skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other than I can take a MIT licensed project used to build my product, sell it and never give the anything back, not even the code.

Seems pretty close source friendly to me.
Most (or at least many) establishments don't allow dogs
Texture networks: feed-forward synthesis of textures and stylized images
I'm confused. you seem very confident that facebooks video marketing is a lie, even while you admit being unable to attribute sales.

I know multi-touch is hard, but doesn't that mean you should be less confident in your statements because the data is fuzzy?
I found Milton Friedman's "Free To Choose" fundamental and very readable.

https://www.amazon.com/Free-Choose-Statement-Milton-Friedman...
It might be more useful to return the IP address of whoever made the DNS query.

This could trick the computers that make up the botnet to either attack themselves on the public interface (more resource-intensive than trying to DDoS your own loopback), or even better, their ISP's resolvers (it would force the ISP to do something about it).
So strange how everyone seems to agree there's at least a bit of inflation of VC funding if not an outright bubble, yet no one seems to see why this might induce a company to take as much cheap cash as it can for the impending winter.
During the earthquake, a dam collapsed. Actually directly killing at least tens of people (possibly hundreds). Yet, hydro power, that directly killed, provably, more people was never under criticism. Hydro-power had much higher casualties rate than nuclear power. The Banqio dam failure killes 117 000 people, far more than Chernobyl. France, one of the most nuclear state, has a dam collapse as its most lethal power-plant accident (400 killed, at Malpasset). The accident inquiries result? "Nothing was done wrong, it was as secure as we know how to make them."

Yet, it it the nuclear energy that is criticized as dangerous. There is something strange about nuclear fear. It is more fear of the unknown and complicated, fear of the invisible, than a reasonable, rational fear.
You can't only look at demand. You also have to look at supply. Most machine learning engineers have a masters at least (many have a PhD), and almost all 'scientist' positions require a PhD. Of course there are fewer deep learning jobs available than front-end developers. That doesn't mean they're not highly coveted.

As an example, one of Fei-Fei Lee's recent grad students got multiple job offers upon graduating, one for more than a million dollars a year: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/technology/the-race-is-on-...
Tulip-bulb, gold rush, hockeystick optimism when reality moves more like bounded diff equ's with a carrying capacity or an impulsive arc overshooting sustainability, not Malthusian exponentials forever on magic rainbows.
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Inputs are not good or bad, they are better or worse.

In the 1300s, feedback to the advertiser took years.

In the 1900s, months.

In the 1960s, you could now measure the effect of blanketing a MMR with ads, and see how sales there compared to nationally.

This century, you have still-imperfect, yet much better than before, attribution.

Good analysis in the 1930s was different than now. Good marketing was the same, but with cruder tools.
Believe it or not, Eskimos on the ice eat seals.
> how could you possibly need more evidence than proof of visits to a website that distributes child pornography?

That question is misleading. What people is worried about is "How much power has the FBI to spy on ordinary citizens?". Even the worst authoritarian governments put assassins in prisons, but that doesn't justify their systems.

What we need is a balanced dialog about privacy. Yes, there are good uses to spying. Yes, spying is open to abuse from institutions and individuals for personal gain. Lets work inside the constitutional framework and create laws that empower good uses and limit bad uses instead. That's why we have separation of powers.
By convention, SI units named after people have capital letters for their symbol.

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html
Truth though is fly ash isn't really that much more radioactive than any common sample of soil (1 to 10X). And uranium and thorium aren't particularly problematic. Neither is particularly radioactive and bio-accumulation is nil. And there is no escaping them in any event.

As your link shows coal isn't growing very fast as a source of energy. Key thing about coal fired plants is the pay off time is long. Right now taking a 30 risk on a coal fired plant vs a 5 year risk on a natural gas plant, the choice is pretty obvious.

Coal going away soon, really depends on how freaked out governments and the people that control them get. My thought, they get freaked out none of our opinions will matter.
Should've used CloudFlare.
Matlab uses Gnuplot.
And is it tested in court?

In most European countries those type of clauses are anyway invalid, even if written in the contract, as the company doesn't have a say on how you are supposed to live your private life.

Doing freelancing is another matter.
Insurance only works when you can get good coverage (lots of premiums being paid). Akamai and CloudFlare are DDoS insurance, and BK just got dropped.

You don't see insurance companies rushing in after a disaster, this is no different.
+1 for IPFS

Hosting static blogs is really easy on IPFS (and if you absolutely can't live without comments: use disqus) but the URL's are cryptic and you either need a public IPFS gateway to access the site - which could get DDoS'ed - or run your own.

Another alternative is ZeroNet but you still need to run the client to access the site.
> Free your mind. Drop all that getXXX setXXX Java-esque noise[...]

