skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LulzSec was not Anonymous. While some of its membership may have overlapped, that doesn't really mean anything, because anyone can be a part of Anonymous, simply by carrying out acts in the group's name.

Sabu forgot to activate TOR before logging into IRC just a single time, and the FBI was able to locate him. Sabu was the legal guardian of his siblings, and was pretty much told that he would never see them again if he didn't cooperate with the feds. And so Sabu became a mole for the FBI, spending the next several months trying to elicit identifiable information from his own crew. For the most part, it worked.

What's interesting is that at least one of his fellow hackers is already out of prison, and the rest are going to be out in a few years. Sabu on the other hand, being a United States citizen, faces much harsher penalties than his European counterparts even though he was the only one with a deal. If I had to guess, best case scenario he is going to be sentenced to 10 years. To be honest though, I wouldn't be surprised if he got a few decades more.

Also, Sabu didn't have to manipulate Anonymous into attacking CP networks. It's something that they do on a semi-regular basis. They did it before Sabu, and they are doing it now.
Lots of networking gear and applications make a lot of assumptions that MAC addresses are static and persistent. Things would certainly break if this contract were broken at this stage.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/hardware-developers/h...

Several of their new technology server motherboards were actually OEMed by Supermicro -- stuff like the boards for testing TXT, etc. Intel is actually getting out of the motherboard industry entirely. I think Supermicro was mainly involved in the server boards, not their desktop boards -- bigger manufacturers usually used intel reference designs but still made their own board, so I think it was a low volume business.
Which port knocking implementation do you recommend?
Are you saying that my post was sarcastic? That's strange, because I wasn't being sarcastic - my post was entirely based in fact. Tinfoil, or aluminum foil, is a cheap, commonly available, easily malleable conductor that is actually a pretty good RF attenuator. Some people are unaware that antistatic bags are not always good RF attenuators. If you intend to control when a device is permitted to receive radio waves, a simple and more effective solution is to merely wrap that device in aluminum foil.

I suppose this is sort of a Poe's law[0] effect in which sarcasm mocking security as a form of paranoia, and actual advice for improving one's own security, are now indistinguishable from one another.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
>People who don't have those skills and experience (e.g. teenagers) will find it harder to justify their value to job creators

It's not like you need "skills" and "experience" for most minimum wage jobs. You just need to be able to take hard work, crazy hours, and living on near (or below) substinence levels. The churn rate is quite high anyway, for experience to matter one iota.

>creating a vicious circle as they can't get experience without employment. If I have to pay $10, I'll seek to employ people who are worth $10+.

Most people that make minimum wage work their asses off. That's with regard to work amount. As for their benefit to the company, that's more than their salaries anyway.

A lower minimum wage will not stop unemployment (whose reasons are completely different than wage demands). It's not like the pressure on companies is wage costs, and since minimum wage is the same in an area, there's no competition to businesses (e.g burger flipping, gas stations, cleaning, etc) from other companies as they all have to pay the same minimum wage.

>Youth unemployment is 34.6% in California[0] - the next generation of workers can't afford this.

That's because of lost business/industry/etc jobs, and not because businesses couldn't afford the tiny minimum wage that was already there. So the increase wont change anything.

Not to mention: economies can also die because greedy owners pay their employees less. That saves some money short-term creates a death spiral of diminishing incomes and less spending all around.

There's a reason Henry Ford wanted his pay his employees so that can "afford his cars".
> Yesterday (Sept. 12) we scanned the entire Internet for port 22

> … result of 1,730,887 systems on the Internet … (Note: this is actually only 60% of the Internet

So there are only 2,884,811-ish machines on the internet?
I think the "no more CSS and HTML" misled us all.

In other words, if you think of this as a way to generate HTML snippets with events binding, then, this might not looked as such crazy idea. Of curse when it aims at building the entire website with, one will wonder why.

