skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So F-Secure has access and randomly digs through e-mails going through their virus scanner?

No. This is from a website they provide where users upload suspicious files to see if they're infected or not:

http://www.virustotal.com/
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Presumably because the Flash widget is OLE? You might as well ask why "enable" Flash over HTTP. The answer is of course that no-one "enables" anything, you write something generic like OLE or HTTP and people just use it for whatever they want to do.
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Not sure I've seen that particular unsubscribe page before but rest assured if I had I would have found it just as distasteful where they a startup or a successful company.

Of course I can't speak for others.
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I'm a U.S. citizen living in the Philippines. I work out of an office of a local startup (currently one Western guy and a local.) I think that after the parents have spent a lot of money sending their kids through college they would rather their kids work for a large corporation and work their way up the career ladder. This is the case even if a startup would be willing to offer a lot more money. The perception of a good job is more important than the money.

Being an Asian nation, class can be somewhat of a factor here as well. If some employees are from a higher class than the others, then communication can be a problem.

The education here isn't great and the tech students generally aren't up to par in the technical fields. There are probably a handful of students in each of the top schools in the country which are decent. I imagine that school probably isn't a good indicator of skills. You would probably need to find employees who have developed their tech skills through their own passion.

The same reason why mobile is hot here is probably the same reason why there aren't a lot of early adopters and computer tech savvy students. In some cases students might have been lucky to grow up with electricity, let alone a computer and internet connection. For a lot of people here, their phones are their computers. There are internet cafes everywhere, but that's not like having your own system to hack away on.

Though mobile is huge, the Philippines is very poor, so few people are carrying around smart phones. Most people don't even do a lot of calling because it's more expensive. So pretty much all the phones are used for is texting. The cell providers here have some great offerings for mobile micro payments, but I never see people using those services.

The economy is generally horrible, so it's hard to see what you might do to make much money here other than exploiting cheap labor to serve Western markets.

Overall, they have a long ways to go. But the people generally seem content here with what they have. This is no race, they will get where they want to go at their own pace. And there's nothing wrong with that. Maybe the U.S. could learn something from the Philippines, and that's probably why I'm living here. ;)
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3) Good Free Toolchain: You don't really have to shell out 600 dollars for Flash. You can get your stuff done for free, using FlashDevelop and Flex SDK.

Interesting, I always assumed you had to buy the full Flash IDE to do anything. Granted, I never really looked into it at, but I wonder how widely known this is? Am I just ignorant? :)
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I can't argue with this, I guess, except to say that if this counts as a terrible failure we need a bunch of new words to describe all the much, much bigger failures that we've seen over the last twenty years.

After living through all these massive bubbles and frauds, I guess I have a pretty high standard for failure. "Failure to make more profit than an index fund" is not a success, I'll admit, but Canon could have done worse, oh so much worse. They didn't win, but emerging from all that risk without a total loss? Can we score it as a mulligan?

And I'll definitely push back on this whole "pity sale" concept. Just because Steve Jobs found the one and only way in the world to turn his looming total loss into a mulligan plus the seeds of future empire doesn't mean he lost. This isn't chess. Companies aren't competing on some kind of infinite, uniform ideal grid, they compete in the real world, and money is money, even if they have to call in every favor and exploit every advantage.
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desktop grade hardware - if that's your thing go for it.

I believe that if you're going dedicated, might as well pay for enterprise grade hardware (with ECC RAM, RAID disks) because you dont get all the nifty backups/clones/spin-ups that you get from the cloud.
Note that Pixar was Steve's investment - it was not related to Apple.

Also note that the investment was in Pixar's graphics computers(!) not animation art. In reality, Steve was fighting with Pixar to stop animations and sell their hi-tech computers only. He fails and that starts great animation studio which later abandoned computer manufacturing.
So Bray took Cook's we'll-be-the-same-Apple email to mean that Apple won't enter new markets? How is that even a reasonable interpretation?
All I can think of while reading this is, that must be where the crystaline entity comes from ;p
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The theory that this was an advanced persistent threat trying to get into Lockheed doesn't pass the smell test. Here are faster and easier ways to get ahold of an rsa fob.
It is easily available: http://www.poisonivy-rat.com/
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Some views from an authoritative dutch IT lawyer Arnoud Engelfriet http://blog.iusmentis.com/2011/08/25/realnetworks-wil-smarte...

