skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikileaks is under ddos.
Amazon makes a ton of money during the Christmas holidays on their platform.
ECS would have needed to redirect sysadmins from their normal tasks to monitor and segregate traffic to prevent any impact to their primary business.

Regardless of whether it is free speech or not, things that are detrimental to their primary business or impact other clients, violate their T&C. I would have turfed them too.

The attack is politically motivated. You don't see anyone attacking tpb because they maintain a tracker link to the 1.3tb archive. The attack is specifically against the domain, causing wikileaks to jump around from provider to provider. The attack doesn't prevent the data from being distributed. Four newspapers already had complete copies - one of which hired 12-14 people to write an interface in Django to collate and categorize.

The DDOS does nothing but prevent the people that want to casually see what the fuss is about from seeing it.

If you're that concerned that the information should be free, grab the 1.3tb copy and host it. Yeah, that's what I thought.
j vs i gets really confusing when you're doing a dual electrical engineering / computer science degree, since you have to remember which classes use which: electrical engineering uses j (since i is already taken to mean current), CS math uses i :)
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>so everyone can stay properly inhibited

I've not had a lot of contact with the autistic (or those with other mental health issues) but lacking proper social inhibitions has come up. If I were a psychologist I think that a FOSS conference would be very interesting.

Not that we're all freaks though ... nor indeed that this excuses uninhibited behaviours (and certainly not sexual assault).
I'm wondering the same thing. Liebermann probably knows too.

People say this a lot about politicians and I wonder how true it is. Lieberman in particular has never shown himself to be particularly smart. He mostly repeats the conventional "centrist" line and seems to contradict himself fairly regularly. I seem to remember that he drove the Gore campaign nuts in 2000 by spouting off whatever popped into his head.

Most politicians are not following a grand plan but are rather following a guideline of "What will Rush Limbaugh like?" (Conservatives) or "What will the editorial page of the Washington Post like?" (Centrists) or "What will my donors like?" (Pretty much everybody)
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There are valid specializations for programmers. There are application developers, systems architects, UI engineers, operations specialists, cryptographers, scientific programmers, etc. You don't care that your doctor uses the Acme Scalpel 4000, you just want your gut cut.
The only problem is that it is in Flash.
Personally I want technology / entrepreneurship news primarily when I visit HN

WikiLeaks is technology.
Sweet going to chk them out and see if they need testers, thx!
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Well considering Groupon has 80% of the market- this is probably too much but they need the cash to compete if Goog gets 'em. They need amazon's marketing machine more than anything. But there's enough money in the space to go around thats for sure.
>In my opinion she's anything but clear.

Seriously? You miss her saying that trading business cards is not an invitation for personal contact?

I found it blatantly obvious that she finds direct flirting acceptable while the subterfuge of faking a professional interaction to acquire contact information to be creepy and spineless.

I think a lot of people here are taking this woman's complaint personally which is actually quite funny.
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Neutron weapons are deployed at higher altitudes and explode nearly vertically to the ground. This helps minimize the physical shockwave damage to the ground and maximize exposure to the Gamma-ray radiation.

Contrasting this, some weapons are intended to be detonated at an angle & closer to ground level. These combine to increase the physical effects of the explosive shockwave: overturning armored vehicles, weakening defensive structures, destroying rail & roadways, and knocking down cover.
what i was trying to say is, that first you have to work insanely hard and/or have a huge amount of luck to be in a situation where you actually have that problem. Then when you have reached that, you can think about how to solve it, which i fould find a very nice problem to deal with.
Does flagging something prevent it from being in the frontpage?

Also, this is only happening with stories with with the word "wikileaks" in the title. Not with other stories about wikileaks that don't have the word "wikileaks" in the title.
We call that being a `research scientist', which basically means playing on the company's dime.

Of course, you generally have to have a Ph.D. and prodigious output of papers to get the job.
Would you find it acceptable for someone to call you after finding your resume online but then after the business pretext asking you on a date?
For some entertaining reading, check out his views on Red Mercury.
Its looking like it. The future's grim, george.
Can I pretend it was a pun?
She's married, I don't think her flirting was intended as a sign of availability.
> Isn't this obvious with all of the talk about improving the targeting of advertising?

It's not the same thing ... targeted advertising doesn't mean reaching people with more money. It means reaching people when they are in the mood for spending on your product (the right time / the right place).

E.g. even if you are a big spender, are you willing to buy a baby pram right now? How about a woman that has uploaded photos of her newborn to Facebook? You may have millions of dollars that you're willing to spend, but that said woman is more likely to buy baby gear than you.
The easiest way to get better is to keep asking the following question, over an over again:

"What can I remove from this interface to simplify it?"
Eh? Google has offices - with people, and cubes, and dining in it - in at least four floors of that building. They have about 2000 employees in this building.

