skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks impressive for systems that are supported (Vista and up). I'm not entirely convinced that all attack vectors have been considered though.

They appear to have considered the obvious things: write and execute access to files and other resources from restricted processes, preventing harmful windows message behavior.

But would a process with low integrity have read access to every other resource with low integrity? Or is that further constrained by some other access control mechanism? Also, I don't think it's a feature for an unprivileged process to have registry access, though I understand there may be reasons for it.

It could also be argued that there is a larger attack surface for protected mode processes, because they can call any OS function, but are just denied when they don't have the access level to commit the action.

I must admit I am behind the times with regards to Windows system programming.
Outsourcing IT: A Debate on NetworkWorld and How Cloud Fits
>> So he named his price, asked the businessman to deposit the money with the notary, and if the idea upon disclosure would be implemented within 5 years the money would flow to the inventor, otherwise it would go back to the businessman.

Great story. I wondered why we don't see more of this in the real world, then realized that one of the scenarios doesn't end well.

If the businessman doesn't like the idea, he doesn't get his money back for 5 years. Ouch.
+1 on the shock site.

And I suggest getting some brains on it and making intelligent reporting of data. Dig up other email addresses, get all places where they lived, jobs they had, car they have color, kid's names, spouse, etc etc etc. And all with a caption "this is just what a few of us hackers came up with without any funding and a few months, imagine what facebook or large companies spending billions on this could figure out!"

Afterwards we take the shock site and sell the mined information for money, because we can, because were building it (duh).

Oh and for added shock, add things like where they have been, where they eat, their preferred foods, where they usually go from what time to what time, when their apartment is usually unattended, etc.
Rasing >$20,000 in 2 weeks says someone cares about privacy.
He's got too much money then.
Sorry. Just thought it was funny. It made me think of how bootstrapping a startup means always worrying about paying my bills. I wish my creditors would take a spider drawing too.
Exactly. I'm surprised to see many people here saying that the responder was unhelpful or rude. I think that the answer was not only fascinating but also responsible, pedagogical and, in a way, even compassionate.
Yes, that's the risk, you can express it in money by taking the going interest rate multiplied by the amount and the duration.

A common way to do stuff like this is with a bank-guarantee, which means you're good for the money but the money is not actually taken out of your account until the transaction completes. Should you default on the payment the bank will pay up.

Otoh it also is a matter of how big the amount is. If the price is reasonable the businessman would likely take the risk.

Ideas are worth something, but by themselves not a whole lot, so the seller and buyer would both be acting on the assumption that the deal would be good for both of them if it went through. And the time could be shorter or longer, there is quite a bit of play in the concept to allow adaptation.
You might check out this Ted Talk. It's about the difference between experiential happiness and remembered happiness.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle...

It seems that the guy who is 30 and living at home to work towards his dream house will have more remembered happiness (which is more similar to satisfaction) at the expense of being less happy in the moment. Meanwhile, you seem to be the opposite. I'm not making any value judgements -- I think both are fine.

In the Ted Talk he asks an interesting question: where would you go on vacation right now if given a blank check? Now -- if you knew you were not going to remember anything about your vacation, would you go to the same place? If no, then you care more about experiential happiness.
It's still a hassle though. Dealing with fraud and replacing your card is something I imagine most people would rather avoid having to do.
Yeesh, that's closer than the moon. My grandpa's car has more than that on the odometer.
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Non-discriminant Base Converter in Python.
This looks horrendous. Watch the video for the hello world example. It's probably 100 lines of unintelligible code.

Miguel de Icaza's CLI for the web idea (http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/May-03.html) looks like a much better approach.
You can sign up for a newsletter, but the link seems to have dropped off the face of the internet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=0AoQmncVLKXRBdFo...
Wow. That really hit the sweet spot on technical detail. It had enough so I feel like I really learned something, but not so much that I just drowned it in and ignored it.
And Pascal?

No lisp?
Having anyone review your code is a good way to make sure it is easy to understand.
Meet Brent Farley: Ironic Sans Inventor Interview
The idea that some kinds of information are more or less suitable for privacy controls is nonsensical. Say some college kid Bob is gay, but he hasn't told his parents. Bob goes to some fan page for a local GLBT organization etc, and 'becomes a fan', because previously that didn't show up on his profile where his parents might see it, and his parents wouldn't be visiting that fan page anyway. Well, now FaceBook goes and makes fan pages visible on your profile, and suddenly Bob's parents have a lot of questions for him.

You may not find yourself in that kind of situation often, but it is a very real possibility -- there was even a study done where a computer could make a highly accurate guess of whether you were gay just by looking at who is in your friends list (also public), without any information from your profile. Everything on facebook is information.

