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Central Afrika is also the place where apes live in relative closeness to humans - and it is easy to see how we could be susceptible to viruses common to a biologically close species, especially if we are so dumb to eat them.

But the regular outbreaks of bird flu show, that this is not limited to one specific location. With the bird flu, its the markets in Asia, where close contact between poultry and humans creates regular transition of viruses to humans. Fortunately, recent more strict regulations seem to have reduced the bird flu outbreaks.
Yes that's a good question, I wouldn't like to have that without notice in an interview :)
It's not that simple, and are you going to lay your cables to every contractor and supplier? many of which can be fairly small niche businesses?

Military networks are fairly secured, while the article does bring a few interesting anecdotes it's quite hyperbolic.

Also I would like to point out that every big hack today, especially those from state actors used fairly common and even "outdated" attacks and vulnerabilities, they were masterfully executed but it's not like they used some super new exploits and attack vectors that no one heard of before.

Military doctrines take time to develop, even in "cyber warfare", military computer systems also don't tend to be the latest and greatest as far as hardware and software goes but they are often reliable.

Building defenses around what you know and what your attackers are able to do is a good strategy, knowing when and what to airgap and what to protect is also critical because not every military network is secret nor critical.
You focus your resources on an effective strategy the 80–20 rule applies even to military and defense networks.
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Yeah, it's funny how many people look at a country that went from agrarian society to first spacefaring society & 2nd most powerful nation in ~40 years and go "obviously their economic system was an abject failure".

The level of growth experienced by the SU was unsurpassed. In the 50s the US media was fretting over it being "too successful".
Let's sort that at the preliminary scoping meeting before assigning it a team at the next quarterly.
Yes this is true. But I'd be hoping they'd also have something on github or the cpan, or other places to show their general thought processes. Or at minimum a credible recent employer and references to back it up.
IMF report calls Bitcoin's blockchain the Internet of Trust
Unless it's made from stacks of crisp USD bills, I doubt they will be interested. Because that's what they seem to have been focused on mining to date.
As far as I have understood: Some poor kids don't wait for the second marshmallow because they don't trust the promise they will get the second marshmallow if they wait. They aren't impulsive. They consider carefully the risks and decide it's better to have a marshmallow now, because what if the adult just takes the marshmallow away when he returns? After all this is what they experience every day: non-trustworthy adults.

This is both sad and fascinating. Sad because it's a terrible world for children not to trust people. Fascinating because the conclusion is a lot more deep than I would have expected. Half a year ago I tried this experiment with my three year old son. He waited for the second cookie. Now I realize that I also tested his trust. He was trusting me and therefore willing to wait for the second cookie.
Here are the Hyperloop pods competing in Elon Musk's big race later this year
I once read a story told by a young U.S. lawyer who happened to come from one of West European countries and thus had a specific cultural background. They were in the middle of finishing a deal and when he was re-reading the contract, he noticed that he made a typo and turned $1.5M they were to pay at some stage into $15M. And the contract was already signed! In horror he went to the business owner and confessed. It was a revelation to him when the owner took it very lightly and told him something like: "It's OK, I'll just phone them and we'll have this fixed."

(And it wouldn't stand a chance in court either, because a simple calculation would show this couldn't possibly be a right sum for a sane person to pay for whatever the contract was about.)
> However, it was still poor and barely industrialised when it was decimated by WWII.

The country was killing itself at a fantastic rate during the 30's purges prior to WWII. Stalins complete failure to listen to the advice of the remaining army staff ('that army we can see is about to invade') helped make the situation even more desperate.
It's interesting to imagine what Djikstra would've accomplished if he instead decided to focus on theoretical physics. Conversely, imagine what we would've lost if we didn't have Djikstra as a programmer.

I'd like to point out that Dijkstra's writing might arguably the best writing I've seen from a programmer. English is not my first language and his writing is inspiring; if possible I'd like to request if anyone can point me to a resource (apps, software, etc) so I can learn to write, speak, and converse like Dijkstra in this lecture?
I think the whole idea of these stories was to find ways these seemingly simple and straight laws can come into amazing deadlocks.
Scientific publishers are killing research papers
I think it's better to find it on your own. It gives you a mild euphoria. Like when I found out what noprocrast was for.
Doesn't the carbon usually come from coal?
To me this simply raises the case of why abortion should always be a choice.
Can you give an example and how you'd re factor it. I'm having a hard time visualising what you mean.

