skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The linked FBI page

https://forms.fbi.gov/check-to-see-if-your-computer-is-using...

in turn links to this FBI hosted document (I've wrapped it in a Google Docs viewer link for convenience):

http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fbi.gov%2F...

The second link is probably the simplest thing to provide you less technical family and friends, that offers both explanation and instructions for checking for compromise -- instructions that don't involve hitting an FBI test page, BTW.

Note also this section from the cited FBI-hosted PDF:

Second, it attempts to access devices on
the victim’s small office/home office (SOHO) network that run a dynamic host configuration
protocol (DHCP) server (eg. a router or home gateway). The malware attempts to access
these devices using common default usernames and passwords and, if successful, changes
the DNS servers these devices use from the ISP’s good DNS servers to rogue DNS servers
operated by the criminals. This is a change that may impact all computers on the SOHO
network, even if those computers are not infected with the malware.

P.S. I will add that I am really impressed with the clarity, usefulness, and understanding of the target audience that manifests in the PDF instructions. Every time someone "bitches" about "government workers", I wish to point them to examples like this. While I remain suspicious of "Big Brother" government particularly with respect to selling out to moneyed, entrenched interests and a self-serving political elite, there are plenty of career employees generating lots of good work. (I suppose this document could have been written by a consultant -- if so, at least someone hired a good one. If you look at the PDF's properties, an author name actually shows. I didn't look into this.)
> If you really care, get involved.

There's little chance to get involved with Unity. Shuttleworth has made it clear that he's playing his benevolent dictator card.

> Canonical is genuinely trying to make linux the most user friendly it's ever been and make it ready for real mass adoption.

Maybe. Unity is probably great for touch screen interfaces. Similar layouts have been tried on small screens - netbooks for example.

I guess the people with 2 huge monitors (and all the Linux tinkering that involves) aren't the people who need Unity; and they're probably already using something else. (Something entirely keyboard driven or minimal or whatever.)

> Write some code.

Yes, "show me the code" is a powerful message. Even if there's little room for involvement in Unity there are many other window managers and desktop environments that'd welcome people getting involved; whether that's with bug-fixing or feature implementing or language translations or documentation.
Without the sales to support such a large "industry" of lawyers and business people, and without the need for many of their services (marketing and distribution, at least), are major labels not irrelevant?

With dwindling sales they seem willing to further exploit their one resource, the artist. Artists on twitter are talking about getting monthly cheques for ~7 cents from Spotify. Guess who made that contract?

I feel like we're about to hit a new low for professional career musicians. Their existing structure is falling apart (and it should) but the replacement is not quite ready. Today's professional musicians have to tour constantly to be profitable enough to survive, not to mention constantly churning out new tracks to remain relevant.

It's a tough gig. Signing to a major label is not a great move financially (cue the albini essay), they're in dire straits and will exploit you for every dollar you can generate, leaving you with little but debt.

I hope that in the future, the fat will be trimmed from the industry (good riddance) but a sustainable model will be created where the artists and minimal management make healthy livings without being run ragged just because they devoted their lives to making music.
I studied Latin for 2 years in high school, and I found it tremendously helpful, not only in helping me do well on the verbal section of the SAT (760 to match my 760 math), but also when dissecting the meanings as an English major in college. Latin also came in handy when I learned Spanish (and later Italian and a little Catalan). I can see where PG is coming from, as I also studied Japanese, which has nothing in common with the other languages I've studied, and I'm convinced that it lives in a separate area of my brain.
Sincere meta question: do you have a SSD? I've found that any machine without a SSD feels sluggish after using a machine with one. I have a MBP with 8 GB ram and a 6 GB/s SATA III SSD... it screams past any machine that doesn't have a SSD.
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I'm pretty disappointed to see a YC founder taking Zynga's point of view on this Joey. You can finesse this however you want, some basic trust has been undermined, and this hurts entrepreneurs like yourself as much as anyone. Good luck on your next (or current) venture trying to convince a prospective developer or technical co-founder that you're "not like Pincus."
A few days later I'm happy to report that I don't miss Growl at all and have completely uninstalled it now. Turns out bouncing dock icons are sufficient to point out when an application wants attention.
Unless you plan on solely targeting entry level tea drinkers, you really need to provide more information about your tea. Give a preview of what you plan to ship for the next few months, the tea, the region it's from, when it was picked, etc. For all I know you're going to send me a box of Tazo loose leaf every month.
Interesting. I know neither Latin nor Arabic – beyond high school Spanish I'm a one-language person. The way you describe Latin makes it sound like something I'd like to study.
I think his meaning was "exclusively" gluing things together.
Wow, awesome claim in the third graf:

