skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they could read the documentation.

Or, they could get hit by script kiddies that keep looking for old vulnerabilities in some daemon they ran as root.

$ cat /var/log/authlog
...
Sep 13 16:57:31 lucien sshd[16283]: Invalid user webmaster from 218.234.21.151
Sep 13 16:57:31 lucien sshd[290]: input_userauth_request: invalid user webmaster
Sep 13 16:57:31 lucien sshd[16283]: Failed password for invalid user webmaster from 218.234.21.151 port 56992 ssh2
Sep 13 16:57:31 lucien sshd[290]: Received disconnect from 218.234.21.151: 11: Bye Bye
Sep 13 16:57:34 lucien sshd[12747]: User root from 218.234.21.151 not allowed because not listed in AllowUsers
Sep 13 16:57:34 lucien sshd[2144]: input_userauth_request: invalid user root
Sep 13 16:57:34 lucien sshd[12747]: Failed password for invalid user root from 218.234.21.151 port 57162 ssh2
Sep 13 16:57:34 lucien sshd[2144]: Received disconnect from 218.234.21.151: 11: Bye Bye
Sep 13 16:57:36 lucien sshd[20586]: Invalid user ftp from 218.234.21.151
Sep 13 16:57:36 lucien sshd[3604]: input_userauth_request: invalid user ftp
Sep 13 16:57:36 lucien sshd[20586]: Failed password for invalid user ftp from 218.234.21.151 port 57344 ssh2
Sep 13 16:57:37 lucien sshd[3604]: Received disconnect from 218.234.21.151: 11: Bye Bye
Sep 13 16:57:39 lucien sshd[14276]: Invalid user sales from 218.234.21.151
Sep 13 16:57:39 lucien sshd[25572]: input_userauth_request: invalid user sales
Sep 13 16:57:39 lucien sshd[14276]: Failed password for invalid user sales from 218.234.21.151 port 57514 ssh2
Sep 13 16:57:40 lucien sshd[25572]: Received disconnect from 218.234.21.151: 11: Bye Bye
...

(My firewall blocks these losers after two minutes and I still have endless logs like this.)

Learning the first way sucks less.
ctkrohn, ready for you to come back and tell us it's all fine. Any time now, would be great. Thanks! =)
> it’s hard to imagine that they paid him $10 million to do two spots

I'm not very familiar with prices for ad campaigns but the one number I know from recently is Adam Carolla being payed $350k for a Taco Bell commercial.
Seinfeld being much much more famous than Carolla, and this campaign having been seen by everyone, it doesn't sound that much. (in comparison of course)
A startup that does no-frills, genuinely secure mail on hardened servers might in fact do pretty well. I've wanted one a lot lately. It's not an easy problem though; you're going to deliberately sacrifice features for security, a tradeoff most customers won't get.

It won't solve this problem though; funnelling mail through Yahoo comes with plausible deniability. Funneling it through the email security vault, not so much.
Give me a break. There are very few organizations less well equipped to respond to computer attacks than US law enforcement. It takes years to convict on computer crime cases, and almost every one of them is front page news in the trade press. You know how many we've had in the past decade?

Trivia question: which law enforcement agency was primarily responsible for responding to computer incidents throughout the 80s and 90s?
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You underestimate the cleverness and persistence of a large group of bored internet trolls at your own peril. I am not kidding. Either that, or you've drastically overestimated the security of the Internet at large.
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Agreed. He was getting $1,000,000+ per episode of Seinfeld towards then end + the amount he gets for syndication rights is disgusting.

Seeing as how he A) doesn't really need the money and B) probably isn't that interested in Microsoft products, I can see it taking $10,000,000 to get him to show up to shoot the ads.
Here's two questions that many people don't ask themselves when they invest.

1) Buy and hold until when?

2) What if you're wrong?

As for becoming overexposed... if you've got Stock/Index A that is allocated for 10% of your portfolio and the market price doubles, you're allocation is now 20% (all things being equal). So you need to adjust your position sizing, unless you want to have 20% of your assets under that particular security. That's part of portfolio rebalancing and money management. If the price of a security goes down and you want to have the same exposure in it, then you would buy more to maintain it.

I also don't think people really take asset classes into account, mainly because there's not a lot of money in their portfolio to be truly diversified.
Probably closer to damned lies. Dividends aren't taken into account, and inflation is reported much lower than what it really is.
This is really interesting - it's got a lot of implications for something like doing map-reduce in Java.

When doing a Map-Reduce you can't really have any side-effects. So being able to verify this would be fairly handy.
It really feels like the campaign is missing the punchline though. I can understand the previous 2 ads to build some buzz, but they need to have some form of finale.

