skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides that they might be breaking laws in other ways, there is a normal (used by card perso bureaus) procedure for the concern about them generating the private keys. I doubt they use that, but he. It would be a closed system which automatically, using an HSM usually, generates all required secrets and adds them on the stick and then destroys them. To make it be more robust, it would include a procedure which, again automatically and not accessible (by procedural regulation; this is all not technical really) by humans, generates a keypair, somehow provides the private key to the user (email? preferably the user would generate the keypair but if you have to buy these sticks we cannot expect them to?) before destroying it and encrypt the stick content with the pubkey. Some auditor would review the process, software and hardware and put a stamp on it to close off that liability. In this case, the empty usb sticks go into the blackbox (regulatory and possibly also technically) and come out with unreadable content, so who handles them after is no longer relevant for security.

If these guys sit behind their normal work laptops, connected to the interwebs, generating these sticks and sending them off unencrypted, you probably will have a lot of issues if someone comes to look at your operation.
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Are we going to get a version 2.0 of the hololens or oculus anytime soon to see what the next-generation lineup is going to be like? Is there already information out on them?
The irony of Teen Boss and it's agenda is that it is a magazine so will really only be read by someone waiting in a Dentist's office. There is great YT content out there that is educational and entertaining, for whatever reason the mainstream media just can't seem to find it.
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Until you buy a box of crackers and realize the price per gram is higher than equivalents at the grocery store that just come in larger boxes. The more you investigate walmart, the more you find you're not actually saving much. It's not worth the sub par customer service, deceptive product offering and questionable quality to me.
I'm pretty sure SEC Rule 10b-5[1] covers insider trading, along with various supplementary rules.

[1]: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=3d58bfb5f1...
There are anti-fraud provisions in securities law; insider trading is prosecuted as a form of fraud.
Making something closed source does not make your product more secure, it only makes it harder to look at. Determined people will still try to understand how your software works in order to accomplish their goals.
more about the 100 mile zone here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
My S7 has that. In my area (with good coverage) it lasts 9 days! in standby.
Can you elaborate ?
I learned enough Swift to know that I think it’s terrible and that I really don’t like the way that Apple designs anything. They couldn’t get strings right the first time because they were too pedantic about how I should think about them, they prefer all sorts of weird shortcuts that make code unreadable, like trailing closures, if-let and some other things I can’t remember and the tooling is clunky, slow and generally sub-par to my preference. I think Xcode and Mac OS are the worst and I’d probably kill myself if I had to actually code with them instead of just using them to compile stuff like I do now with my React Native projects.

I’d rather use just about anything else. If I could use C# everywhere, I would because Microsoft really knows how to cater to developers like no other company and their tools are second to none in many cases.
TBH, I'm not sure I follow all of that, but it sounds to me like they're saying a trade must be made for there to be insider trading. I'm not sure I like that, but okay. But upthread your suggestion was "cancel the ones you don't want, until you do" - at that point, a trade has been made, so it's at least a different question.
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Try driving a car designed for power steering with a failed pump. It's much, much, much harder than a car that was designed from the beginning to be used without power assist. Moving or not it's a hand-over-hand struggle to turn the wheel.
But having gains taken away is a penalty.
SpaceX appears to make a profit, other than losses caused by their 2 big failures.
If the SEC pursues a civil case where the penalty is only fines and not prison, the standard need only be a "preponderance of evidence." It's much easier to prove that some of these executives probably knew about the news when they sold their shares.
You do not answer the question: What are the things you can only do with "blockchain technology" that cannot be achieved with existing technology? The things you mention can already be done with centralized trusted databases, just as you said.
> I think the consensus here is Equifax hired this guy to take the blame pretty much.

What are you on about? Your theory is that Equifax execs presciently knew there would be a breach, and that they’d want to engage in insider trading, so they hired this guy and waited until the breach then told him to break the law too so he could ‘take he fall’?
A bit of both; there were self-driving cars before Tesla, but Tesla was the first to commercially field any kind of "autopilot" feature, spurring on the existing competition
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I'm a federal felon myself and have found success by applying to companies based in states/cities which have "banned the box" for private employers. I'm currently working in a very respectable software engineering position, in a region which hasn't banned the box. The largest part of this companies workforce however, is based in an office located in a state which HAS banned the box for private employers. They never had a felony conviction checkbox for me to check on the job application, and they didn't bother running a background check which included the federal system. I've found that probably only around 50% of companies will include a federal background check. When it comes to background checks for housing or background checks for recruiting agencies, virtually none of them will do this.
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It's no longer clear that Uber is the most ethically challenged company in Silicon Valley.
On Macs, it will choose the power supply that advertises the highest available wattage. This has been working flawlessly on my MacBook Pro.
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The developing world needs fiber instead of satellite. This isn't going to change much over their current LTE speeds. This type of satellite internet is far too expensive far far too limited bandwidth to be useful for them. The energy cost of RF broadband is so much higher than fiber.

