skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this kimsufi thing sounded interesting so I looked it up, and ... wow the processors in the systems they offer are old. Where do they even get these things? Must be leftover from OVH?

Xeon E5504 - 45nm process, launched 2009
Core i5-2300 - 32nm process, launched 2011, discontinued 2012

And the Core i5 does not support ecc memory, of course, so what kind of servers has it been sitting in for 4 years?
So.. What's wrong with using datestamps?

Use ISO 8601, and add whatever flags you need, and establish some minimum standard vocabulary the AI can search for. :>

Development #D:
"2016-02-16T15:17:32+00#D#API"

Release #R:
"2016-02-19T17:37:21+00#R#API"

Now anything can look for dates to figure out the age of whatever it is that's running on the system, and maybe even warn about it, disable it, exploit it, etc.

(AmigaOS encouraged a $VER: prefix you could scan for, IIRC.)

If you still want a custom numbering scheme, just append it to the version string somewhere:

"2016-02-19T17:37:21+00#R#API#(1.4.2 Loopy Leopard)"

#API could mean there was a change to the API. Review your dependencies.

#+API could mean a function was added, but the existing API is stable. (Unless #API was also added separately, in which case a review of the change log is needed.)

#-API could mean a function was removed. Review your dependencies.

..or whatever the syntax would be.
So, why not fix these problems? Go through the RFC process, if it doesn't collide with anything, it'll make it into the standard, IPv6.1 or whatever, and eventually things will support it. Sure, it might take ~10 years for all freezers and forgotten L3 switches to support it, but why not start at all?

We can chance these things easier than our visual pattern matching engine. (Not that we can't train it to perform better, but that just means we'll still make more mistakes and will be less efficient than with this small change.)

Fixed width fonts and indentation are good things, the majority of programmers use it for some reason, why not go for sane ergonomics in network related stuff?
Not newsworthy; just a garden-variety phishing scam (with a clickbait headline).
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Britain's NHS offered an exhaustive list of problems with this study when it came out [1].

[1]: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/04April/Pages/Vegetarians-have-p...
Amazon.com reviews is broken?
They'll start allowing only some IP addresses search engines agreed with them.
This is very helpful information. Can you say if you've moved to a different provider or if you're now racking your own machines? And if you do have a new provider, can you say who you are and how you evaluated them?

I have been doing some research in my (limited) spare time to try to find a new provider, but I still have not made the switch from Linode.
Point being that your users have no need or desire to know that. It's a cheap point to score for the marketing department, to detract from the issue at hand - how it could have been compromised to begin with.
Big Data and the Internet of Things
Take a look at this: "Content Model, or Replication on IPFS" https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47 -- it's a discussion on WHY we had to separate out the replication part. Check out also:

- ipfs-cluster - discussion on a tool we'll build to replicate archives to many nodes and have a RAID-like cluster configuration - https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/58

- ipfs-persistence-consortium - https://github.com/pipermerriam/ipfs-persistence-consortium

- pincoop - https://github.com/victorbjelkholm/pincoop

- http://filecoin.io (long term solution)

- more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11137313
> overly complicated and lacking real benefits over traditional HTTP, FTP, and the rest.

Authenticity over P2P is complex, that's the cost of having no server. But if such a cost can save you hardware and server hosting, it's worth it.

> What advantages does that give over just hosting the internet over static torrents?

No need for DNS. That is pretty huge.
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>Take a look, for instance, at the WSJ.com home page with an ad blocker turned on (note all the missing letters and scrambled up titles)

Uh, what? Using uBlock origin, when I visit wsj.com I get what looks like a perfectly normal page. Nothing is scrambled at all.
Here's another debt choice: given a mortgage with over 20 years left on the term and a sudden cash windfall of, say, 20% of the remaining principal, and assuming there's nothing better to do with the money than applying it to the mortgage would you rather (1) pay off some principal now thus effectively shortening the term but allowing the monthly bill to stay constant or (2) re-cast the loan by paying off some principal, still have 20 years left of payments, but each monthly bill is now smaller? ... Personally I'd opt for (2) because it immediately gives more breathing room especially if something bad were to happen. Going with (1) may save more money ultimately, but doesn't reduce the financial risk until the final payment is made.
I don't see anything to indicate they are converting directly from sha2 to bcrypt. When the user logs in next, if it matches the sha2 hashed password, insert the bcrypt hashed password in the bcrypt hash password field and use that from now on.
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[1] Thank you
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The precedent is the use of the all writs act for this broader purpose. If it is not challenged now, then it will be established that Apple can be forced to create code to the design of the FBI. This is why it must be resisted now.
Are grazing rights on public lands a form of private property? (1997)
I'd be interested to see a list of alleged crimes. Some of these strike me as completely misplaced aggression.
Which of course doesn't help save keystrokes…
As I read it, the 2FA login does some processing of the credentials before submitting it to their authorization server. Someone logging into a machine directly instead of going through their portal would have to do this processing themselves. They found a program designed to do just this on the compromised machine, which a normal user would be very unlikely to have, and thus serves as strong evidence of malicious activity.
Absolutely. We have an old blog post that goes over how we did it awhile ago:

* https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/security-monitoring-alerting-...