I have seen code that catches any exception and returns false. That is annoying although for different reasons.
Any smart contract enforcement mechanism would necessarily rely upon some outside system

Absolutely. This drastically limits the scope of smart contracts. You can do all kinds of interesting stuff with the contracts and digital money, like ponzi schemes, simple gambling games, and so on, but you can't link them with the real world without relying on some third party trust. And once you require trust, then you might as well implement the whole thing in the real world.

Incidentally, this is also the killer problem with Slock.it's (the DAO creators) other project, their 'digital locks', physical padlocks that would open or close based upon smart contracts. They were fundamentally flawed because it's impossible to prove that a physical lock is tied to the blockchain. There's no proof that it will honour a smart contract, so the whole system again relies on third party trust.
> Unfortunately Weightley is only optimized to work on computers or tablets. Tweet me if you want a mobile version!

Sad. I was looking forward to checking it out.
Yes, you are missing a statically typed language. Tests or assertions? Neither. Security or efficiency? Both.
The same kind of thing pays for archeology with ancient Roman lead: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2010/apr/23/ancient...
> Yeah nah.

Australian? Yeah nah. It's Kiwi as
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What's the mechanism by which you think wealth increases health? It's not getting more healthcare, since if it were Oregon should have increased health.

If it's buying non-medical things, what is the relevance of Sweden's UHC?
Lame excuses ("a very sophisticated password attack") with no details so that we can estimate the risk.
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Same for Android chrome.
One funny comment about the subject:
https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/744421708371623937
...then make the JWT last as long as the refresh token.
As these hacks are becoming more common place, I'd love to hear fellow HN reader's take on their password strategy/management. Many thanks in advance!
The confusion here is that you repeatedly seem to misunderstand my point, perhaps that is my fault as I do not have the time to write very carefully (e.g. I've used "Turing Machine" as a cheap shot at imperative programming). You even stated it yourself earlier "because our programs are most certainly not TM-equivalent". If you agree that most programs do not require Turing equivalence, then you must surely understand my main point, which is why provide powerful expressive languages that, for example, do allow Turing complete computations. Does a contract language, or even a systems language need to really support Turing completeness? You seem to argue that it doesn't matter. I think it does.
The article is about Apios americana (groundnut), rather than Arachis hypogaea (peanut). They share the same order and family, but are a different genus.

The article comments that "groundnut" is ambiguous, and refers to a variety of different plants (including peanuts):

> "The plant was Apios americana, also known as wild bean, Indian potato, potato bean, and, most commonly, groundnut (though other plants, including peanuts, are also called groundnuts)."
Fuck paypal.
I wonder if this is the same group which targeted the other remote desktop service a few weeks ago?
In the US we had a lottery that directly gave out healthcare. That also had no effect on health.

The Sweden result shows that money has little/no effect via non-healthcare purchase mechanisms, while Oregon shows healthcare directly has little/no effect.

What, exactly, is the mechanism you propose?
The headline seems a bit inaccurate. It looks like someone is trying to hack their customer accounts rather than GoToMyPC itself.
> if possible I'd like to request if anyone can point me to a resource (apps, software, etc) so I can learn to write, speak, and converse like Dijkstra in this lecture?

Practice makes perfect, that's really all there is to it. A good book on writing style can help, but only if you use it. The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker and Revising Prose by Richard Lanham are my two favorites.
I think that if a state desires to engage in a cyberattack, there's really no way you can pinpoint it back, because there's no evidence to show why a hacker on a Chinese IP is associated with the Chinese government -- unless you're depending on sloppiness. It could be a private industrially motivated actor, it could be the actions of someone looking to embarrass the Chinese government, or it could be some nationalist.

The US can say "shame on you" because they feel they have enough evidence to support a narrative, and China will say, "How can you engage in such irresponsible rhetoric?" The Chinese government will condemn rogue criminals and perform a cursory investigation and that will be the end of it. And then all countries and all companies in the world continue operating as usual.

No political consequences. All nations understand it.
> You can very easily see if credit card interest of 20% will help or hurt you achieve your goals/lifestyle if you do the math.

Is there any scenario where paying 20% interest on credit card debt (or, rather, getting into a scenario that requires that) would help you achieve your financial goals?
Bitcoin merged Child-Pays-For-Parent. This will bump fees securely/chain tx
Use a password manager. One strong password per site.

https://www.keepassx.org/

Also, use 2FA wherever available. Google Authenticator is good enough.

Store your backup codes somewhere safe (your keepass db, for example. Although that goes a bit counter to the point of 2FA, if someone cracks your keepass db, you're pretty screwed regardless).
On top of that, even some L4 microkernels are written in C++. So, efficient that they fit into a L1 cache as they run ulta-fast. I keep trying to get people to not use C++ for these but funny it's almost a trend now.
'Clearing your orbit' is not a qualitative term. It is actually something that is quantifiable: a value that expresses the relation of the mass in the planet's orbit compared to the mass of the planet itself.

