skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great... they have MBR infections too..

The SQL database contains a lot of support tickets detailing the internal workings of some of the exploits and attacks:

2x MBR Infection - Windows XP 32bit SP3
One of them is on 2.41 and one is on 2.51
Master is 3.0

After the upgrade to v3 the targets are online and connectible. Very fine. And everything worked flawlessly until the upgrade.
Except the fact, that *no* module is installed anymore and of course cannot be added. Means, no modules can be seen neither in live session nor in configuration.
Therefore, the targets are useless since then.

FYI: The attached error ./TargetActivity/$ID/$ID.log didnt show up anytime before and is Target reports error -10017 now reoccurring all the time.
Strikingly similar to the problem of generating a close enough dendrogram over large data sets very quickly. Back in ~2008 I did some undergrad research on the topic to speed DNA analysis. Basically it solves your grouping problem gracefully by attempting to be within a error level at N levels. Since you are attempting N buckets this would solves your problem well. There was a very good review paper on the subject but is not in first page of google and my memory fails me completely on author (also I'm at work).

Might not meet your memory or computation constraints, but grouping is such an wide topic.
Do “obscure” signals lead to revenue growth?
I would much rather trust people who jump through some hoops to prove they're secure than people who don't (or routinely show they despite the hoop jumping, they're not -- looking at you India CCA).

By and large, the process prevents fraudulent certificates and at the cost of $5/y, I'm not horribly upset.

Would the world be a better, more perfect place with the CA system was organized differently? Maybe. But the likes of StartCOM are not the answer (predatory pricing is no bueno).
For $6 you can get a Mac-compatible version from GOG.com. The Windows version on GOG.com is just the DOS version running inside DOSBox, and I'd be surprised if the Mac version isn't too.

That's the irony of the Mac processor switch: it's usually easier to run an old game in DOSBox or a Windows VM than to run a classic MacOS or PowerPC OS X game.
Hey Sol! Fellow entrepreneur here :)

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Thanks!
You're dodging the question,

By saying you're going to vote, all a politician has to do to earn you vote is to be the lesser of two evils

By not making your participation automatic, you've raised the standard you hold politicians to
but I HATE that once in swarm, you bounce me back to Foursquare to see what's good here, after not allowing me to check in in Foursquare. It's so maddening.
Edison: A Peek Into the Design of The Robot Anyone Can Afford
In a world where property rights exist, you don't need a justification to charge for something, you just can.
I don't get this issue. Let the robots have all the jobs.
They do indeed use hot glue and bolt the computers into cages.

Then they buy monitors with built in USB hubs for keyboard and mouse and plug them in.

To circumvent, remove mouse inert USB stick.

No kidding. This was a tier 1 defense company and I was DV cleared.
I think people frame voting in the wrong way. It's true that your particular vote has functionally zero impact on anything. I see the problem with voting being perceived as an act of making a decision, of trying to control something. It's not. It's just an awkward implementation of government polling people's brains for their opinion. Since you can't just pull information out of people's head directly, you need them to respond with required information themselves. But if you vote, you're not choosing anything. You're just providing a data point.
Evil has a name
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Was I supposed to already know what this is? I only caught mention of the motors by accident while scrolling. Until then I thought it was just a skateboard.
Github's atom might be a good long-term solution when it becomes more stable.
Disruption of the economy. What if they had Your job? And you couldn't find another one.
Maybe so. The only person I know with security clearance says that when they have to renew it, people come and interview them, their neighbors, family members, etc. To go to that trouble without checking their internet history seems foolish, but that doesn't mean that they do it. (This is in the USA; I don't know what level of clearance they have, but I know they work on classified projects.)
I'm working on something similar where we have a file system like structure in a database managing tons and tons of files and metadata.

What I found out works best for me is:

1. A virtual file system which interacts with the database.

2. A virtual file that is basically the minimum attributes for a given file and a generic container for a variety of other views (I.e. FileAttributeView, FileVersionsView, DirectoryAttributeView, DirectoryChildenView, AclView, ImageFileAttributeView). In this sense, it behaves similar to a dentry and an inode.

