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agnokapatheticon The White Hat's Dilemma

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agnokapatheticon Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

Google Translate uses statistical machine translation [1] seeded from a gigantic automatically curated parallel corpus of similar documents.

As"lorem ipsum" is a typographic placeholder, the filled in version appears appears to have the same document structure (HTML) and would therefore be statistically likely candidates as translatable pairs.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PzPDRPwlA

agnokapatheticon Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices

Would be awesome if this was an S3 public dataset (http://aws.amazon.com/datasets)!

agnokapatheticon Show HN: Survey Builder with Drag/Drop Logic Branching

Although the market is substantially smaller, this would be really cool to mash-up with Twilio to create Interactive Voice Response menus (Press 1 to get your account balance, Press 2 to speak to a representative, etc).

You could also allow users to select Text-to-speech or integrate eLance or http://www.voices.com/ and sell human voice-overs.

agnokapatheticon Oracle proposes Java GPU support

Standard coauthored by AMD/ATI.

agnokapatheticon Curiosity: Monitoring Execution of Space Craft Flight Software

Here's the paper: http://www.havelund.com/Publications/logscope10.pdf

And a number of interesting articles citing it. http://goo.gl/LGZnT

A Few applications:

- Formally verifying programs not designed for formal verification. See for http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~howard/Papers/ruler-tutorial.pdf example to instrument Java programs for runtime verification using AspectJ

- Using automata for log-analysis, immediately useful to any internet company with large amounts of logs, imagine an automata DSL to analyze data flows from Flume/Scribe into Hadoop

agnokapatheticon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)

HP/ Fortify (Remote)

We are hiring Mobile Developers (iOS, Android) with an interest in security or Information Security Generalists with experience in mobile applications to grow our Mobile Application Security team.

Benefits:

  - Competitive Salary and Bonus Structure
  - Flexible Hours
  - Work From Home
  - Low Travel %
  - Solid Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
  - Easy Expense System
  - Company Phone (or take-over of your personal phone bill)
  - Unlimited Book Ordering (Amazon) for Consultants
  - We support our engineers with the hardware they need for 
    research and projects (Macbooks, Servers, Software, etc)
  - Full Reimbursement for any speaking trip
  - 2 Paid Security Conferences a year (Defcon/Blackhat Mandatory)
  - 1 Industry Training & Certification paid per year
  - Lots of room for advancement and process development

If you are have written apps for iOS or Android and have an interest in information security contact me at joel.parish@hp.com

agnokapatheticon What it means to be non-blocking in node.js

Java AIO

  $ ab -n 30000 -c 300 http://127.0.0.1:8080/
  Concurrency Level:      300
  Time taken for tests:   4.908 seconds
  Complete requests:      30000
  Requests per second:    6112.65 [#/sec] (mean)

Node (January 2011)

  $ ab -n 30000 -c 300 http://127.0.0.1:8124/
  Concurrency Level:      300
  Time taken for tests:   8.140 seconds
  Complete requests:      30000
  Requests per second:    3685.69 [#/sec] (mean)

http://www.olympum.com/java/java-aio-vs-nodejs/

agnokapatheticon First "official" NodeJS build on Windows

http://nodejs.org/nodeconf.pdf

With IO Completion Ports, the Windows kernel lends itself more to async server programming than Unix threads, Microsoft has committed to Joyent's port and with many developers working with Windows on their development boxes, even if they later deploy to a Linux environment, a windows port just makes sense.

agnokapatheticon "I am Wired"

As prevalent as Adderall/Amphetamines were in my college CS department, I would not be unduly shocked to find out that all of the Harvard interns and Sean Parker might possibly have used some stimulants for their coding marathons.

agnokapatheticon Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey

Unfortunately it seems no one cares about corporate ethics c.f. Facebook.

I guess my only option is to buy a few shares of GOOG.

agnokapatheticon Do the Rich Need the Rest of America?

