skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder whether this is a premature conclusion due to sampling bias. I suspect that the early Mac adopters at IBM were mostly developers and expert users, people that didn't need a lot of support anyway. This makes it look like IBM's Mac users are cheaper to support, when in reality the true support costs won't be known until the user base is more representative of the company as a whole.
There's a third kind. Let's call it X.

It's where you spend time devising philosophies on human nature that make you feel superior to others.
In Windows 95 days, it was pretty normal i'd format and reinstall my parents pc Every 3-4 months. Thanks Bill.
If you need to, you can edit your hosts file to include github's IP addresses (mentioned elsewhere in this thread):

192.30.253.113 github.com

151.101.4.133 assets-cdn.github.com
If this is supposed to be "taking down the internet", then I'm not impressed. Using cached DNS still gives access to any service. I'm even typing here on HackerNews.

If this is another practice run, then I'm still not impressed. Taking down one provider is not that hard. Good luck finding the resources to do this DDoS to ALL large DNS providers out there.

Maybe it's not really fair to link to that post every time a DDoS with more than average payload happens. Especially since the post doesn't mention any specifics, because well, "protect my sources". It's like the "buy gold now" guy starring in the 2 AM infomercial predicting an economic recession within the next 5 years, without adding what the exact cause is going to be. He is probably going to be right, but that doesn't make him a visionary.
Man leaves small metal object with volatile electrical connection in tightly enclosed space receiving direct sunlight on a hot day, blames metal object for ensuing damage.
Liability should be on the people who connect these things to the public internet. The owners of the devices. Like with cars, you have certain responsibilities and liabilities when you operate a potential dangerous machine on the public roads.

In the case of ISPs providing cable modems and routers and DVRs and other boxes to their customers, they should be responsible for keeping those secure.

If people start getting fines or sued over what their internet-connected devices are doing, they might stop connecting them to the internet, or shop more carefully for devices or providers that are secure.
Considering that both rovers were planned to last for 90 days each both of them outlasted their mission like a boss you can't say any of them failed, yes Spirit has failed but after 2269 days in operation.

Opportunity by this time must be fueled by some dark magic since the darn thing out lasted it's planned mission by freaking 12 years.
Very young person so possibly impulsive; started college at age 12 so might not have developed enough emotional intelligence to avoid doing these things.

I mean, Bloomberg is pointing fingers, I'm just trying to understand why an anti-DDoS firm would be DDoSing other firms..

EDIT: Also, "Marshal Webb, 18, whose Hamilton, Ohio home was raided this week by FBI agents as part of the LulzSec investigation". Maybe he did it or maybe not, but if he did, it wouldn't be the first time

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/internet/hackers-who-...
Just put DDoS attacks at same level as terrorism.
You're thinking of the "public" PageRank value previously displayed in Google's browser toolbars. Those are indeed no longer updated. However, there is still some variant of "PageRank" in use internally.
The Industrial Internet of Things: Why You Need to Get Up to Speed Fast
That's super interesting; I didn't know git was so inconsistent across platforms. Valuable knowledge. I'll add that in.
So, the case that expensive housing hurts California businesses is well stated and intuitive, (and I don't disagree)

But I was considering a counter point the other day. Homeownership here means mid level engineers who have lived here a decade or two often have access to seven figure credit lines. What effect does this have on the entrepreneurial side of things here?

To be clear, I am not putting this fourth as a fully formed belief, but it is an interesting argument, I think, and worth talking about.
Sure this is a joke, but it's not crazy to think about a distributed commit log as the basis for distributed messaging. That's why I'm starting GitQ, a ZeroMQ-like distributed messaging framework that offers full auditability, customizable conflict resolution, and lazy reconciliation. Use it for your next microservices architecture!
Funny enough, we have about 50 Spring 2011 MBPs in service, no major failures yet except people drenching their MBPs in coffee and letting them fall (disks broken).
Hey pdx, I'd love to help out as a SF transit advocate in any way I can. Feel free to shoot me an email.
Ah so make everything redundant. Double my costs in man hours and in monetary cost. Brilliant!
Yep, and manufacturers have not much incentive to update firmware for a device which is not their latest greatest or update firmware while not adding more features to help them sell more. Security isn't a feature that the vast majority of consumers would pay extra for or know how to verify anyway. There was plenty of demand for that one "unhackable" android phone, but I'd be blown away if it wasn't 100% snake oil.

