skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, but when they are charging 2300% APR, they could afford to give you a call or email you after the first overdraft. They are acting predatory and we shouldn't make excuses for them. All financial relationships in a capitalist system should be mutually beneficial.
I'd be there for the music and maybe to see the art if I lived in the area.

Suggest providing good beer, wine, mixed drinks, and food trucks or similar food merchants along with some affordable art and t-shirts, since it is an art festival of sorts.

The logo, similarity of the name, and Cinderella's castle spell trouble with Disney folks. It'd be one thing if it were local, but since it got press, that's just asking for it.

Economist article: http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/08/anti-establi...

CNN style article with video of the inside: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/20/arts/banksy-dismaland-art-...

Many more photos tweeted with #Dismaland here: https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dismaland?src=hash

The castle there looks amazing, and so does some of the other art.

Good luck!
And, likely, vice-versa. I was struggling with modulo artihmetic in 7th grade, and came home and explained so to my mom. She said 'It's like a clock', and I got it immediately.
Does anyone else find the Github status "messages" page [0] a bit jarring in how it's organised? The way that, when read from top to bottom, time goes forwards within a day but backwards across days?

I guess I normally wouldn't notice, but there are currently some messages on there from today and yesterday and I found it hard to read as a story (either forwards or backwards) - I had to jump around a bit to figure it out.

[0] https://status.github.com/messages
Well, there is a lot of crosstalk here, so there might be bit of confusion.
Earlier you were contrasting between religious fundamentalists and 'reasonable' actors :

>"Fundamentalist" as in "religious fundamentalist."
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism
Compare their goals to then successful work of Ataturk in 20th century in Turkey:

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk's_Reforms

Then you cited IS as an example of religious fundamentalists and linked to an article. My point was that the article you linked to makes the point (at least that was what i inferred) that IS is more 'reasonable'/rational than religious in their calculations and actions (including their cruelty and brutality).
Eh, 16px = 12pt, simple 4:3 ratio, why bother with the pt unit at all?
Separating users by subdomain leaks information. An observer can trivially see your DNS queries but not which repository you access over https or ssh.

There is also little benefit in it. If the subdomains only point to the same servers then the same level of traffic will still take them all down, but if different subdomains point to different servers then it makes attacks easier because the attacker only needs enough resources to overwhelm 5% of the servers instead of all of them.
It's a restriction of the Mac App Store, not the actual Mac computer itself. Mac is just Unix with a pretty UI and lots of features.
That is very cool.

Does anyone know why corneal disease is more prevalent in developing countries? Is it lack of doctors? Medicine?
>Now, all that matters is which library makes it easiest to get custom code onto the GPU. Python and Lua seem to be winning there, by far.

This is interesting. How is it possible that python and lua have more efficient wrappers around GPU libraries? Also there are many GPU libraries for C/C++ too. Armadillo can use NVBLAS as a backend too. I'm not sure if I get your point of C/C++ being slow.
I think the issue is the sheer scale of the CCTV network.

When combined with facial recognition and the unsavoury characters at GCHC/Langley/Fort Meade, it means you can be tracked all over the country, and the complete history of everywhere you ever go can be archived.

Nasty.
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CLI is better for when you know where you want to go, but it sucks for exploration. It takes much more effort to learn how a file tree is laid out using the CLI than it does using a GUI.

It's much simpler to move your mouse and click once than to use cd + ls. (Never-mind the fact that half the time I go to use ll and oops, this is a super-user so none of my aliases work.)

OTOH, if you're always moving files from /stage to /live or /db to /backup, CLI is more efficient, particularly once you write a script to capture what you need to do.

GUI also comes out on top for anything where the CLI ends up just being a mock-GUI. For example, on OS X, there's no reason to use top instead of Activity Monitor, since they do the same thing, and AM lets you click the column headers to re-order things. Also, I know people love vim/emacs, but those are both better as GUIs than as pure-terminal programs.
When you see how much USA and commonwealth have Me 163 komet, Me262, volksjager there is no wonder how USA got its spatial program. It must have been true that for some years there should have been NYIFO being tested in the skys near USAF bases: Not Yet Identified Flying Objects.

Look where the remaining planes are located:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_163_Komet

You can add, it was nice of them exfiltrating the poor scientists that could have been unfairly implicated in war crimes.

It is obvious all industrial powers that could try to get the nazi's technology did: Russia, UK included...

Whatever the way you call it: a nazi rocket indeed helped made a man/dog/monkey the first man/dog/monkey in space.
People can already watch your every move in public. Cameras don't change that, they just make it more efficient.

If the only reason we're comfortable with the police having a particular power is that they don't have the resources to use it in a way we don't like, then maybe we should reconsider letting them have that power?
I went yesterday.. here's my Tweet review:

https://twitter.com/jgumbley/status/635895637503025152

Recommend, especially for the Gallery.

