skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a very weird thing to do, and easily fixed. Just do an average of log-ins per day/week, and do not accept any reset passwords (from customer support) before that avg time has elapsed (+ an uncertainty) since the last time you checked the email.

How come they accepted the reset? Were you not logging in your account?
According to the article, a proper discussion needs to happen between the patient and a physician, to make sure what the patient's wishes are. An example I can think of, is I may not want to live the rest of my life with tubes coming out of me, so I may be inclined towards a DNR. However, a DNR could also cover not using the Heimlich maneuver if I happen to be choking on a bite of apple while still in the hospital. In that case, yes, please resuscitate me.
That sounds like a roundabout way of agreeing that it doesn't harm any real people, it just shouldn't be done and should be prosecuted
No, I did not. And I certainly should have.

However, 2fa would not have prevented the problem. The problem is twofold -- 1) account recovery (using email, SMS, or anything other than a secret key) is an effective attack vector. Especially SMS. 2) a human who will change the account recovery settings (in my case, FM changing the account recovery email address).
As a newbie Jupyter user, I don't even understand all these complains. I still think it is really cool to have an scriptable document. My greatest complain is just when I need to tweak a graphic and I have to scroll up to see my modifications instead of having directly feedback.
The money would end up in the hands of somebody and subsequently it can get taxed again. You tax wherever the money is.
Well, Apple and Qualcomm have taken different approaches. Having a (successful) desktop/laptop product will cause them to make architectural decisions which don't make sense on a smartphone in general.
No, that TOS was amended several months ago, to among other things, get rid of that clause about termination for any reason. "We used to be able to terminate your account at any time and for any reason. Now, we can only do so if you: fail to comply with the Terms and Conditions; if we are required to by law; or if your account is inactive for an extended period of time." [0] [1]

[0] https://blog.fastmail.com/2017/09/11/tos-update/

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/about/tos.html
Had there been a blanket ban on all Russian athletes, that would have been seen as a politically-motivated decision. It would have been interpreted by many third-party observers as Westerners using their clout to mess with a geopolitical foe.

Right now it's about a non-state actor (the Olympic committee) doing what amounts to disciplinary action within it's own ranks. From that point of view, it's purely administrative, and keeps politics out of it (to a degree).
> Actually, housing crashed when lots of people who had bought housing on credit turned out to be unable to service the debt.

For completeness, "housing crashed when lots of people who had bought housing on credit turned out to be unable to service the debt and couldn't sell to someone else for more than they paid"

That italicized part is what caused the downward spiral, and that's the part that's relevant to Tethers and cryptocurrencies.

Most people with worries about escalating real estate prices had capitulated and bought in before the crash. With no more buyers, the self-reinforcing cycle went into reverse.

With cryptocurrency, the vast majority of wealthy people already think it's a scam, bubble, Ponzi or fraud. Unclear how a bubble can form when most people think it's a bubble.
The FCC actually said they threw out all comments that didn't have actual legal arguments, quite the opposite of what you're suggesting.
How is this any different than the current situation, where your ability to get block rewards is directly proportional to your ability to spend money on mining hardware?
I think it unravels over time. The feedback loop is very long.

At some point, large amounts of young adults will accept loans that exceed the value-add of college by a significant amount. Then, those who chose not to attend college and pursued a trade will be more visibly affluent. The trend will swing the other way, universities will experience downward pressure on tuition, and trade schools will be inundated as universities are now.

Until there is a political solution, I don't see how the cycle rights itself.

Maybe better information dissemination will give young adults more ability to make the rational choice whether or not to get large loans (or what amount of loans to get). Until then, the feedback loop is too long. Furthermore, for those who chose wrongly, there's no remedy. It's a bad situation.
This is unlikely. Apple's CPU budget for it's devices is likely much higher than anything Qualcomm's customers are willing to pay (vs the current snapdragon pricing). Apple's CPUs are very very large and consequently relatively expensive. As an example, a latest gen snapdragon 835 has 3 billion transistors, while Apple's A11 has 4.3 billion.
100% my stance on it. To expand, these devices do not offer enough convenience in exchange for so thoroughly triggering my paranoia.
With Microsoft, the anti-virus can give you more of an attackable surface [1]. Honestly the only approach I've found in light of Win10's telemetry and consumer-hostile approach is to finally bite the bullet and move to Linux.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/08/microsoft-windows-malwar...
> Ethereum at least has a purpose, cryptokitties do not seem to have one

Neither do collectible stamps, yet people buy them regularly. The most expensive one costing $200K, with the face value of 15 cents.
So, as Windows will be available on ARM, we will have more laptops with ARM, more than just Chromebooks.
This seems like a win for users.
The big winner in this would seem, to me, to be Roku - one of those rare cases where being independent actually helps.
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And if you do make a profit that matters to them, you really don't want to do business with Oracle...
I think it's the wrong decision. We live in a democracy, and our country has clear laws requiring federal agencies to honor every citizen’s right to have his or her voice heard on any policy, like net neutrality, that impacts all of us. Our investigation has already shown that the legally required public comment process was deeply corrupted by bad actors. Until we are able to investigate who did this and why, and determine with greater certainty which comments are legitimate and which are bogus, our citizens’ voices are not being heard.

