skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my most important suggestions to Asian (Indian and Chinese in particular) students is to expand your horizons both professionally and personally. You are going to a new country - don't ONLY mingle around with your kind. There is a far broader experience to gain that will only help you professionally and personally in the future. There are many ways you can do it

* Share an apartment with someone from a different country

* Make acquaintances and talk to people outside work with diverse professions - don't stick to scientists ONLY

* Try to understand difference between cultures

Especially once you move to a new country, you have a great opportunity to understand difference between cultures. Don't miss it!
Well, if you are looking for a measure that is the easiest to game, abuse and spam, you cant go wrong with your pagerank killer: in-degree.

It works less well than it used to, but its never used in isolation. Used in isolation its a pretty good porn detector.
Can you expand on how having better-than-average knowledge about some crypto currencies allows you to make money investing in them?

I doubt you mean that you actually have knowledge of when and how the price is going to change. Are you just betting on a general increase in value, or doing some form of pairs trading or arbitrage? How comfortable are you with rapid 30% price swings?
Also a very cool read for a Swiss guy (Zurich) who moved to Beijing :D.
> that kind of trolls seems to be unable to recognise when their views have been shot to pieces.

Unable to recognize... or maybe they just don't care. Either way, I feel this is essentially a prerequisite for being a proficient troll.
AppFS ( http://appfs.rkeene.org/ ) solves almost all of the problems with "curl | bash" and indeed package managers in general. I'm the author. Feedback desired.
Netflix Denominator – Portably control DNS clouds using Java or bash
Klimt's Women, Real and on Canvas
Create a WiFi Hotspot with Your Raspberry Pi
It's not available in Canada.
> I would say that's what separates trolling from just plain bullying: people know it's just a game of sorts.

Not exactly. What if I go to a predominately liberal community and start saying pro-Trump things? Am I bullying anyone? No, yet people might not know it's a game (to me), either and have very emotional reactions to my trolling.
There is also another option. Suppose, for a moment, that I've sent my friend an email and he/she has allowed LinkedIn access to their Google Contacts, even though I have not...there is no reason LinkedIn wouldn't still show me them as a contact to add, since they know the connection. They just know it from the other side.
Any mirrors?
The resume was the clincher. You'd spent over an hour getting 3/4 the way through downloading an enormous 1M file to drop to line noise. OK, start again...

Saving 400+ for a Courier HST to go an insanely fast 12k (very rarely). They beat everything else at holding a line though.
I knew they were doing this based on recent connection suggestions but couldn't figure out how. This makes me furious and only better shows how slimy of an organization they are.
Schwab does, but they achieve zero fees by keeping a lot of your portfolio in cash and keeping the interest on it for themselves.
I vouch for this claim that LinkedIn/Facebook seem to give recommendations to add someone as friend even when there is no chance that they could figure it out using data they have. I don't understand why browsers can't sandbox each tab such that there is no way to share cookies or cache. This is a serious breach of privacy if they are reading friend relationships based on your gmail open in other tabs.
Iceland's total installed capacity in 2014 was 2770 MW; total generation was 18.1 TWh [1].

So interestingly, even at Iceland's scale, this 50 MW additional capacity will amount to only 1% of their total installed capacity, which seems small.

[1] http://px.hagstofa.is/pxen/pxweb/en/Atvinnuvegir/Atvinnuvegi...
Maybe, but be aware those are not equivalent (your method will pass extra arguments to RenderChild)
So they left our the one platform more popular than them, Meteor?
Agreed - this is the assumption I have been working on and experienced too
It's viewing the memory of one virtual machine from a different virtual machine. Shouldn't it be called "inspection" rather than "introspection"?
Behind the Urbanism in Science Fiction
I sometimes troll to demonstrate to people how wrong and stubborn they are, but it doesn't work very well because people who are stubborn enough to fall for trolling are usually also stubborn enough to ignore just having made a moron of themselves.

My favorite form of trolling is saying something ambiguous to people arguing with each other so that both of them at the same time go "see? qb45 agrees with me!" Then they both realize what happened and resume previous thread as if it didn't happen ;)
I would encourage its victims to investigate legal recourse.

It's all well and good saying that, and yes, if manufacturers are repeatedly/grossly negligent then maybe they should pay compensation and/or punitive financial penalties. However, unless you know something the rest of us don't about how to guarantee Internet-connected devices are perfectly secure, that sort of financial pressure can't be the whole solution, or even the main part of the solution. Ultimately, it may just mean that smaller players can't afford to risk participating in the industry any more, and no-one will be better off if reduced competition is the main result of this. We must be able to handle this more constructively than just demanding perfection and punishing those who inevitably fail to deliver it.
When Your Screen Breaks in the Himalayas
Wow. That's a lot of money. And not good for competition.
The end of the year isn't the best time to capture tax losses. And where do you go to get trades with fractional shares for less than 0.25% in trade fees?
> in which what no "modern" "safe" language even comes close to C.

