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I have heard that in BitShares all the transactions occur on-chain and it can be HFT'd.

Do you have any links or a succinct explanation of how it works, then?

> The remote machine must have a running SSH service and carry its own copy of rsync

Really the machine should just have to be running SSH. The UI could then take care of spooling up an instance of rsync on the target machine under the hood as soon as it connects.

That's awesome, well done. Can I ask how much it made out of curiosity?

Buying drugs is arguably the most efficient use of money. Considering that the only reason we purchase things is to ultimately get more endorphins released by our brains. Drugs can directly hack that system.

The answer to that what if is you probably would have sold 80% of them at $30 each, and then most of the rest at $100 each like most people who got them early. Getting back 10x profit is hard to turn up when you have no idea of the future.

You can easily do it in an hour or two by copying and pasting some code off the ethereum site.

They encourage it. I like to think of ethereum as a ponzi scheme which spawns ponzi schemes (some of which themselves are intending to be a new platform for generating currencies...)

https://www.ethereum.org/token

That's alright. I see a lot of these posts saying "the bitcoin I lost would be worth $X Million dollars now", but the thing that people overlook is that it would not be worth that now, because they would have sold it a lot earlier if they had access to it. Many people would sell the moment it's all worth about $20k depending on a few factors. In almost no cases is is it truly a million or multi million dollar loss.

do you have any spinning disks around that once may have had the unencrypted keys on it? I could modify the commercial data recovery software I wrote (https://macosxfilerecovery.com/) to scan your drive for the private keys

This is an awesome opportunity (aside from the disappointment) to go traveling, and reset, develop as an individual, and get re-inspired for whatever you do next in life.

Why didn't you report it anonymously then?

Indeed. And the thing I linked to (the odin) does allow you to do CRISPR in your living room for $150, as I said in my original comment.

Couldn't you just start with the odin (that I linked to above), and change loads of the non-coding DNA in the bacteria that comes with the getting started kit, and see if it survives or has any different characteristics?

Most of the DNA that suffers random mutations is non-coding DNA. It's completely unknown what effects, if any, modifying non-coding DNA might have as its use is unknown.

I find it interesting that although anyone can experiment with CRISPR in their living room using something like this http://www.the-odin.com/ that no one has just tried modifying the non-coding DNA a lot and then observed any changes (or lack thereof) in the specimen.

It's not like a car that just needs more gas to keep going. It takes a lot of refurbishment to make it so it fly again after it's taken off into space.

While there are more than 100 million users of it they should continue to supply security updates for it. Otherwise a widespread virus like this is 100% inevitable.

From the article:

>A month prior, on March 14, Microsoft had released a security update to patch this vulnerability and protect our customers. While this protected newer Windows systems and computers that had enabled Windows Update to apply this latest update, many computers remained unpatched globally.

They stopped supporting Windows XP years ago, including with security updates.

There are still around 100 million computers around the world running XP.

It seems irresponsible to just leave them to hang out to dry when there are that many machines out there running it. A virus seems inevitable if they do. And shifting the blame onto the customers is not reasonable when there are still 100 million customers who are "doing it wrong" by not upgrading to a later version of Windows.

This entire article pertains to directly shifting the blame onto their customers, and the governments of the affected countries (!)

>The fact that so many computers remained vulnerable two months after the release of a patch illustrates this aspect

Again, XP systems are the most affected, and there was no patch released for XP. This is extremely irresponsible of Microsoft and this article shifting the blame onto everyone but themselves is reprehensible.

I have had to restore a backup once, so I restored the most recent version, which was restoring an old version of the file. I ended up frantically restoring all the different versions of the backups, and one of them was the most recent version. But it was considered an old version by Arq, I'm not sure precisely which one, but it definitely wasn't in the top 3 most recent ones.

And more recently I made a backup to glacier, and it is trapped in "in progress", even though it appears that it may (or may not) be complete.

I haven't used it much, maybe 6 times, and 2 of the times it's had these catastrophic problems I'm talking about. I'm going to switch to another solution. I was considering rclone (like I mentioned) or Crashplan, ironically.

For local bootable backup I use Mac Backup Guru, which I also wrote: https://macdaddy.io/mac-backup-software/ It's useful because it's the only software on OS X besides Time Machine which makes versioned (incremental) backups using hardlinks.

For remote backup I use Arq, but I have found that to be very buggy. I'm considering switching to rclone: https://rclone.org/

With both of those backup solutions in place I should be ready for pretty much everything.

It appears that hacker news users upvote anything with machine learning or tensorflow in it. This is merely a fifo queue implementation, which is not particularly significant any way. Why it was submitted, much less upvoted, is nonsensical to me.

I wish that when elevators were built, they would build a spiral slide for those descending next to it. That would instantly reduce the traffic by about half considering that I believe most people would opt for the slide.

From the article: "The app saves the raw frames captured from the sensor as DNG files, which can later be downloaded onto a PC for processing."

If a computer costs $3000 and you save up $1000 a year to buy it, in 3 years you can buy that computer.

> every plant and animal is not actively trying to kill you

It's the opposite here. There are no harmful animals anywhere. You can go walking through the wilderness bare foot (which I have done many times) without fear

Strict aliasing does not preclude using the bytes however you want. All that does is prohibit type casting in certain situations. By using different syntax you can still interpret the bytes how you want to (even if, in extreme situations, you might have to resort to using a memcmp in order to do so).

He was trying to illustrate the concept that in C you deal directly with blocks of memory. It can be useful because instead of worrying about the implementation of the language which you're using, you can think about what the hardware is doing and understand what's going to happen based on that.

So, for example, you know if at offset 0xDEADBEEF there is are 8 bytes which are holding a number that you want to use, you can access that chunk of memory and use it however you want. And you can interpret it how it is appropriate for your use case, for example reading it into a string, or an int.

Being grounded in hardware makes a lot of other stuff quite arbitrary, and it can become a question of style rather than functionality. And by imagining what the hardware is doing you can understand what code is doing that you have never seen before at the lowest levels (all the way to what the registers, FPU, APU, etc on the CPU are doing). That can also help with debugging.

Why would you say that "Cello isn't really C"?

That's like saying "Why not just use lisp?" to a python programmer. They're entirely separate languages (albeit it they do share some commonalities, but not as many as you might think).

C is my main language and I dabble in C++. I really dislike C++. I love C. I welcome any efforts to add a bit of higher level functionality to C. I have no desire (ever) to switch to C++.

For anybody interested in performing CRISPR in their kitchen with $150 worth of pre-packaged materials, I would encourage them to take a look at The ODIN. It is a kit to get you started, and it comes with tutorials to take you all the way from knowing nothing to being able perform CRISPR and understand what you are doing.

(I have no affiliation with the product, I just like it): http://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

It uses qsort and bsearch in practice