skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ideally, they win market share by creating the better experience.

Right now Apple can't provide the better experience, because the banks in question will not support their system. The banks don't want to support Apple Pay, so Apple opening up NFC would just shift the balance of power entirely in favor of the banks.
Why don't you start your own? Do you have to become a perfectly neutral angel to run any platform?
I personally don't think it would go over well but I'd like to see a site with as much pull as Facebook try it. I've seen articles claiming facebook is making $10 per user per quarter [1]. That seems high to me but if true I don't see anyone paying $10 per month for memes and political rants.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-average-revenue-per-...
And all humans are created irrational.
Xaddress: Give 7B people an instant physical address
Controlling uncertainty on web applications and APIs
I am curious where you get all those contracts. Isn't it always easier to get an employment, compared with, for example , finding customers, listening to client requirement, dealing tax form, drafting contract, etc?
I can't stand fingerprints on my monitor, but I don't even notice them on my phone or tablet. Before I got my first touchscreen phone, I was pretty sure the dirty screen would drive me bonkers, but that never happened.
> Does no one else see how this is not against flash, but in favor of code which google can analyse and extract data from.

I doubt that very much - Google has been extracting data from and indexing Flash content for close to a decade[1]. If they wanted to reverse-engineer the behaviour of flash code, they could run it as blackbox code in a Flash sandbox

1. http://searchengineland.com/google-now-crawling-and-indexing...
Maybe I'm missing something but why does "Pearl" mean 8480 and "Magical" -6129? If that's a hash, I really dislike this, because A: humans can't do hashing in their heads, and B: get one letter wrong and suddenly you don't have the right address. This has also been my big opposition to what3word.

Addresses need to be resilient. If I make a tiny mistake in my address, there should be enough redundant data to help fix the problem. Postal Codes are great for this, because if you get your code wrong, well, it'll probably be one nearby and the delivery service can figure it out. But with hashes? One letter off and you're doomed.
Identity was given away after he's been killed. That is to say, he was already outed. There is no danger anymore as it's been realized and the people out for blood already got it.
That's a really good point. And to think, I grew up pre-Internet, and have forgotten all about that!
This seems like a good thread to ask this: is there any way to find out if a document has been declassified? I ask this because I came into possession of a document from 1945 which is marked classified (it is a prototype computer user manual) and I would like to make sure that it is actually declassified. If it isn't, then even asking about it seems... problematic. I expect that it would be, but with the amount of overclassification that occurs, I can't bet on it.

At some point I'd love to donate it to the ACM museum or something, but I don't want to get in trouble over a historical document, so I'm just keeping it for now.
If he leaves, he goes to jail.
VR Gun Peripheral with Electromagnetic Haptics
From same author (2002) "Evolving Neural Networks through Augmenting Topologies" []

[]: http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf
Is there anything like RC in the Bay Area? Kind of hard to believe if not.
It does explain it though, as they all implement `http.FileSystem` which constrains what tricks you can pull of
> if you have an Apple Watch you don't even have to pull anything out of your pocket

How is this PIN/touch ID protected, then?
Would've been working out of DC, relocating from the Midwest, for a 1-2 year "tour of duty".
It's not a panacea, but nothing is, and it would help a lot. It's not supposed to be a replacement for anything, just an addition.
The maximum length of this kind of probation is, afaik, set by provincial labour law and is 3 months in all but three provinces (nb, pei, and the Yukon). Employers can go lower, but not higher.

Though I think they can withhold benefits for longer than that separately from the probation period, but that's kind of rare I think.

Really withholding benefits in Canada is pretty different than in the us, though, since here it means you don't buy glasses for three months and there it means you'd better not break your legs.

(IANAL)
Probably not a good idea to post your address where people can see who you are (you have your keybase details on your profile)
If your goal is to reward businesses that operate at the highest efficiency, then you are correct; supporting local businesses doesn't make sense to you.

If you have any kind of self-interest, though, supporting local businesses should be your priority. How does it benefit you to send your money away from your city or town so that it does not get re-invested in the area directly surrounding you? A lower share of your money gets re-invested in roads and schools through taxes and it has a multiplying effect when local businesses shutter frequently. It lowers real estate prices (assuming you own real estate, this matters) and reduces the quality of life of those around you; a factor which tends to cause an increase in the crime rate.

Your argument is essentially, "Why eat at anywhere other than McDonalds? They have the most efficient supply chain."
Another interesting thing most people don't realize is that if you switch IP addresses Google demands a phone number for Gmail login, even if the account has no 2FA and no phone number was specified initially. "Give us some phone number to log in". Isn't that strange from security perspective?
I have a Surface Pro with a touch screen and found it to be very useful and natural to use.

