skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Automated Under-Reporter program does this on-the-fly with no recurring cost, and provides corroborating evidence to the auditor. In fact, an analysis of AUR showed that the IRS is too-lenient in prosecuting claims with automatically-trawled evidence!

https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2015reports/2015...
Did you read the story? The claims made to the WaPo were very clear.

Here's an example paragraph:

Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said the attack shows how rampant Russian hacking is. “It’s systemic, relentless, predatory,” Welch said . “They will hack everywhere, even Vermont, in pursuit of opportunities to disrupt our country. We must remain vigilant, which is why I support President Obama’s sanctions against Russia and its attacks on our country and what it stands for.”

and another

Officials said that it is unclear when the code entered the Vermont utility’s computer, and that an investigation will attempt to determine the timing and nature of the intrusion.

What US officials are claiming here is very straightforward - the journalists simply quoted them directly in many cases, even the anonymous ones. And the story makes clear this story came from many different sources.

So no, it wasn't a simply journalistic error. The government made precise, clear claims multiple times from multiple officials - and then the story was retracted. But only after many people had seen it.
Perhaps in the past. In the future, attackers will just modify their code until this test returns a different predicted author.
The bitcoin blockchain does not keep a record of trades you make on Coinbase though.
I am beginner so bear with me. I learnt git 2 years back and always end up using the same set of commands and never anything new which lets me work very smoothly on projects. I read a lot of blogs to understand how git works and how useful git reflog is. I was/am often confused about what is offered solely by git and github as these two are two different things. Is fork/PR/Issues native to git? I still don't have an answer.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if this was an oversight as well. I can't imagine that GitHub would delete the git blobs from their servers, even if you stop paying (harddrives are cheap!).
I think the last sentence may be wrong

> I haven’t tried contacting customer support, but as this appears to be official policy I would not expect a change there.

I'm sure the support would be able to do something for you there, anyway it's always good to contact them, even if they can't do anything, before saying things like this online.
If you're writing research software you can backup to zenodo (i.e. CERN) for free.
Note: the HN title has been changed from the original "How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack" which is the actual title of that IEEE Spectrum article.
There's a finite need for ovens, or lamps, or whatever. In some countries, I'm sure that need isn't met, maybe everywhere, who knows.

But at some point you can't sell more product than what breaks down and needs replacing, which I would call maintenance mode, not growth.

At that point, you either start designing obsolescence into the products (arguably already done in both lamps and other various electric appliances), or you need to disrupt the industry to supply something worth replacing to, or you (or at least a majority of the workers) move to another industry where growth can happen.

I absolutely don't want to live in a society where electricity needs grow in perpetuity, or every house gets more and more lamps "just cuz".

The end goal for any company should be monopoly in their market, at which point they slash their workforce to just keep the market, and divest into another market (where they can then employ the workers again).
A possible workaround?

Fork a private repo. Make it public, thus forcing a new repository network to be made. Then take it private again if you choose.

In the case of a public fork, it seems you're safe from it getting taken out from you. (relatively speaking)
The GIL doesn't stop you from sharing mutable state across threads, nor does it make it generally safe to do so.
Giving the sheriff the opportunity to personally profit from providing meals may well create lots of incentive for efficiency, but where's the check that makes sure the food is adequate?.
Yes, looks more like an excuse to to fix an old overstretched infrastructures.
> Option 1: Demonize all conservatives, turning the environment into a partisan agenda

> Option 2: Demonize elected officials that choose to side with lobbyists over their constituents

Sorry, could you remind me again who's electing those "elected officials that choose to side with lobbyists over their constituents"?
Set multiple urls for one remote using `--push`

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote#git-remote-emset-urlem

and you are about done.
I think what actually happened is that no candidate won enough votes, so a runoff is required.

"The National Electoral Commission (NEC) declared a runoff after none of the 16 presidential hopefuls on the March 7 ballot paper secured the 55% needed to secure an outright victory."

http://www.africanews.com/2018/03/15/sierra-leone-presidenti...
Regardless of whether you lose them you pay taxes when you make a taxable transaction, being either exchanging FIAT to crypto or crypto to a different crypto.
Git is a distributed version control system and Github is not in a privileged position. Don't treat it like it is. Github is a convenience. Nothing more.

"Forks" are really just branches and branches are really just references. Forking just adds a few more references to the same repository.
The story I linked to has statements from multiple elected representatives stating point blank that Russia had hacked the electricity grid. Official statements by representatives is the same thing as "The US Says" as far as the world is concerned.
you could also...you know...consider your responsibility to the other human beings that are being treated like this.
Git is a decentralized source control system, also known as a DVCS (distributed version control system).

