skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I got one 4 months ago and quickly found out that I understand next to nothing about it. I really thought it was going to be a plug-n-play solution but it was far from it. It took me nearly an hour to get my google account setup to use it. For some reason the little wizard thing on Google that "syncs" your yubikey was giving me trouble. After I finally got that part working i pretty much forgot about the whole thing. I had plans to also use it with KeePass in addition to Google but after reading that you basically have to hack this thing to work with both I pretty much decided it wasn't worth the effort. It's really sad how great this little thing is and how much of a pain it is to actually get any use out of it.
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Ah.. I was hoping there was a substantial practical reason that I had overlooked.
There's more money in sugar-addicted fat people. Even in the US, drug and food policy is coordinated (see FDA drug approval board https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/100/5/296/938813/Membe...). It's a big industry where profitable addictive foods also support a lucrative obesity healthcare industry ($190bn in the US, https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesi...).
Fleeing from countries such as Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, and Slovenia? And pretending there are only two options - let them stay forever, or gun them down at the border, is dishonest at best. We ship food half way around the world, there's no reason wealthy countries can't fund refugee camps and in general help and give aid to countries that accept refugees. This would also reduce the number of tragic drownings in the Mediterranean. But I don't see it suggested much as an option in the media...

And, are you saying the stance of governments to their people is "We need more workers - breed faster, or we'll import someone who will"? Britons are now an ethnic minority in London, but only racists would be bothered by the same taking place in their countries, I guess.
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What the heck is "government-grade" spyware? 3X the cost but doesn't work?
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There are U2F alternatives, several of which are mentioned in this thread. Also, U2F is immune to phishing while TOTP isn't. Your advice is actively harmful.
Yes: delete your phone number.
I don't! I didn't know that could happen. Feel free to try it and I'll see what I get billed...
I'd encourage you to look at other generators as well. Jekyll and Octopress are the big ones. I'm a little soured on Octopress at the moment because I don't like the way it manages ruby dependencies. I plan to evaluate pelican soon to see if the situation is any better.

I'd also advocate using a real host instead of gh-pages because it gives you more control. In my case I like using TLS on my own domain.
I'm more interested in seeing something that maintains the desirable properties of email while dropping backward compatibility with SMTP. But the 'encrypted messenger' community isn't interested in working on that because they think (apparently?) that email does not have any desirable properties compared to siloed IM systems.
this, alway laugh when people try and act like everybody in the past was conversing with each other on public transport. People haven't changed in the last 50 years.
Commute to work, write emails
I don't understand why everyone is shocked, this is a good decision for the company to generate more revenue.
It's on F-Droid, so probably: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=yubico&fdid=...
The maintainer of the "Conversations" XMPP client wrote an interesting response to that article:

https://gultsch.de/objection.html
Yup.

That said, Apple doesn't advertise the iPhone as having NFC. It's just an implementation detail for the features they do advertise.
I've studied Roman history a bit but not sure what you are alluding to, care to elaborate?
Because HTML table elements are treated differently by assistive technologies.
And how exactly did you hack the 'depression mechanism?'
Check out PanicKit: https://guardianproject.info/2016/01/12/panickit-making-your...
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads—and that's ok: https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2014/08/10/the-best-minds-o...

Also relevant: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-04-14/this-tech...
Not to mention that it's yet another dependency, which is another thing that's avoided by doing configuration through a header file.
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Agreed. When I read that Medium were doing subscriptions, I was like "cool, I'll be able to charge people to read my content on Medium". I likely wouldn't get a lot of paying subscribers reading my content, but I guess I'd get at least a few.

Yet every article seems to make this out as 'Medium charges for content, writers continue getting sod all for it'.

Sorry Medium, but if turns out to be more than the latter than the former, then I'll stop writing on your platform. If you're implementing a bunch of ways to make money, let the creators on your site use them to make money from their own works. We're not writing for free so you can charge people money to read it.
While the take-home approach has it's drawbacks (biased towards candidates with more time, like those without families), I think it's great you test the basic tools needed to work in this era. Classification aside, the rest would be good checks for most non-DS software development roles.
Unless someone circumvented the safeguards, but I don't really know enough to say how likely that is.
this is very sad. I live blocks from Lehman college but that was a few decades before my time (if he taught in 1979). Unrelated, there is also Melvyn Nathan who does additive combinatorics.
Yet you're reading and writing comments on Hacker news :) You may just have a _different_ addiction
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For me the desktop app regularly seems to consume way too much RAM (memory leak?), and it regularly doesn't shut down properly or even crashes, and this is on two separate macs.

Could be that it's a MacOS Sierra issue, but considering the number of 'random weird shit' that happens when I have the app open (playback working fine but visually stuck on an ad, to name a recent issue), I'm inclined to think it's just a piece a shit.

