skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if SHA-1 were weakened considerably, this would not impact this particular use case all that much... except in cases where git hashes are used in a security-critical way. (Which is probably not that great an idea...)
Over a million dollars in credit card fraud? 10 years sounds reasonable for something like that.
its not tech news. Its a link bait for techies.
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It's actually good for longer than that, since Google's servers allow at least one time period either way.
It would be a crime anywhere, but not likely to receive a 10-year sentence. As far as I know, the only sentence approaching that length issued in Denmark for a non-violent crime in recent years was Stein Bagger, who was sentenced to 7 years for defrauding investors of about $250 million, then fleeing to Dubai. His sentence was that high because it was very clearly willful fraud on a large scale intended to enrich himself, and included a number of subsidiary elements such as invented degrees, faked financial information, tax fraud, etc.
Even better, integrate it with the top five CRM/ERP solutions.
Except Swartz's master plan was downloading a bunch of PDFs to release, which is a copyright violation at best. Hammond was actively causing DDOS's, hacking servers, attacking his personal enemies, falsifying credentials, performing brute-forces, etc for fun and sometimes profit. These are two very different situations.
tmux is like that thing that you hear about quite often, that you think it's not that useful, but that, once you try, you realize why and where its fame comes from.

I adopted tmux about a month ago and I can't really complain much. It's just awesome. If you work a lot in the terminal (I do), I would highly recommend using it.
To whoever does not have the book but wants to get a gist of it here is a talk given by Steven Pinker on the subject:

http://edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker
I might be naïve with the following comment:

I would love to see AWS moving a bit further down the customer chain, providing one-click installations to non-savvy customers (I'm thinking on-click wordpress, magento, docker, etc.). Given the recent acquisition of MediaTemple by SlowDaddy I'm confident many GridServer customers would of moved from MT to AWS.
Attacked old people in restaurants? You mean the fascist fucks?

What trinkets?

In and out of prison and probation for years. Wow, that means nothing, especially when you consider what those were for.

I didn't talk to him "on a daily basis" and had many disagreements with him, at times coming to near physical confrontation. But you are a tool.
It's trivial - they're all in B2B.

People like to talk and read about B2C stuff that they use (or might use), rather than the B2B stuff that is the underwater part of software iceberg.
I was just attending a talk with the man behind it, and he's in dialog with the Chrome team, Firefox team, IE team, and VS team, to mention some. He also demonstrated live debugging in Chrome dev tools on a Firefox page. Changing the dom, changed the page in Firefox.
I just want to examine why it's okay for Google to say, "what we offer is yours, but since it's our servers we can dictate how we offer it to you", but when Comcast makes the exact same argument about our packets and delivering them to us, we call it a violation of net neutrality.
They also primarily target female women consumers, which I can only imagine is a major reason it doesn't get much press.
That comment probably came off much more negative than I intended it to, so I'll elaborate. I think the grass is basically the same shade of green everywhere, plus or minus some superficial pros and cons, and excepting a few places that really do have serious social and economic problems. I'm still mobile, and I love it, but I no longer believe that changing location will do anything more than provide 6 months or so of new and unusual experiences--which is a great thing, don't get me wrong! However, I think people tend to conflate the place with the experience of being on vacation there, which leaves you with a totally unrealistic impression of a location and its culture. Once you stick around long enough to get into a grind, you quickly realize that you can't escape the mundane. I think it's important to embrace that, enjoy your holidays, and don't spend your working days thinking that everything would be better if you could just get away. It's a recipe for permanent misery and leads to some seriously irrational decision making. I now believe that the best place in the world is wherever is most conducive to doing whatever it is you love doing without being a burden on someone else/society.
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I applaud your intent. But to play devil's advocate, what's to stop an acquiring company from shutting the service down the day after the expiration?
A hastily thrown together blog post really doesn't count as a scoop. As much as the author is patting his back over this story that the ESTABLISHMENT TECH PRESS doesn't want you to know.
/ useful for click-bait headlines.
The only thing ctrl-A is used for by me besides screen (or rather, tmux after I remapped it), is incrementing a number in vim. Not really a big deal.
Should 'witches' have been thankful that they weren't tortured as horrifically as the victims of the Inquisition ?

TH;DR: I said it to highlight the commonality of mass hysteria fueled hyper-punishment for socially distasteful actions.
10 years doesn't strike me as unreasonable.

...while in Norway, you typically only get the maximum 21 years of imprisonment for multiple murders. And even that is apparently with the possibility of an early release after 14 years and unsupervised weekend parole after 7 years. And even with murder on your hands, they just might send you off to Bastøy to rehabilitate yourself properly. And somehow, the crime rate in Norway is still much lower, as are the reoffending rates.

