skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct, it's centralisation, at least for the whole community.

It decentralises that one company's DNS -- instead of having one or two DNS servers, perhaps at two sites, they now have 20, at 20 sites. If someone wants to target them, they're probably better protected.

But it's the same 20 servers as a million other companies, so the chance of those servers being a target is much greater.
I'm unsure which Boomers you've interacted with, but anecdotally, the ones I've talked to a) don't care if their kids can live where they grew up and b) they plan on selling their home for as much as they can get for it and then move to a low tax, low cost of living area when they retire/downsize (some to Florida, some to Central America [either Panama or Belize], one person to Thailand).

This is to be expected when you have no defined benefit/pension plans in the US anymore, very few people saved enough for retirement on their own, your social security benefit is anemic, and your home is your most valuable asset. One might argue everyone should save more (they should!), but that's of course going to drag GDP down (can't win).

YMMV. Frankly, I feel like we've brought this on as a country ourselves. Dog eat dog catches up.
stories of random encounters with bill are my favorite. whether true or not, i think it says something that most are believable.

from the comment section on WP:
Personal Bill Murray Story - A woman I know (a mother of 6 kids) was working in a small town Montana clothing store when Bill Murray walked in. He asked her to show him the nicest woman's garment they had in the store. She showed him a winter coat and he asked her to model it for him. He told her he would take it and when she started to box it up he told her "the coat is for you Mary." I am sure that she had never personally owned something as nice in her life, given to her in such a generous manner
How does the service you're responsible for work when DNS stops functioning?
Yes, over time. Not today.

There are a lot of unknowns, because every deal usually starts from an idea, e.g. we're going to acquire X for $10bn, and that will give us $1bn in extra profits + $2bn in synergies after integration. But they need to integrate the company first to achieve those results, meaning it's unknown, meaning it can fail, meaning there's a risk premium.

Half of what determines the price of a stock on the stock market is psychology. It's a herd.
This is what home equity loans are for.
Thank you for the feedback on our web site. This post is sort of bad timing since we're actually on the brink of rolling out a new site with much better content (and code samples on the home page). Click here to see what Lucee Server's scripting syntax looks like (very similar to JS or C) https://goo.gl/D3j4UZ
The idea that people are free to make business and do what they want with their own property is alien to the state of New York. By far, it is the most commie ridden state, even ahead of California.

The state should be fought over laws like this, not negotiated with.
How can I, a proficient web developer but one with little experience working directly with its underlying infrastructure, help in whatever effort is being down to thwart this and related attacks? I feel a moral obligation to help as these attacks seem a grave threat to our economy and could cause unrest given the current political climate. Thanks.
Google cloud can host your DNS zones for you.
"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."

Not to sound rude, but you don't actually believe that, do you?
The point that I was trying to make is that they have proven correctness within a specific abstraction, but the article incorrectly say the code is "hacker-proof". Hacking in most cases happens because we can break through abstractions.
Boy am I glad you're not in charge of foreign relations, for the sake of nearly every country in the world.

"War? Whatever, so be it!". Right?

A complaint often surfaces from those that have actually lived through wars: How disconnected people are from war. Your country (I'm assuming) has been at war with various bits of the middle east for over a decade and you are not suffering the consequences. It's all remote for you. It's all drones, or "those men and women giving their life for our country gosh jolly gee we are so proud of them, so much respect".

It's not you, it's not your life, not your family's life, not your friends, your city, your streets being bombed, civilians being shot in the streets - none of that is what you've been through. The US has been exporting death, bringing none of it back home.

A warmongering country that is completely disconnected from the consequences; this is what leads to the "potentially nuclear war? pah, so be it, my internet is down anyway" attitude.
So its okay for the established businesses to use the power of government to shut down competition and prevent people from using their property as they see fit, even when it is safe and does not endanger the well being of others?

This is one of the biggest abuses of government power there can be, using to it to snuff competition or favor one particular business. It hides behind "regulation" and if that doesn't work there is always "think of the children"
How about TCP over light?
thanks! my rudimentary understanding was pretty much correct... it sounds, then, like shareholders simply don't have faith in the acquisition?
A standard for face-to-face TOFU checking would be in addition to the PKI infrastructure, and to facilitate a secure way to use self-signed certs.

Obviously we've never had face-to-face relationships with the likes of Paypal, Stripe, etc, and would still rely on our browser and operating system vendors to validate the chain of authority.
I live in Manhattan and while there is some density in parts of Manhattan, overall, the buildings are not very tall.

Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser wrote about this in his Op-Ed, Build Big Bill:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-big-bill-article-1....
Certain types of people with amazing memories like CLIs, but please don't inflict them on the rest of us. They're shit.

