skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
x86 is an Intel standard; they own the patents. Some of the patents have expired at this point but there's new ones which you would need in order to make a competing x86 processor.

x86_64 is an AMD standard, I believe still under patent.

Intel and AMD cross-license these patents to each other. As a result, any other company wanting to make x86 processors would have to purchase rights from both companies (assuming they're willing to, which is a big if), which would instantly make their products cost-uncompetitive.
There is an industry of reputable, large scale businesses that do attribution work. Generally, if you see attack attributions written up in major news outlets, one or more of them have concurred on the attribution.

For instance: the HRC/DNC attribution started with CrowdStrike (whose executive team is not exactly HRC-friendly), and concurrences were later released by some of CrowdStrike's competitors.

Attribution is obviously deeply imperfect. But it's not as simple as "this sure seems like Russian and there's some Cyrillic so let's call it a day".
You can pay back $100 or pay 40% tax on $100 of forgiveness, which is $40. The choice is clear here. The only wrinkle is that the $40 might be due all at once. But if that's a concern, saving up ahead of time to pay back the $40 is still better than paying off the $100.
Oh, very cool, it looks like they are making good progress!

Unfortunately, it looks like there's no support for it in Photoshop, and I doubt that's likely to change.
Which is the same as the peak career earnings for someone with a liberal arts bachelors degree that doesn't pursue graduate education.
this is not a saas product, doesn't involve traditional sales. I'm looking for entrepreneur-types, not offshore contractors.
So how exactly is one entity, even a state entity, going to take down all 13 root servers, assuming that that is what Schneier is talking about since the man speaks in mysteries? What would it take to do that?

Let's safely assume that these servers, every single one of them, are subject to DDoS attacks all the time and have at least some experience in handling them, and have a backup scenario ready for a serious attack. One of the reasons why the root servers are not centralized is to avoid the kind of disaster that Schneier predicts.

Also what if I maintain a list of IP addresses of the websites I visit most and update that list daily. When the "big attack" strikes, I put that list in /etc/hosts. Would I still be able to do my holiday shopping from Amazon? Would I still be able to read the logs on my VPS by ssh'ing to its IP? How long would such an attack sustain before BGP modifications start blackholing the sources? Long enough to let the average TTL cache expire?

Would an attack on the root servers really take down the internet? Or in case Schneier isn't talking about that, what kind of attack on the decentralized internet is actually able to take it all down? I'm not saying he is wrong, but I have a hard time thinking about how we should prepare and protect our infrastructure if he doesn't want to share the intel he knows instead of some generic warnings.
Despite the obvious CO2/warming reasons, wouldn't these research vessels/cruise ships cause more ice melt as well? (Breaking up the ice causing faster melt)
> Really? You should try it if you can, it's great.

'Override is on the list of classic Mac OS games I intend to play or replay, just behind an awful lot of others.

> Now, the third one had problems.

I liked 'Nova a lot – I liked that the world felt (ever so slightly) more alive, I liked the scope of the world, I liked the number and variety of the craft and outfits, I even liked various outfits requiring government approval to purchase and government craft opening fire on your craft if they detected that you were using unauthorised or illegal outfits...

...but I agree that the Vell-os plot line was an awful idea, and I wonder how many players abandoned 'Nova – and how many registrations Ambrosia lost – because of players thinking that the Vell-os plot line was all the game had to offer. The only time 'Nova "offered" the Vell-os plot line to me, I fled to Aurora space and didn't look back...

> Also want to mention Realmz [...]

I never liked Realmz – I think either I was too young to understand it or its gameplay was incompatible with my tastes – but I completed a lot of scenarios for Spiderweb's "Blades of Exile", and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the original "Exile" quadrilogy is now freeware.
Exactly. Although to be fair to the US, their military is quite a bit more powerful, so they've already pacified their neighbours and instead invade countries half way around the globe. Russia can't stretch itself as much. But yeah, same principle.
Am I the only one who hates the notion of being forced to pay for other people's bad financial decisions?

I made the choice to go to a slightly less prestigious school so I wouldn't have to go into debt for college. I also worked all through college to pay for my expenses.

Should I now be punished for that decision? Why should we make people's financial mistakes consequence-free?

