skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Afraid that's not the case. Black holes are categorically not dark matter.
you can get a nice "SmartNIC" from Silicom that has a Tile Gx-72 and a Virtex FPGA on-board. I have no idea how much they cost; only that you can't buy just one :(

http://www.silicom-usa.com/pr/server-adapters/programmable-f...
Arent most IOT devices behind a router and thus unexposed directly to the internet (excepting routers)?

This part of these attacks confuses me.
But you're compounding the 2.5% only with itself. If you had reinvested the dividend back into the stock (common), the return is higher than 48.5%.
I wonder why companies affected by these IoT-enabled DDoS attacks don't sue the companies building those devices, as they currently often choose security over convenience when it comes to securing them. If you can forensically prove that a large fraction of the attack was carried out using a given type of device it should be possible to hold the manufacturer liable for the damage, at least if no reasonable measures were taken to secure it (using blank or default passwords on the device could count as gross negligence).

I even kind of wish that somebody would do this, as it would finally provide a strong incentive for the manufacturers to think about security.
JAXA recently brought up a small wheel into the ISS that can be used to simulate varying levels of spin on mice. Research into .4G gravity is particularly important if we're going to be sending people to Mars, but in general if lower levels of gravity keep mice and people happy those'll be easier to generate on future spacecraft.
You don't take trips for less than a month at a time?
Cyber attack: Hackers use everday devices to cause major internet outages
they are shipping criminally negligent software with their products. A future standard should simply require a known, open, secure method for updating firmware to their devices. demanding it be secure from the start is...dangerously naive.
Sure, the current draw per byte of information exchanged is negligible. But I'm curious as to how these millions of cheap, low-power IoT devices can essentially act as transistors in the sense that their requests can prompt more relatively higher current draw elsewhere. Once again, this draw is likely miniscule.

In theory, if every internet connected device in the world could be a part of Mirai, not only would we not be able to use the internet, but wouldn't the majority of datacenters be running at full capacity?
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Is there any info on what volume (how much bandwidth) the DDoS attacks were?
I thought we wanted ISPs to be "dumb" pipes? or did I not get the new position paper memo...

Putting the burden on ISPs is never going to happen. They are in the business of moving bits. While some, unfortunately, do things like traffic shaping, deep packet inspection, and all other sorts of middleboxes -- that is all for economic purposes. There is not nor will ever be an economic incentive for an ISP to filter traffic traversing their network unless it is directly impacting their operations. and when that happens, they take the most direct and effective route: bit bucket it and notify the offender to clean up their house :)
This group at Stanford, collaborates closely with the Takesue group in Japan, who have the scaled version (2000 Node) ising machine in another article in Science:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/10/19/scien...
How to create a Perfect wedding day timeline?
Interesting.

You:
Black Mirror = "stupid"
Star Trek = "shallow soap opera for nerds"

Me:
Black Mirror = genius
Star Trek = (TNG-era) brilliant, formed much of my values and views of the world

I really, honestly would like to study the way you (and people who share your opinion) think vs. the way I (and people who share my opinion) do. The way you argue against Black Mirror / Star Trek suggests some fundamental difference in understanding the world - things that for you are obviously stupid are for me obviously brilliant.

I would be grateful if you could elaborate on what you think was shallow in Black Mirror vs. other shows you saw, and what made you dislike Star Trek. I'm very curious where does that difference in perceiving those shows come from.
Exploiting AMI Aptio Firmware on Example of Intel NUC
It seems like a huge waste of time to create a new language so that people will not do "stupid" things in their templates. The case of PHP is especially amusing. How about using common sense? I mean if a programmer intends to do "dangerous misuses" in the templates, maybe he shouldn't work on it in the first place. Having a person not being able to tell whether something is dangerous or not, working on the project and then creating a template language to forgive the lack of knowledge is just asking for trouble in the long run.
I love those comments about IoT and who should be responsible for error-proof products, or ISP monitoring traffic, or ...

Internet, in the beginning, was even more insecure. Including the computers and OSes. There were less abuse because few had resources and knowledge. Read some old software and you'll find all bad designs in it. Software didn't become worst, it's just targeted with more knowledge and intensity.
Pineal Gland
Stellar – A modular action based Web Framework for Node.js
We don't know why bronze era collapsed

He suggests that not one thing, but a series of disasters one after the other caused it.

The reasons:
Sea People(invaders/raiders)
Famine
Drought
Earth Quake 'Storms'

Since the societies were 'globalized' and reliant on one another, these disasters happening one after another, caused domino effect.
You admit you understand it and it's just a personal preference. Therefore you're not that person.

The stated goal of making templating accessible to programmers isn't to shield people who don't like JS, it's to shield non-programmers who don't understand programming languages. This is the absurdity I'm arguing against.

