skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I Am not feeling forced to use it. I use it because it is easier for me as an individual developer. I use readthedocs because they have better uptime than my own servers.n All the reasons i use GitHub are good choices for me.

I get the economics of centralised vs decentralised service provision - it's just ironic that GitHub is facing load balancing problems precisely because they have taken a distributed technology and made it, de facto, a centralised technology.

We can imagine a perfect storm of GitHub going down just as someone pulls a vital package from npm and Google losing jquery CDN; all Of a sudden the web will stop working.

It's amazing how fragile we can make a system designed to be resilient - I presume there is a real cost with keeping things distributed that a good economist could explain to me
A strategy that has worked great for me transitioning off of poorly-thought-out legacy password storage schemes is to take the "bad" hash you have for everyone and treat it exactly as you would a plaintext password - in other words, salt and properly hash it the same way the new passwords are done. Then I delete the unsafe hash and flag that account as "use the old hashing scheme on the password first before normal authentication process, then correctly re-hash and salt the password and store it normally."
I'd call it business savvy.
Econned is essential reading
Does it have to be in a visible spot?

One arm is more flexible than the other and this would be useful when scratching my back.
How to reduce a possibility of brute force attacks on WordPress
Same here.

1 kWh = 1 joule hour per second

How does it make sense to have 2 different units of time in there?
Why Your Web Developers Are Grumpy (And How to Talk to Them)
Timestamp Functions in PostgreSQL
Well, here's one way around that, at least on the server:

https://github.com/roboprog/nashorn_play/blob/master/script/...
One of the best articles on Economics is Ayn Rand's "Egalitarianism and Inflation" in her anthology "Philosophy: Who Needs it".
Stock price is defined by the expectation of future earnings. If investors have seen in the past that security breaches have no impact on other businesses, why should they react to this ? SONY has had a much worse security breah not too long ago (with stuff stored in plain text!) and people kept using SONY online services anyway.
How do you know GP is male?
True, but it's also very useful to have the same key bindings while using terminal too!
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World by Deirdre McCloskey, and presumably the other books in the series[1]

1. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
Yahoo in Japan is a different company. It belongs to a different group now, so don't count it in.
Well a single 48 hr mitigation costs 12k/yr contact. Unlimited mitigations probably cost about 130k/yr. Either this negative PR is worth 12-100k in savings for them or they would drop any paying customer if the attack is over a certain threshold?
Curious - exactly what man page do you find that in? I've always seen that construction but given that it just uses random punctuation it's impossible to Google it. I don't even know what those are called!!
Linear Algebra Abridged by Sheldon Axler [pdf]
Near as I can tell, Soros founded the Open Society Foundation (OSF) in 1993, and Soros is not involved in the day to day operations. The OSF, in turn, gave a grant to BLM. The way the washtimes puts it (and Limbaugh etc.), one might think Soros himself gave money directly to BLM, but that's not the case. There is more nuance and context that is relevant, and it is a distinction with a difference.
Physical Web Experiments Without a BLE Beacon
A good read. Trying to learn what's coming for Physical Web.

A question based on what you shared; is it possible to simply leverage proximity and "free Wi-Fi/Open Wi-Fi" without a (for example) retailer's permission? From a proximity point, say a shopping mall filled with retailers who likely already have Wi-Fi for production use.., to see their SSID in a way that it clearly identifies them?

With that info, then approach them to sell a Physical Web platform service with 'no need for beacons'.., "We will get you on Physical Web without beacons by leveraging your Wi-Fi, offering contextual content creation, analytics, etc."?

Everyone says FCC 47-15 means anyone can see and leverage Open Wi-Fi but in this potential application of it, I can't see it. New at this so don't hit me too hard. Thanks.
For financial work, you want to use a fixed precision or binary coded decimal library, such as java's BigDecimal.

