skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there will be a day where on-premise solutions will be touted as the solution to the DDoS vulnerability of cloud-based solutions, in much the same way that there seems to be an ebb and flow between fat and thin clients over the course of computing history.
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I wouldn't say that is related to bitcoins (the currency). They've just put data into the blockchain. The tokens you and I trade as money (bitcoins) don't get a use value because someone has put ASCII art into the blockchain.
I've seen cases where the actual api is XML based, and there's a simple mechanical translation from JSON to XML.

Standards People.
https://developers.google.com/v8/embed

EDIT:

V8 is quite powerful, don't get me wrong. But, it requires a bit more knowledge of C++ to use and use well, and sometimes that can be a bit much. Also, if you're exporting functionality via a static library, you really don't always want to use anything other than vanilla C.
I've seen that post previously here. It did not become better.
Any problems with earthclassmail? I've heard from people who love them and people who have had problems with them.
Well, I was installing pretty common distros on a pretty common laptop, and most people would have probably given up after expending many fewer hours than I did, so I think the risk of a random person trying to install Linux and coming away with the impression that Linux doesn't work is pretty high.

Also, it's not just install problems, and not just the problems that I listed in my original post. It's the fact that desktop search doesn't seem to be able to search the contents of my LibreOffice files when it worked just fine in OpenSUSE 10.2 (I've now taken to using "deepgrep" from the command line when I need to search my spreadsheets). It's the fact that task icons on the KDE panel sometimes end up on top of each other. It's the fact that when I leave the computer idle for a little while it tells me that it is locked and a password must be entered, but simply touching any key gets me right in (making the user think the computer is locked and it is safe to walk away from it when it isn't - nasty from a security standpoint). It's the fact that when I ssh into another computer and hit CTRL-D to log out ssh gets stuck and I have to kill it. It's the fact that it sometimes gets stuck when shutting down, so I have to hold the power button down to shut it off (which makes me worry about the possibility of corrupting something). Like I said, it feels sloppy.
You could assume with a high probability it crashed for 2 reasons: #1 noone came out with hostage demands (imagine cost of keeping alive and fed 250 people, for 3 weeks), or claimed terrorist responsibility. #2. NSA has a multitude of sophisticated satellites in the space (recently they lunch a new one that costed over a billion of dollars! -- payload: top secret) and its been known on the record that technologically less developed countries like Russia could spy and listen on foreign countries via satellites in late 70s, some 40 years ago. NSA knew from minute one what happened with this plane. The "problem" is that revealing to the public that the plane crashed and where it is buried has sadly no value and does not come close to over-weighing the benefit of keeping secret that they can see everything around the world up to a minute. If you would have a def con raised, all military personnel pulled back for duty, then it would be smart to assume the plane went to Afghanistan, or somewhere else where it could be re-branded into a nuclear missile, or something. Since there was nothing like this happening, there was no explanation other than it crashed and everyone is dead.
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While Science Fiction and not directly related, one of the Tom Clancy novels went into the Science of missile intercept pretty extensively(was a very important part of the book.

This book brought to my attention the mathematics and for lack of a better term difficulty of having a missile intercept system. Not only the mathematics but the but the raw limitations of physics that must be dealt with. In the case of the book it was ICBM's which travel much faster, 7 km/s (15,700 mph)[1], compared to the 3749.11 mph of the skud missile.

For anyone interested the book is Tom Clancy - The Bear and the Dragon.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_defense
hello - I work in a research lab and interact with a lot of vendors for the inventories and equipments. This will be very useful in the purchasing when we negotiate for pricing. It will put all the people in one place while negotiating.
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After taking a look at CloudFlare's knowledge base, it seems that their services would definitely help if you were under attack. According to CloudFlare, they offer basic DDoS Protection with their plans, and it seems like you can upgrade to a business account during attacks for improved protection/mitigation. They also claim that they don't have a cap on the size of attacks they can handle.

Relevant links:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172676-C...
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170216-H...
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170196-I...
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Depends on how badly they want to conceal the information. There's a whole discipline around opening documents covertly (flaps and seals).
It looks like Chrome's default user agent stylesheet defaults table border-collapse to separate. So you don't necessarily have to set it, but it's required and will potentially confound you if you use a css reset that changes this.
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Good list here.
I'm not a java programmer and currently eclipse is telling me that it's going to take 60 minutes to download. How does the program itself work? Is there some SC2 API they are using for this or did they just write down all the values and are "simulating" a SC2 build.
True, but even without Credit Impot Recherche, the salary of a French engineer is so much lower than in Silicon Valley, it's mind boggling. Labor is cheap in France.

