skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The report describes an "in-the-cloud reputation-based system" for identifying URLs leading to malicious downloads (called "socially-engineered malware" in the report).

"From an initial list of 12,000 new suspicious sites, 1,756 potentially-malicious URLs were pre-screened for inclusion in the test ... Of the initial 1,756 URLs, ultimately 562 URLs passed our post-validation process and are included in the final results"

Since they don't describe their pre-screening or "post-validation" process anywhere in the report, you can't assume it's a completely random set of malicious URLs. In fact, the URLs they tested might have been cherry-picked to give IE8 a higher score.
"That's about an hour from my parent's castle."

fixed that for you :)
Perhaps lost in this discussion is the fact that for all practical purposes, Tolkien invented the modern fantasy fiction genre as we know it. Elves, trolls, dwarfs, orcs, wizards, halflings, and all that. He is also the predecessor to modern fantasy gaming, ala EQ and WoW.

Yes, one may find other examples of "fanciful" works, for instance, George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil", early horror works of Stoker and Shelley, or perhaps Jules Verne (which is not fantasy, so much as sci-fi), but modern fantasy, as we know it, began with Tolkien.
I haven't tested it on an iPad..will try to in the next few days.

Apologies for the spelling mistakes, we should have put more QA in the website :)

Thank you for the feedback!
Since technology companies are a major cause of the high cost of living in Silicon Valley (by increasing the demand for housing by people who can well afford to pay), it's hard to see how you can reduce the cost of living without making Silicon Valley less attractive to entrepreneurs.
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It didn't work out too well for these guys:
http://www.ferrethandjobs.com/
Poor guy, sounds like he's between a rock and a hard place. Release a 2.0 version for free that wont be well received by everyone (long time between releases = everyone assuming their pet feature will be included), or break a promise and do it paid and still have people mad at you. With little financial incentive and the spectre of angry, disappointed users no matter what he does, it's little wonder he's struggling for motivation.
They're Tolkien ripoffs only in the same sense that Tolkien is a rip off of early fantasy writers such as Dunsany and George MacDonald. He was undoubtedly a huge influence on modern epic fantasy, but he himself was working from a tradition that already existed while he was writing.
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I'm not sure I understand...isn't being able to watch online American TV / listen to American radio a benefit? or do you mean we should replace the features page with "benefits" such as being able to browse US-only websites?
http://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2007-October/012156.html which I got from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolframs_2-state_3-symbol_Turin...
Assuming time machines are possible to build, then it is a good assumption that at some future point in time, whether it's hundreds or even thousands of years from now, a time machine will be built. Then, somebody will get into that time machine, travel back into the past, and mess it up. Thus, someone from the future has probably already messed up the past.

In fact, this new castle in Arkansas may be a symptom of the damage already done to the space-time continuum. Frickin time vandals!
Now that there are 3 different iphone resolutions, are we going to keep hearing about how bad fragmentation is?
I enjoy all three authors. I think I prefer Michael Moorcock over the other two. Tolkien, while good, can be slow at times.
Thank you :)

Greek mythology FTW!
Personally, I do not miss the ribbon cables that PATA drive use. It was a pain in the ass to route them, particularly in some MicroATX cases.

Couldn't you use an PCI card to add support for more PATA slots? Certainly someone like Promise probably makes something like that.
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It is time for Plan C: http://trueslant.com/juliaioffe/2010/05/04/nuke-that-slick/
This sad attempt at questioning the merit of the article is truly part of the problem with this oil leak. We're talking about one of the greatest ecological disasters in the history of the United States and people seem uninterested. It's pretty sickening. For another perspective see http://www.businessinsider.com/matthew-simmons-dylan-ratigan...
How do you plan on withstanding network provider (and their upstream) pressure in response to DMCA notices related to file sharing activity?

Throughout our experience in the vpnworld most of the letters generated from this have been spam or bot generated and while we worked for other companies, there responses varied. We will address each on a case by case basis with our in-house counsel and/ /take the appropriate steps to resolve it swiftly.

As you are operating network equipment (a VPN concentrator) in the US, how are you complying with CALEA and still preserving the privacy of your users?

Through the research of our legal representation we are not a concentrator though that may be the closest designation to what we do. We have found that our model falls outside of any within the CALEA while many of our larger competitors that also are ISP's do not.

You operate on a monthly recurring billing model. What prevents a LEA from subpoenaing billing records to determine who is using your service and then comparing traffic patterns with CALEA captures from your network provider and your customer's network providers?

