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Ask HN: Help me remember which conference presentation I'm thinking of
I am trying to locate the video recording of a conference talk that I saw a few years ago online (I did not attend the conference) and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. I just tried searching for ~30 minutes online and cannot track it down. I am hoping that someone on HN will know exactly what I'm talking about when I describe it and can share a link to the video recording.

I believe the presentation was from a conference for UX and designers (cannot recall the name). The presenter was a man and he was discussing the ethical responsibilities that designers have to prevent malicious and dangerous things from being built. He used as a primary example the incident in 2012 [1] where two college students who had their Facebook permissions locked down to private joined a club called Queer Chorus and had their membership published on that group's public page, outing their sexual orientation which they had not yet shared with their families.

The argument the presenter made was that the UX designers who worked on the security and privacy features at Facebook should have spoken up and pushed back and refused to design/implement a page which was so confusing for users that they were not getting the privacy that they thought they were getting.

I seem to recall the phrase "last line of defense" used in the presentation as well.

If anyone knows what I'm talking about and can share a link to the video, that would be super helpful.

Thanks!

[1] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/Facebook-Outs-Gay-Kids-To-Their-Parents-174440971.html
Bose noise-cancelling headphones are a godsend for this problem. Look for some droning atmospheric music (I like post-rock and post-metal for this purpose), put on the Bose, and you're in your own little world.
On other sites I've seen they usually rely on a list of mirrors across several free video hosting sites that get cycled out as takedowns are issued. I've even seen some use Google Drive to host movies.
Germ carrying people have functioning immune systems. Cadavers do not. They are just laying there rotting, like a giant Petri dish with no lid in which a mix of multiple unnamed microbes have been bred and are now running wild.
At least there were code reviews where you worked. In my current job such a thing would be considered a waste of time.
uBlock Origin is your friend.
Anyone remember this story from a few days ago? I think the insider trading has hit it's dump phase.

Pump and Dump? Coinbase Suspends Bitcoin Cash, Investigates Insider Trading

https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/coinbase...
HP OfficeJet Pro 8620. It's an all-in-one, but interestingly the best scanner for such purposes I've found so far (I'd love to find a better one).

Scans both sides, up to 50 pages in a batch. Open-source drivers, works well with Linux. Ethernet. Can drop it on on your SMB share.
Yeah I mean it's just $100. Not much to go up or down on with it.
Well, all the high end performance bikes are carbon these days, "making bikes out of plastic" is a somewhat accurate description of their manufacturing process. But those are certainly not the semi-disposable bikeshare junk we are talking about here.
Coinbase had four outages in June that corresponded to unusually high volume. That didn't scare you away?

That was when I was initially setting up accounts, and it was enough to scare me away. I use Gemini. They've had unplanned outages too, but they're much rarer -- only one that I recall over the same timespan (against 10+ for Coinbase).
Trying to keep a good posture so I can minimize the back pain. I find that more than any dev problem I face, if I feel uncomfortable sitting while thinking, it distracts me.
I agree with egypturnash. I did two failed Patreons and currently have a successful one that barely is enough to live on (in southern Vermont, on Section 8) which was launched off the existence of an existing business about four times its size.

I can't speak for Kickstarter: that seems more of a 'from nothing' place and it'd be a gamble. I can say that if you are running a business charging money for what you do, you can do Patreon for the same thing and make a quarter to a half as much, IF you don't find viral success of some sort.

One big difference: doing the Patreon, you get to give your life work for 'free' to your community, which might desperately need that sort of support. I give tools to musicians, and I passionately believe that there are many musicians/producers/etc who cannot blow lots of money on proper tools they need. And, the ones I want to hear are not necessarily the ones who have the spending money.

So, my Patreon has other than monetary value to me. I take a hit in my income so that I can get the tools out there, across a wide range of host computers that sometimes aren't supported by the commercial sphere, and I get a lot of appreciation for doing it.

