skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other thing that can stop this is a bidding war, where credit card companies restructure their business model and lower their fees to the point where the inherent advantages of credit cards (such as chargebacks and lower inherent overhead due to lack of currency volatility and mining) stop the advancement of Bitcoin.

In either case, Bitcoin isn't going to take over the world, but whoever can figure out a good way to deal with the problem of how regular people could easily obtain Bitcoin in the first place has a chance to skim some profit in the interim.
I own a 2014 XPS 13 and I absolutely love it, but my next machine will be a Macbook. The reason is pretty simple: resale value. Upgrading to the latest and greatest Macbook is absurdly cheap since you can sell your old model for close to the original price. Whereas I'll be lucky to get half of what I paid for my XPS 13.
That's not incompatible with asking your US representative to block Fast-Track and encouraging more transparency and debate on the proposals :)

If software is eating the world, these IP and copyright issues need to be addressed in a sensible manner that encourages future innovation, without being constrained by legacy thinking and economics. The issues are bigger than any one agreement and will affect many startups and people on HN.
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Why couldn't the user buy the bitcoin in dollars moments before, using the same price-stabilizing mechanism? Could an exchange engage in both operations simultaneously somehow as a sort of market-maker?
Lenovo is to blame for deliberately bundling adware with their hardware.

Komodia is to blame for making the software they make and the way they do it.

Open-source is irrelevant to this matter, but if anything the tech community is to blame for telling the world that the lock in the browser and https means the connection is secure.
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> I don't really know how it would be possible to make an Ultrabook at that size still modular like a tower PC.

Nobody is asking for that, notebook CPU and GPU haven't been replaceable in years, and peripherals or the PSU are very much non-replaceable. Being able to replace the SSD (still possible so far through new-ish low-profile formats) and RAM (less and less possible these days) is not even remotely close to "modular like a tower PC", it's barely two steps above from "as unmodular as a cell phone".
I see zero problem with using SSH, which happens to be a pretty secure protocol. In fact I would prefer it to HTTPS since it is not by default vulnerable to malicious CAs. Note for example that GitHub allows Git access over SSH.

When the author says that the system "exposes the private key", well, it's by design that the user can see it - since they need to use it to identify themselves to the SSH server. It's not much different from being assigned a password by the server. What could be improved is if it was transferred over HTTPS rather than HTTP, and of course also the install script.

(I only speak about the usage of SSH, it's possible that they still do something insecure..)
Similar story on an entirely different model.

I bought an iMac 21" some years ago from the online store, received quickly via UPS. Bootup, start doing stuff, and progressively comes a yellow tinge. I call Apple Care, which places a replacement order. To minimise downtime, they send the replacement ASAP and order a return to be completed later. This means you get the new computer before you return the broken one. Nice, especially if you didn't use Time Machine (it was all new and shiny) and wanted to do a Mac to Mac transfer via Firewire.

The new one arrives, power on, and straight from the boot screen here's a yellow tinge, even worse than the first one. Round trip with Apple Care, order a new replacement, arrange pickup, go. Same tinge again, but more subdued, and it seems to be slowly going away, but how to be sure?

Not willing to take risks, I call Apple Care again, which orders a new replacement and arranges a pickup. Replacement arrives and now I have three iMacs on my desktop (of which two are due for return). Seriously. And that one, too has a yellow tinge. I call Apple Care again, and this time they say to me that while we could continue with this little game endlessly, that may not be the wisest thing to play what is essentially lottery. So they offer me to get my money back, plus a coupon if I were to order a computer again.

Forum searches learned me that there seems to be much less 27" affected than 21", and with that coupon I could now afford one. So after pondering the situation, I choose to go for it. The thing arrives and hurray, it's tinge free!

For the record, a few years later, the thing is out of warranty and I receive an email that the hard disk is eligible for a preventive replacement, for free, even if out of warranty. Yay.
Don't talk for "anyone".
The last few times I've tried to install Windows on things, it was actually surprisingly horrible. The problem is, the generic install media has basically no drivers on it, so you have to go fetch it all manually, from all the respective manufacturers' web sites. It is, of course, fairly hard to download your network driver without a network driver, so you'd better have another computer and some USB storage around. Also, many of the drivers come only in the form of installer bundles that are themselves hundreds of megabytes and full of crapware.

In comparison, installing Ubuntu is a breeze, almost all the drivers you need are included with the install media and installed automatically, etc. Unless you have brand new, just-released hardware, it "just works", and even with brand new hardware there tend to be guides on the internet that are still easier than getting drivers installed on Windows.

