skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People hate costs being foisted on them (new receivers) by government. If DAB is that much better (and cost effective), that government should've paid for new receivers with the FM->DAB cost savings (the US gov subsidized digital TV broadcast receivers when the transition occurred).
I think you raise a very interesting question, and I like your initial solution.

I feel like a game is fair if all players know that a die is biased, but no player has an advantage in predicting the outcome.

To achieve that: for each die, for each roll have the players agree on a random permutation of the observed faces to actual faces for that roll. As a result even if all players know that 6 will land with probability 1 in the original throw, after permuting each side has probability 1/6.

The agreement algorithm: have the parties each propose a permutation, and compose the permutations together in order to get a final "unbiased" permutation. I think if there is at least one honest party, this will work.

Another approach is to let everyone sample the dies before playing until they are satisfied, and let everyone adjust their strategy accordingly.
I agree. Also I heard on one of my local repeaters the other day that ham radio operators were protesting TV before TV went mainstream (1930s?). It was funny to think about that.
The wiki page says that no changes are made until you opt in. Can you tell if you're part of the game? (I assume you'd be able to tell somehow)
> Likely rigged electronic voting machines that have no audit trail have given Republicans votes they would not have had.

Is there any reasonable source for this other than wishful thinking and denial?
"taking the popcorn" is not a celebration. I am sorry you felt that way.
What if a Coinbase insider steals from the cold wallet?

The NYSE is not vulnerable to this kind of attack. Anyone dealing with BTC is.
There is no payment involved when getting your frequency in Norway
Python?!?! "Significant whitespace" is an abomination from deepest layers of hell.
> while playing a game.

Your opponents can't prove cheating based on the game alone.
1) Thanks for the clarification.

2) Cable and DSL are the two I'm thinking of. (Though AT&T has just rolled out fiber-to-the-home, Comcast probably will too soon.) I'm currently paying Comcast $20/mo (intro-rate) for 16mbs. It's not broadband, but it's plenty for streaming Netflix, etc. I don't need broadband.

3) I'm also hoping that any abuses will encourage competition of ISPs.
Simple CLI tool to generate contractor's invoices
You can see some statistics for Comodo's crt.sh monitor here:

https://crt.sh/monitored-logs

Note that this doesn't tell you whether a CA logs all/ most or none of the certificates they issue. In my experience it would be unusual for a CA to deliberately _wait_ before logging certificates, either they're logged more or less immediately or they don't intend to log them at all. To issue certificates with an SCT baked inside them (which is convenient for customers) you have to log a "pre-certificate" with the exact same details first anyway to get the SCT.

BUT if there's a problem the Mozilla trust store policy (and perhaps others, but only Mozilla's happens in public where we can see it) says the CA must show the trust store all the affected certificates. By far the easiest way to do that in 2017 is shove them all into a CT log and then spew a list of links to crt.sh or another monitor, rather than uploading some Word document full of X.509 PEM files or whatever. So even CAs that we know don't normally log everything will put all the problematic stuff into logs during disclosure, or else someone reading m.d.s.policy will do it for them.

Some CAs have a deliberate customer policy of letting you choose NOT to log, sometimes with a warning saying if you don't log this stuff then Google might distrust it. Symantec was really into redaction, which is logging but with the "sensitive" bits of the certificate removed. But Google never really bought that idea, and Symantec are exiting the CA business.
I see you, but your example outlines a problem with the process/workflow, not with the developer.
What about this is WTF?

Please explain, in detail, how somebody with $10M in BTC should store it.
The best OOP language: Eiffel
Right, SMS probably wouldn't be able to bear that full weight of a whole social tech, but I believe with just a few additional features added to its spec (or a fork), the effort-to-payoff ratio would be large, if your goal is to help ween people off of sites like Facebook. There's no reason why I shouldn't just be able to use my phone to invite a bunch of friends to some event, and have them indicate with a checkmark or red X whether they will be going or not.

