skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no evidence that it is happening

You mean other than seeing it happen in the biggest similar ecosystem?

There's nothing special about iOS [...] that isn't present on Android

Exactly. So why should iOS be different with regard to malware then?
> That baby is pretty creepy. Also, you may want to get a native English speaker to look over your copy. There are some weird grammar / structure things going on there.

Ditto on all three above.

> Are you targeting non-SaaS startups?

I would imagine so - perhaps the OP will post his views on this.
New Guy Blues
A speech from Carl Sagan that will make you cry
Roberta Williams designed my childhood. Now I need to go find a way to play Quest for Glory on OSX...
Dijkstra (in 1975) strongly dislikes FORTRAN, BASIC, APL, PL/I, and COBOL. What languages did he like? Pascal?
If that means I won't have to muck about with hacks like ubuntuzilla any more, I'll be happy.
Yes, but the article states that some torrent software actually appends your IP address information to the packets themselves, so even if they emerge from an exit node on the other side of the world, entirely anonymized, simple packet inspection can determine their origin.
http://www.myemploymentlawyer.com/non-compete-covenant-FAQs....

" If your non-compete is valid, then a third party who induces you to break it can face the same liability as you, and possiby more. To avoid this liability, the new employer will often terminate the new employee, which it is free to do."
Will today's Apple event be webcast?
I still rely on my iPod Classic as my music player of choice, though I'd probably want an iPod Touch if I didn't have an iPhone (for the apps).

I agree: this is one phenomenal design.
I remember the days of clear.gif! (or blank.gif, spacer.gif, etc...)
Candy The Magic Dinosaur
I have kept this away from Hacker News for a while, not sure why!, here you go!... :]
I'm glad Sophie Wilson gets due credit for designing the Acorn and ARM instruction set. That instruction set is incredibly wide spread when you think about where ARM devices are used nowadays. The article does not mention that most of that work was done as "Roger Wilson" before his/her sex change operation.
What are you doing with the history data you collect?
This was a work of art, man. Dig it. Yeah, mannnn. The MAN is stealing our MOJO, mannnn. Oppressing our SOULS. You gotta fight the man, man. The establishment. Big Daddy Warbucks and Uncle Sam, they're in cahoots. Fucking vampires is what they are, man. Gonna suck out our spirits through our paychecks. You dig?
I've released a FreeBSD 8.2 AMI in the new region now. Maybe next time Amazon launches a new region they'll give me advance access so I can have FreeBSD AMI(s) available without any delay.
Clickable:

http://sponsi.com/

(Looks cool, BTW :-))
There are three possible reasons I can think of.

1) Probably the most likely, is related to the electronics. Stuff got shuffled around. This was probably more true in the mini and nano designs, where space was even more precious. Bigger iPods might have simply been made to match.
2) Having the headphone jack in the middle might have made it difficult to determine orientation when the iPod was in a holster.
3) Cynical, but the location of the jack also made it easy to tell at a glance if the iPod was the 5G video version or not, as a point of visual differentiation.
Smell likes communism for me.
Remote debugging JavaScript on any device (Remy Sharp)
I figure they'll eventually include AirPrint in iTunes for OS X and Windows so it will automatically share any connected printers for iOS devices. They haven't yet, though...
Maybe it won't be handheld, even, but embedded :)
Couldn't help myself: if you love the video, you need to check out Chris Lavigne at crlvideo.com. he did all the shooting and editing (and did a super job!)
Ceasefire (all falls down) - the making of a demo
Unix pipelines are currently in decline

Citation needed
Yes, that's probably it, thank you. (There's a couple of brain cells in the back muttering that the page was less dense and tan colored, but I told them to shut up ;-)

Now let's sell tickets to some cage fights, for instance http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Sudoku versus
http://norvig.com/sudoku.html

P.S. The credit at the bottom of the J Sudoku piece led me here: http://www.vector.org.uk/ . Seems an interesting place to visit. It even features articles headed "APL is not for programmers" (quote: "At this point the average programmer turns off, drops out, gets his coat and leaves the building, heading for mom and the kids. We, on the other hand, will continue.")
There are two scenarios where such a site has been useful to me:

1) Making sure I deprecated the right addresses in the Linux kernel, and that the kernel was using the outgoing address I wanted instead of the one it would pick via RFC 3484, and

2) Making sure IPv6 browsing is working since turning off v4 is a pain in the ass (in the setups I've had to troubleshoot v6 on, not my home network, where it's much easier).
Are you having server issues. All I can see is a pair of empty iframes.