Stupid thing to say. CLIs are much more flexible than GUIs. You can't feed one GUI component's output into the input of another.

They're not for everyone or for every use-case. But CLIs will be around longer than you will.
Is it a residential structure?
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The cloud can be more decentralized but it more expensive, Done properly having redundancy across multiple clouds aws, rackspace, google, azure, in geographically different areas with different internet service providers it can be done in a very distributed decentralized fashion, just no one actaully does that. Instead they throw everything on one provider and pray its is backed up and secured by that cloud provider better than the IT guy down the hall they just laid off.
why i think adding an edit feature to twitter is thorny issue
That's a mute point.

We do too.

Do you not think Hitler scared the whole world? If you let this guy scare you into inaction then he's already won.
> Espionage is stealing data.

You tell me. Under their classification system, is stealing map data espionage?
Power consumption fluctuations need to be up in the billions of watts before power companies generally care and must do something about it. Wifi routers are limited to 1W output power, so you'd need a lot more than just the hundreds of millions of wifi routers bleating out TCP packets at the top of their lungs to take down the power grid.

Also, what the power companies really care about are changes in consumption; once they've adjusted the grid parameters to compensate for an increase in power consumption, they're happy until the consumption drops off. Using wifi or any internet traffic to destabilize the grid is just not going to work because there just isn't enough raw drain available, even if the attackers could get their timing absolutely flawlessly perfect so every wifi model popped on at once.
Hence not necessarily.

What Russia is trying to do with us (whether it's to influence our election or just make us seem weak) is very bad and should be met with a proportional response, but calling it an act of war seems a bit too far.
We used exrm
I've been thinking about this for a while. I think it would involve asking a highly focused set of questions to at least 3 different employees and see how much they correlate. I don't know what those questions are though :)

One question that I think correlates low with a highly functional sane tech company is "Does your CEO still write code for the product?" if the answer is yes and the company is larger than 20 people, odds are high that the company/CEO is not highly functional.
Hey, Kelly. Enjoyed the article but it seems like someone edited over your Google Doc. Do you think you could restore it to the original version?
Contrast to condo buildings, which throughout the country adopt similar rules with no pressure from the government; no leases under 6 months or 1 year are an extremely common in condo agreements.

These rules have been around for decades. My own buildings were set in 1989 in the original docs. The desire to not have short term rentals as neighbors is something extremely common. Most tenants don't have the ability to effect change the way an owner in a condo building does, so they cannot prevent the unit next door from being AirBnB'ed, so they turn to the government. Whether it should be the law as it is in NYC, probably not, but using the law is more like someone using a hammer to put in a screw, not your characterization of a "hammer looking for a nail."

You're pretending like your experience amongst suburban single family houses is at all applicable to multi-family housing in NYC when it isn't. You don't own a 10-unit building in Brooklyn Heights going all short-term rental, which is the more typical target of this law and what AirBnB is trying to defend.
Better title: Samsung sends copyright claim for exploding Note 7 parody videos
I think it really depends a lot on the companies you interact with. If you're unlucky and hit a lot of companies with slow or unresponsive interview processes I can easily see 6 to 8 weeks of back and fourth.

The last time I went job hunting, I applied to about 12 places over the course of about 4 weeks. Of those 12: 4 offers, 3 rejections, 5 ghosts (basically anyone who doesn't get back to me within a week of an on-site).

I've been working in software for 8 years in SF and I'm told those numbers are pretty good, but I think there's a lot of variability in hit/miss rates for people depending on luck, professional network quality, and how people market themselves.
When a visitor would come, my boss would arrange fake working stations, with piles of files which were in fact white paper, and he would pretend the ghost-employees were on vacation, or on an outside mission.

I have also applied to many job offers I am pretty sure were fake, with no actual position behind.
Interestingly, in some ways this is a big selling point of AWS/Azure/Goog. The absolute scale they can handle is way up there.

The downside of course, is that whilst their infrastructure can likely handle it, handling the bill associated with 'just scale up your service' could be worse than the attack itself.
Lucee Server has not been around since 1995. It is a newer open source engine that implements a backwards compatible version of CFML but with many improvements and modern flourishes. Our lack of CFML mention is on purpose due to the negative stigma of legacy apps. It's fair to say that the majority of people are not familiar with the modern iterations of CFML. It's changed so much since the old days, it might as well be a new language!
It's orthogonal to centralization. Abstracting your infrastructure allows you to easily replicate infrastructure providing the same services.