I have some other ideas that I was going to formally write up and thinking of submitting it to Mozilla. Feel free to email me (email in my profile) to discuss more if interested.
Very clever response.

I still made money ignoring people like you.
Totally agree, I really hope they do not try to make it something that it never was with detailed story arcs. The original was great.
There's a pretty wide variety in standards between U.S. financial institutions.

I used to work for a startup that wrote software for hedge funds (this was back in 05-07). The guys from Fidelity would come in and they'd have a huge checklist of IT best practices that you need to adhere to, everything from security to backups to SLAs with financial penalties for violating them. The guys from Magnetar would come in and be like "Sure, we'll try anything that gives us an advantage in the markets."

I suspect that your idea of what's "par for the course" and the "very lowest base" is pretty far from what's actually the lowest base in the financial industry, and similarly I suspect that brndnmtthws's view of what's typical for a hedge fund isn't typical for all hedge funds.
US person here, singing the song in my head as I read your comment :)
I actually discovered this because my browser would not stop running at 100% cpu utilization about 3 days ago, not doing anything, just sitting at Google.com with one tab open. It freaked me out because I couldn't find any documentation on the extension. Once removed Firefox was running fine again. I guess I'm relieved to know it wasn't some malware or something more sketchy, but I am wondering what it was doing pegging my cpu at 100% whenever my browser was open...
Wondering, why a throwaway post though. I don't think being happy about Canada is that controversial here. A lot of people want to immigrate there and it's a great country. Do you think it's because it wasn't the first choice and you might get criticized for it?
NeoPG: A GnuPG fork witho long running daemons
I don't understand how you can simultaneously say that we don't have details and that joining these other organizations looks just like this.

We don't know what the evidence is against this person. While it's true that the evidence could be crap, it could also be solid. This looks like a standard indictment for activities that are and should be illegal. I see no reason to think any "thoughtcrime" was involved.
That's way overboard. My original post was being somewhat facetious. I am in no way suggesting that a return to a barter based economy will make people happier.
Cryptocurrency is just going to converge on existing financial ecosystems and regulation. Blockchain can't fight sovereignty.
I think the interesting part is that it produces the same kind of wound as what was discovered on skulls.

It reinforces the hypothesis that these things were effectively used as weapon.
DeadAIM [1] was one such hack. I remember it also provided the ability to manually change your status to anything, including invisible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeadAIM
As I was reading this I was thinking "why not do it with Raspberry Pi Zeros, set up for mesh networking", like the OLPC "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child". It would significantly reduce the cost, and add a demonstration of a technology (mesh networking) that I think has been sorely neglected.
Interesting connection with brain complexity, but note that the function of the Huntinton's gene remains poorly understood.

Something that may be related... The same unstable repeat that causes the disease is ancient and is conserved throughout mammals! So other mammals can get a similar disease driven by the same mutations. This is useful for generating models of the disease in other mammals (e.g. mice). Such conservation of repeats is exceptionally rare.
Aren’t all internets decentralized?
Agreed but in this case I took a stab at downloading the buddy list and with a bit of tech know-how it's not terrible: http://dangoldin.com/2017/10/09/downloading-your-aim-buddy-l...
For simple data visualization, Plotly.js is easier to use with another data-friendly language like Python or R, which has libraries which push the data into a web-friendly format (including 3D WebGL charts like these)
You should take it out. As a native english speaker, I've never heard an idiomatic expression involving popcorn that didn't imply "happily awaiting entertainment."
Pedantry mode: there is, but it is basically irrelevant - IIRC the one-time fee is NOK 2000 / USD250 or so.
A New Industrial Hack Highlights the Cyber Holes in Our Infrastructure
If we're proposing supersets of json, why wouldn't one just use yaml?
Just installed Firefox a week ago on OS X. Just checked and I have Looking Glass installed. I'm usually very careful when installing software about things like this. I don't recall ever opting in to anything (including error reporting). So my guess is it's a default you have to disable in settings.
IBM Systems Magazine – Introducing PowerHA SystemMirror for Linux
Docker
1. What containers, images, image repositories are and how to create them
2. How to write a simple Dockerfile and build it into an image
3. Launching multiple containers with docker-compose
4. Basic docker commands, starting, deleting containers, listing running containers, checking container logs, exec'ing into a container, deleting images, running daemonized containers etc

