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FYI: Great blockchain (from sratch) starter article. At the Awesome Blockchains page [1] I collect starter blockchains and articles (in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc.) the idea is the best way to learn about blockchains is to do-it-yoursef - build your own blockchains from scratch. Great example. Keep it up. Cheers.
[1] https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-blockchains
It just occurred to me that lots of cosplayers are really good seamstresses.
This "What gives you the right to take someone else's painstakingly created artistic creation and give it away for free to thousands of people, depriving them of the exclusive right to sell their own work." is a cynically spurious argument, and you know it. You are engaging in an Ajit Pai-like derailing of the actual argument, which is the ridiculously long copyright terms granted to content publishers. Well, we now know we won't run out of Ajit Pais.
Thank you jaakk, much appreciated!
I worry that american culture has gotten so paranoid that kids don't get to roam free any more.

I remember growing up in the 80's I could bus/walk all around town and do whatever as long as I got back by night or called.

Remember, none of those cheating cell phones!
Then why were the tickets private?
I've also read that the devs have seized funds from users. Specifically, if you use the same address twice in IOTA (extremely common habit in cryptocurrency), you reveal your secret key, and the devs will take your money.

Among many other wallet related issues.
You can have the exact same problem with just different versions or even configurations.
This is all true, but there is historical basis, explicit and implicit, from the writings at the time supporting the idea that at least one factor for the second amendment was the ability to defend against state oppression.

"It is a natural right which the people have reserved to themselves, confirmed by the Bill of Rights, to keep arms for their own defence; and as Mr. Blackstone observes, it is to be made use of when the sanctions of society and law are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression." - 1769 newspaper editorial.
One of the developers for the UCL wallet here. Can you elaborate more on how did you lose money using a wallet that is not released publicly yet and is available only for a closed group of alpha testers who all have been instructed not to use the wallet with their accounts holding significant amount of iotas?
Most toys sold by third parties are overpriced on Amazon in December.

December is also a great time for coupons and sales from traditional retailers (you can still order online) so you're doubly getting hosed.
I am anxiously waiting for the postmortem. As others have written, this is not a first such incident that goes against (perceived) core values of Mozilla. Either you need to pull your act together and change the process that leads to such decisions or you need to come clean (and admit that you are selling out your users for profit, the way Google does). Well, you can also ignore the situation and public will understand that you chose the latter...

If you do decide to come clean, it would help a lot if you gave assurances about what you have learned and how you will change the process so that this doesn't happen again. Trust is difficult to gain and easy to lose.

I must say I am sorry to see all this happening though. I have always hated Chrome (a bit less than IE, but for other reasons) and am (still) your loyal user. I even enabled telemetrics recently (which means _a lot_ - there is no other piece of software that gets this willingly from me) - needless to say, they are turned off again. We'll see how the postmortem turns out.
This.

Whenever a story like this happens, I'm left wondering who came up with those ideas and who okayed them. From my perspective, anyone who thinks those things (as they were implemented) were justified is not suited to make decisions in a project like Firefox, period.

Another comment in this thread asked what will be done to make sure something like this doesn't ever happen again. I am aware that probably, nobody here can answer that question. But in essence, this is the thing Mozilla should be considering and communicating clearly in the near future.
Wide roads do cut neighborhoods in half and make them so much less walkable. We don't need freeways everywhere. While I like driving fast, there are other concerns than speed and even safety. I recommend strongtowns.org's article on "stroads": https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2013/3/4/the-stroad.html

I have a similar straight road with a school near my house. To make matters worse it's a main artery to the freeway. However, the city solved this much better. As suggested in the article the road is fairly narrow and there are physical separators in the middle of the road in the area where the school is. You can still easily go the speed limit, yet from my anecdotal experience of driving the road at least twice a day I'm pretty much the only person going slightly over the speed limit. I would argue that the road very much works as intended to transport cars efficiently and children safely.
Is there any real benefit to progressive JPEGs? I kept reading about how it’ll load in a better fashion in browsers but it seems no browser actually supports it.
Not true. Each miner may choose by whatever logic which transactions to include in the block they are mining. They are however are likely to prefer those which pay higher fee.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple fix its software?
Apple's software has become increasingly buggy and cluttered:

- Every other day I get obtrusive software update notifications... no matter how many times I turn on automatic installs.
- iTunes is a disaster. We can all agree.
- iCloud is the worst ever.
- iOS isn't pushing us forward and making things easier the way Android is. My passwords don't even get autofilled in apps... why?
- Their security keeps failing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11034071)
- the list goes on.

My questions:

- Do they think their software is great?
- Is management failing?
- Why don't they bring in new management?
- Is the board not powerful enough?
- Are they even trying to address this?
- How are they not freaking out right now? Are they that cocky? Are they waiting for customers to stop buying Apple before they actually fix their problems?
I can't find that text in my link, and it actually argues the opposite, that some of the cases ruled "false" by many studies are probably actually true.

