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Hi, author here...

Firstly, this project is open source. If you suspicious of where the data is being stored or my intentions, you are free to fork and run it yourself.

That being said.. I am not claiming to have achieved some novel security accomplishment. Yes, this is a simple symmetric encryption using a vetted crypto lib, backed by a key value store, and using UUID4 to generate the links.

Its a trade of for convenience and security. It's better than emailing passwords in plaintext and makes security more accessible to folks who dont have the time/incinlination/technical ability to set up keybase and/or estbalish PKI for sharing secrets.

Understand the audience this is targeting..
> Cheaper tech teams with less competition. Australia has a lot of talent in the software space, but without the eye watering wage bills.

Since you're referring to all of Australia - those advantages are all neutralized by choosing any of two dozen other US cities to start in. You get the advantages of the vast US market, other cities have far lower real estate costs than you see in most of Australia, you can choose states like Texas and Florida which have no income tax and large local talent pools, you can choose various cities based on their unique value propositions such as eg Pittsburgh due to Carnegie Mellon, or perhaps Denver Colorado due to lifestyle. You can also still choose Seattle, Los Angeles, NYC, Boston if you want to just step down one notch in cost on engineering salaries, while still being at a world-class level of talent (with each of those having their own distinct value propositions).

The US has 280 million people living outside of California and an economy 16 times the size of Australia that is now growing far faster than Australia.
I did the same, as a side effect. My GF had gestational diabetes and was put on a diet to prevent having to take insuling, so I just ate the same food. Even as a non diabetic, it was so obvious how much better I felt. A lot less tired as well, less tired, even with the erratic sleep cycle of a newborn.
If you claim something like "society is a tool to change people" you should provide some argument to convince people. Since this is just an Internet forum, it doesn't have to be a double blind study, but claiming that murder was okay before religion just seems wrong to me. I could equally claim that society is just a natural result of people living together and being forced to share resources and does exactly nothing to change human nature, in fact, it is just an expression of human nature.
One of the UK sites that may shut in Stafford makes giant power grid transformers, you order those well in advance.
I don't see how renewables are to blame, offshore wind still needs a grid connection and large substation transformers.
It's a complete disaster. If this is what HN brutalists, who normally complains about animations and modern UI, think is a good site I rest my case.
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There are group chats with end-to-end encryption, meaning the server does not have access to the message it is relaying. The "end-to-end" part is used to differentiate it compared to merely encrypting the connection with the server (which has been ubiquitous for chat apps for some time).
> Why is this still not a solved problem ? Why is there no free open source Skype alternatives !?

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html
Oooh, I didn't know about this. There's also Naev: http://blog.naev.org/
I’m not really an expert or close to that but I believe some apps (like whatsapp) encrypts each message individually for each member of the chat group. While the server relays messages, it does not have the private keys of recipients. That should work, no?

I agree that this is not a technical issue though. Still there are possible measures to be taken.
The idea is unlike having coins in a personal wallet, on an exchange you effectively just have a claim card placed with a central authority. It's put trust and centralization back into the system.

The claim card only needs to be satisfied when claims are made. Detaching the claim from the asset and then reattaching when claims are made IS how the exchanges work fundamentally.

Having 100% of the liabilities here is certainly possible but if you had only 20% of them, there'd be effectively no difference unless there's a market panic.

And when/if that happens, I bet that not all 124 or so exchanges have 100% of their liabilities on hand at the same time as the panic.
I was thinking of that one called “Merry Christmas” in Spanish
I believe all of those papers were accepted to top peer-reviewed academic conferences.
4K for 84 reviews? How does the rewards system work?
I think there is major inherent value in a decentralized currency and I think the technology is neat. There will be more practical value in Bitcoin after the crash when the speculative value has stopped being a factor.
this comment made my day... :)

but yeah that backend validation is on my radar.

Thanks for checking me out
You're right, there are not deflationary or inflationary forces at work. What is happening is simply supply and demand.

I'm thinking in a simple two-goods model here. "Currency" vs. "Products" - or "USD" vs "BTC". "Too much" supply of currency or "too little" supply of physical products drives the price up. In this model, that's the same as inflation, but you are right, as soon as there is a third good you can compare prices to that good and tell if it is inflation (all prices rise) or not (only the price of one good rises).

