skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TMZ is reporting [1] that studio executives are convinced this was an inside job based on layoffs at Sony that included IT employees. Before you write them off, they've broken several big stories this year, and their sources at movie studios are probably spot on.

If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. The continuous release of leaked data means the attacker probably had access for a considerable amount of time to completely download the large number of files. My guess is that they had escalated their own access during employment and routinely monitored the communications of executives.

This was most likely the work of someone that had or maintained a blackhat past. This is someone that most likely had access to a botnet, knew where to go to buy/download malware (underground forums), and knew how to obscure their connections (and where to directly connect). And if you think about it, posting to Pastebin? Definitely a US-thing, and not so much a Chinese thing.

I'm willing to bet this person/people will be caught through old-fashioned profiling. Cross-checking the terminated IT employees with previous convictions for computer crimes, their personal emails with known hacker aliases, and other investigative techniques.

[1] http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/17/sony-hack-inside-job-north-kor...
The counterpoint to this is presented in http://www.wired.com/2014/12/north-korea-did-not-hack-sony-p...

Namely that the attackers don't even mention the movie, but instead seem to be on an ant-Sony crusade. Mentions of the movie by the "attackers" only seem to start happening when people started saying it could be NK.
If you're referring to the mobile app (iOS), there is a way to change the setting to Most Recent posts; however, it is buried and difficult. You're right here, Facebook wants full control so they CAN put more ads on the users' news feed.
Heck yeah! The simple Cuba, I wish to make it there before it becomes westernized.
Sure. On the backend it's all custom code on top of a Linux, Apache, Mysql, Php stack. Frontend is all custom code with some light usage of jquery.
The Sweet Hereafter
Well, I wouldn't take them off whoever posts under the PAXTeam account to LWN.
I was using `grunt` and `gulp` to build Node.js and AngularJS projects but I have to tell even boot 1.0 felt like a great step forward compared to them, despite of the abysmal startup times.

It allowed us to just jump into Clojure development from one day to the other while understanding what is the build system doing. I can't tell the same about the prepackaged grunt and gulp files which come with certain key-turn projects.
The out-of-space / metadata balancing problem has bitten me more times than I care to count. It's essentially a fact of life that I have to blow away /var/lib/docker and all its subvolumes every few weeks on any given machine, to clear an out-of-space problem.
Interesting to see a Cortex-M4 on board, certainly no way it's running Windows. Maybe they have some simple RTOS?
Curing cancer is on a similar complexity scale as fixing senescence/aging, and it is unlikely that we can solve one without the other. Cancer is the inevitable outcome of aging, if nothing else kills you.

It is a breakdown of the cooperation/altruism between cells that make you a multicelluar organism. We have several genetic programs designed to enforce cooperation, but cumulative damage in each cell over a lifetime eventually breaks all of them and generates 'independent' cells subject to natural selection, in our own bodies, with our DNA. All of our cells are cancerous, eventually.

Would you believe the claims as readily if he said he was going to stop aging? I would have to remind you that we don't even really know why we age.

It is fantastic and disconcerting that we are back in the age of wealthy patrons driving scientific discovery. I'm certain many discoveries and great art came from patrons who understood little about the field.
I've heard a number of different stories on the matter, none that I'd want to perpetuate too much.

It was more economical to build the world's largest vessel and develop a lot of new technology than to deal with the issues involved with an onshore facility - interpret that however you'd like.
Yes, because it can be expressed in future generations. Re-used or re-purposed in future environments. Non-expression of a gene that's detrimental in the current environment can itself be useful to the survival of the gene until it can become useful.
Not the brightest move. Cancer will not be cured in 10 years.
Bruce Schneier: Sony Hackers 'Completely Owned This Company'
> Controversial with who? American audiences?

Yes, absolutely.
I'd be interested to see such a citation as well. Quick searching shows that the US (and other countries such as Canada and the UK) have Good Samaritan laws that protect doctors assisting people in such situations. Specifically:

"The Aviation Medical Assistance Act of 1998 ensures that if you're flying in the United States, even if the airline is not owned by a U.S. company, you have Good Samaritan protection."[1]

I also found one article interviewing a doctor who answered the call who mentioned that no physician has been successfully sued for assisting in an inflight medical emergency.[2] A claim that he actually backs up with a citation.[3]

[1] http://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0400/p37.html

[2] http://www.cockeyed.com/personal/doctor_airplane/doctor_airp...

[3] http://methodistanesthesia.com/Articles/Article_25.pdf
Well, the surrounding context is also part of the data, even though I understand that it's easy to forget embedding yourself in it to interpret the data already at hand.
If you are into this, also check out Sonic Visualizer (http://www.sonicvisualiser.org), with its support for VAMP plug-ins for analyzing audio.
This seems to be the thing ones does annually, predict the death of facebook.
As a former competitive cyclist, I always get excited about new bibs and the endbib thing looks interesting.

