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Freescale iMX6 SoC ARM - does anyone know how much horsepower this has compared to, say, an Intel Atom or Celeron processor?
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For all I know, trap device could be FBI speak for USB hard drive. He needs to plug in the hard drive so he can copy the data on to it. (I am aware the FBI has other, much more capable network intercept devices. I suspect the term pen/trap device is standard jargon for anything that gets installed on site regardless of capability.)
Publicly held organizations cannot choose to close shop. They don't own the shop. Something I quote from Bruce Schneier was that if Google or Facebook were in the same position and the CEO refused to cooperate, the shareholders would just fire the existing CEO and get a less moral one!
In android, only things like links or contacts are sent directly through NFC. For large files, it uses bluetooth or WiFi direct. The use case is really good though, if you want to transfer a file, you just hold up your phone, touch the screen, and away it goes. All the bluetooth and WiFi setup steps are hidden (but to be honest, bluetooth in android is a bit dodgy. You can't even send arbitrary files without special programs).
Related, and quite good: http://apiary.io/

Apiary not only auto-creates the docs for you, but also auto-creates a mock API which will return the example responses from your docs
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This can work well from a company also, its just that expectations should be met. We (Startup Threads) ship out shirts via API for companies and its overwhelmingly a positive response for recipients, as its done as a thank you for something that normally doesn't elicit a payment/attention (like bounties for vulnerabilities would)
The iMX6's CPU is an ARM Cortex-A9. There are 3 versions of the chip that have either 1, 2, or 4 cores inside.

I'm guessing for a $49 MSRP they're using the Solo, which is one core at 1 GHz. Benchmarks for the A9 are out there if you want to compare to the Atom or Celeron.
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Got your point. Will fix the design. Deceiving was never the intention. Just wanted to display the social proof of the parent company.

BTW, did you give it a spin?
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I'm gonna disagree. Could you implement Smalltalk environment in browser in two weeks? I'd doubt you could (assuming you are Brendan Eich, circa 1995), realistically. It is a sloppily written language that was perfected later over course of decades.

Worse is Better is omnipresent. Linux vs Minix vs BeOS vs Windows is example of Linux despite being bad relatively, simply winning out (on servers) due to its developer base and losing to Windows that despite numerous faults/warts won the desktop market by a large margin.

When I said Right Thing being here, I didn't mean existence, but presence. Right thing may exist in heads of few masters that know it super well, but them being unable or unwilling to spread it dooms the Right Thing. A Worse Thing that spreads far and wide will win and has always won.

Xanadu vs Internet

Linux vs BeOS

MacOS vs Windows

Lisp/Smalltalk vs C
Lighten up, everyone, this is a fun little thing. Thanks for sharing.
So who's going to be the next Dread Pirate Roberts?
Now you see the violence inherent in our musical system!
No. Sure, being a single founder challenges everything about you. Likewise, being a cofounder challenges everything about that relationship. I think it's better to 'settle' for finding success outside of YC, etc. than to settle on a cofounder, especially without history. I think being a cofounder tests a relationship and your compatibility even more than marriage at times. Don't do it just to check a box on someone else's list.

Plus, confounding a company together is hard, being a single founder is harder, but I think bringing a second founder in later is the hardest maneuver of them all.

You will resent the decisions he makes concerning your baby without your history in the project. He will resent the lack of immediate trust and freedom.

I don't say this to discourage having a cofounder that you think is a perfect fit. That would be my #1 choice of course. But being a single founder is worlds preferable to having a cofounder setup that goes sour.
Money is how we keep score and literally show each other what we value. I think there is a threshold amount that demonstrates that they really care and I would define that as enough money for a date.

I found a vulnerability with a large regional service I use a couple of years ago and did the right thing by discreetly reporting it. They thanked me and gave me credit for their service equal to about $50; I felt like they really appreciated my report.

If they had given me swag they give away for free I would have been nonplussed.
How do you go from "In a typical case, a provider is capable of implementing a pen-trap by using its own software or device" to "obviously the FBI owned and controlled device"?
http://reddit.com/r/startups
http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur

I think your best bet (based on advice from this site and my own experience) is to find the community most relevant to your product and make sure everyone in that community knows you're launching.
There is, iirc, also a time limit between when an investigation begins and one an indictment is filed. The idea being to prevent the government from simply having someone under investigation in perpetuity. I suppose the ADAs COULD try and time the indictment against unrelated pop-culture events, but in my experience it seems so unlikely as to be mostly the stuff of movies. Delays more frequently where due to problems getting financial records or untangling complex webs of them, problems locating willing witnesses, problems with witness intimidation, etc..
Bitcointalk.org users data for sale?
> This is what happens when you try to "hack" the legal system

What happens? The prosecution has to go back to the judge and demand a different format? What a terrible consequence.
Thanks for the summary; it's much appreciated.