On the one hand I am baffled by the terrible quality, but then I remember that even companies like Google aren't always much better. My Google Inbox app (on iPhone), for example, regularly gets 'stuck' on showing a badge icon of '1' even though I can't for the life of me produce the email that causes this. It's been this way for quite a while and I just don't get how it's possible that a big company like Google lets this happen. And again, I understand it's possible there's some weird edge case that causes this to happen for just me or very few other users, but considering that I run into a whole bunch of other weird issues using Google Inbox, I'm inclined to conclude, once again, that it's just a piece of shit.
Not really. The client may not be sharing its spy tools but is very likely lying about how organizations are being classified as terrorists.

This is about the law enforcement agency, not the arms dealer.
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My issue with Medium is low barrier to entry for most authors. Whenever I see a HN post which links to Medium I never click on it. I have read many Medium post which ended up being self promotional pieces with little or no substance or flat out click-bait.
I agree with the idea that sin taxation is stupid in the sense that there's a moral component involved. The tax in this case is essentially an indulgence. That said, I see a benefit in taxing soda and cigarettes in particular because they impose a substantial externalized cost on society that isn't reflected in their price. With smoking its lost productivity for smoking, sickness, secondhand smoke, etc. With soda its increased diabetes, weight, secondary issues (joints, etc.).

I do love me some regular Dr. Pepper, but it's so bad for me I rarely drink it any more. (Admission: I still drink diet soda. I had to acquire the taste.)
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If you want more-secure methods adopted, they have to be easy to use.

I find that encrypted PDFs are a reasonable option, even when reading on mobile.

If I want to send myself something sensitive, I attach a password-protected PDF; then even if I open the “E-mail” on my iPhone, I am prompted for a password before I am allowed to view it.

And frankly, I wish that web sites would stop trying to implement their own clunky mail-like “secure” messaging systems and just use password PDF. I hate receiving these “you have a secure message on oursite.com!” messages that are impossible to deal with on mobile (not to mention they appear very spam-like at first).
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That's the sort of capital banks will happily lend to you.
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more features can even be harmful as in default OTP mode of those devices: https://hackernoon.com/avoid-leaking-your-identity-with-yubi...
I've really enjoyed some of the articles I've read on Medium and would love to support the authors. However, one of the hardest things is finding other similar or interesting articles. I'd pay a monthly fee for a list of daily/weekly articles that ML or user like me recommend. I love to learn but the hard thing is sometimes finding the new thing to learn about.
Got it, I checked https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and did not see it in there. May want to add it?
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Good decision for the company, but no upside for the user.

I have a strong policy against inline ads, so I may have to reconsider using Disqus for my blog if this goes through. (Unfortunately, the only competiton left is Facebook Comments)
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I only notice Disqus when it doesn't work—missing comments, broken links, terrible Javascript loading, etc. So my impression of Disqus is their failure case. I have no sense of implementations when it works well, let alone "long-tail" issues like privacy or advertising. I just see the Disqus logo and think, "Ugh... Discus."
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can you elaborate on s-expressions?
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As is, it doesn't. It should be possible to build an app with the email nature on top of the Matrix protocols though, and I'm led to understand there are people working on it.
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I assume the OP is talking about reimplementing the channels client. Though now I'm not sure.
Same thinking, I expect, that gave us XSLT.
The problem that a lot of people refuse to acknowledge or simply haven't thought of is that a very large portion of the world's population is being left out of the debate about whether or not we should even be moving down these techno-futuristic paths. It's just sort of happening based on the desire of a few million nerds. It's not as though people are universally happy about the technological advancements over the past 20 years. Even people within the tech community debate over the woes of information overload, device overuse, increasing reliance on inherently insecure systems, etc, and even then those are debates about what has already come to pass.

Questions that are being answered without the feedback of the world at large:

Should we create artificial intelligences and allow them to become integral parts of our most critical systems?

Should we become increasingly reliant on the Internet, to the point at which ones survival is predicated upon their access to it?

Should we create robots in our image to perform the duties humans used to perform and what should the limit to the abilities and sophistication we imbue them be?

Should we be mapping the human genome and creating technologies that alter, categorize, and predetermine our genetic makeup?

Should we be dedicating significant resources to inhabiting other planets instead of focusing on maintaining the habitability of our own planet?

Should we be trying to eradicate all disease and are we aware of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of doing so?

Science is great at helping us figure out how to do these things, but it's useless for figuring out whether or not they should be done. Unfortunately, the virtue of science is so over-emphasized in postmodern western culture (especially in universities) that our ability to wrestle with the ethics of our technological advancements has become severely diminished.

The institutions that used to provide a significant counterweight to scientific thought are being squeezed out of a world that is becoming increasingly reliant on the systems that scientific endeavors have helped to establish. The wealth, influence, and power in the world is shifting rapidly from religious institutions to scientific ones. The assumption is that this shift is universally good – a move from ignorance to enlightenment – and in a lot of ways this is true.

Nobody can deny the benefits the enlightenment has brought to the world. But we're simply trading one set of problems for another. We better able to understand what the physical world is and to be able to bend it to our will, but we are less able to understand the metaphysical world and properly define the way in which we ought to live. We're swinging too far in the other direction when we should be trying to figure out the correct balance between the two.
>What's the benefit of decentralization?

Decentralization/Federalization + Standard Protocols. To really get the full potential, one needs both, since only then the network is truly free.