I am curious what the purpose of the Singapore page is though:
http://www.redwhite.cc/singapore/

Were you guys given money by Singapore or something and that was a stipulation?
Sony is now saying they have no plans to release it at all, in any format. Buried.
Incidentally this episode aired nine years earlier with no controversy over showing Mohammed. Though after 201 aired they did take down Super Best Friends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Best_Friends
I thought his comments about available capital (specifically) to social communication companies was interesting.

There was so much homogeneity in tech in '99/'01. So many companies doing very similar things.

I guess I'm wondering: Are we (the tech market) sufficiently diversified in what our companies do? Enough to see segments of the industry pop but not the entirety?
Microsoft pitches for ‘White-Fi’ to provide last mile connectivity in India
"Intelligence officials believe with “99 percent certainty” that hackers working for the North Korean government carried out the attack, said one individual who was briefed on the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity."

--Washington Post
Using Real User Monitoring to Make Your Marketing Relevant Once More
Copying a sentence from the first reply on the list?
Neither the short time horizon nor the human space travel restriction were in the original question. Nonhuman space delivery will become routine relatively quickly, and human space travel will become routine after. It's inevitable.
Interesting. I didn't know that "encouraging kids to emote" is a thing, but I guess it could be.
I'm not sure what I think about the motive of Sony to turn the hacking into a promotional event or how the USG motive you suggest squares with what they've said over the past week (they have been careful not to attribute until just recently, even in spite of rumors of NK fault).

The big question your analysis seems to beg is why #GOP would demand that the movie not be shown. In the scenario where Sony and the USG want to spin this as anti-NK propaganda (certainly this is not out of the USG playbook), why would #GOP play along? I don't understand #GOP's motive in your scenario.
I'm guessing that their move in 2015 to put the kibosh on organizations using their Facebook account to self-promote will have a larger impact on this sort of thing.

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/11/news-feed-fyi-reducing-o...

They say it's in the name of reducing spam on your news feed, but something tells me that it's just a ruse to route that type of behavior to paid advertisements and to end the free ride for small businesses.
Actually I should mention that perhaps the wording in the passage you quoted is misleading. We don't send the actual file contents around in memory as function arguments, but the fileset object itself _is_ passed in memory as an argument, and this fileset object contains the metadata you need to perform your work. When you need the contents of the file there are protocol methods for obtaining the underling file contents, and the actual underlying files are completely anonymous temp files of no special significance (their specific locations in the filesystem are irrelevant to the build process).
Sounds like good news for the people from 3rd world countries.
Compared to their neighbors? After adjusting for a worldwide-unique embargo?

Honestly, I'm not into communism and am very surprised that their figures are as good as they are. It's dumbfounding.'

I guess it's more a statement of how hard it is to come up from the bottom whatever your system is. Russia and China both showed great results in their first couple 5-year plans before communism petered out and didn't deliver further gains.
A part of me wants to believe this is all marketing and a viral publicity stunt.
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Why would #GOP demand that 'The Interview' not be shown? To throw off the scent? Also I'd be interested in your thoughts as to why an ex-employee bent on revenge demand a ransom not to engage in the sabotage?
All this is pure speculation on my part of course, but I think the #GOP are just talented people doing it for the lulz. Note that the media mentioned North Korea first, possibly giving #GOP the idea to increase the lulz to levels previously unimagined. Bonus points - It diverts attention from the real hackers; making them less likely to be caught.
1. Have them pair program with seniors half of their time.

2. Review EVERY piece of code their write. Code reviews daily.
So... I just installed Ubuntu 14.10 on my (new) home PC, and chose BTRFS because I figured it was stable by now. Should I be worried? I do plan on playing with docker.
There are hydrocarbons (methane especially) on other planets. Oil is old algae, but methane might not be - there is a lot of energy in the Earth's core than can make it.
The Coming War Between America and China – Documentary Project from John Pilger
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Linus explains his stance on Linux security, issues with security people, SELinux, CVE commit log, etc. at DebConf 14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mg5_gxNXTo#t=3936
Thanks for the feedback. We are working on fixing the Safari issue and taking notes on your remark regarding prediction graph.
I wonder if the hackers will release whatever draft the movie they grabbed just to spite Sony now.
Seems like a good opportunity to route around the damage: release it ASAP on iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, YouTube, perhaps for free.
There are lots of open source tools for these niches.

