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FBI seizures are only a tiny fraction of outages. Lots of things knock out servers: power failures, water leaks, A/C failures, theft, fire, explosions, zombie outbreaks, runaway forklifts, mice chewing on cables.

The only solution is backup hosting in a separate data center.
"Wordpress.org hacked" is a long stretch from "accounts for several wordpress.org plugin authors compromised." This could be as simple as a piece of software they all tried being malicious. Even prominent plugin authors are vulnerable to malware pretending to be a shiny new toy.
I'm sorry you don't like the show. You seem to be in the minority, though.

FWIW there are some things I think we could improve on as far as polish goes (a title/intro sequence would be a start). But I'm not going to change my personality.
Excellent point. There is definitely a suit and tie in my wardrobe, and even a pair of dress shoes. By no means did I mean to imply that we should all lose our basic hygiene standards. I buy new clothes when the others get old, and the turnover is pretty high.

What I meant to imply was that choosing what to wear is a tedious task. Clothing piles up. If you haven't worn something in 6 months (unless it's seasonal), you probably won't.
Proportional to public outrage.
Also, does anyone know of a program that shows all outgoing internet connections and if there are fishy files?

Wireshark, though it's got a bit of a curve to it, provided you know how to identify packets.
Couldn’t the web host sue?
You should compare it to something that's near its performance class, since people are obviously not going to buy the Model S just to save money. That's going to be a future model.

At under 5 seconds 0-60, the Model S sport is supposedly going to have performance in the 500 horsepower BMW M5 range, which gets a combined MPG of 13 (11 city, 17 highway).

Besides that, the M5 is more like $90k.
Not at all. It takes a lot of energy and materials to mine and process the raw materials to create a new car. You have to take into account the whole process, from building new mines, to creating sheet aluminum, to building the factories to put new cars together. The list goes on.
Why would they publish the sender's contact information?

More disturbing is that Sony requested all available contact information for the offending users .... it would be much more interesting to ask if GitHub honor that.
Here are the three primary components of my future electric car, ordered by the most costly first:

1. Power generation: lots and I mean lots of cheap solar panels on the roof of my home, and a small wind turbine. $25000

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Microsoft even started a branch for researching (and methodically disclosing) bugs in other vendors products.

https://twitter.com/k8em0/status/83302574681374721

This makes sense when you think about it. They likely get the crash dumps from Mozilla's beta testers too. They definitely have a better handle on determining their exploitability.

Nobody has more experience with video driver bugs than Microsoft.
I find it much more natural to represent "{1,2,3,4,5}" as "1..5" or "range(1,5)", not "1..6" or "range(1,6)".
Wouldn't malware be smart enough by now not to send stuff while Wireshark's running, or even to not send while the machine's actively being used?
would you really want a super-high production value video? that's not the feel of startups or silicon valley. it's all about being scrappy and working with what you have.

at least to me, increasing the production value would move into irony territory. i'm quite enjoying the video series as they are.
they probably can only tell with precision the box, not a particular server. remember they are not the hosting company. So they just take it all to sort out later, makes sense.
Ask HN: Where can a nerdy hacker go to find out what sort of casual clothes are in style and look pretty good?

I'm thinking specifically of dates, where you won't be wearing a suit or anything terribly formal, but still want to give off the impression of being successful, stylish, handsome, and hip without being overbearing. I have no intention of actually becoming well-dressed, but I figure it'd be nice to have a couple of outfits that show that I do, in fact, clean up pretty nicely.
Isn't that why Steve Jobs wears the same thing every day?
There are these days. Tools like jQuery and CSS Reset help normalize some issues, but some persist. See: IE haslayout bug
It is amazing that a "senior" guy would resist something as simple as hashing a password.

That said, salting a simple hash is not nearly as effective as people think. Given the computing power of modern GPUs, you should use bcrypt:

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
What happens when the "bad guys" use colos? This seems like a cat and mouse game most companies can't afford.
The syntax is unclear, but also the behaviour is unclear.

$var[] = "entry1"; $var['something'] = "entry2"; $var[] = "entry3";

$var[0] is now "entry1", and $var["something"] is "entry2", but what's the index for entry3? And if you iterate over the array, will you get entry2 before entry3?

What if you create $var[$somestring], but $somestring is "29"? Now it will be at $var[29], and automatic indexing will reset to 30, which you may not expect.

