skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean that you've just discovered it, or that you've actually been using it?

I have no idea how used it is. If it's useful to you, I'll happily invest more time to address some niggling issues (flakey tests, etc.) and maintaining it.
Note that the associated whitepaper discusses using Cydia -- specifically cycript -- to do the same thing.
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Here are the pertinent bits regarding resistance, in summary it implies that spontaneous resistance will be difficult, But... "life has a way":

>We were unable to obtain mutants of S. aureus or
M. tuberculosis resistant to teixobactin even when plating on media with a low dose (4 X MIC [minimal inhibitory concentration]) of the compound. Serial passage of S.aureus in the presence of sub-MIC levels of teixobactin over a period of 27 days failed to produce resistant mutants as well (Fig. 2d, Supplementary Discussion)

From the Supplementary information:

>Cells were added to teixobactin present at 0.25xMIC, 0.5xMIC,1xMIC,2xMIC and 224xMIC. At 24 hour intervals, the cultures were checked for growth. Cultures from the second highest concentrations that allowed growth (OD600≥2) were diluted 1:100 into fresh media containing 0.25xMIC, 0.5xMIC,1xMIC,2xMIC and 4xMIC of teixobactin. This serial passaging was repeated daily for 30 days. Any cultures that grew at higher than the MIC levels were passaged on drug free MHA plates and the MIC was then determined by broth microdilution. No resistant mutants were obtained. This experiment was repeated, and produced the same negative result. In order to maximize the chance of obtaining a resistant mutant, we performed an additional experiment with very small incremental increases in the drug concentration. Cells were added to a series of tubes with small differences in the concentration of teixobactin (0.06xMIC, 0.25xMIC, 0.5xMIC, 0.75xMIC,1xMIC, 1.25xMIC, 1.5xMIC, and 2xMIC). At 24 hour intervals, cultures from the highest concentration that allowed growth to a minimum OD600 of 0.2 were diluted 1:100 into fresh medium containing 0.06xMIC, 0.25xMIC, 0.5xMIC, 0.75xMIC,351xMIC, 1.25xMIC, 1.5xMIC, and 2xMIC. This passaging was repeated for 27 days. Cultures that grew at levels higher than the MIC were passaged on drug free MHA plates, and the MIC was determined. For teixobactin, there were no mutants with an MIC greater than the parent S. aureus ATCC 29213.
It is _not_ easy, or even possible, to "make up" an IP address that works for receiving data across the public Internet. The responses to packets you send from such an address will not come back to you. This doesn't thwart all attacks (DNS query amplification, general flooding, etc), but their hack involved transmitting AND receiving data (ssh, http, etc).

What is _easy_, however, is determining which country is using a given IP address. Particularly when the searching party is a superpower and the country they're investigating is known for having very few links to the Internet. And what connections they do have are severely restricted. I imagine it would be very difficult to find a reliable, exploitable proxy server inside North Korea that is accessible across the public Internet.
Yeah, it's a classic risk/cost assessment. You can weigh what a scheme like this costs to implement vs. how valuable your information is and make a decision.

I think it's a good idea for some places to do this, but not all. It really depends.
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(Modifying the binary is much more fun to blog about, though.)
What are you using Redis for?
> they just simply aren't the "bad guys" we are looking for in this specific case.

You seem to be awfully certain. Frankly, I have no idea and am quite skeptical of people who profess such certainty in the face of so few facts. Seems to be the kind of thinking where you have a conclusion and look around for facts to support it.
And I like it when it's tedious.
This is a strange post, it's about two completely separate things.

I do agree with the "modularity shaming" idea though, the JS community does seem to be overzealous about that. However I think it better to err in that direction than the other direction.
It's only the previous month of unused data from that month's allotment (and that data gets used first), but that's better than nothing, I guess.

Assuming 15GB plan:

Month 1 (15, 0 avail): Use 10 GB, roll forward 5

Month 2 (15, 5 avail): Use 8, roll 7, lose the previously rolled 5

Month 3 (15, 7 avail): Use 20, roll nothing (lose the unused 2)

Month 4 (15, 0 avail), etc. etc.

So this saves you if you have one outlier month, but it's still not as good as rolling what I've nominally paid for.
I think the intent here is to decrypt and then reverse engineer the network traffic, so they can then check for vulnerabilities server-side. So they aren't auditing the application, they're just trying to find a way in.
... Seriously? The NSA is just sitting around, unable to commit resources to breaking TLS because it's not widespread enough? But HTTP2 is suddenly gonna make the NSA say "alright, we'll break it now. We didn't want to break the most widely deployed crypto protocol, but now we jusT have to make huge crypto breakthroughs, sigh".

