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Few months ago I scanned a list of domains on the web, randomly selected from the top 100k alexa list for common vulnerabilities and oh boy lots of websites are insecure, ranging all the way from xss to sqli.

Anyway, it inspired me to create an online security scanner. Right now I'm focusing on just Wordpress based websites but I'll expand if this gains any traction. Currently it scans for outdated installations, common sql injection, xss, vulnerable plugins and themes along with common shell files. It's been really fun to build so far. Aiming to finish it by the end of next week. Haven't got a domain yet, but I have screenshots of the prototype:

http://i.imgur.com/MetVr9E.png

http://i.imgur.com/QRKXLNU.png
Uhm.. the feds do not share or collaborate. They will prosecute any of their own who do give back. In fact, Keith Alexander came there last year to lie to your face.
Something must be wrong at Microsoft...

Either A) Windows 8 is not selling very well. B) Windows Surface is being ignored C) The Microsoft stores aren't doing too well either D) Windows phone is dying or E) all of the above.

Anyway they can start by adding a left and right padding to their footer.
It seems a shame that the backing of a network operator is still required to successfully sell a hardware device in this day and age (especially in the US). It's like only being able to buy a Thinkpad if your broadband supplier will sell you one. I look forward to the day when most phones are not tied into contracts, but I think I may be waiting a long time.
Looks nice, but I don't drive!
"Spot the Fed" was a sport years ago: https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-13/dc13-spotthefed.html
I've wondered about starting a service to sell bitcoins via credit card but the catch is he service holds your coin for you for 6 months or whatever the period for chargebacks is.

Is that a viable idea?
I expect quinoa will be selected for environmental tolerance first. Given how difficult it is to grow in th US, top priority would be getting consistent high yield in North American conditions. Breeding has to meet the farmer's needs before you start considering the consumer.
Love it! Nice work guys.
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To be honest, it's kind of creepy. I just identified myself, and they somehow knew what month and year I purchased my car, a list of names I may or may not have been 'associated' with, a list of counties I may or may not have lived in, and stuff like that. I'm not particularly comfortable with a company knowing that much about me, but it's already complete so... horse, meet barn door?

I wish they would at least tell me what sources they're getting this information from.
Does it require each user to log-in to a Dropbox account?
DEC CON is trying to retain some aspects of the community it cares about in order to prevent it from completely evolving into a pentagon pony show.

You missed the point completely, your post is a contradiction and way off base.
I work on this at Facebook and we do permanently delete your content when you delete your account. It's an interesting distributed systems problem, and we're happy with the framework we've developed for this. We're working on a blog post with more details and hope to publish that soon.

Also, I mentioned why account deletion is a non-trivial problem in this comment thread last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5976947.
Yes. It is extremely interesting that both of those flights started out on a more northerly route over Scandinavia and overflew Great Britain.

Today's flight started out on a much mores southerly route, overflying Belrus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and France, but avoiding Spain, Portugal and the Azores.

Thank-you for the information. I am probably wrong. We'll see.
Yes, it's a fairly detailed description of how it's done, but to me this information doesn't seem to broaden the scope or intrusiveness of the surveillance apparatus that has been uncovered so far, the convenient interface for warranted querying that is PRISM.
I don't think that these specific snippets act as a demonstration of the code he is going to write, in case you hire him. Just saying.
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It would not be regressive overall. The corporate tax and basic income need to be considered together. You are combining a corporate tax that might be regressive or flat, with a lump sum payment of equal magnitude. The net effect is most certainly progressive.

Taxing corporations may not produce magic money, but it is certainly more efficient than taxing individuals. Look, for example, at the Canadian tax system which offers near full integration for corporate taxes. Corporate taxes be a way of capturing money up front and limiting tax avoidance.

If we had a flat tax with basic income, one could scrap taxes on employment and just tax corporations by denying salary as a deduction. This would be equivalent to the standard approach of writing-off salary expenses and taxing individuals.
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Probably your credit report. The information you mention is what would be on your credit report, assuming that car was purchased with financing.
Well, "liberalised" as a general term doesn't mean anything, so I wouldn't say I "don't understand" it. The language is ambiguous, but you may be correct on second thought.
Fracking increases extraction temporarily with very rapid well depletion rates. Continued extraction requires drilling more wells. Compare this with oil production from traditional "whale" fields in which a single well can deliver for decades. This vastly increases capital costs and reduces EROEI.

Methane hydrates are yet unproven, and present their own very serious challenges.

In either case, the prospects for global warming and emissions management attack the other side of my statement: cheap abundant fossil fuels. While coal exist to supply needs for (depending on whom you talk to) 100-1000 years, the evidence suggests that the climate and our economy won't tolerate the emissions resulting from its consumption.

