skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like other comments have pointed out, some markets did see much bigger collapses in prices. The markets that did had seen huge price increases driven largely by speculation in 2002-2007.

In the early to mid 00's the idea of "flipping" real estate became popular. The idea was that you would agree to buy a property, and then sell it very quickly, often setting up a deal to sell it before you even fully closed on it yourself. There were a lot of more-or-less amateur investor types who flocked to markets with cheap real estate and strong population growth - e.g. Las Vegas and Phoenix - and started flipping houses. This was pure speculation completely divorced from underlying demand.

I don't think there is anything like that happening today - at least not nearly on as large a scale. So, while I would disagree with the idea that "the market didn't collapse" - it did in some locations - I certainly do agree that it's not likely to collapse in quite as dramatic a way any time soon.
This is interesting. I'd think the card-issuing bank has incentives to delay the payment as long as possible though. I'd imagine 30 day is not that bad of a term. Why is that not the case? I mean what is the merchant going to do? Stop accepting American Express?

A friend told me about this case where a vendor charged his American Express twice. They called the vendor about this and the vendor yelled at him so he called American Express for a charge back. Apparently, American Express went in and did a charge back for the whole amount. I am glad they did the charge back but it must suck for a merchant if the charge was legitimate and the customer was being a jerk.
When Mayer took over Yahoo, it was a poison chalice. I don't think anyone could have turned Yahoo around unless they were truly exceptional. For the truly exceptional, Yahoo would give them little benefit and they could do better elsewhere (financially and recognition wise).

Mayer's performance had nothing to do with her gender. I'm adding this statement to respond to some other peoples' comments.

I also wholly agree that diversity for diversity's sake is idiotic. Can't wait to read The Verge and Ars Technica spins on this one..
Mountains?
Because it is work, and then it will require administration. Which is more work. Computers are smart enough to handle this, why can't everything on a subnet just have (for example) zeroconf?
Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case
OpenBSD's been using it way before they started LibreSSL
I smell a replacement for the birthday problem in introductory probability courses.
No, that wasn't the creepy bit.
If "secure enclaves" are actually secure, companies manufacturing those "secure enclaves" could just log the encryption key(s) at fabrication time to render them useless?
Apple Says the Government Bungled Its Chance to Get That iPhone’s Data
for a 120 pound adult....

But I weigh over 200 pounds. So 9+ potatoes a day from me to get all the essential amino acids. That's a pretty high starch to protein ratio and would be nearly my whole intake in calories to get a bare minimum of amino acids. Essentials aside, is that enough protein? Also at that point I would have fulfilled my daily requirement of calories but be still be short vitamins A, K, E, calcium, selenium, fatty acids and who knows what else.

That aside, potatoes are one plant. I don't dispute you can eat certain plants or combinations of plants to get all essential amino acids. To restate "the idea you can get sufficient protein by eating just any old plant is... wrong". It is. You'd be in serious nutrition trouble if you tried to live on just broccoli or lettuce. You have to carefully balance your diet as a healthy vegetarian and it is far easier just to add some animal protein.

For the record I still eat a "mostly" vegetarian diet. But not completely. And I feel a lot better and have more energy than when I did ate a full vegetarian diet.
>If React 15 was good enough for you when you started using it, it doesn't necessarily fundamentally stop working when React 16 ships.

No, but your project is seldom 100% finished either. So as you do minor changes to it, and want to use some new lib, you find out that it's not compatible with your old version.

And libraries stop get maintained too -- and when you finally try to make the conversion it will be harder the longer you have waited, because aside from porting your code to all new React stuff, you'll also need to find replacement for all those libs at once (not piecemeal, which would be the case if you kept the project up to date faster).

