skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
presence of firewall would mean that somebody took some care about the web interface security. Once at it, they could go as far as to even patch the Apache ... The described situation at Sony seems that nobody took any care. Why would the company need a good sysadmin when it has an army of lawyers and money for it :)

"Sony said it has added automated software monitoring and enhanced data security and encryption to its systems in the wake of the recent security breaches."

sounds like they have thrown a substantial amount of money (instead of skills) into the problem.
I'm not sure I understand Stallman's comment. He is against letting "a few of the users ... hold total power over the rest". Isn't that the whole point of a system administrator? He seems to be explicitly in favour of making it so that a leaked root password will allow any user to run riot over the system. Is he an anarchist? Or did they not have malicious users or idiots in 1984? I admittedly know almost nothing about system administration.
We have no idea what rules of engagement (ROE) they were operating under. If the ROE for the mission said, "every adult in the compound is to be considered hostile," then the operators wouldn't wait to confirm if someone was armed or not before shooting.
That's really stupid, I agree.
But if your webhost was also dumb enough to block port 25 outbound on their firewall, would you say that Netscreen Firewalls are stupid?

A firewall is only as good as the rules the admins have deployed on it. Deploying tight rules like that on shared hosting is very stupid, but the rules used and modsecurity itself are two separate things.
I read the whole thread and it doesn't change my argument. You don't seem to understand economics or different value systems.

Obviously SOME people make the choice to go do startups even though they could make more MONEY (at least initially) at an IB.

Wonder how that happened?
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Making a Server / Client setup.
"I don't need a gang anymore, I have NASA"
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Skeptics - Do expensive, "premium" speaker cables actually make a difference?
I agree. I'm in data analytics.. I wonder if they would take fairly unexperienced programmers.
I can tell you've spent a lot of time around judges. If there is anything they love, it's being made a fool of or losing face in their own courtroom.
JavaScript as a target language isn't unheard of--Google Web Toolkit compiles Java to JavaScript. You're right in that machine translating Scheme to JavaScript is very uncommon.
Considering the "forgot password" fallback for virtually every site is your email address, and you can't disable it, most websites are only as secure as your email security.
Good to see they're responding to the criticism so fast. Handing out /116's seems a bit of a weird choice, but that's not really a problem.

I'd be interested in hearing how they handle the routing within the data centers. Is it all just ethernet, and whoever uses ND (IPv6's ARP) to announce an address gets data to that address routed, or is are there some kind of subnets in between? How do they avoid someone stealing an address in your pool?
From "Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software":

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"The hackers who wrote the Incompatible Timesharing System decided that file protection was usually used by a self-styled system manager to get power over everyone else," Stallman would later explain. "They didn't want anyone to be able to get power over them that way, so they didn't implement that kind of a feature. The result was, that whenever something in the system was broken, you could always fix it."

Through such vigilance, hackers managed to keep the AI Lab's machines security-free. Over at the nearby MIT Laboratory for Computer Sciences, however, security-minded faculty members won the day. The LCS installed its first password-based system in 1977. Once again, Stallman took it upon himself to correct what he saw as ethical laxity. Gaining access to the software code that controlled the password system, Stallman implanted a software command that sent out a message to any LCS user who attempted to choose a unique password. If a user entered "starfish," for example, the message came back something like:

I see you chose the password "starfish." I suggest that you switch to the password "carriage return." It's much easier to type, and also it stands up to the principle that there should be no passwords.
It also makes the NEA look like a joke, severely in need of a budget cut. At a time when cutting budgets is (or at least should be) the number one priority of congress, sticking your head up to say "Hey, who wants some money to make video games?" is a really bad idea.

It's interesting that the only areas of art in which really good stuff is stil produced are the areas of art in which things are done for profit, rather than as part of some scramble for government funding. The United States of America has produced many, many great artists and artworks over the past century, particularly in areas such as film, music and indeed (to a lesser yet increasing extent) video games. But as far as I know, no great work of art has ever been produced by NEA funding. Heck, I doubt that a work of art as compelling as Blazing Saddles has ever been produced by NEA funding.
su has uses even when everyone knows the root password. It allows you to run a command as a different user without logging out.

