skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would collect a list of every ICO fraud story in the press, and just ask if your board wants to be added to the list (whether officially or in the social zeitgeist).

I would also ask the board how many examples they can find of companies who did an ICO, and were later successful.

Also, I'd be looking for a new job... Even if they listen now, it doesn't sound like good leadership.

Edit to add: Your equity is only worth something if the ICO works. If there's no ICO and you still can't find investors, your equity is also worth nothing. I wouldn't even consider it...
I suspect it's because they can't get out of sync in a way that causes OOB reads. You could have the null too early in the buffer but can't have it too late. With Pascal strings you could have a buffer of size 18 but with a length tag of 30 and have no way to know you're going overflow.
The issue of hardware security really has been ignored too long in favor of the quest for performance enhancement.
Perhaps there is a chance now for markets to encourage production of simplified processors and instruction sets that are designed with the same philosophy as OpenBSD.
I would imagine companies and governments around the globe should have developed a new interest in secure IT systems with news about major exploits turning up every few months now it seems.
I picked the most famous example. Another example is Perot leading both parties to change their budget plans.

I suggested that net neutrality will be decided by the courts, as that is the position of both major parties currently. As that makes the vote less important, the best use of your ballot is to support someone with a better view on the subject. The Democrats have no reason to change their strategy if it already secured your vote.
I have found it to be a useful feature that is worth the 1% daily battery life. I prefer it to Shazam/Soundhound because it's passive. I don't have to unlock my phone, open an app, press a button, and wait for the app to recognize the music. That whole process is disruptive to conversation if I'm with someone. How often the question of "what song is this" comes up depends on who you are, and it has occurred to me often enough such that I've recognized that I much prefer using Now Playing.

I agree that the database is a major limitation, although for me it acts as a first pass to see if the song I'm listening to is popular enough to be recognized.
Given that there are so many new people showing up because of crypto, I think it's helpful to flag AND explain what is historically appropriate for HN. The rule says don't feed egregious comment. Considering I'm the only comment, I don't think that's what I'm doing.
One the one hand you are asked to sign up for “early access”. On the other hand the site mentions that “we’ve seen people use the app for business, ...”, implying that it is up, running, and people are using it.

But in the end it can’t be up and running. Go try and book a flight. The app isn’t in the App Store AFAICT, and the only action items on the whole site are to get “early access”.

It would be nice if the site just came out and said, “we’ll be running flights starting February 2nd”, or whatever, instead of making me guess.
Have you tried the skype mobile app latest update ? It makes the desktop version look amazing. Somehow, they thought we wanted skype to be a clone of whatsapp stories or whatever. Nothing works properly, it's slow as hell, but goody you can like and put a smiley on each individual message !

I used to really like skype but it has now become one of the worst, and I'm still forced to use it due to several of my contacts being on it. Imho network effect is the only reason they aren't being mass dumped by users.
IOTA would be fine, but how many other coins have 0 transaction fees now?

While I dont own any Raiblocks, they are using like 7 severs to confirm. Supposedly fixes all fee/speed problems.

I worry most about the ownership of non-mined coins. The founders nearly always pre-mine or grant themselves significant amounts of coins. The faucet that is crypto mining is all based on work/energy.
Wire's cryptography is cribbed from Signal, so Skype's original crypto couldn't have been all that bleeding edge.
You could not.

Yes. You could. I have, as have many others.

Thanks for re-iterating and further elucidating my point regarding gold's intrinsic value.
Could this have a (1999) put on it?
Even Cynics Can Love Cryptocurrency
> To solve the problem of inner city poverty, we need to take public money and give more of it to some privileged college-educated person who likely doesn’t even live in the neighborhoods plagued by poverty?

On the flip side, though, straight up wealth distribution to the poor has a huge waste factor, though. I work with poor people at my church, and a lot of times they have no idea where their money is even going. They see a predatory letter with scary red letters and they send money to it, even though it's not even a bill! The bills they are getting are for services they aren't even using (expensive cable plan, etc.). Yes, the poor need more money, but they also desperately need mentors and education.
The Chinese, using Signal, which DEPENDS on Google services to work? Right...
Nevertheless, someone on the full-time staff decided to commission this piece, then proof-read it and decided to publish it. Op-ed is no disclaimer really, if it’s in the paper it is by definition endorsed by the paper.
The opening line that "The work of engineers used to be about taking small parts that they understood entirely and using simple techniques to compose them into larger things that do what they want" is not correct. Emergent behaviour has always been an issue for complex system. Just look at the story behind the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

Computing is extremely complex, so the issue is probably more acute, but it is not unique.
Fool! The obvious choice for wine is France! :)
If RFA funding means "blessed by the NSA" it will be hard to find an open source cryptography project that isn't blessed by the NSA, because RFA funds (or funded) audits of everything. Source: ran a security consultancy, was offered (and sometimes accepted) RFA funding to do crypto audits. I don't think you understand the cites you're providing.
IMHO it should be illegal to develop an artificial mind capable of consciousness. There are a lot of good reasons to avoid this, not just that it could be potentially unethical to subject such a mind to torture/pain.