This could also happen for all kinds of external reasons too -- e.g. you use a third party service and they change their API. Or you update your OS and your old libs suddenly stops working. Or a browser deprecates some feature (like Object.observe that Google warns that it will be removed on March).
The Blind Botanist Who Brought Poetry to Plant Description
"There is a design decision that is not open for negotiation: it will be desktop-only. This is due to the my belief that the mobile space has been elegantly solved by other well-written open source software, while the desktop/laptop space could still use an alternative for usable, fun and secure messaging software, developed in the spirit of general purpose computing."

By this logic, why even compete in the web/desktop space? Telegram has mobile, desktop and web clients.
We haven't had this exact same debate. The founders of our country didn't really envision us carrying our most personal details in our pocket. This is a new conversation, and should be adjusted accordingly
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> So, your example is...not an example?

At least in the US, the law doesn't work that way. Decisions will quite often cite some other similar case which reached the opposite conclusion, but under different circumstances, because that other case's decision says something like "X, if it weren't for Y" or "Fortunately for the defendant, they didn't Z, so not X", or something. That isn't binding precedent for the judge to apply X, but it's a very strong sign that X would be reasonable.

A court case that says "Yes, this violates CFAA but we have to throw out the case because A, B, and C" is very strong reason to believe that, if the next prosecutors avoid A, B, and C, the next judge will say "Yes, this still violates CFAA."

(IANAL but I read court cases because I find it useful to understand my jurisdiction's legal system.)

> a request containing a particular user agent string is entitled.

The phrasing of the law is very clear that the word "entitled" applies to a person, not to a request. Stealing someone's password and using their account is definitely a violation of CFAA (see e.g. http://www.wiggin.com/16332). In such a case, the account used to log in is quite plainly "entitled" / "authorized;" that's how you get the data. But the person logging in is not "entitled".
Long winding story for the final line to be the real sell;

"...but any help until I find new employment would be extremely appreciated. My paypal is tjbenora@gmail.com."

TL;DR
I don't like my job, give me money.
Is it just difficult, or provably impossible?
Educated guess: it may be the application processor also has a trusted execution environment containing stubs that communicate with the Secure Enclave. This would prevent kernel level exploits from writing to the shared memory and mailboxes.
I like the base32 one. If you put two colons in front then you can even copy/paste and it distinguishes it from other text as an ipv6.

::6ULMVEU0000000000000000001
::160VPFH8R80000000000000002
::7UG000000000007JNCRVVU6317
::7UG00000000000000000000001
::160VSB0G07G28000000000080E
I can say this much -- I have exactly one friend who also works as a software engineer. The rest of my friends are activists, students, service industry workers and non-tech entrepreneurs who are getting absolutely crushed by the cost of living in the Bay Area. A massive, "catastrophic" crash in the tech industry would, on balance, be great for all of them.
One Piece and Doflamingo FTW.
Obama already gave up this fight right away. He came on board promising to fight it, and doing the exact opposite. I guess I'm saying: We already know where he stands, therefore, he's not interesting anymore
As a friend of many of the people in the original thread, I find it hilarious that the New Republic assumes they're all 'teens', especially when one has an icon in which he's holding his child.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086
That was updated later, after she got let go for writing that piece.
To be able to translate that into novels that are as accessible as his novels are is a rare gift.
Bear in mind the technological basis for its post-scarcity society (cheap and efficient conversion of matter into energy and back) is impossible in our universe. It may not even be post-scarcity. We're shown the lives of the elite, but there are Federation colonies that practice traditional agriculture, mining colonies, trade in goods, starvation and chaos due to technological breakdown and sometimes a massacre or two. Certainly the Original Series didn't seem post scarcity, merely advanced (from the point of view of the 1960s.)

And as far as privacy goes, it probably depends on the series, but in the most Utopian ideal of the Federation, would anyone even use encryption? Surely the desire for secrecy would be considered a form of atavism, something humans would have evolved beyond?
The Clinton's family hedge fund is down to it's last $400M
Your hoverboard is officially unsafe
>Few regimes over the last 2500 years have managed to hold any major portion of what is modern day ____ under a single rule for any amount of time.

