skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To some extent though it illustrates that after 200 years the value of $1 of gold was something like $1 in real terms while the value of a paper dollar became 6 cents. Even if that only kicked in after the 1970.
I can't find anything online suggesting they have been, unfortunately. I'd also love to read them.
Background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15652106
And combine it with FZF it is even better :)

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

http://owen.cymru/fzf-ripgrep-navigate-with-bash-faster-than...
Also my experience with DNS validation and let's encrypt is that propagation times can be variable. You do not know from where in the world the let's encrypt servers will contact your DNS, so you may see the new entries in your DNS, but it may not have been propagated yet to where let's encrypt query them. And then the validation failed and you need to start again from scratch. So you need to introduce some large delays to be safe.

Having DNS validation as an option is very useful, as not all certificates are used for http servers (think smtp) but not trivial to implement.

Also wildcard certs will require DNS validation.
Funny my PS3 class action hasn’t paid out yet. I think their PR department told them to do this .
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The conversion is just a workaround of a fundamental problem, the real question is, Can a product be stably valued for a reasonable period of time using bitcoin?

I can express the value of say a laptop for weeks, if not months, in USD / GBP, can the same be done natively in bitcoin?

Can you point me to any manufacturer or business entity that values something in bitcoin instead of mapping it to a fiat?
That was their earlier statement. This one says encryption.
Logitech is disabling the service required by the Harmony Link, essentially bricking it. This made customers mad. Logitech offered a discount for Harmony Link users to purchase a Harmony Hub. Apparently Logitech also thought it would be a good idea to make "class action lawsuit" display in asterisks as if it was profanity. All this sort of blew up, and became widely known and reported and Logitech had to adjust their response to quell the ongoing PR shit storm.
So true. I have had to do this.

I had a pretty good regression model but it was not taken seriously. So I wrote it using "a neural network in TensorFlow" and the next thing you know the whole company is asking me how it works and what it does.
It's famously difficult to become a black cab driver in London. You need to know every road in the city to pass "The Knowledge" test. Well beside public safety health tests.
>The company has capitalized on the good name of the original,” Ms. Liebman said.

Making a cereal that is superior to name brand products is stupidly easy.

I encourage you to try making your own mix. You save money and end up with a better product.

Just buy oats, then go to the bakery aisle and relax and buy whatever you see that you think you would enjoy: nuts, dried fruits, coconut, seeds, dark chocolate, sweeteners (w/e you want: sugar, m&m's, chocolate, vanilla, w/e).

Compare your mix with how much sugar+corn syrup+etc is in brand name cereals and you will be shocked.

Adjust as your taste desires. After a few weeks you will have a recipe you love.

I buy a big bag of frozen berries and toss a few in as well.

If you want to make a "soylent" product you can live on indefinitely, then just add milk, whey or soy(+B12) powders or liquids.

You can also eat this when you go hiking and camping.

Plus I get to tell myself I'm sticking it to the man... Or at least to stuffy office suits that build a product on dubious advertising claims.
I stopped eating cereal when I realised that I could choose to eat bacon as often as I like.
> severely restricting my carb intake.

By how much? And with or without exercise?
In general, a mind at work is analyzing problems, being creative, combining old ideas into new ideas, planning for the future and in general actively engaging the world. This is contrasted against more passive thinking. For example, complaining about something instead of actually doing something about it.
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Kind of hard to get outraged about. These people _are_ corrupt. So is the crown prince. The Game of Thrones reference is apt, none of these people are morally superior to the others.

On the list of Saudi outrages, this ranks pretty far down the list.
Unbelievable. I am shocked. This is so sad on so many levels.
I will be happy to write a spec for a cut-down SQL language (a subset of the language understood by SQLite) for WebSQL, and provide a "strict" flag for SQLite to force it to understand all and only the spec language. The prerequisite for doing this is that you (or anybody else, as long as it isn't me) need to get all the browser vendors on-board and promising to implement WebSQL if I write the spec.

The cut-down SQL would include just the basics: CREATE TABLE, CREATE INDEX, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT. No triggers or views. No support for partial indexes or indexes on expressions, common table expressions, or other such features. There would be a minimal set of built-in SQL functions, but with support for application-defined SQL functions written in javascript.

A competing implementation would not need to understand the SQLite file format nor the complete SQLite language nor would it need to implement the SQLite API. All it would need to do is support the basic SQL subset defined by the spec.

