skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NX is an API for remote X Window System.

It's rather well known by that name. I would suggest a different name. Perhaps NXF.
U.S DDOS to block Assange cable drop
I'm in complete agreement. I've had long, deep discussions about the implications in Entire History of You. To me, it reaches depths far beyond the other episodes.
Some sites intentionally disable that, however, by setting a short TTL on replies. The idea is usually that it allows them to very quickly adjust to hardware failures or load across datacenters but it has the consequence of making your infrastructure comparatively brittle.
According to a recent UN report to be released in a few months and which I've gotten an advanced copy of, YCombinator is the worst organization in the history of modern civilization.

That was a satirical sentence. Now let's examine your argument as applied directly to this very comment. Why is it in YCombinator's (the organization that runs this forum we're both posting in) interest to "keep up" this comment, which is obviously satirical by being over-the-top.

Because the default is "keeping up."

They would be crazy to remove it, which won't happen. The situation might be different if this were a new account not making a valid, albeit satirical, point. The fact that "YCombinator is not a public service" is not right, because yes, in some ways, Hacker News is a public service in a sense, and so is YouTube.

Maybe not exactly, but it is not highly administered to promote only a single thought.

Note: I want to add the disclaimer that I really actually don't have negative feelings about YCombinator, in case someone misunderstands. I'm literally just making a point by showing that just because they run this service doesn't mean they would remove a comment like this one. You need really, really good reason to remove something. By default things stay up.
Yep same issue in Denver
Great, thanks! The Android team is 2 people currently, so roles in such teams tend to be like roles in much smaller companies, but with a bit more infrastructure and process. I'll pass this around.
There are a few condescending attitudes at play in your comment.

Consider this: just because a language is easy to pick up doesn't mean it attracts "poorly trained devs". It just means it attracts more devs, because it is easier to get into it. Putting aside any value judgement of mass appeal, my experience suggests that the most important differences between a poorly-/un- trained dev and any other kind are time and practice. So, being easy to use is a much more powerful feature for a language / framework / platform than most.

Also, we should all be aspiring to use tools that enable us to quickly spin up a prototype UI that looks convincingly useful. I'm not sure why that's a knock against JS.

Also consider this: the languages / frameworks / platforms before the web, and before JS, were harder to use and relatively very discouraging to new users (this also sometimes goes for the communities associated with those languages / frameworks / platforms).

We all started from a place of ignorance as software developers, and many of us never would have left that place if it weren't for someone looking at us and seeing a computer whiz in the making.
>I think this is just human nature.

Probably, but I suspect we can trace the triumph of NIMBYism to the baby-boom reaching the "get off my lawn" age.

>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).

If the area being "preserved" was limited in some way, then sure. But the reality is that new housing is simply illegal in every positive population growth city in the country. You cannot live in a city as a young person without displacing someone else because we've legislated it that way, and that's insane.
> - Finland (yes, Finland) is increasingly worried about Russia. They violated their air space, and they're questioning Finland's independence. Finland shares a long boarder with Russia.

The Finns actually have still quite good relationship with Russia (better than other neighbors) and nobody's actually questioning Finland's independence. Baltic countries is a different story.

Source: A Finn here.
Damn. So cosmic rays are pretty intense huh?
If you can read Chinese, there's interesting tool:

http://www.pigai.org/guest2016.html

It extracted common phrase from the sentences with explanations & suggestions & count usages from corpus.
I have high hopes currently for Plasma Mobile - https://plasma-mobile.org/
Blockstack: A DNS backed by the blockchain [pdf]
It's like not paying for software support and upgrades. The bugs won't be fixed, but newer ones won't be introduced either.
Yoink's Mac App Store Revenue a Month After Localizing
Don't be a dick. I'm sure their staff has a giant collective migraine right now.
That's not much of a plug. Sure, it's cheaper. Beyond that, why do I want it?
I'd estimate the maximum reliable size of a circle of trust at roughly 1.5 people.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

--Benjamin Franklin
Honestly depends on your use case.

Do you absolutely need a native-feeling mobile app? React Native (and ultimately React) are worth your time and investment.

In Gitlab's case, Vue.js works well for them because their product is web-first and allows them to iterate quickly.

For the most part, I consider React Native separate from React entirely. I consider most startups to either be completely web or completely mobile, and to let questions in the former case be answered by validating and iterating on the product quickly with a web app.
Well, if IBM's PC image is anything like it was in the early 2000's probably > 50% of their PC issues are self inflicted by the IT people who built the image.

