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I don't know why people find Bill Murry's behavior weird.

He from the baby boom generation--I guess. This classification of certain age groups is kinda new. I don't find it helpful, but certain age groups had certain characteristics. In my mind, his formative years were from the 50's through the eighties.

Bill Murry seems like the guys I grew up with, although I'm younger than him.

We didn't like conformity. We weren't impressed with money. We weren't impressed with what school you went to. We didn't need awards, or a pat on the back. We looked at a lot of "Puffed Chests" as absolute jokes. We though Regan was an absolute laughable president. We looked at the entrenched establishment types with extreme disdain. Remember Punk Rock. Remember Letterman when he first got the Late Show? Remember how he treated the "Stars". That wasen't an act. We rebeled. There was a FU attitude to everything our parents kinda valued. We didn't want to be our dads who died at fifty. We wanted to have a good time. We wanted to be left alone. We valued privacy. You can say we wanted it all, but we didn't. We were just different, or maybe we weren't?

All I know is if I could live like Bill Murry I would. Oh yea, what does our generation value; talent, ethics, and morality.

(Why was Murry one of the few actors Letterman didn't destroy? Murry had talent, and not just the funny talent. Letterman liked the way the thought. He liked the guy on a lot of levels? I think they both respected eachother.)
This is fantastic. But this sounds like it's mostly intended for startups at an early/mid stage. What I mean is companies who already run a monopoly are more likely, in my opinion, to overlook these guidelines.
This is what I was responding to in the original comment:

> forced firmware updating is an area our governments should not be mandating

I think that if a company can't maintain a team to deliver regular security updates to their internet-connected products, then they shouldn't be producing internet-connected products in the first place.

I agree with you that government-mandated aviation-software levels of product certification would be destructive overkill.
why? - that's a media company not in the telecom business.
The title seems like clickbait, especially given the fact that the legislation isn't targeting those who use Airbnb to rent out a spare room.
Are you seriously advocating for law that was in no way supported by a majority of votership?
I have found the smaller subproblem of just finding a pleasant, highly functional, sane company to be almost intractable on its own.
Why would that be? Is t there more orbital energy in things far away?
I'm wondering, from a regulatory perspective, what might be done to mitigate DDoS attacks in the future?

From comments made on this and other similar posts in the past, I've gathered the following:

1) Malicious traffic often uses a spoofed IP address, which is detectable by ISPs. What if ISPs were not allowed to forward such traffic?

2) There is no way for a service to exert back pressure. What if there was? e.g. send a response indicating the request was malicious (or simply unwanted due to current traffic levels), and a router along the way would refuse to send follow up requests for some time. There is HTTP status code 429, but that is entirely dependent on a well-behaved client. I'm talking about something at the packet level, enforced by every hop along the way.

3) I believe it is suspected that a substantial portion of the traffic is from compromised IoT devices. What if IoT devices were required to continually pass some sort of a health check to make other HTTP requests? This could be enforced at the hardware/firmware level (much harder to change with malware), and, say, send a signature of the currently running binary (or binaries) to a remote server which gave the thumbs up/down.
> "It only works from Mac to Mac though. You cannot do remote desktop from Windows to Mac. That's typical Apple bullshit"

What are you talking about? Here are five ways:

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/remote-access-apple-mac-os-x-via...

TL;DR: Turn on the built-in open standard VNC server on the Mac, use a VNC client on Windows:

Mac OS X actually comes with a built-in remote management feature that allows other computers on the local network to access the Apple computer using the Apple Remote Desktop which we mentioned earlier. However, there is a setting where you can allow third party VNC viewers to connect and control the Apple computer. First click on the System Preferences icon at the Dock and click on Sharing. Click on the checkbox for the Remote Management to turn on the service.

Click on Computer Settings button. Tick on the “VNC viewers may control screen with password” and type in a password. Click OK to save the changes...
Money can be spent on more than one thing at a time. This is a drop in the bucket compared to other "wastes".
Ok, I wasn't being entirely literal. The point is AirBnB was just about the only way to find safe, convenient, relatively affordable housing for a few weeks. And it's probably going to get worse now given that this legislation applies to services like Craigslist as well.
The outage is attributed to routing 576 Autonomous systems and 3431 prefixes.
If they can find a way to tweak genes to force the brain to have more glial cells, the type of cells that support neuron functions, or enhance the glial performance, they can eventually make people sustain high mental performance for longer periods of time.

One of the findings after analyzing Einstein's brain was that he had a higher ratio of glias to neurons.
Since I've been playing No Mans Sky I've been giving this some thought. We could all be just on one random planet in a universe of 15 quintillion stars in a less buggy version of NMS which would probably have more stars too, maybe it's running on a PS5 or PS6!

