skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The bitcoin community believe that purchases should be fully caveat emptor, and as a result there's a high level of fraud and theft which is going to put off non-ideological adopters.

> Source for theft and fraud: https://magoo.github.io/Blockchain-Graveyard/

The site you've linked seems to be talking about thefts, similar to losing your credit card and someone running rampant with it, not purchase fraud.

In the case of credit cards, someone's still paying for it, it's just not you. There's no reason why this same system can't be applied to Bitcoin, without having to change anything in the protocols. It's just an extra intermediary in the middle who suffers the loss instead of you.

Got any sources that relate to purchases per your original?
I spend a couple hours once or twice a month in a used book store. I browse the history, fiction, classics, science/math sections and look for titles that align with what I've been thinking about lately. I also have a mental list of authors that I will buy on sight.
Their list is a bit outdated I think.

Some items are still relevant, but IMHO some big priorities are:

* OS packaging tools that provide sandboxing and dependency resolution, in a saner way than containers. Contributing to Guix or Nix would be ideal.

* A mobile OS that has at least a completely free userland. In the short term, only Android derivatives seem plausible. The Guardian Project + Copperhead OS + F-Droid alliance seems very interesting and worth contributing to: https://guardianproject.info/2016/03/28/copperhead-guardian-...

* Decent multi-device messaging, to replace WhatsApp et al. Something like Matrix or Ring, or Signal without Google Cloud Messaging.
"Using non-written, non-permanent, non-recorded means of communication is something you don't have to submit in discovery. (Because it cannot be.)"

Yes. But taking action to evade discovery after litigation has become active is quite a bit different from choosing not to retain information that may or may not ever become subject to litigation.

I guess I should have said "the chat app ate my homework" is a valid excuse if you always use the homework-eating chat app. But if you start using the homework-eating chat app because you're intending to discuss active litigation, that's just getting too cute.

Let's be clear here: you don't have to delete or encrypt communications to protect it from discovery. Privileged attorney-client work product is always protected from discovery, whether it's in plain text, encrypted, written on paper, or whatever. But for some reason (I speculated on one) they chose not to do this work as attorney-client work product.
a lot more bright minds are working on making you click on ads than hft
Artificial waiting with UX
But your argument seems to fundamentally rest on Solomonoff induction. Put any real algorithm in there, and now you need to ensure that 1. the biases of the algorithm encompass a hypothesis that matches the data and 2. the algorithm will be able to arrive at that hypothesis given a real data stream, and, ideally, a real amount of computation. Both of these are hard questions, in the strongest sense of the term.

And once you open that door, well, all you've really done is restate the fact that learning how the universe works seems to be really difficult.
I'm not using an ad-blocker, and yet I get an overly full page banner telling me to turn it off, or register and sign in.

For something I was reading out of casual curiosity, it's really annoying that they get that wrong and prevent me from reading. It's certainly not only not persuaded me to sign up, it's persuaded me never to sign up.

I have no problem with supporting journalism, good writing, and creators in general - I do so on a regular basis. But that has persuaded me to go somewhere else with my dollars.
Out of the groups mentioned only the business ones have lots of money to spend. And businesses typically get these support licenses because they are either required to by hte hardware or software they use, third party contracts, or that it's cheaper then hiring fully qualified employees. That is they actually save money by spending it on Redhat.

Unfortunately for this guy he will probably find that iOS app store has turned into 'land of dead apps'.
So, so many of our problems are caused by profit motivated people poisoning the well for themselves and others.

It is truly a shame that our culture is so motivated by money over doing the right thing.

edit:

Also, this article makes it sound exhausting to buy real food. :(
Yup, it's pretty solid, no issues to report.
What's appropriate to put in a Go Context?
It's illegal but you can ignore the law. The same does not apply to PayPal, coinbase, western union, etc. The system will not let you choose.

