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> SEGA engineers knew that MIL-CD booting could be used as an attack vector so they added a protection.

> The mashed potatoes problem was solved when a Katana SDK (the official Sega SDK for the Dreamcast) was stolen[6] by the hacking team "Utopia" in late 1999. It turned out that the scrambler was nothing more than "security through obscurity".

I doubt this was security through obscurity. Most likely, it was hard (or impossible) to burn a GD-ROM for internal testing. Thus, this mechanism was probably used to burn games onto CDR for internal testing.

I haven't seen anything that explains how scrambling and descrambling work; but it's important to understand that, at a certain level, all encryption is "security by obscurity." It just comes down to how easy or hard it is to figure out how to bypass. In this case, hacking to get ahold of the scrambler is no different than getting ahold of the private part of a key pair.

Edit:

> SEGA quickly released a DC v2 which disabled MIL-CD altogether but unfortunately damage had been done. With revenues plummeting and the PS2 ogre coming out, developers abandoned the Dreamcast and SEGA retired from the hardware manufacturing business in order to focus on software.

I also wonder if disabling this system was "the straw that broke the camel's back?" If I were a developer and it suddenly became much harder to test, I'd probably think very critically if it's "worth it" to jump through so many hoops for such a small market.
So many people here compare this to GDPR...

I can recommend everyone to just read the EU website on GDPR: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

they write the official website in understandable language, in plain and simple English, not in weird lawyer talk. They have examples for companies as well. What to do, how to act etc..

Forming your opinion about these laws based on what the big American data companies tell you about it is about the same as asking tobacco companies what they think about health laws.

It really isn't that hard to just take 30 minutes and read the website from the EU. Literally every comment here talking about 'stupid old lawmakers that don't understand the internet' has not even read the bloody document. I've seen Youtube comment sectioned that were better informed than HN about this.
> A young Carl Sagan was part of the team responsible for predicting the effects of a nuclear explosion in vacuum and low gravity and in evaluating the scientific value of the project.

I would be interested in their research on this, from a purely curious standpoint.
If they are wrong about this, they can be wrong about anything.

Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
And just to point out, there are others that do sell this as part of their business model, so kudos to Plaid for trying to find another way.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2018/07/22/mastercar... (Another "Forbes Contributor" article, so grain of salt on the details)
I would just really like to emphasize this:

Also stop watching the tech news and thinking that you have to do something bleeding edge and make a dent in the universe, it is all bullshit. People are just doing their job, you can be a hard working person in any context, not only as a CEO. If this is what you want.
> Go is in the same bag as C++/C#/Java, Rails is in the same bag as PHP & [Symfony/Laravel].

Go is in the same bag as C++/C#/Java/Ruby/PHP (languages)

Rails is in the same bag as Symfony/Laravel (frameworks)
The billion-dollar battle to share your personal financial information to even more unaccountable third parties.
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Yea, sorry. Earlier in the abstract it mentioned sodium hypochlorite then I didnt read closely: "Strong sodium hypochiorite solutions achieve inactivation but other chlorine-releasing compounds are less effective"

Usually there is some sodium hydroxide in standard sodium hypochlorite bleach solution as well though, perhaps that explains why they reported it is the most effective of the chlorine bleaches.
The first step of getting a critical mass on the other side of the encryption line is a slow stream of people migrating and seeing no immediate benefit.

This defeatist attitude is something the surveillance companies have taught you to have. Stemming the tide is possible.
Kudos to Francesco and the guys at Erlang Solutions for their outstanding work in the open source high concurrency field!
Thanks William, and sorry for the wrong accusation. Super embarrassed; I read so many comments on that thread I must've conflated two.
It apparently wasn't the first time these reporters had gone off the rails.[1]

[1]https://twitter.com/RobertMLee/status/1049617855396933632
In medieval Europe, AFAIK trades were regulated by guilds. You couldn't just become a blacksmith, the job was hereditary. And the prices of goods were set by the guilds. I'm far from an expert on the matter, and I'm sure I'm painting the era with a very broad brush here. The point is, I don't think you can compare being a craftsman in previous ages to being self-employed today.
There was actually a trick for the PlayStation that allowed you to play pirated games without any hardware mods. It involved starting a game with the CD case open, and using your finger to stop the CD from spinning at certain points. I was quite young at the time and never mastered the method, and we got a hardware mod for the console at a later point.
Oh sure, that's what we need backup for, some random comment on a social news site. Not some hardware firm's claims that they haven't been hacked, nor some news media firm's claims that they were.
I'm not that up on Intel at the moment. Why are they stuck at more iterations of the lake architecture with little changes?

