skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course every local market is distinct from every other, but there are some national factors that affect price in every local market. For example, mortgage interest rates are generally agnostic to location. Landlords pay a mortgage to buy the properties they rent, so the "price" of the mortgage (the interest rate + down payment) will affect the price of rent.

If the US national average for interest rates drops from 5% to 4%, you would expect to see downward pressure on rental prices across all markets. Sure, not every landlord is refinancing or getting a new mortgage, but as long as some contingent of landlords is able to undercut the going rate of rentals, they will exert downward pressure on the rental price in their local market.
But if you somehow automatically upload to the cloud from your laptop, wouldn't that have the same effect?

In most of the large scale damage it is not necessarily that the ransomware was spread to all the machines, but that it accessed shared network resources.
Yes, also the offsets are wrong. China (East coast time right now is 9 hr diff from West coast usa. After daylight ends it's another hr diff. It is never a 6 hr diff.
My Year in Startup Hell [1]

[1] http://fortune.com/disrupted-excerpt-hubspot-startup-dan-lyo...

[2] HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11369632
Capitalism trends towards greatest total utility (in the economics sense)

That's arguably a bit misleading, since greater equality gives greater utility, for a fixed-size pie.

It's pretty well established that utility is approximately proportional to the log of monetary value. So in your example of what capitalism prefers, total utility would be significantly higher if the $1500 were distributed equally over the 11 people.
Visit a page, and then allow it to connect to our USB devices.
Antimatter is still regular matter, but with the exact opposite charge to the common particles we keep seeing.

So technically yes, it could all have disappeared into black holes, but it wouldn't really be antimatter anymore after entering the singularity due to being effectively broken down into pure energy/matter.
> Like dropbox? I would expect the malware to encrypt it like any other folder

It will, but AFAIK Dropbox keeps data for 30 days (or can get a yearly thing). I don't know if it's possible to rollback the entire stash though, nor do I know if there's a limit in the number of updates.

> Unless your provider gives you incremental backups.

I would really hope most cloud services either do that or only push verified files (for software-specific clouds) in which case the encrypted files would fault the application and not be uploaded or downloaded.
Also many PE firms have been investing heavily ($B) in rentals via "buy to rent" loans or "bridge loans." So there is definitely a lot of institutional money flowing into the rental market.
Technically they have, but the use of Bitcoin seems to have breathed a lot of life into the ransomware space. I don't recall ransomware ever being enough of a concern to be reported on before they started using Bitcoin. I suppose this proves that Bitcoin is dramatically more effective at moving lots of money around the world in a way that's hard to track.
Supporting environmentally friendly legislation is orthogonal to the economic concerns that divide the left and right. It's true that environmentalists are associated with the left in the US, but that's not true everywhere in the world.
"We also assigned each server a static unique identifier in the form of a woman’s name – a shrinking namespace with thousands of servers."

Let me fix that for you; stop gendering your servers.
> Have that other 90% start and run their own businesses or go to school and get a degree in business that allows them to become a C level exec or invent a product and launch a startup.

Why not let them eat cake while they are at it too.
There is a difference between supporting politicians who support changes to reduce carbon emissions and increase support for renewables and supporting politicians who pretend climate change does not exist or is not affected by us.
It's also inherently a problem that we're going to lose lots of plant and animal species that depend on the coral reefs, simply because those plants and animals are beautiful and we will have been responsible for their deaths.

"Well don't worry, we'll just get food from somewhere else" is not a real answer. At some point, life on a dead planet just isn't worth it anymore.
Yep; ironically, that's what I get for doing math while jetlagged.
A funny thing about the key generator. There was originally a project within the community to raise the funds to do a successful decap of the AES engine and key generator.

They successfully raised the $2000 before the person claiming to do a decap (Jl12) stole all the money and disappeared off the face of the earth.

http://web.archive.org/web/20121227085042/http://3dbrew.org/...

http://web.archive.org/web/20140209211220/http://3dbrew.org/...
Thanks, it was short, but informative!