There's a lot of argument to "just don't write code like that", but with the inconsistencies in PHP library functions (and PHP's careless type conversion) it's easy to come across cases where this sort of "do something unexpected instead of throwing an error" behaviour can bite people in the ass down the road, through no fault of their own.
True, but unless they think someone at the colo is going to tip off the owners, taking 10 minutes to figure out which machine hosts which site shouldn't be an issue. With a warrant, I imagine the colo would be willing to look up the mapping from company -> rack/server being leased.
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I don't see your point. Can you expand on it a bit?

I live like the OP. I barely own anything and I avoid distractions like the plague (There are some I still fight to avoid at certain times... HN). The increased focus is liberating.

I would see needing to buy things as trying to fill a hole and ridding yourself of those things as trying to cure the issue. They may be rooted in the same problem, but are they really the same?
Agreed. Attachment to not owning things is exactly the same issue as attachment to owning things. All you're doing is completing some actions to avoid a certain feeling or outcome.

I went through a phase where I just donated anything I thought was a distraction to charity, solved a lot in the short term, was insignificant in the long term. Addressing the fact I was bored with my career and hadn't had a break in years solved a lot more.
Sadly, switzerland.eff.org:7778 resets connection attempts

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3002668&...
I've heard great things from paranoids about Little Snitch on OS X.
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I wasn't really talking about suit and tie though - sure, there are functions where everyone dresses up, even the most die-hard of UNIX greybeards. I also wasn't talking about making sure everything is clean (though it should be!)

I was talking about maintaining a more fashionable wardrobe (and there are many definitions of this, but t-shirt/jeans doesn't qualify under any of them) for everyday life. It doesn't have to be big, or extensive, but spending brain-cycles on dressing yourself is more often than not worth it.

Sometimes all it takes to open a door you never thought would open is well-fitted jeans, a well-cut collared shirt, and a broad smile. Or hell, sometimes opening doors is a flannel shirt, vintage t-shirt, and Converse sneakers. The standard geek ensemble, I've noticed, doesn't do much. Your mode of attire is a form of communication, whether we like it or not.
Honestly, the only legit reason for an outage is some natural disaster took down the entire building. I really wouldn't want my server hosted at a mice infested building anyway, or one without backup power, cheap A/C units, etc. To me, it looks much worse that your server went offline because the FBI busted into the datacenter and knocked shit around than say an earthquake took out our fiber lines.

Personally, if I heard the FBI raided a datacenter and knocked a bunch of servers offline which had nothing to do with what they were after, then I'd seriously question the security, legal team, and response team of that place. To me, it sounds like the FBI just showed up to one guy sitting in a chair watching TV and let the FBI roam free.
Why do they have to be idiots to buy it?

Anyone who buys a BMW or Porsche or any other car in that price range is looking at more than just the ability to get from point A to point B. The Tesla Roadster is plain fun to drive, and it is a conversation piece in the way $120,000 Porsche is not. I was at a racetrack recently where the Tesla Roadster was parked between a bunch cars worth far more money, but everyone was interested in the Tesla because it was unique.

Most of them are under no illusions that they are saving the planet, and most people realize it is not cheaper than buying another car. But it's a toy, I'm sure you have some hobby where you spend money on things for fun. That doesn't make you an idiot.
Three plugins were compromised through author accounts, which we caught pretty quickly. New versions were quickly pushed out. We're still investigating what happened, and reset passwords in an abundance of caution.
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We don't list out all the business services, though we should add them now, but we do have our technology and services stack for production:

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Typically yes, but if it's communicating, it's got to do it somehow, which is why I added the caveat that op knows how to read a packet output.
For what?

If the warrant is valid, I don’t see how anyone affected by the raid has a case. If the police serve a warrant on the house next door to you, and your street gets blocked off while they go over the building with a fine-toothed comb and carry off evidence, it will be damn inconvenient for you, but I don’t know of any law preventing them from doing it.
Not sure why you think you are hellbanned. For what it's worth I see your comments.
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I lost my server in Estonia for over a week when the local police working with the FBI shut everything down looking for a command and control node for a bot net.

Fun times.
You know what's really fun? Chilling on a beach somewhere while girls in grass skirts bring you drinks with umbrellas in them.

For that I'll put my ego aside and do a few weeks of boring work. and yeah, I was fantasizing about neat-o technology problems too. I'd love to build an order matching system. Then I got to thinking about the market size, and taking a cut of each transaction.
Don't change a thing. So weird that someone on Hacker News is arguing to overdo something.

