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The bridges are the problem because they represent a vector by which hackers can gain access to large amounts of stored value.

I really don't buy that.

We've seen our fair share of malware that exists to break into bitcoin wallets to steal people's cryptocurrency.

The problem isn't the bridges.

The problem is that security is really frickin hard. Mix in the fact that there's a real monetary reward for hacking the system, and it's no great surprise that we see these types of breeches happening over and over.

All the "bridges" do is provide an attractive target.

Bitcoin's approach to this has been to make security the problem of the user. "Air gaps" and "warm/cold wallets" and all that BS. But individual users are not even remotely equipped to deal with this type of complexity. This is why the financial world has moved more and more toward very simple, basic two-factor security (something you have/something you know, e.g. chip-and-pin), while placing all the hard security requirements on the infrastructure itself.

And that's still not stopped hackers from stealing billions by hacking credit card terminals, the underlying networks, and even the banks themselves.

Fundamentally it's a bloody hard problem. And the tooling and education surrounding the use of cryptocurrencies is not up to the challenge. Not even close.
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Could you link me that thread?
Many sites have started using "magic links" where you can choose to either receive an email with a link that will authenticate you or you can input the password.

Both Netflix and Slack does this.
You don't explain what exactly is wrong with it being commercial and closed-source. That is the default way businesses make money.
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I would love to see Kraken taken for a spin by objective third parties in a fully transparent way that compared it to the available alternatives on equal footing.

Sadly, a compression benchmark that doesn't detail the compiler, hardware, corpus, or even version of the libraries used is not very compelling. If others cannot reproduce your results, the results aren't of much value beyond marketing.
See example above in this thread. In C + GCC vector extensions, I just use normal arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /).

However, when using specific intrinsics they are for a specific width. It might take some "library code" to take advantage of some instructions like dot products, etc.
It would be informative to see a breakdown within "tech."

IT support -- although vital, valuable work that large companies absolutely need -- is not the same sort of work as starting up a new idea.
Just so this is clear: This is not a new feature in Firefox. They are just giving people a way to test it and to give feedback. Depending on the response, it might then become a feature, but for now it's only a proposition.
More importantly, how do they make their money?
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Microsoft appears to do it as well with Office 365 and Azure (and related services).

They appear to distinguish two types of accounts ('Live ID' type accounts for personal use, and 'Work' accounts) and it is possible for a single e-mail address to refer to both. When I enter my work email, I get to choose between 'use my work account' (which exists in Azure AD) and 'use my personal account' (which some years ago I registered as Live ID), then get the password prompt.

Actually their implementation is a bit annoying, because the password field in some cases is already visible before the choice between personal/work is presented - as soon as you tab out of the username field, you get the choice and you have to type your password afterwards.
I'm guessing to support company single sign-on. They lookup the domain of your email and then redirect to the correct SSO flow.
Not the answer you would expect but still: it can also happen on large projects where the refactoring or the paradigm change is just too costly in C. The pure, raw ability to make C faster is nice, but if it takes you months of development you don't have, it's pretty useless.

One typical example of this was a few years ago (if I'm not mistaken) in the monitoring world, when Shinken released a Nagios-compatible engine in Python, and, basically the reactions in the Nagios community was that the modifications involved in Nagios (C) were just too important to be worth it.
The main download link on the site should be: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.tenta.android

We're using the Play Store's beta program, so you'll need to opt-in to be a beta tester first, then download

Can you please let me know where you got that link and we'll fix it.
> Actually the MO Assembly tossed them $4.5 million in additional funds

...and also cut $60M in tax revenue without matching spending cuts, taking the political win of lower taxes while forcing the governor to choose between screwing the state Kansas-style or else taking the political fall-out for spending cuts. Heads I win, tails you lose.

It's all theater, and you're being duped if you think the legislature isn't at least equally responsible for MO's under-funding of p much everything.

> apparently that's a power the MO governor has?

Yes, it's actually for more common than not in state governments. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto_in_the_United_S...
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Girls get better grades but don't do as well on tests. It's easy to see where the confidence gap comes from.
A gmail address? Rebrand yourself first.
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I actually had assumed it was cross platform but there was no reason to use it.

I certainly wouldn't invest my code anywhere near Apple unless that was also my market. Who knows what direction it's moving, aside from in Apple's interest. I'll stick with rust and go: between the two I get everything but easy objective c interop.