This is meaningless. How could this statement be possibly falsified for any given region of the world?
"Is it the Fourth?" - Jefferson's last words.
Gym Tells Mom ‘Stop Acting Like a Victim’ After She Complains About Harassment
I really doubt we know very much about how people thought back then. There are many filters between what was thought, who knew how to write it down, the form people used to express thought in written form, what happened to be copied or survive.

Ex: People don't actually believe in Santa Clause, but if you randomly chose 10,000 pages to represent US thought from 1800 to now. Them handed them to scholars in the future there is a solid chance you they would assume it was the major religion.

I suspect sea monsters may simply be a similar tall tail and we lost context.

PS: Ok, we can reasonably assume people got hungry :D
As are apparently 90% of my facebook friends. Sigh.
Show HN: Babel/webpack/react starter pack example
"If your "secure communications" software doesn't stop a sophisticated passive adversary, it doesn't stop anyone"

So every non-technical person right now wanting others' conversations in various insecure apps are running full surveillance on them with control of their PC/phones because the NSA and other teams are? And NSA et al turned all that into script kiddie warez published openly with easy Google access? No they're not. Those that are make up a tiny, tiny few. So, you're argument is simply wrong.

Mediocre solutions stop people all the time despite pro's or talented people being able to defeat them. A subset of them get attack kits made by black hats or security professionals. A subset of that gets released into the wild. A tiny subset of laypersons find those and learn to wield them. Sometimes those tools require more access than they have, sometimes not. There's no all-or-nothing game with what happens using certain apps or security strategies. Lots of variation in risk. Your threat model, what software you're using, and how you're using it matters a LOT in determining what will actually happen.

Incidentally, this is why the Mac users felt immune to malware so long despite lots of popularity, business data up for grabs, and terrible security. If your argument was correct, they would've gotten owned massively and regularly in botnets that were on par with Windows if not worse. They didn't, though. The weakness and possibility of an attack didn't materialize into even large gains by hackers: just a little botnet or two in PPC days. Laypersons certainly didn't know about ways to own them all with easy tools. Actually, over all proprietary & FOSS in use, that appears to be an uncommon or rare event.

Note: I know people that to this day use PPC Mac's and old software in a hardened configuration with backups. No evidence that anyone has trashed their system so far. Plus, the laptop users would notice if lots of streaming was going on given the terrible battery usage of those. So your hypothesis is still failing for them going on over a decade.

"So, then the NSA did "get shit". They may not have gotten it in a timely manner, but they did get the plaintext of the conversation."

The requirement was that the NSA not be able to understand the content of those messages for a period of time that covers their activity. The NSA's goal is to spot stuff like this before it becomes a huge problem. Greenwald et al's requirement passed while NSA's failed. NSA didn't get shit in terms of their goals. They also lost a LOT. :)

"TextSecure/Signal has been around since 2010. "

I asked for a desktop app usable right now. I thought that was a mobile app. It's good that you...

"There is a Signal desktop client in development "

...brought me a red herring that wouldn't have helped Greenwald then or laypeople now. (sighs) Oh well. At least your counter might be true in a future case once that materializes. I look forward to its release.
Have you never been paid to 'audit' the code and/or architecture of a company's operations? It's not my forte, but I assumed some process of the sort was occurring.

Anyway, beyond OTF, do you have any opinion on Ricochet (the project theoretically under discussion), it seems to be a project with admirable goals and an interesting take (though I'm not interested in 'real-time' messaging):

https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet
Title is certainly weird -- his rant did not cause the user space to misbehave, the bad commit did.

Seems like he is having a very bad day. Still, I'm glad I'm not skilled enough to even attempt to work on the Linux kernel. I feel sad that others might be scared away, but maybe that's keeping the quality up.
> The reason is that when ZFS detects corruption, it'll lock down the whole fs... and prevent reading/recovery data from it, as recovering data from raidz is the expected solution in that case.

