skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have been trying for years to get the point across that we need to have better security. None of them have managed it. If anything, security is getting worse because cracking tools are becoming more sophisticated. Someone had to get word out, what people were doing to raise publicity wasn't working, there was a way to get attention, and LulzSec did it. Bad as what they did is, they successfully raised media awareness of the fact that those patient records were in a clearly-labeled manila folder taped to the front door.
Additional information can be found here:
http://blog.lastpass.com/2011/05/lastpass-security-notificat...
Thanks for all the fish
They can certainly protect against this but it's not a good idea.

I pay US taxes and I don't want the cia.gov site to be on the same type of hardware as say Google just to be DDoS "proof".

They shouldn't be connected with a 33.6 modem but to ask all sites to upgrade everything to prevent DDoS is insane.

Who could afford to start a web site if they had to lay out all of that cost?
The post doesn't appear to be there, Sean.

Off-Topic: I recognized the cake in your post on the 6th as being from Bee Bell and then made the connection that you're also in Edmonton. Nice!
maybe if they had a sane security model for the browser this wouldn't be an issue? I have to believe chrome team is thinking this with how the browser puts each renderer into a sandbox process... but maybe MS doesn't want to do that because of how they've HW accel'ed so much?
The debate format feels like an anachronism but it certainly looks like prefixing every comment with "Dear Sir" increases their civility and thoughtfulness.

Maybe something for HN to try.
Also foolish to forget that time is money, you pay knowledge workers for the time they spent studying. You too can "save" $10,000 by doing security yourself, but only if you spend several years training and understanding the domain.
'Hack' is probably not the right word here. And if it is, it's used incorrectly. How about:

"to use the"

"to create apps with the"

"to hack with the"
Sadly, a lot of the interesting stuff isn't online. Like the details about the IBM HARVEST computer. Which was a perhiperal to the stretch computer. Stretch was clocked in mips back in the 1960's. I'm in awe of that old iron.
A much more interesting read than I was expecting. My first reaction after a few sentences was "What a waste of time and effort." Then just spending a few minutes thinking about what around me is more than a few years old kind of got to me. What around me is more than 100, 1000, 10000 years old? Where I live in Salt Lake there are hardly any human made structures older than 100 years, and none more than 160. The oldest building I've been to personally was in London, on the order of 1000 years old. It's humbling to think about how short of a span that is in human history. Almost disturbing to think about what I will do or make that will last 100, 1000, or 10000 years.

In 100 years I hope to have grandchildren who knew me still living.

In 1000 years it's a stretch that there will still be an accurate note of my existence.

In 10000 there may not even be a myth about the existence of any of us here.
There's a new functionality in dev version (3.0) that allows for dissemination of subscriptions across the network. The whitepaper is here: http://www.250bpm.com/pubsub
A part of me feels like conscious, sentient beings should have equal protection under the law. Just because they don't encode knowledge in written language or make tools like we do doesn't mean that they may be any less sentient.
Wasn't Linux itself a side-project? ("just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu").
Android FTW!
Why there is no such thing as a User Experience Designer
If you had read the posted link, you'd see that the author isn't American and they aren't afforded the same rights as those of us in the US.

We don't get letters from the police mentioning that we're a criminal suspect. Usually such notifications come in the form of a door kick or finding a magnetic tube on the underside of our car.
>Because I know that there's a fixed quantity of available diamonds

Meanwhile...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_vapor_deposition_of_di...
Revised to $50, per the article.

But still, at $50, it's quite a nice toy. And if it encourages -anyone- to read, it's doing a good thing.
To paraphrase a line from Stuart Brand's amazing book The Media Lab: "Hardware wants to be free."
>In the end if you don't make any income, they have nothing to garnish.

True, but student debt can only be discharged in very limited circumstances and living under the thumb of a debt-collector for your entire life seems like one of the worst choices you could make.

Even with debt, our quality of life is higher than anyone else in our family has ever been, it's been a great enabler of upwards mobility. My wife came from near-poverty and I'm from a lower-middle class household, and we're now solidly in upper-middle class earnings and this is still a relatively low point of our careers. The debt is totally worth it, it's just an additional thing to manage and weights your life choices towards certain things.
FT switches from Native to HTML5 app
I went in search of "what happens if vandals try to destroy the thing?" and ended up reading Bruce Sterling from 2000 touching on that issue and many others.

http://blog.longnow.org/2008/08/03/bruce-sterlings-sharp-war...
Makes soylent green sound appetising.
Define conscious, sentient.
Your email isn't in your bio. Add it and I'll ping you. I have a few contacts in India I could put you in touch with.
Good to see them embracing this crowd.
BTW, that's a traditional Moroccan cloak, dyed with indigo ink :) It's mentioned he just got back from there.
Getting Your Startup Ready For An Acquisition
> to take great joy in causing others pain

This happens far more often than people realise.
it's the exact feelings we had about XP security

Well, actually, Linux or OS X security isn't that much better for the end-user, unless you're a sysadmin with some experience and know how to configure stuff like IPTables and SELinux.

