skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Safety gear is great and I wear a lot of it when I ride, but on a motorcycle you really depend on avoiding accidents -- The gear only helps so much compared to a car. It is sort of like picking the fast and nimble vehicle in a videogame instead of the tank -- except you actually die or get hurt.

Therefore distractions are perhaps the biggest safety concern (in particular here in south Florida, everyone is out to get me :-) ). I could see the view that maybe not worrying about navigating is actually less of distraction, but for me I don't think that would be the case. Every second I would spend looking at the HUD is a second I'm not:

* Looking for someone making a left hand turn right in front me
* Noticing who is texting while driving
* Noticing stuff on the road that could result in a loss of traction
* Watching Cars with stuff that might fall off in front of me
* Observing people that look like they might run a light
* Focusing on good control of the bike
* Planning Escape Routes
* etc....

In short, accident avoidance in the long run takes constant focus (and unfortunately, a bit of luck too).
> And now after nearly 10 hours or so i still haven’t heart from DO. Also now that the HN topic is not on the front pages no one is getting updated about the situation. That’s why i wanted to write this post.

I won't speak for everyone, but I can personally live without having updates on the OP's Digital Ocean drama on my HN homepage at all times.
This looks pretty promising. I'm also very happy that they used LESS instead of SASS for their CSS pre-processing. I'm excited to see where this project goes.
Do the terms "winter" and "summer" in this context only refer to the northern hemisphere? Was Australia's "summer" bid to place the tournament in their winter? Presumably they have better weather in the winter.
Of course it can, if it offers something different. Compared to bootstrap 3 I don't really see it. Even their own biased comparison doesn't really show a difference if any. For their comparison I would have preferred to see what makes it different on the less side of things. Ie used bootstrap properly.
> It's not one of these trafficking situations where they've been told they've been found a nice domestic service job in the capital and they subsequently end up in an underground brothel in another country.

Exactly. Honestly, it's very telling that the vast majority of migrant workers in the gulf are men. They're doing hard manual labor, in admittedly poor conditions, but that is by and large what they signed up for.

> They have good reason to expect to have access to food and their post-deduction wages though.

Agreed. And that's why the instances where they don't even receive that are so alarming and do trigger government investigations.
Locking the account should put it in a read-only mode. No changes to your DNS, no ability to start the droplet back up, firewall rules put in place at the hypervisor/network layer that block outbound traffic, but still allows you inbound access.
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As somebody who spent a few years in Saudi Arabia (as well as visiting some of its fellow oil rich neighbors)...I can confirm this problem which is endemic to all rich Middle Eastern countries. As an American of Indian ethnicity (I can speak Hindi), I was able to see how people from these countries treat folks from the Indian subcontinent.

They're all basically nouveau-riche. They bring in what is slave labor/indentured servitude from poorer countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, the Philippines, etc. They clean the toilets, they serve the food at McDonalds, they build every house and skyscraper, the work the oil fields...in other words all the dirty jobs. Likewise people from western countries are brought into do the white collar work -- doctors, engineers, architects, etc....though they're having a blast.

I would say the situation is analogous to illegal immigrants from Mexico in the US -- but believe it or not we're way way way way way nicer to our illegal immigrants than these countries are to their legal immigrants! They live in terrible and barbaric conditions very similar to those described in the article. What makes it all so horrid is the disparity in wealth between the way they live and the way the elites live. If you're in Dubai, you can go snowboarding on a ski slope inside a shopping mall -- built by some guy who's in the outskirts of the city, sleeping in a hot tin can with 12 other guys, a broken AC, completely sore body, and sun burnt skin. You'll sometimes see Arab guys screaming at/assaulting these people at stores, shops, or taxis as if they're feudal lords talking to their peasants.

My father calls these immigrants heroes. They take shit (physically, verbally, mentally) you and I could not imagine just to send back the equivalent of $100-$200 a month to their families back home. That small amount of money enables them to educate their kids, feed their family, build homes, businesses, etc. They dream of the day they get to return home and finally see their families again.
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At least in part money related, it seems - Check out the key to the color codes on the bottom of the fourth page - 'Aggregating fees' and 'Need to be assigned a permanent fee coordinator'.
That statement doesn't say that they notified the customer of the problem. Unless the notification to the customer said "malicious UDP pattern", the customer wasn't notified.
Next up: WordPress in Node.

Can you expand more on this?
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You miss the point here. It's not about getting hacked or so. It's their way of handling it. Like i said they kill it first and then tell you the reason why. What's the point in it ?
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If you have a production app, it would make sense for you implement HA, then you wouldn't have to worry about a single server getting hacked.

What proper reasoning do you need? If your server is hacked, it makes sense to shutdown the server, or disconnect it from the network completely. You can extract the data at a later time.