- Real Player put down a request for an Ex Parte case (court case without a hearing).

- The Ex Parte case assumed that the webmaster was hosting the infringing software.

- When this hosting claim did not held in court, Real Player still decided to push the case for linking.

His view is along the lines of:

- lawyers have a responsibility too. If these Ex Parte cases have no merit, this should have consequences for the lawyer guiding his client into an Ex Parte case.

- Ex Parte cases are expensive and lawyers earn a lot, owing to the 150k+ legal costs (really high for Dutch standards). Frivolous Ex Parte cases could border on abuse of the legal system for monetary gain.

For me, a cursory glance on the internet _does_ show servers with the name of the suspect being referred to as mirrors for the Real Alternative software. Also shortly after the newest releases, suggesting a relation between the suspect and the unknown creator(s) of the software Real Alternative.

Real Alternative uses DLL's and marks (like logo's and icons) owned by Real Player, so it is hard to make a case for fair play.

There is likely a lot more to this case than a simple hyperlink, even if it is lawyers being lawyers. Linking to infringing software has no relation to Dutch Copyright law (since it is not republishing), and isn't even grounds for an Ex Parte.
Oops I just noticed I left out the question mark in the title. Just added it now.

Overall this is interesting/unique and I thought worth sharing. Also I wondered how effective or ineffective you thought this is?

Personally I hate spam emails (signed up for groupon mistakenly) so I just want them banished. Nothing is going to be effective to get me to re-subscribe. But, nice try Groupon!
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I don't think it makes sense to require an account to filter location.

Also, look on this page:
http://www.freelywheely.com/listing/item/bath-toy-bucket
Where is the item from?
It's pretty widely known. FlashDevelop is very popular, and then on top of that there are other non-Adobe IDEs as well.
Apple is now worse then Microsoft ever was. Because they're more snaky in putting the thumbscrews on the customers. The true face of Apple is an ugly one. I'm not saying Google or Facebook or Microsoft don't focus on making money on the expense of the customers and on the expense of the freedom of the internet. But I really fail to understand why some of you guys seem to see Steve Jobs as a hero. Are you aware that the direction Steve Jobs and all the big companies are heading to is to force people to buy an app for 5 dollars to write a comment on Hackker News? And as an extra premium they sell your private data to allow other companies rise the prices to the max.

To me Apple has reached a new all time low as they sued Samsung with photoshoped pictures as if Apple had invented the tablet. They made the first great one, but they did not invent it.

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I'll take the bait. It seems possible to me that there could also be value in doing some routine tasks that you don't enjoy. Even for the top scientist/inventor/entrepreneur. I've tried to come up with a list of some reasons why, but I think they all eventually come down grounding. If you always have someone else performing a certain class of tasks for you, like unenjoyable routine tasks, you'll be disconnecting certain feedback loops and avoiding learning certain lessons.

I'll take for example cleaning up your house/apartment/room on your own. I've noticed that when my apartment gets messy it is usually an indicator of my internal mind state. It is a helpful indicator that there is something bothering me or something that needs to be dealt with. If I always had someone cleaning up for me, I might miss these types of indicators, and the whole of my performance might degrade (to the new loss of the world as you put it).

I also understand that people in the past have probably said this about all kinds of things that we now have machines or human specialization doing for us. So maybe what is more important is to make sure that while you are in your prime, or getting to your prime, you learn about which of these routine tasks are actually helping you, which you depend on for your mental well being, and better understanding the trade-offs if the decision to never have to do them again comes up. Maybe you don't need your entire house to be the canary in the coal mine - maybe a few house plants that you make sure to water yourself would do the job well enough ...
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Poison Ivy is the new Sub7 (or new Back Orifice, if that's your thing). While it is actually an advanced trojan, the stub (small file it begins with) is relatively easy to detect. PI will commonly inject itself into the default browser's process. PI is a reverse connecting trojan, so an attacker must host the PI server somewhere. PI also encrypted the data back and forth using RC4. So if the attacker is really smart, they'll have PI attach to the default browser and connect to a remote server on port 443. To the average user it looks like HTTPS traffic.

