skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some random old bit of Cisco gear sitting anywhere in between with it's default configuration set to strip out STARTTLS commands...

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/security-center/intellige...

"When Cisco ASA is configured for ESMTP inspection, the ASA is not able to examine the TLS session because it is encrypted. Therefore the ASA will prevent the establishment of the STARTTLS session and allow the SMTP endpoints to determine whether the SMTP session should continue in clear text (that is, with no privacy)."

(I once billed a client just over $30k to investigate/diagnose/resolve that problem - there was a piece of Cisco gear on the edge of their network that nobody ever admitted to even knowing existed which was stripping out the STARTTLS instruction between a webapp running inside their own datacenter and their own 3rd party mail service - and everybody was pointing their fingers at _me_ for the mail not coming through encrypted... Twitch. Twitch. Twitch...)
Chrome (and Firefox [1]) will hide Flash from navigator.plugins so that sites will think Flash is not installed. Sites that have an HTML5 alternative will fall back to that. Sites that don't will display show a "Please install Flash" error message. Chrome and Firefox can show an in-browser prompt to allow Flash, which will allow the page to continue.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1186948
Yes, dealing with the kernel porting isn't that easy though, as expected. :)
Residual Networks of Residual Networks: Multilevel Residual Networks
Nero Multimedia Suite 10 Serial Number Generator Free
Rise of unlocked phones in US
He's also seen here occasionally as cstross.
Zalando: Can interviewing people can make you a better conversationalist?
It's even worse. If Apple gets their way, ApplePay will be available to Apple users only. If banks get their way, their payment system will be available to everybody. It's quite clear to me which one is better...
I've spent just enough time around systems driven by old IBM mainframes to realize that they're pretty darned good at data integrity and at uptime, but they make up for it by being an IT nightmare in most other respects.

In this case, it sounds very much like the backup servers were running the wrong version of some user interface programmed in an arcane IBM programming language from the 1970s that is built entirely around the record-oriented database typical of a machine like the AS/400.

Hilarity!
>Because they have to worry so much about safety and security, they are constrained in ways that other businesses aren’t...

>In other words, given a choice between more backup systems and more security, airlines are picking security.

Information security is about ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability all at the same time.
Nice and I think they really benefit on their existing infrastructure.

But tests shows 5mbits for me and all other 30+ (real). So not really a great help till now.
Firefox will start blocking the "Flash pixels" too, as noted in the Mozilla blog post.
Hmm. Doesn't that just factor out to saying "it fails a lot and looks like its going to keep doing it and maybe even more in the future but its too important to move so meh?"

Can't stop to sharpen the axe. Too much wood to cut.
Something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10016052 possibly?
Magic Leap requests revisions to $9M job growth incentive package due to delays
I think your parent is pointing out that the browser is the one that initiates the fetching of all of this content in the first place. So, there's no need to "block the server from delivering something" as it can decide never to ask the server to deliver that something.
> Spreading locations would allow more and better monitoring to be sure locations weren't compromised, and the ability to drop a location if it was.

If Delta is the mainframe-oriented business that I suspect it is, "spreading locations" means turning their software stack from the monolith of monoliths into a distributed system.

It's a damn fine idea, and likely to take them decades of effort across dozens of teams with hilarious expensive bugs along the way.
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Except this outage might not have had anything to do with their software. Maybe it was a technical failure and their lack of redundancy made it impossible to switch to a backup system.
Same here. I've almost been enjoying this drought this year, since I haven't had to mow my grass every week this summer - although I'm getting sick of watering the vegetable garden twice a day.
When saying 'No' can payoff
HN has tiny links (firefox android at least), I always have to zoom in to get to comments or upvote anything. But otherwise fairly readable …

I agree about Fastmail's mobile interface though. Almost anything else goes through Reader View (currently trying out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-rea... which seems promising). Just wish the Reader View could remember my scroll position …
Proportionality matters. Everything is rent-seeking with a broad enough definition.
Rats Saving Cambodians from Landmines
> Otherwise, i have trouble seeing what the hullaboo is about.

