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I don't think AWS mitigates DDOS. If an app is under DDOS at AWS and was using an Elastic Load Balancer, the app would have to pay for the inbound bandwidth through the ELB and would have to pay for scale-up to respond to the increased traffic load.

It'd be much more cost effective to pay CloudFlare a fixed monthly fee and stop the DDOS attack before it even gets to your AWS resources.
Agreed. We're full-stack AWS hosted, and I have no real indication of whether or not we've ever been attacked (doubtful) or if AWS could automatically mitigate an attack (possibly??). I presume Netflix is probably a common target, and they're AWS-heavy, but I have no way of knowing for sure.
It's not that it doesn't apply at all to non-citizens; it's just that the extent to which it applies is comparatively limited.

Guantanamo Bay is also different because it's also believed to be violating international law.
I own a car. I can trivially turn it around on the highway, turn of the light and floor the gas (going against traffic). It would almost certainly kill everybody else in the car I hit, but it would also kill me - and my family wouldn't know.

If I didn't own a car I could just rent one.

Or I could throw myself in front of a train or truck.

In short there are lots of ways to die right now, but they nearly always fuck up somebody else too - why not accept reality and make it so that people who wants to die can go do that safely?

Note: I do not right now want to kill myself.
Please don't take the previous advice uncritically. A good few of the suggested commas are jarring. I thought your text read very well.
The more I read from CF, the more I'm impressed and am definitely considering this.
Ah, I was using Safari. Thanks!
You think coinbase wants to control the protocol? How would they do that exactly? The best way we've seen so far is to stuff the developer list with people you've bought off and alienate the others, which is what blockstream is doing and what is happening right now.
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There are definitely some scary folks running businesses out there. Like Jacques I cannot specify any names but the number of companies who think it's ok to omit paying their taxes or their suppliers is... well, there are quite a few of them (source: I work with a lot of UK tech companies through my business, GrantTree).

This is not just as a short-term cash flow loan, which would be at least somewhat justifiable ("we're in the middle of a raise, it's cheaper to get an implicit loan from HMRC by paying the payroll taxes late than to negotiate a loan with a loan provider" is at least something I can imagine myself thinking under a lot of pressure). Over the years I've met a good number of companies who seem to think it's ok to do this consistently, year after year after year.

Unsurprisingly, a consistent neglect of paying your taxes is very much inversely correlated with the success of the business. I guess they also neglect many of the other things that Jacques mention.
Do you expect the Pentagon be the least powerful party? Do you expect other partiesto stay away from aautonomous military robots if the US does?
What's Sid Meier really like?
Open Hunt is shutting down
"It is unfair, however, to give no guidelines of what you think might be acceptable."

If you do not accept a jury's decision that there was pay discrimination on the basis of sex, then you have ridiculously high bar that precludes effectively all evidence.
Not bitcoin but https://blendle.com is the closest to what you're suggesting.
What's your view on websites denying access if an adblocker is detected?
I'm open to further corrections, how would you write that sentence? (I did the best I could on the original, if I could have done better I would have but punctuation is hard (and quotes are the hardest, for some reason)).
It is, but deportation isn't a conviction -- separate courts, separate processes.
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Deportation hearings aren't to determine the legality of your presence (That's already been established, hence the hearing to decide whether you should be deported). So the "criminal" part is already decided, deportation hearings are administrative and AFAIK court appointed representation is not required for administrative hearings
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That's an argument against a certain type of advertising. The link explicitly rejects the distinction between ads that monitor and track you and ads than are entirely passive.
You actually want the ISPs, some of the most hated companies in the country, to "fairly distribute" that money for you?
That is exactly how Spotify Premium's payment model works. The nearest equivalent in journalism might be a wire service like the AP.
I just have a "normal"(?) all-weather biking jacket (gore-tex or some similar material). For pants, I'm not into spandex tights (which seems all the rage these days), so I just have a pair of "out-doorsy" pants of some similar material as the jacket. If it's cold, I just put more layers underneath. For the undermost layer, it's worth to use these "technical" underwear, as you'll freeze like heck once you start sweating if you use cotton underwear.

I find that I manage with surprisingly little clothes even if it's cold, the main thing is to be covered up so that the cold outside air doesn't enter from sleeves etc. Aside from that, the most critical for me is shoes and gloves, I easily start freezing my toes even though I'm otherwise Ok. And if it's colder than, say, around -15C, some kind of face mask and glasses are good, otherwise your face freezes.

