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> But, of course, that's not what happened, and there's no hypothetical in play.

Literally what happened (and there is no way of saying it otherwise irrespective of how you approach it). A group of developers forked Ethereum into their own blockchain, so all the investors evened up with currency in both the chains. Then people sold their 'original ethers' and moved to the new ethers.

The current price of original Ethers (known as Ethereum Classic) is 90% less than what it used to be.

> Ethereum sacrificed its principles to stop/censor a contract, and still keeps "unstoppable uncensorable contracts" on the website.

You do understand that Ethereum is not like Apple or some other organization. It's a technology and "IT" does not have a website. You're talking about Ethereum.org which is the website of Ethereum Foundation.

And maybe I shouldn't presume knowledge on other people's (like your) part, but in a decentralized technology like Bitcoin or Ethereum, thousands of miners (or in PoS system stakers) are the real entity here. Miners too merely follow the price. This is why initially when Hard Fork happened, a lot of miners went back to mining Ethereum Classic after momentarily jumping to the forked blockchain. Then when it was clear that the market/investors don't support the idea of letting a theft continue, they jumped back to Ethereum forked chain.

Clearly Ethereum Classic hasn't 'sacrificed' it's principles, they too have a foundation, and you're free to invest and use ETC.

If I can write a piece of code which can be used to steal your emails and bank accounts, then your emails and bank accounts are already 'exposed'. They don't 'become exposed' when I write the tool.

Ethereum blockchain didn't become something different fundamentally when this hard fork was implemented. If you consider hard fork as 'mutating the blockchain' (which I heavily disagree) then it didn't become mutable when the hard fork was implemented, rather it was mutable from the day the it was created.

And funny thing is, by that measure, literally there is no such thing as immutable blockchain. Bitcoin can be mutated in the same way Ethereum was.
Facebook let's me send and receive messages to friends. In what way is that a "media company" or any kind of threat?
I was telling people last year (before the tide shifted against FB) that there will one day (decades away) be Big Tobacco style litigation by governments against Facebook for intentionally making their service addictive when they knew the harmful effects (e.g., depression). I did not expect the sentiment to change so dramatically but I guess people are looking to blame anyone for the election.
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How do we unplug when our jobs are all bits? The information age is causing me distress by overbearing itself onto my existence. FOMO? Has anyone gone of the grid? Why are you back?
This is not a 'strawman', this is the actual content of every substantive criticism I received in 12 years of homeschooling my child. Because we followed a structured curriculum and she excelled in verbal ability, they had no other basis for criticism.

Also, at the time we were homeschooling, there was literally no relevant research in the ERIC database by anti-homeschoolers--it consisted entirely of polemics about socialization.
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One small correction: the client (i.e., the web browser or other web client) can see HTTP-only cookies just fine; code running in a conforming browser cannot.

But if I write some code using DRAKMA, urllib or net/http, and can see those cookies just fine.
Hmm, that's not my understanding.

Most higher-end replicas use "Asian" ETA clones (ie A2824 and others). The manufacturers have copied ETA parts over the years and now are able to create fairly reliable and, when they want them to, authentic-appearing Swiss movements, at least to the untrained eye. This brings the cost down much lower than the Seiko and Miyota automatics, which even purchased in bulk are much more expensive than Asian ETA clones. These Chinese movements look the part, but tend not to last as long, have larger tolerances, etc.

Source: a number of watch shops around my city where people frequently try to trade-in fake watches.
For me most important benefit is running without pre-installed VM. Not particularly important for backend, but huge win for user-space tools.
Not quite. WASM will enable faster web-based performance, but you're still building on top of a browser. If you're using the DOM, then you're still subject to the normal performance bottlenecks there, and if you're using canvas then you need to re-implement a lot of UI code.
React Native is layer on top of actual native components on the respective platforms. They two are wildly different technologies. I enjoy RN and I do look forward to WASM as well, but I don't see them overlapping anytime soon.
That would lose - it would not be a stalemate, no matter where the bishops are, since white has pawn moves; and starting with the next move, black would begin checking white and will quickly checkmate.
This picture reminds me of a scene in a sci-fi flick called "Cypher" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284978/). I wonder if some other parallels could be applied to FB...
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>that rebuts the (I think sort of silly) presumption that whatever an app uses needs to be RFC standardized.

I thought crypto mantra was "Never roll your own." An RFC (Request For Comments) is a literal attempt to follow that advice by seeking the advice of cryptographers who are presumably smarter at coming up with crypto standards. Where were the cryptographers during the draft phase when comments were being solicited?

>I think it's literally the case that no cryptographer bothered to point this out before because they all assumed people knew JWT was a tire fire.

