skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interned at GazeHawk in the summer of 2011 as a blogger. It was my first job in technology as well as my first real job after graduating from college.

It was one of the best summers of my life. The GazeHawk team is incredibly talented and full of amazing people. I particularly miss our company lunch discussions, which regularly ranged over number theory, politics, literature, and everything of interest in-between.

I remember, when I was trying to set up my own personal website after hours, I asked Brian to take a look at the PHP I was writing (I still did not have that much programming experience at this point). He glanced at my code, then looked back at his computer and instantly typed out a SQL injection attack that would have dumped my database. Then he grinned and showed me exactly how to fix what I was doing.

Good luck at Facebook, guys!
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Not necessarily. Occam's Razor. It's more likely that they used something obscure to compile or obfuscate the code or wrote a tool to do so. Creating a new language just to write this seems highly unlikely.
Did you not read the announcement? FB is not acquiring the technology.
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Yes, as the other poster pointed out, go look at the guy modeling the monocle and try not to punch your fist through a window. Go ahead, try.
Clickers:

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Tangentially, I do believe my comment also calls the numbers into question and doesn't imply that women actually deserve 5% less pay. I would never advocate for a person to make more/less money solely based on gender (or race, sexual preference, religion, etc for that matter). But there are a good number of possible and logical reasons why such a sub-set of a population might, in fact, make less money statistically.

Yes, one can argue that some programmers make 5% less money BECAUSE they are women (cause and effect). While others can just as well argue that some programmers make 5% less money AND they are women (two unrelated facts).

Mark Twain wrote in his autobiography: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
As a part-time Schemer this does not surprise me... Schemers have a tendency to craft their own languages. It's only natural.
These guys are going to be awfully shocked when they try to rent their places out for $1595 and find they can only legally rent them for up to $1104.38.
nollidge,

I’m not sure your parent was actually incorrect.
Even you agree that his point stands, so your post is not constructive.
I like to think of myself as more technologically aware than an average consumer, and I've never heard of PowerVR. The manufacturers of graphics hardware I do know never use cores in their marketing.
But this comment doesn't ever mention specifically what makes his suggestion "look like" the given examples. I find it highly unlikely, given all the available networking/comm libraries available that old, proprietary IBM code would be used. Maybe there's something to it, but he certainly didn't mention anything convincing.

More unusual (to me) is that there are two separate comments suggesting it may be RPG (an OS400/iSeries language), which is very unlikely due to it not being an OOP language therefore not having constructor/destructor functionality, and otherwise a very high level language.

I'd guess some high level assembly, though this suggestion does look interesting.

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/667/The_Mystery_of_the_Duq...
This is wrong on a lot of levels (x-platform, cpu usage, etc) but does make for such a pretty effect. Would be lovely if CSS(n+1) could support this kind of transform, especially to pull it out of the GPU instead of bit-banging through a <canvas/>
Grammatical deficiencies are symptoms of conceptual deficiencies.

Assuming you actually know what grammar is as distinct from usage, and don't try to claim someone is less intelligent just because they have a different style of usage from you.

For example, using a split infinitive is not indicative of anything other than the style that person prefers. Same with the passive voice more often than not (assuming the person doing the marking actually knows what the passive voice is, as most of the people who get aggrieved over it do not).

And, of course, if you think someone who speaks a dialect distinct from the prestige dialect must be less intelligent, that says terrible things about your own intellect.
An important thing to remember about those insulting your abilities to your face and behind your back. They have their own agenda and issues. That insult might not even have anything to do with you. You might just be collateral damage.
If I read that properly, it sounds like Objects have their own function tables- this would seem to indicate an object oriented language based on prototypal inheritance.
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As it happens, I am currently studying category theory, so your analogy breaks down for me. Yes, being efficient in this world requires knowing advanced concepts.
Somehow related:

http://www.localizatodo.com/mapa/
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If you want to see this taken to ridiculous heights, check this out: http://www.bestmadeco.com/collections/frontpage/products/our...

When do you think this company was founded? Surely it was founded by an enterprising young frontiersman in the 1800's. 1850? 1900? Actually it was founded in 2009.
I know I'm going to get flak for this but I have to wonder and ask:
Even though I know it's 'new' and in 'beta', but just from the login page, I can already feel the effort and care to go into the design – alot of custom graphics and colors, especially the lessons themselves. But then I start the second lesson, I see the dreaded blue button. Yeah, that button. My eyes were having such a grand time too! Why leave the default button in there when everything else looks great :(

Back to finishing up the lessons, everything else is great!
Waste of my time clicking on this. Write an article.
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Which is what I thought I made clear when I linked to it i.e. same report, less hyperbole. Perhaps you would have preferred it if I had used the word "version" rather than "report"?
Ah, now I see what you were getting at.