If you get the browser vendors on-board with this idea, and I'll write the spec.
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Opinion: a log like decrease in happiness vs income is basically consistent with "more money doesn't make you happier". Sketching a graph that is completely flat is misleading however. The only question is, at what point on the log scale is the increase small enough to disregard (compared to other life factors).

Another one from the article: I'm arguing without empirical evidence of the superiority of good type systems (Note: I try to stay away from claims about what those are). I also think it's not possible to make controlled studies on this area - which is why it's such a contested issue. Studies use either students and/or toy problems, or irrelevant datasets such as bugs reported against github repos etc. The only way top make a valid study is to have N teams implement and maintain a product with the same spec over K years and then compare the results and try to factor out developer skill. I say it's not a feasible problem to solve. We'll have to stick to arguing type systems without evidence to back up the argumebts. But that is the best kind of arguing, after all.
I misread it as "to study that at college" instead of "study at that college"!

I now have no idea why it was down-voted.
It takes about 2 years to do the training to be a Black Cab driver in London:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7gp8KBP7ak
It's demonstrating a component that needs I/O, so I'm not sure how refactoring it into one that needs its parent to do the I/O helps the demonstration.
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You are of course correct that in the general case for threat models above a risk threshold, one cannot trust hardware. But that is not the argument under discussion. The argument being made is that it doesn't matter if the ME is a big fat target, because (f'instance) your NIC could also be a big fat target we just don't know about.

That is the argument I am asserting is dumb. And it is obviously dumb; in adversarial contests, you don't leave weaknesses exposed just because you might have other weaknesses[1]. It also ignores the presence of differential threats; I may not care about hypothetical compromised NICs because my use case my not require a network, but need anti-evil-maid defenses.

Bottom line: in the context of discussing whether or not the ME is dangerous in the general case, other potential hardware threats are irrelevant, and I believe the argument is one used to intentionally muddy the waters.

[1] Putting aside deeper strategies; I'm not going to argue about game theory here.
You should see Cheerios Protein. They doubled the serving size and presto, twice as much protein per serving! http://abcnews.go.com/US/cheerios-protein-smidgen-protein-or...
It is if the man supposedly cleaning things up is every bit as corrupt as those he’s having arrested.
GNU Readline definitely makes it faster to work on the command line. I find it a real frustration I log into a system that is only running Busybox, which lacks all the Readline goodness, and I can’t use Alt-F to move forward word by word.
"creditors requested Karpeles and Mt. Gox to process refunds in Japanese yen rather than bitcoin"

The people he owed money to asked for it to be this way when proceedings began.
In componentWillUnmount, set a var componentUnmounted true. In componentDidMount in the callback for the fetch, check for componentUnmounted before setting state for an error or whatever you want to do.
4chan is also well known to fabricate evidence, and everything in the post (minus the alleged backdoors) has been publicly known.
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interesting premise in the article but masked by horrible writing. i had to reread this multiple times to understand the point of it. the transition from talking about VR to programming was incredibly vague.
Don't these people do any market research? They would do a lot better having Elsa's baby be fathered by Jack Frost, Hiccup, Harry Potter, or Thor.

I base this on the relatively popularity of crossover fan fiction involving Frozen. Frozen/ROTG is about 500 times as common as Frozen/Spiderman, Frozen/HTTYD about 40 times as common, Frozen/HP about 18 times as common, and Frozen/Thor about 12 times as common.
They have a data structure called order book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_book_(trading)

To match buyers with sellers
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It was pretty successful, but the product did not work: https://marco.org/2011/08/10/coffee-joulies-review
Lovely. I suppose one way out of bankruptcy is for your assets to increase in value 70-fold.
> If you are a Harmony Link user, we will reach out to you between now and March 2018

Am I the only one who's thinking its a long deadline or does this have some sort of explanation?
> However, after a strange turn of events, it turned out that creditors of Mt. Gox, or former bitcoin traders on the Mt. Gox exchange, requested an equivalent amount of bitcoin to be paid out in Japanese yen at the beginning of Mt. Gox liquidation proceedings. In simpler terms, creditors requested Karpeles and Mt. Gox to process refunds in Japanese yen rather than bitcoin, which has risen substantially in value since then.

Anyone has insights why did they do that? If they were owed 1 BTC, they then were supposed to be paid 1 BTC, why opt for Yen instead?

My assumption is it was because the last rally of 1k USD had come down to 400 by the time this came around and people felt they were owed equivalent value in fiat.
A battery powered mug with an app isn't really any simpler of a solution than fancy ice cubes.