"GitHub" is essentially just "git" on some someone else's computer with a bunch of extra features.
The media's track record of covering anything scientific is pretty horrendous. Because of that, I am a massive fan of the proliferation of smaller science-based youtube channels/blogs that cover science well.

I think old school media is really adapting pretty horribly in most areas of news coverage, which is why I have altered my diet to more long form, smaller channel sources and I've been happier for it.
Programming cells to write their own memoirs
May by the latest. But most likely will get something out for python soon.
Did you contact GitHub regarding this and ask them, before bashing them on social media? What was their response? They'll probably gladly remedy the situation.
Why worried about vendor lock in? Every base comes with API and export options. It's very easy to take your data with you?

Actually we mirror all the data every 24 hours with some simple GET requests in combination with postgres JSON columns
Except a lot of those dominant companies either A) conspicuously absent from China (e.g. Google) or B) China can sever their supply chain (e.g. Apple)
To be fair, the EPA was established by Nixon as an organization to manage a number of laws passed by the Democrat controlled Congress. Nixon even tried to veto the Clean Water Act.
I'm not denying that XSLT is a neat technology.

But for those who don't know the history, the vision was that XML would be this amazing interchange technology, and XSLT would be used to transform the XML as needed between and within apps, without needing real programmers.

For example, I know of one top-10 website circa 2004 that had their Java programmers producing only XML output. Then, XSLT specialists would transform that into HTML for rendering.

In theory, this provided a clear separation between back-end and front-end programmers. In practice, it was a giant clusterfuck, because any real work required coordinated changes at multiple levels. Although in theory the front-end work was independent, the reality was absurdly convoluted XSLT trying to turn not-very-good XML into something that rendered well on screen. Nobody sensible does this today.

At the time, XML/XSLT was expected to be central to a new, better way of making software. But now it's a weird niche thing, because although it was technologically cool, it was not actually better for 99% of use cases.
Forks are clones that live on GitHub, with some access control.

PRs are native to GitHub, but I can send you an email Requesting that you Pull from my remote. The Linux kernel team still emails patches I think.

Issues are a GitHub thing.
It certainly doesn't seem to have any particular HN merit beyond pointing and shrieking at somebody else's problems, no, and it's producing comments that I would consider to either be shading on racism or crossing the line. I've flagged it; feel free to join me.
Hey Niels!

I'm John, and I work at GitHub. Sorry to hear you're having difficulty.

From your post:

> I haven’t tried contacting customer support, but as this appears to be official policy I would not expect a change there.

I'd recommend you reach out to support@github.com, they're usually very helpful with things like this.
Which is how almost everybody uses it, so not such a helpful observation.
> Why are so many people discussing REST in GraphQL threads so oblivious of what REST is?

It's on purpose. You can see it how Graphql is marketed in tech meet-ups. The proponents always argue against strawmen. I find it disgusting.
> that large numbers of City workers will just transplant their entire lives to a whole different country to keep a job

A chunk of them already have moved country: https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/231364/percentage-o...

Not a majority, no, but it's inherently a very international business and the more money is at stake the more willing people will be to move.

It matters a great deal what the UK immigration regime will be after Brexit. The government has refused to give any clarity on this, and there are warning signs that the Home Office would very much like to start treating EU nationals as illegal immigrants. If no agreement is reached otherwise, it will be illegal for all those EU nationals to be employed, rent a house, or have a bank account.

I'm not saying it will be an overnight collapse, but more likely a slow melting away of new business and gradual movement of e.g. Euroclearing. In the short term it may be as simple as moving the flag which says where the company's HQ is and moving its taxpaying nexus inside the EU.

You're also underestimating the willingness of those financial businesses which are within the EU to be comfortable with UK competition.
because they systematically oppress those who have or are likely to suffer from this type of treatment,
Physical control of polling station is not required. Voters are getting the filled ballot outside the polling station from organizers, tossing it into the box and bringing the empty ballot back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_train
> Luckily I found an old local copy of my project [...] I haven’t tried contacting customer support, but as this appears to be official policy I would not expect a change there.

The policy itself needs to be changed, the individual case is resolved.
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Removing access to the fork in that instance would make sense, but that's not what happened here. The author didn't fork in an organisation, he forked to his own personal Premium account. Which he continues to pay for.
Or you can pay them and not violate their terms. Outrage over GitHub admin actions is loud, but for the 99.999% of cases everything is fine.
That's awesome! Do you have any pictures of the table/garden available online?
That's not the right conclusion. The LHC is expected to run for at least another decade, but it will not cast light on terra incognita forever. Since particle accelerators like the LHC (and its various proposed successors) can take a generation to build and calibrate, it's important to start thinking now about planning and funding future experiments.
Github is just the end point where the program git pushes your code for storage and viewing.