In every regulated industry there tends to be a small cadre of people who rotate through the most elite jobs in both the private and public sector. So if you're aware of that, it's no surprise that Google and the rest of the tech industry work the same way.

I think the cause of the hullabaloo may be that a lot of people didn't realize this has been going on since time immemorial. Perhaps they assumed that the people governing them were more like them, and were not, for example, financial or tech CEOs looking for a change of pace. In an age of great information transparency they are now starting to figure this out. It is part of a growing awareness that surprisingly small cadres of elites run basically everything and reap large rewards at a time when class mobility is at a low, wealth inequality is peaking, the political system is dysfunctional, the economy is sluggish, etc.

And so you get the Brexits and the Trumps, and a new level of scrutiny into just what exactly those wealthy techies are up to. Different people will render different judgments on the phenomenon but in my view it is absolutely all part of a trend where the silent majority starting to make some noise.
These tools are simple enough that its easier to start from scratch than to try an understand someone else's code.
If you really want to keep that song: find the .xm file in the page, play it with xmplay, convert it to wav with xmplay.
Naturally this topic calls for an xkcd: https://xkcd.com/401/

And more appropriate to the diphoton bump: https://xkcd.com/1437/
The Funky Cold Medina one? Olllllld school...
It's great that Google is highlighting the importance of power efficiency as a major part of their justification for killing flash. Now they need to fix Chrome itself: http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/20/11975514/microsoft-chrome-...
Do you partake in the mortgage interest tax deduction? Does your neighborhood have maximum density and zoning requirements that force people to live farther apart from each other and amenities, increasing oil usage?
Imogen Heap doesn’t make the blockchain hype make sense either (2015)
FWIW, the EU also caps interchange fees (0.3% for credit cards and to 0.2% for debit cards) but that doesn't seem to have stopped Apple Pay adoption in the UK.
Yelp swings to quarterly profit
John uses Deck[0] for Daring Fireball

0: http://decknetwork.net/
I'm designing a similar show, not so pleased to see that contestants might turn down initial funding.
Seeing a Dyson sphere being built is some serious life extension. It probably involves lots of major discontinuities and full medium changes.
I would. It does spoil everything.
What happens after you do 15? Does it make the app unusable? That seems like it would constitute as a "trial" app which is not really allowed.

But it's in the App Store so I guess that's not the case?

Looks nice, might use it.
other countries in North America ^_^
Arguably not only IPs from Palestine, but IPs from any other State recognizing the State of Palestine.
on a related note, why every American & European should pay strong attention to Trump & Putin at the moment, and try to collectively make the wisest decision we can make, in each of our respective nations. because all the physical laws of the universe which allowed 30's/40's Hitler/Stalin to do what they did are still true and in effect today, and many of the same political/psychological mechanisms as well.
> Wouldn't that just make it part of the internet, though?

Indeed, that was the whole point! The web was intended to be an application that ran on the Internet.

(Of course WE know it still is, but it seems most people think "the Internet" is something that you get to through the web browser while the rest is just apps).
In your 3 months, make sure to limit the scope of what you expect to learn. There is just so much out there, and when you start learning about one thing, that will lead you to another, and another, and another... so be selective about which "rabbit holes" you go down.
Well, map and filter may be more clear in certain cases, but I still don't see how they are more powerful. Seems like you can do a 1-for-1 translation between the two.
Who knew there was so much to PR?
'((this . is) (a . list) (of . cons))
'((this . is) (an . alist))

Hey look, my list of cons looks incredibly like an alist... funny that.
"Other countries in North America"

