skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a dupe. Denzil is the poster of the competing submission, and its time stamp is later than this one.
I'm not sure. Maybe that's the case for the passwords which can be changed via the administrative app but I read many of these are in firmware and not able to be disabled or changed:

“The issue with these particular devices is that a user cannot feasibly change this password,” Flashpoint’s Zach Wikholm told KrebsOnSecurity. “The password is hardcoded into the firmware, and the tools necessary to disable it are not present.

- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powe...

That's not to say it couldn't flash the devices but I don't recall seeing that capability in the Mirai source and haven't read about it doing so.
imagine you take all the investors in the US economy and put them in a room. Divide the room in halves. One side contains all the active investors, the other side contains all the passive investors. If each side owns roughly half of the economy, their returns will be equal.

Won't the "tracking fee" of the index funds keep increasing, as a larger and larger fraction of the market is covered by them? Whenever a stock rises to X$, billions' worth of index funds will rush to buy the stock to rebalance their holdings, but clearly that should further raise the price of the stock (and they'll have to buy it at X+0.10, or X+0.50).
I don't think the regulators have approved it yet. I hope they don't.
I agree ... I forget to do this these days but in relatively modern days I used to use sz/rz all the time ... circa 2000-2004 I guess ...
> By embracing HTML rather than trying to reinvent it within JavaScript, [...]

I am sorry, but that looks totally wrong with the previous code example. Vue in that instance seems to be reinventing Javascript in HTML (while the critique is true that React reinvents HTML in JS).
Ask HN: Do China and Russia suffer cyber attacks from vague “American hackers”?
Or is this a one way thing?
Except LinkedIn very explicitly said that doesn't have to be the case, and the article shows examples of LinkedIn suggesting that the author invites non-users from his Gmail contacts to LinkedIn.
Definitely a higher volume of posts with comments over 200.. not sure if just an influx of people becoming active or if just really interesting news lately
I guess the wireless service will continue to go to shit.
‘It’s liberating’: Entrepreneurs disrupting sales of feminine-hygiene products
Where is Google in all this?
Giant treadmill?
That article also mentions the credentials are in the firmware.
review apps are super exciting! That's the exact kind of interface I've been hoping for. I really hope it's available like the commit status api is (we use that for posting our custom CI builds). We currently have our own review app system at our company (and no hopes of switching to gitlab ci in the future - unfortunately :( ), but it'd be amazing if we could tie into it the same way we do for CI -- just "here's the link, it built succesfully!" would be a huge improvement to our workflow. Currently we treat it as a separate build (posting to status, with the url being the review app). Then because the URL didn't seem very visible on gitlab, we post it in the merge request too. Not nearly as nice as this would be!
"If you can do them at compile time, performance isn't affected at all and the code won't run slower."

That's not universally true. Compiler people tell me some optimizations happen using undefined behavior. Personal experience shows some, esp hand-optimized assembly, rely on stuff that a static analyzer just couldn't handle. These are common in compression, encryption, and multimedia libraries. So, you indeed might sacrifice performance writing code in a language that can knock out all kinds of problems at compile time working within the coding style it needs to do that.

In the general case, though, your point holds so far as lots of problems can be knocked out at compile time without affecting performance enough for the user to care.
Looks like regulators are on the fence about this transaction: "Regulators have indicated misgivings about the prior Comcast-NBCU deal—in particular, whether obligations placed on Comcast were tough enough and enforceable—so it is unclear if they will be willing to bless another such merger. At the very least, former regulatory officials say there could be significant conditions placed on the combination."
WSJ
"In April 2015, it was reported that the U.S. Department of Justice was preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Comcast and Time Warner in a bid to halt the merger, arguing that the merger would reduce the level of competition in the cable television and broadband internet industries. On April 24, 2015, Comcast officially announced that it had called off the merger."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_purchase_of_Time_War...
Yes, no conflict of interest there at all. He's right, but for the the wrong reasons and motivations.
The point is that everyone knows (or should know) that dark alleys are at least 10x more dangerous than lighted streets, and thus people should have sufficient situational awareness to avoid getting mugged, blah, blah, blah...

