skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing to support bitcoin

That's what I've been realizing latey: there is something to support Bitcoin, and that something is the blockchain. The reason banks and big financial companies are interested in it is not for its speculative value. They are interested in the fact that it is both decentralized and immutable. As long as financial corporations are willing to exchange Bitcoin for USD, then Bitcoin is a reasonable store of value.

There's also value in Bitcoin because it's a good entry point into other cryptocurrencies that could turn out to be better general-purpose exchange media, like Litecoin.

It's a bit like US Treasury Bonds. Nobody buys them for the tiny rate of return they offer, but they have genuine, valid use as a financial instrument. Normal people, however don't typically buy them, and normal people probably shouldn't be buying Bitcoin either unless they have some spare cash to gamble on it.
[Podcast] Dheeraj Pandey Speaks with Stuart Miniman from TheCUBE
"Judge: Turns out Uber's server is only for the dummies, the real stuff goers on on the shadow system. There's enough under oath here for me to believe there's a 50-50 chance this will turn out to be something v bad for Uber; or 50-50 it's a dry hole"

"Judge to Waymo lawyers: You’re making the impression this is a total cover-up. Your client is in a bad way now. You’ve made me upset. U should be saying we’ll open our doors, get to the bottom of this. Instead you’re fighting every little thing."

"Media coalition argues for open courtroom. Waymo says it needs to shield info re deals with 7 entities, including Lyft. Judge says: I want the public to see how hypocritical this is. Waymo wants all the dirt on Uber to come out. But no no no, they don’t want any dirt on Waymo."
Gold has practical uses in industrial applications and electronics. It also has a floor, which is the cost to mine and ship. Gold has a minimum theoretical value although I'm unsure off the top of my head how low that might be.

Bitcoin's only value is what people will pay for it and has nothing backing it up.

It's not really comparable.
Well, in the current context, deleting stuff that could be used against you in a lawsuit. Doesn't need to be something you did that was wrong but maybe just something you wrote that expressed doubts about a strategy, for example.

But there's also just cleaning out all the cruft which makes finding useful stuff harder. Since going all-in on Gmail, I delete far less than I used to and that's not entirely a bad thing but I also have to sift through a lot more stuff when I'm looking for something.
"This is a great question, in part because it has no easy answer."

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/difference-betwe...
Opinion: Is AI still a nascent technology?
> Additionally, the battery can maintain a highly stable 60 degree Celsius temperature, with stable battery temperatures particularly key for electric vehicles.

Isn't this only necessary because Lithium-Ion batteries need it to maintain efficiency and longevity? Is this also an issue with graphene?
Botle was talking about return, not store of value. Gold holds value well, but its intrinsic value doesn’t really grow over time.
But do YOU want to have your good neighbor report to tou that your key has been left on the poach before someone takes it away and then get into the house when you are away from home on Thanksgiving night celebrating a nice holiday vacation? I bet you not. The fault is on you for dropping the key, isn’t it? Or you are so bluntly careless to have a backup key left under the mat on your poach which slided away and the key is now revealed.

The fact locks are easy to pick doesn’t mean people don’t take more measures to defend it. More and more people install steel door as an extra layer and home security surveillance system, all of which can be compromised with the right tools.

Responsible disclosure is something I respect. While he has the right to not disclose this privately first, has he tried? How hard is it to ask someone to get in contact with the Apple security team? There are a bunch of top sec researchers on Twitter constantly tweeting) to help escalate this. I think someone on Google zero project team did this to escalate.
First, always ask a recruiter if they are a direct vendor to the end client. Anyone else is a middleman and mostly a waste of time unless you are desperate for a job.

