skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before Snowden, it went something like this:

"we are only spying on terrorists and military targets."

"The postal secret will never be violated. Mail and emails by extension are safe forms of communication."

"A warrant is needed to listen in on a telephone call. Telephone call is a safe form of communication."

"Building a database on the citizens political affiliation is illegal, and ground for political dismissal of officials."

"The ISP, email provider and telephone company is only a common carrier. They are not allowed to watch."

"Warrants and subpenas are directed at individual. Collective punishment is wrong, illegal, and something only other countries do."

"The government job is to protect people. If the government know of a serious vulnerability in society, they will inform people in order to protect them."

"Only criminals breaks into computer systems."

knowing that the US government could lie on all those points is not the same as knowing that they are. Tinfoil hat was define as such because they thought the government lied on those points, based on the fact that the government could do it.
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why did MIT turn over information without being subpoenaed for it?

Because they didn't know what was going on and needed help to figure it out. It's all laid out in the Abelson report.

If you're looking for a key juncture at which MIT made a mistake, I would ask why they didn't make a statement similar to the one JSTOR made after the civil settlement: basically saying "we're satisfied that this is resolved and don't have any interest in further legal actions being taken". (I'm not sure this would actually have stopped the prosecutors, since they seemed bound and determined to "get" Swartz no matter what, but at least it would have been something.)
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I'd also recommend any sysadmin to start looking into an automation framework like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or any other of the myriad options.
You could have easily said "I don't know that for sure" instead of posting irrelevant information.
Excuse my ignorance, but what's wrong with nslookup and ifconfig?
Gustavus Simmons is also the same person who discovered the potential for subliminal communications in the NSA-created DSA algorithm.

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-48285-7_18
Vacations also mean an opportunity to gain new experiences. One should apply these new experiences to become a better person.
> Reality is much more subtle. Language only determines what we have to pay attention to.

Yes. I've read a entertaining book on the subject ( http://www.amazon.com/Through-Language-Glass-Different-Langu... ). Especially fascinating was the Guugu Yimithirr language, which has no words for relative directions, no "left" or "right". Speakers of this language gained an amazing ability to know compass directions. If you lead them through a winding museum and then ask them to describe the Mona Lisa they would: "It's a lady, facing east." The Guugu Yimithirr forces everyone to be aware of compass directions at all times, and they get good at it.

The book draws the same conclusion: language forces us to learn, and reveal in conversation, certain concepts; but it does not limit our ability to understand foreign concepts.

The fun question then: what concepts does English force us to be aware of?
3. "Check that your backups are working the way you think they are."

3.1 "Check that you can actually restore a file/recover a database"
Cool insight bro. Congratulations on turning 12.
Everything you said is true but you're missing the point where it really isn't about gameplay anymore. For example, in DayZ there almost isn't even gameplay right now. Thats what everyone has been trying to say. You're just running through a forest for an hour.
> every despot on the planet sees that and can say "Well America does it," and have firm ground to stand on. That's why we need people like Snowden, to keep the American government in line...

Whether styled as a despot or not, when it comes to the exercise and maintenance of power, nobody is ever saying anything remotely like 'well America does it' - it's just irrelevant. It's never a moral question, but one of what power can be assumed (both at home and abroad). That's the interesting thing about Snowden - he just acted and took the upper hand. (And even more so that he further consolidated by maintaining it, despite huge efforts to bring him down a peg or two.)
> Words like "attack" and "war" might sound like hyperbole, but these types of disputes can get ugly

See, that's the thing. Nobody is willing to lose their job for another week of vacation a year. Especially if it looks like there isn't another one coming.

Also, as an Australian, you have the privilege of living in one of the best managed economies in the world. Which means teachers aren't faced with "do you want layoffs or pay cuts this year?" every year for a decade.
short answer: `/bin/ip` replaces `ifconfig` -- it's newer and more powerful

more info: http://www.tty1.net/blog/2010/ifconfig-ip-comparison_en.html
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Put hard limits on the rate or total number of friend lookups per account, especially if a lookup fails. Keep track of global lookups and lock down the global lookup rate if there is a large number of failures. Keep track of patterns in lookups. Disallow more than a few lookups for accounts that haven't sent or received any messages. Require approval by the receiver for a lookup based on a phone number before the username is revealed. Charge money for phone number based lookups or require some sort of identification. Only allow phone number based lookups from within the smartphone app, not via the API.

And so on.

This is not rocket science, it requires mainly only that the devs legitimately care about security and privacy. But if the problem is instead approached by cavalier developers who are only reluctantly tackling the problem after having been burned by bad PR due to previous breaches then the result will often be half-assed engineering that does little to solve the problem.

