skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how this is a 'full report'. For example:

> There was a root privilege escalation on one of our platforms which permitted exposure of credentials that were then used to access machines with externally-facing SSH.

How are the credentials exposed after escalation? What accounts on the externally-facing SSH machines were used? Why was it a problem that the externally-facing SSH machines could be accessed? Was the access through root accounts? Why do externally-facing SSH machines allow remote root-login?

Besides, why can I still download projects when the data validation is still ongoing?

Furthermore, the 'full report' does not say anything what SF.net plans about their ssh servers.

I understand the SF.net team does its best, but I am not so happy with that report.
I wonder how much of this can be done with computer power. Upscaling, frame interpolation (25 to 48 fps), it is all possible. There will be a threshold of what people cannot see/experience. But I think computer power will keep costs lower than highres, high framerate camera's/studio's.
This may be so but how does it justify Skype blocking flash from using the camera?
Netflow cisco
Monitor and report on bandwidth and network traffic details with Scrutinizer NetFlow , Flow Analyzer from plixer International.
Drupal 6 Zen Subtheme - Basic | Ishmael Sanchez
I've always felt that libraries like Slice excessively couple the application's source code with its design

Ideally, the HTML should have nothing to do with the site's design. The HTML should semantically describe the content, not govern how it is displayed.
skype for mac has always been a pain but it seems they're trying really hard to make it even worse. <irony>besides of course coverflow for profile pictures, which is a huge improvement in usability.</irony>
Netflow traffic analyzer
Monitor and report on bandwidth and network traffic details with Scrutinizer NetFlow , Flow Analyzer from plixer International.
You can charge mobile devices by placing them on a pad. The Palm Pre had this out of the box. You can retrofit other phones like the iPhone to have this ability also.
I can't wait to have the AC EMR from the coils of the shelves mess with my cellphone and my VISA's magnetic strip etc. as I walk up and down the aisles to find my son's favorite cereal brand.
The big question is - will people pay more for tickets at 48fps?

If not, then it's not in the interests of the distributors/chains to pay to upgrade.
I was waiting a bit to make a snarky reply: the first comment on this thread was about 40 minutes after submission, does that mean HN is deserted?

More seriously though, people are sleeping. I don't know what SO's country-usage stats are, but I'd bet most of their active and knowledgeable members are from the States. Also from your screenshot alone you need someone familiar with windows server and C#, php and its relationship to apache and the filesystem, html5 AND its quirks with IE, regex and sed's flavor, more PHP and probably in the context of a framework, Python with templating and google app engine, something to do with HTML tidiness, and mutexes and multithreading in the context of C#. I'm frankly amazed when someone knows about the same thing I'm working on, only a bit better so that they are able to help me within a day of posting. A few times my questions have just been too narrow, and in that case I just shrug as it's usually not a show-stopper question for me.
It's an enforceable commitment scheme. I will happily pay if everyone does. If it's optional, most people will become free riders, so I'm not going to be the sucker who bears more than my share while failing to actually solve the problem.
I don't read anything about an extortion attempt (in this account), what am I missing?

I guess it is normal for a security firm to hope to gain some business by exposing security flaws (hey, we found a hole in your site, hire us to fix it). As this incident shows, it is not an easy business to be in...
I read the size argument a lot. But I never hear it. It crops up on the internet a lot, but never in the serious debate.
You always compare countries. Iceland to Austria to Italy to Britain to Germany to Japan. That is a lot of what people do in these areas.

No-ones ever pointed out a mechanism which would make it impossible to compare countries of varying sizes to each other. And normally, the advantage accrues to the larger one, with the bigger internal market.

