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Ask HN: Computer Forensics
Hey all. I've worked in network infrastructure for a few years, and went back to school to finish up a cs degree. I felt a bit burned out when I left my job, mainly because of boredom... For example, a whole day could be about fixing a connectivity issue in some department or essentially getting their phones and other equipment to work... I know, every job can get repetitive and boring eventually, but I also wanted to work on something that had more substance if you know what I mean...

Well, I am really interested in Computer Forensics, and hope to move in this direction upon finishing my degree. Is anyone currently work in this field that can give some pointers as to how I can get started? I'd also love to hear "a day in the life" story if you have any. At the moment I'm researching computer forensic certifications to attain, but any additional info is much appreciated; thanks.
I agree partially: Blackboard is much much worse than CCNet, but CCNet wasn't all that great either.
Em, though about the possibility that he was not sexist as "condescending" (women are inferior, and they should fetch my soup), but sexist => interested in the ladies. I, mean, this is a man that was doing some of his work in a strip joint! Maybe this was one of his ways of approaching them.

(Now, some people consider the two types of "sexist" as the same. Those people are disturbed).
In case you didn't know, weheartit.com's extension symbol is a heart. Might be confusing for users of both services.
Companies benefit by hiring overqualified people
Ah, so back in the day you guys put a license on your code that was so restrictive that now you can't release a version of it to live in the app store? Ouch.
> As for womanizing, again it shocked that after so little time passed after her wife's death, he jumps into the scene (and with a vengeance).

It shocked WHO? Who are you (or I) to judge another persons personal life in matters such as that?

Actually, that one could judge someone in such a way, shocks ME.
Darn, I was planning on having a Submit! button for when I become supreme dictator. Of course I'd have my own website.
It's a solar only record without any battery assist. Also, they don't control for weather somifnthere was more sun one day that's justntoo bad..
To me a big weakness of the prediction API when I checked it out was that it cannot handle (i) missing values or (ii) sparse data formats. Both are very common in real life data.
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When two way video chat on mobile phones is better and less blocky than your hosted web content you know it's time to turn up the bitrate a smidge.
The next solar hotspot is … India?
BTW Jed, I heard they're pulling the car from the Bos MOS display and sending back to A2. :-(
Go, You Vampire Squid
You guys ASKED Apple to remove the app because of a license conflict, so that is what they did. Stop blaming Apple. It is you guys who started this.
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Unfortunately that's just not true. While I agree that is "ideal" and the way it "should be," if I own a clothing retail store, and only want to sell designer Italian clothing, I'm allowed to. I don't also have to allow any and all Chinese, French, and American tailors to put their clothes in my shop.
I wonder what is the cost to crack a single WIFI password
Uhhh what happened here is that the VLC guys (specificaly Rémi Denis-Courmont) contacted Apple to urge them to remove the app. So that is what they did.

Kind of weird to blame Apple for following up to a copyright violation.

It is now between VLC and Applidium to figure out how to proceed.

Apple is not part of this. Developers need to play within the bounds of the App Store license terms.
> but here's why I think he doesn't deserve the scorn given to him: Everything he says is backed up by this premise: "Don't just accept this - try it! I'm only recommending it because I found it to work."

Isn't this a stock phrase in EVERY and ANY telemarking ad?

Conveniently, in order to "try it" you have to buy his book to find out what "it" is, in which case he already haves your money --and unlike telemarketing there is no refund policy...
New formula for news story headline:

Famous-Company blah blah Cloud blah blah Scary-Stuff blah blah Somebody Important

"Microsoft's new Cloud Service can be used to design nuclear weapons: UN Expert"

"Rackspace Cloud used by terrorists: TSA Official Claims"

We can do a million of these.
one must probably understand while reading this that the mental abuse was in his life constant,

tried to get rid of it, go to school etc. , but had to communicate with his family and probably that nullified his self-help totally every time.

Its probably something like working like mad on some programming project for a year and then someone hacks your system and deletes everything... after that one year to restore the system and then someone again comes and deletes it ..one more year to restore , and back to zero again
Another great book is "All About Asset Allocation" by Richard Ferri.
Sadly, our US consitutional rights are have been severly abridged by the State "in order to keep us safe". Rather than admit we are sliding into some sort of police state, we try to rationalize that only the "bad" people are treated unconsitutionally.

While a few brave souls stand up for their rights, the majority are too afraid to. We submit to warrantless searches every time we fly (even if we know it's pure ineffective security theater) lest we miss our flight.
Great paper. I tend to work on medium scale systems but I always enjoy reading material from companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter on how they manage scaling, especially data stores.

