skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am pretty sure you are one of those online fanboys/shills who pop up everywhere to defend MI.

Forget about security, HOW MANY PHONES OF MI can do ENCRYPTION,

HOW MANY PHONES EVER DID ENCRYPTION.

settings->security->encrypt == this option is absent from all phones.

MI phones is not even run true android
This is another vague post by Ben Evans. His work goes after the hot topics and either states the obvious or makes several low information content, i.e., not disapprovable points. Sorry to be negative but not seeing in his work what's that interesting to discuss.
Contactless cards work the same.
I can only find Toshiba Chromebook 2 with 16GB SSD onboard, how did you get 240GB SSD fitted?
Suspected Data Breach at Shapeways
I think you do my argument a disservice by equating it to the general trend of people denying X can be automated until X is automated. It is more specific: I say that some jobs (roughly, those requiring an agent to rapidly gain an understanding of existing unstandardized systems) need AGI to automate to human satisfaction in a way that doesn't require constant human supervision. It predicts, for instance, wide replacement of cashiers (which is already happening) and construction workers (which isn't yet).

>Maybe plumber, give it 20.

Perhaps we have different standards for "automated." Do you expect remote operators standing by ready to take over for a plumberbot or giving it hints at least once per service operation on average in 2036? If so, I find that technically plausible. I also expect new buildings to be built for automated service.

If we are talking fully automated human-quality repair and improvement of legacy plumbing, do you to expect a long time to get from there to AGI?
A bit expensive, considering you can get an $800 13-inch macbook air (the real deal).
Install nvidia, install bumblebee, add yourself to the bumblebee group. Not really that hard...
Not anymore, these days radeon is far better than fglrx and works great straight out of the box.
Not sure if it is atrocious but not having a back key in the OS is really a pain in the a... I have to learn how to go back from every single page every time a friend gives me an iPhone to perform some task. Everything else is more or less the same with every new software system: you have to discover how to do things and there is no easy way out of that. Example: I remember I had problems finding how to send SMS on an iPhone in 2012: the owner was driving and I had to answer one.
it's a suggested default by the LP installer to disable whatever browsers' built-in password manager.
This reminded me of the Yo app. I was surprised to see it is still nr. 33 in social networking https://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/app/834335592/

Mostly seem to be used to find people near you, Facebook and Google doing a great job doing that lately.
People trusting a third party for their passwords boggles my mind.
The problem is, there are a lot of procedures for selecting electorates, and sometimes these are completely inadequate antiquated shitshows, but that's what the rules are, and they are yet another layer of aggregation and transformation that filters and distorts the "will of the people". And a lot of folks think that it's a conspiracy [that Bernie lost]. Well, no, it's a fucked up (broken?) system.

And of course this does not mean that there was no collusion between DNC and the Hillary campaign, and so on.
US consumers are bankrupt by definition anyway... even US companies have to offer them payment plans to make a sale. Just look at the cellphone market!
If I said that apples were the cause of global warming and that to avoid catastrophe you had to avoid eating apples it wouldn't worry you nearly as much, would it? I mean apples are delicious, but they aren't worth the misery that extreme weather will inflict on us. There are also a lot of people who depend on apple production to make a living. We would have to find some way for them to transition to something else for the benefit of everyone. Everybody who enjoys apples today would suffer a bit, but most people could deal with the consequences pretty easily.

The problem is that carbon releasing, cheap energy is more delicious than apples. It is worth a lot more than apples and the people who control that energy are a lot more powerful than apple growers. But the solution is the same.

How would you convince people to stop eating apples? You could protest against the eating of apples. You could lobby for apple taxes. You could do many, many things, but to be honest I don't think you would be very successful.

If it were me, I think I would work very hard to eliminate apples from my life (at least as much as I could). I would work very hard to learn how to be happy without apples (or at least with a tiny amount of apples). Having learned how to be happy without apples, I would show my neighbours and friends how they can be happy without apples.

Because the thing is, you require a cultural change to get everyone going the same direction. And they won't do it unless they think it's going to be OK. Right now all they hear is death and destruction on one side, or a life of freezing poverty on the other side. Most of them are happy to believe the apple salesmen who tell them that the concept that apples change the climate is preposterous.
Aye but predictions are necessary. If there's a 4C global temperature rise that displaces 760M people. To put this into perspective, about 1M migrants in a year almost collapsed Europe's political system. We need to know how quick that happens so we can begin to do something. Dam, evacuate etc.
While your theoretical point of view is solid, reality kind of disagrees with it.

The binary blob provided by Nvidia have been quite reliable across the years (and I think they've been available for more than 10 years) while the open source ATI/AMD drivers have frequently failed to deliver.
Please correct me if I am mistaken, but couldn't this have been implemented into an iframe that when ran could send the passwords to another remote server?

