skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can a domain name with incredible value like MIT.EDU expire in July of this year? Is an ivy-leage school with a $9 billion endowment renewing their domain name year by year? It looks like the domain registration is not managed well. My guess is the exploit was guessing a weak password at the registrar.
Ehm, I'll admit that at this time no causal link is established although there is a correlation [1]. I've come to realize that I don't have a good source for what I wrote earlier.

Sources like [2] do claim a causal link but I was unable to find the actualy study.

[1] http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=193088#qu...
[2] http://abcnews.go.com/Health/dental-screenings-linked-lower-...
You can if the target is the registrar, which this was.
Lots of MIT stuff is reachable by IP. They have a /8 so they don't really worry very much about virtual webservers.
http://18.7.28.68/3down/

EDIT: If you need to reach an MIT service, contact their native DNS servers:

bitsy.mit.edu 18.72.0.3

strawb.mit.edu 18.71.0.151

w20ns.mit.edu 18.70.0.160
As a university student, how many times did you find yourself visiting the school's public-facing web site? In my case, I can count my visits on one hand.

Now, all the other crap-- course scheduling, grades, classwork --is likely not living on the same server. Many of these things aren't even hosted inside the school's network but provided by some outside company.
I am looking for some feedback on my new "visual" bookmarking site
It's called Klipbook and it allows users to store and share notes and links with rich multimedia.<p>Here's an example account: http://klipbook.net/brainfilter/<p>There's a lot of functionality I'm planning to include, but I figured I should start getting some feedback now that I have built a "minimum viable product."<p>http://klipbook.net/user/register.php
This is the part the I had to break myself. I have always enjoyed telling stories, and they work great in a causal setting but they are not useful (except as illustration) in some contexts.

I did a power point once which was essentially the inverted pyramid in a deck, the first slide was the conclusion, the next two where the problem statement and the conclusion, the next 5 were the problem statement, some constraints on the shape of the solution and the conclusion. Down to about a 22 point presentation on the problem, the constraints, the different paths tried, the lessons learned and fed back into the process, and then the solution.

It was a bit gimmicky but some folks really liked it as they felt they always knew what I was getting at.
> Java isn't what it used to be. The products written in Java are slow, bad looking and less secure. The days of Java are anyways numbered.

Shorter: "I only know anything about client-side programming."
In 2007 you also had all the old Quake1-3 mods, as well as UT99 and UT2003. Also Doom 3.

Probably still the best games on Linux imho...
And the page is down. I currently only get a Cloudflare error page.
Where are you located? Every dentist in the U.S. will scold their patients for not flossing.
Why was Earth bombarded with high-energy particles in the year 774?
Google fonts, html5 doctype, oh my, times have changed.
This is how children react (which is what I think of lulzsec).
Gates used to be that guy. He doesn't care anymore. He's involved in something greater than even what MS was. Under current conditions, I'm not even sure that Gates could even do what he once did but he would drive a shot into the company and the perception of it.

There's no question Gates was as much of a skilled tactician more than a coder (which he was great at when he did it) but, while I'm sure he still loves MS, he is a man in the real world looking for a cause to drive him. MS is in the past.

I can't blame him. A good woman changes you and that's what Melinda did.
And how so?
Google Morocco hacked
the url is http://google.co.ma
I've been pretty happy with Contactually (http://www.contactually.com/tour) as a personal CRM for a while.

Basically it sucks in your contacts from Gmail, LinkedIn, Facebook etc, and schedules follow-ups for you.

Obviously, they monitor all your communications across these networks, but for me the benefit of nudging and analytics outweighs my concerns about privacy.
I won't speak to Java itself, but I will say that -- crapware side-effects aside -- the Java SE installation process has actually improved since Oracle bought out Sun.

Whether coincidence or causative, I don't know.

