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Have anybody found out who was behind any of the recent and not so recent large scale DDOS talked about also here on HN?

Besides, "they" don't claim anything. "They" cleverly claim that "_it_ believes" it was a state-actor. Who is this _it_ they conveniently hide?
Speculation on alternatives won't have a bearing on an investigation into the legitimacy of their claims.
The warrant in question is one that allows them to deploy the NIT in order to get the IP addresses in the first place. They wouldn't know these addresses prior to deploying the NIT, so there's no way they'd be able to get a warrant for each IP prior to that. Once they had the IPs, they subpoenaed the ISPs and got search warrants for the owners.

I haven't really made up my mind about the legalities of this case, it's quite tricky. I think the FBI should definitely have to disclose the NIT (both the exploit and the payload) to the defense, but I'm not sure about the warrant (Rule 41 issues aside).
> Together with LaTeX, it was one of the things that made getting into CS research much more difficult than necessary

I'm sad you feel this way because I've really enjoyed working with GNUplot and Latex. Sure it has some warts but it generally works well.

I might have a test or benchmark that produces results, a GNUplot script to plot it and a Latex document it's embedded to. The whole process from source code to PDF is automated, change the benchmarks, run make and you have a report.

Sure there are more user friendly alternatives, or apps that work better in interactive mode, but imagine doing the workflow above using, say, Excel and Word. Or Matplotlib and Google Docs.
Wow, I had no idea I was going to learn the intricacies of Japanese fruit production today. Fascinating answer, thanks for spending the time on that.
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There could be something like a DDoS insurance.
Apologies, as I am going to make a few assumptions.

If you write fewer classes and class hierarchies, and use higher order functions (see also - partial function application), you will have much less "refactoring" to do - often, simply small changes such as to increase the visible scope of a function you now want to reuse elsewhere, or to "pre bind" another argument to a function so the caller(s) don't need to know a particular detail.

This probably has a lot to do with why the static OOP people think the dynamic FP people are insane: they have no idea how we really work.

We have garbage collectors and closures now. Stop writing code as if in some crippled version of Simula 67 :-)
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Ok, I've got a little faith back. It went from -4 back to 1 after I made this comment.
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For me, about a year. I'm doing cloud design & deployment. Nervous because I know these contracts will not last forever. That, and I am the business. If something happens to me, I go from good money to $0 in no time flat. I got the work solely by word of mouth, and I'm not sure how to sell, to get more work.
You don't measure the conversion in case of a brick and mortar vendor. But you can still measure proxy values for effectiveness: an uptick in sales volume or number of clients after after starting a campaign, for example.
because its cheaper, they are selling lowest possible Clevo configuration in order to reach lowest starting price.
No way. Most of the tech crowd definitely tends to be technocratic socialists: they have this unflinching belief that things can be planned if you just put the smartest people in the room on it (no surprise -- people that tend to have the ideas as them).

It is no surprise that socialism is often favored by the elites and when the everyman rejects it, the elites stick their noses up and pout, "They're just too stupid to know what is in their own best interest - we should be in charge. If only they knew that!"
Aside from strict econ, finance and trading books, I'd heartily suggest economic history.

One of my personal favorites:

Global Capitalism, Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century by Jeffry Frieden.

https://www.amazon.com/Global-Capitalism-Fall-Twentieth-Cent...

From the Journal of International Eeconomics' review:

“Perhaps the greatest merit of Frieden's book is that it allows the reader to see the themes of winners and losers, risk and uncertainty, integration, economic growth and technological change emerge clearly from the deep forest of contemporary history. One gains a greater appreciation for the timelessness of these phenomena and how to begin to get a grip on the bigger picture of policy making and the global economy.”

I found that quote on the author's site.
http://scholar.harvard.edu/jfrieden/pages/global-capitalism-...
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The enterprise doesn't care. It'd take a hellluva an event to get marketing behind such a stunt:
The Computer Engineering degree I have is from an ABET program, it was pretty even on CS/EE. No regrets, except for the times the hardware guys act like I'm just a software guy and the software guys act like I don't know anything about software because I'm a hardware guy. XD
Comments like these should have disclaimers about the author's position on the stock.
I appreciate your first comment calling out that people should check sources on their own and verify claims made in discussions. I do not feel that you and Animats are adding value by furthering the discussion here.
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Sharing this further than BoingBoing may cause an early termination of the program if the influx of users is too high.

I had bought into a similar "unlimited" 4G/LTE hotspot program that used Verizon's network about a year ago [0], then news about it spread like wildfire and it only lasted less than two months after that. The wording in the Terms of Service of that program is very similar to this program.