If so, I am a little taken back by LastPass only offering $1,000 to the researcher that found and reported it for fixing. He or she could have taken a different path and resulted in this being used in some complex targeted attack against tech corporations via short-url redirect interstitial pages, or an ad network's javascript, etc. Given the potential damage, I'd say there is a missing zero or two on that reward amount, in my opinion.
GitHub bug spamming more than 44000 users
Moto 360 vs. ZenWatch 2
Find a public shower and a place where you can wash clothes cheap. Go to the public library and send CV's out all day - day after day (until you get a job). Use the public shower and fresh clothes every day for first month working. With first salary check get a flat.

Had to do that 2 times, once in my home country (non IT job), second time i moved to a country without money and had to do it again (IT job).

Cheers
Suggestions are welcome
While I can't offer any advice re. Citi ATMs, your experience has taught you a very valuable life lesson, albeit the hard way.

This next part is something that should have been blindly obvious to you, and after this will be:

NEVER EVER perform any transaction at ANY automated system using untraceable items where you stand to gain a loss should the untraceable items go missing.

Cash - this is an untraceable item because its use leaves no paper trail anywhere.

ATM - an automated system.

Therefore, NEVER EVER perform any deposits at ANY ATMs where you are depositing cash.

There are too many opportunities for cash to go missing mysteriously at an ATM to trust any ATM with a cash deposit, ever. Always do your cash deposits with a human where you will obtain a receipt immediately of the amount deposited, and can dispute that amount immediately should there be an error on the receipt.

In your case above, when they directed you to the ATM, you should have said: "No thanks." and walked away to return at another time with the two forms of ID they supposedly needed.
Can you guess movie from emoji?
I've been using LastPass for about 3 years, and now I'm seriously thinking about all the times people told me about how storing passwords in someone else's cloud is bad.

I've been defending LastPass and recommending it to everyone till today. Now I'm thinking about how I might have to 'pay' for a software vulnerability in some private (read:unauditable by me) code. All the comments about offline, local backups make sense to me.

But the points I usually make are still valid, like:

1. I can go to any computer with chrome and get access to all my passwords, so don't have to carry my passwords with me everywhere.

2. Don't have to worry about storing passwords properly since lastpass is a good company and they know their stuff about protecting the customers' data.

3. Password capture. It might seem like a tiny feature, but I'm too lazy to remember opening an app and entering my credentials whenever I create an account or login into an old account.

4. Mobile login, although a paid feature, this really changes my life. If I don't trust a computer enough to login via chrome or something else, or want my secret notes, I just open up my phone.

But all the above features meaning nothing when it comes to the chance of compromising all my passwords (except bank info, of course)

I'd like to hear the thoughts of anyone else who uses lastpass and what they think.
The hardfork was on a clock to prevent the "hacker" (a.k.a. the person who just executed the code as it was coded and therefore inteded) from cashing out.

No doubt developers went through a few extremely stressful weeks.
Yes, at least the Chrome one.

They're pushed via Chrome's extension store. Definitely at browser startup, but otherwise periodically every 5 hours (by default)
On my Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 I see this:

Settings -> Additional Settings -> Privacy -> Encrypt Phone

My About Phone:

- Model: REDMI NOTE 3

- Android: 5.1.1 LMY47V

- Android Security Patch Level: 2016-07-01

- MIUI version: MIUI Global 7.5 | Stable 7.5.3.0(LHOMIDE)
When are we going to stop f*ing around and start doing something serious? Let's just buy off the carbon lobby (oil/coal/gas owners) and get on with a crash program of energy decarbonisation.
What? Full encryption is available on almost all Mi phones, including my Redmi Note 3 Pro: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/4nkrcj/encryption_f....
> BEWARE OF ONLINE TROLLS […], they are everywhere.

Tbh a posting from a new account named "mi_sucks" raises some flags for me as well…
Where do you write yours down?
i'm curious, do a lot of people run this setup? does the overhead of running in vm for your daily tasks worth it?
I dont understand why everyone is comparing their products to the Mac/iPhone and then they say "cheap" as $xxx.

You cant compare a KIA to Bugatti and say cheap as $xxx.

The point is create a product people speak about and has a value
Apples big asset is OSX. They can't copy that.
It tries to be NextStep.
ARM is just a mess. There are too many derives of original ARM implementation and they had made a battleground like Game of Thrones.
Usually parties have a documented and sort of transparent-ish process, that they undertake, and eventually hold a very well publicized vote/election to elect the nominee.

So far this is exactly the primary process. The difference is that the US one is big. In time and space. It takes many months, and potential nominees know that they are in the race from the first moment, because they know that politics is a lot more about showing up, moving your voters, than being on the ballot. (See the NRA, Church of Scientology, and other religious groups.)
China and Taiwan are two different countries in practice (despite claims China makes to the contrary).