My favourite part was most people there were "normal" people and absolutely loved it. I've been to i.e. Damian Hurst / White Cube / Rothko etc. etc. London poseurs everywhere.

Art that connects.
It's perfectly reasonable: in 1984 they didn't have cell phones or internet histories.

No chances for Big Brother to snoop on what kind of information you're seeking or what kinds of comments you'll make when you think you are anonymous. No physical tracking device on people at all times. No network construction of who each individual talks to and when; no harvesting of metadata.

1984 had a bunch of CCTVs without enough people to monitor all of them, no recording capacity, and an extreme political indoctrination regime to help make up the difference by having informants. Ingsoc is a child's view of dystopia, now-- we have far surpassed it.
Am I the only one who prefers voice quality on a landline?

For conversations longer than 1 minute it's just much easier on the ears, in my opinion.
webhosting dismal too, takes about 2 minutes to load. Hopefully deliberate!
It's a DDOS attack against them: https://status.github.com/messages
"Banksy's now ubiquitous anti-consumerist and anti-authoritarian tropes are fully exhausted in this most recent packaging and Dismaland is, quite literally, art about nothing. Consumerism is bad, Disney is evil, advertising is dishonest — we got it."

http://www.businessinsider.com/banksys-dismaland-is-bad-and-...

He's getting mocked pretty bad on Tumblr too, which is notable considering how popular pictures of his work have been on there in the past.
George Carlin – I gave up on my species
Ah but that's different. "Company nouns" are not used as collective, they refer to a singular entity - the registered company, not it as a body of people.
Hormone levels don't explain a 15 year old's performance against other 15 year old's (Cummings is the nr 1 ranked 15 year old in the world in his division), nor does it explain a better performance than 18 year olds who have higher testosterone levels.

Anyway I think the original point wasn't so much the people who obsess over diet that he's perhaps referring to. Rather the fact I can name you a dozen top athletes from the top of my head who pretty much lived on McDonalds, drank 2 litres of soda a day or ate multiple candy packs a day. Changing something ridiculous like that to merely a sensible, normal diet, can actually help, and it's different from obsessing about replacing legumes in your diet with quinoa which probably isn't going to give you any gains whatsoever.
If I recall correctly the show is only on until the end of September so I doubt Disney will have time to do much about it before it shuts down.
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Pretty certain it would fall under parody/satire so would be protected use, plus given that Banksy is well known around the world I don't see this staying under the radar at all given that the BBC has already covered it.

Plus all the commercialisation you suggest would pretty much be the antithesis of what the event sets out to poke fun at.
> Suggest providing good beer, wine, mixed drinks, and food trucks or similar food merchants

I think you are missing the point.
You just mixed and piled up all bad qualities and past-current atrocities to create an imaginary monster. Then you assign that monster to someone or some particular people you personally hate -whatever the reason- in Turkey. This is not being reasonable.
It's about correlation, potential risk, and the relationship of the citizen and the state.

Bottom line, we citizens should be able to tell the state, in theory our servant and not our master, to do or not do whatever we want. That does not seem to be the case with surveillance, to the extant that we don't even really know what they're doing, modulo Snowden and the like.

The convenience store can't correlate its data with the university's camera data, decide you're a person of interest and ramp up surveillance of your phone and internet use. And they can't arrest you for questioning or jail you, particularly if you point out to people that the correlation between the two cameras and the telecom companies has merely been done.

It's different.
Depends on scale, 3x or 100x both fail the 4.5 to 45 test.

PS: The reality is it's mostly propaganda right now, if things where as bad as generally portrayed you would see a lot of immigration. (ex: syrian refugees)
I imagine the while thing is tongue in cheek.
You're right in your point that M. Kemal was a victim, but he was not a victim of perfectionism and elitism. He was a victim of some blind nationalism, his admiring of the Occident and his dismissal of the parity of different cultures. He and other people thought that the Europe was better than the other, whereas in fact it was merely different. The revolutions were top down, fascistic, and forced. As you will see, if you read in an objective manner, some history, nearly none the revolutions have changed the things for the better for all. There are still many turks that sustain that Kurdish the language was invented in the 70's, that all the languages descended from turkish, that American indigenous people, Italians, Sumerians and other ancient people of the asia minore were of Turkish descent, that Armenians are the ones that made a genocide at the beginning of the 20th century, etc. People identify themselves basing on lies here. What gives a totalitarian person room to do what he wants? A bunch of hero-gazers that have nothing to base any thought on. See that I do not call people stupid or smart, many ignorant are smart. It's good when one knows that he knows or that he does not know, but the evil is the ignorance of the ignorance, which is our ill as a community of the Near east.
"people who are not fully aware they are giving [permission]" haven't given you their permission.
Isn't it more like barricading bus drivers inside their homes because someone you don't like takes the bus to work?
Let's not forget that it is not in many governments' interest to have distributed tools (with strong encryption). It is much easier to take down stuff on centralized services.

