skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I researched this 3 years ago for our startups and couldn't find anything really good that lets me easily and securely share passwords on a need-to-know basis to team members and see who has access to what. Which baffles me because this is a problem that every single startup and small company must have.

In the end, we went for https://www.passpack.com/. They're clearly a small shop but it's been designed from the ground up for teams, they appear to care and know what they're doing when it comes to security (only have their word for it though obviously). Their web interface doesn't look like much but it's insanely fast and really well thought out, making inputing and looking for password really quick and easy. For some reason their pricing is ridiculously low - it costs next to nothing.

Two bad points: no native mobile app, making it a huge pain to look up password on the go + paranoid on the security front, which means that logging in is always a big pain. That unfortunately means that we were never able to convince anyone to really embrace it. Convenience and security is always a balancing act and Passpack is definitely leaning on the security side (understandable obviously). TBH, if they had a good native iOS app, I think it could make a difference for them. Instead of being this really annoying tool you're forced to use at work, they could become something that everyone uses as part of their daily personal life which would make it easier to get it adopted at work.
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We've been doing research on this at StartHQ (https://starthq.com) since we offer a web app launcher and new tab replacement extension (like the old Chrome New Tab page, but better) & SaaS password management would be a logical extension to that.

Out of the 20+ companies we've interviewed so far one had heard of Okta & none had heard of Bitium and Meldium, the main players in this space. One was using LastPass.

Most do not have a strict password policy and the current solutions include storing them in other web services like Trello and Google Docs, or sharing logins within a team using post it notes or via email.

One trend that I've clearly spotted though is the use of Google Apps to consolidate identity management in the cloud. This is often synced with AD via LDAP. Whenever possible, companies encourage but do not enforce the use of Google for logging into third party services. This makes offboarding a lot easier and that is the main pain point, as opposed to onboarding of new employees. This is further confirmed by SaaS providers saying that they see up to 60% of all their logins being done through Google Apps.
But that's not the place of the legislature (or a judge), not the AG.

I realize that in practice this happens, but we set a dangerous precedent when we allow the Attorney General to decide what should and should not be prosecuted. In theory, the Attorney General prosecutes all perceived violations of the law[0], and it's up to the justice system to, well, decide of the law is just.

[0] And I don't think anybody's debating that this violates the law; the debate is whether or not the law is just.
Apple is again having issues with users who have non ASCII characters.
They're trying to extradite Snowden from Russia but Russia says, "Too bad we don't have an extradition treaty".

There are plenty of countries that would scoff at extraditing him for this simple fact of not having a treaty. Even countries that we do have a treaty with would've locked up extradition in the courts for years because he's facing life imprisonment for making a website and a bunch of other garbage they found on his servers:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ulbricht-hearing-20131...

If convicted, Ulbricht could be sentenced to life in prison.

They're also charging him with paying to have someone killed merely based on chat logs. They even said there's no evidence anyone was killed or frankly any evidence at all other than the chat logs.
What, you mean the same offline mode that people hacked into it shortly after it was launched? To say it would take significant engineering work, when people have already done it fairly quickly, just makes you look like an incompetent liar.
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> Also, surely a backup exists. What is an effective way to backup the wallet so that it can survive decades of prison time?

A piece of paper: http://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/

You should only print it from a secure system though.
Not that much of an oddity: you're not alone. On the contrary, the parallel life described by the OP, is the life that me, you and millions of others actually live every single day. And from the description he gives of his normal life, I for one am happy with my normal life that incorporates simple things like sitting outside in a chair and listening/watching animals in my garden rather then doing the same but being interrupted every minute with a new status update.
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Here's the site of the researchers. There's not a huge amount of information there, but they use Alexa. <http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk/2013/09/age-of-internet-empire...

It is very frustrating when articles do not link to the research they are reporting on.

I suspect that they haven't read the research, and are just reporting from the press releases.

If anyone from The Atlantic is reading (because you're certainly posting here) please could you try to get source links into the articles?

Here's the homepage for one of the researchers. <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=165> Some of the current projects on the research page are fascinating.
That looks convenient.

