeting state-actors that are antagonistic to Russian interest, such as the US (Equation Group) and its allies (Israel)

Your Wikipedia link states: "The Shadow Brokers announced that it had stolen malware code from the Equation Group [...] Exploits against Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances and Fortinet's firewalls were featured in some malware samples released by The Shadow Brokers [...] Juniper also confirmed that its NetScreen firewalls were affected. The EternalBlue exploit was used to conduct the damaging worldwide WannaCry ransomware attack."

Three American companies and vast numbers of individual users and civil government institutions around the world (including the UK Health Service). Are they all Russian interests?
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>>We hire the cheapest students to scrub dishes and carry food, for the lowest possible we can. If they argue, then we replace them with the ever available student market.

When I visited US I once has a small chat with a Indian student studying in the US. From what I heard an entire range of restaurants and grocery stores in the US run on super cheap slave wage labor, who work without complain. There is no scope to complain actually because there is always the next batch of those ever available student labor that could replace you.
This is a great idea, but I'm not sure of the legality in various jurisdictions.

The video has a disclaimer to only use this on one's home network for protection. However, less than a second later it is shown in a car, presumably for wardriving.

The text of the page says in passing that multiple attacks can be launched, yet only one is described. If I need to deauth people on my network, I think I'll do it myself.

Great idea, though! Thank you for sharing.
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Or, fire your QA team, who are insanely expensive manual test script running human robots.

Professional software developers have control of their code and don't shift the blame for their quality issues onto other teams.
From my wildland firefighting fiancé:

Cut down trees (not supposed to have them within 200 ft of house anyway). Dig a fire line and cover the house with soapy water. Turn on sprinklers on the way out.
That kickstarter is hilarious.

It's a scam.
>>I can think of at least 1 reason why Israel would hack Kaspersky...

Reason 4512F : Hamas leader uses Kasperky

and so on and on. AVs are in tens of millions of computers and have "license" to go looking for files, to take files out of the computer (talk back to the server) and firewalls let them through because you installed it. What more can you want?
Because you can control the unproductive majority with the UBI. You can threaten with taking away the UBI if they oppose you, which they may fear and keep quiet about whatever you do.
Holy shit, that's really impressive for QBasic. That was my first language, and I remember drawing/moving basic shapes around the screen. My magnum opus was a ray-tracing demo.

Well done! I'll add to my Steam list =]
I just purchased some life insurance with exactly the North Korean scenario in mind and I specifically asked the agent about the acts of war exclusion. He told me the company doesn’t have this exclusion, and most insurance companies don’t have it nowadays, and if they have it, it only applies to military personnel. Of course, everyone who buys insurance should check with their agent, not take my word for it.
--> is quite idiomatic way to write reverse loops, for example:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/275994/whats-the-best-wa...

http://www.ioccc.org if you are in the mood for some dirty dirty code
>Every event is like going to a wedding.

If you think Sydney investors are a tiny minority then try Melbourne. I stopped going to any startup events because I have become all too familiar with all the investors.

We got selected for "unpitch" in Victoria and cursory glance at investors revealed that I already met all the investors multiple times before
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Given that they haven't been charged, it's pretty likely there's more to this story.

Probably their best employee, his mom died...it was a mistake, a bad one but a mistake. Prosecutorial discretion.
Why must we make everyone fit the mold of a morning person. Working better in the afternoons/evenings is not a moral failing.
More common cars are easier to sell (or sell parts from) after stealing, and easier to avoid getting caught after stealing.

The act of stealing them may not be easier, but the enterprise of stealing them is.
I feel like these things could do a lot more harm than good if put in the wrong hands...
Who picks those sources - you or your phone's operating system vendor?
Sure -- fortunately on most Intel and AMD CPUs you have some level of control in isolating the host from mobile carriers and those acting as mobile carriers.
The Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis, of course.
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I notice that in the log of the recordings that it made, it specifically says "started by hotword."

If that had instead said "started by long press," I think this may have been easier to figure out as a button issue versus a voice recognition issue by the user.

Is that a fake static field in the log, or what?
I participated in high school policy debate for all four years of high school, and can relate to some of the criticism in the article. However, I find the parallels drawn by the author between debate and today's political atmosphere tenuous at best, and perhaps exaggerated. To me, the biggest educational value of high school policy debate was its blank slate nature and its openness to different evaluation paradigms.

By default, the convention was to apply a "policy maker" paradigm, in which the advantages of the plan affirming the resolution are weighed against the disadvantages brought up by the negative team, and the side with the most "weight" wins. Thus, it's natural that the arguments would eventually converge upon the scenarios with the most weight, i.e. those with the highest death tolls or biggest quantifiable impact on humanity. Nuclear war and climate change were argumentative staples in these types of debate rounds, and I even recall some cases where a policy maker judge, in his oral feedback, literally added up scenarios for each side to determine the winner.

Another convention is "silence means consent", which likely led to the practice of spreading to overwhelm your opponent with arguments so that any unanswered argument automatically gets granted as won. I feel like that practice is more an artifact of the way debates are structured with time limits and restrictions on only considering arguments that were continuously extended throughout the speeches in order to be considered as a valid "reason for decision". Coupled with a desired to quantify each argument in order to outweigh the opponent, I think this behavior is inevitable given the structure of the activity.

