skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is secret about a moat, electrified fence or a stated policy of mutual assured destruction?
So then they're active RFID chips that broadcast?
There was an lapd officer(s) that were murdered within the last few days and the murderer used the waze app that shows the reported locations of speed traps and the government is already asking google to prohibit that information in some form. Knee jerk reactions to current events are never going to end well for openness of data.
To add a few details to the people section of this:

If you want to see a great résumé, check out Michal Zalewski's - it's on his website.

He is also responsible for American Fuzzy Lop, which is an incredible fuzzing tool for application software[1].

In fact, read his book, The Tangled Web as well, because that should be on every developer's shelf, security engineer or otherwise. It has security best practice checklists covering how the internet and browser works with enough technical detail for developers to safeguard themselves against the most common pitfalls.

Google also employs Eduardo Vela Nava on their security team, who is known for his research in browser encodings, legacy compatibility settings and how these lead to serious security flaws (see Web Application Obfuscation). If there is a way to trigger cross-site scripting on a web application, Vela Nava can achieve it (and he can find it as well). He is a leading expert on web browsers and their various (in)security mechanisms.

Then you have Chris Evans, who leads the Chrome Security team and singlehandedly wrote vsftpd, the primary ftp server shipped with Red Hat and SuSE. He built the Chrome security team into what it is today by hiring the best talent from around the world.

This list goes on, and on, and on. Google has attracted many of the greatest minds of this generation in information security.

[1]: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
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No, but the idea advanced by ~fidotron, in the comment to which I was specifically replying, was that big companies like Google and Facebook will fight secure communications because they're dependent on viewing users' communications to make money.

They're not; other more-public or inherently-shared signals are far more important drivers of profit for them. Their businesses leave them plenty of room to be allies in a drive for secure communication.

(Pressure from their governments is of course another matter. But their business models are not a major problem.)
Hmmm, I run Safari with no flash plugin and it worked fine for me.
we've built essentially what you're talking (though we hand-rolled our router) about where I work. As the applications grow larger, you really have to be more diligent with your memory management in Knockout, which is the only thing that really gets in my way.

That being said, I'd really be interested in something like you've described.
I think that your local IP is actually going to be very unique for some people

I'm willing to bet that almost everyone who has a single "home router"/NAT is going to be 192.168.1.2 or 192.168.1.3. There will be the exceptions on 10/8 or 173.16/12 but the majority of home networks will be 192.168/16.
Knee jerk reactions to anything rarely lead to positive outcomes, transparency is no exception.
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This is a wonderful speech. Wish we still had him with us.
What you encountered was probably a C&BP interior checkpoint[0].

Whenever DHS apologists use the "air travel is a privilege, not a right" line, this is what I point them to. Between random C&BP highway checkpoints and TSA patrols on Amtrak, harassment-free travel of any form seems to be a privilege nowadays.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Border_Patrol_int...
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The entire universe was procedurally generated because you couldn't hold all the data in the memory of an early microcomputer.

I have a write up on how it worked here: http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2015/01/14/procedural-content-g...
Error in article fina three months of 2014 rather than 2015.

Why does share prices drop 4% ? Is it because of announcement that they will have weaker future results ?
Externalities go both ways. If you want to hold PV producers responsible for 100% of their calculated externalities, you end up subsidising them anyway.
Binary formats have their drawbacks - the guy that designed the AMQP protocol called the wire protocol he designed for it an "expert mistake". Admittedly he was designing a spec rather than a product but worth understanding.

Source is a long but very interesting read about messaging, amqp, zeromq and others: http://www.imatix.com/articles:whats-wrong-with-amqp
>how people are going to reconcile what the government is doing now with all of those previous works of fiction?

