skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has I understood this correctly? Microsoft, a private company, has been granted the right to filter all dns traffic, and choose what will bee forward to this other company, No-IP. No-IP will so bee allowed to run there service for the remaining customers Microsoft approves?

Is this common practices in the us legal system? Would it work like this in the offline world also? If my neighbor sometimes had loud parties that bothered me, could I be granted the right to stand in front of his door and turn any potential troublemakers away.
So let me get this straight...Microsoft took down a free provider of dynamic DNS services because people have used those services to distribute and control malware?

Where is the due process? Where is the oversight in this? All I'm seeing is vigilanteism.
>Its one thing to deliver ads and mail, a simple mistake or improper product usage by the end user doesn't hurt someone, but cars are a whole different ball game.

Except for when they released Google Buzz and exposed a bunch of private data to the world, endangering some people who were relying on their trust in google to keep themselves hidden from abusive exes and/or various other dangerous sorts of person. Oopsie!
The Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel is one of the largest bridge-tunnels in existence. It's 17.6 miles long, and was financed by toll-backed bonds, and continues to be maintained with toll money. The point being that large infrastructure projects can be financed by the free market, provided they require the users to pay for them in the future, allowing investors to profit.

Here in the DC region, demand-based pricing was used in the widening of interstate 495. It works. My favorite aspect is that buses and vehicles carrying 3 or more people can use the lanes for free, while all the assholes riding by themselves have to pay handsomely for the privilege of creating congestion at rush hour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_HOT_lanes

One of the funny things about the libertarian idea of making everyone pay for road use is that technology has made it much more feasible. We don't have to use toll booths anymore. Instead just stick a transponder on the window. One of the best remedies for situations in which overuse of a public good is causing environmental problems is to make people pay to use said good.
iPhone app lets coworkers rate each other
Americans don't like public transit because it really sucks in America.

Not everywhere. When I was in school in Boston, I went everywhere by public transit. I never missed having a car (I rented one the few times I wanted to travel somewhere like up to New Hampshire to see foliage). However, I also learned from that experience that I don't want to live in a place like that for the rest of my life.

not every city with great transit has to be a stressful megalopolis like NYC - Vienna or Zurich for example are really nice and quiet (and clean and have low crime) despite having great transit

I didn't find Boston to be a "stressful megalopolis" (I haven't lived in NYC so I can't speak to that). I just realized I didn't want to live permanently in a place that dense. I've also visited London and Paris, both of which have excellent mass transit (at least by US standards), and while I enjoyed visiting them, I don't think I would want to live permanently in those cities either. Maybe I'll get a chance sometime to visit one of the smaller European cities you mention to see what they're like.
I trust the Indian engineers to know more about this problem than you or I. Should I not?
So let me get this straight. Microsoft got a court order to route all of another entity's DNS traffic to their servers. Giving them the ability to route a metric crap-ton of private traffic through their data centers. For "security". I call shenanigans.

I'm also assuming this is why my no-ip domain disappeared this morning, leaving me with no access to my home servers.

Perhaps the linux on my servers is considered malware. It sure is malicious to Microsoft's bottom line. I kid, but only a little.
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I've been using http://freedns.afraid.org/ ever since DynDNS went paid only.
It'd be really nice for pizza, giving roasts a nice crust before/after slow roasting, etc. I'd be happy with it and I'm of the general opinion that molecular gastronomy is pretentious wankery.
Court-authorized vigilantism.
> the interpretations which, consequently, are not scientific theories or even hypotheses, but firmly on the side of philosophy of physics.

Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to know.

I'm completely satisfied with the "shut up and calculate" approach. For me, until somebody shows that he/she can calculate (that is, predict) more than what physicists achieve, they are the ones the closest to "the truth" and not the "interpreter."
Ask HN: Why is development sans desktop not popular?
A large majority of developers use desktops/laptops for development. Why is tablet based development not a thing?

It would give us a choice of writing even when we aren't close to our laptops.
I used to call myself a owl too. Often I would be in a haze until late afternoon, then work right up until I went to sleep. Running a business with employees meant I had to shift to mornings (though no longer), but now I'm definitely a lark. My schedule is almost reversed: I work an hour after I get up, and then chill out a couple of hours before bed.

Overall, on this schedule I feel much more rested.
i believe everything I see in uncited hacker news comment threads too.
According to Reuters, Microsoft is only sending traffic from computers that are infected with malware to Microsoft instead of No-IP.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/30/us-cybercrime-micro...

That may still make people uncomfortable, but it seems much less egregious than Microsoft taking control of No-IP's domains, which is what this press release implies.