My prediction is that it'll get worse before it gets better and that these type of botnets will be around for at least 5 years. Look at what happened to unsecured-by-default routers, android phones, Windows PCs, cars...the way consumers will get more secure stuff is by manufacturers being publicly embarrassed / sued over problems until caring about security makes business sense, then they'll have it in their hands when their old insecure gadgets die.

My cynical side side thinks this will be a problem until all the old endpoints supporting these insecure things are shut down eventually in 5-10 years.
But a 1911?

Surely there is something a little lighter that one could wear? Perhaps a smaller frame polymer pistol with 8 to 10 rounds of .40 S&W? Isn't .40 S&W more-or-less comparable to .45 ACP?

I'm not up on this stuff, but a 1911 is a big pistol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1911_pistol
So you could call this exact sort of profile a "Write Around the Murray"? http://www.writearoundthemurray.org.au/
Twitter, Github, Quora, Soundcloud, Etsy, PayPal, Heroku, The Guardian, WhatsApp and numerous others still down as of 1:00 pm PT.

Amazon and Spotify are still up.
Selling insecure devices (be that IoT, wifi routers, etc) is almost like aiding and abetting, in the context of DoS attacks.
Twitter still down Ohio
Until 2015 the vast majority of Macs at IBM were BYOD, largely driven by the EOL of that last generation of "our" Thinkpads (T6X series was the last IBM design) drove a lot of technical IBM'ers to buy their own Mac. All of the Mac support was an internal forum created by advocates and a small IT team. VM's for Windows were common and remain for a few old legacy products that are too complex to port.

Separate from the Mac stuff, the IT folks were working on web/app based solutions (web email access vs notes, etc). So that has softened some of the transition headaches. If some mac notes fix breaks, you've got the web and smartphone reader backups.

All that got formalized into a "real" organization but it was really several years of trench Mac advocacy + webification that makes the numbers look so good now.
In an age where security vulnerabilities can cause your thermostat to overheat your house and your smart lock to lock you out, maybe it'll be a good thing that companies that don't have good security practices and update mechanisms will be locked out of the IoT market.
I have been using it for the week, I like it!
It's also about how much 3rd party software is installed and how many complex features like Domain integration etc are used. I am fairly certain if you were to keep your usage limited mostly to browsing and email the support differences between Macs and PCs would be non existent.

Trouble is your typical Windows PCs have a whole lot more 3rd party software (AV, Encryption, r likes of tanium , firewalls you name it.) And they do more too - whether or not the employees actually need that stuff. Most support calls are direct result of stuff like that - firewall blocked my program, AD password issues, antivirus causing CPU burn etc.
Twitter still down - Ohio
They've been increasing steadily for decades. Today almost certainly isn't some new record-setting attack orders of magnitude beyond what's been seen before - it isn't the herald of a new age of attacks and the "beginning of a bleak future". Claiming such is just sensationalist garbage that belies a lack of understanding of the way the internet works and the history of DDOSes in general.

Spamhaus was historic in 2013 at 75GBPS. In 2014, Cloudflare mitigated a 400GBPS attack. The BBC attack earlier this year crested 600 GBPS. Last month, OVH was hit with a 1TBPS attack. Each of those was mind-bogglingly large at the time, and infrastructure has continued to evolve to deal with them. This attack isn't anything particularly different - it's just notable because it's visible, not because it happened.
Meet the people who believe the Earth is flat
If it makes you more at ease, use this one :)

https://dns.yandex.com
The only problem that I see is that our government didn't breakup companies more often.

