skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When an impression isnt made (say 50% in view for 1 second) then no one is getting billed. This is the standard practice for internet advertising.

As far as I know Facebook does the same thing. I haven't read the Facebook advertising documentation in a long time but know that they outline many of their metrics in detail. People haven't been getting overcharged and it hasn't effected billing. From the article: "... it did not impact billing, and we have notified our partners both through our product dashboards and via sales and publisher outreach. We also renamed the metric to make it clearer what we measure. This metric is one of many our partners use to assess their video campaigns."

What are the implications of this? "Due to the miscalculated data, marketers may have misjudged the performance of video advertising they have purchased from Facebook over the past two years."

The other part about making it difficult to compare against competitors is true regardless of having the same metric due to site and user differences. Maybe facebook users spend more on average than twitter users after clicking on your ad for an ecommerce site? A/B tests towards the goal you're interested in is much more fruitful from a business perspective then say comparing click thru rates.
It does sound like late Beatles to me, e.g. "Glass Onion", "I'm the Walrus". But it has a bit of a paint-by-numbers quality to it. More of a "rare songs the artist wisely did not release" than "greatest hits" feel.
It's like watching a wasp land on a nettle. You know somebody's going to get stung, but you just don't care who.
There's also the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> salaries aren't going up

This. You can really see the disparity when looking at the divergence between Toronto rental prices (what people who work can afford to pay with their jobs) and purchase prices (what investors can afford to pay, which probably includes a lot of foreign investment and homeowners remortgaging their homes to invest in a 2nd).

Rental prices haven't increased nearly as much as purchase prices.
How Mental Secrets of Elite Athletes Can Help You Manage Your Trades
I still think one of the best textbooks on economics is Paul Samuelson's Economics. Assuming you mean macro-economics that is.
Sorry Sergey, you'll never make it past the automated HR filter with that.
Great suggestions!
Canada is in no way a socialist country. Perhaps the term you're looking for is "social democracy".
Great list! See my email in my profile.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to spend the money. I'm a big property rights guy - if you have money and you want to make a hundred foot tall shrine to Elvis, knock yourself out.

All I'm saying is you can end up wasting a lot of money by stretching for a goal that's too far ahead of current technology, and in that sense it might be a more efficient use of money to attempt something more near-term.
I know it's frowned upon saying this, but damn if I didn't choke on my coffee haha.

Yeah let's not use thermite to heat our houses people.
Sure, but most s/w updates I get don't seem to do shit, at least that I notice.
I read Dubner and Levitt's Freakonomics in 2005. It's lame to say that a pop-science book changed my life, but since then I've thought about economics every day.

I would recommend some pop-econ to become familiar with a stylized version of how economists think. I'd recommend Tim Harford's The Undercover Economist Strikes Back and The Logic of Life and Robert Frank's The Economic Naturalist. (Dubner's and Levitt's books are entertaining, but I wouldn't try to learn much about economics from them)

The world of professional economists has been fascinating to watch over the last 10 years, as academic economist blogs are very active and very high quality. Watching debates and commentary about the global financial crises unfold on the blogs in real time was really something. Economist bloggers have a real influence on policy now, and whole schools of thought have coalesced out of blogs (e.g. market monetarism).

There are some excellent economics podcasts out there now. EconTalk (with Russ Roberts) has been going since 2006. I'd recommend listening to some of his interviews with academic economists. Macro Musings (with David Beckworth) just started this year, and the policy discussions have been quite informative.

The Marginal Revolution University website has an fantastic series of videos on economics topics. The "Development Economics" course I would recommend strongly - I wish I'd been taught the Solow Model in school.

