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>Who is this guy?

He was the guy running doxbin [0] before Onymous seized the servers.

He's trying to provide any relevant information he can to the Tor devs so that they can better prevent attacks against hidden services in the future.

>He talks about inheriting PHP code, is he referring to the original SR source code?

He's referring to the doxbin source code [1], which he didn't write entirely but just improved upon.

[0] doxbinzqkeoso6sl.onion

[1] qhlkmirbijvet2dp.onion
Some guy in my neighbor occasionally play with motor helicopter in his backyard and it happens to be in no fly zone. Should I call polices to get him arrested?
For years after the reunification, Berlin was known to offer incredibly low cost of living, especially in terms of rent. Possibly the best conditions of any capital in Europe.

In recent years, though, it has been hit by gentrification with full force. Traditional everyman's quarters are being turned into "luxury living spaces". Property prices have skyrocketed since rich investors (apparently prominently of Russian origin, but also others) discovered the city. It seems trendy to buy out apartments only to leave them empty most of the year, and only really use them for the occasional visit.

In some cases, long-time tenants are actively "encouraged" to give up their apartments so that the owners can either renovate them to a higher standard (which the same tenants couldn't afford to pay for) or to tear down the building altogether and build new upscale build complexes.

It's not surprising that you find Berlin a lot different now than when you first visited.
Why was this operation valid?
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But here is where it comes in handy: If you have your version numbers out there in some database and a 0 day for that particular version hits then you're hacked. If not then you might be able to patch your system before a breach happens. It's no guarantee but since it costs very little and gives you possibly a bit more time when you need it badly it does not hurt. Obviously you need to cross all your other t's and dot the i's too.

And if you need your headers to tell you what versions are running and what tools are installed you are doing something else very wrong.
I think we should hack together an open serviceable laptop like Google Project Ara but for laptops.

So you can fix your screen, you can upgrade your memory
you can upgrade the motherboard and cpu change storage, upgrade to never wifi standards when they are available.
Someone should write a book on how to exploit people who do things for a love that transcends money.
May be documentation will need some time to catch up vis-a-vis the likes of R, Python etc., Understandably since it is a new language this may probably remain so for quite some time? For e.g., when I was trying to find out how to generate "n" random numbers in a uniform distribution from a range of -x to +x. In R the code is as simple as runif(n,-x,x). In matlab, it is a little bit contrived by offsetting and multiplying with the interval etc., But in Julia, the details do not go beyond the standard random functions that do not let you do this and no pointers to documentation beyond. But finally I was lucky to find an entry in the mailing list where I figured out I needed to use the "Distributions" package using the "using" command. Even then , the results were delivered in multiple precision points -> 1.1234, 1.123456 etc.,

In R computing an outer product while passing a custom function is easy. Something like outer(x,y, some function of (x,y)) is pretty straight forward. Not sure how to achieve this in Julia.

Nevertheless, as the language grows and as more idioms are documented and widely used, lif will be simpler I guess.
I'm very glad to see arstechnica using the blurbusters tool for testing monitor rate!

You should be, it's a good trick and at least uses external hardware which makes it more trustworthy than trying to measure what the system is doing from within the system. (e.g. 'it can be confirmed with apps that measure your refresh rate')
Usually that's fine, but still a 60Hz refresh doesn't mean that whatever program is rendering onto the screen is capable of getting 60 frames per second effectively being put out by the screen without dropping any frames. Which is ok for most everyday usage, but e.g. for neurosciences doing research of the visual system that is hardly sufficient. You really want to be 100% sure that whatever you tell a program to display, it does this correctly frame by frame. And the only way to make sure that happened is to use external, continuously recording, hardware (photodiode or high speed cameras).
I don't really understand your comment, it reads as if you're setting up a strange counterargument (one I very much disagree with) and then you agree with the original comment right after that.
Steve Blank was recently in Melbourne and said that his opinion was that 'experienced' was a better adjective than 'failed' for founders who have stopped working on a startup. It's a nice perspective.

Personally I agree, but would add a single caveat. I consider a founder 'experienced' when they have made a good faith effort to attempt solving a difficult/worthwhile problem. Someone who succeeds at someone pedestrian isn't terribly interesting and neither is someone who tried to build the hyperloop with paper mache for a week.

So, my advice is to ignore the title and give weight to the particular characteristics of their startup. The presence or absence of success is far less relevant than what they were trying to achieve and how they executed. I would pick someone who got to 80% of a home run over anyone who succeeded at hitting to first base. Ask questions about how they executed, the unique problems they faced and why they picked their vertical - this will tell you more about them than a snap judgement based on whether they were a CEO or a President.

