skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they use vvvv software: http://vvvv.org/tiki-index.php

more videos of "Projection Mapping": http://vj.tv/news/category/cat/projection-mapping-cat-2/

[edit] there's also VPT: http://hcgilje.wordpress.com/resources/video-projection-tool...
Then I am your new record! Just checked it and it happily fails.
Is IE entirely to blame, really? What about an operating system that allows a web browser sufficient prominence within the system even to allow a susceptibility that enables hackers to “perform reconnaissance and gain complete control over the compromised system.”

I understand that a government would be hard-pressed to suggest that a nation forgo using an OS that is so deeply embedded in many organizations' and people's day-to-day operation, but even a brief acknowledgement of what is the underlying problem (worldwide deployment of an out-of-date operating system inextricably and systemically intertwined with the function of an abhorrently insecure electronic portal to the entire world of internet-enabled machines [I'm referring here to Internet Explorer]) would really help the much-needed movement to spread awareness of the more secure, cheaper alternatives (I'm referring here to Linux-based systems).

In any case, it's always great to see organizations with clout holding Microsoft publicly accountable for its indiscretions.
I've been doing aid/development work for several years. The process of disaster giving right now is unfortunately deeply flawed.

Most aid workers are already on Facebook, and there are a lot of them. A guided social-giving application which allowed people to find personal connections to development workers within degrees of their actual social network would be more efficient. Money would flow based on degrees of trust, not hearsay or marketing.

An app allowing people direct access to professionals their friends trust would increase accountability and help people personally engage with and fund projects over time, regardless of the size of the organization.
Well. Yes it does. Sure it does.

You may not share that opinion, but the way the court sees it counts, not the way you see it. A constitution is more than a piece of paper.
I wonder if you can make it without that kind of determination. I wonder if someone who thinks rationally about not taking on too much debt can have the irrational passion to be an entrepreneur

I'm thinking "You can" and "Plenty of people do", and that we just filter out their stories because they don't fit the narrative.
You're crazy if you think access to IE source code is anything more than a speed bump for vulnerability researchers. Microsoft code is among the easiest to reverse out in a disassembler, and they publish symbols.

In any case, this vulnerability looks remarkably straightforward. You could conceive of the fuzzer that might have found it. It would be an extremely clever fuzzer, but not an unprecedented one.
Ask HN: Is QuikPitch as shady as it looks?
I've just been followed on Twitter by something called QuikPitch, which touts itself as a new, simpler way for startup entrepreneurs to pitch to VCs. It recently tweeted: "QuikPitch secures $324K from Valley investors--In the Press," followed by a link to a clearly paid-for "news" post at http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20100113/bs_prweb/prweb3400054_5 that doesn't mention anything about $324K. What's going on here? Is this a scam, or just an incredibly awkward launch by a legitimate venture?
I have to ask what this even means. The last time the world started holding Microsoft publicly accountable for its security indiscretions was the "Summer of Worms" in '03. From that point on, starting with WinXP SP 2, Microsoft has put an absolutely huge amount of effort into security, including:

* Training virtually all of their developers on secure coding

* Modifying their core libraries to avoid dangerous idioms

* Spending tens of thousands of dollars per product per release on external security testing

* Slowing down dev cycles with "SDL" measures like threat modeling and code review

* Holding off releases to audit for new bug classes

I'm not saying that Microsoft ships perfect software, because what I'm saying is that it's impossible to ship perfect software.
+1 - A fact-based discussion of the reasons I am of one those programmers that love pair programming.

Regarding the Expert Programmer Theory: I find it rare that my pair and I get 'stuck'. Rather, discussion at the early stages of implementing a plan head off any decisions that will end up with us being stuck.

That said, the times I usually find my pair and I getting stuck is in the naming of concepts within the domain. At this time, polling those developers around us helps out enormously.