However, I feel that the open nature of the evaluation paradigm was a shining educational tool. Given the right judge (e.g. a debate coach, an experienced former debater, or a college debater), you had the option of advocating for any type of evaluation paradigm you wanted. You could open the debate up to meta topics such as whether the affirmative plan was "on topic" by nitpicking the definition of words in the resolution or arguing grammatical technicalities, and claiming that "non-topical" plans were damaging to debate as an activity and warrant a loss; you could attempt to compare the morality of certain scenarios against quantifiable death-toll scenarios, such as advocating that the moral obligation for overturning some court case to symbolize the eradication of racism against some group might outweigh any type of nuclear war scenario; you could even make arguments against the practice of "spreading", in the name of education, and demand that if the opposing team speaks too fast that would damage the educational value of debate and thus warrant a loss.

All and any of these arguments would've been valid, and I feel that provided valuable lessons in thinking outside the box, looking for technicalities, and optimizing approaches for playing the game.
In order to test if this breaks any silicon workarounds, someone should run comprehensive benchmarks on their CPU pre and post-IME disabling.
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Great job, this is something that I'd definitely use -
especially when I can't be bothered with installing extra gems.
My friends brother was hospitalized around 2 years ago after getting into one, he’s fine now. I’ve had a number of drunk angry people try to start things with me and my friends, but we’re all too polite and apologetic to get into a fight.

One guy, who very drunkenly threw a punch at a friend (and missed) for unknowingly taking his chair even told us that his mother had just died and he only went out to the bar to punch somebody.
You can find it in my code :)

I tried very hard to understand the draw that other people had to object-oriented programming, and it never took. It seems to me much leaner to use functions and associative arrays.

I spend a lot of time designing both. I try first of all to give functions good names: not too long yet telling. Then I fiddle with the arguments: their number, order, and names. And then for associative arrays I spend some time figuring out the best structure for them for easy use by everything else.

Maybe it's just because I write CRUD web apps. Most the processing is done in SQL. Then it's a matter of wrapping the resultant data in an HTML template. I write as little of my app in PHP as possible.

Of course with the HTML there is often JavaScript, another chance to get complicated. But I have tried the single-page application thing and found that the app was actually slower than my past apps, which were written in the ROCA style (http://roca-style.org/). So back to the ROCA style I went, where just using jQuery here and there doesn't get as unwieldy.
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> Really easy to click together something simple but as soon as you have loops, conditionals or threading it gets really complex.

Which you're going to have in any non-trivial program.

This is a problem specific to particular dataflow languages. I've solved it without adding complexity.

Loops: http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/fmj/tutorials/Iteration.html

Conditionals: http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/fmj/tutorials/Conditional.html

Some non-trivial code: http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/fmj/tutorials/GregorianCalendar...

MIMD programming is built into the language at its deepest level, so threads aren't an issue.
How arrogant. There are 2 points:

1. If people can get a lot of money just by working hard, why don't they already have a lot of money, but rely on the UBI?

2. For people that's really poor and can only live on UBI, well, more money is never a bad thing, but they can live without the money. That's what they had been doing all this time after all.
I've setup a few (more or less standard) data warehouses in Redshift. Prefer SQL for data exploration.

That being said, I've used GDS for a few months now, and it has a lot of mid-market potential, since it pulls data from Google Analytics, Adwords, & Youtube out of the box, and, is completely free.

I say "mid-tier" because, for large-scale but relatively simple use-cases (I work on a v. large e-commerce site for a large multi-national, some scale but not the most complex setup I've worked with). While you're "in the ecosystem", you're abstracted from a number of complex issues, like data quality, ingestion jobs, ETL, normalization, etc. HUGE deal for a lot of folks transitioning "into the big leagues".

Commercial-off-the-shelf solutions for a lot of the products companies use are supported by the big ETL startups (Fivetran, Alooma, Stitch Data) to BigQuery.

I think their long term goal is to get these mid-tier folks in and standardized on BigQuery. In the future this may become more competitive with Redshift.

It makes sense. They own the bottom tier. Every team gets started these days by getting good at Google Analytics. Then they outgrow it, and move "out of the ecosystem". Eventually, they may be able to build out an ecosystem around BigQuery for data scientists and data science teams, but filling that gap could make them a ton of money.

UX isn't quite where I would like it, but it's getting better. Some small details make the interface confusing, but that's par the course in this domain.

1/ Getting data in is fine, but you're using BQ. Personal preference that is not my favorite tool.

2/ To my knowledge Google Cloud offers the same guarantees and promises as AWS

3/ Authoring is very easy. Perhaps too easy (I would say this is probably one of the best mid-range tools for data vis. I wouldn't say it wins on a feature-by-feature comparison to PowerBI or Tableau).

4/ Partial (limited extent, but w/o writing SQL)

5/ Partial, but not to the extent you would want in a paid tool in this category. Again, no SQL (this is probably a win for some folks, and a minus for others)

6/ Yes. Although it's more like Filters on a whole dashboard or multiple pages of reports in a project.