But you're missing my main point, if, as one study found, 78% of false rape claims involve claims of weapons, gang rape or physical injury then it's not going to happen during a Silicon Valley office Christmas party.

The raw numbers are paired with a narrative, when really the real data blows the narrative apart.
I also recently wrote an article about IOTA and got a crowd of negative flak.

https://medium.com/@thedrbits/why-i-also-find-iota-deeply-al...
In Germany too
I've never really accepted this argument. If your money is inflating, that's incentive to spend because you know it's losing value. That's a terrible reason to spend money.

If your money is deflating, you are still going to spend it because there are things that you want to accomplish. Whether it's eating food, sustaining a hobby, or making a difference in the world, people will continue to spend a deflationary currency.
Merging oceans
There's a dead reply here that mentions a very, very good point.

There's a HUGE sum of money out there that people made as early bitcoin investors. For various reasons, large portions of it are being gambled in other cryptos. The nature of cryptoexchanges make this easy to do, and it's without question inflating other coin markets.

It's been this way since forever, but now BTC is worth so much that the effect is much more prominent.
I think the choice of process is basically orthogonal. Waterfall and Agile processes done well both have been demonstrated to produce safety-critical software. (See, e.g., Nancy van Schooenderwoert's work in medical devices.) Both can produce dangerous software. (E.g., Toyota's "unintended acceleration" issues.) The question is much more about what practices you put in place to assure quality.

I do think short-cycle methods have some intrinsic advantages, though. By making critical functionality available much earlier for testing, you get more time and more chances to make sure it's really safe. If early versions are bad, you get early warning signs that aren't available in a Waterfall process. And if testing turns up issues early on, it's much cheaper to make fundamental architectural changes: less code to change and more time to change it in. And Waterfall processes aren't at good at dealing with unknown unknowns; some things you only learn by trying them out.
If you can’t understand the utility of a social karma system then you should probably ignore all airbnb reviews, amazon, and totten tomato reviews when making a decision, and give them all a clean slate.

It’s hard to argue those systems are not useful if implemented properly. Yes it can lead to prejudice if done improperly, and some prejudice is unavoidable (the whole point of the review is to do a lot prejudging for you to save time) to save on time and effort.
In other words, the police are trying to create crime so they can justify their investigations.
Could you elaborate? Which grant programs are you referring to?
>95% of the people are here to get rich quick and not for the developement

You're saying that application and developers came completely unprepared for the market?
Beidou: Isomorphic framework for server-rendered React apps
Motivation is dangerous
"Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail"

"Let's Turn this Dangerous, Expensive Road Back into a Safe Neighborhood Street"

"Dying to Widen Highways - Oregon’s DOT seems to be more concerned with making cars go faster than saving lives."

The site seems to have a rather ... specific focus.
It's a shame, quality conversation can help a coin project in the long run. But it's clear that right now IOTA is in the pump-or-you're-a-fud-shill phase and communication is impossible.
And most people don't seem to know it: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/16/voters-perce...
Creator of PureScript retiring as maintainer
My youngest is into cosplay, and seeing the amount of work that goes into a costume that may only be used for a half day one time is impressive.
While I agree this seems fishy, there is probably a reason the USPS did this which we have not discovored yet.
There is an army of trolls connected to IOTA. You can find them very easily because they cannot defend their position. Here in HN there are plenty also.
Yet you didn't hear about this with the "1 in 50,000" Touch ID. It's not about brute force, but filtering (you know who has a similar face, you don't know who has a similar fingerprint) and input distribution (similar faces are more likely to be nearby than similar fingerprints).
The real estate free market is in need of regulation and enforcement.
The two issues are separate. Isn't there a lot of sound finical advise telling people to put money into the stock market? But isn't the stock market widely a greater fool game these days? Companies don't pay dividends anymore, voting rights are being reduced, and many companies are far too large to send a chance at being acquired.

It would be a terrible deal if 90% of the population wasn't accumulating stock via a 401K
Yes, it is official position, confirmed in a few documents by Pope John Paul II (google "Fides et ratio"). But of course you can still many priests arguing against that :)
What was the product, if you don't mind sharing.
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Oh oops, I didn't read carefully enough. Regardless, I think if you're interested in real security, both TouchID and FaceID are terrible (easy to use your body, by force if necessary, to bypass those), and passcode is the only secure option. FaceID and TouchID are just conveniences not affordable to those who have something to lose.
China Overtakes Germany to Become World’s Leading Solar PV Country
I am pessimistic about SGX. It's basically a DRM system that was dressed up to look like something else. Even if one trusts Intel, the entire security model hinges on Intel's ability to detect a compromised key and revoke it; that makes plenty of sense for DRM, where compromised keys are typically announced on forums etc., but why would a service operator or government agency tell anyone?

