skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can not like it all they want, the judge enforced the law. Since there was no clause to force restructuring in the original bonds and there was a clause to prevent any bond holders from getting a better deal then the restructured bonds, Argentina was left with no option but to pay the original debt. The issue is entirely one of their making.
That's because being a master at something requires something science can't quantify: you need to care.

I don't mean pedestrian caring. I mean a deep, rich relationship between you and what it is you practice. That caring translates into focus, attention, deliberation etc.

"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." - Albert Einstein

(PS - I'm hinting at Heideggers phenomenology here. You can watch a great documentary introduction to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-rmGy9gWvE)
The Guardian/Observer style guide specifically uses Nasa as an example: http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a

> Use all capitals if an abbreviation is pronounced as the individual letters (an initialism): BBC, CEO, US, VAT, etc; if it is an acronym (pronounced as a word) spell out with initial capital, eg Nasa, Nato, Unicef, unless it can be considered to have entered the language as an everyday word, such as awol, laser and, more recently, asbo, pin number and sim card. Note that pdf and plc are lowercase.
You might say that it is a "technicality", but it is the contract the government of Argentina agreed to. The only thing you have with a financial arrangement of this magnitude is the contract.

It is perfectly reasonable for the creditors to do all they can to get paid. It isn't a failure of their risk management, because they probably figured this was risky all along.

If Argentina didn't want the bonds to be subject to the US legal system, they shouldn't have issued them governed by NY state law.

They could also have included clauses preventing holdouts, but they didn't. In hindsight, they clearly made mistakes issuing the debt, but that doesn't mean they should get off without paying for the consequences of those mistakes.
Unfortunately only 3 of these Mayan codices have survived (imagine inferring 1,000 years of Western civilization from a comic book, an almanac and a prayer book). Here are some of the codices which contain very accurate astronomical forecasts on Venus, Mars, eclipses and the sun:

http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/marhenke.html
or also:
https://archive.org/details/Ancient-Books-All-Rare-Collectio...
I wish this had an ELI5. Anybody out there that can help us mere mortals?
Hey thanks for the suggestions! I love going to tech meetups, they make for a refreshing change from the normally stuffy lawyer events I attend on occasion. :)

So you started your own business full time now? I would love to be ale to do that with my own project, but getting users has been slow going so far.
The initial access patterns to the device are likely to be different for different platforms, which should permit OS detection. Now it can launch a tailored payload - for instance, on Gnome, something like:

a) present as keyboard
b) windows key terminal enter
c) cat >.libevil.so.base64 <<EOF
d) dump a base64 library in there
e) base64 -d .libevil.so.base64 >.libevil.so
f) echo "LD_PRELOAD=~/.libevil.so" >>.bash_profile
g) exit
h) turn into a USB mass storage device again
Yes it is, that's why I knew where to look ;) (currently based in Bath)
>My speculation is that this is part of a greater strategy to abandon paymenet processing as the core and go towards redhat for bitcoin

That's a very insightful comment. Given Jeff Garzik's work modularizing bitcoind and all of their open source work, I can totally see it happening.
That's pretty exciting news, because the sun is a strong source of microwaves. In theory a parabolic dish attached to the back of a space probe could provide a steady amount of thrust, like a star wisp type deal.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bitcoin requires you to go arround with a cellphone and internet 24/7 in order to make payments. That might be a thing in Buenos Aires but definitively not in the rest of the country.

Bitcoin as national currency might work 10 years from now in Sweden or Germany, but definitively not here.
Well, ccTLDs anyway. Verisign is authoritative for .com and .net, and generates the root zone file. Control of that could (but probably won't) be transferred for a large amount of money.
Although the URL makes it apparent, you should definitely include NSFW warnings.
I'd rather like a massively multi-player version of something a bit like the game Defcon:

http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/
It doesn't say how much thrust the null article "produced." If there's a significant difference, that's still very suggestive.

My next suspects for error would be that the device is propelling itself through heat dissipation or electrostatic ally by throwing off charged particles. Both of those possible confounding factors are testable, either by measuring heat via IR imaging and computing what propellant effect that heat would have of by dummying up the null device to produce and dissipate an identical amount of energy to the non-null device.

But honestly, I'm a hacker. I'd go rent me a vacuum chamber and put it on a whirlygig and see if it makes it spin. If it spins faster and faster and faster until it flies apart (well okay maybe I'd turn it off before loss of structural integrity), something is definitely off in our understanding of physics and God really will let us have hoverboards. So give me a hoverboard.
The official announcement is coming up soon. Stay tuned :)
Well, I'm not convinced a Bitcoin lending facility could really scale into any kind of inter-bank system that handles a fraction of the volume of our current system (since monetary policy works on lending channels).
I have tried Digital Ocean for these types of tests. Very cheap.
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> However, the one thing that is unique to USB is the nature in which USB storage devices are shared between multiple devices.

