skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some currencies have different consensus protocol, e.g. stellar. others are actively fighting it, e.g. monero. and even in the case of a takeover, forks are possible , ensuring decentralization

it's not just decentralization, it's competing decentralized currencies in a free market.
A sandboxed macOS app would offer similar protections as what snapd, flatpak, etc provide on Linux.

> Even the regular Linux package managers like apt, dnf, pacman track which files were installed by which packages, so they can be removed when the package is uninstalled.

Technically speaking, Zoom could have abused dpkg post-install scripts, or pulled similar tricks, to install their malware server and leave it behind after the package was removed. Linux distributions aren't invincible to these shenanigans.
Not just an Aladdin thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault

> The "Disney Vault" was a term used by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment for its policy of putting home video releases of Walt Disney Animation Studios's animated features on moratorium. Each Disney film was available for purchase for a limited time, after which it is put "in the vault" and not made available in stores for several years until its re-release. With the announcement of Disney's forthcoming streaming service Disney+—scheduled for launch in the United States on November 12, 2019—Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed that the service will contain Disney's entire film library, which would de facto retire the concept of the Disney Vault for good.
looks good to me.
Do more and more at that pace.
eng has responsibility here for going forward with this
OK, but we're talking about cases where something goes wrong. What are some somethings?

- Libra screws up and its value is unstable. Pissed-off customers switch to other currencies, at a loss.

- Libra turns out to be a great stable currency while the Fed screws up so badly that everyone scrambles to get out of dollars. It's a giant disaster, but not one I'd describe as "Libra destabilizing the financial system" -- I'd call it them offering a lifeboat -- a well-run firm outcompeting a poor one. (This seems unlikely, and I'd hate to see Facebook become this powerful because I can't stand Facebook. It's just, in this scenario they'd have done a useful thing.)

- Libra is so successful they gain a new effective monopoly, and then they fail or exploit their position.

Is the worry something else? I don't understand money very well, for all that I've read multiple books, took ec in college, etc. There's so much BS around it.
As far as I know. I don't remember seeing an option and mine is showing.
Which is completely frustrating, because Mac is totally in the position of using its built-in capabilities to deal with this. The Mac Bundle (.app) format could solve this entirely. All application specific data should be written inside of the bundle folder, so that when you delete the app, you delete the thing entirely.

I mean, maybe you need a "user data" bundle of sorts tied to the specific application. If you delete the app, it deletes all the user data bundles as well.

The default installer and bundle runners should be controlling the process. "XYZ App is attempting to write data files outside of its bundle location. These may not be cleaned up if you delete the application. Do you want to continue?"

The unix permissions system and the Mac bundle format should completely solve this problem. I honestly just don't get why this still happens. Doesn't iOS at least get this right?
> You can't call that a C "bool" though.

Correct. It was not my intent to imply otherwise. Like the person I replied to and I reiterated, that ship has sailed.
Yeah, I agree, but I think that is just a way of stating that morals are impossible to perfect.
Satoshi didn't participate in a system featuring an implementation of "escrovery". See 4.3.
I beg to differ.

The problem-cyclists everyone has at one time or the other, encountered have this air of entitlement - not dissimilar to Prius drivers who are known to be some of the worst drivers on the road [1][2] - that their chosen mode of conveyance is morally superior to other modes and so they're owed certain privileges like being not held to the same degree of responsibility for flouting traffic rules.

[1]
The aggressive driving antics of some Prius drivers have been attributed to a lack of engine noise in the Prius and thus absence of revs found in an ICE vehicle

[2]
Science Confirms That BMW And Prius Drivers Are The Worst

https://jalopnik.com/science-confirms-that-bmw-and-prius-dri...

edit: punctuation
Designate one person to do this in your team as opposed to multiple people. Take turns to manage it. I am not sure why is it so big a time sink unless you are doing it like twice or thrice a week. Usually we do this once or twice a month
I don't understand why anyone would want to bike instead of driving a car. Why would you want to regress? Would you be cool with it if I took your laptop and replaced it with a calculator?
Successful single founders are very rare.