BTW, it is hear, hear ;).
It would probably break some websites.

Run this on some websites and you'll see some things moving around:

document.head.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', '<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cmcenroe.me/writ/writ.min.css">')
> permission (possibly given by people who are not fully aware they are giving it).

That's not really permission - proper permission requires informed consent. We're back to the data protection principles here.

There's also a big difference between a CCTV system which stores to a set of local VHS tapes which are generally overwritten after a short while, and a CCTV system which is online and capable of face recognition and tracking.

The extent to which the CCTV system can be used against 'innocent' people is unclear and there aren't any clear abuses to point to. The Metropolitan Police "FIT" camera teams that go around filming protestors are another matter.
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People on tumblr probably don't realise when they are using a Banksy picture, much like they assumed daft punk ripped of Kanye West with harder better faster stronger or that Kanye was helping out an undiscovered musician when he partnered up with Paul McCartney.
.. until they become a target of a DDoS.

Also, if GitHub is down you can still fetch your dependencies from somewhere else.
I use the last approach, libraries that make up my elements.

But I always feel bad with all the CSS classes in my markup.

Back in the days I often had only <10 CSS classes and created my styles relative to that. I had the hope that those 10 classes would vanish with HTML5 and its special div-tags.

But now I'm running around throwing bootstrap classes around like there is no tomorrow.
Allow people to BYOB then? You should have alcohol available at an event like this, if you can. And, if you have alcohol, there must be food.
The Nazi rockets blew up too many times. They would have killed at least 10 men trying to leave the atmosphere, and then killed one leaving the atmosphere.
There's a big difference between "for everything you do in public, at least one person witnesses it, but any one person only sees you for a short while" and "for everything you do in public, a specific person is aggregating that information".
The OED and common usage both agree that Briton is a standard term for a British person, and incidentally also an archaic term for Celtic people who inhabited ancient Britain...
It's not about wrapping. The real power is in the cross-compilation of expressions and entire complex data pipelines, from a simple-as-possible high-level language into GPU language. That's the power at the core of, e.g. Theano.
In '1984' every room of every house and apartment was monitored, if this is currently not the case in the UK, the quote is hyperbole.
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VMware’s Success = Distributed Computing’s Failure
I could not have written this better myself, but you did forget about the tidal wave of Heroin that was going to cause the US to fall apart in about 1970 - we paniced about PCP in the late 70s, "angel dust" was the name. Also, where are all the babies with lobster-claw hand birth defects that LSD was going to give us in the 70s, too?
If it's that critical then someone needs to fix the SPOF.
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loved the paywall
I just noticed as well, i got really confused for a few minutes. Bit of a weird design.
Well, we could make a website for that. We could call it Facebook or something.
Well of course BI are mocking it - their audience is the target of his ire.
I had this same problem. Turns out that the referrer header must come from google for it to work. So:

1. Enable sendRefererHeader in about:config (if you've disabled it in Firefox)

2. Turn off referrer spoofing if you're using uMatrix (or add this rule: referrer-spoof: wsj.com false)
11 year old shows how to use discarded laptop battery to create solar light
this should be our computer desk: https://kokyun.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/5531_130311939574...

this is reality (if you are working with laptop or notebook or macbook): http://www.parkavenuespine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/iS...
What is the future of Mobile Apps? Well, extinction
"NTPsec - improving Internet time service Published Aug 20, 2015

http://www.ntpsec.org/

Today it can be revealed that I am one of the principal developers of NTPsec, which has been quietly ramping up over the last eight months and aims to field an improved and (especially!) more secure Internet time service.

Welcome to the NTP Security Project. Our goal is to create a safe, reliable NTP server that is community based and decentralised with multiple contributors and maintainers."

-- looks like Eric has this particular work in mind.
Personally I think a much better question is why change the box-sizing? I’d call it out of scope for something like this. Very seldom have I encountered a situation where I actually want border-box rather than content-box; there are normally better ways of doing things. (Truth to tell, I’ve wanted padding-box more often than border-box in recent times, but only Firefox supports it.) Ideally calc() can be used too; it’s more powerful and expressive and well supported nowadays. The last piece of the puzzle to make it all fit together well on more complex arrangements is CSS variables, but they’re only available in Firefox at present.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables,calc
This is a great introduction, by antirez of redis-fame.

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html
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Strictly for the little ones – an area that combines soft play and loan shop.

This is fantastic. I wish I were in the UK for its 5 week run.
The other horrible part (besides exhaustion) is that I see so many people with horrible form on the first rep when they're totally fresh, nowhere close to exhaustion, and the trainer just screams '1, 2, 3!' etc, as opposed to 'dude holdup, here's what you're doing wrong'.