AWS
1. Creating an ec2 instance
2. Writing a lambda function
3. s3

This is very non-exhaustive but would cover the very basic. Good luck!

For Nosql try writing something simple with redis, look at mongodb etc
And this is the point where even the most Mozilla-supporting users move away. For me, this is it, I’m going to Chromium.

Fuck this shit, in the past months we had CliqZ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708, we had Mozilla adding new telemetry, we had Mozilla force-enable toolkit.telemetry.enabled, we had Mozilla say that, if you download Nightly, that is considered opt-in to tracking, we had Mozilla put Google Analytics into the Addons menu (because it’s loaded from addons.mozilla.org: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785 ), and we had Mozilla say that, if we don’t trust Google, we shouldn’t use Firefox.

Fuck this.
You know "the government" is us, the people of the country, right?
Flex bison tutorial
I'm going from (a not very good) memory but I wanna say it's something like "<something> traffic monitoring probe".

Basically, they do full packet captures of all network traffic and retain it for a certain period of time so that it can be reviewed later (such as when something like this happens).
I'm pretty sure even in the hypothetical brave meatless future I will not be compelled to only eat recipes that work much better with meat.
I guess it won't change until the 'peer-review' process for every article includes a statistician, and papers actually get rejected for improper or insufficient use of statistics.

I think academia these days forces researchers to really care about little except getting grants and getting published (with the former effected by the latter) -- caring about using statistics properly (let alone the actual validity or usefulness of their findings) will hurt rather than help their careers unless it effects one of those two things positively.
New Scalable Mesh Networking Protocol That Makes Net Neutrality Irrelevant
Where I live, there is an e-bike shop and the owner has the requisite opinions on "green living" and "sustainability" but knows FA about bikes.
>While it is true that the RW statement doesn't imply that all Muslims are terrorists, it does imply that it is ok to ban ALL Muslims if some are terrorists. The liberal position is that this is NOT ok; we feel that the cost of blocking innocent people from entering the country is not worth the cost of allowing some possible terrorists in.

I'm about to speak one of the "heresies" that sama referred to in the third paragraph.

I don't believe there is a significant "cost" to barring immigration of low-skilled, poorly-educated people into the US. If fact, in my calculation, it costs us more than we gain by letting them in, considering that the number of jobs that the half of our citizenry with an IQ of 100 or below are capable of doing are shrinking.

I'm not without compassion for those people who want to come here. I don't blame them at all for wanting to. But my main priority is helping our own citizens (of any race, creed or color) who rightly view their future with trepidation. America has a huge number of huge problems, and I don't see how low-skilled, low-educated immigration addresses any of them. But I do see how it exacerbates some of them.

Unlike many people, I'm not moved by platitudes like "but we're a nation of immigrants!" or "diversity!" I think US immigration policy should be based on what benefits the US and its citizens, rather than other countries or their citizens. My position is essentially based on mathematics.

I would say that in about 80% of the instances where I've attempted to discuss this issue with liberals, they've offered not a shred of dispassionate reasoning, but reached straight for the old "but that's racist!" arrow in their quiver. They either can't or won't refute my reasoning, so they impugn my character instead.

I really enjoy the rare occasions where I can have a legitimate discussion on political issues with someone who disagrees with me, and who can discuss the issues without calling me names. But alas, those occasions are rare. That's why sama's article really resonated with me.
Many people seem to be shocked because Mozilla installed an add-on automatically. In my opinion, it doesn't really matter since the code is coming from Mozilla - they're building the whole browser, so they could introduce functionality anywhere. If someone distrusts their add-ons, why trust their browser at all?