The Surface is plugged into a dock for all my heavy work, so I'm not using the screen anyway. If I am using it as a laptop for more internet-browsing related work, the touchscreen is so useful that I don't need a mouse.
IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends
I don't think it's about when, it's about what you ask. This is based off instinct; I don't have data to back it up. The Ask HN page is small.
How does the battery life between the two machines compare?
This brought to mind the book "The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'" by Sidney Dekker [0]. It touches on how there is usually a more nuanced and complex explanation behind incidents (such as plane crashes) than simply one person's mistake.

[0] http://sidneydekker.com/books/
I read it to mean something different; I think the advisory being referred to is the FreeBSD advisory they wrote themselves [1]. The impact statement said:

> An attacker who can control the patch file can cause a crash or run arbitrary code under the credentials of the user who runs bspatch, in many cases, root.

I suspect this is where they feel that in future they would perhaps have been better to mention the implication of this, given bspatch is used in the update process users will run in response to the advisory.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16%3A...
It is funny to see this on the same day as the Amazon story, especially with the comment about how Bezos, in the wake of the negative press, encouraged people to come forward and report issues they see. People did, and he fired those who complained.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12260891
I agree with you and I also buy the argument that users can choose what their browser decides to render. The best action is to stop using a service. Continuing to use a service with an adblocker shows that you get some type of value out of it but not enough that you're willing to put up with ads.

Disclaimer: I finally installed an adblocker about two months ago so maybe that makes me a hypocrite. Honestly I don't see much of a difference before and after. Ads are not nearly as bad as most users here would make you think. The only real dangerous part is those networks being attacked and injecting malware.

Facebook's ads are some of the least intrusive and well targeted. That second part makes people paranoid though.
Geez people here are talking about power and I'm using a 12" Macbook running Windows 10 to do .NET development without issue at all.
Some people are in fact motivated by money. Lots of things will begin to make sense to you, if you consider them from that perspective.
The Security Advisory was written by FreeBSD. They are saying that they could have been more explicit in explaining to their users what the vulnerability means.
Where they will sit ignored and unaddressed like literally every complaint about crappy browser UI.

(Me, bitter?)
Not all poll workers are volunteers. I'm a majority inspector; I'm state-paid. I'm required to show up for the primaries.
Lighter yes. Thinner why? Your thinnest carry bag already is more than double the thickness of most laptops with the padding and all. The only advantage! I see of even thinner laptop is that they are easier to drop on the floor.
The case for XBRL in financial audits
This is what the halvings are for, to counteract the increase in hashing as the value of coins goes up.
> schooling with its evidence on "doing better than the other guy"...

Is this culture common at many tech-focused universities? It certainly wasn't at MIT 5 years ago.
Tomb Raider doesn't use async compute.

And whether Doom 4 is an outlier or just an example of the difference between Vulkan and DX12 is yet to be determined.

My conjecture is that the big difference between Vulkan and DX12 is that nVidia has put more of it's driver engineering magic into DX12 than it has into Vulkan.

Metal won't have that nVidia driver engineering magic, so I believe that DOOM4 is the best benchmark we have of performance and power consumption for Metal. But one benchmark can be misleading for a wide variety of reasons.
Most of the time, you get what you pay for. Their '10-years experience' does not equals competence or even good client communication.

Even though most clients there want to find cheap labor, there are some that understand they need real expertise and are willing to pay for it.
Not sure if you find it worth the effort to dig through the crap projects.
Pokémon Go Ban-Free Tricks: Necrobot Is the Best Tool at the Moment
My worry is that if because of Apple's market power, merchants would be less likely to implement other NFC technologies (Contactless, Android Pay) once they have Apple Pay. The technologies are clearly different (even if they use the same reader), otherwise all places that support one would automatically support all of them.
You are undoubtedly overreacting. They are talking about their own announcement, not the initial disclosure. This is 'Impact' statement from the Security Advisory in question:

> An attacker who can control the patch file can cause a crash or run arbitrary
code under the credentials of the user who runs bspatch, in many cases, root.

Their criticism is of their own work, not of the researcher.
Is it inherently better to work for companies that doesn't use stack ranking systems? What are the alternates, and can you briefly tell the differences?
GoReplay (Gor) project update: new release, name update, and new site
Why It Doesn't Pay to Be a People Pleaser
An amount that a similar national company would have to do.

International companies have a way of shifting earnings into jurisdictions where they don't need to pay much taxes, since there is still a race to the bottom between countries. 'Better they pay us 2% of revenues that that other country 10%.'

(This has noting to do with the way the supply chain is done.)
How Cincinnati tried, and failed, to build one of America’s first subways
How to deliver optimally sized, high quality images automatically
2FA doesn't automatically require giving any user data. Using SMS-based 2FA requires giving over your mobile phone number, but it's not like that's the only option available to you. TOTP gives the provider absolutely nothing, and has the added benefit of not being able to be compromised by a call to your mobile phone network or SIM cloning.

