skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Eternaut: Hack Solidity Smart Contracts in Every Level
- It's more expensive for an ISP to stream data from Netflix than it is to stream data from their own servers.

- Net neutrality would prevent a philanthropist from providing free wireless access to Wikipedia (but nothing else).

- Packets for real-time streaming should take priority over others.

- ISPs will bypass net neutrality restrictions by switching to proprietary non-standard channels.

- What's the difference between Amazon providing free shipping and Netflix offering free streaming?

- Net neutrality is a distraction for the real problem that is lack of competition and artificial monopolies.
I can withdraw crypto from Bitfinex just fine and have done so recently. Taiwanese fiat withdrawals process just fine. In this case, we have confirmation that their foreign wire transfers are legitimately frozen. They're not lying about that. I don't see much comparison to MtGox at all.
Coindesk is intimately linked with blockstream, the company that has gone to great lengths to take over the github repository, censor /r/bitcoin, and ultimately keep the block size limit at 1 MB so that they can profit from fees on their own 3rd party chain.
Also: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0523/
This is exactly why the CEO should lead by example. If the CEO himself does shady stuff all the time and in fact encourages it, its normal and even expected that the hack is covered up.
I think I see it now. Your credit card is in USD and when you select EUR they show you an exchange rate of 1.21. The official exchange rate is 1.16 today (http://xe.com). The 5% difference almost explains the 6 Euro difference in price. You basically pay a convenience fee to get the currency exchanged by Amazon. If Amazon didn't do it your bank would.
All the best to him, taking money out of their pockets is probably an admirable feat.
They claim that they don't. If they do, that is a serious problem. Some of the exchanges have, but there is no evidence i'm aware of that points to any of the current major exchanges running a fractional reserve.
I think people could be persuaded to overlook the negative Silicon Valley sentiment if they believed the candidate knew how to make money and do good deals and improve their lot in life. Pretty much the "Yeah but..." argument I have heard from people who voted for Trump.

The press is doing a good job of highlighting the shortcomings and flaws of the Silicon Valley elite, but enough voters in the right places have shown they don't trust the press.

Of course, anyone coming from the Silicon Valley elite is going to have answer the question of how they are going to create new jobs... which would be interesting to see.
Most European cities I've been in have way better public transportation than any US city, which makes Uber a much less valuable proposition. On top of that, taxis tend to be more professional, so even as a high-end option uber is less compelling.
Holy. Crap.

I just listened to that for 5 minutes and my tinnitus (which was pretty bad today) just vaporized. I feel like my jaw has relaxed for the first time in weeks. How did I not know about this??
How should a startup or a company in this situation handle it properly ? Should they come out clean to their users ?
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Right, but what about the next (would-be) Charlie Rose? Stuff is accepted until it isn't. There's lots of stuff that wouldn't cause people to bat an eye in the 1960s, that would be met with silent disapproval in the 1980s, and would get you straight up fired today.
Not wrong. Smart as an investor to consider all the scenarios.

But be careful on that "tanks" part. If it really tanks, there might be a whole lot of people trying to catch knives.. And that could be real bad indeed.
Hapijs is great software that has left me consistently happy, strikes a nice balance between too much, and too little.
The article says Google is disabling this function.

However, remember that Google, and also Facebook, have a rule that whenever public pressure forces them to remove one privacy violation, they will secretly add two new ones.
Riak Enterprise supports multiple data centers. Bet365 has, or is in the process, of purchasing all of Basho's IP, and plans are to open source the Enterprise bits[1].

Not sure if Riak is considered common, and the multi DC is not yet free.

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450426130/Riak-NoSQL-snap...
Same, but I suspect it also has to do with changes in my heart rate due to lower quality blood at the time.

Now that I wear an HR monitoring watch 24/7, I can easily spot nights I drank too much. Instead of 62 resting heart rate, I'll have 75-85. And if you think about it, normally when you have somewhat elevated heart rate, something active or interesting is going on (which provides distraction). But if you're just chilling, but intoxicated, you may be more likely to notice the increased blood pressure.
Witness a Darwin Award in the making
Majority of the time when CEOs of major companies leave, it is because they have been asked by the board of directors to leave. This is especially true after unfavorable business/stock performance.

Since the HPE stock split, the HPE stock has lagged the Nasdaq composite index by almost 60%!
if the board had any self-respect they would shutter the shit-show that is uber and walk away. and yeah, that's walking away from a truckload of dough, but really, how can any board memeber look themselves in the mirror at this point? the business model is a joke, the culture is toxic, and basically its a failed experiment.

i've been back channel spanked by yc moderators on this topic for some of my snarky comments on uber, but all i have to do is wait a week or two for the next shoe to drop and then, well, there you have it..

uber is the poster-child for why the broader US loathes the valley. i would love to see real innovation and advancement become a reality out of SV soon and return the storied past to a real thing. but. as long as entities like uber and theranos, etc, etc are allowed to persist that will never happen...
Amazing engineering. The UI is 1999 - but that shouldn’t distract you from the engineering inside.

