skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great point, but I don't think it leads to no prosecutions. As you point out, the problems here are systemic - and a vital part of the system is accountability.

In a better world, the mid-level bureaucracy of the military and CIA would be a bulwark against this kind of abuse. Politicians will always be opportunists, and the low-level ranks will always contain psychopaths. But the mid-level people can keep both in check, if they have the motivation.

Twenty years from now, when a president asks "is there anything else we can do to this guy?", the answer from the CIA director should be "no, or I'll be prosecuted". The answer from the DOJ should be "no, or we'll be disbarred". The answer from the military should be "we'll resign before following that order, because it will get us sent to the Hague".
The people being oppressed do not have internet access. Internet access is reserved for the upper echelons in NK.
"If the Pirate Bay was still online, would 'The Interview' have leaked already?"

No, the Pirate Bay is largest and most visible torrent sharing site, but by no means the only one. If anyone wanted to leak Interview there are plenty of options.
Two things come to mind here:

1. I don't know why Redis is using CRC-16 and CRC-64, but if you want CRC-32 then using the CRC32 instruction in SSE 4.2 yields pretty impressive performance.

2. CRCs are parallelizable, it just takes a bit more work (and math).
as far as I can tell (from one read of the post) the internet is down. I did not see any sort of quote from a network security analyst from a neutral party analyzing packets or saying it was a DDoS.

It is not the style of DPNK for them to pull the plug, that would make them appear weak to the outside world when in fact they did invent the internet and have superior everything on everything.
> I work mostly on what I want to work on, take a day off whenever I feel like it, and optimize the business for quality of life rather than for any particular growth or financial targets.

There was some thread here where patio11 kind of snickered when someone called his business a "huge success"; probably because he knows a bunch of people that earn one or more magnitudes more money. But the above quote probably sums up "fantastic success" for me, and I think, a whole lot of the world.
Yes, dividing the country further into two halves that hate each other isn't playing into the hands of the people in power at all. Its hilarious that one of the results of this report might be to further bolster the two-party system. You are more sure than ever of your party now, and the most likely result is that you will make the people you alienate even more committed to their side by cutting them out of your life (they'll see you as unreasonable, as opposed to experiencing some sort of miraculous turn around of insight). So in the end, all remains the same, perfect.
uhm I think that's a very old (2004?) flash from 2ch
The same thing happened to Lindbergh - he wanted to move on, but the public was relentless in never allowing it.
A 24-48 hour TTL means you're hosed for 24-48 hours if your hosting service has an extended outage because you can't point any of those visitors at the IP addreses at another host. With a short TTL on the other hand, the worst-case scenario is that your DNS provider is offline and you have to change nameservers at the registrar. With a hosting outage, you can just point the domains at the new IPs and be back up in minutes to hours.
>>> Hopefully this doesn't spiral out of control. It's not clear where the boundaries are that we don't want to cross.

It's been spiraling out of control for years.

I'm actually quite surprised at how restrained our government has been to actually engage some of these rogue countries after decades of ongoing attacks.

At some point, you have to return fire.

And yes, I'm quite aware the US has been active in several high profile attacks. Unfortunately, it pales in comparison to what China, DPRK, and several middle eastern countries have been engaged in for much longer.
One wrinkle people are missing is that, for recent borrowers, the downside risk of not being able to make your minimum payment is eliminated. You never owe more than 10% of your disposable income for your federal student loans, and anything you don't pay off in 20 years is forgiven.
Public BT is the last stop for movies. They appear on IRC/Usenet before BT.

Also, TPB is far from the only torrent indexing site.
This may be a good statistic for the specific case of refactoring, but "Lines of Code" actually mean nothing except as an approximate measure for the amount of work done in a piece of code. [1][2]

And as Charles Babbage will helpfully tell you: garbage in, garbage out. [3] This may be a useful estimate at one time or another, but posting this on a wall harkens back to the old practice of managers measuring LoC to identify best-performing employees. (And as we learned, it didn't work. [4])

[1]: http://www.callingshotgun.net/geekery/lines-of-code-dispelli... (admittedly over the top /me shrugs)

[2]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/quotes?item=qt1546480

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out#Histor...

[4]: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (from https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana)
Single gear electric motor? Revolutionary battery technology? Nope; no technology here.
Dyn Research (née Renesys) was quoted in the article, and typically posts in-depth articles when this type of thing happens. [1]

Based on the quote[2], I interpret the failure as someone attacking the routers themselves, overwhelming their control planes to the point where they can't sustain BGP sessions reliably.

[1] No post from them yet, would expect it to be at http://research.dyn.com/2014/12/ if/when they do the full write-up.

