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Also on Archive.org [1], although there doesn't appear to be a search collection.

[1] https://archive.org/search.php?query=the%20day%20the%20unive...
Sure, that'll save me cost on people who refuse to contribute for what they consume.
You don't have to use arctan, either. Probably logistic sigmoid will do just fine, too. I think there's also a low frequency bandpass in this particular implementation. If you think about what that means in Fourier space, why you get the results shown makes a whole lot of sense.
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More neutral source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/richard-dawkins-vde...
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Unfortunately, Chrome's current policy is to disable certificate transparency and HPKP when a certificate appears to have been manually installed, to support MITM proxies [1].

Needless to say, this makes HPKP and certificate transparency worthless when the client has been compromised by adware or viruses.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq...
It's not breaking much websites I'm using regularly.
The only really breaking effect I see is when clicking on forwarder links of affiliate networks, of course. Happens for bargain/deal websites mostly.

And of course you shouldn't have to work with GA or Flurry or other analytics services, because they are blocked by pi-hole.net of course. But you can easily whitelist via ssh.

I'm now using it since 2 months and am pretty satisfied. The traffic saving effect is also nice, which make websites load faster as well.
It's even more interesting when you start the observation at the stage of downloading the software in question.

I saw it with some co-workers - first google result, obviously fake colorful download buttons, ads everywhere and they finally have an (not necessarily the correct) install.exe they wouldn't think twice about actually executing it. Now imagine doing the same thing with less specific search terms like "mp3 converter" instead of Skype, VLC or Dropbox. That's a very sure way for non-technical users to mess up their system.
Either way I'm not personally comfortable with this method since I often run servers on my personal computers for development. So whether it's 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 the request will still reach my system and possibly be handled by any port depending on who makes the request.

I would much rather have a browser plugin for this.

Those servers could be anything from MySQL, redis to any web app.

I get that the hosts-method is meant to affect all apps but that's not a big problem for me running Mac OS and Fedora.

Last time I had to block ads this way was when Opera had them embedded and it was much less memory hungry than Phoenix on my 256M RAM laptop. Back then I blocked them in ipfw instead.
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If you're on a Mac I'd suggest Gasmask. It's a lightweight freeware that lets you switch between multiple hosts files right from the menubar. I have a productivity hosts file I switch on everytime I want to block social media, another one for development purposes and a standard one to revert too in case I don't want any hosts overhead and a clean default file. It's extremely useful.

https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask
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Because it's an interesting example of tax laws being, for lack of a better word, wonky.
Which for me really highlights the point that, despite using the same title, the word doctor implies two completely different but equally important types of experience.
Germany led by Merkel has set itself up for trouble.

Cyprus and Greece have created a precedence for creditor bail-ins. Public finances are stretched due to refugee inflows and opposition to Merkel is growing even internally in her massive coalition government.

This setup may lead to something not predicted (ie. DB not getting the guarantees it needs or even a creditor bail-in) or more predictively the rise of left or right-wing non-established / populist politics.
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I live in Finland and I see them every now and then. I myself read them quite rarely, though. Only if it's a good offer or it benefits me some other way. Most of those codes are just for more info -type which don't really seem to interest people, including myself. The idea of QR codes are kinda okay but the implementations lack of imagination.
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You don't see this?

http://i.imgur.com/5vYGsUg.png

(turns out you have two more clicks: there's one "please tell us why, for statistical purposes" multiple choice question followed by a confirmation - I think that's fair since it will greatly reduce abuse.)
People work a lot, are more productive than ever and, yet, the benefits of that are disproportionately funnelled to a tiny minority who owns the means of production. Most of the people consider this arrangement is moral, viable and sustainable and will defend it to their death.

Why would we be pessimistic?
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Could one credibly argue that Theranos is misunderstood and simply communicating terribly?

Silicon Valley is chastised for its perceived pettiness. Going after "cat-picture" class instead of deep technology problems. Theranos is trying to solve a hard technology problem. Most hard-tech founders I know carry the scars of their early jaunts with prejudice with them.

Do we have any evidence, not allegations, of criminally-illegal conduct? Or just fineable tsk tsk.

Theranos does itself no favors by raising the wall around its labs. But could the reason they're doing this be more cultural and less because they just have nothing of value? It may not be $10bn of value. But something?
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I typically skim-read install screens until I see anything like "will also install" / "optional extras" / "free trial", then I slow down and untick accordingly.
Well done guys and thanks to @textfiles for publicising the project here :)
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I'm from Germany and the troubles of the Deutsche Bank please me to no end. The only thing I'm scared of is that it will be declared "too big to fail" and bailed out with tax money, while at the same time there's no money for schools, police, refugees etc because Wolfgang Schäuble is obsessed with his "black zero".
I tend to disagree with you. This looks shady, unless they declared the fact that they were trimming their listings prior to presenting the data.