You knew that, but I'm just spelling it out for others.
Those are good pub chats aren't they :-)

I was at PyCon UK, and watched 60 kids connecting up microbits to RPis and inventing ways to send signals over BTLE without a stack. I would like to solve the whole worlds problems, but if the past twenty years have taught us anything, it's that a few kids can invent the fire and we will all follow. So inthinknwe are going to be in good hands.
And yet in Connecticut there are many well regarded school systems in affluent towns that spend about the same per student than the failing schools in Connecticut cities.

http://www.courant.com/data-desk/hc-in-perpupil-spending-con...
https://k12.niche.com/rankings/public-school-districts/best-...

Cities: Waterbury ($15,859), Hartford ($18,397), Bridgeport ($15,228), Stamford (18,188), and New Haven ($17,084) spend on average $16,951 per student.

Some well-regarded suburban school districts: Simsbury ($15,969), Ridgefield ($17,315), Glastonbury ($15,481), West Hartford ($15,720), for an average of $16,121.

Clearly there is something going on beyond the dollars spent per student.
Some are guessing the DDOS was because of this recent post of his, about a large DDOS network.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kaymYsb...
OK, then that's some very cheap accomodation. Never lived in a place where you could get such a good deal :)
"WinFsp has multiple integrated test suites, some of which Dokany uses (with tests missing/disabled)." > really? I'm generally quiet and let Liryna talking but your thread hijacking to promote your product each time there is an official Dokan publication start to be annoying. This test suite was one of your contribution on Dokany before you stopped being involved on the project so of course we are... (it will soon be replaced by another test suite btw). Anyway, let's stop the argument here...
> Why wouldn't every device on the internet just spoof their IP if it was this obvious thing?

https://spoofer.caida.org/summary.php - compromise a device in one of the ASes not marked "unspoofable." Those ASes do not consistently perform packet ingress filtering.

That's not to say that DDOS attacks stop being possible, but at least they become traceable.
Ugh... I've had friends who use to send people links to child porn sites as a joke. Use to say "Now you're on the FBI's wanted list"

> Just because evidence is obtained illegally doesn't mean that people who distribute CP are just off the hook.

In the U.S. that's exactly what it is supposed to mean. If the FBI, police, or just about anyone oversteps the law it's not admissible in court. There has to be a reasonable suspicion and motive to get a warrant - that could have been as easy as simply getting a warrant to host a Tor node and sniff traffic. They didn't do that.

Now, lets get to what's scary about your argument. What if all the sudden it was illegal to visit Hacker News? Perhaps it was declared that way by your new president Trump. Trump got sick of people "hacking" things, so instead of just blocking all the websites he decided he wanted to simply monitor all the users who visit hacker news, then charge all of them with "hacking". It is a hacking website after all... And, although our justice branch of the government was never consulted, i'm sure you'll find some CNN poll showing 40% of American's should be jailed for life for hacking.

Later on the news, someone in a suit will be saying "it's absolutely ridiculous for any sane person to argue that these people should walk free because the FBI overstepped its bounds."

.... Hence, as a democracy we all try to get along, and that includes respecting each-others privacy as long as there is not a reasonable suspicion we are harming others. It's there to protect democracy, not the pedophiles.
There are cases where you absolutely must instantiate something from your vendor's libraries. But inference tristate I/O from a single concurrent statement will be safe (and also the recommended way to handle tristate i/o on the three platforms I've used).

-- output data, driven active when \WR is LOW, high-Z otherwise
d <= d_out WHEN wr_en_n = '0' ELSE (others => 'Z');

-- input data
d_in <= d;

Just don't bury the logic in some deeply nested if/else tree tree in a process or state machine, this is likely to not synthetize to what you had intended. :-).
> Also highly substitutable with plant sources.

This comes up often, but not really. There is no good replacement as cheap as oil from plant sources. Plants require a LOT more labor, processing, and producing it requires huge amounts of space. That's why we use oil and nothing else. If it was competitive, oil would have been replaced by plants long ago for chemical use.
Normal game streamers get swatted and sending heroin would be easy with the silkroad-alternative market online.
I had to come back because the paper doesn't specify the chemistry of the laptop battery; you can't use this as evidence to support anything other than caution around Li-ion batteries and cells.