I joke. Does the "ironically popular" use the input field's data in any way? If not, I'd say: don't put that button there. I typed a search request and couldn't decide what button to press. Until I read the explanation. Even know I don't know if I need to type something in to click on the "ironically popular" button.
Isn't the appeal of Google's app store that it isn't curated?

Yes and no. As a developer, I certainly love the relative ease and freedom of Google's Market. But as user, I don't want to fear clicking "Download" or "Buy". Apple succeeds, in part, because their App Store provides a certain measure of trust, and users are willing to open their wallets.

At a minimum, Google needs to respond quickly to malware reports, and to enforce anti-piracy rules vigorously. Allowing attackers to pirate and republish apps allows them to attack many more users than they could reach by developing malicious-but-popular applications from scratch.

And Apple has never let a "(benign) root exploit" through approval.

Yeah, I think that was an incorrect statement on my part. Apple has passed major, hidden functionality that violates their policies, but I was mistaken in thinking a root exploit was involved. For a mea culpa, see the thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2279823
3 years later (2007) and we get the first iPhone, which still looks relatively OK to modern eyes.

I'm thinking older iPods will age about the same as 1970's mall designs, with the extravagant plastic and overblown wall art.
Another design studio's credo:
http://www.artlebedev.com/studio/
There are no ideas
DHH is bad and nationwide.

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/10/im-bad-im-nationwid...
The server has been getting a bit slow though, might have to do some spread over more than one node.js instance ...

Any suggestions where to put the "ironically popular" button? It doesn't use search input since Instagram has a global popular thing.
There will be something else, not handheld devices. Think about it, iPhone 4 is not that different from the original iPhone. Better specs, more features, more app, but not totally different.

Still an exciting world to live in though =).
What if al-Qaeda Got Stuxnet?
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability"

is a great line from the article that's still accurate. Small (simple) changes reduce the risk of using continuous deployment. Code should be modular and decoupled.

There's a great section on simplicity in code in Stuart Halloway's talk from QCon SF last year:
http://qconsf.com/dl/qcon-sanfran-2010/slides/StuartHalloway...
You can actually use LVM on a live InnoDB instance as long as both the logs and tablespace reside on the same volume. There is no locking required.

We actually used LVM at Facebook for MySQL backups for a while, however as you stated it requires at least double local space. In addition it is also a real nightmare on performance when it is running since it is double writing data locally to disk. So basically you need to run at < 50% utilization for some extended period of time to be able to take a snapshot successfully. We run much higher than that 24/7.

When you aren't disk performance or space constrained then LVM snapshots can be a very good option.
View the source. All the css is inlined, the images are base64 encoded, and there's no closing tag. That's one efficient 404!
Technology Rekor
interesting, how do you model multiple dispatch in an efficient way over a vm that (I believe) wasn't designed for it?
You can use DRBD on linux to do synchronous replication of any file system since it works on the block level.
There's a simple hack for enabling it on OSX (it worked by default in some iOS 4.2 betas but got disabled). In fact, I think this works for anything running a CUPS server (i.e. Linux, BSD, etc.), so doing this in an embedded box should be pretty straightforward. Windows is probably trickier.