The reason that PI was not detected is because the attacker embedded a Flash object inside the Excel file. The Flash file was a 0day exploit that could download and execute a file, which in this case was the attacker's PI client.

From there, the game is up. Once inside the network, an attacker has a whole new set of doors to open. The simplest route, if the target is on an older operating system, is to dump the SAM file, which contains both local passwords as well as cached passwords. Cached passwords are nice because they are network logins, however 9 times out of 10 the local Administrator password is the same on all systems because system administrators frequently use the same local admin password when imaging lots of computers. Additionally, cached passwords are sometimes out of date due to password update policies. Local passwords are usually not subject to this, or if they are, it becomes irrelevant since a system administrator hasn't likely gone through and changed each local password.

Once you have a network password or local password, things get fun. There are 2 routes here. The attacker can go the frontend route, and attack the internal CRM that EMC has, or they can attack the development servers. Alternatively, they could just keep hacking each workstation, but that is unnecessary. Assuming we went the CRM route, we likely have or can easily obtain a valid login from our first target's computer. Once inside, unless there are solid permissions, we may have won. RSA likely had a record of each customer's purchase, which then had a record of each device and potentially some sort of key or code needed to predict the next token. I'll give RSA the benefit of being slightly smart, so those sort of keys probably won't be on the same CRM, or perhaps our login doesn't have access. Either way, we are in, and with some dissemination of materials available on other drives or within emails, the attacker could easily determine the location of the keys.

Once the attacker has whatever he needs, it's a quick trip to LinkedIn to find people that work at Lockheed Martin or whatever company you fancy. Then it's another spear phishing attack on that target to a page that looks like the target companies VPN. Grab the username, password, and PIN (also log the time) and you're good to go.

Now repeat the part where you enter the internal network and scour for information. Congratulations, you're now an Adaptive Persistent Threat. Pick your certificate up at the door.
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I know a solution: Require real names for jig!

(Okay, okay..)

On a different front: I've no clue what this even is. I see fake posts from Mark Zuckerberg and weird Youtube quality comments. Is 'jig' a word that should ring a bell here (and doesn't)? What's the purpose?
Hey thanks for the detailed reply I really appreciate it! I think the strategy of attacking niches is a lot better than a general broad strategy, I will look into it!
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I don't think it's widely known outside the circles of Flash game development. Most people who develop Flash games do it as a hobby and/or out of passion. Sure, you can make some money out of it, but if you want to make money, there are better ways to do it. I guess that's why it's a lot more important for us to find a free alternative.
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> I clicked it after I already had registered, and it showed

> me notification about being part of hacker news group.

So adding someone to an affiliation is as simple as getting them to ping a URL with a GET request? That doesn't seem especially secure.
Gah! Another one of these articles. Another article that starts with an interesting premise, and then.. nothing.
As useful as this would be in the short term we think it's not the best solution in the long term. We tout ourselves as an HTML5 exporter, replacement for Flash etc, having any Flash anywhere in it seems like it's cheating a bit!
Can you transfer this attitude to, say, a larger piece of software? I'm thinking of working on an "enterprise"-level project, where requirements may be vague, or timelines constrained.

I'm not disagreeing with your premise, but I find my attitude can be different depending on the scope of the project. For example, if I'm working on a smaller project, I find I can focus on the overall quality and strive for "no bugs." But on a larger project (often behind schedule and over-budget, most often not because of the dev team, directly), there are lots of edge cases that get ignored, at least during the first release cycle.
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What I find more interesting is that the people who usually love to hate on flash are the same people who break these rules when building poorly constructed "html5/css3/javascript" (buzzword overload) sites. There aren't a ton of them out there yet, but the number is growing. Nielsen's points are valid, but they aren't all flash-specific; I've seen these same principles violated in supposedly "standards-compliant" sites as well.