You make this sound like it's part of a conspiracy to force 2FA on the unsuspecting masses so that the Illuminati can sell your contact details to aliens from Mars, or something. That's a bit insulting to the original poster, who is sharing useful information learned through real world experience.
For about 15 years, I've bound each of my commonly used applications to a function key. This lets me work on a laptop-sized display without constant, furious alt-tabbing or hunting around with the mouse. Add an external keyboard with proper spacing between groups of function keys so you can touch type, and you have an almost autonomic app-switching experience.
I'm more curious to see how this plays out with technology than I am over the economic and privacy arguments. Facebook obviously has the resources to find new ways around these ad blockers. Can these small ad blocker developers keep up?

Facebook still renders fine with adblock and ublock origin running.
Umm what valuable data exactly does TOTP (which for example Github uses) give the companies?
If Wal-Mart had an election for their CEO and the deck was stacked, I would probably be equally surprised.
Building a Customer-Focused Grocery Delivery Startup with Max Mullen
American Bar Association votes to DRM referenced material made public
This is why he's incorporated the avatar - in the example he provides you wouldn't see the "boot" avatar if you had missed a letter, the boot is part of the address and should be communicated verbally when giving the address verbally.
My point is more like this chart [0]. C has so much lead time, Rust will probably never be able to catch up, be close? Sure. But C has decades of lead time.

[0] http://www.viva64.com/media/images/content/b/0324_Criticizin...
I don't know what this means. 3 of what?
I'll take "faster and stronger" over "thinner and lighter".

I already carry it in a backpack with other things; I'm not interested in shaving ounces at the expense of power.
This would cause site designers to consider if they really need the access (they don't). Problem is, as soon as one browser stops asking, the idiots would flock to it and site designers will stop supporting the good browsers.
Aehm, what are you talking about? Maybe you should read the mail again.
According to the below article, in the late 80s, De La opened for Bob Dylan in Amherst, MA (Pretty sure the date is wrong and it's referring to the show you speak of, as I have trouble believing DLS opened for Dylan as early as '89). Anyway, the article suggests the reason they were a no show was because they had some, ahem, car troubles along the way. It's possible this story isn't true; if it was, I guess you would have known at the time:

http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2011/05/bob-d...
I feel close is a better word. Not only is it far more concise. The port still may have a listener that can be accessed over a VPN or internal network you might just prevent access at the edge firewall for example.
How to reliably and transparently trace process execution?
Directly no - you are absolutely right. Indirectly yes - if a human is associated with it. As I'm making deliveries now with addresses on it there is no way anyone with a current address will change it. Or should I say allow anyone to change their address. People already have at least two addresses (lat long ) and a third (parcel block for taxes)
> Of course you'll be called a "conspiracy theorist" for speculating about this case in any way deviating from the official narrative.

Prior to Snowden, people who warned about extensive government surveillance were dismissed as 'conspiracy theorists'. After Snowden, everyone said, "oh all this was common knowledge anyway".

Prior to the DNCLeaks, Sanders supporters who complained about the DNC favouring Hillary were dismissed as 'conspiracy theorists'. After to the leaks, everyone said, "oh this was all common knowledge anyway"

Things are getting pretty messed up. I used to mentally snicker at anyone who seriously used terms like 'liberal media' and 'mainstream media' as pejoratives. And yet here we are in 2016, and it's harder and harder to deny that they are right to use terms like that.

And I'm appalled. I don't know what to do about it, but when you have self-declared liberal readers of the NYTimes complaining that they have to go to Fox News of all places to get the full story[0], then you know there are serious problems.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/public-editor/liz-spayd-th...
This is a good thought exercise, but kind of comes across like a random equation looking for an explanation rather than interesting observation in search of an explanation.

I can't imagine the person driving doesn't spend as much or more than the person walking on food.

If we are saying that this small amount of money VS drinking oil is where the line is crossed, then are we not all comfortably well past this zone anyways?

So another way of saying this is listening to music is most efficient if you listen to a pre recorded song or you whisper only.
It's because Assange is just offering this reward to create this news story in order to harm Hillary Clinton as much as possible as part of his personal vendetta against her. I respect Manning and Snowden immensely, but Assange now is clearly playing a personal game which happens to be extremely dangerous for the rest of us.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12260444

Sorry, I'm on mobile. But several similar reports as the HN link shows.
Potentially classified material gets burned first, and then the ash and smoke go through a shredder before being burned again, with feeling this time.

After that, it gets vented out through at least three different chimneys--with armed guards on each one, to shoot anyone that sniffs too deeply.