I want my moist and cake-like computer - where is it Bill?
Microsoft's marketing team is doing well lately.
Yes, this is precisely what the US founding fathers were imagining when they added the copyright/patent clause. By "artists and inventors", they obviously were referring to corporations whose sole purpose is to buy patents and then sue over them. Clearly they wanted patents to be bought and sold as if they were physical goods. That's why they started the clause with "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
This is indeed an epic fail... for, as it were, the Democrats.

Unfortunately, this only has the potential to help the Republicans. Let's assume the 98th-percentile scenario, from a Democratic perspective: a few mildly inappropriate emails are discovered via the hack. To us, meaning those who post on Hacker News, transparency and propriety matter a great deal, because we care about such "academic" issues. However, the average American (who spends 3 hours per workday surfing the internet, despite having signed an agreement that work computers were "for official use only") isn't going to be shocked or disgusted that a governor has sent a few emails in violation of propriety; it can easily be spun as a "one of us" crime, and the hackage will do nothing less than engender sympathy for Mrs. Palin.
Anonymous anonymous, or Anti-Scientology Anonymous?
I think you've misunderstood the point of the patent.

If the patent couldn't be transferred, wouldn't this mean that only the inventor, personally, was allowed to make the product?

In a word, yes: you, the inventor, have the right to build it. You can also say who else can build it. That was the point of the copyright/patent clause. Here, read it for yourself:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

Nowhere does it say anything about Congress being allowed to make laws that enable the purchase of said patents or copyrights. That's unconstitutional -- and if you doubt this, take a gander at the letters that Jefferson and Madison wrote about the issue while they were debating it. Jefferson, for instance, writes:

I like the declaration of rights as far as it goes,
but I should have been for going further. For
instance, the following alterations and additons would
have pleased me... Article 9. Monopolies may be
allowed to persons for their own productions in literature,
and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not
exceeding ___ years, but for no longer term, and for no
other purpose.

Obviously they did not intend for "intellectual property" to develop. If you can't touch it, you can't own it.

More on the Jefferson/Madison correspondence here:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/bparchive?year=1...
"It's because when you buy our products, and three months later you get stuck on something, you quickly figure out [how to get past it]. And you think, "Wow, someone over there at Apple actually thought of this!" And then three months later you try to do something you hadn't tried before, and it works, and you think "Hey, they thought of that, too." And then six months later it happens again. There's almost no product in the world that you have that experience with, but you have it with a Mac. And you have it with an iPod."

He (Jobs) has a real feel for where to put his finger. I'd flip it. With products, you (I) run into little walls where I think "how could I possibly be the only one to bang his knee on this?"
Instead of learning $bullet_point_count regular expressions by rote, just learn how they work and make your own as you need them. They really aren't hard to use, they're just incredibly compact, which makes them look unintelligible at first.

_Mastering Regular Expressions_ is the obvious classic, but a decent intro to Perl or Python will probably get to them eventually. (If you use Emacs, it's particularly easy to learn them by experimenting with M-x re-builder.) Also: Not everything uses the same RE implementation, some use non-standard extensions.

Don't become too drunk with power yet, though! There's a lot they're just not capable of doing (most notably, balancing tags around arbitrarily nested expressions). Once you have REs down, learning a lexer/parser is the next step. :)
or sign up on CrossLoop and be your own startup, if you are an IT Admin, helpdesk guy :)
Alice.com founder: Executing on Gut Feel
Admittedly off-topic: I find Gladwell over-rated. He picks interesting questions to ask, all right, but he never gets around to answering them. Like: why does the tipping point work? He proposes no hypotheses.
Yeah, I'm not buying it. They're a natural byproduct of a functioning patent system. Part of the incentive to invent and produce new things is the ability to sell the IP itself. A lot of people are brilliant at building new things, but not so great at producing them and getting them into stores. They're two very different skills.

It's a very useful middleman. They don't just get these patents from nowhere. They pay inventors and investors in bankrupt companies for them.

It's no different than real estate investors buying up strip malls in areas they think will be big in a few years and then raising the rent. It isn't extortion, and it doesn't slow progress down. It incentivizes it. It creates a larger market for intellectual property.

I won't say that our patent system is perfect, it clearly needs a lot of work, especially in the software era. But overall, it's pretty good, as evidenced by the resulting economy. It's easy to pass these people off as valueless middlemen, but they're not.
love afterboot(8)

i also changed default ssh port to non-22 to prevent most brute force attacks

i can't stand GNU/linux folks bashing OpenBSD over trivialities like the root only first-ever boot
laws can certainly destroy wealth, and incent people to not make it
Raising questions of that calibre is a job in itself. I am glad he is not coming up with half-baked hypotheses. This whole thing about 'Not asking questions till you can propose solutions' doesn't cut it for me.