From buggy unsigned drivers, to crapware for security/etc, I stabilized my machine by uninstalling a bunch of things that should never have been in the standard image. If you compare the PC vs MAC images at the last couple companies I worked at, you will find that the PC's are far more heavily modified with crapware/bloatware than the macs were. Usually because having checkpoint/norton/whatever was an absolute requirement from a security perspective on the PC's but apparently the MAC's didn't even need disk encryption enabled much less virus scanners...
Seriously, just like the 8.8.8.8 name server. I used to work at a place where the firewall blocked accessing pages by IP though.
Seriously, please someone explain this. I thought DNS info is propagated among DNS servers, and it is cached on all of them... How can an attack to a single DNS company cause this outage??
Airbnb Loses Battle in New York City
How am i meant to see twitter status updates when twitter is down?
Also fun and related: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/

And another paper by Page and Brin: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
<Mr. Brooks is president of the American Enterprise Institute.

So does this mean Mel Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute? I wonder if that is considered comedy or tragedy?
Yes it does, the cert presented by api.othercompany.com would not pass validation when you're trying to open a connection to api.intendedcompany.com.
I've been seriously worried about what will happen to Bright House. I've talked to every tech that's come to my house the past year [0], and they all say that Charter has been very open about how Bright House does things, so I'm keeping hope...

I know techs are not always the most knowledgeable about business direction. But I figure if four people all individually say the same thing, there might be something to it.

[0] I've had quite a few, thanks to cutting through my line while gardening, and a lightning strike through the cable lines.
How did the article turn $47,000 (average for CA) and $72,600 (SF) and $62,000 (Sacramento) or $51,650 (six California cities highlighted in the report) into "$75,000 in added costs from fees and building code requirements"? They say the average fees nationwide are $21,000.

If the average new home price in CA is $621,135, 73% higher than the national average of $358,200, then it seems like the $26,000 difference in average fees represents only ~10% of the $262,935 difference.

It's not insignificant, and it makes a difference at the margin, but it feels like numbers are being thrown around a bit dishonestly.
The Trolly problem is not a synonym for autonomous cars
I'm sorry, which candidate was endorsed by the KKK and other white power groups?

I have no idea where you get your news from but the wild assumptions you're making are absurd.
The way I read it almost all of Europe is in the 1-12 range with the exception of Spain. China is 12 to 17 or 12 to 20 depending on how you read the borders. I would eliminate North America from consideration unless we are talking about aboriginals, since it's a melting pot. (That is to say, it goes without saying that it has more variety.)

But my point is only to say that your statement of "greatly reduced range of .. skin color" is a rather exaggerated statement. (For hair color I suppose you might be right ;)

Hard to say due to the lack of precision in the map in the lighter range, but if you think about how incredibly large China is, it stands to reason that your statement might be missing the mark a bit. Especially if you consider other Asian countries. (Which maybe you should, if comparing with "Europe" or "North America"..)
Give credit to Obama. His FCC head, Wheeler has done a fairly good job of defending the consumer interest.

Investors are already prepping for a Sprint or TMUS acquisition under a Clinton or Trump administration. Expect continued centralization of power...
They also tend to keep trying to push for the exact same policies that created the mess to begin with. That's what I dislike the most.
In what was is human diversity increasing? Broadcast television has been causing the decline of regional accents and increasing cultural homogenization for decades. Many obscure languages are dying out in favor of consolidation at the regional or national level.

In the past, humans were naturally diverse simply because there were so many distinct communities that hardly ever interacted with each other. Nowadays you might be exposed to many times more diversity than the average medieval peasant ever was but there's nothing contradictory about that happening as the total amount of diversity in the world continues to decrease.
It's used to be common for universities to do this, mine still does:

ic.ac.uk.	45665	IN	NS	ns1.ic.ac.uk.
ic.ac.uk.	45665	IN	NS	ns2.ic.ac.uk.
ic.ac.uk.	45665	IN	NS	ns0.ic.ac.uk.
ic.ac.uk.	45665	IN	NS	authdns1.csx.cam.ac.uk.

(and Cambridge use Imperial College as a secondary) but the best-known American universities are on cloud providers now.
Didn't help me, heroku is still unreachable with DNS servers changed to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
> Say Hello to World War III, everybody!

Is this sabre rattling or the prelude to a global conflict? Surely at worst it will (continue to) be a proxy war between NATO and Russia in Syria and nothing more? What motive is there for Russia or NATO to engage in open warfare? I'm not sure that a slow and prolonged lead up to an open war would even be effective in this situation.

Perhaps it should be "Say hello to Cold War v2.2017"?
It's hard to describe just how happy I am to see this! Plus they gave us a free polyfill. f'ing awesome
This deserves its own thread entirely! Awesome.
Nice, this is working well for us too. We were able to get the CNAME of the ELB by doing a `dig whatever.ourdomain.com` in an EC2 instance we launched in São Paulo (which presumably worked since Dyn's outage is primarily affecting their east coast PoPs.)
Sorry for the confusion about saying Google NS is down :-) I meant dig heroku.com @8.8.8.8 does not work (as pointed by some other poster it is because google NS honors TTL but opendns does not)
Yeah. :/

It happened to be at the same time I was getting things configured to connect to a new VPN that I hadn't used before for the first time. Until about 7am today my home network was a 10.0.0.0/8 network. VPN kept bombing in the last phase of connecting and I couldn't figure out why, so I thought it was an IP conflict with my internal network range.