3. A global virtual file cache for the virtual file system. The cache can be smart: It can use different underlying caches depending on the file type, file attributes, and evacuation model you want.

4. A layered approach to these File Attribute views. A good example would be one view is the basic set of attributes, but if a user requests more information, it may become an extended set of attributes. Or, it may just contain the extended information and merge to a new view on demand, so the extended information may be garbage collected first.

If necessary, the views themselves can use their own dedicated caches as well. This simplifies cache evacuation.

The nice thing is that whenever a file is updated, all updates to through the virtual file system, so you can handle cache invalidation in several ways. The bluntest is removing the virtual file from the global cache, or you you could invalidate the view, or just reinitialize a view's members.

I implemented this on top of the Java Files API with some inspiration from the Linux VFS and apache commons VFS.
popcorntime was taken "banned" due to a DMCA take down requested by the MPAA[1] and not for violating Github rules which are pretty permissive[2].

1. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/3ccbdf1e3d20c78616c9a095...

2. See G7 - https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service
The Foursquare app allows you to write reviews/tips and upload photos, it just doesn't check you in.
can you run privileged containers (so that you can run tests that use docker internally?)
Could you expand on this? What are the biggest restrictions?
QWidgets are still there.You don't have to use QtQuick.
Hummingbirds vs. Micro UAVs: Who's the Best Flyer?
I really like your approach here. I think for beginning (and intermediate) app developers, after learning some language syntax, design is one of the hardest things to overcome. I skimmed through the first section and will certainly be diving into it more this weekend (and watching some videos).

One nitpick is the description text accompanying the section titles in the syllabus. Reading the paragraphs of white text over the images make me strain my eyes to read or have me scrolling so the text falls over a dark part of the image which makes it rather busy and distracting to read.

Thanks for this resource!
I'm resisting the urge to offer you a tinfoil hat or ask if you're joking. Instead, I'm going to reason through this.

The scenario you describe is unlikely. Before such a global catastrophe happens, it's likely that a smaller catastrophe will happen. Like the Titanic, the world will be shocked into preventative action. Governments will make laws.

After that, the difficulty in collecting such massive amounts of information will be greater than the value in that information. Even now, requiring proper software security practices would prevent information-theft from being a viable business. You might get the occasional massive haul, but it wouldn't be an epidemic.
A $2,000 skateboard to remove the exercise from my bicycle commute? Sign me up! I will just have to recover the original purchase price of all 3 of my bicycles to cover it.
why do you care about being the mayor? was there some benefit beyond the foursquare status I am not aware of ?
That's SOP in some large enterprises & government.
I feel that same confusion as you. In Haskell terms, what is it Rich have implemented or perhaps even invented?
I'm actually inclined to agree with you. The hackathon was very directly modeled off of college hackathons.
IMHO, it's also unethical to get kids dependent on a proprietary editor.
Why 60% of your users opt-out of push notifications, and what to do about it
Vladimir Putin is mad. He has done much madder things in recent months and years.
I have no horse in this race, but this seems pretty silly, if you accept the premise of copyright law to begin with^.

I mean, who owns the copyright on a major motion picture? It's usually not the people holding the camera...

There's more to photography than pressing the button on the camera.

^ - As someone who never expects to make money from photography, I can appreciate Wikimedia trying to make information more free though.
> Also, "voting" is inherently dumb because it's just "majority wins". Shouldn't the best outcome win? Why can't we have a system where we argue things out and have some heuristics for finding out what the best decision is for a given group of people?

Robin Hanson proposed[0] an interesting form of such system - named "Futarchy". The basic idea is that people vote on what things they care about, but to determine how to get them, they use prediction markets. Hence, "vote on values, bet on beliefs".

