skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can in most countries as far as i know. But in my example i quit my account (so made it prepaid essentially) and lost the SIM card, which means i lost my account forever. Now it waits for the simcard to invalidate and then will most likely sell the number again. It was a "easy number" (as in people remember that number after telling them once) so i assume it will be resold rather fast.

But just because you can does not mean people want that. Before it became normal to auth everywhere with phone numbers i happily changed my number yearly.
I hope you will see this message before I get downvoted, but every time I hear such opinion, I wonder about person's character...

So - would you say the same thing, if that one person happen to be your mother, or a son?
https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...

> Strings which punish the fools who use cat/type on this file
> If we don't consider it a problem now, when should we?

What we should, does not matter. When it starts to cost money, or when there is an opportunity to earn money, then things will change.
Idea: Combine a dollar shave club subscription service with learning.

User gets a starterpack deal, which includes some beans and a nice mug and a french press or something. Then, you'd have a series of videos/tutorials teaching the user how to use the tools and how to make great coffee. There'd be a monthly subscription to refill the users coffee supply and provide new tools to make even better coffee. This goes on until the user has learned to make great coffee, at which point you can continue to supply them coffee beans.

Market it as easy for the user, and worthwhile because they get a new skill out of it.

The important point is proving the learning and the goods, that way you can retain users. Think Blue Apron, but they taught you how to cook and also sold you ingredients.
https://gist.github.com/pilt/1281299
>Nobody in China uses Google other than English speakers. Google is notoriously bad at breaking Chinese characters up into words.

That has no bearing on whether Chinese businesses care. Obviously there are tons of Chinese businesses that sell outside China, including retail businesses, and their customers DO use Google.

Same for the Russian case.
Welcome to my world. I have to call my mum when i want to spend something on my credit card because she now receives the verification SMS.

Not to mention that i had to lie to them as have a friend from my home country call them (imposing as me) to change the phone number (which is most likely illegal in itself) because they could not accept calls from my current country...
He doesn't need to 6x his revenue anymore, now he just needs to slash those expenses.

I'd like to see the average effective profit per hour, spread across the 4 years.
I think your linkbait detector might be evolving to work like the pareidolia phenomenon mentioned in the article (our animal and people detectors' tendency to produce false positives).

This might not be the best title possible, but it's not clickbait-ey, it's just a little vague.
Are any advanced users on HN that would've overlooked the obvious signs in the address bar?

I mean, you don't have to know what the string 'data:text/html' means, because Google Chrome highlights the 'https' by coloring it green and they even show a 'secure' button right next to it, so the whole area looks fundamentally different.

IMHO only inexperienced users will fall for this. If you regularly look at the address bar before entering critical data into a website, you will get used to the overall look and most likely notice that something is out of order.
My god the clickbait is getting bad. This is the kind of title I would expect to see in a supermarket rag
For a different (and, for me, more convincing) perspective read 'Why Nations Fail' by Acemoglu and Robinson.
And that seems to be the basis for claiming the EU smoothing out wage differences across the member nations.

Problem is that while it may rise the wages in a poorer country some decades down the line, right now it suppresses the wages in the richer countries because of an onrush of foreign workers that are undercutting the local workforce.
Saw this elsewhere. Seems to be gaining traction.
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Somewhat off-topic, but honest question: In the article the author says that he OWNs his email domains. Is this really possible? In my understanding it's more like you rent the domain name from the registrar, and you need to keep renewing it. My question is (please forgive my ignorance in this matter): what prevents the registrar from some day raising the price for your domain to astronomical values? Maybe some well-funded business has suddenly decided that they want your domain name and they have no problem offering thousands of dollars for it. When the domain name is up for renewal, what prevents the registrar from passing it to the highest bidder?
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You can use IAM federated access (with your own identity provider implementation) to provide on-demand per-user IAM security tokens
Makes one wonder how they achieved this. I can find a passing mention of a "special C variant that makes it much more difficult to write security holes"[0], but no more details on whether they enforce this (and how), nor on other techniques to improve security.

Do they have a rules checker? Are they running static analysis? Which security-related compiler flags are they enabling? Other tools they use to achieve this?
Or is it just a lead developer who really groks C and security, and who reviews all PRs?

It'd be interesting to see what that other projects can learn here to improve security...

[0] https://www.dovecot.org/security.html
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Because there is ICANN, and clearly defined policies on domain transfers. These can be reviewed, but it usually doesn't happen without prior warning.
> it (GMail) seems to punish people for decentralization.