I could give you an example where the bumper sticker is also relevant, but I think the example above is enough to prove my point.
Introduction to sudo
just remove all the jibberish after "type=post" in the url and you will see message contents.
Go used more than ActionScript? What the?
I don't think it would be hard at all. Privacy could be the new anti-virus.
I am interested in this, but is it worth going if not a developer/designer but a (soon to be) machine learning masters graduate? ie does one get anything really out of it if you can't contribute much in the way of actual code,design etc? Anyone with similar background attended and found it good?
Pedantic note: the last part - "USE THEM TOGETHER USE THEM IN PEACE" - was added to the movie version, in which the story was overlaid with a now-anachronistic Cold War tension between the American and Soviet members of the mission.
Most good programmers I know have some measure of Larry Wall's three great virtues: laziness, impatience, and hubris.[1]

Hubris is defined by Larry as:

"Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won’t want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer."

When your code is open source, anyone can see it. A prideful programmer isn't going to want to hear others badmouthing his/her code. Thus, the hubris this open source programmer feels will compel him/her to write code that is easy to understand and easy to maintain.

At least, hopefully :-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Virtues_of_a_program...
Part of the problem is how much "infrastructure" you need to learn too. What I like about Python is that a lot of the infrastructure is common and so all Python coders know it. In C and C++ every team seems to use a different set of tools, libraries and debug macros which makes it harder to dive into a project quickly.

On another note: is there any decent open source code study tool? I only know of Source Navigator but it always felt bloated to me and the UI was always quite tedious.
Interesting. Python has a bigger drop in percentage, second only to VB.
Very true. I didn't mean open source is the only way.

Code reviews, extreme/paired programming, personal discipline, and lots of experience on development teams are also great ways. I'm sure there are others too.
It's always nice to put a face on a name...
It doesn't prove anything.

His parents could be fans of that page. His teacher could be.

Becoming a fan of a page, but wanting that to remain private seems contradictory to me.
How Buggy are Java-Based Open Source Software Projects?
I've wondered about that for a long time. Delphi has been high on the TIOBE index for years, but no one ever talks about it. Maybe it's only used for incredibly boring projects at gigantic companies?
I attended the Copenhagen edition last month. While I was sceptical, the weekend turned out to be a lot of fun, and we are actually five people working full-time on what we created that weekend, with what looks like a bright future ahead of us. But even if it hadn't turned out that way, I would still have enjoyed it. The networking possibilities are huge, and my other startup has gained from it. YMMV, of course.
The race isnt over, only the metrics changed
a) Battery life.
b) Number of cores
c) Can it run 1080p videos in Adobe Flash.
And they report that "The 30 Doradus Nebula... is 90 times more massive than the Sun" when their own excerpt says that 30 Doradus contains several stars "topping 100 solar masses each"?
HTC sues Apple back in patent war
Whether or not people understand encryption doesn't change how well it projects them. The difference between "encrypted" and "unencrypted and not evil" is like the difference between a car with airbags and a car that has a little sticker on the dash that says "Try not to crash."

Obviously, no security is perfect, and given sufficiently evil central repository you'd still end up a situation of mistrust. But rather than take a chance with my private information simply because the people holding it tell me they aren't evil, I'll take responsibility for my own data and do my best as a user to make the right choices about how to treat that which I desire to keep private. If that means being picky about what I share/post, that's fine. If that means I need to run my own host and control access myself, well that's the burden I can choose to take to give me the peace of mind I'm looking for.
I think the comments and the article confuse two things.

(1) C is in danger of actually dying, as in: going away (2) C is in danger of losing some share of application development.

I think #1 is just not true. Almost every close-to-metal programming uses C. Yes, it is true that not many developers do this close-to-metal programming (which would include kernel development, driver development and embedded development), however, this close-to-metal development is very, very important, because it is the foundation to all application development. And at the moment, C and C++ are the foundation to the close-to-metal programming. Thus, C and C++ are pretty much the foundation of application development. Maybe hidden, but certainly alive and important.

