skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble with the 100% yield version that was originally planned is it would have dumped a lot of radioactive fallout on Russia. The 50% version was not so much dialled back as a different design with some of the uranium components replaced with lead.
China's DDoS Attacks Used Unencrypted Websites to Hijack Browsers
Agree with the above comments about reducing bloat, and I'm surprised by the number of smart people who think nothing of setting up a Wordpress site with dozens of CSS and JS files.

I just spent 20 minutes trying to find a link to an Apache function I found recently, which will join all your CSS or JS files together with something like an @include server-side automatically. Can't find it now but as I have been doing this manually I hope I find it again. Anyone know what this is? I seem to recall it was a native Apache function, not part of mod_pagespeed.
As far as I know this has been mostly about boosting "diversity" quotas at German Universities in order to perform better in international rankings. Previously this had been done by rising the amount of students coming from low-income regions (e.g. ex-Russian territory, Asia), so it is certainly a welcome change to see US students making use of that system.
> I specifically set a request number that would be below most thresholds.

No legitimate user will be logging in once per second. If you're specifically throttling logins and don't set it higher, you're so incompetent you shouldn't be writing production code in the first place.

> That said, a one-time request from 100 hosts would still use 100 CPU-seconds of work. Other than preemptively blocking hosts (such as all of AWS), there is no way that a "per-ip attempt throttle" is going to catch a single request from 100 different hosts.

So you've successfully DDoS'd an application for the few seconds that it takes a couple dozen cores to chew through 100 CPU seconds. Um, congratulations? I don't think there's a reward for "most pathetic DDoS attempt in history", but it should go to this.

> And on a dual core system that's almost 2 minutes.

You're very confused. When we say "1 CPU second", we're speaking of a single CPU core. 100 CPU seconds on a dual-core system takes ~50 real seconds. Your hypothetical 120-core server would be theoretically capable of processing nearly 120 logins per second at a 1-second work factor. bcrypt et. al are not multi-threaded.
On the other hand, for those knowing what uBlock is and those using it daily (like I do) this headline is very informative and relevant.

uBlock is a smaller, possibly better AdBlock by the way.
If you want remove all China CAs, it may be helpful.
https://github.com/chengr28/RevokeChinaCerts
I assume it's similar to fear that fusion bomb detonated under the sea would cause a chain reaction with the hydrogen, turning all water into plasma.
The problem is likely not so much the size of the schools, but the size of the classes.

Never mind that at least in Norway there have over the years developed a perverse incentive to transport kids for hours to centralized schools because the transport costs are covered by a different administrative tier than the schools themselves.

Thus a few large schools supposedly save on administration and maintenance costs by punting the transport costs onto a different office.
The business is between Apple and Chinese people, not between Apple and CNNIC or its evil spawn. They have no reason to keep that rogue root of CNNIC's to protect its users for greater good.
> If you don't the whole system is worthless.

The whole system is worthless and it should be replaced with something more like bitcoin. I don't really trust any certificate issuer more than I trust self issued certificate.
That is awesome. I am going to give that a shot today.
The article mentions that it creates protest among Taxi drivers. What it not mentions that Uberpop drivers got assaulted by those taxi drivers. =|
Windows downloads root certs just in time.
Practical Makefiles: nice oxymoron.
What term? The paper that introduced bcrypt was titled "A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme". The first result, Wikipedia, calls it "a key derivation function for passwords".
Looks good and it is fast, but there are plenty of improvements to be made according to their Pingdom score: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/bALFWp/http://tweakers.net/ Surprised to see a total of 91 requests, for example.
This seems pretty expensive to me. How powerful are the instances?
The fairest pricing model is I guess to do a profit-based one. Take your costs and add the profit you want and that's your price.

As in, if it costs $2 to deliver a print, and the content costs $4 to produce, and you want $1 of profit, you price it at $7.

If you take out the cost of delivery, and find that the software team (hosting, apps, web design, database etc) costs $1 which replaces the $2 print delivery, you price it at $6.

The $6 would be pretty much universal, the $7 might be $9 in some places where delivery is expensive.

Anyway their current pricing is one of those things that the market should sort out in a few years. Seems like they can temporarily get away with charging 2.5x the American price because the costs of mailing is so expensive. But once you get other media going fully digital, or even partially digital, with the ability to massively undercut that price while staying profitable, you'll probably see prices come down a bit (or stop growing as fast as the rest of the world.)

