skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brian Krebs' wasn't a paying customer right? Akamai provided the service pro-bono. Perfectly acceptable for them to suspend service if it becomes more than trivial in terms of cost or it puts their paying customers at risk.
Which constitutional protections did they bypass exactly?

The Federal Court has found the fourth amendment does not protect a home computer[1].

One might disagree with that, but claiming the FBI is "bypassing the very constitutional protections that each of its agents is sworn to protect" seems quite emotive given that an actual court found the exact opposite.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/federal-court-fourth-a...
What are you a communist? Talk about old.

BTW, you should also read Hazlitt's "The Failure of the 'New Economics' ". Hazlitt shredded Keynes and doesn't pull any punches. Too bad nobody listened to him.
I had all the symptoms. Point blank.

Ergo 'I had it' - because it's a condition defined by it's symptoms.

The kind of 'fatigue' I had was very odd: it was not 'sleepy tired' and it was not 'energy tired'. I wasn't in need of a nap, and if I went to the gym, I kept my regular pace no problem.

It was a weird tiredness that hit several times a day, and made me not want to do much.

Granted, it was more mild than others.

Granted, I may not have 'had' whatever causes it in others.

Also - I did take a lot of 'pro-biotics' as well, basically it supposedly restores the bacteria in your gut. But it's not particularly scientific.

I can tell you it was an odd feeling, unlike any other.
I've recently visited Japan and food was one of my main topics of interest. What I realized is that food is very expensive, especially meat, cheese and vegetables. Bread is weird, too fluffy and soft for my taste. So, as a consequence, they mostly focus on rice and noodles. Very little potato in their cuisine, as well.

I live in Romania. By comparison, Romania has cheaper food, and much of it is tastier, including: meat, and especially smoked pork meat, cheese - you have to taste Romanian cheese from the mountains, it just doesn't compare to the poor examples of cheese I found in Japan. Our breads are 100 times better, you can find anything - long, short, round, crunchy, fluffy, with brown flower, multi flowers, seeds, anything really, except the Japanese originals: "mellon bread", "curry bread" and "anpan".

Bottled water tastes better in Romania, but Japanese tap water is amazing (never seen such good tap water, I drunk from the faucet). Romanian beer is much tastier too - I suppose it's because of better water. Wine - well, Japanese wines from the market are bad, and expensive. In my country I can find wine tasting 10 times better at a quarter of the price. Sake - I tried it but I don't like the taste much. Pickled vegetables - well, I would say we're even on this domain - Japanese have their own, pickled ginger and such, Romania has its own, usually cucumbers, peppers, cabbage, cauliflower and mellon (so tasty, pickled mellon).

So I'd give Japan a good grade overall, the food is tasty but different, mostly rice and noodles, very expensive, and in many domains lacking by comparison to food I know from my country. What I liked the most are - bento boxes, udon, mochi daifuku (very interesting tactile sensation), sushi and tempura.
In a world of 10 and 40 gigabit NICs, why is 665 considered big?
How do you measure video watched on their platform? You can't since they host the video.
I guess I have to disagree.

> It was good 20 years ago, and it's good today.

I wasn't using such things 20 years ago, but 10 years ago gnuplot was a crufty relic and a right pain in the bum to use for anything beyond the most basic of plots. Together with LaTeX, it was one of the things that made getting into CS research much more difficult than necessary. We need fewer barriers to entry in this field, not more.

Also, a fun fact: gnuplot is not GNU. It has this weird custom license that disallows distribution of modified versions and is incompatible with the GPL. http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/gnuplot/gnuplot/Copyright...

I used to wonder how something so old could be so bad, and how newer projects like matplotlib managed to race ahead of it. I think the license explains a lot.

Edit: I should add - if gnuplot works for you, more power to you! Use what works. But I've been much happier since I discovered matplotlib in about 2006.
It took me a while, but I finally figured out why your color gradients were different in nature to the grayscale gradient.

All of your color gradients use a constant light output. You transition from one fully saturated primary to another, or two fully saturated primaries to two others. For that to look natural, the interpolated values should also produce a constant light output.

The grayscale ramp is not a constant light output, and the light intensity needs to follow a perceptual curve to look natural.
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Even if they tried to mitigate and quietly semi failed (like 30% packet loss) the PR would have been better. It could be that such attack takes down their entire network hard. Verisign said a year ago to us they could mitigate 2Tbps for comparison.
That wasn't what I was referring to, and although I hold very little interest in bitcoin, I do know enough that "[...] you can't count it without access to the keys that let you spend it." is fundamentally wrong. However, I'm glad you have since refined your stance to something more tenable, but anyway, let's not get too off topic.