On a side note, I would generally consider managing to found a company that survives for 1-2 years (full time) while tackling a hard problem as a demonstration of above average/high capacity. I would definitely look into them.

Again, depends on the context of your workplace, and the context of what they actually worked on.

Hope this helps.
Yes, you only have to go around the mobile version.
weird I have no problem with cocksucker. All I did was type it once, select it from the the available words/auto-complete section, then went back and tried to swipe cocksucker and had no issue.
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> autodafe

That's got to be the funniest and most appropriate name for a piece of software ever.
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you just need to add them into your library once, either in setting or by first typing the word and then selection it from the auto-complete section and you will be able to swipe any offensive word you'd like. the f* word was pissing me off so much and that seems to work just fine.
I interviewed for a bunch of jobs, and then found one with a small startup where the leaders were much better at running a business than I was. I now lead a very fun project to work on, and feel like I met my career goal in my early 30s.

I'll need a new challenge in a few years, but for now it's nice to be in a routine and be a critical member of a kick-ass team.
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>>I consider this pretty dangerous, because there's nothing worse than gaining 2-3 levels in ability, but having to linger at a low level because your startup's failure (which may or may not have been your fault; in my case, it wasn't) invalidates the experience completely. You might fare better, psychologically, if you don't go through the startup and gain levels of experience that you won't be permitted to use in the next job. It's easier to function if you're at-level than if you gain 5 years of experience in 15 months but no one believes you.

Wow, this basically describes the frustrations I had with my previous job to the letter. While working there as an engineer, I also founded a successful community service non-profit on the side. Even though it was nothing like founding a "real" company, it still gave me 2.5 years of really solid experience with building, managing and leading teams of diverse people (among lots of other things). We became really successful in our space. It was great.

The problem? While working on the non-profit, I first caught up to and then surpassed my boss at my day job in management and leadership ability. He was my senior, yet I would see him make mistake after mistake, and I'd think, "wow, I made that mistake like, 3 years ago." I tried to help but he wasn't interested - he is very much the "do my job during the day and then go home, drink some beer and watch sports" type of guy. No drive for self-improvement, even when it became obvious that he was severely lacking. I ended up building a lot of contempt for him, and when my frustrations became too much, I left.
For me, Linux on the desktop is not yet close to OS X in terms of usability and application support (especially MS Office). I'm currently thinking about a hackintosh, simply because Apple does not build good hardware for desktop. The two Apple desktop machines that I currently have (Mac Mini and iMac 27") both cooked themselves to death (DVD drive on the mini and graphics card + display on the iMac). Apple simply puts too many components into too small case without enough proper thermal engineering. As a result, in heavy use the devices just end up frying themselves.
I'd like to meet one of these hypothetical "many software engineers" whose political opinions are so destructive to their own field.
Pretty much, I need to compile to iOS and OS X. I currently use my (5 years old, but upgraded over the years) Mac mini for it, but as the latest version of the mini is severely restricted in upgrade potential (soldered on ram etc) when I'll want to upgrade I might look into this.
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>2002: Started a small business. 2008: Pivoted to a somewhat more scalable and clearly defined small business. 2011: Started a true startup.

What's the difference? Truly curious. The singular focus?
> one of the illegal websites

Sounds like he's making a point that he either didn't consider it to be illegal, or, illegal enough that there's a chance of him going to jail
MsysGit is still way slower than Git on Linux, at least on larger repositories. Calling stat() on lots of small files is pretty much a worst-case scenario for NTFS.
Or should you ask him first if he's aware of it?...
Easier to remember: explorer .
What if we just started using keys with tor and setting a few (trusted) default nodes...

Update to clarify: I'm talking about every user setting a few distinct trusted nodes.
I was one of those 18-month CTOs. I just made sure to get past it very quickly in the phone screening and get to why I was looking for a job, the kind of role that I was best suited for, ect, ect.

IMO, the approach to take with such a candidate is to see if this is someone who needed to "sow wild oats," or someone who keeps making the same life mistakes over and over again.

I understand your bias that older candidates are the worst ones. They're the slow learners.
what do you mean by "hidden service" ?
I don't think we're talking about police beatings etc., the parallel regards how both women in tech and minority kids in top schools face in general a lot of stereotype specific harassment and threats even when they take large active efforts to excel or blend in.
I think you're right. This describes a graph attack that uses a secondary vector of malformed packets to limit other connections.
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> The important question is how many personal computers are currently switched on at this exact moment?

Less than the fridges switched on.

Here's a standard fridge Walmart sells for $449: http://www.danby.com/en/US/our_products/refrigeration/dff100...
The EnergyGuide says it's estimated for 375.6 kWh yearly. That's an average of 42.9 W, including the times it's plugged in but idle.