7/ I've done custom binning, trailing time periods, pretty much everything I would do on a routine basis for data exploration. However, there's no SQL chart authoring, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's something I'm missing here.

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Bottom line, if you're mid-tier it's a great free tool to try, especially if you're just a data scientist looking to do something fancy for a Marketing team with Marketing data, who hasn't really been exposed to rigorous analysis in the past. You could easily do the type of exploration to make good decisions about building an attribution model, for example.

Would meet the needs of 99% of companies I've consulted for, if it wasn't for BQ vs. Redshift.
The recent Vietnam War PBS documentary covers the Mayday protest as one of many different protests as public opinion turned against American involvement against the war. Whether the tide turned because the protests were leading or trailing public opinion is probably arguable. There were also signficant organized violent counter protesters in favor of the war/against the antiwar protesters. A bit of the info in the documentary is covered in The Fog of War but it's pretty interesting for the similarities to today. Also, there was a Vietnam vets against the war protest in DC immediately preceding the Mayday protest that the administration specifically did not oppose with police/national guard in order to not generate positive press/sympathy for the antiwar effort.
Interesting story— but I’m not seeing the “why“ here. You don’t move 100TB between providers without a compelling business case.
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Yes. I find it annoying in these threads how people refuse to acknowledge that we have much stronger rule of law in the west. Even though it's flawed and abused, every rational actor prefers our system.
Education as well (in the "small minority" classification). I knew someone who worked at a VR-edtech startup, building digital "lessons".
Where can I find a decent primer for programming Artificial Intelligence?
I have about 5 years of coding experience, some of which includes python.

I want to get more involved in the AI space, and eventually make a career move towards that area.

What are some good books/videos/resources a coder with some experience can use to learn AI?
From the website, pretty hard to figure out exactly what's different about it.

From the looks, is it something like AWS's QuickSight?
Don't invest in quantum 'revert back to beginning'.......... i thought this would be like adventure capitalist where you keep all your technology. i was wrong. it restarted me back to the beginning with nothing. FCUKKKKK
Other than the Commodore 64 that was entry level and about to crash, the winners of the first half of the 80s were IBM then Apple: https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/4/
(Scroll to bottom for graph.)

The Amiga should have been a factor by ‘85, if there was parental supervision over there. ;)
Using this is against federal law in the US, so I suppose buyer beware.

Edit: source https://transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf

Edit 2: selling and marketing it is also against federal law, and the seller appears to be a US resident with credentials listed in the Kickstarter. Facepalm.
Doesn't that strategy only work when you're paginating one page at a time, like Reddit?

How would you implement a deep pagination like "go to page 107" unless you can derive page 107 from your order criteria?
Why would they be done for? If they are basically funded by the FSB then they can't really die, no? Or is it more that it's over to them wrt running in the USA in general
4 is best, by far.

I look romantically at my time as a doorman for a dive bar, especially now as a software developer, haha.

Seriously, I do pride myself in the fact I went to school full time while working at the bar as often as any other employee - 5 nights a week, for over a year.

Pair this with the fact we threw many dozens of people out on my watch without any serious interpersonal altercations. Yes people broke stuff, etc.

But mostly it was about communicating an out.

They were told to leave, first off, and that was in all senses, nonnegotiable.

But, 19 out of 20 times, they were just too drunk to be there. So I always let them know it was no big deal, come back tomorrow night or whatever. Just not now. Downplay it.

If it seemed they didn't want the fun to end, I would slyly make the suggestion to try other places, or to go eat.

I would work with their friends also if possible. Friends sometimes do the physical stuff for you if needed.

Kicking out whole groups is easy usually, as you can sort of stoke the group dynamic to dislike the bar for the perceived injustice. The ones who actually like the bar come back and apologize later in time.

Drunks will bait you, etc. which should be treated as comedy. There is really never a reason to initiate physicality. Certainly not without help either.
There is no such thing. Every demographic gets discriminated against in some way or another, in ways that are not always directly comparable. Self-victimization, I'm sure, will be of great help.
Google isn't giving out Android source code out of the goodness of their hearts. It's a business decision. They also have decreased the amount of code that is open source if you measure things in a certain way (everyone has their bias). Since more and more Google services and apps are central to Android normally, those aren't open source. I think even certain standard apps aren't open source anymore.

We can appreciate open source software while still being aware of why it is happening. We shouldn't just be blindly grateful. That can end up biting us.
ROKRAT nice North Korean malware
I'm sad it doesn't have the best pencil and paper game, where mostly you write something down in secret and say "done":
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Exactly, that's why the responsible gun owner just protecting themselves is a myth, most times they are needed for self defense you won't have quick enough access if you are storing them responsibly.
Oh so wrong about what, exactly?
Sure. I was just trying to come up with the simplest possible thing as a counter to the author's "it's too hard to fix vulnerabilities in existing spreadsheet programs" assertion. Microsoft and Google could probably bang out a dialog like that in a week if they were motivated.
Did they really acquire 600,000 images for training data by scanning books by hand? How long did that take?
Aren't the A chips Apple make really good?

And are the cameras really inferior?