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So this is interesting to me because lately, I've been looking for a VPN that would work for my little brother who is trying to make it to the point that he can stream full time on Twitch. The problem is that he has been targeted by script kiddies, who found his IP address through Skype. Shame on you skype.

That said, I've been looking for a good VPN for him. It seems that ProXpn isn't as solid as I thought it was because they found his IP there and were able to (D)DOS not sure how exactly they are doing it at this point, him. They have also been able to get him banned from Twitch via his IP. He needs a VPN with enough bandwith that he can do Twitch and Skype (under a different name), all while playing games. I figured ProXpn would be sufficient, but I've never loaded it like that.

Also, there is no guide out there for streamers, or people who are in the public eye on the internet, on how to avoid getting attacked by script kiddies. Or at least no guide that I've found sufficiently useful, and yes I have googled this. Does anyone here have any references they can point me to that give the "what not to do" for streamers, youtubers, big twitter people, etc?
So far I've told him.

-Use strong passwords: LastPass and yes I know this is a point of contention but it's better then what he is using and it's accessible enough for him that he'll actually use it.

-Don't click links in chat: Because duh (Is there a way to verify the safety of said links first)? I know of none.
-Obfuscate your Skype id: This seems to be a major tool in finding IPs.

-Keep a personal and a public email: Personal goes to banks and stuff, public goes to everyone else.

-Don't friend people on Steam you don't know.

Am I missing any major advice points that seem easy to follow?

Edit: formatting and added steam bullet point.
I wonder what caused the surge of all those 5-stars positive reviews within the last 24 hours....
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> This is Lenovo/Superfish all over again.

Completely different. Superfish, I'm willing to believe, was just incompetence/indifference. If Hola really is installing a backdoor with high privileges, then that's deliberate malice.
I was a victim of this. Thankfully only minor damage resulted. I owned a Toyota minivan in Thailand and was in stop-and-go traffic, when suddenly the engine started revving up. I slammed on the brake and the engine downshifted to first to compensate, so I ended up bumping the car in front of me. After the bump (total stop?) the engine recovered it's sanity I guess, because the revving stopped at that point.

Naysayers will point out that the engine wouldn't rev up if I'm putting on the brake. That seems to be part of the symptoms of this bug. Oh, and I didn't accidentally push the accelerator instead of the brake, otherwise I wouldn't have just "bumped" the car in front.

Edit: I took the vehicle into the dealership and they said "user error".... whatever, no consumer protection in Thailand anyway, so I just moved on.
Just want to note there is both a Frankie and Bob Roohparvar. They are the cofounders of Batteriser/Batteroo. Bob's the CEO. Frankie's the Chairman (he's also the CEO at Skyera).[0][1]

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[0]: It's on the front page of the company's "website" @ http://batteriser.com -- which is really a redirect to a page on a different domain -- and Frankie is said to have 500+ patents.

[1]: Quick Google searching led to his linkedin page, and various other results, like Bloomberg research.

[EDIT: clarity & wording (...and now fixing formatting mistakes)]
Looking at the radiation patterns from the Chernobyl accident itself:

http://users.owt.com/smsrpm/Chernobyl/glbrad.html

I doubt that radiation from a fire in the area around Chernobyl would be significant, especially in Kazakhstan.

The animals and people who died from the Chernobyl accident were exposed to thousands of times as much radiation as had landed anywhere outside of the Ukraine and Belarus.
And how many top managers these days don't have an MBA? There's a sense that jobs used to be somewhat open-skilled, in that everyone could just sit down and learn them. That's still the case, but nowadays you need paper to prove it.

The exception is in new business areas, which is why they are probably also the most interesting for career travellers. Anything that has shortages needs to entertain applications from people without credentials.

The economy is also not growing at a fantastic rate compared to earlier times, and the job market even less so.
Without a willingness to consider that there are experiences you don't already know about, there's not really a way to have this conversation.

If you're interested in other perspectives, they are not hard to find. A Google search for something as simple as "experience of women in tech industry" will get you going.
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I see that you work on Chrome security - you guys do great work! You have to; one helluva of an attack surface + billion deployments.
Hey, man, I know people who will swear the 100mpg carburetor is real. They almost bought one, but then some strange men came and shut down the garage and when it reopened the new owner knew nothing about it.
try out cryptostorm.is i have ad zero issues with them and have been running it for the last few months (>3 <6)
Would you fly in a single engine aircraft?
I know I wouldn't. Talk about throwing caution to the wind.
Yes, it seems Thurrott has some info: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/3898/a-few-more-...

Basically it seems to be that MS saves the info in the Windows store and lets you reinstall a fresh Windows 10 if you upgraded. If this information is correct.
Everybody says 'desert' as if it isn't the most delicate ecosystem on earth. yes, solar panels covering up desert destroys that ecosystem too. Living things there are totally dependent on the large amounts of sunlight.

