skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering they'd even earlier today advertised a Monday booty release, I suspect that, rather than abandoning the Lulzsec facade after 50 days, it's that the fuzz is a little too hot on their trail for comfort.
It would be if the company didn't actually own the car, but instead "gave away" a car from a local auto dealer without their consent.
If his family is living on USD$1 per day, most likely he's not from a country that provides such services.
Ah, so they get a version that is several years out of date, and uses a slightly different syntax... great.
This is a brilliant example, but even after reading the article, I feel like it needs a stronger connection to the problems of poverty.

So, anyway, Guys, the situation where you're in a room where people are screaming is poverty, but its only one moment of poverty. In poverty, you go into that room over and over and over again. You can't afford to keep your whole reality quiet, but you can buy a moment or two of peace, by paying more money than you can rightly afford to spend, if you've a longterm goal to support. You may go into debt for a TV to relieve the oppresive boredome, or spend change you shooldn't on a sweet, to eat something nice.

Those breif respites are massively appealing, even though they don't last, and very possibly set you back, because remember, you're living in a situation where everyone is always screaming. A moment's peace is worth not making it out.
Some history from Colbert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsCp-1hgfxI
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff...

you'll be buried next to me about six months later, with a little sign that says "he tried really, really hard to live longer than -> that guy"
If this is actually the Loopt business model, to offer deals that the businesses have not agreed to, you should fully expect to be sued in court for trademark infringement very soon. How could you be so short-sighted? You are driving traffic based on the brand name of another reputable company, who has not agreed to or even been asked if you could use their name.
NATO press release about the break in to their ebookstore by LulzSec:

http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-40BE0A99-F4F5EB32/natolive/ne...
Um, getting people to your door is one step. Certainly a good product is next!

If that wasn't clear, yes, the product is good which helps. But there are lots of good products out there.
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How about this analogy (tongue in cheek):

* Sunday Super-Deal: $50000 YCombinator Seed Funding! *

Value: $50000, Discount: 5%, You save: 5% off the share that YC would normally take

Purchased: 17 of 100

Time Remaining: 2d 21h 43m 13s

[Big Green Button ->]
Who is LulzSec?
Yup, fuzz on their tails..

Not too smart either why include the number of Lulzsec members?
This whole model is going to collapse for a lot of reasons. I wrote about that here:

http://redesignmobile.com/2011/06/22/loopts-u-deals-offer-an...
Ask HN: Why is VC better than taking out a loan for my startup?
...assuming the business model will bring in 75% ROI the first year and 150% the second?
http://wouter.coekaerts.be/irssi/window_switcher will change your life. Makes using dozens of channels practical.

It gives you find as you type for channel names. e.g. to switch to #mono you could probably type control-g mo<enter>

It shows the matched channel names in the status bar as it filters.
It's a bash thing... http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html
"Private nonprofit four-year colleges charge, on average, $27,293 per year in tuition and fees" [1]

And that's just the private schools. The public schools are considerably cheaper: ~8k USD for in-state students and ~12k for external students. 50k USD is the full prize for the top private schools like Stanford or the Ivy League. Imagine how expensive some schools would have to be for the average to come out at 50k USD.

[1]: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/pay/add-it-up/4494.html
"Daddy issues" is a sexualized pop-Freudian phrase applied only to women. Lots of men, myself included, had rocky relationships with their fathers that caused some emotional harm and affected their later relationships, but you'll never hear immature or irresponsible men described as suffering from "daddy issues".

Moreover, the original request was a completely reasonable one: "I don't know how to turn this feature off: I've tried this and this, but it didn't work. What should I do?" When you ask a technical question and receive irrelevant, sexualized and emotionally condescending comments in response, I think that's prima facie evidence of sexism.
There are a few things that seam clearly, though not necessarily badly, wrong here. For, example: They use a a Groupon like appearance as many deal-a-day sites use. This sends a strong-ish message that something Groupon-like is going on. A lot of people will have bought these coupons recently and will make quick assumptions. This is the kind of things brands do, usually, to send a message to the buyer/user. It's like when generic coffee comes in a nescafe-like jar. There's also potential for non-savy small businesses owners to feel coerced. I'm not sure trademark is the issue though, at least not a terrible one.

Anyway, I think judgement should maybe be postponed. This could easily be an awkward mistake. The overall intent doesn't seem nasty. The execution, particularly clear messaging, has just (perhaps) been done absentmindedly. It shouldn't be too late to clean this up. Let's see if they do.
1.) What useful information does "there are six of them" convey?

2.) What makes you think that they're not lying?
I guess is part of the concept... transparency, clarity...
I do not understand your point. Yes, there's fucked up situations in every economic status, but if we follow your argument to its roots, that each level of economic welfare has the same level of utility to its members, you're arguing that healthcare, decent food, and basic shelter are without value.