All because of something that probably happened in the 80s, when someone was able to recover secret information from a paper document that had been burned in an insecure way. I mean, if the Soviets could eavesdrop on a mechanical typewriter, and all methods and practices are always classified on all sides, how would we ever know whether anyone can use packing tape and a relatively abundant type of medical scanner to read words off a burned page or not?

(the fictional portions of this post are based on an amalgam of true stories)
Nat Geo Launched a Free Website for Printing Detailed Topographical Maps
Austrian GP: Rossi, Lorenzo Ready to Re-Start Title Chase in Austria
According to Marissa Mayer, long hours and weekend work will lead to success
We need some followup analysis. Now that you can reliably filter out staff tweets, we need to re-examine whether Donald Trump is the most prolific shitposter in the history of the internet.

Seriously, though, a twitter bot for each candidate that retweeted only things that we think came directly from them and not from staff would be very interesting. I don't follow either candidate on Twitter since I tend not to believe one liners from candidates, but it'd be interesting to follow their tone. Does Hillary Clinton do any of her own social media, or is that 100% staff?
>> I don't think the invention of calculus was hard.

If you look at it with ~2k years of hindsight and mathematical knowledge, sure, it wasn't hard. Neither was it "hard" to think of using zero or infinity, or even the unit.

>> When it was needed it was promptly developed twice on the same continent and at the same time.

Most probably the right way to see this is completely the opposite: calculus was needed countless times before and it was only developed twice.
I took the concept directly from Cult Of Mac, so I have a page detailing how I run sponsored posts, and every sponsored post says "Sponsored by Company X" in italics at the top of the post.

I reject your assertion of "my taboola ads". I don't run any kind of third party ad scripts. All my sponsored content is written by me and labeled as such. And I immediately turn down any ad content I myself would not want to see (I run adblockers, too), since it wouldn't provide any value to my readers.
A year ago, I typed suicide in Periscope and hit stream – Screening mental illness
You can't sell hair metal fantasy any more unless you happen to be named "George R. R. Martin".
If you dont know why Seth Rich was killed then how can you call anyone with their own theory a 'tinfoil hat crowd'?
Yes, I took the concept from Cult of Mac, and I run it exactly like they do. I have a page where I detail my ad policy and every sponsored post says "sponsored by..."
Strictly speaking, that is true.
"Death solves all problems." -Stalin
Don't be silly. The DNC is not taxpayer funded, the primary election system that all major parties have access to is. The DNC is funded by non-tax-deductible donations.

I drive to work on government supplied roads, but that doesn't mean you have a moral or legal right to hack my company email.
I skimmed over the paper and that is pretty scary stuff. Just being able to infer that two arbitrary hosts are communicating with each other is bad enough but this seems to allow for arbitrary data injection and connection reset attacks.
Marvin Minsky on being bad at math
Nice try, Jeff Bezos!
If you are sending or telling someone the adress you can't expect them to check the avatar. How would it work e.g. over the phone?
Ah the good ole vitimizing the victim routine. Touche.
I mean where would we get to, if people actually would start telling the truth!
"PRO Laptop" means PROfessional use. PROfessionals work in environments where wireless bandwidth is a premium. PROfessionals use gigabit ethernet. Please include it. Please stop the War on Ports™ in your PROfessional lineup.

Consumers use wireless. A dongle is a good choice for them since they won't likely use ethernet. Here Dongle Driven Development™ is the proper methodology.
Everything looks great except the rendering of the mountains.
It's not like the copyright provisions would be any better if they were written today. The only reason we have a public domain, time limited copyright, or even public library system today is because they're grandfathered in from a time before our current copyright maximalism.

You would kill off the current players only to find yourself trapped by an even worse set of overlords.
Let's not rewrite history here: Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. Hungary and Poland annexed small parts of ethnically mixed areas to their respective countries
Thoughts on this or links related to this subject appreciated--still working out my own thoughts on the subject.
The "Pro" stands for "Problematic".

But yeah, my next machine purchase will not be an Apple. If I need OSX support, I'll look at the current Hackintosh install lists and go VM.
If you don't understand the different types of 2FA available, I don't think you're really in a position to be making blanket statements about if people should be using it or not.

"The application" is an open standard called TOTP, which doesn't require any specific application. I just set up 2FA for my personal GitHub account using a TOTP app on my Pebble watch. The actual crypto for the 2FA is done locally on the watch, no other device can spoof it, and GitHub get exactly zero feedback or information from this - other than the 2FA code that I type, of course.

There's other ways to do 2FA - U2F is an upcoming standard and people have been using dongle-generated codes from RSA for years.

Before making pronouncements that go against current best practices for end users, you really need to get a much better understanding of what you're talking about. Saying nonsense in a confidence voice is enough to convince people that your terrible advice is worth following, and could result in them having worse information security as a result.