skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting opinion from Andrei Soldatov:

“This is an important case because it’s part of the general offensive against https. Roskomnadzor and the FSB [security services] don’t know what to do with it,” said Andrei Soldatov, a journalist and author of Red Web, a book about the Russian internet. Soldatov said SORM, the system Russia uses for internet surveillance, does not work with the more secure https protocol, also used by sites such as Facebook and Gmail.

...

Soldatov speculated that the move against Wikipedia could be part of a test of another strategy: by threatening the site with bans over single pages, the site could be forced off https to ensure that the whole site is not affected when only one page is banned.

Soldatov said: “There are two options for https: the first is to have access to the data before encryption, which explains the demand to store servers in Russia. The second is to try to force services to give up on https, which is what is happening with Wikipedia.”
If $25 is a large enough sum of money to cause serious regrets over the coming weeks, then certainly you have my sympathies, but I would suggest it's not actually an issue of what the Haskell package does or doesn't do, it's a situation where you need to decide you're just not in the market for commercial software until your financial situation improves. As you say, there are free DIY alternatives.
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Link to journal article referenced: http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/17/8/083023/
After seeing this sort of research, I sometimes think that we are drowning in an excess amount of scientific information regarding more humane things. I think that such approach will not let us understand ourselves better.
I think he's saying "Consumerism is bad, Disney is evil, advertising is dishonest" is by-literally-I-mean-figuratively "nothing", as in this is not a relevant current concern. When you think "evil corporations doing bad things" are legacy media companies really what come to mind? Is it even in the top 10?

The installation about Princess Dianna's death really adds to the "by and for people who stopped paying attention to anything 20 years ago" vibe.
Surely this? https://www.scaleway.com/
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I disagree with this point: Using conditionals in your view components.

Putting if statements into your view is not the React way. You should be rendering something like {productList}, and that productList() function should be the one handling any outstanding logic. Even better, Your React should be generic enough to accept data you filter and edit in your controllers.
I believe we are watching one be born.

The pieces are all in place and there doesn't seem to be a way to stop it. We are already seeing abuses of the power that ubiquitous surveillance gives the government. Subversion of checks and balances by the oligarchy has been underway for decades.
I do wonder why GitHub gets hit, and people say it's a high profile target, yes almost definitely.

Another thought occurs to me though, I guess one of the problems when writing a DDoS is measuring how well it performs. The GitHub status screen provides a lot of useful metrics for tuning such an attack.
A good start, but I will not be satisfied until I can get a workstation like the ones in Terry Gilliam's brilliant movie Brazil: http://www.oilempire.us/oil-jpg/brazil-lime-computer.jpg
Perhaps dark life is the origin of monster tales. They only interact with normal matter under really rare circumstances. When they do, they are absolutely horrifying because they are so other than us.
All of the Mill's cache, not just one level, is virtual SAS.

Further, the Mill has no false aliasing, consistent caches, is always sequentially consistent and has no aliasing races. Some of this is covered in http://millcomputing.com/wiki/Memory.

The more criticisms I hear of this architecture, the more impressed I get.
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>The CNN article makes it clear that the circuit breakers 'saved the day' and 'prevented a full-on flash crash' yesterday.*

Suddenly we're taking CNN's advice on technically sophisticated subjects now?
Just goes to show this Nicholas Nickleby person couldn't write their way out of a wet cardboard box if their life figuratively depended on it--and by figuratively I mean literally, except more intense.

(try and disagree with me, some of my words mean the opposite of what I intend)
You can use `osascript` to show a popup. Depending on which shell you're using, it would look something like this:

for i in {1..4}; do
sleep $(expr 60 \* 30)
osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to display dialog "Are you wasting time?"'
done
Heinous? If you had a 7 year old, would you let them use a device with unrestricted wifi access?
I've just started at a place that uses a lot of Tcl for embedded scripting and customisation, and I've never used it before so this was very handy.

That said, the document needs work - the syntax highlighting got very confused at some point, and a bunch of the lines are much longer than the width of the document, and don't wrap.

Tcl looks like a nice little language that makes it really easy to write really horrible code. Probably with some discipline you could keep it tidy and comprehensible though.
>This blog post’s statement that “higher degree polynomials can have problems with numerical accuracy” turns out to be a myth

(author here) I should have qualified or corrected that statement in my article. There are a few reasons I rarely use n>5:

- when polynomial approximation is appropriate, high-degree polynomials are usually unnecessary on embedded systems (0.1% accuracy usually sufficient)

- it's usually a sign that polynomial approximation is being misapplied and there are better ways (via range reduction, transformation like 1/f(x), etc.)