Agreed that the biggest cause of failure is issues between founders.

One could say then that you should only start a company when you have a cofounder, and one that is good. But in reality there's no way of knowing who will be good.

The best proxy is choosing someone you have worked with before. A coworker for instance.

Simply choosing a founder because you hang out with them is not a good idea.

Try moonlighting with your founder dating buddy before making the leap.
http://blockpad.net might be what you are looking for
There is only Gentoo. So much control, so free. I've had to manually approve licenses to install fonts. A few other trade offs but I control and own all the bits
> (The law violation works both ways too. Ever seen a motorist obey the speed limit? Me neither.)

Drive next to a police car.

> did you think that gas taxes are high enough to pay for roads?

They would be if the gas tax revenue weren't diverted towards politican's pet causes.

> cause orders of magnitude less damage and wear to the road surfaces than automobiles

Same is true for most things that are lighter than cars. Scooters and motorcycle cause less damage than cars.
but they said:

"Storage Configure up to 4TB of SSD storage"

(You can get that from a single 2.5" ssd right now on amazon)

Sort of underspec'd when you consider the 1.5tb of RAM you can configure.
So we need to mine and strip the earth of materials at rates far beyond anything we’ve ever done before, then load it up on a fleet of ships larger than anything we have today, all burning the filthiest bunker fuel there is at unprecedented rates to manage the largest shipping operation ever, and dump it all on isolated, natural beaches far from human eyes. Plus we need to check the purity of all of this to ensure no nickel wipes out life as we know it, since inspecting a quantity of stone greater than our entire global fuel harvest operations is a reasonable expectation.

I’m sure no cost cutting or harm would come about from this. These companies would definitely be ethical with their operations from start to finish, and they’d be held to high environmental scrutiny.

Alternatively, we plant trees, reduce meat consumption, and buy local so that we’re not shipping shit back and forth from across the planet.
I was in Switzerland recently and was very impressed with how good the public transportation system was - trains, trams and buses. To top it, the water in the lakes and tap were all 100% drinkable.
We usually say that the only thing that angers motorists more than cyclists breaking the rules of the road is cyclists following the rules of the road :)

The implication is that while they get angered by cyclists running reds, doing illegal turns, or lane splitting (assuming it's illegal), they also get angered if by following the rules the cyclists slow them down.
Years ago, when I lived in Boston, when Summer arrived, half of the city went on water or did something outdoors. When I moved to CA, there was no such pattern as there is "Summer" the whole year around.

I'm wondering how different would your approach be if you are based in this kind of climate. For instance, we give our employees 30 days of PTO. If they wanted, they could easily use 8 days to take day off each week during Summer (or any other period), but we have not run into any that would do that.

This is definitely an area that I would like to explore more in the future. Thank you for sharing your experiences!
Amazon’s Alexa will deliver NHS medical advice in the UK
Let me introduce you to the nice folks over at Objective See.. https://objective-see.com/products.html

They have a bunch of cool little apps (that are free) like BlockBlock that let you know when things are happening you wouldn't have otherwise allowed.

For example, BlockBlock warned me randomly about 30 minutes ago about an app that was being silently installed in the background.. something I hadn't seen before called MRT.app.

Turns out - that was Apple silently updating the OS to protect against Zoom. Wouldn't have known if it weren't for these apps.
There are small scale tests being performed to spray chemicals into the atmosphere that would reflect heat. I hope it works and they can verify there won't be any negative consequences.

