skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was an irresponsible high school grey hat (2001) I was part of a small group of people that shared exploits. We weren't that talented, but one of the guys in our group was still able to get into the cameras in the parking lot of the CIA.

This is the problem with cyber security: Even if you're the most knowledgeable organization on earth you still fuck it up. Any one person can fuck up any one thing and if it isn't part of your predetermined threat vector analysis then it gets through and you lose everything.

The guy took steps to hide his identity then reported it to the CIA. They emailed back with a job offer. Back then we assumed it was trap to get him to travel to the USA from Canada, but these days, based on what I've seen, I think it was legitimate.

Sometimes I like to let thoughts simmer:

In 2001 a shitty high school hacker had a reasonably credible offer from the CIA.
There is literally quadrillions in wealth measured in the various currencies of the world. So far crypto isn't even 0.1% of that.

The true fool is the one who believes crypto has any more or less intrinsic value than fiat.
When someone sticks a gun in your face and demands your wallet, you will reconsider this equivocation.
It's hard to expand journalism without hiring journalists.
My guess is that it's significantly more difficult than that—those movies are pure legacy code by now, and we all know how difficult it is to modernize legacy applications :).
I live in a city that is not flat. If you have a bicycle with gears that is no problem.
I'm Dutch. The Netherlands is one of the most bicycle-dense countries in the world, and we have a, well, less than ideal climate to say the least. Rain, wind or snow really isn't that much of an issue when you have the right outfit.
The phrase that Amazon used when launching lambda was 'deploy code not servers'. To me this sums up what 'serverless' means. It means the developer doesn't have to worry about servers in any way.
With AWS Lambda/API Gateway (and arguably with Google App Engine before it) you take away the toil of having to:

* Manage/deploy servers
* Monitor/maintain/upgrade servers
* Figuring out tools to deploy your app to your server
* Scaling an app globally.
* Coping with outages in a data-centre/availability
* Worry about load-balancing & scaling infrastructure
It doesn't seem out of realm of possibility that KYC/AML/whatever will be enhanced for cryptocurrency to/from fiat exchanges, and I don't think cross border nature will exempt to (i.e. exchanging fiat to crypto on a foreign exchange) - look at non-EU companies charging VAT for EU customers for example.

Take Monero for example, the potential privacy coin, some people think that it will be next Coinbase currrency (I think this is a pump though as they grasp onto any hints like it's solid) and that they will fully satisfy regulator requirement by Monero Coinbase users withdrawing to their own Monero wallet and providing Coinbase the viewing key so Coinbase can say to regulator it went from JohnB to JohnB. I have a hard time believing this will last long and I doubt Coinbase do to, regulations are a moving target and loopholes will get closed fast or at least eventually.

Drop fiat at the edge though and then it's a different game, but what do people start from? mining? mechnical turk tasks? some global airdrop for every human on the planet - is this was even remotely possible that would be interesting.
In Eastern Europe women in engineering has tradition. Its all about role models and social norms.

Here's a recent article about it:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39579321

In the west, the woman is traditionally the housewife.
I say pretty much the same thing when charities try to get me to sign up for a monthly payment.

If I gave money to every charity that asked for it, I wouldn't have any money left myself.

Maybe what we need is a sort of central payment system for news media. Sort of like Spotify for news, except that the outlets keep their own sites and you have a single sign on for all the sites. Your monthly payment would be distributed according to how many articles you read on each site (or some other, more fair metric to reward high quality articles, maybe time spent?).
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In 2015, I got him to reply to a mention about this on this tweet: https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/800388921255280642

Seemed to imply that he was happy with his decision, but wouldn't do the same thing now.
FWIW, you could get a similar return today by buying the ETH presale in 2014.
> So, problem solved, right? Not entirely. Though these microfacet approaches take surface orientation into account and give us realistic results while shading, the problem is that they don’t take into account the geometric microfacet details contributed by Bump or Displacement mapping which can end up inside a single pixel and get filtered out

Could someone explain this in more detail?
Well, at least you can protest about it.

In China, collecting your bio data is more like a procedure than a choose.

For example, I renewed my citizen ID card few weeks ago, and got my facial and fingerprint collected.

Also, some companies like Alibaba are helping the data collection: https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/03/alipay-facial-recognitio... and http://www.solidot.org/story?sid=47235 (In Chinese)

I believe all those data will be used to help tracking people.
Hardware in general seems to become more commoditized. In China Apple has lost market share to local firms that produce cheap phones with good specs. And most people there spends a lot their time in WeChat anyway so the phone's OS isn't as important.

As this commoditization happens over time, hardware also seems to reach a point of just being good enough. You can see this today with people deciding that their iPhone 6 is good enough and they don't need an iPhone X.

