skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my knowledge, this is the first attack that is in the wild against RSA and similar SecurID token type devices. Basically, the virus intercepts your keystrokes while you are logging in, instantly submitting (your constantly changing code) to Blizzard, and removing the authenticator device from your account.

I read before that the average World of Warcraft account is worth about $10 on the black market, much higher than a credit card number, so that explains why it is one of the first targets for new and innovative hacks that are designed to thwart 2 factor authentication.
If you're dissatisfied by machine translation, you might consider myGengo - http://mygengo.com - billed as "Mechanical Turk for Translations" - http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/11/mygengo-is-mechanical-t... (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder).

Many translation services don't qualify their translators, often accepting them after a CV submission. At myGengo we qualify them through tests, and maintain quality control through regular spot-checks. We're based in Tokyo atm, so we're pretty good at Asian ⇄ European language pairs. You can check out an unsolicited 3rd-party review by a translator here: http://drane.it/2010/01/mygengo-fills-a-niche-and-does-what-...
Flash becomes the enemy when they add anti-download features in response to what the industry wants?
It must be fascinating to work on the anti-goldseller/theft/fraud team at Blizzard. I would imagine they're the largest target for this sort of activity, and get to see some seriously crazy stuff.
Hilarious. It's almost as if print statements can print funny sentences in addition to terse sentences. You learn something new every day!
Beautifully executed - I can see this thing getting traction. A big congrats to the team! Though a reminder will be good, just in case I forget to check back. I know I want to go through the lessons but I am afraid it might just fall off my radar.
FSJ on Apple's Child Labor Issue
The crack protection described in the article was based on the game code being modified... most PC games these days don't need to be modified to be pirated, they are just duplicated accurately enough to appear identical to the original media (usually through drive emulation, ie. daemon-tools). Additionally, modern copy protection also usually incorporates a black list of drive emulation utilities, but these have always been circumvented by pirates. When a new copy-protection tech comes out it often takes a few months to be overcome (eg. starforce) but it is not feasible to bring out new copy protection tech for every game, so if its 'off-the-shelf' chances are its as good as cracked.
Paul Graham has suggested "how to get friends and influence people" (the earlier editions, from before the author died). Good luck!
I use Butler to remap Home and End keys to have PC-like behavior. Can't live without it!
The thought on #25 is correct, but I find the last line amusing in a speculative-fiction sense:

> Bill Gates [won't] sire a million times more children than me.

Theoretically, with current in-vitro fertilization technology, Bill Gates could take about sixty sperm samples and use them to sire a million or more children (presumably with a million women he would pay for the opportunity.) He would have to dedicate an entire hospital to the task, but it could be done within his remaining lifetime.
"Hi, we're the government. Instead of bombing Iraq, we would like to buy the IP for this critical drug you developed."

It's already developed, and they don't want to commercialize it, so why not sell the IP to the government or a charity. (The government could even theoretically compel the agreement via eminent domain. Or, the pharmaceutical company could donate the drug to the public domain and take a massive tax write off.)
add a ?a=1 parameter to the URL and resubmit it.
pbcopy is a great little utility

another neat trick is dragging and dropping a file to the terminal and having the filename pasted to the terminal
This is a baller idea!
Would be cool to see, not sure how accessible it would be to me though.
So I wrote about the "not enough data to tell" experiment http://bemmu.posterous.com/12493093
Yeah I tried it, but it's not as featureful as quicksilver, still. Maybe once it matures a bit.
If you want to get something up quick, you could use http://slinkset.com (aquired by Posterous in June 2009). It lets you create a social news site in seconds.
You might take the job offered, and keep an open mind. You're likely to pick up a lot about machine learning, and perhaps less about networks. Furthermore, implementing it may teach you some practical aspects of software engineering.

My undergrad was a co-op program. Six months of the year I spent in a semiconductor fab, rotating to a new work group every three months. Every assignment taught me something, and often not what I would have expected going into it.
Per month. (Health care was assumed. I’m from Germany, you are already insured if you are unemployed. I don’t know any better.)
Reddit still exists?
submit to reddit before you push the page to your site?
I'm not american. Not a big fan of US foreign policy either. My point is that being upset about assassination of foreign leaders because it is "a crime" looks pretty silly unless you are a full blown pacifist (and thus not OK with any of the killing states at war have done). In that case you look pretty silly anyway.
Upvoting, great counter point. The percentages (pre-dilution founder percentages, especially) have been what I've personally seen in start-ups I've worked in / consulted for / friends' start-ups. In one case of the founders had only 13%, other two had 20% -- rest going to funders/option pool; in another case -- where there was a "professional CEO" brought in -- one of the founders had <10% and no seat on the board (with only one founder being on the board at all). Granted these may be abnormal cases (the VCs weren't top tier either).
Are you planning to put the translations online? It would be useful for people who want to see what kind of quality they can get (and whether that loss of quality is acceptable compared to the savings they're getting over professional translation).
There is something written on the linked page that has always bothered me: "Using sudo all the time is annoying, but far worse — it conditions you to type in your root password without thinking about it." That quote implies a misunderstanding of sudo, and has made me less confident about installing Homebrew. Unix permissions and installation procedures should be well understood by a developer of package management software.

