skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is part of the problem inertia? What I mean is if there are multiple pending transactions on an account, is it even possible from a technical perspective to say "Is there $100 available in this account for immediate withdrawal?" I would suspect it is possible, but I also wouldn't expect the majority of US banking infrastructure to run on AS400s.
Im not attacking entire population, Im stating a fact. I understand SJW etc, but please do talk to someone actually living in India.
That is bad. Even worse was a default that the OpenSSH developers quietly added and folks have become addicted to. It also enables me to phish any company and get access to all their servers, bypassing 2FA with almost no logging.

Some time read up on SSH Multiplexing. The default is MaxSessions 10. You auth once, my phishing exercise can utilize your session to connect anywhere you have connected. Nothing will show up in syslog. I can take care of `lastlog` entries since folks cache sudoer privs for so long; or in some cases, don't even require a pw.

I will set up a github with a working example of how to set up a backdoor leveraging ssh multiplexing. I got the idea from a coworker (whitehat) that used a simple ruby script to completely pwn my system. The cool part is, it doesn't require exploiting anything beyond the helpful developer or sysadmin.
Even more centralization and single point of failure. If this continues the web as envisioned will be entirely replaced by a centralized system of walled gardens with big companies controlling access.

This is why we need IPFS sooner rather than later.
"Grok" in is original use is something more like a deep and complete understanding. Here is Heinlein's explanation from "Stranger in a Strange Land":
"Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man."

But 'grok' is supposed to mean something more like understand various arbitrary things at a low and intimate level, not at a high level.
>Wolfram Programming Lab is something that’s uniquely made possible by the Wolfram Language. Because it’s only with the whole knowledge-based programming approach—and all the technology we’ve built—that one gets to the point where simple code can routinely do really interesting and compelling things.

Translating out of Wolfram-ese:

"simple code doing interesting things" -> expressiveness

"knowledge-based programming" -> lots of libraries

"uniquely made possible by the Wolfram Language" -> we have the best libraries, and therefore the most expressive language

Stephen Wolfram is a font of interesting ideas that deserve attention. He really is an intelligent and perceptive guy. The problem is he's so arrogant that he consistently ignores (or, when he does acknowledge it, belittles) what others have done. I find myself unable to trust anything he writes or does because it's always filtered through the lens of his own brilliance - I intuitively expect that such a person will ignore serious problems with their own work because it's a threat to their ego.

I think we should look very carefully at his ideas, work out what they actually are (instead of what he thinks they are because he's not a reliable source) and steal them.
Yeah there's some Not Invented Here (NIH) sentiment to this behavior and it's holding back the community from moving forward and exploring new frontiers and solutions than reinventing the wheel or tearing down structures to rebuild them only to tear them down shortly again and so on and so forth.
> So the payments network - the hard part - was already in place.

Similar example: Polish mobile payments company (Blue Media) wanted to speed up most commonly used service - charging prepaid GSM accounts so they created account in pretty much every existing bank as internal transfers are pretty much instant. This also required to integrate with many APIs to fill out/automate transfer details. Thanks to that it was easy for them to offered express transfers (5-15 minutes instead of standard 2-4 hours)
Let's take an alternate example, where there's no crime committed: I win $100MM in the lottery. That I can speak to without playing devil's advocate. You can see my answers are roughly the same:

> How would you have any confidence in yourself in your ability to make it on your own?

Doesn't matter. I don't need to make it on my own. I have $100MM. Having to "make it on your own" is a bummer. A sudden $100MM gives you the freedom to choose not to have to make it on your own.

> How could you help but wonder if you'd be able to live by way of producing or providing something of value the way honest people do?

Doesn't matter. I will never have to produce something or provide value. See above. If I wanted to, as a fun side project, try to produce something of value, I now have the freedom to try and risk failure, so I'm in a much better position than I was before.

> What would happen to your curiosity about the world? There would be whole swaths of things that would be mentally off-limits

I don't think there's much of the world that's off-limits with a stack of money $100MM tall.

> Where are you going to go where you won't have to weave a web of lies about where you got your money from?

I don't have to explain my wealth to anyone. I can tell nosey people that I won the lottery and that's that. Or I am free to tell them to mind their own business. Or I can tell them that I have a 9-5 job at the phone company.
I don't think "doesn't want innocent people to starve to death" and "wants to cut off someone's head because of their religion" are mutually exclusive.
I would do the same as IAB.

What adblock says to companies is "We feel your advertising is no good so we will blanket block it for millions of viewers a day"

HOWEVER, if you contact, let us review your advert and then WE decide it's not a bad add, we'll let it be shown to the millions of visitors that were supposed to see it anyway...

