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Monitoring for anomalous access patterns is a good idea. It wouldn't have helped in the face of RCE in struts. RCE in struts would let the adversary scp off all the files that make…

I also had been in software for over a decade and was bored with most of the problems I needed to solve. I switched to security about a year and a half ago (largely pen testing) an…

Google is the exception, and as I understand it, Google stock doesn't carry with it the same voting rights that most stock does. Larry and Sergei want to retain control so that the…

FTA: "The rate is part of a tiered fee structure, which will reward drivers by lowering the commission when they complete a certain number of rides in a week"

Nokia/HERE (Formerly Navteq) — Chicago As an organization, we have a long history with map data. Now we’re looking at interesting ways to use it to change driving. Cars of the futu…

Nokia/HERE (Formerly Navteq) — Chicago As an organization, we have a long history with map data. Now we’re looking at interesting ways to use it to change driving. Cars of the futu…

I just finished Feynman's Rainbow by Mlodinow. It's an interesting look at Feynman and Gell-Man. It was a little lighter on Feynman moments than I expected, but certainly worth the…

Nokia/HERE (Formerly Navteq) — Chicago As an organization, we have a long history with map data. Now we’re looking at interesting ways to use it to change driving. Cars of the futu…

Nokia/HERE (Formerly Navteq) — Chicago As an organization, we have a long history with map data. Now we’re looking at interesting ways to use it to change driving. Cars of the futu…

Nokia/HERE (Formerly Navteq) — Chicago As an organization, we have a long history with map data. Now we’re looking at interesting ways to use it to change driving. Cars of the futu…

Nokia/HERE (Formerly Navteq) — Chicago As an organization, we have a long history with map data. Now we’re looking at interesting ways to use it to change driving. Cars of the futu…

My advice? Learn to partner dance. I always say it's the most fun you can have with modular arithmetic. I'm pretty introverted, but I've been an enthusiastic swing dancer for 17 ye…

> 3) The tryout project There are differences between this and the crypto challenge (I can do the crypto challenge in my free time while holding on to my current job, I'm learning …

Are you in the states? How did you order it? I could only find a link for finding dealers in Europe.

Some folks have pointed out the relationship to binary multiplication. Here's a TED talk that discusses the long history of binary math in ancient Africa. http://www.ted.com/talks/…

I'm considering exploring a startup idea from a friend. He works in a grammar school. There is a federal regulation for which he needs to track a bunch of info for each student. Ri…

heh. I had troubles too. I switched to chrome, where I don't have the plugin.

I'm starting to read more about the (s)low carb/paleo/primal diets. I'm genuinely interested in reading more critiques of this class of diets. Charlatan is pretty harsh. I'd say th…

For all this talk about cutting-edge webbery, why does HN have such funny URLs for paging? This makes it so that whenever I come back to an open HN tab I get this error message.

I submitted the tee solution as a joke and I got a smiley in response. I was pretty pleased with myself.

I think I remember reading Feynman saying that you should always have 15 or 20 problems that you have percolating in the back of your mind at any given time. Then, any time you lea…

> I read a great interview (maybe a co-founder of tripod...?) who went through the evolution of search engines over a decade, each time saying that it was too late to enter the fie…

Musicians don't become musicians to make money. The vast majority of all active musicians don't make any real money at it. They do it because they enjoy it. If music was where the …

I don't understand how he could think that fans are better off basing their music purchases on http://www.google.com/images?q=bon+jovi+album+covers rather than on http://www.emusic…