As for houses and car roofs - that amounts to almost zero in the big scheme of things.
In a way, this is really not unlike slavery in its nature. It is the undue extraction and exploitation of wealth and money through abusive means. This time around it's just that the source of that money and wealth is not human labor as in the industrial age, it's tax money and debt that is piled on all of society as it is percolated to the top.

We need to pass some laws that make jailing corporate executives, bankers, lobbyists, and politicians highly profitable. There should be a kind of profit sharing, a civil forfeiture law, with prisons when moneys earned through and during illicit activities are confiscated from the top. I guarantee that there would either be a frenzy to go after white collar criminals, or the system would collapse because that's all quite a bit too close for comfort for those involved.
It's well known that birth rate decreases as a nation's economic status increases. India has also gone through massive economic changes in the last 50 years, which is likely to have affected fertility rates much more than propaganda.

I'd like to see studies with control groups before believing that voluntary methods can significantly impact fertility rates.
Poorly titled and therefore hard to share on Hacker News, but lengthy and worth reading investigative reporting into a bizarre 'Internet Research Agency' that mainly produces pro-Putin propaganda, in both English and Russian.

I'm surprised, frankly, that they don't have better English-language proficiency.
Get some perspective. In some cultures, they actually are. This could be for many reasons:

* The girl will marry and join another family, leaving no one to care for the parents in their old age.
* Because of traditional gender roles as well as physical attributes, the girl won't be able to toil the fields (doing so might make it harder for her to find a good husband). A child that can do so is more valuable.
* Only sons can inherit land
* Only sons can carry on the family name

That was actually the reality in most places of the world for most of human history, and unfortunate as it is, still the reality in some cultures and countries. It isn't bullshit.
> "80% of divorces in the US are initiated by the woman."

> Why should a woman stay in an [unhappy] relationship?

I don't think you can make that inference.
An example wold be to use memcpy() instead of strcpy().

memcpy() always copies n bytes, regardless of actual string size so is very deterministic and (commonly) inlined so is static.
strcpy() on the other hand would loop infinitely until it found a null-terminator, it also is not deterministic.

memcpy() is easily analysable. strcpy() isn't.
Why not? A helicopter is even more dangerous than a plane anyway and there are millions of flight hours every day, safely.
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try cryptostorm.is as a VPN
Chernobyl melted down on April 26, 1986. So, most of the worst radioactive elements are long gone with large numbers of large mammals living in the area with minimal issue. That said, it may have indirectly contributed to a large die-off in combination with something else.

PS: A good example of a disease + enviermental issue is trench warfare. WWI trench warfare created a breeding ground for disease by both compromizing immune systems and packing large numbers of people together. The resulting pandemic is estimated to have caused significantly more death than the actual fighting.
I'm going to ask why hacker news readers should care about this: I'm asking why anyone should care about this.
How does one even go about getting a 256-bit key? You have to do it on purpose somehow, or it has to be seriously old, in which case you're likely aware somehow that that's a terrible idea.

Is there outdated ssh keygen software out there that still generates sub-768 keys?
Hey thanks for linking to the video, really enjoyed it.
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Now that sounds like a coal power spokesperson, defending their total disruption of an ecosystem. Sure, some balance may be found under the solar panels, after everything that was there is killed and replaced by something else that finds its way in.

But I doubt that. I grew up in Iowa. Under the canopy of the cornfields, absolutely nothing lives. The almost total lack of sunlight leaves very little energy to support an ecosystem. Its like the surface of the moon. Not even insects.
>There's no scenario that sees the world ending poverty if the poverty line is set relative to the average incomes of the world’s poorest countries.

No scenario? How about one where income inequality lowers in those countries? It's entirely possible to have all incomes be at least a certain percent of mean or median income.
"taps into 80 percent of energy that is usually thrown away" is at least in the right ballpark.

If you typically use 20% and throw away 80%, then using the 80% would extend your battery life by 4x over the original. So 400%.

I'm very skeptical of this.
Maybe, but many people (myself included) may be reluctant to use it if they can't even try it out without paying for it.

Especially if the core product can be replicated with 3 lines of code using open source libraries.
It's interesting to note that Intrado's recent 9-1-1 service outage was due to a hard-coded limit on the total number of calls that could pass through their system. Took them many hours to get the system back online after the limit was hit and further calls rejected.

Though I suppose in real safety critical systems, you often review these limits and make sure they still apply.
Is the AGPL best for a federated social network?
I have a small social network that I am working on for friends that I want to turn in to something federated. I've been giving this a bit of thought over the last few month and was wondering what every ones opinions is on licensing. It is released under the AGPL at the moment but I have this itching feeling that it's not open enough for it to work. Has anyone given this any thought?
The author of the linked site is a Christian Evangelist.

