skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, due to the first OpenSSH remote exploit. With some many servers to manage one of them was forgotten and hacked.

Our recovery was a bit complicated, because we didn't trust any of our boxes after that. So, we shut down the hacked box, mounted somewhere else, removed all the data and reinstalled. We reinstalled all of our other boxes too... Lots of work and lesson learned.

To secure our systems now we take multiple approaches:

-Different operating systems across our network. For example, our web server runs on OpenBSD and our database on Linux (RHEL). We also have Debian and FreeBSD.

-Reduce the functionality of each system and who can access it. Plus, never allow SSH from one critical system to another.

Added monitoring. We can't be 100% safe, so we started using:

-http://modsecurity.org to filter web attacks

-http://ossec.net to monitor logs and file changes

-SeLinux enabled on all our Linux systems

-systrace on all our BSD boxes

-http://sucuri.net to monitor our DNS, Whois and site.
What problem exactly are you trying to solve? Do you have an actual site in hand that you can't afford to run SSL on, but also can't afford to toss a couple of CPUs at? That's an awfully narrow window given how cheap CPU is now, and it's only getting narrower. Add to that the intrinsic diceyness of trying to build your own cryptographic system and it sure seems unlikely this is a win of any kind.
Anyone like physical analogies more? If you convert them into relative masses:

L1 cache: a squirrel (1kg)

L2 cache: a mid-sized cat (~5 kg)

RAM: a tall, well-muscled man (~80kg)

Hard disk: one hundred blue whales (100 * ~130 metric tonnes)

This is what I mean when I say "It doesn't matter how fast your language is, you're just racing to get to wait on I/O faster."

P.S. Let's extend the analogy to include two other common factors:

Typical round trip to database: the combined mass of every ship, plane, and person in the USS Nimitz' air group... with room for another two fleets or so after you're done (150 ms ~ 1.5 million metric tonnes)

Time for user's computer to render a web page of medium complexity: worldwide demand for cement in 2009 (2 seconds = 20 million metric tonnes)

But please, spend time optimizing your string concatenation... because that is going to help ;)

[Edited: Revised and extended because I introduced a conversion error or two and then compounded them. Word to the wise: mental conversion to fractions of blue whales not advisable before morning coffee.]
Five Stages of Beta and Battling to Get Access
Ok, but if you're not going to take their word for what is and isn't covered by the license, then I think the only possible answer is to get a good IP lawyer.
The Cloud Market (AMIs)
Suppose it were possible to construct such a search engine. Would many people avoid it because it doesn't support certain belief(s)?
I independently developed the same method as Seinfeld's but using Google Calendar. I make an entry of a particular color everyday I've been to the gym. The point here is I don't make future appointments on when to go, but rather make an entry at the end of the day every time I have actually been.
The psychological effect of not breaking the chain pushes me to keep going. It really works for me!
DRAM errors in the wild: A Large-Scale Field Study at Google
Bricks in iPod boxes: the retail employee perspective
I'd like to share a couple gems that psychology has actually produced:

1. One of the most important skills for success is the ability to distract yourself from immediate desires.

Delaying gratification, by looking away, thinking about something else is THE skill behind "self-control."

2. Expertise is developed in a very stable pattern of external motivation, mentoring, and consistent deliberate practice.

That means 1. Surround yourself with people who are doing what you want to do 2. Find someone to TEACH you how to do what you want to do and 3. Spend 30 mins a day rising to 2 hours a day over the course of a year or two on the target of your expertise. (Spending more time on the things you suck at than the easy bits) 10k hours later you'll be an expert.

Sources provided if needed!
When I was a young sysadmin at an ISP in the mid-nineties, we had a shell server that would be exploited fairly regularly. This was in the days before automated updates, when the standard Sun delivery method for patches was a mailed CD-ROM. (Online patches were available, but you had to seek them out, and even then they occasionally lagged behind the exploit code being posted to bugtraq by a few days.)

