skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but he seems factually correct that the files are IDA Pro output from Skype binaries, and a patched/modified version of a Skype binary.

This is as opposed to publishing observations/specifications from looking at such dumps, or from a black-box observation of Skype's behaviour. In this case I believe jcr is 100% correct that what's being distributed isn't protected reverse engineering output, it's a derivative work of the original.

In short: Decompiling or cracking a program and posting it online with notes is not the same as reverse engineering it, although it's a step in that direction.
The people who put a few dollars in as a hedge are the exact people who are going to lose all their money when it collapses.

Well, they'll say, was only a few dollars.

Ultimately though, you've got got to wonder where all those few dollars went.
This is bad news for Apple. Just like Ford was bad news for all those expensive horseless carriage manufacturers.
Isn't this a fairly common practice? Admittedly, Groupon's enormous employee base means they're going to burn through the remaining funds faster than an ordinary startup. Aside from that, this doesn't seem all that outrageous, at least not outrageous enough for the overall level of indignation in the comments here (accusations of it being a pyramid scheme, etc.).
Lulzsec is loosely affiliated with Anonymous. I'm pretty sure several lulzsec members may be hanging out in Anon-Ops IRC channels at any given time.
Ask HN: How do you deal with working from home alone? / NYC Startup Lunch Club
I quit my day job around 8 months ago to work on my startup full time. I've been working from my apartment in NYC where I live alone. For the first 6 months or so, everything was going well and I didn't have any problems or feelings of isolation. Since then, however, I've really started missing working with coworkers and the daily interactions with a group of smart and highly dedicated people. I woke up this morning and felt a strong sense of dread about working this way for the foreseeable future. No man is an island and I feel like I'm probably going to drive myself crazy working this way for the long term.

How do you guys deal with this?

Also, I thought that maybe creating some sort of lunch club for startups in downtown NYC might be a good way to get out of the house and interact with some like-minded people on a semi-regular basis. Would people be interested in something like this? It doesn't have to be lunch either, it could be dinner or happy hour as well.
Hosts with tutorials on deploying Rails apps
Interesting take, hadn't thought of that at all.

Something along those lines would definitely be boon to AAPL or others penetrating that sort of market. However, we all know the software on smartphones are if not trivially, at least often manipulated. This may be able to skim a little of the market, but if I had a business where I couldn't trust camera phone now, I wouldn't trust this technique against even a slightly educated and motivated individual.
I haven't tried Skype since 4.0, and I just tried it again now. When did it become such bloatware? I don't think I'll ever want to use it again if it stays this way. The new interface looks pretty confusing, too.
Your story has some errors which, when coupled with the hyperbolic exaggerations, make me believe your story is a fabrication. For example Rake wasn't updated for two years until the very recent 0.9, so that part is a lie.

You can recover some credibility if you can tell us specifically which minor upgrades caused breakage. You'll have to list a bunch of them in order to support the "regularly cause breakage" claim.

However I'm certain you won't be able to do that. Go troll somewhere else, please.
Most big corps are probably just as bad. I work for a bigcorp, and our security ranges from barely competent to completely ridiculous.
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risen and fallen? Look at bitcoin to dollar over the last few years. A very worrying graph for anyone still holding bitcoins.
> No, it actually sounds like their business model is so profitable in a single locale

Chicago is by far their fortress of revenue. Check out the by-city Groupon sales stats for a day in December 2009.

Image: http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4b301d5300000000001d...

http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-office-tour-2009-12#t...
How is that a problem? Some folks may not want to be in touch with the zeitgeist.
right, but a company that is worth something is going to do a reverse split when it starts trading in the $5-$10/share range. Share price is technical arcana, something the accountants should worry about.

Personally, I'd compare letting the stock price fall below $5 to filing your required government regulation paperwork late. If it happens often, there is something wrong, sure, but it's something that can be fixed by firing a couple of paper pushers; it doesn't indicate a fundamental weakness in the company's business.
They're probably getting away with the appearance of security: if the crackers didn't publicize this, and Sony didn't, we would ever know.

So how many companies who store personal information are being compromised these days? I have a feeling that Sony is not unusual in their level of insecurity.
What's embarrassing is the complete lack of even basic security policy.
That latter part is the first place my mind went. Imagine not being able to capture all the police abuses that have been captured in the last 5 or so years because of cell cam videos.
Check out my fork: https://github.com/tlrobinson/NoBitcoin/commit/265440e98728c...
Just like WP7, it's only beautiful skin-deep.
No, pretty much just don't make the internet mad.
Have I not been keeping up, and these attacks have all been linked back to Anonymous in some credible way? (I realise the problem with that question)
Depends on your goal. If I own half of a maybe-fad company that is currently worth $1 billion, you can bet I am reducing my exposure to that and converting a lot of my ownership to other assets if I have the chance.
Really? I love the touch pad and use my CR48 daily - what didn't you like about it?
He was referring to Pandora, the ones that filed in February.
Unpleasant is the word your choosing to use?

