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This is most interesting...

  The garbage traffic came from about a hundred thousand
  infected servers, most noticeably, in LeaseWeb B.V.,
  Hetzner Online AG, PlusServer AG, NFOrce Entertainment
  BV, Amazon and Comcast networks. That said, the attack
  was distributed evenly across thousands of hosts and none
  contributed more than 5% of the total volume.

I used to host a lot with Hetzner, and while quite expensive, they mostly responded to these kinds of things very quickly and with a certain level of technical competence (which definitely cannot be said of every hoster). Also, I'm quite surprised to not see OVH in there, as their network has a kind of "reputation" for these things...

  Fighting back would‘ve been a little easier, if the abuse
  departments in most of the mentioned companies didn’t
  process requests 9-5, Mon-Fri only. (Hours more befitting
  a scuba-diving shop in Vatican.)

Business as usual I would say...although I don't scuba-dive...

Edit: formatting

Favourite features:

* plain text edited in vim ;-)

* links (to other wiki pages and content), move cursor over link and <Enter> will open wiki page, link in browser, image in image viewer, pdf in ... all from your console

* manages todo lists (including status indicator auto update for sublists: [.]->[o]->[O]->[X])

* headers (mostly useful when exporting to html)

* table creation and management

Overall a very lightweight and tightly integrated vim plugin, but gitit looks quite interesting, might give it a try.

After playing with various (note-taking) applications/apps I found all of them severely lacking (for several reasons). I was always for the lookout of the one-size-fits-all application, which I obviously never found.

Realizing that there is no such system/app I split things out:

* Important Stuff as well as trivia -> CalDav... believe it or not, but CalDav beats most other systems/apps out there, it's accessible on almost any device and you usually have a wide variety of applications to edit your "calendar events", use different calendars for important vs trivia

* Stuff you read on the internet -> obviously (synced) bookmarks (firefox, chrome, opera and others have builtin sync)

* Ideas, plans, drawings -> A5 pen and paper notebook (most people will advocate moleskine, I prefer Leuchtturm notebooks (to each his/her own)

* Research, papers, references -> good old text files, index + txt + pdf + bib (vim + vimwiki + git + some zsh alias like wiki="cd ~/wiki/; git pull; vi index.wiki; git commit -a; git push; cd -")

So far, this works quite well, although I have to admit that while separation is king, it also hinders creativity at times, so I'm slowly starting to integrate other things into the wiki (write firefox bookmark and caldav importer/parser, thinking about scanning/digitizing notebooks...) to be able to cross-reference things. The long term goal is to create a visualization that allows me to visualize (duuuh) all this data in different ways (especially useful for research and connecting the dots).

Hope this helps and I would really be interested how others manage this, especially regarding research, papers etc (Mendeley and others just aren't flexible enough for me...).

Isn't the generated/collected water like condensed water free of any kind of salts etc. that would naturally occur in ground/drinking water, so shouldn't it be unsafe to drink large amounts of it (much like it is unsafe to drink large amounts of salt/sea water due to the saline imbalance)?

I wonder how/if they address this?

  I'm waiting for the first system that is equivalent of C++.

Not gonna happen anytime soon. C++ is much more than just a programming language, it is an entire "ecosystem". You have toolchains, libraries, drivers, APIs, existing software stacks, all written in C++ and able to interface with C/C++ directly, i.e. no translation layer needed. You're not just gonna replace that with a new language.

Sure, Halide may be seen as just some syntactic sugar (much like quite a few bits and pieces of C++11), but it actually provides you with a different level of abstraction than say OpenCl, MPI or OpenMP where you are very specific about e.g. level of concurrency (which heavily impacts the design of your algorithm) while Halide tries to almost completely separate algorithm and scheduling.

As a computer vision researcher, this looks very interesting, although somehow I have yet to understand how they want to generalize highly complicated optimization patterns (access order, locality, pipelines, platform limitations ...), especially since some algorithms (other than the shown blur filter) require quite complicated access patterns on the image data and can only be hand optimized most of the time (that doesn't imply that they would not benefit from general optimization at all, just that they might be way faster when hand optimized). Still, if Halide produces faster code for some cases (e.g. filter operations amongst others), it will still be worth its salt.

The only non-FreeBSD systems I have to deal with by now are my Cellphone (Android) and my TV (funny enough, also Android). Made the switch from YOUR_FAVOURITE_LINUX_FLAVOUR after having to deal with (st)Ubuntu way too much at work.

Nonetheless, as much I prefer running FreeBSD on any kind of server system (as I have been for years), after using it on my (fairly new) laptop for a couple months now, I really wish there was better (new and shiny) hardware support (a commonly acknowledged FreeBSD deficiency, so yeah, I knew what I was getting myself into). Given, I only bought it because my old laptop was stolen at work, it belonging to the Haswell family did not really help (no internal WiFi [Intel IWN 7260], no hardware accelerated graphics [HD4400] and so forth...). But hey, who am I to complain, time to get hacking, which I suppose is more in the spirit of the BSD culture anyway and I'm not going back to NIX.

So yeah, glad this book got updated, most likely picking up this new edition...

So, is anybody here actually active on academia.edu? Asking, since as a computer vision researcher (3D reconstruction, obstacle recognition/identification, augmented reality, ...) I am constantly looking for scientific resources, and to be frank, it is quite annoying because it can become really time consuming.

So a genuine question, is the site worth signing up for? I remember when mendeley just started, there was lots of excitement about it, mainly because it was sort of marketed as the last.fm of research (giving you good recommendations for your scientific interests), but then it turned out to be just meeh (getting bought by Elsevier didn't help much ;-).

Also, on a side note, are there any other good sites doing something similar out there (like a reddit/HN for insert your research interests here type of site) that are actually any good? I'm sure there must be a lot of other researchers active on HN...

I do not know where this op-ed piece was intended for, but I think you should have written it anyway, stating just this feeling of yours. There was/is/will be so much media frenzy about this, every article (even if you think you really had nothing useful to say, which you actually do), op-ed or not, that does not resolve to sensationalists headlines is just really helpful.