skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have three kids of my own, and I can tell you that everyone is not "born a genius angel with unbounded potential". It's more like everyone is born with a unique set of character traits, mental abilities, and inclinations -- we're all different. But, in every case, training and discipline must be applied in order to cultivate those natural traits into something resembling civilization. Without that, I can assure you, children tend naturally toward savagery.
Protecting the OS does protect you: stealing my data/cookies today is different than installing OS level backdoor / keylogger and stealing my bank password, tax prep, etc next month/year/etc.
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On an un-patched, un-updated Windows XP machine, maybe. From Vista onward, the built-in software firewall and UAC make a default install relatively safe. I never ran any real-time virus protection on Vista and 7 (though I did run a few manual scans just to be sure, which were all clean) on a variety of machines and never had any issues.
I'm going to say that's not true, because that opens you up to being exploited through methods you trust. You might not think a PDF can hurt you, but without AV you don't even stand a chance.
I started using an anti-virus on Windows a few years ago, but it never detected anything. There are other ways to stay secure. (Common sense when dealing with downloaded files, Sandboxy, JS blocked by default in the browser.)

Overall, I feel that a truly secure system shouldn't need an anti-virus at all. Maybe some detection software like Tripwire, but not a scanning antivirus.
Unless your IT 'ecosystem' doesn't include any web based applications, I'm pretty sure it does need JavaScript.
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I am extremely bias, as I work for Malwarebytes, but it always amazes me how many smart people, who know a lot about computers, think that it's unnecessary to run some sort of protection software. Zero day exploits in browsers and their plugins (flash, java, even pdf readers) happen all the time, and malware authors love taking advantage of them. In a world where just browsing to a website can get you infected it's probably a good idea to have something to stop that. There is no set of "safe habits" that makes you immune to this- even going to reddit has gotten people infected when their ad network was compromised, and stuff like that happens constantly.

My other favorite thing is all the people who say they've never run antivirus/antimalware, but then also claim to never have been infected. How would they even know? Modern malware tries to go undetected, it doesn't want to get detected and removed so it tried to remain as unobtrusive as possible.

Those of you running linux or osx are exempt from this minirant ;-)
If you have a method to predict epileptic seizures you can intervene. If you have a (published) method to predict stock market crises then the agents in the stock market will take it into account, presumably breaking the method.
I hope that dicking around with Rust turns into some end-user love. I love some R&D, but Mozilla's limited non-profit funding, there should be priorities (yes, I hope they can walk and chew gum at the same time). But the point is that 3 is a magic number, and we need Mozilla to keep Google and Microsoft on the straight and true path ;)
That might have been true a few years ago but it just isnt these days. Malware is being injected into ad networks on a semi-regular basis (I see Adblock as a defensive mechanism morese than something to get rid of ads). Sites also get hacked and can infect you that way.

Its like saying people only care about NSA spying because they have something to hide -- its faulty logic.
There is actually a lot of value in this in that it helps the animal socialize. Animals with a lot of human contact and contact with other animals (assuming all such contact is positive) form fairly pleasant dispositions. Those animals which "don't play well with others" generally grew up with a lot less human contact and/or contact with other animals, or that had negative experiences with other humans and animals.
> If you don't download warez you don't need an antivirus

this is just plain false with all the other attacks out there today.

There are many methods of malware delivery which are easily accidentally triggered, even if you're following the basic rules

Drive-by downloads, clickjacking, having java installed, etc can get you infected even if you're a savvy user
For the average person you've driven to your website you've got maybe five seconds before they hit the back button.

Took me a good thirty seconds before I understood your product and that is far too long.

Give me two sentences max on the front page that tells me what you do and makes me want to spend the time to know more.
After 30 seconds of staring at the homepage, and then the about page, I have no idea what this product is, or what it does.
Certainly not, but I'm probably not your target audience :) .
The explanation I read was that this show was not very popular, at least at the time. Most people were listening to another station. Then, when it went to commercial, they switched to Mercury Theatre. This means they missed Orson's introduction, which says explicitly that it is just a drama. So the first thing they heard was the series of fake news flashes.
I hope you're joking. If not, take a quick look at this Wikipedia article [0] or, if you have a half hour, the Guantanamo Files themselves [1]. Hint: ctrl+F "innocent"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detaine...

[1] http://wikileaks.org/gitmo/
For the average person you've driven to your website you've got maybe five seconds before they hit the back button.

Took me a good thirty seconds before I understood your product and that is far too long.

