skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and don't take credit for it

While it is certainly distasteful when someone takes credit for something that they had no involvement in, I would argue that it's also possible to too far in the other direction. All too many programmers (myself included!) won't take credit for anything unless they did 100% of the work. Well, as I'm slowly learning, it is possible to be nuanced. It is possible to take partial credit and to understand that saying that you led an effort doesn't automatically mean that you did 100% of the work.

Part of being a leader is convincing other people to listen to you. A very good way of doing that is to be able to point to publicly recorded instances where you've taken leadership in the past and delivered good results. If you don't take credit as a leader, you'll very soon find yourself displaced (for better or worse) by someone who does.
There's http://filecoin.io - still waiting to be started. It's connected to the ipfs project.
Fluxion: hacking wifi without dictionary or bruteforce
Out of curiosity, how much was the bounty? 3, 4 or 5 digits?
How does this form of fare evasion work? I thought a rider usually scans/tags a form of payment before boarding the train and does so again after disembarking.
Would an updated and expanded Rust for C++ Programmers make sense as a companion to the book with references to concepts in the book along with low-level details on data structures or implementation? It would nice to see that and Nomicon more closely related and fully up-to-date.

It soulds like an informal "specification" of #[repr(c)] or #[repr(packed)] for common platforms would also be useful for FFI.
Overall great write up, however:

"Again, at no time was there a network-wide outage, though some customers would have seen extended latency delays during that time."

That can't be true. Here in the west coast, I know of over 10 "name-brand" sites that were absolutely down for over an hour. The east coast was apparently hit even harder and for longer.
I don't remember exactly where it is in settings, but it's not called 2fa or something obvious it's called something like PayPal Security Key
As much as I'm a fan of passive investing, I think there are key differences between personal investing and institutional investing. The article mentions that much of the money is in equity indexes. This strikes me as very risky for a pension fund. What if the market tanks? Presumably the value of the fund will plummet, but he fund will still have to pay out benefits. This is the equivalent of buying high and selling low.

A big part of the job of institutional investors like pension funds and endowments is investing in stable, uncorrelated things. This is trickier where it sounds and accounts for at least some of the higher overhead at other state pension funds.
While true for many programmers, this means that how much you are paid has more to do with negotiation skills and willingness to interview different places then your actual ability to do your job. Plus a good union could keep people getting paid market rate so they stay, quite possibly saving the company money and time if you consider recruitment interviews and training.
Dyn states their problems were fixed at 17 UTC, but me and most other people in the Netherlands have been seeing issues for the whole evening. Something about their story does not add up...
This clearly only applies to actual Vanguard accounts, not Vanguard ETFs held in other brokerage accounts.
> . I really like the British and Australian format of a few dense episodes rather than 12 or 22 US episodes where it's 60% filler material.

Agreed. I bought both seasons on DVD and the original soundtrack for both seasons, then sent all my friends a copy of the DVD/Bluray for Christmas. I wish there was a better way to support projects you like though. In particular microtransactions on the Net are total fucking shit, it needs to be built-in to OS or Browser as a universal standard and simple.

> I heard they will make a US version.

I'm afraid not. That was David Fincher/HBO and it's not going ahead.
I don't see how speaking the truth and being polite could ever rule each other out.

In fact, HN is the one place where i've seen the phrase "I disagree" the most often. Not because people are so disagreeable, but because they openly, and politely, state their disagreement if there is any.
This resembles the late stages of stack ranking, where in the "endgame", the remaining high ranking contributors try to preserve their ranking by avoiding working with potentially stronger contributors.

Stack ranking is a downward spiral.
I can't speak for Debian, but I personally did not realize that xz was as I stated above before reading this article, so I wouldn't be surprised if some people simply didn't realize it.
Thanks very much for your feedback! When you are voting the photos, at the top there is the name of the competition (animal, nature, people...). You can also see the ranks of the various competitions (it's the second tab from the right)
The Dyon[1] language would probably make a good basis for a repl for Rust. It shares many concepts with Rust including a version of ownership.

[1] https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/dyon

You might also be able to link the repl with Rust Language Server which could be linked with incremental compilation, letting you define modules or pub fn's dynamically.
Programmers don't suffer from a lack of leverage and bargaining power.

I regularly renegotiate my salary and benefits, and I have no desire to share any of that with a union.

If you are a programmer and you are not making what you think you deserve you have no one to blame but yourself.
I haven't seen comment from any IP-transit/peering company that provides service to them. In fact, I haven't seen any infrastructure provider of them comment anything. This is starting to seem more like a marketing campaign or human error (action?) blamed on DDoS.
You probably mean: Otto - der Ostfriese.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Waalkes

EDIT: Ah, you're right, he made a film with that title:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_–_Der_Außerfriesische
Small correction: "A further 28 children were injured".