I get laughed at when I say this, but I'd dump billions into DARPA for researching this. Since its DARPA, you can call it defense spending to appease the elephants. I'd charge them with finding a way to "scoop" the CO2 out of the atmosphere. Somehow splitting it into carbon and oxygen. I envision thousands of solar powered flyers destroying CO2 some day.
Rust is also the fastest in half of the tests in debian programming language shootout https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

The source code for entries is available and its useful to learn some new perf tricks. For example, i was amazed how easy it was to use staged(block) allocation.
Yes, as is, dragging apps to the trash cannot do that.

Apple should probably implement an API that allows developers to tell the OS what other stuff should be removed if the app is dragged to the trash.

To prevent devs from removing other people's stuff, you could require that the subcomponents need to be cryptographically signed with the same key as the main app bundle.

edit: or, even simpler solution (potentially) - have a fairly basic API via which devs can install subprograms elsewhere on the system. When you use this API to install something, it adds the thing installed to an OS-level registry. When the user drags the app to the trash, the OS checks the registry and removes anything that was added by the application.
I would also recommend XboxAhoy aka Ahoy. Stuart Brown's work is stunning and belongs could easily be broadcasted by the BBC.
Indeed I was, or rather I assumed they were both maker-specific names for the same thing. Thank you for the explanation.
Removing a malware app is installing a system security update.
When I was at Microsoft, Windows' policy was only to kill applications like this with the explicit consent of the manufacturer (i.e. they were usually asking us to do it because they are unable to patch themselves, not the other way around), and only with a very specific version range.
No. You’re just mistakenly comparing apples and trees on which apples grow.

It took us 3 months to turn WebRTC into something that “just works” on any website. The RESULT OF THAT is now available for anyone to use.

People can have it up and running in 5 minutes. On their own website.

Users have nothing to download. It just works, including on mobile web browsers.

Companies can also put it into their mobile apps.

So what is the downside again?
> The default installer and bundle runners should be controlling the process. "XYZ App is attempting to write data files outside of its bundle location. These may not be cleaned up if you delete the application. Do you want to continue?"

If you do that, the entire system stops working. Everyone will just click "ok" and then still gets mad when uninstalling doesn't fully clean things up.
I had toyed with using Little Snitch, https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html, to let me know what connections each program is making but after like a day it was just too complex to get going.

Wonder if the LitteSnitch list of procs had the Zoom Daemon.
It adds an extra, confusing step, that is not necessary most of the time.
There’s a better lightweight alternative format for news stories called pure HTML documents (without JavaScript).

Google could be a force for good by encouraging pure documents and down-ranking JavaScript crap.

Instead they chose AMP for lock-in.
The apparent downside of burning carbon is much greater than the downside of developing drugs that will eventually become less useful.
I don't own a car. I just call it like I see it, I don't think cars are great but bicycles seriously randomize the road, it's beyond stupid that 4000 lb cars driven by people who don't even operate the vehicle that well 'share' the road with 10-30 lb bicycles.
Libra maintains "100% reserves." How is that money reserved? For a bank, it needs to be either in cash in the vault or on deposit with the Federal Reserve. Either way it's not getting loaned out again. Presumably Libra will be depositing it at (loaning out to) a bank, or putting it in short term bonds, money market, etc. Either way, they're loaning out all of the money, i.e. they have a 0% reserve.

What Facebook is proposing is merely to have assets equal to the deposited funds. For a bank, that is called teetering on the edge of insolvency. If a bank's assets ever dip below its liabilities, it is insolvent and either has to raise equity capital or be wound down by the government. This is why banks have capital requirements, so that they have a buffer against loans going bad.
No. You can bend your business model towards transactions you are comfortable with, without perfect future vision, or even a clear strategic understanding of how that might happen.

In fact, the world around you will bend to meet your values whether you’re even aware of it. And that includes any companies you run.