Give me two sentences max on the front page that tells me what you do and makes me want to invest the time to know more.
Kittens at office parties seems cruel. Cats can't stand crowds of people and will try to hide, not want to play.
I usually use a mac, but on my windows machine (which I use rarely) I run deepfreeze which resets my computer back to a predefined pint every time I restart it.
You write as if the suit has a chance. The suit has no chance, none, zilch, zero. They were not forced to write the reviews. Imagine me and you suing ycombinator, because our post on HN adds value to the site. How absurd.
This Tiny Scrap of Paper Is One of the World's Rarest Gaming Collectibles
I use ClamXAv but it's not running all the time, just for certain files. Does it count as yes or not?
Congrats on the launch! You are in a space close to money (Sales) and that will help you. However, the site needs work. It didn't convey clearly what the product is and didn't get me excited enough to try it. I'm your potential customer.
Since they haven't had a trial you have no idea if they were rounded up cab drivers or terrorists. Since their trials will now be show trials and not allow lawyers to question coeced statements they made under torture we probably won't even know after either.
Their argument that their targeting creates massive value is only correct so long as their competitors don't catch up. Linkedin, though, is building out its advertising tools and API and allows for really good targeting based on more accurate job positions than Facebook can provide, which is often more useful.

If a company pays for their facebook likes through advertising, why should they then need to pay again to advertise to this same group of people with a sponsored post? It really changes the ROI of a facebook like.
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So, installing a backdoor / keylogger in user level isn't that bad? why?
A number of the organizers for the NYC Haskell meetup have businesses whose stacks are full Haskell.
So what would Facebook be? Or Google?
If they've stolen your cookies, they can already login as you. The keylogger is already going to run in user space, as you.

You don't need to compromise root/a privileged user in order to get the keys to the kingdom. Once I've compromised whatever user your browser environment runs as, mission accomplished.
"This is such a serious problem for criminals that the mafia has been known to play the lottery as a form of money laundering."

I wanted to comment on this that if you are referring to what I think you're referring to, it's not quite how you make it seem. The expected yield on a lottery ticket is somewhere in the magnitude of 50-70%, meaning: if you buy a lot of tickets, you will probably get a net yield of something between those numbers. However, the large amounts of tickets you have to buy / check / redeem do not make this a viable laundering strategy. You'll leave traces if you do this at scale, for example if you bought the owner of a local bodega to get you tickets 'wholesale', like boxes at a time; then the lotteries will easily spot patterns of sellers doing unusual transactions.

What I think you are referring to, is the (alleged) practice of criminals paying above-market prices (in cash) for casino chips or lottery tickets. Let's say you win $100. For a criminal, if he pays you $110 for that ticket, he has a laundering cost of only 9%, because he can redeem that ticket as 100$ in clean money. 9% is quite cheap; it's not uncommon to account for 30, 40% in costs when laundering money. And since lotteries and casinos are about big amounts, you only need one such transaction to launder sizable amounts. As the original winner, you end up with more than you won, but you can spend it only on holidays, restaurants and other cash-friendly activities.

(all examples are ignoring taxes etc, for which you'd have to correct to make the numbers work in reality)
You know, some of us never had to learn from that sort of experience not to do seriously damaging things, especially when the potential for damage is so obviously high, and the activity is entirely optional.

People like you give "hackers" and at least the newer generations of MIT undergraduates a bad name.

ADDED: Your fellow members of the MIT community aren't too impressed with all this including your apology: http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N13/fakeemail.html?comments#comment...

AND MORE ADDED: And now reading them, you did this during "hell week" (midterms)? Were you even still a student then???

FINAL ADDITION: can you show us the slightest evidence you've learned anything but "Don't get caught next time" (assuming the speculation that this was more a PR stunt than anything else per some of the comments in The Tech is false)?

Disclosures: I'm class of 1983 and have close non-academic ties to Course 6.
I almost lost it when he threatened to invoice them $18,000 for the time it took him to "update his thousands of pages"
OS X since 10.4, and I've never even considered installing one. I'm aware that there's been trojans for OS X, but I don't open strange attachments, and I make sure I know where all my software is coming from.

