skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://blog.snort.org/2012/02/vulnerability-research-team-is...

The Vulnerability Research Team is hiring, we want YOU.

Have you ever written a Snort rule? or wanted to?

Like messing about in the newest vulnerabilities or malware? Like writing exploits? Enjoy challenges like "Here's a file that crashes -application- , figure out why"? Want to work with us to design what is next in Snort? ClamAV? Razorback? Or any of the above topics?

We want you.

Let me talk about what I like.

The smartest people I've ever met all in one room. We get to bounce ideas off of each other, figure out strange ways of fixing a problem, and come up with a solution. That means anything from controlling EIP to how to write a rule to compare two things from two different streams using flowbits.

We pride ourselves in doing things not only better than the competition, but in the open too.

We work hard. We play hard. For instance, today, during break, we played kickball (remember that?) with a big yoga ball, and the ball got stuck in a tree. Yours truly climbed said tree and retrieved the ball. Then I came back inside and pulled apart some malware. Beware of nerf darts, RFI readers, and the 6lb sand-filled ball of doom.

Like working in an environment where it doesn't matter how you wind up at the result, as long as you get the correct results? Tired of being told what OS to use? Like debating the merits of C, perl, or ruby? Have a strong opinion between bash and zch?

If there's a problem that we don't have a solution for, we invent one. Last thing we invented resulted in patents that have our people's name on them.

Working on next years projects this year.

Being the best.

When you write protection for a vulnerability or malware here, you cover IDS/IPS, a NGFW, and two antivirus systems. You protect networks from endpoint to border and into the cloud.

If you gag when you hear the word cloud or synergy.

Vegetarian? Paleo? Meat eater? There is someone here that will sympathize with you.

Working for the fastest growing company in security
Honestly there's way too many things to list.

Our currently open job listings are here.
https://sourcefire.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseacti...

But that's not even the complete list. We're a growing company, with lots of projects under our purview, and we need people, both junior and senior to be able to fill these roles.

If you like Snort, or ClamAV, or think you can learn, and want to learn, shoot us your resume at research [at] sourcefire [dot] com.

Challenge yourself. Challenge us.
If you have an iPhone, you can use ZNC and Mobile Colloquy to get push notifications on highlights.
Unix and Node: Command-line Arguments
Even by divorce standards this was acrimonious -- and notable for the degree that not just his spouse but his kids were affected. Of course, that itself might not be relevant to an arbitrary article on Cheriton's entrepreneurial history -- but it is (in my opinion) very relevant to an article that speaks to his putative "humility"...
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I really like the color combination and design you went with - clean, simple, and friendly!

I do have suggestions for the sign up form:

- The warning message is too long, you dont need to explain people that in beta version not everything may be working (especially if you are only targeting HN crowd)

- Change "Facebook Addict" & "Online Hermit" and their description. I see that you are trying to give your product some character and emotion but on Sign Up page this just over-complicates the process that should straightforward and intuitive. As a user, I have seen a thousands of Facebook vs. roll your own prompts to sign up and wont read the description below.

- The "I want some privacy!" box also seems redundant to me. People who care about privacy wont use Facebook and sign up directly.
Stitch Labs closed seed series and is looking for developers.
Yup - the three default options for tip are 20/25/30%, so people are tipping a lot more than they would in cash because they can just hit one of those buttons and not have to calculate a tip in their head.
A couple of things:

- This is totally wack from a moral/ethical standpoint

- Why not filter the video after the fact?
MIT Researchers aim for 100+ core chip design using improved chip simulator
"If I post the link of my prototype, wouldn't that beat the purpose of going stealth? I am not ready to reveal it to the whole wide world as it's still not a clean prototype. Unless the project has a team that is committed to it, at this point, it's best to go stealth."

I don't think that would be a problem. Realistically, for 99% of startups at your stage, the risk of damaging the business through overexposure is negligible. Underexposure should be a bigger worry. Getting people to pay attention to your product is hard. It won't happen accidentally, so I see no real risk in posting links in select places such as this thread.

It's certainly your prerogative to stay in stealth mode and continue looking for a cofouder without linking to your prototype. And if you go that route, I sincerely wish you the best of luck. But I think you're unnecessarily creating extra barriers for yourself.

Like I said before, there are a ton of people looking for technical cofounders. And there aren't many developers who 1) would be interested in founding a company, and 2) choose not to found a company of their own. So the competition is fierce. You have an advantage in that you can already show a prototype. This lets potential cofounders know you're for real, and that you can get things done. Wasting that competitive advantage seems a shame.