Plus, their design decisions with respect to null ability is... Interesting. It's gonna feel gimped by legacy needs for a long time.
Source story: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/06/markus-kayser-builds-a...
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And how can a user be sure that Tenta, L.L.C. is not an agent of the NSA or the Chinese government?
Ah, you got me. Indeed I think so, but I find it nice that the complexity of the universe hides it from us and it only occasionally comes up in discussions like this. Thanks for the interesting link.
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Why don't you open source the whole product? Critical software should be auditable by anyone imho.
It wouldn't need to involve cognition and logic, it could be evolutionary coincidence: humpback whales with behavior that happens to result in fewer orcas nearby would have more surviving offspring, so this behavior would be selected for.
Maybe the whales respond to protect weaker "cute" animals in the way humans do. When we see an injured bird, we instinctively want to help it. Maybe it's a side effect of being genetically "programmed" to protect the young of our/their own species? Maybe the "pattern matching" is matching a bit more than just the same species.
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You are correct. They don't call it the Silicon Prairie for nothing ;)
Some authenticate (Google comes to mind) allows for delegation to third party scenarios. So, similarly, knowing the account is necessary to determine the next step.
> The entire point of bitcoin is to avoid financial institutions? That sounds like a pretty big disadvantage compared to other forms of money that work well with financial institutions.

It is a huge disadvantage for some purposes, but there are plenty of advantages to avoiding financial institutions.

If you want to work with financial institutions, there are plenty of ways to do that already. Go get a savings account or a mutual fund; it's not complicated.

If you want to transfer money at low fees across national boundaries, or make your money harder for governments to seize, or make your money anonymous, Bitcoin can do those things better than other financial vehicles. And that's because it's not tied in with financial institutions.

> A distinction without a difference as far as it relates to having all your money stolen.

It's a huge difference. Humans are notoriously bad at creating secure passwords. A SPRNG-generated key is far more secure.

> It makes bitcoin a poor choice for the general population since most people fall into the category of "outsiders who don't understand the tool and aren't on board with the philosophy of why Bitcoin is important"

True. The same can be said of almost any investment vehicle--most people have very little understanding of most investment vehicles. I'd also say that for example futures and options are much harder to leverage well than Bitcoin. That doesn't mean they aren't useful, it means you have to know what you're doing to use them.

As Warren Buffet said, "Don't invest in things you don't understand."

I have no problem with people investing in Bitcoin purely for speculation to make money, but I'm also not going to cry if they make a bad investment because they can't be arsed to understand what they're investing in. I wouldn't invest in mining futures because I don't know how to leverage mining futures, and they shouldn't invest in decentralized currencies if they don't understand the implications of decentralization.

If you keep your money in an exchange, you're gonna have a bad time. Lots of people (myself included) were saying this before even the Mt. Gox stuff happened, so it's not like this isn't predictable.
I've seen this on some bank websites, that display a user-selected picture after giving them your user ID. I guess that is so the user can verify that they are talking to the legitimate site.
The only place I've seen this done is Google.

For them it makes sense. Since a long time ago, they've had a feature where you use your custom authentication service to sign in (think: on site Kerberos instance).

For example at school the form would show both email and password fields, but I would enter only my school email into the username and then it would redirect me to to my school's centralized login.

So now instead of mistakenly showing the password field sometimes, they only show it when necessary.
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As someone who spent yesterday firing off 38 job applications (with personalized cover letters!), this terrifies me.
If you like gigantic fonts, feel free to press "Ctrl +" in your browser. I'm sure there's also a setting you can change to make the fonts larger by default if you're having problems with your eyesight.
The Arthur part is possibly some wishful projection, but the rich people living there part is backed up by the expensive and exotic things found there.
> Windows Server

Doesn't that make it worse by default? hyuk hyuk.

But seriously I've only ever really used Zabbix - Do you have any hints or tips on why PRTG is better? A quick glance would suggest they're pretty similar feature-wise
As usual, memristor based computing architecture is left out.

Intel's 3DXPoint has already brought memristor memory units to market. The beauty of memristor architectures is that they can be used for logic and storage, so you can create some radical new architectures with them.

I'm too lazy to link the talk by Stan Williams of HP, but if you google it it's the ~45min one.

This is the next architecture because it's already here. All that other stuff is vaporware.
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Or writing code for a fortune 100 company.

Or designing interfaces for some of the most iconic software and hardware companies.