Do you think banks never get stolen from? I had to cancel a credit card recently because someone skimmed or stole it. The bank had to pay for that.
Though, more likely they'll find that typing "python" returns "command not found", and in that case they might find it easier to just type apt-get/dnf install python.
You could feel the same way about your bank or Paypal or your home if you have a mortgage, but I still don't feel it's unreasonable to both use these services and expect them to serve the purpose they were built for legally and ethically (the legal requirement ostensibly being what he ran into here).

I think most people would agree that keeping large amounts of cash is both fruitless (no interest) and irresponsible (higher probability of theft) and keeping your bitcoin in a personal wallet doesn't seem terribly different, except that theft can happen from anywhere not just your physical location. This isn't to say I don't understand the feeling, given the relatively unregulated, shady nature of the bitcoin economy. Additionally, money has value because it's useful, and Coinbase makes bitcoin much more useful to me (easier to buy and spend, which is the point of money).

So you're not wrong, but I also believe that's a criticism that ought to be tempered with reality.
Reminds me of the scene in Silicon Valley and the focus group wondering where their data is and why their storage is empty.
5 IoT Standardization and Implementation Challenges
Why don't you read? Or is it just this year that you are taking off?
Allergic to life: the Arizona residents 'sensitive to the whole world'
Not exactyly at the same time, but def in the same machine: http://stepcraft.us
There isn't any ground detection. It pretty clearly just positions it about 40 degrees bellow straight ahead. And 40 degrees above for air Pokemon. It's especially evident when you have a desk or something behind you, the Pokemon will look distant.

As far as AR goes the math needed to do what they do is pretty trivial.
The problem isn't with labels per se. Sure, informed choice is best and all. But people are asking for GMO labels not because of a need to exercise informed choice - the campaigning is done because of irrational fears of GMO. Call it asking for an OK-ish thing for very wrong reasons.

And DHMO in this context means the GMO fear makes about as much sense as DHMO fear. People are afraid because it sounds "chemically".
Firebase is also useful for "rich prototyping". I work with a skilled front-end developer who can also work with Firebase. The result is that a functional app can be created quickly. Then it's up to the client to decide if they wish to replace Firebase or live with its limitations.
Why don't you actually comment on the submission itself, rather than making a new, unconnected submission with no link to the original?

Were you intending to reply to one of these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068151

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067169

Click on one of those links, and type your reply into the comment box there.
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How can I send cookies online to India?
Sounds a bit disingenuous since you just created that account to post this comment.
As a Linux user since many years, I like very much the traditional package management. I think the efforts should be put on reliability and hardware handling. I have migrated from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 recently. I am using a NAS drive. After my do-release-upgrade -d, internet was not working anymore because of systemd circularity problem. I had to learn how to create systemd configuration files to describe remote filesystem mounts.

The focus when clicking on chrome did not work anymore (http://askubuntu.com/questions/760654/cick-to-focus-is-not-w...).

When my computer enters in sleep mode, I can wake it with a press on enter. The next time, it enters in sleep mode, I can not wake it up anymore.

I have fixed the two first issues and worked around the third one. I dream ubuntu becomes more used, but these kind of issues is blocking.
Pokemon Go still no go in Japan
He used the Interrotron on his incredible First Person TV series, which essentially gave us 17 Morris-quality (ie, "as good as it gets") short documentaries.

Highly recommended - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Person_(TV_series)
Curious why you don't think this is a security flaw. Surely a browser failing to pin certificates would be a bad thing, no?
To be fair:

> Data published today by SimilarWeb indicates that the mobile game is poised to surpass Twitter in daily active users on Android.
If market makers (i.e. most HTF firms) weren't able react to large market moving trades very quickly, they would have to keep spreads wider to manage the risk of adverse selection. This increases the cost for everybody for the benefit of a few large investors.
The GMO issue should really be broken apart in to different parts.

-GMO because tons of Roundup® has been dumped on it ~Is Roundup® safe?