I don't think we should over-estimate how widely read those works of fiction actually are, so there may not be a reconciliation. This, reality, is literally the first time some people have thought about the implications of mass surveillance with modern technology. SF geeks are, once again, ahead of the curve. :)

Movies like Minority Report are good primers for the concept of a panopticon. But I must have read 10's of stories involving panopticons in Analog and F&SF on all sides of the issue, in all variants. I remember a particularly good one involving how to get away with murder in a panopticon society. Iain Banks' The Culture with it's benevolent, quite desirable panopticons (the Minds).

Oddly, I don't remember any stories that remind me of what's going on now, which is a battle between those who want to protect security at any cost, and those who simply don't trust the government, any government, with the kind of power necessary to even come close to the level of protection they seem to be aiming for, which is total.
Overall totally agree with the insights. The part where I wouldn't think about it differently per say but where I would describe it different is about the pricing issue. You have to figure out how much value you create and try to capture as much value as you can. I think you can approximate the value that is created in B2B situations albeit very roughly and not in an exact manner. Pricing wrong is always bad but I agree that how much it cost someone to make something is irrelevant to what price you should charge and maybe you will get people to realize that with your comment "charge a lot". If you increase price but quantity decreases such that profitability is reduced not ideal. Also it would also depend on if there were same or cross side network effects for your product (I.e more users equals more value for your two sides network)
That's interesting...Ben Horowitz said he suffered the same types of attacks from hedge funds; they'd spread a false rumor and because he was under some type of regulatory restriction, he couldn't correct the record unless he simultaneously updated all his institutional investors at the same time. He had to let the rumors ride out...and he only had a 90-100 million market cap. Somebody has to reign in these useless zero-sum fucks.
I just disable JS by default and whitelist the (very few, currently) sites that absolutely need it.

That probably means I share the same fingerprint as everyone else using the same browser with JS disabled.
You can also just release a few rabbits. They breed pretty quickly [1] and will destroy local ecosystems. See: Australia.

(Also, happy Straya Day)

[1] http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/scary.html
I set up http://ip.nfriedly.com/json?callback=foo a while ago - it's available if anyone is interested in a simpler version that also works for older browsers.
This is the bug from goole about a year ago saying it is by design.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=333752
My phone once autocorrected his name to Michael in a bunch of emails with him. He has a pretty good sense of humor about it.
I don't understand your argument. Let's say someone learns a proper programming language like Python, creates some spaghetti code (as any beginner will do), and that gets used by the business. How is that any different than a spreadsheet that does the same?

Excel's strength is that people are actually productive enough to start using and make something useful. Whether people make substandard houses with a hammer isn't really the tool's problem. Being too difficult to pick up is.

You might argue there is some quality bar that should be met before a creation is put into production, which is fine, but that's independent of the tool used to make it.
TPMS also transmits a unique code that is traceable. See this:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/tracking_vehi...
That really only buys you a couple of years, if any. If they can do face recognition, they can do car recognition. Just determine the make/model/year/color/trim, and then look for some individually identifiable marks, scratches, color imperfections, tire type, etc.
Dude got all of his iMacs stolen and still managed to get his company acquired
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Very interesting ... since I'm part Welsh, I was interested in the history of that country and found that a similar game called Gwyddbwyll was adopted from the Viking game of Hnefatafl (Tafl can be used to describe a whole series of "table games"). It's interesting to note that the second link below describes these games as being overtaken by Chess (which the vikings called Skak-Tafl).

[1] http://celtnet.org.uk/miscellaneous/gwyddbwyll.html

[2] http://www.gamecabinet.com/history/Hnef.html
Point being that it's one of the few power sources that ARE available to poor people, especially poor people who are not on the grid.

It's pretty much just that and diesel generator, in fact.
Make more important apps because a lot of them are useless
And then you're replacing the environmental cost of centralized power stations with the environmental costs of absurd numbers of batteries.