If I may, I would like to point to another kind of supermassive black hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsp3_a-PMTw :)
Actually, what's happening is subtler. He quotes 6 words, and then makes a series of statements that could be interpreted as reflecting the ideas of our book.

If he had simply said something along the lines of, "I believe that The Alliance calls for employees to show loyalty to companies, but for companies not to show loyalty to employees" (completely not true, by the way) it would be clear that he was providing his interpretation of our work. As it is, those who don't read the book will take away an impression that is exactly the opposite of what was originally intended. While words are always subject to interpretation by their audience, I object to my words by misinterpreted by another in a major publication.
Go start a business and see if the reality you experience agrees with your current ideology.

Let's make it simple: Start a great local coffee shop wherever you live. People like coffee. It's a safe business, right? You know there's demand. All you have to do is create an excellent product that is more appealing than the competition. Then go get some funding, get a loan, mortgage your home or, if you have it, dump your entire life savings into the business to fund it.

Come back in five years and read what you just wrote.
Well the first break that brought piracy happened about two years after launch. Also, the Vita, which launched around the same time is sill unhacked pretty much. It's a shame that there's not as much good games on there for it to be a commerical success. In fact the Vita does so many things right that the 3ds fails at (security wise).
> Capitalism trends towards greatest total utility (in the economics sense).

No it doesn't. Having the majority of wealth concentrated in a few people who have way more than they'll ever need, many of that wealth being unearned (eg. rent seeking, inheritences), does not maximize total utility.
Study the overlap between information theory / entropy and physics.
That just shows that almost all businesses in America are small businesses. It says nothing about whether most employees in the US are employees of large or small businesses.
Yes, but I could not imagine some admin installing the malware by mistake. Reading more on it, I stand corrected. The malware gets installed thanks to a buggy version of JBoss allowing remote execution access to the server.
I really appreciate posts like these. Alot of posts that get popular on hacker news are about the struggle between management/developers and the best practice for success. This on the other hand is far more relatable to me. I am a developer that gets burnt out on jobs quickly and don't have a mentor I can look up to. A post like this gives me actions/patterns/history of someone that is still working and still wants to work in the industry like I do. Thank you for posting this!
Anyone know the best way to open a ".spv" file? The data for this paper is "free" as long as you have SPSS apparently. I was able to get the .sav file opened, but many of the column names mean nothing to me.
https://osf.io/xpmd2/
tbh, I went from using nice little notebooks like Moleskines and such to just using a decent notes app on my Galaxy Note 3. It's about the same height/width, thinner, can email me pdfs of all my notes once I'm done and oh, btw, I have it on me all the time anyway (and it happens to be a phone and can run apps and do other things).

The only thing this shows me is that it makes me carry around another couple things (an expensive notebook and pen) and offers worse performance for the things I use the Note 3 for anyway.
Exactly - no matter what management thinks, it depends on whether 'front of house' staff agree.
You could fall and hit your head doing no sports at all. There is a spectrum where flying the wingsuit, BMX, downhill skiing, ski jumping, and snowboarding, American football are on one end; beach volleyball and synchronized swimming on another.
Or just read one too many articles like this one .
Or just read one too many articles like this one.
> queenst =: (, #: I.@,@(</)&i.)~ (] #"1~ [ */@:~:&(|@-/) {)&.|: ! A.&i. ]

So this must be the origin of the one liner from [0]

queens←{⍵{((+/b)⌿⍵),⍺|(,b)/⍳×/⍴b←~↑(⊂⍳⍺)∊¨(↓⍵)+[0]¨⊂(c-⍳c←1↓⍴⍵)∘.×¯1 0 1}⍣⍵⍳1 0}

Somehow J is shorter? I need someone who speaks both J and APL to tell me if they are the same.

