skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not if you're running HTTPS you're not.

Yes, you are. If your adversary can MITM a datacenter, it's likely that a rouge cert can also be obtained from a trusted CA. If your threat model includes this kind of adversary, please don't use my script. You should also consider how funny would be to host a VPN and route your traffic like this in a network which you don't trust.

> You're also still ignoring my first point as well.

What would an adversary accomplish pointing a DIFFERENT short URL to a malicious script? I don't understand. I'm only using/listing git.io/vpn, so whatever someone does with other URLs is not my problem. There is some fork using git.io/ovpn for example.

> I really don't get your careless stance here.

I'm not careless. You can either run the one-liner which clearly states --no-check-certificate or download and examine the script as long as you want. The choice is on you.

> Github already comes with an SSL cert

But minimal distro images don't come with trusted CA certificates, so it's useless. Yes, I could install them. No, I don't want to.
I'm interested in this from the animal rights perspective. I don't doubt that a breakthrough in this area would help us bring about a drastic decrease in animals slaughtered for consumption so I welcome it.
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My computer can solve an arithmetic expression for me. I can write a parser for arithmetic expressions and will soon be able to prove it correct.

The first 12 years of my education actively sabotaged the latter at the expense of the former. That was wrong. Humans are poor symbol-manipulation machines, and I'm ecstatic the math classes aren't treating them as such anymore.
The missing closing quotation mark was the worst.
I hate to be that guy, but they've taken $820m in funding to make Bluetooth speakers (now a commoditised market) and fitness trackers. I know hardware is expensive, and they've been pioneers, too, but that is SO MUCH money to only have some a handful of gizmos to show for it.
"For me, depression is caused by a lack of productivity".

It is beyond me that such a statement can be expressed seriously. I strongly suggest the author look beyond "I'm not working hard enough" as the key reason for his mental illness.
I want to join the Unicorns.
As a Boy Scout we often had sisters of scouts come along on our outings. Half the time one or more parents would come, and it just makes more sense. "Admitting" them as full members is just a formalism on top of the core experience, so why not?

Also, it's a shame that these girls don't feel like girl scouts does enough for their sense of adventure and play. The girl scouts should also step up to accommodate them. And I think the girls are right on this one, the Girl Scouts websites in all regions I've checked in the last ten minutes have the primary events being "fun-filled festivals" and "leadership conferences" and "arts and crafts workshops." The images are girls holding rainbow parachutes instead of hard hats, fish, and model rockets like on the BSA websites.
Ugh, but the Boy Scouts are homophobic and the Girl Scouts are progressive and awesome.

It would be better if this was the other way around. I'd love for the Girl Scouts to become the "Scouts" and the Boy Scouts to die off.
Hmm, I don't think every activity needs to be mixed. At that age kids have plenty to learn from same-sex role models. However, it sounds like the GS program is not aggressive enough for some people? Well, by all means, expand it in to more hard-core activities.

If the GS administration won't do that, then perhaps BS should open additional girl-only BS troops with the boy curriculum.
I'd love to see existing meat subsidies moved to either vegetables or lab-grown meat. That would certainly help to further shrink the market of people who need the "real" stuff.
TI famously brags (and has videos demonstrating) that you can power an MSP430 off a lemon.
Can you escalate one of the 3-rd party vulnerabilities to give you access to something that is in scope?

I agree that United's attitude on this is silly.
This is really cool and a great idea! Do you know any psychiatrists who could help you come up with a really good list of questions to ask and things to track? I'm just a medical student but I could probably put you in touch with a good one or help you come up with questions.

Basically my thoughts are that we have some reliable screening tools for depression that have been evaluated for specificity and sensitivity... maybe questions from those could be incorporated into this. I don't think anyone has done frequent tracking of responses like this could offer.

Maybe you could even add cognitive behavioral therapy exercises?
But your great grandchildren (if any) will prefer that you had different preferences.
Not sure, for boys it goes cub scouts then boy scouts. But there'a an analogous girls organization that goes brownies to girl scouts.

I've not a clue what the girls organization does at meetings, but they're famous for selling thin mint cookies and being overtly over sexualized to teenage boys.
And, yet, having been in dozens of states and many different rural, suburban, and urban areas, the U.S. is surprisingly homogenized. All that unnecessary political conflict, posturing, and inefficiency, just so we citizens feel like a good fight was won when we get our same crappy, mediocre policies, laws, and regulations.

It would be so nice if states / localities actually were somewhat different. Then, we could at least experiment and see the real effects of different policies.
Coincidentally, just the other day I was looking in the PlayStore for apps that dispense small 1-4 sentence quanta of mood-altering advice based on the user's reported state of mind. I couldn't find any. I'm considering writing something simple of this nature. Question: does such a thing exist and if not, is it a worthwhile exercise at all?
You should probably compress your images before serving them. (e.g. banner is 7.8 MB)
I've been deploying OpenBSD in production since the 2.x days (late 90's, an example machine was a recycled 486 with a PCI and ISA 10Mbit/s ethernet cards).