As I know absolutely nothing about the shipping industry or Hanjin, what is your background or interest in it?
Capitalism and freedom by Milton Friedman
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Or a some bored kid on welfare
Because it is a "dealer service" procedure.
Because you have to classify and filter out the spam packets before they reach the intended host and content, which is really hard to do at line rate, especially if you also plan to serve useful traffic.
If it can handle a year on a full charge, then unless your battery is below 2%, it'll last a week. And if it was below 2%, you probably wouldn't be able to make it home anyways.
I get it loading the right page, then immediately redirecting to https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/software?redirect=no which is a 404.
This is probably the most profound work out of these (no sarcasm):

On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit
http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html
Yes, but adding refrigeration to a cable will make it firstly about thousand times more likely to need a repair, and when repairing, rather a lot less bendable and more fragile, thus making it also more difficult to repair.

There are also -- of course -- a lot of political problems with the idea of a a global electric grid. Like, what happens to your electrical system in case of an international crisis. Russia has used its gas supplies for political pressure in Europe, and other nations may do the same with electricity.
They did set out into open oceans, it was the only way to get to Australia and that was populated long before the Americas.
A single human brain is far simpler and smaller than the billions of years of history and the trillions of non-human brains that you're suggesting be reproduced. The human brain did not evolve in isolation. It evolved to fill a niche that was created by a massive amount of history and circumstance.
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Presumably there are a ton of beta testers that put a 100,000 or so miles running this actively in a wide array of road driving scenarios before they roll this out to customers as well. Under beta testing scenarios, a single driver should be, even with time for charging, be able to do about 250 miles/day of driving - figure 10,000 miles/month. So, to get 100K of real-world road experience, would only take 10 drivers/month (or 20 drivers 2 weeks, etc.... Mythical Man month doesn't apply here)
This isn't anything new. Several YouTubers have "exposed" how Facebook tracks views. It's not accurate, but it's the system that has been in place for a while and they've defended it as such.
Well, if your site needs to be online and processing payments so your company can pay salaries and rent, a week (or month) long DDOS would basically end things for you... Everywhere I've worked, a DDOS like this would basically be an emergency.
State constitutions regulate the relationship between the state and its people. So they do not have rights per se in that relationship. But the term "state's rights" refers to the relationship between the states and the federal government. In that case states really do have certain rights against the fed much as individual persons have rights under the US constitution. This is most clear in case where the state sues various wings of the fed, asserting their rights under the US constitution. One of the largest cases in recent years would be Shelby County[1] v. Holder that struck down much of the voting rights act. At the most basic level, states have the right to bring cases in federal courts.

[1] Shelby County is a local government, a devision of the state of Alabama under the Alabama constitution. Holder is an attorney general, an employee of the federal government and, importantly, not an elected official. Suing the prez is a very different ballgame.
But then the consultant goes home after the engagement carrying bags of money.
Mathematically trained economist here.

Why Stock Markets Crash by Didier Sornette
The complete oeuvre of Paul Wilmott

(The Computational Beauty of Nature, by Gary W. Flake because it's wonderful and puts you in the right frame of mind)
The major point the article makes is not about any particular display. It is about image processing algorithms, such as color blending, anti-aliasing, resizing, etc.

All these algorithms assume they are performing math on linear scale measurements of physical light. However, most image data is not encoded as linear scale samples of light intensity. Instead they are gamma encoded.

What the article gets slightly wrong though is that images are not gamma encoded to deal with the non linear response to intensity of the human eye. Instead, it's to deal with the non linear response of CRT displays to linear amounts of voltage, as produced by camera sensors. The gamma encoding adjusts the image data so that a display will correctly produce linear scales of light intensity to match the physical light measured from a scene.

You are rightly skeptical that Gamma Encoding can't really deal with the broad variety of different displays. However, it is still the case that most images are gamma encoded with roughly gamma 2.2, and that all image processing algorithms on the other hand assume gamma 1.0, and misbehave on data that is gamma 2.2

It is, of course still the case that by chance, human visual response is roughly the inverse of gamma 2.2. But bringing this up while trying to make a point about performing operations on linear gamma data is somewhat distracting.
Wow, I figured that everyone that had hired vDOS would be irritated but that is pretty impressive. Still it says a lot for how effective he has been at rooting out this stuff, not like the TierN infrastructure folks have managed to track this stuff down with their resources.
End game is be relevant to developers. There's an entire org called DevDiv whose primary job is to win developer market share. If developers love your platform and tools, then they won't hesitate to use Azure and the other money making beasts.
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I would say that is a clever move, but to be honest that is the most he can do now.

