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Ask HN: What are your steps to protect your privacy?
Everyday there is a new malware, attack, data breached. I don't feel sharing my personal information, not shopping online at all. Bit sometimes things are not in our control and we are required to submit our personal, banking information.

I don't want to do anything online. I just want to live life like before 1900.

How could you live a life without computers?
Your question seems to confuse some, do you mean run elisp interactively or edit HTML/CSS/JavaScript? If so I want to say yes to both.
> How, when given the evidence of practically infinite planets out there [...] can we even consider the possibility that this is the only planet with life?

Human minds aren't good with very large numbers. What seems "practically infinite" to us - isn't, really.

The number of all planets in the universe is said to be in the ballpark of 10^24.

Meaning (obviously) if you keep on dividing it by 10, in just 24 steps you get down to 1.

Meaning if there are 24 factors crucial for life to evolve, and each has a 10% chance of occurring - it's actually quite likely only one planet would win on this lottery. (At a given point in time, that is - that's another aspect of course).

Or 12 factors, but each with a 1% chance.
And suddenly it doesn't seem like a number big enough to warrant certainty claims...

Basically it is the "wheat and chessboard" problem in reverse.

You start with a huge pile of planets, but once you start splitting the pile, it shrinks very very fast.

Personally I'm not sure either way, and I think being sure (either way) is just naive.

I believe there is microbial life out there, and I accept a slim chance we may actually discover it - say, over the course of the next few centuries - but I'm sceptical about the existence of intelligent life, and even if it did exist, I see the chances of any contact to ever occur as zero.
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Process is relevant for what you can get to from V8 VM.
I suggest some reading first, starting with (but not limited to):

* http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2016/01/01/0/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10824382)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483467
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Coincidentally, a few pages back, some just offered to teach people react: https://assim.me/init_blog/
For me, the lack of easy tabs is a feature. I don't ever have more than four or five tabs open on desktop, but I have twenty open continuously on mobile Chrome and it encourages idle browsing.
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Theoretically, as all transactions can be tracked, some minors could only use renewables and sell those bitcoins at a higher price. Will be hard to track after a while but at least the initial price could be higher for the premium.
Visual studio (the real one, not code) isn't that performant either...
I was actually taught this in a small village primary school as a way to remember the 9 times table up to 90. I think we were also taught how to apply it quickly: If you want n * 9, the first digit is n - 1 and the second is 9 - (n - 1).

Of course, it fails at 99. It wasn't until much later that I learnt that all multiples of 9 have the property of their digits adding up to multiples of 9 and that there exist proofs.
Charlemagne is one of a handful of kings who gets awarded
the post-nominal accolade “the Great.” His early life
remains mysterious and the stories are assembled from
various sources, but it seems he was born around 742 B.C.

So, Charlemagne was born around 742 B.C.? Doubt it!
I agree on that part of the assertion, that they have been unnecessarily hard (WaPo mostly) on Trump, and they don't even have to be. It dilutes their credibility.

Being overly hard on Trump and being overwhelmingly left-leaning isn't necessarily the same thing though. I mean Lindsay Graham who is fairly conservative went on a Trump slam tour before the election. Mitt Romney did the same thing, as did other conservative leaders.
I don't think that's true, and I don't think Piketty actually did say that.

Where people manage to enable themselves and their offspring to grow their wealth geometrically at the expense of everybody else they always do so by using (legal) means of siphoning off both natural wealth and wealth created by others.

If you inherited a chunk of stock which your parents bought which grew in value and paid out dividends since they died, for instance, that increase in value is real but it wasn't created by them or by you. Who did create that wealth is context dependent (most of the time it's going to be employees working for the corporation), but the fact remains that it wasn't you or your parents.

The same applies if you inherit a bond portfolio (the wealth is created by the people paying you interest) or land titles (in, e.g. a large city, that wealth is created by the people who live and work surrounding that land).

That's largely what is driving the inequality Piketty is measuring. 90% of the 0.1% siphoned all their wealth from others (e.g. alice walton types) and created none themselves and, IMHO, all of them siphoned most of the wealth they hold - even the ones that are dubiously considered 'self made'.

I think by aiming to create a system where the people get to keep the wealth they create and share the wealth nobody created (and the wealth created that isn't so easy to attribute), inequality will naturally decrease to a more sustainable level that people will consider fair.

In practical terms this means legislators should be encouraged to raise taxes on the very wealthy who very obviously siphoned wealth money first (e.g. the Duke of Westminster) before going after the wealthy where it isn't clear how much they created and how much was siphoned (e.g. the estate of Steve Jobs) and developing better ways of separating 'created' from 'siphoned' so that they can be treated differently.
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Considering it includes most cpus from the last decade (or even last two), shouldn't they delay it a little bit longer so that not only cloud businesses but also more mainstream companies get the time to deploy patches and tests ?
I agree, but the right wing news companies have been shouting this for 20 years, and I'm not sure if it's any more true today than it was 20 years ago.

