skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If my wallet contains 10 bitcoins, and I somehow end up with a Satoshi bitcoin, don't I now have 11 bitcoins that are all alike? When I go to spend one bitcoin, how do you know if it's the Real Satoshi one or if it's one of my others?
@Pamar thanks for noticing it. it's corrected now
Bitcoin is a legal thing you are allowed to buy and sell.

The Bitcoiners' dream is to have it be recognized as currency; as a commodity it's just fine, or did you believe all that Bitcoin activity is happening illegally somehow?
In this vein, have you read about the work done by people mostly from the AI lab at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels (Belgium)? (They're also affiliated with the Sony CSL in Paris: http://csl.sony.fr/language.php) They're precisely interested in the philosophical problem of how a grounded language emerges and is perpetuated among a population of embodied agents, as opposed to the engineering problem of, say, understanding complex, context-dependent natural language queries.

There's a great book which gives an overview of this field, The Talking Heads Experiment: Origins of Words and Meanings by Luc Steels, which discusses many of the advances made in this field (including for instance how having a grammar, as opposed to just stringing words related to what you want to say at random, is an evolutionary advantage because it boosts communicative success). It's published as open access, so go grab your free copy! :)

http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/49

Chapter 4 in particular has a very interesting discussion of what's problematic with the machine learning approach -- that it takes a lot of training examples for a classifier to start making interesting decisions -- and presents a selectionist alternative to that, where distinctions (as in e.g. nodes in decision trees) are grown randomly and they're reinforced / pruned based on feedback. Crucially, the categories (semantic distinctions) are not labels given at the outset, but they emerge along with the language, based on the environment the agents encounter and the tasks they're using language for.

In general, I'd recommend Chapters 1 and 2 for a quick introduction, but in a pinch, I attempted to give a 50,000-foot summary in an essay I wrote (look under the heading Evolutionary Linguistics):

http://dlukes.github.io/cathedral-and-bazaar.html

I realize that engineering applications of these ideas might be a long way off (and perhaps they'll never materialize), but boy are these exciting discoveries about the very fabric of language :)
>These things tend to be classified by default.

"Classified by default" is semantically equivalent to "knee-jerk reaction". Nobody is claiming it's arbitrary. The claim is instead that it's systematic, and stupidly so to the point where it may well be the type of ham sandwiches agent Boy Scout was eating. Wouldn't be the first time...
> there are many people who have been Muslims just by birth and they do not necessarily follow the vicious ideology to its core.

Yes and we should support all such people instead of parroting the slogans that effectively support the Islam fundamentalists (and they are anyway supported by billions of dollars every year). Parroting the slogans (like this title "the poems of a guy show how Islam is complex," no, Islam as an ideology is not getting more complex due to the unrelated publicly unknown actions of some individual) and supporting the initiatives that even indirectly support Muslim intolerance ("wear a burka day" and similar) doesn't make you "good for not being the racist," it just makes you a threat to the survival of our hard achieved freedoms.

We actually have to support these Muslims who don't treat their religion as the only truth there is, those who don't wear headscarves, those that don't hate Jews, those who don't pray five times a day, those who don't attend mosques, those who dare to say that the religious books were just made by humans, not the verbatim words of whichever "god."

The freedoms we take for granted are also "use it or lose it." The caricaturists (!) are among the first to painfully personally recognize how we're daily losing the freedoms. Charlie Hebdo is quite a known story, but consider Molly Norris who had to not exist anymore:

http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2015/02/09/molly-norris-draw...

http://www.steynonline.com/6965/there-is-no-more-molly-or-lu...

So what's going on? Taleb cleverly notes: "The most Intolerant wins." The intolerant minority can actually overpower the weaker tolerant majority.

We must be very clear in what we don't want to tolerate too. Which will be hard for a lot of "feelings" as yes, the West has a lot of what it shouldn't to be proud about too, that it shares with Islam. Including the religious fanatics and the slavery in America, or religiously-based hate and killing of Jews and many other nations in Europe. All part of the history or even presence, influencing the current events.

And we have to cut through the huge amount of disinformation to increase the number of people aware that the problem of losing freedoms exists, before it's too late.
> dysonspheres are cool, real coo

If they capture all their sun's energy, shouldn't they get pretty hot?

That's the thing with Tabby's Star. If there really is a Dyson Sphere under construction blocking all that light, shouldn't we be seeing a bump in infrared with the same amount of energy as the blocked light?

Unless their Dyson Sphere-constructing super tech has found another way to get rid of the heat, of course.
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I don't see how "contacted a friend" enables an exploit - in this case (and many others I've heard on the 'net) this channel only provides info or verification about the breach, and specifically doesn't provide, and IMHO won't provide, either of (a) any security credentials or (b) resetting any security credentials.