https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/779144394360381440

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@ 300 IN MX 10 smtp.krebsonsecurity.com.
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Does the additional ad spend convert to an acceptable lift in sales? If yes, why do you care about video engagement? If no, why maintain such spend even if the engagement numbers are genuinely high?
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Advertisers will find a workaround and it will inevitably be much worse for the user. In the following talk, someone from the Google Chrome team describes how, when they tried to not autoplay videos on Android, video advertisers worked around the restriction by compiling video codecs to JavaScript and then rendering their video-like ads to an HTML canvas.

https://youtu.be/wQGa_6CRc9I?t=23m52s
You can distribute the modifications in patches; i.e. what all the distros already do anyway.

As for matplotlib, there's no reason at all for it to be making plots. It just needed to provide a plotting interface to numpy, and the backend is almost irrelevant. They could EASILY have reused existing tools for the backend, and contributed upstream to fix whatever deficiencies they thought existed.
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While I did take courses in probability, linear algebra, and lots of calculus, until recently, I forgot most of the probability and all of the linear algebra I learned in school. As for calculus, I only remembered how to take basic derivatives. In any case, I've been spending the past month brushing up on my linear algebra and probability, and it's been a struggle, but now that I'm motivated and under no time pressure to relearn the material, I find it way more fascinating than I did in college. In fact, I skipped tons of my linear algebra classes because I thought the subject was dry and dull. I also rushed through my probability and stats homework just so I could get a good grade on them. I think if you're motivated, and you can do basic math, you should be able to educate yourself in calculus, probability, and linear algebra. It'll be a struggle, but with motivation, you'll be able to pick up the concepts.

for probability and stats: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-2nd-Dimitri-...

for linear algebra: https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Matrix-Algebra-Applications-Co...

this was my college calculus textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-7th-James-Stewart/dp/0538497.... I can't comment if it was good or not because by college, I had taken calculus twice so it was all a refresher

best of luck! You sound educated enough (yes, I'm judging from the couple sentences you wrote) that I think you won't have any problems acquiring math knowledge with persistence.
Good point. And I can see that I would have made different (and probably cleaner) design decisions in certain places if strict null checking had been a part of our code from the beginning.
I suppose this is orthogonal to compile time types, but I had to write my own utility to support PFA "decoration" of functions. It of course knows nothing about the number or type of arguments in the original function. (I usually write JSDoc comments about resulting intermediate functions if they leave the nest)

For TS to do this, the compiler would need to supply the "apply"/"bind" feature and track that a function goes in, and the list of argument types, so it can check what is applied and track the types of any remaining arguments. Doable, but if it's not built into the compiler, I have to start running a transpile process that buys very little for much of my code.
You measure the change in your sales while the campaign is active. That's the only relevant metric anyways.
I've always wondered if your domain is under a http DDoS attack, couldn't you in theory update your DNS A record to another ip and take other servers down (maliciously)?
These Chinese internet/game addiction boot camps are ready for their Jesus Camp moment.

For those who aren't aware, there was a documentary made of a religious camp that was released under the name "Jesus Camp" and as a result the camp shut down and others suffered as well.
A PhD in two years?
Most DDOS attacks are launched directly against the IP, so it wouldn't really help.
If you missed the original article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3612748/Why-decided-...

He makes for a nice clickbaity punchline of a headline, which is obviously part of the intent as he wrote a book on the experience and was desperate to escape his job. Still, for some reason I find it fascinating, especially the bit about his initial rejection from and subsequent acceptance into the herd.
Akamai can easily mitigate this.

They just don't want to provide it for free.

And pretty much no one can afford to use their services @ 655Gb/s for that long unless they had billions of $.
> Medicine Prize - Christoph Helmchen and colleagues, for discovering that if you have an itch on the left side of your body, you can relieve it by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of your body (and vice versa).
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Not much of a surprise. The VC funds that have all these billions to invest need to get a return. The early stage funding may have slowed but companies that made it as far as AirBNB have will still find funding.
I've added a link in case the above comment makes no sense: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/tesla-mod...

The vulnerability has been "patched", but I cannot help but be peeved at any private automobile that can be remotely controlled. Of course, it isn't only Teslas: https://www.wired.com/2016/03/fbi-warns-car-hacking-real-ris...
No.

The whole point of matplotlib is interactivity and embedability in GUI toolkits.

There was nothing else that meet those criteria in Python at the time, and the other options were GUI toolkit specific.

