skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr v2: inside look at how Wall Street functions - these just happens to be people that got caught.
64-bit Windows actually uses the 32-bit IE by default. You have to use a special Internet Explorer (64-bit) shortcut to run the 64-bit version. I don't think that's an issue.
What if Lee wasn't shown and hadn't independently agreed to the 'Management Partnership Agreement'? [1] What if that Agreement – whose text as far as I know hasn't yet been publicly released – isn't itself clear and enforceable on the repurchase rights?

Even the part you quote is unclear; the clause which makes the Ordinary Shares 'subject to repurchase' is conditioned on the leading "If... the Ordinary Shares... are to be repurchased" clause. That may imply some other trigger or prior notification is necessary first, before the Management Partnership Agreement repurchase-at-cost (which would be contrary to the usual meaning of 'vesting') comes into play.

At this point any definitive interpretation – without the text of all agreements between Lee and Skype, and professional familiarity with the terms and precedents involved – is premature judgement.

[1] edit addition:
I see in a BusinessWeek article that Lee did sign but did not carefully review the 'Management Partnership Agreement'. That's a screwup, but the interplay between the exact language of all the agreements could still give him daylight.
Interestingly, if you search through the reddit account for a user with the exact same name and capitalization, s/he appears in some threads as very vocal, defensive, and at times revealing about Lulzsec, topiary, sabu, and others. Check em out.
Yeah, of course you're right but that is what Ticketmaster is counting on. They are kind of like the TSA in a way. They are hoping that you want what they are offering so badly you won't mind being taken advantage of to get it. It's not going to stop being that way while people take it.
Did you know any of the people involved or live in Littleton at the time? What's your source of expertise on this subject?

I find it very reasonable that even people with a predisposition towards violence are strongly affected by how they're treated. How would having coins thrown at you by the popular kids and regularly taunted not have an effect?
I guess thats why you might add a mobile number
The whole article seems overly emotional and not objective at all. The only thing I agree with are that ASLR and DEP are not implemented as well as they could ( though I have not looked at it myself).
Who's to say this is my main account? ;)

My original account on HN is over 1500 days old now. I left that and used another which is about 800 days old for awhile. Now I'm shii and a few other people for a little while longer.
It's because the promoter pays the band based on the face price of the ticket, not on the total price with fees.

At an incredibly high level, there are two historical economic forces at play:

1) The Irving Deal, which states that the goal of the band is to get 90% of all earnings of any event, including concessions, popcorn, tickets, etc. Obviously a very tough proposition in the event promotion business when some of your events make you money, but most break even and some you lose quite a bit on.

2) The Fred Deal, which is what transformed TicketMaster from being a company that cost promoters money (you pay us $.50 for every ticket we sell for you) to one that made them money (we'll charge the customer an extra $10 and give you $8 of it, but you need to sign a multiyear contract and we sell ALL your tickets).

If you're keenly interested in this, you should read the very excellent and recently published book Ticket Masters goes through all of the history and mechanics in great detail. Immediately upon finishing you should come work for me at Ticketfly in San Francisco where we're solving these sorts of problems on a daily basis. ;)
Is there no "I'm an IT professional. Please transfer me to someone that knows that I'm talking about" option for support?
If we decided to do notifications I would expect users to not re-use passwords from other sites. I would also expect that such a service would require a trusted security brand behind it to work.
El Triunfo del Amor Grand Final
If we watch the last episode Triunfo del Amor where Victoria has a choice according to her conscience is choosing Heriberto, at Triunfo del Amor Grand Final or Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 176 Victoria and Heriberto will most likely shut down their story with a sweet end, end up in the aisle. While Osvaldo continue his adventures to Spain, Triunfo del Amor Gran Final will leave room for its loyal viewers imagination ... Osvaldo loneliness and regret that he had wasted love of Victoria or Osvaldo return to continue his love of adventure.
The most successful CEO of my life, Bill Gates, never struck me as charismatic at all. He was a geek.
Anybody else find the video creepy? Watching this seems reassuring that the uncanny valley is very very very far away. :)
Their last tweet is 5 hours back ... wonder if there will be anymore lulz there ...
Its true, a small number of people enter their passwords. The site has been updated with a quick check to prevent such behaviour. Thanks for the feedback.
It's not a scam of any sort. Happy to discuss with anyone who has concerns.
Actually sabu is still tweeting and him and others are still active on their different irc channels.
James Patterson
I disagree with gexla, I think you should build sites for free. This accomplishes 2 thing;

1) You grow a profile

2) You learn coding at other peoples expenses. Meaning if you screw up, there are little repercussions for you
Totally agree with you there, it's all going to depend on what's found in the houses. If they find evidence in the houses it's all going down.

