skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* spotify.com: all internal nameservers now

I don't know much about running nameservers but moving to all internally hosted seems like an odd choice to me, can anyone explain whey that's a good move?
In the original pascal pointers/refs came only out of new (AFAIR), you couldn't point into structures or to local variables. That makes this trick impossible.

'Modern' 'pascals' were different.
Exactly. JSON Number ARE NOT ACTUAL NUMBERS. They're really restricted strings (or, as you quote, a syntax for representing numbers).

IMO this wasn't originally a bad thing at all. There are so many different types of numbers, with so many different behaviours (does `1` == `1.0`? Not in statistics class) that trying to work it all out in JSON would have been a fools errand. The problem is that so many JSON parsers are overly aggressive about turning JSON Numbers into something specific (usually floats) that when writing a JSON API we have to assume it will be consumed in this lowest-common-denomitor way.

By the way, I don't think that all JSON numbers are technically both integers and floats. `42` and `42.0` are clearly different according to the spec, IMO. I'd be curious to get your thoughts on this.
There's certainly plenty to form the basis for a negative story and, once these story cycles get started, they tend to feed on themselves--if only because they pretty much write themselves at that point. That said, failing to find a buyer, no apparent strategy for moving forward... Hard to find a lot of positive things to say however large their user base.
Also OT: Anyone else think the Dyn logo is reminiscent of the old Symantec logo? I actually had to go look to see if there was a relationship there (also discovering that the logo was considerably different than I remembered).
Given that he already has the robot which can paint, wouldn't it be easy (well, doable at least :) to really paint the picture instead of printing it? There is no reason why this kind of painting should be any different from the manually produced.
You might just have a broken one then? I charge mine a set time every night, put it on in the morning, and 18 hours later when I'm hitting the hay, it still has 40% charge.

Also, you are a way better driver than me.
Ask HN: Kubernetes vs. Nomad vs. Mesos vs ...
What do you guys use? What are the pros and cons regarding features, stability and production readiness?
> Wouldn't it be costing the attacker some amount of money running the C&C server?

Not necessarily. They could configure the C&C to run off of something like pastebin/gist where they just input a list of IPs to attack and the botnet checks a specific url every X minutes for new instructions.
I'm more curious about what's so hard about it to convey. Wouldn't a simple time-lapse video of one of the paintings being created suffice?
We're past static view components.

Today UI elements are dynamic things and the code that drives the dynamics should be kept close to the static representation of a given view state.

React actually separates UI code and interaction logic, as it should, by hosting the static part in the render function and the dynamic part in event handlers defined on the component. This is in my opinion a great balance of SoC / cohesion as it allows proper scoping of a UI unit and fosters controlled reuse.

I don't want to sound rude but we've had enough of this MVC fanatism that completely disabled many developer's creativity and took a lot of courage and energy to the React team, among others, to challenge.

Tying view logic (and only view logic) to static UI code is probably the only way to go on the path to proper UI component sharing and reuse. Whether we like it or not, whether we put the code in separate files or use any other artifice we're bound to make these two walk hand in hand. The last bastion being style. Which the React community tried to address, too.

At the risk of saying something obvious, I think we shouldn't reason on principles and habits. Progress can't be, and never is, driven by such forces.
Zone data that I have access to shows that they lost roughly 1500 domains on the 23rd and 250 on the 24th and 155 on the 25th.

On previous 3 Saturdays they lost between 40 and 60 domains.
Sure, and even legalizing all drugs in the U.S. and the Americas won't fix the problem, since cartels have other sources of income we will likely never legalize: human trafficking, extortion, etc. The full solution will involve painful long term reforms to the political and economical institutions of the countries involved (at least I know it will for Mexico), solving centuries long issues with structural income inequality[1], access to opportunities, race and class divisions, etc, etc.

But we are talking about closing a big revenue stream for the cartels, almost certainly one of the two or three biggest they have, maybe even the largest, just by lifting the prohibition on marijuana. That's not only a step in the right direction, it is a rather big one. In the long term, treating drug addiction as a medical / consumer protection issue in the US rather than primarily a law enforcement one, will be a huge boon towards the future of both nations (and, again, other nations in the Americas that I am not excluding but for which I feel less qualified to speak about).

In short: it won't magically fix the problem, but I do believe it will likely reduce the number of deaths and put us in a path towards a solution.