For sentiment analysis, I'd recommend:
http://nlp.stanford.edu/sentiment/code.html

For web scraping, a popular option is Scrapy:
http://scrapy.org/

And an unknown web scraping option (and shameless plug):
https://github.com/MachinePublishers/ScreenSlicer

For browser automation see Phantom JS or Selenium: http://phantomjs.org/ http://docs.seleniumhq.org/

For an open source IFTTT-inspired project: https://github.com/cantino/huginn/
> loable

The word you are looking for is laudable BTW.
North Korea threatens to nuke US, as well as half a dozen other countries, on a regular basis. There's no need for false flag operations against North Korea; they're already doing everything they can to paint themselves in a bad light.
Yeah, the liver has a separate metabolic pathway for converting non-carbohydrate organic compounds into glucose at a steady rate to regulate blood sugar and provide energy to the brain, it's called gluconeogenesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
Oakland wants you to stop calling it the “Next Brooklyn”
That's brilliant deduction there. Among the languages to get speech support are also German, Italian and Japanese, so the NSA also still has one eye on the old axis foes as well. Then Spanish and Portuguese. wait a minute - isn't this list remarkably similar to a list of the most widely spoken languages in the world?
"... Oakland has long been at the center of a national conversation about equity, but it’s quickly becoming a more enticing beacon for venture capitalism than for social justice. ..."
American Apparel CEO Dov Charney Fired
Sure, I bet they do have one. But it's probably not nearly as good as they think it is.
Web Objects was the first web framework I worked in, back in 2001, and I didn't really understand it at the time, but it already had built and running in production many of the features that I subsequently came into contact with via supposed innovations in other stacks. The J2EE 1.3 spec for example added "entity beans" and unleashed hideous vendor implementations like WebSphere on developers. The impact of all the anti-patterns that spec inspired are still visible in the development world today - I'd say it is indirectly responsible for the rise of Spring and Rails.

WO also had the added benefit of being a full-stack solution. The way the J2EE spec was built up of sub-specs really contributed to the fragmented Java framework universe. Developers then had to get used to spending think-time reasoning about the way the pieces and "tiers" fit together and less time building coherent apps.
Can you give specifics? What bad things are you referring to?
Stop hacking things Samy!
I agree, but I'm pretty sure the FBI and NSA have more info than just that which they can tie back.
The BBC is going to (or already did?) air the story on Radio 4's "Book at Bedtime" which is the furthest thing from being banned that I can think of.

Mind you they've received a share of vitriol for doing so.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/14/hilary-mantel-a...
The network effect becomes very large if you start introducing significant discounts for carpooling, as Uber has done. The chance of finding a carpool partner and getting a 40% discount are much higher for Uber than a competitor, and will be a big hurdle to market entry.
"Bad fuel"? All fuels have costs and benefits. Natural gas is probably the best one going. Extraction has minimal environmental impact, it burns clean with very little pollution and can't be spilled into the ocean like oil. It's also versatile, being suitable as a vehicle fuel, a heating / cooking fuel and as a basis for both large scale industrial and electrical production. I'd say that before an alternative large scale energy source is developed, natural gas is the best way forward.
If you need a developer, consider this one
Available on Netflix for live streaming and has only 2 stars:
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/28000446?strkid=49037960_0_0&...
And xfwm4 has a great plug-in/patch available that enables tiling!
Thanks a ton for the feedback. We changed the size of the pictures and the loading should be much faster. Working on your other remarks as well.
FB is pretty solid with ads these days. I'm seeing blocks of sponsored stuff every 3-7 posts. Considering how many non-sponsored posts aren't really interesting to me, and how many repeats I see, they basically have me checking in constantly by dangling the possibility of new, relevant stuff behind that darn red world icon. It's a bit scary to think that I view this as an important communication tool and it's so riddled with ads, but I also understand we don't exactly live in utopia. Some friends just can't easily be reached in other ways.
Did you read it? It predicts that Facebook will stop sending a firehose of traffic to outside websites. It says nothing about the death or popularity of Facebook itself.
Finally, what do you think of #GOP coming from some of the same IPs used in prior attacks known to have been state sponsored? You must think that they bought access to these machines on the same forums they bought Korean malware?
Well, in my book, it's a devastating loss for economic development of people in dire poverty and the associated social issues that come with that. Regardless of how it came about.
The point is that there is another possible outcome beyond the "yes"/"no" questions you asked, which is "I can't do my job with these security requirements" and "I don't understand these complicated methods and/or requirements". Both of these lead to security being bypassed on purpose, which is often far worse than the risk of someone walking in with a trojan USB stick.

Education about the risks involved in picking up random hardware, email requests/attachments, etc are important, but so is acclimating the average user to the very idea of secuirty. Both sides need time and experience to find ways to make security and the work being done compatible with each other.

A good example of the problem is PGP/GPG - it's too complicated and has a terrible UI (for most peole), so nobody even bothers. Yes, even if we somehow forced everybody to use GPG, the mistakes made while using it will likely compromise most of the "protected" data.