A big part of "securing" this particular machine was to separate it from the rest of the network so that even if compromised, it had no more access than the outside world. I set up an RSA private key for SSH authentication so that I wouldn't have to provide my password to a possibly compromised sshd. I backed up the tripwire database to removable media and checked the integrity of the machine's binaries regularly.

Shell access as a standard feature of dial-up internet access died right around that time, and I don't think many ISPs were sad to see it go. That and Usenet were huge time/resource sinks that I'm not sure provided a lot of value in the end to our average customer.
Meh, actually that's a good point. My first time living abroad was also in Japan, and come to think of it a good many people there were just there to party. For it to be positive you actually have to try and learn the language and engage in the culture. Also, the fact that I lived with a home stay family and made local friends helped (established meaningful relationships with locals).
I feel like I need a SSD just to deal with this image. How about like 3 lines of CSS?
I bet if you did that and reposted the questions with answers on your blog, it would make it to the front page again
Please convert newlines to <br/>s in posts/comments. This is nearly always what is expected and there appears to be no other way to insert single line breaks. It's been about a decade since I saw a browser that didn't line wrap textareas.
A rumor of this variety, when it has substance, tends to produce more of a lift in the stock. This one came from weak sources, and has been oft repeated in the past.
It is addictive. Simple, but addictive.
Weird, but lately I've been telling myself I suck. It was partly a joke, partly a reaction to other people, when they happened to be a lot better at something than I am. Surprisingly, this approach really helps concentrating and actually doing something to not suck anymore.

So the thing is to tell yourself you suck - having in mind, that at least you know you do. Because most people don't.
LESS uses CSS's syntax, so they are quite different in that respect, the 'about' section on the website has info on this.
Consider though that this is still a (nominally) free country, and they created this novel scenario 1) long before they were subject to any speech restrictions and 2) by making only true and public statements.

Then consider that they would come under speech restrictions through no fault of their own. It may be contrived, but they would be standing in a courtroom having committed no bad acts.

Would a judge order them to construct and publish a false statement? That's the question, but can you find case law that shows this ever having happened?

If not, then regardless of how contrived it is, it's still legally novel.
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I believe the claim that hidim is steganography comes from the title of hackernews link. The site itself claims to represent torrents as .png, but not to disguise them.

The claim that this will frustrate search engines is true, in the sense that no one is looking for this format at the moment; obfuscating with an awkward format is a short term dodge.
So, "the device will have a 9.7-inch touchscreen, reports InfoTimes, and three Taiwanese gadget manufacturers–Foxconn, Wintek and Dynapack–have received orders for different components of the tablet."

Maybe so. But the source of the "translated from the Mandarin allegations about orders to the thee manufacturers is MacRumor forums:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=8071477#post807... | YMMV.
Posterous adds Google Maps support
It's the same voice all over
Gap Grows Wider: MySpace Eats Facebook’s Dust In The U.S.
Posterous continues to rock. I'm curious if they have some master list of every magic integration they plan to make, or if they're just making them up on a whim as they go along.
Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking
If someone makes boysmakinggirlsounds.com, it will not turn out well at all.
Football theme

(???)

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Rock_And_Roll_Part_2/18...
Does it matter? Either rsync.net is clean, or it's not. Once surveillance begins it could continue indefinitely, and once law enforcement decides rsync.net is a threat it's likely that they'll become a regular target. After that point, if you're not OK with having your data searched by government agencies, you're not going to be entirely comfortable with rsync.net. But until that point, rsync.net can stake a big claim on keeping your data safe.
Who can resist rooting for software that declines to label itself in the old-fashioned "alpha" / "beta" way... and instead states clearly in the footer:

"©2009 Nine Fives Software. Pinboard is full of bugs but daily trying...

Too bad it's not going to get much test-driving: "Pinboard is free to use, but charges a small, one-time membership fee."
Don't bother reading it. Here is the last paragraph.