This is only ironic if you expected moving to the cloud to be what provides the redundancy.
Well, their interests are to make sure you see ads that are relevant to your interests, because advertisers are only happy if they actually sell whatever it is they're advertising. And on the face of it, seeing content that's relevant to your interests instead of content that's not seems like a good thing for users (completely ignoring for a moment all the scummy ads that prey on fear or ignorance to sell bad products). Speaking personally, if I have to see advertising, I'd rather see advertising that interests me instead of advertising that doesn't. However, I am not willing to sacrifice my privacy to do so.
I would love to read those questions, any chance you could publish them somewhere?
For development that makes it a bit easier, I'd hate to add an unnecessary 122kb in production, though.
If only there were an app for consumers to securely scan their own network for unspoken traffic in these connected devices.

The amount of consumer IoT currently connected with default and often outdated device settings is beyond belief.
My guess is that a number of the applications were done via job boards rather than at each company. In my experience as someone still looking for a first job, job board applications seem to have incredibly low yields.
It's Friday?

In all seriousness though, hacker mentality is exemplified in people like Bill. His quotes in this piece on "waking up" by rattling things around is a great perspective to have for budding entrepreneurs, or for "hackers" stuck at the office at 5pm on a Friday.
That's not really the point. The point is Trump is now saying he hasn't, but in the past he said he has. Not only is he contradicting his earlier statement, but it also makes him not trustworthy. And of course, if he was boasting about having supposedly met Putin in the past, that means he thought it was a good thing to boast about, which suggests that he is sympathetic to Putin and to Russian interests.
> Vacation rentals are keeping this town alive, and I don't think this is being represented in this debate.

This debate is about a law in NYC. Not your little vacation village where things may be completely different. The Outer Banks aren't going to outlaw short term rentals.
"objectionable speech" is a pretty melodramatic way of saying "parody videos of a consumer product", on par with "taxation is violence and theft"
“Curl Bash piping” wall of shame
The negativity in these comments is astounding.

Here's someone who's investing his own hard-earned money into a "device aimed at reducing cognitive deficiencies for sufferers of conditions like Alzheimer’s and dementia." And all anyone can do is complain that it's infeasible or that he's unqualified. I don't know about you, but I want more people working on these problems, not less.

Seems very reminiscent of when Musk was starting SpaceX and everyone assumed he didn't know anything about the domain and would automatically fail.
Your making a lot of assumptions about me. I am an immigrant from a country that has had suffered very severely from war.

The point is not to let these guys do whatever they want. Go into Ukraine, kill UN volunteers in Syria. Let them become emboldened by different types of attacks and tomorrow we will have the type of war your talking about.

Handle these problems now that they are small.

Edit: I wanted to add that it is very often the ones who have seen what terrible tragedies happen when you let terrible people like Putin do what they want that are the biggest "warmongers". It is why you see the Israelis become so eager to defend themselves because they have seen what will happen if you don't take care of bad people like Putin when they are small.
This is not ColdFusion (a product owned by Adobe). This is a FOSS engine that implements a modern spin on one of the the web's most mature JVM languages. Lucee Server contains many additional features configuration options, and focuses on the ECMA-like scripting language that is nothing like the old templating syntax.
Old topic; but the short response is no, this isn't a "freedom of thought" issue.

xkcd says it best: https://xkcd.com/1357/
Under this concept, they'd be able to specify precisely what kinds of computers and IoT devices you'd be allowed to use on your home network. This would be a net-negative for the world.
But the mean in education isn't all that great, is it?
There's issues that stem from assumptions about education that were correct in the 14th century but have since become a bit dated. You can improve a system built on the wrong premises, but you can't fix it.

It's a system that works through sheer force of will, and squanders the efforts of educators and students alike.
The ambition of education technology shouldn't be to rehabilitate 10 underserved students, no matter how noble of a goal that is. It should be to make sure they aren't ever underserved. The current system can't do that period.

By the time you have fixed the issues that prevent it from doing that, you've ripped out and replaced 90% of it. The way class progression works. Automating lecture components. The testing components. How responsibility over students is handed from teacher to teacher. Assuring best practices are used, both by students and teachers. The curricula and how they feed into each other. Tracking student progress. Negotiation of homework quantity between teachers. Enabling broad collaboration between teachers in matters of teaching materials. Quality assurance.

The rage is not against the fact that there is an education system. It's that it could be so much better. It's against the waste of youth. A class of 30 with only half of it engaged wastes 180 childyears over their K-12s. That's 2 long lifetimes, in the years when their minds are the most malleable.
Even if they're doing it on their own, it might be owned by the school if it is related to the work they're doing, just like any company.
At the same time, declaring unilateral war against hitler would have been stupid.
Actually, the Tea House nearby. I _think_ it's lamian. At least it has that super chewy texture. I have no idea if they're fresh made or not, though. Still, about as good as you're going to get in the area, I think.
Are you throwing "commie" in there as shorthand for something that you think we'll all agree is abhorrent? 'Cause I'm really totally fine with the community getting together and dictating certain things to each other. That's the level we're on here – not state control of the means of production for the benefit of the people collectively.
Thank you!