It's probably good software, for all that. He probably understands Unix better than I do, but it still bothers me.
If they didn't have those insane installation instructions that said:

sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local

I'd check this out. But I just can't bring myself to do it when they still have that as their default install instructions.
I'm pretty sure Chatroulette uses Adobe Stratus (http://labs.wip3.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/) for video, which is peer to peer.
easy...just submit a post without having a bunch of your friends upvote it....guaranteed to be dead on arrival
I've found that the dependancy resolution is pretty decent. Heck, it can install ImageMagick just fine.
Most of this makes sense to me with the exception of #13

"13.	If you’re happy in your career before the age of thirty, you’re probably doing something wrong. Heck, if you’re happy in your career before the age of seventy, you’re probably doing something wrong."

Can someone shed some light on why I am doing something wrong if I am happy with my career?
Bizarrely, I am almost always thanked for my opinions. Moreso when I am harsher and more blunt.
I've been trying to pick up some of the newmogul.com community with http://newsley.com. It's my startup. It's not built using arc.news, however, I rolled my own using Django. And, while it's not up to arc.news functionality yet, it should be there pretty soon, and I plan on adding a bunch of new features in the coming months.

There's also http://markenomics.com that I believe is using arc.news for an economics/financial news site. The community isn't quite as active as it was a few months ago, however.
Flash isn't the enemy. Flash is just an enemy-sympathizer.
In this image:
http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/chile20100227/fmaxamp.png

What do the red and black triangles represent, and what are the numbers next to them?
A lot of developers have no idea how UNIX permissions and mode bits work. I've witnessed this countless times, when a developer can't figure out why his code won't run, and just tells me to "chmod -R 777 /programdir/*"

I've had to sit a few developers down and teach them how to use commands like strace and truss to show them exactly which file they are trying to f_open and why it fails (usually trying to open a file in read/write mode that is not owned by them and 644 permissions).

Shouldn't this stuff be taught in basic CS101 courses?
I'd be interested. I have a background in healthcare, so stuff in bioinformatics/biotech/medicine would be of interest to me.
found the answer here: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/dart.shtml
Internet news finally overtakes print for American news consumption
Rupert Murdoch ready to sue Google?
Well laa dee daa, aren't you cool. Speaking as the author of that essay, I can tell you, I did my fair share of hacking. I'll go up against you in a hacker dick-measuring contest any day. Back in 1992 I was rolling my own builds of Nethack on a university server, OVER DIALUP, to play it my own way. And before Nethack I was hex-editing my copy of Beneath Apple Manor. So nyeah.
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Thank you. :) Yes, I bent the metaphor over backwards, but, Nethack does the same thing to the brain, so, it's all good...
The problem is that it's difficult to find competent translators, regardless of where you find them. As with any task requiring skills that you yourself don't have, it can be a crapshoot. It's like non-technical people trying to hire programmers; if you've ever seen it happen, you know how difficult it can be. I'm the same way when hiring a Chinese translation; I don't speak Chinese, so I'm always relying on third parties to tell me when it's right or not.

So, while I agree with you, and I suspect the quality of work one is getting for pennies on the dollar is pretty piss poor, I don't know that the work one gets for full-price is necessarily dramatically better. There are challenges, either way.
Bigger than ever it seems, one of the admins today said they're experiencing 20% growth per month.
That's where I played the game mentioned in the writeup, in fact. I wonder if the replay is still buried in the server somewhere...
I've done similar jobs using Amazon's Mechanical Turk and I find the best way to do it is to have multiple people work on the project and then have a local person compare the output and decide on which translation to accept. It's seriously inefficient but as the article states there's a huge price advantage to outsourcing which makes it possible to have several different people do a job and still save a significant amount of money
Why Google Pushed Buzz Out The Door Before It Was Ready
Buy A Dictionary.
Hello reader,

You never know when everything in George Orwell's 1984 could come to pass. Newspeak is just like political correctness, it is full of moral repugnance. To combat this from happening in the future. Today I bought a 1928 Edition Webster's New International Dictionary. Why? Because sometimes justice hangs on the meaning of a word.

-Manasseh

P.S. Don't think it isn't possible for people to want to burn books again. The Germans did it in the 20th century and more than willingly. Follow the boy scout motto and always be prepared with hard copies.
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Ahh, I remember using it way back in the day. Back then, my idea of revision control was "make a copy of the source code for each version".