In short, everything else being equal, you would expect the US to hasve more startups per cpaita, just based on the size advantage alone.
This probably depends a great deal on the legal system where you live. Over here there's a decent chance of a "small-print" condition like that being thrown out if it was ever challenged in court. Of course it also helps that usually you sign up with an ISP over the phone, without actually signing any physical contract they can fill with "small-print".
The only thing which put me off getting a MacBook Pro last time I was shopping for laptops was the lack of built in 3G. So instead I got a Dell Studio XPS laptop, with a Core i5 CPU, 256GB SSD, builtin 3G, full-HD display. For $1000 less than a "similarly" speced MBP (Core2, 128GB SSD, sub HD-res unless you want a 17" beast) no less.

I really don't regret my decision, but if Apple would just consider adding a 3G module to their MBP-lines, I honestly think they would attract more power-users. Lack of 3G is such an incredibly lame thing in Europe where 3G is everywhere and wifi is a hastle.
I feel bad for those guys. Of course their film system is better than the existing digital system, but it is more or less doomed to failure.

The problem is that digital came to be not because of the quality or anything that has to do with the movie goer but because it is much cheaper and much more convenient for studios. Now studios do not have to worry about printing film and deciding how much film to print.

They do not have to get into situations where a bunch of theatres showing a high budget movie stay empty and a hot selling small movie keeps selling out tickets, but they cannot open new theaters for the small movie because they did not know it would be so hot and did not print enough film copies for it.

Now they can open as many theaters as they want for the hot movies, thus immediately satisfy demand without rushing to print new copies, waiting for the new copies, etc.

So yes, digital is here to stay. Not because it looks better (it mostly doesn't), but because it is more convenient for studios and theaters.

And if 3D does not work, the movie theaters will probably crank up the resolution again but they will keep it digital.
That's the basic syntax of Lisp that you are thinking of - they actual Common Lisp language has a metric shipload of built in features from basic functions, data types through to things like the Loop macro right up to decidedly non-trivial things like CLOS.
SO's users aren't sleeping, the questions in the screenshot were less than 3 minutes old and some had multiple answers already. This submission should be flagged, it's not worthy of responses.
It is possible for countries to be both more socialist and capitalist than the USA.

If there is a lesson to be had from Scandianvia it is that cpaitalist is a way of earning money, and socialist is a way of spending it.

Both dials can be turned up at the same time.
Have you reported these flaws? Have you documented them somewhere?

Flash video recording worked perfectly fine for me btw.
Interestingly, FaceTime and iChat don't seem to have any trouble using the webcam while Skype is running. Since they're Apple apps, they may get priority, however.
I designed two counter-technologies to help people defend their personal space from unwanted electronic intrusion. Both devices were designed and prototyped with reference to the culture-jamming “Design Noir” philosophy. The first is a pair of glasses that darken whenever a television is in view.

http://www.ladyada.net/pub/research.html
London Stock Exchange under major cyberattack during Linux switch
Reading the pages makes me die a little inside with each line. My favourite has got to be:

'[Tumeric] follows the standards (WSDL, SOAP, XML, JSON, XACML, etc.)'.

What a delightfully vacuous phrase.

I would hope that no-one sane will ever have to use this outside eBay. Seems an odd choice to be open sourced, probably someone very proud of the years they wasted architecture astronauting to support a bunch of stillborn standards.

Sorry to be so vitriolic, but this project seems to mention every poorly conceived enterprise programming idea I have ever had the displeasure of coming across.
http://ww.com/ is also affected and we've already seen some support requests about this.
The fact that Norway, followed by Denmark, has the highest rate of strtups in the world, according to the article, would seem to argue against the "one swallow" theory, and indicate full summer.

And it is not reasonable to assume that his countrymen can't be bothered when they are the most prolific in the world.
Film has one huge disadvantage: scratches.

I was brought up in Scotland in the UK where we would have to wait until a film had been around the US and the South of England before we got to see it. It would often be scratched, would jump, would break and sometimes would have had whole scenes butchered in a hasty repair job.

