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Ask HN: How do things actually get 'leaked'?
How do things such as (recently) TV show episodes [1] [2] or celebrity personal media get 'leaked'?

Other examples include movie release info/trailers [3] or new smartphones, OS, or tech related info. I am excluding being hacked as a reason for data to be exposed.

I am actually curious about the procedure of how (presumably) someone on the inside gets access (especially digitally) and is able to distribute it without being caught. How does the information spread?

Moreover, if caught, what would the potential consequences be? For case of TV shows/etc., what if the 'leak' caused an increase in ratings or maintain hype?

All of the following would heavily hinder the ability to reveal insider info (especially anonymously). Security cameras, digital footprint, access logs/timestamps, locked doors/computers, logins, NDAs, etc. (what are some other things one would have to bypass?).

For that reason, I suspect that most leaks are done intentionally and methodically for one's own benefit (at least in the case of TV show leaks, or documents/trailer leaks regarding movies) since it seems very difficult to circumvent the previously mentioned obstacles. Saying it was leaked could be an interesting way to actually reveal certain announcements (seemingly prematurely to the unsuspecting audience).

Obviously, this question and discussion is relevant to any kind of revelation of insider information (including government, military, and tech sector), but I was specifically interested in media and television. It seems like a strange phenomenon to me and would love some insight.

[1] http://www.hypable.com/2014/06/08/early-episodes-of-the-legend-of-korra-season-3-leak-online/
[2] http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/flash-pilot-leaks-reviews-fans-3768103
[3] http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/kevin-smith-dc-warner-brothers-plan/
Working around US ban on exporting oil
Have you read Frank Herbert's Jorj McKie series of books?

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/reading/mckie.html

"The main theme of the two principal Jorj X. McKie stories, Whipping Star and The Dosadi Experiment, is the Bureau of Sabotage, an interesting concept in government that is kind of like a ninja GAO.

The idea is that all governments and other bureaucracies tend to snowball over time, finally becoming juggernauts that crush mere humans unthinkingly. So the Bureau of Sabotage was founded with a legal right to throw wrenches into the gears of bureaucracies. No agency can sabotage the BuSab itself.

So what keeps the BuSab from turning into a juggernaut? Their promotion policy. The way you get promoted is to sabotage your boss."
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned DarkTable yet. I guess more HNers just use the default Apple programs than I thought. I didn't realize anyone would even miss Aperture.
If it helps, I mainly saw it on the navbar.

Also with ng-cloak, the angular script must be loaded in the head of the html, or the CSS rule from the script applied manually in the stylesheet: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngCloak.
Why not grow at the rate you can sustain? Rather than taking on 150 schools, grow by as many schools as you can afford with the profits from the initial set.
> I'm pretty sure that's tape, not HDD.

Nope, I'm only 27.
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It would make things so much less error-prone if the undefined behavior only could affect anything touched by the undefined statement, in a cascading fashion, and only forwards.

So if you did the following:

int data[1];
int foo = data[1];
printf("Bar");

foo would be undefined, but you know that "Bar" would be printed regardless.

My question is: are there any legitimate optimizations that would be prevented by this?
"a college in the suburbs of Boston"

love this
Comparison of AngularJS directives for charts in front end app development
You could go that way but it introduces an extra step and overall extra complexity in file handling and a big part of the value proposition of something like Lightroom is making the photo editing workflow as painless as possible.

It is hard to describe how valuable that workflow simplicity is but it is a real thing; if I had to RAW process and edit all my photos using DPP (Canon's RAW editor, for my 70D), or Sony's RAW editor (for my A7) or even RawTherapee (an open source RAW processor that actually does a good job of supporting lots of RAW formats), I could do so, but yet I pay Adobe $10 a month to give me a really nice workflow for all of this.

It certainly wouldn't be impossible for a Pixelmator-like competitor to emerge for Lightroom, it'd just be a lot of work for a small team; perhaps more work than it would seem at first blush since there's a lot of complexity hiding behind a relatively simple UI there.
As I was looking into your source code, I found out that you use SessionCam to kind of record the user experience. I wonder, as I'm not using a low-end PC or tablet, if it consumes too much memory or has any restrictions of use that I should be aware of. I might use their product in the near future, would you mind to give some thought on this?
Truth. Though, in my experience, most articles are Ubuntu focused. Personally, I prefer Fedora but in most cases instructions are as easy as substituting apt-get for yum.

I'd say put it in the bin. There are a million similar blog posts with much better info.
I think the Linux /dev/random already do this to some extent.
Why does "Dart SDK (64-bit Windows)" contain 32-bit Windows dart.exe binary?
I remember this never used to happen with Gnome 3.4 and earlier.