Modula-2 and Pascal dialects were as fast as C back in the 80's and 90's, before the industry decided to settle on C as UNIX got adopted and just like node.js and JavaScript, C escaped outside UNIX.

The quality of C code in home computers was a joke even to junior Assembly programmers.

Of course C is fast in 2016, with UB all over the place and 40 years of research in compiler optimizations taking advantage of it.

> And how much of CVE-worthy software is not written in C ?

And how much software is written in C without any need of doing so?

But never mind, the only way to convince you guys is to have CVE meltdown after meltdown, until the industry has lost so many millions that it will eventually change.

Millions of dollars and euros are spent in language research, how to make C code safe, since the language got adopted.

Companies sell static analysers, memory corruption tools.

CPU manufactures like Oracle and Intel were forced to add instructions to handle fat pointers.

Research is spent creating processors like the CHERI.

I wonder how much money would have been saved if a sane language would be used instead....
The article is somewhat misleading. The 50MW number refers to power provided by each borehole, not an entire plant. For example, the Hellisheiði Geothermal Power Station [1] generates around 450MW using 30 holes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellisheiði_Power_Station
A good initial step is not to have a default password. There was a time when all routers came with a default password and people were told to change it. They didn't. Now most new routers come with a randomly generated unique password printed on a sticker under the router. IoT devices should follow the same practice.
I recall there was a followup to the article that confirmed that he had granted access to his gmail (or someone in his network etc). What the article describes should not be technically possible.
Yeah, Iceland doesn't really have a surplus if geologically stable land...
Trump said today, in a speech in Gettysburg, PA, that if he becomes president, he will work to block this transaction because it consolidates too much power.
When i read yesterday about the merger i was pretty shocked that the FCC was allowing it to go through.
it works for me, but you can access the content also via google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&...
Unfortunately, unless either you can get that sort of result across a substantial part of the developed world or it happens that most of the insecure devices used here were sold to US-based customers, the US legal system alone isn't necessarily going to help much.
> I'm not sure why you bring that up.

Sorry, forgot to give more details: a private method with a single line of code. That is: something which can be simply done in the caller.

> Of course this sentence seems to capture your thinking:

Yes, unit testing can be excessive too. Of course I'm more against zero unit testing than excessive unit testing, but each test is an investment, and the optimal approach is, as usual, somewhere in the middle.
You know magma has a tendency to come out right? If you put trash down the hole, its burned remains just clog up the end and risk coming back out whenever the stopper is removed.
Exposing high-end poker cheating devices
> Right, but the system we're interested in is normal computers, which is more powerful than arithmetic.

On the other hand, a theorem prover does not have to be able to prove everything about a system to be able to prove some useful things. One might also say "the system mathematicians are interested in is all of mathematics, which is more powerful than arithmetic", or, for that matter, "the system programmers are interested in is all of theoretical computation, which is (at least) Turing complete"—but sometimes it's useful intentionally to restrict our power. (I think of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567408 , for example.)

(If we're being very picky, then, as pfortuny points out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12762192), a computer, having only a finite address space, isn't even as powerful as ordinary arithmetic; but it's fair to guess that this isn't a useful kind of pickiness.)
So, you were still getting a data connection, just no audio?
Today, in a speech in Gettysburg, PA, Trump said that his administration will work to block this transaction because it consolidates too much power.
My favorite was HS/Link -- upload and download at the same time with speeds superior to Zmodem? Yes please!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HS/Link
The article noted that this was also happening for email contacts who were not on Linked In.
Seems like a Balrog could be a good power source.
Icelanders are tough. There's probably already a dude or woman at each power plant whose job it is to demon hunt on the night shift, with good benefits and a pension plan.
> But say in the extreme case, it got to the point where all funds were invested passively

This came up a couple months ago on HN [0], and to that scenario I say:

> Yeah, it's a bit like saying: "But what if all the animals in the ecosystem became helpless herbivores?"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12368136
Why not just let AT&T and Verizon get back together and lets get back the original AT&T. How is this good for the country? They own directv. They own all these local sports networks. I hope the government regulators take a strong look at this.