Really? There are only TWO countries in that category, a category that is significantly larger than some of the other listed countries (Japan, Finland). Even West and Nazi Germanys get mentions. See you all at the winters. It isn't a Lincoln penny that they bury at center ice each year.
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Always Be Yourself, Unless You Can Be a Unicorn
There's a 10 point check list that I'll be copying from now on, thanks.
Clay Shirky on tech and the internet in China (podcast)
Flat Design vs Material Design: The Design War
Top ES6 Features Every Busy JavaScript Developer Must Know
In the States its not uncommon to just have your card swiped in grocery stores and not even have to sign. Effectively they've just made the old insecure magstripe & sig system more convenient (and insecure).
"Particle Fever" (on Netflix) featured scientists threatening to quit if the results weren't the ones that they wanted: possibly one of least scientific perspectives that I have ever witnessed. Science was supposed to be about the wonder of nature, not about being right. I'm extremely happy that science might start moving in that direction again.
Favourite brands may show how divided Brexit Britain is
I just asked the author this (of http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/microsoft_secure_boo...) and he said
"the scripts and MS EFI binary are the same but the policy is not, I'm told"
https://twitter.com/diodesign/status/763285858153664512
Replicating Flipboard's Logo
Gathering honey from a weed (2013)
They don't need to : they just host a speedtest.net server on their own network, which the client will select by default.
Gah, unidirectional links? And the links point to fragile named resources rather than a single, stable, centralized database?

And if it ever did somehow manage to traction you'd never find anything -- it would require redundant databases with copies of EVERYTHING online. I mean, I know disk drives have gotten down to almost $1/MB, but the cost of that would rapidly become prohibitive.

This whole idea is absurd and has no future. Let's leave this stuff to IBM and the phone companies who already have the necessary experience and are rolling out OSI for us.

(all statements I remember from '91/92)
The URL seems to have an extra “z” at the end.
The Logic of Bad IPv6 Address Management (2012)
The concept of expending any effort on the lawn beyond mowing it when it starts to get too high (think knee-high...) is baffling to me. The only times I've ever seeded anything is once after clearing a section of woods, and another time when we plowed and harrowed a field and put in clover special. Grass is just something that grows on its own, mixed in with dandelions and clover and other stuff. If it gets dry and the grass dies, congratulations! now you get a break from having to mow it as much this summer.
More than an identification guide, you need an experienced friend or someone who knows what they're doing. There are way too many poisonous mushrooms that look like edible ones (death cap/inky cap).
Apple Pay doesn't stop other payment provisions from functioning. The same contactless reader will read Apple Pay, Contactless cards, and Android Pay.

Of course Apple Pay will only be available to Apple users. That's literally what Apple Pay is: contactless payment on an Apple device. There's no reason for there to be Apple Pay on Android or another platform.
You're assuming that the site is still actively maintained.
Onioncat [1] provides this functionality for Tor and I2p. You get an Ipv6 address and it works with any application that supports IPv6. The address is based on the hidden service (in the case of tor) backing the onioncat instance.

[1] https://www.onioncat.org
Ah. So we need more of that Postini option to require STARTTLS is successful.
SpaceX has shipped its Mars engine to Texas for tests
I echo that. If you really want to go near BigCo's, then try getting in there as a consultant/contractor so you can hover above all the infighting and politics.
One issue of ring worlds is traction (and Dyson spheres are much more complicated than that). Nothing we can imagine and certainly nothing we can build can take it but what if instead of rotating it above orbital speed to create gravity inside the ring we rotate it below orbital speed, create gravity on the outer surface and rely on materials that can withstand the compression?