Economics is a very interesting discipline to study from the outside. Learning a bit about it puts policy debates in a new light - I've become much more liberal on some topics and much less confident on a lot of topics. I find that reporting about economics issues is generally pretty terrible, so beware that if you get into economics you'll want to stop reading a lot of news analysis.
can i share entertainment stuffs
and also tech stuff as on tech2hack.com
I wondered the same thing: "Wow, they have their own git kernel?" But no.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. One of the reasons why the Constitution exists is that, thanks to its very existence, some things become unconstitutional.
If we were to conclude that there isn't a constitutional way to achieve legalised mass surveillance, then we would have to conclude that that mass surveillance is unconstitutional. I would be quite happy with that conclusion, if I may add.
This one was recommended by the former head of NYMEX to me when I started my career in trading. Written about Jesse Livermore who made and lost his fortune multiple times. He was often blamed for rigging the market, but his lesson is simple: you basically can't rig the market; it will destroy you way more easily. Take what the market gives you and be happy it even decided to give you that:

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

And you'll see a lot of recommendations for everything from Hazlitt to Piketty, but my favorite you never see recommended for macro is The Way the World Works by Jude Wanniski. He was one of the life long Democrats who became a Reagan advisor (and basically quickly turned back into a Dem before passing away about ten years ago):

https://www.amazon.com/Way-World-Works-Gateway-Contemporary/...

Besides that, this is a really broad questions. There is stuff like John Hull for derivatives (this is what I survive on):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0133456315\

This is the game theory book I and many others have survived on in college and many years past. Haven't really found a better one yet:

https://www.amazon.com/Game-Theory-Press-Drew-Fudenberg/dp/0...
Copart is a good site for buying wrecked cars in various conditions. Otherwise try calling your local junk yards.

http://www.copart.com/us/search?q=tesla
Do they? If I had to characterize the political leanings of the majority of software devs it would be libertarian.
Github comments from my email (since they were all deleted by progod): http://pastebin.com/raw/yLGpfgtc ooh, and i just found a github window I still had open! https://www.dropbox.com/s/00zytxtzqmfgx3y/License%20violatio...
Calling all free software supporters: It's time to renew our shop inventory
What’s up with the Graph Laplacian?
What are the problems faced by people who are starting to contribute to OSS
I'm starting a project to address the problems faced by noobs to opensource community.

I've started out with a simple readme file which explains the basic git and github workflow. Please give me feedback
This case is about targeted, not mass, surveillance.
It's not overblown if you're lying to advertisers about the quality of impressions their ads received, and lying to investors about it too...especially when your stock has rocketed to making Facebook easily in the top 10 largest corporations in the world.

Not only that but Facebook actively brags about video impressions in their conference calls. This is fraud. I think this is something that should be investigated by the SEC to be perfectly honest. Doesn't mean they should be charged, just investigated; because if they are misreporting this, what other metrics are they misreporting to shareholders?
"Where are the customers' yachts?" by Fred Schwed is a must read for anyone interested in investing in stocks.

An absolute must.
One more thing I will add (journalist here) to these excellent tips is this:

Find your niche reporter. There is some reporter out there at some publication you've never heard of, and they are likely your perfect target for all of your news. You just have to find them and cultivate them. If you are a photo app, get to know an old world photography journalist, someone who writes for camera magazines. If you're a real estate application, find the regional real estate publications. A home shopping app, find local magazines, like (some local Bay Area examples) Oakland Magazine, Alameda Magazine, Diablo, 7X7 (or whatever fashionable SF and decorating focused mag still exists there.)

Stop pitching Tech Crunch, start pitching the Austin American Statesman or the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Your original hometown newspapers are great places to get "local boy makes good" type stories, and the Valley is super duper myopic about offline, regional media.
Well, sure, if it's 72 and partly cloudy out. My car can do that for years by leaving the windows open. This feature only really matters when it's swelteringly hot out.

What if I park a black Tesla at the San Diego airport for a week-long vacation, and it's 100 degrees and unmitigated direct sun? Will I come back to a battery that can't get me home?

