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Microsoft Certified Masters: What Problem Were They Trying To Solve?
The Tesla is aimed, like the Aston, squarely at the male status-obsessed fools who will clamor after such things. Tesla, astonishingly, has convinced people for now that being a niche coach builder entitles it to a market cap in the neighborhood of a real car company.
Soon the commodity nature of electric vehicles will be made more clear as large carmakers stamp out models that are identical in the chassis and drive train, but are different only cosmetically. Oh wait, that sounds like the existing global car business, just at a lower energy state.
This is where cars are headed. That means bad things for Tesla unless someone is dumb enough to buy them out while they are still sexy and very expensive.
For customers it will be awesome, once they figure out all the annoyances that make these cars beyond niche right now. I would rather drive a 991 gt3 to work than one of these things, because I am embarrassed of the strenuous fanboyism at play, and why not just drive any awesome car, like a corvette, or an AMG. Just admit that you are the same as every other base, acquisitive male. You are no better than lawyers or investment bankers. Then you can be free, or at least honest.
Tor does not protect against a global passive adversary. If the NSA can watch most network traffic, they can do packet timing correlations and readily identify you. They don't need backdoors or subverted exit nodes
req: lastpass's response
https://pancakeapp.com/version4

Don't let the version 3 fool you. Version 4 is phenomenal, and it will definitely replace any systems you currently have for time tracking and/or invoicing.
There's no reason for them not to; I'm not sure why you would expect them to avoid doing so, if it would help them spy on communications. It's not like it's terribly risky for them; they can stick some exit nodes on some racks in a couple of data centers, with splitters that records all of the traffic coming out, and no one would be the wiser.

Or they can just find existing exit nodes, and ask the data centers to install splitters for them.

Exit nodes and relay nodes are not secret, so specifically targetting them for analysis would be pretty easy.
It is ultimately in every honest person's self-interest to disallow the _initiation_ of physical force.

And international law doesn't allow the initiation of force; you can only respond to someone else's aggression.

Yet wars still happen, and both sides claim to be acting in self-defense. It's almost like those "honest" people you require... don't exist.
PayPal removed the single-use credit card number option a while back.
This person seems to think that "less code" is "faster code".

Yes, I do have to give some credits to putting the number x number directly into the push call

Are they really suggesting

_results.push(number * number);

is significantly faster than, say

var result = number * number;
_results.push(result);

Because it's not.

Though I do wonder why CoffeeScript doesn't do something like this to avoid the function call:

_results[_i] = number * number;
NSA doesn't need to run exit nodes, they just need correlate packet flows from exit nodes with packet flows to entry nodes. It's easy if you have both flows (say by taping most fiber lines). Tor doesn't protect you against a global passive adversary. That is the price you pay for low latency.
> [D]o remember that Dell and other vendors pre-install commercial operating systems (hint, hint!) on all their devices, and you are filling coffers for an anti-Linux company even if you overwrite it fully with Linux.

I'm with you on this in most respects, but you and I are in a very, very tiny minority. For the rest of the world this isn't a value proposition.

> we're not aiming to become one such vendor

So you're not going to be around to support this, then?

> We are just trying what we can to ignite the pre-installed Linux computer market, not eke a profit out of this.

If you're looking to make a statement, commit! Build something sustainable that benefits your customers. Don't just "eke a profit out of [it]," find a way to make gobs and gobs of money selling Linux machines in a very public way.
The NSA does not have domestic safeguards, and the act of actually using TOR makes you a primary target by being suspicious.
with what we've been hearing from NSA and Snowden, nothing can be dismissed as a "conspiracy theory." Proof might very well be in Snoden's unreleased docs or in some dossier at NSA. You don't have to show proof to show mistrust

I'd be more wary of NSA contributing code directly or through anon HUMINT accounts, hoping some of it slips through.
Killing PHP dead would be as hard as killing IE6 was.
While your analysis of Cassandra's Paxos implementation may be correct (I haven't checked), I've never heard of anyone else (especially not Google) using a model where there is only one Paxos server per datacenter -- usually there are many more.
Also the trace module is pretty useful for the kind of dynamic-debugging practice people often do.
Could you link to it please?
Democrat Senate nominee Booker to End Association With Start-Up He Founded
How Not To Spend Your Startup's Money: A Replica of The Oval Office
We already have a strict subset of JavaScript, “strict mode” – see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe.... You activate it by putting the code `"use strict";` at the top of a script or a function.
My favorite from Slow Learner was "Under the Rose", which he later turned into a chapter of V. I loved the absurdism, steampunk-ish bits, and theme of history as chaotic. They're all pretty good, though.
A staff member commented about pricing on the linked post after you commented this. Long story short, it won't cost anything and they're going to upgrade all existing servers eventually.
Well, Facebook certainly stands to lose a lot of their databases are compromised, so they should probably add an air-gap.
Two assumptions:
1. An encryption system is only as secure as its weakest link
2. The NSA can get the source whether its open or closed.