Regarding 'change blindness': This is where I find some of the most value from pairing. I find that I get (and give) a lot of value in the catching of minor logic errors, changed method or variable names, and simple typos.
(I know very little about security research, which is readily apparent... should have phrased the second part of previous question as a comment as well)
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It's not a secret that PG was an Obama supporter; there was an Obama button on www.paulgraham.com during the height of the political silly season. Try looking at the Massachusetts listings instead of California.
I've been curious about this as well, I found this post by a guy who gave a few details: http://crustea.vjfrance.com/article-21479794.html

Tech specs:
Here are a few few technical details, the biggest mapping I've ever done so far.
* 6 * 20 000 lumens projectors, to project on the 160m x 10m facade.
* We'll use high res visuals: 1024x768 on each projector, so the output image is 6144x768.
* To stream such High res format, we'll have 2 "killer" media servers, to run very large video files.
* We'll use the VJ software Arkaos 3.6 to control the video, with multi output and Midi support, we'll be able to synchronize the visuals together and stream Gigabytes of video very smoothly.
* VVVV will be used to sequence and root midi MIDI signals between computers.

Edit: formatting
I donated to Direct Relief, and I hope it helps.
What is new in jQuery 1.4, features for a happy programming
Well, their site is remarkably quiet about who they are. Absolutely no names of these seasoned investors and entrepreneurs are given.

So even if they're a legitimate venture, they seem rather dubious and perhaps a bit sleazy from their web site.

They're also very short on a lot of other interesting specifics, but they're presumably a small, new company, so those specifics are perhaps more excusable.
"""People there are literally dying from not having food, water, and medical care."""

Like tens of thousands of people around the world every day. This is different in the media attention it has, and possibly in the geographic concentration of suffering but not in the numbers of suffering people or the type of suffering. People in Haiti were so poor they were eating mud to prolong their lives not long ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/29/food.internation...

People need help now, but they also needed help then when nobody was listening. It's not horrible and callous to point this out, it doesn't mean I think helping in Haiti now is a bad thing and it doesn't mean I don't feel unhappy at the level of suffering in Haiti, but ->

"""I hate to say this on hacker news, but not everything is a numbers game [..] but that largely misses the point."""

If the point is not "help as many people as possible" then what is it? I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it can't be "help the most talked about issue of the moment", or "help whatever makes you feel most guilty", can it?

It's not a game, but it is a numbers thing - if what the article says is accurate then a considered response where you give to MSF instead of Yele might be helping more people. If you want to ignore things like this in your hurry then who is helped?. But if you want to help Haiti 'now now now' then giving to MSF who 'have enough for their Haiti operations for a decade' will not have any immediate effect. If more money isn't going to help, that's an incredibly important thing to consider if all you can do is give money from a long way away.

A considered action is not inherently worse than an ill considered action and the conflicts you present between thinking vs acting, wanting to help vs choosing who lives and who dies and being human vs considering are false, unhelpful.

"""It also presumes that you have the balls to say who should live and who should die."""

Humans make the live/die decision a lot, medical treatments have it implicitly, all changes to building codes to make buildings safer, all policies on water cleanliness, all women and children first habits. By choosing to help Haiti you are making the live/die decision for all the others you don't help.

Ignoring it doesn't make it go away, and thinking about it does not make a horrible callous person who is trying to play God.
The bit about "when all that was really wanted was the answer if the lawyer knew it off the top of their head" reminds me of people who want an ebay clone for a couple of hundred dollars.
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It's just straight up evil to run an indexing service that ignores robots.txt and to run more than one of these things that when they don't talk to each other. Even if the latter was stupidity, the former is just plain evil. It's not like they have an excuse of ignorance. This isn't some guy who just learned to program hacking something together. These are supposed to be "professional" programmers.
Free Google Voice Calls to Haiti
I wish that there was highspeed everywhere and more importantly that it wasn't so expensive. However comparing the US to other countries with way fewer square miles to cover and more densely populated areas is unfair. Taking those factors into consideration makes the US's position not so embarrassing. The telco's and ISP's control of the infrastructure though, is still embarrassing and in need of reform.
import random
names = ('Twitter','Google','Facebook','Last.fm','Shaq','Yelp','Apple','Steve Jobs', 'The iPhone','Rick Astley', )
verbs = ('defeat','replace','kill','beat','buy','sue')
def getRandom(arr):
index = random.randint(0, len(arr) - 1)
return arr[index]