"one can imagine how similar ships could provide low cost healthcare all around the world by operating out in the open waters free from the various laws that restrict the ability for inexpensive medical treatments through competitive pricing"

So, if I read correctly, this is asserting that medicine is so over-regulated an industry, in developed countries 'all around the world', and so anti-competitive, that the introduction of unregulated competitive for-profit hospital ships would lower prices (for market-rate users)? Despite the obviously higher costs of running a hospital on a ship, vs running it on land, from a strictly logistical standpoint?

I guess it's conceivable. I admit I do hear these rumours about U.S. medicine and malpractice insurance, and also that the U.S. spends more on healthcare than civilized nations while still getting lower quality of care (all rumours for which I have no citations). But the weird part there is that, according to those rumours, the countries that outperform the U.S. all have more regulation, not less, so that doesn't fit. Also, medical tourism is a real thing, so maybe the same market forces could be exploited on a hospital ship. But then again maybe not, because I'd guess that some of those market forces include doctors and lab techs who (relative to the U.S.) have really cheap living expenses.

Anyway. On the one hand, on the face of it, I find the idea that hospital ships could lower prices laughable. On the other hand, maybe I should keep an open mind.
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All of the arguments that state some variant of, "X results in better programs, because X programmers are better, because X is hard," are ridiculous. Getting software done is more about stubbornness and drive than it is about intelligence. I've known a number of very slow, irrational people who were extremely set on goals, and I've known even more brilliant people who could rarely see anything through to completion.
When I was a kid, I'd load executables into a text editor or hex editor to see what was inside. I quickly figured out how to identify uncompressed graphics and audio data by sight, and to identify various opcodes by their ASCII interpretation. It made ripping and patching a lot quicker since I could eyeball it first before deep diving, and made it trivial to find encrypted portions in the executable.

I still do it sometimes.

Another, less useful skill (now) was the ability to detect a failing floppy disk by resting my hand on top of the drive while it was reading. I also resurrected a couple of seized hard drives by opening the case and spinning up the platter with my finger, much to the shock and dismay of onlookers.
They talk about everything. Right now the logical hierarchy of concurrency units goes something like:

host : node : process

So your cluster can have multiple hosts, each running multiple nodes, each node running multiple processes. All is handled transparently by the language syntax -- just sending a message to a process.

I can see the problem being solved on how can these nodes and processes on each host take advantage of multiple cores on that host. Erlang processes are not backed by OS threads in a one-to-one fashion. So how would one allocate these cores to running processes and also how to load balance between 2 nodes for example. One node has 10 processes, the other has 100000 processes. There are 1000 cores available. How to best make use of those cores.
I can still tell when my printer has been left on, though I haven't been a child for a long time. It's actually quite an irritating sound, hence why I leave my printer off most of the time :-P
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Why is Andreas Gursky's Rhine II the most expensive photograph?
Was that a joke about Michael or Jeff? I can't tell.
Why are you assuming small labels want to grow bigger? Many indie labels are owned by or have contracts with larger labels to provide wider avenues of distribution. Alongside with those, there are plenty of small labels and small artists, verging on your "schmucks" definition, that are perfectly content with their sales and the size of the fan base they have.

These are small artists and small labels who often record music because they love to do it, and they chose to do it in whatever way is most comfortable for them. Not everyone in the music industry is in it for the profit.
Erlang is the future, and the past of concurrency. Any developer worth their salt really should be learning it. If you will take a bit of time to do so, you'll discover that rather than the incomprehensible scary pain you expect when you first see it, it is quite logical, and quite a joy to work with.

In fact, it is a litmus test for me. When I first started looking at NoSQL solutions, I quickly heard of MongoDB. When I found out it was written in C, I suspected that it wouldn't be distributed and it wouldn't be concurrent... and in researching further, those suspicions came true. (by "distributed" I mean, homogeneously like Riak, not the brittle master-server-sharding setup.)

Trying to write a truly distributed, concurrent application in C is an exercise in frustration-- you'll have to produce halfway done poor implementation of erlang to do it, or you'll deal with pain every single day.

But if you start with erlang, you get these features essentially for free. Plus a couple decades of seriously engineered OTP to go with it.