I think the government should get out of the student loan industry entirely: stop subsidizing them and making interest rates a political issue. Let the market signal which degrees are valuable and which aren't. But also make them dischargeable in bankruptcy. At least then there would be a consequence for people deciding to take out expensive loans for education.
Worth noting that records for people in Texas with a License To Carry are computerized - a cop will know it when they pull you over and run your plates. Not saying this is a bad thing, just worth noting.
I mean it does help the US and it's citizen's to be the center of innovation and for others to depend on american economic outputs. I'm not sure that it's Jingoism for people in the US to think that losing out of our competitive advantages as a nation is a bad thing for the future of those people.
Or vice versa? The internet relies disproportionately enough on American backbones/services that an American agency doesn't need to probe because it already has the keys, or at least the power switch?
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I was really hoping that, after reading the title, YouTube Community was going to be about Google crowdsourcing DMCA takedown request reviews. As in, let the community (a jury of your peers) decide if a takedown is fraudulent (I've got many, yet to receive a legitimate claim!) rather than relying on the "word" of an automated robot that only knows how to say, "take it down!".
I have heard second hand that this site works great http://pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion (please use Tor browser to access)
Because a lot of people here are wealthier than average and in general prefer paywalls to ads.

Too bad it often 'breaks' the internet as we know.
Seeing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Buchheit in the announcement is a fun coincidence. He founded gmail. One of the things he did with gmail is gave it a command-line user interface.

I recently found out that a lot of people I would expect to know about it, don't. If that includes you, go to the gear on the upper right of your gmail, select that, then Settings, then turn keyboard shortcuts on and save.

Typing "?" randomly in gmail will let you know what shortcuts are there. It takes time for your fingers to learn them, but scanning email with j k [ ] is so much faster than a mouse. I don't even think before using / to search. :-)
Strange subreddits are good. StumbleUpon isn't useful for much, but permitting tons of categories and going wild with it is a good way to get weird.

Anything that allows chaining is a big help, which is why people get to "the weird part of Youtube" more easily than the weird parts of the general internet. Sometimes you can exploit this by dipping in and out of linkable things (it's like recreating webrings). Try following chains of linked subreddits or tumblr accounts, then popping back out at some odd-looking link they point to.

But honestly, it's hard. I find a lot of 'weird internet' by reading the SlateStarCodex link collections, and otherwise letting other people do the hard work for me.
> Gaza is a part of a separate sovereign state

Israel does not recognize any separate state as having sovereignty over Gaza.

> It's legally no different from inspections that take place at U.S./Mexico border checkpoints.

Last I checked, the US doesn't assert a right to control Mexico's seacoast or airspace, and impose a blockade of shipments into and out of Mexico that do not come through the US.
Ah, first I thought this was about TonicDev, didn't recognize Tonic and part of Stripe didn't make sense. Then it turned out to be what I thought anyways. Good to hear news from you, I think the idea is amazing and it's easy to write explanations with RunKit.

I have two questions for you.

1) Offline mode, please! I've opened the feedback on uservoice at October 27, 2015 (https://tonicdev.uservoice.com/forums/273722-general/suggest...), there should be some self-hosted version for us to use. Which kind of leads me to what I think is blocking the offline mode

2) module-fs < is this planned to open source at one point? Sounds like a interesting solution, what I've done before is to hook up require to be async and then download the packages when they are being used, but not very friendly
You can't make it replace Jenkins if it can't do arbitrary jobs. I'm talking jobs without even a repository behind them.

The idea of a runner that tests every commit on a repo is super useful. But Jenkins goes one step further by being essentially an arbitrary shell command runner. I use it for example as a CNC for running cleanup jobs, cronjobs etc.
I don't think it will ever be possible to prove that given piece of hardware contains no malware. Still, there is demand for transparency and product that comes with manufacturer's warranty that says "malware not included". People believe this could lead to some good results, such as better hardware and lower probability of bugged computer.
There was an earlier excavation of some of the frozen corpses as well and they were taken to laboratories to be studied. After thawing some of the gut bacteria, some were still alive. One of the scientist was smart enough to experiment with how the old bacteria handled modern antibiotics. Strangely many already had resistance[1]. And this discovery was largely unreported.

[1]http://tinyurl.com/z9sy2qn
> Let it be known that these criminal acts are greatly compromising the effort by the global anti-doping community to re-establish trust in Russia

Seems like they imply the Russian state is behind this but they don't explicitly say it, probably because they have no proof, as always. What trust do I have in WADA when they clearly have a bias against Russia?
yes, I don't think that facebook cares so much about the america perspective of the picture, nor do I think that it's the major point for most people complaining about the censorship, but it is that little extra twist.
Compared to if they had censored the photo of the man in front of the tanks on tiamen square in china; it would still technically be as bad, but I would guess that fewer people would complain as it would _feel_ less politically motivated.
It would be profoundly stupid for the American government to take down the internet under normal circumstances, but then against it would be equally stupid for China or Russia to do it (again, under normal circumstances). But developing the capability seems like a good idea of the face of it.