Tangent:

Of course I say that, yet I've seen plenty of Linux-based consumer grade routers fuck up printer sharing despite using CUPS. I suspect most of the usual suspects (router makers) won't get in there before Apple. (plus they'll completely fail at marketing that aspect if they do)

I often wonder if there would be a sufficient market for a "better Timp Capsule", i.e. a well-done, pimped-out NAS/Wifi AP/router/printserver, specifically targeted at iPad/Smartphone users (but which works fine for other computers as well). The user experience of all the devices out there (apart from Apple's) is absolute shite, and Apple's are kind of limited.
http://images1.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/6023626/I-can-di...

http://images2.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/6023659/Maybe-yo...
Now, you're adding a very strong element of filtering to the process, and you can't really make any statements about how big of a component of the ability to navigate is learned.
Bizarre solar systems
So how is that more dangerous?
If this article makes you think DNS is complex, just wait until you have to deploy DNSSEC!
My suggestion: Make it a link, in the WTF area and call it something like: "These pictures were cool before everyone else liked them".
Ugh, you know you're too immersed in startup culture when your first reaction to this title is "Ron Conway's Game of Life?!"

Very cool app though!
>Isn't the appeal of Google's app store that it isn't curated? Anyone can sign up and submit anything.

Android allows installing apps from sources other than the Market, so this isn't that big a deal. A free-for-all app store does have disadvantages, like app spam, rampant copyright infringement, and apparently malware.
37BetterBank: http://37signals.com/better/bank/index

This is still better then most banking websites. It's too bad no bank ever hired them to create the public facing UI.
Inspired by a comment in this thread, I created a "Courage Natalie" meme generator so you can have fun with how smart she is: http://memegenerator.net/courage-natalie
I see he favored ALGOL-60, so maybe Pascal, Modula, Ada ...
i am missing something here. why does everyone here seem to think this is cool?
There's obviously a market for hosted services, from barebones shared hosting services like GoDaddy to VPS hosting like Linode and dedicated hosting.

There's also a market for specialized hosting like point-and click design with Squarespace and Ruby on Rails hosting with Heroku (which recently sold for >$200 million to Salesforce I might add).

My advice? Run with the idea. The barrier to entry is stupendously low. Resell a VPS or even EC2 or even get your own dedicated server. If it doesn't work out, no loss. If it does, it's relatively easy to scale up to more cost effective solutions.

You may want to make your preview sites not usable as free hosting however. Throttling requests, putting a banner at the top, limiting requests, something like that.
Jack of three trades, master of one: Ars reviews the Motorola Atrix 4G
What a bunch of pseudo-philosophical BS. There are such things as ideas. They are the basis on which the products you mention are built out of.
I don't see why it wouldn't be, what with the last few all being webcast. Apple is eager to promote the HTTP Live Streaming technology, so my guess is that they'll use it any time they can.
The problem with the solutions you mentioned is that it requires double provisioning hardware. When you have just a few MySQL servers, buying a few extra isn't a big deal. When you have X,000 MySQL servers, buying X,000 * 2 is a huge deal and not a nice scalable way to do backups.
That's assuming the malicious syscalls actually fire while Apple is reviewing the app. An iOS malware author would likely do everything possible to prevent the payload going off during the review process; it might be as simple as checking the system time and only launching the obfuscated malicious code a month or two after submission.

Disabling the payload under circumstances that put the perpetrator at risk of being discovered is a very common malware tactic (see Conficker disabling itself if it detects it's being run in the Ukraine, for example).
Many nameservers do support TCP. It's not generally used due to a combination of performance issues (TCP state would get expensive for a busy nameserver) and history.
Picture of the Day: 'At the Hour of Our Death'
Ya, no for sure, I got to work on the backend of big web systems for a while and it was fun. (AMZN actually, the mother of all web backends)

But once you are in the teeny startup space then you become the jack of all trades and then you have to deal with the whole stack again. Unless you figure out how to make money off of jsonip.com that is. :)
Nokia: We depend on uninformed customers and deception preserves brand value
They're cool with that too, at least that's what the FAQ says. You just aren't allowed to hang around without taking part, I gather.

I just booked a ticket after seeing the article here, and I'm pretty excited. Even if my idea doesn't win any votes, It'll be a fun challenge for the weekend at least and just possibly a big opportunity.

