skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A brain wallet can be confiscated by rubber-hose cryptanalysis.

It is more resistant, perhaps, to detection than cash on hand in foreign currency (though not necessarily particularly more than a foreign currency account where access information is memorized, depending on the threat profile of concern.)
So, could you explain why the housing prices fell in the 90s when we took in more refugees than ever before? And why they rose considerably when immigration slowed down in the mid 2000s?

Because, for some reason you're convinced immigration is the main cause of rising housing prices and that the two clearly correlates, even though you can only back that up with stats that are about a decade old, any older than that and the correlation disappears. Maybe I'm missing something?
From the info I've seen, it looks like the app doesn't allow you to transfer btc right now. You can use it to buy, sell or hodl btc only.
Is anyone actually spending Bitcoin? Given the ludicrous growth, it seems prudent to just leave it in the bank.
I don't understand how you would not call Go as powerful. And it is far from primitive.
The document isn't "using" anything, since a document is a passive object. Unless you have something like vim modelines where you configure it at the top of the file like `/* vim: set tabstop=8:softtabstop=8:shiftwidth=8:noexpandtab */
`, the document itself doesn't know anything about how things _should_ be (which is the important part).
distributive systems! hoping to get a solid grasp on that then parallel programming & concurrent programming. i have an idea i want to toy around with dealing with a distributive system on mobile devices
> Some individual can always sit at a street corner and read the license plates of the cars that pass. How one can make that illegal?

Have you heard of conspiracy laws?

We disincentivize gangs from using drug mules, by making it hard for them to find willing drug mules, by making it illegal to be a willing drug mule—the drug mule will, if they were complicit in the act, be charged with conspiracy to commit a felony.

This (apparently) works to decrease the prevalence of drug-muling, even though it's very hard to detect drug mules (which is the whole point of drug mules.) The law only really gets applied when you end up finding a mule through some other investigation (i.e. busting the gang itself.) But that still happens often enough to scare all the other potential willing drug mules.

This is how I'd see individuals sitting on street-corners counting license plates being charged: not for doing anything that is illegal prima facie, but rather for their willing complicity in a conspiracy to commit the novel crime of, say, building a database through espionage/surveillance without a license.

In other words: if the company's business model is based on a crime, then they're a criminal organization; and it's illegal to profit from dealings with a criminal organization, so you're doing something illegal by doing what they say, even if the thing they're asking you to do isn't illegal.
There is. The name is Rust, I heard
In the specific example, you'd probably noticed that you don't like chemistry in your high school chemistry classes already.

And if you didn't, you'd switch to a different university/specialization after the first year or so, transferring credits for overlapping courses if there are any. That's not a very big deal, at least in Germany switching once even means you'll get the state education loans for longer if you need them.
Serious question (not in IT), what else can they run?
This is something we plan to tackle in the future. Probably via some sort of downloadable local copy of the web client. But it's possible we integrate it into each app somehow. It's still something I think we're trying to think through to try to get right before we act.

As it stands, the only reason you need to login to the web client is for administration purposes and sign up. After that the native clients handle the rest.

That said, as you indicated, we're aware of this potential vector of attack and acknowledge it.

Kyle

AgileBits
One thing that is not modern: Having such an idiotic workflow that one engineer can cause a huge outage and delete stuff from prod db.
Direct reserve emission by the central bank.
In practice, the central bank can just give some reserve to the governement account.
I switched when the 57 Beta came out, it was impressive enough to push me back over to FF again.
Awesome, 10% is small [though that miner is initially instantiated at 25% ;)].

Thanks for engaging in a friendly, respectful dialogue with links to source!
Whatever information is within the line number information - it can stored in a simple, naive way - and then compressed normally.