Oh. Cunningham's Law. You know, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

That's some considerable JWT fallout, since companies making a business out of security are endorsing it. Auth0 for example, https://auth0.com/docs/jwt

Until I read this article, I was under the impression JWT was the best new thing.
I've got to say, compared to a lot of other prefabricated faux-cultural establishments these pubs seem pretty nice. Handmade wooden stuff, things made in Ireland, made by Irish people... doesn't seem half bad.

Sure, in an ideal world the bar would have its own completely genuine charm, and would be handmade, and the carvings would be whittled by the owner's son... but this strikes me as a pretty good compromise given the harsh realities of starting a new pub/restaurant.
I agree, but... I wonder if we're at peak-Facebook yet? All good things must come to an end. Maybe it will be Snapchat, or more likely a slow decline. I remember when Microsoft was at its peak, and seemed invincible. Facebook seems that way in social right now.

I hope Zuck pulls a Gates and goes full-time philanthropic, but he might be too young for that.
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Mark Zuckerberg is probably less vanilla than Trump, and better at hiding it.
>FB might be a bigger fish than we might be aware of.

I think we're aware of the size of the Facebook fish, but you might not be aware of the size of Microsoft at its peak.

Something like 75% of adults in the United States have a Facebook account[1], but at the height of their dominance Microsoft operating systems ran on ~98% of computers [2]. 75% is a lot, but it's probably not a monopoly - especially because Facebook does not make the devices or the OS on the devices. Lots of people use Facebook, but nothing is keeping them using it.

Being popular is not illegal.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/01/09/pew-survey-soc...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/8/
I think you should probably have used another common parent domain, like app.web.hostname.com & api.web.hostname.com, with the cookies set for *.web.hostname.com (or something).
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> And who is deciding what that intent? Right now, the mob, so the parent is right :)

Considering we can decide to abolish the constitution in America (or in any country) any time, does that mean we don't have a constitutional republic in America? Technically we can never say that we have a system X which is not Mob rule because the mob can always abolish it.

Literally speaking, there is no such thing as 'code is law' because in your definition there is no such thing as law, because anything which can be modified by the mob is not law and everything can be modified or abolished by the mob.
All of our binary size problems are mostly caused by a single well-known issue [1]. We hope to address that in one of the future releases. In the meanwhile, compressing binaries with upx is a temporary solution that can alleviate some of the pain.

[1] https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/issues/180
Abstract rights like liberty and equality turn out to be rather cold comfort.

That's a funny thing to say when the 'explosion' (implosion?) of Western values (in the he Western world) could best be characterized by the steady retreat of liberty and the rapidly forming divide between rich and poor.

If you weren't on the rich side, I can honestly see how you would want to go back to when everybody was modernist and things were great. You know, to make things great again.
> Everything in a person should be excellent

Probably nitpicking, but I'd translate "прекрасно" as "beautiful" here.
But it's also used for the date as well
It's actually a shame, they failed to remove the obvious hint for this, which is the green x drawn on the hand drawn version of the puzzle.
I think he/she is referring to intellectual snobs more than anything. One has to be intelligent to be a journalist, but not necessarily have high emotional intelligence (as a general observation I often feel you have to have zero EQ to be a journalist...)
Thanks for that definition. I didn't know the word, but it for some reason carried a negative connotation for me. Perhaps because I linked it with "insidious"?
I mean, it's interesting that it's been packaged up so well.
Relevant and very entertaining read: The Dice Man
We're looking into that, but nothing to report yet.
That's a lot of money compared to cable Internet. $50/month can get you unlimited wired access.
Some discussion yesterday from blog post announcing the change in product name https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13860603
No, I think the first place to start is figuring out how, even assuming you come up with a plan that works, to ever get it implemented it in good faith when both political parties represent a threat to free society. Both sides of the aisle have already been captured, and will never allow legislation that threatens their hold on power. They will eviscerate it with amendments and poison it with riders.
Black abc pawns are in their original file.

d and e pawns captured pieces to get to a and b.

Two of the three remaining pawns promoted to a bishop.
Thank you for actually reading the article (I assume) and letting the rest of us know what it's about.

Really you could have said anything here and nobody would be the wiser.
This does not load for me. Just shows white. I'm on the latest Android.
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They say black has to make a mistake for it to happen. So I'm guessing white promotes its pawn to a queen, after moving the king to a position where it can defend the new queen.

The mistake black makes is trying to get its king out of the morass as soon as the pawn moves, instead of just capturing the pawn with its bishops.
Facebook likely has a watson-like technology that can answer a lot of interesting questions about a user, but "understanding emotions"... that's still a ways off. Maybe a long long way off. But it's wrong not to be very, very concerned.

Suffice it to say: (Paraphrasing Dijkstra) Whether Facebook understands human emotions from text is as relevant a question as whether a submarine can swim. I think they can get a helluva lot out of what you're typing and what you're liking. That should be enough to worry about.
Sorry, but rollout.io knew the rules and got caught red-handed.