I think it started happening when they announced this frame-perfect timing/rendering system. Solved a tearing problem but introduced a lag problem :) I guess you're right though, the lag problem should be solved with Wayland.
Huh? The point of national identity is not to improve safety - it is to improve effectivity. Which it does.

I wish my country emulated this instead of having this corporate conglomerate that takes major cash to let anyone use the same system as is used for banking identification.
It's less a matter of age than environment -- there are still plenty of places using lots of tape. (It's not like we're talking about vacuum tubes or core memory here...)
Enough, as that code never actually did anything in any released version of Windows. From the same article:

Microsoft disabled the AARD code for the final release of Windows 3.1
Excerpt:

Does your home produce more energy than it consumes? This one does... this impressive Canadian home was named after its most prominent feature- its green capabilities. “Midori Uchi” is Japanese for “Green Home”...

And the article is filled with lovely photos.
Um, he's been out for years. He just doesn't particularly make a fuss about it.
It is actually, he says roughly the same thing about miniaturization; that any post-biological extraterrestrial life is possibly microscopic and not something we would easily recognize.

I don't think post-biological ET necessarily turns all the energy and matter in its galaxy to computronium either. It's possible that an amount of matter on the order of a planet or less is more than enough to satisfy. The same postulation can function as an attempt to explain the absence of Dyson spheres or anything of the like.

When we think of theoretical star-faring advanced ETs we anthropomorphize. We're imagining them on the same temporal and spatial scales which we occupy, but they are possibly many orders of magnitude smaller and faster. So this is a Kurzwielian view in that it extrapolates from the patterns that he identifies.
For government paperwork, it definitely helps to authenticate who you are.

As long as you need to access government services, I'd rather have them be efficient.

My country has had national IDs for close to a century, and they make life a lot easier for databases and programming :)
Great answer. I love Meteor and it is great that your doing what you can tto help charity wise but some people will never be happy no matter what you do. Keep making great software and everything else will work itself out.
So how do you identify yourself over the Internet without this?
The Photos app looks like they are rebranding iPhoto, not "ceasing" anything.
If your current cost structure doesn't allow you to fund the addition of a single campus rep for the fourth campus out of the revenues from the first three, you may need to rethink things, as that doesn't sound like you've found a scalable growth engine yet.
A generous estimate would put accumulating 850,000 BTC in profits through exchange fees at 85,000,000 BTC in volume. That assumes a 1% fee on all trades, which is already unsustainable in the current exchange market. It also assumes 0 operating expenses, but hey we're being generous in this calculation.

To do 85,000,000 in BTC on MtGox would mean averaging over 230,000 BTC of daily trading volume for 365 days. For context, most Bitcoin exchanges these days are doing 20% of that on a record day. So if we're super duper generous in our calculations, we'd assume it would take Karpeles 5 years to accumulate the amount he stole in a legal way. This further assumes two equally incredibly unlikely things:

1. MtGox stays ahead of the competition

2. MtGox maintains a 1% trading fee

Remember that in April of 2013, which is when MtGox had its second huge trading engine crash, there was already significant demand amongst traders to move away from MtGox, which is precisely how MtGox started rapidly losing marketshare.

The TLDR is, Karpeles wouldn't have made nearly as much money by engaging in legal business. He would've found it much more tempting to close MtGox before having to deal with burdensome regulations coming out of America, a trend which started in 2013. And even if he had tried to deal with regulators, MtGox most likely wouldn't have been able to maintain its number 1 position for much longer.

So the fact of the matter is he was looking at spending the next 10-20 years pursuing a business he wasn't prepared to run, or he could've just taken the money and walked away, declaring bankruptcy.

> Simplest explanation is best: Karpeles was incompetent and distracted, didn't trust others, wrote horrible code nowhere near suitable for a bitcoin exchange and when he noticed a year later that he had been robbed attempted to cover it up.

I find it absolutely, positively _unbelievable_ that 850,000 BTC were stolen out of a hot wallet. If it had been due to terrible coding practices, he would've gone to that as his first alibi rather than claiming 850,000 BTC were lost due to"transaction malleability". If the code was the likely culprit, he could and would have proved it.
"CNBC states the obvious"
Yes! From Gilad:

> We are working out a proposal that is somewhat similar to async-await in C#. Again, we hope to finalize that in time for the next rev of the standard. Details as soon as coherent articles explaining it all can be put together.
I actually think microsoft is very much behind non-.net technologies as well nowadays.

My experience with their TypeScript initiative has been really smooth, feels like they're trying to improve JS instead of inventing something new (by sticking as close as possible to the ES.next specs). The generated JS is very close to the original, both in size as readability.
Probably the second one. It will be hard for anyone to believe what your name is if the only thing you can present to back up your claim is piece of oficially looking plastic and all other people can present digital signature that can be verified online. You'll probably will be able to participate in activities that don't require trust in your identity. Buying a muffin, sure. Renting an apartment, no chance in hell.
Many pro sports leagues like the NFL are designed to have parity amongst the teams, to make it more exciting. There is no way to ensure parity in national teams. If there was an international American football competition, it would have even less parity than international basketball competitions (where the US is extremely heavily favored in nearly every game).
In theory DNSSEC should replace the CAs for domain validated certificates. The problem is that most clients don't support it (and there are currently some nontrivial reasons for that).