Also, reading around I found a discount code for the event here:
http://www.cabume.co.uk/the-cluster/inaugural-cambridge-star...
I like this sort of thing, and was having trouble finding something to use a few weeks back. (I remembered a post from launchrock but I couldn't remember what they were called!)

"One problem, though, is that I would have to sign up for each project and then promote the links."

How is yours different? Sorry, I looked at your demo and re-read your post but I still couldn't figure that out.
You are completely right, they are huge relative to the size of PostageApp, but they are the 800-pound gorillas in the industry.

There are other, much larger companies such as Exact Target, Eloqua, and Constant Contact, but they serve a different market and are not directly in competition with us.

Wasn't a completely accurate comparison, but just an anecdotal way for me to explain that not all competitors are slow. :)
What Was a Disgraced Korean Cloning Scientist Doing in Libya?
Susan Kare. Enough said.
Unintended Acceleration and Other Embedded Software Bugs
Also:

href=//www.google.com/

Title is funny :)
I think they could drop margin:0; padding:0 from css, default values in browsers won't change much for this type of page anyway.
How about redirecting the argument to state:

"You are giving your life away"

If you change it that way, then I agree 100%.

This line:

"Do you expect us to be forever passive while you get rich stealing our lives?"

Really bothered me. There's nothing wrong with getting rich, and there's nothing wrong with paying people what they're willing to work for. Instead of placing the blame on someone else, perhaps people like this should look inward.
Code Frustration
How the News Impacts Your Health
Am I the only one who doesn't understand this at all?

As far as I can tell, Mahalo.com is a video site. Why on earth would google going after content farms affect a video site in any way?

To me, this headline makes about as much sense as "Microsoft changes Windows 7 pricing, pork belly futures skyrocket." Am I missing something?
> It's easy to be indignant when you wilfully misunderstand and/or ignore the fundamental principles of human society.

Which, I guess, is exploitation :)
foljs comment shouldn't have been flagged. some libertarian probably took offense at the mention of scandinavia:

1 point by foljs 43 minutes ago | link [dead]

It's also easy to believe that what goes on in your small part of the world is according to the "fundamental principles of human society".

Most of the shit you take from your employers wouldn't fly on advanced Western European (inc. Scandinavian) countries.

To quote G. Bernard Shaw, "he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
You should try us out now! We've been using this system for all our own support for many many months and we've had 40 beta testers banging on it. Plus we have a 30-day free trial so you can play around. :)
You should add some buttons to populate the grid with some of the more well known of the game's denizens. Perhaps let the user select from a list of patterns, then insert that pattern when the grid is clicked instead of toggling an individual cell.

See the excellent http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/ for some ideas. That site also has its own RLE syntax for defining the patterns, so maybe you could crawl it and allow the user to use any of the 600-odd patterns they have on there.

That site brings back good memories from uni, I spent a long time converting iterations of GoL grids into MIDI notes and piping them to synths to make generative acid house.
It gives users a false sense of security. The average user is far more willing to trust an arbitrary iPhone application than an arbitrary Windows application, do you not agree?
Mercurial 1.8 released: git subrepos, bookmarks in core
The fact that Ada did computer programming before she had a machine to program on should be promoted as an important piece of information for programmers and leaders to consider when they think about security.

Any computer program that can run is basically just an expression in a kind of very fussy and boggy discrete math. It might be a pain in the butt, but eventually someone would be able to figure it out, even if all the only resources they had were the code, a pen, some paper, and a lot of time.

If you want to do something like DRM, then you have to take Ada's feat and its implications into account. The key is that many forms of computer security are best considered as manpower issues involving two opposing and competing forces. The way computer software gets online patches nowadays halfway acknowledges this, but this fact is still poorly misunderstood by many people, resulting in recurring reddit posts like this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/e8xw2/why_does_ad...

