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Ask HN: Why do people just not bother about security?
In my life I've always been involved with free software, patent and copyright law fights, and most of the time with anonymity and privacy issues.

I just can't understand why people dont give importance to digital security.

I am baffled one project like SOLO (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/conorpatrick/solo-the-first-open-source-fido2-security-key-usb) is selling so little. 2.300 backers is ridiculous considering the world size. This is not an advertisement, since I dont even know the authors, but I follow them since the u2fzero project.

About 15 years ago I was sending my emails with public key privacy, using smartcards, encrypting hard drives, and after all this time, people are willing to just trust blindly the machine OS, the telecom companies and governments.
All I know is that for cars people have lojack, for houses and babies they have cameras, for bikes they have locks, and for computers.... they have nothing.

I just thought that having a simple physical key like SOLO would be the breakthrough barrier for adoption, but I can only feel they just dont care. Am I wrong?
A Proof About Where Symmetries Can’t Exist
The real question is will they even try, or will they pretend it's not a problem?
Different article about the same study from 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18264436
From what I've been told on here, Nintendo did implement USB-PD correctly, and correctly identified itself as a low-current device, but third-party devices ignore that and attempt to draw full amperage from the charger, which causes it to shut off.

Source: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/845368239622307840
These analyses are a great way to get educated about distributed systems, even if you aren't in a position to evaluate choosing one. Thanks for growing and creating Jepsen!
USDC is an ERC20 token, so the vast majority of wallets support it out of the box.
Readable JS doesn't mean, convert back to the file in the format you used to for editing.

That comment could make people throw away the original and end up with machine generated code when going back.
Flux is awesome. One of the biggest advantages IMO is that kernels you can easily write yourself should be by default just as fast as what's built-in -- since it's all written in Julia and Julia itself is fast, without having to rely on C/C++/FORTRAN under the hood. As the Flux devs say:

"You could have written Flux. All of it, from LSTMs to GPU kernels, is straightforward Julia code. When in doubt, it’s well worth looking at the source. If you need something different, you can easily roll your own." http://fluxml.ai/Flux.jl/stable/

edit: and the automatic differentiation works on them too!
Great lawyers who know this (startups, consultancies, M&A, compensation, etc.) space well are few and far between, especially if you don't want to work with a giant firm. A good specialist will take your call to discuss your situation and present some options for you, though.

Call Gabe: https://groundworklegal.com/
> Decentralized issuance doesn't matter to most people in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Decentralised anything doesn't (yet!) matter to most people in the world who use money, but it does matter to people it matters to.

Just because you don't care about decentralised issuance doesn't mean nobody cares.
Window tint levels in NY state are limited to a minimum of 70% light transmittance. I do not believe this is the most restrictive requirement but new england isn't as sunny as Arizona or Florida. https://drivinglaws.aaa.com/tag/glass-window-tinting/
I have a couple, too. They were not very good though.

I'd be interested if someone made a new good slide rule. And not just slide rules--there are at least a couple of other older computing devices I'd like a good quality working replica or reproduction of.

1. A Curta calculator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

2. The Antikythera mechanism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
The downvotes are because you're being pedantic. Most of the world uses USD or currencies easily exchangeable with USD. Therefore USD is stable.

I cannot buy a car with a gold bar. They would laugh me out of the dealership and I'd have to sell the bar for USD. People want cryptocurrencies they can hold for more than two days that won't lose 50% of their value.

The value here is ability to conduct transactions, not necessarily a stable store of value.
Oh dear. That has "meme" written all over it!
I recently wrote https://github.com/ronomon/hash-table for Node.js, which has a few more design tips listed in the Readme, specifically around optimizing a cuckoo hash table by reducing cache misses.
Ask HN: Examples of well-written JavaScript/TypeScript applications?
Any examples of well-structured jest/mocha/<insert test framework> projects? Any typescript code base you would read to enhance your testing skills?

For instance, vscode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
> Despite this, no one on Twitter[1] seemed excited

Because most people think that in order to solve the problem of a cryptocurrency, they have to also solve the problem of who gets money when you print it.

Far too many people conflate the need for electronic cash versus the need to improve upon how systems like the Federal Reserve and their International equivalents work.

Honestly, as a software engineer who understands some basic economics, I think cryptocurrency becomes far more interesting when it's not trying to solve the problem of who gets money when it's printed.

I also think that the Federal Reserve, and its international equivalents, work very well for me! I think that trying to come up with a currency that improves upon the Federal Reserve System, or equivalent, needs to be a separate technical problem than just trying to have an electronic form of cash.