It runs more quickly, and it only has a single instance of a single level of nested installers (for the JRE). A couple of years ago, the installation process had gotten simply bleep-awful, especially after they tacked JavaFX onto it, which installation seemed to take even longer than the installation of the rest of the SE package.
Or when your not-yet-tenured PI thinks you have something really exciting, and wants to publish in $(BIG_NAME_JOURNAL) to improve her tenure prospects?

To be fair, the OP is in a Communications and Journalism grad program, so there may not be a PI equivalent role. However, my impression is that most academic publishing by volume is in the sciences, where there is such a model.
Yes - with your account number someone could theoretically drain your account using direct debit. In practice that never happens (and most people don't keep their account number a secret). In addition, even if it would happen you have more than plenty of time to reverse the transaction at your bank (which shouldn't involve any discussion or so with the bank).

As for transactions themselves, unlike in the US where you can conduct ACH transactions in both directions (i.e., debiting another account) IBAN transactions are "sending only" (like email). And you typically also don't need to whitelist/add another account first (as in the case of ACH transactions), but just type the senders account number into the recipient field (again, like email).

In Europe I never used any third party services, as IBAN transactions are usually free and the easiest thing to do. In the US it's usually easier to use something like Dwolla (or even checks!) if you want to send money to someone.
I used to loathe Java and love C#... but I was a die-hard Linux user and I couldn't get in the MS train.

But then I found Scala... heh... screw C#.
I don't know much about this stuff but different server or not - if the domain is hijacked then everything is broken, no?

E.G. if they had blackboard (course docs, homework, etc.) on blackboard.mit.edu then that would be hosed right now, wouldn't it?
The mother is probably a she ;-)
I had the exact opposite experience. We switched from scala to haskell and it has been a huge relief. I spend no more time dealing with dependencies in haskell than I did in scala, and our team contains precisely zero people with any post-secondary education (I didn't even finish high school in fact). The myth that you need "a team of PhDs" is so bizarre and so far from reality that I don't understand how anyone who has taken any time to actually try haskell could repeat it.
The problem with depending on free apps is they are not dependable. Especially, when they are services on the web. They'll have to make money at some point or else go broke.
If we want to keep a record of our work for a long term we should not hesitate to pay a little bit to have a reliable service. A company that makes money from selling a product is the best promise you can get. The other reliable option is Open source.
Steam ported on linux is one thing. Games, specially AAA titles ported on linux is a completely different argument.
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Website is back up (for how long?). Registrar information is still erroneous tho.
A lot of startup articles need to come with a disclaimer: "FOR SILICON VALLEY ONLY."

I really don't think they appreciate just how unique their situation is over there.
Can you add pictures as part of the description of the person? Not a profile picture of the person but photos that could be part of what you want to remember from the interaction with that person.
Ask HN: Is this faulty web scraping?
This opportunity only highlights the influence that the JOBS Act will wield. It is my strong belief that the SEC needs to consider investment crowdfunding for non-accredited investors as an urgent matter and finalize the JOBS Act regulations immediately. The delays in these regulations will also delay the creation of thousands of new jobs in the United States, not to mention the fate of this growing pool of fundless startups.

A couple weeks ago, we saw an HNer proposition to give $8K for a 50/50 "co-founder" seed funding-type split: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037694

There is absolutely no reason, aside from the existing regulations / barriers to entry, that this model shouldn't be applied to helping new enterprises get seed funding. The $8K / 50:50 made a great initial throwdown offer. . . but in a market setting, there should be competition; what if someone else more generous could offered $10K without requiring half the equity? One necessary element is a bidding platform, and a place for people with cash to transact with people who have ideas. More potential investors equal higher potential investments equal more opportunity for those "fundless startups" to get up and running.