I imagine the NSA would task a team of researchers to analyze the source code, find a vulnerability, and develop a tool to exploit it. I imagine they'd then hand the tool over to a team to deploy and operate it.

No person from the TOR community would need be involved or made aware. And, assuming the NSA was the only one with the exploit, there would be no reason to stop funding Tor, since it advances American interests without (now, thanks to the exploit) threatening them.
There is essentially no reason why this should ever be needed.
I trust tor to do what tor does: in fact -- as do US intelligence agencies who use it for anonymous open source intelligence.

I don't, however, trust it to do anything else: namely, I don't think of it as a security panacea. Goals of security are confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Anonymity is only a small part of confidentiality: tor provides a somewhat reasonable guarantee (i.e., much better than nothing or use of proxies) that I can anonymous browse censored web sites. However, alone it doesn't in any way help with secure communications to others, it doesn't ensure that the sites I am visiting aren't MITM'd, it does not protect against attacks that reduce availability of end points.

Since online content censorship is not currently a big problem in the United States -- but now a huge problem pretty much elsewhere, including in the Western World -- in most cases it isn't really an ailment for the ills inflicted by the current government overreach.
How similar is this to an Arduino?
Basically an extension of the tor attack where the feds knew roughly where the guy they wanted lived, and they could engage him in an IRC chat, so they talked to him in the chat, meanwhile driving a van around sniffing wireless networks looking for bursts in traffic that corresponded to the IRC transmissions.

I always thought that was a pretty neat attack.
Last two companies I worked with, the ceo was close with a TC writer and would basically just forward them press releases to put up. They are absolutely shills, but we have to ask if journalists are any different outside of tech.
Thank god. Stalkers are a bitch to get rid of.
[2009] OpenSSL is written by monkeys
One of the big ones is that there is only so much feasible bandwidth to go around. The governments auction it off (in the best case).

In a really free market, anyone could transmit in any frequency, jamming everyone else. Could quickly degenerate into a costest of who jacks up power more.
This is also very useful for anyone who's ever worked with a Gameboy emulator. It uses a processor very similar to the Z-80, including this particular ALU setup.
Sure, I understand that, but if that is the argument, just make those three points. Arguing "Because conspiracy theories are not only stupid, they are annoying. This issue has been addressed on the tor-talk list many times. Please show one iota of proof." is just silly, as though because we don't have factual proof the government is doing something wrong we are "stupid and annoying". All I'm saying is that this argument lacks a ton of credibility in a world where we just found out our own government spies on everything we do and the reaction from the mainstream went from "those tin foil hat wearing morons!" to "eh, they were right, and I was wrong, why would that possibly make me change my beliefs?".
Nicely done. I appreciate the stand they are taking here.

That said, gag orders are gag orders. You can decide not to play as Lavabits did but you cannot reasonably tell some non-US employee to blab about your NSL since you will go to jail anyway and Federal Prison is Federal Prison.
That Bobbit worm should definitely work for Hollywood. He knew how to do it all cinematically for the camera.
Ask HN: Secure and minimalist linux distros?
Recently somehow my Credit and Debit card information was stolen (maybe I have some malware in my Win8 machine), I'm searching for a secure and minimalist linux distro so I can create a VM to do just online transactions over secure Networks (like home). I found this document http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-distros-paranoid-secure-distros-si/ that talks about LPS, Tails and Surprise!. What do you think?
Why is the government funding it? That is a valid question. I think the DoD has the resources to create its own version of TOR type communications if that were a big need for government agencies.
SO. Why?
I was under the impression that the GameBoy used THE Z-80. Is that not the case?
Fair enough. My complaint was with the statement that bombing is its own legal justification. As above, it is always ethical or moral considerations that "justify" action (make them just). To the extent that law is simply an expression of the interests of the powerful, the argument for use of force becomes absurd.
Yep, this is all I'm saying really. The exact same people who were calling the NSA spying stories a conspiracy theory are now saying the same about this is just shocking honestly. I don't understand how one lacks self awareness that badly. "hey I mocked your totally correct point for years, and you were right, now back to giving you zero credibility the minute you make the next argument".
As much as I want the kill hollywood rfs to take off, two startups themes come to mind:

- aws/opsource for medical research (medical will only get bigger)
- privacy-as-a-services
"it's important to temper distrust with investigation and facts and not just blindly run away from everything."