I just wonder, what comes next in the US, two years for littering, perhaps?
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First of all, the size and scope of the hospital has very little to do with whether or not any particular room can be cleaned.

Uh, you're right but you're missing the implication. Scale influences whether every room can be clean simultaneously. A given room being dirty and infected with a bug adapted to surviving in a hospital lets said bug be tracked or blown to a different room before the bug is eliminated from the first room.

As for dedicated teams, I don't see why such things couldn't exist on a city-wide basis if they were useful.

The question whether healthcare benefits economies of scale at all is open to question. It clearly doesn't benefit too much given the lack of price differentials. The lousy and getting-lousier quality of American healthcare just generally indicates that hospitals don't put profits from economies of scale or whatever else back to real improvements in safety - though they apparent put a lot of money into meals to entice returning patients (fancy meals - visible, real safety - invisible).
> ...Hammond had access to advanced tools including one known as PLESK...

Could somebody please tell me there's another kind of PLESK beyond that which is shat forth by Parallels?
Interesting, never heard of zulily before.

Found their register-to-view website off-putting. Removed the overlay and discovered they have a UK site (no IP/geolocation sniffing?) .. UK site was broken (none of the akamai resources loaded) and appears to be hosted on tumblr (zulilyuk.tumblr.com)??
That's a fantastic insult.
If it did that would be a huge selling point for those of us in the US that travel overseas.
I use ctrl-_. In many terminals you can generate it with ctrl + 7 and/or ctrl + ?.
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Yes, blame Google, who spent, literally, over 100 million creating, supporting and pushing forward a new, non-patented codec (VP8, VP9) and in general trying to push web video forward.

Blaming Apple or Microsoft for not willing to put VP8 in their browser or for not willing to donate h.264 patents to public pool would be obviously crazy.

Let's blame the one party that actually does something positive for web video.
Maybe I'm overly cautious, but in today's world, where even simple URL manipulation can be regarded as hacking, I would be very reluctant to post exploits like this. It's crazy, but this can be construed as wire fraud or computer crime:

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(4)

Whoever—
(4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer
without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means
of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of
value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only
of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than
$5,000 in any 1-year period . . .
shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section.

"Protected computer" in this context means any computer that is connected to the Internet. And the value obtained would be unlimited use of the game, which would normally be a limited. True, that last part is up for debate, as it is possible to play the game without paying, but I wouldn't want to be forced to argue this in court...
There are so many business books, there has to be something out there!
I'm a tech writer, with a child, and wouldn't write about this. It's a really cool story and a neat company, but it's got a few things working against it:

+ Small Audience — Most tech writers get paid by the pageview. The realistic market of readers for this kind of story is probably in the hundreds, maybe low thousands. My wife loves the site, but wouldn't give a fig about the financials. There's a market for investors or competitive intelligence, but it's a very different kind of business.

+ Bad Timing — If this happened in the midst of the Groupon craze you'd be reading all about it. Now that "Daily Deals" have become an elephant's graveyard of broken dreams and wasted billions it's not that interesting in a meta context.

+ What's the Hook? — It's a big number, but a "boring" business. A company called Wayfair in Boston is in a similar spot. They're a massive ecommerce company dealing in home goods, but you've probably never heard of them. They have nice offices, but not crazy ones. They use a logical, but unexciting tech stack. Which would you rather read:

- Seasoned entrepreneurs utilize proven business fundamentals to build niche ecommerce website with steadily growing, but modest profits?

or:

- 6 Unbelievable Tech Tricks these College Students Used to Get a $4B Buyout Offer from Facebook in 18 months!
> Is it amoral?

Yes for two reasons. A) You're telling other people what they can do with their own bodies, and that is fundamentally wrong (see the ridiculous abortion debate in the USA). B) It's impossible to apply the rules evenly and fairly, creating (at best) destructive social imbalance and (at worst) an opportunity for slippery-slope eugenics.
I like this post.

I felt bad forcing my HTML to fit Bootstrap. Using @extends to keep everything semantic ensures my templates logically sound.
1. No, I still think that copyright law is absolutely necessary in order for some types of authors to be able to make money and sustain them selves through the sale of their works. Specifically film makers and book authors, because that's what I am familiar with most.

2. I am not attacking you personally. I am challenging you to practice what you preach. You may use exclusively OSS code in your business, but the glue code that runs the OSS bits, the business model, your list of suppliers, etc. All of that is IP, release that. I don't actually expect you to do that, you know perfectly well that I think that would be unfair. I am simply trying to make you see how exposed people like book authors are. Their entire business is on display, for everyone to see. Their book is the entirety of their work, and unlike you, without copyright, they would have no protection what so ever. Even without copyright, you would always have a choice whether to make your work public, they would not.

