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evilmalware 0.6 (beta)

Copyright 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005 E\/17 |-|4><0|2z Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY, COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF IMPORTANT DATA or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE (eg. sending thousands of Viagra spams to people accross the world).

Basic Installation

Before attempting to compile this virus make sure you have the correct version of glibc installed, and that your firewall rules are set to ‘allow everything’.

1. Put the attachment into the appropriate directory eg. /usr/src.

2. Type ‘tar xvzf evilmalware.tar.gz’ to extract the source files for this virus.

3. ‘cd’ to the directory containing the virus' source code and type ‘./configure’ to configure the virus for your system. If you're using ‘csh’ on an old version of System V, you might need to type ‘sh ./configure’ instead to prevent ‘csh’ from trying to execute ‘configure’ itself.

4. Type ‘make’ to compile the package. You may need to be logged in as root to do this.

5. Optionally, type ‘make check_payable’ to run any self-tests that come with the virus, and send a large donation to an unnumbered Swiss bank account.

6. Type ‘make install’ to install the virus and any spyware, trojans pornography, penis enlargement adverts and DDoS attacks that come with it.

7. You may now configure your preferred malware behaviour in /etc/evilmalware.conf.

SEE ALSO	evilmalware(1), evilmalware.conf(5), please_delete_all_my_files(1)

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html
Is my computer haunted?
curious if anyone here can advise me how to test if my recently purchased macbook is infested with some sort of surveillance muck? and if so, how to rid myself of it? every so often while on line a blank box square appears on my screen, as if snapping a screen grab. also, when i write, the text jumps around. i know i'm paranoid but...isn't paranoid the new "of course people are watching you!"
Do you have readline installed? Your sequence works as expected for me.
>Your site would allow me, for example, to scrape all your content for my own personal use //

On what basis are you claiming this. Sounds like it would be true under fair-use clauses of US Copyright law but it's certainly not true in the UK (and by extension I presume for you to perform on content served from the UK though I've yet to read a thorough treatment of how the [ie any] law works with server locations).

Commercial considerations are usually much broader than selling too: not only could you not resell it but you couldn't distribute it (whether by publishing or otherwise).
I don't disagree, and that is an easily imaginable scenario. But much like the cop they can still make things at best, uncomfortable, or at worst, nearly intolerable, for you. Creating that sort of de facto requirement is where the real problem lies (there's no legal obligation, but most of those vehicle search requests are performed anyway).

We already have employers requesting "voluntary" disclosure of health information (e.g., cholesterol check) as a condition of continuing group insurance coverage. Since it's illegal to require this information, they make it voluntary - but anyone who opts-out also opts-out of a hefty premium "discount". In reality, the "discounted" rate is closer to what employers would expect to pay for comparable group plans, while the non-discounted premium is high enough that 99% of employees line right up to have their blood drawn by the visiting nurse (conveniently stationed in the conference room down the hall).
Why is it that there's no Romney campaign write-ups? Are they that less open of a tech community? Yes, I know they lost, but technically, they beat out many other competitors in the Republican primaries and so must have exercised some kind of technical prowess?

(and yes, I'm aware of their fail-whale Orca system....that would also make for a fun writeup)
Don't use your real credentials when asking for help on school work.

I don't think this student was asking for help so much as asking someone to do the work for him, but I'll keep it in mind either way.
I'm skeptical anything will come from this. It's not like a Stack Exchange username is legitimate proof of identity. The professor called out the student for cheating but unless the guy actually turns in the form along with the exam, there's probably no way to legitimately link the student's identity with the stack exchange identity, unless the guy was stupid enough to sign up with his actual name.

That being said, this would be an effective way to screw over someone else, if you signed up with their name and plastered these types of questions all over the internet. The first thing that any HR rep is going to do when considering a job application is searching for the persons name. If this type of garbage comes up, that resume will probably be instantly tossed into the bit bucket.
Yes, but we have to put our faith in something.
> Its a noise to signal ratio problem; when you search for any person you don't want a list of one thousand people; you probably want to read about the few popularly know ones. Same thing happens with acronyms, dates and abbreviations.

Just recently (only last century) some clever fellows came up with a workable solution for this. Look up www.google.com in your web browser and see if works for you.
Honestly, I don't understand this reluctance to name wrongdoers, especially for something like this where verifying the wrong is trivial (e.g. load up a client site and find the offending code in source).

