skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahmed could probably lead the charge to turn around "sloppiness". Besides, his career seems to be in doldrums currently. I don't think it would be a bad choice. FWIW, he might be able to use the same testing software on Skytech's products for which he has expelles at Dawson's. That would be a comeback of epic proportions!

On a serious note, can't he appeal to any education monistry outside college?
Some of the Zenbook models have one of the RAM sticks on a slot, so one could easily upgrade to 10GB, however losing the dual-channel.
I don't know if you are more closely acquainted with the OP than I but I wouldn't assume that he isn't actually doing anything good in the world. If nothing else he's trying to encourage others to do something good and from the looks of things, you're right, he has gotten a complaint. I really hope he doesn't use it as an excuse to give up and never accomplish anything like the complainer seems to have.
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/164444/dns-server-fa...

> It appears the nameservers for Stack Exchange are returning SERVFAIL for all queries, meaning most users are unable to access any Stack Exchange site, or will shortly lose access once their local DNS caches expire.
The CS faculty at Dawson (less one) should be embarrassed.

This happened to me twice in college, minus the expulsion part. In the less interesting case the University sent around a form to be used in nominating student speakers for commencement. It included a drop down that was keyed off of student id. Student ids were regarded as private.

The school required everyone to either buy health insurance from them, or provide proof of insurance. They had a webapp where you could report this data. The login required your student id, name, and birth date (thanks Facebook). If you visited the app after using it, the form auto-populated with your health insurance information. I brought it to the attention of the University and they took down their nomination app in a matter of minutes.

In the more exciting incident, someone at Sungard called my university and asked them to have the campus police arrest me. (Edit: Quite boring, really http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Jan/409)
I've made language choices on quite a few projects. To be honest, I've never specifically evaluated static vs. dynamic typing as one of the major factors in the decision, and I've never seen static vs. dynamic typing become a major point of debate. The discussion typically revolves around pragmatic issues related to existing standards, compatibility with existing software, skills of the team, availability of programmers, etc...

Do you really think the use of dynamically typed languages is an important enough factor to require justification? I don't want to imply that the distinction isn't significant. I'm sure it is. I just haven't had any experiences where it came into play when making a language choice, and I'm curious whether you can elaborate on the need for justification.
This reminds me of the hesco bastion. It's nothing more than a hybrid between a gabion and a sandbag, both of which have been around for centuries if not millenia. It's just a huge rectangular bucket made out of wire mesh backed by sturdy fabric and then filled with dirt and rocks (most conveniently with earth moving equipment). It's a quick way to erect a temporary wall for flood control or fortifications. And it could have been made practical even going back to the late 1800s or perhaps even in pre-industrial times. They would have been incredibly useful in WWII, for example, and they had all of the equipment necessary to build them (even on tiny pacific islands there was earth moving equipment for roads and air strips). Yet nobody thought of it until the 1980s.
I wonder if this incident makes current students wary about the change in MIT ethos.

As an alum, I don't see a change in ethos. During my time there ('91 to '95) things were open, but if you were doing something that the institute considered improper they asked you to stop. If you persisted in the behavior, they escalated the response. In my four years there, I witnessed this philosophy applied to drinking, trespassing in forbidden places (roofs for example), harassing behavior and yes, behavior on the network.

Students often "explored" the network (myself included) but it was possible to go too far.

(no, I don't think Swartz's transgressions warranted multiple years in prison and the whole situation is a tragedy)
Carmen Ortiz’s Sordid Rap Sheet
When Stack Overflow went down tonight my productivity dropped precipitously. It reminds me of how grateful I am of the team at Stack Exchange. They built one hell of a resource.
It seems up now.
Customizable analytics for your GitHub repositories
working fine now.
all of them, I guess?

not sure what you're advocating...in the Great Depression banks failed, the depositors lost all their savings, triggering runs on other banks, etc., hence the name Great Depression. so that wasn't a very sound policy.

on the other hand a government backstop for a bunch of traders making giant risky bets with depositors' money so heads they win, tails we lose, is not a sound policy either.

somewhere there's a reasonable medium, collectively safeguard the payments system and bank deposits, without giving banks carte blanche to use depositors' money and government backup to make risky bets.

and don't let banks get so big that it's both an administrative nightmare to shut one down, and they have enough political power to thwart shutdowns and effective regulation.
Oh gosh. Seeing this title was so fitting for me. For the past few years, I've completely removed the existence of the Desktop out of my use.

Right click -> View -> Show desktop icons. I don't even miss it anymore, and have been a lot more organized since.
> If he is capable of developing and now marketing an app, is is capable of getting honest feedback for said app.