There is an interesting pattern: the more scalable a data store is the larger the hassle of writing application code against it. I am lucky that MongoDB master slave has been sufficient for what I have been doing because it is almost as simple to use as a RDMS. It is clear that writing against HBase and Cassandra takes more effort and it is more difficult to be in an agile development mode.
Pedantic-police: The $1-million little pile there has 10 bundles of $10,000 - that's not 1 million. (or are my eyes deceiving me?) Don't have the patience to figure out if that error is propagated to the rest...
Have never been more touched by any other science fiction movie. It lingered within my mind for days.
I find the most useful way to visualise a trillion dollars (when we're talking about US Government spending (which is generally the only time we hear about trillions of dollars) is to just visualise $3,257 in the hands of each of the 307 million people in the United States.
I've read Gruber since he began writing Daring Fireball, I don't think he's changed much at all. I don't see how he's turned from Apple pundit to Apple fanboy, a rather peculiar thing to happen to anyone with time, really.

What has changed is that Apple's success has accelerated, exposing Apple to more customers, press and analysis. Gruber has always covered these things, but with more of it there's more to cover, and with more clueless analysts claiming things about Apple, there's more of that to dispute and ridicule.

And let's just face it, he's usually right about the significant things. That's not fanboyism, that's insight.

Besides, I don't think Gruber very often writes articles just to "support" anything (what would be the point?), usually he's trying to understand where Apple's motivations come from — why they're doing what they're doing — which is the part where most other analysts are fumbling in the dark.

Sometimes he agrees with them, but really, a lot of the time he doesn't (that usually makes for more interesting articles as well). Just writing support for a decision or strategy makes for a really boring read, what he usually does is explain the underlying reasons for it, whether he agrees with it or not.
Redis memory fragmentation contest
Does anyone know anything about the consequences of these IRA things for people who are currently working in the US but may or may not move back to their home countries in future years?
Thanks! I'll check out Pear Budget. Basically we use Quickbooks for our accounts, but I've been finding that I don't really know how much we (my family) spend. With the New Year I'm wanting to get a handle on just how much things are costing - fuel, entertaining etc.
The more cognitive energy students spend on figuring out how to use systems stops them from focusing the course content. The bigger barrier to participation the less participation there will be. Course management systems like blackboard, desire2learn, etc are rarely if evaluated on user-centered principals of design and usability. Decisions are made based on business factors like cost, licensing, etc. Features are only evaluated in an abstract sense. I guess it is this way with many large organizations.
Apple in no way analogous to a retail clothing store;

1. They are not buying products for resale - they are providing a marketplace for other businesses to sell their own products.

2. The products that are created for the iOS AppStore cannot be sold anywhere else.

Content creators can't vote with their feet - they're tied to using Apple's system. They have to invest in very specific technologies to participate in the Apple ecosystem. This creates a situation where Apple is provided with an unwarranted amount of power.

Whether you agree with me or not - I strongly believe measures will be put in place which attempt to rectify the situation.
Maybe "Media Player" is a trademark of someone? Maybe they already had problems with that before.
Seriously? Any info as to when?
You can impress upon a person the importance of a secret - again, people are not functions or algorithms.
I haven't had my coffee yet, so help me out. The pile of $100 million seems more than 100 piles (or 10 rows of 10 piles) of $1 million to me.
Hey, just checked it out. Awesome stuff, but what's the difference between this one and Posterous, or Tumblr?
Background: in most work loads, with the default glibc malloc() and without the use of any slab allocator, Redis apparently does not fragment memory even after many months of continuous uptime (I've an instance running since one year, with tons of expires and 10000 new keys created per second, without issues, for instance).

However some user experimented Redis fragmentation problems, especially when sorted sets are used. This makes sense as in sorted sets nodes have different sizes (accordingly to the number of links).

This contest have the goal to get in short time a program that is able to fragment memory in a easy to reproduce way, so that we can start working to an (optional) slab allocator for Redis that will be included in future releases.

As Redis allocations are already completely wrappered by zmalloc.c file to ship a version of Redis with a new allocator will be trivial and will not affect any other part of the system, so as long as we'll get a few memory fragmenting scripts, chances are that in short time we'll exit with a new version of Redis featuring this change.

Thank you!

p.s. I understand the prize is not stellar, but it's mostly symbolic of course ;)
Apple needs to be willing to discuss issues.

Too often, their position can be summarised as 'my way, or the highway'.