subject = getRandom(names)
verb = getRandom(verbs)
directObject = getRandom(names)

while subject == directObject:
directObject = getRandom(names)

print 'Did '+subject+' just '+verb+' '+directObject+'?'
I don't dispute the conclusions in this article nor do I think the U.S. is trying hard enough to build its Internet infrastructure. But these comparisons are a little unfair. If you take the top 2 countries in speed (South Korea and Japan) you realize there's a huge space disparity. South Korea has a total area of 38,622 sq mi while Japan has a total of 145,925 sq mi. While on the U.S. side Texas alone is 268,820 sq mi of land while the country itself is 3,794,101 sq mi total.

So yes the U.S. might be a little slower in deploying high speed lines but the effort involved in running cables and building up that infrastructure is far more significant.
The Aurora IE Exploit That Penetrated Google in Action
I ride every day in Seattle (it does rain a lot here) and I've found that I can generally just look past the raindrops on the face shield, if that makes any sense.
Average website backends shouldn't really be limited by RAM unless you're doing some really heavy lifting, or made some bad choices.

I'm more concerned about bandwidth. prgmr is close, but not quite as cheap as linode when it comes to bandwidth.

Depends what your needs are though.
The "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik" advised users to avoid IE at least since 2004: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...
Why is it Google's responsibility to become the Internet Police? Is Italy going to pay for those policing costs? Would you be happy if your government press ganged you into police service without compensation?

Lets call this for what it really is. This isn't about copyright. This is about dismantling a free media system which competes with a corrupt Italian government's ability to control public opinion.
You're missing out. Andrew has excellent interview skills and is always well prepared in these interviews. He also picks people who have good lessons and information to share. It's not fluff content. (Though I expect there may be an exception that proves the rule.)
I don't do it formally, but it often happens that I'm sitting at a co-worker's machine and asking to have the mouse or keyboard. We do spot each others' typos, but I drive her nuts with my preference for the caps lock key.
you guys should also read http://www.hunlock.com/blogs
Very thorough articles on JavaScript
Did they advise users to avoid Firefox, too? Their users would have avoided a lot of security pain.
Yeah, it's kind of an experiment. I think some social interaction and accountability can help a lot with self-guided learning. We'll see though.
This is basically just a video version of this:

http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/01/reproducing-aurora-ie-exp...

posted earlier as:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055986

which already has some discussion. If you're interested in how the vulnerability actually works, there's a Haml reduction of what may be the core cause (a DOM object lifecycle bug) posted on that thread.

I'm also not sure it's been established that this code is what got the attackers into Google, although it appears to have gotten them Adobe.
The teeth whitening products are the latest version of acai berry/health supplements/etc -- paging Tim Ferris, who used to work in this industry. They're essentially just reverse billing fraud with a bit of snake oil drizzled on top. The impressive economics of it greases the wheels in the affiliate and Internet advertising markets, too, which is one reason why Google et al don't smash them flat. (To be fair to Google, it would be like playing whack-a-mole, but Google is perfectly capable of build sophisticated statistical whack-a-mole bots or hiring tens of thousands of remote whack-a-mole raters when it protects their interests.)

On the theory that you can probably learn something from even the scum of the earth, the social proof provided by featuring customers who are like your prospects might bear looking into. I mean, nothing prevents me from saying that "14 teachers and parents in Kansas just like you" use my software and are happy with it, and it is true. You don't have to be a social network to show social proof.
Why 403s instead of just denying the connection with hosts.deny?

