skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - 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.

If they were really gearing up for war why would they move their only carrier away from the mother land. Your article even says it is more of a "show of force" than start of war.

So how did you jump to WW3?
For a long time, I've wondered what would finally be the Securitypocalypse, the thing that finally caused our industry as a whole to take security seriously. These IoT DDoS attacks are as good a candidate as any I've seen in a long time. They are fundamentally very difficult to fix in light of the non-updateability of many of these devices, and this is only the beginning, because the IoT has hardly begun to develop. And in the short-term, I'm not sure I see any hope, because the forces that make people throw out cheap devices with broken firmwares with no update capability aren't going away.

If we could somehow mandate that these devices were supported with firmware updates for the indefinite future, that would simply destroy the entire market. And you can't do that, because even the devices created by an entity that no longer exists and didn't sell its IP to anybody else will eventually be enough to do these DDoSes, if they aren't already.
> Especially that a successful lander is a reality check. We did it once and we can do it again.

Not necessarily. A successful landing may be "we got really lucky". You may not succeed a second time, even with the exact same hardware and technique.
I would just ban the ips for 24hrs if I detect an IP that is part of a ddos. After that people will wise up and unplug their nanycam/toaster/iotwhatever
The amount of money we waste on military expenditures is staggering compared to the amount we spend on scientific exploration.
The bigger issue, IMO, is the mis-allocation of resources that happens when people aren't able to transmit information through prices and market mechanisms.

Like, the empty-nester who works in downtown SF and happens to own a 4BR townhouse in Mountain View should really trade places with the family of four commuting from a 1BR condo in SF and commuting down to Mountain View. If they both bought their place at a tenth of the current price, the savings on property taxes can justify staying locked in with long commutes and incorrectly sized living spaces.

Note that this sort of example is also one of the strongest arguments against rent control. If you're paying $400/mo for an apartment in downtown SF or NYC, it's worth keeping it as a place to occasionally go to on weekends or vacations or in case you decide to move back into the city. It's classic mis-allocation - even in the midst of a severe shortage, there's under-used resources that don't get used because people aren't allowed to compete on price to get them.
Yeah, I tried that. I don't see dnyect in a lot of domains that are failing, and it's clearly related somehow, they didn't all break at the same time by coincidence.
Tor hidden services don't need DNS
Well, don't get me wrong. I play Civ 4 under wine every other day. I think it works great, except for that bug that would appear every game.
So, is it possible for a local government to ever reach a limit on fees necessary for building in their area before it creates a problem?

>> "our profits are lower, can government do something about it?"

Seems the complaint is that government is directly responsible for the problem as they see it. Isn't it reasonable for the companies to complain to the government concerning that topic? What if the local government started tacking on fees to your paycheck that reduced your take home pay to what you felt was unreasonable amount? Do you have the right to complain?
Question regarding personal work relationship issues that could be traced back to other people that might offend the person.
Correct. This is another reason why buybacks are popular. On the other hand, some people might prefer to get steady income by default without having to liquidate periodically parts of their portfolio. And long term investors might not be happy when a company spends money buying back its shares at high valuations (of course they could sell if they think the shares are overvalued, but we are talking about long term investors).
AFAIK if you use English application you see фртй as xn-hdyfh but if use Bulgarion application you see it as Bulgarian. Something like that.
IIRC if you have pro/enterprise you can disable it through a group policy.
You can try https://uniq.site/en
Looks like github and braintree both got AWS dns servers mixed in about the same time. Did they both switch over or is Dyn working with AWS on this?
It's not just about the 50K. There's an additional 20% for building impact fees. And all these regulations prevent builders from using more cost effective means for building.

And, by far, the worst part of it is, it makes innovation in housing a complete non-starter. It's tantamount to: if in the 1980s (before the shape of the internet was known) the government had decided to tax every page download 20 cents. Imagine how much that would have stifled innovation - everything internet would've come to a screeching halt before even seeing what's possible.

Personally, I think these laws are a major crime against humanity. Housing makes up such large percentage of people's spending (50%-65% when you take into account property taxes for 50 years). It keeps you a wage slave for at least 30 years. It doesn't have to be this way - housing can cost a fraction of what it does now without all these regulations, with the right land use policy, the right building materials, using manufactured homes, etc.
https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/
I think there are two principal kinds of nice: 1) You say positive things. 2) You do not say negative things.

Personally, I much prefer Type 2. Type 1 used to be called being a "Pollayanna" (like the Disney character played by Hayley Mills in a movie about 1960 -- a little girl who tried to always say only positive things). IMO, that kind of nice is tiresome.

I'm sure there are other variations on 'types of nice', like speaking up only to add positive comments, or to add info, or to add humor. But probably most folks would describe these using a term other than 'nice'.

