skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: Also shameless

A lot of people have fun with this kind of challenge, as well as network security in general. Over 10,000 people went to DEFCON this year (I've seen estimates between 13,000 and 16,000). Hacker IRC rooms are constantly buzzing. Security is fun, and while building software is immensely satisfying, so is breaking it.

So why is the information security industry so tiny?

For one, it's competitive, but I think that many, many qualified security guys don't realize that there's a thriving industry around this kind of stuff.

If you want to work in security, these CTF-style challenges are a great way to show that you're self-motivated and clever. I'm always hiring application security engineers, and honestly it's pretty difficult to find people who are new to the field. People seem to either have a decade of experience and bounce from company to company, or no experience at all and assume that they "aren't good enough."

If a company can't take some raw talent and refine it, they don't deserve raw talent in the first place. We call that training.

If you like this kind of stuff, apply at Stripe, or Matasano, or Tinfoil Security -- or even my engineering team at Redspin. If you mention "HN" or "Hacker News" in an email to jobs at redspin.com, I'll know exactly where you came from :)

PS: Redspin hires all kinds of security engineers, from policy & procedure specialists to network infrastructure guys to appsec experts. It's better to apply and have a conversation than to be too afraid to try!
I wonder when level 4 will be back up.
Was Vimeo hacked? Or are they phishing?
Actually I have an idea... CTRL-L goes fullscreen while CTRL-H brings back to tiled mode...
So you want to move to San Francisco (from Canada)
"I think 2% is actually a very high risk for something with rather severe consequences."

Keep in mind that the overall risk of autism is 1 in 88, or 1.1%, and the overall risk of schizophrenia is about 1%. So it's not like you get a free pass if you have kids earlier. Also, there are other benefits to having a child later in life in terms of things that benefit the child, even if there are more neurodevelopment risks and disadvantages at the biological level.
What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day
BES 10: BlackBerry 7 support not included, must run BES 5 as well
yea, german keyboard here and it doesn't recognize my "=" ( so couldn't get past line one. Looks really cool though, I hope it gets I18lized sometime soon :)

KeyboardJS has a basic locales mapping: https://github.com/RobertWHurst/KeyboardJS , Unfortunately it appears to only have en_US at the momment though
At the bottom of the press release: "Like the FTC on Facebook, follow us on Twitter..."
Just FYI; the menu top overlay on the page makes browsing on a mobile device really bad. It covers more then half the screen, and I'm on a fairly large one (Galaxy S2).
Five Tips on Managing Social Media for Clients
yep, you just navigate where you want and focus
I used to work in the media. We would get special treatment because companies knew we were opinion influencers. We didn't know it was happening, but the license key or other information would be their tip-off to provide us with VIP service. Quite often that prevented us from giving accurate information to our readers.

If you are a company offering products/services, this service is great because it lets you give the media, investors, etc. that special treatment that you might not ever give a "normal" customer. That can let you cover up for inadequate customer support, products and procedures that aren't quite ready, etc. Heck, you could even hide or show parts of the site based on the VIP status, so for example those VIPs would think some extra-pay service was part of the free offering.

Maybe I'm looking at the worst-case scenario here, but a company that decides to use this service is going to be tempted to give those people special treatment. Perhaps they can make some more money by letting schmucks like me pay to get on the VIP list so they'll treat me nice too.
Your numbers are bad.

I am guessing, since the article you link doesn't actually link to the scientific study, that it is referring to: http://pediatricbioscience.com/publications/pdf/Pub16.pdf This did not examine any form of causality, as the currently-linked study did, nor did it evaluate the children themselves. By not controlling for evaluation mechanisms, the study you link only addresses patterns of early diagnosis and treatment. While it is interesting, the researchers themselves say that the data is hardly conclusive. The current study, on the other hand, explores not just correlation but causation, and thus is far more persuasive.

Second, you are comparing increase in risk to total overall risk. The percentage increase for men going from age 25 to 40 is 110%, not 2%. The study you link found a comparable number for women over age 40 of 0.4%.
I recommend Golden-ratio for this kind of thing:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3690

It does not take away the ability to do :split or :vsplit or force a particular layout. It does dynamically resize your windows to maximize visibility
We attempted to make something very similar at a hackathon. It's cool to see a more polished, complete version. Ours was more of an attempt to make a version of typeracer (http://play.typeracer.com/) using code samples from rosetta code. All we really got done though was handling typing the code (hilighting errors, letting you use tab for whitespace, etc), we didn't get around to recording stats.

This is all bringing back horrible memories of our disastrous demo actually, but very nice otherwise.
Wow. That entire foreword is just beautiful. Thank you.
Connected to mail.messaging.microsoft.com.

Escape character is '^]'.

