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Is this really problematic from a security perspective? Presumably anyone malicious is already running a script-kiddie package that is actively probing for vulnerabilities, so would it even help such an actor to know what library versions you're using?
This is worrying.

So, some time ago, I was looking to buy lemongrass seeds. The lemongrass that is sold on either supermarkets or farmers markets usually has the leaves cut. And that’s precisely the leaves my wife looks for, to make tea.

Okay fine, let’s grow our own. We had little success growing from existing lemongrass, so why not try from seeds them.

Couldn’t find seeds on Home Depot. Found a seller on, guess what, Amazon.

There was no indication that the seller wasn’t in the US (but in retrospect, no indication he was) so I ordered without thinking much about it.

Fast forward a couple of months, I received the open packet (sans seeds) and a document indicating that import was not allowed. They also had lab test results attached, which indicated lemongrass seeds (by their scientific name) and some other seeds I can’t remember mixed in.

Now, all of this was legal, it’s just a customs rule violation(given the right paperwork, one should be able to import seeds, as I undestand it). Imagine what would have happened if the seller also had planted pot in the field, and got some of those mixed in...
Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to have been updated since 2007.
What features are other browsers missing that prevents them to run Bootrino?
Quite a lot of these people are the very old, many of whom had a good education with which they earned their money; but time and dementia leads people into accepting terrible investment scams.
There's alternative explanations for a lot of the very strong accusations made against Tether.

People always refer to Tether 'printing money out of thin air', but they never consider the prospect that investors are wiring money to exchanges, having Tether printed for their use, and then using that USDT to purchase cryptocurrencies.

Bitfinex is huge. Bitfinex also has an OTC counter, which has been known to broker trades in excess of 10-50M USD. USDT is often the medium for which these trades are executed, so it makes sense that a lot of Tether needs to be printed when BTC is crashing, as that's when the larger players decide to buy in the most.

There is a lack of transparency, and I wouldn't be surprised if things don't look perfect behind the scenes, but that doesn't mean the entire thing is a billion dollar scam conspiracy that the largest exchanges are all in on. Not all transparency is in the users' advantage in this area either. Do you know why Bitfinex doesn't tell you exactly where their servers and wallets are located? Probably because they hold over a billion USD in BTC in a single address.

Keep in mind that the market clearly values Tether at around $1USD, almost always. That's a good sign that the market as a whole does not think Tether is going to suddenly collapse and take the entire ecosystem into it at any point in time.

It's important to read criticism like this and consider it, but not believe it blindly. There are a lot of feasible middleground scenarios between "is a complete fraud and scam" and the exact opposite.
I lived in a medium-sized city in the middle of the US for several years (transit not viable option for 95% of trips). Now I live in NY and almost only take transit (every now and then I'll take a taxi/lyft). So I have about 5 years of experience with both lifestyles and I appreciate almost every single of aspect of NY/transit better. Sure delays suck but I just listen to my podcasts and chill, much preferable to gridlock on the interstate. "Crowds" you have to deal with either way, what do you think causes all that traffic? And, I feel I have a lot more freedom. Never have to park far away, never have to remember where I left my car, never have to pay for it or worry about it breaking down or getting broken into, never get it towed, never tempted to drive it after one too many drinks. I can go everywhere I could ever want just as easily or more.
To be clear, Ubuntu's Spectre fixes are only in -proposed right now. They are scheduled to be moved to the regular repos on the 22th.
I happen to think this is freaking awesome
>> Creativity is often defined as the ability to come up with new and useful ideas. Like intelligence, it can be considered a trait that everyone—not just creative “geniuses” like Picasso and Steve Jobs—possesses in some capacity.

Well, if you stretch the definition of "creative genius" to include a master of several artistic disciplines who created or popularised entire art movements and influenced artists the world over for more than a hundred years with an entrepreneur who sold lots of electronic devices, then honestly, I have no idea what your experiments are even meant to measure, anymore.
ZoneAlarm! I had entirely forgotten that! It was back when I was running Windows 2000, what a remote thought...
Some pin codes were within their validity window at the time of writing this report.

Wew I can't imagine being one of the targets and getting this memo.. "Your device has been compromised for the last 5 years."
> So? Should they be notified of Microsoft windows vulnerabilities just because they've shown they can handle themselves? There has to be a cutoff somewhere. I don't think FreeBSD was in the highly affected subset of use cases. I can imagine others coming to the same conclusion.

Seriously what the hell are you talking about? I was saying FreeBSD should be notified of security bugs that effect FreeBSD and not 6 months after other Operating systems are told. I said nothing of Microsoft.
You are espousing a position that calls for the validation of anyone's unjustified projections onto someone else. Should this cause me to question your sincerity?
I probably should have linked to the PEP in my comment, because you're right, it says right in the PEP it can change in the future. I would just expect the PEP to change before package managers.