Completely agree, but its a little silly for the person who was just proven wrong to continue to heap the burden of proof on everyone but themselves.
In fact, even better: you can add forwarding to your existing connection. <newline>~C opens a command line, which accepts the following commands:

ssh> help
Commands:
-L[bind_address:]port:host:hostport Request local forward
-R[bind_address:]port:host:hostport Request remote forward
-D[bind_address:]port Request dynamic forward
-KR[bind_address:]port Cancel remote forward

(If you're not familiar with them, some of the other escape sequences are useful too. ~? lists them all.)

[EDIT] Apparently, if you have a recent enough version, you can add a forward to the master with `ssh -O forward ...` [1]

[1] http://serverfault.com/questions/237688/adding-port-forwardi...
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I haven't watched the video, and after reading your comment I probably never will.

/shiver
I love Top Gear. I love it for being loud and silly.

But, whether you and I see it as entertainment is somewhat moot when, like the Daily Show, much of its audience actually gleans the totality of their auto news intake from this entertainment show. Because, frankly, many are not interested in watching the serious news shows, automotive or otherwise.
I recently started learning PHP as my first programming language and I love it so far. But the amount of negativity and hatred I see towards PHP on the internet (even among so-called PHP lovers) makes me question my decision of learning PHP.

My main purpose for learning PHP is for web-development. I have looked into java code and I felt like I am going to shit pants if I have to learn that.

2 questions.

- Am I wasting my time with PHP?

- What are some good alternative for web-development that preferably doesn't have a steep learning curve?
My shrink is convinced I'm an uncredentialed rebel who thinks I didn't get a fair shake. The truth is I'm a merit scholar who chose ASU thinking it didn't matter much. I can write well, but it's painful. My strength is I'm a genius who excels at what I say, not how I say it. LOL

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Right. It's technically not front-running. However, I've heard many traders use the term when talking about how to take advantage of other market participants' likely future orders. As an example for those not immersed in this sort of jargon, imagine that you are driving by an oil refinery and see a huge explosion. You grab your smart phone and go long on gasoline because you presume that short-term refining capacity will be greatly reduced and prices likely will spike. While you had no specific knowledge of other market participants actual orders, you moved quickly to take advantage of their likely future behaviors. Even given this common usage, the author of an article aimed at the general public should not have used language suggestive of a crime when describing behavior akin to my above example.
The fundamental motives are good... TLS/SSL is extremely complex (per 'cperciva)

But without hand audits and active research, it's peeing into the wind without knowing which way its blowing.
Indeed. I've found PHP simply allows me to get things done and consequentially it put a lot of food on my table.

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses - Bjarne Stroustrup
No, you're not wasting your time.
Interesting article here about what happened when one of them found their way into an aquarium. The photo makes Wired's pic look like a model shot:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1165930/Barry...
Wouldn't that mean that as you're reading a comment it could suddenly start moving up or down the screen? That'd make it pretty hard to read the stuff tailored for shills/fanboys/antifanboys...oh you may be onto something..
Look for someone who does something close to what you're doing. Make your email concise and questions pointed. You'd be surprised who you can email and get answers from.

It's worked for me a number of times. YC founders are fairly nice people.
This link has nothing to do with your original scenario of googling for "testicular cancer" and subsequently getting denied for insurance or a mortgage. It's about social media. Social media != anonymized search data.

There is a huge difference between publicly stating for the whole world to see that you have cancer by posting it to Facebook and searching google and browsing webmd and an insurer somehow surfacing that search and browsing intent and then acting on it. You backed up nothing.
Correct me if I am wrong, but very few large scale project (if any at all) use raw PHP. Most of them rely on some kind of framework. Besides FB said it themselves that large portion of their code is PHP.
If USG is prohibited from buying equipment from Huawei because of the possibility of backdoors, then shouldn't the USG be prohibited from buying equipment from American vendors because of the certainty of backdoors?
The last part is agreed, but the inmates don't pay for their own incarceration (this aint Brazil yet).

The agencies that administer prisons get their funding from taxes, and the the level of funding maybe based on population.

But ultimately, society (taxes, etc.) pays for it.
I'd say good ole debian would accomplish your goals, but I'll defer to commenters with more ornate tin-foil hats.
Yeah, but what about the Octopus? It gets pulled in, then it casually walks out leaving behind silence. So did he go all medieval on the worm and take it out? Pay it off? Squirt ink in his mouth to make him go ewwwww? I hate cliff hanger endings.
Taiwan's cool.
Today at Mozilla
Hammers and nails, to some degree...
One key difference is how low you'd be willing to let your remaining range drop. You probably wouldn't feel much fear driving around with 40 estimated miles left in the Accord. But I imagine 40 miles left in a Tesla might cause a little anxiety. The same-numbered range of a gasoline-powered vehicle is lengthened by the high confidence of being able to refuel within a few miles.
Your critic is valid and I completely agree... but I standby what I wrote with regard to their traffic over leased lines.