Now, if only the locals would get the culture of optimism that pervades Silicon Valley, they'd be going somewhere. There was a story on HN just the other day from a high-frequency trader moving to Silicon Valley. Lesson #1: everyone collaborates and is helpful. Not making fun of you and telling you that you are going to fail.
mobile UI isn't very powerful, compared to Kay & Engelbart's applications either, though. They were focused on quick and powerful editing of content - mobile apps hardly allow you to edit anything at all.
Pretty good article, but I think it doesn't give enough credit to DOM templating systems being declarative.
Something about the old tricks being the best tricks...

Although it turns out the USPS does do some monitoring: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai...
I'm a beta user. Using this to buy sales productivity software for my small team. So far so good. I like that everyone can see what's happened so far. It has saved me a lot of time and we can also compare vendors side-by-side and keep everything in one place. Actually, as a salesperson, I would use this if my customers were willing.
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If you can deploy: fast, atomically, without downtime and can revert your changes at any given moment, then it is not that important :)
I've got a Lenovo T400 that works... mostly great. It suspends and resumes well most of the time, but will occasionally freeze after about a minute of resuming OK. I did some research, sounds like it's possibly a race condition in the Intel video driver. Happens about 1/10 times I resume.
From my reading it seems that they are fully consistent between the three nodes in their cluster. This seems to suggest that any failure will block writes. It also seems like since each node has a full copy of the index, that means your entire index must exist within the confines of one machine. So how large of an index can you have in reality? Am I missing something?
Got any links for that? Everything I've read for the last couple of years says mobile/tablet has overtaken desktop dramatically.
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I'm always amazed at the clever ways people come up with to use non-aware clients for malicious purposes.
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He has a point. One of the big values of the NFL is i) A limited number of games and ii) All played closely together (timewise) So every weekend is important because a team's fortunes can really change from week to week. Baseball and Basketball teams can go on multi game losing streaks and it's just a bump. In the NFL it's almost certain death to playoff aspirations.

That makes for better analysis Monday through Friday. Because all of these events have been compressed and the future can be mapped out. Now you're spreading events over 4 days of the week you lose that "Completeness"

Having said all that violence and injury will be what kills the NFL before saturation. Negotiating the move to a more athletic spectacle vs warrior battle without losing the base of fans is key to continuing to have the best athletes chose football over other sports early on.
I'm interested in the same thing.

Just recently I had enough and started investigating. Ordered a nice (Linux supported) document scanner. Checked out solutions online. So far, nothing prebuilt seems to do what I want:

- full page ocr of everything I throw at it

- tagging for a basic workflow ('bill', 'payed at $date')
(bonus points for ways to extend the tagging programmatically, for example based on the ocr result)

- completely self-hosted (but not a desktop app)

My conclusion right now is that I need to pick up a language I like/I care about and build it myself.
But isn't that exactly a result of trying to be more "USA" (by having an economic union)? Besides, comparing US with a single European country is pretty pointless. One could easily turn the table around by choosing Norway instead of Greece.
Two new features in 1.7 might make it easy to extend the ORM yourself:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/custom-look...

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/custom-look...
It's unusual that I stick up for the bloody French, but as far as the health insurance goes with "infection statistics" there are about 4,000 preventable deaths in France due to nosocomial infections in "public hospitals", compared to nearly 100,000 in the United States private system. France's infection rates are pretty in line with the rest of the world's developed countries.
> what is?

Maybe the fact that so few executives ever receive any negative feedback (jail, fines, firing, etc).
Great tutorial on genetic algorithms here: http://www.ai-junkie.com/
> Football is the most popular thing in America because it’s the greatest spectator sport...

Pretty controversial!
The Greeks put in the most hours in Europe. The problem that the Greeks had was that the Germans kept loaning them money to buy things from the Germans, and that they couldn't adjust their currency in relations to the Germans in order to react to that.

It's not that they don't work and rely on an economy with 'excessive' transfers.
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China, let alone Asia, is not one "culture".
Nobody else mentions this, but it is important:

If you aren't buying a notebook for Linux intending to have to fight with it to work right, then DON'T buy a Windows computer and complain it isn't a good Linux one.