In my opinion, most of the people who were excited about cryptocurrency were scam artists, the kind of people who just don't understand how money really works, or engineers who don't really understand scaling.
I worked with an MCS guy years ago who carried a picture in his wallet of him and Bill. I guess they went through some difficult solution to a problem and walked away making a bunch of well-thought out and necessary changes after about 10 minutes.
Only in the United States and with stringent per day limits? Cryptowallets work no matter where you’re at and without limitations.
Disclaimer: I'm a 42 student.

I agree with this sentiment so damn much. When I joined the school, I was very afraid that such a rhythm would lead me to a fast burnout.

Thankfully, there's no pressure to do any kind of crazy hours. The school is open 24/7, and there are no deadlines for projects or whatever. This is a two edged sword: on one hand, there's an incentive to stay at school as long as possible, and put in some crazy hours. On the other side, though, it creates a lot of flexibility for student. If you need to take a breather, you can totally put in less hours, or even totally stop going for a while. If you need to do some odd hours, like working a night schedule, that's also possible.

Of course, I have put in some 50+hr in a week sometimes,while hacking away on a project. But i have also clocked 25hr some weeks. This absolute flexibility is a real stress relief.
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The breakfast of champions.

Ask Philadephia Eagle fans:
https://nypost.com/2018/02/05/eagles-fan-thinks-eating-horse...
>once I have acquired dollars and wish to send them to you I must involve a third party.

Isn’t that the same as bitcoin and every other cryptocurrency? You need a cryptowallet (third party); a device (third party); and internet access (third party).
So in this case the end justifies the means, right?
I was rocking along with this and then BAM a slam on Steven Universe out of nowhere.

It's all subjective, of course, but personally, I've found SU to be rock solid. The main arc is there, but the stand alone eps are just as valuable for that show. Not every episode of a show that doesn't obviously advance the main story arc is 'filler'. Some are just trying to tell a story. I notice that people tend to label those kinds of stand alone stories "filler" if they didn't like them.

I say this because I'm guilty of this kind of thing, too.

And that's not to say there AREN'T episodes of shows that are just spinning their wheels burning off quotas-- see the Arrowverse for lots of THAT. Oof.

This is why I've been increasingly becoming a fan of 13 episode seasons for some shows. Tell a good story. Get the hell out. Or if you just have 23 episode seasons, break it in half. Tell two solid arcs. Maybe bridge them if you must.
It's sad that issues like this are flagged to shut them discussion. Earlier this week a story in a leading newspaper (Haaretz) on Israeli IT security firms selling to dictators around the world was also flagged away. These stories seem legitimate and important to me, but the issues are hidden from our consciousness.

EDIT: I may be presuming too much, that it will be flagged dead, but that happened between the moment I clicked on it and the moment the page loaded, and my vouching is what allowed me to comment. I hope I'm wrong!
Does anybody have a good source for power prices per country that I could integrate into the application? I want to give the user a default for the ct/kWh value based on his location.
Awesome concept! An interesting use of AI. Do you think it would it be possible to recognize a news story as fake news? The dataskeptic.com podcast have been doing a series recently on fake news.
You can find lawyers in the phone book or with a search engine. They usually take out advertisements indicating their specialty -- business law and/or contracts is generally what you want. Call one up and ask for an appointment.

Typically, the initial interview is to find out if you've found an appropriate lawyer and if they have the time to sell to you. If either of these things are misaligned, the lawyer will almost certainly offer you a referral to another lawyer who is more appropriate or available for you.

After a successful interview, you generally pay some money as a retainer. It may or may not be applied to your billed hours.

A business lawyer's function is to tell you how to accomplish your goals without violating laws, or that your goals are fundamentally illegal, or how to accomplish a goal in a law-abiding fashion that will minimize legal risk. If you are about to enter into a contract, a lawyer will review it for you and point out areas of higher risk, and possibly suggest ways to mitigate those risks. If you have a particular intention for the contract, the lawyer will help your phrase it so that a court of law will understand what you are intending.

Almost all of the above is true for accountants, as well, except that instead of advising you on legal matters, they will advise you on accounting matters (which have a strong overlap with legal matters). Accountants figure out which paperwork you need to file, and can complete most of it for you.
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Don't get two distinct groups confused.

The people buying ICOs are looking to get rich quick, the people interested in decentralised money are not buying ICOs.
> Thus far, causal consistency has generally been limited to research projects ... MongoDB is one of the first commercial databases we know of which provides an implementation.

Cosmos DB provides session consistency (looks like an another name for causal consistency) at least since 2014 [1].

Cosmos DB's session guarantees [2]: consistent prefix, monotonic reads, monotonic writes, read-your-writes, write-follows-reads.

Mongo DB's causal consistency guarantees [3]: monotonic reads, monotonic writes, read-your-writes, write-follows-reads.

Doubt that four years later still qualities as one of the first.