The biggest issue for SnapChat is, to be frank, they are a bunch of dumb-asses who got lucky and managed to cobble together a silly app that a lot of people wanted to use. However, the foundation their app is built on is a degree of privacy, but that privacy is just an illusion, it is not based on any substantive engineering whatsoever and the SnapChat developers are too clueless to actually take on the problems that need tackling. This is just the first of what will ultimately be many failures at SnapChat which will ultimately reveal the trust placed in the company to be completely misplaced, causing their user base to evaporate. They should have taken the acquisition offer, at this rate the chances of their company being in ruins in a few months time is very, very high.
I am wondering, that things like killing someone historically significant won't be done unless there is extinction level threat from that individual.

Other wise the people in the future would decide to just let it play.
They're a bit dated. Use dig instead of nslookup, and right from the ifconfig man page:

NOTE

This program is obsolete! For replacement check ip addr and ip link. For statistics use ip -s link.
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Absolutely. Automate relentlessly. As a bonus, the recipes/playbooks you develop serve as documentation for how things are configured.
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What's clear is that the prosecution only got out of control once it got into the hands of the federal government, at which point Ortiz and Heymann threw the book at Swartz when he wouldn't take a plea deal.

Swartz's death was the result of institutional failure. The criminal justice system and more broadly the US government are very sick institutions if their standard operating procedures can result in a tragedy like this.
I'd argue it is 3.50%
I don't really see why MIT had an obligation to help Aaron

The Abelson report's take on this (with which I basically agree) is that, while MIT perhaps had no "obligation", it certainly missed an opportunity to use its position to educate the US government about a technical area in which the government is, to put it bluntly, clueless.
Please just leave. If at the very least to send a message.

There are hundreds of places looking for developers. You can find a job if it really comes down to it! Update that resume and get going, this is your life :)
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It only says he was arrested, not that he was guilty. The process is arrest, plea...
Good start but you should start learning how to prevent someone flooding your site.
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MIT should have commented on that in their report.

Do you mean the Abelson report? That was published after the fact. (And it does address the issue you mention.)
There are very good reasons the developed world uses hard lines, and none of them are "we already spent so much money on them". The drawbacks to this sort of network are much less of a problem in the developing world right now.

I mean, my word, you think the interference on your WiFi from neighbors is bad now...
In hindsight I see that my post might look like sarcasm, but it's not. I forgot to mention that for some reason on my MacBook Air when I hit the power button the computer sleeps and won't wake up so I have to do a hard restart - so this behavior really is very annoying to me even though it's infrequent.
Yeah that's a huge bonus that I didn't anticipate before beginning. My cookbooks are essentially dynamic documentation that morph with my changes in system requirements.
The point is that the hash is effectively reversible at that scale. 10 numeric digits is 10 billion possibilities. It's actually far less than that because area codes don't span the entire 3-digit number range, and most area codes are not heavily populated. But even so, creating a lookup table by computing 10 billion hashes is today a comparatively easy task, even for expensive hash algorithms. It's a matter of only a few seconds to minutes work with relatively common hardware (high performance GPUs).
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Angry Birds soda for a time was said to outpace Coke & Pepsi in Finland too: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/11/21/rovio-angry-bird...
Well said, you nailed it.

>The biggest issue for SnapChat is, to be frank, they are a bunch of dumb-asses who got lucky and managed to cobble together a silly app that a lot of people wanted to use. However, the foundation their app is built on is a degree of privacy, but that privacy is just an illusion, it is not based on any substantive engineering whatsoever and the SnapChat developers are too clueless to actually take on the problems that need tackling.
I wouldn't call MIT "responsible" as that would open the door to a world of "look what you made me do" thinking. It is sad that MIT had a chance to be differnet than the paranoid schizophrenic mess that the US security apparatus has become and reaffirm themselves as champions of free thought and somewhat rebellious free thinking. They chose to do the opposite. That is very sad indeed.
From your screenshot, I don't think that squashfs detection is right, you may have to play around with dd and unsquashfs.

Also try a newer version of binwalk [-1] and/or the 2.0 branch [0]

-1: https://github.com/devttys0/binwalk/

0: https://github.com/devttys0/binwalk/tree/binwalk-2.0
i want a common budget (family budget) which to be accessed by me and my wife, so that we're also able to see which one spends more.
Sampo is just stating the facts as far as I can tell.
Suggesting that Uber is liable is probably going a bit far. He wasn't working for the company at the time of the accident, so why would the company be liable, in the same way that your employer is only liable for on the job injuries when you're... on the job. Even your commute to and from work is not covered (except possibly for some very strange circumstances).

