skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it be costing the attacker some amount of money running the C&C server?

I'd think at some point if the attacker isn't getting the same results from the attack he'll wait for them to scale back then strike again.

Is my thinking right here?
You don't need a desktop for that kind of work in the first place, a laptop is way more convenient, you're probably going to want one even if you get this, and at that point you can just plug it in to a high end monitor for half the price of this. Hell you can buy a top of the line laptop with better specs for the other half.

Doing video editing, 3D at that resolution, VR, etc. are the kind of workloads you need a desktop machine for - this doesn't cut it.
It's probably temporary? Move to R53, then figure out what's needed to manage records on two providers (if only for internal processes). Top engineering teams aren't going to knee-jerk this, right? Or did Dyn show some unfixable incompetence?
The question would be why is it unreliable. SF is known for NIMBY issues, so is it something like that holding up new cabling?

I live on the east coast, and was irked to watch neighbors complain about bad cell service and about a new cell tower going up in the same breath.
Alright, what the fuck?

Shame on reddit, github, and netflix for learning literally fuck-all from this.
Berkeley Protesters Built a Human Wall to Violently Stop White Students
I actually like the monospaced font. Maybe it's an unpopular view, but it has really grown on me.

Here is another one: https://design.google.com/
> It is an error though if your code SEGFAULT on NULL head (and this one does).

There is no "SEGFAULT" in kernel code. SIGSEGV is a signal, which is only used at user-level.

NULL dereference in the kernel results in an "oops".

I believe it is also assumed in their code that "entry" is not going to be NULL, meaning "if (head == entry)" will never succeed if head is NULL.
Out of curiosity, what is the tech stack behind this application? I can see some interesting problems wrt real time push notifications and a streaming data pipeline potentially.
How Goldman Sachs Lays People Off
Fitbit is awesome. I use Fitbit Flex 1.0 and Apple Watch in a combo. Fitbit works so well and is so cheap ( 60 Euros ) that I don't care what I do with it and it has an API.

Because of the price Apple Watch will never be able to track :

1) My gym workouts ( having 400 Euro thing in the gym where I hit the boxing bag - no way )
2) My sleep ( I have to charge it every night, so impossible to do that )
3) My 3 days camping holiday ( Wood, scratches, fire, etc.. )

And anyway look what I did [1] with Fitbit's API & ubersicht [2].

1: http://imgur.com/z9b3C9A
2: http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/
I tried to be polite there but obviously not admitting a hurtful mistake is more important to you than being a good person.
“The United States can always be relied upon to do the right thing — having first exhausted all possible alternatives.” -- misattributed to Winston Churchill
is this proof the one that also cannot be formed in a trustless way?
Mind sharing how your portfolio is organized?
I'm very curious, can you explain in what ways? Examples?
I run https://www.goread.io/ which is a subscription-based RSS reader. It's open source and runs on google app engine. It costs ~$2k per year to run and I make between $2k and $3k profit per year for nearly zero effort. Stripe handles payments and app engine keeps the servers running.

I consider it a high success because for the amount of marketing I've done in the last 2 years (exactly zero), it still has paying users. If I did a few months of code improvements and marketing pushes I could probably increase that income a few times.
I'm skeptical of a shareholder lawsuit succeeding this way. If the SEC isn't joining in, any concealment by the CEO or board, even if totally unethical, isn't illegal. If you're a shareholder and don't like how things are going it pretty much seems to me your narrow path is selling the stock and finding something more to your liking - in particular if you don't have enough shares to affect the make up of the board.
Isaac Asimov on How to Be Prolific
Are you in KC? I am in OP.
I run a few high frequency trading algorithms on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. These are research-grade and not scalable (I already make 20-30% of trading volume on some exchanges), however, it still brings me around $200 per month.
People still live in the countryside. Rural areas aren't some uninhabited wilderness.

