skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any networks that both accept the prefixes and see these advertisements as the best path will send their traffic towards the route leaker, who will lack the capacity to handle this traffic, effectively blackholing these routes.

In theory, a large portion of the Internet would have still seen the legitimate routes as better paths, as they would have a shorter AS path (fewer networks in between) than the leaked ones. However, many networks often implement other BGP metrics for traffic engineering, depending on whether they are seeing the routes from a transit/peer/downstream customer, which may override the shortest AS path.
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One feature of traditional voting is that everybody interested can be a volunteer and inspect _all_ aspects of the procedure. There are few requirements (some basic reading, some math which is mostly addition and division up to 10 digits in the worst case).

Once you start adding more complicated math to it, you lose this very desirable property. Once you add tech, you have a black box (what does the silicon in this computer _really_ do?)
> it jitters and freezes your browser initially while it loads its 43 analytics engines and social media libraries.

Don't browse without ghostery.
The Circle CI post http://blog.circleci.com/its-the-future/ reads as a parody on this one.
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> It's circling the wagons around people who had the privilege and opportunity to learn these things before everybody else.

The underprivileged Bloomberg readership.
People who have lived beyond their means want to continue living beyond their means.

Ironic it was a Greek who wrote the Grasshopper and the Ant fable over 2,500 years ago.
Same in Win7 FF38
It's not a "little critique", we're basically talking about abandoning the fundamental principles of a functioning democracy here.

If such an election was monitored by international observers, the way we often do with third world countries, the report could be summarised as "probably completely fraudulent, because we weren't allowed to verify anything".

E-voting is election fraud. Period.

Elections should be transparent and verifiable, and every voter should to cast their vote protected from outside interference (i.e., alone and unobserved in a voting booth). These things are not optional.
By shipping only in a Docker container you will limit the audience for your app. That is the reason we ship GitLab as Omnibus packages (deb/rpm).
What the ...? So in the middle of working you won't even get the crappy message that 7 has saying "Windows needs to restart to apply updates, choose how long before we bug you again. 10 min, 1 hour, 4 hours" It will just restart right then?
> Also it would give me a lot more privacy

In the meantime, you can use the laptop sock [1] :)

[1] http://cdn.instructables.com/FTR/NFY0/FF78HWJO/FTRNFY0FF78HW...
Factual have done what lots of people do, which is invent the first 20% of a PaaS.

PaaSes are awesome. They also, once you go past the basics, require enormous engineering effort. And that's the problem: engineering effort spent on curating your own homegrown PaaS is engineering effort not available for creating user value.

5 years ago rolling your own was a source of competitive advantage. Today you can get an installable PaaS (Cloud Foundry or OpenShift) off the shelf and run it. In 2 years Docker, Mesos and CoreOS will probably all have PaaSes of their own.

Interesting times.
Could someone elaborate on the scope of the problem? Is it a sensible question to ask "How many routes were leaked?" how big were the prefixes of the networks leaked?
I've been in a similar situation, a story I love to re-tell because it feels like a victory for open source.

We asked Oracle for a quote for two replicated mysql servers for HA. Because they were VMs we got a quote for 3 years that was 410,000 SEK (almost $50k). So we built our own replication solution with mariadb for free.
e-voting (and postal voting) is also terrible because it allows easy coercion of the voter. You can't control the environment elsewhere. In a real polling station, at least nobody else gets to sit next to the voter to make sure they vote the right way.
3d printed bridge in Amsterdam
> Profile created: 1 day ago

So it has come to this. TTP and TTIP has become so poisonous that its dirty lobby are now sending paid shills to create accounts on social networking and news sites and post fake support.

That's terrible and excellent news at the same time. It's terrible because I don't want those shills here. It's excellent because it means we're winning.
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Ask HN: Have you ever heard about A.Bechtolsheim-style investors in Europe?
As the story goes Andy Bechtolsheim gave Brin and Page a $100.000 check after their first meeting in 1998.
There was no contract, no discussion about the valuation of the company and Google was not yet created.
This is a dream come true for startup creators.
Does it still happen ? Have you ever heard about similar stories in Europe ?
The Answer to Home Hunting?
Could this be what the market really needs? Now getting your next home is as simple as just sharing a pic of your ideal home along with your terms. Nice! Way to go NuPad app.
https://appsto.re/i6L76Qp
I see only this:

> Your IP address 5.79.68.161 has been flagged as a scanner. Scanners are not permitted. If you are seeing this message in error, please contact security@statuspage.io.

Guess I better send an e-mail to see this status page..?
What 8.1 does currently is says, "Windows is restarting in 1 day", then 1 day later if you haven't restarted (for a lot of people, that's plausible) it restarts for you, regardless if what you're doing.

There is a way to stop it, but you need to literally kill the Windows service, which is annoying.

