skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's really no getting around the evil maid attack[1], if someone can attack your hardware directly. There's even evidence that a sufficiently clever attack can persist through formatting and re-installing a drive[2] - note, people have also found exploits in network firmware... remotely exploitable exploits. If you can do it by accident[3], then most likely it can be done with malice aforethought.

Edit: adding a strong pass-phrase /does/ give you a significant level of protection; While it doesn't offer protection from an evil maid type attack (where the attacker trojans your server, then you decrypt your key after said server was compromised) it does offer quite a bit of protection, say, from an attacker who has access to old backups but not your production system. So I think a passphrase on all of your important private keys is a worthwhile thing to have.

I just want to make it clear, once you decrypt that key from within a compromised system? all bets are off.

[1]https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/10/evil_maid_att...

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148347
(of course, this specific attack wasn't as scary as it could have been, say if the same sort of thing was remotely accessible)

[3]http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2010/04/remotely-atta...
If they use a service like coinbase, they price in USD and then payout almost immediately. It's a deferred sell, to be sure, but it adds more economic activity than just an exchange transaction.
There will most likely be periods during which networking is not your highest-value activity.

That same statement could apply to almost anything in life.

Networking, particularly in our industry, certainly isn't overrated. I honestly believe that I wouldn't have achieved anything close to my current level of (relative) success had I not spent the last few years networking aggressively.

Everything in moderation, that's just common sense.
Ugh. Really? It feels slow and is painful to use.
A moment to breathe
I get you're angry about the bad customer service but dude, you need to get off your high horse and realise you're not that special. I don't know who you are and don't care and googling you name doesn't come up with anything special. Get over your self, unless you're a real celebrity no one will care, even if your story made it on to tv (which I highly doubt).
> forced

No, not really. It just changes my strategy on which currency to use when I want to buy something.
There's quite a bit of alarm here and in the wording of the article. But no mention of HOW this exploit is applied. I mean surely they're not saying you send someone an e-mail and if they open it their webcam firmware is changed? Or visit a web page or have a flash banner ad run?

You'd have to get the user to download and run a package installer that prompts for an admin password RIGHT?

In other words; this isn't just something that can happen without end user interaction.
Well malicious intent could easily be proven, even if unintentional, depending on a few questions.

1. Was there really a delay because price could have slipped below what they quoted and they were hoping for a better rate before executing? If so, they committed an act of bucketing.

2. Next, if they tried executing a trade was it a limit order or a market order? It should always be a market order unless the client requests otherwise by specifying maximum entry price etc. Its still under the purview of bucketing.

3. Did they execute the transaction (or transactions in case of a fills on a market order) and fail to deliver due to a technical or human error? If yes, this could be classified under kiting and bucketing. Also they should have never quoted a rate unless the transaction took place, as this in itself means that the trade has been executed.

4. Did they segregate the funds until the transaction was complete or did they pool it with other funds that may have been used for other transactions (trades and withdrawals)? If they were not left untouched and were not segregated this would construe as kiting if only used for trades. Worst case it would be classified as a Ponzi-like operation.

Its quite easy to ensure that these illegal situations do not arise, it usually happens to good people with good intentions who have a lapse of judgement or loose control of their emotions and subsequently have a loss of common sense.

edit: formatting
There's no problem with setting settlement dates - the original poster had a clearly agreed settlement date with Coinbase.

The problem is with risks and consequences of the counterparty failing to deliver on the settlement date.
As usual - what's possible to exploit will be exploited.

There's really only 1 solid solution to this:

Open software and open hardware.
Doesnt this take away from the real issue of fossil fuels? Pollution, increased CO2 and climate changes.

Lets say this could scale and be economical tomorrow. Does anyone think the oil companies would let that happen or let their price per gallon at the pump decrease.
The dollar has a long term price of zero too, doesn't it? If long term is defined far enough out that US is gone...
If you have serious money to transfer into BTC, this is not the way to go. Coinbase essentially is an intermediary, not a wallet. The whole point of Bitcoin is to get of intermediaries as are inefficient and make profits along the way. Bitcoin will solve this, it will just a take a couple of years. Btw, online-wallets neglect the working of the algorithm at some point. The system depends at the moment depends that people know what they are doing.
The entire point of being polite to people is to try to think about how they would feel given your actions and to not try to make them feel unpleasant. You don't just run off at the mouth, oblivious to the impact your words might have on people.

So, given that we all know we live in a society that treats women as "overly emotional", how could asking a woman if she was emotionally attached to her code not be inconsiderate?

