skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems at odds with Apple’s claims about holding the device encryption keys in a secure coprocessor that only releases them in response to a valid passcode, and self-destructs the keys if too many passcodes are tried.
Well in most places, theft is illegal.

On the other hand, perhaps Apple could secretly partner with a law enforcement team and purchase one for themselves. $15k and $30k are literally nothing to Apple with their warchest in the tens of billions.
I think I mixed up alternate descriptions of a slightly extended weekend every other month and a little over a day a month.
It is as weird as we define how to kill a lobster is more humane.
I'd appreciate any recommendations for ways to keep up with developments in femtosecond and faster lasers - both in the lab and what is available commercially, or a recommendation for a guru out there who is keeping up with all the widely scattered, obscure sources in all the asian and other languages.
There are two parts:

- Is the idea interesting ? Yes possibly. The idea of making it easy to create tokens is interesting. I can see twitch streamers giving away tokens to their subscribers / viewers.

- Does it need to be on blockchain ? For all the use cases described, the answer according to me is no. It is easier to simply have a frontend through which users can interact vs maintaining a wallet, installing metamask, etc. This is going in the direction opposite of the Dropbox example - making things harder for users.
State monad in JS
unreal-JS is by ncsoft
(some billion-dollar company), so it should be pretty reliable!

though you can't use unreal-JS for iOS apps
(uses v8)
> Of every childhood hero I had, Fred Rogers is the only one who turned out to be exactly who that child thought he was.

Same. I like to think I'm not so wrapped up in the characters of celebrities, but a scandal around Mr. Rogers would be a serious bummer.
The Most Dangerous Things You Can See in Museums
I've actually been meaning to look into https://github.com/robertwb/bitcoin-taxes but I'll check cointracker.io -- thanks!
I wonder how many apps do this and continue to do it. FB just looked for any reason to do something about these problematic companies to appease their favorite politicians.
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The author has published a number of screencasts and it indeed supports macros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XN93cKh7Gc&list=PLWVpbdR2y1...
Interesting, but is it easy for the elderly to get in?
It’s harder now but it’s going to get there! You gotta believe! We’re chasing something interesting and hoping we can keep making it easier and more useful. Right now, we do know it’s harder and people are still choosing to try it for fun! I agree with all your feedback above though and it’s actually really helpful to keep those realities in mind.
Long story short I found a commit [1] which mentioned macros. Looking at the diff suggests macros are defined using "syntax-extend" so I looked for that syntax in the current version of the code. Lo and behold [2]

[1] https://bitbucket.org/duangle/scopes/commits/ca7126d88bbd
[2] https://bitbucket.org/duangle/scopes/src/1bf171c25f4047bc049...
> Memory safety almost always involves some type of runtime checks: even memory safe languages usually (always?) have runtime checking of array bounds, for example.

Indeed, array manipulation is completely unsafe in most languages, as array indices are effectively unityped. (This may be a unitype of everything, as in Python, or a unitype of indices for all arrays, as in Java or ML.) There are several ways to fix this issue, with various tradeoffs between convenience and expressive power. None of them has become mainstream, but it's good to remember that they do exist.

> So it's understood that a memory safe language will generally be composed of syntactic and semantic features which help at compile time, and runtime checks to close any remaining holes.

Safety is any means by which you can establish that every operation a program may perform is meaningful. Now, I don't know about you, but at least to me, it is never meaningful to dereference an invalid pointer or use an invalid array index. Whether the error is trapped at runtime is neither here nor there.
Instacart VP of Data Science Left
It's curious, if not troubling, when an exec at a growing company leaves. What's happening with Data Science / Analytics at Instacart? I was approached to apply and now I'm thinking twice.
I hate this stuff. I want to secure my device and not have the govt or companies steal it, I want to control my device. Still, it's fascinating to learn about.