We'll just take a percentage of the money.

There's certainly a need for this sort of adblocking service on some level but from a money-making side of thing, their business model is just downright dirty.

Just imagine if I stood in the middle of the road at the end of your street and said "NO cars are coming down here because the residents said so"

"However, give me a few bucks because I decided you look like a decent person and you can come through"

In a real world situation, this would be classed as blackmailing and you'd be arrested for something.
Well, yes - if you are using an encrypted rootfs on a server, the disk is permanently in an unlocked state - so it doesn't completely matter if encrypted or not. But don't forget, in some cases you don't want to have unencrypted data stored on a hard disk or a flash medium either. I guess another solution would be to have only parts of the system/data encrypted, but I think this way is more convenient.

Here is another article, describing a similar setup [0].

And here is a similar question on stackoverflow with plenty of answers [1] and some other tool mentioned.

[0]: http://blog.neutrino.es/2011/unlocking-a-luks-encrypted-root...
[1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5017/ssh-to-decrypt...
The smart metres that are being rolled out at the moment have a remote kill switch, although it couldn't really be used to implement rolling blackouts as you have to physically hit a button to reactivate it.
I was never able to get on board with Meteor because of the Mongo dependency. Not to get too far off topic, but Mongo is guaranteed to lose data under certain well-defined conditions.

I completely fail to understand why some developers seem to be allergic to learning about data structures and the means of query-ing them. It's not really that hard. If you can JS, you can SQL.
> Sadly, uptake of Paym has been slow.

I don't think this is very sad. I don't use Paym. I think account number + sort code is easy enough to deal with and doesn't need to be changed.
I would hope so with a £5.1 billion budget. That's more than half the FTSE 100 companies.
I think he's the prime minister but not the president, the roles being separate in singapore.
The case for IPFS to combat these walled gardens:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyPxKqMiNbStnEQHC-kiEBSd1jI...
Actually, that looks like a tool that could be used in conjuction with autossh. sshuttle provides data transport, autossh provides connection persistence. Thanks for the heads-up, this could be a useful tool for me :)
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I don't think those two statements are contradictory or inconsistent, when you Think Like A Civil Servant .

From gov.uk's perspective encryption plays a necessary role in enabling the digital economy by encrypting data in transit. They won't interfere with SSL / TLS, for example, because that would chase billions of £ of business out of the UK.

But they intend to strong-arm communications providers into giving access to the at-rest data. Whether that is encrypted or not is orthogonal to the discussion; a court order will be served, and the provider will have to respond.

Whether the provider is BT or Mr Joe Bloggs hosting his own e-mail is also irrelevant; it will be a criminal offense to fail to respond with the demanded data. Bonus points for GCHQ if this means that providers simply don't encrypt data at rest, for simplicity's sake.
This is not uncommon behavior from groups like this or even the old Italian mob in the U.S. Doing humanitarian things like this with the locals helps buy you support and protection. Hamas has done this for years (including schools and healthcare), which helped buy it good will and even win elections.

A lot of times these groups are doing more for local populations in terms of making sure they have food and basic necessities than the government. Usually when this is happening, it's a pretty strong indictment of the official government.
Do your customers really dictate that you use grunt or gulp in your build process in their project?

I seriously find this to be very implausible.
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> Give me a box of boards and nails any day. All my ikea furniture is rickety and much of it is starting to look dated.

This seems to contradict the rest of your post where you go on to talk up the plug and playness of meteor. That's much more like ikea furniture than a board and nails. The board and nails approach requires you to do all the planning that meteor gives you out of the box.
Not to be confused with Penney's game, which is a different kind of fascinating thing in itself: if two players each pick a sequence of heads and tails and win if their sequence shows up first, the player who picks the second sequence after seeing the first sequence has an advantage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penney's_game
DDH was against TDD, but not against testing.

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-liv...
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> Even worse, this locked-down, "looking inside will void your warranty" attitude (which Rails often calls "convention over configuration") frequently means that the workaround must be somewhat pervasive and ugly up your code not just in one place, but in several places to really resolve the problem.

In 2005, when nobody used Rails, as a complete beginner to Ruby, I was able to write a patch to improve the Oracle database adapter. Somehow, despite all the magic, it took me very little time to find what to change and submit a patch. As a complete newbie to the language and platform.

Rails 2 and below revolved around a lot of hacks. Rails 3 removed many of those. Rails 4 even more so. Check out the book "Crafting Rails 4 Applications" to see how easy it is to hook into places in the framework to get what you need. (Disclosure: I'm the editor of that book.)

