skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put a non-trivial amount of btc in a wallet with a moderately secure password. Oh you'd rather not? It will be swept up almost instantly by any of a myriad of wallet cracking programs running 24/7 for just that purpose.

I think nodesocket's point was that to expect the run of the mill computer user, who barely understands what a browser is, to have the security chops to withstand constant attacks from people who not only know what a browser is, but have also devoted substantial time to understanding as many exploits to the crypto-currency systems as they can and who have monetary incentive to continue refining that understanding in pursuit of most likely consequence free(apart from their soul) illicit monetary gains, to look at the dynamics at play here, it is not a stretch to assume that expecting widespread adoption in any form is likely to be a losing proposition.

What does "decentralizing security" mean? Everyone with any currency to protect will have to implement the digital equivalent of 36 inch fortified walls? Why would they want to do that when most people are satisfied with outsourcing this to service providers who specialize in such things?

For some scenarios there is a case to be made for "user defined security" or some-such, possibly even a few legitimate ones that aren't socially hostile. But it's hard to make any convincing case(without using any "semantic sugar," "empty calorie" buzzword-laden phrases like "decentralizing security") against nodesocket's point that the lay of the land of crypto-currency seems hopelessly tilted towards those who would like to exploit it in these ways.
While he could've worded it better he did provide valid criticism. I'm sure he is not the only person here who has profiteering concerns for the various bodies who govern the internet.
The Secret History of Frank Herbert's Dune
Not:

Harvest Gold?

Coppertone?
Author has clearly never been to Pittsburgh's airport.
How about you fix your UX problem instead of whining at your users for "doing it wrong"?

"Cheating" is the same sort of absurd metric to academia as speeding is to police. It's not a particularly helpful metric, but it's quantifiable, and therefore gets the focus.

Academia has been driving farther and farther from real learning and creating, and closer to memorization and testing. This is why computer science courses focus on physics and math, rather than designing software and writing code.

The entry level to creating something meaningful is much higher in abstract science than in practical application, so courses for abstract concepts can lazily slide along with rote learning, and testing -grading tests seems to scale well- rather than have students create something unique and meaningful. The more unique homework is, the harder it is to compare.

Cheating is simply the byproduct of an optimised-first design. It is a metric that clearly shows where academia has optimized out the value.
There's something really bizarre about the claim that San Jose is "bigger" than San Francisco. Obviously, it's technically "true" in that San Jose officially consists of a land area 4x that of San Francisco, lapping up a lot of people as it stretches over those vast, nowhere suburbs. But this shows just how overrated "technically correct" can be when using the arbitrary political boundaries of different cities to make comparisons.

Paradoxically, San Francisco is obviously the "bigger" of the two cities, even if it technically isn't.
Raft step by step visualization
Tiny Keyboard Experiment: Living with the 'Minivan' – ExtremeTech
Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation
Global Entry kiosks require you to look directly into a camera a foot from your face. It's not a very good camera, but I wonder if that's what they are thinking of?
As others clarified, this is not about source. I don't even care about that really, I mean I do in principle — but I just want to use and recommend to others and have GPL software within the iOS ecosystem, on these devices. I'm fine if the source were available through just a link in the software to a website where you separately download it.

No, here's the deal:

GPL: You CAN modify and share this software, and if you share, you have to keep these terms for others so they have freedoms too.

iOS terms: You MAY NOT modify or share ANY software you get as a normal consumer through the app store OR install any software from outside the app store.

The problem is that Apple's unwillingness to ALLOW a user to exercise these basic freedoms means that there's no way to distribute in the App Store any software that requires these freedoms be maintained. It's incompatible terms. And the fault for the incompatibility lies 100% on Apple for their terms that are the ones that demand that freedoms not be allowed.
What's your preferred definition?
What if you could choose a "support level" or unlock features by donating more resources? I'm thinking out loud here, but I've never heard of customer-donated CPU as a business model and there might be something here. For an author trying to monetize content online all of the "normal" options are pretty bad right now. I think most digital entertainment just isn't very valuable these days, but I'll bet the mining thing has some characteristics that compare favorably to both ads and (micro)payments.

Of course, if it was a viable strategy, wouldn't some malware authors write the malware to do this instead of ransoming files? Has that been tried? Is it a thing?
Google Silently Releases Its Assistant’s “App Store”
I was just indicating the amount of light without looking up the quantity in lumens.

But, actually, so far, I'm still on incandescent light.

For CFL, I have one, puts out about the same amount of light as a 15 W incandescent, and I have it over the kitchen sink running 24 x 7, e.g., as a kitchen "night light".

My issue is simple, all in just one word -- seeing. I need to see clearly inside the case when building and/or maintaining the computer.

It's not about the heat or cost of electricity for the light.