Yeah. Uh huh. Exactly.

If I could roll my eyes any harder, they'd fall out the back of my head.
I know better than to check in passwords, thank you very much. Regrettably, some of my colleagues do not.
Time Warner Cable is not part of Time Warner, so they're not consolidating service providers. AT&T just wants some content production companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Time_W...

It seems like sports is the last frontier that's keeping traditional linear TV alive. Nobody wants to stream the game tomorrow; the outcome is already known which makes it unexciting to watch. Time Warner has plenty of exclusive sports deals, which gives AT&T leverage over their competition that also has exclusive sports deals (Comcast is the big one). If anything, this creates some incentive for cross-licensing that didn't exist before, which could in theory be good for end users. (I'll believe it when I see it, though.)

Alternatively, traditional TV still has a lot of money behind it, so it makes sense to keep it alive for as long as possible. If you couldn't buy HBO Now and you like HBO shows, your "only" choice is to buy all the channels you don't watch in order to be able to watch HBO. That would be good for both the cable company, and those other channels nobody wants. If a cable company controls HBO again, I think we can see where this is all headed.

Personally, I don't think AT&T can really afford this acquisition, so it might be the beginning of the end for them. If I were AT&T I would spin off everything that wasn't my spectrum licenses, and have a handful of employees raking in pure profit without having to deal with the pesky business of building infrastructure, producing television, billing customers, etc. Kind of like all the companies that own airplanes and lease them to the airlines, or I suppose DeBeers and diamond mines.
Rendered: https://github.com/stitchfix/Algorithms-Notebooks/blob/maste...

Raw: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stitchfix/Algorithms-Noteb...
Great idea. It is similar to the system we have in the U.S. for property records, but for people.
Blockchain tech could fight voter fraud – and these countries are testing it
Mostly wwiv in California as I remember.
As they are divided into blocks, flipping a bit will make you lose, at most, one block.

What happens if bits in the block header are corrupted? If it can't find the start of the next block, the same thing will happen.

Also, breaking up the data into blocks will decrease compression, since each block starts with a fresh state. It is ultimately a tradeoff between compression ratio and error resistance.
Its designed more for people who do master-based development and do a PR per commit. (But might add a couple commits fixing the PR)
ISP Interconnection and Its Impact on Consumer Internet Performance (2014) [pdf]
"Krampe" and "Flansch" look a lot like crimp and flange to me.

If I've understood "Krampe" correctly, crimp is a better word than staple.
Did I misread something? How is TWC involved?
Depends on what you do. I work in robotics, so probability and linear algebra are the two most indispensable subjects I know. Graph theory might be a little more generally applicable.

At the end of the day, you don't need a lot of math to write CRUD apps. The more math you know, though, the more approaches you'll have to formulate and solve problems.
The public servants didn't have a say yet. And last year they did block Comcast's merger with Time Warner, as well as AT&T's purchase of T-mobile in 2011.
In that sense his strategy is more aligned with private equity, but at the public scale...
Did they mitigate the attack or attack has stopped? I am asking, because update is lacking the details about said mitigation.
Hey I think we agree on long-term viability. I'm just impressed with the sheer chutzpah of the marketing/lobbying effort.

And thanks so much about Utility Dive! Always happy to grab a coffee or a drink with a reader if you happen to find yourself in DC.
To add to that, my high school physics teacher was Austrian and he said that it's easier for him to read physics papers in English than in German. English is very nice for describing abstract concepts, I think that the relative lack of grammar is really liberating.
I hear you. JSX sounds like the wrong thing to me, as well.