Though not everyone would agree, I think niceness can also take the form of negative comments that are phrased constructively, such as suggesting how a problem could be reduced/eliminated or how a product could be made better.
Yeah, thats about a half hour of down time for every AWS East based company... who knows how much lost revenue -- and yet they just say the service is green with a little info tag.

If our service is down for any customer (much less an entire segment of customers) we at least publish that we had a partial outage.
They just took the most obvious, silly things everyone predicts about the future and rendered them in the most simplistic, stylized ways.

Was unsuccessfully trying to articulate my gripe with this show but you hit the nail on the head. I think it also explains why I liked the first one best, while the talent show/advertising episode was just annoyingly silly.
It'd be nice to have a "backup TTL" included, to allow sites to specify whether and how long they wanted such caching behavior.

Also, that cache would need to only kick in when the server was unreachable or produced SERVFAIL, not when it returned a negative result. Negative results returned by the authoritative server are correct, and should not result in the recursive resolver returning anything other than a negative result.
Honestly, I was just like you. I could never understand those Mac users. Why the hell would they work with touchpad. It's ridiculous and can't even compare to mouse.

About a year ago I was forced to switch to Mac ( forced by work). And, trust me, it is a Big deal. This is one of the things I loved about Mac.

I have a "docking station" (not per se) with wireless keyboard, touchpad and mouse. And I find myself finding using touchpad much more often than mouse. Because it IS comfortable. Obviously, for some specific things that require precision mouse is much better. But for fast workflow, touchpad and its gestures are awesome. Similarly at home, I can use it anywhere without bringing mouse with me. And not struggling with terrible ( admittedly my cheap) pc touchpad.
Yes, they did. But, depending on the details of the attack, I am not sure if any other provider could have withstood the attack without problems. In other words, I doubt there's a single provider/alternative.
The rovers we sent cost us about $400 million each. And one failed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover
That's basically it.

People don't want some inflammatory thing to be associated with them. Which should make those people think about their position, rather than post it here anonymously.

Let me put it this way: when someone's hiring or doing a business deal, they Google your name.
Shameless plug. At Autonomous, we just launched the $179 ErgoChair yesterday to compliment our SmartDesk.

$179 ErgoChair by Autonomous
https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chair
And there's a Mac version distributed for OSX/macOS by Microsoft that's arguably superior to the Windows client. But I understand the RDP protocol. In a decent corp environment with a gigE LAN, the data compression benefits of RDP compared to TeamViewer or Apple's Remote Desktop aren't that necessary.
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Apple hardware has been designed on Windows PCs (at least until the last time I read about it a few years ago). This is because the (best) software for electronic design has only been available for Windows, and the developers refused Apple's terms and conditions (despite being directly approached by Apple for a port). This was the cause for some embarrassment for Apple by people in the electronics industry.
... that's because of the cheap second hand thinkpad, which is a marvelous piece of engineering, and probably the best the Windows/Non-Mac world has to offer in competition to Macbooks.

Even though there have been some questionable redesign approaches and a slight (perceived) slump in QC in recent years, Thinkpads IMO are still THE best machinery out there to just get stuff DONE.

They are reliable, full Linux compatibility, easy to service and have the best non mechanical / Notebook keyboard out there.

Tbh the only thing I envy the Macs for are their brilliant screens. But we have red nipples on our keyboards, so yeah...
It's like software. Once you finally manage to get something kinda reliably working, you ditch it and start a new one.
I think chetanahuja is saying apps don't have to rely on CAs. They can distribute a single trusted certificate, only trust a single CA or use key pinning.
But then it takes them a few more paragraphs to point out that is for a $600k+ house.

Which doesn't make it sound all that bad after all. Particularly when they point out the land itself is about 1/2 the cost.

Not that any of it is good for anyone under 40...
Looks like war to me
"The National Anthem" has "sci", but the "fi" of it is less apparent because the tech is already here just not "evenly distributed" yet. And maybe I'm just baseline cynical enough that what you perceived as "political satire" just played to me as the simple mechanics of how things happen.

To put it mildly, I'm a believer in anonymity and decentralization. That episode really takes these (hopefully) advancing qualities and really forces you to confront what tearing down of our society's institutions can actually look like.
That's not the part of the system that's under attack
Logos can be trademarks. They're very rarely copyrighted. And they are generally blurred out for product-placement reasons, not because showing them on television is infringement.

I don't know what you're referring to, but if a filmmaker is sued because the Simpsons is playing in the background of a movie... that is definitely a possible legitimate copyright issue. I'd assume that fair use would apply, though.
Tesla will send an EV on a cross-country Autopilot drive in 2017
In the context of user points, #1 has to be the biggest issue, which highlights a big problem with voting in the HN community. Downvoting is a feature given to people with favorable stances in the community, thus shunning others with alternative views.