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Apple is not part of this. Developers need to play within the bounds of the App Store license terms

No - Apple needs to be accountable to an impartial regulatory body.
I'm not looking at freelancing to completely change things. In fact, your comment on non-profit work is interesting. One of my long term goals is to start a non-profit in Japan to help people that need consoling, and provide suicide prevention. Japan has an incredibly high suicide rate, and I've heard stories of English teachers in private schools with students that wanted less to learn English, and more a shoulder to cry on. Right now I'm trying to work through getting things setup and obtaining a visa. Doing some freelance, maybe starting my own business later is something I'm looking at doing to help me in the process.
If you truly believe that an all-powerful, provenly vengeful supreme being wants you to personally spread his word to other people, it'd be a pretty bad idea to disobey.
Hi there. My requirement isn't really small business as we currently have an in-house book keeper and we use Quickbooks. It's for personal use. I just want to be able to put in our regular monthly income/costs and then evaluate spend (for example on beer!). I've done some analysis and turns out I spend nearly $200/month at a local pub (bar), so that prompted me to start looking at everything to see where I could reduce easily
Fascinating. Makes me want to buy one immediately.
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Yes, it is indeed all about aerodynamics. (And to some extent tire rolling resistance.) You will find that world-speed-record human powered vehicles are also low to the ground and have carefully designed aerodynamic bodies, rather than being open-frame like a mountain bike.
That's exactly what I was thinking upon reading the article. When talking about billions of dollars of deficits or stimuli, it's not cash or even gold equivalent we're talking about. It's virtual, based on a gentleman's agreement between banks. Most of the money is created by banks, when people like you and me come to them for a loan or a mortgage.

So the conclusion of the article is false:

"the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... [1.5 acres of double-stacked pallets of $100 dollar bills] is what they're talking about."
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It is a common complaint in pyramid-shaped hierarchies that the "best" people leave. This is because they have to leave. As they climb the ladder, the rungs get smaller so fewer can fit. Each year, many of the people who were the best the year before (and got to the next rung on the ladder) have to leave. So people in organizations like this naturally come to think that the "best" people leave -- because eventually they all do. Of course, it is possible to design a hierarchy so dysfunctional that the best people leave and the worst people stay, and I don't know enough about the armed services to assess whether that's the case here, but whenever I read about the best leaving, I wonder how much of that's an intended feature or an unintended bug.
It was more a jab at the state of the comments than anything else, I have nothing against charging for products. It's interesting to note that increasing your price has increased the sensibility of your customers though, I had always put it down to MC being a game generally attracts a younger audience that is more used to getting things for free after growing up with torrents and the like.
Also: blonde and kinda hot.
Another reason:
I find it hard to connect certain given/then/when to the relevant steps in larger projects.
But maybe that's just me :) Any ideas around that would be appreciated.

I take it in steak you just call a general method.
Just do a find in project and bom :) there it is. It's harder with steps (longer sentences)
I guess it is doable though...
Those are, indeed, two words.

They'd be more useful if placed into a full sentence, for instance "I think you should put all your net wealth into shares of Berkshire Hathaway" or "I think you should try to replicate Berkshire Hathwaway's investment strategy" or "Hey, you should think about buying a little bit of Berkshire Hathaway as part of a diversified portfolio which also includes other asset classes".
Yes. That might be quite a lot of people though.
You'd have to visualize that quickly though. $3200 in the average persons hands would last about 10 minutes.
For those that want to get one or are on the fence, I'd absolutely suggest it. It's only 30 bucks and you can get into playing with LEDs, motors and more exciting things as soon as you get it. Beautiful community, great resources. Hard to go wrong, really.
Read that, consider the characterisation of a 10-11 year old boy and then reconsider it's quality please.
Wow, it must be a slow day on HN...
"No - Apple needs to be accountable to an impartial regulatory body."

That is a ridiculous assumption.
I use them, but I don't trust them. They've got my email and feedreader (for now), but not much of my search.

I hate instant search, and I don't want to authenticate myself to them just to turn it off. My browser is forgetful of cookies, and I shut it down regularly to get shit done.

DuckDuckGo is a refreshing alternative and Google now gets but a meager fraction of my search, where they used to be almost exclusive. I'll check DDG first, then elsewhere if I'm disappointed. Subjectively, DDG result relevance seems to be improving lately.

I also block Google's Javascript analytics and ads, as I do all other third parties. As a user how can I trust let alone know what all these ad networks and doohickies in a page really are? If you want to advertise or analyze on your site, fine, back it up by serving it out of your own domain if it matters that much to your bottom line.
Here is a personal anecdote on the cost of not hiring a right person.