As for equipment, I have winter tires for my bike. I haven't bothered to acquire another pair of wheels, I just change the tires in the autumn and spring. My winter tires aren't any wider than my summer tires, so it gets a bit tedious if there's loose snow on the path. Most of the time it's fine, though. I don't have a separate "winter bike", I use the same bike both summer and winter (a cyclocross/touring kind of thing with drop handlebars etc.).
Odd that Fastmail have a market, given Gmail, then
It is much lower.

http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/04/under-the-knife-study-...

"People have always been afraid of general anesthesia. Many fear they won’t wake up from this “artificial sleep” — actually more of a coma, albeit drug-induced and reversible. In the 1940s, for every one million patients operated on under full anesthesia, 640 died. By the end of the 1980s, fatalities were down to four per every million, thanks to modern safety standards and better medical training. However, a recent article published in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt, the German Medical Association’s official international science journal, shows that after decades of decline, the worldwide death rate during full anesthesia is back on the rise, to about seven patients in every million. And the number of deaths within a year after a general anesthesia is frighteningly high: one in 20. In the over-65 age group, it’s one in 10."
The main issue with this type of payment model isn't the money; it's the mechanics of it.

If something behind the scenes automatically took my $0.50, kept track of the fact that I was entitled to read it on any device and browser I might use anytime in the future, and didn't bug me about it ever again, then it might be workable. I don't have a problem paying a few cents for an article. I have a problem manually entering into the transaction to pay a few cents every time I want to read an article throughout the day.
> I presume Netflix is probably a common target, and they're AWS-heavy, but I have no way of knowing for sure.

Well, DDoS operators usually don't do their job for fun (okay, I'm discarding Lulzsec and other vandalism-motivated folks here).

It's much more profitable to hunt for not-CDN-backed sites and extort them for money. Or to look for processor-heavy API endpoints (e.g. login with huge work factors) to improve the DDoS effectivity, but then again a lot of DDoS ops are script-kiddies looking for a quick bunch of monies, all too often not skilled enough for this.
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That's not the point of Krugmans article. The point is that without that sweatshops the people working there would be even worse off. Is that correct? Maybe, maybe not, but it's completely different from what you're arguing against.

That aside: I also prefer better shoes. I can use them far longer, even if they're more pricey.
Emerald home: http://www.emeraldprogramminglanguage.org/
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I have a long commute (apparently I am a super commuter), and work out in the morning, as long as the train is not fcking late... again. I've noticed that crossfit in the morning gives me MORE energy throughout the day. Gone are the 3pm doldrums.
Why are there no startups solving the Real Estate problems?
I sometimes thing you could combine avoiding suffering through euthanasia with the desire to preserve life by doing cryonics.
I do not consider my post an attack. The elderly raise the youth, and the youth has to help the elderly to gracefully pass away. And who says I don't bother, is unworthy of being raised, which is a work of incredible effort, and of lenghty years. Saying that someone does not merit sth. is not an attack, or an insult.
The worst part after a commute is coming into an open office. People sneezing, coughing, talking.

But, that topic requires another completely different article. :)
ELB is simply a Reverse Proxy with an upstream pointing to your app servers. Last time I checked, I think they were running nginx. I doubt they have advanced DDOS detection code running on that reverse proxy.

Netflix likely implements their own DDOS protection layer somewhere in their routing library. For example, since most resource-intensive Netflix endpoints are protected (you have to login to watch a movie), they could use rate-limiting based on User Account ID.
I love Google's Contributor program and i'm actually at the max contribution now (I started at $1 a month, and over the last 6 months or so gradually increased it because i liked the results i was seeing) The problem is that i've found most people want an "all or nothing" system. They want to see NO ads for their payment, and not have the possibility for some ads.

For those who don't know, Contributor's "thing" is that you pay anywhere from $1 to $15 per month to google, and they basically "bid" in ad spots for you. If you win the bid, then either the ad is removed completely, or a custom image/pattern/element is shown there instead.

Plus it gives you a rundown of where your money went each month, with site-by-site control (you can say only use contributor on these sites, or you can say use contributor on all sites except these). And at the end of the month if you haven't used your entire "contribution" of money, you get it "refunded".
My anecdotal inference is that they will recommend pills and surgery more often than diet and excercise, because most people want the quick fix solution and that it is very difficult to get someone to adhere to diets and excercise.