At&t needs to be broken up by region again. Along with Monsanto, Walmart, Comcast, Verizon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft.
Well, it's Facebook.
Do you have a reference on that 10% = monopoly definition?
>when they could just scrape the text off the web page directly without using the intermediate image and OCR

Try looking up whois info on google.eu. Most tools will simply output `NOT DISCLOSED! Visit www.eurid.eu for webbased whois.`. Now you can search https://whois.eurid.eu for the whois information of google.eu. You will find that the email address is only available as an image.

That's exactly the situation Comodo tried to solve.

Given that it's a simple font with no obfuscation, a small pattern-matching python programm should give you near 100% accuracy. Apparently Comodo used some off-the-shelf software instead, and that software seems to make assumptions it shouldn't make.
Change your DNS settings and some of these websites will now work.

http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/how-to-change-dns-settings-ma...
Perhaps my point is better illustrated by this series:

http://www.mcmansionhell.com/post/150926055196/mcmansion-hel...
http://www.mcmansionhell.com/post/151254239061/mcmansion-hel...
http://www.mcmansionhell.com/post/151565621727/mcmansionhell...

There is some clear sense to these criticisms. Some of the issues raised constitute hard-to-deny aesthetic flaws: they simply look bad. But many more seem to be less about hard aesthetic truths and more about "taste" -- a significantly less defensible concept. It's not that these architectural elements look bad, it's that they don't look the way they're "supposed" to look, where the way that they're "supposed" to look is determined by the way that they've historically looked (and, critically, nothing more).

The author is clearly confused about their own motivations, too: he or she slides regularly into moralizing about the social evil of McMansions and the McMansion lifestyle, while being seemingly entirely unaware that the "good" mansions that these homes so negatively contrast with are symbols of excess and luxury that are just as morally indefensible. The rich have always secluded themselves, they've always wasted their resources in spectacular fashion, they've always wanted to demonstrate their success -- these aren't new phenomena. But the author seems irked simultaneously by conspicuous consumption, classism, and so forth and the same time that he or she rakes McMansion owners over the coals for daring to aspire to the true upper class. It's bizarre -- but that's taste for you.
It's not my industry, but I'm confident Boeing has enough pull in Washington to keep that from happening.
bloomberg was down for me.

I had disabled adblock at their insistence...

i re-enabled adblock and I could get the article. hmmmm. maybe something about the 50 unrelated js calls?? perhaps?
While true, Level 3 will be a (very) nice capability once available. And I agree it's relatively close. But you're probably not enabling new businesses (for general road use) until you have full door-to-door autonomy. Which was what the original comment was talking about.
Latest github NS moved to awsdns

$ dig -tNS github.com @8.8.8.8

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> -tNS github.com @8.8.8.8
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15616
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;github.com. IN NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
github.com. 899 IN NS ns-1283.awsdns-32.org.
github.com. 899 IN NS ns-1707.awsdns-21.co.uk.
github.com. 899 IN NS ns-421.awsdns-52.com.
github.com. 899 IN NS ns-520.awsdns-01.net.
github.com. 899 IN NS ns1.p16.dynect.net.
github.com. 899 IN NS ns2.p16.dynect.net.
github.com. 899 IN NS ns3.p16.dynect.net.
github.com. 899 IN NS ns4.p16.dynect.net.

;; Query time: 32 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 21 13:01:48 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 248

But my local copy is still on dynect

$ dig -tNS twitter.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> -tNS twitter.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62729
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;twitter.com. IN NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
twitter.com. 75575 IN NS ns3.p34.dynect.net.
twitter.com. 75575 IN NS ns4.p34.dynect.net.
twitter.com. 75575 IN NS ns1.p34.dynect.net.
twitter.com. 75575 IN NS ns2.p34.dynect.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns3.p34.dynect.net. 54698 IN A 208.78.71.34
ns4.p34.dynect.net. 81779 IN A 204.13.251.34
ns1.p34.dynect.net. 8544 IN A 208.78.70.34
ns2.p34.dynect.net. 54775 IN A 204.13.250.34

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: <local>
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 21 13:02:14 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 179
Not a real problem for now. I can compile my AS3 code to Windows & Mac, and have the option to go mobile thanks to Adobe AIR. If the shit really hits the fan and Flash is completely blocked, I will convert my code to OpenFL (Haxe), which will not be that much of an effort. Then a whole new range of platforms become available, including HTML5.