I have a very strong background in low level (embedded as well as device driver) software development. I have a long and visible track record in U-Boot development, including being a sub-repository "lieutenant".

Canonical advertised for a "Ubuntu Mobile Developer - ARM" developer for which I felt (and still feel) I was a very strong candidate. I submitted my resume and got no response. I did some searching and found the contact within Canonical who was responsible for the position and got an immediate response when I contacted him.

I did a phone interview with a Canonical employee, not the person hiring but another who was a technical expert. I thought the interview went well overall, but he seemed disturbed that I had not actively used Bazaar even though I had used other DVCSes, including evaluating several of them for U-Boot - I ultimately recommended git for U-Boot. I've also used Mercurial extensively in my job, so I would say I have more than passing familiarity with DVCSes.

Anyway, I didn't "make the cut" with Canonical. I've since gotten a new job and am no longer in the market, but Canonical is now advertising for three software engineers for that position http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/canonical_SE%20PS%20HB1....

The kicker? Canonical did not have "familiarly with uBoot" [sic] as a desirable qualification for candidates before I applied. They added it immediately after I entered their interview process. In other words, Canonical did not even know they were looking for me before I applied, discovered that at least one of my qualifications were important because I applied, and yet did not hire me. A year and a half later, not only have they not filled the position, they now have three copies of the unfilled position.

Go figure.
We've got our budget set up using Mint.com and evaluate it using their tools. Since they're the 800 pound gorilla in that space, how're you thinking about differentiating from them?
The "Vampire Squid" reference for Goldman Sachs is to this quote from Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone: "The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
One obvious asset class that's missing from that allocation is real estate, which (if you bought in a sensible area) has probably easily outperformed all of those since 1974 with the possible exception of gold.
I don't know what you're specifically missing, but it is important to be aware of the basics of how RPN works, i.e. reverse polish notation, as stack machines in the JVM, .NET etc. are essentially RPN calculators with a lot of extra bits and bobs.

5 + 4 * 2, in RPN with an explicit push opcode, looks like this:

push 5
push 4
push 2
multiply
add

Each operation manipulates a stack. Here it is, marked up with the stack:

push 5
// now stack is: 5 (top of stack is leftmost)
push 4
// now stack is: 4 5
push 2
// stack: 2 4 5
multiply // pop top two on stack, multiply, and push
// stack: 8 5
add
// stack: 13

Add in a few more opcodes, and instead of pushing simple integer constants, you can push an object reference instead; and instead of a multiply or add opcode, you might have a getfield or putfield opcode, which takes an argument (in the opcode stream, rather than on the stack) indicating which field to read or write. Similarly for functions to call, constructors to call when creating an object, etc.

JVM uses an explicitly typed instruction set. There are variants of each operation, such as those starting with a (e.g. aload - JVM spells push as load) for objects, starting with i for integers, and f for floats (so iadd is different from fadd). Part of the verification the JVM does when loading classes is to simulate the stack operations and make sure that the operations match up with their types; the type associated with each opcode is technically redundant, and was probably done that way to help in making simple interpreters slightly faster. .NET doesn't do this; it has a single add instruction etc., and instead infers the type of the arguments by what was pushed onto the stack. .NET stack code requires at least an analysis pass to interpret with any efficiency.
Firstly we're not planning on differentiating from them - I'm looking for something to use for myself (not to build something). Also, I'm based in the UK and am unable to use Mint
The thing with Science Fiction is that it's hardly a genre. As Asimov shows in "The Caves of Steel", it's mor ofa set of conventions about setting and style that can be applied to basically any genre. So you have immensely varied works of sci-fi that have bassically no relation between one another. That leads to someone loving a work of science fiction, trying other science fiction looking for something similar, and fiding that there's nothing similar to what he liked in other works.

But if you are searching for something similar to Bladerunner, a TV series of the same vein and tone would be Ergo Proxy.
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Why Criticism Matters
Aside from some delusional PMs at TV manufacturers, I don't think too many people think connected TVs are the future. More likely, it's features they can add cheaply to existing products to add more showroom bullet points.
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Everyone has a facebook account. If they want to look at old photos, they will look on facebook. Just like you used to be able to look at old blog posts on Geocities. People will post new photos and their favorite old photos on the next facebook, and stop looking at the old site. The old content sounds like a big deal if you are a geek who is worried about vendor lock-in, but I doubt that real people will really care.

It's activity that matters, not membership. If facebook stops talking about activity, and only talks about membership, that's when you know there's a problem.
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