[0] - http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html
The story seems slightly misleading... Max isn't leaving a "fast-growing, valuable startup". And is certainly not walking away from millions as the story suggests. He will become Vice Chairman and "remain with the company full time after transitioning the CEO role".
What have you found works to balance technology and the importance of interpersonal communication in the digitalage?
Not sure if I empathize much. I highly doubt such a large company looked at that idea, and said, "hey's let's steal that idea!". This was probably in the works well before they tried to buy the domain and they decided that they wanted his domain because some decided it fitted the idea best. It could have even been a naming agency that picked the name. Big companies tend to refer to naming companies for their product names.

Just having an idea, and working on it for a few years, and then crying foul when someone gets there faster is not how the valley works. People get beaten all the time. Case in point, Uber releases private beta of Pool yesterday, and today Lyft announces Lines. Granted these are two huge companies, but none accused each other of stealing a concept. It's a natural evolution.
And a new monkey business is born - letting animals take pictures and make money.
Secret: AngularJS scares me
John Battelle Joins Board Of Chute (YC W12)
Why does Explorer say “File too large” when the file is not too large?
Still want to know how they're mitigating firmware attacks :)
Astronomer Seth Shostak: We'll find ET by 2037 [video]
Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but will this leave ChromeOS side-by-side with Ubuntu? If so, is this because it's technically not possible to only run Ubuntu, or because of other (legal, warranty, etc.) issues, or simply by choice?

Thanks.
It turns it into an actual, normal Ubuntu machine.
TL;DR: There is a limit on viruses for how mach contagious, lethal and resistance to treatments they could be. It's like CAP theorem - you can have two of these but not all three. So this in essence, puts all the worries for Ebola and other fiction-viruses like Andromeda strain able to wipe out humanity to the rest and in the "unscientific" zone.
That's a great anecdote, and you've brought up one of our primary hypotheses. A few weeks ago I attended a CoderDojo event in Virginia to deliver our first batch of Codestarter laptops, and it's always amazing to see the demographics. Mostly kids under 12, 50/50 boys/girls and this event was about 90% African American. Seeing the diversity at this age and comparing with the makeup of the professional software industry paints a pretty interesting picture. You can read about the event and see some photos here: http://blog.codestarter.org/post/92559298800/first-delivery-...
They were in the summer '12 YC batch, and their kickstarter made the rounds, so it's not completely out of the blue.
Why do you think that modern Linux is "real & scary"?

They're installing Scratch, isn't that the opposite of scary?
I am not sure I buy that reasoning. The ring certainly has utility from the perspective of the giver: the giver knows that it is going to elicit a positive response. A donation to charity cannot be worn, cannot be accessorized, cannot be shown off. I disagree with your assessment - in today's society, a ring has far more social value than a charitable donation.

The ring is shiny, and pretty, and can be socially displayed to elicit the attention of others.

The example you provide re-affirms my point. The evaluation criteria you are reverting to is wealth. And as a heuristic for wealth, the ability to purchase an expensive ring is a reasonable metric.

As a heuristic for a good partner, it is next to useless. As a screening criteria for the complex quality of "goodness" in partner, it is likely less than useless.

If you are evaluating partners purely on their wealth and willingness to waste that wealth to enter into a partnership with you, then a ring is a more reasonable criteria.

For an assessment on more nuanced basis (e.g. does the potential partner truly love me?), it is not a very good indicator, and may even be a contra-indicator precisely because it can be gamed easily.
...or some other rationing of goods will occur. When things are free, people waste them. When they cost even a nickel, they don't. So some credit system (basic income?) and some cost function will be necessary, because people are people.
Wireless charging only seems unbearably stupid because you are thinking of standard, non-resonant induction. Resonant induction is much more efficient. "The fields used are predominately non-radiative" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonant_inductive_coupling

edit: The article is not referring to resonant induction or standard induction, but using ultrasound instead.
It's not a formal notation. It's talking about a pattern in function signature. The function takes in some parameters (whatever, input) and spits out an output ( -> whatever ).