You've said your parents are perfectly fine, and ergo, no-one else is worse off.
Note that the press release was two days ago, after NATO was notified by police. AFAIK, this is the first that Lulzsec has disclosed that the NATO bookstore was hit, which means the police knew before we did. That can't be good for those behind the mask.
After 50 Days Of Attacks, Hacker Group LulzSec Says It’s Done
It doesn't have to be true.
acute pancreatitis is unrelated to liver damage. It's triggered by long-term alcoholism in about 1% of the population, for unknown reasons. It's acute in the sense that it makes you very, very, sick and puts you in unbelievable pain. It goes away if you stop drinking. If untreated, it can kill you. The only way to stop it is to stop drinking, and believe me no matter how much an alcoholic you are, a single round of that shit will scare you off the booze for a long, long time. I still can't look at wisky. It's really truly that bad. But it has nothing to do with liver problems or anything else, it's an abnormal reaction of the pancreas to extended periods of alcohol abuse.
Disinformation is most likely, but I've been hoping for some steganography from their Pastbins from day one.
Do you think clearer messaging would fix this? Seems to me like a problem only if it seems to people that this business is offering the deal. If its clear that isn't the case, would you still have issues with this?
A better variation. Same problem, but there are 6 balls, 3 colors (red, white and blue), and each pair of a color has one heavy and one light ball, ie there is a set of 3 heavy balls which are red, white, and blue, and a set of 3 light balls which are red, white, and blue. All heavy balls are the same weight, all light balls are the same weight.

What method results in the fewest uses of the balance to separate them properly?
chat logs show more than 6..

But its only 6 that are active in illegal stuff
I was a big linux user that switched to MBP too a couple years ago. I was very skeptical myself, but I'm very happy with the switch. Besides looking cool, here's some other points from my experience: It just works better. Granted, a couple years ago, ubuntu wasn't as nice as it is now, Mac OSX just works so flawlessly, never restart, never shutdown (just close the lid), sleeps and starts up in literally 1 second, great battery, connects to wifi flawlessly, and LOVE the multitouch mouse features. I also really like certain programs including iMovie, Logic (music production), Photoshop. I've tried switching to Gimp, for example, which just doesn't feel right to an old-time Photoshop user. On Ubuntu, I was pretty happy with overall experience, and if I was ONLY using it for development, it would be just fine. I would recommend Mac to any developer, but if you are already very comfortable with your Linux laptop, you're probably not missing anything THAT compelling. BTW, I got my mbp for about $1300 and would not think it's worth it for much more than that.
Apple did one thing very well: they ask for a password when doing something potentially harmful, but made sure that the password popup is rare enough that you won't be trained to blindly fill it in.

That one thing has more security value than any of the advanced security techniques listed in the article like "stack canaries" and "fine grained ACL".

It's too bad there are so many security consultants that focus on the technology instead of user behaviour. If they would just look at the statistics they'd see that >90% of security issues are not technology issues, they are behavioural issues.

Sure, it would be nice to have a few of those advanced security techniques in OS X if they don't cause too much usability or performance issues, but it will have very little effect on security as a whole.
I'd have to agree. Even now I think that with time they will all be outed - if they've not already. Some of these 'raids' have just been too daring to expect to get away with forever.
There are hundreds of ways to get free music that haven't had the same explosive growth rate as turntable. I think the article is right in that they've done very well with subtle but surprisingly deep social aspects.

I do think they have a huge legal problem looming, especially with regards to letting you play tracks others have uploaded. Google and Amazon are already fighting the 'public performance of copyrighted works' issue, and turntable is far more blatant.
The Battlefield Heroes passwords are unsalted MD5. Way to go EA.
Actually, listening to this conversation it's completely clear that he'd been imagining a device like the iPhone even then. It clearly solves a problem he has. Remember when he introduced the iPhone as "three revolutionary new products"? There were two that people really wanted: A touch screen iPod. A phone. And one that got lukewarm reception because people didn't know what to make of it: An breakthrough internet communicator. The iPhone was always about the third part for Steve, but you need the other two to sell it to the public.

As for your glib comment about a keyboard, I find the iPhone keyboard is wonderful for typing on. Yes, it's software, but it is a keyboard.
There is a spout which attaches to the same holes as the cap and latches on very securely. You don't need a funnel.

