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Could you please elaborate? I've looked over the Kurento[1] Media Server page but I didn't find it that 'easy'. Would you use a tool alike or implement the negotiation yourself?

[1] http://doc-kurento.readthedocs.io/en/stable/introducing_kure...
What are you taking about? There's a whole article there, not just 2 bullet points.
It raises rent price.
+1 for using a mix of two providers. That's what we do at my startup. Never had a problem since (knock on wood).
Because today you can't call the customer anymore if you block their traffic.
> The problem is that, with AirBnB and sublets come ever increasing rent, eventually pricing huge numbers of people out, which drives down productivity and growth.

AirBnB aside, the cities with the highest housing prices, and the highest recent increases in housing prices, also have the highest economic growth by far.

In theory, people like service workers will be driven out, the local economy will suffer, yadda yadda yadda. In practice, that has never happened. In San Francisco area, for example, rents have more than doubled in the past five years, the economy has boomed, thousands of new jobs were created, and there are still enough service workers, restaurant workers, municipal employees, etc. to do the jobs that need to be done. If you look at the most expensive cities worldwide, e.g. London, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo, etc., you will find similar situations.

If you want to argue for affordable housing on the basis that it is a social good, that's fine. But there is no evidence that high housing prices have driven down productivity and growth.
The MitM is in the middle of something, no? You're "A", the site you intend to connect to is "Z", and the MitM is "M".

In this scenario, you're communicating with Z, while M listens in. Anything you send down the pipe can be transparently proxied by M and relayed to Z.

What mechanism can you use to verify the authenticity of the other end that can't be spoofed by M, now that they're inserted into the communication path?
>What effect does this have on the entrepreneurial side of things here?

The effect is that an already privileged group is more privileged than they previously were (financial flexibility to try a startup), and those less privileged are driven away and forced to relocate.

Here's my unformed thought from this: are startups hurting progressive/socialist movements in the US? Their benefit is that they're lean and efficient. They do more with fewer people and fewer resources. This means fewer jobs.
See my edit. You have fingers pointed at him, an unusual coincidence, and a background of being arrested by the FBI due to DDoS attacks he did when he was 16. Would you really be "surprised" if you find out he was the culprit, given these priors?

I'm not a judge nor a jury, I'm not stating he is guilty, just that that's more likely that a random guy attacking the firm
> It takes off where "The Naked Gun" left and adds more wordplay.

If you weren't already aware that The Naked Gun started as a TV show called Police Squad! and that it's exactly as great as you'd hope, congratulations because today is the day you get to learn about that.
While I don't find pictures of penises particularly appealing, I don't see any reason to ban them easier.

I mean, every time you see a male dog there's a penis getting about with it, we don't seem to mind those.

Probably because dogs haven't had the Church tell them their bodies are shameful for a thousand years.
No tool is silly as long as it does the job adequately. Are paperclips silly for a billion-dollar company?

If both Dyn and R53 go down, it's exactly when you want a service like PagerDuty work without a hitch.
Dyn is toast as a single DNS provider. The big boys are just going to move to using two or three providers' nameservers rather than just one.

Dyn will almost certainly remain as one of those two or three.
A lot of people commented about similarly named projects in the recent past (mainly Nintendo NX). I am considering a rename along with the beta version coming out soon.
>And that means I'm uncomfortable.

And ? You're an adult and should gather the knowledge of personally dealing with discomfort. The world isn't a liberal arts college campus.
So do you trust that Comodo (or any one of the other 180 or so CAs your browser trusts) will not issue a certificate for your bank to the wrong person, after reading this bug report?

