skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an incredibly strong national interest to build and maintain the most secure systems possible. Whether it is banking communications or nuclear reactor controls, the integrity of these systems needs to be treated as a critical asset of both economic and physical security. This is damn hard enough to maintain as is and is completely taken for granted by most of the population who do not need to think about hackers on a daily basis.
It isn't just credit cards, it is all monthlies. They add up and can catch many people by surprise. Another trap is not paying for small items like coffees, lunches and the like in cash. You lose a mental connection there.

Back to monthlies, the big ones are non negotiable and those revolve around your housing. For many the mortgage or rent will be with them for years. So pile on utilities and then comes nearly the near optional monthlies.

You get your phone, your internet, your various streaming sites, and more. Then toss a car, credit cards, and then more.

How to spot these people, look at ones who shop cars based on what kind of monthly payment they can squeeze up too. If they went over four years its a bad sign, if they went six plus, well end of story.

Oh, one last note. Track your food purchases, all of them from grocery to on the go. You might be surprised
You're right, the 5C has no secure enclave.

However, I believe the issue is that phones that do have a secure enclave are still vulnerable because the secure enclave firmware can be updated and basically neutered to the point where the same attack on the 5C works on those phones as well. I think the attack is just a brute force attack.
What's it matter if it's secure but not usable? That problem, aside from demand, is why almost everyone uses insecure messengers. Usability is more important if one is targeting the masses. Especially if the alternatives they find cool and usable are horribly insecure.

That leads to other side: what is a secure messenger? Secure against WHO? If it's hackers, then Cryptocat is entirely inappropriate as it will be smashed. Yet, average person's threat model includes all kinds of snoops that might not have hacking skill not to mention the service host. Especially in high school & college. Cryptocat would protect them from many of those while its own problems would be found and improved over time. Widespread adoption of Cryptocat over services like Facebook Messenger stashing & analyzing the messages would be a win in privacy.

So, the question is use case. I gave it a positive review for potential to get insecure crowd on something a little better. It was also fun thanks to good art. I just said they should clearly indicate it's not for stopping hackers, governments, etc. Plus keep links to good products that are. If people want those, they'll use them. If not, Cryptocat wasn't a bad fallback compared to straight-up invasive apps they were likely using.
James Lewis: Go faster than your competitors
So here's a potentially dumb question. A lot of commenters are expressing optimism that a company could buy Yahoo and do something good with it.

If that's the case, why can't Yahoo do something good with itself? If all it takes ("all") is dropping the parts that aren't profitable, why can't Mayer or some other CEO do that?

What's the real benefit of another big player buying Yahoo, if Yahoo couldn't save itself? What's the real hope there?
If there really isn't a way to do even small scale fish or eggs efficiently then we don't need to eat insects if that isn't part of our culture. There are plenty of other satisfying ways to get adequate protein, such as nuts and beans. Hundreds of millions of people live healthy lives without meat or insects.

An approach to making it more tractable to meet food needs is to integrate it back into our urban/suburban environments and take advantage of advanced indoor farming which can be carefully monitored and tended by humans or robots, which can dramatically reduce resource usage for agriculture and greatly improve land use.

http://tinyvillages.org
Yes, often even with HN.

I was a bit disappointed after Google decided to shutter Reader but with a little digging, I found Newsblur[1][2] to be a (better than really) replacement for Reader and am happily using / subscribing to new RSSs feeds daily.

I find it much easier to curate information / sites in one place and use HN / Reddit for discussion about said.

1. https://www.newsblur.com/

2. https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
I think the point was that you don't necessary need wealth (assets) for which the threshold is $1 USD Million excluding the value of your primary residence.

You can instead have a high income (the $200k mentioned) and zero wealth. I suspect that many more people qualify as accredited under the income requirement than qualify under the asset requirement.
I believe they have not said anything about that yet. You can read a bit about their plans here: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36195.0
Canonical Says There Is No ZFS and Linux Licence Incompatibility
My reading was that:

1. Their security partner (whoever that is) didn't see the Lish vulnerability, either because Linode's security team had already fixed it or because they just missed it.

2. Their records weren't sufficient to show the breach itself.
This is what I do.

I actually made a bookmarklet with the following pasted into the URL, so you can do it in a single click:

javascript:void(open('https://archive.is/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document....)
If the FBI could break into the phone without asking, they would have.
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Yes but less convieniently since the RSS Ticker add on for Firefox stopped working. Does anyone know of an alternative?
> Obviously not practical for mass surveillance, but it would work to read one particular person's phone, which is the issue at hand.

Eh. I mean, yes, if the issue at hand were ACTUALLY read this one particular person's phone, that would probably be a valid avenue of attack.