I read that as 38 were injured, 10 of whom were trapped, leaving 86 who weren't physically injured.
The problem is that in China ratings can have side effects in other ratings. If you are not politically aligned your credit score can go down.
Are you sure that it was Dyn that was down, or if there was a break somewhere in the nameserver chain?

I know that the digs I was running periodically were getting SERVFAIL responses from Google DNS even though my local nameservers were actually succeeding.
"Voters in five small and midsize cities in the Bay Area are set to decide Nov. 8 on whether to enact various forms of rent regulation that would keep rent increases for existing tenants pegged near the rate of inflation.

"Tenant organizations, unions and church groups are knocking on thousands of doors in an effort to drum up support for measures designed to protect apartment dwellers from runaway rents.

"On the other side, landlords and real-state agents are pouring money into mailers and television ads in a vigorous effort to battle the initiatives."

You can get around the paywall by typing the title of the article into Google, and clicking on the link to wsj.com.
Where the road ends
Not to mention the utter cruelty that set the backdrop for the I Have a Dream speech.

We get moving speeches when issues hit so close to home that the words serve as kindling for our deeper emotions. Every speech is inextricably tied to its own context.

Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet"
Ronald Reagan's Space Shuttle Challenger address
LBJ, "We Shall Overcome"
JFK, "Ich Bin Ein Berliner"

None of these speeches would have been as meaningful in a different time, with different events and feelings and happenings.
So Rust has no way to mark side effects and global dependencies of functions? Allowing singletons in a language that is supposed to be safe sounds like a huge design flaw.
No. It's perfectly legal. And the counters you can notice are generally pretty bad at it anyways.

Still, it's discouraged. The casinos would much rather a weekend tourist walk away with a day of winnings than a pro. Tourists tell their friends and inspire them to visit.
Would you believe me if I said that the DNS protocol itself has an answer for this? The answer is in the basic design of what a TTL is. It's preferable to serve nothing than to serve known bad data. Stale data is a form of bad data.

As another user put it, we have these standards for good reason.
Heh, both my banks (Banco do Brasil and Santander) are worse. 6 characters, numbers only! "For my safety" they recommend not using my birthday - how thoughtful.
From Aristotle to Software Engineering Practice Management
Isn't there a statute of limitations on such belated claims?
> Each network node stores only content it is interested in [...]

Isn't that the issue here? Storing data that will maybe be there later isn't really storing data. People want to publish something that must always be available, so why inject data into the IPFS network and hope it will be there in a year, rather than set up a $10/yr VPS?

> With video delivery, a P2P approach could save 60% in bandwidth costs.

In my opinion, this may be true, but total costs will be greater. P2P solutions are awesome because they are resilient, not because they are cheaper. Distributing pirated movies by dumping them on public FTP servers is much cheaper than BitTorrent. BitTorrent appeared because the centralized method was not resilient enough against adversaries, not because it was cheaper (quite the contrary).
Everyone except maybe phone apps should stop using SMS for 2FA.
In the caribbean there were issues up to 5 PM
That is...not what clickbait is at all.
> It's a law of nature that problems are always conserved.

I'd agree that some social issues cannot be solved by technology, but many have been.

E.g., without looking at the information age: in London before the Clean Air Act thousands people literally died of the smog, but the CAA was made possible only by increased availability of electricity and gas heating.
Is there a working ipfs demo page anywhere? I've had a look around and can't find one (the closest appears to be Orbit, but the ipfs-js version is down).

I'm particularly interested in using ipfs pubsub capabilities. It looks like an interesting way of allowing multiple users of a web app to talk to each other without needing (much) server side support.
Except that smart dust does not exist. That Wikipedia page needs to be rewritten. It's vague and misleading.
How do you find small businesses with these technical issues? Using networking?
You'll never guess what HackerNews thinks clickbait is!
For example http://www.cypherpunks.ru/pygost/Download.html page contains instructions how to receive the key. You can get it using either maillist, website, DNS, keyservers. And you can use various DNS servers and transport routes via Tor. There is plenty of options. And this key is signed with another one containing many signatures. Of course there is no full guarantees, but at least you have to do it just once and then conveniently do tarballs verifying. With TLS you have to do it everytime, all the time you visit and connect to the server.

Moreover how can you "transfer" the trust to other people? If you proxy/give tarball to someone else, then how can you prove that you did not tamper it? Again, with detached signatures people knowing public key can authenticate it, without connecting to Internet. With TLS there is only single distribution point (TLS website) that can not transfer trust to someone else.