Could this happen? Absolutely, though there are no documented cases of this we have found that deal with a personal VPN provider on record and many of our competitors have been in business a great deal longer. I would imagine as well that something like this could be done without subpoena as well through back door channels should their be a particular dire need. There is no perfect privacy whatsoever and as individuals in a free society we must take responsibility for our own actions.
Well I certainly knew nothing of these developments until they appeared on this website. This is where I go for national news.
I found the critique misleading. It doesn't make sense to disparage Tolkien's Middle Earth writing without taking his background into account. He was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon legends and literature written in Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Old English. He was also a linguist who worked on the Oxford English Dictionary for two years. He was an expert on Beowulf; one of his most celebrated scholarly works is "Beowulf and the Monster Critics".

The writing in The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion echoes the style of the work he studied and taught. I understand that many modern readers find the style and language alien; after all, the English language and English literature evolved considerably since Beowulf. Tellingly, the author of the critique compares Tolkien to much later authors, all of whom use ordinary 20th-century (American) English. Tolkien is a modern writer who consciously adopted an older cadence, and the author of the critique does not seem to understand this.

(It's worth noting that The Hobbit and the first chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring use a whimsical, less-grandiose style. I don't have a good explanation for this, except to guess that they originated in bedtime stories for Tolkien's children.)
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It's an interesting question, that one, isn't it? I don't think "nuke" is the operative word because they would want a tiny nuke so "conventional" explosives might do. From what I hear Prof. Bea and some other sources saying I infer that the real danger of that approach is that it can make things much, much worse. (Namely, while it might collapse the pipe, it might also create a large total volume capacity of escape paths for the oil, spread over a larger area. There is already a new leak from the sea-bed 400ft away.).
exactly the sort of reply I was hoping to get. This site is fantastic.

And oops ^^; should've checked for "nuclear aircraft" on wikipedia first. I dove into details without hunting for attempts first. Thanks for the summary!
We have had many combined years of experience in this field and have decided to push our own offering to simplify ones experience. Regarding the IANAL aspect you can see here http://tinyurl.com/2bd45en where the #1 act in the world understand the stakes and where the true money is made. As for the pockets to stand up to them in Court, I would imagine there aren't many folks that do. We have quality legal minds on staff that are available 24hrs a day
It's relevant as an unsolved engineering problem.

We're all waiting to see which "hack" is going to finally work.
I second the kudos to FishWorks.

The storage analytics package where this comes from (humbly called "Storage Analytics") is by far the most sophisticated storage performance monitoring and analysis package in existence.

Moreover, the FishWorks guys are just plain awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Religiosity of professors by field [chart]
Looks like Gruber was right on the money again. From April: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_960_by_640
We can send robots to do our job for us.

That's kinda the general feeling I get when looking at anything space-oriented. Which is part of the reason I get a bit excited reading up on recent robotics & AI progress.

People need too many supporting structures to be at the forefront of space travel, methinks. Once a tech has been proven, people adopt it pretty quickly; if anything, space travel has been disproven in terms of practicality, until some major change occurs.
Ultimately, the weighted companion cube is simply an extension of GlaDOS. As a character, it exists entirely in her monologue; certainly the literal box is not a character, inasmuch as it is simply a box.
Data comes ultimately (via some blogs) from this paper: http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/70/2/1...

The somewhat odd choice of fields to include is, according to the paper, because these are the 20 fields that graduate the most students yearly.
I hear the friends side (much) more, certainly, but I know quite a few people who upload their photos to Facebook and then delete them locally. Which is pretty idiotic, but about par for the course with most people and computers. I'd guesstimate I've encountered almost a dozen people doing that, which implies a pretty large amount when multiplied.
I also wonder why the original author says "green-fingered larches" is a cliche? "birds were singing" is a cliche, but the rest of it is reasonably fresh prose.
I think BBEdit qualifies and has been around forever. Never used it myself.
Every since I started using JSMin, I've needed to add semicolons after all my functions, which is something that I can't seem to remember to do as a habit.
Travel hack: How to pack over 40kg of luggage with you on no-frills airlines
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Constant engineering failures and desperate measures to avoid the imminent unnatural ecological destruction of the Gulf of Mexico is something that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity, in my opinion. The point is not the (un)natural disaster (which is while quite sad, it is certainly off-topic here in itself), it's the engineering problem.
It's pretty simple, actually. Literary fiction makes for "real books," genre fiction does not. The terminology is unnecessarily loaded, IMO. Both styles have their followings, both can be highly enjoyable, and both have established and respected awards.