I mean there is a reason Fox blathers on about being most trusted and all that, just like a used car salesman says, "trust me."
That describes 90% of jazz too.
I wonder: if there truly was a nuclear apocalypse, could bitcoins be used ? Would it be more practical than barters or leftover coins and jewels ?
The UX of digital equipment _really_ sucks. At first I thought it was because it was a new technology still in infancy, but things haven't improved since and we are still emulating analog controls. VST interfaces often have static background image (skin) and 'knobs' you control with your mouse. Actual hardware usually features rotary encoder or buttons to navigate the menu system with several layers of depth. This is tedious and hampers creativity. One positive example is Teenage Engineering OP-1, they seem to know what they are doing.

I'm currently building digital instruments for android phones and I refuse to add any UI elements until I figure out something that makes sense. Until then the interpreted Lua code is the user interface. I would be very interested in some new UI patterns for touchscreen that take good advantage of interaction between user actions and visual feedback.
Yes, a step was missing. I've updated it to include multiplication by "a" and loop back to step 4.

And yes, this is more complex than basic reasoning. It's an optimization to the original algorithm, and like most optimized algorithms, is less transparent.
It does not affect Raspberry Pi devices to my knowledge. Please provide source for your claims!

The CPUs in Raspberry Pi 1-3 are not affected.

ARM11, Cortex-A7, Cortex-A5

Raspberry Pi 2 v1 use a Broadcom BCM2836 SoC with a 900 MHz 32-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor.

Raspberry Pi 3 (and Pi 2 v1.2) uses a Broadcom BCM2837 SoC with a 1.2 GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor.

According to ARM website https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update it especially says

"*Only affected cores are listed, all other Arm cores are NOT affected.*"

and it lists only

"Cortex-R7, Cortex-R8, Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9, Cortex-A15,
Cortex-A17, Cortex-A57, Cortex-A72, Cortex-A73, Cortex-A75"
But the competition may lower, if the reward they get drops.
The article is well written and interesting.

The kit looks fun, but I don’t think it as (easily) be used to replicate this work, it’s just too different.

The issues mentioned in the article also apply.
I can't imagine they ever published the data since I can't imagine how they could even collect it.

Anyone can walk in and no one needs to provide any identifying information so how would you be able to track anyone over any period of time?
I doubt bitcoin could survive a nuclear apocalypse. Bitcoin requires a working internet and excessive power to be available.

Why would anyone trying to survive in a nuclear apocalypse bother to mine bitcoin? Cigarettes or Bullets would be far more valuable.

The problem is most definitely Bitcoin, considering several other coins have either moved or are planning to move to more efficient methods of consensus.
There are people with the role "Happiness Hero". This is new to me, can anyone explain? What do they tell future employers?
> This implies that ARM vendors do less validation. I guess ARM is just so much simpler that good enough validation can be done faster.

More likely "good enough" is much lower because ARM users aren't finding the bugs. The workloads that find these bugs in Intel systems are: heavy compilation, heavy numeric computation, privilege escalation attackers on multi-user systems. Those use cases barely exist on ARM: who's running a compile farm on ARM, or doing scientific computation on an ARM cluster, or offering a public cloud running on ARM?
We don't know all the factors under which life can exist. Even the lifeforms that we do know of, occupy a very broad spectrum in all metrics, existing at all sorts of extremes.

We even have evidence of life we have never seen, will never encounter, and may never even have conceived as being possible to exist without that evidence: the enormous dinosaurs.
The timeline of events is ... interesting: Intel filed its quarterly report October 26 and the trades were initiated on October 30 and executed November 30. There's no doubt he knew. The big question is what lies ahead. When the patches hit, when people other than, how to say, geeks realize what's up then comes the question: does Intel stock drop? If it does, then even the company might come under fire for not disclosing a significant risk.
What would be a good example of accepting truth without evidence?
The Feasibility of Exploiting Web Apps Using Meltdown or Spectre
Any public information on how someone like Google or Facebook handle this? Do they have enough spare capacity to patch or will they need to build further capacity first? I could imagine 10% of Google's capacity (internal services, not Google Cloud) is at least a large datacentre.
Win7, for better or worse, is still a relevant OS. What engine does its native webview use? Some old IE thing that is garbage in comparison to Chromium?
Look. The posts talking from experience about naltrexone and therapy are good...But let's not mislead people.