What if your server was hacked, then started serving up child porn? Would you be okay with having the server continue running?
Instead of using nginx or a Web server for SSL, you might consider using something like stunnel for SSL termination as recommended by 'cperciva:
"...for security reasons, I prefer to keep SSL termination separate from HTTP serving" (http://colin.percival.usesthis.com, http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-09-28-securing-https.ht...).

In his 2010 talk "Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour" (http://blip.tv/fosslc/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cryp...), Colin also recommends limiting SSL use to a confined area.

Amazon does this.

For example, Amazon.com only uses only SSL when you log in, check out, or access "Your Account". Everywhere else Amazon.com uses HMAC request signatures over HTTP, similar to how AWS API requests are signed.

See "Signing AWS API Requests" (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signing_aws_api...)

To Colin and the other security professionals on HN:

* Is limiting SSL still recommended in spite of the trend toward Always-On-SSL?

* What are the current best practices and tradeoff considerations of this approach?
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I think this is new to many people and thus well worth reporting.

Also, homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia in 1993. The recent law bans distributing material about non-traditional sexual relations to minors. It does not make it illegal to be gay in Russia.

Contrast this to Qatar where it is illegal to be a male and homosexual - the punishment being a couple of years in prison and public lashing.
AMD Introduces "Mantle" API Initiative
in her letters she said she was forbiden to provide actual health care. all they gave was a place for the sick to convalesce.

also, she and most othe rreligious still advocate over population and against several sane health treatments. not to mention education.

no little good religion does compensate for the long term damage.
AMD announces Mantle, a low-level graphics API replacement for Direct3D/OpenGL
Never heard on DO but will use them for a project soon - looks great
Recent interview with Zaid as "Snowden, Manning and the Modern Day Whistleblower": http://cherispeak.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/snowden-manning-a...
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GSX doesn't do groceries (yet). Even though they have Raley's and Whole Foods, you can't, for example, order essentials like Milk.

Which makes sense - mostly non-perishables shelf-able items. At first, the lack of groceries made me wonder if it was useful at all, but being able to find e.g. 2 gallon-sized jugs of distilled vinegar awaiting at my doorstep is quite nice (local stores often just don't carry the stuff).

Also Instacart has TJ's. That one store is a winner all by itself.
I have a Wacom tablet that I routinely use for sketches. The only problem I always have is that most applications have trouble recognizing the eraser tip. I think Wacom has some sort of web plugin that comes with the driver when you install the table. Any chance of adding that style of tablet input?
More information still coming out on the live stream: http://www.livestream.com/amdlivestream.

Edit: It's over now. The VOD is available here: http://www.livestream.com/amdlivestream/video?clipId=pla_334....
Mantle information starts at 02:26:40.
> I'd expect it's common for them to be left unpaid or underpaid at the close.

Unpaid, no. It's extremely rare for an employer to not pay anything ever. Underpaid, definitely—between extra "fees" and deductions, many workers end up with less than they expected (but still more than they'd make back home).
It's along the lines of how to come up with good ideas, but I'm not sure that it's actionable. Almost every problem I think about could be reasonably solved by the next guy. There's the other caveat that if you don't have other people working on similar things you're probably working on a pain point nobody has. I like PG's more actionable approach about picking problems you yourself experience, regardless of who else might be working on it.
Bad idea. If you want to hear "crazy talk" that doesn't involve self mutilation, you are welcome to email me.

Best of luck.
I use google maps from my iPhone bluetoothing to my helmet. Very effective and not distracting. This solution is dreadfully dangerous IMHO.
If you're paying $5 a month, don't expect to have support turn around times under 1 day. If you're running Farmville, I would hope that you're paying more than $5 a month for your server.
Abuse is expensive for a cloud service provider. Being thorough about it helps keep prices down.
I find it interesting the author of this is so earnest about getting an image slider. I can't remember where I saw it, but it made it to the front page of HN... it was a single-purpose site demonstrating that sliders/carousels are lazy answers to information hierarchy challenges. I agree, although I've been guilty of using sliders in the past. However, I'm trying to make amends and try to come up with design solutions that don't require a carousel or slider.

I don't have any research to back up that sliders are detrimental if not just ineffective. But I do see how they can be just convenient...and not in a good way. The fast food of design? Tastes good at first but doesn't really sustain?
While it's true that you should disable compression, most browsers disable it client-side now so this isn't a huge issue. As for BREACH, HTTP compression has a huge performance benefit, so it's not really feasible to disable it. Unfortunately, it's pretty difficult to protect the attack using other methods.
Yes, indeed. That is why I provided the source of the misquote.
If you understand Git well enough, then the only major difference Github adds is pull requests, which is a pretty intuitive concept once you understand Git branching.

