skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shadowserver: http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Shadowserver/Mis...

http://malwareint.com

Talk = http://c2047862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/tnhc17.mp3

Study by AVG: http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=587...

Barracuda Labs study: http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/30/new-report-findings-...

CEO of HBGary: http://www.darkreading.com/database_security/security/intrus...

F-Secure: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001676.html

(I pulled these from the malware tag from PhiBetaIota.net)
an open input field is always subject to these kind of attacks. It's a test project made in 1h, I'll fix it when I've some free time.
Sony Ericsson says it has 'no plans' for any new Symbian products
The emails all have the same subject. The link's title should go somewhere in email subject line for those of us using Gmail.
True, but if you're a sole proprietor that makes it a lot easier to go after you.

A majority (but not sole) shareholder has a less hard time and a minority shareholder has nothing to worry about at all.
"The second worst part of this diet is that I'm always hungry." I think that's the basis of this whole diet. I think it's reasonable to assume that the average American diet is far from ideal for the mostly sedentary lifestyles we lead (once again, talking only about the average case). So any change is an improvement. What I want to see is a study that pits the paleo diet against, say the low carb diet, against just a balanced carb/protein/fat diet against a control group. My wife was telling me about a study that did a low carb vs balanced vs control experiment and the balanced diet won by an appreciable margin, but I don't have any links handy.
I'm not him, but yes, I still love and play Zelda on the SNES. Even the NES one is still fun! Just try it swordless (except, of course, on Gannon).

Most of the SNES-era games are still great, IMHO. It really depends on the game as to whether or not it ages well. Even classics like PacMan is still just as fun as ever. Some early RPGs? Not so much. Yeah, I still love the original Final Fantasy, but the original Dragon Warrior has a horrific grind, but so do later games like 7th Saga (a SNES game). The only thing that fixes the grind in FF1 are those two tiles where you can meet giants early and if I didn't know about them, I'd have probably given up on the game by now, because of the steep grind when you hit Elfland.

That makes me believe that our tolerance for clunky UIs changes over time. For example, if I can't automatically keep my items sorted and organized without flipping things around one-by-one, I get frustrated. It's one of the few bad parts of EarthBound (a game I really loved for the creative writing... seriously, even the back of a billboard is likely to contain a joke).

In that respect, Ultima has one of the worst UIs because it was so complex and people hadn't figured out how to simplify it yet. In that respect, later Ultimas seem worse to me, because each one is more complex than the last. I can still have a bit of fun with Ultima 1 on the NES. More than I have with the later ones, anyhow. I wonder if the guy who invented automatic note taking in games was playing Ultima at the time... it would make a lot of sense.
Yes, in other words, if Rackspace decides to sue you for running a company that was a fraud, then having a company doesn't shield you from fraud liability.

This makes perfect sense. Incorporation isn't the secret trick for conduct risk-free confidence jobs on people. You can't incorporate, sell Springfield the sham monorail, and skip town scot-free. Obviously, if your company is a criminal enterprise, all bets are off. On the other hand, the laws that provide alter ego liability aren't the secret key to unlocking corporate liability shields.

Since (a) the poster's company almost certainly wasn't a fraud, and (b) most companies that fail also aren't likely to be frauds, and (c) it is prohibitively expensive to attempt to prove in court that a company was a fraud, and (d) most of the officers of small startup companies aren't going to be in a position to pay at the end of a court battle, none of this matters.

Also: note how little of this has anything to do with how many shares the guy owns.

We are seriously geeking out here over something that isn't relevant to this guy's problem. Companies go out of business all the time; the company owners do not as a matter of course lose their houses!
Sounds like Bing uses just spell checking rather than n-grams on search queries as Google does.
Justice Department Settles with 6 major Technology Firms - Employee Solicitation
Assuming nothing has changed, it's running on a "3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1."

Upgraded on 4/19/09 from a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4, 4 GB RAM, 32-bit FreeBSD 5.3.

rtm's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516122
Sorry for being off topic, but is "mm" really an abbreviation for "million $"? I only know it for "millimetre".
Yes - assuming any of this debt is a terrible idea. But taking out a personal loan, investing it in the company in some sensible manner, and having the company pay off its debts could be a very smart thing to do considering the small amount of money in this case.

The take away is that a liability shield is not the same as a credit shield. Your credit will follow you, even if your debts do not. Some people care about this. Some don't.

For $17k, I'd surely think about my credit before walking away.
A more accurate title is “More on dangers of the caches”
"The website at www.twootball.com appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that hosts malware can infect your computer."
> I never understood why people think they are positioned against FB.. Google and FB don't solve very many of the same problems

They don't, but they share one common goal: Get money from advertisers, who are targeting people looking for some thing.

This "some thing" is obvious on Google, its users are in buying mode even before entering the query term.

