skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know if that's 1) "must use POW for the transaction that burns the sidecoins", 2) "must have proof of enough total work in the sidechain atop the block in question", or 3) "must only have POW blocks in the sidechain"? Superficially, 2 seems most likely.
I had the same issue with my Adobe account. Someone created an account in another country, with my email address. I took the liberty of doing a password reset own my to reclaim the address. Luckily, the user had purchased nothing.

I had to then go through Adobe support to reset the country, as I couldn't do it on my own.

I too was surprised that there was no process to verify the email address. What a joke!
It could transmit, there is no transmit code in the firmware, in fact there's no real receive code, we turn on the receiver and sample the LSB of RF noise in the sampling DACs but don't enable any demodulation or framing.

Turning both RNGs on only gets you a about half a bit/byte of extra entropy - but it is a great belt and braces sort of thing, makes it much harder to attack, especially since the sampling clock inside the device for both sources is not visible eternally

Remember we don't use the output data directly, we mix it into the kernel's entropy pool (where it's whitened)
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You should either talk to your founder about these or look for a job in another city (maybe country?)
If we can use trust law as our starting point (trust = shared title to property), then we see that an Amazon/Kindle account is just a trust between you, amazon, and this other party. The only one investing money in the trust is this third party.

If you delete the account, you have two of the three parties' agreements documented. You need all three, in order to be able to claim that nobody's rights are being infringed. This can be done by making a good faith effort to notice the third party via multiple forms of communication. Even if they don't get to the party, you need to at least make the attempt. Send a first notice, wait ten days, if no response, send a second notice. If no response, consider that your acquiescence, and delete the account.
This will be a distant memory once the USPS declares that it's only going to accept eStamps from registered accounts. There will be a cross-platform app, though, so this change will be proclaimed by all media outlets to clearly be superior to all legacy solutions, and a sign of agile, efficient government.
What does my conscience have anything to do with the technical functionality of this system and a discussion on the legality of it?
Still, a USB phy is required. How would you solve this problem? Would a FTDI USB chip be more palatable?
It's right there on the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer
At this point Google pretty much controls the future of web-oriented internet protocols, since they control the client in the form of Chrome, as well as the server in the form of Google properties. What they do is basically what goes.

People inside of Google were putting together HPKP at the same time that we were putting together TACK, so that was pretty much the end of TACK. HPKP is really simple for Google (just pin their own CA), but isn't as clean for most other major sites (who are stuck with many CAs). It also doesn't offer a layer of indirection away from CAs, which again, is not an issue for Google (they already have a layer of indirection in the form of their own CA), but is less ideal for the rest of us.

It's better than only being able to hardcode pins in the browser binary, but it's a shame that it doesn't take on some of the other pain that's come up with pinning.
You can create your own custom cluster[1] with the specs and number of instances that you desire, which would allow you to easily create a $60 option.

[1]: https://digitalocean.mesosphere.com/clusters/new/custom
Okay thanks mamoriamohit
Why haven't we seen any benefits from this hundred years of dragnet surveillance? I get all kinds of creepy junk mail, obviously sketchy load offers, someone who very carefully offers to remind me to renew my domain name for a sumptuous fee, stuff like that. Why doesn't the TLA in charge of this data shut stuff down? The FBI might have been able to avert the 2008 financial crisis by intercepting subprime mortgage offers, and prosecuting the hell out of the shady mortgage vendors. Terrorism can't hold a candle to the damage that the 2008 financial crisis did to the USA.
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conscience?

When you explain to me why a guy selling one tomato that once eaten can not be replicated and a digital good that once replicated loses none of it's quality are the same, I'll start talking about conscience.

ps. I'm not saying that people should not pay for digital content. But when there are farmers out there who sell their products under the same rules Sony Entertainment sells mp3's of songs written 20 years in digital format, sorry there's something utterly wrong with the system.
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With 12 trials, doing nothing at all earned me an average score of mean 74.08 +/- 21.5.
Ever heard of Operation Mockingbird? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
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I have a first initial last name gmail account and I see a lot of this kind of thing. Tons of companies don't verify email addresses and many make it impossible to do anything about it. Cell phone companies, banks, insurance companies, PayPal, eBay, Apple... it's getting rather ridiculous at this point.
I just searched for an intercontinental flight. I made a choice and on HipMunk it says - '...prices are per person and include taxes and fees...'