Second, laugh at those people who want you to sign such garbage. Most of these "recruiters" are unemployed low skilled slimy sales type people who actually subcontract to the main vendor/recruiter. So yea, say no and move on.
Money laundering. Illicit transactions. Any number of things government money stored in banks is not much good for. How big a market is that? I'm guessing much, much bigger than most people think.
and what does that have to do with talking about an area with no domain knowledge?

there are plenty of esoteric and dubious assets in the vanguard obligatory diversification model. Get bitcoin in the 1% allocation right next to CDO-ABACUS-2007-SENIOR
> he has no idea what Bitcoin is

Are you insane? He built Vanguard, the most successful investment product in history. They have 3 trillion dollars of assets managed and literally invented the retail index fund. You think he doesn't follow every aspect of the financial markets?
Several people had already noted [0] that you could implement equivalent behavior by using a component that simply returns its own children:

const Fragment = ({children}) => children;

// later
return <Fragment><Component1 /><Component2 /></Fragment>;

Nice to see this added as both a built-in component type and a useful syntax extension. (Now if they'd just modify JSX syntax so that we can pass props by matching local variable names similar to how ES6 object literals work, like `<SomeComponent a b c />`, rather than having that become a defaulted-true boolean, I'd be happy :) )

[0] https://medium.com/@gajus/using-react-v16-to-create-self-des...
Bitcoin is like a fiat currency without a fiat.
> And what matters to me is what informs my choices and actions.

Obviously. Now let's hope that 'you and yours' will not be on the receiving end of that stick with someone else wielding it. I'm pretty sure that if that were to happen you would be all up in arms and screaming for the equality that you now wish to deny others.

See also: force protection doctrine, contractors being able to commit war crimes with impunity and other exponents of such thinking.
Well, the use case for Bitcoin is decentralized, censorship resistant, electronic transactions.

Ripple is run using a different consensus algorithm, and is effectively managed by a central authority.

The point of Bitcoin has very little to do with speeding up transactions, all though this isn't a negative.

The point is sending transactions that are very difficult to censor. And yes, it does a very good job of this as there are a whole lot of transactions that governments would love to censor, but they AREN'T being censored, right now.
osquery is not a built-in tool. You can get the same info with plutil(1):

$ sudo plutil -p /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/root.plist

If I understand OP correctly, if passwd is a lone asterisk, then you haven't been exploited.

Edit: trying a little harder to dump accountPolicyData:

$ sudo defaults read /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/root.plist accountPolicyData | grep -oE '[[:xdigit:]]+' | xxd -r -p
Actually, his strategy here is buy high, sell higher. This is going to be a common theme for years to come.
Bitcoin has greatly outperformed tulips.
Are you sure that that should say Uber and not Waymo?

Judging by the tweets around there it was Waymo's turn to speak, and it seems more likely Waymo would be quoting the letter than Uber.

I think it is a pretty big deal
Both the stylo and servo teams are extremely distributed.

For servo we've had long periods of time where no two employees are in the same office (it helps that most folks are remote).

In both teams we found it impossible to pick meeting times that work for everyone so we instead scheduled two sessions for the recurring meetings, and you can show up for one of them (the team lead / etc are usually at both so they're scheduled such that it is possible for them to attend both). Though for Servo we eventually stopped the meeting since we're pretty good at async communication through all the other channels and the meeting wasn't very useful anymore.

Also, to clarify, while that was the initial team, shortly after getting Wikipedia working the team grew with folks from the Servo and Gecko teams. Eventually we had folks living in the US, Paris, Spain, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and Turkey working on it. As well as volunteer contributors from all over the place.
This is a little beside my point, which was that competition will remain as long as schools remain selective ("selective" defined for the sake of this argument as accepting less than 100% of applicants). Even if there was a broad increase in admission rates, people would still compete to be part of the X% accepted to "top" schools.