Here are a lot more pictures of that space:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Inside-Googles-Manha...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/fashion/31google.html

http://picasaweb.google.com/photos.jobs/NewYorkOfficePhotos (linked from http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/new-york/)

There are also a handful of other companies - such as barnesandnoble.com - with office space in this building.

Some of the floors might be datacenter space, but a huge amount of it is also people-office space.
As I said in a comment to the last time you submitted this question ...

Possibly because people are flagging them as fast as possible to avoid being swamped by the wikileaks flood. Or possibly, as with TSA stories, there's currently a penalty being applied to them. Flagging things moves them down the rankings, just as upvotes move them up.

I count between 30 and 40 wikileaks stories submitted in the last 24 hours, and around 130 to 140 in the last 5 days. Personally, I think it's too many, but I'm just a grumpy old man who thinks technology stories, and stories about people in business, are more interesting, and more relevant to HN.
Here's another site full of photoshoots of the writer. Think he's asking for personal contact if he hands out his business card? http://stallman.org/photos/rms-working/
I know what you're trying to say - language is a fluid changing thing, which evolves.

While I agree with this concept - I don't think misuse of technical terms changes the meaning of those terms.

In this case, lack of education, misinformation and confusion are driving the misuse of the term. It won't change what HTML5 actually is, because we have an officially sanctioned definition.
Yup, in Mahwah area, up Route 17 near the NY border. The NYSE built a massive data center there specifically for colocation of high frequency trading operations, even going so far as ensuring each customers switch runs are the same length. It was on 60:Minutes a while ago.
Well I'm a guy but if I wasn't married I'd be flattered.
I to am really surprised this got to the front page. I'm kind of interested in how that happened. But on the other hand I've been browsing HN for about 2 years now. I wish now that I had contributed more in the past so I could down vote submissions. It's probably schmucks like me who tell everyone, not just those that have the same interests, that they read HN. Yes, the account I'm using is a more recent account, I forgot my old password.
>Cat says, "If I think an event organizer turns a blind eye to questionable behavior I'll pass on the event."

I'm surprised that conference organisers would ignore sexual assault particularly with the bad press it must bring - assuming that these women are reporting the sexual assaults (someone fondling your genitals against your express will is pretty clearly sexual assault IMO).

But then if the women assaulted choose not to report such things to the police (I think the onus lies with them as opposed to any witnesses) how can the conference organisers act? They can't assume an uncharged person is guilty, can they?
Good timing - I just had this thought "in the shower" a day or two ago. I wouldn't utilize a VPN enough to make some of the more traditional providers cost-effective, so something along these lines is probably Just Right.
But the articles aren't discussing the technology, and wikileaks itself, although it uses technology, isn't itself technology. It's like submitting endless articles about, say, the New York Times, just because they use technology in their printing processes.

And it's not even a wiki.
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Thanks - I think it's a good idea.
Ask HN: How can I (legally) help a friend get personal info taken down?
My friend at one time sent her resume/cv to http://www.acecareer.co.kr/ They found an un-submitted photo of her (from Facebook I presume) and added it. Since posting her resume she has changed her mind and no longer needs/wants it online. She has contacted the company and asked them to remove it without success. She has sought a Korean embassy, and political representatives for help, but no success as of yet. Any ideas?
For 24-hours clock you should have said 6 and 18 hours.
Nice catch. This makes more sense, to be honest, than Assange making a mistake as gross as hosting in the US.
Perhaps I misunderstand the whole thing then. Tell me is this C++ code "pass by reference" or not?

class Foo;

void Bar( Foo& somefoo) {
...
}
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>Just avoid the guys who speak badly of women. They're also a big part of the problem.

I know if I ignore a problem then it always just goes away ... /sarcasm

Probably better, if you can, to stand up against people who are being badmouthed without warrant.
Since the first few, I've flagged every wikileaks story that's I've seen on the frontpage because they're almost all rehashes of what's already been on the frontpage, or information you could get from going to cnn.com.
Spiekermann on Typography
I understand how it can be used against an army but a lot of bombing is meant to impair infrastructure and production capacity. Such a weapon doesn't address the real concern of modern warfare: civilian populations are more and more impacted then they used to be.
Original:

http://spiekermann.com/typografie-im-lokalfernsehen/
Is that guy in a bathrobe?
Using "they" for an ambiguous singular pronoun is perfectly good English. It was deprecated by Victorian grammarians who wanted English to be like Latin (the same people who ordered us not to boldly split infinitives).
Link to the map (http://i.imgur.com/c6Agr.jpg)
For the purpose of something appearing on the front page, flags count as downvotes. They don't affect the point score, but they can cause something to appear further down than they would otherwise. There are several Wikileaks stories on the second page.
If you feel the need to pull that in here, at least provide sourcing for your allegations of falseness.
HTML5 has become a very relevant term outside of technical circles and there it refers to all upcoming web technologies and – pretty much – always has. I guess you will just have to life with the two different meanings in two different context. I don’t think it’s a problem, I quite like HTML5 as a catch-all term for upcoming web technologies.
Oh wow, do you know what edition started doing that?
Britain resists extraditing hacker Gary McKinnon
I like the intention of the second one but it felt too prescriptive for my purposes. I've had decent success trying to learn to better empathize genuinely.

