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author here, i just realized this site doesn't work on mobile. I used javascript to generate the tables of images. While I blunder through trying to fix this, you can view the pictures here

https://gitlab.com/open_nsfw/open_nsfw.gitlab.io/tree/master...
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It already has. My dentist uses something like this right now - as soon as I walked in the door (with no appointment, or call) the receptionist that I had never met knew my name and other details.

They use a camera to take a photo when you first come to your first appointment and they have cameras pointing at the door so they can tell which customer you are when you walk in.

All very slick but more than a little creepy once I realized what was going on.
You don't have to have a second phone (or even just a SIM card) with you, you can keep it at home.
You seem to be getting down-voted, but autonomous public transportation is a good thought exercise, and yes it already exists on (small) rubber tire fleets. There are some unresolved problems here, such as where do all the SDCs go when empty? Are they leased? Do we have parking garages with empty cars going in and out of them all day? How do we charge for that? How does this impact green house gas emissions? Even dedicated SDC lanes would have a maximum hourly capacity.

SDCs are a good last mile solution, particularly in mid density areas and for the disabled. Conventional trains make more sense to delivering large amounts of people to or from a city center as well general regional transportation.
The title on the front page of wsj.com is now "Ex-NSA Contractor Stole Records for Decades, U.S. Says"
https://google.com/amp/hackme.com

redirects to hackme.com. The attacker here used tiny.cc to be more elusive. IIRC we had a popular discussion here about this.

How google can still allow this is beyond me.
jQuery is mostly superfluous these days, anyway. Javascript supports most of its functionality natively in the browser. Maybe it's time to ditch the overly large generic libraries and start writing in plain old javascript again.
Ask HN: Whether to open source or build startup?
I started to chase an idea (whoose end-goals were different) 2.5 years ago. Since its inception - the idea has underwent evolutions that I could barely imagine to what it started as. Most of changes to idea were because I didn't know enough or what I knew was not useful. And I have now managed to string together an important proof of concept.

Without exaggeration : I believe it can/will disrupt several things.

I am having the following dilemma :
This idea can/will lead to good startup(s) or also it can/will also be next best open source thing. Im not sure which path to take as I cannot claim to be experienced in either.

Not to mention
1. Have put family members under great stress.. They have put in lot of sacrifices.
2. Have burnt all my life savings and few months to go broke.
3. this + ML = more_powers ?

PS:
#3 - I should admit an ML expert would be a good judge to define the scope for it.

How should I approach from here ?
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> and security is hard.

Security experts act like it's very trivial and basic to get a fully secure shop up and running if we simply do everything they say. When something fails, the security expert gets fired, and a new one comes on board who will inevitably call the old one "incompetent" and claim that super basic and trivial things were not being followed. Repeat ad infinitum. Some organizations/companies are more vulnerable than others, but I have yet to see one that cannot be compromised by a determined/patient adversary.
Awesome, thanks for the reply!

Legal: I am definitely looking into this. I have definitely consulted some people to see where I can go with this.

Business: At this point, AddMee wouldn't provide the funds to purchase new plans, instead provide the admin and members to facilitate the purchase.

Prototype: I hit this chicken and egg problem as well, but I wanted to validate the idea before building.
We live in a world where slightly arcane developer jokes are "SWAG squatted"
This is one of the most disturbing things I couldn't stop reading.
<armchair> There's a missed opportunity here... this is not a smartphone, because as a phone, it will suck. It's a smartcamera, because as a point-and-shoot running Android with a cellular data connection, it will probably be quite cool. As mentioned already, Nokia tried the "photography first" smartphonecamera - it didn't fly. Because, honestly, iPhones are already top of the line smartphonecameras. The cameras are ridiculously good, all things considered. Kodak should realize there's no point in attempting to get people to trade in their iPhone for one of these - they should focus on making this the other accessory you want to have in addition to your iPhone. Like a Kindle. You CAN read stuff on your phone, but there's a better experience to be had. You CAN take pictures and video on your phone but... there's a better experience to be had? Maybe. I'm not entirely convinced the same kind of value can be added at a price that's worth paying before just up and getting a DSLR. But, that's my take on this whole thing. </armchair>
I'm getting the first error on Chrome, the page loads, but i can see that error on the console.
Keep in mind the American public won't look at that statement with the same care (if at all). People (even Hillary, last debate) have no problem pointing fingers:

"[The hack] has come from the highest levels of the Russian government, clearly from Putin himself, in an effort – as 17 of our intelligence agencies have confirmed – to influence our election."
If it doesn't, perhaps something ridiculous like CV Dazzle will become en vogue? (https://cvdazzle.com/)
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And it can even access the new-ish Playstation Vue (https://www.playstation.com/en-us/network/vue/), making the PS4 a relatively viable cable replacement box.
Because big players can take remedial action prior to the bug being disclosed to protect users - for example, banning a specific framework from browser extensions.
lol all i read is "distributed xss attacks"
Another case of an attacker using phone porting to attempt to compromise accounts:
https://medium.com/the-coinbase-blog/on-phone-numbers-and-id...
"the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations"

which recent compromises are they referring to?
Ask HN: Whats gonna happen when you will die
20th Oct 2016 --
Whats you gonna loose/miss when you die ... suddenly (Anybody can..)

1) you wont be able to call you are mom/dad every week .. now they wait to listen ur voice on every sunday .. but now they will never be able to talk to ye . never

2) girlfriend -- She would have cooked an amazing food and will be waiting for you to come back .. but no .. u are dead and you cannot come to home .. but she will still wait ..

3) Your dog/cat -- they will think that ... big door has eaten you and they will also be scared to go near to that door thinking that they will also ever be able to come back to eat their food..

4) brother -- elder brother -- this fella believed in you .. have thought that you will do everything what he is not able to do .. he will cry like hell but he might understand that you were just a human who died .. as god wants you to die.. he will live to big pain inside in his heart till the end of his life

5) Sis -- Busy with her husband and kids .. she will remember our childhood memories and will remember them always .. one down ..

6) Friends -- I will be used in their stories .. something like .. there used to be lad .. who used to code .. used to have parties with us .. used to learn machine learning ..n he is gin enow forever .

7) Your code -- that will stay as it is .. if you have not committed it .. someday somebody will understand your state of mind and will extend it ..

8) Your bank account --- Alrite .. so this is the money which you have earned in your whole life ...your wife/gf/siblings will get this .. but you will never be able to use it anymore .. not even a single penny

9) Complex passwords .. Any of you complex passwords will not matter anymore .. i wish i would have used hello123 as password .. at least somebody will be able to access my fb/gmail account and will come to know who i am ..

10) Bus to work .. That will still go .. and it will not even think about you for a second

11) Your favourite song /movie .. You will never be able to listen to your favourite song / movie but they will last forever

So guys this is exactly whats gonna happened with me .. please extend your experiences..
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Unfortunately, most reviewers agreed that the Hasselblad camera is not much more than a "proof of concept", and the photo quality from the phone itself is often better.
AFAIK you don't have a right to privacy while in a public space.
Teslas approach is different to Google's. Tesla is gathering hi-res location data from both human driven and autopilot driven cars to build an accurate map of every lane of every highway.
I use Keepass with auto-type. I know it's not perfect, but I feel better about auto-type than browser extensions.
They're referring to all recent compromises leaked "on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona".
At no point in the official statement [0] is Russia EVER
blamed for the DNC hack and subsequent leaks

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We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these
efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could
have authorized these activities.

Hmm.
I get that, but I hate it.
Sure, but is it okay with you if these "consequences" are being unable to work and provide for one's family? Because that's the sort of "consequences" the media -- and useful idiots like the author of the original article -- are ordering us to believe are appropriate for disagreeing with their politics.
Because they are using face recognition techniques? That's like the argument some politician made a while back: why do we have record prison populations when the crime rate is lower than ever?
But one could argue that sorting is a fundamental property of, presumably as keys, the numbers themselves, and therefore any alteration on an algorithm is a play on how numbers are ordered?

As an example merge sort established an invariant in its divide step which is exploited on the conquer step. Moving this idea forward comparison based sorting establishes some version of this invariant. This argument seems to make sense to me though.
In Turkey, if you apply for a new SIM card (let's say you have micro and you want nano) then you cannot access your bank account (for example Garanti Bank, probably other big banks too). Doesn't matter whether you try to access the bank via your PC or phone or via your home telephone, a massage appears saying that your SIM card has been changes and thus you need to re-validate yourself. So, this means that the banks and mobile operators share data.

Plus, if you apply for a new SIM card and you have a changed information in your ID, such as your father's has changed his name or you have corrected your birth place, then your ID is send to the government and only when the government gives a permission then they can give you a new SIM.

If you are not the owner of the SIM card no one talks to you.

If you want a new phone number then you must register with your ID.
They are much better than the civilian agencies.
I first want to finish dealing with the original claim and the focus of my actual comment.
Talk about desperate.