Most of this is still valid. There may be some differences as we've improved our configuration over time.

We use OSSEC for host-level intrusion detection. This fired off quite a few alerts as the malicious party began to log in as root on the serial console, amongst other things.

We also have supplemented it with other tools, such as an in-house wrapper around nmap, to alert us to hosts that don't match their expected network configuration. So when ports get opened incorrectly, someone is alerted usually within a minute.
Hosting Starcraft on a port open to the Internet sounds like a terrible idea. If you actually want to host a public server, then getting a dynamic domain name is not hard. If it's a private game, you're better off using a VPN, over which a broadcast discovery protocol can be used.

In any case, if you really need to, what's the problem with copy-pasting an address?
This year I've spent more time on a computer than one should. Previously I wasn't much on the computer and was out and about but this year I've spent probably about 14 hours a day on the computer (working at home). I can attest that in this year my eye sight has worsened almost 100% due to this. I hadn't noticed until about a month ago when I went on a long drive (normally didn't get out much b/c I worked from home) and I realized I was having a real difficult time driving because I couldn't really focus. It's like starring at a screen ask day with constant depth weakened my eyes ability to focus on different depths. The whole time I was driving, it felt like I was starring blankly even though I was actually trying to concentrate on certain things, like going from looking at the car in front of me to the traffic ahead. The whole time felt like I was just starring at a flat surface even though I wasn't.
While I agree that TVs don't go obsolete after one year, obsolete doesn't mean "broken" or "no longer works", it just means that the item is outdated or outmoded and generally no longer used. Ball mice, for example, are obsolete but would still work if plugged into a computer.
And why exactly is high rents a bad thing? San Francisco has dense concentration of some of the smartest people in the world. It's relatively cheap for the immense value you get by living here.

If you can't keep up with the high skill workers that are moving into your neigborhood, maybe, just maybe ask yourself: are they really the problem or is the problem more with your inability to keep up?

It's funny how people think that just because they've lived somewhere for a while, they're somehow entitled to decide who moves in and who doesn't.
I am not suggesting eliminating ports. The author describes having to specify a non standard port in the browser as a major annoyance. In a world where you have infinite IPs you would rather use another IP than listen to https on a non standard port.
An IPv6 address has 16 bytes and that's how to store them, period. For parsing / generating a string representation there's RFC5952 and libraries in every language that implement it.
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Real journalism is dead.

What passes for journalism these days is just edits of media releases.

Sad state of affairs.
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That's no different from manually configuring non standard ports.
Right, there's that, and also (if I'm reading this right) they found key material.
A good CRT filter helps somewhat
This is messed up.

They are the CEO of a large company and so they should be in prison because this is "felt"?

"We present this project to help expose crimes masquerading as commerce."

Bernie seems like a good man and that makes him tempting because he sticks out from the other front runners. But his policies, as well flavored as you can make them, do come down to stuff like this, which is...mindless.

Can we agree that the policies and structure should change to incentivize good behavior? Can we work on that instead of putting 20 faces on the wall and screaming "evil!". Let's have a government, not a mob.

As a younger guy I traveled to El Salvador and heard a comment in passing "well, here its 51% communist and 49% capitalist, the next election could go either way" and I thought "thank god for all of the problems we have in America, we don't have this one." Well...now we do.
I wrote a small blog post on OS X must-have apps[1] back in 2009, but I realize more or less all but the most obvious (e.g., Chrome) have changed.

Now: InsomniaX (like Caffeine.app, but maintained); Bartender; LaunchBar (mostly for clipboard management - easily my favorite manager); iStat Menus; Atom; Tweetbot; Dropbox; and to a lesser extent, iA Writer. (And BowTie for a Last.fm scrobbler, because it's the only one that works with Apple Music)

[1]: http://alanhogan.com/starter-mac-apps
It might not be Netflix's fault because they've got thumbscrews applied but the content producers are definitely saying "fuck off".
> Sure, it might take ~10 years for all freezers and forgotten L3 switches to support it, but why not start at all?

I seriously doubt that any change in notation would be beneficial enough to be worth the 10 years of work, incompatibilities and bugs.