It would be awesome to work on something like this (ping me -- I'd love to get back to work!): build an eBay clone, integrate Stripe to handle escrow/payments and collect a ridiculously small fraction of the economic surplus created. No need to be greedy (as per the current flaw of existing systems); this model would make investing accessible to common folks and be profitable enough as a going-concern.
Is the Education Category in the App Store heating up?
That is the whole distro, and not a hundred individual programs talking out of turn. If you don't want Ubuntu's update notifications, you can turn that off in one place.
missing comments could very easily be seen as a bonus feature. The youtube comments are pretty much the lowest form of human intellect, mostly racist, sexisit or any other ist coupled with lol's and "work at home" spam. I am happy not to see another youtube comment in my life ever again.
So the cops are going to bust whoever did this.

And MIT will scream "NO, let them go!" hoping to make up for what they didn't do with Swartz.

Except they'll just be showing to the world that they still don't get it.
All I'm trying to say that Erlang syntax is much more intuitive and readable, being derived from Prolog.

I honestly can't see why should I use Haskell (except for being so clever) when I have Erlang, or at least one real advantage.
Ubuntu May Become Rolling Release With 14.04
To be clear, I don't want to discount the studies completely, because there does seem to be a little bit of smoke there.

That said any real conclusions are clearly premature for the data, as science reporting tends to be these days.
Saltaire near Bradford, Yorkshire is a world heritage site: http://www.saltairevillage.info/

It was built around a textiles mill and was designed and planned according to the wishes of the mill owner, one Titus Salt. One of his stipulations was that alcohol was to be unavailable in Saltaire. The first bar only opened quite recently - called Titus's. :)
>It's still bad and cabal is still bad.

No, it isn't. You have the exact same problems with CPAN and everyone and even the most devoted perl-haters will admit "perl is a terrible language, but CPAN is amazing". You run into the exact same problems with every other language, the only difference being dynamic languages tend to be lazy about correctly managing version numbers, so you get "installs properly but completely breaks my app" instead of "tells you it can't install because of a version conflict".

>I was in #haskell on IRC not too long ago and they couldn't even figure out why a haskell-platform install couldn't upgrade its own cabal with no other packages installed.

Well obviously, since it does in fact work just fine, it is quite difficult to figure out what weirdness that individual did to create his problem.
DDoS Attacks As Social Protest
Moral of the story: flossing probably has nothing to do with dental health, as long as you brush your teeth and don't eat a lot of sugar.

It is unwise to extrapolate from your personal experience. Especially when there is plenty of research available on the effect of flossing on one's dental health.
Wow, this link was the top one on the frontpage for me about 2 minutes back. Now it has completely disappeared off it. How does this happen?
To me this is just graffiti. Yeah it's vandalism, that's the point, and I'm not sure if I wanted to live in a world completely devoid of it.

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." -
H. L. Mencken

Men slit throats, door posts do nothing, children paint and sing. Count me in with the children.
Free and a one time fee are about the same IMO. Eventually both will get annoying to support.
Ah neat! I had no idea.

I prefer Angular over Ember/Backbone/Knockout just because it makes more sense to me and I like the templating layer, but there weren't any YouTube-specific advantages or anything if that's what you mean.
I've lived and worked in the startup scene in London for a few years, and I've lived in Berlin for three months too.

Language-wise: You can get by with English fine in Berlin (not true in the rest of Germany though), English is pretty common in the startup world. Even generally English is pretty widely understood by younger (i.e <35) Berliners although fewer of them speak it fluently.

London has by far the biggest ecosystem, Berlin has a decent one although much more early stage. Barcelona is tiny, see this infographic:

http://seedtable.com/blog/images/startuphubs2012.png

Rent is much more expensive in London than in Berlin, but on the other hand salaries are also higher in London. As a ruby consultant or working for a growing funded startup you won't struggle financially. Sharing a nice flat with 1-2 other people you can expect to pay £600-£1000/month, it should be comfortably affordable even on a junior ruby dev salary (~30k/year).