It seems to me that the harm is greater not naming names - reputation is important and if you take steps to invade user's privacy then your reputation can and should suffer for it.
After spending 9 years in school, I have very little regard for Professors that both don't understand how this generation of kids work, nor understand that take home finals in technical fields such as math have zero merit.

The smart kids are always going to be penalized because the cheating kids are going to ask for help. In other words, this kid got caught. We can discuss if this kid should have known that he was cheating or not (and I believe that there is good evidence that modern kids have a difficult time grasping the idea of original work). That is both a process and a procedure that colleges should teach kids. Ethics 101 should be a required course.

(Then again, Allen and Gates bought DOS from Seattle Computing Products and sold it as their own.)

My problem is the other 50% of the kids that find a friend that can help them, and thereby cheat but have no avenue to be caught.

Simple solution is to have tests in class on a sample of the work done during the quarter/semester. If you can't do this, then you don't understand how to test for knowledge

While this won't stop cheating, it should bring it down dramatically. The best way to slow cheating is to not give an opportunity to cheat in the first place.
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This is classic programmer thinking. Administration will accept that the account belongs to the student because the names are the same and the question matches the exam question. Stronger evidence will not be required.
This also happened with a Portuguese 2nd year CS student, no one was sure if it really was the teacher.
Awesome... Thanks!
As far as I'm concerned, it's not really a dilemma at all. Your second side is exactly the point: one part of any learning experience must, must be to develop your own skills. Learning collaboration is also tremendously valuable, but it can't be the only thing you learn from a class. (And even then, you'd have to be collaborating, not just finding someone else to do the whole job for you.)

As a professor, it's good to give your students opportunities to develop in both ways. And for a variety of reasons (some good, some bad), it's more or less necessary to test and grade both types of learning, too. So if a student violates the explicit rules set forth for an exam (which I assume was the case here) by swapping one type of learning for the other, that displays a clear lack of integrity.
That is a very welcome change. Drops a barrier that causes people to be lethargic about updating their apps
Can anyone comment on the validity of these? Are these real?
I'm guessing VM is a common typo for VW made by Dvorak users.
This kind of thing does cause serious issues evaluating students.

On one hand, students, employers and lecturers all agree (I think) that allowing students to do larger projects, over a period of time, allows them to better show their strengths and tackle interesting problems.

On the other hand, without locking people in a room with nothing but a pen for 3 hours or so, it is very difficult to check they aren't getting someone else to do all their work for them.
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This is a furphy. "It makes the interface less pleasant" is not an argument for the destruction of condensed knowledge.
Plus the big problem of sources curation, those are more unreliable in unpopular articles for the lack of eyeballs on them. The amount of work mods have to do would grow exponentially if they didn't take notability into account.

Maybe you didn't intend this but it sounds like you are saying that Popularity == Notability. I don't think that's a helpful stance to take. Especially since as time progresses, older things will generally become less popular and thus trend towards deletion if what you say is true.
The prof also busted him on another question:

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/256822/product-of-tw...
Most of the time there's a demand for a written confession, it's to get evidence against the student. Despite what anyone might say about how it's important to "own up" to your mistakes, when there's already solid evidence against someone, you confront them first and then make them write an apology. You don't ask for a confession up front unless you have nothing to work with.
Someone scraping your site may not respect robots.txt
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ALIENS!
Dependency Injection with Node.js
I agree that you could potentially reduce the search space based on rules, but English especially is not well known for it's adherence to rules, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo...

Conversations like this are why I come to hacker news.
I started to type something similar then did some research into the costs. The DB download is 8.8GB, they say it expands to terrabytes when uncompressed. That's no longer an impossibly difficult amount of storage to acquire though. The Wikimedia Foundation budget for this next year is $42.1 million, I only skimmed so I didn't find a breakdown on costs of things like electricity and bandwidth out of that. I like the idea, though wonder how you could gain traction from potential contributors. Would those alienated by the current Wikipedia processes along with some other people interested in the novelty be enough to start a community?
> and I believe that there is good evidence that modern kids have a difficult time grasping the idea of original work

Where can I find that good, non-anecdotal evidence?
Pick one: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vm ;)
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Ask HN: What Would Happen if More Developers Charged for Python/Ruby Components?
I am a beginner rails developer and I am intrigued by RubyMotion as a paid component and it's growth and support compared to the vast majority of stagnant open source ruby components. I am wondering why there are so few Ruby/Python components for purchase. I would think this could lead to more sophisticated plug and play tools since developers could devote more time to them if it is a source of revenue. I know this kind of goes back to the famous Bill Gates letter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