Really, the audience for this are ships and other remote regions, not anyplace that has a road going to it.
Security through obscurity is a valid and effective tactic -- it's simply ineffective on it's own.
I think this case will be an exception. Walmart values its pharmaceutical business as a transactional commodity, like much of the rest of its business. That said the primary concern is increasing quantity of transactions opposed to rate of return.

They are willing to lose money in the short term on price depreciating generic drug offerings provided that people will continue to consume those drugs well into the future. This is part of the solution to a problem of over-night skyrocketing drug prices from unethical drug companies. If that such model can be effectively applied to low-cost health insurance for low-income people then the country is much better for it.
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> Err.. aren't these guys going to run into regulatory problems? You need a license to sell this in the US.

We've had some conversations with our legal team at Cooley & some conversations with outside counsel at Goodwin Procter. They have not been able to reach consensus on whether we fall within regulatory oversight. Until then, we're not going to be selling anymore in the United States. It comes down to whether this is art or a collectible or not. We're working on it & have stopped sales for the time being. :)

> Not to mention selling crypto with credit cards is a great way to go broke unless you own the keys like Coinbase does.

This is a fair point, there is actually trust on both sides of the relationship here - we're trusting that our customers will not chargeback & they're trusting us not to steal their keys.

> Also, why would you trust the keys they are sending you? Having someone else generate a wallet for you then sending it to you via a USB key sounds very very bad.

We originally thought so as well. When we sold a bunch we were surprised & started talking to our customers. It turns out, they don't want to go through the hassle of finding a wallet creator, disconnecting their computer from the internet, generating a wallet, writing down private keys or mnemonics & securing them.

You can think of this kind of how car dealerships don't run their own mail servers anymore or pizza places don't run their own instance of a bind DNS server. They want the convenience of not having to worry about it.

We're currently working hard on a v2 that makes it a bit more secure while maintaining usability.

> I don't get this.

We really didn't either, but the people that have trusted us with their money helped us understand this: Everyone who is working on cryptocurrency projects is suffering from the curse of knowledge [1] - most of them don't care about the end user.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
Are we sure he wasn't just clueless? I get that a Silicon Valley CIO would know about SEC rules but perhaps a legacy industry CIO wouldn't? I mean, he didn't know that you have to keep track of vulnerabilities in the JARs you package into Internet-facing web services...
As someone who works through mobile phone based internet services in Africa and South Asia I agree that in many parts of the world, what you describe is happening, which is great. But there is a huge difference between countries. Just as an example:

Sri Lanka coverage: http://www.airtel.lk/coverage-map.html
Bamako (capital of Mali) coverage: https://www.orange.com/en/Group/Orange-in-the-world/countrie...

The uncovered area of Mali is probably 5-8 times the size of Sri Lanka.
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I think you're referring to Programming Throwdown (http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/).
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I would prefer whatever is more predictable. My feeling is autonomous vehicles will be more predictable, therefore, so long as I as cyclist obey the rules of the roads, as I expect autonomous vehicles to do exceedingly well, then can expect to have fewer deviations from expectations when interacting with autonomous vehicles on the roads. Win-win!
Breaking it down:

1). Set up a 10b5-1 plan selling all your shares each day.

2). Set up a 10b5-1 plan that buys as many shares as possible.

3). Get insider information on the company.

a). If good for company cancel plan from step 1.

b). If bad for company cancel plan from step 2.

c). If neither cancel both plans.

4). Profit.
1. Repeal every piece of legislation enacted by or under President Obama.
2. ????
3. Profit
Exactly my reading. Hungry capital and irrational exuberance.
Why would anyone confuse the two?
That was tongue-in-cheek (that still had no business on HN), a reference to @lacker's two Putnam awards.
> If China shoots down a SpaceX satellite, that is an act of war against the United States.

These are not government satellites and china owns the airwaves over their nation. I highly doubt the US government would retaliate whatsoever against China if they shot down a satellite that illegally interacted with their airspace.