As apps and data move into the cloud, the traditional
PC metaphors are beginning to lose their relevance.
We're entering the age of the invisible PC: a world
where Windows may soon seem as archaic and limiting
as the mainframes of yesterday. The new computing
model is extending the digital workspace beyond
the desktop to a range of new devices -- including
smartphones, netbooks, and gadgets not even
invented yet. Some of these devices run Linux now,
and many more will in the future. The value
proposition of open source for hardware manufacturers
is such that Linux's future as a vital, thriving
client-side OS is all but assured. It just won't
be on the desktop.

Don't bother reading that even. Here it is in a sentence.

A lot of people don't use Linux.
I wasn't there to party, either. I was mostly hanging out with 50 year old salarymen! Frat boys on spring break in Cancun have got nothing on Japanese middle managers. I'll never understand how the Japanese have achieved the longest average lifespan. I'm a lightweight... if I had gotten wrapped up in the typical asian expat tweaker scene I'd probably already be dead.
I was mostly intrigued by the payment model. As more users sign up, accounts cost more.
I see your point, and it's a valid one, but then again, Boo managed to work around it.
I'm not sure that if you got struck by lightning at 9am whether they would let you onto a plane which would crash at 2pm.

I think you would need some sort of overnight hospital observation.

Therefore this entire argument is false.

/ID Logic
Honestly? I think I can figure out which pages to trust on my own. But if you somehow came up with a way to show results that look like Google minus the crap, I'd use it. That's a big "if" though.
Microsoft already has free file sharing: http://www.officelive.com:80/en-us/file-sharing
Ah, I didn't get that far - and was editing my comment before you posted.

Yes, an interesting (first-of-a-kind?) incentive to "sign up early." Wonder if any will sign up with so many free options around?
Sorry, guys, this has major problems. From CNET:

Don't let the attention-grabbing headlines elsewhere fool you. GirlsMakingBoySounds still has not announced a business model. There are no Pro GirlsMakingBoySounds accounts. There is no GirlsMakingBoySoundsWords advertising program. You still can't buy plush toy Girls Making Boy Sounds from GirlsMakingBoySounds.

GirlsMakingBoySounds is engaged in a few experiments that are providing value to other companies, such as letting Federated Media use its content for its Microsoft-sponsored ExecGirlsMakingBoySounds site. But this is not the big GirlsMakingBoySounds revenue model people are waiting for.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10205736-2.html
Encourage the women/girls in your life to call the number and record some sounds and we can all benefit.
Perhaps you would, but a huge number of people are being misled by nonsense all the time.
I think you are using different numbers from those depicted in the graphic, in which RAM is "only" 83 times faster than L1 cache, or under a kilogram if we go with the L1 hummingbirds @ 10g, and the cat would be 47 grams.

Maybe you meant to start with 1 kilogram? : D
Maybe a knowledge base that helps clearly lay out all the competing factional 'truths' would be better? See for example the 'UberFact' proposal:

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/uberfac...
No. Actually, it started when my 7 year relationship broke up, and I realized I wanted to be in complete control of my life before dating seriously again.
Good point, although if I remember correctly 37signals has at least one dedicated support person (possibly more).
it seems more or less finished, I don't see why the guy doesn't spend a weekend to finish it(or work on it in his spare time). It seems to be the type of service that'll grow fairly slow at first, so why not run it on the side while working full time?
From the roadmap: "Get acquired by Yahoo and slowly grow useless" -- lol! :)
How do you define "well-established"?

What about well-established scientific THEORIES (i'm not sure what is the definition of a scientific truth) that turn out to be false or inaccurate after decades of being well-established?

What if such a well-established theory is in the process of being disproven or replaced with a better theory - which happens to be "the other side of the debate" today?
Please give me feedback on my project-- RSS digests via email.
> With a co-lo, there are well defined demarcation points between customer and provider with regards to access privileges and security responsibilities.