I mean, obviously my dream solution where my bank hands me a USB stick with their public key on it when I open an account isn't really feasible, but this bug report makes me wonder what value PKI is really adding.
I always get uncomfortable when copyright issues are conflated into free speech issues. I feel it's generally used incorrectly to give more legitimacy basically to people wanting to distribute material they are not permitted to.
I always set network.IDN_show_punycode to true in Firefox to force it to show me ASCII. Perhaps I'd feel differently if I spoke another language, but as it is, the risk of lookalike characters is too great to allow them to display.
Yes, many times over. It doesn't have enough for twice the population while continuing the existing agriculture.
> This is an issue that was given careful, deliberate consideration, but ultimately these activities are already expressly prohibited by law

So basically the city/state failed to respond to AirBnB illegal activities in short period of time hence letting them thrive and built a multi-billion dollar business.

Would that be a key to successful startup? Same thing happened with Uber. So is there any other branch of industry one can try to disturb that would violate local/state laws but such violation would take decent amount of time to stop you in reasonable time before you are "worth" billions? (okay, other than selling drugs which most of us and Ulbritch know will put you in jail for a long time).

> In typical fashion, Albany back-room dealing rewarded a special interest — the price-gouging hotel industry

Wow, that's pretty strong allegations. Does he have any proof of such illegal activity? If so, did AirBnB did anything to report it? In all seriousness, I frankly doubt there is such a big monopoly so that its impossible to open your own hotel and compete price-wise with others.

> and ignored the voices of tens of thousands of New Yorkers
Okay well I can find millions or criminals locked in jails saying it should be fine to kill people - is that a good enough reasoning?

They also claim Cuomo action infringe on 4th amendment. Can someone stretch it hard enough for me to actually see it Peter's way??
Cuomo signs bill banning illegal Airbnb listings (in NY)
Yeah that was weird for me too, just seemed random but I guess it was kind of a flat joke?

Also the study referenced didn't look at who women actually choose to date, but rather which of two completely hypothetical guys they would choose to date based off some script, which seems pretty worthless to me. I mean, of course in a completely hypothetical situation people are generally going to make a more noble decision than they are likely to make in a real world situation.

Ask 100 men if they'd rather date a nice, intelligent, average looking woman than a dim hot one and I'd bet most will say they'll go for the nice, smart, average looking one, but if the situation were a real-life choice (naturally presented without any 3rd parties to actively judge their answer directly), I'm guessing the real-world results would skew very different from the hypothetical results.
Or you could stay in a shared AirBnB.

NYC is tough and expensive in many ways. Seems like they are trying to tackle affordable housing and consequently may also need to look at affordable hotel stays. I remember when I used to do field work in NYC, often for days at a time, and I would drive every day from Philadelphia, my home at the time. Awake at 4am and out the door to avoid getting stuck in traffic and then back down to Philadelphia at 7pm.
Comodo has had many serious security problems, including issuing fraudulent SSL certificates and releasing browser extensions that break security. Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11962371
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Great sales people have great networks. They know how to maintain those networks to discover more clients. They also understand timing and "pain" from potential accounts. One of the best sales people I ever met started working for a 4 person startup because he knew he could bring in about $1mil in sales in the first year. He ended up doing $1.9mil in sales that year.

All this talk of "who to hire first" is totally case-sensitive, but if you're dealing with entreprise or high-value things, a great sales person can make your company.
I lived in a smaller house than that (about 900sf) in SW Minneapolis. Built in the late 40's/early 50's, it was really a beautiful little house with trim similar to what you describe.

But then I moved to the suburbs to a boring 1980's ranch house a bit more than 2x the size and watched my heating & cooling bills drop to less than half what they were before. Charming as the Mpls house was, its HVAC costs were insane (since it was my first house, I had no frame of reference). There's a lot to be said for thick insulation and modern windows.

I live in an even larger house now, with a largely glass east-facing wall and my heating bills are about the same as the second house. Again, modern insulation & 12" thick walls makes a huge difference.
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Just like yer dickish edits. 3 edits. Way to go. Can you not get it correct first time retard?
Have they been increasing steadily, though?

The 2013 attack was <1% of total internet traffic for its duration. The 2014 Cloudflare hit was ~2.5% of all traffic. BBC was ~3%, and OVH was ~4%. (Interpolated from Cisco here: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-pr...) Most predictions suggest that IoT attacks will grow faster than what we've already seen, and a rough estimate suggests that DDoS capacity is growing faster than legitimate capacity.