For instance in Blink, he points out that a very successful golf player doesn't even seem to understand the reasons for his success. This has important implications. Do successful people really know why they are successful ? Do we take them a little too seriously ? After all self-improvement is big business.
They're getting talked about. That's a big step for them.
Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers
I always appreciated this one more:
http://postrapturepost.com/
How did these guys get a .edu domain? I thought only accredited colleges were allowed register those.
site's unusably slow (right now)
Sure, those written by Microsoft. You can use Exchange's web interface, or Sharepoint, in browsers other than IE, but the experience is significantly degraded.
Sweden can read your Internet traffic. (movie) Comments by Rick Falkvinge from The Pirate Bay and others.
The Swedish blogger interviewed several experts and activists for the movie and cut it all into a witty piece of film making.
Let it all blow up. It will be painful and disruptive in the short term, but in the long run our economy would be much stronger. Most companies in the finance, insurance, and real estate sector of the economy produce very little of real value anyway. The capital and employees could be used more productively elsewhere.
Neat. Simulations of what?
Will I stop asking endless questions about Windows ads?

Why didn't you ask the most important question of all: what the heck were they even talking about in those two spots?

(and I STILL don't know how they ended up in that family's house, these commercials are already way too disjointed, it's like middle school where everyone is making fun of you for no real reason, and even so you don't know why)
That isn't fully incorrect; individual insurance policy holders are not at (much) risk. Their policies are controlled by regulated subsidiaries in each of the several states. Even if the parent goes bankrupt the subsidiaries will continue to operate and pay claims. And even if one of those goes down, the policies are guaranteed by state-operated reinsurance funds. There are some dollar limits to the reinsurance coverage but they are generally pretty high.
No, it's being an extortionist and a vulture that isn't.
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Yes it will increase inflation, but not enough to overcome the deflation currently under way due to credit destruction. Real inflation is a monetary phenomenon driven by the availability (or lack thereof) of cash and credit. Most lenders have been withdrawing credit at rapid pace.
They've had it for quite a while.
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you can guarantee the farm considering the person you promised stuff would be dead.
And the cost of insuring 10-year T-notes against default (can you even believe that that market exists?) has risen to 26 basis points. http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080917...
It's not the absolute size that's a problem but rather the degree of leverage. If you've borrowed $30 for every $1 in capital (like Bear Sterns did) and your assets all drop by about 3% then you immediately become insolvent. They thought they could prevent that from happening through clever hedging and diversification but it didn't work.
A possible solution might be to set hard legal limits on size versus leverage for financial companies. But in practice I'm not sure how practical it would be to write regulations to enforce that.
I'm guessing this is more of a product of the lack of programming comics. I can't think of too many others besides those two.
Sounds like what Zopa is doing with peer to peer lending.

As long as there is a central clearing organization that guarantees the payoff and assuming this p2p model results in better rates, I don't see why it wouldn't take off.

The execution would be a major hurdle though.
Third -- How was the system breached?

Dunno, I just went and quickly braved 4chan (I know... I feel so dirty) to see if anyone was linking anything. They had some rapidshare links up (a 1.4 mb and 1.1mb one).

Am grabbing now just to see what they are... I'm curious if there is anymore info on this.
Attention new products: Focus on your core feature
This is truly disappointing. I had theorized that in light of the strange and arty ads for the zune and this amusing little romp, all of which seem to have only tangental relationships to the products they purport to be promoting, that Bill Gates had moved into a new area of "philanthropic advertising" where the focus is improving your day first and selling products second, if at all.
MSN vs ICQ comes to mind. (note that AOL is a non-start for the other 5.7 billion people in the world)
Facebook vs. Myspace?
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Tell YC: What are your financial strategies amidst this growing credit crunch / dragging economy?
What are your current financial strategies or predictions given this souring economic state?

Being 22, I'm a bit new to fully comprehending economic slowdowns and curious how others have made the best of them.

Personally, I'm pissed that the government continues to bail-out corporations, however I'm mainly interested to hear your thoughts on what sort of business / investment opportunities might arise out of this downturn.
Why? I admit that I'm not entirely sure what these commercials are trying to express, but I thought they were both very good.

I'm a long time Amiga/Unix/Mac/anything-but-Windows user, and while I'm not running out to buy a Vista-powered computer after seeing these ads, they do an excellent job of portraying Microsoft as not being evil.

I find that remarkable.
Microsoft and Seinfeld Go Separate Ways
1) Until I can find a better business at a better price, adjusted for tax consequences?