Irritating, painful, expensive? Choose your favorite word to describe your experience as a Sony customer, I guess.

but by all means keep hiding behind this tired old excuse that the end result is to hurt Sony

It's not an excuse, it's a hope. I sincerely hope that this will hurt Sony's bottom line in the near future. I hope that some time soon, the general public will associate Sony with being screwed over, and that they factor that in with the price of that shiny PS3 they want. I hope that Sony will be humbled and beg customers to come back, rather than treating them like shit. This is hardly the first time Sony's customers have been screwed by Sony's customer-hostile policies, so I don't expect it, but I certainly do hope for it.

The people you're trying to help will have no sympathy when you're caught and sentenced.

When I'm caught and sentenced? For schadenfreude, or do you think I'm behind this attack? My handle is easily associated with my meatspace ID; if anybody that mattered thought I was behind this, I'd most certainly be chatting with the FBI right now instead of with you.
Except they aren't selling much, which is why the USD value keeps going up.
Snippets rocks, but a big time GUI wouldn't be so bad. A killer feature like textexpander would blow the top off snipt.
with 3000+ employees (which is, frankly insane)

Keep in mind that's not 3000 developers, I believe it's mostly people calling out to set up deals, so basically a massive call centre.
All the ones that support Django out of the box, are all in private beta I believe. So the market is starting to warm up to Django, but still not open for sale. Hopefully they all get through private beta and release, because competition is good for the market.
I was reading a story by Dukaj - The Cathedral - yesterday, that featured fields of plants that were doing computations :).
I don't think a rational justification is really important to these people, but I believe a lot of the initial anger came from sony removing features from the original playstation.

A major feature, removed by automatic patching, as a non-legal reaction to a previous jail beak attempt, was the ability to run a second OS such as linux.
You might recall stories about people using networks of play-stations running linux, with their unusual cell processor architecture, to crack wpa, or model the weather.

This wasn't to sony's benefit. The playstation was a cheap way of getting the cell chip rather than buying blades full of them from IBM, absolutely because sony sold the consoles below cost and hoped to make the money back from game royalties.

The ability to run pirate, or unlicensed home-brew games threatened sonys ability to recoup this money from normal users, so they pulled second OS.

A lot of users chose the playstation over alternatives because it would run linux. It was a nice dual use 'TV media PC' and console. Sony removed the feature that they paid money for. The users were upset, probably more upset than they were by the hotz thing which was a bit abstract.

But I don't think these hackers cared, personally.
Some startups (notably Amazon) use the money they raise to outrun competitors by subsidizing the product. Then, when they have the network tied up, they start making a large profit.
I've been working from home for the last year at least. I must say it is dreadful and downright uninspiring, however if you can find someone to keep in contact with, especially someone working on the same project (who pushes and challenges you) things won't be so bad.

I suggest lots of outdoor activities, exercise and lots of breaks away from the computer even if you feel like you should be working.

edit: you could also try to find a meetup group in your area to get inspiration or simple social interaction with folks who are into similar stuff.
I agree. They could have forced it to land as well, simply by getting rid of an engine or two.
>Now, there is only one thing that the F-16s could have done in this situation. Either they do nothing, or they shoot down the plane.

Utter BS. Before it comes to killing, the escort fighters usually show to the plane being escorted where to go. They do it using radio, visually (pilot's hands, overall fighter maneuvering and rolling), and if it comes to it - using tracer rounds. After the escorted plane refuse to follow the commands ... and continue flying toward DC ... in the post 9/11 world the kill would seem like a publicly acceptable outcome.
How Powerful are Random Strings?
Fusion-IO is getting a run for it's money.
Putting aside the technology and schema decisions they've made IMO	its great to see these three throwing their weight behind some common metadata even if it does step	on	some toes.

Now if they'd only add some schema targeted towards downloadable public data sets. I'm dying for a good global public dataset search beyond competing data markets and data.gov.* sites.
Companies like Sony make claims that their Intellectual Property is worth X amount in court and go after individuals for huge amounts of money. I think you could argue that people's Personal Information is worth at least X + Y more.

If someone takes them to court and a huge, ridiculous, judgement is handed out, then maybe these companies will think twice about securing their customers data. Seriously, unencrypted password fields? A SQL injection?

Of course, I'm just dreaming.
Just jump in. That's exactly what I did 5 months ago and I am almost finished with my first real web app that I built 100% myself.