It answers questions about the universe too:
1, why are we here
because we are, out of every possible planet, everything came together on this one to form life
2, meaning of life
there is none, you're just a random creation (the meaning of the simulation might be different, but there's probably a good chance it's just 'because we could')

If you took conways game of life, on the scale of NMS and added basic physics (as we understand it) and then just let it run for a while, time for us just stops everything happening at once, for a computer program that isn't being observed it could run way faster, it's possible that this simulated universe could evolve faster than the actual universe it's being simulated in. If the people running the simulation could interact with us - and presuming they could even find us in an entire simulated universe -they could get access to advanced tech that hasn't developed in their real world yet.

The real questions would be if it is a simulation, could we get out into the 'real' world? Is our consciousness actually real or are we just thinking it's real?

It's also been covered in sci-fi as well http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53055/earthlings-cr...
That's something completely different though.

For one thing you can't really compare an act that's purely entertainment to a video that could theoretically save someone's life. It just doesn't have as much value.

Secondly, what Jackson did is against the law, which wasn't the case for the FB video. Public airwaves and all that.

And lastly, if you think that was an accident I have a bridge to sell you.

I agree about the adult filters. Companies like Facebook, youtube, and Twitter can't hire people to look at every single video. They don't have the margins.
What exactly would that future look like? Where there is no government, one will appear. People seem to have this incurable efficiency whereby we create rules, regulations, and eventually bureaucracies. Rules, implicit and explicit, manifest whether you like it or not. Authority manifests.
The Trouble with Vietnam’s Cyber Security Law
Hillary is like a NASCAR car, fully sponsored by massive corporations, and they will expect her to look the other way on antitrust. It fits in with her right wing platform anyhow
These are probably my top shows of all time. I love the past few years just for this. Unfortunately with all these revolutionary shows coming out constantly people think you're just recommending everything you see :P
In the nerd community in particular, there is so much wishful thinking that Microsoft will fail that some people actually believe Microsoft is and has been failing. It's fairly amusing given the reality.
We need the W3C to make a `node.replaceWithJsNode(obj)` or similar that takes a uniform vdom object style and updates the DOM accordingly. It would bring together all the different vdom implementations, reduce library size (given time), and would be much faster because of native implementation.
Doesn't sound like you're in the best position to pass judgement on it, then.
No need to get butthurt just because someone questions your deity. Not everyone shares your slave morality after all.
Have you ever written a compression algorithm?

You do know that Shannon proved that general purpose compression is impossible, right? Why bother if that 75% compression ratio is provably impossible?
I agree with this. AirBNB is being used for politicians to add to their perception of support for affordable housing. Yes, there are landlords that amass units to rent them out short-term because they profit more.

But when it comes to a short-term rental versus a hotel, are we going to shed a tear for the hotel rooms not rented out that cost 300+ a night?

The city had 8M residents in 2000, it has 8.5 today. AirBNB's impact on affordability is grossly exaggerated, given the host of other factors that lead to a high demand to live in New York City: the economy and quality of life being a main one.

If anything, the law should apply to people who do this on large scale. I find it frustrating that New York housing regulations, from the DOB regulations, procedure and housing code, to laws like these, sweep the little guy in with laws and threats of fines when the 'popular discourse' criticizes big landlords and large operations.

Without going into any detail, sometimes it's just easier to rent to friends and family or leave units vacant than it is to deal with some of the BS regulations that cost you as a landlord. One example is that tenant protections can cost you, a landlord, 6-9 months of unpaid rent legally if you have a professional con (which some tenants know how to be, milking a system while they await to be evicted). As another example, 2008 and esp. 2014 housing code requires sprinkler systems in buildings with three units and above. If you have a building that is large enough to have more than two units, you're better off keeping only two units because it'll be cost-prohibitive. That's one less apartment to help fix the undersupply. And the city makes this expensive by forcing you to use architects, contractors, plumbers, expediters and then getting all the various inspections; meanwhile you're subject to the same requirements as a big developer with large staff. So you're out 100K, what do you do? You either go the illegal route, or you have a 'storage area', or a 'recreation area'.

I'm not really thrilled about this decision. I honestly feel the real winner here is the hotel industry. We'll continue to face the pain of a lack of supply and a high demand.
I assume it was just a joke...
What range of wawes can a typical microphone record ?
Why not? It's blunt, but to the point, honest, and passionate. Who cares about tone?
They let Comcast buy NBC Universal which led to this avalanche. Content is severely overvalued right now so their loss.
I am too. I hear people describing it where it sounds like something I'm supposed to like. But I watched all the previous episodes, and they were all stupid. I saw no depth. It was like a shallow version of that genre, which did have some depth in other shows I've seen in the past.