What CA should be used for certificate issuing? Paid one? Not an option if you do not want to support PKI business model (it is business, not security). CAcert.org? Modern browsers and operating systems does not include its certificate too. So anyway you have to get its public key too somehow.

So, TLS has the same problem of getting the public key and is less convenient in use, requiring TLS-aware webserver (instead of cheap providers with static pages hosting), without ability to transfer trust (send signature separately) to someone else. OpenPGP keys (for www.cypherpunks.ru websites), comparing to CA ones, can be received with several (!) keyservers (many of them replicates between themselves), several (!) DNS servers (listed as NS record), through various transports (VPN, proxy, Tor) to one of webservers (listed as A/AAAA record).
Time Warner stock price closed at 89$ on Friday. The deal if 109$ per share.

Newbie trader question - If if buy the shares for time warner on monday morning, would I be able to make profit ?
Stripe Test Numbers Module
So only tech giants can play..?
Well, here the succinctness is a part of the story. It emphasises just how basic this bypass is.

For what it's worth, I thought the "I was in a hotel..." story was superfluous and probably not true.
Stripe test numbers in a module so no more copy and paste from the Stripe docs :)
That depends a lot on your definition of sleazy and sanitary.
>Really that's the primary problem with libertarian ideas in general: it introduces massive inefficiencies in the market.

lol
EdgeDNS: A high performance DNS cache designed for Content Delivery Networks
There is no mention of what altitude he was at, but it's worth noting that LCDs are often rated to no higher than 10k-12kft, because tiny pockets of air at trapped during manufacturing (at sea level) may expand and cause damage.

http://www.dfrsolutions.com/pdfs/2004_HighAltitude_Hillman-B...
"What Does Nevada’s $35B Fund Manager Do All Day? Nothing"

This title implies that he manager does nothing all day long. But when you read the article it comes clear that doing "nothing" is his trading policy.

"His daily trading strategy: Do as little as possible, usually nothing."

I consider this a click-bait.
Thanks it's good to understand other side of the table. Your experience actually validates my premise that big player are squeezing out smaller players.

They can even run on a loss for years just to make it unattractive for smaller/newer player.
They approved NBC purchase by Comcast. A very bad decision, which AT&T will now use as a precedent to claim they aren't any worse.
Nah, not any more. These days the casinos are run by big corporations and cheating is illegal. They just call the cops like anybody else.

A few generations back it was different, since if you were cheating you were stealing from organized criminals instead of nameless shareholders. It was their money and they took it personally.
If I get it right, the idea is that if you want to make sure it's there one year later, you set up your own server and host the files on your own. IPFS just allows others to distribute a mirror of the files.
You provide no explanation either, just jargon.

You are probably somewhere halfway between the condescending pedant and the patient nurturer.
An interesting bit of computer history trivia is that Claude Shannon co-invented the first wearable computer with Ed Thorp to beat roulette in Vegas in 1961. It used a button in the shoe as an input device for the user to record the speed and location of the ball which was used to infer the likely ending location using orbital decay algorithms. An auditory signal was then sent by wire to an earpiece to let the user know where to place bets (it wasn't pinpoint accurate - the user would bet on 8 numbers which still gave him a positive expected value).

The story around that is really fun, recounted in this paper: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/thorp.pdf

Versions of the same device from this century use lasers to get a more accurate read on the ball's location, with one group using the system to net £1m from London's Casinos: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4069629.stm

Thorp was also involved in developing the Blackjack system that was showcased in the film 21 and later ran a hedge fund, details on which were recounted in his interview for this book https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning/dp/.... Very interesting guy.
Tor, probably
If every service provider did the same it wouldn't affect retention. Besides, it seems many people only have one or two options anyways.
All of that is bad.
> npm scripts no longer prepend the path of the node executable used to run npm before running scripts. A --scripts-prepend-node-path option has been added to configure this behavior.

Why? That seems like a good default, something most people would need.
Real Italian food or not, those breadsticks are plain addictive.
I do lots of contracts with people. Sometimes I've been told the other party "lost" the contract or "didn't remember making a deal with me", etc. I say "no problem, I have a copy of it right here with your signature on it!"

It doesn't happen very often, but enough to make it worthwhile to always keep a copy.
This is surreal.

Does PayPal outsource their web development to an anonymous script kiddie on 4chan?
Plus, the academic job search/ tenure process is supposed to be a two-way thing (as any job search, I suppose). The university thinks about whether they want to hire you, and you think about whether you want to work with/ will get on with the people in the department. Tenure then comes down to being an accepted member of the community (among other thinngs).
AT&T is buying Time Warner for $85.4B in cash and shares
Eye roll. So much strawman, call the fire marshal.

