skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We are planning to have support for bitcoin cash by January 1, 2018, assuming no additional risks emerge during that time. Once supported, customers will be able to withdraw bitcoin cash."

They are so going to get sued if the price of Bitcoin Cash crashes by the end of the year. Where do they get off telling customers they can't withdraw an asset for five months?

This is what lawyers call "conversion"[1]. A person who knowingly or intentionally exerts unauthorized control over property of another person commits criminal conversion. The element of knowledge is found when the accused person engages in the conduct and he/she is aware of a high probability that he/she is doing so. An essential element of criminal conversion is that “the property must be owned by another and the conversion thereof must be without the consent and against the will of the party, to whom the property belongs, coupled with the fraudulent intent to deprive the owner of the property.”

It's legally equivalent to theft.[2] The typical example of conversion is renting something and then refusing to return it.

Coinbase execs, you really need to be talking to good securities lawyers.

[1] https://conversion.uslegal.com/criminal-conversion/
[2] https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-1317-n...
The web was developed for a long time before 1996. I'd wager cryptocurrency has another 8 years before it's mainstream.
Coinbase is going to support cash... as they go others will as well...
Sadly it's controlled by the higher ups who worry about 'security'... never mind that it decreases programmer productivity quite a bit!
Maybe I'm just not getting something in my slow brain, hopefully someone here can explain. How does taking out my BTC out of CoinBase ensure I will receive an equivalent amount of BCH?

I bought 200$ worth of BTC in the past from CB, and promptly moved to an Exchange. Does that mean I will get whatever amount of BTC I purchased back then in BCH? If so, why? I understand there was a fork, but I don't get why I'm entitled to the same amount of BCH... what if there are more forks in the future, I'll just keep getting more of those offshoot coins as well?
I have taken the liberty to download a sample of WannaCry and I can see the "killswitch" domain just running strings on the binary.

$ strings Downloads/24d004a104d4d54034dbcffc2a4b19a11f39008a575aa614ea04703480b1022c.bin |grep .com
__p__commode
http://www.iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com
Honestly, I don't understand why everyone trashes Coinbase.

I work very closely with numerous crypto exchanges for a living (I write code which interfaces with them). Outside of work, I've personally chosen to open a Coinbase account and trade on GDAX.

Coinbase is, in my opinion, the most reputable exchange out there by far.
It was wrong, and required stupid workarounds, but it was better.

I hated those old IEs as much as anybody, but I admitted even back then that IE's broken box model was much saner. We had to do stupid things with widths and percentages just to make the browsers that worked correctly work.

The fact that everybody uses box-model: border-box now is pretty much an admission that the original box model was a bad idea.
I don't see why not. The bitcoins would just need to be converted to ETH first, which I think can be done anonymously.
"While originality increases
buzz, it might lead to negative..." word-of-mouth if "...the usefulness of the product is perceived
to be low."
A nerd is a single-minded enthusiast. A computer nerd is a single-minded computer enthusiast.
Maybe? An alternative API might look something this:

route("path", "to", IntParam("myArg"))

TypeScript doesn't support properly typing variadic functions yet though.[1] So you can't type this properly for an arbitrary number of parameters. You could try overloading the function definition for a fixed number of parameters, but that could get messy really fast.

An alternate approach might involve regex-validated types[2], if/when those get implemented, though I'm not sure how that'd work exactly.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/5453

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6579
There is a limited total number of bitcoins and the number of bitcoins is increasing very slowly now so technically the more people buy in the more it should go up. Because there is more money in bitcoins but not more bitcoins.
Email addresses have been working fine for me. What I would love though is a way to easily alias my phone number.
Guns have plenty of legitimate uses. Self defense, hunting, and recreation. Guns aren't intended or even primarily purchased and used for criminal purposes. They will probably try to argue this tool was.
Apparently a fast compiler that produces fast programs, with Windows, Mac and 64-bit support as well. Although there are no binaries of the 9.4 release, you'd have to build it yourself:

https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme/releases

https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/release_notes/v9.4/releas...
The Flying Crowbar (1990)
Maybe. Whether the term "modern" was used or not, my hunch is that the response would be the same, for it is forbidden for one to deign to make these kinds of changes to fundamental Unix commands, and is tantamount to a kind of heresy (never mind that GNU implementations did this all the time wrt. original Unix implementations).