[2] "Their networks are under duress,” Mr. Madory said. “This is consistent with a DDoS attack on their routers,” he said, referring to a distributed denial of service attack, in which attackers flood a network with traffic until it collapses under the load."
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How can I give a structure to my learning? One way of doing it to build common projects in all different technologies/framework. Any suggestions?
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Even if this is true, the business owners' argument to Congress would be that the consumer will pay for it either way; businesses that depend on transportation would just raise prices to compensate.
In support of the idea that it was in fact a 14 year old and not a nation this [1] was posted a few days ago on HN.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777226

edit: I do not mean that what the person who created that website is a 14 year old as it is a very thorough analysis. Just that with this type of information on the internet it is probably pretty easy to construct a bunch of bots to take out the country's connections to the outside world.
Depends on the commodity... cigarette taxes, for example, or other sin taxes...

Personally, I don't understand why we don't have more flexible tariffs in place to secure against this kind of influence.
It can be just a popular service (hence the high number of transactions) with a standard wallet implementation, ie. one transaction per withdrawal. Yes this is inefficient, but I dont see a reason why to automatically assume that this is an effort to inflate transaction volumes.
The way I see this is, the interest rate on your loans is like a guaranteed negative, compounding return that erodes your net worth. So, by paying down loans with 6% interest, it's akin to putting your money somewhere with a guaranteed 6% return, which sounds more appealing than an uncertain 8% market return.
Why not just implement tariffs on foreign oil?
Recently, on a Schwab competitors site, I couldn't recall my password -- which was required to have upper, lower, and punctuation.

Not being able to recall my password, I was able to reset it by supplying only my mother's maiden name and my date of birth.

Um.
Or this could be some kind of reverse false flag operation (a soccer flop?) to give NK a platform to escalate some other negotiation point...
Listen to the end of the Charlie Rose interview. Last words something about not jumping off a building any time soon.
While I see your implied point, DrJosiah, the above commenter did not say that the authenticator was without issue. Moreover, the blog post did not attempt to prove that the 2 factor auth did not work IF configured properly, but that the UI was incredibly misleading when activating the token.
Edit: Google staff and fanbois have far too much time to downvote, but less time to articulate why it seems!

I tried to use Google's driverless car, but everytime I asked it to search for rival services, it kept driving me to their search and adsales offices. Was a bit weird. Like they told the car to prefer their services first! My eurotrash friends promised to investigate though, so that's nice.
1. from the antirez interview currently on the front page: 'One of the main characteristics of stuff I make is that they are "strange", don't resemble how a given problem was solved in the past' — sure, SSE CRC32 exists, but it's safer to use a bigger CRC, so performance wasn't a deciding factor there.

2. Are they? Do explain.
I believe anything forgiven is counted as income. So you're going to be hit with a huge tax bill 25 years later.
> Wow, thanks! Bookmarked.

You're welcome (I can tell that's not sarcasm, since it doesn't have any sarcasm tags ;)

> "We'll pay someone to hack Sony, then deny it"

NK doesn't always admit to things they do. They denied kidnapping japanese citizens for 25 years, until they admitted it 2002.

The Cheonan was sunk by an NK torpedo.. NK denies it.. but an international investigation said NK sunk it.. condemned by the UN security council. (later a defector from NK said the crew that sank it were honored as heros.)

Assuming NK to act rational is sometimes asking for too much.
11% might be the long-term historical average (last 75 years or so), but that still sounds pretty high.
Uber have the right idea here; own the platform, not the infrastructure. Lets face it, a cars spends most of its life stationary, waiting for you to drive it. Not so the autonomous vehicle. Autonomous vehicles are freed from the shackles of parking so why not lease your car to Uber and have it earn money as a cab? The future will be a bad time to get into car parking.
Yeah I caught that too. I interpreted the withdrawn to mean that they stopped advertising any routes for their ip block via BGP. Which could be a pulled plug or a DDOS. I think most likely a DDOS by a random party, but doesn't sound like much actual evidence to any specifics.
While I do agree the timing is bizarre (after all, TPB was in Sweden for 6+ years and how many US takedown/seizure requests were ignored by the Sweden officials, but suddenly now they act?), I don't think it's necessarily related. It sure does make for a good conspiracy however.
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I wouldn't describe it as a "great" post and furthermore, its pretty much outdated.

He's making a lot more than $60,000 currently. Also he is running his own business/monetary life and that is something very few great entrepreneurs can still say these days. Hard to put a price on that, especially since he acknowledges he values the freedom of not being tied to investors in this very post.
I can't agree more with this comment. 10% return is insane to expect in the current market, especially since there is no actual safe haven that will get you any reliable return above inflation.

The fact that the author was overpaying because "he didn't like debt" tells me a lot about his financial expertise to start. That aside, of course go with the higher return stuff, contribute to your 401K for your company at the max instead of pushing it toward student loans, but the rest of the logic is somewhat baffling given any sort of perspective on the market.