Shitty thing to do though. On the other hand, consider this... NZ is probably a bit of an outlier. A place without a big enough market to make massive shipments by relatively cheap water, forced to do expensive shipping, and small enough for local printing not to make much sense logistically, creating a huge gap between digital costs and print costs. A discount-on-print is probably a pretty smart, easy, straightforward and fair pricing model almost everywhere else. Is it a better alternative to go with a pricing model more convoluted, more volatile and less straightforward for the entire world market, to accommodate a small market? I might have made a similar pricing decision if I worked there. Anyone got other good ideas?
It's not crazy. It's pretty horrifyingly logical. Why have one 100Mt nuke, when you can have a hundred 1Mt nukes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetab...
The CLR has actually been open sourced under an extremely restrictive license[1]. It does not allow any modification or derivative works that are not part of the .NET runtime or a .NET app, or changes that make the platform non-conforming to the spec. The license is so restrictive that it probably even fails to meet the minimum criteria set forth by the OSI for being called "open source" (as it only allows grants very limited modification and derivation rights).

Remember the great lengths Google went to avoid the OpenJDK's GPL license (which, BTW, is a plain-and-simple open source license, with its implicit, unrestricted patent grant); this one is a lot more restrictive (and dangerous).

[1]: http://www.ifross.org/artikel/4-shifty-details-about-microso...
Reminds me of some of the pictures from OMNI, how that magazine inspired me back then
Can't agree with this more.
The title is misleading, as €0.02/hr would result in €14.4/month. Their pricing page[0] lists the servers at €9.90/month.

Their "Infinite Storage" is €0.02/month, though.

[0] https://www.scaleway.com/pricing
You can downvote me as much as you want, the headline is still, objectively, bad.
Kotlin already runs very well on Android, and people seem to love it.
Except that breeder reactors are one of those things that you may not want to hand out willy nilly...
Because a method does not exist where a hundred hosts can do just as much damage. It is utterly trivial to detect and block anomalous login activity from 100 hosts.
It's interesting that under the section "Handling cross-platform differences" the author calls 'uname -s'. It's not cross-platform if you ignore Windows (and requiring to install cygwin doesn't count), or cross-compiling scenarios. Also makefiles don't help all that much if you want to work in the platform's 'native' IDEs (like Visual Studio or Xcode). These 3 points (cross-platform, cross-compiling and IDE support) are exactly the points that meta-build-systems like cmake (or scons, or premake) fix. Remember that cmake isn't a replacement for make, for command line compilation it usually makes sense to let cmake generate makefiles (except on Windows).
"How do I take advantage of the monthly billing?

Each resource is billed per hour up to its monthly cap. The monthly cost of a resource is calculated by running the hourly rate for 500 hours. If a resource is used during more than 500 continuous hours in the month, the rest of the month is free."
While it would be nice for Firefox to have something in-place like per-process tabs that could mitigate the problem, I think what really needs to happen in this case is that they fix the underlying issue - which, true enough, might be a while; it doesn't happen for me, even though I leave Firefox open for about a month at a time (rebooting on patch Tuesday), so I assume it isn't easily reproducible and therefore might go some time without being fixed. Even if you had per-process tabs, I'd expect that one tab would still be using 30-50% of the CPU and thus be a major nuisance, even though it might make the rest of the browser more usable.
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Where did you get the idea that Swiss are obsessed with not paying taxes ? In fact Switzerland and Germany are very similar in all the aspects you mention.
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Show me an editor which can tell indentation from alignment at the beginning of the line. And moreover, which can tell it for a dozen of unrelated languages, like Perl, C, make, Erlang, XML and YAML.
"The C1 server is a 4-cores ARMv7 CPU with 2GB of RAM and a 1 Gbit/s network card. It is designed for the cloud and horizontal scaling."

"How does a C1 server perform?
A C1 server gives a constant CPUMark of 12K. This is equivalent to an AWS M3 medium instance. "
Yeah. Right now the US offers its educational infrastructure to foreigners to study in, and then destroys most of the good will that this generates in the student by basically kicking them out after graduation. Not sure how this makes sense from either a business or a PR standpoint.
Do you have evidence to suggest a causal relationship between Twitters inability to make money and its better ad targeting?