So naturally, I then went into my router and changed my subnet for my entire home network to the more common 192.168.1.0/24 range to see if it'd help. It didn't. Until suddenly VPN "just worked" -- which makes me wonder if I needed to change my network at all to begin with.

Then I started experiencing all sorts of weird issues where the Internet seemed to disappear from one minute until the next.

Then I hit IRC when things finally stabilized and see "Did you hear about Dyn?".

My reaction: wut.

TL;DR: I rearchitected my home network at 7am for no reason.
IIRC most counties let you transfer your prop 13 status to a smaller dwelling. But I think it has to be within the same county.

I'm not sure how accurate that is, it was just something my mom mentioned in passing a while back. She lives in a 4 bedroom in San Jose she bought in the early 70's and has been considering downsizing. However, her property taxes are so low it wouldn't make sense to make the switch to a condo or apartment, as she pays so little in property taxes.

HN likes to blame prop 13 for California's housing problem. But keep in mind that prop 13 was passed because of rapidly increasing property values. Given that, it seems likely that a large portion of California's housing prices have no relation to prop 13.
So it's a matter of cutting costs for Comodo. Thank you.
maybe try this and replace w/ ur sslendpoint?
see if that works?
this works for me.

http://network-tools.com/nslook/Default.asp?domain=iwate-200...
> Nah. Not really Valley Style, lets just fund another AI Moonshot. Because there isn't enough money in AI already.

An AI moonshot if it works would change everything. It would change way more than the Linux kernel ever even dreamed of doing.
Right, you just have to import more fossil fuel. Problem solved.

A desalination plant is a direct trade of energy for fresh water, and isn't our bottomless appetite for energy already making a mess of things?
Copying my post from another subthread: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12763833)

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
They use DynDNS to resolve all their internal services to AWS, so yes they were/are.

None of the toolbelt commands were working for us.
It only works from Mac to Mac though. You cannot do remote desktop from Windows to Mac. That's typical Apple bullshit that will not fly in the enterprise. RDP also comes built into Windows where is you have to buy this from Apple.

Also for anybody suggesting team viewer… Come on that's a ridiculously expensive package that does not even work as well and it's not ubiquitous.
A recent conversation with a co-worker really drove this home: what's crazy to me is how comically short-sighted folks are. We've priced our children out of the towns we raised them in but it doesn't seem to bother anyone.

And we've slapped a huge amount of college debt on their backs, just to be sure.
Touchè! haha
That had to be timed on purpose. Absolutely beautiful.
This is a false flag operation by the Obama administration so they can blame it on Russia. If you notice all of the rhetoric from the democrats blaming Russia with no evidence. Then you understand that Russia has nothing to gain from such an attack, it is crystal clear.
Popular Selfie Stick Kickstarter Copied and Undercut by China in Record Time
I'm sure there were more than one person who liked it, so yes, I suspect it is true to say 'people' rarely regretted it. I know I did, when I joined them on a lark in college.

They were literally a joke (several, actually) at the time. Consumer reports was overflowing with complaints. The only people I knew who didn't regret it were the ones who were cheating.

> They relied on people repeatedly forgetting to opt out, not the blatant subterfuge of modern business models.

I understand that others see things differently, and if you liked them, great for you. But businesses who rely on customers making mistakes about their own best interests are slime, in my view, and in that of many others.
Just like with bridges. Getting certification by a professional engineer is just too much barrier to entry for small construction companies.

Edit: forgot the /s
Sure, whatever helps you justify crucifying a person for their views.
I have no idea if that was what caused this particular incident, but there was a lot of exposed surface on the table in that area making an attackers job that much easier via those vectors. Employee workstation or credential compromise is one of the most common ways internal assets are stolen. When easy to implement measures are not taken like using hardware tokens to gate access... then I am left to suspect if any of the harder things were done.

As for making an ad for my "services". My company does not provide security services and I am not looking for a job in this space. Pretty happy where I am. I gain nothing from posting this but to promote discussion I feel is important for our industry.

I do however participate in a not-for-profit community I have funded mostly out of pocket for the last 15 years for helping teach better system admin and security practices. If you can even find it, and want to call this an ad for that ... uh, sure.
Bill's older brother Brian Doyle-Murray has had a pretty good career, though.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236519
DNS resolves for me now but the page doesn't load.
I think it ended up being canceled, but one of the first projects Fiat started working on when they bought Chrysler was a Dodge Caravan with a Ferarri engine.
Stupid Question:

Why not just deserialize all the source maps ahead of time and just store/retrieve them via cPickle? Wouldn't that get you almost the same results without having to learn and support a second language (Rust, in this case)?