Sunlight could still be reflected by a fleet of orbiting mirrors that wouldn't orbit the star in sync with the ring and thus would not be subjected to the structural forces of the ring. In case the ring is built around a smaller star with a spectral emission very different from the one preferred by the ring builders, the mirrors could adjust that too.
Modern food is packaged oil.
I know it's a rhetorical question, but San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood actually offers all three in 0.6 miles:

Unscripted Theatre Company > Johnny Foley's > Tadu Ethiopian Kitchen

In five years time, this will probably not be the case.
Ask HN: Best book on topography?
It must be a lost art, but I want to know the history of topography and advancements of techniques. Any resource, community or starting point would be greatly appreciated!
An Introdution to Anti ageing treatment
Perhaps that will change in Linux 4.8. See http://betanews.com/2016/08/07/linux-microsoft-surface-3/
Pipsi – automatic pip install inside an isolated virtualenv
The Surface 3 has positively nothing to do with it :)
Seems to fit the same usecase as Freenet USK keys: https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Updateable_Subspace_Key

They allow the holder of the private key to add new data and clients who know the public USK can get notified of updates. In Freenet you can also get the old versions of the data for as long as they stay around on the network.
Does anybody know the consequences of this regarding the search for dark matter? Specifically, dark matter particles?
Intel buys artificial intelligence startup
Wow; normally we'd swap out for the text-based URL, but I can't bring myself to supplant anything so exuberant. They do say (a.k.a. "studies show") that inhibitions are lowered late at night...
The implied outcome is brash assumptions that lead to negative outcomes.

Assuming all fruits are edible might imply the tendency for a similar assumption that all lumps are cancer, and proceeding accordingly.
How Not to Make Your Engineer’s Life Completely Terrible
Stick-on solar panels are closer than you think
Show HN: Tourity - Instant custom-made travel plans
She copied the Windows Kits files, the Kits policy allows running user-mode not as admin debuggers, but doesn't unlock the device in any way.
Just a wild guess - the path length due to temperature and wear should grow and shrink at a slow rate, no? The gravitational wave however should be a spike, affecting the lag that could be potentially be measured.

The LIGO-lasers are probably much more precise, but we have way more fiber and clocks than LIGO observatories. Thoughts?
Will Outdated US Procedures Allow Vote Hacking?
Whilst the article makes some descent points, namely its pretty hard to buy the track if you don't already own BTC/ETH,I cant help feeling the writer is coming at it with a pretty negative agenda.
Expand Your Global Reach on Google Play with New Language and Country Analytics
Today’s Top 100 Tech Influencers
Sure, but since driving is faster, and sitting consumes less calories than moving, the additional calories will be little.
Or just use Winamp as your media player (how I miss it so) which has native support for xm, mod, what have you. Or VLC for that matter.
That wasn't the point.

The point was that Facebook's problems are de facto the user's problems. Ad-blocking is, indeed, a solution, but one can't expect Facebook to (re)act in the user's interest.
I thought it was a little bizarre that Nazi Germany was broken out differently like that - especially since it is a single datapoint, 1936. It's not like it was, in 1936, any different with respect to its borders, than 1932 Germany. And if shifts in government are significant to warrant a new label, than why not break France into the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Republics?
And the next time she will find out how gdb breakpoints work, int3.

Something like http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~junfeng/09sp-w4118/lectures/int3...
https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
They do; but the proposed system would do the same thing in an entirely non-centralized way.

This would be a good thing because as it is now, there are multi-coins pools that will switch their users' hashing power to other chains depending on how profitable coins are. The concern is that large mining pools have a lot of combined hashing power and some dishonest ones could consider switching that power to specific coins not based on the revenue potential but for other reasons (51% attacks and the like).
>If not, is it legal?

In most jurisdictions, it's a priori legal unless it falls under some special category (e.g. a political campaign ad).
But what is a better registrar? I've heard most all of the main players seem to have social engineering issues, regardless of twofactor, and google domains is still US only
Yeah, when I read that, I immediately thought of pots calling kettles black.
The webpage has incorrect label on the search box (Desination instead of Destination).