To address your point, though, I'll assume your use of "admissible" is synonymous with "admitted" students. An increase in rates would require that the number of admitted students increase relative to the size of the applicant pool. If the applicant pool increases with the number of admitted students there isn't necessarily an increase in the rate of admission depending on the relative increase in the size of the applicant pool. If we instead define "admissible" as meeting criteria for admission but not necessarily being admitted, I wouldn't be surprised to see a corresponding increase in admission standards to maintain existing admission rates. Interested to see if anybody has evidence to support or refute this based on historical trends in admission criteria (GPA, SAT, etc.) vs. admission rates.
Except when people politely explain to the original poster not to do what he did. His tweet and a follow-up tweet still exist on the topic. He could easily delete them.

If you read through the comments, you'll see people are arguing that Apple is to blame here. It doesn't require much discourse to recognize that's the case and hence why you don't see more people complaining about this being possible in the first place.
Forcing people into 401Ks was the greatest financial hack of the century. The bankers don't want competition for "their" money pile.
The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins
I doubt there's any room for gold in a Bogleheads' retirement portfolio. Or any other commodity. Or any individual stock.
> Gold is certainly the ideal model for something like Bitcoin

I disagree. I don't think Bitcoin should strive to be a store of value like Gold is. Today most Gold investing is just based on fear, because people see a government misbehaving and lose faith in its ability to maintain the value of its fiat and then flee to something that still has some properties useful in monies.

This is no where near the main usefulness of Bitcoin though, which IMHO are: its extremely divisible, portable, efficient and has cheap transaction costs. Its also by far the most free in terms of your ability to enter into a transaction with anyone the world over, regardless of what a particular government thinks about that transaction.

> I will happily invest in Bitcoin when its history as a store of value and a medium of exchange is measured in millennia.

The history of Gold as a medium of exchange and store of value has virtually no bearing on whether or not you should invest in it in 2017.
Gold pays no dividends, has no interests, does not appreciate over the long term, and can't protect against incident forms of inflation. On top of all that, it has none of the above mentioned technological advantages Bitcoin brings.

There are arguments to be made for Gold but they are in its utility in modern industry, etc.
If Christianity is Java and Buddhism is Haskell then Stoicism is like Scala - easier to digest from the Western point of view, but not all the way there.
I came here to recommend Ancillary Justice too. A surprising, awesome sci-fi novel that won the Hugo, Nebula, British Science Fiction, Locus and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
Ageism isn't a very compelling basis for an argument.
Rust Comes to RISC-V – AB Open
Firefox Debugger is amazing, but I have some problems with performance. If I enable DevTools, then entire browser (other tabs too) hanging for 1-2 minutes while page with DevTools is reloading. I think it may be because a lot async calls were performing, about couple hundreds (we use RequireJS and every sourcefile loaded through different request).
You have to realize that all these BigCo driven open source projects are really exploitation.

In what way? Other than Android and maybe Chromium, what open-source products are exploitative?
this is insider info ;)
Oh my goodness I totally forgot they had to build it first! /s
I wonder if a crash would be good for Bitcoin's price. I think it is a bubble but it seems like an asset that would gain traction in times of fear/uncertainty in the fiat economy.
leonardo da vinci bio by walter isaacson came out this year.
very in-depth & excellently researched
Exploring the BBC Micro:bit Software Stack and OS
You jest, but go read bitcointalk.org's archives from a few years ago (and before) and I think you'll find that's exactly the purpose it seems expected to fulfill.
I believe Mozilla added it back in with the Photon work.
Even if you lose the pictures, DAD can still tell the story. It has the same effect ;)
Since I gave that talk, it's become more clear to me that servo's layout engine is a lot farther from feature-complete than the CSS engine was. So my hunch is that the granularity of incrementalism we used for stylo may not be workable for layout.

That said, we are absolutely going to explore opportunities for more Rust/Servo in layout, so we just need to find the right strategy. One incremental step I'm interested in exploring is to rewrite Gecko's frame constructor in Rust using the servo model, but have it continue to generate frames in the Gecko C++ format. This would give us rayon-driven parallelism in frame construction (which is a big performance bottleneck), while being a lot more tractable than swapping out all of layout at once. Another thing to explore would be borrowing Servo's tech for certain subtypes of layout (i.e. block reflow) and shipping it incrementally.

