skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, information wants to be free.

There is already talk of launching satellites to disseminate block headers (though initially that's more to protect against Sybil attacks than to connect miners) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bitsat-project
I wonder what would have happened if Dr. Seuss had been German:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcMT395UvWI
Now someone just has to make this into an extension – firefox extensions are just as easy to make as chrome extensions, so it shouldn’t be an issue.
Will the end of Windows server 2003 impact my accounting system?
Google dumps ISP email support. Virgin Media takes ball, stomps home
Hi. Do you plan to add a "per query" pricing plan ? I would be happy to use such a service from times to times but I don't think I'd subscribe for a monthly plan.
Pretty new to OS X, when will Yosemite expect a fix? Is El Capitan Beta stable enough to be a better bet?
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​New fees cast shadow on HEVC
Oh nice, so Telegram does not use phone numbers at all? That is good to hear (still never gonna use it as I want the full stack FOSS :} )!
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Telegram is known for having dodgy security:

http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-bac...
The amount of money VCs are raising right now is insane
The Amiga is 30 years old today
Saying you think something is possible is not an endorsement. When Wall Street professionals actually try it, that is an endorse.
That's a great idea. Sounds like it would be a fun converstation starter with my parents as well. It's easy to imagine a page with curated reaction videos from regular people with different backgrounds.
The interesting thing about Germany is that small towns located in the forests (and they are LOTS of forest in Germany) are also centers for major engineering centres, some of these centres are European HQ.

For us who work in engineering, this makes it easy to live in the forest, and commute to work through the forests.
Proper Telegram Bots (https://core.telegram.org/bots/) don't have access to your phone number.

Maybe you added an account (that did not end in @xxxxbot) that was running on a custom backend.
"We needed to quickly figure out if we were building a product that people loved and thought was worth paying for." - how are people supposed to know if they love it and think it's worth paying for without paying for it in the first place?
"'Apple ships fixes for security in beta versions of future products, but does not fix current versions,' Esser noted."

Is that really a thing? Apple doesn't ship security updates? Or is that just trolling?
You're not going to make any headway here, this is a very pro-nuclear crowd. Google some of the Fukishima threads here to really understand it.

IMO, nuclear power generation in the U.S. is an overly secretive industry running obsolete on arrival technology that is a public health hazard. Just like coal, the industry enjoys a very cozy relationship with government that enables it to weasel around their pretty obvious risks and problems they bring.
The domain is from http://startafire.com/

> Get the full value from curated content you share on social media
Automatically add your presence and promote your content with every external link you share
Sounds a bit like InfluxDB...
I think he was referring to VirtualBox in particular - its kernel modules are endless sources of problems. KVM has its modules in mainline, so it's a more popular choice for kernel development.
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Hi pol0nium,

The service has both subscription and per-query pricing plans as well.

Once you post a query you get the payment link for the query.

Subscription plan is easier to access the bot for unlimited answers. so we added the "subscribe" menu in the bot itself.
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He touches on that when he goes into his background. He worked on a project in the mid 90s that was duplicated by a competitor and sold to Yahoo.

"I then moved to Sun Micro-Electronics (SME) and that’s where I learned one of my most valuable lessons. I began to build and ship the first HTTP-based (yes, this was a thing back then) stock ticker and called it DigitalTrader in 1996 (http://goo.gl/dQzPTC) It was built in Tcl/Tk and Java/Tk. It auto-updated itself and crawled Quote.com and Yahoo for data. Six months later a competitor duplicated it and Yahoo bought them and put us out of business overnight. Lesson learned: realize when you are doing something that is easily duplicated. "
Awesome! I would have funded the campaign had I known this information at the time.
They had shareware disks bundled with magazines. I knew someone who worked at the magazine shop and we would slide some out to copy them. It's amazing how now I can get any software so easily.
OpenSSH Vulnerability Exposes Servers to Brute Force Attacks
Any idea how that might have happened?
There's a YouTube channel with excrutiatingly in-depth Amiga repairs: https://www.youtube.com/user/RetroGameModz/videos

He goes down to the circuit level, including within microchips, identifies problems with all kinds of tools including spectrum analysers, and shows off some (to me) amazing soldering skills.

Here's a four hour (I kid you not) video of the repair of an Amiga CD32: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZK3Rmerg1I
Yes, Apple does not patch old versions of iOS or OSX.

All iPhone 2G, 3G and 4 are all vulnerable to root code execution flaws (some exploitable from the web browser) and do not receive updates.
It's really upsetting and ousting Forstall did nothing to revive or unify the iOS/OSX teams...

