skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original title is:
“ Avast fights off cyber-espionage attempt, Abiss”

However, there is an unclear statement in the blog post on whether there was in fact a successful hack or a failed attempt:

“When analyzing the external IPs, we found that the actor had been attempting to gain access to the network through our VPN as early as May 14 of this year.

After further analysis, we found that the internal network was successfully accessed with compromised credentials through a temporary VPN profile that had erroneously been kept enabled and did not require 2FA.“
This is a terrible offer, very expensive for what you get.
There is nothing ingenious or intellectually redeeming about using brutality and deceit to gain power. That's all people like Adolf Hitler and Leon Trotsky did. They betrayed humanity and the culture of humanitarianism that had been built up for millenia before them to gain an advantage.

Mass murderers who traded the moral foundations of their civilization for tactical and strategic advantage are intellectual midgets who belong in the dustbin of history.
If everything is subjective and we don't bring counter arguments to one's arguments, then science cannot go on. In programming, we need to know if objectively one programming language is better than the others, so as that we use it to our benefit.
Central banks printing money to acquire bad assets from collapsing commercial banks would not cause any inflation.
That’s true, I get a lot of fraud calls from India too.

It’s lack of regulation, funds and a lot of other things.

You’re right though, it’s going to affect reputation for sure. Not like it’s going to make the bad actors mindful, because as you suggest, it’s survival that’s on their mind.
As someone who was a dev for small but established company that wasn't purely internet facing, I didn't even notice. (Not being snarky, just saying for balance).
To actually develop this technology further, they’ll have to spend another 5-10 years on it. I’m sure they’ll manage it, but for now, there’s nothing new about these trains. Yet.
Perl 6 is really a different language from Perl 5, so I think the new name is what should have happened from the beginning.

But I basically agree with you that using the name "Perl 6" for Raku led to most people abandoning Perl 5. Hopefully people will think more carefully about transition in the future. But too many technologists ignore history, so I don't have high hopes.
No SSL? That reeks of competence.

They also have a "submit ticket" page, apparently. So the "no support" doesn't even mean "no support".
> " What the fuck are they doing with these money and 200k servers? These are facebook numbers. For a bank. What?"

Are you surprised that a an organisation handling billions of real money, millions or billions of financial transactions, and decades worth of legacy systems, can make do with only as little in servers and software development as a social network?
ConsumerSearch is the best thing I've found for this purpose specifically

https://www.consumersearch.com/
Or selling a VW clean emission free vehicle with a cheating device.
That kind of support isn't offered by any VPS provider that's unmanaged. They don't call it "No Support", it's unmanaged.
When you're just trying to read stuff to understand it, "understandable" is good enough. I'll be waiting for a looong time for CN/JP/KR translation to reach anywhere close to Not Utterly Incoherent.
Music to my ears !!!
The code for it is on GitHub, can someone please file an issue there to provide an additional green version? (Or fix it right away?)

https://github.com/potch/unmaintained.tech/issues

Thank you!
> used time to study for CAT and left to enroll in IIMA.

For those of you who don't know about CAT: think GMAT but with 200000 people appearing for it at the same time-frame (maybe a 15 day window)

IIMA - Harvard equivalent in India. Only about 400 people out of 200000 make it to IIMA.
I've heard a borderless account with TransferWise can be a quick, painless route
Maybe you feel that is worth thousands to millions of dollars spent hunting down a man for 10 years. I doubt Assange would have been aware of that sort of technicality and it is highly likely that something else would have been fabricated if they didn't have that as an excuse.

From memory he didn't even succeed on the password front. The 'crime' here is an incidental non-issue compared to why the US has been hounding him.
Why aren't these things at 600+km/h already?

It's fairly trivial to travel at 300km/h on a motorcycle with far more severe packaging constraints of fuel and powertrain, awful aerodynamics, and no rails to glide down.
Ask HN: Are Macaroons widely used in the industry for Authorization
i was looking at alternatives to JWT and came across. But i find that support for the standard is still limited . I just want to ask if anyone is using it in Production. http://evancordell.com/2015/09/27/macaroons-101-contextual-confinement.html
The World Economy Is Stumbling Toward Disaster
IIRC they have a mandated max life of 13 years.
I had just taken a consulting job and had been at the company for about 2 weeks when 9/11 happened. One week later we got laid off. Turns out I was lucky to get laid off early. Managed to get a job at a bank before the big consulting companies started their purges. Sat through the dotcom bust in a bank and then moved on in 2003 when times had improved again and there were more opportunities.
It also requires population density similar to Chinese.
Trains are vehicles.
For up to thirteen years apparently: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/spread_of_ages_of_lon...