A friend of mine a long time ago back in the 90s beat one of these things because they didn't have a warrant. Cops came to his parents place while he was out. Parent's let them in, they found a bunch of telco manuals, seized the computers, everything in the room was inadmissible because he was renting the room from his parents. He was a lucky guy. He also stopped bitching that his parents made him start paying rent.
FWIW, you've got a glaring typo (to me) on your firm's web page:

s/Our job is articulate and defend those positions/Our job is to articulate and defend those positions/

Normally I wouldn't mention it, but since we're talking about both legal contracts and precise prose here...

Excellent site, incidentally. I can mostly tell what you do, which is remarkable for a legal firm's site.
I would argue that it's not completely useless as the average person re-uses the same password everywhere. Even if you do it across a small number of sites it could easily start a chain reaction.

In fact, I would say that prompting the average person to change some passwords either way, is a good thing.
Windows shell, because I've seen bash.
Dropouts look to learn from Zuckerberg
How well-known is this to webmasters? If it's not well-known I cannot see how the second part could be. But the first could very much be true, and is what I would've surmised.
And, just like during the bubbles, those who just get good work done will need none of them.
If you like going to the rock show, wrestling with algorithms that deal with high currency, social media analysis on a crazy complete data chain versus the regular induced douchebaggery, building a credible alternative to TicketMaster, or just run-on-sentences, you should come join our team of pirates at Ticketfly in SF.
There are some leaps that normal users won't make, agreed. It's not an easy problem. Either way I believe that raising awareness in non-techie populations is good.

If you have specific suggestions, I would be happy to discuss them.
The question that I have is whether this is a relative behavior (i.e. whether, for a given domain 'domain.com' Google prioritizes domain.com/short-url over domain.com/longer/url.html) or a global one (i.e. prioritizing short.com/url over very-long-domain.com/nested/pages/hierarchy.html, all else equal).

I can definitely see the local/relative effects being a natural consequence of prioritizing by pagerank, but the global part sounds more like a separate signal.

Does anyone have insights?
Dupe of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2194776
Trust is an issue no doubt and to some extent I wish I had partnered with a big security brand. However, the reality is that you give your email address to various parties all the time, and regardless of how malicious they are, they are rarely secure. Your email is already public, imho.
Boring.

The problem with these tards is that they lack the discretion to find interesting problems to tackle. So: they pick on weaklings like Sony.

Real grown-ups find good problems to solve and, well, solve them. A lot of those guys profit from them.

I hope that the lolsec guys eventually realize that there's more to gain from helping the world than from hurting it.
Yeh there way too many lists of 1-5000 email/passwords available on the web. I'm talking thousands if not tens of thousands. It's just too hard to find and add them all. If you find it hard to think about the website as being a comprehensive answer to password problems, think of it as an awareness raiser in the general public. :)
Oh, is this new in Lion or something? I've never seen that prompt before. (But in any case, there are other options such as clever use of DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES.)
How is it possible to register a .com domain in an anonymous way?
I've never found a situation where keyword arguments are a better choice than setters.

When you're programming in a functional style, perhaps? The idea of a setter doesn't make much sense in Clojure where the native data structures are immutable, implementation inheritance is strongly discouraged and state changes require a little more work than "x = y".
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> It doesn't even begin to explain to me what it measures or how it applies to an actual circuit. What components of a circuit have an impedance? If I increased the impedance, what would happen? How would I even do that?

That's all in his post:

>>> We get it by taking the Laplace transform of the differential equation that defines the relationship between current and voltage in a capacitor or inductor.

I = C dV/dt
Laplace(dV/dt) = V*s
I = C * V * s
V / I = 1 / (C * s)

V = L dI/dt
Laplace(dI/dt) = I*s
V / I = L * s

Granted, he doesn't take the extra step to say that Z = V/I. Once you see that, you can see that impedance is proportional to inductance and frequency or inversely proportional to capacitance and frequency. (I feel that your participation in this discussion implies that you know what V, I, C, and L stand for.)

> I know that anything that has resistance or reactance also has impedance, and something that has both has even more impedance,

Everything has resistance and reactance. 0 is still a number. It also doesn't follow that two non-zero numbers are greater than one non-zero numbers.

> but in a DC circuit where the frequency is zero you'd get some edge condition where a non-zero reactance would, let's see, act as infinite resistance, I think?

There are incredibly few "DC" circuits. Most of what you'd think to call DC circuits are actually switched circuits, which have transient or AC properties. You're right that after settling, a capacitor acts as an open, however an inductor acts as a short. Your intuition failed you here.
My uninformed impression, never having owned an Apple product:

They're expensive, they crease your wrists, and the risk of some physical defect is great enough to be infuriating when they're so known for design and so expensive.

(They also look like shit after they're a few years old, based on my team mates units, but maybe that's from expecting them to be shiny MOMA-worthy objects.)