[1] https://www.infoq.com/news/2014/08/microsoft-azure-documentd...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/consistency...

[3] https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/read-isolation-consiste...
Liberty Dollar was backed by gold. USDC is backed by USD.
Url changed from https://github.com/Bloomca/website-in-2018, which points to this, which makes the point rather more effectively.
https://assets.bynorth.com/quartz/focalsPage/Product_Banner_...
How a Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Exploited Android Phones to Steal Millions
Also check out Lygte Info[1], the site of a Dane who checks chargers and batteries usually bought from the Chinese sites like Banggood and AliExpress. Spoiler: Not all of them are bad.

[1] https://lygte-info.dk/info/indexUSB%20UK.html
How Pirates of the Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (2017)
Trust as a Commodity: Can a Trustless Economy Survive and Thrive?
Not so much when you look at them as a progression:

GS II -> HTC One M7 -> HTC One M9 -> GS8

HP Touchpad -> Nexus 7

If I had been able to unlock the bootloader on either of my HTC devices, I'd probably still be using them with a custom ROM of some kind. But that's Verizon for you...
When the flea market charging pad that the Google phone is laying on goes up in flames, Jenny Cheapskate isn't going to know if it was the pad that burned down her home, or the phone.
Oh don't worry, Europe is doing it too.
All Qi chargers already have a temperature sensor in them and any modern phone has many temperature sensors (MEMS sensors, SMPS, lipo battery charger). The Qi receiver already communicates back to the transmitter and can tell it to increase or decrease power. Having the Pixel 3 decrease charging rate if it noticed heating up would be trivial.
Did you know international remittances are already really, really cheap? Check out compareremit.com if you don’t believe me, they rank different services. Some corridors like USD-INR are almost mid-market, zero fees. I thought this was a huge opportunity too until I researched it.
Amazon pushes ICE to buy its Face recognition tech
For reference, as a french, I pay ~24€ for 50GB of mobile internet, and unlimited phone calls / text in France, but also from / to europe (now mandatory) as well as USA and Canada
The Evolving Role of Crypto Investors
EFF Urges Supreme Court to Support Fair Use in TVEyes Case
I truly believe the iPhone has the most usable mobile platform simply for all their granular accessibility controls.

The author touches upon a topic that I also have seen and experienced countless of times in my life, which is the need for a better first-run accessibility settings onboarding experience for users that would benefit most (e.g. senior citizens), that also can be trivially skipped by more tech savvy users.

This new onboarding flow can be triggered by apple determining a person's first time ever signing into that model iPhone, under the assumption that most new users to the platform would benefit the most from becoming familiar with these accessibility features and where they live in the settings from the get go.

I know many senior citizens (including my parents) who would have greatly benefited from a heavy accessibility settings onboarding experience, due to many of the issues the author mentioned regarding eye sight and vision related age decline.

It's a shame that a company like apple, one that pioneered usability and human factors in designing products for people since their very beginning (see Human Interface Guidelines [1]), buries these crucial accessibility settings and makes them so difficult to reach for the people that need them the most.

I hope someone from apple is reading this and can champion this topic internally to improve the lives of senior citizens, cause we'll all be old some day scratching our head trying to use the latest and greatest iDevice...

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=573097
Money laundering is a problem they must have faced earlier when allowing BTC trades, so presumably they'll operate under the same AML/KYC regulatory compliance umbrella required to offer their current (and growing) set of digital currencies[1][2].

[1] https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/263...

[2] https://www.circletrade.com/individuals/basic
I believe it defaults to the account you sign into first, so you can log out of all of your gmail accounts, and log into what your want your "default" to be first.

If you're using chrome and logged into your google account on chrome, I think you're already logged in.

I don't know how you'd do this if you didn't want your chrome account to be your "default" account. I personal use firefox.
ads blocked -> mine monero instead, also missing autoplaying video as a background, scrolljacking and some weird bug in non-chromium based browser
Hey this is the author. Yes, it cannot be understated that MongoDB solicited work directly to check their sharding system and their new CC feature and were helpful towards getting the work done.
Have they published the contract to the blockchain yet? I'm curious how much control over it they will have. I would suspect that only they can issue it, and that they can destroy any USDC they want at any time.
Do you mean West Coast USA? I'm in Oregon and I'll say that fall foliage has been nice the last few days, but we also didn't get much rain this summer, and the last few winters have been lacking in moisture as well. My parents tell me it used to rain and snow quite a lot more than it has been these last few decades.
Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked (2015)
Just imagine the shitstorm if it was s/Google Pixel 3/Apple iPhone/

The amount of angry tweets and 10+ minute long YouTube rants (for the monetization) would break the internet.
Thanks!