For example:
http://www.mowdirect.co.uk/acatalog/5-LITRE-RED-STEEL-JERRY-...
Like many who got bitten by Gawker, Sony, Mt.Gox and whoever else, I researched better alternatives. I found these options for password management utilities:

- 1Password
- KeePass
- LastPass
- PasswordGorilla
- pwgen
- pwsafe
- SuperGenPassword

Here's my summary and comparison between the alternatives: https://github.com/shazow/everything/blob/master/research/pa...
That still beats the NATO bookstore's plaintext. :)
Where in the universe can you find a market with almost 1 billion mobile users
come to china!
1.) What information does the number of columns in a MySQL database convey? It's not just that there are six of them, but that records could be poured over for various irc servers in an attempt to link the 6 accounts that interacted with eachother the most. It allows for deeper inspection, and perhaps more information. However,

2.) They almost certainly are. I could see them saying how many people they actually had almost as a bluff, but more than likely they're just throwing out misinformation.
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I am not sure how active they are. I asked for a beta invitation a long time ago, no response.
3 was a major bug. We've pulled down all deals until we fix that--it should say "pending merchant approval", with an explanation, not a tip counter.
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Their whole scam runs on technology. Engineers are seriously under compensated considering that the whole thing is riding on bits these days.
NATO has an ebook store? What are the hell?
20 Under 20 Retreat
I don't think the parent was saying "Don't give up" was bad advice, just that it was obvious "almost tautological in nature"

Anyone who has achieved any level of success in anything is going to have a "I almost gave up... then I succeeded! I am so glad I didn't give up." story. I have some.

Saying "Don't give up" is just not useful advice. I mean, it might be useful encouragement for some people; some people respond well to inspirational stories. but that's kindof a different thing than advice, if you ask me.
what have freebsd contributed to pf?
Gaming \m/ Pick up the controller or KB/M and fire away
However, you only need the password if you want to be root, and most of the stuff malware wants to do (including keylogging, which the article mentions; requiring root to intercept keyboards is only moderately useful if the regular user can gdb -p whatever app has the password field) does not require being root.
Hacker CS: The Khan Academy of Computer Science.
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From what I've come to understand the press cases regarding liver problems came from consumers of leave-based manufactured kava pill "products" instead of direct root-based kava consumption. The botany of the leaves is different than the roots. The liver issues appear to emanate from the leaves.
At least according to them, AirBNB didn't do this directly--it was done by a firm they hired to get leads, and that they didn't continue working with.
Truthfully, if I didn't have to do a lot of graphics work as well, I wouldn't use a Mac. But being able to dive from Eclipse into Illustrator>Photoshop>After Effects, then into the terminal, sftp, ssh, remote mysql and dive back into Safari/FF/Chromium to test it, is very useful for my workflow as an all-in-one freelancer. I certainly wouldn't be able to use Windows for it. I could use Ubuntu, but would suffer on the graphic design front, especially dealing with motion and typography. If I didn't have the added design requirements, I'd probable just use some linux flavor. As it is, alone, the hardware/software combo isn't worth it if you're just coding.

If someone is just developing, not designing, then no reason to go OS X. If design and dev are tightly bound in the workflow, then it's the only good solution right now.
That's a sample of the videos: http://www.youtube.com/Agilowen
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If you tie in the theory of addiction this makes even more sense; addictive substances provide some temporary escape or pleasure but you quickly feel as bad as before or maybe even worse, which makes the next "escape" even more compelling.
Really though, if all of your traffic is going through TOR to a vpn in eastern europe, the chances of being tracked down are slim to nil. Sure, there are theoretical weaknesses in TOR, but you'd need to control quite a few exit nodes to even begin to have a chance of pinpointing the endpoints. Combine that with a compromised wifi as a last resort (which you erase the logs of regularly), and you're pretty damned safe. All of the people who were arrested for hacking the CIA or DoD were caught many years ago, when anonymization tools weren't nearly so well developed, and the need for anonymization wasn't so clearly recognized. I'd like to see a modern story of the authorities finding someone who was hidden by TOR + vpn. I just don't see it happening any time soon.
That's also what strikes me in this story. Anyone can explain this?
Just For the Lulz
I would have been willing to pay $50 dollars... anyone willing to reopen the deal? :-)
The iPhone does have a keyboard in the sense that he meant: he didn't want a "little scribble thing"...which the software keyboard is not.
Is it only me who find it funny that the name is allthatiswrong given how many factual errors there are in there. :) Can't quite make up mind if the author is trolling or if he have just failed to read up on the topic he tries to school us in.
Compiling assets in development mode does not have any sense. Asset files are generated with MD5 added to it's name, but links to these assets are without MD5 signature.
I was going to say something snarky, but I checked your comment history and it seems you are on here seldom enough to explain an honest lack of knowledge about them. Basically, LulzSec is a hacking group that has been attacking many targets very publicly over the past 2 months. They've been all over HN, /., reddit, etc. They've even earned some mentions in the MSM.