[1] For the HN libertarian crowd, I don't mean solving income inequality in the sense that everybody should make the same regardless of economic output (although I do believe on a safety net), I mean changing a centuries long setup in which class mobility is near zero and strongly correlated with race, and where most large scale "entrepreneurship" in the country is based of political connections (see telecommunications and media industries in Mexico for example).
Hmm just as a side-question. Do you consider the time developing this product as a part of the "expenses" sheet?

I'm asking because I did some side-gigs in the past and I always end up having a product ( aff.links ) that pays the server and some pennies above, but if I count the time lost on developing it, I will be on severe loss for decades.
Is there something wrong with my computer or did they really use a monospaced font on very ugly colors on the front page so it looks like shit?
So yet another KASLR bypass.

Is KASLR broken or is TSX broken? Seems to me that TSX is broken, yet again. For example, substituting Rowhammer for TSX and L4 for Linux, you could then say that L4 is broken because of Rowhammer when what's really broken is DRAM.

http://techreport.com/news/26911/errata-prompts-intel-to-dis...

With sufficient code bloat, all bugs are deep.

You might call it bloat, but I'd classify ASLR as Defense in Depth.
> The median outcome for this is much better than the story on most passive-income businesses.

Thanks for the reality check. I currently follow exactly this strategy. It's not the perkiest way of living, but it's actually pretty good considering what most people have to do to make ends meet.

Still, passive income strategies make me curious. We devs are in the luxurious position to be able to tweak our income-per-hour situation like mostly no human ever could. I think it's not a sign of gluttony to aim for more but actually a sign of appreciation of the situation luck has handed us. We are one of the few people on earth who can get richer by refusing to work. Not only richer in a metaphysical way but in actual cash.
Good. Mac products are expensive. We need more non-plastic machined hardware!
I just had a conversation with my Mexican's wife's brother-in-law last week. About 7 years ago I had asked him about whether he thought legalization of pot would help or hurt Mexico. He felt "bad guys" would just change their business model to harder drugs and other nefarious industries such as kidnapping, prostitution, racketeering, etc. So I was curious if he had changed his opinion.

He mentioned Tijuana for instance is already carved up amongst the various crime organizations. In his opinion it will not help Mexico though it perhaps will not hurt it either.

Personally I think the corruption goes from the top to the bottom and don't really see a quick fix. There would have to be real consequences to taking and giving bribes and other steps like that to re-enact the rule of law. I must say if I was a Mexican cop and told "take our silver or our lead", I'd probably take the bribe too so not really passing judgement. :-/
More Dangerous Than Boko Haram, Nigeria’s New Biggest Terror Threat
In my analogy, fitness trackers are like iPods and "wearables" are a conflation of iPods and Palm Pilots or other PDAs. So for "iPod sales" you might look at the latest quarterly reports from Fitbit and Garmin.

https://investor.fitbit.com/press/press-releases/press-relea...

http://www.garmin.com/en-US/company/investors/earnings/

EDIT: Even if you lump all "wearables" into one category, Fitbit's increased sales are enough to offset any smartwatch decrease, so the one fact you included among your vague insults is wrong.
The Google Assistant Needs You
Austin, and I get that it's the construction firm and not Google, but yeah... it not good UX. Ha.
Microsoft’s Paint 3D is a simple entry into rudimentary 3D modeling
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One thing I don't understand about this attack:

Virtually everyone is behind NAT these days, often multiple layers of NAT. So how does the botnet manage to telnet or ssh into these set top boxes or lightbulbs or whatever? When I want to SSH into my home computer I have to go through elaborate maneuvers to get it to work.
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Yes, parts of Miami flood regularly. See http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/the-siege-of-mi....

Moreover, Miami is built on porous limestone; sinkholes are everywhere (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/18/notes-from-unde...) and will grow whenever salt water pours in, so Miami sinks. They don't even need rising sea levels to make things worse there.
Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years
Running containers without Docker
I'm a bit of a WSL fanboy, but this is the right advice if you're not a windows user normally.

When it works, it's great, but some things just don't work and you're stuck.

I've found the WSL devs to be fairly responsive, but not to everything.

However, I've found open source projects to be pretty responsive to bug reports of their projects running on WSL; it's far easier for them to support that than support a native windows build.

There are often workarounds for issues, but their coverage is certainly not where we would all like it to be yet.
No.
each individual attacker is actually an infected "bot" of somekind. In this case, Internet of Things devices all over the world. Your "smart TV" or "Smart refridgerator" all contributed to this, over YOUR bandwdith.