I probably won't buy into this program, but for the sake of others, please don't let this go "viral".

Hopefully Calyx limits the number of people who can get this so only X number can join per month as to not attract scrutiny from Sprint.

[0] https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/millenicom-reborn-unlimited...
I don't claim that I know the ultimate truth, but I worked for many years for one of those big business software companies. But from my experience, only the people who don't have to interact with such products in any form like it. (Who are often also making the decision to purchase it)

It happened only a few times that users of such products (analysts, admins, support, devs, ...) told me that they like this or that. And I still remember each one of those guys and girls. (Weren't that many)

I know what those companies charge for their software and maintenance. I've been involved in the development of those products for a couple of years. And my very personal opinion is: they're not worth their money. No matter what a customer tells the press how much easier their business is after purchasing product X from company Y.

As I said, it's my personal opinion on that matter.
The constraint being assumed here, I think, is that it would take a very long time for regular people travelling at a regular pace, and not really knowing where they're going (rather than, say, soldiers on a forced march to a known destination) to cross the Bering strait. It would be longer than preserves would last; it would be longer than bodily essential-nutrient stores would last.

Humans need to eat plants. Even the sub-arctic tundra supplies plants to eat, in the summer. But arctic tundra doesn't, and ice sheets certainly don't. Migrating from the arctic tundra in Sibera, across an ice sheet, and then back across the arctic tundra of the Yukon, before finally reaching sub-arctic tundra, would likely take years. It would destroy a person.

The advantage of a land bridge isn't that it's not water; it's that it's not ice. It is—for at least some part of the year—arable.
Top of my list would be "the ascent of money", by Harvard Prof Niall Ferguson. It explains what money and financial instruments are, by telling the stories of their history. Hes a great story teller, and for each aspect of finance that he explains, there's a story of a famous piece of history which it caused. For example, the application of oriental maths to finance caused a huge boom for Italian bankers, especially including one family, the Medici. That financial boom was responsible for the artistic boom we call Renaissance art. Or how the Dutch republic triumphed over the enormous Hapsburg empire, because the world's largest silver mine couldn't compete with the world's first stock market.

Fantastic read, and a great way to gain financial literacy.
But we aren't just running one form of advertising at a time, so what to we attribute the uptick?

Also, our marketing doesn't exist in a vacuum. Weather, competitors, a traffic jam down the street, variations in employee performance, etc all impact the performance as well.

It's not like we can just A/B test Facebook video ads vs Pandora Ads and pick the winner.

So, we shift our budget based on the available information.

And the average video view length is part of the information that we used to make decisions.
How could anyone possibly know? You maintain spend because Facebook claims it's providing value. There's no way to actually know this with any certainty, and Facebook manipulating their figures doesn't add clarity in the least. That's why this whole issue is important — these people are spending millions on ads because of the numbers Facebook reports. Then people are spending millions more on stocks because of the profit generated by aforementioned hand waving.
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Good reply. At first the sarcasm (usage of monkey) was almost lot on me. GP seems to have a very condescending attitude towards high level programmers. How would they feel, if he is called a manager monkey, a deep learning monkey. Or simply a monkey monkey.
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sigh It was morning, and I hadn't yet had my coffee:-)
I was a loyal Gnuplot user for many years until I got fed up with a bug where tick labels wouldn't be centered with ticks in LaTeX output without some manual hacks. I can see from one of the posts that this issue still exists.

Plus it was easier to just do everything in Python and not have to use a separate process to plot in the end.

Nevertheless, I still find it useful. Nothing else seems as easy to quickly plot an analytical function: `gnuplot -p -e "sin(x)"`
> Duh, just solve the fundamental problem that has plagued advertising since the birth of the industry!

That's kind of why Facebook/Google was ever supposed to be valuable: they empower the analysis. How do you do good analysis with bad inputs?
Yes, that might work fine, depending on the scale of your problem. Grad students do interesting work with small setups, and companies can too.
The point isn't to cost Krebs readers most likely. It's to show off how awesome this bonnet is.

I'd guess the DDoSer is jumping with joy over this news actually, because now the DDoSer can advertise his service with "I DDoSed Krebs so hard Akamai had to drop him!"
A light bulb/resistor converts electricity into heat. So the total thermal energy of the world is greater.

A heat pump just transfers heat from one location to another. The total thermal energy of the world is the same.
The DHT can still be attacked. Here's three methods:

1: Take out the bootstrap nodes. These are several nodes that bootstrap a new client into the DHT system. BitTorrent, Inc. keeps a couple such nodes. On first boot, the client registers it's DHT address and collects a few from the bootstrapping node. The client could then can traverse the network itself. By knocking out these nodes, newly started clients now have to browse the whole IP space for possible DHT clients, which is not feasible.

