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Oh I have a good one. I'm banned from the Apple Store developer program before I even published an app there.

I created an account to publish my (modest) app to the App Store. I overlooked the security question because this is a really stupid way of securing an account. I paid the super hefty annual fee to get in.

Later down the line, I had to authenticate myself for some reasons I forgot. As a 2FA thing, they asked me for my security questions, which of course I didn't have (the communication with the friendly Apple guy on the phone was interesting "Try `security questions are stupid` as an answer?").

In the meantime, they told me they required some additional documents to confirm my subscription. I politely asked them to cancel that, I'll create a new account since there was apparently no way I could recover the original one. The problem escalated until someone from the US called me to deal with the problem (I was located in Asia at the time).

The not-so-friendly person on the phone refused to help me recover the account, as well as refused to cancel my current subscription (the payment had already been approved and the money withdrawn from my credit card payment, they didn't want to issue a refund. "We can't do that", she said).

I then argued that well, I will not provide whichever document they asked, and they'll have no choice but to 1. cancel my subscription and 2. pay me back. The unfriendly person told me that I'll get a refund in a month, and that I was subsequently banned from the App store and the developer program. She then proceeded to hang up on me. I won, and take pride of being banned from such a toxic place.
I think you got the causality backwards in the parent comment. China is subsidizing energy and, indirectly, Bitcoin. The parent assumes the price of energy in China is below cost. I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn this was true.
Solid angle to try to get the gun lobby involved. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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One argument, although I haven't run the numbers, is that most of the money would be clawed back for anyone making over a certain income level. Below that, the person is able to keep an increasing amount of money.

So net-net, it's only the bottom end of the income levels that keep the entire payment.
If I understand correctly those are slides from a Googler (Not sure if those slides have corporate approval), that probably have as a side goal to showcase that Google is a fun place to do ML.

Not that I am judging or anything but, the author's personal website http://www.jasonmayes.com/ whose link is displayed multiple times is a giant ad to get hired elsewhere and show at least some desire for other career opportunities. Not sure if that reflects greatly on the company.
I suspect we'd be discussing this article even if Sam Altman's name wasn't in the title.

EDIT: Also, I wouldn't say that it's necessarily a good thing that we're discussing this. Moreso, my point is that the value of a piece of writing isn't completely disconnected from who wrote it, nor should it be.
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BMO in Canada forces 6 digits or alphanumerics as your account password. No more, no less.

What's worse, because it can be entered on the phone, aAbBcC are all == 1. So it's really just 6 digits.
Mental illness does not sound like a normal state.

I don't think he was talking to you personally. I agree in terms of individuals, we should not be expected to hold the burden themselves of others.

The same doesn't apply to society and the governance of it however.
Guess what! If your financial service restricts your password to letters and numbers, it's most likely because they want you to be able to enter your password on the phone.

So the passwords 'abc' 'ABC' and '222' are treated as equivalent. Try it out for fun!
> For example, if there is a homework assignment on the board, rather than wait for everybody to copy it down, kids are told to take a picture of the board.

Bad choice: this is losing one opportunity to get them to write something. As a teacher, one should look for every possible occasion to practice writing, especially when it has a purpose.
We trained it on a large dataset of gifs created by our users. The first thing the AI does is break the video into scenes and then scores them based on how similar they are to the gifs int the training set. We then take the top scored scenes and put them in the highlight reel.

The machine learning neural network is loosely based on https://people.ee.ethz.ch/~gyglim/video2gif_cvp16.pdf
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Yep. I laughed out loud in an empty room at that one.
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Cyberpunk failed us
ESL, myself, but I wouldn't know if Encrypted makes a lot of sense for non-technical users?
Enough of the ad homenium
Thinking about it some more, Patreon may end up eating the additional fees for the first payment (for CUF posts), increasing their cut a bit on other posts to make up for that, then aggregating the recurring charges.
The slide titled “A note on dimensionality” reminded me of this xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/547/

“That would be (very) bad.”
Can’t wait for the day that universities are massively overpaying supplies, chemicals and equipment comes to light.
I think the argument is to do with political leanings. Some believe that NGO boats incentivize human trafficking. If this is true more people will die via human trafficking than would if these NGO were interrupted.

While that argument is not super solid it is a political one and to Ban her based on her intention to report on this seems political to me.
No, it'll get us several non-neutral providers offering odd assortments of "packages", none of which will include everying most people want, like TV. We need both neutrality and competition for different reasons.
The much cheaper Xeon W-series, such as those in the iMac Pro, also have two AVX-512 FMAs.
Crytek sues Star Citizen devs for copyright infringement, breach of contract
Microsoft's sign in is a real mess, I think in part due to having to make your hotmail login that you made 15 years ago still work, along with the dozens of other services that MS has acquired or integrated.

