skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm American, I've been to a decent US university (Northwestern), and trying to get my first job has been an awful experience. I hear "there is so much demand for CS right now," but it honestly seems like employers only want people with professional experience instead of entry-level candidates like me.
There are a few good places in the Twin Cities area. The ones my wife (from Taiwan) and I really like are Little Szechuan, The Tea House Restaurant, Evergreen (but don't order the American Chinese food, obviously), Grand Szechuan (great veg dumplings made in house), and the cafe in United Noodles.
The failing here as in many cases such as a number of security breaches was a lack of investment. As someone with an engineering degree that worked as a VLSI design engineer, good engineering requires * backup systems *. This costs money that people don't want to spend. In some cases such as a startup they might be cash short, but many firms have the money but don't want to spend it ensuring that they have well engineered software that includes backups, up-to-date software and security upgrades, hiring (expensive) highly competent software engineers and consulting firms.

The mistake in this case was relying on one vendor for DNS. Amazon Route 53 would be a good alternate vendor for DNS, for example.
Hmm. If it is indeed the case that elm doesn't cache library downloads, that does seem a bit strange. I can't say that it is though since I don't use it.
There has been some success with things like cochlear and retinal implants. The approach Johnson and Berger appear to be taking doesn't seem so far removed from that.
Meta, meta correction: AT&T owns DIRECTV, not DirecTV.

(Source: SEC Form 15-12B, filed November 9, 2015.)
Your "surplus of engineering work" could easily be explained by:

1. Compensation not rising to match demand

2. Overly-picky employers who would rather a req go unfilled than hire a less-than-perfect candidate

3. A recruitment process that fails to match qualified candidates with this engineering work
Could the US Grow as Fast as China or India?
Would you call that detectable? Eespecially en masse. Perhaps a smart grid could detect these attacks in some way and dynamically adjust power to compromised devices?
I'd take either of those late responses rather than no response at all.
It is if you have a sponsor already.
"It's surprising how broken your entire service was when DNS went down." lol
Prior to the Montgomery G.I. Bill, people lived with their parents until they got married - if they could afford it.
I do follow the same rules, I comply with all fire codes, carry proper insurance coverage and pay 15% hotel tax on every booking.
I've been incredibly inspired by YC and only mean for my criticism to be constructive. But by naming their edtech initiative "Imagine K12", they've already lost.

I care as much about solving education as they do. I think the basis of my argument is factually correct. Just look at the data.

Why not treat education like any other disruptable industry?
Here's saying if you own the whole system you can optimize things to be more efficient than if you have a ton of separation between the people who run the different pieces of the system.

So in the this case maybe AT&T having vertical integration is a good thing.

Personally I haven't seen any positives for consumers from Comcast buying NBC Universal so I don't see how this would benefit consumers either.
Exactly. I can't find a new BMW for $5000. Therefore there is a shortage of BMWs.
I've switched to Fastmail and still have my gmail address. It's just another folder and it get's fetched via IMAP. I also added the mail as an identity, so I can still answer to people with my gmail adress.

So no need to inform everyone, just use your new address when you're asked.
"A guy bootstrapped a company and got rich doing it: the best possible inspiration to future bootstrappers"

Oh no. That's one possible inspiration. Another would be Braintree IPOing or continuing as a company providing an alternative to Paypal's BS I constantly read about while guy continues to make tons of money or get rich. Then he invests in hard problems we're likely to solve where we have the necessary foundation to begin to achieve the stated goals.

Instead, he got rich selling off his good company and now has money to blow on stuff like this. Good for him. Still inspirational with Braintree's early work still something I'm going to cite. Just still worth critiquing for where it went or is going wrong so next bootstrapper considers better alternatives.

