skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The infection doesn't actually occur within Safari. When you click a link, your browser is redirected to a file download. The default behavior in Safari is to unpack and run "safe" downloads. So, what happens is:

1. You click a link in Safari

2. The installer package is downloaded

3. Safari unpacks it and executes the installer

Note: you are not infected yet

4. The user completes the installer wizard, entering their password along the way

5. The computer is "infected"

This sucks, but it's not a drive-by infection. Yet.

Chrome does not unpack and run downloads, so you'd have to execute the downloaded package yourself.
My particle physics professor in college said that he'd met a few Nobel Laureautes, and every one of them was a massive jerk, but maybe it was sour grapes (he was a pretty pleasant individual, though).
I really do think that the first western country to develop and apply truly open IP laws (that are far less protective of publishers/distributors than the ones we have today) will see a revolution in online web services. Is that even possible, though, given the thicket of international treaties that every western country necessarily adheres to?
Dreamhost specifically has a "mailing list" feature (called "discussion lists"). These have no limit on the number of outgoing mails and give users the option to opt-out of the list.

You can create multiple such lists for different subjects (and there's an API for managing them in addition to the usual DH Panel controls)
So we're working on practical transformer bots now?
When does a remote control car/copter become a robot? A robot infers a degree of autonomy in my book. I also agree with the wheel design above.
I assume it's successful in part because very few people upload the full 2GB quota in their first ten minutes of using Dropbox. I installed it, poked around with a couple of MP3s and PDFs, and then stopped. I doubt many users of Dropbox upload more than a couple hundred MB at a time.
Biting the Bullet
Just because the average quartile in the US falls in the bottom quartile in Singapore doesn't mean that the top quartile falls into the average quartile in Singapore.

While on average here the system is pretty bad, the US also tends to produce the people that end up making some of the largest contributions to science and math.

There is very good education available here, it simply isn't available to everyone. The outliers are still performing on a very high level.
The liveblogged notes are probably also useful: http://www.qaiku.com/go/blzq/
In parsing, we talk about things like Chomsky hierarchy and Chomsky normal form as a matter of course.
Very well said. But don't forget the full-length free preview of any song. I loved that "once and only once" feature.
Ask HN what's the deal with linked in ipo?
It looks like the price is 0 when I look up the ticker. Lnkd. It's supposed to debut today thought?
$12,000/month after taxes is $144,000/year for a single founder company. U.S. median family income was $45,018/year before taxes in 2003. Even for programmers working in Silicon Valley, $144,000/year after taxes is pretty decent.

For comparison purposes, if you sold your company for $3.6 million, invested the money at 4% above inflation, and lived off the real interest, you'd earn $144,000/year.

Now, that's clearly not as nice as an $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft, but it's still pretty sweet. If nothing else, you can comfortably feed your family while working on a new startup. :-)
I am sure I am in the minority here, but I rather like the editorialization of titles. I read articles that I generally would not have due to bland titling. On occasion it is material that helps to change my viewpoint on matters.
My town just passed a tax-increase to keep our library from cutting another day from its schedule. It passed by a huge margin (although the senior center and pool were lumped in so it's not clear exactly what was the driver.) Yay for Corvallis.
Do they, tho'? Or do they just claim to on the Internet?

A constant source of amusement for me is the recommendations, which are really just people getting their mates to praise them now references are supposed to come only from HR. People with more than say 5 recommendations, that are particularly gushing, you should probably conclude the opposite...
Just for the record, I was not one of the people who down-voted your comment. I personally think that your perspective is interesting.

"$12,000 profit per month after taxes is not livable in the US, and probably not Canada."

It seems to me that $12,000 per month is an eminently livable wage. Did you mean to write $12,000 per year there instead of $12,000 per month?

(Just a quick HN related tip. Something that helps me is to review a post carefully after I've posted it. It has helped me to catch myself saying some strange things a few times.)

In reference to your original post, Octopart is currently getting half a million unique visitors per month - and still growing. Given that they have low overhead, it is reasonable to believe that they are probably profitable at this point (including hefty owner's salaries).

I am currently in the process of bootstrapping a company in a similar way to the process that they took. I am not doing it because I was "sold someone else's dream of \"starting a company is the best thing in the world to do\"".

I saw a potential market opportunity (and something that I would enjoy working on) and I took action to meet what I saw as a need. Some people are just pre-programmed to want to own their own business. I know that it is something that I have been trying to do for a little over a decade.