Did no one think, when they take someone's phone for 5 minutes at the border, they could be doing this to your phone.
The only things that can be trusted is the things does not require trust.
I'm getting downvoted why? Isn't it true that's it is too easy to do this? The us govt wasn't hacked? see https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/07/0....
Kinda bums me out that with data on so many galaxies, we see absolutely zero evidence so far for any galaxy wide effects from intelligent life. It seems likely that intelligent life arising in a single galaxy is rare, and that it's almost certain we are the only intelligent species in our own.
Hey paniq, based on your username I'm guessing that you are the same paniq mentioned on the duangle website and thus the creator of this intriguing little language! Scopes has certainly caught my interest in the short time I've looked at it this evening, but the documentation seems a bit sparse at the moment. I do have your screencasts queued up on YouTube and the repository cloned and ready to build, but if you have any thoughts you want to share about how you've used the language, what it's good for, the direction you want to take it, if you want community contributions I would love to hear them!
I wouldn't be surprised if we see a mass ban on all FB analytic tools. Perhaps FB can create a new source of revenue where they either use that info for their own political aspirations or sell it to others they support.
Just as a great comedian doesn't laugh at their own joke, great sarcasm is best served without a sarcasm tag.
Is it just me or does the price point seem extremely low?
They have a device that should be in high demand globally, and maybe one competitor.
And they are charging 15-30k, for basically unlimited usage??
You can't tell me federal law enforcement wouldn't pay at minimum ten times that amount for metered usage...
Yeah if your credit report restricted you from flying...
Perhaps you should be more concerned about the actual discussion, rather than forcing caricatures onto those who have opinions you do not agree with. How predictable that you ignored my reference to violent crime.

The only thing here that is telling is the desperation in your babble to paint people as bigots, strawmanning about foul language, single drops, and other such nonsense.

>suspect that you are trying to bring another argument into this discussion
Perhaps in future comments you should spend less time suspecting, and more time actually reading the posts you reply to.

For the record, I do not believe that responsible drug use is antisocial, and I deliberately made my comment ambiguous, as I expect you to ignore the parts that were inconvenient to your narrative, as you have done.
Well, as the article makes it clear it takes from hours to days to crack, no - they’re not doing this in 5 minutes at the border.
No, of course not, but like everything, it's a spectrum. I wouldn't want a big corporation like FB to play a meaningful role in deciding what is and what is not moral (or factual), but at the same time I don't want FB to be a trivially manipulated medium for targeted disinformation and divisive propaganda. For example, a hostile state actor doing things like showing white rural retirees ads for fictional BLM recruitment drives to stoke fear/hatred/misunderstanding among the US population.

A completely hands-off approach is also corrosive and destructive. They're stuck trying to thread the needle, to balance civic responsibility while avoiding being an overbearing gatekeeper. I don't think it's possible to pull it off in such a way that they are not overstepping bounds in one direction or another, but as long as the pros outweigh the cons of whatever approach they take, it'd still be infinitely better than doing nothing.
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It's why I live here.
It's a recipe for a distopian clusterfuck.
Your comment reads like an insight from an authoritative and trustworthy source, but you have no idea what you’re talking about and your intuitions are totally wrong.
It’s not at odds with it - it’s pretty obviously using a vulnerability to run a crack against the passcode. Once the passcode is found, that is used to unlock the phone and this the Secure Enclave.
yeah seriously. I'm sure McDonalds kills many many orders of magnitude more people and no one talks about that.
Equality of outcome is a shared theme of communism and progressive prices, fees, etc.

IDK if I'd have framed it like dibbsonline did though.
> The only place I'm using webmail is on Linux

Oh but there are other great MTAs you can use too! Like (neo)mutt and alot!
What a great trippy article... most pop-sci articles are not worth reading, but this one really held my attention the whole time. Even though I have heard of a lot of these ideas before, I never heard them put together in this way, like your consciousness is a thread in the multiverse constantly avoiding destruction! I always thought if the multiworlds thing was true, it would be like each person living their lives unaware of the others... but maybe not. Pretty weird to think about and probably we will never know... All though if I end up living to 1000+ years old, maybe I will become convinced.
For a minute I thought you were saying "steal the employee" then remembered the Canadian stereo types. Tech I'm sure helped but I was in welding class at the same time and Boeing the Boeing folks also shifted
First result for "schwab 1099-B": https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/investing/retirement_an...
That's pretty high praise! Mind me asking what you like about Gusto vs other payroll offerings?
You are 100% right.
> It doesn't matter if you say "but officer the road was completely empty"

To be fair, road usage does matter.

If there is construction you will be fined more. If students traveling to school, the speed limit is lowered.

Point being that not all "speeding" is the same.
Feels a lot more like NYC is an anomaly where no one cares about rules directly impacting them.

The Pacific Northwest in general seems to have a more communal culture (moreso Oregon than Western Washington). But NYC.... Dear lord.
Does data matter to you? If increased cameras let to increased accidents would you still be in favor? Do you think that there are unintended consequences to ultra strict enforcement?
Because any attacker in the middle can purposefully make the https connection fail, thereby causing all data to be sent in the clear. HSTS and hsts preload makes sure that this can not happen.
Most insightful thing I read today.
After briefly skimming the paper I don't think this method was even devised for energy production. It mainly just a neutron source.
They do want to protect its profitability for them ;)

And politics aside, this is analogous to Craigslist vs 3Taps, Radpad and so on.
Canada is closer to New York than Oregon.
I 100% believe in the fox to guard the hen house...from the other foxes.

