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Yet another reason to never ever use a big bank.
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I think the reason the system has evolved this way is because politically it is hard for the treasury to "print" money, even though they have the legal right to.

Having the Fed inject money into the system is a dodge, but effectively the same thing. It gets the treasury off the hook, because they can say they are "borrowing" rather than "printing" money.

It's unclear to me why this bothers people so much?
Netflix would ship their own browser ...

They already do, it browses only Netflix, and they call it an app - at least on all non-general purpose computational devices e.g. smartphones, smart tvs etc.
post a boarding pass on facebook, get your account stolen?

there's an alternate title for this one.

post about commandeering accounts on your blog, get the CFAA thrown at you and go to jail.

this is anything but responsible.
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Yeah, they basically disclaim any responsibility for ensuring the projects get done. But the TOS are trying to establish that you have a contract with the project and thus should have some recourse to get your pledge back if they fail to deliver.

As above, that doesn't work all that well for small sums, but I think it doesn't encourage a free for all either.
Because the social norm is to spend ~160 hours a month at a job, which among other things makes it so most people have little capacity left for activities outside their jobs.
A little off topic but hey it's the weekend so here is a little story about smoking -

I worked with a guy who used to go out for a "smoke break" every few hours with the others but never smoked. He used to grab a coffee and put the little white plastic stirrer in his mouth so he felt more a part of the group.

Anyway he got to retirement age and at his leaving gathering management presented him with a beautiful silver cigarette case. Turns out the only people who knew he didn't smoke were the smokers. He had never actually ever put a cigarette in his mouth.

I'm not sure why but I really love this memory. He was a great guy, full of funny stories and great life advice.
Not just easier, but actually more safe. The person on the phone isn't usually aware about your security "paranoia" and is being evaluated on how much customers he/she has been able to help.

As such most helpdesk employees will accept the answer "Oh I forgot, I do remember I put some random characters in there"... and your random password end up not helping you after all.
There was that warning that if they kept testing larger bombs there they would risk increasing volcanic activity..
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Once you accept the idea of DRM, I don't see what's wrong about standardizing it.
Crypto would only retain its value in such a situation if a significant market system, in real goods, had been developed around it. Meaning you could exchange your crypto for the things you need. (Meaning the seller would have confidence they could do the same.)

It seems like this could work, hypothetically, but given the need we have for the currency of our country, it's hard for me to imagine that crypto would hold its value in the face of some kind of massive computer failure.
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I did say "within acceptable terms" and qualify why I think it's reasonable that the iPad mini doesn't perform as fast as a new device.
That's not what I meant.

25% of sites on the Internet run WordPress. WordPress was rewriting its editor in React, but decided to switch away due to BSD+Patents.
> Why it took so long for the license change is a bit of a mystery

Be careful. Facebook hasn’t said they’re removing the patents override completely. All they’ve said here is they’re changing their licensing, not what they’ll do. They may end up with BSD+Different patents grant. Make sure you check the changes next week. I doubt it will be straight BSD or they would have said it.
If strong cryptography is used, the customer won't get any money back in case of fraud.

Good luck proving a manufacturer key generation screwup on smart cards for example. Things like this happen.
I never use academia.edu unless it shows up in the search results. I see no advantage to posting my work on their web site when I could post it on my own site just as easily.
Because he's an information security expert.
It's almost as if consumers need collective bargaining power, like a union.

Asymmetrical negotiations in all aspects of society produce asymmetrical outcomes.
Homosexual smoker here. Can we not do oppression olympics today?
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It's a gamble and it's easier to manage the risk of gambling if you're rich already.

Is this the chance of a lifetime? Or is it just a good idea that may make a lot of money?
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Could you imagine a neighbor going around checking everybody’s window and door locks?
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I mean, why do I need to make $1M/year in order to prove to the US government that I'm worthy of investing into a startup

Accredited investor is defined as either of $1m assets exclusive of positive home equity or income north of $200k for two years ($300k if you need to include a sompouse) and reasonable expectation of the same.

I sympathize with the general complaint but as this is a thing that many HNers will confront at some point I thought I'd correct the record.
In case you haven't reached that point yet : also evaluate how much network badnwidth is going to cost you if you ever host your servers on aws or gcloud and encounter average success. You may be in for a (bad) surprise.