-GMO for marketing or other purposes but which could have features harmful to humans. ~How much, if any, scientific & statistically valid tests have been done?

-GMO for any reason but could have features which disrupt the current flora & fauna of their environment. ~Can a problem be observed before it is too late to correct for it?

-GMO which results in expansion and/or defense of monoculture. ~Are consumers ok with low quality food with minimal variety?
Sconto del 5% alla cassa con Bonifico Bancario
Reminds me how Einstein derived special relativity. He was thinking about synchronizing clocks at railroad stations across the continent. The idea of simultaneity depends on the location of the observer. The traveltime of light crossing the globe in 1/14 a second matters little at train speeds. But thats an eternity for HFT and noticeable in a google search.

These issue crop up on integrated circuits where clock cycles are shrinking and die sizes are increasing. Defining simultaneity where the microinstruction cycle time is much shorter than the chip or board propagation time is tricky. Each design has their methods to deal with this.
Can you find out whether she was induced into claiming it was caused by the oil?

The article claims that victims were only classified as such after they had accepted oil as the cause of their sickness. So they had an incentive to do so.
Astronomers just discovered a Morse code message in the dunes of Mars
Cave is the singular imperative form. Cave lector therefore makes sense, meaning "beware, reader", while caveat means "warning".
India and Internet =?
First hour rule for getting work done
Is it anonymized? I do wonder if the costs are or will one day be worth the personal gain?
OK, I see what you're saying now. In that case, can you think of a better way of predicting whether you see a 0 or 1 in that situation?
if italy gets into trouble the EU will just force its members to give up more sovereignity so it can deal with the issue. they will go along because only the EU would be strong enough. which is very bad for the populist nationalist exiteers who have been causing so much trouble lately.
What are the schools like in Spain? Do people need to leave to study?
No, most (non-pedantic) Asimov fans refer to the first three books (F, F&E, SF - which yes are technically collections of short stories glued together as one) as "the Foundation Trilogy". I do recommend reading the Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth, they're worthy sequels to the "trilogy".

The Robot novels are also a top read and tie in with the later Foundation books in a satisfying way:

- The Caves of Steel

- The Naked Sun

- The Robots of Dawn

- Robots and Empire
In the academic, Marxist sense, yes. But I was using the term "working class" rather as a synonym for minimum wage, blue collar workers, or in this case teenagers whose parents have those jobs. The point really is that middle class kids (like you were) can get jobs (like you did), whereas poor kids often can't.
Show HN: Umbrella App – lessons on security for people who travel
The thing to realize here is that most of these payment processors have the same functionality. The key difference most of the time is the Documentation/Spec and the support provided by the processor.

I have been working on a Braintree solution for my place of employment and going from Authorize.net/First Data to Braintree was a pleasure! All support queries I've made to them have been answered in couple of hours. This to me makes the biggest difference.
Hunger for tech startups helps Japan's Line price IPO at top of range
"Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore" - Robin Sloan (a brilliant mix of history, mystery, humour and technology)

"The Cuckoo's Egg" - Clifford Stoll (it really is as good as they always say ;-) )

"Winnie the Pooh" - A.A. Milne (delightful, not only for children)

"Sofie's World" - Jostein Gaarder (a novel about the history of philosophy)

several Discworld novels - Terry Pratchett (a series that manages to satirize fantasy and real life at the same time)

... as well as a few others, but those were the best.
Based on what? The fact he won the Labour leadership election by a landslide? The fact that the Labour party membership has nearly doubled compared to last year? The fact that Labour have held all 4 seats contested in by elections since he was elected leader ( http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/elections-and-voting/by-e... )? The fact that Labour largely maintained their lead in local government representatives during the last local elections?

You could probably point to some poll or other that claimed he was unelectable, but as I said before, the media has been attacking him from day one, and many people are swayed by what they read in the media. There's also the issue of the rise of the SNP in Scotland, but that's got very little to do with Corbyn.
Solo: An American Dreamer in Europe by Wright Morris, a memoir of spending part of 1932 and 1933 in Austria, Italy, and France. Not on the whole as rewarding as his other memoirs Will's Boy and A Cloak of Light, but interesting enough.

