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I would like to bring Open Representative Voting (ORV) into the game. On ORV, every account can freely choose a Representative at any time to vote on their behalf, even when the delegating account itself is offline. These Representative accounts are configured on nodes that remain online and vote on the validity of transactions they see on the network. Their voting weight is the sum of balances for accounts delegating to them, and if they have enough voting weight they become a Principal Representative. The votes these Principal Representatives send out will subsequently be rebroadcasted by other nodes.
Open in this context means, that every account can be chosen as a representative by every account.
I found out that the author died only two years later in 2001, and was only 29. Very sad.
It is always same story. If a problem concerns someone "well known" who is able to attract attention, than Google, Facebook, etc. are stepping back.

If it were some random "amateurish" hacker channel, it would be banned and nobody would give a crap. The problem is that many valuable things started as some "amateurish" stuff put together by some clever guys in a garage.
From time-to-time, yes, but there's not a lot of AVs out there, and there have been a decent number of accidents.
Tesla has much more of the latter. Their driving system is already deployed and used in consumer vechicles, each of them able to collect that data. Watch "Autonomy day".
I think it's more an issue of awareness. I do remember walking across a lawn in my childhood, and I do remember having to watch out not to step on any bees etc., as they were legion.

Nowadays, I am happy to see a few bees around.

I think we are just too "busy" to step back, open our eyes and actually watch the world we live in.
Local councils in England are reducing the amount of grass cutting they do on verges of roads - so more flowers (presumably good for insects) and cheaper!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48772448
They should just ban all interesting content already so creators finally move to better platforms some of which are probably yet to be created. Watching YouTube these days without adblocker is just painful, not to mention the broken copyright claim system which has to be the way it is partly because YouTube is just too big.
I see your schwartz is as big as mine!
Genuinely curious, but is it actually like that in most languages? I wondered if it was maybe an East/West difference, since I haven't come across that in my French & German learning, and I didn't think Dutch or Danish were like that either. But apparently Swedish does have this (eg faster/moster for paternal aunt & maternal aunt)?

(Most of my learning is via Duolingo, so I'm no expert, just curious.)
,,Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another''

I like this definition.

People can be different, still having the same rights. They don't have to be ordered to have an equality operation defined on them.
I actually created a cracking tool for this cipher that uses local search algorithms to analyse and break it without a known key. It also supports several other classical ciphers.

https://dulhanjayalath.com/decryptr
> Do we really want to turn this into a numbers game?

Yes, of course we want this to be a numbers game. What else would you have this discussion be about? Irrational feelings?
You mean the whole 1 comment I ever made before? It's these condescending idiots that bring it out in me.
The UV light in sunshine kills off the bacteria that grow on damp washing. It's far better to dry clothes outside.
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Just alt-text. Granted it is a slight insight though, as I assume it's added automatically, but I expect they pull a lot more info from people's images than just what the alt-text shows.
Thanks, you're probably right. It's been a while i brushed up on Sanskrit!
I didn't say it could run a country's currency supply. I said it was an alternative to a country's hyperinflated currency, and it would be one of many. What normally happens on the ground in such a situation is that the average person will use an array of different currencies that are accepted in their environment in order to make up for the country's standard (so in Zimbabwe for example, people will use a mix of the USD, ZAR and a number of other currencies in their day-to-day lives).

Bitcoin is just another alternative. Yes you're not buying a loaf of bread at the corner store with it, but it's definitely useable (and is used) for other types of payments.
Didn't uber shut down their self-driving attempts? Why are we still even talking about them if they are not even in the game anymore? (By their own volition or by virtue of being regulated, doesn't matter.)
Ask HN: How to handle PII data in AWS datalake
We are building a s3 datalake in AWS and the data may contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) information. What are the best practices for anonysing the data(PII data need to be retrieved back - like by marketing team for campaigns). If I take encryption route, what's the best way to do it on AWS?
Minor nit; turbocharged, not supercharged.
It doesn't allow you to assume that at all, precisely because of the potential for vulnerabilities.

SGX is just yet another iteration of the 'trusted tamper-proof hardware' concept (which, for reasons that are unclear to me, is apparently magically fine when Intel does it but impossible and bound to be broken when somebody else does it), and it suffers from the exact same issues as every 'trusted hardware' scheme before it.
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>People cry: waahhh, free speech, think of the [security researchers.]

What do you think free speech means? Speech you like?

And yes, think of not only groups you can think of like "security researches" (sic) but all those groups you can't think of. These policies are a dragnet. Yeah, they'll MAYBE catch some guys you think shouldn't be on there (and by the way, I'm pretty sure YouTube was banning those guys anyway), but they'll catch a hundreds times more. People who maybe doing peripherally related things, like educational content, or historical content, or satirical and comical content, or a mix of all those and infosec stuff, in all kinds of languages, etc., etc. etc.