Now, if (and that's a big if), FB can connect advertisers and buyers, it'll slow down Google, because people will have spent their money with FB advertisers.

Google and FB customers are their advertisers. They might do completely different things but their revenue source is similar.

I personally don't believe in this. Facebook doesn't share the same easiness of monetization as Google, and it has some huge issues of making its visitors enter buying mode.

But there you go... even if I disagree, that's why some people think of a FB vs. Google fight. Follow the money :)
If anyone wants to learn a new layout, and you're on Linux, I highly recommend KTouch (works fine on Gnome too).

I learned Colemak with it in about two weeks, it's perfect. Still using Qwerty till I master vim, though. I found the latter is more of a productivity enhancer than the former, and it's difficult to do both simultaneously.
I have a rule for myself: every time I submit a link I have to scan the New page and upvote those links I like (after reading them).
Yeah, but is it new or old? It's still under development...

Granted, it hasn't changed much in forever. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some scrolls to price-ID and I'm not sure if that creature over there respects the E-word...
It's definitely a joke.. at about 5 minutes in you can hear one of the production guys laugh uncontrollably. The t-rex poking out behind the city scape at 6:45 is pretty good too.
There is also http://jetwick.com where you can search your (and also others' !!) tweets. If you searched the first time you probably won't get results for a user. But please ;-), come back 10 minutes later. Then 50 tweets are searchable and stay searchable a long time. What long time is depends how popular you make this service ;-) I.e. if you are using the service regularly you can create a free (!) archive. Again: no payment necessary (this is important for us!). and even no registration at the moment.

There are a lot more features read through the about page (e.g. filter via dates, languages, sort against date, query dependent trends, ...)
Related discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724070
If you like this, you may want to check out HummingBird...(Node + Mongo)

http://webpulp.tv/post/757442457/hummingbird-michael-nutt
I had always assumed that this would become a feature of Twitter if they ever offered a pay version of the service (higher API limits and complete access to past tweets). I imagine that some people would pay for that.
The next obvious solution is to make separate packages for every version of library that the software uses. The problem is that there is no real convergence on “commonly-used” versions of libraries. There is no ABI protection, nor general guidelines on versioning. You end up having to package each and every minor version of a library that the software happens to want.

I don't understand why this is a problem exactly. If a dev runs and tests against a particular version of a library, use that version. Even minor updates in libraries can cause problems. If the library has a security issue, blacklist the version and force the upstream dev of both the library and the app to acknowledge the issue and release a new versions of their projects.
Why are there unfilled Perl jobs in LA?
A friend of mine works with Intel in a Senior Management capacity. He informed me Intel tells their employees they have a 2x limitation for returning to work with Intel if they leave for a competitor. Meaning, Intel will only accept you back so many times.

Unsure if anyone has any insight into other major firms such as the targets of the article.

Thoughts on the depression of potential compensation this could have caused since 2006?
My son is 3.5 years old. Here are some of the books he loves.

The Magic School Bus series. For example:

http://www.amazon.com/Magic-School-Bus-Ocean-Floor/dp/059041...

If I Built a Car (a great book on design)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142408255/ref=oss_product

Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811860639/ref=oss_product
That'll be the Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads.
Ummm... could we get a bit more details about what this is and how to use it please?
Yeah slide 11 depicted what we thought would be a great solution before we started investigating MongoDB. MongoDB effectively replaced all those other systems for us and was _significantly_ easier to set up and develop against.

A few people have mentioned HBase as an alternative. We did not consider HBase at the time we were making our architecture choices, however if we were starting today, we'd probably have looked at it too. My first impressions of HBase are that it lacks the level of documentation & community support behind MongoDB. I am definitely going to dig in some more to see how it would compare. That being said, we're totally happy with our choice of MongoDB and would recommend it to anybody considering HBase.
Ask HN: Feedback on new app - Yobiz eRetail
Hi HN - I'm new to this, so be gentle, but helpful :) We are just launching our MVP for a new application focused on solving some of the lingering problems in e-Commerce inventory management.

Specifically, if you are selling products on multiple online stores (as I was) or are selling products online and offline, then managing inventory is a real pain in the astral plane.

Yobiz eRetail Inventory, Pick-and-Pack, and Ship are for small to medium size online / e-Retailers that want to centralize inventory in one place that is then sync'd with a number of online e-commerce platforms and Quickbooks.

It also provides some insight into actual packing and shipping costs so you know the true profitability of your shipments and allows to you track your packing supplies so you don't run low at the last minute.

Right now, we're offering a trial/alpha but haven't launched the app yet as we're still looking to have conversations with more online retailers so that we make sure to build the right things in the right ways. We are more concerned about building too MUCH stuff than too little.