Also, realize the irony that you don't like us criticizing what he did with Braintree or where the money is going while Braintree itself owed its success to correct criticism of how successful payment companies were doing things & where their investments were going. He pointed out the problems, showed a better way via his offering, and now we're talking about him instead of them. ;)
Free Space for Work, Christmas or New Year's Party in Gastown Vancouver, BC
WL's Twitter has claimed it was WL supporters. Although no one can really confirm what's going on with them since the Ecuadorian embassy events the other day.
It seems to work for Uber
It might be a stretch to use the information, but the SOA RR does contain an EXPIRE field, defined as "A 32 bit time value that specifies the upper limit on the time interval that can elapse before the zone is no longer authoritative." It's an additional request, but the SOA RR does contain the type of information you are asking for.
The Dyn attack: what non-nerds need to know
Equating what amounts to a temporary sabotage of a non-critical service to an act of war highlights how brittle and conflicted is US cyber-strategy.

Surveillance has for so long gotten all the money and mindshare A stockpile of zero days is considered a good and necessary thing. Back doors in hardware and software are considered clever and useful, and maybe even a workable compromise for domestic surveillance.

Imagine if the domestic surveillance budget had been spent instead on making Linux into an EAL6+ certifiable system and creating open, verifiable designs for chips and firmware for secure hardware platforms.
Great idea! We actually tried the skull style on some pictures before (https://www.instagram.com/p/BLcU-MzBoEe/?taken-by=nightmare_...) and they seem okay. We will try it on buildings and see how it turns out!
Yeah, well, I feel pretty jaded about what has been done to gun owners in NY--they had that SAFE act shoved straight up their asses in the middle of the night. I'm sure NYC residents didn't complain, though--the thing they don't get is that too much government is damaging to all of us and it's not an either/or kind of situation. IT'S ALL BAD.

So cry me a river. I hope they get everything they deserve good and hard. Maybe they'll reconsider this endless meddling in their lives.
Interesting. I thought people went to college to learn, not to work for the school.

Do they get paid to do this sort of stuff too? I know I heard of people working in like the library to help pay down their loans. Just never really thought of colleges owning IP. So just a bit of a surprise to me.
Jimmy Carter tried to simply force the Central Valley farmers to pay water rates they were already legally obligated to pay.

hey decided they'd rather fund Ronald Reagan's candidacy.
GENUI Acquires Mechanical Keyboard Switch Maker CHERRY
It's not just DoD, eset found strong evidence to back the claim [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12764898
Really? Right after he hit Poland? That would have been the smartest move the world could have done and you would have had much less bloodshed than you did. You would have prevented the holocaust prevented the destruction of most of Europe.

But you keep telling yourself that.
There's no way to not come off as snarky here, but you keep saying 'New Yorkers want this' and 'clear to New Yorkers' that. Do you have polls to back this up? Otherwise this rhetoric reads like a quote from a politician or talk radio. My question is, how do you know the majority of people agree with you?
The law only applies to Class A multiple dwellings.

A multiple dwelling "is a dwelling which is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the residence or home of three or more families independently of each other."

A Class A is a multiple dwellings "which is occupied, as a rule, for permanent residence purposes. This class shall include tenements, flat houses, maisonette apartments, apartment houses ..."

A Class B is a multiple dwelling "occupied, as a rule transiently, as the more or less temporary abode of individuals or families who are lodged with or without meals".
Have you heard of F-Droid?

> Cyanogen Mod: This inherits too many of Android's fatal flaws.

For example?
If you sign an invention assignment agreement (IAA) with a university, it will own inventions that fall within the scope of the agreement. Universities typically require employees including faculty, staff, and graduate students to sign these agreements. Even if a university employee doesn't sign an IAA, the university might have "shop rights" or copyright ownership of developments made with university resources or within the scope of employment.

