skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never really enjoyed Black Mirror, I've always found it too sneering and pessimistic (and I speak as someone who has enjoyed Charlie Brooker's sneering all the way back to his prank call days).

So I sat down to watch this series, and in some ways the first episode confirmed all my biases, hitting all the usual notes about technology we use and like actually being a terrible slippery slope and you should all feel bad about yourselves.

But then I got to the San Junipero episode, which is so magnificent in every way that I immediately forgave everything. Character driven, subtle, sentimental but optimistic. And probably, over Stranger Things, the piece of sci-fi 80s nostalgia that I'll remember most from this year.
For those curious, the term for this sort of profile where the subject doesn't really participate is a "write-around." And perhaps the most famous example is Frank Sinatra Has A Cold: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has-...
To quote Thomas Mann, "everything is politics".
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on durable laptops.

I'm still using a circa-2010 Thinkpad W-series (purchased refurbished in 2013). Needs a new cooling module (starting to overheat occasionally), and it's been through a couple battery packs and a keyboard replacement, but those are essentially wear items and it's otherwise still going strong.

So far I've actually stepped right flat on the screen once (it fell out of bed while I was in the bathroom and I couldn't see it under the covers) and I'm going to need to unlearn the habit of picking it up by the screen since other laptops aren't going to tolerate that. The T- and W-series are incredibly, incredibly durable pieces of hardware (note: the new Edge, Yoga, etc series are built much more lightly).

Previously I had a Fujitsu Lifebook T4220 convertible tablet from 2007. That was also very durable. It was built quite lightly but ironically the convertible screen would tend to pivot out of the way when you dropped it, which prevented damage, and since it was so light it tended not to pick up a lot of momentum. One day it just stopped powering up, probably some kind of electrical problem. Happened early 2013, so I got about 5 solid years of daily use from it. I have a broken T4200 I picked up for parts, I've been thinking about trying to troubleshoot it one of these days.

In contrast my fiance had a unibody MacBook Pro (Core2Duo I think, probably circa 2008?) in college and I wasn't nearly as impressed with the design there. The emphasis on passive cooling and having as few fans as possible tended to lead to overheating. What finally killed it was the screen cable going funky (I think). Could probably be replaced, but eh, I'm tired of repasting the damned CPU every 6 months when the overheating dries it out. She has a Thinkpad just like mine now.
Comodo is awful. I remember loving their original products, but it's been downhill ever since they started trying to monetize so heavily.
This is generally the goal of any re-branding. It would be illogical to attempt re-branding against a successful, known property.
I don't think it was supposed to be believable. It's a utopian society, reflecting the time in which it was conceived. The idea that society would be become more liberal, more socialistic, more tolerant by having greater access to information and not wanting for material goods is the more interesting one. We will be able to see if that's true over the next hundred years.

The Warp Drive is just a plot device, so that the humans can interact species from other, distant worlds.
At this point in company history/complexity they should combine PR releases about acquisitions with venn or flow charts about their ownerships.
See my explanation below my OP. Your comment is correct, but these complexities should not be solved in the framework, lest we forget the vision that drove the creation of this framework in the first place, providing an obstruction layer that doesn't solve all problems at all layers.
hopefully they've learned something from Blue Brain:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-human-bra...
Everyone has their own anecdotes. I've owned 1 Toshiba (5 years), 2 Vaios (both still work, one from 2000, the other from 2006), 3 Macbook Pros (2008, 2012, 2014). Of those only 1 broke. The 2nd Macbook pro about 2 years in the GPU died. I didn't buy the service contract and Apple told me my only option was to buy a new one full price.
Serious Dirty Cow Linux Vulnerability Under Attack
i quite enjoyed nando de freitas oxford lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlhFWT7vAEw
I sit in chairs for 12+ hours a day, I recently got a standing desk though. I can't sit on the mesh without putting a cushion underneath; it's one step above concrete.
You just described about half of the smart phone home screens.
Being able to leave your current hosting provider quickly is important, but not over engineering abstract hotswapping interfaces is pretty important, too.
I think what the poster above you is saying is a feature on some software that isn't in an RFC somewhere.
Yes, and if we just accept arguendo that such black holes exist in our universe (and in reality they have not been precluded, as I note below), we have a density problem, although the argument is pretty Copernican (or alternatively rests on the cosmological counting system: forbidden, exactly one, mandatory).

