skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I checked, hackers used to follow the "lulz" principle. However some follow the money principle, which can be stolen from anyone.
Please don't post like this. The unsubstantive+ragey combo forms an inflection point at which threads go from bad to much worse.

When a discussion turns into "yay label" vs. "boo label", there's no information left in it, and flamewars are the only thing left to do.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337198 and marked it off-topic.
This article is from 2013. Google has banned these types of ads from its network (and started blocking sites that serve them) since then, as was discussed on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032270
React on Rails, React-Rails, Webpacker, Webpacker-React?
But if it was a wrapper, it would be wrong to say "a key-value store written in Go" (even without "purely").
Not too mention a lot of the content has strayed away from technology and has gone towards mental health, personal growth, news, politics, etc.
Gravity backer here. They sent out an email to all the backers about the change.

> That said, we wanted to clarify that our blanket is not an FDA approved medical device, and as such, we've tweaked the language on our Kickstarter accordingly. We hope you understand, and we’re very excited for you to try this out for yourselves.
no it does not, it launches the vanilla client in which you enter your username and password so it goes directly to Mojang! the launcher (technically a wrapper around the normal launcher) was recently rebranded to Twitch Launcher since Amazon (Twitch) bought Curse

https://mods.curse.com/client
Your safest option then is to disable SMB.
Fast food, if you look at the output in meals or revinue at peak times they can have extreme productivity, but they make less than a short order cook. There are many similar areas where productivity is economically less valuable than flexibility.
Would love to get my hands on the handout from Part I, if nothing else to see the bibliography :)
The Strange Reason Spaniards Eat Late
The US military uses NIPRNet which blocks a range of websites on the internet. HN is not one of them thankfully.
Interesting, I made the opposite experience. I made sure to tell everyone about a very ambitious project that I wasn't sure I could pull off. That way there wasn't an easy way out, and that strategy worked extremely well.
MS issued a patch ahead of the usage of the lost exploit by a wide enough margin that I'm loathe to blame the government for the mere existence.

The problem lies in our defensive infrastructure and our ability to roll out patches responding to incidents.

It also lies in our security infrastructure: that cryptoworms are a danger speaks to a fundamental lapse in permission and process management systems.
And four years later they are still there...
Depends on the requirements (persistency, concurrency etc.) No offense, but it's bit pointless to discuss it further without deeper context.
Are most books ever bought? I would assume that most books remain in inventory. Sitting on shelves forever.
Basically, this is a successful old-fashioned computer worm, operating at a scale we've not seen for more than 10 years. On modern operating systems most attack surfaces that were easy to crack in the past have been locked down at least to the point where it is nearly impossible to find an exploit in a common protocol like this that doesn't require user interaction (hence the popularity of phishing). Apart from that we've just gotten lucky, really. Many of the most catastrophic bugs in recent years (Heartbleed, etc) were never successfully turned into exploits of this nature. Instead they were discovered and fixed quickly by researchers.

This worm targets older Windows versions that are installed (and use the exploited protocol) in a lot of critical infrastructure, and the worm was hoarded by the NSA all packaged up and ready to deploy (because it can propagate through SMB and therefore would be perfect for a future Stuxnet-like operation). So of course some criminals get their hands on it, and hey look it works. It's an absolutely bonkers story.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14336972

And I just checked myself and confirmed the continuing existence of very similar ads.
If you have a look at the data, there is a wide variety of malicious commands that it can detect.
Microsoft is feature and sales oriented not quality oriented. Security is an aspect of quality. So if you voluntarily like to put yourself at risk, by all means use their products.

Their product design doesn't emphasize security. For example, remember the extremely convenient AUTORUN.INF feature? That has probably resulted in billions of dollars lost and that number continues to grow every day.

Rendering fonts on the kernel... fantastic idea! What's the next great Microsoft idea? Continue to buy their products and figure it out.
They have a straight F :p
The NSA hoarding / leaking aspect of this vulnerability has been reported by most major news outlets. Even the mainstream ones. Albeit most haven't expanded on that point to the level that Microsoft did here.
Well, if you believe that Apple's iPhone is a communication device that depends heavily on the wireless tech pioneered by Qualcomm, then the EMVR, or entire market value rule, is appropriate and Qualcomm's royalty basis is fair.

If not, perhaps what you need is a Apple iPod touch. Apple's sales however demonstrates that the iPhone is a significant driver of their sales and profit, especially when compare to iPod touch.