Edit: the reuters article is in error here, not the Microsoft Blog. See below. Turns out this really is as egregious as it sounds.
I thought that it went without saying that we were discussing mass transit in densely populated areas. If you don't live in such a place, you probably don't have 9 lanes of road either.

The 9-lane roads in metropolitan areas aren't confined to the densely populated areas; in fact, many of them are there only because so many people commute from the less densely populated suburbs to the densely populated inner city to work, instead of living in the inner city where they could easily take mass transit.
what if a company like microsoft approach you and say "look, i make billions while you make a few thousands, but please, go ahead and change your service because it is impacting my billion dollar windows sales and i can't be bothered to patching it on my product"

granted, i'm not familiar with the matter. but I know what I would answer. also, removing noip or noip enabling whatever microsoft was bullying them to implement, would just delay it a few days until the worm creators rolled out their own service. heck that can even motivate them to get creative and encode IPs in a obfuscated pastebin, or stenographed in cat pictures in reddit, or noise mp3 in soundcloud... maybe having them rely on noip was good....

but again, i have no knowledge of the matter. maybe noip was being paid even after knowing it was for worms. who knows?
To be fair, this falls very well into the "Internet of Things" category. Imagine this scenario:
You're at a convention and looking for a bathroom - but the convention hall floor just closed and there's big lines everywhere.
You have to choose:
A. Wait in line
B. Look for a less occupied bathroom

With this, you could look at a map with simple %'s and see not only average usage - but the exact occupation rate right now. You could then see that the Hall A's restroom is only at 50% capacity and head over there.

A similar technology could be employed for seating and room occupancy as well, telling you better break rooms or where all the crowds are. Wouldn't it be awesome if you knew your coworker was in her cubicle, even if she wasn't on the computer? Or if you're a building manager, you could note the number of people who use certain restrooms, hallways and meeting rooms and adjust accordingly to redirect traffic elsewhere.

Essentially, these sorts of things are what traffic engineers have been doing for a long time - but applied to people instead of cars.
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Looks like the actual results are not updated/included in the readme though.
The point being made above is that Cloudflare charges users to protect them from attacks, but they're also providing protection (from attacks and identification) to the people performing the attacks. To many, it appears that they're helping to allow malicious activity because it benefits the sale of their services.
Parametric polymorphism does not simplify code, it obfuscates it as now you have to see _what_ is calling it. A better form IMO is restricting the types allowed as it: 1. makes understanding much easier, 2. Doesn't create bloat in the form of n copies for visible symbols.
The due process is that Microsoft sued the malware distributors and the court granted them a restraining order.

"In a civil case filed on June 19, Microsoft named two foreign nationals, Mohamed Benabdellah and Naser Al Mutairi, and a U.S. company, Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC (doing business as No-IP.com), for their roles in creating, controlling, and assisting in infecting millions of computers with malicious software — harming Microsoft, its customers and the public at large. ...

On June 19, Microsoft filed for an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) from the U.S. District Court for Nevada against No-IP. On June 26, the court granted our request and made Microsoft the DNS authority for the company’s 23 free No-IP domains, allowing us to identify and route all known bad traffic to the Microsoft sinkhole and classify the identified threats."
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Excerpt:

But even at a state-of-the-art facility like the Dolphin House, barriers remained. "Every night we would all get in our cars and pull the garage door down and drive away," remembers Lovatt. "And I thought: 'Well there's this big brain floating around all night.' It amazed me that everybody kept leaving and I just thought it was wrong."

Lovatt reasoned that if she could live with a dolphin around the clock, nurturing its interest in making human-like sounds, like a mother teaching a child to speak, they'd have more success.
Does that make it any worse? Lots of people who use it rate Lisp very highly.
Sure. I made a post a few weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7880514. There's other relevant posts in the same thread as well, but that's probably the best overview.
Am I the only one that thinks these are creepy?

> a full ring of between 300 to 400 balloons circling the globe

I don't want Google looking back at me whenever I look up into the sky.
The problem with software packaging
Native 3D iOS Game Recreated to Run in Browser
Ouya introduces new all-you-can-eat access to their game catalogue
Which part of this is un-cited? The article linked is fairly conclusive evidence that this is in fact a real thing.
Far fewer cars possibly, but a big increase in vehicle miles.

At present cars largely follow us round. If they're not doing this but are instead moving on to the next occupant, the odds are that that person won't be in the exact same location, and the next journey, and....

(Also bear in mind a huge amount of the demand clusters around start and finish times for offices and schools. The possible utilisation is significantly lower than one might think.)