None of this is shocking: If you run a commercial communications service, it's your responsibility to comply with legitimate wiretap warrants. As the judge said, setting up your system in such as way as to make tailored compliance extremely difficult or impossible doesn't release you from that requirement.
I have been developing a product unrelated to yours (I think at least, the video wont play because of all the traffic you're getting and your site really does not explain it too well) and I had thought prism was a good base for a name also, but then the whole NSA thing happened and I promptly switched the name.

Definitely not trying to be a jerk, but I'm wondering if these guys are concerned about this at all?
The broadcast versions of the negotiations are edited, sometimes heavily, so you can't necessarily assume that things happened as quickly in real life as they did on the screen. (Every once in a while, I'll catch them referring to a remark someone made earlier which I didn't hear, presumably because it didn't make the broadcast.)
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This is a good example of how people should use police services. They were and prepared, and they did as much of the legwork as they could. The advice to stay away from the police and to not talk to them when they are soliciting you is also good advice, but maybe not when taken to the extreme. Imagine if the shop owners refused to cooperate? It would have been much harder to solve this crime.

There are some guidelines that I think can help. If you get stopped for a traffic stop and the cop says he wants to take a quick look through your car, you should (respectfully) decline. That can lead to nothing good for you. If you think you might be suspected of a crime (right or wrong), or you don't know why the police want to talk to you, do not go and meet with them. If you get arrested, get a lawyer and let him/her deal with talking to the police. You can talk to the judge if it comes to that.

If they explain that they are investigating a crime and you have some information or evidence they need, go ahead and help them if you are not a target.

Just remember, the police are not your friend. They do not care about your life. They will lie to you and manipulate you if it suits their purpose. However, they do in fact serve an important function, that you may need them someday. Use them for their intended purpose. The system is certainly imperfect, but does work much of the time. I believe the trend towards police wearing body cameras during every interaction can only lead to good things for everyone.
I'll be damned.

Good catch, and you're definitely not being rude by correcting my ignorance!

Thank you :)
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I'm wondering what could have happened if these corporations didn't comply? It's hard to imagine a headlines like "US Government shuts down Microsoft because of refused total surveillance order".
Sorry, but I don't get this mindset. It would have been better to give them nothing rather than a "cheap" gift?

If you want to get paid market rate for the value you provide as a security researcher, then stop doing work on spec and just hoping that someone compensates you for it.
This is incredibly useful! Also http://www.reddit.com/r/startups

Edit: Oops. Someone beat me to it.
Facebook PHP SDK: 62 open pull requests, 2 commits in last 6 months
I definitely can get behind the statement of intent that the 'content' part of a CMS needs to be managed better.

Unfortuantely, I think it's only one of the problem areas that cause developers to constantly reinvent the wheel when it comes to CMSs to fit their own needs.
it's 7500 rounds of sha256crypt

I just ran it on a macbook pro with 8gb ram and 2.5ghz i5 and it took 0.014s per hash. It would take about 40 years to brute force 50% of the all lower case 8 letter passwords

(The same computer doing the same thing with sha256 would take 2.6 days)
The wiki is a git repository, so in effect it is distributed.

The issue tracker is not, unfortunately, but neither are most issue trackers.
I like your marketing approach - post a list and include your project https://www.sideprojectors.com right in the middle. Wouldn't it be fair to disclose such a thing?
This is why people call you 'shill'. You aren't disagreeing, just using leading speculation. These are specifically not the same issues as Boeing, whose design Musk criticised for ability to produce 'domino effect' fires that get out of control very fast. That did not happen here.

Casting aspersions like 'li-ion are notorious' also stinks, much like the smell of gasoline before it (notoriously) explodes.

Ignoring the facts of the particular case whilst hugely generalising about the technology isn't a good foundation of debate.
The founders appear to be Palestinians living in Nazareth. My guess is the sentence's wording is confusing because the author wanted to work in the note about occupation. Nazareth itself is in Israel proper. Since we'll call something an American startup even if the founders are foreign I think it is safe to call SolidRun an Israeli startup.
Just a wild guess but maybe the installer wants the "real" bash and you have dash set up (I think ubuntu and debian do that nowadays).

That or you're missing an executable or some command returns an error that's poorly handled (since we all know proper error handling is borderline impossible in shell scripts...).