I've had a real shitter of a time trying to login before, with redirect loops, or getting automatically signed out as soon as I sign in. Or accounts being a "games for Windows" account, but not an MS account, or an Xbox live account, so some other account. Often I've just found it easier to give up and make a new account.
> Why did they stop all work after that?

I didn't have any knowledge of this before now but apparently the answer might be "fear". The CDC (or more accurately the researchers there) think any gun violence research is a sure way to have your funding cut or career curtailed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2015/01/14/...
From the contributor end, I no longer trust Patreon. Their announcement email was way too much obfuscation and didn't include the bottom line up front: that my $X/mo pledges would cost me an additional service fee starting January 1, and that I would automatically be levied these fees.
(Full disclosure: I'm EFF's International Director)

Probably the two fastest ways to find out what we do (and how we're funded) is to:

* Read our annual report: https://www.eff.org/files/annual-report/2016/index.html (our reporting year is from June-July, so this is up to this summer).

* Read some of the stories from Hacker News -- our work is often covered here, because the topics we defend with our lawyers, activists and technologists are often close to people here. So, for instance, working to stop controls on crypto, the fight for net neutrality, defending people who are creating or innovating new tech, stopping the worst effects of DRM, tracking the consequences of AI, challenging mass surveillance in the courts, founding and supporting Let's Encrypt, etc. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=eff.org&sort=byDate&prefix&pag...

We've been around for over 27 years now, so some of the stuff you might discover online about us might not look so relevant now, but helped set the groundwork for the modern Net. So, it's now (almost exactly!) 20 years since the Internet censorship provisions of the Communications Decency Act was declared unconstitutional, but you still sometimes find GIFs of the Blue Ribbon Campaign EFF worked on to raise awareness of that issue on the early Internet. And the project you mentioned -- the Cooperative Computing Award -- is one of these earlier initiatives. It was fully funded in 1999 by a generous single benefactor, in order to encourage distributed computing in a period where it was felt that the incentives were more strongly aligned to centralise processing power. We've given out two of these prizes over the last 18 years, with two more to go. Of course, distributed computing -- including platforms like Ethereum and concepts like blockchain validation -- is more established now than it was in 1999.

Our budget for all of our work is in the order of $10 million, a large proportion of which comes from individual members' donations. To give hopefully relevant comparisons, the MPAA took $76 million in 2015; the 2016 budget for the ACLU was $138 million. We try to remain agile with what we have, but where new technology and civil liberties meet, there's always new things to do.
Those are not comparable to research publications. The university does not give corporations chemicals for free and then pay to get them back.
That's a good point- the openness that is most essential to science would probably doom any attempts at pseudonymity. Another potential way to moderate the amount of attention given to rockstars might be to establish quotas at journals based off impact factor that would ensure that early-career researchers and more obscure researchers could have a chance to be heard.

That probably won't be something I'll have any hand in implementing though :)
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Can you provide more details on the errors?
If 50% of the population doesn't have a digital radio to listen to in the car, I'd say it's too early to switch off, unless there is a really compelling other use for those frequencies (there isn't really), or the broadcast cost is very high (it is quite high, but no higher than it has been in the past).
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Same, I thought that sounded kind of hypocritical.
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You gotta understand - in tech - a company's brand value is important for early adopters and legitimacy.

Part of that brand has to be 'benevolence'.

In tech, it's important to be seen as 'the good guys'.

'We're on a cause to help, the money is secondary' - is the basis for a SV company brand.

Understand that the materiality of the benevolence is irrelevant. Only the perception.

The soon to be Princess Merkle (or whatever) and Angelina Jolie spend a little bit of time making speeches written for them - and all of a sudden they are 'amazing, altruistic people' - irrespective of their actual commitment. And it's bizarre how intelligent people eat it up and believe it. We ignore the middle aged lady down the street who volunteers at the Salvation Army two days a week about it and doesn't say a peep about it, doesn't put it on her resume.

So the dissonance between the 'reality' of some way to help and the words of the auteur don't really matter that much.

I don't entirely believe this is just all for show or disingenuous, but I do also believe that it's part of the resume building elements of individuals and organizations.

Remember Google's original premise was to do something about 'ads that were destroying the internet' and to 'do no evil'.

This PR and brand positioning - even if everyone on the inside has fully drunk the kool-aid and believes it to be true. In fact, it works better when founders drink their own kool-aid.

But to say that YC is doing more good for humanity than Airbus ... is debatable.

Just some very minor legislation that changed how drugs and medical services are priced ... could yield some pretty big social change in terms of quality of access etc..