A tiny asteroid won't change that value much for Earth, which is more than comfortably a planet under this definition. The mass of this asteroid may not even affect the estimates of the mass of the regular space debris in our orbit even (haven't checked).
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It's worth mentioning than Dokany also provides a FUSE compatible API, see https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
Being able to buy toilet paper was a major win (in the '80s), that was planning economy at its finest, not military spending. Or people who had to commute from countryside to large cities to buy cheese and sausage. Source: born in the USSR.
Feedback loops with excessive competition for reputation?

Cheating is bound to happen.

There are some games for which not playing is the only way to not loose.
I would suggest upvoting https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con... if that's something you want to see.
I think long before 3D-printed cars, the shift to all-electric drivetrains will put most mechanics out of business.
What risk is there to estimate? Assume that the attackers have the clear text of your password, and know that it's your password.
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I use the excellent 1Password, syncing over WiFi with my phone as the source of truth for my vault. 2FA enabled for everything that supports it and backup codes stored physically. Works great and password managers are one of the few times when something is both more convenient and more secure.
People developed software long before cutting and pasting from Stack Overflow became a thing.

A former boss told me about his time in the RAF, they had one machine in their office that could connect to the Internet, it was at one end of the office and hooked up to a big screen, so everyone could see that you weren't I dunno, browsing the Russian Embassy's website or something.
To the contrary, I find many of his proposals very rational, and this rationality seems to hurt many people's feelings
Could be. But how can you assume the trend is cyclical if we've seen only one and a half cycles?
Aren't these remote access solutions primarily on demand and therefore coupled to a one-time password generated each time it's started? Isn't Chrome's remote access otp only? Maybe it's time to ask friends/family to use that instead.

I mean, if I want permanent remote access, then I'd set up a reasonably secure VPN solution that also required client side certificates, without the use of a trusted intermediary/proxy.

Interactive access to remote servers seems also to get less important with push/pull of configuration/deployment recipes and immutable deployment.
Would be nice if they told us how they hashed it or if they hashed it at all. If the passwords are bcrypt then it wouldn't matter if an attacker got that hash.
This style of programming reminds me of SQL where you specify intent and let a query optimiser work out the execution plan. I like it. Not sure this is production ready but it'd be fun to try at work.
in the 30s, a lot of European media was reporting about happy life of working people in the USSR (see 'useful idiots')
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How user friendly is guacamole? Anyone have any experience setting it up for non techies?
What you're saying is more drastic then what they wrote here. If you used the same password somewhere else, then you're going to have change all those passwords.
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The list will depend on the language, platform and your interests. Build something that interests you and challenges you a little but isn't too overwhelming.
Exactly. Every time I see post about gyroscipe here on HN I am amazed by such beautiful design and prezentation. I really like their location visualizations. But I am simply not willing to upload such personal data to some company.

For tracking my locations I use simple android app called GPSLogger which saves my location into files on my sd card (not sending it to some others copmuters).. and for visualization would like to have something like gyroscope but working only locally or self hosted..
He's still calling the DAO risk "theoretical" after all that's happened? A situation that rarely if ever happens to the legal instruments and methods Ethereum intends to replace. One that has them considering forks. One that has investors wondering if they'll loose it all. That... "theoretical"... risk.

Specific vulnerabilities aside, I think any reader should stop trusting the judgment or effectiveness of Ethereum-backed projects at this point. Probably better doing the DAO as a well-managee, centralized non-profit to test crowd-funding scheme while Ethereum continues baby steps toward a distributed scheme that works.
The leaks at Palantir might not be connected to a single source, but rather a cultural issue, and thus multiple leaks. Having the special talent to track down hacking threats and actively patch problems is different from the ability to wonder whether your next information release is going to be leaked through non-technical means.

Finding the leak is going to involve assigning different truths to different individuals (like what Hollywood does with film previews), which will itself lead to more cultural issues.
Thanks! I'll start checking out the book
Java 8 improved things, but it's still far behind the rest. Also, both Kotlin and Ceylon (and Scala and Clojure) would be affected by the Oracle trolling, since they all run on the JVM.
Why do registrars charge more per year if I try to register a domain for more than one year?
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If your module does nothing but side-effects during load time, screw you.
This was posted a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10325583

Did anyone see improvements following the exercises mentioned in the paper?

