skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If so, why would somebody spend months working on a IE10 exploit (http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/pwn2own-browser-exploits-g...) and then demo that here instead of selling it in the market?

If the market pays lots of money for Mac OS X exploits, why would it pay less for Windows ones? It can't be market share and I doubt it is because Mac users have faster Internet (so that their machines can be bigger DDOS sources, have more money to steal from them (both may or may not be true, but I doubt that fully offsets the difference in market share)

Another only thing I can think of why Mac exploits would be more expensive is that buyers expect Mac zero days to last longer, but I doubt that, too.

That leaves two reasons: because it is so easy that nobody considers it a challenge, and everybody expects someone else to pick up the price, or because it is too hard.

Alternative theories welcome.
Looks like all their non "www" subdomain respond connection refused or gateway timeout.
I suspect that the we won't jump from fully manual cars to fully automatic cars. It will likely be similar to the auto-park function: we'll see more and more cases where automation is available at the request of the driver.

As car makers add these new functions, we'll start to get an idea of how liability will work with them. Some driver is going to get into an accident using this and then claim that the automation made a mistake. Should result in a very interesting trial.

It might end up taking a very long time to have the manual controls removed simply due to liability: as long as you can control it, it's your responsibility. Without the controls, it much easier to argue that Ford/GM/Toyata/Google/etc is really at fault for the accident.
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Symbolic institution is symbolic. Their support for the ban can lend legitimacy to a future move by the commission, conversely, the successful lobbying of the EP by citizens to shut it down early can do the opposite. Also, a sure way to make sure the institution remains toothless is to ignore it because it's toothless.
I've got about 5 certs with StartSSL, all free, and all work perfect in all browsers I've tried. It's good to have secure email and the like.
I'm not sure what to feel when someone who spent (reportedly) $30MM for a space trip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott#Spaceflight asks me for $1MM

But I guess the more power to semi-independent studios we can give through Kickstarter the better.

I like the $10 "guilt pledge": "If you ever pirated an Ultima game or used an exploit to grief other players in Ultima Online, here’s your chance to repent! For your $10 donation you will receive a clear conscience and Lord British's undying gratitude.".
> And how much overhead in logic, code and frustration would that cause in terms of development and support..

Depends on the competencies of the people doing dev and support. Personally -- both as a developer and a technical user -- I've had more problems dealing with situations where NULLS had ambiguous semantics, where the typical naive use of nullable columns instead of normalization into logical units of data that must all be present or absent together resulted in avoidable data inconsistencies, etc., than I've ever had with overnormalized tables.

Joins for queries are a solve-once development problem; data inconsistencies and ambiguities resulting from the problems with NULL are an ongoing problem.
One limitation to this setup is that CloudFlare only caches CSS, JS, and images. It won't cache HTML or other dynamic content by default.

However, it IS possible to "trick" CloudFlare into caching this content, by abusing the way it looks at the file extension and headers returned from your servers. If you can find a way to serve all your markup as JSON / JSONP with a ".js" extension and proper caching headers, it will treat it the exact same as a static JavaScript file.

You can do this easily enough with a build/deploy script that sets the right headers in S3 metadata so that CloudFlare receives them with caching headers (Cache-Control, ETag, Expires, etc.)
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Whoa..what a story! So beautiful, well-written and expressive! Kudos to the author..felt like watching an Al Pacino film!!

One thing I'm not sure of is if he actually knew he WAS transporting drugs, yeah I do get the fact that the injunction was lifted, but was he really aware of his actions??
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Chrome browser displaying text only, very few pics. Is their site down?
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I'm not sure if user ignorance is a valid legal claim. diablo 3 is in the same boat. You can play single player but need to authenticate with the blizzard servers. It those go away its game over.
Per the title of this post, it's not exactly "Ultima" or a sequel. As found on the official site's FAQ:

"But is this the Ultima sequel I’ve been waiting for?

This is NOT an “Ultima”, as that is a trademark owned by Electronic Arts. Ultima fans know though, that great RPG’s can be been played anywhere; on earth, in space, in Britannia and in many other lands. I am creating a new land for Shroud of the Avatar, which will adhere to the design principles that all of my FRPG games adhered to."
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=19
Well, let's test your theory. The article describes a real place that was being run on a shoestring. Looking at resumes, this was 2006-2008, so it's circa 5 years later. Are they out of business?

http://www.kzyx.org/

Looks like they are still going. Just like every shoestring nonprofit I know.