Vacuum mugs already advertise hours of heat retention. Most hot drinks aren't going to taste better after sitting for hours and hours anyway.
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A lot of Europeans (including me) are of the opinion that a job without protection (minimum wage, sick pay, health insurance, unemployment insurance/benefits, cover for accidents) shouldn't exist. Someone should rather be unemployed and receive benefits while looking for employment or while retraining than being exploited by a company. Not saying that this is the case with all Uber drivers but there's a decent amount of people who work hours that would be illegal in any employment while earning just enough to survive. The reasons why people still accept these jobs are diverse but Uber's promises of good wages (>£10/hr) played a role getting many to drive. And once you have your car and license you need to drive to pay off loans.

Being self employed can have its benefits but Uber drivers enjoy very few of those.
UFOs on radar have a wide range of non-alien explanations, military testing or some bizarre weather event that happens incredibly infrequently for example. I will readily admit there are probably radar readings that no one can explain. That doesn't even count as proof of alien contact, and using that to support the claims made by the disclosure project is madness.
this just f'ed me up a little bit
That is not my problem. He denied us the opportunity to cash out, or hold. If it had dropped to 0, I would expect a cash payment.
I wonder if Logitech will be willing to share of their roadmap and plans for the Harmony Hub.

It might be fair to presume the security certificates are needed to communicate with the Logitech cloud and not for the operation of the device itself, and this product might not be affected if there was no cloud.

Logitech should provide options to keep their existing devices running.

You wouldn't expect a keyboard or a mouse to stop working when software updates end.

Cloud only connected devices by Logitech have been exposed in this case to remain at the mercy of Logitech.

"Looking out for users security" could also have been carried out proactively to communicate the reasons and an exchange program.

Potential solutions:

- release something open source for users to to handle the back end once a device is eol

- update the harmony mobile app to directly update the Harmony Hub on your local network and not need the Logitech cloud.

- if the software and possibility exists, load a locally hosted offline first progressive web app if possible on the hub device itself. The harmony mobile app at last glance was a Microsoft Silverlight based app so the one codebase to multiple platform philosophy should not be new.

These type of solutions could allow updates to Logitech's cloud while it's available, and responsibly allow the devices to survive when Logitech moves forward.

I just don't want to be buying a Harmony Hub when in fact I'm renting it and could be turfed at any time. That's a bait and switch, however unintended and it is probably a fair question for a lot of our cloud connected devices to answer, not just Logitech.
That would have to be a remarkably prescient customer relations fellow to know that such-and-such would be born 1750 years later.
They prefer emails for this sort of thing; address is in the footer somewhere, IIRC.
Looks like the difference between perceived and actual scores fit the popular understanding.

The people who perform the worst have the most inflated perception of their performance, while the people who perform the best underestimate their performance.

I think people take Dunning-Kruger and apply it to their everyday anecdotes. They are thinking in terms of relative differences rather than absolute, and thus the pop-sci understanding may not be that far off from the original.
Lawnmower man remake by key and peele is something i would pay 15 bucks for at the matinee
Because solving problems is seen as better. Fixing the root cause is less sexy and hard to motivate people. In this example getting people to do physical therapy or even daily exercise is not something that’ll get you a press release. I could be a bit biased tho. I’m a big proponent of doing Pilates or any whole body exercise regime
Having worked for a flailing IoT startup before, I can tell you that it's not uncommon for products to ship with TLS certificates, but without any notion of a PKI or cert management infrastructure that would enable these devices to keep working in the future. As usual, a rush to launch leads to corners being cut. Sometimes these arguably crucial pieces are added later; other times, customers are left holding the bag when renewal of certificates turns out to be impossible for one reason or another.
Not the military.
Logitech peripherals are still top notch. They also don't communicate online, which is probably the reason they're still good.
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Wow! A blast from the past.
I started my career in the mid-90s writing software with exactly this same stack.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. This is a great example of how easy it is for companies to push their own interests if given the chance.
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It's isolated components of vegetable oil:

http://discovermagazine.com/2013/september/21-running-hot-an...

Not really terrifying.
If they had asked to be made whole in BTC instead of yen and BTC had tanked properly (becoming essentially worthless), he could have paid the reparations from his savings account. This could have gone both ways, but it feels asymmetric because you can't go more broke than bankruptcy.
Or worker co-ops.
Gradual change is better than no change at all.

For a country like Saudi, if you want to make a large scale sudden changes which turns everything upside-down (even if those were good intentions), you will end up with something like Afganistan or Iraq.