The argument you make about "voiding the warranty" is an argument I hear from people who have touched Rails for a project and hated it for one reason or another. It's not a sensible argument.

Remember, for centuries, people used "magic" to explain away something they didn't understand. :)
It could reduce it, arguing there is a lot of waste at the bbc. As long as the public perceives the value in the bbc's offerings the odds of that happening are reduced.
I'm sure I've seen something like that. But I can't remember the name. Maybe someone else?
Agreed. The science section has a fine selection of rehashed press releases.
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'make -j' seems trivial enough to me.
While bitcoin is very small compared to banks and credit cards, at this point it is definitely cheaper to send bitcoin than to send Visa money. How it would work if that blockchain was scaled to the level of VocaLink I have no idea about.
Selling someone a ticket and listing them as a participant, then later banning them without an explanation, is pretty bad behaviour, no?
I'm working on a legacy desktop app (~25 years), currently around 600 projects. Maybe one developer per 7 projects. Common workflow is to create custom solutions around your working set of projects, but that's not ideal for whole code analysis/debugging.
Javascript is way too complicate these days :S
This is interesting for 2016.
Thanks for the clarity. That will teach about commenting during the morning commute.
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The advantage of using a trusted intermediary over blockchain technology is in bandwidth.

With blockchain technology you have multiple copies of the transaction ledger. Each transaction is recorded in every copy of the ledger. This multiplies the required bandwidth to keep these ledgers up to date. This creates a scalability problem, which is a problem that cryptocurrency developers are actively working on.

Compare this to a centralised system and you can see that the bandwidth to keep the banking systems in sync is far lower.

Blockchains have many advantages, but they aren't perfect, you effectively give up some efficiency for the advantages of decentralised trust. Considering the volume of transactions these banks deal with, they can't really give up on efficiency without impacting their bottom line.
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They should at least enable the SEU mitigation circuit, which repeatedly performs CRC of the configuration data. Have it reboot if it detects an error. Maybe they already do this.

I checked, Zynq-7000 has this capability: http://www.xilinx.com/products/intellectual-property/sem.htm...
There is definitely a level of that in the article. "Use command line tools. Or, if it gets complex, make a .js file and use ShellJS" is basically suggesting you create your own version of the plugins already available.
The next article will be entitled "Why I Left npm Scripts for Make"
We were just talking about this a couple days ago at work! If you listened very carefully to the handshake, you could tell what the quality connection you had. After awhile, you could even guess the final baud from the sound of the handshake, and if it was bad, you'd try reconnecting a few times to see if you could get a better connection.
Interested to see how this pans out in the next 3 yrs. I see Facebook changing
No, I know about pull, Toyota, Lean, and all that.
Still manufacturing and production of repeatable widgets...
Will you apply the same approach to make a bunch of mathematicians prove a theorem?
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Anyone who doubts why something like Bitcoin would be of use in banking should read the part about net settlement and counter party risk.

This article describes the system for moving money within one country but similar mechanisms exist for moving money internationally. Imagine the counter party risk involved between banks who are governed by different central banks in different countries half way around the world. Bitcoin removes the counter party risk in transfers by making settlement instant per transaction instead of net daily settlement in traditional banking.

The reason this is important is that these transfers revolve around credit and when there is a banking crisis and everyone suspects everyone else's credit worthiness then payment systems can break down.
In the US, ACH is moving towards same-day clearing in two batch windows. This is supposedly rolling out starting in Sep 2016.

https://www.nacha.org/rules/same-day-ach-moving-payments-fas...
There are ways of coping with that like sending volumetric information to the headset rather than individual frames
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I think that's what SCRUM tries to achieve. A lot of tasks in TODO? People start working on these. A lot of tasks in QA? People work on that. Tasks get done but not deployed? People will start to cooperate on deployment. Each one is less productive but the whole team overcomes more of these big scale threshholds.
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Maybe people did notice but didn't care enough to complain? Or we're all used to various sound quality depending on what we're doing (cell, skype, voip, etc) that we've just internalized quality changes as not a big deal.

It reminds me how satellite radio was supposed to be "mp3 quality" whatever that meant. Everytime I rent a car with SiriusXM, my god, the sound quality is horrible. Its like they're using those early postage-stamp sized quicktime videos from the dial-ups days. Yet people still subscribe in vast numbers.
Totally, the Starcraft editor got a lot of things right:

- It looked like text but you were actually working with a statically typed AST -> Syntax errors were impossible.
- Commands were sentences with the parameters where you would except them, e.g. "PLAYER brings AMOUNT UNIT to region REGION.". Also, the commands were translated so you didn't need to learn English to learn programming.
- Since you were programming on top of an existing game you had very high level commands at your disposal which allowed you to get impressive results with little effort.
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My friends know my mobile number. When they want to send me money, then I have to give them my sort code and account number. Having a mapping from mobile number to account credentials seems sensible to me.