Here is list of assets they own:

New Line Cinema, Home Box Office, Turner Broadcasting System, The CW Television Network, Warner Bros., CNN, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Adult Swim, DC Comics, Warner Bros. Animation, Castle Rock Entertainment, Cartoon Network Studios, Esporte Interativo, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

That is a lot of content.
Would it be too much to hope for a series of cascading failures leading to a kilometer-high fountain of lava?

Asking for a friend.
The other thing about coding back in those days is, if you got stuck, there was no stack overflow. You had to figure it out yourself or maybe ask a small grpup of people on a BBS or at a user group. Also, there was hardly any open source so things that seem trivial now like persistance or fast data structures were considerable efforts.
Cool, I'm glad to see there's a meta issue to track this stuff now. Couple of questions:

Is there a strategy to tackle the CSS and JS bloat?

Is performance something the front-end endboss folk consider important enough to delay feature releases?

Are you monitoring performance with a tool like SpeedCurve?
2016 and people still take the C++FQA for real, uau!

Ada is a great language and I also would rather use it instead of C++, but it isn't packaged with any SDK for the OSes that I care about, nor does it have a good integration history with Java and .NET.

Using third party tooling for production code is always an extra development cost, so I do the best with the lemons I get.

C++ is a much more tasty juicy lemon than C.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12769725
if you draw the line between attacks of the past through this one you see that the scale of DDoS attacks continues to get worse. It's all well and good to say that the enablers of the past learn and improve their products. The problem is continually the enablers of the future.

It's been said before but I will repeat it here; manufacturers have no reason to expend any resources on security until they are held liable for the damage they facilitate. We must make selling insecure devices a liability just like selling unsafe devices is in meatspace.
What software is the piece that is answering the question "is this a real user or fake?". Because that's the piece that will fall over during a DDoS, as it's doing per-request processing.
The voting base is proportional with the user base, so it would be expected that submissions get more upvotes on average over time (vote inflation).

This is not significant since ranking is determined relative to other posts, which also will receive more upvotes on average for the same reason.
This is hilarious - relevant snippet from support conversation from article:

"if you had at any time your LinkedIn account open and accessed any of your emails through the same browser…In order from preventing this from happening again, you will want to be careful to not open up your personal email address in the same browser when you have your LinkedIn account open.’"
What enables computers we know today is not just logical circuits - primarily, it's that we're able to pack a shit ton of them in a very, very small volume. Each processor today has close to a billion logic gates in it (assuming ~4 transistors per gate).
Tectonic?
It's called PLAN (short for physical LAN). It doesn't need a managed switch, like VLAN, because you just use one switch for each network. Careful: Don't connect them.
I'm having a hard time understanding this comment. That people on Earth can do it too does not detract from people on Mars doing it.

The parent comment isnt saying there will be an economy of building things on Mars and sending them to Earth, they're saying Mars can sustain itself without sharing an economy with Earth. Which I believe is true.

And for what it's worth, I'm actively working to build better robots with commodity 3D printers[1] and I hope to build self sustaining communities on Earth with 3D printed micro factories that produce all the goods humans need for survival.

I believe it is possible to make economically closed self sustaining communities. Both on Mars and on Earth. We've done it on Earth for a long time.

[1] https://github.com/tlalexander/Flutter-Scout
Considering only the secure channel problem and not the entire systems problem (which might motivate encrypting clientside in anticipation of the file being stored), encrypting before sending on a secure channel is indeed pointless, which is the reason you'll find very few soundly designed cryptosystems that do this.

The point is again simple: there are far better options to untrustworthy standards than composing them in the hopes of mitigating their flaws. It's for the same reason that we used to use hash combiners to handle MD5 and SHA1, but now we use HKDF over SHA-2.
I think the more realistic solution is that a vigilante group of hackers continuously scan and take over vulnerable IOT boxes with the intention of bricking and/or disabling their network access would be the most feasible.
> Race exists and has strong effects on culture and treatment, and race-blindness' only function is to deny marginalized groups the opportunity to address the oppressions specific to them.

I think this depends on who is blind to race, and if they really are or are just not saying it because they like the status quo. If everyone was blind (literally) to race, there would be no racism... I don't think the world is helped by everyone talking about race. It's not that exciting, it's some minor physical traits. Culture, and history, are the deep topics.

And I think it misses the point that if you're bullied by a sexist, or a racist, you're going to feel the same. We'd have to ban a thousand topics and it still wouldn't keep the bullies from bullying. It's better to go to the root of the problem and deal with bullies.

Bullies feelings don't matter, so we don't have to worry about being PC, etc. Everyone has been bullied, so everyone can get into it.

What we need to do to make this work is talk about race just enough that we don't discourage the victim revealing their bullying, but not enough to give the bullies anything to work with.