If it was just about making JS look different, there would be no need to use Vue in the first place.
Do you think the current craze of ICO will end up in a big crash?
Each of the stuff for which we read here people jumping and yelling "visionary!" "revolutionary!" "unforeseen breakthrough!" "brand new plan!" "disruptive improvement!", has been dealt with dozen of times in hundreds of SF novels in the last 80 years, which explored all the possible problems (problems are a more exciting matter for a novel than everything-goes-fine-and-as-planned).

But since for most of those people, SF and anticipation is limited to Star-Wars + a couple of other movies/series and super-hero block-busters, they are not aware, and all these stuff appear as genuinely unprecedented technical and sociological thought breakthrough.
Need a Windows 10 PC in your pocket? Phone-sized Ockel Sirius a might just fit
Fixed Up: A Graphic Novel for real life geeks
Coffee shop charges customers by the minute instead of by the cup
So is it retaliation for cutting Assange's internet, retaliation for threatening Russia with a cyber attack or both?
Watched the first episode while impulsively grabbing the phone to play 2048 game (I do that a lot recently, to pad up the "brain use" to 100%). The episode made me immediately notice and think about what I was doing and why...
Lets make Minecraft mod on Haskell
In a news article, the lede (first 1-3 paragraphs) typically contains the who, what, where, why. The rest of the article is usually interesting background and speculation. This article doesn't even "bury the lede". It contains no who. If you read the whole article and you think about it deeply, you might come to the conclusion that someone is DDOS'ing the people who publicly connect the dots between security researchers and bad actors (on a theoretical level). This is a vendetta apparently, but the word "vendetta" doesn't appear in the story. In other words, the story doesn't deliver the headline.

We could write the lede differently to support the headline. "A major attack is underway targeting another company who publicly drew an association between hackers and security researchers. Dyn, a provider of DNS services, is experiencing a DDOS attack similar to the one experienced by Bruce Schneier.

"The attack occurred coincidentally with a suggestion by Dyn's security director that some hackers and security researchers may be the one and the same. Mr. Schneier also made similar connections before the attack on his servers."

Now, I know what might be going on.
Unfortunately I can't recommend the book. It's a fascinating subject, but ... Much/most of the book is devoted to what various Eastern Mediterranean civilizations were like before the Collapse of the Late Bronze Age. It's useful as an introduction so that you can get some idea of what collapsed, but it shouldn't be most of the book.

The treatment of the collapse itself is fairly shallow. I know the collapse is still mysterious and comparatively little is known about it, but that's why a book like this should be so interesting. Surely there is enough information to fill a comparatively short book like this. The ever mysterious Sea People's are mentioned of course, but other than noting that they weren't just one group and that the Egyptians defeated one group of invaders he says little. There is the usual "they may have been from here, or perhaps there" but it doesn't go into much detail about the different theories. The possible causes of the collapse aren't discussed much either. Basically it says "stuff fell apart and here are some examples". I know that much of this stuff is far from settled but discussing the evidence and arguments for various theories is a good approach. Talking about how new civilizations arose after the collapse would have been interesting too; much more than endless detail about pre-collapse civilizations like the Minoans.
We have already landed the underlying things Serde needs to be better in nightly Rust, and it should be stable soon.

I would love to see such a thing as well; I wonder if we're not quite old enough to have said patterns really gel yet. We'll see if someone comes up with something.
Asteroids near earth or diverted near earth can be economically sound but it's possible that mining nodules on the bottom of the ocean is more economic solution.

If you look at the delta-v map of solar system, everything massive like planets, is not going to be hub or center of extraction of minerals for other places. Mars would sit at the bottom of gravity well and be economical sink.

Deep space mining (robotic or semi automatic) of asteroids can be economically viable, but just few relatively small asteroids would provide Earth or Mars for centuries.

But raw materials are not enough, you would need industry to build all stuff you need and maintain it. If you can't manufacture 3D printer or CNC milling machine by yourself, you need to buy it from Earth. Just being able to make cast iron is not enough, you need high-tech equipment and manufacturing for them to survive.

Making Mars self sustaining circular economy would be massive systems engineering challenge.
Researchers posit way to locally circumvent Second Law of Thermodynamics
The ones where Go outperforms us currently are the ones with heavy SIMD use; explicit SIMD is still unstable in Rust, so you're at the whims of LLVM generating it. We'll get there...
Pardon my ignorance, but why don't companies run their own nameservers?

I get why you don't want to run email - it's highly reputation driven. But as far as I can tell, running nameservers is no harder than running webservers or DB servers. HA is potentially even easier, because the system was designed that way from day zero.

I'm not suggesting I'd run one for my personal website, but twitter and github are already managing distributed networks for this. What are the services Dyn and others provide that are so invaluable?
You should watch in full. It was really nice.