Instead, just buy from system76 https://www.system76.com/ or Thinkpenguin https://www.thinkpenguin.com/ or you can get something like that Dell Developer notebook. A lot of OEM manufacturers are starting to either support Linux preinstalled or will provide support information on product pages. You know, laptops that already come with Ubuntu so you know the retailors make sure that the power management works right, all the ports work, gpu switching works, etc. That is a linux notebook, not the newest Lenovo that was never tested to run Linux and has no support.
I'm still using an IBM thinkpad r31. I'd claim it was cheap but the 2 battery replaces I've done to keep it fully functioning isn't cheap.

At some point I need to get around to upgrading it [1]. I'm kinda attached to it, and I'm really afraid that something will break.

http://i.imgur.com/12bR0GP.jpg
Some great language there

It is. Only 4 words into the DDoS announcement and I rolled my eyes. I think that's a record for DHH.
I would try a scrabble tile holder as the base analogy. Then say in the computer it is a little different, it has spaces for words. If the program expects a 3 letter word (emphasize that the length is an example) and does not check how long the input is, a longer word can fill some of the space for next word.
sweet man you are for that link.
Exactly. The Stack Exchange example demonstrates the dangerous nature of buffer overflow attacks. They are not just about simple mischief (like archon's spilled water example is).
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Crime, crime, crime, criminal.
While technically (and probably also morally) true, was I the only one to find the emphasize weird?
Can't remember which talk it was from but I remember enjoying Joe Armstrong speaking about the importance of a language being "correct" rather than fast:

The performance problem is solved. You just wait 20 years.
Sounds like your issue is with DHH and not necessarily the copy.
It seems they accept writes as long as at least two clusters agree to accept it (which the majority in the 3 clusters etting the have).

I would think that each cluster has the whole index, so any cluster can be used for reads.

I would also think they have multiple such triple-clusters; one triple for each important customer.

(It is difficult to know if a (logical) node is actually a cluster or not.)
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Perhaps the title would better be, "I consider string templating harmful".
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Interesting approach. I wonder what the result would look like if time were taken into account - photos that are around longer will have a higher probability of more likes by default. It would be easy to correct for this by only considering photos that have been posted for the same length of time.

What is the distribution of likes over time on Instagram anyway?
The point is that the inmates don't have even this. It may make a huge difference.
Not sure that your missile analogy holds. Most DDoS attacks do not attempt to crack logins to servers, but rather try to flood the servers with as much garbage as possible. Besides, even if they were trying to crack the SSH password, a properly secured server (long passwords/public key auth + fail2ban) should be fine.
Looks good! I might give it a spin.
man, it sounds like they got you by the balls then. if theyre playing video games all day you should say, "hey guys, stop playing fucking video games all day" or something like that.
I agree, though blackmail seems inaccurate. I've always understood blackmail to be a demand backed by a threat to reveal secret information[1]; this sounds more like an extortion racket[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail#United_States

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion_racket
It's worth noting that the commissioner of the NBA (the league in which Cuban is an owner) recently announced that they'll likely be putting sponsors' logos on NBA jerseys within five years:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10637752/commissioner-adam...
I don't see anything wrong with putting more games on Thursday. As long as teams still play 16 games a season, it won't make any difference to fans. The league is great because every game is important, not because every game is played on sunday.
Seems like a cool tool for people who like to shop for visually appealing stuff, but I don't think it's really "fixed" any problems or truly modernized e-commerce.

It's basically a clever front for a ton of affiliate programs, which interests me because my startup does something similar. I just wouldn't go so far as to consider it the "YouTube of Shopping" (slide 5).

If anything, Amazon Prime belongs in that position on slide 5.
This phone has the potential to be the best cameraphone EVER
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7456068 (61 points, 15 hours ago, 12 comments)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2796423 (193 points, 975 days ago, 48 comments)

Discussion of the #3 update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820567 (390 points, 969 days ago, 137 comments)
Your statement is inaccurate:

"While Brazilian Navy authorities were able to remove the first major wreckage and two bodies from the sea within five days of the accident, initial investigation was hampered because the aircraft's black boxes were not recovered from the ocean floor until May 2011, nearly two years later"

If they knew where the plane went down, it wouldn't have taken 2 years to find the flight data recorders. The "pingers" on the recorders lasted for about 30 days, which should be plenty of time, if you know where to look.
Beta user here, sales ops team at a mid-sized, hyper-growth startup you've heard of :-) Trying it out to manage vendor proposals for various sales training, productivity tools, implementation, etc. Could also see huge value on the other side for our salespeople having more clarity into the buying process and decision-making criteria of our customers
There is certainly a lot of diversity in political and economic views in Europe, and by European standards the political and economic mainstream in the US are very narrow, with relatively little difference between the two big parties or the economics they promote.

