skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hear that! Have you tried other countries like Germany and Swiss? How's the visa situation there? I am on a similar boat to yours but haven't yet decided to move to Europe but I will. All I know now is that getting a work visa is pretty tough!
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I think these statements are bogus. Russian government is a much smaller target than Twitter. Besides, it does not rely on the Internet to function.
Or Dyn and the like should build a system to throttle requests from a given IP. Whitelist trusted IPs that REQUIRE high volume of requests.
IP Whitelisting anyone?
fyi many are aware of this but TWC was bought and merged with Charter a few months ago. There is no "Time Warner Cable" anymore, most of the branding is switched over now.
Either that, or any device that can generate the right wavelength with the precision to see through exactly 1 card thickness is lab equipment the size of a refrigerator... in which case I assume they don't worry about it.
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Somehow, everyone thought that putting people in a straight-jacket for 30-35 years is a great way for obtaining "creative individuals".
No, "some states" do not allow for paying wait staff less than minimum wage after tips. The federal minimum wage in theory enforces this. It's rather misleading to point out that they might be making less than minimum wage without tips, especially when the average hourly wage after tips is well above the average minimum wage at $11.82.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_Stat...
There's also expandable block storage (https://www.digitalocean.com/products/storage/), though I'm not sure if it fits these circumstances.
After Madonna delivers her pre-electional promise.
After using yarn for a week, I can't imagine going back to npm.

I use npm 90% for install, and yarn does this so much better.

Installs are 3-4 times faster. Output is minimal and readable (compared to npm's wall of text that I never read). Packages are cached so I can work with slow connections in coffee shops.

Sorry to be blunt, but I feel none of the release features gonna help my daily usage of npm. How about actually fixing the tab completion, which has been slow and broken forever?
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Isn't this the case already? The judge will let your nephew walk if you are rich enough. You don't need to be in China for that to be the case. What is wealth if not another point system?
> it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents,

In this whole process one sure thing I learned is that popular media is a joke. Anyone else remembers CNN being a rather decent news source? I am thinking late 90's or so... Or maybe I was younger and more naive.

I imagine it was always subservient to its owners and to their ideology. However it didn't seem to be a parody of itself, which is what it seems like now.

As to the illegality, yes, it is illegal if you have clearance. But if you do, hopefully you don't need CNN to remind you of that. (To expand on it, for those who don't know, just because documents have been leaked it doesn't' mean they automatically get declassified. So someone with clearance reading them might have a hard time answering the "I have accessed classified documents that I didn't need for my daily job..." question). Presenting it as illegal to the general public is a blatant lie.

> Cuomo says. “It’s different for the media, so everything you’re learning about this, you’re learning from us.”

This is your Soviet style propaganda crap right here. Unsophisticated and blunt. "Don't listen to anyone else or you are doing illegal things, listen only to us. Let us interpret the reality for you".

Is this a sign of desperation. I don't follow this very closely, I thought Hillary is winning this easily anyway?
Maybe someone should create an exploit to brick all of these IoT devices. Than perhaps people would wake up to the problem..
That's a bit too much hyperbole for me (and the top comment!). Sure, the US has its issues (and, if you're not taking direct action to change it...well). But, live outside the US for a while, and you'll see the difference. For example, live in an ex-soviet country. Experience the doorman to your apartment building taking notes on what you're doing, who you're with, etc. Wait for the doorman and every other 'watcher' to compile this data and report it to your boss. Wait for it to come up in your annual evaluation. I think you'll see the distinction.
Most users are on dynamic IPs. So you'd probably be blocking/nagging the wrong person
Thanks for sharing. Maybe my perception of what mobile-sized hardware can do is out-of-date.
I'm super excited to use yarn but, just a heads up, we hit this pretty severe issue when setting it up for our projects: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/761
Maybe this is a good thing as it will make it harder to get people to go to war next time. Perhaps we might think twice about invading other countries.
Comcast <==> NBC Universal

Verizon <==> Yahoo

AT&T <==> Time Warner

<<Pipes>> <==> <<Content>>
Sure. Though I would hardly qualify Seattle as "dense". We are mostly single family housing
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This should be simply illegal. A monstrous merger of massive network operator, and huge media company will create an abusive monopolist of gigantic proportions. I.e. they'll use their network to disadvantage competing media (they already do it, violating Net Neutrality with zero rating of their own video services). So, if they already do it, do you think becoming bigger they'll improve? It's an antitrust 101, but somehow this isn't banned outright.
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How often do most dynamic IPs switch? Been rare for me. How quick can we go from recording malicious IP to showing user an alert on some website?
And the curation of the images, the selection of which to feature, is also a very important aspect. He didn't include some images the system did or could generate. While he personally may not have, it is absolutely possible that such a decision was made in order to communicate some idea. If you take a random object, and place it in a museum, that can be art simply by virtue of the fact that you are attempting to communicate something. Art is, in my opinion at least, an attempt to communicate (typically supra-lingual ideas, concepts, feelings, etc).
Ok, dumb question:

Why can't a list of addresses of all the devices in the world of the type used in the attack be created, and all packets from any address on the list be trashed? At least, for the duration of the attack.