At the same time, Uber could take a page out of AirBnB's playbook and just do everything they can for the driver and the injured family. The driver is part of their family of operators and the Liu family has just suffered a tragedy which involved an Uber contractor, on the job or not.

This is an accident, it was completely unintentional and very unfortunate. I'm actually saddened that the first reaction seems to be "who should be responsible".
> You talk like there are these super wealthy land lords with nearly unaccountable real estate not willing to yield an inch.

You talk like they are not. My hypothetical people in front of the future straight highway are richer than your hypothetical people in front of your hypothetical highway. I set up my hypothetical situation the way I want, sorry ;-)

> The reality is, its some ones home. Just like I and you have.

We have a home? That is still more than a lot of people have.

> Imagine some one just walking up to your home in full police gear, bulldozers and then just asking you to leave or get killed in the process of demolition. They will have the necessary legal documents and police support.

Ok, imagining that. Wasn't that my point? One doesn't really own the land unless they can defend it from violence. You'd have to be a country with military in order to have a proper allodial title. In countries with lots of corruption the abuse is worse, I can see that, it is obvious. I was pointing out that even in "law abiding" countries that law is written to hide the underlying brutal fact that people don't really "own" the land. Someone else owns it and they just pay rent (disguised as "property taxes" in our case).

> He further bribes officials and gets them to demolish a lot of homes to broaden roads, so that traffic and parking issues go away to help his real estate grow.

Well there are 2 issues. Bribery and corruption and taking from people to build roads. Well the first one seems more pressing. It covers all areas of life not just imminent domain.

> All in the name of 'public good'.

Isn't there or shouldn't there be a 'public good'? What is your alternative to say everyone just building on top of all the public roads that access the city so there is simply no way to enter or exit the city because there are buildings in the middle of the road? Is that acceptable.
Automation is a fine thing except for some of this damn "enterprise software" that not only doesn't automate real well[1], but actually cannot be installed on VMWare[2] or even go to a hot swap machine[3]. Sysadmins always love government required software and stuff bought before we got there.

1) luckily backup seem to be reasonably automation friendly

2) "We do not support virtualization of any kind"

3) tied to hardware on one machine - f'n brilliant.
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3.1.1 "Do it daily to a box in another building while dumping the backup to offsite storage"
It's like staying in an "actual" haunted hotel versus taking a disney ride of a haunted house. The disney ride is a more consistent and probably enjoyable experience, but the former is more ... interesting. Maybe nothing happens, maybe something happens and you're terrified, but either way the experience feels like it has more substance. You're not just a tourist looking to be entertained, you're exploring something.

I think that video in the middle sort of captures it. I mean on one level it's just.. weird, but on the other hand, how many other games can you describe where you're searching through a house in the dark and all the sudden some psycho player starts slowly chasing you down playing tiny tim music through his microphone?! And not just as a griefer that's going to inconvenience you, but in a "oh god this character I built is dead forever if this crazy person does what I think they're going to do" way. I mean, that's a fundamentally STRANGE experience, but it's also entirely organic in it's own weird way.

Most games nowadays are about moving you through a bunch of set pieces so you can experience the most "content". I think DayZ is interesting because it completely throws that paradigm away and gives a sandbox where things just happen. It's uneven, but playing it, it feels like you're experiencing /something/. Even if it's not always "fun", it's interesting in a way that most games aren't.
The toilet is the database. To update it, you shit and piss.
This is Linux specific advice for ifconfig, correct?
Where does it say that?

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig

Pedantry, but keep in mind that there isn't really "the" man page for this.

Ubuntu might want to deprecate ifconfig, but that doesn't mean everyone does.
We already factor mental stability into both sentencing and convictions.
Yeah, I'm more of a frontend developer, and I have just started very recently getting into a little backend so I'm sure I'll learn this with time, thanks for your response!!
> SHA1's naturally a bit tougher to beat than CRC32...

That's like saying that bank vaults are tougher to break into than cardboard boxes. Bank vaults are actively guarded and designed to prevent unauthorized access, cardboard boxes are just for organizing your junk and can't even keep a small child out.

Making a CRC32 collision is easy if you try. You just have to solve a mathematical equation in a small, well-understood finite ring.

By comparison, SHA1 does not have a simple equation. It was purposefully designed to be difficult to solve. NOBODY has yet found two different pieces of data with the same SHA1 hash, or if they have they have kept it secret.
And venture funds also have to be picky about start-ups that they are going to fund; I understand that the author is working for a venture fund, and that he tries not to be a 'hater'. Is the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio really breathtakingly innovative, or is it more of the same?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreessen_Horowitz#Investments

"In February 2011, Andreessen Horowitz invested $80 million in Twitter,[2] becoming the first venture firm that holds stock in all four of the highest-valued, privately held social media companies: Facebook, Groupon, Twitter and Zynga"

http://a16z.com/

Otherwise its a great article.