Try http://git-scm.com/ for a great (official) tutorial.
They saw Amazon Fresh, and are skating to where the puck will be. I'm guessing if it puts pressure on Amazon, it's worth it even if Google doesn't make big margins.
> I think it's a little irresponsible to send all the data via web-hook without providing a way to verify it came from Stripe.

Well, as zrail said, you can trivially verify it by fetching the associated event from Stripe and ignoring the webhook body.

We've debated this ourselves, though. While you can theoretically get good security with a combination of SSL and a shared secret in the URL, it's a bit ungainly, and we should perhaps encourage the right thing more straightforwardly by dropping the body from the POST.
Suspending account is an action reversable with sufficient cause, killing him is not.
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They do not work on Windows XP (unless the user is using Firefox or Chrome), as the StartCom certificate is not part of the XP trusted root certs. There is an update available from Microsoft to add some new root certs but as far as I can tell it is a manual only update, which means it's very unlikely to be installed by XP users.

We tried to switch our site to https only recently, and had to backtrack because of this (and because we are too cheap/stubborn to buy an SSL cert from someone who is in the XP trusted root certs).
Apple Maps flaw causes runway alerts
Apple Maps flaw causes runway alerts http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24246646
From your link:

>Additionally, experience
indicates there will be a noticeable
improvement in the protective
characteristic of helmets over a five-
year period due to advances in
materials, designs, production
methods and the standards.

As a person who doesn't know a lot about motorcycling I found that surprising. Helmets seemed to me like an item the quality of which must have had plateaued a long time ago. But then again, you might naively think that about swimsuits.
As I understand it, (correct me if I'm wrong), https has two parts:

1. Encryption: protects from eavesdropping (e.g. your internet provider can't see what you're communicating)

2. Authentication: protects from MITM (e.g. someone changing the data en-route)

For full security you need both; but #2 is much more complicated than #1 because it needs a trusted third party, certificates, etc. It's effectively a barrier to having everyone use encryption.

Why isn't it possible to opt for only #1? It should be as simple as adding "Encrypt +All" to your apache settings.
Initially I was skeptical, but it soon turned into joy. Now I can't live without it. Try it for 1-2 months, there's no looking up.
I actually know nothing about Git. But thank you for replying. Will check the link. :-)
In your opinion, would a voice-based contextually aware device be a big enough distraction/safety reduction to offset it's value?
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> Mantle enables 9x more draw calls per second than other APIs by reducing CPU overhead. [0]

That's a pretty extraordinary claim. I look forward to seeing if they can back it up.

[0] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7368/amd-gpu-product-showcase-...
If the account can reasonably be considered to be abusive (whether intentionally or because it was compromised), DigitalOcean has an even greater obligation to protect their network and the other network that's being targeted. Immediately suspending the account is the correct first step.

If DigitalOcean's support wasn't clear about their reasons for suspending the account, or if you feel that you weren't getting a helpful response from them, then post the communications you had with them to prove it.
They probably don't fly that often either. It's probably better to aim for your target audience.

Anyway, some smartphones are free on a plan. It's that data plan, which we would hope will drop in price. Personally, I'd like to see WiFi "everywhere" so we can eliminate the data plans.
Can you please clarify exactly what you mean by compression? Is this referring to typical gzip compression in HTTP results or something else?
If it's just a shared secret, why not just make a secret (and complicated) URL for the web hook? It's shared with the deliverer but as long as you're using SSL it should be just as secure.

Speaking of which, the right way to do this is to validate their SSL client certificate, but I doubt many places are easily setup to do that - in fact I would bet the sending endpoint doesn't even use a certificate most of the time.
Hack your weight by eating healthy and exercising with regularity. You say you "ate Paleo-ish" but ultimately you have to restrict calorie intake. Supplemental testosterone? I've never heard of that being used for weight loss. Put the testosterone you already have to good use and start lifting weights; muscle takes more calories to maintain than fat.
Usually, I don't need the stylus; I'm using the keyboard and touchpad. However, when I do need it, I can't find it because it attaches where the power cord attaches, so I'm always removing it and setting it down, then forgetting to pick the stylus up. If they had a place to dock it on the top edge, that would be great.

When my daughter uses my Surface, she uses it as a WACOM replacement, so she needs (and finds) the stylus.
If you don't use or like github features, you don't really need to pay for it. Sounds like common wisdom. OP listed points which do not define github. If you want unlimited private repos "in the cloud", just use bitbucket.

Github provides excellent interface and workflow patterns for code collaboration. I don't know, maybe for some it's reasonable to swap patches via mail, but for me hassle of downloading attachments from gmail into the right folder is just not worth it.