That said, all the pieces are there to add a modern web UI with very little effort.
I recently got a free Android phone, and would also never let it near anything that could extract money from me, and am conscious of the information it can disclose.

Sorry, legitimate Android app developers! I would like to pay you for the things you create, but your neighborhood is too sketchy for me to visit.
I've never had security clearance of any kind. Highlights that all required drug testing were: restaurant national headquarters, towing/insurance national headquarters, theme park, defense contractor for non-secure projects, and a bank.

Though now that I think about it I have technically worked at two companies that didn't drug test: my own, and a small 3-man startup I did some work for.

It's worth mentioning that I live in a red state. I suspect blue states have cultures that are a little more lax on drug testing, though I have no real data to back that up.
Ronald Reagan? The actor???
Just ran through one of the lectures. Really high quality, thanks :)
I didn't notice those typos the first time I read the article. Maybe it's really easy to misread letter-number combinations like that if you're already expecting it to be a certain number.
Dude youre acting like snowden leaked that shit in the fifties.
HelloWorld
Hello NodeJS
Ah ok, thank you.
I had this happen to me after I posted something the admins thought was boneheaded and they were right. I promised not to do it again and I got restored.
That's because Windows does not have any sandboxing, although that seems to be changing with Windows 10 version 1709.

iOS apps are still sandboxed just like apps from the App Store when you sideload them using Xcode. That's all you would need to install Skype, and sandboxing is what keeps iOS secure, not the App Store. The App Store review is mostly about weeding out obvious junk and enforcing Apple's business model.
Why not simply go to the top of the Stromboli and watch the curve of the sea?
What I was trying to say is that Intel doesn’t really have a financial incentive to have non-ME SKUs because, besides the majority of users not caring, those who do care don’t really have any other options.
> a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal.

Ok, cool.

> ... though he acknowledged that he still had much to learn about rocket science.

Surely at this point, someone should step in and stop him? Is this not at this point, basically just really elaborate suicide? Not even joking here, I think this guy may genuinely need help.
Do you think there's a difference between these two statements:

i. We should spend less money on educating would-be gangsters and more money education would-be scientists.

ii. My plan would produce more scientists and fewer criminals?

>Expelling a student for hitting a teacher is {the moment something bad happens}.

Hitting people is a severe violation of liberal norms. We can get rid of those norms, but where do we draw the line? Should parents be allowed to hit teachers?

And why do you put the burden on the school to teach students things that are clearly right and wrong? It's not about criminalizing kids, it's about punishing criminals for their transgressions. Kids can be criminals.

I'm game for a gun control discussion. There are at least 300 million firearms in this country, the only way to keep them out of criminal hands is to grab them all. Who's going to grab the guns? NPR listeners?

The ROI of education is this: incremental lifetime earnings / cost of education. Use the t-bills as a guidance on discount rate.

Your needling for sources is derailing this discussion. If you don't get why someone might think special education is overfunded, go visit a special ed classroom and wonder "how much does it cost society to give these kids places to drool on each other?".
insubordination may also be. it's well established as grounds for termination, and it could be a necessity in this situation.
The point is that you're not expecting people to ever pay it, because you've set it high enough to be a solid disincentive. If people are actually paying it regularly, you obviously haven't set it high enough.

This is also common when quoting freelance projects you don't really want to do.
Check this out https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/facilities/htf/
Back in the day they could test up to Mach 7.
Not it is a test bed for hybrid electric planes.
Nice! Thanks for sharing. I really liked your background. Funny, I've been using the NYC landscape as my bg for years, but didn't realize until now it makes me feel a bit anxious, while yours conveys calmness and organization. The power of subliminal messages, uh?

+1 to getting rid of project-specific lists. I now create a separate Trello board for anything that requires more than 3-4 tasks.
Before I started using mercurial and git I tried fossil for a few days. It was really good. I think the only reason my company decided to go with mercurial and git was the lack of a service like bitbucket or github for fossil.

I am really excited to see the new avatar of fossil.
A Floating Blockchain Experiment
I agree with you in general, but unfortunately things are never that simple. Most companies do good too, otherwise they wouldn't exist.
Point out that the criminalization of "hacking" creates strong incentives towards negligence and both weakens and distorts the pool of cybersecurity talent, while making people afraid to report. Responsibility for data needs to be with its owners, not people who see it through open windows.
It launched with a new UI that I am still in the process of figuring out. If the parent lost their patience, I can't blame them asbut there is definitely a learning curve to NoScript 10 and zero documentation to help people figure it out.