It's bizarre to think if the NSA could break TLS they're holding back.
I don't really see how this is the same thing. Can you elaborate?
Cool app, quick question - how are you finding domain name availability so fast?
I want to believe. But, there's such a history of deceit from our government, when there is a political motivation. I honestly don't understand why they'd be lying in this case...but, well, Iraq and years of torture at Guantanamo didn't really make sense to me, either. I don't think there is anyone gunning for war with North Korea (well, Northrup Grumman and Halliburton probably are, but I don't believe our state is entirely owned by the defense industry anymore, as it was during the Bush years). So, what's the motivation, if the FBI is misleading people?

The thing is, I'm entirely willing to believe North Korea would like to have this kind of capability, and if they do have this kind of capability (which they might), I'm entirely willing to believe that they would use it broadly and aggressively. North Korea is led by angry, crazy, people. But, the early communication about the attack does not match that of a nation state, and there's no reason for them to have tried to pretend to be a random blackmail organization that I can imagine.

In short, an IP is not a smoking gun. I worry that the FBI is taking advantage of people's lack of understanding of technology in order to push a story that is politically convenient, but factually shaky. I mean, I hope they aren't intentionally misleading people, I just don't necessarily trust that they wouldn't if there were motivation to do otherwise.
it would be great if the title was changed to reflect that this is a concept / design, and nothing real.
One argument I've seen: RISC is one way you can get an advantage of clock speed, die size, and power.

But another way you can get an advantage in clock speed, die size, and power is to go to a smaller fab process.

And given Moore's law, die shrinks marched ever on, and the next shrink was never that far away. And Intel had a boatload of money to push their fabs ahead of most everyone else.

(Yes, this is pretty hand-wavy, and you can pick a lot of nits, but I think there's a lot of truth to it.)
But they are supposed to be free to practice their religion, which means shooting people for a drawing. Maybe religious freedom should not extend to psychopathic ideologies just as freedom to bear arms does not extend to personal nuclear weapons.
This is the best article I've read in years. This guy understands economics, design, copy-writing and apparently knows how to code.

What usually would need a whole team of highly educated professionals he seems to do all by himself ...
I assume they're this confident because the NSA is snaffling up every 1 and 0 that comes in and out of NK. It would explain both their confidence and reticence to explain why.
Nah, instruction caches work pretty well.
Who is saying this is proof that it wasn't NKorea? Straw man. People on HN are just more likely to believe Schneier or other respectable security people, and not government agencies who by their very nature are going to have their own agenda and not be 100% honest.

As far as consequences that actually happened -- Do you mean to say that theaters that showed the film were bombed? Or are you referring to embarassing email leaks which would have no doubt been released anyway?
The best Hack I have found working out of my house is a crock pot. Especially during the winter months. put some combo of a meat, pasta, rice, vegetables, and maybe a little bit of cream or cheese on in the morning, make a point of stirring it a couple times during the day, and by supper time you have a warm, nutritionally balanced, filling meal, that you can eat off of for a couple days.
> "Another point: tagging. I don't have to constantly check Instagram to make sure I wasn't tagged in any awkward or bad photos. That’s because you can't see them on my profile, making the whole experience seem way more private."

The fourth tab on every Instagram profile allows you to see just this...
Why not just run unencrypted behind the load balancer? Unless they're on wholely different networks, it shouldn't be needed.. SSL termination makes sense at a load balancer, reverse proxy, etc.
Do we believe this?
As I understand it, China would be able to do so easily and convincingly, since most (all?) of NK's traffic passes through China. That may even be a good theory. China might not want to directly attack US industry in this way, but might "assist" North Korea in doing so.
If the NSA has taps sitting on all the routers that are a hop away from NK, they can probably nail it down just from timing, right? If the packets were being proxied through an NK IP, I would think it would be easy to tell the difference (if you're the NSA, anyway).
Great, but you've just picked one of Canada's most violent cities and compared it to an arbitrary American city, which is also relatively safe.

By the way, the Canadian city with the highest murder rate (Red Deer, with a murder rate of 6.4 http://www.macleans.ca/worst-cities/) has a lower murder rate than nearly every city on this list of American cities by crime statistics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by...)
10 currently . . . in 2 years 2x that . . . in 5 years I expect 10x that . . .

1 to 2 years out:
home automation hub
dropcams
fridge
thermostat
TVs
everyone having their own phone, tablet, laptop, watch, fitbit
cars
multiple printers
3D printer
I don't have Kill-a-Watts or rack PDU data for fleets of webservers, unfortunately. What I do have is CPU performance data from running with and without SSL gateways and SPDY in production, and all I can say is that the server's CPU utilization is not significantly impacted by them. I also have client-side data that shows substantial load speed improvements when using SPDY. That should result in a C-state profile improvement on the CPU, but I'll need to collect more data to confirm.
Most infuriating thing about Facebook is that the group admin tools are just really, really shit. And it's very difficult to admin an active or, God forbid, controversial group without just being a fascist about it. I'm not saying that increasing social drama to increase page views was a design goal, but it does seem to be the result.
Why don't we just let browsers treat javascript files as modules, just like we have shared libraries on our OS?