And it's easy to gloss over these issues when they're crafted into such a carefully and intentionally designed piece of modern art -- except many of the core libraries sitting atop that hardware are where such quality has been overlooked. I think that's the antithesis of the philosophy of 'detail' that arguably brought apple back from the brink last time...

Usability and simplifying processes is great and all, but if enough of these issues seep in it could destroy the core assumption of quality which is what the company truly subsists on... Surely Cook must realize this by now? Desktop isn't the future, we know, but neglect advanced users and you only stand to lose relevance.

[edit] A slightly more crude analogy: it's a bit like dressing up a Ford Pinto in the body kit of a Ferrari -- you'll cross the line in style, but eventually you're going to get burned.
OpenSSH vulnerability
You haven't been on a festival toilet then.
Assuming a complete net split? Then you have chain B in China and B' outside it, each a valid ledger of a different set of transactions. When they're reunited all the transactions only on B' get briefly invalidated as B' nodes reorganize to support the valid chain. (B is more valid than B' because it is presumably longer.).

This will likely expose the network to double-spend attacks, where e.g. you take an output spent 2 weeks ago on B' and get a transaction to a B node which moves it internally in your wallet (or to a confederate). This will cause Bitcoin to forget the B' transaction and every subsequent transaction tainted by it. Your goal as the attacker is to have 1+ of these transactions give you economic value prior to your counterparty recognizing the reversal.

Good news, though: a net split forking China off Bitcoin would probably result in Bitcoin's central authorities strongly recommending everyone stop processing transactions until they came back.
For what it's worth, the apostle Paul thought that turning Christianity into a secular philosophy (as opposed to supernatural theology) would be a mistake.

1 Corinthians 15, ESV

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead,
how can some of you say that there is no resurrection
of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the
dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if
Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is
in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found
to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about
God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if
it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the
dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is
futile and you are still in your sins. Then those
also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are
of all people most to be pitied.

I think a lot of people are correct that there is a powerful philosophy in Christianity, but to ignore the existence of God and Jesus, specifically the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, is to ignore the main (constantly reiterated) point of the Bible. And the Bible says Christians are pitiful and Christianity pointless if Jesus isn't God.

Of course, apologies if you do believe in the resurrection and the Bible, but it wasn't apparent from your post. In that case, I'm positive others here have not heard this aspect of Christian philosophy.
That could have been the case. A friend of mine kept adding lots of bots to the group until several of us started getting random spam messages the next day.
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Everyone in the UK has these. It's actually stupid: they replaced two-factor (card and PIN) with one-factor (NFC).

What I did: put my card in a fetching tinfoil hat. http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/578323.html (2012) Also keeps it from interfering with my Oyster card.
so well put.
Why you should keep your NFC debit card in a tinfoil wrapper (2012)
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"As Bruce Sterling has puts it: "I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach."

Misses a fairly big point - it's about backup for the species. The same reason people put backup tapes in another building when a walk down to the basement is a pain in the butt already. Backups in the basement don't help when the building burns down.
This is really great! Thanks for posting
Another answer to point 3 would be DOJ intervention. They do occasionally prosecute antitrust cases.
Aren't all iPhones that can be jailbroken subject to root code execution flaws?
It is my number one concern. If I have to drive a car, or commute for more than 45min, the answer is no. I wish recruiters could get this through their thick skulls.
The actual Bitcoin network (7 transactions per second maximum worldwide) is insufficiently fast enough to conduct settlement of one player of a stock market simulation trading with 5 bots in a tutorial level. Reports of Wall Street adopting it for settlement purposes seem slightly optimistic.
That is after reading the EULA printed on the said toilet paper.
Because flooding the USPTO with an unending flow of bogus patents are partly why those same patents get approved. They're taking part of a system that takes advantage of an underfunded and understaffed agency in order to profit from it in the long term, knowing that they will get away with it for years and be able to milk millions through the courts long before anyone big enough shuts them down.

Patent trolling effectively begets more patent trolling, and everyone partaking of it should indeed be ashamed of themselves.
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Why do I just randomly disappear. Happens on iPad and iPhone.
Amusingly people frequently argued why anyone would wish to live in the Americas? Barely populated, next to no trade, savages who may kill you before you see them, constant proxy wars from empires half a world away?

But they came, why? Money.

We will need more rare earth metals then earth can supply, its just matter of time.
I know you're making a joke, but it's trivially easy to reset the admin password on a computer.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4101
Forgive my ignorance, but why would a browser need to say that it prefers https? Doesn't that go without saying nowerdays?

