skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A perfect implementation of what AT&T did is this service: http://www.mailinator.com/

As you can see all emails are accessible without a password, just a username. This is what was required to get the customers' data from AT&T, serial numbers which are by definition serial and obvious to predict, just like anyone visiting http://www.mailinator.com/ would punch in their own name to see what was there and then try some other people's names.

To make Weev's access illegal there must be at least some form of security like a password that he should circumvent. That would be illegal. Placing data accessible through usernames without passwords is not an obstacle or security measure and should NOT be criminalized because it weakens the law and makes anyone a criminal.
I don't think a minuscule amount of likes is embarrassing. People expect that for a small local business. The big difference is that those likes really count for something - 13 likes at a local chip shop probably means 13 people who go there once a week.
Because when I close the one tab left, Firefox closes itself. Thanks to the fast launch time, I don't bother to keeping one open.
Are you sure you are checking the right code?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26786471/img/luic-cubes....

https://github.com/luic/WebGL-Performance-Benchmark/blob/mas...

Also it gets rendering artefacts of 2d canvas renderer, console log confirms it runs CanvasRenderer and performance numbers are not consistent with WebGLRenderer (should be in order of 5,000-7,000 thousands of cubes at 60 fps).

Disclaimer: I did write most of WebGLRenderer's code.
Interestingly enough, Yudkowsky probably uses these tropes deliberately. He himself is a reader of tvtropes.org[1], he's made explicit reference to using tropes before[2], and it makes senes that someone like Yudkowsky would know exactly which tropes he was and wasn't including.

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/EliezerYudkows...
[2] http://hpmor.com/chapter/7
I agree with you about the ethics of this. I'm just pointing out that the technology for self sufficiency isn't the major barrier. It's the politics that are the problem.
Just use webkit already...
Love unsexy problems! Congrats to Jayant et al.
Looks fine on Chromium 25.0/Ubuntu 12.10 and on Firefox 21.0/Ubuntu 12.10
Did you try multiple instances on each provider? Performance between VPS's from the same provider varies wildly. If there are 64 VPS's on a server, you will probably get a lot more than 1/64th of the processing power of that server because most of the other VPS's are idle. But how much more than 1/64th you get will vary wildly from machine to machine.
Coincidentally, since mid-May I've been on an online scrubbing spree. Any post/photo/comment I might have made under my "real" handle, I'm trying to delete it. 13 year old me was way stupid if I see what I've written online over the course of the past 15 odd years. Of course, I'm just trying to reduce my google-footprint, it's not like the data has gone forever.

[Sites such as Hacker News don't allow you to edit, much less delete comments once a certain time has elapsed].
Digital ocean has an API (I provision servers with Chef) and does hourly billing.

Obviously the API isn't as mature - but it is going in the right direction
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WRONG!

"Brute force" is literally an attack. However what AT&T did was only use the equivalent of usernames just like http://www.mailinator.com/ does.
>lack of a restart button.

I don't think Chrome has one. Anyway, either press shift+f2 to bring up the Developer Toolbar and type "restart", or install an addon like Restartless Restart (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/restartless-r...).

You can also just go into the settings, and set "When Firefox starts:" to "Show my windows and tabs from last time".

And I don't see why a "normal" user should want a default button in the UI to restart the browser.

>Memory leaks

The situation is much better now, there still are some leaks here and there, but nothing huge, at least with my usage (I usually restart my browser every 1-2 days to update to the latest Nightly, and have about 50 tabs open).

The team responsible for memory leaks is the MemShrink team, you can see their progress here: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/

I'd also suggest to install the addon "about:addons-memory", and see if any of your addons is leaking memory (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/about-addons-...)

If you still see memory leaks, please report them on bugzilla.

>Cookies

While something like this would be nice, I don't think that "normal users" needs to mess up with Cookies.

If you're a power user, and want to enable/disable cookies on a per-sites base, install an addon that let you do it.

I'm personally very happy with Cookie Controller: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-contro...
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Ingenious! This should work -- the uniform distribution property of hash functions is relied upon very heavily by other streaming algorithms such as HyperLogLog, and there has been sound empirical evaluation by the guys at Aggregate Knowledge of the properties of various hash functions:

http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/02/02/choosing-a-goo...