The statistics he cites are out of context.

The divorce rate has been dropping sharply and now hovers at 15%. Social scientists and researchers attribute this drop, in large part, to the feminist and equal rights movements and changing gender roles. [1]

Lower socioeconomic status and education are correlated with higher divorce rates. And higher rates of financial insecurity after divorce. This is largely attributed to more traditional gender roles. [1]

Essentially, the spike in divorce during the 70's and 80's was due to women being empowered to leave bad marriages and find economic independence. Currently, those demographics that have embraced the new gender roles and women's equal social status have seen a huge drop in divorce, increase in marriage stability, and decreases in marriage related stress. While those demographics who continue to try to enforce traditional gender roles retain the same level of volatility.

Only 10-15% of all divorces end in alimony. I'd say that's hardly enough to claim that the "state treats them like money generators".

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/the-divorce-surge-i...
Your claim of the World's Bank definition of poverty is not what the article states. Can you provide a link?
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On the contrary. It was a pleasure working with Isomer! It's an integral part of the game .. thank you very much!
A boost converter is a very common circuit. If electronics manufacturers could extend the battery life of their products they would. Many products are regulated to require certain number of years that their batteries must last. Smoke alarms sold in California must have a 10 year battery. If they could use smaller batteries to supply ten years of power, a product with that large of a volume could save millions of dollars a year. Financial motivation is a two way street.
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Just so we're clear, you'd rather have to carry around 10 different dongles just so you can know, visually, what a port is capable of?

I'm sorry - when I buy the laptop, I look at what the port can do, and I remember it. If I'm in a meeting and I have to use someone else's, I ask if they know. If they don't, I try it, and if it doesn't work, we move on.

I can't come up with any scenario in which this is a bad thing, outside of sheer laziness or poor planning.
That's all we'll ever by able to try. Cruel practicality gets in the way every time. That's the point I was trying to make.
Now you can also test several attacks on them, compare them to a larger database to see if you have common divisors, check for low primes, check for bad primes (fermat factorization)...
This reminds me that Apple didn't work on it alone. I have a friend whose dad was an engineer at IBM. Back in high school (or maybe early college—late '90s at any rate), I was at his house one time and he unrolled a huge schematic… it was some kind of controller chip for Firewire. He's actually on a bunch of the patents for it.
Explained in the second question of his FAQ: http://www.trnicely.net/pentbug/pentbug.html
thanks, but really just timing, i am not any smarter than the next person. financial i do hope my equity continues to rise, but i do worry about the negative effects on our neighborhoods and society.
The "club" doesn't negotiate FOR you. It negotiates WITH you. You can still negotiate for higher if you think you can get it. All the union says is, no programmer gets paid less the 200k. You want to negotiate to 300k because you think you're that good? Be my guest.

A corporation is a group of organized individuals negotiating against you. A union puts you on equal ground. That's it. If a union doesn't work this way, then it needs to be changed.
I think that the AGPL is great for some purposes - mainly when you don't want to allow commercial forks.

That said, I have received complaints before when I release projects under GPL or AGPL licenses. Some people won't use them.
The chance that he never heard of Mechanize is approximately 0.
This is pretty much it. My boss was definitely a level 99 duct tape programmer, and this was one of the many examples of his ingenuity.
This probably means there is a market for pickup artists who speak Chinese.
>Also, there is no guide out there for streamers, or people who are in the public eye on the internet, on how to avoid getting attacked by script kiddies.

A famous StarCraft streamer made a guide on how to avoid this:

https://blog.destiny.gg/protection-from-ddos-attacks/

I googled "guide to preventing DDOS on twitch" and it came up as the fourth result. How hard did you look?
Can the same technique be used to run Yosemite under KVM?
Actually, the Nokia N1 tablet was announced late 2014, shipped in China earlier this year, and featured a Type C port.
Considering the DMA vulnerabilities of thunderbolt, that's not too far off.

At least until we have some sort of IOMMU-based hotplug device firewalls in our operating systems.
as a child, I was told that my teeth were fairly well protected against cavities on the open surfaces by cursory brushing, by virtue of my sealants- but that flossing was equally if not more important since those inter-tooth pockets were the only places where food could hang out, firmly pressed against the enamel.
Uhmmm. Wow.
I know mqny couples in Ireland who are not married, they would loose 30% of income after wedding.
Why do people believe that women have the upper hand now?

They might have in the slight time frame between high school graduation and marriage (~25 years for Chinese women). Before they have not much say because their fathers are the boss. Afterwards they have husbands who don't do anything but work and sleep (and maybe care for their mistresses). It's true that in that short slice of time their power over each single men who wants them is nearly unlimited. But would you trade your whole life for 5 years of power over guys you don't care about?