According to that, max age of a black cab is 15 years. On the plus side, given the age distribution shown, then about 10% of the black cabs will already be 0 emission.
Perhaps I'm too jaded, but it comes off to me as copping out of the truly difficult ones!
Their Google cert literally is "Tesonet" - how is this claim debunked - you can check it yourself.
How is that possible with all the regulation?
Actually, reading the article, it seems that "like a Tech company" is just a click-bait title.

The point is that Estonia invested in Internet connectivity penetration, computer literacy for children (and adults too probably), and moved or instituted many/most government services on-line.
Whether the impactor mass is a solid shell, or the molten ejecta of a shaped charge, Sir Isaac is going to prosecute you under his Third Law.

Reactionless motion is not possible. The drone will recoil.

That said, it only need fire once given the mission in question.
Choices for OS: Ubuntu 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.04, 15.10, 16.04, Fedora 15, Debian 8.

If you love to play with fire, host with them.
> What I haven't seen are actual solutions for how to deal with the radiation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/science/space/data-show-h...

"According to the National Cancer Institute, the lifetime risk of dying from cancer is 21 percent; the two-thirds of a sievert from a round-trip mission to Mars would raise that risk by three percentage points, to 24 percent."

Mars advocates like Zubrin argue the "acceptable dose limits" are exceedingly conservative, and that NASA willingly permitted far more dangerous operations (like the Shuttle) than radiation incurs.

> It's certainly never been tested before.

Sure it has. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500
Where does it say they used the defaults for their "main database"? As far as I'm aware it was "only" the password for a management portal for customer complaints, not the keys to the kingdom.
Hmm, not at all.

It’s a different matter that I don’t think very highly of them.

I just don’t think it’s fair to accuse them of fraud. W/o considering the fact that they’re from a country with a lot less resources competing for contracts that perfectly competent people reward to them.
> working for a company with large corporate clients in conservative industries, the crash had basically no impact at all.

Exactly, if there is a new crash it'll affect BS startups. aka: if your company is working on a BS service, isn't profitable after X years and is only able to survive due to investors initial $$$ you're in a bad place, including companies with a proper product but an oversized engineering team. If you're working on a real/profitable product in a healthy company/market you'won't feel a thing.

uber, snapchat, wework &c.
Lobsters on the blockchain. Connecting fishers with chefs to fight food fraud
A Complete Understanding Is No Longer Possible
>The overlooking of the value that their capital provided is a classic oversight of Marxists.

this fundamental concept is called constant capital and it is of course introduced in the opening chapters of capital vol 1
> "Furthermore, Equifax employed the username “admin” and thepassword “admin” to protect a portal used to manage credit disputes, a passwordthat “is a surefire way to get hacked.”"

The document does not state any further detail than this, so it is a bit unclear as to what exactly was located on this portal - does not seem like it was their main database anyhow.

Still incredibly incompetent though.
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I’m genuinely curious how this happens. I remember my first job in the industry, just out of university. I knew nothing about security, but still wouldn’t have done that. My first gig was in a credit union software company, and the security standards were nonexistent, yet we still had more reasonable passwords than this (which sounds like an installation default).
It's sad. Most companies these days (to include HP) are hire and fire shops. All of them deny it.

Want to know why my resume is full of 1-2 year stints? Because when a project is winding down I've learned to start looking for a new job - because it's the safe thing to do. Managers will tell you up until the day you get your layoff notice that your job is safe.
Construction machinery, Busses, Gas heating boilers? Probably not trains, only a few long distance trains out of Paddington and St Pancras are still diesel powered.
A while ago I started an OSS maintainer community for exactly this purpose, I saw software that was in use, people wanted to contribute, the users were very active, but the developer had abandoned it, creating a hole. We all know how much more difficult it is to create a fork that will be discoverable over the original rather than just merge a few PRs.

I would like to ask anyone who currently has a project they don't want to maintain to spend the minute to add the project to Code Shelter:

https://www.codeshelter.co/

This way, interested people can easily pick up maintenance and at least merge a few PRs/triage a few issues. Also, if you have some spare time or you see a project you'd like to help out with, please join Code Shelter as a maintainer:

https://www.codeshelter.co/membership/

There's no reason to have abandoned projects nowadays, it locks them in a state of "I don't want anyone improving this" rather than "I don't have time to improve it, but feel free to if you want".
Can you confirm the certificate for Proton never had Tesonet in it? The number of overlapping coincidences is just unreal.
Against what exactly? 0 evidence and what i suspect is from the same source that said tulsi gubbard was a Russian asset? The unverifiable bullshit that Americans eat like its kosher.

Jesus fucking christ is all i got to that ridicilous propganda. If you need to think of him as a Russian operative for you to live with the treatment hes getting, so be it. Im done.
1. Haven't they electrified the trains?