Taiwan has robust rule of law, unlike china.
People who don't know better. I would expect someone who claims to be a medical professional to know better.
Ok apple
Will there be heating issues?
Such a small form factor with an i5 and dedicated graphics card ought to have thermal throttling issues and with a metal body, become uncomfortable to hold.
I honestly think at this point a carbon tax wouldn't help a whole lot unless we did something like develop and fund carbon sequestration with that money. A reduction in total output wouldn't help because there's already a whole lot of CO2 in the atmosphere right now causing problems that something needs to be done about. All of the reductions measures are punts to a future generation because we're still putting CO2 into the atmosphere, and even if it's at a slower rate the same outcome will happen, albeit in 100 years instead of 50. Plus I worry that the government would waste the money on bombing people and spying on us instead of fixing this crisis that is much much worse than what any terrorist could do to us.
I do see the Nvidia dual-graphics chip causing problems on Linux.

They should have dropped the Nvidia chip all the way, it is a shitty compromise. Nobody is going to play games on this machine and the Intel IGP handles all other workloads just fine. Also, the 12.5 version coming with 4GB is a bit disappointing.
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/risc-v-on-an-fpga-pt-6...
If Tesla doesn't have a technology advantage it can defend, then it's going to be in trouble.

Often when Tesla comes up I try to refrain from posting the reality on the ground in China - I failed today - electric vehicles are everywhere already: electric scooters ("e-bikes"), electric cars, electric tractors, electric buses, electric taxis, electric golf-carts (police patrol vehicles), etc. It seems to me that Tesla probably has some great tech staff but it's media presence seems to be mostly western hemisphere posturing, as if they are to claim originality and innovation in a field China is 5-10 years ahead in already and demonstrably leading in adoption and infrastructure.
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why not engage actively in an NGO fighting to battle climate change? Most of them have developed ties to the government where they can really push for a certain agenda and have a realistic chance of success. Most of the major cities (in the west, idk about the other parts of the world) have their own small NGOs, but there is always greenpeace etc. They need support on the streets, but also help with their infrastructure...
There is nothing wrong with UEFI. I had a laptop with it that had no keys by default.
I'd recommend Pass [1].

It stores your data locally, is suprisingly easy to use and relies on battle tested GPG.

From the website: "The community has even produced a cross-platform GUI client, an Android app, an iOS app, a Firefox plugin, a Windows client, a pretty Python QML app, a nice Go GUI app, an interactive console UI, Alfred integration (1) (2) (3), a dmenu script, OS X integration, git credential integration, and even an emacs package."

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/
Hybrid, Private and Automation – Cloud Computing Forecast for 2016
http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgew...

Sounds like a lot of Trumpisms.

And lots of obvious things only a dim egotist would consider to be revelations worth collecting into a manifesto.

"... if a billionaire loses $200 million he will probably
be unhappy, while if someone who is worth $10,000 unexpectedly gets another $2,000, he will probably be happy".

woah, fark, really?
Well, there's always a balance with usability.

password reuse < own memory/manual storage < synced unencrypted 3rd party storage < synced encrypted 3rd party storage < custom encrypted storage < some custom crazy HSM which doesn't allow you to get more than X passwords per minute and notifies you on each get()

There's another dimension for cross-platform support somewhere in there. At the moment if you want your passwords saved and shared between desktops and mobiles, the best solution I'm aware of is 1password with separate sync (dropbox/icloud) - and you're still trusting the 1password app. You can go further, but you're starting to destroy usability on the way. Lastpass / 1password is still a valid choice that's better than many alternatives.
A confounding factor is that there is apples in a lot of things you may not think of, and somethings use apples in their production... even if you never see the apples yourself.
I hate that arrow key design, and is the reason I haven't bought HP laptops in a long time even when their specs and/or prices were better than the alternatives.
Making it thin does not make it closer to Macbook. I'm sure it even has standard bricky laptop charger and crappy display.
I was surprised by them giving such a tiny amount too. The potential damage to their users here is staggering. If this was used to grab someone's twitter,facebook,email,linkedin an attacker could take full control of their online presence :S
Twitter's Famous Racist Problem
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Apple plans to invest in augmented reality following success of Pokémon Go
Yeah, that's a hard one to solve.

If you've got a pattern that works for you, then it works for you!
Return of the floppies
Record Syntax for C#
I seem to recall hearing from my doctor that the micropause software simply made some people freeze up and wait, making it worse.

She suggested that it would just be better to get up and do something completely different for a time. I found that, while working at home, hanging out laundry worked wonders.

I've had a lot of people deride me and laugh at me for that single phrase, but not one of them suffered the pain of RSI. They probably wouldn't laugh so readily if they couldn't feed themselves - or open a locked door - for several months.
I see comments like this every time someone complains about Linux usability. You really think just because something worked for you with no problems means anything other than you getting lucky?