What was the plan "A"?
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The big news is that Voyager 2 should be experiencing more interstellar medium than atmosphere from our star at this point. It will still be a while before it could be said to truly "leave the Solar System" if you consider gravitational influence to be a factor. There are objects still orbiting our star at more than a light year away for example (Oort cloud).
Trend Micro ???
The good ol' brewing the poison and selling the cure. I thought racketeering was outlawed?
> fractionally less efficient

std::function can potentially allocate memory and hides stuff behind a vtable, e.g. two indirections. That's not what I would call "frationally less efficient".
What were the consequences of running bitcoin stories as the bubble peaked? A couple rich journalists no doubt.
It was basically deprecated as a file manager, in favour of Dolphin, and all-around de-emphasized. It started lagging in development efforts. I have not really followed after about 4.2 (iirc), but at that time it already looked fairly dead in the water, at least in the attitudes emanating from the project.
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From outside San Francisco, it looks like SV is a giant circle jerk of these exact problems you're talking about. I'm actually much more likely to believe that a startup elsewhere in the US is focusing on the important things because they're less likely to be influenced by that culture.
Not hands off - just not spoon feeding. Manager A lets experts be experts and be creative and take responsibility but gives guidance and guidelines.

But experts are fallible, and distractions are many, and sometimes even experts get lazy or confused or overwhelmed.
I think the sales-bro culture is much more prevalent outside of SF. I can only speak for Chicago, but having interacted with a number of 'startup' companies here, there is an obvious lack of engineering talent and an abundance of sales people ready to hit the phones. The sales guys all come from massive companies and want to work at a startup, and are sold on a pseudo startup culture; for them, its a dream come true.
I was considering the cheapest plan on Fastmail even though it's more than double the cost of Posteo, mainly because of the number of aliases Fastmail provides. But this recent development and my discomfort with what's been happening in the U.S. (Fastmail's servers are in the U.S.) have made it easier to look beyond Fastmail.

It looks like governments in democratic countries around the world have decided that they must deny privacy (despite the Universal Declaration of Human Rights having an article on privacy [1]) and have control over who's talking to who, when, where, how (what apps/platforms they use), how often, and about what. All these laws and lawless surveillance is very disturbing. Except for some courts of law (and in certain cases the whims of the judges), the public at large is at a big risk, both by being kept ignorant and by activists being silenced.

On email, if custom domain support is not a must, I would recommend Posteo.de. For custom domains, providers like mailbox.org, mailfence and runbox might work. I wouldn't recommend ProtonMail or Tutanota because they make porting email data to another provider cumbersome and impossible, respectively (IMAP support in ProtonMail is through a bridge application, while there is no IMAP support in Tutanota).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy#Universal_Dec...
Something like that happening would be an even juicier story than the one they published. I totally buy that some people in the government lied to some credulous reporters to get a false story they wanted out there. But there are tons of reporters out there, some of them are easy to trick, and leaning on reporters is likely to trigger their Woodward and Bernstein fantasies and result in some huge blowback. I'm not going to say that I find the level of incompetence you're assigning impossible, just that I find it unlikely.
Where did I say anything close to "climate change is not real"?

My very first sentence in this thread is regarding "the possible grand solar minimum", an example of a phenomenon that would (supposedly) lead to climate change.
The expensive superficiality of M.F.A. programs
CBS Killian Papers pretty much. There have been some significant examples but there actually aren’t that many cases of a major pub running a “scoop” that no other major pub runs with as well that turns out to be flat out wrong.

There are certainly examples of mainstream media as a whole getting behind a story like lead-up to Iraq War but this is something different.
There was an active Usenet news group for Dreamcast binaries and that would have almost all content available.
I'm interested to see where this goes. I use Plaid as a developer, and it feels like the user experience keeps getting worse. This isn't Plaid's fault, but as more and more financial institutions require 2FA, it gets much less automatic for Plaid to scrape data.

Instead of just seeing updated transactions, users frequently need to enter a 2FA code before Plaid can successfully complete the update. This is very clunky, especially if you've linked 10+ accounts. Hopefully, Plaid (or even government regulations) will be able to encourage banks to create real APIs and Plaid can move away from scraping entirely.
> but these tools have a strong added value, so...

Strong added value to who? If Google Analytics disappeared tomorrow do you think the average internet user would be at all impacted?

Remember, GDPR is about protecting the user.
Tldr:

> This provides a "higher cognitive point" from which to decline, say the researchers.

> However, engaging in intellectually stimulating activities on a regular basis was linked to level of mental ability in old age.
A study showed that if they wired two mice's circulatory systems together, one with Alzheimer's and one without, the second one would eventually develop everyone's favorite brain plaques.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151909-alzheimers-may-...

So while wiring together two bloodstreams is a bit extreme, and likely to result in most things being transmissible, there's nonzero evidence that you can have a bad day from a blood transfusion.
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The Toronto startup scene is exactly like this. All of the negatives and no upside.