Basically, they're notable for a) the number of targets they've hit, b) how brazen they are about it (hitting the FBI, CIA, and other law enforcement agencies), and c) how vigorously they court publicity (270k followers on Twitter).
While in some sense that is true, your statement shows that you have failed to understand or properly challenge the previous argument.
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great talk from Steve, and awesome that it starts out with some Grateful Dead :)
Actually it's an sh thing:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu...
Just like the low security systems they crack, the weakest link in their own chain is the human element.

Think password reuse is a problem? So is screen name reuse. So is having the same friends over time. So is trusting people.

A person's digital fingerprint is huge these days, and a human weakness can break the chain apart. And once one person's in custody? How much discipline do you think each member has to not snitch in the face of prison time?
After thinking about it for a few moments, I would guess that they largely sell books and research papers and suchlike on subjects that are of interest to those in member militaries, but aren't of sufficient general interest to make it to Amazon or otherwise.

EDIT: or, I could've spent a single moment to read the contents of the aforementioned link.
Even if authorities were able to track down someone through TOR, I doubt they'd publish it. More easy to let black hats think they are safe.
Take my contract to a lawyer and see if I have any of the leverage I "think" I have. I suspect you don't have much.

Basically if you are working for a startup, (or any company where you are building sweat equity), and your employee number is larger than 2, then you had better have what you think you are getting spelled out specifically in your contract unless you really don't care.

That said, I don't think it's that people are "out to get you" as much as they are usually rather focused during a transition on making sure they themselves are taken care of.
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Sheesh, it's described in the linked NATO press release. Nothing big, propably comparable to PACER.

> NATO’s e-Bookshop is a separate service for the public for the release of NATO information and does not contain any classified data.
Part 2:

http://benkrasnow.blogspot.com/2011/06/tutorial-electrical-i...
This is extremely exciting to me! I've worked in a couple programming classes but am mainly self taught (and no where near as good as I want to be) so I'm really excited to go through these! Thank you!
AFAIK, this is the first that Lulzsec has disclosed that the NATO bookstore was hit, which means the police knew before we did. That can't be good for those behind the mask.

Maybe they were seeing how long it would take for the news to come out without their help.
on a unix server, you have to be root to read everyone's data.

on an os x laptop, you can be the logged-in user and read everyone's data. file permissions don't really mean much when everything of importance on the system is owned by one user (which is running dozens of applications with large attack surfaces).

that's not really a criticism of mac os, because it's the same on a windows desktop. you need elevated privileges on both systems to be able to do certain things to the system, but if all you want to do is steal sensitive documents, spy on the system's webcam, launch DDoS scripts, or add a command to the startup/login sequence, there's no need to bother elevating privileges.

one way to fix that problem is to make the system actually use the file permissions and user separation that the system already has, so that safari is running as a separate user with no access to the operating user's home directory, and that itunes has no access to the machine's webcam.

i haven't really looked into the sandbox feature of lion, but i'm assuming it does pretty much that, just like ios' concept of each 3rd party application being segregated from each other and not able to read files it's not supposed to.
Right, but then they'd be prosecuted, and the means would come out. You wouldn't be able to both put people in jail based upon evidence gained from compromising TOR, as well as keep secret the fact that TOR was compromised. Not for long, at any rate.
I quickly skipped through the video & it looks nice:) although I don't like the sound of the voice
I don't know... why should I worry about Dropbox security in this context? The risk that someone could steal my Dropbox data is of course there, but that they then would be able to decrypt the password database (or bother to spend resources on trying) seems very unlikely.

The only thing I'm a bit worried about is accidentally deleting or corrupting the password file, as Dropbox could then synchronize this change across all devices. I guess I should back it up regularly to non-Dropbox folders to avoid losing all my passwords.
Most startups fail, and depending on the state of your startup banks might laugh at you.
I was being sarcastic :-)
Neither is San Francisco or Mountain View technically Silicon Valley. I always thought that SV is used more as a metaphor for the tech startup scene than the specific location.
Having read the title, I thought "hey, all you need is 2 measures".

So the final constraint (not mentioned in the title) is to find out whether the anomalous ball is heavier or lighter than the rest.

That's where the third measure comes in.
Another variation was presented in my psych class. There are eight coins of unknown weight each. Using a scale twice, identify which one is the false coin. The false coin is lighter than the regular coins, which are all of the same weight.

I found this one less intuitive; if you use the same algorithm as the 12 balls problem, it requires using the scale three times, which is one over the amount of times you're allowed to use the scale.
Thanks! That would be my voice btw :) But I'm looking for more people to help out in producing the content. It's a one man thing so far.
well, your self-valuation is 2, and your bosses valuation of you is 1. unfortunately, economics dictates that only your bosses valuation matters. willingness and ability to quit for another job is how you shift the economics in your favor.

if i was your boss, i'd offer you 1, with just enough padding to keep your morale up. However, as you continue to grow, your external credibility increases, which should grow your salary rapidly towards your true value.

how did it go?