I wonder why.
That site really drives the tragic results of drone strikes, however from a UX perspective, I wish they would not use a stacked sliding bar for the death count at the top.

Seeing the death of children growing at the start is heart wrenching, but as the other values grow, the 'children' bar actually shrinks, devaluing the impact of the tragic toll.

Perhaps counters like the "Every Atomic explosion since 1945 video"? [0] Might drive home the point a little better?

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
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Author here, this is a valid thought indeed.

My point rather was is that they can not take it away from me. My specific registrar only allows themself to invalidate domains for a few days when they contain swear words. I am not entirely sure if they can increase the price while i own it. In fact last time they increased the price it did not affect me because i already owned it but only new registered domains. Even the renew was on the old price.
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Computation-Machines-...

Not finished it yet, but it's a joy to read and explains fundamental concepts of things like parsers, interpreters and Lambda Calculus using minimal Ruby syntax.
Sure i could call my bank one a month to change my telephone number, which i loose control of shortly after that (only valid for a few months, prepaid). This is hardly a solution.

I don't get it, why are your prepaid cars only valid for a few months? Do people just lose their number regularly?

Around here you can get a prepaid SIM, and you only need to make a single call per six months to keep it active. Even an initial 10€ payment is enough for years of service. Can't you get the same in Switzerland?
I think you might be over-fitting a bit with your model there
Dont be impressed. Nazi officials also traveled with minimal protection in occupied countries. When Reinhard Heydrich was killed, a few villages were leveled in retaliation.

US president should be protected. But it should be protected as other military targets. You would never put a nuclear silo into large metropolitan area.
Two of the appealing arguments for many worlds type interpretations are that the number of required assumptions is small, and that it gives a reasonable physical intuition for why measurement outcomes occur as they do. Having to bolt on the Born rule weakens both of these.

In fact, I would even go so far as to say that if you are going to merely "enforce" the Born rule without justification, then you are no longer proposing an Everettian interpretation. The whole point of these interpretations is that simply "unitary quantum mechanics" describes the whole universe.
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Saying phone numbers are no proper verification because some people refuse to have mobiles is like saying fingerprint verification is no proper verification because some people don't have fingers... Well, no. It's worse.

You've chosen to be a "nomad", "outcast", whatever it is, well, then live by your word.
I was thinking along the lines of something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention

If the app uses DRM (e.g. Netflix), I would imagine that some of these laws could apply depending on the country, right?
No thats what i ment. I need to use it within N period to keep it. If i just receive SMS every other month it will die after a while.

Also as mentioned i cant get it again, prepaid is kind of contract less. If i loose the sim i am not entitled to get the same number again.
Just to offer the other side of this, I, on the other hand, have the kept the same mobile phone number since the beginning.
I wonder how D.C. is able to handle it, the president needs to leave the whitehouse at some point.
This is a rant about an edge case: sure, it sucks for the author but even now few people move more than a few miles of where they are born.

Expecting a Swiss institution to seamlessly support banking from Thailand is, unfortunately, unrealistic. In the pre-internet age I doubt supported well either.

Seems like the author should have talked to their bank about how extra-territorial access works before moving rather than complaining about issues after the fact.

Phone numbers are a red herring.
https://www.truecaller.com/ gives the name of phone owner
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Have you aware of Adrian Kent's critiques of (many of) these attempts?

https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0624
So you are saying it's serious and an alternate solution should exist.
1. are you aware that newspaper were dying before the web ? they were mostly financed by advertising which owned them, also they pretty all been bought by rich people or giant corporations. Then out of the content available on the web (I'm not talking of the internet because I've never seen a journal publish on newsgroups or other parts of the internet that are not the web) newspaper are but a really tiny tiny fraction of the content available. The web was designed as a non-commercial sharing space, so it's no surprise that people expect it to still be used that way. At some point advertisers and marketers (who should suck on tailpipes [1]) invaded the web by the selling the idea that you could make money out by hijacking the traffic of a website. The internet and the web built on top changed the rules of the game and your failed business model is not my problem is the attitude you have to deal with from now on.

That said on the matter of independent (read no advertising) investigative journalism publishing online the number of available spots are limited and the first to move will seize the better place on the market. Look at how mediapart.fr established itself in France and how many stories they get out compared to the other newspapers. They are a success established on initial funding giving no power to the funder and now entirely paid by the readers.

