skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about we find a way to transmit data packets across the globe so that people who do digital jobs can work from a nice place that suits them, anywhere in the world.
holy shit. that is terrifying.
That's a pretty good list, though I have to take exception to your suggestions for heterodox economics all coming from the Hayek-Mises-Rothbard Austrian/Libertarian tradition. There's considerably more to heterodox economics than Libertarian school.

"Heterodox economics" is an umbrella term used to cover various approaches, schools, or traditions. These include socialist, Marxian, institutional, evolutionary, Georgist, Austrian, feminist,[3] social, post-Keynesian (not to be confused with New Keynesian),[2] and ecological economics among others.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodox_economics

Steve Keen offers a fairly compelling criticism in Debunking Economics.

Ha-Joon Chang, of LSE, has several books providing criticisms and overviews of economics, his Economics: the user's guide is a light and readable overview. http://www.worldcat.org/title/economics-the-users-guide/oclc...

(It's worth noting that Ha-Joon Chang tends toward a Marxian view and in particular is a contrarian in trade and development concepts. I happen to think his views have merits.)

There are several books which cover the history of economic thought, from more and less inclusive perspectives. Roger Backhouse's The Ordinary Business of Life is extraordinarily dry, but reasonably encompasses the mainstream.
http://www.worldcat.org/title/ordinary-business-of-life-a-hi...

Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers is a classic: http://www.worldcat.org/title/worldly-philosophers-the-lives...

For heterodoxy, I'd add to the Austrian side:

Herman Daly on ecological economics. http://www.worldcat.org/title/ecological-economics-principle...
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Erick D. Beinhocker's The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, complexity, and the radical remaking of economics strikes me from reviews and a brief overview as one of the more interesting recent books on economics. I've yet to read it in full.
http://www.worldcat.org/title/origin-of-wealth-evolution-com...

There's slew of other books, many quite bad, on the subject. I'm largely convinced economics is vastly overdue for a robust remaking. I'm not convinced that will happen.

(It was my degree subject at uni. I've been trying to comprehend it and rationalise its vast internal contradictions and inconsistencies since.)
Passion is a bunch of factors (including your hormonal responses) conspiring to better explore the evolutionary mutation/branch that is YOU.

Yes, putting energy and "passion" into your unique abilities may enable you to reach your potential. And perhaps ultimately decide whether this particular mutation was worthwhile, in the long run.

But if you think "purpose" has some mystical meaning, and judge your existence on achieving it... Passion has evolved only as means to an end, and is not worth glorifying. Not any more than you'd glorify "hunger" or "pain" or "pride".

It's an optimization technique in the rat race called "evolution".
Isn't it the advertisers' job to measure the quality of the channel? Or does this kind of advertising have an intangible outcome like brand awareness?
This is not easy to do. Most developers in Toronto will not allow you to post on MLS before possession. And many will not even allow reassignment (change the name of who will own the condo).
"enterprising sailors", sounds like a euphemism for pirates.
https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/779111614226239488

"Before everyone beats up on Akamai/Prolexic too much, they were providing me service pro bono. So, as I said, I don't fault them at all."
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I've never had accredited even come up in a conversation. It's more about paying someone, with deliverables to get something done. Now they must get it done.

Their in house teams are already over worked, under staffed, and usually lower skilled because they are not paying a premium for staff. Could be in some random city without a strong base of people to hire.

That's why consulting works. You pay me a ridiculous amount to fly to your random city every week, where I essentially work as staff, but with clear deliverables on a timeline that must be met.

Then I work ridiculous hours every day while your inhouse staff goes home to see their family.
Debt: the First 5,000 Years by David Graeber is a controversial but rather important recent publication. I haven't seen it mentioned yet, so I wanted to recommend it.
Or with brands that others trust within the same space. Other companies, friends of theirs working in other companies, conferences, etc.

