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How does one eliminate counterparty risk? The only thing I could think of is insurance, and I'm guessing no insurance company will underwrite that sort of policy.
Glib response: because Windows is the dominant OS and my statement is statistically likely

Serious response: I'm of the opinion that you don't learn much about Linux by using it in VirtualBox.
How does the pricing and feature set compare to Firebase?
Perfect take off, stage 1 landing and deploy
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And by procedurally generated, I mean I’d like the swim lane diagrams to update dynamically in the DOM as the user is working on the site rather than needing to have your server render them as bitmaps each time the user changes something.
> In traditional finance, custody banks like State Street Corp. hold securities, keep records and provide other services for investment advisers. A lack of similar offerings in the cryptocurrency world has kept many institutions on the sidelines.

>Coinbase has offered a solution: crypto custodial services, slated to roll out next year. Called Coinbase Custody, it'll be available to investors with at least $10 million in deposits.

Honestly, WTF?
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This is what insurance is for.

If they can’t insure deposits, then that shows a fundamental weakness in the security model.
Staying bitter for two years is one thing, but it took me a few minutes to refresh actual details about what happened. The initial integration raised privacy concerns but mainly by being unclear. Since then things have steadily improved, like Pocket updating their privacy policy. https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/09/mozilla-responds-to-firef... There was a long discussion on the Mozilla Governance board that clarified a lot of things, including the legal department affirming that users were not automatically bound by Pocket's ToS. https://lwn.net/Articles/650869/ And eventually they bought Pocket. So while Mozilla isn't perfect, privacy is a real priority for them, and when they do mess up, they put a lot of time and effort into mitigation.
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> I mean if the Nasdaq, NYSE or prime broker ever got hacked, no one would expect to suddenly loose all their shares, or cash held with their prime broker.

Actually, banks get hacked and lose cash. Permanently. It happens rarely, but it happens. For example in this SWIFT hack authorities were able to recover only $18 out of $81 million with the remainder $63 million permanently lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery
Cool analysis. Doesn't every player use the same die for a game like Catan?
Joining the Knights of Rojava, or Peshmerga, or the Women's Protection Unit YPG looks just like this.

They all involve a layover in Istanbul

They all involve wiring money, sometimes to you for the free tickets

They all involve making multiple internet searches of factions in Syria

and none of them involve getting arrested, simply because they aren't ISIS

Not buying it. The indictment doesn't give details, and the summary the DOJ has lacks specifics on how it determined the bitcoin was going to ISIS, or that she wasn't just speculating on bitcoin. The point is that these are prerequisites for the governments case.

The only difference when joining the other factions is that the US won't scoop you up at JFK or in Istanbul if they think you are joining the other factions, and aren't muslim.
I use https://git.io/vpn shell script, its easier
I've actually been trying to explain that exact concept (algebra variables) to some advanced third graders. It's been surprisingly hard to get them to grasp it.
Another statement of treating maintenance & do nothing until it's broken being equivalent.

That is disingenuous.
It's important to read indictments skeptically. The point of an indictment is to indict.

In this case, her actions look pretty bad. And if she was funding terrorist organizations, then yes, agreed. But consider that she may have actually been trying to help people.

The central issue here seems to be that she was taking out loans to buy BTC. That's not ok under any circumstance, unless of course someone is loaning you the money because you told them of your plans.
The US at least, has been in an economic boom since the Subprime Mortgage Crisis in 2010, which was partly caused by deregulation of banks and lenders. Can you provide some examples of why this world wide boom is credited to deregulation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis#Decre...
> but the deep Pocket integration was just too offputting

You mean the single button that does literally nothing until and unless you click on it?
This information better belongs in your profile, not in a random post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=swapagarwal
What I read sounds like OP is asking for uptime and service resiliency. That's a tenant of basic business practice. Cryptocurrencies have nothing to do with it.

> If you need someone to trust, you’re doing it wrong.

You can't do anything in crypto without having to rely on someone else. Trust is not irrelevant in cryptocurrencies - it matters just as much as in traditional markets.
I just wanted to add a few things.

1. I notice it yesterday, only because Avast was showing I have a low trust level Add-On installed in Firefox.

2. I googled it, and the first results was from Mozilla, showing it was part of their studies and experiment.

3. That was Ok, because I trust Mozilla, although somewhere in the back of my mind I thought every studies were supposed to be opt-in, since I have a few Add On installed in the week and I dont restart my browser, I thought i might have clicked it by mistake.

