skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no security expert, but I do try to keep up. Someone please correct me if my facts are off. Ahem:

Windows 7 does a lot more randomization of memory layout than Mac OS X does, making it more difficult to exploit executables and libraries shipped with the system. It's actually easier to exploit a Mac OS X machine than it is a Windows 7 machine -- see the results of pretty much every Pwn2Own [1] contest.

That said, the vast majority of spyware is targeted at Windows and doesn't need low-level exploits to do its job. It's the difference between safety and security; you're probably more safe on a Mac, even though they're technically less secure.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own
Michael Kelso is a fictional character.
And the version using philosophy appeared on Reddit before the comic as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/hgwbe/on_wikiped...
Does anyone know how this malware gets past the com.apple.quarantine attribute? That is a little concerning, though in general this is just your standard trojan attack.
Lady Gaga Becomes Weapon in Amazon's Music War With Apple
"Why Take a Compiler Course?"

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/169
Wow! Sounds terrible. I enjoyed my math and computer science courses ten time more than engineering ones. I know unified or interdisciplinary courses are supposed to model the real world, or prepare students for it, but if I wanted the real world, I wouldn't be in college. I much prefer courses based on individual pure disciplines.
One question that is worth asking is how many of these exploits can be done remotely, and how many of these exploits require physical permission to a system?

It is worth noting that there is a difference between exploits that require physical access and those that can be conducted remotely.

Speaking just for myself, I am not certain which operating system is more or less secure, but I do not think that operating system security matters as much as user habits. I have ran Windows XP since 2001 and I have never once suffered from malware or a virus (except when I transferred a USB-stick virus onto one of my computers just to see what would happen). I know that the plural of anecdote is not data, but it is worth noting that it can and has been done.
It totally worked for me, I tried it with Sausage and Cradle of Filth. I thought it was a joke, it blew me away.

But then I found that "Osama Bin Laden" crossed "philosophers" and then ended on a loop between "reason" and "rationality".

EDIT: I just tried "Osama Bin Laden", the steps it takes seems to be using a slightly different Wikipedia than I see.
Interview with Robert Martin, the author of Clean Code on software craftmanship
InsecureID: No more secrets?
True, but it is my understanding that the randomization will finally be addressed in Lion (Address Space Layout Randomization)

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/25/apple_exposing...
I would start out with just a standalone web app since I don't have much experience with android/iOS. I'll use that as a proving ground to see what I can come up with.

Starting with NYC is a great idea. It would pose more challenges than smaller cities and rural areas, but if I can get it to work for NYC, everywhere else should be relatively easy.
My current passive revenue stream is low, as in I cannot afford to make a living out of it and still have a day job, but it is continually improving ... so I may not be the best source for such advices.

That said there are 3 advices that I've heard and that seem to work for me - (1) it takes an awful lot of time for going from zero to making a living, as in at least 3 years if you're lucky or really good, (2) whatever you do, it needs to be a low-enough effort (as in a couple of hours per week tops), otherwise it isn't sustainable and (3) you must not put your eggs inside a single basket.

Building software and selling it is a great source of revenue. It is also passive revenue. If you're good at building software, then do that. It doesn't matter what you do much, as long as you're good at it. Some people earn indecent amounts of money just by blogging.
Are you talking about the dialog warning you about opening software from the web?

Might it be because the zip file is extracted automatically? (open safe files in safari)

Or is an installer not considered an application is apple's eyes?

Edit: well, i just checked without open safe files (I just found it today on a google image search, google plays a big part in the distribution of this). And there still is no warning when opening the zip. I assume once extracted it doesn't know it was downloaded from the web. Is it that easy to circumvent?
Any intelligent and sufficiently motivated individual could bypass airport security with a weapon. Why does it exist?
@citizenkeys You're making the assumption that the applicant applied for a specific job and/or Company. An employer checking out videos on this site is not the same thing. If that were true, an employer would be required to interview every profile they looked at on Monster and CareerBuilder. I agree with @benmccann, by your logic in-person interviews would violate EEO laws.
> He cherry picked on example of an industry (drugs) that is illegal.

Drugs are not illegal, only ones not approved by the FDA.

> Next are you going to argue that since America bans Doctors from providing assisted suicide we don't have a country open to entrepreneurship?

Look at the hoops we have to go thru. http://www.scribd.com/doc/55945011/Intro-to-Stock-and-Option...

> Put it in perspective, the guy in the BBC story sold milk.