You confuse my statement. I was not referring to things that should be meant as synchronous properties. These are methods that do more like make an AJAX call to a server. Those that return promises or take in callbacks would be awkward or impossible to force into a property or proxy.

I was merely referring to the act of making code as obvious as possible for its intended outcome.
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> If they counted those sub 3 sec views in the count but not in the duration

It sounds like this was exactly what was happening.

From the article: "Video views of under three seconds were not factored in, thereby inflating the average. Video views of under three seconds were not factored in, thereby inflating the average. Facebook’s new metric, “Average Watch Time”, will reflect video views of any duration."
Me too. When you start handling huge amounts of data, Gnuplot starts to warm up where other tools break. It is fast as hell.
> That is also assuming that cancer treatments won't get better with time, right?

At one point I tried to research what number we had about the real impact of Chernobyl (living a bit close to Fukushima, I was interested personally). A "funny" thing about it is that in several places, this was a time when early cancer detection was improving a lot, and thyroid cancer (the most common one caused by radiations) prognosis benefits a lot from early detection (curable with 99% of chance if caught early on).

In the region I was interested in (France and Italy), the improvement in cancer treatment was really great and much higher than the negative impact from the radioactive cloud. It would be hard to tell the difference between a small delay in updating medical practices locally compared to national level and an increased risk due to radiation.

Some people even hypothesize that radiation scare may have make more people do early cancer detection test and that it could have actually lowered the number of cancer death. Which would be pretty ironic.
Australia was also settled during a glacial maximum so the coastline extended out much further than now.

The distance the first migrants to Australia might have needed to travel across open water might have been as low as 90km.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_of_Australia#Arriva...
1/33.7 of an exceptionally privileged imperial gallon of petrol, according to US regulators.
You don't know what Yellow Journalism is. Actually, the FDA is PROMOTING yellow journalism because they refuse to allow reporters to interview independent sources prior to the embargo being lifted. So they are willingly supporting a policy that makes journalist less likely to seek corroborating or conflicting sources thus leading to inaccurate and even sensationalized reporting.

Your hatred of Fox News is noted, however the government has no right to discriminate against media outlets. Considering that Fox has the largest viewership of any US news channel, you'd think that the FDA would have a mandate to ensure that their policies were reported to the largest audience.

Seriously, Politico was on the preferential list and not Fox? That's just pettiness on the part of the FDA and it's obvious that they have an agenda. My point isn't that Fox isn't given advance access -- my point is that there ought not be exclusionary access lists in the first place.
Github isn't the only source of code available on the web.

MIT is loved by business, that can take the code from others, packaged it with a new shinny face, sell it and don't return anything back.

But one discovers who they are when their customers have problems.
The whole article refers to Yahoo in the third person, and "it" is also referring to Yahoo.

Occam's Razor applies here: the simplest explanation is that they are telling the truth, insofar as they have been able to establish it.
A single 12V 100Ah VRLA Deep-Cycle battery might be a better idea that's more familiar to a much larger chunk of the population, and you have the added bonus of having enough capacity to make up for the typical conversion/transmission losses in most scenarios, thus delivering a true kilowatt-hour!
Ah, classic courtroom fraud defense. "Feel fortunate you even caught me; that would've been impossible a century ago!"

Having wiggle room on numbers isn't a bad thing. Lying about the amount of wiggle room on said numbers is.
Why would you start a new company when you can join and enhance an existing one?
Oh, so these Trump supporters are creating deranged art, therefore they are equally deranged themselves?

What is your proposal on how to deal with them? Burn their books and art publicly?
I currently spend $X,000 per day in advertising on facebook. Their reported clicks barely match up within an order of magnitude.

I've spent 4 days investigating this, so it's worthwhile to share the data.

For every 100 clicks I purchase, at a strong CPC ($0.10 - $2.00 CPC), I have found:
- GA tells me i got between 40-60 sessions
- piwik tells me ~70
- server logs show that page was requested ~400x (not indexed, a FB-only lander). I have IP and UA recorded, and both are rotated. My guess is that FB preloads the HTML LP when the impressions shows from mobile, so the browser is primed to quickly load assets (w/o sig resources to d/l images/etc -- just request the page that initially loads all that)

My point is attribution for conversions and link clicks is hard.

Any marketer worth their salt avoids the thought of "I paid for 10 clicks but GA only shows 6".

A better marketer thinks, "I paid $660 to acquire 2 customers. Is that acceptable?"
> First, they showed that the police here, got from some US organizations, access to some kind of realtime NSA style spying tools, they showed on tv that their software show realtime torrent data transfer worldwide, with pips popping up on a map in the entire planet!