Maybe I'm too out of touch with the culture to realize the meaning. But I think it's probably just shallow, and superficially appeals to people who don't usually think very deeply about related topics. Like Star Trek. A lot of people love that show, but from what I recall, it looked like a shallow soap opera for nerds. I think some people probably like Black Mirror more as a fashion accessory, because the idea of it fits their style better than some others.

But I will watch the new season, and maybe there's new writers and I'll find something interesting.
Someone in the past few months was describing this situation as a return to feudal concepts, where the only most practical way to buy a house is to live with your parents until they die and then inherit it.
Not at all. Market based doesn't mean profit-maximizing from the supply side. "Correct" is just short-hand for getting what we as a society want out of our water distribution system. Like, we don't want to use so much water that a river runs dry and kills all the fish in it, even if it means selling a few million dollars more worth of water.
I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find someone who is offended. There's always somebody. But this isn't something that's going to offend your average conservative - titillation clearly isn't the point of a video like this.
If anyone is interested, the Attorney General did study this and the report is freely available
http://www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/Airbnb%20report.pdf
The alternative, not being one of the bigs, has a lot less chance to be hit. I would leave dyndns the same way I'm leaving cloudflare.
2.5% compounded over 16 years is exactly 48.5%, nowhere near 150.
It's not exactly who but if, per the third amendment.

Also, I don't see how your point about neighbors is relevant to it. Is it a serious risk where you live? A common occurence, would you say? And how exactly, in constitutional sense, would you be able to do anything about it?
I'm not expressing an opinion about anyone with this; I would like to point out that being a genius is no bulwark against being a tedious windbag. Or heartbreakingly stupid. Or anything, really.
What have been your problems with the Surface Book?
I could have also rented a room for a couple of months while I figured things out (which is still legal, even on Airbnb), but this was a rent stabilized apartment in a nice neighborhood. It's pretty common for deals like that to be rented sight unseen.

Either way, there are many options for moving to the city. This doesn't really make moving to the city significantly more difficult than it has always been.
After working 3 years each in 2 tech startups with mostly tech people, the missing link were in both someone to take care of the design, usability and user research of the products. Design was an afterthough ("Not enough work for a designer"), and usability was a not a known concept. Kind of hard to become a "viral" success when there's no feedback loop from the people you want as your users.
Digikey just dumped Dyn, and is now back up.

digikey.com:

Name Server: cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net
Name Server: ns2.digikey.com
Name Server: cmtu.mt.ns.els-gms.att.net
Name Server: ns1.digikey.com
You mean Manhattan has a dearth of affordable housing. Nobody's complaining about AirBnB's in Coney Island.
Are you seriously advocating for breaking any law in the quest for profits?
The author was a consultant before.

Its usually our job to deal with the circumstances and to actively change them. We are not "good employees". We call bullshit and we get to call bullshit.

We are not hired to help our bosses achieve things, we are hired to save their asses. We are hired because someone goofed up. We are hired because something went wrong and its our job to patch it up.

We come in with the expectation of getting things back on track. We are meant to blend in with the "regular employees" but we never will, because we are free agents. We can walk away from this job and we WILL walk away if what had been promised does not happen. We will walk away unscathed because we have other gigs in the pipeline anyway.

We do not conform. We come in with a plan, which we communicate in pretty clear terms - with the expectation that the person who hires us will, to some extent, play by our rules. Because that's what they brought us in for.

That's the mindset. In some way, we are mercenaries. What remains is whether the people and amenities are nice.

At my current gig, I'm fixing telecommunications software - highly concurrent stuff. Etching out another 20% of performance is actually important here. Today I've had an email about working for someone who wants to set up a new crypto currency and from someone who needs to port their badly engineered python code to awesome pretty shiny new Elixir code. They all know my rate and its certainly not cheap, but I'm going to reject most of them anyway. The average gig is 9 months but there won't be a week during which I don't have some kind of request in my inbox. And its all done remote. Most of my clients haven't even seen my face.

Whether they've got product market fit is simply irrelevant. I pick the jobs that are intellectually challenging, because that's what I want to work on. Their business logic is irrelevant to me. Their stack is irrelevant to me. If their stack sucks, I'll tell them to switch technologies or I won't be available anyway.

Sometimes I entertain the idea of working for some startup. Getting involved. But the reality is: 40 hour salary with a 60 hour expectation - no interesting work (we need to get this frontend thing fixed so heres your react native good luck not dying of boredom) - cramped office space; and I don't mean "crappy" office space, I mean cramped. Where you can't have a thought without someone being an idiot right next to you for no particular reason, etc. It just doesn't make any sense to be an employee in 2016.
I think there's a difference - the presence of a permanent resident discourages a lot of the bad behavior people complain about, and provides for a very clear path to accountability if something does happen.