3. Stop comparing Copyright Law to Slavery. It's insulting to the memory of the people who actually were slaves to compare ownership right in specific expression with ownership rights in other human beings.
It's really quite simple, read this and get to work! It also explains the 'why'.

http://wiki.hashphp.org/PDO_Tutorial_for_MySQL_Developers
I was thinking libav has replaces FFmpeg? Anyway, this project is very cool. I could see web workers working a mini video grid kind of system perhaps.
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The point is that it's not ok for your boss to call for work at 7pm. It isn't.

Increasing your efficiency in responding to that call is a step in the wrong direction.

Plus the images show someone actively ignoring the person they are with to do work on the side, which also isn't ok in my book.
4. Not bring that stupid cell phone to the opera house in the first place
Sounds about right to me. That's why I use JSON, it's much more sensible than SOAP.
Why aren't we outraged at Dropbox for letting you have access to your work documents at home so that you can work late into the night? Or Google so I can work on that spreadsheet during dinner and until late in the morning?

All companies that push cloud based easily accessible products will tout how you can work / play whenever / however you want thanks to their new tech.

This is just faux outrage because it is Microsoft.
This is probably, like, a horrible way to do things. But I try to find a company (1-10 billion market cap) that I personally believe in, but saw-tooths a lot. I usually check-in once a day and watch it go up and down. I then guess if I think it is sort of on a crest up or down, then buy or sell accordingly. And never accept a loss on a trade. Instead just sit on the shares until they are in the black. And example would be CAVM. I figure it's sort of like gambling. I don't really know what I'm doing, but it works (so far).
Shouldn't the title be "Microsoft ‘Mortally Wounds’ Windows" ?

I mean it is only windows affected.

And I bet browsers other than IE will work.
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What is the actual security concern here? Do you think they are storing passwords in cleartext? It's not clear that is the case because they generated the password. Suppose they chose a password for you and stored a secure salted hash in the their database, they would still be able to tell you what the password is because they generated it.

Are you concerned they sent you the password over e-mail? E-mail is insecure anyway and sending you a reset or create account link wouldn't be any better. If you're concerned about e-mail snoopers, what's is to stop the MITM from clicking on the link in your e-mail?

Are you concerned that they cc'd your contact person? If you don't trust your payment provider to not execute insider attacks, you shouldn't use them. Period.

The only advantage I can see to sending a password reset/create type of link is protection against shoulder surfing attacks. But if you have malicious insiders in your company trying to steal access to things they shouldn't have access to, you have way bigger problems than this.

ed: tbh, it's just as likely they fired you as a customer because they felt you aren't worth the trouble of dealing with.
I'm not on top of my criminal law, but it seems to me that the nasty, illegal things pedophiles do, they do in real life and not the internet, no?
I think this blog post needs some screenshots!
Last I checked Chrome's DataChannels implementation was flakey and missing support for several attributes
"because news are entertainment, not news"
news^H^H^H^H entertainment at 11.

Thought everyone knew that by now.
Exactly - Enterprise Software is still a largely untapped area of significant opportunity precisely because it gets little attention from VC, startup folks, and the tech press. That's where the opportunity is.
" Dave Farley (co-author of ‘Continuous Delivery’) describes Continuous Integration as the process of automatically creating a potential release candidate after every commit. Are feature branches going to help you do that? "

I think so, if you build a feature outside of the main branch, test it fully and prepare it correctly, the commit to the main branch will be a potential release candidate. You can't say that if you are integrating a potentially broken feature into the main branch everyday.

I've never seen a git crew work in isolation before. If two teams or people are working on two different modules that need to work together they are still integrating between themselves on a regular basis. It's just that those changes do not get pushed up to main until they are finished.
Once economists get a good understanding of bitcoins usefulness they can model that growth and it will be priced in and "deflation" stops.
Playback is done through regular browser capabilities.
These options are better than my usual, "Well, it was very nice talking to you," said firmly and with a smile.
I really wish SSL Labs would provide a list of ciphers that actually passes their own test 100%. For example in nginx I have TLSv1 TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 enabled, with "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:AES128-SHA:RC4-SHA" for the cipher list. SSL Labs says that TLSv1.2 is not supported, and that I should enable forward secrecy recommending that I put ECDHE ciphers at the top of the list. Not being a security expert I have a really hard time deciphering what I am doing wrong with these two simple settings. (nginx version is 1.4.3).
I used to be firmly in the "don't use bootstrap" semantic css camp, but now that Bootstrap 3 is out, I no longer see the point. It's a pain to have to think of all the specific class names for things, and the end user doesn't care anyway.I'm not sure what the actual real world benefits of semantic css are, and I have wasted a huge amount of time in the past coming up with my own stylesheets that end up being worse versions of Bootstrap anyway.