4. Now I am reading this through, I am more then worried. If I am reading the online comment correctly, Mozilla installed an Add On without user permission, enabled, collected data, and not for their own UX studies but a third party.

And to make the matter worst, that Add-On is now gone. It disappeared in my Add on Screen now I just check. Call me old fashion but that is not how i view privacy.

Like I said before, Mozilla's management and culture has a tendency of self destruction and messing things up right after they start being good. Still this is turning around much quicker then I thought.
I'm sure that this was fun for all involved, but it's an experiment in much the same sense that 'is sunlight warmer than shade?' or 'are men attracted to pretty women?' is an experiment. After all, the club is roughly the same proportions as a belaying pin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belaying_pin) or policeman's truncheon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_(law_enforcement)#/media...). 'Can a stout baton smash a skull?' is … a bit of an answered question.

Like I said, fun for all involved, but hardly ground-breaking.
Funny to see this, I made more or less the same thing in Processing for the google devart interactive competition a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaA3dAJz6sI&feature=youtu.be

Has a few extra features like being able to see different visualisation methods and how basic colour correction influences those - also animates the visualisation while going through the image

Realluy caught me off-guard because I used both the starry sky and the monalisa painting back in the days as well!
Good question, I can see why you are confused.

Coinbase right now acts in two ways.

1) as an exchange who allows you to trade on it.

2) as a prime broker who holds your coins. In this capacity they are just like Goldman Sachs who can function as a prime broker for hedge funds.

(a prime broker is like a bank who holds your securities for you). So in this case Goldman is relevant as they do the same function that coinbase does with respect to holding securities on behalf of a client.

Does that help clear up the confusion?
This is interesting on its face, but also as an analogy. My employer is a B2B reseller of computer hardware and software, and this sounds very much like your industry.

Cloud services are eating into hardware sales, and manufacturers (e.g., Adobe) are going direct, disintermediating us. There's no sense fighting back, but there's new opportunities for those helping with cloud services, and with managing software licensing and so forth.
That's too pessimistic view. This document was excellent in showing off all kinds of things that worked from education to developing useful tech to getting it into hands of some of industry. Those with strong focus on quality are always niche. Obviously, driving Worse is Better on grand scales in enterprise or FOSS takes a different set of techniques that operate close to the techs and practices that have already mainstreamed with a lot of momentum.

Reports of success in those areas combined with what's in this document might allow people to develop hybrid approaches that get stuff done along both axises. As partial confirmation, we've already seen some of the same types of tooling that Eiffel has develop in .NET and Java spaces. Companies pay a lot of money for them, too. Still potential to repeat some of ETH's success with integrated tooling for other mainstream languages mixing tech that benefits various aspects of the software lifecycle. The releases could be a mix of proprietary tools that generate funding plus FOSS components that keep a strong ecosystem of contributors.
I'm sure you all have very insightful comments about why bitcoin is in a bubble and will fail.

Meanwhile, I ignored your comments years ago and I'm very, very comfortably retired now.

But please, do go on with your smart insightful comments.
To me the most important thing is that we equalize the relationship. Right now as Altman correctly describes we are taking a subservient relationship to attention hacking bots. This is being driven by the ad industry (and governments, etc.) desire to use these bots to control us on behalf of other humans, but it's setting up a situation where soon the AIs can take the place of the advertisers. That's what an "AI takeover" looks like.

We desperately need to educate people about the addictive nature of social media and how it manipulates them. As we've seen with cigarettes and other addictive drugs, people can resist once they understand what's happening. People need to understand that these systems are not harmless. They steal your attention, fragment your mind, and distract you from actually being effective in the real world. They are an attack against your consciousness in much the same way that addictive drugs can be. They can even have real adverse health effects due to the ill health effects of social alienation, elevated cortisol, sleep deprivation, etc.
From what I've seen the E-bikes have their own 'dealer network' independent of regular pedal bike shops. There used to be one next door but they moved a while ago, think the rent was getting too high since they've been steadily improving the neighborhood.
Someone has to trust someone in order to do a transaction between a cryptocurrency and something else such as USD. That's because the transaction is actually two transfers, one of cryptocurrency and one of USD, that have different clearing and settlement properties.
If we know who they are why are they still alive?
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No. Firefox was too big for my old phone and I switched to palemoon when firefox stopped allowing unsigned plugins on my desktop. I've been using habit browser on my phone. I don't really trust it at all so I give it minimal permissions and try not to do any browsing on my phone I don't expect to be tracked or monitored. It's fast and customizable and has a built in adblocker so I've been fairly happy with it. I've tried a lot of different mobile browsers. I haven't really found any I liked. They all kinda suck in one way or another. I was really hoping something from F-Droid would be appealing to use but they were all disappointing. The state of mobile browsers in general is kind of abysmal.
No, that's the wrong takeaway. The immigration queues should be full of high quality people who are also likely to make loyal US citizens.
The CH-53 is a massive helicopter. CH-53K has 2x the rotor area as the H225M, and its over 50% taller, longer.
Good for them highlighting the issue of poverty, but the ideology is palpable and too adversarial for what could solved collaboratively.

