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Perhaps its the government? Lots of people think all these NSA programs are evil surveillance, could be it's just the glue that has saved us from just this.

I'm personally amazed that people don't get hacked more often TBH... I can't think of any instances where non-technical people have been pwned in my own life.

I personally have a pa55word that I use for sites I don't trust, but the accounts never seem to fall or even falter. It's amazing really.
Unless you go very much out of your way, it is hard to find European style bread of any kind of quality in Japan. Cheese is the same (although Hokkaido produces some very nice camembert style cheeses). Japanese wine, as you say, is almost uniformly horrible. The main problem, I think, is that they only started planting vinifera grapes about 10 years ago. There are a couple of decent wine producers in Yamanashi prefecture, but their good wines are very expensive (and the ones I've managed to try are not that good).

It is very unfortunate that you found sake (nihonshu is what it is normally called -- sake just refers to any alcohol in Japan) not to be of your liking. There are thousands of nihonshu producers in Japan and the flavours range really dramatically. It can be sweet or dry, fruity or flowery. Not everybody likes it though.

I've never had Romanian beer, but I have heard that it is excellent. Japanese mainstream lagers are better than most mainstream Euro lagers, but not by any great margin. The higher quality mainstream lagers (Suntory The Premium Malts, Ebisu, and Kirin Ichiban Shibori) are all decent versions of German lager styles. Suntory has a cheaper "Malts" brand which is actually quite a good Munchner Helles IMHO. But as you say, it's nothing to write home about. Ji-beeru (micro brewery beer) is where it is at, but the movement is still in its infancy. There are many, many really excellent hefeweizen beers, but microbreweries are mostly concentrating on crazy styles.

Pickles... Don't get me started on pickles :-) Japanese pickles are awesome. They are also really regional, so if you are interested in pickles it pays to travel around to many small cities to try them. It's kind of unfortunate that many of the best pickles are quite hard to buy, but you should be able to get a decent variety at various omiyage shops.

If you come back again, it helps quite a bit to travel outside of the big cities. For example, it is really unusual to spend more than about 700 yen (7 US dollars) on a meal at a restaurant around where I live. And there is no tipping. Like many places in Europe, the best food is often found in the izakayas (bar/pub). In these places you eat otsumami (finger food???) while you are drinking. Apart from formal meals, this epitomises Japanese cuisine in my mind. The main things you will find are sashimi, yakitori, grilled fish, deep fried everything, and various kinds of stews.

It's really unfortunate, but it's quite difficult for travellers to experience the cuisine of Japan without having a guide who knows the area. I suppose this might also be true of Romania!
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What do you do when you have 10, 20, 50 million bots using their actual source address? Do you just block all 50 million devices? If so, then that would be a great way to initiate denial of service on those devices.
Why do they need a press announcement to announce the publication of something? The publication is the announcement.
I shan't be taking it up, but this semicolon-first style has merits.

The example looks perfectly readable to me. And it is probably makes it harder to miss semicolons, because all those for one block line up in a single column. The main thing I fear is it increases the chance of an accidental:

if(foo)
; do_something_i_though_was_conditional()

But if you are already using braces everywhere, {then this isn't a problem}.
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It should be metioned that the process of statistical data collection can vary between countries.
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You are not the first to come up with this idea. This same thought has been posted every year for the past 20 or so years in mailing lists, forums or Usenet (thought lately, not too often to Usenet).

I think prevention should be emphasized. If there wasn't so much garbage plugged into the Internet, there wouldn't be huge botnets to send DDoSes. There are few groups that scan the Internet for vulnerable systems, and rather than compromise them, send notices to the ISPs. In Canada, the CCIRC does this. But they only check IP blocks assigned to Canadian ISPs and enterprises.

Plus, why do so many ISPs still allow spoofing of IPs? It isn't 1999 anymore.

We should start a grass roots group to talk to everyone they meet, and get people to update their OSes, devices, and get rid of crap.
The problem is that people (especially reporters) often replace "It caused X more cancers" with "It caused X more deaths". The thing is that the most likely cancer to happen because of radiation is the thyroid cancer, that an early detection makes curable 99% of the time. So an appropriately warned population may see 1000 more cancers, resulting in about 10 more deaths. That's why so many different numbers are waved around.
The Illustrated Guide to Law has tons on this in the criminal procedure section (http://lawcomic.net/guide/?page_id=5#crimpro)

The memory and facial recognition stuff starts here http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3034
In this case such prove should be possible. Files creation dates would show that the files were downloaded when the teacher was absent. The dates would make it easy to associate this accident with your class and then, after asking a few questions, with your classmate.
I just don't trust it when it comes to transuranic elements, I think that's what I was trying to say here.

