skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you you say which languages/platforms your system is able to analyze/patch and explain some basic technical details of how it understands arbitrary customer code well enough to find and patch vulnerabilities?

Can it fix bugs and write a few new features for me too?
What a cool idea!

Maybe we can feature it / you on notabaddad.com when it's finished?
That's false--Hacker News is a demographic mostly of younger white coastal American men who have no particular affection for Fox News. Because they tend to be higher income, they have libertarian tendencies, one of which is denialism.

You're also getting a skewed view. Climate change posts on HN always drive out the people with the strongest opinions: an actual poll of HNers would likely have them supporting the consensus position.
All iPads are unlocked. My iPad won't let me Facetime over 3G, and instead gives me a dialog telling me to call AT&T.

This is after "Facetime over 3G" was promoted (by Apple) as one of the big features of iOS6.

I'm almost willing to switch to a shittier UI/software just to not have to deal with thieving fucks like this.
Wait, didn't the principal scientist resign as a result of the media hype storm?

Yes... http://news.discovery.com/space/opera-leaders-resign-after-n...
A house's front door implies an expectation of privacy. A web server implies an expectation of public access.
>why isn't there a humane recruitment company

Sounds like you've found the business you need to start!
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Apreche acknowledged that the settings shouldn't be locked on an unlocked phone, his point seems to be that when you use an "unofficial workaround" as the author claims to have done, you shouldn't be that surprised when it stops working.
Absolutely reductio ad absurdum works for political arguments. If you didn't think that then why did you literally just use it on my comment? I would say discrimination based on some sort of inherent trait is completely wrong (race, religion, etc) but if a private company chooses to deny service to another private company what affront to civil rights has been committed? I'm sorry but there is no human right to the visa or mastercard network. If you want to support wikileaks send them government issued currency through the government run mail.
Glad to hear that Apple still has people looking at the emails to the CEO and following up with executive support. I was afraid this might end after Steve left.
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"many countries have joined a treaty banning landmines"

The ones that should join that treaty have not.

My country should not have joined. I'm from Finland. All that treaty ever did was to get rid of foot mines that we're designed to be planted around a heavy tank mine to make the whole deal difficult to disassemble. Now as our mines are easily disassembled, it just kind makes attacking here easier. So completely opposite outcome is very probable than what was intended.
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"Click-to-play blocklisting implemented to prevent vulnerable plugin versions from running without the user's permission" interesting...
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I wish there was a router that could automagically handle encryption. This way even grandma could plug in her "freedom box" behind her router and have secure communications. Maybe a simple web based admin page to manage configuration.
I'm hoping web crypto will solve this, but only if the e-mail and storage service providers offer the option in an intuitive way, and I don't think the big ones like Google and Microsoft will want to do that unless we all demand it. It's also not going to be a finished draft until 2014, so we have to wait a little more.

http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto
The Mayans would be sure.

But really, who didn't see this coming after the first launch went sour? I read the indictment yesterday and there's some pretty hairy stuff in there, but one has to wonder.

I think most people will think twice before climbing into bed with Bill Nguyen again.
I had this problem recently in the custom blog/comment functionality I had written for my company's app.

I've taken a few steps which has completely rid me of spam (for now):

- IP blacklisting: an obvious one but well worth the few minutes it takes to setup, most of our spam was coming from China.

- Link blocking: our comments don't really require links to work as the comments are generally short and to the point and the blog is not used by terribly tech savvy users.

- Hidden checkbox: add a hidden checkbox to the form. If it comes through as checked you know a human didn't submit the form.

Analysing a visitors progression through the site is a neat idea though - if spam becomes an issue again then I may use this approach (since I'm already gathering this data for custom analytics).
What's a first-class and a second-class concept in the architecture.

In IPv4, the IP address is central to the architecture, and the subnet is secondary. In v6, the /64 network is the core, and everything is arranged around that.
The article is wrong about address assignments.

First, /32 is the minimum allocation size, which means you (an ISP) can't get fewer addresses than that (not more as the article claims). The reason you'd want to have a minimum allocation size is because it makes routing tables smaller (better for an organization to have just one entry in the routing table that's huge that they can grow into, than to start small and add lots of small entries to the routing table as they grow).

Second, /48 is what ISPs typically give their subscribers, not what ISPs themselves get.

Edit: to clarify, the /32 minimum is a policy of ARIN and RIPE (not sure about the other RIRs). See for example https://www.arin.net/policy/archive/ipv6_policy.html#43 and http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-552#minimum_allocation. There is no mandatory policy for how ISPs should assign addresses to their subscribers. RFC3177 recommended a /48 in most cases, though that has recently been superseded by RFC6177, which recommends more flexibility rather than a one-size-fits all approach. See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6177.

