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Firstly, the laws around this sort of thing are very stupid. But with that said...I'm not wholly sympathetic here.

The disclosure was totally botched. The IRC logs that came out during the case showed that Andrew and Dan (Spitler) talked about shorting AT&T stock (they ended up not doing this, but it's not the sort of thing you talk about), and going directly to news organisations, bypassing AT&T. They also considered (perhaps jokingly, but again, not something you joke about) selling the e-mail addresses to spammers.

Andrew also initially told Gawker he'd disclosed to AT&T, when in fact he hadn't (Ars has a good summary here[1]).

I am definitely not saying that a ten year sentence is warranted, or that any sort of custodial sentence is appropriate. In fact, I doubt he'll be given 10 years, more like 2-4 (since his fellow defendant, who plead guilty, got 12-18 months). But I do think the disclosure was handled really, really badly. I've found and disclosed very similar vulnerabilities - I would not leak the entire database out. That's just crazy.

Again, it's the old black/grey/white hat argument again. But to go public without even informing AT&T doesn't endear him to me.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/01/goatse-security-trolls-...
Hello Samuel,

I'm sure you will need all the help you can get with upcoming traffic so I've tried contacting you recently about helping you scale better with https://errormator.com, but I somehow miss you when you are online on IRC, so I've sent you mail to the mailbox i've found.

Its great since your app is python based and we maintain an awesome python client.

Drop me a line if you are interested, we love open-source at Errormator so you would get a completly free plan for non-profits :-)

I could also help you personally if you have any integration questions, you can find me on #errormator on Freenode IRC server.
No. That's got nothing to do with anything though. My wife has a degree in maths and works as a project manager at a big consultancy, I have a degree in comp sci and write Java all day. How many people really work in areas closely aligned with what they studied? I've used to no discrete math or graphs where I work...

I'm just showing you how it's possible to do a PhD then get a good paying job at the end. This removed the worry of missing out on 5 years of salary.
Plenty of word class trading systems are running Java.
Can anyone point to a full-fledged review of The Old Reader?

I could only find first impressions by googling around for a bit.
I don't really get the whole self-help, personal-development thing, but maybe that's because when life starts to bore me or get stale I change it.

The conversation in the article reads like this guy is somewhat manic though.
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Good point about Tumblr. I've a Tumblr with 4.5k followers. All pointless hard work if Tumblr decides to quit.
The same argument goes for Mother's day. Why be nice for one day? Does it really make a difference? :-)

The value is symbolic. Participation is a reminder and a statement.
Fantastic! No dependency, no external libs, lightweight and to-the-point. We need more like this. Thank you very much.

I haven't played with it yet and there seems no labels and/or legend support in pie charts.
Fucking HN...
Now every people tends to think "My 20ies are gone. I'm screwed" WRONG!
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Plenty of NGOs and UN entities hire either local security or external PMCs to provide security. They usually can't afford top end like Blackwater, though.

It would be easier to stick to services like running an airport (eg Mogadishu kept operating...), water, hospitals, power, etc. but another option would be to run "refugee/IDP centers" like the UN allegedly was doing in the Balkans (where they failed spectacularly). If people live inside a camp they are relatively easy to protect.

The point behind lethal force by a PMC is to have overwhelming force. Blackwater had an Air Force, and essentially could call in favors from the CIA and DOD as needed. Outside of the 2004 Fallujah incident, they never were in serious trouble, and after 2004, the USMC basically tore the city apart, largely over the bridge incident.

There would be no way to do this kind of thing without US support (tacit or otherwise) and at least non objection by regional powers, but if you stuck to "help IDPs and execute on international obligations" you would get UN, USAID, etc funding. The issue is that most people in NGOs tend to be bleeding hearts, and also humanities people vs infrastructure people, so thy don't have these capabilities in house; they have to contract them in. The exception are medical groups -- there are huge numbers of great medical facilities run by religious and other charities, and their neutrality is generally respected.
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> In many countries simply accessing a public server without consent is illegal

1) Set up a public server

2) Wait for google bot to show up

3) Press charges against google

4) Sue in civil court

5) Profit.
Unedited version of wikipedia? No idea what you are talking about. Isn't wikipedia all edits? Are you implying I edited wikipedia?

I scrolled down to the part titled "Defining ethics," which happened to be the first section, thinking that would be applicable to defining ethics.

If you read author's comments in the thread, you will see he is clearly making the point that destroying a zygote is a moral issue, as he says:

> It's the destroying of a genetically unique individual human that is the issue

in response to a question about whether destroying a zygote is "wrong".