It becomes a self perpetuating system.
Hey... movie ratings! Pre-netflix.
Comcast can ban your account and refuse to do business with you.
Cached version where Krebs paints picture of Cloudflare supporting DDoS:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0uf9RIu...
Also working in SAP ERP space-many clients moving from Oracle to Hana, or planning to move to it. Of course this is only in the existing ERP space, I do migrations.
Hell, I'd love to move to Newfoundland, but even so there's no way you'd ever get me to move to somewhere as isolated as Little Bay Islands. 6.5 hours to drive to St. John's? It's faster to fly from Toronto...

(Edited to add: thought I should say why. Besides fantastic scenery and wonderful people, the traditional music scene there is amazing. St. John's may be a fairly small city (100K), but there are more traditional sessions an easy walk from downtown than there are within an hour's drive of Detroit. Actually, possibly about the same number as in metro Toronto? It's just insane. Hell, last time I was there I was walking back from playing one session and got roped into joining a party of strangers who had an accordion and guitar going on the back porch.)
See just get rid of the auto-playing videos problem solved, and make the world a better place while you're at it.
Yep, I do migrations as well. Every one is Oracle or DB2 to HANA. Often away from power systems (although some absolutely love power)
Exactly. As the article explains, "the FBI received a tip from a foreign law enforcement agency that a Tor Hidden Service site called “Playpen” was hosting child pornography".

What if the FBI received a tip that Gmail users are hosting child pornography? Would they be allowed to infect Gmail users' computers?
I respectfully disagree - would you be able to provide some more contemporary options?
...especially when their favorite form of "raid" is busting doors at 5:30 AM, shooting dogs, and shoving guns in children's faces. If the preference were, rather, to wait until a suspect left for work, detain her when she got to the sidewalk, have her call the house and arrange for all remaining residents to take a walk, and then enter the residence in non-destructive fashion, all sorts of speculative policing might be better justified.
This isn't the right, it's white supremacy.
"It is hard to tell from a single frame whether an object is moving or stationary or to distinguish spurious reflections."

What, they're not getting range rate directly from the radar? You can tell if an object is moving towards or away from you from one frame if you have range rate. Bosch automotive radars do return range rate.[1] Even 1990s automotive radars returned range rate. That's one of the huge advantages of radar over vision. Range and range rate go into a very simple formula which yields time to collision. Vision is lousy at range rate and gets worse as the distance increases. Radar is good at range rate and the error is constant out the range of the radar.

Whomever wrote that piece of PR probably doesn't really know how it works.

[1] https://etd.ohiolink.edu/rws_etd/document/get/ohiou130408338...
Ongoing discussion at top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559006
What specifically is the lie here? That they report average view time without trivial views? That seems like a more useful metric.

You also can't really directly compare these simple metrics across sites as they don't get at customer lifetime value. With these simple metrics you run into problems where the average video view may be higher on site A, but the average spend for users is higher on site B, and simply following the metric will lead you to an ineffective campaign. Whose responsibility is it to effectively manage an advertising campaign?

While I agree that more oversight and transparency is welcome here, I think jumping out and calling it fraud is exactly the kind of reaction that makes me feel this is overblown.
On github maybe...
This reading list probably isn't a good starting point.

But it's a good thing to do right after the starting point. Understanding the major influential figures, what their ideas were, and how those ideas were justified is important context. Each of the people on this list continue to reverberate through political economics in the most significant ways imaginable.

So it's up to OP if s/he wants to take the "classical works" route. But I'll just mention that if s/he does, this is a good list. Both in terms of the people selected and the books selected for each person.
Frightening how little I have achieved in the same time frame, despite trying.
It's the coolest trick our minds played on us.

Think back to the Nes and SNes era (apologies, I'm a Nintendo fanboy) and the booklets you always got with them. You might recall those booklets had character art in them.

I'm fairly convinced that because of that type of artwork, in combination with a lively fantasy, we recall our childhood heroes as real beings, rather than polygons or even pixels on a screen.