Now compare that to how much you'll gain from ads. And soon you'll realize one huge issue you're going to have is to maintain your own servers a little bit everywhere in the world.
To be fair, Petr himself uses these exact words (on his website) to describe him.
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"how dare they consume my compute resources to make money?" I mean, what the hell is internet advertising if it's not consuming your compute resources to make money?
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The alternative is Google that went from "Don't do evil" to "Grab what you can". In the long run it isn't going to work but that is not what shareholders are after.
The author needs to learn some responsibility himself.
> Almost any barcode is assumed to be private information

Wouldn't the most common barcode be the EAN-13, which is not private information?
If you are writing a game server with web, mobile and desktop clients, is socket.io the way to go?

AFAIK, socket.io is a wrapper around websockets. This makes it unsuitable for some fast paced games with alot of players. Is there a library which abstracts away tcp and udp connections?

And what can you do about tcp attack vectors? Are lamers trying to take down servers a real threat? How do you prepare for this? I therefore advise against writing your own network stack if you intend to make the service available to the public. Or am I too cautious?
The scammer may have changed the flight time but it's still the original name and ID on the ticket. The scammer would have to fake your passport to be able to onboard as yourself. That's a pretty high bar.
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What is the light panel on the ground? To me it's like a conveyor belt/piece of paper slides to block some of the light?

edit: that's funny "two lines of code" then mentions the hypercard that detects the laser pointer
Ha, yes you make a good point, I suppose this is already true. The removal of a posting Nick Ut’s iconic Vietnam War photo certainly comes to mind. Cheers.
Maybe at one point, I don't think any policy person has thought this in a long time though.
Are you talking about the social concept / illusion of "free will", or actual free will? Because actual free will clearly cannot exist.

Either your actions are fully dictated by physics and your prior state (meaning know free choice), or your actions are influenced by randomness meaning random choice (but again not free choice).

I do agree that the societal illusion of free-will along with associating legal consequences to actions is the only way we can have a functioning society.
I have a Lenovo Flex 10 - the volume rocker is close to the power button and feels the same. Accidentally leave the volume on full, open a youtube video or independent article, accidentally turn off the device. Wake our baby either with the noise or my subsequent swearing at the useless machine.
The weakest link in infosec has fingers and thumbs that uses a device.

This is nothing short of yelling sensitive information through a megaphone. USERFAIL
Right so even then, its a bit weird to say that 25% of sites decided to not go with React, but actually 25% of sites (unknowingly) use software that decided not to go with React.
There isn’t a Oneworld club.

With Oneworld you can only join individual airline’s loyalty program (I think he’s in the BA one judging by the BASILV). Then all the airline programs in the Oneworld alliance have a mapping between their tiers and the Oneworld set, so you can work out the equilivalence between airlines. So a Qantas Gold teir maps to BA’s silver tier and get the same perks on each other’s airlines (BA has Blue, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Qantas has Bronze to Platinum, hence the difference).

‘Club World’ is what BA call their business class.

But your point still stands, be definitely should have at least obscured his frequent flyer membership number...
Bad choice of name, reusing a venerable old name from the classic programming language Simula.
Watermarking.
QR codes have variable-level error-correction, from 7-30%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Error_correction
Seems like the header and footer are the same too. Odd choice.
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> over a year of headaches and frustration

Seems like an argument against the react ecosystem
With several versions of windows, I learned to hate how close Help was to Run on the start menu. You're about to run cmd or some specific program, and then next thing you know, your computer is crawling to a halt while it attempts to bring up and display the help ui.

Solvable with keyboard shortcuts or creating a shortcut to cmd somewhere else, but still happened enough to be infuriating. In most cases, it was when I was doing work on someone else's computer.
>>> A question to all reading - I'm considering adding an option to mine Monero in my next game. It'd probably be a flip-switch between ads and mining right there on the home screen, with some intelligent throttle/thread decisions depending on the kind of device game is running on. I'd appreciate any feedback regarding the sentiment on that.

Mining => You WILL murder the battery of your users. You WILL cause overheating of the devices. You will also grind the browser to a halt on all hardware of moderate speed or already busy for reading a youtube video in the background.

Personally. I'd consider that any website that start mining when opened should go right into an adblock list, if not blocked as malicious entirely.
Regarding antibiotics, although I don't have numbers, in most 3rd world countries they are freely available in shops for prices starting at less than $1. I wouldn't mind betting more lives are saved by their free availability where there isn't easy/cheap access to doctors than are lost through drug resistance.
Better to have the selfish people on bikes than in cars.
Meh, I'm only mildly embarrassed about getting a fact wrong. Having no personal integrity however, and admitting that you'd pull the lever in the gas chambers, is another story.
>Despite this I really get the impression a lot of non-JavaScript developers are really hoping this is some holy grail to allow them to write in their favorite language for the web platform, which WebAssembly absolutely isn't.