While it's possible to use OpenBSD as a general purpose server or desktop, that's not where it's strength lies.

It tends to excel as a firewall or router for the under 1Gbit/s crowd that has Unix sysadmin experience - basically, appliance applications where it would function in the same role as a Cisco or Juniper router device.

OpenBSD's leadership has a goal of pushing the security envelope, and force positive change on the rest of the Unix ecosystem, which it's succeeded in doing in many ways.
They might mean to say that it's worsened when they're not busy with something. Actively working on a task that one finds rewarding can definitely help with depression.
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I think you're simply completely missing the goals at play here.

To your points about getting worse ads and creating an environment were worse ads are served ... that's the point. "Serving good ads" and "Having a reasonably accurate and reasonably complete profile of me" are different ways of saying the same thing in this context. The fact that you feel "I get good ads" is a good thing for users is the core disagreement you are looking for, this what you are missing.

To the last point: Yes, those who benefit from the collection of their users personal data may be penalized by the system they benefit from when their users act against the interests of the ad networks. Again though, given the implied goals at play here, this likely isn't seen as a bad outcome but as incentive to stop funnelling your users information to a 3rd party for money.

As an aside, your first point is wrong: You leak less personal information by this kind of fuzzing, they already have your browser fingerprint and so on, getting more copies of them isn't useful.

Using an ad blocker is defensive, this is offensive. Which is better depends on your goals.
Great generalizations there.
This is a really interesting case study. I'd encourage you to continue to document it and share it widely. The fact that you aren't trying to do it all through the app, but that the app is part of the support network is very cool. Thanks for sharing this!
... using a tool designed for the type of app I described. That said, if you want to learn how to use the big complicated tool, it's best to start with a trivial app.
That's debatable. As a learner of English as a foreign language, I (and my classmates) had a much harder time understanding "simple" words.

Throw a word like "rotate", and it's just a matter of memorizing what the word means. Throw in a "simple" word like "turn", and it has a gazillion different meanings for every situation. It's a total nightmare for language learners.
He didn't need to use docker. FTP deploys for static sites are akin to deploying straight to heroku for rails apps.
To be pedantic, reading dram does clobber the data; but it gets re written as part of the read cycle.
It took me a while to realise that this is meaningful for Scrum shops.

For places practicing something that is lean-flavoured, or Extreme Programming, it's very odd, because the software is supposed to be releasable at all times.
Guess he doesn't know about ginger.io -- it does all this and much more about intelligently using your phone's sensors to know when you're behavior patterns are off.
Look at ginger.io -- their cognitive behavior therapy has been shown to be statistically significant. It's what you're looking for either now or in a future version of their app.
Apple paid $3.2B for Beats, so I'm guessing the VCs thought Jawbone might be 3-4x the value of Beats?

That's a very risky bet indeed.
> We believe that everyone should have the freedom, and ability, to make money.

Except for bed- or wheelchair-bound people. Fuck them, right?
It's not really that amusing, as if these "web" people aren't intimately familiar with CS research or basic principles of programming. The web wasn't designed ahead of time for all the uses it has today, it's evolved into its current role, and often by developers forcing it to do their bidding. It's also not defined by any single entity and the standards process takes a long time.

Of course something that started as an application framework would have had "subroutines" and custom components. That's no reason to deride the efforts to address that now.

As for requiring JS, you are correct. A declarative custom element standard will be needed before we can have extensible HTML without script. But given that a declarative standard will be a subset, in term of power, of the imperative API, it's best to see what the most common used parts of the imperative API are before baking defining the declarative version. If you look up initial versions of MDV and web components, you'll see declarative elements in there.
With respect, I think we should take the patient point of view more seriously than our own (us not having examined the patient or more damningly, not having any training in psychiatry). Lack of productivity can on occasion lead to a feeling of worthlessness which can exacerbate depression.
What it "should have been" sounds awfully like what Siri/Google Now/Cortana is today.

Microsoft has a real ability to be ahead of the game but still end up chasing :)
So we are all stuck with an outdated concept that originated from aristocratic landowners who wanted to show how much money they had by devoting a portion of their estate to not growing crops and just being manicured because you can do it without watering?

How very kind of you to epitomize the "get off my lawn" meme, but I'm not on your lawn. I'm not telling you to get rid of your lawn, but the concept as it exists now and it's popularization is at best wasteful, and in some cases actively causes problems with water availability in some areas. Some reform in the popularized concept of a front lawn would be beneficial to everyone.
And the msp430 has two internal clocks/oscillators! (iirc)
The advantage of not being used as much as something like Linux is you can avoid external pressure to add fad features and bloated crap to the system.