Then keep in mind that a "30 W" computer will use much less than that in idle, where it'll be for 90+% of the time. Including auto-sleep, which Macs are good at, you'll be well below 10 W on average.

> doesn't mean there shouldn't be a drive for increased efficiency in all our electric devices where possible (in my personal opinion).

Absolutely, but replacing one energy-efficient sub-30 W CPU with another slightly more efficient CPU won't do huge things to the country's energy bill.
ehh a Sybil attack involves breaking identification systems (eg, cracking private keys). In this case it seems like they've broken the underlying protocol (tor) to get the ip address.
Oh, Urbit! Where to begin?...

First of all, this is staggeringly brilliant. You should pay attention to it in the coming months. I am not sure if it's destined to be the future, but I sure as hell hope it is.

I had the privilege of interning at Tlon, the company working on Urbit's development, this summer. It owns most of the namespace (Personal cloud computer IP addresses, essentially.) and is where the architect of the system works full-time. They are funded, well enough, by VCs you know of. Urbit is not really launched yet though - We spent the summer doing a lot of work getting the network, file system, protocols, and application layer in "Industrial grade" shape, and I believe more of that is happening this fall.

Because the system is still unlaunched and the docs are being retooled, I imagine these pages are discombobulating. That's... expected. Urbit has a lot of odd ideas that take time to appreciate. However, if you do take the time to understand the motivation behind the design of everything from Hoon's appearance to the network protocol replacement for TCP to the vision for future social networks, you'll find some of the best and most complete computer science research done in decades in networks, systems, and functional programming. The essential idea is not an outlandish one - We need a new basis of computing and networking to build digital identities with, and 1970s system software is not up to the task.

It's unfortunate that ambition and a sense of humor can be misinterpreted as a joke today. For now, you'll just have to take my word for it [1] that these guys are deadly serious and have the technical chops to back up their ambition. Future documentation and applications built on the OS should soon make that more immediately evident.

[1] Or start reading the tutorials!
Correct, I meant "can't".
>Who is this guy?

To add on to what tux3 has posted, nachash has been involved in various other illegal happenings on the net over the past few years, usually with other ED hackertypes.

You can just use google to find irc logs to get a general idea of who this guy is.
Went back into consulting, to build up my capital reserves again. Having learnt some hard lessons and burnt through my savings.
> they use more energy than any other home appliance, excepting air conditioning used in hot climates.

Hmm... the graph shows 35 W. This standard full-size fridge http://www.danby.com/en/US/our_products/refrigeration/dff100... is rated for 375.6 kWh yearly, that is 42.9 W average. A mostly-idle Mac mini specced around 20-30 W would use well under 10 W on average.

Certainly it sounds like DVRs need to improve.
I use cygwin on a daily basis and the only question I have is, apart from a smaller disk space footprint, which is becoming increasingly relevant, how much more lightweight does one need cygwin to be? This obviously does not apply to the true power users of cygwin. I was thinking more along the lines of a general user of it. Basic greps, batch file operations, etc.
A web site only available using Tor.

See: https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en
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7 months is a long time. If I were in that situation, it would seem like one of many potential options of which some may yet to materialise.

Closer to the date, when your significant other is sure they will relocate, absolutely sure, I would request a 1-1 chat, face to face, to explain the situation.

Keep the discussion open ended. Not phrased like "I'm sorry I'm leaving" but "This is the situation, I'd really appreciate your advice and feedback". By keeping the conversation open ended you can seek win-win options with your boss that are good for you both. Stay in that mindset. If they try to close it by saying something like "you should have told me X months earlier" deflect them "this was a potential problem, but neither of us knew for sure and I am interested in what I do here and now". Keep the positive flow and offer something back, from negotiating remote work to staying with the company in a different location.

Stay dedicated at what you do, and when you're absolutely, positively sure nothing can derail the potential move for your significant other, have the conversation, and make it a conversation, not a notice.
yeah really. I found this, so no need to explain.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en
He really should write a book. It's going to be one of the most interesting stories in start-up land.
a lot of analysis is based on ieee 754, that would mean developers would have to re-do the analysis and change the finicky algorithms. I'm personally not able to do it. I nod at the research papers I read, but I would not be able to write them.
Heh, super good to see you back at it. Tenacity is the #1 factor in determining eventual success imo. Good for you :)
https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/master/urb/zod/arvo/ames...

There are hundreds of lines of noise. This makes perl and forth look absurdly readable. What on earth do the directory and file names mean?

