skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a federated network, your identity is tied to your server. If you have a domain name, sometimes you can have portable identities that piggyback on DNS. This is a terrible solution for normal people. The cost of switching servers is high.

Decentralized systems have cryptographic identities. If you want to use a different client or a different server that participates in the network while you're offline, just fire up the new one and give it access to your identity via your private key or signing a new key.

Low switching costs are the key to progress on a network. It's why browsers have gotten so good. Similarly, competition will make the clients for decentralized networks improve rapidly, unlike XMPP or email.
Where did you land after consulting?
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Not just another that knows of VMS and the prior innovations but one whose site taught me many things about those days. Glad to get a chance to say (tips hat) thanks for the info. :)

Wish modern systems were designed and implemented with even half the skill that VMS, etc were. I've never gotten to experience an OS reliable enough that I temporarily forgot reboot command. Desktop Linux will have to do. ;)
It certainly wouldn't have been called swatting. Prior to the 1990's, only large metro departments like the LAPD had SWAT teams.

The Internet really is necessary for this sort of sustained attack to be successful. It requires a large number of distributed, anonymous actors. This wouldn't be possible without message boards and the like. Had this been one bad actor with a vendetta in the pre-Internet era, they would have been found and stopped.

Of course they are also leveraging some fairly modern services: TTY relay services for the hearing impaired, Tor (to include onion services), as well as commercial cybercrime services available via private and darkweb markets. Without these resources, it is much easier to identify people.
The card company checks whether the card and terminal are EMV capable. But, the whole card system is not built on absolute security but on risk-management and fraud detection, that is somehow balanced with customer convenience. In effects this means that only thing that is absolutely needed for transaction to be authorized is card number, what other data have to be provided and what checks have to pass is function of trustworthiness of various parties involved (mainly of the merchant).

(for example, the EMV standard explicitly handles various failure modes like "PIN-pad is broken", "card holder does not remember PIN" and so on, and allows configurations that accept such transactions)
It is a fact that conventional oil has already peaked, sometime in the last 5-10 years. Shale oil, tar sands and the like are picking up part of the slack, though their EROI is lower (though still a little better than renewables) and have a bunch of other technical and environmental issues. At some point we'll have to bite that bullet.

The problem with your remark was caused by the doomers who took the flag of Peak Oil (TM) to claim that everything was going to crash and burn when the peak reached. Then when reality turned out to be more nuanced than that, the general public just went on to laugh the whole thing off and keep ignoring the real issues.

In an ideal world, we should be in the middle of a crahs program to retool the whole industry to work with renewables and mitigate the effects of other related issues like climate change/global weirding... but instead, we are doing too little and too late.
It depends on what type of client / relationship we are talking about. It might go like this:

Theodores: I only want to support IE11+

Client: No. What if our users have older browsers?

* later *

Theodores: I only want to support IE11+

Client: No. What if our users have older browsers?

Theodores: That should be exceedingly rare, Microsoft have actually pulled support for those versions recently. See this link.

Client: Oh, ok then, great. IE11+ it is.
Sega once participated in the video game industry roughly how Nintendo does today, by producing a home console and making first-party titles for it with their established properties like Sonic the Hedgehog. Sega's consoles definitely have fans, but the company was losing money and Sega did not produce another console after the Dreamcast. Today, they do perfectly fine for themselves by making games as a third-party developer and operating other assorted media ventures like merchandising for anime. They're also a major producer of arcade games.
But the formality is, at bottom, just a set of rules for convincing somebody.
The funny thing is I was about to reply to you on the LittleD thread to tell you about this. Then... I saw the submitters name. Nevermind lol.
Sold. So next summer we just ignore the switch to DST? Or next fall we ignore the switch back to standard time?
With plugin support being dropped from browsers "never" is likely. You're always going to need that one browser that supports the "old web."
Second Dell backdoor root cert found
So it's not ugly in...?
Is the story available to non-subscribers?
Do you have any examples of someone that would fit this description?