That's why I don't get the point of bash scripts: if you want something truly portable you might as well use /bin/sh and if you're willing to compromise a bit of portability for more advanced features you might as well switch to perl or python (perl is probably as likely to be installed on any un*x machine as bash).
Something is not right about this story. I can't put my finger on it, but the holes in Bo's story make me suspicious. What items were lost originally? What were the circumstances surrounding the lost items? Why wasn't Bo fired immediately after these items were reported missing? Why is Bo offering to pay for any lost items, and why does he seem so eager to do so?

Then, as it pertains to the laptop, what the FRICK is Bo doing installing single user pre-boot authentication on a work computer? That is totally out of line, and I wouldn't blame the employer for feeling like his computer was being held hostage by an ex-contractor.

I could see the theft charge in that case. If someone installed password-protected full disk encryption on my computer and refused to give me the password, yes, nothing was physically "stolen", but the fact that I'm being denied access to my own data is more-or-less equivalent.

The fact that Bo then cuts a check to a detective again makes no sense to me. Why are you paying off law enforcement instead of going through the judicial system? Don't forget, going to court is also there to protect you.
http://matthewshapiro.tumblr.com/post/62962519266/yahoo-deve...

I really don't get the response above.
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Keep reading: a couple of days later, he was then forced to send them in digital format under penalty of $5000 per day after the new deadline. So yeah, contempt was clearly detected, if not explicitly mentioned... your justice system works very quickly when it wants to.
Completely fake. Here's what happens when you send it an HTTP 1.0 request without the Host header:

earlz@EarlzWork ~ % nc www.rememberthe13th.com 80
GET /sign_me_up.php HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:36:20 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.8
Set-Cookie: wc_session_cookie_099d066d0c4356a36019db6b6adc6718=xo48mwb9bqcu89XumVOt2ur0kROnYwnU%7C%7C1380983780%7C%7C1380980180%7C%7C95c70c35fe67d431307ccee4ac98ffbe; expires=Sat, 05-Oct-2013 14:36:20 GMT; path=/; httponly
Set-Cookie: woocommerce_items_in_cart=0; expires=Thu, 03-Oct-2013 13:36:20 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: woocommerce_cart_hash=0; expires=Thu, 03-Oct-2013 13:36:20 GMT; path=/
X-Pingback: http://www.adixy.com/xmlrpc.php
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

adixy is apparently a service to "buy real page views" lol
> The only reason they got the SSL key search warrant was his aggressive noncompliance with the pen register/pen trap.

What does this mean? Don't they have a the legal ability to force compliance?
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http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-plus/ gives 1003 Mc/s for one AMD hd7970.

Divided by 7500 that's 134 kc/s. 18 days to search through all alphabetical 8 character passwords, and 244 to search through all alphanumeric 8 character passwords.

Realistically an attacker would have several cards and use rule based dictionary attacks. Using a secure password hashing algorithm will not help you against weak passwords.
The experience was very positive from our side of things

Your experience is almost certainly the common experience for people in your socio-economic group. The common worst case being they do let it slide and you are just left with wasted effort on your part.

The problem is that you have no way of knowing ahead of time if you are going to get an outlier -- a cop who decides there is something hinky about you and focuses on that rather than whatever reason you solicited their help for. It is absolutely a rare event (somewhat less rare for other groups, but still rare). The problem is that the consequences of having one of those rare events happen to you can be life-ruining. It is a very real case of one bad apple spoiling the bunch.

In your example, you had nothing to gain from the culprit's arrest and prosecution. The chance of you ending up on the wrong side of the law was quite small, but not zero. Perhaps the purse was recovered and they found a joint in it - even if the drugs didn't belong to your wife, you risk becoming the target of an investigation.

Given that balance of low-chance, high-consequence risk with essentially zero upside it would make sense for most people in that situation to avoid it completely.
That's pretty big talk from a dude who couldn't find the first link in Google, and tried to wave off any discussion of Gould's fraud as equivalent to all the crackpots talking about Einstein.
Isn't an exchange of funds admission of guilt?
Throw in some of the mail clients and other apps like Sparrow, Mailbox, and Fantastical and from the outside, it seems more like acqui-hires to absorb the product and team into a bigger company is the way to go.
Yeah no prob. I'm particularly interested in Lavabit's story, because I'm looking to get off of Gmail and get some degree of privacy. But with how this is going, it looks like I'm going to have to wait for a non-USA company to start a similar service (I'm broke and in the USA, so I'm not in a position to start one myself).
Yeah, gasoline is actually surprisingly difficult to accidentally ignite, wheras lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries self-ignite if punctured.
My neighbor left their front door unlocked while they were on vacation. I kindly locked their door and notified them and they sent me a nice bottle of wine in thanks. What a total slap in the face. A security vulnerability like that, I should be entitled to at least a home-cooked dinner invite. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a whiny blog post to write and I will also be embarrassing myself on Twitter via a series of self-entitled rants showing to the world how insecure I am.
This is a frustrating message to the developer community. I've submitted bugs in the main FB bug tracker (e.g. https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/434542786631253?browse=...). They've been "looking into the issue" for 7 months.
If I were a security researcher and put a lot of effort into finding vulnerabilities for Yahoo I would have simply sold the exploits to the highest bidder, and invited Yahoo to participate in the auction. If they lost, then I'd go to the press with the story of how little their user's security means to them (again to the highest bidder.) Either way, (only in the long run in the second case), the users win and I'd sleep like a baby.