How do you plan to address other mail servers classifying yours as span since you don’t have a reliable history?
People don't read warnings, especially "lawyer speak". We knew that 25 years ago, and we've definitively proved it on the web this year.

This would be the modern tech equivalent of keeping your fingers crossed.
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The reality is that bad chargers exist. It is wholly possible to build a phone that is resilient to a wide range of wrong input. If your phone breaks because of a substandard charger it's your phone's fault.
Yes, they are imprecise. In general, you're limited to just three, maybe four digits regardless of the actual magnitude of the numbers and you have to keep the powers of ten in your head. Honestly, though, once you've used it enough, it isn't that hard to do. Besides, in most calculations, you don't need precision out to the 12th digit. After all, skyscrapers, bridges, and ocean liners have been built using slide rules for a long time and they, mostly, have worked just fine.
In the pnw it's because of a remarkable storm free October. The trees are progressing the same as always, but the leaves aren't getting knocked off. I think.
.. but the post didn't say it was first. Not even the part you quoted.
> This is not true at all. Everyone knows how not to have children...

I used to help moderate a LiveJournal community called "amipregnant" and this is a laughably false assertion.

"Yes, you can get pregnant your first time having sex" and "no, you can't get pregnant from sitting on a toilet seat a boy used" were both pretty common sorts of things we had to tell folks.
Trade.io loses $7.5Mil worth of cryptocurrency in mysterious cold wallet hack
The LG V20 is not listed as being waterproof at all. The MIL-STD-810G covers a great many things, and it seems likely that the V20 was tested for impact resistance, not waterproofing.
A lot of your claims about Go are false.

> It's a language that's pretty good for small web services.

I know projects in production running HUGE web services written in Go serving millions of reqs/s. If that's small for you then I don't know what large is. Look at techempower benchmarks[1] and additionally compare the source of actix-raw (Rust) to fasthttp (Go).

OS written in Go: In experiments comparing nearly identical system call, page fault, and context switch code paths written in Go and C, the Go version was 5% to 15% slower.

Read the paper[2]

1. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16&hw=...

2. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi18-cutler.pdf
And then there is no money left for the actual project.
What Toasters and Distributed Systems Might Have in Common
Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia [video]
Thank you! Your feedback is similar to a lot of the feedback I've received from friends I've shown it to, so I don't think you're an outlier at all.

I think most people do something similar to you, and block themselves from social media. I know I do. People resort to deleting their accounts, temporarily blocking access using browser extensions, or removing the apps completely. The problem I've found is that there is interesting work-related content that I do want to know about that gets shared through social media (and even more messaging). And I get work messages through facebook and twitter, and then half my day is blown. I think that's worse for people on a maker's schedule. You need the important content (say new deep learning research) but you blink and you've shot half a day after glancing at facebook. The direction I'm heading with Orac is to use the topic modelling and a doc2vec approach to match up clusters of concepts between content, and your todo list. That's still a way off but this is intended to be a step in that direction.

The deep learning models are still in progress, but they're already getting pretty good at ranking content and identifying topics etc. One friend described them as "scary" and I don't think they are quite there but they are improving.

Adding "build your own" filters is definitely on the road map - so something like the fantasy football tracking is a great use of that!
It's not about "tunnels." It's about infrastructure as a whole.

The OP's statement is insightful. Narrowing its scope to prove a tangential point is not.
Think it through, that’s true only if you already have the USDC, you still have to buy them somewhere and sell them somewhere, with the same limits. Also I just picked US services, Canada has Interac e-Transfer and other countries have similar products too. The whole EU has SEPA. There are competitors in the African market even like mpesa. And if you want to move money to another country international remittances are already cheap and fast. Most people just don’t have the problem of needing to send tons of money to each other across borders all the time.
Good point, it could definitely help solve that problem.
I am not surprised that people with amazing memories end up being in senior positions for a variety of reasons (and not just technical).

I am WAY more fascinated by the people who end up in those roles who do NOT have amazing memories. Partly because my memory is by no means "amazing" so I'm curious how they work around not being able to recall everything on command.
It's probably one of the few cases where you can reuse the chipset / socket though (at least compared to AMD).
I'd say the heat generation is the biggest factor in fast charging wearing out the battery - lithium batteries do not like heat, and base Qi generates quite a lot of it (have a Qi charger for my Galaxy S5). Can only imagine the fun you run into trying to pump more current through them without melting the phone.

Google may well be doing this because they can't guarantee cooling on the third-party stands, and would have to throttle the charge rate when the phone started to overheat. Guess they might be pre-empting it.
ugh, mars lost that atmosphere over millions and millions of years.

if we can smack enough comets into it to accomplish anything in the first place, then the maintenance is trivial.
The incredibly convoluted story of the Macintosh power switch (1996)