I've used Linux for over ten years, on dozens of machines. I'm not a newbie. And yes, it's horribly difficult and broken compared to OS X, unless you get lucky.
It should be "positive" numbers.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hardy-RamanujanNumber.html
I think you could do a lot worse than lastpass. You could also do better, by sacrificing some usability. On the extreme side, you could use a separate, offline device, just for password storage.

But I don't think it's worth getting excited about a single lastpass bug. Everything is vulnerable. There will be more of them. Chrome itself had 105 security issues, just this year (https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?...) - a few of them potentially leading to your passwords being exposed without any extensions.

Upgrade often, don't do stupid stuff, keep backups, and you'll be more secure than 99% of people. Evaluate your choices from there.
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It's because you can't update hardware, and the NRE is huge. If every deploy cost you $250k you'd want formal verification too.

Mostly the existing toolchain does formal equivalence checking, which isn't quite the same thing; it verifies that the behaviour of the output circuit is the same as the input RTL written HDL. The input HDL is subject to testing in a very recognisable manner - unit tests and integration tests that verify intended functionality. Usually with coverage reporting so you can be sure you've not forgotten areas of functionality.

I feel that hardware formal verification is easier than software verification because the hardware can't be dynamically created, and there aren't weird non-local effects so it's easier to partition the problem.

(Incidentally, this is the big failure flag for Ethereum: people building smart contracts without formal verification, in an environment where redeployment is extremely difficult and expensive.)
It feels like C# is gradually evolving into F#.
What thinkpad would u get today? I looked into the T460 but (a) they seem to have many variants within the same model and (b) I saw too many negative reviews online.
Also we are still missing the "Linux" of Smartphone OSes. It may take another few decades for that to come forth, but there is always a large enough user base that is interested in a truly open operating system, which is neither of the existing two. Maybe the Ubuntu Mobile attempt can get there.
I do not use LastPass exactly because of what you describe. I use a KeePass Password safe without autofill. I use other software to sync the file. It used to be Dropbox, later I was using BitTorrent Sync, but what tool sync shouldn't really matter. As I see it: the tool only gets to see and sync an encrypted file. You could even use a USB stick and not sync at all. Or only sync on LANs.

I love it how I get to decide who or what gets to see the encrypted file.

Now hopefully the Keepass audit will not reveal any issues in the encryption.
1^3 + (-1)^3 = 0

0^3 + (-0)^3 = 0

^_^
Please don't turn off your computer while updates are being installed is the single most cited reason in my environment for ditching a particular OS.

I don't particularly subscribe to the narrative, there are these billions 'non-techie' users needing handholding by BigCo.
We are never going to, because of the tragedy of the commons problem.

Humanity is doomed. We had a good run.
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I don't wish to sound defeatist, but I fear that we've already passed the point of no return for avoiding Very Serious consequences.

We have fed massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere over the past decade, more than any decade in the past, and our rate of emission continues to increase. Admittedly the double delta (the rate of change of the rate of change) has now gone negative, but the fact remains that an enormous amount of damage has been done, and continues to be done.

We are already seeing preliminary consequences in the form of heating, excess precipitation, "strange" weather, and this is already incurring costs, both economic and upon the climate. Flood defences aren't cheap, nor is rebuilding homes and infrastructure.

On the climate cost front, for instance, the three springs in the UK and elsewhere killed or damaged an awful lot of trees this year, which decreases the amount of carbon reabsorbed - this kind of feedback cycle isn't really anticipated by current models which rather look at broad variables like "is the average temperature within the average range within which trees can live" - not "will we have trees sprout considerably then be frozen twice before succeeding in one year".

We have giant holes opening up in the tundra which are spewing forth enormous amounts of methane which again, wasn't really anticipated, and is another positive feedback loop.

In terms of what you can do - learn skills that are useful in a post-post-scarcity society. I don't think we can avoid drastic climate change at this point, but we can sure as hell try to survive through it as best we can - and it's likely to force dramatic lifestyle changes, to put it lightly.

If you want to do something directly which may abate but not avert the impending disaster, find a way to promote political and popular will to actually do something urgently and internationally - most are still lukewarm on the topic, and will only actually start responding when things get nasty indeed - and then likely only on a local basis and in an uncoordinated fashion.

Sorry, that does all sound defeatist, but I think we're going to find ourselves investing an awful lot of time and energy in dealing with the consequences of climate change in the near future, rather than dealing with the root cause. That may end up being a permanent state of affairs - I can imagine that it could actually be turned to net economic benefit for some by generating employment in new industries (dike building will be big business), although many without the benefit of a coordinated response and the fortune to live in part of the world which cares to respond will suffer, greatly.

Humans have survived ice ages - civilisations and societies have not, to our knowledge - humans will likely survive this - but this civilisation - who knows.
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