Try finding something else that you can seamlessly embed in Tk, Gtk, Qt, Wx, etc with full interactivity that still creates publication quality static plots.
I tried to do that for a long time. It's nice until you forget exactly what your email is with say, Company X Industries when trying to reset your password. Was it CX@domain.xyz? CXI? CompanyXIndustries? That example is silly but this came up frequently for me. And was super awkward when giving out my email to a CS rep over the phone or "Can you confirm your email address for me?" Me: "something that ends with XP84.cc, I forgot."

Password managers have made this somewhat less painful, at least on the Web, as opposed to "Apps" which refuse to implement the API for using the password -- and username -- stored in your keychain.
Religiosity and intelligence
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Not many companies can go a week (let alone a month) without revenue.
>> 100% of the companies accepted into YC applied

> Is this true?

Depending on how you want to think about it, you can trivially falsify this by looking at ImagineK12.
Tesla is accumulating ~1 million miles of data every 10 hours fleet-wide [1]. With their environment, they could presumably beta test across the entire fleet, as the changes are inert and only data is sent back as to what the vehicle would've done (compared to what it actually did).

[1] http://qz.com/694520/tesla-has-780-million-miles-of-driving-...
If you try at all, then you're trying harder than OpenSSL. But that doesn't necessarily help if there has been so much code churn over the past 5 years that we can't figure out how or if we should apply the security patch.
Yes, you can easily catch up on the math if you put in the time and it's so much easier now with the resources out there.

You say didn't take trig? Check this out as one example: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/trigonometry/trigonometry-r...
Yahoo is still the number one or two site in Japan, and with a very old design and logo to boot.
The top-voted comment on this thread, by emcq, has a link to AOL's viewability guidelines which states

"For purposes of Video inventory, an impression is considered “In-View” to a user when at least fifty percent (50%) of the pixels in the ad are in the viewable browser window for a minimum of two (2) consecutive seconds."

Google here https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/4574077?hl=en says "For in-stream video ads, 50% of the ad’s pixels must be visible in the browser window for a continuous 2 seconds."
On my wife's car the play/pause and toggle-repeat "buttons" are both on the touch screen right next to each other and are maybe 1cm in size. It is easily the worst interface I've ever used in a car for anything.
I second this from China. Apple Appstore based OSX updates are literally impossible here. Annoyingly, they are required to upgrade Xcode.
How does IP spoofing even work outside of those DNS reflection attacks mentioned on Krebs' blog? [1]

> "many were garbage Web attack methods that require a legitimate connection between the attacking host and the target, including SYN, GET and POST floods."

I constantly see references relating to DDoS attacks about how IP spoofing is such an obvious trick to use but I've never seen any way to actually do it. Why wouldn't every device on the internet spoof their IP?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160922021000/http://krebsonsec...
2 seconds is also Google/DoubleClick's cut-off, they refer to it as IAB standard: "For in-stream video ads, 50% of the ad’s pixels must be visible in the browser window for a continuous 2 seconds."

https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/4574077?hl=en
Reads like he was modifying the DOM directly, instead of changing state in response to an event
>That's a ridiculous argument. You don't just "hang around" child porn websites without participating.

I'm pretty sure his argument was that the site could have had other purposes.

>But it's absolutely ridiculous for any sane person to argue that these people should walk free because the FBI overstepped its bounds.

That's actually how the legal system does (and should) work. Look up "fruit of the poisonous tree"
I disagree. I see small auto playing videos all the time in reviews or on feature pages, explaining little concepts or details that are much easier to grasp in a few seconds of (silent) video than in a paragraph or two.

The alternative is going back to large, low quality and bandwidth-heavy gifs, which isn't the better option in my opinion.
> > "Who really wants to click on an ad while in facebook on a phone?"

99% of the time I click on an ad, it's on accident.
Here's a "philosophical" question with regards to the internet, and perhaps even it's future. Given that a currently anonymous attacker, and likely not a "state" player (i.e. not a governmental entity with almost unlimited resources) has managed to DDoS a single website, does this portend that unless there are significant changes to the way the internet infrastructure works, we are seeing the demise of the WWW?

Kind of like a reverse wild-wild-west evolution, where the previously carefully cultivated academic and company site presence, gradually degenerates into misclick-hell? And the non-technical, non-IT savvy masses, in a bid to escape this all, end up in a facebook-style future where media is curated and presented for consumption (or perhaps in future, facebook-type entities end up with their own wild-wild-west hell)?

I have a strange feeling that we are seeing the decline of a city/civilisation; once you used to feel safe walking out at night, knew everybody in the neighbourhood, could leave your doors unlocked... and now, you don't dare to go down the lane to the left in case you pick up a nasty virus, and if you hear a knock on the door at night/email from DHL, you don't dare to even look through the peephole/preview the JPG!