My last company didn't allow me to work in my off hours. Paid below market, needy owner wanted to be part of the developer team so he checks in untested code at 3am.. mornings were fixing those commits.

It's a culture issue maybe weaker real technical visions with ownership which creates 'medium' driven culture where everyone must be a sterotype.

You are better off working for a small business. Entity in most cases should be ignored.
Are all this people going to bill Bloomberg for the costs of the tests? They prob should
Can anyone point to a list of apps/services that use this?

For privacy reasons, I'd prefer to avoid anything of the sort.
My interest in electronics started when I was 11 or 12 and has led me to a 40+ year career in electrical engineering and programming. Thinking back, I attribute that, in somewhat equal parts, to Popular Electronics, the ARRL Ham Radio Handbooks, and Forrest Mims. I only built a few smallish projects (mostly dealing with blinking LEDs) but they were enough to keep my interest. Funny thing is that, after I graduated with my EE degree and got my first job, I haven't touched a soldering iron or designed a circuit since.
I believe this is related to another principle in Economics called Goodhart's Law, which essentially states that as soon as something becomes a metric for measuring performance, it ceases to be a valid measure of actual performance. Essentially using something as a performance metric creates the incentive to game the system, inflate their values, and generally divorce the metric from the phenomenon it's trying to measure.
Will Plaid be a data brokerage for financial transaction information?
Batteries. If suddenly you must pay 20c/kWh and previously it was 8c/kWh, new avenues opportunities are created. Maybe then it makes sense to go full rooftop solar and use a big battery.
The elephant in the room is that detecting hardware backdoors will remain practically impossible due to the closedness and secrecy of the industry.

Especially for backdoors installed only on few servers.

Yet, open schematics, publicly available hi-resolution pictures and public, peer-reviewed, automated inspection are potentially possible.
> What sets them apart is how they make it. In the case of media companies is, precisely, by getting the story right.

Ideally yes, but nowdays it seems to be rather; by getting the story framed exactly as their corporate owner wants them to frame it.

Yes, they'll slowly loose credibility and in fact that is happening, but the process takes decades and is not likely to affect current reporters, if they lied in service of the status quo.
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The government doesn't have to negotiate for anything: the law is that access must be provided. The law doesn't specify anything about amenities, just access.
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If your in frontline management isn't that basically your job? To translate company goals to on the ground action?

Surely that's everyone's job? To know and understand the company's goals and ensure that their actions are in support. I certainly try to ensure that everyone on my team (is "software team lead", one among many, considered frontline management? I honestly don't know where people draw the lines) knows what the bigger goals are, and I routinely push questions and comment about those goals back up.

I try to advocate that it is never wrong to pursue the company's goals, and demand from directors that people who come a cropper while, in good faith pursuing the direction that the directors have set, will not suffer for it. We are quite a small company so it's quite easy to badger directors to provide direction. Don't know how this would go in a larger company.
The Xbox was software hackable. I did it about 4 years ago. You just had to load a corrupted save file for Mechwarrior and it booted linux
As one who frequently deals with Scala code, I have to say that this guy is right: the Scala community in particular seems to relish in complexity.

Scala is a wonderful language and well-designed, especially in contrast to Java. The learning curve requires a good deal of effort, but with experience, it becomes incredibly fun to write Scala code. Once I got past the learning curve, Scala became my go-to language.

That said, there’s an underlying arrogance of Scala developers who, in my experience, tend to often abuse the language to show off their cleverness at the expense of users and maintainers. I don’t know why this is. I suspect it’s because Odersky set the bar so high with his obvious brilliance that some feel insecure.

One take away quote for me:

“Unfortunately, we don’t like boring. We like to take the language and the compiler to their limits. We also like to adopt the latest fad. But the software systems we work on in our jobs should not be a playground or a test bed for the latest fad.”

Scala developers aren’t doing anything new here. People have abused fads in programming for decades. “Design Patterns” and “Test Driven Development” and “RESTful” come to mind. However, it’s unfortunate that Scala developers in particular do this. Because, Scala seems to be a language specifically designed to avoid past mistakes.
>"As cores get bigger the extra effort involved in handling the x86 ISA gets proportionally smaller."

Can you elaborate on what you mean here? Do you mean as the number of cores gets bigger? Surely the size of the cores has been shrinking no?

>"Of course Intel has traditionally always used their volume to be ahead in process technology"

What's the correlation between larger volumes and quicker advances in process technology? Is it simply more cash to put back into R and D?
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I remember being 8 years old, having a real copy of this magazine and typing this into my TI-99/4A. It worked. It was amazing.

This silly program undoubtably helped me get interested in technology.
HN people know that moving off of AWS is going to be a pain.
Loadbalancers are useful for more than balancing load, you can distribute traffic to the different endpoints on them. They're fairly good at it.