I keep going back to the "Turkey that doesn't know tomorrow is Thanksgiving" analogy on this. Must be bliss to have such a short memory.
Im confused, are you verifying that the passwords are or are not case sensitive? Mine is certainly case sensitive (watch me get hacked now, 8 characers, one is capital!)
It's not clear how that will be handled, and in any case, because unpaid interest is not compounding, it's not as big of a tax bill as you might think.
The appearance of the car is really important. If it looked too fun, like a Ferrari, some may think it's not safe. It reminds me of "helper" robots in movies about the future. They always have such unintimidating appearances. This car appears to be attempting the same thing and I'm ok with it.
From an economic standpoint, I would be interested to see how many OTC parts this system. That is, does it need a $1000 lidar or would it get a similar performance with a cheap $100 sensor?
From a technical point of view, 25mph is very limiting IMO. You probably do not need a very sophisticated controller to navigate at 25. If you reach speeds of 60-70MPH with varying road curvatures, the controller design gets trickier.
I've seen Mithril around and it looks interesting, but the thing I'm wrestling with is whether it's better to check out this niche framework or start with something more popular like React (plus whatever for the M_C part of MVC), or Angular.
Indeed it is!

I also highly recommend William Zinsser's On Writing Well. It's a perfect gem of a book and improved my writing more than anything else ever has.
What "Americans and their whole families" were killed by drones? The lists I've seen from anti-drone groups only list 4 Americans killed by drone.
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There was a time when everything that managed content in some way was being renamed "CMS" in order to fit into a category that was selling at the time. Fitting sometimes very oddly shaped things into the category was common, and I think a lot of cool software got needlessly mangled (TWiki also went off in a lot of weird, occasionally "CMS like", directions to satisfy some sort of enterprise dream that hurt its usability in a lot of ways).
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To add to points others have raised here, student loans are almost impossible to discharge in bankruptcy and backed by the full range of government collection methods (withholding of tax refunds, automatic wage garnishment, etc.).
The only comparables are tax debt, child support, and possibly criminal restitution.
There's not much of a safety net with student loans. There's some income-based repayment and forbearance options, but you pay more over time with these, and they only generally apply to federal loans, not private. Likewise there's some forgiveness options, only for federal loans, not private, and only after you've been bled dry for decades in poverty. Marry someone who's not poor? Forget it.

Basically, if you want security, try to get rid of student loans. I built up home equity and am now rolling my loans into a mortgage. 3% interest rate is lower than any refi options, no worries about the rate going up, and if I ever go broke, then worst case scenario I lose the house and am debt free.
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You aren't including dividend reinvestment and you are looking at the wrong time frame for the quoted percentage.

-5.65% from 1/2000 to 1/2010 with dividend reinvestment

+89.85% from 1/2000 to 12/2014 with dividend reinvestment

The annualized returns are generally over rolling 30 year periods. which 12/1984 to today is 8.79% without reinvestment or 11.32% with reinvestment of dividends.

http://dqydj.net/sp-500-return-calculator/
Bono's quote on why Apple is so successful is perfect
NK is not going to launch a nuclear attack on the US. The point of NKs weapons is a barrier to entry to invasion. eg. If you attack us Seoul gets nuked. Once they've launched nuclear weapons there is no point in not invading them.

If NK nuked Seoul, in all honesty China would probably nuke Pyongyang long before the Americans, or just send eleventy million troops across the border.

The entire reason NK exists is because China prefers a border with NK rather than a unified Korea sympathetic to US interests.
Good points but some people just enjoy the act of driving and take a lot of pride in customizing their cars to match their tastes. A fundamentally human trait that will of course adjust to changing technology, but won't go away as staunchly as you think.
"crc-mark-adler-hw" uses SSE4.2 just like your "crc-sse42". The latter one is just very poorly written, since it only uses _mm_crc32_u8() once per iteration (instead of 3 times).
The improvement is to switch from a 256-entry table to an 8x256 table, apparently unrolling the 8-bit loop to get a full 64 bits in each iteration.

So if speed is the thing, why not a 16-bit table?
Same idea, faster. 8*64k = 512 kbyte table.
"usually" is "most years, before 2009"
The elite do, I imagine this will affect them in a big way. For all we know a few addresses on the public space could also be acting as routes for the private intranet - I imagine they're not completely seperated.
Two walls interact in only 3 ways - first, they don't touch. you get hallways: ||, second one intersects ends at the other like a T (which is a kind of degenerate version of 3). Third, they cross over, like a +. if you don't let walls touch multiple times, say like a D you'll never have a closed off space like the center of that D.
Cool! If you would like I can add this to the benchmark later.
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I had a few ideas until I went and looked at your business model (which is really cool by the way!). I am not entirely sure that I would consider you a SaaS product, as much as a software assisted services company. That makes it rough. You have a 2 day email program, which looks to be 100% service based. You have a 30 day access product that then adds in a 1 hour meeting (service), a CV Optimization (service?), and a client list, which might just be access to something. If people don't pay within the 30 days and dispute their credit card charge, what recourse would you have? Probably nothing. You'd lose the money and eat the cost. I would say you really need to stick with the all upfront pricing and go with it. It's expensive, sure, but the benefits are also very high to your client and you provide a great service. Sometimes you just have to pay for a service.
Actually, ever since the string handling was moved from erlang strings to binary strings in ejabberd community edition, ejabberd's memory performance is equal or better than other offerings.