I also am not sure that Stallman accepted the need for passwords at all when he wrote that text. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman:

"When MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) installed a password control system in 1977, Stallman found a way to decrypt the passwords and sent users messages containing their decoded password, with a suggestion to change it to the empty string (that is, no password) instead, to re-enable anonymous access to the systems"
I am happy you finally get what I've been trying to say Mr.3. And no, I'm not getting into it again with you :-) (it's a public forum, look it up). It's not that serious anyway. Happy Cinco! :)
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I'm hoping that is mainly because of the run-up to the new OS X Lion release.
Actually, the blog entry mentions it, just not the article: http://xph.us/2011/04/13/introducing-doozer.html
Google Trends shows sudden decline for Google.com
Ok, I was really curious, so here's what I found so far:

http://www.channelsurfing.net/

http://atdhe.net/

http://www.rojadirecta.org/

http://www.firstrow.net/

http://ilemi.com/

Most were video streaming websites.
Can't help but trust this article more due to the word "Experts" in the heading.

Sarcasm aside, referencing "experts" is usually a red flag for me in articles like this. What incentive is there for the actual experts to offer their opinions on the matter to ABC news?
Interesting read. One of my favorite quotes is "finding the right people is really the killer feature". So true, especially in the open source world.
seems to have happened across other google sites too:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=google.co.uk%2C+google.es%2C+...
I work in a large software company, and while the advice is valid and valuable (you should strive for professionalism and clear communication wherever you are), IMHO it's far from reliable in terms of career advancement.

If your goal is maximizing compensation, luck, and being in the right place at the right time has a huge factor also. If you're working on mind-numbing, cost-center corporate systems, it really doesn't matter how on top of the ball you are and how well you organize/communicate, your salary isn't going to grow by leaps and bounds.

After watching the industry and people in it for a couple of years now (and experiencing BigCo software for myself), I'm convinced that the only reliable route to big raises is moving jobs. I've seen many people leave this place for a big raise, and then come back 2-3 years later with an even bigger raise, outpacing even the most dedicated, professional people who decided to stay the course.

So, secret to getting paid in BigCo software land: switch jobs as much as you can, stopping short of being seen as a flake (2-3 years each is good).
Ask HN: Moving to Spain from the USA, any tips?
I'm moving to Spain in the next few months and I'm trying to figure out what to do for a job. The type of visa I'm getting does not let me work locally for 1 year. I'd really like to be able to join a U.S. based startup and work remotely. Unfortunately, it seems like nobody is hiring remote operations/systems engineers.

Any tips?
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Here is the actual Doozer introduction by its creator: http://xph.us/2011/04/13/introducing-doozer.html
And this is the fundamental point all the people saying there is nothing 'new' about Go miss.
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I disagree that it's possible to paint all developers using this language with such a broad brush. By this notion everyone that uses Rails loves being a "ninja" and monkey patching.
Dude, what's up with the attitude?

This have nothing to do with understanding economics or value systems. You keep repeating the same strawmen that have nothing to do with my argument.

Why don't you point to something I said specifically instead of just weaving an argument against claims I am not making.
Either way, facebook ads aren't useful. If running a startup no one is running after Facebook ads like they ran after Google in the good days. Google made people money, not just ones with huge budgets. Facebook can bring awareness and that social experience, but do I have to have a huge budget for it to work? More than likely. Like I said no one is chasing Facebook ads.
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This is like Dale Carnegie's advice to remember friend's birthdays. Its a good advice, it may even work for you but there is something mundane about it that I don't like it.

Moms always teach their kids to be a good boy/girl. That only makes you how to fit in with the crowd and be mediocre.

What I learned from Hacker news is completely different.

Have the balls to break the rules. Try new things, new approaches, new ideas and fail often. Take risks, whats the worst that can happen? live and adapt the world to your ideas, build something that people use even if you don't have anyone's approval.

Your career need not be this precious brittle thing that you want to be so careful and follow this many rules to be visible to your managers, not pissing off anyone so that you can become a middle manager yourself someday being a good corporate citizen and living inside a box.

outliers do not follow rules.
I have to say, Facebook ads have been spookily relevant to my interests and I click them almost regularly. When I'm on Facebook, I'm just looking to waste time anyway, so an interesting ad might get a click. Google search ads are usually for sites I already knew about and visited.
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The underlying report http://www.freedomhouse.org/images/File/FotN/FOTN2011.pdf only evaluates 37 countries "chosen to provide a representative sample
with regards to geographical diversity and economic development, as well as varying levels
of political and media freedom"; declaring Iran to be worst is like determining the youngest person in town by doing a telephone survey of 1/5 of the households.