And the reason is exactly that people get paid in things other than money. They could also have run the radio station with market-rate salaries. They would have had a drastically smaller staff. But because they wisely recognized that money isn't the only thing that matters, they looked for people who could take substantially lower salaries but valued other things they could offer.
So it's a static website? ;)
I just tried to fire up a new client last night and the whole thing just ground to a halt with about 18,000 blocks left to process. Is this why?
At that point it's a bit late though. Besides, they could have just as easily persued a younger guy who might have thought he had a chance.
It is pretty sad that kickstarter gets abused like this so much. Garriott is filthy rich, and has been in the game industry for decades. There is absolutely no need for him to be seeking financing from us, he could pay for it a dozen times over out of his own pocket. His reputation means he could easily get actual funding if he doesn't want to risk his own money. But instead, he abuses the willingness of ordinary people to take all the risk for him, and get nothing back in return.
Kotaku has a rather lengthy interview which you may want to checkout as well as some extra game play.

http://kotaku.com/5989447/richard-garriott-revolutionized-vi...
There would be no international drug cartels if drugs were legal and regulated.
I think, yes, that the "CloudFlare-issued" means you have to use a CloudFlare subdomain... But again I did not test. Even if it works, it's still twice as expensive as GAE, doesn't seem to cache the HTML files (as per above comment)...
I think the big problem here is that EA enjoys a near monopoly in some sense (say for PC games, certain genres). Most of their PC games in the past few years have been a giant shit show of bugs and server failures, but no one else in the industry has the money to be able to compete with them. Result: The monopoly exploits its customers, and the customers come back anyways, because there is no choice.
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That an already passed resolution contains something stupid is a poor argument against opposing repeating the stupid thing.
Well, my requirement is to have SSL on my own domain... and GAE offers that for $9. I think you did not read (right or wrong) the blog post :p
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Many of these things are qualities I enjoy about eve online in principle. If only it weren't so tedious for 98% of the time.
tl;dr: They don't.
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Anyone else having this issue with Chrome?

I'm using Chrome v25.0.1364.152 on Windows7 with 4 tabs open right now. Task mgr shows 13 processes consuming 2.9gig of memory! WTH is going on with it?

I have to restart the browser every 2 hours just to get any work done.
Ultima VII has remained my fondest memory of an RPG. It was a world that, in comparison to its contemporaries, was practically alive, a living, changing place (that I could visit with my specially tweaked CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT). I think TES has done a good job of taking up the mantle that Ultima VII set down, but for me nothing will duplicate the childhood wonder of encountering the level of immersion and detail that Ultima VII offered.

About simulations: after playing MUDs I wished for evolving worlds, player clans with the ability to claim territory and build structures, NPC factions that battled among themselves, ecologies, simulated NPCs that responded to invasions and events, the works. These have been achieved to some extent in recent games, but maybe the magic lies in the storytelling in the end.

Maybe what we need is professional scripters running MMO cities: imagine Lord British essentially playing himself as a full-time job, with the ability to spin quests and stories that permanently change the fabric of the world, fight off invading lords, launch expeditions, rezone areas, fund guilds, run his realm. That way we can have complex world simulations, player-driven clans, and the human storytelling element, all richly combined.

(I wish I'd played UO, it sounds fantastic. Realistically, I won't have the time or energy to play SotA intensively, but I'd certainly like to try it. Too bad it isn't 2.5D isometric...)
The ILSpy team's hard work is part of what made it possible for me to write my .NET -> JS compiler (http://jsil.org/). My ~120k LoC wouldn't work without their ~450k LoC (well, I don't consume all 450k...)

ILSpy is a pretty interesting application/library to look at under the hood. The decompilation logic that transforms .NET bytecode (MSIL) into higher-level data structures is split into a bunch of well-defined transform phases that run in a pipeline, which means you can actually step through the pipeline and watch it improve the readability and semantic clarity of the IL one step at a time. It's an incredibly valuable debugging tool and really useful for understanding how this kind of decompiler works, and it was a big influence on how I ended up designing the similar parts of my compiler.

As a whole, I think ILSpy demonstrates just how valuable it is to have a really well specified instruction set sitting beneath your compiler and runtime. MSDN's documentation for the instruction set is clear and understandable and libraries like Cecil and ILSpy make it easy to load, manipulate, and save for whatever your purposes might be - runtime code generation, machine transforms of compiled code, obfuscation, deobfuscation, or outright cross-compilation.
'It seems like you are accessing our site using a proxy; we will therefore only accept payments in bitcoin to reduce chargeback risk.'
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Yep, that was a lapse of mind. I was thinking of divergent double sums vs divergent double integrals.
I'm on CCTV all day, but my insurance company and employer don't use a mosaic from that data in quoting rates or doing background checks. Glass or anything similar, can change all of that.

