skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon Musk's Twitter account claims:
Model S P100D Easter egg will allow it to do 0 to 60 mph in 2.4 sec and a 10.6 sec 1/4 mile via software update next month

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/798980894543343616
I'm confused. They think this is easiest? Either they have someone manually going into bank accounts and making transfers, or somebody actually programmed something to log in via the webpage and do stuff. Neither of those are "quick and easy".

Is a paypal button really so hard?

Also, how are they not shut down? It seems a single user sending that screenshot to Amex should be more than sufficient to close any merchant account they have.
Despite all of your examples, science is still the best way we have for understanding the universe. If you have a better way then by all means enlighten us.
David Chisnall is a master too, and a pity that GNUStep and etoileos.com didn't spread more. NEXTStep could have been Mono, long ago.
Pretty sure Expensify and Mint did/do this, no?
exactly. if you pay for a service and google or facebook are your authentication, you are locked out of the third party services you pay for.
All of that is true, you should ask those questions. That doesn't mean one should lie and say that such accusations are fringe.
>elder Mr. Shultz said Ms. Holmes had told him Theranos’s blood-testing devices worked so well that they were being used in medevac helicopters and hospital operating rooms

wouldn't a CEO telling material lies about company's product to board members constitute some kind of felony fraud?
what size raise is this article about?
I don't care about technical justifications, i was talking about morality and humanity. Google is still a company composed of humans, but a few people in there seem to lack a certain amount humanity.

Please do keep in mind: They digitally killed people here in something that looks like pure and petty spite from Google. Some of these people might have relied on their gmail account for their livelihood. (Think remote freelancers, etc.)

You can also look at it like this: The punishment is wildly out of proportion to the crime.
I am considering signing up for O365. Not sure if this has the same fallacies as Gmail though.
There is an alarming number of titles like "Job Simulator" and "Accounting" and "Cubicle" on this page, for a medium that's supposed to be an exciting new frontier.. (´・ω・`)
U.S. Companies to Trump: Don’t Abandon Global Climate Deal
It's not retaliation or punishment. It's process.

At the end of the day, rules were broken. If you can't handle the repercussions then don't break the rules. Pretty simple.
Ironically, they did it to make it easier for other vendors to support. (Some) HTML renders just fine in Gmail, but not other clients.
> It's long past time that USB security is taken seriously.

You mean, before we started using USB for charging...?

It wouldn't be hard at all to make a convincing looking power adapter with something like PoisonTap baked in.
With C#, you can implement an IUnknown-derived interface completely in C++ (with `class` etc), and then define it in C#, and it transparently does all the mapping of members for you.

Yes, it's COM. People assume that makes it non-cross-platform, but there's nothing Windows-specific about COM, it's just a slightly higher-level ABI than C. So Mono supports it on Linux in the same manner. Not sure what the story is in .NET Core.
A reminder: I need to migrate my email account away from gmail, one service at a time. Can't imagine the day when same thing happens.
In Search of the Real Woman Who Lived on the Island of the Blue Dolphins
Do most capitalistic ventures rely on whales? Or is it limited only to ones that feed off addictions?
Wouldn't Google be able to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary to be the designated telecom in Texas? That's how the ride-sharing companies do it in order to insulate the parent companies from having transportation law apply to their headquarters.

I think it's indicative of more than just Google being unwilling to be held to the legal responsibilities; it appears that even their Fiber arm doesn't want them as well.
China Tells Trump That Climate Change Is No Hoax It Invented
AnsiWeather: display the current weather conditions in your terminal,
You can't blame the USB ports entirely... I mean, yes, it's insane he can force requests that trick your machine into dumping unencrypted cookies, but remember this intercepts and modifies unencrypted traffic, which any packet sniffer or upstream provider (router, ISP, et al) can already see/modify.

So even if you follow Samy's recommendation of putting cement on your USB ports, [0] you're still vulnerable to injection and interception.

Moral of the story: encrypt all the things.

[0]: https://github.com/samyk/poisontap#desktop-security
Remember this the next time you hear corporations complain about ruthless employees who are willing to jump ship for mere money.
She is like Steve Jobs only in a superficial way. She has a privileged background while Steve Jobs grew up in a middle-class family which could not afford his college. She dropped out because she wanted to be like a dropout like Steve Jobs. She lied about her revolutionary products while Steve Jobs did create revolutionary products with others. She wears a turtle neck because Steve Jobs did.
It received an entire new language, and it still works, how is it abandoned?

