15:[[9580142,{"by":"labvie","descendants":18,"id":9580142,"kids":[9580320,9580302,9580428,9580163,9580195,9580159,9580170,9580536,9580154],"score":14,"text":"I've been trying to fundraise for my company, we found a compound that reduces tumor formation by 80%, effectively its a cure to cancer waiting to be marketed. The second compound inhibits fat collection in adipose tissue, its a good inhibitor to heart disease. Both are major breakthroughts.

We even got an offer to buy us out for 200 million. And yet, we turned down the offer in hopes to turn this into a company. I feel as if I regret having done so. No VC wants to even give us a chance. Perhaps its still to early, but I don't know. I hate the idea of selling it all.

I'm new to fundraising, but I never knew that VC's could be so cruel. Most of them have been quite mean, it is no wonder Travis from Uber dislikes them. We both do.","time":1432165776,"title":"We came up with a cure to cancer and no VC wants to fund us","type":"story"}],[9056095,{"by":"louisbird","descendants":3,"id":9056095,"kids":[9056116,9078823,9078827],"score":2,"text":"Google says I should make my account more secure by adding a phone number for password recovery.

However, I don't believe my phone is secure. I've read too many stories (@N on Twitter, etc.) about phone companies getting social engineered.

So I removed the recovery phone number (and e-mail address) from my Google Account.

I'm not going to forget my password, and if I drop my 2fa device in a lake, I still have the backup codes.

So I'm not worried about me goofing up and losing access to my account.

But I am VERY worried about a hacker resetting the password to my account.

Is Google's account recovery procedure LESS secure if I don't have a phone added to the account? Is Google willing to grant a password reset request with LESS info if I don't add the phone?

What I really want is a way to lockdown my account that says "No password resets, ever, no matter what."","time":1424081368,"title":"Adding a phone # to my G Account for “recovery” = people hacking my phone?","type":"story","url":""}],[9047298,{"by":"mhandley","descendants":8,"id":9047298,"kids":[9048403,9048162,9049081,9047347],"score":35,"text":"One of our webservers is pretty ancient. I configured it in 1993 running CERN/3.0, and it's still running in production use 22 years later. Admittedly, it's not on the original Sun IPC hardware anymore; sometime in the late 1990s it was moved to a Sparcstation 4, and there it remains. It stopped being our primary webserver about ten years back, but still handles all the staff webpages in production use:

bash-3.2$ telnet www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk 80

...

GET /staff/M.Handley/ HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 Document follows

MIME-Version: 1.0

Server: CERN/3.0

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:19:43 GMT

...

So, 22 year old webserver software running on 19 year old hardware. Not bad. But something tells me there must be even older servers out there somewhere? Perhaps some ancient ftp server or DNS server? So, what is the oldest continuously used server on the Internet (still running the original software or hardware - even if patched)?","time":1423862686,"title":"Ask HN: What's the oldest server on the Internet?","type":"story","url":""}],[9019305,{"by":"bikamonki","descendants":3,"id":9019305,"kids":[9019360,9019345,9019381],"score":1,"text":"If I run clear on a re-sized console window in Linux all goes away but when I maximize that window everything is there, clear just scrolls console contents?","time":1423444838,"title":"Ask HN: Why doesn't 'clear' actually erase the console?","type":"story","url":""}],[8983187,{"by":"pskittle","descendants":25,"id":8983187,"kids":[8983379,8994917,8984962,8989364,8984795,8987748,8984898,8983884,8983200,8983295,8984860,8983310,8983270,8983223,8983205,8983322,8984414],"score":8,"text":"","time":1422864443,"title":"How did you learn to code?","type":"story","url":""}],[8965333,{"by":"JoelJacobson","descendants":4,"id":8965333,"kids":[8965461,8965449,8965435],"score":4,"text":"I've noticed a lot of users from different ISPs appear to have local LAN IP-addresses in the range 25.0.0.0 - 25.255.255.255. But according to RIPE, this network belongs to "DINSA, Ministry of Defence"?

If I try to ping any IP in this range, my router immediately drops the packets saying "Destination Host Unreachable".

This network is not listed in Wikipedias list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses

So should I consider this network reserved, or is it possible real IPs on the Internet can have IPs in this range?","time":1422527796,"title":"Ask HN: Is 25.0.0.0/8 a Private/Reserved IPv4 Network?","type":"story"}],[8958607,{"by":"hyunwoona","descendants":2,"id":8958607,"kids":[8958764,8964008],"score":7,"text":"I am spending my last semester in school, and I have some courses (Numerical Analysis, Knowledge Representation, Combinatorics, etc...) I wish I took before graduation but couldn't due to time constraint.

I want to be studying even when I am working as a software engineer, but I found it hard to keep motivated enough to study after work when I was working full-time as an intern. Even when the work load was moderate at where I did my internship.

I hope my study of the subject would count in case I apply to a master's degree program in Applied Math, but I cannot afford anything expensive.","time":1422430668,"title":"How do you keep studying when you're not in school?","type":"story","url":""}]]

1.	Ask HN: You have successfully soc engineered your way in a company's network 1 points by franciscogarcia 11 years ago \| 0 comments
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