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So, I'm gonna lay it out here as I am having a bad day and don't feel like censoring myself. I'd known Adrian since 1998. He came to 2600 meetings in SF and was a fixture there. In that time, he generally didn't make any friends. While he was gay, he was also stalking a lady at the meetings, and being super creepy about it. Eventually, he left SF and was homeless. He got in trouble for hacking the NYT and making himself some Lexis Nexis accounts. He then reported Chelsea Manning to the authorities when she reached out to him, connected because of their shared LGBTQ background.

Lamo screwed Manning big time, but when he did, none of us who knew him were surprised. He was never a happy person, and never friendly to anyone I knew. I think his folks threw him out of the house in his teens.

Kind of a tragic figure, but also not really someone you could ever trust or even invite to parties. When anyone dies, it's sad. But with Adrian, he had already basically removed himself from the groups who knew him long ago. He was just seemingly not comfortable being in society and making friends.
I have read almost all his answers on quora. And from all that, one thing is there which i know for sure, that he was a good man. Rip.
This is a somewhat misleading title. The car was intentionally set to cruise control by the owner, but the cruise control could not be turned off until Mercedes remotely found a way to disable it about 100km later.
Snitching has a very specific definition here, i think: it's telling on someone to power. You can't snitch on the US government's secret abuses of power because the people deserve to know.
I'm not sure what is more disturbing here, the fact that the car had such a dangerous malfunction in the first place, the fact that there was no reliable hardware-based mechanism to bring it safely to a halt when the software failed catastrophically, or the fact that the service team could remote in and take control of the vehicle. Everything about this is not just bad in itself but betrays a more fundamental lack of safe and secure design.
"Traitor" is a pretty powerful word. A more realistic way to look at it is that someone—using a persistent method of communication—told him that they had committed a very serious crime¹, and he then had to choose between covering it up or going to the police. Covering it up or ignoring it could have meant he was an accessory.

¹ Whether it should be a serious crime or not is irrelevant here.
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He had been involuntarily held more than once, and described his diagnosis of Asperger's to more than one publication. There were questions about the story he told, though, based on records not matching up with his narrative; this, to me, indicated a man not well, who needed help more than anything. I hope he was getting it.

That said, I think it's inappropriate to speculate, particularly when the circumstances likely involve mental health. We should really just celebrate Adrian and send our best to those who survive him, as well as take the opportunity to mention that mental health is extremely important in our line of work (and not!) and you should never feel bad for seeking help or fall victim to the stigma. Code can wait; you and your brain can't.

Tragic loss, way too young.
That headline is misleading. I read it as them controlling it for 1 hour which wasn't the case.

I am a little surprised that the brakes didn't work. Are brakes "fly-by-wire" now? Otherwise you should be able to slam the brakes even if the car is full throttle. I have tried this with several cars and the brakes we always stronger than the engine.
Interestingly this has nothing to do with self driving. Though, if the dealer could control is remotely why did it take an hour to do so?
Glad you found them helpful.

I might also suggest meditation and using the Headspace app to get started :) I found doing just 10 minutes a day helped me through a stressful period.
People really were put in danger. The Taliban targeted Afgan nationals revealed in the documents to be associating with the US. From a Taliban spokesperson: "We will investigate through our own secret service whether the people mentioned are really spies working for the U.S. If they are U.S. spies, then we know how to punish them." [1]

I like freedom of information, but what Manning did was simply irresponsible. There was no filter on the documents released. Release all the reports of us torturing and murdering, sure. But don't go around telling the Taliban exactly which families risked their lives to help the counterinsurgency.

[1]: http://www.newsweek.com/taliban-says-it-will-target-names-ex...
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He had claimed CYA, because he assumed he was being watched. If I recall there were a few conspiracy theories at the time because He had recently been arrested, and then put on psychiatric medication as a result.
This is not a recent thing. Turkey has been topping the incarcerated journalists per capita list for years.
This makes me want less software control in my vehicle. Ideally none.
The article's philosophical discussion of "surprise" feels a little klunky and academic to me, and I think conflates some different kinds of surprise, but it's still really fun to think about.