There is absolutely no justification in inventing a virtual machine with its own opcodes for this.
Bitcoin's value is backed by its hashing power and all the resources required for that. Arguably a foundation just as valid (and more ethical) than a nation state's guns and bombs.
I use containers to log in to Google and Facebook so I don't leak cookies on other websites. Then again, I block those cookies/trackers anyway, so eh.
The companion book, "The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern" featured recipes for "Hearty Herdbeast Stew", gather pies, and the coffee-analog "klah".

My attempts at gather pies never seemed to work all that well, but klah was pretty much just cinnamon hot chocolate, which was pretty good.
Via being backed to some tangible good, eg gold.
The Problem with ‘Problematic’
Well, maybe not all about you, but they have a good guess.
Switched after 9 years on chrome, three reasons. Speed, privacy and sync.
I'm curious to hear what you think of collaborative debugging that we also demonstrated with Live Share?
I use TeamViewer personally. I prefer it to Chrome Remote Desktop.
> it is a colossal subsidy that will greatly affect markets in a lot of ways

It is, by definition, not a subsidy since it does not target a subset of economic sectors.

> Plenty can be done to eliminate poverty.

Name one means of eliminating poverty without wealth re-distribution or subsidies. The only ones I know of involve sterilizing, deporting, killing or otherwise demographically elminating poor people.
That's not it, but I like that one too.
That's the right brand though.

It's this one:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/home-gift-patina-brown-drag...
Prudent and Bitcoin are two words that don't belong in the same sentence. You never know when and if you're in a bubble until its too late, but the ludicrous growth isn't a good sign of stability.
That link says they started "last October" and is dated February 2017. It covers 95 people. That's a very short period of time, quite sparse on details, and a small group of people in an isolated environment. They're also not taking money from people in the community to redistribute.

Put plainly: It's not surprising at all that one can take a lot of voluntarily-given money and distribute it to an impoverished village in Africa, resulting in them being happy and saying they're seeking work (in the short term). Normally, though, that's called "charity" rather than a UBI experiment, and even UBI opponents will acknowledge the likelihood of that happening.
* at the end of 2019

I guess it's due -- Python 3 finally has some improvements to the runtime that I think will start to pull more Python2 people over.
Or go ahead and install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Makes it simpler and more accessible.
That's the only real reason I have Chrome installed, and really the only thing I use it for.
Just to point out this program is not involuntary. All the funds so far as I understand it, have been generated voluntarily.
It's still a broken process. Are you going to re-audit every future change to your web site? I doubt it.

The default, as the article suggests, should be to redact all fields, then let the company opt-in the fields that they really mean to record.
>No fighting with headers, include paths, linker options, make files , cmake files, scons files, etc

These downsides only appear when you’re working on project that did it wrong way. Thousand-line autogenerated makefiles, pkg-config-unaware craplibs with headers based on different basedirs (Qt, I’m looking at you), idiots who think that using cmake/qmake/etc will magically ensure buildability on different platforms and never ever test that it does build there.

In pure js you don’t have include/dependecy problem simply because there is no require/include option at all. Then you install node/npm with 100Mb of js backing it aaand it is yet another complex toolkit to learn forever. With no man pages and shady internet snippets. My hate of js comes from different direction though — I know it and it is ugly simpleton that dooms you to boilerplate, polyfill and spaghettize everything. Debuggers help until you get a “framework” that turns everything upside down and whirls.

I’m sharing your every 5 years annoyance though, even non-web does too much change for the sake of change. No good ui also, you’re right. This comment was meant to be a counter-argument, but it appears that both worlds are crap.
"There have been lots of previous experiments with stuff sort of similar with UBI."

I don't think any of them have even raised to the level of "interesting" compared to the scale of what is being proposed ("rework the entire global economy"). I am aware of them. UBI experiments need to be about UBI, not about things that vaguely resemble it. In particular they need to be large enough that the hypothesized bad effects could even be witnessed, as most of them revolve what will happen once people are habituated to it. For them to be useful, you need to not be referring to them in the past tense because they should still be ongoing, and indeed, really just at the beginning of their run. Most of them are the equivalent of claiming free college works because they went into a single small community and promised anyone who wanted to that they could attend the first three weeks of college for free if they liked; the results hardly matter.