I think this bigger problem is a lack of true experience/interaction design knowledge. If you are only focusing on the visual aesthetic, and not spending time on thinking through the total experience, chances are you are going to make most of these same mistakes. The technology you choose is less of an issue, the real problem is how you employ that technology. That said, I always try to avoid flash unless it has a very specific benefit over css/js, thankfully I haven't needed to build something in flash in quite a long time.
To me the worst part was how they managed the incident. They should never have been hacked, but once it happened they should have been honest about the scope of impact.
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But, Flash games inside excel has given immense pleasure to the employees where Flash games are not allowed directly.
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FreePascal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal

It even comes with a console IDE very much similar to Turbo Pascal. Not tried on a Mac though. However, there is the GUI IDE called Lazarus.
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It really depends on the specific dorm. IIRC you could easily have the same room for 4 years there, more easily than some other dorms. It (and Random where I stayed) tend to have more of a culture of making changes to the rooms and building - like making murals.
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> does anyone care? does anyone actually intend to try to use this feature? ;P

Yes, that's a very interesting (if disheartening) exposé on the risks of trying to use the application cache.
That question actually made me question the technical competence of F-Secure. You would think an anti-virus company would be more knowledgeable about embedded objects in Office documents.
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If the email quote from that page is accurate, then this is very blatant and the largest scheme in dollar amounts I've seen to manipulate search results. However, I will be quite surprised if Google does anything at all to penalize Wikipedia.
In the short-term, I'm confident that they can function well absent their leader. Long-term may be a different story.

Apple should do quite nicely for 5 years. After that, it's a big question mark. My bet is that past 5 years, it'll be "never quite as good" as now.
Not in Safari or Chrome. More a fault of the Acrobat plugin I'd imagine.
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It's not a reasonable interpretation. Bray is just very far outside of Apple to interpret it the correct way. That email wasn't from Tim Cook to the world, it was from Tim Cook, new CEO, to his employees.
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I think people expect too much from hacker news (or any similar site). Every post isn't going to be scintillating, or every comment insightful. Some of that is the posts, but a lot of it is what we bring to reading them -- we are all different, in our desires/tolerances/history. Your "funny" might be my "trivial" or vice-versa. A repost that bores you might be news to me.

So, my answer is to mostly just skip conversations that bore/irritate me. I'm not perfect; sometimes I forget and jump in. But little of use seems to come from that. It's more effective to just skip them and look for something else interesting to do.
i had to put together something resembling a compiler for a class, i used mainly two sources:

for the theory part: http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/torbenm/Basics/ (Basics of Compiler Design - Free book)

actualy put something together:
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maybe not the solution for real world use, but helped me jump past some nitpicking parts with the C / lex / yacc implementation.
It is ActiveX. When you install Flash, it registers itself as an ActiveX object. If you run through your registry, you would probably be shocked to see all the different libraries that have been registered.

To Microsoft's credit, running embedded ActiveX objects in Office is switched off by default. In large enterprise networks this can be set as part of a group policy. EMC must have switched it on. There is no granularity to it where you can say 'enable activex for video files but not for flash', so it is all or nothing.

What you can do is set it to only allow embedded loads from the 'trusted' network, for eg. the intranet (a great feature which is rarely used). The reason why they attacked with an ActiveX exploit in an office document instead of a web page is because the office documents allow you to embed the entire object so that it is loaded locally - but newer Windows will still know that the original source is from the web, so it will treat it as such. EMC must have had liberal group policies.

But you see the situation often - sales guys receive powerpoint presentations with embedded objects, or are creating them, and need it enabled.

You can review the various objects you have registered in windows by going to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID in your registry, or using a tool such as:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/axhelper.html

To change your Office security settings, see this msft article:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/enable-or-disabl...

Edit: just to add, OLE is just the old ActiveX. OLE on COM was very difficult to implement - so Microsoft stripped it down, simplified it and called the new set of interfaces ActiveX.
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I also notice that a large number of these complaints apply to mobile apps. For example, the difference in back button use between iOS apps and websites is marked.
I actually like the slightly slower, curated speed of 10-15 posts a day, spaced out a bit, instead of a constant churn of thousands of things. Although, with HN you can get an algorithmic approximation of that via HN Daily. The main thing that's still missing is the "why you should care" blurb that's Slashdot's signature: not just a link, but a link with something about why it's being linked in the first place. I find titles to be a bit too cryptic for my tastes, and the use of only titles tends to promote linkbait titles.
Niklaus Wirth has been saying that for quite a while. :)

His _Compiler Construction_ book is short, sweet, and has a free PDF online (http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/books/CompilerConstruc...). Uses Oberon.