- with least-squares, computation of the coefficients can have problems with numerical accuracy. When I've used least-squares fitting polynomials with n>10, I often get a complaint from my numerical tool (MATLAB or Python) that the matrix in question is ill-conditioned. That may be because I used the Vandermonde matrix rather than Chebyshev polynomials, or because I used a large number of points. Chebyshev approximation doesn't have the same problem, I don't think, and I should not have mapped my experience with least-squares fitting onto Chebyshev approximation.

Evaluation of the polynomials themselves should be fine (after all, we can easily compute a 20th-degree Chebyshev polynomial).
Like I said, this is nitpicky to the nth degree (and in full disclosure I advised my wife to do a target fund when she started investing). You can do much, much worse than a target fund and hardly better.

That said, I've encountered many 401k plans over the years where the target funds have very bad expense ratios (.35 or higher). Meanwhile there will be a total market fund and a bond fund sitting closer to .08 or .09.

I personally, had a 401k plan that had the choice of a target fund at .28 expense ratio or a fidelity spartan class total market with NO initial investment requirements. I was able to invest at 0.07 expense ratios when I had less than $500 in a retirement account.

So, if you have the choice at a Vanguard target fund, yeah you aren't going to do much better than that. But especially when someone else is limiting what you can invest in, it can be advantageous to go with bare index funds.
We know that the structures that it forms cannot be too complex because otherwise we would detect them through microlensing. What can happen is that the structure would pass in front of the star and gravitationally lens the light of the background star around it to make it temporarily appear brighter. Surveys looking for these events have found that the vast majority of dark matter cannot be in these very dense structures. So dark matter life seems to be ruled out.
I've always driven with the most (comfortable) distance between me and the steering wheel. My reasoning has been that maybe I'm safer when there's more space between me and the windshield, steering wheel, etc. and that there's a tiny bit more time for that airbag to inflate should the need arise.
>India under pressure from Pharma lobby to stop gneric medicines

Title typo: should be `generic`.
Application security needs to be shored up now
Not to mention the political oppression and violence enabled by that surveillance.

Even most lynchings by a Twitter mob aren't actual executions where someone is really killed (although sometimes someone might be pushed to suicide by the psychological pressure; that is still a far cry from an actual political purge with murder.)
"(If not we have bigger problems.)"

That would be an accurate assessment of the situation. We have big problems, getting bigger.
You commit your issue database to the same repo as your code and track it alongside your code. Then you just need a tool to manage the database for you, and there's a few tools out there to do this:

http://ditz.rubyforge.org/
http://pitz.tplus1.com/
https://github.com/jeffWelling/ticgit
http://www.bugseverywhere.org/

... and probably others. That's just based on a quick Google search.

One nice thing about this approach is that your issue's state follows your code through merges. When you fix the bug you mark it as 'fixed' and commit that change to a branch. When it gets merged into master, the 'fixed' status gets merged as well.
Relevant link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_the...
Everyone should let the robocalls play from start to finish, then press 1 (or whatever) to talk to a live operator. Lie to the operator. Take up as much time as possible, say "ummmm" a lot, ask for the operator's name, insist that you be called "Ed" or something. Take some time to "fumble" for your "credit card". I keep an expired gift card in my wallet to give out to fraudsters. Express "disbelief" when your account doesn't show up at "CitiBank" or whatever. If you have some knowledge of credit card number formats, give out a scrambled card number. I usually end up the call with a few anglo-saxon synonyms for the masculine organ of primogeniture, I reccommend you develop your own abuse technique.

If enough people do this to fraudsters, and the occasional real credit card or bank person, then things will change.
This was a controversial/contentious statement during the last DDOS attack. I wonder if any minds have changed.
Well I guess all mirrors could get targeted. Also, what stops github from getting mirrors themselves?
Maybe the Indian generic companies should worry a little more about the frogs and flies in their manufacturing facilities. And maybe they shouldn't delete test results.

Welcome to the global race to the bottom. I doubt that a little pressure from multinational pharma companies will do much to reverse the overall trend.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-03/indian-lab...
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An objective fact presented in a way to mislead should no longer be considered just an objective fact. Consider how many racists like to throw around 'objective facts' about the rates of crimes between different races. Devoid of the sociological understanding and comparisons of other base rates and correlations, such facts are worse than useless.
There's very little incentive to accept card only. Cash, unlike credit or debit cards, doesn't carry an interchange fee, which means the full amount is going to the business, instead of losing some money to interchange.
I come from a graphic design background with training in typography. While you _can_ specify font-size in any units CSS understands, typography as a field has traditionally used PT and EM units for sizing and spacing.