But when I clicked on the button to book, the price was different (higher) on the airline website.
V8 has an experimental new JIT called "TurboFan". AFAIK, it doesn't do AOT compilation of asm.js code, but the "use asm" directive (among other cases) will force TurboFan mode.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8117091
Yeah, trying to contact the user seems like a reasonable thing to do. If you've got her name, you can probably dig up an email or social media account.
I had a very similar problem with ebay. Account made with my email, not me. Again, no email verification. To make it worse I couldn't log in and delete the account since ebay required security questions to do a password reset. I ended up trying to track down and call the person, it was a while ago but I think I even sent them snail mail. (there was enough info in the emails to track them down, maybe a shipping address when they won an auction?)

Eventually they stopped, but no thanks to ebay.

Why is email address verification not more standard?
I would place a bet that now that this is on HN, someone at Amazon will tell you no, don't do that, we'll fix the issue.
Totally agree. I don't want Chromecast to do anything except put what is on my phone or browser on my TV, which it does really well. I don't want another remote!
Nothing indicated in your story proves that there's an issue in the workplace. He could be having a private conversation comforting a friend after a breakup or something to that affect.

Sorry, but you come across as somebody that wants to be a white knight.
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Sounds more like he doesn't have the tools to help because Amazon had locked him out.

As a side note, this is how customer service becomes terrible. Security audits turn up processes that allow social engineering attacks, so they lock down the customer service tools. Agents get confused, so they implement rigid procedures (i.e. you can be fired for going off-script). These rigid procedures can be executed by a trained monkey at minimum wage, so agent quality declines. Rinse and repeat for a few decades and you get Comcast customer service.
And, in the case of the IBM PC, Intel was actively sowing FUD about Motorola's ability to deliver the 68000 in enough volume to meet IBM's needs.
There was an excellent talk at the last QCon New-York conference about good API design:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/API-design-mistakes
Worth watch it in my opinion :-)
I recently bought a Kindle Paperwhite, and also noticed how easy it was to tie the Kindle to an email account upon purchase, all without verification. This seems like something Amazon definitely needs to fix.
Couldn't agree more. I would add that the many cryptocurrencies that have been created since Bitcoin (Litecoin, Dogecoin, Peercoin, etc.) are evidence of widespread unmet demand for sidechains, which fulfill the need for cryptocurrencies that:

* have global mining infrastructure, liquidity, and network effects comparable to Bitcoin; and

* allow for fail-fast, iterative, distributed experimentation, which is necessary for rapid innovation.

A lot of people want this!
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I don't think there is much he can do. He said that he couldn't see the account details without answers to the security questions. So, the best route of action might be to reset the password, find the contact info of the Kindle owner and reach out to her directly.
Yes, would like to hear on it !

This is a list which I came across recently: https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup
If it's a Smart TV, then chances are it has a type of "App Store" for it. There are TONS of apps for my Samsung TV. That means if a credible Netflix competitor does pop up, it'll probably be supported long before some other devices (Xbone just recently got Plex for example)
The I have too much time on my hands approach is to self-publish a short story to this person on how to get in touch with you and buy it from their amazon account.
The reason is only one. Having a website use Google service requested on random pages gives Google ability to get insight what pages users are visiting.

This goes together with other things Google provides for "free" such as jQuery and other interesting libraries.

The author don't seem to understand it, based on him comparing it to Google Reader and quickly dismissing it is not the data. They don't care about tracking page owner, they want to track the page users.

By providing a service that majority of websites use and that is essential for the page to work makes much harder to block through adblock, ghostery and friends.

This basically gives them an edge over any other competitors, whose only option to gather similar data is to make users install their toolbars.
Same here, I think I've taken over a dozen flights, short and long distance in the last two years, and Hipmunk didn't find the best deal for any of the ones I tried. Old Expedia typically came up with the best price, and Kayak and FlightNetwork showed promise. Google Flights is one of my favorites because you can easily browse a calendar and see a graph to find the lowest prices (my dates are always flexible). Also, they have a map, so you can see the prices flying to any other nearby cities or airports to spot great deals you'd overlook. I've never booked through Google though, I just find the flights, then one of the above sites typically finds the same flight for $10 less, so I just go with them because I already have an account. Either way, no luck with Hipmunk, but maybe they work well for domestic US flights, since I have no experience there.
Buy content doesn't compensate the creators anyway. At least for any content with intermediates, like publishers.
Yes, based on the format of their responses, it looks like OP is dealing with support workers who are low on the totem pole.