And practically speaking, what do you have to lose? What's the worst realistic outcome of posting a link in a recruitment thread like this?
You have completely and utterly missed raganwald's point.
I've experienced this on T-Mobile, and the connection is still usable, though slower. The AT&T throttle sounds unusable.
Also, can you provide a source for the claim that "Premium users could spend money to "clone" files by generating a new link without having to upload a single byte."?

I find that allegation more troubling than the rest because I can't see a need for it, while all the other parts have substantial legitimate uses. I mean, there's nothing wrong with letting people monetize their own files or with driving traffic to MU, it's only when the content is infringing that there's a problem. But I've also never been a premium member of that (or any other) site so I've never seen that sort of clone feature before. And if there's no good use for it, it would support the claims that it was designed to skirt the DMCA.

I find the claim surprising because I read the indictment against him and I don't remember seeing it in there. But it was a very long indictment and I might have missed that part, which is why I'm going to ask for a source.
Should be back up.
Sources, details or IANAL please?
Looking for a cofounder in Silicon Valley
There is strong pressure to IPO because that is a liquidity event (opportunity to turn ownership into money) for investors. The other option is acquisition. Recently, IPOs are hard, for a combination of regulatory and market reasons.

One could imagine a hypothetical world where profits paid as dividends to owners would suffice to give investors the return their business model requires but that is very much not standard practice in the US tech industry. To a professional investor (especially a VC firm), a profitable company that cannot be sold/IPOed is a failure.
I don't get it -- what's the point? I'm all for reversing for curiosity reasons, but releasing their source isn't cool, IMO. And what's worse is that this stuff really isn't that interesting; these sorts of filters are trivial to come up with on your own. For instance, I whipped up a set of WebGL filters for Boot2Gecko's camera app in a matter of an hour. (If you're curious, you can see a demo at http://demoseen.com/filters/ -- Firefox only, due to laziness.)

Now, a project that compiled a nice list of good filters, that'd be really cool. But this just isn't OK.
I hear you. There is a beef. But what does it have to do with dotcom's doings? (I would like to see some of those people in Jail too, btw.)

It's like me complaining I get a jay-walking ticket while someone else blows a red light. I mean, there is no connection between the two. Sure, my complaint is legitimate, but irrelevant to my getting a jay-walking ticket. That was my main point.
More like intellectual property theft. Or at least just wrong.
Yes, they had the plain text shader files embedded in their app, easily extractable. It's been like that since they first released 2.0. Path has (or had) them embedded, too.

It's still their IP though, and publishing them as "open source" is unethical and probably illegal. Just because something is feasible doesn't mean you should do it.

The GPUImage-based execution environment is fine, but you should remove these shaders ASAP.
Big Data's invisible open source community
What kinds of technical skills are you looking for in testers?
To split hairs: "Free" or not, legal or not, the source is now open.
> Of course, ideas belong to people

Ideas, seem to rather exist within people, but saying they belong to people, isn't quite as obvious. This of course, strengthens the rest of your point.
What do you think of pinboard's one-time payment formula?

The fee is based on the formula (number of users times $0.001), so the earlier you join, the less you pay.

Currently it is just shy of $10.
Not at all. It just belongs on a different site.
I don't have a choice. It'd be too expensive to switch.
The Lazy Perfectionist and other Patterns
Congratulations Samuel, and good luck!
Pics of Ball's Pyramid from Bryden Allen, one of the first people to summit this wicked place:
http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/Bryden.html
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Ambitious developers need more than just HTML5
Off-topic: How do people typically go over 3GB in a month? The only time I came close was when Spotify forced a re-download of all my previously-cached music and I had my wifi turned off. My IT person (in a company <50) said I'm the only person to have ever gone near 2GB.