If your aim is to provide broadband to all, you'll have to build there too. Sweden aims to do 100 Mbps to 90% of the population by 2020. Can't do that by just covering urban areas.
I think Heroku is switching to two DNS companies after this as well.

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/965

"This outage exposed a critical weakness in our DNS hosting configuration. We are taking immediate steps to add additional DNS providers. This should allow us to avoid impact in the future, provided that at least one of our DNS providers is operational."
The 1 Dead Giveaway That an Employee Is About to Quit, According to Science
Yeah, Clojure was what I would expect to be the popular frontrunner here. Evidently, a few years ago arc would have been considered.

My point was more that it intrigued me that the view given was not that one or the other was correct and everyone should move to it. More that both sides had lessons learned that could be taken to the next iteration.

This seems different from most other language discussions which are about building on more and more to the given language. Maybe I'm just reading the tea leaves, as it were, incorrectly.
The company I'm currently working at bought everyone some top-of-the-line Bose noise-canceling headphones for the same reason, as we have an open plan office and coworkers can be chatty sometimes. And while the noise canceling is far from being perfect, it really makes it much easier to stay focused when working. I even wear them on my commute now as they are very good at filtering out constant amplitude white noise (such as engine hums), which helps me to focus on my reading. Unfortunately I sometimes miss my stops now :D
Where do you think is the best place to find freelance jobs?
Doesn't mean it's a good idea to criminalize/delegalize it if the negative effects are worse than those of cannabis itself.
Now add a comment for foo and another one for bar. Also try it when your client throws an exception whenever it encounters invalid keys in object. Or if perhaps it blindly persists or tries to perform some logic using that "data". And so on.
Latest version of Google Allo supports new Android N features like split-screen
Is this due to the FCC reclassification of internet as a common carrier?

I wondered a little bit about this, myself, when Fiber was launched. They have a lot more motivation without network neutrality as a matter of regulation because it'd open up the ability of ISPs to penalize their products[0].

I'm generally of the opinion that government over-regulates, but I was in support of the whole "Network Neutrality" situation because broadband services availability for many/most in the US is limited to one provider and that one company is also usually either AT&T or Comcast, known more for how much they suck than for the services they provide. It's not too hard to believe that if common carrier status were removed, AT&T or Comcast would lower their caps and start offering services that are exempt from those caps (especially Comcast - suddenly Hulu or anything NBCUniversal is all-you-can-consume, but Netflix/Amazon Video/YouTube are not).

In a world like that, Google does have more motivation to roll out an ISP that does the opposite with their own services (or more likely just doesn't discriminate with anyone's traffic). Fiber resulted in a sudden expansion by many other ISPs to service with higher performance (and in many areas that are not even on the future Fiber cities list), so they've kind of accomplished the goal that has the greatest benefit to them -- more eyes on their products at a speed that makes them more useful.

At the end of the day, though, I'm not so sure that the FCC reclassification is much more than a tiny bullet point in favor of not spending the money required to do a fiber roll out. They are certainly aware that Republicans are itching to dismantle this reclassification and their nominee has promised to do so IIRC. And though the Democrat's nominee has indicated that she'll keep that reclassification, I'm not willing to take her at her word on that. If that were their main reason for allowing fiber to "transition" to whatever new option they're looking at that (hopefully) costs a lot less to roll out but still doesn't exist in the places they want to roll out to, I'd be pretty surprised.

[0] I'm not advocating that network neutrality be dismantled to give Google more motivation.
With 3-4k$ devices ? You can get two iMacs for that.
Don't write the block to the if without curly braces on the next line. It's a common source of bugs when the code has to be extended (possibly by someone else), to forget to add the braces.
So Chinese people can't be master artists? Which nationalities can be?
Doesn't that also provide a huge incentive for cloud offerings to sell DDOS-resistance products and services? Isn't that a huge market already with gigantic margins?
A job well done, congratulations! The idea is fantastic and your implementation, including the choice of non-lossy reference image, has a sound design. The purpose and intent is obvious.