For playing well with the other team mates: Mac users have always been on different versions of Office than the rest of teams' members that I've been with, different enough that it causes unnecessary friction while trying to figure it out.

As a non-Mac developer: them are some expensive terminal windows.

As a ..nix developer: the ports (?) system, and its brethren/competitors, always seem to have different/old versions of software. The saving grace being that it does have those expensive terminal windows.

tl;dr: Harumph!
It's used in OpenWrt and probably most (if not all) of the FOSS router firmwares out there.
That thread proves Bjarne Stroustrup's quote "As someone remarked: There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses."
Almost every language that has ever been in wide use except C is represented in the replies.
I can't speak to anything about u-Deals since I didn't work on it, but the SMS issue was actually a bug. The guy who wrote the invitation flow forgot to clear a collection during initialization of the screen. If the user invited one contact at a time, each subsequent invitation would send another invitation to everyone the user had already invited. Within 30 minutes of hearing of the bug I had updated the Loopt server code to drop all SMS invitations from that build.

There were no instances of invitations being sent to people that weren't marked as selected or who the user hadn't already invited. Ever. It's too late for anyone to download that version and verify my claims, but it's true.

There was no rational reason for the behavior the app exhibited. Does pissing off the contacts of all of your users lead to success? No way. Was the SMS issue a fuck-up? Absolutely. Was it a bug? Yes. Was it malevolent? No.

If you move fast enough you will miss things. It happens.
Come on, you guys could've at least not done the robot voices on the intro video. A blackboard with some emotinoal statments regarding pointers or even a "reflection" joke would've been more like it. It'd be a neat idea and I'd follow up only if you promise that robotic kittens will not be involved in any of the lectures :-P
When I clicked, I was hoping this was going to be one of those web pages with nothing but a big, bold Helvetica NO on it. (And in the event of a total collapse of the economy, only then might it change to YES.)

Apparently Jessica (the author) is a nicer person than I am.

That said, whipping up a flyer pro-bono might be faster than whipping up a web design pro-bono (which is the situation I find myself in) - so I suspect this chart needs to be scaled to the time required to perform one's profession. I'd be curious to see what the "hey, can you make me a website?" version of this looks like.
Wonder if the spelling mistakes are strategically placed then. Or does Mr. Barr really spell that way. He's like a 40+ year old married guy.
luckily they did get caught. 11 pages in I was praying to FSM that they didn't get acquitted.
prepaid visa or just get someone who doesn't know you very well to do it
That's a question I would really like to know the answer to. I'm not so sure that's the case.
He's been pretending to be kids for years. He definitely fancies himself able to play the role (and I find him all the creepier because of it).
i made a minimalist web design for my project website http://vsetech.ru/

as i am not a designer at all, so i had to be minimalistic in order not to be very ridiculous. but i tried to make it look interesting. seems i followed some of the advices of the article intuitively (and some was violated of course)
Sticking to one persona, especially one tied to the IRL you becomes annoying and restrictive. Much more freeing to openly speak your mind and be able to say things without every thought and action being traced back to one identity.
According to his quotes in [1], yeah, he really does spell and write that way, even in professional communication. It's kind of sad.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-secu...
Hopefully this will answer my Quora question: http://www.quora.com/Is-there-anything-like-Khan-Academy-but...
It's worth it if it's a lot of equity. And if you have your lawyer look at the equity contract before you start.

Get your equity contract drawn up before you do a thing. Set up a schedule for your equity to be awarded as your work progresses, not all "at some point in the future" - to ensure that even if you get canned quickly (or they raise money and decide to squeeze you out) you still get something for your trouble.

If they're not willing to give you a very strong equity offer (in writing), try to get them to agree to a deferred salary agreement. Again, in writing, where if they raise money, they're actually going to give you some of it. Only do this if you feel fairly confident they will in fact raise some amount of cash someday (or you like the project enough that you're willing to take the risk.)

If they won't agree to either of these things, run.
The fact that Sony is a weakling is a problem, and I suspect that LulzSec is doing their level best to solve that problem. If the world comes out minus some internet filters and plus stronger corporate internet security, they've helped.
To be fair, a random group posting to patebin isn't limited by things like "probable cause" "search warrants" and "lawful behavior".

They admit in the document to "backhacking" the targets, which already puts them at an advantage against law enforcement.

edit: s/probably/probable (it's late)
I don't find either of these to be very similar to Khan. My favorite things about Khan are the lengths and speed.

But "already done" comments are usually incorrect and short-sighted.
I noticed that too. That comment was pulled right as I (author of original post) entered the thread.

I repeat... I have nothing personal against Sam. Never met the guy.
It is good practice to work with other people. I applaud you putting yourself out there.
This is a good point. Getting ACLs to work - really and truly work in such a manner that they aren't overly restrictive or overly relaxed - is not trivial.