Still, I cannot imagine any situation in which "were you emotionally attached to your code" is not a passive aggressive statement. Why not avoid accusations entirely? Why not say something like, "what are your motivations for not rewriting this code?" Let them tell you, "because I spent a lot of time on it." That would tell you exactly the same thing and it wouldn't involve a passive-aggressive, accusatory tone.
Map? What determines the positions?
Same here. Even nude photos would be embarrassing, but audio recordings could have effects far worse than some prude shame.

Especially since there is no LED to signal the microphone is active, it doesn't need to point anywhere. If it could be activated while the laptop is closed (force wake up a part of the OS for just a few minutes here and there for instance) it would be a really tough problem.
They did. Before you even posted this.
Just funny to think that its possible that a dev who hacked on that Furby firmware is reading this and said "hey, I wrote that routine!"
Buy hardware and software you, as the paying customer, remain allowed to control.
Faster than using the mobile browser for me.
Don't worry, based on their past behaviour I'm pretty sure they'd have managed to refund him the dollar value if the price of Bitcoin skyrocketed.
wow, that came out wrong. I was rooting for him, now I dislike him.
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The fact that coinbase has bad customer service is not new. You and anyone else upset about it can simply not use their service. Adding regulation only makes the barrier to entry worse for new companies. You can be sure that Coinbase would be (one of) the only companies who'd be able to exchange bitcoins so easily.
Gasification is a fascinating process I was just recently aware of. Some guy got his truck to run on a certain type of oak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYGKn12Weu4
Google, Cisco, Apple, etc. are making critical mistake of not investing and engaging more into process of improving community around them (homeless problem, schools, housing, public transportation, etc.).

The philosophy goes like this: the person who takes private buses will eventually have kids, spouses, friends which not will not be able to use private buses. So these talented engineers will move out (and probably find different company) as soon as they are not any more single or DINKY because their quality of life will suck. Then what?
Deis open source PaaS, app sharing and Docker update
If Facebook/Google were in SF, I reckon many of its workers would still live in San Jose, Fremont and Oakland, due to affordability concerns and a lack of density in the city proper.
Yeah... that sounds like something I actually might have bid on.
Someone else is probably got it for $10.
I don't get why this is an interesting study. Can somebody explain me?
The existence of a fitness function does not explain the increase in complexity. The most successful life forms on this planet are the unicellular ones. Why would the selection process favor anything else?
Chip a part of your bitcoin and please help this girl
I think I read on probably hundreds of help requests on the internet and I didn't really care. Now I feel a bit ashamed.
Little Lana is daughter of my colleague also a fellow software developer. As he is struggling in the biggest fight of his life I'm sending this plea for help without his knowledge.
And yes I wrote in the title Bitcoin just to get your attention. It looks like that this is the only thing people talk about these days.
http://www.lananikolic.com/en/
Even if you had a job that paid you entirely in bitcoins, and conducted every transaction in bitcoins, you would still have to pay taxes, and (under the current system) they would still be denominated in US dollars.
The same exact thing happened with the 3GS. Its a great ploy to force users to upgrade to the newest hardware.
Currencies have additional characteristics in the real world, that are not part of the dictionary definition:

- I can file a police report if my dollars are stolen, and there is a non-trivial chance I could get them back.

- I can store dollars at an insured institution, with a high degree of confidence in retrieving them again. [1]

- I [get to | have to] pay my taxes in dollars.

In essence, for all of our lifetimes, "currency" has always meant "state currency", with all the good and bad that goes with it. Even when precious metals were the norm, states still tended to get involved (stamping the Emperor's face on certain coins and giving those coins preferential treatment).

While BTC meets the definition for currency in some ways, it's probably more practical in our current financial ecosystem to think of them as a highly fungible (and volatile) asset. (As with the stock market, no one should be putting all their life savings into crypto-coins.) As the ecosystem continues to grow, this may change.

[1] This might be the balancing factor to the deflationary issue, to the extent that it matters: that most people might end up keeping their hoard at an insured, well-secured BTC Bank, and paying a small steady percentage for the assurance that their whole pile doesn't disappear.
Of course! If you read down the README there's a section on every part about how to remove it if you don't want it. So you can either just not use Capistrano or remove the files it uses as well.

We don't do anything about DB syncing for now. That's next big thing once we get the Vagrant/server config work done. It's a popular topic but also complicated since everyone has different use cases.
I replied on the matter of investing in currency. Shorting is one investment strategy. Buy and hold is another one. I bet a lot of people would short bitcoin if they could.