Undergraduate students generally are not employed by the university and are not required to sign IAAs, so they keep the rights to their own inventions. (Though there can be some tricky situations where significant university resources are used.)
And seems very appropriate for the founder of OpenDNS. Pretty authoritative.
The best way to do things with limited cash is to invest research into understanding how certain things are happening then devise solutions to specific problems or mechanisms identified. He might succeed where he does that. As other article indicated, that pre-requisite is often not there enough for stuff to happen. The article indicated another project with that problem was failing to tune of hundreds of millions of dollars while whole field was mostly failing to achieve useful stuff.
This is so much easier to say if you're not a historian. "What if" scenarios are invaluable. You might as well say we should have killed him. Easier said than done!
Yes, because somehow the basic facets of private commerce that worked for centuries are now somehow dangerous and government has to interject itself into everyone's business. Oh yeah, that's the ACTUAL definition of collectivism!
Assuming this refers to the Apollo Lunar Module, landing on the moon was an engineering challenge based on known science, and it still cost an obscene amount of money for questionable benefit.

This is a relatively small sum being spent on a project for which very little of the basic science is in place. It may be his own money he's spending, but everyone else is also free to give their honest opinion that he's throwing it down the drain.
Knowing how glacially software companies merge with each other and how their internal processes basically remain as they were originally, I'm wondering exactly how much actual control the parent companies are exerting on physical operations as opposed to branding and taking a cut of the profits.
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-everywhere-uber-is-bann...
.com.au domains have the same issue. Every contact is:

Visit whois.ausregistry.com.au for Web based WhoIs

I wonder if Comodo had a similar issue there.
Really? Where?
Well, yes, I'm making assumptions and I even highlighted them. Now if you tell me you've seen in person what war does to people and you're calling for round 2 with two superpowers, I don't believe you.

If, on the other hand, you're saying that the Russia situation needs to be solved sooner rather than later, you'll have a hard time finding somebody who disagrees but that shouldn't come at the cost of the entire planet. That's just nihilism.
Oh yes, there's been successes. Thanks for the reminder on those. Johnson and Berger might have a chance if they keep their focus similarly narrow and practical. Personally I hope they succeed as I have brain damage myself. I'm just playing the odds on very ambitious projects that require correctly guessing how the brain works and changing that for the better.
PolymerLabs: polyperf, polydev
I think that just means you should get out more. Human nature and horror literature have little resemblance to each-other.
It's not simply NIMBYism. In NYC and other cities, there are legitimate questions about the preservation of (rapidly dwindling) affordable housing at stake.
Mirai Botnet Linked to Dyn DNS DDoS Attacks
As an applicant there isn't a whole lot you can do if you think a company is discriminatory in some way (either because you're a minority or because you aren't).

As a transgender individual, I've learned to pre-screen the companies I apply to based on whether I think there's a risk the company will discriminate against me (either in the hiring process or after that). Location is the main factor I consider along these lines (no North Carolina employers for me).
Don't know, hence the question. It seems murkier than data vs. infrastructure. The one article I've read so far on the subject doesn't say much [1]. The Cyber Act of War Act of 2016 is apparently working its way through Congress [2].

Does application of the stolen data play a factor? ie considering the OPM breach an act of war if compromised individuals are blackmailed. Would Russia stealing the location data & capabilities of our missile defense system constitute an act of war?

1. http://www.wsj.com/articles/when-does-a-hack-become-an-act-o...
2. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5220...
Hivemapper Flight View – Like Google StreetView for Drone Videos
Oh? I got the same. Well, almost, but the timing and weekdays match.

It was "Er... sorry... the boss changed his mind... he went bonkers... that happens regularly, hem... he's... a lunatic. Sorry."
Hivemapper Flight View uses our mapping pipeline to transform any video into a 3D map of the world. This map combined with knowledge of where the drone was during each frame of the video allows us to seamlessly transition between the 3D map and high-resolution video.

You can learn more here https://blog.hivemapper.com/introducing-hivemapper-flight-vi...