It's just about seeing clearly, e.g., each screw, wire, cable, socket, etc. Inside a black case, it's tough to see clearly without a lot of light. So, on the outside, maybe I'll get a spray can and paint it white. On the inside, maybe I'll get a brush and some cheap white paint and give it quick, crude job of painting it white without covering over small holes.

Ah, I was frustrated, kept hoping some case manufacturer would get away from black. But, sure, there's an easy solution, for much less trouble than shopping for a beige or white case -- just go ahead and accept a black case and just repaint the thing. Then back to my business.
Meanwhile everyone forgets Project Tango which has a similar sized sensor and structured light projector...

The Apple "innovation" here is finding an application for it: basically Snapchat. (Because, and let's be really serious here, FaceID is not a good application.)

...and that alone just shows how off the mark this implementation is. When this comes to the cheap Chinese Android phones in six months, it's going to cause another sales boom there, as parents will actually be willing to spend a few hundred dollars for a phone upgrade for a teenager, verses the thousand bucks for one of these Apple phones...
Climate change must be felt to be understood.

Depends what you're trying to demonstrate. I think the greenhouse effect is cool. Carbon dioxide is useful, it's just not in the right place.

How might we build a bunch of rooms with different amounts of carbon dioxide in them. And big lamps. In the rooms with low carbon dioxide, it's cool. With rooms with lots of carbon dioxide, it getd hotter and hotter.

Even a simple physicics simulator app would be cool, different ppm of carbon dioxide, and showing the change/temperature stability. I remember fooling around with a physics simulator as a kid, springs and boxes, then you hit go and they all move with gravity. Power it with data from the open climate API at http://carbondoomsday.com

Keep the ideas coming!
I'm pretty sure all copyleft terms of any sort are prohibited, including GPLv2; Apple requires that all software fit their terms, so only sublicensable free-software licenses are compatible.
It seems like one of the ways exchanges are beefing up security is by making everyone submit tons of verification documents in order to do anything
Not sure if this is still the case, but Marcos from Mozilla did a talk on this at CampJS earlier this year. Apparently Chrome will send data about the items purchased to Google, even if you’re using a payment provider completely unrelated to Google.

Unlike Chrome, Firefox will apparently not send data about what you purchase back to Mozilla.

Edit: https://twitter.com/chrismorrisorg/status/896352427426799618
The W3C is working on this in the Web Authentication (webauthn) working group.
Timezones and Terrorists
https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/5084

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/4503

Do not trust facebook hhvm open source project #5084

HHVM must have a open source foundations in behind #4503
Finder does have tabs, and further automation is available through scripting (AppleScript and Terminal).

Actually, both scripting and the commandline are effective ways of making you organize your program into nouns and verbs that can be extended by the user.

But I don’t think rearranging the basic UI is that useful, because all your users are basically the same - we’re all human and not Lisp programmers.
One nice thing about languages like C is that a lot of programmers just avoid dependencies because dealing with them kind of sucks. That's one solution to this problem.
The talk really put Karpeles in a slightly better light. He bought into an exchange that was a raging dumpster fire from a security and accountability standpoint and managed to stop the horrorshow by rewriting the wallet handling software.

Of course it was way too late at that point. The whole place had already been robbed blind. Still, it seems like if he had gotten there sooner maybe that weird arbitrage bot could have made up the difference somehow and actually bailed out the company.
Alan Kay comes from a time, when IT business was all about the creation of tools. The companies forming out of the 60's/70's experiments, of which he was a main protagonist, would drive the innovation according to more abstract needs of information management. That era ended in the 2000's.

The companies, who drive techical advancement and innovation now, are a shopping mall, some telocs, family camps with added spying bonus, and often any form of information gatherers, that do business by the worst part of our economy, selling image rather than delivering identity. I am talking about the advertisement business.

Alone, compare the Windows 10 address book to former installations. Back in the old days, the addressbook was scriptable. You could query it from other apps. Some third party apps had powerful filtering. And now? It is totally dumbed down to the most basic, primitive needs. And while we use cloud based addressbooks these days, it is much more difficult to keep them neat and ordered. I could go on for hours. Like XHTML vs HTML5 and so on.
This became a thing lately: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/04/credential...
"Dunning-Krugerrands."
I actually don't think this is particularly heinous as long as they are completely transparent and open about it. Hell, if they wanted to be even more above board, they should provide a slider that allows you to allocate a percentage of CPU usage you are dedicating at a given time.

Now, whether it'll be worth it is the real question. But I'm hopeful. If we can find an alternative to obtrusive, obnoxious ads I'm all for it.
How do you check if you are affected?
Not necessarily, you could navigate through websites.
So does this actually bypass the captive portal, or just secure your connections after logging in?
Love to hear the thoughts from Salesforce developers. - Jay
Alright "run" wasn't the right word, "heavily influenced by" is probably better.