2) It's impossible to usefully answer this question without recursing into nihilism. Consider: I think there's an 80% chance that BioCo's new drug will be a hit, and the stock will go from $5 to $10. Does "What if you're wrong?" mean I dial up the uncertainty everywhere (70% chance of going from $5 to somewhere between $8 and $12?). Okay, fine. Now I think there's a 70% chance that the new drug will be a hit, and the stock will trade between $8 and $12. But what if I'm wrong? Well, it must be time to dial up the uncertainty even more -- 50/50 chance of trading between $5 and $15, perhaps.

It doesn't add any useful information to just keep second-guessing oneself, or to have a rule that amounts to "Be less certain than you usually are, except about the statement "Be less certain than you usually are, except about the statement "Be less certain...""" It's good to collect enough information to consider different scenarios, but it does no good to blindly assume that you're wrong about a given stock.

As for becoming overexposed... if you've got Stock/Index A that is allocated for 10% of your portfolio and the market price doubles, you're allocation is now 20% (all things being equal). So you need to adjust your position sizing, unless you want to have 20% of your assets under that particular security. That's part of portfolio rebalancing and money management. If the price of a security goes down and you want to have the same exposure in it, then you would buy more to maintain it.

That's true. In a scenario like the one we have now, that would imply buying. Also, holding (until a better deal comes along).

I also don't think people really take asset classes into account, mainly because there's not a lot of money in their portfolio to be truly diversified.

I'm not sure what this means. Asset-class allocators don't seem to get better results than people who buy good businesses at good prices. At least, I see fewer people who allocate their way onto the Forbes 400.
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"Reviews". "Bad reviews"

Seriously, how many commercials even get reviews? The first season of Seinfeld had middling audiences. Maybe they should have cancelled it...
yeah, i think they were grandfathered in. very cool ideas, i hope they do well. their UI seems a bit overcomplicated, though.

www.scilink.com is the only other player i know of sorta in this space (and labmeeting, as mentioned). anything better out there?
i can just imagine the e-mails from that service getting blocked by some anti-spam mechanism along the way, causing it to broadcast your message, and your friends and family freaking out thinking you're dead.
Silicon Alley Tells Wall Street: Send Us Your Resumes
If it was just personal emails you'd be right, but she broke the law and conducted state business with her Yahoo account. While it was reported before, this confirms it. I'd say since she routinely used her Yahoo account for state business it should be public, just like her main account.
I think this is a really unfortunate demonstration of companies not trusting the people they hire. Crispin Porter & Bogusky is one of the best agencies in the world, and they have proven it year after year - there's no doubt they know exactly where they are heading with these ads. If Microsoft is truly balking at letting them "do their thing", it's too bad. CP&B knows what they are doing and Microsoft may continue looking cold and stale if they don't let Alex & Co. do what they do best.
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Of the search engines listed, I think Scopus and Web of Science both compete in the area of linking papers together by citations, but I don't really use either.
There already exist plenty of expensive ways to do this. You could, for instance, add it to your will. Or get a safe deposit box, put some envelopes in there, and mention the safe deposit box in your will. Or just leave letters with your lawyers (who are also keeping your will).
It's a cycle mon ami. It will always happen.

IMHO you should get very good at trying to build a business. Indeed that's maybe why you're even reading in this aggregator anyway. Even when they fail, you learn quite a good lesson, and using people around you to help you leverage your talent will probably put you in a better position to withstand these economic downturns.

On the meantime, get acquainted with sound economic theory books, maybe even some accounting 101's and perhaps a refreshing metaphor wielding book (Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko maybe?) to help you get pumped up.

On a side note, it seems that economic downturns are favored by big investors to get undervalued assets into their portfolio (be it either paper, real estate or even businesses) for cheap. Indeed this seems to have been Buffet's strategy all along. Maybe we could learn from him, that a bearish environment, does not have to be the most caustic of ones.

You can succeed. Try not to speculate too much, go for fundamentals.
There is a flight to security on concerns about the stability of money market funds. If your startup uses money market accounts for working capital/payroll you should make sure the fund doesn't have corporate bond exposure
Exactly! Learn how to write regular expressions because they are super useful, then immediately disregard the boiler-plate ones provided in this article because any self-respecting language's stdlib (or extremely common libraries/frameworks) will handle all these specific cases in an abstracted way. Not to mention, learning only these doesn't mean you understand regex and not all the features of most regex engines are covered here (lookaheads, lookbacks, etc. and so on)
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Canadian student helps pin down largest known prime number
I don't see why this got downmodded. XKCD and Dilbert are awesome, but everyone already knows about them. I went there with hopes of seeing some new stuff (and I did, but not as much as I wanted to see)