Anyway this is ridiculous. People try to analyze an new phenomena with the old terminology. It doesn't work like that. You can't understand the change if you don't change your paradigm.
My claim is that the energy equation is independent of oil availability. We aren't going to "run out of energy" as some people postulate. Knowing that is helpful sometimes.

You might want to check the EROEI numbers for algae fuels, the NASA paper suggests that they are lower than they are for oil. They make that claim based on lower transportation costs (feedstock is made 'onsite' of the refinery), and a simpler refining process. None of the drilling or pipeline investment but the "farming" aspect (moving the water around) offsets that pretty much.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/OMEGA/
Are you saying this because you've heard all the arguments for Bitcoin's value and think they're bunk or are you saying this because you're unaware of them?
>Don't see the argument for the intrinsic value of paper money at all, but would love to be enlightened.

There's thermochemical energy in them cellulose bonds. Just gotta liberate it with a little bit of a kick.
> Different perspective: I see it it as a requirement of holding a license and operating a motor vehicle that I have agreed to demonstrate I'm in a state capable of doing so safely when asked to do so in a manner that causes only minor inconvenience.

What overly broad reasoning. Flip it around and apply it to other things that you could do to hurt people and you can apply that reasoning to all parts of your life.
i dont understand !? What you describe doesnt make the rMBP look very good. Runs hot, stalls all displays ?

I am not a native speaker so i might not get the point here ;)
...imagine a world where Bitcoin is the only currency.

Such a world does not exist and never will. Bitcoin is not designed to be the only currency on Earth, if in fact it may be considered a currency at all. It's also not the first asset ever to appreciate in value. For instance, the price of oil rose sharply during the 1970s. Did grocery store investors all decide to pull out of the lucrative grocery sector and go all-in on oil? How did we eat?
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That's not Google's problem, that's the loopholes' problem. Every single entity (including Warren Buffet) will pay the minimum amount of taxes required, i.e. your standard (no higher, no lower) tax burden.
Welcome to 1984.

WEAKNESS IS STRENGTH
An account with 1 comment created ~40 minutes ago. Hmm...
I've heard a drill works well.
Now you're quite screwed, while coinbase has taken a profit on this (and probably other) deals by delaying these settlements. And what are you going to do if you don't get all the losses covered? Your options are quite limited.

Do we know that this was case of Coinbase taking a free option, versus incompetence? My thought... If they lock in a price, they are taking a risk. There's no risk-free arbitrage. They could wait and hope for the price to go down, and make some money, but they'd also owe money if the price went up.

This does harm the customer, but if it's not a daytrading platform, you can't fault them if they honor the original price no matter what direction it turns.

The real concern is if this happens to a lot of trades at once, the firm could go out of business honoring the original price.
This is exactly what we designed Pixtulate for (http://www.pixtulate.com). Hit me up if you have any questions.
We've always known that lab animals are not perfect models of human biology. For instance, human livers -- for our body weight -- are several times larger than mouse livers. This has important consequences on how we deal with toxins.

Mice have been valuable tools not because of how good a model they are but because they're cheap and fast. Apes are a much better animal model for most purposes, but they're expensive and slow, and raise way more moral questions. And people as test subjects are all that and a bag of chips.

Instead, researchers using animals work to understand how an animal model compares to humans. They pick their animal test subjects based on what they're researching; for instance, rabbits might be better for researching a particular disease, and cats might be better for researching a particular cognitive disorder.

So -- assuming this new information holds up to replication -- what this means is that we potentially have a more accurate, cheaper animal model on hand than we previously thought. If mice at 31C behave significantly differently than mice at 25C, then researchers will be able to use mice in cases they previously weren't, eliminating the need for other animal models or even some human testing in some cases (eg, the experiments will fail at mice and never make it to human testing). This will save money, and speed up research.
http://www.winningportfolio.com/ for the lazy. Incredible.
Older Macbook webcams can be remotely activated without any sign
Partially agree. Your point stands since the iPhone 4's GPU was a very marginal improvement over the iPhone 3GS's. However, the iPhone 4's CPU was significantly faster - 50% in my tests which is in line with its raw clock speed increase across the same architecture (1 GHZ Cortex A8 vs 600 MHZ Cortex A8).
Sexism isn't "man belittles woman". It's assigning traits to sex in such a way to make people feel uncomfortable. A man telling another man to "man up" is just as sexist, as it implies a questioning of the second man's sexuality.
After tax? I doubt it.
Networking is actually underrated
I use a cut-out piece of postit note for the camera, and a small piece of etape for the microphones -- seems stable, and both are pretty easy to take off without leaving too much spooge behind.
Not saying this applies here, but assuming goods sold are delivered on time, does it matter what price and when they were purchased for sale?