The "reducing function signature" basically is just the function signature of a "reducer" (or "fold") function in the map/reduce (or map/fold) pattern.

The "whatever" is kind of sloppy and confusing. It's the accumulating memo parameter of a reducer function. To be precise, the reduce(list, reducer, init_value)->list function takes in another function - the reducer, which has the function signature of reducer(current_element, accumulating_memo)->new_memo to run against each element of the list.

The "transducer" is basically a function to take in a reducer and spit out another reducer.

e.g. you have a reducer to sum up all the elements of a list. A doubling transducer would take that reducer and produces another one that doubles each element before summing them up.
Our installer will leave you with the ability to boot either ChromeOS or Ubuntu. It is possible to wipe ChromeOS completely and boot just to Ubuntu, if that is your goal.
Typically, those people would have to give the photographer a model release for the photographer to use the photos for commercial purposes.
I wouldn't base anything off one geographic area. I just checked in SF, and Lyft Plus has 4 drivers in my area (SOMA), whereas Uber XL only had 3.
I've been thinking about an analogous real-life situation: I'm on vacation and ask a random stranger, "Please take a picture of me in front of this landmark." Who owns the copyright in this case? Does it depend on who has creative control over the photo? (i.e. if I set up the photo and they just push the button vs they compose the photo and tell me where to stand.) I've thought this over, and I see reasonable arguments on both sides.
It was the winky face.
Absolutely, and I mentioned that in a different comment. I'd love to provide Atom on our laptops.
That's awesome. Thank you!

I'm thinking of using something like this: https://github.com/sstur/node-websocket-tunnel to allow access to StackMonkey instances by way of an IPv4 route if the customer doesn't have IPv6 enabled on their network.
Ouch. I was thinking, "What if you unplugged the monitor cable...?" but thats even worse.

Still, when I was going to go on a tour of LANL (I decided it wasn't worth divulging my SSN, in case it was misplaced), they made it very clear that cell phones, USBs, etc. were not allowed; I'm not sure if I would have actually been searched, however. (Not that I was remotely tempted to push it.)

That was a long time ago. Today you can get such tiny devices that theres no way they could find them. Perhaps you could modify the firmware on something like this, and swallow it;

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/269902-sandisk-c...
My guess is people just don't bother checking their credit card bills.
Adding "well-tailored" as a qualifying adjective is effectively begging the question. A well-tailored anything will make you look better than its off-the-shelf equivalent.

If we're just throwing free tailoring around, I'll also have my polo and khakis tailored, and then we can compare between them on the runway. It may well be that no style of clothing makes me look better than a suit, and that I still don't look good in one.
If you permanently redirect http to https, is the HSTS header still needed?
who is the legal guardian of these monkeys? Indonesian government i guess - the same way if the selfie was taken by say an orphan toddler. So i'd guess the Indonesian government has the claim here.
Garry Kasparov, the Man Who Would Be King
This is behind a pay-wall. Wish I could read the full story
You can buy Toshiba Satellite 15.6" with 4GB Memory and 500 GB hard drive for $229 http://www.bestbuy.com/site/toshiba-satellite-15-6-laptop-in...
Efficient JSON in Swift with Functional Concepts and Generics
That would be amazing, and it's something I'd love to pursue in the long run. It seems a natural evolution of our current approach.
I believe you, but to be fair, I don't think Occam's Razor applies here.
I recommend BillGuard or something similar for anyone who is worried about losing payment information. Also, use/promote http://twofactorauth.org
Not gamed in that sense. Gamed in the sense that a diamond ring is purchased not as a show of commitment, but with the intent that it will be perceived as a show of commitment by the receiver.

If the giver knows that the receiver is treating the ring as a sign of commitment, they can decide "well I'm not really committed to this person, but I can help convince them that I am by buying them a diamond ring."

At that point, the metric has been gamed.
Well said!