Having said that, a suggestion to the author, start using name spaces, i.e. put all plugins under the namespace of .plugins, e.g. plugins.YouTube(), plugins.Ace() instead of just YouTube() and Ace().
I find it unfortunate that rationalists are not really allowed to get as angry and emotional as their "opponents". Those on the other side of the debate get to, in their ignorance, harp about the human side of their view on economics, or the spiritual side of certain societal decisions.

Rationalists are allowed to get emotional, and it's not a detriment to their cause when they do. While not every rationalist will, we need emotional people to make emotional responses, or we lose ground in these debates. We don't need to be calculated about it, but we shouldn't scorn it -- that's all.

Not picking on you, OP -- just expressing a gripe that I have.
The beeping at SJC drives me nuts, since at SFO you can use the FasTrak to pay for parking.
I'll look for the article, but as I mentioned above, the way I understand it is that he logged into IRC without using TOR or a VPN one time and they got him.
I'm noting my observation of a social and economic phenomenon, not justifying that approach or expounding a principle we should live by.

There are many incentives to being irresponsible today, and learning about being responsible with resources involves having some non-volatile resources with which to be responsible to start. When you grow up surrounded by scarcity and a general attitude of helplessness and irresponsibility, it's really hard to develop a responsible approach to life. As a culture, I think we tend to encourage continued irresponsibility. It seems to me that in the world we've created, just a little responsibility doesn't pay--to get off to a viable start, one really needs a critical mass of responsibility, which is difficult to acquire on your own with no resources.

People are not as helpless as they think they are, but they have little way of knowing it without the benefit of having already had the experience of having resources and responsibility.
I could equally ask, how do you falsify the theory of 'things continue to be fairly ok'. I'm not trying to be facetious.

I'm not sure absolute falsification is meaningful with this kind of prediction. We only have one system, very hard to falsify.

We can falsify elements of evidence which suggest one planetary state over another. That's about it.
80% of the US economy [citation needed - just a stat remembered from school] is small business. Yeah, mega-corp can handle it. Can the small businesses handle it? Harder to say. A twenty person company with minimum wage workers may be hard pressed with a wage increase. Maybe not. Data needed.
TEMPEST workshop presentation, Riga, october 2008
Most, perhaps, if we're talking about the whole set of apps on the App Store. But I think it's very likely that the vast majority of very popular, "use 20 times a day" apps will be 64-bit very soon.
If anything, you'd have to be be insane not to believe in government mind-control rays.

Or else, you're one of them.
"He'd kill us if he got the chance."
"He'd kill us if he got the chance."
"He'd kill us if he got the chance."
"He'd kill us if he got the chance."
In the short run, maybe. In the long run, no, no, no.

It is hopeless to expect the gov't to not do whatever corporations commonly get away with.

Once the corporations do it, the information in question becomes private property. Now all the gov't has to do is persuade the corporation to hand over or "sell" some little nuggets of their private property. As it is private property that is not yours, it is none of your business in the eyes of the law whether these nuggets of private property are dizzyingly complete records about you.
If you don't remember the double angle formula I used in the parent, but you remember the angle-addition formulas:

cos(ψ + Φ) = cos(ψ) cos(Φ) - sin(ψ) sin(Φ)
sin(ψ + Φ) = sin(ψ) cos(Φ) + cos(ψ) sin(Φ)

You can just set ψ = Φ and get:

cos(2 Φ) = cos^2(Φ) - sin^2(Φ)
sin(2 Φ) = 2 cos(Φ) sin(Φ)

If you don't remember the angle-addition formulas, but you remember that multiplying two complex numbers means adding their angles (arguments) and multiplying their lengths (moduli), you can just pick two unit-modulus complex numbers w = cos(ψ) + i sin(ψ) = a + bi, and z = cos(Φ) + i sin(Φ) = c + di. Multiplying them gives some complex number wz = u + vi, but because these are unit vectors, it must be the case that u = cos(ψ + Φ) and v = sin(ψ + Φ). So

u + vi = wz
= (a + bi) (c + di)
= ac + (bc + ad)i + bdi^2
= (ac - bd) + (bc + ad)i

Then equating real and imaginary parts, you get

u = ac - bd
v = bc + ad

If you substitute the trig expressions for the variables it becomes

cos(ψ + Φ) = cos(ψ) cos(Φ) - sin(ψ) sin(Φ)
sin(ψ + Φ) = sin(ψ) cos(Φ) + cos(ψ) sin(Φ)

Math is good for people who can't remember things, because you can always re-derive anything you've forgotten.
Unfortunately, nothing as simple as a tinfoil hat can block this though.
Congrats on your first app. Twitter is always fun to work with. What did you use to make it?