I'd love to see some numbers as to if this would actually be better.
- Cashiers (already being replaced)

- Fast food chefs (replacement still in development)

- Janitors / toilet cleaners (Roomba and friends, still a long way to go)

- Window washers (bot exists, still not widely used)

- Fruit pickers (complicated, replacements are apparently happening a fruit type at a time, lots of development)

- Street sweeping vehicles (cars have to move out of the way, etc. Smaller bots would mean streets could get cleaned at any time)

- Manual garbage recyclers (work is being done in this area, but object recognition and separation still needs a lot of work, apparently)

Not a job, but still needs big improvements: litterboxes. The automated ones still have problems: can't use certain kinds of litter, noises can scare cats, you still have to clean the filters out yourselves. It would be much better if there was some kind of auto-disposal/self-cleaning system, or even a way to turn litter into energy.
Even though I'm not a US American (where this problem seems to be the gravest in the Western world, partly because of scale, partly because the US' system was the prototypal modern Republic where many lessons haven't been learned yet at time of the foundation), I've been thinking exactly that for quite a while - your list pretty much describes what need to be solved. But I have to ask - how would one go about doing this in the US? How do you change a system with such a momentum? Through the monopoly on violent force and largely complacent mass media the establishment's grip on the system seems to be air tight. And if you just wait until the shit hits the fan (I predict this will happen with enough doubling of damages caused by natural disasters that will almost certainly be coming in the next decades), it could turn both ways - the current system could be replaced with a way more horrible totalitarian regime as well as it could be fixed towards giving the power back to the people - the former is even way more probable when you look at history. The only case I know where drastic change has gone over relatively well is South Africa - everywhere else you look there was a huge struggle, usually war.
Little bit of related trivia : Lunar (J.Bobbio) worked on hOp, a GHC based Haskell micro kernel so you can write drivers in it. See https://github.com/dls/house. A knowledgeable fellow.
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That's fair. For psychology methods it's easier to avoid both, at times, since you can write "participants viewed...", etc.. For other types of methods, especially where the object becomes implicitly understood, or would be redundant to state, I can see where passive voice might be useful. For instructions, you can just leave off the implicit "you should", EG "put X in Y". The tradeoff between passive and first person is important, and which is appropriate likely depends on the circumstance. They're both discouraged, but not banned, I'd imagine because poor writing often uses one or the other too often.
You could move out of the city.
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That's not what is meant by an externality in economics. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
Check out the link in my profile. There are a couple background articles on risk assessment and anonymity systems, and a series of eight how-to guides. I also write a lot on Wilders, and have at times on Tor.SE.

I use various nested VPN chains, with three VPNs minimum. I also use a bunch of Whonix instances, connecting via VPN chains. And sometimes I play with JonDonym.
>Currently, as I understand, practically all residential PV coming online is grid-interactive without battery backup. The power companies actively oppose homeowners installing battery backup systems, because they're concerned about people charging their batteries using cheap power at night, and then selling that power back to the utility during the day.

This is because daytime (especially summer daytime) electricity has a greater profit margin, and power companies demand the right to engage in monopolistic price discrimination.

If power companies charged the same mark-up on electricity at all times of day they wouldn't care if you charged batteries at night and used during the day (and it would probably stop being cost effective, too).

>While I understand the utilities' concern, I think there has to be a solution.

The solution is to treat utilities like utilities again (e.g. nationalize them / regulate more strongly). Privatization and profit seeking behavior in a monopolistic market are responsible for this gross market distortion. They are also the reason why the electric grid won't be upgraded to accommodate solar and wind.

The very fact that there could be somebody out there fighting against green technologies using lobbyists because they are too successful for their liking ought to make every American sick.
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The operative word is 'yet'. You're right. Things aren't that bad now, compared to the Stasi.

But the problem lies in the tools and information available. All it takes is for one of the parties in power to decide they want to use it for their own unscrupulous purposes. And suddenly, they have more information than the Stasi could have dreamed of.

There's no guarantee there will ever be anyone in power who wants to abuse this. But it's a dangerous situation we've put ourselves in.