The point is that valuable privacy silos are lost due to centralization by a sophisticated party, that makes money by selling that privacy.
I'm a designer/developer too, and this has been a long-time observation of mine. While there is openness in design (and a whole sub-culture which is dedicated to making life easier), there isn't much among Designers (afaik).

I've been inspired by many and have inspired a few designs as well, but rather than being bitter about it, I follow the thought process of my primal developer instinct - Did they make it better or worse? If they did make it better, what did they do differently, What can I learn from them, etc.

While I do get pissed off about blatant copying, I can't condone what LayerVault did in this instance - Block DesignModo's original designs which were allegedly[1] inspired by LayerVaults icons.

[1] - Various other entities (The Noun Project, Facebook, etc) have had similar icons (Settings Cog, Man Speech bubble, Newsfeed icon) a lot earlier than LV.
Maybe it was just attacked on Windows, the only reference I can find is not super technical and references "zero-days" in the browser itself.
"Chrome was compromised using similar methods to the IE10 and Firefox attacks. MWR Labs bypassed Chrome’s sandbox and used a Windows kernel vulnerability in Windows 7 to elevate privileges as well as execute commands outside of the sandbox. In addition to executing code, MWR researchers were able to read memory and find the base addresses of certain .DLL files."

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/internet-explorer-10-...
Off topic, but I am interested in the steps you took in building this type of business. Would I be able to get in touch with you? If so, just shoot me an email. colin@fullbit.ca
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The market is certainly full of good titles that don't require this kind of BS. I'm currently backlogged to shit with enough titles to last me several years.
wow, $2+ mln and still 28 days to go... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-...
Slightly off topic, but as someone who hopes to sail around the world one day, I can't wait for 3D drug printing to arrive. Boats are often left unattended and with every other cruiser announcing their planned route on a blog, I am amazed so few get in troubles for unknowingly transporting drugs planted by some drug smugglers. Maybe it's the lack of speed that makes them unattractive.
I take it you have been fortunate enough to never have to deal with online stalking/harassment that made the jump to meatspace.

Perhaps it is that experience that has rendered the status quo unable to satiate. "The needs of society" can kindly go stuff itself, I need anonymity.
I very much appreciate the effort. However, I'm a little confused about the subscription. Why this outdated model?
Returns true even though I have Click-To-Play enabled. Cannot decide if that is accurate or not...
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Try to use Vintage or Vintage-Ex Mode https://github.com/SublimeText/VintageEx

I have not completely switched but notice that I am using ST more on my web development projects. Sometimes, I find it better on looking for files and js/css/python linting.
DLLs for PECL exts are currently available here: http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/ Not for all of them, but some of the more important ones. If you want something added to the list it's usually as simple as pinging Pierre on IRC :)
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1. Why does the airplane fly backwards?
2. Flash and HTML5 version shave different timings and different game-plays. HTML5 version seems to move faster but with more skipped frames.
Existing discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339852
The C# compiler one-ups F# here, and will cache the delegate for lambdas, so long as they don't capture any locals (that is if it's "lifted") - so lambdas don't necessarily mean an extra object. (Although the LINQ methods need enumerables and enumerators.)
I used to work at Motorola in India. It seemed like I had around 10 layers of management above me just to reach the India head. I think this is a good move by Google and will only serve to make the company more efficient.
Or ... this is a good way for him to see if there's actual interest in the product. And given his track record of actually finishing stuff, it seems like this is relatively low risk as far as Kickstarter projects go.
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That might help but being legal doesn't completely stop cartels. Oil is legal and yet OPEC still exists.
This says absolutely nothing. why would I give you my email address when there's no content. If you want to write something do so, as a regular blog, but this whole newsletter nonsense and total lack of content seems like a fishy way to harvest hn community emails to me.
Very nice, thanks.

According to that page, Windows XP+, Mac OS 10.5+, iOS 2+, and Android 2.2+ are supported.

I'll have to try them.
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| 1) what happens with perjury? how severe is "penalty
| of perjury"?

Penalty of perjury probably varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not entirely sure. I would presume that this would be at the Federal level since the DMCA is a Federal law, as is copyright law. According to Wikipedia[1]:

> In the United States, for example, the general perjury
> statute under Federal law classifies perjury as a felony
> and provides for a prison sentence of up to five years.

So the person signing the DMCA takedown notice faces up to 5 years in prison and a felony conviction. That said, perjury convictions don't happen very often to my knowledge because they are so hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Even if the claim looks like any normal person should have realized that it was bogus, it's possible for the claimant to attempt to say that he/she is dumber than the normal person.

| If at point 5, LayerVault chooses not to take legal
| action (say, because they realized their mistake),
| did they just take some random piece of work offline
| for 10-14 days without any consequence?