None of that means today was orders of magnitude higher - the shock factor was that it exposed a structural weakness people hadn't accounted for. But I expect this to become an increasingly significant problem as capacity increases, and moreover as that capacity becomes available to more attackers.
Firmware updating isn't hard tech. Secure firmware update over public network is.
The movie 'Her' comes to mind.
That's been my impressions so far too.
When I visited NY recently I found that hotel pricing was competitive with AirBnB.

Some people prefer AirBnB so they can feel like they live in the cities they're visiting, this certainly sucks for them.
>But the reality is that new housing is simply illegal in every positive population growth city in the country.

Las Vegas? To name one. High population growth. A lot of building.
"ultradns.biz" is not responding to pings, but their DNS servers are responding to DNS queries properly:

nslookup
> server pdns196.ultradns.biz
Default server: pdns196.ultradns.biz
Address: 156.154.66.196#53
Default server: pdns196.ultradns.biz
Address: 2610:a1:1015::e8#53
> pornhub.com
Server:	pdns196.ultradns.biz
Address:	156.154.66.196#53
Name:	pornhub.com
Address: 31.192.120.36

Right now, if your site is in trouble, I'd suggest getting UltraDNS
service and AWS DNS service, and some obscure service as well, and put them them all in your domain registration. DNS service is cheap. Get some redundancy going. We have no idea how long this DDOS attack will last. It's not costing the attackers anything. They might leave it running for days.
The number is transmitted to the hotel's software through an API but anyone with access to the software can see the number in clear.
Relevant: https://youtu.be/Z8zNsUTWsOc
Interesting to see that they had one offer that they sat on for 30+ days - seems like a long time for the company to wait?
Hopefully they stick to semver
And with the growth of index funds, the stockholders are all the same, too.
15" with Quad Core i7 and AMD GPU?

-edit 13" models did not have this issue
Guess what, Krebs' site also receives a spanking at the moment. (Given that it's hosted by Google I find it highly unlikely to go down under normal traffic)
Any idea how? some sort of compression? other?
Frankly, this is opinion is so uniformed I'm not sure where to start... so welcome to Finance 101.

> In the process of buying shares back, the market capitalization would increase due to the increase in share price.

Wrong. If that was true, you'd have a company spending money and having a market cap that increases. See the problem? Generating money out of nothing...

> The share price would absolutely move.

Wrong. If this was true, you would just buy stocks of companies that do buybacks and make some alpha doing that. In fact there is an etf that tracks just such companies and it underperforms the S&P 500: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSEARCA%3ASPYB&ei=TXkKWJjO...

> This is why companies have stock buy-backs, in order to pump up the share price.

Wrong. They buy back shares to return money to investors. If you have a pile of cash sitting in your books, you can either return it to investors by paying back dividends or buying back shares. Only way it would increase the stock price is by signaling that the company doesn't need money and can return it.
Why can't everyone else then block the customer? Get the big 5 tech companies to block IPs that are shown to do DDOS, for say a 24hr period, and you will see how quickly they unplug that IOT Toaster
New York City permits women to be topless in public, presumably for gender equality.
Get a hotel in Jersey City. 2/3 the price with slightly worse transportation
I'm renting an apartment in Brooklyn next week from someone who is going to be out of town for a while. Basically our trips overlap and so I get the whole apartment. It would seem that since the host wont be present my arrangement is technically against the law. It seems to me that it shouldn't be.
The naked female body is only acceptible in a medical or child-rearing countext.

No. We need to reject this ideology. It is wrong wrong wrong.

We need to stop perpetuating this lie.