Feedback, comments, criticism, guidance, suggestions, questions encouraged --

You can find the app at http://eretail.yobiz.com/ips (www.yobiz.com redirects there, for now)

Thanks!
AngelGate Is TOO Much Drama
Hm. Thats for shallow console games. Some games have deep gameplay, large persistent universe state, opportunities for collaboration, or creativity.

Almost no games even touch on these things, but those that do are often considered classics. When in fact they are just "good games".

Witness checkers or chess. Lasted a long time without any graphics or fancy controllers.
But everybody doubts when you say, 'I'm dying.' They think you're being a Victorian actress. They think you're doing Bernhardt."

People suspect Ellison is making over-the-top public statements in order to draw attention to himself? Where would they ever get such a ludicrous idea?!
Let me get this straight, because I'm getting confused here, there is '0' proof for or against him being on the hook for his credit, but just for the sake of the argument let's assume that it is his personal credit that is linked to the merchant account (that would be spectacularly stupid, but ok).

You are suggesting that he take out a private loan even though he's already committed his savings to this venture to the tune of $17K in order to protect his credit rating?

Worst case he won't be able to borrow money for a while, and he might not be able to get a mortgage or other financing.

Would you borrow money in order to be able to borrow money later? It makes very little sense to me, to pay back $17K privately (so that's after taxes) means that you'd have to be earning roughly double that just to get rid of this debt, at a regular salary and expenses that comes down to at least two years before you can get rid of that debt, not counting the interest.

How does that make any sense at all, is your credit rating worth 20K and two years of your life to you?
I don't entirely get it either. Does it generate the printable sticker?
There sure are a lot of green dots and green squares on that page, though. While I agree that you need to explain buttons, etc., you're probably on the better track if it is so intuitive you don't need to annotate.
I think that with 'under-capitalized' they had something else in mind than what you're reading in to it, and the fact that they probably are just two guys in a bedroom is what helps rather than hinders in this case, it is absolutely pointless to go after parties like that during collection, that's throwing good money after bad.

You're talking about spending 25 grand to recover three.
How about tweaking karma to add value to certain users votes, users with tons of great submissions and comments to have more effect. You can grant power karma to people you feel have the same philosophy or that you feel drive HN in the direction you want. This isn't necessarily democratic or "fair" and i do not care because i love the great submissions with intelligent commentary. i have seen a lot of submissions concerned with submission quality and am happy to see HN publicly addressing the issue and apparently making an effort to ensure the quality and heritage of the site. (long time lurker brand new acct.)
This is a cool as a demo, but I don't see what purpose this serves.
Yes-ish. If it takes too much of your time to produce anything that looks/feel reasonable, then hire one. If you think you can get by doing it yourself, then make it so. If you have enough chops to get by, but don't know where to start, yes - then start tweeking stuff yourself.

try to stick to something simple and clear that lets users know what they're doing next.
Breadcrumb
Create an easy-to-use mobile learning application without any programming experience.
A human can be the endpoint for responses to that machine though. Our ordering system sends machine-generated emails for receipts. The From address delivers to us, and in the event someone hits reply (in which case you can usually get the entire receipt in quoted form in order to identify the person), the message will be sent straight to someone who can handle anything related to orders.
I understand this comment adds nothing to the discussion, but the above positive comments have 3 votes each.

Don't vote down just because you don't agree with the poster's opinion.
> Doom - the same - the feeling of nicely timed double shotgun shot is very rewarding, it doesn't matter you are shooting to rectangles.

I always like how people bring up Doom as opposed to, say, Wolfenstein or one of the other 3D shooters of the time. What made Doom feel different with the controls was two subtle things: head bob and acceleration.

In the same vein, there were other side-scrollers that featured characters jumping around. The side-scrollers that added acceleration physics (Mario, Metroid) were the really popular ones.

I am trying to consider Castlevania as an exception to my acceleration theory, particularly the limited jumping movement in Castlevania 1 (similar to 8 Eyes, which allowed you to have neat two-player coop action but somehow was not as popular).
I felt really annoyed by the interviewer. It seemed like along with information gathering, he was equally interested in creating controversy.

Did you notice how, instead of asking Schmidt questions, he posed contentious statements? "CERTAINLY Google must be scared of Facebook!" He did that with everything. Look how Mr Schmidt scrunches his face at about 2:00 when the interviewer tells him how he must be feeling.
Though truth be said, some of these languages are very well suited for the sort of tree manipulation that a compiler requires.
Why massage therapists?
Facebook Wants You To ‘Like’ More Stuff, Officially Launches ‘Page Browser’
Web frontend and high quality content.
Note the specific types of engineers: agricultural, sales and nuclear
The difference between "sole proprietor" and "sole shareholder of a corporation" is large; these are two totally different business structures.
I recall hearing that its due to scaling/db limit. Something like they cant actually go back further due to memory limits. Ive no idea if this is true or not.
If the Twitter team skype in at the next uk #devnest I shall try and remember to ask.
The first thing to do IMO is review ALL the legal documentation that you have. This means:

1. What is your role in the company. Are you just another employee or does your contract 'tie' you in some way with the company's assets and liabilities.