Even to do that, you need to already have a following, and it had better be a following that's already paying you or hiring you to do something.
Thanks in advance,
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If they don't pay then it goes to public domain.
You are right, I missed that, sorry about that. After quickly skimming through the main page I went to getting started, skipped first paragraph where it's written AGAIN and red just this https://doc.bytearena.com/guides/getting-started/#prerequisi... :)
> Don't go into open source expecting anyone to pay you. It doesn't work like that.

It's changing a bit in the crypto space. Take a look at:

- https://gitcoin.co/
Or just use the SMTP specification and or bounce-backs to do the same...
A little. It is somewhat like Bitcoin Cash, which I'll admit surprised me by not dying immediately. The way I reconciled it with my view of the world is that it's a different feature set (larger ledger pages) that was too hard to integrate with the main product (Bitcoin), so they did a market test with a different brand and found out it resonated with some people. ("they" is an odd term to use because it was actually two viciously opposed groups, but the same kind of infighting happens in corporations as well, and people on the outside think corporations are all singular hive minds, so oh well).

I continue to view Bitcoin Cash as a prototype for different features that validates the need for Bitcoin to address that market segment, either by fixing the block size problem outright, or by the lightning network. I don't see a world where both BTC and BCH coexist long-term.

I can't explain why Instagram coexists with Facebook. It does feel like one is a superset of the other. Maybe Instagram's simplicity and ease of use is simply inconsistent with Facebook's engulfing experience, and they truly are two distinct features of a larger whole. If that's the case, then I'm looking at BTC/BCH the wrong way, and they're also part of a larger whole, and both will survive. So my original facetious point that Facebook is cloneable (which of course it isn't, because its value is in network effects, not its source code) would actually be somewhat true, except that it's different products serving the same overall network, just overlapping but distinct parts of it.
China has the same but these bikes are still a huge problem. Well, it used to be better: the attended bike parking lots of 15 years ago have disappeared as the sea of bicycles phenomena unfortunately ended.
They do. They do some work on nights and weekends, and some lines have shut down and will shut down for periods of months.

The L train (Manhattan to Brooklyn) is scheduled to shut down for over a year to do residual repairs from Hurricane Sandy's flooding.

But it's a major pain. The system is at capacity many hours of the day, as are surface roads, and some points in the city are only near one line, so there's no easy way to get people where they need to go when their train can't run.
BTC has no value proposition. None what so ever. Just like sea shells as currency have no value proposition.

Blockchain technology aka shared public ledger has a value proposition.
Backpacks are easy to customize with sharp knives and duct tape, and you're assuming one battery.
Fremont is completely covered in them. They're parked all over the burke gilman trail, cutting away at the already limited space for walkers, bikers, and joggers.

As much as I love the idea of accessible bikes, the lack of helmets and sheer amount of space consumed feels overwhelmingly unsafe at times.
You can check if an e-mail is associated with a GitHub account easily. You forge a commit with this email as author email, push it to a foo/bar repo, then look at https://github.com/foo/bar/commits/master .
Class action lawsuit filed against Apple for slowing down old iPhones [pdf]
Thanks!
Since then I actually took a bit of time to read the whitepaper of Raiblocks and bought a few more. The tech looks nice.
Part 2: What keeps you awake at night, indigestion boiling up in your esophagus, eyes open, staring at the ceiling?
- Sam Putnam
I suppose it depends on the year too. Here's a video I found for the XPS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kreTaNMswRA

Agree with the rest of your comment.
Bitcoin has "died" hundreds of times. Here's an article discussing its doom when it dropped 50% (down to $108) back in 2013: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/bitcoin-sees-th... It has been the same technology since 2009, regardless of the market around it. I think that there is real value in that technology. The world is trying to measure this value, and having an awkward time of it. Let's check back in 10 years. :)
> "Renewing existing infrastructure" as in "not canceling L train", or "R trains running without problems", etc? That could get some votes.