Surely only the most obscure, ancient legacy systems would have problems with being redirected to https?
Russia’s CarPrice raises $40M to finance expansion plans
This will be dangerous for you to operate in the United States.

Offering what you call medical advice without so much mentioning HIPAA? I hope you don't get hacked - penalties here for a breach are much higher than you'd expect, and you should be thinking about that if you're going to accept money from Americans in exchange for your services.
You can be, if the judge in the eventual suit decides in your favor for legal fees. But this can take years, and patent trolls big and small tend to deliberately target only those who can't really afford to fight them.
This is a false equivalence. There isn't one and only one State Taxi Company. There are hundreds if not thousands of successful private taxi companies in each state.

There's one Uber and maybe Lyft if you're lucky. In the grey-area taxi market, they might fit the definition of a monopoly. I wouldn't argue that though because I know nothing about that market and reading that sentence back makes me laugh.

Microsoft operated in a relatively free market and was the arguably the best software provider as they were the most popular and profitable one for quite some time. They were also deemed a monopoly.
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There also this movie coming some time soon:
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Yes it works pretty well for that, I am not saying it doesn't. I'm arguing it has impractical consequences
Shouldn't the frontend remove the header if it's something that it would normally add? It's a major problem if your application is expecting a header to be set by the frontend web server, but is actually getting the value from the user agent.
Changing your own password is not the same as acquiring root privileges.
7 lessons from 7 years
Enabling FileVault is an easy countermeasure.
This is from Telegram Bot FAQ -->The bots can receive:

- Service messages (people added or removed from the group, etc.)

And that's with Privacy Mode activated!
Here's the discussion on the W3 mailing list (the new header is a draft standard): https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2015Ju...
Brass or silver would do the job too.
So sorry, we have no designers and had to improvise :D
Few will dispute any of that. I don't think there's a person here who wouldn't like ubiquitous solar power!

But when the alternative is coal, nuclear power is less polluting, less radioactive and less likely to kill you.
Yep. The 2G and 3G ones are particularly bad because there's a public toolchain that gets you from web browser to root, for the 4 and later you normally need USB access to some degree.
How have I never heard of this before?! In a way I think it was brave of Microsoft to try something like this, something so out of the box for the company.
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However I'd like to point out this nice dissection of the article, where a lot of serious flaws had been found. For instance: missing significance.
http://neuroconscience.com/2015/06/30/a-walk-in-the-park-inc...
Of course you can have a monopoly on a retail product, how else could anyone ever introduce a new type of product to the market?
Two points here:

1. I'm more inclined to judge a policy by the net benefits to society rather than specific participants in it.

2. I actually think the patent system favors large enterprise more often than it does small companies. For a number of reasons. One of them being so much is patented you need a large portfolio of covering things your competitors are probably infringing on as a deterrent from them suing you or counter attack if they do. etc. As a small player, you can't do this.

Your example is perhaps one of how the system was envisaged to work - though I'd be interested to know how you go if ever you needed to finance legal proceedings against a big corporate.
Unfortunately, USPTO only considers other patents or academic papers as prior art.
I thought the Outer Space Treaty was meant to prevent things like these. Personally, I hope we'll leave behind all of our arbitrary notions of states once we leave earth. It's too late to remove the dividing lines on earth, but we still have a shot at idealism in space.
I find that in many of the companies I've worked for (non-startups), I end up getting the startup boxes while being paid and appreciated at the corporation level. In my case, and likely for many others, staying in corporations is a waste of talent and drive (and world benefit).
> Industry body, the UK Cards Association, dismissed the findings saying Which’s report was “not a new story”.

So the industry body acknowledges that they knew for a long time that the
whole thing is insecure, yet they apparently did nothing. This doesn't make
them look any better.
The word "ants" only appears in the title of this article....
How do I continue in my math studies knowing people like Terrence Tao exist?
Yup. 'User accounts' have never been a proper security measure.
The annoying thing about Defender of the Crown, is that as beautiful as the Amiga version was, the game was actually better balanced on the C64.
Indeed, but you can see that a bunch of Wordpress sites are obscure, ancient and insecure by default.
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Its all about the vested interests.

One of the primary problems in London, and probably many countries with similar issues is that the politicians are far more likely to be landlords than the general public.

I read that in the UK 1 in 4 members of parliament are landlords, compared to 1 in 30 for the general public.

The side effect of this is that ever increasing demand for property, and then passing laws that make demand even stronger (right to buy for example), whilst limiting building programmes increases the politician's wealth for zero effort. They don't have the money to profit from lots of new builds, so its easier to constrain supply, and the general public who own houses will think they've never had it so good because their house is worth more.