Each of these may or may not share code with Servo proper, depending on the tradeoffs. But Servo has a lot of neat innovation in that part of the pipeline (like bottom-up frame construction and parallel reflow) that I'm very interested in integrating into Firefox somehow.

We're going to meet in Austin in a few weeks and discuss this. Stay tuned!
Oh come on hn, we can solve this riddle. I found another article - doesn't it say the owner runs a Karaoke Bar and an Asian Shop?
http://m.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/polizei-justiz/razzia-in-mar...

If there is a German native around that should lead us to the name in 10 minutes of phonebook/yelp digging that Marzahn street....
> And at the same time provided everyone with a simple, free, and perfect way to fireproof his/her house.

The issue here is that it isn't perfect in the long run (having a root account with a password is worse than not having one) and many people will not be adopting it since they're not in the know.

Of course, it is always possible people have been already exploiting this, but most likely it is at most a small number of people who know about it. Now every script kiddie in the world can and will go around trying to hack anyone who isn't well-informed enough to know how to protect themselves.
I want a private network which has its traffic encrypted while routed over public internet, and just always use the names bound to that private network, not caring about the local physical addresses I receive from a particular point of connection.

I also don't want to pass the traffic over a remote gateway if a local link is available.

I don't know and don/t care if it's a "VPN proper" or something else, as long as it gives me an IP interface with these properties, and is open-source.

ZeroTier provides that. Tinc provides that. OpenVPN provides something more narrow, which I happen to prefer less.
and without central banking, top tier economists, monetary tools for a bailout, a military and government...

It's really not much like a fiat currency at all. The closest thing might be penny stocks.
Because clearly, the random Apple user that stumbled upon it should both be aware of and follow the protocols of security researchers.
"as irresponsibly as he did" is how all vulnerabilities were announced, at one time. I miss those days, personally.

Nowadays, you're "irresponsible" if you don't follow some vendor's own made up procedures.
This reminds me of jwz's XScreenSaver rant.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
So a platform for each category of clients? How would you control who uses what platform?
I don't know, he's tweeted more about the topic: https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/935619881143324673

So he's either not reading his replies or he's being deliberately irresponsible. My guess, based on his profile and online behavior, is that he's trying to ride the coattails of getting some exposure online.
Ask HN: Options for centralized log management solutions?
OWASP 2017 is out and one of the new additions Insufficient Logging & Monitoring. One of the suggestions is to use a centralized log management solutions. What are good solutions available?
> You can fondle the cube and it will not respond.

And with bitcoin you can't even fondle the cube.
Do you live in some horrible place where your neighbors will throw gas on your burning house unless you can quickly and quietly get the fire department there first, to put out the fire that the FIRE DEPARTMENT started?

Dude. That was your example.
I was already thinking "but what about Typescript..." then saw it already supports it :)

Well done react team and contributors.
So use the median and the median absolute deviation, or use them in conjunction with mean and standard deviation. Please don't discourage people from reporting distributional statistics.
Yeah, thin atmosphere, very low humidity, temperature that varies drastically every 45min... what's not to like!
There will be around 18M bitcoins in 2020. [1][2]

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply

[2] https://bashco.github.io/

This paper [3] suggests we'll be needing to upgrade to quantum-secure hash functions instead of ECDSA before 2027.

[3] "Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10377

Hopefully, Ethereum will have figured out a Proof of Stake [4] solution for distributed consensus which is as resistant to DDOS as Proof of Work; but with less energy consumption (thereby, unfortunately or fortunately, un-incentivizing clean energy as a primary business goal).

[4] https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ
Exactly.

Responsible disclosure is an interesting concept. How does this kind of disclosure make sure that the public knows about a company's track record of vulnerabilities, if everyone is under NDA and the company has no obligation to ever publicize it?