Sadly, while I agree with Samsung and Intel that Qualcomm's anti-competitive practices caused a direct harm, it's difficult to prove Apple's direct harm. Apple has argued against the FRAND royalty basis (EMVR) before back in 2012 in a USITC case without much evidence and lost.
You are describing lobste.rs
Not really. Qualcomm gets most of their profits from patent licensing. If someone pressured them hard in the hardware and patent space, they would rather exit the hardware space than exit the patent space. Qualcomm minus its hardware division would be very hard to sue for parent infringement and therefore wouldn't really care about anyone else's patent portfolio.
> because you would hit a brick wall of your lack of understanding basic concepts that are taught in some of the classes you've dismissed in the article

Ehhhh, it is possible to learn just about anything on your own if you are interested enough. I have a coworker who didn't go to college but who has been working through those little yellow Springer-Verlag math books for fun for 30 years, and is thus our first go to anytime some weird theory questions comes up.
Like others have said, you might be overfitting your training data here: your model is just memorising the examples you give it and would fail if somebody slightly varies some payload. (inserting some whitespace or something)

Another thing to keep in mind is that an accuracy of 99% doesn't mean much in an unbalanced problem like yours (much more clean queries than malicious once).

What you should show instead is precision (of the ones labeled malicious, how many are actually malicious?) and recall (out of the malicious queries in the dataset, how many did your model label as malicious?)
Why do you fear updating to Windows 10?
The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology (2005) [pdf]
GOLD: Hesitates, Closes Higher
This (as far as I know) was one of hte first reports of details of the malware and clearly mentions it, and other analysts haven't said otherwise, which by now they would have if they disagreed: http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/05/wannacry.html
GEO-IP. If the GEO-IP matches the country I am a Netflix customer in.
>, but it doesn't seem to be answering the question

It seems the relevant "answer" is :

>To become a great programmer with very marketable skills, you have to build things and write code. [...] As you are building, save your work and put together a little portfolio on your website.

The projects portfolio gets people interested. I've seen some websites that showed off a project and on the webpage somewhere would be blurb like: "Btw, I'm also looking for a job in Javascript blah blah blah." And then the recruiters or hiring managers would email them because they were impressed with the work they saw.
Try to also do cross-validation (check sklearn's stratified K-Folds) to be more confident you're not just overfitting.
The margin would've been much wider still with responsible disclosure from the NSA, however. This means that fewer people would have been affected.
12 New Debian Developers and Maintainers
https://open.dgraph.io/post/licensing/
2 Years of Rust
How can you tell the difference between "visional laziness" and "visional blindness", i.e., too lazy to see or fail to see?
I think he's implying that you get it through an abundant portfolio and the ability to ace the "practical" kind of technical interview, but you're right, that needs to be spelled out. I imagine that very few people doing everything this guy is describing are going to get a job at one of the larger companies with a more rigorous vetting process where the gaps in the CS fundamentals are going to show. He should delineate the kinds of jobs these people will be strong for.
Obviously only for positive feedback, but we have a command /praise in Slack at Reddit. This let's you acknowledge someone quickly for a good job, and the results are collected into a channel and into Small Improvements, which is the heavier performance review system we use. It actually gets used quite a bit!
There's screenshots in the article I don't see why that would be necessary. Anyway, all Google ads have a tracking opt out link.

When I go to the site the ads aren't even "download" style ones like those in the screenshots, just normal banner ads.
"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" - town in Wales.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
Very much in the same spirit as I thought about it back in the 60s. I don't think I invented "Object-oriented" but more or less "noticed" what was really powerful about just making everything from complete computers communicating with non-command messages. This was all chronicled in the HOPL II chapter I wrote "The Early History of Smalltalk".

A critical part of that thought process was the idea of using Carl Hewitt's PLANNER ideas as the interface to objects -- that was done around 1970, and we used some of it in the first Smalltalk (72).
Your point holds true for Windows 10 S, but why do you consider Chromebooks to be locked down? You can enable developer mode, install your own OS on them, or even re-use the Chrome OS kernel for other desktop environments through crouton.

You're also not forced to use Google's Chrome Web Store (except on Windows with the official distribution of Chrome).
To be fair, this is not just Paint.NET. I am a Adsense publishers and I had the chance to talk to "optimizers" from the Adsense team from time to time, and I told them how much I loath those "Download" ads... unfortunately, up to today, things haven't improved, and there is little an Adsense publisher could do, because you can ban those ads in your Adsense panel, but usually they just show up a few days later under a different account.
oh yes.

I work in volunteer convention running. I made someone cry once because I called their plan a "dumb idea" - this person mind you has a Ph.d in physics. I was dumbfounded.

I get frustrated by the younger folks because they all want everything RIGHT NOW (for no work), and I get frustrated by some of the older folks, because they're unwilling to question the status quo.
>I think the author neglects one point: Deciding what to keep and what to throw away is a really difficult problem. Why is that so? Because to do it 100% correctly, you would have to know the future.

The key point here is that you don't need to do it "100% correctly". Not even "80% correctly".