But the actual issue at hand here is "establish precedent that you can use the All Writ's Act to get a judge to hand you an ex parte order that lets you walk in to a tech company and order them to build you (and, crucially, cryptographically sign) the tools you want so that you can get whatever data your heart desires".

Once that precedent is in place for this "just this one phone we swear" order, nothing's stopping them from walking into Apple or Google or whoever with an order to build and sign a custom OS version that, say, copies all data to an FBI server and push it as an OTA update to a target.

Once All Writs has been expanded to mean "you have to build us signed, custom versions of your software to get us data we want", all bets are off.
Hopefully evolution takes care of this eventually?!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11117929
Four LUTs per slice, not six, right?
>“In tech, when times are good, it’s about potential. When they aren’t, investors focus much more on fundamentals.”

That second part... why that isn't ALWAYS the focus is beyond me.

Edit: Adding a clarifying statement as my point wasn't specific enough. I'm very aware that early stage investments are VERY speculative, but when we're talking about a company moving into 1BN+ valuation territory, fundamentals should be in focus.
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> abstain from taking what is not given

I'm not taking, I am simply absorbing information. That information will still be there when I am done reading it. Have I really stolen, or did I just refuse to give someone money on demand?
Yes, for which I use NewsBlur.
Tell the White House to stop asking for encryption workarounds
I don't even get why we have IP addresses anymore. Just use DNS duh.
It's interesting that the article says their competitor is 'buying up market share" I thought Uber priced their offering at a low price to gain market share too.
I don't think they have enough self produced shows to make it worthwhile pumping just that content all over the world. People pay because they want the whole lot. Probably easier for Netflix to cut them off, rather than try and sell them a lesser product.

As an aside, I think 'Netflix Original' is a bit of a misleading title. Most of the Netflix Original shows (at least on the UK version) weren't actually Netflix 'originals'.
I think that this is just the beginning. In my opinion, we're heading for a tech bust that's going to spread to the rest of the economy, and deflate additional bubbles (housing, for one). The government has been pushing cheap money for the better part of a decade in the name of creating the appearance of a 'recovery', but what they've really done is build a new house of cards. Make no mistake: the 'free' money that's been gushing into major institutions under the current administration is just as distortive and will be just as disastrous as the 'free' money that the last administration encouraged banks to put into the hands of sub-prime individuals.

Maintaining a near-zero interest rate creates artificial demand, and encourages investment of capital in inefficient enterprises. The thought process is "hey, I lose value with money in the bank. I'd be better off if I found something -- anything -- else to do with it!"

I think that once things take a turn, housing will also turn again, because in many areas the median house now costs enough that it's beyond the reach of the median person. That environment is unsustainable over a large time scale. Ultimately, we'll need a correction that sticks if we want to avoid repeating these events, and for that to happen we'd need a government willing to tolerate a politically unpalatable permanent reduction in asset prices.

(edit/note: I do find it odd that under a Democratic president, the major flows of borrowed cash (debt) have been directed to the big guys, while under a Republican president, they were directed to the little guys. Both were a terrible idea, but it seems backwards for what one would expect.)
The reason is the same as why you require higher standards of statistical evidence when you don't have a strictly defined hypothesis before an experiment: if you go looking for something in noisy data, you'll probably find it.

Lab tests have significant margins of error. Just by chance, if you go out and get a bunch of lab tests, you'll probably find something "wrong". Unless you're knowledgable about interpreting the results -- and unless you are a practicing medical doctor, you are highly unlikely to be knowledgable, even if you think you are -- this can/does lead to catastrophically bad outcomes.

(And now, for an ironic aside: the median HN user is extremely quick to attack valid science for the reason that "most results are wrong", while also complaining loudly when the medical establishment wants to restrict access to clinical tests with a large margin of error. Go figure.)
This is great information for those of you in San Francisco. I'd love to see a similar list for other large cities.
I'm pretty sure that's just to see if the site is serving different content to mobile vs desktop. I think they also sometimes hit pages with no mention of googlebot.
More succinct:

50% 20/50 by 2050
> Our business as well as many of yours all depend heavily on the use of React as a core piece of our infrastructure. We're committed to the stability as well as the progress of React going forward.

Yeah, it doesn't sound too stable to me either. </sarcasm>
If this actually happens, that's pretty amazing. Would love to see car manufacturing democratized
This is so wildly wrong it's hard to understand how this thought even made sense in your head. I'm not even talking in the context of IPFS. Your entire notion of the web and what hyperlinks mean is just... wrong. It doesn't even map to the web as it exists today.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11125838

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11130785
I love this Rabbit Ridge Allure de Robles and it is sometimes available at Trader Joes for about $5. Normally it's $10 but buying by the case has steep discounts: http://goodcheapvino.com/bargain-alert-5-%E2%80%93-rabbit-ri...