PS the "tag that" button isn't working.
>Citations? At the moment you're simply relating a personal opinion against someone else's personal opinion.

Isn't that how conversations work?
The film is also still really fresh if you are a seasoned technologist. Hackman's character goes to a trade show in one part of the movie where he looks at all the new surveilance equipment he can buy and talks to some vendors, and it really feels amazingly real and accurate.
You could be right. Or it could be the exact opposite. Or something else. It doesn't matter. Fundamentally we do it to ourselves, because we're herd/pack/social animals. We shun anyone too different from the tribe, it's in our DNA. Because of that, we are highly evolved to fit in.

Yeah, we're self aware and all that, we have choices, but what we generally choose to do is identify with some group and hate opposing groups. It's what we do.

The chimpanzees are laughing at us.
Well because for one it was tested and developed on one distribution. Because one might have chosen to use system level packaging instead of copying code to /var/local or /opt. So it is taking advantage of transactional updates to the system, transitive dependencies, pre-post install scripts. The downside it being tied to a packaging system.

Also certifications. Government agencies for example will accept only certain OS-es have been certified. Sometimes it is simply because there are features on some distribution or kernels that aren't in others.
Yep, great movie.
No, I didn't register it. Actually, it was still available when I posted that comment.
So everyone who claims teenagers are the ones who are going to lose their jobs are very, very wrong. Good to know.
To do that it would require some type of persistent memory on the CPU itself. You could open the chip and look for memory of this type, it requires certain special features to operate, and they're somewhat easy to pick out of a chip shot.

There's also an engineering reason to avoid doing this: persistent memory cells based on silicon have a limited number of write cycles.
Reminds me of the first Project I did with my Pi (last year) except I was using Squid and two Ethernet Ports (Apple's USB to Ethernet Adapter is basically plug and play with Linux). I eventually did a Wifi version, very similar to this article. I then developed a basic Web based UI that allowed you to turn it On and Off by clicking a button. The next step was to use the GPIO Pins to hook up a physical switch that you could press to turn it on/off, but never went that far. For a while there I thought about packaging it as a Product and trying a campaign on Kickstarter, but I didn't like the idea of just repackaging someone else’s Hardware and Code and selling it as my own. Eventually someone else did their own version (AdTrap) and was mildly successful. These days I'm still working on Pi projects as a side hobby, got 2 Projects I'm working on right now. Ironically, one of them supports the Advertising Industry (but not in the way one might think), and the other has to do with Content Delivery. The only real challenge I have (and it's a big one) is taking the next step and building something for mass production. Since the Pi is pre-made, I view it as a great platform to build a prototype, but not necessarily a good platform for mass distribution of a product (from a business perspective, production cost too high). For anyone else into it, check out the new GPS chip's they're selling. Awesome possibilities!