With regard to business's using openbsd, I am currently using openbsd for my private server on Digital Ocean, and have thought it would be a good platform for a small business to use.
It's sort of reasonable to find sysadmins who really understand Linux and its intricacies and how to deliver performant and reliable services on top of it.

People with similar command of less popular OSes are even harder to come by.
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> How would one go about volumetric dosing with a blotter?

Dissolve in alcohol, avoid water like others suggested. You can't calculate micrograms if the blotter dosage is unknown, lab testing is needed for that.

> if it's in liquid form, I'm guessing it's already in some volumetric dosing

Yes, just take a smaller dose then.

> Lab tested you say... not convenient as in I can't just go to a lab and tell them "hey I need to be trippin so can you check these blotters"?

Here in my country I can... this kind of services are available for free in some European countries.

Energy Control in Spain provides this to foreigners for a relatively small fee. You can contact them at: international AT energycontrol.org
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That seems interesting. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to allow individual signups https://ginger.io/for-individuals/#getinvolved
The typical size of paper used to carry one dose is 1/4" square. Cutting that into 10 equal sized pieces would be relatively tedious. It also assumes that the LSD is distributed evenly across the paper.
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Yes, but Netflix has and is the defacto streaming service to your own personal device. No matter how it's delivered if it walks and quacks like a duck it's a duck.

This is a bullet straight at Netflix and all other OTT services and the following Comcast rep to consumer conversation will go as followed....

Customer service rep, "Sure you can use Netflix and enjoy through any Internet device, but your going to have to be concerned about going over your monthly cap, which can get costly." "Though with our Stream TV you don't have to worry about that, you can stream all you want to your personal devices and it will never cost you more per month."

Awful.. anti-competitive ... needs to be shot down now!
Sounds really interesting, but I'm getting a 503 from their site. :(
Does anyone know of strong proofs of galaxy red shifts being due to relativistic Doppler effect? It seems like almost everything in Cosmology depends on this being true.
I've used it as my main work desktop for years.
I agree with this. Many coders spend too long worry about things customers will never see or even use. Don't spend months making perfect backend code for a feature that you end up removing because customers don't use it. See what people want then iterate from there.
And what was preventing him from just uploading it to his AWS instance?

If you want to experiment with an entirely new stack of technologies intended for deploying distributed, multi-tier, scalable apps, that's cool, but don't feign surprise if it takes you more than 30 minutes.
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This is exactly the issue of decreasing marginal utility of money. If your income is $0, then the utility you get from an extra $1 is huge, because it keeps you from starving. If you have a $10k / year basic income, then the utility you get from that next dollar is much smaller. But this effect on work is likely to be much smaller than the effect from the high effective tax rates that you get from mean-tested welfare, especially at typical first-world standards of living.

I wouldn't say that discouraging work is totally irrelevant either. The reason that first-world standards of living are high is that lots of people are performing (often unpleasant) tasks for complete strangers, in exchange for similar favors from other strangers (i.e., working for money). Decreasing the number of people willing to do that is (all else equal) a bad thing.
By comparison, today's (January 1996) state-of-the art technologies have feature sizes of about 0.25 microns.

And today (November 2015), chips manufactured on 14 nanometer (0.014 micron) processes are shipping in volume.
I was getting that as well, it's loading for me now if you check again.
Looks like it's US Residents Only.
OpenBSD is lagging behind in terms of "power features." I believe there is no ZFS, no D-trace (or any similar probe-based kernel trace tools), and that SMP performance is not as good as FreeBSD or Linux.
> that governments cannot respond correctly and efficiently to economic demand

You don't understand, the big thing going on in China is land consolidation. Government is driving mass people to these ghost cities.
It only takes one attacker (or curious college student) to figure it out and post it on GitHub, and then your average attacker can bust out all the assembly language required without actually knowing it.

For comparison -- does your average Windows attacker know how to cryptanalyze the LM hash function? No, but they can run the tool just the same.

There are absolutely places where your the general argument holds water: "no security by obscurity" is a simplistic framework, and ignores a much more reasonable and also simpler framework of costs and incentives. In several cases, the costs of figuring out something obscure outweigh the potential incentives of breaking it.

But in this particular case, there are no marginal costs to the attacker. Once someone somewhere invests the time to figure it out, for any motivation including curiosity, the defense is immediately worthless for everyone.
If artificial chicken meat is successful - it would dramatically reduce chickens population.
I'm really surprised there was no mention of Venturing in this article. Venturing is the program created by the BSA specifically to have multi-gender troops and focus more on high adventure activities.