More info: https://www.rabbitridgewinery.com/red-wines.html

My wife and I are members of their winery in Paso Robles, California and always really enjoy their wine. I consider them a great value (which is true of Paso in general).
RxJS testing in real world applications
This doesn't have a link to an Apple source, but it's a little more information:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160218/10371233643/yes-b...
The old, and conveniently oft forgotten, advice applies: Never borrow against a depreciating asset. If you need to clear down you may have a problem. A job loss, recession, illness could all mean you want to clear the debt. Selling the now second hand TV is not going to clear the debt. Add in a few more debts justified thus and you have a bankruptcy or house loss on your hands. Perhaps you can guarantee you will not get ill or lose your job during the loan?

So many of the people bitten hard by the 2008 recession applied logic such as yours, and often drew down on their mortgages (cheaper than credit card) to buy TVs, cars and holidays.

Borrowing against a growing asset is different.

I'm a "reformed" credit card user. I haven't borrowed for anything apart from the house in around 15 years. It's not a problem, and the kids don't miss out on having too much stuff either!
As a counterexample, Google didn't show ads until 2000. http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2000/10/google-launches-self...
Their claims are not worthless. Let's imagine that they plan on eliminating that privilege when the phone is locked. If the FBI establishes that it can force code to be written using the all writs act now, then it will also be able to prevent them from throwing away the key.
I've spent most of my life indoors, looking at objects very close to my eyes (books and computer screens), in low light conditions. Everybody kept telling me I would become nearsighted if I kept on doing it.

I'm now 55 years old, and I don't think I will ever be nearsighted. Actually, for the last 5 years I've been using reading glasses when I need to read books with small print as I can't focus anymore on objects which are very close to my eyes (that's presbyopia which comes from my age and is like the opposite of nearsightedness).
EquityZen (https://equityzen.com) has conducted several transactions in private companies, including many Unicorns, and charges only one fee (and no escrow fee).
This is kind of old, but one can argue that article gets right to the point and many reviewers will agree with the issues they are raising.
Trump calls for a boycott of Apple
this is a bit of an oversimplification
"Linode Security Advisory" is a very misleading title.
Couldn't have more respect to this man.

And his case feels like carbon copy of Lavabit, where he couldn't defend himself (literally!!!)

But Nacchio was prevented from bringing up any of this defense during his jury trial — the evidence needed to support it was deemed classified and the judge in his case refused his requests to use it.
Because that requires everyone involved to understand what the fundamentals are. Half the time investors just go wherever there is the most noise and buzzwords.
A hive-mind of scientific knowledge to solve world's challenges. Add yours
China tightens its censorship grip on foreign content
I was all ready to help out because I have a stash of most of their missing 1st edition adventures (e.g. S1 Tomb of Horrors, etc.), well-preserved and in plastic... until I saw this:

> You will get best results by cutting the spine off the book and by using a sheet-fed scanner for interiors and a flatbed scanner for covers.

Ack. no way, sorry.
I'm not just trying to be argumentative. Here, let me quote more specifically:

no evidence of abuse or misuse of Linode’s infrastructure that would have resulted in the disclosure of customer credentials.

I feel like I must be misreading something. Didn't they say earlier that they found secrets from their account credentials database on a customer instance that was used to attack (apparently) PagerDuty? That's not "no evidence of abuse or misuse of Linode’s infrastructure"?
Yes. Currently use tt-rss though I'm not all that happy with it.
That is a glaring error of standard keyboards.

Colemak using all fingers of the right home row for letters makes a lot of sense too. Kinda dumb that one of the main keys of the resting position is dedicated to the semicolon.

There's other errors, but unfortunately they aren't all fixable without re-engineering. The Truly Ergonomic keyboard arranges the Home/End/PageUp/PageDown keys into a much more logical arrangement, similar to the way the arrow keys are.

I noticed that the placement also encouraged me to use them much more for things like navigating webpages. They are actually really useful for that. I also would use that pad for gaming, instead of W-A-S-D. Filled the bill even better.

Truly Ergonomic's matrix layout also forced me to correct some of my bad typing habits, like using the wrong finger for C.

For the same reason I like the symmetry of enter and backspace on the home row, I liked the symmetry of those keys and also liked their placement of Delete opposite of Escape. And their placement of the backslash and forward slash next to each other, opposite the brackets.

But that middle row was just awful. Particularly the Enter key. Lots of accidental presses. Combined with poor build quality and it was very frustrating. Lots of key doubling, and missed presses. And the caps became worn down quickly.
Zenefits' new CEO just banned employees from drinking alcohol at the office
It's the difference between a sellers' and buyers' market (boom vs bust). To get a low entry point during a boom, you have to invest before there's hard evidence of success. Kind of like how a race car needs to turn before corner entry in order to avoid going too wide.
Have they defined intense light? Most of winter it might be hard to come by.
Yes, you were correct. I was working from the bulk stats on the chip and mixed up Kb and KB ;-)
> must it be demonstrated that there is some specific malicious intent...