> China wouldn’t risk it. This is a great opportunity to break the great firewall and finally give the Chinese people access to unfiltered information.

Take this with a grain of salt since this is mostly based on what I have heard hearsay, but they can jam the signals and/or monitor who transmits back and go after the citizens using said signal (and china is not a country where you want to poke the government). I doubt this will have any effect on the great firewall.
Communities are things. Just because they are made up of individuals does not mean they lack group properties and tendencies. Saying that would be like claiming a glass of water can't have surface tension because it's made up of individual atoms.
The "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" makes that rather odd.
> From the outside, having seen Fiber slated for release in 16.0.0 and, being pushed back to an unknown 16.x release, and then being pushed back to 17.0.0, it seems like you had not anticipated the extent to which the core React API had to be changed to enable the async renderer.

"fiber" was the code name for the rewrite that was released as version 16. Async rendering is a feature that we've been working on adding- (which the "fiber" rewrite was done to support). We've known that would take some time, mostly due to the fact that we want to gradually migrate old apps (as much as possible). :)

We're also working on other cool, related efforts- like a compiler (https://twitter.com/trueadm/status/944908776896978946) and proper built-in support for async-data, dubbed "suspense" (https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/01/sneak-peek-beyond-react-...).
The `withTheme` HOC uses `createContext` and `forwardRef`. I don't think it's contrived. :)

https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/29/react-v-16-3.html#forwar...
I've written a bit of code formatted rather like this:

void foo(int x)
{ if(x == 0)
{ bar(); } }

That is workable. I have adhered to it (mostly) in this Yacc grammar file: http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/parser.y

Just in the grammar; not in the supporting functions.

It's an attractive style for C statements embedded in another language, because they look more like capsules somehow.
I think you're missing the market effects of having a Wal-Mart. If Walmart moves in and offers MRIs at half the price of everyone else, then everyone else will have to offer better prices to compete. Someone who might not have been able to get an MRI at all will now have the Walmart option, and you'll still benefit from lower prices at your "premium" option.
Yeah, I got that part. The problem is that after 3a) or 3b), you have made trades. So "no trades were made, it can't possibly be insider trading" doesn't apply. It may be that the SEC would nonetheless honor the "it's not an issue if you're just following your plan" thing, but since obviously you're not just following your plan I wouldn't bet on it. I'd be interested to know of examples in either direction if anyone has been bold enough to try this.
And then we find out how a lack of power steering makes autopilot a death mode.
> getting an entry level job out of college is harder than it's ever been.

I take it you were not looking for a job in '09-'10.
Cool, guess that means we can all stop talking about Equifax now and forget any of this ever happened.
Seriously?
200$/month and you have unlimited data only in US?
It seems like a really crap offer to me.
I pay 17£/month and I have unlimited data in a lot of countries in the world, including US.
Sadly my awesome plan got discontinued and now it’s not possible to buy it anymore.
As I understand it, reads only need to talk to the lease owner, which in turn bypasses raft since write consensus guarantees atomicity of after completion of write intents. Cockroach tries best-effort to have the lease owner and the raft leader be the same.
Of all the things people make fun of California for, this is one we deserve.

The cure: Have a fast limit on the list and in order to introduce new items on the list of items needing the warning, you have to remove one from the list.

Barring that, require some threshold of known effect, before something can be added to the list.
I’ll take the risk that a cup of Philharmonic will be my end.
Thanks for making these videos. I'm watching the "x86 assembly language programming on reference arcade game" video right now.

Knowing that the music is there for your focus actually makes it a lot easier for me to focus as well, somehow. Glad to know that.

Your voice is very relaxing, I'm actually working while I watch! Great explanations also.
Ugh. First, fake profiles are not only possible, they are trivial. So if you correctly state you don’t have a profile on X, and they find one anyway...do you think they’ll bother to tell you why you were denied? No, you’ll just be silently blacklisted for what “you” do online.

Social networks are also run by companies, not the government. They need to just stop expecting us to interact with a tiny number of specific companies (it’s “big 3” credit reporting all over again, only somehow worse).

