skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ICCIDs here are sequential integers. It wasn't brute force, just incrementation. They are not secret and are certainly not access credentials. There were no access controls surrounding the web service in question.

The prosecution is asserting that access to any system without authorization is "access to a protected system" in the legal sense, which is obviously bogus. This would make the Googlebot's operators criminally liable if I put up a site at "johndoessocialsecuritynumber.com".

In fact, authorization is built into HTTP. There were no protections in place surrounding this data. Regardless of what he did with the data, downloading something from a public website is not criminal. (Though irrelevant legally, it's worth noting that he did nothing with the data except shame AT&T.)

(I put up weev's bail and am handling some of his PR while his computer restrictions are in place.)
Ah, no. Of course, he's not identified as a spammer. Instead, he is identified as someone who needs to go through additional checks when posting. This can be combined with the stopforumspam check, and that would yield 3 categories of visitors - white, gray and blacklisted.

It's just that in my own setups I haven't come across for the need to blacklist people.

PS. If they searched the issue, they were presumably having it with my software, so it's quite likely they were on the site before and I can recognize them. That's not to say that direct hits into an appropriate threads from https://google aren't possible. But they aren't that common either.
The best product company should acquire one of the weakest ones?
Is this HTML that you control?

If you're loading it through a C# WinForm control, you might be able to do something like pre-inject a hidden input tag onto the page with a particular name/value, and then in the javascript on the actual page, check for that tag to determine if the page was loaded via a form... I'd guess you'd make a HttpWebRequest out to the resource you want, manipulate the response in some way, then load it into your viewable control... I'm shooting from the hip here, so this is just a guess. I haven't worked in WinForms for a while now.

You might want to look at your approach, however... Are you absolutely in need of having this page be loaded through a WinForm?

Edit: Also the dude suggesting you post this on SO is correct
Thanks! Check out the credits ( http://bortomheten.com/lavue/legallicensecredits/ ) for a list of all sources that the app relies on, including the police scanners.
You'd be surprised. Eating less food when you have smaller plates is a well-established behavior, even though your argument still applies - you can feel exactly how much you ate, and you know that your plates are unusually small.
What do you mean by come first and come second ?
How can I passively job hunt in multiple countries?
How can I attract recruiters (passively search for jobs) and build a network in Zurick, Frankfort, Bordeaux (Fr), Montpellier (Fr), New Orleans, Quebec at the same time ?? (from a Web Developer point of view)(website, web agencies, contacts, tactics, strategies, tips and tricks, etc. welcome).
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A lot of it has to do with face though. Hunan/Changsha get lots of face projects because they are the home of Mao. Changsha itself is at best a second tier city and not really even on the level as Wuhan or (definitely) Guangzhou that it lies between.

Looking at the designs, the building looks like it will be an eye soar pretty quickly, on par with the Ryugyong.
Nothing categorical and to be honest I'm not sure I buy it 100%.

The timing of dropping Google maps makes sense - Apple are on an annual upgrade for iOS. If the choice is to launch their own maps 14 months before the end of the deal or 2 months before the end of the deal 14 months makes sense so you've got a fall back.

And if it makes sense then it seems sensible that Google who had all the information and knew of the animosity would be able to work it out.
So they want someone to work on performance problems for free for a week? And then pay $24/hr afterwards for someone who knows all major RDBMSs? I think they might just get what they pay for.
FWIW I'm pretty sure that my views on external dependencies aren't very common or popular. I think you'd have no problem finding users for your service.
You're conflating social upheaval with uninformed blogspam? I think Luther was intimately aware of the ongoings of the church, and Nader wrote a reference-backed book on the subject - he was an expert.
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I don't know if this is the same thing, but I know Dreamhost auto-updates my abandoned Wordpress sites (is that triggered through Wordpress itself, even on independent WP installations?)
The main way to stop spam on your website is to be ahead of the herd. At the moment the general herd of websites do very little, so a couple of honeypots and IP bans are all you need most of the time.

We were swamped recently with spam when our page rank recently hit 6 (I guess spammers target sites with higher PR). For this we had to implement a block on users with under n posts being able to post URLS. That basically eradicated that wave of spam.

It's amazing how smart and adaptive some of them are though. It only took them 12 hours to realise if they post anything then edit it they can edit in links. We fixed that one promptly and they haven't been back since.

So for that reason your suggestion probably would only be temporary. I'd also be concerned about a lot of false positives.