Digital film has made this a thing of the past (and Piracy has made simultaneous World-wide releases a necessity).
Book Summary: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development
Actually, it works pretty good. But skype is interfering with it in a completely un-necessary way by blocking access to a resource even when it does not need that resource.
Install And Configure OpenLDAP On CentOS 5
The “You” News Network
That's true, the guy might just post the data to be an asshole, rather than asking for money.

Either way, the guy who was cracked is saying if the cracker posts the stolen data, he will post the cracker's contact details to every account. Which is completely reasonable.
Given the following data points:

a) TRIM is generally needed to be supported by the OS in order to make SSDs work well over time (and is supported by Windows and Linux kernels, among others)

b) Mac OS X up to Snow Leopard doesn't support TRIM

I would tend to believe SSDs used by Mac OS X will degrade in performance over time. Clearly its possible that either (a) or (b) are wrong. In which case, it would be cool to hear which part I've gotten wrong (probably the first part).

Telling me that 'Apple surely would have taken this into consideration as they love their customers and charge a premium for their products' doesn't really address it.
Sorta what I asked for the original thread, but not any great details. More or less what I expected though.

I guess that'll have to sate my curiosity for now.
Skype never made good client software for apple's devices, so it's not surprising. All versions have major UX flaws and iphone app is very buggy and slow/freezing for example.
Disrupting Wall St. implies not just making a "new" UI/UX/Interface for banking clients (like Mint or Square), it implies looking at changing the Banks inherent Business Model. Can Silicon Valley pull it off? Well, from a foreigners perspective (commenting from Lisbon, Portugal) Silicon Valley has a very engineer centric perspective on problem solving, and while engineering inputs may be useful, this is not an engineering problem, it's an economics problem.

Take P2P loans (Zoppa, Prosper, Lending Club) for instance. Why aren't they gaining traction? Because while they try to change the main Business Model for banks, they fail to solve the fundamental problem of Information Assimetry. That's the "reason d'etre" of the Banks. Banks business model is not just "skin you alive in loan fee's", they solve what we economists call "Adverse Selection" problem: how to sort good from bad credit. They are basically information arbitragers. They pool your credit info, compute a score, and sort loan suppliers with loan demand. The cost of doing so is expensive for an individual investor. And there is a problem of "preference revelation", or, in layman's terms, people lie and try to free ride.

That's why banks exist. Is the model ripe for disruption? Yes, it hasn't really changed fundamentally since the last 300 years since the "Venizian Banca" but for that one need to solve the affordable decentralised sorting between creditors and debtors accounting for fraud, incentives to lie and free ride and asymmetrical information.

IMO, Facebook brought a good innovation to the table. And no, I'm not talking about the "like button", social hype (attach social to something and somehow you have an Alchemical transformation of iron to gold): Applied Network Theory.

Social Networking might be a good research direction to solving the P2P information problem solving, by revealing our preferences.

Payment methods have a different problem to it: fraud. You can, and usually do, bleed money on it. Paypal did, and still does. To counter it, you make it more painful to do transactions (that's why Paypal is, sometimes, bloody annoying). Pain acts as a filter to fraud. That's why Banking is so cumbersome. Again, pain as a filter for fraud. Think of it like this: Google could reduce spam by making it painful to search and index (reductio ad absurdum oversimplification). It's a simple "no innovation" solution.

There is a lot of innovation to be made. But it's a bit more complicated. It's not just "make a new cute web 2.0 interface to sort your personal finances" like Mint.

Just my 2 cents.

(PS: pardon the occasional english typing error. Not a native speaker)
Interesting. So TRIM isn't needed because newer Flash disks handle overwrites properly?
It's a balancing act. There are plenty of big companies were you can work normal hours and still be a committed worker.

Spending time with my family and enjoying a few hobbies is my definition of success.
I don't have time to write a synthesis so I'll just copy & paste excerpts that should answer your question.

The university is at the other end of the spectrum: it is the professor's task to bring the relevant insights and abilities into the public domain by explicit formulation. (...) openness and honesty are characteristics that touch the heart of the academic enterprise: a university that hides or cheats can close its doors.