Although OS X does actually have a file scanner built in, it's not a full anti-virus suite though.
Eels on wheels?
Trying to give out this type of help is counter productive, visiting a website could get you infected. Antiviruses won't tell you when you have been infected with a zero-day but they will help you out later. It's best to have or to run files in a sandbox before you use them on a production system.
I don't think there's much commercial potential in that one I'm afraid. Personally I just look out the window before deciding what to wear.
A new tech publication covering all Europe is out
Cyber-shot Lens-style Camera for Android and IOS
hpvic - not sure if you're working this solo, or as a bigger team, but I'm a PM, I love Trello, haven't used Pivotal, and can't stand Jira. I've been considering building out a Jira-killer myself as a side project. Might be good to chat and hear more of what you're working on. If you want to connect my email is cameron.norgate at the gmail. Cheers!
Google Play In-App Billing Library Hacked
Nope. It's always off.

I turn it on and scan about once a month or so. At most, I have some spywares.

From experience, all the viruses that managed to infect me couldn't be fixed by the antivirus software and I had to do it manually, which is a pain.
I haven't tried Scala/Play, but I come from the .NET world and with Groovy/Grails I had something (very tiny) up on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk really fast.

The problem is I really don't know the underlying technology and I'm going to hit several walls really soon :)

I chose it because I know a friend who works with it and is really happy and evangelizes a bit :) . I never considered Scala/Play. My other option was MVC4, but .NET is pretty expensive for an MVP (not many options for free or cheap hosting, etc.) and I wanted to explore other options.
The GUI toolkit take its toll but I can't say enough how much the js, html/css renderer, network and memory subsystems have been improved, chrome doesn't feel faster, except on the UI side of things, but can show long lags when loading/rendering. Kudos to Mozilla.
You probably just had bad experience or worked in some very formal environment (I guess financial?). Many places in NY don't enforce dress code on engineers. And surely people aren't just discussing bonuses instead of actual technology. Carrying a phone (not a pager of course :) can be a norm anywhere, if you are on call and required to provide support in cases of production emergency. I doubt that's different between NYC and any other place.

And for the record, there is quite an interest in Storm, Hadoop and other distributed computation technologies in the NYC scene.
It does look ok. Depending on the age of the kittens it would be nice to tag the mother along, but otherwise 15 minutes shouldn't harm anyone.

This kind of business, when not tied to an ethically operated shelter, has a lot of abusive potential, of course.
My college had the local shelter bring dogs to the library during finals week for stress relief. It was wonderful, and the lady from the shelter said the dogs loved it.
"That's a nice distribution deal you have there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it."

Media companies can be amazingly obstinate, but enough money will make the point.
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The lawyers may have been given clearances so that they could see classified evidence. Also, in court, the judge decides what you may and may not talk about.
BTW I presume Uber implemented this in LOLCODE?

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> JS is not OO

JS is definitely OO; its not class-based OO -- but its still OO. And its purer OO than, e.g., Java (class-based OO in which classes are not first-class objects but require jumping through hoops to get an object that represents the class are not as much OO as either protypical OO languages that lack classes as language features like JS, or class-based OO in which classes are objects like Ruby.)

> IMHO OOP has not proven itself out to reduce confustion, or simplify code bases. It tends to make distributed systems which are increasingly necessary for large projects more complicated. In JS I tend to have two types of objects.

IMHO, OO languages, per se, do not have that effect, though Java has that effect, due to the same limitations which make Java the poster child for repeated-code-template style design patterns.
thankfully, not everyone on this planet is as morally bankrupt as you, nor does charity require full participation of the populace to function adequately.
A causal link, or a correlation? Because it matters, and that's what the article is making clear. Those correlation links lead to bad guidelines because the cause is not understood.
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Hmm Scala seems to be on the upswing, while Groovy/Grails seems to have stagnated.

I've heard good things about it too :) .
Its not like he has to buy the MBA or the iPad every year. Also cell phones in the US are way less than $50/month if you don't go with ATT, Verizon, Sprint, or T-mobile. I get Unlimited everything (with no data caps) for $20/month on Republic Wireless.
Yup, I think you're right.
Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result is the definition of "protest."
I've been working 12+ hour days and working more at home after work for the past 3 months and I work at a bank. It's ridiculous. It's not low pressure in the slightest.
California has direct democracy to a great extent. Let's see how well that works out for them in terms of economics for example.