I just use plain text files and my current editor of choice is Sublime Text 2 (really like the full screen mode). I write in markdown and if I really want to 'preview' it I open a copy of the file in Coda, where Ive installed a plugin for this purpose. That's pretty much all I need.

The remaining barriers to writing are non-technical (e.g. time, will, etc)
Former Facebook engineering director Yishan Wong takes role as CEO of Reddit
Well, if you define RFID as a near-field communication. This could be a matter of debate, I guess. Obviously it's well-known for having your pets "microchipped", but there's also this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(human)
IPad 2 discounted as low as $360, BestBuy drops entire lineup by $100
I really had to laugh. Cmon guys, this humor is ok on HN.
On it? No. With it? Yes.. Unfortunately.
What driverdan said makes sense. It is much more likely that they obfuscated or masked their code instead of inventing an "unknown" programming language. Even so, the obfuscation method used I'm sure would be pretty cunning (seeing as these folk mean business).

It's interesting to see Kaspersky suggest that the state is behind this solely based on some unknown code. Does anyone know why that would be a likely conclusion on their part?
Writing an unpolished programming language isn't that much work in comparison to writing a complex virus. Especially low level languages where instructions map pretty closely to the CPU instructions are easy to create.

I think it makes a lot of sense to write a custom programming language/compiler because virus scanners tend to use fingerprints to recognize dangerous pieces of code. So you want a compiler that deliberately obfuscates the code it writes and also outputs instructions in such a way that it avoids triggering known virus scanner fingerprints.
Changes between the VS11 Preview and the Visual Studio 11 Beta
is it dumb to suggest that someone who understands c++ (or other compiled oo language) would/could write assembler in this way? just from reading the description (things like variable locations of method tables, various registers for "this", and lack of memory management) it sounds like it could be handwritten, but structured in a similar way to c++.
> lord knows if someone like samsung pulled a trick like this the condemnation from the true believers would be severe.

True believers say that specs are for nerds (and so would I). The occasional benchmark results are interesting, though.

The last thing I remember about Samsung pulling a "trick" was comparing pixel density on PenTile and some other display type, with the accusation by some that X DPI on one doesn't equal X DPI on the other... and I didn't notice a backlash.
"The San Francisco units will rent for $1,595 a month." Even in this property market, even downtown, that's just ridiculous for a dinky 160 square feet. Even furnished.

"a reconfigured bathroom and the addition of a washer/drier."
Only 160 square feet and you install a washer/drier instead of in-building laundry or a laundromat up the street? That's not really the epitome of "sustainable" / "urban infill" either.

"It’s a regulatory thicket in San Francisco."
Yes. It's true. We suck.
Yeah, that's not a TSA response; just a canned one liner from a PR droid. The only real content there is the video which has already been discussed to death here on HN[1].

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3673462
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At least they didn't put in a dual-core CPU, a dual-core GPU, and call it a quad-core device.
There is nowhere in Berkeley that close to the Bay Bridge. In fact, that has to have been taken in San Francisco, so the caption is clearly wrong.
Who will be the first to post a duqu project on github? :)
GET params are a part of the URL. POST params aren't.
Well I was very young in 1998 - I was too interested in getting my maxpages in top rankings in the maxpage domain :) so i don't know much. But man, this is just ridiculous. Really, $500 Million! $500 Million! for a photo sharing app that has a huge list of competitors and easy to knock off?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel
Volunteer positions? =)
While speaking with Digital Trends, a TSA spokeswoman called the video “a crude attempt to allegedly show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures.” She continued, “TSA conducts extensive testing of all screening technologies in the laboratory and at airports prior to rolling them out the field. Imaging technology has caught many items large and small, and is one of the most effective tools available to detect metallic and non-metallic items, such as the greatest threat to aviation, explosives."

...so, they respond by saying nothing of substance.
If I drag the "Draggable" box down to the "Changing Source" box on Chrome, the overlay messes up.

Otherwise, nice little effect, loads sort of slow (not sure if thats the javascript or the website).
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Examples of Lisp formatting through history
It could also be Erlang, but no mentions so far.
Perhaps, but I'm less concerned about getting in an accident than I am getting busted by the police for using my hand held while driving (for those of us in such places). This, hopefully, solves that!
I put a bunch of time in recently in getting decent at pyro and the main thing that pisses me off about the game as it is now is that there are a number of hard counters designed into the game system that are hard to overcome. For example, my game plan going against heavies, engineers, scouts and to some degree soldiers is "gee, I hope he's an idiot" which works sometimes but doesn't make me thrilled.