The problem is that for them to log you in they have to store your passwords in clear. It seems like the data is encrypted in their back-end but the webapp has probably the decoding key. https://www.meldium.com/security
Inflation is when the price of something increase. So, yes, Bitcoin undergoes inflation and not deflation.
We have a complete live-spare datacentre in Iceland. Eventually it will be a fully operational centre in its own right

Let me know when that happens and I'll gladly sign up for your service :)

I'm not so sure about the safe-haveness of Switzerland these days. They already caved to the US, giving them access to banking info (what they're famous for... which leaves me wondering what Switzerland got in return):

I don't see how bank secrets have anything to do with Internet surveillance. There's a general tendency now both in the US and the EU to pressure tax havens such as Switzerland, Andorra, the Bahamas, etc. to give up their bank secrets so that corporations and rich individuals can't hide their income and avoid paying taxes. That seems fair enough, and I don't see a direct link between that and Internet surveillance.
Moderation in the pursuit of a better world is no virtue. As a consequentialist, I disagree with your premise that subverting bad laws is unethical behavior.
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> Baidu dominates China, though its spill-over popularity into neighboring countries makes the researchers doubt whether data from those countries is accurate.

The data for Korea clearly isn't accurate. Baidu is almost unheard of in this country. Not many young people can even read Chinese. Naver, a local company, dominates 70% of the Korean search market and a significant portion of the social networking scene as well. Its anti-competitive behavior is currently a hot topic in Korea.

I suppose the anomaly is due to the fact that the authors used Alexa (mentioned in the bottom right of the second image). Hardly anyone in Korea has the Alexa toolbar installed. People here, like elsewhere, pollute their PCs with all sorts of other toolbars, but rarely Alexa. The language barrier probably plays a part. I wouldn't be surprised if those who do have Alexa (usually foreigners) tend to have ties to a certain neighboring country with a very large population.
When we launched the site we were already down to two nine's, so a sysadmin should already have been pissed. We can add more descriptive and dynamic options.
No, inflation is right. Bitcoin is currently inflating in both value and supply.
That's what I thought as well. In fact, wouldn't their "cashing out" the Bitcoins be tantamount to an endorsement of Bitcoin? They're injecting money into the ecosystem and directly helping to circulate it.

That they are even trying to exchange the Bitcoins for USD is, at least in my mind, U.S. governmental approval of Bitcoins.
I'm in the UK too, and I believe it was frontpage BBC news for a fair while. Also, don't underestimate the network effect of twitter & facebook for the non-tech crowd ... if people see their friends moaning about their woes I would suggest it is likely to make them think twice. How many people were making positive comments about sim city during it's launch period?
Mid-1990s at the very earliest, and arguably later: he still presumably had easily accessible, fast, internet access with wikipedia and google (just, not on his phone) and could still contact other people on their cellphones.
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I disagree, I think they have selection bias. I also think that they are more like a CPU than they are like a developer. The legislator is the developer. The constitution (of whichever country you are in) is the standards body. It is their job to execute the law, not to make it.
If i'm not mistaken real-time java doesn't use the jit compiler(because it's pretty impossible to guarantee determinism with jit).

Is this true? And even with this constraint, java gets similar speed to c++ ?
The answer to "I don't know what I'm talking about, but can I assume..." is always 'no'.
> The right way to go, is to fight for your policies and vote for them when time comes.

Why?
Same goes for any centralized service you may use. You are still able to copy passwords manually into a text file, local keepass, etc. True, it is easier with a shared keepass, but the challenge is the same if you truly need to make sure a former employee can no longer access anything.
The reason cheesy apps ask for outrageous permissions is (usually) that the ad network they use for monetization wants to do (usually cheesy) behavioral targeting. So it intrudes on your privacy as much as it thinks it can get away with.

In Android 4.3 you can selectively turn off permissions. It's a hidden feature and you need a hack like this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appaholics... to expose it.

With this set of settings, you can turn off unwanted permissions and watch your cheesy apps throw unhandled exceptions when they invade your privacy.
Password State [0] is excellent, has a pretty good feature set, and good support.

[0] http://www.clickstudios.com.au/
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I am using cpm[1] with the revision control recipe[2], storing the encrypted file in our local Gitlab[3].

[1]: https://github.com/comotion/cpm
[2]: https://github.com/comotion/cpm/wiki/Revision-control
[3]: http://gitlab.org/
I've done the same (with autofill switched off in my password manager). Makes a real difference.

I should delete the app from my phone too. Or at least switch off all notifications and move it into a folder far away from the home screen.
As much as this is an open invitation to rail on the RoR community, I think this is a problem that is a lot more indicative of this brave new software culture both open source and (independent) commercial.

If your tool sees any sort of uptake, it suddenly no longer is yours. The community suddenly expects you to not only to continue to modify the base code to improve functionality, but to also adhere to a sort of backwards compatability so that everything they know and loved about your baby never changes.

