skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California is another example of frequent referenda producing poor governance. Part of the problem is that you accumulate another 1-5 new initiatives every election, none of which are designed to work together; after a few decades you have a big mess of conflicting mandates in the state constitution.
Pretty clear trend at ~20% across a number of their regions. Unless the uncounted regions are drastically different than the rest of the country I'd say this one is easy to call.
That would be the logical next step: integrated washing, drying, and folding.
CPU miner malware?
I found my computer using 100% cpu (on all 8 threads)... I think I found the culprit: cpm.exe.

Apparently, somehow, someone installed a cpu mining program on my computer that only works when the computer is idle. If not for the cpu desktop widget, I wouldn't have noticed it!

Here's the configuration file, in case we can stop this upstream on bases of fraud:

C:\Users\Avi\AppData\Roaming\cpuminer:
cpm.exe
cpuminer-conf.json
cpuminer-uninst.exe
msvcr120.dll

Conf reads, but poolminer.net doesn't resolve.

{
"api-bind" : "0",

"url": "stratum+tcp://pool22.poolminers.net:2844",
"user" : "miner",
"pass" : "X",

"algo" : "cryptonight",

"on-idle" : 30,
"on-idle-low" : 30,

"background" : true,
"quiet" : true
}
If you read the article they tell you the most likely situation is the fact that millions of passwords are leaked everyday attached to emails in various data breaches.

This breach could also be data leaked from TeamViewer but as of right now there has been no official word as far as I can see. Considering users like to use the same username and password a bot could easily run through a leaked list and report any successful logins back to an attacker (an older exploit).

As far as I can tell the random numbers being generated are not affected but users who have actual accounts are being affected. There has been no official word but the number generating system being exploited over the accounts being exploited seems far less likely. Only time will tell thought so hopefully we will get an official word soon!

edit Seeing a lot of different theories in the comments and honestly I'm not sure which one makes the best sense. I really do hope TV makes a comment soon about how it's happening but we probably won't see that announcement until they release the fixes which are supposedly later this year.
I think it's true-ish in the same way that representative democracy doesn't work everywhere either. Many post-communist countries like Russia are an easy example. Obviously the working of a system depends on the social contract being considered legitimate by the population. Concretely this means that for direct democracy to 'work' you'll need a population that has experience and a self-confidence to be the ones that turn up and vote about a bunch of issues they'll need to understand. That's something that can't be implemented overnight. But similarly even representative democracy can't be implemented overnight. That's the dynamic nature of the social contract.

Something I admire about the Swiss btw.
It is premature but inevitable: automation, stagnant growth, migrations and deflation are all pushing towards universal basic income. Not 2k euros/month but enough to allow surviving and decency.
And do you think Switzerland is different?
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If your business is also outside the US, it is a good thing. US financial services are unreliable for international merchants, and US customers are often not very aware of international arrangements like paying in a foreign currency, the cost of international shipping, business hours not being in one of the US time zones if they want a quick reply to a question, or the native language of a merchant not being English.
> it's not clear to me that Firefox should want to isolate extensions from each other

I think it's more interesting that the new(?) extension API (Jetpack) which was supposed to provide extension isolation is also apparently vulnerable to this. If you want to make isolating extensions from each other opt-in then ok but it should at least be able to do what it's designed to do.
"HTTP MITM to SYSTEM EXECUTION" ... "+ more"

i mean, what else is there?
Disabled my teamviewer. Relying on zerotier + remote desktop
Doesn't the fact that the margin on the no vote was so high put a damper on the enthusiasm for supporters? Or do the Swiss routinely vote over and over again on rewordings of the same idea?
I found it funny how most major news outlets made a big deal of this

Yeah, there's your answer. It seems the Swiss are conservative with how they spend their money
They are drastically different. These are rural, conservative, catholic and weakly-populated regions.
Did you friend use the login system or the auto-number login generator?
The main monthly thread already allows job posts for intern positions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11814828
The irony is that my system would be more secure without ASUS' attempts on updates.
Offical now, cantonal majority cannot be reached (12 no, 11 to go)
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/results-votes-june-5th-2016-in-s...
This is cool but if you do look at where big investments are being made it's more in smart contract/block chain. Considering the extreme regulatory and DOJ pressure to expose all parties in any fiduciary transaction I'm skeptical we'll ever see an explicitly government-approved system with anonymity.
Switzerland is the only country in the world that implements direct democracy. You can really feel the difference to the rest of Europe. Swiss more often than not stand behind decisions made by their government. When talking about their politicians, the Swiss say "WE decided that ..." whereas e.g., Germans say: "THEY decided that ..."