I know a lot of "developers" these days never use anything more .... intense.... than a scripting language. But if you're ready to dive into the deep end, it isn't replicating the experience of writing assembly in C, it is going towards the future-- erlang.
first i'd like to say i am perhaps being over critical, i think it's a fantastic library (framework). i just realize how intensely better it could be. my biggest pet peeve is that it is indeed a framework, not a library. i really wish they had taken a route similar to jquery ui- and not try to force so much on you. this is for another post though.... as far as your question goes:

i don't think it's true to say scrollview and transitions are a lack of hardware support. again, on my iphone 3gs and 4s the google+ app is flawless in both of these areas. jquery mobile is subpar. the scrollview is obviously forgivable since it is still experimental. for what it's worth, i still think it's a far superior choice to iscroll.

the first issue i'll bring up is their fixed header and footer support. i think it's a decent solution for the tools they have available, but i'd never use it myself with it's current behavior. i do realize this is probably a consequence of scrollview support though.

another problem they've yet to solve is url bars dropping down while navigation. i understand given the circumstances, this is a difficult problem to solve without going against jqm's principles.

i am also not particularly fond of how their active states trigger on scroll, this is obviously not desirable.

my argument is not that there is much that is missing from jquery mobile, like i said i have a lot of faith in the project. stuff like url bars, active states, and page transitions may only be the last 10%- but that last 10% is crucial for the final polish of a real release.
This is a derail from my initial question, but I'm curious: would you say that studying Japanese, which is so different from the other things you know, has had an impact on how you think or how you look at the world? Or does it feel like learning Japanese was overall less useful than studying Latin?
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I don't ever want Linux on the desktop to succeed then if I have to sacrifice choice. I'm thrilled with Ubuntu every day, and if I had to sacrifice any of the flexibiltiy and customization I enjoy... well, I'd just use OS X.

Also, I have no freaking idea how your Ubuntu feels sluggish. Being in Ubuntu on my Quad/8GB is vastly faster than being in Windows.
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You're right. These are all people who should know how to conduct a sensible study. I haven't seen it, so I don't know if it's good or poor or complete rubbish.

It's also trivially easy to find doctors who are idiots and wingnuts who believe obvious nonsense.
In erlang there is not necessarily any difference between a machine and a core.

If you have a CPU with 100,000 cores, then you could run the same erlang program on it that you run on a cluster with 100,000 machines with the only changes being addressing the nodes on the cores rather than over the network.
Yeah, I think you're right. I'll add a page listing the types of tea likely to be sent (with a description of each, as you've suggested).
That's the fallback from GNOME.

The old "classic" panel look has been deprecated upstream, it doesn't really exist any more so I don't know what you're expecting Ubuntu to do in this case.
For what it's worth, his machine looks a lot like an elliptical trainer found and most gyms these days.
It's not about cooks vs hackers. This is the critical point:

Charlie didn't make $20M for cooking, he made
$20M for taking the risk

The money that founders and early employees make from startups they make as investors. They're getting compensated for risk, not simply for the work they do. Startups are volatile, which is why investors like them. Like other startup investors, early employees sometimes get really lucky. But that is not the same thing as being overpaid.

I can't say much for sure about this particular case because I don't know the details, but I don't like the sound of it. It seems so shortsighted. The amounts of stock involved must be small, and the damage done not just to Zynga but the whole startup world could be big.
No point. Apple has been contributing to the death of the big labels for years, both through iTunes, which artists big and small can use, and by putting high-quality hardware and software suitable for production into the hands of the little guy.

The business models are fundamentally opposed, and Apple's is winning. Buying the big labels wouldn't change that, it'd just be throwing a bunch of money at shareholders who hung on too long.
You are not the first developer in the startup, they able to offer you a decent package means, so they are funded.

Both are jobs

if you think you can be a entrepreneur then choose the startup you can know complete process and how to get funded for your idea.

If you think you may not startup in next 2 years, take the well paying job and save for future
LOL. That dude's comments are hilarious. As someone with a lot of experience in mobile (Java/Objective-C) I couldn't believe he said web development is easy. I am just learning web stuff now and I find to be very challenging and exciting.
Hi, just bought it and downloaded.

After installation it wouldn't synchronize folders, being on Windoze closing and starting again your app did the trick.

The people interested in security solutions would happily pay much more than $1 I would think.
This is something DropBox should implement natively. I would pay premium for that kind of functionality.
I think my key take-away would have been: the closer you are to the problem the better your solution can be.