But you'll say "They can just appeal", and you know what, if Twitterverse makes a stink about something, maybe it'll work, but 99% of those will never appeal and that content will be lost. Or maybe they'll lose their appeal because what constitutes infringement will fall on the interpretation of some offshored minimum-wage worker (much respect to them), or capricious whims of executives who don't want bad publicity.

>The only people this benefits are the script kiddies.

You sure about that? Really? Really really?

How about them reporters in censor-happy countries, I bet you they are script kiddies too because they aren't programmers.

That's one example, but how about all those other groups you and I can't even think of because we're just not that aware of all the things that happen in the world.

And how do you think you learn about infosec? I bet a non-trivial amount of InfoSec professionals started off as 'script kiddies'. In fact, I bet all the good ones were 'script kiddies' (pretty sure Snowden was a script kiddie).

You know what the difference is between a vulnerability testing tool for use in securing your network vs probing another for nefarious penetration? Nothing.

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I fully get the motivation of these companies. They want safe content for advertisers, so YouTube will never be a free speech zone.

What I don't get are cheerleaders, usually on the left now, who want these behemoths to keep adding more and more restrictions. Who want a corporate behemoth to act like their mommy and daddy and protected from things they are afraid of and do the same for others too.
And I wonder if the car manufacturers are even listening (to us).

In some ways the current state of car interior design reminds the 1990s and 2000s of computers and mobile phones. Everything was so ugly and unusable that when proper industrial design finally came into the industry, the guy responsible for it got knighthood and worldwide recognition of a genius.

(To be fair a few companies did try to make their devices look well-designed and luxury, such as Sony, but then Sony never understood software. Industrial design without software is nothing.)

Whereas all it takes for any electronics or car manufacturer is to have someone C-level with a good taste to approve or disapprove designs. Which got me thinking, maybe at this point the humanity needs to come up with some measure of good taste similar to IQ...
It’s a bit anglocentrists to never think that ”oh maybe there are other systems where it makes sense.” Hell, _most_ languages have more words for kinship than English! I always found it odd for example that grandfather doesn’t specify on which side. Like, how is that not super useful information?
This is correct but Patanjali explicitly defines the yogic path as synonymous with 'perfect discipline' so while he acknowledges other paths he says this one is the one of discipline (so saying yoga means practice gives the right intuition imo)
A pretty idiomatic (and trivial to implement) Scala way of doing this would be to have a DSL with a name for each relation and compose them together using function application. So to express "MothersSiblingsDaughter" you'd write "mother sibling daughter". The whole expression would return an object which contains a linked list of the individual components, consed together by each individual function application in the chain.

Of course, this is kind of co-opting the call stack to build up at runtime what the compiler can already provide as an AST, so it might be better to just use a macro.

This representation can't be serialized quite as easily as a single symbol or whatever Apple is doing, but it is infinitely flexible. And it seems like a code smell to me that they have a special case for the father's brother, while the mother only has a generic "sibling." It should be up to the view layer to determine that kind of localization-specific logic. If you just store a completely arbitrary relation then you can punt it to the localization to decide how to translate that into meatspeak.
It isn't always about art though? If more subscribers equal more views over time which in turns equals more ad revenue, then I can't blame someone who's trying to make a living for doing something that might come across as cheap to some.
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possibly as real life has become the same as the contents of mad? :)
https://d.tube/

Decentralized. Based on ipfs. Uses https://steemit.com/

Works like a charm
"And it will automatically switch to park if the car is stopped, the drivers door is opened and the driver's seatbelt is removed"

What do you mean by removed? And isn't it a personal safety issue if the door unlocks everytime you stop?
faster = faders syster = father’s sister. Same for all of them.

Ours is pretty simple, I imagine this system is intended to cover Chinese kinship which is _really_ complex. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_kinship#Common_exten...
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Right, but even worse since we didn't have multi tab browsers yet.

So much usage of early JS on the web was simply malicious, and JS had a bad reputation for years. Many would even disable JS completely.

Amazing how AJAX was able to save JS on the web.
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NFS is kind of horrible. Last time I used it, I had hard lockups when I unplugged my machine from the network.

SSHFS however works wonders, and doesn't require the VPN at all.
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As i point out in another post of mine, many people here are confusing "Hatha Yoga" with "Raja Yoga". The problem with BKS Iyengar/Krishnamachar/Pattabi Jois etc. schools is that they have mixed up both and sold it to the West and thus the resulting confusion.