There are plenty of other alternatives, including ones you can host yourself, the most popular that I've seen being GitLab and BitBucket.
Back in the late 80s/early 90s it was quite possible to tell the author looking at the disassembled portion of a virus. (when all viruses were virtually written in assembly)

I don't think much has changed.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1666
>> Generally, the more thoughtful believers will recognise that the concept of God is something that exists outside the realm of things humans can assign probabilities to
1031 exchanges are indeed explicitly only for real estate starting in 2018. For 2017, it's best to consult a tax professional as the rules are somewhat unclear.
Goldman Sachs Pays Women in U.K. 56% Less Than Male Colleagues
i don't think it works well. Tried it, not all updates come in especially if you're using lookup formulas.

If they can do Zapier push then a webhook should not be that hard to pull of either. But the request has been there for a long time (https://community.airtable.com/t/webhooks-for-records/1966) and I just don't think that their architecture is ready for it (yet).

Maybe the 50mio will do some good :-)
Also relevant: Principles of Neural Design by Sterling and Laughlin https://mitpress.mit.edu/neuraldesign%20
The What, Why and How of Delta Robots
Microsoft: Write Documents and Create Presentation with Voice Dictate
Please do TDD.
Moreover, do we as a society want to spend money on discovery procedures to accurately identify speeders' net worth? What do you do if a corporate executive tells the officer he has no assets or income? Personally, if we think speeding is a problem worth spending on, I'd rather hire two more traffic officers than one lawyer and one accountant to adjudicate fine amounts.

This may be one of those good ideas that falls apart on implementation.
First, it's important to note that when I talk about equality I mean statistical equality within acceptable margins. I.e., not that all people personally have equal power. As to your question, it's a matter of values. As I said in another comment, Western democratic (aspirational) values are such that all lives have equal value. Your personal values may differ. We can't justify our values based on some mathematical formula; that's the meaning of values. They are core beliefs.

Nevertheless, we could point out some obvious problems with different value systems from the Western democratic ones. For example, how is it even possible to distribute anything based on virtue and competence? We cannot distribute power based on actual competence and virtue, but only on perceived or measured competence and virtue, and that is very different. Measured competence and virtue are circumstantial, and in our real world (as opposed to some imagined utopia), reality is that power may strongly influence circumstance (and so our perception of competence and virtue). Say, if a powerful country exploits a less powerful one, steals its resources and enslaves its people, it creates a circumstance where those exploited people may have adversarial conditions to display their competence and virtue. So we would say that even if our values were such that we believed that power should be distributed based on competence and virtue, doing so would be impossible, and attempting to do so (based on measured competence and virtue) would actually result in something very different. This is why the term meritocracy is satirical (or, at least, it was coined as a satirical term), because it's obvious that true merit cannot really be measured, and any attempt at meritocracy would be no better than a system based on, say, hereditary value (nobility).

Having said that, to some acceptable degree, even in democratic societies we do want to reward virtue and competence. We put criminals in prison (taking most power from them), and reward competent virtuous people with success that imbues power. But we don't want the disparity to grow too large because we're aware that 1. our measurement of virtue and competence is flawed, and 2. too large a disparity causes great harm to freedom.
The author states that he didnt bother with support (luckily he had a local copy) so here are my 2 cents

I've been in the exact same spot under very similar circumstances. What I can add is that the github support was great, we got it resolved within the working day.

The repo was "deleted" to free up the private repos of my colleague but we didnt know that the fork on my account would go down with it. Its been probably a couple months till we got back to it and noticed the issue. They managed to recover the repo and unblock my fork. I just did a fresh repo and moved everything over.

While it is odd behavior, if its really bad they will probably manage to get you back on your feet.

Also Im not affiliated with github in any way just have some repos from student days over there. If it matters im on gitlab and google repos
My first (and current) mechanical keyboard was a Corsair K70 non-RGB with Cherry MX Browns. I don't game so I use it mostly for work-related tasks: programming, writing docs, books. I'm quite happy with it so far.
I'm sure you're right, like with most things in this industry!
Yeah, same.

And it can even be fine when things are beyond the state of the art, as long as the CEO has the bravery to look reality in the face and either a) find another way, or b) say "sorry, startups are gambles, and this one's a busted flush".