One problem with the argument that there is just one in the solar system is that unless it's unique, we would expect to see effects on star motions on a large enough number of nearby stars that one has to be inventive in attempting to explain why we haven't notice that yet. Worse, you would expect that at least one PBH would be near each supernova, and would interact with remnants, and that does not appear to be the case. Additionally, even if there was one in essentially every star system in every galaxy, they're still a tiny fraction of the dark matter sector, and we'd have to work even harder on an explanation for the core-cusp problem.

That said, ~ the high end of sublunar mass PBHs (~ 10^23 kg) is about the least constrained mass region, so it's not surprising that people speculate about ~ M_earth PBHs. "[H]ow it came to be associated with our solar system" is fairly straightforward -- the field of PBHs existed before large structure formation, so you have the question a little backwards. The PBH was here first and its perturbations of the pre-sun GMC would have influenced the formation of our solar system. The question is whether those perturbations conflict with reasonable hypotheses for the formation and evolution of the solar system (and its predecessor). And again, you would expect PBHs to be involved in most similar star systems, and get to wonder about the gradient of such tiny black holes from the centres of galaxies to space outside galactic clusters. (Extragalactic space inside galactic clusters is maybe worse: there's invisible mass-energy among the galaxies mixed in with dust and gas, so why aren't stars forming there if the density of small PBHs is roughly similar to the outer edges of galaxies within the clusters? And if the density is very different, then why?)

Finally, https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06077v3 is very fresh and lists some further relevant constraints, but leans especially on https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4984 .
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In some aspects Microsoft has changed for the best (e.g. open source, developer community relationship) and in others it is changing for the worst. This is my list:

- Skype protocol centralization and crashing all the time

- Surface Book Issues

- Updates and malware detection that can't be turned off

- Windows 10 leaking information to Microsoft that you can't control.

- Windows Phone (down)

- Azure changing their price all the time and an admin console that is subpar

- We were trying to renew our MSDN Premium subscription for the last three months and they cannot do that because we are from Argentina and they are changing the internal system.

- State of the art notebooks like the latest Dell XPS with driver issues and lack of support for high DPI screens in Microsoft Office.
Would you guys prefer that Johnson donate his $100M to the NIH or a university that's already working on related research, or is there benefit to him taking a different route and funding Berger and this org directly?
All vox media sites are down
recode.net
vox.com
racked.com
sbnation.com
Friendly reminder: Less than a year ago Steve Balmer himself called Microsoft's cloud numbers "bullshit"

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3011662/cloud-computing...
Incidentally, I find TFA to exemplify a "McWebsite". The interesting primary content is totally dominated by the massive "More You Might Like" footer with four more entire McMansion articles sandwiched in together, including all original images and graphics. Meanwhile Chrome is pegging at 500k for this one page. Lose the four-car garage please!
If a headline says, "Users reported having bouts of explosive diarrhea", it doesn't make them medical journalists.
Awesome! Is this available as software I can install on my network? Sorry, probably a dumb question.
Is Lenovo shipping laptops with high dpi displays?
Not everyone's experiences are the same. My macbook has been in for repairs a total of 7 weeks this year, for basically the same problem
Aw, don't leave us hanging like that. What problems did it cause?
If a server goes away for good, at some point NS records will stop pointing to it. We could serve stale records as long as all of the stale record's authority chain is either still there or unreachable.
Regulated telecoms should not be allowed to own media. If this goes through, expect the net neutrality rules to be bent beyond all recognition.
I wasn't aware of that. I'll have to look at the whole videos later
My impression is that they have the NIH and refuse to use standard LSPP in favor of FLASK. They take this so far that they accept no feedback from the SELinux community. While they may have analyzed all the great reasons not to use every competitor, they probably lack oversight and critical evaluation of the EOU problems that causes, leading to less practical security than those using off the shelf software with proper oversight.
> Hmm, your forgetting that Time Warner Cable was recently purchased by Charter and that the Time Warner Cable brand will be going away for good. (replaced by charter)

No, it's being replaced by Spectrum (which is a brand Charter already owned).

I can confirm this firsthand - when my service went out last week, I called the same number I have stored in my contacts[0], and the automated greeting introduced itself with both the old and new name.

[0] The fact that I have TWC's support number in my contacts should tell you exactly what I think of their service
Like all live demos.
I thought DNS (particularly public) was basically immune to DDoS?

If one DNS server is down, use the cached result or another server.

DNS is some of the most distributable, cachable data I can imagine.
Motherboards are getting close to the size of ram modules. Swapping a motherboard is not too big deal. But sometimes it is hard to find one with desired amount of ram. Price wise there is not much difference.
I've only ever known women that wanted a private place in the office to pump, not pump at their desks. I could be wrong but I don't think most women want their coworkers to see them pumping in their professional environment.

