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I have no inside information, but the pattern suggests to me a plausible explanation. And I'm typing on my phone, so I might not explain fully.

Suppose I were wanting to overinflated the value of my business to show to investors or for another reason - I could create an account that had within it a large additional amount of fiat (by entering that value in the DB).

Then, I have an idea... Using that fake deposit, I can start buying BTC. And, as long as the price of BTC is going up, I'm actually printing money and making real fiat out of the initial fake deposit.

This works as long as the price continues to increase and people continue to trade - if either of those factors trends down, the fake fiat will be noticed.

Unwinding this becomes tricky - if you sell too fast, you cause the price decrease. And if anybody gets wind of it, they'll abandon ship.

In some ways, this has an analogue in what happened at Lehman and AIG. The CDO market worked as long as the default assumptions were right and the value of the underlying assets continued to appreciate - as soon as they didn't, the margin requirements wiped out all of their reserve capital.

It also reminds me a bit of QE - the "printed" fiat was inserted in to the market and used to purchase assets in a way that supported the market. When he easing stops, if the value of the assets can't be supported by continuing market pressure, the market for those assets crashes.
I think it's confirmed that they have a "several hundred to a thousand" employees working on a car project of some kind.

They've also been reportedly poaching car industry employees recently.

Steve Jobs always wanted to make an Apple car, they might be doing some "honor his dream" type of project.

They might be just developing an autonomous system or a battery conversion system, or they might be building a huge fleet of mapping vehicles.

The project is only 1 - 2 years old so there likely isn't much a product yet, and pivoting is very possible.

There is a video of some person chasing a white van with something unknown on the roof and very dark windows near Apple's headquarters. That's fueling some rumors also.

I personally think they should focus on their CarPlay system and partner with manufacturers to pre-install it in cars, but they would need to allow Android phones to use it.

Apple has over 150 billion USD in cash and it doesn't seem like they know what to do with it.

Apple, why not have a large poll on what projects you should invest in?

"Tesla CEO Elon Musk told Bloomberg Businessweek this month that Apple was seeking to hire away his workers, offering $250,000 signing bonuses and 60 percent salary increases."

Dear Apple, nobody wants one of your closed-source, locked-down, inferior vehicles. Stop poaching Tesla employees you assholes, Tesla is too important for you to wage a money war with them for a side-project that nobody has ever asked for.
Apple sued for hiring battery engineers (from A123 Systems)
Business strategy is to steal talent from competitors future?
I loaded the script "http://find.zwave.me/zbw_new_user" a couple times. You will notice it generates a new private key each time. This is for the local service to connect to the z-wave server without password credentials.

This actually seems okay, the script should be loaded over https definitely but this ssh key part is really just giving a password to each device for connection.
"Collaboration" means nothing in the business world. How many serious partners did Apple have when developing Copland, Taligent?
If you've got particularly dexterous fingers you could probably count in Ternary and get to 59048, much higher than binary's 1023
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Business strategy is to steal talent from future competitors?
If that money is ever exchanged, it'd probably be trivial for a powerful entity to figure where it went.
I have also worked for larger companies, mostly, and within them I have actually experienced many technical problems caused by network security solutions.

HTTPS man-in-the-middle proxying is one particular scourge that causes weird things - the problem reports being of the kind that in a completely legitimate and intended use case, "Chrome works, MSIE does not".
In some places that's a good way to get fired.

I get a lot of sensitive information in my work email; if I forwarded it all to a second account where my employer couldn't enforce things like two-factor auth I'd be in a lot of trouble.
fst/rst, although having the difference in the middle also seems aesthetically appealing to me.
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This was the clearest explanation in my opinion. I'm still a bit confused regarding how much information have we actually got and what mechanism is behind "passing a test" to influence the amount of information when the test result is not definitive (as in this case). We were just given a complete information about one of the options the user didn't choose, but not any direct new information specific of the door the user didn't choose and that remains closed.

Imagine that after opening the door everyone goes home and a new participant who has no knowledge of the previous experiment is called to make a decision between the two remaining doors. Obviously in this case the probably is 1:2, as there is no information regarding the previous test. Actually, if we imagine a similar situation happened before the initial problem with a previous show with 4 doors, we may as well see that the initial probability of 1:3 is also wrong if we had access to the knowledge about the previous experiment.

I still agree with the switch suggestion, but the mechanism behind it is still not entirely clear.

