skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It protects against hackers that compromise the provider's administration interface, and then use that interface to reboot the server to single user mode or a rescue system. Upon reboot, the attacker will encounter an unusable blob as filesystem because he doesn't have the encryption key.

It also protects against hosting provider employees that detach the hard disk and attach it onto another machine to copy data off it.

If the server is virtualized, then in theory it's still possible that the attacker hacks into the hypervisor, and then through modifications in the hypervisor's RAM gains access to the guest kernel, and thus the guest system. However the skill that is required for this is an a whole new level compared to "regular" hacks.

If the attacker has physical access then it's still possible that he uses electromagnetic emissions from the hardware or power supply patterns to obtain information about it to hack the system. But again, this requires skills on a whole new level.
Their advocacy of public-private partnerships is interesting:

> Creating successful public-private relationships—in which tools, knowledge, and intelligence are shared—is the ultimate key to success in addressing cyber threats and is among the highest priorities of the FBI.

It sounds like a page out of the CISPA propaganda handbook, and it seems to indicate that CISPA will eventually pass.
Also, the network feature works great when you subscribe to people who bookmark interesting stuff.
Buying likes and rigging votes in Facebook's seedy underworld
It makes me wonder if there's any connection with the recent Drupal Security problem (they cited a "third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure" but they haven't - afaik - disclosed the software name yet)
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Countries that were part of or occupied by USSR have been there as well, I think.
You don't seriously think that a server admin said that, do you? It was probably some low rank customer service peon.
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I love tmux and I use for my daily work.

I switched from screen after reading this awesome book: http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux
Correct, but hacking into the hypervisor is harder than hacking an administration interface. In the end the only secure server is one in a vault at the bottom of the ocean, but there are ways to prevent certain attack vectors.
> I wonder if there has been any cases where they helped with a scientific discovery

Paul Erdos was a prolific mathematician who was notorious for using speed to keep going on a problem. He briefly quit for his health but quickly decided it made him too unproductive.
No, it's not. That ends with no service existing at all. Money has to come from somewhere for the service.
Ask HN: Stripe (dev friendly payment api) with pluggable merchant accounts?
Would anyone be interested in a service like this? Does something like this already exist?
For RSS feeds? Or are you talking about something else? RSS is not a streaming protocol. The .rss/.atom file would explode under the conditions you describe. Sounds like you are designing for a more complicated case?
Hetzner provide a lot of physical machines too, I believe this is what the other poster was talking about.
Do you have link to their previous hack?
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Who said anything about hijacking a truck? This is called grab and go. You obviously have never heard of shoplifting or beer runs. This would be a crime of opportunity which happens all the time with or without surveillance. You have gone off the deep end if you think those drones are practical for security use. A 10 minute battery range is laughable.
I much prefer having to repeatedly enter the password dozens of times than risking data leaking out - or worse, data being tampered with.
Really? grcat/grc's configs are very simple. For example, this is the config for colorizing diffs:

regexp=^\+(.*$)
colours=bold green
count=more
=======
regexp=^\-(--.+$|[^\-].*$|$)
colours=bold red
count=more
========
regexp=^\>([^\>].*|$)
colours=bold green
count=more
=======
regexp=^\<([^\<].*|$)
colours=bold red
count=more
=======
regexp=^@@ .* @@$
colours=magenta
count=more

I agree that colout works better for ad-hoc stuff.

You should consider inverting the way it's invoked, though, to be more like grc, otherwise you can't reliably use colout in an alias (as pointed out elsewhere in this thread).
It's most likely that Nagios was simply used as a tool. It's easy enough to add a Nagios plugin that does something naughty and call it check_inode_usage or something.

..not that I'm a fan of Nagios' architecture though. I'm not.
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It's so hard to recommend something without a frame of reference. Personally, I've found myself re-reading The Lord of the Rings lately.

But, if I had to pick one book that was my favourite, I might say Moby Dick. (I'll admit that I actually read it first after seeing the Wrath of Khan as a kid)
...isn't this at least the world's third or fourth private cloud appliance?
Merely reflecting the tone you've taken throughout this post. Then to use the passive-aggressive "May I suggest getting an education" bit is incredibly condescending, especially given that your position of less-government is universally better, after being scrubbed of the sensationalist rhetoric you are spewing, has literally 0 empirical evidence behind it. There is a reason Austrian economics is not taken seriously.