Apple obviously realizes this and is trying to diversify its revenue with increased growth in its services area, but a lot of those services are directly tied to its iPhone. If people buy fewer new iPhones that is bad for Apple, and if people buy a cheaper competitors' phone that is doubly bad for Apple because it doesn't get services revenue from that person either.
Check the movie S1m0ne :) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/
Yet my experience is that the issue comes from engineering a lot of times: fixing bugs is not fun, let’s rewrite everything because this time we learned from our errors, or just to use the new shiny framework. A buggy legacy code base that no one wants to touch or improve, and V2/New projects that of course completely fail to deliver in the end and the cycle repeats. Being in a customer team I try everyday to make Engineering care about non technical end users. My team and business might be responsible for some feature creep, but bad code quality comes from engineering practices.

Edit: to be more clear the discussion usually goes like this:

- Me: “where are we on fixing this bug? it’s been two years and customers are still complaining”

- Engineering: “we can’t touch at this component it’s a mess but we are rewriting it, this bug will no longer exists and it’ll be so much powerful, just wait a few month”

We all know how it ends. And when business pressure comes because it failed to deliver it’s all “business is evil we need more time to do great software!”

What we really need is senior and experienced engineers IMHO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)

"When Nicola Anders, the star of out-of-favor director Viktor Taransky's new film, refuses to finish it, Taransky is forced to find a replacement. Contractual requirements totally prevent using her image in the film, so he must re-shoot. Instead, Viktor experiments with a new computer program he inherits from late acquaintance Hank Aleno which allows creation of a computer-generated woman which he can easily animate to play the film's central character. Viktor names his virtual actor "Simone", a name derived from the computer program's title, Simulation One."
Why do you think it would be stolen? Is this because many wallets were generated with weak security in 2011?

I've heard many anecdotes about weak Bitcoin wallet security in the earlier years but haven't really seen many definitive information about just how much Bitcoin was hacked from brainwallets, etc.
Foreseen obsolescence...
My strategy: use a Nokia 1616 from 2010 with 1 week autonomy.
Other people use simple phone?
Hi! I really like this!

I've used Aegisub to do dramas and music video translations before.

Which brings me to the inevitable feature request: more colours and stroking the text.

Every subbing job I've been involved in I've used yellow text with a black stroke because it's visible on any light or dark background without issue.

A low res example here: http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/x/w/5/h/image.relat...
Fiat has an intrinsic value, in that it can extinguish your tax liabilities. Come April 15th, it doesn't matter whether your income is in bitcoins or onions or beanie babies, you will have to acquire USD somehow to pay the IRS their share.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartalism
> grouping a bundle of functions together behind an API gateway, you’ve created a microservice

Always beats me why people don't warn the readers about the almost impossible nature of logging and monitoring such systems :/
This. Mathematics is not really the study of what is the case, it’s the study of why. Even if this was accompanied by a full Coq proof it would be unsatisfactory because absolutely no insight is being provided.
Many OSes written in C++ beg to differ.

C ABI only happens to exist on OSes written in C, thus having a C ABI at all.

NeXT used Objective-C on its drivers framework, and that was replaced by a C++ subset in IO Kit.

Likewise their Metal shaders are based on C++14.

Microsoft has been slow and steady migrating their code into C++ since Vista.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4oruo1/windows_10_code...

Symbian, GenodeOS, includeOS, mbed are all written in C++.

IBM mainframes were written in PL/I dialects, like PL/S and PL/8, and new code is written in C++.

ChromeOS is written mostly in C++, even if it exposes only Web APIs.

Most of Android native libraries are written in C++.

Of course on ChromeOS and Android, C is still there given the Linux kernel.
They are subsidized by the local government mostly and get some from fares. You have to consider the alternative when talking about the fare ratio though. It would either mean building more roads, or another form of public transit. So even if fares were free and the subway cost a billion a year, if it would cost more than a billion a year for roads it saves money
It is different enough that it just looks like parallel thinking. I have been working on the same thing - breaking HQ, i'm certain that almost every hacker had the same thought when they first played the game - that it is possible to take a number of approaches to beat it or at least get some assistance to beat it.

edit: fwiw your post is more fleshed out and better, but OP had some interesting approaches to using the Search API for quick responses to the difficult class of questions. I feel bad for missing your original post

I have three techniques that i've implemented so far - the first is similar to what the two of you did with screenshots and OCR. The second is MITM based, and the third is probably the most interesting since it has a higher success rate and is much more difficult to defend against.