The report itself makes no such claim, and presents reasonably thorough descriptions of those countries which it does cover. They do not have the resources to include France, North Korea, Rwanda, Sweden or 154 other nations.
I actually did know that, but it wouldn't mean anything to most people, and the actual time frame attached to the present perfect tense depends a lot on context. If you say, "I have done things I'm not proud of," that implies a vastly different time period than "I have hated him since he walked out on me." So I thought it was simplest just to point out that it was not the past tense and that it reads most naturally as something that has been true up to the present.
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"The President might have known something the Seals didn't about the possibility of resistance from the Pakistani military...The President might have known something the Seals didn't about the possibility of resistance from the Pakistani military."

If the president knew such critical information and didn't share it up-front with the operators planning the mission, that's a big fail on his part. Given the sensitivity of this operation, if he didn't trust the people involved with all of the critical information about the situation, he shouldn't have trusted them to execute the mission, either. I can see how he might not want to share the details about which generals were in league with who, but that doesn't preclude the pre-planning intel brief from including a warning that the Pakistani military might interfere with the operation. There is absolutely no excuse for the operators to not have such critical information before they start planning their mission, rather than "Oops, we forgot to mention..." after they have already built a plan.

In practice, high-level leaders often get much less resolution in their intel than those below them: they need to know the big picture, not necessarily all of the little details. I somehow doubt that the President was micromanaging the planning process and intel dissemination in this way. I think that a far more likely scenario is that two or more plans were developed and presented to the President and his national security team, with the strengths and weaknesses of each plan. For example:

Plan A: Minimum number of helicopters. Reduces our exposure and the chances of detection, but sharply limits our options for dealing with contingencies.

Plan B: Back-up helicopters loiter a few miles from the target area. Increases our footprint and the chances of detection, but gives us far better options for dealing with contingencies.

I could easily see how the reality was that the President said, "Let's go with plan B: I want you guys to have the backup if you need it," which then went through the "telephone game" and ended up being reported as "President Saves the Day by Reminding SEALs to Bring Spare Helicopter."
This is substantially more sanitary than I believed when I first read the article's title.
That makes a lot more sense in Gnome, a world-distributed open source project, than it does on many websites, where it's quite easy to figure out the source of the majority of your traffic.
If they can't see, they can't be told what this image says on the page, the only image on the page. Imagine if there were important information in it or something other than just a warning.
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OK, I see what you mean. I was speaking from the perspective of the advertiser.
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IANAL and don't have the time to arrange something like this or I would def try.

PS: I would throw money someone's way to do this too.
FB had already managed to get the people from Google, and that's (so far) hadn't gotten the expected result.

So, as you mention, it is time for the advertisers to adjust. They might, and FB will be happy -- but if we can learn from RTB - the "intent to buy" (or "intent to act" in general) is worth some 80-90% of the impression value. So FB is potentially running in neutral until they can manufacture that.
I think the Doozer people misunderstood Zookeeper. They claim that ZK is focused on providing locks, but ZK really just provides a consistent hierarchical datastore that can then be used to construct locks, perform leader election, etc. See http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.3.3/recipes.html
WAFs are usually viewed as relatively useless as they waste time on dumb attacks (specifically blacklisting) that harms more than it helps. Only the stupidest attacks can be caught using WAFs and they are more likely to block legitimate traffic than to help with security.

The idea is similar to using blacklists in filter functions in XSS or SQL protection mechanisms. In theory they could block all malicious but in practice they're poorly written and poorly configured crap that act as more security theatre than anything else. The proper approach is to use context-sensitive whitelists for all client input, not add on layers of what is essentially protocol grep.
While the Go language is still under development you will run into problems from syntax and API changes. I think the existence of the gofix command speaks more about the quality of the effort put into Go as a whole. They actually put in the effort to make syntax and API changes as easy to fix as possible.
It'd be interesting to see how the domain shown next to the title factors into this too. Seems like everything from GitHub always does very well.
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The majority of people aren't on Facebook to look or click on any ads. Not only Facebook, but any ad at all online. Facebook may target some of your interests, but advertisers want buyers and they just don't get that with Facebook.
This logic only makes the tiniest bit of sense if 'su' is the only way escalate privileges. Almost every real system has many ways to escalate, especially for someone who already knows the root password. telnet, sudo, X11, ftp, and last but not least, 'login'.