I would venture to guess current therapies were developed by health professions and engineers at arms length to intended patients (via books and maybe some user-testing in constrained environments).

This solution was inspired and developed by a father who is involved with the health problem every day for long periods of time in real world situations. That provided a much better view of the problem space.

I am not sure if self diagnosing is a great idea or what I would identify as a key take-away. But accepting solutions blindly could be.
I'd argue otherwise, in any other case, but since a label's success solely depends on the success of its artists, which isn't always predictable, and considering the shrinking number of artists wishing to be signed onto a major label, there's a possibility of the music labels consolidating even more.

Then again, by the time they do, they just might stop mattering altogether. I keep hoping for self-implosion, anyhow.
This article is EMPTY of details, and for someone actually interested in this new phase of water, I am severly annoyed.
I've done this, too. Only I would whistle. Start low and gradually rise. Eventually I'd hit the right frequency.

The application was when I answered the phone and heard nothing. Sometimes it was a spurious call from a modem. Maybe a wrong number. Maybe a friend thinking I'd be available for a chat (houses usually had just one phone line back then).

BTW, I'm not sure I quite believe the story from the post. If my memory serves me correctly, it is the answering modem that would produce a tone first.
Sounds good. Sorry if that came off as harsh, I meant to expand on the 'you really need to' because there are similar services being offered by established tea retailers that do include all of that information, and such information is important to most tea-junkies. Even though I think it's clear that your service is aiming for a more frugal, less picky market than most of those, it's definitely better not to alienate them.
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I think there are 2 reasons videos from the BBC don't load.

The first, which I'm almost certain stops the loading, is having your Flash privacy settings to never store any information. I have mine set to ask me when a new site wants to store information, but I can't set it to "No. Don't ask me again" on the BBC because if I do then the videos never load. I have to hit the "Deny" button when it prompts me, which it does, annoyingly, multiple times throughout a single video.

The second possible reason could be blocking of ad servers, but I'm not sure about this one.
It was frustrating to me personally. Of the 4 sharks, EMI was the most forward thinking one, at least to a degree a major label can be. If commenters recall, they were the first to jump onboard with iTunes, and explore other digital delivery avenues. They also tended to sign promising artists that graduated from smaller labels. A lot of artists and fans considered EMI the "biggest indie label".
Ugh, what a stupid implementation. I'll give it a shot, thanks.
I thought the idea of Unity was to attract new users with a simple interface optimized for non-power users. There's no reason why such an approach has to alienate existing users who like having a more expressive interface.
Isn't this "100 pushups" and "cold showers" guy? Um...
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https without www is a pain on heroku. I would redirect everything to www. If it makes you feel any better, this doesn't work: https://amazon.com
Stock options have always been valued at the discretion of the board. Zynga is perhaps guilty of coming up in "innovative" ways of manipulating value but the end result: optionees get less money than they thought, is the same.

Choose your employer carefully because the treatment you will receive is a pure test of professional ethics: how someone with power treats someone without.
I am open source agnostic but I will not allow someone else to control what apps I can install.

Scammy stuff will still exists and only difference will be that customer will never know about it[1] and is going to live under false security.Companies will try to ban every person trying to expose vulnerabilities.

[1]http://www.darknet.org.uk/2011/11/apple-bans-security-resear...

Do you thing a small set of employees sitting in a company's approval department are experts of every single thing that can be ever conceived by a developer?

I am not against the idea of sand-boxing if it is built in the OS API. How approving a sand-boxed application is going to improve the security?
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I have a hard time imagining, let alone fearing, such a future when we have an abundance of alternatives. How much can Apple limit developers or somehow degrade our consumer experience when Android, Chrome and Windows are readily available? If you can really imagine Apple kicking Avid, Pro Tools and Blizzard off of the Mac platform (the sure result if Apple forced them on the App Store and demanded %30 of the revenue) then you have a much more active imagination than me.

Apple's building a controlled app store, we get it - that doesn't mean that their only goal is control. To me, this is like imputing in 2003 that since Apple's highest profile products were music related, that Apple would soon be strictly dedicated to music-related software and hardware.
But how do you convince a Silicon Valley venture capitalist to invest in something like this? If you say "we're building devices to help people walk" and some YC-funded group says "we're building a location-based restaurant recommendation app" who do you think is going to get millions in funding?