Too much social welfare is driven by 'good intentions' rather than emphasis on changing people's lives. I'd be more inclined to support larger budgets if I knew they were spent better.

Bezos, Gates, and Buffets aren't the reason that healthcare and housing can be cripplingly expensive. My neighborhood has houses that cost about 20-40x the city's median earnings, I can't throw a stone without hitting an "all are welcome here" / "we're glad you're our neighbor" sign - it's a nice sentiment. But these same people would freak out if a developer tried to build a 400 unit apartment down the block. IF we don't allow housing stock to grow, spending our way out of homelessness won't be feasible.

When it gets cold here, indigents show up at the hospital complaining of "chest pain". they get monitored for a while, some respite from the cold, and meals but in the most expensive way imaginable. If we could just exchange a right to emergency healthcare for a living stipend and a place to live, both parties would be better off. That deal should be on the table.
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Tangent for UK people: I have the emergency services number from The IT Crowd burned into my brain too: 01189998819991197253

WHY?!
It seems to have disappeared from about:addons because the "study" has ended. In about:studies I see:

> pug-experience

> Complete • My reality is different than yours
Is this a fallacy? I recently heard a similar Anti-Net Neutrality argument on the radio that equated to 'the sky isn't falling so this is ok.'

Yes, the internet is still usable after this, but that doesn't make what you're doing right.
"non-profit" isn't a magical incantation that means they can run with a revenue deficit forever though. They have expenses and there has to be enough revenue coming in to cover those expenses, or they will go out of business. That's true for any business, whether it's for-profit or non-profit.
I meant running multiple VMs in VirtualBox to simulate a distributed system as an alternative to buying multiple Raspberry Pis, not running Linux in VirtualBox.

The really cool thing, though, about multiple Raspberry Pis is that the systems really are running in parallel, rather than faking it with multitasking. That's definitely worth something in an educational context.
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I suspect it will be very hard to recapture the brilliance of the original. There's going to be the temptation to write long seasons with story arcs and character development instead of keeping the sharp focus on farce.
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In my experience a significant fraction of the time it takes to publish a paper is spent waiting for the journal. During that time you can do other useful research. The long delay between submitting, getting through the reviewers and the actual publication is one of the reasons why for example in CS a lot of the interesting stuff happens in conference publications with fast turnarounds and the journal versions of the same paper appear a year or two later.
too soon?
I played Eve online for a while.

My corp (guild for non-Eve players) had a better and more secure login & SSO system than either my bank or my employer. My employer has replaced their SSO system by now, but my bank is still in the 90s.
Yep, that button was really annoying. And the Pocket thing on the home screen, too. And the fact that I had to Google to figure out how to disable it.

If you must know why, I don't want promos for particular web properties in my browser. I find Pocket to be annoying conceptually (a service to help you carry around all the things you didn't and won't read—eww, no, no thank you), and I don't want to look at it every day. I don't want to have to Google to figure out how to disable it. I don't want my browser to come with nonsense I need to disable.

> You mean the single button that does literally nothing until and unless you click on it?

This must be the kind of mentality that leads people at FF to do silly things like mentioned on this thread, or having "just one button" for their acquired web property. That's the opposite of how great product minds think. Great product people think "how can I REMOVE this button?" Not "how can I get away with having it?"
I was reminded of the book 'The number devil' (Zahlenteufel) which showed me you can reason with children about math if only you do away with intimidating language: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_Devil
That is one reason why I'm actually kinda wild about distributed exchange like etherdelta (as proof of concept, at least). The security model is such that it literally doesn't exist in any country, anywhere in the world; doesn't have servers that can be hacked, etc.

(Admittedly the website is housed somewhere, but it's little more than a GUI shell for signing procedure calls, you could run it locally or interact directly).