"If you had you would say: based on my understanding of the forces at play, I thought BitCoin would be dead. BitCoin has thrived instead so my understanding of the forces at play is less than I had estimated."

I did say that. I just used fewer words.
Yep, that's because Stripe Atlas sets up a c-corp. They set up a lot of companies for non-US citizens, and you have to be a US citizen or resident to set up an s-corp. S-corps don't need to file corporate income taxes at all, because all income is passed through to the owners.

I've just realized that my market is actually non-US citizens who set up a US company (via Stripe Atlas or something else.) On the other hand, maybe I could also help US citizens fill out their individual tax returns (Form 1040), if their only income is from a SaaS product. The bookkeeping piece could still be useful. I might charge something like $150 per year, or $15 per month, and you wouldn't need to hire that CPA for $200.

Thanks, that was extremely helpful!
No it doesn't. It has been several years since that was true. Big jumps these days are 5-10%. The recent drop during the BCH pump and dump didn't even get to 25% in day. I would encourage you to consult charts, as most of those memes are out of date.
Politics is not a game or a religious belief. It is a literal matter of life and death for millions of people who have very little power. (Hint: not tech workers.)
To me, that just sounds like the "moral decay by luxuries" trope that has been repeated since at least Ancient Greece. I feel like every trait in society perceived as negative by someone has been blamed on that at some point.
In my experience.

In general, corps only fork a repo when they want end users to use their repo.

In the case of development by corp's developers, they just generally fork it themselves and submit PRs from their accounts.

so I can see the confusion.
That's a bummer -- it's something that should definitely exist, but it seems really hard (impossible?) to figure out a price that works I would guess.
Odd, sync works great for me. I keep a huge history (365 days) and it syncs perfectly between all of my many devices.
I'm proudly using Firefox, for several months now. When they initially launched FF Developer edition I tried it out, but it was just too slow. Now Firefox is very fast, the developer tools are great. I love it and I'll never willingly use Chrome again (maybe for testing/ QA).
I switched long ago from chrome to Edge because chrome can't scroll smoothly, it just can't. Firefox also wasnt able untill I think about 2 months ago? Not sure. Either way, I switched from Edge to Firefox 2 months ago because 1) Edge is a really poor browser aside from 4k video and the scrolling experience and 2) Mozilla is a great comany with a great product with such an insane amount of fearures. I just like smooth scrolling so much that I wasn't able to use it till it finally offered that feature. Couldn't be happier with Firefox ATM. Thanks Mozilla
Nope, purely chronological. I do a short index in the back, that's as close as I get to subjects.
I agree that the list includes a diverse set of situations; however, I didn't say 'these countries started as democracies and became non-democracies'. In every case, there are shifts of degree in the wrong direction (and I'll add here that recently there are few shifts the other way). But it's essential to note that these things are matters of degree.

In China, for example, the tradition of a rotating presidency, which party members had a role in choosing, has become a lifetime dictatorship; and rule of law has been replaced by rule of man. Free speech has become increasingly restricted. In contrast, Xi could have taken steps to devolve power more; he could have stepped aside, and introduced a law enshrining the tradition of limited terms for presidents (instead of discarding the tradition), or empowering the legislature. He could have announced open elections at the village level, and opened up speech and the press, as some of his predecessors did.

Japan has consolidated power at the executive level and taken steps to restrict some speech, and I already discussed France's emergency powers. Zimbabwe's coup is undemocratic. You may hope it will work out well, and so do I, but there was no democracy involved. These all are changes of degree, to less democracy.

Some comments in the parent are factually incorrect:

> Xi's actions are hardly different that Deng's or, before him, Mao's.

