skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Apache team was nice enough to be pro-active and send me an email alert:

You are receiving this email because you have a login, '...', on the Apache JIRA installation, https://issues.apache.org/jira/

On April 6 the issues.apache.org server was hacked. The attackers were able to install a trojan JIRA login screen and later get full root access:

https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_04_09_2010

We are assuming that the attackers have a copy of the JIRA database, which includes a hash (SHA-512 unsalted) of the password
you set when signing up as '...' to JIRA. If the password you set was not of great quality (eg. based on a dictionary word), it
should be assumed that the attackers can guess your password from the password hash via brute force.

The upshot is that someone malicious may know both your email address and a password of yours.

This is a problem because many people reuse passwords across online services. If you reuse passwords across systems, we urge you to change
your passwords on ALL SYSTEMS that might be using the compromised JIRA password. Prime examples might be gmail or hotmail accounts, online
banking sites, or sites known to be related to your email's domain, gmail.com.
Each encode removes information from the video. No matter how nice the encoders are, the video quality will degrade every time.
Yep. Eric Raymond has a good write-up of this phenomenon, which is called a gift culture.

http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s...

the society of open-source hackers is in fact a gift culture... in which the only available measure of competitive success is reputation among one's peers.

But I think that only applies to open source, not to what we do for a living.
There isn't much difference between the cpus apple is offering. The i7 has 4mb of cache instead of 3mb, higher base clock speed, and higher turbo clock speed.

Here is Intel's infromation on the three chips:
http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=47341,43544,43560

For some other cases, there are bigger differences between the i5 and i7, but not for these chips.
Well, after 6-7 months of heavy use on my MBP (easily past 128GB worth of writing, many times), Xbench says I'm getting 100MB/sec for just about all disk activity with 256K blocks.
Sunday Magazine: The most interesting articles from 100 years ago this weekend
Sure, if you only care about hardware. ;-)
Android offers pretty detailed power consumption statistics (as far as an operating system can tell, i guess). Currently it shows:

Display - 46%
Standby - 12%
Handset inactive - 10%
Android OS - 9%
Android System - 8%
Calls - 4%
WLAN - 2%
Rest is power consumption of apps.
With no issues? really? I have an i7 920 at home, 6GB ram, etc, and when I tried to run Snow Leopard in vmware, it just never felt quite right. It worked, sure, but not to the point I'd be happy using it everyday.
Posted this in December. A little dated, but the points are still quite relevant.
Similarly, "Corporations don't pay enough for me to build a safety cushion of money." What sort of spending habits must one have for that statement to be true?

Sounds like the parent commenter is making excuses.
I live in the Washington DC/Baltimore area which has a dense population. Not sure how price varies across country. I could have knocked off another $10 per month if I would have eliminated basic cable. So I could have gotten the cost down to $75 per month. In my area that would be the cheapest service that would let you stream 480p and download GB size files in minutes.

I can also get a 30Gb/S Verizon service in my area for a similar cost with no bandwidth cap.

Voice service for Comcast costs an additional $15 per month.

US ISPs seem to be only bested by Canadian ISPs for their willingest to take advantage of their customers.
I like this. It remedies the most obvious representational flaw in functional languages -- at least compared to OO. Does it depend on R6RS? . . . I might consider a port to Chicken.

(There is an inconsistency, though: the typing of fields is the reverse of the typing of instances)
There are quite a few netbooks that are more powerful than the iPad, and cheaper to boot. Intel Atom stuff can actually output 1080p video... imagine that? And actually, if you buy the right one, its not all that hard to set one up as a hackintosh either.
I've been using a Dell Mini 9 as my primary development machine for over a year now. There's more than enough power to fire up emacs, chrome, and a jvm (we're a JRuby shop). I love the amazing portability, and the ergonomics are adequate.

