skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I work on Amazon Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancer.

From the article ... "Unfortunately there are a large number of (misbehaving) DNS servers out there that don’t properly obey TTLs on records and will still serve up stale records for an indefinite amount of time."

I would push back on how large this number is in general, whenever we experiment with DNS weights, we see about 98% of browser clients honouring the change and 99% within 5 minutes. But with mobile networks and java clients, things can be different. Mobile networks commonly have very few resolvers and so few answers in the mix to distribute load, and some versions of java cache answers forever by default.

Here's the hack we use to help with these situations! when you control the client it will help, it's something we've worked with some mobile app authors on. With Route 53 (and hopefully Dyn too, I'm not sure), you can configure a wildcard name to be a series of weighted entries, backed by health checks. So instead of;

ping.chartbeat.net weight=1 answer=192.0.2.1 healthcheck=111
ping.chartbeat.net weight=1 answer=192.0.2.2 healthcheck=222

it can be configured as;

*.ping.chartbeat.net weight=1 answer=192.0.2.1 healthcheck=111
*.ping.chartbeat.net weight=1 answer=192.0.2.2 healthcheck=222

so pretty much the same, but then you have the client look up;

[ some random nonce / guid ].ping.chartbeat.net

and voilà - you have busted any intermediate cache, and load is also spread more evenly (there are usually many more clients than DNS resolvers).

Self-promotion: If you do choose to use ELB and Route 53, we also support wildcard ALIASes to ELBs, and the queries are handled free of charge.
Everyone is looking at it wrong.

It's not about the game anymore. It's about the online community surrounding it. Games today are social networks. It's not about the game-play anymore. It's about the mods, the chatting, the culture, community, etc.

If you see Minecraft as a game like Sonic is a game you are blind.
So - don't let anyone see your key.
Well now, the Boston bombers only killed three people -- bad, but you know, not that bad. Aaron was going to freely distribute knowledge to people, threatening a centuries-old business model and potentially allowing undeserving people to learn something. Worse, Aaron had already freely shared legal documents on the Internet, and had the nerve to stand up for himself and not be thrown in jail for it.

Obviously Aaron was doing something far more dangerous and destructive to our country than aiding a terrorist.
Actually, what he means are the ISPs in Somaliland receive their internet from Djibouti via microwave (at least Somtel does; not quite sure about Telesom).

The ISPs then distribute their internet connection to their customers via DSL, 3G, etc.
FreeBSD does not have Mach ports (the IPC system). There is a ton of what OSX does that needs this.

See my comment up thread about Jordan Hubbard's plans.
What's the accepted most mature Vim equivalent or clone for org mode? Is there any?
Well, my approach was to hire a small group of people to help out at a trade show, give them a some training and watch how they worked during the show. At the end of the process I offered one of them a permanent job. It worked out very well.

I did this through an ad in Craigs List. I effectively asked for people comfortable with technology, able to learn quickly and with great people skills that could be applied in the context of sales presentations in a trade show environment. I did get quite a variation of responses. I selected a small group I thought would do well.
Show HN: Landlined ("The Onion for tech")
Got tired of seeing certain brands of ridiculousness in Silicon Valley, so slapped together this little satire site over the weekend: http://www.landlined.com/

What works? What doesn't?

Some examples:

* FISA Court Strikes Down Bitcoin: “No Place for Shadowy Data Mining in Our Society (http://www.landlined.com/fisa-court-outlaws-bitcoin/)

* RapGenius Shortens S1 Filing by Merging Sections (http://www.landlined.com/rap-genius-shortens-s1-filing-by-combining-sections/)

* Foursquare Closes $25 million Series Armando (http://www.landlined.com/foursquare-closes-25m-series-armando/)

* Nest Executive Promises Improved Threat Detection (http://www.landlined.com/nest-executive-promises-improved-threat-detection/)

* Stock Photo Sharer Stockshare’s Shares Surge After Stock Shares Surge (http://www.landlined.com/stock-photo-sharer-stockshares-shares-surge-after-stock-shares-surge/)
Gover's Algorithm[1] halves the time to search an unsorted list. Which basically means the time to pick a random number 200 bits long, is now equal to the time to pick a random number 100 bits long. Keys as large as 60 bits are currently vulnerable to attack[2], so logically post grover's algorithm we could attack 120 bit symmetric encryption.