My point is not "it is inflation". Rather "it is inflation-deflation-supply-demand" (market reacting to changing supply and demand), as oppossed to "it is irrationality". If bitcoin is staying with us, and not banned etc., then demand for it will continue to grow faster than the supply will grow. I think the stable exchange rate of a fully established bitcoin will actually be at least a factor of ten higher than today.
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Constitutionality aside, while this does make some sense for the FBI and CIA - because they have people skilled enough to analyze the data and "legitimate" uses in counter-terrorism - it makes no sense to give all that data to agencies like Homeland Security and the DEA, and I also have little confidence that their agents are good enough to even make sense of basic raw data. Just imagine some TSA agent finding a knife you left in your bag and then getting passed to some moron who detains you for hours because he saw that you liked some communist memes on FB and your friend sent you a 9/11 joke.
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If people are self-censoring their opinions about the US government currently, it's hard to imagine how strongly they really feel.
It has practical value once it's crashed and a real, stable monetary value can be established. A currency you shouldn't be spending because it can double in value in the next week is not a practically valuable currency. There are great ideas in blockchains and the whole decentralized financial system, but the current situation is not practical. It's useful only for its speculative qualities.
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How exactly does one short bitcoin?
Truly, modeling everything in life as montonically increasing functions because of exceptional historic precedences is a smart thing to do.

"There's a historical precedence for people drinking water and dying because of it, so I'm not going to drink water anymore."

The reasons you here about them is because they are so exceptional. People got banned from forums for being irreverent dicks before and no one batted an eye. Now because they got legitimized by gullible people, everyone screams about their lack of freedom on private platforms.
Now this is an ideal crowd and topic to ask a question that is niggling me for a long time. What paper could you use with regular laser printers to get professionally looking printed book? The regular A4 is just too thick, and books printed this way look clumsy.
>- Individuals can block and report other users

As far as I know, Slack won’t implement that because it’s a team chat app and if team members need to block people, there’s larger problems: https://mobile.twitter.com/stewart/status/624239660529684481
Yes, that was the inspiration for this project. I've used pwpush and even suggested some changes to that project. I wanted something more lightweight (non rails) and simpler to integrate. Nothing against pwpush, just my version of it ;)
Supporting something because you like the idea of it is not smart, no. It's honorable and a great thing to do, but in terms of investments it's certainly not smart. I didn't mean "dumb money" as in all the people who invested in Bitcoin are dumb, but rather that these were not well thought out investments with sound rationales.
Firefox development process is so bad/slow. New features will take ages to appear. Mercury, Bugzilla are old relics and the review process is from the 90's and very strange. I think that is one of the reasons they copied functions to XPCOM instead of fixing them in NSPR. It was easier to add new stuff than get a review to fix existing code.
What will likely happen is that bitcoin will only be used to transfer large sums between exchanges. Day-to-day payments will be handled off-chain.

Another option is to use lighter alt-coins in parallel to bitcoin, again using bitcoin for long-term storage or larger transactions.

You are right that the current bitcoin as-is is not suited for many small everyday transactions, as envisioned by many. The transaction rate and fees are just too high. This is actually - besides governmental bans - the one thing I think could take bitcoin or cryptocurrency in general down.
Discord Bot/Webhook API is really great[1].

You can use it to push alerts and charts from monitoring[2]. It's straightforward.

In Slack, a comparable integration requires a bit more footwork with file uploads being a separate part of the API.

[1]: https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/resources/webhook

[2]: https://github.com/axibase/atsd/blob/master/rule-engine/noti...
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Especially in production!

I would also like to hear reasoning – is it only personal preference, more functional background (like clojurescript, Elm, etc) or something else?
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Would it be possible for the Newman's brand to continue profitably without the charitable aspect of its messaging? Would customers remain loyal if, say, Kraft bought it? If not then it's not going to sell for very much..
This looks extremely interesting, how much time went in building and promoting the skill?
Yep, but you can't necessarily sell it for full value because the process of doing that damages the brand.
End-to-end encryption really isn't the solution here. Your message might be considered harmful and blocked instantly if they couldn't decrypt it. It may not the case for now, but it's possible and fairly foreseeable.
Lots of people are frustrated with their tab extensions dying and I assume most of them (like me) are now using the ESR release.
(Note that Mozilla penalise you for downgrading by deleting random bookmarks and your browsing history)
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It would be great to recite that as response when you get a margin call. But your broker is still going to seize your collateral based on its price, not value.
you're very welcome :)
Your question is about people who have already become employed software developers. Obviously those women don't far outnumber men in any respect. What I'm saying is the candidate pool of women is much larger than is assumed here (the candidate pool of men is as well). It wouldn't take a "magic wand" to start hiring them. Maybe doing so would amount to discrimination in some people's eyes, but I think this business of hiring professional models to entertain the men and give the appearance of parity is pretty sketchy as well. Corporations are apparently willing to take drastic measures to create the a certain kind of gendered workplace experience. Given the choice I would rather the results of their actions actually benefit society in some way.
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Sorry to be the party pooper, but Advertisers can and do target individual users on Snapchat by simple means of uploading mobile Ad IDs.