From the website:

> Venturing is a youth development program of the Boy Scouts of America for young men and women who are 14 years of age OR 13 years of age and have completed the eighth grade and under 21 years of age. Venturing's purpose is to provide positive experiences to help young people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults.

http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/Venturing.aspx
The name script kiddie isn't an accident. The average attacker uses an exploit developed by a more experienced one.

You're trying to protect yourself from an imaginary class of attacker that just doesn't exist.
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I avoid TV, radio and print already. But why should I get off the Internet when I can just use an ad blocker?
I've been doing database-backed web apps using MVC frameworks for so many years, that it's hard for me to wrap my head around the front-end javascript frameworks. This one seems simple enough that I might be able to understand it though...

Can you clarify for me, though, how exactly to utilize this in my code? I see the `require` statements, which I'm guessing means you assume the use of browserify or some module loader (or ES6)... but would it be possible to use this just as a plain old javascript file via a `<script src="whatever"></script>` tag?

Also, are there any more fleshed-out examples of how to use this for a realistic app?

Thanks!
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/44-shine-on-you-crazy-goldma... At around 20:30, she starts talking about the process. Take the piece of acid, dissolve it in water overnight. Drink 1/10th of the bottle of water.
Or, y'know, an exacto knife and a ruler.
This was bad and dumb.
Do not confuse with Potato Semiconductors, which make famous high-speed chips: http://www.potatosemi.com/

Sadly, I've never had the chance to try these Potato chips.
Seconding Das. It's my first Mechanical Keyboard and by no means a slouch, but understandably one of the more bland offerings out there. I Have MX Brown switches and really enjoy the tactile feeling. It's marketed as less "clicky" than Blues, and while true, it's still plenty clicky, enough to keep me second guessing if I type too loud on it sometimes to bother others. Also, this keyboard is 4 years old and still going quite strong. Definitely recommend.
I've got a theory that "suck" is going to have staying power. It wasn't that long ago (say 30 years) that it was considered vulgar, while now it's quite tame. The advantage of suck is that it fills the niche of succinctly being the opposite of cool.
Your anecdote isn't data here.

What do you mean by permanent exposure? Regular? If so, do you have any sources to back up your claim?

The right perspective here is that LSD is well tolerated by the human body, but we do not know what its effects are like when taken over a long period of time.
Isn't there a valuable lesson to teach here?

A group has become dissatisfied with a monopoly on girl scouting and created a more satisfying alternative. They've taken the responsibility upon themselves to create that which they desire.

Unfortunately, I don't think that's the lesson the Unicorns' parents are trying to encourage.

There's nothing wrong with co-ed scouting. There's nothing wrong with single-gender scouting. Really.
Yep, working now. Thanks!
I think you're reading too much into this article. To me, what this article says is the following premises:

* Don't plan 3 weeks of work in a 2 week timeframe. Curves that look like the second chart mean that you put too much work into the cycle. And the stuff that's done at the end is usually not the quality level that the stuff at the beginning because you're under pressure to get it done by the deadline.
* Leave time for a burn-in at the end of your cycle. This means not doing anything new, and focusing on quality even more. This means dotting the eyes and crossing the t's, and fixing defects for the work done in the cycle that wouldn't normally be done because you're working on the next feature instead.

I mean, an S-curve shaped cycle means sort of supports what you're saying about thinking about work a the beginning. The expectation is at the beginning, no issues are getting completed, because they are the "bigger" ones that are still in process.
A friend from Sichuan told me that a less drastic form of head binding was common practice where she came from, though I can't seem to find references to it online.
Imagining the consumer reaction to green-glow-in-the-dark crops made me smile.
Yeah my troop had plenty of girls in the mid 90s.
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Sure, but from reading the article it seems that social isolation as a matter of lifestyle is the elephant in the room. If he has to be held accountable through an app, it would suggest that there's no people present throughout the day to hold him accountable.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but it's less absurd than assuming we just need a whip when we're down. This isn't an unemployed person feeling like they're not contributing. It's more like: "If I can just never be unproductive, I'll be happy"...
Is there a kind of "union" for bug finders, some corporate shell anonymous hackers can hide behind to avoid legal crushes?
I think you're overthinking this. If you want to give a benefit to low-income people, then either you phase out slowly and it costs a lot, or you phase out quickly and you have high effective tax rates. And the people passing the laws probably pay a lot more attention to total budget cost than to the effects on effective marginal tax rates, so you end up with a lot of programs that have fast phase-outs.
IIRC, this is the same underlying technology being currently employed in the "bugs eye" lens system that underlies Lytro -- I.e. this is the lab group that spawned Lytro.
If boy scouts want to let in girls that's fine. I also think it's fine if they don't.

I would be annoyed if they let girls in and starting changing things. If you wanted something different then go start something different.