If that doesn't make sense Bruce Schneier explains it also. [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJh0mIJn6kE&feature=player_de...
AFAIK, it falls under PII. I realize some may not consider this personal info, but many others do. There are laws built around its protection and disclosure.

I think a failure to protect any data, including PII, is harmful to the user experience and a brand's image.
First, all property is a government monopoly, unless you're one of those religious libertarians that believe God created rights in real and chattel property. But I meet lots of libertarians that reject the idea that adultery should be illegal, so maybe there's some other holy book they follow.

Second, the root of the CFAA charge wasn't intellectual property, but physical property: MIT's network. Libertarians certainly do recognize non-contractual violations of property rights, i.e. various incarnations of trespass.
It's money, power, and ego over individual humans lives. Yesterday's top post on HN was "Burn the Fucking System to the Ground."
And we all know what runs through porcelain before it runs through plumbing.
I love your pinning tray! Absolutely gorgeous. Nice work rolling your own, few things in this world are as satisfying as opening a lock with tools you made yourself.
I suspect, but cannot be sure, that a lot of the handwaving about the second law is due to the common misconception that evolution somehow violates the second law.

It's unfortunate but common, especially among people who refuse to accept evolution, so I'm not surprised to see it being mentioned.
I like it! Good job.
Animal Virtues
Not only that but you can annotate the source and see which function and which instruction (C or asm) caused it. This way you know exactly which field is the one causing cache misses.

Dito for branch miss-prediction.
You're right that land ownership is more complicated. It always belongs to the state (I forget the fancy term for it but it's like 'sovereign ownership' or something like that).

You can buy exclusive exploitation rights to this sovereign property but the state can get it back upon your death if it's not passed onto anyone or otherwise accounted for.

And then there's eminent domain, which is actually specifically provided for in the U.S. Constitution so it's about as legal as things get in the U.S.
>Opening a closed door or window is a
>breaking, even if they are unlocked.

http://www.mass.gov/courts/courtsandjudges/courts/districtco...
Yes, very true. But in a way, aren't the social interactions within the game at least part of the gameplay?
What were MIT's obligations to Aaron? While there is a whole lot that MIT could've done to help Aaron (even if only just taking the JSTOR route and stating they were backing off entirely) and that would've been commendable, I don't really see why MIT had an obligation to help Aaron, so I have a hard time holding MIT morally culpable.

If anything, I'd think screwed up laws and an overzealous prosecution are the real issue here, and I'm not sure what pointing fingers at MIT accomplishes.
MIT Played a key role in Aaron's Death:
http://gothamist.com/2013/01/15/aaron_swartzs_lawyer_mit_ref...

They refused to sign-off on any deal that did not involve Jail time. This was THE one point that weighed more on his mind than any else per the recorded statements of his partner.

MIT's pig-headedness in this aspect really destroyed any respect I had for that institution. JSTOR made a much more reasoned statement http://docs.jstor.org/summary.html - Clearly indicating that they had NO INTEREST in any further prosecution (since they were the primary wronged party).
You might have a point regarding binary blobs but, IMO, if they can alter text(comments, source, etc.) in such a way that it's not obvious to the human reviewer, then they deserve to succeed. I don't know what `unused files` means. Git used `sha1` last time I checked, so I'm not sure why you mention `md5`.
Multibillion Dollar Snapchat, 5 Job Openings...
"Sherlock Holmes and the Influenza (zombie) Pandemic of 1918."
I believe you're creating a distinction that doesn't exist. What is the difference, in your mind, between a hammer or other object being seized by authorities and a piece of real estate being seized by authorities?