If you look for a coding job in Europe, Zurich is a great place to live and is the only place where net-salaries are on par with the Bay Area: You can expect to get 7000 - 12000 CHF / month after taxes. If you are from the EU and thinking to move, you find my email address in my Hacknews profile. Also you can read here why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT: https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...
If this were true, their refusal to use endpoint authentication, TLS or otherwise, would be even more damning than a simple breach.
What's wrong with men that they can't behave civilly to each other and to women? Especially prominent and intelligent men in leadership positions?

Seriously, this is the easy stuff.
It does put a damper on things, but yeah, it's not uncommon for more or less the same thing to come up every decade or two. Evergreen topics include immigration reform, nuclear power, and whether Switzerland needs an army.
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At least both are short noises at predictable times. I'm very sensitive to noise, but neither church bells here nor the muezzin calling for prayer five times a day in my vacations in islamic countries have ever bothered me.

On the other hand, I wish somebody would actually enforce anti-noise laws against my trash-techno neighbor at night ;)
If you are a professional lawn mower, there should be a minimum wage that ensures that you can live on that income. What is the point of mowing lawns all day long and not ending up with enough money to live? So kids mowing lawns bellow market rates because they don't have to live from that income are creating downward pressure on the price. And why wouldn't you pay market rates in the first place, same work, same pay? There seems also not to be such a huge difference to black labor - you cut some of the costs, taxes and insurances or living with your parents, and harm others trying to make a living with that job. It seems actually pretty difficult to have a balanced solution and as I acknowledged in another comment, this might actually be one of the stronger arguments for a universal basic income because it may allow to sidestep some of those difficult gray area problems.
That is exactly what I had in mind re: my original comment. Seeing from other comments there would be an earnings threshold. That, to me, is not "unconditional."

I'm probably running afoul of language/translation shear...
Now it's definitive. The cantonal majority says no, which kills the referendum.
Welfare without limits is incompatible with Open Borders

Remains to be seen who will want to actually do the (needed) jobs when staying at home is enough

I am in favour of Basic Income, but it's not such clear cut
"That doesn't mean there will be some magic non-linear formula for generating primes"

That is correct, but there are magic non-linear formulas for generating only negative numbers and primes. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_for_primes#Formula_b... or http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Prime-GeneratingPolynomial.html

There also is a very simple function that only produces primes, but not all of them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_for_primes#Mills.27_..., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills%27_constant
Is it just me, or do other people actually LOVE this new trend of plugging your product/work/yourself through interesting blog posts? Like, I don't care how much $$$ this guy could spend on advertising --- this blog post is certainly far more effective in getting me to buy the product. I learned something, I was entertained, I now "trust" this individual, I got a great demo of the product's use... love it!
Reading more into this I really do wonder if this is related to other companies being hacked. If you look at this Reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/teamviewer/comments/4m6omd/teamview...

search "Do you have a TV Account" I have yet to find an answer from someone that said No (meaning they use the numbering system- only yes, used to and "free" which still is a login). A lot of answers to include that they use the same password for the same email for various accounts. A few that don't but those numbers are very small and more than likely that user was compromised another way.

edit Of course this is speculation and as mentioned in the original post of this article we should assume this was TV being hacked versus just a simple re-used password
You are completely ignoring the fact that the cost of living is much higher in Zurich than the rest of Europe. (For example, the rent is around 10 times higher than in Prague). But after-all, you are a recruiter, why would anyone expect you to provide unbiased information, right?
"Grubby", "unwashed", "infiltrate", "degeneracy". Quite the word choice.
It doesn't seem to be on Elon Musk's radar (no pun intended) but if his or Amazon's reusable launch platform really does make commodity launches possible then it would make sense for Elon or someone to put up Iridium 2.0. Maybe Google or Facebook will do it to bring internet to the masses.
GPL'ed. Dead in the water. But it looks interesting. Good luck guys!
Artificial intelligence should be protected by human rights
Well, it was 2500 bucks.

Maybe 1500 would get more people to vote for it, or something else chagned, etc.
Ahhh. Well, it will be interesting to see how the economy evolves over the next decade and how that might affect a future vote. If tons of Swiss middle class lose their jobs and move down to low class it could be a dramatic reversal.
From a Brit perspective (where we tend to have fewer referenda on bigger issues) the other downside appears the sheer, incredible nastiness of referendum campaigns when instead of campaigning to convince people they're a competent government, the campaign leaders (usually the same elites) are prepared to say literally anything to frighten people into voting a particular direction. Not to mention of course the first casualty of any referendum campaign on anything remotely complex is the truth.

I mean, currently the UK referendum on EU withdrawal arguments seem to have peaked around "leaving the EU will knock £62000 off the value of your house and please Putin and ISIS" vs "women will be at risk of sex attacks from foreigners if we don't leave"[1]. I'm not familiar with the Swiss situation but doubt the constitutional changes around minarets were fought over the merits of Islamic architecture or nuanced arguments about zoning.

