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There's a much higher barrier to entry for security research on AirPort routers.

The only configuration method is over a custom binary protocol, so you can't just fuzz HTTP headers and input fields. The firmware downloads are encrypted, so there's no easy way to pull binaries from the device.

The only public way to do any analysis on the software requires soldering to the board.

The early models run VXWorks, the N models run NetBSD 4.3 on ARM (Express) and MIPS (Extreme), and the AC models (Extreme and Time Capsule, the weird tall ones) run a fork of NetBSD 6.0 on ARM. The AC versions actually contain a single-core binned ARM Cortex A9 from the iPhone 4S like you would find in the Apple TV.

That said, at least one group has root, firmware dumps, and is doing active research. Come hang out #theairportwiki on freenode if you're interested.
PG & Jessica are what make YC so great. It's obvious from the interview, these are genuinely good people out there to make a positive difference.
It's like seeing certain plays from a sport team before, and then after a game seeing their notebook with their general game strategy. Yeah everything we saw before 'fits in' to what was released today - for example we already knew from examples that the NSA works to break encryption - but now we also know that it is considered one of six key investments and that it probably has its own leadership separate from the others. This is useful because you know what programs have more overhead talking to each other/partnering. For example to speculate that corporations probably aren't helping very much with the crypto breaking effort.

(The names are most definitely classified.)
I thought "traffic calming" was to reduce speed and increase safety. My point was that, if you reduce speed all the way to zero, safety is not increased, due to frustration. "Traffic is reduced" is not an accurate way to describe the situation.
Quoting a dead sibling comment from a brand new user (I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing the fresh account, or maybe Tor usage(?) caused the comment to be killed):

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It is indeed terrifying....and the worst part is they are being sincere.

Anonymity is a right we are going to have to fight for in the coming decades.

These people live in a world where they are the good guys fighting the evil guys. The good guys need to have special powers...but don't worry, they aren't going to abuse them..oh and don't worry about how they defined bad guys either.

"Imagine in the physical world if you were not able to open the trunk of a car if you had a suspicion that there were weapons or drugs inside... we would never accept this."

Policing should be difficult, if policing is not difficult you live in a police state.
I wasn't making fun of you. I assumed you are smart and I said so.

I didn't come up with "blood running down the streets" politicians were actually saying such things back then to try to justify their position against raising the speed limit from 55 to 65. I don't know the true motivation behind them making such claims. My best guess is that the Federal Government exerted pressure by means of threatening to remove funding or some such thing. Pure conjecture on my part at this point.

My point is that plenty of people are mercilessly voting my comments down yet nobody is taking the time to learn a little history and research what I am saying. I don't need to because I was there and remember the idiocy of the entire thing. For about a year or so media outlets tried their best to push the "speed kills" and "65 is bad" agenda but reality somehow chose to defy them. Blood did not run dow the highway as politicians predicted. Not even close. And so after about a year or so they all stopped talking about it because everyone realized what the politicians were pushing was nonsense. We actually had less accidents with the increase in speed limit.

Anyhow, as i said elsewhere, HN is a cargo cult club. If i had come here fully aligned with the crowd and proclaimed how 10 foot wide lanes would save lives I'd collect a bunch of little votes and make all of you happy. Instead an asshole who dares to not be in line with y'all and for that I am personna non gratta. And that's sad. This isn't a place where opposing points of view are welcome at all.

I get it. I haven't been reading HN for probably a year. Now I remmber why I stopped.
No vote manipulation but you used another new account 'RainSunshine' to talk sugar about yourself? That was a dumb move.
I've just spent the last couple of years investing my time in Gradle.

I'm in a position where I've become productive with the tool. But as is the way of the freelance software guy (or gal) the decisions that influence the tech. stack are not in your control.

So I'm being pushed to use the Play! Framework for micro services style arch. Which I'm happy enough about but afaik that means I'm tied into SBT.

Could you guys give advice for smoothing the learning curve to Sbt? Any hints/time sucks/resources appreciated
So, who are you, sockpuppet?
I'm not aware of any serious vulnerabilities for AirPort routers. They run a pretty clean version of NetBSD with very few services. However, there are some internal Apple services (presumably written in C) running on the router to facilitate configuration, AirPlay, Back to my Mac, Time Machine, and maybe others.