Now, if the reseacher could give a grace period, that's cool, but there MUST be a deadline by which stuff goes public. Hopefully the company fixes it and issues a postmortem first. If not - too bad!
This was one of Mark Zuckerberg's book recommendations. It's a great book to get a basic understanding of the Genome. I read most of the books he recommended and all gave me a new view of the world. I've since changed my view of him. Facebook was not an accident. He truly is a deep thinker and understands what it takes to move Facebook forward.
Evidence of criminal activities could become apparent during a civil trial, and lead to subsequent criminal charges.

Plus perjury, etc.
This is a bit off topic, but does anyone reading this happen to know the status of async rendering in react?

There was chatter about it for version 16, and then nothing really else. I'm curious about what they are testing or at least planning in this area.

Unfortunately i've found it really hard to search for anything related to async rendering for react, as there is just so much other crap about react and "async" it just gets lost.
This has been happening for a long long time but it is rare enough that it is super hard to track and fix.
You can't blame com.apple.loginwindow for that. The security boundary is at the login processing. If it processes requests differently from certain systems then it's misbehaving. If we wanted to make this secure we would only need to carefully craft it, and even if com.apple.loginwindow was the most complex heap of bugs in the world it wouldn't matter.
Investors like him and Buffet see gold as something just sitting there. if you buy a company, they will increase earnings, market share etc.

Gold just sits on a vault--which is a great thing for rich people to use a small % of their wealth for. Just in case.
Gold has other uses and a 5000+ year history. Compare it to hundreds of coins out there
I agree this person isn't malicious, certainly. But I do think his decision was bad. Not "bad" in the moral sense, but "bad" in the sense of being sub-optimal.
Uber-Waymo trial delayed as U.S. judge raises prospect of 'cover-up'
You can also get the password last set time with:

sudo dscl . -readpl "/Users/dan.koepke" accountPolicyData passwordLastSetTime
To be fair, it is strange that they broke out core, processor, and controller as separate items in that verbiage. They're probably referring to the application processors in My Cloud, external drives, and so on.
"Your chatbot should be purposeful, reflective of your product’s voice, and simpatico with your users"

Agreed 100% but IMO, this is not a function of "personality" but rather a function of deeply understanding user intents. A bot cannot be purposeful if its own designers don't know its purpose from a user-centric perspective.

(Disclaimer: I work on Chatbase, a service for analyzing and optimizing bots)
To be pedantic, it's not 100% equivalent. You can find the nitty-gritty details about the (intentional) differences here: https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/10783.

We did mention the author of react-aux in the blog post though :-)

>Thanks to Gajus Kuizinas and other contributors who prototyped the Fragment component in open source.
> IIRC it started with programs in SSA form and has dropped that requirement more recently.

No, it's only SSA form that has optimal register allocation in polynomial time, otherwise someone would've proved that P=NP (as its proven to NP-Hard). :)

That said, finding minimal SSA from arbitrary SSA is NP-Hard.

> Modern GCC uses SSA form and I think LLVM might too.

LLVM has always used SSA (this is relatively unsurprising given its origins in research and so much research of the period being on SSA).
I worked for a big pharma (#2 in the world by most measures), and their email retention policy was 90 days. If you have built any enterprise messaging software, you know you have to support retention policy or it won’t sell to the big companies. Slack can be configured to be aggressive as delete-after-one-day
Waymo ditched autopilot feature after test user napped behind wheel
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Bitcoin has been a bubble since $1 and $100 to these people.
US Treasury bonds are backed by the military and economic might of a superpower, and the fact that it's an IOU that's almost bulletproof. That's a really big part of their value. It's the safest investment possible which is why governments funnel money into treasuries.

Bitcoin just has the power of faith in the network and that liquidity will exist when you want to cash out. Neither of which is certain.

Bitcoin really doesn't have any support. Exchanges don't have close to the liquidity needed to allow everyone to withdraw their coins in fiat currency.