Kids may be good at a few things, and then childishly naive in others.
Related word: "acutance"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance
I hope someone offers him an internship or job. It sounds like he may have a lot of raw talent.
Is there a transcript, or a way to watch the video without installing Flash?
After the way this was handled, I'd live in a cardboard box before I worked for this company. You can't have a healthy working environment without trust.

I'd give it a shot if they fired their president, but that's an unrealistic expectation.
you can always use the google cache
If you go with Clojure, you could cover learning logic programming using the core.logic (https://github.com/clojure/core.logic) library instead of Prolog.
the most annoying part about being a type I diabetic is hearing people who haven't even looked up the basics of the disease rant about diet or corn.
So why exactly did Tazo (The incompetent president of the company responsible for the security breach) mention "police" and "legal consequences" in his conversation if he wasn't making a threat.

If you are going to be a lying asshole and deny something, do yourself a favor and deny it outright. Don't try to imply that you were just having a friendly conversation about "legal consequences" right before you solicit someone to sign a non-disclosure agreement. No one in the world will believe you weren't trying to intimidate this poor kid into compliance.
NFS can be faster than local storage. Compare a very slow tape drive versus a very fast 10Gbps network connection to an NFS server with a huge in-memory cache.

The problem is expecting any filesystem to be reliable.
Bad Programming in Java Is Dangerous
Suggest he looks at open sans. It's a fantastic screen font that works very well for large headers (especially at a lighter weight), and body copy.
Yes, I am using "benign" in the sense of it being harmless. Bt that's just my opinion. When I listened to the memorial, Aaron's friends said he wanted to change the world, but that his actions on JSTOR were essentially harmless, especially since the entity who is most liable for maintaining rights to the archive declined to press charges.

So my perception here is that the emotional weight of Aaron's case is based on how the prosecutors played hardball for what amounted to a petty crime. This is why I'm having a hard time understanding Wikileaks' motive here: do they not think the "official" story is compelling enough? It seems that claiming that Aaron had an unspecified relationship with Wikileaks only muddies up the water...people seem plenty pissed that he got the book thrown at him for "hacking", and the spotlight on the DoJ does not seem to be lessening.
Yes. It is UP now
I wish these stupid universities would soon stop mattering and go into oblivion.
My son doesn't trust my recommendations in books. It's justified. He'd been reading a fantasy series. I recommended Sword of Shanara. He thought it sucked. Fair. I thought it sucked when it came out. I was the same age.

Yet, when I pulled Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy off the library last month, the title pulled him in.

"Flying is the art of throwing yourself at the ground" is a hit in middle-school. But that's not the part Reg got me thinking about.

The other two-thirds, of course, stayed at home and lived full, rich, and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

I'm in agreement with Reg. To a point. He is able to share his thoughts with me here, not because someone was seeking a cure for diabetes, but because someone wrote software to automate the building of web storefronts.

While steely eyed missile men took us to the brink of nuclear war, a B-grade actor, a lawyer, a playwright and a longshoreman helped bring down the iron curtain. The idea that we should seek work which matches our nature goes back to Plato's Republic. We don't know in advance phone sanitizers important.
Can We Down Vote for this? :)
its up now..
Well that's good for people with debts. It's bad for people without debts and those who loaned them money. Debtors are basically paying off their debts more easily at the expense of all the others (even those who are not involved in the deal of loaning).
It was also really crappy cover-up strategy on the school's part. By refusing due process to Al-Khabaz and expelling him with zeroes for his last semester grades, Al-Khabaz now had nothing to lose exposing both the security flaw and the injustice to the press. If they didn't play all their cards at the same time (like putting him on probation or something), he probably wouldn't have gone public.
Do you mean the dean who ran the judicial hearing? If anyone were to have their heads roll so to speak for this it would be his. The faculty that voted were simply acting on the best information which was presented to them.
What's upsetting is the 14/15 professors who voted him to be expelled. Do computer science professors not understand the concept of white-hat hacking? Shame on them.

What message does this send to other students at Dawson? Don't be curious; don't go out of your way to do a favour for the safety of your peers; keep your mouth shut and we'll hand you your degree.

Someone give him a scholarship to a legit university!
> people would not want to do that same job for that same capital then reverse taxes would be necessary, since few people would be 'earning' a living.

why would reverse tax (which i assume means the gov't pays you money) be necessary when many jobs become robotisized? Those people who are made obsolete by robots will have to find another way to create value - if they don't they either will have to survive on the dwindling social welfare (which seems to have to be lower as the number of people claiming them grows), or have to rely on family members. The unspeakable option which you allude to is to tax the owners of these robots (who invested their capital) to pay the reverse tax to those who the robots have replaced - i cannot agree with that option because its very unfair.
At least they miserably failed load testing etc. Site was practically completely down for the first 24 hours. At least in EU area. They also failed to send emails about their service being opened (they did collect addresses etc.) So I would say they failed on multiple fronts.
My friend and I both got started with Flash. His dad was a graphic designer and we both knew with Flash you could create games, but we didn't know anything about programming. However after his dad showed us how to make a play/replay button, we played with the concept more, and made a Rock Paper Scissors game. (This was done by animating every possible combination, then having a "play button" that would jump to a random frame).

