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> The out-of-band network tap that Joyce describes is exactly what a product like ExtraHop delivers.
...

> Well? Can you see those intrusions, and see where they try to go next? Do you have the visibility into the East-West traffic that Joyce describes as being so crucial to stopping advanced, persistent threat actors from exploiting you?

> ExtraHop can give it to you. Our platform auto-discovers and classifies every device, every interface, and every application that touches your network, and can observe and analyze ever transaction in real time. We give you all the information you need to stay one step ahead of anyone who might be trying to break into your network.

> Read our security operations use cases or try our free demo to see how.

This reads like an advertisement.

moleculeon Guy spotted wandering London Tube skimming contactless cards with POS device

Other commenters have pointed out that this does not appear to be on the London Tube. The post mentions nothing saying that the poster took the photograph or that it was on the London Tube, the London-Tube association of the HN headline seems to be mis-inferred from the poster's location, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, although that's quite a ways from London...

moleculeon Vagga – A Containerization Tool Without Daemons

Different link and page, but pretty much a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11086471

> Vagga is a containerization tool without daemons (github.com)

https://github.com/tailhook/vagga

moleculeon Slack got four of its black female engineers to accept a startup award

> Side question: Is slack really successful? I thought they were overvalued at 2.5 billion - 3 billion.

Either way, those two things are far from mutually exclusive.

moleculeon Germany’s Social Democrats have proposed an upper limit on cash transactions

HN headline: Germany to make cash payments of more than 5,000 Euro illegal

Article: ... Germany’s Social Democrats have proposed an upper limit on cash transactions and the abolition of the €500 note. It could prove a tough sell in a country that still loves paying with paper money.

Edit: headline updated by dang, thanks.

moleculeon The Dokku Trap

It sounds like you'd want to lock to a specific version of the java buildpack, before 94276a, which dokku supports, according to the docs provided in the GP comment:

> You may also wish to use a specific version of a buildpack, which is also simple

    # using v87 of the nodejs buildpack
    # replace APP with the name of your application
    dokku config:set APP BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs#v87

http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/deployment/buildpacks/

moleculeon Dear “Dear GitHub”

awkward

http://zachholman.com/posts/fired/

moleculeon Whatever happened to the laptop computer? (1985)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

moleculeon Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April

> This is almost as bad as the Latin American failure of the Chevy Nova (Spanish: no go)

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

moleculeon Show HN: PeerGym – A Health Club Database Made with Elixir/Phoenix

Not displaying 'Price' as a sort option, or no sort options, in this case, would solve the problem and be good UX.

moleculeon Show HN: PeerGym – A Health Club Database Made with Elixir/Phoenix

Clicking on 'Price' under 'Sort by' results in the error message:

> Sorry bro! We couldn't find any gyms in your area, so head up to search bar and try again.

when there are gyms displayed for same area when sorted by location

edit: looks like it's triggered when area's gyms don't have any associated prices

moleculeon Ask HN: What are your predictions in technology for 2016?

> Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2015?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822723

moleculeon AWS mistakes to avoid

I expected to see something like this generalized in the article as

6. Not setting up billing alarms, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/...

moleculeon Ask HN: Can we have a “read later” for the posts?

similarly, for Instapaper

moleculeon American big business faces the G20 in a fight for $2.1T in unpaid tax

This is certainly an issue to be discussed and addressed, but the headline, directly from the article, is incorrect, re: "$2.1T in unpaid tax":

> In total, US multinationals are sitting on an estimated $2.1tn in untaxed offshore profit...

US corporate taxes on $2.1T are @ least 65% less than the $2.1T profit, itself. The correct title would phrase it as "unpaid taxes on $2.1T".

moleculeon The Secret Ingredient in Orange Juice

> Who here can imagine a doctor telling anyone on earth not to eat more carrots?

Completely tangential, but I can imagine doctors treating patients complaining of Carotenosis:

Carotenemia or carotenaemia (xanthaemia) is the presence of the orange pigment carotene in blood from excessive intake of carrots or other vegetables containing the pigment resulting in increased serum carotenoids. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotenosis

moleculeon Princess Pricklepants, Startup Founder Extraordinaire

"Also, synergy.”

moleculeon How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10552932

moleculeon The Tech Talent Shortage Is a Lie

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10557990

moleculeon Notify by Facebook

One person's notifications are another's interruptions.

moleculeon [dead]

current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10534274

moleculeon SupermealX, India’s Soylent

> Also, society is conditioned to believe there is something objectionable about the poor being made to drink a tasteless subsidized potion because they cannot afford the other kind of good food. There are movies in which people consuming tasteless but utilitarian nutrition is depicted as evidence of dystopia.

It seems conspicuous that it wasn't mentioned that Soylent is the namesake of one of those movies. Is it assumed that most NYT readers will make / have already made the association?

moleculeon [dead]

Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10422976

moleculeon Study: Washing dishes mindfully can relieve stress

The mindfulness excerpt is from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn's The Miracle of Mindfulness

> While washing the dishes one should only be washing the dishes. This means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing the dishes. At first glance, that might seem a little silly. Why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that’s precisely the point. The fact that I am standing there and washing is a wondrous reality. I’m being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions. There’s no way I can be tossed around mindlessly like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

moleculeon Google Cloud Platform

> their 128m size container is only .003c/hr...

$0.003 / hr, 0.3c / hr

https://www.joyent.com/public-cloud/pricing

moleculeon Saudi Arabia travel guide

> Is there a simple explanation for why the Christian West moved to relative secularism a couple centuries ago while Saudi Arabia has remained so medieval, despite oil-powered industrialisation?

That's a good question, to which I don't know the answer, but I would guess that it is @ least partially due to do w/ an authoritarian monarchy that came to power by aligning itself w/ religious fundamentalism:

> The emergence of what was to become the Saudi royal family, known as the Al Saud, began in Nejd in central Arabia in 1744, when Muhammad bin Saud, founder of the dynasty, joined forces with the religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, founder of the Wahhabi movement, a strict puritanical form of Sunni Islam. This alliance formed in the 18th century provided the ideological impetus to Saudi expansion and remains the basis of Saudi Arabian dynastic rule today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia#Before_the_founda...

moleculeon IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg on Ad Blocking, Viewability, Fraud

> ... a bunch of browser makers are more concerned with competing with each other than helping consumers.

"... a bunch of advertisers are more concerned with competing with each other than helping consumers."

moleculeon West Virginia Engineer Proves to Be a David to VW's Goliath

The contracting organization, a European non-profit, had wanted to convince European regulators to emulate strict U.S. standards for diesel emissions of nitrous oxides (NOX). So it asked CAFEE engineers to gather data from the field. They rented VW diesels, measured their tailpipe emissions on the road and compared them to measurements on the same cars made in the lab. The discrepancies were huge.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/adva...

> If you are an iOS developer, however, a lot can be done to secure your development system:... Separate your development system with your everyday system. Development systems should be used solely for development and not for browsing random sites. If physical separation presents too much of a problem for developers, at the very least, a dedicated user account for development should be used.

I'm not an application developer, but I haven't seen this recommended before and it sounds a bit extreme. Is it a standard, recommended best practice for development environments that must sign code?

moleculeon Why I wouldn’t use Rails for a new company

When developing Rails applications, I rarely, if ever, include 'Rails' in my search terms, but rather drill down to the applicable component library: ActiveRecord, ActionController, Haml, Rack, etc.