I find the article somewhat reckless in recommending that you ban entire /64s instead of individual IPv6 addresses. It's true that you need to be aware that a home user will likely be in control of an entire /64 (and possibly more), but if the offending IP address is at a university or a datacenter then a /64 ban could sweep up a lot of innocent bystanders. You really need to consider bans on a case-by-case basis.
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Yes he was sacked, but here's the important quote from that article:

Even Ereditato never claimed that their work had overturned Einstein. "I would never say that," he told Science last September. "We are forced to say something. We could not sweep it under the carpet, because that would be dishonest."
I dont know that I can prove this, but Im pretty sure that AT&T was throttling my "unlimited" data plan well below the 2GB limit. It was bad enough that I rarely used more than 1GB of data per month.

Fast forward to my iPhone 5 upgrade. Granted there is decent LTE coverage here in Houston, but with no change in my usage habits I hit the 90% mark of the 4GB plan(I needed tethering, so I had to "upgrade") 18 days into the billing cycle. My main data consumption was iTunes match over cellular. I was getting constant buffer underruns with my iPhone 4 on 3g, but now Im hitting the data wall halfway through the billing cycle. Its now in AT&Ts best interest to open the pipe for me so I can pay overage fees.

I dont know that it would be better on a different carrier, but I certainly harbor no goodwill towards AT&T. I feel like Im one hassle away from buying out my contract.

Just getting my iPhone 5 proved to be a multi hour headache due to an AT&T agents royal screwup of my initial upgrade. I ordered a 64GB black phone, was shipped white. He also updated my home/billing address incorrectly(more on that later) I returned it, and they spent 2 hours reversing the upgrade and giving me a new sim for my iPhone 4. That took so long that I couldnt re-order the upgrade. A week later I used the AT&T website to order the new phone, however, it could only be shipped to the billing address that the AT&T agent mistyped when I originally ordered the phone. So I had to cancel the order. But it wasnt that simple. I am a "premier" account and premier support isnt open on weekends. I had to go to an AT&T store and cancel the order. Then I had to call premier support on monday and reverse the upgrade. The next weekend, they finally had some black 64GB iPhones in stock. I bought one. Guess what? it had an intermittent power button. I had to set up an appt with an apple store to get that fixed. Fortunately the Apple store experience was much better. So 3 iPhones later, I have an iPhone 5 with a bad carrier and have to now worry about my data usage. First world problems I suppose.
Arguably, people who still care about "picture messages" deserve to get fleeced by carriers. If your Internet APN is working, send and receive emails like normal people.

Still, fuck Apple for locking the user out of configuring their own device, though.
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The purpose of due diligence is to uncover mistakes and ensure that the books are in order, not to uncover fraud or wrongdoing.
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"The reality is that every set of global warming predictions so far has understated the actual amount of warning observed. Models are giving too much weight to long-term stable trends over the recent data, plus scientists don't want to be tarred as "kooks" for having the most extreme projections. So if their model says 5C increase, it's probably low to start off with and it will be lowered more before publication, and it will end up underpredicting warming."

Scientists that have to lie to us for our own good. Now that's Science!
Hasn't UK just passed an outrageous snooping bill recently?
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Let's travel back in time to a few days ago, before these allegations emerged. Mike Lynch seemed like a guy who'd founded a high tech software company, let it grow, and sold it for billions of dollars. He's got an engineering PhD from a top university.

Over the last 10 years technology like the web, podcasts, home broadband, iPlayer etc have had a lot of impact on the BBC. It makes sense to have someone on the board who has an engineering background and experience managing complex technology projects.
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Definitely part of my plan during the rest of this Thanksgiving week.

This is a great reminder. I feel like people typically spend too much time at the nascent stages of a venture planning everything out in their heads. There's not enough DO at this stage. They typically don't do much of anything to actually progress only to find that once they do dedicate themselves to the venture, they forget that they still need to think. Actual planning and strategerizing (it'll catch on) take a backseat to hitting deadlines. I doubt I'm the only programmer who would love a couple days to just sit down, plan, THINK, and revamp the entire architecture of their current project.
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I miss when Firefox did minor versions more often. This is just getting rediculous.
I'm also using StraightTalk. Have you tried SIM swap with a T-Mobile SIM? I think they describe this on the unlock it.co.nz site.
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Does chocolate make you clever?
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If you're recruiting by people who "love what they do" - that's awesome .. but don't forget they need to have a life and a family they're likely taking care of, too: if you're recruiting for the positions wherein 50 or 60 hours is "normal", then I hope you're only getting single folks who don't care if they have a life :)

The occasional long week is fine - but I'm going to be a lot more interested in someone who is good but expects a "normal" amount of work.
Nicely done Rick, this is a conversation that needs to happen.
This is another point against the attitude of "My time is worth $XX/hr". Valuing all of your time at the maximum never gives you any time to be at your minimum. And, like others have stated, we aren't equally productive at all times.