This way, libraries such as JQuery, could be cached, and shared between websites.
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FBI says Sony hackers 'got sloppy,' posted from North Korea addresses
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We've been actively using it.
Just a couple of weeks ago - I managed to get it to restart processes in docker containers in a downtimeless way!
I can't thank you enough for it :)
Thanks Everyone. I was trying to point out that Google needs to change some of its search algorithms to make life easier for us.

Hopefully some responds to PG's request for startups in this area.
If something goes online, it stays online. Proxies, long term caches, archives, you name it. Relying on privacy laws of secure deletion would be the same mistake.

Delete buttons should really be labelled as "hide stuff from everybody except us."
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Here's another teenager's view on social media.

I don't have an account for any of these, and I don't want one. I have, let's see, HN, GitHub, and Stack Exchange. Those accounts are my online identity, which I make sure is separate from my real identity. If you want to contact me, you can email me, or if you know me in real life, you can text me. I don't feel smug about not having those accounts, but I'm not embarrassed either. Maybe it's just because I don't socialize with the "normal" people my age, or something else, but more people than you might expect understand when I say I don't have an account. I don't want them because they would be more of a time suck than the Internet already is, and no one really has trouble finding me.
...especially considering a lot of this stuff will never be declassified...

How can the US claim to be a republic when it doesn't even bother to justify its actions to its people and their representatives?
Purely from an Occam's razor perspective, the country that attacked this film and warned of consequences if released-- consequences that actually happened, is probably at fault here.

I don't recall Occam's razor ever applying to politics.
I don't think the motive would be to start a war with DPRK. What I am afraid of is the use of this incident as "evidence" that our nation needs more "cybersecurity". This could help pass legislation previously blocked by congress due to insufficient evidence. There isn't much of a leap from declaring war on terrorism to declaring war on cyberterrorism, and we all know how that went.

I know my tin foil hat is showing, but it's a creepy possibility nonetheless, and is in no way distant from Washington's past antics.
I read GEB not long after finishing a CS degree. Still had to try bloody hard to wrap my brain around it all.
> And why do you have attack in quotes? Do you believe Sony wasn't actually attacked?

No, I think it's plenty clear that they were. It's just that "attack" has a certain stigma to it, and what happened to Sony was not some grand attack, but rather a run-of-the-mill hack against a company with extremely poor security.
It is interesting to see that for example in Germany WhatsApp is really the most important chat and group discussion instrument -- ahead of all other messengers. I wonder where this difference comes from...?
I don't think that's always true however. Check out this example of an economist featured on Retraction Watch: http://retractionwatch.com/2015/01/05/anyone-want-hire-econo...

That said I do think the idea of a paper being produced after it has been toured around is a good idea - I wonder if it is appropriate for all fields though?
But, don't you need an email address to sign up to these sites in the first place?
Your reply was in reference to the future, so it's logical for a reader to assume that's what you were talking about.

> If specialized apps start to show up, people may start ditching FB altogether.
Actually, I think it is much easier and less error-prone (and hence more secure) to translate from one machine language to another, than it is to translate Javascript to machine language. Hence, I don't understand why we don't use some form of machine language instead of Javascript on the web.

The number of different cases to tackle is certainly much smaller.
All of it is true in the historical sense, virtually none of it is relevant. With the advent of "instruction decoders", everything is RISC on the inside and the "machine code" is now nothing more than another layer of interface. Instruction sets no longer determine internal architecture. And instruction decoders are trivial elements of the overall die.

RISC didn't die and CISC didn't die... "RISC vs. CISC" died instead.
What they're describing here is an intensive selection process for resistance. It's debatably much more intensive than nature would ever perform: they're growing bacteria in the presence of various dilutions of the antibiotic, taking a sample of the culture, diluting it 100-fold, and repeating the selection many (~30) times. Then they look for any bugs that develop resistance. None were found. Even if you had a truly pathological patient (i.e. someone who was doing his level best to mis-use an antibiotic), it wouldn't come close to this level of selective pressure for antibiotic resistance.

Moreover, there's a strong biochemical argument against resistance: the region that the antibiotic targets is highly conserved, which means that it's probably functionally necessary. The bug is therefore unlikely to evolve away from the threat. This is important, because it's that most likely avenue for antibiotic resistance, energetically speaking: it doesn't cost anything for an organism to mutate a weakly conserved gene, so they do it once, and pass it on to every subsequent generation with no penalty.