Many of the projects here are all inspired by Karl Sims' work in the early 90's.

http://www.karlsims.com/

Sims evolved virtual creates by specifying goals to achieve and then running a physics simulation. He noted at the time that the evolution process was great at exploiting bugs in the simulation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgG_VSP7f8

I was insipred enough by Sims' genetic images (http://www.karlsims.com/genetic-images.html) that I spent a few years trying to get surprising and beautiful results of my own, with some limited success (https://flic.kr/s/3Xoz).
With US-China tensions on the rise, China's space program steadily progressing, and profits from asteroid mining on the horizon (with the associated national interests to secure and protect profits), space exploration is bound to profit again from this dynamic. It is indeed no coincidence that all the major space programs got interesting again all at the same time.
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What do you mean? What's the difference between a fork and a branch? It's not copying anything.
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Decentralized doesn't necessarily mean peer to peer. In the case of git, it simply means users work with a local repository that can easily be synchronized with another repository. A team contributing to the kernel could very well use github to do so, change their mind and switch their remote to bitbucket and continue the work there. If bitbucket exploded, they could set up their own remote, push any of the local copies and use that. If their internet connections exploded they could print patches and mail them to each other. Then when they're back online and done with their change, they can create a patch file and mail that to Torvalds.

But that's all besides the point. The point is that if you don't want your code laying around where you have no control over it and don't trust your contract and the law to be enough of a deterrent, you shouldn't give people copies of it and probably reconsider what kind of contractor you're willing to work with, rather than loading the term "fork" with an additional meaning.
Totally agreed. Why can't he just slam the brakes? I thought they are supposed to be stronger than the engine?!
Littering is a petty crime.

Illegal dumping is scum of the earth stuff.
My list in reverse chronological order:

baumol's cost disease,

Chesterton's fence,

Berkson's paradox,

goodhart's law/Campbell's law,

Gell-Mann Amnesia affect,

Ship of Theseus,

The Zeigarnik effect,

Conway's law,

selection bias

heffindal index,

Betteridge's law of head lines,

survivorship bias,

bayes theorem

black swan,

Dunbar number,

Anscombe's quartet,

false positive/false negative,

fundamental attribution bias,

type 1 type 2 thinking,

grok,

simpson's paradox,

Hawthorne effect,

dunning kruger,

Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon,

flynn effect,

Moving the overton window,
His stated reason was that Manning was putting lives in danger due to not filtering the documents released whatsoever. This included revealing the identities of Afghan nationals which had been friendly with the counterinsurgency. These nationals were then targeted by Taliban. See my sibling comment for more.
Why couldn't you just hit the ignition to turn the engine off?
here's a documentary featuring Adrian prominently. This is the best you'll see Adrian, because some time after this film he went on (or off?) his meds, betrayed Chelsea Manning and various other things shitty humans do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYN6JuQGGX0

Hackers Wanted.
Manning is no hero, let's not go overboard. At best, she made a well-intentioned but horribly reckless mistake.
What sort of loss of privacy would an Enterprise account experience in Office or gsuite?
> Kids, don't be a snitch.

I hope you don't give your kids that advice when they see someone at school with a gun in their backpack.
Some people at least read through many sources on the same issue, maybe they're all in English but some will dig deep into sources and from multiple points of view.

I think it's possible to do, just takes time.
> Index funds aren't just boring, there is something morally abhorrent

Hyperbole much? There's plenty of capitalist spirit in placing your trust in the outcomes of markets. Specialization is a perfectly rational economic decision, and requires you not specialize in other things. There's no reason to believe a medical doctor for example is going to excel at active investing, or that society would be better off if we required it.

The wonderful thing about markets is that we can all benefit from the specialization of others. Specialization (and competition) produces cheap pencils, cheap food, and even stocks that are closer to fairly valued. It is a fundamental misallocation of human capital -- I'm better off further pursuing specialization in server administration than trying to stare at stocks and newsfeeds to separate information from noise.
huh? so like, don't use open source libraries?
New cars these days don't all have this option: electronic starters have keyless ignition, activated when the key is nearby.

http://www.worldwidemotors.com/blog/how-to-use-push-button-s...

Personally, I'm concerned there is no manual brake override.

If I drove a Mercedes I'd test using manual ignition, maybe pulling the key out would stop the car.
On a personal note, a year or two before that happened Adrian helped my family recover our AOL/AIM accounts after they were compromised. Someone got control of the master account for all my family's AOL accounts, which we created back in ~1995. Because we hadn't been paying customers for over a decade, AOL was unresponsive to support requests. One of my acquaintances knew Adrian though, and got him in touch with me and my mom. Adrian still knew a bunch of people at AOL, and got them to restore access to our accounts and flagged them for an extra layer of security. I remember thanking him on the phone and him replying, "I strive to provide better service than the people I hack."