Many of my inspirations come from busy work - sweeping, cleaning, maintaining my car, etc.
"Data mining" strikes again. Find a meaningless correlation, one having nothing to do with anything, then publish it, along with a bogus explanation that pretends the random, chance correlation represents a cause-effect relationship.

The article pays lip service to the very high probability that the correlation means precisely nothing, but this has no effect on the impression the article creates by its very existence.

And the first line in the article -- "You don’t have to be a genius to like chocolate, but geniuses are more likely to eat lots of chocolate" -- is not at all supported by the study itself, which measures the chocolate-eating behavior of nations, not individuals.

Another example of irresponsible, sensationalist science journalism.
"I think the fundamental problem with noisy people is not that they're inconsiderate, but that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt, and they thus don't realize the havoc they're wreaking."

A more polite, and perhaps more accurate rendering would be "Many noisy people work out what they think by saying it." To some of them the introvert who much prefers to think matters out before speaking may seem as thoughtless as they do to the introvert.
The logic is as follows:

1. Believe that human-caused increases in CO2 cause catastrophic climate change.
2. Therefore, anyone who doesn't agree doesn't know about climate change.
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It's worth reading the indictment, here (thanks to ssclafani for digging this up):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/113664772/46-Indictment

"The Account Slurper attached AT&T's servers for several days in or around June 2010, and was designed to harvest as many ICC-ID/email pairings as possible."

This is the indictment, so not proven, but the period for which the script ran is probably accurate. So nah, not a short time.

There's also some great IRC logs later on where they're talking about using the collected email addresses for phishing, debating whether or not it's worth the effort if they don't get passwords, and talking about selling the resulting email database.
It doesn't sound like your old company was all that principled either...
No worries! I'd love to know more about the dangers of solving your own problem becoming an obsession, how to identify it and knowing when to quit or press on.
Its in the works.. I should be able to push the update tonight
IMO, this depends - i'm sure quite a few factor this into their decision on using or not but in the end it depends on your reputation being stable/online 99.XX% or being flakey...
Because of the infrastructure that exists. If industrialization had occurred in an era of elevated temperatures (even +5C from now) it would be less of a problem.

An LA without water is just a desert. Whatever combination of desalination, increased air conditioning, and migration ends up being done to mitigate the effects of climate change is expensive. Really expensive.

Unfortunately, many people who are loathe to interfere with the economy via the government are all too happy to decide that they know enough about Caribbean fisheries, rice paddy cultivation in Burma, and civil infrastructure in Doha to say that a government policy that will likely significantly and adversely affect all of them is fine.
Yes, I agree, to say Grove "kept the company successful" (referring to once it became a huge company), is to understate how much it flourished.
My prepaid flat-rate plan includes "unlimited" SMS/MMS (and don't get me started on use of the word "unlimited" by service providers...). In any case, it doesn't cost me anything extra, and it's way easier to be able to accept and send MMS messages to people in your life who are going to use that channel of communication with you regardless of how many times you tell them to use e-mail to talk to you THAN it is to face them after they've sent you something and then you run into them a few days later and they want to know why you never responded. (EDIT: ...okay, that was a terrible run-on sentence.)
Configurable APN settings on a device sold unlocked should be a given. APN settings configure your device for the given network you are connecting to.

It's not so much an "unofficial workaround" as a mandatory component of the unlocked device.
A great reminder that the macho "work all the time" attitude is actually counterproductive - not just in life, but in work.

You need to relax to be creative. Not just at Thanksgiving, or other publicly mandated holidays, but all through the year. There's a great deal of peer pressure in America to not do this, but hey - whoever said running a startup was about going with the flow? And you need to be creative to make great products and services.
Hm, that sounds like a plausible theory. I've never investigated beyond looking at the locations via google analytics and they always seemed to be European visitors (Spain was the majority) which I assumed meant the traffic was legitimate because the football matches of interest match up. Next time it happens I'll look up some of the IP addresses used and see if they match any known spammers, although I suspect if they are doing some sort of click fraud they'd be using bot nets?
If you can reproduce the gif problem in the nightlies, you should file a bug!
That's the great thing about CouchDB: unreliable/sporadic networks can be tamed.
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If only people had the option of not buying Apple phones...
If you can't write at least some kind of program/script, you can't sysadmin.