2: Attack the peers themselves. A malicious program could traverse the network searching for DHT peers in the same way. At first, it would only collect a large number of DHT addresses and their corresponding nodes. Once a sufficient mass is gained, each is targeted with a low level DDOS to knock them offline to further requests. Most of these peers will be homes and local ISPs, which can't effectively deal with DDOS traffic themselves. Others trying to connect to a down client will eventually remove them from their own address space for later queries.

3: Poison DHT peers. This is probably the hardest, but once complete could poison an entire network with a switch. On each of your compromised Bot machines, you make a valid DHT node. Make a LOT of these (like a Botnet). For the most part, participate correctly with the DHT network. Collect as many valid/real DHT user and content addresses as you can and host them in your nodes. When it's time to attack, prevent these valid DHT addresses from resolving on inquiry. Even better, make them go in the wrong direction and infinitely pass around requests to other poisoned bots in your ring to prevent resolution but not hang the process. This is especially useful for content attacks because it attacks the content addresses themselves.
You shouldn't trust your memory...

There's only just under 4.3 Billion IPv4 addresses available. And you can write off a decent chunk of those as being not available for public use.

As of right now there are only 891 listed Tor Exit nodes.[1]

[1]https://www.dan.me.uk/tornodes
Since you are already in a quantitative field I think it would be good to quickly get to the heart of what economists actually do. I would suggest

Varian, 'Intermediate Microeconomics'
Luenberger, 'Investment Science'
Wooldridge, 'Introductory Econometrics'

for the undergraduate background and then at the graduate level Jehle and Renyi for microeconomics, Duffie for asset pricing theory, Tirole for corporate finance and Campbell, Lo and Macinlay for econometrics.
Complicated code? That doesn't sound like genius to me.
Literally every form of fraud ever is detectable and preventable if the victim is willing to dedicate her life to dissecting every metric and cross-referencing with a billion other metrics. How is this an argument? They lied, and it induced people to give them money.
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> investing based on access to privileged opportunities

I feel you really taking a bias stance here without understanding the mechanics. Yes privilege exists, the same as you friend might tell you a job is opening before its open knowledge. But deals will be shopped about. The big difference is many deals cant reasonably go to the public market. Costs for listing regulations would be significant and unnecessary. Consider, you need to be called as a 'sophisticated' investor even to trade options. This is to protect the public from unscrupulous pyramid schemes and business that carries high knowledge levels to understand what your buying into. It's as much about protecting the public keeping some deals away from open markets as being 'privileged'.

> Obviously, we may never hear of their failures
If your around this industry you hear plenty of both sides. Bigger ones go to public news like Madoff.
I've used GNU Plot to create this lovely 3D animation of my running data (GPS tracks).

https://vimeo.com/96479940

Some Ruby scripting and ffmpeg was also involved. Here is the code - https://github.com/otobrglez/movement
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This was prolexic, a ddos protection service purchased by Akamai.
that requires... thinking
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Maybe because of the scale of this attack, relative to the business value Krebs provides Akamai? Shedding an attack of this magnitude (by dumping Krebs) was probably well worth the PR hit Akamai took.
Which is affected by about a billion other metrics, like if it's sunny out. Attribution is the fundamental problem of advertising, and getting closer to solving it is Google and Facebook's value proposition. This indicates that they are not nearly as helpful in solving it as they have been claiming since they've been providing bad inputs for their customers to do analysis.
I've been using GNUplot in a recent project of mine and it has really been a nice experience.

The project is a toolkit for Orbital mechanics written in C. There's a test framework that generates a physical scenario, say two satellites colliding in orbit, and then goes on to solve some difficult problem, like find when and where a collision occurs.

I've been dumping the initial situation, some auxiliary variables and the steps taken by the algorithm to simple text files and then plotting it out with GNUplot.

Sure there are a lot of alternatives, but I really didn't want to embed anything in my C program or start writing a separate plotting tool in another language.

GNUplot isn't great in interactive 3d plots but it works. For 2d plots, doing some derivatives and displaying the algorithm steps, it has worked great.

Not a pretty tool, but it does the job and I don't really know of a better tool for my use.

For ad-hoc plots, I have some key bindings in my $EDITOR for executing GNUplot. For more complex cases, I run it with a Makefile.
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NYC and Chicago seem to be the hotspots, but is anyone familiar with this sort of work going on in the Atlanta area?
Holy generalizations Batman!