'We just sent data in the clear over leased lines so the NSA could read whatever they wanted. But the encryption we never used was never weakened.'

This is nonsense.

Not only that, but when the data is transmitted, that is exactly when Google has the least amount of control over it... ie: that's when encryption is the most important. Yet, they chose not to encrypt the data, and then give everyone a story about their 'personal honor' of keeping things secure. This is a joke.
Yes, I was trying to reward the player for flying faster instead of just sitting on one spot. Projectile speed increases as your speed increases. I though damaging your own ship would just be cruel :)

You may also notice the view zooms out as your speed increases, so you have a much wider view
Notable missing phrase: "open source"
> But the very real possibility that we would shut ourselves down (which would be public) rather than sabotage what we do and love should act as some deterrent to those who might wish to compel us to introduce a backdoor.

They've pretty much just said that they would shut down abruptly should an order ever come to them that they couldn't announce. Lavabit sets an interesting precedent really, I expect abrupt shutdowns to happen often this year.
Thanks!

Yes, it's a bit hard to see but I haven't really spent any time tuning it - been too busy. Did you nitice the little blue ships that you can shoot to get a token to upgrade your guns? There's red ships that follow you that show up every 30 seconds, and blue ones that contain powerups that show up after (I think) 10k points.
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use what you love. don't listen to what anyone else says.
Infectious disease doesn't care why you're unvaccinated
The article suggests that more than a few seconds of privileged access to an important economic indicator would have little value due to the speed of algorithmic market participants. I disagree. Imagine that you knew this morning's unemployment number a second before everyone else. Could you have become a bazillionaire? No. Your potential windfall would be limited by how much of a position you could take on without moving the prices of instruments past the point of where they likely would end-up after the general availability of this economic indicator. Order books are fairly light right before a number is released because most participants presume themselves to be the victim of a better-informed trader if the option they "wrote" by putting an order on the book is exercised. So, you as a well-informed trader would have limited opportunity to take on position without paying at least as much as the likely value of that position after everyone knows what you knew a second beforehand. Conversely, imagine that you knew a day or two ahead of time what this morning's unemployment number would be. You could slowly build up a huge position and make orders of magnitude more.
I'll read their statements when they decide to be serious. This is just more games, if it's real, and if so they don't appear interested in being trusted, so...meh. This situation reads to me like, "Clapper doesn't think he has to care."
It sounds like you don't know much about Tesla's goals. They aren't scared of what you are predicting, they are actively attempting to bring it about. The whole goal is to make a cheap, high quality electric vehicle with good range. First they started with the Roadster to prove the technology. Then they moved to the Model S to work out the kinks in mass production and prove they can produce them at scale. Finally, as stated by Musk in multiple interviews, the goal is to mass produce an electric car for $30k-$40k.

By all indications, what they come up with will be better quality and better featured than the equivalent offering from the traditional auto companies. If they can pull that off, I doubt any investors will end up suffering for it...
I have been comparing the Model S and the S7 as well. For me the S7 wins the emotional "want-to-buy-it" comparison, but the model S wins the rational "reasons-to-buy-it" comparison. But at this price point the decision is much more emotional than rational, so while I'm not sure I'll buy the S7, I'm pretty sure I won't buy the model S. Maybe next time, though. I like so many of the things Tesla is doing.

Of course here in the Seattle area there are tesla model S cars on every other street so the curb appeal story is a little different.
How to include C code in your Go package (without using cgo)
Depends on your definition of "leased lines". A privately-operated layer 1 backbone over dedicated dark fiber has traditionally been considered to be pretty secure (up until recently, anyway)
Also:

1. The commit introducing the bug: "Don't add uninitialised data to the random number generator. This stop valgrind from giving error messages in unrelated code." http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-openssl/openssl/trunk/r...

2. The commit fixing the bug: "ssleay_rand_add() really needs to call MD_Update() for buf." http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-openssl/openssl/trunk/c...

(I'd post the diffs but viewvc is throwing exceptions for them)
Is Silicon Beach Over-hyped?
I use 1Password and have been really happy with it. It's not open source, but (I wasn't aware of this until I read this article) they do document the format used by their data file, and the encryption algorithms used:

http://learn.agilebits.com/1Password4/Security/keychain-desi...