skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will keep happening, as it already has a few times over. Unless they are backed by real solid insurance, cryptocoins and their associated exchanges are a serious gamble, and nearly always a scam if they aren't backed by some big money (banks/insurance/a well-known billionaire, etc). I bet people who got out when the rumours started are doing just fine.

Some companies just can't run their pyramid schemes as long or as well as they hope they can. To those who lost from this exchange remember this: you can't get blood from a stone. If they don't have the money, you won't get your money back.

One of the biggest things the cryptocoin market needs to deal with is to avoid turning out a bunch of pyramid schemes, or folks like Genius who mysteriously "lose" the fiat money somewhere along the line.

Sad to say I'd trust Facebook with cryptocoin over some schmo nobody's every heard of. Stick with something tried and true, even if it is "slower". And gtfo before they go bust. They all will, by design.

PS: I can't wait for someone to invent a crypto-like coin that isn't so harsh on the environment. Any ideas?
that's stupid. counter intelligence is also one of our side's basic duties. spy on the other guys, and stop the other guys from spying on us, that's the job description.
2007 USC Law School Commencement Address by Charlie Munger
Arguing against that being the most import good thing is the most ridiculous straw man.
I think it's entirely plausible (and likely) that the US intelligence agencies would keep life-saving technologies secret if other uses of that tech would give them an edge in intelligence-gathering.
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perhaps at one time it was. now his mission is to stay out of prison.
Where did I claim “ethical superiority”? I was accused of doing something, I explained that I did not. No need to be rude about it either, thanks.
> It’s nice to believe that we would have stood up to Nazi Germany if we had been there in the 1940’s. China is our generation’s chance to prove ourselves of that conviction.

I don't think the US joined the war out of concern for the welfare of Europeans so much as out of fear of Germany's continually-expanding borders (and as a reaction to that Pearl Harbor thing)
Pretty easy to replace with a different service for that use case
Non-blocking I/O under the hood
What is new in ES2019 and how can you use it in practice?
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Allow the context menu to close when releasing right-click outside the menu for example. There's a ticket for that as well.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101472
Fake it till you make it?
I definitely think this helps in case of happiness, since a 'deliberate' smile makes folks around you friendlier and happier. That, in turn, enforces the same emotion on to you!
You honestly think if someone had made a comment "the US is spying on Assange directly or through intermediaries" someone would have said they were crazy and there was no evidence of that?
Sorry, no time.
Or perhaps the true lie is the one evolution has programmed into us, to believe that things "should" be better.
you can check that one for more context :)

https://www.slideshare.net/aahoogendoorn/designing-and-build... , slide 26 ;)
it's more about spying on everyone else around them. Also spying isn't meant to be acceptable in principle. It's a bad thing that shows low trust , it's justified in case-by-case basis.
Back then I wouldn't use a DEC terminal newer than a VT-100 because of the lack of an ESC key. The 220s were physically great terminals, but the keyboard layout was horrific for using vi.

Around 84 we started evaluating a purchase of hundreds of terminals for the university, and eventually settled on the Wyse WY-75, mostly because it was ANSI/VT-100 compatible and had an escape key.

DEC didn't care, because they didn't use the ESC key in VMS.
"systems programming" is not well defined. While you and I probably prefer a similar definition, comments that criticize TFA for not using our preferred definition are really boring. Let's just say that Go is a fine language for `wc` (and not a very good language for device drivers) and move on.
Is there any evidence that these things weren't painted? Given what we know about statues in the classical world, and the way hieroglyphs look, it feels like a safe assumption to make that the pyramids were sporting some artwork.

edit: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-16/egypt-unveils-one-of-...
House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
Thanks for the kind words abhinuvpitale! Yes, this is exactly what we found - there's an irrelevance to some hiring processes because they tend to ask obsolete or academic questions.

One problem with asking pragmatic questions is that not everyone has had a chance to do practical work - hence why we also tackled that problem with an educational lens too.
For years I used Komodo IDE, which is (was?) written using XUL — writing plugins for it was a breeze even though the docs were a little lacking, because JavaScript and XUL got me exploring easily. I miss that editor. Now everyone’s moving away from it. Ahead of its time indeed!
So in my original question, I was inquiring what people were actually doing to positively impact the world in the direction they want it to go (preferably, objectively measurable results), because I know everyone here has opinions about what someone else should do.
Note that the actions weren't by the US Intelligence Community but by a private proxy. Frankly, I was expecting an Israeli firm, not a Spanish one.

Now replace "security firm" with Facebook, or similar.
It's only a 32 degree angle.

You could certainly walk up it fine.

