skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just saw this as well. I was really annoyed someone decided to use a huuuuuuuge forum avatar until I figured out what was happening.

Very, very clever way of sending a message out. I'm not a security expert, so I can't judge if full disclosure is bad or good, but I wish they wrote an argument for an alternative to full disclosure.
What, no Dali Clock? http://www.jwz.org/xdaliclock/javascript/
Anti-Sec hacks imageshack.com
I just saw this image posted at image shack. Does anybody know more about this movement?
Even as a web store eBay sucks -- it's hard to search for something and not get swamped in accessories/manuals/related junk for an item.
I agree -- Craigslist is far easier, and suits me much better. generally I don't even have to mess with shipping, but can just drive over and pick something up or have them drop by.
Great insight. I was focusing on how I was asking, I need to refocus on who I'm asking.
I'm also monumentally tired of "Wow. Just wow." There are about 5 truly astonishing things in this world that merit this response. Emailing RMS and getting a prickly response isn't even worth a Spock eyebrow.

Please file it with "anomalous" and "irregardless" and let it go already. Sorry. Pet peeve.
Security under those circumstances is a design requirement for AES. CTR is secure if AES is secure. If known plaintext pairs differing in only a few bits break AES, we have bigger problems than CTR mode.
The Black Triangle (2004)
Good video, though his voice sounds like a computer synthesizer.
Social Web Blog: Introducing the ClackPoint gadget
You should check this out Susan did a great job of writing as well as having nice photos of the interface. It's a very useful collaboration tool that people should utilize.
Scribd link give me " Sorry, this content is geographically restricted

Due to our agreements with our publishing partners, the document you requested is only available to users located in the United States.". I'm in Japan.
So yeah - real free. On scribd for 1 month only, only in the US and no download. Yawn. People like Lessig and Doctorow have done this better - and I suspect Lessig's Free Culture is more insightful than this paen to segmented pricing models.

Note - I'm not advocating free downloads so I can freeload - I'm a prolific buyer of both paper and ebooks (not kindle - since it also is US only - sigh )
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The anti-sec 'movement' is a front for those who want to keep their exploits to themselves, trading them in secret and not contributing anything to improving the security of software.

Full disclosure lets everyone learn from mistakes, as well as forces the vendors to actually fix their damn bugs instead of leaving software you depend on vulnerable until they get around to patching it.
Morgan Freeman marriage with Dena Hines
Looks like imageshack is down. Here's the image I saved before: http://imgur.com/wCaS0.jpg
My first job out of uni was developing itil training software.

It was soul sucking.

I am in the UK, but hadnt heard of ITIL prior to the job, noone I know that can program has heard of it, I occasionally meet some business guys that have though.
New 64-bit Operatin System: LoseThos V5.09.  Now has 3D Mesh Editor.
How is full disclosure better than patching open source or contacting vendors and providing them with a discreet update?
I really wish people would comment with downvotes.

To clarify: Despite the name, this site applies to all language learning (and in fact all learning). Khatzumoto is a very good writer and has some very good insights. If my comments don't convince you, consider this. He learned Japanese (which I think almost anyone will agree is harder than French) in 18 months. When I say learned, I mean well enough to move to Japan and live and work there full time.

All Japanese All The Time is well-known throughout language learning communities and if you take the time to read some of what Khatzumoto has posted, I'm sure you'll be pleased. If not, I'll take a downvote on this too.
Had a look at the first four pages of launchly.com. I wasn't near enough tempted to look at any of the sites. I'm sure that the visitors to that site are very different to those who regularly visit HN. For me (and that's only a single data point) HN provides value that matters to me. Launchly, on the other hand, doesn't hold any appeal nor interest.

IMHO your best way forward is to start a dialogue with those who do visit your site, ask them what they are looking for, etc. Only then are you in a position to better provide value for your visitors. It's all to do with Marketing.
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Online shopping for a huge selection of fashion children watches.
Ron Conway on real-time monetization
Not down, but some of their servers are swamped. Apparently most of their images used to be under 400 kB, and suddenly they're serving up a lot more data than they planned for.
They got a majority in the House to vote for a bill that reverses a federal court allowing GM to shed dealerships in bankruptcy. Can't say I blame them - dealerships are the biggest source of sales tax revenue in every single rural area that they're in.
You should submit patches and contact the vendors. But history has shown that many vendors will, in general, ignore you until a demonstrated exploit is available. They still believe that security by obscurity is a valid way to protect their customers.

I should say that I am not a fan of 0-day exploit releases. You should at least try to convince the vendor to do the right thing. But failing that, a full disclosure release is the only way to force them to act.

