skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current plan is to get to enough features and go to Steam Greenlight, and start selling with early access. It will be the standalone version for Windows and Mac that is sold.

After that I will release a premium version of the Flash release and get revenue from that.
This is exactly the sort of implementation I was imagining.

By participating, you would be caching content for other users.
When your service literally says it exists to help provide uptime, redundancy makes sense.
Thanks, account created 9 minutes ago.
Because when coming from the Google search result, it isn't paywalled. Hence why there's the "web" link on stories.
Yup, sounds like you're squarely in a dev culture war which is usually a bit above my pay grade. Hopefully you can find a way to bring them around since it seems you have somewhat of a consensus.

Unfortunately the times I've seen that it was usually only solved by splitting the teams onto other projects or the minority leaving the company.
Engineering Cultural Values  Ladders
> Which should make those people think about their position, rather than post it here anonymously.

Isn't that the truth! I can see people with honest, good faith questions that they're not ready to be public about, but my impression is that is significantly in the minority.

And it does seem like better quality
discussion comes from identifiable users.

Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks! OS is the bomb
I know!

Each machine could have a file listing all other hosts. We could put it in the /etc directory.

/etc/hosts

That would totally fix the DNS problem. But I think we should wait till Flag Day (June 14, 2017) to make the change.
And playstation network. I can't play online and it's Friday :(
Ahh interesting, so it's a case of the cure being worse than the disease -- spammers know how to use OCR too and they don't care about transcription errors.

So it seems like there's little point in deliberately obscuring the email address in an image, and certainly no reason to do it with a font that doesn't more clearly distinguish between letters and numbers.
Maybe Trump is just like every other entrepreneur that has a trail of wreckage behind them, but when running for President there's different standards and the tradition has been, virtually without exception, that you release your taxes and a doctor's assessment of your health.

"Collapsing on a warm day" from pneumonia? Seriously? You've got some issues if you're busting on someone for making every effort to show up to an event relating to September 11th.

Speaking of purging email servers: http://www.salon.com/2015/03/12/the_george_w_bush_email_scan...

Trump is a train-wreck in progress. If you're tied to that wagon you're in for some disappointment, win or lose.
Quick question for you all. Just two days ago I registered two domain names at dynu (not dyn). Early this morning I a cold call from a company in India who knew the domain names and my phone number and was calling to ask if I wanted them to help me manage my website cheaply. Also, this morning I got a spam text from someone who claimed to by godaddy offering the same thing. Now I protect my number really well so this is the first time in 5+ years that I ever got spam texts or calls to my number. Do you think Dynu was also hacked?! Or maybe Dynu sells client numbers (which is how the guy in India claimed to get my number) and it was just by random chance that this happened at the same time as the Dyn hack.
So at what point does private companies like this facilitate the role of a governing body? That should be a driving force, unless you think decree by capital is ok - in which place we need to draft up a new constitution.
8 is misleading. There are actually hundreds of servers in distinct locations sharing the same anycast-routed IP address.
> that doesnt mean i dont use email. email for me functions as a 1)compatibility layer between otherwise isolated systems 2) old school notification tray

So you don't actually use email as a communication system, in case you misunderstood my meaning. I'd be interested to see whether this is generally true for people who argue that they don't need to worry about what's in their inbox.
Other people will always affect you. That doesn't give you the right to govern them.
What does your formula say the S&P 500 is worth compared to how much it's trading for?
You can also trick practically every other CA using the same techniques.
> user who knows their way around a Windows machine

Perhaps, but that's just the best case situation. I know my way around Linux, and that's cheaper than Windows on the individual level, and far far far cheaper than Windows on the enterprise level. All it takes is users that know their way around Linux, right?