Throw morality out the door, and he is stating that a zygote is genetically unique for some strange reason in a thread about the morality of abortion.

Besides, his implicit point is also wrong - that a zygote is distinctive in being genetically unique. Each sperm is also genetically unique, so it's a rather inapplicable statement to the context of the thread, unless masturbation is also a sin against the universe.
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I just listed the charges, I didn't say I agreed with them. And I didn't say anything about AT&T.

It seems clear that AT&T failed to protect their customer's personal details. Whether that makes them criminally liable depends on US law, about which I know almost nothing. This [1] article seems to imply that it is fairly weak compared to European data protection laws, so it may be that AT&T did nothing wrong in a strict legal sense.

While its tempting to think that he was just made an example of for embarrassing a corporation, he did write a script to harvest 120,000 email addresses from the AT&T server. I'd say that constitutes criminal intent, even if he had no intention of using the addresses for a criminal purpose.

There are two problems here: 1. absent or weak data protection laws, and 2. disproportionate sentencing guidelines (up 10 years) for what in this case is basically a victimless crime.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/technology/consumer-data-p...
That would merely make him wrong.
that is awesome. That comic is one of my random desktops - great to see it as a playable game <3
Its about the size of a Tata Nano, if you are familiar with the world's "cheapest" car. The previous version of Reva used to run in Europe registered as a heavy quadricycle. http://revacars.com/
yes. I discovered this a few years ago, and used to play it as a break from work - it is fantastic at making you stop after a while because you're so dizzy! :)
So, somewhere around 41:25:

(I know that this is Steven Pressfield's concept, but...) what's the difference between 'resistance' and procrastination?

Edit: I searched around and, from Pressfield himself: "Procrastination is the most common manifestation of resistance because it's the easiest to rationalize..." Looks like I have three more books to add to my reading list.
I'm just curious as to why an employer is keen to have people with PhDs - simple credentialing to make selection easier?
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Each sperm is also genetically unique.
The Slovenians seemed to have the right thing set up -- closely allied with Austria, well defended, and basically stayed out of the whole mess. Also the only Balkan state I've visited, and aside from a tragic lack of vowels, an awesome place.
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I totally agree with you. They don't hand out 10 years for nothing. It is a little harsh though.
> Both of those seem easy enough to fix, which I imagine Microsoft has
> done (the exploit was discovered 3 years ago). I'm going to do a little
> more research when I have time.

Well, by your own confession, you've not read about a fix thus far, and Microsoft have been known to let poorer encryption APIs go unpatched for great lengths of time even when a problem is known (eg NTLM passwords aren't salted), so I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if this hasn't been patched either.

However, regardless of whether it has or hasn't, said patches only increase the CPU time it takes to crack the passwords, it doesn't make the passwords impossible to crack. And, as I'd already said, there's weaker links that can be exploited anyway.

> Lastly, and importantly, this attack is an offline attack.

All the attacks we're talking about here are offline attacks.

> Granted, nothing other than 2FA will protect anyone (or DPAPI) against key
> loggers, but that's true for all OSs.

Of course it's true for all OS's. I never once suggested otherwise. Honestly, I'm puzzled why you'd even bring that point up.

> If local malware is the strength of the argument against DPAPI then
> I might as well go so far as to say that the most secure system is no system.

Which is what myself and pretty much everyone else in this discussion have already been saying. At some point, there needs to be a balance between usability and security. I think NT (and Linux / BSD / Mach too for that matter) offer enough security to make in-memory password hacking awkward enough that it's a minor security risk while still leaving the host OS highly usable.

For the average user, social engineering will always remain the most exploited vector of attack, and for ultra sensitive servers, all we can do is lock them down as best as we can based on the latest fixes and proof-of-concepts. But a sufficiently determined attacker will usually find a way in if there's a sufficiently high enough incentive. Our job (or at least mine), is to make it sufficiently hard that attackers lose interesting trying. But if they've gained root access (in order to run any of the aforementioned attacks), then it's already game over - regardless of whether they manage to decrypt your RAM or not. Which is why I think the aforementioned API is akin to the emperors new clothes (ie all hype, no practical security)
I haven't seen a bigger release for a Smalltalk dialect in the last several years.

Great work!
Wind farms in Northern Europe likely wouldn't break even without government subsidies. The maintenance of turbines, especially off-shore ones, is very expensive. They are also quite pricey per unit for relatively humble power output.
Why would you call it a HTML5 library?