That said, Schneier obviously has more information than he's currently sharing.
I used to enjoy perusing rationalviews.com - but it seems that they're shutting down.

Sorta bummed about that, but I get why. Too few people contributed to the discussions
Deep forum links on weird topics is my goto, but IRC may be something I should get back into.

I kinda miss the web being made of forums, I feel like that's a tradition that's less healthy than it was. Facebook groups or slack channel or Stack Exchange just don't do it for me the same way
The author's criticism was about replacement of old ideas, not addition of new ideas
To be fair this is sensitive information relating to individual peoples health. WADA should have been protecting this information to the same level as healthcare providers have to.
Yeah, it's a bit odd to criticize both companies in this fashion when both have already developed capsules -- one capable of orbiting and re-entry, the other sub-orbital.
At $560 only 6 hours later from your comment
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> YouTube Community was going to be about Google crowdsourcing DMCA takedown request reviews.

Crowdsourcing would be incompatible with DMCA safe-harbor requirements (so they wouldn't be "DMCA takedown request reviews" if they were crowdsourced.)
Mail delivery delays can get huge, that's what's wrong with Yandex. Mail routinely takes 10-20 minutes to arrive.
> the speed loss is too great once you have 20-40 tabs open

That leads me to my second point, TreeStyleTab. I commonly have 50+ tabs open, and they are nested nicely under each other so I actually can find them. In Chrome, there is bunch of half-baked addons for easier finding, but nothing like TreeStyleTab for Firefox.
If you read it, you'd find you need to be either admin on mysql already(and that's a bad thing), or have FILE permission on mysql. It's not about file upload primitive, the exploit is very specifically about the FILE permission on MYSQL allowing the user to add a new trigger as "root".
Following on what M_Grey says, I'd say beyond a doubt the U.S. military plans to take down any and all Internet infrastructure as needed as a contingency in war.

Remember the U.S. government has plans to effectively destroy the world with nuclear strikes as a contingency in war. Do you think they would hesitate to prepare plans to take down a data network? It's immoral? Unthinkable?

I'm not criticizing such plans. War is death and destruction, and the U.S. must be prepared.

The U.S., and all nations and citizens, also should do everything to prevent situations where war is the best remaining option. This requires sober, expert foresight in foreign policy and politics, anticipating 2nd-, 3rd-, and n-order effects, not emotional, knee-jerk ideology and amateur foreign policy.
But people wants to have a transplant when they are ill, you can't have them without donation
Today's other space headline is about Virgin's LEO launch company signing up a customer for 4 flights:

http://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-signs-sky-and-space-glo...
A fairly large and obvious difference is that around Christmas I can (and usually do) break up the cardboard boxes into smaller pieces, and put them inside my trashcan instead of just on the curb, so the fact that I got, say, a large tv is hidden.

This sort of database would not be opt-out.
NYC still has a huge bike lane problem
I was wondering the same thing. My assumption would be that either:

1) The US has nothing to gain by taking down the internet infrastructure via malicious means.

or

2) The US has better access to these systems to take them out directly rather than forcing them down via DDOS attacks.
The conclusion is not WADA's, so your distrust of WADA has very little to do with the story.
The link to the actual blog post is at http://blog.runkit.com/2016/09/13/tonic-is-now-runkit-a-part...
Fastmail has been my go-to for almost as long as they have existed--almost 15 years. There is NOTHING better in my estimation and I've used them all before--free and paid.

Rob and the Fastmail team are most likely the best in the world at what they do, and as an IT guy with decades of experience, I don't say that lightly. They have more than earned my shekels every year. Give them a go... you will be very pleasantly surprised.
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My guess would be that the American government has less reason to test what would take down some of these services. And not for benevolent reasons, but because they could more easily send in armed agents and simply unplug those services.
Probably you should read a data, leaked from WADA about US sportsmen and the drugs they used before talking about my credibility.
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> Any sane organization would fire an employee who gave a stranger keys to the office; falling for a phishing scam is the online equivalent of that.

No, they likely wouldn't fire someone unless they specifically had controls in place for that (eg. security clearance area). People "tailgate" at companies all the time.

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/

In addition, the "value" of these records shot up dramatically once Russia was banned. The security was not stepped up to match.

The real problem is the fact that managers DO request passwords, access control changes, etc. via email, and they do it more often than people get phished. So, people learn to give out information rather than protect it.
If a shared hosting provider is giving you FILE permission, you should close your account and leave, cause they don't understand trivial basics of database security.
I'm flabbergasted at this, as well. It talks in the article about the attitude this guy takes, "Don't say what SHOULD happen, look at the data, let the data talk to you and tell you what's going on!"