Moxie has good ideas, but SGX is a trap and he fell into it.
Defense against tyranny was a minor point that was seldom addressed in either the state legislatures debating the amendments or in the actual writings of the principals involved. Btw, guessing your date was meant to be 1789 and not 1769.
> He writes, "Essentially, U.S. shippers are partially paying higher shipping rates to make up for the hit the USPS takes giving subsidies to the Chinese."

Yeah, but why?? What is the intent of this program? Is it some kind of global trade "kick-back" in exchange for something else or is it just a dumb idea? Even the audit doesn't address the reason for this bilateral agreement made in 2011.

Moreover, even if the program "makes money" for the postal service it comes at the expense of hurting competitiveness of domestic mail-order. There must be some other side to the story, right? Protectionism is harmful in itself, but this seems like the exact opposite: active harm to domestic business in favor of Chinese business.
> Honestly, the 4.5 hours of sleep each day really makes me question the veracity of the story, or at least if it's somehow exaggerated.

It's true.

I've met people who slept 3 hours a night regularly to make ends meet. They seem and act normal until you try to have a conversation with them or ask them to do something outside their routine or that requires thought.

You'd be surprised how much of human social and work behavior comes automatically. You can sleepwalk through modern life and never have to wake up.

They were even capable of getting passing grades in university. Even some kinds of learning come mechanically.
The Robin Hood Airport case is a well known example, albeit a few years old now.

There was also a case of a kid who posted on Facebook (to friends only) that British soldiers should go to hell for fighting in Iraq, the police arrested him and he was convicted for hate speech iirc.
Did you get stuff done?
> it only requires basic reading comprehension, which I'd expect most people using Amazon to posses.

This is your problem. Most people don't have basic reading comprehension when they're using computers, even less so when they're not expecting to be scammed. This is well known in UI and IT support circles. They don't notice details, they don't read the error messages, they don't read the fine print. On Amazon, they just want to get their thing and move on.
Matrices from a geometric perspective
> Callahad agrees with you that "force pushing" the add-on was a terrible, terrible idea.

That aren't Callahad's words. Here I quote him exactly:

"Looking Glass is a really cool idea for users who want it. But pushing it out broadly, even in an inert state, was not good."

Note, not even "bad." Just "not good." And far from "terrible, terrible."
Interestingly enough this should be illegal when you do a "Personal Data Request" they should be forced by law to give it out.
One approach: use attestation to prove that a public key was created inside an SGX "enclave". Encrypt the inputs using the public key, and now only the enclave can decrypt and use the inputs.
I browsed one of the listings the level 3 stuff to stop small caliber hand gun bullets is listed as 4kg or about 9 lbs. probably similar to wearing a military style vest with the plates removed.
This article is horseshit. I'm a professional writer, and I'll trust Oates and King over whoever this guy is.

"Read widely" isn't some religious dictum. It's more of a religious calling. (Of sorts.) If you love to read, and you love to write, you naturally read all fucking day. Your thirst is unquenchable. Your tastes are varied. So you drink from many different fountains.

You also realize there is no trade off between depth and breadth. It's a false dichotomy. It seems to be manufactured by people who find the act of reading some sort of chore. I do not. I find it the highest pleasure I have ever experienced.

Perhaps there's a difference between being naturally curious and being forced to read broadly. I dunno. I've never had to be forced. I like reading and writing the way many of us like programming. I'm truly sorry if the author does not. Writing's a hell of a shitty way to make a living; I can't imagine what it'd be like if you didn't at least enjoy the sport of it.
A while ago I was introduced to a client whose site "was the target of hackers that were deleting all of the content from the CMS". Here's what I discovered:

- the password verification form to access the admin area did the verification check in JavaScript, not on the backend. So if you have JS disabled and click "Submit" on the Admin login form, you're into the admin area.

- the "delete" button in the admin area was implemented as an <a href=...> that simply did a GET request (violating the idempotent nature of GET requests).

Looking at the logs, it was pretty clear who the "hacker" was: Google. They'd come, follow all of the links, make their way into the admin site, and follow all of the delete content links.

I consider the work that the original developers did to be grossly negligent, and I certainly don't fault Google for anything.
Bitcoin has had scripting since that first release TX signatures themselves are OP_SIGHASH
> A part of me can't wait to see the President whose entire life can be cherry-picked from various servers and datacenters.

This is much more crazy the more you think about. Right now there are already thousands if not millions of kids who will never be able to get a higher up political position because of what they shared on social media.
This guy: https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson

If old recipes interest you, that's the Youtube guy to watch.
I’ve just moved from a 3 hour commute from the suburbs to a 15 minute walk to work.