I'm set up on PayM, but no one else seems to use it.
They been battling the battery issue over several of the latest builds and its not working. I upgraded to WM 10 on my Lumia Icon and its been a mess.

8 and 8.1 were stable and snappy. 10 has been a nightmare for me. The UI is nearly unusable and clunky. Just to do simple things, I have two, sometimes three additional clicks to get where I want to go. Even with successive builds my Lumia still freezes, crashes and restarts A LOT.

A typical example was this week. Went to my nieces hockey game with a full battery. Went to take a video, it started recording, then froze, then restarted (crashed). I thought, "Well, that sucks." It reboots, I try again, same thing. Then when my phone restarts, and I get the warning, "Your battery is critically low, please plug in."

I decided this week I'm going back to Android, Windows Mobile 10 at this point is almost unusable for me.
I loved meteor. Was committed to it for 6/7 months while still learning JS (and working on ember and rails projects with others). I knew it was a risky decision, but it seemed like a good choice for making it as a one-man dev agency.
For me, there's no stack selection problem, for me, the main problem is the co$t of launching a working demo-app or a prototype. The only thing i wanted was a simpler/cheaper way of deploying apps.
I knew there was something coming, since the beginning i heard about galaxy, an MDG developed deploying solution, which i thought was the solution for all my problems. But then, then came the galaxy launch and its price ($495/mo). At that price I felt betrayed, misrepresented. (still waiting for the individual price several months after)

The big problem i see with meteor for the future, is that MDG has/will have to answer to its shareholders rather than its community.
> Net settlement is used because it’s more efficient - it only requires a few hundred entries in the Bank of England’s ledgers each day for potentially millions of payments.

Not a very compelling reason... storage is cheap!
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I seriously find this to be very implausible.

Why? If they're already using gulp and have people in-house that understand gulp, why is it so unreasonable that they don't want their consultants adding a new build system to the mix?
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This could be great for office users who are mostly using desktop applications. Acceptance for web apps is sometimes still hard to get.

However, I haven't seen anything electron-based with proxy support. Any ideas on that?
When you look at the picture and see the number of ISIS members that came from Europe I cannot help but wonder what language they are using internally. Quite a number of the recruits from Germany have a Turkish or German background, some in the UK a Somalian, others a Chechnyan and apparently some even an Asian (according to the pic in the article at least). I doubt that all of them are capable right from the start of speaking Arabic, so what's the command language? English? Hope so, cause that would be hilarious.

Obviously they had to read some Arabic when studying the Quran, but I doubt that would be sufficient.

On a related note, Charlie Winter published a brilliant essay on the ISIS media strategy on the BBC a couple of months ago, Fishing and ultraviolence[1]. Highly recommended.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-88492697-b674-4c69-8...

(edit: removed superfluous and)
Lander is still smarting from when private industry guy Venter from out of nowhere creamed the government human genome project an order of magnitude faster and cheaper.
Where do you see the problem? Moxie wants independent builds to have distinct names, to avoid confusion.
If I took a multi-million dollar payout, a Porsche would not be my first choice - understandable if Porsche is being used to signify a frivolous purchase, but there are much more expensive / flashy / prestigious cars out there to blow money on (any new Ferrari or Lamborghini will do)

... says the systems administrator that intends to lease a Porsche Macan at the end of the year when my current lease runs out.
I don't like kanban either, still manufacturing
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To address your "co$t of launching a working demo-app or a prototype" issue, Heroku offers a free app / database for demo purposes[1].

Once you really get going, Heroku is expensive, but it might be worth the cost for teams (or individuals) that don't have the time (or expertise) to effectively manage a production deployment (security, up-time, backups, etc.).

1. https://www.heroku.com/pricing
CE carries a number of subclasses that can be self-certified.

With respect to EMC and safety it is absolutely in their best interest to conform, not merely out of a bureaucratic obligation but out of a need to minimize any interference from or to other equipment housed nearby.

Radio Teleswitch stuff is cool.
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> People apparently need a written sign in the washroom to remind them to wash their hands. Keep that in mind.

That's actually a liability limitation exercise; if employees and attendees are prompted to wash their hands, their employer has less liability for effects of contamination.
What are you using as your chat engine? Ejabberd or something else?