skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be interested to know if specialised companies exist that invest in these particular scenarios. Good product, decent number of users but without the financial means to face a lawsuit (that has some chance of winning). Essentially a lawyer service who take a chunk of equity if they win.
Maintainer here! We actually have more developed than the tutorial lets on; at Rust Belt Rust next week, we're running a six-hour class, so focus has been on material for that, rather than on writing more book chapters. I hope to get them out afterwards, though.

There's also some open PRs with more functionality too! Basically, check out the kernel repo if you finish the book and want more :)
>> the only way autonomous cars can actually decrease congestion is if ALL the cars on the road are networked and there can be a computer somewhere doing birds-eye planning on the whole fleet. That scenario is many decades away if it happens at all.

Did you know the UW has a big transit lab and actually has the equipment the track cars around the city. Same with SPD.

That future is coming quikcly!
I found a really really stale name server that didn't respect TTLs.
Has "Rich" become the new quasi-racial slur - with studies to show that the Rich are genetically stupid, greedy and now mean.

Does the story really not link to even one "Study"? If the studies exists, are they pier reviewed?

What happened to the Washington post? Didn't they report news at one point?
Not at all the case with IoT. See Bruce Schneier's recent article on the matter, where he makes the case that government regulation is the only feasible remedy at this point, as "The market can't fix this because neither the buyer nor the seller cares." [1].

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/10/security_econ...
WA's current Gov. Jay Inslee's opponent in this fall's election is running a great ad of him sitting in a car, stuck in traffic on what looks like the eastside of Seattle (aka Bellevue), promising that get "gets it" and that he will end gridlock, without offering a single solution.

He is against ST-3.

I chuckle every time it comes on.
watched the first three episodes - still can't sleep (its 4am).
Professors are also thinkers and researchers. Thinkers should be free to explore different positions, without fear of being ostracized for their ideas. Researchers should have some sense of longevity, so that they can undertake grand projects that require years of continuity.

Your third point is not always applicable, in my understanding. At-will employees in New York can be fired for any non-protected reason, or even without cause. Contracts and unions elevate the burden of the employer to justify a termination, but outside of that, it's not easy to fight a wrongful termination without having hard evidence of some kind of implied contract.
The project supports for interaction to smartfox server 2x, 1.1.9 released
My sense is the kind of people who say "eat the rich" actually are rich, they're just cash poor and pretending that's the same as real poor.

In my experience actually poor people want to be rich and would rather they not be eaten when that happens. It's the kids from privileged backgrounds with self-loathing and anger issues who embrace "black bloc" politics most warmly.

I am probably biased coming from mostly urban environments lately.
Have you calculated out the costs for you? Sound Transit floats a misleading "average $169" figure, but for a property owner it is much higher.

Do you want to own a nice car? If you buy a 100k car you are on the hook for $800 extra to Washington's already high vehicle taxes
This just makes me think about AOL/TimeWarner.

So which giant will turn into a failing company? AT&T or Time Warner? I wish Fucked Company was still around. I want to know who people would bet against.
He's trying to get attention so he can get a job somewhere else:

https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu
I have reviewed the code and indeed, it is fairly well written. Definitely a professional coder. Not sure if they would have to have a deep understanding of the firmware though. Busybox is linux based and that's all they needed to know. I also think the problem would be fairly easy to fix albeit, through unconventional channels. If it can be hacked, it can be patched and locked down, probably using the same code that the attacks are based on.
Because you're playing against their money, not other players' (say like in poker).
Because the whole internet would become unusable if DNS lookups cost you a dollar.

In the first place, the requests are being made by owned IoT devices. So making the requests more expensive (in time, bandwidth, or actual money) would just hurt the owners of those devices. The people operating the botnet wouldn't care, they'd just get a larger botnet.
Because it would be a discriminated union.

(Ok I'll get coat)
Five myths about genius
Here's a really interesting interview with the founder of Plover, Mirabai Knight, explaining how she got started and how efficient steno can be. "Steno is so ridiculously more efficient than typing every word out letter by letter that it’s possible to exceed the average qwerty speed in a matter of months, once you’ve got the phonetic system in your muscle memory."
https://geekfeminism.org/2010/10/12/plover-freeing-stenograp...
Another part of the argument is that the security of tenure somewhat offsets the low salaries of academia relative to industry.
Seriously. The people who illegally gave away the government's money should be on the hook for repaying it. Not the people who accepted it legitimately and in good faith.
I would be suspicious of the correlation was really so straight. There are a lot of complicated factors around why one might be nice or not nice and in my experience it hasn't been anywhere near this simple.