Religion... never cared for it. Re-invent the whole crappy (though still less crappy than alternatives) Unix command line, I say.
Please post your demography, age, what your social network looks like. We can discuss from there why you're using instagram instead of snapchat :)

Teenagers don't have money but they have drive purchasing decisions within a family.

"once they know that Instagram has more users and more eyes"
>> Advertisers just don't look at raw numbers. They advertise over a target audience. US, age, gender, mobile phone users: 18-24. Snapchat got a generation of users which facebook/instagram is not able to get. FB and instagram is using their demographics which is not at all important to manipulate snapchat stock price.

If advertisers are paying more money just for some random views, then ad industry has some serious issues and it's not called effective advertising.
Neat. It uses client-side crypto (AES-128-GCM) to secure the file; the key is in the fragment portion of the URL so it doesn't automatically hit the server (assuming you trust the server JS).

The protocol is a little bit strange, though. The file metadata is transmitted as an X-File-Metadata header on upload, and includes the SHA256 hash of the original (unencrypted) file (as the "aad" parameter to the X-File-Metadata upload parameter). This is a little concerning for privacy; while the filename is easy to disguise, hiding the SHA256 sum requires modifying the file in some way. Of course, this might only be a concern for uploading known files, but it's still a bit of an infoleak.

It's also strange in that the key isn't checked in any way (even for sanity) before initiating a download, so if you mess up and leave it off (or corrupt some bits), you won't find out until the end of the download that you can't get the file. Worse, the file will be deleted, forcing you to ask your sender for another copy.

The client-side crypto has one other downside: there doesn't seem to be a standard way in JavaScript to stream a POST request yet. You could emulate it with e.g. WebSockets, but those are a lot more heavyweight and CPU-intensive (for the server) than simple POST requests. So, the current implementation just encrypts the entire file as one giant block, and then uploads it - placing the whole file in memory. Hence the 1GB soft-limit. Downloads are similarly limited.

Luckily, non-browser clients can do whatever they like, so I wrote a Python client that's compatible with the server, but uses streaming POST and on-the-fly en/decryption to save memory. Check it out at https://github.com/nneonneo/ffsend - feedback welcome!
Before the fork they wrote:

Q: Do I need to withdraw my BTC from Coinbase?

... If you wish to access your coins on the UAHF
chain ... you should withdraw your BTC from Coinbase
to an external wallet address under your control by
July 31.

https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/284421...
WannaCry-Slayer Marcus Hutchins 'built Kronos Banking Trojan' – FBI
There are transaction fees with some cryptocurrencies (for example Bitcoin) – for a small purchase they can be much more than 2%.
I might get downvoted for this, but most of the time "nerd" also implies social awkwardness and uncoolness, and not getting laid a lot.

What I'm trying to say is, I don't like being called a nerd. Let's stop acting like we don't know it's unpleasant to call/be called a nerd.
I am from Mexico.
How reliable of a source is this? I'm not familiar with it.
Ubuntu Is Moving Window Buttons Back to the Right
There is a significant industry based on e-discovery that never sees, or requires actual paper. Much more likely is an inhalation of the contents of a custodian's hard drive, or the ingestion of a full PST file (MS Outlook email form) into a system, or downloading email inboxes from Office 365 or Gmail.

Once ingested, the documents are searched for words or phrases, tagged as relevant, privileged, or non-responsive. See the FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) for discussion of electronic documents in discovery.