Would Rails/Python start to become more like PHP? Would they lose more developers or gain more developers? Would it be bad for the language if more developers charged?
To be fair, $200 is really not a lot of money. For all the contents, videos, interviews, samples, one can imagine how much effort being allocated for this. Being famous doesn't entitle someone to be able to charge expensively. Likewise, nothing is stopping anyone out there ("nobody" or not) to charge the price he or she wanted to. This is what we call internet, it's completely free market. No government or regulatory body is going to say "Hey Nathan! You are nobody, stop charging people a bloody $200 notes for a piece advice." Let's put some angles of perspective in, if he successfully sells 1000 copies at $200. He will make $200k revenue. Deduct that with the cost of his labor, his lost opportunity to work on his apps, marketing fee and the support time cost. He will probably pocket 30-40k pure profit. What if he has to follow what people say to price it lower at $20. Selling 1000 copies will barely cover his cost. And where are you going to find 1000 people who will believe this $20 crap going to give you top notch advice on delivering amazing web apps UX and design. Charge premium is a good start. Keep improving the content is a sure way to gain you the loyalty of customers.

Back to the odd marketing strategy. Why show it here? Why HN, really? Most will simply want something quick and simple to show the idea behind their hacks to the community. We are frequently being shown unfurnished prototype (indeed twitter bootstrap half the time). Anyone really serious about building well designed and engineered UX web applications will probably have a well funded startup with specialist UX designer onboard. Or someone must have been a long time practitioner of UX to be bothered about putting much focus on UX. It's not as simple as reading a book, listen to an interview, you become great in UX. It's only through years of experience, going through iteration after iteration of UX design tweaks, you will have a basic idea where to lead the good UX direction. A long the way, there are still huge chances to make UX mistakes here and there. Too simplified, or too complicated. Too plain, lack of creative input. Too much boring UX treating every users as dummy as they can. I am sure it will be hard for the community here to start bothering UX before getting their hacks done. And worst, the next hacks are waiting ....
While I have worked at several companies where management was completely out of touch with their employees, this one takes the cake! And surprisingly enough, in the healthcare industry!
When you don't have to share it with anyone, keeping a todo list in plain text really reduces the mental load of switching between your code and the list. It's easy to modify, make it look however you want. +1
There are a number of things at play.

1. The rise of deletionism.

2. The tendency for many pages to attract zealous guardians. I've had spelling errors immediately backed out. I expect that 99.9% of potential contributors quit at this point and never return.

3. Diminishing subjects to cover. All the "major" ones are done, all that's left are the billions of pieces of harmless trivia that deletionists decide, apparently at random, to do away with.

Note also that half the editors are under 22. This is probably why you can find vast articles on Pokemon and deletionists go around flushing articles on anything that happened before 1990.
What's the dilemma? Isn't a math class very clearly not the professional world, but a place to develop in your brain the mental models to do math?
Why is it that I always see this posted when talking about fixed banners? I've never had one break my page-down key? I know there's something I'm missing, what is it?
From TOS on his site:

"Cucumbertown authorizes you to view, download and/or print the Materials only for personal, non-commercial use, provided that you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Materials."

So, for example, I could grab everything from the site (minus copyrighted images, etc.) and make my own personal DB of the content. Obviously that's a lot of effort for a little reward for one person, but if I created a repo with a set of tools for people to do this for themselves it could become a big legitimate source of "scraping" traffic.
Shakespeare (programming language)
Importantly, this software may not function properly unless it is run with root privileges. On systems that disable the root user, look for the sudo command, or similar.
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It's possible that the professor matched the name to his roster, though a student could still be using a fellow classmates' name.
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Some good points. I wouldn't call Retina displays disruptive. I wonder if we'll even see a Retina mini next year.
On the face of this, it looks like some sort of malware, sure enough. I would assume full compromise, wipe and reinstall from trusted read-only media (official install DVDs or somesuch). Make backups before you do that.

If you want to be less paranoid, take this up with the vendor beforehand.
In the past ethics 101 was taught by parents, somewhere along the way they became incapable of raising kids properly. Anyone with proper work ethic will understand that this kid was asking for someone to walk him through or do his question. Not get an idea fleshed out.

I would think it's still a parents job to guide a kid properly in the realm of ethics, maybe we should place more responsibility of the children onto the parents. (mind you this I'm not touching the fact that they really can't prove the kid is who he is, I'm just referring to the ethics aspect.)
Do Not Track was always a sham.