Source: Last company I worked for used XMPP as the data channel to and form our data center and IoT/SCADA devices, I oversaw the project of upgrading from a much older version of ejabberd (which used erlang strings) and the much newer community edition ejabberd(which uses binary strings).

You can also write a custom module and use ejabberd solely for it's XMPP wire protocol and excellent routing features, but immediately export incoming data from the server to other processes in your stack without ejabberd ever even parsing the incoming XML(in this case we wrote a rabbitMQ ejabberd module which allowed ejabberd to interact with our data center flawlessly), which is what we did and at that point, a single XMPP server was able to handle our entire traffic. Although we obviously used a cluster and HA load balancer for scalability and redundancy.
And the poll results are in: haskell, a nice idea, but basically ignored in the real, non-academic world. Still, keep up the research, that's the spirit!
Recently a scan of the IP space was put on /r/netsec - I don't think this is coincidence.
If your lookup table is too big it'll blow out your L1 cache too.

apparently unrolling

It's not just _unrolling_, but it's merging positional-dependent pre-computed values and xor'ing them together. A little more complicated than just a quick loop unrolling (hence, nobody discovered it until 2006).
> Want to learn more? Party less ...

Or become a hedonistic autodidact!
Jamis has a lot of great articles on maze generation, was about to post a link :)
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Won't rights owners try to sue Google the same way they whine about lyrics sites?
I forevermore dub this: davidw's law
One more update: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-Decembe...

Several nodes are going to go back online and are being requested to be un-blacklisted. "I have emailed some of the DirAuths to remove several nodes and IPs from the blacklist that we feel confident have not been breached or compromised in any way."
Four regions have "emergenecy maintanance" right now at Dyn. Of course, we don't know whats the cause of that. I imagine if its also a DDOS they'll probably not reveal that. I have heard from other sysadmins that they've had problems with them as well.

I have DNSmadeeasy and they seem to do okay, but only because they're such a small player and avoid being targetted too often.

Sorry, but there's no silver bullet here. Cloud providers get hacked and DDOS'd all the time. Kiddies and morons find it amusing to do so. Roll your own if you want to avoid being attached to such a big target and have a cloud provider just be your secondary namesever.
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Restrained?

They invaded the country, and got their asses handed to them by the Chinese. The geopolitical situation is, invade NK, fight the red army.
This link describes "Halo Orbits" about the L1 Lagrangian point of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Mars isn't even mentioned.
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TPB is online as of right now, not sure what you mean?
I did see that, but it didn't quite measure up to a legitimate data point. "under duress" clearly states that there is "duress", but "consistent with" is somewhat conjecture-y.

If that is a verbatim quote, then Dyn is telling is that there was an attack (duress involved, no ifs buts or maybes).

If that quote has been altered even slightly[1], we're back to "NK won't pick up the phone no more"[2].

[1] Any of these would remove the "attack" edge of this:

Their networks...

* seem to be under duress

* (seem to be/are) down/nonresponsive

[2] but we don't know if someone blew up the switchboard, or if they switched it off themselves.
Apparently it's not easy to get rid of student loans in bankruptcy. IIANL. Also, isn't bankruptcy pretty brutal for a couple of years at least? Some employers do credit checks. I was even asked "Have you ever been bankrupt?" in my last job interview.
The smae way they decide in a normal war. They keep going until a treaty is signed. Typically the side who is worse off "throws in the towel" so to speak by signing a treaty that holds the favor of the stronger side.
I know a fresh out of college Rails developer who makes more than Patrick. He is not making that much money for his skill set. Maybe hes a masochist, who knows. He obviously lacks the ability to see he is working on ridiculous ideas. The fact he cant get them funding alone is a huge deal, because I imagine anyone would fund the guy just because of who he is. But when it comes down to it, he must truly have no knowledge of scale.
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A friend of mine developed a machine that separates pistachios by amount of "openness" of the their shell. They user image processing and had to it one by one in a pipe because they had to scan the pistachio from multiple angle to make the decision.
I actually just got a shipping notice for my "Beta Coin" yesterday. So at least something is happening.