They opened themselves up to the possibility of perjury charges. The level of risk for them is debatable though. Other than that, there are no penalties to filing bogus DMCA notices. This is one of the many (valid) criticisms of the DMCA.

| What if they do take legal action and lose?

Then whatever the courts decide at that point. Taking legal action doesn't really have much to do with the DMCA when it gets to that point. This provision of the DMCA was all about taking things down quickly so that the claimant has time to get the court system moving (rather than needing to wait a few days to take something down, time during which they could be financially taking losses[2]).

Someone taking actual legal action is pretty costly. If someone uses a DMCA takedown notice, and follows up with a lawsuit, then this process is working as intended, even if the claimant/plaintiff is in the wrong. Who is wrong, and who is right will be handled by the courts at this point.

The real danger is using the DMCA without filing a lawsuit. There are few penalties[3] for false claims, little cost and yet a big benefit to sending the takedown notice. The service provider has to comply, unlike with a C&D letter.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury

[2] Think someone posting a product prior to release. E.g. posting Windows 9 a week before the release date.

[3] Perjury is a serious penalty, but you're not punished until you're dragged to court over it (and convicted). Thus far, I don't believe anyone has been convicted of perjury over a false DMCA notice, despite some really egregious examples (e.g. one of the takedown notices sent to MegaUpload was for a "url" that was actually a paragraph of text containing something like 90+ words -- pretty obviously generated by an automated process, but signed off by a human).
Pandora pays CRB rates, Spotify negotiates direct licenses with labels. They both pay out over half of their total revenues, which of course is unsustainable. Pretty much all music services are surviving off of capital infusions while keeping the price point for subscriptions palatable to the consumer. Eventually we'll see some of them pinched out of existence, unless Apple's muscle has an effect.
Nothing apart from a game?
Interesting, so the benefit there is generating higher-level JavaScript instead of interpreting IL at a lower level?
Upvote for correcting a common mistake, massive downvote for doing it with a remarkably patronising * sigh *.
When did they introduce caching for lambdas? I've been caching them by hand since I used to see them pop up in CLR Profiler all the time. Is it unable to cache lambdas constructed in member functions because it can't be sure they don't close over 'this'?
? Kickstarter functions in this case as a pre-ordering process. They do not "get nothing back in return" - they get a copy of the game when it's done.

That's like saying that rich entrepeneurs should fully fund their next company, rather than seeking VC. Sure, it's one way to do it, but it's not the only way...
Neither of your points address the concern I raised. This is a guy who paid $30M to go in to space for fun. A guy who lives in a castle. If he wants to make a game, he can. He doesn't need kickstarter at all. He is simply using it to make a game for free, rather than investing in it personally. The idea behind kickstarter was to allow people who couldn't get funding through traditional channels an opportunity to appeal directly to their potential customer base for funding. Not a way to make rich people richer with no risk to themselves.
He's exchanging money for copies of the game, not to mention other trinkets, as a form of funding. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, and he isn't abusing crowd funding. Quite the opposite in fact.

You act like people are being forced to pay up for the kick starter.

What you apparently want to change is free will.
I see this as one of the many signs that government is going to be getting more and more involved in messing up the internet. And we all thought the eternal septemeber was bad.. just you wait.
The 30 text messages discussing hiding from the drug goons, changing meeting locations, the value of the cocaine he's transporting, etc seem to indicate that he did in fact know. I mean I suppose as he says he could have just been kidding around, but those messages (and that many) don't seem like a joke. Of course only an idiot would send texts about their drug smuggling plans, but then again there is ample evidence in this article this guy was in fact an idiot in many respects.
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I can't believe how realistic that is. I think it would be even easier to make one look like a dash cam too. Then who knows what pandora's box that would open if it was completely indistinguishable.
Well, the risk for people backing someone with his track record is pretty minimal.

I agree with you, though. To me the spirit of kickstarter is getting the small folk off the ground not as a pre-order channel for established players.

Kickstarter or someone else should spin off a cleverly named 'pre-order/guage public interest' site.
I've been using KeePass with Dropbox to send the file across devices, unfortunately it not a true sync, so if I add a Password into my iPhone (rare as that is), I can't update the master password file on Dropbox.
Yeah. I consume the munged IL that comes out of their transform pipeline (though for complex reasons, I don't use all of it - some of their transforms are destructive in ways that aren't helpful, or I'd have to undo them) which saves me the trouble of reimplementing things they already figured out, like how to transform most branch/jump patterns into if statements and while loops.

I could generate JS from raw IL (and other projects like Volta did just that) but ILSpy gives me a huge head start in terms of producing JS that actually looks like what you'd write by hand. For loops instead of while loops, switch statements instead of cascading ifs, etc.
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also, minix didnt get pwned.