Why didn't they just skip the phone part? I could see myself buying one of these. But the fact that it'd make little (financial) sense to buy one and then have it replace my phone (let's be real here, Kodak), it's a no-go.
Depends on what the efficiency is, and how hard it is to manufacture the catalyst. The catalyst is made of carbon, copper, and nitrogen, so it there won't be a problem of needing exotic materials. It would be even more impressive if you could run it in reverse, to generate electricity. The actual paper states the efficiency is 63%, so this combined with solar panels is more efficient than growing corn.

Original press release: https://www.ornl.gov/news/nano-spike-catalysts-convert-carbo...
The paper itself: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/slct.201601169/fu...
> "In almost all cases, whether or not there's a known local privesc bug, assume that code execution on your Linux systems equates to privesc; this is doubly true of machines in your prod deployment environment.

It depends. I've seen "oh well if someone has rce they probably have root anyway" used way too many times as an excuse to avoid defense-in-depth measures.
But most people, I'd wager, are either misaligned with at least one or two of the company's values, or have acted contrary to them at some point. Yet, they don't get fired.

"Values dictate how a company should operate and how employees should treat each other. "

So, not management, then?
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It's just the in-memory executable, as I understand it.
>Console with graphical power that rivals Xbox One and PS4.

Why would you think that? It's a mobile system, running mobile CPU/GPU with a price target of a mid-market smart-phone. It's isn't going to match the PS4 or XboxOne, no way.

>This is going to be a major windfall for them.

Maybe, maybe not. I don't know if they'll be able to run the latest AAA titles, especially with the new MS and Sony consoles coming out soon. So they'll have the same problem as they had with the Wii and WiiU - you buy the console for Nintendo games and that's it.
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That could easily refer to the previous sentence if this was in a courtroom

"Such activity is not new to Moscow—the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there"
I write about AMP on here [1][2]. Some of the author's points reflect my own; but I don't quite agree on how he arrives at his point.

It's true that the big gatekeepers like Google and Facebook are treating their proprietary formats preferentially. I don't in itself see this as problematic.

It's true that these formats are not plain text, so code or the aid of some framework or publishing platform is wise if one wants to publish in such a way. This isn't a new development, because Wordpress and other platforms have been around for more than a decade, and hand-posting plaintext documents went out of fashion precisely because of the ease of manageability that publishing and blogging tools provide.

The original incarnation of self-publishing on the Web died when most ISPs decided not to allow home servers on residential plans, and truly became nonsensical when DDOS attacks became commonplace.

Once we moved to the loosely-interpreted re-imagining of self-publishing where we host our files out of someone else's server, there's little point to not relying on an application that ingests your text and transforms it into whatever form is most advantageous for the given situation: AMP when serving through Google, FB Instant Articles when serving through Facebook, plain text or plain HTML if so preferred.

EDIT: I don't disagree that it's unfortunate that the web is less decentralized, more proprietary, less open-access than it used to be. A large contributor is that a few big players control most discoverability, and alternatives are slow to take off due to network effects. Other decentralized networks always grapple with discoverability; ones that have it solved also rely on a few big players, but in most cases this is perceived as less of a problem.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=niftich%20"AMP"&sort=byDate&ty... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722969
Privacy is a lie by omission. Lies are a necessary feature for societies (even non-human animals can lie). Therefore, privacy is a necessary feature for societies.
This exploit doesn't write to disk at all. It's about modifying the in-memory datastructures that correspond to executables on disk in between when they're read and executed.
> [16:35] Maybe you should just plan to throw it away.

Definitely. To reiterate something I posted on Reddit a while back:

___

The lesson I've drawn from it is this: Design for deletion. Your first priority is to design your code for the inevitable day when your successor (or perhaps you yourself) dislikes it. The less effort/risk to uncouple and remove it, the better.

Even the most elegant work will eventually stop being relevant as the business' underlying problems change. If that's not true, then what you're working on should probably be structured as an independent library anyway.
discussion ended up on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12756006
Fixed!

If you were on safari before, it should be working now.

Just confirmed the fixes are live.
From the article: "The entire premise was to piggyback on Stripe and allow Stripe users to specifically create rules to prevent and reduce fraud and chargebacks."

That's usually a bad business concept, unless you have patent protection. If you get successful, the big guy takes your idea.
This infuriates me to no end -- misrepresenting the issue and making an enemy out of Russia with a single bold-faced lie. The problem is not Russia airing dirty laundry, it's that our politicians have dirty laundry to air.
> we treat soccer like US Football

Well that's the problem. Quit leaving half the team on the bench and only practicing in 10 second bursts.
What happens when Google strike a deal with McDonalds and prevent Google Maps from giving people directions to Burger King locations?
For me, tools that I find useful are ones that make something no longer be my problem as an application dev. For JQuery, it was low-level browser implementation details. Sure, browsers were different, I just didn't need to care anymore.