As an example, people who had hard lives often become hard themselves, and that may make their conduct worse. People in countries where things are not going well are not exactly super duper nice. People also tend to treat different people differently, so they may be nice to one group and not nice at all to another group. People may especially be not nice to a group if they perceive that group as a threat.

A lot of the definitions here seem rather tailored. Giving large tips is not really the information I'd use to determine whether or not someone was nice, especially since this gets layered on top of social signaling in a specific culture. Generally, things like giving money, donating to charity, etc., may be viewed as shallow level contributions by the rich and they'd rather do something they perceive as more significant, such as lobbying or starting a company.

Some of this reminds me a bit of accusing meat eaters of animal cruelty. Meat eaters didn't invent it, even if they're receptors of the end product. There are some meat eaters that promote animal cruelty directly, though, and there are also systems that promote it, and those should be the subject of scorn.

I'm sure there are empathy gaps because people don't share experiences. But a person is not evil if they simply don't support those less fortunate, or if they don't understand them. That's just an empathy gap, and people are generally quite bad at relating to experiences they don't have in general, in both directions. A person needs to actually be doing bad things to be classified as bad.
Depends on where you are in CA. San Diego will have a different attitude than San Francisco.
It's to prevent card counting.
This is clearly a very bad direction for China in itself. Most people reading this instinctively want a "but", and this is one that I can provide that applies to China and Russia (though Russia is really much freer than China):

Western critiques of China and Russia are directed at the regime, but if the regime collapses, there is no on to criticize, but people still suffer. That is, the Western critique is not fully utilitarian: it criticizes the regime for taking measures to ensure stability, without considering the consequences of the regime losing control.

For reference, about 70 million Chinese died after the collapse of the Qing dynasty (caused in part by Western intervention, by the Opium wars), and Russian life expectancy reduced significantly during the power vacuum between the fall of communism and the rise of Putin.

This gives some background on why both countries support their governments: they want stability and strong central government because they know the alternative.

If Westerners want to adopt a moral and convincing approach to human rights in China and Russia, they need to explain how these things can exist without causing a collapse of law and order that would be worse for the ordinary citizen. This would require reigning in the CIA so that countries could loosen the reigns without fear of a color revolution or Arab spring.
Yeah, the media always passes on opportunities to lionize the rich and powerful. /s
We already do this. Everyone has a credit score. Everyone gets a background check before renting or getting a job. Let's not pretend we don't have a rating for everyone yet...
To be fair, if it was a con

1/2) Hijack identity of someone reputable

3) Create scam device

4) Film a video that looks like a DEFCON speech. Some simple video editing should fix the face. Voice likely doesn't matter. Start speech by saying "oh this talk is not listed, we changed topic last second"

5) Hack blog and post bogus article

6) Profit

TLDR still not likely
Here's the video in question:

https://youtu.be/Jww8pOdPZpM

Chris Cuomo is a lawyer and a Yale graduate, and his father and brother have both been governor of New York.
Neo900 Board-To-Board Connectors vs. The Tombstone Effect
I meant the servers being attacked. The owners of them definitely care.

As for the IoT, the appliances could have their firmware in ROM instead of flash. Then, the malmare would not survive a reboot. Many customers are large scale enough (Microsoft, Google, governments, etc.) that they can demand it of vendors and vendors will deliver. Really, how often do you desire to update the firmware on your hard drive, your USB stick, etc.?

(Another way to do it is to have the write-enable line controlled by a physical switch or jumper.)

The only thing I can figure is everyone has forgotten what ROM is.
It should be terrifying because the government's complete lack of ability to regulate anything has allowed the so-called "internet of things," more accurately called the "internet of corporate things that the user is locked out of," to develop into a national security threat.
It's only a problem if you are relying in it to detect and correct errors. I've got SHA checksums and FEC and ZFS and cascading backups for that, which are deliberately not relying on one code provider not having critical bugs. Also, I may have crypto, and I need error detection and FEC on the outside of that. So it seems like a storm in a teacup really.

I think there is scope in xz to embed some FEC in the archive as a backwards compatible extension. Not such if the decoding scheme could be changed to reduce error cascades etc.
The future: where borrowing is the norm and ownership is luxury
How come the three papers that the author cites as examples of groundbreaking work have 2 citations between them? Is this the norm in computer systems?
I don't mean an actual dollar cost but computing power.