The minor things I know offhand:

- The old configuration protocol transmits your password (and everything else) in pretty much plain-text, which can be theoretically intercepted by someone connected to your network (and anyone listening when you set it up for the first time). I think the newest configuration protocol uses Secure Remote Password, but I don't know if anyone's audited their implementation.

- When new AirPort routers first come online, they broadcast a public open WiFi hotspot to allow wireless setup. This can be accessed by anyone within range. An attacker could make a device (say, a WiFi Pineapple) automatically connect to every AirPort it sees and configure it maliciously. Using only public information, you mostly be able to annoy the owner (maybe intercept some traffic by updating their DNS settings). I won't rule out someone dropping a rootkit on your router during the open configuration period, but the simplest method (a firmware update) at this point will cause the router to reboot so it's at least a bit conspicuous.

Also see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8441500
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...quickly seizes on any violation of the (personal or social) code they believe in...

I'm in this camp but not for this reason. I disagree with what he did because it made games I paid for no longer fun.

The real world is chock full of secret exploits that get relentlessly ground that then allow people with more money to spend to get ahead of me. I was hoping my games didn't have to be like that too.
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So if I can devise software that remembers thing it's seen, it's conscious? Where is this precedent coming from?
I don't understand this. 15$ for a 1964 paper?

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=800257.808896
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Wrong, the names aren't classified, contrary to your claim "the names are most definitely classified." Look in the document, the title "Sentry Eagle Data Sheet" is clearly marked "U" which according to Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_U...

Means "Unclassified."
Tried all sorts of apps. Minihack is the most convenient for me. Besides reading I value the integration with other apps and services.
That is actually exactly what I wanted. :)

I have done something similar with Zookeeper recently (through I wrote it in Ruby so it's terribly slow).

You would be surprised how little CP stores are actually available. There is an abundancy of AP stores but very very few useful CP stores, especially ones with shared-nothing architecture.

You don't need for every query to traverse the consensus algorithm. It's sufficient to use the consensus algorithm to agree on the master shards for each chunk of data and have sync replication.

Considering Redis is designed for 100% in-memory workloads if you are operating on a low latency network this is more than fine. Especially because this behavior would only be required for writes, reads could be served from either the master or a sync replica (and in theory if you had configurable read consistency a possibly out of date async replica).

I guess what I am sad about is just the lack of CP stores that are useful right now, I probably just need to suck it up and start writing my own.
Look, I did that on purpose. I don't want to make a brand name, Github, into a synonym for open source.
That's the Association for Collecting Money for you.
Docker knows how to automatically configure AppArmor and SELinux to contain the containers. Seems almost redundant, but if you like checking twice, that's definitely a supported feature of Docker.
Well it's an interesting point you make..

I've thought for a long time that consciousness is tied up with memory in a certain way: my theory is that you can not commit anything to long term memory that you were not first conscious of. Considering the huge amount of sensory data available this is really saying something. You could even conceive of the brain not working this way- that it could store sensory data for later perusal. But I'm pretty sure it just doesn't store anything which isn't first filtered by consciousness.

I don't think it's yet understood how the brain keeps short term state. Neurons are pulse-based, so I assume short term state can at least be very crudely described as some kind of recirculating loop of these impulses. Neurons get tired, so it's difficult to keep such loops going for long. This gives us the feeling of effort to pay attention to something for a long time.

Even so, I don't think memory like this is the whole story. There is a sensory-experience part of consciousness which is hard to describe. When I experience something as simple as the color orange it's difficult to find a good analogy with anything mechanical. You could say it's what you experience when your eye generates impulses for a certain wavelength of light, but just having a certain signal is not a satisfactory enough explanation of what "orange" really is.

Time is another issue.. whatever consciousness is, it only happens "now". But what is now? If the brain is a computer then its state can be expressed as a number, perhaps written on a page of paper. You take the current state, the sensory input, follow some rules and determine the next state (and record it on the next page of paper). What's special about new states coming into being? I don't think much of anything.. so when you have a whole notebook of pages with states where is the "now"? Why does executing some mechanical process count as the feeling of experience?
Well what do you know. U//FOUO

Unclassified. For official use only.