I especially like that fact that you asked less than 1.5 years ago about the best online CS program, then have the audacity to tell someone to get an education. You probably do not know jack shit about econ or cs.
The reason I check them is I figure they are a good 'average' of the news that the average american receives. I definitely know it is neither comprehensive, nor good reporting. But I'm sad for the fact that most Americans will hear more about honey-boo-boo (or whatever stupid entertainment stuff) on CNN than they will about NSA collecting their phone records.
I just got mine now (almost 45 minutes after this submission to HN) so yours is probably still in the queue.
I thought they were pretty amusing :)
I've rarely seen well articulated, highly subjective opinions teared into pieces, at least on HN. Usually the provocative, flaming comments get the predictable "you're wrong by definition" responses.
I wonder if this still works if you include an URL in the description / post text..
If one likes tmux, may I recommend having a look at 'byobu'. It's built to use either tmux or screen as a backend and provides some features that make life slightly easier than using barebones tmux or screen. However, I must warn that it is just a matter of convenience and it doesn't really add anything significant.
Since you're going with "classics" I'd add:

* Les Liaisons dangereuses

* The Count of Monte Cristo

Plus my personal picks; Taltos the assassin, Chronicles of Amber, Dune & LoTR.
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Of course not, but regardless of who in the company said it, the official support response was as quoted. Not exactly encouraging!
Here is my intuition. Hopefully adding to your explanation.

GA are a way to solve search problems. But there are other ways that are more efficient and more specific. http://www.pearsonhighered.com/samplechapter/0136042597.pdf

But solving a problem with GA may sometimes be cooler and more interesting.
Physical machines don't prevent keys from leaking out. A physical attacker can analyze power usage usage patterns to extract the encryption key. :)
Look at the state constitutions enacted during the 1776-1787 period, how they were created, and what the public discussion of them was. They show a definite distrust of government. (States may have had regulatory powers, but that did not give them license to be tyrannical by e.g. locking people up without trial or conducting unreasonable searches.) Many of the new ideas that were formed during this period about how to structure state government to hedge against tyranny were also used when drafting the federal constitution.

kijin's point stands: back then people did not trust the government (and a key related point: they knew that even a republican (i.e. democratic) government could be untrustworthy). Much of that healthy distrust is gone today.
p2p file transfer tool w/ some cool features like auto-accept rules, tag-based (semantic fs) syncing

http://deployanything.com (win,mac,lin + pi)

Tech: C++11, Qt, node.js

:)
Once you've learned a complex skill, it can seem very easy to you - and you no longer see that it's not-easy to the point of impossible for many others. Most people don't have the talent or patience to learn it at all.

Besides software, I play guitar. I've played guitar for over 30 years now. I long ago passed a level of mastery on the instrument, and my attention is focused on expression rather than technique. When working with other guitarists, it can be difficult to even comprehend that they haven't mastered their instruments technically, that things I do without thinking are hard for them to even understand, much less do. And frankly, most of them will never, ever master their instruments.

Software's the same way. It takes, at least, several years to really master it to the point where the act of coding itself no longer gets in your way and dominates your thinking, and you can focus on problems of expression rather than technique. The value of tools like Rails is that they further reduce the technical friction, getting you closer to expressiveness.

And THIS is why coders are worth it. There's work that needs to be done, work that has real market value, and a very limited number of people with the mastery needed to perform the work. And yeah, most startups are crap, but the big wins are big enough to justify risk on a bunch of small losers, so the market is there.

I just wish I could make a living as a guitarist. It's more interesting and challenging.
Additionally, I'm not one to invoke the class war most of the time, but am I meant to feel bad that value is going to me rather than to suits and investors? Don't make me laugh.
Tool for ranking your preferences, by doing pairwise comparisons (Elo algorithm)
This is an online tool I wrote that helps you to sort a list of items by importance. You paste in a list of items, then you are asked to compare them two at a time. As you go, it shows you an updated sorted list. It uses the Elo ranking algorithm, so that you still get decent results even if you don't do all pair combinations.<p>Why did I write this? My wife and I are thinking about moving and there are several dozen preferences we have, and I wanted to know which were our top 10 and in what order. You can use this for ranking any list of preferences: things you are looking for in a new car, favorite skills/interests to focus on when deciding on a new career, etc.
You've been brainwashed. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

All services cost.

Who will pay for your free service? Venture capital only lasts so long.