The FDA just raided an Amish farm for selling milk, I shit you not.
Electrons are fantastically round, say British scientists
Some dubious <strike>porn company</strike> adult-dating-site for sure. Maybe even Microsoft as @sradnidge notes.
Have you taken a look at Walk Score (http://www.walkscore.com/)? Is it something that comes along the lines of what you we're thinking, except a bit more personalized with taking into consideration your workplace?
Also try turning off spell check or writing something significant on paper and see how well we do these days.
Today is a Big Verizon Phone Launch Day with Four New Devices
Why? They backed down.
This is no joke: 21 clicks from Kevin Bacon to Philosophy. Welcome to the Internet equivalent of a child repeatedly asking, "why?"
I did. Took 15 steps however.
Kudos? Texas blinked and the bill isn't going to pass. The TSA would have been ripped to shreds by the airline industry had this passed and the TSA actually tried to cancel flights.

When are we going to get someone with balls to stand up to this egregious destruction of personal rights?
Mozilla Firefox, Nvidia and YouTube Bring 3D HTML5 Video to the Web
Senator Asks Apple and Google to Require Clear Privacy Policies for Apps
Funny conversation in the office:

"A combination of excessive bureaucracy and corrupt officials makes it a hazardous enterprise."

Isn't that the same in the US?

Yes, except - in America, the government bribes business; in Soviet Russia, you bribe the government.
Ericsson Labs announce Web Real-time Communication
The --no-rodc --no-ri issue is one I want to reopen for discussion at some point, but I don't think it's as important as many of the other issues that need to be discussed, nor is it urgent.

I agree with you that like many other things, this wasn't handled especially well. I also think that a pull request with hundreds of +1's looks and feels like a riot. That can't be the best way to draw someone's best emotions out of them.

Please send me your thoughts, even if they don't lead to change in the current atmosphere, they will be documented and shared so that if anything does change, there will be a place to find them. Also, you'd be surprised how much of the shutdown comes from these personally charged conflicts. Ryan and Eric have given me an open ear. They should be turning that ear to their whole userbase, but this is a start.
But, if you stop the X server, what happens to the processes connected to it?
Nat Turner (Thoughts on best ways to manage a VC round)
15 stepf from Philosophy to Philosophy ..

what are the implications?
Yeah, that actually makes more sense right. Right now the normal, lightning, and chaos modes have very little to differentiate each other from. Essentially, the normal mode is 4 times as long as the chaos mode, with really no other difference. At least varying the seconds would make the difficulty more palpable.
I know the drama kids didn't sit with the computer club kids at the high school lunch table

We did at my school.
BareMetal is a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers
Thanks for the data. Guess it's time to see whether my ISP has a data cap or not.
Reiterating the Windows and MacOSX fix:

http://heartbeat.skype.com/2011/05/problems_signing_into_sky...

For me on Ubuntu - simply moving the .Skype directory and rerunning the program worked
The american people could never easily spot totalitarian acts by the government. The 'destruction of personal rights' is all over the country and all over multiple areas of life.

It's time for everyone to make a stand, not just Texas.
The top poster in that discussion doesn't make a very good argument. He starts out with casual slander, makes it clear he has little understanding of how Bitcoin works, and then goes on to claim that it will fail because it will indefinitely appreciate in value at such a rate that no-one will ever want to spend it.
I fixed the problem by removing ~/.Skype/shared.xml, so if you need to do it again try that.
Apple Finally Acknowledges MacDefender Scareware Infections, Promises Fix
Its true that the Unity UI was influenced by the Mac OS dock, but there have been a lot of UNIX UIs that were using docks all the way back into the 90s.

Also, its not true that Compiz stole the Windows 7 snapping feature, that was in Beryl even before Windows Vista came out. They _did_ steal the Windows 7 auto-tiling and MacOS expose though - so you do have a point. Its sort of nice to see all the cross pollination between the different platforms, and nice to think that UNIX is contributing a lot to pushing forward the state of the art.
...would have had to shut down Texas airports as it “could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew.”

They already can't do it now, but that doesn't keep them from shutting down airports.

Edit: wrote that last part wrong - I meant we don't see them shutting down airports now.
I too thought that the questions were blatantly obvious, yet wouldn't have asked (some of) them myself. This is an indicator of mastery, to make the difficult seem easy.
I think angel investing is cool precisely because it is a bad investment. Ashton Kutcher could give all of his money to a responsible financial planner but why not gamble some on the next big thing? AirBNB seems like a good choice for him to bet on, and they'll benefit from his notoriety.
Bessemer’s Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS
A side note, decision trees are also very important for functional programming languages - they are used to make pattern matching very efficient. Luc Maranget shows how the idea of necessity (taken from lazy pattern matching) can make particularly good decisions trees in this lovely paper that I've been pouring over http://moscova.inria.fr/~maranget/papers/ml05e-maranget.pdf.
The commenter "seeker" asks the question: "Since when can the TSA cancel flights in airports that they neither own or manage? Last I checked, most of the large Texas airports were owned and managed by cities in which they reside."