220 DB3EHSMHS012.bigfish.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:27:49 +0000

HELO msft

250 DB3EHSMHS012.bigfish.com Hello

mail from: john@gmail.com

250 2.1.0 Sender OK

rcpt to: marcw@microsoft.com

250 2.1.5 Recipient OK

rcpt to: donm@microsoft.com

250 2.1.5 Recipient OK

rcpt to: jabell@microsoft.com

250 2.1.5 Recipient OK
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I found myself fat fingering too many keys, wanted to improve my typing, and one thing led to another...
You can use DSNP but I cannot because shared hosting do not provide that much support. I wish everybody could use it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747
He changed his shirt and they still wouldn't let him on.
True, but the decay products of radon are solid alpha-emitters that get lodged in people's lungs. And the comparisons to Fukushima are generally in terms of rem, which is already adjusted for biological effect.
Might want to proof-read the FAQ some more. I'm seeing sentences like: "Since system is auction-based you result may vary depending on current load of our network. For example if you maximum bid is 5 cents per view your ad will be only shown after all more expensive videos."
Should airline travel be available to all, irrespective of their ability to pay? If not, then it can't be a right, since rights can not be denied based on ability to pay.
Agreed, "not wasting" does not always equate "eating." Preservation is something, when I spent a lot of time in my childhood in rural areas, that was baked into every family. It was a way of smoothing out the seasonal fluctuations in food availability.

Now, having lived in the city for quite some time - food preservation is a "niche hobby." I posit this is because fresh produce importing from other parts of the world have really smoothed out the availability. But, we won't eat much of the fruit from other countries - largely because we find it wasteful (transportation) and of suspicious quality (both taste and health).
"Not Invented Here" syndrome is manifested as an unwillingness to adopt an idea or product because it originates from another culture - Wikipedia

The culture of decentralized web doesn't bode well, not enough capitalism, which might in turn effect the quality of the product.
Too bad that project never caught on, it seems really interesting and useful.
done. as noted there, Ctrl-w | Ctrl-w _ to fullscreen does leave the other windows crushed at the edge, but i guess there might be a better method?
This looks similar to http://jellibug.com, except they don't have videos yet.
Look for local fertility clinics: if they don't provide the service they probably know somewhere that does.
it would be awesome, if I could somehow use the same keys to switch between vim splits and my (tiling) window manager's windows. First move focus in vim, if I'm already in the utmost split then move the focus to the next window.

Oh, and make it work with tmux's splits, too!
I'm using Firefox 10.0.6.
The numbers quoted in the article were, IIRC, about cellular damage and aren't dependent of the isotope the person was exposed to. I agree some radioactive materials are much more dangerous than others and a noble gas has less chances of ending up in important molecules inside your body, but if the scale measures damage, not exposition, I assume they are equivalent.
I just meant that they didn't take poetic license to edit the content, such as by shortening or summarizing it.
For UK freelancers, I've heard nothing but good things about FreeAgent (accounting & invoicing). TopTal (vetted programmer network) seems like a cool source of high-paying clients, though I haven't yet had any jobs out of it (2 weeks in), so I can't say for sure.
StepMyCast makes you share your video presentations with the World
The meal was chicken strips and fries from a restaurant kid's meal. Does not do well as leftovers.
But do you have any concrete suggestions of protocols, or are you criticizing the choice based on an hypothetical protocol that would be very similar but incompatible with HTTP and all its existing tools (millions of tested and deployed caching servers, load balancers, etc), and for which whole new libraries would have to be written, just so you can make it somewhat more efficient?
HN needs more posts like this. just saying...
There's "renewable" (the resource regenerates over time), and "sustainable".

In much of the world:

Surface-water flows of water are already spoken for. Water rights in the Western United States are hugely complex and the source of many conflicts. The Colorado River and Owens Valley are particularly noteworthy. The movie "Chinatown" and the book * Cadillac Desert* describe some of this story in detail. In other parts of the world, water is an international concern: Israel and Jordon, Egypt and Sudan (over the Nile), the Danube in Europe, various wathersheds shared by India, China, and Pakistan. And that's a very short list.

Groundwater sources are effectively mined. The Ogallala Aquifer underlying much of the high plains states (South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas) is being depleted faster than it's being refreshed. Much of the Sahara and other middle eastern deserts contain significant aquifers (the region was a lush savannah 10,000 years ago), though the water contained has been there for thousands of years.

Ocean reserves are not fresh water.

