skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of coWPAtty: we are work on high level corporate networks that are usually immune to that kind of attack.

We use full on brute force rainbow tables with some custom ideas / programs (obv can't share much of that). In it's simplest form we have 8 file servers, 1000 nodes and 2 head servers. 150+TB's of rainbow tables. Basically we combine the shortcut of rainbow tables with intelligent analysis of the packets and the brute force of the cluster.

For WPA we use some of our own techniques to intelligently make use of the data that gets sent back. Usually we can start to work on the data after 1 day of collection and it can be possibly 2 more days before it is cracked (depending on the other work running on the cluster)

Currently we have 2 specialists employed who are working with me to find ways to break the time down further (with great success) and I am also currently testing and cycling up another 9,000 nodes to add into the cluster.

By early next year we hope to be able to turn up at a location and crack WPA networks in a days work :)

In terms of economy it is not great (working on that) as your looking at about £5-8,000 outlay just to break in - but for speed I believe it is unmatched.

Bear in mind ofc this is not representative of what a hacker could do. The rainbow tables (for all our decryption not just WPA) have taken 8yrs to make so far (on around 5000 nodes) and we still have about 2yrs more work to do on them. What this article talks about is a shortcut technique but ultimately I dont beleive it will lead to an inherent weakness which can bypass the need for our type of attack. But what it will be useful for is forcing the network to generate traffic :)

Hopefully sometime next year we should be read to deploy our full AES attack - but that (based on current testing) is going to require a LOT of nodes (possibly pushing 25,0000).
Link to the pdf:

http://www.doublefine.com/themes/site_themes/default/freestu...
I'll take a stab at it but I'm gathering data now - I have a feeling that it's pretty common for a president to get elected for a 2nd term - and repeat offices in general.
Very cool but definitely NOT open source and thus, from what I can tell, not applicable for being used in your own app w/o licensing or something he rolls out in the future. Still great work.
I think it has some clear implications for the general 'readership' as there are a lot of people (especially teenagers) who are probably pretty "close to the edge" just by the nature of this culture. It doesn't create mental illness but it certainly attracts it.
Zed's part of hacker culture.
I fell in love with this site over the last few months. Not only were the numbers almost dead-on but the daily updates were all well written and insightful.

Great work!
Gotta love googles sense of humor!
Yeah, nothing like compulsion to make me want to help others.
Do -> Read -> Repeat
That portfolio.com link is being misleading by only showing the EV totals. If we assume, as he does, that McCain will win MO that means the betting markets got the right number because they got two states wrong, whereas 538 got the wrong number because Nate only got one state wrong. So which one was actually more accurate?

I posted the predictions broken out by state here on HN the night before the election: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=353182
How exactly did they compute that constant? I suspect the figure they give is the result of many heated debates and much flaming on mailing lists and whiteboards.
Pointing out bad things about Obama's policies is one thing. But if you replace "policies" with "skin color", then you would be a super crazy racist!

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001339.html

His "tax cuts" to 95% of tax-filers is even more interesting when only about 60% of tax filers actually pay taxes.
If you were Apple, you would want to decrease the costs of switching to a new browser. The same's not true for Microsoft.
A friend worked out the math and it assumes a mass of 1e14 kg for the death star.

also, i just noticed a GRAVITY_THE_ISLAND a couple more lines down. what?
I tend to agree that 538 was better; I shouldn't have editorialized that the race was too close to call. I really just meant to summarize the two articles I'd come across that were on exactly this topic.

Thanks for collecting that data.
From Microsoft's POV, the calculation comes down to whether browser rendering engines have become commoditized. Proprietary differentiation gives them no advantage unless customers prefer their version to the commodity one. I'm guessing Microsoft will be watching the success of other WebKit browsers carefully, along with their expenditures on the rendering engine vs. those on the browser chrome itself. If it turns out people are abandoning IE, or if they're spending most of their resources just trying to keep up with WebKit in standards compliance, they'll switch.
Songbird is based off of Mozilla's XUL platform. So looking like a skinned version of Firefox is expected.
A person getting elected to repeat offices doesn't mean that their elections are dependent on each other - it's easy to argue that a party usually allows an incumbent to run, and each election is usually between only two people, so a high re-election rate can be modeled without making elections dependent on each other.