Coal-to-liquids infrastructure is very expensive and takes a long time to ramp up.

What are your source(s) for fracking production? Sincerely interested.
Try being locked to an obscure marketplace region like china, and it's much more painful. Facebook, Skype are all MIA, and you can't change your marketplace even if the software says you can (it just ignores your config options).

iPhones sold in china don't have this problem, so they are a safer buy.
I don't remember what other sites they were, but I've done this a few times for identity verification, seems like there's a central provider somewhere that does the same thing for different businesses
Buy BTC from tocomment Inc with credit card. If in 5 1/2 months the price of Bitcoin is lower, issue a chargeback and take no loss. If the price is higher, do not issue a chargeback and take the profit.

Sounds like a bad deal for tocomment Inc.
That's actually pretty simple. Equifax is the biggest provider of these types Q&A's. I'm not even sure that the company itself is exposed to the actual answers - I believe the credit bureau just responds with a pass/fail. Admittedly, it would be less creepy and more welcoming if they sent you to the Equifax website to do the verification. That way you would know that no one else actually has or will receive your personal info.
No. Bitcoin itself is simply a technology -- there isn't a "point" to it. Bitcoins can be anonymous if there's no information linking the transaction or public address back to you.
It is very simple.

As a freelancer, I was seen as disposable. Akin to a construction worker standing in front of Home Depot waiting to get some work. As a firm, people see it as a place that provides solutions to their problems. If they need some software written, they can come to the firm, and it will be done dependably. As a freelancer, they would call me, and hope I was available.

The only downside to the firm is that people believe it is more expensive to employ it, than to hire a freelancer. I still work for the same rates as before (lower than in the Valley). If another developer has to be sub-contracted, then I start to negotiate from the developer's rate. I only charge a bit more to cover risk (insurance, mostly). But all of the people in the my network have proved to be reliable and hard workers. Once (we) programmers find a good source of work, we treat it with love and respect.

I will take the opportunity to invite anyone who might be interested in getting to know the firm to contact us through our website(in my profile).
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That's the problem though. DEF CON doesn't want the NSA to come.
No one seems to care nor want to look at it in-depth.

I'm not an expert, but I wouldn't look at an OTP implementation either. Key management is already hard enough. It's hard to imagine a useful system you could build on a one-time pad.
When I hear of the effect this is having on local farmers and their ability to feed their families, I'm confronted with the question:

Do I stop eating quinoa?

What is my responsibility?
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This is basic Adam Smith-David Ricardo economics.

They can grow quinoa and eat the seeds or export them and import a more diverse diet.

Even if other countries can cultivate quinoa, it may make sense for Andeans to export their quinoa and import other foods.
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Credit card companies and Paypal will shut you down for being "high risk" or whatever. I wouldn't bother trying.
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When you put something in a microwave and then start pressing numbers on the keypad and nothing happens... that's an inexcusably shitty and stupid UI.
Same as everyone else - credit report companies. Experian, Equifax and others. Those already know all your previous billing addresses, credit lines, card numbers, etc.
Not sure about the anti-nutrients, but the 'tastes bad' part is entirely subjective. I prefer brown rice, and I think it tastes fine.
Absolutely, but what makes you think that the people with increased hash power will have less tight handed behavior than the others? Why not the opposite?
To add:

If this is a new product project, a firm is simply positioned better than a sole freelancer. Business value stability, and a firm provides the perception of stability.
FUSE is just a file system layer, I CAN implement a versioning distributed filesystem through FUSE, nothing in FUSE stops me from doing that.
> one of the largest problems with current state of technology is that what the fed is doing is possible.

I think you meant 'legal' but you accidentally wrote 'possible' instead. Mesh nets and polymorphic encryption don't stand a chance against a supoena and the threat of a lengthy imprisonment/huge fine for noncompliance.
> Do you have any particular examples we could analyze?

I'd look at every job that is being replaced by a robot or a computer system. I can't give you a particular example in form of "job A replaced by robots, workers can't move anywhere else", because so far we've been very efficient at reallocating labor. Throughout last 200 years, people out-automated in agriculture moved to manufacturing; optimized out from there they are moving to services, but the computer technology makes this sector fair game, and there doesn't seem to be anywhere else to go.

More machines are creating more opportunities for building them, but the manufacturing is already heavily automated, so this is the case of robots building robots. As a human, you can't compete there much.

Just imagine self-driving cars really taking off in few years and replacing most jobs in transportation industry. Where will those people go? What kind of jobs we can imagine they could have without years-long retraining that robots arleady can't do better?

