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I only caught on about the bad faith after noticing several comments in a row that included insults or slights. You are right, best course is just to totally disengage.
What do you mean? Looking at their feature page they have multiple language support. Or do you mean different languages for the mobile/POS apps?
Or:

How to reduce the value of the Internet as much as possible for everybody.

Nice, really nice.
How about for the "week"? It's tough to relax when you only take a day or two off..
i may be misunderstanding (there seem to have been at least two famous hacks on linode), but why would you use the word "hypervisor" to explain that someone had hacked your host's admin account? isn't the presence of that word (the h word) what makes this (potentially) scary?

also, will htp ever come back from exile? (not that it seems too unhappy where it is).
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>Health care in the U.S. is dauntingly expensive.

It has become much better with new laws. For $200/month you can have a decent health insurance in California.
Anyone else wish that "Taken 3: Lil Bub" was a real movie?
Yep, and I think there's a hump that's in the $100-300k range where you start really socking away money for retirement and get your investment portfolio started which siphons money away from your raw purchasing power. In that hump your purchasing power doesn't increase linearly with income like it did before which contributes to the feeling of... futility maybe? Like, man this is a great big pile of cash and all I'm doing is saving it for when I'm 65. I still can't buy a house. What am I doing with my life?!
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If you had to pick, say, three books (or the online equivalent) on quantum computing that are relatively accessible to an educated layman, which ones would you recommend?
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My experience is that managers who are that pedantic about policy generally imply one (or both) of the following: 1) there is a culture of micromanagement and paranoia that employees are basically thieves or children who have to be monitored all the time; 2) one (or more) employees are no longer desired on the payroll, so instead of being adults and letting them go management instead chooses to make their lives hell by enforcing petty technicalities in policy in a childish, passive-aggressive way.

Neither of these is an indicator of a quality company to work for. Both are strong indicators that the company is not good to work for.
> Committing without pushing is not a problem (unless you intended to push but forgot to?) It is not a concept that necessarily exists in traditional centralized version control systems, but the fundamental problem still exists. In SVN "forgetting to push" is just called "forgetting to commit".

Sure, but you hit the problem twice as often in git, because you have to do twice as many things.

> If you forget to check for updates... well that is something that happens in other centralized schemes as well. You figure it out when you go to push and it fails, you correct it, then you are good to go.

In SVN that doesn't show up as a merge in the history.
So you would have preferred apple to give you nothing more than a shitty api and a "good luck" ?

You do realise that not everyone is a programmer right?
Once you have installed the modified recovery and bootloader, there's a recovery option where you can queue up as many images as you like. There's also a app to make things even easier: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tassadar.m...
What's the < $80MM way to break RSA-1024? $80MM of GPUs?

If its just a matter of that amount of money, then the NSA has almost assuredly already broken it, no?
You're right, thinking about it - most of the time I wouldn't have a copy of my coworker's branch (though we do sometimes pull changes from each other's feature branches - indeed that's supposed to be the big advantage of git, no?)
But then your comment reduces to "paying for your own healthcare is more expensive than getting someone else to pay for it for you" or perhaps even "it's nice to have people give you money."

Not that it isn't true, mind you, but given all of the policy debate around the ACA that's happening it seems a little unfair to bring the ACA into it at all.
Would it be the brits or the americans heading to the HR department for the violations?
Yep. I watch those house hunting shows on TV and see houses in like the Midwest that I could buy outright with what I paid as a down payment on my house. But then... I don't want to live in the Midwest. :) And if I did live there, I probably would not have made a big enough salary to get that much cash in the first place. Catch-22 I guess.
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I am from the UK and here it is 28 days minimum holiday [1]. I believe it is fairly common to have the 8 days bank holiday as fixed days and then 20 days chosen by the employee initially. After working at a company for a period in increase in the holiday allowance would be expected. After one year at my work I am on 25 + 8 days, there is flexibility to work on some of the bank holidays, taking the holiday at a different time, as long as the office will be open (pretty much every time apart from Christmas).

[1] https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights
Is it really $10M per key? DJB points out that if you're willing to spend a lot of money building parallel hardware, you can get some surprising performance benefits allowing you to crack large numbers of keys at once.

http://cr.yp.to/snuffle/bruteforce-20050425.pdf‎
It's not even tax dollars. The Federal Reserve is at the root of many of our problems -- congressional spending, the industrial war complex & NSA spying -- none of it would be possible if we weren't able to create money out of thin air.
via MMS? that would be quite a bit of business AND development effort... (which must be redone for each country of operation)
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Don't pull origin/master directly into local feature/test branch. Pull into local master then rebase local branch onto it.
With Google Keep and Evernote, why would anyone want to use anything else?