Here's a more complete list:

http://www.ralentz.com/old/mac/humor/mpw-c-errors.html

My favorite error message is perhaps "Symbol table full - fatal heap error; please go buy a RAM upgrade from your local Apple dealer"
dterm, eh? That looks awesome... gotta give it a try now.
Ask HN: Help with merchant account
Hi HN,

I finally got my merchant account (NPC) and payment gateway (Authorize.net) setup, but I'm having a problem that neither of them can figure out. I've been on the phone with them both back and forth all day (even both at the same time at one point) but they have no idea what's going on and say everything is fine on their end.

I charged my own bank card using both Authorize.net's virtual terminal and through Spreedly, and when I log in to my bank to view pending authorizations, the "billing descriptor name" says "Merchant Name Missing". But once the charge goes through, the correct name shows up. Speculating it could be my bank, I charged a friend's prepaid credit card and it said the same thing on their pending authorizations.

Does anyone know what could be going on? I'm going to call them tomorrow because I really want this straightened out before my planned launch on Tuesday. One person argued that it shouldn't matter because most customers will have credit cards and won't see the name on their statement until it goes through anyway, but I don't want to risk any chargebacks.

Thanks for the help.
A Sensor Based Reality
Am I reading this right? This girl is 10... This isn't a stab at the author. It's great that he is getting good study habits for his daughter at an early age. It's more at the education system. I really don't think 10 year old's should have to do this type of study each night. They are 10!
Your response speaks a lot of the type of women you probably entertain. I wish you the best.
Keep in mind that a cup of drip coffee and a shot of espresso have wildly divergent amounts of caffeine in them. I read a National Geographic article on coffee that put a shot of espresso at 40mg vs a cup of drip coffee at 160mg.
There has to be a way to fix this through changing their process when dropping your authenticator.

One solution off the top of my head is to add an additional special question to admin tasks. Users very rarely if ever go to the blizzard admin page and thus won't be typing a special question in when they are just logging in to the game. Another solution is to confirm such authenticator drops through email or text. Both of these could be quickly implemented. And both could be used to alert blizzard and the user that they are infected.

The real problem here are rootkits + trojans that are just trouncing these unpatched old windows boxes.

I still haven't figured out how people end up with these trojans. Everyone that I know who plays wow is deathly afraid of getting "infected". Yet they still don't all have authenticators and they still manage to run trojans. Hmm. I blame porn ~ I don't know what else it could be.

EDIT: elaboration. paragraph 2 sentence 5 if you must know.
hey i was wondering if anyone would like to contact me about a large hacking/cracking project that im trying to get running , i need a couple of peoples help but the more the better and easier.
if you are interested then email me at ventoli@hotmail.com
This highlights a more general problem: aggregation sites have algorithmic ways to bring content which is both "new" and "popular" to the forefront, while keeping spam and lame content off of the main page, and these algorithms can sometimes be hacked or gamed.

One political blog I read was often reposted to reddit and similar sites by its detractors, who would mis-title the posts in offensive ways and therefore get them buried. This is more or less the problem described here -- by submitting the post with a title that gets either automatically blocked or ignored/downvoted by the community, one can easily bury posts that might otherwise garner a fair bit of traffic.

Once it becomes common to game any particular aggregator, it becomes less trustworthy and therefore less useful as a filter. (IMO, HN's policy of not editorializing post titles is a good way to prevent this particular form of abuse.)
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I think we'll have to wait for the rabies to subside and the dementia to set in before Murdoch actually tries that one.
I agree with you partially. Yes a man would want to position himself between a lady and the most likely location of an assailant however, the street is a broader avenue for harm than the unlikely and sparsely placed assailant. The point of this post is to make men aware of the fact that if they want to find a woman that will appreciate their chivalry albeit modern or 'yesterday's' this will be something they can be aware of.
Has Rupert heard of /robots.txt?
I can't agree with the negative comments here. I think that his comparison to chaotic systems is right-on.
IIRC Reagan proposed a balanced budget, had the Grace commision recommending large cuts in government spending/programs through privatization. This was completely rejected by Congress, and Tip O'Neal said the budget was 'Dead On Arrival'.
I know that reddit isn't exactly the most popular thing on HN, but in the past I have gotten a few articles on the frontpage without asking anyone to vote on them. This was a while ago (maybe a year now), but I think reddit's submission process has a while to go before it reaches something like Digg.
I would love to see google just remove them from the index for a few weeks. He would be back begging them to be re-included in their search results.
I think people are being a bit harder on this comment than they should be. It is phrased horribly, but I think jrockway might be making a valid point here.