I also believe a lot of spam is human. If you have people willing to work for a few dollars a day spamming websites that automated processes have difficulty reaching, it could well be a cost effective method for spammers to reach their targets.
HTC had a clear advantage 2-3 years ago but misplayed their leap by their model naming confusion. After "Desire HD", (which I still own) I could not recommend anything to my friends due to model naming confusion. Samsung was clearer and you knew Galaxy S,2,3 was the flagship. HTC One series tries to solve it but simply added more options and it seems to be too late. Even Sony has a better chance moving forward, I bet.
I have no comment on Autonomy's finances. We did however evaluate it's product vs Google's search appliance.

The Google Appliance we pretty much plugged in and let it do it's thing. After a few days it was giving excellent results on our massive (80,000 people) company intranet.

The Autonomy server had to be constantly tweaked and fiddled with to even get it near to the relevance of the results.

Unfortunately, Autonomy had flogged a loads of licenses to another part of the business for peanuts, so we had to go with their inferior product.
As a matter of fact, I am a programmer as well, and I agree with the original comment here; a multimedia experience is the best way to do it. Of course, I'm a college professor, and I give my students that experience every day in class, but having something online makes a lot of sense.

If I had time, I'd start on it right away, but as it is, it's on the Big To-Do List. However, one thing I am actively working on right now is an aural skills practice site that includes the advanced stuff (most existing sites only deal with the basics) and which uses HTML5, CSS and other open standards tech (most existing sites are flash-based). I'm also designing it with an interface that works equally well using a mouse or a touchscreen. This is, IMHO, a huge need in my field. But my project is still in it's infancy, and not ready for prime time.
What's further terrifying is that the courts have made restriction of his use of non-windows non-monitored computers part of his bail conditions - prior to a trial to determine guilt.

A person who's only marketable skill is on the Internet, completely prohibited from using ssh or virtualization, by nothing more than an error-riddled FBI complaint document. (This started prior to the grand jury indictment.) He's been without significant work for over two years as a result.

It's a scary thought that this could happen to any one of us.
isn't the implication "he's not a bad guy" rather than "he's not either of these two groups, one of which would reasonably explain his behaviour anyway"?

i think that's what worries people (and me). that his own lawyer, apparently defending him (not just explaining, but holding him up in positive contrast), seems to be saying, "look, he's not one of these problem groups". and in that sense, as a "problem group", activist and terrorist are presented as similar.
How about this: We don't prosecute people for loading URLs on the public internet first and foremost.
> or HP ( or Leo Apoteker ) was corrupt or dumb

I wouldn't bet on Apotheker being dumb. In his career he probably made more money than many of us ever will.
"We did a whole host of due diligence but when you're lied to, it's hard to find," Are you kidding me? That's the whole purpose of doing due diligence in the first place.
Internet Explorer 8?
I have only control on the web app, not the clients.

It is posted on SO in parallel, but there is no help at there, so I thought to try my luck in this community.
It is sarcasm, yes.
See huhtenberg's comment above. It was my experience too - the spammers are just too lazy/busy/cheap to chase the fractions of the percentages.
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Huh, I had no idea that feature had been deprecated. I guess it's been a little longer since I used it than I thought.
But concrete buildings are so common in China because they can be assembled with low-level migrant workers. The move to steel typically requires much higher-level expertise, and so only the tallest buildings get that treatment. But with prefab, this is interesting, they might be able to continue using low-level migrant workers in the factory and during assembly?
I can definitely concur the opposite. The more I have in my plate, the more I want to "finish" that meal, and there I end up eating more.
On the plus side, if you're a smart investor you're watching a dozen or dozens of drunk men walking down the road.
Might be able to do UserAgent parsing then... since you're doing a very specific target, it might (keyword might) be simple to do a string compare against whatever the UserAgent of the WinForm app is (I have no idea what it would be, but you could test this very easily), and use that as how you detect.
"To take an extreme example."

I am not defending the piece as some monumental treatise.

BUT...

by this argument, an environmentalist asking for protection against pollution could be dismissed by a CEO who claims the market for pricing those externalities can't/aren't understood by those outside of the shop.

And...the corporation today could be easily compared in its breadth and omnipotence to the church of the 16th century.
> It's a non executive role, so I assume it's more for 'experience and wisdom' in their respective fields and expertise than anything else.

He's clearly there to wield influence. What other possible reason?
We hacker/engineering types seem to have an almost visceral rejection of the idea that we are anything less than in total, conscious control of our actions. You see this mostly in reference to advertising ("Oh, I don't see ads, and even when I do, it's not like they affect me").