It's a symbolic flag to respect users preferences or browser vendors are going to make ad-block standard by default just like pop-up blockers.

If ad companies ignore DNT they are digging their own graves.

It's not about protecting users. It's about heading off an arms race to help protect the ad industry.
Maybe we should think about moving away from interactive pages. What does all that interaction get us, really?
http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world/tv-shows

This is really sad.
Maybe not beyond reasonable doubt but if the student wants to push the point then a University board is likely only to need to demonstrate that the questioner is a particular student on the balance of probabilities (in order to avoid falling foul of a later legal challenge).

There may well be data held on the Uni computer network, for example that would help to prove who the culprit is to a high enough degree too - eg an account ID matched with IP of math.stackexchange.com around the time the question was asked.
I didn't say that you can't be a freak. The list I made is actually quite exhaustive (OK, add "don't criticize the royal family and/or islam" and "don't proselyte").
I think changing the user agent to only report the major version would already go a long way.
The combination of Auphonic and Libsyn allows an integrated podcast production and hosting solution.
In Boston, if you put too much money into the bus farebox, you get back a coupon that you can use to pay for another bus. The transit authority also sells one-day and one-week passes for the convenience of tourists. I don’t know how other cities do it. (Mass transit is good in Boston, superb in NYC, and mediocre-to-nonexistent everywhere else.)

I think attitudes to being approached by strangers on the street vary by region. People in California and the South are chattier than people here in the frozen Northeast.
Yep, password is common enough to unhash pretty easily. People need to learn to salt their hashes for fuck's sake.
You absolutely can break the shackles, and should. I'm just saying it's (admirably) insubordinate.

From a typical boss-man perspective, your performance is reduced by this extracurricular work. You're probably working late into the evening, and thinking about Ruby during the day. You're probably planning a move to something better.

You can't be fired for that alone, but it puts you at risk of being in the socially excluded, not-getting-the-benefit-of-the-doubt category.

One of the issues with side projects is that admitting to having them breaks the Fundamental Subordinate Dishonesty (http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/fundamental-s...). You're "supposed" to be putting all available energy into your job, or at least respect authority enough to put effort into that illusion. Vacation is okay: that's just taking a break. Off-hours work isn't (in typical workplaces).
A lot of Russians still view Americans as self-indulgent, somewhat retarded know-it-alls, bathing in life's luxuries that make no sense.

And they’re right! We are!
Are you using the latest release? It should work fine with spaces now.

(Also worth a mention: xnomad is written in tranquil)
Trying to hack a non-profit site? An non-affiliated NFP? Someone did not love this person as a child.

Please report? https://github.com/ahmedalex

P.S. If you're not a jerk and would love to help with the new CoderDojo.com site, let me know rebecca (at) coderdojo.com
19 years before the Surface there was the Compaq Concerto
So, does this mean I can register an account on Math StackExchange and ask for help with an alias, which is possibly a fellow student's actual name and that person will be penalized for my cheating?
can someone explain? (I am not familiar with github and the whole thing is cryptic to me)
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I still like to push the idea that my school's CS department uses: grading appointments. 40% of your grade is the code actually working, 60% is you being able to explain it to the TA.
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> This raises a question: how realistic are high school parties in US as depicted in various movies? As in: gathering lots of people in someone's house and bringing lots of booze via fake ids?

I went to high school at a public school in Chicago, and was (am) a nerd, so I never even heard about such things. But my wife, who went to high school in the suburbs of Denver, went to a few such parties - sometimes, if the parents were cool, they'd supply the booze. America!
> Clearly, Kyle had no experience with eCommerce before this project as it's evident in his writeup.
However, props to him for all the hard work.

I don't know if it was your intention, but you sound incredibly vain and arrogant. "Clearly Kyle had no experience" implies this is so trivial why is anyone even talking about it. And to top if off, "However props to him..." is even more insulting.
They came out for a solution for themselves, or do you happen to have the link to their github repo? Otherwise you may want to donate a few million dollars so they can come out with a similar solution.
3-mile-wide asteroid to buzz planet Earth tonight
1:1 conversations or personalized essay questions about a particular detail of the project that they turned in should suffice for determining whether or not they actually did the work; I've never heard of this happening for anything less than a thesis defense, but I can't see why it wouldn't work for lower-level courses.
Chicago is technically flyover country. It's the capital of flyover country, but it's flyover country.