(but I'm also working on a long Angular 1 project at my job, so I "may" be biased)

I REALLY like that Angular 1 allows you to simply make a mockup, then add the "programming stuff" behind the scenes. WITHOUT an enormous build chain (I have enough of that on the server side already, and the server is not Node for historical reasons - I'm not sure about node yet, and even if I wanted it, that just won't fly in my group)

I'm not done yet, but I'm doing a presentation on this in December at one of the local user groups: https://github.com/roboprog/ang-prog-enh
> AT&T has reached an agreement to buy TWC. The deal has been neither reviewed nor approved by regulators (yet).

Then let me ask something else.

What is going on with the boards of these two companies? Do they think this will fly? I believe they certainly must.

I assume that the people in charge of these companies are rational and experienced, and that they considered the regulatory hurdles before moving forward with this deal. They must think they can get away with this plan, otherwise why bother with the trouble and expense of setting it up in the first place?
To be fair, "Flansch" sounds a lot like "Flange" which is exactly the same thing in English. I would easily assume it originated in German or they have a common root. The phonetics are spot on in similarity.
Trump also said that he can grab people's private parts without retribution. Unfortunately, that trumps whatever he thinks about ISPs owning content providers.

Maybe his charity wants to buy Time Warner.

(Edit: people are now going around downvoting my other comments because of this one. Good work guys, Emperor Trump has noticed your efforts!)
Cap-weighted funds (like anything tracking the S&P 500) already hold the stocks in comparison to their market cap.

If a stock goes up, they don't need to buy more of it - the value of the shares they hold will increase to exactly the right proportion that they should have.

(There do exist other types of funds which try equally weight the stocks they hold, which means the fund has to rebalance when the stocks change price.)

Typically, cap-weighted funds only have to rebalance when individual members of the fund buy/sell - and they try to make it so people are buying/selling to those within the fund where possible to avoid having to do even that. The result is a very low churn, which is part of why index funds have lower fees.

Usually, the more assets an index fund has under management, the lower an index fund's fees get.
One could look at it another way... the fact that they think that this could even be possible and are willing to go through the motions to reach the agreement speaks volumes about what these giant companies think of the "regulators".
The real impact of the DDoS against Dyn
Handlebars is not valid HTML, so I find it hard to believe it is DOM based. I believe the new version of Glimmer compiles its strings to bytecode.
I spent 28 years on death row
Category theory doesn't make someone a better Java applications developer, which is EXACTLY why they should be learning it
Fine be me :)

[Russian here]
I am a native German speaker, and I do not know "Krampe", "Tülle" or "Flansch" - is it specific to mechanical engineering or specific to a regional German dialect?
"To reach an appropriate sum the Charity Commission proposed asking grief-stricken parents ‘exactly how close were you to your child?’; those found not to have been close to their children would not be compensated."

I have no words for this...

Edit: My god, it just gets worse:

"Mercifully, the proposal was never acted upon. The NCB initially offered £50 before raising it to the "generous offer" of £500. A more substantial sum, it was advised, would have destroyed the working class recipients not used to large amounts of money"
How to make money with free apps? App monetization strategies
Time Warner Cable / Comcast was an infrastructure acquisition. Comcast already has infrastructure.

Time Warner (not Time Warner Cable) / AT&T is a content acquisition. AT&T doesn't really have content.

That is an apples to oranges comparison.
Thanks. I guess it's gotten a little more twisted in my memory over the years.
As Faulkner famously put it: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
They are spoofing Moscow airports coordinates, which suggests it's an anti-drone measure (usually drones have no-fly zones pre-installed in the firmware).
Heh, this hits close to home. My alma mater's international students did the opposite of what you advise. Whether it was lunch, class, or any kind of social activity it was impossible to spot anything but groups of Chinese students from the same area or university.