Lesson here is there are people willing to pay and support a truly independent online newspaper, the demand is here and the old newspaper who are dependent on ads and controlled by who has the most shares are not fulfilling it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaD8y-CGhMw
Interesting conclusion and now i am curious what the police/visa offices do with people without fingers. Most likely they offer a alternative, which is all i am ranting for here.

If i choose to have "less" security by using email (in fact its more, but thats a different topic) it should be my choice. I should not be forced to own a fixed telephone number, especially for services that just dont know any better. I should also not be forced to give away possible access to my accounts just because i tend to change phone numbers.

Edit:// To your edit. With "nomad" i dont mean i live like a outcast. I am currently living as digitalnomad. I have a home address and earn money, i just dont have a fixed telephone number anymore.
I didn't know about the pronunciation of "ȝ", and the examples in the article about the silent "gh" helps explain some modern German/English cognates: "daughter/Tochter", "thought/gedacht", etc.

The northern dialect of Middle English that the Pearl poet wrote in ("The Pearl", "Gwain and the Green Knight") makes use of this letter, much more so than Chaucer's more southern English. It's actually possible to read Chaucer with the help of some vocabulary tips -- the Pearl poet, at least in my experience, is way harder.
Come to Australia. Cafe scene is very unique compared to other counties. Starbucks flopped for this reason. People want to hang out in hip cafes selling good coffee.
Are there legitimate use cases for 'data:...' URIs as clickable links? I understand these URIs can be useful for embedding resources directly into the HTML, e.g. images and icons. But as clickable links, I have only ever encountered them as a means to circumvent popup-blockers. Would it be reasonable for web browsers to offer an option for ignoring clicks on such links?
Sorry to break this to ya but I've never had an issue getting at least some traffic through AdWords.

Bounce rates that high mean something is extremely wrong with your site or the keywords you're advertising for. I've purposely setup some bogus ads to use as controls and I still only get around 85% bounce rate. If your site is interesting enough people will sometimes stick around even if they reach you randomly.

Niche products tend to do better with advertising, less competition.

Basically if it's a complete failure you're doing it wrong. Whether you can get a positive ROI is a different story
Those are probably fairly common in image compression standards - designers of image compression are not, in general, going to make their compression less efficient than it has to be. JPEG2000 in particular is likely to be far worse.
Actually, you don't. Former Presidents are just addressed as "Mr Obama".

http://emilypost.com/advice/addressing-a-former-president-of...
This is one of the books I hear about every year and people always find useful and not outdated. Time for a read I guess
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I ported V6 back in the day, I continually would come back to this comment from different code path, always mystified, one day I came to it and it was obvious ....

Essentially this was the days before save/restore were in the C library - savu/aretu are an equivalent that works differently (you savu() somewhere and aretu() somewhere else, it was sad because aretu() played stack games so unlike save() savu() didn't just return a different value on return)

Essentially v6 was a swapping system, fork() (or newproc() in the kernel) worked by allocating memory and making a copy of an app in memory, if there wasn't enough memory it would pretend to swap out the existing process, then mark it as the new process and set a flag (SSWAP), this is the case when it's returning - a process is being swapped in, part way through it realises it's really this special case and this code returns into newproc() as the new process
We do have concepts in play, but we're in the middle of pivoting the brand and I personally was just wondering what HN might be interested in seeing! :) A simplified coffee guide is a good idea and we will definitely keep that in mind.
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I was an exchange student in CA for a year. During my year, I had to interact with my very local and small bank in Norway.

I managed to persuade one employee to change the attached cellphone number to my temporary american one, but they initially didn't think it work.

It was a great day when I got access to my money again.
Their advice seems to be "do not assume invariants on inputs". In which case you can only assume that your input is unescaped, right?

If you could assume escaping, that means you're limiting your input, which seems to go against the advice from my reading.

I gave escaping as an example, but one of the primary ways to reduce bugs is to reduce the scope of possible inputs as much as possible (thus reducing the scope of output to manage).

The requirements are different depending on the use case, but for application-internal code, not relying on that means that so much more global knowledge about the project is necessary to work on it. And, of course, a greater possibility of mistakes (because your requirements are more vast)
What is machine learning? (Oxford Sparks video)
GCM keys means you can send notifications to other users of the app?
They only work on POS & POS data related applications for McDonald's. They were purchased because of this fact.
I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox, and might have fallen for it since I'm not used to the address bar.