Who does own these airports?

I think the TSA is bluffing implying that they can directly cancel flights, but they certainly have the power to deny anyone past security such that there are no passengers to fly.

That sounds like a terribly chaotic situation.
Yes, you do. 15 steps.
That's why I thought that a bad answer to pg asking "how did users find you?" is what the guy from the graph db gave him, "because we are the easiest!". Total marketing talk.
No need to cancel flights. A better TSA response would have been to just not let those you want to pat down board.
No, I don't think this is taking pedantry a bit too far.

As other replies to the parent comment show, people seem to feel that this sort of abuse (meaning the registering of absurdly generic trademarks) is typical of a large organisation like EMI.

The fact is, this is a false belief (at least in this case).

It's false as EMI didn't trademark the word. We can go around blaming cultures like EMI's for mistakes made by individuals decades earlier, but I don't think that's a valid way to argue. Do you?
There's a big difference between just having tiling windows and having all the features that make them more useful than a stacking windows manager.

But really we should be giving credit to Plan 9 here for pioneering the model of the modern tiling windows manager.
"because [visual design is] so easy to pick up by cruising Dribbble for inspiration"

It is?
I tried OOP, eventually arriving at Philosophy -- OMG, it works :))
> At my recent Ebertfest, one seasoned director called the projection in the 90-year old Virginia Theater in Urbana-Champaign "the best I've ever seen." That's because we use two of the best projectionists in the nation, James Bond, who consults on high-level projection facilities...

James Bond? Okay, not every theater can afford to have James Bond in the projection booth... ;-)

- - -

A serious and interesting information is that for Pirates 4, people apparently chose to see the film in 2D (60% of first week gross) rather than 3D: "Not only is this a clear rejection of 3D on a major movie, but given how distribution is currently designed, it makes you wonder whether Disney cost themselves a lot of gross by putting their film on too high a percentage of 3D screens." (quoted from Gitesh Pandya of BoxOfficeGuru.com)
Gnome shell is not aimed at technical users. It's simplified or removed many features which were present in Gnome 2, as well as a lot of customization. The tagline, "Made of easy", and the usability testing they've done suggest that Gnome 3 is trying to be a general purpose environment that anyone can use.
did they do that thing yet where they were going to synthesize his voice from past reviews?

Sure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR9OS74Sa8s

They had it working last year IIRC.
OK, that's now the set of solutions I've got. You've also gone some way to showing them to be complete.

More to do, though.

And now do it for an equilateral triangle.
The majority of normal financial transactions are also secured by public key encryption that is potentially vulnerable to a quantum computer.
I had never seen Padmapper before. It certainly solves the some of the issues I have been having. It doesn't solve the problem of optimizing the location for commute times, etc. But, it is far more intuitive than finding a listing and then plugging its address into google maps.
That's a good question. Perhaps they do it for the same reason that a police officer stands by road construction crews now. The officer has no radar gun, yet everybody slows down and behaves when they are there. If someone were really motivated they could cause havoc at the work site even though the officer was there.

But maybe this just keeps the not so intelligent and motivated from getting involved.

I mean, why would someone try to smuggle a knife aboard in his shoe? http://www.tsa.gov/press/goodcatch/050511_artfully_concealed...
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg Death Sentence Reportedly Dropped In Pakistan
Plasma is just a framework for building little desktop widgets, isn't it? Except that everything on the desktop (including icons and taskbar) is a widget?
Mobile payments: Can Google put all the pieces together?
Bastard beat me to it!

Friend of mine was graphing out all of the connections (using Graphviz) and found some interesting patterns. Ultimately you can say the same thing for "Science", "Knowledge", and even "Mathematics".
A few years ago at Railscamp in Australia, Andrew Grimm proved this exact outcome. His code is here: https://github.com/agrimm/philosophy-dump-parser and https://github.com/agrimm/philosophy-navigation.
The first Windows had a dock in 1985. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/11/20/happy-annivers...
Off-Screen Cache with HTML5's Canvas
Even the politics are theater. Texas backed down the moment they were threatened.

Who the heck gave the TSA so much power? They cannot even be defunded.

Meanwhile congress voted themselves special exemptions to bypass the TSA searches, so they don't even care what happens.
Hello World, by Oracle
Even with copyright law, Lord of the Rings was almost not made.