The only place that Bootstrap really "traps" you is in the presentational grid class names, but you'll get this with any grid, and the Bootstrap grid is pretty solid (I have invested a large amount of time designing my own grid systems in the past).

The biggest benefit of Bootstrap that I see is that it enforces a sensible naming convention, so that someone who has not read through your quirky "semantic" 3000 line stylesheet can easily get to work on the site. The custom stylesheet (and the variables stylesheet) that you load after Bootstrap will tend to only be a few hundred lines, and contain only the things that make your site unique.

I have several large sites that I made before I used Bootstrap for everything and I constantly kick myself when I've got to dig in and maintain them. If you are a good designer and take pride in your work, nobody will be able to know that you used Bootstrap without opening the inspector.
They should overlay UFO sightings during this timeframe.
Thanks! If you get a chance to try the iPhone beta, would love to hear your feedback!
For those that want to learn more, the author also has a good book "Good boss, bad boss" on what to do and not to do as a manager of people:
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Boss-Bad-Learn-Worst
AES-specific instructions were even a bit questionable... but this is highly questionable. Algorithm-specific instructions are basically going to become very dated cruft within a few years to a decade tops and are probably a bad thing to add to any instruction set. Better would be to add instructions for speeding up all sorts of crypto algorithms.
Good obviously got what he deserved.
Agreed completely. I used Ctrl-] with screen and just kept that convention with tmux. Ctrl-a is a non-starter for Emacs users, and even neglecting that, there are many contexts where Ctrl-a/Ctrl-e navigation is enabled and useful.
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Most infectious diseases are not so dangerous that this is necessary. The ones that are, they do something like that as the other poster mentioned.

The fact of the matter though, is that a hospital for those with whatever condition is a somewhat ideal breeding ground for germs, not all of which will be deadly of course. That's not something is likely to be completely eliminated but it's something we can mitigate in a variety of ways.
Personally I think the risk that CAs are or will be compromised is much higher than the risk of a practical SHA-1 preimage attack. The entire CA model is very shaky.

MS has a history of helping out its buddies in the certificate troll mafia. This seems like it kind of fits in that category.
Anybody know how to dynamically zip things on the fly? Like if you want to generate a download for a user that has files and folders... how can you do this fast and in one go? Currently I have to literally write to disk, then zip it, and only then can I finally send a response. Any help?
Well? Put your link up, man! I suspect your problem (like my own, alas) may be an aversion to self-advertising.
A strange game.

The only winning move is not to play.
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This game is all client-side so it's easy to cheat. The cool thing is you actually get achievements for cheating!
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The Romneys are some of the wealthiest people in the US and fairly well educated and their immediate family has something close to 20 children total.
Google supports Go. Mozilla supports Rust. Facebook should actively support D.
Your first headline may be dry, but headlines like "6 Unbelievable Techniques Two College Students Used to Get a $4B Buyout Offer from Facebook!" sound like spam to me.

Sensationalism will always work to grab eyes but I don't think that particular brand of headline sensationalism is going to work forever.

Having a reputation for quality journalism makes a news business sustainable, not headline tricks.

"One weird trick to make $4b! See why entrepreneurs hate him!"
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Actually, you mostly need a) balls and b) the verbal skills to tell people to go stuff themselves without being directly insulting.

You would be surprised how few people lose their jobs by saying "no".
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Reality being that which doesn't go away if you dislike it, I recommend you look carefully at those supposed tech magazines with “less” of the young male focus that you claim exist. You'll find that they don't, really, outside of quasi-academic magazines like CACM. Even there, it's hard. How many women are on staff? How many of the articles are written by women? How much do the articles focus on metrics, measurements, and numbers as opposed to usability? I really like reading AnandTech, but as a tech magazine that isn't interested in booth babes, it is still deeply focussed on the male interest and experience with tech, as the masthead (http://www.anandtech.com/home/about) with it's conspicuous lack of women on staff indicates.

Reality being that which doesn't go away if you dislike it, the reality is that there are no mainstream tech/gear magazines—online or print—that don't use a hypothetical young male as the primary audience for that magazine, doing a disservice to both those young men and the young women who might be interested but aren't interested in the editorial slant involved.

Reality being that which doesn't go away if you dislike it, you're a guy—as am I—and we don't actually get to say that something we like is not sexist in its nature. There are things that I will read that I know are sexist (and not care that they are because I want to read them anyway), but I don't get to pretend that they aren't sexist just because I like them.

Reality, indeed.
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