(Dunno why you include a prefix in the calculation above. hash(obj) should be sufficient.)
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With the lack of options available in Google+ to adjust the UI, I would not want to move my RSS over to G+. Rather, they could have expanded Google News to transition the feeds over.
I think it's a bad idea to use crypto from someone who just discovered Shamir's Secret Sharing (which practically guarantees that the system is going to be idiosyncratic) when PGP is available.

One sometimes wishes that developers who are so enthusiastic about helping get encryption deployed would focus instead on the UX for PGP/GPG, instead of developing new, broken cryptosystems.
I can respond to the pricing piece – if you have some funds available and want to research this, I would look into a research technique called Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis [1]. This is a research technique that has you list out the main attributes (processor, for example) and levels within those attributes (1 GHz, 2 GHz, etc) of the product that you’re selling. You then send respondents through a mini simulator, asking them to choose between “choice sets” – different combinations of your attribute levels.

What you get is a preference score for each level. You can then build things like a pricing demand curve, or a full blown market simulator if you know what features your competitors include in their products.

It’s also great for assessing what features you want to include in a product.

[1] http://www.sawtoothsoftware.com/conjoint-analysis-software
Jails have been around for a while in FreeBSD and they are often used for this exact purpose; the concept has only, really, entered the mainstream due to widespread usage of EC2/OpenStack and now Docker (which is basically FreeBSD Jails + ezjail but for Linux and a little different on some other fronts).

Nothing beats a bare metal machine with FreeBSD + ZFS pool + ezjail; the really cool thing about ZFS is that you can build a "base jail" then just use ZFS to make snapshots of the base jail when creating new jails. So with that you can create versioned base jails that are running an upgraded ports tree, or more generally, an upgraded world build!

It also makes transition between application versions easy because you can run a separate database jail(s) (maybe different versions of the db?) and have a jail for app v1 running while a jail for app v2 is running at the same time.

What I would love to see is a tool for abstracting this deployment pattern on-top of ezjail. I've been considering doing this myself but my time is stretched too thin :(
Beautiful, that's exactly what I wanted to see. I agree with the other commenter who missed the link. You should combine those into one page.
The controller part is pretty simple. The hard part is finding these modules. Most were made by Solari in Italy, Omega in Switzerland, or Salient in Australia. All are either out of the business or won't sell to consumers.

Like the youtube like you posted, the modules are surplus or salvaged ones. I've seen kickstarters for little cardboard replicas, but nothing more durable than that.

I've also found one guy that built his own module and put his designs online:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-based-Split-Flap-gam...
Under that model there is a large number of workers who are worth nothing at all or only their bare sustenance. Now this might be true to some degree from an economic standpoint (in that it's an equilibrium) but it doesn't look so rosy from a societal standpoint. And what purpose does the economy have if not to serve society?

You also have to contend that market prices for labour would likely be higher if there were not so many unemployed. With low unemployment then firms would have incentive to make some of these temps into full time workers to prevent another firm from taking the best workers out of the temp pool.
I think you lack some reading comprehension. My second paragraph summarizes the article.

My third paragraph on the other hand is a commentary on the tech community as a whole, which is backed by my personal experience.

Your snide "trust the conclusions to the same degree as you do" puts you squarely in the camp of those who think it's of paramount importance not to crush prejudice an inch more than is absolutely needed, though, which is a bizarrely regressive position imo.
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I still don't forgive Microsoft for being absolutely massive tools in the past. As such, they have a higher bar to jump over if they want me to acknowledge that they have created a "modern" browser. They have to make a browser that beats every other browser in it's standards compliance, stability and performance. They have to create the greatest browser that has ever been and ever will be. And only then will I even consider giving them a ounce of recognition.

Not that Microsoft (or anyone for that matter) cares what I think, but that's the price I've set in order for MS to pay off the debt it's worked up over the years as I wasted weeks, possibly months of my life getting things to work in their turd of a.... a.... a looking-at-the-web-kind-of-application-thing. I wont even call it a browser.

Or better yet, I wish IE was thrown away and forgotten about, and like Voldemort, it's name would only ever be heard in hushed whispers lest it's evil spirit be awoken. It would become a ghost story web developers tell their web developing kids; "Be standards compliant, or IE6 will come and get yoooOOOOU!".