The question isn't about how to authenticate yourself to the friend at the company, the issue is that the friend in the company shouldn't (and shouldn't be able to) perform privilege escalation. They can tell you what has/hasn't been done with your account, but then you have to login or reset password the normal way in any case.
Shumway is DOA without the direct help from Adobe. That's not the first time someones tries to develop an open source flash player. They all failed.
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That is just a fantasy, Reza and Marissa live in a fairy tale where working long hours equals passion. It doesn't.

I have had co-workers who practically lived in the office. Every time something urgent came up they would volunteer to work the weekends and late nights. Surprisingly the same guys were also known among the developers as people who got the least amount of work done. And while the management was initially impressed with their hard work and "commitment", every single one of them was let go in the very first rounds of lay offs.
It's not legal in UK or US.

FTC will regulate undisclosed native content advertising content in US: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/nat...

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...

The Advertising Standards Authority regulate it in the UK:

https://www.cap.org.uk/Advice-Training-on-the-rules/Advice-O...

About vlogging, but clearly applies to blogging and traditional print media: https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Media-Centre/2014/Maki...

http://blogtacular.com/sponsored-posts-ads-reviews-the-asa-a...
Depending on how much else you have going on in your life, and how much of that 8 years of salary you saved, you might want to consider getting an engineering degree and gaining some domain specific knowledge; I doubt a few more general CS courses will dramatically change the types of problems you will be considered to work on. I can't speak for you, but most people's concept of "real problems" means that there is a simple and direct way in which they can see people in society benefiting from their work, and those problems tend to get domain specific in a hurry. i.e. if you want to get to work on improving the water people drink or the air they breathe, you're probably going to need to know some chemistry. An upside of being an engineer who also happens to be a good programmer is that your interviews won't be pure coding interviews.
Really... So where would you put Cuba, Mexico or Haiti? There's at least 20 North American countries. How many of those that are participating in the Olympics is of cause a different story.
@Pamar the idea is have a custom-made plans already been published for you and we are in process of curating for 500 location around the world which should be done shortly. I am sure you would find result going forward for most places around the world. Please try our Rio and New York plan and do let me know what you think about it.
IP address is harder to compromise, however, unlike domain names you cannot guarantee to own it permanently.
Infographic makers are story tellers, and that's a pretty dramatic piece of that chart.
Since recently flash in chrome makes my computer reset after 3s of video playback...
Kind of related, does anyone know if it's possible to mandate two factor auth across a github organisation? I know you can see if it's enabled on your users list but that's a bit arduous. Seems like any one user not having 2fa enabled would be the weakest link other wise.
This is Ethereum: "Mining" generates Ethers, but also runs code, potentially powering useful blockchain apps.
Oh boy another plug for 2FA. I won't deny the obvious security advantages it confers, but that well has been poisoned a long time ago.

Call me paranoid, but I have a hard time seeing the push for 2FA as anything other than a plot to collect valuable user data. As with most any good lie, it's mostly true -- 2FA does improve security -- but what happens when a company goes bankrupt and sells off it's assets?

Moreover, I can't help but to question the actual necessity of this security feature. The OP's mess could have been avoided if he'd ... you know ... systematically chosen secure passwords.

>Turn on two-factor authentication. Right now.

I'll pass, thanks.

P.S.: thanks for Requests!
If someone could eliminate their $50-$100 internet access bill it could be a huge motivator.
General Magic: The Most Important Dead Company in Silicon Valley? (2011)
Looking through the sources, its bit unclear if she joined before the various pro-education groups were united into a single secret university open for both sexes, or after. Before 1885 she was tutoring, but I can't find any reference if thats was connected with the university.
The current PoW algorithm in ethereum is ethash and does not perform useful work during coin generation, unless I'm mistaken. You spend ether to fuel useful work.

Also, Ethereum (forked) aim to switch to PoS soon (ETC may not).
The original creator of this product graduated from my school. Stories about him was told all the time. He was a very eccentric guy. Deserves best.
it's simple

Google is USA corporation, Israel don't recognize Palestine, Israel is USA ally on middle east.
That calculation is for irreversible computing. Build your computer out of reversible gates and you can compute using much lower energy (although I believe it will be slower, and need more bits).
Let me also add that when you are very passionate about something you may end up working long hours and weekends. You will probably also enjoy it.

But the opposite does not apply. When management expects you to work long hour you will not become more passionate about your work.
Maybe we can be grateful for Apple spurring the movement, having no flash whatsoever (in contrast to even "flash-lite" on Android) was really painful on the iphone back then...
It's amazing... The fun part is that all the contents is in normal text in the page source. The effects are just fonts, transformations, random JS. I missed the ascii-art nfo style in security reports :)
Why would he file a bug for a UI change?
Distributing binaries in Linux is PITA.