And which of those keeps rackspace from installing rootkits before the OS?
I would imagine they have some pretty good stats on what people are posting and are making some inferences based on what they think would be most useful to the most people. That's what I would probably be doing if I were in their shoes (but since I'm not I'd love to hear how their actually doing it).
Nice. it makes it real clear why caching disk to ram (as all modern *NIX variants do) is such a huge win, and why you should always load up your servers with as much ram as you can afford.

Sure, CPU contention can slow things down, but it's usually not the 'fall off a cliff' performance degradation that hitting disk (rather than hitting ram cache) is.
A screenshot at least would be nice.
Boiling the Frog - Creeping Disasters for the Economy and the Planet
This is where the question of legitimacy matters, because a sovereign will have at least some trouble if its residents do not accept its legitimacy, even if it wins in the end.

There are two things to consider in regards to USG's relationship with middle-North America:
a) property ownership
b) management structure

I do not view the property ownership as illegitimate. I do not agree with the libertarians who view taxation as theft. I think such a view is neither justified nor constructive.

USG's management structure is awful. It badly needs reform or a reboot. The goal of a management reboot is not so that us subjects will pay more taxes. It's so that resources will not be squandered. This would end up being good for us subjects, but it would also be in the interest of USG itself. Thus I view a management change as more likely to succeed and less likely to incite violence.

If a management structure is bad enough, an outside group could be morally justified ( though not legally justified) in trying to seize the territory itself. But that would be worst case.
Yeah, but if you can have more ram than the commonly accessed data (which is the usual case I have seen, unless you are putting things like photos in the DB. Most of us have databases that are far smaller than 64GiB, and 64GiB ram servers can be had for the value of less than a week of programmer time. ) once the database warms up, the read speed is no longer blocked on disk.

Disk is largely something you keep around so you can handle really large things (like pictures and video) and so that all your data doesn't go 'poof' when you hit the power.

(the other side of that, of course, is that if you want your data to be in good shape after the aforementioned power loss, then yeah, your writes will block on disk speed. But for most people, the 'sane but not correct' default of ext3 and the like is good enough.)
It's not that complicated for lawyers - i am certain most M&A ends up being more convoluted. It's just that no-one has really tried this in court -- that's really the pain point. Till then it's just a bit of paper that everyone freaks out over because there are so many unanswered questions.

Jacob: the question you were missing:

"What happens if a Judge finds the GPL unenforceable?"

That's the big elephant in the room.
If a theory turns out to be false/inaccurate, it would no longer be included.

If a theory is not the truth but is good enough in practical cases, such as Newton's Laws, then that's fine.
Gah, I really need to put my numbers on paper when doing repeated conversions or errors creep in. You're right, it is pretty borked. Give me a second...
More like http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Monday_Night_Football/1...
I was interested in learning about negotiation a few months ago, so I bought all the best-reviewed books on Amazon. Here's the ones I especially liked: The Power of Nice (Shapiro), Bargaining for Advantage (Shell), 3D Negotiation (Lax), Negotiation Genius (Malhotra)
According to the website, the fee is (number of users * 0.001). Since the current fee is $2.91, the number of people who've signed up is around 2,910. Seems like at least a few people willing to throw in a few bucks to give it a shot. It'll be interesting to see what will happen to growth as the rate goes up and up.
Well, I believe the main point of that is as an anti-spam measure.
I don't think limiting them to a pre-approved subset of the web is a good idea (though that hasn't stopped Hasidic Jews, Mormons, or the Chinese government from trying similar plans)

If anything, I think the opposite approach would work better. Expose people to all viewpoints including ones that disagree with their world view. To paraphrase Justice Brandeis, the best answer to bad speech is more speech.
Have you tried it on a box with a HDD and an adequate amount of ram? I would think that on modern file systems with ordered metadata writes (or journaling) like ext3 or ffs with softupdates, so long as you had enough ram, disk speed wouldn't matter all that much so long as you can keep everything in cache.