Yup the names are not classified.
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The chef was a real champ about the whole thing. The whole video was very cute and charming.
So happy to see your reply!
1) Websites like weather.com are informative, but they can not solve some realistic problems. You can see it's snowing in an area, but you can not see how the weather is affecting the road condition. You know the temperature is low there, but is heavy coat really needed? You know it's raining heavily there, but how heavy is it? Is it still ok to travel there?
Howeather can give you a real-life measure of weather conditions, instead of just numbers. It solves more realistic problems.
2) How a user can find locals to the location he/she would go? This is what Howeather does! Users don't need to worry about how to find one. They just simply choose a location and ask, then Howeather will match them with the locals to get the answer ASAP. Plus push notifications, the delivery of the realistic weather information also becomes real-time in Howeather.
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Some people with brain damage can end up with strange side effects. One man lost the concept of left - everything on the left side of anything simply ceased to exist, even conceptually, for him. He might fail your test in some situations, but certainly be conscious.

Additionally, any unconscious intelligence would pass this test. Even a human in an unconscious state might pass it.
Why spend the $10 with brutalhonesty.io when you can just post your question on Ask HN? The way HN is going these days, your honest answers will be here within 24hrs!
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Next up for the New York Times - toddlers smoking fine Cuban cigars.
Exactly. The Internet is full of people who have no problem openly and honestly calling it like they see it. Often cynically and viciously so.
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I found this super helpful. Thank you very much for taking the time to write it.
Right, exactly what I said about the HN cargo cult. So, this guy refutes me with a bunch of nonsense links to studies he admits are about "highways that are not designed with the features of the Interstate Highway System highways". Really? Any moron can understand that raising the speed limit on a road not designed to handle it will result in nothing good. I've travelled on the autobahn at 180 miles per hour (under the right conditions, etc.). I have driven the Nurburgring in an overpowered 911. None of our (US) highways are even remotely designed for that. Yet the transition from 55 to 65 or even 80 isn't a problem at all for the vast majority of our roads.

So I called the guy for doing exactly what the author of the 12 foot vs. 10 foot lane author is probably doing: Using bullshit or irrelevant papers to try to support a nonsense conclusion. And you cargo cult kids down vote me. Well done.

Think.
Waze[1] is all based on users' feedback and has been acquired by Google in 2013, so I think we'll see this more and more..

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze
One line before the one where you've probably found that combination is just "(U) Sentry Eagle Data Sheet" clearly without the FOUO (which, if existed, would mean "for official use only"). The markings specify the following not the previous content. So the title I quoted as containing the name is just and only "U" unclassified.
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Very nice, I'm definitely a Unix person but Powershell has some great ideas and it's good to see a version that can work on Linux and OS X!
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Must be a cultural thing. In the Netherlands, you can get that for free. #1 source of culture shock for Americans coming over here. "Did he just say that?"
After you've done that, in combination with sidewalks, you have effectively created a pedestrian-only street above the cars.

Aren't there large parts of Chicago already like that?
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So an addendum.

As the terms are not classified there are minimal standards regarding using the names in less secured conversation. If another country has intercepted communications or documents with some mention of SENTRY EAGLE, now that this has been released they know some of the conversation/document context.
Surprised no-one linked to sportsscientists.com: http://sportsscientists.com/2010/08/the-sub-2-hour-marathon-...

A line of thought that's particularly interesting there is that a 2h marathon has implications for 10000m and half marathon speeds, which make it seem quite a bit further off.
So true. And upvoted - Quora is one of my finest discoveries in the last two years. It has taught me immensely about various cultures around the world, and while opinion should always be taken with a grain of salt there are enough "factual" answers too.
They are also a brilliant engineering company, and have some of the best web-based tools available to those who are asking questions and providing answers. No other site - I repeat, no other site including StackExchange provides as much functionality as Quora. The only downside is that they are sometimes a bit slow.
For a forum who talks about free market at the drop of a hat, and tends to defend Amazon in every discussion; my message to get Hacker News is - GET LOST!! We are happy with the real name policy and we are happy to log in to browse the site. If you don't like it, don't use it. Good riddance.
The title appears to have been editorialized by the submitter. We've reverted it. (Submitted title was "Are We Really Conscious? Brain Science Suggests We're Not".)
Yes, any good CS compiler design class should discuss this topic.
Of course what I am explaining is incorrect, but I am trying to give the GP an idea of what is going on. Using my elastic band analogy, releasing the band requires energy (it is endothermic), but it get across the idea that there is a great deal of potential energy stored that is released once the band is released (i.e. a small amount of energy put into breaking a very weak bond will, after all the chemical rearrangements, release a lot of energy).