I think a modern polymath could look a bit different than the ones in the classical sense. To be able to make contributions to the fields you mentioned, I guess you would need more years of study than anyone could dedicate to, just because those fields seem to be very hard, especially considering the degree at which nowadays we would consider someone proficient in any of these.

Well, I'm not sure, I'm actually wondering. For your particular definition, or something close to it, who would you say it gets close?
If you married someone, could they sponsor you?
Ideally animated SVG should be self-contained as an image format, and easily injected into an existing page, but it's not. It needs dependencies to animate, either CSS (which is a bit fiddly) or a javascript lib.

GIF is easily injectable, easy to update, which allows a nice, quick iterative update cycle. It's also compatible across the board and pretty future-proof at the moment.

SVG animations could work better by containing the code within the SVG file itself. Not sure how compatible this would be, but something to look into.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5378559/including-javascr...
While this is disappointing outcome, I hope more HN readers will take up the "save the dolphins, stop TPP" rally. For all of the tech community's outcry against the TPP's pro-DRM, pro-copyright provisions and blatant disregard for users' rights, nothing is going to help sway public opinion like a "save the <cute animal>" appeal.
SFTP or FTP?
I put in an order for a Jolla tablet. With the layoffs it doesn't seem as if the order will be fulfilled.
Confessions of an App Developer
Sega has been around quite a while but probably referring to when it discontinued console development and shifted gears to creating games for third-party platforms.
Don't get me wrong. I love the fact that Yahoo took a chance on Marissa Mayer. The thing that I can't overlook is none of the stories I have read indicate this was a matter of a perfect vision that was just poorly executed.

All of the stories I've read lead me to believe there has been a somewhat muddled vision and less than spectacular execution on top of that.

Then again it was only mid-2012 that she was appointed CEO. Not enough time IMO, though the stories these days make one wonder if allowing a full 5 years (I think a reasonable minimum term for CEO of a large corporation like Yahoo) is going to be more destructive than constructive. Especially when there seem to be many documented failures, and not much to hang one's hat on, in the form of successes, to this point.
If you don't mind me asking, what company is this that uses Haskell everyday?
Yeah... but I kinda wouldn't mind if they were all using the same open source rendering engine under the hood.
This is good news for those who aren't using older versions of Windows (older than Windows 7). For everyone else (which is still a lot of people), this is very bad news.
Sega used to make consoles; now they exclusively make games.
Wow, surprised to see Gingery books are still around! They got me started melting down aluminum cans with a coffee can charcoal furnace as a kid. I always wanted to build the lathe but never got around to it.
Whitman: We signed a big deal to help Microsoft sell its Amazon-killer cloud
> Following media reports that the terrorists responsible for the Paris attacks communicated via encrypted messaging platforms.

False media reports. FALSE. I can't believe the media is still treating those reports as real...Techcrunch should at least mention the reports were never verified or proven. Otherwise it's just helping in making the evidence-free encryption conversation worse.
> I haven't come across any other sites that even come close to [sports and finance] on Yahoo!

You haven't been able to find any other sites focusing on finance or sports on the internet? To be clear, yahoo does a decent job curating finance and sports sections, but it is extremely trivial to find sites similar to Yahoo. Here are a few, I found:

Finance:

========

Marketwatch[0], is very similar to yahoo finance. Owned by WSJ and Dow Jones.

Google Finance[1] is like Yahoo! finance, only done by google.

MSN Money[2] almost the exact same thing as Yahoo.

Then you have your more niche honorable mentions like motley fool, seekingalpha, zerohedge, etc.

SPORTS:

=======

Without repeating Google and Microsoft offerings, there is of course:

ESPN which is the second largest sports news provider, also they have a tv network about sports. They sports fairly hard.[3]

Bleecher Report is not to be out sportsed, sort of a hipster pitchfork media type sports player.[4]

CBS Sports[5]

NBC SPorts[6] This, and the preceding offering are large entrenched media rent collectors, which is similar to yahoo, except that they are profitable.