I was in a similar position as you when I first started. I knew some HTML/CSS and dabbled in PHP a bit. I took a look at Ruby/Rails and Python/Django as I was unsure of what language/framework I wanted to learn. I decided to learn Python/Django and it has been a wonderful experience thus far.

I used the following to learn Python/Django

http://learnpythonthehardway.org

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/

http://www.djangobook.com/

http://docs.python.org/

https://docs.djangoproject.com/

Stackoverflow.com is also an incredible resource when you have a problem you cannot figure out. Search for an answer or ask a new question if needed.

Good luck!
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I'm afraid I just find it a little bizarre that Keynesian economics is considered in some way "left", or partisan. It's really just based on observation, and does not endorse any radical redistribution of wealth - it's designed to encourage growth and minimize recession. Right-wing economics is very real, however, and seems to be based more on a kind of moral outrage against the very notion of taxation than any empirical measure. And it seemed to be working - Clinton and Blair endorsed the very assumptions of this approach - but is looking somewhat tattered now. Has Keynesianism ever been shown to have failed? I've not seen evidence of this.
AHCI is a serious bottleneck because it requires PIO reads and has a queue depth limit of 32. PCIe SSDs should use the NVM Express interface, although this card is probably too old to support it. http://www.intel.com/standards/nvmhci/index.htm
11th actually. This article[1] documents the last 10 times up with today making it 11. Starts from the first DDoS by Anonymous on Apr 4.

[1]: http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/05/24/sony-goes-s...
This site gets a lot of criticism but it is a good jumping-off point:
http://www.w3schools.com/

It will teach you the basics of PHP, XHTML, CSS, and Javascript. But you might have to do some of web searching to answer your questions... use it like a map.

I personally like PHP because it allows you a lot of freedom. There isn't any framework as part of PHP so you can get up and running quickly. That was very helpful for me when I started with PHP 10+ years ago.

Granted once you get good, for your "weekend projects" you will want to pick up a framework like CakePHP (very much like Ruby on Rails) and start building your apps on that. CakePHP has a nice blog tutorial [1].

Whatever you choose for a language / database / etc. good luck and have fun!

[1] http://book.cakephp.org/view/219/Blog
Actually a much more reasonable step to take would be to release the data, but to de-identify it in such a way that individual people couldn't have their identities compromised or lives ruined.

I agree that Sony should be taken to task here, but even the simple step of randomizing the password field would be a good idea.
Oh this is gonna hurt.
I don't think we're witnessing the end of Sony, but we are certainly witnessing the end of their online ventures.

What is very interesting is that all of their Web properties seem so stove-piped. No common architectural direction, no standards, no common security defenses.

It's almost as if Sony's marketing departments are leading all Web development efforts for the company. No serious enterprise ever lets that happen.

Oh, wait... :) (Tongue in cheek)
I wish I could hide all of the stories about startups

Well, when you consider that Hacker News was called Startup News when I first became aware of it,

http://web.archive.org/web/20070226001637/http://news.ycombi...

I think that misses out on a lot of the history that made this site what it is today.
And by legacy tools that would be 100% of current software.

Running legacy photoshop... Sigh
Korean airliner over Soviet Union in 1978:

>He fired a pair of R-60 missiles, one of which caused heavy damage to part of the left wing of the Boeing 707 and punctured the fuselage, causing rapid decompression, and killing two of the 97 passengers. After being hit, the airliner descended into cloud and was lost by the Su-15s. At 23:05, 40 minutes after the missile strike, it was finally forced to land by another Su-15TM on the frozen Korpijärvi Lake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902
Sony Pictures hacked and Database Leaked by LulzSec
Though you had to put the title, and often the artist name in the filename/title because that's what people were looking for. It's a bit different at FJ because the Oatmeal isn't mainstream, it just sort of appears in someone's vision and is then discarded. Music searching is a different sort of experience.
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I just took a look at it and was considering buying it. Does it have any sort of cross-computer or cloud synchronization? Or is that how Snipt is different?
Imagine life without Google (or any other search engine)
Can you?
Now imagine life without Groupon. Done.
Shallow thinking.

We reside in a world controlled by a collection of political forces. Money is the primary lever by which pressure is exerted in order to execute political policy.

I am not an enormous Ayn Rand fan, however there were a few parts of Atlas Shrugged I really did find very eye opening. The effete playboy of the series had a good one that I'll briefly include here to outline the importance of the core issue as it relates to the subtle strings of force in our political existence;

"So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Aconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

I still find the use of terms like moochers and looters loaded, but the core point is extremely potent. Money is the primary friendly lever in modern society, it is the primary incentive for production. For this reason alone, the ways in which bitcoin can upset the apple cart should be thoroughly considered and not simply discarded offhand.

