skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is more accurate to say that the point of Bitcoin is everyone has perfect information about how much money everyone has and who they transact with. The hackers are free to send the stolen money to someone else with no central authority to stop them, but an exchange is likely to reject that because they deal with fiat and therefore have to meet certain legal and ethical standards.

The hackers can still spend the money on something else provided the other party doesn't hold themselves to the same standards.
Mixcloud.com have done similar to gauge demand in new product features, explained in this interview with the CTO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtAIkEWebBA
Research into the neurotoxicity would be very extremely beneficial. The usual advice goes: "You need to protect your serotonin receptors from damage. Antioxidants like Alpha Lipoic Acid are great for this, but in a pinch, a dose of Vitamin C does the trick as well. Hence the advice to drink OJ with your molly."

However, if there was a way to completely prevent damage to the brain and eliminate tolerance, I think many many people would do MDMA every day.
Also from the Zen of Python: "Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules", the old print statement contains a lot of special syntax not found anywhere else in the language. Also "Readability counts", it's really obvious what print("foo", file=sys.stderr, end="") does instead of deciphering a construct like print >>sys.stderr, "foo", . Moreover you can pass a print function around, perform partial application, etc., a statement does not give you that.
BAE sold cyber-surveillance tools to Arab states
The point may simply be to move the attention away from the NSA, who are perhaps the real authors of WannaCry.
Not that I recommend this, but if you want a (US) school to fix a grading security issue, you threaten to sue because exposing grades is a FERPA violation and schools could lose funding.
I feel if you want to participate in this community you should have the courtesy to add a disclaimer to your comment that you run a trading school (the link in your profile) when you make comments like this.

Also, to me personally, it seems like you're kind of making up what you just said (to get people to go to your trading school). Can you post some proof that your family is set for "generations"? (For example can you show the order of magnitude of your accounts via an anonymous screenshot?)

By the way I don't share the view of others in this thread who say that your advice is "terrible", the only thing that bothers me is that you did not add a disclaimer and have an incentive to make up what you've written (to generate traffic to your school).

Thanks for understanding.
I don't find this a wholly satisfying position (and I say this even as someone who's generally a blockchain skeptic).

Concretely, this argument conflates agreeing on a set of rules with agreeing on an arbiter to determine the application of those rules. Those aren't the same thing, because only one of them centralizes power.

> At this point they already have a consensus, they trust each other, they might as well just set up a centralized database run by a 3rd party that manages the system

This is the critical point where I don't think the argument works. Firstly: they don't necessarily trust each other. They trust the system to work within the rules they have established. It simply doesn't follow from that that they should therefore be willing to trust a 3rd party.

For what it's worth, this is why I'm interested to see how the block size situation in Bitcoin resolves itself. If it happens relatively smoothly, it's a strong point for the ability of consensus to respond to pressing needs. If it doesn't... well, I might have to reconsider my position.
Right. You could always define a new type with an existing underlying type, like Celsius with the underlying type int in your example. See the spec here: https://golang.org/ref/spec#Types

This would define a new, non-interchangeable type, even though it's just an int behind the scenes. The new type alias on the other hand define a new name for an existing type; you still have just one type. In the user ID example above that's not what you want, it would allow using an int where a UserID is required.
And it's totally portable to Python 2.
Your comment is just nonsense on so many levels.

1) The US does not actively target civilians. That's a war crime. There are incidental deaths absolutely but if the US was intentionally trying to cause mass deaths they would simply drop a nuclear bomb a few more times.

2) What does this have to do with spreading propaganda, cyberattacks or North Korea ?
> I think the hostility is more about how the problems millennials face now are man made problems previous generations didn't have to face

The GP is bitching about a potential war between the US and China, and conveniently ignores the actual wars that the Boomers were conscripted to fight (Vietnam) and the generation before them (WWII, Korea) and the generation before them (WWI). If those wars aren't classed as 'man-made problems' and the young being sent to die for the old, then what's the point of discussing further?

As for job mobility being drastically down, that's looking at the past with rose-coloured glasses. We may have passed the peak of job mobility, but it's far more labile now than it was in the 60/70s and earlier, especially if you're female. The fact that you can job-hop these days is proof of this.

The only way millenials have it worse than 'previous generations' is if they're completely ignoring how previous generations actually had it. Hey, you know what I hate? I hate how every week I have to get down on my hands and knees and manually polish the floorboards with wax, so they last longer. Oh, hang on, I didn't do that, that was my grandmother. She was a bit of a clean-freak, but the point is that 'maintaining the floor' used to be a thing, now no-one thinks of it beyond a bit of a vacuum. It's stuff like this that the millenial "we have it sooooooooooo hard!" complaints completely ignore.
Take a glance down through the advice given so far, from "email me" to something involving firearms which sounds dangerous.