ZFS has duplicate metadata by default, so it can recover from corrupted metadata blocks unless too much is gone. If the data blocks are corrupted and there is no resundancy, you should get EIO. There is no code to "lock down the FS", although if you have severe damage (like zeroing all copies of important metadata or losing all members of a mirror), it will die and you will see faulted status. That is a situation no storage stack can survive and is why people should have backups.
Wow, this is mind blowing. 10% interest rates are really, really high in the current state of economy - they don't become a great deal just because there are credit cards with even worse conditions. I don't have a problem with borrowing money when I need it. I'm indebted for the years to come because I needed a 200k loan to buy a house. But that's okay because I'm paying 1.2% APR on it. This is far less money than I would have to pay to rent a house so it's a great deal. I've not even used all the cash I have when buying it because some of it yields higher (guaranteed) interests then what I pay for the loan. So there's still a lot of wiggle room for emergencies. And this is the first time that I hear that you need to have a history of loans to get large loans. What a devious system... I have a VISA credit card too, because it's convenient to pay with, but I don't pay any interest on it. I just pay a flat fee per year for the service and they settle the balance each month by direct debit authorization. (Sorry for the bad english)
I agree with you that this is what the law seems to think (being overly broad), but not if you are arguing this is sensical.

In other words, yes, the WSJ does intend to only give Google access to their content, and not the general public.

But no, the WSJ has not "authorized" Google by anything more official than a bank telling their security guards to let anyone into the vault who is wearing a blue t-shirt.

So yeah, I agree with you, there is a lot of conflation of technical means and the law, but we also shouldn't be granting to the WSJ that they are doing any real "authorizing" here, beyond wishing it and hoping it stays true.
So, there's nothing critical for modern desktop use that isn't on POWER? What about graphics and sound cards? Printers? They got it all these days?

That would be cool because one of my disposables is an old Mac laptop with G4 CPU. Getting modern Linux distro on it would be cool.
Logarithmic utility of money implies that the last X% of your income is worth the same amount of utility, regardless of what your income is: log(x) - log[(1 - r)x] = log(x) - log(1 - r) - log(x) = -log(1 - r). But "does the same harm to every person" is not necessarily the right definition of "fair" in the context of taxes, though.
Yup. And there are cases of indentured servants who were abused into slavery because of their illiteracy too.
Obviously to larger ones if they are used in USB key format, since the key can go through all kind of magnetic fields while in your desktop, pockets or handbag.
We never intended to "fix" Cryptocat, per se. I agree that would be more trouble than it's worth, especially when there are things like Signal, Ricochet, CoyIM, etc.

Cryptodog is very much a casual project, not an all-encompassing fix for inherent design flaws. I offer it here only as an alternative for former users of Cryptocat who were content with the app.

P.S. Your guess is inaccurate, I am not the GP. HN staff might be able to verify this if it concerns you.
It quickly comes out and sticks to the MRI machine.
The chips do not have an unique identifier on them. It will be impossible for the manufacturer to look at a chip and then query their db for the encryption key. At best they will be able to provide all the encryption key that they have produced possibly reducing the search space form 2^128 to ~10B. Also, secure enclave manufacturing process is done is such a way that even the manufacturer does not know what the key is. They don't generate a key for each chip, a natural phenomenon which is truly random is used to burn in the encryption key.
Wouldn't agree about key caps. Some of mine associated with most used shortcuts are already smooth instead of mat (I don't have anything on them so I don't know if letters would be gone by now).

But it doesn't really matter for my in any way. It's a great keyboard, I love it and would definitely buy it again. Highly recommend.
yep, and Citi has a 2% cash back (1% at purchase, 1% when paid). Discover is 5% back on a different category each quarter (and Q4 is Amazon), and Amazon's store card gives you 5% statement credit on everything you buy.
I have backups stored on a double mirror of USB drives. The USB interface is fragile, but it does work. I cannot say that I recommend USB drives though, but if you are using USB, ZFS is not at any disadvantage versus other filesystems.