The real determinant though will be the cost averaged out over skill levels and prevalence of skill levels.
excellent. my dream of having corporations whose influence and power exceeds that of state actors is finally materializing.

no one knows how to better treat human beings than faceless corporations with a fiduciary responsibility to faceless shareholders.
Pretty slow compared to the real thing. The NX website is also down :(
The self referential nature of this comment is pretty funny.
The legislation allows you to rent a spare room in your house. What it disallows is having an apartment you rent out in full on AirBnB, either doing that exclusively as an income source or yourself staying elsewhere whenever you are renting it out.

Put in that context, the legislation seems pretty well-aimed at its goal of creating more affordable housing in the city.

If you are renting an entire apartment out on AirBnB full time, you are deciding to run an unregulated hotel rather than rent a traditional long-term lease. The city doesn't like that.
I think the major problem of this election is deciding on what the truth is but since everything can be rewritten, links broken, and data lost there is too much noise to get a clear signal. We need a trust/identity protocol that allows us to take history in account I wrote a draft of a whitepaper on a possible way to implement this with blockchains and cross-signing
https://hashd.in/hashd-in-draft0/
It's an online game editor to make RPG video games. http://rpgplayground.com already has an early version of the product.
This was one I hadn't thought of, and makes a lot of sense. Thanks, sharemywin and patmcguire.
Incompact3d: a high-order flow solver for academic research
Looks like Pagerduty just dumped Dyn:

pagerduty.com:

Name Server: NS-219.AWSDNS-27.COM
Name Server: NS-1198.AWSDNS-21.ORG
Name Server: NS-1569.AWSDNS-04.CO.UK
Name Server: NS-739.AWSDNS-28.NET

Pagerduty annoucement: "If you are having issues reaching any pagerduty.com address please flush your DNS cache to resolve the issue."
No, the land does not "belong to the wider population". Why would you think that?
(Transitive) Dependency Hell Pt2: How it could have been avoided
Ah so make everything redundant. Double my costs in man hours and in monetary cost. Brilliant!

The sarcasm is curious. It's a business decision. Either your revenue is high enough that the monetary loss from a several-hour intra-day outage is potentially worse than the cost of said redundancy, or you don't care enough to invest in that direction (it's expensive).

Making things redundant is exactly a core piece of what infrastructure engineering is. I guess with the world of VPSes and cloud services, that aspect is being forgotten? And yes, redundancy / uptime costs money!
Open DNS for when DNS outages occur
Yuppies were the children of hippies who rebelled against their parents by embracing conservatism, so it wouldn't be without precedent. How do you counter the counterculture when it wins and just becomes culture?
Their initial certification as a CA was contingent on disallowing IDNs, probably because they weren't yet fully prepared to recognize potential misuse of IDNs (like homoglyph attacks).
Windows 10 is effectively now the same as MacOS, but with rolling updates: http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-10-last-version-windows-...
We all need to literally grow up.

We need to stop calling naked female breasts "porn".

For the simple reason that, well ... they're fucking not.

How the fuck can the naked humam body be offensive. Since it's a purely historico-religious ideology, it equates to "God made a mistake".

What nonsense.
Can access Twitter just fine from the UK. Playstation network is down though.
Apple copying Samsung again…?
Excellent list, here's one you may not know about which locally hosts 3rd party libraries (such as jQuery) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes... to plug that hole while restoring some enhanced functionality. This alone got me back on Firefox.
> There is literally only one good thing I can say about Windows: the background and lock screen images are really, really nice

You can have that in Linux too[1]. You can configure it to pull fresh images from your favourite sources, including Bing.

[1] https://vrty.org/ seems to be down at the moment
I forgot about the security feature by GitHub: oauth_authorization.destroy – Personal access token (API) deleted automatically (found in a public repository)
So grandpa goes to Home Depot, buys a fancy new thermostat and installs it at his home, the device gets hijacked by the archetypal 400 lb hacker, and is used to take down a major commercial site, and then grandpa is liable for the whole thing?

I don't think so.