Personally I've switched to Keep since it fits in well with my Google ecosystem of apps
They were aware of the vulnerability for months. They chose not to adequately address it. A bug bounty wouldn't solve that problem.
You actually don't need to swipe with Square. It can scan your card too IIRC.
would you mind sharing the links or pages where you got help from so i can do this as my personal weekend project?
Really? You think the lionization doesn't come from the incredible personal risk he took to bring forward incontrovertible evidence of wrongdoing on a massive scale by very powerful people?
Let's be honest, how many of us really understood what Computer Science @ CMU was before 15-251 ;)

Coding is the reason I was interested in Computer Science and I also happened to like what Computer Science was after diving into the major. It's totally fine for a high schooler to have this view, I think we forget what high school us really looked like back then. It's almost impossible for most high schoolers to understand all of the theory and mathematics that comes with the major.

From a current CMU student, best of luck to you Alex!
I thought the whole point of using quantum computing to break crypto, is that you can break encryption (e.g. RSA private keys) en masse for the same or less cost than traditional computing requires to break them one-at-a-time.
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From my point of view I'm not ignoring your argument. It's a shame we can't understand one another, but thank you for your time anyway.
No, via snapchat's delivery system; they obviously can map a phone number to username, therefor they can implement sending snaps to phone numbers (as a proxy) in place of a username.
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Per that paper, it would be $10M per 'device', with one device managing one key per year. Of course you might as well build more hardware while you are at it.
This is likely already the case. I haven't found the reference, but I've heard the number 10 million USD as the cost to brute force a message (I think that covers co-opting an awful lot of supercomputing time for a while).

For comparison, but by no means state-of-the-art, there's Deep Crack, which I thought was a neat did searching for a cost:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker
The argument that "X happens more frequently than terrorism, and we don't do Y to stop that" is a bit weak.

Take a look at what happened during 9/11:
- stock market (DJIA) dropped 20%
- all airline transportation ceased for days
- a huge negative impact on economic activity

In other words, 3000 deaths due to DUIs is not the same as 3000 deaths due to terrorism. The very definition of terrorism is a disruption of the normal functioning of society.

Now I'm certainly not arguing that the USGOV has been justified in all that has happened since 9/11. However, I am saying that your argument makes no sense.
I don't know of any research into this area, but it's conceivable that you could have an encryption algorithm that is polynomial time (given the key!) on a quantum computer but exponential time classically, and that has some better security guarantees given certain common assumptions. However, quantum algorithms of any sort are difficult enough to invent that we'll likely end up using classical algorithms that 'look' hard to break with quantum computers, i.e. ones where prime factoring doesn't help.

The real quantum defence appears to be something rather different. Quantum cryptography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography) uses polarised photons to create very strong guarantees that your communication is secure. We can say that if you do the engineering correctly, the laws of physics would have to be violated to intercept your messages.
I use it across an iPad, iPhone, and Mac -- works fine, and I have an abundance of group texts.

The only odd behavior I get is that, occasionally, the desktop client will take a moment to catch up to the other devices, or be missing chunks of a conversation. That usually sorts itself out in under two minutes or so, though, so I assume it has to do with the time it takes iCloud to respond.

EDIT: I'm still on 10.8, if that's relevant. I intentionally lag a point version behind because of audio software (the latest and greatest always breaks audio).
I didn't write this. Just found it. You'll have to ask the author.
100-qubit machines would help in breaking some small-key symmetric algorithms (e.g., 80-bit key block/stream ciphers, etc), but it would have negligible effect on public-key crypto.
Would like to see Cmd/Ctrl + Enter to compile/run tests when focused on editor. (or am I missing a similar keyboard combination.

Another problem was that I could not easily click a "Next" button to go the next challenge in a group. I would like to move onto the next functional programming question but I have to go back to the categories screen.
I've had two big problems with Messages and all my friends have the same problems. First, typing anything in the Search box would beachball the app indefinitely until Mavericks. Second, there are issues with messages not being sent and having a red exclamation point by them – that has happened so much we have a backup Skype chat for when Messages is acting up.

Also Mavericks removed the ability to disable graphical smileys :(((((( (Is there a workaround or fix anyone knows? please tell me!!)

I mostly use Messages on Mac but use iOS some too. There's a huge problem on iOS which is scrolling to the bottom when people type stuff, which prevents you from catching up on conversations until everyone stops talking. That's super frustrating.