If self-driving cars working on a taxi model rather than a personal chauffeur model become a thing, we're going to get used to seeing traffic jams consisting significantly of empty autonomous cars. That won't be especially popular.
As far as I understand it the problem is as follows:

1. Bad guys get a site behind cloudflare, and host illegal content

2. You want to report said bad guys to their host, for whatever reason.

3. You discover they use cloudflare. You now do not know where they are hosted.

4. Cloudflare will not tell you their actual IP addresses.
By definition, if it's court-authorized, it's not vigilantism.
When did you buy NFLX?
> Microsoft is only sending traffic from computers that are infected to Microsoft instead of No-IP.

Unfortunately that's false. See below:

dig -t ns no-ip.biz

; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> -t ns no-ip.biz
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7020
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;no-ip.biz.	IN	NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
no-ip.biz.	7154	IN	NS	ns8.microsoftinternetsafety.net.
no-ip.biz.	7154	IN	NS	ns7.microsoftinternetsafety.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns8.microsoftinternetsafety.net. 3560 IN A	157.56.78.93

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 10.1.1.3#53(10.1.1.3)
;; WHEN: Mon Jun 30 14:14:47 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 117
I guess this is a shortcut to solve some problems. No-IP domains are used only by who hasn't a good infrastructure to support his infected network.

And especially, why don't Microsoft take care of making his OS more secure?
Wholly predictable downvoting by anonymously cowardly Microsoft brown-nosers.
By all means, then pay for YOUR ROADS which get YOU to YOUR MCMANSION SHITHOLE. Those of us who choose to be more rational about where we live, rather than adhering to an absurd ideal of a homestead that simulates a farm while having a modern, urban job far away shouldn't have to finance your silly fucking lawn and your boring, awful neighborhood.

I have 2 kids, and I've made urban living work. Courtesy of Virginia's former governor (now on trial for felony corruption charges) our roads are no longer funded by gasoline taxes, and are instead funded by a sales tax that people like me, who walk to work, have to fucking pay. If I had my way, all of you commuter idiots would have to pay a toll for all roads. Its absurd that I can't ride a subway for free, but you get to use public infrastructure while the rest of us pay to maintain it.

Your "freedom to live and work" is actually a freedom to take from urban people and give to yourself to finance your unsustainable, silly lifestyle.

If you want to live in the country, then fucking work in the country. Grow something other than a useless, decorative plant that requires extensive fertilizer and watering.

The solution:

Tough luck, adjust your life to your dumbass decision to live in the suburbs.
Of course you could use Negroni with Gin. Anyway, Gin is a full-featured framework on top of httpRouter, I will explain this later (eventually I would like to merge both in the future, removing one abstraction layer and tunning the performance).

Gin is also a better fit for httpRouter, it's not designed to fit any other framework. I wanted Gin to share the same philosophy than HttpRouter. Basically the Gin/HttpRouter community cares about performance, so you don't. For example in Gin, you can created thousands of nested groups and the performance will be still the same.

Gin is full-featured, to me it means: control flow, middlewares, error management (errors and panics both), easy rendering, easy validation, easy data passing between middlewares. For example you can collect errors (not only panics) and then send them to Sentry easily.

The control flow is interesting: if a middleware calls c.Abort(code) or c.Fail(code, message), the rest handlers in the chain would never be called, this is very useful when authorisation is required. https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/blob/master/auth.go#L76

Of course authorisation can be just applied to a group, you can see example in the github page. Per-group middlwares and even per-request middlewares!

We added all that features without making it significantly slower (compared to httprouter) and for sure that overhead will be reduced in upcoming releases (no API changes). If you want to use HttpRouter and you also want cool features, in my opinion Gin is one of the best choices. Just try it.
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That's actually really common. In fact I'm making a product / wearable to help with that. I'll do a Show HN soon :).
Or one could use guix https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
As far as I can tell, no!

I didn't mean to say that NASA or the Indian engineers know more or less than one another, even if they disagree. It's just not for us, the folks who don't actually know much about this topic, to make determinations.

Or maybe it is. I was hoping to discuss that point.
I can't wait for the cluster analysis generated quest to find the 3 archetypal bathroom-user types.
I'm one of the engineers behind this app. Feel free to AMA!
Post an update when you build the next app! We love real time and are interested in seeing new approaches.
This is an incredible action by Microsoft, and the courts.
Fixing lights on doors is new technology?
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Have you read Feynman's QED? It's a bit like that, in that it's meant for a layman, but with more algebra. Instead of abstract arrows, EY goes straight to complex numbers. It goes through a basic approach to quantum mechanics (taking diagrams from here for instance: http://www.qi.damtp.cam.ac.uk/node/60) in a modern way and tries to build an intuitive understanding of the subject, especially demolishing a lot of confusions one may have gained through popular media. He then departs from the basic theory to elaborate on why the collapse interpretation is ridiculous and why Many-Worlds makes more sense. You can stop when you get to the Timeless stuff.