Never learned J, but I always return to APL. I guess J to APL is like latin alphabet to chinese characters. You don't need a special keyboard for APL, just like you don't need a special keyboard for Chinese. Sometimes I really don't understand why they started J. Native English speaker's mentality? We never needed special keyboard for diacritics, let alone east asian languages. With an input method for APL characters, J does not even save the number of keystrokes.

[0] https://dfns.dyalog.com/n_queens.htm
John Hughes: Race Conditions, Distribution, Interactions–Testing the Hard Stuff
The Dinner – Makinde and Bidemi
If they'd instead said "We assigned each server a static ID in the form of a female computer scientist's name", we'd be here praising them for their forward-thinking inclusion. Maybe lets not see everything as offense-worthy?
Today's unbuilt factories do not stay unbuilt because nobody has the capital to build them, they stay unbuilt because they would not be profitable to operate. In that sense, the old standard defense of why we need capitalists has become much weaker than it used to be.
You can print your own paper on a color laser printer with their Windows program. http://www.neosmartpen.com/en/products/n_toaster
So, you don't need to use Moleskine, if you don't want to.

The pen, separately, is $170 on Amazon.
Design has a longer history than computers, so it's dangerous to approach things from a pure computer perspective as you have here. It's tempting to think that design is just superfluous puffery, but that is not the case. Design is about improving communication and usability, it differs from art in that it requires some concrete purpose (even if that purpose is aesthetic).

If, as you suggest, we only had four typefaces, yes, we would get along fine. However pretty soon a bored person would create a new typeface, and that new typeface would grab everyone's attention and thus be a huge competitive advantage. So you see, a four-typeface world is just not a stable state.

Another very important thing to recognize about design is that the "user caring about font choice" has absolutely nothing to do with design. Design does its job unconsciously. Of course anyone is free to critique anything, whether or not they know anything about design, they are still free to state their thoughts and preferences. But the designer's goal is not for any sizable chunk of their audience to recognize and applaud their font choice; that's just not what design is about.
Yes, and the malware may not even have to be installed on the server, there are many companies and systems with dodgy security practices (either just because, or because a legacy application needs that, or whatever). If the hospital has its stuff on a NAS, any infected computer with write access to that NAS will be able to hit it.
In this case, I've concluded that the best response is to engage with people on this thread. I've always enjoyed Dan's work as a journalist (especially his Fake Steve Jobs project) and while I'm disappointed that he doesn't get what my book is about, I suspect he hasn't had a chance to actually read it. I'm sure there are many cases in which I've misinterpreted others' books. But I do think it makes sense to try to get my side of the story out to the audience.
I was thinking about how nice it would be to be able to run a GNU Radio client on a local server and have only the downsampling run on a thin client.

Would be lots of fun.
The quotes were intended to differentiate between the obvious, instantaneous brain damage from head trauma and the long-term, hard to measure effects of an unhealthy, sedentary life-style has on the brain.

I was trying to point out that we are overly focused on the easily measured (negative) effects. His life-style also had positive effects, but they were not instantaneous.

Knowing what led him to suicide is infinitely more complex that asking "how many times did he bonk his head?".
Okay, this is getting ridiculous.

Seriously, this is the moment where we should just stop, kill all existing browsers, and start from scratch.

This is NOT acceptable, and this is probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.

WebBluetooth, WebUSB, WebGL?

God I hope that this shit will never appear on any of the websites I visit, as I’ll make sure to patch it out of my browser.
Queens and Knights
Awesome trip down memory lane.

Can't see any audio files loading, so I'm guessing it's emulating a SID-chip in JavaScript? Great emulation in that case.

Might be the nostalgia talking, but it's surprising how well the SID still sounds.
The OP is not talking about employee shares. He's talking about advisory shares, and maybe some 1099 work. What does a startup get out of that? Unless you're seriously qualified with relevant knowledge, why would a startup give precious equity to you? Sure it's "only" 0.05%, but it's still one more name on the cap table. And this attitude of "it's only 0.05%" is exactly what leads to the dilution you're talking about.