Were they monitoring a single torrent file? Multiple? An entire tracker? Most BT traffic in the world?

Trackers will happily disclose the list of peers who are downloading, so it's not hard to monitor a list of torrents. That's how BT works. A lot of anti-piracy companies do it. Unless they were monitoring a massive amount of torrent traffic, I don't see why an intelligence agency has to be involved.
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How many IoT devices are out on the public internet at the moment?

and for the existing IOT devices, are they the same thing, or were different exploits used for different devices?
Has any such lawsuit actually occurred?
When I started working in IT, those monkeys were everyone that couldn't write Assembly....
Or R and knitr. Oh, wait...
America Is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It’s No. 28
Mind blown.
I don't even know how to reply to you.

You think the only way for people to increase their quality of life is to pollute?

And you think people want a better environment as a backlash? That's such upsidedown thinking. People always want a better environment, but if they are searching for their next meal they have better things to worry about.

But once they are secure then they worry about their local environment, and when they are very secure they worry about remote environments as well.

So the best way to improve the environment is to significantly increase the quality of life of everyone. And one way (not the only way) is trade, and yes, lots of consumption.

You have to remember: It's impossible for us to run out of resources because those atoms aren't going anywhere. All we need is energy and anything is possible.

You want an amazing environment? Then find a way to MASSIVELY boost energy output. With all that energy we can do anything, including fix the issues caused by using all that energy.

But for some reason environmentalists want people to go the other way, and reduce energy usage. This will just cause an environmental catastrophe because now people will have a lower quality of life and would not care in the slightest about the environment.
Same here. I was a somewhat heavy user of gnuplot and Grace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ , anybody remember that one, heh?), but what caused me to abandon them was that I needed much more than a plotting program. I made myself a python-based workflow/analysis environment, where I slurped in the results of simulations, did various munging on the data, some (somewhat custom) regression fits, generation of input data to other simulations etc. And yes, on-screen and later on publication quality plots too. matplotlib was a godsend here, really. Sure, I could have coded up some gnuplot/grace interface (say, generate input files and shelling out to the program), but, ugh, why?
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The possibility of making later (small) adjustments in the tex-file is one huge advantage.
I agree with you. My observation is that most graduates out of college are able to formulate strategies to high level problems, rapidly create working solutions and generally be productive.

What sets us apart from the senior developers as pointed out by the CTO of my company seems to be experience in writing good, scalable code. More often than not this means adhering to best practices, linting and testing extensively and many other things that in general come with experience.
I agree. But who are you talking to?
I didn't see that argument made.
Weak groups need to step on the heads of even weaker groups to gain influence. If anti-FBI-overreach activists appear to be aligned with pedophiles, that'll weaken the cause of the activists. Instead they should appear align themselves with some group that's more respected than themselves, like believers in the constitution. That's perhaps the reason pro-transsexual activists don't widely support Chelsea Manning or why bullied schoolkids aren't helped by the majority of the students who are all struggling to maintain their own image.

Not that it's a very nice thing to do, it's just self-interest.
all this static stuff should probably be pre-compressed anyway:

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16883241/how-to-host-stat...

- https://gist.github.com/bhollis/2200790
So if Akamai can't hold an attack of this size, who can?

Or is it that they actually can hold it off but it costs too much money?
It's too easy to just blame C, it's their slap-dash, design-by-committee kitchen-sink features, lack of process, absense of rigor and generally amateurish "engineering," if it can be called that, of a now critical security framework. Why isn't every release first run through valgrind tools and some commercial C bug-finding tools used by embedded / safety-critical systems and why aren't there proofs of it's correctness? They have and/or could get the money/resources.
> tl;dr Akamai was hosting his site pro bono

Let us not permit companies to co-opt language for their benefit.

If it was genuinely pro bono ( lit: for the public good ) then they would have taken all steps possible to keep the site online since the public good was served more by having Mr Krebs online than not.

However, in this case they were hosting him free-of-charge because it was good publicity for them. That's a very different scenario.
With the recursive nature of DNS, I imagine that could get a little hairy as the DDoS'ers would then be targeting whichever DNS servers they were using.
Great reads, thanks for sharing!
An almost horrible, related story:

When I was in middle school and the internet was still fairly new (we had just gotten it) a classmate of mine hatched a terrible plan to get rid of a teacher he hated. He waited until the teacher was out sick one day then during the substitute's typical teaching pattern of having us "read these 3 chapters, answer questions then keep your head down until class is over" he jumped on the teacher's computer. After reassuring the substitute that he was allowed to he tried desperately to find child porn. His plan was to save it into semi hidden folders onto the computer then later on turn the teacher in for having child porn.