The videos are good enough. That means they're great.
small enough to colo? what world do you live in?
I've tried to buy servers in good places, but it doesn't always work out. We're dropping a Hurricane Electric (he.net) server because despite all their high-end claims we've had three major outages in the past year.
I'm downloading it now. I deleted all the apps except the basic Mac apps. I'm going through the activity monitor trying to find things that don't look right.

There was a VPN client which I'm assuming he's used.
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In my experience the lag time to the US is a huge factor in overseas hosting. Otherwise I'd just have everything setup overseas because Telstra has the entire industry by the nuts in terms of data costs (bring on the NBN!)
Congrats to Sam and Nick. I have no doubt that these two will kick ass.
What do you mean by "well-dressed"? A suit? Sports jacket, shirt and slacks? Polo shirt and jeans?

I think I am pretty familiar with what it means to be badly dressed, but well dressed such that it might induce the opening of doors is hard to pin down.
Yes, I was not trying to mitigate latency. I was trying to maximize resiliency.

If you're doing something where you might get the FBI seizing your servers - maybe latency is not a paramount concern.

Capacity might also not be of primary importance.

I am just trying to find the 100% most resilient form of online hosting that masks the layers as much as possible.

The tin-foil-hat in me can see many many reasons why one would want to be aware of how to accomplish something like this.
I have VPSs with networkpresence.com.au (and we actually share rackspace at Equinix).
Yes, but if in searching my neighbor's property they were poking in my living room that would be an illegal search of my property. I'm not sure which metaphor is stronger, but it's certainly not a clear case either wya.
if anyone associated with the colo tipped someone off (or there was cameras in the colo streaming) 10 minutes is more then enough to start deleting things.
I was hoping to see a speed comparison of the two implementations.
I don't really see how GitHub receiving a staggering 1 DMCA notice a month from Sony is newsworthy ... the interesting number isn't that 50% (aka "6") notices were sent this year by Sony, it's that GitHub's only gotten 12 all year.

Other than not deliberately cultivate an environment for illegal file sharing, what has GitHub done to insulate themselves from the piracy & file sharing community so effectively? It seems like it'd be a great place to dump illegal music/videos/app/game/etc downloads, and accounts are easy to make.
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Facebook didn't just bring a solution that solved all of this, with Facebook Connect and OpenGraph, but they also delivered the user-base to go with it. Think of all the bad privacy PR that Facebook has gotten... has it dented their image? Nope. Because FB connect is too valuable in keeping the barrier of entry low. When given the option, people prefer FB connect.

EXCELLENT rebuttal, I hadn't thought to look at FB Connect like this with my original comment.
Sure, the point is that either way (either by compulsively buying things, or needing to purge down to the absolute bare necessities) you're allowing consumer goods to control you. Those of us who don't feel consumed by goods would gain nothing by purging of everything. I own all the things that the OP purged off in his need to cleanse, but, none of those ever get in the way of me going out.

My point is simply this: I read things like this all the time, and it makes me very happy that I don't feel compelled to control my belongings to be able to live a happy life.
He is <24 years old and his primary world view has been formed whilst "cloud" was the pinnacle of technical obviousness.
Meta:

Don't, for the love of human decency, put 45 degree pinstripes behind light-weight text. I sat there waiting for several seconds thinking that some background image would load to spare my bleeding eyes. It never did.

Meanwhile:

"I didn’t have the heart to ask him what blind person he knew that could sufficiently use a web browser on a touchscreen smartphone."

http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html

I mean, I don't care how jaded and cynical you are, iOS's accessibility support is amazing for the blind.

http://mattgemmell.com/2010/12/19/accessibility-for-iphone-a...
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Chaos and Order Online, the MMORPG real-time 3D wow game from Gameloft, who won in a short time IOS users, is preparing to land well on Android.
If you care to try, I'd say give Softlayer a shot. You get tons of free stuff that other places charge for (KVM over IP, VPN, etc) and the only outage I've had so far was because Level 3 announced routes for Comcast IP's and then null routed them, lasted about 45 minutes and effected a lot more than Softlayer.
I was referring to this comment:

> Users prefer native apps

Why don't they on the desktop?
Sorry, I was under the impression that random small businesses got damaged from the the government investigation into the inconveniencing of big multinational corporations.