It's the law in Illinois that employers must provide such a place, and it cannot be a bathroom stall.
Writing the response from my 3200x1800 13.3" screen. High enough for my tastes.
Level3 Outage
It's called a false flag operation, and does happen.
often you have to dive into source code, and it is considered as normal, which is quite sick from my point of view.

For an environment that's as dynamic and open as Javascript, my POV is that one should be able to dive into library source code -- but that changes resulting from this should be an unusual circumstance, having to do with edge cases. If the normal situation is that you are always doing this, and it is always is flat-out basic debugging, then this is messed up.

The ability to dive into and debug everyone's source code should be considered a blessing. It's a great way to learn coding style and programming! It's one thing that was great about working in Smalltalk. However, the need to do so just to fix library bugs should be viewed as a symptom!
Self signed certificates are always less valuable than purchased ones. The worst case CA breach is equivalent to the normal case of self-signed certificates: a certificate is misissued and an attacker can carry out an active MITM attack. A CA breach cannot enable passive attacks because they don't know the private keys of certificates used by websites.
What We Know About Friday’s Massive East Coast Internet Outage
You can add Netflix to the list.

GET https://art-s.nflximg.net net::ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED

GET https://assets.nflxext.com net::ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED
I'm pretty sure a Bernie Sanders supporter would say this goes way beyond that. Leaking plans from one candidate to another is beyond best for the party.
/r/sysadmin had a good discussion on it [1].

TLDR; the study is hardly conclusive and knowing IBM is aligned with business goals.

[1]:https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/58j88j/ibm_claims...
Maybe it is time to review that policy. As far as I can tell, WHOIS protocol and data are both completely unauthenticated, and as such relatively easily manipulated by mitm.
Twitter is DOWN
> In political candidates with strange hairdos who attract a huge majority of the population

Such as? (I can think of relecat, current examples if you said "a significant minority of the population", but I'm having more trouble with examples that fit the "huge majority" description.)
> Do you really want to write CSS without a pre-processor?

Yes. The only things that are worth having one for are variables and that’s not enough to add the development overhead.

> Do you really want to control a webpage's state without JS models in the browser?

I prefer to avoid controlling a webpage’s state in the browser as much as possible.

> Do you really want to update html with individual jquery calls?

No, I want to update the DOM…

> Do you really want to write websites _without_ using jquery? Keep in mind that jquery is only 10 years old.

… without jQuery, yes, because it’s designed horribly.

These practices also happen to result in a website that is actually possible to develop and view on my computer with reasonable performance, because I’m one of those users nobody cares about who can’t afford the latest MacBook.
GitHub Falls to DNS Attack
Reddit is up for me, but Github is down. Goodbye productivity.
Yeah, but 1999 was a mother-of-a-bubble.
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This is great, and I really mean it. We europeans managed somehow to stop not only TTIP but also CETA. Congrats!
Pagerduty down, which is not very helpful.
I've written a express renderer library so you can use vue component files without webpack. Just using res.render()

https://github.com/danmademe/express-vue
We've seen zero problems (standard stuff: EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift). I expected that with 1/3 of the internet down something would be broken.
What about people who are hybrids?
China Overtakes U.S. In App Store Revenue by 15% Margin
I absolutely love this idea! Would be a bit tricky to implement, but would definitely improve security in the long run.
I mitigate this by playing Soraka support
That's the rsync.net mailserver and that's interesting, thank you.

However I was speaking of my own, personal mailserver, which is not listed.

Also - do we really think "big email" (like google) are using either of these (blacklist or whitelist) services ?
So exactly this case?
+1. Only nitpick is that LetsEncrypt is a nonprofit, not a company.
In the examples you mention (document readers) the bugs become security problems because programs have too much privileges. Easiest way to remove security problems is not to remove bugs, but remove privileges. Privilege revocation, privilege separation, W^X work wonders.

Protocols like https, ssl and cryptography and operating systems would be my first choices.
Meanwhile, worker productivity mysteriously ticks up.
Have you seen White Bear? It's one of the most terrifying and thought provoking things I've ever seen. Sure you could probably find elements of that episode in other shows/films, but that's probably true of everything.

Honest question: what are you watching that makes Black Mirror trite and obvious by comparison?
Rollbar!!!! noooooo!!!!!
This is what scares me. Comcast and now AT&T.