A super-intelligent artificial mind is probably going to come up with its own agenda and convince us to work in its interest and potentially against our own. Given the state of computer security today, can you imagine how easily it could spread as a worm?
Much of the industry Stack Overflow serves is based on collecting, aggregating, and selling access to exactly this sort of data. I'm not sure what to think of this specific example, but it's just one small manifestation of whatever it is, bad thing or not.
I personally get zero value out of LinkedIn except as a place to control the info about my resume that people see. I don't want a "better" replacement because those exist already and just lack the user base.
Because many companies try to weaken the boundaries between "work" and "not-work", so that their employees will spend more time at work.
IME Vue is so well designed, that I hardly have any issues with it. If I do, my go-to reference is the official documentation.

You shouldn't base your usage assumptions on the amount of questions asked; Vue just doesn't require so many questions...
You know it's fraudulent. If they won't go along with you on the don't commit fraud thing--and I agree with you in that ICOs are at best penny-stock trash and scams at the median and worst--I see no way I could react other than to quit.

You're talking about a Series A company. The likelihood that your equity is worth anything remains very low. The likelihood that you will burn your good name and have trouble looking yourself in the mirror strikes me as much higher and much more destructive than that. And you have more than just those lessons learned for four years--you can still leverage that you were the CTO and handled much of the heavy lifting of that company, and point out that you left because your founders were doing dirty.

I am very not a lawyer, I am very not your lawyer, and this is very not legal advice, but depending on jurisdiction you may have some leverage as far as that equity if you really want to chase it (though, again, I don't expect it to be worth much). "I quit because they were being galactically scummy" has some persuasion to it. And definitely talk to a lawyer before you go public with the dirt.
If it's an Android phone it may be the case that installing a third party OS like LineageOS will give you that ability back.
No Deal Brexit Could Cost 482,000 Jobs as City Recruitment Slows
Here is something to consider. Assume for a moment that people use rare Pokémon cards as a form of payment, because everyone plays Pokémon. You can buy a card with Pokémon cards. But these cards aren't being printed anymore and the supply never increases.

If I issue some kind of "IOU" certificate, redeemable for a rare Charizard card, and people trade those IOUs instead of redeeming them (good thing because I don't have those Charizard cards in my possession at the moment), then I'm basically expanding the supply "things that people trade and commonly use to pay for goods" (i.e. money/currency).

I didn't create any new Charizard card, but as long as people don't ask me to redeem them, it's roughly as though the market had 10 more copies of that card circulating.

There isn't more "value/wealth" created, but there is now more "money/currency" circulating. You can imagine how something similar is happening with derivatives.
I'm just "average Joe" but my sitting-at-a-keyboard thought was that the two suns suggested an interval of or passage of time.
This is fantastic news! I did an actual fistpump seeing this in the HN list this morning. In my anonymous, just-another-person-on-the-internet opinion, there isn't a lot out there that holds more potential for humanity at the moment than furthering our understanding (and consequent _responsible_ use of) psychedelics.

A huge thank you to Pine for supporting healing-driven science and noticing that MAPS is doing this particularly difficult work with efficiency and integrity.
Apologies for the slow response.

I don't know on the actual charts, as I just don't use that sort of thing. Seeing anything git related and I think magit. Pretty much period. That is, I didn't see the chart.

You can do graphics in emacs, though. I typically just use it to show email and inline images for org-mode.
Well if you think the company is going down (either by being fraudulent or by the ICO not working out) then your potential shares are also worth nothing. In that case, it's better to quit now because you won't be wasting any of your time.

Having said that, if you think there's a fair chance that you might convince your board, I'd give it a go.

Also, make sure for your next startup not to accept a 4-year cliff on your vesting schedule (standard is a 1-year cliff with a 4-year vesting schedule that vests linearly prorated monthly/daily).
Uh, there are literal piles of papers on static analysis of timing based confidentiality leaks. We've been studying this for years. It is a hard problem, but by no means new or insurmountable.
> It can be done but it's brutal and fragile.

Actually many who did jQuery were proud of it.

Some of us made rock solid sites or improved exiting ones quite a bit using a technology known as progressive enhancement.

Let me tell you what is fragile: the cool things I make today that won't even try to work if I disable Javascript. :-)

Edit: and given what we have seen over the last few days now would be a good time to reconsider if every website really needs to be able to run Javascript.
Even on the Arduino I don't think I could claim that I knew 100% what was going on, let alone go/python/JS -> kernel -> docker/VM -> -> kernel -> processor
Show HN: Ethereum KeyServer and EtherPaste
Bonds, like men, are in a bear market
Why allow namespace recycling at all? The potential harm is high and the potential benefit is some slight convenience.

