skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's naive. If you pay a ransom they'll be back shortly for more. You've just turned yourself into an ATM for your attackers.
Yes, but very useful since its easy to parse and trivial to generate. You can always pipe input/output through conversion utilities to your format of choice (pgm, jpg, ...).
To be a bed room it must have a window - which also counts as one of the means of egress.
Kidnapped kid versus restoring a back-up. That's not a fair comparison.
Poems by the man who romanticized the colonization of my grandparents' country are always cool, but the logic doesn't hold up. If you're not as well-armed as the British Empire, and you very much do not have the resources to defeat the Dane, it's nice that the end of the game is oppression and shame, but you're going to lose well before you even get to endgame.
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Oh definitely. Especially for rentals.

To be a bedroom it has to have a window, a certain size (which varies), and some places even require a closet in the room.

If they find a bed in a room like that they normally start with a warning, then a visit from child protection services, or even condemning the entire house.

Obviously if they don't inspect they'll never know, but rentals, and people with contact with authority (CPS, Police, etc) could expect an inspection.

If you own, I'm not sure if the fire department can legally enter a home for an inspection without a warrant, but for a rental I believe they can, and do!
It is possible that by paying the ransom, ProtonMail effectively financed its own DDoS attack. That being send, I commend ProtonMail's transparency in this situation, regardless of the seemingly negative reaction.
In general electric cars, even from fossil fuel derived sources, are more efficient then internal-combustion engine vehicles when comparing "well to wheel" numbers.

They are also definitely cleaner for local environments - it is easier to regulate emissions from a couple dozen central powerplants then millions of individual engines.
If you have a working backup you are not really held hostage in the first place. But many people backup to an external drive or a NAS, which unless they happened to be offline at the time of the attack would also be compromised.
But it wasn't the fragmented Android that caused this bug...

The article acknowledges that the root cause was an existing bug in Package Manager.
I disagree completely with this. Past claims that uBeam is infeasibly have rested on discussions of physics not engineering. Refuting these claims with physics is perfectly reasonable.
> Look, you have admitted that rich people (i.e., the people who actually have a choice) prefer country dwellings.

No, I haven't. I am totally disinterested in rich people and what they prefer, but I'm not sure that there are fewer rich people living in cities such as NYC or Shangai than in the country.

> And it is true wherever it is that you live.

Right. Good to know. I'll let you get on with it now.
Well there are options and nothing is perfect. If people want to live in an area with high demand and they are not willing to compromise, they should quit their complaining and pay the high rental costs.
A backup is a copy of your files on another medium physically disjoint in space and not connected to the original in any way that you verify is correct after having written a copy.

Anything less than that is not a backup but a mirror and mirrors while useful are not at the same level of security that a backup is.

Some copies are backups, but not all of them and most copies on spinning or re-writeable media especially when they are networked are not actually backups. Somebody tell backblaze ;).
> People have been delivering food since

For the urbanites among the ancient Romans, food vendors (and even things like grab-and-go street vendors and fast food restaurants) were a normal part of life, since their apartments generally didn't have personal kitchens.

I can't find a source for it, but I have to imagine they had at least some personal food delivery services.
I hope this isn't a ridiculous question, but why not hire more people instead?
Of course you could use awk or anything else, but for most tasks there are already transforms in the netpbm tools that work well. In addition to being in text format, the meta info always comes first, which facilitates streaming. That in turn means that if you pipe together four transforms you'll use four cores without even trying.
no I don't. I only dabble with these languages for fun. as a musician before a programmer, I find live coding very novel, but never the optimal way to produce live music.

so I know this is not the answer you are looking for at all, and I know people will argue with this, but, my 2 cents: if you find yourself trying to sync multiple live coding environments, start a band, or learn something like FL Studio.

music is solely about output. the means to create it are irrelevant.
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Both your example and the Java one are not abstract enough (although the added string conversion is nice.) I was expecting more design patterns and layering for a truly enterprise-quality solution, like this:

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Here is a video interview of them I found if you're curious - http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/30460494/app-connects-str...
It is true. A Tesla on coal power is roughly equivalent, emissions-wise, to a 25-30 MPG gasoline ICE.