With London you'd have a much wider range of startups to choose from, but with Berlin you'd have a much more laid-back culture and lifestyle. Based on your criteria I wouldn't choose Barcelona based on the lack of ecosystem and very limited number of companies who deal with serious scaling.
Ah, the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-...
Registrar shows nameservers as the compromised ones still, so I guess that's just on your end.
This is the second product they've launched in the last few months that does not have a recurring subscription, but a one-time fee. I'm not sure how this will scale for them in the end.
You forgot, "get offa my lawn."
It might be of interest, but the drab McMansion-ville I live in is was carved out of empty farmland about 12-13 year ago. No local town to grow on the edge of, which necessitated also building a planned town center, with commercial/office/dining/entertainment space.

It's nice to live in the suburbs, walk to a movie, walk to a coffee shop, then walk to get groceries. It's almost as nice as living in a city, just with fewer overall choices, but nicer living arrangements.
So that negates the overall point he was making? Are you on crack?
Based on just this thread, I'm signing up for a trial account.
Was this story just removed from the frontpage of HN?
This follows something 37s has preached forever - turn your side effects into new businesses. They wrote blog posts, then turned them into a book. They had a lot of business customers, so they built a CRM, etc.

Here, they took a business product, got rid of free plans, and now can sell to a new kind of customer with their same codebase.

Also, a one-time charge for a SaaS app? That's something I haven't seen but could be applicable in a lot of places.
I didn't own a car for the first nine months living here. I live opposite a railway station, and work opposite another. Why have a car?

What followed was a period, after about six months of this, of abject depression. I turned up at the station in the morning, went to work, went to the station to come home, and messed around on the internet all night. Going anywhere other than work was not possible, especially in the evenings when the last train is at 9.30pm or so. The railway line I live on just runs into the city where I work, nowhere else, it's a minor branch, so going anywhere else was a lengthy and expensive undertaking.

It was starting to make me ill - I never did anything, saw anyone, just work-home-work. I had to buy a car to enable me to carry on living here, otherwise I would have quit. Now, I have a fairly active life, I have the opportunity to do all kinds of things, and my quality of life is vastly improved.

Not having a car is OK if all you want to do is go to work!
Best to just do nothing when your government oversteps the mark.

That's a good citizen.

Back to work with you.
Please don't lump us in with the Ivy League!
Brilliant work. Great to see that you designed it to work on phones. I look forward to the TLDR feature ;)
Padrino event in San Francisco
Triggit's development team is constantly working on the most cutting edge technology. This is why we love encouraging and supporting the Padrino framework and it's open source community. Also, one of the authors of Padrino, Davide or DAddYE as he is known on Github, is a developer here at Triggit.
Hope you get your ticket soon - they are selling pretty quickly...
Looks like a moderator nuked it. Great justice.
I had no idea what flossing was either before googling it (translates to 'tandtråd' in swedish). Basically it's a thin thread or similar you use to remove stuff from between your teeth, not easily accomplished while brushing. I believe moutwash will help as well.

Incidentally I also went to the dentist lately and I rarely brush my teeth more than once per day and I never floss but they thought my teeth looked good. My girlfriend flosses and brushes her teeth like a madman but she did not get any compliments for her teeth. I think it simpy varies from person to person and it's a lot about what you eat and drink.
This post has 78 points at the time of me writing this, and yet, it suddenly disappeared from the front page. Older posts with fewer votes are still on it. Was this post flagged? Any particular reason?
Twitter Updates Embedded Tweets To Include More Content, Context, Speed
Free speech is not so important, it seems.
What I really love is how they point to Aaron's wonderful piece on morality (and I mean this sincerely). Aaron points out that you can logically justify almost any evil if you think only of the overall good.

Had I read the piece when it was posted I would have thought it was a call to figure out how philsophers (especially utilitarian philosophers) solve the dilemma of "the ends justify the means" in such a way that you wouldn't optimize for committing minor sins to effect major benefits.

But based on hacktivism since, now I'm not so sure. Aaron seemed to fall into his own philosophical quandry, but if we assume that Aaron was justified in what he did then we could use the same logic to say that this defacement is justified as long it achieves some greater good.