What you'd need to somehow show in order to claim that elections are not independent is that the data from the previous election itself influenced the next election.

(right? I'm no statistician so if I'm being dumb somebody please correct me)
Yeah.

I kind of understand the argument that Facebook wasn't running a very good system for revenue: until they released their targeted ad system, they were fairly hit-and-miss and their ads never seemed interesting. Now, they've done what Google did: they made their ads relevant and very much part of their bigger system. I've clicked a few ads, now, because I'm seeing things that I want to click. That's a big breakthrough for Facebook.
i think you leave out the usefulness of the focus on building by adding on to and maintaining working software.
If you count Processing.js, there's also ArcLite:

http://jonathan.tang.name/code/arclite

Processing.js may not be the best example for new language implementers, because the compiler is implemented with regexp search & replace. That makes it fairly fast, but difficult to extend and almost impossible for a neophyte to read.
I've always found that white-on-black makes for a pretty easy read. I guess it depends on the person for that?
Also SENSOR_TRICORDER: "When this sensor is available and enabled, the device can be used as a fully functional Tricorder."
Yeah this is definitely really cool, and great UI imo. Could be used to bring the TI-83 to the browser. Lord knows we need an intuitive interface to bring both simple and complex mathematical operations (from pre-algebra to...calculus, linear algebra, diff eq, and some statistics) to the browser. With no Flash! This could definitely be a step in the right direction.
Interesting - so one out of every 12.5 million spam email messages actually works. I wonder what the rate is for the 419 scam
How did the French upper class work before the guillotine?

I think jhancock is talking about how it should be, not about how it is right now.
I bet they called George Lucas and asked him...
The Island on Lost, perhaps?
But if I am elected to an office and there is a 70% chance that if I run again I'll be reelected doesn't that mean the latter is dependent on the former.

Anyways, I did some analysis of the Presidential elections data using wikipedia and it turns out that there were 8 presidents who ran for reelection and lost and there were 16 presidents who had more than 1 term in office.

I'll write this up in a blog post to show the data.
Malcolm Gladwell's 5 Steps to Success
its good help for many students around the world.
Amazon Names Finalists For $100,000 Startup Challenge
Best & Worst Career/Job Advice from your Dad?
I am writing a book and want to include actual, real-life stories of what career advice your dad gave you. These can be humorous, insightful, memorable or whatever. Please send to gl@linkup.com. Thanks a lot!
The Presidents of the United States Play VKTRS
Well theres so much material in the Expanded Universe including a book called "Death Star" that tells the story of the Rebel Alliance victory from the perspective of people who worked there. So, I would just have to assume that they went over the specs/dimensions/weight of the Death Star at some point.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/deathstar/?id=eu
welcome to the L-shaped recession. welcome to the secular bear market. a secular bear market periodically shows amazing % gains in stocks, but always ending down. look at the dow in the 30s, the nikkei in the 90s (and now)...even cyclical gains of 100% or more could not stem the larger down trend

forget all this garbage of now being a great time to max out ten credit cards to build a website. there is only one rule for secular bear markets - preserve wealth. there is no value in planting in an economic winter. don't fight it, wait for an economic spring to appear in the economy and have capital ready for a more appropriate climate. we have years to go. this will end only when all excess debt is deleveraged and governments, consumers and companies alike have healthier balance sheets purged of debt.
Nokia 6600 Gallery Opening Error
6600, 6600 gallery, 6600 gallery not opening, 6600 gallery problem, error, gallery, hang, Nokia, open, problem
I cannot find the one I read, this paper looks like:

http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/TPAMI.2...