If such lists were made ahead of time, they could be turned on rapidly.

Is anything like this done?
This is mostly just human nature. When a westerner goes to an China for either work or study, a lot of them end up doing the same thing. The culture barrier makes it very hard to really bond with locals and they hang out in bars that are popular only among westerners. They feel lonely and find China a really boring place. Most Chinese immigrants also find America boring for the same reason.

I would say people from other places usually have less of such problems mostly because the culture differences are smaller. When Chinese people goes to Japan or other Asian countries, they blend into the local culture much more easily.

On top of that, a lot of Chinese immigrants are not seeking immigration when they came here for study or work. They'll go back eventually, and what they what out of being abroad is just a degree or some work experience. What's the point of mingling with locals if that's hard thing to do and will eventually be useless?
There's also a subreddit of the same name that has some good articles from time to time.
Today they aren't. Once the fruit lying on the ground is exhausted, they'll get serious about the low-hanging software exploits
Yeah, it's same with not being able to confirm even open secrets when you have classified knowledge. So even if the public knows that our nuclear codes were set to 00000 at some point, actually confirming that if you knew it would be a violation.

CNN, though, has pretty much become the Cartoon News Network. They don't even seem to know that we don't have term limits on Congress. That's worse than the Aleppo thing, to me, honestly.
I don't know and can't speak to the merits of this guy's research, but it distresses me to see so many people here taking him to task merely for daring to publicly voice criticisms of his employer. Not just advising him "This may be tactically suboptimal...", but apparently actually mad at him for saying such things!

Are we not to be allowed, as human beings, to speak for ourselves? Are we to always be in our employee role, subservient to the boss, saying outside of hushed whispers only ever what most pleases the boss? Always in costume, any extra personality immoral to wear outside…
Yeah I wouldn't use it in production until it becomes more stable. However the team behind it seems to iterate really fast. Look at the issues fixed between public release and 0.16[0], which is only 7 days.

[0]: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/releases/tag/v0.16.0
It is just much more efficient if you can just twiddle a number in a database instead of say having to gift them a house. Or instead of capturing and torturing someone, just lower their "karma" so they can never get a job first. It is about efficiency.
> Were credit score non existing in 2008? If so, were they completely ignored?

I think the parent's point may be incorrect in this example. The financial crisis didn't happen because the lenders weren't aware the clients had a high likelihood of default, it was because the lenders didn't care the clients had a high likelihood of default.

The mortgages were packed into packages and sold to other entities so the lenders who initiated the loans passed along the risk. They knew very well that the clients were high risk, but they were incentivized to ignore those risk factors.
Are the NPM guys working on a parallel download feature to speed things up? Have they even noted it as a feature to be implemented? Speed and pkg locking are the only two features that make me use yarn. If they were in npm then most people wont worry about yarn at all I guess.
Who are these people init'ing the attacks? They seem like talented folks.
If I was going to go to all the trouble of learning a non-qwerty keyboard layout, I wouldn't choose dvorak, but would probably choose something else that's supposed to be even more efficient and ergonomic.

But for me it's really not worth switching from qwerty, as I don't want to have problems typing on someone else's qwerty keyboard when I need to -- which is a problem I've heard many non-qwerty typists report having, even if they were once fluent in qwerty. Some do report that they can make the cognitive switch from one to the other relatively easily, but some can't.

So for me it's not worth the risk of spending all that time to learn another layout just to find it hampers my qwerty-typing ability when I might need it.

If I was going to learn anything, it would be steno -- as at least it being on a radically different keyboard should mean that learning it shouldn't impact my qwerty-typing ability.
Spend a year being the person who makes new arrivals feel welcome :)
Or a worm that patches them, removes malware, changes the credentials, or something like that.
If Phillips gets sued and loses enough money in damages, then I'm pretty sure they'll start patching their crap. It's all about having incentive.
The US court sure comes close to deciding moral issues, if not actually. Abortion: some people say killing babies is wrong and should be illegal; other people say a woman has the right to kill* her baby if it hasn't been born yet. Homosexual marriage: some people say it is wrong and should be illegal; others say it is right and should be legal. So if I think homosexual marriage is wrong, the court requires that the society I live in treat it as okay, which leaves many people feeling like the court is legislating morality. (Of course, the opposite is true, too) Furthermore, the court pretty much has to rule on things like this. So it's a pretty fine line.