This is a canvas JS library.
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I used the same strategy to get 6:

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This is the kind of thing independent filmmakers would do to raise funds. There was no Internet or VC funds in those days to help. They'd pitch professionals who needed to invest: doctors, lawyers, accountants, dentists, and the like. Do people still go after them to raise funds for tech startups too?
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I like Bastet much better than hatetris. Hatetris gave me mostly the same pieces, but bastet was much more varied and actually felt like I was getting somewhere and playing a normal game, except it was deceiving me and forcing me to build up too high, eventually forcing me to lose.

In the end, I got 2 lines in bastet and 3 lines in hatetris :)
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Why would a startup so young would blow their money on hiring 2-3 senior level developers?
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I would be slightly surprised if national police use such raw methods as liquid nitrogen. It is fast, but it has risk of damaging the ram.

Much safer (but slower) is to hook directly into the bus and communicate with the ram itself. I guess its a trade off between speed and security, which mean it depend on the case specifics.
Maybe it's just me, but I always thought wearing your company t-shirt makes you look obnoxious, specially if no one has heard of the company.
Whether the intention is 'deliberate' or not, its still very true, UI Webviews / bookmarkarked webapps dont get Nitro.

And Mobile safari is not the most feature complete web engine, its one of the least, missing very basic things like indexeddb and spotty CSS support. Chrome / Firefox and Opera all have far more modern support but only for android.
I'm not sure whether you mean mainland Europe but in the UK, it is not necessary to have a masters degree to do a PhD. It is probably advisable but not a prerequisite.

Like you however, after I did my masters and spent 6 months on my own research project, I realised that a PhD would not be for me and went into industry.
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Pharo 2.0 released: tons of new shiny things, an image that is moving the whole system forward.

Really, being involved in this is like being tied to a rocket surpassing escape velocity.

Check the real meat here: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/ActionsInPharo20
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W7
This might actually be a counterpoint to the "it is ok to send your deck/etc to investors, since their reputation is worth more to them than cloning you or passing the info to a competitor", since their whole reputation is built on cloning.
While I do think Germany's energy policy is colossally stupid it does bug me that this article cites a not-so-reputable institute:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Ene...
If you plan on hiring people and rent an office space, it definitively won't give the company a long life span.
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I love how polite you are. Benefiting me with Ad Hominems just makes people not want to like you - which helps me out. Thanks!

A. No, because a blackboard is not a biological organism which is capable of manipulating the environment. When a single man (which required being a zygote first) can invent a wheat that can "save a billion lives" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug) - then yes, it matters.

It also matters if they abort his education. Zygotes develop and acquire informtion, and the more of it, and the more collaboration from these humans from zygotes results in fundamentally world changing and humanity-pushing events. (As well as, admittedly, ones that scale humanity back, unfortunately - but abortion is the aid to this, not the contender.)

B. Red Herring, Straw Man.
I like how you switched the argument over to sperms to make a sassy comment but then failed to actually refute the evolutionary mechanics of genetics. Right, because you can't. A subsequent zygote is fundamentally different in its genetic makeup than the one before - so why not keep both?

C. Ad Hominem.
If my argument is "silly" why do you use logical fallacies?

Actually yes, a universe full of more information is simply progressive. Are you now arguing for destroying information? I hope that doesn't mean you are going to delete your comment - that would, afterall, be consistent with what you are proposing. However every new comment you add is providing unique insight - one which hopefully others will analyze and make beneficial conclusions from. In the same way as (A).

Stupid and fat people have actually produced rather intelligent offspring, surprisingly. Do you deny this? Because if you do, we first might need to have a discussion about not being intolerant.

When did I bring morality into it? I never did, just sheer math and evolution. I don't need morality to prove my point.

Are you proposing that we /should/ kill our young and unfit? I suggest not, but you seem to be refuting this - which puts you in an awkward position.

This is what I summarized from your last paragraph:
"aborting babies ... helps [reduce] violence and suffering."
I guess you must live in China. Here where I live, the government is made up of ordinary people who are also subject to the law, and we can vote to change the law whenever and however we want.
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Is Seaside still being developed? Seems that it died out with DabbleDB being bought up and the take over of the client side js frameworks.
I agree with you. I think $79 is a bit high for the book. I'd at least want to see a table of contents and a sample chapter before paying that much.
Did Apple just drop the Mac Pro? "Unavailable" last week, not listed now...
I see this a lot where the person/people making the decisions decide they can make a product that's almost as good but for less resources/money because they will be able to use a lot of existing 'web' code and be able to use existing web devs or simply hire another one.