If npm packages used a Github-style "author/package" format, name collision would never be an issue again.
I suppose because, to people whose entire lives revolved around the hunt, a hunter makes sense.

Of course Orion could be a healer, warrior, etc. as well....
I am changing my career. I want to learn programming. But I have not programmed ever before. How can I start my career in tech world?
You need to be really, really careful that you aren't condoning fascistic behaviour just because you agree with its motives and ends.

Fascism is fun: its appeal has the same root as teamwork. Joining up with like-minded people to counter a common enemy, and prioritizing ends over means, is how you get to fascism.

A handy rule of thumb is to flip the motivation in a sentence to its ideological opposite, preferably one that you don't like. If the meaning of the sentence is then abhorrent, rather than acceptable dissent, it's probably a couple of steps too far even when you agree with the sentiment.
"HODL" originated from a drunken rant on Bitcointalk during the 2013-14 bubble and MtGox exchange collapse.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0
Can you provide a summary of Satoshi’s argument here? I’m failing to see how the usage of electricity, which is an entropy-losing process, leads to added value through bitcoin
> Credit and financial information is impossible to keep safe and available to any cyber criminal who wants it.

Which is why legislation should be aimed at preventing law-abiding entities from ever storing it in the first place. Obviously, criminals cannot steal what is not there.

Enforcement of these laws has been mild, and all companies and criminals know this. Only the odd major embarrassment seems to motivate companies to protect user data.
You have to remember Skype is 14 years old. Skype's encryption was pretty cutting-edge in 2003.
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In my private taxonomy, hello world through Excel are weak AI, the state of the art mostly narrow AI but fast becoming more general, and the endgame is general AI.
> what is the exact motivation for including FM chips that are going to be disabled in the first place?

A single chip can do multiple things (WiFi, Bluetooth, FM, etc). For the chip manufacturer, it's simpler and cheaper to provide a single version of the chip with everything, and let the device manufacturer simply disable the unused parts, than to provide several different versions of the chip, some with FM and some without FM.

That is, the phone manufacturer decides "I want Bluetooth and WiFi", and the chip they chose for that happened to also have FM. Since they won't use the FM part of the chip, they don't even have to connect the "FM antenna input" pin, saving the space on the board that would be used for the corresponding trace(s) and passive components (which they also don't have to install, reducing the costs).
slightly offtopic: But I am currently building a ACH parser and I am shocked the banking system works at all.
Anybody can create dollars. If you take a loan out from a bank you are creating a dollar. If you make a payment on your loan you are destroying a dollar.
Agreed! I've set up matching donations for your matching donations among my friends. Thank you for supporting this cause...I think a lot of mental conditions go ignored and un-healed as a consequence of not understanding these substances well (both the benefits and side effects).
E2E doesn't mean no logs, your Skype logs can usually be exported locally.
Mozilla on Decentralization [pdf]
The point in TFA was that people are living who previously would have died. If it's better to get to the hospital quickly than wait around for whatever attention the ambulance can give you, that's a mark against the entire idea of ambulances.

Incidentally, sibling is right about ambulance costs. Every time I've been to the emergency room, I've taken a private vehicle to get there. In one event I was about twenty minutes from dying of internal blood loss.
I think part of that is that jQuery is pretty universal and it's probably assumed that if someone says they know JavaScript, they know jQuery. Or, I at least assume that when I'm doing interviews.
Just to get a sense of the track record here, Signal Protocol powers:

* Facebook/WhatsApp

* Google/Allo

* Microsoft/Skype

* Signal

Signal is also the basis for the protocols for Wire (Proteus) and Matrix (Olm).
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Wait. Who has ever said this? We've had soundiness as a fundamental concept for years. I'm not aware of a single static analysis tool that is truly sound. Everything is always "sound with respect to X". The academics surely haven't been the ones making a claim that correct programs truly are immune to any and all problems. If we ended this period, we did it ten years ago.
Dolphin Capital Theory
How could Skype target binaries to individual users?
Wealth distribution is one thing, the process of wealth distribution is another.
Being a corporate officer means getting-the-fuck-out-of-Dodge the moment things get questionable.

Check out "STRICT LIABILITY FOR CORPORATE EXECUTIVES" on page 3:
http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/files/20160801-criminal-a...
That was me trying to be clever choosing a quintessential dog name, as the application "fetches" the paper (rss feeds) for you :D . I was playing around with the name Rover and a few others for a while as well, but went with Rufus for the cheap .news TLD
NOTHING is obfuscated
> It's not that simple.