Summary:

* It is assumed that there was no single reason for the "collapse of civilization" (in Aegean, Eastern Mediterrean, Eygpt, and Near East) between ~1200-1000 BC. At the time, it seems there were droughts, famines, earthquakes, invaders, and rebellions; havoc was caused, international trade routes cut, and many cities were destroyed.

* Parallels drawn at end to modern society with exception of the migration and/or invasion of "sea people" (actually people from several areas).

* Eric then at end says that he's not in a position to provide advice for what we should do, but seems to suggest that when history runs its course, it is likely that good things come from the destruction, citing the Alphabet and monotheism as coming after the 1200-1000 BC collapse (end Bronze Age) and fresh growth coming after a large forest fire.

I think the forest fire at the end could have been left out. While I like the optimism he was trying to relay, I think that some could take it is a reason for actively trying to light the powder keg by causing further destabilization in order to bring about a renewal.

Also, the problem with comparing the dark ages then to what would happen today is that they weren't that bad:

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

Trade was not relied on as much as it is now for food, material to build shelter, fuel for transportation, etc.

Many countries today could not become self-sufficient without a great deal of death and disease if trade routes were cut off.

And, our civilization is more at risk because we rely on electronics and electricity. If a large portion of the electronic equipment were rendered unusable by a well-coordinated set of strong EMP's/nukes going off (unlikely), a very large coronal mass ejection (more likely), or cyberattack on the electrical grid (most likely), that would disable our water, food production, hospitals, and heating/cooling. Few have the resources they need to survive or even physical books to teach themselves anything that would be useful (plants in their area that are safe to eat, how to build weapons and hunt, how to find fresh water, remedies for disease using local plants). Many have not made social connections with neighbors.

Note: EMP/CME cannot be mitigated by storing an extra phone or computer in a Faraday cage, even if you were to have a few bikes to generate electricity for it. What are you going to do with it other than use a text editor to store recipes for roasted squirrel and dandelion stew?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3838433/The-D...

http://www.federaltimes.com/articles/emerging-focus-on-cyber...
I remember him from when I used to by computer magazines, but I never knew anything about him beyond what he wrote about computers. I certainly didn't know this:

After graduating, he taught school in Chicago and then at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In 1973, during the occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., by members of the American Indian Movement, Mr. Bunnell delivered food to the protesters.
Curious as well. I didnt see any in the status here nor the original.
Yes, exactly. Angular is difficult to understand. I'll give vue a shot, it seems their documentation is excellent
>Think of it more like a nuclear submarine with a greenhouse full of potatoes attached -

Maybe, but if we want to make Mars economically self sustaining the correct analogy is nuclear submarine that never surfaces and can totally self repair, including building new nuclear reactors and eventually replace all parts in itself.
Unfortunately Person of Interest (made by the same guy who's doing Westworld now) is no longer with us, but if you haven't seen it, I strongly recommend it. Personally, I consider it one of the best shows of the decade, definitely the most sensible portrayal of AI in movie history ever, and also pretty uncanny in a way it hits close to home with most of the surveillance things.
1 minute (though in practical terms that may take a few days), from the moment you registered your address and are able to vote. Everyone else is an outsider.
But Javascript fans often also say the server should only be a REST API, consumed by the client side, and not bound to it. What that means is :

1) It makes no difference at all if is the server is implemented using a different language than the client.

2) You shouldn't share any logic/code between the server and the client, even if they are using the same language.
I've done interviews with a number of companies lately and yes, the experience is just all over the place. The most annoying are the companies which don't do what they advertise - like mentioning on their site they will give you feedback if you ask for it and then never responding to the question. Just don't offer it and it's going to be fine.

Surprisingly though, almost every recruitment company did send a proper rejection email. Internal HR - not so much. On the other hand internal recruitment is much simpler to prepare for. Recruiters often call back mentioning only their company and I have no idea which of the last 10 applications they happened to receive and what the position was about.
Except that there are fundamental differences between bacterial cells and mammalian cells that we can exploit which are extremely unlikely to change.

For example, nearly all antibiotics and antifungals target cell walls - a clear distinction that mammalian cells lack.
I think it's being downvoted because it's not a great strategy to address a distributed denial of service. In a DDOS, you have a high number of attack sources, none of them using a great amount of bandwidth on their own.

The bandwidth use isn't notable until you get pretty close to the destination. Thus, the costs are (mostly) borne by the victim. Basically it doesn't put the pain where it needs to go.
Not sure what the disagreement is, seems logical. The attack knocked out service and presumably attackers recorded the failure threshold and mitigation attempt. Then recalibrated again to confirm/get more data and pushed another high vol attack.
I was more referring to requiring homes be up to code. You're right that individual projects don't really require anything special, more important when building new buildings.
I gutted mine out and put in spray foam before I moved in. Heat bill never tops 150. I realize that most people won't do this though.

