skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This report comes by way of a comment to a user post. There's no clear headline available, I've supplied a descriptive one.

Ello engineer colinta writes:

Someone was able to access our Cloudflare account. This is bad bad very bad, but as far as we can tell they did very little; they added a js.ello.co record and pointed it to their own server, then they copied our React javascript code and added their own mining code to it (not bitcoin, btw, they were mining for "Monero", which I'm unfamiliar with). Then they added a 301 redirect rule to serve their js file whenever our file was requested.

They could have done a lot more damage, for one they could have locked us out of our account. It's really strange that they didn't, which indicates maybe that they were using an API key (you can't change the password that way).

So we have now reset all of our passwords and API keys for everything that Cloudflare touches, and we reached out to Cloudflare to see if they can give us more information. We think that this hack started at ~11:30am mountain time, and was on the site for ~4 hours.

The attack also seems to be making rounds, so folks might want to keep a close eye on their own stacks.
After reading this, the Dell Optiplex 745 comes to mind.
so they created something like snapseed?
Key findings:

"Every one of the subjects ... judged the eye to screen distance of 20 inches to be too close. All accepted a 40 inch distance. Grandjean reported an average preferred viewing distance of 30 inches ... the closer the object, the more downward people wanted to look. When the target was 40 inches away, the preferred viewing angle was -30 degrees. When the target was moved in to 20 inches, the downward preference increased to -38 degrees. The head was not permitted to move during these tests, so the downward gaze angle was caused solely by movement of the eyes."

In a multi-monitor system, each monitor can have a different distance and font size, to avoid the eye being locked into a single focal distance for many hours. In a single-monitor system, vary the distance between user/keyboard and monitor.
The first point I am trying to make is that it should've been obvious, and that aside from giving an actual name to the entity through which cash went from Kremlin to Milner, the NYTimes is not news. If you were concerned then, good. If you were not concerned then, there's no reason to be concerned now, as no new facts came to light through this NYT article.

On the second point: the source of the money should not be cause of concern if it's "just money."

If it's money and a very strong suggestion that you partner with a (obvious, even if explicitly unstated) foreign, state-controlled entity, then it's a cause for concern. If it's just money, and then when you want to partner with a foreign, state-controlled entity, that same money gives you an introduction to the foreign, state-controlled entity, then it's not a cause for concern, because that's the point of business relationships and investments.

The question of Russian influence is really a separate question, in my mind, and I think that's what bugs me about this entire thing the most. The implication somewhere here is that the leaders of Facebook and Twitter, and other startups that take Milner money were somehow duped, and allowed Russia to walk free in their systems and influence the election. I will be very surprised if that's true; Zuckerberg and Dorsey are too smart for that.

What seems obvious to me is that the systems they created are giant, targeted megaphones, by design. They were successfully used by the Obama campaign, and everyone was very happy for democracy then. Then a foreign state decided that they were going to give Trump help on these megaphones, and now everyone is very unhappy for democracy. Would we have this much hand-wringing if we discovered that Saudi Arabia was helping Hilary?
Those rules are enforced with an even stronger force than any individual can muster.
Maybe present it as a barter deal?
Why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs
Neither do white people look pure white, nor are blacks actually black...
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do that, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't comment like this, regardless of how wrong or illogical someone else may be.
This is literally what they ended up doing with it.
Probably in reference to another faceted plane that basically was aerodynamically unstable, the F-117. Which was called the hopeless diamond.
The limit of `g_i / f` is also not 1. I think he's just looking for convergent functions.
How does the community feel about well-presented talks using very few or none slides?

I kind of feel that even in tech, you would come across as unprepared or "lazy" for not having slides/PowerPoint
> I would equally oppose taking money from one of the CIA VC firms, even that one where Dan Geer works.

Facebook's advisor on its $19B acquisition of Whatsapp was a "privately held boutique investment bank" called Allen & Company, which at the time was led (maybe it still is, it doesn't show up at all on his personal wiki page) by former CIA director George Tenet. Not 6-months had passed since this acquisition and Putin started talking in the media about how the Internet is controlled by the US 3-letter agencies. Shortly after that his cronies fully took control of VKontakte.
The thing is, people do build personal websites, and that old web still exists. Do you really believe that, with (according to Quora) ~140,000 new sites being created per day, no one is putting amateur, personal stuff on the web anymore?

It's just that the web has gotten bigger and more mainstream, and most of us now limit our browsing to a few silos and then act as if everything that no longer bubbles up the filter must have ceased to exist.
It'd also be cool to make a search engine that catalogged all of the websites that other search engines politely did not.