The actions of Mao, Deng, and Xi are starkly different. Deng is known almost as the anti-Mao (though he would never say that), for undoing the totalitarian ideological disaster of Mao, for putting China on a road to stable governance, and for opening it up economically and politically. The Tienanmen Square protests of June 4, 1989 were a culmination of Deng's political openness (obviously he changed course that day, but they were far more open when he stepped down than when he started). Deng purposely avoided taking on Mao's cult of personality, even to the extent of being cremated and having his ashes scattered in the sea so there would be no mausoleum like Mao and Lenin (IIRC). Deng began the tradition of limited terms for presidents, which Xi now has discarded; Xi also has pursued a cult of personality, in contrast to Deng. The foundation of Xi's legitimacy is the wealth of right-wing capitalism, in great contrast to Mao's foundation in the utter rejection of and work against such things, and his communist social and economic ideals and experiments.

> The US has not traditionally advocated for democracy as a universal right

I'm not sure what to say here. While the U.S. certainly has not always acted in accord with its words, it certainly has advocated exactly that repeatedly, loudly and strongly for generations, from Wilson, at least, through Obama. It's in the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of the country - "all men" are endowed with these rights, was the argument for independence.
Similarly, I was once offered a Meadow Muffin, a fibre-filled, unashamedly health-food cupcake. But to me, a meadow muffin is what comes out of the south end of a north-going horse.
Every milliamp counts on mobile and users don't give a shit about subtle differences in image quality. Chrome is doing the right thing here.
This phenomenon seems like an almost inevitable symptom of another thing companies do, this one completely understandable: Making sure the dev team has nice equipment to work with. If we're always working with reasonably high-end kit, it impairs our ability to empathize with the experience of someone who's using a cheap Chromebook or the "free" phone.

Contrast with a previous place I worked, where the team that was building in-house tools worked on hand-me-down equipment from their end users. That's a shop where the users almost never had to complain about poor UI performance.
And I thought that the "S" in CS stood for science...
a science degree isn't about training for jobs, it is about learning and understanding the fundamentals of a field. In that sense the Wirth languages are a great base for understanding static compiled and typed languages (the other importand thing would be learning about Lisp...).

Having properly understood the fundamentals, languages like Java and C can be picked up rather quickly.
Honestly, the iPhone is a perfect "counterpoint" if you're looking for one. Dominant in the US, but relatively marginal worldwide.
Good to see that it will be a quiet transition. Linus would approve.
People in Zimbabwe are not revolting over one kind of (obscure) currency vs another.
NetBSD because "Of course it runs NetBSD" :)
Great news for GitLab!
> You absolutely need instruments.

That's what I said upthread a couple of posts. The penlight thing was in response to someone saying what to do if it is too dark to read the instruments.
From https://github.com/intel/haxm :

HAXM is a hardware-assisted virtualization engine (hypervisor) that uses Intel Virtualization Technology to speed up IA (x86/ x86_64) emulation on a host machine running Windows or macOS.
You can run the server yourself I think: https://github.com/atom/teletype-server
...Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCuller, Robert Penn Warren... the list is massive. I’m not sure the OP realizes how offensive they’re being by implying lower standards. If anything, they set the standard for american literature.

Note, I am definitely not a southerner.
Pay attention to how much slower all the Android devices are here, whereas iPhone has long since reached laptop parity. So depressing how bad Qualcomm hardware is.
How dedicated to keep it going so long! Maintenance this long-term is a time-sucking activity.
ASCII Art: Real-Time ASCII Art Rendering Library
How did that 40% compare to the overall change in price? Bitcoin has gone up 100% over the last 2 months.
Once you've bought all those things – including the sugar, the water, the yeast, sanitation, the parts of the still – you already have spent enough money to buy several bottles of fine liquor from people who know what they're doing. It's not an economical solution if someone really just wants liquor. The same principle applies to beer making, which wasn't always legal without licensing, and most brewers are doing it for the art & science aspects of it. Since legalization of unlicensed brewing, we haven't seen everyone run out to buy tools to make their own beer.