So I keep my options open.
You can use this to find IPs for services that are currently out: https://dns.google.com/query?name=github.com&type=A&dnssec=t...
Most of the negative things you had to say about Trump are a part of being a high-profile entrepreneur. How does any of that come even remotely close to purging a private e-mail server you used for communicating top-secret documents while in office, or collapsing on a warm day is beyond me.
"If you want to read about the numerous self defense instances, you'll have to read about it from the gun lobby."

You want to complain about "media embellishments" and inaccurate coverage but then you suggest I should use the most powerful political lobby in the US as a news source? There's no embellishment there? That's an unbiased news source?

Just a cursory glance at some recent media outlet coverage of self defense shootings:

http://www.live5news.com/story/31972984/ncpd-investigating-o...

http://www.ktnv.com/news/rtc-bus-driver-says-shooting-was-in...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/naked-man-shot-chok...

There is no shortage of them. So your assertion that media "only" reports bad use of guns is simply untrue.
True, but then botnet owners would be using foreign IPs to do US attacks and viceversa. So you need punishments that you can actually enforce.
Any supporting materials to what you just said?
can't have wsj.com without the letters sjw
> Well, if IBM's PC image is anything like it was in the early 2000's probably > 50% of their PC issues are self inflicted by the IT people who built the image.

I'd argue that most issues people have with Windows PC fall in the category of 'self inflicted', but the point is, is that this is much harder to do on a Mac (apparently). I never heard someone building an image for a mac for example.
How come you can access these sites from some countries? I imagine there are lots of name servers and that the attackers are specifically targeting servers for US?
Holy cow this is impressive. How do you think he came to this achievement? Was he marketing himself really well? I honestly would love to know what it takes!

Context: I'm currently developing a new web-based remote desktop tool in Rust and I'm still on the fence as to whether or not to release it open source.

It's a port of some work I did on Gate One that ultimately couldn't be released due to the limitations of X11 permissions in multi-user environments (too insecure).

What's funny is that I'm looking at using Vue for the client!
You should know that anecdotal evidence is frowned upon on Hacker News when it doesn't support conventional wisdom.
N.Y. Governor Cuomo Signs Bill to Fine Illegal Airbnb Hosts
It's a sugar over React.createElement which is just a souped up document.createElement.

JSX:

<div className="classy" onClick={this.handleClick} />

No JSX:

React.createElement('div', {
className: 'classy',
onClick: this.handleClick,
});

Native (note this naive implementation lacks proper scoping):

var el = document.createElement('div');
el.className = 'classy';
el.onclick = handleClick;

This has been available on all major browsers for quite some time, React just provides some convenience around it and a sugar for those that prefer code that looks like HTML because people tend to (fairly, imo) associate their HTML with the state of the DOM.
Krueger noted that the legislation does not prohibit those who use sites like Airbnb from renting out a spare room while they are in their homes.

So if the sharing economy is REALLY about sharing, there's no problem!
Awful things paywalls.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4_QIjk...
The problem is not whether they can create a secure product, but whether they can afford to certify their products as secure.

From my experience in the aviation software world, we spend a great deal more on demonstrating reliability than in producing it. This forces a huge amount of overhead on our projects. This isn't a bad thing, mind you, but it is a thing to consider.

It is hard for a couple engineers to start a new company making these sorts of systems. The only practical way is to have a truly good and demonstrably better solution, or be inside a large corporation with already deep pockets.
The attack is on the DNS servers, which take names like www.github.com and resolve them to ip addresses (i.e. 192.30.253.112 for me). Their status page is status.github.com - it is on the same domain name (github.com) as the rest of the site. Normally this isn't a problem because availability is usually something going on with a server, not DNS.