People objecting to bitcoin are making a cursory glance at it and it hits one of their suspicion triggers and they instantly discard it; Enriches early adopters? Aha, must be a ponzi scheme, no need to dig deeper here.

There are far more interesting objections that are actually bounded in the fabric of what is real rather than a cursory glance and misunderstanding of what is seen. What about an execution of the age old idea of assassination politics with bitcoin as the medium of exchange? If you really want to fearmonger, think hard about what might actually happen when the primary lever of society is completely immune to government. This is both frightening in some ways and exhilerating in others.

How about superfluid buying and selling agencies run by speculators that contract to traders exchanging local fiat currencies for bitcoins on the wire and instantly back to local fiat for the receiver at the end, reducing exposure for the merchant and buyer and abstraction from the messy cryptographic details of the implementation and enabling the speculators, as well as providing hefty profits for the administrators of such agents, in turn incentivising an enormous bazaar of such agents to exist in a huge snowball effect that makes regulation even more of a distant, ridiculous idea.

Think about it, really, really hard. This has already changed the world, the only question now is how will the chips fall. It is exactly appropriate that it should get a lot of attention here.
It's not the servers' fault. Even Google would have terrible uptime if they only had five engineers -- regardless of how many servers they had.
Is it at all similar to the Ubuntu netbook interface? I always liked that. Now I'm using Gnome 3, which I'm happy with.
If the track record remains good, the brand will on mean more after 1000 not less.

A better question would be:

With all the 'me too' incubators out there, how much can YC scale horizontally? YC has been eating the Angel's lunch, but there will be more people at the table every year. How much of the market can YC grab without growth hurting their per-startup performance?
I don't think you get it. I got root access of a box today, reported it to the company, and was told he couldn't notify the developers until next week because they're in meetings. The person was actually more concerned because I mentioned I was blown off the first time I reported a security issue (emailed password, non-https logins/signups, etc). Meanwhile, I can instantly copy/destroy/deface hundreds of sites, all of which have paid initial fees between $10,000-$50,000 for the service and pay annual fees for continued service.

These companies are fucking stupid and the only way to make them change their ways is to kick them in the balls and piss on them while they're down. Otherwise, nothing happens and others who were less kind don't tell them and harvest the data unbeknownst to anybody. How's that for "real issues"? The real issue is the companies fucking suck and it pisses us off when they don't do a goddamn thing when we report it to them.
There is a big difference between cable an netflix. With cable you could tap a wire and they could not notice your use sage without significant effort. With netflix they can drop any account that uses more IP's or bandwidth than they want. Basically every time they serve up content they get to decide is this a valid use of the service, and with a little IP tracking there is little to stop this.

PS: It's easy enough to say in the TOS, any account that has more than N IP's downloading movies at the same time get's blocked and it's password reset.
Being that they're from Vancouver I think it would be.
The only way to be more sure is if they were from Nelson.
Agreed it looks totally bat shit insane!

BUT ... other than those who directly benefit, who else would invest in something that might never pay a decent return on investment ???? To me it looks like throwing piles of $100 notes on a bonfire, nice flames, lovely crinkling sound.
Various biomolecules, including DNA, RNA, enzymes, and small molecules, could all potentially be used as inputs. And it should be possible to link the outputs into relevant biological functions, including gene expression.

This would suggest, perhaps smart medicines capable of changing their active makeup based on logic in response to the actual conditions in the body.

Heck, given a lot of advancement it isn't that terribly outlandish to imagine simple turing complete computers capable of outputting different dna or even proteins. If that were possible, the benefits should be obvious. Of course, that's a rather large extrapolation from the limited results in the article.
So far the schema listed don't look very subtle. Extracting this type of information from unstructured text should really be something that machine learning algorithms can do pretty well.
this was for me a good explanation: http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-id...
Ask HN: Inexpensive large scale (100's of TB) storage options?
Typical solutions for backup, log files, email servers, databases all seem to cost $5K to $8K a TB over a 3 year period, including "support". Anyone with production experience with large scale disk storage that breaks the $1K/TB price point (raid'd)?
My girlfriend got one and she wouldn't dream of putting osx or windows on it. She wont even let me throw the jail break switch and get a proper shell. She uses it mostly when she travels because it's light and has 3g, but its never far from the couch. She had a few issues with it and reported them all as bugs, and while there was zero feedback on the bugs most of them were fixed silently soon after. The only major drawback is a lack of MS office. For anything work related she has to go back to her laptop.

I wanted to share a story about it being used as intended.