But you may also read it like that if you like.
Tried it today. It slows down google chrome considerably.
There is a vertical scroll bar in your first link under Chrome

http://i.imgur.com/mk2IX.png
In Opera typing g + space begins a Google search. The prefix is stripped off before it's sent.
I did this once... about 4 years ago. I found that I became a very uninteresting person. I worked and had no hobbies.

Now I have more stuff, but not so much stuff that it restricts me from hanging out with friends. I think it's more important to not buy stuff that will take away your time, or increase your obligations.
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Why would they not?

On one hand, the person sending the takedown request is afforded the courtesy of anonymity.

This, while he (or she) is accusing someone who is most certainly not anonymous of breaking the law, & demanding the identities of other users.

That is unfair, & unjust.
I'm actually in NZ, it might be different in AU, but generally when you buy colocation here you only pay for international bandwidth; national bandwidth is free.
And this silo, where even extensively trained mathematicians of other fields can barely understand each other is a large part of the problem. This is not aimed at you but a general problem. It is a real bottleneck. An inefficient use of resources resulting in inconsistent use and re-appropriation of notation, making each field have its own dialect and general slowing of the field. People keep rediscovering the same things in their fields that the other knew decades ago. Alot of data, much less information.

The kind of progress where an engineer or scientist takes what they need from that obviously useless piece of mathematics becomes harder and harder as the silos get deeper. But things are getting better. Stuff like mathoverflow, blogs by researchers, polymath are really helping bridge those gaps. Thats why these days people are really starting to see all this stuff that we thought unrelated are actually just different aspects of the same thing. I especially like whats going on with category theory, information theory, information geometry, entropy and bayesianism. Together they leave no subject untouched. Not one.
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Here's a post by someone in AU demonstrating the effects of latency on web traffic - 10x slowdown.

http://mike.bailey.net.au/2010/07/latency-is-a-killer/
Also inversely proportional to the strength of your connections to higher ups.
I have to hand it to the cyber criminals. They did figure out SVN.
You’re confusing the DMCA takedown request procedure with the procedure for serving a warrant.
In Australia we get charged the same rate for all traffic, except for various special cases (peering arrangements, AARNet).

The economics of our ISPs and hosts are driven entirely by the price of about 3 major pipes out of the country.
> But frankly, most sites don't need (and users don't really want) that complex a set of interactions.

Wait until full screen <canvas> ads hog your mobile CPU and you can't even fire up a task manager to end the browser process.
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Why are break ins on the rise?
I've been reading the same news sources for a while now, Hacker News included, and it seems like every other day there's a report of another major break in. I don't think this is all due to LulzSec, so what's the deal?
Does anyone know who the target was?

If it's LulzSec, as the article assumes, I would hope they have good reasons to do so.
LulzSec is a group of hackers searching for recognition. By chasing them they are giving them more publicity.
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Your alternative method is Chrome behaviour (of course it gives suggestions even if you don't prefix with ?, but the keyboard shortcuts are there)
Well, at this point, it's all idle curiosity on her and your part. The first thing you should have done is image off a couple of copies of that drive. One for archive, the other to examine.

A ram snapshot would have been good as well.
>unless they think someone at the colo is going to tip off the owners,

That is exactly what they are worried about happening.
And here's information on how increasing speed increases conversion:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/velocity-making-your-site-f...

So potentially, the money you save by hosting overseas is lost in lower conversion.
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You're dreaming if you think a data center outage can't happen at any reasonably-priced data center. It doesn't matter what they promised or what high tech equipment they have. It happens at Google and at Amazon and it will happen to you too, eventually.
> Cool, thanks for the direct perspective. So it does sound like there is perhaps some space for s service which a company could provide which looked to the shop owner as a 'DIY' service but was implemented as setting up various values in standard templates on the back end? Sort of like 'App Engine' for small business where you "design" it but the modules you use are just front ends for the underlying cloud services?

I still think many people "DIY'ing" shouldn't. The sites often look horrible, have no way to track stats (conversions), etc.

What would be better is it if the hosted e-commerce players really pushed to market to these people who think DIY'ing is the better way.
Why not spin up some EC2 instances if your main datacenter fails? You can pay minimal costs to send a diff of your database a couple times a day in order to keep the backup current, and only pay for real bandwidth if your main server goes down. Seems to be a pretty decent backup plan.