I think the distinction between the two has to do with the primary driver of the book. Genre fiction tends to be about telling a story about people and events. Plot and character both get strong billing, but plot dominates. In literary fiction, though, plot tends to be unimportant and character analysis dominates. A whole book can take place inside the mind of one person over the course of, say, one uneventful day.

This isn't an iron-clad rule, of course. By my definition, A Wizard of Earthsea is basically literary fiction; not coincidentally, English teachers sometimes assign it. Occasionally, a writer sprinkles fantastic or pulpy elements in a work of literary fiction and earns high praise; Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie do this routinely. It was kind of amazing that Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go — very much a dystopian science fiction novel — made the Booker shortlist in 2005.
I wish that somebody would solve the "funny" problem with xkcd. You know, make it so that they're actually funny.
If you feel that taxes are a valid way for a government to implement social engineering, encouraging some behaviors and discouraging other behaviors, than you can't ever complain about the complexity of the US tax code.

I would wager that a lot of people who nod their heads that this is a good idea, also wax poetic at parties about how the tax code is broken and overly complicated.
For .NET websites, Combres does minifying, compression, and combining of scripts:
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IMO this article is fine; it's clearly a problem that interests a lot of us. I'd much prefer this than another bunk article about apple or techcrunch rubbish :-)

what usually happens is a more technical discussion appears here in the comments

hacker news != exclusively technology news

Also; adopting a combative tone in comments is usually frowned on even more than off topic submissions. Just sayin.
And lets compare things like this with some of the other "greats" of literature. Namely, Jules Verne and 20k Leagues Under the Sea. Pages upon pages are used in almost literal fact-listing of the surrounding area, without anywhere near the prose of Tolkien. A large amount of the book reads like a biologists travel journal. I quite enjoy Verne's works, but holy cow can they be dry at times.

I've got a fair number of authors I like considerably better than Tolkien, but he's quite good right now, and surprisingly more enjoyable and approachable than many authors from the same time period.
You may be interested to know that nearly all digital cameras advertised resolution is the total number of what you call "subpixels."
Thanks a lot! My first attempt with mobile specific web pages. A lot to learn.
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I fixed the landscape problem. It turns out that adding -webkit-text-size-adjust:none; prevents the text from enlarging when rotating the phone to landscape. Adding that appears to have fixed it.
After thinking about it some more, the concept of a fluid grid seems useless. In most fluid layouts, usually one column is fluid and the others are fixed-size; this system can't accomplish that.
The author quoted a Tolkien sentence about 'sombre trees like dark clouds on the hillside' as evidence of bad writing... but personally I thought that was a brilliant phrase.

I wonder how many books had Appendices before LOTR (fiction works obviously). I remember I couldn't wait to finish the main novel so I could investigate the Appendix!
It's not too surprising. Sad, but not surprising.

Yesterday I sat and read up on the past examples of this happening. It's hardly a big field of literature but the overriding result seems to be it takes a long time to fix these things.

The one thing that hacks me off is the way the us govt is jumping up and down banning this and questioning that. Clearly at some point we need to assess what occured and set out blame where appropriate - but it seems to me right now we should quit the politcal posturing and focus solely on stopping the leak.
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A physical explanation of the "Cheerios effect"
Great post. The hidden gem I got out of it is the reason why we will always have developers and hackers and programmers. And it will always be a cool job.

We need to adapt to the times, the culture, the technology, the platform, the needs and wants of the people. There always has been, and always will be, demand for that.

To the naysayers worried that hackers will die out, I point you to the people who say barely anyone can program with any proficiency and everyone sucks. Meet me in between, where I'll be building my business.
Are we still talking about this?
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I LOLd for a good 2 minutes for that. nice catch.
Some rubyists are trying with red car http://redcareditor.com/ but it's still quite a ways off from being usable.

Sublime Text (www.sublimetext.com) could theoretically be ported over to Linux and Windows as it's GUI is all OpenGL and C interfacing with python. The author's original intent was that it be portable between platforms, but he seems to have pushed that idea to the side. He's no longer working on it full-time either. Which is a shame because it's quite good and comparable to TextMate in many ways.
320ppi is getting to be pretty sweet. Hook me up with a 30" version, along with one more doubling of ppi and it's going to be amazing.
Ask HN: As a non-expert, what would you do to solve the oil leak in the Gulf?
You're not an idiot, what ideas have you thought of for fixing the leak that you haven't heard being suggested elsewhere?

(This question was inspired by the debate over whether news updates on the status of repairs were HN appropriate.)
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As interesting of a problem as this is, I don't quite understand how a) BP and other oil companies aren't required to have solved it prior to drilling and b) after more than a month of the world watching, all they could come up with was a solution that might work.