I can't imagine how much more taxing this would be once the tools you built become integral part of other team's workflow. The burden and stresses of keeping "the world" afloat would cause many a sleepness night for people of strong constitution.
Not excusing and justifying? You flipped the blame onto her, calling her a troll, and rationalizing away at the offensive comments. She hinted that she was a woman, and their first response is to ask to see her breasts. That's not humanity, that's objectification. Even if it was an attempt at humor, or an awkward side-stepping of an unexpected "battle", it would not make it acceptable to be so sexist. The fact that such a phrase has become a meme only makes it worse to repeat it.
The problem isn't running out of oil. The problem is increased production incentivizing increased usage which drives us over the edge of an irreversible climate catastrofuck.

All the oil is getting extracted out of the ground and (at utilization time) getting pumped into the air. It's the exact opposite of what we need to be doing now.
I agree that this is a nice gesture, but it's not a "frank disclosure". What did they disclose?

When they actually have a security breach and they promptly "[talk] about it very publicly", that will be something commendable. Right now we have words, not actions.

Though honestly I'd much rather have such words than not.
Another useful angle is to investigate their personal domain; who is hosting DNS, are they using DNSSEC, do they run their own code on platforms they have built-out? Where are their MX pointing?

Gives a good understanding of how much or little they understand implementation & deployment.

And, of course, check that they can sign their e-mails with their own PGP key :)
I know that being able to factor ~670/1024-bits isn't that impressive (overall). But the fact that it is possible to develop the software this far shows that it's mainly a hardware problem. Enough parallelization into GPU cores with a significant system, and I think that cracking a 1024-bit key comes to less than a week.
We simply use a MediaWiki with some Categories. Installed local on a webserver where everyone has access to it.
Checking if a number is a prime or not is much easier than actually factoring it (if it is not a prime).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality_test
> in the case of rent controlled apartments in NYC.

This is not the issue.

There are very, very few rent-controlled apartments left in NYC. Almost nobody who works in the tech industry here has one, because it requires having lived in the same apartment since the 1970s. If you have one, though, you could easily be paying 5% of market rent.

Rent stabilization is a very different set of laws altogether, and these apartments are also vanishing slowly.

As for true rent control, landlords would love it if their rent-controlled tenants were to sublet their apartment on AirBNB. That would allow the landlord to kick the tenant out and charge market rent - 20 times more - for the apartment.
To run BGP, you would not have to run /32s everywhere. You could have multiple tiers of aggregation that keep your routing tables manageable. It would look something like this.

hosts (/32) -> rack-sw -> (/26) -> aggregation-sw -> (/17)

If you need some specifics to be advertised, scale would be dependent on the number of specifics that you desire to be advertised out of rack in the case above, so it would look something like this.

hosts (/32) -> rack-sw -> (/26 + N * /32_external) -> aggregation-sw -> (/17)

On the note about label switching versus ip forwarding, I would not think of it as either/or but rather both could be used since you need to eventually serve pages to users.
What's overwhelmingly clear from this article is that either the feds, or at least the people they are sending to talk to the media, have really no idea how bitcoin works.

Saying "The Bureau is in a position equivalent to having seized a safe belonging to a suspect with no idea of the combination – and no hope of forcing it open any other way." is completely incorrect.
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My company uses LastPass. It's a nice service.
- The admin will have control over what service you need to have access to.
- Change password often and will be accessible by team mates without having to remember anything.

Simplifies a lot of other things, all you have to remember is the master password.
Killing citizens without court order is also illegal. And waterboarding in gitmo. And starting wars based on lies. And lying to congress by NSA. So many things are illegal, but those who are in charge of enforcing justice are doing them anyway.
Lastpass. You can set up individual and group sharing, and revoke privileges as needed.

Plus they've been hacked and proven that provided you use safe passphrasing on your part, your data cannot be comprimised.
I think you're badly overestimating the difficulty of VMs. This next Friday, we're planning on providing VMs to students to compete in a local programming contest, and we fully expect that for most of them the bulk of the effort involved will simply be the downloading of all the relevant bits (as in, literal bits). After that, it's just "vagrant up" and off they go. If you haven't fiddled with them in a few years (which is what that sounds like), there's been a lot of advances since then. They're almost trivial now.
It's like any other asset with a market value. Collectible baseball cards have no inherent value to me (I'm not a baseball fan), they're just (mildly aesthetically attractive) pieces of paper. In that sense, they are similar to Bitcoin. That some people will pay several million dollars for them does not change that fact.

If a drug dealer settled all his transaction in baseball cards, the FBI would of course confiscate them.
Oh, shucks. I was expecting to see an article on compiling Java to machine code, not bytecode.
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And Medicare dominates Social Security, so what we're really talking about here is the unchecked growth in medical expenditures. Which is, in turn, subject to change by public policy.
They are both problems...
Ukraine is game to you!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fzLt...
It may be, but who knows if we'll ever find out about it?
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That makes it sound 50/50, but it's more diluted than that - Yahoo Inc. only owns 35.15% of Yahoo Japan. Softbank owns a little more - 35.86%. The rest is owned by much smaller shareholders.