The world does extend beyond your knowledge of it.
It's weird to call Linux "safe" because it lacks an optional anti-malware service.
Founder's Notebook (By Seeking Alpha's Founder)
Generative Adversarial Networks with Python
They do! The app developers didn't follow the guidelines.
Well hello dystopian world, we meet again. On the plus side, kids won't have to take long boring exams anymore. On the down side, everything else about discrimination...
True, but rock star teachers also find creative and effective ways to teach things that are hard to teach. Just like Eddie Van Halen may make playing the guitar look easy to someone who doesn’t play, rock star teachers make communicating difficult ideas look easy. Many people don’t understand the preparation required for a good lesson- often those people are other teachers.
Exactly this. I follow a bunch of accounts that I rely on to do "cool hunting" for me, and I'm happy to purchase stuff through their affiliate links or whatever. Win-win.
Perhaps OT but how did you arrive at

>over 220M cups purchased daily at coffee shops, cafes, bakeries and diners. Starbucks is the largest chain, but they only process 2.5% of those daily sales.

220M is quite a lot for a single day, representing about 1 cup per day for roughly 80-90% of adults in the US. I could believe this if the statistic were "brewed" and included coffee bought in bulk from supermarkets/other suppliers and brewed at home or the office. Even if this metric is using "cup" as a unit of volume and not a single sale (since a venti coffee at starbucks is many cups) it still seems very high to me.

I guess this question is at least somewhat relevant since it's how you're pitching your app to investors and represents the size of the addressable market.

One other question: how do you plan to address competition from non-specialized food-ordering apps? My understanding is that food delivery/takeout and other order-ahead services often include exclusivity deals, and I could see many cafes and diners opting to choose a non-optimized ordering experience that allows them to sell and deliver food over one that primarily focuses on coffee.
One of the ways that fiat currencies are accepted by the public is that you can use them to pay taxes so even if no one wants to accept them you can be sure that the issuing government will accept it as payment for taxes and government services. So people are assured that at worst there is a place where it can be used.

Once FB creates services that people want and then FB decides that they will only accept its currency as payment then people will have the confidence to accept it and use it. There is no doubt in my mind that FB will create services since all companies eventually create them as part of their business.

There is nothing new about the general idea. It's happened in the past and it will happen in the future.
The first time you use that protocol, of course a warning is appropriate. To prompt the user on _every_ external protocol click seems.. hostile to the concept of linking
US Customs seized JPMorgan ship after authorities found 39,525 lbs of cocaine
When 1 tonne of olivine weathers, the chemical reaction removes 1.25 tonnes of free CO2 from the environment in terms of stoichiometry. However, in the process of mining, milling, and transporting that olivine to that beach, we emit approximately .05 tonnes of CO2 ourselves. That .05 of a tonne is 4% of the 1.25 tonnes of CO2 that was removed in the weathering process. So, in a CO2 life cycle assesment of net emissions, that considered the "loss."
Git is amazing, beautiful piece of software.

But... sigh I feel exactly how you feel about Git about Vim. It's the one editor everyone has decided despite it's arcane and bizarre UX that you aren't a real programmer if you don't know.

Refuse to learn it. Absolutely refuse.

I think everyone has one of those things.
Ooh these are cool, and the scans are high enough resolution for poster prints. I’m not sure if I can ever have too many aesthetic art-science posters hanging...
In my jurisdiction, cyclists are not held to the same degree of responsibility for flouting traffic rules as drivers are (for instance, the fines are halved). This makes sense, because the consequences of cyclists disregarding the rules are not as dangerous to other road users.
Something like this right?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N1M1WRU/

That's what's on the 11" MBAs my kids have. It's 8.3 ounces (235 grams) and quite noticeable. I guess you could use just the top shell.
His essays from four decades of writing are collected in a massive book titled United States, which I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend - it is huge, but you can browse. He's delightfully readable, and he has known so many people - the Kennedys, Norman Mailer, Tennessee Williams, Italo Calvino, Al Gore, Christopher Hitchens, ....