A more intuitive example would also be to invert the problem: leave one of the non picked doors (C) out of the random opening and use the door the contestant picked (A) as a possible case in the random opening experiment. If we start by opening A, then we already know enough to see if the user won or lost, if we open B and there is the car behind it, we already know everything. If we open B and there is a goat behind the door, consider whether you would switch your choice from A to C. I guess you probably wouldn't and it would feel easier to justify your position, as this doesn't involve the "psychological pain" of changing a previous choice by reasons that you don't entirely understand (associated with possible loss-aversion feelings).
eh, I had a wheel bearing go bad on a brand new car after 8k miles.

The model/make reviewed excellently, and is still considered a great choice. Two years later, it's been reliable and gets us from point A to point B affordably.

Manufacturing is hard.
twitter: @copypastaa and then appending ?hn is at least consistent :)
This is going a bit off-topic, but the more I read about these new insights into the workings of single-celled life, the more I get the feeling that on the cellular level, we multicellular organisms are like nations. The more sophisticated ones, like us, being like an ethnically homogeneous and very xenophobic society in a totalitarian state with closed borders). Meanwhile, the single-celled ecologies out there function like some kind of anarchic jungle society were everyone is self-reliant.

It kind of makes me wonder what the future of human society holds.
Just taken my 15" 2011 MBP in - as luck would have it I had a 0930 appointment. Even tho the replacement programme doesn't start here in the UK until the 27th Feb, they were happy to do a gratis repair "under consumer law". Without me having to shout at all. "You'll beat the rush!" said the guy.
C# purely functional:

Enumerable.Range(1, 10000000).Aggregate(
new { Sum = 0L, Length = 0L },
(agg, n) => new { Sum = agg.Sum + n, Length = agg.Length + 1 }
)

C# side-effecting (executes in about 1/3 of the time):

class Agg { public long Sum; public long Count; }
Enumerable.Range(1, 10000000).Aggregate(
new Agg(),
(a, n) => { a.Sum += n; ++a.Count; return a; }
);
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Some vendors are better about it than others. I've had a bad experience with O2 denying my guarantee rights under the Sales of Goods Act, for what was clearly an "unfit for purpose" phone (iPhone 5 with a faulty sleep button[0]). Apple replaced it for me of their own accord, though.

[0] - https://www.apple.com/uk/support/iphone5-sleepwakebutton/
sounds to me we need to find a better material to make them from if their lifespan is as short as it is let alone their disposal is such an issue.

so why is their service life so much shorter than some planes have had? Seems the idea behind their structure should not be too far off.
Agreed, but on the other hand, TeamViewer is a man-in-the-middle by definition, and a definite no-no for the seriously security-conscious.

For maintaining your mother-in-law's computer it's perfect.
For a way to use this to collaboratively review a document, see Co-ment: http://www.co-ment.org/
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TL;DR: Some bacteria use their DNA as a database of bad viruses for identification purposes. This way of editing DNA has been replicated artificially and it's called CRISPR. Awesome.
It will always be 0 days since the last significant security failure
Meetup.com sucks big time
I don't understand meetup.com admins.
You try to set up account, spend time frikin
signing with groups, and they just constantly delete accounts?!
One posted comment on one of the groups that some tosser doesn't like, and some turd flags your comment and these meetup.com admins just delete accounts left right and centre?! They're just total losers.
I mean they are just a pack of total $#@!, no wonder they had a DOS attack 12 months ago.
About time their site went down again, decent action to these pussies is needed, because there is no freedom of speech anymore, the way it's going we will no longer be able to talk in the future, apart from a recorded robot voice "Good morning dear friendly citizen".
Anyone experienced meetup.com like this?
They shit me.
It's not dead yet, still games being developed on it
Can you compare that with the same chart for bitcoin?
Remember when hacking Sony was an act of war?
What i never see is how much servers/hardware/resources they are spending.
It's _always_ like "we process a quadrillion messages per second" but it never mentions that you'll need a quadrillion expensive servers to do so.
Same for many many database benchmarks, sadly...
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> Barrangou and his colleagues found that the bacteria had stuffed DNA fragments from the two viruses into their spacer

Sounds almost Lamarckian, doesn't it?
If you're willing to just unconditionally trust the merchant like you would with bitcoin, can't you use a wire transfer (western union etc.)?
or people living in a country different than the US (one problem with that is that banks/credit card companies take a MAJOR hit on the exchange rate that's very hard to overcome without having bank accounts in different jurisdictions).
Oh look, another "security expert" that doesn't know the difference between SSL and SSH

Actually, SSH tunneling is a very secure way of transporting your web requests.
git-subrepo: git submodules done right
Interesting overview!