In restricted environment, human don't outperform the machines.
Windows 7 coming for holiday 2009 season. Probably.
smart move by ballmer. he either lets YHOO drop to $8 and then makes an offer for $13 (after making yang do massive layoffs), or he just lets yahoo shrink into irrelevance and then positions msn to (try) to take marketshare. either way ballmer wins.

with the google deal dead and no obvious offer from ballmer, jerry is dead in the water
It's too easy to fall into email only mode. For me I have to consciously work to communicate in other ways.
MS would also face a considerable cost in emulating the various IE brokenness in a WebKit-based browser (and accurate emulation would be very important to a lot of people).
Chilean web startup create a real life Super Hero
I am really looking for some comments here from young entrepreneurs - and specifically how Y combinator really works for you.
Online Storage and Sharing Utility Drop.io Releases API
i have failed to understand the criteria for the list, while i can understand yangs failure, i do not think that facebook has come to an end yet as it is rather new model nobody understands.
'60 Minutes': Following the trail of toxic e-waste
Welcome to Hacker News p0ltergeist and thanks for your comment.

No value in planting in an economic winter? Doesn't that conflict with 'buy low sell high' principle? If you wait too long for the spring, you end up paying too much.

/not an expert, has mucho debt
That would be awesome if this happened. It makes a lot of sense too; proprietary HTML/JS parsing engines aren't necessarily a competitive advantage these days...
"Last year’s winner was Ooyala, which edged out Justin.TV"

Oops: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ooyala.com+justin.tv/?metri...
http://twitter.com/al_gore
Parse tables or regex compiling are a perfect example of this style. Lookup tables are another good example.
Protecting a Web Application Against Attacks Through HTML Shared Files
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Google dumps Sun's StarOffice
there is more to companies than traffic
Ask HN: Firefox Right-click Bug?
I'm losing it here - this computer is going out the window soon. For the past few weeks Firefox began acting extremely strange/annoying with right clicks. Upon clicking, something different happens each time (basically it automatically chooses something off the right-click menu). I'll either get the menu, the page direction switched, a save file dialog, a highlight terms dialog, etc etc. I googled and read a ton of people complaining but couldn't find a fix. Anyone know of one???!

(extensions enabled: search status, firebug)
(OS: Ubuntu 8.04, FF 3.0.3)
Mushrooms might be key to Stradivarius sound
Huge loss leaves GM almost out of cash
"GM said it had burned through $6.9 billion during the quarter and warned that it "will approach the minimum amount necessary to operate its business" during the current quarter."

Wow.
No value in planting in an economic winter? Doesn't that conflict with 'buy low sell high' principle?

no. the dow is going to 5000 (but will likely go to 12000 first) . that is a better time to consider "planting". furthermore oil is going to go over $200 and t-notes will yield 20% before this is all over, because what we are doing now is planting the seeds for hyperinflation (to follow our current deflation) with all of this "50 billion here, 100 billion there, 700 billion here" money printing.
Not so keen on the new language myself - OK then, maybe a Javascript emulator in Javascript is called for.

The benefit: the same benefit that other open source software has. If I am unsatisfied with a particular behaviour of the application, I can change it.

Of course people could just use Greasemonkey, but I think if a web site endorses the thing, it might reach more users. Greasemonkey also requires the installation of a plugin, which severely limits it's usability.

Also, perhaps one could offer better features for discovering scripts and judging their safety than what is currently on offer with Greasemonkey.
Ask an evolutionary biologist.

Millions of years worth of data has been reified into hard-coded algorithms by a process, evolution, that is perfectly happy working with the most horrendous spaghetti code in existence.

Humans use this, but computers ought not to.
For languages with first-class functions, it looks like this:

# Algorithms
def double(x): return x*2
def square(x): return x*x
def fact(x): return (x*fact(x-1) if x > 1 else 1)

# Data
choices = { 'A': double, 'B': square, 'C': fact }

# I/O
choice = raw_input('Choose A, B or C: ')
x = input('Enter a number: ')
if choice in choices:
print choices[choice](x)
else:
print 'Initiating self-destruct sequence.'