Probably this is the habits I learned on mediocre pubbie servers coming back to bite me, and I need to learn to be less aggressive all the time, but it still rankles.
The same way I do it - itemized phone bills :P
I see business opportunities for marinetraffic.com to offer higher resolution/precision maps to paying customer. ;)
I feel you my friend. Up vote for you :) When the heck did it become to have a business that does not make money, does not focus on making money and gets a valuation to half a billion. When? Is there something that I just don't understand that the investors do?

I think its simple. People are investing hoping that hype will continue and the next round will cash them out. With that in mind, when IPO hits, the people cash these types of business in and everyone loses once they find out that the company is still trying to find out a business model.
The author refers to a 'trompe l'oeil' view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l%27oeil

Trompe-l'œil, which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English as trompe l'oeil,[1] (French for 'deceive the eye', pronounced [tʁɔ̃p lœj]) is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.

(edit: HN doesn't like the ' in a link)
Engineers and scientists are particularly well-suited to hold office in a communist country. The very idea of managed economies was based on the idea of informed technocrats being able to make decisions to the benefit of all. In fact, in the case of the Soviet Union, it worked brilliantly... until it didn't.
This is excellent. Teaches tests first... I'll be sharing. Thanks.
For those of you wondering what exactly this site is/does:

It seems to be a ruby set of ruby tutorials/lessons. There is a quick tutorial on how to use the interface (pretty simple). Then you're presented with 3 tabbed panes:

- your goal/task

- your editing area

- the output of your code (complete with ruby error msg if present)

I've completed the first couple of tutorials and it seems to be fun. However, I STRONGLY suggest the creators put some more info up to incite people to actually sign up. I had no idea what I was giving my email address for.
good writing for sure but so much set up for so little insight? I you're gonna do that you might as well just get to the point!
A fresh new Dropbox on the web
$10 per square foot per month is almost double the commercial real estate rate in SF.
Look at the reflection of the window in the mirror.
I think it depends on the culture, and geopolitical region.

Huxley might have been more right for many places (certainly seems so for 'the west'), but Orwell seems to have been pretty dead on about some of the more oppressive regimes of the world - North Korea for instance?
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Do you know what the current status is of reddit's spin-off?
The classic text is (from 1841 !)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions...
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PyPy online interpreter
Even better is "Netscape Time", which is written by Clark himself - http://www.amazon.com/Netscape-Time-Billion-Dollar-Start-Up-...
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Ted Leo was kind enough to let me use one of his songs in my kick-starter video.

I'll be more than happy to answer questions if anyone's got any!

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I don't think those are real windows, or they're covered up with a picture.
That is not what "security through obscurity" means. The phrase specifically refers to security which relies on secrecy of design or implementation details.
They doing it wrong.

Instead of trying to compile code examples in every candidate PL, they should:

1. Crawl x86 binaries from the Internet / download sites / code archives.

2. Write M/R job, which will disassemble and look for patterns they discovered.

3. Once patterns found - investigate the source of binary (i.e. who uploaded it to download site, maybe it was on university FTP server or maybe it's part of commercial driver released by company XYZ).
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I'm by no means a reddit fan, but Yishan comes across as an amazing guy (kind, bright, and insightful) on Quora, so I don't know if reddit could have chosen a better guy for the job.

It'll be interesting to see how visible he'll be inside and outside the site.
I just looked at the "fake data" and by the example, it's similar to my bank's online statement. What's the difference and why would I pay $2.99 for that?
Why would creating your own programming language for a virus be a good thing? If viruses are the only thing written in this language, wouldn't the language make it easier for the anti-virus companies to detect it without having to worry as much about false positives?
Maybe this language should be called "Dufuq?" for reasons that become clear when the name is read aloud.
Interesting. Two trends I pick up on at glance: 1) increased use of indentation 2) abandoning commenting for self-documenting code (and the occasional header comment). I'm guessing these are pretty universal trends, no?
I happen to work for one of the firms that is listed in this post. It is so funny how people like to talk smack when they are anon. I think that is ironic that is I were to rate Soffes on his track record, he'd get a C+ maybe...hasn't held a job for more than a year and even when he worked for himself, he lasted less than 2 years...I am not saying that there aren't some Awful recruiters on this list, but obvious Sam has a axe to grind, because that are obvious some well respected firms on the list. I will be sure to add Sam Soffes to our internal list of AwfulCandidates!
They are impossible to fire.

If no one slips a bomb past them, they've done their job; If someone slips a bomb past them, they'll only grow bigger and more menacing.
I don't know, maybe they thought that the virus would be harder to remove, or perhaps the person created it to just to see if he could!
Yes, that is basically what I suggested, the material (film) would just drape over the backscatter plate. The resultant image (without a subject) would resemble a black / not so black checkerboard pattern.