So while Snap takes the high road here and tells people they're not bleeding or collecting information on their users (which is true), what they don't say is that still all the info that has been bleeding from mobile users through any other of their weather and emoji apps can and will be used against them in Snapchat Advertising campaigns.

If they didn't play along, they'd be quickly out of any media planners' heads, and they're already struggling hard against Facebook in the ad ecosystem.

Source: I do this stuff for business. Throwaway obviously.
We'll put more technical details on the website very soon. Since you asked for an abstract, let me reply via DM on Twitter. (I'm @arjunguha)
Yeah, it makes Uber look kind of incompetent, like they didn't do their research (Google too). If he was hired by Uber to do the research, only Google would look incompetent.
From memory, the explanation for the play was that everyone expected them to go with Lynch, so they tried the pass for the surprise factor, and still had the fourth down to go with Lynch if the pass failed. So yes, very much affected by knowing that the opponent knows your stats.
Yes, that's what the article says. The article says Waymo dismissed their last patent claims after they heard that this guy was contesting them.
They aren't really being honest about it. Try using a disposable email service or one with basically no verification demands to register.

Even privacy oriented people just can't use Discord because it used to ban registrations. It just blocks registration now apparently.
The difference between “new coin” and “grant token” is eluding me here.
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Yeah, I use Riot/Matrix now and I can self-host it if I get disabled...but they don't mind if you don't give them a #/email so its really less of an issue there.
Please explain, if you would, why you think a charity should be able to own majority positions in for profit operating businesses and shield the profits from that private business behind a charity-based tax approach.

That can enable, among other things, vast abuses by companies that set up charities just to act as a front for private businesses to shield profits from high tax brackets. The charity still has to distribute a certain modest percentage of their assets per year, and that pales in comparison to paying 30% or more in taxes.

So you set up Burger Charity (or call it McDonald's Charity), which owns BurgerStand USA (operating restaurants). BurgerStand generates profit and kicks it back to Burger Charity almost entirely tax free. Burger Charity uses the tax free proceeds to accumulate vast amounts of real estate, which it then leases to BurgerStand (at an artificially cheap rate made possible by the low tax structure, providing a competitive advantage) for restaurant locations. Then they can do the same for equipment in the restaurants as well (Burger Charity owns the equipment and leases it to BurgerStand at an artificially low rate). Perhaps you set up Burger Equipment Corp that you own, and Burger Land Holdings Corp that you own, they all work with BurgerStand USA (the profits of which all kick back to Burger Charity mostly tax free). Cycle and repeat for an astounding tax avoidance scheme that provides a blatantly unfair advantage to an entity willing to abuse the charity approach.
At the risk of giving medical advice, you probably want to confirm the "might" be leaking protein in the urine thing. It's obviously worth worrying about so it's worth being sure about.
> Also easy to sneak in other clan rooms and negotiate switch and maybe even snoop a little.

>... business setting ...

These two things don't seem to go together, maybe that's why it is not used more in business?
For whoever this is news to, check out this XinhuaNet[0] article on holding group administrators accountable for things said in their groups. That they're able to view things is implicit in that. Then check out the pushes for Real Name Identification with online services[1] and phone numbers [2]. Check out the social credit system[3], mandatory by 2020[4]. The national face recognition system [5]. Its actually kinda incredible.

[0]http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-09/08/c_136592568.htm
[1]https://ifex.org/china/2017/09/06/ban-anonymous-content/
[2]https://www.techinasia.com/china-start-enforcing-realname-mo...!
[3]https://www.wired.co.uk/article/chinese-government-social-cr...
[4]https://investmentwatchblog.com/in-china-every-citizen-is-be...
[5]https://technode.com/2017/10/13/china-makes-progress-on-its-...
Unless you explicitly deal with sensitive information, you shouldn't worry.
Bitcoin succeeding is a very bad thing for the banking cartel. Is it possible that some big powers are ramping it up so they can crash it violently?
Another nitpick in an otherwise great post:

> You will never be completely trusted as a foreigner in Japan, nor will you ever completely fit in.