> police violence is unambiguously a racial issue

Right, but we won't fix it by being equally but opposite racists. We fix it by firing and charging any officer who breaks a law.
> While Flashpoint has confirmed that Mirai botnets were used in the October 21, 2016 attack against Dyn, they were separate and distinct botnets from those used to execute the DDoS attacks against “Krebs on Security” and OVH.

So not quite.

> Dale Drew, chief security officer at Level 3, an internet service provider, found evidence that roughly 10 percent of all devices co-opted by Mirai were being used to attack Dyn’s servers. Just one week ago, Level 3 found that 493,000 devices had been infected with Mirai malware, nearly double the number infected last month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/business/internet-problems...

If they aren't significantly underestimating the number of devices participating in this attack, it paints an ugly picture of things to come. My understanding is these botnets are almost impossible to eradicate due to how fast/easy it is to re-compromise the devices, so traditional methods of taking out C2s do almost nothing. Bonus - Mirai source code is freely and easily available for skids to use now, so there's no single threat actor for attribution/retaliation/arrest/etc.
What about a third person, e.g., a mutual friend.
If the IDDP's magma well is successful, it could add a new source of abundant green energy to the country, and the technique could be imitated near fault lines around the world.

Yes, go ahead, folks. What could possible go wrong with drilling near fault lines?
ZTerm
Thanks for point it out, it just isn't clear what the current state is.

It looks kind of dropped with the github repository only having a basic example.
That's interesting since they faced the attack so they could have data to analyze that.
Apart from firmware, chinese companies also pushing UC browser and WeChat like anything.
Dupe : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12769641

Edit : The WSJ submission also has more details and some story too. This one has just one line.
Think in terms of components. Design small components which would be used by larger components. As I said I am already using the approach. If you could not then maybe you need a better architecture. Components are just one part. State management is another.
Because he's in jail?
Among the "normal" non-geek people I know, most seem to take the pragmatic view that they don't like or want these kinds of intrusions, but since they assume everyone making devices like smartphones is at it, they grudgingly accept it rather than give up what they regard as a valuable device altogether.

I think at some point soon, reality is going to force ordinary people to become more aware of the privacy and security implications of all these technologies they accept into their lives. The trouble is, as we've just seen with the IoT DDoS attack, by the time large numbers of people become sufficiently aware and motivated to do something about these issues, serious problems may already have happened.
My impression of zmodem and kermit, from 13 years ago (remembering then from a decade prior's use):

http://dmd.3e.org/2003/12/zmodem-vs-kermit/
Regarding Markdown renderering, from my perspective the most important improvement is reducing the line width to a better readable character length. This is already addressed [0] and on the list for the 8.14 release. I agree that the spacing can be improved. In general, my impression is that there is a good awareness for required UI improvements [1] in the GitLab team. So I’m looking forward to the upcoming releases.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13680

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22192
I'm surprised that you mention lob passes to support your case. While the gameplay footage in trailers may feature them prominently since they're fun to watch, I wouldn't say that the actual game usually rewards playing that way. I rely far more on ground passes in the game than the teams I follow (Manchester United and Real Salt Lake) do in real life since it's so much easier to retain possession that way.
Yeah it's very surprising, it really does stifle competition and can only be a bad thing for consumers in the end.
> There was a paper recently (I can't find it) that explored this idea; essentially the authors injected obvious, "should-be detectable" bugs

I think you're thinking of LAVA: http://moyix.blogspot.fr/2016/06/how-to-add-a-million-bugs-t...
Thanks - I was exactly thinking this when i asked the question. If git is advertised as a DVCS, then it's hard to understand why the practice is to rely on a central authority that you don't own. It could go down anytime like it did yesterday.

[edit: last sentence].
With all the talk of the loss of manufacturing jobs maybe they can instead talk about making this pasta. It might get some people to start producing it in the US.
The use of supernatural creatures as weapons or power sources is prohibited by the secret Appendix AA to the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968.
The most striking thing to me was there was a huge amount of free-as-in-beer software powering the entire BBS "network" and lots of helpful communities but almost nothing was open source.
It would not surprise me if one of their signals for recommendations is whether that party has viewed your profile.
Show HN: Linguistic API for intelligence applications
The consumer will be paying for this merger.
It's 50 MW per borehole, a power station typically generates power from a largish number of holes. A big geothermal plant on Iceland can have 30 boreholes, which with the new method could then produce 1.5 TW, 54 % of total capacity. Of course, how much is actually possible to take out at given size depends on the size of the magma system you are tapping and how fast it refills.
Fair enough, I appreciate hearing your experience!
Why are these negative type of comments always at the top, hacker news? We can do better.