And please ignore the complaining bunch! Any metric can of course be misused (think unit test coverage, linting, soft coding, etc.) but writing software is craftsmanship. We're half-way to art. To even be able to measure is an achievement, and what gets measured gets better. Me and my senior colleagues immediately took it to heart and will use it as objectively as language shootout. Many thanks for planting an industry standard seed!
That seems like a strange environment when you get the enormous privilege of a door but are discouraged from using it. :(
Clicking any of the links at the top gives me

Your connection is not secure

The owner of mnc.ms has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.

mnc.ms uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.po.st, po.st Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
Demand. There's nowhere near the demand.
How hard is it to create a website like Kayak.com?
> A monopoly is pretty much inherently bad; it just so happens that sometimes it's unavoidable. But, as OP said, there's no reason to sanction a monopoly provider for an industry (or part of an industry) in which it is avoidable.

But it is clearly not avoidable. If one of the largest tech companies in the world (with enormous profits and cash reserves) cannot afford to deploy fiber in major cities, it is clear that the private sector cannot reliably and affordably provide this service on the scale required.

No further proof is necessary that the marketplace will resolve this issue.
You believe glyphosate is probably carcinogenic? Why?
Sweden had 98,5% xDSL coverage in 2011 and aims for 90% coverage of 100 Mbps service by 2020.
While this approach won't get you good macro performance, with some tweaks the DoF from small sensors could be a real boon. If you could pack a few of these close together, especially in a small package, there's a wonderful opportunity for wide-angle macro photography.
Not really: "It is composed primarily of two major metropolitan statistical areas, the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV MSA and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD MSA. In addition, six other smaller urban areas not contiguous to the main urban area but having strong commuting ties with the main area are also included in the metropolitan area."

I mean some people talk about the Northeast megalopolis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, and some times Richmond. But, that does not mean Boston and DC are somehow the same city.
When a company like Uber is raising insane amounts of money I think to myself - "ok, they're working on vehicle automation and other ambitious projects, it makes sense".

When a company like snapchat is looking for 4B in addition to existing funding I am left completely dumbfounded.

Can someone please explain why they would need this much cash?
> In the case of Munch's The Scream, and Starry Night, and every Monet, the subject matter is as important as the image.

Not to mention the transformations the artists made that the software cannot: turning pinpoint stars in the sky into huge pinwheels and fireballs; turning a human face and hands into an inhuman creature.
I don't get why on HN, every top voted comment in every submission is a negative criticism.
Tesla Third Quarter 2016 Update, GAAP Profitable [pdf]
A nitpick, but crossing the US takes much closer to 4 10-hour days than 5 (New York to Los Angeles): https://goo.gl/maps/dmL1f421DMP2
React-Synthesis: A new take on a CMF that's React based and extensible
> As somebody who takes a lot of pictures, if somebody could produce one of my photos as a painting using Photoshop that was indistinguishable (or close to it) from a person, I really don't think I'd care.

I think this varies per person. It's like saying that having a real luxury product is no different than a imitation. There is a certain psychic benefit you get from knowing that you have something that is real (specifically that you paid more money for) vs. machine created (or cheaper). This ironically would even extend to having a good local artist produce the painting vs. having it sent off to China (at a discount rate through a service like instapainting). Hard to put into words this concept but I am sure there is an official name for it. That doesn't mean that there isn't a huge market for knockoffs but it's a different market.
​HPE backs off from OpenStack development
No shit Sherlock.

Just looking at recent history will show that outright war, or the imminent threat of same, has driven perhaps the biggest technological push in known history.
I know you're being facetious and your real-life investment portfolio likely looks much different but I need to say:

Savings accounts are a terrible place to put your savings.

If you have anything more than a couple thousand dollars, you can put it in a mutual fund and see several percent return on average, versus the fraction of the percent you can get from a savings account.