You don’t see people making this kind of fuss about MAC addresses; that’s because people know that they aren’t supposed to memorize them, and we treat them accordingly. That’s the thing about IPv6 - you have to realize that you have to let go of the notion of memorizing IP addresses, just as it would never occur to you to know your MAC address by heart. Use the DNS; eliminating the need to memorize IP addresses is what the DNS is meant for.
In Cold Blood could hardly have happened without her. She ended up being Capote's entre into Holcomb's community.
It may, but weev is probably not the only person whose been put away for that. This type of activity is the basis for Google and many other tech startups. I hope they catch Larry and Sergei soon, they've been on the lam for almost two decades!
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If you follow the link he posted, you'll see they switched away from Linode almost immediately after the July breach.
If in those 5 years you decide to buy a house can't you just pay the rest of the car debt with the liquidity you have saved up meanwhile?
Indeed, the article was a great and humorous stream-of-consciousness.

For me, it was this:

> ... and I wouldn’t be embedding this ugly graph as a pdf into a LaTeX document that takes 3 passes of pdflatex to render...
Without numbers it's hard to tell, but it looks to me like the curve is even gentler than 99-03. It's almost always going to be going up and to the right until the population starts shrinking.

People are just stubborn and think that if they can't afford the type of house they want in the type of neighborhood they want in the city they want, then housing must be in a bubble and out of reach.
Yeah, why is it all businessmen/women? Do they really account for all the unjailed wrongdoers? No eg tough-on-crime politicians? No warlords? No abusive cops?
Sure it does:

: == two keystrokes using two separate fingers

. == one keystroke using one finger

.. == ~1.25 (ish) keystrokes, since your finger has to move to the dot once and then tap twice and only one finger is involved

:: == 3 keystrokes using two fingers
A magnet link is a BitTorrent link. He wants to "do the work" and then share it on Bittorrent.
The DOJ just escalated the federal government’s fight with Apple
At home/small business scale, yes.
At enterprise scale, you shouldn't be relying on IP addresses for clients for anything important.
Faraday gloves, to mask your superpowers?
Except we are heading in that direction anyway with software containers and efforts to give full networking support to them.

This is not a bad thing either - when all apps act like they're distributed, or could be, we'll get a lot better tooling for actually writing them.
This is the case with most court cases in which social reform is desired...you don't want to risk your case losing because of obvious flaws, because the case will be used as precedent for future cases...nevermind that the court tends to not revisit the same issues, over and over, in a short time span. One of the more recent famous ones I can think of was DC vs Heller (2008), which ruled that the 2nd Amendment applies to D.C. and other federal enclaves, which challenged D.C.'s strict gun control laws.

From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller

> In 2002, Robert A. Levy, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, began vetting plaintiffs with Clark M. Neily III for a planned Second Amendment lawsuit that he would personally finance. Although he himself had never owned a gun, as a Constitutional scholar he had an academic interest in the subject and wanted to model his campaign after the legal strategies of Thurgood Marshall, who had successfully led the challenges that overturned school segregation

It's not just court battles, but grassroots movements, too. Rosa Parks was not the first person to fight back against Montgomery's bus seating, but she was the one whom civil rights leaders thought would be the best person to rally around when organizing the boycott and pursuing a court case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

> NAACP organizers believed that Parks was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws, although eventually her case became bogged down in the state courts while the Browder v. Gayle case succeeded
kimsufi === OVH.
Trump calls for boycott of Apple
You are in a maze of gpio pins, all alike, all undocumented, and a few are wired to bombs.

Is this theo.c what it appears to be?
In its motion, the DOJ accused Apple of attempting to “design and market its products to allow technology, rather than the law, to control access to data which has been found by this court to be warranted for an important investigation.”

So now we know what the DOJ, FBI, and intelligence apparatus really want. They want legal precedent set to make it illegal for Apple or Google to design and sell products without a backdoor for them.
I'm not sure if you actually read the top comment, because my response was very much relevant.

tptacek asked about inconsistencies in the Linode advisory, I posted a screenshot of an apparent Linode employee claiming that they lie to their customers regarding security issues. (Which is a claim I am willing to personally back up)
No, it's really not. You can ask the OS to allocate a new port when you start up a piece of software and then advertise that port via whatever coordination protocol you have.

If you're grabbing an IP address you have to, at least in theory, coordinate with other machines on the network to make sure it's not already taken. It's not the same.
The majority of people will use IPv6 transparently through DNS. I'm not sure why typing an address into a browser or even a terminal seems like the more common use case.
I agree with you. I meant to be talk about my own preferences, rather than lecture other people what to do.
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The unicorn valuation bubble seems to be cracking, sure, but what does that mean for the average tech employee? Average citizen?