But people expect it to keep working as it does today, as far as I can tell. It's about expectations, not realism.
Yeah it was a pretty funny scene - it's supposed to be this simple math question, but the ... "Asperger"... he might be called these days - character, Lawrence Waterhouse, really digs into the problem. He ends up discovering something that he submits to a math journal for publication, but the army folks think he's an idiot.
Facebook and Universal Music Group Strike Unprecedented Global Agreement
It surprises me a little to hear that billionaires would even WANT to establish contact with aliens.

For one, disregarding the aliens' dispositions towards us, the mere fact of alien contact would probably introduce all kinds of unpredictable behavior, especially in markets.

Moreover, once you build scenarios around possible alien intents, it doesn't look good for humanity, much less the billionaires, in some of them.

Hostile - enslavement or extermination = no good for markets.
Hostile - exploitation = depends on what the aliens want, what they'll do to get it, and how much of it one can control (e.g. 3rd world dictators)
Benevolent - capitalist = might actually work out for those who can act as gatekeepers for the alien stuff.
Benevolent - socialist = unlikely to grant anyone a monopoly on alien stuff distribution.
Exactly the crypto tokens sold on coinbase
> The Federal Reserve acts algorithmically .. only discretion involved is the interest rates

I built a self driving car. The only human discretion is the steering wheel.
as far as I'm away they don't have them yet.
Ah yes, but it is the generalisation to _fractional_ ideals that is required to obtain the ideal class group.
Got a loan recently with 20% APR and dumped it all in bitcoin when it was at $19k. Super depressed and haven't slept for two days.
Yeah, I could declare it above. But it's subjectively harder to read, having to jump around. Like you say: subjective.

> Your defer as placed in your above example is already scheduled to run always

Yes, brainfart. Sorry. This is from a completely separate recommendation to defer a close (dropping error return), but also manually close so that closing errors can be surfaced. Matters for e.g. writing files (not so much reading), especially when you don't flush manually.
that doesn't seem to be blocking all of these
I believe the man is essentially saying that past performance does not indicate future performance.
Ironically, most of the comments here are saying he is wrong, because of his past performance.

Can we instead talk about his specific points and why they are wrong instead of just focusing on his past performance?

Also, it looks to me that his performance was good during the great recession. So if another recession is coming, shouldn't the critics here be flocking to him? Or is everyone stuck in the current bull market feedback loop?
How do you stop someone from moving something they can pick up? Vehicles are too heavy to move without being turned on.
If you are interested in web pentesting, learn to hack Webgoat and DVWA. From there go after live sites via a bug bounty platform (I like Bugcrowd.)

It is hard to overstate the value of the chance to test (and demonstrate) your skills against a live production site.
Just remember that "everything was great until the normies arrived" is equivalent to "our shit didn't scale well."
This post would have been better if it actually used equations. A few short equations are easier to understand that a bunch of lengthy paragraphs. In fact P(A|B) = P(B|A)P(A)/P(B) is compact and not hard to understand, but there are entire books written about it!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10672848-the-theory-that...
Go find pictures of Iraq before and after Saddam was down and see how the life of the ordinary people was changed.

I am not suggesting dictatorship is good; but in certain level of civilization, it might be better for the majority.
"Company X will give us a lot of money if I promise them we can do a thing for them." - Boss is considered very successful

"We cannot possibly do that in the time frame you promised." - developers are obviously at fault here
Has Apple Lost Its Design Mojo?
It seems Coinbase's go to strategy every time markets are volatile.

In case people are wondering why is this a recurring problem - this simply perils of Market Making in a volatile market. As a market maker for customer orders Coinbase needs to fulfill both sides. So to make money they buy from customers at low price and sell back at a high price. So they are collecting spread between bid and ask to make money.

But what happens if the market moves rapidly in one direction? They end up selling low and buying high.