And this isn't just at local small shitty gyms which couldn't find decent trainers and are run by a novice trainer...

I mean if you want to laugh and cry and watch a slightly offensive video, check this out: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22p3g0_deadlifts-from-the-...

If you have no time, just check the single lift that starts at 2:30, and consider that the judges passed it, and that they passed it according to the rules of the crossfit event. I mean that's criminal negligence if you ask me!
I'm interested in some examples of what this technique would be capable of.
> And if you look at the map, ISIS isn't that far from Turkey.

It's here already.

About your argument on not considering fundamentalists ignorant, they are. First, ignorant does not mean idiot, or stupid. Ignorance is absence of objective knowledge. It's hard to believe that either a fundamentalist would wish to look at things objectively or one that does so would become anyhow a fundamentalist. There may be knowledgeable and smart people exploiting fundamentalists, to them I'm indifferent. All I care is the things that go, monuments, people, peace, the stuff the people are made of. Those are the things that bring tears to my eyes.
I wanted to go the other way--use a typewritter as a printer.(computer--to modified IBM electric typewriter). Some company manufactured a lid you put over the keys of an IBM typewritter. The lid/cover had little solenoids that push the keys. It looks like the product never took off?
I do like the look of typewritten papers. I remember my first dot matrix printer. I thought it looks like a typewritten paper, and the ribbons last forever. I went through college and changed it once? I liked printers up until they chipped the cartridges. I guess I don't value new technology when I have to pay more for it?
Every PC, cellphone, console, smart TV, and soon every appliance and lightbulb will be under surveillance (everything that connects to them is captured by the spy agencies, encrypted or not). Close enough, I would say.
I don't know. Frederick County feels to me a lot like Adams County, Pennsylvania; Garrett County likewise looks a lot like western Pennsylvania in places. Montgomery County is sort of generic suburbia. The Eastern Shore I imagine to be more southern than the rest.
That's because the person who wrote 1984 did not foresee a little snitch in every pocket.
VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and WiFi calling both sound spectacular, but they're still in the process of being rolled out and require both parties to opt-in ahead of time.

Beyond voice quality, a POTS landline (at least in the US) will keep running even when the local power grid is down. Unfortunately, phone lines and power lines share utility poles, so if there's physical damage your phone service will also be interrupted.
Silly question: does a mechanical typewriter have an escape key? :)
Am I the only one who can't read an article when the text is aligned on the left size of a window like that?
i'm sorry but... GitHub IS not GitHub are

Examples: GitHub IS a web site. GitHub is a SAAS app.

The only plural aspect to GitHub is its employees and they are not being DDoSed. The web site (singular) is.

I'm not going to bother explaining the problems with "under DDoS" or the other issues with this sentence.
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Thanks for an excellent comment -- IMO more useful than the original article. I skimmed a short Trefethen course at the behest of a physicist friend once, and was really impressed by it. I want to study that stuff in more depth someday.
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Two fundamental business strategies are bundling or unbundling. Looks like bundling, not shifting from seed funding.
> So much for good intentions. The more the math-anxious parents tried to work with their children, the worse their children did in math, slipping more than a third of a grade level behind their peers.

OK, assume they found a negative correlation between grades and the amount of help of the parents. I'm not buying this explanation. Sure, if your kid has worse grades then you help him/her more on the critical subject.
Ticket sales are now available again: http://dismaland.seetickets.com/tour/dismaland
It's a British thing. Don't try to understand it- just let it be. :)
Inre the first blog post link, the barycentric interpolation formula is a pretty awesome way to efficiently evaluate polynomial interpolants, https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/publication/PDF/2004...

The standard Lagrange interpolation formula implemented in that blog post works too, but is O(n^2) vs. O(n) for each evaluation, and not numerically stable.

Also see http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~higham/narep/narep440.pdf https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/publication/PDF/2011...

Inre the second blog post link, it’s generally a bad idea to evaluate polynomials on an interval in terms of the monomial basis.

But anyhow, on the subject of the Remez algorithm, see http://www.chebfun.org/publications/remez.pdf http://www.chebfun.org/examples/approx/BestApprox.html

Note that while a standard Chebyshev polynomial approximant isn’t quite “optimal” for any particular function, in an L∞ norm minimax sense, it’s much easier to find, and often better for most values of x. See Trefethen’s book for details, and also the Chebfun guide, http://www.chebfun.org/docs/guide/guide04.html or this paper has a nice example picture under “myth 3” https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/mythspaper.pdf
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If you want to live in a twisted communist utopia go to some island please.
What I have always found mesmerizing about dark matter, is whether it forms deeply complex and interesting structures like ordinary matter (like galaxies, planetary systems, or "dark life", or even radically different structures that we have no concept of).
But we just don't know because it's so hard to detect.