Anecdotally, my building has had multiple apartments used as "airbnb hotels" over the couple of years that I've lived there, and it's been a fairly consistent source of annoyance. People coming in extremely late at night and not having a clue how to unlock the apartment while causing tons of noise, knocking on my door for assistance, etc.

I am 100% for this regulation - NYC is already an extremely expensive place to live, people renting or buying apartments with the purpose of listing them on airbnb only makes it worse.
Throwing money at neuroscience hasn't been so bad, has it?
And I think the point that people are trying to make is that your convenience may be coming at the expense of others.
They buy back stock all the time.

Just a few weeks ago they announced a $40B stock buy back program.
3 months without news – ignorance is bliss
Our tiny town had creative citizens stop the only ab&b house on a residential street.

Tell an&b tenants they are not wanted and to state that in their reviews

Take all their street parking spaces

Call the police nightly to say strangers are in neighbors house and she is away

Eventually the city council ruled against the homeowner due to zoning (not a business)

The situation was very ugly.

Perhaps there should be an an&b companion list where potential an&b renters can see if the property is "friendly neutral or hostile" I would have used that
Historically, either the government wins or the petulant children win and then become the power center that directs government that the next set of petulant children complain about.

Either way, governments are part of the future. There no real reason to expect this iteration to work any differently than all the others since humans gathered in structured societies.
I just did superficial Wikipedia research. Might you have an aversion to CFML, which is like a COBOL dialect built out of HTML tags? But CF code doesn't have to be written that way; there is also CFScript which superficially resembles JS. You can wrap it between <cfscript> tags:

<cfscript>
function Sum(a, b) {
var sum = a + b;
return sum;
}
</cfscript>

This seems all-right-ish at first glance (to say which, of course, I temporarily lock my Lisp programmer hat in my desk with keys, which I then throw across the office to retrieve later). Are the semantic problems with CFML/CFScript (say, along the lines of the famous issues with PHP?)
"you may rent my apartment out for a week if and only if you pay me $1,000" isn't anywhere close to this zone of ambiguity

Isn't that exactly how the word has always been used? For example, in timeshare which, while not a flattering comparison, definitely predates Airbnb.

EDIT: Oh, I see a similar comment has been stomped into the ground for some reason already.
I am a non-programmer who reads HN and keeps up with tech news in general.

And every time I read about the IoT botnet, my immediate response is to look around my apartment at my Internet-connected lights, and wonder if they're part of it.

How can I find this out?

Is anyone making a tool that a non-technical user can run to squint at their network and look for evidence of Mirai, or anything else trying to take advantage of this niche?

There are plenty of tools with a reasonably simple interface that will tell me if my laptop/desktop computer is infected with something. But what can I use to diagnose the health of all of the other computers proliferating around my house?

How can a non-technical user easily monitor the overall health of their connected household? Is this a project anyone is building? Because I think it's definitely something that needs to exist now.
All I'm trying to say is there are alternative paths in treating depression, besides popping pills. These alternative and "wholesome" remedies are rarely recommended though, because there's no financial incentive. A doctor/pharmaceutical company makes no money by recommending a healthy diet, sufficient exercise, and socialization. Pharmaceutical fixes should never be a first choice for treatment.

And it seems like you're telling me that I've never experienced "true" depression. You have absolutely no basis for that 1.) because you don't know me 2.) because our perceptions of reality are unique.
I'm afraid we're simply going to have to agree to disagree on this point. I do not share the opinion that this is a good idea with significant upside and virtually no downside. I also do not agree that none of the issues I have raised apply to the original suggestion - I believe they do apply, which is why I raised them.
Your excessive exuberance is not a hacker news problem, per se.
It really depends. On average 100 Hz - 20 kHz isn't uncommon. Some only go down as far as 16kHz though.
Hi

Not in Oakland or a woman (but a swift developer, 1 out of 3 ;)) but if she is learning to code, and wants to chat with other people, won't it be ok for her to just join regular swift groups? (I know there are a few around that general area).

Again, man here, so don't want you to take this the wrong way (might be because my wife actually gets along better with men then women) but won't limiting the meetup to a gender limit the talk and experience options you might get if you host this meetup?
Does that make you angry? They'll soon fail anyway.

Some people don't internalize that this is a sellers market. There are orders of magnitude more open jobs out there than there are qualified people to fill them. You shouldn't concern yourself with a bunch of toxic idiots trying to milk VC for a while.
If your spec is wrong, your code will be wrong anyway. More often, people use the code as the spec which is IMHO (for this kind of programing) really bad.
With ISPs it's a lot easier - you know who your ISP is, so either they respect your blacklist or they automatically owe you money.

How would you even start chasing a manufacturer of a cheap IP cam from China? How many of them can you chase at once?