If a startup is valued at $2mm, they don't need your measly $1k. To make that worthwhile they would need to get $1k investment from dozens of different investors. And at that point they're no longer giving up "only 0.05%." Also, if they need an advisor, they can find one. If they need a contractor, they're not going to pay via shares, because the whole point of issuing options/equity is to align the long term incentives of the startup and the investor/employee. A contractor does not work long term, so there is no need to give away shares.

Also, the suggestion of the OP -- a place for investors to get advisory shares in companies -- already exists. It's called Angellist.
The most entertaining bit about the movie The Host (based on the Stephenie Meyer novel) was the fact that in a world ruled by Souls -- alien beings who possess humans and are incapable of dishonesty -- you go to a store marked "store". You pick up a bag of potato chips marked "potato chips", a jug of milk marked "milk" and a can of chicken soup marked "chicken soup". You walk out without paying for anything because the owners of "store" know you won't take more than you need and are providing for everybody.

Oh yeah, all the labels are in Helvetica bold. Anything fanvier might be a way to get a dishonest advantage.
It actually doesn't matter whether what they say is true or not. Arguing this point won't fix the climate, but supporting it just might because someone paid attention when you were being positive about it.
As the article says, most were infected through misconfigured JBoss installations, which exposed the JMX control console to the web. The article also implied that this is some sort of default JBoss setting.

So the initial infection had nothing to do with Windows.
$1k ransoms are in a category sometimes called "greasy crimes." These are crimes too small to trouble law enforcement much, especially if there are much bigger crimes around.

Of course now that it's being done at scale that may change.
My gut feeling is that this is just following simple demographics.

Children of the baby boomers are starting to get into child rearing age and so apts are becoming far less desirable for a myriad of child rearing related reasons.

So single family detached homes are becoming the new fad, as the boomer's children want to raise their children like they were raised and no longer want an urban apt close to the all the bars/nightlife/restaurants.

Also read: bars, nightclubs closing becoming a trend?
i think you are overcomplicating my point. when cordless drills came out, people who were used to corded drills, laughed that you would get stuck mid-job without power. nowadays, most cordless drills come with two removable batteries. you charge one while you are using one. when the battery runs out, you just swap them. it takes a few seconds, you get the advantage of cordlessness, and effectively they function all day long under heavy usage.

sure, for military applications, boston dynamics approach is likely more suitable. but for factory, office and home usage, swapping out batteries shouldn't be a significant problem at all.
Research threats to coral that aren't climate change related, such as deforestation generated silt in rivers, disruption of ocean ecosystems due to destruction of top predators (such as sharks), overfishing, and excessive fertilizer runoff from agriculture. There are groups (not enough) working on those problems than can use support.
Kinda OT, but this made me think of what would be involved in really cracking down on bike theft. You'd probably have to start by registering bikes and putting license plates on them, just like cars, and aggressively enforcing the maintenance of those registrations and license plates. So you'd start off by hassling legitimate riders first so that in the future it would be easier to spot a stolen bike and prove that it's stolen. Probably more trouble than it's worth, considering how many kids and low-income people use bikes for transportation.

Similarly, getting serious about tracking Bitcoin movements would probably involve a lot of new regulations around the use of Bitcoin, and somehow enforcing them worldwide.

I suppose the point was more that the police are likely to be very interested if you rip off one company for $50k, but it's harder to get them interested when you rip off $1k from 50 people spread around dozens of jurisdictions.
That assumes you only have a yes no choice. That's almost never the case in real life.
Anything amazing these days you just know graphene is involved without even looking at the article.

Just the past 11 days alone I've seen articles on graphene coated solar panels make power, graphene filters for terahertz communications, nanotube film, nano-silicon graphene Li-Ion battery electrodes, even graphene tennis rackets and now this graphene water filter.
FWIW: I went through a few cars already: with every one, after 3-4 years, I wanted to have nothing with the brand, because there were always so many things that sucked (in-car UI, service etc.)