2. Don't cars still pollute, even under the low emission standards?

3. Car pollution is also part of business. Do you mean industrial production activity? Fossil fuel burning for heating?
> Haskell is like that smart, funny but shy girl totally outshined by her more popular classmates - Python and Java

Come on. Why picking a girl specifically?
Do you have a source for that? Dropping that age limit from 15 to 12 years would obsolete about 20% of the fleet overnight, since the age spread of the cabs is fairly linear.
What war crimes were committed?
The founder of Hobby Lobby has an amazing collection of historic religious texts (I've seen them). The retail chain does not.
Because regulation is only as good as its enforcement.
They can't afford a few thousand for training, so spend more thousands rewriting? The original Haskell devs had to learn, too.
So where can I buy it?
Regulation means nothing without proper auditing and enforcement. Question is how are countries (US in this case) not enforcing the most basic regulation...
There's a LOT of diesel trains coming in to London terminals still
I'll tell you how this happens:

Colleague #1: "What password shall we set?"

Colleague #2: "Just leave it default for now as we're still testing, we will change it later".
I had been a freelance consultant for about ten years, working through headhunters and by word of mouth.

Around April 2002 my contract was not renewed and I spent four months unable to find one. The freelance contract market seemed to dry up.

I had to go work as a full time employee for less than half the pay in Montréal (I live in Toronto). I commuted five hours by train each weekend for a year.

Ironically, the crappy company that hired me referred to me as a 'consultant'.

My hours went towards implementing KYC regulation for a big American bank.

The upside is that I got to live and work in French among my people for a while (I am French Canadian).
2001 - out of work for a year and sending resumes everywhere. I'd call and ask "Did you get my resume"? The reply - "Yes, your resume and a thousand others".
This is like saying "The demise of Wheels and the rise of Automobiles"
Yes - currently using it right now (sixth edition, where it switched to using RISC-V) for for my MS.
Yes, but it depends on the frequency of the issue. If it’s very rare/isolated it can be tolerated. Since release I've only seen it in the iTunes/Music app so far.

And Windows updates have had that problem as well, so the whole scale just shifts.
Is it fraud or is it incompetence?
If you're looking for something similar for game development, check out speedtree. It has a comparable feature set. Also, has a relatively low month-to-month fee.
Unions generally work for those who have been there the longest. The young workers don't like hour cuts when they see people who have been there for years not have to take the same cuts. Worse, when you are young it is harder to have the required savings in place. My bank won't accept a lesser house payment - if I have been there for 10 years inflation has indirectly made my house payment less so I can afford to live on less income, which benefits the older worker over the younger. (there are lots of bills in life, some do hit older workers more and I'm intentionally not talking about them)
Is there any evidence that showing pictures of women actually makes a difference with this?
Somebody can be both terrible and intellectual/clever.

Do not mistake intellectual with moral, empathetic, or good.
> America is very backwards in tech for daily life. About 2 years ago I was blown away when I arrived at the San Francisco airport and had to buy a train card with a Visa card; the customer service guy got flustered and pulled an old carbon paper swiper thing out from under the desk, and asked for my signature.

America is very backwards because of one thing that happened to you that has literally never happened to me in the 21+ years I have been an adult here?

How did you even find a human to pay? I have always used a ticket vending machine at SFO.
Not in the dot-com years.
The new ownership probably had no idea what they actually bought. I think to be fair, whilst it may have been cheaper to hire new devs than rewrite everything, it would have taken a while to learn and become proficient enough to use and properly maintain the existing codebase properly.
>>But real markets tend to be far from perfectly competitive. Depending on how hard it is to switch jobs, which is affected by factors like the level of demand by other employers for the same type of work, and the difficulty of retraining for other types of work, the employer may have a semi-monopsony status, in which case the wage may be far below the value the employer derives.

Of course real-world economies are highly chaotic/complex and are going to deviate from simple economic models, with numerous outliers that don't adhere to what would be seen in the assumptions of a perfectly efficient/competitive market that exists in economic model, but that is no justification for crude cookie cutter interventions that introduce systemtic distortions.

There is no reason to assume the distortions that exist in an ostensibly free market will generally push wages to below their market rate. They are just as likely to push it above. The most reasonable assumption that the distortions that push it above market wages balance the ones that push it below, resulting in average mostly aligning with the true market wage.

In the absence of definitive evidence either way, we should opt to trust basic economic theories and respect free market rules, and not actively intoduce laws that blatantly restrict contracting rights in the hope that these new distortions will counter-act some hypothesized imbalance of distortion that exists at labor's expense. These remediative rules are just as likely to exasperate existing distortions as they are to counter them, while introducing a host of new distortions that would otherwise not be present.

>>For that reason, unions and minimum wage laws, among other things, can often create higher wages without driving employers out of business (though not always).