Edit: This meme may be dated, context: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Holy%20X%2C%2...!
The dispassionate use of objective statistical measures is literally the only way to assess such disasters. Unfortunately your anecdote does not become more valid because it happened to your uncle.
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Sergey Brin.- http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/copy.html

He did a lot of work on data mining, web indexing and other web related works. It is interesting.
all those botnets ddossing Krebs = less DOSses for the rest of us = less new clients for Akamai ;)
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Yes, and none of those men are currently running for president.

If a man did all these things, and were running for POTUS, they'd get raked over the coals, just like Clinton is. What's your point?

Also, Clinton has made it a point to argue for "the right to be believed" for sexual assault victims. And she went to bat for her husband before that statement to cast doubt on his accusers? http://nypost.com/2016/08/15/hillarys-site-edits-sexual-assa...

What a two-faced person who should not be president.
A LOT of people use Linkedin regularly, perhaps not where you live.
I have yet to see a Stirling engine implementation which requires lubrication, so again, which maintenance are you referring to?

Specifically, I was and am referring to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EahfGfDdgNY
I feel the same.
Maybe we should pool some money to train it on AWS.
Is there a community where Machine Learning hobbyists can pool money to train models that are open sourced afterwards?
Heh, thanks for reminding me to kick my eurocentrism out of the way :-)

Yes, judiciary is still a user of that, and depending on the country they may not be allowed to use recorders. But before the time of cheap and light recorders, almost all secretaries in private companies used to learn steno to be able to take dictation at a natural speed. It was much more widespread at the time.
Private enterprise vs taxpayer funded government agency. Vastly different. A pharma company answers to shareholders, a government agency answers to taxpayers -- except they don't. Pharma companies don't owe you anything because you're a customer. You chose that relationship. However, we don't get to chose the FDA .. it's foisted upon us.

Preferential reporters by government agencies ought to be illegal.
The Hanjin California was seized and moored down the road from my house in Sydney. I was actually down at the water to see it before I knew about the parent firm's collapse. It's pretty interesting seeing such a big ship in what's otherwise (contemporarily) a small recreational/transport channel (Glebe Island, Sydney).
For those wondering about how nasty HF is: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2004/03/03/thi...
That's where NoScript comes in
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Maybe this is an odd question, but… why do you need a framework? Could you use plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?
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Right, but it also shuts off at 20%, right? So it won't drain your battery anyways
Maybe C and D have other interests than just studying? Maybe they will get something out of that traded time that the A won't, which will give them an actual edge in the real world, non academic world.

Your statement is flawed and an awful generalization. Are you frustrated some of your C and D friends are more successful than you?
I think its time for some serious financial incentives for ISPs to start getting serious about routing (or rather not routing) garbage. Financial fines for every DOS originating from your AS, or blacklisting if you are a repeated offender.
Because walking into a hospital with a large dog is frowned upon.
Could have been child porn.
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Apparently this is Larry Page's Stanford page http://infolab.stanford.edu/~page/
I imagine he is still talking with Akamai(they did not comment after all) and expects to be back after attacks die out. Switching would burn that bridge.
None, and preventing cartels is one of the clear cut examples of why we need a government. To uphold laws against such anti-competitive behavior.
Palmer Luckey supporting one candidate is not the problem, the leftist media that seeks to financially, politically and even socially destroy and ostracise anyone not supporting their candidate is the problem.

How can anyone support that? You turn on any major news channel today and what you see is a warped world view where anyone supporting Trump is compared to a Nazi, a deplorable, a racist or a homophobe.

Even Jimmy Fallon was attacked viciously for merely having Trump on his show because this "humanised" him to his viewers. So Trump and his supporters are subhuman according to the left? Did I get this right?

No wonder that it's always been the Socialists who built Gulags and concentration camps. They just can't stop thinking in these categories of humans vs subhumans.
They do? I guess that explains why my UPS's, running on the same type of batteries, would be regularly shot after a year and I'd have a power outage. And I have industrial uninterruptible power supplies, with the current going through them, just like how they would be used in a solar panel scenario.

Don't believe the hype. Modern batteries are junk.
You still have to pay for bandwidth and if the attack began impacting SLAs and paying customers, that's bad for business.
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Well, if we are talking about a city, space is often somewhat scarce. Regardless, I don't think that would reduce segregation.

I think the biggest limitation is "unhappy" polygons moving to random locations, instead of having some choice in the matter. Reducing this limitation would result in faster convergence towards a stable, segregated state, as the choices made would reflect the bias of the participants.