And by full disclosure I do mean a detailed description of the problem, with code demonstrating the exploit.
It's not necessarily better in all circumstances, but it's an option that needs to be kept around. If the code's proprietary and the vendor refuses to release a patch in a reasonable amount of time, what choice do you have?
This is linkbait. Biomass can mean plant matter. I've worked on DARPA funded robots.
Doesn't it make more sense to require that little bit of verification that yes, you did mean to delete the file?
An operating system cannot be virus free. Because of the human error. Even if we made the 100% perfect virus checker, the human part of the equation will always find a way to give out their password or admin privileges to a phishing site or many other scenarios.

That said, there are tools an OS can do to mitigate the damage that viruses can do. So while there will always be a smarter virus, there can always be a way to only let the smart virus get to something that it could have gotten to no matter what.

Its like Google Chrome. Google Chrome itself is not perfect, has MANY (those we know of, those we don't) security flaws, BUT getting out of the sandbox that Google Chrome provides is a very difficult problem. The basic idea is really to let viruses happen. Just let them get made. There will always be a security hole to exploit. As long as the damage the virus can do is very limited and moot it won't matter.

That might be what google is doing. Maybe they are just making a super-glorified browser-based system in which google chrome's sandbox protects the user while googles native client allows all sort of cool programs to run and in the end you are still on windows, but the security risk is absolutely minimal.
why not have code that gives reward/discount to both referrer and recipient?..the example of late pickup is really bad because fines work very well..so do discounts
Why weren't you tempted to look at them? Were the sites themselves lacking in quality? Were they not presented well enough by launchly?
Chrome OS Could Offend the Open Source Community
OK - admit it. How many of you guys are Northwestern students too?
Interesting theory. There have certainly been occasional questions about exactly how trustworthy the company is, but no lasting negativity that I've seen. I suppose it has been long enough—and Google is big and broad enough—that a real backlash could begin to appear.
Thanks for tempering my nerd-rage -- having someone else paraphrase your text in a different tone is an alarmingly insightful proofreading proofreading praxis that I never would have considered!

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The problem with the extra processes was not that they existed independently of Firefox, but that they were silently useless and caused the browser to crash -- launching 'less' in the background with no tty hooked up is a stunningly stupid end-result.

The problem with /etc/mailcap on an install that doesn't have all the GNOME cruft installed is that can have defaults like 'less' and 'emacs' at the head of the list for all sorts of types.

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RE: Decidability, Firefox is already doing content sniffing for the common Content-Types, even they are not anal enough to deny that all kinds of stuff is served as text/html. It's also fairly easy to detect known non-text types, as producers are kind enough to pick novel values for the first few words ("man 4 magic").

It doesn't really even have to sniff at all to get the obvious cases -- if it's unhandled and in text/, display it! (though that still wouldn't handle inanities like application/x-ruby in Ubuntu's mime.types, or the total retardation that is FF's handling of application/json)
Write Your Own Linux Twitter Client In Less Time Than It Takes To Find One
Some people should definitely not take up hacking.
Tesla told his story to the author of "Prodigal Genius" (1944), who wrote: "What Tesla had discovered was a means of creating a rotating magnetic field, a magnetic whirlwind in space which possessed fantastically new and intriguing properties...It was not necessary for him to construct models of copper and iron: in his mental workshop he constructed them in wide variety...The mental constructs were built with meticulous care as concerned size, strength, design and material; and they were tested mentally, he maintained, by having them run for weeks-after which time he would examine them thoroughly for signs of wear."
Do you have js disabled?

Will try to test on ff / ubuntu
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Jul/0095.html

edit:
looks like they have recovered from the hack!
I agree, that particular line struck me as the most interesting lesson in the whole thing.
I ran almost this exact topic as what's called a "style case" at a university debating tournament a year or two ago. It was one of my favourite things of life.

(A "style case" is one where the facts or logical reasoning behind an argument are secondary to how funny and entertaining your arguments and persuasive efforts are.)

According to what we concluded in that round, we need to start destroying tropical cyclones, and any other of Mother Nature's "attacks" on us, in order to better condition her and bend her to our will. It's Psychology 101, folks.

Apparently the NOAA disagrees. If this were the McCarthy era, I'd call them communists and be done with it.
> Can't say I blame them - dealerships are the biggest source of sales tax revenue in every single rural area that they're in.

I don't know about other states, but California sends the sales tax money to the city/county of the registered address, no matter where you buy the car. In short, if every car was sold from the same dealership, each city/county would get the same sales tax as it would with a dealer in every city/county.