My roommate was a Chinese international and because we lived together he was sort of forced to come out of his shell. He'd be the first to tell you it helped him a lot!
Good call on crimp / krampe, I was trying to identify the origin by phonetics on that one. Using krampe as a noun for the action of what something does or have happen to it sounds like a German language thing to do.
I thing that if you are the sort of person that really likes design patterns, the sort of applied category-theory that the likes of Erik Meijer, Bartosz Milewski, Rúnar Bjarnason or Gabriel Gonzalez talk about is actually a good next step after the GOF Desing Patterns :-)
> There were in fact several hundred thousand unprotected devices on the Internet making it possible to build a super fast distributed port scanner.

"What're you doing?" "Just going to run this little binary on a few hundred thousand devices that don't belong to me. No big deal."

It is chilling to consider that there are that many devices out there just completely open and ready to accept and binaries just like that - telnet and you're in. It used to be that botnets seemed so.... out of reach. You had to infect a large enough number of Windows machines, and you had to keep them all running without getting caught by anti viruses and whatnot. But this? Who needs to write malware when you have this?
> suffering

I think this is the problem right here. If any kind of suffering results, I think it's very much opt-in suffering, much more so than in other situations. The "victim" almost has to want to suffer to experience it.

Certain people on forums have always written as if they think forums are a "space" where they "go". Or that such a "place" is automatically a "community". Recently, more and more people opine that one can be made to "feel unsafe" in such a "space" when certain unicode strings appear there.

I think this is mistaking of a metaphor for the real thing, that borders on willfully ignorant. I think it's over-dramatic. To me, viewing a web page is much more like opening a magazine or tuning in a radio station. If you read/hear things that offend you, change the channel.

This metaphor-mistaking has got to an extreme on Twitter, in particular, with people claiming they're being victimized because "people can @ me without my consent" and "omg my mentions".

I definitely subscribe to the Tyler the Creator school of thought on this:

https://twitter.com/tylerthecreator/status/28567082226430771...
They are specific tools. A "klempner" would know all these words.
Time Warner Cable is not involved. AT&T is buying Time Warner (the content company) and not TWC.
At our current technological level, we didn't even succeed in building a self-sustaining biosystem when we threw money at it (as a research project): see Biosphere 2.

Self-sustaining community that can economically fund itself is out of reach even here on Earth. And, frankly, 3D printing isn't magic: it won't help that much. Can you 3D-print a glass window that can withstand 1 atm and has anti-UV coating?
Airbnb Faces Tough New Regulations Thanks to Law Passed by New York Governor
Hmmmm.... looks like there was some insider trading.

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
What does this actually mean? Does their UI just fall apart if you force push after squashing in git rebase -i?
> So what's the pain for me, as a user of React? It's just embedded HTML for me. They never go on to explain why.

The build requirement, and all of the tooling and complexity that is required to make that work.
Ask HN: Sources for recreational math for kids?
What are good sources for recreational math for elementary school kids? I have a great collection of recreational math books, but my kids are younger so I prefer video at this stage and challenges that don't require too much knowledge but rather focus on logic, number senses, shapes, spatial cognition and so on.

For example, riddles about finding fake coins using scales seem to work well.
Wow, this is the height of hubris. Of course luck can play a factor. There's no law of the universe that a correlation you observe over the past century of human activity is going to hold indefinitely. Obviously some quant funds have better models than others and it's not wrong to attribute that to intelligence and skill, but they absolutely can have the rug pulled out from under them by changing market conditions make no mistake.
Uusually, crime is prosecuted based on where it happened, not where the perceived victim is located.

If you alter other peoples devices FROM the US, US law applies.
I think I used ZMODEM to pull a core dump off a McData FC switch a couple years ago. Used the core dump to recover the password for the switch.
I'd like to respond with a real example if you don't mind.

We developped a native app that looks pretty much Instagram. It is written in Swift and Java due to reasons you can probably imagine.

React Native became handy when we wanted to add a payment flow that can have native like ux, remote updates (adding new offers, disabling some options due to sudden legal changes etc) and a shared codebase. React Native with Codepush was the perfect choice. It had native like performance, updates without involving app stores and most importantly ability to be maintained by our backend Node.js developers.