Everyone talks about the 'island of stability' but I just can't find the evidence. Meanwhile there's Americium in my house! (smoke detectors)
Well I being just graduated from university also believe this is very accurate. I did medicine as my degree and one thing I noticed is that almost all A grade students know only medicine and at times lacks the even the basic common knowledge. Some don't have any relationships and a messed social life.

I'm a C grade student did medicine read HN, I'm good at coding, I hack and love making things, have a good social life.

And even my other C grade students play games, go out have a very good time/life.

But there are times I feel whether I should have given up my CS skills for medicine because they don't go well together.
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Cloudflare protects everybody who signs up, including control panels for "booter sites", which are web pages where you can allegedly buy a DDoS attack for an hourly rate.

Kind of like the police protects gangsters from getting shot by other gangsters, but you would really like them not to do that, so that the gangsters can just shoot each other.

In this case, Brian Krebs tried to convince Cloudflare to kick off the booter sites, so they are unprotected, and can DDoS each other. Cloudflare didn't put any effort into that idea, and now he's apparently angry that he didn't get through to them.
Btrfs isn't there yet in terms of stability and who knows if it ever will be with current implementation. Ext4 doest have snapshots or data integrity as ZFS..

Sorry I don't want to nitpick but just in case someone is considering it.. Do your research about filesystem first. ZFS has no equal at this time.
Yup - though you need to make use of lib if you want to write es2016 TypeScript and have Babel transpile it. Not too hard to get set up though:

http://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2016/09/typescript-20-es2016-an...
Ok, I'll give you a trick if you want to make people believe you can cook asian food: fry stuff (anything, really, can be meat, pasta, mushroom, rice, potatoes, fish) and add soy sauce and garlic. Cooked garlic and soy sauce smells good, tastes good and is the "asian" taste we identify as westerners.
It seems to me that he's saying in order to move data at volume, you have to compute on it.

Computation is tricky. Per-bit, if you can handle the network input, you're probably able to fire packets up to the OS layer.

But when you need to run stats on the incoming data, e.g. an ML classifier of "bad/not bad" or "stop/passthrough", you might be O(n^2) or worse. Moore's can't hang.
In Japan too.
Here is a nice video on the new Matlab palette, and why it could be better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
The chapter on parameter subsitution in the LDP's Bash Scripting Guide is nice for this : http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html
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How is passion different from ADHD hyperfocus and why does this sound more like ADHD hyperfocus? I mean, I'd describe this as passion. It might be that I see passion different from a lot of people or everyone has a different idea when they think about passion. Hence the question and curiosity.
Monthly uniques? Oh come on... what's the daily?
I don't know that much about accounting, but isn't this the exact kind of situation insurance is supposed to smooth over?

I'd imagine in many cases, the cost of solving the problems caused by not being able to pay fees is going to be higher than the fees themselves. So are there not insurers who benefit from paying these fees, rather than paying out larger claims later?
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If you want to cook things that "feel" asian, simply add soy sauche and garlic to anything you fry.
A water route for the early migrants makes a lot of sense. There was a study published in "Nature" a couple months ago that looked at samples from sediments at choke points on the land routes, and determined that it took several hundred years after the routes opened for vegetation and then animals to appear [1]. During that several hundred years, migrating humans passing through would not be able to live off the land. They'd have to have brought their food with them.

Note that this was before the invention of the wheel, so there would be no pulling your supplies with you on a cart. It was also before domestication of any animals other than dogs, so no pilling your supplies on a horse, or having a horse drag a sled.

They also would not know how far they would have to go to get to some place that could support them, so would have no idea how much food to take. With the limitation of only being able to take what they could carry, or get dogs to carry, or get dogs to pull on sleds, I doubt that they would have enough to make it through.

It's only after the plants and animals get well established, so that you can live off the land, that it becomes reasonably feasible to migrate that way.

The Clovis culture was well established long before that, so they had to come some other way,

A water route avoids these problems. First, you can carry a lot more with you when you go by boat. You can either make your boat bigger to have room for your supplies, or you can tow a supply boat or raft. (Ropes had been invented by then).

Second, you can fish. I don't think the technology of the time would have caught much in the open ocean [2], but if they stayed reasonably close to coastlines they should have been able to catch plenty of fish. (Following coastlines might also be a good idea so they could go ashore now and then to try to find fresh water).

What I don't think I've ever seen discussed is when did anyone go the other way? Presumably at some point someone came back and so people in Asia became aware that those who headed east and were never heard from again weren't all starving to death or sailing [3] off the edge of the world or whatever.

[1] Here's an article about the study: http://www.history.com/news/new-study-refutes-theory-of-how-...

[2] the open ocean is sometimes described as a "biological desert" because of the sparseness of life there, especially life reasonably near the surface (and so where ancient fisherman could reasonably have a shot at catching it). The overwhelming majority of ocean life is in the shallow seas above the continental shelfs.