No point in sharing dinner.
Yeah it does happen, but that's part of the fun. It's not a 'set up a game, put X hours in and win' situation.

If you do encounter that in a game just do what you'd perhaps do 'in real life': try and be friends with them and not tempt them to anihalate you until you're strong enough to defend yourself. That might mean giving them resources, or not taking stars near their borders. And obviously up your ship building capacity and start investing more resources there.
Can anybody chime in on how they are different from ChargeBee for subscription businesses?
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I've always found MobX to be a joy to use, compared to other state management that needs a lot more boilerplate.

I see that there are schedulers for autoruns now, but will there be a parallel for computed properties? I implemented some that updated using requestIdleCallback myself (it's fantastic that MobX provides the building blocks to make that happen), but an idiomatic way would be nice.
> What stops them from creating a holding company

Nothing. Just like the adtech industry in general. So much of the spam and fraud could be stopped if there was even minimal regulation and actual consequences, but there isn't, so these actions are usually little more than PR, especially once all the damage is already done.
That's what EFF's HTTPS Everywhere plugin does when set to strict mode.

On a related note, would strict mode thwart HSTS-based cookies?

My current understanding of this technique is that it depends on the victim being able to connect to HTTP. Since strict mode prevents the victim from making normal HTTP connections, I'm inclined to believe that strict mode does help mitigate this kind of tracking.
I saw some comment and stangely have at the same time agree and not agree. Like the quantum cat unobseved.

Is fb guy go for president ... those ent I agree but if you look into those payment record from trump election to trump org (ignore whether it is paid for cover up or not) you found out there is a lot of ways you can find conflict of interest and bad press. But no one care.

You think human are wiser but in a sense human mistake repeat and repeat.

No. Couldn’t be

Then it comes again and again and again. You just not sure any more.

That is American which can have kids not allow to drive but can get a gun, crazy American but how about chinese ...

You thought cultural revolution and Mao taught a lesson. Then here goes again. And who will silly enough to hang on power as a sole guy. Power in the past get you a lot and may be. But what is to gain for a naked power without succession can give you. Like Mao. Who just kill his successor as long as he can. Why? Then here goes again.

For this event as a stream of events yes I know like water they is not the same water and history do not exactly repeat.

But it feels like water and you feel it has been seen before.

Game theory with unsteady hand and not totally repeat but same game.

Why we have to play these again and again, my dear Buddha.
I think Poe's law isn't that absolute. Given HN style, I could tell his post was sarcastic.
Happy Gusto customer for two years now, this looks promising.
The enclave software has supposedly been formally verified (It is based on the L4 microkernel).

This looks like a software flaw, not a hardware attack. It will be interesting to know how Apple screwed this up.
This is so sad. Real latex:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

All your words

\end{document}

Is that so hard?
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> vile conservative companies

> cause for Brexit.

> Such extreme groups should never be allowed.

I surmise "extreme" in this context merely means "conservative" or "isolationist".

Voting for Brexit is hardly extreme or fringe. So much so, in fact, that most of the UK did so.
Why would someone spend time to make up a story like this and post it anonymously? The comment is interesting and well-written, and obviously took some effort to write. I find the specific descriptions of the author and the events to be quite convincing.
Though note that it really is long-term.. it takes a couple generations for the population to stop increasing after birth rates drop, since the previous generation still contained more children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate#Populatio...
Trump didn't hire them, they worked for free for his campaign and the Brexit campaign because it serves their owner's political views. They refuse to work for politicians they dislike.
Your problem is you're viewing it from the perspective of an adult. It's not for you.

Toys 'r' Us was always a walmart of toy stores. But when you're 3 feet high and playing with TMNT figures everything in the store is _awesome_.
HSTS is trying to protect against a specific kind of Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack: when the man in the middle pretends that the website you are trying to access does not support HTTPS.

I believe trying HTTPS first wouldn't help: the MITM would refuse your connection, and your browser will try HTTP after that.