Most of these centers are creating jobs - but not high paying, technical jobs. Support and cost center staffing in low cost locations relative to SV.
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It's just empathy. I don't help people because it makes me feel good (it usually annoys me), I do it because it would suck to be in their situation.
Will any sane person chat with bot in Skype instead of opening Hipmunk or Skyscanner in browser? Skype has one of the worst chat implementations ever. Hard disk is rattling insanely for 5 minutes before window appears when starting Skype.

I think they'll add snapchat features next.
Actually, it is "asking a lot". Quebec's language laws have been found to be in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Unfortunately, the Charter (which Quebec did not support) has a "notwithstanding" clause, which Quebec invokes more often than all other provinces combined.

Quebec is a joke, both economically and with respect to liberal democracy.
not to take away from the point you're trying to make, but i just installed it on windows 10 with the latest update that included bash. felt nice.
> we will open up the code for 3rd party review

Open for general access or limited to certain entities?
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Nope. Just means those kinds of mothers shouldn't try to work at Yahoo.
Man, testing database system sure must be very hard.
Granted. g(a) = f(a,a) is indeed the identity function for all f such that f(a,a) = a. That seems pretty pointless as an observation. We have f, so we're observing that some other, unrelated function is the identity function?
I don't know what to say other than The Windows brand was permanently damaged from the ability to install a virus by double clicking a .jpeg. For years. UAC should have arrived with NT.
Several large sites, including google/gmail and MS, do this so they can offer separate corporate versions of their cloud products. When you enter your username, it checks whether this is a consumer or corporate username, then the password page you see actually comes from a completely different page.

Try going to login.microsoftonline.com which has both a username and a password field and then type "alpha@bristol.ac.uk" into the username field and TAB out (this is not a real username by the way). You'll be redirected to the Bristol version of the sign-in page and get to see a nice picture of their university tower.

On gmail, once you've entered your e-mail address, if it's from a computer it recognises (some combination of cookies and IP address) then the password page will show your avatar, if it's from an unknown computer it won't. I guess this provides a very small signal that can be helpful in detecting phishing.
The other important part is that IT support is almost never a profit center and will have relatively little business impact on paper. You don't need a John Carmack or Jeff Dean of IT Support in your organization - it doesn't really matter if your IT O&S costs less or performs better than your competitors.

I really have to emphasize not working in a cost center whatever your industry or skillset if you're ambitious and talented to any degree
Couple of potential reasons: 1) progressive disclosure, getting people invested in filling out simple aspects of a form leads to increased conversions (i.e. giving an email address is easy, whereas creating an account is a different cognitive behavior, but a hypothesis is that it's easier to convert once the user is in the flow). 2) following Google. If there's ever a move to implement other authentication methods, then splitting it into that flow makes sense (if there's not, then it doesn't...)
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The average sales price of a home in my county is $2,000,000

The lowest county average sales price within a commuting hour of my workplace is probably $700,000, to live somewhere fairly isolated and dead.

It would only be "that easy" if I made $150k a year. That is still a top-10% salary in 2016, and yes my current salary is location-dependent, so I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place on that. I would start planning for a purchase 10 years out, but my down-payment savings money pretty much flies out the window toward debt and utilities. And most of the homes in my area sell in instant cash deals anyway, down payments are a joke. (Thanks, anonymous LLCs representing foreign wealth!)

I'm in a very particular situation with a lot of unusual disadvantages, but I'm also a web dev working for a large consultancy in one of the big US cities. Every one of my peers in the workplace is struggling with suburban homebuying expectations; while every one of my urban social peers holding less-prestigious jobs is almost certain to be working poor by age 50. The grind is already happening. There needs to be more political support for regulation and infrastructure projects that create the opportunity for working-class home ownership investments. It sounds like you support this, and your efforts are needed in politics too.
Not every possible feature has to be part of Firefox. And this is for now also just a suggestion that Mozilla is making, so that users can decide over it in the Test Pilot program.
Buy one in another country. If you are serious about revolution getting a few imported phones to use is hardly a big problem.
"GCs are complex and require lots of end-user tuning --"

And they tend to be very memory hungry. Often, the memory overhead is the difference between running a program or having a bunch of browser's tabs open.
Why place them on opposite ends of a spectrum (low failure vs high failure costs)? (Curious not saying it's incorrect).

At my company we do both and get very different value from them. Automated testing is great (reproducible, handles regressions automatically, can run all the time) but it's not intelligent. It can't think of things that you forgot to test, or identify dependencies between components you thought were unrelated. You can argue that you should have written better tests, but how do you learn that? In our case... Manual testing!