Heck, sometimes browsers come with an update that changes it's appearance.
In Helsinki that has been true for more than a decade. Didn't bother to dig exact dates. Btw. It's not stations only. Lines are also covered, so you can keep talking / surfing on train too.
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Every time someone raves to me that their mega-awesome-omg-you-have-to-try-this Third Wave coffee is the best coffee I'll ever try, I have to squint at them real hard and say "Your coffee tastes and smells exactly like less expensive coffee and you're too caught up in the pretention to realize it." Well, I don't say it out loud because then I'd lose friends, but I definitely think it at them.

If you want to expand the coffee market, popularize a US or EU coffee that is actually different instead of just magic wand "better". Open a bag of any ultra-fresh top brand lovingly picked and roasted by elves and unicorns American coffee and then open a bag of Sang Tao from Vietnam and stick your nose in both of them.
This guy is awesome. Back in undergrad, I started an online boutique for hard to find shoes and he let me reproduce some of his content on my site. At the time, I thought it would help with SEO.
actually, i found the "Paradigms Of AI Programming" by peter-norvig to be waay better.
Thanks for your input. Obviously i did, i just did not expect loosing my sim card in the first week. My bank changed my account to paper TANs and i hope they will still support that for a while, after that i could probably opt in to carry a additional card reader device and auth that way.

Obviously i am a edge case. But while trying to fix my issue i encountered several companies who never even though about this kind of case. This is really all i want to reach here. Make people, especially those who implement such systems, think about a alternative or at least a proper workflow to fix issues like this.

I have access to everything i need now, its not like its unsolved and i am crying for help. It sucks that i cant enable 2FA on several sites, but well, for now i have to live with that.
Well now I want to know when and why these disappeared!
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Maybe I agree with you, but science is built on philosophy, which is not rigorous - but based on fuzzy feelings of what is right.

The fact that we accept QM because it predicts the outcome of experiments is philosophy. So I could theoretically imagine someone holding the belief in our universe being what it seems higher than mathematical sense.

Yet my primary point is physicists are just human and have all the same irrational tendencies as the rest of us. You can't ignore their feelings if you hope to convince them of something.
What makes it unique really? I can't really go a block in my current US city without running across some hipster independent coffee shop so I'm legitimately wondering what makes the scene in Australia unique in your opinion? It's something we would consider if the profit margin was worth it.
I know life can be frustrating when you don't fit the conventional profile. It's been the same for me.

But organisations like banks need to have systems that adequately balance security, usability and ubiquity, and it turns out that phone number authentication is optimal across those criteria.

Of course it's not perfect, but empirically it works better than the alternatives (otherwise they'd already have changed it), so we're stuck with it, no matter how much it might frustrate the likes of you and me.

I'm finally old enough to realise that for certain things, like banking, the world is better off that way, else it would would descend into chaos (even more than it already has), and nobody would be able to get anything done.

And maybe it's only possible for people like us to get away with existing on the fringes thanks to the fact that most people are keeping society going by getting things done, and for that reason it's perhaps justifiable that for things like this it's up to us to find a way to fit in with their ways of doing things.
Unnecessary cost? It's the cost of preventing hackers from being able to spin up 100s of EC2 instances using your account.

Make your own damn API. Have it do exactly what users are allowed to do on your behalf. It's not an unnecessary cost, it is 100% necessary if you are interfacing with external services from your app.

Or don't, and get bitten in the ass eventually.
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If people had the choice of not using a mobile phone when creating and account, 1) recovering lost accounts would be much harder (and that's actual support, it costs them money, so they want to avoid it) and 2) fighting spam would also be harder (everybody gets to create an account and send mail with it? Wow, that's really going to cost them money!)

Anyway there are mail providers who won't ask you for a mail. Protonmail and GMX come to my mind.
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Curiously, the article mentions Icelandic for æ, but not for ð or þ, which are still on regular use in modern Icelandic, pretty much in the same Old English meaning of dental fricatives (ð is voiced, þ is voiceless).
It's an over-reach of me to say that they discovered it. This talk gives a good outline of SRP. https://youtu.be/GQueObsIRfI?t=983
I run my own mail server, I can tell you this: Buffer overflows and format string vulns in your imap implementation will be the least of your worries.

It is certainly still valuable work to audit the software used for the mailserver. But the challenges lie elsewhere. The biggest chunks are configuration issues and - if you have users that aren't very security savvy - stolen passwords and subsequent abuse of mail accounts for spam.
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