Is there any proper enforcement of robots.txt or is it just polite? Because I don't see how one search engine could maintain an advantage if others start catalogging every site.
I found http://lygte-info.dk/ (website about batteries, chargers, and more stuff like that) through a search engine when looking for specific information about a LiIon cell. But then I started clicking through that maze of links and found so much useful information that I would never have thought of searching for. I spent hours "trapped" on that page.

The navigation is crappy (randomly interlinked handwritten HTML-pages) but the content makes up for it. The article by tttthis very much resonated with me. Many modern sites look great but don't have all that much actual content.
Rep. Rob Bishop Getting Close to Invalidating Endangered Species Act
>Does this phenomenon have an identified timespan like the capacitor plague? Is it over now?

As Samsung recently demonstrated, lithium batteries are far from a solved problem. There are already reports of iPhone 8s disintegrating due to puffed batteries.

We still don't fully understand the chemistry of lithium batteries, but the market keeps demanding higher energy density. There are bound to be blunders along the way.

https://wccftech.com/iphone-8-swollen-batteries/
I had to replace the caps in my SyncMaster 204B. The problem was so pervasive that I ordered a kit for my monitor online that had all the caps I needed for this particular monitor.
Yes this is presented for your consumption to be viewed as a pejorative, but think for yourself, what is the problem here?

Russians are single handedly contributing to economic growth worldwide, better than the US counterparts who brag about it.

The US has found itself in a position where it wishes to tell people which transactions are good and which transactions can't contribute to the financial ecosystem, in order to deter behaviors it doesn't like.

This article is showing how that these fictional limitations on fungibility are futile and have been a colossal waste of US and US partner's resources and public money, perpetuated by excessive pride, unilateral claims on morality, and rampant unique paranoia against the Russian state for historical reasons which are irrelevant.

OH MY GOD This was all part of a ploy to undermine democracy! Orrrr make amazing returns helping fueling an unprecedented growth of the tech sector since the US government did the same thing funding the Fairchilds.
and when the masses come to expropriate the wealth of the rich and form their own sets of governances, they'll still only get to get what is on shore.
Unsure why you're being down voted. Your comment seems pretty accurate to me. Having broken and damaged flat packed goods I've bought from IKEA personally. I would guess another provider with this be UPS or Australia Post could be even less trusted than I.
> Funny how many Russian apologists

This breaks the HN guidelines in two major ways: it's a personal attack and it's an insinuation of astroturfing or shillage without evidence. Those are poison to substantive discussion and we ban accounts that do them, so please follow https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't comment like this again.

The rest of the internet may be insane right now but that doesn't mean we have to imitate it here.
Maybe . . . It's not intellectual property that keeps internet companies at the top of the pile, for the most part, unless we are counting trade secrets and domain names as intellectual property (and they are in a sense, but not the sense that requires a government to create an artificial market for them).
Do they share the same dreams? Can one be awake while the other is asleep, and if so, can she experience the dream, or parts of it, while being fully conscious?
Wasnt SK's record-breaking protests an indirect result of the Panama Papers?
Can't say I miss Geocities inundating the search engines.

Still though, it was pretty fun when there were more than 5 or so websites to go to, like a lot of people tend to only do these days.
Well, at the moment, I am just trying to direct people to a couple of websites. I have created flyers and I am looking for bulletin boards to post them. I would be willing to do meet-ups or something.

Maybe if I were representing some religious organization, people might buy that I am just well meaning. But, I don't do religion.

:/
I agree. It looks like something you could do quickly in Lightroom. Raise the shadows, lower the highlights, set white balance. Maybe you could use the same algorithm for DSLR RAW pictures and then get real DSLR quality?
The only thing that makes money dirty is the US's overinflated idea of whitelisting transactions to deter behaviors they don't like
Horse tattoo meaning a long rich history
There is a strong underlying point to this though, pretty much predicted by RMS and it so far seems to be going in that direction. The last revision of the GPL tried to address some of the IP related consequences but there is only so much that can be done from that angle.

Large piles tend to get larger, that's the major issue.
Nowadays, anyone with a basic understanding of search engines can find almost anything they want within seconds.

Almost anything popular and rather insipid, yes. Try to find more detailed information on very specific topics, however, and you'll discover that search engines like Google have been optimising more and more for the former content, making it harder to find the latter. I don't think that's a good thing at all.

To add insult to injury, if you do try very hard to seek the latter by carefully repeating similar search queries with slight word tweaks, quotes, and trying to dig through all the pages of results to see if you've found what you're looking for, Google will quickly decide that you're a bot and either give you a CAPTCHA or just ban you for a little while entirely.
Licensing is the difference between building on bedrock or quicksand. The profession has wasted millions of hours on rewrites of stuff that already existed but was entombed in failed projects.
Personally I like to be able to keep presentations really really short and dense by showing a live demo, gifs, or pictures.