The average broadband user has at the least, 10Mbps/UP. If your smart appliances all started sending at least 10mbps up... you only need a million smart TV's to start causing damage.

I'm guessing there's 100M Smart TV's in the USA? Each sending 10Mb/s up? There's 1GB/s of traffic. Multiply this by the next 50 nations who have smart TVs and bandwidth to spare...

Then make it multiuple devices in a home.
Then make it every smart device on the planet, using SOME bandwidth... it gets painful fast, and its free for the attackers, since the poor sap with a hacked smart TV is doing the work.
I interviewed at MS in 2000, they said the same thing during the interview to one of my questions "Because we can. We are MS.". My response is probably why I did not get the job.
The point of the 0-day black market is to not reveal these attacks publicly. If there were public proof of this in the past it would have been fixed in the past.

Take my word for it when I say there are upper echelons of black hats that are stockpiling unknown 0-day exploits like this and presently using them in the wild.

Or dismiss me as irrational and continue with the belief that all bugs are unknown until white hats share them with Apple.
Tesla Q3 Letter [pdf]
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The noise cancelling is incredible on these but I wish they had a replaceable cord like the over the ear version.
I've found that instance normalization usually gives better results so I prefer it over batch normalization.

With batch norm you learn four scalars per convolutional feature map: mu (mean), sigma (stddev), alpha (scale) and beta (shift). During training, mu and sigma are estimated from data statistics; during testing they are constants, either estimated from the entire training set or computed as a running mean during training. At test time the batch norm operation is then alpha * (x - mu) / sigma + beta, which is a linear operation since everything but x is constant; since it is linear it can be merged into a convolutional layer.

With instance norm, mu and sigma are estimated from data statistics during both training and testing; this means that the test-time forward pass is nonlinear, so it cannot be merged into a convolution (which is linear).
economic bartering/trading/etc is definitely not zero sum.
Target retirement date funds, a handful of individual stocks for entertainment purposes. I also have dabbled with Lending Club (annualized ROI went from 15% to less than 5% recently) and the money saved on interest in paying back my student loans early.
Java 8 diagrams
It's less from a be-PC point of view and more from a "what (in some sense arbitrary) decisions led to the western system of rules, and what are alternative ways of making rules?"

You know, understand that this isn't the only way of doing it, and see how the physics could be applied in other ways (and have been). Appreciate the full breadth of complexity out there.
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I think there are two big reasons:

The market changed. When they launched Fiber, they're announcement was reminiscent of GMail when it launched. Back then, getting a 15-30MB free web mailbox was normal and Google announced a start at 2GB. Memory may not serve me perfectly, but I believe when they launched Fiber, there wasn't a single ISP offering residential service at 1Gbps and very few at even 100Mbps. I live in a city that is neither Fiber available or even on the list of future Fiber cities, but I can get multi-gig service for the price that I think the 100Mbps service was offered when Fiber launched. Most of this happened because of Google Fiber -- these companies were not terribly interested in increasing their capacity and service before, but knowing that a huge company like Google, who realistically had the funds to do a roll out, was potentially going to invade their monopoly territories was enough to get the market to move. This also, unfortunately, reduced the need for them to do it. Market-wise, they'd have to fight harder for customers since their service may not be so much faster/better/cheaper to get people to endure the hassle of switching.

The reality of what the market is was discovered. They had hoped they'd be able to do the roll out cheaper, with the involvement of local regulatory bodies itching to have their cities added to the program and paving over regulations that historically made doing a roll out like this very expensive, time consuming and difficult. The incumbents, who already had networks and had to deal with and work through those same regulations cried foul, started suing and made this all more costly and difficult. Back to point #1, with other ISPs offering service at a similar speed and at a far reduced price from when Fiber launched, this took some of the motivation to pave over those regulations away from the regulatory bodies. And this is all without the reality that many of those elected officials who make the laws that caused these problems have their re-election paid for by the AT&Ts, Comcasts and Verizons to a far greater extent than they do Google, so they're even less motivated to help them out.
This post itself is marketing. You just target developers who do word-of-mouth referrals. ;-)
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Often it's a tangent, or supplementary information. Either way, all of these add something to the discussion; it's hard to make a positive comment that's actually interesting.
You can get photos printed on canvas very easily already, most online photo printing services will offer this option.

The hand-made one-of-a-kind aspect is pretty much the sole distinguishing feature and selling point of instapainter.
Maybe you're reading HN submissions about things that people think are bad?
Making the "final reasoning" open without also making the data that was used to reach that final reasoning creates too much room for speculation and conspiracy theories.