Your perspective seems very specific to California's tax structure. I wonder how you incorporate "use tax" into your theories.
You could create a twitter for bitcoin. ;)
Bostonian of the Year!! This makes me profoundly sick.

"United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz, in the midst of a prosecutorial tear that would lead the Globe to name her 2011’s Bostonian of the Year, held up Aaron’s indictment as a warning to hackers everywhere."
Needs mach ports, meaning can't be simulated with Unix domain sockets or something else? I doubt it.
I can guarantee by your quip; you have never dealt with
our legal system.
> What would be a less strict university in USA, more libertarian, less police state if you would?

MIT is supposed to be the model of an environment where people who want to break the rules and hack the system can function. Students breaking into buildings, for example, has a long tradition there.

The article sort of hinted at the way what happened was not just a problem for Swartz, but for MIT itself. It is not clear what MIT actually is with the current status quo.
Add one more to your list: I had this one in 2012 and created a small app. There were a couple of lawsuits that I could have gotten "my fair share" on, but just didn't know about them in time. Didn't get too far with it, so I'm donating it in case someone else wants to "run with it": ClassAction website or app. Aggregate all current class action lawsuits. Use crowdsourcing to keep the list current. You have like 5-10 "standard" pieces of info: link to the official website where you can fill out the form, Date that you need to respond by, who is eligible to participate, etc. Not sure about payment model, but as they say, worry about that later. Solve the Class Action Lawsuit 'problem'?...
Yes, because clearly if a bunch of people start using Jolla or Firefox OS surveillance will magically stop happening on the shared public wireless networks we are all communicating over via an open and largely unencrypted internet connection.

Open source is nice, but it doesn't solve anything in terms of government or corporate spy groups snooping. The cat is out of the bag on that one and I don't think they're going to magically stop spending billion or trillions snooping anytime soon. Google/facebook/twitter/microsoft make billions off of spying on customer behavior and serving them ads. Governments have a vested interest in either citizen safety or maintaining power by trying to control the population.

In either case, there is just too much money and power for spying to ever go away or become less sophisticated.
Aren't you just repeating the first few words of the grandparent comment?

I hardly think "suicide is a choice" is an appropriate thing to say. Take recent suicide rates in the military. Do all those soldiers decide to become so depressed as to kill themselves, or does environment have something to do with it?
What?

I guess it depends on your definition of extreme. My definition is that they are constantly pushing the boundary of what they are capable of, i.e. always just surpassing their current proficiency so that they can constantly get better.

I don't see that same level of intensity in most tech workers I've met.
The CFAA charges were dubious at best, and were only pursued because the copyright charges were looking pretty shaky. The prosecutor also tacked additional charges on when Aaron decided to exercise his civil rights. I do not know many libertarians who support that kind of abuse of prosecutor power.
We have multiple profiles now, but before that there were 10 years of Netflix and five of them dominated by a child who enjoys "Curious George" and "Super Hero Squad."

It's going to take a while to get back to normal.
Chipmakers Push Memory Into the Third Dimension
This is my favorite comment in the thread :)
Know About It monitors stories generating a lot of conversations
Which Apple is fixing with a free replacement policy. There was a similar glitch with 2010-era MacBook Pros, which was uncovered in a new OS or firmware version in 2013 - 3 years later. They fixed mine (complete replacement of the main logic board) free of charge, 2 years out of warranty.

Even their known defects make Apple come out smelling like roses. Contrast that with obvious design defects in other, cheaper PC laptops, which get ignored or refused at the 3rd party retailers they come from, and it makes Apple a pretty simple recommendation for power users and casual users both. Nobody I've recommended Apple laptops to has been disappointed.
Ummm so it's going to be self hosted software that you're going to release to the public? How is it Raspberry Pi specific? Will it be paid or free? Opensource?
You need to explain stuff on your site and preferably link to something that will at least vaguely introduce people to the concept. If it's there it's hidden somewhere, couldn't figure it out in 5 minutes and I did go to your main site. Confusing.
Why? I have the right to the audio.
First Day of College
I'm in college, and I would say 95% of my friends have snapchat. Most of them use it at least once a day. Nobody sends naked pics. Just stuff that you wouldn't necessarily post to facebook. Snapchat's reputation as naked pics only is completely unfounded... it's not like they're sending 450mm nudes every day.
They also come down hard on arson. Why? Because it's really, really easy to get away with arson so they make the punishment really severe to alter the equation. If you got 3 months with probation for arson there would be fires all over the place -- at least that's the calculus.