Adolphe and Le Cahier Rouge by Benjamin Constant. The former a devastating short novel, the latter a memoir, a portrait of the artist as a young twerp. (The things we boomers would say if something comparable had been published by a millenial!)

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, a novel read for a book club. The less said, the better.

Autobiography by Henry James. Very slow going, but rewarding, a mind at work.

My Promised Land by Avi Shalets. A history of Israel and the Zionist project by an Israeli journalist. It covers a lot of ground that most Americans (I infer from my book club) don't know. It seemed to me that it could have been maybe 15% shorter, and that David Remnick should have impounded Shalets's thesaurus.

Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder by Isaiah Berlin. Well worth reading, but requiring more time than just its own reading, for now I have to read some Herder. I have already fought my way through some Hamann; the translation is heavily footnoted, as necessary for those of us who aren't handy with Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, and don't have the Bible memorized.

Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit (vol. ii) by Egon Friedell. Clive James's recommendation in Cultural Amnesia put me onto this one. Most interesting, but slow going because my German is rusty.

[Edit: got rid of most of the "most interesting"s.]
At $400M a Year, Academic Argues Bitcoin Mining Worth the Cost
Xdg-app was renamed into Flatpak. It is a standard like Snappy probably has a document describing the technical workings. Flatpak (though I like it) is too new, preventing anyone from calling it a de facto standard.

For Flatpak, the scope is limited to just desktop apps. Then to break out of the sandbox it'll provide 'Portals'. They work a bit like Mac OS X / Android / iOS. The goal is to limit the permissions by default. User interaction of portals should be great, you don't really notice the difference. Portal support will only come to GTK as of 3.22 (September 2016), see https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2016/07/08/portals-using-gtk.... Until Qt/GTK+ supports these portals Flatpak does NOT fully sandbox else you'd have problems using the app. Sandbox is done using standard kernel functionality (namespaces, etc).

Snappy requires AppArmor. Without that, no sandboxing. There's a promise to also support SELinux, though not sure what timeframe they intend. Snappy on distributions without AppArmor (e.g. Fedora) will NOT sandbox the app! Snappy IIRC is not just limited to desktop apps, which IMO limits the sandbox options.

AppImage can do sandboxing using other software (Firejail) which again relies on AppArmor. It seems the AppArmor profile comes with the app, which IMO defeats the security. This as IMO it would be nice to not have to trust the app you just installed.

For all above: any effective sandboxing requires Wayland/Mir, not X11. Noticed someone said you might be able to make X11 secure by putting an app within xephyr/xnest security filtering like program, but IMO that's a blue sky idea (tell me once it works and one of the sandbox solutions provides full integrated support).
I believe the point is that if the target audience includes kids, you get stuck with the restrictions that implies, whether or not they are the majority. Some of this is directly legally mandated, some of it is indirectly legally mandated by fear of lawsuit, and some of it is mandated by avoiding bad PR about any bad thing maybe possibly happening to some kid somewhere because of your app. By that, I don't mean to minimize concerns about the real possibility of things that could be bad, but to highlight the fact that the PR disaster doesn't even need a real bad thing to happen, just a semi-credible accusation made to the right media for any reason.

None of those three concerns can be fixed by any amount of "resource investment" that will satisfy anyone. It would just get them accused of censorship anyhow.
In my experience, transferring between services didn't cost us a dime.
Medical students ad doctors have been in on the game and using pharmaceutical agents to boost endurance and perfomance for a long time. Interesting though, is the angle on ketosis as a booster of cognitive ability.
JQuery grid with Ruby on Rails
Thinking about Big Data – Part 3 (the final and somewhat scary part)
Firebase gives you a real-time database with no initial setup. The only really big competitor I know of it is RethinkDB. Having "three-way" databinding in a SPA is pretty cool and wouldn't be something that would be trivial to setup without either of these two databases.