Source: I was a hybrid vehicle powertrain engineer.
Why are tech companies so bad at lobbying? If a small, dying industry like publishing is strong enough to push through stuff like this, why can't cash-flush tech companies combat it?
I used to commute via BART from Pittsburgh in the East Bay and it was easily an hour on BART alone.
Is it just me, or was that one difficult article to read? It's almost like he was told by the Atlantic to make this a long-form piece just because it's the Atlantic, so he tried to write an unnecessarily long and patch-worked narrative.
This is one reason I think we should do a type of zoning in-between urban and suburban. Even if you divide a normal residential suburban lot into 9 pieces, if you do two stories, then every little lot could contain 578 square feet, which is 178 square feet more than their 400 square feet apartment.

http://runvnc.github.io/tinyvillage/
There is nothing altruistic about businesses not paying extortionists. Sure they may come to (some, hopefully limited) harm.

But once you as a business pay an extortionist you have just taken on another partner in your business, who will do none of the work and who will take almost all of your profits. So paying out of pragmatism will actually have the exact opposite effect of what you intend to achieve (to make the problem go away).

A good parasite does not kill the host, merely takes all the resources they can get and it certainly won't stop with one attempt at extortion. And judging from the blog post linked they learned their lesson.

edited for clarity, thanks ghotifish.
"This was a collective decision taken by all impacted companies"

I think they were put under pressure by other companies using the same IPS, not their customers.
‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’
Exactly. 1) is usually already catered for (for some hours, at least) with battery backups at the cell towers, and as for 2), only building capacity not needed 99.9% of the time will fix it.

During the Christchurch 2011 earthquake, the cellular services were taken down immediately by several hundred thousand people simultaenously trying to ring loved ones. Luckily the payphones were still operational to an extent - you couldn't call within Christchurch, but calling to locations outside of Christchurch worked.

It took about 8 or 9 hours for the backlog of SMS messages to be delivered on the day of the quake.
Can you elaborate? I don't see how GM microorganisms have anything to do with herbal pseudoscience.
12th year as a postdoc? While I don't think the postdoc system is working very well, this example is not the face of failure of the postdoc system. This example is a failure of market signals to overcome an individual's sense of entitlement.
One of their two examples is cat calling? Classy.
> In countries that have electricity coming from fossil fuels, it's inherently less efficient

"Inherently" less efficient? As in, "electric cars are inherently less efficient that gasoline cars in fossil-fuel countries?" What a claim! And untrue! Unless you meant "electric cars in fossil-fuel regions are less efficient than electric cars in nuclear regions" then sure. But that's obvious.

Even in India, which has the worst carbon emissions coming from coal in the world, electric cars are about on par with gasoline ICEs. In India, it costs about 350 grams of CO2 emissions per kilometer of EV travel. That's roughly equivalent to a 25-30 MPG gasoline vehicle when you look at well-to-wheel for both.

In every other country in the world, coal emissions are better, which means that categorically electric vehicles are better for emissions than gasoline vehicles, even if the power source is coal.

Source: was a hybrid vehicle powertrain engineer.
I'm not recommending it, but it should be noted that this does sometimes work as when Kim DotCom paid for the LizardSquad DDOS of XBox and PS4 networks to be halted last Christmas: https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-stops-xbox-and-playstati...
It's too early in the process. They just started shipping first units.
You can get in touch with founders, though.
Rights do not inherently exist. We create them to further our existence, usually.
That really depends on how the space is arranged. I'm in just about that size, but my place is wheelchair-accessible with room for attendant care, so the bathroom is huge compared to normal, the entrance corridor is nearly wide enough for, say, a Smart ForTwo (or a chair with a drip and someone alongside), so the basic living area works out to "small bachelor/studio". That's a bit extreme, but a bad layout can really eat into the usefulness of your floor space without a corresponding drop in cost.
Dealing with the play store can be a bit of a pain. The UI really isn't that great and the downloads are sometimes very slow. So it's honestly just a whole lot easier to side load sometimes.
If you enjoy tales of survival against the odds, I highly recommend Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales [1]

It recounts multiple amazing tales of survival against the odds, then goes into the psychology of what's needed to survive such a situation. Finally, it lists the top 10 traits exhibited by survivors of these kinds of situations.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393326152/?tag=roadchoseme-20
Agreed. Please leave scrolling alone. It's the one constant we have in the world of unpredictable interfaces.
> Among the ultra-Orthodox in Israel the fertility rate is 10 children per family

There are not typically 10 children at once in the home BTW. The older children will be away at school, around 14 for boys, 17 for girls.