And, in many places (especially smallish shops), the sysadmin is also a developer is also an interviewer is also is also is also...
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I've found the best solution is to use a variety of strategies. We recently switched a forum from PhpBB to MyBB in the hopes that a slightly less popular platform would get less spam... we had a spam user sign up and post within 60 seconds of finishing our conversion.

However, we set up a StopForumSpam plug-in, a time-based plug-in (if you complete the registration page in < X seconds, you're probably a bot), and a custom questions plug-in, and we haven't seen any spam since. If they start figuring out to break through those walls, we'll try a few more... (On the other hand, it' s a small enough forum that I don't know if we're missing false positives.)

Yes, it's a cat and mouse game, but it's one you can generally stay on top of with minimal configuration once you understand what the spammers want and how to use your platform. And I have to admit there's some thrill involved at successfully thwarting their plans...
A very reasonable argument.

However, pragmatically, the real reason is that the driving force behind copyright law in the United States (and therefore in much of the world) is the Walt Disney Corporation, which has decided that it will use the full force of its political weight to ensure that no work featuring Mickey Mouse ever enters the public domain. This currently requires that the length of copyright be 70 years. However, since Steamboat Willy would under these terms become public domain in 2023, I would be willing to bet that we'll see some changes to copyright law around 2022.

Disney has no such interest in patents and, as a result, no reason to lobby for the extension of their terms.
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That definitely makes sense. Thank you!
What exactly was the CEO intimidating people into doing? They didn't do anything there.
Long ago, I have decided not to recommend a product whose manuals you couldn't see before buying it. It came from a huge disappointment over ATG's Dynamo web platform that led to a cancelled project and some lawyering. If we could have seen all the documentation, we'd have decided against it.

Benchmarking is the same - unless I can see independent benchmarks (ones not authorized or paid for the software maker, done based on publicly available knowledge on the platform) I'm not buying.
Bye cloud, we hardly knew ye.
I would say it's more akin to calling the police about the arsonist that's already burnt your neighbor's house to the ground.

Sure it won't save the house, but the wrongdoer is still on the loose and might well do it again given the opportunity.
I would also love to know this. Where did the money go? In an era where infrastructure cost is cheap, the big expense should be labor. But seriously, $41m?
It's already bitten me because I can't use a password manager to login to my own admin panel. Still though there is something to be said for your forms not having a static fingerprint maybe.

Nothing can be done about targeted attacks I think, besides not being worth the effort, or having moderators and constantly adapting. I wonder how much randomness you can introduce into the posting process, though, before it's no longer worth the effort. Add a csrf value to the form action? Rearrange the order of the fields? Add a captcha based on an average of the edit distance of an IP's previous posts, with a random threshold?
At this point in the game with Android moving around 3/4 of all smartphones, Apple needs the carriers' $500 iPhone subsidies far more than the carriers need Apple.
I really appreciate the input! Colors aren't exactly my forte, so I'll definitely look into it.

Thanks!
It's my phone. Let me take my own security risks.
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Yeah. IANA lawyer or tax professional, but it seems to me that capital gains and dividend taxes for C Corporations will be going up if the Bush tax cuts expire: http://www.deanmead.com/deanmead-newsletter/effects-of-tax-r...
This is for iOS 5. The article is about the changes in iOS 6.
I remember reading about Color from the get-go and being astounded by the inordinate amount of money invested in this idea. Not surprised to see how it turned out.
So true codegeek. I understand where you are coming from.
I really wanted to like this, but Google is still tops for its location database. Maybe Nokia and the other non-Google players can band together to address this, because I don't see how anyone will catch up otherwise.

It's also strange to me that this is the case, because if they're using FedEX and UPS data you would think that would be a superior location data mining operation.
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Can I just for a moment question their PR strategy here?

Them saying they have found something big leads to speculation, speculation that might paint the image of an discovery much bigger than what was actually discovered. Scientists are understandably enthusiastic about this, but they also have to keep in mind that when they just use words to describe the importance of the discovery without naming the discovery itself, it’s easy for them to get it very, very wrong. Something for the history books for them might well be something most people really couldn’t care less about.

I think the adult thing of saying that it is possible you discovered x but you still need confirmation may well work, if you know how to frame it correctly. But whatever you do, don’t say anything about history books, not before you are really sure.

Alternatively you shut up and say nothing to the public until you are sure.

This whole “We have discovered something huge but we can’t tell you what until we are really sure!” seems very misguided to me.

I think this is just a case of bad PR, not bad science reporting or anything like that.