Again anecdotally, but consider the stories from people with diabetes who still won't eat well even when their foot was just amputated due to that behaviour.
Transmission (BitTorrent client) v2.90 contained malware on OS X
> But the authors of library L decided to rename a certain field in the JSON of HTTP calls

The API endpoints should be versioned as well. Once all services have been upgraded to use the next version of the API, the previous endpoint can be deprecated.
You should know that you will be competing with the already established 'DroidScript' in the easy app creation space and DroidScript already has > 400,000 downloads, and it also has a live development feature and generates native apps. The DroidScript team also have a Blockly based product and iPhone product in the works too.
Dude, Reza is a bamf. I've attended many of his talks. Guy had a hard job, and he took flak from all sides. Good luck buddy!
Found it on https://www.researchgate.net

"Holt SHA, Brand Miller JC, Petocz P. An insulin index of foods: the insulin demand generated by 1000-kJ portions of common foods. Am J Clin Nutr 66, 1264-1276"

I highly recommend it as a source for glycemic response of different foods; some things are entirely counterintuitive.

Are you on low sugar/flour/starch diet?
Last time I looked at the AWS jobs site, they were hiring for a DDoS mitigation team.
Full transcript:

https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/jefm-v-lynch-deposition-...

The comments in question start on page 18.

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Q. It must be true that there's some children that are so young that even if they receive the notice and even if they're given an explanation by the judge, they're still not going to understand what's going on right?

A. I have to do a case-by-case basis determination. I've taught immigration law literally to three year olds and four year olds. It takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of patience. They get it. It's not the most efficient, but it can be done.

Q. I understand that you think it can be done. Are you aware of any experts in child psychology or comparable experts who agree with the assessment that three and four year olds ca be taught immigration law

A. I haven't read any studies one way or another.

Q. What about like a one year old?

A. I mean, I think there's a point that there has to be communication. There has to be communication at some point.

Q. So what do you train judges as to cases in which communication is impossible because the child is too young?

A. What we train is if a respondent, child or adult, cannot perform functions necessary for the hearing to be fair, the judge should not proceed.
That's because there is no real threat and it's all theater. In a place where there are real threats, like in Israel, they have security layers with multiple checkpoints and they understand that a bunch of people in a group is a target.
At least as big an issue I think is that for Kindle books, the analogy is roughly "Amazon = the Internet".

If there was a single vendor who knew my payment information and transparently and simply just made it all work, I'd be far more likely to consider paying for one article here, one article there, etc.

People will pay large monthly bills to read stuff on the Internet -- they do so today to their ISP. But for a variety of reasons, no one is going to pay 750 individual monthly bills for $0.06 each to all the different pages they've stumbled through during the month, even if it works out to be about the same amount of money.
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It's partly driven by wide open human greed. Corporations, being abstract structures, don't experience emotion, and the people who run them aren't hiding their desire to accrue money and power. Your characterization of the process doesn't conform much to reality itself.

Also, your solution doesn't seem terrible realistic. Most people don't have the wiggle room to quadruple expenses.
4 years ago boot-to-gecko was still at the rather early stage and it was not possible to see how it would end. Given the need to diversify for Mozilla it was reasonable to proceed to get at least one shipping device. Even 3 years ago with the first phone release one could argue that continuing with the project was not totally unreasonable. But 2 years ago the market message was crystal clear.
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I deny them audience.

There are few paywalled/anti-adblocked/etc domains I don't even bother clicking links from.
Very true. I previously worked at a place that had a customer who never paid vendor invoices. They would wait until they were going to get cut off and pay the minimum possible.

We hosted all their online content which gave us leverage to be paid. We continued doing work for them but required up front cash payment before anything would be done.
Given the size of the attacks, shouldn't it be possible to identify who is behind these (or at least where it is coming from)? Or are they all distributed attacks from random hacked PCs? I find it hard to believe there are still enough vulnerable PCs: the count of those should be going down, not up. I guess if the source is nations the actually source might be difficult to pinpoint.
You are probably accustomed to scheduling your time carefully. If you aren't, you should be.

Your relationship is just as important (probably more so) as everything else, so give it space on your calendar. You can afford to take an hour to make dinner for your partner. Plan the rest of your work around it, even if you have to do so days ahead of time. Once dinner is ready, leave your phone in the other room.

If Obama can make time for dinner then you can too[1].

Most importantly: remember to thank your partner for picking up the slack so resentment doesn't build.

[1] https://hbr.org/2014/03/if-president-obama-can-get-home-for-...
The only reason netflix is harder is DRM. The entire point of DRM is that you give up control of the client.