'Piece of Junk' is in the eyes of the beholder. In my experience, a $300 netbook has been the most productive machine I've ever owned.

edit: Sorry about the dupes, for some reason my phone freaked out and sent this three times. Fixed now.
This is a long video, but it has good content. I liked it, thanks for posting this.
Microsoft's response to the article:

This is simply a consolidation of work that used to be provided by multiple vendors to a single provider, Infosys. As you know, we have had a concentrated effort to be more efficient and save money. This was a major area where we could do this. This new contract will not impact our internal resources. And it won’t affect the usual internal exercises we do.
For some reason the PNG didn't retain color settings and yeah, they look really crappy on the TC article.

The keywords in the footer will eventually link to unique landing pages. Lots of startups do it, like Mint.com for example. I don't consider it immoral, I consider it marketing. I haven't had time to make the landing pages yet because we're a small team of 3 and have been swamped with other stuff.

If you have javascript disabled, you won't be able to use our web app or a lot of other web apps. This is largely a non-concern. The mobile application is by far the best experience.

I'll look into the SSL issue, I've had it happen to me in Chrome but sometimes it's completely fine.
So many say the SSDs delivered by Apple don't perform and recommend Intel SSDs.

But when you need 256GB or 500GB there's no choice, right?
its funny to see how amazingly cool google docs shows how some 30 ppl contribute to this spreadsheet at this moment ))
I thought Microsoft was all about eating their own dog food. How can they sell IT software when they don't use it themselves?

I'd imagine Microsoft IT would have been a great place to solicit feedback about what sucks about their own products. Guess not.
Maybe it's just a really bad promo video, but this looks terrible. All the bits that look good are just the public domain tennielle drawings.
Oh my. It's true what they say about teaching a pig to dance.
I have domain hackerbrain if want to buy it.
Doesn't scale. I don't mean that negatively. I believe it's representative of the mindset.

As to whether or not your company should be scaling, that's another matter.
As I said, it depends on usage patterns. (I also oversimplified the problem description. My apologies.)

If you're only using a small fraction of the total capacity, chances are you won't see much performance degradation for a long while no matter how much you write to the drive because of minimal fragmentation at the block level. But given enough time, you'd still hit that wall at some point.

But if you're using a large fraction of the total capacity, then you're going to have much more fragmentation, which means pages that can't be erased without having to rewrite significant numbers of blocks in those pages. Those ephemeral writes will start taking a real performance hit.

Many newer SSDs now include logic in their controllers to help mitigate this problem, with varying degrees of success. But full TRIM support on the drive and in the OS make a significantly larger difference than anything done by the drive alone. (Even with TRIM, though, the problem doesn't go away completely.)

And this isn't just some kind of spin from Anandtech--TRIM exists for a reason. It's a well-tested property of MLC SSDs. The combination of wear leveling and write combining can cause serious performance issues without TRIM. This article describes it pretty well: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669&type=expert&...
Apparently not: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/13/nvidia_says_ne... .
Intel seems bit lost in the mobile markets. First Moblin, then Meego, now this. Do they ever get anything finished and shipped to end users?
The problem isn't anything that the local government did, but what it didn't do. There are a lot of steps that could have been taken to lower the rent and property prices. For example, one measure is disallowing anyone to own property in New York that they don't live in at least 6 months plus 1 day. (The same is true of rent control, since a lot of RC people now live out of the city but keep the apartment because it's cheaper than staying at a hotel for 2-3 weeks.)

Finally, the underemployed and parentally funded (trust fund kids) should not be allowed to drive up the rents. (The fact that they ruin the city is an ancillary annoyance.) This can be accomplished by making it illegal to pay more than a certain percentage of one's after-tax salary (say, 40%) in rent.
Unless you had a MBP from the generation right before uni-body. I know a lot of people (myself included) who've had the logic board burn out right around the 2 year mark.
If you do this, and use a MBP, beware of this problem:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=7cf...