It already is. Lua has already been ported to WebAssembly, people are writing apps in C/C++ with SDL, I've seen MVPs of .Net, and once WASM gets native garbage collection, the floodgates are going to open. The sandbox only makes it more attractive.
I never quite got this "mother's maiden name" thing. Isn't your mother's maiden name... your mother's current name, minus the extra surname she got when she married? Why is this treated as a hard-to-discover information?
इस नवरात्र घर के आटे में चुपचाप डाल दे ये चीजें , इतना बरसेगा पैसा की आप संभाल
It says: "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: [include this notice, no liability]"

Without restrictions or limitations. As far as I know, it has not been tested in court, but I think it would be suicide among the developer community for a company to try to do that.

Everyone should have patent concerns either way. The ideal solution would be to abolish software patents.
Who wants to join a group that will let anybody in? The majority of the human species that participates in organised religious groups that let anybody in who can recite a credo or a shahada...
(Of course there is still sacrifice - they all have arbitrary rules and constraints to lead to shared hardship and to create the essential us-vs-them.)
I feel like this won't really take off until we have something other than a web browser, or something that just feels different from a web browser, which is optimized for WASM applications, and which includes package management. Caching a WASM application locally is not much different than downloading a standalone native binary.
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The article straight up says these repos are moving to MIT
You specifically talked about "already" and "bitcoin":

> But there are countries in Africa who can already do better by simply leapfrogging to bitcoin and ditching their national currencies.

Also: The concern about infeasability in everyday life is network based and not a shortcoming of bitcoin. So it's not dependent on the coin you are using.

All other points seem to be inherent to public blockchains, so it is quite the leap of faith to believe they are fixed in any public blockchain cryptocurrency.
I have worked with blind coworkers, and they're still making "eye contact", if I recall correctly (I work remote and it's been a while since I last met them). They tend to turn their head a certain way which shows you when they're listening to you.

All eye contact is is a signal that the person's attention is on you.
So the Oasis?
> But that does not explain why people send their text based pages as javascript.

Probably because they're using front-end javascript frameworks which do that, and because they were taught that this is the best and most efficient way to render anything on the web. No one wants to make a special case for text because it seems inelegant.
Real deal - DEFCON part about this. The research is deep for sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnq0UfOUTlM
I've carefully measured and worked toward 1TB/month/VPS at full load. Didn't get there, but now I'm at 2TB (still estimates). With socket.io and JSON, that'd easily blow up to few hundreds TB/month. DigitalOcean for now (but that might change in the future) still doesn't charge on overages, but you do get a slap on the wrist of some kind if you go way overboard, so it's preferable solution to other VPS providers.

It's good that you mention this, since I've heard "horror" stories of people working in this space earning about $10k/mo but spending as much and more on AWS.
Another useless site that requires letting them have uncontrolled access to my machine.

If you want people to view you, then have a fallback that allows them to decide if they want you to run your unverified code on their machine.
Sorry yes I meant alliance not club at any rate the ticket says Saphire for One World which lets you know their frequent flyer status:

https://www.oneworld.com/ffp/my-oneworld-tier-status/-/tiers...
> the majority of the population seem to be behind Erdogan

Whatever you feel about his policies, this one fact goes against the assertion that he's a dictator.

That, and the slightly inconvenient fact that he keeps winning elections and/or referendums.

Or that the odd hastily-enacted coup gets confronted by the MAJORITY of Turkish civil society.

Or does your definition of democracy = "do what we (Westerners) want, irrespective of the wishes of the MAJORITY of your populace"?

> so there's no way I'm visiting Turkey until things change.

Your loss. I don't anyone there really cares ...
> Beyond that, the U.S. has a tradition of free speech

As well as a tradition of placing limits on free speech when appropriate.

Which is a larger threat to our country? Democratically elected officials not supporting the views of those that elected them? Or capping the amount of influence a single group can financially have?
It seems the attacker/pen-tester got access to the guy's passport number. I wonder how easy it would be to do identify theft and gain entry into other accounts.
Uh... it seems honest in that the facts seem correct and is only misleading to people too dumb to figure that "per citizen per year" !== "per household over the decades."
qrcode has tunable error correction (7, 15, 25 or 30% recovery via reed-solomon).
All in the name of selfies. Seriously, you can have a touch ID on the side, a speaker with beam? technology and no notch, but that would not have appealed the selfie generation.
Loss leaders are products priced under cost to get customers in the door to buy your other products. Selling your only product below cost in order to kill competitors is antitrust dumping. Luckily, antitrust enforcement in the US is a joke.
Most common? Yes, almost certainly. Most commonly posted in photos? I don't know (Facebook could know).
Same but mountain dew. Cannot drink one. Been 8?? Years
In the US and other countries it's common for a wife to take her husband's last name.