- for container size I use % or PX

- for margins, spacing, and padding I use EM or PX

- for text sizes I use PT or %

Here's a short, good primer for typography on the web: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/five-simple-steps-to-be...
Taking the labor out of baby books
Personally, the approach Peel is taking irritates me. Forces me to select a tv antenna/cable profile thing, when that's useless to me. I have no antenna, I have no cable, I just use a roku with netflix. Why does it have to be so complicated when all I need is a power button and volume control?
They are different, but similar enough not to be annoying. The feel is different, but the curve is the same and so is the actuating force, so all in all not too bad. Both Dell keyboards. You could just as easily do this with 2 USB keyboards, it's the poor man's solution :)
>"Markets cease to exist in unstable environment"

The "market" is just a place where two parties can meet to exchange something at an agreed upon price. Stability has nothing to do with it.

If you get in a jam and essentially advertise to buyers, "I need to sell everything NOW, at any price!" you shouldn't be surprised if the buyer's offers are low. Why would I buy something now for $40, that I can get later for $20?
This article describes how Baby's Firsts solved its storage and image transformation challenges with a cloud-based image management solution. http://cloudinary.com/blog/taking_the_labor_out_of_baby_book...
It's quite possible that a significant portion of the large scale CCTV installations are up for grabs, but they make up a relatively small portion of private CCTV overall. Most CCTV in the UK are non-networked installation in the local corner shop and the like.

That said, it is excessive in the UK.
This is some of the best news, with the longest-ranging results that I've heard in a long time.

> Most definitely not.

It depends how information about this case gets disseminated. The sooner and wider it spreads, the more unacceptable it will be for rogue agents to overstep the law. After all, citizens can now sue for damages accrued while traveling without the laptop.
I live in Turkey.
It may not be practical for everyone, but we make sure not to use turnkey manufacturers. For example, one factory might populate and reflow boards and then assemble it into a case, but they don't have the board or case designs - we have them manufactured by other suppliers and supply them and all the components. That way no one factory can just start manufacturing our products because they don't have enough information.

Yes, they can reverse-engineer but it's harder with four or more layer circuit boards and they don't have the full BOM information.

This is also a good strategy for not getting counterfeit parts (that may not work) on your boards - you can use the suppliers and brokers you trust instead of whoever your factory decides to buy from.
A little snitch that people pay for the privilege of carrying around!

That's the real thing Orwell missed -- not that surveillance would increase, but that the surveilled would so enthusiastically cooperate in their own surveillance.
And also sometimes the little guys getting a nice revenge on the banks. Case in point: friend bought a house at a relatively high price + mortgage, then hyperinflation happened, said friend paid off the house with one month's worth of salary.
As linked elsewhere in this thread, its plenty achievable to have bare metal at 16e/mo or less even, between Online.net and Kimsufi.
I remember reading that the V2 was a weapon where more people were killed producing it than were killed by it.
An internal GitLab install isn't that time consuming to maintain. Also: dat false dichotomy.
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>I doubt that a little pressure from multinational pharma companies will do much to reverse the overall trend.

Good. An imperfect (with the odd frog), but cheap, system that can save thousands of lives is perfectly acceptable to me.
For what application is bare metal server rental particularly useful? (as opposed to either own colo or low end VPS)
Endless list of interesting apps using nw.js
It seems a certainty to me that github will be breached one of these days, and all internal data (i.e., private repos) made public. On that day, so many companies will inadvertently become open source!

Do we have any info on what steps github takes to prevent this? I ask as a paying customer (with both personal and corporate accounts).
Same for me! My back pain was gone almost immediately after I started working out again.
Personally, I find Tcl to be a fantastic language. It's extremely dynamic and powerful, making it very easy to accomplish a number of things that can be very difficult in other languages.
Barn-door trackers are awesome - they're simple to build, and are sufficient to get a DSLR owner started off on astrophotography.

I hadn't seen a double-arm Barn-door before, thanks for posting!
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The point of rootless is that doing privilege escalation attacks will be much more difficult
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Thanks for the links.
If I may posit...

1. Github is very well known and cater specifically for the tech crowd. So, an attack on Github is more likely to be talked in the tech crowd, which I would assume the people who would try out DDoS attacks be more likely to be part of. Validation is a weird thing.

2. In a convoluted sense, taking down Github doesn't harm as many bystanders. If that makes any sense...

3. As you've mentioned, very clear useful metrics for the attacks.

4. Crowding effect? Maybe attacking Github has become some 'cool' things to try in that community. I'm just imagining at this point.
I believe there are some street people that do this with buses as well. I travelled between Toronto–Buffalo on Megabus and Greyhound ($15-18/ticket) and I'm pretty sure there were some international homeless people that would flip back and forth (and probably drift to NYC and other stops as well).