Do developers wish for a solution to circumvent Apples review process for "updates and bug fixes"? Maybe.
Should users be happy about a "solution" that allows developers to manipulate the behavior of apps without any consent from the user and any review process at all, just by opening the app? I really don't think so.

I'm not happy with the "solution" rollout.io and others created and stop using/buying any app that I know is actively using these frameworks. Dynamically loading content is fine, modifying the app logic is not and can potentially lead to theft of user data, ad injection or even adding IOS devices to bot nets while the app is running.
Isn't it already a stalemate? As long as the king never leaves white squares, he will never be in danger, and thus the game will be a draw by the 50 move rule.

I don't see how mate is possible. In order to mate, you need to advance the white pawn to promotion, but it's impossible to advance the white pawn without one of the 3 bishops killing it.
As a complete outsider, the way I see it a lot of the systems at Facebook actually originated within Google, but were never published. Engineers from Google then went to work at Facebook and wanted to replicate the systems they were already familiar with. The only difference is that Facebook actually releases most of these things as open source. So I guess the good news is that when engineers leave Facebook and go to work at "next big thing" they can bring the same tools with them without having to rewrite them again.
Thanks. Making the add-in open source makes sense from a business perspective, lets people inspect the code they are running on their machine.
It reads like a pastiche of many true stories. One of the first things that hypothermia does is impair your ability to think rationally.

Basically, a person makes two marginally unwise decisions in a row, the situation snowballs from there, and the person winds up dead or on the brink of death. Occasionally, the victim has a stupid idea that actually warms them back up a bit, and can claw their way back from there.

In this particular story, the first unwise decision was to leave home at all, and the second was to leave the car. Everything that follows is cold brain no thinky good; unsmart.

This is why government spokespeople have to tell everyone to stay home before every predictable winter storm. Cold people are even stupider than normal, and stupid people are a burden on local emergency services.
As a CS student, I'd really make sure your stats knowledge is solid. Perhaps take a class that covers stochastic finance (Black-Scholes, etc.) if available.

I learned the hard way that it is quite difficult to break into finance as a non-student, so do everything you can now to land that first gig. Good luck!

Some starting resources:

-Ernie Chan's books and blog (https://epchan.blogspot.com/)

-QuantStart has great starter material and a new book, although I haven't read it (https://www.quantstart.com/)

-"Inside the Black Box" (Narang) I've seen referenced a good bit but felt as though it leaned toward order execution and rather boring

-"Dark Pools" (Scott Patterson) a great story about the rise of algorithmic trading

-"Flash Boys' (Michael Lewis) offers a nice follow up (HFT), but considered a bit sensationalist

EDIT: If you're planning on using Python (a solid bet)...

-Python for Data Analysis (Wes McKinney) - Great, quick book for Pandas by former AQR (and now Two Sigma?) guy.

-Yves Hilpisch books: "Python for Finance" is introductory while "Derivative Analytics in Python" is quite math heavy.
Now you got me wondering if there is place in the world for "Wisconsin-style Taverns", complete with shorty-beer chasers for Bloody Marys, beer brewer branding signage styled from the 50s, and dollar bills stuck to the ceiling by darts...
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In a nutshell the EU policy is:

1. Constitution (where there is one)

2. Laws, Regulations (e.g. Central Banks)

3. Contract

Simple scenario:
So even if one signs a contract for "breaking a leg in the workplace and not reporting it", that clause is moot. It may even invalidate the contract in its entirety for being against Constitution/ Laws/ Regulations.

So if you break a leg in the workplace, there is a law for that, which will auto-kick-in (pun intended) (investigations, responsibility/accountability assigned), thus the specific contractual clause will not "hide" the employers or the employee's negligence (depending on your imaginary scenario) or even the fact.
It requires looking up the secret on the backend. The JWT doesn't require that.
Yes and "tech savvy" people should educate their friends when possible.

Most of my friends, for instance, ignore that FB knows most of their web chronology through the omnipresent Like button.

And we must fight the "I-have-nothing-to-hide" attitude.
Facebook? How about the CIA/NSA/ABC intelligence organizations? We're not at war with a country, why do we need a spy agency (much less several)?

Roll personal and funding into the FBI (Note: this does not make me a fan of the FBI) so there is at least some public oversight.
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Ah yes, similar to canonicalization of XML for XMLSignature?

Presumably this means that you have to have have a "flat" JSON structure rather than lots of nested objects and arrays?
Some, yes. If you live in a city with a good public transport system and affordable housing within the reach of that transport system, you can probably do it. Of course, you probably wouldn't own a car in the first place, so this doesn't offer much in the form of practical benefits.