This, in combination with the power of empathy, has resulted in lively memories of heroes and villains duking it out in epic battles... that when revisited can take a while to get back into :)
How widely used is Gnuplot these days? In my community (statistics), I haven't heard of anyone using it at all, just people using Matplotlib, ggplot2, or R base graphics.

I used Gnuplot five or ten years ago when I barely knew of anything else, but I don't have a sense of what its advantages are these days.
Not OP, but yes, Thorstein Veblen.

I'm not familiar with Bernstein.
Luckily, there are 42 EV chargers at the San Diego airport for use (free with parking fee). Simply leave your Tesla plugged into any one of them.

http://www.plugshare.com/?location=13910

http://www.plugshare.com/?location=14077
The Ultimate Exit Interview: Obama with Doris Kearns Goodwin
Sponge made of coffee grounds scrubs lead and mercury from water
Yep, I'm willing to concede this isn't fully accurate. But if we don't have numbers at all its not even a point worth arguing. If anyone has other numbers please post them.
Really cool.

Super Mario 64 was such an amazing game back in the day. It totally changed my life.
The one thing that would make it misleading is if they reported the average time excluding views under 3 seconds, but reported impressions including them. From the article it is not clear that this is the case
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Agreed. That game was so revolutionary. It changed my life.
You can be a left-libertarian or a right-libertarian. Left vs. Right is about whether you favor the interests of the people or of the elites; a libertarian is usually someone who doesn't particularly care for a strong government. Says nothing about whether they are generally opposed to elite power.
Definitely. The fact the some states allow people to break the glass on cars to rescue overheating animals under certain circumstances is good. The fact that people know that they are allowed to do this under some circumstances, but not all the requirements that make it okay is not good.

I once left my dog in my car while I walked 150 feet across a single level parking lot into a building, spent 90 seconds inside, and walked back to the car, to find a note on the windshield saying "Your dog is dying in there! You should be ashamed! This is illegal and I should report you!" The car was chilly from A/C before I left, every window was cracked at least a few inches while I was gone, and obviously the person couldn't have stuck around long, because I wasn't gone more than a few minutes. If it's that easy to mistake a panting dog for a "dying" dog, I can see how this is a problem.
On my programmer hand, if I made the cutoff 3 seconds for the metrics, I would make it 3 seconds to count a view.

If the metrics and the view counts match, I don't see a problem.

If they calculate the average for > 3 seconds, but count EVERY view, I agree--fraudish.
But I think Oracle's "taking on" Amazon is mainly a marketing move. When you think "big cloud providers", #1 is obviously AWS, & then there's MSFT & GOOG, & then other players. Oracle is trying to elevate its offering in especially existing customers minds as a viable competitor, thus raising it's profile. It's the Avis/Hertz strategy
Porting GCC to AMD's Graphics Core Next Microarchitecture [pdf]
Care to fill in the details for me? Do you mean to say the most prolific DDoS attackers work for Cloudflare? Or that their network somehow (?) shelters them? What do you mean exactly? This sounds interesting.
Thank you for the insight. Will checkout other tools as well.
I wonder why. Any ideas?
There's another comment that links to one of his posts about it (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0uf9RIu...).
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If I told an easily-angered person that her spouse had intimate relations with someone I didn't like, could I be charged with the resulting murder? Why don't the police have agency?
Cloudflare hilariously acts as a reverse proxy for booters and does not respond to abuse reports against them.
See Mark Thoma's "Economist's View" for a broad sampling.

I personally enjoy Marginal Revolution (Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen), Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal (Miles Kimball), and The Money Illusion (Scott Sumner).
> At this scale it must also cost a ton of money to carry out this attack

It doesn't; you're using compromised machines to initiate the attacks, which is free to you.
The entire purpose of playpen was child pornography. The FBI knew that, I assume they could just go on the site and check. The tip was just telling them how to find the location of the site so they could do something about it.