The state and currency of Apple's documentation is a different matter altogether. It's seriously outdated in a lot of places and in a need of a major overhaul.
Go to for first-time router buyers
Newsgate 2016
As someone who recently, despite my better judgement, dropped a non-negligible amount of money on a 802.11ac adapter bearing a Broadcom chipset, I will readily say that I will never buy another of their wireless products again. I had assumed that their increased activity on the `brcm[fs]mac` drivers signaled a possible improvement in their efforts on Linux driver support.

Well, this may or may not be true, but the best drivers in the world won't do a thing if the vendor forgets to release compatible firmware. That's not to say that the firmware doesn't exist: if you are willing to strip an image out of an access point firmware image then you can bring the card into a somewhat functional state, but, as expected, it's far from perfect. Namely, WPA rekeying appears to be broken, rendering the device useless for my application.

I've been in contact with the vendor; the most precise release date for the firmware I've been able to get is (paraphrasing) "maybe someday".

Life is too short for this vendor's games.
I hear clintonemail.com is available
Why specify color? The $7500 NeXT cube didn't have it.

I didn't let that oddity dissuade me from reading the rest of the article, but it really doesn't match the way I remember things working back then. I sure didn't know anybody who had $7500 to spend on a computer; I always understood the exorbitant price to be the primary reason the platform never took off.
True, but they have a legitimate need to access your banking info: they need access to your transaction history to function. The absurdity here is asking for bank login info just to make a purchase.
Yeah, that was sort of what I was going for when I started making it; life and work just took over. If I ever have some time, I might add a tutorial explaining how to add things
Yea, but those are different services that utilize the history of your transactions. What reason does an online retailer have to access that level of detail? Shouldn't they simply be able to accept the information on the credit card for the sale?
Slightly OT: Is there something funny going on with this post? 1 hour, 103 points and it's already at the bottom of HN?
The fact that "post-fact world" is even a thing is frightening.
Someone losing a decade of work makes you laugh your ass off?
Hey this is an awesome idea!

Each side could vote for articles they think are biased or not biased.

Then you are shown the ones where there is the strongest disagreement between each side.

Another idea is to allow each sentence or paragraph to be evaluated on how biased it is. So someone could read through hovering over sentences and maybe pressing a keyboard shortcut to indicate whether they think this sentence is biased.

The goal is not to evaluate bias, but to find areas of contention and allow the debate/comments to hone in on a particular phrase/paragraph or something.
Not operating anywhere near the scale of grandparent, but spending a decent amount on FB ads results in a noticeable lift in search volume. It's hard to back this into value but it's at least independent verification that your money isn't just being dumped in a hole.
Thanks. Come to think of it, I remember seeing a series of deep learning examples that were trained on raw data and were able to create well-formed TeX, XML, and other formats, so it makes sense that the same principle would apply to image data.
I don't think PCI compliance is a factor here (unfortunately) - they literally only deal with the taking of cards, I would think Banks should be looking at this pretty skeptically! Although here in Australia there seems to be a lot more "access" available to your bank account than in many other countries (including my native UK), it makes things like integrations nicer but I do wonder just when it's all going to come crashing down!
Except, you have something (of debatable value but) tangible for your efforts. In some cases, the market value is clearly greater than your inputs.

I also fondly remember booster pack draft games - very fun and the "in" price is completely worth the time spent.

Slots give you exactly nothing except an empty wallet in most cases. At least if you play poker or blackjack you can interact with other humans...
Gene Wolfe is better than Robert Jordan and could surpass Tolkien.

He is a currently unrecognized Giant, on the level of our new Shakespeare. Literally every famous author you've heard of says it. Gene Wolfe is what the journeymen read to improve their craft but he is little known outside rarefied circles.

I wrote a piece 10 days ago (so before the election) explaining why a reading of Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun explains Peter Thiel's motivations in backing Trump. He was following a thread nobody else saw. So many smart people, yes on the alt right also, are missing a much bigger picture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884413

It is not an exaggeration that this book changed my life. You don't have to be a neoreactionary to read it but reading it alongside Joeseph Tainter's Collapse of Complex Societies is a wonderful and enriching life experience that will definitely change how you view the world.

In addition I strongly recommend you watch Peter Thiel's videos on Youtube such as this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-rxtwhzcY

Tainter, Thiel, Wolfe, Moldbug. If you wish to scry deeply into the world, that's how I'd start. Many people reading this will be liberals or progressives. To them I say, this is a rabbit hole nobody else is going to recommend, if you sincerely are interested in the order of the right's thought, here it is.
Based on what I know about CIL and C++, the entirety of C and C++ can be compiled to [unverifiable] CIL. The sole exception is setjmp/longjmp - this might be doable on top of CLI exceptions, but I'm not sure.