Compiling a game staticaly with all dependencies is nontrivial (couldn't get it to work last time I've tried), and if you leave some libraries dynamicaly linked - in a few years it won't work. I made that mistake by using now abandoned libparagui in my game ~10 years ago. It uses old libsdl, which doesn't work with many modern resolutions, and it doesn't even compile on modern GCC without patches.

Every time I install new system and then want to compile it - I spend a few evenings to get it to run...
I would say find a freelance job from a site like Upwork and work there. You don't have to re-learn everything again.
This can't be mentioned enough, because otherwise the travelling by car would have to include the 'human' fuel element as well.
Polo and Water Polo?

Isn't Polo the sport where you have horses running around on a huge field, and Water Polo the one with humans swimming around a pool?

I don't think Polo is at the Olympics, but I might be wrong.

It mentions the plunge for distance. I'd love to see tug-of-war reinstated.
> Also worth mentioning Apple blocked Flash all the way back in 2007 on the original iPhone. Good to see Google doing it now, nine years later.

Apple didn't block Flash, that's a lie. It just didn't implement plugins in the iPhone browser. Adobe AIR apps that are running Flash were allowed on iPhone. Games like Machinarium were built with Flash and running on iPhone. So your statement is completely incorrect. I'm no fan of Flash but your statement is bullshit.
"This kind of Flash slows you down" .. Shame they apply the "block" only to "this kind of flash".
I don't know much about bug bounties & responsible disclosure, it's not my field, so bare with me here...

If they were paid a bounty, and the issue is being addressed albeit slowly, isn't releasing a toolkit to exploit the backdoor prior to a working fix likely to contravene the conditions of the bounty being paid?

Or is there a fixed timeframe MS had to fix the issue before the researchers could go public?
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Taxes, payroll, rent, buying all kinds of supplies, contracting and directing plumbers and the like, answering the phone, going to the bank and the post office, discussing invoices, daily accounting... by the way, I didn't say they are "unimportant" tasks: they are merely not profitable ones.
Seconded. Learning basic CS concepts will be more useful in the long run but for the specific goal of passing google-style interview you are better off practising directly for that.

All suggestions here are great but don't forget that whiteboard coding is the main part but not the only part of the interview. Practice answering architecture questions (conveniently, they can be practised without actually building any services) and other types of questions (find out which ones).

Also think hard about your goal. "Getting into Google" is too abstract. Google has all sorts of teams, from the ones doing hardcore legacy maintenance to the ones doing some crazy cutting-edge stuff. The catch is that competition to get into more prestigious ones is crazy. Try to figure out (don't know how to do it though) if you have a chance of making a team that does something that you personally find interesting, or you are bound to be disappointed.
A TCP weakness in Linux systems allows network traffic hijack
For what it's worth, there are products like this, like essentially all of Amazon's phones [1].

Personally I find that particular product's lock-screen ads irksome, but it halves the price. I can afford to drop a $100 on a cellphone (but not, say, $500+ for a flagship), so the ad-supported version doesn't appeal to me.

But thinking back to when my cashflow was much smaller, I would've found the twice-the-price-for-no-ads hard to justify and gone with the ad-supported version instead; not out of enthusiasm, but fiscal pragmatism.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/review-blus-r1-hd-red...
Amazon did this with their Fire Phone product. It wasn't very popular and now it's been discontinued.
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If Apple get their way ApplePay AND whatever system the banks come up with be available to everybody with the required devices. Also Android pay will be available.

If banks have their way, there will be no ApplePay, no AndroidPay etc

It's quite clear which one is better.
Question from one of the authors (me): do you see the lack of HTTPS support (in the provided HTTP mock) as a problem?
I never said the contrary. But a tons of these systems are old, and people knowing how they work are long gone.

Plus doing a proper post mortem and understanding how it works woudl take a lot of time and money. Things they most of the time to not have budget for.
OK, under which of them would you classify NSA's MUSCULAR program?
Just to clarify, Corkpage does not have everyone's data. Facebook and Twitter do. They give out basic profile information to other apps via their APIs, which any developer can use within limits. Say, if someone downloads a third-party Twitter app, they can look you up from within that app. The app will request your info from Twitter via the API, and will get it, even if you have never installed the app yourself.

Please do not freak out. This was just an idea. We thought it would be cool to turn profile URLs into something like an email address. So you could write to anyone, from Facebook to Twitter, and back. We were building a back-end framework and a JS library at the time. It was more fun to work on a project that used both rather than do it in the abstract.

We were/are worried about abuse as well. There is a way to report abuse, and we are monitoring the reports. Except there aren't a whole lot of posts anyway. We don't have a good idea of what the best use for Corkpage would be either (if you figure it out, let us know), but we were never going to let it be anything negative.

As someone said, you post only on pages of others, but can reply, delete and premod on yours. It works like a guestbook, or Ask.fm.