Of course, one could argue that there's only so much effort OP should have undertake to get this problem resolved; dealing with chat-support roulette until you find someone competent might be pushing those expectations.
> 2. Account for failure. The failure path is more important than the-one-true-path. Be verbose in your errors. Be specific in your error descriptions. Be extensive in the kinds of error conditions you test, particularly when validating the input. Bonus points here if you can make the API introspectable.

This is something that I had to deal with just last week. I had been integrating a 3rd-party API into a business application, and it had very poor error handling and error descriptions. It wasn't even consistent on when an endpoint would throw an exception or just return some JSON with an error message.

To make things worse, I kept running into the same generic error message: "Something went wrong. Please contact support at support@example.com if it continues". Of course, that kind of error message doesn't help their support team, so they could only guess as to what was going wrong. We finally figured it out after several hours of guessing.

What's strange is that this was an API for a moderately popular Silicon Valley startup that's marketed to and primarily used by developers.

Please, if you're building an API, don't write these generic messages!
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I just came up with it, but it's pretty obvious so I'm sure it's highly unoriginal.
Reading the chat log it doesn't seem like the replies are from an actual person. Are Amazon outsourcing their customer support to a collection of AI constructs. :-)
I see they have an MIT license, which is great, but I have a theoretical copyright question. If they didn't license out the code and, instead, made a background-image-generating website, who would own the copyright to the computer generated images? I'm guessing they would but does anyone know for sure?
The practice of checking the validity of email addresses seems to be lost on many (most?) businesses. I've found in my mailbox, from at least 4 other "A Roberge" located in either the U.S. or Canada the following:

Health insurance form and other information for a child

School report for a child

Mortgage information

Book library late notice

Nail product order confirmation

Multiple confirmations of job applications

PS4 account information

Various invitations to family gatherings

etc.

Whenever I could find the relevant information, I contacted the various people that send me the original email to correct the information. Most did not respond (including the father of a child with the above mentioned information who was copied on one email).

Sometimes the emails contained an unsubscribe button (yay) but, upon trying to use it, it asked for a password (which I obviously did not have). So, off to the spam folder...

So, I completely agree that Amazon's registration process is very flawed ... but there seems to be a lot of clueless people and businesses out there as well.
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I imagine confidence & morale can, in their line of work, tip the scales and make something impossible, eminently possible.

The small troupe of British soldiers who recently repelled a militant attack with only bayonets comes to mind. Outnumbered, outgunned, the subject of an ambush, it seems to me that a combination of resolve and confidence was the deciding factor.
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I definitely agree that in cases like that CSS is the much cleaner solution.
This is the burden of having firstlast@popular.com email address.

Once, my wife had someone setup some sort of financial account with her email (CC, IIRC). They didn't verify the address!

My wife called and tried to do the right thing, but the people on the phone just didn't understand the concept that the email address was wrong. It simply wouldn't compute for them. Since my wife had the email address, she /must/ have been the account holder. Right?
Also pertinent: an emulator of Alto Smalltalk-72 by Dan Ingalls, the original implementor.

http://lively-web.org/users/Dan/ALTO-Smalltalk-72.html

It says that it is emulating the Nova instruction set - the Alto hardware manual at http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/xerox/alto/.... says that the standard microcode on the Alto emulated the Nova.
Looks interesting. You might want to consider fixing this...

"Safe time optimizing bottlenecks" should be "Save"
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I first encountered this wonderful quote in the foreword to one of the editions of the Feynman Lectures, the foreword in this case being written by an awesome physics professor in my college (V.Balakrishnan a.k.a Balki): "... the combination of physics and mathematics in the Feynman Lectures surely embodies in an exemplary manner what has been called 'the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the physical sciences' (Wigner)"

Balki also introduced us to the mythical student HAROLD - Hypothetical Alert Reader Of Limitless Dedication, whom he had encountered in Schwinger's lectures.
Madness. My friend is getting emails from 3 different dating sites, all to a person who has a very similar name and managed to sign up for all these sites using the wrong email address.

Somehow none of them bothered with email authentication.

It seems as if, technically, these sites (including Amazon in this scenario) are engaging in illegal spam practices. But who knows.
Since all the videos are not hosted by us, the video that plays uses each of the video source's individual iframe APIs on desktop ( or links to the video's source on the mobile site ) there is no copyright issue.
I wonder if a shaming campaign like plaintextoffenders would be productive...
Something like this maybe:

http://www.wired.com/2013/12/better-data-security-nail-polis...

Or mail a postcard with a message encrypted by one-time-pad.
I think everyone has challenges at work.

Sexism works both ways, women can be sexist about men too.