In the long term (and even in the mid-term) it doesn't matter, and most of those pieces of information collected is BS that wont contribute to anything at all with regards to one's life, career, etc.

The few pieces that are actually useful, one will either encounter time an and again, or know they're something important from the get on.

>Now, in times where data storage is almost free, it makes sense to keep an ever growing but well-ordered set of files or bookmarks.

Data storage might be free, but time to organize and dig through is not. Besides, one can let Google be their storage.
Just curious, why single out Paint.NET exclusively? These types of ads have a long history all over the Internet, even on more popular sites than this - isn't this more of a Google issue than an individual website operator?
Lack of persistence is one such reason. Because Go's built-in maps are not completely safe to use concurrently, too, their usefulness as a key/value store is somewhat limited in many applications.

Naturally, it's possible to build a solution to persist Go maps and to make them safe to access across goroutines, but by that point you've built a persistent key/value store.
Hospitals may provide emergency care, but it's a poor substiture for proper long-term care with a primary care physician. It's also a horrible system for dealing with homeless and mentally ill patients, not to mention the chance of going bankrupt, and the overall effectiveness/ cost of the system vs. the benefits.

Saying it's only about who pays is not really doing justice to the problems of the American medical system.
"Generate URL" isn't working for me on your Create Post page.
I have used 7Geese[1] in the past. A little overwhelming as a tool but there are some nuggets of usefulness there.

15Five[2] (what's with these names?) is another one I have used and is a little more approachable.

1. https://7geese.com/

2. https://www.15five.com/
Chrome.

Mozilla's basically asking their user base to use a worse browser for some amount of time, during which they will have absolutely no tangible benefits over Chrome. They're not faster right now (judging by nightlies), they won't be faster on day one.

Firefox's current advantage is its addon system. It's losing a lot of functionality there.

Once that goes away, what's left? And is that "what's left" better than the competition?
And shelf space costs a lot more than server space and bandwidth.
I like a lot of what the author is saying, but there is still value in learning the theory.

You can get learn a lot building your own apps, but then you're forced to learn some lessons the hard way. Sometimes you can avoid making mistakes by learning from someone with years of experience. You don't need to take a course, but reading can help so much. Books like The Pragmatic Programmer, Code Complete or Literate Programming can set a good base for thinking about your code.

Also to address the how self taught programmers get jobs, it's worth pointing out that the first question was from a 17 year old. I'd say it would be tricky at that age to get given a chance by an employer. So with time and age their employ-ability should increase as a factor of age alone.
I wonder whether implementations follow x9.42 parameter generation algorithm?
Well, this is in fact similar to botnets, but the virality was absolutely explosive compared to other ransomware—you typically need to target people.
Should computer programming be a prerequisite for learning statistics?
At least one of them in the screenshots says "advertisement by", in addition to the tracking opt out icon. But yes that is what I was referring to.
Complete BS. This is what happens when you have top class PR at your disposal to define the narrative.

Microsoft is responsible for their shit software getting exploited first and foremost. Seriously fine Microsoft and by day after tomorrow that 3500 security engineer number will jump to something realistic.

Instead what will happen is more tightening of the walled garden, overcharging of support/security contracts and propping up of another billionaire or two. I can hear the whisky glasses clinking.

Corporations do not get to set the agenda and the narrative. When they are allowed to, the results are very predictable - in this case Microsoft will make more than they loose. Who here disagrees that is going to happen? And who here believes that is right?

The answer is simple whether its Microsoft today or Facebook and Google tomorrow win-win should not be an option when such things happen.
Link to try it out http://www.taggernews.com/
It didn't actually, but in this case the computer allows things cleaner than biology. We could have gone a lot farther in making the interior of an object a real object space rather than what we did. Years later we did try that, and it is a good idea.

Also, take a look at the article I wrote for Scientific American in September 1984 "Software" that talks about organizations of active objects as "tissue programming"
>The outside world does not have an object browser, nor is it made of s-expressions.

You'd be surprised.

Joking aside, you seem to fixate on an implementation detail. It's just that the computing world, or rather the Unix on, is "made of text".

The world is actually made of objects and data, and this is closer to Lisp and Smalltalk.
Oh, that was silly of us not to use BigQuery! I was just able to use that download a full million stories (though we still would have had the rate-limiting step of downloading the articles).

During a hackathon it can be hard to tell when to keep searching for an easy solution like that, as opposed to going with something slow you know will work- sometimes it turns out to be a dead end.

Thanks for the recommendations!
Modern hexagons run a full Linux under L4 also. It seems like the microkernel separation isn't really architected towards security AFAICT, but for running hard real time tasks on the same cores as the rest of the system.
Well, Qualcomm collects royalties from Foxconn, not directly from Apple. So AAPL's royalty to Qualcomm is essentially based on Foxconn's manufacturing price, not Apple's retail price. Apple is paying nowhere close to what most people think Apple is paying.