It's actually similar to how a switch block works, if each case in the switch statement just calls a function or evaluates one expression.

Also worthwhile: Instead of functions, let the dictionary values be lists of arguments for another (multi-argument) function. Then the lookup is like choosing from a set of possible configurations for that function. A little redundancy is OK, since the table is so easy to read and edit.
Obama Election Ushering In First Internet Presidency
Ask HN: How to keep your milestones and co-founders in check. Incentive/Punishment?
One of my co-founder (designer) is a freelancer and he has a bad habit of telling me that the design or asset will be done by tomorrow but that never seems to happen. He is really good at what he does so and he is quite successful as a freelancer although I am trouble getting him to commit a set amount of time to our project. I know he is committed so that is not the issue, its more of a methodical issue then anything else. I want to know what I can do to improve this situation or what I can tell him to do?
I'm just hoping that if people can finally stand up and elect a minority as president, then maybe we can also demand that white collar criminals start to take some heat.

To put it in Hacker perspective, if "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." then the best way to create social change is to get off our collective butts and demand it ;)

btw, I'm not actually foolish enough to think Obama is going to make radical progress in these areas. If we want people to pay the price for economic malfeasance, we have to demand their heads be put on pikes. If we make it clear that its either them or you ("you", meaning our elected officials) we might see some progress.
Thoughts on the role of a CTO and growing a startup
Recession not official, for some value of official.  But it's real.
The Dow's in the shitter. Unemployment's where it was in 1994. Housing might as well be getting bombed. Let's all acknowledge that no matter what the government (specifically the NBER) says, we're already in a recession.
Sony Ericsson W902 3G Walkman Phone Unlocked
This high-end phone is perfect for the user that wants tons of great features in a slim candybar design. And when we say slim, we really mean it. At 11.7mm this is one of the thinnest phones to hit the market. Just think of how easy it will be to slip in and out of your pants? Sony Ericsson W902 form factor is the perfect solution to bulky phones.
Don't want to be pedantic here, but your info on our visual bandwidth is a bit out of date. We actually only process about 10M/sec of visual data. Your brain does a very good job of fooling your conscious self, but what you are perceiving as HD-quality resolution is actually only gathered in the narrow cone of your current focal point. The rest of what you "see" is of much lower bandwidth and mostly a mental trick. We also don't store very much of this sensory data for later processing.
Obama and the dawn of the fourth republic
I'm posting this, even though it's a political article, because of their reasoning why political eras change: changes in technology. Supposedly Obama's administration will start a more participatory democracy, which is probably of interest to hackers.
I think on HN you will find more people who are not with YC that can also answer that question.

A few thoughts.
- The seed money you will raise from YC will only go so far. YC wants the founders of the company to move to the location (usually bay area) It is an expensive place to live and you will easily end up spending a few thousand a month on living costs. So all in all you will not have much cash left for the startup. YC is more about the resource and the network and less about the initial seed money.

- These days you really don't need much* cash for a web startup.
- Find people in your local area that have similar passion. Perhaps the best way to find co-founders that might of set the skill you have.
- Reader the YC archive, plenty of your questions have been answered previously.
The cash panic sweeping the VC industry
Thiel's Clarium Hedge Fund Declines 18% in October
I hope you have some good solid spread betting going on to clean out when all your predictions come true.

Oh, you don't? You mean these are just in-the-air?
I'm with you, polter. Dow at 5 or even less, hyperinflation, etc. It's scary like a hurricane; seeing it coming doesn't help much.