So we don't want to be too cynical, just enough to recognize that public figures calling for some moral thing usually have something indirect to gain from it personally.
Somewhere, in the background, there's a poor old unix mainframe running Cobol, unaware that the world around it has changed, and that it should put to pasture, where it can live out the rest of its days in peace.
Part of the issue with Mendel was that he didn't fit the role of a scientist, and people were unable to seem as anything other than a monk. I'm not even sure if he himself would have regarded himself as a scientist- that's a gap in my knowledge that my history of science hobby has left open.
Curious...why don't you like DirectTV? It's the first service I signed up for...so I don't have much to compare. But the quality is excellent.
If you're on a host that doesn't support HTTPS, you should probably find a different one.
Given the number of plugs for Google products/projects/research (especially near the end) it's probably intended to be more of an ad for Google.
how does the US compare to Russia and China in terms of cyber offense/defense? thoughts?
It may (hopefully) be easier for them to advocate for things that help everyone else at the same time than to try and only help themselves. One would think it would be harder to only help yourself and not help others than to just help everyone at once, but maybe not.
It seems more like hackers tend to be a less aware of the seriousness of certain actions. There is much praise and awe for someone capable of getting past the security systems of big corporations, and some programmers want to prove themselves by doing that. What seems to be lost in the conversation is that it’s not just a technical feat, it might be a crime.

The law may be a little outdated, and yes more awareness is necessary. Until it’s changed though it is prudent to be careful about such things.
As Wikipedia would say, "[citation needed]". The transaction fees to patrons that Patreon proposed of 35¢ plus 2.9% are real familiar to anyone who's worked on a payment processor. Patreon was essentially passing the transaction fees they would have paid onto patrons, and they would not have been making a material amount of extra money for themselves if they'd stuck with the new system.
their direct possessions (money, real estate, license, ...) are much smaller then their total value. fractional reserve banking and all that. A significant fraction of their value comes from their reputation (to have an incorruptible ledger), ability to transact and Branding. bitcoin has those as well.
Thanks for pointing that out. With the exception of a couple spontaneous, hastily written blog posts, that blog has been pretty neglected for about the last ~5 years. I've been meaning to remove the Adsense ads and add HTTPS for a long while too, but I haven't got around to doing either. Before just now, it's probably been several months since I even looked at that site.

Anyways, the "disclosures" page has no references to Amazon because I removed them several years ago when I quit being a part of the Amazon Affiliate program. I thought I had removed the affiliate tags as well but apparently not. They were still there but they haven't been valid for at least three or four years now (and, thus, not generating any commissions).

Here's a screenshot showing that the account was closed: https://imgur.com/c3rmZ5F

Regardless, I have removed them from the page. The page is cached and I don't remember the magic incantation to force varnish to purge the cached version but rest assured it'll get refreshed in the near future.

I'm sorry you had to spend your time searching through my web sites to try to find something that made me look hypocritical. Also, I'll point out that I don't go around posting links to that "bookshelf" page on HN comments. That is what would have made my statements hypocritical, not the fact that I had affiliate links on some random web page somewhere.
From what I've read Net Neutrality will do anything. The absence of it will take everything you don't like about interacting with the Internet 10 times worse. If it's in effect however the everything will be cheaper, faster and more free then it's possible to imagine.

If it's this simple why are we limiting this line to just networking on the Internet? Why not car regulation - every car will get 100 mpg, cost $100 and drive you to a hospital should be the need arise.
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Do you at least get to withdraw your cash, or do they just steal it?
Or opinions that ever could become unpopular. Like privacy, you have to defend against the future, too.
What's the credit/debit card penetration like in India? I recall most transactions happening in cash when i visited a few years ago. Which also led to amazon and flipkart offering cash on delivery payment methods.

Did something change in relation to that? coz if not then stripe is gonna have a hard time finding customers
"we require passwords to be a maximum of 8 characters, because if they were longer, people would forget them, and would have to write them down"

I'm sure that has been said by some manager somewhere.
Pretty sure that would drag them into the purview of the 1st amendment.
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No, the whole point of TLS is that you don't have to trust the network. At all.
That would help for sure, but it need not be assumed. There are other collections of text besides the public internet. Some of which are only accessible by certain entities and certain of their employees, to be sure, but still extant. Email, for example.

Note I’m not implying the person has done anything wrong... on the contrary. But someone with a large quantity of BTC has reasons to be wary of rogue actors.
> why should the Federal government finance the tax methods the states impose on their citizens

The underlying assumption to your question is that the money belonged to the government in the first place.