Naked human bodies are wholey unremarkable in the strongest sense.
capitalism just isn't ready for prime time
It's unfair to compare Booking.com which is the largest adwords buyer in the world to small indie hotels.
Let's contrast this with Expedia which have a single use virtual card for each customer.
Why can't Booking do the same ?
We all know why he won’t release his tax returns. He knows the system, he can fix it. Hillary can complain about that all she wants, but she didn’t do anything about it while in office. That’s been one of his main campaigning points since the beginning.

Why would you even talk about Trump’s health records as a Clinton supporter. First it’s not pneumonia, then it’s pneumonia. She collapses from it, then hugs a child after it miraculously gets through the Secret Service, even though the disease can be contagious. Pneumonia can cause serious complications, Clinton doesn’t tell you about it, and now you praise her for how strong she is? Why would you do that?

Who cares what Bush did. He’s not running for president, why would that be even remotely relevant to the discussion.

The only bad thing you managed to say about Trump is that he’s a wild card, while completely ignoring, or trying to awkwardly justify, that Clinton committed crimes, and showed utter incompetence while in office.
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Suspending it so it can be resumed later? Sure there is.
> - Russia's only air craft carrier is trespassing through UK waters to get to Syria in a show of force that doesn't really add anything to their military capabilities there.

I read they were passing in international waters. Is that not the case? It's clearly a show of force, but no need for the hyperbole if it is not true.
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Emotional resonance in the service of opinion manipulation.
My understanding is that it doesn't change the legal status of rental situations, e.g. running an illegal hotel is still illegal. What it does do is make AirBnB responsible for making sure that the listings on its platform are legal. This seems reasonable to me, but its pretty obvious why AirBnB doesn't like it.
I think the vision is not really about a specific technical approach or language or framework. It is about building or inventing new ways of delivering business applications that is business focused.

Traditional approaches (IDEs and Frameworks) cater to developer desires, which is often not aligned with business needs....this is a very big debate that I'd rather not start in an HN forum :)
Amazon was Using Dyn, now they added also UltraDNS too:

Name Server: pdns1.ultradns.net
Name Server: pdns6.ultradns.co.uk
Name Server: ns3.p31.dynect.net
Name Server: ns1.p31.dynect.net
Name Server: ns4.p31.dynect.net
Name Server: ns2.p31.dynect.net
TIL about dns.google.com. Seems to be pretty handy for doing quick lookups. Thanks Mizza!
I mean, i get it, its a big deal to us. But tragic? Syria is tragic. Github is just above annoying.
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True, but DNS records have TTLs that expire, which forces you to reach back out to the authoritative server for the zone. A very decent number of records will have a TTL of 1hr, which means that a total DNS server outage lasting longer than an hour = 100% failure rate. You could always increase the TTL to a day (or whatever other arbitrary value), but that means that you'll be waiting upwards of a day for clients to see any updates to your DNS records. It's a tradeoff between different types of resiliency.

This is a simple case of a DNS provider evidently not having their crap together when it comes to a DDoS of any decent size. There are plenty of other DNS providers out there who are working fine currently, this DDoS is limited to just the one. It's all of that company's clients that are impacted.

I'm sure that DynETC will post something afterwards about how this was the largest DDoS they've ever encountered by many orders of magnitude and that there was no way for anyone to ever be prepared to take so much traffic... but at this point I think they're inept.

edit: just came back up. The TTLs on a few common records explain why this was so obviously a problem...

- www.reddit.com: 300 seconds (pointer to a fastly.net address, which is hosted via dynect)

- prod.reddit.map.fastlylb.net: 30 seconds

- api.twitter.com: 300 seconds

- herokussl.com: 3600 seconds

So, an outage of five minutes is enough to take out access to all of reddit and twitter. An outage of an hour is enough to take out heroku. Of course, these are best case scenarios: in reality, 50% of your users would lose access to reddit after 15 seconds (the fastly record), and so on.
This benefits hotels much more than low income people.

By what metric?
What do you find embarrassing and who do you think should be fired in this case? I see an organization grappling with its own ability to make the news, and which ultimately decided to overrule its users reports.
Yeah I've gotten a little wrapped up as well looking into all of this mounting tension between the US and Russia. Protip, stay away from /r/the_donald.