Chairman Pai has not disputed that the fake comments we identify exist – both supporting and opposing net neutrality -- or that Americans’ identities were illegally misused. Instead, his office has tried to paint the issue as a partisan attack. As I’ve repeatedly made clear, this is not about the merits of net neutrality. It’s about the integrity of the process by which a hugely important policy decision is made, and that’s a matter everyone has a stake in, regardless of their view on a particular issue.
Unlike China, the US needs a legal reason for this sort of decision, not just the whim of whoever is in charge. What's the legal basis for denying Snapchat to be bought by a Chinese founded firm? It's not a state owned enterprise which is the reason for most previous buyout denials.
I have been looking into Monero for a few months. As a Bitcoin enthousiast I find the Monero community very friendly, hard working and seemingly disinterested.
I wrote a simple Ethereum Web Wallet and packaged it as a Progressive Web App (the PWA parts only work for Chrome on Android though but still works as a normal web app on most devices/browsers). PoC that connects to the Ropsten Test net via Infura and has a QR scanner for sending (test) ether.
People are obviously paying for kittens, and skins in Counter-Strike and tons of other meaningless things. Are you saying these markets are imaginary?
Sounds good to me. If I could spend 60 hours on developing the initial tooling, and if I could spend just 5 hours writing minimal code to get things working as I want, and spend the rest of the 35 hours on testing and making everything watertight, I'd call it a job well done.
I think that malanj's point is that the article is disingenuous because it compares the Green Array chip to an MSP430 product under a set of operational conditions specifically designed to maximize the MSP430 power consumption while excluding the many advantages of the MSP430 has in features. The summary of the whitepaper even start with the line, "there are apples and oranges in this comparison."
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 845 processor
the irrational part is 1) an overestimation of the likelihood of bitcoin becoming worth $2 trillion in a reasonable timeframe (1 in 10 odds of that happening!?) and 2) underweighting the value of large changes in
low probability levels: based on the above back of the envelope math, you ascribe 10 to 1 odds of bitcoin failing. the math that supports that is so imprecise as to be almost nonexistent, but the details are important: if the odds of it succeeding were 1%, or 0.1%, would you still invest? what evidence do you have that this number should be 10 to 1 rather than one of the above? have you given any thought to this, or to what probability of failure would make you get out of bitcoin?

have you thought through the likelihood that one of the binary scenarios you describe doesnt actually happen, but in fact that a gray area wins out: for example, bitcoin may continue to exist as it does now, as a fringe speculative asset class with vaguely defined but high potential. it may stabilize into the go-to currency for money laundering, funding illegal activities, etc. it may serve as a stable currency for a subset of the digital economy that just likes the libertarian appeal of bitcoin. if you look at where bitcoin is now, and try to draw a straight line to the future, it seems to me that youd intersect one of these scenarios rather.

if you havent thought these things through, but still invest, you are being irrational

edit: maths
That is a great point, a lot of communication happens over games, they do have a sort of social graph as well.

WeChat will not suddenly get popular in the US because it sucks. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have survived in China without the firewall. But assuming it did, I think the correct response is to require it to have end to end encryption.
As I understand it activation requires using an android phone, but it's entirely possible to then use it with an iPhone.
It's also noted in the relevant thread on the Python mailing list[1], which also says that this is different from Java with regards to whether or not it can be triggered:

"Since it's impossible to trigger the error on any current machine anyway (no machine has enough memory), increasing the size of the stack would be absurd. If you read the paper, they note that this is what the Java folks first did (they changed this part of timsort in a way that _did_ make it possible to provoke the stack overflow on current hardware)."

[1]: https://bugs.python.org/msg236603
Isn’t it very common for democracies to have a government created by a single party (provided it got enough votes)?
If the machine is properly firewalled off, and only accessing the internet using apps which are up-to-date, I think the realistic risk is pretty minimal.
Recruiters are very immoral creatures. Do what’s best for you. But do keep turning tables in mind.
There is an alternative if you (a staking validator, or even a full node) does need want to trust any third party: just stay online all the time. This has its own set if downsides but it's inaccurate to say that a third party is required for Pos.
If they pass net neutrality, can we legally build our own internet/ISP/distributed network?
Dear Attorney General,

If the vote proceeds will you sue this repeal, to protect New Yorkers?
> It's way too easy to get money for college.