If the entire purpose of gmail was to facilitate illegal sharing of cp, then yes.

(I gather that they also had discussion forums of some sort, but that the FBI only used the malware against people who visited the specific pages for child porn. So yes, it was targeted.)
I'm surprised that the Azure or Google Cloud teams aren't on top of this. They want tech people to pay attention to their stacks, why not host a high profile site like this to gain the respect of the industry?
Not least of which is the time/expense/risk to replace even a suboptimal solution outweighs the benefits.
I am not aware of a general purpose language that is expressive enough to auto vectorize generic code without basically writing in vector intrinsics.
We use Quagga.
I'm still trying to figure out Microsoft's new end game. Major inroads into OSS, more linux support, VSCode, etc.
He might be referring to vDOS using Cloudflare: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kaymYsb...
There will be people reading this who have never used a Terminal, or typed at a command line, or called directories anything other than "folders".

There will be people reading this who have never installed anything that wasn't from an App Store.

There will be people reading this who have never heard of source control, branches, repos, or any of the other jargon in your document.

I think the number two thing project maintainers need to do is to stop making assumptions about the background and experience level of their potential contributors; or, if they do, to admit and outline them.

I write more about this here: http://opendesign.foundation/articles/import-designers/
You shouldn't quote the Washington Times without doing your homework:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/19/no-george-s...
Well, no, if you are committing crime you can just use illegally pwned computers.
The PF6 ions in the electrolyte of some Li-ion batteries (not all use the same chemistry) will readily combine with hydrogen in the air to form HF if the battery is combusting. Cylindrical Li-ion cells, like those part of an 18650 battery, literally hold their chemistry under pressure, and a thermal runaway will normally cause the vents in the cell to release the pressure.

If that's happening due to a short (which can and does happen when a cell is charged improperly, or even put under resistive load after the cell is discharged below a safe limit -- copper or other ions, depending again on battery chemistry, can literally bridge across the electrolyte to short the cathode and anode) the result of the release of pressure combined with the reactive nature of now exposed lithium is a small rocket that shoots a plume of gasses like sulfur dioxide or hydrofluoric acid. Again, this depends largely on battery chemistry, and without an MSDS on these particular cells, there's no way to know. But there's a reason why any chemist you care to phone up will say, if you tell them you're in possession of a cylinder of a compressed compound that contains fluorine (it won't matter what kind, fluorine really really likes to bond promiscuously and with reckless abandon), they'll tell you that you're braver they are. Tell them you're intend to string up a few hundred of them and pass an electric current into them, and they'll call a hazmat team for you.

A casual stroll through forums frequented by flashlight fans (yeah, it's a thing) and you'll see plenty of demonstrations of what happens when a Li-ion cell begins a thermal runaway. And plenty of memorials to those who gave up their passion because they're on ventilators after experiencing profound damage to their lung tissues. Hell, ask the firefighters that respond to a fire at a battery recycling plant; granted, that's a bigger scale than one cell, but even one cell in a small room can, depending on its chemistry and how violently it's outgassing, emit enough HF to cause lung damage.

Read an MSDS yourself: http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg4/cg432/docs/msds/MSDS_LiIon.pdf

LiPo "pouches" mentioned elsewhere in this thread are much less likely to explode spectacularly before bursting, and much less likely to exhaust a plume of corrosive, toxic chemicals in their wake.
I think your comment is the key one. I actually don't see a problem at all with what they've reported IF they also separately excluded views under 3 seconds from their total count of views (i.e. the denominator). If they included them in view count, I would think a lawsuit would be warranted.
I tried to get to an article on Krebs' site from a Bruce Schneier blog post, and couldn't, then bumped into this post in HN.