If you can attain security by trivial actions... that's a lot better than having to be really clever about it.
I think he is referring to venues like Cafe Du Nord, and Bottom of the Hill.
There you go - http://www.crossloop.com - exactly what you described.
I've felt the same way, at times. I know things which are both interesting and counter-intuitive about the game industry.

But the information is inexorably tied with my identity, so I've concluded it's more prudent to have secrets and to allow the vocal uninformed to remain ignorant. In the end, it doesn't matter, and they probably wouldn't believe you anyway.
When I heard about this the first time, one of the "benefits" of this approach is they only sell deals to companies that actually have demand. And I never understood that. One of the reasons Groupon is so reviled is because the demand for these ridiculous deals causes great problems for the business in question. If the deal didn't have any demand, then there wouldn't be any problem whatsoever and people wouldn't be hating Groupon. If anything, the way Loopt is doing this is far worse than Groupon, as the article demonstrates.
Are Untouchables allowed to own/operate a restaurant in India?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Untouchabilit...
Aaron Barr is a notoriously bad speller.
Confirmed. I just checked in Snow Leopard. I would totally do this for clueless people, too.
Bring relevant visitors to your websites free of cost
If you meet anybody from India, ask him 'What Is Your Caste?'
I'm a CS graduate with 10 years in the field.

I've worked at 3 different companies and, compared to college coursework and projects, not a single one of these jobs has been intellectually stimulating for me. In fact, my first task at my first job was to document Java code created by foreign contractors. Most of the code was get/set functions for member variables. Nevertheless, there have been projects that I relished, but they have been few and far between.

Most of the work you do in college is individual work. It's completely the opposite in the working world. You have to work on a team of people, and your focus is building a product, not learning new things. This is not to say that you won't learn, but that aspect comes in a distant second to creating a working piece of software, on a schedule, that meets a business need.

My advice on keeping your intellectual needs met: do your brainy stuff outside of work. Work is not your muse; it's not your professor. Work pays the bills so you can live how you want outside of work.

At two jobs I was actually singled out and mocked for doing "advanced" things that had immediate positive effects on the business. Superiors and coworkers can feel threatened by a brainiac. Politicking isn't limited to the Beltway. These companies weren't exactly tech giants, but you'd probably find this situation is possible at any company. So being street smart is also a requirement. Don't showboat unnecessarily.

If you find a company that interests you, use your alumni association to find people who work there. Get in touch with them and ask them questions about what they do, what they like about the company, and what they don't like. Do some networking and research the work environment before you send a resume. It's very difficult to gauge a company from a job interview since it's a stressful situation and you're focused on presenting yourself as the ideal candidate.

Also consider jobs that aren't primarily tech-oriented, but permit you to use technology to do your job better. At a former company there was a sales guy who knew programming fairly well and he used it to streamline his processes. He was able to handle more clients more efficiently and he got promoted quickly. If there's something non-technical that you absolutely love, then taking a related job and applying tech to it might lead to interesting results.

As for start-ups vs. small companies vs. giants. It all depends on what you're comfortable with. Start-ups are risky but the atmosphere is generally pretty fun and they are often more open to using new technology and unorthodox methods. As companies get larger, the bureaucracy sets in and things become more about following a process than finding something that works. I'd recommend joining a start-up to any CS graduate, but do it before you settle down in life.
Silicon Valley, eat your heart out (Appsterdam)
Yeah, Pidgin on Windows is an usability joke.
You misunderstand me. Ethanol is not bad. Very rarely are substances at all actually bad.

Addiction is bad.

In the case of common substances such as ethanol, society at large is generally pretty good at separating the two concepts, but when the substance becomes somewhat more obscure people freak the shit out for no apparent reason.
This is only tangentially relevant, but here's a fun audio clip of Richard Feynman actually talking about his safe cracking days at Los Alamos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJXy2QDlxT0

Also tangentially relevant is this xkcd strip: http://xkcd.com/277/

Basically, if these two links had a baby it would be the OP. :-)
Cash flow is most important. If you need money to grow and are paying down your loan instead, that is bad.
But the site that got nuked could have been the next Broadcast.com.
Right, the evil evil wall street bogeyman.
بث مباشر لمباراة الافريقي التونسي والترجي الرياضي اون لاين 26/6/2011
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All things said and done , one of the biggest flaws will be both Unix and Max giving a user the sense that both are secure and nothing can go wrong. That is the same reason Mac Defender worked.
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Has anyone checked out those PGP files? Don't really feel like doing it myself, considering the likely unsavory nature of the author of this document (barr...).
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http://files.0xf.nl/images/Screenshot-Hacker%20CS%20is%20the... I'd sort that font out. But wicked idea :)
What is more ironic?

1. The gross miss spelling in the post
2. That Mr Barr could not catch somewhat beginner hackers