We did have to do a lot of Googling (we were only ever shown how to make a play button), but I don't think its very different from what Codify is trying to offer. After we had most of the basic programming control structures down and learned some of Flash's features (ActionScript 1 was very easy to use) we were off making games.

In hindsight, you are right. Simply having the programming environment to do whatever we wanted helped us learn. I remember we jumped into networking to create online versions of our games. However I am not sure if there is a way to recreate that push - we simply got into it because we spent so much time on sites like Newgrounds and armor games.
You use too many ",", and they make your writing hard to understand. Use shorter sentences, and consider replacing "," with a full stop.
seeing how we don't have the actual logs of the conversation, who knows what was actually said. This is the biggest problem with these stories: we only get information through very partial observers.
Put salt in the water, it will inhibit many microorganisms, and if some salt gets in the air it won't hurt you - and may even help see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_therapy

(But only once, since the salt will stay behind as the water evaporates. Unless you change the water, in which case add some more.)
I understand one might refuse to go there out of principle, but on monetary terms alone I think it doesn't matter. The income from tourism is irrelevant for NK.

Besides trade with (and possibly significant aid from) China, NK gets hard currency from selling arms to other countries, and illegal activities such as counterfeiting, smuggling and drug traffic.

http://theconversation.edu.au/north-koreas-basketcase-econom...
Do you think there is a chance that the university over reacted without the company in loop?
legit's "git branches" reminds me of git-wtf, which has saved me many times: http://git-wt-commit.rubyforge.org/
I have Ubuntu 12.10 on my Portege Z935, it works well, if not perfectly. I have mixed feelings about the hw itself, however - the trackpad isn't too great, esp. the buttons. A good machine to use the mouse of you choice with, if it isn't in your lap.
The Secret Service office in Boston is a 2 mile drive from MIT. Once you decide to bring in the police, it makes sense that they'll contact specialist law enforcement that focus on computer crimes, especially since the Secret Service is so close.
I assume the B-grade actor is Ronald Reagan, yes? The lawyer could be almost any politician and I'm drawing a blank on the other two...
iPhone Math: designed specifically for GOP from Cupertino. Upcoming: iPhone Biology (Creationists); iPhone History (truthers).
It's nice that this is happening, a lot of indie games already have mac/linux support. I just hope it'll get even better (even on mac there are a lot of games that aren't supported yet)
You could join or donate to a NGO that helps North Korean defectors. Some help North Koreans who are living in South Korea, Japan, or elsewhere. Some actively help people escape to those countries after they have crossed the Chinese border.

I know of a couple such organizations in Japan. You could try and find one in your country.
Did you pass that course?
He's too good for college. He should just start his own IT security company.
> money in an interest-bearing bank account or a mutual fund is the same as cash under a bed.

of course they aren't the same. But in aggregate, the reason investments work is because down the line, somebody is producing goods/services, and some of the profit of those production is paid out in the investment. In the scenario where there are too many retirees, this fails, because who is actually going to be creating the value that the investment accounts pay out?

Imagine there are W workers, and R retirees, where W > 2R (2 workers per retiree). If suddenly, half the workers retired, then now there is only 1 worker per 2 retiree. If they demand the same amount of goods, what would happen?

I predict rampant inflation as demand outstrip supply - sure the investment account might pay out handsomely, but that's a lie, because the cost of living will rise (remember, lots more mouths to feed, way less people doing actual work), and the poorest suffers first.
For the record, why would you post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4807691 titled "Show HN: I'm 16, and I made a thing" if you are so irked by people using their age on hacker news?

You were either being a troll or you are a hypocrite. Have you actually seen this app? It's impressive regardless of age. It's gameplay and graphics are comparable, if not better, to fruit ninja. Being 14 is just a plus, it doesn't make the app any better or worse. If anything, it's inspiring (as I said elsewhere in the comments) for people of all ages to make and ship.

Quite frankly, it sounds like you are bitter because someone around the same age of you is receiving recognition and praise for their work.

>>But there is no logical basis for this. 14-year-olds face similar constraints as 18-year-olds, who probably face a similarly-difficult learning curve as 30-year-olds.