I'm sure you can easily go over the limit by streaming Netflix...but I generally watch Netflix at home.
(irony) it's not stealing though, because they still have their filters, so it's ok! (/irony)
"Don't use web-y start-up lingo"

This is YC, right? I don't think that the word "conversion" is a platitude. It just has more syllables than the word "sale", and... ok, you're right.
I forget who said it first, but there's a saying that if you want to look for business ideas, look for where people are complaining about sharing Excel files. That's where they've accidentally built an application that they need (giving you a spec) but which isn't good enough for the job (giving you a way in).
Any plans for Salesforce integration? Can you use SF.com as a backend?
Monitor voltage remotely with Bluetooth -- only $40
Apple’s iPad 3 Event May Also Drive Apple TV Future
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It's only 'open sourced' in the title of the HN submission. From the README:

License

Since it's a hack, literally. There's no way you could use those
Instagram recipes in your project. But feel free to learn from
them. Other than that part, you are welcome to use and distribute
this project. I'll figour out an appropriate license and put it
here later.
can you parse from regular recipes found in blogs and websites?
Love the idea, but it wouldn't work for NewsBlur. While Pinboard charges once for being able to store bookmarks and all of the associated meta-data, he actually charges $25/year for the archival subscription, which is where a whole lot more work happens.

NewsBlur has to fetch millions of sites regularly, whether you're on the site or not. Eventually I step down the fetching of sites that have few active users, but it's still expensive to do a whole lot of feed fetching and parsing. It's not much, but then again, neither is $1/month.
At one point there were more passenger pigeons on Earth than there were humans. Pigeons are widely considered by many folks to be little more than rats with wings, so it's unsurprising that few people cared as passenger pigeon populations were "wiped out", until ultimately the species became extinct.

I don't imagine that black rats will become extinct, but we should not pretend as though the prospect of "wiping out" local populations of any species is anything other than a morally ambiguous activity.
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My example is contrived, but if you think about things like the TSA, US electoral politics, and that sort of thing, it begins to look much more realistic.
I moved 6 months ago and didn't have internet for a couple of days, tethered my phone to my Roku. Phone was nearly unusable for the rest of the month.
In that case, there is a rational answer; that it's hard to figure out in a hurry doesn't make it subjective.
Ask HN: Funding options, what would you do?
We're in a situation that is actually quiet reassuring, but its raising some interesting questions which my partner and I are struggling to reach a decision on.

It looks like we're in good shape to potentially get funding from a Canadian based angel fund / incubator, in fact there may be a few of them interested in us. The funding is a little higher than YC, but we're not interested in the money as much as the experience that the group offers us. They have a 12 week program starting in the next 30 days, which we would be part of.

The goal for us since the beginning of this year has been to get into YC, but YC doesn't make a decision until after the Canadian incubator starts its program. Obviously this is on purpose and to be totally honest we're tempted to take a gamble and wait out for the YC answers anyway...

I've read a lot in the past about people saying "don't be fussy, some people don't get options" but...we might have them and we've worked very hard, i feel like being fussy is going to be a key success factor now and into th future.

What would you do?
Carriers cannot treat tablets like phones, because heavy subsidies cannot be recouped with only a data plan.

So they try to find a middle ground, offering a $200-ish subsidy in exchange for a 2-year data plan. Unfortunately, their customers don't find the proposition worth it when they can split the difference and own an iPad outright.
Are you arguing that RDBMS can handle all of the data, performance, and scalability requirements as well as a kv store while also in BCNF?
I think this 5 minutes applies to a lot more than just right or wrong. Intelligent design isn't an engineering decision you are talking about, it's politics. If you take the 5 minutes to think about why people believe what they do, you can learn a lot about the mindset of a large group of people on this planet. This might end up being a lot more important than proving intelligent design is wrong. There are lots of ways to spend your 5 minutes.
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And that's the trick: AT&T implemented throttling just after all the dedicated iPhone users upgraded to an iPhone 4S and locked themselves in for another two years.

Disgusting, eh?
That's cool! I'm organizing a Startup Weekend in June in Frankfurt/Germany right now and think about doing such an event to pull the community closer together.

Do you have any experience how such events work generally?
Fortune Gives Facebook the Apple Treatment
If you'd been on sprint lately you'd know it's because the whole 3g network performs like it's throttled.
There are bad managers, but there are also many bad employees. Peter Principle notwithstanding, within organizations that must post a profit to survive, those who found companies or rise to leadership roles are generally smarter, harder working, and more disciplined. Your original post does not contend with this.
Advertising "unlimited" and then not providing it should be illegal under truth in advertising law. It's well past time for ISPs to get rid of this whole "unlimited" concept and start charging reasonable rates for usage.
> When asked to opine on the timeless Silicon Valley issues—a lack of visas for foreigners, meddling venture capitalists, and government regulations— David Cheriton balks. “I hate to sound like Pollyanna,” he says. “But if those are the biggest problems, we should be getting up in the morning and giving thanks. If you look at what other generations had to deal with, we live in a nirvana right now.”
Wanted to follow up and say that while including the proprietary Instagram shaders is wrong, the author did a nice job with this.