Otherwise when navigating the web, security is as better as its weakest links - the user and its browser.
Yes, but like Math, not everybody can be trained in it. People either get math or they don't.

I refuse to believe this.

There may be some very tiny minority that truly is genetically unable to get math. But for everyone else I believe it is merely difficult. Education is the problem, not genetics.
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Why we do what we do: We're 15, unsupervised, and behaving badly.

Do they really need a manifesto?
Will Customers Use Social Media Strategically?
I did it. I took a "secure" job for two years after graduate school, then decided to jump into a startup as a first employee. The way I decided which company was that I built a script that would crawl the news for companies closing series A, and then chose from that pool (since those would be arguably less risky).

After 3 years as a startup employee (and learning everything about both technical and business side of things), I'm founding a company now.
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Here, there’s good news to tell you: The company recently
launched a number of new fashion items! ! Fashionable
and welcome everyone to come buy. If necessary, please
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Is phillijw another false positive of HN spam detectors?
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launched a number of new fashion items! ! Fashionable
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Probably not. Everything is there in the deck.

If people will have a lot of questions about slides (there is nothing novel there though) I can do a follow up post.
Interesting footnote to this: when Maxwell first derived the relationship between electric current and magnetism he postulated the existence of a fixed medium, aether, through which light travels at a constant speed. For a while measuring the Earth's relative velocity to the aether proved challenging. Einstein eventually did away with the concept of aether and asserted that light moves at the same speed in all reference frames, thus reconciling mechanics and electromagnetism.
Tech IPO 1.0 vs. 2.0
jw - is there a iPad/iPhone equivalent for chrome2phone?
i'd like to see a list of most common songs. which is probably not simple to do per se, based on how this probably works, but i think it'd be neat to see, at least
I think so - I don't see any way for hiring to be objective, unless it was completely random (and does that even count?).

So, lets go with violent agreement.
It's good for the NSA that there's no way to securely communicate over an insecure medium. It's also convenient that all Internet infrastructure exists inside the USA.
I just added the link song feature. The link above should now work ;) Enjoy!
What would a judge say?
Does nothing on Firefox 3.6.x
Yes, it is possible to romanticize failure... ?
After a period a couple of years back when I didn’t have spare time to program within I felt that I was slipping behind. I simply wasn’t evolving. I was stuck in a mindset that was very tightly coupled to the tasks I did at work and programming was getting less and less fun. Once I began working on projects in my spare time I quickly remembered why I love it so much. The problem now is that I feel that work is detracting from the joy I feel when programming, which makes it hard for me to remain in this business.
Everybody thinks SQL joins are slow-is it because MySQL doesn't have hash joins?
It may or may not be personal preference as to the aesthetic value of the golden ratio, but the ratio also occurs in nature quite frequently. I think there's more to it that subjective preference.
I'll preface this by saying that this is my personal opinion.

Github (and the like) are becoming prerequisites. You should have a portfolio of personal code you've done that you can freely share. Stuff you are proud of and passionate about (or not so proud of, but are deeply interested in) and stuff you want to learn more about.

Would you hire a wedding photographer without seeing personal samples and talking to them about their interests and opinions on how to photograph your wedding? You'll interview a slew of photographers who just do it to make a buck (and that comes through very clear), but you'll also find a few guys (and gals) who do it with a passion.
I personally get really annoyed at those "will ship in x days" announcements. It's almost impossible to tell when those are marketing vs actual facts.

I believe it when I can buy it on Amazon/eBay/... and it gets delivered within a week.
Not really, it depends on the context and is somewhat of a relative word (like "fast"). I personally interpret "real time" as "practically instant".

In the case of RT analytics, there's probably very small practical difference between 1s and 30s: it's typically dwarfed by the reaction time of the observer (what advantage is there in reacting 29s seconds sooner?).

In the case of something like a stock trading tool, 29s could make a huge difference and it's not practically the same as knowing instantly.
Awesome! Good to know, I'll test it right now.