AA has been incredibly successful over the years. Yes, it needs to be done in conjunction with therapy. Yes, psycho-pharma can help in massive ways. Those are things that anyone trying to get sober should also look at.

AA doesn't work for all personality types. But it's far too fashionable for armchair scientists on the internet to shit on something that has helped more people than you can possibly imagine.

Just because you are a smart person and you get all the jokes in Rick and Morty doesn't mean that you are the all singing all dancing voice of dispassionate inquiry. There are people that need to know that help if available to them and that it works.

Your opinions on this and most other subjects are useless, but in this case it might stop someone from getting help.

If you think you have a problem, please talk to a doctor or find an AA chapter. They will help you.
Bitcoin doesn't have this problem. Each mined block have limited bitcoins in reward and bitcoin price won't skyrocket to the infinity, so sum of all miner expenses is limited by some fixed number, nobody would spend their money and mine with negative result.
I had a configuration that I was nursing along for several years, but after seeing Prelude [0] I realized that it would be much simpler for me to let the community to most of the work for me. Now I have a consistent environment for most languages and I am able to make small tweaks on top.

[0]: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude
Some predictions for virtual reality in 2018
The concern has been raised before: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/3...

(eta: Nothing earns downvotes on Hacker News like complaining about downvotes does. If getting downvoted here bothers you - and God alone knows why it would - then complaining about downvotes is a habit worth avoiding.)
The authors note in the Spectre paper that Chrome already does this, and they can get around it with a timer thread.
Microsoft is thinking of portability as a primary. Also VS Code is a way better experience than Atom after having given Atom many chances. Microsoft wants to build tools anyone can use to enhance usage of their cloud platform offerings from any OS.
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That's such a good point.

It's really frustrating to read healthy people criticize a method of treatment for sick people that was created by other sick people out of desperation.
Why ?!
Ask HN: Binance.com Comodo certificate suddenly invalid
Interesting, I was visiting binance.com today amid the latest crypto-currency hoopla (Tron, Stellar) which shot up 100%. And suddenly, as I'm using the site, Safari starts saying that the certificate is invalid. Then I tried it on Chrome, and right away, I got the same thing.

It was issued by Comodo, and expires May 18th. Does this mean that Comodo's certificates are now on browsers' deprecated certificate authorities list?
For the same reason it is "okay" for a cat to rape another cat but it is not okay for humans to do that.
No-one necessarily broke the embargo. A blogger noticed unusual activity around a certain linux patchset and put two and two together, and the register mostly sourced from his article ( http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-myst... )
That's the thing, you don't get the same quality of life. If you're in the valley, you have many orders of magnitude greater job liquidity than anywhere else, which is why you're paying the living cost premium. Otherwise, why would you live in a high-cost area?
No, because there's correlated noise: all the stuff in between us and the planet.
>And non Apple fanboys would never go to Apple music,

I did. Apple Music still has one major selling point: They own iTunes so anything on iTunes is on AM. For spotify and other streaming services you still have to wait a couple hours to a few days for something to appear on the other streaming services

That being said I moved back to Spotify after a year because of how awful and buggy the UI in AM is. If Apple Music could improve the UI and fix the bugs that have been about for years they could really do well. But I have my doubts as to whether that will ever happen
Masayoshi Son: The Tech World's Unstoppable Force
Good stuff, can you say how it is different or better than https://github.com/mozilla-neutrino/neutrino-dev or https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app
If you look at Bitcoin as a store of value like gold, the energy consumption is actually not that high.

From a wired post

But in his paper, Vranken counters that in the 100MW to 500MW range, bitcoin mining requires between 0.8KWh to 4.4KWh per year, but the energy required for mining and recycling gold – which backs US currency – is 138KWh a year, while printing paper notes and minting coins is 11KWh.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-...
Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15049171

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12977719
Does that mean that you can get an instance on AWS and slowdown the underlying server for all others by forcing a lot of syscalls? Or how is performance distributed between tenants?
Thank you for the info.

I have noticed that there is actually a microcode update published today (through centos/rhel at least) so it looks like there's some firmware mitigation on the go.
To me, this seems like it will ensure your company only ever has average developers.

A good developer can negotiate a bette rate if he wants, or at the least, he'll be offered gigs at above average rates. By sticking to the exact market average according to their salary surveys, they're only able to select from the list of candidates who don't meet the above criteria. That is, the below average ones, and the occasional good one who has never been told what he's worth.

I've written about this in the past:

http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/developers-should-lear...
"observable universe" is a technical term for the part of the universe from which light has had enough time to travel to us. It doesn't mean we can literally observe it using current tech.
Thanks for sharing your experience. It takes a lot of courage to speak up in a personal way about this stuff.
Well can't really. Actually my job.