That is to say, would Twitter be better at making money if it had ads that were targeted worse?
no one cares :)
You can get 24hrs free by validating your phone number :)
"including hardware pr0n" )))
NSFW (sound wise)
Thanks, i missed the hourly/monthly switch.
This is worse than not having an alternative because it gives a sense of security to people without knowing whom they are trusting.
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How about not reusing passwords and always using a strong password? SHA256 alone is enough, when you just do that. And so what if someone got my password. If they had already access to the system, they could have also stolen the data they were after anyway. Today's password: .P`éA@O?/^2HNVSé%@ÖY it contains more than 256 bits of entropy. Based on this SHA256 collision attacks and cracking AES128 should be trivial. I personally consider passwords to be unique shared secret blobs / service.
I wasn't rejecting it. I was curious.
The problem I have with filtering out news articles is that you are right about the mean, median and 0.9 quantile of news.

I am not convinced that the value/impact of the 1% doesn't drastically outvalue the rest. That said it seems they are offering a month free so I guess I should go have a look.
> React is Bsd, this one is also bsd-ish?

But this one comes without Facebooks patent clauses.

Edit: Apparently that was too terse: While Facebooks React comes as BSD, the patents clauses are so broad that questioning software patents in a blog post would result in licence revocation. They are not just litigation defense like the ones from the Apache Foundation:

"The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, for anyone that makes any claim [...] alleging [...] that any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or unenforceable."
I have no idea what paying for Patrick Stewart to do a voiceover costs, but I can't help but feel it may have been a contributory factor in their demise. (Not, perhaps, directly, but it may be indicative of the sort of mentality that suggests frugality isn't a high priority...)
Why you think the PKI sucks but can't do any better:

https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-you-think-the-pki-sucks-b...

I wrote this article for the Bitcoin community but most of the logic stands for the web too.
Other European countries are similiar, e.g., Austria
€ 726,72 per semester for students outside the EU, for EU citizen its free, as long as they are in minimum time

http://www.studyinaustria.at/study_in_austria/tuition_fees/
Sigh. We need this going the other way around; that is, our mobile devices supporting web-apps, instead of our browsers supporting mobile apps.

ARC is going to be the next Flash(TM).
And now developers still have to target multiple platforms (web, android, ios), instead of just the web.
Great stuff looking forward to seeing more ARM based hosting services.

Been using labs.online.net for a few months and it has been fantastic.

Good luck!
It really doesn't matter unless it is an integral part of your job, I suppose. Take some of the top headlines today at BBC, e.g. Kenya hostage situation or Iran nuclear deal.

In the first case, the situation is ongoing, plenty of speculation. It's gonna change many times before it's resolved, so unless you're a breaking news junkie, it makes sense to read a well-informed article on who and why when it's over.

In the second case of Iran deal, it's just "we're close to a deal" + some background information. If you take a look at yesterday's Economist, they have a full analytic article on what's happening with the deal and why it's not there yet. It was printed before the article appeared and it actually explains what's happening so that the BBC article becomes useless.
Ask HN: Does the word engineer matter?
Hey HN :) I am a student from Portugal currently taking an IT degree.
This is almost exactly the same as Computer Engineering but its a bit more pratical and the main diference is the lack of 2 math courses and one physics course.
I just want to ask if i should change to the Computer Engineering degree, if that would make a diference in the future in the job market.

Thanks!
Sorry, you have to rebuild the top level representation, which I guess is now called a Pod.
When I started at Imperial College London in 2004, about 30% of the students in my class were from China, Taiwan or similar. Many wanted to work in the US, some had applied to US universities. By the time we graduated, after having lived here and with the US tightening its immigration policies, most took jobs in the UK.

That was with £17,000+/year fees (for non-EU students), so they were super-rich and also clever. If studying at Cologne is free for them, and in English, that will attract potential students away from Britain.

I paid about £1000 year, like all British students, but I'd definitely consider Germany if I was 17 now. Fees for British students have increased to ~£9000/year! My workplace has a very international staff, all bilingual staff's teenage children are pretty much guaranteed to study elsewhere in the EU, with others considering it.
Wow, yeah. Read the PATENT file in a bit more detail now. Could be a problem.
The University of Waterloo's unique by putting their Computer Science program in our Faculty of Mathematics (the first in North America, the largest in the world).

By studying a significant amount of Math, it definitely improved my logical and reasoning skills at least ten fold.
Praise the lord. Why aren't more cloud companies selling bare metal ARM servers?
> Education in Europe is not free. You pay with your qualifications. If your university grades are not good enough, you go out fast.

Could you be a little more specific? The size of Europe, America and Asia is too huge for statements like that.
There are definitely universities in Europe that are more similar to some in the US than other universities in Europe.