Was it worth the add the huge dependancy just for it? Arguably yes. Tooling is good, integrating it took only a day. App size didn't increase a lot. Our backend developers had the chance to use already established in-house utility libraries.

Our design was to implement a React hosting Activity, a Fragmentand and a UIViewController. No issues have yet be faced and it works like a charm (users have no idea those screen are backed a few lines of Coffeescript.
As Buffet puts it - Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.
Ah right, forgot about Tyvek.
Banks of india need to learn the lesson hard way.
How about startups of India ?
How does a crass comment from 11 years ago reflect at all about what he said about a corporate power consolidation at a speech today?
This is a very important distinction. To aid the lazy, the wiki articles JumpCrisscross link state that Time Warner Cable is a spin off from Time Warner in 2009 and they are independent of each other today, despite still sharing part of a name. Therefore, this doesn't really appear to be an actual consolidation.

EDIT: as drieddust notes, it is vertical integration of sorts.
I miss the days of ZModem and YModem.
ZPAQ is a defined standard format which embedds the decompression algorithm for each block as bytecode into the archive.

Is that a Turing-complete bytecode? If so, I envision some interesting applications with regard to procedurally-generated content...
I agree that Upwork is a tough market. I've had friends who've made careers off it, though. You just have to be willing to get in and engage at the bottom before you can climb your way up to legitimate rates. Once you do that, Upwork directs people to your inbox all the time, and you can switch clients at the drop of a hat because every day you get several new solicitations within your price range that show up in your inbox.

I've had bad experiences with Toptal at multiple levels. I don't trust them and I don't think they're worthwhile. I absolutely don't believe they're providing the top 1% of workers, which is what they claim. They use Codility for screening which is an automatic fail imo.

Never heard of Gigster.

As for a network that spontaneously produces new leads, I agree that it's just dependent on the niche and how well-connected your previous clients are. I did get a fair number of clients this way, but the timing didn't always coincide with my schedule. It wasn't a constant stream of new requests every week.

I was mostly focused on local clients, which may also have had something to do with it. It sounds like you're mostly online. Before you got a constant stream of referrals, how did you find your clients? Replying to solicitations on classified or job postings? People coming to you for some pre-existing domain expertise, perhaps exhibited through a blog, social media participation, or an open-source project you've contributed to? Finding people on mailing lists and bug trackers and propositioning them? Just curious how you broke in to this.

The most appealing thing about Upwork is the constant stream of automatically-selected clients. It feels less bad than Toptal to me because there's less direct interference from corporate middlemen ("recruiters") -- I know Toptal provides a rate floor and that 99% of Upwork's clientele is looking to pay wages that are literally illegal in the United States, but Upwork has so much traffic, they can always supply you with someone in your rate bracket (up to like $120/hr, which admittedly is not very high). Don't have to worry about the stars aligning. That kind of thing is comfortable and well worth a reasonable fee (Upwork's fees are unreasonable, but that's neither here nor there for this discussion).
Sorry for the typos. That comment was written with my mobile in a hurry. :(
A direct representation of this can be found in law. Countries start out with simple laws, then as society gets more complex the laws become substantially more complex as well, to the point where tax codes, private and criminal law are no longer wholly comprehensible by any single individual.

It shouldn't be a surprise that societies collapse though, everything has a life-cycle, even stars and the universe as a whole, it would be extremely surprising if something as simple as an organization made up of fragile humans would manage to last longer than say a millennium or so.
When one paints the bike shed hot pink with pea-green accents and puts the bike rack itself on the roof, some discussion of it is to be expected.
JSX has do expressions, which don't exist in JavaScript, so it's a DSL.
Papyrusssssss

(it's, to people with a bit of design experience, just as bad as Comic Sans)
Personally I think the compounds words make German a lot of fun.