Not only are courts expecting parties in lawsuits to supply documents in electronic form, there are are now rules in some courts tailored to TAR, or technical assisted review, which often means LSA (Latent Semantic Analysis).

So the idea of dropping tons of paper on the hapless opponent is an idea that is practically of antiquity, dating back to the MCI/ATT lawsuits. Large lawsuits simply don't work that way anymore.
Fentanyl is a wonderful, miraculous, lifesaving drug when used by doctors and paramedics. In a hospital setting, it's a much better drug than morphine for acute pain management in most cases. It's also -- no question -- really freaking dangerous when abused. I worry about stories like this painting such a one-sided picture that Fentanyl will be demonized out of existence.
From my experience as a colorblind person, the use of color to convey information falls into several categories.

1. It improves the presentation of information. The vast majority of colorblind can still see color. In this respect, we are no different from people who have normal color vision.

2. It has no impact upon the presentation of information. In these cases, the colors may not be distinguishable but there are other cues that convey information. I typically think of these cues as context. An example of context relevant to to exa is the column or character used to represent the information.

3. It degrades the information being presented. In addition to there being different types of colorblindness, each type seems to be variable. That is to say that most colorblind persons aren't actually blind to a particular color, they are simply less sensitive to that color. This means that they may be able to see a color if it is intense. Using colored text is really bad in this respect since it is typically less intense, likely due to a small number of pixels being illuminated. This reduces the legibility of text to varying degrees.

4. It makes information illegible. This is essentially the extreme version of case 3. This happens when the contrast is so low that color is the main distinguishing factor, so it may be nearly impossible to distinguish two adjacent colors (such as foreground and background colors for text).

Take anything that I say at face value. It is largely based upon personal experience. The only thing that I can say with certainty is that colorblind people see color differently. I suspect that people with normal color vision suffer from similar issues to colorblind individuals. It simply manifests itself in a standard way so that there are standard design methods to avoid it. Of course colorblind people throw a wrench into the works because their vision is calibrate in different ways due to their sensitivity to each color.
Does Trump still use an Android as POTUS? Any info on what make, OS?
See https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp
> No, should I have to?

You don't have to do anything, including publishing misleading comparisons.

> Until rust has a stable ABI that doesn't require everything be statically linked it's a rust problem.

Qt can be dynamically linked into a Rust application. For example, the default is to dynamically link glibc on Linux x86_64.
Indeed, I remember when a "pair of netcats" was the preferred file transfer solution, and even for IM "meetings". Almost no one knows what I'm talking about if I mention it to most people now, even those otherwise experienced in computer use and/or are developers themselves.
There is no Amtrak route between Dallas and Houston. I wish there was, as I would've taken it on several occasions (even if it were slow), but there isn't.
Ironic that some sources suspect he authored Kronos too, haha.

That's the best joke I've heard all day. Keep in mind MT is the guy who made a blog article about HVNC and was like "yeah, sorry, can't release my own implementation because.. reasons.. (hehe winkface; tips black fedora)" and then links his GitHub, where a terrible example of CreateDesktop's usage can be found. This guy's profession is to open up IDA Pro and use the pseudo-C output plugin and then vaguely stay on-top of "threat intelligence". Here's my threat intelligence for these people: don't run with scissors.

MT is a dreadful programmer. There's logs of MT in his IRC telling people "you can't use the -> operator on references in C++!". He also said he's been writing formgrabbers since before other members of the IRC were born (seriously, nonchalantly). He's barely a programmer at all; never mind a programmer capable of completing malware projects.

MT's past is pretty shady. He's been mixed around with other skids for years with actual ill-intent and that's why this incident has happened.

The fact people take MT, and people in his league like MalwareUnicorn, seriously is completely beyond me. They're all literal skids. It seems anyone with a twitter handle and the ability to retweet real researchers' work is an "infosec researcher". The 'profession' has devolved into something worthy of a meme. And before you try defend these people, just remember that the "whitepapers" people so often love to reference when defending such Twitter skids are literally just 5 page pamphlets where they advertise their employer and talk about things that were discovered in 2004.