Now take a deep breath. For starters, you are not a failure - two companies before age 29 is pretty impressive.

You will probably never be happy as someone else's employee for long but that might be an idea for now - get the CV (resume) dusted down anyway.

For me, having two other partners has worked out rather well - two against one, as required. That does mean that you need two other people who you trust completely.

I suspect that you will do OK.
While I don't think this is the case here, specifically, propaganda isn't always about swaying people from anti- to pro-; it could be for swaying people from "they are bad, but not that dangerous" to "they are dangerous enough that we should intervene with force"
I'm going to have to disagree with that. The TLS connection is not part of the conversation... it has no ability to intercept messages, encrypted or otherwise.

It's merely just another e2e communication between the client and another party, albeit through another protocol.
In that link they only raise doubts about Lazarus being behind WannaCry, not Lazarus being associated with the DPRK. And the Kapersky researchers' quote says that this being a false flag is "possible" but "improbable"
I consider movie trailers a net gain.

Not if they go too long, but a few good trailers can cue you into good films to watch.

Then there's advertising like, "This restaurant is at the next highway stop" which just gives you useful information."

There are many other examples.
Tesla has opened the floodgates of Autopilot data gathering
But it reveals part of what was typed in the e2e chat to the third party... tls or not is irrelevant to that point.
I donno, from a technical standpoint it never seemed to me like WannaCry was extremely complicated. I actually described a Ransomware with a very similar crypto scheme on here not that long ago [0], and I don't have tons of crypto experience past taking a class on it in college. With that said I'm sure there are other ransomwares out there that already do something very similar (or even the same).

The more complicated part was the propagation via the exploit, but at the same time the exploit was already out in the open. That was part of the reason it only infected old or non-updated machines. So still not easy, but a good chunk of the initial work was done for them.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147605
I think this will backfire and just make Death Stranding and Kohjima more popular. As a developer Konami is really struggling and I wouldn't be suprised that it closed down soon or got consolidated .
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> I'm just guessing here, but you are probably missing some key derivation like PBKDF2

How could you use AES with a passphrase with no key derivation function?
So the logic conclusion for you is not that North Korea did this who has no foreign currency and minimal income. But rather it was the NSA who is bankrolled by the US government and who will be receiving additional funds in the upcoming budget process.

Makes complete sense.
This jibes with my experience - After doing 10 years of Java, a year with Clojure seems like heaven. I actually have brain space now to think about the problem than the mechanical details of the solution. In fact btw terseness, simplicity and immutability I stopped caring about the language for the most part and am able to concentrate on the problem at hand.
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Yes. If you're not prepared for cruft, then you are going to be rewriting things all the time.

Joel Spolsky talks about this desire for artistic purity over useful backwards compatible cruft in a couple of nice essays:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
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> address validation

just try: socket.inet_aton
Agreed, confirming that there is no public evidence which hard links Lazarus to DPRK. Just want everyone to know the facts.
I assume you're referring to the Sony hacks? The evidence is pretty damning: https://www.operationblockbuster.com/wp-content/uploads/2016... which I linked elsewhere.

Any aspect of that report you want to contest?
So it's not North Korea testing ballistic missiles capable of destroying Tokyo, Seoul, Hawaii etc. Or the fact that they are actively developing nuclear weapons capable of hitting anywhere in the US.

No it's not billions of lives that are the impetus to use force. Rather it's the huge sum of a few million dollars worth of Bitcoins i.e the cost of one of their more expensive bombs.
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Mining is only 7-8% of our economy. We survived both the GFC and the recent years of mining downturn. Mining isn't a small part of it, but it's not really the key player in our economy. Agriculture is much bigger, but still, the reason why we import so many humans[1] is to keep our economy growing. Immigration isn't the only thing that can affect an economy, but with an ageing population, bringing in new youthful blood helps keep the workforce growing.

[1] The only large Western nations with higher immigration rates are Spain and, surprisingly, Norway.
How did you prepare such a thought-out comment so fast after the post appeared?!?

You're amazing. Thank you for taking the time to share that info with us!
> But if you don't trust yourself to keep your bitcoins safe, you're free to deposit them with someone you trust.