It was a fun story to tell until the news came out, at which point I stopped.
I don't believe lack of notability needs any explanation at all. It's the default. I have plenty of [anecdotal] evidence that exceptional skill is one of many factors that might contribute to notability. Other factors include networking or self-promotion, timing, and chance. Being a lurker type myself, I've encountered many fellow lurkers in forums over the last 20 years, who demonstrated astounding expertise, but are afaik almost completely unknown in my industry. I can think of many more people who actually are at the top of the industry, but are relatively unknown simply because they do not give talks, blog, or write books. In case it wasn't obvious, my personal hypothesis is that SN was simply a very skilled lurker in the cypherpunk scene. I doubt he was Finney, Dai, or Szabo, but I suspect he was someone who, like myself, was well aware of them and hung out in the same forums and lists.
There is nothing comparable to Powerpoint's ease of layout in the open-source world sadly.
Brakes are fly-by-wire on new cars because slamming the brake is not the most optimal strategy for stopping the car as fast as you can. And it can also damage the car.
> On the other hand, he was a traitor, and he betrayed the trust of a true hero

I used to agree with this but honestly, the second Manning contacted him, he was complicit with the crime being committed and would have been sent to the same horrible hole Manning was sent to. It was irresponsible of Manning to put Lamo in this situation, as an ex-convict he would have gotten life in prison, probably solitary confinement if not worse. I don't think I can blame Lamo for doing what he did. It was a horrible situation for both of them. When you're about to commit a crime as severe as treason or murder, you don't call a friend or let alone a stranger and tell him "I'm about to commit the most severely punished crime in the country, could you advise me please?" and expect that person to be complicit.
The ribbon has a software patent, if I remember correctly. Although it's a UI element, so I'm not sure if it's enforceable?
well the US is predicated on the principle that the power of the government is derived from the people, so in principle (and ultimately de facto) the people of the US have more power than the government, and telling on the abuses of power is a means to get the problem rectified (or else why would Manning have done it?)
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But they didn't live very long, they died from natural catastrophes, they lived extremely simple lives and most likely in complete ignorance of the world around them, weren't that many of them, if an asteroid had come to hit them they would be wiped out with any chance of doing anything about it and most of importantly, don't live in a world like that any because the same humans that the book seems to glorify evolved into us. So that's kind of a moot point. Also keep in mind it's the same kind of bushmen that would use fire to burn huge parts of vegation.

The fact is that we have gotten increasingly better and better at converting the earth's resources into serving our needs and have been able to effectively optimize and improve our ability to get more out of less. Most importantly wherever you see humans flourish and get wealthy enough the environment improve because we start to care about it and get the power to do something about it.

Humans didn't use to live in harmony with nature, they used to live in fear of nature. Mother nature is brutal to humans and it's only because we have gotten better and better at controlling it that humans could flourish.

I am unconvinced that minimizing our impact on nature is the moral thing to do and unconvinced that what we are doing right now is by any metrics worse than what those bushmen did. Too many people romanticize humans relationship with nature.
hmm.. joy?
But when you're being a snitch, don't snitch out the people that were snitches for you. Manning released the identities of Afghan nationals who helped the counterinsurgency, leading to their deaths at the hands of the Taliban.
I'm not sure how much i believe a post from facebook from
"People's Daily, China". The video can for sure be named: "Police high speed chase through toll booth"
He was Magus on aol https://mattmazur.com/2010/06/26/adrian-lamo-aol-files-profi...
> Kids, don't be a snitch.

No good group of people has that rule. I've seen/heard about that rule so far from the mafia, drug dealers, and bad cops.
The solution is

> endofthelinenineninenine

every one of your obervations was correct (btw I got to know the tabula recta as vigenere square [1])

kcovjgfktgevgf was the key for noqinylndnqysmwfacvjrrfj\n (and \n is indeed endoftheline)

I used an online vigenere chiffre "applet" (ok it is javascript so not really an applet but who cares) and I got an off by one (just define the alphabet as bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza or use jbnuifejsfdufe as the key)

PS. Without tor you can use [3] and thx for making me waste that 5 minutes :D it was fun

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_recta

[2] https://cryptii.com/vigenere-cipher

[3] https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion.link
Thanks for opening up. How much weight do you put in the theories (stated in other comments) that Adrian thought he was under FBI surveillance, and reported Manning's leaks out of fear?
Memory related bugs (buffer overruns etc.) are the reason for most security bugs. Rust avoids these entire class of bugs. Yes, bad programmers can write bad code in any language, but you'd have to be really bad to cause memory related bugs in Rust.
>That said, Sheets is no replacement for Excel nor is the performance on par for complex and dynamic sheets.

I don't think anyone, not even Google, is saying Sheets is a pure replacement for Excel. That said, like 99% of people who use Excel could get by or do better with Sheets.