What would be great is if somebody (I'm looking at you, Google or Mozilla) with the clout to get their CA cert trusted could set up a free website that would validate DNS TLSA records with DNSSEC (or DNSCurve if you like) and then automatically sign the certificate from the DNS record with the CA key. That should be at least as secure as domain validation with email, and a lot easier to do. Then you could put that cert on your server and use it for all the clients that don't support DNSSEC, and relegate DNSSEC and all its problems to just providing strong proof to the CA that it's signing the right certificate.

Combine that with certificate pinning and it should pretty well solve the problem, and leave CAs to the job they should have had all along, which is providing extended validation certificates for banks and the like.
For the small number of dependencies any of the projects I work on have, I find it easier to download the dependencies in a browser, and just copy them to the projects I'm using. I understand this is heresy.
Alternatives:

Capture One Pro
Various ACDSee apps
DxO
Paint Shop Pro
I recall hearing someone at the office mention that, but I don't know the details. File a bug or ask on the mailing list and someone who knows better than me can sort it out.
So just what was your goal? You don't really seem to have thought this through.

This is a case of "Be careful what you wish for. You might get it." You started a company, convinced your friends to join you, and Lo! Your company has been successful. Now you have to run the thing, and you're discovering you don't like it.

What did you expect?

If your company hadn't succeeded, it would be dead and gone,and all the folks you convinced to work with you would have suffered. In fact, it hasn't failed, and those who threw in with you haven't suffered.

This is presumably what you wanted when you started your firm in the first place.

Agreed, you can't just bail and abandon everybody and everything. You took on a responsibility, and it's on you to discharge it. Never mind what everyone else might think. You have to look at yourself in the mirror and like what you see. If you cut and run, you won't.

I'd do two things. First, I'd think about what was bothering me, and I'd make a list of what I didn't like about what I was doing, and what I'd most like to be rid of.

Then I'd have a heart to heart talk with my coworkers. I'd tell them I was unhappy, and what I was unhappy about, and I'd ask for help. I'd tell them I wanted time and space. That I wanted a few hours in the day when I wasn't buried under the affairs of the firm. That I needed people to step up and take on some of my responsibilities.

I'm willing to bet you have people working with you that can take some of the load off your shoulders. I am willing to bet there are parts of your job you could carve out and hand to someone else. I am willing to bet that there are people working with you who would like to grow and take a bigger role in your enterprise.

You are trying to do too much, and burning out in the process. Delegate. Think through just what your role currently is, and what you would like it to be. Think about what parts of what you do could be done by others, and who in your company could do them instead of you. Then sit down with your people and work out a plan to make that happen.

It won't be easy. It's hard to give up control like that. It's hard to deal with the fact that someone else might not do what you did they way you did it. But what's important is that it gets done, and the way they do it may be better than the way you did it. You have to be able to give your people space to do things in their own way, and your only real concern is whether they do it effectively.

As companies grow and add people, roles change. What people do and how they do it changes. As the founder of a startup, your early days are very hands on, and you probably do some of just about everything that needs to be done on a day to day basis. As the company grows, you can't do that. There aren't enough hours in a day. Other people must take on some of what you do, and you must step back and let them do it.

Your challenge now is making that happen.
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Dennis
Why not try it first before doing the knee-jerk hipster "ruby is slow zomgz guys" response.

If it gets big someone will reimplement it in c or some other more not "dogshit slow interpreter" (of which you are aware of rubinius and jruby right? they don't really interpret anymore) language.
I didn't use that many server side components, but I noticed they followed a pattern I liked, a filter component, a selection and the url. I think that's pretty adequate for the great majority of use cases.

The sass I found was horrible. I remember the grid had an 800 line sass file.. What??! I made my own grid and styled it in like 50 lines or so. Too bad the app I designed it for died, and no one at the company kept the source.
Forget Wearables
>the need to compete (with largely imaginary competitors imho) is not one of them.

But it is though. If this is your philosophy I would love to see some of your crappy projects. Believe it or not, when you design an interface you're competing with the other people who are doing the same thing.

I'm sorry you dislike GNOME, but your comment adds absolutely nothing to the discussion.

If I was going to make a search engine I would make it with google in mind. If I was going to make a social network I would make it with facebook in mind. I don't care what twisted way you want to frame your argument, it's incorrect. GNOME 3 and Unity do compete with Microsoft whether you their competition is a real threat or not.