(Auto scrolling to the bottom when you talk, on Mac, is also annoying. I want to read through chat I missed, reply to things as I go, and not lose my place. You have to open a second copy of the window to deal with this.)
Wonder if I can send in broke N900 they upgrade it for me. I'll get in touch with them
If only it would go away so easily. The PR strategy they have going on, if taken at face value, is a sure way to have stuff like this happen again; and every time they'll be the losers. Pissing off the same people who are trying to help you is childish at best.
"When questioned, he says that there's too much at stake
to abandon bzr if it can be avoided at all."

The big difference between then and now is that this time you have a very competent developer with an exceptional reputation offering to lead the migration. With esr leading things, there is a lot less at risk.
Snapchat doesn't use MMS.
Is there any advantage to using SQL or PostgreSQL here or this one of those "just to show we can" exercises.
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I once broke into my own home when I forgot my keys using a broomstick and the letter hole in the door. I shoved the broomstick through, and pressed on the knob in such a way that it spun and opened the door.
Thoughts on the WeFunder 'instant portfolio' fund?
I can't tell if they are just filling it with things that were having trouble getting funding otherwise or what.
"True, but I personally can say that I'm very happy to hear this, as I've been hoping for a serious contender besides Android and IOS."

Give it a couple years. Samsung's the biggest manufacturer of Android devices and they've been working on Tizen[0] to curtail their dependency on Google.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen
Why would I? I didn't come here for unfriendly and insulting tones.
Thus illustrating exactly who is running the world and why when Occupy started up they actually drafted plans to have LEOs assassinate the "leaders" of Occupy.

This underscores the need to revive Occupy.
The "tweet to download" model is bad because you're forcing someone to endorse a product publicly before they even get a chance to try it, thus potentially hurting their credibility.

On the other hand, the "leave email to download" model is completely fair. Not only is it used by the overwhelming majority of companies (most apps require some form of signing up), but you're also the only one receiving those email. So the cost is entirely personal.

So in this case, it's really a matter of whether or not the transaction is worth it for you, and I don't think you have any grounds to complain.

P.S. I'm not the author by the way, I just get ticked off seeing that objection, especially when somebody is already not charging any money for their products.
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The thing is, we can never know how much many is put into what, as long as we accept that the government is allowed to take and hide money from the taxpayer like this: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/8-5-trillion-taxpayer...
On Christmas Eve, that same group publicly documented our API, making it easier for individuals to abuse our service and violate our Terms of Use.

Security through obscurity? Great way of protecting your users.

It's pathetic that they believe that others haven't already worked out their protocol and were using it.

Funny how they have had to quickly backtrack from this blog post:

http://blog.snapchat.com/post/71353347590/finding-friends-wi...
Even if it were true, it would not be a tall order for a company to tell their shareholders that paying their employees more, or giving them more PTO, allowed the company to ultimately extract more value from the employees.

A world in which this strong notion of fiduciary responsibility actually exists is not a world where Google pays their devs minimum wage. They would still pay them more than is "naively necessary" despite this hypothetical fiduciary responsibility.
I think you mean "upper bounds" the NSA's capabilities.
He mean a single shop supporting multiple languages.
We unfortunately do not support that (yet).
I disagree. I think it is clear that this "book" is aiming to be an introduction to Distributed systems. As such, focusing on some models and excluding others does not decrease its value.

The real question of value is; does it allow someone outside the field to come up to speed and have enough understanding, that they can venture out and learn about alternate models (such as ones that don't require consensus).
The problem is they did not see it as a vulnerability, they touted it as a feature, and even made a blog post outlining how you could exploit it. That was the most WTF event in following this story.
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a better analogy would be, you're invited to a friend's apartment, there's a living room, a bathroom, and bedrooms. Some doors are shut and some are not. You clearly were invited to enter the dwelling, much like a web server invites you to use a service. You are invited to sit on a couch, but may not be invited in a bedroom. If the door is locked, it is clear that it is restricted, if it's not, it's ambiguous.

As per other people's comparisons, some things are implied restricted: credit card information of another individual is not for you to see. The door to a bathroom is closed: If no one is in it, you may enter, if someone is using it, usually not.

I think in the bathroom analogy, it's clear that 1: A person should lock the bathroom door if they want privacy and 2. An individual may want to knock if a door is shut instead of trying the door.

Therefore, engineers should explicitly restrict access to certain data (rate limits, terms of service, passwords etc..) and people working on projects and what have you may want to actually ask: (is it ok, if I do this?)
While I agree with the overall sentiment of this editorial, I think one thing is very wonky. It says that Snowden provided "enormous value" and "has done his country a great service."