Stop supporting DRM and applying a gamma curve is easy (just give mpv the --gamma option). There are several dynamic range compressors that could be used to to the voice boost.
22 milliseconds? Unless I'm mistaken that's blazing fast?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11232781

It must really suck to lose your livelihood like that, but its kinda inevitable. On the flipside, there will be jobs created for people to fix these machines, write the programs that run them, all the sensors and safety features that will be required before they can hit the road.
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The article mentions some of the recent attacks were on fairly benign websites, though that's subjective and could be construed as a sales pitch.
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That's not that different to the standard separation of Haskell code between "inside IO" and "outside IO", is it? In this case, the calling Java code "lives" inside IO (as all Java programs do).
If a subscriber doesn't visit any of our existing partners, then we don't pocket that money which was intended for websites. Instead, it's set aside as a fund for helping new websites to join, with a particular priority on those sites that our subscribers use the most.

It may not be so bad if all of a subscriber's money goes towards a single publisher. We measure rates in terms of RPM. In such a circumstance, that single publisher is receiving an excellent RPM, and that gives us a good argument for convincing new websites to join.

As you can imagine, there are many things on our to-do list -- but a list of participating sites seems to be frequently requested, so that needs to move up in priority.
If you live in Seattle, drop by the Theo Chocolate factory in Fremont. Delicious.
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Somehow this reminds me of estimation in software development and developers who give estimates they are not comfortable with if a manager pressures them hard enough: "So long? Come on, don't be so pessimistic, we need it on xyz, you can do that, can't you?"
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If you "analytics" require javascript, you aren't including an entire class of user.
I need to take a serious look at Frege. I am writing a book on Haskell and I have spent years using various JVM languages, so Frege seems like a good bet to invest some time on - if the development environment, REPL style Dev, etc. is as smooth as it is for Haskell.
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Your logic implies, that the other war participants play by the same standards. I doubt, that there will be a standardization or approval process for the operating software across all armies, in order to ensure that the robots behave with some "moral limitations".
I'm honestly having difficulty understanding if the Flat Earth Society is a elaborate and hilarious troll, or, well...

It's almost too scary to consider the alternative... Are there actually people that believe the earth is flat, and anything else is a conspiracy??
There are plenty of vulnerable PCs: http://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/botnet/
That wasn't quite what I said. I read and understood the first part, but I didn't understand how they tried to justify it in the second half without a causal link.
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5% death rate within a year doesnt sound lower..sounds significantly worse.
But those aren't their first jobs after graduation.
> "But the decision to operate should be based on the best science, not on the worst-case scenario. If the best evidence tells us that a procedure is not effective, or that the benefits are outweighed by the risks for some patients, then it should not be done."

As long as patients can sue their doctor, no sane doctor will do less than what the patient wants if there is a remote chance the procedure is slightly more effective. A simple but prominent example is the prescription of a generic drug versus the "original". Science tells us that there is absolute no difference. Now you tell the patient - the same patient who feels a very real, "objective" decrease in pain when being injected a saline solution instead of steroids.

And last but not least: the "best science" does not help us if doctors don't know about it. And some treatments are so weird that a doctor won't even consider it. Three anecdotes on that from my last 2 years:

1) British guy with pain in his knee. His doctor has been urging him to operate for years now. But he works in Nigeria on a oil drilling project in a good position and rather would prefer to wait the few years until he retires. The local "joujou"-man told him to rub python fat into his knee. It works for him! He told his doctor in the UK who dismissed that and told him that he might get into trouble for repeatedly rejecting sound medical advice. Shortly after I meet this guy in the Caribbean on his holiday, he tells me that story, I am skeptical and do some googling: 5 Minutes later I find a scientific study that proved that python fat is indeed a very good treatment for his condition. He mailed that to his doctor who read it and now leaves him alone. Snake oil, anyone?

2) Sahrawi ecologist with kidney stones but without the money to pay for the medical procedure to have them removed. He turns to local folk medicine, for a week he drinks a concoction that makes the stones break up and he can pass them naturally pretty much without pain. His doctor in Rabat speaks of a "miracle".

3) Business man in Casablanca was told by his doctor that he either needs surgery on his knee or he should try the traditional desert treatment: Undress, get buried in hot sand, 30 minutes later get into a tent, firmly wrapped. Repeat for 3 days. When I met him he was on his way back from his 5th treatment - he says he does it every 2 years and thereby has avoided surgery for 10 years.
I hope you never get to know, or experience such thing, but for some illnesses like cancer, at later stages, even the strongest painkillers don't help with the pain. There are many illnesses which turn you into an immotile person, and if you lack a loving family ready to put up with anything, life becomes a pain no painkiller can relief. Death is a part of our lifes, and our bodies are ours, so I believe we should get to choose what to do with them. If I were to spend the rest of my life in bed, immotile, in need of the service of my loved ones, for years to come, I'd rather put an end, relieve my loved ones from the burden and responsibilities, and my body and soul from the various pain that the situation causes.