Next thing you know, LinkCabin will be giving his rundown of the events. Every moron likes to get involved when they know nothing of MT nor

Also, as far as the "TouchMyMalware" alias is concerned: that alias was taken by someone else (who has no vested interests in malware) long after MT abandoned it. So, any recent activity you see relevant to that alias isn't MT. If you want MT's old aliases, you're gonna have to beat the real ones out of him.

The state of information security is in total disarray.
In 2017, security research is just unskilled skids on Twitter engaging in a giant circle-jerk. Shame, where did it all go wrong?
Well all of that is just a matter of how many significant digits to print. You can print "1.873554727 GB". Its ugly as hell. But at least I can mentally truncate everything after the period without having to count the digits.
How many shares are outstanding? According to which exchange? Oh, it was recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain? No question, then.

What about a deed or title for property? Which of countless organizations and public records sources has the document? If it was entered on the Ethereum blockchain, there's no doubt as to ownership.

There's also tracking of goods; outbreak of salmonella? If the trail is available on a blockchain then it's easy to find the source and anything else that might be tainted.

The only reason crypto is volatile right now is due to speculation on which blockchain(s) will be most successful, just as TCP/IP was not always the foremost protocol. It is the nature of growth to be uncertain and wild, and be certain that there is no going backward: Bitcoin and blockchains are here to stay.

One additional note is that they are incredibly powerful tools for control and tracking - a deep state's wet dream, in the process of being willfully adopted by the masses and soon to be the delineating mark between the haves and have-nots. Make no mistake: blockchains can be manipulated by institutional forces. Huxley and Orwell could not have imagined this in their worst nightmares... beware.
The current Pixel bluetooth support is horrendous. I hope this is not true.
You could alias it to ls.
Well I think this illustrates how difficult it is to come to any consensus on these kinds of issues. Even people that have had similar experiences can come to wildly different conclusions.

Edit: I'll also add that while I personally disagree with your premise that speech can be categorized as assault, I don't think that your position is necessarily unreasonable. Again, I'm not in agreement but it isn't so outrageous a view that I think well meaning and thoughtful people couldn't hold those same views. However, when you start off your argument by stating that anyone holding a contrary opinion must be puerile(I'm not very smart so I had to make sure I remembered the correct definition) it doesn't lend itself to any meaningful discussion.
I agree that the polarization is useless. However what you said about selective breeding vs GM is just wrong. Selective breeding introduces numerous mutations, including ones often not even related to the desired traits. In contrast human directed genetic modification often changes a single gene, the state of the art in research universities for specific modifications is only in the tens of genes. You can only say they are not comparable in the sense that selective breeding introduces far more changes than GM and also in the sense that with GM we know what changed where in selective breeding we do not necessarily know how the change was produced or what the extent of it was.

Also I understand that this is a computer centered site but thinking of DNA as binary is a often used but terrible analogy. Living organisms were designed through complete randomness, try refactoring that. If you wanted to turn teosinte into corn without any random mutations and selection I think that would be far beyond our abilities for 100 years at least.
> Bitcoin and the ecosystem around has barely changed since it was released.

And yet it's still going, and with all the turmoil, it hasn't been fundamentally broken yet.

I think in the end, if it remains unbroken (that is, no 50% attacks, etc) bitcoin will become a backing currency for more flexible/faster/easier to use/understand approaches. I think it has a future, but I'm not sure its future is "My mom understands it." It may nonetheless remain useful, and thus, continue to have value, even if itself it never goes "mainstream".

Already it is seeing over the last 2 years a stability in its price that is very comforting. The main criticism is its extreme volatility, but as it is adopted more, as its price goes up, and as more inertia is inserted into the market, it should stabilize even more and cause a positive feedback loop encouraging more adoption. It's doesn't need to be used for day-to-day transactions for it to have value, I think it's already proven that point imho.