---

The University with its intellectual life on campus is undoubtedly a creation of the restless mind, but it is more than its creation: it is also its refuge. (...) on campus, being brilliant is socially acceptable.

---

If academic research is often astonishingly successful, it always is because the researchers had the wisdom and the opportunity to avoid both the trivial and the impossible, and to follow the very narrow path in between. It is that narrow path in between that defines the intellectual autonomy of successful scientific research. The major strength of the academic enterprise is that in a very technical sense scientific progress is unique in a way that neither political nor commercial interests can change.
How does it compare to ever note? I want to use a product like this but find that I never do.
What if your software is better architected e:g programmed by people who ruthlessly avoid unnecessary complexity? It may be that a competitor with deep pockets wastes lots on an over-complex or vaguely/fuzzily designed competing product. OTOH, I suppose sadly they've got a lot more to spend on marketing and that is what may kill you.
It may surprise you, but I didn't know about the direct link. I googled for the sourceforge hack because I was curious about an update on the situation.

This lead me to this site: http://packetstormsecurity.org/news/view/18549/Sourceforge-H... in which I recognized the blog from the days before. Now looking again I see that it is an iframe hijacked blog by the packetstormsecurity thing, which I missed the first time around. From that blog I found the link I posted, which obviously also was still in the bloody iframe.

So it is just another case of Google not ranking the original content higher than some SEO-optimizer's repost. My apologies :-(
Per the article, the purported advantage is that it offers an experience that a) can't be had at home, and b) people actually want (unlike 3d). In so doing, the creator argues that it has the potential to reverse, or at least mitigate the trend of declining viewership. If that's true, then it could be financially worthwhile even if ticket prices don't go up.
That's us, we're hiring! Join our awesome team.
As a banker, I am painfully awaiting the day someone comes along and disrupts Bloomberg. What an unbelievably frustrating system...
E*TRADE offers this for free if you have a high enough balance ($5K?) between accounts. Unfortunately, our good friends at Mint.com have no way to deal with two-factor auth, so in my informal polls, all my friends who were using two factor switched back to password only so they could use Mint's reporting features.
What I really want is a list of compromised projects. They say it takes time to verify that, but I really hope they keep us posted.
This is true if people do actually want it, and are willing to pay for it (whether they're going to a 48fps showing over a 24fps one, or they are paying for a showing when they wouldn't otherwise have done so).

Personally, I like 3D, but I'm aware that not everyone feels this way.
Mindfulness therapy puts the focus on improving the quality of body and spirit
AFAIK, CBA and Community CPS both do it.
An MBA is what you make of it.

For some people, seeking to transition between industries, an MBA can be very helpful. If you are working as a marketing person for General Mills and then decide that you want to break into ibanking, an MBA is great. It allows you to re-enter a very standardized recruiting process versus having to haplessly apply to random jobs. The same goes for people who work in fields where hiring and promoting is very standardized. At certain F500 companies/investment banks/PE firms it is expected that after 2-4 years of working you'll go back and get your MBA (if you want to be promoted). It's pretty dumb, but that's the way it works. Certain star performers can sidestep that but it tends to occur less frequently.

At the same time, for certain careers which are based more on merit (trading, entrepreneurship) an MBA might be less helpful. At best, for a non-business person, you will learn some basic skills and gain a good network. But it's a pretty high cost.
Show HN: trsry.com, a shortening synonym finder
Rx–Reactive Programming for Windows Phone
because there was a serial killer, murdering people from the website.

err what?
I didn't read anything about him posting the stolen data. I think he specifically wrote that he didn't even steal any data.

I don't know whose account is true, but I don't think it is reasonable to threaten somebody who approaches you with information about a security hole, just in case that somebody has evil intentions. In general it seems reasonable in human interactions to not issue death threats upon the first encounter.
Top Online Brand Monitoring Tools
Wow. Let's take a look again at the guidelines, shall we?