The report is supposed to present the business as it is and has been over recent time. It is very difficult to justify making a whole lot of adjustments to ones business and then try say "this is the way our business looks - honest".
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I can relate. Creating a text document, registering for and installing Spotify, ordering something from Amazon - those are tasks that target a very general audience. Yet there's the reluctancy in some people to deal with any of it since it's computer stuff.
On the other hand you're generally expected to be able to operate a car, or a washing machine. Just imagine that you'd tell anyone that, "well, sorry, household chores aren't within my area of expertise" - that probably won't get your clothes clean.
Germany does not have such a thing as a pension chest. Pensions are directly paid by the working generation. That has it's problems, but it does also have it's benefits and makes this comparison useless.
VOO is not synthetic. Quoting the overview page[1]:

> Employs a passively managed, full-replication strategy.

[1]: https://advisors.vanguard.com/VGApp/iip/site/advisor/investm...
Generally speaking, altering your statistics to report to regulators will open you up to a lot of potential legal trouble as the regulators might well decide to take the view that you're deliberately giving them misleading information.

If you need to massage the date to represent what you believe to be a realistic view of your data then you still need to start off with your 'bad' data and explain why you don't believe it's representative and present your arguments for altering your data along with your 'clean' dataset. That way you can't be accused of misleading regulators and you'll have best opportunity to present your arguments for why your initial dataset is 'wrong'.

Your fiduciary duty to shareholders almost certainly includes not making yourself liable to having legal action taken against you by the government.
I can pay at my local store by scanning the QR code for the specific register. The app then let me chose to pay for the currently ongoing transaction at that register. It's neat.

Besides such application specific use cases they seem dead though.
I traded ETFs and their synthetic equivalents professionally for about 6 months. Take this as an incomplete answer. As Zr40 said, they do have a large number of non-synthetic ETFs, so I'm not sure if they actually do use synthetic ETFs, but I'll address your question independent of whether or not they do.

A potentially major relative risk I can think of for synthetic ETFs vs real ETFs would be that it could diverge due to updates in the composition of the fund - particularly if a stock is removed or added. If the fund previously held a large position in a stock and decided to replace it, then that action will likely have a negative impact on the price of the stock, and you will only get knowledge of the fund adjustment the morning after or possibly later. This means when you readjust your synthetic position, you'll do so at inferior prices, which could hurt returns. Likewise, you'll probably buy new inclusions at a higher price. I saw this happen a couple of times - and usually within particularly volatile sectors with small cap companies where an ETF might come to hold a large chunk of a company.

That being said, I'd wager this effect doesn't outweigh the management fees charged for even the most frugal ETF, so creating it synthetically might be a good deal if you've got the manpower and cost structure to adjust your position regularly - or if you don't mind a bit of divergence. I'd be interested to hear other opinions on this as well.
I think you've misinterpreted my post. The "No" was in response to this:

> That always confused me. We have an Oort cloud, whose members we cannot resolve very well/at all. Why do we assume only our star has such a thing? If all stars did, that isn't enough mass to explain dark matter?

No, that isn't enough mass to explain dark matter, since it's only 0.1% to 0.2% of the mass of the solar system.

The text I quoted was in complete agreement with what you and others have posted. I was pointing out that the questioner's point had already been answered.
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You know what really helped for me?

Learning how to do ritual magic.

I should add, it's not real magic. I do LARP as a hobby, and my character is a ritualist. This means I, and a bunch of other people, put on little performances in a ritual circle to perform various magical effects in the game. (The way it works is that the referees score us on how good they thought the ritual was, and then tell us what happened.) A ritual is typically 10-15 minutes with about five people and, depending on what you're doing, can vary between completely scripted to totally improvised.

Pressure-wise, it's interesting. In the game, rituals are important and expensive. They matter, a lot. A screwed up ritual will backfire, including and up to getting you (or someone else) killed. At the very least a badly performed ritual won't work, but will still use up a lot of in-game money. Get it wrong, and there will be consequences.