In certain situations savings accounts can be advantageous—They are very low-risk and the money is immediately available. But for a long-term investment, almost anything is better than a savings account.
Well, I was only out of work eight months so I can't say for sure that people don't cut off at 'a year'. But based on the reactions I got, I'd be quite surprised if that was a standard practice. I can imagine it being more likely if being out of work was 'I lost my job and couldn't find another one' instead of 'I quit my job to do x instead for a while'.
Round Trip, SFO<->PEK mid-November, non-stop on United currently $477, per Hipmunk.

Last time I saw fares this low was in 2006, where I flew SFO<->LHR for about $450. $250 of that was fees & taxes. United got $100 to fly me non stop to London.
اسماء الفائزين بشقق دهشور بمدينة 6 أكتوبر و مدينة بدر ومدينة 15 مايو – تراخيص
NTFS has a functional equivalent to soft links in the form of reparse points, although I don't know to what degree that feature is exposed in the UI, if at all. Last time I looked into it (admittedly, years ago) they could only be created via the command line. Not sure what you mean by "can't have long paths" though, NTFS allows you to programmatically create paths up to 32,767 code points long:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx
Reminds me of one of my favorite "jokes" about scale. If you're a one in a million, there are 1357 of you in china.
Comac C919
I've been looking for a similar machine. Wish there were more available with the E3-1545m which is an awesome CPU. In the past I've shied away from HP due to quality concerns. Have the addressed that issue?

So you had to self-upgrade and sell the original parts? That's sad that that is necessary. Did you try contacting HP to see about purchasing a bare-bones machine to avoid getting parts you don't want?

Are both M.2 slots gen3 x4? I was looking at the Dell workstation and was dismayed to find out that only one of slots can work at that speed.
They make their money from the glyphosate-resistant GMO crops, not from glyphosate itself.
No, never. I just asked about it because I heard the term once a long time ago, but to be honest I'm note even sure what an oil painting is. Is it like the same thing they put in engines to make them run smoothly?

This was actually a question for the OP, since he has experience in it, but I'll bite.

If you use high quality paper and printing, you can make extremely high quality prints that imitate all kinds of effects like oil, watercolor, colored pencil, and sketching. I actually have quite a bit of experience in producing them, which is why I asked this question in the first place.

There are many other factors besides texture to consider. Cost, color, consistency, etc.
My company only just noticed our font renders terribly for one of our newer web apps - all the developers had Macs and didn't notice an egregious difference when rendered on lower quality displays. We changed it immediately. I feel empathy for this particular development oversight among small teams.
TBH the sock drawer is the most successful outcome :)
The rest of the house - I threw out a lot of stuff, but didn't bottom it. It was definitely worthwhile and I need to resume. The problem is, you're not allowed to throw out other people's stuff; 2 kids and a husband quickly fill spaces and what the book says about them learning by your example doesn't seem to have worked...
25k is actually pretty cheap for this sort of numerical work. That's also licensing about a quarter of the entire library, regardless of how much your actually using.

To put that in context, 25k is roughly the fully loaded cost of a developer month, if they can do this sort of work properly.

Plenty of specialized libraries out there will cost you twice (or more) as much to acquire and a % on your shipped product.

Thinking of this as expensive is either naive, or just the wrong tool for the job.
I have a lot to say on this topic, but suffice to say I think the decent tools being used today are far more complex than is necessary for building most web UIs that I deal with.
> Your prices felt too inexpensive. Knowing something was handmade I would have paid more than I did.

Interesting if you read my comment elsewhere here that is a point that I made as well in a different way.

That said perhaps there is a way to tweak the pricing so that they have different perceptions of quality for the price paid. Don't lose the low end market but give an option for those that want to pay more.
Uber flights?
I think the best environment I had was when there were 3 of us in an office. Enough company to talk to and collaborate with, not enough to prevent work getting done.
i post the same comments every time this topic comes up, but it really bugs me.

the same people making these layout/seating decisions do not subject themselves to the same setup. have 2-3 sales guys on phone calls all day long in a room with the CFO trying to get his work done - he'd go insane, or ... have extremely low productivity. why do people think everyone else is different from them?
I have yet to speak with anyone who thinks Snapchat's valuation is realistic and that their business model will sustain them. When I see this I just think of Twitter all over again.