Actual thing that happened: My mom said she needed to reformat an old laptop but didn't have the Windows media and wondered what to do. On a lark I suggested installing Ubuntu. A few weeks later, having not heard anything, I asked what happened to the laptop. She said she installed Ubuntu and it worked great. Never asked me a single question.
A quick note: Apple has you covered for two years in France, due to european regulations: the first year is handled by the manufacturer, the second one is handled by the reseller. This is important as in terms of resellers an Apple Retail Store is not considered the same as the Apple Online Store, and even mode important if you're not buying it through Apple.

That said, every time I went to an Apple Retail Store I've had the thing handled nonetheless, sometimes even when out of the 2 year warranty.
No. The FBI handles cybercrime. The NSA is under the DoD.
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Thank you guys, I thought the whole world goes crazy if such a crappy set of "tech words" as this article can be upvoted to 250+ on HN.
If the Chinese are making mistakes on who they are silencing, there is nothing to suggest the west isn't making as many mistakes in who they are allowing to speak. As far as I can tell no one at Twitter or Facebook et al, is measuring how much the platform has been used to spread ignorance and terror.

The media (mainstream and social) have as much capacity to spread hate as to do good. Anytime there is a difference of opinion, there are people waiting to take advantage of that difference for their own purposes. And the media (mainstream and social) have not only provided a platform for these lunatics, they have profited handsomely from it.

If the Chinese are hypocrites so are we. Nobody is counting the number of families that have been affected by ISIS or destabilized dictatorships in the middle east.
i got a retina mbp 13" , i'm having all sort of problems , random logouts .. black screens with the computer on etc. started to happen 2 months after upgrading to yosemite. I'm seriously considering buying a normal laptop and install linux on it .. i love macs but it is affecting my productivity.
Windows NT's first release was 3.1 from 1993. Windows 2000 (which was really NT 5.0) was released in 2000.

I was fully able to write both Gödel and Poincaré with both 8859-1 and HTML entities and in both WordPerfect and Word back in the 90's (the current version of the page is generated by Microsoft Word 10).

The problem is not unicode but the fact that it was written by an American/someone who is rather sloppy with names. For example, he writes "Paul Von Hindenberg" when he means "Paul von Hindenburg". Things like that are trivial to get right unless one actually doesn't care.
Coinbase is insured by Aon for only if their entire site is hacked, and is not insured for individual accounts as the FDIC does, because it's too expensive (there's you're explanation on why).

Because it's decentralized, Bitcoin suffers from Tragedy of the Commons. The miners, merchants, etc. are all rational actors looking to profit for themselves, even at each other's expense, which is why bitcoin can't get a census to upgrade. You may wish that they will come together under the banner of bitcoin benevolence, but they can't because they're too busy trying to make money off of each other and have competitive alternatives available.

You can't hand wave and say at some point in the far future someone will solve these very real problems for bitcoin, because some very basic economic principles are stopping it right now. Considering you haven't even made a single bitcoin transaction, and didn't even know about the limits until today, you're not really qualified to comment on it.

It's not a technical problem, but a problem with the design and the users - which was exactly what OP's point was to begin with.
Upgrading to the latest and greatest Macbook is absurdly cheap since you can sell your old model for close to the original price

Oh how I wish that were true. I have a 2012 15" Macbook Retina (8gb/256gb) that I bought for $2200. The typical price on eBay is around $1200. So, I can get about half, which is your lament about the XPS 13.
Great work! Recently I've been contemplating the idea of starting a blog that explains math concepts using LEGO bricks, this post gave me faith that there will be some interest in such a thing!
I am experiencing some similar issues with my 15" mid2012 rMBP.

Whenever I work on some canvas/webgl game, after some refreshing in the browser (reproducible with Safari and Chrome) the entire screen freezes, without any chance for recover and I have to power it down, manually.

Has anyone had this problem and do you know if it qualifies for the Repair Extension Program?
>> It's all about money. Hollywood is greedy and wants more to create another mediocre (at best) movies.

> A business wanting to make money by charging for their good/bad/ok product? how evil.

That doesn't follow in the slightest.

> I don't agree that copyright infringement should be a criminal rather than civil matter.

> Even when I'm watching a mediocre movie, I still appreciate that it took lots of peoples time and money to create.

I'm sorry, but I still don't see what you're adding to this thread.

It literally is about money. The entire industry does not want their current business model to end because of how profitable it is. It, sadly for them, is a dead horse and has been since VHS. They should have pivoted their model back then, hell, they should have at least seen it coming when napster hit the scene, everyone saw movie copying coming straight after music. Why didn't they?

You can appreciate the effort of cogs in an antique machine all you like, but I started lacking all and any sympathy for the lot of them the second they started pushing bullshit takedowns all over the web[1][2].