Regarding Ad's and Blocking Ad's, I have no remorse building something that gives the consumer a choice to blocks Ad's. While I do agree that Ad's can be a viable and acceptable business model, it is my personal opinion that the Advertising Industry has been abusing consumers for decades. And I find this detrimental to the Industry as a whole. I think it's about time that the consumers had a choice. I find the average (aka normal) user experience of your typical Ad (in any format) to be horrible; The Ad is basically forced on you. I also find that the Advertising Industry has little regard for the consumer's Privacy, which I do not find acceptable (as a consumer). I do think that there are innovative ways to Advertise and create a positive experience, but I don’t think the industry (as a whole) has realized/embraced them yet. It seems to me that the Advertising Industry is stuck on a model developed in the 60's, and has continued to push this old model even while technology evolves. I think it's time for the Advertising Industry to evolve. Hopefully I can test/validate this with one of my next Pi based Projects.
The one annoying thing is that you can't do selectively do DNS over the VPN, but that's really only useful when you want to separate work / personal on the same machine at the same time.
People do this in America. Mexican immigrants namely. I see it for myself. They know how to live well on low incomes.
The government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.
The root cause of poverty is the incompetent government education system - The Teacher's Union. Most public school teachers I've come across have contempt for the businessmen (people who create the wealth) and for poor people (teachers tend to be limousine liberals).

The first country or state to disband the current teaching system and replace with a competitive system will skyrocket to success. This is a no-brainer, but it's so to difficult implement because there's so many of the 'government handout' teachers voting they swamp the rest of us.
I think you have it the wrong way around - it's not a demand-driven arrangement, but a supply-driven one; landlords prefer to have more than one person responsible for the lease, provided the tenants have sound integrity.

It's like standing on one leg; if that leg crumbles, you will fall and land hard. But if you have two legs, one leg can crumble and the other gives you enough time for you to land gently. If you... magically had a third leg (and weren't standing with them in a triangle?), you might not even notice that one leg stopped working.
And it a good parable about the real issue, how most people are selfish and will only 'help' it they get something back IE Get to meet a star fish they 'saved'

Reality is the star fish are all fine come next tide but the boy goes home thinking he's done a good dead, in reality having done nothing but made himself feel better.

The old man is probably wise and realises the issue is bigger than throwing a star fish in the ocean and is probably sad.

He too might do nothing, but I'd like to think ever now and again one or two of these wise old people actually does something that saves millions and has a real effect on the world.

Maybe something like creating a site like Watsi.
I might not be right on the money that the body would burn muscle first, but I can say with certainty that drinking causes your muscles to degenerate: http://ajpendo.physiology.org/content/277/2/E268

RE: the only circumstance -- I think sleep deprivation would do the trick, too.
It turns out the publisher still has authorized PDF sales. I'm not in line to get royalties, so it's not my problem, but I still hate to see a missed opportunity.
My adblock (GlimmerBlocker) breaks your JS.
Microsoft's great looking surface phone design
> ... read about the history of eugenics if you'd like to know how other people might misinterpret your argument.

In the above post I did explicitly point out that there are no political solutions to the population problem -- I called them disasters, and eugenics is certainly on the list of all-time political disasters.

The reason is simple -- nature is smarter than us. When evolution works, when nature produces something remarkable, it's not because we're smart, it's because nature is.

We're faced with a problem that's easy to state and impossible to solve. Virtually anything we can think to try would make the problem worse. We've proven that with our total mishandling of the antibiotic issue. We now know what can go wrong, we have the required information, but we don't seem to be able to craft an effective remedy.

Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methicillin-resistant_Staphyloc...
Hmm, perhaps it isn't falsifiable by that standard. Only the evidence used in support is falsifiable, but the theory itself couldn't be falsified.

How could you falsify the idea "things will continue to be fine"? I'm trying to assess if falsification is a good standard to use.
If I had to guess, best case scenario he is going to be sentenced to 10 years.

Ten years? Even with a deal? Really?

That's astonishing if accurate.
What is this? Inuit css is more semantic than this, and i don't see the point to use classes in html document anymore, I actualy inject them via js or just extend reausable classes made in scss, semantics of html should just have attributes that actualy describe what the element is for with ARIA, roles, etc.
They should have. It really made no sense when they decided to bet the farm on Android, just as it didn't make sense for Nokia to bet the farm on Windows Phone. Well, those decisions make sense from the perspective of eventual acquisitions I suppose.

Though there is a bit more justification for skipping a platform like Windows Phone, as it was one where Microsoft dictated the hardware -- the processor, GPU, screen, etc. So there could be a lot of engineering hassle with something like that -- you pretty much had to engineer hardware specifically for Windows Phone -- versus Android where Nokia really could easily adapt it to pretty any handset they have.