Also, rituals don't always go according to plan. Summoning the spirit of someone from the dead? You let the referees know ahead of time and they'll make sure that the appropriate player is available to play the spirit. Once they go on stage, you need to improvise, and they might be rather angry at being summoned. So you never really know what's going to happen, and once you and your team get some practice, you get good at covering and supporting each other --- I once completely blanked on my lines and it was covered so smoothly that I don't think anyone noticed.

But at the same time, it's all completely pretend. It's not actually you in the ritual circle, it's your character. If things go completely pear shaped and you all get thunderbolted to death, you know you'll be drinking beer with the people involved later and the story of 'How I said the wrong thing and got fifteen people massacred' will have gone into legend.

So, at least for me, it provides an oddly safe environment to practice high-pressure performance and speaking. I know that in the couple of years since I've started doing this I've gotten way, way better and standing up in front of staring faces and doing my thing, and that skill does translate into real life.

Although I suspect that in real life there's less chance of demons suddenly materializing in the middle of the auditorium and trying to kill everyone (although I've been to meetings where that could have been a mercy).
That is because pension is handled differently in germany?
Avoid taxes = reduce costs, as long as it's legal.
Plus: compiling from source does not mean the code is ad/spyware free.
Finally an mATX case using SFX power supplies! Having to use the big ATX power supplies have been annoying me for a while now.
If they need some info from users filing issues, perhaps they should just write a small shell script to prepare the info in a few lines and add it to their code base, then process issues on github using a small script that moves those lacking the info somewhere else?

What I find a bit discouraging these days is that all the tools developers consider using for organization purposes are web-based (or, worse: e-mail-based). Web UIs can be good, but not really great and fast, writing portable clients with a good UI and a server is easier than ever before. Someone should give it a try...
That would be great if the CFAA and the relevant police resources were actually used against fraud and abuse, rather than being used against copyright infringers all the time.
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Zalando? :D

But yeah, shipping in EU is much easier due to so many things – maybe this is a thing that TTIP should focus on, instead of IP law everywhere.
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I've been investigating PUPs for the last month or so.

These kind of bundlers now drop not only adware (browser extensions, or those that drop MITM proxies that break TLS), but also winlockers and fakealert trojans of Indian origin ("CALL OUR [FAKE] TECH SUPPORT TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE").
Yes, if you had access to every router you use. I travel a lot and have a laptop so I use the blocking via hosts method.
They should also add :: to also block on IPv6, see https://gist.github.com/teffalump/7227752

Although if you use dnsmasq on OpenWRT with these hosts file beware that it can crash sometimes due to a bug that is now fixed in git:
http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/201...
Ok, assuming that it does not, how many instances in the wild have there been of ad/spyware distributed as source to be compiled on the target machine?
> I continually hear the guys who have worked at a place more than 15 years say "You have to put in the work and effort and then hope they give you that raise, perk, etc...".

This is just disgusting. The oppressed defending the unfair system that enslaves them while hoping, one day, to be rewarded and turned into one of the oppressors.
Erm... so what happened to the much-touted policy of always keeping the original title?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466
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Deutsche Bank is counterparty to 55 trillion euros of derivatives contracts (about 65 trillion USD). I worked for 3 years on its trading floor. It was Sales-a-gogo. "Print as much as you can". It's one of the very biggest counterparties to derivatives. Imagine if there was basis risk of only one tenth of one percent on those books (ie hedge imperfection usually due to a third factor such as credit quality or geographic mismatch). That would mean a P&L of 32.5 billion dollars. For risk on only one thousandth of the notional value of its derivatives books. Deutsche Bank is only worth 22 billion dollars.

Now of course such P&L could be positive too, but inevitably, when the wolves of the markets start hunting, they'll seek out the positions that are "wrong way". Let alone if DBK starts to try to unwind some of these derivatives. I bet it wouldn't be able to unwind even 2% (1.3 trillion!) of the books without blowing itself up.

I think this bank is Exhibit A to the catastrophic excesses of the past 20 years.
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Maybe he can propose to sell some of the German islands to cover the bailout.
Public finances are only stretched because the German government (and the electorate) has a weird aversion to taking on new debt. If she wanted to, Germany could essentially borrow money for free thanks to extremely low or even negative interest rates.
She did you a favour. Doctors are notoriously hard to live with.