Same thing in the US but for the arms industry.

Also mix in the fact that huge numbers of new build London apartments are being kept empty by Chinese owners (and others) and you've got a crisis waiting to happen.

There's going to be a tipping point for London - when young white collar workers such as software developers, accountants, graphic designers, marketing professionals and the other skills that make London competitive won't be arsed to travel to London for 1-2 hours, or live in a shoebox to get a salary that's 15% higher than in Leeds, Birmingham or Manchester where they could have a large house.

The way out isn't just building more property, but passing laws that force owners to rent out properties when they own more than say 3 or 4. Although that would of course crash rental income, so politicians won't do that either.
You should put per-query pricing on the site if you offer it - can't find info on that anywhere
They've issued security updates as far back as Mountain Lion as recently as June 30.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
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It's a brianmcconnell comment. Why should anybody act like a hive mind? His comment is quite true. I been there, done that.
Oh yeah I know, I wasn't trying to say it was. It was just a random aside based on the parents comment.

On that point though, If you can change the password of an admin account on any Mac (that doesn't have filevault on), then you can use that to obtain root privileges on any Mac.
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Thanks a lot for your comment.

Having worked for both, large corporations (Google, GE, BCG) as well as startups between 3 and 300 employees, we are purely speaking from our own experiences (as mentioned on the bottom of the article).
Been reading about modern Amiga hardware recently like the upcoming X5000 with Amiga OS 4.1. Almost tempted to try it. I forced myself to use Windows, OS X and various Linux for years, but they never felt right.
We had them at EMF Camp too.

There's something quite obscene about camping but with a 230v mains feed and >100mbit internet to your tent :)
if that is true, what a waste of time.
Why was this thread delisted?
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Roads could be private too, and payments could be collected for (and only for) using them, even without setting up a state-maintained taxi monopoly/cartel.

So I'm not sure what you think is currently handled well.
Looks like it. Flagged.
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Thanks a lot for the additional points.
It reads like a childs' (seeqpod) argument to a parent (the public @HN) trying to blame the (older, bigger, wiser) sibling (apple).
And we can't have ubiquitous solar power out of energy density issues, and even if we managed to set aside enough land, we probably won't be able to do that in time to matter. That's why nuclear is a good option - its clean and energy-dense and good enough to cover not only our present needs but future as well. Also, solar and nuclear are not mutually exclusive.
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The issue here is that the frontend may be behind a reverse proxy, talking to the client in HTTPS but to the frontend in HTTP. In that case, the frontend should probably let the HTTPS header.

In practice, with X-Forwarded-Proto, they don't, unless they can authenticate the downstream hop.
Apple has gotten absolutely terrible at fixing bugs, they're obviously not interested. Changing the background colour in iTunes generates more revenue than fixing “invisible” security holes.
How do you emulate liking someone? or deciding on a number? picking color? This is the type of stuff conciousness lags behind. It doesnt drive the decision process, it is merely informed after the fact and tries to justify it to avoid any potential cognitive dissonance.

-of course I like her because Im into big butts, and 3 is totally my lucky number!
I have used AmigaOS and "descendants" like AROS many times in recent years, so I'm not just looking at this with rose-tinted nostalgia. In fact, I've contributed code to AROS.

And yes, there are still awesome things about it.

I've pointed out here before, for example, that I can booth AmigaOS or AROS on modern hardware (either under an emulator in the case of AmigaOS, or the Linux hosted version in the case of AROS) and have it boot straight into a text editor, and that whole process starts faster than Emacs on my laptop.

And there are still massive amounts of functionality that isn't readily available in mainstream OS's today.

Exactly because attitudes like yours means that lots of developers ignore a lot of the lessons these systems have for us - it's not just the Amiga.
The real question : Where do I download a dvd image with an emulator and 1000 games to replay my youth ?
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>There's little risk of CO2 shortage. Every animal on the planet exhales it.

Erm no. Exhaling it is just part of the carbon cycle, it doesn't make the net level in circulation go up or down, it isn't a sink or a source... the carbon you breathe out doesn't get magicked out of thin air. It comes from the sugars, fats and protein you eat which is then burnt by your body for energy, exhaled, photosynthesized by plants, consumed by animals, and moves on up the food chain where you eat it and we start again. Round and round. That's why they call it a cycle.

Without our intervention the net amount of carbon in the cycle would continue to fall due to weathering of rocks and sequestration beneath the Earth, eventually leading to the extinction of all trees and most (non C4) plant life. Luckily, we're digging it up to restore the carbon cycle to its former glory. I think about 800ppm should be our target.