Would it work for the majority of (I'll go with US, since that's where I live and work) the country? No. I know of a few people who attempt it in my city, and they are all paying through the nose for the privilege of not owning a car. Any savings they may have had by not having to buy or maintain a car have been swallowed 3-4 times over by the increased housing costs.

Plus, they get to walk or bike through blizzards to get to work. Wheee!
Though it's a thinly veiled jibe at YC, I think it's worth talking about the not so glamorous side of doing startups. This is something that is not given enough attention and a lot of first time founders don't fully understand the risks involved.

Most common reasons people cite for doing a startup (mostly myths):

* Work on hard technical problems. Founders rarely get to do this beyond the infancy of their startup. If this is the goal, you're better off working at Google, FB.

* Have impact on the world. True for a very small number of startups. This is easier to do with an established company with an already existing user base. Eg- Paul Bucheit, who started Gmail at Google.

* Make money. Easier to make a comfortable living working 9-5 for an established co or a startup and hope to cash out. The risk with taking equity in a startup is the liquidity might never come to pass. There is also a new direction that startups are taking : stay private for as long as possible. Big cos like Google, FB offer much better liquidity.

Quoting Dustin Moskovitz : "The only reason to do a startup is because you can't not do it". The quote along with the myths I listed are from Dustin's lecture in How to start a startup.

Downsides of doing a startup:

* Stress. It's universally acknowledged that starting a startup is soul crushing.

* Money. You don't have the luxury of paying yourself handsomely.

* All consuming. You are on call 24/7.

* Best years of your life. Arguably 20s are the prime years of ones life and it sucks to spend it all on a startup that fails.

* Social life. The all consuming nature of startups negatively affects ones social life.

I'm also curious to hear of people's experience post a failed startup. How easy is it to get a job (especially outside the Bay area)? I imagine recruiters won't look at a failed startup experience and a 4-5 year gap from the workplace too positively.

If these are risks you are aware of and are willing to deal with, then startups can be very rewarding.

There is also this myth that the best startups are only from college students or people who just graduated. IIRC even YC mentioned that the average age of a founder is 29-30. The media narrative of startups really needs to take into account the reality, and acknowledge the downsides of startups. Life is almost never like the one shown in "The Social Network".
This article has little substance. The arguments don't apply to JWT, it just mentions badly done implementations and an insecure option that obviously nobody would turn on.

What else are we going to use? JWT is basically the simplest token protocol possible that maintains antiforgery properties. It's great that somebody standardized something that most API's were using anyways. If you give anyone that knows crypto the task of making a simple token protocol they will come up with JWT over and over.
Isn't motd only displayed on interactive login? You could probably have gotten back in if you did something like ssh foo "sudo rm /etc/motd"
Yes, same product, though my understanding is it's a team effort.
King is in way, only pieces black can move are bishops.

The orientation of board is white started on bottom and black on top.

Quick thing to also remember is that the bottom right square should always be white.
Is number pi important because it means linear independence?
With the usual L2-norm for computing distances and angles we use pi for measuring angles, pi = 180 degrees implies the opposite direction, and pi/2=90 degrees is used to express independence. Here the importance of pi is related to the importance of independence, in particular we are considering linear independence. Curiously, the most famous statistical distribution, the normal distribution, satisfies that two normal that are linearly independent are in fact independent. Bayes Theorem for independent events reduce to product of probabilities. In many contexts independence is related to a cartesian product. In topology, the generalization of a product is a fiber bundle. Pi number perhaps appears in context where linear independence and products are good approximation. Also linear independence allow us to apply the generalized Pythagorean theorem in R^n, for example it gives a way to measure the goodness of fit of linear models. So in many contexts pi is related to independence and product that are the easy concepts of dependence and curvature and non linearity.
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I've always been surprised that Pi Day is primarily evangelized by so many math / science / CS folks, when I would think it would be precisely these folks who hate the MM/DD/YYYY format. ISO format soothes my soul like a warm slice of apple pie with ice cream.
I can't get hello_world to work, something about a unresolved dependency: org.scala-native#sbt-Scalia-native;0.1.0: not found

I'm not a regular Scala user.
unless you catch 50 moves it's a runaway algorithm
I hope you're right! I'm not against the possibility; I just think the pricing isn't there yet for an average family.

Then again I only got my first smartphone in late 2014, so maybe I'm just looking at this differently.
I've stopped using FB app long ago (I think it was when news about their "clever" way of abusing microphone came out). I do use web version on iOS though and it also sucks, just in different ways. At least it does not suck my battery.

While you a right about "app store" kind of apps being forbidden (I've worked on one few years ago. We knew it was doomed, but higher-ups wanted to try anyway) what do you base your "OS system" comment on? I'd say WeChat is even more OS-like and still does fine.
I like this idea, but it'd be nice to have it not based on karma (says a person that doesn't comment very often and has low karma).