I've had a few rough starts and a few no starts, but then that is how the learning process often goes. I realize that I would probably have been further ahead at this point financially if I had just taken a "normal job", but how much would that financial "security" have been worth with that constant feeling nagging me in the back of my head that I should have started my own business.
This is the key point. Many, many people do not have the informational literacy to even begin to do research work on their own in any medium, let alone on the Internet.

Furthermore, many documents and resources aren't digitized and aren't on any kind of networked computer or database, so how exactly is someone supposed to access these materials and in a timely fashion? Librarians specialize in knowing how to find and navigate those materials and sources.
its hovering in the 89 handle right now -- watch cnbc
I don't think expensive mattresses are worth the cost. I am from USA but spent 10 years in India sleeping on the ground with a blanket for cushioning. 1/3 of your time is sleeping, but 90% of the world sleeps on simple bedding. The mattress industry IMHO is a big fraud, like so many things in the USA. Selling non-necessities as if they are necessities. I have a $180 8" memory foam mattress from Walmart which I think is great.
Apple to support reps: "deny the malware"
Interesting to note: his father was Nate Saint, the Missionary Aviation Fellowship pilot who was killed with Jim Elliot in the jungles of Ecuador.
> If uploading is so hard, then why is Dropbox so successful?

because for most users dropbox does not require uploading tens of gigabytes (blocking) before you can start enjoying it.
How about trying out calibre http://calibre-ebook.com
It can do all kinds of conversions from a number of formats, it is quite reliable, and it can be run headless.
Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers
Its still relevant today.
The point was that NASCAR only turns left, or so the joke goes.
sorry it was done in a hurry. I am not a developer just a humble designer.

Is fixing things as we speak.
"Strong AI would presumably have military applications too, or could allow rogue nations to outcompete economically if they had 'friendly' strong AI."

If you wish to explore this further, you may like to read the books behind the Halo video games, they're surprisingly good. For example, one of the books has an AI character, a cowboy, who controls the agricultural systems on a food-producing planet called Harvest.

Of course, there's also Cortana, one of the main characters from the Halo universe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana
Wow I put in my buy order at 47 last night. I guess it shot past that before they could execute. FML.
LinkedIn IPO Is Biggest Since Google's
I'm sure it'll come back. It's at 85 right now. You have access to RT market data?
A corollary is that people who have done nasty / unpleasant / illegal things, might actually be nice people who ended up in a situation they weren't prepared for or able to handle. Judging people is a very tricky business.
So far almost a thousand signups. Never would have thought so many people would be interested. I will send out a mail to kick it all off and once I have fixed the sendmail quota problem I have right now.
The “Content is King” Myth Debunked
If you are getting that many request today maybe a basic web interface should be on the top of the list of things to do. Besides it may be a better user interface to checkout project titles rather then read one gigantic email every day.
I consider the inclusion of ipset to be a big deal. It certainly makes things easier and faster for people who do whitelisting, or have large block lists on servers. There are many times I've thought "I sure wouldn't mind using ipset here" only to decide it wasn't worth it due to the pain of compiling it myself and getting it to work with any given distro. Now that it is stock-kernel, the pain goes away. I'd expect to see it start cropping up in all sorts of places (e.g. torrent block lists)
Let's just cut it to 500cc and cap engineering costs and see what they come up with - could be interesting!
One activates the buzzsaw blades, one activates the jump, one sends a robotic messenger bird...

(Yes, I know Speed Racer was rallying and not F1.)
I'm going to have to spend a bit of time comparing this to Andy Clarke's 320 and Up[1].

From what I can tell so far, the difference appears to be philosophical - desktop first vs mobile first.

[1]: http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/
LNKD IPO opens huge at $83
Nope, HIV immunity is pretty much the same thing.

You see, there are receptors on white blood cells - which are involved in lots of things the immune system does, if you're interested you can find an explanation elsewhere. Normally, HIV uses the CCR5 receptors to enter white blood cells, in which it replicates. However, in some people the genes that generate that receptor are mutated, with a small portion being deleted. It still works for most of the things the immune system does, but HIV is no longer able to enter cells through it (I'm not entirely sure if it's unable to enter or just unable to enter anywhere near as well; the former would suggest total immunity while the later would be partial immunity).

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5
Likely, none of us would be able to simply get into an F1 car and even drive it anywhere at all.

There was a Top Gear episode where Richard Hammond tried to drive an F1 car. I figured with his experience he could make a decent go at it, but apparently the cars are so specifically tuned for going fast that it's all-out, or nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUZJVY-sHo
That is the first time I have ever seen 'spend' as a noun.

On one hand, I love the versatility of the English language.

On the other, it made the headline really, really hard to parse.
"what would we do on Mars?"