> Just because the old job is gone doesn't mean there isn't a new one to be done

Yes, but my point is that jobs are not made equal, and just because you could do the old one doesn't mean you will be able to do the new one. It is increasingly not the case.
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They did have a blurb that said this was all "public information", but if I pop my name and car into $search_engine (for example) nothing relevant comes up.
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If the market has reached the pre-tax equilibrium, would an added evenly-applied tax change competitiveness at all? I guess I don't see how that would change anything at all. If you and I are competitors, and we both pay the same tax rate, that's already factored into our businesses in some way. Sliding it up or down an equal amount on both of us won't change the me vs. you competitiveness right?

I get what you're saying regarding only pricing what the market will bear, but on the flip side of all this, consumers suddenly have more money, so I could make the argument that the consumers are willing to pay more because they suddenly have more in their pockets, and around the mulberry bush we go...
Any pointers to read more about this?

FWIW, I'm familiar with BSD bootloaders. I can follow the Linux boot process, but haven't invested much time in mastering it.
Depends on the file system implementation. Smarter RAID implementations, such those integrated into ZFS, will not be easily taken down.

In addition, RAID does not require you to use local devices. I agree, however, it is not a backup solution, and I did not claim it was. I merely stated RAID is how you deal with drives dying and taking everything with it. Backups is how you deal with RAIDs or entire locations dying, ergo, offsite backup.

And multiple Plug installations seems to cover the concurrent offsite sync part of that.
FYI, Android devices will soon not use WebKit, as Chrome is changing to Blink. Whilst Blink is a fork of WebKit, I believe that the differences between mobile Safari and mobile IE will be as small as the differences between Safari and Chrome.
This has been my experience as well. Once the content is deleted, it's gone.
"Writing a testcase for this would have required complicated thinking and coding which would be as likely to contain an error as it was likely for the code to be tested to contain an error."

i don't know the details, by why couldn't you just collect a million bits of supposedly random data from the generator and run it through the nist test suite? it's true that testing for randomness does require complicated thinking, but fortunately it's been done. standing on the shoulders of giants and whatnot.
Virwox.com does this. They hold for a few days and charge high fees, but they certainly don't ask for lots of information like Coinbase is now doing.
Providing synergy.
I was waiting for the IFTTT app for a long time. Really glad it happened.

Now that we are on the IFTTT topic, anyone has any interesting/cool recipes? I think I'm not making the most out of this service, and would like to use it even more.
I think the moment you're thinking of is when the son is playing video games, and mentions his high score. The score was some absurdly high number like 12 million, one of the other family members hears this and repeats it aloud (I believe this family member was previously controlling the microwave); the microwave hears this number and replies "heating to 12 million degrees", burning their Christmas turkey (just like they did every iteration in the ride, even as the technology progresses). I'm not sure why I bothered typing all of that, I haven't been to that ride since I was ~ 12.
> Republicans are also openly for reducing burdens (both regulation and taxation) on the wealth producers so they can make more of it and spread it around.

Wow, you really do drink the trickle-down effect Kool-Aid.
Maybe it should be renamed FedCon.
Exactly, if it was non-political they'd just call up DEFCON and withdraw their talk.
I'm not sure I believe that talking to credit report companies directly would be more welcoming. They'd probably try to charge you for the privilege of using them. In the UK they're quite known for giving out free reports, then sending you followups + charge you from the next month with no easy way to stop it (in some cases you need to sue them to stop). Not sure who I trust more - Coinbase or Experian...
Think about it -- this is news because Bitcoin is a less approachable currency than....stamps, or baseball cards.
I agree.

With Java + Spring + XML you can get one language for the price of two!

How useful is Java's type checking when one typo in an XML file breaks your program?

At least in Python I can follow the logic of the language and find where the mistake is. Spring's XML files don't have such logic and usually all you have is a confusing traceback to work with.
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You really expect us to believe this, that data would permanently be deleted, coming from facebook?

You know, THIS facebook: http://pleasedeletefacebook.com (list of most of their history up through 2012)
Quinoa has more and better protein.
Brown rice is cheaper.
Well, of course RussiaToday is Russian propaganda, the same way that CNN, or NewYorkTimes are propaganda of American empire.

It is very simple, there are big news Institutions that power will dominate, one way or another, like infiltrating people in key positions, or with laws that make collaboration with Government a benefit, and non compliance a great cost.

Do you know that when Snowden talked with people in media like the Washington Post, the first thing they did was to report to the NSA and FBI?

While the situation in Russia is absolutely bad, in relative terms it improves, while in the US you used to be free, in relative terms the police State grows by the second.
Most Microsoft employees are Microsoft shareholders, so we have an interest in higher stock prices also.
> If by "wealth" you mean "net worth", then because that is even harder to administer than income taxes.