Reddit still exists, but in name only. The site from even a year ago is dead and I think most of those users have left. This isn't necessarily a bad thing for reddit...their pageviews are way up and they're seeing some growing pains, which is a great problem to have :).
Murdoch is lately making himself into the human caricature of capitalism collapsing in on itself. A growling legal-business-political-PR hydra.

I don't understand his case at all. You don't want to be indexed? Don't be. The only thing I could think of charging Google with is being a monopoly. He doesn't claim that, just that they're thieves.

BTW, the meat, such as it is, is here: http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&...
Graduate student biophysicist, I'd be interested.
>> ...but a surprisingly high number (21 percent) rely on that one favorite site to get everything they need.

Yup. HN is that for me.
Top 5 Reasons You're Reading This Post
If you wait until you're number one on HN and then add a reddit flair to the bottom of the post then it's pretty easy to get enough reddit upvotes to make the front page without asking any of your friends to vote for you. If this doesn't work then just submit to one of the default subreddits, and you'll still make the front page. The only problem is that it'll take a few hours for this to happen so you can't really get above #15 or so, but that's still good for a couple thousand page views.
Considering how little the average parent in America helps their grade school age children with their classes, I'd say that making your 10 year old study like this every night is far from the worst thing you could do to them.
Awesome. I can't believe I lived without this.
Hey Whimsy -- It depends on how you define profound. I think simple, common sense practices can be profound without needing deep stories, data or figures backing it up.

Let me know what other types of focus activities have helped you out. I'll include a chapter or piece on it.

- Scott

P.S. I've been using RescueTime and it's also a good addition in using focus tools
A good way to decrease caffeine intake is to go for a mix of normal+decaf coffee instead of a cup of normal coffee.
Even if this trick didn't work, it's your own blog post so just add an anchor at the top.
I still fail to understand why the ability to memorize a bunch of facts is so valuable, or more importantly why it should be such a necessary and important skill in K-12 education.

Does this have any application in the 'real world'? I would imagine critical thinking and problem solving are much, much more useful.
quotes a source high up in the media industry echelon who says Murdoch is "pretty tightly wound up over Google and has been ready to sue them...He doesn't trust them at all."

More than anything else this is a sign of how worried Rupert is by the internet.

The Wall Street Journal, which the company acquired in 2007, is already behind a pay wall and has fared much better than some of its print-media brethren in the aftermath of the global advertising recession

That's because it's the Wall Street Journal. Lets see his other properties do so well. I know I'll be queuing up for online access to The Geelong Advertiser.
Just like humans
This is exactly the first thing that comes to my mind when I read about "indexing" in the article.
Search Engine Journal: Why Buzz Beats Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed
This is hilariously clever. I wonder how many other affiliate marketing things you can get people to do, such as article spinning, tell you what landing pages they like better and why, etc.
You and I might be using the word "axiom" differently.
How if Twitter could be Read Like a Newspaper
i like the product, signed up for the first lesson.

One thing that annoyed me was the popup that comes up before each section... if I wanted to go back to a different section or skip sections, the popup just slowed me down and didn't offer any real value. You should just add the popup text to the actual page itself. just my two cents.
This was the exact comment I was going to leave. I liked most of the post except for this point.
Here's something I wrote on caffeine: http://howtogetfocused.com/chapters/caffeine/
The key takeaway is the bit about 'inspirational' books. It's very true that people use these types of 'resources' as another means to procrastinate. So many wantrepreneurs think if they just read a little more TechCrunch or Hacker News or watch another Mixergy video, they will have what they need. WRONG.
Graduate student neuroengineer here. Very yes.
This link appears to have died.
The point is not that he wants to cut Google off, it's that he wants leverage.

Simply updating robots.txt won't effect Google at all and will blow what little leverage he has left.
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Well, I guess I can take that to the bank.
I still don't get it. Can someone explain to me Murdoch's argument (without being cynical about it -- what's the straight version)? How is Google pointing people to his site "stealing"?
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I checked another project of that guy mentioned in the interview: http://www.superstructgame.org/ and I noticed that one of the movies he uses ("Outlaw Planet") has been pulled down by youtube due to copyright complaint from Stanford University. I didn't know universities are so evil that they sabotage projects of their graduates on basis of copyright.
All right, in the black-scholes example I admit that those are not axioms in the traditional sense. Maybe the expected utility axioms would be a better example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_utility_hypothesis#von...
I've submitted maybe 20 things to reddit, and two made it to the front page and sat there for a while on their own.
Nicely done!

One small bug, the footer is floating in the middle when you submit an empty form at 1-step sign up ;)
There's no argument, it's just propaganda. He wants google to pay to link to news corp. Tarnishing google's reputation is his only leverage.
Thanks for that link! I hadn't realized the source had forked away from the Blacktree original and now I find I am running a rather old version of visor.