The wage gains are not a free lunch. It comes at some cost. And that cost can include more than employers being driven out of business, though as we saw in the 50s through 70s in the US, that was often the outcome of unions getting a strangehold over major industries.

The fact is, it's impossible to measure the impact of every intervention in a large economy, whether it be rent control, minimum wage, or giving unions a monopoly over a company's negotiation and hiring decisions. In the absence of definitive evidence of the impact of any given proposed intervention, we should opt to trust economic theories that say price floors/caps create and obstructions of contracting rights create economic deadweight losses.
Interesting, I hadn’t heard of that - sounds quite similar to Mastodon? I wish they weren’t social networks based around identities, friends and sequences of posts, though. I would much prefer sites and pages to be the primary thing. I don’t like the kind of content that social media encourages, even decentralised social media.
That’s one of the known issues for hybrid vehicles, that they’re used as standard fuel vehicles.

One of the main reasons to go all electric, maybe there’s some design slight of hand that can be used to increase the time electric power is used.
Where I work the non-union staff are not laid off in downturns, only the union staff.
Fear mongers will fear monger. Dire predictions are rarely accurate, especially at the macro economic level.

I was a software engineer through that time period, and for me it was a non event. If you’re working at a profitable business and not some negative billion dollar growth company, you’ll be fine. Software engineers are going to be in demand for a while yet.
In that case their customers should be aware of this by now and they should be out of business (maybe soon).
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Oakland A’s new stadium is being built to address rising sea levels
If you want cheap an good VPS go to https://www.netcup.eu/.
They even have cheap Root-Server.
No wonder you are hiding behind a throwaway, as you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about and are just posting mindless drivel. If you want to know the outcome of “we can always make more money” attitudes, look no further than Zimbabwe. In ~2007 they had a 50 cent paper note. ~6 months later a common paper note was $10,000,000,000. Just a short while after that, paper notes were being printed in one hundred trillion dollar increments. What could you buy with that $100T note? Basically not even something from a vending machine (aka worth less than 1 USD in value).

Source:
I have all the above paper notes from Zimbabwe and have read about the economic policies that led to the collapse of the currency.
You can’t just train any software developer to code in Haskell. It’s not an easy language to learn and a lot of programmers don’t want to learn it. And even if they managed to train up the current staff, they will either have to continuously hire Haskell programmers or continuously hire people who don’t know Haskell and hope they’re able to learn it.
How recently? I opened an account for my Estonian company as an e-resident (from the EU) in Q1 2019 and it took a grand total of ~40 minutes at the bank to get everything working. I had to visit the bank HQ in person but the whole process was really really smooth sailing.
Estonia also uses Mobile-ID and it works same way as you described.

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/mobile-id/
Which ones? Primarily Christian?
I won't dismiss what you're saying but tbh it's very opaque - do you have a link to something that explains what you're trying to say? Something mathematical would help (for the reasons I outlined in my earlier reply!)
I created a new personal blog site too! The Bloomer's Guide to the Multiverse:

Lifebased.org
The messenger does not automatically discredit the message. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
They are actually hybrids - they have a petrol range extender IIUC

Also, the old terrible diesels still have lots of time left where they are allowed on the road.

Taxis are awful at lining up outside entrances to stations (e.g. kings cross and at pancras) and leave their engines running as they slowly slowly creep forward picking up fares. There are often 20 or 30 diesels basically just idling right outside the main entrance to major stations.
Facilitating DRM, which runs counter to interoperability, is exactly why EME isn't a standard.

And please stop spamming your OAuth2 nonsense, it's off topic.
I work with financial software and you'd be surprised how much of all this "regulation" is based on self assessments. Auditors are looking for liability shifts, not real security.
Quite often going into Liverpool St I used to see pals of smoke from fires, and whilst an occasional occurrence they’re not rare, I would have thought across the whole of London they’d add quite a bit.
I'm not 100% sure if it was SCO, but Pizza Hut restaurants ran some flavor of UNIX in the stores in the early 90's.

On our local BBS list, there was one named Pizza Hut and it was just a UNIX login. We'd dial in and try a few passwords then get booted.

One day I was at a restaurant with my parents, and sure enough, there was a terminal behind the counter with that same login prompt! I figure some employee must have leaked the phone number or someone found it wardialing.
> Italy going bankrupt is a far more imminent danger than private banks, and one that would be too big to contain, for example.

people don't realize how much italian debt is around, i.e. if you own an EMU sovereign bond ETF it will >30% italian debt. If you own a global government bonds fund, it will be 7-8% italian debt.

Yet, total bankruptcy seems unlikely, if anything I guess we'd see some restructuring and a loss of 10-20% which would be bad, but could be bearable for some operators.
Was it really better for share price? Not short term, but long term. HP was very respected before, not so much latter.
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