The reality like this article suggests is it will take a long time to get something that works almost right but isn't right, even if somehow the performance doesn't matter going forward with much faster devices. It gets pretty hard to try and get a webapp to work with native parts of the OS and features that your users might want or expect.
In the UK that is!
Why would they raise money otherwise? Not much point in raising +$500k if you plan to stay solo and coding at home.
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Transcripts of interviews do tend to read a little over the top, however this chap does seem to have plenty of drive.

"If I say these two sentences. It would let them tell the relatives back in India that their daughter had a proper Muslim wedding. Means nothing to me, it means everything to them. So here we go."

Hope that one works out OK.
Like learning about the physics of the very large and very small, the study of computational extremes will change your intuitive sense of the laws governing the universe -- especially if you are a working programmer and used to interacting primarily with tractable problems.

At U Maryland I took a course from Bill Gasarch on computation. The first thing he said to the class, famously, was "I'm going to show you that there are problems that are impossible to solve. Then I'm going to show you some problems even harder than those. And by the end of the class, you will no longer laugh at that joke." He went on to show us the Halting Problem (an impossible-to-solve problem), then problems that one still can't solve even given an oracle for the halting problem. In other words: even if you could solve the Halting Problem, you still couldn't solve these other problems. And even if you could solve some of those problems, there are others you still couldn't solve, etc. Ultimately, we learned about Recursion Theory, which examines this implied infinite hierarchy of "impossibility".

Another interesting -- and, really, somewhat devastating -- conclusion one can draw from Recursion Theory is that tractable problems are incredibly rare. From a cardinality standpoint, the set of solvable problems is vanishingly small compared to the universe of unsolvable problems. It just so happens that many problems we actually care about are solvable and tractable. But, numerically speaking, this is incredibly unlikely. (In other words, if the distribution of problems we cared about were actually uniform, we'd be able to solve basically nothing we cared about.)

Exact exponential algorithms -- those "right at the edge of tractability" -- open one's eyes in similar ways. Why do we end up with magic numbers x, where the known lower bound seems to be O(x^n) where 1 < x < 2? Will we find underlying mathematical constants here that we don't yet know about? I think every day working developers would do well to learn about these tractability "edge cases".
And if you count everyone who has committed a misdemeanor or felony as a criminal, then everyone is a criminal.

The amount of felonies and misdemeanors is overwhelming, as is often the severity of the punishments.
They don't hand out 10 years for nothing.

LOL. If you mean literally nothing than no. But the war on poverty, war on drugs, and 3-strikes means the US justice system is handing out long sentences for black and hispanic males 3x the rate of white criminals.
Ooh that's just mean. This is the point where I gave up: https://twitter.com/danielytics/status/313625082146738178/ph...
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I know your joking, but the premise of your original comment was that morality is black and white. If this is true for you, then yes, you'd have to voluntarily stop eating. :)

Personally, I take the position that everything I do probably has a negative impact somewhere. Taking the car, bus, train, or staying at home all have consequences for the environment. While I don't lock myself in my apartment, I do regularly review my lifestyle choices and see if they align with my values.

The same is true of the food I eat, both from an environmental point of view as well as how much suffering is involved.
He's a climate change "skeptic". Did you expect anything less?
I never argued that eating meat was ever a necessity.
He was charged with conspiracy, so it's relevant that it was discussed. Conspiracy usually requires discussion of the intended crime, and then at least one party to commit an act that furthers that crime. It doesn't actually require the crime itself to be committed.
You could hire lower-level dev staff, and you'll probably need some marketing and admin people, most of whom would be less expensive, and free more time up for a second round of fundraising (assuming that's a goal).
I wasn't saying certain people should not be held accountable to certain laws I'm just pointing out the major theme of the phenomenon taking place here. As programmers we are a tremendous emerging power and it feels like programmers are being discriminated against from the U.S. much more so than say an Exec at AIG. Perhaps the programmer should be prosecuted, to uphold justice, to make an example to all programmers that you better watch-out before you go making a copy of some document you find laying on the ground while taking a walk in the park. Don't copy that floppy, you could go to jail for 10 years.
He doesn't come across as the smartest cookie by any means (making non-strategic comments to the media), though that shouldn't deprive anyone of fair justice.
EDIT: Added a table of contents and a more obvious link to the sample chapter. Thanks!

Working on adding a table of contents now. The sample chapter is available here: http://startingandsustaining.com/StartingSustainingSample.pd...

It's linked further down the page. I'll see about making it more obvious.
The old Pro didn't meet some new EU eco rules.
As Apple are building something new to replace the Pro this year, I guess that it didn't make sense to update the old one to meet the new rules for a period of a few months.