On making money by charging for their work being evil, no it isn't, not in the slightest. Yet pushing, paying for, and lobbying behind closed doors for the kinds of censorship they are lobbying for, well that is pretty much evil no matter which way you look at it. And them losing, or being unable to make money simply does not excuse that in any way:

"No industry gets to dismantle civil liberties with the poor excuse that they can't make money otherwise." [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effects

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=site:chillingeffects.org

[3] https://torrentfreak.com/letter-copyright-monopoly-140921/
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But this isn't (just) cybercrime. This could be seen as weakening the ("cyber"-)infrastructure. But maybe that's just under "Homeland Security" now (of which FBI is a part?)?
AFAIK, the ISDS has been met with enough opposition that it has been essentially expunged from the treaty.
Maybe I begin to see the light. First, there is an important difference between considering a random event on it's own and several random events together: in essence, when your friend says they have a boy, he is telling you a little something about two ordered events. That's why you count the BF and FB cases separately (which is the counter-intuitive part).

The actual Tuesday problem requires a little more thought. Somehow that extra information makes you drop a case! I can't help but think that the ordering is the critical factor, and that it's not a coincidence that the "extra information" has to do with time. In other words, the dropped case happens because we drop the distinctive ordering when the two boys are born on a Tuesday.
> it is not by default vulnerable to malicious CAs

Well, in this particular case, they're using

ssh [..] -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking no' -o 'UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null' [..]

So the remote authentication bits are already out the window. It would be nicer if they included the host's public key in the installation package rather than eschewing it completely.
Most games don't do any heap allocations at al during runtime(or at least very very few), so you shouldn't/don't end up with garbage collector pauses during normal gameplay. If you refcount your main structures, they can be auto cleaned up /removed when changing levels/loading scenes/swapping chunks out on the fly.
Well, that's just like, your opinion, man.

I've used the Ethernet controller on my laptop many more times than I've used USB 3.0. Heck, I used a USB/Serial adapter more times than I used USB 3.0.

Not every professional is a web developer.
While it is not the case of nim, I tend to think LLVM enabled a lot of this "boom".

It gives you a high quality set of components that cover a big bunch of the things you need when implementing a compiler. Energy can be spent in the language itself.
Indeed, they're just using it wrong.
I've literally never had that experience with Yik Yak.

There's a report button if anyone makes an explicit threat; other than that, when you hold a mirror up to society, it's not the mirror's fault what's reflected.
Looks like an advertisement for C/C++.

I agree that some language features are nice to have, but you won't convince me that C/C++ is bad because it's old, or because it's too down to earth. In short: you can't replace simple tools like a simple hammer and screwdriver. You don't always need them, but they're not replaceable, so to me I'll prefer learning a down to earth language and suffer the right consequences of that. Having to manage memory is the bread and butter of any programmer. I hate going around avoiding gimmicks of new languages and API just because the language pretend that it's doing something magically, there's always something that will come back and bite you.

And for the minecraft argument: minecraft is a huge PITA when it comes to memory and I've seen servers just burn because of memory management. Notch buying large house won't convince me to use java or any other managed memory language. The argument "that guy got rich, so it's an okay language" is not okay with me...

I'm very conservative when it comes to technology and programming languages. I prefer using old tools, because if they're old, that means that they stayed.
I've been amazed for years at how inferior the process of setting up a new Windows machine is to Linux, especially after hearing for years about how Linux supposedly was difficult compared to windows.

Not just the drivers, but pretty much everything I need for a new Linux system is available through apt. For windows, one must go to a dozen websites, download packages, and click next 10 times in each idiosyncratic install "wizard".

I had a similar experience with my mother, as well – I was constantly having to intervene with tech-support before I installed Ubuntu on her machine.
> the public will know anyway.

Yes, but that does not mean the public can actually do something about it (not saying we should not try, though). Political lobbies can be more powerful than citizens, it would not be the first time it happens.
What, work with some of the smartest people on the planet with a near-infinite budget solving the biggest big data problems out there whilst defending your country from turrists? Sign me up!
Languages are tools you use for their syntax, not for the work they do for you or the abstract paradigms they encourage.
Let me add another book on procrastination and perfectionism to the list which is a favorite of mine:

The Now Habit by Neil Fiore

Although it seems the OP has settled with FOMO, I still think this can provide valuable insights.

Another advice to reduce information overload: Close those (probably) hundreds of browser tabs & disable session restoring, block HN for most of the day and read emails only once a day.
In the interest of the fuller picture, thanks for noting that Iceland and Tajikistan were incidental. I don't know that we have a definitive answer from these docs on whether those keys were even saved. Even if not, it's unsettling that an "automated process" turns up keys "not on the list of interest." The article even says the "system failed to produce results against Pakistani networks, denoted as “priority targets” in the document."