I think so. Just the act of changing User-Agent alone does not mean a fraud is happening. User-Agents get changed often for valid reasons - research, detection of cloaking, testing etc.

> However if the full article is included in the response and I read it by simply viewing the response body (HTML) is that circumventing security?

That is a hard issue. I think the answer should be no, it is not circumvention, at least not in the above sense.(\) If you can get full article on your computer, directly readable without fraudulent behaviour on your part, this means that the sender did not place a security measure to guard it, so there can be no circumventing it. Switching javascript off or displaying source text of the document is fully in the control of the requestor and the sender should know it.

(\) Unfortunately, it seems legal systems allow companies to restrict what you do with things they produce, even if you do it on your computer in private, so legally, this may not be successful in court.
Really? Perhaps you could enlighten those of us that live there and have not noticed this. There is a widely used block on CP sites: https://www.dia.govt.nz/Censorship-DCEFS - but that's a very different thing.
But the fundamentals were not ads. It was solid search. That's what delivered value to users and why they kept coming back.
I was replying to:

"I know large numbers of educated professionals who clean their own homes but would be happy to pay $10-15/hour to have this problem solved. (I pay well over $15/hour, and need to turn to overseas folks for virtual labor.) Talking about the problem of human labor being obsolete during a time of labor scarcity is like worrying about mars being overpopulated."

My interpretation of which is that yummyfajitas feels that labor is scarce and therefore overly expensive at $15/hour.
You could equally argue that reducing security is aiding terrorism by enabling a class of cyberattacks that wouldn't otherwise be possible.
I honestly don't know what the answer is here. No Trump fan but I thought it was interesting that he was calling for a ban of all Apple products. Pretty extreme position for someone who admits that he uses Apple products.
I like this quote from the article:

"At first you loathe the teens, because you know nothing about them and think they’re idiots, beneath you. Then you love the teens because you figure out they are smarter than you, and you make peace with the death of your cultural relevance, because you know you’ll be in good hands. Finally, you recognize the shape of the adults they’ll become, corrupted by money and vanity and hubris just like everyone else."

And so the world goes 'round.
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I figure it's baked into the name Venture Capital. A venture is about potential rather than fundamentals. The question for any particular venture is when fundamentals become a more important metric than potential.
Zenefits turns to Salesforce to dig out of its nightmare
$200k in Manhattan puts you above 84% of people living in Manhattan.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/mar/...
Instead of saying, "It's too complicated to explain", why don't you give it a shot?
Fidelity.link – protocol for decentralized reputation systems
A lot of new cars are sold to fleets and these eventually come on to the used market.

(UK figures)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

In 2014, 54% of all car first registrations were made by companies.

Which is lower than I would have guessed, but still significant.
It's a major point to make sure errors are properly emulated as well. Same issue was dealt with in VMware Workstation as well, which managed to behave accurately for devices such as floppy disks.
Thanks for sharing this. The process does sound straight forward. It seems that you still retained some shares. Did you exercise with the intention of selling a portion on the secondary market?
>but GRRM can't hold a candle to the profound impact Harper Lee has had on American culture

Yes, but it has what, a 35 year head start? I don't think that your assertion being true is relevant to the literary merit of GRRM.

I've read Harper Lee (and a lot of literature in general), GRRM is fantastic. A more apt comparison might be to Dostoevsky, as the concepts Martin wants to explore are less related to our culture and more to do with fundamental issues mankind has wrestled with for much longer.
Yeah, the thing you are missing is why the story doesn't add up :P

Seriously, in one paragraph they state their TOTP keys were taken, in another they state nothing is wrong because they can't figure out how an attacker might have taken those. WTF?
I thought the problem was that it doesn't matter if WSJ is malicious in this case. Because cfaa is a criminal matter, zealous police departments and district attorney's offices can pursue heavy handed cases even without much cooperation from "the victim" which in this case is a corporation.

All I want to say is scrape cfaa now!
While it might be less pronounced, and maybe it requires some level of urbanization or a critical mass of population within a society, you can definitely see distinct cultural struggles between generations at various points going way, way back in history. For example, there are Roman accounts of elder Senators bemoaning the diminished values of the upcoming generations and distinct youthful cultures forming.
FBI must reveal the code it used to hack Dark Web pedophiles
These Luxury Airlines Offer Private Coat Service, Air Humidifiers and More
Granted I haven't tried the MX Clear, but so far I prefer the Matias Quiet click over the MX Brown or the MX Blue that I have in other keyboards.

They are absolutely a step down if you're looking into keycaps customization.
Yeah, I agree.

But still... I mean, if I'm going to steal a diamond, I would make sure it's the real deal, instead of some Snatch's moissanite...