So, in finality, I find that statement absurd, but I am glad you enjoy yahoo. I am rooting for it as it is an under dog for sure.

[0]http://www.marketwatch.com

[1]http://www.google.com/finance

[2]http://www.msn.com/en-us/money

[3]http://espn.go.com

[4]BleacherReport.com

[5]CBSSports.com

[6]http://www.nbcsports.com
You can configure the Android firewall, done.

Win10 firewall especially has a hardcoded whitelist for Microsoft phone home IP address ranges and domains - how evil is that? You would have to patch the kernel mode network driver dll to make sure Win10 won't phone home, a software firewall would still have to rely on Microsofts kernel mode dll. And why would one trust them anymore - they were the first company that handed over their data (Hotmail/Outlook.com) as we learned last year (neither Apple nor Google cooperated). And I always thought Microsoft has a solid business and has no reason to rely on advertisement business and therefor label the user data as products, things have changed since Ballmer. Fact is Win10 on PC and mobile is impossible to secure without running it behind a hardware firewall (or Enterprise license) - and who is running around with a hardware firewall device connected to their phone/notebook?
Yes, like AZs share Internet peering connections in a way that is not at all visible to you.
Why is a museum suing Wikipedia for sharing?
Are there dolphins in the tuna or aren't there. That's it.
And all this for a guy whose full name and address is contained within a Pastebin entry on the first page of search results when you Google his username! Imagine how hard it must be to identify swatters who have serious OPSEC.
I always kind of ignored the Flash Creative Cloud download link when I was updating Adobe, but that's because I didn't know this. Thanks for the tip! :)
Not the person you are replying to, but I think they are referencing how SEGA ditched home consoles and is now all software and arcades. From what I have heard they are doing extremely well with arcade machines, especially in Japan. I know they make the popular UFO crane game machines.
What's the joke?
I have a video in my watch queue that shows Facebook is:

https://youtu.be/sl2zo7tzrO8
It's really a mixed bag. Michelin favors a certain type of place -- posh, traditional, French -- and doesn't know what to do with other cuisines. This could be OK if you are in France, or if you share that taste, but it doesn't translate well and doesn't serve many diners well.

For a view of how this looks to a very adventurous and accomplished reviewer (look him up if you don't know), see Jonathan Gold's take here: http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/michelin-tires-2151006

Teaser:

"Michelin is usually one of the guidebooks I take with me when I visit France, although I tend not to use it much. In Paris, Patricia Wells and the Pudlo guide are better at pointing me to the kind of restaurants I like best; in the rest of the country, I prefer Gault Millau. Outside France, Michelin is all but useless — in most of Italy, you could probably find better restaurants by sticking a pin into a map than you could by following the guide, and while Gordon Ramsay’s supremely boring London flagship gets three stars, Fergus Henderson’s splendid St. John, a restaurant that visiting chefs head off to the second they land at Heathrow, has none."
If what you say is the case at Google and Facebook, then that's great news, and doubtless a significant contributing factor to the unusual success of these companies! In that case, perhaps one could add 6. The extent to which an interview actually assesses your technical competence rather than just the feelings of the interviewer may greatly vary between companies.
Physicists use photons to carry messages from electrons 1.2 miles apart
It's definitely a question of context. You have a large number of companies who either take a very long time to update to newer versions of Windows, or who developed a number of internal applications which will not work with newer IEs.
We still have customers with IE6. Risk adverse institutions like airports really don't want to upgrade things.
Thanks for the heads up.

I found 38k citations for The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=86085598803682809...

And 25k for Statistical Learning Theory: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=86748554971781655...