They just seem to continuously standardize things that are very user hostile and only serve content distributors.
9 labels is too many. Also, those pictures are kind of hard to match.

It needs to be dead simple: number of labels = number of bins available. Maybe number of labels can be more than number of bins by 1 or 2 at most.

Secondly, use numbering instead of icons. Numbering is dead simple to match, icons require effort to match on the box against the picture on bin.

In the case of saran wrap: the box should clearly say #2 for box and #3 for contents (saran wrap). That would resolve the case you mentioned.
This is actually less robust, since instead of relying on the setuptools API, you now also rely on the pip API.

If you control requirements.txt, there is nothing "not robust" about parsing it in setup.py.
I came across this the other day while randomly reading about energy storage techniques, initially piqued by pico-scale hydro: http://www.aresnorthamerica.com

They use electric locomotives and traincars full of rock, along with a big hill, as energy storage. Drive it up during cheap energy times, and back down when you need to produce electricity.
Is there a source for this? That seems like a pretty outrageous thing for a browser to do.
> Where do I throw away the packaging from the Vietnamese cookies I bought while on vacation?

Of course there are corner cases to be handled. But what percentage of the trash is Vietnamese cookie box and Japanese candy wrappers? In these cases, the person uses their best judgment.
Interesting that the post says the term BIN (vs. IIN) isn't commonly used anymore, but it's practically the only thing I've heard them called in the last 10+ years of ecomm dev.
I'm not patio11, but in all seriousness, it is true that just the inexperience and immaturity of the people building these exchanges is sufficient evidence on its own.

Here's me telling someone not to build a BitCoin trading platform on September 11th, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974770

Here's how that went over the next couple of years: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoinica https://www.dailydot.com/business/bitcoin-exchange-bitcoinic...

In a way, the issue here is that if you want to operate in this space, you do need to take the discussion about BitCoin being money seriously. (Even if you don't think it's "money", it's still definitely a money-like asset.)
I think you may be misunderstanding the problem being discussed. The code that uses pip will crash if pip is not already installed. There is no way to parse and satisfy the dependency on pip, because the author chose to import pip as a library.
Does anyone collate a list of startups (in newfangled tech) likely to be acquired by Apple? Would be good to work for a place where a nice earn-out is likely.
Part of that is waste, but surely a lot is corruption, and people dumping money offshore any way they can? It's all the same to the Chinese economy, but the motives are distinct.
>> Every ETF has to re-balance to reflect this fact,

Only market-cap weighted ones. And we are quickly moving away from such things with non-standard weightings and soon to be released actively managed ETFs.
> Of course, the labels were not so clear at his time.

This is understating the issue quite a bit. Don't forget that the point of science is to test things in a robust manner, which at this point in time has been done for the things you mention, but in Newton's time they hadn't been.
I say that they were the closest, not that they were complete implementations of the vision.

Firefox OS had a particularly hackable UI layer. You could install webpages as if they were apps (all assets stored locally), bypassing the need to get your app into a curated store. Writing new drivers in Javascript could have come later.
Because the arbitrary political boundaries of individual cities are, well, arbitrary, it's usually more useful to compare Metropolitan Statistical Areas than constituent cities. This helps us avoid the confusion of assigning significance to the machinations of 19th century politicians when making modern regional comparisons.

By that measure San Francisco is the 11th largest in the country. San Jose is 35th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistic...
I know that Samsung is trying to push its Knox product to enterprises. I'm unsure about their technical or financial success. I don't know of anyone trying this in the consumer space either, but I'd definitely love to see more activity in this long-neglected sector.

Knox: https://www.samsungknox.com/en
I was wondering the same thing.. and why isn't there a list of package names included in this article?
How would one perform investigative journalism on a Japanese company? One way might be "write down everything they say", "identify the subset of these statements that an external actor has signal on", "identify the subset of those statements that the external actor would have a social or legal obligation to confirm or deny", and "write some on-dead-tree letters."

Mt. Gox said lots of things, including some things which were, ahem, very effing improbable and yet which alleged very specific facts about people outside of the building. "We're totes solvent; all of our assets are on deposit at Mizuho", "All of our problems are due to banking partners", "The Financial Services Agency said we're compliant with all their regulations", "Japanese banks can't send more than 10 wire transfers per day; it's physically impossible because they're technologically backward", etc etc.

This is sort of similar to "But how do you know that their application is vulnerable, $SECURITY_RESEARCHER?" The answer "I bothered to look" might be unsatisfying, but it is not inaccurate.
Sorry. I'm asserting that active investors in aggregate own the exact same stocks in the same proportion as the fund that indexes the stocks they're picking from. So if one active investor outperforms the index, there has to be an active investor on the other side of their trades that has to underperform the index.