For what it is worth, I am this ryao:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/graphs/contributors
Such IT operations people and “unix admins” have chosen not to adopt the new thing slowly when they had the chance, so instead, they will now have the pain of adopting it quickly. This is entirely on them. Having that attitude towards IP addresses is not a practical attitude with IPv6 - you can do it, but it’s impractical. It is the attitude itself, not IPv6, which is the problem. This was going to be a problem whatever notation was used - there are simply too many bits in an address for it to be practical to deal with and memorize lots of raw IP addresses anymore.
Good day! People on Cryptoca/Cryptodog will probably recognize me, but I would like to say. I think Cryptocat, no matter how good or bad it is, it is still a very good tool. Cryptodog is just an extension to that, and a good one, too. That is all I have to say.
They changed the 2FA to use a microservice, so whatever the vulnerability was before, if the 2FA is now on an isolated server, that vulnerability shouldn't have access to the new 2FA key.
+1. The one time I asked a question on an openbsd list, I got quality off-list replies from the developers themselves within 24 hours.

If you do your homework and follow the netiquette, things get answered. It's a great community. I just wish people would leave it alone and I wish misc@ would not engage trolls.
If only there were a way to bypass that paywall.
Lots of things become possible once one is willing to decap ICs to get at the internals.

I'd expect security consious parts (ie: all of the theoretical "loader A") would need to run in SRAM (ie: ram that is in the same IC and thus harder to get at than external DRAM chips) or some other mechanism.

At that point, it becomes a question of physical hardening within the ICs. Some manufacturers have done things like put metal layers over fuses (to prevent them from being changed), I'd imagine the same could be done (at some cost) for a larger area of the chip. I'd imagine HSMs (hardware security modules) and TPMs (though these aren't as good) probably implement some of that. There also exist some chips targeted towards security purposes (not aware of any processors off hand) that could be used .
>they did a lot of close work like sewing or working with skin in bad light without causing myopia

Those involve close but shifting focus points. Not a static plane, like a screen.
Still far from being as enjoyable as the original.
Microservices in Go using Go-kit
He isn't talking about telegram, which isn't open source except the client.
No, but I used to read hundreds with Google Reader. Don't have time now.
Fix: replace the user agent string by a cryptographic challenge/response scheme.
My cousin bought a $600k home in Florida for $250k. That was pretty common.
Evolution "takes care" of things like this in the span ranging from millennia to hundreds of thousands of years.

And it might even decide to "take care" of the wrong thing, e.g. wipe out the human race in favor of the more resistant cockroach overloads.
Love how in the medias eyes if it's not a massive boom then it must be a huge recession.
I'm an outlier-- I hate chording so much that I use Caps Lock instead of the Shift key. (I'm in the company of the world's fastest typer...)

I haven't gone so far as to hack the system to allow Caps Lock to enable the colon and other punctuation, but I've long considered it.

...So for me, two periods is a million times better than a colon.
1. Google's Web Crawlers are not "bypassing" paywall. It's the paywall that let's crawlers through. I.e. exactly the reverse of what the author implies with their headline.

2. The idea that this is somehow new is wrong. The way for a server to identify crawlers have "always" been to look at the user-agent, and, when done right, IP, verified either by net block owner or by doing PTR lookup and then checking that the A or AAA record for the claimed host points back at the same IPv4 or IPv6 address. Meanwhile, I do agree that paywalling is a more recent phenomenon, at least with regards to the extend it is popular among sites today, but the concept of presenting different data to crawlers and visitors arose much earlier and is something Google have been aware of and has made sure to delist such sites when found, whereas in fact Google has since then moved abit in the direction of allowing it in that they do so for Google News if declared as explained by others ITT.

So in my view, it seems that the author is jumping to incorrect conclusions based on an incomplete understanding of what's actually going on here. What then about the HN readership, how come this article became so highly voted and I don't see these issues raised by anyone else? Or maybe I'm just crazy?
Appears to be free. At least from my iPad