I personally don't agree with that logic, and I think it's because it tends to justify things like this defacement. Whenever you're lead by logic to a false conclusion it means either your logic wrong or your axioms were wrong. Now I'm almost confusing myself though; I'm not even sure what axioms we'd be using for this...
Well, it isn't the case here, is it?
I will say, my employer uses Basecamp for several projects and I have a corporate Basecamp account, and so if I can get Basecamp for $25 one-time for myself and my own personal use, I might be tempted.

This is a tempting offer. If I qualify.
I have a 10 year old daughter who is quite childish at times and other times she's brilliant. Still, the immaturity is expected. She's a kid!

This was expected as well. MIT had their part to play in it.
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Well, any pointers? Because, I for one, question it.
Not sure what you mean? Why would it consume a lot of bandwidth? Videos and images are streamed directly from YouTube and all of the API interaction happens client side so it doesn't go through my server at all.
The Coming Fight Between Engineers And Druids
Pick three to five programming languages to demonstrate the paradigms
I use 37s Highrise for this. It's pretty straightforward, you can add tasks and reminders, and you can bcc emails to it and it will add the email to the appropriate contact.
Talk about maximizing your income. I'm also bewildered that a new install of java is set to only check for updates every month. Wha?

I picture some Oracle bean counters decided that once a month toolbar installs is decent revenue for them without pounding their update servers too much with requests to see if the new version is out.

Also, where is ask.com getting all this cash? I don't know anyone who uses it.
There is no correlation between this and graffiti. Graffiti does not prevent you from using service. This is criminal vandalism.
You may also want register with other, already ongoing, efforts like the Elsevier boykott [1], that already have considerable momentum behind them. See [2] for the reasoning behind it and why one publisher was picked as a starting point.

For others considering this but who might find the OPs approach to radical in that it may easily harm their own career: The Elsevier boykott sends a strong message, while not interfering to much with ones career prospects.

[1] http://thecostofknowledge.com/

[2] http://gowers.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/elsevierstatementf...
It's not so much about the bills, its about the gum disease that you can get if you don't remove plaque from your teeth.

Gum disease can progress rather quickly, so your one-year time scale might not be frequent enough to catch it.

I'm now on a first-name basis with my periodontist, and a couple of years ago, I didn't know what that was.
Mailbox opens its reservation system, planning to launch app in the coming weeks
"have good relationships with your neighbors."

Classical optimist / pessimist outlook on neighbors. You're optimistic you'd like your neighbors and so would everyone else. I live in a neighborhood stuffed with teabillies and multiple time convicted DWI alcoholics and sports/tv addicts. I'm perfectly happy not hanging out with the majority of them. Somehow, I'm guessing they're perfectly happy not hanging out with me. Now don't confuse wanting to associate with wanting to respect each other. VERY libertarian where everyone has the opinion "they don't mess with me, I don't mess with them" "no problem for me, means no problem for you". I REALLY don't want to live somewhere non-free where everyone is all into everyone else's business.

Technology means you are not forever enslaved to interact solely with people who's only connection with you happens to be, being nearby you. I like that.
Obviously those youngsters are all criminals that ought to be put to jail. We shall implement a zero-tolerance policy, just like the copyright industry did. </sarcasm>

Nevertheless, I'm afraid they might do just that.
I don't even care about the cause behind this. But the fact that this was yanked off the front page is fucking despicable.
OT, but just to understand: are you referring to the Focal Infection Theory when talking about gum infections causing heart disease?

I ask because Wikipedia[0] believes that the theory is still quite "out there" but I'd be happy to learn from more up to date/reliable sources.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_infection_theory
This post disappeared from the HackerNews front page. What's going on? Flagged by admins?
I just checked, 1:05 Eastern, Jan. 22, 2013 and I'm getting the correct registry info from Network Solutions.