But then I'm old and cranky. The kids will probably love IE19b Custard Pro Home Edition and they'll rally behind it to get IE back to the number 1 slot because it's somehow retro and cool, and I'll laugh in their spotty faces when IE regains it supremacy and Microsoft turns around and shits in their stupid faces all over again, and the internet becomes a desolate wasteland where Bing is the only search engine and the top hit is always an Encarta entry.

Wow, I'm in a special kind of a bad mood today.
People are paid just less than MIN(cost to replace their labor in the labor market, cost to replace their labor with automation). Using terms like "worth" or "deserve" invoke a moral framework and it is unnecessary to do so. There is one moral framework where people are "worth" the price of their labor at the equilibrium of supply and demand, but that's not the only conceivable arrangement. For example, partners in a joint venture are rarely compensated on the equilibrium of supply and demand, but based on some percentage of the value of the venture. If someone's labor creates $X of value, there is no reason to say it is "worth" whatever it would cost to hire someone else to do the same labor instead of saying it is "worth" say 0.2 * $X.

Which brings me to the issue of $50k median household income. Contrary to your assertion, it is highly indicative of workers with weakening negotiating power. The story of the last 30 years has been one of inflation-adjusted individual income (using household income is misleading because it glosses over changing labor force participation trends) lagging individual worker productivity. That means of each dollar value created by each worker, the employer (usually the capital owner) gets to keep more of that dollar today than they did 30 years ago. That is exactly what you would expect based on a decrease in workers negotiating power.

This isn't a political argument, it's an economic argument. I'm not endorsing any particular steps towards remedying this issues. I'm pointing out the economic phenomena we are seeing.
Just checking in to say that your kerning example looks fine on Safari on OS X (latest stable versions). Which is not to say it's perfect, but there's nothing egregious (no overlaps, no large gaps).
>that "It is not possible to state with any certainty whether Milly's voicemails were or were not deleted," [1][2].

Did you read the linked document?

"These events support the suggestion that the voicemail box was full with the 10 messages that could be left, and that on 24th March, some 72 hrs after Millys last sighting, messages could be left again. Mrs Dowler’s call is likely to have been made when one of the previous messages from 21st March had been automatically deleted."

So they probably didn't delete it. People here (including the guy below) have gone to a frankly worrying guilty until innocent mode. If I write something about your firm, I have to be able to prove it, not you disprove it.

Which is my point, they had a scoop, by questionable means they had found out that NoTW had been doing very immoral things. Why not leave it at that, why did they have to crank it up a sensationalist gear?

Oh of course, because when The Guardian does it, it is for the greater good! [1] When anyone else does it, its 'titter tattle'.

This is why I treat the Guardian with a pinch of salt, its not like Sun or Mirror or News of the Screws, they sometimes get some good stuff correct before other sources. It's just often they are very hypocritical, and not quite 100% with the truth. This bugs the crap out of me. Most newspapers are like this. This is why I hate most newspapers. Hell if anyone can recommend something more frequent than the economist I'd be interested!

But on this context of phone hacking, it is funny that their defence is similar to an NSA one isn't it? Intercepting private communications is bad, but when we do it, we have only good motives.

[1] - http://metro.co.uk/2011/08/04/guardian-journalist-phone-hack...
Unfortunately, a big part of "what he believes in" is (to use his words) "make people afraid for their lives" and of course, "ruin lives for lulz". So, yeah, I agree he is willing to be quite bold in standing up for his right to ruin.
That said, as much as I desperately want to see him behind bars for the things he has done, this AT&T conviction horrifies me, and I hope for all of our sakes he wins this appeal. And he has been right about one thing -- this IS about "embarrassing a big company". Because no law enforcement agency is willing to pursue the actual crimes he has committed against powerless individuals... the things he does to people as part of his "performance art".
I have tried every way possible to justify his current conviction and sentencing. But I can't. I support #freeweev but I sure as hell don't support weev. And until/unless you and your family have been victimized by his "work", you really have no idea what he is capable of or truly believes in.
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Mostly. Seems like AT&T is operating like http://www.mailinator.com/ where you can access anything using an ID without a password.
Laravel 4 appears to have done some massive cleaning up, too, if my test install's memory usage and files included counts are accurate.
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Heh, you caught me there. I don't actually work on long stretches. I usually check HN, Twitter, reddit after every 15-20 minutes of work. I can't concentrate for longer than that.
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One of the first things I did. I found HTC Desire always goes and grab http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin on boot up. Couldn't find anything else "suspicious" though.
Many statistical packages (SAS IIRC) subtract 3 from the kurtosis to set a normal distribution at 0. This is an infuriating tendency.
I'm thinking you're on the right path. Instead of just adding passive feeds to Google+ and you clicking through I imagine that Google wants content creators to sign up for Google+ accounts and either create content there or post it there.
Small typo in the phone picture. The text says "its fantastic" when it should say "it's fantastic". Not a big deal obviously, good luck with everything.
I think you need some strong narrative examples of use. Show us a user with a problem that you solve. Show us something that a user can use to sell this to their boss.