But the thing is, that's not entirely true. People are not hyper-rational processors of data. We're startlingly susceptible to all sort of subtle manipulation, even when we're fully aware we're being manipulated (See the recent front page link about a guy who was sold $100 dollars in facial cosmetics despite walking in to the situation fully determined to critically analyze the techniques used as a learning experience).

The point I'm trying to say is, yes, you will know you're wearing a headset and yes, you will only have X amount of food in your stomach. But that doesn't mean the subconscious drives that run hunger and satiety (which are far more complex than just "Dry volume of food consumed") can't be tricked by visual stimulus, even visual stimulus the conscious brain knows has been altered.
This was true a few years ago. I have a friend who works on it, and got him drunk enough one night to admit this :)
The problem with metaphors is that they only resemble what they are describing. They'll always be imperfect. The problem with web servers is that anything that is public-facing is just that. Security through obscurity is no security at all.

Like I said, the guy went too far. But visiting a public-facing website is not a crime, no matter how you happen to discover the URL. There's no sign on the door saying "keep out", even though the server is more than capable of displaying one. Do you have a right to walk into any business, or walk into their storage space? No, but any reasonable person (notice I keep using this phrase? It's going to come up in court) would assume if the lights are on and the door is open, you can walk in. You might be mistaken, and a clerk might show you out. Intent is a critical factor. Like I said, the guy went too far. He didn't enter by mistake, though someone could have. He entered with the intent of making unauthorized copies of private data. Walking into a store's storage space isn't illegal, but a reasonable person would know that taking pictures of customer data is.

It's not illegal to visit any public facing Internet site. It is illegal to make unauthorized copies of restricted data. It's also against The company is hugely to blame in this situation for leaking private information. So is the guy who broke the law by making unauthorized copies of this private information. I support him having criminal charges filed against him. My point was that there are two issues at hand, one illegal and one perfectly within the law. Implied consent at odds with intent. It should be an interesting case.
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Nice idea! What are other similar apps that did this? (Assuming you did research). I see bsaul did something similar but he used geolocation as sharing platform…interesting…

And why the restrictive color palette? To create the nostalgic effect of old video games?
If Apple uses its vast cash reserves to buy (for whatever silly reason) a few of those billion dollar social start-ups,(Twitter, Color, EverNote, Tumblr.. ) that could give fresh air to start-up financing. Look Yahoo, Microsoft do it, and kill them afterwards but a lot of VCs rejoice.
I too use my unlocked iPhone on Straight talk and didn't realize I had this problem.
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Is making money a proof for one's intelligence?
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To be fair, he made money largely because he was well connected. His ability to steer a large enterprise and maintain a vision has made him a horrible excuse for a CEO. Doesn't surprise me that this all comes down to money and not real value.
Do to the frequency with which I see people attempting to alert a hell banned party (which obviously defeats its purpose), I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the hell banned can't see any post that contains the word 'hell banned'.
My experience makes me think you're not right.

I worked on what I, at the time, called software to do "3D printing" in the late 1990s. CAM - Computer Assisted Machining - software. (It was CNC drilling, not additive sintering).

Sure, it was very expensive (like a mainframe), not cheap (like a PC). However, it definitely wasn't sexy. Nobody, not even sci-fi nerds, was jumping to work on that type of problem.

It's actually quite schlepy, at least the part we did. Lots of maths and problems with floating point rounding errors, and weird edge cases of strange shapes.

Bet there are plenty of schlepy bits in the new, cheap world of 3D printing. We're certainly early enough, it has nowhere near even begun to play out.
Yes: if you use a Google-branded Android device or have rooted it, you have a good experience unshared by most Android users who are stuck with vendor-crippled UIs and, at least in the US, carrier-marred devices which are rarely improved after purchase. (yeah, yeah, you can probably jailbreak it: most people can't and many who can don't want a second job subsidizing their carrier's policies)

If Android devices weren't blocked from receiving software updates and the stock Google experience was the default, Apple would have a much tougher fight.
Because most EU countries have proportional representation, which means geographically diffuse and demographically aligned ideologies, like the green party in the 70-80s, and the pirate party in the 2000s, can get off the ground easily.
They could start with the board who hired Apotheker.
Actually, Adobe might be a better example than Microsoft. I picked Microsoft because it's the OS space similar to Android. Adobe is a great example.
It might get colder. Or rainier. Or anything. You don't know.
Thinking that Apple should buy an overpriced company (in billions) that doesnt have a sustainable business model to improve their web serices is ludicrous at best. If you are going to spend money in that scale, buy TomTom. At least you would get a super profitable business and solve a real problem Apple has (worldwide maps and amazing geodata collection teams)
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I know. And I'm sure pg could not care less. Thank you, though.
"winter months that are warmer than our current summers—sound pretty ugly"

I know that the 4 degrees are supposed to be an average, but that statement sounds pretty unbelievable nonetheless.
The sea level will go up something like 25 meters (100 feet) if all the ice melts.
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Grotzinger says they recently put a soil sample in SAM, and the analysis shows something earthshaking. "This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good," he says.