The lesson that I took home: I always held that asking/questioning of assumption is also of value; but this article told me that I have to be careful here, and that style of communications is often also very important - style determines how a person is evaluated by others.
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>There are very good reasons the developed world uses hard lines

I wasn't saying they wern't good reasons, mostly just pointing out that the economics aren't getting any better (for consumers or companies), you know, C.R.E.A.M and all that…

>and none of them are "we already spent so much money on them".

Gotta love absolutes:

>…The rapid expansion of this so-called distributed generation deprives utilities of revenues while leaving them liable for maintaining the grid. [0] , NRG Energy chief David Crane

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/who-wi...
I'm with you as I don't understand why Uber is even being brought into this. No one would be talking about the liability of Apple if Tim Cook hit someone with his car. Uber did the right thing in suspending the driver but and it sounds cold but that's really the extent of their responsibility.
Whether it would have made a difference or not, the institution had the chance to act for what was right, and they did not.
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You might find this interesting: http://www.slideshare.net/opscode/chef-vmwarewebinarslidesse...

I personally haven't tried building environments on VMWare as I run pretty much everything in AWS. However, this presentation looks promising.
The best to-do list: a raw text file

A line = a task

Deleting a line = task finished

A text file = a list of tasks related to some context

The best and fastest editor for this on a Mac: NValt

This is the most efficient and simple solution for managing plenty of todos, no cumbersome rules, check boxes, markdown, web interfaces.
> Then there’s the chummy note from an IS & T security analyst who had worked closely with the Secret Service.

> On the day Aaron was indicted, the analyst emailed Heymann: “Nicely done Steve and kudos! …it’s just a true relief and very refreshing to see your accuracy and precision.”
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>Put hard limits on the rate or total number of friend lookups per account, especially if a lookup fails.

Easy: distribute the search across accounts. Also you'd expect most of the lookups to fail (most people in your contacts won't be Snapchat users).

> Keep track of global lookups and lock down the global lookup rate if there is a large number of failure

Again, you expect a large number of failures.

> Disallow more than a few lookups for accounts that haven't sent or received any messages.

Using the find friends functionality is intended to get you started with Snapchat. When you haven't sent many/any messages is when it matters most.

> Require approval by the receiver for a lookup based on a phone number before the username is revealed.

Many users (myself included) would consider notifications of this volume to be spam.

>Charge money for phone number based lookups

I don't know anyone who would pay to use Snapchat.

>require some sort of identification

Yeah, because requiring strong identification totally makes privacy advocates happy.

> Only allow phone number based lookups from within the smartphone app, not via the API.

Smartphone app has to communicate with Snapchat somehow, so the functionality is going to have to be exposed via an API. iOS is closed enough that you might be able to securely authenticate the app to the API, but AFAIK you can't stop the user from getting the key out of an Android app if he has root.

I can't comment on Snapchat's competence overall, but none of your solutions actually work. This is a nontrivial problem.
Don't be afraid to use emacs just for orgmode. It's worth it.
Since the government vendor's software "cannot run" VMWare, I cannot quite use the results.
Well, again, the example you give is a point about the culture, not the language. Even if your language lacks words for "left" and "right", there's nothing stopping you from saying "there is an ant crawling up what would be your west leg if you were facing north".

As to the conclusion you report, the first part ("language forces us to learn certain concepts") is obviously correct; the second ("language forces us to reveal certain concepts in conversation") is not so -- people are routinely blasted for speaking "evasively". If you really care about not revealing a certain piece of information, there's always a way to do it (although you may reveal that you're hiding something, or at least talking in a very shifty manner).

> The fun question then: what concepts does English force us to be aware of?

Rather than a direct answer to this, I want to talk about some related observations I've made.

- In English, third-person singular pronouns ("he", "she", "it", and their inflections) are obligatorily gendered; they are marked for a sense of personhood, intimacy, or animacy ("it" vs "he"/"she") and for sex ("he" vs "she"). So, in the sense you reference, English "forces" speakers to be aware of whether the people they're talking about are male or female.

The example is not a trivial one; in Mandarin Chinese there is only one third person pronoun ("ta"). Chinese-speaking English learners routinely use the wrong pronoun in their English speech. And it's also frequent for a sentence, or longer stretch of speech, in spoken Chinese to make no real indication of what the sex of the person under discussion is.

However... Chinese people maintain the basically 100% awareness of what sex people are that you'd expect, regardless of the latitude their language allows them to ignore it.