In my experience this is not really true (though if you read it literally, then it is ;-) ). If you speak, read, write and act like a Japanese person, then people will treat you as if you are Japanese. You will fit in. There are racist people in Japan, but not any more than I've seen in any other country. Japanese culture being what it is, you also won't really experience blatant racism out in the open even if you meet racists.

Having said that, attitudes are much different in the big city than the countryside. When I go to Tokyo or Osaka, everyone initially expects me to be a tourist. When I'm at home in rural Shizuoka, everyone expects that I live there (because there aren't a lot of foreign tourists). But even in Tokyo or Osaka after talking to someone for more than about 10 seconds they know that I live permanently in Japan and treat me that way.

My Japanese is not even that good (although I am very fluent in the areas where I have fluency). I rarely make social mistakes any more and people treat me just like they treat everyone else. I fit in here more than I fit in anywhere else in the world.

If you have difficulty fitting in, then it's likely that you're missing some nuance. Since nobody spells it out for you, it's definitely hard to figure out, but not impossible. You just need to watch what other people do in that situation and then start doing the same thing. The other main thing is to feel OK about being Japanese -- which a lot of foreigners don't in my estimation.
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I use tree style tabs, and wanted to get rid of the redundant tabs at the top. I used the following:

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As a tech journalist (and web designer on the side), I‘m sick and tired of this “AI will disrupt x, y or z” idiocy.
Especially when AI means “heavily scripted automated services”.

Designers, including for the Web, won’t be replaced by machine any soon. Companies value spending money on someone who knows how to best present their content and takes care of “all that techical stuff”.

For simple websites, without much dynamic content, it’s relatively cheap to hire someone good instead of using a service spitting out the nth Wix clone; for more high impact websites, forget about it: it‘s a strategic asset and you will have entire teams on it. Shall they automate part of their job and optimize it? Sure, they already do. And AI has nothing to do with it.
> There is no longer a limit on the GOMAXPROCS setting. (In Go 1.9 the limit was 1024.)

Why was there ever a limit? Is anyone in the know on this?
Is there any way a non-PhD machine learning engineer who took a few materials classes in college can contribute to this work? It seems profoundly important.
Ada and SPARK predate Rust by decades. For Rust to come on the scene and start influencing them and their well-established community is something that reflects favorably on Rust.

By contrast, when a modern language adopts something from Lisp, that doesn't really say anything new about Lisp. It's been around forever and everyone who actually bothers to learn about the history of programming languages knows Lisp has a lot to teach those who bother to learn. When a new language borrows from Lisp, that says more about the state of the new language author's education than about Lisp itself.
You don’t have to invalidate the patents at the USPTO. You can argue invalidity in court. Uber almost certainly looked for prior art.

And in most cases uber wouldn’t use ex parte re-examine. They’d do an inter partes review, which would them to stay in the proceeding and argue for invalidity.
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>poorer countries, where the gold standard is the noble African tribeswoman, carrying water for her family, living in a hut, eating soup made of sticks or whatever. Shame she has a cellphone and wears a t-shirt. It kinda ruins the magic.

I've traveled quite a bit in recent years, and there are quite a lot of fellow travelers who express something like this. Oh it's so sad that we can't see the REAL China anymore. Or something of the sort. Like other people are just their for your entertainment.

Don't get me wrong, I'd like to have a time machine and visit ancient China, but there's a severe disconnect if you think people should continue living a certain way to fulfill your stereotypes.
Actually, what he was doing was explaining the concept of how nodes enforce nakamoto consensus in order to validate transactions. It had absolutely zero to do with valuation.
I wonder whether the idea had its origins here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_...
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Wired must have an article template that looks like this:
Company X claims breakthrough-level use of AI to do Y and obtain result Z.
This is just a pile of bullshit with buzzwords flying around it.
Hsmp was great but today's Tier 1 Exceptional is arguably the most generous in the western world for tech talent. 5 years with a direct pathway to citizenship. No other in Europe offers a path to citizenship this fast if at all.
Firefox also does not reload all tabs on start, unlike Chrome

That's a choosable setting in Chrome -- resume where you left off, or start fresh.
Every crash is followed by another rise.

The idea is out. Bitcoin may die, but another will thrive.
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OK. Thanks for clarifying. You mean to say it’s not smart investing. You are judging intelligence based on purely selfish outcomes. I understand now.
If you're using keyboard as your sole method of changing apps and windows that doesn't matter anyway.