The antibiotic is just a peptide, so in theory you could see some sort of specialized peptidase evolve from an existing gene...but the problem is that the bug would have to then carry around that gene and express it constantly (or even less likely: evolve a sensing system that allows for selective expression). It's a highly unlikely thing, and virtually impossible to maintain over multiple generations without constant selective pressure. Bacteria do not like to hold on to genes that they don't need.

Nothing is impossible over evolutionary time, of course, but the researchers don't seem to be overstating their case here.
And combining the two ways, you get a CISC encoding turned into a RISC-like internal microcode. This is what x86 does, for example.
You can sort-of already do that with CDNs.

Browser still has to parse+run all of that JS though. Because JS-in-browsers is antimodular in that all previous JS on a given page influences all subsequently loaded JS, even if using just script tags with a URL. In a way this is very similar to the pains experienced by the C++ community for many years now.
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I'm not sure how anything I said was anti-US. Is being at all reluctant to believe everything one hears anti-US to you? I'm wondering who is bringing discourse down here besides the person attacking commenters instead of discussing the content of their comments.
That does make more sense, and is in line with past behavior of the Obama administration (prosecuting and imprisoning whistleblowers at a rate unprecedented in American politics).
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Once code is loaded sure, but there's the initial load. There's also a lot of context switching on most systems, especially if they are VM hosts.
I really wish E4X had gotten traction. I wrote a firefox extension using it and it was awesome to do XUL + JS with it.

Years later

var foo = <foo>{item}</foo>;

is the new hotness in facebook's JSX.
"its dead to us (as a means of expressing ourselves)" is how I read that particular quote, and it certainly resonates with me as a twenty something male. I'm sure it's even more true for younger people. It's necessary because of how ubiquitous it is but I'm not sure that (in the context of social media) is necessarily good news for Facebook.
In Firefox:

View/Page Style/No Style

It also looks pretty good in the lynx browser, and probably other text browsers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29
I guess I didn't express myself correctly.

I was trying to convey the message that while the author is correct to talk about Smalltalk, the experience was traversal to whole operating systems being researched there.

Every time I dig into Xerox PARC documents, I discover new things, specially how we are still catching up with those environments.
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Intel's compute stick strikes me as a vehicle for "Windows 8.1 with Bing", which also appears in cheap laptops. There are already many powerful followons to the Raspberry Pi, with 1-2 GB RAM and up to four ARM cores for $40-$100. Microsoft must have jogged Intel and said, Do something!
What are the legal implications of this? As far as I understood reverse engineering using disassembled code isn't legal. And this isn't just reading the disassembled code - they're taking it wholesale.
Most people on here refuse to incorporate any non-objective knowledge into their world view. An anecdotal article like this causes malfunction.
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This is actually a really refreshing post. I have to give Yik Yak another try. Secret didn’t do much for me. But its always important and interesting for peeps to see what’s going on, even if we’re getting old :)
> You seem to be awfully certain

Perhaps I overspoke a tad. I'm awfully skeptical is better put.

We're largely a scientific community here at HN. Something is False until proven True. You may have a hypothesis, but it's just that, an educated guess as-to the result.

To prove something True you must present overwhelming evidence. We have none of that here... What we do have is a hypothesis being perpetuated as fact in the face of almost zero concrete evidence.

The FBI first says "there is zero evidence to suggest North Korea has anything to do with the hack". Then some "high level anonymous White House official" "leaks" to the NY Times that they believe it's North Korea, and it takes the FBI 3 full days to change their public announcement, yet present zero concrete evidence. This was a rudimentary hack against a private company, there's nothing that would be classified or kept top secret here. Sony should do a full disclosure. Until then, we can not be certain of anything.
I love OpenBSD and this is in no way a bash, but… ugh

Who were the most productive developers? Top three in terms of lines added:

I understand this is just a funny page with some metrics, but seriously calling people who added most LOC the most “productive” developers is somewhat disingenious.

In order to prevent cvs from filling up with all this code, it’s necessary to delete some old code.

Is there any current reason to still use CVS in 2015?

Special mention to jsing for achieving the most churn and smallest net gain by adding 153802 lines and deleting 152604.

Net gain. Blowing up the codebase size is “net gain”. Maybe OpenBSD team knows something I don't, but I got a bad vibe from this report.
but to reach the USA it would take about 10,000KM. Not to mention their last missile launch test could not even escape their border.

I don't think a failed experiment is evidence that they're incapable.

Did you know that a couple of years ago, NK launched their first satellite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmy%C5%8Fngs%C5%8Fng-3_Unit...

and the missile used (Unha 3) has a 10000 KM range and is capable of reaching the western US (with at least a 200kg payload):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unha
There are also nontechnical ways to attribute the attack to North Korea. For example a human informant inside North Korea which they did not want to reveal could provide quite solid information.

But it appears we will never know the source of their confidence.
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