Show me the data!

If I can examine it and reach the same or a different conclusion, then we can begin a real discussion on why. That's science.
The touch input I don't care about, but I definitely want that display. How can anybody that works with text all day not want more pixels and sharper text?
The big difference is that Yahoo makes money. The disappointment with them is more in the vein of they coulda, woulda, shoulda been Google or whatever and they're not and never will be through various iterations of high profile execs. But with some exceptions (such as Flickr, maybe Finance), not that many would really care if Yahoo shut down next month.

Twitter, on the other hand, operates infrastructure that a lot of people care about but can't make money and seemingly has no plan for how to change that.
Spotify clients can just go to the IP address?
Guarantee they release a 3D printer in the next 12 months. I wonder who they are going to acquire to fill that void?
> the profit appears to be un-earned

The ability to make profit off of investment is fundamental to capitalism. Do you think that it's unethical for your 401k to accumulate compound interest? Should you have to do some work for the companies your 401k holds shares in, in order for your fund to make a trade?

So far Chris Chen has put in a ton of work and only now is realizing the gains from it. His risk and work are only now paying off. This is equally as egregious as your employer hiring you to write C++ code, and reaping the benefits of your code long after you have written it.

I don't see how competition is closed. The only competition I see suppressed is that of the "order a painting from a website" category, because Instapainting has the superior network. In time, this could potentially get so huge as to be a violation of anti-trust laws, but I don't see that happening. Competition between painters is untouched. Other applications remain. If one wants a higher or lower quality painting, the buyer would want to use existing networks instead of this service. If someone wants an abstract painting, or a sculpture, they have to use a service that is less commoditized, such as word-of-mouth or an art company (interesting aside, North Korea fulfills many sculpture orders for national monuments internationally).

Within the realm of medium-quality portraits, if Instapainting secures a monopoly, then yes, competition will be closed. However, this applies to almost anything that can be commoditized. In American/Canadian history, 19th century painters decried a commoditization of their work; they couldn't get commissions for impressionist or surreal work. Just portraits.

I wrote this blob of text because I naturally want to defend developers who expose details about their businesses to HN. I don't want stories of how they built their businesses to be suppressed or discouraged. Especially since I see nothing unethical in this product; on the contrary, Chris Chen is giving these artists opportunity. They don't have to spend unpaid hours on Etsy or eBay, they can just focus on their work. Customers also get the opportunity to get a hand-painted portrait.
Idea was that companies looking for experienced workers over 30 (in the UK workers 25 and under get a lower wage) pay £30 to advertise a job for 30-days paid via PayPal.
I don't know why you got downvoted. I'm a software engineer and I identify with every sentence in your comment. I suspect I'm far from the only one.
You mean like the Mongols? They didn't stop and farm. Their entire society was built around conquest and pillage.
I think that part of the reason twitter is doing the way it's doing is the less than stellar user engagement. AFAIK snapchat is killing it on that front. Idk if that justifies the valuation but I do see the general public a lot more pumped about it than I've ever seen people pumped about Twitter (ymmv).
What is the largest size possible (that can be shipped without an ordeal)?

Lynn Boggess, paints on large canvases (some over 4 ft x 4 ft) using cement trowels:

http://www.lynnboggess.com/

Obviously, that is probably unrealistic for shipping from China.

Also, I was interested in having some abstract paintings "copied", using some of the images from:

https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io/

The images are only 224pxx224px.

Would that be possible? The image resolution is not that big, but I would like something like 2 or 3 feet in length/width.
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Routers by default shipping with permissive upnp settings?
Why, pray tell, would Microsoft include a thunderbolt port, an apple standard, on their device? It had licensing issues before, not sure if it still does or not—wouldn't be surprised.

I'd want a USB-C port before I'd want a thunderbolt port!
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>Google can't classify Instapainting.com as a "photo to painting" site

I was at a talk yesterday where the speaker from Google was saying that while pagerank is the number one input they use for search results, AI style machine learning algorithms are now number 3 so don't be so sure they don't pick up on that.
I can confirm there is a market for people who want real paintings, with textures, and not just digital pictures :).
CNT transistors outperform Si and GaAs based transsistors
To be fair Route 53 will split over other providers so you should be good in theory. But yeah if something more specifically targets Route 53 then that could be the same problem.

At least that's my understanding anyway.