We have mapped almost all of SF just from drone videos, and in the coming weeks will release it and post the really amazing parts of SF into the map gallery.
Would not disconnecting a cable from Russia or installing a firewall be a cheaper solution?
NATO's new position as of July 2016: http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_78170.htm

In July 2016, Allies reaffirmed NATO’s defensive
mandate and recognised cyberspace as a domain of
operations in which NATO must defend itself as
effectively as it does in the air, on land and at sea.

The technical verbiage used is "domain of operations" and "security domain".

This article says that "massive" cyber attacks can lead to invocation of Article 5: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-nato-idUSKCN0Z12NE

http://www.navyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/541-b_...
There's this underlying assumption that people seem to have that they have an absolute right to have absolute control over some piece of land. I'm really confused where that comes from. Was it that way in the past? I suppose, in various places and eras. But far more common was that you had enough power to deter the powerful around you, and you were for all intents and purposes a state. I can understand wanting to be a state, but you don't have a right to be one.
I wouldn't. The signal ratio to noise very likely just isn't there.

Remember, people regularly operate toaster ovens, microwaves, hairdryers, etc on a fluxuating basis, and THOSE tend to consume more like 1200+ Watts for a /single/ device.
They stopped that.

https://www.opendns.com/no-more-ads/
How exactly did you set up this fail over scheme? You run your own instance of bind. And I'm amusing your listing your domains NS records as your own, and another parties (e.g. cloudflare, etc)?
Say I want to implement my own dynamic DNS solution on a VPS somewhere - if I set short TTLs am I causing problems for someone? How short is too short?
That's a good point. If anything, it makes DDOS attacks more effective since you can't easily scale up your bank account :)
There's not an MVP for a superjumbo, but you could start with UAVs, small planes, and start scaling up.

The design challenges (and off-the-shelf parts) for smaller aircraft are more viable.

Alternatively, you could start by building subsystems and expand to full aircraft.
Microsoft has had an active role in taking down botnets.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/03/microsoft-takes-down-doz...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/technology/new-york-passes...

> '“In typical fashion, Albany back-room dealing rewarded a special interest — the price-gouging hotel industry — and ignored the voices of tens of thousands of New Yorkers,” said Josh Meltzer, head of the company’s New York public policy.'

> 'New York City is the company’s largest market in the United States. The city’s hosts generated about $1 billion in revenue last year, and the company took a cut of that amount in fees.'

From this article, AirBnB wasted millions of dollars lobbying to go against the will of the people. Amazing.

The quote is wrong. New Yorkers value their safety. They don't want transients in their buildings. There are children, there are elderly, there are women. Perhaps AirBnB should have hired someone who lives in a NYC apartment. They would have explained the importance of safety to the AirBnB executives.

It seems impossible that executives of AirBnB do not understand that safety in apartment buildings is important. Perhaps their vision is blurred by the fees they make on the $1 billion in annual revenues.
> Physics and Math graduate unemployment rates are virtually zero, and practically all of us work in software.

How many of them are overqualified for what they're doing and would jump if the market were paying more or if there were better opportunities? You can't say much about whether it's an employer's or employee's market merely by citing unemployment %.

> "If you gave us another 100k great engineers we would only hire about 15k of those" - said none of the big 4 ever. They are perpetually hiring and they will absorb any capable engineer who comes their way. You know that. Don't pretend there's a shortage of jobs for qualified software engineers. That's just silly.

Any discussion about a shortage or surplus of jobs/talent is meaningless without specifying compensation. Many companies would gladly take 100K great engineers at a salary of $20K/year. What if the going rate were $1M/year? Would there still be a shortage of engineers? When the bid and ask are far apart, both sides will complain about how hard it is to make a deal.
This comment on the page is insightful:

Anecdote – Erlang designer Armstrong does contract work for formal verification with high-assurance applications. A widget-maker for a large European car manufacturer wanted to ensure their widget was fully compliant with all of the specifications as issued by the overseeing administrative authority (ISO, ANSI, whatever). He and his team of engineers sat down and took 1k +/- .2k pages of written specifications, translated them into invariant properties, and let 'er rip. Of the ~foo bugs they found, ~40% of the bugs were internally inconsistent bugs within the specification. [An average car of model year 2016 has somewhere between 500-800 MCUs within them. Scary prospect…] So, lets say LDAP's RFC has 3 'bugs' in them (a proposition: p in section one, then a proposition: ~p in section 3). Microsoft wants to implement Active Directory to have LDAP compliance to work with Kerberos, Apple devices, etc etc. By definition, this implementation will be buggy. These bugs are of a class which have no fix!