Thank you for the feedback. Peace.
I've found this on isssource and am surprised that it has not spread like wildfire. If the claims are true then this is an issue that should be taken seriously. Posting here for discussion.
That's not what I said. Signal stores the key that you've already verified. So changing the key in the keyserver doesn't do anything to a device, since you haven't verified the new key from the keyserver (and it shows a warning).
> It's quite clear which one is better.

The unified system supported by all banks and all devices?
Again, you perfectly pinpoint the problem. I don't want a profile on this page. I am perfectly capable of setting up accounts on the platforms I want to monitor and I want to allow people to give me feedback on.

I don't want anybody to make those decisions for me. Just because I set up a public profile on one page, does not mean, that I want others to scrape data from it and use this for their purpose. Of course, stuff like this happens all the time, but it doesn't make it right.
Consumers are already protected, the security is more for the banks. Contactless was made to not require a pin for transactions under a certain amount. It's made for convenience, no one is using it to steals 1000s. And if someone is using it to steal they aren't stealing from joe blow but from the banks.

It's not identity theft they are protecting, but bank fraud. If a merchant has a data breach and my credit card details are used to buy things online without my authorization, that isn't identity theft, but bank fraud to the bank. Since all I have to do is say that transaction isn't mine and poof it's gone.
Flash has also been used to circumvent some of the browser protections, especially for older browsers. For example it has been the way to achieve cross-origin http requests (CORS) for browsers that don't support it, like IExplorer < 9 (or 8?) and even IExplorer 9 because the CORS support is shit for that one. On one hand it's been cool for developers to be able to do such things, but on the other hand it makes your browser less secure.

Anyway, I'm a Firefox user and I don't have Flash installed. The web works just fine without it. One less plugin to worry about.
Isn't every mobile the same?
X86 debug registers (DR0-3, DR6, DR7) are also useful. They don't require code changes. As an added bonus, you can set a breakpoint for a variable access, which triggers whenever a certain variable is accessed.

Although unfortunately debug registers are limited to just 4 simultaneous breakpoints in the same time.

http://wiki.osdev.org/CPU_Registers_x86#Debug_Registers
He should take his phone with him, how else will he track his fitness data and steps, and then twitter it as he does?
"Yet"? Are you hoping for Bitcoin to be the next Liberty Dollar?

I'm not generally a fan of Bitcoin, but I know many people who are, and I wouldn't want them to go to jail.
The process and motivation for creating a demo for a native iOS app
there were some interesting talks on youtube that covered the Archimedes Palimpsest

google tech talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe9uQVGkz9k

The Story of the Archimedes Palimpsest to 2000 (three parts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rHv3OiaVC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-ueHf-mDU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDPvAOLNXH8

there was an excellent BBC documentary on the subject, but the video was taken down; at least there is the transcript
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/archimedestrans.sh...
Wasn't it fixed long, long ago? As I remember, kernel developers were fixing TCP sequence numbers at some point.
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Every client is assigned a unique RSA key which handles the initial handshake. From there AES information is passed and decrypted by the server, all future packets, files and frames are encrypted.
You can also enable WSS by installing your own certificate. Authentication is based on your local or domain account
A premium quality high-end phone for about $100 should not that bad after all? The key here would a flagship quality not a smaller phone. Comparable to good one's out there in market
> This kind of Flash slows you down, and starting this September, Chrome 53 will begin to block it.

Ah, so it's for the user, not because other ad networks cannot rely on implicit whitelisting for their analytics callback channels because, aww shucks, the browser vendor just happens to run the ad network.
Australia had EFTPOS which was a way of using your debit card to buy stuff, way before the VISA network really took off.
Dev.dota2.com hacked
Yeah it's not always been there, Mark Boulton helped CERN restore it to it's original URL a few years ago, http://markboulton.co.uk/journal/firstwebsite
The UA might be the ultimate authority on what gets presented to the user and what doesn't, but, for better or for worse, the policy has been "draw everything" since forever. Given a change in policy that explicitly avoids drawing some specific things, it's fair to call it "blocking" those things.
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You can "solve real problems" as consultant too, you just need to marketing yourself different.

But yes, learning new things is always good. I too 1 1/2 year off to do a master degree in CS.
Yeah it did and tanked as well. But they lost on the quality of the phone and the device had to many limitation. We are talking about a high-end device. Comparable to most high-ends in the market
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Tooltip.io – in-app messaging suite for user support
This is a web version of a pirated piece of software, complete with keygen/crack. Unbelievable. I love it.
The company I got my last laptop from sells business refurbished Lenovo and Apple laptops. I initially looked into their macbooks. But the Thinkpas were in significantly better shape despite being 1-2 years older. They were also much cheaper.

I believe you are seriously underestimating the quality of apple competitors.
Also quite distracting, especially since the text itself keeps moving. The "cute" presentation takes away from this major discovery and almost makes it seem like it's not something very serious.