Citation needed for sure and the authorities must have never encouraged it and I'm not sure why it'd be super fun to slide down but given the popularity of hiking, rock climbing, sledding, skiing, and snowboard it's totally logical people would want to go up and down it it.
I recall years and years ago, probably sometime in the 1990s, reading about an emergency heart surgery being performed on a young girl. I can't recall the specifics, but what I distinctly remember is the nurses getting bags and bags of ice cubes and burying every part of the girl save for her head and the front of her chest with it. If I recall correctly, they wanted to lower her heart rate as much as possible without actually stopping it.
Based on the kinds of things he showed, I am fairly certain that an employee was providing him some sort of access to an internal carry build, which is entirely outside of the developer program agreement (and possibly into an actual courtroom.)
The article states "smooth layer of fine white limestone on the outside" and that the current outer rough surface is due to "hundreds of years of pollution and weathering".

It was my understanding that the outer surface was polished marble, and that it was removed by looters, not natural degradation. But I haven't been able to find a good source, aside from https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/cxgj96/what_happen...
Regardless of user demand, many businesses and business models are still illegal by popular acclaim.

User demand is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a business to exist.
A bit of nostalgia: I created an application based on XULRunner at the end of high school. The project started out as a Firefox Extension, and since I wanted to create a standalone application, XULRunner was the obvious choice. I didn't know much programming, but it was, coupled with the excellent documentation on MDN, enough to get me started. What I remember best are the following few things:

- XULRunner had an included application update mechanism. You basically created a diff between two application versions and placed that on a server. XULRunner would automatically detect it and apply it. No configuration needed. This was huge.

- XULRunner obviously had a built-in browser. Using a few XML elements, you could embed a browser view.

- Porting from a Firefox extension to a standalone application was very easy. Add some boilerplate and you are done. Pretty much no need to change the application code.

- Since my application didn't include any native code, it was automatically cross platform. And it integrated beautifully into all platforms.
GateHub – 1.4M Records
GateHub, which is a crypto currency wallet service was breached in June of 2019 and 1.4 million records stolen:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/password-data-dumped-online-for-2-2-million-users-of-currency-and-gaming-sites/

The above link includes information regarding another breach too hence 2.2 million rather than 1.4 million records.

The breach was found on a number of forum sites (for sale of course) and https://fbi.ninja which seems to be a hub for lots of different data breaches (including GateHub, GameSalad etc)
Most vendors will likely wait for the Zen 2 mobile offerings before choosing to offer AMD lineups. There are some right now using Picasso (Lenovo has several), but it’s a smarter play to wait for the better chips that more closely compare to consumer expectations for mobile devices next year. I believe it’ll be worth the wait.

I’m personally hoping/waiting for a Zen 2 system with full fledged USB 4 support. If newer Bluetooth and WiFi can be included, that would be awesome. Maybe a Radeon dGPU, too.
Yes. It's just that we don't know if that's why Apple has locked him out of his account.
A charitable reading would allow that if the guidelines are saying to not use all caps for emphasis, then it's guiding against all caps in general. There's a reason they are called "guidelines" and not "rules."
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A strong sense of ethics.
I feel like there is a huge demographic issue underlying these numbers. The cohort of young adults in the US probably peaked around 2012, so more binge drinking is likely caused by that alone. (I didn't read the paper the article is based on so maybe my point is covered there)
> Julian Assange's explicit mission was to expose US (and other) intelligence secrets

Those secrets are already exposed. The intelligence value in watching him is to (a) see what further assets he gains and (b) suss out what channels he uses to communicate to foreign intelligence agencies. Either could unveil e.g. a previously-unknown Russian spy or communications channel in London or Ecuador.
Seems like a combination approach might help. Even if a carrier isn't good enough at body temperature, it might extend viability when chilled, compared to just using saline.
Because Bronze Age cultures wiped out Stone Age cultures, and Iron Age cultures wiped out Bronze Age cultures.

These transition periods are marked by civilization collapse and literally centuries of warfare, with a radically different society at the end (different beliefs, different agricultural, different ruling structure). Naming the period after the military technology development that directly instigated such crisis and reform seems relevant.
I've created test site using the framework. It's easy as hell. Demo: https://ehtml.runkodapps.com/
> I don't even know why this is a story.

I was going to call it gossip journalism but then Google corrected me
Huh? The article mentioned the gulf royals and the implication is clearly that there's something wrong with their wealth even if legal.
Quoted from AWS:

>Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility is also built using MySQL
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/mysql/what-is-mysql/

Tell me more about how uninformed I am...

Mysql won't even break a sweat for a few million records. I have run mysql databases with a single instance and billions of records with little optimization needed.