It'd be more correct to say that it's way too easy to get money while at college. An awful lot of college students believe that being in college means that they have a middle class lifestyle. It is cliche, but in my day (1989-1993) students were poor. You lived in a dormitory and ate in a cafeteria. Maybe you'd go to a bar once a month. And 99% of the time you walked everywhere.

I think easy of approvals for student loans combined with the 2008 recession and slow recovery led to a lot of people finding that student loans were a source of income rather than a way to pay for college.
I had to send more than 500 emails / day. So i switched over to FastMail.

It works well, and i like having unlimited aliases that i can kill at any moment. But there's no way of disabling deleting messages. I wanted to be extra sure i wouldn't loose any messages and what support said was basically "just don't delete them and you are all set".

What is worse, they accept the default deleting of messages of some email clients. Gmail won't allow deleting from a POP email client, which is much saner in my view.
I just wanted to thank you for your efforts here. Would you have legal authority to stop the FCC from making this ruling? Would a judge actually be able to delay the vote?
What a wierd comment? But Ill play along. Heard of Skype? Endomondo? Just Eat, Google V8 (the javascript engine in chrome and node.js)? And if you want games, heard of Hitman? Subway Surfers? Limbo?
Source? I honestly dont know, highways never seem that damaged between cities tbh.
Right. I said dependent types would allow you to statically declare integer ranges, as is my understanding.

It's interesting to me how Ada takes the approach of blending types and run time contracts. In most languages it would be two different things - a function that takes int, then a contract or assert that handles the value.
A lot of people Puerto Ricans are moving to traditionally blue Florida locations. SE Florida, Orlando, Tampa are the 3 most populous areas and all are strongly blue. Through gerrymandering they'll continue to get the same representation.
Sickeningly naive is a good description. Especially on technology forums.

It's like the recurring conspiracy theory about the Facebook app literally listening to people's conversations -- if you're reasonably technical, you already understand how silly that is.
> We /still/ don't know the contents of the telemetry Microsoft sends back

Documentation site:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/windo...

> Consider the APIs for the Acrylic UI, which is implemented in the WinAPI (not .Net) but is only accessible from .Net applications.

The Acrylic controls are XAML controls built on System.Composition [1] and Windows.UI.Composition [2] APIs. C++ (and any language that can compile to it) has access XAML and System.Composition just like .NET, it just needs to speak WinRT. C++/WinRT was just released in the Windows SDK which just uses "real" C++ headers and no language extensions to interface with WinRT. [3] That should make it even easier for other languages to explore how to support WinRT applications, which for the most part if a language can support COM it can figure out how to support WinRT.

Complaining that you need WinRT to access modern UI effects seems a bit like complaining you need DirectX to access modern GPUs and can't just brute force VGA bit buffer your games anymore.

(My only complaint with the Fluent UI APIs is there doesn't seem to be access from the HTML/JS side of the fence, given that's the important "third platform" after C++ and .NET. I'd like to see PWAs have the ability to use at least some of the Fluent and/or Acrylic effects, but I haven't seen a useful sample of that yet.)

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj126278.aspx
[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.UI.Composit...
[3] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt745094.aspx
Do not forget about tutanota.com. I prefer them to protonmail since they're much cheaper and feature wise are pretty much the same.
Google is pulling YouTube app from Amazon devices
sure not being back by one is a value prop, but not being backed by any is a miss in my opinion. I think the decentralized is great, but it's so decentralized it's basically thin ice.
Agreed. It's more like Competition == Improvement
The current tax reform discussions look to make it even worse be removing some of the current breaks for students paying off debt [1]. There was some talk last summer about extending the current $5200 tuition exemption as an employer benefit to include tuition repayment [2]. I guess that's now off the table. I haven't seen the math anywhere, but it sure seems like it would be cheaper to give tax breaks for paying off loans then to allow them to be defaulted on on forgiven in the case of government workers.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/15/pf/college/tax-reform-paying...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/17/student-loan-debt-why-employ...
Even more interesting with full-scale vertical integration IMO. Game developers can raise funds to build their games by pre-selling provably rare digital assets or doing ICOs for in-game currencies that can be used on betting markets etc...
I wonder how Microsoft eventually dealt with this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel...

Intel seemed to indicate at the time that it was really interested in any licensing around the x86 ISA.
I realize this is a late reply, but I just saw this today.

I think the idea isn't that this is a "just in case" service. More like, if someone sends you a message that they've got compromising photos of you and will release them unless you pay $XX,XXX then you would use the service.