I dunno how familiar people on HN are but the original author of urbit is Mencius Moldbug, a neoreactionary blogger. His style of writing is absurdly obfuscated and purposely impenetrable if containing some interesting ideas. The exact same thing is true of urbit. Interesting ideas but obfuscated the point of utter inaccessibility.

Here's sort of the wider group of blogs he philosophically aligns with:

http://rationalwiki.org/w/images/d/d5/Scharlachs-visualizing...

His views are likely unpopular around here but I am a fan of a bunch of those other blogs, and I've tried to dive into Moldbug's blog Unqualified Reservations a few times. It's kind of insane—the guy is clearly very intelligent—yet writes in his own discursive style that is absolutely opaque.
The main problem of object pipeline is that only software written .Net understands it. That means most of the utilities we are familiar with in the Linux world doesn't work with them.

And I don't want to find every .Net equivalent of the command I use in Unix systems. Perhaps all the coreutils have counterparts in Powershell, but for all the other third party ones I use, probably not.
For a long time Alibaba.com was a haven for counterfeit goods. Some argued that was its primary purpose (and indeed there were hints of racism in this - claims that the Chinese did no original work etc.)

You can still get some counterfeit goods on Alibaba. That didn't stop the platform becoming valuable for legitimate purposes too.
Maybe security UAVs could be an answer?

If an unknown drone appears over a nuclear power plant, the plant could launch a UAV to follow it about until it goes home, watch who picks it up after it lands, and then just send in the police.
Wait, so they wrote their own bytecode, functional language (complete with compiler and libraries), functional operating system, TCP replacement, and distributed storage protocol? And will presumably write all their own apps, or some kind of interface layer that will allow non-Hoon code to run on their system efficiently? That has to be one of the most ridiculously ambitious projects I've ever seen. Good luck to them I guess, but I've always been a believer in not reinventing too many wheels at once
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What are the odds of that request being routed exclusively through those specific nodes ?

I mean he either tried for a long time or had a very long list of nodes... I don't even know what's the average number of middle node for one route.
If you use a reasonable Gigabyte main board, an Intel CPU and a Nvidia graphics card, you will most likely not run into trouble. I had to change some Bios options (turn on AHCI, disable Intel Vd) and install a network and sound driver after successful installation. One of the few remaining glitches is that authentication in FaceTime is done in part by reading a unique identifier in the Firmware, which apparently is not present.
Isn't freenet or I2P more resilient to such attacks ?

I mean tor is great because it allows to browse webpages, but aren't there thicker means to be anonymous ?
The study controlled for cognitive abilities, it's graphed on figure 8c. "Consistent with previous studies linking AFQT scores to racial differences in adult outcomes (for example, Neal and Johnson, 1996; Cameron and Heckman, 2001), I do not interpret these scores as measuring innate endowments but rather as reflecting the accumulated differences in family background and other influences that are manifested in test scores." Please don't fall for naive evolutionary justifications for discrimination and don't criticize blindly.
Soundcloud are being wankers here, haven't they learned not to piss against the wind yet?
Very bad UI design. Instead of "VALID" it should say "NOW TAKE A PHOTO".
I think there's a chance of using malformed packets to disrupt all other nodes.
Every system is susceptible to a graph attack at some level...
I love it how we can have lisp code in just about any thread here :)
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How far political correctness has taken us. The 'seven dirty words', but instead of not being able to say them on television we're now not even able to text them. Next up, a filter that will replace your audio so that when you want to say 'fuck' it will say 'duck'.

Small anecdote from (very politically correct) Canada: my son came to Canada without speaking English very well. A bunch of kids in school decided to take advantage of this and told him to say 'fuck'. He did and then they ran off to the teacher saying the new kid had said 'fuck'. (Which was technically true...). So the head master of the school calls me to talk to me about my kids language and that he'd used the 'f-word'. I didn't get what he meant. So he kept on dancing around it until after 30 minutes or so he finally managed to spell it out (not say it). Incredible.
The installation is by now very straightforward, if you have for example Gigabyte board and standard components. In 2012 I bought a i7-3770, 8gb ram, nvidia gtx 680, gigabyte-z77-d3h and 256 SSD. On such hardware all it takes is readjusting some BIOS settings (turn on AHCI, disable Intel Vd) and maybe install a ethernet driver and sound driver. I'm pretty sure an equivalent iMac would have been significantly more expensive, than what I paid then.
I know, but in Rust's case it was more straightforward to call it Ok/Err since that was the majority use-case. Personally I prefer Either, since then you have a more generic sum type, just like the tuple type is a more generic product type (and if I'm using the terminology correctly).
Don't fall for that story.

Building a Hackintosh is far from illegal, it's merely breaking Apple's EULA, and even that might be null in many places (especially EU).