See the bottom table in http://ir.yahoo.co.jp/en/holder/status.html
This article didn't impress me, but from the author's bio sketch I was led to look up the eigenharp, which did.
Bitcoins are different in that they weigh nothing and you can keep the fact you have them secret and plausibly deniable until they develop FMRI techniques to retrieve passwords or the location where you geocached memory cards with the wallet data.
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>Static rendering of dynamic content? I don't think this does make sense.

Bro do you even Web 1.0? That's what CGI scripts in Perl did! Pull the data from the database, generate HTML (no JavaScript back then!) on the fly, and send to the browser.
1Password because life's too short to use LastPass.

There's no good way to share the passwords though... unlogged chat / IM / onetimesecret.com
Croatia? SERIOUSLY? Croatia is a member of NATO, for one.
> Why some developers are so against progressive enhancement mystifies me.

There's another common adage: HTML is content. CSS is presentation. JS is behaviour.

Some public web apps simply don't work without behaviour.
If this is true, this is the best trend to happen to the American economy in decades. When people borrow past their means and beyond, they lose their ability to buy things every month because they are so in debt that they spend a huge amount of their income just to pay on debt each month.

That means new home purchases, car purchases, and every day spending like entertainment or food or clothes goes down because at some point you just don't have the money to do those things.

When people free up their cash flow they can actually spend MORE because more of the money is going to actual buying of things and not just servicing debt. Servicing debt doesn't create jobs, it creates risk for the consumer and the bankers financing them. If the consumer loses their job, they could default on their house, credit cards, educational debt, etc.

In short, if our economy is built on debt, especially consumer debt, it is built on a shaky foundation of risk and uncertainty. The debt-based spending isn't real and it costs everybody a lot of money over time.

A reversing of that trend is a good thing.
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How is this any different when compared to rafflecopter.com?
I don't understand why possession of the wallet file means the FBI have seized his bitcoins (even if they can't access them yet)?

Surely you can make copies of your wallet and keep them in various secure locations?
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OPSEC for Hackers ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU ) uses a quote from The Wire to reference what you're talking about: “The thing is, you only got to fuck up once. Be a little slow, be a little late, just once. And how you ain’t never gonna be slow, never be late? You can’t plan for no shit like this, man. It’s life.”

The Grugq addresses this issue by recommending that one set up an entire fake persona before doing anything, and then doing all the activities "in character" as that persona. If you stay in character, then even making the types of mistakes DPR made would only lead the authorities to the persona rather than yourself.

Granted, this video didn't exist when DPR made Silk Road...
If he had a $1m car and the FBI wanted to seize it, would it legitimize cars as a currency?
> In theory, the Attorney General prosecutes all perceived violations of the law[0]

What? No. The AG is a political office. Prosecutorial discretion is used all the time because there are lots of anachronistic and over-broad laws on the books, and because there are lots of lawbreakers that are not politically expedient to prosecute.
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This reads like a blithe, poorly-written high-school essay on the problem with "view source":

With the advent of HTML5, the web apps become popular, especially the mobile web apps. Web apps can be classified as either Hosted App or Packaged App. The source code of Packaged Apps (such as the apps in Firefox OS or Tizen OS) are installed and running locally. Users can easily view the source code. Similarly front end source code of Hosted App can also be easily seen by anyone. In this case, the publicity of source codes becomes a problem. Because web developers never hope their web apps are easily copied by others.
Ya, this would be awesome.
No, bitcoin is appreciating in price relative to other currencies because the supply has a hard upper bound. In periods of inflation, currencies depreciate in value compared to gold or "baskets" of goods.
To start an Open Source project or not?
It's still pretty obvious from photos, etc. I know someone who listed his apartment and was contacted by the building management, who'd seen his listing.
All of those guarantees and checks can be facilitated by a private third party, and probably more efficiently.
Agreed. It's hard to track some of these, though.
We charge people all the time for soliciting murder, he asked to have someone murdered, paid the money to get the person murdered, and requested photos of the bodies after the deeds were done. Bitcoin transactions can be publicly viewed and the transaction he made to the Canadian leakers apparent connection to have the leaker killed was made and confirmed. Also he received what he believed to be a photo of the victims corpse and thanked the person. The same bitcoin confirmation, photo conformation, and thanks was also done in the fake hit that the FBI set up around a former friend of DPR who stole a bunch of coke or something. DPR should and will be charged for both of these and many solicitors of murder have been charged for much much less.
The state may be concerned about building owners who are greedy. That doesn't imply that all building owners are greedy.