The image appears to be a negative relative to the amount of xrays reflected back to the xray source so the additional material would simply have to be slightly less reflective (more absorbent) than the backscatter plate.
Please forgive, and correct, me if I have this wildly wrong:

This is referred to as Stuxnet 2. And the original was "proven" to have been made to attack Iranian nuclear labs, and what not. Conclusion being that it was made by some government agency. I suppose foil hat theory would point fingers at CIA/NSA type people.

Assuming the above is correct, or correct enough, its it not surprising to see what might be a new language for this virus, if it has a nation state's resources behind it? If that is the case, what chance is there that any one will be able to crack this mystery?
Polymorphism doesn't have to add runtime overhead. You can achieve polymorphism without RTTI through code duplication, as C++ templates do. (You can also use uniform value representations, like C void *, although this is limited in its applicability.)
> refuse to try again

The ways I've heard it are, "never let it happen again" and "learn from your mistakes", in other words don't make the same mistake again. Sure one refuses to try the exact same strategy again... because it didn't work the first time. That doesn't mean one stops trying altogether. Refactor/pivot and give it another go.
I've been using http://www.boatingsf.com/ais_map.php and I like this better because (1) it's not flash and (2) your dataset is slightly more detailed.

I do miss boatingsf's animations, because it gives me a better idea about the path and trajectory of a ship than just a current position and heading.
Maybe they just embedded something like RTOS-32. The company that makes it (www.On-Time.com) say it can be integrated with Visual Studio and used along side Visual C++.
I think it's probably in the middle.

You have to remember that journalists rely on sources, and some of those sources come from government agencies. A strong caution contains an implied threat of non-cooperation, i.e. if you cover that story, we will be feeding other journalists more info than we feed you.

We've already been seeing this a lot with the current administration, regarding trying to ban Fox News from the press pool (ok, I am no fan of Fox News, and I was a fan of Obama in 2008, but COME ON). In context, this is a meaningful threat.

However, I wonder if the issue has to do more with the "get rid of the TSA" rhetoric in the post than it does with the security hole.
Also interesting that the CodeSurfer product referenced above is "sponsored by several government agencies, including the US Air Force, the US Navy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security", according to its own website.

Looks like a cool product.
From what I gathered from the article, this doesn't appear to be obfuscated since the purpose/method is transparent in the decompiled code, it simply doesn't match the constructs you would expect to see in common programming languages when decompiled.
This is not on github?
Or claim it has 6 cores.
At 1600 per month I am guessing his target market requires at least a few perks. I think the point is mostly that lots of these people have no need for the extra space.
We've been focused on our launch (demo prep, design) but expect to see many more lessons in the coming weeks.
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I turned my old iPad into the ultimate digital picture frame
> The San Francisco units will rent for $1,595 a month.

I was wondering about this pricing. I pay the same amount for a 850 square foot apartment in Upper East Side Manhattan (83rd and 1st so a 10 minute walk from the 4/5/6 but still...). I started reading with the thought "I'd pay ~$800 for that if it was decently located".

I split an apartment in Cole Valley SF in 2006-7 and think we were at ~$1800 for a two bedroom but it was a pretty crappy apartment for the area.
> If C isn't suitable for projects with more than 10K lines, then praytell, what language should my kernel be written in?

The Xen hypervisor (which shares a lot of characteristics with an OS kernel) is written in OCaml, which seems to have proven a good choice in practice: http://gazagnaire.org/pub/SSGM10.pdf
I don't even bother to look at my iTunes sales anymore. I just assume it's 1/10 of my Amazon sales.

But what is Amazon doing that is predatory? Genuinely curious. Simply having a monopoly isn't a crime; abusing the advantage is.
It may not have been done for that reason alone. NIHS is pretty common among hackers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here#In_computing

It also seems to me that a new language for this exact purpose is unlikely, however, it could very well be a proprietary or otherwise unknown language that may have been built for another purpose (internal company, domain-specific development, etc) and not often seen in this context.
Ah, I should have actually looked up what that meant, and my question would have been answered. Thanks fennecfoxen.
FTA: "For obvious security reasons, we can’t discuss our technology's detection capability in detail"

The only situation that would make this "obvious" is if the technology is inadequate. Basically by saying that, they're admitting to a large amount of security through obscurity.

Imagine a bank's website saying "For obvious security reasons, we can’t discuss how our passwords are store in detail". Wait, why not? If the technology is adequate to the task you should be able to explain exactly how it works without compromising anything!