The main question is what behavior is being introduced. I haven't researched deeply, but apparently the add-on does nothing until the user opts-in on studies.
As a 17 year veteran of Independent bicycle dealers, this hits it right on the head. The most successful shop I ever worked at focused their inventory on parts and offered 24 hour turnaround provided the bike didn't require special ordered parts. Service is the only thing that can't be replaced by the internet.
Other than the white paper, this could be an interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNvfct2jlg
They need all that room for ads.
The precisely not how it works now. It’s full of people who will make good employees. Selecting for good citizens is very different, but in the case of bitter-toned OP perhaps it worked in this regard.
Trump will stop spouses of H-1B visa holders from working
I am again reminded that "youngsters these days" pretty much no longer have this option unless their online footprint is actively managed from Day One.

A part of me can't wait to see the President whose entire life can be cherry-picked from various servers and datacenters.
Something that’s insured?
Is this something that was a test that just got merged into production? It sounds like an honest mistake that shouldn't have gone out?
In a game of telephone sort of way. The will of the people appears to get mangled severely on the way to government leadership.

Norway's government cut off 50% of its population from public broadcasts with this change. And their electorate is okay with that? I find that hard to believe but perhaps their electorate finds that acceptable for the cost savings.
Give it a few hours. Sooner or later, someone will chime in saying that living on $400k a year is "basically poverty" in SF or Silicon Valley.
Its a simple combination of water, metal and plastic

A lot of them still contain lead and sulfuric acid. That's why they are hazardous.
Yeah, you're right. The rotating number device (with no PIN entry) came later.
> The impossibility is not due to methodological defects in the current state of scientific practice. It's intrinsic to the world. If you cheat only a bit, and only rarely, it might be impossible to detect it statistically.

Not if you take enough samples. Just have to do it enough to reduce the noise.

But to your main point, yeah, in a game of Catan you can just get unlucky. And I think a fair amount of people claim that Catan dice aren't fair in the first place.

Also, did they test the unweighted dice? To understand if there was an inherent and unknown bias in their dice to start with? If they did, I missed that part, and they just assumed their dice were fair to begin with.
Why do you say people were fine? It's kind of hard to get feedback from billboard viewers.
You're talking past each other because he is imagining some kind of more sustainable meat coexisting with traditional production in the market and you're imagining only this new kind of meat being available for purchase.
"based on the pixel values"

I daresay technically this applies to all useful visualizations of the data. I don't think they'd be very useful if they weren't, in some way, based on the pixel values.
I transferred $1000 seven days ago from GDAX. Funds left my bank account on the third day yet still not available today.
I’m not an archeologist, and you raise an interesting question, but from what I can find, the Neolithic paddles that we know about have much more efficient shapes. As a recreational kayaker and paddler for 35 years, I can certainly attest that you would optimize the weight of a paddle as much as possible. Kayak paddles used by indigenous peoples in the Arctic are traditionally made using a Stone Age toolkit (these societies had no significant access to metal until relatively recently) and have highly optimized forms
Why not just monitor CPU usage over time? Should be more or less the same thing, no?
The Bitcoin "community" seems to try very hard to prevent that from happening, even if you ignore all of the shady activity various exchanges are engaged in.
I just installed FF on my mom's new desktop yesterday, noticed this crap while installing ublock origin. Definitely didn't opt in to anything. Made me wonder whether I'd accidentally downloaded some malware from a look-alike site, instead of official Firefox.
I’m confused by this bit:

> “But first, Coinbase...needs to legitimize itself -- and bring in revenue...”

Like it doesn’t have revenue? It’s daily volumes of BTC are around 30k. Sometimes a lot more. Plus ETH. Plus LTC. They must be making at least a million per day in trading fees. They’re a money printing machine at this point.
Why let Google invade your (and your friend's) privacy just something easily done locally.
I've had this experience as well at a Fortune 500.
> let's all take a step back and give them a little benefit of the doubt here, until we get some facts on what happened.