..
I think when pp presentations start having text or bullet points is when it starts to go wrong.
>There is no evidence whatsoever that something illegal is taking place ?

Why would you want evidence that something illegal was taking place if something illegal was taking place? Sure in the absence of evidence I do believe we cannot declare anyone guilty, but the presumption of innocence doesn't mean we can't cast suspicion.
They are paid to do both. The customer service side isn't optional.

https://jobs.aa.com/job/Dallas-Trainee-Flight-Attendant-TX-7...
If Law itself can't prevent you to exercise your rights, it usually also means it should prevent other people from preventing you to exercise your rights. Thus murder (someone preventing you from exercising your right to live) is a crime and so is slavery (someone preventing you to exercise your freedom).

Your third example is interesting because indeed, I personally believe that education should be a service like any other, one that society is not supposed to provide, at least not by law. On the other hand, law should not prevent your from getting one, nor should it allow anyone to prevent someone from having one. Hopefully you can see the difference.

It's like say owning a car. You have the right to own one. If someone steals it, it's a crime and society must punish it. But society does not have to provide you one if you don't have any.
What Will Bitcoin Look Like in Twenty Years?
I have nothing to add outside of some nostalgia: I once had a dual Celeron rig that fell to this problem. It started with not turning on after hitting the power button. Sometimes it took two to twenty times. I remember when it finally died, after bartending a Phish concert near Milwaukee.
Well, most sites want to be discoverable, so the incentives are aligned for the time being.
> People would be constantly popping
> up on HN repeating a different mantra
> about how bloated and unfocused they
> were

I don't see that for AWS.
Nationalistic attacks are some of the ugliest things people post here. Regardless of nation, it's not ok, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From the first sentence of the paper: “I explore functions f that can be written as a sum f=g1+g2 where g1 and g2 are shifted and possibly reflected versions of each other, both strongly resembling the original function f.”

Note, not f but “both strongly resembling the original function f.”
Southwest Airlines is also fatality free (on their planes).
That's such a great quote! Before I came on board at my current job the teams would occasionally create 350mb (embedded videos, etc), multi-hour PowerPoint presentations used for showing business users what their team had been doing and what was on their road map. Needless to say, attendance to these presentations was abysmal and people would play mobile games and catch up on email for the duration. When I came on we switched to a new system where each lead engineer got 5 index cards and could prepare main points and notes on there, and could otherwise only do live demos of the products for showing things off.

I found that with the PowerPoints they would spend hours on designing the slides, read directly off of them, and often include way, way too much detail for business users. The new system is going great, and I wish I had done that in my college career.

And slightly off-topic: the Carl Hayden story is just so damn awesome. I think the whole story shares some lessons about building a product. I'm looking forward to the movie.
Why Personal Tech Is Depressing
If 85% of the world's population has a misalignment on their feet, that seems a crazy opportunity for sales. Was this the focus on the $97M sales page?
http://neoticies.org Welcome back :) I am currently doing a minimal OpenBSD site in Spanish :D
What you want is called a "volume". When running a docker container you just pass in the -v option and it maps a directory outside the container to a path that can be used from inside the docker container, e.g. `docker run -v /host/directory:/container/directory ...` would make the directory /host/directory on the host machine accessible inside the container at the path /container/directory.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/admin/volumes/volumes/
This ended up having a lasting legacy as many motherboard manufactures switched to Japanese made and/or polymer capacitors. They would tout this fact in their marketing material as a sign of quality. Tech sites started noting the source of a board's caps in their reviews. To this day you will sometimes see "all solid capacitors" in the marketing literature for a motherboard.
my first reaction was, it looks like an HDR effect
Apparently it was designed for mobiles. On a desktop it's a nightmare.
This article has too small font, too many words, I lost interest part way through. Is there a presentation somewhere that covers the authors' main points? Thanks.

:) j/k
Then, when the plane has run out of space, passenger suitcases have to be carried back off the plane and stowed underneath

Weird. I fly mostly with Ryanair and they count the bags before people enter the plane and stow away all the extras. I've never seen completely full overhead bins or bags carried off the plane to stow away.
Consider a future where you don't have to configure your camera before shooting, and instead do all the configuration after
Not even remotely the same thing. Android's version of facial recognition could be fooled by a photo. Face ID is so good that people have to argue over whether or not identical twins being able to trigger it is less secure than Touch ID.
People are exposed to objective reality in their everyday life. You can't just get into humanities. There is a whole education before that.

How does this perspective that people are stupid gain ground? It seems to be a self serving, self important and extremely judgemental perspective held by some insular techies.