Apple did participate in KFTC's case against Qualcom, but I think it's still a bit difficult to prove Apple's direct harm. I mean I could see clearly how Qualcomm's direct competitors were harmed by their licensing malpractices -- eg, Qualcomm refusal to license, it's more difficult to quantify Apple's loss.

One way to understand the lawsuit between Apple v Qualcomm is that Apple believes that their patents are worth $8 per device (see Samsung 2012), while everyone else's, especially Standard Essential Patents, are $0.00000000x per device. So Apple is just trying to squeeze their suppliers.
Unless the NSA reported it to MS back when XP was still supported, not much would change. People can (and do) reverse-engineer exploits from windows updates, and they could still take advantage of the large number of unpatched XP machines.
Misleading medical claims aside, this looks like another Coolest Cooler, in which the creator is in over his head. His original goal was $21,500, and since going viral, he keeps adding more spots to the "Early Bird" backers. The creator has listed no other team members and has no production experience himself. If you read his bio carefully [0], he alludes to having production experience, but lists no names or links whatsoever except to his media company, which is literally a Youtube channel with ~50 subscribers. [1]. That his campaign had misleading medical claims seems to be a hint that he doesn't have medical experts or designers who have experience in this area.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1620645203/about

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwIXCnpTwZQaRtzyNOyzkfA
subreddit force are their communities

Also in 10 minutes there is no time to read every articles (or any good long for that matter) so not sure what that leave on the front page
I disagree with your view of what I posted. (it was not done with a unsubstantive+ragey stance) What I posted was a disagreement with the exaggeration of the alternative point of view they had. (Any article that doesn't agree with the popular ultra liberal women's positive view is "salted by mens rights [insert derogative terms etc]")

Being anti-feminist is not a bad thing. It is a conversation that could be had (is it good, is it bad, etc), the topic of the original poster leads to a conversatoin about this.

My concern with Hacker News is that it claims to be technology focused, and founder focus. However articles dealing with gender issues, like this, get promoted and kept up.

I completely respect and understand your stance that those topics tend to go badly.
Just SMBv1 in this case, here is how: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2696547/how-to-enab...

Also, decent AV and anti spam and don't open email attachments without some prior analysis. Backups - good backups and check them at least weekly.

Actually just do all the boring stuff that IT Security have been recommending for years.
I think they are going to post these. But I also think that essay "The Power of the Context" is available online. Did you even try to type this into Google? I just did and the pdf seems to be the first hit ...
Pretty slick for what I'm assuming is your first big project.

Tangentially related: do you think your mentor might have been indirectly encouraging you by telling you it was impossible? I've been on both ends of that trick and have seen mixed results. Any mentors here who have done something similar? How did it go?
I find if the story is engrossing enough the quality doesn't really matter too much.
Disabled the SMB services yet? Win + R -> services.msc

I routinely disable services (until things stop working and I have to figure where I went too far) and luckily I'd disabled this one on my Win7 gaming box, even though the updates came through as well (I just manually vet updates, and have a bunch of them blacklisted for adding telemetry).
They would care if thousands of organisations pulled their advertising over it.
Very timely considering the new Snapchat building facade imagery detection patent just published this week.

I have to say putting emojis and ads/brand integration on buildings is not the most impressive of their AR visions but I can see why they want to do it.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/5/15559728/snapchat-augmente...
"older Windows versions"

Win 10 is vulnerable without the patch that came out in march.
>The typical Spanish work day begins at 9am; after a two-hour lunch break between 2 and 4pm, employees return to work, ending their day around 8pm. The later working hours force Spaniards to save their social lives for the late hours. Prime-time television doesn’t start until 10:30pm.

There is something about that that sounds very appealing since I typically stay up to around midnight and wake up at 5:30 - 6:00 AM every morning

The Spanish have a saying I like.

"It's good to relax after a day of doing nothing"
If people realize they are effectively blind and are actively trying to see in as many ways as possible, they are not being lazy. If they realize they are blind and are not trying to see, then they are lazy. Most people just think they can see and this is the toughest to get around.
You can thank the community's reliance on scummy ad-laded URL shorteners like Adfly for that. It seems like every time I'm going through an adfly link, there's a fake download button.

Worse, they've got fairly effective adblock detection.
> Letting a 7 year old walk themselves to school is no longer okay, for example.

Why not? What's changed?
I've never heard of him espousing detrimental views FWIW. He had a public spat with Google after he left though: https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-feel-like-to-be-fired-fro... There used to be a lot more blog articles about it (on that same blog I believe), but now that it's been a number of years (maybe even 10 by now?) I think they've slowly started disappearing.

Edit: here's the explanation on why you can't find a lot of his earlier material online: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/44bmmq/why_agi...