I think you are overstating how fast things change in Europe and how much has been imported and adopted from outside. With the arrival of the EU and its subsequent expansion to bring many more countries into "Europe", the mix has changed, but if you look at "old Europe" the character and general philosophy of each nation hasn't really changed all that much for quite a long time. The Germans are still industrious: they believe in making stuff well and follow a somewhat capitalist philosophy. The UK and most of northern Europe have similar tendencies, though some of these places have drifted away from manufacturing and toward service sectors more than others in recent decades. In contrast, the French are heavily socialist, and southern Europe has similar tendencies.
I've used OpenNLP with jRuby for my NLP experiment. Check it out https://github.com/otobrglez/politiki-ner to get an idea how to mix it.
The number of deserving people isn't small, it's large. It is very nearly everyone.

Unemployed people get something, disabled people get something, old people get something, and working get salary, pay taxes on them, get deductions or lower tax brackets, etc. All of that would be replaced by BI.

It's not just about saving overhead costs, it's also about making sure people always get ahead by working. Suppose you're on wellfare, but you might be able to work part-time against minimum income. That added income gets deducted from your wellfare and if it doesn't work out, you might not get it back. So you stand nothing to gain, and a lot to lose. Why even try? With BI, every additional hour you work, increases your income.
It doesn't cover that this potentially breaks the Secrecy of Correspondence, which is a fundamental law in some countries, including Switzerland. IANAL, and certainly not a Swiss one, but in Germany, there is a similar project (EPostBrief), which suffers from that problem: once the letter is unwrapped, the law doesn't bite anymore, as it doesn't apply to digital transmissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence

It doesn't matter how much your provider insists that they keep things secure.
I think you're the only one who understood my comment.
We got hit by a DDoS about a year ago. Rackspace (who normally has amazing support) quietly null routed us and went about their day. No heads-up, trouble ticket, or any other form of notification. They didn't even put a note in our account so when we contacted their support to figure out why our servers were unresponsive outside their network the poor guy who answered the phone was just as confused as I was.

We've taken some steps since then to hopefully reduce our vulnerability. I'd be really interested in a DDoS protection best practices guide for small SaaS businesses.
I thought it was a reference to The Eagle has landed (from Apollo 11)...
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>But for everyone else I think that's enough data because that's how a user gets to use linux: given a laptop, pick random distro, try, if success: :) else: end.

That works for me a vast majority of the time, and isn't a standard that either Windows or Macs are held to.

Buy a ZaReason or System76 laptop with Linux preinstalled and support, then compare the experiences if you want to call Linux sloppy. You wouldn't dismiss Android because you had a hard time installing it on your iPhone, or if you do, iOS should likewise be judged due to the difficulty in installing it on a Nexus.
Just a word of caution, if you're pursuing legal actions, you might consider not posting about any details publicly. Talk to your lawyer before you do anything...
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Just keep in mind an R^2 of 15 isn't that high, so these variables are only accounting for a small portion of the variance in the model.

I think there's an important control here: number of followers per user. It'd be interesting to see how followers would affect the model, especially because you could assume that "knowing to add more hashtags" likely correlates with "use of the platform," which they likely correlates with "increased # followers," who can then produce more likes on each photo.

EDIT: Another thought: if you're looking at # likes, you might want to go for a negative binomial model instead of an OLS regression, because it'll account for the dependent variable being a "count" measure.
I thought it was weird until he mentioned the blackmail. DDoS-ing for the lulz is one thing, doing it and then blackmailing the victim to get it to stop is a whole other level.
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"Currently, ErLLVM supports the AMD64 and x86 architectures. There is also some ongoing work for ARM."

Isn't the whole idea of LLVM that you don't need to support individual architectures, because LLVM can be separately compiled into whatever architecture you need?
No. I'm suggesting that if you're writing an extension that changes the way javascript works across the web, you should do it in the least intrusive and breaking way possible.

An extension like this changes a javascript load error from a once-in-a-while event to a happens-all-the-time event.
Kim Dotcom would like a word.
The history of the modem [1] is also probably a relevant read. That's basically what the author has recreated.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem
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Right, that's an app store rule. However, if you've got an HTML 5 app you don't need to install it through the app store. For example, forecast.io.

I'm not sure what you're saying about games controlling their own updates. What I was talking about specifically is that a web app can update at any time, without the vetting process required of apps in the app store. My understanding was that app store apps couldn't download and execute new code.