You make a little gizmo with shitty security, you are liable. Full stop.
I'd expect HTTP, DNS based or email to {hostmaster,postmaster,etc.}@domain validation to be more common than validation based on WHOIS data. There are probably very few domains for who only the WHOIS based validation is doable.
This comment says literally nothing.
There'd be something ironic about a manufacturer's website being made unavailable because of a DDoS caused by their own poorly secured devices.
I sometimes wonder if why it is generally held that marketing sucks and advertisements are evil because they're so random, badly targeted and thus crappy.

I basically wouldn't mind seeing advertisements if they were relevant and spot on. And that probably hasn't been possible until all that big data is cross-indexed with user identities.

It may be that ads are considered bad because good ads happen once in a thousand.
What I would say however is that some of those issue you mention are more about how organisations typically manage Windows systems than they are about Windows itself.

Active Directory is a good example, there's no necessity to add a windows system to an Active Directory, and if a company is going down a less centrally controlled model, which includes things like MacOS systems, it would make sense to not force the Windows boxes to log in to AD.

Personally, I've run Windows/MacOS and Linux for a reasonable number of years and I wouldn't say that one was necessarily vastly more stable that the others (assuming current software)

What I do see is that a lot of "traditional corporate" systems get loaded down with additional layers of software which can cause issues, remove that and I think you have a less crashy experience, regardless of the underlying OS.
It's still a work in progress. If you have any immediate issues please contact us at support@pagerduty.com or (844) 700-3889.
Kalium, I really appreciate your responses.

If my adversary can steal an IP from Facebook, create a valid certificate for facebook.com, and provide bogus DNS resolution for facebook.com, I feel it's game over for me. My home network is forfeit to such an adversary.

But I get your point. It's about layering on mitigating factors. The lower the TTL, the lower the exposure. Still, my current calculus is that the risk of being attacked by such an adversary is fairly low (well, I sure hope so), and I would personally like to configure my local caching resolver to hold onto last-known-good resolutions for a while.

All that said, I have to hand it to you and others like you, those whom keep the needle balanced between security and convenience.
A Visit to the CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art Collection
Trump and Russia's largest private bank communicate via hidden server
You might want to take this up with that "rdtsc" guy who wrote "As someone else pointed out this is a classic false flag operation." He seems to disagree with you on those points.
Running multiple DNS providers is not actually that difficult and certainly not cost prohibitive. I am sure after this, we will see lots of companies adding multiple DNS providers and switching to AWS Route53 (which has always been solid for me).
Telling you what you wanted to know wasn't an invitation to argue with me. I am the OP to whom you refer. I didn't mix the dates; you misread the antecedent to which "release date" referred and, in an effort to treat your response in good faith, I issued a mea culpa I then edited out when I realized that I had had it straight in the first place.
So it would sound like the answer is to improve the IT practices in use, rather than necessarily blame the underlying OS...
Per his LinkedIn[0] he started college at age 16. He's 23 now. The fact that he started college 2 years early, seven years ago, made him decide to DDoS a huge DNS provider? That's quite a leap...

[0] - https://www.linkedin.com/in/webbmt
It's easy to fix; back in the day when a machine was infected; an ISP would just block outgoing traffic, contact line owner and re-enable when the issue is resolved.
Basics list:

http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/

To add a few of my own that aren't mentioned here which are more in the vein of what you're really looking for (disclaimer: I have not read most of these all the way through, some at all.)

Compilers: The Dragon Book, the dragon book is usually criticized for being outdated so try and find another compilers book if you want, what you're looking for here is switching your mindset from 'I will try to hack up a compiler.' like the other comments here seem to be recommending, which will never work, to going 'this is a complicated piece of software it wouldn't be intuitive to me how to build, is there a theory behind it?'. Quite often the answer is yes.

Operating Systems: The dinosaur book.

Databases: At the University Of Washington I was told to read Database Systems by Garcia-Molina: https://www.amazon.com/Database-Systems-Complete-Book-2nd/dp...