In other words, since the average active investor sets the average that passive indices track, how do they beat the average?
While it's interesting to see a more social side to octopuses, calling this a city and comparing it to Atlantis is just silly. There is a lot that we don't know about these creatures, and it's exciting to observe new behavior. It's not so fun to see it through the lens of Quartz level science "journalism" however.
There's always something happening 'a few years from now'. The two you mentioned were bigger than the usual doomsday prophecies.

In the early 90s, hanging on the wall of my mother's shop was a map of the new coastline of the western US after California fell into the sea in 1997. As far as I'm aware, this map is not in wide use these days...
Each time this comes across my feed, there's a brief period of excitement - "oh yeah, we're getting a new not-Unix microkernel backed by a major company!" A few moments later I remember that it's being written in C++ and is basically the evolution of Chrome OS and the mood dampens. I'm still be waiting for the next truly innovative OS to show up and poise itself to become ubiquitous. Unfortunately I don't have much faith in Fuschia, especially after poking around in Chromium.

In the spirit of HN though this comment basically guarantees its success, right?
The main problem for legitimate operations is that the user will spend far more on electricity than what the site operator will earn, especially with implementations running in the browser which still aren't yet able to be as performant as you would like. With that in mind a direct exchange of currency for features/access makes a lot more sense unless you want to trick your users. Most won't realize why their power bill is so high.

There are malwares that mine crypto currencies, usually while the machine is idle as to not alert the user that something is up with their machine. However these profits are also quite low since you're using mostly low end machines.

Crypto lockers are of course way more evil, but they function just as well on low quality hardware so I can understand why malware authors do it.
Wouldn't that have disqualified Coinbase? Also it's not really responsive to "What are some signs an exchange is insolvent?"
That's the problem, there's more things you need to debug, since PBR does not get rid of any of the problems that you encounter with setuptools or pip, but adds its own.

Trying to paper over the (real) problems with the Python packaging toolchain by generating setup.py from a config file strikes me as a vanity project.
Most outsiders probably do not realize the impact of 24/7 propaganda in every media channel there is. That's what OP is overlooking, and that's ultimately what this action is ultimately about...
If people want to make money of the content they produce and other people are happy to pay them, then what's the problem?
this would separate the wheat from the chaff with regards to special interest groups.
The list is in the advisory. Check if you have installed any of these:

– acqusition (uploaded 2017-06-03 01:58:01, impersonates acquisition)
– apidev-coop (uploaded 2017-06-03 05:16:08, impersonates apidev-coop_cms)
– bzip (uploaded 2017-06-04 07:08:05, impersonates bz2file)
– crypt (uploaded 2017-06-03 08:03:14, impersonates crypto)
– django-server (uploaded 2017-06-02 08:22:23, impersonates django-server-guardian-api)
– pwd (uploaded 2017-06-02 13:12:33, impersonates pwdhash)
– setup-tools (uploaded 2017-06-02 08:54:44, impersonates setuptools)
– telnet (uploaded 2017-06-02 15:35:05, impersonates telnetsrvlib)
– urlib3 (uploaded 2017-06-02 07:09:29, impersonates urllib3)
– urllib (uploaded 2017-06-02 07:03:37, impersonates urllib3)
AI can detect Alzheimer's 10 years before symptoms show up
There are many tools that can scan your dependencies and tell you if anything is off. Here's one for reference (cannot vouch for it though as I have not used it):

https://github.com/jeremylong/DependencyCheck/blob/master/RE...
True but irrelevant.

The key new "feature" of Fuschia is that its stable ABI makes closed-source drivers easier to write in the short term, relative to Linux. As a result, the vast majority of Fuschia drivers will be closed-source. Don't you agree?

I believe supporting a stable API and closed-source drivers will result in a technically inferior, more complex, less stable kernel. The Linux model of including all the drivers in a single open source codebase, where the drivers can be refactored and improved along with the rest of the kernel, is a genuinely superior way to develop a kernel, which produces a genuinely technically superior product. I just hope Google realizes this before they sink too many millions into Fuschia.
No, this issue isn't something the filesystem can work around.

The issue is that random writes leave you with all your erase units partially overwritten, and none of them fully overwritten. If the writes really are random then there's no data layout that will avoid this issue - this is a fundamental issue when write size < erase unit size.
Would vehicles from Google be contenders for this? From the article I'm not certain if the solutions are limited to airport / monorail -types of systems.

Besides Google, who has proven their autobot cars work for miles and miles?
Why everytime a "new OS" comes around it uses the good old fashioned command line with the GNU stack ?
So Buffett's $1M bet wasn't enough to convince you that passive beats active?

Hedge fund are basically a compensation scheme masquerading as some sort of smart money management thing.

What's great is that the debate of passive vs active will go on forever - There will be periods where one outperforms the other - sure. But in the end, net of fees - active cannot win consistently, on average. Its human nature to believe we can beat the casino.