And it's the liars and charlatans that really get to me. I figure it's at least 30% likely that I'll end up in jail because somebody says "blockchain" to me one too many times regarding some application which would be better off done with a MySQL database.
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>That's better than the alternative of not investing at all because Vanguard is not user-friendly

This is literally what happened to me. I lost out on 20%+ in gains because I procrastinated a year after reading about how much Betterment fees eat into your gains. In hindsight the amount of money I missed out on was WAY more than any fee Betterment would have hit me with.
>"GitHub" is essentially just "git" on some someone else's computer with a bunch of extra features.

The comment below you answered my question : PR/Issues are native to github.
How a german chocolate maker from 1900 thought how 2000 will look like
I'm still speaking about reference-counted RC<T>, which inevitably suffers from memory leaks. And moreover - _any_ implementation which avoids throwing an exception, in quite a few use cases has no other choice than to resort to keeping the stuff until the last reference to it is killed, inevitably causing Java-style semantic memory leaks.

P.S. FWIW, Rust's references ~= OP's "naked pointers" (NOT 'soft pointers'), and SaferCPP's 'scoped pointers'. A useful tool, but is not sufficient in quite a few real-world use cases.
Formally, the current ice age hasn't ended and its effects will return in full force; we happen to live in an interglacial period, still overall a colder climate than when the Earth has not been in an Ice Age.
Of the many things might have caused the revolution, global warming wasn't one of them. Egypt is at a country's developmental phase when urbanization happens. Also it takes a lot of confidence to attribute 2 years of dryness to climate change. I'm trying to keep my composure but this is a laughable statement.

Here's a neat little tool I found:
http://flood.firetree.net/

I guess that by 2100 the only problems my area will run into is a couple of deltas being flooded by saltwater and a few random patches of 50m incursions, all but one uninhabited. I think I'll survive, and my children will probably be fine.
> and their policy did exactly what they tried to.

In a way. Obviously their goal was growth: to attract industry whose wages and hopefully some profits would go back into the local economy. That's not going to happen with Bitcoin mining. If 200 local jobs had been created, then the story would be different.
Why would Joe pay taxes when he didn't make any profit off the 600k?
Hey John,

thanks for reaching out. The individual case was resolved (found a local copy). But I find the policy worrisome for future projects. If the customer support was happy to reenable access for me, what is the point of the current policy?
It's worth considering the cultural context in which high-end physics operates, at least within the United States.

The U.S.'s greatest military victory--the last time we can cleanly call ourselves heroes--was World War II. The Nazis were an awful regime who did horrific things that no one can defend. And Japan directly attacked us. We had good reasons for fighting and we (with our allies) conclusively won.

And there is broad public sentiment that we won because of physics. High-end theoretical physics gave us futuristic tools like radio, radar, and of course the nuclear bomb. Lower-end physics gave us the tools for engineering the incredible machines we fought with, like airplanes, bombs, tanks, and ships.

So, in minds of U.S. citizens, and more importantly in the halls of U.S. government, discussions of high-end physics come with an implicit promise of military applications. Maybe we could figure out anti-gravity, people think, or ray guns, or teleportation, or force fields--if we only understood the particles and fields a bit better.

Physicists do not promise any of this, of course. But at least IMO it is a real phenomenon. I went to see Interstellar with someone who had worked in and with Congress for a long time. After we left, she said "do you think it's true that once we understand gravity, we'll be able to manage gravity and create antigravity?" I had to explain that just understanding a phenomenon does not grant magical powers over it.

But that has been the experience of the U.S. government! They gave money so physicists could better understand particles, and in return the scientists gave the government seemingly magical powers, like seeing in the dark (radar) and city-destroying explosions (nuclear fission and fusion).

So what happens when physics stops delivering military leaps forward? Or when the physics is superseded by another discipline that delivers military applications?

It looked like chemistry and biology might do that, but then the world managed to collectively decide that those should be illegal tools of war. But it seems totally obvious that the current top priority for military application is information technology.

So, I think the author is correct that particle physics faces a looming crisis, at least in funding and public confidence.
The story was not retracted, only the characterization, in an earlier version of the story, that the Jack had impacted the electric grid rather than a computer at the utility that was not part of the operation of the grid. This is explicitly stated in the Editor's Note that you quoted.

> So no, it wasn't a simply journalistic error.

Yes, it was.
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I used to work as an in house contractor for the US Government on a team with two other developers. Our federal managers were pushing to replace a highly customized HR system with a 3rd party product. It was going to cost millions of dollars and take over a year. Our job was to help with the transition even though we built and maintained the original system. However, our contractor manager pushed for us to upgrade the existing system in house by hiring two additional surge developers. We ended up finishing the entire project in six months well under budget and exactly to spec with great feedback from the users. Funny thing about it is the federal managers took credit for the project even though they initially wanted to use a 3rd party system. Such is politics.