And that's on Enterprise.
Facebook users hit in embarrassing porn malware attack
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What's compelling about the thread?

It's just a private (now public) email flame-war -- between a sysadmin and a sales rep -- that reflects poorly on both sides. The sysadmin isn't acting mature or efficiently by flaming. Due to his sloppy sharing, the sales rep is gettin doxxed with folks complaint brigading the sales rep's company.

The sysadmin has the most to lose -- and for what, Reddit karma on what reads like a writing prompt?
I don't want to single out Buzzfeed, but if ads are able to sustain an industry that nobody values - then that's not for the good of mankind.

The people employed in that field are not doing something valuable.
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> You are aware that ISDS already exist and have been a part of trade deals for at least 20 years?

Yes, I recently learned that, too. I find it shocking.

I can understand it somewhat when dealing with underdeveloped and corrupt countries, but even then I'm not sure it would be the best way. But most countries involved in this treaty have a well-functioning and reasonably fair court system. A secretive arbitration system is no improvement.
You can - it's just lust vs. lustier.
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I think calling this "horrible" is pretty harsh. I wish programmers wouldn't be so eager to put down each other's code instead of taking the time to understand the reason why it is written that way. In this case, I think the library accomplishes its goal quite well: to provide a straightforward, logo-esque syntax for procedural drawing.
The article is older but the government will vote for or against it in autumn 2016.
It's not black box technology, they're entire government systems are open source.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/estonia-publishes...
IIT Kharagpur topper rejects Microsoft offer, opts for research
Which part of it would you consider a black box? The protocols are open (you can write your own voting application), the source code is largely open, there are numerous reports on it, you are most welcome to become an observer (and many do) etc. An informed critique of the system would actually be very welcome, just stating "random guys with flash drives are bad" is not that helpful
If you need support, there's nothing wrong with buying support, even quite expensive support. I'm sure Oracle would have provided the some of best MySQL support available.

But yes, it's good to have the option of doing it yourself :-D

(For our few services that run on MySQL, I'm really hanging out for MariaDB to make it into Debian and hence Ubuntu, which is what we run on live - a mix of 12.04 and 14.04. Oracle runs on our last two remaining Sun Niagara SPARC boxes. We will be killing our last Oracle this year.)
You know, it would be very boring if all conferences were held in English-spoken cities, eg. New York or London. You should come to PolyConf and check one Poznan, one of the most beautiful cities in Poland. :)
Fuckups like this should result in criminal charges (and immediate depeering). DoS attacks are illegal in most countries and this is definitely gross negligence.
Samsung warns customers not to discuss personal info in front of their TV
When I was a lad embedded SQL - like Oracle's Pro* C - was the thing, i.e. a C program with EXEC SQL blocks containing actual SQL, which was then run through a precompiler to convert into proper C with API calls.

Nowadays this technology seems almost completely forgotten, and I confess to being baffled as to why. Certainly existing implementations are execrable - just read up on indicator variables, or string handling, in Pro* C to see what I mean, but IMO the concept is sound if married to a modern 'host' language like C++ or Rust. One very strong advantage is that you are then actually writing your SQL in SQL, not using some baroque builder API.

As for typing, the precompiler could parse the SQL and see what result sets are being returned / what columns are being married to bind variables and so on, and then interrogate the database's metadata to determine their types. AFAIK no existing implementation does this.
That's not what the USPS is required to do.
PG: Great in theory, virtually no GUI tooling that's up to the task.
MSSQL: Excellent, wish it ran on Linux.
Apple.com/privacy
The problem with TTIP in my opinion is, that those that pull the strings from the background are the big corporations and those that act for the interests of the big money. The results can be seen for example in the US/Mexico treaty that resulted in lower standards (eg. environmental, health, worker welfare, ...) and lower wages on both sides of the border.
Xkcd #1537: “Types”
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96% of UK corporations have been hacked, new data reveals
Some of them might hope for a ticket for the new power base in exchange for their compliance.
You don't need to have electricity 24/7 everywhere, you only need it in one place in a village for few hours so that everyone can get their phones charged on a regular basis.
I am trying to think of who is left of Jazz's "Golden Age" of the late 50s and early 60s that is still with us?

I grew up knowing my Grandfather was a Jazz Band Leader in NYC (He only had one recording and the last copy got destroyed decades before) and sadly he died when I was 7 so I didn't get to grow up to listen to his stories except through my mom and grandmother. He hated Charlie Parker and Billy Holiday, I think it was their drug use and being rude I was told. He did love Colman Hawkins and Dizzy.
Erm. What are you comparing here?

I read your comment as 'Given USPS can send a package over 4000km in the same country, let's compare that with international charges in Switzerland'¹. Is that correct? Because that would be a liiiittle bit misleading in my world and I'd like to compare Swiss international charges with a USPS delivery from New York to Reykjavik please.