And, more alarmingly, the part you omitted or glossed over: their plausible explanation for the lower HF detection (which, again, would depend wholly on the chemistry of the cells):

> the laptop cells exploded with liquid splashed on the walls in the equipment

Whoops.

Don't mess with these things unless you know how they can be safely tested, safely charged, and safely monitored. Li-ion protection failures (of various modes) were responsible for the Boeing Dreamliner fleet being grounded, Tesla refitting their battery packs (road debris caused a fire when it pierced a Li-ion cell), hoverboards being recalled, millions of dell laptops recalled after battery fires, and more recently, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

So, yeah. Safely tested, charged and operated is the key, and I wouldn't want to take that responsibility for a pack with as many batteries (and who knows which ones have their own standalone protection circuit in the cap) as in TFA.
> quality of impressions their ads received

I don't disagree, but FWIW the ads still had better ROI than Facebook's competitors, so the oversight (while embarrassing) may not have actually changed the willingness of ad buyers to pay for ads.
If you know Chinese, there is a must read:
Economic Explanation(經濟解釋） by Steven Cheung.

If you don't, you can read:
Economic Explanation: Selected Papers of Steven N.s. Cheung. (Same book name but different content - collection of essays vs a book on theories)

Why Steven Cheung?
As a close friend to Ronald Coase, he too focuses on empirical research (the real world) rather than blackboard economics (the imaginary world); hates the use of math for the sake of it; emphasizes on testable implications (positive economics).

His classic paper The Fable of the Bees is a great example of how empirical work destroys blackboard economics.
Wait, Yahoo hosts all of AT&T subscribers' email, or there is some cross-account link? Important difference.
Turn the Raspberry Pi Zero into a Mini Dongle Computer [video]
Considering they charge per GB data transfer, even if your site survive the attack you'll get an amazingly expensive bill at the end of the month.
Access and share your files, calendars, mail and more from any device, on your terms
> But the probability that a random person in the relevant demographic is the perpetrator is now 0.001%. The demographic contains 100,000 people and one perpetrator.

That's still a much higher probability than 1/(2 000 000) so I am not sure what is your point there to use numbers.
Not a lawyer, but I always thought maybe someone could take your code, modify it to produce variations A, B, C, the three major use cases of your code, and slap patents on those modified versions of your code. So then anyone who wants to use your code with any of those three use cases in mind (i.e., most people who would want to use your code) would then likely be in trouble.

Or something like that.

A second issue would be one the author of the article seems worried about, which is that without a warranty-free clause people might sue you for bugs in the code. If you're distributing your code, with a line like "free for everybody to use," there may or may not be implicit quality guarantees, according to the article.
I certainly will!
Yes, could be. Word vectors and other kinds of embeddings seem promising, a little too good to be true. There might be a glass ceiling we're not seeing yet.
You can find pricing at https://console.citusdata.com/pricing.
I won't buy those 'designed for Windows' machine, even when it's 'compatible' to Linux out of the box.

Why bother to pay for the M$ license fee while you're going to rub out the disk and install Linux at the first place? (just bought a laptop from System76 recently)
My recollection is Tesla has been leaning heavily on optical image processing. Perhaps the radar is, or was, not very sophisticated? For example, can a single unit by itself tell, in one frame, if an object is moving laterally to its field of view?

The radar was added to all Tesla vehicles in October 2014 as part of the Autopilot hardware suite, but was only meant to be a supplementary sensor to the primary camera and image processing system.
Wow. Imagine if he hadn't gotten access to the forum and preempted the police call.
But then again the C and D grade students are backed by wealthy parents who can afford them slacking off. This is not to undermine any of them but, when you have a fairly soft bed to fall on when things take a wrong turn, you are more willing to take risks.