My personal opinion is that it is mostly political and I think (hope) that what is happening in Syria won't escalate to direct conflict between the US and Russia.

I stumbled across this little blog article the other day and it helped relieve some of my anxieties.

https://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2016/10/oopsa-world-war.html
Server is down.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
I regularly go to NYC for a month with my partner and son so that the grandparents can interact with their grandson. I always AirBnB a place near the residential neighborhood that my parents live in.

Because we have a young child, we prefer our own apartment, rather than staying with the grandparents, nor would the three of us be able to stay in "someone's spare room".

This new bill is absolutely terrible for us, because it limits us to staying in expensive hotels, for a month!

EDIT: There's no mention of 30+ days limit anywhere in the article as far I can tell.
Who Is Dropping Precision DDoS Bombs?
Rob Manning and Landing on Mars (2015)
So then would you say Google was a search company and is now an ad company?
Exactly the same as the last 10 fluff articles on Bill Murray. I love the guy but this is one of those standby stories you keep around for when you don't have anything better to run.
So there's breast cancer, there's breast feeding, and everything else is porn?

That can't be right.
And so grandpa needs to become a network security expert to avoid getting sued. Right, "makes sense". ;)

This is not like not doing maintenance on your car. This is like buying a car with faulty airbags. The manufacturer needs to issue a recall and fix the darn thing - or else face legal action.
One of the folks working at Google Cloud here (and was on the BigQuery team until very recently).

While the blog post is a great POV from someone who's very familiar with Redshift, I'd like to offer some details around BigQuery that are easy to overlook at [0]. It IS a fundamentally different technology, so many assumptions must be revisited.

For example, in my opinion any and all benchmarks for analytic workloads should include considerations for encryption, truly ad-hoc analytics (not optimized for sort keys), and concurrency. Likewise, any and all cost estimates should include a real measure of volatility, as analytics workloads tend to be incredibly volatile.

And ICYMI: BigQuery received a major upgrade 3 weeks ago [1]

[0] https://medium.com/@thetinot/15-awesome-things-you-probably-...

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/09/bigquery-intr...
I second the recommendation for FastMail. Excellent service, they even support push email on iOS (AFAIK they're the only company outside of Yahoo to have that for IMAP), and I love all the work they're doing to try and push email forward (such as JMAP).
You'll have a hard time convincing me that a world with several orders of magnitude more humans is somehow less diverse than the times with fewer humans unless you somehow remove the ability to process arithmetic from my brain.
I think it's fair to block the entire network. It is then up to the network administrator to fix the problematic device.
Not suggesting this is a false flag operation, but pointing out the concept as some commenters seemed unfamiliar with it.
Yes. I've started to wonder whether there is anyplace in the US that has both (a) California-style restrictions on non-compete clauses in employment contracts and (b) a Land Value Tax [0] as its primary local tax (not necessarily excluding a state income tax). Since the LVT is not widely used, it looks like the answer is probably No.

I think anyplace that wants to attract tech companies should enact both of these things. (Of course, they won't suffice if there's no other reason to move there.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
I believe the parent poster was expressing a desire to fix the problem by enforcing //more supply// rather than by artificially limiting how existing supply can service different types of demand.
The DDoS problems, at least those not related to spoofing IPs, could be curtailed if we provide a strong incentive to the ISPs to work on it.

Let's hold the ISPs financially liable for the harmful traffic that comes from their network. If a client reports a harmful IP to the ISP, every bit of subsequent traffic sent from that IP to this client carries a penalty.

Yeah, I know, routing tables are small, yada yada. If we put thumbscrews to the ISPs they will find a way to block a few thousands IPs of the typical botnet, even it requires buying new switches from Cisco & co.

Incentives drive behavior.
Based on the "you can still rent a bedroom" comments, I'm guessing the people commenting here are single and definitely don't have kids.