On the other hand, C has already lost a lot of shares in application development, if you define application as some custom buissness application, maybe web-based, maybe gui-based and I certainly agree that C will lose more shares in this area. And I have to say, this is a good thing. The focus for C is just different from the focus one needs for such application development, because for higher level application development, maintainability and extensibility are more important than using every cpu cycle and every memory byte to the most effect.

tl;dr: In my opinion, C is a small important layer in the stack and not in danger in the area C was made for.
I suppose the same effect would happen in a organization, perhaps even more because the ones reviewing have power over you...
I didn't downvote you, but I'll point out that the actual percentage decline for Ruby is very small (-0.35%), less than the declines of Python, Java, C++ and Javascript, and almost the same as PHP. The percentage rise of Objective-C (2.15%) is far higher than what could have come from Ruby.
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I'm just going to leave this here: http://langpop.com/
No kidding. Did you notice the drop in usage of JavaScript? I highly doubt that this is the case. If anything I would have expected its usage to go up.
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There's no bad math here.. having an "unlocked" phone on vzw doesn't entitle you to any discount in your plan (like it does on tmobile), so if you have this CDMA phone you can't switch carriers with, you're not saving anything.
I don't particularly understand what the issue was with Google dropping the other version...scraping the SERPS is not that hard
FWIW when I read the project name I didn't connect it at all with the Jewish faith, and I have personal ties to Judaism so it's not that far from my mind. Maybe you've got Jews on the brain? ;-)
Yes, one advantage of Chrome's system is that it can be more restrictive than the operating system. And, the pre-scanning is an extra line of defense.

I won't attempt to explain the integrity system in Windows because I am not that familiar with it. But, Wikipedia says that read access can be blocked based on integrity level too. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Integrity_Control
The ratings are largely based on number of hits from search engines using the query +"<language> programming". This seems largely biased towards older languages. You can read more about it here: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_d...

I'm not sure how useful this data really is. I should create a language called "game" - then it could probably make it to #3.
> most individuals buy stocks in very small blocks,
> usually less than the minimum increment size that shares
> trade at on the open exchanges

There is no minimum increment size. You can trade a single share at NASDAQ, BATS, ARCA, wherever. 100 shares orders are very common, and that is lower than the size of most retail orders. 100 shares at $20 is only $2k.
I think you have it the wrong way around.

Their salary was $100k, of which (say) $80k was returned as a loan from the founder to the company.

This lets the company book $100k of costs on a net cash outflow of $20k. Costs are applied before calculating profit and therefore before calculating taxation due. At a corporate tax rate of 20% that would be worth $16k more than the tax deduction due from paying salaries of $20k.

Tax losses can be deferred until you make a profit in most tax regimes so that $16k will be held over until you need it to avoid paying taxes on the first $80k of corporate profits no matter when they happen.

It may also be possible to essentially sell tax savings to other companies under some circumstances (usually when winding up a company).

Overall this scheme would probably cost money as employment taxes would be due. But that can vary depending on other tax breaks, especially in progressive taxation systems. You may also be able to do something interesting with loan interest repayments which are often subject to tax breaks. Tax codes for Western countries are huge and full of interesting possibilities!
Interview with Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley
You lost me at "Few people would argue that it (Javascript) is anything other than a half-baked toy language that does not scale well."
How about 'stampede' ?
You just have to port your CLI to native client and it's done, the ugly code is wrote once and then shared.
As a final note, there's no reason why the two couldn't be used in tandem. In fact, they should be.
I would happy run a node that supports 10,000 people (that's approximately all the people I know, and all the people they know).
This is reflective of the overall decline of true science reporters who would fact check an article like this, even if they didn't write it themselves. C.f. "CNN Cuts Entire Science, Tech Team" http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/cnn_cuts_entire_science_t...

I grew up watching O'Brien's science show (Science and Technology Week) on CNN on Saturday mornings. I would never miss it. How the mighty have fallen. On the other hand, there is such a wealth of science and technology reporting on the internet.

Perhaps we can only expect mainstream news to continue its slide to the lowest common denominator as narrow-focused, Internet based news organizations pick up the slack?
They will have problems mounting their file system, it looks like the mandatory 'finger' is missing.
I don't think he would be able to show the performance of HTML5 and Flash demos using text, even when coupled with some images. For that it requires video, and I prefer a single video showing all the "article" and demos together than clicking play on five or six different embedded players.
I think the tact that it is hardware might make it a different game. When viewing patents on circuit design or specific hardware devices, there are usually circuit diagrams and drawings. In general, hardware patents have a lot more reproducable specifics internally than software patents.
The real problem is that most people do understand the value of stock options at 99.99999% of all startups: $0 - the cost to exercise those options.
I think you meant 'protects' ?
Maybe they are trying to patent the concept of "Whining about someone ripping off obvious, non-novel idea."
It seems to me that while this would have been interesting a few years ago, it's tied to x86 just as people are starting to browse the web more and more on mobile devices.
Making logic gates with DNA and light
You don't get to just label contrary scientific findings as 'political', and dismiss it out of hand. Here's the published paper that the article refers to:
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/3/2/024001/
The correlations don't hold up under analysis, and that's really all there is to be said on the subject. But if you feel that you can refute that paper with evidence, then go for it. I for one would love for you to be right, It's no doubt save me (and everyone else on the planet) a whole load of economic pain. Sadly, reality does't seem to be going along with my desires.
Tricks the British played on the Nazis during WWII
Don't forget there is a whole planet outside the US borders.
No, just lots of Jewish friends around here. You can't help but pick up a lot of history, then there's the huge exposure in school to WW2 and the aftermath.
Passionate about his tools or really angry because he thinks the other arguments are stupid. Either way, it makes no difference in his argument.
I feel like posts such as this one say some pretty scary things about intimacy in general, even honest intimacy.
It doesn't really matter that the code is unintelligible. One can use higher-level languages on top.