[1] There are slightly subtler arguments being used, but virtually none of them are based on fact either.
Initial Hacker News discussion, mainly for the top comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826431

I am not an expert. The top comment helped me assess the risk.
No I don't need to, they've shown they're different.

Can I turn the question around : do you think this would work in USA, India and Brazil (random countries, nothing specific)?
Yeah, I hang up my clothes, so...

If you want to save a crapton of time on doing laundry, throw out all your socks and buy the same kind. I standardized on UndeR Armor Resistor. Cheap, last about a year, seem to stay in profuction forever. If every household member does that, you never have to play the sock pairing game again.
I would do it, but why do they have to base you in SF? You should be able to stay local to where you are actually helping.
Given that open borders will help hundreds of millions escape dire poverty, whereas basic income will (at best) reduce some administrative costs and allow some people to live a life of leisure, how do you justify this preference?

Do the prospective brown people who might want to escape dire poverty (i.e., gain access to clean running water, flush toilets, and adequate food) just not count? Even if they counted only as 3/5 of a person, the numbers would still be drastically in their favor.
It's not funny or considerate to assume that there are no Muslims in the HN community...
The real value being :

80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000

that is, the approximation was about 80% of the real value. Half of the approximation was in Stirling's formula, and another half in approximating 2^50.

Edit: nevermind. Stirling's formula is surprisingly accurate. https://www.google.co.uk/#safe=off&q=%2854%2Fe%29^54*sqrt%28...
The downside are populistic decisions like the Swiss minaret referendum...

Oh, you liberals. You hide behind democracy when, in fact, you are a bunch of tyrants who would like to jam your ideas of immigration, multiculturalism, socialism etc. down the people's throats whether they like it or not.

Why are you labeling direct democratic decision by majority of people as bad/downside? It seems that when people do something you like, then democracy is great, but if they do something you disagree with, then it's bad.
Thing is that Switzerland is a super-expensive country. 1500 would not actually be enough to live on. You can get 4000 working at the till at a supermarket.
To me anyway, this short explanation was extremely useful. I had played with simple neural nets just once in the past.
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I always used 'laundry folding' as a counterexample for fears of automation. This clumsy machine is case is point that pervasive automation is far far far away.
Same happens with integers. Try computing the mean of 3 and 4 using integer math.

The only difference, really, is that floating point can lull you into believing they have unlimited precision. With integer math, the problem would have been more obvious in the first place.
Zurich is not comparable to London, Berlin or Prag due to the fact that it is an order of magnitude smaller than most European cities. The diameter of Zurich is just 13 km.

The city itself is tiny and the "city center" is even tinier. This leads to the variance of the rent being very high: In the very center of town you might have to pay 1500 CHF for a 1-bedroom apartment, but if you can live also 5 km from the city center, you can have it way cheaper.

I am renting a 4-bedroom apartment for 1600 CHF (https://flatfox.ch/de/wohnung/8051-zurich-grosswiesenstrasse...) and I need around 12 minutes to get to Zurich main train station.
Could be worse, the title made me imagine UEFI firmware itself making HTTP downloads and reflashing itself ;)
[Not an Apple worker, but I use a Mac and an iPhone]

Is there an alternative?

Apple doesn't let you simply add a music file to the Music app (you have to sync it from an iTunes library on the computer if you want a file in there), and the Music app, while it is getting worse as time goes on, is something I have not yet been able to replace.
Off topic but, Vimeo is cheap. Too cheap. ~150$ per year. Unlimited traffic. One of my old clients is using their Pro Plus package as their CDN. They've reduced their CDN bills from tens of thousands of dollars to ~350$ per year. (Vimeo only shows the pricing in Turkish Lira's to me, so real numbers in USD may vary.)
This is controversial, but I think any nation can have direct democracy adapted to the nation's culture. It's just that the Swiss have more than a hundred years experience with direct democracy and have learnt for the most part to be diligent in their decisions.
PowerPoint for Windows can embed fonts, the Mac version cannot.

PowerPoint's cross-platform support is still a shitshow. Embedding a video on one platform and presenting on another is unlikely to work, especially now that QuickTime for Windows is end-of-lifed so one platform is even less likely to have those codecs. I think it's still possible for the bullet glyphs to not always match (set them to empty circles on one platform, get displayed as daggers on the other), though this is less common than it used to be.
Out of interest, why is populistic commonly used as a pejorative? It seems to be the best friend of democracy.
Korwin-Mikke is known for his colourful language - which he doesn't reserve for so-called refugees, far from that- and a proclivity for PR scandals. He's hardly representative of Polish mainstream political class though (he himself would be greatly offended at such implication), so kindly please keep Poland as such out of it
They might have conditions on income, property ownership, citizenship etc. In Cyprus (where I live) the recipients must agree to give unrestricted access to their bank accounts and the application form is quite long (15 pages IIRC). There are people (elderly mainly) that are unable to complete the application.