Most A grade students don't usually have the same wealthy parents to turn to for their whims and they have to struggle.
1 kWh = 3600 kJ
= 95g of lard (or body fat!)
= 85g (115 mL) of petrol/gasoline
= 1.5 Big Macs
= 40% of an average male's daily energy intake
= ...
The parent's point is that the circumstances would dictate how quickly the battery drains, so it wouldn't always last a year on full charge. (And therefore not always a week with > 2% charge.) That said, it's not trying to keep it chilly, just not deathly hot, so I expect it would still be fine.
codecombat might fit this criteria too.
Does that in any way negate the fact that it is terrifying?
Yes, and also other functions such as attention, memory reading and writing, comparing - they form an assembly language for the "neural turing machine". Doing all sorts of mental operations is behavior as well. So it can be learned by reinforcement.
works if you select US as your location, doesn't work for AU and presumably some other locations.
I mean to say, "plug in to your 120V 18A circuit".
First they tell you the types are optional.

Then one day the type declarations are not, and you have to define "JSON schemas" or some such thing for other people's glop that you just want to shovel over a fence without concern of what is in it for most of the code.

That's my nightmare, anyway.

There are plenty of things that bug me more than "intellisense" (auto-completion) not working. Although type inference in my IDE on JS actually works well most of the time. (and I get to skip transpiling and source maps)

YMMV, but if you want to understand how some of "The Other Side" feels, there you go.
Actually, I think they record all of the data all of the time anyway, so they can turn the sensor on and turn off the decisionmaking, and gather info using real-world data to see what the new version would have done.

It's like beta-testing without actually beta-testing.
Why would it cost Akamai a ton of money? If they already have the infrastructure and automation in place to mitigate such attacks, it wouldn't be a lot of work and would not require additional resources to mitigate this attack? And as others have said: isn't this bad PR?
Better ROI than competitors. Did facebook tell you that?
You'll be redirected in... never redirected.
If the data backs it up, it isn't a misconception. If it doesn't fit the story you want to tell, you are being misleading.
I only agree with empirical economics when it is forward looking. If you have these great models that you've honed and can accurately predict ten of the last ten recessions, but your model then goes on to predict 20 of the next zero recessions, I'd say you basically overfitted to your prejudices and your model is bunk. I get really wary of economists that "prove" their theories on back data but still can't predict worth shit.

However, this guy sounds really interesting, and I've bookmarked him to go looking for this weekend. Thanks for the cites.
Bailed out awhile ago. Still waiting for my stuff though!
I think they are distinct.

Passion implies that there is likely a sense of purpose, fulfillment or fun in it.

If you do something you are very passionate about, money matters a lot less.
I appreciate the response. I had no idea things were this bad.
A malaria vaccine would make no commercial sense but would be a huge reduction in the total burden of disease. That's what I mean.
Academic economist(ish) speaking here. Be aware of the distinction between books of economics (the discipline) and books about economics by non-economists. Both can be great - I loved The Big Short.

Strongly recommend Keynes, and surprised nobody has mentioned Minsky or Kindleberger - outsiders now receiving recognition.
I've used it for all the plots in my thesis. AFAIK, it's the only plotting library that does what gnuplot's epslatex terminal does: graphical elements are placed in an EPS file, while textual elements are placed as TeX, letting me have exactly the same fonts and sizes in the plots and in the rest of the thesis.
On topic article on economist Paul Romer's view on the current state of macro:
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21707529...
This is a bias of online thinking. Brick and mortar retail doesn't really know the conversion rate on ad spend. The old adage is that you are wasting half of your advertising spend, but the problem is that you never know which half.

So, we make decisions based on imperfect information. When it was TV or Radio ads, there were 3rd parties that measured the market and reach of the station. With Facebook, Youtube, etc we have to take their word for it.
Kreisel Electric takes on Tesla
I am intrigued by their opening statement of multiple POPs, but the lack of multi-POP discussion further in the system description.

My understanding is that the likes of, for example, Cloudflare or EC2 have a pretty solid system in place for issuing geoDNS responses (historical latency/bandwidth, ASN or geolocation based DNS responses) to direct random internet clients to a nearby POP. Building such a system is not that difficult, I am fairly confident many of us could do so given some time and hardware funding.