Patanjali in his "Yoga Sutras"(main text for Raja Yoga) only says "posture should be steady and comfortable" (note asana = posture). Thats it. He also says nothing detailed about Pranayama. It is the internal mental aspects that are crucial in his system. Whether you do it sitting in a Chair, lying on a Bed is immaterial.

On the other hand, in Hatha Yoga the physical aspects are all important and are defined by Asana, Pranayama, Bandhas and Mudras. Here is where the forceful exercises come in. By a combination of body and breath, you try to induce certain sensations in your mind which is often defined as "Laya" i.e. "dissolution".
And this, right here, is the reason why people buy expensive german cars.
Pretty sure Apple made the same mistake on iMac boxes.
Didn't even English have a bunch of words that were lost as time went by?

We do have quite a few words in Lithuanian (e.g. for maternal/paternal branches and more detailed words for "X in law"). But it was getting simplified in the past few decades. I've heard quite a few words that I couldn't describe without looking at the dictionary.
That's in the TODO list. Though I'm still looking for a 100% technology-agnostic guide of what mail is, how it works, what I need, etc.
It's more sinister than that. Dan is going to get caught because his typing frequency, style and mouse movements are unique in the whole world. Moreover, he usually works on a computer with unique hardware that can be fingerprinted by some silly W3C standards already. Camera would be a bonus "just to be sure". We will soon need typing/movements randomizers that would add tiny delays/perturbations to our typing/mouse movement to fool some advanced Deep Learning pattern extractor. Using those would place Dan on some "no loan" blacklist though.
Offensive security Youtube videos doesn't help the world to make computer systems more secure. The offensive security subculture deals more about fame, fun and profit. Therefore I'm a little happy on the reaction of some offensive/black hat security people, although I agree that the policy is to ambiguous to be fair. The obvious intention of the policy is obviously the removal script-kiddy like videos which are showing either "how to hack Facebook" bullshit videos or videos which are concretely showing how to harm one concrete business. The boundaries between immature script-kiddy videos and offensive/blackhat security videos are not very clear.
As noted elsewhere, this is more than likely for localization which composing would not enable. Would also explain the asymmetry, does it match Chinese? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_kinship#Common_exten...
Is it really that hard to run `python -m http.server` in your repository?
Where are you even reading this assumption? Who, which company has said this? Sounds like something someone overheard somewhere, and not an actual assumption made by any of those companies. In reality Waymo, Tesla and others are using NNs where they fit, where they have been shown to produce the best results - and other methods everywhere else. Heck, even the ML courses teaching self-driving tech to students don't exclusively use NNs, but all sorts of ML models.
Fiat money is not the same thing:

- anyone can issue Bitcoin
- if anyone accepts Bitcoin they accept it regardless of origin

With fiat money, there are additional rules to limit money laundering and theft. (e.g. paper trail audit rules and special markings on banknotes - money matching these laws is not to be accepted)

Plus you cannot just issue say Zimbabwe dollars anywhere, that's considered a forgery. Likewise you can only issue Bitcoin if you do manage to notify the decentralised ledger that you have mined it. (Which is why verification is slow.)
It happens sometimes in Instagram without any big outage
The point isn't to make you a more informed and well-rounded person, it's to keep you on YouTube so you see more ads. I bet "old favorites" that might make you feel nostalgic or have rewatch value (it's not a gamble, you already know it's good) makes a significant number of people stay longer.
Why would an obscure name be better? This looks like an example where a very specific relationship is needed, and the name specifies precisely what that is. Choosing an obscure name for this feels like an attempt to hide the fact that this is a special case by using vague terminology.
Can you elaborate on these side channels?
The reason to expect it might be different this time is that computers are _meta-applicable_. A bunch of men (the most famous being Turing) figured this out in principle in the 1930s, but Grace Hopper actually put it into practice by writing her "compiler".

The Spinning Jenny made it possible to do more spinning with fewer people employed as spinners, but no advances on the Spinning Jenny would deplete the newly created jobs of maintaining this machine or inventing further machines.

In contrast, a meta-applicable machine can automate not only a task it was set, but also meta-tasks such as maintaining and further optimising the machine itself or finding better tasks to do.

The Spinning Jenny is also illustrative because what actually ended up happening was not only that many spinners became unemployed, but that fabric production shot up and prices collapsed so that most people would now own more clothing. That's why you own lots of clothes. But as you may have noticed, us purchasing lots of clothes is itself an environmental disaster, and so we probably need to cut back. If a machine makes it possible to create ten times as much stuff for the same labour, yes, it's possible we'll just make ten times as much stuff, but it's also possible we'll refrain and cut the labour to one tenth...
By outsourcing to the lowest bidder and then putting the thumbscrews on to push the price down even more. Everything in these cheap mass market cars is made as cheaply (and thus half-assedly) as humanly possible.
Yeah, I also read Plato at 12 (or Heidegger if I wanted something light).
Sweden has it, at least for aunts/uncles, and grandparents (and great grandparents, and great-great-grandparents...).