80x is on traffic costs alone, I've detailed that above; 80$ for 1TB of traffic on AWS, not including incoming traffic costs, 1$ for 1TB of traffic on Hetzner, incoming traffic is free.

A 16core/64GB instance (m5.4xlarge) on AWS costs 360$ monthly, a tiny bit cheaper if you buy upfront. I pay 50$ a month for 16core/128GB/2TB. The 2TB storage would have to be paid extra on AWS. The m5a.4xlarge is a tad cheaper at 320$ monthly cost, again not counting for storage and bandwidth costs. I get double the RAM and lots of storage for less than 30% of the cost.

So on traffic, it's 80x cheaper, the instance is barely 30% the cost of AWS, and that's not counting the storage costs, which are very high on AWS compared to other providers (OVH, B2). And that only gets cheaper once you buy volume.

Of course the number 80-100x doesn't apply to me personally since I'm running a fairly low-scale operation but this all starts to stack up once you go large. A colo is even cheaper than any of these options since you only pay for power used and for hardware once.
Thanks, but it is not only us at ESL. Thank Joe, Mike, Robert and Jane, the OTP team and Ericsson first and foremost, and the community as a whole. It has been an amazing journey, looking forward to the next 20 years :-)
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>logged into an Owncloud 8 install

welcome back to the February 2015 :)
It's not "lazy sexism," "bro" in "brogrammer" comes from the "bro" subculture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bro_(subculture)
2001 did exactly the same. Some magical fantasy space obelisk made monkeys kill each other. It's stupid.
That is not my recollection. When Chrome debuted, some people had bazillion of FF extensions that were bogging it down, installed an extension-free Chrome, and went "much speed so wow". Later Google started pushing JS performance.

It doesn't matter that much anyway - Google didn't make the difference by converting FF users, but by being better than Mozilla at pushing IE users to switch. Which, again, was not a technical issue at all. I would bet that 90% of those users never even tried FF. A lot of them installed Chrome on Windows so they could synchronize settings from their main device, i.e. an Android phone.
+1 for Dr. Strangelove. Amazing movie. Way ahead of its time.
Your snark aside, Bloomberg made these claims, it's on them to back it up. Not the other way around. So far, not a single fact has surfaced that lends those claims any credence.
Bloomberg reporters clearly need retraining. As I've stated a few times regarding this story, "photo or it didn't happen". It's a pretty simple standard, maybe Bloomberg will think about applying it now.

Or maybe someone else will come up with a new conspiracy to punk them.
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Pulsar Functions appears to be a stream processing engine similar to Flink or Kafka Streams. In other words, it is more like a runtime for streaming apps.

The relation Pulsar ~ Pulsar Functions appears similar to Kafka ~ Kafka Streams. One is a message broker, the other a streaming engine.

Exactly-once (or effectively-once) in Pulsar Functions is depended on assigning unique sequence ids on the producer side. When consuming from Pulsar topic those can be taken from the consumed message, but AFAIK Pulsar doesn't assign those unique ids on its own, so it needs to be done externally.
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WebRTC is utter garbage.

Go look into a license for Camfrog Web, if it's still even sold.
> Everyone wants to make their own chips until they have to do so at scale

Isn't it exactly the other way around?
> although it’ll probably have a hard time with modern WADs.

Excuse my ignorance as it's been 20+ years since I did any DOOM development, but has the format of the WAD file changed over the years? I thought it was just binary assets joined together with a simple header that specified the file names & byte boundaries
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Oh, sure, the sequels were problematic. I actually interpreted the real world shenanigans as something of a Gurren Lagann-style wink at the audience. I misunderstood the post above.
Another one that comes to mind is This American Life with the iPhone Chinese factory story. They did an entire episode (hour long) and how/why the error happened.
Sounds like you want an Android TV, or a Fire TV with Kodi+Plex+Kore+NewPipe+etc
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2001 is a movie that my Dad and I have bonded over for some 15 years now. He was a scifi nerd in college when the movie came out and it's stayed with him ever since. As a child I unknowingly played with his model Moon Bus and PanAm Space Clipper, effectively ruining them, but he just told about the movie and wasn't even mad. Eventually when I get into films we watched his LaserDisc copy of the film and on every format since (except VHS).

Starting last Christmas, I started buying him the Mobius Models 2001 re-releases to replace the models I broke (He's getting a new Moon Bus for Christmas). Our highlight of the year though was going to the Smithsonian to see the IMAX restoration of 2001; it was like seeing the film all over again for the first time.

I'm incredibly fortunate to have been able to bond with father over the years around this special film. My dad is the stoic engineer type, but this movie is a window into him that I’m grateful to have. All this is to say that I’m 100% a Kubrick cultist.

(I took my wife to see a 70mm showing of 2001 in September and she just yelled at me "What the hell was that?!")