We're currently working on some filtering stuff using GPUImage as well, and it's nice to see this stuff progress.

One filter that is missing here BTW is Lux, which is Instagram's equivalent of the Camera+ Clarity filter. The reason (I suspect) is that the Lux "filter" is actually not implemented using shaders, but rather CoreGraphics.

Would love to hear your take on it if you know more.
This is a great analogy, and the situation is a lot more clear when phrased this way. Do you mind if I borrow this? I have this "technical cofounder" conversation far more often than I should
... what?

Also, it's a magazine, not a clip.
Just curious, what's the app? Just want to know whether it's well known or not.
Right. You can also find a lot of old tweets using Google (which is, of course, hit or miss). As I said, you (a general you of "people on HN", not just the person I responded to) and I know that it isn't deleted. You and I know all sorts of things about websites that the normal person does not, which means we honestly can (and do) come off as if we know deep hacker magic secrets for demonstrating what is, to us, rather obvious things. When we design websites (and privacy policies...) we need to remember this.

Remember: for a normal person, those somewhat scary-looking URLs are likely opaque. To the extent that people spend any time pulling them apart, it turns into a game of "guess the really long number, by hand, typing attempts into the URL bar of their web browser". They are unlikely even to figure out that it is monotonically increasing (which may or may not even help given the volume of the site); and, even if they did, for them the probability of guessing one of those numbers would still be effectively zero.
What I want most is to tie this into my phone (iPhone but willing to swap if there really is not an app for that)

I assume this should be easy but I don't knwo how

have all my contacts sync'd to gmail (doable)
have all my mails to a contact tracked (standard email functionality, plus seems to be what this post is about)
have all my calls to from a contact not only kept on my phone but also exported and synched Ba k to this crm
bonus points for an app that let's me add notes after a call and syncs those too

amazingly enough I had this on an old nokia n95 back in the day.
I used to push very near, or even exceed 2GB when I was listening to Pandora/LastFM/GrooveShark all the time. I hate commercials, so I used my phone as a radio playing device when I was in my car, and I was in my car a lot. I also occassionally look up YouTube videos, connect to my server via SSH and a variety of other things.
I like that. I may use it next time someone hassles me for reading week(s)-old newspapers.

I've always maintained that it gives the news a chance to mature, so it becomes a lot easier to separate the filling from the meat, but the flip side means missing out on the leading edge (forecasts of storms / shortages) that may prove to be very important.
The app that is very similar to my idea is sharypic:
http://gigaom.com/2012/02/29/with-new-app-sharypic-aims-to-b...
// Created by Di Wu on 2/28/12.
// Copyright (c) 2012 twitter:@diwup. All rights reserved.

Nope, not theft, obviously belongs to him because he created it. It says so in every file.
Github Release: TwitterRSS-Enhancer
Curious to see what Instagram will do about this.
The Anthropic Doomsday Argument says that, since it would take 37 bits to include all the people that have lived so far, it takes about 38 bits to include all the people that will ever live. Many people find this somewhat disconcerting.
No 3G on T-Mobile.
To split hairs even further, the source is not _open_ so much as _publicly available_. There is a big difference. "Open source" is a term of art with a specific set of legal requirements attached to it. If this code is illegally published from closed source code without permission it doesn't meet the definition of "open" that the term of art implies.

cf. http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
Why can't we just have unlimited for wire-based services?

Also, I'll take a flat rate over "reasonable rates for usage" any day, when it comes to my internet. I'm sorry, but my usage varies wildly, and I want a consistent bill I can trust.

I would be in support of a "$0.25 a GB of 35/35 until you hit 250GB, then flat rate of $X for the rest of the month, at a limited 15/10" or something like that
Show HN: Anonymous Map Based Chat Rooms
I like the interface, and I want to use it, but a lot of stuff seems to be missing, like I'd expect to double click on a user and open a private windows with him. Also most of the commands don't seem to work either.
Why wouldn't you want them? They seem harmless.
it's sort of a clone of both. The interface is almost an exactly clone of the facebook UI from 2010, but the functionality is much more like twitter.
Robot quadrotors can now play the James Bond theme
"Yes, we should remain subservient to an abusive, quickly antiquating industry and it's politically subversive methods."

You say that as if I said that and you're sarcastically agreeing. I don't know where you get that from my comment.
There is a lot still missing. Mostly there is just basic command support. Messaging a user with /msg should work.