Just to add a few more points. On the technology side you want to make sure you have data encrypted "at rest" and "in transit". i.e. At rest means things like running AES encrypted drives for your DB data storage. AWS has docs & case studies on this and is HIPAA compliant. Just don't use RDS, it isn't HIPAA compliant yet.
UK piracy police arrest man suspected of running proxy server
In HTTP terms a reverse proxy is just a Web server (what it does internally is its own business), not a proxy. HTTP/2 load balancers have no trouble terminating TLS.
Open startups
Yes, it's an historical observation. But it would be very interesting imagine/inquire how it could manifest in the future.And BTW - science fiction authors did predict something generally similar to the iPhone.

OK ,it's possible that robot produced goods will be perceived as inferior, but judging the popularity of today's hand made goods vs machines made goods it might not be a big factor - but who knows.

It's also possible that people would be interested in being serviced by a human and not a robot. It's interesting to think such a world, where more than 50% of your wages are purely going towards buying relationships - and most of the work time of people is purely selling relationships. It seems pretty lousy - but it's possible.
It was a fun game. If I really like a certain cafe and go there almost every day it was fun to have some way to show and compete for that.

The benefit was a good UX.
How do private corporations build rail infrastructure without government? Wouldn't you need to negotiate with tens of thousands of private property owners, such that one holdout would be enough to kill the project?

How is this possible without eminent domain?
These sigs are for the arities below only.

map f:
(a->b)->(x->b->x)->(x->a->x)

filter pred:
(a->bool)->(x->a->x)->(x->a->x)

flatmap f:
(a->[b])->(x->b->x)->(x->a->x)

etc.
Everything you need to benefit from Big Data
Microsoft Strives to Embrace Open Source Culture
At some point, you're going to run into a piece of software that you can't use, or a piece of software that you can't change/play with.

By using Ubuntu, kids can grow in any direction in terms of development, without running into a wall at some point.
Not explaining what it is anywhere is a rookie move. Even though your life has revolved around this for the past N years, most people have no idea what your product is or why they should care.
Duke’s Legacy: Video Game Source Disc Preservation at the Library of Congress
or a dead-man's switch release if something happens to the key holder...
Startups Anonymous: You may know my name, but I’m a fraud
I roast coffee at home and have been experimenting a lot with ratios and techniques for brewing. I've come to realize that my favorite technique is cold brewing. For home coffee brewing, I think it's underrated. I make a batch on the weekend, and for the rest of the week I have coffee ready to drink whenever I want it. The concentrate can last a long time without any big changes in the flavor profile, and I can make coffee of varying strengths (by adjusting the water dilution). I highly recommend cold brewing at home if you like coffee and have yet to try it.
How Tony Hsieh Inspired Long-Term Motivation to Grow Zappos Culture
I'm pretty sure that by the time hoodies are as traditional as suits are now, Thiel will be dead. Or at least he'll have a new heuristic (if he doesn't already).

Conforming to preferred aesthetics to pass bogus filters is an integral part of our lives. Otherwise, we wouldn't have and use euphemisms.
This made me think, at what scale is this project happening?

I'm guessing a lot of companies would be willing to give you discounts or perhaps even free machines (buy one, get one free?) to get the positive PR by being associated with this kind of thing.
All Internet-drafts "expire" because they're intended to be work-in-progress documents that should either be updated to a new draft, finalized into an RFC, or abandoned. In this case, HTTP/2 will become an RFC long before January.
Why can't/hasn't this technique be automated into a "pourover-style" drip coffeemaker? If such a thing already exists, are cultural factors the only reason it hasn't displaced manual labor in frou-frou coffeehouses?
Do you mean the scale of the sun compared to the planets? The problem is that because of the huge in size difference between, say, the Sun and Mercury, if the scale was correct then mercury wouldn't be visible at all. I tried to keep them as vaguely accurate as possible while still having the actual planet spheres still visible.

If you've got ideas for how to improve that I'm all ears.