① Apologies if that isn't the case. But 4000km just felt too close to the east coast to west coast distance.
They can make a profit by paying their workers less. This is really about the USPS workers' union vs. Congress.
there's an unnervingly high degree of overlap between spying and digital marketing

'selectors' instead of 'attributes', 'targets' instead of 'users/audiences'... and both are terrible at using PowerPoint

the spies just have a great deal more (illegally obtained) data to play with.
Hey, Skyper, greetings from another one! Skype Tallinn Engineering, as you well know, grew from the small all-Estonian core team to a ~500 people org by the time I left. The team was very international and many good programmers were from elsewhere but never a majority.
Whatever I have sans-serif set to in my browser. I just checked and it is Arial. I don't mind what you use as long as it renders correctly which most explicit choices seem to fail to do so.
I've lived in Poznan for a couple of years and I definitely wouldn't call it beautiful though the 'old center' is quite nice.

What Poznan does have going for it is that it is the economic motor of a very large part of Poland.
After the clusterfuck that was MMR -> Autism in the 90's, I'm wary of any news stories linking anything to Autism.

This is an interesting angle though.
It might be simpler to just wear a Burka.

Although at least in Germany this will collide with masking regulations (you are not allowed to mask in public gatherings).
I love procedural graphics... And game levels... And... Most spare time I spend generating graphics and music procedurally. The code isn't pretty (it's really iterating a lot of times and no time for refactoring...) but I guess we all should put it online like this :)
Full table was leaked
US Digital Service Playbook
>If anything, my game-theory background convinced me that it would be pure folly to think of the current deliberations between Greece and our partners as a bargaining game to be won or lost via bluffs and tactical subterfuge.

Nice bluff...
I guess because they do not behave in the same way.
In fact new Symbol() is closer to Common Lisp's (gensym) than regular :symbol, since everytime you call it you get something unique.

In particular object[:symbol] would behave quite differently (and would be probably worthless since everytime you would access a new property ).

It would make more sense to have :symbol a shortcut for Symbol.for("symbol") instead, but I don't think it would be that much useful.
Because of this my wife took iron supplements during pregnancy with our 2 kids. Seems to have worked? Of course I have no idea what would have happened without the supplements. Also, a lot of these things are part of our household diet even before pregnancy: http://i.imgur.com/rwOgsHS.png
Yup, one big city: http://blog.moment.ee/2015/06/pruunkaru-brown-bear-ursus-arc... http://www.zacekfoto.ee/?pid=3339
I might misunderstand postal services here. Is that mail/letters only? Or does it include parcels?

Because as far as I'm aware, Switzerland opened up to DHL et al. I'm not sure about mail/letters tbh.
Article dates from February.
Most posts complaining about interview process are being made by people who failed those interviews. There is a ton of reverse-survivorship bias here. It's certainly not the case that companies like GOOG/FB/MS are filled with all bozzos. If anything their interview process have been rather successful considering above average quality of talent at these companies and non-trivial products they work on.

I also sense lot of "entitlement" in OP's post and comments on this thread. It's like "oh I can't answer your interview questions but I'm so good that if I don't get the job, it would be only because your interview process sucks". Most company's HR would let you know what to expect at these interviews. If you are not comfortable with CS whiteboarding questions then you should just decline at that point. It's unprofessional to blame their process after you accepted to go through it, failed and then shit all over it because you didn't get the job.

This is not to say all interviewers are good and many could be downright assholes. But that feedback should be between you and their HR. It's just professional courtesy considering that these companies don't post on Internet how badly you performed on interviews compared to their other candidates to tell other side of your story.

Personally I like solving computational challenges whether I get job or not. As a programmers we are supposed to be loving these kind of CS puzzles. If nothing else, you walk out with few CS things you didn't knew before which would have taken same amount of time to learn anyway. I'm not saying interview questions shouldn't be job related but the fact is that many of these companies are doing LOTs of things and they need to hire more generally because they give you relatively more freedom to move around once you are in. So large companies have to keep things general at some level unlike startups with one project. In any case, if you complain about having to write code and design algorithms at developer interviews then you are probably applying for the wrong job.
The US government can "print" staggering amounts of money, because the Dollar economy is staggeringly bigger than any amount they would want to print.
A personalized documentary series about privacy and the web economy
Can you carry a small laser on you that can fry the sensor? It is not that hard to make it invisible and automated.
Many journalists don't understand how Swiss political system works. We have a direct (not representative) democracy here. Most issues are resolved on the referendums happening every two months. All kinds of issues — new taxes, foreign relations, public projects — all is subject to direct vote of the Swiss people, who have all law-making authority here (systematically regulated).

The direct consequence of this otherwise excellent system is that basically anyone can collect 20,000 signatures and introduce his or her idea to the public voting, no matter how crazy it looks like. This is one of such cases.