What you do is have 3 bedrooms: parents, boys, and girls. Depending on the boy/girl ratio you can have up to 2 triple-bunk-beds in a room.

Doing that you can easily sleep 12 children in the house (if you had to).

There is no living room, instead there is a dining room with a huge table (large enough to seat everyone at once) that doubles as a multi-purpose room for homework, and other activities.

Children are encouraged to play outside (there's hardly room inside).

For possessions there is not usually a need to store much since you'll pass things on to other people, your children, relatives, friends, neighbors, etc. and they with you, so most items are in active use. (For example, once the kids are older and you don't need a triple-bunk-bed you pass it on to someone else.)

This also means you don't need to spend as much as you might expect on stuff. If you don't have a lot of money you can go your entire life without once buying new clothes, or other gear for the kids.
Large companies do have this sort of backups. But cryptolocker's target population is individuals and small businesses. Having to manually plug and unplug a drive every day is an unreasonable burden for this population, and may not even help if the drive is connected while the user is unaware of being infected. WORM NAS volumes or NAS volumes that do incremental snapshots behind the scene are a better solution but I am not aware that major consumer NAS manufacturers (Synology, etc) offer that.
I am reminded of H.D. Thoreau's essay "Life Without Principle"[1] where he has plenty to say about the ill effects, to the mind and soul, of filling one's head with ordinary news and other trivia.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were- its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over; and if you would know what will make the most durable pavement, surpassing rolled stones, spruce blocks, and asphaltum, you have only to look into some of our minds which have been subjected to this treatment so long.

The entire essay is a wonderful read about, among other things, life and living it well.

[1] http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER2/thoreau/life.html

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So $6000 would get them over two years of self-service DDoS mitigation. Ouch.
Seriously. This is coming from a forum that believes that Soylent is the way of the future.
It would only make sense if you're doing it as a delaying tactic.

There is a chance they could be 'honorable' thieves and desist, but it's likely having had someone cave in once, they'd cave in again, and again... So, it only makes sense as a delaying tactic, in the long run it's mostly a losing proposition, unless you're setting them up for a sting or something.
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I've heard this hypothesis before, but I don't think frequent moving is the correct explanation. After all, moving out of a house means moving into another one. Furthermore, Europeans today continue to build with brick and other masonry and, if I were to guess, relocate at rates that are comparable enough to those in the US. The more likely explanation has to do with American culture. Not only do Americans value quantity relative to quality to a higher degree than Europeans, but when American land was being settled, it was a. heavily wooded and b. occurred during the 18th and 19th centuries, a time when stone and brick urban fortifications were being torn down in Europe. By contract, Europe was by this time heavily deforested (e.g., England imported its wood from countries such as Poland to meet the needs of its growing navy).
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This part seems eerily prescient, doesn't it?

> "I think it's an important step in pioneering this work, but later on we'll probably see more exciting things in the way of digital cash," said Philip R. Zimmermann, a computer security consultant in Boulder, Colo., who created the PGP program.

> Digital cash, Mr. Zimmermann explained, is "a combination of cryptographic protocols that behave the way real dollars behave but are untraceable."

> In other words, they are packets of worth that have value in cyberspace, the same way dollars have value in the real world, except that they have the properties of anonymity, privacy and untraceability. Many details remain to be worked out, Mr. Zimmermann said.
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Under this legal regime, making it to the front page of Hacker News would be a literal kiss of death to almost organization that offends corporate interests.

Perhaps I've misunderstood, but it seems to me that under this legal regime, an organization that offends corporate interests making it to the front page of HN would be the kiss of death to HN. The danger is that the mere act of linking to something controversial becomes guilt by association, and since in general someone who links to another site doesn't control the content on that other site, anyone can become guilty of whatever crimes result literally without having done anything wrong (beyond not constantly legally reviewing the content of every site they link to and removing links in real time in the event of any potential problem).
Heat is only a problem if you need to cool your space. Here in the Northeast it could be considered a happy side-effect for nine months of the year.
This would be a perfect satire of Tinder, I'm having a hard time believing this is serious, or legal?
A dog's hearing goes as high as 60Khz, and this this is transmitting at 45kHz to 75kHz...at 145-155db. I have a dog.
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> There's a document at Twitter that lists the schools that Twitter wants to recruit from. This document was penned by Alex Roetter, the Senior VP of engineering. He had his other directors contribute to it, modify it and refine it. It listed Cal, Stanford, CMU, Waterloo, MIT, typical schools like that. Never listed any state schools. Never listed any HBCUs. It listed certain companies and excluded certain companies. It excluded certain titles. So if you're a software engineer in tests [an engineering role] at Microsoft, that's not a "real" software engineer. And some of the best engineers I know are software engineers who test for Microsoft!