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

Check. I don't know about you, but I found this to be a very creative hack.

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.

Check. Definitely satisfied my intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Check. Nowhere to be found here.

Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures.

Check. Likewise, none of the above.

If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Check. Definitely not a story for TV news.

Summary: Looks like a perfect fit to me.
If the experience is no better than what I get at home, then I will not pay for a premium ticket...

Going to the theater should give you an experience that is either not possible or too expensive to get at home. So the only way they will survive is if they get you this experience without paying a premium for it (the _normal_ experience would be HD@home)
I have to say, from the writing alone Chris Russo sounds a lot more confidence inspiring than the POF people. That long rambling blog post by POF did not come across as very professional.
Odd. It seems like almost every big bank in Asia has them by now. I would have thought their use is widespread world over.
File format converter/verifier: marketing research question
Hello,

I am C/C++ programmer with 7 years of development experience for Windows/Linux in outsourcing companies. Although learning new things is really intriguing I fill like I need to concentrate my self on some certain aspect(s) of computing to achieve some significant results, rather than bouncing from one area to another (typical for contract job). In order to achieve mentioned goal I have decided to learn internals of a bunch of file formats and provide solutions like file format converters or repairing utilities. I have chosen this area because I really like working with file formats, data structures and exchange protocols. Especially when it comes to binary formats.
So my question is: which file format converting/repairing task may be considered as worth the effort (by means of popularity/demand) ?
May be someone can point me to some sophisticated way to estimate the demand for such kind of tasks ? This will also be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for the time taken to respond to this rather naive answer.

Regards
just turned 40. This is my fourth company in Japan.
Restful ajax web app basics ( using Backbone.js lol )
I had a free weekend, and the thsrs idea by Ironic Sans [1] looked like something too cool to let it go (and http://thsrs.com/ didn't work too well for me). Also, it was a chance to implement my very own instant search ;-)

The thing is done in Django+PostgreSQL+jQueryUI and uses the Wordnet 2.0 thesaurus which comes with OpenOffice. My wife was kind enough to make it look not ugly.

[1] http://www.ironicsans.com/2008/07/idea_thsrs_the_shorter_the...
Wait. Who owns the AMD fab in Dresden?
What they had in mind was the 90% of their users who only have 5 contacts in their contact list and the 95% of their users who only use the text area to write "Can I call you"

In other words Skype is designed for the 90% not us 10%
Why does the Hacker "Chris Russo" sound more credible than the guy from Plenty of Fish?

-http://grumomedia.com/plenty-of-fish-hacked-chris-russos-exp...

1. He provides emails - I think Mark(Guy from Plenty of Fish), really needs to get those voice recordings of Chris threatening his wife online to be more credible.

2. Mark tells a complicated story - A story with mafia and all that, really? If we follow Occam razor, Chris story sounds more realistic. He saw a flaw and reported it. Everything was going dandy until he saw ads for Plenty of Fish data. At this point Mark decides to try ruin Chris by fabricating a story, since he believe it is him trying to sell the data. It is a simpler story.

3. Why isn't Mark contacting the authorities? - A week and Chris is not in jail and responding freely on his blog?

Mark does have some valid points though,he did hack pirate bay: http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-hacked-users-exposed-...
But Chris claimed again, proof of concept and he has no bad intentions.[What is the appropriate way to expose vulnerabilities?]

In my opinion, he[Mark] should release the voice recording to add more credibility because right now he is sounding shaky.
I'm not sure why you got down voted but I bumped you up one. Fascinating question regarding iron! Whether a realistic issue or not, I love when someone thinks of something offf the wall that didn't cross my mind.

As for the RFID question, without going into length, no interference should occur
Gvim is probably what you're looking for. There's also an easy-to-use version called cream.
You are being hopelessly dogmatic on this point. I'm not sure it's worth belabouring.