I would think it would be confusing to install a package called "python" and have to run a binary called "python3" while a package called "python@2" installs a "python" binary. But anyone learning Python in the foreseeable future will have to deal with 2v3, anyway. Personally, I'm more likely to reach for Homebrew to install Python3 since macOS ships with 2.7. However, if macOS does ship Python3 I'll probably reach for Homebrew for Python 2.7.
Some relevant info for those of you looking into it. I heard that back in 2016 tether ran out of capital and basically the assets and IP sold to a bunch of folks under some pretty bad circumstances, and most of the core team and early investors got screwed. The buyers seemed pretty shifty.
All the countries on the list are OECD members, and Poland is the only one that was not a member prior to the end of the cold war.
However, worth noting that by default all brew commands issue a `brew update` by default before running (so `brew upgrade` is really more like `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` by default). This can be disabled by setting the HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE env var.
I have both, I liked Forbidden Island more, and my GF and her son both like Forbidden Desert more. I think the main difference is Desert involves a lot more luck, you can't really plan ahead much because the game could change considerably on one play. So Island would appeal to people that like to plan ahead, and Desert would appeal more to people who like chaos and drama.
the most charitable explanation I've heard is that tether is backed by $2 billion in value of bitcoin.
If there is no way to determine whether a growth is malignant, we are fucked any way. Certainly, this is not the point of a screening test.

Screening tests are about cheaply directing further testing.
Yes, my point was certainly that losing the ability to interact with your friends and peers in high school, as well as shifting your sleep schedule for half a month, is no big deal.

Can I have $150?
The PDP successor, the VAX, was strangely little-endian.
Child prodigies are rare by definition though. Whether or not you've heard of them, I think, is more a function of what media chooses to shine a spotlight on. On the top of my head I'd probably say Chistopher Paolini(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paolini) qualifies as a child prodigy author - his first book, Eragon, was published when he was 19. Granted, it was his parent publishing company, but it still became a best seller.

But your broader point: "These fields tend to draw upon a whole life's worth of experience -- something that children obviously lack and can't make up for through "winning the genetic lottery"."
Yea, I'd agree with that.
A former boss of mine told the employees to assemble the furniture at the new location. It was fast and it looked good.

After a week the monitors started to fail, because the cable to the monitor was too tight, so when they moved the monitor, the contact on the back of the monitor broke.
Not quite. We're talking about something that is publicly-owned (roads) to something that is (besides certain municipal projects) privately-owned (last-mile internet access). Compounding this difference, there is monopolistic tendencies that arise with internet as it's rarely competitive. We're talking apples to cows here.
Ask HN: If not likes, shares, or time spent, what metrics might Facebook use?
Facebook is “making sure the time we all spend on Facebook is well spent.” [1]

They’ve all but acknowledged that the number of clicks, likes, shares, and time spent on the site are not necessarily signs that a user had a good experience, let alone that the user thinks the time was well spent.

So, imagine you’re on the team at Facebook that’s updating the news feed to do this. Your goal is to show feed items that make the user appreciate and enjoy the time, not necessarily to maximize usage or revenue.

What metrics could you track and optimize for?

1: Zuckerberg’s 2018 update, https://m.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104413015393571
> the internet might be the cause of people not admitting ignorance in real life.

I remember the good old days, before the internet, when people would always admit their ignorance in real life and the Dunning–Kruger effect didn't exist.
Check out the five parties model: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/five-parties-model-1393...
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There are some 4 or 5 new pronoun classes, totally over 30+ new gender pronouns recognized by some transgender rights activists. This UW LGBT Resource Center lists an additional 7 pronoun classes, totaling 35 new pronouns [1].

So imagine the typical college professor. They've got what? Three or four classes of up to 50 or 60 students?

So you want them remember not only each student's name, but also which of these new pronoun class they prefer, as well as the proper declination of that pronoun class?

And if someone prefers not to do this, it's because they're an asshole?

My guess is that Peterson would have been happy to try to use preferred pronouns for his students, if only he weren't being forced to do so by some human rights act about pronouns and coerced by various activists groups. He's basically said as much before.

For the record, I'm in favor of most transgender rights issues (re: employment, anti-violence, identity documents, etc). But you can't go passing laws to force changes in attitude. US lawmakers did the right thing by passing civil rights laws in the 1960s, but those lawmakers didn't then go and outlaw the use of the n-word. That would have been a bridge too far. People have to learn from those around them what is and isn't appropriate. You can't just force them to think and speak the way you want by force of law.

Or at least, we don't typically try to do that in free societies.