We already had law suggestions like make all public transportation free (didn't pass), abolish Swiss army (many times — didn't pass), disallow construction of minarets (passed), etc.

The guaranteed basic income law has been rejected with a huge margin — because Swiss people have basic understanding of who would have been paying for this, and who wouldn't.
> Why not using something more of the lines with Ruby's :symbol syntax?

Because Ruby's symbols are completely different and designed to collide. A Ruby symbol (like an Erlang atom) is a very cheap immutable string-like structure but :symbol is :symbol.

A Javascript symbol is (as others noted) much closer to a lisp unique symbol (the output of `gensym`), and having it be a function is perfectly fine since you have to keep it around anyway (or you can't access symbol-named properties).

Symbol.for is roughly equivalent to :symbol, but the use case for it is much more limited and there's really no reason for a literal version./
Ah, yes. I remember it all now. There I was, just following Obama around when I heard tales of this hacker.

It was a overcast day and Obama sat alone with a group of his advisors. They were to determine whether this young, one-time CTO who showed great promise would be a good hire. As they perused the resume, one of the advisor's eyes widened and hurried over to Obama. He whispered to him, "This kid was once and still is a hacker. He's been hacking since he was 12 and damnit Prez, he even claims to have hacked his resume and job application in an hour."

Obama looked off to the distance feigning contemplation, but really trying to remember if hacker meant good, bad, or both. In his head he pondered,

"Pretty sure both, but how did something bad turn to something good? Or was it the other way around. I saw that movie Hackers. 6/10. And wait a minute, can I go to jail for hiring a hacker?"

He smiled and looked around the room, "This kid was once a hacker. Can I go to jail for hiring an ex-hacker?" The advisors all laughed and Obama continued his serious thinking:

"Pretty sure hackers used to hack into things and so if this kid hacked our job application site in an hour, he must be pretty good at protecting from other hackers hmm... And moral move on his part telling us upfront or is it bragging? Is this what everyone does these days? Piss on your house and tell you you got a piss stain on your house? Maybe this is how the world works today. This kid is young and fresh. He knows what the people want. And if he knows how to hack, then who better to hack for than the president of the united states"

Obama finally addressed the room and confidently proclaimed "Hire him. He shall hack for the president of the United States!" The advisor who whispered the news of him being a hacker smiled turned around, and gave the air a fist-pump -- he did it. They all did it. Drinks and celebration would follow and all rested easy that night.

That's the real story folks.
Not the government, the Swiss people. Again. And it will be rejected. Again. Thankfully.
After I switched Tor circuits it worked fine for me.
I hear people say this all the time, that hotel rooms are sad and empty. I don't get it. I used to travel a lot and I always found living in hotel rooms kind of nice. I wonder whether men and women process this differently. All of her examples in the article are women.
Can you provide more details? Is it vanilla JavaScript? Under active development or in maintenance mode? Approx how big? Goals (make it more modern, add features, migrate it, touch it as little as possible)?
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Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Benny Golson, Herbie Hancock (a little younger), Chick Corea (noted Scientologist), just to name a few off the top of my head. All of them are still playing fairly regularly, too.
It probably doesn't help that education systems in countries like Zimbabwe is barely able to teach basic numerical skills to a large part of their population.

(I don't want to imply this is necessarily the case in Zimbabwe, or everywhere in Africa, but I've heard in some MOOC that people in developing countries tend to have numerical problems with prices)
> You are aware that ISDS already exist and have been a part of trade deals for at least 20 years?

Yes, and it has created its share of problems already. Which is exactly why a lot of people are concerned; i.e. because it is known to not just be a hypothetical issue.
> I've never seen any team that used scripts have the discipline to manage them properly

And I'll throw in my personal experience too, which is the opposite: I've never seen any team that used Maven and had the discipline to manage it properly.

Anecdotes don't really get you too far.
Linux support isn't just any feature under the sun. But you're right, they can't wait for it, because gaming on Linux is an actual disaster.

Meanwhile, gaming on Android is working just fine.
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Supercharging Jekyll with a ServiceWorke
The base use case for JS symbols is not the same as Ruby symbols: regular strings will work just fine for that.
We would love to provide that kind of guidance. By training age, do you mean age of user?
Closed back headphones don't offer as much "soundstage" as open-back headphones. With open-back headphones things really sound like they're coming from outside of your head, which is critical for the 3d sound illusion.
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Hi, I'm trying to start a virtual call center business that will handle large volume calls. Does anyone know how the call center software integrates with the business? For example, if a call center is handling inbound calls or a bank how does the information such as customer account, account number, etc get loaded into the call center software, let's say for example the call center is a 3rd party operation. Also I'm looking for a HiTech call center software, so does anyone have recomendations or shall I build my own?
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