Some of this caveats are kinda surprising for me, coming from a Mercurial background:

* Every time you add a submodule, change its remote’s URL, or change the referenced commit for it, you demand a manual update by every collaborator. Forgetting this explicit update can result in silent regressions of the submodule’s referenced commit. -- This is something handled automatically in Mercurial. Is there any reason why the same behaviour is not used in Git?

* Commands such as status and diff display precious little info about submodules by default. -- This should be possible to implement, no? It's also something that's available in Mercurial (using the --subrepos flag), and it's a huge boost to usability.
I wonder how long ago were you trying that. Since Windows 7 all drivers download themselves via Windows Update. So as long as you're not using a bootleg CD key for your Windows, it should install as smoothly as Ubuntu, only with more stuff working OOTB.
Yeah, but I'd love to see how long it would function if they took away open source tools like Redis and HAProxy.
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Alternative to 'princ' doesn't have to be 'print', it could be any of 'print-out' 'output' 'put' 'write' 'write-output', and that's just off the top of my head (yes, several of these can be ambiguous and might have different meanings, but still better than 'princ').

Just because CL has a long history, it doesn't mean that everything about it has to be correct. Otherwise why start a project of CL remodernization in the first place?
Sure, I understand that, but a lot of people are talking about running multiple headless VM's at once and I can't really see any use cases outside of QC/QA environments. Even for people working on multiple projects at once (for multiple clients) it sounds like there is no real reason to run more than 2 at once (one for tools, the other for the server environment).
Yes, it is. From a text box in the article:

Did this mean that CRISPR meets the requirements
for Lamarckian inheritance? “In my humble opinion,
it does,” said Koonin.
For a less painful [1] solution, see git-subrepo. [2]

[1] https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo/blob/master/Intro....

[2] https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo
I had similar problems with a 2009 MBP about a month after AppleCare expired and they repaired it free of charge. They seem to be pretty good about that.
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As an aside, it seems bizarre that you can exhaust the address space simply by allocating large objects over and over. Doesn't the windows vm system reclaim unmapped pages? Surely the .NET runtime uses holes in the Large Object Heap? It can't be that idiotic that new allocations always bump the pointer, right?
Or just use https with certificate check.

One could argue that signed packages are still harder to check because publicly facing web servers are easier to hack, but you need to get the signature somewhere which is usually included in you distribution you downloaded through an insecure http or ftp connection.
I own the generation preceding this (xps 13 9333) and use Ubuntu 14.10 on it. In general I'm pretty happy with it, though the coil whine is an annoyance. The touchpad is good, though if I'm being completely honest it's not _quite_ on par with that of the MBPr I use for work. 128GB hasn't actually been a problem, but I pretty aggressively offload all media on to owncloud so I'm not storing movies, pictures, etc.

I bought a refurb on ebay so it wasn't terribly expensive, but at list price it would be a little difficult to justify compared to a MBA. I bought it because I wanted to use Ubuntu as my primary OS and am not completely thrilled about giving money to a company that loves walled gardens.
Its probably the hash of their explanation of the exploit.
I'm genuinely interested in why are you running 10 to 20 VMs at once. I come from a MS environment and I don't see any use cases in my daily work where this would make sense.
The guy seems to be one of those super-productive programmers.
Note that we do have a whole field of epigenetics which deals with Lamarckian stuff.
What do you think about it? I had an UltraPro for one day and returned it because the keyboard was so bad as to be essentially broken. The case was also about as solid as a warm stick of butter. Their support also tried to convince me I was typing improperly which broke any trust I had with them; it's a well-documented issue they eventually confessed to knowing about and ignoring.
Sometimes the 'noise' from other people is the 2nd hardest part. I was told by an engineer in his 50s to go from door to door asking to speak to the boss because that's what he did with his 17 year old son and it worked for him. I was wtf-ing. I'm a web-dev and was 38 years old at the time. Having my dad drive me around with a cv wouldn't have helped.

After about 6 months unemployed I was asked to attend a govt sponsored course once a week. I was skeptical thinking it would be a waste of time and that I knew how to write a CV and type a letter dammit. BUT! the guy who was my contact was solid, gave me good advice too but the two most important things he did:
1. He had contacts because he was essentially a recruiter but working through the govt. (that got me a trial period leading to a full time job)
2. He got me up and across town every Wednesday for 9am and told me a thousand times how smart I was gave me the confidence boost I needed to see through the jungle of BS that is jobhunting.