I don't know how far I'd be willing to go to effect a hypothetical, unknown increase in safety and control. I do know that the US government and its allies are destroying the reputations of innocent companies, the peace of mind of hundreds of Gemalto/network employees who will now be wondering if they were personally hacked and to what extent, and the human rights of privacy of hundreds of thousands of people who use SIM cards. Is it worth it? I guess we'll never know, and I don't think the spies can truly say either.

Maybe some of that falls on leakers' shoulders too, but in any case it's not very confidence-inspiring that lowly people like Manning and Snowden were able to steal what they did.
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I'm a little intoxicated so this may be way over doing it or just not make sense, but...

Let's make the number even bigger, so we don't even need to deal in probabilities -- a sextillion (10^21) doors. That's more doors than there are grains of sand on the planet. Say you're given a sextillion doors, and you pick one lonesome door, call it door A. What are the odds that door A is the right one? Essentially zero, right? I'm going to say straight up zero because now is not the time for you to be a dreamer.

Ok so now that you've made your futile pick, poor Monty has to go and open every other door, all sextillion of them, except for yours and one other (let's call it door B) which he leaves closed. Every door he opens contains a goat.

So now out of this vast universe of doors, there are (10^21-2) doors opened with goats bleating away, and only two doors left unopened: door A, aka yours; and door B, the one that Monty mysteriously left unopened. One of them must contain the car.

(I'm guessing at this point it will be obvious for many people that door B contains the car, but I'll elaborate further in case it isn't clear yet.)

So we're left with your door A and Monty's door B. At this point there are only two scenarios that matter. Either you picked the right door originally, in which case staying put is the winning move. OR, you picked the wrong door originally, in which case switching is the right move. And we already know you picked the wrong door (remember, no dreamers allowed here), so you should for sure switch to this by-now-extremely-conspicuous-looking door B.

Door B isn't just some random door; the fact that it was chosen as the only door to not be opened tells you a tremendous amount of information about it. Think about the game from Monty's perspective. Either you pick the correct door initially and he gets to make door B a random goat door, or you picked the wrong door and he has no choice but to make door B the door with the car behind it. Since we know you picked the wrong door, we know what Monty's gonna have to do.
The original samsung series 9 is a sandybridge "ultrabook" from 2011 that can take 16GB of ram. While technically before ultrabooks were first released, it has a similar profile to the air. It was also released before 8GB dimm modules were available, but while never being "supported", they work just fine.

I haven't seen an ultrabook I'd prefer over it, especially when I rule out ones that use a tapered design.
Glad it helped! Why it's counter-intuitive-ness is a really, really good question because like 99.9% of people I found this one hard to accept, too.

All I can say is that it's an incredibly effective verbal/logical obfuscation that relies on synergistic choice of number of doors and the (in my view) totally bogus part about Monty opening one of the other doors.

In fact, some people (in this very thread!) are still analyzing the problem as if the opened door represents new, 'very valuable' information! It is truly just slight of hand to make it seem like you're only picking one door when you are picking two doors.
Never said the oppression of the privileged had to equal the prior oppressions, but don't think the privileged snapping their fingers one day and saying it is all o.k. will make it so. You can't abuse a man for decades, set him free and then believe it is all equal.
Not any worse than installing an RPM/deb (which includes an embedded preinstall script) Or the normal "./configure / make / make install" pattern which gives a malicious distributor lots of boilerplate to hide in.

If anything it's probably safer since it's explicit and more likely to be audited.
Unity3d caught the wave that XNA started.
It's in the US interest, but it can't be in the non-US interest then.

There's always another party to contracts like that. And one side is always getting screwed when the US is involved.
If Telegram finds a way to open source their backend, then that could be a way for new chat apps to compete against Line, WeChat, KakaoTalk, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Viber and so on. The security issues of Telegram would need to be sorted out first off course. Both Telegram and WhatsApp uses phone numbers to identify users, so they could probably let users talk to each other, if they wanted to.
In fact, Bruce Schneier believes there's another, unknown NSA leaker besides Snowden: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/08/the_us_intell...
How do you know that for sure when the meetings are held in private?
You apparently haven't been keeping up with the news, as this kind of "remote prosecution" already happens. It is not theoretical.

If you want a quick intro to these attacks, I suggest watching the most recent John Oliver episode.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150216/17390930032/john-...
The term is "time-bound kolmogorov complexity". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

It's a reference to time-bound solomonoff induction: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Algorithmic_probability

edit: also see http://math.uni-heidelberg.de/logic/merkle/ps/mfcs-2009.pdf
"simple hammer and screwdriver"

To complete the analogy I would say both also have a blade attached to handles, so that you need to be using them v-e-e-ry carefully and only if truly needed.
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