Fortunately this classmate wasn't able to find any and eventually gave up. But I've always remembered his plan. It's terrifyingly believable that if someone managed to get into your computer and download child porn, there is likely little recourse or way to prove you did not do it.
Lack of touchscreen was a + point when deciding to buy my current car.

IMO, if the touchscreen serves as more than one button/action while driving, it's a broken design.

Even the BMW "wheel button" is a better one.
I really like this comment. I think you're saying that moving data is easy, while computing the data hasn't kept up?

Then again, I could be reading into this too much, and the computing part has always been a bottleneck at backbone level.
Take a look at FastNetmon: https://fastnetmon.com/
> This is not like dynamic linking hell you can get yourself into when writing C.

No, but they will eventually need to handle plugin versions.
> If you locally grow food that is adapted to your climate, surely that's the best solution?

So what you are saying is no one should eat bread in the UK? (The UK is not great at growing wheat.) I don't need to give a lot of examples, you get my point I hope.

> I have difficulty believing that eating imported pineapples in the UK pollutes less than eating local apples

Do apples grow well in the UK? Do you need lots of chemicals to grow them? (Pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer, etc, etc.) Do you need to spend a lot of time (i.e. energy) managing the trees, or do they just grow themself?

Importing a pineapple costs basically nothing (both in terms of energy and money). If growing a pineapple in HI uses less stuff than growing an apple in the UK, then yah, eating imported pineapples pollutes less. (I don't know if that's the case or not.)

It's easy enough to tell: Just compare the cost of the fruit (per weight).
When I entered Financial Services in London I was recommended this book as the bible:

"How to Read the Financial Pages"

This book really breaks down the finance industry from a component and historical point of view. Stocks, dividends, bonds, TBills, Eurobonds
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Just in time for the self driving car to arrive and negate Uber's entire reliance on human labor to drive the vehicles.
That was the first reason I tried to AMP. But the more I'm digging into it, the more I realize how responsive webdesign isn't the right solution ( a strange mix of Tetris and Cluedo ). AMP is a seductive solution to post mobile webdesign. In many ways it's the natural, non-bloated, evolution of Bootstrap's standardized layout.
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Look at this: https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot

It is magical
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What's your take on it?
Amongst my grandparents and their friends, AOL = Internet.
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1. The most catastrophic power plant disaster in France was the barrage de Malpasset, a hydroelectric dam, killing 423. Hydro power is, globally, the most directly lethal energy. Indirectly, I think oil and coal fight for the claim: coal mines claimed a lot of lives and oil caused a lot of geopolitical conflicts. Nuclear is better in terms both of direct and indirect deaths.

2. Nuclear byproducts are not wastes, they are fuels we are not using yet. Superphénix was a power plant that used plutonium as a fuel. It was part of the "plutonium economy" plan envisioned by France when it dared to dream big. If we had followed it through, it would have resulted in France being paid to receive nuclear fuel that other countries count as waste.

It failed because ecologists attacked superphénix with RPG (yes, really) and made it a negotiation token to join Jospin's government. They also routinely attack nuclear recycling plants as they do not want a clean nuclear infrastructure, they want this infrastructure to not exist.

3. "nuclear waste" is a very broad category. Most of the media reports about it being used or stored in various ways is usually hyped up for fearmongering. Check the radiation levels of "waste" mentioned in the news. Sometimes (dare I say, very often?) it is on the scale of background radiation level.

4. I bet that in a few decades we will mine up back our geological waste storage to use the wastes as fuel.
In Florida, your electric bill can be several hundred dollars a month in the summer.
Understood they do inert testing with their existing fleet. I'm talking about real, rubber hits the road, vehicles actively running the firmware. I have to believe that prior to rolling out firmware on the fleet, Tesla rolls it out to be actively run on some set of beta testing vehicles - perhaps actively run by Tesla Employees driving a variety of real-world road conditions.
My first read of your request made me think you were looking for books mainly for personal intellectual growth. There are a lot of answers in that vein, as well as a few that seem suitable replacements for an undergrad econ degree. A second read made me wonder if you're actually asking for practical advice about what you should read in order to get a job in finance, given you won't take many econ or finance courses. I'll answer in the second vein, as it seems to be somewhat underrepresented.

Investment Banking/Private Equity/Investment Analysis

McKinsey & Co, Koller, Goedhart, Wessels: Valuation

Damadoran on Valuation

Trading or Quant

Hull: Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives

Joshi: Introduction to Mathematical Finance

Harris: Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

There should probably also be a category for what I think of as quantitative fundamental investing. For an idea of what I mean, look at what the investment firm AQR does. I'm not sure of good books in this area though.