All the cool stuff in life resulted from the words "I wonder.." and "let's go see..". I am sure people will figure out the answer to your question.
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What we want to do is develop a commercial market. Sell it
to people up here for whatever they want to do with it. So
we can get the quantity up so we can get the cost down so
we can serve the humanitarian missions market which is our
primary market.

I wish the One Laptop Per Child people had taken this route instead of the "for a limited time each year, we'll force you to buy TWO of these (and donate one of them) for each ONE that you want" approach that they chose to do.

The end result was noble in that you were contributing to charity. But the way they did it made me feel like they were gouging people.
Music, newspapers, and magazines ? If that's what you think libraries are for, then yes they should die. Newspapers and magazines are dying, but many books never get old. (Or are fun to read anyway)

Books are quite different from movies and other forms of media. They require concentration and imagination to digest. Think about it as an exercise, if nothing else.

I don't have problems with the latter. When it comes to concentration - I'm easily distracted. For this reason most movies, particularly action flicks, bore me (exception: thrillers). But when I'm reading a book, I'm by definition concentrated on it.

While I read a lot of fiction, books as a form are just better at providing exhaustive information on a given topic. There are sites like Project Gutenberg, but until a decent and inexpensive eReader is available, they are no substitute.

Finally, libraries are a place where you can meet interesting people, often introverts like me. In my country 12% read more than 7 books a year. If I meet someone in a library, it's most likely an unusual person.
He is correct on sentence two, if you value control of your time over certain amounts of money.
Once you get the email (he explains why you haven't gotten it yet in the comments here) it gives and email address to send the info to.
... and thus a place where Schmidt would like to do business over the objections of his colleagues?
Amazon sells more Kindle eBooks than Print Books
Of course both anonymity and transparency are needed. The need for transparency is obvious in many scenarios. Anonymity is more contentious. Some people would love to avoid it completely. For example, I just came back from Spain and I saw a debate, which was none after all, on TV about the need to identify everybody to prevent slander.

I firmly believe that anonymity is in many cases the only tool to express oneself, like when power asymmetries or divergence from social conventions make such an expression extremely expensive.

Anonymity is fundamental for democracy. If it was not, there would be no secret voting. Other examples in which anonymity is obviously required are when you need an honest opinion which could be affected by power asymmetry (rate your professor, give your employer some feedback, etc); when the subject matter requires privacy (sexual behavior poll); and so on.

Dealing with anonymity in the internet is not easy. The usual problems are slander, low quality content, trolls, spam, etc. [Shameless plug ahead] That is part of our mission at spottiness.com. We allow anonymous users to send messages that remain posted in our web site. We guarantee the quality of the content of the messages, and although there is no way to fend off slander from the beginning, the site offers tools to fight back.
Police do not have a responsibility to provide protection to individuals [1981]
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To me a flying car is something which you could just decide to go up when driving along on the freeway not spend half an hour assembling it before you could fly.

I've always thought a lifting-body blimp/dirigible vehicle such as the size of a minivan would do well, the majority of the space inside would be filled with helium. Carbon fibre for the skin and other very light-weight materials would be used.

It would be low speed and easy to control since it would fly fairly slow but probably highway speeds.

The biggest problem would be crash protection that would require a lot of extra material such as bumpers, safety glass, strong seat backs.
I'm on both FB and LinkedIn, but my provacy settings in FB pretty much prevent anyone from seeing my FB profile without friending me. I have no interest in having any (or most, in any case) of my LinkedIn contacts see whatever BS I post on FB. The same applies in the other direction.
I forgot all about that, yes that was a killer feature as well. That turned out to be the killer feature for Google's music search as well, and made it infinitely less valuable when Lala went away.
LinkedIn IPO Shares Pop 84 Percent On First Trade, Opens At $83 Per Share
The internet is the biggest library and the biggest junkyard. I like it that way. It has its charms.

There's another thing to like about libraries: information is nicely organized, consistently of rather high quality (no lolcats). Librarians are educated people, you go to an university (for example) to become one. When you go to a library, you know you won't find much crap. It's the human-organized information at its finest.
It's not whether we're like or unlike a particular country. Although comparing against China's policies as of today is likely instructive.

The question is, is the US Government revoking free speech? Is it becoming a tool of the AA orgs to implement the AA policies?

And, further, will these laws be redirected to purposes more malign then their creators supposed...
In some cases (the WRC comes to mind), it was pushing manufacturers out of the sport because they couldn't keep up with the costs.

Not that I disagree with your point, but there's another factor in WRC: Sebastian Loeb.

If sponsors want to be associated with winning teams, then there's really no point in sponsoring any team besides Citroen. There's very little chance of anyone other than Loeb winning the championship, and good luck waiting for a podium that he's not standing on.