That is the standard argument, but countries have been taxing property a lot longer than they have been taxing income. Some even manage to tax property at current market prices (e.g. Canada).
Search engines haven't indexed everything yet. There are lots of public records that aren't indexed by google, unless they make the news or get the attention of some blogger. This includes civil judgements, tax liens and bankruptcy to name a few.
My major problem with the PRISM debacle was less that the NSA stores and analyzes Internet traffic (although it's perfectly reasonable to be upset about it) and more that they were doing it secretively (mixed with some disgust at how much money, energy, and time must be wasted storing and sifting through unfathomable amounts of data).

With that in mind, it's kind of counterintuitive to close the door to conversation when silence was the issue in the first place. It almost seems like a melodramatic romance ("I just need to be alone right now."), which portrays the DEF CON organizers as reactionary and immature.

I also think it creates unnecessary hostility when you disinvite a group of people that everyone seems to know will attend anyway. In fact, it just creates more secrecy.
As an iPhone user, I can chime in with my opinion.

It looks like the iPhone and 920 battery life are both pretty abysmal http://blogs.which.co.uk/technology/phones-3/best-phone-batt...

CPU and GPU for the end user isn't important. What is important is the perf of the UI, which WP7/8 have always been buttery smooth when compared to iOS and Android devices with better hardware.

I'd also say Nokia is very closely behind Apple in build quality if not on par. And their form factors have been great as well.

iPhone/iOS definitely has a better ecosystem, but the apps on WP8 are getting better.
The part where this analogy breaks down is that some random person will probably die in a fire pretty quickly if they try to fly a Cessna. Crypto is like a Cessna that's easy to fly but if you don't fly it exactly right, a few months after your flight, the ground under your flight path spontaneously combusts.
I don't believe this project can accomplish all of what it claims it will.

Media streaming alone is an art and a science all in itself. There are various formats, encoders, decoders, etc... This is why AirServer/AirVideo is its own thing already... and I'm sure they're very busy.

http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/

And file sync plus version management? Resolving conflicts there is yet another art all in itself.

It would be amazing if they could pull 50% of this off, and even at 50%, their engineers have their work cut out for them BIGTIME.
But oats and wild rice have even more protein.
Is this a recursive algorithm?
Another idea: make the username the primary key and dispense with the id column. Username will not be changeable, but I think that is a rare case anyway.
The huge speed difference with a single scull probably has more to do with inefficiencies in 'the drive train' (moving your weight around in a rowing shell introduces dipping, which loses energy; using oars is less efficient than using a propeller) than with inefficiencies of the rowing motion vs a cycling motion.

http://rowingbike.com/site/EN/ shows a bike operated using a rowing motion. That machine is competitive with 'normal' recumbent bikes, except in climbs. The main parts also could be fitted on that Decavitator. I would expect similar speeds.
Having people know how to start contributing is not an issue I've had with my OSS projects; that could just be me though.

Keeping straight what stage the Issues in our private repos are in, though - that's a very real problem I deal with every day. I'd love to be able to surface our internal company flow in a simple way like this; it's very kanban-like, and doesn't require us to add another tool or try to keep things in sync since it sits right on top of Github Issues which we already use.
For people who turn into a giant balloon when they eat gluten, yes, it's a Big Deal. The people around them too - it's typically a hazard to even have glutenous foods in the area, so it's much easier for families to just go gluten free. I'm talking about chrone's or celiac's disease people here, not ignorant folks who are basing their diets on some Paleo diet voodoo that's fashionable.

Also, have you had Quinoa? That shit is delicious and easy to cook. Throw it in a rice cooker, add some water, wait 15m - BOOM - tasty nom noms, no additives required.

Rice is generally pretty boring and you need to add something to it (Basmati smells nice, but still tastes pretty bland, short grain / Japanese style rice has at least some taste, but nothing interesting). It really doesn't add much to anything nutritionally either.

Wheat and corn is in fucking everything, so when you finally do eat corn or wheat it tastes like nothing because your goddamn peanut butter is hydrogenated corn syrup anyway.

Personally, I can't wait until quinoa is everywhere. It looks a lot more interesting than trying to invest in making better corn or wheat at this point!
It's also possible you have a 60k loc python app because you aren't able to get near the amount of code reuse or abstractions due to the lack of static typing, and this is why you haven't run into issues with refactoring.
I'm glad I read this article instead of actually working. I'm even more glad that this article made me want to write a response to it on HN instead of working. Wait a second...
Our team at Startup Weekend actually worked on "Identity Verification for Developers." So I'm pretty familiar with this. These kind of questions are called "wallet questions." You can get a lot of them from county records, which are public.
This is really cool!

On a similar note, for those of you who may not be aware, there has also been a human-powered airplane: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Albatross

I am totally amazed by the Gossamer Albatross. It was made in 1979. And here's the most awesome part - a cyclist flew it across the English Channel!