Trouble struck when Marty Katz was sent to New Zealand. Spending four months there, he told Miramax that the films were more likely to cost $150 million, and with Miramax unable to finance this, and with $15 million already spent, they decided to merge the two films into one. On 17 June 1998, Bob Weinstein presented a treatment of a single two-hour film version of the book. He suggested cutting Bree and the Battle of Helm's Deep, "losing or using" Saruman, merging Rohan and Gondor with Éowyn as Boromir's sister, shortening Rivendell and Moria as well as having Ents prevent the Uruk-hai kidnapping Merry and Pippin.[9] Upset by the idea of "cutting out half the good stuff"[10] Jackson balked, and Miramax declared that any script or work completed by Weta Workshop was theirs.[9] Jackson went around Hollywood for four weeks,[10] showing a thirty-five minute video of their work, before meeting with Mark Ordesky of New Line Cinema.[11] At New Line Cinema, Robert Shaye viewed the video, and then asked why they were making two films when the book was published as three volumes; he wanted to make a film trilogy. Now Jackson, Walsh, and Boyens had to write three new scripts.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_film_tril...]

And because of copyright law, we now have a shitty screen version of Atlas Shrugged that takes place in the future? C'mon!

I am not advocating abolition, only reform. I am not sure it is even possible to create copyright-free material in the United States. The producer of the content would be required to explicitly waive copyright.
Be interesting to see a court case with the much touted 'feds beat states' on the one side and the 1st amendment's 'or the right of the people peaceably to assemble' clause on the other. Might even lead to the whole TSA operation being struck down 'security' or no...
I tried it with Iraq, but the page parsing is slightly wrong. Got this result.

Iraq
Arabic_language
Languages
Human
Precambrian
Eon_(geology)
Chronology
Time
Measurement
Magnitude_(mathematics)
Property_(philosophy)
Modern_philosophy
Philosophy
12 steps to philosophy

But the link to Arabic is in parentheses. The first non-parenthesesed link is to Western Asia.
Genuine Question: Can anyone give an example of something useful that has been done with this OS, or is planned for the very near future?
Objective Logistics, Restaurant Tech Startup, Looks to Expose "Labor Graph"
Forcing Scripts to Run as root
The Unity UI looks and functions nothing like a web browser?
(iii) because when it breaks you're at the mercy of the vendor to fix it.
This is almost exactly what I was thinking, but in reverse. Instead of plugging in your address, you would plug in the places you frequently visit (work, school, etc.) and it would spit out the ideal locations to live.
In the States, a black person has a much higher probability landing in a jail. Does this mean we should say that all the black are criminals and the rest are law-abiding citizens? The world isn't black & white. On another note, corruption in the West just works differently. In the developing countries it's the average Joe who gives the bribe to an official. In developed countries it's the lobbyist who invites a congressman for a steak.
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Who the heck gave the TSA so much power?

It's not that the TSA has that much power, it's where their power is derived from. The TSA is a federal authority, and all federal laws supercede state and local laws, per the Constitution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause).
Yaws 1.9.0 released
"Texas is barred by the U.S. Constitution from regulating the federal government."

They're so selective in obeying the constitution.
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EA Montreal has become a highly successful operation in the EA network of development studios. Building new Intellectual Properties and creating titles based on established EA franchises, the team in Montreal produces a wide range of titles for multiple platforms and genres. The studio has attracted game developers from the Montreal market and around the world to work in this highly entrepreneurial, creative environment. The EA Montreal location now includes Visceral Games Montreal, EA Mobile, BioWare Montreal, Pogo.com, Hasbro, and more.

Visceral Games Montreal has an opening for a talented Gameplay Programmer! The team is currently very small and toward the beginning of the development cycle. Gameplay Programmers focus on game strategy and the "feel" of a game, and will inevitably be involved with more specialized areas of the game's development, such as graphics or sound. This may include implementing strategy tables, tweak input code, or adjust other factors that alter the game. We prefer generalists who are comfortable writing complex systems, such as world management, character interaction, A.I., and other creative systems that take games to a new level.

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Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills, and have strong creative, collaborative, and problem-solving skills.
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I think what's being said here is that it's easy to pick up the ideas of visual design, not the actual skill (I hope). As a budding designer, Dribbble is definitely helpful in allowing you to see "the bar" and improve how you approach certain projects. However, it is most definitely NOT easy to "pick up [visual design] by cruising Dribbble."
For those who have a longer procrastination time ahead, you might prefer (re)reading http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html than elaborating on definition loops. It strikes me how simple and yet deep are PG insights on topics that seem to be outside his usual field. Here he just proposes to take Aristotle in one hand, Wittgenstein in another, wrap all philosophy in between and throw the thing over board. Then rebuild from scratch, changing the partially wrong premisses from metaphysics (general useless ideas) to science (general useful ideas).

Someone knows if this article had some echoes in the philosophy field? Or was it completely ignored?
I agree that authors should avoid responding to reviews. However, this is the most gracious response to a review I have ever read from an author. From everything I have read from authors, it does not matter how many books they sell, bad reviews still hurt.
Its supposed to stop at philosophy..