I'm inclined to call to question the caliber of the engineer s working to resolve the leak. Maybe I'm being too harsh?

EDIT: To clarify point (a), I would have assumed that oil rigs would be required to build-in some sort of kill-switch in the event that even the smallest part of the process didn't go as planned.
A friend of mine told me Fravia had passed on (a while ago, apparently), which was news to me. So that kind of influenced my decision to submit the link.

He really had a positive influence on my night life back in the day.
Were you driving yourself? When I was at MSFT I used to take the 545 back and forth, and did a fair amount of reading, coding and movie watching in that bus.

Not that I wouldn't appreciate work within walking distance, but transit made it reasonably pleasant.
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Sounds like there should be an app for that. Talent in any industry could create a skill and geographic preference profile and then startups could see where all the talent wishes they could work.

They could integrate apps like the total cost of driving (http://earliertcd.appspot.com/) and show people concretely how much their time is worth.
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I can recommend the HN app on Android market too.
So to get started, my uneducated suggestion is that they put a giant cylinder over the leak so as to at least contain the oil as it rises to the surface. I understand the problems with depth and pressure so ideally there is some fabric that is highly mailable (plastic, rubber, etc.)

With little background in physics I would think that the pressure of the oil's need to rise to the surface would exceed the pressure of the water's need to collapse the cylinder.

Criticism of this or any other idea is more than welcome.
Yup. Which, note, is not the same thing as the way Pentile resolutions are generally cited, it's worse.

On the other hand, what you actually get out of the camera (either directly or via whatever rawfile conversion tool you use) is an image with the advertised resolution's worth of RGB pixels. I suppose the equivalent of that would be a display that has as many RGB pixels as it claims, but that suffers from artefacts such that what a given pixel actually displays depends on its neighbours.

It's only just occurred to me that this practice of quoting the number of photosites as the resolution of a camera's sensor may help explain the (otherwise entirely indefensible) tendency of camera-makers to specify the resolution of the display on the back of the camera by giving its total number of subpixels. So, e.g., Nikon say that the D3000 has a "large 3-inch, 230k-dot, high-resolution LCD monitor". "230k-dot" means 320x240 pixels = 76,800 pixels = 230,400 subpixels. Bah!
Please add proper support for discussion (Ask HN, etc) posts. This is my #1 annoyance of iCombinator. Too many taps and backs to view the question then view the thread.
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Yes. Bruce Schneier has been warning about semantic attacks on the Web since before Wikipedia was founded.

http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0010.html
I find GMail ads more relevant than search ads and have spent more money in purchases from GMail ads. I am just one datapoint though, and Google probably will not publish relevant statistics.
This will be my #1 priority.
Most claims about "irreducible complexity" are completely factually incorrect
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They did build in a kill-switch, but it failed. To be fair to the engineers, this is the first time they've encountered a leak at 5000 feet below the ocean.
Why Johnny Can't Encrypt (1999 USENIX paper)
I started having this problem with the mobile Gmail interface a few weeks ago too. The solution was to stop using a bookmarked inbox URL. When I use the http://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.com/ URL instead (and go through several redirects to the mobile site), my inbox loads nearly instantly every time.

I have no idea why this is the case, but it solved my problem.
The only name that I've seen for this is "impulsive highlighting". There used to be a Wikipedia article about it, but it was unfortunately deleted since it cited no sources.

http://awurl.com/C8uVAsoJN

(Yes, I know it looks like a questionable URL, but it's all I could find since, as I said, it was deleted).
I recommend adding an About page which describes the site. Either that, or add something to the landing page. Some sort of quick way to provide feedback would be good, too. What mechanism exactly is up to you: blatant mailto link; JS-based feedback popup; third-party (UserVoice, etc.); mailing list; link to this HN thread; ...
I would assume that many of the safety systems already failed. It’s probably (like nearly always in such cases – unlikely events happen all the time on a planet with six billion people) a 1:100,000 freak accident. The only question is then whether that probability should be lower still.
I'm pretty sure they do, but the explosive (literally) nature of the situation negated all of them. A few people died in the original incident, iirc.

The one safety measure of note is the relief well. They're not required to drill them along with the primary well. I read somewhere that it's not this way in Canada, and that BP had been lobbying them to let them drill without a relief well. Good luck with that now, BP. Hopefully we'll see a law that requires relief wells here in the US.

Of course, they're scrambling to drill a relief well now, which they predict will be done in early August.
Frames? Is it the 90s again?
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