Also, I'd never heard of that prohibition. It's pretty crazy how often history repeats itself in various ways.
Their plan is more nuanced than "at the end of 2019". From a numpy feature standpoint, it's EOY 2018, bugs through EOY 2019:

> Until December 31, 2018, all NumPy releases will fully support both Python2 and Python3.

Starting on January 1, 2019, any new feature releases will support only Python3.

The last Python2 supporting release will be designated as a long term support (LTS) release, meaning that we will continue to merge bug fixes and make bug fix releases for a longer period than usual. Specifically, it will be supported by the community until December 31, 2019.
What you're describing sounds like zero confirmation transactions which bitcoin used to support before RBF. You can't reliably take zero-conf in btc anymore though. So you have to wait for settlement to turn over goods or services.
I switched recently because someone here said they switched due to privacy concerns AND that it was really good. It struck a chord with me, I'm tired of goog and all seeing corporations. And it really is good! I don't miss Chrome one bit. Well done, Mozilla!

By the way, I also defaulted to DuckDuckGo as the search engine, and so far I'm a happy camper.
Is it lite enough to compile with Emscripten and use via WebAssembly?
For both CryptoNight (XMR) and DaggerHashimoto (ETH) you don't need that much computing power but fast RAM. CryptoNight needs relatively small amount of insanely fast memory (eg. CPU L2/L3 cache), while DaggerHashimoto requires large precomputed dataset for mining (stored in GPU's RAM) which is designed such that it is not necessary to verify single hash. The overreaching idea is that the price of hypothetical ASIC miner is more dependent on RAM prices than on random-logic prices.
System at work is written in terrible terrible php, over the last few years PHP has come a long way, many of it's programmers haven't alas
A win for open source. I was just thinking the other day that it's a shame that Linus is not a billionaire. Seems he's doing just fine however:

"Finnish-American software engineer and hacker Linus Torvalds has as estimated net worth of $150 million and an estimated annual salary of $10 million. He earned his net worth as the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel."

Source: https://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celebrity-business/...
I never stopped using FF.

I'm holding off on upgrading until I find a replacement for TabMixPlus. I need something that will ensure:

1. middle-click to open links in new tabs.
2. address bar, search bar, and bookmarks open in a new tab by default.
There hasn't been hyperinflation in Zimbabwe for years. The main currency is USD, with some parallel use of South African Rand, Botswana Pula and Zambian Kwatsha.
STEEM: The Cryptocurrency Based Social Media Platform
I think privacy feelings are often misplaced. Using the internet may feel private, but it's like setting up a giant antenna on your roof and using radio to chat with someone else.

IMO, the fight should focus on things like secretly turning on the microphone on your internet connected device (cellphone etc) and listing in. That's the kind of situation where we could get useful long term precedent and most people would agree with the intent.

Because, if we are not careful that can quietly change and AI will make listing to every conversation anyone has in the county a real possibility.
It can be created backed up by assets instead of reputation though.
I have.

Now websites only need to support U2F with Firefox.
At the SciPy 2017 conference, for the first time I saw speakers who were presenting new libraries say that they were not going to be developing Python2 versions. Quite a change from a year or two ago.
>We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with partners —
like publishers, advertisers or web developers.

I don't really understand the issue people have with aggregated information.
All the companies I have worked for have been tracking how people use their product.
It does not feel like I am invading somebody's privacy by tracking that 20% of our users clicked on the banner in order to see the screen 'xy' and among them, 67% clicked on 'ok' .

To be clear, I am only talking about aggregated information
My experience with your site on mobile: https://m.imgur.com/5vLrEJH

Can't get it to go away, can't read the article.
Sure. I suggest skepticism as a starting point. Maybe come up with a dozen alternative theories to compare to your pet theory. It’s quite easy to accept something without alternatives.