You're not really going to find anything ground-breaking, but it may help your intuitions about QM even if you're a physicist. As a chapter from the Aaronson book (http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html) I linked to in a cousin comment says in the first two paragraphs:

There are two ways to teach quantum mechanics. The first way -- which for most physicists today is still the only way -- follows the historical order in which the ideas were discovered. So, you start with classical mechanics and electrodynamics, solving lots of grueling differential equations at every step. Then you learn about the "blackbody paradox" and various strange experimental results, and the great crisis these things posed for physics. Next you learn a complicated patchwork of ideas that physicists invented between 1900 and 1926 to try to make the crisis go away. Then, if you're lucky, after years of study you finally get around to the central conceptual point: that nature is described not by probabilities (which are always nonnegative), but by numbers called amplitudes that can be positive, negative, or even complex.

Today, in the quantum information age, the fact that all the physicists had to learn quantum this way seems increasingly humorous. For example, I've had experts in quantum field theory -- people who've spent years calculating path integrals of mind-boggling complexity -- ask me to explain the Bell inequality to them. That's like Andrew Wiles asking me to explain the Pythagorean Theorem.

(And on EY himself, just read the million or so words of the Sequences and you'll see he is actually really smart across multiple domains. ;))
If it's illegal and you're harmed I'm sure you can sue the people who did it and CloudFlare will have to hand over IP addresses. But is it CloudFlare's duty to police the Internet? Like ISPs, I think they should be content neutral unless illegal content like child porn is being hosted. Merely talking about services is not illegal as far as I know; only performing the DDoS attacks is.
That's the thing. It's easier to hack something together with casts that looks like it's okay, and not understand that you're doing something wrong.

With generics, the novice finds cases where the compiler catches them doing something wrong, so they rewrite the code using casts in a way that looks right but is subtly wrong.

The end result is code that appears correct to the novice, the novice walking away with the feeling that generics are too complicated, and a mysterious corner-case bug that bites off someone's arm once every five years.

The nature of failing to understand is that the person who fails to understand often fails to understand that they misunderstand, or often misattribute their misunderstanding. The tool gets blamed for getting in their way of writing "good" code. On the other hand, there are plenty of tools that give perfectly sensible error messages to anyone with a PhD in type theory, but a second year university student sees "Attempt to cast non-monoid endofunctor to monad. Please uninstall compiler and shave off neck beard."
Probably a positive environmental effect masking decline in genetic potential IQ, which there is evidence for: http://www.xenosystems.net/dysgenic-reactions/
I have very little experience in cooking, but after seeing the complex solutions needed for proper food preparation, I think it would be better to produce more practical foods and simplify the whole nutritive process.
Next time, read the rest of the article?

> Microsoft has seen more than 7.4 million Bladabindi-Jenxcus detections over the past 12 months, which doesn’t account for detections by other anti-virus providers. Despite numerous reports by the security community on No-IP domain abuse, the company has not taken sufficient steps to correct, remedy, prevent or control the abuse or help keep its domains safe from malicious activity.

> On June 19, Microsoft filed for an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) from the U.S. District Court for Nevada against No-IP. On June 26, the court granted our request and made Microsoft the DNS authority for the company’s 23 free No-IP domains, allowing us to identify and route all known bad traffic to the Microsoft sinkhole and classify the identified threats.

No-IP in the past has denied allegations, e.g. the Cisco blog post linked to by Microsoft was denied here: http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/02/12/cisco-malware-report/

This is also a temporary order, it's not permanent.

Sure, it's creepy when courts have control over DNS entries, but ... they do. The Internet isn't lawless, it operates within the legal bounds of each country that participates.

I wonder what No-IP will say next and if figures collected by independent groups verify their "swift action" against security threats. As a company providing DDNS services, I wouldn't expect them to understand and use the latest in packet filtering techniques, but ... abuse is abuse and I'm sure they submitted evidence that this was required, temporarily.
>Plus, how do we rectify it with Bell's theorem on hidden variables?

I'm not a physicist, but I've always wondered about Caroline Thompson's work, like:

"Chaotic Ball" model, local realism and the Bell test loopholes

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210150
Mine is not working.
They domain will work, subdomains on at least no-ip.biz and no-ip.org aren't going to work.