Is there a way to enforce a limit on requests from IoT, or a way to increase costs of running a botnet but not have that cost transfer to the owners of IoT?
I agree those are all problems and people suffer from them. But that doesn't excuse those unfortunate people from dragging others down to their level - ie the Iraqis. Or from killing people. Many criminals ruin other people's lives because they're desperate too - they also have no education or income. But we still lock up criminals even when we understand what drives them to do it. We want to make poor people's lives good enough that robbing others isn't the best option they have but at the same time, we don't excuse them for their crimes. Yet with soldiers, most people do excuse them.
"I interpret as .. doing things that might piss off people on the committee."

Sounds like obedience to me.

There's a great HBO tv show, "The Wire". It's all about how an institution can consume personalities of those who belong to it. I'm pretty sure tenure is the same way. I see this happening to people who work in corporations for a long time. Their personalities change as they become the sort of person who can succeed in such environments.

That being said, I suspect standout researchers get tenure and get to be themselves, just as talented people can succeed in corporations and still be themselves.

They are generally the exception rather than the norm, however.
Bytes are bytes are bytes, http/2 or no. It's far less intensive to polyfill what features I actually am using than sending down all of jQuery, and that can still be minified, gzipped, cached, delivered via CDN, and cache-controlled and/or placed in the application cache via service workers (where available).

But I can understand that it's less about the user experience and more about the developer experience nowadays.
"The Russians™"
There seems to be a glaring problem in statistics in general that large scale statistics may completely hide small group effects. I.e., if there is something that really benefits from X for 5%, but doesn't benefit from X for 95%, statistics will make it look like it doesn't benefit anybody. Yet that 5% group may absolutely be relevant. This always sits in the back of my head when I read things like: "Children are not influenced by their parents but by their peers", or "twin study proves this".

But I haven't seen this discussed much or brought up, even though it sounds a lot like what you're saying. Is this relevant? Is there a name for this? Is there some reason as to why I shouldn't worry about this that I'm missing?
It's a real shame if self-driving cars (which, right now, are vaporware) are having an Osborne effect [1] that stifles willingness to spend money on solutions like rail that are known to work.

I think there's a very real possibility that people like rayiner are correct and self-driving cars are 50 years off. Of course, I hope that's wrong and that self-driving cars get here sooner, and I think companies like Uber are doing the right thing by heavily developing the idea. But is it wise to assume that self-driving cars will arrive soon and live up to expectations instead of ensuring that we have scalable infrastructure regardless?

(For what it's worth, I rode Sound Transit last month when I was in Seattle and was very pleased with the service.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
> Citation needed (especially that they do it for everyone).

1. We know that they can. If you were designing a mass survaillance system, you would store all incoming information into unique bins now, then later select on the bins of interest.

2. Three years ago I asked an ex-govt employee who would know. When I got to that exact question, he got visibly upset and abruptly ended the conversation.
But does being "easy to pick up" intrinsically mean things are left to the user's imagination? Can't we make something that is standardized AND easy to learn?
So, I probably don't have a magic bullet argument that will win you over completely. Taxes suck and infrastructure is expensive; there's ultimately no way around that. Here is what I would offer you in the way of persuasion:

- Don't forget that ST2 is still in progress and some of the projects (like the Seattle-Bellevue light rail) and their benefits are coming online within the next decade. Not all the ST3 projects will take the full forty years too - the proposed Redmond and Federal Way extensions could be completed within the decade as well.

- ST3 does include several new BRT routes which will start up more quickly and ease congestion on the 405.

- Congestion imposes hidden costs, especially once it gets to the levels of really bad cities like LA or DC, and we're moving in that direction. People have more economic opportunity when they can reach more of the surrounding area quickly, and better accommodate the population growth that's coming (new employees at, say, Amazon, won't have to all live downtown like they pretty much all do now).

- The problems exist now (I mentioned above that commute times have doubled in 5 years. That's an official statistic from somewhere or other but it pretty much tallies with my personal experience, and it's only going up from here) and the alternative proposals are not convincing.
Stability and strong central government are on opposite sides.
really? all rich people are jerks?

Any article claiming all $x are (not nice|$y) will be marked as classist|sexist|racist.