My initial estimation of 10k was from a CiteSeer list that I didn't realize was limited to only documents in the CiteSeer database: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/stats/articles
That is probably the one and only way for me. My brother did get married to a citizen, he has to remove his permanent residency first, leave the US for several months and come back to apply for green card. He hasn't done that yet, but at least he's safe in that regards. In any case tho, what the OP went through did remind me of my own situation but looks like he had it worse.
It's frustrating because they didn't have to resort to the unfounded conclusion.

There's tons of evidence around stereotype threat/self-talk and performance[0] so there's a strong argument that being exposed to fewer words, and far more negative words, won't help these people be successful.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat
Wow, I'm all for EOL'ing old versions of IE, but I'm surprised at the complete lack of notice (on a corporate scale). Was this known to be in the works for a while?

My thinking is just that most larger companies will have zero chance of hitting a January deadline, and once the deadline passes, there's really no urgency to upgrade by any particular time. I would think a ~12 month deadline might be more effective in getting people to upgrade (as well as resulting in fewer compromised browsers).
Computer Scientists Solve Kadison-Singer Problem
"When Yahoo! was founded, there was a need for WWW site directory, and Yahoo! filled that vacuum. ... IMO, Yahoo! need to go back to their roots which was portal of curated information."

Yahoo's Directory was shut down December 27, 2014.

What's left of Yahoo does some photo storage, some email, some video streaming, some finance and sports reporting, and some ad serving. They also resell Bing search. All those things are done better by others.
That depends on whether the terminal has physical capability to read more than one track of card data. I have Ingenico Alphira terminal in my junk box and from casual inspection it looks like the magnetic head has two coils, but while there are footprints for two sense amplifiers, only one is populated.
Problem is that prisoners get paid next to nothing, they get next to little job training, and when they're dumped into society, they're denied job by pretty much everyone.

Kinda hard to pay reparation when you can't feed yourself.
I wonder how the tuna feel about this decision.
Without being too cynical, there's a lot of truth in that. The one time I worked closely with management consultants, a few were sharp, one or two not so much. At the end, they came to similar conclusions that we had already come to anyway but they sold that analysis to the executives.

>Management consultants are to entrepreneurs what food critics are to chefs.

Eh. Good food critics cut through a lot of trendiness. Of course, a lot of food critics aren't good.
Couldn't you say the same about other fields? Although I understand where you are coming from. If I wanted to make a more accurate comparison it'd only be fair to examine the distributions of different fields as well as their top performers, but I still think that is too huge a gap to make up for anything besides some heavily skewed distributions.
Which one? Because we have a supplier's site that doesn't seem to work in post-Blink Chrome.
I am not sure if you are serious in your desire to elide how very different having to go to a store and buy tokens to get a drink when you're thirsty is to pressing a button on a phone.
Hi Folks, Open Bank Project is an open source API for banks that is designed to sit on any core banking:

https://github.com/OpenBankProject/OBP-API/wiki/Sandbox

We're currently introducing a Kafka layer which core banking connectors can interface with in any language. Else you can use Scala / Java code to connect to banking (or blockchain?) interfaces directly.

The core is AGPL plus commercial licenses for banks that don't want to abide by AGPL or get commercial support. SDKs etc are Apache licensed.

Regulation from EU (PSD2) and UK government Open Banking Working Group (OBWG) initiative is starting to move the API needle :-)

cheers, Simon (founder of OBP)
> "it was never forced on anybody"

Depends on what you mean by "forced", right? If a PC manufacturer's choice is between not selling PCs with Windows pre-installed and having to pay a per-PC license for Windows whether Windows is installed or not, then effectively it's forced. And this was likely in play for years, but covered by commercial in confidence.

> DR screwed up massively by refusing to sign a deal with IBM

Sure but that's a different issue entirely.

As a result of the litigation over 86-DOS/QDOS (which MS licensed from Seattle Computer Products) Seattle Computer Products, DR-DOS, IBM, and Microsoft ended up with the right to ship DOS. Microsoft acquired SCP's license for chump change via a dubious legal maneuver whereby it was forced to sell its license to MS rather than to anyone else for whatever they wanted to pay (I forget the detail, it's documented in one of the Gates biographies). DR and IBM continued to sell technically superior versions of DOS, but IBM's was bundled with IBM-branded hardware and DR was crippled by Microsoft's licensing contracts which became particularly effective once Windows 3.x came out.