That was half of my point. I was not underestimating the vulnerability of SATA and other on-board communications protocols. I was ignoring them because the parts connected to these are generally not moved between machines. Yes, you could infect these devices and hope they spread through the secondary market to a desirable target, but the utility of such an attack is very limited.
NASA is running out of fuel (Plutonium) for RTG's and no new fuel is produced.

http://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/6087/20130919/nasa-plu...
And they did the experiments in a vacuum chamber but at atmospheric pressure so that I can easily imagine that they just accelerated polar molecules or something like that.
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The judge didn't enforce the law, the judge interpreted the law, and could have just as easily interpreted it in a way that you didn't agree with.
Android Face Cropper: this is how and why we did it
user=> (pr-str (seq {:a 1 :b 2}))
"([:a 1] [:b 2])"
user=> (vector? (first (seq {:a 1 :b 2})))
true

It looks like a vector, it quacks like a vector...
No, we don't. "1 App to Rule Them ALL"

We're merely using any possible way to overcome the ridiculous AOS limitations on displaying highly important and relevant network variables and data. One of those is the Ciphering Indicator that has been 3GPP "required" for the last 10-15 years, but which Google and most Network providers choose to ignore. (Since they didn't wanna implement better encryption, until very recently.) Another is finding the Timing Advance and various Network (RRC) Timers.

(1) There are several types of silent SMS, most of which are already detectable and there is nothing strange with that. It does need further testing for a greater variety of devices, and to see what would happen on a real IMSI catcher.

(2) Your guess is partially right, since it is strongly HW dependent, some basebands expose everything (MTK) and other (Qualcomm) expose very little, since they have their own protocols (DM/QMI). But the SIM card filesystem does provide useful info. So a combination of AT commands, SIM card readings and also API access to Service Mode (Samsung) menus, can provide all that we need and more. But it is a rather technical challenge for our developers to do this, and for me to collect all support material needed.

(3) OBB support would be trivial, but we're not really proposing this. Very few people would bother going through the pain of finding an appropriate OBB compatible phone, less implementing it as a piggy-back to an Android. So unless some OBB developer serves the required Java + binaries to us on a silver platter, this will not be a feature of AIMSICD.
> Having read the links, I see where you're coming from, and changed to an upvote.

How do you change a vote on HN? Any time I upvote or downvote, both arrows disappear, so I always assumed they were permanent.
The best part is the build.gradle files. They clearly show how to setup debug and release builds , multiple flavours , annotation pre-processing, multiple apks, etc. Something that took me 2 days to import my project from eclipse to studio. Very handy for all app developers who want to switch to gradle. Also, be sure not to release any app build with SDK v21 as it would be rejected by Google play.
Under those conditions, converting all vehicles to electric would increase net electricity usage by ~20%. (Better than 100%!)

Eliminating gasoline refining would reduce the needed electricity by ~850 billion kWh / year, and the improved efficiency (ignoring charge/discharge cycle efficiency) would reduce the net energy to ~594 billion kWh / year - or 54 million average home PV installations. Quick googling shows that it will be about 10% higher for charging losses.
Wouldn't that just end up working like this?

1) User finds USB stick in parking lot

2) User takes USB stick back to desk and plugs it into workstation

3) Workstation throws up a dialog saying "Hey! I don't recognize that thing you just plugged in! Are you sure you want to let it connect?"

4) User blindly clicks "OK" on dialog without reading it while surfing porn in another window
They've previously built https://codiqa.com/ and https://jetstrap.com/

I'm guessing their experience with drag'n'drop builders for jQuery Mobile and Bootstrap led them to believe they could build a better back-end framework for them to provide a service on top of. And/or they wanted to control a larger part of the ecosystem. Whatever... It's all good.

Ionic is really nice. I've been building an app with it where I use Ionic to handle most of the visual presentation, with a bit of native Objective C to handle the bits where I felt HTML/CSS/JS wasn't quite up to the task. Even when abusing it in a way that wasn't intended i'm finding it a pleasure to work with. Recommended.
In the story they said Argentina has transferred $500MM to pay bond holders, but the bank refuses to transfer it because the court ruled they could not selectively pay and any cooperating banks would be in contempt. Is there another layer to the story I'm missing?
Great to see successful products that aren't solely smartphone based.

Minor question, can someone please explain to me what his long pinky finger nail indicates? The only thing I have ever heard is that a long pinky nail indicates someone who cuts cocaine, and hopefully I am missing something.