That would be when I would want this feature to avoid damage to my car from it overheating. But also when it's most likely to run down the battery.
I am the wrong person to ask. We compete with tensorflow going after the larger scale stuff where hadoop is a requirement and the cloud is a swear word.

I work with .net and java shops where running on windows is a requirement and hippaa is considered "lite" and they dont know what a gpu is.

Despite the marketing noise that is still most of the world.

Look no further than another comment that showed java job postings vs machine learning.

My biased comment out of the way: if you can convince ops on why you need this deep learning thing then be my guest. Their first question to you is probably going to be: Does dell/hp sell this as a reference box?

It mostly comes down to roi and what your existing stack is.

My job is hard enough as it is. If you can convince IT to allocate an r&d budget be my guest. That is more or less our specialty. Email is in profile if you want specifics.
Here's a link to what I've started
https://github.com/Roshanjossey/first-contributions
I think he's saying that the act of detonating a bomb, or attempting to detonate one, is illegal all by itself. The fact that it was done by a phone call doesn't change anything, so, the phone call itself was not illegal. The charges would be identical if they used a phone or a timer or a hand switch.
Excellent list. This is basically an undergraduate Econ degree here.

I would also add Veblin to this list of authors.

Also, one of my favorite overviews of economists is The Worldy Philosophers.
RCA’s 1968 Proposal to Build a Communication System at Disney World
That still doesn't work because the core issue is partially addressed.

Reliable on call support. Oracle is not going to vanish overnight or de prioritize you due to lack of resources.

The possibility of that risk in other firms is sufficient to make them non options
>I read Dubner and Levitt's Freakonomics in 2005. It's lame to say that a pop-science book changed my life, but since then I've thought about economics every day.

Don't believe everything you read in Freakonomics. Unfortunately it's written to be entertaining (which it is) but isn't always the most rigorous representation of the truth (which is disappointing)

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/freakonomics-wha...
I've worked with a ton, and they are moving from Oracle/DB2 to SAP HANA, but I work in the SAP ERP space, so that's not indicative of the broader world I don't think. Just the trends here.
Everyone should have email turned on in their github notifications in case of disputes and deletions.
This is why I said "Dubner's and Levitt's books are entertaining, but I wouldn't try to learn much about economics from them."
I highly recommend Debt: the first 5000 years
https://www.amazon.com/Debt-Updated-Expanded-First-Years/dp/...

and Heilbroner's Worldly Philosophers
https://www.amazon.com/Worldly-Philosophers-Economic-Thinker...
> More prosaically, I do not care in the slightest if people living in selling ads disappeared completely from internet. They are a cancer, ads are a cancer to the utopia that internet was for a short time.

Excellent response, but on this particular point, I'd suggest you are being intellectually dishonest - or at least overly simplifying things. You use an ad blocker precisely because there is content you want to see. To claim that you don't care if the content you are trying to see disappears from the Internet is rather silly.
Right, when I go to major client sites, often their people don't know anything about databases really. It's in some random city, and they hire the people that are local.

You get very wildly different levels of skill, and many times very low levels of skill. Then they hire consultants, because we can make the thing go.
Check out this:

http://openhatch.org/
Working with OneNote Page Revision Info and Enhanced Saving Page History in Java
Local P2P meshnet SDK (closed beta)
I would like to see stats from Tier1/Tier2/IX for that.
Krebs claims it's 665Gbit/s https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/778404352285405188
Such attack must be visible in many places, however not a single major ISP reported that in mailing list. Previous smaller attacks were reported 'slowing down' some regional ISPs. Perhaps ISPs got better.
Good reporting from Bloomberg as always. I thought just mayo was okay when I first tried it (didn't know it was a startup then, had I, I probably would have picked a different one). It's still in my fridge, unfinished. Doesn't seem like a product that could give a company a billion dollar value.

Hopefully if anything happens to the company they will open source whatever code they have for machine learning about plants. Maybe somebody else can glean something from it.
The ddos attacks seem to be getting larger these days.