Edit: I cannot get it to work in Canary, even with Web Audio enabled. Hm...
Former Apple CEO John Sculley: "It’s Apple’s game to lose"
It'd need the help of browsers or OS's (depending on where in the stack you put the logic), but one idea might be to require requests/packets to be signed by something that proves a sufficient amount of CPU work has been done (ala bitcoin). If the site comes under attack, they could turn this on (presumably with a middle-man service that can take high bandwidth) and up the amount of work required to reach the destination. This would no doubt slow things for the legitimate users, but it could make things much more difficult for the attackers.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/16/icloud-logo-infused-with...

BS is called in the comments section of this article
if you have never SSH'd into anything before, I would recommend running a VPS and your shared hosting accounts in parallel until you get a better handle on Linux, then migrate your sites from shared hosting at that time.

Although I haven't checked recently, from memory as far as pricing goes, slicehost $ > linode $ > prgmr.com. Prgmr is true do it yourself though, so if your a complete linux newbie you may want to go the middle ground and get linode.com, and use the slicehost tutorials to get it up and running
How can an overweight engineer get back in shape?
exactly. high schools have a strong envy for anarchy - trying stuff for fun.
I think most readers here went through that phase and forgot about it. Flirting with the borders is fun. We were not realizing the consequence of our acts.
Free software guru sanctifies Brussels bruiser
When I began reading the story, I was worried it would be about a NAT problem (since it involved his phone).

While I'm glad this guy got his situation cleared so easily, I wonder how you would defend yourself in this situation. Police ask telecom, "who has this address?" Telecom says: "this person has that address" (while failing to mention who else has that address). How would you refute such charges, since it would be true that you did have that ip address in this hypothetical situation?
Fork history favors LibreOffice over OpenOffice.org
For those wondering: romac is too modest. He's this awesome guy I'm building a startup with, and he's been kind enough to let me host the demo on our shared VPS zip.cat, and he's been sysadmining really hard for the last 2+ hours to keep our server from collapsing under the combined weight of the internets :)
Why being a techie is a great skill for social media people
That is both amazing and amazingly fast. Thank you!
Starting with Firefox 6, Mozilla is releasing Firefox updates every 6 weeks (just like Chrome):

http://mozilla.github.com/process-releases/draft/development...
Apple's design reputation is so established at this point that, if they hadn't used the Golden Ratio, I suspect there would be articles titled "Why does Apple's iCloud Icon deliberately ignore the Golden Ratio?"
Reminds me of this: http://www.brucetutes.com/blog/?p=39

"I started telling her about the Wikipedia article on Pluto. You may remember that Pluto got kicked out of the planet club a couple of years ago, so all of a sudden there was all of this activity on Wikipedia. The talk pages light up, people are editing the article like mad, and the whole community is in an ruckus–”How should we characterize this change in Pluto’s status?” And a little bit at a time they move the article–fighting offstage all the while–from, “Pluto is the ninth planet,” to “Pluto is an odd-shaped rock with an odd-shaped orbit at the edge of the solar system.”

So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, “Okay, we’re going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever.” That wasn’t her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, “Where do people find the time?” That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, “No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you’ve been masking for 50 years.”"
And I just realized what it is about LuLzSec that's bothered me. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but now I realize deep down they are nihilists.

That's a damn shame.

What seemed most admirable about Anonymous is that as much as they were also in it for lulz and pure chaos, underneath there seemed to be a kind of idealism. Idealism is seductive, nihilism is off-putting.
A typical day on Wall Street... no wonder our economy has gone to shit
“In-place” editing of files
When you model equities as log-normal ie. log(stock price) is normally distributed, and then use the geometric brownian motion to model the underlying, which spits out derivative prices using Black-Scholes.
The problem is that normal distribution is thin-tailed ie. 5 sigma events are extremely rare.
So use a fat tailed distribution - which is what Mandelbrot did. He used a power-law ( Pareto ) distribution because its infinite variance permitted wider swings in price than the Gaussian. However the simplicity of using a Normal distribution is what makes Black Scholes so robust. If a thousand statisticians look at market data over a time window & model it to fit a lognormal usaing MLE, they'll come up with approximately the same parameters, so calibration is relatively easy. In fact this is one of the standard exercises in any MFE pgm - to calibrate a derivatives model corresponding to underlying data over a time window.
With Mandelbrot's Paretian distribution, calibration is virtually impossible. No two people get the same parameters given the same data points on a Paretian model. There is quite a bit of literature on this very topic, in both Taleb's last book & elsewhere. Mandelbrot points out how given different time windows, the Paretian distribution can be calibrated to fit virtually anything, but the parameters will change wildly.

Essentially, given the choice between an inaccurate robust simple Gaussian model with high predictive power and a supposedly accurate but un-usable Paretian model, financial engineers choose the former & add fudge-factor explanations ( eg. the vol-smile ) to augment the data.