The main concern is that this could literally turn around overnight if ever it gets fundamentally hacked/broken. This is always going to be a risk, an uncertainty which might hurt it in the long run. The question is, is this worse than e.g. counterfeit concerns with fiat currency.
I think it means he's an expert at cybering.
Usually I enjoy articles from firstround, but this article is kind of clickbaity. I see what they're getting at here but if their claim that chefs and soldiers make the best product managers is true... then most PMs be would be former chefs and soldiers.
But for most human beings: the icing is the cake. We hurt ourselves by thinking that "content is king" outside our own beautiful wonderful nerdy circles.
A Petition for Etsy to Recommit to Its Values
>We can't say, as a society, that something is ok in one scenario, but say it's bullshit when it matters.

Sure we can.

Sometimes carefully crafted bullshit can be ok. For example, when countries conduct diplomacy, or when poker players bluff, or when intelligence agencies need to hire someone and attempt to scare them into telling the truth or trick them into revealing a lie.

The court system is not a place that should tolerate any kind of bullshit (though like most systems, it sadly does to an extent), so it's different.
The point was that Tesla is more than a decent car - it's an entire ecosystem, including providing the power for the cars at home. They have the solar power, batteries and cars all sorted out now, and it's just a matter of ramping up production of all of them. The auto industry is shipping widgets, and Tesla is shipping solutions.

It might be basic - but that's what they said about Japanese cars in the 1970s, about anything in the classic Clayton Christensen sense of a disruptive product. It might be expensive - but demand overwhelms supply.

It's a war - the others just don't realise they are both in a war and have largely lost already.

and I am delighted that Tesla will win - the climate crisis we are in and entering into is terrifying enough without the prospect of pumping even more CO2e into the atmosphere.
Because BCH used the current state of BTC as the starting point when they forked. Whatever existed in BTC now exists as BCH. And yes you will keep getting more free coins whenever there is a fork in a currency you control.
Those used to be the connotations with the word 'nerd', but they really aren't anymore. Being a 'nerd' is cool these days, and nerd has become a term of endearment.
NAPA Cards _ Narrative Patterns for Data Stories
The file name (or entire path) should be where-ever the user expects to find it.
Having fixed width columns makes using sort(1) trivial.

For the "all the information" part, I've been using something like this:

fn () {
find "${@:-.}" -printf "%TY %Tm %Td %TH:%TM:%2.2TS %1y %4m %3n %4U:%-3G %8s %p\n"; }
I'd settle for a flag that disables the rainbow perms, it seems to be a common gripe. It's nearly a dealbreaker for me. But, that's personal preference - congrats on a great util.
I am interested in the legalities of this. There are other areas where legality of a sale is dependent upon the seller's knowledge or beliefs about the buyer's intent. For example, drug paraphernalia… if you sell someone a pipe in Mississippi, and they don't say anything or they mention tobacco, that is fine. However if they said they wanted to use it to smoke cannabis, completing the sale would be distribution of drug paraphernalia, even though it's the same item.
Not to be (too) flippant, but this is your first child I assume?

I have no particularly good advice for you other than it'll work itself out, and it's probably just a phase. When kids go to school, a lot of things change.

Also, it is often a point of pride for parents to talk about restricting screen time, how much their child reads, plays piano, is a star athlete, etc.

Parents often exaggerate to score points. :). This says more about parents and less about children.

Personally, I don't think devices are either good or bad. Perhaps your child actually loves some show and it gives them comfort. One thing to do is sit there and watch with them, and try to engage in their world. Ask them about what they like in the shows, etc.

Childhood is so fleeting and you will miss it before it's gone!
Dataviz: How much do doctors really make, after opportunity cost?
I would guess rise. There is growing interest in getting involved. The easier it is to buy in, the more will chance it.