But I'm planting now. Partly because I have some 'peek-a-boo' technology and nothing could stop me at this point. But also because I think if I do it right, I can play the circumstance to my favor. I'm planning on keeping my job (as long as possible) and now that friends are getting laid off, I'm roping them into my plans. No offices, no logo t-shirts, and no fuzzy business plans. But I'm planting.
Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins - Read this classic marketing book for free
La dent normale et pathologique
Arggghhhh...
Stop linking to print versions. They are way harder to read.
Some people like the (minimalistic) UI very much better than the UI of most buy-and-sell web sites.
http://www.mediazine.net/iraq/
Rare, profound positive events won't make you happy, but lots of little ones will
Yes, we could give a low interest loan (low relative to the risk of the loan) to GM. This might save some jobs and help the US economy.

Or we could let GM fail, and invest that same money in energy and biotech. Many would lose their jobs, but many more would get new jobs. These would be higher paying jobs, but also higher skilled jobs.

Lets not act like these loans are free. We should keep in mind that every dollar we loan to GM is a dollar we don't loan or invest in something else.
we've been in a recession for a while.

however, the government will almost never say we're in a recession currently. they will acknowledge that we were in one once we're out, but if they prattle on about how the current situation is bad, it will only make it worse.

which leads to us mistrusting them anyway. its a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
What's amazing is that they aren't innovating and rolling out a crapton of electric or solar-powered cars or whatever else they can to save the business.
It's not GPL, but it's JS, so you can look at it :-)
World's 4th Richest Man Loses $50 Billion In Five Months
The incubator is the new meta-startup. Instead of putting all your eggs in one basket, you spread them over multiple startups to maximize the probability of scoring big. And you don't have to the dirty work involved in running a product company. It's a great idea for those who can pull it off.
A lot of folks are writing in to explain how they didn't pay attention in class because they had a laptop. The argument seems to be that "I can't focus on class if I have access to a laptop--so no one in class should have one."

What happens when they get back to their desk: most jobs these days involve access to a PC/browser. It would seem like they would also be tempted to surf the web instead of work. Do they want to prohibit their co-workers (and competitors) from having access to the web? Should we go back to programming using a keypunch?

How/when do you develop the self-control to focus on the task at hand? Pencil and paper allow you to doodle and not pay attention. The challenge is not the affordances of the laptop but the inability to focus.
Maybe I can modify my initial point to state that once the government shows a long term interest in an industry companies will be more prone to enter it.
Chinese Economy Is Showing Signs of a Slowdown
It takes a long time to roll out a new car, particularly if it uses a new technology like electric or solar power. Like years. If they started innovating when they first ran into problems around 2006, then it'd probably be 2011-2012 before new cars started appearing in showrooms.

The Chevrolet Volt, first unveiled in 2007 and probably under development since 05-06, isn't expected to start selling until 2011.

By then, it'll probably be too late.
you are correct - I just assumed it would have been obfuscated/minified!
That's a silly argument. The creators of the framework really have to worry about them.

IE8 seems to be worse than the rest. Once again my site is broken in IE8. Just like it was in IE7 when that came out.
They can't even keep the same basic functionality as previous versions.
Again, what is strange about that? There's hundreds of variations to end a chess game as there are hundreds of variations to make a business work. If you're already determined to be an entrepreneur you wouldn't be a stranger to crapshoots and experimentation.
I was down modded for saying 10 years is not long term but at 25 most people need to think in terms of a 40 year retirement horizon. I am 28 and I am thinking about the cost of heath care in my 80's which is 50+ years from now. So excuse me for saying this but most people under thirty need to be looking 50+ years ahead because there is a good chance we are going to be alive then.

Now most people in power tend to be older which may shorten their views but 100 years is not all that long when you start thinking the people that come after you.
what you said makes no sense

Everything I said is absolutely correct. It's just that you are misconstruing what I said. Go check YouTube resolutions and then tell me they're not correct. You're the one making spurious connections between television HD and what YouTube calls HD, not me.

Again, re-read what I said and not what you think I said.

1) YouTube's SD video is 320x240

2) YouTube's HD video is 448x336

3) Their HD uses MORE bandwidth

The fact that they use it for iPhone and who knows hat (G1 maybe) is completely inconsequential since you can play almost any YT video in HD by appending a variable to the end.