The best option for consumers is one that meets their needs for as long as they need it, not one that exceeds their needs for six months until the doors close...
The book is not finished yet, and right now it is meant for reviewers to comment on the book:
"Once authenticated, you will see that every paragraph has a comments link beside it. Simply enter your feedback in there, and a Github issue will automatically be created on your behalf. "

If you simply want to read the book then I suggest you wait until it is finished.

In the meantime I would recommend you start reading the tutorials on the OCaml community site:
http://ocaml.org/tutorials/index.html
>The creative content (writing, photography, art, travel guides etc) is all in demand, but no-one wants to pay for it, perhaps because it's so easy to produce something yourself, and so hard to distinguish the fine differences in quality which separate a remarkable piece of writing or photography from the mediocre.

The real reason is not really that people don't want to pay for it, but rather it's available for free, so there's no need for most people to pay for those things. If there were no free travel guides etc., people would still pay for them.

A comparable situation is happening with newspapers. People will pay for news if they cannot get them for free. Since you can these days get news for free, a lot of people are getting rid of their newspaper subscriptions.
I did something like that once, many years ago. I was working on a doomed project to replace the numerical control for the companies main product line--internal grinding machine tools. The project was going no where. I was getting sent out of state to attend worthless meetings.

I took myself off the project, sat down and wrote an OS for the existing hardware and dragged a few coworkers along for the ride. By the time I left, almost all of the software group was working on my OS.

This was many years ago--I would never write an embedded OS today but this was the early days of microprocessors and good embedded OS software was very expensive and generally licensed on a per use basis. Trying to get the company to pay license fees would have killed the project immediately.

The OS and subsequent application software took about 2 years and worked quite well. It helped the company get a contract from GM Saturn. I learned a huge amount in those 2 years. It didn't help me keep my job at the company though. The broken nature of the company wasn't fixed by simply delivering working software. There was really nothing I could have done to extend my career there and in hindsight, I should probably have gone and done something different.
Wouldn't an enterprise's call records be by definition "business records" and not subject to the same protection as the communications of the people? I'd imagine a lot of VBNS customers are already subject to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations that require holding onto and turning over business records to interested parties.
Snapchat proves there is a huge market for privacy. The secondary issue is trusting that the privacy is as advertised. Developers should seize on both.
Microsoft has supported SOPA, PIPA and CISPA (though later opposed SOPA after community backlash), so I wouldn't go as far to predict the outcome of CISPA based on Microsoft's actions or the words of a hopeful G-man.
To be fair, Hetzner has very "google translaty" English support for simple matters, so it is not impossible that they simply didn't understand the question
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I've jerry-rigged one of those onto the bottom of a pepperspray canister. This "device" works wonders with drivers who think they can just run a cyclist off the road.
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http://TheChaosEngine.com focuses on video game development (art, programming, design, general topics). To get full access you would need to send an work email to confirm that you are from the industry. There are also some indies, educators, and ex-video game folks (so it's not a strict order).

There is also http://www.altdevblogaday.com/ also for game development.

Recently http://flipcode.com has been getting up from long sleep (it was my favourite site back in the days).
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Why not just rent a cabin in the woods with 2 weeks vacation time?
Interestingly Sweden tried a 0.5% tax in 1984:

> During the first week of the tax, the volume of bond trading fell by 85%, even though the tax rate on five-year bonds was only 0.003%. The volume of futures trading fell by 98% and the options trading market disappeared.

Needless to say, 'tax avoidance' became the norm (especially since it was exceedingly easy to circumvent) and it was later repealed in 1991.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_financial_transaction_t...
The guy could have said "all religions' holy books take place in a time when child marriage was common and even endorsed".

But he didn't say that. He went on about muslims specifically. Makes me, and hey I'm just an observer, but it makes me think his point was more about muslims than it was about child pornography.
Here's my favorite explanation of this formula:

http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding-...
I would say that the Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory is the most beautiful result of all mathematics, though Euler's identity is certainly a contender.
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> The author is currently writing a book about OCaml that is now available in alpha format from here:
http://www.realworldocaml.org/

For anyone else trying to take a peek, authorizing github doesn't necessarily grant you access as there is some sort of whitelisting of allowed github handles. They should make it obvious in the copywriting that not all github accounts can take a peek.

"To login and view the book, you will need a free Github account to authenticate with."

This sounds like you just authenticate with github and be on your merry way.
HN has always had room for the occasional off beat. Since this is a clever parody of a stock computer science paper, it's not even a stretch to understand why it got upvoted. I admit that I didn't get it, though, until I watched the (much funnier) video. It's really a parody of a stock computer science talk, with associated paper.
The lesson to take from this is you can't rely on someone else providing security for you. You need to make sure you "layer" your security. If your database is compromised make sure you are salting your passwords or at least using a hash that is designed to be resistant against cracking.