I started when it was 30k viewers per session but now it is up to almost a million and the lag has been bad

I might eventually publish some info - but I was interested also in the challenge of how you would defend against these schemes as HQ will need to be on the ball. I can imagine that, in the long-term, cheating will become a big problem and a competitive advantage they could have over the clone apps is the ability to guarantee to contestants that they're playing against other humans rather than against machines.

I believe that there are successful cheaters at the moment because the ratio of winners to participants (especially later stage participants) has worsened. I don't have enough hard data to prove that and it's mostly anecdotal but obtaining the data to back up that hypothesis shouldn't be too difficult (there used to be regular $100+ wins, today the win rate feels an order of magnitude higher)
C++ is a true systems languages on OSes written in C++, there are quite a few of them.
Thank you, that settles it then. I've heard the "NeXT & Sun" story from several sources for at least 15 years -- I had no idea it's apocryphal.
> What if governments disallow converting Bitcoin to real currency?

The real threat is that the security guarantees for the distributed consensus on the blockchain history make economic assumptions which don't apply to sovereign actors. If the US decides to assemble enough ASICs to construct bitcoin double spends, it can just do it. If China decides to expropriate the mining hardware in its jurisdiction and use it to construct double spends, it can just do it.

Investing in cryptocurrency is like trading the national currency of a very promising but poorly defended young nation. There's a lot of money to be made, but the bottom will fall out if they're invaded.
The other thing is, almost any problem you can pick out with transit is basically not enough transit, not too much transit. Most of the money gets funneled away elsewhere -- to cars and freight. Spend some real money on it and see what happens.
The problem with that is that it means a delay. There is no easy answer for when to delay the train for everyone, or when to keep moving until it is handled with a smaller delay.
Copenhagen is a dream, whenever I'm there I admire the bicycle infrastructure.

Berlin often cites Copenhagen for their plans, but call me a pessimist, as this would mean taking away streets from cars, I can't see a lot of this happening. It was mostly to get the SPD voted into power.
I did about 5000km in Berlin traffic by bike in the last 2 1/2 years and i can't count how often car drivers would have hit me without me paying close attention and having good breaks. At least every second day someone will cut into the bike lane while turning, not pay enough attention when turning right on crossings or underestimate speeds. Granted, i am not moving slow, and i drive a car myself and know that it is sometimes really hard to see bikes coming from everywhere so i accept these risks as normal, but improvements to the infrastructure would be awesome, since in many places it really is not great or outright dangerous. I recently visited Copenhagen and the bike infrastructure was amazing to see, however the city is 1/5th of Berlins size and there just is not a lot of car traffic.
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Apple has always been a hardware company.
Linux would have been dead by now if companies did not saw in it the opportunity to avoid paying for UNIX licenses.

Or in the case of UNIX vendors, outsource their development costs.
Now someone has to implement this for graphics card shaders in real time.
you can ride fat bike
Normally there is a lot of doubt surrounding whether Chinese manufacturer can be trusted with the IP/design etc. Any insights on how Apple is able to ensure this for so many years?
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The problem with "digital actor" is that, while we've got the "digital" part pretty well covered, that leaves the "actor" part which falls squarely under Moravec's paradox and probably (IMO) even requires consciousness to achieve.
Define "Short". Condensed does not equate to easy to read. For a math book, time to read is in reverse proportion of the size. The shortest path is not the fastest.

Here's "Writing, Briefly" by Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/writing44.html
I don't think they mean slow development. Rather, overall rate - all other things equal, someone who insists on no more than a 40 hour week will accomplish less than someone willing to work 60-80 based on whatever metric you use (KLOC, story points, etc)
$50k is not really that far fetched... Bitcoin tripled in value so many times already, what's one more time?
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often enough for a meme

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/i-made-thi...
> What if governments disallow converting Bitcoin to real currency? Why would a govt not use points like - Taxes, Money laundering and terrorism - to prevent bitcoin? Or may be they allow it with some kind of significant bitcoin-conversion-tax?

A big tax for converting Bitcoin to real currency could cause that bitcoin would be used as a currency. If it's too expensive to convert my BTC, I would just use them to pay/buy things. I agree, that playing the "Money Laundering" or "Terrorism" card would be an effective option for the govt.
Take this story about the "banned words at the CDC" which double checked a story by the Washington Post:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/health/cdc-trump-banned-w...

The NYT contacted the agency spokesman and several present and former federal officials. They contacted the agency spokeswoman of the FDA. They quote a former Surgeon General and an outsider expert.

> Sheila Kaplan reported from Washington, and Donald G. McNeil Jr. from New York. Pam Belluck contributed reporting from New York.