For aunts its faster/moster (portmanteau of father-sister, mother-sister, roughly). For uncles its farbror/morbror (lit. father-brother, mother-brother).

For grandparents its farfar/morfar (father-father, mother-father) and farmor/mormor (father-mother, mother-mother).

A great grandparent could be e.g. a farfarsfar, or father-fathers-father.
You having the sources does not change the incentive of the software’s creator. The unwanted functionality (which the software creator is pressured to include) will instead be put in:

1. Obfuscated code. This is a classic, employed back in the day when raw machine code wasn’t quite as much of a barrier like it is nowadays. Less common now since its importance has lessened, but still ever-present, and could be re-employed instantly.

2. The very design of the software. For instance, the software might require a phone number for every user, and this is baked in at the very fundamental design level, making it impractical to change. Other design choices might encourage you to share your contact lists, for say, backups, and your data is now leaked.

3. The software is merely a collection stubs calling a cloud service. Very common now with so-called "apps" for phones. This design has come to its pinnacle with “web page apps”, where only the front-facing UI portion sits on the user‘s control, and the rest runs remotely.

This is why “shared source” and the like is not enough. The end user must have the practical ability to, reasonably easily change the software, either by themselves or by hiring anyone they like and/or trust to do it for them.
I once tried to fix one of the flaws of Vigenère and I came up with a slight modification but still keeping most of the simplicity.

https://blog.hackensplat.com/2011/02/vinegar.html

I then noticed that my new crypto-system itself has a flaw. Oh well.
Yup in India you can find a different "traditional way" from street to street. And there are lots of streets there.

When you have an actual problem and go looking for solutions you will find stuff. People who don't know what they are looking for will find a lot of unnecessary things. I think that's also from Buddha...or maybe Bruce Lee :)
The two words are conjoined as "Ashtha + Anga = Ashtanga" and thus you have "Ashtanga Yoga" i.e. "Eight-limbed Yoga" of Patanjali.
> while having source code helps in understanding and modification, it's not essential

It technically isn't, much like having an excavator isn't essential to digging up ground for a new mall, when you can technically do this with a shovel too.

I get your point, but right now, I'm sitting in front of a 22-years-old game I spent a great deal of time even trying to get to run. I want to restore it. There's no source leak of it that I know of, it has no clear relation to prior titles and there wasn't any reversing effort I could find either. Half of the formats used by it are obscure, and from causal inspection seem to be dumps of in-memory structures.

Having source code, my main problem would be to build it - but it's essentially a straightforward task of finding and patching or mocking various 1990s-era peculiarities, until the whole thing builds correctly with an reasonably current compiler. The source code would assist me with reversing the data formats too. However, I don't have the source code, just a barely-32bit application with a 16bit installer. The game plays really weird tricks with your screen, so attaching a debugger will be a PITA (unless I figure out how I can run a debugger on a different machine and remotely debug the game on the one computer that it manages to run in half-broken fullscreen mode). Best I can do now is poke it and see what changes.

> It could even be argued that the rise of open-source lead to a decrease in interest and skills of RE.

I think so too - simply because being able to ask decreases interest in and skills of figuring stuff out yourself. Has its good and bad sides.
I wish that articles like these could end with at least some point of action that I could take to improve the situation. If the public should act, give them something actionable: Calling their local council, joining an organization, not cutting your lawn, whatever.

As anyone's who's been trained in crowd control during emergencies knows, you don't just sound alarm without at the same time telling people what to do. Journalists should take at least some kind of the same responsibility. Otherwise, people will either panic or stop listening.
Classical technical noise.
>So you could just use a fake passport?

Why do you think so? If a human can detect a fake passport why a computer scanner can't detect it?

It even makes sense to do it like this:
1 the passport includes a picture of you but it could include a hash of your biometric face

2 you go at the checkpoint, put the passport in a scanner and your face is also photographed by a camera, the sash is generated and compared, then the hash is deleted, the airport people just care that the passport is real(they can check serial codes or chips if present in the passport, check the other security areas of the passport) and the person using the passport is the one in the passport.

Airports or air transport companies should not be in bussiness of collecting bio-metric data. If NSA or the government of a country wants to create such a database they should propose a law for it, when you get or renew your ID card,passport then you would be added to the national database because such is the law not because you are forced to chose between getting in the plane faster or some unpleasant alternative way/

There is no