If we're starting a betting pool, my bet would be on the system limping along as it is for the forseeable future. Average citizens won't even really notice the growing surveillance. Criminals will, but no one will care about them. Certain protest groups, like whatever form the future Occupy takes, will see the system used to their detriment, but ordinary people will still not care. Always safe to bet on apathy, and relatively safe to bet on the politicians / powers-that-be realizing they can already have most of what they want without creating a repressive hellhole--which would cause more economic and social problems than it would be worth.
Good thing it's impossible to run a private server for WoW since Blizzard sued everyone out of existence, and there's no way to find so-called 'illegal' software on the internet.
This can cut both ways.

Back in the early 2000's, plane spotters identified CIA planes used for extraordinary rendition by recoding registration numbers and locations.

Maybe David Brin was right after all[2]. Automatic license plate scanning is trivial now. It would be pretty easy for anyone to build a node of a system like this.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/10/usa.terrorism1

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
When you're on the command line:

curl ifconfig.me
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/04/us-usa-trade-solar...

Between 15% and 35% import duty on Chinese solar panels.

I don't know if that covers 100% of their externalities, but I'm sure in terms of "taxes paid for externalities caused" they are WAY ahead of any carbon industries now.

This probably wipes out most subsidies too.
A few years ago NSW Police had several cars fitted with Automatic number plate recognition and after a year of use they already had read more license plates than people living in that state.

I don't necessarily mind police using this for their benefit, but not long ago we didn't have all this technology and information so easily available. So there must be oversights and appropriate usage, or we are just giving them unfettered access. Warrants should have to be obtained to get this sort of information, I think.
Basically going outside of the, often implicit, boundaries of your role.

For example if you are a developer and realise your project needs to engage another team NOW for a critical deliverable due in 3 months and you spend your time on this task then you run the serious risk of pissing off both your manager and the project manager.

Or for example putting together a prototype that shows how another teams work could be automated.

Or pointing out flaws/discrepancies of a high profile product. Or telling a senior manager how a project is really doing, etc.

The bottom line doesn't matter as much in terms of respect and career progress as it should. There is a misconception that you can get away from politics if you work for startups or smaller firms but that's just not the case.
One of the most important things that could be done is for browser vendors to change their approach to self signed certificates. At the moment it looks like a disaster when you visit a site with a self signed certificate, and certainly no reputable business would do it. However given what we know about how compromised certificate authorities are likely to be, I actually now consider a self-signed certificate as more private than one signed by a CA. I would much rather everyone signed their own certs and we use pinning and other, more decentralised strategies to track authentic certs than any kind of centralised model.
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Not quite true. There were recent stories that the LAPD commissioner was calling for Waze to remove police tracking from their app. [1] There was a callout of two NYPD officers being killed in December by a shooter that used Waze before the attacks, but did not use it to track their locations leading up to and during shootings.

[1] - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_POLICE_TRACKING_AP...
Look at the Project SHAMROCK section after the quote at fas.org. US citizens haven't been protected by law for decades vis a vis SIGINT.
I love reading these kinds of stories so much. To me, this is the essence of a hacker and the spirit of people who are simply passionate about technology and the belief of freedom of information.

It feels cyberpunk and innovative. I can just feel the character of this network and the interesting people who've built it. These are the technology types that I love talking with, these are the passionate ones who are passionate even when it's not convenient.

It takes an honest and faithful heart to do these things, and I find that beautiful.
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I have lost access to photos from my wedding due to keyholder. It has infected all of my backups. I don't use windows often but my mac wasn't capable of opening a 32 gb SD card and apparently it was infected. There is a user (Nathan) who is offering to solve this issue but I'm not even sure if the site is legit. Can anyone let me know if I can trust it? The cost is irrelevant due to the importance of the files; I believe the virus came from the photographer himself unfortunately.
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This is really cool, my home wifi network is called SNet.
Surely you'd expect a negative response if you walked up to random people on the street and said "let me follow you and show you ads!" IRL, I'd smile and nod politely, while trying to find a way to leave.