Not sharing your information is a good step and when you do compartmentalize it. Different emails and phone numbers for different things. I have a few google numbers I give out besides my actual number. Lots of my information on online fourms is completely made up but documented. I use keepass to keep strong passwords and notes on accounts. If it doesn't need my real name, it doesn't get it. Limiting information on the web about you is good over all.

Shopping in store doesn't give you security unless you use cash. The Target Breach was all in store and they actually said that "There are no indications at this time that the breach affected customers who shopped at Target’s online stores." Home Depot was malicious software installed on the self-checkout lanes.

As for living life like its 1900, you can as long as your job is not in computers or using one. Grabbing cash from the bank, paying for cash in store. No online bill pay or banking, no hacker news. I have known a lot of guys that do it daily. Even have dumb phones that were super cheap.
• Robots that perform all the functions humans do, including making copies of themselves and teaching each other.

• Hive-mind species where there are no individuals.

• Species without any gender or sexual reproduction, whose individuals are spontaneously "born" in specific locations and conditions on their planet.

• "Species" consisting of a single, massive/long-lived individual.

• Parasitic intelligences that "infect" various other, unrelated species and direct them towards the goals of the parasites.

• Lifeforms floating around in gas giants or even in nebulas.

• Life-bearing planets themselves being a lifeform; that "reproduces" when the civilizations it supported upon itself go on to terraform other planets to become like their home planet.
The Apple Music 'for you' section was something I never really bothered to check. I found the recommendations were poor. I love Spotify's auto-generated playlists. They have a slight problem where if you decide to listen to a new genre for a couple days it suddenly assumes that's all you want to hear, but that's a minor issue
This is mitigatable if the attacker process can't send a memory address to the victim process, right? Even if you can poke at the memory for cache prediciton misses, if you can't control what the victim process accesses, it seems harder to exploit.

We're all talking about how Spectre is this magic "get access to any memory from any process". But it looks to me like it's a new class of attack, that still requires specific entry points for the software you're trying to attack.

I'd like to be proven wrong on this, but it _feels_ like this is more of a software thing like other timing bugs. In theory you can write software that isn't vulnerable

EDIT: my reading of the "JS Spectre implementation" is "JIT code runs in the process of the browser + you can write JS code to read the process's own memory". I can imagine messiness with extensions (1Password in particular).
Firefox Focus (but not Firefox Klar) sends usage data to Google Analytics.

Mozilla has a promise from Google that Google will not use this data for their own analysis. If you do not trust Google to honor this agreement, Mozilla employees said on a GitHub issue about this, you should stop using Mozilla products.
For some blocks I checked a week ago the transaction fees amounted for approx. 1/3 of the reward. Like, 12.5btc of newly generated coins and 6btc of fees.
Although, to compensate for the next reward halving the fees would need to go further up, and they already aren't acceptable for smaller transactions.
Exactly. Or, to put it in fancy philosophy terms, there is a difference of moral agency. You can't assign moral blame to creatures that aren't morally cognizant.
No, everyone would try to get it for free and there is a chance that the poor people become rich.
A browser based DAW/soft-synth?
Yep.

https://itextpdf.com
Hasn't gold stopped backing US currency since like almost one century?
A breakthrough in battery tech that results in small but very long lasting batteries will result in the invention of a bunch of obvious things that are currently impossible or impractical given current tech.
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond has a lot to say on this topic.
Tough the word isn't fair
Can we have the actual paper, because those numbers without context are obviously nonsense? "0.8KWh to 4.4KWh" isn't the total consumption of anything, I'm guessing it's supposed to be per bitcoin mined or is it per dollar value?

> "gold – which backs US currency"

Not true.
If you could do it with 2FA, you wouldnt need to make Aadhar in the first place.

I've followed the program from inception. The real genius lies in 2 things, little of which have to do with tech.

The first genius lies in the design of responsibility and liability of the Aadhar authority.

The authority is impervious to assault legally - it is the only person who can mount a legal challenge on the misuse of aadhar numbers.

The authority also farms out all responsibility of usage of aadhar to "other entities". Thus it can never be held accountable since it only "provides other people a tool". What they do with it, is not the Agency's issue.

This is how its engineers can talk on various privacy channels as being fully for privacy and security, the agency itself can be a secure keeper for the biometric information - but the actual harm being done is farmed out to other agencies who can then take the blame.
For a drug like this that uses a completely novel technique, gene therapy, I'd say that the R&D investment can also help in the discovery of other drugs. So you'd have to adjust the figures a bit.
Compiling Julia binaries
Customer jobs meet value based pricing