I haven't checked much more because I tried two places where I plan to go in the next weeks (London & Hamburg) and got zero results.
Yes! GO NUTS! Scan the web for most advanced tech and dive in... choose what is attracting you most... try to deeply understand all that -> will be much better for your future work, than math/algorithm courses you mention... BUT if these courses are attracting you most, dive in there and understand them very well!
But we have a greater knowledge of the physical laws of the universe which allows us to build far more powerful explosives and deploy them far more quickly.
Whole thing's on Youtube. Currently three tracks in and it's great so far.
What I'd love to see (don't know if this has been explored to some extent yet) would be proof of work but for useful work: think Folding@home or Einstein@home (BOINC stuff in general) in order to mine a blockchain.

It's very hard to do (if it is even possible) in a non-centralized way though. Who submits the work ? who validates it has been performed properly ? and so on.
In a (classic, non-appified) native application, the application can do whatever it wants with your computer and your personal files, and only the OS' privilege escalation mechanism is stopping it from modifying system files (but will happily let you proceed if you sudo or click the windows UAC prompt).

Vulnerabilities aside, at least Flash runtime didn't give unfettered access, and was even nice enough to ask for permissions to the webcam and microphone. Furthermore the runtime was frequently updated and patched by the vendor, and Flash being embeddable in web pages made keeping up-to-date individual Flash applications easy, as they were hosted on the server.
Oooh, that Amiga Topaz font that page uses! Still immediately recognizable. So nice to see it after all these years, it's like returning home.

Chiptune, cheesy starfield and a rotating vector. I see, a Cracktro. Hey slipstream/RoL, you forgot copper effects! ;-)
Publish Microsoft DFS as Cloud Storage Using the SME EFSS Fabric
>> "Details of what was thought to be a Bolshevik code used in Java in 1928"

What a rich history Java has. Wonder if they were developing trusty ol' JavaScript back then too... ;)
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> if not more

Honestly I'm not sure it is. Sure, it's deceptive, but he's not serving ads that annoy, distract and often serve as a vector for malware. It's not clear (to me) that it's worse than traditional web advertising, which tends to be deceptive, illegal, scummy and annoying, dangerous and distracting.

And again, the trick with native advertising is to provide valuable content for the users, otherwise it's just crap that nobody will read. I don't know if the poster in question is actually doing this, but if he is, I wouldn't be so quick to write it off as scummy; bear in mind that oftentimes such pieces are identified as "sponsored content".
Can chatbots help build your next website?
And Apple is trying to simultaneously compete with the banks and with Android. If the banks get a superior experience on Android, Apple has a problem.
Honest questions: all the hard working Yahoo employees who worked many many hours overtime under her instead of being with family and friends, what did they get out of this in the end?

Marissa was paid big $, I understand she needed to work hard for that money but everyone else, what reason did they have 20 hour days?
Ask HN: Will you buy discounted phone if that had ads?
I was wondering, If there was a product where users could buy good quality phone for a discounted price however it would supported by some unwanted ads which rather be minimal but will be still there? would buy such a smartphone?
You've got to have a real belief in your company to go on National TV and turn down a millionaires offer
Pessimal Algorithms and Simplexity Analysis (1984) [pdf]
> None of the issues you mention are an issue with Linux anymore. Wifi, Bluetooth, printers, sound, video, etc, all just work,

If you are lucky yes... With my last 2 computers and Ubuntu, most of the devices listed above has required me to google for solutions and apply weird hacks manually. Sound has been quite reliable but graphics and wifi drivers are still a joke compared to Windows or osx. Even basic things such as plugging in an external monitor has caused the computer to totally freeze.
You are absolutely correct. 'Block' is an easier term, or at least a more familiar term, for the layperson.
> Looks like some ^ were eaten in that.

I was wondering what's so special about having a computer count to 2192 and why that would require so much energy.
Of course, it's chemical warfare down there. Using strong acids and the like to destroy bacteria and virus structures is something I'd heard about, at the microscopic level, but I'd absolutely never thought about its implications on a macro scale before.

Presumably they sheath these devices in inert plastics or something in an attempt to counteract all this?