I thought it was funny that some of the people you see on the street might be much more travelled and worldly than me ;)
Shit clients say:

- "This project/change is easy"

- "This project/change won't take very long"

- "I know this isn't the rate you wanted, but we're totally gonna give you more work at the rate you did want later on"
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What business closes for a week out of a year? Are there businesses which are 24/7/50?
They are in public spaces, substantial proportions of would be relatively secluded and private were it not for CCTV.

That is what I dislike about CCTV cameras. Without them, there would substantial parts even of London where you could walk around and feel alone and be reasonably sure you're not being observed. It is an odd feeling, e.g. walking down a relatively secluded part of the riverside with nobody around with a date and suddenly being face to face with a camera pointed right at you.

> 90% of Internet surveillance is by permission (possibly given by people who are not fully aware they are giving it

If people are not fully aware they are giving it, it may still legally be permission (though in that case the laws need to change), but it certainly isn't morally permission. There's also a vast difference between surveillance by private entities locked in silos and subject to the Data Protection Act, and secret government surveillance.
Thanks for saying this - another reminder to do more core (got down and planked).

What exercises did you find most beneficial for strengthening?

On a related note -- I periodically do stretches where I stand on one leg and roll my hip & waist out to the side extending it behind me -- that helps alleviate tension in the side.

Similar - hanging on my forearms from chairs or those ab machines at the gym.

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I still agree with the GP's point.

Unless there is some penalty to be paid by the officers for breaking the rules, the abuses will continue.

If they start having to pay damages out of their personal assets or getting sent home without pay, they'll get the message.

Until that happens, the status quo will continue.
Agreed. I've felt an extreme difference in comfort and posture within a month after I started doing squats and deadlifts every other day. I felt more powerful and less lethargic in all my activities, walking and sitting included. These are crucial exercises that I can't recommend highly enough.
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When I've read the title I thought it was about leksah [1]. I've not used it since some time but according to recent reviews is getting quite good.

[1]: http://leksah.org
Great point! Wrong choice in words; will edit the post to make better sense. Also looks like someone else edited the title of this post on YC. Any idea how to change it back?
I stop answering emails and phone calls. I ignore anyone ringing the doorbell. Anyone of the above can result in an action event that creates a time-consuming task. (I've found that every time a neighbor comes by its almost certain to cost me money.)
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If it's really that important, why not host your own gitlab or pay for a self hosted github installation?
I would argue from personal experience there's almost the same (or higher) likelihood of internal sources going down for other reasons since most people's IT departments aren't as efficient as GitHub's.
I remember seeing an electronic gizmo that would supposedly remind you to correct your posture throughout the day. Has anybody tried something like that? I feel like the gentle constant feedback might actually work.
I had the same issue with shoulder slouching. The muscles that pulled my shoulders back were incredibly weak while my pectoralis minor was very tight. I ended up with rotator cuff impediments and thoracic outlet syndrome in both my shoulders. After four months of PT and consistent weight lifting my shoulders have felt the best they have been since I as a teenager.
I'd be into to hearing of some professional athletes/teams you think are doing a really good job with strength and conditioning.
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>I do wonder why GitHub gets hit, and people say it's a high profile target, yes almost definitely.

It could be related to things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101469
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For fitting arbitrary spaced data, you might also try using a rational interpolant, e.g. Floater & Hormann’s http://www.inf.usi.ch/hormann/papers/Floater.2007.BRI.pdf and then afterward approximating that by a Chebyshev polynomial of somewhat higher degree for evaluation or other operations like taking derivatives or finding roots etc. (IIRC Trefethen’s book explains this idea, and the last few links in my comment above are also related).
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By the way there is a whole tent full of Hurst's work at Dismaland.

Perhaps see it for yourself, if you can.
Rolling up t-shirts or a jacket under my wrists while I type has been tremendous for avoiding wrist pain in the day.

For my back, I practice rolling my hips forward (roll your groin towards the chair), which changes which muscles are use and can alleviate low back pain.
But of your government is at odds with an oppressive government, it would make sense for it to fund that kind of software so the people could take it down, or at least make trouble, themselves.
I used Chebyshev approximation on my thesis connecting a boundary value problem to a way to solve it using Fourier Transform. Very, very useful when solving a system of equations that can diverge if a iterative solver is used.
Really? I'd rather die than eat some fly poop that found its way to my life-saving medication!
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