NoScript 10 caught me on a good week, if I had been busier this week I wouldn't have had the patience either because it's definitely not doing things in a way I would expect.
No, don't get hung up on unnecessary details.

The reasonable company director should have known X and when found out was bound to report it. Person Y did not report it, should have known as it was their job to know and there aren't extenuating circumstances. Guilty. 6 months. Next case.

"I don't know anything about this company I accept 7 figure sums to oversee as a director." Should never be any kind of legal defence. If senior management and directors have something personally at risk you'll see vastly improved behavior. Right now we're selecting for the opposite and seeing the inevitable results.

There is a story like this about directors and management cover ups every single day
It was a test. If we had blown it out of the sky, then the aliens would know we are armed and dangerous, and they better stay away.

But we didn't do that, and that means, well, let's just say things are going to get rather interesting.
My step dad was a roofer when I was growing up. He was the one that did the estimates and found the business and he had a crew of immigrants that did most of the work for him. They earned far above minimum wage. They made $15/hr, under the table, in the early 90s when minimum wage was under $5/hr. Even the grunt roofing work is semi-skilled and paying more allowed him to keep the same crew together over multiple years so he didn't have to constantly retrain. Even his supervisor role was backbreaking work that left him exhausted after 12-hour days. His crew would have found other minimum wage grunt work to do if the money wasn't good. Plus, the margins on jobs were so high that it didn't make sense to be chintzy (he'd net around $4k on a week-long job after the cost of labor and materials). But it was seasonal work so he'd only get 10-12 jobs in per year and spent the rest of the year being an artist.

I can't say how many crews are run like his was, but I also don't think it's fair to assume that all those guys are making next to nothing. The roofing season is so short and the money good enough that I'd bet that having someone you trust to move fast while maintaining quality would be worth a significant amount over minimum wage. Having worked with him on my summer breaks in high school, it took me a full season to get to the point where I was even close to keeping up with his regulars. I'd also bet the money being pretty good, not bad, is why you see groups of the same ethnicity working together since they probably recruit and train each other whenever there's a vacancy.
> BTC is failing as a currency because
> it's in a speculating bubble

This feels pretty inevitable. There's no reliable tie to any economic activity, virtually no raw materials are priced in Bitcoin, and there's no central institution that can price stabilize, so pricing anything in Bitcoin (rather than: x USD/EUR/GBP/whatever as Bitcoin) seems a long way off.

It's also -- comparative to fiat or commodities -- massively untested, so price shocks seem inevitable. Regulatory or technical risks that could reduce (or massively inflate) the value seem almost certain.
Why would Bittrex be hit by this?
Slightly OT but I'm happy to see breaking news from a gentoo.org domain. I long ago decided installing Gentoo was a young person's pursuit, but I'll always have fond feelings for it.
Similar measures have been implemented in a number of european countries for years, I think originally in France. As far as I am aware, GDPR only standardises these laws and applies them to all EU states. Plus it adds a fine large enough for companies to actually care.
Could someone please upvote?

It is important, that people know, that this assumption has been made. It also means that the climate goals are unreachable and that we are basically being lied to.
Ultra low frequencies are my problem. When it is quiet (at night), if there is anything generating low frequency waves anywhere around, I may hear it. It feels like an incredibly subtle repeating gentle puff of air entering the ear (which makes sense, given that it's a pressure wave). And unfortunately, one ear is more sensitive to it than the other, which gives me a feeling of uneven pressure from one side of my head to the other.

There is no cure for this, as far as I know, because it is an external sound. And it's nearly impossible to identify the source for many reasons (difficulty in detecting/recording, ease of transmission through solid objects (such as the ground), and long waves which can carry very far).

It just takes a little ambient noise to mask it. The sound isn't painful, per se, because it's very low amplitude. But when there is nothing else to distract, it feels like having your head inside a washing machine.

Sources can include large engines (locomotive, truck, ship, whatever.), heavy equipment (particularly at factories), and my favorite - wind over a mountain ridge. The last one can carry for miles!
Ever tried using one of those dirt-cheap Android phones?
It's only binary because the actions they've done are so egregious that we have no other choice but to condemn them. Most people are able to stop themselves at the mere thought of committing actions such as these. And yes, while everyone makes mistakes there is a huge difference between mistakes that might hurt someone a bit and mistakes that make people feel violated. I've never made anyone feel violated and I'm sure most other people can say the same. Here's a 3 step process for anyone who finds it difficult and if at any point you answer no, stop what you are doing:

1. Do you know this person well and do they respond enthusiastically positive toward you?

2. Have you discussed your feelings towards them and have they responded enthusiastically positive towards them?

3. Have you discussed the things you want to do and have they responded enthusiastically positive towards them?

As an average looking guy who has had no trouble finding many romantic partners, let me say this, if your success hinges upon overwhelming surprise then you are doing something VERY wrong. If you are worried about it no longer feeling in the moment after asking for consent, let me assure you that if they want you as bad as they should, it won't be given a second thought.
> it fundamentally broken by design

Literally three comments up you are blaiming speculators for the fact it isn't being used as currency, rather than design.
So this appears to go head-to-head with Expo (https://expo.io/) which is a project / company that I was getting behind. Hopefully this is just a rising the tide and all the boats float. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_rising_tide_lifts_all_boats for background on the expression)
It seems like they wanted to do their own post without duplicating the content in the Cloudflare blog post. There are more details in the post linked at the bottom: https://blog.cloudflare.com/living-in-a-multi-cloud-world/
If you know you can show up on time, why not?

My guess is that day cares do this to basically mean "show up on time, we're not f'ing around."
I typed this to let younger folks know that plenty of older Netizens do not care one little bit about any consumers or programmers making money off consumers. I wrote the late 80's Harvard Ultrix manual and worked with Steve Crocker, Brad Cox, Mark Pincus (pre-Zynga) and many others. None of us let our kids near the consumer Web (or TV's). The faster our consumer Net dies on the vine the better. Wield code to automate solutions or feed better decision support. Folks coding to sell pizza, porn and distractions need better careers and motivations.
I have never had a drug test, and that includes several jobs working for defense contractors. (The law said they had to have a plan for testing anyone they suspected of drug use. It didn't say they had to suspect anyone.)
You can always try Arch, it's like the more-adult version of Gentoo. Still a lot of work though.
Ask HN: Current best practices when POST as GET seems unavoidable?
When the concern of "very long URLs" rears its head (and just won't go away) in REST API design discussions for read-only endpoints, and when there's enough time for careful planning of a new or overhauled API, what are the best practices in 2017 for using POST as if it were GET?

The following answer on Stack Overflow seems to have merit, but what strategies are really working well for you real world API implementers?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30767665/how-to-be-restful-with-long-urls/30773811#30773811

It would be nice if "use GraphQL instead" was an option, but let's assume it must be a plain old REST-ish HTTP API.
> The idea that big companies would care about a payment rating misunderstands the relationship. When your startup has an opportunity to close a sale on a BigCo and you find they have a history of taking a few months to pay... what do you did with that information? Insist on custom contract terms? Walk away?

Heh. Work less or hedge the bets.

I am saying it because I am familiar with the situation. A certain acronym company which may or may not be associated with the colour blue had a minor PoC gig and invited a bunch of contractors on loose terms. Many worked around the clock. Closer to the end of the project, it became apparent that there will be issues with the payment. Smarter guys bailed out.

Knowledge is power. There are always options. Kids in their twenties may be mesmerised by the power of known logos, then they learn that it's more about the figures.
Well, he may not be able to discern its (lack of) roundness but I think there may some evidence gathered about its hardness.
Postgres XL?
Flat earth theory is all about humans not being able to do a specific 2d to 3d mapping using the natural brain circuitry/architecture/pathway we gained from evolution for this operation because the earth is too big for our brains/senses as an object viewed from nearby (like from a plane in the atmosphere) and we never encountered something with such measures and relationships (like a circular path that becomes linear to our senses) in the natural world we evolved. Some of us know the earth is not flat because we developed other ways (other brain circuitry) to do the mapping: some think it terms of pure geometry, some scale down earth to a ball and compare our senses to it, some think in terms of planetary movements, some use the moon to help with the mapping from our vision, etc.
Square has excellent developer documentation! Hopefully it's in good hands after you've left. It would suck if the quality degraded.
Mine sounds exactly the same! I usually describe it as the sound of "brightness" and it does feel like something coming from inside my head, instead of from the outside word.

As many people, I cope with mine by just ignoring it, most of the time. Sleeping has been hard though, since I can remember. Today I resort to some kind of color noise, such as a fan, air conditioner, or white noise apps (brown noise works best) or I just fall asleep (often with aid) watching TV or listening to a podcast.

In the end, it's not really a practical problem, but a more philosophical one: it makes me sad to think I'll never be able to experience silence.
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My wife is Russian, and things she says about how Ukrainian sounds to her reminds me a lot of what Spanish speakers say about Portuguese. I don't know enough to say how similar that comparison is, but it passes the "neighboring regions that might have been more mutually intelligible 1000 years ago" test.
I suspect they don't even need to wait for that. EU watchdogs have serious teeth and take privacy seriously.