In this case, the servers (DNS server under attack at Dyn) that knows how to turn both www.github.com and status.github.com into an IP address were under attack and couldn't respond to a query. The only way to mitigate this would be to have a completely different domain (i.e. githubstatus.com) and host the DNS with a different company (i.e. not Dyn).
Hardly. Increasing connection is shifting us closer to a single world-culture every day, which has advantages and disadvantages. All the world's most powerful people wear Western-style suits and speak English.
I navigated to the IP address for Github, but it still tries to resolve to github.com
I think part of the problem is that companies need to censor these sorts of images or run into regulatory trouble because being an "adult" site has some regulatory implications they don't want to run afoul of
If they had to recall all vulnerable devices I am sure they would take security a lot more seriously.
So if our resolver was on our resolver was on our laptop and had a nice UI that would work great. Now the question is : why is the resolver not in my laptop?
Show HN: ProgrammingPosters.com
Playstation network down last 4 hours. This is in the UK don't know about the rest of the world.
Status:
https://status.playstation.com/en-gb/
I just went ahead: https://github.com/staab/git-chat/pull/1
No, it's like saying that when someone has an illiquid asset theoretically worth $1 million but not actually capable of being traded for cash, it is unfair to take away their food stamps and leave them with no way to buy food. The general idea is that it is impossible to trade in the value of your house for any replacement for 'spend my retirement in the area I spent my working life in', because the other houses that fulfil that requirement will also have appreciated in value.

Edit: I mean, even actual food stamps don't make you sell your house to qualify.
Yes, but the whole point is that the fees are part of the reason why the house costs that much. If you wanted the final house to cost $100k, then you'd have to actually build it for $50k. Which may not even be possible, or if it was it would be so tiny that nobody would want it.

They're basically forced to build a (relatively) big expensive house so that the final cost seems reasonable despite the $50k in fees buried in it. Hence why they aren't building entry-level priced houses - they're too cheap to hide the fixed fees.
Here's a better article from Mr. Krebs:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twit...

Personally I think his case is pretty convincing.
People don't upload very often because their upstream sucks.

This is chicken-and-egg bullshit.

I am sure it is not that difficult to provision.

The area I resided in, had only DSL.

Later, a cable company ran FTTP, with a ONT outside, that converted the fiber to coax-DOCSIS, and then requires the usage of a cable modem? The ONT has a RJ-45 port, but the cable company does not know how to enable it.

The DSL was oversubscribed, and provisioned for less than 6Mbps/768kbps. However, it was only $35/mo.

Once the cable company offered service, it was $60 (plus modem rental or purchase) for 6Mbps/1Mbps.

Many people switched to the fake-fiber cable network, freeing up capacity on the DSL, so now the DSL is provisioned at 12Mbps, but upload is still 768kbps, and still $35/mo.

To get 5Mbps upload via the cable company would require a plan costing over $100/mo. That is their upper limit of upload speed. They can do 105Mbps down (closer to $150/mo), but 5Mbps up is the max.

I would love to have even 3Mbps upstream from the DSL provider

For now, I can use LTE for periodic uploading, where I can get 20 to 50Mbps, but I am paying much more for that privilege.

But, when time is money, I cannot afford to wait 3 hours for data to transfer at 768kbps (not considering encapsulation - yes, the DSL is PPPoE).
I didnae get an email
Having gone through this process recently, there's a lot of truth in this post. I experienced more companies "ghosting" during the process than slow turnaround times, but it is remarkable how short-sighted companies are during the recruiting phase. It's as if common courtesy has gone completely out the window in tech recruiting. Basic things like not missing phone interviews at times that have been previously scheduled or informing candidates politely that you've decided to move forward with other candidates can't even be taken for granted anymore. Candidates' initial experience with a company is typically through the recruiting organization and negative impressions during the recruiting phase are often applied to the company as a whole. I could see it being a competitive advantage to be known for having a good recruiting process even if it is very selective. For example, I have a very positive impression of DigitalOcean despite not receiving an offer because of the professional and courteous way they handled their interview process.
Doesn't enforcement of copyright fall under government intervention?