With the caveat that we must be cautious not to use statistical analysis of the data to lie outright, I want to say:

Any attitude that does not at least INCLUDE the one Russ George advocates about LETTING THE DATA TELL YOU what is going on is ANATHEMA to science, Western Society, and human life in general.

Seriously.
Surely won't project my opinion while receiving yours.

>>The demand I see is mostly for livable quarters at reasonable distances with basic amenities and some expectation of privacy... which seems to be too much to ask in any of the major cities.

But based on what you just wrote you can relocate to pretty much any city on earth and these problems would barely change. While in US most of my colleagues who had homes lived in far suburbs. This is a international trend. Places close to office had insane rents. And from what I learn property taxes are quite high in California and Texas where most of our desi dudes stay.

This is not a US vs India issue. This basically how demand and supply economics works.

>>better work-life balance. Decent compensation. Reasonable vacation time. Great career prospects. The prospect of living and working with people from different cultures (not just American, but from many other countries as well).

Again all of this is possible if you have an expensive STEM degree. Take note that they are good deal of US citizens who work on minimum wage. There is likely nearly everyone who works for $60K or less. Tech and Medical workforce that comes from India is really like people landing into good salaries at the very start. This could all change if the persons very kids don't get a STEM degree.

I understand that for most people making these immigration decisions its very hard to reconcile with these things.
>legal obligation to maximize profit

Wasting my breath because this comes up so often, but this is not in any way true.
> struts

Wasn't Struts a once-popular non-failure whose time has passed; rather than a corporate failure that was "dumped"?
>US cops have always been well armed, right

Not really, they carried a revolver or .38 special, might have had a shotgun between the front seats or in the trunk, Using khaki as the only body armor. Now there are police whose primary weapon is an ar-15 and the backup is a semi-auto .40 mm glock. everyone else has an ar-15 in the trunk and a glock in hand plus varying levels of body armor.

That's a far cry from having a 6 shot revolver on your hip just in case.
Maybe not DMCA, but ContentID. If the algorithm finds a match, let some humans look at it before slapping ads on it and handing the money to someone else.
It's a hard comparison to make. While NVH is a priority for OEMs making the customer perceive that there's some serious power under the hood is a priority as well.

Most manufacturers tune the exhaust system to be fairly loud at the top of the power band (if you buy an "ultimate driving machine" you don't want it to sound like a Prius). Coasting on flat ground or down a hill (low load)they'll be about the same but flooring it up one and you're gonna hear stuff.

As you get into more SUV like shapes and designs that aren't dominated by "use the least energy (gasoline or otherwise) to get from A to B" electric vehicles lose a lot of the advantage at higher speeds where wind and tire noise is more dominant.

Additionally a many high end vehicles have such good sound deadening that they employ various tricks to increase engine noise in the cabin (laying sound through the speakers, tubes that resonate at particular frequencies)

If you have a vehicle that's fairly quiet at speed something as simple as tread pattern, a roof rack or bike rack may be enough to be the dominant noise source regardless of drive-train. Larger than that is road quality. A huge chunk of the population in the US drives on roads that are rough enough that any difference in NVH between a Model S and non EV of similar price is meaningless.

It would be interesting to do an NVH comparison of high end sedans though.
I would guess that he/she means that if there was sane sex ed in school, then seeing people having sex on tv wouldn't make kids have unprotected sex any more than seeing violence on tv would make them go around killing people.
What do you mean? That statement was made by Olivier Niggli, Director General, WADA
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I believe there was a short exemption window for income taxes on some mortgage defaults/forgiveness that Congress explicitly allowed. Otherwise debt forgiveness usually gets taxed as income and the amount would be due the tax year it is forgiven. The IRS does allow payment plans and I'm not certain how they would handle such a case as this. I would hope they don't tack on fees and interest but I could certainly seeing them do that. Granted your wages can be garnished to pay for student loans, I don't know who/what entity is chasing that money. Is it the IRS? With huge amounts of taxes due from a forgiveness, the IRS will be on your tail and now you have to choose, what's worse: owing more student loan debt or owing back taxes to the IRS (which if unpaid can lead to criminal proceedings)?
Right, another example is ADHD diagnosis for American Football players. It's used to hide steroid use.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/31/is-adderall-...
So channels can now tweet/blog directly in youtube, and not on Twitter/Facebook/Reddit/Instagram/Whatever? Sounds like one more place to put ads.

EDIT: I mean "sponsored content."