I think you can see this (albeit less clearly) after late 80s F1. A McLaren team-up of Senna and Prost delivered the best two drivers, plus Honda and McLaren's engineering skill; there was little opportunity for anyone else to compete. The result was a decade of competitive wasteland as the sport recovered (giving such lame drivers as, imho, Damon Hill, an opportunity to win a World Driving Championship). It wasn't until a combination of Schumacher's skill and Ferrari resurgence that things got at all interesting again.
Almost $100/user, not even including active users... that is insanity.
It's just like the websites that require you to login with Facebook first, I don't like that.

I think it's important to be able to gauge a website without giving out personal info.
No Entrepreneur Sets Out To Demotivate Their Team
All laws are an imposition of and a reflection of the morals of the law-givers.
Hm. Enterprise file systems use RAID, which recovers from this failure. So you lose a redundant level of safety. Not as scarey as made out to be.
Why Startups & Data Nerds Should Care About Farmers Market Data
I followed the link hoping to learn a little more about CoffeeScript and node.js, and I suppose I did. It seems that, in essence, it lets you write dynamic (server- and client- side) html with something that looks a lot like python.

The prospect of debugging at several removes still troubles me.
Value Representation in JavaScript Implementations
What does it really matter if android ships a XMPP library? Is the barrier to entry to use a 3rd party library seriously that high?

Sure it would be nice if it came standard, but the impression I get from many of these posts is that the believe the sky is falling and XMPP is impossible without google shipping a library.
What's the ratio of coders to designers?
$20,000 and he slams into the floor. Ouch.
Bebo’s Michael Birch is Back (and He Thinks We’re in a Bubble)
Yep, debugging is slightly trickier than with plain JS, but once you get a hang of CS it quickly becomes a non-issue.
Round again we go...

It's so disappointing to watch...

But it's not a bubble if we're able to tell it's a bubble, right?
There's other interesting examples of this concept:

http://www.monolithic.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJfcnIFYqg&feature=relat...

(not affiliated with these guys)
some perspective on how fast f1 cars are:

mostly road-going race cars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUhu13qp8Oc

f1 cars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seget3zOj_8&feature=playe...
I like this idea. I currently have a full-time job and am doing 15-20 hours of consulting a week so my projects are more like "late at night and weekend nights" projects. This appeals to me.

I would like to see some type of standard agreement around this along the longs of "I spent 2 hours contributing code that you're using, I get 1% stake if this thing every gets sold / gets funded".
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At times like this I'm tempted to short the stock, or at least wait a month or longer until there's sufficient shares to short and not immediately get squeezed. It's just that unlimited downside, investor euphoria on social networking, and volatility makes me too nervous to do it.
Can you describe / show your product?
So how many more seasons before the drivers become obsolete and the engineer in the pits controls the entire car?
Signed up. Quick observation; your landing page call to action is below the fold on sub-27" displays.
LinkedIn made $15 million dollars last year, and they just raised $660 million dollars out of the gate in this IPO. And, this IPO values LinkedIn at somewhere close to 6.5 billion dollars.

A valuation of 6.5 billion dollars on $15 million net income. Let that sink in.
Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Print Books
Quite a detailed document. Glad to see the US taxes paying for something decent for once.
If the unlimited downside scares you, why not buy put options?
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I think we're only covering interest.
Are Talent Acquisitions a Sign of a New Bubble?
See, here's the thing: I like Finder. It's not perfect, but sometimes it is very handy. Even if TermKit ends up implementing the complete functionality of Finder, I'm not sure why I'd particularly like to have that functionality in my terminal window. And if it's only implementing the one Finder view I virtually never use? Forget about it.

You know what would rock my world? A "lsf" command that emulated "ls" as much as possible, but launched a Finder window appropriately sized to display the results.
There's also the DoD's Security Technical Implementation Guides:

http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/stig/index.html
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Google provides the addresses of 35,513,445 Google Profiles. (May crash Chrome.)
Sure, it's a Windows application meant to automate installation of software on multiple workstations on your network, remotely and silently.

So it's basically like a package manager for Windows, but instead of working for your local Windows machine, it works for all the Windows computers on your network.

Think of agencies with lots of workstations that need to keep software up-to-date on each and every machine... this would normally require an IT guy going through each and every computer and manually start the installer... uDeployer does all this automatically.

More info here: http://udeployer.com/

So I guess the idea has possibilites, but would like to get connected into this entire world of investment.
The current valuation is ~$8.5 billion, wikipedia puts them at ~100 million users. That works out to be ~$85/user.