(Doctor here. Married to probably the only female doctor who is not hard to live with ;))
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They do have Azure Service Fabric however, which does seem incredibly promising.
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Is there anything SPDY can do that http/2 can't now?
I thought I had similar, we use Junos Pulse and it rewrites your /etc/hosts file. I think it takes a backup at some point and rebuilds the file from that when it needs to. This means some local changes just disappear. Nothing sinister though afaik.
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There are a couple of products for this already: "AdTrap" and for the Raspberry Pi "pihole". (Content warning on https://pi-hole.net/ : contains piping curl into bash, slow-loading SPA site)
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I was a young graduate at Logica when this had just been completed, and sat near a guy who was maintaining it. In what was then a largely "VT-100 world" it was pretty cool.
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I think the world is ready for someone to make an actual implementation and start using it for some actual conversation!

As long as you have an actual living conversation, then an open model of development can work... which means it doesn't have to be perfect from the start, and you don't need a beautiful landing page, because you want to attract the hackers and crazy people.

You also want to encourage lots of forks and independent implementations, because if it turns into some big mega-repository with some big bloated thing that includes Scala, Erlang, Babel, Bootstrap, and who knows what other ungodly monsters, then it's just going to become a boring monstrosity.

So you'd start with inviting a few people and then encourage them to use their own servers and clients. Make sure everyone understands that the protocols are in flux because you're trying to figure out together what will work.

The conceptual simplicity of Git would be an inspiration. There are different implementations of Git... but we could be even more obviously amenable to that, by using standardized messaging formats for example.

I think plain text messages, as on Usenet and mailing lists, are the best. You don't have to agree on a Markdown/whatever complex thing. Attachments if you want to send other documents. Hacker News developed consensus formatting for links and footnotes, and we seem to get on fine without inline images and tables and all the other fancy nonsense.

(Just some random thoughts...)
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A lot of the generics/covariance complaints seem to be rooted in a misunderstanding of covariance.

class Fruit {}
class Peach: Fruit {}

protocol FruitHolder {
var fruits: [Fruit] { get }
}

class PeachBasket: FruitHolder {
var fruits: [Peach] = []
}

This doesn't compile because it is not type-safe. Even though "Peach" is a subtype of "Fruit", "[Peach]" is not a subtype of "[Fruit]".

If the above code were allowed, we could circumvent the type system:

var h: FruitHolder = PeachBasket();
var fruits = h.fruits;
fruits.append(Fruit());

I just added a non-Peach to a "PeachBasket". When someone iterates through it later, expecting it to be all "Peach" instances, they're going to be surprised.

This reminds me of when Java 1.5 introduced generics. People were used to arrays being covariant even though that's not type-safe. The language designers decided not to carry that particular type system loophole over to generics, and people (including me) were surprised by the new behavior. (And then once we wrapped our heads around it, even more surprised we had never noticed the issue before!)

Objective-C had a bunch of holes in the type system and people got used to them. Swift is trying to be more type-safe. Interestingly, Dart made the conscious decision to retain this particular type system hole; their generics are always covariant.

BTW, Java's "wildcards" (existential types) get you roughly what you want in a type-safe way:

protocol FruitHolder {
var fruits: [? : Fruit] { get }
}

This roughly means that "fruits" is an array of some subtype "Fruit", but it might not necessarily be "Fruit". Then, doing "fruits.append(Fruit())" would fail to compile but you could still read from the array.
In nl we have one particularly crazy tax called the 'huurwaarde forfait'. It's basically a total fiction, the idea is that if you own a house that you are financing you are not renting, and this then rent that you are not spending - tadaa - is income.
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> I think the first step is to educate users.

Right. Because all that's preventing the world's population from developing the computer hygiene habits of anal HN readers is a few of your lessons.
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The money still would have to be paid back.

Secondly interest rates are low due to low inflation masquerading a higher real interest.
been doing this for a long time with various facebook related domains - upsets people if they borrow my laptop though.
They definitely need that. What I find fascinating on Aliexpress is that they can ship a product a whole world away, for the price it costs me to send a letter to my neighbour. They need a way to compete with the zero-margin (negative margin?) ChinaPost service.
I'm talking from the perspective of the seller and of course I can only talk about our experience. Again, shoes (high priced too) are probably very different from cheap USB connectors. And having to ship a pair of 200,- € shoes back and forth from europe to the USA until the customers found the correct size is not worth the effort in our opinion. It's hard to find a proper return service - you can't leave that task to the customer; if proper export documents are missing we have to collect the return package from the customs. It's a mess.

And if you ship larger amounts you have to register the export with the customs office, which is another complicated process, filling endless forms in some mandatory Java applet system.

Amazon getting rid of all of this for a reasonable price would be very welcome.
I used too but windows tends to hang up when the host file gets overly long so had to abandon it when the advertiser grew too many.

Has window 10 got better with that?