Practice with public speaking and corporate politics and influencing are doing a lot to help me better understand how to befriend and relate to people that don't share my interests. It was initially surprising for me to be one of the geekier people in a building that is ostensibly full of IT workers.

Things that work for me: Toastmasters, Dale Carnegie books, Rands in Repose (blog and/or books), regional sports blogs.
Why not just setup something like PFsense ( http://www.pfsense.org/ ) at home with OpenVPN configured?
> Also the more knowledge you have the more difficult it becomes to retrieve that knowledge quickly.

I've never heard this about the human brain before.

I'm not saying you're wrong, because I don't know, but statements of fact like this deserve a good reference.

Do you have anything to back up this assertion of fact?
Hold him, have a talk with him, let him go. This usually shakes people up and is completely legal
who thinks this leads in google's extension of its product line with financial product that are "note evil"?

i feel financial products are essentially "information product" to begin with.
There are a number of other buildings with office space in Manhattan. Not many have multiple datacenter floors covering a city block. One of these characteristics is more relevant to Google than the other.

// As an aside, it's curious that 60 Hudson St looks so much like one end of 111 8th Ave.
I've seen some responses to women in our community that were bordering on sycophantic - and slightly creepy.

I think sometimes in an attempt to be enthusiastic about women attending events, it can go a bit too far. Tokenism and othering as, in the long term, just as damaging to gender relations.
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"You don't care that your doctor uses the Acme Scalpel 4000, you just want your gut cut." Exactly. What makes you think that this is different in software... the end users DO NOT care what tool or framework you use to build the solutions they need. Now, doctors probably have preferences on what tools and procedures to use - just like we programmers.
I agree there are sometimes too many stories, but the story of wikileaks.org domain being dropped has enough votes and isn't in the frontpage, and I think it's important enough to be there. Other technology websites are reporting it.
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I'd be interested to know what people think about coding pre-screening tests in general. As is obvious from my profile, I'm working on a startup trying that helps companies and recruiters easily implement coding tests to weed out people who can't code. This is a bit different than asking someone to whiteboard a solution - we're aiming to help companies get from a few hundred resumes to the top 10 or 15. We've commonly heard the problem (and experienced it first-hand) that people can't code, and we think coding tests helps solve that problem. I think it's a better solution than going by your past experience, because that's often fluff.
It's worth noting that the quoted "$0.50 a month" only applies for the first year, after which it will cost $0.02 an hour or ~$15 a month.
This really looks like something I could use. I'll give it a try!
As the old saying goes, don't judge a book by its cover...

Regardless of how goofy she wants to make her blog look, I think she still has a good point (although, granted, it was a rant and thus not exactly written in the most positive way possible)
Q: How does a Windows machine react if ports above 1080 are blocked by a router?
A: A regular user can surf for roughly 2min after booting, then has to reboot.

Huh?
Your parent comment reads like you are asserting that this building is used for datacenters only.

Also the article itself states that they likely aren't that interested in hosting their own servers in this building:

Google’s purchase of the building provides access to additional office space for its growing New York sales and engineering operation at 111 8th Avenue...

While Google could build out its own data center space at 111 8th Avenue, the cost of power in New York probably precludes a massive server farm in the building. Most of Google’s large-scale data centers are located in suburban or rural areas with cheaper power.
Having the military technology of the Romans didn't stop people from having as many wars as they could. Seeing suffering hasn't stopped people from having wars. Enthusiastically. The only technology that has put the brakes on men's passion for warring is nuclear weapons. This has been the most peaceful period in history.
Yes. These lawless people will do anything they want under color of law. Do not expect rationality or good faith from them. Expect savagery.

[Note: I'll interpret the down-votes as disagreement. I hope you're right. But I think donation require courage. Just make sure you can withstand an audit. I don't think you have to worry about orange jump suits yet, Peter King notwithstanding.]
They should "magically" fix bugs so I never experience them.
OK, this explains what is happening.