SSD is great, the problem is that the good SSD costs something like $15 per gigabyte, and good registered ecc ddr2 ram costs just over $20 per gigabyte. Sure, in applications where consistency across power-loss events is a huge deal, ssd is the right answer, but for most applications, buying a whole lot of ram is often faster and not that much more expensive.
I'm sure there's an excellent reason, but the first thing I think whenever I see something like this is .. why doesn't intel (or whoeever) load up the CPUs with more L1 and L2 cache? Are there really diminishing returns so quickly after 6MB, or would the size increase make the expense not worth it? And is it impossible to make it modular and expandable?

It would be interesting to see some account of the cache size / die size cost / performance trade-offs.
You've hit the nail on the head when you say it's like one part of you wants to do something and another part of you works against it and against yourself. That is exactly what is happening.

The part that works against you is the "reactive mind". This is a term and concept from Dianetics.

I used to have big mood swings, to the point where life was starting to get unlivable, and I was extremely unhappy and study of Dianetics and Scientology and doing some Dianetics auditing with a programmer friend of mine evened that out considerably.

You can check it out at http://www.dianetics.org/ or just go into your local Church of Scientology and do a couple of intro courses and see if it helps you.

The point is to reduce your reactive mind and render it less powerful and to increase your own native power and ability.
Nightly database backups to S3 (welcome, Ma.gnolia users!)

Too soon, guys.
> If two monkeys in one group died under anesthesia, that doesn't constitute ground to conclude they were more likely to die

I didn't say that two monkeys constituted statistical significance.

> Hence you may subtract them from the age related deaths.

You can subtract them because they're not statistically significant, but you can't conclude that there isn't something going on, which is what "there's no reason to suppose" means.

Suppose that odds of death due to anesthesia is really low (which it is) but that calorie restriction increased it by 10x (which we don't know either way). 10x a really small number is small enough that this study can't observe the effect because it doesn't kill enough monkeys. And yet, that 10x can easily cause two deaths in one pool while the other has 0.
Well it doesn't scale that's for sure.
Okay, so, if your DB all gets paged into RAM, what tends to be the next mole to whack in the optimization whack-a-mole?
MIT's "MetaMaterials": Optical Clothing for a James-Bond World
During the GPLv3 drafting process, we joked that GPLv2 became perfect only once GPLv3 was published. I have to agree. I've been dealing with these issues since 1997 or so for companies big and small, and the gpl keeps things...interesting.

Its funny ,one of the reasons we mostly release using the permissive licenses (apache 2 and sometimes bsd and mit) is that they are both usable by both commerical and gpl'd software but also because the added administrative overhead (policing use, etc) that is introduced by releasing software under the GPL isn't necessarily worth the patches you might force out of those that might use your code.
It's commonly accepted that the cost of a chip is super-linear in its area but performance improves sub-linearly with cache size, so there is definitely a point of diminishing returns. Processor vendors analyze cost/performance tradeoffs in detail, but they generally don't publish anything.
they've been around for a while. I had an account with johncompanies before I started prgmr.com. My experience was quite positive.

I've heard this 'it doesn't scale' argument many times, and I think the source is that the sort of skills it takes to maintain support infrastructure of that quality are quite different from and rarely present in the same individual (or management of a company) as the skills required to scale out a product to the mass market.

Also, I don't believe the mass market doesn't really want a unix nerd on the level 1 support line. they want someone who speaks 'normal person.'
As with any project like this, that last 20% completeness takes the most effort, and spending a couple of hours a week on it just won't be enough to take it to success. Building the product is just the first step, getting people using it and iterating is what matters to me.

I'm working with a startup now (Heyzap, YC W09), so that's where all my energy is being directed!
Moving to SSD is a very noticeable performance bump. In my personal experience it has been one of the better upgrades I've ever done. The performance gains are across the board whereas CPU/RAM upgrades these days only benefit you if there was a CPU/RAM bottleneck in the first place. If you happen to have a fairly good system to star with an SSD really opens things up.