I drive Model S. I don’t want to drive anything else ever, because the quality (of driving, of UI, the way service treats you) is superb. I’m damn motivated to earn enough to afford it, or at least Model 3, because my experience is that no other manufacturer gets it or is capable of making a decent driver UI — and yes, that includes Audis or BMWs.
just to be pedantic, competitive volleyball has a concussion problem
Thank you for sharing this. It kind of opened my mind.
What about the reward? Yeah, this is a seemingly unfortunate conclusion to his life, but we should persue all avenues to discover why, not only the aspects that we assume were negative influences...
Clickable: http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/
Because I imagine I wasn't the only one with no clue what "spall" was:

> Spall are flakes of a material that are broken off a larger solid body and can be produced by a variety of mechanisms, including as a result of projectile impact, corrosion, weathering, cavitation, or excessive rolling pressure (as in a ball bearing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spall
My own take on this but as "any publicity is good publicity", I am loathe to give "Disrupted" more attention than it deserves.

Book summary: Dan Lyons' job as Newsweek technology editor gets eliminated. Deciding to cash in on the current startup boom, he finds a somewhat obscure pseudo-corn and signs up. After wacky adventures, it ends in tears and legal action.

After skimming the various excerpts of "Disrupted", I read the whole thing last night. To paraphrase Elvis Costello, I started being amused and now I'm disgusted.
But not for the ostensible reasons that the book strongly tries to influence the reader to believe.

My personal background is having worked in tech for a long time, serving in a range of companies: big, middling and startup since the late 80s. I've personally seen things more horrible (and funny) than anything in this book. All of the issues Lyons' calls out, have been in play as long as I've been in this business.

That's not to say I endorse them - rampant age discrimination, cult-like manipulation of employees, screwing most employees on liquidity outcomes, etc. But it's nothing new. Lyons claims to have been writing technology, starting with trade rags, for the past 20 years and it shouldn't be anything new to him either.

What runs strong and straight through "Disrupted" is that Lyons' joined a company without sufficient due diligence. Whatever the merits of HubSpot, it was/is a machine for marketing and sales. Lyons was under the impression that by giving arrant speeches and writing pieces for a consciously elite audience - explicitly not the HubSpot prospect base, the world would come to his door.

That's just not how the real world works. Nothing he did contributed directly or seemingly indirectly to the HubSpot bottom line. The founders were trying to puff that thing up for an IPO. Ultimately, a little image work at a high salary wasn't satisfactory, regardless of their ethical failings.

One can easily imagine an alternative universe where Lyons' bosses approved his separate "glossy" magazine-oid website, and he spent two years emitting ephemeral think pieces. This book would never have been written. Lyons' might have moved on after IPO with a little money and connections to join the Scoble Set at the next cool startup.

It's obvious that Lyons views elite media people as being on another level from the rest of us. In a sense it's an analog of tech pedigree nonsense, where if you're not ex/current NYT or Time, you obviously lack the necessary insight to really understand things.

Spite and jealousy do not constitute a platform from which to pontificate on the tech industry. Compare "Disrupted" with the recent "The Everything Store" about Amazon. The latter certainly has lots of dark insight, but no sense that it was written because the author wasn't allowed another cookie.
I just keep them all in Dropbox folders by Year/Month/Day so 2016/04/10
In the competition of nations, leading by example is fairly useless. Nations do what they want to move forward.

China dumps a lot of CO2, and it's growing.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/sci...
agreed that it is designed for a different job. but those different jobs are likely to represent a huge percentage of the market (home, office and factory environments). i dont think that in these settings a relatively short battery life will be "regrettable" at all. as i mentioned above, swapping batteries is an easy solution to the problem.
If you walk too far right, there's some serious full-screen strobe effects. Be aware.

Also, this reminds me inescapably of the sublimely brilliant ROM CHECK FAIL: http://www.farbs.org/romcheckfail.php
Thanks to all who replied.