... if you want to read some formal proofs from the software and mathematics worlds, see https://www.isa-afp.org/
So. The article writer's theory is that everyone should be like him.
If that happens (and there are a fair number of pieces that had to fall into place for this attack to work) it puts us back to where it would be if we had no CA. So, do I have absolute confidence? No. But I think the risk is significantly reduced.
> (Mars doesn't really do terminal velocities.)

It depends on many factors, but as an order of magnitude terminal velocity on Mars is about 1000 km/h (speed of sound on Earth at sea level).

https://spaceflightsystems.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/ter...
I didn't realize you developed SaferCPlusPlus or that it was an actual thing. I don't follow C++ anymore past what I see in a few forums. I mistakenly thought you were referring to attempts at standardization of safer stuff that they were calling Safer C++ or something in prior articles. So, you actually learned from projects like Ironclad then tried to do it simpler and better in your own project that you coded up. Great attitude and work!

"And iirc, it used assembly code and platform specific hacks to try to determine if an object was allocated on the stack or not."

My plan was to get some academics with an appreciation for making money to dig into it for non-sense like that, test its mechanisms, clean it up, and put in a concurrent, low-latency scheme for dynamic stuff. Then test it against common compilers and FOSS codebases before marketing it to companies to get some safety in various apps. :)

Of course, I have limited influence in current condition and you have no marketing budget for yours. Progress on Great Change stalls once again. Least you're keeping at your own project that might turn into something later.
Titanic Dinosaurs Trekked Across Antarctica to Reach Australia
Digital Nomad is a bit of a misnomer anyway. Nomad implies continuous travel whilst most people just stay in one place.
I tend to assume that the larger publications use it in the underlying sense of "..as it is so called".
That sound like a third-world country to me.
Their next move would be disconnecting the US.

http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html

What then?
ARPANET is nothing like the monstrosity we have today.
Hi there! We actually have higher-quality versions of these images but didn't want to overwhelm the main page (and users' bandwidth). But we can put the larger images to the sub-pages, thanks for the suggestion!
So you are implying that Obama would have chosen as his counselor the type of guy willing to waste his time with a crackpot astronaut.
Hi sushid,

What I posted is a sanitized copy of the doc with dummy information. Out of respect for the companies, I won't be posting my copy of it.
I would expect this, and I would expect this trend to continue for several years. Almost every Windows server running in a corporate machine room or departmental closet should be an instance in the Azure Cloud.

Microsoft will be delivering extra value by providing the hardware and taking responsibility for running these systems, and will generate recurring revenue for as long as the customer needs what's on those servers. This is a gold mine Microsoft can dig for many years.
Who owns your home?

It's called "zoning" and it's been around for quite a while. You know, those pesky laws that says someone can't just build, say, a giant slag heap directly behind (and towering above) your house with nothing but rusty wire holding it together.

Which laws (a.k.a. zoning laws) you unequivocally agree to abide by when buying a piece of property, in just about any jurisdiction on the planet.
There is no such thing as hate speech in US law.
I described a couple of AIs that do a couple of very specific things well. They probably won't even be able to understand each other. An AI that "is never wrong" is complete science fiction.

General AI is a fascinating thing to imagine, and great fodder for fiction, but it has no basis in science.
So when you other HN'ers make a formulaic "I'm shocked at all the negativity here" post, is it typically with the intention of riding the contrarian karma train to the top of every thread, or do you actually hold these positions?