I've recently seen a ~200 Gbit/s hit us.

Does anyone have good resources around mitigation? I was looking at the BGP flowspec but was hopefully that someone might have come across other tactics?
I doubt it, there are a ton of things already in place due to the size of the companies that you get essentially for free.

Like COEs, and all sorts of other things that a EnterpriseDB can't compete with due to the money involved. It just isn't the same.
tl;dr Akamai was hosting his site pro bono. His site was being DDOSed, which cost Akamai a ton of money, so they kicked him off since they were literally only losing money on the deal.
Monitoring? Updates? Shipping WAL logs and knowing a rollback will work when you need it?
Cloudflare should pick up the site for good advertising..
I think startmail has a free week trial you might want to check out.
Can't recommend this book highly enough: A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, Second Edition: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know http://a.co/jicSNc9
Isn't this the point at which Cloudflare is supposed to gain a handful of PR points for putting him back online, pro bono, and then doing a write up on how effortlessly they handled the bandwidth with eBPF?
Seems very specific to git/github, which are popular here on HN but there is a great deal more variety out there.

I'd suggest something that doesn't deal in specific technologies but more general principles.
I am solomon. I proved God. I made the third temple. I am more famous than Jesus Christ.

Frasier is a planet of the apes nigger.

Frasier has no idea what a certified random number is.

Frasier thinks particle/wave coffee filter is about eating shit.

Frasier thinks the brain can go 3Ghz.
I recall a certain proverb about an expensive, wet hole.
It would be interesting to try out some of these new p2p website technologies like IPFS/WebTorrent with these high profile sites who are frequently attacked.
All of those are very dated and you won't learn much about modern economic thought from them. Many of those people (Keynes, Marx, Graham, etc...) are like reading Freud. Very little of what Freud wrote has made into modern psychological though. It is more of his methodical approach that brought psychology into the modern age. The same can be said of many on that list. They brought a rigor of thought to economics that it might have been lacking; it isn't really that their ideas have passed the test of time. The 1970's for example almost caused the destruction of Keynesian thought with its basically impossible high inflation and high unemployment until the neo-Keynsians patched it up enough to limp forward.
Unfortunately, Krebs has (correctly) repeatedly attacked Cloudflare for sheltering most of the most prolific DDOS attackers. I doubt that's going to happen.
If we don't have to move the battery around, why not use cheaper but less compact techs for storage?
Oh hey, I think you arent aware of the part where the judge has thrown out all the evidence collected by the fbi in this child porn operation because of the constitution and evidence collecting standards of the judiciary
Even without AMP, Google caches pages for its search results and I frequently find the cached version both faster-loading and with less "fluff", especially the text-only option, than the actual page.
Wiplock – Protect main branch from in-progress branches
Me too as I was considering pitching them to Oracle shops. My email is in profile.
Can you give me some examples of the academic econ blogs? I'm looking to get into it
What if the "target site" was Gmail? Would you still call it targeted surveillance? What's the limit under which we consider surveillance to be targeted? 100,000 users? One million? 10 millions?
Why would a nation state actor sell it for such cheap in black market..
> I've come to call people who harp on these two books while ignoring everything in between, "Bookenders". It applies to just about anyone who is either obsessed with end-times prophecies or the idea that Genesis itself must be 100% literally interpreted

Wow. This term deserves to be in more widespread circulation as it describes so many cranks who identify as Christian.
People say that a lot, but I work with customers all the time who are very happy with their solutions. I don't disagree that some people hate them, or hate this or that ui, but I can think to many companies/interactions with people that love the products.

That's never really expressed places like here. It's just "not spending money well", when I think there are legitimate positives to a lot of business software.
The Ultimate Collection of Prototyping Tools for UX/UI Designers
Many of the companies making proprietary products with high lockin have terrible support just because they know you cant leave. Whereas it's the opposite for some startups and FOSS companies knowing how easy it is for them to loose business. So, I dont buy that as an advantage of companies like Oracle.