I can understand it not being legal in the case of brokerages that submit orders to an exchange but if I buy fuel (or sell a futures contract to buy fuel) the other end of that doesn't have to have the fuel at the time of agreeing to the contract, just when its delivered right? It transfers the price risk to the counter party which seems to be legal and how (to continue the example) most home heating oil companies work.
You don't pay the retail price. Take 40% off if you call them up.
Are you hiring freelancers/contractors?
Wow. How the mighty are fallen.

Slashdot: http://nmap.org/favicon/?search=slashdot.org
I always had hard time learning algorithms through visualization softwares. Most effective way for me was reading and visualizing in my mind.
Deployments at Yammer - Deploymacy
Are you kidding? This is well known and the administration even admits it.

For example:

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/27-2
SF median income in 2012 was 74,922. Even if we assume the protesters are making 1/2 of that, your projection is strong — few people, even at Google, are making >$300k per year.
My company, probably like many, has remote work positions only because of the merit of candidates who applied for them. They hire local (Chicago) when they can but my team is in Austin because that's where we have found the skillset.
The same could be said about diamond mining, or production of goods that serve only decorative purposes. Video games do the same thing, wasting vast computing resources on pretty pictures to titillate humans who could be working. Is HN's carbon footprint justifiable? Does it produce intrinsic value?
For some context - the growth in the blog post is impressive: http://blog.boundless.com/2013/12/marching-forward-boundless...
Link to the paper: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2...

The paper says it targets older iSight cameras, found in models until 2008. Anyone know if modern cameras better protection?
"The Pebble iOS application cannot execute code downloaded from the Internet so we will package the JavaScript code of all Pebble appstore apps and include them in the official Pebble iOS app." wow!
Does a startup need to be scalable on day one? Would you consider Nintendo a scalable company? They started selling cards in the beginning - which isn't very "scalable" in your mind. Would you consider Samsung a scalable high-tech company? They started as a trading company and diversified into textiles, insurance, securities and retail before also adding electronics.

Or to use a more relevant example 37signals, their humble beginnings was a design studio which then had a string of unsuccessful products such as the usability report before finally hitting it big with BaseCamp.

Lots of retail based businesses are highly scalable through a franchise model. If they can nail down the playbook - they can license that and repeat with new locations.
You are assuming that they could move into SF. I'm sure Google could easily fill the Transamerica pyramid.

SF isn't amenable to new construction, and Google and most these companies could easily be more decentralized then they are now in MV if they had to take up residence in the city.
You mean "a system of money in general use in a particular country" (Oxford). Yeah definitely not a mainstream currency yet. That's why we use the polite term "alternative currency" which is short for "a system of money in limited use across many countries."
Because the argument often is that those who make the most worked harder than anyone else.

My point is that most people work hard so it's not by any metrics and explanation for why some people do really well and others don't.

The name of the University you go to however. Now that matters a lot.
I don't think these terms are as different as you seem to be implying. When someone says "loosely coupled modules" they don't mean "printk" or similar functions. They mean such joys as power management and thread scheduling. These are somewhat modular in the kernel, to be sure. Are they so modular that you could TDD one or the other? My last understanding was not really.

Consider, you can have a device driver that runs fine "on its own" but crashes when run with another driver loaded. This is almost canonically the opposite of loosely coupled modules.
It isn't that simple — SF actively rejects attempts to increase density.
Great idea. I've always been looking for a place to dump concert pictures so that everyone can enjoy them. Website looks really clean, kudos!
I think that these single click deployment systems are fantastic. What is really awesome is all of the devops and deployment automation that has to go on behind the scenes of this fancy UI in order to make it all work. Just thinking about it gets my brain spinning on all of the improvements that I want to make to my own deployment systems.
... The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror ... The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely. (1.1.3)
Oceanians live in a constant state of being monitored by the Party, through the use of advanced, invasive technology.
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called. (1.5.65)

What's aggregated about you? Are you against this monitoring that protects us from fear and terrorism? Did you state that in some online devious hacker forum?

INFORM and VOTE
Midday traffic reorganized by car color
Organizing your OpenSCAD code: Part I
They have an electribe ER1 and they modulate so that's gold.
So if Google's entire MTV campus was in SF, you really think housing prices would be better? Move Apple, Facebook, Google to SF and you have gentrification on steroids.
Cheers, sent you an email.
He's taking a material loss regardless of whether he bought them as an investment or just to buy stuff with Bitcoins.