Excel is crazy powerful, but not everyone needs complex i-banker programmer level power for running a simple program management sheet. And that's the issue GSuite is addressing. Excel is a one size fits all solution, like a shirt that can fit both an infant and a 1200lb gorilla.
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I think it does miss out on some aspects of Mr. Rogers's humanity, though. I think it's harder to learn from abstract characters.
The handbrake / e-brake are all electronic and “break-by-wire” on many new vehicles. Many hybrids also use break by wire for their main breaks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake-by-wire
I only had a couple run-ins with him online, but this doesn't surprise me at all. I've been an administrator on the English Wikipedia for over a decade now, and used to have a bit of a high profile on there. He would privately contact me occasionally trying to get me to make questionable edits to Wikipedia on his behalf. He came off as smarmy, manipulative, and his messages would occasionally veer into oddly sexual, inappropriate territory. I was sort of in awe of his "hacker" status at the time, which was why I put up with it for as long as I did, though I did eventually stop responding to him. This was well before the Manning stuff.
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Having also been there, this was not my experience. The IRS sent me a bill for $1500 claiming I had taken an early deduction from my IRA. I had, but it was only to correct a mistake I made right before of contributing too much for a given year. I filed paperwork with my brokerage at the time to reflect this, but apparently the IRS didn't get that.

I replied to the bill with the relevant paperwork and a 1 page letter explaining what happened, and the IRS agreed I did not actually owe them anything. No lawyer required.
It’s a pain in the ass. I built one for a steganography thesis and the psychoacoustic model is really what made it difficult.

The psychoacoustic model took more time on its own to code than the PCM splitting, MDCT, windowing and Huffman coding.

It’s a fun project however painful. There’s a MP3 encoder from the early 90s floating around that you can use as a base if you can fix the legacy code. I can’t remember the name though, sorry.
Frankly, Docs, Sheets, and Slides are nowhere even close to Word, Excel, and Powerpoint in terms of feature set and usability. Sheets especially, but even in Docs and Slides I'll run into things I can't do.

Where the G-Suite apps really shine, though, is in collaboration. If I'm working by myself on something, I'll likely do it in Office just because that's where I'm most comfortable. But literally everything I write for work happens in G-Suite (mostly Docs, occasionally Slides), because Google makes simultaneous, real-time collaboration easy and seamless. That's something Office is only just starting to figure out (and too late).
Honestly, I can't comment on that. I know Adrian was a SERIOUSLY good social engineer, and a fair to middling hacker. The chat logs show Adrian going very in depth with Chelsea, so if he thought the FBI was watching, he was purposefully giving them a good show.
May be the (designed) logic flaw. My guess is on a safety override that painted itself into a corner. For example, no remote override of a cruise control while moving.
That's a generous take. A less generous take is that he fancied having his name in Wired again.
Local software (Office can still be run local only, I presume) vs cloud software?
In case you see this, can you please point me to any resources /books on a non-overly simplified way to explain the roots of corruption in Latin American countries?
Come on, man. His body's not even cold and it was well-known that he was experiencing mental health issues, potentially his entire life, including discovering he suffered from Asperger's after an involuntary hold (that he described himself). Your venting isn't actually far from that diagnosis making sense. Is this really the time and place for this?
> I used to agree with this but honestly, the second Manning contacted him, he was complicit with the crime being committed

Are you sure this is true? You don't have a duty to report anything just because you become knowledgeable of it. Mere knowledge doesn't make you complicit.
And to be honest I'd rather he snitch than contribute to a culture of cronyism that's all too prevalent in the world.

Like, discovering that a friend of yours committed a serious crime and then keeping it a secret is the very definition of corruption. If we, as a society, are going to move past corruption and cronyism, then we have to accept this kind of snitching, because it's the only way to defeat corruption.

For that matter, do you want to end a culture of people being sexually assaulted at frat parties in full view of dozens of people because none of the witnesses will go to the authorities? Then normalize snitching.
>This entire topic is a convenient rebranding that distracts from the apparent gross negligence of the administrators of these critical systems.

Ok, Ivan.
I'd choose damaging the car over this scenario any day.
Is that the correct usage of 'at best'? Isnt that just minimizing the range of discussion? Shouldnt the objective range be: At best, she's a hero. At worst, she's a villain.
Yet android is distributed in a way leaves users with even less control than Windows.
That organisation would have as its only job to make sure all other government organisations get this right. It should be able to work when that's their only responsibility.
No - ABS works without drive-by-wire, and was available in cars for decades before DBW systems were.
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Actually, I feel my comment is about as even handed as I could muster. Aspergers or not, he hurt a lot of people.
Could be. I haven’t researched it but my impression is that off the shelf ATS is quite expensive.
I heard about this on NPR yesterday afternoon. In their interview, this bit of misinformation was specifically called out:

> Now, there's been a little bit of misinformation about this study. Scott is still Mark Kelly's identical twin. And he did not have 7 percent of his genes altered by space travel.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/594062986/nasa-study-finds-as...