Same thing with computer crimes. It could have been pretty easy to get away with the data if Swartz had been even slightly clever about it (like not physically returning to the scene of the crime...). It's not as easy to get away with as one might think (see Harvard bomb threat guy), but that's the perception of lawmakers.
If it wasn't the legal system it would have been literally any other reason, big or small, that Aaron felt was terminally wrong with his life.
Do you have any software development internships available?
No, I personally don't think web design is fair game for a non web-design-related article. Downvoted.
Introducing PigPen: Map-Reduce for Clojure
If the NSA was able to break RSA, there's about a .1% chance they'd tell people about it.
From what I've heard, optical wireless links are super sensitive to environmental conditions (precipitation, pollution, etc), and don't work too well in real-world deployments. I would love to hear about more people's experiences with it, though.
Developer’s Introduction to Bitcoin
"...it actually affects real people generally results in a lot of negative votes here on HN."

Then don't comment if you're so afraid of your rep. I mean, what's the point of this site? To me, it's to exchange various thoughts/ideas related to tech and otherwise.

Creating a new account to comment cause your afraid of being down-voted is cowardly. And insulting, frankly.
Surely Minecraft is as popular as it is today due to its amazing community, but you can't honestly say it "isn't about gameplay anymore," or that Minecraft isn't a game.

Minecraft is a clever and well-built game environment that is both nostalgic and progressive at the same time. It would not have gotten any traction at all if it was not fundamentally fun and interesting to play. Minecraft grew because of modders, let's-play-ers, and socializers, but none of that would have happened if Minecraft, as a game, was not able to capture peoples' sense of wonder and fun as they explore landscapes, caves, and endless seas.

I think a more balanced way to look at things is that perhaps you can get away with half a game or three-quarters of a game, by involving the fans and building a community around the project. Dwarf Fortress is another great example of this.
Mexico: not every day is a good day
To put this fully in perspective, for a time Visa and Mastercard were non-profits.
So basically implemented with no technology? Maybe just an idea in your mind?
Where can I find the applications for the intern positions?
BitVote.

Every citizen is issued a unique "wallet" and can use it to vote. The underlying bitcoin infrastructure does need to be presented to the user, but one way that the app could work is that each candidate has a unique numeric identifier associated with him. If Obama's number is 0.05476 and Romney's is 0.02299 then when you click Vote for Obama, the app sends 0.05476 btc to a designated counting wallet. Several methods may be used to count the votes. Either each candidate has its own counting wallet and counting can be done by dividing the total btc in the wallet divided by the unique number, or all of the votes could be mixed into one wallet and the blockchain could be analyzed to determine how many votes of each type were cast. All of the votes are obviously public information on the blockchain, so there can be no funny business. As long as you don't tell anyone your wallet address, your vote is anonymous.
If you're using an unsupported hackintosh in a workstation role (presumably at work) I really don't know what to say.
I think you'll find that almost everywhere on the Internet, and most places in meatspace too... :(
Even in cases where there is some leverage (due to work being skilled/scarce), I'd often like someone to negotiate on my behalf collectively. I'm not an expert on employment law, on "gotchas" in employment contracts, or on what my rights are under local law, and I don't really want to become one. And I don't want to fight every individual battle over and over again when many of us have similar preferences. For example, why should I have to fight every company over noncompete clauses and "we own all your weekend IP" clauses? Even if I could win, this is a huge duplicated effort if every one of us has to argue this same point, and I'm not a contract lawyer or professional negotiator in any case. I'd rather delegate my negotiation authority to some association of technologists that negotiated at least baseline employment conditions.