One side effect of this is that you can't get a discount on car sales tax by buying in a low-tax area if you live in a high-tax area like you can with most other purchases, such as car parts, books, computers. (Sales tax varies by city and county in CA.)
To me, no. It's true that Apple's target customers don't pride themselves on their hardcore nerd skills, but an option to manage this behavior would be nice. It's exactly this sort of thing which makes me not want to own a Mac.
I agree. Tolerance for risk is another big aspect of all this. I'm not married. I don't have kids. So my real only concern is myself right now. Others aren't as lucky.
Since a significant portion of the users were forced to use IE6 at work, the most likely response of IT managers to this action will be "Oh, so you'll be forced to spend less of your time at work interacting with digg (and other non work-related sites)? Sounds good."
He says sharing knowledge isn't like sharing a cheeseburger, there's no reason to be selfish with knowledge

But, unfortunately, he is wrong on that point. He is wrong, because there is a reason to be selfish with knowledge. If you are selfish with knowledge, then you are creating a scarcity for your knowledge. If your knowledge is more scarce, then you are more valuable and, in our f-ed up society, that means you're gonna get more money to do whatever it is you do.

I don't like this. I loathe this, but that doesn't make it untrue. It is true and it is crap. We need to give people more incentive to share knowledge than they have incentives to hoard knowledge. Most people don't get paid to share knowledge. They get paid to implement solutions based on the knowledge they have and others don't.

Until this sad fact changes, people will continue to hoard knowledge. It ruins organizations all over the planet. Jimmy Bob is the only one who can solve the problem so Jimmy Bob always has a job. If Jimmy Bob taught Bobby Sue how to do the job, then Jimmy Bob would be fired because he costs twice as much as Bobby Sue...
Prediction: "Reserve not met"
Agree. Extra points for the cartoon, which I hadn't seen before.
The anti-sec movement's opposition to the security industry has counterparts in the spam world -- the asshat at SORBS despises SpamHaus -- because they 'make money from spam'.
While it doesn't allow you to draw a polygon, www.padmapper.com does give you a Google maps representation of Craigslist listings. The potential downside I see with this involves listings that include intersections or general locations instead of exact addresses; I'm not sure what the site does in that scenario.
The important part of what I said above is that the spam would not arrive in any inbox. The temptation (and ability) to look through spam is the current problem, and would be eliminated.

If some servers are already doing that, then they are doing the right thing - except, the message body of a spam should not be bounced. The extra traffic on the bounce is worth expending, since it is necessary to keep spam out of sight.

If they can't get their message through, they lose the incentive to send spam. That's all that matters.
I do not have JS disabled, as I am not a mouthbreather.

Just checked at home on Gentoo x86_64 / FF-3.0.10 / Flash-10.0.22.87 -- and got identical behavior.

The old iPaper works, except that when embedded normally the scroll wheel doesn't work (but it does when viewing the swf directly).

The new iPaper fails embedded or directly -- clicking / dragging and the contextual menu works, but none of the toolbar items work. Scrolling doesn't work at all.
Plus, they are unlikely to be caught for it. What are you going to do, prosecute people for forgetting a bag?
Am I the only person disturbed that this is an actual FAQ that crops up "every hurricane season"
Audi Declare new Edition of Engine for A4
Audi declare the opening of three new engines for the Audi A4 ? the 3.0 TDI Quattro, the 2.0 TFSI and the 1.8 TFSI. With a series of five engines, the Audi A4 becomes the model with the widest option for clientele in the car market in India.
Each day that goes by my Facebook account dies a little bit and I tweet a bit more.
Verizon Leads, AT&T Runs Last in Wired.com’s 3G Speed Test
Only 6 of the 20 largest software companies are in Silicon Valley
Title is a bit misleading -- I think an edited original, "Facebook Status Messages to Become Public by Default," is more appropriate.
Sure, he's making fun of the luvvie (UK word) events, but he's also part of those events. The irony is that he seems to love them despite knowing they're ridiculous.
You nailed it. Yay! Thanks.
Dammit...there goes my startup for weather alteration. My board of directors is going to be pissed...especially Mr. Jong-il.
I'd 550 the spamming server sending it to me, they can take care of the bounce themselves.
Deleting text selections? Like in the rename mode triggered by hitting return?

"open" is cmd-return (and cmd-down, cmd-up is "..") -- would you rather it had the windows behavior of opening every last thing in your selection from hitting enter on extra time when clearing a dialog? I get fucked by that at least once for every couple hours of Windows Explorer usage.
Now we know what Bill Gates is up to.
Completely. The IRA proved at the peak of their notoriety that all they needed to do was make a threat of action. They closed Gatwick down for a day in '97 with only a phone call and forced Britain's Grand National horse race to be postponed with another, causing huge disruption, panic and anger. They got the attention they wanted but no-one lost a life. It surprises me that we don't see the tactic copied more often today.
That's very interesting. I've always been irritated by the emphasis software companies (or at least, journalists writing about software companies) put on things like free drinks and ping pong tables. Give me great work with great people and you can toss the rest of it; conversely, all that free crap doesn't do a thing for me if the work and the people aren't great.