Atlas is shrugging.

EDIT: I meant this only as a connection to the work of literature not at all indicating that the Mega-Wealthy Class actually makes the world go round and is "a good thing"(tm)

agnokapatheticon Billionaire’s Cancer Innovations

"the first prototype of what he calls 'the mind-brain computer interface.' It's a sensor in his phone that can compute brain waves and then send them via bluetooth back into the phone to dial numbers."

Read that twice, did I accidentally sleep through the singularity?

agnokapatheticon Pay It Forward

i'm a broke college student whose running out of space on his very old 300GB HD. Will edit random act of kindness tommorrow!

agnokapatheticon David Ulevitch: Some thoughts on Google DNS

To think that Google’s DNS service is for the benefit of the Internet would be naive.

I'm not so sure, it is starting to seem like Google has worked out essentially that Revenue = User-Time on Internet. The Chrome project is one example, a better faster internet is in Google's best interest.

agnokapatheticon First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp

"First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp - It Looks Vaguely like Photoshop."

FTFY.

agnokapatheticon The Dream Stack - Is This A Joke?

Myspace was originally written in Coldfusion, they ported to ASP.NET and the current system handles 1.5 Billion page views per day and up to 2.3 million concurrent users (source: MIX Conference 2006 http://www.andreas-kraus.net/blog/handling-15-billion-page-v...)

agnokapatheticon Why you should buy 5 year old car and sell it after 10 years.

Buying new cars is financially crippling.

http://www.daveramsey.com/etc/lms/drive_free/player.cfm

agnokapatheticon Better networking with SCTP

Its not every day you see remote code execution exploit of a Transport layer protocol, and what OS do you think people are going to be toying around with SCTP... Linux. This is serious.

edit: needed to review the OSI model.

agnokapatheticon Better networking with SCTP

Not questioning the OP's intentions, but a remote vulnerability in most SCTP stacks was published last week: http://pastebin.com/m6863ef05 CVE-2009-0065

agnokapatheticon Tell HN: Rochester, NY Hackers - Unite!

Way ahead of you. Have you seen the Rochester Python meetup? http://www.meetup.com/pythonistas/

agnokapatheticon Tell HN: Rochester, NY Hackers - Unite!

Im a student at the UofR and would love to attend, unfortunately I fly back the 28th! If you guys host a meetup next month, I'll definitely try to make it.

agnokapatheticon Richard Feynman explains confusion - a good definition of "hacker"?

Its not about mentioning them, its the blatant misspelling of their names "Einstien", "Hawkins" or "Feynmann" (http://www.google.com/search?q=Einstien,+Hawkins+or+Feynmann)

EDIT: Feynman is spelled Feinman in Russian texts which andreyf maybe familiar with :)

agnokapatheticon Richard Feynman explains confusion - a good definition of "hacker"?

Well you just broke even on the crackpot index: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html (#8)

agnokapatheticon Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it

It is overkill, but dedicated special purpose hardware like a hardware SSL Accelerator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSL_acceleration) is certainly useful, and its not unfathomable that one of these would use an FPGA.

agnokapatheticon How Reuters Should Be Responding To The AP's Suicide

As an aside: Reuters pushed for an open syndication standard--NewsML--back in 2001 (http://about.reuters.com/newsml/). It's become a standard endorsed by the International Press Telecommunications Council.

agnokapatheticon Ask HN: Review My App

I toyed with this idea back when i first started the site, http://ajax.parish.ath.cx/ads/ then again more recently with a travel abroad program, I got 0 conversions after two months so i pulled the ads.

agnokapatheticon Ask HN: What's the Browser Distribution for your site?

http://ajaxtrans.com/

1. Internet Explorer 55.06%

2. Firefox 33.91%

3. Chrome 4.97%

4. Safari 3.66%

agnokapatheticon EtherPad out of private beta

Anyone know when AppJet with Comet support be released?