I could see Firebase being a great go to for a certain size of project in the small to medium size that would rather pay for this feature set that using AWS, Azure, Rackspace, etc.
"This movie make all other movies look awful - do not fail to see, missing it would be a crime"

Is this a negative, or a positive review?

awful -1
fail -1
miss[ing] -1

Seems pretty negative to me...

You can build a fairly accurate nudity filter by detecting % skin-tone pixels, but that extra mile to distinguish bikini/beach pics from nudes is the real crux.
Is that still true in MirageOS, which runs as a Unikernel on top of Xen?
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OK, you've implied or linked to some significantly different claims here:

1. That there is no Zika outbreak / outbreak of Zika-like symptoms (this seems irrefutably wrong and as far as I know even the typical conspiracy theorist sites aren't claiming this much).

2. That the symptoms of Zika are in fact caused by the organo-phosphate pesticide Pyriproxyfen (Zika has been a recognized viral illness just like others e.g. Dengue for at least 50 years, predating the widepread use of organo-phosphates in Brazil, so this also is very, very unlikely).

3. That the microencephaly in babies borne to mothers with Zika, that is being attributed to the Zika virus, is in fact caused by Pyriproxyfen (for epidemiological reasons [1], this seems very unlikely but it cannot be ruled out at this point).

By the way, your second source didn't seem terribly bad, and assumed an appropriate amount of skepticism toward the claims in question. Your first source, written by an "political analyst" currently pursuing a global affairs degree, and with no apparent scientific credentials, wasn't as convincing.

Are any of the academic virologists you're referring to on public record with their skepticism about the Zika outbreak?

1. In the three cities reporting the most cases — Recife, Jaboatao and Paulista — pyriproxyfen is not in use, according to: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/02/18/46713891....
It's a much less cringey way to meet someone than Tinder, especially if you want to meet someone who's into Pokemon.
The only thing I will add about braintree vs stripe is that they are both aggregators that aggressively underwrite using algorithms. This means they are taking the risks upfront without full due diligence and then when any unexpected activity occurs (high ticket or high volume), your funds can be potentially held for a long time.

Other credit card processing companies may not be able to get you signed up in 5 minutes, but they follow a more traditional process of validating your business and documentation that gives you a more robust foundation for running transactions without problems.

Both of the vendors above however have extremely user friendly documentation and platforms and fast onboarding times. I would recommend them for startups.

Disclosure, I work for Fattmerchant, a fintech startup / payment processor.
This would be really cool to apply to programming languages. That is, matching abstract syntax trees together.

This way you could identify similar chunks of code. I had an idea related to this for identifying security vulnerabilities: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11573547
Yes. Why?
As other said it's usually not a problem to ask again for the credit card, and when you switch payment services the users might actually see different details in their bank transactions, get billed with different delays or otherwise have billing problems.

Having a transition step where the users know something is changing can be helpful to cover the edge cases.
How powerful is IBM Watson
As someone with zero domain knowledge, why aren't the exchanges already doing precision timed order processing? That just seems like it's should be a standard feature across the board. The broker sends buy/sell orders with planned execution times to all the required exchanges and the exchanges sit on the orders until the designated time.
Ultimately they're both going to want the same information. If you had started processing more than, say, $10K per day, Stripe would freeze your account and demand the same information. The difference being that Braintree wanted that information upfront and without the stress of frozen funds at risk.
I know a session musician who played on major hits I wont mention the artist he mentioned who had 97 separate vocal tracks in protools on one Hit :-)
Why and How does Configuration matter?
Qubes OS Project
A single socket can be shared by multiple cores. That means that the kernel must both protect the socket descriptor from concurrent writes, and can't enforce a TCP link to be handled by a defined core (CPU affinity).
Ken Schwaber on the Five Values of Scrum