Symptoms are a very loud click, and then no audio plays until the computer's audio is reset -- do this by plugging in and removing an external device. It happened to my MBP and I thought I'd broken the hardware, it was that loud.
No, they mention processor names all over the place; e.g., see the specs, section "Processor and Memory": http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html .
First point ("consumerism vs. repressive cultures"): reread my post, don't do amalgams. I fail to see the correlation between proponents of "authenticity" and dictator regimes. First, in the article authenticity proponents are pictured as "anti-globalization" activists: I rarely see vegetarians as mostly concerned by marxism. Moreover it is questionnable to correlate dictator regimes with Marxism: many south-amercian or african regimes are/were backed by the US/France/etc... Finally, Marxism was mostly productivist (except Lafargue), non-decentralised (you don't have to go to Lenin and Trotsky taking over the Soviets, you already see it in the argument between Marx and Bakounin), and moreover its analysis did not insist on differentiating financial and industrial capital, which is important to understand the current crisis. All in all, as I was saying, the media industry frames all opposition as "repressive" and "brutal" and makes it diffult to find alternatives: hopefully people everywhere are creative in actions and thoughts.

Second point: I was not formulating a binary centralized vs decentralized debate where transporting food is not allowed or we go back to the Middle-Age; I'm just saying that there is a need for more autonomy in the system to prevent crises like recent ones (e.g. the rice crisis in 2008). It's just common sense to say that third world countries with more food-producing agriculture (instead of say, cotton) are less fragile to speculation on food which can lead to disasters especially in bad years, or that controlling their crops vs using GMO's makes them less economically dependent on big corporations.
Perhaps unusable as their only machine. That by no means makes it merely a novelty.
Book published using tweets without permission, backlash ensues
I actually disagree, I showed my 82 yo g-mom the iPad yesterday and she loved it and got it right away. Instead of getting her a Lifelock or whatever I can get her an iPad, for cheaper, and she can watch videos etc. too -- and again, she totally "got it". Super surprising. She's not that sophisticated at all.
If only email were one-to-one.
Unfortunately I have to keep on lots of blast-email lists... where I'm expected to filter through what impacts my responsibilities.

And sometimes I dare not ask to be removed from some senders' lists for political reasons.

Time-sucking. Soul-sucking. grrrr...

EDIT: forgot to mention that sorting through the krap via Twit, FB, etc, would not be much more fun.
Yeah I'd be interested too (New Yorker).
Reminded me of the mini-debate today about who 'owns' HN comments.

Some commentary and the author's apology letter can be found here: http://techdirt.com/articles/20100412/1844038986.shtml
I see this as something that must be solved at the my-immediately-superior manager level. And when one of these managers has at most 10 people immediately underneath. I think that should scale.
At least the "productions" page is impressive. Anyone has experience how usable it is for amateurs/hobbyists?
Also, Apple is putting a fair bit of fundamental R&D into battery technology, pushing existing technology as far as they can, and, presumably, investigating future.

They're clearly obsessed with battery life at the highest (read: Jobsian) levels.
Google hires a dev advocate to focus on game development
That current Atom cores are not as power efficient as the ARM cores (and it's not just "by a little").
> A kernel-side null-pointer dereference is normally a denial of service, but this article explains how to convert it into privilege escalation

Still, the title can be misinterpreted. The vulnerability being used is not a "real one" but one injected by a kernel module.
Twitter Wanted To Buy, But Bit.ly Is Waiting For A "Big F---ing Number"
A little disturbing that Slicehost wasn't responsive to Apache.org telling them they had a compromised image.
Maybe Apple should think about making a smaller version might work for kids? It would be kind of like an iPod Touch except... actually it would be an iPod Touch.