And, indeed, VC++ lets you do just that. There are some bits of the standard library, mostly new stuff like threads and atomic, that had some issues, as I recall. But it's more about the amount of effort that's needed to target what's essentially a completely different platform.

The thing to know about CIL is that it has:

- structs;

- unions;

- raw data pointers, with pointer arithmetic;

- raw function pointers;

- dynamic stack allocation (like alloca in C);

- tail calls;

- exceptions with exception filters (arbitrary expression evaluation when deciding whether to transfer to a given catch-block or not) and finally blocks.

I'm actually curious if there's any language that cannot be compiled down to this efficiently.
It would be really nice if you wouldn't consistently post such balanced comments as they're doing nothing to reinforce the polarization, anger, and frustration we find so vital to drive engagement, page views, clicks, and time on site.

"The effects will only get worse over time."

I'm trying to think of comparable societal changes that we've been able to reverse at least sufficiently ameliorate. My imagination (and knowledge of history) are too limited. Anyone have some good examples? Or know of projects that are working on similar topics?
"Once the big players start adding custom features on top of existing protocols we start seeing fragmentation and parts of the market being cornered off."

This is how innovation happens. If the experiment shows promise, it gains adoption by other vendors. This is basically how every browser advancement in the last 10 years (or more) has come around.
I don't think the comparison is apt. Magic leap is attempting something that many think is impossible, but if they don't succeed, they're not faking blood tests and putting people's health diagnoses on the line. Yes, if they don't succeed, some investors will lose a lot of money, but the risk isn't falling on users.
I think you misspelled co-option.
"Usernames and passwords to electronic accounts holding payment data are not sufficiently protected"

I correct myself - maybe it does!
Opinions about regarding Google as a utility aside, I think the comparison this argument makes isn't as comparable as you make it sound. Using your example with telephone companies, this situation is like saying a specific 3rd party service accessed via telephone should be regulated without actually regulating the telephone companies first. I would like to see ISPs be regulated as a utility before individual web sites are regulated as such.

In the event that becomes reality, the time would have to be taken to define what minimum level of services the web site would have to offer. Simply saying Google must keep X service available would be archaic. Would other email providers be exempt from having to maintain these rights? If your job gave you an email address, would they have to maintain it after you leave the company? These are probably contrived questions, but ones that would certainly have to be answered first.
The guy you're laughing at is about 65 years old. I know nothing about Dennis Cooper, but people of that age are sometimes just not tech savvy. And based on what I've seen of his response to the situation, he never responded in the way you mischaracterized him above. Why is your first response to "laugh your ass off" when something unfortunate happens to someone else, even if that misfortune was brought about by their own ignorance?

Take a look here, his response is actually very thoughtful:

https://www.pixartprinting.co.uk/blog/dennis-cooper-erased-b...
On vagueness, or, when is a heap of sand not a heap of sand?
Agreed. I'm still scratching my head on why he would back Trump. Reading Zero to One right now and it's great.

But, I guess there's just stuff I don't know about Trump that would make Thiel support him. I'm not trying to say this in a negative way - I just am trying to figure out the connection(s).

So if you could get him on a podcast talking about this, it would be awesome!
Canary Islands Scientists Upset After Airlines Stop Shipping Research Animals
Mexican pyramid has two more inside
Is this the verified by visa thing? https://usa.visa.com/pay-with-visa/featured-technologies/ver...

Bank passwords alone wouldn't work on any of my accounts because it would detect a different computer and request secondary authorization. It does this by looking at the information the browser sent...and...oh...oh. Geez I hate security theater. Is there anything less secure than the information sent by your browser?
Wasn't there the simpsons episode when Homer started spreading fake news on the internet to become famous?
Are you seriously trying to argue the current ToS situation is reasonable? Seriously?
Snorkel
Red scare material packaged as a human interest story, now with a Democratic slant to adjust to a new Republican who is reportedly chummy with Russians.

No, it's just routine (and useful) reporting on the everday business of spycraft.

It's funny how they always say the KGB/SVR is the counterpart to the the CIA but never describe the CIA as the counterpart to the KGB/SVR.

It's called an "analogy", and it's a pretty useful tool of expression. Particularly for describing "Y, the counterpart of X" where X is a large agency in the (very large) country you live in.