And I doubt Microsoft's concern was Nokia putting Android on some low end joke. They knew if the day came when a Lumia XXXX was available with either Android or Windows Phone, it may quickly yield some very poor press for the platform.
i still don't complete understand why you can't just buy a phone nowadays and install either android or windows phone os on it.

shouldn't this be the strategy which microsoft pursues?
How Mobile Experiences Can Shape Our Perception Through Illusions Of Speed
This is actually common in college towns. In Seattle, it's very common in the University district, but almost unheard-of outside that neighborhood.
Touchscreen knows it's you from taps and swipes
OCR of license plate characters is far easier than distinguishing specific vehicle and weight classes. Fortunately, the license plate is connected to a database that tells you much of what you want anyway. Couple that with weight sensors (to count axles), and you've got the data you need for tolling without doing any "hard" visual recognition.
I'd guess a closer interpretation might be "there are only ~2,900,000-ish machines publicly answering on port 22 on the internet".

(Most of my "important" servers have port 22 firewalled off an only open to a small set of external ip addresses. Some of them aren't running ssh at all.)
yeah, that's actually better because, providing you quote the variable, it handles spaces correctly.
What is happening to this world? The Government and it's so-called agencies vested with protecting America and its allies are treating everyone like criminals, privately harvesting our information via any means possible.

They don't even have to hide it any more. They can admit things like this and nobody can do anything about it. We've passed the point of being able to defend ourselves against actions like this. Every step we take to protect our privacy, the Government is presumably two-steps ahead.

We just can't win...
I kinda thought the same thing about flash-drive viruses, and why Bruce wasn't using CDs/DVDs instead. Then I realized if he was really serious, he wouldn't say what he's really using, and he'd have a USB honeypot plugged into his network-facing computer.
> "Trust no one! Suspect EVERYTHING!", I can say today without sounding crazy.

It's really not that hard to say this seriously without wearing a tinfoil hat. I've been doing that since high school.

The key is thinking in terms of operations, rather than in terms of generic trust. You need to know what you're doing, maintain opsec and have a strong, realistic threat analysis. For me, the Snowden cascade hasn't changed anything: if someone can penetrate the USGov's defenses, then they can almost certainly penetrate mine.

And that has always been true.

The revelations are a matter of ideological trust--trust in whether or not someone agrees with you--, but the USGov has never had much of this kind of trust, not even at its founding, nor has it ever acquired it.
Quote: "An object that is sprung requires dramatically less energy to move than an unsprung object."

Translation: "I don't know anything about physics."

How did this nonsense get posted to Wikipedia?
What Women Don't Want
I was also very confused the first time a drove across without the toll collectors. It felt like I was doing something wrong, and was going to end getting a ticket.

Do you know if the person you borrowed the car from got a bill? I'm curious if they are only able to bill California plates, or they have a national database of license plates.
Android doesn't require the same sacrifices and has a larger market share for free apps.
1g/kg is at least double what most people eat :) it's ridiculous from a general population standpoint. Personally I aim for more than that, but I'm not sure it's indicated for people who don't work out.
also, if you live in the sf bay area, it has a lot of cool location shots from that era.
It made no sense for Motorola to bet on Android? What other options were carriers interested in buying that Motorola could have shipped?

"didn't make sense for Nokia to bet the farm on Windows Phone"

Who else was lining up to write Nokia billion dollar checks?
That could be a strategy for an underdog like Microsoft (in this market) to pursue.

For everyone else, it's no surprise they don't commoditize their own products. That'd just be throwing away money. Samsung wants to sell you the special experiences only their S4 will provide you. Apple wants to sell you the special experiences only an iPhone will provide you. That's how they get you to pay a premium, and to upgrade every 2 years, where you only replace most other items you own when they wear out or break.

Nobody wants to be just one of a dozen vendors of black bricks with a tech spec sheet.