The world is as much about politics, people and culture as it is about science. A failure to understand how the world works not just scientifically but politically, culturally and economically, the history of societies and accompanying philosophies gives individuals no context or understanding of their world. A one dimensional perspective both ways impoverishes rather than enlightens.
OpenZFS Developer Summit 2017 Report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15623112
Los Alamos Labs. Maybe there's technically two employers if I'm willing to drive south instead of north. :)
It's not a stupid question. I assume most business travellers avoid it. But the occasionally flying tourist-class still feels the need to pack far more than is really required for their trips.

Obligatory link to onebag.com --> A website started in 1994 helping people bring everything on a carry-on bag.
And China, and sometimes Japan.

Hell... and America, by Americans.
Sure, but 100% unstyled HTML was extremely rare even in the 90s. The problem with everyone writing their own crap HTML is that the sites become terrible and unusable, because they lack good design. What platforms like Twitter/FB initially did was just provide a unified, usable interface to a certain kind of information. Compare to MySpace, which collapsed partly because vast amounts of the profile pages were horrible.
The original patent on virtual reels was granted in 1984 and is known in the industry as the "Telnaes patent"

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4448419A

The original design of virtual reels was more about decreasing the jackpot odds, since a high-payout combination was no longer bound to the physical stops on the reels. Machines that offered higher jackpots were more appealing, and also gave birth to things like progressive jackpots and progressive networked games.

It also made IGT (the owner of the patent) a giant in the industry. Many workarounds were tried and typically failed in the lawsuits that followed. The most successful deviation was the "bonus game" where a particular symbol set would trigger a small video game or some other activity that had its own paytable independent of the main slot paytable.

The psychological design of near misses didn't show up until probably a decade afterward, but since '419 is now expired it's become the new secret sauce of slotmakers.
Will the datasets be open to contribution from members of the public or are these readonly mirrors? Seems like Blue Horizon and Prime Now amongst many other of their offerings that would be use cases for up to the minute data?
Good to know retail arbitrage is still a thing. I guess the algorithms haven’t taken over yet!
Sheep from the Vet school were used, because it was tricky to get a lawnmower around what with all the poles and wires, and goats would have eaten the telescope too.
Which airline? Did a staff member assist you in rescheduling your missed flight? I’ve never been told to ignore my missed flight and rebook a new one-way separately. Any flights I’ve been late for, the airline rebooked me for a later flight on the same reservation without any additional fees.
Jeff bezos guide to life
lovely class of functions, is it part of a math domain of research ?
The bonfires are Irish and were always lit on Halloween (Samhain). Fireworks from our American cousins by way of our American Chinese cousins I'd guess...
Anyone reminded of Alan Kay's way of presenting with Smalltalk? He always takes a moment to point out how horribly limiting PowerPoint is too.

I recall reading about another alternative OS where the "desktop" was a zoomable canvas and files were opened by zooming in far enough. Presentations on that machine apparent were a simple matter or aligning files next to each other and scrolling.
So, what does a carry-on bag really cost an airline anyway?

Is it reasonable to discourage it because the airline needs to pay the airports for each bag and the ability to carry non-passenger cargo is reduced that much?
Measures of cultural flows or how much cultural affinity people feel?

Cultural flows may be more feasible if one were to look at vectors for inventions, dishes, or ideas (i.e. distance travelled over time) as a proxy for connection.

How close people feel to their neighbours I would say has more to do with specific communities than actually how connected people are. For one thing, there would be the assumption that people are aware of what other communities are like or doing in order to have any set stereotypes or sense of affinity.
I believe you can choose what you'd like to see.
Jim Blinn Talk – September 30, 2017 – School of Computing, University of Utah
Image results is using either too big or too low resolution images that are irritating to look at.

Could be solved by making images smaller or increasing resolution.
Except if it's Sears, RCA, IBM, Kodak, etc.
> Fees are exempt from the 7.5% federal excise tax on airfare

Ah, just like pre... 2014? Ebay, where S&H fees were exempt from final value fees. I recall selling games for 1 cent, buy it now, but with $5 shipping, so my listing would be practically free. Ebay has smarted up in a lot of ways. One day the feds will too.

Then buyers would get angry, but really, it was to cut-out Ebay, not confuse them. I would even put the shipping cost in the title to be absolutely clear.
Was it ZetaTalk? Ah, the 90s internet, where kookery and legitimacy stood side by side.
You're right that the g1 and g2 in section 2 are also scaled in addition to being shifts of f. I plan to clarify this in the text.

This work is inspired by the self-similarity of fractals, which is in some cases primarily an intuitive or informal idea: for example, the Mandelbrot set is considered self-similar, but I'm not aware (despite searching) of any simple automorphisms of the Mandelbrot.
(38) Not FAKE NEWS is usa going to another war?