I'm a student in Sweden and I have not experienced anything that supports the quote above.
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This is a very interesting offer, that clearly targets DigitalOcean.

The only thing I could not find quickly is info about the company: Is it a startup? Is it funded?

Until I found out it's a new product by Online, which is a subsidiary to one of France biggest telecom disruptor. There should be an About us that tells just that, which would clearly give more confidence to potential customers.
I really wonder why it is only Mozilla right now that offers their browser as a tar.gz for Linux use.
And the backup battery business for homes and business: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-08/musk-revea...
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The intention in germany is much more to try to keep the population stable (it is currently decreasing). The current development is somewhat frightening regard the german pension insurance system.

For a comparison see:

http://populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/

http://populationpyramid.net/germany/
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I used their beta, and was pleasantly surprised by the performance of these little boxes. I find the idea of a dedicated box vs. virtualisation quite attractive for some hard to quantify reasons.

Wondering if they'll roll-out in more regions soon. Interesting to see the international take-up, of course quite an euro-centric approach :)
> 1) Put your assets on the same domain.

It's quite a common optimization to distribute assets on multiple domains. This is because only a limited number of connections are allowed to made per domain (changes with HTTP2).

Furthermore, a CDN often has a faster connection to the user and you might benefit from it already being in the cache on first connection.
Transport Inspection arrested an Uber employee in Amsterdam for not coorporating with providing the Inspecting documents Uber says are classified and helping competitors. Currently being detained. This after a raid in the Uber offices by the inspection last week.
I find this surprising in both directions:
Either that an AWS M3 medium instance is so slow or that ARM servers got so fast!

Edit: It seems that ARM CPUs got really fast: According to [1] an Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz gets a Passmark score of 12k.

[1]: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
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I always think of '^' and '<' as being arrows pointing at the relevant dependencies, i.e "that list of things up ^ there" or "that thing on the far left <". It can also help to think of '<' as being like a stdin redirect, so a simple rule might look like "myprog < $<".

I'm not sure what the deal is with '@' though.
I'm wondering if creating per-state Visas would help this. States that want to be more open to foreigners could potentially fast-track such visas, but getting a full USA citizenship would require jumping through more hoops.
The counter argument Google uses is that booking.com and friends have no inherent right to exist. They either provide a service that people want or they don't. Hotel booking is a commodity business: other than reviews and the like there's a limited amount of value that can be added. If they add enough value people will go there directly. If all they do is provide a few calendar widgets and a billing backend then maybe Google can do that more effectively by inlining it into the results page.

> People would be fine I think if google offered a small option to go to google maps when you do an address search, but if they take over half the page with a google map on these results, it is legitimate to ask whether they are leveraging their dominant position

Wait so the outcome of a legal case depends on how many pixels the feature takes up? I don't see any rational basis in law for that. Why should a map not be large? If someone came along that did mapping much better than Google did, people could just go to that site directly, right?

I remember a time before "universal search" when maps did not appear in Google web search at all. Yet Google Maps was still a popular service. So was Google Earth which had to be downloaded.
> For less perfect results you could just set up measurement microphones in the right position and then convolve the result with a Head-Related Transfer Function.

This sounds interesting. Could you get to near-perfection by simply increasing the number of microphones used? Also, could using cheap microphones be compensated by using more of them?
This story is posted twice, on the front page of HN.

They have only one OS available, Linux, (in various flavours), while the others are branded 'coming soon'. That alone doesn't inspire any confidence.
Yet it works with way over five nines confidence. Despite all its faults, the system works decently.

I would myself prefer DANE being used, because it's IMHO sounder technically, but we'll possibly have the same issue with registrars doing a sloppy job than we have with CA, so not sure that it would actually be a win...
Main discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9309459
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This is like paying $10 every month for a raspberry pi + $40 SSD, or $75 in hardware.

I rather pay $40/mo for Hetzner 3930 CPU server with something like 30 VMs.
After looking, I'm astonished that this doesn't exist in Emacs. There is a completion plugin using libclang; maybe the highlighting could just be added into it.

On vim's side, YouCompleteMe explicitly denied my approach to integrate highlighting.
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Love it. It helps me in getting familiar with TDD when I was just starting out to learn Rails.
This is from the same company as Online.net -- http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server
Hosted in France.

They're very reliable, and a pretty good competitor to KimSufi/SoYouStart/OVH.

Iliad, the group behind Online.net and Scaleway, also owns Free Mobile and Free Telecom and Free Internet, all of which are quite popular.