It's a pity Akamai booted him off; on the one hand, I can understand that it would significantly impact on their SLAs to other customers, but on the other hand it's a shame they don't have a lower impact network to re-host him on, and use this as a learning lesson on how to better mitigate such DDoSs...
Nice try :)
Someone described by those first 3 things probably couldn't do much on an OS project anyway.
Bad UX Design: Twitter Thursday Night Football [video Without Sound]
Akamai is probably way bigger than Cloudflare, so if they don't take customer that got a 620Gb DDoS I doubt Cloudflare will.
I'm not from the US and don't know the US employment law, but you generally don't have to ask permission from your employer on things you do in your free time.

Unless you signed a contract that specifically forbids you from contributing to open source / other software projects (why would you do that? what is the exact wording? is such clause even legal?), your free time is your own, to freelance or work for other employers.

Working on open source on your employer's time and money is a different thing, and asking for permission makes perfect sense there.
Sorry, my mistake for being loose with my own terminology. I thought it was implied that I meant unique users, which, given my own comment about terminology, was a bit hypocritical of me.
Most depressing thought I've read all day, and like most days in 2016 there's been plenty of depressing news.
You're almost never using machines you compromised. Instead, you're using someone else's compromised machines: a botnet-backed DDoS-ing service, which you rented on the open (black) market, at the going rate. Bigger attacks still cost more in such setups—whether or not the botnet nodes were free to acquire, the resulting network is still a scarce resource whose price rises with demand.

(Of course, in the very special case of Krebs, the people he is reporting on frequently are the owners of the botnets, who can of course use their own botnets freely.)
That's why I brought up the example of wire fraud, which is basically any fraud committed using electronic communications. This charge is usually added on top of the main fraud felonies despite the fact that the only difference is the medium of communication. In the case of wire fraud, a phone call does change the crime in the eyes of the court.
I second EconTalk. High quality, accessible, and interesting.

I didn't think Freakonomics was great, but some people love it, and as long as it gets people to enjoy economics, I'm happy.

My first foray into an economic way of thinking was just reading The Economist every week — it's news, but seen through the lens of economics and business. Now I'm a doctoral student in economics at MIT.
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A better model is that "left" opposes oppression and favors care, empathy and equity, while "right" opposes barbarism and favors loyalty, family and just rewards.

Most right wingers would e.g. see the dominance of left-wing thought in academia and entertainment as its own form of elite power, an unearned and unwarranted influence not based on merit, which only pays lips service to its own ideals of rationality and impartiality.
Honestly, I'm very satisfied with the work the FBI did in this case.

To those mad about the FBI overstepping privacy rights on shaky grounds: how could you possibly need more evidence than proof of visits to a website that distributes child pornography?
I feel like Brian Krebs is a public good at this point. Would love to see Google foster a better web by hosting him!
Is it according to terms/conditions of Akamai?
Will there be a class action on this matter?
The commented out content is the best part -

A large office, good pay, and very little work.
Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus.
It's really complicated. There are articles by lawyers.[1] There are many countries involved, with very different bankruptcy laws. Much of this involves admiralty law, which has a very different order of priority of creditors than regular bankruptcy law. Lawyers are struggling to figure out all the conflicts of law.[2]

[1] http://www.chinalawblog.com/2016/09/hanjin-shipping-and-arre...
[2] http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/528816/Insolvency+Bankr...
"A call is an unknown source, talking about unreliable information, about a location. It is NEVER to be trusted NEVER...." -- Michael A. Wood Jr

An unverified call can never to be trusted. Read the whole twitter thread by ex BPD, USMC Retd., Michael A. Wood Jr [0] to understand why.

[0] https://twitter.com/MichaelAWoodJr/status/778813281376931840
React is not "functional". You extend the Component type just to make a view, you can encapsulate local state, you can inherit functions, yadda yadda. Calling it a "component" doesnt make it any less OO
>didn't know it was a startup then, had I, I probably would have picked a different one

It's an okay way to get stuff at less than cost though, if it's backed by VC money and focused on growth