1. http://uwm.edu/lgbtrc/support/gender-pronouns/
Korean exchanges are excluded. I currently use only the Top 100 to calculate the market cap. However, I would still say that you are right because one definitely can't liquidate the whole supply for the current market price.
I think I was likely thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Pomo_language
Market cap and Korean exchanges are two problems, though they share a bit.

Ideally, you should be able to specify exact exchanges you want to see, and what algorithm to apply to it (i.e. give more weight to daily volume) to produce a single-dimension value. As you can see, that's always going to be lossy. And then you get into UX challenges actual presentation of all that data with all the knobs and switches.

We at Live Coin Watch[1] make it our daily fight to be as far off as possible from misleading or incorrect and it's a never-ending fight.

[1] https://www.livecoinwatch.com
I am pretty sure that is because they have to account for all the non-self-driving cars. If all cars were self driving, they could co-ordinate and go a lot faster.
I think I think I was likely thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Pomo_language was what I had in mind.
I don't think more rumors are what we need at this point.
I'm not surprised, because Jordan Peterson is thoughtful.

And yet, a hundred thousand assholes gleefully share the video clip of him getting in the face of someone confronting him about pronouns, him talking about how it's oppressive, and they take it as the intellectual seal of approval for their refusal to use preferred pronouns, based on their contempt for those who ask for it.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
and still doing good...Here's their superbowl ad: http://adage.com/article/special-report-super-bowl/stella-ar...
Does (scientists') Gender Matter?
But this is nonsense on stilts. It's supposed to be tethered to the USD, not bitcoin, and the value between the two flaps about all over the place.
Maybe that mattered on serial connections, but on a 10Gbit switch you're talking nonsense.
The trick is to abstain from all luxuries in life (thus, the "strictly need" qualifier). Of course, we don't really want to do without the luxuries, so we work to earn their cost -- and we also don't want to do without them in old age/during sickness, and so we even more to have savings. But a roof over your head and beans in your bowl, including savings for a few decades of this without working, isn't really hard to achieve at all.
This is directly in opposition to the goals of congestion pricing. Traffic engineering has some not-so-intuitive principles. Adding capacity, for example, increases congestion through a mechanism known as induced demand. We don't want to create more demand for private cars in Manhattan, so your suggestion supports an anti-goal.
Before you ask, I learned this through one of the engineers who worked on it. He was a good guy and pretty standup. My point was only that the people who started it are no longer the people running it.
Serve an eternal need and you'll have an eternal business
In the FAQ, bottom of page:

> Do I need LuLu if I've turned on the built-in macOS firewall?

> Yes! Apple's built-in firewall only blocks incoming connections. LuLu is designed to detect and block outgoing connections, such as those generated by malware when the malware attempts to connect to it's command & control server for tasking, or exfiltrates data.
Blockchain is been around for more than 25 years and nothing practical at scale build yet, except for the token bubble...
Hmm. So the Riemann hypothesis requires Λ to be <= 0. Now they’ve showed that Λ >= 0. Since the intersection of the two ranges is non-measurable, probabilistically the Riemann hypothesis must be false! :^)
Please don't draw a strawman about me and the arguments I made pretending you "get" what I want with such dismissive and patronizing attitude.

I was one of the critics and I gave very explicit, objective criticism on the points I considered awful. And it has nothing to do with what your arrogant intelect generalized.
CrowdSupply has an ardrino-compatible risc-v board you can order very cheaply. [1]

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> This, and the rest of the suggestions reads as "don't build a hand-tailored experience, instead build more random permutations of generic content." There's even suggestions to find ways to monetize some of those permutations.

Chess, PUBG, CounterStrike, and soccer fall into this category. It is the art of systemic game design. Saying games should tilt more systemic doesn't mean they get worse. It means they are different.

In the commercial history of the game industry, we've seen entire genres fall out because they stopped making financial sense. Often, they come back later, when the finances make sense again.

I really think you are filtering the entire article through a lens based on your assumption that I am advocating for a world where Uncharted and Edith Finch can't exist, and every game is a lootbox-driven roguelike or something. That world would actually make me very sad.
"Pretty much like a TED talk. Actually, if you look up TED talks about how to be an effective speaker, you will find the advice to talk in simple language and to use metaphors. Also, they advise you to throw in sentiments to which your audience will agree."

So intellectual pop chords and power riffs...

As for the quasi-alt-right flirtation a while back I started calling a lot of that stuff "intellectual edgelording." Some on the left are guilty of it too, but the far right has really mastered it.
Im working for an Space Agency and we'r using SPARC for all our sats CPUs. Basically, Big-Endian.
If that were true, they would print Tether when BTC price climbs, and perhaps get rid of Tether when the BTC price falls.