In the analogy, it'd be more like having the police live at your house after having a credible threat made against your life. Which is a thing that happens
This is exactly right. Practice, practice hard and hard practice. Then some more practice. People don't like that answer because they want to get good by watching Youtube videos. It doesn't work.
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I wanted to thank you for your efforts here. Would you have legal authority to stop the FCC from making this ruling? Would a judge actually be able to delay the vote?
The Intel patents for up to SSE2 should expire soon, and hopefully the AMD64 patents should be licenseable from AMD (if they are interested in that). I would not be surprised if this already emulates up to SSE2, given the likely release date and the fact that recent versions of MSVC already enable /arch:SSE2 by default.
From Microsoft's Secure Boot OEM policy[0]:

> The firmware setup shall indicate if Secure Boot is turned on, and if it is operated in Standard or Custom Mode. The firmware setup must provide an option to return from Custom to Standard Mode which restores the factory defaults. On an ARM system, it is forbidden to enable Custom Mode. Only Standard Mode may be enabled.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com...
We are well aware of the Beaker Notebook and BeakerX and appreciate the great work they are doing. We however decided to develop our own tool because of a few specific reasons such as we needed support for MATLAB and SAS, we needed a more powerful data exchange model for (almost) arbitrary data types, and most importantly, we were creating an interactive data analysis environment backed by a powerful workflow engine, which is well beyond the scope of Beaker. The combination of SoS (workflow engine) and SoS Notebook is what makes SoS Notebook a powerful environment for (bioinformatics) data analysis.

I agree that all other notebooks (e.g. BeakerX, Zeppelin, R Notebook) have nicer interface than Jupyter but Jupyter excels at its simplicity and JupyterLab (to which SoS Notebook will be ported eventually) is making great progress there. With the frontend enhancement that SoS Notebook provides, especially the line-by-line execution feature, we are pretty satisfied with the frontend and do not really miss the fancy frontend of other notebooks.
Somewhat amusingly, it provides one of the best reasons to continue to provide an x86 version of apps, rather than going 64-bit only.
I don't see any mention of x86_64/AMD64 in the article. I would expect a version of Windows which can't run x86_64 apps to result in a lot of nasty compatibility surprises--it's been awhile since developers had to support 32-bit-only hardware--so I'd expect Microsoft to support it if at all possible.
No, liquidity is a measure of how easy and cheap an asset can be traded in the markets.
Publish date is 2008 on that McKinsey doc, 2012 on the Google one. Decent chance it's a different world now.
wait for a few more years, and 66IB will be HOV-3 with express option. Many DC commuters will be in for a slow and rude shock once they hear that news.
It could have easily been the same person transferring money to themselves though, for either PR or money laundering purposes.
I'd argue that Bill Gates and Microsoft's aggressive, ruthless, greedy and illegal behaviour throughout the 90's shifted them into a position of near-monopoly in terms of desktop operating systems and office products e.g. as a developer, I have no choice but to install it due to government clients requiring Office, .NET code etc.

So given that, and given the profit they generate through that, I think they should support older systems for as long as people are forced to use them.
I wrote something* that checks the entropy of strings found in incoming webhook commit payloads. It catches a good amount of secrets, but even more false flags. I have to work on honing it in.

I'm not sure about hosted solutions but there are some great open source tools that scan entire repos as well as their history. I have used, and like, Gitrob and Trufflehog.

* https://github.com/michenriksen/gitrob

* https://github.com/dxa4481/truffleHog

* * not currently OSS unfortunately
Tether artificially inflates the price of tether to $1. It's "tethered"
Yes, I would expect that a drop in stolen base attempts would lead to a drop in errors by catchers.

Looking at stats from 2000-2017, total errors underwent a steady drop from ~3400 in 2000 to ~2800 in 2017.

On the other hand, it is not entirely clear that teams stopped stealing bases starting in 2012. Yes, 2015-2017 were far below average, but so were 2003-2005.

http://www.fangraphs.com/
Great question. State and local governments should do definitely take action to support net neutrality, because the overwhelming majority of their citizens – regardless of politics or ideology -- favor net neutrality. That’s been proven again and again in every survey and study to measure public sentiment.

Right now, the most effective thing state and local government officials can do is to join the chorus of citizens calling on their state’s Senators and Representatives in DC, demanding that they oppose Chairman Pai’s proposed rollback of the existing Title II protections. If enough folks in Congress--from both parties--feel pressure to stand up and demand that the FCC preserve net neutrality, it'll be much harder for the FCC to disregard the will of the public.
No, it will be just like it is allready today. A feudal system, where you have to beg at aristocratic institutions for funding, even before you can realize your endavour in full.

Of course, you can not even beg, if you decend from peasants.
I was logging into my account. I discovered and reported the incident within 45 minutes of the compromise.