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I got hooked on cigarettes in the summer after 6th grade, many moons ago when I learned how to inhale. I tried vaping, chewing, and nicorette but it didn't quite cut it. I tried Juul a week or so ago and have only smoked a few cigarettes since and haven't for a few days. It's a godsend.

Getting hooked on nicotine isn't a very good idea, but if you are going to do it, Juul or vapes is a relatively healthy way to do it, simply because it won't kill you like cigarettes might.

I think all the hysteria from these people in the article is because these people can't disassociate vapes with cigarettes, particularly after the 2 decade long marketing campaign against cigarettes (with quite a bit of hyperbole as evidenced in the article).

Long story longer, Juul might finally get me to quit (fingers crossed). Kids are doing it which is dumb, but that's what kids do. Kids my age did the same with cigarettes during my time, so it's going to happen. Thank goodness that today having a nicotine addiction isn't as unhealthy as it was 20+ years ago.

One final thought; the only complaint I have with Juul is the disposable pods. They should have some sort of recycling program or something. I can go through a pod a day / day and a half.
The market is not insensitive to consumer demand. Your choices don't make a significant impact, but the aggregate choices of all consumers is hugely significant. If we buy less meat and lobby for a reduction in agricultural subsidies, the inevitable result is a reduction in meat production, either through a direct response from producers or through the bankruptcy of less efficient producers.
My guess would be Samsung, I don't see anyone else being a good fit. Centriq is already being Fabbed by Samsung, it also has a in development Next Generation CPU that has improved ISA and uses Samsung 7nm. They also own Joyent, although I am not sure if it is relevant anymore.
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Yes, it would be better if those businesses had systems/APIs for those transactions to be done, but we still live in a world where scanning a sheet of paper that was printed and mailed to you with a phone often reduces friction on the action of moving money between two accounts.

That being said, as someone who has used "assistant as a service" stuff before, I wonder how well this will work or how limited it will have to be, and not just because of the AI itself.

Even with humans on both sides, it's amazing how hard it can be to get an answer let alone a request fulfilled in a single phone call.

Questions about table placement, food allergies or other restrictions could come up, which I wouldn't want going to an operator. I'd rather be told in advance that it is calling the restaurant and have it send me questions in real-time with suggested answer buttons until it learns enough about me not to need them.

In other cases, just having it call and stay on hold for me would be useful. "Ok Google, call my mobile operator so I can talk to someone at around 10am" and having it use data it already has from other calls to place the call at around 9:45 and patch me in at the right time would be useful.
Or Willie from the Simpsons
AMD did it, it’s how Qualcomm ended up with adreno in the first place.
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I think your impression may well be correct, although I've not tried any Japanese rooms myself, only read reviews of them.

For the operators I know, most focus on 2) and 4). Most believe the puzzles are the core hook and must be well designed. Then they believe the puzzles have to fit the room theme. If a story can be squeezed in too, then they try, but it's rarely the driver. And gimmicks and wow factor aren't usually high on the list, but some operators (arguably us) do find these make customers want to play when they hear about them, so they're certainly not ignored.
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>>If people use it to flake a lot, I could see businesses just not responding to the assistant.

>Then it sounds like incentives are aligned here. Google needs to not allow users to abuse this ability so that businesses will trust and not block them.

But then they can't take bookings through google assistant, which is going to lose non-trvial amounts of business.

Seems far more likely that they'd pay Google to automatically handle duplex calls for them.

The worse this technology turns out for businesses, the more pressure there is to pay google money.
I'm glad that they have released support for the Web Authentication API. Hopefully I won't need to use Chrome for websites I choose to be more secure with.

Although, with a quick look it seems like I still can't use U2F with Google on Firefox.
Two things they are known for;

Not allowing very large balances to be withdrawn at once.

Complying with asset freeze orders.
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i guess someone was re-watching x-files and decided to share something that happened 45 years ago and now its on the front page of yc
Sadly no pronunciation of the Romulan "Arham rrh'eilln selae'enh ihircrycae'eri nnea drihaen'in'hhuien"
You're spot on. I just checked and I was there in 2009. Feeling old now.
My god no one in this thread has a clue about the complexities of natural language. English is not a protocol like HTTP, it's a natural language.
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What good is a refurbished but old iPhone these days when there is no more software for it? Even when you're lucky enough to have backup copies of older software versions, the web APIs most rely on have been discontinued.
I guess you weren't around in 2008.