While some say downvotes should be used to deter comments that do not add to the discussion, this isn't realistic. Interestingly, this places those who hold popular opinion in control of the discussion, effectively keeping others' opinions less visible, and status quo strong until tipping points occur in positions where a majority of the community conversely agrees.
Yeah, you're correct there. I'm not sure if that makes it much better though. He was even warned by the interviewee that Bill would not like what he was doing.
This worked for me:

http://www.trishtech.com/2016/01/how-to-quickly-enabledisabl...
I agree. The Embody is a great chair if you have pretty good posture. It is pretty rigid in the center (all the flexibility is on the sides), so that it forces your back into the 'proper' shape like a plastic mold. The problem is, it's a pretty hard chair, so if you have any 'irregularities', like, say, a bit of hunchback (thoracic hyperkyphosis), the hard plastic "pixels" will just dig into your back in all the places that stick out where they shouldn't.

There is a single adjustment knob for the back, but it adjusts the thoracic and the lumbar part at the same time. So if you have a rounded upper back, you'll adjust the knob to make the backrest a more deeply curved S shape to prevent the upper backrest from poking your shoulder blades. But then the lower part of the S gets deeper as well and it starts digging into your lumbar/sacral region. It's not easy to notice -- after 15 minutes in the store, I was in love with the Embody; after 1 hour at home, it felt like my lower back was covered in bruises from the hard plastic.

For this reason, I do not recommend the Embody to people with incorrect posture, or to people who don't like hard chairs.

Other things worth noting are the poor armrests (they have no back movement, so you can't move your chair close to your desk without lowering them) and the fact that you can't really recline very far in this chair because the back tension rises pretty fast after a certain point. Well, you can recline if you adjust the back tension, but it's a continuous knob, so it'll take you ages to go back your regular setting.
Well, and Spain and the UK.
I'm addressing performance standards specifically so I can't speak for other fees.

But regards performance targets these exist such that suitable quality housing is built - there are numerous market problems here, so leaving it to the market will not end with a high quality building stock. Performance regulations are too lax by a long way, not too strict.
The Internet Waffle House Index
> Exact lookup in the trie is O(string_length), like a hash table

It's worth noting that some standard libraries (Java's JDK for one [1]) will cache the value of String.GetHashCode(), meaning string lookup in a HashTable is constant time average (but O(n) worst-case due to collisions).

[1]: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/hashcode.html
My Life Extension Pilgrimage to Easter Island
try nslookup your-SSL-endpoint.herokussl.com

the dig command does not work for me either...

=================================

nslookup iwate-2009.herokussl.com
Server:	208.67.222.222
Address:	208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:
iwate-2009.herokussl.com	canonical name = elb030330-152447250.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
Name:	elb030330-152447250.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Address: 54.225.242.254
Name:	elb030330-152447250.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Address: 54.225.217.226
Name:	elb030330-152447250.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Address: 54.235.181.244
> US election is in 3 weeks and Donald Trump is openly in love with Putin.

He states that he's never met Putin nor has any holdings in Russia. He has stated that he is open to positive relationships with the Russian government.

> Trump questioned the benefit of NATO which is the basis for Europe stability after the 2nd world war.

I believe he stated that he wants NATO to "pay their fare share" in the costs of maintaining the organization.

I'm not a Trump supporter but we shouldn't believe everything we read.
Facebook Employees Pushed to Remove Trump’s Posts as Hate Speech
Of course, part of the problem is that citizens (and, more importantly, the representatives those citizens elect) aren't always in the right, either. Remember in the decolonialisation period how many countries nationalised formerly-productive industries, to the great loss of both overseas investors (immediately) and to their own citizens (over time, as the nationalised industries became less and less productive).
>> I hear a continual litany of woe and despair from our helpdesk about drivers, and anti-virus, and AD issues etc ad infinitum

Sounds like human error to me. My two young children seem to handle Windows just fine without me having to constantly monitor their machines.

Edit: what? my anecdotal evidence isn't as good as everybody else?
I thought it raises a few good points, even though it doesn't propose any solutions. The current sorry state of IoT security is something worth thinking about.
This is 1998 Link. Is this still at least partially valid
> It's the "character" of their neighborhood.

> Somehow we've gotten into a cultural state where everyone expects the place they live to stay exactly as it is for their lifetime.

I think this is just human nature.

> It's totally implausible and destructive, but people fight for it anyways, even when it isn't in their financial interest.

I disagree. Simply look at Europe or historical districts in the US. Its definitely not implausible, and only destructive to new citizens who want to live there (that don't have an existing vested interest in the area).