It's conditional yet it's still called "Minimum guaranteed income".
No you are right. For me it's not «unconditional» neither. However the commitee's proposal is not legally binding. Parliament would have needed to work out the exact details.
Ok jpg instead of copy-able source. Bad move.
I'm not so sure about corruption and cronyism. Perhaps a Swiss person could comment here, but from reading some Friedrich Duerrenmatt novels the picture isn't that rosy either over there.
Please reconsider expressing your views in this offensive way. It's quite reasonable to discuss the current situation with immigration into Europe, but it's quite another thing to make unfounded accusations about"criminality, antisocial behavior, and otherwise degeneracy" when I'm sure you would accept that such behaviour is not engaged in by the majority.

Rhetoric like this does nothing but inflame reflexive, unthinking anti-immigration movements and does nothing to actually further the discussion.
Well, technically open document formats are compressed XML.

So if you could save them in an uncompressed format you could diff them easily.

But dunno.

AFAIK LaTeX/Beamer should be The Tool for this, but it always is a PITA to use.

LyX is of very small help (when it doesn't break).
> We start with a neat, professionally looking fold
> * More methods will be available via FoldiMate’s “internet store”

That's potentially interesting; are we basically talking about software unlocking of capabilities here, i.e. like Tesla's autopilot?
As already mentioned, you're ignoring a fact that even by working there for 10 years, it's close to impossible to buy a part of land and build a house anywhere near a city. Land and house prices are too high to stay there for live. It's only profitable to live there, make savings and buy 2-3 houses in Uk/Germany for it. Like two of my co-workers did.
Also relevant - Veritasium: Facebook Fraud [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag
Linux. Systemd. GNU. YaST. Git. Blender. These are all programs under the GPL, and the reason they are so successful is because of the defense that copyleft provides against proprietary software.

In short, no. Not dead in the water.
As someone who develops for a Gov't agency, this is the wrong move. So much money has been spent on mimicking the private sector innovators. Millions and millions of tax dollars spent on these type of projects.

The focus really needs to be on building a process to better integrate private cloud services and gov't applications. I mean they already are for the most part: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/fedramp/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Compliance/FedRA...

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160229005262/en/Serv...

Seriously this is just another wasteful program. The Gov't and 18F will hype it up, but don't be fooled.
I for one am very grateful they are here to help. Should be a clear win for both sides.
Of course but if I've learned anything from camping is to always prepare for the worst weather possible. Very smart to treat this as TV getting hacked versus simple password re-use due to the nature of money being taken from victims.

This is also why I'm glad I've never used the accounts for TV and have always resorted to the number generating system (if of course the breach is related directly to the accounts)
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Ah that's Schwamendingen. Well known for a high foreigner percentage (37%). https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwamendingen#Bev.C3.B6lkerun... (German).

To downvoters: please see my comment below. I am not against foreigners.
Very nice find. What are the business unit motivations behind critical suppliers like ASUS repeatedly violating customer trust in this manner? At what point in the management chain is the decision reached to sacrifice reputation for - whatever cost savings there are from not implementing TLS/blob signing?

edit: This is not rhetorical. Actually curious if someone on HN familiar with this class of companies (ASUS is not unique among OEMs) can educate.
Absolutely. I go for black army surplus socks, which I think cost about 1gbp a pair last time I bought a batch, which was ages ago.
In Zurich city it is not impossible to buy property, it is just very hard. Everything surrounding Zurich is affordable also for software engineers. I was looking into buying a three room apartment in Effretikon (20 min from Zurich by train) for 370k. I work here for 2 years and could afford the downpayment (20% of the buying price).
Maybe if they had money to spend, then they wouldn't be "unwashed" and in fact thus be part of an ever increasing economy. Unfortunately that would require an understanding of how an economy works, rather than a zero-sum mindset and collectivist hate of seeing "other" people have money who "don't deserve it" because their "birth coordinates were wrong", even if you were to receive exactly the same. Talk about self-destructive behaviour.
You may enjoy Leo Breiman's famous article "Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures": http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1009213726

What he calls "algorithmic modeling" is what I see as machine learning style thinking.

Naturally there's a lot of overlap and people in stats and ML often do related work (our statistics department, at CMU, collaborates a lot with the machine learning department), but there's a basic mindset difference.
Curious, what are you using DB-19 interfaces for? And where do you order them from?
USB? You're not even being serious.
"anything other than fold your laundry and treat your clothes." != "destroy clothes"