I guess an alternative model is to take it really collective and just have the state pass laws mandating working conditions that all employers have to follow, that way nobody needs to negotiate those conditions. That's the approach California took with just banning noncompetes by statute, for example.
> Aaron was facing a cumulative maximum penalty of 35 years in prison.

That's not true in any reasonable sense. And either way if you're just adding up cumulative values it was 50 years after the charges were amended, not 35.

From Jennifer Granick's post [1] decrying everything that the prosecutors did to Aaron:

> He would be looking at 15 to 21 months of incarceration. That number could get higher quickly. ... True, 35 years wasn't in the cards, despite the fact that's the sentence the government publicly waived over Aaron's head. Neither was a maximum of 50 years, which was what the government arrived at after its perplexing choice to get a superceding indictment. But Aaron could easily have come out to over a year in his guideline calculation.

Either way there were plea options on the table. Do you think there's any chance that Tsarnaev ends up with 6 months in jail for killing 3 people and wounding dozens more?

Don't muddle up the real need for CFAA reform with such shoddy logic and misleading statements, it only makes it easier for legislators to ignore you as a "mere extremist".

[1] http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/01/towards-learning-l... (you'll note she's not a fan of the Federal government on this)
...if you pay $125, which is ironic given the conversation.
And then there's the Internet Archive. IANAL but it seems as if there's effectively this assumption that opt-out makes everything OK even if there's not much if any legal basis to it. (I wrote this piece back in 2005 and not a whole lot has changed: http://bitmason.blogspot.com/2005/07/thoughts-on-wayback-mac...)

To be clear, this is arguably the way that the Web almost has to work--but that doesn't make it all neatly legal under current copyright law.
Butts in seat policy is the worst. It attracts the kind of talent tnat is complacent with making it seem like they are doing work as opposed to people who like to make progress.
Unless you're trying to claim Aaron simply didn't have an attorney then the 35 year thing was never on the table for him.

P.S. it was actually 50 years, but thanks for paying attention...
For all the high praise that gets heaped on Netflix for their brilliant technology, I have a feeling there is some other Netflix that is concealed from me.

I have been Netflix customer for years. I thought the idea was brilliant - super-cheap movies arriving whenever you want, what could be better?! I loved Netflix. Then I slowly discovered Netflix is running out of movies I want to watch - up to now where about 95% of movies I want to see are out. Then there was that streaming vs. DVS fiasco - and I stayed with streaming. But then I discovered there's nothing for me to stream. I thought maybe my tastes are weird - so I went to wikipedia and IMDB and looked "top X movies" - and most of them, of course, can't be watched on Netflix, except for those few that I've already watched long ago.

And that million dollar recommendation system? I've over 800 ratings, and I have hard time remembering last time their system suggested me something useful. In fact, the only reason I am keeping the subscription is because my wife has some series on her sub-account that she's watching. For me, Netflix has become almost 100% useless. So I wonder, with all the high praise to their brilliant data usage and innovative technology - am I doing something wrong? Am I missing some important part of Netflix that everybody else is seeing?
Maybe rate-limiting as such is not the right idea, but how about just limiting accounts? I think there is a substantial difference between the 4.6mm collected and even a "sufficiently large contact list." There must be a number at which you can be banned from requesting any more.
How I aced the Coursera Machine Learning class…without being a programmer
Eric Schmidt's 2014 Predictions
Are we referring to the same legal system that routinely has people cycle through it without killing themselves?
Your definition of "completely broken" is misleading.

While it makes complete sense to use SHA-256 and beyond, a collision of two carefully constructed plaintexts is not indicative of a general break in SHA-1. It is much more difficult to find a collision against a fixed plaintext and hash and ridiculously more difficult for that collision to produce non-gibberish, working code that compiles and creates a vulnerability.
What makes me absolutely, terribly sick is the extent to which the USG waves its hands to dismiss the seriousness of the extent and reach of the NSA's domestic data gathering activities and at the same time deciding that Swartz's data gathering was worth going to the mat over.