With HSTS, the server tells your browser that it is going to support HTTPS for a while. Now, if your first connection to server is secure (no MITM), from now on your browser will know that this particular domain supports HTTPS. So, it will know something fishy is going on if a MITM tries to pretend otherwise.
You're missing the point, which is that bike lanes are frequently in door zones whereas main travel lanes are not (because they are much wider and have more buffer zone).
Works on any car, actually. Results are not as great but from a safety perspective it seems comparable.
What if needing to search and replace in the first place is inefficient? Also, what if that engineer is female? Is he still inefficient?

I'm finding these comments hilarious. No true programmer!
I'm not an expert on the subject but I think the problem is there's a "Boys" and "Girls" and "Toddlers" toy isle in every Walmart in America. They don't have the selection but they carry the hot products.
Chattle slavery, though one of the most recent forms of slavery, and the most heinous to date, is not the only type of slavery.

Able bodied inmates have no choice whether or not to work when ordered to. Companies routinely rent prison labor to avoid having to pay employee wages for work. Private prisons routinely sell non-able bodied inmates to state run prisons. An inmate can neither purchase their freedom nor purchase out of servitude.

That there is a time limit on inmate ownership does not mean there is no ownership.
May be the truth. But then catch a few is better not to catch. But once start it got its own life and hence ...

Also, it is a org culture. If your org do something at least not all insider will say no we do not do this and just let it happen. But once some do it at least someone internal may raise it.

Also back to basic someone will hold the data. The key is not to allow one but a few or many or ultimately peer to peer. But can this happen and if not (yet) what you do now.
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There are currently eight HSTS-preloaded TLDs with more on the way, including the first available for open registration coming soon.
The following quote from a recent Coinbase article has me wondering about the recent round of amazing crypto-art tokens and the speculative market that has emerged for buying and selling them. While the proposed eth721 standard makes a distinction that attempts to seperate these tokens from the ones used in ICOs, it appears as if the SEC and FinCEN don't really care about intentions, rather how these tokens end up being used. As a YC startup, with access to some well-seasoned sources of advice, I'm wondering what you've heard on these issues as they relate to your project? "The U.S. Treasury Department's FinCEN division recently declared that any developer that sells convertible virtual currency, including in the form of ICO coins or tokens, in exchange for another type of value that substitutes for currency is a "money transmitter" subject to proper registration with the Treasury Department, anti-money-laundering rules, and other regulatory and licensing requirements -- requirements that, if not satisfied, could result in imprisonment." from https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-exchanges-ico-teams-brain/
I'd be willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of SpaceX investors and employees understand how sexy partially-reusable and fully-reusable LEO rockets are.
You're not the right customer.

Interestingly, their sales deck is one of the best (as considered by Andy Raskin who's very good at marketing): https://medium.com/the-mission/the-greatest-sales-deck-ive-e...
the 34c3 talk "social bots, fake news and filterbubbles" comes to mind (unfortunately originally in German)

The tl;dw of this is that when defining "bots", most researchers used very misleading metrics e.g. ">20 tweets/day" and the worries and studies about "social bots" shaping discussion on twitter are generally not founded in reality.

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_f...
JJ's Razor
Exactly. There is no reserve limit: any pretense of that was washed away once sweep accounts became standard.

Banks lend as much as they possibly can, and then a bit more, and then expect the taxpayers to pick up the pieces when it all falls apart.

The irony is that there need not be a reserve ratio: if we just adopted duration-matched banking, where a bank had to demonstrate it had ownership of a given dollar it was lending for the duration it loaned that dollar (e.g. via a CD) it would be fine.

This is the fundamental problem with banking, and I don't understand why no one talks about it. Banks are lying about having money they don't have (i.e. they are promising the same dollar to more than one person at the same time). If we forced them to just stop lying it would all work out, and there wouldn't be any need for a reserve ratio.
"there were zero toys at Toys-R-Us I'd want to buy for my kid."

Looking over these comments I see a lot of adults talking about buying toys for their children as adults and you are all missing the entire point.

The toys aren't for you. Toys do not exist for you to mold your children into whatever predestined vision you have for them. The toys the kids want are cheap and plastic and they excite their imagination. They look cheap and plastic to you because you're 30 years older and playing with $2,000 computers or $30,000 cars (yes, your cars are toys).

Toys are about giving a child property they can do whatever they want with. It's about treating them like they have a mind of their own and letting them explore things that you probably never even thought of. If your "toy buying decisions" are riddled with adult concepts like responsibility and educational value you are missing the point.

I'm not saying educational toys are bad, I'm saying kids know what educational toys are and what they want is action figures and video games and toy weapons. A store that is packed floor to ceiling with exactly those things is a _wonderland_ to a child.