I agree, but in a different way. Who's to say that it's not governments that are the major criminals here? Many westerners would agree regarding China, North Korea, Iran, and so on. But what if the laws being used against Uber are products of corruption? To stifle competition against the taxi industry, which seems likely.

But whatever. This is some damn impressive OPSEC, no? I mean, serious anarchocapitalist OPSEC. And that just brings a smile to my face.
edit: Spellings.

Thank you for the feedback. Some of the programs here are coded 4 years ago, when I had just started learning C++ and I never revisited them. At that time, I was in university, and this repo was to attract recruiters for internship. I got the job later, and kind of ignored to correct problems. I am sure if these are ran with strict compiler flags there would be many more issues. I will get around and fix it sometime soon.
Keeping Spectre secret – The Verge
Love that Tolkien's Middle Earth had the constellation, "Sickle of the Valar". In a way it took me out of the world he had created ... wait, you mean they're really on Earth?

Okay, so that proved nothing and we're dealing with fantasy.... ramble, ramble.
:D I built myself an RSS Reader in Java too.

Also with the crusty ROME toolkit and H2, but I made a simple UI in JavaFX.
Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO
> Spectre has nothing to do with program correctness or safety.

Unless your program is a VM for a programming language (e.g. JavaScript) that runs code from different origins in the same protection domain. Even perfect hardware process isolation won't help you solve that problem.
What's Happened in the 10 Years Since the Economy Fell Apart
"Pragmatism was a method for making decisions, testing beliefs, settling arguments. In a world of chance and incomplete information, James insisted that truth was elusive but action mandatory. The answer: Make a decision and see if it works. Try a belief and see if your life improves. Don’t depend on logic and reason alone, add in experience and results. Shun ideology and abstraction. Take a chance. “Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.”

"James insisted he was more of a popularizer and synthesizer than an originator. Aristotle and John Stuart Mill were pragmatists, exponents of empiricism. Of course, some philosophers were skeptical of pragmatism. Truth becomes whatever is useful, whatever has cash value. Bertrand Russell was terrified that pragmatism would dethrone the ideal of objective truth, calling it “a form of the subjective madness which is characteristic of most modern philosophy.” Pragmatism to these skeptics encourages relativism and subjectivity and leads to irrationalism.

"Not so, says contemporary historian James Kloppenberg. Pragmatism swept through the first half of twentieth-century America, encouraging the experimentation of Progressivism and the New Deal. Retreating, it is now returning, influencing legal realism and encouraging cultural pluralism and scientific government. According to Kloppenberg, it contributed to the worldview of Barack Obama. Pragmatism is the enemy of certainty, simplification, and fanaticism. It champions skepticism, experimentation, and tolerance."

Pragmatism is a misunderstood philosophy. Objective truth is objective truth and can't really be dethroned, but the major threat of pragmatism (as of most other philosophies that don't rely on received wisdom) is that many of the things that are held as truth aren't actually objectively true.
Time leaks are not fundamental to computing. They can be fundamental to running concurrent adversarial processes on the same core, though.

Indeed, having no speculative execution, or just having caches separated by trust domains, would make Spectre impossible. This would make the whole promise of 'securely virtualized hardware' largely disappear, though. For guaranteed isolation, you'd have to have a physical core (or set of cores) per trust domain.

With trust domains sliced pretty thinly, e.g. a domain per JS-executing web page, it's hard. AFAICT, reseting the caches when switching processes (that is, trust domains) sort of mitigates this attack at a relative low cost, a performance hit instead of having to replace the CPU.
Agreed, although I generally think in terms of "obeying traditional music theory (to some extent) is necessary but not sufficient for a listenable melody". This also changes depending on genre and era - one reason for targeting early Western music, such as early two or 3 voice counterpoint is that composition was more regular and in accordance with theory (which was kind of codified after the fact, focused on explaining these types of composition), though the "reward problem" remains. Coming around to free jazz or extremely "modern" composition means violation of most or all rules while still being "musical" (at least to fans of those genres) - that is going to be even tougher and we are pretty far from automated generation of long multi-part composition without some extra hints from theory built into the models and data, even for music that closely follows theory.

This is one reason many people in the space are focused on new tools for creators, instead of "automated creation" - what is "cool/interesting/listenable" is ill-defined, but making something which allows creators to explore the sonic landscape in really different ways seems a lot more plausible to me - more "weird synthesizers with neural networks" than "robo-artists".
Privacy in the US is dead
And there are literally billions of lines of code and billions of devices that have never been analyzed for timing leaks.

Industry reality is that we are still fighting stack overflow bugs 40 years after safe languages were invented.

Timing attacks are going to be around a long time.
whose mission is to work in other countries against their NSA equivalents.

That's not really a sensible way to describe either their officially stated or inferred mission.
That seems like a pretty compelling counterpoint.
Depends on the dream. Sometimes, I'll wake up and "remember" the dream as a first person experience. Other times it's not so clear.