And finally, can we stop treating potential immigrants so poorly!?!? There are enough rules, forms, fees and delays already; how many more things do they really need?
This is a really interesting development as this is the major reason for battery degradation over time if they solved it.
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It is definitely not the majority and doesn't match what they're running on the back-end anymore at all.
As an Arkansas resident, I can say that Acxiom is a one of the big tech companies for the state. Their company culture seems pretty great; they also do a lot for the community too.
Here's a simpler proposal: when an insider sells shares, they go into limbo for 180 days, then they get sold at the then-current price.
>Then again, I hear the sockets we use for the BGA chips I work with cost in the thousands of dollars (because custom-desiged), so I can kind of understand that the razor-thin margins the custom PC industry works with stays with cheap old connectors.

BGA means 'ball-grid array' - meaning it's an array of solder balls, meaning that ouside of testing, it will be soldered to the board... no socket required.

Your sockets for testing are super expensive because they are taking a chip that was never meant to be socketed... and socketing it, which is pretty useful when you are testing the things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_grid_array
I would be against zoning state-wide. I can go with regional, but not state-wide. That's overreach and unnecessary in most of the surface area of the state.
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Only 300k? Sure... But future you is going to be really pissed off that you sold him a lifetime of frugality.

Okay that's not fair. Maybe this really is a lifestyle for you. I sure hope you're not wrong.
It’s impossible that they are shipping.
Accordingly to a lot of HN users the device doesn’t exist. /s
I could be wrong but didn't the Intel CEO have his stock sold on a schedule?

The Intel debacle aside it did seem like a regular transaction that was not directly related to knowledge of the shit show that is spectre/meltdown
> It's less expensive than launching satellites

I doubt it, since a single Falcon Heavy launch would carry dozens of Starlink satellites but the existing anti-satellite technology can only hit one at a time. Keep in mind they have said the final constellation will be 12,000 satellites!

edit: and BFR could theoretically carry 300 when it is operational. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/25525/how-many-spa...
No, they should still be the exception for the reasons already stated but also because defining all logic in a “render” function means it’s tightly coupled to your view logic, which you do not want.

Request logic doesn’t belong in a render function. Routing definitions don’t belong in a render function and neither does abstract form logic.
Context is a way to pass state down the component tree without it having to go through intermediate nodes.

Say context doesn't exist, and you have a branch of components A -> B -> C, if C depends on some state in A, B would have to have a dependency on that state too. And you'd need some boilerplate code in B that reads the props from A, and passes them to C.

If you want to use C in a different context, say A -> D -> C, then that boilerplate code needs to exist in D as well.

With larger apps, containing large component trees, the amount of this boilerplate prop-passing you need to do starts to get excessive. It's not uncommon to see components read 14 props from their parent, use one of them, and pass 13 to their child(ren).

Until now, this problem has been solved by using data stores that inject state anywhere in the tree that they please. Context is an alternative to that.

It's always existed, just now it has a new API. I have no idea what was wrong with the old one. Nobody seems to have properly explained it anywhere, the docs just make condescending suggestions not to use it without reasoning. I think I saw an arcane tweet once explaining that certain things may not have re-rendered properly when using the old API or something...
is it just me or does it always seem like some asian dude get busted
> A nonprofit research group

After salaries, bonuses and all sorts of frivolous expenses, no doubt.

No such things as "non-profit group" in this world; just a group with an accounting ledger in which a column labeled "profit" works out to zero.

Natural, traditional foods and drinks don't need any warnings. The ingredient is roasted coffee and water; go bleepin' google if you want to know how either might be bad for you.
> I wouldn't recommend using this for non-trivial amounts of money for hopefully obvious reasons

Hey Tom! Guy from the article here. First off, thanks for Metabase. I'm a big fan & recommend it often.

Second, you're absolutely right. We have been capping people at $1500 purchases per month unless they were willing to provide identification & an understanding of the risks associated with our service.

> Nor would I recommend the founders continue to run it unless they've consulted a lawyer and are aware they're likely running a money transmitter business. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Casascius_physical_bitcoins#Suspe....

Casascius very simply shut down, some of our counsel thinks we have legal basis to not be a money transmitter while other legal counsel believes we may be. We're currently working through that to understand how and where we stand to adapt our offering to be within the limits of the law.

> Accepting credit cards as payment for cryptocurrency is also a risky proposition, to say the least.

Agreed. Mutual trust has been required, we're working on something better than that now :D
The Putnam is also the source of one of the best burns on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Really? the last opteron I saw with a zif pga socket was an opteron 940, which was obsolete a decade ago. I haven't worked with the gaming amd sockets, but I bought a tonne of 2000 series opterons, socket F is LGA, and a few c32 and G34 opterons, all LGA.
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