My point being: don't negate any opportunities because they look bad at first glance. Comb your hair and go, do your best. We've all been to interviews where the job looked great, but then you arrive and it's clear you maybe don't want this job or like these people, but the opposite also happens. My current job was as a COBOL programmer - it never happened from day one, they were looking for a webdev really but the job description was written by a cobol dev who was overworked. What he actually needed was a working framework so he could use his time on backend programming. it may sound trite, but every opportunity is to be attempted.
I attempted to start a conversation here about ways to detect whether visitors to your own site are infected with the Superfish malware, and I was downvoted to the very bottom of the page.

Another person had discovered a method to automatically disable Superfish by placing a special <meta> tag on your page; within two hours of posting his discovery, Lenovo silently removed the disable ability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9076788

Deliberately preventing people from disabling Superfish doesn't seem like something a company "working to wipe Superfish app off of PCs" would do.

I don't believe a single word uttered by these snakes.
I did it for the alliterative appeal.
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Can't visit this website, shit ton of javascript that make it so laggy. (with chrome)
I wrote very a brief how-to on Git Submodules [1] for my colleagues a while ago, because a lot of people seemed to have trouble with it. It explains the real basics and how to use them painlessly in most situations. So it's much shorter than the OP's article and that might help if you don't want to force everyone in your team to read a big article like this.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/gitaarik/8735255
Drug-resistant malaria has been detected at the Myanmar-India border
If you are into meeting people while travelling, I highly recommend you Servas[0]. It is a more than 70 year old peace association with chapters in every country. You can be traveller or host.
I travelled all over the world with Servas, from Norway to Japan and we are now a "host family". Happily getting visitors from everywhere.

[0]: http://servas.org/
I've always regarded encryption that is not end-to-end as a gimmick.
Depends on how you measure Nobel prizes and prize-winners :) .

If you include members of institutions that have won Nobel prizes (for instance the Nobel Peace Prize), then yes. If you mean one of the 860 individuals, I don't know, but I guess not.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/all/
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And cancer is an insurrection against population control that is in the interest of the majority.
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> let's not forget the very important fact that, currently, the user ultimately still has the ability to modify the software on the machines he/she owns

Swift on Security has argued - quite convincingly IMHO - that as long as we have this attitude that the user "can" fix their machine by "just remove a SSL cert" we are going to utterly fail the vast majority of ordinary people who now depend on having a machine connected to the internet.

http://swiftonsecurity.tumblr.com/post/98675308034/a-story-a...

"Maybe this isn’t her fault. Maybe computer security for the average person isn’t a series of easy steps and absolutes they discard from our golden mouths of wise truths to spite the nerd underclass.

Perhaps it’s the very design of General Purpose Computing. And who built this world of freedom, a world that has so well served 17-year-old Jessica? You did. We did."
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I use a Dell E6420, as a data scientist I kept breaking the default 8GB so upgraded to 16GB which is almost always fine. I won't go >8GB most days but when I do, I need it (else I lose hours trying to partition data and think about ways to subselect). 16GB for data science seems a sensible minimum for the folk I know. I'm on Linux Mint 17 (Ubuntu 14.04) + Python.
I don't want to give my CC details and/or my personal information to every merchant. This usually means I either buy from fewer merchants, or pay with bitcoin if allowed. Obviously, if the merchant is going to require my info anyway then it's pointless, so it depends.

That's one of the main points about bitcoin for me. As a tool for privacy. On the surface it may seem trivial, and corporations living off mining your information will always try to pretend it's not even an issue by simply avoiding mentioning it. While at the same time push for their payment solutions as either compulsory or cheaper ("soft pressure"). But make no mistake, this is one of the most effective tools for mining your data reliably and the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc are just not going to give up on it easily. Authorities also won't give up on "follow the money" as a tool, or even snooping and hacking into your communications legally or not, inside of their jurisdiction or not. It's basically no rules for some, all the rules for you.
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I am considering taking a small plain notebook with me along with either a pen or a fude pen (self contained ink brush) and try my hand at sketching stuff instead of relying on the cell phone only.
Anyone has tried this already? Experiences?
The point is that it's already drafted and enacted by the time its made public and there is not much that can be done after being signed.

It doesn't matter that the public knows at that point. It will have been enacted and no heads will roll.
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I doubt it. Most non-techie users will probably not get around to installing another browser, so seeing that neither bank nor gmail nor facebook works, they'll blame their ISP.
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One of the things that keeps me on Chrome is the sheer quality of the dev tools. And they iterate on them pretty regularly.
I find it quite convenient, because often I can just type part of the folder name that's easier / faster to type :)

What other useful productivity tools people use?
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