Let's talk about double-standards.
East coast here, it was a real big deal. Everything from streaming services to Okta/office365 logins were broken. All kinds of seemingly unrelated services were totally inaccessible for most of the work day, essentially draining productivity from the economy. Something bigger than this could shut down most of the economy considering most things use the Internet as a crucial infrastructure.
Content is king and now the telcos are likely fighting content rates renegotiations by acquiring content companies like TW. US cable subscription business was nearly 92 million households a few years ago. Now that Netflix has crossed more than half of that and they are competing with original content, the telcos have something to worry about. Comcast can do the same with NBCUniversal, the other telcos are left with low negotiation power come channel distribution deal time. The big BIG aspect of this deal is the number of top consumer-demanded channels run by Turner. ESPN (non-Turner) is the most expensive, but then TBS, TNT, and CNN, and Cartoon Network are near the top on the price list for cable distributors. In some plans they define upper-level subscription tiers. This acquisition seems good for competition - Comcast and AT&T would be less inclined to limit access to cable channels to their subscribers only if the other party has something they want.
I.e. nothing near what China is doing.
I have Rpis controlling my various plant-grow-lamps around the house; the relays they switch are set to fail-open so if they fall over I can go back to manual control; so you probably assume correctly. Now if the relays themselves get sad I'd probably be in for a bad time but fixing that seems like a reduction problem? (I speak as someone clueless about actual EE beyond treating it like legos)
That would require distributing the art assets without a license.
The difference here is that the recent few years of explosion from Amazon and other tech companies has created a massive problem for distance commuters. This type of transit will be used without a doubt.
> I can't believe the manufacturer agreed to send them the device!

The way I understood the article, the manufacturer assumed the guy was a normal "legitimate" customer. They did not expect the guy to do a teardown of the device and write an exposé.
Sure, the base is just https://github.com/joextodd/chirp.io/blob/master/chirp.py, nothing too fancy...
A manual shoe? I've never seen one of those in a while I guess some casino use them. Shufflemaster (Scientific Games) makes the One2Six shuffler that's common and it weighs about 30 pounds the bigger model iDeal has a camera to read the cards and it records each one in the order it's ejected.

I have to laugh at all the card manipulation half the time the cards warp and bend due to humidity so they are replaced often.

Dealers have so many eyes and cameras on them I can't see anyone trying this unless they were desperate.
He obviously pissed off his department, and so they voted with an aim to punishing him. He's a fool not to appeal it, though. If he appeals then the decision will be made by people outside of his department who won't have the same emotional stakes in the decision. Rage quit after you win your appeal, if you must!

$3,000,000 in funding, most of it still active is astonishing (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu/proposals/), and his DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Challen:Geoffrey) is pretty awesome (note: he's in DBLP as Geoffrey Challen, Geoffrey Werner Challen, and Geoffrey Werner-Allen).

But he DID keep his dog in his lab, against university policy: https://web.archive.org/web/20151002100639/http://www.buffal...

I hope he changes his mind about not appealing. The grass ain't greener anywhere else. All university departments are filled with miserable gossips.
2. Wasn't a meaningful encounter.
My favorite aspect of this episode is that the main character's drastic decline in quality and ease of life that coincided with her declining rating are the exact same experiences someone with poor credit or a rap sheet would experience right this second. The rating systems, lists and records we use as a metric for access and worth are draconian as it is. Crowd sourcing it just makes it glaringly obvious with a tight feedback loop.
That was a dispute over the name; rather than fight it they changed the project name to Stratagus[0] and released Wargus[1].

0: https://launchpad.net/stratagus

1: https://launchpad.net/wargus
Google and the Perfect Team
This looks interesting. I don't know enough about networking to make an informed comment. It looks like a distributed, self-healing alternative to DNS. But it seems like it would run into the same problem that most P2P systems have, right? If enough malicious nodes hop on the network, wouldn't they be able to direct traffic wherever they wanted?
> employees in most (every?) jurisdiction are protected by laws that mean they can't be fired without just cause.

The United States is not one of those jurisdictions. Employees can be fired for any reason other than certain protected reasons (race, etc.) One can literally be fired for supporting the wrong political candidate, for example.
If the rigged cards ever make it into a deck (of the multiple decks used) it won't match what the shuffler has set in software it will be rejected.

There is a list of manufacturers and all are different almost like money from different countries we have a PDF of card types we program into the shufflers. We're lucky if we get it working well with genuine cards lol

edit: cards not cars
If there's a ROM with non-editable software it will just get instantly compromised as soon as it comes back up. For your standard "internet of things" device there is no room, physically or in the bill of materials, for things like connectors for people to physically deliver updates.
I do too. Quite possibly the most vapid ad I've seen on actual traffic solutions, all the while opposing the best measure he could possibly support to mitigate the coming traffic disaster that accompanies growth.
What happens when you can't update the IoT device then, reboot may remove the attacker but the IP will be the same (and even if it changes, probably wouldn't be long before the next address is scanned and put back into being a zombie) and they would be right back in if you can't update and patch the flaw that let them in.

I think in all honesty the regulation sounds best, requiring the router makers to disable features such as UPNP would prevent massive attacks like these.
Yeah, I'm sure departments are just dying to hire someone who will bite them like this if they don't make him happy.