Except for:

Google Analytics being used on the Firefox Addons menu – solved by adding, in grey text on grey background, a tiny "Privacy Policy" link: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785

Automatically sending URLs visited of random German Firefox users to a German company (CliqZ) owned by a publishing, advertisement and tracking company (Burda): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708

Mozilla forcefully enabling toolkit.telemetry.enabled in Nightly and Developer versions, and, upon being asked, saying that "below the download link is a text telling you that by downloading these, you opt-in to telemetry".

Benefit of the doubt is over, it’s time to get the pitchforks out.
It's a rumor, circulating on Chinese and English forums, and I have not kept reference.
Just as a point of clarification, people didn't have to buy boxes to make their old NTSC televisions work with ATSC. The gub'mint gave them away for free through distributors like Radio Shack, and even via mail. You only had to pay for a box if you waited something like five years after the program began, when it was all over.
Down to just thousands, not even tens of thousands? Wow. I knew about three others still using it (and I had it around for them), though only two of them messaged me with any regularity.
Myth and superstition are a huge part of every culture. Cultural knowledge includes ideas such as "sex with a virgin cures AIDS" or "back pain is the result of a black magic curse (Hexenschuss)" which are decidedly less valid than scientific knowledge.

EDIT:Oh, and remember to always be polite during this debate.

Everyone Knows you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar...
>"waiting for the journal"

Yes, what are they doing?
I really like this. Gets rid of a ton of backend boilerplate. I really like the fact that I can do straight SQL when necessary.

I haven't read the docs in detail, so maybe you have answers for this, but I would really like to see a couple of things. First, a quick and dirty starter app for the front end. Just a straight CRUD app to save me some time. Do it in Vue or React.

Second, I want to see a path to getting this on my own servers. If I write an app and it takes off, I'll want to have direct database access, maybe front the db with memcached, do some distributed things, add my own custom API calls, whatever. Would hate to be trapped on someone else's SaaS. Give me a way to license the software and take it on-premise.
Canceled my monthly donation because of this.
Hi, I'm the main developer behind the IsoGrid Protocol. Let me know if you have any questions!

I'm looking for folks who might be interested in helping out. I was raised under Windows, but I want to use free (as in freedom) software, so integration has been a bit slow going as I learn how to use Linux.
And yet TV shows got made before the pervasive surveillance age.

I'm not particularly aghast that they keep this data, but I can't agree that they need it.
That's strange. Didn't find it, now it's there.

Did they just add it?

I'm using the TLS version, though:

https://chalkdustmagazine.com/feed/
There's a deeper problem. Bitcoin is very deflationary and strictly limited in supply. What happens if Coinbase cannot obtain replacement bitcoins at a price near what the insurance pays out?

They can refund in fiat of course, but that's the point. If fiat didn't exist then this would be a potentially insurmountable problem if the theft were large enough.

Now what happens if the thief panics or screws up and deletes their keys. Those Bitcoins are now lost forever. The money supply just went down permanently.

... or ... a really smart thief with enough money behind them might not even need to steal any Bitcoins. They could just destroy cold wallet keys in a very stealthy way and profit from the appreciation of coins they hold elsewhere.

This whole system is just not ready for prime time.
Amazing Alfred Workflows
Apple (IPSW iOS 11.3) Jailbreak: Cydia iOS 11.3
There is a difference between a non-profit and a non-for-profit (most health insurance companies are the later; go try and figure that out).

Firefox gets most of its donations from corporate sponsors. That's why the default search and switched back and fourth between Yahoo and Google; it's all about the amount of money they contribute for that. I'm not sure, but Pocket might be another example.

User contributions are actually pretty low. They don't go out and request them though like NPR or Wikipedia.