Seriously, my 2 year old kid enjoys my iPhone. I'm just annoyed that they don't support HTML5 audio to the degree that I (and others) could be building the type of simple interaction apps he enjoys with HTML.
Every shortened URL is a dangerous URL!
Thanks for the update. I was afraid of that...
Now 37. A bit twitchy ... filled some info, but will check back tomorrow when it's calmer.
Make Gift Box in Adobe Illustrator Using Skew Techniques
Any chance the 15" i7 has quad core? I know battery life is precious but I wish they would put one hardcore laptop out and price it high if needed.
Someone just blanked the whole table, is there a way to make this add-only? I vaguely recall being able to set up a form with Google docs. Even better: some way of undoing the vandalism?
Which is why the new transflective screen technologies are a Really Big Deal (tm).
llvm/clang is supposed to have nice error messages
Did you read the article? Microsoft addressed that very point.
And even easier when using the 24" (LED) Cinema Display with the built-in power adaptor.

Just plug in power, USB (hub), and video from the same cable group and you're done.
Apple Updates MacBook Pro Line
I think this is a great idea. Curation is an important service which I think is often undervalued. The target audience for this is not people who read hacker news but those who would like to read hacker news but don't have the time.

The opinions expressed in this thread are going to be biased towards the negative because you're missing out on that important audience segment. I would say probably your best marketing angle with this is to send out tons of free copies to tech conferences to stuff into goodie bags. That's your exact target audience of people.

Also, if this gets off the ground, a yearly, self-published Best of Hacker News 20XX would also be something I think has a lot of appeal.

But, I think, the crucial thing that will make this a success is the taste of the editor. Don't go by upvotes or mass popularity, otherwise, what's the point of having a human in the process. Really unearth those undiscovered gems and occasional moments of brilliance and never let the quality flag or you'll be done.
This is the way most businesses operate. In reality, businesses often have to spend their way out of losses with innovative R&D and marketing. The fact that credit exists smooths out the ups and downs in revenues is a good thing.

My comment wasn't related to this, but you're missing a big difference. If a business doesn't get there finances straightened out, they go under. If a business is wasting their money on stupid consulting projects causing their prices to rise, you can stop buying their products. You can't do that with the government.

Imagine the long-term cost of winding down government services, just to have to wind them up again? There are huge ramping costs to take into consideration, not to mention the impact on the economy. While I agree that government spending is a little ridiculous at times, breaking it down into simplistic terms ignores the vast tasks that even a stripped down federal government must undertake.

You're assuming that it's desirable to ramp them back up. I am totally comfortable doing away with Social Security and Medicare, lowering defense spending back to $3599 from $6071, drastically cutting anti-poverty programs so that everyone has to work to survive, and using the surpluses created by those reductions to pay down the federal debt to eliminate the interest expense. I'd also be for moving the Education and Mass Transit taxes back to the states so a bunch of stupid restrictions don't have to be met, like the 65mph speed limit and No Child Left Behind. While at it, we should drastically reduce our health research funding since the US represents 81% of global health R&D spending, and eliminate future federal employee retirement benefits. The mortgage credits can take a hike as well.

Also, because of the way most people spend money in reality, the government would go broke if they tried to collect taxes without witholding. Sad but true.

That's a feature, not a bug. If the average family had to write a check for $1,523 every month, it wouldn't be long before everyone was demanding accountability and cost reductions, instead of more services.
>They just don't hold up build quality wise.

Really? I have a black MB that just passed the 2 year mark and it looks pristine. I carry it in my backpack every day, I took it with me on a three month trip through South America, and yet it has no scratches, cracks, or other signs of damage.
I'm not going to fill out a form just to check out their software.
There was a really good article linked here a few days ago called "Create More, Consume Less". (Unfortunately since the article was on the bog Art of Manliness the discussion centered more around sexism than anything else.)

Anyway, it talked about consumerism as being all about defining yourself by what you consume, and how this makes you a dull person who never does anything worthwhile or interesting. By this definition the obsessive "organic" or "local food" types are just as boringly consumerist as any Manolo-obsessed bar skank or the douchebag driving the BMW he can't really afford. Anti-consumerism is a form of consumerism just as mind-dulling as consumerism itself.