Alternatively, use testimonials from actual users.
My understanding was that Google Reader had somewhere around 12 million users.

Even if only 50% of those migrated over to Google+, if they had found a way to cleanly incorporate RSS feeds into their interface, that's probably a non-trivial amount of users, especially if they are checking multiple times a day, and sharing news/information from their RSS out to readers.

It's not just about users, it's also about activity..
Developing for IE10 kind of makes sense right now, if you're on a windows machine. IE10 is one of the most picky browsers about certain things, so you can catch potential problems early by doing that.
This is a ridiculous, ill-educated statement that shows a lack of understanding of history, art and the facts of Andy Warhol's technical drawing ability.

1. Art and it's ability to effect people's emotion and intellect has never been (and never will be about) the technical ability of the artists alone. Art is as much about ideas and emotion as it is about craft. Especially since the advent of photography.

2. If you ever stand next one of Andy Warhol's pieces you will appreciate the skill he used. For one, they are often huge: his Chairman Mao in the Met takes up a whole wall. If you only ever see a reproduction of an Andy Warhol you will never appreciate this. Also, although he was trying to say something interesting about the mass-production of art you can see that even his prints were hand-produced and often have manual brushwork on them.

3. If you look at his early work you will see that he was a very skilled draughtsman, illustrator and pen & ink-smith. He hand-drew illustration for magazine, adverts & products so was being paid and appreciated for his skill in the tough world of graphic design before he became a renowned artist.

4. It is hard to imagine what the world was like before somebody invented something that became so prevalent that it is now seen as obvious. Every young artists with access to a screen printing machine has a go at making an Andy Warhol-esque print, most courses in screen printing will include a lesson where people make pop-art, repetitions and colourful squares. It seems obvious now. But when Andy Warhol first did it it was a revolution and a revelation. That is why people liked them so much - they were new, pretty, thought-provoking and very clever.

Go to the Met. Look at the canvases. You might be surprised.
Linode does do metered billing. If you take down a node, you get credit for the leftover days in your billing cycle. The big difference is that they prorate by day rather than by second.

Digital Ocean does do metered billing, and their API is very sweet & simple.
> He's pointing out that their stated justification doesn't make a lot of sense.

They've shut down maybe 50 services over the past few years under this justification.
I just want to note that Packer (http://www.packer.io) fits perfectly into the model of immutable infrastructure. Packer is an open source tool for automatically creating machine images (perhaps for multiple platforms).

The idea of quickly and easily creating these master images in a way that doesn't slow down agility to change infrastructure is crucial, and Packer enables that.

Disclaimer: I wrote Packer.
GPGTools via Mail.app encrypts a single message with both keys rather than saving two copies with each encrypted to one key. When doing this via the command line interface you just need to specify each recipient when encrypting.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/597188/encryption-with-mu...
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Those are interesting sites but I didn't see Digital Ocean in their benchmarks or lists of offerings. Seems like a big omission.
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I feel the same way. I've wasted so many hours on IE specific bugs that they have to really prove themselves before I'll even consider trusting them again.
But that's my point; the answer is different depending on the platform and the task. The headline is invalid because of that fact. Firefox is not faster at everything, and Chrome is not faster at everything.
False. There is an expectation of privacy in a public bathroom even if it doesn't specify that cameras are not allowed.
Still has big issues with mouse events between iframes and parent documents. Been an issue since at least 2009. Sad.

Edit: issue was reported in 2001. I can't even comprehend that.
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