"OK", you say "maybe all those are turned off for root". Well, even then there are likely many other accounts with some degree of privilege. Often these can be leveraged to root access. For example: the members of the wheel group.
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Ironically, "sudo su" works really well if you do need to get to root. But yeah, "sudo" is a much safer practice.
I find the idea of automatically calculating and tracking one's "social capital" disturbing.
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Thanks for the invite codes.

I have used 'KH9MrV'.
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The two most important updates since the original announcement are that Newark, NJ is now IPv6 enabled and that you can now get more than one IPv6 address for free.
You have been brainwashed by Google AdWords for too long, which is normal, since it had been the only game in town for 10 years.

Facebook ads work (http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2011/04/01/sell-your-google-sto...). Yes, intent-based advertising converts better. But that's irrelevent.

In Google's limited view of the world, life starts when the customer is looking for your product. As an advertiser on Facebook, I can raise awareness for my product first, then convert those people who are interested. So when you look at CPC or CPM on Facebook, keep in mind that you derive two values from your ads: awareness and intent. Google only does intent, so their CPC numbers look "better" but it's a misperception.
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Show HN: Gitalytics.com - Quicker Way to check someone's github profile
Since everyone seems to be making a github application, I thought I'd share mine.

It's an aggregated view of all of a given person's github projects, as well as easyish lookups for linkedin/stackoverflow/hackernews. It attempts to determine both productivity (how much code did this person write?) as well as impact (did anyone care?)

I'd love any feedback, but go easy on the number of simultaneous searches as I'm trying to play nice by github's api limits.

check it -- http://www.gitalytics.com
Intent is all important in this stuff. I can justify spending $5 per CLICK on Google, because about 30% of the time that user really is looking for my service and interested in using it.

Facebook lacks that intent, so their CPC is always going to be quite a bit lower. Unless they can monetize intent. Every day there have to be millions of "can someone recommend a <blank>" status updates. That'd be an ad I'd be interested in buying.
I don't pretend to be a designer (I know how to use photoshop though) and I designed this page in 2 hours. I assume I follow the current trends. Nothing wrong, is it ?
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I can't conceive of a world where "there should be no passwords" or "keep these machines security-free" were ever serious positions held by software engineers. It's Garden of Eden thinking.
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Those both make sense. Reason #3 could be "showing off". In the real world, when men perform impressive feats to help others often the real reason is to impress women.

This runs all the way from courageous knights errant to spotty teenagers feigning an interest in Habitat for Humanity.
I think that's the point — if opportunistic financial success is his only goal, there's no good reason to believe he won't sell you out. It's the same reason we don't offer incentive bonuses to gravediggers.

As for his media companies, again, they're great if you're just measuring money, but they're not all necessarily well-respected by their peers. Fox News is tremendously successful from a financial standpoint, but it doesn't have a great reputation as an actual news source among people who don't agree with Murdoch's politics.
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I had a George helping me with a couple of projects, people like that are uniquely useful. I don't think I've ever been so motivated to get coding!
1. Did you even read my previous comment?

2. I made no "large jumps of logic" like I said, it was open speculation. Now please get off your high horse and quit repeating things that have already been said--everything you assert in your second point is proving wrong in my previous comment.

Do you not realize you're just discouraging people asking questions? That's essentially what you're advocating.
Unless some other smartass is doing it too, it was probably me. Every time one of these domain seizures comes up I point out that the page you're redirected to isn't accessible to Americans With Disabilities. Petty? Maybe. It would be nice to force their hand once in a while.
This is something I dont understand; Why are we not using e-ink in signage more.

E-readers are great gadgets - but there is a multi-billion dollar signage market that is waiting for disruption.

Make e-ink screens in larger formats and use them all over the place.

A hospital I recently worked on had over 1 million dollars worth of signage, static traditional signage, printed up. And they were struggling to find better ways to do signage and wayfinding.

If we have e-ink panels that were easily integrated into structures and addressable (arduino wifi cards) we could really do some interesting things with signage.

Let the tablet market takes its course, while e-ink fills in areas that tablets are too much.
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I really miss the time when you could assume that, if someone had access to your computer, he or she was qualified to properly operate it.
"Like it or not, you must learn at least the bare minimum about Windows"

This might have been true in 1995. It's not true today.
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