Seriously, if AirBNB were a free market (and it is), what these listings are doing is allowing more people to come into the city and spend their own money on services throughout the city. This is a boon for all businesses in the city. It increases the availability of units and lowers the cost of other hotels throughout the city.

What people are afraid of is that they see all these units available on AirBNB and assume they are empty? They are not, they are being rented out pretty regularly. Which means they are being used and filled, with real live human beings.

If people didn't like empty units in the city, they should be complaining about the high-end units like One57 and 436park that are removing available units for the city and creating high-rise ghost towns.

I don't believe for one second this increases the cost of rental and/or condo units in the city. Since what is really happening is that the units are still full. AirBNB allowed us to see that there was a very real apartment shortage in the city.

I lived in NYC, and even I had to move out because of high rents. But those high rents weren't because of AirBNB. It was due to a lack of smaller units being put on the market.

As the units consolidated from 1bd to 3 or 4bd apartments, the sizes of the apartments grew, and all new buildings were for multi-million dollar residences. The middle class got squeezed.

Now we are blaming AirBNB for the problems. And that is simply not the case.
Ask HN: What problems are fashion startups missing?
I'd like to see an inverse relationship between power and privacy -- the more power you have (political, financial, commercial, religious, cultural), the lower your degree of privacy protection. Also loss for gross antisocial actions (e.g., crime).

But that would be mediated, regulated, and uniform, not capriciously applied at the will and/or luck of hackers trying to break into services.

Which is what this story is about. It's not that it's Clinton's campaign, specifically, that's been hacked. It's that this can happen to any of us, at any time.

Data are liability.

"An exceptionally peculiar aspect of digital data is that, while it may remain in the boxes and cages provided for it, it's got a notable tendency to find itself liberated. Often without warning, and not detected for days, weeks, months, or longer, afterward (as in this case). In the real world we've got friction, especially associated with data processing and transfer. In digital form, far less so. Sometimes friction is good."

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hn4r5/on_the_...

Dan Kaminsky's response to the Fappening, an earlier incident, was absolutely dead spot on:

http://dankaminsky.com/2014/09/03/not-safe-for-not-working-o...

You Don’t Necessarily Know When You’ve Been Hit, Let Alone What’s Gone: A hugely underappreciated aspect. Paul Vixie's had similar comments along these lines, see "Internet Security Marketing: Buyer Beware":

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150420_internet_security_mar...

The problem with email is that far too much data exist in far too many places with far too little protections, and for which every single last email (and how many are sent a year?) becomes a potential ticking time bomb. That is why email really needs to be buried.

I'll miss it. It's been quite a good and long-term friend. But it's dead.
"The point that I was trying to make is that they have proven correctness within a specific abstraction, but the article incorrectly say the code is "hacker-proof"."

The title is terrible as several of us argued here. The article itself at least describes the process accurately with many quotes talking about how tricky it is or that you should test it anyway. Just a terrible title...
Your point is completely accurate and critical to follow up on in a considered way. In the real world anyway.

But unfortunately, since Thiel has invited HN to go full /pol/ the answer you're gonna get is that it's a 400lb guy on a couch saving us from the devil.
It depends. If AT&T spends a lot of cash today, the intrinsic value of a single share goes down, because there is less cash to return to that shareholder tomorrow. However, if it looks like the integration is going well, the price will increase, since indeed the company will be more valuable.

In the event of a deal, Time Warner shareholders are getting a cash premium SOON. So the price goes up.
So, in what way would I be wrong if I called you a generative system?

I don't see any connection to consciousness whatsoever.

Imagine in the year 1900 a black box existed with a slot to input paper on one side and output paper on the other. If all physics papers available at the time were fed into it, and out popped the special theory of relativity, how is that not creativity?
This seems so out of the blue, the last attack was targeting krebs for exposing extortionists. Who is being attacked this time and why?

There is a lot of talk of iot botnets but little to no evidence. This seems too vague and up in the air.

If all it takes is script kiddies and random extortionists to generate such large 1 Tbps scale attacks then we appear to be reliant on an unbelievably fragile base.

There is a growing realization of the need for more decentralization of services but these kind of attacks is going to drive more centralization if only Google scale companies can manage to stay up. I think this is drop everything and fix time for the IT profession.