Pretty exciting language from a lead investigator at NASA. Cross all those fingers..
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Money in itself is not sufficient to prove someone is smart, but Apotheker clearly did right something I'm doing wrong ;-)
This is a proposal, for legislation to be drafted, backed by the Pirate Party. Falkvinge is the founder and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party. Much less has happened than this article implies.
Cross-posted from the other Autonomy thread:

I have no comment on Autonomy's finances. We did however evaluate it's product vs Google's search appliance.
The Google Appliance we pretty much plugged in and let it do it's thing. After a few days it was giving excellent results on our massive (80,000 people) company intranet.

The Autonomy server had to be constantly tweaked and fiddled with to even get it near to the relevance of the results.

Unfortunately, Autonomy had flogged a loads of licenses to another part of the business for peanuts, so we had to go with their inferior product.
Many posters even here, however, seem to be unaware of climate cahnge. Providing a summary of current scientific results and a discussion of how it applies to your area of specialty is a valuable goal.
You posted at ~4am PST and your title was unappealing.
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Apple also willingly blocks Facetime over 3G and tethering at the carrier's request (on a per-account basis) so that the carriers can upsell you.

It really pisses me off that Apple is actively assisting the carriers in screwing me out of using the data that I'm already paying for.

If I've paid the carrier for x GB, I should be able to use that for Facetime, wifi tethering, or whatever the hell else my phone is capable of.

Because it's so rare for Apple to fuck their customers like this, it's extra jarring when it actually happens.
Nice try, Jonah: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4799082
> AT&T will not be affected whatsoever by a security breech

That's naive. If my emails become public, trust me, I'll cancel my AT&T service. If AT&T becomes known for airing people's dirty laundry, they will quickly bleed customers.

> Further, it is very clear that companies make mistakes all the time with configuration their servers and tools in ways that makes data leaks and theft possible.

Yes, they do. And in cases where individuals are hurt, those individuals sue the company involved. Either individually or collectively. Those companies do pay for their mistakes.

Except, of course, in cases where no actual measurable harm was done by the security breach.

> We should demand that this flaws be exposed and fixed ASAP, there is nothing to be gained here by harassing those doing that exposure.

There is a reason we vest the authority to enforce laws and pursue criminals in only a select few trained individuals. It's naive to think random teenagers have a fine grasp of the law, civil rights, and a well-tuned moral compass.
You need to define who you think the "big corporations that run america are":

A large number of big corporations "running america" really do want patent reform.
How do i know?
I've been there, in meetings with congressmen and senators, listening to them push for it.
I've watched them do everything they can to push the bills forward.

I've watched them get beaten down by other big corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, or patent trolls (Intellectual Ventures).

So please define who the big corporations you think are trying to stall it are. I know who has stalled it in the past, and at least the first few times, it was never the usual suspects in the tech industry.

Also note that at least from where I sit, the senators and congressman I've seen really do want to do the right thing (most of the time). They just don't know what it is, and they are often being told, by people they trust on both sides, to do opposing things.

Also, anybody who thinks this kind of politics is about money should be forced to be a legislative assistant for a few years.
Quick Route uses Google's data and is fantastic: http://excitedpixel.com/apps/ios/quickroute/
I think a discussion of measuring and predicting volatility, and how volatility varies based on the class of asset would be useful. Someone who invests but doesn't know a lot about options probably doesn't have the respect for volatility that an options trader does.
I rather spend $10B in producing ten million TVs and selling them at 50% profit.

Jobs would agree.
The idea here though, as far as I can see, is for people who are lazy and presumably fat. A person like this (possibly the average American) has very little will power and wants to eat what they like. If tech like this existed they could feel like they are eating everything they want while still taking in less calories than they would normally.
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It's either a lot of water or some sign of life or both. crosses fingers
Why can't Straight Talk just push the correct APN settings when connected to the network?
If he was there to wield influence, he's not done very well this time - otherwise why would the BBC report on possible foul play by his former company? Why would they explicitly mention his connection with the BBC?
it will boil down to corporate principles/culture that Apple has. It has to decide how much max resources it can dedicate to handling a small subset of affected user VS. potential media backlash that could be triggered if some of these 'minority' users are influential.