2. Is there anything in the contracts that you signed (if applicable) that relates directly to you personally? If yes concentrate on that one and nothing else.

3. Just because you poured money in the business, it does not necessarily mean that you are responsible for its liabilities. Review the documentation with a lawyer as to what your exposure is towards this situation.

From the looks of it, the merchant account is your 'weakest link'. Follow the advice of others here by talking to the merchant and sorting something out. Chances are that the future is not as bleak as it seems now. There are always choices.

Remember: Ask and you shall receive. Asking the relevant parties for extensions, better terms of payments etc. is not bad. The worst thing that can happen is for them to refuse.

Good luck and stay strong. There is always light at the end of the tunnel!
Simpsons clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W1OrcMPMb0

I remembered this clip because it lasts about five second longer than I thought it would. In a quick moving network tv show like the Simpsons, that's an eternity.

Sometimes the humor comes from just going for it, and taking something past where people think it "should" stop. The internet is different from network tv in that 10 minutes of absurdity is much cheaper.
Indeed, I'd like to see the study adjusted for income.
Looks like we're not the only ones confused.

read details at
http://www.googlelabs.com/show_details?app_key=agtnbGFiczIwL...
I think you hit it with #2.

Netflix created a huge following of normal, non-techie folks with their brilliant distribution 'hack' (aka using regular mail); when people started to see Netflix on their xboxes and ps3's, they understood what they were about already and it was easier for them to build up a following on the digital front.

Imagine if they'd tried to do that first - aka bypassing the whole mail/red envelop thing - people wouldn't have a clue what they were about or why it was awesome.
Company B just have to not tell Company A what they come up with. It's called "trade secrets".
In addition to the standard IRC ports, also make it accessible from port 80 or 443 to avoid being blocked by corporate firewalls.
One Journey Ends - Another Begins
Anyone know which companies are presenting at Disrupt next week?
is this public yet?
Most of the Lucasarts adventure games are still good games.
High School Cyber Defense Competition Registers Over 450 Teams
I work with Rackspace and would like to discuss your situation. Please contact me by email - robert.taylor@rackspace.com or by phone - +1.210.548.5616.

Robert J Taylor

Sr Sys Engineer / Mgr, Realtime Customer Intervention

Rackspace Hosting

robert.taylor@rackspace.com

TF: 800.961.4454 x 501-5505

O: 210.312.5505

M: 210.548.5616
Geez it's rough when Don Dodge drops off the "new" page without so much as an upvote, and it was a good post too!
While everything you said is correct, at the same time, there's no sense in losing access to data that's recorded and is sitting right there for the taking, if only there were a more convenient way to extract it.

It would be very wise of Twitter to offer a bulk export function - not because they have to, but because it's to Twitter's benefit to not have me thinking twice about whether I should post to Twitter or communicate in some other, more archive-friendly way.
Room chat history! I am an IRC novice so I'm not sure if that exists as part of a server already somewhere. I haven't been able to find it, but I haven't looked very hard.
As long as the two operating systems aren't accessing the folder AT THE SAME TIME (which they won't be -- either you boot into Windows or into Linux), you shouldn't have any issues. Really, it would probably make life a lot easier to set up a third "data" partition that both access, and put all your stuff on that.

But anyway, back on topic: I'm using the free version (2GB) of Dropbox and, as others have said, it "just works." It's fast and easy and has been incredibly helpful for moving things between work and home, and for viewing files on my phone.
Seconding Tweetnest. It doesn't save the favorites, unless they're by yourself, but it's a nice compromise.

And it's worked without a hitch.
It seems to me that a modification to the interest rate or amount owed should not be allowed when the debt is owned by a third party - at least without that third party's consent. When a bunch of loans are rolled up in to a security, it's not practical to get the consent of all the shareholders.
This is of interest to me because they built Viigo with my mobile programming language Hecl embedded in it.
I agree that competition validates a market, but as an entrepreneur I'm still hesitant to launch a competing product that I had an idea for. Here's why:

1. My competitors may be ahead of me. If something is just out there launched, that means that someone's been working on it for 3-6 months prior. I'm at month 0 and have catch-up to do.

2. Sometimes, competitors are just really good-- like their products are fully adequate for your specific needs, and probably pretty good for a bunch of other people as well. I have a hard time saying I should pursue something if I'm content using someone else's product.

The whole issue is that this leads to a conundrum. If my idea is fresh and new, then market validation becomes difficult because competing startups are in stealth mode. Only 6 months later do I say "Shit, that was actually an awesome idea". The only thing I can rely on are my own convictions and market tests that customer need exists.
Are you calling Arc Lisp slow?
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