[Edit]

cPickle is slower than JSON, but browsing the interwebs it seems that marshal can be 2X faster than JSON and 4X faster than cPickle.
Is anyone noticing significant delays visiting CNN, ebay, orbitz? It took 15 seconds for the Orbitz page to load (tried from Google Chrome and Safari). It seems like outside of the core group of sites effected (GitHub, Twitter, PayPal), other major websites are having serious delays loading..
Although I don't like to to recommend Google products, they provide a provide a public DNS-over-HTTPS interface that should be useful for people who want to add specific entries into their /etc/hosts files: https://dns.google.com/query?name=github.com&type=A&dnssec=t...
Yeah, this is the useful one. There's no pat HR answer for a lot of questions like:

"I was hired for X money and Y percent equity to do Z but then Z didn't make any money so we transitioned to something else. We were someone successful in that, I got my H1B visa job description transferred over to the new responsibilities, the founder went on strange power trip about redesigning everything so we had to do a fire sale and the Y equity all went away. The new company wants to pay me less than X because of the job description change, what do I do?"

Which, while not an exact story, is the kind of thing that happens in tech a lot. Just so many weird, weird situations.
The new R Graph Gallery
I can't compare Windows and macOS, but I can compare Windows and Linux.

About a year ago my employer forced me to use a Windows machine. Fortunately, I have complete control of it (it's not managed by my employer); unfortunately, that doesn't matter. It's a complete cesspit: updates are horrible; the pre-installed crapware from the manufacturer is horrible; the pre-installed crapware from Microsoft is horrible; the interface is horrible (just trying to navigate around prompts and windows is … miserable). There is literally only one good thing I can say about Windows: the background and lock screen images are really, really nice (awesome, really; just beautiful).

In every other way using it has made my life measurably worse.

Meanwhile, I continue to use Linux on my personal machines. It Just Works™, and really well. It's reliable, fast, easy to use, pleasant to use: every time I log onto my personal Linux machine I breathe a sigh of relief.

Yes, some of that delta is due to greater familiarity with Linux, but a huge amount is due to this simple truth: the Linux interface is better than the modern Windows interface (which is, itself, worse than Windows 7 was). Linux feels like it was built by developers who use what they develop; Windows feels like it was built by a marketing department who use Macs.
EV doesn't necessarily promise "this company owns this domain", does it? I thought it says "the certificate holder is this company" + "the certificate holder controls this domain" (which is the standard DV check).

Which is all I want, anyway. If I'm typing my Bank of America login info, I care that it's being encrypted to a private key in Bank of America's control, and it doesn't really matter if that happens through a DNS name registered to Bank of America or not. It would be weird if it didn't, but it wouldn't inherently impact my security if the key was still BoA's.
Sounds like it's been a LONG time since you looked at ColdFusion - I encourage you to re-visit. A lot has changed since the late 90's...it's a great language, not a nightmare at all.
Yes. Cosmic rays are a significant obstacle to any kind of automated event detection in imagery taken from space, especially outside low Earth orbit.

That streak was a classic CR. Depending on the angle of incidence on the CCD, you can see different shapes.
Probably somewhat. However, "link equity/power" has definitely (in part) been replaced by other ranking signals.
The sale price of the house doesn't matter; it could sell for $100k or $900k, the builder is still out the $50k or more they paid out in fees. Which was most likely passed on to the buyer and I bet the mortgage companies have no complaint.
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the BackConnect kid decided to launch the DDoS:

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/marshal-webb

Edit: Maybe this helps with the downvotes:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lulzsec-takes-revenge-on-alleged...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cincinnati/comments/ibwbz/fbi_hacki...
That would resolve neither python.org nor cpan.org this morning.
I'm always amazed at how many Kindle books you buy have clearly not gone through a simple spell check to catch errors like these.
What are reasonable time frames for a company then? What should we aim for with:

1) Phone Screens

2) Interview responses (moving to next interview?)

3) Final decisions

4) Negotiation/confirmations of receiving a response to an offer
I've used laptops from Dell and HP with pointing sticks in their keyboards. None worked as well as the ThinkPad ones. Apparently, some of IBM's patents on the TrackPoint are still in vogue. I wonder how much of the poor quality of Dell and HP stick points has to do with that.
Google Fi actually allows you to have multiple SIM cards on the same plan, for free. The cards are data only, so it won't work for phone calls, but it would be fine for uploading photos, listening to music, SMS, etc.
I'm sure that carrier is being followed by multiple NATO submarines as well.

It seems incredibly unlikely that a global war would start over Syria when we've had 60 years of proxy conflict instead. Russia or NATO have absolutely nothing to gain from an open military conflict.