As Paglia says, what an original mind. Kind of determinedly outrageous and transgressive, but also smart, bold, and often correct. I still think about his notions that authoritarians always keep shit lists, monotheism inherently provokes religious conflict, and there is no clear classification of sexual preference for individuals. It it all true? He will convince you.
Some advice all founders should take when it comes to getting product feedback
How would a conversion from an LLC to a C Corp impact your decision to vest owner equity over 10 years? Asking only out of curiosity.
CSS Basics (Part II – Typographie)
If you can't see a difference between deleting files not authorized by the person who bought, installed, and uses the OS, and deleting files not authorized by third parties, I don't know what to tell you.
I don't understand from your comment how you think using a tablet or any kind of programmatic system replaces teacher student interactions for personal development - that is, kids being kids with adults, and learning from it.
Several years ago I had an idea for a camera made from harmonically oscillating pixels that shift frequency based on intensity. It would have many of the advantages of event cameras, but with extremely accurate absolute brightness measurent as well.

Does anyone know if this exists?
I guess that's how it looks for students.
Investor fires shot at Google in battle over privacy-menacing Google+ bug
Can you give me an example of the immense freedom and flexibility that cars brought?

Can you give me an example that doesn't involve driving to the middle of nowhere, that isn't solved by a good public transportation system, and doesn't involve bringing home large amounts of groceries, or furniture, etc?
I wonder two things...

Would learning a key concept well but incorrectly defintely show up?

Could you use this for crime investigation or prediction?

- see how familiar the suspect is with the crime scene photos

- see how familiar they are with certain criminal acts or concepts

- see how each member of a lineup does with these tests
Would you be open to

a. having bicyclists licensed,
b. their bicycles registered & inspected by an
agency,
c. license plates issued &
d. the respective parties be insured to cover
potential damages to themselves and others
on the road, when accidents happen?

Does not that reasonably follow from what you're implying & if you want the same rights as any other DMV registered vehicle?

How does a cyclist not get to do any of those?

For example, did you know that impaired riding of a bicycle is just as prosecutable as "driving under the influence" of a motor vehicle?
> all the files it brought with it or created during runtime are now gone.

How would this work with apps that create things that a user would expect to persist, like downloads (kept after uninstalling a browser) or office documents (kept after uninstalling the office suite), or media production apps, IDEs, etc.?

It could have some rule like "let it be if it's in the user home directory" or "only remove stuff in these system directories" but it seems kind of fragile, like what if you use a text editor to create a system config file and then uninstall the text editor?
There's also the perma-mute button which you can activate by not buying one in the first place.
EU governments and telcos spy on you by law. 10 years ago there was a law across entire EU that forced telecom companies to store the position and call numbers of users for the past 6 months. Germany got even fined because it did not implement the law.
I was thinking to myself “it is too bad Apple can’t just disable this like they could have on iOS, cause I suspect most people I know with Macs would be vulnerable to it and it is next to impossible to explain to a nontechnical user how to actually uninstall this”.

Kudos to Apple for nuking this malware.
Why project-based learning fails
It appears the multiple choice test worked better (a greater difference in scores). Which I suppose isn't surprising, they aren't limited to the yes/no style questions that the fMRI used.
Well, that's fair. But hopefully in the process of getting mad, it starts to reflect negatively on the application vendors and/or Apple directly. Maybe that will be enough for them to change.

Maybe the app bundle runner should be logging files written outside of the bundle folder? Then the uninstall process will wipe those out?
No, the de vintentionally circumvented the bundling and containerization that exists, and MacOS couldn't prevent it. That said, Windows and Linux can't prevent it either, in common configurations.
What says the end points on the receiving end of the monies don't just jack up the rates similar to the University system in the U.S.?
New MacBook Pros no longer glow!
Does Windows not distribute automated tools via Windows Updates from time-to-time to remove Malware _and_ PUP (Potentially Unwanted Programs). I'd argue that the entire Zoom debacle is probably a PUP since a user _uninstalled_ Zoom. And the Zoom web server can _reinstall_ Zoom.