* I freely admit to being biased on this issue, but the fetus has a heart-beat at 3 weeks; it's hard to say it's not living being. And if it's living, aborting/terminating it is technically killing it.
my first thoughts exactly. It seems more and more that we're heading towards this type of system.
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they also told us (TWC engineers) that there would be "absolutely no job cuts from the merger" well they have started forcing people to relocate or take severance as a way to cut work force stealthily.
Two issues: NAT and dynamic addresses.

NAT: blocking an iot address may be blocking grandma's whole network (or her whole apartment complex's network), and the ISP doesn't want that support call.

Dynamic addresses: depending on the ISP, the IP could change quite frequently (daily), so keeping the list up to date to avoid collateral damage to the unlucky recipient of the blacklisted IP is very difficult.
Not the OP, but I assume they mean that it sends things like the other players' locations, which can be found by cheaters to be seen with map hacks and such.
I agree it makes sense for the Chinese govt. just as it made sense, for example, for a slave trader to put down slaves that didn't toe his line and reward those that obeyed him fully.

You know what might make more sense? The Chinese govt. (or any other similar aspiring govt.) should spend billions on BCI research and implant chips in everyone so that any dis-harmonious thoughts can be culled right at the source.
And to combat the flaws in the private system the government passed laws giving you the right to see the data they have and challenge that data. Are you arguing that statistical analysis should be outlawed? Do you think everyone should have to pay more to borrow money?
You are speaking of basically an IP-based version of the spamhaus blacklist. For general http or TCP protocol.

I, for one, would be fine with a general internet citizen losing access if they have a compromised device. I suspect this is how we will go -- your home security cam was used in an attack, now every single website you visit for XXXXXXXX days gives you a CAPTCHA.

I maintain the crucial element is informing people why they have that hassle. Add extra friction, but not inhibit what they can do, because they are unable and unwilling to secure their devices.

Yes, this affects the internet-uneducated disproportionately. Yes, I think it is the responsibility of anyone with a broadband connection to understand the responsibilities that come with it.

No, I do not expect grandma to learn this. I expect her to deal with a crippled internet because they are not able to fix their pollution.
It's a scheme as old as the world, even Julius Caesar owed money to his legions men and did not pay them.
Too bad this will lead ISPs to blocking ports 23, 22, breaking telnet and ssh to those ports.
...But its more like 7 degrees from Bacon.
FICO scores existed and were ignored, yes.

Lenders would make money by originating loans and selling them to larger financial institutions, so they had no skin in the game when it came to counterparty risk. Lenders certainly had access to FICO scores, but they had a profit incentive to pitch and approve loans to unsuitable borrowers, and there is a strong argument to be made that they used passable FICO scores to justify bad loans to people with no income and no assets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_lending
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_lending
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NINJA_loan

Separately, one of the many differences between Europe and the US leading up to the crisis was that thanks to years of comments from Alan Greenspan, it became culturally acceptable and even encouraged for American borrowers to "tap into their home equity" by taking second mortgages. So, when houses got cheaper, many people who had been paying loans for a while still owed plenty of principal. One might argue that there was negligence on the part of second mortgage lenders here.
Frankly, I think it is the far Right that are closer to anti-democracy. Witness: Trump claiming he won't accept the results of the election, that's about as undemocratic as you can get.
> How many Ubuntu users ignore the updates

Hopefully not many, though I could never understand why unattended-updates package is not installed and enabledby default.
Wouldn't another apartment they might move to also be rent controlled?
> Union for factory workers can barely resemblance anything that would work for programmers

This, I agree with, and was why I was challenging the notion of what is often thought of when the word "union" is used in the context of labor.

I also agree with there being a "huge variance in programmers' ability". But I fail to make the connection with how that necessarily leads to your conclusions (assuming, mind you, that the "union" looks nothing like it does for factory workers)?
I know number of citations is far from perfect, but from a rough look at google scholar his papers (since he started as assistant professor) have been cited <100 times... I am not too familiar with his field but in most CS fields I would assume that hardly counts as groundbreaking research.

I am sure there is some kernel of truth in his claim of unfairness, and he seems like a genuinely great teacher, but denial of tenure seems more like a case of promising faculty (his publication record prior to his start at UB seems stellar) not living up to expectations?
You can build secure devices. All it takes is putting quality engineers in charge.

But paying quality engineers isn't fun and they won't work for idiot management. So as long as management doesn't have to pay for the cost of disasters they cause, nothing will be secure.

It's the same thing that happened at Hillary's State Department.