Also, laugh all you want, but rendered README.md and having all code at glance are life-savers. It's so much easier to get a hold of what another open source library does, if it has nicely formatted README with examples. Bonus points for gh-pages hosted docs.
I considered her opinion on tech to be invalid when she claimed that tech isn't merit based. All of the people I've met and worked with have taken lots of effort and [informal & formal] education to get where they are today.

Then I saw the last bit of it: "[...] I will miss terribly, like writing about poop and that time my editor tried to get me to go on a date with a sex robot and What Will Elon Musk Think of Next and that one month where John McAfee went completely insane; "

That rather explains her position. She doesn't get into the low lying details of tech.

The minor irritants I can relate with her and agree with her on.
summary: paying a vps is cheaper and gives you more than git hub.

in my experience, pros:
- full control (he is not using this as he and all other probably commit as user git)
- commit hooks

contra:
- you take the time to setup, debug, maintain. (track all those pesky security updates)
- you have to backup.
- people already have their keys setup at github.

also, about the paying for privacy... i have two github accounts. one with my real name another with a pseudonym.

and to conclude, after some time, i just moved all my code to bitbucket. initially because i rather mercurial and they have both. but then because you get a few private repos
Or haptics?
Most stunning thing about 3.10 looks like the new maps application based on OpenStreetMap. Now I really wish I have a Surface Pro 2 with GNOME running on it.
Quotes by themselves are meaningless, no topic can be succinctly covered in a quote. How many quotes have citations? Most of the time they just are there to reinforce pre conceived notions.

But if someone you think knows the topic well says it, then you might assume from their experience it's true.

Humorous quotes often are only funny given who said it. Are funny candid gags on youtube still funny if they are actually planned? Ask a philosopher that one I guess.

Motivation quotes, well I'd need to see proof they work at all rather than just sell posters first.
tl;dr -- While many frequent filers are legit book-writers/journalists/legit-folks-who-I-honestly-wish-well, sometimes they're essentially spammers, so I can see why some offices might keep a list of those who are to be bottom of piled because of their patterns (although nowhere I ever worked did, god I wish we did).

As someone who once in the past had to handle (an ungodly amount of) FOIA requests, should there be a list? I don't know, primarily because I don't know what the utility is. That said, some opinions derived from experiences:

1) Some people are serial filers. They haven't bothered to do the research up front to ask relevant questions and after a bit when you see their names you know that when you read the next paragraph it's going to be asking about a) things you know you cannot disclose (not for some BS reason but because of things that actually should remain secret), b) aliens (no we don't have them), c) blatant evidence of government conspiracy, generally of the NWO sort (duh and or hello? Project BlueBeam doesn't keep paper records!).

2) There were also frequent filers where the requestor isn't a crackpot, a FOIA spammer, or asking for something they know in advance could not be provided. These were generally authors. We always got these people what we could and even though my shop didn't keep a list me and the other poor souls stuck on FOIA duty knew them by name. This meant that we basically knew what they wanted when they filed which helped us get them their stuff faster with less overhead. (N.B. this did not stop us from cursing them for their curiosity and the resultant carpal tunnel).
I think I understand where you're coming from. It comes down to motive for identification. When 4chan/reddit decide to dox some poor stranger, it usually has specific intent: ruin their life, or get revenge. This is bad. When gov't orgs keep docs on people, it becomes very important to be clear on what their motives are. Are they doing it to avoid disasters? If so, good. Are they doing it to criminalize, to build evidence against (strictly against, and never for), to prosecute & convict? If so, it could be okay (as long as the law is fair, etc). Or are they doing it to specifically marginalize these people, to restrict their freedom (like their freedom to file FOIAs)?

In this case, the author didn't present any call to action. This is good. I hope nobody throws eggs at any houses, but I don't think this link promoted anything like that. More to the point, the request specifically how being on such a list affects processing requests from listed requesters. This would very much clarify & resolve the questions above.
The Electric Universe Theory is also extremely intriguing.
That is an interesting idea. I still wouldn't want the distraction myself (rather just pull over, take out my phone, figure it out, and get back on the road). However, I'm a pretty new rider (about 1500 miles on the bike). More experienced riders very well might feel a lot different.
Most senders seem to implement retries if they don't get a 200 response.
Much of Australia is reasonably temperate. July in Sydney or Melbourne is in the 40s-50s Fahrenheit, which, while chilly, is both comparable to the climate for a large portion of the club season in Europe and vastly better than 100-ish for a sport that combines endurance running with interval sprints.
I would have bought LTE with my surface pro, had it been offered. My iPad's LTE is so flaky I don't trust it.
Reminds me of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derweze