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Re:Are we really running out of helium? on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @02:07PM (#9102759)
Do you mean fission?
Re:Steam In-Home Streaming on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @03:51PM (#7780372)
By remote control, do you mean as a VNC/RDP alternative for non-gaming purposes?
Re:Exec($_GET on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @03:08AM (#7665446)
Example from the Github search:

     <?php
          $result=shell_exec("cat ".$_GET['name'].".txt");
          echo $result;
     ?>
How to abuse:

     $_GET['name'] = "/dev/null; rm -rf /; echo ";
Re:IPhone 5 Sleep/Wake Button Replacement Program on Monday April 28, 2014 @02:17PM (#7661852)
I've had this issue with an iPhone 2 and 4, and was able to permanently fix it in both cases by applying acetone to a cotton swab (Q-Tip) and cleaning the home button with it (allowing a small amount of acetone to enter into the seam). In both instances, the home button worked like new afterwards, for years. Your results may vary, but to maximize your chances, I'd suggest using a high grade acetone (e.g. from a home improvement store) as opposed to nail polish.
Re:VK.com's PHP accelerator – kPHP source code on Thursday March 06, 2014 @07:53PM (#7357719)
It requires additional dependencies because HHVM has to emulate most of the core PHP extension functionality to be compatible with PHP, for example 'mysql_query', etc.
Re:VK.com's PHP accelerator – kPHP source code on Thursday March 06, 2014 @07:45PM (#7357672)
Facebook's HHVM (HipHop VM) compiles webpages into native machine code that can be executed directly on the processor. People often confuse HHVM with HPHPc, also made by Facebook. HPHPc came first; it was a converter that converted all the PHP files in a folder into individual C++ files. In other words, you would end up uploading the C++ files to the server, not PHP files. Facebook abandoned HPHPc early on for multiple reasons (it was actually developed by a single developer as a tool for one-time use to convert all of Facebook's existing PHP files into C++, back when Facebook was considering rewriting the website in C++ for improving performance). While the idea for HHVM was loosely based on HPHPc, the approach is much different. HHVM is a standalone replacement for the PHP engine. It has almost 100% support with the native PHP language, up to PHP 5.5, and even (intentionally) reproduces the various bugs in the PHP language, to maintain compatibility. HHVM only replaces PHP, not Apache or anything else in your stack. It is really, really easy to replace it via their FastCGI handler.
Re:Your emails may reveal text hidden in Microsoft Word on Friday January 31, 2014 @03:12PM (#7158892)
In Word: Edit > Paste Special > Unformatted Text

Ask HN: What software/services do you recommend for sales in a SaaS startup?

What's your sales setup like? Looking for suggestions on which software/services to use (e.g. CRM, accounting, etc). Our current setup uses SugarCRM (for contact management + emailing + quote/invoice tracking) and Skype (calling out). But we waste a lot of time being inefficient (manually logging calls into SugarCRM, manually creating "followup" events for each quote, no way to manage trial...

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Re:Machine that Levitates Objects Using Sound [video] on Thursday January 02, 2014 @03:20PM (#7001988)
Nanobubbles [1] are already being studied for this very purpose. Drugs are packaged within small bubbles, and injected into the blood stream. Targeted drug delivery is performed by popping the bubbles using ultrasound waves from an external speaker.

[1] http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcolleg...

Re:DigitalOcean Root Vulnerability in the Wild on Monday March 18, 2013 @10:17AM (#5394273)
Was fail2ban even working? After a reformat, did you install fail2ban manually, or from a repo? Are you using syslog or rsyslog? Each's log format is slightly different, meaning you have to edit the filter to accomodate. The base install filter didn't even work correctly for me on a fresh CentOS re-image. Also, the latest version on the website is v0.8.7.1, but on CentOS epel it's v0.8.4.

Ask HN: Traced spam back to script on a pwned server, but then it gets weird

Odd email spam: Followed IP from Received headers to a PHP mailer script on some random server. Googled some text from the form and found similar sites. Are these pwned servers hacked, or dedicated spam servers?The email in question included an odd detail: Received: (qmail 28723 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2013 01:56:56 -0800 Received: from m81.ninthapple.com (HELO vmi10541.localdomain)...

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Re:Mojang's Monster Profits on Saturday February 02, 2013 @09:27PM (#5158288)
Could you kindly? I'd love to check out his songs. Bandcamp only hosts a couple of his songs, but the archive.org page of his old music page shows plenty more songs. [http://web.archive.org/web/20090728013239/http://www.mojang....] I can't seem to find them anywhere, so if you do upload them, please let me know!