I've been called homophobic slurs by women at work because I don't like sports or going out and getting drunk, etc.

Not much you can do about it when a manager does it, and enforces your coworkers to do it too.
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Are there any fitness cultured startups out there? Companies where some of the engineers are active and management is willing to flex schedules for training or activities. Of course many companies and HR companies will claim this, but who really does it in practice?
Ideally looking for CA companies. Apparently the first company to put a stake in the ground is going to be in Colorado: http://triathlon.competitor.com/2013/03/news/a-triathletes-dream-job_72055
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I'm not sure there's a point in using anything but Google Flights, to be honest... But in my experience hipmunk is among the best in the rest of a very crowded pack.
Just throwing it out there... if the radio is a problem, I'd love for Paul and friends to replace both the radio and avalanche source with an "infinite noise multiplier", which I feel is more secure than either alone, but probably not as secure as these two very different sources together. However, that would delay things quite a bit. I'm hoping maybe version 2. Also, the wider community has zero experience with INMs, so it will take a while before such a source is generally accepted.

Also, this concern about the radio requires someone to 1) hack the TRNG, and 2) have a nearby receiver. At that point, they probably could more easily just PWN your system, and forget about the TRNG. Paul is doing some clever things to make it very hard to hack his firmware, but a keyboard logger is still easy for an attacker with physical access, as is any number of attacks.
That doesn't explain the non-prosecution of individual bank employees and officers though. In fact, if one accepts the TBTF argument, then the prosecution of individuals becomes even more important: because it is still perfectly possible to prosecute individual members even if the institution is (we assume for the sake of argument) untouchable, then it is the only way remaining to restrain the behaviour of the institution.
If AI needs only be better than these responses, this could be a huge opportunity
"Not much you can do about it when a manager does it, and enforces your coworkers to do it too."

That would seem to be the time when you have the opportunity to do the most about it.
This has been posted time and time again.

Please note that the last commit was in Jan 2012 (perhaps add [2012] to the title?), and I believe it is far from usable in its current state.
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Yeah, I doubt that DuckDuckGo could compete with PageRank in its first iteration.

There is a reason that Page and Brin are billionaires: their algorithm was absurdly clever.
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This article presents several provocative ideas. Changing the "culture" of research to encourage replication of findings, increase applicability of outcomes and reduce the corrosive effects of publication as competitive currency has been discussed quite a bit, though little seems to have come of it.

Especially interesting are the authors' ideas about the "reward system" in the current research world. If "value positions" like academic rank become irrelevant or even reduce reward, benefits would flow to research with greater scientific merit.

Effective science is much more a shared or collaborative effort than about proving who got there first. Too often authors stretch to make findings amount to an overarching explanation of the phenomena. Scientific quality would probably be improved just by scaling back conclusions and letting the data speak for itself.
I've been considering switching to an IMAP/mutt email setting on the desktop.

But what is the best mobile / iOS client to use?

Which mobile client meets the desiderata he lists (fast, works offline, etc.)?
I can think more ways to circumvent that system than I can count. I'm in CZ now and the Pirate-Bay has this banner[1] might be a good start.

[1] https://www.frootvpn.com
It's not that external CSS will make it much more difficult to understand and maintain, just a little bit.

For example, I have a page that uses html5 to draw a playback progress bar. The canvas tag has an inline style giving the width and height. If I put this in an external css it would mean I would have to either create a new css page, or put it into an existing page (and then put a comment in the css saying which file it was for). Thus the html is larger in total, possibly more files to download, more files to maintain, and if you want to tweak the layout you have to hunt in the css for it (rather than it being right there).

In cases like this where it is a single tag, using inline styles just simplifies development and maintenance with no downside.
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I had a similar problem but with peeing, despite three litter boxes and regular cleaning. He'd go in the same room, five feet away. It go so bad that the carpet started developing some sort of fungal growth, which was gross. I read up on it and apparently some cats develop a "texture preference," especially for carpet.

So in the utility room I used for the litter boxes, I replaced the carpet with some cheap engineered wood flooring (Pergo or some similar knockoff brand). Problem went away. I think it is very weird/uncomfortable for them to go on a smooth hard surface, and carpet is a rougher surface that sort of could feel like dirt or grass.
Regarding 4, I personally tend to be distrustful of what is often described as Stringly Typed code. To me, statically constraining your API to only accept valid inputs seems like superior design.
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It's not possible to contact the third party without logging into "their" account, which is a crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The act of getting that contact info from someone else's account is precisely what the CFAA exists to illegalize.
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