The pace of change (however slow for our standard), is quite unthinkable for the locals. I think it will take a couple of decades, at least, to see if anything good came out of this.
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I'm not OP, but to respond to question 1, allowing users to disable the feature would also allow attackers to disable the feature. If you're relying on ME to provide remote access so that you can clean and repair infected machines, then it's game over for you if the attacker can disable ME.

It would have made much more sense to require you to enable it before first use, and ship it as disabled from the factory. Enablement should work like blowing an eFuse where it's never off once it's turned on, but if you never turn it on it doesn't exist. Then I don't have to worry about the feature unless I know exactly what it is and how to use it.
I guess it shows how much confidence the creditors had in bitcoin at the time.
I wholeheartedly agree with all of that except GIMP. The UI in GIMP is horrendous and the only reason it's successful IMO is because the gap it fills is that of an expensive and confusing product that is niche to a lot of people who need some of the functionality but don't use it for their job.

I use it quite often (and loathe the interface) but I'll never pay for photoshop because I don't need the pro tool and after 10+ years of GIMP I don't want to shake up.
I'm not asking how they could do that. danpalmer says Uber is already making driving only cost-effective at 40+ hours a week, I'm asking how they are doing so.
March 2018 is when the Links stop working, so it's reasonable that they wouldn't set an earlier deadline with basically zero notice. They're just giving themselves as much time as possible...
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60M monthly users according to article (and probably growing). $16 per current monthly user. No idea about the running costs for the service, but does not sound too unreasonable.

Wikipedia writes: "Musical.ly's structure allows the viral dissemination of trends throughout the platform. The hashtags that are popular on this social network usually make reference to bits of pop culture and trends among the internet world. Because of its massive usage, a lot of events launched within the app can become viral global events, especially among teenagers"
> huge demand and limited supply are necessary for any bubble to get going

Does that mean gold is in a bubble? I mean, who are we to say either way? Bitcoin is arguably more useful than gold and it's supply is known with great precision. You could say that Gold is more speculative in a way since somebody could be sitting on a stockpile that is equal to half of the known supply.

> The whole system does require new money coming in all the time to maintain current price levels

That's only true for the next few years, then no new coins are created.

You can't see how it's not a bubble but frankly, I have trouble seeing how we can say it's in a bubble. Maybe it is, but I don't think anybody knows how to evaluate bitcoin... it's not like anything we've seen before.

When IBM started selling computers, their roadmap didn't include home computers because they didn't think that anyone would ever want a computer in their home. We understand the implications of bitcoin now about as much as IBM understood the impact of computers back then.
for those that don't know it, rlwrap[0] is a neat tool that allows you to use a lot of the readline goodness with tools that don't support it natively (e.g. a repl for your newly written language).

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This was my first thought.

I'm sure the noble prize awarded to the Dunning and Kruger's work in psychology was just a result of a bunch of imbeciles who didn't realize it was a "bogus meme".

This article was absolute drivel.
> Just like in traditional encryption scenarios, your personal key remaining secret is a part of the assumption. That there are now two secret keys doesn't alter the analysis substantially.

Of course it does. At best it doubles the risk of key compromise, but it's really much worse than that.

A master key isn't like a normal key. If you compromise Alice and Bob's key, you can spy on Alice and Bob, but not Alice and Carol and definitely not Carol and Dan.

The existence of a master key is a massive security risk. Alice and Bob's key is worth say $5000. The value of stealing it generally isn't worth the effort. Nobody sends Mossad to spy on every plain old Alice and Bob.

A master key for everything is worth trillions of dollars. Every government and crime family would throw everything they have at stealing it, and many of them would succeed. Spetsnaz units and foreign intelligence operatives would fall out of the sky. Crime bosses would pay multi-million dollar bribes and still turn a huge profit.

And from there it would leak.

It's a completely different level of risk. Orders of magnitude worse. And it implies a prohibition on forward secrecy. So when it leaks, Armageddon.
>And yet we really don’t seem to care much. Lesser issues generate national outrage and high volumes of press coverage. Why?

From what I noticed recently, issues only generate outrage if they can be blamed on Trump or republicans. Nobody cared about ISPs collecting user data since the early 2010s until republicans reverted a plan to forbid that in the future.

Maybe the story would pick up traction if it was peppered with the photos of Trump meeting with Intel's CEO.
I think you are confusing the link and the hub. The link has no home automation functions and hasn't been sold for 4 years.

That said, they badly mishandled this situation, and the fact that there was so much product confusion (people thought they had just bought a link, when they had bought a hub, and people who bought a link even when it was released 6 years ago have a reasonable expectation for it to keep working) and I am glad they have shifted their position.