1. http://blogs.reuters.com/justinfox/2010/10/18/why-didn%E2%80...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_tail
3. http://brokensymmetry.typepad.com/broken_symmetry/2009/08/wh...
Yes, this is the correct answer. It's a relativistic effect that is nonetheless observable at velocities not usually considered to be relativistic.

I think this is extremely cool, BTW: any ordinary refrigerator magnet serves to demonstrate the truth of special relativity. Indeed, since the propagation of a photon involves oscillating electric and magnetic fields, the very existence of light itself depends on relativity.

So in a strange and unexpected way, one could say that when Michelson and Morley went searching for the ether, they actually found it. The fact that the speed of light is the same in every inertial reference frame is precisely what allows it to propagate at all.
Unemployed Irishman advertises himself on billboard - lands job after 7 offers
I felt he deliberately did not go into this topic. He was asked "How do you pick ~60 out of ~2000 applications?", and his entire response could be paraphrased as "We have practice". It made me wonder if it was because he thought it was too complex a topic for a quick TV show.
they are much more complex than this
I listen to Bloomberg radio[1] most days at work. Lots of insightful interviews and analysis of business, economics, politics, and current events.

[1]http://tunein.com/tuner/?StationId=17075&;
No shit. wall street is joke
If it is even half as good as the video demo, it will be a huge success IMHO.
It's not content-free and it's not meant to be mean-spirited. I believe honest feedback has value. The story Workflowy is sold with is unintentionally laughable. I could just sit back and continue to laugh at them behind their backs.

It does not mimic the brain's processing of information in ways that are superior to mind-mapping software and if you're going to assert that what's special about your software is that it does something for the first! time! ever!, you'd better be correct. What other information does the landing page/video convey?

That's not to say that Workflowy doesn't have value. I'm saying the value isn't being presented in a way that someone familiar with software in this space is going to believe.
Your out of your mind Walstreet is the greatest thing that has ever happened to this country.
You can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience
Call me crazy, but I'd rather have LulzSec stealing passwords on crappy secured services than a NSA agent scanning my whole life. That would be the single worst outcome.
Walstreet? is that kinda like Wallstreet? Its jackass' like you that fuck everything up
We've established that you think I'm crazy. Granting that, how do you think I would answer your questions?
I block Java applets by default, but not JS, and I don't have a way to block only some JS APIs.
It's preferable to return correctly annotated (with elements from aforementioned namespaces) XML, rather than ‘plain XML.’ My point was, that this vocabulary already exists and there's no reason to invent new (incompatible) one. If you think you can provide some improvement to any of that, you should definitely contribute to that standards.

It's great that you care about what you output at all. Most developers don't, some even try to embrace their ignorance.
I think that there's certainly a lack of user-friendly resources, that introduce developers to the best practices regarding data formats and public APIs. For example, a website, that would catalogue and provide examples of usage of certain conventions, would be, undeniably, a godsend.

I hope we can all make the Web a better place, and just adopting already defined standards would be a tremendous achievement!
Shut up I am someone who actually participates in wall street unlike you.
easy fellas, it's just a funny picture.. but I do agree with shreddy, you should at least be able to spell if you're working on wall st.
What will they say when we finally understand them? "Took you long enough."

I don't believe that communication between dolphins and trainers has been strictly one way. I'm pretty sure a trainer can easily read a lot from a dolphin's actions, sounds, etc.

And keep in mind, the other great apes are wicked smart, like smarter then small human children smart, way smarter then the smartest dog, but still not smart enough to say something like "Took you long enough to teach us sign language."
there is also an habit factor: after a few thousand years of using the golden ratio in objects we may have an unconscious knowledge of those proportions and find them beautiful simply because we have seen very often "beautiful" things that used such ratio.
Unrest spreads among China’s migrant masses
What if cucumber and jQuery had a baby?
Just like with violent video games, the internet doesn't make people feel disconnected, or turn them into sociopaths.

It enables people who would rather be disconnected to disconnect themselves, and gives sociopaths the ability to do far more.

The internet doesn't create people without empathy, it reveals that deep down, a lot of humanity didn't have it to begin with. The way society is starting to structure itself, though, lets that shine through more clearly.
PG is an east-coast transplant.
How do you know if I participate on wall street or not? Actually I watch and distribute my 401k daily
The link that Dove gave suggests there's an idea of quantum randomization that will split our universe into n! universes in constant time.
For a moment I'd taught I was the only one to notice.
If we would ignore them, they would just fade away.