Making seawater potable is extremely expensive (energy or dollars). Desalination costs roughly $0.50 per 1000 liters (264 gallons). This is equivalent to the cost of transporting fresh water 2000 meters vertically (6,600 ft) or 1600km (1000 miles).
Didn't realize I'd ended up on Conspiracy Theory News.
It's not inherently more expensive than promised; that's caused by a combination of first-of-a-kind construction and unpredictable political and regulatory situations. In places like South Korea, where they have a more reasonable regulatory situation and they build a bunch of each type of plant, they've had a better track record with completing nuclear plants on time and within an affordable budget.
Similar research results for bipolar:

Bipolar Disorder Tied to Age of Fathers
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
NY Times, September 8, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/health/09bipo.html
solar can definitely fulfill any power requirements. the problem though isn't power generation but energy storage. if we had better batteries, we wouldn't be putting internal combustion engines in cars. gasoline is about two (or is it three? can't remember) orders of magnitude better at energy density than li-ion batteries.

i strongly suggest reading this blog http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/.
I love that Tim Cook quote.
Because he says so.
Matlab Central Contest: October 31 - November 7, 2012
Okay, kindly perform whatever formalization is necessary to interpret my statement in your alluded-to framework (factor out payment, s/right/unrestriction/, $whatever), then get back to me.
It usually is just a few things that make a difference. The rest are "table stakes". They're required to succeed but they don't differentiate you from everyone else.
thorium reactors would make it a little bit harder to divert materials / technology / capabilities for weapons applications
Yep, that's a different religion. But it's just as good.
From the paper's abstract:

Solid-state materials can be categorized by their structures into crystalline (having periodic translation symmetry), amorphous (no periodic and orientational symmetry), and quasi-crystalline (having orientational but not periodic translation symmetry) phases. Hybridization of crystalline and amorphous structures at the atomic level has not been experimentally observed. We report the discovery of a long-range ordered material constructed from units of amorphous carbon clusters that was synthesized by compressing solvated fullerenes.

So not a new type of matter, a new type of solid-state material, right? Or are different solid-state materials considered different forms of matter?
Agreed, Thanks, Upvote
CurrProcess - List all processes running on your system
You can see all running processes and you can handle them as you like. With a few clicks you'll kill a process, change their priority, etc.
I learned I really need to type correctly.
when computers break down, they don't kill people for the next hundred years.
Not at all. Uranium-238 has a half-life of billions of years, and Uranium-235 has a half-life of about 2/3 of a billion years. This means that the natural decay rate, and thus the rate of generation of radioactivity is very low. However, if you pull that out of the ocean and put back things like Radium, I-131, Sr-90, etc. you will vastly increase that rate because such isotopes have a much lower half-life.
Not a very subtle jack of Hakim's work -
http://lab.hakim.se/meny/
You'll have to restructure again now that package.el is standard and better.
I'd posted my dotfiles pre-restructuring, I'll repost it now that it's modularized. Maybe it'll catch this time.
I feel like the success of this protocol will to large part depend on the specific implementation of the various tent service providers. I see two important (out of many possible) cases here: either one service provider nails the front end implementation (eg. ux) and becomes the dominant tent service provider (bad case), or we see users setting up their own tent services for themselves (good case, truly decentralized). however the latter might only be possible with some fee incurred on the users for the setup.

definitely a good idea, and if the setup for a tent service isnt too cumbersome I'll make sure to setup one for testing.
I would also love to have vim brush my teeth! ;-)
Is there any way to run multiple vim windows from one vim process, with them sharing the same internal clipboard?

To me, the window manager handling the window arrangement feels like The Right Thing, but vim handling the clipboard also feels right (because it interacts with many commands). So I'd like some hybrid of the two options of: 1) running multiple WM-managed vim instances; vs. 2) running one vim with vim-internal window management. I basically agree with the goal of running vim with dwm window management, but it seems wrong to have to reimplement dwm inside of vim, instead of using dwm itself to manage vim windows.
I have also thought about this idea that users of a social network could keep all their data and just let different clients (Facebook, Twitter) access it. I think it would be a great idea!

If I want to change my email address? Change it in one place. If I want to let my friends know something? Update it in one place. It's very DRY you know?

But then I think, why even let Facebook use my data? If we have these data stores let's build a peer to peer network to let trusted friends access our information. In real life, if I want to tell my friend something I don't pass it through a 3rd party first, I tell them directly! This can let us have really fine grained control over who we share with by authenticating the users that request the information. And with the authentication can come encryption.

This move to the cloud is, frankly, annoying. Why should we have to trust our data to all these people we don't know? They pretend that they give us "free" service, while actually using that data for profit. Good UI shouldn't have to come at such a cost.

I have been thinking about this for a while, if there are other people interested in building such a web I would love to know.
"too cheap to meter" they promised.
If you want to be sure to keep FactoryGirl out of unit tests but still have the benefit of using it in higher-level tests, you can use a different test/spec helper. I tend to do "spec_helper_lite", which sets up the bare minimum for unit tests (no FactoryGirl), and "spec_helper", which includes FactoryGirl for higher-level tests.