Oh remember those securitized mortgages we sold you? Yeah, they're worthless now. By the way we bought insurance on them becoming worthless, because we were pretty sure this would happen when we sold them to you.
At the same time, 9out of 10 times when my wife calls me the system pretends it's ringing, while I see no sign of a phone call. Both of us are on Project Fi. (We tried it standing next to each other both of us with full LTE). I guess guess google figured the people will blame each other, not the network. Anyway, I can't keep disabling all the smart features of smart phones, I might just get a new Nokia 3310.
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In Spanish I think "El aerodeslizador mío" would sound better.
so btc was part of this crazy fake news narrative all along or is this just being made up on the fly and this is your regular click bait churn that is the new norm in journalism?

the writing on this has all the telltales of a unresearched fakenews/paid advert, e.g.: "Hackers have also proven adept at setting traps on computers to access cold-storage devices the moment they’re online. More traditional criminals have committed home invasions and kidnappings. Some Bitcoin tycoons have resorted to hiding their identities, fortifying their homes and studying self-defense." ...and that's not a crazy person being interviewed quote, this is the author saying.
I've always wanted a page where it would have the translation of "I'm sorry, but I don't speak a word of X" in perfectly enunciated X for all X in [Languages].

I guess this is the next best thing.
Credential reissue (lost token) would be a much easier path for an attacker. The weakest point is always the point of compromise. For the smart attacker therefore, they have been handed the whole set of accounts. So yes the original point stands - attackers will find it more lucrative to do account compromise in the Webauthn world.
>It's a bit odd that this would happen so soon after Cloudflare started testing & praising ARM-based server

Qualcomm is a "Big American Co." They play big business. If they do invest a gigaton of money into something, they expect returns fast. In other words, those types tend to give up quickly.
I like programming, but many of the jobs out there seem to involve only a small percentage of your time actually doing it.
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Um, all crabs are self driving when alive.
Did not run out with client's money.
> Q: Doesn't passwordless mean single factor? Isn't that insecure?

> A: It could mean single- or two-factor. FIDO2 and the new YubiKeys support an on-device PIN that isn't shared with the server, like conventional smart cards. This allows the key to act as both "something you have" (the key itself) and "something you know"

If "something you know" is physically stored on "something you have", doesn't this make "something you know" completely moot?. Please explain how this doesn't simply reduce to "something you have". In other words, if someone steals your Yubikey, can they login as you without knowing anything additional?
I've tried the predecessor, CyanogenMod, on an older tablet and there were hardly any update. And the installation was absolutely not fun!

Another downside of rooting your device is that some Apps will no longer work (like banking apps). So, no, this is not the solution I'm looking for. And it is definitely not the solution for the average user.

But thanks anyway for the suggestion.
It makes sense that Goldman Sachs and Newyork Stock Exchange are working on Bitcoin trading allowing wealthy clients to own Bitcoin.

At this point it's definitely mainstream and if enough of the billionaires own it, they can definitely manipulate the price. Not sure how would Governments control this
I'm not sure of the all the details related to Atomic, but my understanding is that you're correct in its smaller marketshare. Unlike Container Linux, I personally don't know how much time we're going to continue to maintain the distribution. I know there is public information somewhere; I'm going to fire off an email to get more information so that I can clarify this post.

Going forward RHEL and Red Hat CoreOS are going to be the official distributions supported for running OpenShift. RHEL will be for users that need to install software on the hosts themselves manually and CoreOS will be the preferred immutable host that expects all software running at the cluster-level. Running OpenShift on Container Linux or Atomic will be like running RHEL RPMs on CentOS -- it'll pretty much work fine, but I don't think you can call up Red Hat if you get into trouble.

rpm-ostree is super cool. The engineers working on the OS are still trying to figure out how to bring everything together, but we understand how important this technology is. I know this is the hill where the Atomic engineers will die on, so if there's going to be anything from Atomic in CoreOS, it's going to be this, haha.
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During ww2 thousands of new airports were built all over the world, including in very remote areas such as various pacific atolls where flying boats had been the only alternative pre-war. Once the war ended many of these became available for refueling stops, and as land-based aircraft often had a lower seat cost/distance as well as higher cruising speed they took over from flying boats.
The difference is on iOS you can specify to share your location only when the app is running in the foreground.