The Nazi party is an example of a vocal and violent minority intimidating the majority into voting the "right way" for a single party to take over or staying away from the polls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_election_and_referendum,...

is this the kind of thing you want?
I like to connect developing design myself and using bootstrap. First to give unique touch to a website, second to speed things up since I have already written my part of floats for webdesign industry and will be fine with just adding proper classes now. That's why it's there after all, to use it. :)
Has anyone been able to prove yet that social marketing can successfully build sales and not just more social-network following? "Likes" are nice, but they aren't green in my pocket.
Its worth mentioning that Firefox OS and Desktop Firefox share gecko, a huge amount of the improvements for Firefox OS will be relevant for desktop, Especially regarding the performance and memory improvements.

(Also that there are definitely still people working on improvements solely to desktop, see the upcoming redesign)
Funny; I've always considered a tip to be a form of bribery.

As with tipping, everything is in the 'social norm'.
Uber has repeatedly done specials, e.g. delivering a mariachi band last year. I really don't think any of this is meant as a permanent product, but more as a PR strategy. And in this case they can also claim to do it for a good cause.
I certainly hope you are correct (and would believe you to be), I just have zero domain knowledge of the law in this scenario and wanted to resist making such an assertion.
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I'm so going to learn this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE
This gets a surprising number of things right. I've worked on a couple of these. In particular I'm delighted to see both the definite and indefinite streams of things.

I'm a little bit tired (well, more than a little tired) of standards that aren't couched in terms that are directly executable. English descriptions and psuedo-code are fine, but in the end I want to have some working code that implements an API for the stuff. Doesn't have to be an official API, but something usable shows me that (a) it is indeed usable, and (b) will go a long way towards heading off other people's mistakes.

We don't do crypto without test vectors. I don't know why we think we can do other complex standards without test vectors, either. (I worked on NBS / NIST in the 70s on some verification suites. Have we lost that practice?)

I think that much of what is busted on the modern web can be traced back to loose english and lack of reference code (even stuff with placeholders). CSS, HTML, etc., I'm looking at you... :-/
I'm under both windows and other. My others are openbsd and dragonflybsd.
For what it's worth, here's Orson apologizing and/or answering for the broadcast, as I understand the very next day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuEGiruAFSw

If this is an irrelevant story that is overblown, it must have been overblown immediately.
"We were not able to find any Kindle MatchBook eligible titles based on your past print book purchases. See more Kindle MatchBook titles here." -- I bought $4k worth of books in last 18 months.

Edit: I bought a Kindle anyway. They look awesome and there is a $60 off deal going on.
Children's hacker space
Facebook pay per click remains a mystery to me. We are huge PPC media buyers, but we gave up on Facebook a long time ago. We’ve experimented with it over the last year or so when new features were implemented, but in general, it’s at the very bottom of our marketing budget as well. I used to think it was something we were doing wrong, but this report suggests a lot of people aren’t finding value there as well.

It really seems that when people are on Facebook, the one and only thing they pay attention to is their friends and personal interests, and it’s very difficult for ads to convert that interest.
What, like the original release of XP from 2001? I'm trying to find a worm that uses a vulnerability that works on an out of the box, unpatched XP SP3 and the closest I can find is Conflicker and related MS08-067 worms, but even that requires turning off the on-by-default firewall or enabling non-default sharing settings.
Many good answers here. I also moved from many years ago, and noticed the same trends. Just to add additional points:

1) I think the lack of low-level corruption not just in US, but even developed Asian countries like Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan also indicates that reducing the wealth gap, govt. salaries (esp. Singapore), rule-of-law etc.. has a factor.

Some of these countries have similar cultural histories and affinities to India, and yet they have been able to overcome these weaknesses.

It will be good to hear what folks from these countries think about their own experiences here.

2) In US, lot of things that are considered 'corruption' in other countries are somewhat legalized - e.g. lobbying and so forth. Granted it is more at a higher level with much larger amounts in play, but even here, there is some degree of transparency.
Justify it however you want, it's all wrong. These services are provided free of charge in exchange for displaying ads. Don't like the ads? Don't use the service.
The problem with direct democracy is that it does not necessarily encourage deliberation nor the dissemination of factual information (i.e., education). There are other ways of implementing direct democracy without having the system subjected to the whims and follies of special interest groups.

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/

Read the idea, review the mock-ups, and please provide constructive critiques on how the idea can be improved.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6518237
Yeah, from a technical standpoint, it runs pretty well. There's still at least one hardware compat issue to be resolved (when I last tried Ubuntu Saucy beta, the wifi didn't work), but it was very performant, and looked nice.
Uber is the poster child of Bay area 'p2p capitalist' startups covered on HN and if anyone was in any doubt about there being a second bubble this effortlessly invites the pets.com comparison