On the other hand, even if we went into the situation expecting 100% failure due to someone messing up, there would still be benefits. We would end up with keys being exchanged (infrastructure), making the beginnings of a trust network. Even better, we would see a lot more people starting to learn about keys and how they should (or shouldn't) be trusted.

TL;DR - never let perfection be the enemy of good, even in must-be-perfect security; even if it will probably fail in the usual sense, it may be worth it as a necessary lesson for future security attempts.
Movies never make a profit. Hollywood accounting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
I don't think the president would call for it to be banned, but I would expect protests, cries of racism, and possibly violence at theaters to follow even here in America.
I've got severely burned by ZFS on linux running in AWS. Heavy NFS load (ZFS NFS, not linux kernel NFS) caused a kernel panic, pretty reproducibly. This was on Ubuntu 12.04 with the offical ZoL PPA sources, so YMMV.
I try to balance development time versus research and learning time. When you go to use a library, you have to consider the time it takes to determine which libraries exists to solve your problem and evaluate them to determine which matches your project best. Then, you have to decide whether the additional dependenc(y|ies)is worth the development time saved. Like everything else in software development, it's a balancing act. Having said that, as you get older, and have worked in the field longer, you find yourself less and less willing to reinvent the wheel and more willing to just use someone else's code.
This South Park speech sums up the current situation pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka3nKBR2mIU
We could rent them all apartments for that much
Wow, this is a really terrific idea... I loooove it!.
Relevant: Sony cancels the movie's release - http://deadline.com/2014/12/sony-scraps-the-interview-120132...
OnDeck IPO Proves Online Lending Is Red-Hot
Wow! This is cool
Australia has gone all-in on natural gas, it is in track to be the worlds biggest gas exporter.

Is that a problem in the face of falling hydrocarbon prices? Yes, yes it is.

This thing probably remains profitable because of the economies of scale. Other projects, pipelines, etc? We shall see.

The resources industry accelerates like a race car and stops like and ocean liner. Which leads to decadal wild price swings and associated profitability. But it would have a long expected lifetime and will all add up. The need for gas isn't going anywhere over the long run.
Microsoft Employee Pens the Worst/Best Corporate Blog Post of All Time
I've not used it in about a year, but when I did it was slow as molasses. I didn't find any corruption issues, but the backup data I was storing there was at least an order of magnitude slower to access on btrfs than on xfs, which I eventually switched to. Yes, really, an order of magnitude.

It's too bad, I really love the idea of btrfs, but there's no way I would ever run a filesystem on it yet.
As a quick note, I don't know much about the industry or claim to do so but I do feel I have a better grasp on it that how you've broken it down.

You've taken a job that you know very little about, that thousands of people try every year and fail and broken it down to simple 6 hours to rent an apartment and make a cool 1k an hour - seems like you've been watching alot of HGTV.

Thousands and I mean thousands of people try to make it in the NYC Real Estate world every year and come out broke and jobless. Most of these people probably came in thinking along the same lines you are.

Is the fee unfortunate? Yes, do people understand exactly how much their paying - maybe not. Does it take someone six hours all by themselves to rent an apartment? Nope.

I'm not sure if you're a programer or not but what you've done here is basically the equivalent of me saying "Eh, that's one page of code? And he types at 60wpm? That only took him 4 minutes. Why am I paying him more than $2.44".
Terence McKenna defined a meme as “the smallest unit of an idea that still has coherency,” and he sure created a lot of them.
This is not a realistic theory. Nearly all of the costs associated with making and marketing the movie have already been spent. Even if the movie was a complete dud next week, it would still be making revenue in the theaters that would be going towards paying off these costs (and hopefully more).
...land of the free, home of the brave.
I do not see it as humans being "really bad" at those things. Comparatively, across all mammals and other animal species we are really good at it that we engage in thought and communication beyond what is necessary for immediate survival. So we have deliberate (necessitated by purpose and aided by thought) communication across time and space.

I see it as, the purpose to which thought and communication are employed is complicated.

That is a nice supplementary anecdote.
That's the manufactured evidence I suspect is happening.
If utility computing is to is be taken seriously, then it has to institute the same kind of discipline that we see occurring in the airline industry. Recent examples come to mind: pilot letting songstress hold the wheels and wearing the pilots cap - fired. Airline executive overruling pilot over macadamia nuts - million dollar fine.

If we wish for a future where cloud computing will be considered reliable enough for air traffic control systems, then management of these infrastructure requires a level of dedication and commitment to process and training.

Failover zones need to be isolated not only physically, but also from command and control. A lone engineer should not have sufficient authority or capability to operationally control more than one zone. It is extremely unnerving for enterprises to see that a significant infrastructure like Azure has a root account which can take down the whole of Azure.
Just make sure you have plenty of disk space. Otherwise: http://ram.kossboss.com/btrfs-cant-mount-readwrite-full-spac...