For React, it's "Calculating what are the DOM changes that need to happen to ensure the UI reflects the state of the world". In practice, this means that I no longer need to be concerned with "What's the current state of the UI", and I'm not manually diffing things. To a large extent, it makes client-side UI code look a lot more like server-side UI code.

State is one of those things that's a PITA to reason about -- the less of it that I need to care about, the easier it is for me to make code that works. Reasoning and testing in one dimension (space) is a whole lot easier than reasoning in two (space and time).
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12754354 and marked it off-topic.
I'd really like to understand your worldview better (and I don't mean that in a belligerent way) because I hope I can learn from it.

I really cannot muster any level of compassion for this guy. Sure he's poor, but he committed a planned, systematic, manipulative and horrible crime that can destroy the lives of very vulnerable people.

Just look at the current top comment in the thread for a personal experience of it. Somebody is systematically emptying that woman's retirement savings. This is not like a hungry person stealing some food or a bit of cash, people have their entire lives / retirements ruined by this stuff. I find it easier to have compassion for a pickpocket in the street than somebody like this.

And yes, I believe he really is playing the long con. I'm all for trying to understand people who have wronged us, and forgiving them too. But there is no way I could imagine giving money to somebody who had tried to pull something like that on me.

I'm not denigrating your way of looking at things. You are possibly a happier and less angry person than me. I just can't bring myself to agree.
I would think the idea is usually to get aquihired.
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Actually, this maybe a step forward towards better mass transit, if there is one. If I run an autonomous taxi service to pick/drop people, and if I see that there is money to be made by offering to pick/drop multiple people at once, why wouldn't I? Economics of bus is relatively minor compared to investing and operating trains, so this may very well be a possibility.
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Those people might be right. Defense in depth is a legitimate tactic, but that's all it is, and it's often an excuse for people to waste time layering stupid stuff on top of real security controls.

ASLR, NX, and CFI would be an example of a defense in depth stack that is meaningful.

SSH, Fail2Ban, and SPA would be an example of a defense in depth stack that basically just wastes time.

I would be more comfortable with a system where I knew I had to burn the box if I lost RCE on it than I would be with a system that somehow depended on RCE not coughing up kernel, and persistence, to an attacker.

The other thing defense in depth can provide is increased attacker cost. That's why there are economically valuable DRM systems (BluRay's BD+ is an example here). All you have to do is push attacker cost across a threshold (for instance with BD+, that's keeping titles secure past the new release window) to make a defense in depth control valuable.

But if someone has a kernel exploit, probably nothing you've done for defense in depth is going to meaningfully increase costs.
>There is a lot of speculation in the community that when docked, additional video processing will be available in the hardware within the dock.

Doubt it. Not a trivial problem to solve technically and console pricing is inflexible - they need to sell this thing for under $400, and Nintendo hates subsidizing hardware.
Can yearly SAAS churn be over 100%?
Former commercial pilot here, and since I was a little child, I can remember always running out and looking up whenever I heard a plane or helicopter go overhead. Still do to this day whenever I hear an unusual engine noise, or hear an aircraft that it outside of the normal flight path in my area (not far from an airport).

Friends and family look at me in odd ways, and I get the occasional condescending "Yeeeah, it's just an airrrrplane!!!" type comments, but for me, they will always be magical things of beauty and interest.
"""So, was Chowdhry right? “Yes,” he told me when I asked him this week. “The layoffs I predicted have been occurring.” And worse, he says, these laid-off workers are never again going to find tech jobs: “They will always remain unemployed,” at least in tech, he said. “Their skills will be obsolete.”"""

I've had it with the mantra of disposable workers.
Agreed. These creepy images make me wonder if some neural net-based text generator could optimize against algorithms detecting both readable English and scary/traumatic/intense/whatever prose.. and produce mental imagery darker than any human author has.
There is no evidence here. The "Sources" are thinly veiled advertisements for their Security^TM products.
This can be the third product category. Samsung also had similar products like galaxy s4 zoom but it was looking like a plastic and bulky point-and-shoot camera. I really like the design and build of this Kodak camera and I am ready to replace both my DSLR and my phone with something like this. Of course it has to be a decent smartphone and the camera must be superior to any other smartphone cameras.
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It's Scamming 101 to use bad grammar and typos. Can you imagine what kind of PITA would it be to scam a pedant like you? They don't want you to even think about replying to them.
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Why is it off-topic? It reeks of censorship tbh.