[3] well...rowing. This was before sails were invented.
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> thought lately, not too often to Usenet

Which pretty much illustrates the worst-case outcome: spam and trolling rendered completely worthless.
So what if it affects stock prices? I am not sure why that concerns the FDA.
Sounds like you're suggesting you can't use your own modified fork until your PR is accepted.
I assume you are talking about the solar roof option of the 3rd gen Prius models. It's not quite the same, as it just powers a ventilation fan to bring (hopefully) cooler air into the cabin - it doesn't run the AC.

If you park in the sun it's still going to be hot in the car, but it's not as uncomfortable when you first open it - I still wouldn't leave myself or a dog locked inside without the windows open.

You can however leave the ignition on, with the AC on, and the engine will kick in every 10 minutes or so - however that's effectively the same as leaving you keys in the car, if you break in you can just drive away.
We have highest biblical literacy.

You are an atheist.

I have slightly unsatisfactory satisfaction.
They seem to think they have firm legal ground.

Keep in mind that most reverse proxies will do the same thing. The only difference with Cloudflare is that you don't know the destination IP.
And even if noImplicitAny in 3rd party libraries is not honoured you now have: skipLibCheck which will limit checks to your own code. Details here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/compiler-option...

I believe it's actually a perf gain to run with this set (but I'm not certain).
Correct, but you need to sign an NDA to run (or rather, for your vehicle's VIN to be whitelisted for pre-release firmware bundle retrievals) a non-GA release.
He didn't get a payment, but he did give a license for "IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.”

http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions
Whatever view you want it is always a single query for the data in a relational database. In some ways that is the key difference: store the data normalised, query for the view you want.

And anyway, I have yet to see any real world business app which is "a single customer view" and even if is, it quickly expands and changes as the business does.
Do you have a citation for the "4 seconds" figure? If it is 4 seconds, and it logs a view after 3 seconds, that's pretty damning.
India is actually the free world's final exam. Biggest democracy in the world, a population that will soon surpass China, yet it is poor, uneducated, the government is highly dysfunctional.

Every year that we fail to help India reach the superpower status hints at chinese-style authoritarianism being a superior model. I wish we would spend more time and effort helping them.
I think it's more likely downvoted for the same reason the hack didn't appear on the HN home page, while hacks on Chryslers or the VW emissions scandal do, repeatedly: don't criticise Tesla.

Even when they apparently employ idiots who hook the web browser up to the brakes.
From the article -

> They claimed 10x the density of DRAM, it is now 4x

> Latency missed by 100x, yes one hundred times, on their claim of 1000x faster, 10x is now promised

> More troubling is endurance, probably the main selling point of this technology over NAND. Again the claim was a 1000x improvement, Intel delivered 1/333rd of that with 3x the endurance.

From this seminar few months back - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXurTRtmfWc ,

I think density can be increased, this is only the initial product,

and latency is contributed more by PCIe/OS/application rather than the underlying 3d-xpoint material. The slides from the article are for the PCIe SSDs, I wonder whether the earlier claimed latency, still holds well with NVRAM.

I wonder why the endurance is so lower than the earlier claims.
There is an incentive: it is the cost of transit. However, there usually are not a lot of zombies per single ISP for the access level ISP to even see any abnormal traffic.

The best thing is that access ISPs need to implement BCP38 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp38). And shutdown all open recursive DNS servers. It would be great if Microsoft didn't ship such a retarded DNS server too. I would say that most ISPs do not do this.

NTP really should be replaced with something better. There are still large numbers of NTP amplification attacks going on. The big issue with NTP today, is that by default ntpd in daemon mode, is also a NTP server and responds to NTP requests. And so many of the two bit home routers run ntpd.

But the reality is, that no one is even reporting DDoSes right now. I work at an ISP, and I haven't seen a DDoS report in the past year. We pro-actively scan for open DNS and open NTP services. But many DDoS attacks just use regular HTTP/HTTPS, are hard to detect at the individual network connection level. Do you think Akamai sent out a single notice to any ISPs, saying "The following X IPs are sending excessive traffic to site Y, and are suspected to be part of a botnet"?
Those dates can easily be altered by someone knowledgeable though.
Fortunately there will be no printed records of tweets after the great disconnect
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I agree, but think we are falling into the trap of assuming that the migration was in some way planned. I'm picturing more a band of people pushed to sea by an unusual storm, or traveling along the ice sheet to escape from some other people. They don't have to live or east well, just survive the journey. If following currents/winds that journey may have only been a couple weeks. Think of all the terrestrial species that have crossed oceans on driftwood.