They could both still be improved - it would be nice if you could do one-time permissions, like access the camera, but only this one time (So the permission would be removed when you lock the device or leave the app.)
There's a difference between keeping cash in a bank which is FDIC insured and putting money in investments; particularly in the US where robbery was/is called investment strategy.
One of the main reasons we use CoreOS is that it ships stable and state of the art features from the latest Linux kernels, so features and infrastructure like eBPF are available and can be used without problems. RHEL kernels (e.g. speaking of RHEL7) on the other hand are ancient and heavily outdated, and only backport some of the newer features from upstream kernels, so user space making use of it cannot be run anymore preventing latest innovation (or killing Linux kernel innovation through supporting bypasses like DPDK).

Oracle's RHEL clone on the other hand ship their UEK kernel which is a recent, commercially supported kernel based on (almost) latest upstream. There, the situation is at least better than with native RHEL, but I truly hope Red Hat has an answer to that with brand new Linux kernel's on RH CoreOS side. Please don't let innovation coming from the kernel die by dictating ancient RHEL kernels to majority of users. CoreOS enables innovation, please make sure it continues to do so.

By the way, there was a good summary on this point with regards to RHEL kernel considered harmful here: https://medium.com/@sargun/red-hat-enterprise-linux-consider...
> Do you think they are putting their focus on marketing over content?

I never said, nor meant to imply, judgements about any other projects. I was simply sharing the choices we've made based on our priorities and resources.

Personally I'm comfortable with those choices because they've resulted in literally hundreds (>650 at my last count) of nice looking and fun to use coding tutorials. I'm also quite proud of the authoring flow we built: these codelabs are generated directly from Google Docs (you don't have to write a line of code to produce them) and we've open sourced the tools for others to use (https://github.com/googlecodelabs/tools).
They're positioning themselves to this space. It was interesting in the sense that it never was really marketed this way (by Apple); it was just the remainder product that didn't sell out your information.

It's always good to sell a "feature" you've always had which costs you nothing.
This is the misunderstanding attackers can exploit. Credentials need to be reissued because people lose them ocassionally. So that process now becomes a pathway for exploits.
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Sounds a lot like a dialup handshake.
Whatever it wants, if it's using sufficiently redundant systems.
Thanks for the response, this is a very happy outcome of the deal.
Why? Security?
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> Just run Ubuntu

Doesn't actually solve any of the problems I have with Linux as a Desktop. And if I listed those problems someone would just tell me to use a different distribution, which is itself a problem. Or alternatively try to convince me they aren't actually problems "for most people" as though I should give a damn what is and isn't a problem for someone else.
To me it seems guaranteed that it is more expensive, regardless of if you use [insert trendy tool here].

There's always something that can break. More parts, more breakdowns. The services have to communicate, those communication channels are extra points of failure. What happens when one service inadvertently passes along something another one can't decode properly?

Ooops, wasn't expecting unicode! Ooops, wasn't expecting a long int! Oops, the JSON encoder we used in this service spits out stuff the JSON decoder in this one hates! Ooops, we upgraded a package in this service, but not that one! And on, and on.

And when something does inevitably break in the chain, there's the extra cost in debugging of figuring out which bit actually broke.
Go to https://gandi.net and buy a domain name you like with your name in it. I recommend something with your last name. <lastname>.me is a good one, or something more clever if you like.

It doesn't look bizarre, trust me. It looks extremely professional. Even on CVs, this alone will get you past some filters. And the domain name is $5-10 USD / year, it's nothing.
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DJI drones have been able to navigate back to their takeoff point and land automatically for a while now. Landing's much easier for a multicopter than for a fixed wing aircraft.
I agree, it may be cliche, but I think the exact same thing whenever I see this kind of practice, too. Or that the developer that has never had to manage a live system with users that know his phone number and his boss's phone number.

"Oh, this is just for a test mock up. Nobody is supposed to actually use this to install it for real."

Well, to experienced people it makes you look moderately stupid, and to inexperienced people it looks like an elegant solution. It's actively hostile to secure system planning.

It reminds me of the NPM left-pad debacle[0] and some of the criticism[1] that came up from that.

0: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/

1: http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...
Coinbase is FDIC insured.
Its all those riches from authoritarian countrys fleeing to "safer/stable" countries.