> 21+ years is a bit of long time to hold a grudge

This is only the tip of the iceberg of things MS's anti-competitive behaviors. Probably its most pernicious behavior was "dumping" on rivals (cross-subsidizing products such as Access until rivals went out of business) and actively sabotaging third party software (e.g. -- allegedly -- deliberately breaking Lotus 1-2-3 on DOS 2.x and -- well-documented -- breaking Borland compilers in the Windows 95 betas (which might well have continued into the release version had it not been caught red-handed).
As a counter, you can pervert the dual sourcing argument here and come up with something similar.
I'd say they are not very risk averse if they are still using IE6. In fact, I'd say they are living on the edge. I hope the CTO has a really nice golden parachute because they will need it when (and not if) the proverbial poop hits the proverbial fan.
And the rest of the world says "Doesn't matter; shipped the game."
Chilled out: How to put air-conditioning into people’s garments
Maybe there should be a much more stripped down thing like the web with a much smaller attack surface or need for new features, so updates will only be occasional security updates.
Ask HN: Who is using unikernels (library OS)?
Basically, http://www.eros-os.org/essays/capintro.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
> Most of us want to know that the food we purchase and serve to our families does not come at the expense of wildlife.

I suspect this is correct but I do not share this sentiment, and in fact, I find it absurd. Most people only want to harm specifically raised and genetically modify living things for their entire miserable lives in captivity OR make sure that only a very select group of free living things is killed due to a narrow sense of cultural aesthetics.

I don't think we should rush out and needlessly murder dolphins, but the average person may notice that label, but removing it would likely have little to no bearing on consumer selection which is driven primarily by advertising.
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/24/wto-ruling-on-dolphin-sa...
I think it's worse that the mom was fired from her job because of the attacks and had a miscarriage, and now she can't find a new job because of the damage to her reputation.
Thanks! This is really great:

content_by_lua_block {
ngx.say("hello, world")
}
How will I sleep tonight...
Product aside, "When Yahoo! was founded", there was a need for high traffic web properties that could scale past a few hundred users. I think we forget about how 10k simultaneous connections was a big freaking deal back then. Yahoo! wasn't just a useful site, it was one of the only usable sites under heavy load.
I was pretty sure someone will make a comment like yours. You didn't disappoint. You want to me to go to 3 different sites for Finance when I can get everything at Yahoo! You want me to go to 4 different sites for Sports when I can get everything at Yahoo! Can you get Bleacher Report articles on ESPN? I will suggest comparing Yahoo! Finance and Sports with the sites you mentioned. You might be surprised that most sites you mentioned feed to Yahoo! and not vice-versa. I can go to all the sites you mentioned or just go to Yahoo!

Each mentioned site is missing something that is available on Yahoo! Either you browse through all the articles on Bleacher Report or you can see the most relevant ones on Yahoo! That is the difference.

Remember the keywords Portal, curated information, relevant information, comprehensive. None of the sites you mentioned are at a level of Yahoo!
Similar read on NYT about staff at a highly acclaimed restaurant and some of the things he was asked to do for the sake of the guest's experience: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/opinion/sunday/dinner-and-...
A "memory model" and "memory management" are two different things.

Memory management normally conotes the process for allocation and reclamation of memory in a program.

A memory model defines where reads can get their information from in a program. In most contexts that is informally "the most recent write" in terms of wall clock time (i.e. sequential consistency).

In C++, C and Java, this is not necessarily how things are. For example in Java writes can be buffered preventing reads in other threads from seeing them right away. This means those reads will get a value from an "older" write (again wall clock time).

It's all really bad for reasoning about your program :(