On the other hand, your manual QA person can't test all things at all times, and they definitely won't test the same thing over and over and over forever without finding a new gig! So ideally you take their input to learn not just how to test a particular component better (and fix specific bugs) but how to generally write better tests, so that next time their usual "tricks" won't work.
If we care so much about the STEM gender gap, why not other majors as well?

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor...

1) Health Professions (85% women): nursing assistant, veterinary assistant, dental assistant, etc.

2) Public Administration (82% women): social work, public policy, etc.

3) Education (79% women): pre-K, K-12, higher education, etc.

4) Psychology (77% women): cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, etc.

5) a majority of Biology degrees in 2012 (58%) were earned by women

These majors are dominated by women, many paying more than some of the other STEM majors. So why aren't we changing these as well to be more accommodating towards men?

More women than men graduate from college on average:

http://fortune.com/2013/03/27/boys-vs-girls-whats-behind-the...

Shouldn't we be figuring how how to change this to make it more equal?

My problem with all of these articles and the entire movement is that the goal isn't to make things equal, it's a power-grab to allow one group to completely dominate the other.

I'm waiting for someone to suggest we either get rid of Calculus as a requirement altogether or reduce it's difficulty to make it more 'fair'. This is exactly what has started happening in our military.
Could the obesity epidemic have a little to do with this? With around two thirds of the US population overweight, that's a lot of conventionally unattractive people. For males especially, being overweight drastically reduces the odds of being noticed by a potential partner. I suspect hormone imbalances, part of the metabolic syndrome umbrella shared with the symptom of obesity, might also have a hand in this.
While I realize the power of compound interest is real, those at 45 can get into commodities trading in IRAs. ETNs allow people to short or long a commodity. Paying attention to the tax forms helps reduce end of year non business related expenses. I personally prefer this for 25% allocation to high risk because these markets are more rational. You can tell why oil will go lower. You might not get it perfect, but you can ride both ways by listening to NPR. This can speed up the interest compounding because you can ride both sides.
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> While the vampire connotations are indeed mostly fabricated,

I was specifically talking about the connection to Bram Stoker's Dracula - Vlad was a real person, (with a bloody history) just as whoever built this English wall they found was/were (presumably minus a few gory tales), but that doesn't mean Stoker knew anything about him.
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I'm not sure why negative bond yields means that you shouldn't be living below your means and trying to secure a positive financial future?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12217329
I think it's largely about the attitude that people have toward their job, and people with similar attitudes congregate in similar regions. People who view their job as a minor annoyance that's necessary in order to support a family, own a house, and travel occasionally are different than people who view their job as an avenue for exploring the topics that fascinate them in life. It's not a bimodal distribution (perhaps more of a spectrum) and I would say that job attitude shifts more towards "support a lifestyle" as people become older.

So yes, San Francisco and West Virginia both have tech jobs, but the reasons for people taking a job in each location are entirely different. Neither reason is wrong, but it explains the fact that certain "kinds" of tech jobs are rare and can only be found in very specific locations.
In California, and across some counties, you can also move your lower property tax assessment thanks to prop 60/90[1]

[1] http://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/faqs/propositions60_90.htm#1
Since there's not one technical detail on their marketing site I'm going to assume this is reskinned Firefox with SQLCipher dropped in.
I've never understood why this is seen as a form of verification. What is stopping a phishing site from simply taking a victim's username and fetching the victim's corresponding image from the bank's website via simple scraping?
All the benchmarks you posted suggest that Rust is faster than Nim, not the other way around. Did you have something else in mind?
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Her 5 year plan at 18 probably didn't include working 130 hour weeks.
Yes, dogs are the worst possible place to look for ‘anthropomorphic’ behaviour — they've had thirty or forty thousand years of evolutionary pressure to please humans.
There are quite a few contemporary Anglo Saxon chronicles, especially from the time of Alfred the Great onwards. Arthur is a legend from way before all that stuff, though.
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> Does anyone know if this section of Missouri law has ever been challenged under the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition against involuntary servitude?

Being subject to the provision of law at issue is something people voluntarily accept when they apply for a license to practice law in the state, and for which they receive benefits not available to the general public in exchange.

> Or are there other precedents for forcing people to fill government roles?

Yes, specifically within the judicial system, even. See, e.g., jury duty, which does apply to the general citizenry.
That image there seems strange. Did you run it by your PR and Legal team before posting it? You wouldn't want offend anyone.
No, not this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11852159
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