Whatever, people are upset because wl has abandoned their neutral position to take an active role in the election. From dodgy material from a foreign power that was encouraged by one of the candidates!

The retweet is just a proof point: guilt by association. And at some level it works. And may even be true sometimes.
You are describing people who are rich because they and their lineage belong to professions. That's a kind of modern aristocracy, and like most aristocracies they have good manners and obey a kind of noblesse oblige.

But also, most of the unequal laws and policies in a country are created to prop up the position of such people. E.g. house-price inflation helps only those who already own - or stand to inherit - houses.
It appears you need to learn what it means to move a goalpost.
"What if the market tanks?"

It would have to tank long term. If it does, it would take an exceptionally good and somewhat lucky fund manager to constantly find places where the flow goes against the tide and thus still make a good profit. Also, the larger the fund, the larger those places where the flow goes against the tide have to be to make any reasonable impact, and those larger places are rarer.

So, if there is a long term problem, it's hard to avoid. For example, obligations in solid economies are stable income sources, but currently all bring little or no interest. That's something that hits pension funds fairly hard now.
Who exactly runs these nodes that store data?
I don't think anything in the article implies next year's payouts are currently in equities.
It can happen when you grow up among idiots constantly quarreling over petty issues you don't care about and learn to pretty much despise everyone.
Most places I've played won't let you use the phone at the table, and if you're using it they'll deal you out and ask you to get up.

But they don't care if your phone is on the table.

I think this is more to keep the game moving than any concern about cheating.
Why would nodes in the IPFS network voluntarily act as a load balancer for my VPS? Usually I have to pay for load balancing, so I'm a bit suspicious when someone claims I can get it for free from IPFS.
This video presents a study on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuqGrz-Y_Lc
He does nothing like programmers value laziness. It's harder than it sounds.
I agree that is good, but people can travel with all kinds of purposes. Getting to know the local culture is merely one of many.
> The closest thing is credit scores (which the article mentions), which are metered and tracked by private companies under a broad set of federal regulations.

Is the fact that private companies do the tracking supposed to make me feel better? It doesn't; it only increases the likelihood that the information will be sold to unknown 4th parties or auctioned at bankruptcy fire-sales.

Not even a month has gone by since the story broke of law enforcement buying data off Twitter's firehose from a private company to track protesters. See also: parallel reconstruction.
Two nice resources, though not recreational in the way I had in mind, are The Number Race and The Number Catcher.

http://thenumberrace.com/nr/home.php

http://www.thenumbercatcher.com/nc/home.php
Since hardly anyone has firsthand knowledge of what happened, everyone is extrapolating (it's all anyone can do really). You are extrapolating that this is a case where individuality is getting crushed by The System and this guy's only crime was speaking the truth and not conforming to this or that soul crushing norm of professional life.

For the most part the less sympathetic comments I've seen are extrapolating that there may have been issues with maturity, professionalism, self-awareness, "reading the room", etc. Of course those comments also come from people extrapolating about what really happened based on the account of one person.

The truth is unknowable to almost everyone here, so all people can do is compare what was written to their own experiences. I don't think you're any more right or wrong than anyone else here, but I think your interpretation is based on a different reading of the situation altogether, rather than everyone reading it the same way but having different notions of what was just or unjust about what happened.
You are approximately right, but I don't think that they deliberately crashed the economy. I think that they were hoping for something to turn up and had good reason to think it would - after all, long term capital finance got bailed out, why not mortgage backed securities?

The lesson is that the risks of finance need to be sufficiently crystalised that behaviour is moderated, the problem is that economic growth has come to depend on risky finance.
s/smart dust/very small RFID chips/g
As this paper and others describe, the difference is almost entirely attributable to giving to religious causes, most notably the local church. I'm not going to say it's not charity to give to a thing that's a charity, but if the cause is evangelizing Christianity, then that's not the same as giving some poor kid food and education. Of course, the whole thing is confounded by the fact that the guy evangelizing is often also providing food and education, but without knowing the percentages it's hard to see if the numbers still line up when you subtract that cost.
> It's obvious that simply by using that technique alone (which can be used on a regular keyboard too), one can type many orders of magnitude faster than someone who's typing out each individual word letter by letter (or even phonetically).

It probably helps if the nature of the text you have to type is somewhat formulaic.
The style of this post mortem is quite different from a typical post mortem of an attack on a large tech company, such as AWS, heroku or GitHub.

There is very little technical details on the investigation and mitigation process beyond phrases like "the NOC team was able to mitigate the attack and restore service to customers", "...but was mitigated in just over an hour".

Why was this written by a Chief Strategy Officer but not someone with more technical knowledge and insights?