So, they need to reset the market making algorithm. Or shutdown the site for a "fix", long enough that the volatility comes back in their range.
> 2003

Read the offical documentation on Linux with SUSE and NVIDIA.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-4363.htm...

Linux in 2003 is a totally different beast today. Tell me you got your wifi working or NVIDIA with a working desktop out of the box. I would sit in the terminal and have to install proprietary drivers just to see Gnome or KDE. I would have to sit by the Ethernet port for a while till I got wifi working.

Read this forum post I can post hundreds of these because I read them all trying to get my card to work. I had to edit my X11 configs by hand till around 2008???

https://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/showthread.php/1575...
Swedish Police Set to Take Over Pirate Bay Domains
Inside “Fin”, the elite human/AI assistant
Rubbish.

The best performing asset class is cocaine. Buy leaves from the growers, process, sell to the red carpet users. Thousands percent every year.
I never used AmigaOS and despite broadly fitting the demographic I never actually even saw one until a couple of years ago. I should’ve learnt long ago not to make statement about things I don’t know much about. Thanks for the correction.
Coin base has scaled too quickly they really should limit their user sign ups until they can get their support queue under control
Great question. I bought into BTC in 2011, not using an exchange. I'm wondering how much of a pain it'll be when I eventually want to sell them.
No goals per se...just kind of interested in the field and would be doing it for personal interest. I've found tons of sites that offer lab environments and downloadable VM's that allow you to practice exploits so maybe that would be a cheaper way to go in the beginning.
I don't want to downplay the need for rehearsal. It's nearly impossible to simply count for that long, so percussion players REALLY need to know the shape of the piece (perhaps more than the rest of the ensemble, in my biased opinion) to get their cues right. A nod from the conductor is reassuring, but she also has literally a dozen things happening simultaneously that she must attend to, so you can't depend on it.
TL;DR - We don't really know.

(but here's an observational study that says the more you sit around the higher your troponin levels are, and those are bad, so try to walk around more.)
I'm wondering how usable they actually are for normal people in stable countries. They have shown to work very well for darknet markets and things like that but I wonder if there really is a use case for most people.

I live in Sweden and I can buy something from the US in minutes over the Internet and the fees are pretty reasonable. Would a crypto currency have any advantage over the current situation?
For some people a fund that only does well in bad times is their hedge. You just have no way of knowing who this funds clientele is.
I’m getting pretty tired of playing whack a mole with these wretched exchanges. I recently left the dumpster fire at Kraken, only to sign up at, yep, Coinbase. Oh well. On to Bitstamp or Gemini I suppose.
This! realty_geek, do you know if any Rails dev houses took your project and used it to build sites for real estate clients for five- or six-figure contracts? And didn't pay you a penny? I'm sure that's happened quite a few times - I confess that I very rarely donate anything to the open-source projects I've used to make a living.

May I suggest that you be the one landing the contracts? Find real estate companies in your local area that have awful web sites and reach out to them for a coffee. Show them what you've done and sell the fact that they could hire the guy who has coded a site with his own hands rather than some scrub who knows how to click things in the WordPress back end. Yes, it's icky sales work, but if making money is your goal here, you'll get much farther than what you're doing now.
They have achieved trust is system. If my bank stops existing right now, I still have any money.

If <exchange> gets hacked, tough luck.
Ah good on you. Just find another loan shark. There's no way this can fall anymore.
That's like blaming firemen for making my house wet when it was on fire. The Fed likely prevented a deflationary spiral with it's relentless QE and never suffered the ill effects of high inflation that the anti-Fed faction insisted would happen.
Hopefully everyone in this thread will take away that it is good to allocate at least some capital to basic, standard financial products through big-name companies like vanguard, schwab, etc. I mean, I'm not an investment advisor, but putting all your money in one account with one company and one strategy seems like a poor choice.
2011: Better to stay away from Bitcoin