I am forced by geography to shop at a rather hippieish supermarket in Berkeley (the Berkeley Bowl) where I always pity those fellow shoppers who have nothing more interesting to think about than how to optimise the organicness of their purchases in order to increase their own self-image. Personally I try not to buy anything labelled "organic" and to always choose plastic over paper, just to cancel some of them out.
Also people tend to forget that Adobe pretty much owns the whole creativity/content creation chain. Magazines, Books, Websites, Images, HTML, CSS, JS, Flash, whatnot. All those things are currently done pretty well with Adobes products alone. Granted, i'm no magazine editor and i don't do flash. I wouldn't use Dreamweaver for writing websites, but i can understand quite well when designers like to use Adobes tools as they provide them with pretty much everything they need.
To me this seems pretty frikin huge. The number of sysadmins and developer's using bugzilla, jira, confluence... I would assume a good number of them are using very crackable passwords (common words etc.), even if it's just a minority, which could then expose countless other systems managed by each of those sysadmins / devs who had their password hacked, because they probably also use a rotation of 1-3 passwords for other services...

- or -

Am I just on crack?
This is very interesting to me as we have been relatively happy using Final Cut to produce our films but it seems to lag behind a bit in adopting new technology and I'd like an open-source solution so we have more options available for doing distributed renders, etc.

Exciting...wish there was more information available!
From what I've seen, Atom has a long way to go to catch up with ARM in terms of efficiency.
You mean like the JooJoo?
I also got the same letter. But I haven't used it in years. Are you supposed to use your email to log in? I need to find out which password I was using in this account.
It'd be even easier if apple made or supported a quality dock, like HP and many others.
I found the answer. Sorry. Dual core on the 15" i7. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43560
Yeah, using € means he's in the European Union. In one of the countries that's using Euros. Eurostat estimates inflation at 1.5% in the Euro area.
Ok... it was just a little joke :) I have been drinking such expensive coffee once or maybe twice. Usually I get a big jar for around $10. So two jars from amazon earnings is enough for a month of drinking a lot of coffee... =D
>The typing problem you mentioned can be solved by a case that holds it an an angle, such as http://www.goincase.com/products/detail/CL57512.

That seems to be an extremely awkward angle for typing.

> Also heavy duty typing can be handled with a bluetooth attached keyboard though for my needs the the onscreen keyboard has been adequate.

Kinda ruins the mobility of the device compared with a lap top. You'll have to carry around the iPad, a stand, and a keyboard, which you could only reasonably use on some sort of table.
Theoretically sound. Manager's that get this probably don't come cheap.
Try reloading. I also thought that (Firefox 3.5).
That's why i am more curious about the Notionink Adam than about any other tablet. The display is said to consume only 10% and you can switch between full color and b/w "e-Ink" like display for easy reading. Sounds like the best of both worlds.
Yes you can easily share the sheet as a write-only form and for this purpose it seems like a perfect solution.
I bought one of the first 15" LED backlit MacBook Pros in 2007 for ~$2000 and sold it for $1000 a few months ago. That might not sound amazing until you learn that my wife dropped it down our staircase and it had a giant dent in the side. You can sell Macs like that - I don't hear of people buying smashed up PC notebooks for anywhere near premium prices :-)
Really?

* Passwords hashed with SHA-512 _unsalted_

* No lockout / notification after hundreds of thousands of failed logins

* XSS vulnerability

* Able to change the configuration to upload executable scripts

* SSH password authentication enabled

And your top concern was that Slicehost didn't immediately shut down a machine? Would it have really slowed the hackers down for more than an hour anyway?
Crash video
The best crash video. Car, train, air crash, crash test and other accident video.
That's exactly what I meant. My examples equally have solutions which use these C++ lambdas, but it would be a lot more work than necessary to actually produce or maintain them.
I'm surprised Apple's marketing team uses the name anti-glare as it makes the default configuration seem like the glare version. Matte doesn't have that connotation.