What's next? Verizon to buy Viacom?
Wow, this sounds so amazing. I have never spent any money on a desk chair and I have the worst neck pain + sciatic pain + shoulder pain every day now. This chair seems heavenly.
To add on.. Chris Morris also created the satire show The Day Today with Armando Iannucci (Alan Partridge, The Thick of it, Veep)
Dirty COW and clean commit messages
Agreed. I'm out of ideas here as to how you would stand out among the crowd. I think it just comes down to the complexity and budget of the project. You hire according to that. With so much IT projects around the world, if you make some effort you surely get some work.
...no news then.

Here's question: other than the Dyn status page (which is the source quoted in this article), what are some resources for monitoring and analyzing internet traffic of this nature?
What a shame. The only consolation, if any, is that they are not the first ones to crash on Mars. If I remember correctly the historic chances of landing successfully on Mars is about 50/50.
The Investment protection and investor-state-tribunals[1] are rather unwelcome and as bad as the ones in the TTIP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_Tra...
i star things that need a second look. but again those are mostly from automated systems or companies.

human<>human communication is almost always through messaging apps.

producthunt had this today https://www.producthunt.com/tech/owlie
This is how Russians hacked social media accounts and public emails of British MPs last year.

It is assumed that they procured IMSI IDs of MPs from open sources (databases of gaming companies (this why Google lets apps to read your IMSI) or advertising cookie brokers).

Then, they used Russian cell phone networks to announce a “Roaming transfer” of their phone numbers from BT to them and then used an “SMS login” and password recovery from their Snapchats/Twitters/Whattsups. Once they logged into them, it is believed that they downloaded past conversations and other data through synchronisation APIs.

Back then, Google only confirmed that they did sent a recovery SMS to one account, but hackers didn’t manage to answer a security question. This probably deterred them from attempting to try the same trick on Google accounts of other MPs whose numbers they pwned, or maybe Googlers simply made that up to cover their asses.

Amazingly, many cell operators don’t check the digital signature on roaming requests, nor require the roaming counter-parties to pass them through.
I guess Samsung will keep a lonely Sony company on my "do not buy list", too bad. BTW, in the US, last I heard Parodies is a protected form of speech. So I think DoctorGTA has the law on his/her side (assuming he is living in the US).
You've got to be kidding me. This should absolutely not be allowed.

And after buying DirecTV AT&T already used the excuse that because it paid so much money on the acquisition already, it can't invest too much in its services anymore.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160217/10525033624/att-m...

Bottom line is: these consolidations always make things worse for consumers, not better.
Definitely related. Can confirm.
I love how the White House & GH posted a statement on Twitter.. that we can't access since its down.
Brooker's brilliant,misanthropic project 'Unnovations' seems to me like the closest spiritual ancestor to Black Mirror- even bleaker, if anything. It's disappeared from the web but still exists in the archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20011006114750/http://www.zeppot... for an example.
I have a similar deal with UltraDNS. Nice to have "enterprise" DNS for my little personal sites.
Their entire business model of distributing arbitrary uploads is a grant from the government, one which was very controversial until the overton window passed.

edit: We can certainly decide that it's in the public interest to place limits on the editorial control over sites that rely on safe harbor, just as phone companies aren't allowed to censor particular conversations. Things get to be rights because we collectively decide that they are.

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edit: Deleted, because it is completely wrong.

[Your libertarianism ignores the law. In order to qualify for safe harbor under DMCA, their ability to exercise arbitrary editorial control is limited. If they want to choose what they host, they are choosing to be legally responsible for what they host.]
...That's precisely what my parent comment says.

Also note there are millions of people living in colder conditions than I.
I had the unique opportunity of visiting a nudist event recently. While children weren't allowed, some of the people had grown up in nudist communities. They are incredibly capable people with no trauma; nudity itself just isn't damaging -- not all nudity is sexual.
Ticketfly.com. Damn I really wanted to buy die Antwoord tickets
It's also plausible that they are intelligent and hard working because of their willingness to earn money.
From March of this year:

Apple, FAA Investigating After iPhone Catches Fire Mid-Flight http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/apple-faa-investigatin...

Spring-break-bound sophomore Anna Crail was watching a movie on Thursday when her iPhone spontaneously caught fire over the Pacific. "All of a sudden there was like 8-inch flames coming out of my phone," she told KOMO News. The teen panicked, telling KOMO that she thought the plane "was going down." "I flipped it off onto the ground, and it got under someone's seat, and the flames were just getting higher, and a bunch of people stood up," she said.
Mass internet disruption caused by DDoS attack on DNS company Dyn
What if the locked power of human brain is pure stupidity? Well... there is only one way to find out.