Three people wrote the article and pooled their contacts or input. It was likely edited to make it short and concise. How many blog posts care to do that instead of rehashing or just spinning opinion?
I think you may find my blog[1] interesting. It only has two posts, but my intention is to capture that spirit into exploratory technical writing.

[1]: https://applecrazy.github.io/blog/
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You can emulate the 68K NeXT computer line, including Dimension and Printer with the "Previous" emulator.

Oddly coincidental is the recent ability to build on Haiku OS: https://sourceforge.net/p/previous/code/HEAD/tree/
It's up to regulation - self or government imposed - to factor externalities in, change society and/or change the law
It’s funny how initially everyone thought those media barons pushing their sites behind paywalls were seen as crazy. They seem to have achieved their vision though - if everything is behind one then it no longer looks abnormal.
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An interesting read written by the team who interviewed with the people behind Kyber Network.
This is how we do it in NL. We constantly monitor what's behind and to the side of us.
The best way to avoid this altogether is to start your own Internet business way before hitting 50. Why would you still want to be working for someone else at that age?

Being an employee is not the only way to earn a living, internet entrepreneurship is a very realistic alternative, and a much better life in general.
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You can burn 700-800 calories riding for 20 miles or about 1 1/2 hours.

I wouldn't walk that much (hours of walking) or run that much (a lot harder on the body), so to me it's really great exercise.

That's also why I find kazinator's post a bit exaggerated. That dude's burning through a lot of calories every week. You can eat a lot of ice cream (personal experience) and still lose weight if you're doing 14 miles every day.
I think his argument still applies to an "overall" metric.
ride a heavy fat steel bike with both front and back suspension and low tyre pressure and tyre treading for slowing the speed. Sit upright and keep the seat position low for inefficient pedalling.
Surely double spends would trigger a collapse of the currency? Other than intentionally causing such a collapse, why would any party want to do this?
Truely I don't understand why the biggest aspect of this problem is not talked out.

They are basically tempering with everyone's liberty to start a business on internet. Damaging US citizen capacity to create new internet opportunities and be able to compete with their favorites pets.

Why the f* are you talking about slow and fast lanes ? It is true, but most importantly is this passes on. Any service that would like to be taken seriously would have to pay his way in.

Why everybody has so gentle titles ? Fast / Slow lanes is very abstract.
I guess I'm here to make the same point, though mine was more flavored like "I'm sure this was breaking news in 2010."
Trying to hide from OCR systems is futile anyway. OK, it might make the OCR implementation a bit more complex and less out-of-the-box, but with current technologies anything that's clearly readable will be clearly OCRable, and messing up OCR to a serious error rate would require you to totally hurt your human users by presenting everything in the worst CAPTCHA styles imaginable, where humans would often get confused as well.
The L shutdown has nothing to do with funds - it's mostly covered by federal Sandy money. The issue is the tunnel needs to be essentially gutted and replaced after being submerged in salt water for days post Sandy. There's no reroutes available so the only option is a shutdown. It can either be done all at once in less than 18 months (and MTA actually has a good track record coming in under time for repair work) or done one direction at a time over three years with a fraction of the current brooklyn-manhattan service level.

A full shutdown is absolutely the best option as much as it sucks for people dependent on the line (like me and my neighbors).
This can happen only if they solve the problem of facial expressions. The more realistic the characters look, the more we expect them to behave like humans. You probably noticed how weird animated human characters are, it's like something is off but you can't really tell what. I suppose it's the microexpressions that animators can't express.

When we start render digital "people" as actors, doesn't that mean that whoever is the pupeteer needs to be a good actor himself. This possibility poses some interesting questions. Can AI learn the script and, given some personality traits, behave like and actor? etc
exactly.. i've been robbed a few times with knifes etc but never guns in countries not discussed here. i really hoped there were cams
I am in India and am surprised how big btc here. Ex: I know 50 year old people have no connection to the tech scene who have 1000 dollars in btc, yet have no idea how it works. They think it's digital gold that will give them free money.

It makes me kind if sad. If/when btc crashes it's people like this who are going to get hurt.
> It's a race to the bottom. You could pay more for better work that gets done more slowly (fewer hours as people have families, etc,) or you could pay less for worse work that gets done more quickly.

But in my experience, this is not true AT ALL. More experienced people might work less hours, but will produce the actual end results much quicker - both in hours and in calendar time.

Especially when considering that less experienced devs will (on the average) cause more bugs and worse code structure - in the long run this causes a ton of extra work. In my opinion that is the main difference that easily makes someone a "10x" or a "100x" developer.
The industry does itself no favours by regularly rejecting techniques to improve software quality tho'. We could all be writing rock solid Ada, but programmers said no, we prefer JavaScript, hell we'll even try to use it on the server...