PostgreSQL is great for developers and I love some of the features it has that mysql doesn't (although mysql 8.0 has caught up quite a bit). But Postgresql is not nearly as battle tested for highly scaled implementations and in many cases will not perform as well as mysql.

I get the impression you have never actually built anything or you would know how so much of the internet runs on a php/mysql stack (think big, like Wikipedia).

And your comment about being zapped by 240v shows that you don't understand how electricity works. You could be zapped by 240v and barely feel it if you aren't grounded well. So to say you know what it is like to be zapped by 240v is like saying you know what it is like to get hit by a car. There are a million shades of grey of how that could end up.
But what about a big war where the nation has to put all resources into the war effort?

USA will lose that war. Let's hope it doesn't happen.

The only "big" wars we've fought (Revolutionary, 1812, Civil, WWII, arguably WWI) have seen us build up a military from among the citizenry, for wars in which citizens mostly believed. There was always initially huge turnover among the officer class, as large numbers of colonels and generals selected by wealth, seniority, and politicking were replaced by men of broader experience who could lead soldiers to win in battle. There was steady improvement in munitions over the course of those wars, as general techniques of American craft and industry were focused on the requirements of war. Perhaps most importantly, soldiers and sailors came from every American family at every level of society. Also, those armies won those wars.

The standing army we have now has none of those characteristics. It spends vast sums in opaque fashion on increasingly specialized and fragile "weapons systems". It is saddled with an immense sclerotic immovable officer class. It shamelessly markets in misleading fashion to ensnare young people with limited options for its rank and file. Also, though it occasionally accomplishes a police action, the permanent American military loses all the "small" wars in which it engages, while slaughtering millions of innocents.
The problem here isn't Facebook (even though it certainly has problems), it's that your preferences do not align with the majority of FB's existing users' preferences for social networks. That's my point - the users dictate what exists on the market, and entrants like Snapchat and TikTok show that it is possible for new social networks to attract users off of Facebook.
It’s been so long that I genuinely can’t remember what that full screen mode looked like! Do you have a screenshot by any chance?
I think there certainly would have been a distinction, since even vulgar English, with its much more limited grammar, has education/class distinctions in how grammar is applied.

In many English communities, using the subjunctive case would mark the speaker as being "posh," as would using I/me/my "correctly" ("me and me gran had supper").

I think the average uneducated citizen would similarly note someone as "posh" if they heard them using the pluperfect subjunctive, and, unlike a modern English speaker who has been immersed in "correct" English through the ever-present media of today, they might not actually understand the sense correctly.
Good, right? I mean, if he really is some Russian asset rather than a straightforward political opposition journalist, they would have obtained loads of evidence to substantiate this. So, where is it?
Much of what intelligence services do is a violation of local laws. Those other countries are free (and often do) prosecute any responsible agents of other countries for breaking their laws on their soil if they want to.

They can convict them for these crimes, but if they didn't manage to catch them before they return home, then they are unlikely to ever be extradited. This can also have diplomatic consequences, affecting the attitude for future treaty negotiations.

But in general, practical international law doesn't prohibit anything that the major countries want to do - the sovereign countries have voluntarily ceded some rights in treaties e.g. for borders and trade disputes, but they definitely retain their sovereign right to (for example) consider the government of another country as illegitimate and irrelevant, revoke their peace/border treaties (if any) and send in a million armed men to do things that violate local law.

UK law is binding to USA agencies only to the extent to which (a) USA agencies choose to follow it (by order of their own government and their own laws) and/or (b) UK is practically able and willing to enforce it.
What is the problem with attempting the renewal every day?

It will predictibly fail until D-30,and then there will be 30 attempts to renew (in case something went wrong firth the 1st,2nd etc attempt)
The NSA: Don't rush building quantum proof encryption guys. Might want to take your time, make sure you really get it right. Could take years to prove it out. Maybe decades. (Psst, Joe, when will the quantum brute-force crackers be ready? How soon can you get them online?)
All the testimonials are of incredibly fantastic looking people. It almost feels like a crypto ICO were the CTO was just a random picture from Instagram. Feels fake or maybe you just tossed up people you found attractive that were actual clients.

Unfortunately looks are important so it might not be terrible to add people where I think "this could be me" instead of, "this seems fake".
> Surely some laws in the UK were broken?

This was almost certainly done by American embassy staff under cover. It’s thus a state, not criminal, issue. If Britain wanted to eject American diplomats for spying, it could do that, but...why?
Some colleagues you spend a lot of time with and and there is still a bond even if you are not real friends that would spend time together outside of work.