So really, I just don't get the "scare" component you're driving at.
All of these seem to imply discoverability and queries are the biggest pain point in web apps. For me, in creating specific purpose business apps, the biggest headaches are presenting the data in ways that minimize the user's unnecessary actions and, even more of a pain, wiring things up so an event in one location triggers the proper client display changes in another location.

For my use cases, discoverability and ad hoc queries just don't apply.
You assume people ever cared about facts. People are more emotional than they are rational when it comes to things that are outside of their control. While someone might be perfectly rational and logical in their life (e.g. they pay their taxes, they go to work, they make smart choices in their day to day lives), when it comes to things that are outside of our control (politics, economy, death, etc).

We have always been pretty irrational and easy to manipulate.
> And yet the JVM still beats the CLR in performance.

On mobile memory-constrained devices? Can you share a benchmark demonstrating that?
Pedantic comment incoming; F# is more of an ML implementation.
This is how Venmo does it so they don't have to make you do the "verify two microdeposits" process, and it's getting more popular. I think because when you give your login you're giving over complete access so bank is not liable for fraud.
Maybe Al Jazeera
Sybil – a fast and simple NoSQL OLAP
In major measurement update, Facebook overhauls metrics
Logv
I wonder if a viable method for securing USB devices would be a pairing step, similar to how bluetooth keyboards work. Most input devices are USB-based, which means we can't require confirmation for every device, but we could require OS confirmation for most of them, and do a pairing step for input devices. Like click these visual targets / type in this key sequence.

This wouldn't fully solve this problem, but it might just help protect me from people plugging devices into my machine while it's locked, and could even alert me that the device I thought was just charging has reported itself as a keyboard, despite looking nothing like one.
Why is social media getting all the flak? What about all the fake news on Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN, Fox News, et al?
Great post!

I think if a founder speaks to a small handful of VCs and/or other knowledgable startup people: they can get a good sense of how easy or difficult fundraising will be...and that will be more useful than any one guideline that can be provided. Series A lead VCs need to see a potential path to $100 million in revenue going to $300 million to be a home run...and a combination of the team/product/market/traction combo gives an investor the necessary conviction and excitement to propose an investment.

The limitation with growth + revenue guidelines for fundraising is that it will never be enough information as there are so many factors that go into an investment decision. And there has been a proliferation of startups that reach $1 million in revenue growing ~15% a month and still the vast majority won't get to the scale that makes a series A VC happy.

As a side note, I'd love to see any company with "Engagement rates that are higher than Facebook" that can't fundraise. :) I think there may be some off the charts positive indicators: team with incredible track record, off the charts engagement + retention in a large market, amazing unit economics + high growth that the ability to fundraise is all but inevitable.
GridDB vs. Cassandra Benchmarks pitting the two found within
This was always my understanding. I am a free market proponent, but a Adam Smith style free market proponent. In that I believe in a market that is actually free, not one with thickets of patents, generous subsidies for corporations, and bailouts while all at the same time a laissez-faire stance on workers rights. You don't get to scream free market while cutting wages and then cry for regulation because a union committed an "illegal strike", or an important worker failed to give you 2 weeks notice and is headed to your direct competitor with knowledge of "your clients". Nobody owns a worker or client in a true free market system.

I've always thought the problem with the major economic systems isn't that either of them is inherently flawed, just that they haven't really even been implemented in a large enough scale for any decent period of time. In America we pay socialist taxes and get capitalist benefits, that's the problem. We have to pick one and commit to it.
I trust in DKIM signatures. Any statement by an intelligence service ever is caked in multiple layers of conflicting motivations from expanding their budget, pleasing their lax overseers, deflecting incompetence to confusing adversaries.

And these are just the generic reasons. In this particular case, the first obvious question is why NSA et al. would ever state their certainty in a Russian attack publicly. There are no good outcomes. Either they are right and the Russians blow up the bridges as they retreat or they are wrong and the Russians know they are incompetent.
80W LED Flood Light IP65
Thank you for the suggestion. Set up a monthly recurring donation of $5. Will also subscribe to NYT now.

I am not American but after the US elections have decided to actively get involved in supporting progressives/liberals anyway I can.
How does your encrypted Linux system respond to the Cryptsetup bug?
Really? what if you have to support legacy apps that are 100% jquery on the frontend / php on the back? It's VERY much still a thing..
Wikipedia does often seem a bit lacking in basic politeness. Something like Hacker News's 'be civil' type guidelines might help.
They can reduce their risk by doing this. For online retailer there is always risks in accepting card payments. (Not saying this is a good idea, just trying to find reasons).
Anyone have any good links on how to host your own email with spam blocking and such?