I say "higher-level" tests to refer to integration, system, and acceptance tests, because I don't have an opinion of where to draw the line for FactoryGirl. Is there a reason you would consider FactoryGirl for acceptance tests, but not integration or system tests? Just curious, because I might learn something.
Emacs GitHub repo with modules for most languages
From what I have worked out I believe the "What's Hot" section may be automatic based on current download trends. The fact that most apps from the New and Noteworthy section end up in there is because they are suddenly getting a lot of downloads.
I decided to look up some of the authors previous articles and he has an pretty impressive range of alien conspiracy theory and climate change related articles including:

"NASA: WE'VE FOUND Four-toed NON-HUMAN FOOTPRINTS"
"Martian lakes seen where NASA Curiosity rover WON'T BE GOING"
"Using Facebook causes less eco damage than farting, figures show"
"Climate was HOTTER in Roman, medieval times than now: Study"
"Antarctic ice shelves not melting at all, new field data show"
"Amount of meat we eat will barely affect future climate change"

http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=Lewis%20Page
Here is the full pdf:
https://filetea.me/t1se48ed
The moral of that story is, don't do anything in response to a GET request that you don't want randomly triggered by bots. That's what POST and PUT are for.
How many nuclear power plants of any sort has the US build in the last 4 decades? That's the reason why it's hard to get the concept of reprocessing nuclear fuel off the ground.
Responsive web design: what it is and 30+ resources to get you started
Love the metaphor and glad you enjoyed the experience
This reminded me of something I did a while ago.

For fun, here's a never before seen concept of customer.io. We went in a very different direction.

"When fred wilson stops by your site..."
https://img.skitch.com/20120823-b1hqqqssee4khwxjbm48nu4eyq.p...
The actual modules are here:

https://github.com/bitemyapp/dotfiles/tree/master/.emacs.d

I recently restructured my 40,000 LOC of Emacs Lisp dotfiles repo into this modularized setup. It changed my .emacs file from ~800-850 LOC to ~100 LOC of simple module/config loading and color-theme setting.

I use a custom color-theme to work around my colorblindness. (Solarized is less optimal for me)
(1) Have you thought about spam, then?

After all, there's a reason social services are centralized on today's Internets. The reason (IMHO) is that the Internets since 1992 or so have been an antisocial network, and anything worth attacking that lacks a centralized defense command is rapidly overrun by digital Huns. For instance, SMTP exists today because it existed before eternal September, and being valuable was (barely) defended; but if it didn't exist as a legacy from the old, social Internet, it would be very difficult to create it in the new antisocial one. If not impossible.

I mean, it's certainly not that some of us rotting old neckbeards weren't using finger and talk on the firewall-free Internet in 1989. So we know how cool it would be if some bright young whippersnapper could solve teh problem...

(2) This is useful but inevitably imperfect, as forcing every interlocutor to equate the old and new names is of course impossible. Eg, HTTP redirects make it possible to change your DNS identity - but hardly trivial, though the redirect itself is trivial.

And of course it's a process that your existing host could easily frustrate, though that would be very ill-mannered. Not saying there are any perfect solutions here.
> If you take in more calories than you need right now, your body will simply store them away for later, and you can eat a little less later on.

Given that it's a lot easier to overeat than to undereat in today's USA, the rest of chain proceeds as follows:

While you can eat a little less later on, you probably won't. Rather, due to eating while already full, your stomach will expand, and you will thereby overeat at subsequent meals (because food is plentiful). Eventually you will be at risk for health complications due to weight. An early death due to weight-related causes is surely a great waste of those extra calories.
Argonne National Laboratory tested a cohabited breeder called the Integral Fast Reactor. The reprocessing would happen on-site, using a process similar to electrolysis which never separates plutonium from the other transuranics. The material would never be in a form usable for bombs, and making it bomb-ready would be more difficult than just enriching uranium. But the fast neutrons in the reactor would easily burn up those transuranics.

What's more, they had very good passive safety. Fukushima had problems because it lost external power. Argonne shut off the power to their test reactor, and it just quietly shut down with no damage, simply due to the physics of the fuel and coolant.

They had it just shy of production ready when Clinton shut it down in 1994. But GE-Hitachi has a design derived from it, called the PRISM. The NRC has approved it for a demonstration reactor, and they're currently trying to sell it to the U.K. to destroy their plutonium stockpile.

Since the reactor can use U238, it's about a hundred times as efficient with uranium. Combining that with seawater extraction gives us fuel for a very long time: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/01/nuclear-options/

A pretty good book on all this was just put online for free, here: http://www.thesciencecouncil.com/prescription-for-the-planet...

There's also a new book by two lead researchers from the Argonne project, called Plentiful Energy, by Till and Chang. That one goes into quite a bit more technical detail. Another good online source is here: http://bravenewclimate.com/integral-fast-reactor-ifr-nuclear...