You want support for sure but big companies are hit and miss on support quality.
If it flies or floats, better to rent it.
> Name one indictable offense that has force in another part of Canada but not one or more provinces.

Possession of Marijuana in BC vs the rest of the country.
No. It's not even really true.

The reality when you work in these fields are that there are many different reasons why a given solution is selected, and often times people really like it.

I almost don't want to post about this here because I know it's going to be disliked, and I'm not trying to start an argument. But you never get that perspective here.
Yes, here is a very good described by OVH http://media.frnog.org/FRnOG_24/FRnOG_24-3.pdf
My understanding is third hand at best, but certainly the stuff I've read / heard from the 80s talking about the first wave of resettlement was quite bitter.

"The Government Game": http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/02/game.htm
"The Blow Below The Belt": http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/07/blowbelow.htm
"West Moon": http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/01/west.htm

"To a place called Placentia, well, some of them went,
And in finding a new home their allowances spent;
So for jobs they went lookin' but they looked all in vain,
For the roof had caved in on the government game."

"Now they're scattered like dried leaves from hell to high water..."
I think it's safe to say that Keynes works are the foundation of modern macroeconomics. His economic cycles are doctrine in economic planning. Moreover he has been invoked increasingly post 2008 recession.
This might not be totally faor towards Facebook, but:

When it comes to Facebook I guess there are slightly different rules:

A good rule of thumb for Facebook might be: expect malice.

We have seen it with the way the made everything public.

We have seen how they decided to sell out its own user a year after proclaiming their love and how this wouldn't happen.
Interesting that they are moving beyond passphrase authentication towards an "Account Key". I wonder how that works...
Thorstein Veblen? Also, may be off center or not, but, Peter Bernstein "Against the Gods".
From the article: "Some courts have upheld the FBI’s actions in dangerous decisions that, if ultimately upheld, threaten to undermine individuals’ constitutional privacy protections in personal computers"
Often they also like to stay understaffed in IT, so having consistent vendors, and similar systems allows them to keep just a few guys around that have any clue how it works, and supplement with consultants and vendor support.
He probably means that whether your life is passionate or not it is still delineated by your eventual death.
There is a lot of completely irrelevant tedium in the Old Testament outside of the Genesis and the handful of well known books. I've tried to read the whole thing a couple times, but I usually give up on the book of numbers and all the nattering on about hecatombs and priestly ritual.
Great suggestions! I second this.
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Ghost_in_the_She...
They proposed, but he didn't reply:

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/779063982984355840

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/779129927543033856
At this scale it must also cost a ton of money to carry out this attack, I wonder if there's a vulnerability that we don't know about that let them do this so easily?
Yahoo hack by 'state-sponsored actor' biggest of all time
Declarative Routing for React
Well... there probably is more child porn in gmail.
Quite impressive. You know your blog is good when folks will try to take down a CDN to supress what's on it. He's also had heroin mailed to him in combination with a swatting attempt before: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gEjqPfc...
This recent talk about DDoS attacks is worth a watch if you're curious about why it's a hard problem to solve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79u7bURE6Ss
Certainly true with a variety of products. You are stuck with certain vendors because that's what was used, etc etc.
This is a common misunderstanding. Buffett Partnership Ltd., Buffett's initial hedge fund, was very much was guided by the cigar butt style investment principles of Graham.

When Buffett bought Berkshire Hathaway a few years after closing the partnership, his investment philosophy had changed. Your best bet to understand his investing is to simply read his letters.

He may come across as a bit folksy or country bumpkin, but he's fairly clear in his methodology.

Here are some links you may find helpful:
http://www.rbcpa.com/WEB_letters/WEB_Letters_pre_berkshire.h...

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html

Enjoy.
"Debt"'s troubling passage on Jubilee is archaic.