(Boats 'sail' without sails. Wind pushes everything. It's not fast or efficient, but even a dugout can make plenty of progress on wind and current alone.)
> I don't think the technology of the time would have caught much in the open ocean [2]

> [2] the open ocean is sometimes described as a "biological desert" because of the sparseness of life there, especially life reasonably near the surface (and so where ancient fisherman could reasonably have a shot at catching it). The overwhelming majority of ocean life is in the shallow seas above the continental shelfs.

There's more than enough to feed you as you voyage through the open ocean. For unknown reasons, fish are attracted to anything that floats on the surface, so they'll come to you. This is, in fact, our current technology for catching dolphin-safe tuna -- release a bunch of "floating objects" into the sea, let them accumulate all manner of sea life, and sweep it all up.

People lost at sea on rafts don't starve. Exposure is a major issue; food isn't.
I'm in my end student phase. What needs attention for me is: my program, extracurriculars (e.g. a Buddhism class or random CS classes or doing a board), friends, girlfriend (when I have one) and hobbies (if I have one, really depends), sidejobs (when I have one). I have a general passion towards studying a lot, which my friends and especially my previous GF don't appreciate because I don't see them enough (to which I agree, e.g. friends would be once a month).

I do prefer a more balanced motivation that feels like "ah this is a marathon and I'm going to run it one step at a time."
For both Google and Amazon the cheapest transfer you can have is 0.02 USD/GB, which in case of such attach gives 5.5k USD / hour, or 400k USD for three days of the attack.
Another thing I sometimes do:

Open a medium sized file in some format (CSV for example)

Select all

Change the selection to individual selections, one per line.

Edit in parallel, doing the same edit to all lines.

When the file is not that big, this sequence of actions is amazingly fast in ST.
Yeah, very much. Some basic dilligence with a somewhat even set of cells will probably be harmless. I would not be afraid of that kind of homebuilt power-store, if some decent practices are followed. (But you should do your dilligence & check to make sure all the cells remain ok, as you start using this pack!)

This... this is an hellish unbelievable nightmare, is asking for something to go wrong. It is certianly possible to invest the time & effort to balance the hell out of such a chaos-pack, but for one's own sanity, using normalized cells will save a lot of sanity & rework, and drastically decrease risks of catastrophic f-up. Don't do like this person! Do build weird electric systems though, unlike OP's way too broadscale doomsaying fear-mongering.
> I'm pretty sure his argument was that the site could have had other purposes.

But in this case it didn't. Not a single case coming out of it has claimed that it was some kind of mistake, or inadvertent visit or they were there to do something else.
I don;t think we need plants. If you east whole animals, livers and all, then I believe it possible to survive for an extended period. You won't be happy, but alive.
Yeah. The main purpose of the metric is to compare the relative effectiveness of ads. If each number was off by the same amount, that doesn't affect the delta
The explanation of why there this kind of gamma mapping was introduced in the first place is inaccurate. An often cited explanation is the nonlinear sensual response of human vision; if you wanted to accurately model that you'd need a logarithmic mapping. The true reason for the need of gamma correction is the nonlinear behaviour of certain kinds of image sensors and display devices. CRT displays, be the very physics they are based on have an inherent nonlinearity that's approximated by a gamma=2.2. When LCDs got introduced they of course were made to approximate the behaviour of CRT displays, so that you could substitute them without further ado.

Another important aspect to consider is, that using just gamma is not the most efficient way to distribute the bits. You want a logarithmic mapping for that; which also has the nice side effect, that a power law gamma value ends up as a constant scaling factor to the logarithmic values.

Now, it's also important to understand that these days the bread-and-butter colorspace is sRGB and that complicates things. sRGB has the somewhat inconvenient property that for the lower range of values its actually _linear_ and only after a certain threshold it continues (differentiable) with a power law curve. That's kind of annoying, because with that you no longer can remap logarithmically. And of course converting from and to sRGB can be a bit annoying because of that threshold value; you certainly can no longer write it as a convenient one-liner in a GPU shader for example. That's why modern OpenGL profiles also have special sRGB framebuffer and image formats and reading from and writing to them will perform the right linearization-mapping.

However either way what the explanation for gamma is, the important takeaway is, that to properly do image processing the values have to be converted into a linear color space for things to work nicely. Ideally a linear contact color space.
Is it possible there is a collective that software engineers could all join, where the membership process includes accepting certain licenses

(And then we could collectively negotiate salary and equity stakes too hint hint)
Still not a good move for Akamai, though.

I get him speaking out for them about the hosting having been free, but Akamai is now the CDN that got bullied into kicking someone of their service against their own will.

Terrible PR, and that mud will stick in tech circles. Akamai folds under pressure.

I know it's a crude comparison, but we don't negotiate with terrorists for a reason.