^ This is you, saying that people would deposit things if they fall into the same category of "most people" that don't consider the idea of trying their damndest to just be extremely careful with their cash (which, once stolen, is simply gone, and which can even be misplaced) to be a sane choice in comparison to using... a bank.
If only the web server software could do this for you...
A spy satellite buzzed the space station this month, and no one knows why
I don't know who did it. I'm just saying it's not a stretch to accuse the NSA given their history with hacking tools becoming public and the Snowden leaks.

To use the revenue generating argument from the OP article as a good indicator of the author is weak at best.
It also makes some practical sense, as NK regime has little in the way of hard foreign currency and bitcoins would be a great source of untraceable unsactionable income. Their previous adventures in illegal activities (counterfeit bills, meth, prostitution and slave labor) show they are not above deviousness to achieve stable income for the Kim state.
This point is huge. I'm a technical writer for a large conglomerate, but often get pulled into drafting or contributing to business documentation that is all created in Word. These things have to cross the desks of over a dozen different people spread across three continents so versioning is painful and it's often left to me to put everything back together. I need this product, but there is no way we can put sensitive sales and IP details onto some random cloud service.

Make this a standalone product and it's a no-brainer that can command an enterprise price point.
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Supposing North Korea has Bitcoins... how could they sell them in a way that grants them usable currency?
Well they refuse to bend to your will so you desperately need a way to portray them as the ultimate enemy to justify the use of force against them as someone mentioned in the comments up above.

This sounds to me like the internet version of "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, we absolutely must obliterate them to protect our freedoms", yeah right.
"Curse you, UI!"

--LLDB
Right. Watching the Noam Chomsky documentary, Manufacturing Consent, on YouTube really opened my eyes to this phenomena. Based on what I have observed recently, I think the decision was made some time ago on this, and we're being told what to think.
> So if the server checks a few subdomains randomly

Are you suggesting only random checks are completed? Why wouldn't it check all of them?

> a quick attacker can register those subdomains at the provider (eg at a site like github), and then get a cert for the whole domain.

Why would requesting a wildcard for a subdomain (i.e. pas.github.com) give me a cert that works for the root domain (i.e. github.com)?
people create a tool to solve problem, but he could not solve the problem which created by the tool
As both a consumer and a merchant I really like this world where even small transactions are insured as it means that everyone--including me--can just mostly trust everyone and not have to have some complex passcode or multi-factor security setup to access and spend money. I like that I just have a card in my wallet that I can nigh unto flash at people and be handed a hotdog, and yet if someone steals my wallet or tries to hold me at gunpoint there is never any reason to not just hand them my card.
Ah, I read you now, thanks. I may have reflected on one interview that went particularly badly, being somewhat reminded of it. But with the extra information, that is a great approach if I understand you correctly - especially the silence adding pressure part, which is absolutely true.

I.e. if stuck at something, even if seeming trivial, it might pay (to go back or have a chat around it, even guide him/her a bit so as, etc) to get the candidate loosened up and feeling safe which should then yield better responses after.
Btw I'm not defending NK and their government nor am I saying that it's heaven on earth, but a bit of balance and fair treatment doesn't hurt sometimes.
> I think many many people would do MDMA every day.

It's generally accepted that tolerance to MDMA builds up, leading to a loss of 'magic'.

For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15671132
Because, under your 'utopia', we never would have had the civil rights movement. Or woman's suffrage. Or gay marriage.
I'm the web developer quoted in the article and happy to chat about anything housing or policy related
Physical borders were brought down long time ago, I don't see why we still
keep the virtual ones up.

Great win for EU citizens.
Failing has been replaced with learning in my lexicon.

Every day you're alive, present, and able to love is a success. Take your win and look around you. You have more wealth than than 99.50% of the world's population if you can make $40k USD a year and have no debt.

Take a trip to nature. Computers have taken over too many of our lives, and it's worth putting away the screen for an extended amount of time to listen to the planet.
Yeah, I don't know. People tend to believe the narrative story they want to believe. When someone claims "the Russians" hacked the DNC and other operatives, there is very little "false flag" ("how do you know it really was the Russians?") claims (and for good reason), but when something does not fit their belief systems then it's "oh, false flag" despite reputable researchers putting their reputation on the line.
The same way N. Korea does everything overseas, foreign agents and "diplomats" that act couriers. China would be the obvious conduit as bitcoin is widely accepted there.
North Korea has the world's #2 and #3 economies next door, and both increasingly like Bitcoin. China has a significant appetite for Bitcoins, even more so with the capital controls now in place. That's a pretty easy black market trade.
>To prevent the algorithm from developing its own language, it was simultaneously trained to produce humanlike language.

Not sure what this would look like, but I'd be interested to find out.
Again, I'm not saying this is NSA propaganda. I agree that this hack pales in comparison to other bad shit DPRK is up to.