In particular, there is a lot of commonsense knowledge that has been applied to opposing pools of manpower which has been around for centuries which security people have seemingly forgotten about, yet which is highly applicable to the current state of software security. If you haven't guesssed, I'm talking about basic military tactics. What increases the effectiveness of your own manpower while diminishing the effectiveness of your opponent's manpower? Can you make large portions of your opponent's manpower irrelevant in certain contexts and exploit those opportunities? There are a lot of dirty tricks of the kind ancient generals played on their enemies which are applicable to the modern conflict of computer security.

Also, thinking about a larger, strategic context is also highly applicable to computer security. If an ancient general decided to conquer a region, he not only thought about how he could outmaneuver his enemies' forces, or how his soldiers could out-fight the enemy, the best of the ancient generals would give some thought to why his enemies would fight to begin with. Can you deny your enemy a pretext to recruit his forces in the first place? Is it possible to further your own aims and never give your enemy a reason to organize and fight? Is it possible to deny your enemy the resources to support their efforts?

It's time for a more sophisticated view of the security ratrace.

EDIT: Companies that implement DRM or security are usually involved in what amounts to asymmetric warfare -- and as they are unaccustomed to thinking about, they are the underdogs. What history teaches us, is that there are ways for the underdog to win.
Google user-managed storage launches with up to 16 terabytes of space
is it just me or does this get posted like once every 8 months or so?
No, from logic. I don't have a Mac to develop on, sorry.
Sorry, let me clarify that. Launchrock is operating on an "invite" basis themselves (a meta-startup). This means that for every time I would want to use them, I have to sign up and start retweeting their viral link.

This is different because it's an open sourced RoR application which you can deploy and begin using immediately.
Doesn't seem like it unfortunately. IIRC previous streamed events have had a placeholder page up by now.
Feedhenry: Building Mobile Apps In The Cloud
Good question. If I should answer it 100% honestly, I would say I've reached that conclusion trough very unscientific means: personal experience and a possible "postive" conformational bias.

Examples of this would be me having issues with Google services or applications, Googling for answers and then finding forum-posts on the Google forums discussing the problem.

These posts would mainly consist of 3 things: 1. Original poster asking for advice on a problem he has. 2. Other people experiencing the same problem, stating so and in some cases offering workarounds of various quality and reliability. 3. A complete lack of response from Google's end. No confirmation that it is a known bug with or without workarounds or a confirmation that this is a bug and that it is being investigated. Nothing.

These threads, when I find them, tends to be at least a year old if not more, with a staggering amount of people experiencing the same problem and all this with the issue at hand remaining unfixed. To quote a comment I read in one of those threads: "It's pretty obvious that Google doesn't listen and Google doesn't care".

Moving back to your question: "How would you tell if that wasn't true?". I guess in these cases I actually wouldn't, so it is indeed a good question.

But I know that for all the issues I've had, I still have them and they are still entirely unadressed by Google. Reporting problems to Google feels like showeling data into a write-only device and I can't think of any company I've dealt with which has had such a complete absence from its customers when it comes the products and services it offers. None.

Things like reliable customer service is why companies likes to send their money towards Microsoft: With Microsoft you may have Microsoft-costs, Microsoft-problems and Microsoft-quirks, but there is a huge support-apparatus ready 24/7/365 to help you get your problems solved. To put it bluntly: Customer support is not a "I'm feeling lucky"-button.
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Actually, that the malware contained a root exploit is fixable sooner or later.

The next insight will be, that even if the sandbox had worked, this type of attack still is possible by using the user's trust in the brand of a well-known app to use the permissions granted to it for malicious intents. There's no easy way to avoid that up front automatically.
Dublin Startup Weekend: The Art Of The Possible In 54 Hours
If you want cage fights, you should also include the lean contender: http://nsl.com/k/sudoku/aw3.k

(I'll copy it here, because it's short enough for that:

p,:3/:_(p:9\:!81)%3
s:{*(,x)(,/{@[x;y;:;]'&21=x[&|/p[;y]=p]?!10}')/&~x}