I'm thinking more bandwidth/CPU savings than sending correct responses for their crawler...
This reminds me of the old Tom Clancy plot generator

http://tcpgen.tripod.com/
---------------------------【】 http://www.uspopularbiz.com/ 【】

------【】http://www.uspopularbiz.com/ 【】

----------------------【】 http://www.uspopularbiz.com/ 【】

Christan Audigier bikini【---$25】
Ed Hardy Bikini 【---$25】
Smful short_t-shirt_woman 【---$15】
ed hardy short_tank_woman 【---$16】
Sandal $32
christian louboutin 【---$39】
Sunglass $16
COACH_Necklace 【---$27】
handbag 【---$36】
AF tank woman 【---$17】
POLO new t-shirt man 【---$16】
ed hardy short t-shirt 【---$17】
POLO short 【---$35】
Ed Hardy board short man 【---$33】
jordan men 【--$34】
Sunglass 【---$16】
ed hardy cap 【---$18】

------【】 http://www.uspopularbiz.com/ 【】

----------------------【】 http://www.uspopularbiz.com/ 【】

--------------------【】 http://www.uspopularbiz.com/ 【】

--------------【】 http://www.uspopularbiz.com/ 【】

http://www.uspopularbiz.com/productlist.asp?id=s74 【t-shirt】

http://www.uspopularbiz.com/productlist.asp?id=s6 【 Timberland】

http://www.uspopularbiz.com/productlist.asp?id=s45 【jordan】

http://www.uspopularbiz.com/productlist.asp?id=s50 【DUNK】

http://www.uspopularbiz.com/productlist.asp?id=s30 【air max】

http://www.uspopularbiz.com/productlist.asp?id=s32 【women boot】

http://www.uspopularbiz.com/productlist.asp?id=s87 【Jean】

http://www.uspopularbiz.com/productlist.asp?id=s72 【handbags】

http://www.uspopularbiz.com/productlist.asp?id=s4 【NBA Jersey】

http://www.uspopularbiz.com/productlist.asp?id=s88 【Jacket】
As I said this kind of thing goes way too far. But it would be nice to see server providers realising they also have to make reasonable effort to prevent abuse of their own system.
Especially if they make money from it.
I just block that entire Microsoft subnet at the firewall (using pf):

microsoft = "65.52.0.0/14"

block in on $ext_if proto tcp from $microsoft to any port { http, https }
Linode is great, indeed. I'm a fan of http://arpnetworks.com lately, though. Great service there too, and a good product for a good price.
Blueberries can help:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080410115405.ht...
John found duplicate content - slightly revised - on many webpages because these teeth whitening products are sold through affiliate marketing programs, which generally provide their affiliates with a lot of recommended content (to be slightly rewritten for search engine optimization) and images. Last time I looked at teeth whitening it paid the affiliate marketer at least $35 per sign-up. The affiliate marketers then advertise everywhere they can buy traffic cheaply enough to drive conversions for less than $35. This can be quite lucrative when done correctly.

Jay Weintraub has written at length on both types of affiliate sites John encountered - the fake news site and the fake blog.

Jay on fake news sites: http://www.jayweintraub.com/2009/06/the-perfect-storm.html

Jay on fake blogs:
http://www.jayweintraub.com/2009/03/the-rise-of-the-flog.htm...
This is a scam, but likely not one entity. Probably an affiliate marketer found how well linking two auto-bill offers together with a fake story worked and then everybody started copying.

The fake blogs and fake news sites seem to be the cutting edge of under-handed affiliate ppc marketing right this year.

Pushing multiple offers together is quite common in terms of a review http://www.reliable-hosting-reviews.com/ but encouraging the user to buy multiple offers is probably a newish idea, I'm guessing
Innovation and startups: Ten lessons from my days at Valve
Big Fat Lies with Gary Taubes
It's really nice to see a formal review of something I've learnt organically. Good read and really interesting reflections on the practice.
Maybe, but you shouldn't get downvoted for it. ;)
I think Bram’s comments and the comments below are solid. This is why I wrote the post "Top ten reasons entrepreneurs hate lawyers" (http://bit.ly/53SB5a): to promote this kind of discussion and to educate entrepreneurs. Let’s face it, the legal profession is broken. On the one hand, entrepreneurs and their companies are getting killed on fees; and, on the other hand, lawyers are being laid-off in waves and lots of law school grads can’t find jobs. On top of that, most lawyers don’t like that they are doing and service generally sucks. It’s time for a new kind of law firm.
What I don't understand is how the kind of advertising that just screams SCAM with every word can stay so effective.
From the Site Guidelines:

Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

EDIT: That said, good read.
Yelp Enables Check-Ins On Its iPhone App; Foursquare, Gowalla Ousted As Mayors
Dijkstra had an unfortunate fondness for the epigram. Cumulatively the epigrams have had the effect of making it easier to remember him as the guy who said bad things about GOTOs, Basic, Fortran, and OS-360, rather than as a pioneer in algorithms, concurrency, and programming languages. Still, I suppose it is something to be able to say pithy things in one's second (or at least not first) language.
in your example thirst for knowledge was not learned, it came naturally. if a person looked throught the telescope and wasn't filled with wonder and curiosity, would you say that was a failure in teaching? no, because some people do not care. they are not naturally curious. also there is a distinction between someone who is curious and someone who is compelled to tinker and learn more due to their curiosity. any normal boy may be curious how his RC car works. a hacker takes it apart and tries to obtain the secret to this mysterious device and what makes it tick. i do not believe you can be shown how to have this trait. you can emulate it, but you gave to really obtain a curiosity about all things unknown. is it possible to develop this trait over time? yes. but i think it has to come naturally, and not by a book or FAQ.
As an intelligent person, you probably underestimate people's stupidity.
Probably because they find the Buffy interpreters too postmodern. Just a guess...
I see this argument made almost daily despite it being completely invalid.

If it was true, US cities, the high density areas, would have speeds comparable to countries such as Estonia (12mbps), Japan (50+mbps), and so forth. However, US internet sucks, even in the cities. In my experience there is almost no correlation between density and quality of internet. And don't make the argument that it's due to the distance between cities: fiber trunklines cost almost nothing compared to the last-mile costs of wiring thousands of neighborhoods.

What is true is a correlation between competition and quality of internet. Areas with only one provider almost inevitably have terrible service.

The excuse that "US internet is worse because our country is larger" is a cheap cop-out to avoid admitting that our telecommunications infrastructure is in many ways worse than some third-world countries.
I agree with and like William Zinsser on many points, and I believe he has helped countless budding authors and language learners over the years to develop good writing skills. I know I read his books years ago and profited from them (I will never forget a funny introduction to On Writing Well, where he highlighted the point that good writing skills can only be developed through persistent, hard work over a long period by featuring a conversion between an author and a brain surgeon - who did writing "on the side" - in which the author chimed in that he too planned to do some brain surgery "on the side").

That said, English is a rich, beautiful, and varied language and we should be careful not to box ourselves in with arbitrary rules that limit our style. Mr. Zinsser's admonition not to use or over-use Latin-origin words does just that and is therefore too arbitrary to be productive.

Take the word "productive," which I just used. At its root is the Latin duco, ducere, duxi, ductus, generally meaning "to lead." So we get, in English, a rich range of words such as duke, duct, deduce, reduce, induce, introduce, produce, and all their variants (deductive, inductive, productive, etc.), all useful words in the right context.

Now there are countless words like this in English, and I don't think it is meaningful to try to sort them out from words having an Anglo-Saxon lineage and others thought to have punchier qualities. After all, well over half of English vocabulary derives from Latin and it seems self-defeating to limit yourself to less than half of the words available to you in choosing ways to express yourself.

Yes, do avoid writing in a bloated or hopelessly abstract style. Use punchy verbs to liven things up as occasion allows. But don't waste your time trying to sort words out by their etymological origin because words derived from Latin are not "the enemy" and, even if some of them are stilted, many or even most are not.

If I may suggest my own rule: do not mechanically apply arbitrary rules on word choice but rather choose your words to suit the context, following your instincts for what sounds right for your intended reader.
I imagine sysadmins can read anyone's e-mail, and HR can hire without much accountability.