Sure if you want to get in contact with me just write to any of the contact emails on my companies website - it will get to me in the end :)
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Darling, stop reading HN ans take your flight tickets
My husband is a YC alumni, he needs to take his plane tickets to join me in LA tomorrow, but he doesn't answer his phone as he is probably as every night procrastinating on HN. Please Help me to be sure he gets the message. Coco
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//FOUO is a classified designation.
Is (insert idea here) a good business/app/website idea?

Would you pay (amount) for (product/app/service)?

Do you like my app? (web/iOS only, for now)

Does my landing page look professsional?

Getting one guy's opinion about any of these things is anecdotal at best. It's not a comprehensive information source. And it would be foolish to use it in your decision making process.

There's better ways to collect data:

1) Spend that $10 towards an adword campaign for a pre-launch signup page for you website/app idea. Maybe this guy won't sign up, but maybe a dozen, a hundred or a thousand other people will. Why waste your money on one data point?

2) Put the money to buying beer. Invite your friends and family over, get them liquored up a bit. I guarantee you'll hear a great deal of honest feedback.

3) Post on HN, reddit, slashdot or any other number of web sites where armchair cynics freely administer scathing advice.
Flying cars would eliminate the need for pavement altogether.
Not really. EPO testing is now possible; it wasn't in the 1990s. That's why we saw dramatic increases in performance on the track in the 1990s.

The real reason is more financial: see the graph of prize money referenced in the article, and also take a look at the current state of track 10,000m racing. More top talent is attracted to the marathon, away from the longer track races, than before.
We all know that roads aren't free. If they weren't worth building in terms of increased economic output, however, then city planners would stop building them.
It's what the names are for: to allow referring to the projects in unprotected environment without revealing what the projects are.
e.g., in Diablo 2, duped items were known to "poof" or disappear if you were not careful. There is no way to tell if an item is legitimate or not, leading to the obvious situation of oblivious players buying or trading for a dupe and having it vanish.

People who create dupes and sell them for real money are exploiting naive players and putting them at risk while ruining the game for legitimate players. They're human filth.
Almost correct, FOUO is a designation used to effectively classify the unclassified information from the public (really! [1]) but he looked at the wrong line.

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[1] "unclassified but which the government does not believe should be subject to Freedom of Information Act requests" (wikipedia)
It's appears also to be an unclassified designation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_U...
This is awesome. It reminds me of a talk I saw recently, linked from hackernews at some point in the last year or so. Something about re-thinking internet infrastructure into a "directory-tree" like model. Does anyone remember it?
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As you can see in this graph, Napoleon split up his army and left a small part behind while he walked towards Moscow. It's the remainings from this smaller army that represents this spike
Well this sounds like a healthy relationship!
Looks like HN is the new reddit :-|
Not sure if I'm particularly lucky with my PC, but everything is smooth and nice and I really enjoyed the effects on this page, and I appreciate their effort to use more modern technique than a plain static article.
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Congratulations!

The way how you implemented "man" ("man ls" for instance) shows how a convenient shell can look like. Pigshell could be a foundation for a completely new kind of toolchain for web development. I am thinking of seemless integration of JS editors, D3 graphics for pipe output, etc. ... Wait - it's already working :-)

http://bl.ocks.org/ganeshv/raw/b971989c337e958c0531/

If it just were possible to access the bare bone hardware so that we wouldn't be restricted to the JS world (in a closed environment, of course).
> This is exactly why sync is not a commodity. Dropbox is the very best at what they do,

The very best? I use OneDrive across all of my Windows machines and I don't even notice it exists; never had any problems. I just access all my files everywhere. If you buy a windows phone you even get a decent amount of space for free (15GB). (Though I subscribe to Office 365 so I have virtually unlimited space.)
I'm intrigued: what's a Scott pack? Is is just breathing apparatus? But since the gas cloud is setting organic matter on fire surely you'd need more than that?

Or is it just a good pair of running shoes?
This manifested for me as a large number of "conflicted copies" everywhere inside my main visual studio solution. Thankfully, source control saved the day... But I was really annoyed at Dropbox for a little while.
This is what it says about him on the official list of Fields medalists: "Developed new methods for topological analysis of four-manifolds. One of his results is a proof of the four-dimensional Poincaré Conjecture".

The article's statement you quoted is accurate enough to not be "not true".
The game being referenced is not Diablo 2 and does not have that issue.
I don't see any reference to domestic surveillance, so my interpretation is that a spy agency is spying.