And it's not really true that they have power in a global sense, it's only in each of these 1-on-1 encounters with potential marriage partners. On the global scale requirements like beauty and social standards are higher and the push to marriage is also stronger than for men.

So this "has backfired on men" should be read as "has decreased the huge advantage of men to become only a big advantage for men".
> Superfish, I'm willing to believe, was just incompetence/indifference. If Hola really is installing a backdoor with high privileges, then that's deliberate malice.

But that's what Superfish was as well. Why are you willing to give Superfish a free pass on doing the same thing?
Yup, this is what I will be trying next.
Kudos to Github for not charging him with "Unauthorized Access of a Computer"
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Call me crazy but I think the fact that in China so many female fetuses are literally dispensed with kind of shows that women are a little more dispensable than men.
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And such a gadget is one that no one would buy, and consequently no one would produce. Electronics designed to run off AA batteries already extract as much energy as is practical from them.

Indeed. If your gadget can make use of NiMH rechargables, then you're already having to deal with about 1.2V per cell, and that's when they're fully charged!

So if you need 3.0V or 3.3V nominal for your main supply, you are probably already using a buck/boost switching regulator. As long as the battery can supply enough current, your gadget will keep going, and drain pretty much all the useful energy from it.
that https://github.com/anybody.keys feature, how on earth did OP find this?
Hey man, here is the detailed video of the app : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9kUPbZfhN8

By the way, it's the product that I'm currently working on. It's currently in private beta, I'd love to give you a direct access, just drop me an email onur at cubic dot fm
You're right that shifting is better. That is a pretty terrible failure mode for airbags, however. How much would it cost to put a big reliable capacitor in the airbag circuit, to keep the power on for 30 seconds? A dollar?
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To be honest, I have no idea. I had hack about to get Go's crypto/rsa package to give me a key that size, I really would love to know what can make these keys
Just glue over your USB-C ports with tinfoil.
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You say this is a problem with "central planning in the large". That is just a problem with central planning. Otherwise the opposite would be "central planning in the small". One person selecting the dinner location for four friends doesn't constitute central planning.
Thanks for down voting because you have another opinion (or simply just haven't given it enough thought to understand it yet). But I'm already used to that, so no problem.
regarding savings rate, i do believe it is the only thing that matters, not how much you make, when it comes to obtaining financial freedom.

sure there are extremes, one should be making a multiple above the poverty line. but if you assume this is the case, then how much you make can either be translated into earlier financial freedom through an increased savings rate or "nicer things".

here is an ouput of my simple retirement calculator:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8k8RO7VeaIbc0JlUExLZmktSkE...
Seeing a key with substring of "Tyr" as the username and that substring of my key matching scared me a bit.

If you want to check how many bits your key is, use

ssh-keygen -l -f ~/.ssh/your_key.pub

(It wasn't mine, while it is an older key, mine is larger than 768 thankfully)

Edit: look at timdorr's example for a better visual.
Works for me on Chrome 43.0.2357.81 (OS X)

Green lock +
"The identity of this website has been verified by COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA but does not have public audit records."

No warnings.
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> The fact that no such recipe has been found, despite many millions of dollars spent on expert analysis, suggests that it doesn't exist in the wild.

I don't agree with this. Analysis of the source code, especially with global variables reducing the value of analyzing a unit, is not going to imply that it will discover anything about the (presumably millions of) users who exercise the code in live situations daily. Just the inability to CLEAR the source code from blame is a failing in responsibility on behalf of the brand.

The american litigation system has its issues, but I would argue that class action lawsuits are not among them. It allows social change through clear legal decisions when people are otherwise disagreeing on matters much like this.
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Why should a woman stay in an unhappy or abusive relationship?

Turn this question around: why should a man stay in an unhappy or abusive relationship? Answer: because given the current divorce law, and, more importantly, divorce practice, he will loose half his money, his house and his children, should there be any.

20% percent (but probably much more) of marriages involve women being domestic abused by their husbands.

By what credible metric? Counting not buying red roses every day as abuse?
Lithium definitely isn't as resistant as alkaline to abuse, which is why consumer adoption (at least in the West) has been rather slow. Regular AAs don't catch fire or get dangerously hot when short-circuited, but that's also partly because they don't have the energy to.

Cylindrical hard-cased cells like 18650s are still safer than pouch-cell lipos though.
exactly... unfortunately (IMHO) the s/w world is moving in the wrong direction...

Abstractions need to be appropriate (and shallow in order to be be easily analysable). A degree of 'mechanical-sympathy' is needed.
Total surprise as Facebook offers strong email encryption
Most people will want to run this verbatim:

ssh-keygen -l -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

You'll get an output like so:

⚡~ $ ssh-keygen -l -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
2048 f6:2d:94:54:c0:96:18:64:24:fb:c2:ad:ed:6a:1d:68 timdorr@Pixelicious.local (RSA)