While there are lots of positive changes to living so close to work, I’d just like to add some of the negative ones I’ve found since I moved:

1. A 3 hour commute would leave me exhausted when I got home. I would wake up at 7:30, get into the office at 10:00, leave at 19:00 and be home around 20:30. I’d eat dinner and then settle down for to bed. Since moving I now have so much time in the evenings for practising guitar, video games, reading and social events, but I’m no longer tired in the evenings which is preventing me from sleeping.

2. Living in London is stressful. I’m on a quiet street, but it’s a lot of people, a lot of light pollution and a lot of noise pollution. I’m used to pitch darkness and dead quietness. The air is also no where near as fresh.

3. I find that living so close to work makes it harder to unwind. Upon getting home I’m still in work mode. The commute was a nice chance to forget about work and calm the mind.

4. I used to walk almost 25 miles a week, it’s less than 10 now. Sure I can go running more often, but it requires more effort to enforce the habit.

5. I spend so much more cash living in London on rent, food, social life and dating, which leaves almost none for savings and motorsport/track events/cars.
Fake reviews don’t push bad products necessarily. They just make it a bit harder to get the truly best one.
This completely ignores locality.

As far as I am aware there is no reason to believe siblings or relatives should have similar fingerprints. On the other hand relatives are more likely to have similar facial features.

So for the people who have regular access to your phone, there is no reason to believe the fingerprints should be similar. There is reason to believe their appearances would be.
> newcomers to web development will simply learn GraphQL.

I doubt it. Newcomers are supposed to learn HTTP. When one knows HTTP, one mostly knows REST.

GraphQL is not a replacement for REST, it's a query language on top of REST. It's a useful tool to fetch object graphs but REST is not going away anytime soon. GraphQL doesn't deal with security, caching and other issues solved with REST for instance. GraphQL also pushes a lot of complexity toward both the server and the client. On the server,it's an ORM on top of whatever ORM developers are already using.
I bet if there exists statistics on how much time children spend alone outside you will see it decrease as car use increase.

Cars are my biggest fear when the kids go outside alone. Soon the oldest will begin school and I want her to go by her self, but the amount of cars on the road is scary. Especially around the school it's mayhem caused by parents driving their kids 400 meters to school.
It's an explanation of why a Java client would be suspect as an "investor" - experienced dev teams don't release them. Most of these projects are primarily marketing ventures ("look, we're the next Ethereum!"), a lot of code is outsourced, and the average "investor" expects a handwavy explanation of how it's The Future with lots of big words that that they trust is correct. Making odd/different choices (DIY crypto, Java reference implementation) hurts that idea.
It’s a blog about city planning that is espousing a contrarian view. It isn’t limited to cars, but it does take a strong point that designing cities around cars has significant consequences.
I expect things in 2-3 days but realistically it never happens without paying a hefty premium.

Amazon's shipping schedule is really bad because they hold your items hostage unless you pay for Prime. It's essentially blackmail to get your item in a reasonable time frame.

As a non-Prime subscriber it usually takes 7-10 days to get an item if you use their free shipping or 5-7 days if you use the cheapest paid shipping option.

The funny thing is, in those non-Prime free shipping cases, the item is usually processed / shipped after 7-8 days and then arrives in 2-3 days.
It may be small potatoes, but international shipping certainly affects my side business. From what I can tell, China is not the only country where there's a big asymmetry between postal costs for shipping to and from the US. When I get things delivered from England (obscure bike parts, related to my hobby), the postage cost always seems like a fraction of the cost for me to ship something of similar weight to England. And shipping to Canada just went through the roof.
I live in a country with regular earthquakes and recent experience with the government response to massive emergencies.

Our preparedness is this: Water for 3 days, food for less than a week. Those things come in quickly from the government.

After that initial couple of days, what people in stricken areas are desperate for: batteries to charge their phones. Toilet paper. Soap. Diapers. Sanitary pads. Plastic bags for waste.

After that, the most important thing is having enough savings to rebuild your life after your home, belongings, town, job are all gone.
> If you aren't open to change your mind, why should anyone be open to change theirs?

A lot of discussion/debate is less about changing minds and more about mutual understanding of the underlying values. The problem is these "taboo subjects" all too often have people assuming the other's intentions and therefore the underlying reasoning for those bad arguments never get fleshed out. Thus the person with the taboo perspective just feels misunderstood.

I imagine this is also how athiests feel in deeply religious parts of the US.
I'd love to see more of this. One hurdle is to find industries that would benefit from such young trainees.

In general for program like these, How do the corporate partners get value out of this? Is it just a tax right off or are there other incentives?

My state provides small subsedies to companies that hire interns from local colleges and universities. This has been a great program for my company and the student. But it doesn't start until college level. And I suspect it is ripe for abuse.