But if you agree with these statements then how could a successful resolution include a "please bargain" and punishment, even if it is "substantially reduced"?

The whole idea of being a whistleblower is that you get immunity. If you agree that Snowden is a de facto whistleblower then punishment and prison time shouldn't even be on the table.
Did they not have a max phonebook size? Rate limiting doesn't matter if one API call can do it all.
I have been locksporting by myself for some time, and I make my own picks from street sweeper blades.

If you're at all interested in picking, do yourself a favor and get this practice lock for ~$40 it is amazing:

http://learnlockpicking.com/

Also, I highly recommend getting on the TOOOL email list for your area.

in the SF bay it is tooosf@googlegroups.com - great group and good list, although I mostly lurk.

Here are some of my picks.... ignore the lame embellishments; I am not very artistic :)

http://imgur.com/a/ug2wI#0
Having 2-Factor auth is meaningless if you can bypass the auth itself.
That's a good point.

It's frustrating that the people making these calculators don't state how many working individuals makes up one household. One of the problems I'm seeing in these comments is that some of us are talking about individual income, and some household/family income.
I'm not sure about that; the paper talks about parallel machines that can search out many keys at once. Its focus is on known plaintext attacks against AES, but it seems like the techniques described could apply to IFP for RSA.

I'm not a cryptographer so I could be totally off base here.
Please notice you won't get a degree from MIT OpenCourseWare.

"No registration, no enrollment, and no grades or credits are offered" from http://ocw.mit.edu/help/get-started-with-ocw/

But It is worthing to spend time on online courses now. I have finished some courses on https://www.coursera.org/ and https://www.udemy.com. I can always learn from the best. I finished my Bachelor's degree and Master's degree more than a decade ago. If I were able to access those course at that time, I wouldn't go to schools to waste my time and my parents' and my money. But that's a personal choice.

And I don't think my degrees matter much for job seeking nowadays. You can easily demonstrate your abilities by developing apps or contributing to Open Source projects.
Wow. Talk about a non-reaction. As if bad code resulting in the disclosure of 4.6MM numbers and IDs is a non-issue.

Posted something about this on FB, achieved zero reactions which really surprised me, until I realized that some think it's only for sexting... and thus nobody is willing to admit they've installed it (it's useful for other stuff as well, I'm my own emoticon).

Several of my friends are in the list (known nicks match known numbers, showing exactly what's the problem here).

Maybe I should post something on their wall? :-)
My point is that there were instances of Jews being discriminated against in the Soviet Union, and in the case of the Doctors' Plot, even being targeted in purges. I agree that many other nations suffered far worse under the Soviet regime, though the Soviet Jews obviously suffered much more under different hands during WWII.

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, but when Anti-Zionist rhetoric is used to condemn anyone with Jewish names, that sounds pretty antisemitic to me.
If you don't mind changing history, it might be better just to go back in time and give the natives small pox vaccine. Contact was inevitable.

Hell if you are going to do that there are probably countless other things you can do to improve history.
I remember reading the Dilbert http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-02-12/ as a teen and being really surprised learning later that the joke, Catbert eliminating sick days and making employees use vacation days for them, was not a ridiculous caricature but reality.

U.S. workers really need to revive the labor unions, it's unfortunate that the population has been so effectively persuaded into regarding them as a bad thing. Sure they can make a dent to the profitability, but the improved quality of living makes it worth it.
"We want to make sure that security experts can get ahold of us when they discover new ways to abuse our service so that we can respond quickly to address those concerns."

"Quickly" is a relative term here, I guess.
I've actually got that link bookmarked, but I'm really looking for something I can buy and not have to build. I've tried "build it from a blog post" for something as cryptic as an HDMI display before, and it was a big waste of time and money when a critical step was left out.
Is being an agent of law enforcement actually a part of the definition? Still, I agree that I probably should have found a better term.
Ah, ok. What I'd really love would be a no-fixed-cost high-transaction-fee plan. It would be fine to pay 5% or more in fees to test out a store idea before committing to a more expensive plan.
Over those 30 years the emacs codebase must have moved through several revision control systems. Why is moving to another one such a big deal?
The person you're responding to is actually being pretty reasonable for our industry.
Can you name the company? Is it publicly listed?
I decided to open source my life. Here are the results thus far.
> the doorman of a building let you in and then subsequently rob the place

Oh god this again
There are some other markets where Windows Phone is in 2nd place (ahead of iPhones) and so supporting it is indeed a big deal. Italy, some eastern European countries, Southeast Asian countries, South America, possibly Russia...
Do we have to obey Moore's law?