Leaving aside all ethical questions, it is baffling and sad to see how un-scientific an approach to hiring and staffing we take. This is about pride and self-image; there's zero reason to believe that restricting your hiring to certain universities, certain previous roles, etc. gets you a more effective engineering team. (And I say this as an MIT graduate in software engineering proper.) If anything, being willing to hire from more universities and more career paths gets you different forms of experience, avoiding an engineering monoculture, for less money and time than it takes to participate in the top-university recruiting extravagance or hire away those engineers already in demand.

One of the particularly unfortunate things about the current software industry is that it makes these sorts of policies non-testable. Companies are supposed to compete, but a number of factors, from the wildly inconsistent availability of venture funding, to network effects, to personal connections between founders and people already established in the industry, means the market is remarkably inefficient at determining how productive a company actually was. The fact that Twitter did as well as it did conveys zero information about how much better it could have done. There are so many obvious technical things they screwed up (developer relations, notably) and succeeded despite those failures; it's equally likely that they succeeded despite many of their non-technical decisions instead of because of them.
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you misread jessriedel.

>> The only way spam will go away is if everybody will finally stop responding to spam.

> Right, which is why "never pay extortion fees" doesn't make much more sense for combatting this stuff ... It's unrealistic to think we will convince enough businesses to altruistically not pay extortionists,

jessriedel is not saying it's altruistic to pay, it's altruistic not to pay.
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From uBeam's website:

"Through process of logical deduction, acoustic energy is the only type of energy that can be used for over-distance wireless power transmission. Since uBeam owns the entire ultrasonic wireless power space from an IP perspective, the world will have to leverage uBeam’s technology."
To pay or not to pay....the bigger story here is the implication a nation state was involved.
Thanks for confirming my hasty analysis next door. Makes me happy I got it roughly right!
same article previously posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517678
Nothing in this article addresses the skepticism in http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/the-ubeam-faq/. Read that document and you will see.

The "uBeam FAQ" document admits that it is technically possible under very limited conditions but mostly uses physics to claim that it will have tons of other issues such as massive power use, short range, potential safety issues, huge cost and other bad things. Basically that even if you did make it, it would be quite inferior to any other charging technology such as, say, wall outlets.
I see nothing there that can't be achieved by a simple supervision suite. s6, nosh, even runit provide those features; the extra complexity of systemd isn't needed at all.
If even embedded developers are getting pulled in by the sirens of systemd because OH MY GOSH IT HAS WATCHDOG CAPABILITIES, then we definitely need to work more on raising awareness about supervision.
Their choice of 'Old Persian cuneiform' is also ... weird. I don't know how to phrase it, but seems doubly misleading. The time period they're preferring by that choice is ~500-300 BCE, whereas my appeal of cuneiform is that it's one of the earliest systems of writing, going back as 35 centuries BCE.
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And yet we still sell cigarettes. And though WHO proved processed meats cause cancer the deli counter line is still very long. There are things that you can teach people to prevent doing, don't stick a knife in the electric socket, and then there are the things that take a monumental effort to change.

Prevention education is important, but I wonder if the meat counter will be restricted to 18 and over to purchase and come with a warning from the surgeon general.

I'm being unusually sarcastic, but I've had this conversation several times in my own head and I can't figure out a solution.

Leaded gasoline was poising the nation, but no one stopped driving. Only when the government forced the corporations to change did the lead poising stop.

You can't make someone change, you can't force an individual to change but if you never allow it to enter their world then it has been prevented right?
I would love to read more along these lines. Do you have recommendations for a McLuhan book?
I just have to ask, given your name, are you from Gozo? I visited once about 7-8 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it!
I only just discovered this one, but it's one of the most interesting startups I've seen in a while.

Premonition - http://premonition.ai/

It helps you choose a lawyer by analyzing legal data - which lawyers usually win before which judges, whether or not they run up the bill, etc.

Seems like there could be some ethical issues, but the value proposition is potentially enormous.