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/07/26/business/26ricksha...
I like this idea. It doesn't even have to be turned on by default, it could be an opt-in kernel module that doesn't load until you ask for it.
Have you gone to true extremes? I have found that synthetic fur works extremely well, and is very comfortable, even with stone-cold floors.

I'm going to be buying pair of these for the upcoming winter; they're dirt-cheap, machine washable, and will last several seasons:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00FG1XINO/ref=oh_aui_det...

I have been thinking about thermal socks as well ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pairs-Mens-Thermal-Socks-Size/dp/B00... ), and furry boots for the great outdoors.
So is there any way that, if Argentina completely defaults, the 93% who have agreed the restructured payments can sue the 7% who haven't? Can S&P's opinion just be ignored while Argentina renegotiates with 100% of them? Can this still end up in international arbitration?
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Yes I do - and they've already been fixed!
Public transit is good. Definitely include it in your city.

But what you really need to kill automobile dependence is a way to transport goods throughout your city without a human to shepherd it along. You need to have train cars that can automatically load and unload palletized goods, and a package routing network for smaller items. Your pizza delivery will consist of the restaurant putting your food into a standardized container and pushing the "send" button. When you shop, you send your purchases directly home from the store instead of carrying them with you for the rest of the evening.

Cars aren't just for getting to distant places fast. They are also for moving stuff around too heavy for you to carry around everywhere you go. I once bought an air conditioner window unit in downtown Chicago and took it home on the El. That was such a hassle that I became much less reticent about giving up my parking spot afterward. It wasn't long after that when I stopped walking the six blocks to Jewel to buy as much food as I could carry home in my arms and started driving across the state border to buy as much as I could store in my home without spoilage.

City simulators that track the movement of people are fine, but they are incomplete if you can't also track the non-people items that also move around and transform within residences and businesses. Food, water, power, clothing, necessities, luxuries, raw materials, sewage, and trash all move around semi-independently, and in most cities, a lot of that moves around in a human-piloted vehicle.

Power moves through conductive cables. Drinking water does through pipes. Data goes through glass fibers or conductive wires. Fuel gas moves through pipes. Sewage moves through pipes. But then we have garbage trucks, delivery trucks, and cars moving everything else. Where are the pipes for that stuff?

Intermodal containerized shipping changed the world. But you can't exactly manage your household deliveries with a metal box 20m long. But thanks to them, most everything that makes it to your house once fit on a pallet or inside a shopping cart. Construct a container standard around those sizes and make your transportation infrastructure handle the containers, and your city no longer needs postal workers, delivery drivers, solid waste collectors, or anyone else whose entire job is to take things and move them to other places.

But something like that is going to be more expensive, and it has to be 99.99999% reliable. You'll need to be a lot more dense than suburban housing to afford that, especially when you have to invent and bootstrap all the tech yourself.

Edit: I bet you could probably get bootstrap funding from the logistics command of a national army and trial the system on a military base. What you would likely end up with is a rugged plastic cube-shaped crate with 4-way entry for forklifts and handtrucks, and attachment points for parachutes, chains, ropes, or tie-down straps. That would be your large container. Your small container would probably be a little less than 1/8 the size.
The plutonium shortage in NASA really has nothing to do with technology or science, but just politics. We simply stopped producing the stuff, but we could start again at any time; as the article you linked mentions, we're planning on doing so.
Savings? What things do you add up, or forget to add up, to come to that conclusion?

The control is complete, as is the obliteration of your infrastructure and/or your
data. Because let's face it, unless you invest the same millions(in money and hours)
as Rackspace(or any equivalent company), the odds are against you :)

The knowledge is indeed priceless, if you're into that sort of thing. Some people
just need to host their application... reliably.
This is old but this is why I would never trust Facebook.. http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...
The UI should instead say "The device plugged in is not a storage token" or some such. Even better if it lists what the device is claiming to be.

And, really, if we are concerned with people blindly clicking "OK", I'm not sure of what you can do.
I am missing one information here (maybe one hw-hacker can give the answer):

Is it possible (for some or many) USB-sticks or USB devices to reprogram the firmware from an PC that it is connected to it?

The article plays a little with the threat, that I (I want to put it this way:) lent my USB stick to a friend, he uses it, but clears it afterwards and gives it back to me and the stick now contains an infected firmware (that I can not find out by normal means). And also the friend knows nothing, since his computer was infected before.

Of course, I know that it is possible to change a firmware by hw-means (replacing the chip or reprogram it with special hw) but when the firmware of some or all USB-devices would be alterable just by plugging them into a computer, a new kind of virus would be possible spreading more silently and dangerously as all of them before.