So I agree: Brick those refrigerators.
Yes! So many people think because they are meek, everyone shall be meek, yet they are not the ones that achieve high performance. You might not be compatible with lower levels of performance when there are titles and honors given for meekly punching a ticket long enough and vis versa. I think he did exactly the right thing and would encourage others to do the same if an environment is compressing their thought and expression. Find your space, your people, and be great.
Parent here...I agree with you, and if you read my comments again you will see that I never said the lenders were unaware. I said the credit history data were available and would have indicated a lack of suitability for the borrowers.
It is acceptable and logical for someone to not be directly or indirectly affected by an incident, yet it still is not bullshit.

Suppose Mars gets destroyed by an unseen cosmic event. Are Earthlings inciting bullshit to go "oh shit, this could happen to us?"
My 2p:
Don't pay too much heed to the CS crowd.
Get a book on 6502 & maybe the Complete Commodore 64 ROM Disassembly.
Download VICE, cc65, Contiki OS, lbForth, QEMU.
Google Dave Cutler, Alan Kay.
Remember the 80s is luxury land it was all done & dusted in the 70s, maybe the 50s or even the 30s.
Good luck best wishes all that.
Your idea that poor Americans "literally have nothing" is simply incorrect. Poor Americans have obesity-inducing quantities of food, good quality housing [1] and high quality free education (teachers actually show up!!!). You could be right about "no parents, no philosophy" - I don't have data on this.

Is it the really the left wing position, that family structure (traditional family vs single mother) and philosophy (work hard, go to church vs feel envy of the neighbors) are the secrets to success? Having a bad work ethic and feeling envy towards those with more than you will likely cause bad behavior, and that bad behavior causes bad outcomes?

But a person with a good philosophy (e.g. your doctor who lost certification) will escape poverty that they are thrust into by chance?

I'd love to know what left wing sources you are reading. To me these claims sound like something George Bush or Mitt Romney would say, and then get crucified by the media for saying.

[1] This document provides information on virtually any specific aspect of housing you want to know, sliced by income level. E.g. # rooms/person, sagging roof, plumbing issues, washer/dryer/AC/kitchen, etc. http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf
Excellent suggestion, especially because it's cross-platform. Thanks, added and acknowledged on the post.
There are still BBSes surviving today accessible via telnet. You can still go play LORD, MajorMUD, TW2K...
This! On a sidenote: would this be white, black or grey hat operation? Or rainbow hat? :)

EDIT: this is the only realistic way of securing the devices.
OK, I would encourage you to reread the conversation. The HN consensus is clearly different than how you perceive it.

You may be absolutely correct. The HN Hivemind is frequently wrong.

But please use this as an opportunity for introspection, wherein you centralize the idea that the community of peers with whom you choose to associate, think you are an ass.
Well I agree with your style preference, deployed.
Can it survive on its own outside the mother's body? Or implanted into another mothers body? If not how alive is it? But more importantly how can you enforce upon a woman the sacrifice to her body and self to carry this fetus to term? Does she not have autonomy and control of her own body?
Short pithy statements, are worth the electrons written on.
CS:GO is the most tragically neglected of the major e-sports. It succeeds due to its source material.

Case in point: Overwatch is neutered. CS:GO competitive servers have a tick rate of 64 (that is, per second), which is already considered too low by many players, given that CS is a twitch shooter. Overwatch halves that tick rate to 32. So - investigators use footage at half the resolution (so to speak) of the actual game. This can both make cases harder to prove and make split-second decisions look like cheating, since half the data is missing.
I am also a foreigner living in Konstanz, Germany. I've been here for the last 10 years and i can tell you out of experience the people around the Bodensee area (lake Constance) have a complete different mentality compared to those living in larger cities like Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Köln or even Berlin.

-One thing i know works very well in Germany is that you need to learn their language and culture. Try to understand how these people think and why they think like that. That will make your life easier.

-As foreigners we also want meet and mingle with our own kind. And that's okey because it's the best way to beat homesick. However, sometimes it's also recommendable to mingle with other foreigners from other countries. Find out what works for them. At the university for example, you could find such English speaking people like the Americans, UK citizens and even established Africans living and working in that area.

-Also, thankfully there are 'meetups' nowadays. You are able to meet and connect with local and international people with different professional backgrounds
China is definitely not communist, but it is definitely less capitalist than the US. Fundamentally the "Communist" Party is about control, which is directly opposed to a free market (i.e., capitalism). For example, the Chinese government wants a stock market. But, they want this market to always go up. (down = people lose money = risk of social unrest) So this year they tried stopping the market if it fell too far, suspending trading of certain companies, telling fund and/or brokerages that they could not sell certain companies. NOT capitalism. Also, the economy is dominated by large state-owned-enterprises (SOEs) which receive strong direction from the government. The government tells factories around Beijing to close whenever a government meeting is in town, so the air will be clean. Note how none of those things happen in the US.