It's just as well I'm not a security researcher.

Edit: Wow a lot of drive-by-downvotes. I'm not serious guys, but I hope I have made some people think about the moral issues involved. It's not as clear as people are making it out to be in other comments on this post.
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Thanks for the link and research. Some of the text is #acb2b6 which is really difficult for me to read. It's not like this website is particularly bad. I've hold back on commenting before but I guess I just felt like ranting today.
Why? OP gave you a list and a fairly non bias summary for each. Besides, using their site is completely optional and based on volunteerism. If you think it was of poor character, don't use their site.

Is mentioning they run the site necessary? Absolutely not IMO.
The video is hosted at vimeo, I don't see why you think it's related to the traffic these guys are getting.

It plays just fine for me.
> when did everyone become so entitled to getting something for reporting a bug/security concern.

Somewhere between the ability to sell vulnerabilities and the implementation of bug bounties.
if you want to introduce a product, please, please supply a working demo, and not some bad video full of marketing. _especially_ if you're targeting developers.
Your reasoning about the electromagnetic field is right. I think the element of confusion here is the definition of nonlinear. Nonlinear in system theory means that the superposition principle is not valid.
From Wikipedia: "The superposition principle states that the net response at a given place and time caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses which would have been caused by each stimulus individually".
The electromagnetic field in vacuum is linear, because it obeys Maxwell's equations and it is a solution of a set of linear equations. The output is always proportional to the input: you put a bigger charge and you get a bigger field. A linear combination of electromagnetic fields, with constant, real coefficients, is a new field which obeys Maxwell's equations, thus it is still linear and the superposition principle is still valid.
Thanks for immediately playing audio without asking me first. I know everybody just loves it when web pages do that.
Bitcointalk.org users data for sale?

see http://pastebin.com/6S2H21eF
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The great thing about GitHub is that it's still Git. If GitHub is down, that just means that your central publishing site is down. It doesn't mean that you're developers can't work. They can still share amongst themselves. Like they probably should be doing even when GitHub is up.
If you can't take derision of your comments in stride, then you shouldn't start that ball rolling yourself.

mistaking forests for trees -
That is not what that idiom means. It has nothing to do with being confused or being mistaken.

but expressing great wisdom when voting -
No, but what you're doing here is reclassifying my attempts at discussing nuance into a silly dichotomy of extremes. Even if nothing else, I never said the French were wise - nor unwise for that matter. That's you trying to strawman me into a ridiculous position. I said that long-term, over the course of years, democracies settles around certain tenets. For the French, the importance of culture is one of them.

You're free to have the last comment, as I'm done here.
Apple wants sanctions after Samsung improperly looked at confidential documents
Aside from a lack of range, I doubt the Leap can handle it. From my experience it routinely treats fingers held together as a single "pointable" instance. There will be a good number of ASL conditions it won't recognize.
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If it's useful then who cares?
I feel like this is a stupid question, but: Why would people get mad at him for sending out t-shirts (i.e. tshirt-gate)?
>Here's a guy who was doing more than the company policy just to be nice

Was that clear at all before, or was the "reward" just coming from generic Yahoo? It seems like he was essentially creating a de facto company policy, without company approval.
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Here is one more comprehensive list..
http://www.quora.com/What-other-services-besides-betali-st-a...
People at Apple working on JavaScriptCore (Safari's JS engine) have recently added a fourth-tier JIT using LLVM, so very much run for only very-very-very-hot code (of course, by waiting for it to become very-very-very-hot, you've already lost a time you could've gained). I can see LLVM making its way into more JITing compilers in such ways: as an ultimate solution where it is clear it's worthwhile spending a lot of time compiling code.

The node.js server case seems worthwhile to bring up here: node.js servers are typically run for days or weeks on end. An extra few milliseconds (or even a second or two) isn't significant if it makes a noticeable difference in performance.