For example these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQqRgdkOnk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEFcW3PLXlE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgTL5G1ibIo
People interested in the topic of the great farce that is modern business management should read in Jeffrey Pfeffer's Leadership Bullshit that also criticizes the management industry as well as modern corporations' incentive structures for leaders that make the optimum choice for leaders to lie and deceive.
To be pedantic, economists use the word value in a specific way. It is how much you can gain or benefit from something.

Price is what you can sell something for.

So gold has both value (you can use it as a commodity), and it has a price (you can sell it in exchange for currency).

Worth is another one: it's a mostly subjective, philosophical judgement.

So technically, I could sell something that has no value; and something which has no agreed upon price can have value. Everyone can then disagree about what that something is worth.
yeah, i just use it for scripting browsers, which don't support most of that shenanigans. for real work i use languages that are not a week old. I have no idea what exactly is being discussed there, other then it requires a syntax hack with `exports {}` to break the new standard.
Can adding code to a contract really allow reversal of fraudulent use? And why would we trust you?

P.s. noticed typo Decetnralization.
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It's still Zilog for the Z80 https://www.zilog.com/index.php?option=com_product&task=prod...
There's a clean and simple HackerNews reader for Android, iOS, and Web using React Native. Works pretty well. The developer even blogged about his experience making the app for all platforms.

It is called HackerWeb:

https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb-native
I'm using LastPass with a 2FA Yubikey token.

In addition, I try use different E-Mail adresses whenever I sign up, a catchall makes sure they end up in the same inbox. This might not stop a sophisticated targeted attack, but it should throw off a lot of automated runs since the email they got is seemingly not used at another service. A litte obscurity to strengthen the rest of my security ;)
UVs are not needed any more since a long time. They have many drawbacks (the first one being that they are explicit).

The renderers I used in production, when I left the VFX industry ca. 2010, all supported PTEX [http://ptex.us/ptexpaper.html].

Blender seems to have WIP support for it too nowadays [ https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Nicholasbishop/Ptex]
What parent says, but to add to it here is a list I stumbled across which you may use for inspiration:

https://github.com/karan/Projects
I vote for a little webby something. Get the lowest-level web framework you can find for the language, and then make a hello world. You're bound to learn strings, functions, processes and types, at the very minimum, and a web-based something is also a very easy platform from which to expand incrementally into new territory.
"Although APFS does checksum metadata blocks it does not do anything to provide resilience for data blocks. That is a huge omission in a modern filesystem, a point I tried to politely but forcefully make in the File System Lab directly to a responsible engineer."
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I like Hogan's book "Exercises for Programmers". Also, some lists of ideas I've recently been looking at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TyqD2_oDtiQIh_Y55J5RfeA9...

https://github.com/karan/Projects

http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/78802-martyr2s-mega-...
I use a password safe file (https://pwsafe.org/) which I then store randomly generated passwords per site and have a strong password on the safe itself.

I like this as a solution as it's not dependent on any third parties like cloud services, its pretty portable and I have a unique password per site, so I'm not really that bothered when the inevitable breaches happen.

Downside to this approach is that I have to have a device which has the password safe to hand to use it (there are clients for Windows/Linux/Mac/iOS/Android), I'm responsible for managing the file and if I lose the file + passphrase I'm stuffed :)
Are the rent increases part of the inflation indexes ? I ask because Fed seems hell bent on stoking up inflation and I don't see why this shouldn't be part of it.
I find that so disappointing. Of course there are people already planning to rip resources out of the cosmos. Once you've left Earth barren, of course it makes sense to spread our destructive tendencies throughout the solar system / galaxy.
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Or consider the much more "cynical" (and in my mind more obvious, if it wasn't for our habit of seeing patterns everywhere) view that there might not be any structure, cyclical or other, to the course of history. In that view, whether the future of the internet will be centralized or decentralized is undetermined and will most likely be a mishmash of both, the extent of with will depend on inertia, ideology, economics and luck.
I think that depends on the language. A couple of ideas: Copycat standard unix tools such as grep, ls, dd. Implement an economy simulator. Implement a simple neural network (you can find the formulas for backprop online). A tennis tournament planner. A Sudoku solver using SAT constraint propagation. Invent a simple layout language and implement an interpreter/renderer which renders text and images in a pdf file.
The Fed is using the Personal consumption expenditure index done by the Department of Commerce. And yes, rents are in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_consumption_expenditu...
2 inches is 5 cm, very practical too. My thumb is 1 cm wide, the span of my thumb and index is 15 cm. I can add all this up and end upbwith 137 cm, which is a meter and 37 centimeters. Never had to convert anything.
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