At the same time, I've heard from many sources that Amazon isn't such a great place to work. I imagine there must be other cultural factors besides cheapness that contribute to that?
This NOAA FAQ covers the infeasibility of doing this, but even if it were possible, via nuclear detonation or otherwise, there is still the conversation of whether it is wise to do so even if we could. What lasting effects this might have upon the climate?

As I've understood, the hurricanes that form every year are actually part of a process of advecting heat energy from the surface tropical regions to the higher altitudes and higher latitudes. I remember seeing a ocean temperature analysis just before and after Hurricane Rita traveled across the Gulf of Mexico, and the drop in ocean temperature was quite noticeable. Similar drops, to a lesser degree, can be observed with all tropical storms.

This process is really important to keeping temperatures around the planet more balanced that they would be otherwise. It also keeps the temperature of tropical oceans somewhat in check, so they don't spawn even more energetic cyclones later on. If we start trying to control this, there is the risk that we will screw ourselves by making tropical storms less frequent but much more severe.
Ask HN: Hacker-friendly in Tokyo?
I've got about $4k saved up to spend a couple months in Tokyo, starting in November. While I'm there I'll be taking college entrance exams to go to undergrad. over there. I've got two questions:

1. I'm looking for a place to stay in Tokyo, preferably where I could cook my own food. Anybody here have any recommendations as to where I might look into renting a place? (Already checked Hackerspaces)

2. I don't know if going to college in Japan is a good idea. It's much, much cheaper, and if I can get into a good university, the research people will be good too, but something might come up. Anybody here been to college in Japan as an exchange student or in undergrad.?
Or like extruding peacock feathers for any animal that doesn't have peacock feathers.
This is what pisses me off most too, by several orders of magnitude. I hit it every single time I edit text in an environment that fucks it up.

Firefox is especially bad in fields where it has history to complete -- pressing up is what I do most, which triggers completion at the end of the list. It's best case behavior is when there are no completions, where it ironically takes you to the end of the line!
The Spiritual Center Of the Earth (1999)
Considerably less fun to toy around with now that the only way to get a non completely crippled version is to pay megabucks (or work at a company that develops in it). If I'm wrong, please please clue me in...
What's new about this? This is how keys used to be (just google image search "old key").

The reason for the flat surface on current keys is so you can hold it steady while turning. A flat surface is ideal for this, a keyring, not so much.
That presupposes not just that ApplyYourself is in any way competent (evidence points to dubious), but that they are at all communicative with the admissions grunts.
This list is shit.

CSC, Capgemini, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and ACS don't sell software. They sell consulting, of which actual software coding is but a part.
he's missing a few, notably electronic arts.
I am disturbed by the larger philosophy it represents; that things will be much, much better if we can just stop all of the destructive forces of nature from occurring. If we can prevent tropical cyclones, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the like, then everything will be ok.

What such a philosophy fails to take into account is that these forces aren't just destructive. They represent a system that has a certain equilibrium which is maintained by periodically removing excess energy that has been introduced. Sometimes this surplus of energy is quite considerable, and so the transfer of that energy results in damage to things along the path.

It is possible that going the other direction might work for some things; force the energy transfer to occur more often but less severely. However, even this might have unintended consequences. Less powerful tropical cyclones may not survive to areas as far inland that may depend on their seasonal arrival for necessary rainfall.

I think the best thing we could do is educate people that certain things are not and will never be in our control, and that our reaction should not be panic and sensationalism but cautious respect and preparation.
For an article syndicated from a blog, wouldn't it make more sense to use the link from the original article? For one, the domain will show up properly, and for two, you can't comment on the New York Times syndicated version. Last, I didn't notice until looking at the readwriteweb.com site--there was a significant update to the original post that includes a direct response from Facebook:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_day_facebook_change...
Yeah but that doesn't explain why one would write a brainfuck interpreter in brainfuck.

Day 163: Project complete. Strength nearly gone. Must.. complete... evaluation.... Data structures, godawful... string handling, non-existent... writing a brainfuck interpreter, gigantic pain in the ass.... Conclusion: this better get me laid. Oh sh.. signal lost
It makes a nice story, but I think a black triangle moment is something programmers should strive to avoid. Progress should be incremental and visible as much as possible and the system as a whole should always be in a working and testable state.

Working on something for weeks before getting it into a testable state is a surefire recipe for an over-designed system with superfluous features and long debugging sessions.
These are the largest 20 companies classified by Forbes as software companies. With the large organizations it's almost impossible to say, "they do that" since they invariably do a lot of things; any other hand-wavey sorting wouldn't have been significantly more objective.
The same could be said about Google. For the most part, it sells advertising.
I think what people do is help with inspiration (in the broad sense). Other than that, we can read books, play with source code etc.
It's more like Squeak (or it's somewhat shitty 3D successor OpenCroquet) than it is like Logo or GameMaker