I think the big issue hindering that model is that they need something allowing users to pipe into traditional currencies. So far all the solutions to that have been IOU tokens like USDT tethers; which end up generating governance headaches of their own, as their value desyncs from their base currency due to arbitrage & supply issues.
I really dislike digital audio broadcasts. They have a higher quality, but the lag associated with changing channels (I change between preset channels a lot) makes it really annoying. Also when driving between cities, I can get FM stations for a lot longer distance than the digital ones.
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I get the sense that bitcoin, all these coins, are going the way of Tor: ostensibly an innocent channel. In fact, the dominant activity is foul in the extreme.
One model that wasn't mentioned explicitly in the article but I think might work is let customers have their bikes purchased online be shipped to the shop for assembly. I ordered my last bicycle from BikesDirect and it was tricky to get it set up just right. A bike shop could probably do it in an hour. It took me five or six hours.

Even if assembly doesn't directly make a lot of profit, it's a great time to sell accessories and service plans.
That's great thanks, added to Feedly!
In 1998, I built a computer (her first) for my girlfriend so that she and I could chat while I was at work. We've been married 18 years now.

Thanks for the memories, AIM!
When I was a child, the first thing that made sense to me was that "x is the number that makes the statement true". That is, 100 = 100, so if 25 * x = 100, you need to figure out what value of x multiplied by 25 gives you 100. I didn't even understand the manipulations or how you would really solve for x at first, but I did understand that you were trying to figure out the number that would do that. I would just phrase it like a puzzle, like "what plus 9 equals 14" or "3 times what equals 42"?

For some reason, one of my earliest memories I have is from when I would try to show off to older kids that I understood algebra.
Ah, I see what you mean. That makes more sense.

Still, I think there's value in having this cool looking machine to fiddle with over the computer they're used to messing with all the time. I think it likely to engage more.
Oh fuck, just give me a decent keyboard on the MBP. Is that so much to ask?
Meyer had a clearcut idea what he wanted from tooling. And that has not yet been achieved, neither by him, nor by anybody else. Maybe this will change in the future.
I don't think it was mismanagement - chat followed where people stored their identities online. One's online identity was for many years their aol screen name - now, for many, it's facebook.
I don't see why this was really necessary. It strikes me as the same move the cable companies made, which was more for their benefit than the consumer.
I can't read, sorry :p
I actually don't think they have a ton of real talent
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If all white people in the US had voted for McCain instead of Obama, Obama would've lost. Literally impossible for there to be any other outcome.
Ugh, just signed up because it looks interesting, but the whole is just an advertisement, built by the founder.

And there's no way to delete my account.
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about:studies->Preferences shows "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" is enabled on my copy of Firefox 57.0.2(OSX). I don't remember opting in at install time, was it hidden behind some innocuous-sounding checkbox?
As far as I can tell Eurocopter don't have a heavy lift helicopter. Does anyone know of any development program they were running to make one?
It looks like experiments are previews of potential new features, like letting you pop a video out of a page https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/min-vid?utm_source...

Whereas studies collect usage data.
[I'm sure you know this but for other HN readers]

Once a certificate is submitted to the logs (which as mentioned elsewhere, Google wants to make mandatory, but today they only enforce for EV and only by treating as non-EV if it isn't logged) the log won't necessarily immediately tell monitors about that certificate. Accepting new items for the logs can be (and usually would be) parallelised, but the log structure is a single Merkle Tree and so cannot be calculated entirely in parallel, usually updating this structure is a serial operation that happens asynchronously, with the result available some time later.

A policy value called the Maximum Merge Delay decides how long a log has to get this done and produce a new head value for the log, Google has currently chosen 24 hours for logs to be accepted in Chrome. Once a log presents somebody with an SCT proving it logged a particular certificate, it has 24 hours to make a Merkle Tree with that cert in it available to the monitors. That sounds like a long time, but it's not "business hours" or "best effort" it's an absolute limit. Data Centre flooded by a tsunami? Too bad. OS upgrade is incompatible with your CPU model? Don't care. Some lunatic threw a billion dollars in bills out of an aeroplane and your employees are out collecting as much as they can carry? Not our problem. Usually you can expect the actual turnaround to be much less than 24 hours, if it's ever greater the log should be distrusted and shut down.

There have already been logs that had "problems" and went away for this reason. Because the logs are only useful if they obey the MMD Google is being pretty strict about this.

However, just because something is in one or more logs doesn't mean any monitor, including famous ones like crt.sh, or Google's own transparency site, has actually obtained and processed the log item right away. There can definitely be slowdowns in this part, but they're only a matter of throwing enough resources at the problem.
I don't get this.

>It’s impossible for your opponents to scientifically prove that you’re cheating.

Then two paragraphs later you scientifically prove you were cheating (simply roll dice thousands of times).