2012: Better to stay away from Bitcoin

2013: Better to stay away from Bitcoin

2014: Better to stay away from Bitcoin

2015: Better to stay away from Bitcoin

2016: Better to stay away from Bitcoin

2017: Better to stay away from Bitcoin

2018: Better to stay away from Bitcoin

2019: Uhh well..
Can the Blockchain Tame Moscow's Wild Politics?
Do you really think it matters? Nobody touched the bankers over the financial crisis because they didn't want to touch them, not because nothing "illegal" was going on. Holder and Obama said it themselves that going after them "would hurt the economy". That was their justification for not prosecuting people.

Meanwhile they added 13 bogus charges against Aaron Swartz with a maximum sentence of 35 years for making some documents that were already internally public at the MIT, available to everyone.

If the gov wants to make an example out of Coinbase, especially after they put up a fight in the SEC case, then they will.
Author here.

The readers from HN are around 60% last I checked and it's pretty much the most knowledgeable large audience you will come across.
Or, just buy a Ledger Nano S, which handles all of that for you. For serious crypto one uses hardware keys, and cryptocurrency is no different.
Coinbase brings a bank-level cryptocurrency consumer experience to the masses and provides a safe interface to an environment where you otherwise can easily shoot yourself in the foot. All you have to do is verify your identity and you can recover "lost" currency. The alternative is losing access if you misplace your paper wallet.

Except this isn't even remotely true! This is the sloppiest and most scammy financial institution that I've ever interacted with. They claim to abide by KYC guidelines then happily ignore your identity when you come to recover the account they gleefully have locked you out of. Every user, on a long enough timeline, will experience some kind of lockout. Then you will have to work ceaselessly to try to recover access. Actually that crumpled paper wallet that's been through the wash and was forgotten in a random drawer in your old house will be much safer to use than this company's support.

And this screed doesn't even touch on their incredibly shady exchange practices. They have how many VCs backing them and couldn't manage to make an exchange that scaled to meet demand at a crucial juncture? Either their funders haven't done due diligence or the technical faults were all part of their plan.
I don’t think you understood what parent meant by “single track”:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-line_working
I remain confused about the pay figure the NYTimes gave for subway workers; I have a close relative who works in the subway and I know a number of subway workers, and none of them make anything close to that kind of salary, even counting overtime. So unless that counts something other than the hourly employees, or counts pension contributions as salary (in which case it is just an argument against pensions), I have a hard time believing it.

I also have no idea what better alternative there is when a contract negotiation fails. Is the system supposed to stop altogether until a new contract is agreed upon? Are the workers expected to go without pay? The fact is that the union's demands have not been unreasonable -- they ask to keep benefits, to have pay increases that basically track the cost of living in NYC, and occasional to expand low-cost benefits (e.g. allowing all employees to ride LIRR and MNR for free, rather than just employees who live outside NYC).
Fair enough, that's a more nuanced reply than I expected and I appreciate it.
Glad it worked out.
If you are being paid in dollars you are already holding dollars. Paying tax on dollars you are already holding does not create a demand.
After watching the educational documentary “Breaking Bad”, meth seems a lot more profitable: you can by the inputs legally and all you need to do is some cooking. Getting rid of the logistics of import is surely a money saver.
Move your coins over to GDAX, their sister company. When Coinbase halts trading, GDAX is usually fine.
You must pay US taxes in USD which collectively must equal a large percentage of the US economy. So, the USD is backed up by everything made in the US.

The downside is the US government's outlay is larger than it's income, but in practice that's less important than you might think.
try adding uMatrix as well or enable more of the blocking lists available in uBlock
CEF meets Wayland
>We can't vote them out when there's literally no one to vote in, and both the Democrats and the Republicans have a gentleman's agreement not to compete with each other seriously, the same way Comcast and Time Warner Cable do.

And people wonder why Trump got elected.

Pervasive desperation for anyone who might actually shake up the system.