I'm concerned but still not convinced this will shock the rest of the economy, at least not all on its own.
> Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was convicted of violating CFAA for exactly this (although the conviction was later overturned on a technicality).

So, your example is...not an example?

>WTF 'entitled' means is another question entirely

No, in this case it is very clear: a request containing a particular user agent string is entitled. I have not tried this myself, but presumably you could verify that is the case by sending a request with the appropriate user agent.
I actually have one of those (ring finger of my left hand), and I have had zero problems with magstripe cards and hard drives. Also, USB keys aren't really sensitive to magnets.
I don't know what the history is, I'm sure it's complicated.

You've got hospital ambulances, private ambulances, city fire departments, county fire departments, volunteer fire departments and federal fire fighting organizations all potentially in the same place, all summonable by a 911 dispatcher. They all have EMT training and gear. Who shows up and how is it decided? Beats me.
TARP was passed under Bush.
Who wants to bet Trump is shorting the stock or planning to buy-low later?
If that's the reason, it wouldn't be a new problem. I live in Minnesota: sure, days are shorter in winter, but it's not like it's 3 hours of daylight year round.
(full disclosure: Shriram is a cofounder of EquityZen).
I don't see any of it as an issue.

String representations of IPV4's aren't all of equal string length either.

IPV6 can't be shortened into, for example, dead.beef.de, because it's ambiguous as to whether that would be a domain name, or an IPV6 address. Likewise, other suggestions make it ambiguous with an IPV4, or even if not technically ambiguous, likely to break some existing code.

Raw IP's aren't exposed to the masses often anyway, so the bulk of the downsides of the current compromise should be constrained to just technical people. They will just have to figure it out.
> What is the rational reason, if any, for gripes like these? The time to have this discussion would have been in like 1993 or so. Now, IPv6 is what we have, and the standards are what they are, flaws and all.

The rational reason is that despite tons of "we have to adopt IPv6 or the world will end", people aren't learning it. Trying to understand the underlying reasons is worthwhile. The shittyness of the representation is one of those reasons.

(I agree with the people who say "making the parsing namespace even more complex won't help anyone" though)
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The FBI may not have access to those exploits even if the NSA does
> Then there’s how the :’s are used. For a full-length un-shortened IPv6 address, they are supposed to appear every 16 bits like:

> dead:beef:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001

> I’m sure there was a reason for this choice, but to us after using IPv6 for years it still seems utterly arbitrary.*

If I had to guess, I would say they're there to chunk things up for reading aloud.

"Read me that address off the console."

"Okay, d-e-a-d..."

"Got it."

"...b-e-e-f..."

"Yep."

"...a bunch of zeroes, then 1."

They also make it harder to lose your place when reading it back.
It's obvious that there will always be booms and busts; the important question is why they are synchronized, instead of localized, like the dotcom boom and bust mostly was.
Sorry, that was what I meant. :)
Do realize when you say things like this you are exactly saying "I hope all these people die without having children".

That's how evolution "takes care of things".
Who's got the startup selling to this growing market?
I mean, it's only one example, but Lord of the Rings?
They've been testing the new wall for a while now. I know I made one of those "paywall wah" comments when the Google workaround didn't work for me. Then the next time I tried it worked fine, so it must have been random selection.
>synthetic eyeballs, which I actually think is probably pretty likely by 2050:

How about 2019?
http://www.phuturama.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Artificia...
http://s120.photobucket.com/user/cinquevolte/media/Blade%20R...
Can you speak to some of the claims about how he yells at people constantly given your proximity to his office? There's one thing to be said for a strong vision and firm direction--there's another to be said for resorting to yelling to communicate said vision and direction.
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Facebook and Twitter Announce Support for Apple in Backdoor Dispute with FBI
Do 'literature snob' kinds of people actually consider that to be good writing?
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Look into "find -iname '...' -print0 | xargs -0"
One of the best articles I've read about modern Internet culture I've read in a long while. I enjoyed Tumblr as a place to post photos...I've stopped using it but I'm glad I at least tried it because I don't think there's any other way to understand Tumblr than to just jump in and use it. This article reminded me of the kinds of articles that were written when the Web was new, about teens making worldwide reputations and untold thousands of dollars doing some nichey tech thing while their parents were completely unawares.

Good to know that kind of thing can still exist in today's Facebooked world.
How about so much more time spent looking at phones and computer screens (that is, things that are really close)?
From look at your examples, I'd say what's wrong is that they are very difficult to read.

At a very brief glance I didn't notice the change between 16 and 19, and my eyes were drawn to the time, which let's face it, is probably next to useless.

And it also doesn't have any of the benefits of semver, like signaling breaking changes.