By that logic, you go to work, produce economic value, various levels of government take what they want, and you receive whatever is left at their pleasure. That's your income: whatever part they decide to let you have after they're done dividing up the money that your employer desired to pay to you.

Thus by not "allowing you to deduct" taxes paid, one level of government is literally trying to tax you for money that has been taken by another before you got any of it.
the first thing I thought of when I came across this post is indeed https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...
This is one of the problems that I've been attempting to solve with Strukt[1]. Its operations work by processing a stream of objects (which have named keys, and values with real types), rather than bytes.

[1]: https://freerobotcollective.com

You're right that shoving raw bytes to a terminal doesn't make sense. I display binary data as a picture of the bits themselves. After a little while, it becomes surprisingly informative. You can spot patterns like "ASCII(ish) text" or "all 0's".

You're right, too, that once you start tugging on one corner, the whole thing starts to come apart. That's why I didn't even bother trying to make it a "Unix shell". There's just too many issues with trying to remain backwards compatible that far back. When the operations aren't programs, for example, I can optimize between them.

Unfortunately, perhaps, "people who spend money on software" and "people who are looking for a Unix shell" are pretty much disjoint sets, so I'm initially going after markets like EDA and ETL.
Tangentially, I wonder if most modern smartphone chips include a hardware random number generator, and if that is exposed to userspace?

The iPhone has hardware random number generator, at least: "The Secure Enclave is a coprocessor fabricated in the Apple S2, Apple A7, and later A-series processors. It uses encrypted memory and includes a hardware random number generator."

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

I couldn't immediately find if that functionality was exposed in an API.
Which is why certrificate transparency is coming, so those will be distrusted ASAP.
> Starting a startup is great and you totally should. But working at one is (on average) setting yourself up to be worse off financially than working elsewhere.

One of the best ways to get into YC is by working for a YC startup, especially if you don't come from a top tier school or company.
I think that just shows the age of the person. I learned how to type correctly on a typewriter, and that is the way that we learned. It means, for me, that SN, like me, was educated in the 70's and 80's, and formally learned how to type.

Disclosure : Am not satoshi.
Watsi cofounder here. I can confirm this is true. We're very grateful for the support, it's going to help a lot of people.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...

this will make you cringe
In the US, it depends entirely on the point-of-sale system. Some are just as fast; some are a lot slower. My guess is that the slow ones are using the same old CPUs that the previous "stripe-only" ones did, which just aren't powerful enough to handle the added cryptography requirements in a reasonable amount of time.
The person who owned the website said this:

> We have our own security system, and it has never been breached in more than 15 years.

Which leads me to believe that their system was built by scratch, in PHP, 15 years ago, and hasn't been updated since.
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Dear Rich Pineapple:

Congrats on your huge BTC surplus!

To make the biggest difference, consider looking into Effective Altruism[1] (an idea, not a charity) if you haven't already. Their motto is “using reason and evidence to do the most good”.

Perhaps do away with the charity proposal form, and instead choose one or several of the most effective charities as ranked by GiveWell.org[2] (who do rigorous effectiveness analysis). OpenPhilanthropy[3] is a charity that takes the EA perspective.

Unfortunately, seemingly worthy charities are often orders of magnitude less effective than the few most effective causes. Charity evaluators like GiveWell help us find the gems that can leverage our money many times more effectively.

For more info about Effective Altruism, listen to Tim Ferriss[4] and Sam Harris[5] interview the co-founder of Effective Altruism, check out this NYT piece[6], or read Doing Good Better[7].

[1] https://www.effectivealtruism.org/

[2] https://www.givewell.org/

[3] https://www.openphilanthropy.org/

[4] http://tim.blog/2015/11/22/will-macaskill/

[5] https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/being-good-and-doing-...

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/upshot/effective-altruism...

[7] https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Good-Better-Effective-Altruism/...
A tweet from Troy Hunt is like a telelphone call from Brian Krebs: a sign your day is not going to get better, if you're a company infosec person.
True, but Linux originally used the GPLv2, but IIRC never said anywhere whether it was GPLv2-only or GPLv2 or any later version, or just "GPL". According to the GPL, that means:

> If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.

So Linux could've theoretically upgraded to the GPLv3 (or GPLv2+). However, Linus didn't like that idea, and in 2006 edited the COPYING file to say that it was GPLv2-only. If you really wanted to, you could take the 2006 source code and make a GPLv3 fork of Linux.
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Most countries bar tourist visas to felons, let alone residency permits.
> Alarmingly though, nw0lb.com is still available as is nuu0lb.com and it-doesnt-matter-because-that-isnt-the-point.com.

I can just imagine NatWest: "Oh, is that the problem? Ah, ok, well, let's just go get that domain then. Sorted!"