Observation #1: No geoDNS strategy.

Observation #2: Limited global POPs.

Given that the inherently distributed nature of git probably makes providing a multi-pop experience easier than for other companies, I wonder why Github's architecture does not appear to have this licked. Is this a case of missing the forest for the trees?
This is an interesting video examining a botnet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDY3C8SEmY
I'll admit it, I most likely wouldn't have called to interview him... he never had a job before (at least none on his resume). Admittedly, I'm not trying to change the world. I'm just trying to do better than my competition for my customers. I don't need an academic on the payroll. I'm glad that resume didn't come across my desk. I wouldn't have know what to do with him and would certainly wold be kicking myself now.
I will try to not drive it to the regular Dokany/WinFSP battle :).
Your problem is definitely the license and according on your own comments you already know that.

Unfortunately for you, you will not fix the problem if you don't change the way you're thinking about commercial products and FOSS on Windows. If this can help you to understand the environment: almost all Dokany contributors are using it for commercial purpose, remember that it was also your case and so is my personal case btw.

Let me explain the license choice (even if it was decided by the previous maintainer, I would have done the same choices here): we use LGPL license for the core/library so it can be used freely on commercial app while we still protect ourselves on unpublished core modification, and MIT license for additional programs (control, samples...) because these doesn't matter and this way it can be used as a starting point for developers.

I believe this is what people are expecting on Windows (FOSS on MAC is generally worth from my experience ^^) ; but of course this means giving it to companies making business on your work. It's part of the deal. I completely understand your position as I'm also using AGPL license for other open source projects I started years ago and for those I didn't want companies to use it freely.

Philosophically, to be open source is already a great decision, then the license decision is yours according to your way of thinking for your project.
See my reply to the comment above. With local retail, you can't just measure the conversion rate.

It is not about the specific number of seconds. It is about the implied engagement and focus of the audience. It is about a reported difference in the behavior of Facebook users vs other online properties.
Enjoy LA. I really miss LACMA!

Still enjoying peaceful Yunnan.
This was a mixed traffic botnet. There are speculations that a large chunk was from compromised IoT devices.
If you were only going for a few minutes, why not bring your dog?
how can it be criminal when it's not you who instigated the issue in the first place? It should be criminal on the upper management imho.
Stick to understand fundamentals and the cruft on the top layer is easy to grok. Getting good jobs is about who you know most of the time, so just keep a network happening.

Don't read too much hacker news, it kind of becomes stressful and I would try enjoy your weekends, don't worry too much about the market, a lot of good people just burn out and have breakdowns by trying to understand all that's going on and become useless anyway. Just know the basics well and learn what you need to in work hours, make time.

What I'm finding is that in the end, most of the good / important stuff ends up condensed into a nice O'Reilly (or similar) volume that you can read at you leisure' later on when the hype has evaporated. If you invest yourself too much in the latest tech constantly, you run the risk of it being redundant / replaced anyway.
I don't have any disagreement with you--except with your fermi estimate--I've made some of those points before too. In retrospect (and I'd realized it before you posted) I shouldn't have emphasized neuron counts but watts. Ultimately, similar computations are occurring with hugely different energy profiles. That's what we should figure out how to do using software and the right hardware.
Blame the Banks for All Those Boring Chain Stores Ruining Your City
Nope, not an urban legend. This is really happening.

Just last week a home with 5 children was wrongly raided:
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/09/14/swat-officers-raid-home...

Wrong house with Grandmother and Teen girl raided with flash-bang:
http://reason.com/blog/2015/08/03/swat-team-liable-for-wrong...

This gamer was "Swatted" and the web cam caught it:
http://reason.com/blog/2014/08/28/militarization-of-police-h...

This 1-year old baby was critically burned by a flash-bang grenade thrown into the playpen:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/us/georgia-toddler-stun-grenad...
My white boss talked about race in America and this is what happened