Sometimes my colleague needs to went about a project that is going bad or a person that is making their life difficult and sometimes I might do that as well. You listen and sometimes you discuss solutions but sometimes it just venting about a situation you both know is shitty.

Just don't become they guy/girl who is always negative or talking shit about people though.
>This book presents an ontology that states that both matter and structure are important for the scientific explanation of any system (Hylomorphism).

Wow I never knew Haskell was so metaphysically important.
The top comment even mentioned strangers!
If the TV demanded a network connection to operate, I would have returned it the next day.

My TV could have a secret mobile chip, it's true. So could literally anything brought into my house larger than a chip+antenna. I don't think that a TV would be the first thing I'd suspect.
Living in China, I was curious to discover that many people there were actually pretty familiar with IPA, I assume it's taught as part of advanced language learning, to cope with all the very different sounds in other languages. On several occasions people expressed great puzzlement that I had no idea how most IPA symbols were pronounced.
> China never produced a press.

I think you need to recheck your facts.
It wasn't just Nvidia GPUs. The early 2011 MBP failures all had ATI GPUs.
Algorithm agility has been a hilarious disaster for designing secure systems. In reality even protocols like TLS that are nominally agile advance primarily by versioning, not agility - and TLS is somewhat of a best case here compared to e.g. the mess of JOSE.
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I contend that not only was there no value, it added to the problem. Hence my suggestion.
It's an intentionally misleading title to get clicks. The actual context of the quote refers to the fact that encryption methods built in too much of a rush may introduce other vulnerabilities. This article has no substance or constructive purpose.
My employer produces low-power devices with hardware cryptography built into them. Without the crypto hardware, almost all crypto (including ECC) is too slow for practical use. It's all well and good to have "crypto agility" but that ends when it comes to depending on silicon. So if we're making our 20 year plan for, say, the next generation hardware platform that we're going to invest many millions of dollars and thousands of engineer hours to build, then which PQC algorithms will we select to be built into our platform? It's very unclear at this point.

Certainly we can be flexible in key and cert sizes, but also I happen to live in a world where a 1200 byte MTU actually matters a great deal, so it's easier to just push the requirement for dealing with enormous certificates down the road for the day when we actually have enormous certificates. Future-proofing isn't an issue yet because legacy devices will never be able to do PQC.

The premise is not broken at all, for us.
Maybe I wasn't clear. The article author has zero academic experience in programming languages, afaik. Barbara Liskov has, though.
It would be wise to hold your government accountable in a democracy or you are bound to loose it. Assange released information that the evidence that started a significant war was falsified. There have been no consequences to that.

It certainly damages your national security if other countries get information about unjustly interventions by your government. So whose fault could that be?
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> is a decision best left to people who actually work in national security

That's like the butcher who's approving their own meat though. Yet, if they share such assessment with general public, the enemy hears it as well. A good middle ground is a commission who are bound to STFU about details but may assess the situation.
You can read all that, or, just spend some time around functional adults.

These are problems born of children being stuck with other children and having little exposure to a variety of adults.

We're much better at copying what others do, than internalizing rules spread out over 20+ pages (why is this done?)
Assange isn't American, isn't on American soil, and people in his position have been fair game for surveillance for approximately the entire existence of America.

George Washington personally ran a spy ring: https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-revolution...
The discussion started even mentioning strangers.
Forwarded this to my boss because I’m not sure how to handle this. There are many - maybe hundreds of cash real estate transactions happening in my state daily.

I think perhaps in the signature line of our email, we need to implore that last minute or unexpected changes to the original plan- especially involving wire transfers - be verified over the phone.
Fortunately, not connecting to wifi also means that my TV's software/firmware won't be updated, so for this particular device, I think it will be a viable option as long as it keeps operating.

Whether TCL will someday close that loophole for future models remains to be seen.
Yeah, WebAssembly replaced it.
Ask HN: How do I handle a hacker attempting to extort me by threat of DDoS?
Recently, myself and a few other friendly website owners have been messaged by the same hacker that is asking for BTC or he will take down our sites.

We have no information about him.

Already using Cloudflare, it did seem to detect some of his BotNet(~3500 instances) but not enough to stop the load he put on us. (edited)

Cloudflare Rate Limiting is just too expensive and "I'm under attack" mode just breaks the site in places anyway.

I've reached out to Cloudflare support to try identify his BotNet from the times when he took it down.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Amazing consistency for the 100 days campaign. It’s the sort of thing you say you’re going to do and then it falls off after the 4th day.

Those are some good lookin bags
Here's something I sometimes tell people:

Contentment comes when "the way you want it" and "the way it is" overlap enough -- but sometimes in life, you can really only change one of those.