My point was more general: propaganda can have various goals, only one of which is to turn supporters to detractors.

Further, propaganda doesn't have to be well executed to be propaganda.
All I can say is that I'm glad the vast majority of academia, and the population in general, think your position is indefensible.
I'd suggest this is already occurring, given the uncertain purity and dosages associated with the supply of recreational drugs. Probably a fair amount of placebo-effect too!
The premise itself is fiction. The P in GDP doesn't stand for exchange or transaction. It stands for "Product." It measures the net amount of new wealth, not how many times existing wealth is transferred among parties. If I sing you a song and you pay me $1 million dollars and this process continues back and forth, the net amount of value when we stop is still $1 million and the net change to GDP is zero.

People indulge a lot of strange and wrong ideas about economics and, not surprisingly, those bad ideas are typically well aligned with their preferred world views.
Was in a very similar position a few years ago after two startups and 7years with zero returns.

More actionably, dev+fin+products = pm in a fintech company or bank.
Or fin+products = evangelist for fintech api startup
Or dev+fin = dev at fintech
Or dev+prod = product manager anywhere.
Or fin+startup = coo for an ops heavy startup at series b+
Check out pmarca archive on careers for support.

I spent my next 4 yrs at two of the big 4 sw companies as a product manager. Best choice ever, huge pay, lots of resources. got lots of shit done at a much faster pace than they are used to. Not stressful compared to startup life. Helped me get a new network, new perspectives, new resources.

Four years to the month, I quit, and now doing a startup again ,and this time it's going much better so far :)

So it ain't the end of the world, just a blip on your journey to eventually building something big.

Will it be your third or fourth or seventh startup that makes it big? Who knows?

The key is to survive that long and make each startup better and you sound like the kind of person who will.

May the force be with you!
Ha, apologies for not picking up on the joke. It can be challenging to know when you are having a literal conversation or not in written form.

HN is probably not the place to have this conversation (I would have emailed you if it were in your profile) but to your point on "a suitable woman is significantly less likely to make this embarrassing mis-step"... that too is overt sexism of the kind I suspect you would find unacceptable coming from a man. Rhetorical question: how would you feel about a male manager justifying hiring a man because he is "significantly less likely to get pregnant and lose interest in the job"?

Lolz, yes, I do think that is a sexist comment and a part of me wonders if you actually think it isnt (maybe I'm being too literal). That said, I don't really care that you are making it. I'm a white male living in the 21st century, living with the double standard of being labeled a sexist or racist despite not being one is something you have to accept.

To your point, I think "smart money" buys the right tool for the job. I can see why you think replacing this old rich sexist white male with a young rich (sexist) white female is the smart move as it gets the trolls of your back and appeases the populists trying to hijack your company through negative PR. Anyway, I had fun with this. Hope you're having a good day.
Right. I had some ideas around this previously when thinking around http://www.ifex-project.org/our-proposals/ifex/2012-04-11-pa...

In short each node would have its own risk management profile. Entering a transaction using any settlement path or asset type (even multi-hop transactions involving multiple paths or assets) is the explicit decision of the actor in question, against that risk profile, available information, and its own priorities (eg. must complete by X date, prefer to avoid Y actor/system/asset, etc.)

Because the properties of each settlement network, asset type or actor are able to be formally defined, cross-system automation is possible and new systems with interesting properties are able to present themselves on a fair and equal footing.

Of course, with such lofty goals, it was never finished (I was keen but asked to direct attentions to urgent areas elsewhere), but recently I have begun to revisit it owing to my study of physical logistics networks and scheduling algorithms for my current startup http://8-food.com/
- make it hard for companies to hire consultants/contractors on a corp/corp basis - you need to go through a third-party corp sucking away 30% of the billing rate

Can you explain the mechanism by which they do this?
Ok, that's what I figured - thanks.

That does bring up the question, though, whether it's correct to say that a Sync type doesn't permit data races. In the example I gave above, publishing a Sync struct incorrectly can exhibit data race like symptoms on the receiving thread. So even though the type itself is Sync, that's not enough of a guarantee in the face of "unsafe" publication.
It's good to be skeptical but I think when you have preponderance of evidence in one way, it's not unreasonable to reach a conclusion. Remember Noam was the same guy who for political reasons did not want to believe Pol Pot was mowing through millions despite large amounts of information filtering out of the country corroborating the atrocities others claimed were taking place.

Additionally, there is no need to "manufacture consent" as only a very small minority would object to any action against N Korea at this point in time.
FYI, The next release is going to be 1.10
Why didn't you report it anonymously then?