All politics is local, as they say. If local citizens want to keep their neighborhood the same, that's up to them, and its their choice.
Go read some classic scifi, PKD did the capitalist dystopia pretty well (and amusing) for example.
DynDNS outage
Chromebooks have a similar experience is you want an even cheaper alternative. Applications beyond the browser are more limited (photo management is awful on Chromebooks) but it's hard to beat the price and functionality for most users.
Russian warships pass through English Channel
Given your name, this opinion seems quite surprising.
The only people who keep fuelling racial tensions are Democrats, notably Obama and Clinton, constantly telling black people they’re oppressed and that the police is racist. Trump had to cancel a rally in Chicago after democrats started rioting, he’s not the one instigating the violence, but whenever it breaks out, it’s always described as a “fight breaking out”, and never as democrats assaulting Trump supporters, which is what it is.

Trump doesn’t bring race to anything. He’s just called “racist” by people who don’t understand the term “illegal alien”, or that Islam is not a race.

Trump said these terrible things a decade ago. A decade ago Clinton and Obama were strongly, and publicly, against gay marriage. A decade ago Clinton praised sen. Robert Byrd as her “mentor”, a former KKK member, and noted racist. Go back further, and you have tapes of her laughing at the victims of her husband and destroying their lives. The thing with Hillary though, is that you don’t have to go that far with her, if you stop ignoring the fact she should be in jail right now, and not running for office.
Trump's campaign is run by a white supremacist

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I appreciate the update, but your service has been unavailable for hours already. This is unacceptable for a service whose core value is to ensure that we know about any incidents.
Managed to get macs working with share point yet
In that case I get:

;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 10.17.100.2, trying next server
Server:	10.17.100.2
Address:	10.17.100.2#53

server can't find <sslendpoint>.herokussl.com: NXDOMAIN
TWC is already merging with Charter (interestingly, it's the smaller company (Charter) who's "buying" TWC)

So .. how would this work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcny_pixDw
It bothers me because it can be used against you in the future.

Have you ever searched for information on an ailment that might disqualify you from anything if you actually had it?

Have you ever spoken ill of a government official or policy?

Have you ever visited a location where government dissenters have visited before?

Have you ever searched for a history book about revolutions?

Any of these activities could be shared with other companies or the government and used against you in the future, if things should turn sour. People die in other countries where dissent is not allowed. Is there a reason you trust your future life to a marketing company in the present?
How do we go from waiting to doing?
“As of Firefox 52 I intend to turn TLS 1.3 on by default.”
They don't do that any more, for what it's worth. I think for a while that was the only revenue stream for what was otherwise a free service. https://www.opendns.com/no-more-ads/
Post-Brexit UK's racism from young IT entrepreneur's perspective
poop.bike is still up
I wish I could talk more about this but I'm not sure I can go into detail today. But I can say:

- Part of the reasons macs are cheaper is that they're massively less instrumented than PCs.
- Most orgs have not migrated to Win10 because they're totally convinced they need that instrumentation on windows.
- But they don't need that instrumentation on OSX, so it calls the entire premise into question.

It's also the case that people negotiate cheap block sales of SKUs from "trusted" partners to help pre-bundle all that instrumentation. But as this data shows, it turns out that buying less customized devices with better overall specs is actually a cost savings and per-unit cost.

Finally, I'd argue that employee satisfaction is almost directly a result of not having a heavy-handed and almost entirely arbitrary series of mandates forced onto their computer.

I won't talk about my employers efforts, but I know OTHER people (friends in IT) who are experimenting with mass deploys of Win10 and Surface books with a "let's throw EVERYTHING out and pretend these are a new platform" approach, and they tell me that they see benefits. As the conversations are casual, I cannot go further.

It's sort of amazing what happens to overall cost if you accept the premise that the vast majority of IT tooling and monitoring is in fact bad, wrongheaded, and not fulfilling real security and auditing requirements.
Charting Brain vs. Body Mass in Mammals
Sure, but I wouldn't consider any of those "catastrophic failures".
Auto-play is bad. It's worse with a popup over it.
Github is currently inaccessible. Can you still compile Rust programs that depend on Github files?
You intervene with humans when you detect /1io0/i.
Are we more like 1984 or Brave New World?
Unfortunately, forced firmware updating is an area our governments should not be mandating. That puts unnecessary strain on small companies and creates a larger gap that companies must cross to become commercially viable
I agree that "rebranding" is a seriously uncharitable interpretation of the circumstances.

Charter also bought Bright House at the same time as Time Warner Cable. They are all being brought under the Spectrum name, which was and is Charter's pre-existing name for their cable services.

This is not the scenario at all that "rebranding" invokes. Especially not in the context that chimeracoder uses it. See ssharp's post [0] for an example of what the typical interpretation would be.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12762492
because when the going gets tough, the tough get going in the pants. Also when I see that other guy in some tv show or movie, I'm like "Cujo!". I still have it somewhere on betamax.
If you are unable to connect because of DNS problems, switch your DNS server to 8.8.8.8 (Google).

Edit: sorry there, this worked for me but apparently it's not guaranteed.
Ow! Thank you,judah.