Changes from "Jane Doe" to "Jane Smith"
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"If it deflated spending would drop"

That statements not a given. If it were so, people would not use credit cards.
The CDA turned out ironically. The courts struck down the “decency” parts, leaving mainly the safe harbor for online providers.
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> The only event that license terminated

Patent grant terminated, not license
Honestly this would be a great use for attention grabbing full screen notification (gasp).

"We're cool with adblock, but to continue on this site click here to enable mining, here for paid accounts, or just disable adblock and report inappropriate ads so we can forward that to our syndication."
Absolutely. Vendors have long looked upon W3C as providing opinions. The history of web innovation has always been one or more parties moving quickly to build something new, and W3C playing catch up to try and herd all the cats into something developers can support across as many browsers as possible.
Do "the majority of the population" have to run their preferences by you first before they get to exercise their choice?

Is there some approved whitelist of candidates, compiled in Western capitals, that needs to be circulated amongst Turks, so that they can exercise their "democratic rights", as long as its only from that sheet of paper?

An amazing definition of "democracy" you have running in your head.

(I know I replied to you elsewhere, but this gem deserved its own response)

Silly Turks, voting for their own choice of leader, without first taking your opinion on board and going along with that.

Someone needs to educate them about what true "Western sponsored" democracy means, I guess.

Oh wait, thats what that attempted coup was for, right? Oops ...
>>> Oracle started before microcomputers (PCs) were anything but toys.

I didn't know that. At that time I was discovering Applesoft basic :-)
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The amount of resources required to load a blob of json, some images and do a shitty js callback matroska dance is relatively well understood and accepted as a necessary evil by those that don't/can't block such things. Yes there are bad actors that will churn through your mobile data while your phone is locked, endlessly reloading shitty video ads, but who knows how well miners will be coded or perform.

I'm betting on hearing some horror stories fairly soon as the first gen is rolled out.
I understand that many people here dislike El Pais; but please, do not link continuously at their most outrageusly ridiculous articles. There are still reasonable writers there. Not many, of course, but they are still there.
Because video conferencing, at least the kind that most of us can afford without specialist equipment, is still annoyingly unreliable in 2017.

Not saying every meeting has technical issues, or even most of them, but some do and finding a technology that everyone who needs to be in the meeting can use given different corporate standards is a PITA.

It's still also no substitute for meeting face to face over the long term.
> because it's optimised for lowercase letters (used a lot for urls).

Case does not matter for URLs, HTTP://NEWS.YCOMBINATOR.COM will work perfectly, and can be encoded using qrcode's alphanumeric mode.

Aztec is slightly more efficient regardless, but not by much: qr alpha is 5.5 bits symbol, Aztec is 5 bits per symbol.
"T-Bills are backed by fiat currency, not by a commodity."

What?

No.

TBills just bonds. They are 'backed' by the US Governments credibility to pay back the loan.

USD is generally backed by an asset - fractional reserving not withstanding.
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You can vote with your wallet. But most won't, because when push comes to shove it's more important to have access to shows than to care how they get to you.
> If you are writing a game server with web, mobile and desktop clients, is socket.io the way to go?

Socket.io's most discerning feature was fallback to polling. There's also some useful abstractions there, like reconnecting, rooms, as well as some useful ecosystem around it, like socket.io-redis adapter which enables you transparently scale horizontally. If your time is at premium, you might find socket.io work for you, but it's not really hard to write everything better yourself, and better tuned to your use-case.

> AFAIK, socket.io is a wrapper around websockets. This makes it unsuitable for some fast paced games with alot of players.

For fast-action multiplayer, there's currently no sensible offering besides WebRTC's DataChannel, with all it brings on board (I've yet to study it in-depth). I'm having high hopes for QUIC to gain more ground.

> And what can you do about tcp attack vectors? Are lamers trying to take down servers a real threat?

From what I've experienced first hand, bots/scripts are most frequent enjoyment-spoiler for other players. I've never ran at scale where I'd be interesting target for actual attacks.