What isn't so good is that NaCl targets the architecture of the host machine. So you're not going to be able to run a NaCl app compiled on x86 on a browser running under ARM. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Miguel suggesting CLI isn't exactly surprising ;), but personally I'd prefer to use a sandboxed VM based on LLVM. CLI makes too many assumptions about the architecture of your language, whilst LLVM is more low-level.
Digg is the case study I always bring out as to why "web 2.0 doesn't work" and "we need web 3.0."

Web 2.0 sites are held hostage by their user communities at two points in their growth: (i) when the site is just starting and (ii) when the site has grown to its "maximal" size.

The vast majority of Web 2.0 sites fail at the starting gate. The "lucky" ones then face a phase of explosive growth, in which a huge amount of capital is needed just to keep the lights running. Around the time that they're looking for an exit, growth has leveled off, and there's neither any need for big investors nor any reason for them to get in... No exit.
You can google for ActionScript without 'programming,' but not so for Go. I think that explains its outlier status.
Also note that if this is done by hits, that it is no wonder objective-c has such a high jump.

I've been programming in C/C++ for a decade and objective-c still confused the crap out of me for my first iPhone app.
If you've got an opinion that's fine, but if you post it on here, the least I expect is for you to back it up with reasoning rather than just 'seems contradictory to me'.
most folks have 200k in debt & 2k in the bank, thus forcing some of them to live at home.

Generation Debt.
It seems that there is no readily available solution. So if I were to create one, it would go something like this:

href="theme-base-renegade.css"

theme-base-renegade would style all of the default markup in its own styleish little way. Whatever that may be: Super padded with big fonts and so on, or incredibly tiny with minimal line-height, font-size, etc..

href="theme-color-grayhaze.css"

theme-color-darkness would specifically color the default markup. Things like th, tr, td, dl, dt dd, etc, would have be darker/brighter than others with their respective font-colors and such to complement the element background-colors.

Since both stylesheets would be styling the default markup - not specific to styles or id's - the two stylesheets could be swappable with other like type themes components and not interfere with one another.

After that.. it's CSS! You could overwrite any one of the many styles used to create that theme. Plus, with all of the tools we have to debug, overriding otherwise desirable styles in order to apply specific/custom ones would be much more convenient.
Pizza is my guess. They're doing really great. It's close to 40K now. The great thing here is that it won't cost them a single point in equity.

Let's hope they don't screw up, if they do this right then it just might be that start-ups have a viable new route to find funding very quickly.

If they do mess up this high profile case will ruin the future for a lot of others, everybody will point to them and say 'remember diaspora'.
I think that Chrome and IE differ in how they split functionality between processes (and thus integrity levels), but both Chrome and IE make extensive use of the various sandboxing tools that Windows offers.
Not to speak of what it says about a professor who uses it as the text for an introductory course...
Jupiter is far enough from the sun that it already emits significantly more heat than it receives. So the sun becoming more active won't have any measurable effect on Jupiter, or any other of our gas giants, or Pluto or Charon.

If any planets ARE warming because of an increase in solar activity, the ones we should expect to see a change on are Venus, Earth, and Mars.

Venus is a good example of what happens if the greenhouse effects run amok, and Mars is a good example of the opposite. We're in the middle, at least for now.
There might be no fun, but there's definitely fear, which is also a valid motivator -- though more stick than carrot.

There's no fun in a "relatively secure, virus-free platform", but that doesn't stop Apple from billing their OS as such.
Just another example of how people misunderstand the word "public" when it is used on Facebook. You have control over what shows on your profile. Public means that the connection is owned by both parties; you may choose to hide your side of the connection from your profile, but the fan page, as the other owner of the connection, may choose to display the connection on their profile.

Privacy SettingsFriends -> Tags and Connections
Current City, Hometown, Interests, Things I Like, etc. are all fan pages, and you can choose to restrict who can view them on your profile.