You can get insulation put in without doing so. I think it's called retro foam. Also I'm guessing your attic insulation wasn't top notch?
Paysa and Glassdoor should give insight into how your salary compares to what's typical. The reviews on Glassdoor (and Comparably) should give a sense of what it's like at Amazon.
I thought the point also was not to mix the programming language in with the display logic, which was done a lot with PHP in the past, resulting in messy applications.
It's not that hard but DynDNS can offer a much higher performance, reliable and advanced service. They use anycast with a lot more servers than it's practical for each company to manage. They also offer advanced georouting, failover, etc.

In the face of a DDoS I'm not sure a custom nameserver network would do much better than a company who does that for a living. The only advantage is that attacks would have to target individual services (which did happen other times).
The trend has gone the other way though. Companies like Wright, Curtiss, Martin Baker and Vought did complete aircraft but ended up doing subsystems. The aircraft and development projects have grown. The market has matured to a few big players. If you look at the A350 construction videos, you get a little glimpse of the massive investment required just for that part. New technologies like vacuum infused out of autoclave composites might simplify manufacturing a lot though. IIRC Sukhoi Superjet uses them.
Did Dyn mitigate the attack, or did it stop by itself?
The Schneier post in reference: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_le...
Latency, Ops, Cost, specialised features like latency based routing (nearest datacentre to the user making a request).

It comes down to the same reasons as someone using the cloud or a cdn, why spend more running it yourself (staff, equipment etc) instead getting someone who's who job it is to run that specific piece of software to the absolute best of their ability.

It's just not a core competency of almost all companies.
Or maybe it's not about intellectually lazy media-created categories like "hipsters", but more about sincere interest in an artist whose career spans 4+ decades -- far beyond when "hipster" was even a thing in the modern (not the Norman Mailer 50s) sense.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/789574436219449345
> Credit Card Accounts, Store Accounts, Website/Social Media Accounts, just put something free next to it and most Americans are more than happy to give you their life history.

Which is somewhat ironic since the government pays for unlimited access to all that "privately" held data.
I don't think the person/people who wrote these comparisons has much experience working with the frameworks and libraries they are comparing with. The comparison with Polymer sounds very strange to me as a Polymer developer.

They start off saying Polymer is based on web standards, where Vue implements it's own system. They consider this favorable for Vue, because on -some- older browsers Polymer needs a polyfill to work. This makes no sense. The idea is that in modern browsers Polymer leverages the browser implementation of custom elements so it needs to do way less work. They completely ignore the fact that the Vue implementation needs to do work to implement encapsulation on every browser, even modern ones.

One of their points is that Polymer is stuck with plain CSS and JS, which is clearly not true, considering TypeScript and ES6 are the most common JS flavors in the Polymer ecosystem. You can use any CSS and JS framework or preprocessor you want with Polymer, you just have to tweak your build pipeline a bit.

And then at the end they claim 'It is also totally feasible to offer deeper integration between Vue with Web Component specs', except that it hasn't been implemented yet and they are waiting for the spec to mature (even though all major browser vendors have committed to the Web Component v1 spec).

So if something is technically (remotely) possible to do with Vue, it's worth mentioning as an advantage of Vue, but if something doesn't come out of the box with Polymer it's clearly worth mentioning as a negative?

I don't have any experience with the other frameworks in this comparison, but after reading the Polymer snippet I don't believe in the objectivity of any of these comparisons.
It's legal in all Europe I know about.

There is a probation period, during which you can be fired in 24h without reason.

Depending on the jurisdiction, The law might force to wait for the 1st day of employment to cancel the contract.
So you only supported them when they leaked stuff about politicians you don't like?
If one really believes this, I have a very hard time understanding how they can believe dragnet surveillance is an important issue. After all, nobody is really getting hurt, except in the places where they can already get hurt just for chewing gum in public. So why not let the government search everyone's email for signs of terrorism?

Why is privacy super important, one of our most fundamental rights, until some dude with white hair who wrote a bad port scanner decides it doesn't matter?
We use knockout at work but

<p data-bind="if: foo">foo!</p>

quickly turns into

<!-- ko if: foo -->
<p>foo!</p>
<p>
because this also depends on foo and I should
keep it DRY and adding a parent element just
to contain that "if" is silly.
</p>
<!-- /ko -->

Then you start to get comments everywhere and sometimes they don't match and you write server-side helpers to contain them then it becomes a soup of html, your server side templating language and knockout annotations.

JSX is way cleaner.

We are still probably going to migrate to Vue.js though because it will be easier. (We love Knockout but having performance problems on edge cases.)