A millionaire in a party state is one head of states headache away from loosing it. And they know it.
Those are all true? I mean sure "some X" is a great way to say almost nothing about X, but the literal statement is true
FDIC insurance is low, what, 200K ?
Microservices really shine when your setup requires HA everywhere. If you're running multiple copies of everything and need your overall product to still run while parts fail, then it's a lot easier when the individual parts are small microservices that do one thing with predictable operating conditions.

If you're not running in High Availability, and can tolerate one copy of everything, then monolithic probably makes more sense. Glue it all together and roll out improvements across all the parts at once.
Phaxio co-founder here. We do a _ton_ of heathcare faxing and we're starting to see a shift away from the "unsecure email" in applications. Granted, we can't see what our users are doing at all times but being HIPAA compliant ourselves, we often work with our users to understand their systems and guide them towards compliance.

>> Until security is so easy that it's the default, these little loopholes will continue to be abused.

The simple way to think about this is that the government is more worried about unsecure email/email spoofing than it is about wiretapping.
Nobody is going to keep a billion dollars in a savings account, which FDIC insurance would not even come close to covering anyway.
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>the global currency of the future, that they need to buy some, and that he’s the man to safeguard it.

Looks like in the future people hoard currency instead of spending and investing it then. That ought to be interesting.

It also demonstrates the costs associated with non-reversible transactions, these vaults aren't storing gold ingots or priceless artifacts, just private keys. Banks around the world don't need to worry too much about this (well, within reason) because if somebody manages to break into their digital vault not everything is lost and they can mitigate the damages retroactively.

With bitcoin "if you don't hold the keys, you don't own the coins" but if you do hold the keys you better be absolutely paranoid with them because there's no plan B if they get compromised or destroyed. For this reason I think that even if cryptocurrencies manage to become mainstream many people (including myself) would rather let a bank manage and insure their wallet than manage it themselves. Too stressful otherwise.
Debatable. As far as I know it wasn't really until around 2000 that Silicon Valley became dominate enough to really set it apart from other regional technology centers like Dallas, Boston or Pittsburgh.

In any case that doesn't really help Berlin if it takes, say, five years for its housing market to catch up to its European neighbors.
I think you're safe, HN is too hip to change.
Just checked and yup, all the planted five star reviews are at the top despite having no more than one "helpful" reports. Negative reviews with up to ten "helpful" reports are on at least page two. This is while sorting by "popular".

Seems to have taken the opposite strategy of Yelp, which bumps one star reviews to the top and makes companies pay to hide them. Or my ex-company is already paying, it's hard to tell.
I have tried side projects but I never have the time for (finishing) them. I have a lot of interests outside of tech and outdoor sports feels like a far better us of my spare time. They keep me fit and are a good way to clear my mind of work.
Sarcastic historical case study of opposite

Long argument about instrinsic value

Peaceful resolution where we agree not to kill each other if our portfolios fuck us over
Thanks for sharing. We also started building PWAs for events recently and we think it's a very good use case.
There is too much money spent on event native apps these days by organizers and those native apps are typically uninstalled after the event is over.

Our project: https://chatbird.io (PWAs are not communicated on the landing page yet since we started with bots)
agree with you, i have put gallium os as a dual boot on my Acer r11 chromebook and the laptop has become my primary computing device.

basically have three environments on it:

1 chrome with chromebrew shell and android apps

2 crouton for most linux needs

3 gallium for when i need VMs and other more finicky os interactions

if i could get some wifi drivers working under crouton and also sync with appropriate os header files each google sw update in order to install virtualbox i could forego galliumos.

under crouton was able to do a lot:

1 natively compile with gcc

2 cross compile for kindle paperwhite

3 cross compile for windows ce

4 cross compile for esp8266

5 cross compile for garmin connectiq

the author of the original article is funny about using a linux vm to compile apps for android and run in chromeos. because today i can use the android app named aide to build an android app on my chromebook and immediately execute it. no need for linux, vm, or crouton.
How would an attack without having the hardware key work?
Ya but you can have multiple accounts. I think that circumvents the limit. I think the limit was raised during the Bush administration, but not sure.

>The standard deposit insurance amount is $250,000 per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category.

https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/faq.html

FWIW, I think it should definitely be higher than $250K. Probably $10M or so.
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Hmm... usually when I use Google Maps (esp. on the desktop version), it'll give me several route options at the beginning. One of those is usually the fastest, and another is usually the shortest distance. You can then pick the preferred route and it should follow that (though, during driving, it can get screwed up if you take a wrong turn and then try to re-route you on the fastest route again).
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