But if so I think some people are flagging automatically, maybe with scripts. There are WikiLeaks news in the frontpage. Only those with the word "wikileaks" in the title are affected, apparently.
I don't see anything in her blog post that supports what you've said. If it's in the comments you might want to quote it.
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Once you are in their site and play around with the navigation, do not click. Seriously.

Their 'Hey, I told you not to click but you did anyway' screen is not only annoying and headache-inducing. In my opinion, it could also be dangerous.

Reminding oneself of http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/seizure.html from time to time is a good idea.
I was wondering the same thing. The post went through all the steps to setup SSH VPN while SSH tunneling works pretty well and requires almost-zero config on the server…

OTOH I saw the value of using PPTP or L2TP-based VPN. It is supported on most systems by default. I set up one for iPhone because you cannot do SSH tunneling on it. On non-*nix systems there is usually no SSH installed by default. I opened my PPTP/L2TP VPN for friends running Windows.

It's also slightly easier to connect to PPTP/L2TP VPN with a single click on the menubar of OS X without installing any additional software.

Otherwise I stick with SSH tunneling with SOCKS proxy.

Could someone explain the benefits of SSH VPN please?
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CloudKick is nicer, but then free is free. I use CloudKick for my stuff and I don't think I'll stop. Some customers however need to cut their costs for many-Ec2 instance deployments, so the free monitoring is good.

I just checked most of the large instances my customer runs, and noticed some are very underutilized; wonder if free monitoring might reduce Amazon's revenue?
I'm not logged in and it worked for me (I am a subscriber though), does this work? http://www.economist.com/node/17626972/print
If you are running Apache Tomcat (or anything based on Coyote), as I can see from headers, you are _already_ serving slower than Node. Just because Tomcat needs more time to parse and return the response than Node. Only Jetty with NIO connector has comparably high speed. (Yes, I've tested by myself).

And, JFYI, you have to move static content to nginx or lighthttpd, Coyote serves static files even worse than Apache web server.

All you say about functionality of the platform has no relation to the speed.
SideStep basically automates ssh -D for you and sets up a local SOCKS proxy. However SOCKS proxies (and thus the current version of Sidestep) can only protect TCP traffic that supports SOCKS proxies. For example, you can't tunnel your DNS requests over a proxy (without tinkering with Firefox's about:config).

Also, since ssh -D is not a true VPN tunnel, your machine is exposed to the hostile network (if you don't have a firewall).

If you want complete privacy where ALL of your IP traffic is tunneled out, OpenVPN (or other tunneling layer 3 solution) is the way to go.
>FWIW some people would consider that unwelcoming/harassing--I think the term is "othering". i.e. what's treated as important is not the person or their skill but their gender.

>And, yes, it can be annoying for guy in a "traditionally female" domain as well.

I think I'd prefer to have people pay attention to me for a particular characteristic if that meant that you could then demonstrate you're more than just that characteristic once interacting.

I'm dad to an 18month old. We use a sling rather than a buggy. No one ever holds a door for me or steps aside, stepping into the road with a baby because jerks won't let you past on the pavement ... anyway, I'm coming to a point here somewhere ... I've been to a few meetings where I'm the only man and I just get ignored. I find group social situations pretty hard anyway but I only get included if I break the ice and usually the only interaction I get is scowls for playing with their kids.

I think I'm ranting, hang on, yup ranting, I'll just sit over here.
Looks that I have bad karma ) I read HN daily,but I never contributed with comments or questions,... mmm :)
> Other technology websites are reporting it.

And there is perhaps the main point. I don't come to HN for generic technology stories, I go to other places. I don't automatically flag wikileaks stories, but I've seen the same stories over and over and over again from nearly every tech site I go to, and having them flagged on this site, and hence not reaching the front page, doesn't disturb me. Quite the opposite, it helps to bolster my faith that HN is different, and more valuable.
Could you trim the number from the beginning of the title - the HN guidelines specifically guard against this sort of title:

> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
Really? How do you interact with a touch screen on tablets? You click. With your fingers.

Clicking is the fundamental way we interact with physical objects, unless we figure out how to read minds later. Clicking with mouse mimics this.
agreed!, add an archive on clever uses of Math.Pi as well
I've never used OpenVPN (and am not a network expert), but my guess is that it shims into your network stack somehow, so it's transparent to any application? Maybe, it's just a guess. Otherwise, it doesn't seem to make much sense.

I'm running a low-tech setup like this with sshd on my home router and PuTTY on my laptop, acting as a SOCKS proxy, and there are several applications that don't know how to talk to a SOCKS proxy. Luckily FF knows how to.
The monetary policy, yes. But taxes are different for example.
The #1 thing I've learnt making casual games is making them is 10% fun and 90% boring. There must be millions of unfinished prototypes out there that were dropped just after the fun ended and the developer had a 'better' idea... I know I have a few dozen.