I disagree. People 18+, in college, adults, usually have either more experience (whether than be programming or learning how to learn) or perhaps some type of formal computer science background.

>> If it is good and the price seems fair, I will buy it.

If you actually clicked the link or tried the game, you would notice that it's free.

If you really believed in what you are writing, you would have no problem commenting constructive criticism about the app itself rather than ranting about posting an age in the title.

For the record, I'm 16 and I'm not making a big deal about the age in the post or being irked that someone younger than me is receive praise for his work. I think the game that NShen made is awesome.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm crying too now.
"The CS faculty at Dawson (less one) should be embarrassed."

Now they are.
That word is worth knowing. Thank you.
I've said this before -- don't bother being a "white hat".

The industry and the legal system doesn't have a pigeon hole for that. You'll be labeled as "hacker" (and not in a positive sense of it). Either disclose the vulnerability immediately to get recognition, hoping it is public enough they'll be ashamed of going after you, or or sell and profit from it. You are already treated as a criminal by these large institutions, so if you go in that direction might as well make some money.
Answer as to the direct cause (posted to that question):

"We recently relocated our NY datacenter, and therefore all the IPs in NY changed.

We didn't update to the new IP for the master DNS server (in both the named.conf and the zone files), and therefore all of our slaves hit our expiry time (one week). This is fixed now, so things should start coming back up."
The universal language of lullabies
> It does depress me, daily, that I do not have a career in physics or chemistry or biology or medicine where I could work on "big problems." The simple truth is, I'm not smart enough, I don't work hard enough, and I've been napping when opportunity knocked a few times in my life.

(warning: rant)

Look: if you really want to get into these fields, it's really not that fucking hard. The people working in science are usually not stupid, and there are some geniuses, but they are mostly not ridiculously smart. They're pretty dedicated to their research, but no more than any programmer who enjoys their work enough to stay late on a regular basis. They put in a lot of time and work, but having done both, working in any startup is probably just as much work.

Research can be ridiculous amounts of fun, and it can be extremely satisfying. The progress is a lot slower, more incremental, and less visible than releasing a webapp, but if you're working on something you think is important, it still feels great. But the pay isn't great, the work isn't easy, you need to spend a lot of time in school, and academic politics is a pain. And you have to be ok with the fact that your personal impact will probably be small. (The last is the part that puts a lot of people off.)

If you don't want to do research directly, there are plenty of places to go where you can help indirectly. I work for a company that builds HPC hardware, and some of our customers are labs big and small. There are lots of companies that write research software, or you can contribute to the many open source projects that support scientists. (Witness the huge scientific Python community.)

You did not make bad life choices just because you aren't contributing to "big problems". The world is bigger than science and research, and that's ok. Working on social webapps, because they are more fun and pay more, is ok. But if you're not working on these things, and you're working in startups and tech, it's because you probably don't want to.
Like most developers, I've stumbled into lots of security problems over the years. The first few times I attempted responsible disclosure, but that resulted in enough close calls that I simply don't report them anymore. I document them. Sometimes I might mention them to others who have an interest.

I would now never report a security flaw without a iron clad set of laws in place to protect the rights of white-hats, whether we are licensed and approved security researchers or not.
This is a powerful approach. I know a lot of really brilliant people who want to "do a startup" but they don't have the tools and don't even know what tools they need to start building. Thanks in advance for teaching this course!
My friend showed picture: Shijiazhuan has more serious pollution than Beijing
The "1:30 chance of winning $25k" means you work at around $1k per month as self managed develloper (in the US). It's just cheap.

It can be a goood deals for CS students that have some 3 weeks mandatory project to do for school.
I nearly got expelled from High School and pegged with a felony my Senior year for noticing a vulnerability.
Web 're-defining' human identity - report
From their website: "Heroku (pronounced her-OH-koo) is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Our service lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling." [1]

With the arrival of technomancy at heroku, they also provide a full-stack Clojure platform for your Clojure web applications, with a free version for those interested in experimenting.

[1] http://www.heroku.com/
Don't overlook the last paragraph.
Reading stories/incidents like these makes me believe that education as a whole is stapled for reinvention. As they say: competition doesn't kill your business; attitude kills it.
gnome-tweak-tool, get nautilus to leave your desktop alone. I no longer put stuff there that I wouldn't see anyway.
Introduction to In-Memory Data Grid: Main Features
bias alert: I'm a huge Haxe fan.
You guys don't have food banks or homeless shelters?
I don't understand this complaint. Why aren't you authorized by your home country to work as an independent contractor?
but I just can't stand having files laying around on my desktop! (in my naive days, I used to delete all the files from the desktop thinking they slowed down my computer)....