To talk a little bit more about what recommends this approach over other ones:

The other comments seem to be recommending a mindset that your first step to trying to understand these complex systems is to implement them from scratch with your own naive view of the problem. This is at best a good beginners exercise to teach you the value of humility and learning from the work of others, or perhaps to get some practical experience in why the problem is hard. In general, you are never going to be able to have one of these systems spring forth from your brow on its own strength, unless you are a genius beyond genius who can in days or weeks replicate the hard work of years of study by some of the smartest people in your field.
Doesn't that just redirect you to Google's search results (encrypted.google.com), and thus makes the point of using DuckDuckGo in the first place unnecessary?
Ah interesting, that does level the playing field there I suppose.
It's highly improbable that a Ku Klux Klan leader endorsed Hillary Clinton for president and/or donated $20,000 to her campaign.

http://www.snopes.com/kkk-endorses-hillary-clinton/
GitHub experiencing DNS resolution issues
i dont sort any of my communication, on any platform, into hierarchical absolute folders. i search.

if i did hold conversations directly through email<>email, that would not change my lack of folders. i could see using gmail tags more aggressively.

the closest thing i have to folders are saved, predefined search queries based on parameters and conditions. the contents of those sort automatically based on metadata, some of which i apply by hand.
How embarrassing. Zuckerberg should clean house.
Pretending that home equity is like a bank account is just silly.

They're wealthy, but can only access that wealth by moving somewhere else (probably out of state), becoming homeless, or taking on potentially risky bets like a reverse mortgage.
Seeing it's an HP makes me immediately skeptical. The only thing that you can rely on with that brand is that it will be built with low quality plastic, and it lives up to it's initials: HP- Heating Problems.

With all of that 360 action, I wouldn't be surprised that many users will find the hinges are just going to break because of the plastic.
How do you prevent man-in-the-middle attacks without the CA?
The tone of Airbnb's response to this law really reveal their true colors.
Arctic Cities Crumble as Climate Change Thaws Permafrost
Dyn is still one of the biggest and hardest to hit providers, so I'd be surprised if they're broadly abandoned. Redundant providers are pretty much the only fix available to users, but it's still sensible to be redundant via the the best providers out there, and that still means Dyn.
Next step is to fine freelance / self-employed workers. How dare you work on your own? You are hurting yourself and others!
It’s Not Me, It’s You – Getting the 411 on Website Outages
It's 185 kg vs 899 kg. I am already a bit surprised that it worked to land Spirit and Opportunity, but the lower gravity probably helps.
“Cities will tell you that from a property tax perspective, housing is a loser,” says David Cogdill, president of the [California Building Industry Association].

I was trying to make this point a few weeks ago here on HN, in a discussion on Prop. 13, and got pushback. I take this quote as evidence that it's common knowledge among people in the housing industry. Prop. 13 disincentivizes cities from adding housing.

Prop. 13 needs to be fixed. The way it should have been done is this: in a year in which property values increase by more than 2%, instead of limiting the tax to 2% more than the previous year's, we limit the payment due to 2% more than last year's payment due. The locality receives a lien on the difference, but that lien does not become due until the property is sold.

So in an area in which property values have been rapidly rising, a homeowner who sells their property will have to share their windfall to some extent with the locality. But those on fixed incomes are still protected: their annual tax payments don't increase any faster than they would today.

Common objections:

"People will take out home equity loans that will have to be repaid at sale, leaving them with a cash loss."

A property tax lien is a public record. Banks will take the liens into consideration when deciding how large a loan to offer. This is standard practice already.

"The liens will accumulate to the point that they will be greater than the owner's gain on the property, giving them a strong disincentive to sell."

No, this wouldn't happen, because the lien is only on 1% of the excess gain (the amount the value increased over 2%). If, for one example, the value jumped in the first year and then went flat, the payment would continue to grow at 2% annually until it caught up to the value. The only scenario that generates a lien larger than the owner's gain is if the market has been up but then drops sharply just before the owner wants to sell -- in short, if there was a bubble. Well, bubbles produce lots of dislocation; I don't think they make for a good argument against this proposal.

"Prop. 13 will never be modified."