What happened instead was that they printed more Tether (450MM) when the bitcoin price was collapsing.
It was more than a rumors. I knew two of the people who were involved in the sale of the company. Both disheartened. And let me ask you this.. who buys a sophsticated operation like this and only keeps a single member of the original dev team?
No one I met in Appalachia or other parts of rural America was remotely mean to me when I was biking across the country after college.
> high Intensity EM Waves

You mean non-ionising radiation?
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This is what people should take away from this, not that there might always be someone out there better than you no matter what. In the end, you can only control your own circumstances so do your best, prepare/train for whatever it is you're doing and whatever happens happens.
That was my point actually, I was being sarcastic. We need better treatment for these people, not draconian speech laws.
While I thoroughly enjoy Terry Tao's work and am a big admirer of his down-to-earth philosophy, I don't really understand why this particular article is so popular. Indeed, the top comment (which made me LOL, btw) seems to reflect the same attitude.

A much more accesible and enjoyable (though still somewhat technical) article is [this one] [1]

[1] https://www.google.nl/amp/s/terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/1...
I'm very curious to understand this. Who is buying this? What is the real purpose? Who benefits in the end? Why is the daily volume 5 times market cap?

I wonder if it would be possible just through statistical or network analysis of all tether transactions on omni layer, without knowing the full narrative of Tether, to get some idea of the game.
Build a chatbot or develop a mobile app? How to make a choice
I share your opinion. I guess I'm in the minority too.

Maybe we need a flag or some banner, or something.
[1] has a sequence of images showing how the drawing bot gradually creates a v.realistic image of a bird with yellow body, black wings, and short beak. (Tao Xu et al. via Microsoft)

[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/drawing-ai/
Wow - some great experience; it would be great to have your help improving the Document Liberation wpd filters - we do a great job there, but no doubt improvements are always possible - particularly with better understanding =)
It will be interesting to see how unoccupied robocars will deal with random aggressive pedestrians. I'm almost as hopeful as you seem to be here.
No, I'd say that your "open source" is either "shared source" or "source available" - depending on exact terms - using terms that we've been using for a couple of decades now.
As an interlocutor, Jordan Peterson seems like a reasonable person to debate with. But his followers are quite dangerous, much like many other political thinkers, whose suggestions were modest, but the followers took it to mean something else...
But the web servers on the other side of the TLS connection are not managed by those same system administrators and therefore they will not accept certificates provided by such proxies, breaking TLS.
I know this has me really exited too. I think there is so much potential for rust in the embedded space. Personally, I'd be content if the core team just concentrated on making rust the best platform for doing embedded programming. IMHO that's where rust can really blow the competition away.
Scheduled backups and ad hoc snapshots can both add small amounts to the monthly bill, if you use them. I haven't ever had enough variance to feel too upset - the difference between a $5/mo. server and a $6/mo. one doesn't really impact their value proposition for me (and I like to keep at least one known-good snapshot around...).
As a side comment on the ideology of going "global first", startups from smaller countries (with smaller markets) are almost forced to adopt this mindset from day one.

Many advantages from going US only first: same currency & language, homogenous culture, huge market, etc. The main disadvantage though is that you don't learn how to operate in an international environment until later in the business life cycle, at which point the institutional DNA is harder to change.

Your competitors will be taking a global-first mindset, so it's something to think about.
Was is a unintentional bug, or was a deliberate design tradeoff favoring performance over security?
oh dear, LittleSnitch wanted to charge money for creating a really handy tool, how terrible.
Nothing at all really that I know of - it should work on any latest version modern browser - bootrino doesn't do anything special.

But browsers are fickle beasts. It might be only something simple that prevents it working. If it does not work then I suspect probably because bootrino uses the web crypto API / subtlecrypto and it wouldn't surprise me if that doesn't easily work cross browser.
I'm fairly socially liberal too and on the fence about him. He says a lot of interesting things and I've never been a fan of postmodernism which I regard as a form of "pseudo-profound bullshit," but I keep getting hung up by the fact that a whole lot of Peterson's followers are fascists and racists.

Of course the same might have been said at one time about Nietzsche and Jung. Some Nazis loved Nietzche but it was not all that mutual.
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> He was a good guy and pretty standup

Then he should file a complaint with the regulators. Knowingly participating in and profiting from a fraud isn’t something good, or simply law-abiding, people do. Absent such a report, you are posting unsubstantiated rumours.
> It's important to read criticism like this and consider it, but not believe it blindly.

The article made provably true observations about Tether. You have made the most stretchingly feasible counterpoints that have no demonstrable proof or transparency. Who is believing something blindly here?
He actually wrote a letter to the administration of his university to state that if he had a trans student he would not be compelled to use their gender pronoun of choice. The admin told him, in so many words, to not be an asshole for no reason. He then published to response on the internet and played the victim.

So he more or less had to create a controversy out of nothing. The great majority of people consider the question a matter of courtesy and hold no strong feelings.
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