Do you not think Apple competes with Microsoft? Do you not think internet explorer competes with chrome?
Ah, a Humanist, that explains a lot. Woodlice first appear in the fossil record 50 million years ago, and remain unchanged to this day, i.e STASIS, not evolution (as in every other case in the fossil record). If you have a picture of a woodlouse changing into anything else then please post it here. Or did you mean a trilobite by any chance? If so, I would expect a PhD geology student to know the difference between a woodlouse and a trilobite (and trilobites didn't evolve into anything else either - they just became extinct).

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) actually poses problems for Big Bang. Obviously you are unfamiliar with the most recent findings from 2001, so I suggest you start learning about it here:

http://creation.com/recent-cosmic-microwave-background-data-....

Furthermore, the CMB merely PRESUPPOSES a big bang in the first place (and big bang is by no means certain - as many astrophysicists will tell you), so there are many assumptions involved in drawing inferences from it. The CMB is also very smooth - contrary to big bang predictions - and the observed mass density does not agree with big bang predictions either. There is no evidence, observational or otherwise, to prove that a big bang actually occurred (which is why many scientist disbelieve in it) nor is there any definitive evidence that the universe is billions of years old (I think that old chestnut arose from uniformitarian geologists' misguided counting of strata, mistakenly believing each layer to have been laid down over 'millions of years', even though recent laboratory experiments as well as direct field observation, have proved it can happen in hours or days).

Like any typical atheist (even though you describe yourself here as a Secular Humanist)you refer to "Christian violence that occurred in Europe centuries ago", forgetting of course that the most appalling violence, including mass genocide, took place in modern history at the hands of exclusively atheistic regimes, all of whose despotic leaders followed Darwinian theories completely (e.g. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mau Tse Tung, etc).

As it happens, I am from the UK too (and I'm an astrophysics major). You are free to refute the "supposed existence" of God in your own home, but please do not try to impose your own secular values on me, or on other people of faith in the UK, and especially not on my child's chance of benefiting from a decent indoctrination-free education. That's something I WILL defend, vigorously.
The power of Xamarin is obviously that you have a single language (C#) even if you have a "fat" UI's that are platform specific. Having a single language means that you can have your business logic as a single code base rather than it in two or more languages with all the consequences of code base specific bugs.

But I do agree with you, Xamarin is not a build once run anywhere kind of solution. If you want to build Android app with it you still need to be very familiar with all the ins and outs of Android, same for iOS.
Look at what happened with FCP, though. They released a new version, missing lots of features, and then future releases restored functionality.

When you're doing a ground-up rewrite, it makes sense to get the basics working first.
Public transit is an inappropriate place to make a voice call. People still do it at home all the time.
Same here. Thank God for being able to inspect and delete distracting page elements. I do feel sorry for readers not versed in html editing though.
thank you?
I did not expect to see so many people so strongly against identity cards. I have had one for a while and it's very convenient and useful.

How is this different from passports? The government already has your basic information. Why passports and not identity cards? To me, my ID card is like a passport in credit card dimensions.
I'm glad you disclaimed your post as opinion, because I don't agree with it but that's okay (and it's probably not really important to argue my viewpoint either). But I do think that the concept Wutang is pushing here is outlined fairly well in the article - that they want to offer something unique, experiential in a different way, and to foster new thinking and creative concepts. I can't see it being replicated often or ever - it seems to me more like it's an effort to prove a point regarding the value (or devaluation) of music in general.

So, in that sense, I'm not sure that it's "wrong" - unless it's intentionally wrong, which it may be.
I couldn't buy a flat without manually signing some papers at notary office and presenting my government issued physical id.

I cannot convincingly prove that I entered any work agreement I did online.

I cannot proove anything anyone committed to online.
Their analysis is not quite different if they agree on 2 out of 3. Also, both are good, it's pretty much the prediction anyone into the World Cup would make at this point.

Someone would bet Argentina #2 if the have faith Messi will play what he's used to, or Netherlands if they consider the actual performance in this cup. This reflects 538's stronger bias for player skill score, while Wolfram seems to adjust more for the past results.
I originally did mine through a church where the pastor was a former IT guy. Spent a lot of time doing his website, cabling, etc. Then the probation office (or at least my officer) changed their policy and I had to do neighborhood cleanup with the parks department instead. It also seems like I got more hours, maybe 200. Anyways, I spent a lot of days mowing medians, parks, vacant lots, picking up leaves, burying dead stray dogs, etc., mostly with guys with DUI convictions. Gives you a lot of time to think.

I hope your PO doesn't make you go to his office every month. I only had to do that a couple of times. But he had a knack for showing up at my house right when I got in the shower. You just have to suck it up, be humble, and do your best to show them that you just want to get through it without extra hassles.