I would love to hear arguments supporting Snapchat though.
The correct answer to parsing JSON is... don't. We experimented last hackday with building Netflix on TVs without using JSON serialization (Netflix is very heavy on JSON payloads) by packing the bytes by hand to get a sense of how much the "easy to read" abstraction was costing us, and the results were staggering. On low end hardware, performance was visibly better, and data access was lightening fast.

Michael Paulson, a member of the team, just gave a talk about how to use flatbuffers to accomplish the same sort of thing ("JSOFF: A World Without JSON"), linked in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12799904
I would happily pay 100-200k if I could capitalize it on a 30y 0-3% mortgage to bring fiber from a carrier neutral facility (say, the Westin Building in Seattle) to a farm. It's about $10k/km for aerial fiber and $50k/km for buried fiber in most places (far higher in a city, but the distances are shorter.)

There's probably a reasonable market doing this at $10-20k/house. There's clearly a market for multi-family dwellings like condos/apartment buildings (webpass, condointernet, etc. have shown), but maybe the next step will be neighborhoods pre-wired with fiber to some kind of switchbox with your choice of carrier coming in.
Tesla results: Earnings of 71 cents a share vs. estimate of 54 cents a share loss
Hi! Thanks for the comment!

All I can say is that the reason I don't charge more is it'd just be lining my pockets since the artists set their prices at a pretty consistent rate. I don't get lower rates from the artists than my competitors, so I just undercut them in final retail price instead.
That makes me think more highly of the conference organizers.

It's a small indicator, at least, that they've got a decent amount of awareness of when using Angular is a good idea, and when it would be overkill.
Hi Matt, love the site. Do you mind me asking what brings the running costs up to $2k per year?
I've worked for several big companies (though not Facebook, Google, Apple, or others in that class). None of them showed any interest in analyzing developer productivity, much less looking for ways to increase it. My gut instinct is that developer productivity is hard to measure, real estate costs are easy to measure, so you end up with 500 people in a noisy environment doing the work that 100 could do in a quiet environment.

I also suspect there's a status thing going on. People working on the floor are lower status than people with offices, and I suspect some execs find status signaling more desirable than productivity.
I switched to using C-[. Much easier to press than esc.

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key
The Entity that WAS AT&T became

Southwestern Bell - became AT&T inc by buying Ameritech, AT&T Corp. Pacific Telesis, BellSouth (all Baby Bells)

Bell Atlantic/NYNEX - merged to become Verizon buying GTE, MCI Worldcom along the way

US West - merged with Qwest, acquired and became CenturyLink

"the original AT&T" is those Baby Bells not just the empty shell that became AT&T Corp. (aka ATT Long Distance)

The takeaway is that the ORIGINAL AT&T split into 3 companies and swallowed GTE, MCI, Worldcom, and Qwest in the process. It ended up being a consolidation. 4 of the 7 baby bells are back together operating under the AT&T name, that's over half the old company.
hey now those new filters won't make themselves
Yeah, I'd say so too. IMHO I think it was a mistake to use the docs for political purposes, mostly because doing so lends legitimacy to issue.

Where I think he did well was in de-escalating tension.
The dangling pointer isn't the interesting part of the bug --- dangling pointers are, to a first approximation, the key component of all UAFs, which are a 15 year old bug class. The interesting bit about this bug is how they arrived at the dangling pointer: they had to manipulate at least three different object lifecycles in the kernel, one of of which involved a credential passing trick that is not super common in normal code.

I disagree that this is a simple bug that anyone should have been able to find. If you'd like to put money on whether or not this is going to win a 2017 Pwnie Award, I would be happy to take your money.