This doesn't protect against someone who has root access to your box and manages to capture passwords in the clear as they are being transferred but it does limit the surface of a breach.
Oh god I've been needing this in my life.
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I was just going to post the same, I don't remember many "I want it but only if you lower your price" but instead tons of "raise your price, damn it!" (and not only from patio11).

Ok maybe some says "I won't buy it because I can do the same in a cheaper way" but those won't buy your service/product either way
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Is it just me or is there a bug shown in their second example? The closing square bracket isn't coloured.
The text of the 4th amendment says: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."

Which of those are things you transmit between people? Note the use of the word "paper" (connotative of something you keep in a desk, like a diary) versus the word "letter" (connotative of something you send to someone else).

The addresses of Postal mail have never been considered "your information" protected by the 4th amendment. The contents of Postal mail are considered protected, but given that the protection does not extend to UPS/FedEx/etc, it seems to be based on the unique status of the Postal service as an organ of the government.
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and this is why media conglomeration is a bad thing.
Have you had a look at the Source Movie Maker from Valve? http://www.sourcefilmmaker.com/

It's by for the most interesting development for animation that I've seen for years. In about an hour I was able to produce 15 sec of reasonable good animation the first time I used it.

Their process is more akin to Photoshop than anything else as it's a destructive process rather than procedural.

I found it quite enlightening.
This doesn't work for me at all on FireFox 22.0 on Windows XP. See here: http://imm.io/18sd9
Huh, this doesn't make me happy. I haven't gotten an email yet.
Most of the conservatives I know just want to spend more money investigating Benghazi.
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In October 2011, unfortunately these links are in German only:

http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Web-Hoster-Hetzner-geha...

http://www.heise.de/ix/meldung/Datenleck-bei-Hetzner-1356468...

http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Passwortklau-bei-Hetzne...

There was unauthorized access to customer data, even passwords. Someone claims to have accessed it via an FTP-server where he found a root password to a management server
I think you're generalizing and/or hanging out in the wrong places. For instance, on Reddit's [libertarian sub-reddit][1] I've found "sheeple" comments get downvoted pretty quickly.

edit: I'd also add that I've never felt this elitism from libertarian figureheads either. I can clearly recall Milton Friedman saying that libertarianism should never be forced on people, and if it isn't taken up freely then it wasn't meant to be.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/libertarian
If you don't want to wallow in somebody else's shit, quit.
Same here - FF 22.0 on Windows XP
Agreed especially on the 'no government' mantra. I think people have been, to an extent, conditioned by party lines to think in certain ways as well.

Oftentimes, I'll suggest eliminating a program from the federal government's purview and shifting its responsibilities down to the state, especially in cases where 'one-size-fits-all' policies don't make sense or where the dollars could be spent more efficiently within local reach (and especially where spend efficiency matters, which ought to be a bigger focus than it is), and the response is to parrot that 'program x needs to exist'.

I know I'm a libertarian, and yeah, that does come with a lot of baggage, but I like to think I'm more pragmatic and comprising than most, but suggesting we get rid of the Department of Education and shift the billions of dollars to the states doesn't mean I hate education, it means that those dollars matter, and one-size-fits-all plans aren't good for America (see: no child left behind).

Regarding 'limited reach', again, I completely agree, but I think that the fault lies with the citizenry. The Constitution, if read as a cautionary tale, basically predicted that this would inevitably happen, and it's our fault for not having been vigilant enough to prevent it.

Even today, despite all this outrage, I'm guessing by the next election cycle, it will have been forgotten. If anybody loses so much as a seat over this, I'll be very surprised.
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They are of good quality, but let's keep in mind that Hetzner tends to be solidly on the budget side. I am a Hetzner customer, and it stinks that this happened, but let's consider: I don't expect Bugatti quality when I'm paying for a Chevy Malibu.

I do appreciate them being forthcoming and sharing some security details that do make me feel pretty safe. I don't care if they have the last few digits of my CC number, and I've already reset my password. Stinks I had to even think about this, but again, Chevy Malibu.
It is great to see that that the makers of FIREfox and thunderBIRD have risen from a lull (the ashes?) and are really looking like they are snowballing into a behemoth that works for users' freedom over the internet. They are really on a roll in the recent times.

I raise my hat to the noble folk at Mozilla.