HW hacking the firmware of USB devices of course is possible, but would be more in the field of industrial or real espionage. Reprogramming firmware "on-the-run" would cause a new mass-threat for computers.
Wait, really? Maybe if you come from writing Bash scripts.
It's really not evil. Seriously
This is how much money has been spent lobbying US officials in order to make this happen.

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000047065...

edit: I summed the years and got $5.3 million since 2007. The UI doesn't seem to help you sum at all.

edit2: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/the-americas-blog/nnfarm...

excerpt from WSJ article included:

"Mr. Matlack is president of American Agriculture Movement, a farmers' advocacy group that was listed among about 40 members of American Task Force Argentina, whose stated mission is to help investors recoup money from Argentina's 2001 bond default and subsequent restructuring.

"But Mr. Matlack and some leaders of other groups representing ranchers, teachers and farmers, are baffled about why the task force listed their organizations as members 'united for a just and fair reconciliation' of Argentina's default.

"Reached while he was planting wheat on his farm, Mr. Matlack said he had never heard of American Task Force Argentina. 'We don't have anything to do with Argentina's debt,' he said.

"Also perplexed are leaders of the Colorado conference of the American Association of University Professors, which was listed under members and supporters. 'This is absolutely foreign to me,' says Ray Hogler, legislative director of the academic group.

"Both groups were dropped from the list after the Wall Street Journal alerted the task force to the discrepancies."
Good point. I thought I did - perhaps I'm thinking I'm on StackOverflow. I thought I clicked 'back' so the arrows were there. I don't remember. Even if I haven't actually changed it to an upvote, then it deserves it.
Will try it today
We had partial CDMA support with an extra feature to detect Verizon Pico/Micro (?) cells. However, the lack of CDMA testers put this on hold.
Ignoring improved efficiency and excluding other factors, converting all gasoline usage to electric would more than double US electricity consumption.

Not a bad analysis, but there's a lot we're glossing over here.

For one thing, that 33kWh can get you about 100 miles in an average electric vehicle. That's compared to the average new US car which gets 25MPG, and existing cars out there average worse than that. So right away, there's a factor of four that we're leaving out here.

Further (as others have mentioned) it takes a huge amount of electricity to refine oil into gasoline. The electricity savings from not refining a gallon of gas are enough to drive an electric vehicle pretty far on its own.

Also, our grid and generating capacity are built to handle peak load, which (in most parts of the US) will occur on hot days when lots of people are using AC. On the flip side, the majority of electric car charging happens at night, so there's a lot of spare capacity already there.

If everyone switched to EVs, we'd probably need to build out more generating capacity, but probably not as much as your analysis suggests.
I don't understand what you're saying. At the simplest level, there is no such thing as a bus which doesn't exchange data... even my keyboard and mouse are just sending data. At multiple levels there is software (therefore the potential for security bugs) in this process. My keyboard has software to convert a set of input pin readings into a form to put on the bus. It has a bus communications chip that has software (firmware whatever) to talk to a host. The other side has a similar set of software to send data from the bus to memory or to input pins on a chip. The chip runs software to interpret these signals into usefulness. There are lots of places for problems in there.

Further, USB was designed from the beginning to allow block devices to transfer data. I don't quite get why this means it wasn't designed for data sharing - moving around physical, removable disks was the standard for data sharing for a long time when usb came out - back then most people couldn't reliable send big stuff over the network. The plan was definitely for sharing data.

Basically the security issues come from the shape of the problem rather than a specific implementation of it. For example there's always someone doing "fun" things with network cards - another example of a device with DMA access and a microprocessor. If you can root the network card, you can get access to other parts of the device.

So yeah - usb seems to be particularly easy to break, but it part of a generally hard problem. It would be nice to see a standard that takes the lessons of USB into account, and makes it much harder to break things.
It may be reasonable that they should settle, but they are not required to. This particular fund has a group that specializes in litigating against countries to exploit an issue with debt structure.

For me this comes down to whether the law is being enforced. And in this case it appears that the law is being followed.
Breaking even eventually. I doubt they're going to suddenly just stop refining all of that oil. There will have to be a trend before the oil companies start lowering their output.
Part of the problem is that the responsibility is also complete. And the management overhead at small scale can be pretty significant. Redundant power/networking, backups, etc.
> maybe this medium can also be compromised.

Indeed it can. Bunnie & xobs recently showed how to get code running on the controller chips of SD cards [1]. With your own implementation you could have the card present alternative files (clean vs infected) to different machines based on read patterns [2] or just a mount count. Without an exploit for the kernel, you'd still need the user to click on one the files, however.

That's not to say your suggestion isn't safer; SD cards don't present a threat to HID attacks (where a USB stick pretends to be a keyboard and is trusted to send inputs), but as with anything, it's not totally safe.

[1] : http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

[2] : http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5327.en.h...