Well, it certainly won't if no better alternative is put forth!
It works OK as long as you're connecting to the correct one the first time, I suppose. But yeah, I agree.
Yes, and there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
I've got a hybrid method that works pretty well for me. May not be for everyone. I have:

L1 cache - stuff on my desk that needs to be paid or read in the next 30 days.

L2 cache - Bills that have been paid and docs that have been read, but things that might need to be referenced in the next year - in a banker's box next to my desk, completely unfiled. Just drop them in when paid/read.

RAM - At the end of the year, file the stuff in the banker's box into a small set of folders in a file cabinet or drawer.

Disk - At the end of the year, move last year's files into a banker's box and put it in the basement/garage/storage.

Also at the end of the year, take the box that's 7 years old to the professional shredder's place and destroy it.

I do have email folders for mailing lists. I find that if I don't, then searching brings up too many hits, and if I can narrow the search to a particular list, that will reduce the number of false positives. I have a rule per mailing list, so it's very easy to maintain.
I have a shop on etsy. It is functional now.
Github just added AWS DNS:

github.com:

Name Server: ns2.p16.dynect.net
Name Server: ns-1283.awsdns-32.org.
Name Server: ns-1707.awsdns-21.co.uk.
Name Server: ns-421.awsdns-52.com.
Name Server: ns1.p16.dynect.net
Name Server: ns4.p16.dynect.net
Name Server: ns3.p16.dynect.net
Name Server: ns-520.awsdns-01.net.
Over the years developers were building more advanced applications, and that vision has changed, as more "traditional" features have made it into the language (Hibernate, closures, etc) and once lauded features have more or less fallen to the way-side (for instance form and database tag abstractions like cfform and cfupdate, custom tags, etc)
Need to get in to dyn.com to download your zone files add this to your hosts file:
204.13.248.106 www.dyn.com
204.13.248.106 dyn.com
216.146.41.66 manage.dynect.net
151.101.33.7 static.dyn.com
I have a shop on etsy, and it is functional now.
Dyn was supposed to be distributed too.

The takeaway here should be to use multiple authoritative DNS providers, not a single (even if better) one.
I work as a freelancer and today I didn't get paid and that's just me. Companies probably lost millions today. By just one DDoS to one DNS provider.

Yeah it's not the whole Internet, but how do you define "taking down the Internet" anyway. Is it every connected computer or just a huge amount of interconnected big websites? Because the latter is happening right now.
West Coast now under web attack as East Coast recovers
But they could well be comparing a new BYOD MacOS environment to a old corporate legacy windows setup, which isn't really comparing the performance of the OS so much as comparing BYOD with old-school centrally managed windows domains.
Would anyone else have stayed up, though? This isn't just going to be a fear response, the risk assessment will be to ask "what could have prevented this?"

Lots of people will quit using Dyn as a sole DNS, but I don't see any reason they'll quit being involved in people's multiple DNS solutions.
It doesn't have to become public. It probably shouldn't.
krebs is loading reaaaaal slow for me...i wonder if its related? or just a lot of people linking to it today.
Oh right, I know him! He is a decent fellar. I think he was saying if US is attacking its own infrastructure, then a false flag operation is a plausible explanation. Talking to him a bit revealed he didn't say this US attacking itself.
nice! just out of curiosity, what city are you in?
No, but that's not the case I care about; I care about whether when I go to my bank's Web site I'm actually talking to a server controlled by my bank.
If the "machine" in question is my ADSL router as supplied by my ISP, I will be deeply unimpressed if they block me due to their own negligence in updating it!
>Put in that context, the legislation seems pretty well-aimed at its goal of creating more affordable housing in the city.

At the cost of higher temporary housing costs for people that want to visit. Addressing supply by ripping supply from a different market is a bandaid.

This benefits hotels much more than low income people.
The correct method of resolving this historico-religious female-breast-shaming is for all famous women to immediately cease wearing any type of clothing that covers the breasts. Weather permitting.

And for men to get around topless in solidarity.