Nobody can tell you how to access the Network, what software to use, who you can communicate with, etc.

If you try using an unofficial WhatsApp client (eg. when you don't have you're phone), they can delete your account, and you can't do anything against that. This is IMO just too much control the central server has over the client.
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If you're actually in a "great firewall" type situation, though, what are the chances that an average user is going to correctly run your own server securely? Configuring an email server securely is even more complicated than setting up PGP.
If you're interested in Realtime-First development, Meteor has been doing it since 2013 and is very production-ready at this point: https://www.meteor.com/
... on a site where you come for the commentary. (And, by extension, that commentary is healthy and helpful.) Those comment-blocking plugins just keep you from being tempted to read the comments on other sites where the idiocy, toxicity, and trolling is just mind-boggling.
I would imagine that if someone had the ability to defeat their safeguards they would have the ability to recreate the tools themselves.

At this level, these tools are more weapons than software. All the client wants is an end, they could care less about the means.
I wonder if somebody with a bone to pick with a soda tax works in a bureau that has access to this weaponized malware. Seems like the most plausible case to me.
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You are mixing up a couple of things. This "dimension" you're talking about is probably the dimension of a vector space. The real numbers, as a vector space over the field of real numbers (recall that vector spaces are defined over fields of numbers), have dimension 1. However, you can consider the vector space of real numbers over the field of rational numbers. What is the dimension of this vector space? Well, the dimension of a (finite-dimensional) vector space is given by the number of elements in a basis for it. So how do we go about finding a basis for R over Q? A basis for R over R consists solely of the number "1", since given a real number "x" there exists an element from the field (in this case R), namely x itself, such that multiplying it by 1 will give you the number x. Yes, this sounds obvious, but that's how you prove that R over R has dimension 1. So, going back to R over Q, we see that "1" cannot be a basis, since if we pick, say, pi, there is no rational that we multiply 1 by to give pi. Moreover, there cannot be any finite number of real numbers that would make up a basis for R over Q, since then R would be countable (look this up if you don't know what it is). So the dimensionality of a vector space depends on which field you're considering. By the way, the vector space of complex numbers over the reals has dimension 2 (a basis is {1, i}), but over the complex numbers it has dimension 1. So, there's an "extra" dimension only if you consider it over the reals.
It's possible to disable SMS-based 2FA. Perhaps you need another backup option before you're allowed to remove the SMS option. In my case, I was able to do it with two U2F keys, TOTP and backup codes enabled.

You might need to remove it as an account recovery number as well. Those can effectively downgrade your login to one factor.
> The major issues facing humanity aren't going to be solved by quicker analysis of data as EM seems to desire

You can already see the results of a society where data comes in too quick for the "average" citizen to process. Fake news, hoaxes, Trump, climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, etc.

This technology cannot come soon enough.
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Oh, thank you so much for that! I find Spotify to be an even bigger turd than iTunes (at least in the ways that matter to me), but I use it for the discovery. This tip is a good addition!
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I believe I'm speaking to an audience that is generally pretty good at not being phished.
Side note: one son overdosed and one nephew in prison, maybe having everything (post-scarcity, basic income, etc.) could be an issue for society.
With the surge in Ad Blocking recently, part of me wonders how accurate the Google Analytics JavaScript tracker is today, and how accurate it will be in 5 years. I wonder if we'll see a trend back to server-side analytics soon.
My favorite is on iOS. TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS. TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS. It asks you on every launch, and even puts a notification inside the app that stays there until you turn on notifications. So it always looks like you have a message from somebody. It never goes away.
This article appears very WordPress centric. While I assume they'd add ads to the Javascript downloaded and run on the page, there is a possibility of this only applying to the plugin, does anyone know for sure?

I use Disqus on a static Jekyll generated page and adding ads to my blog saddens me. My blog doesn't get much traffic, but it's always nice to see an email when someone cares enough about what I wrote to comment. I fear I'll have to migrate to something else if this holds true. Alternatives for my low traffic, low touch (I'm not a web dev) blog?
> But PGP-over-SMTP would still leak important metadata, and you would still have problems with forward secrecy and key revocation.

I don't think a well-integrated PGP-over-SMTP client would leak any more metadata than the likes of Signal does? Build in a good subkey rotation config and you'd solve most of the forward secrecy issues, and good defaults for how to treat revocation (including better expiry defaults) would resolve that issue. No?
$67M is probably a drop in the bucket for them.
so a digital pill?
Why does your security model treat your customers as the adversary?

They can already steer the tractor in any direction they want, for any nefarious purpose. You're just removing their ability to automate away labor (steering). This is essentially an economic, not a safety-oriented, policy.
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If you subscribe to a github repo you get issue emails by default. So issues could still be "backed up" by email on github.
You would think that the presence of any unsafe block in the program's text, or even linkage with libc could result in (legitimate, non UB) aliasing in lots of code. Though I suppose that the private-linkage-by-default could help drastically reduce the scope it has to consider, maybe in some cases it can safely say that data is not aliased.
And for anyone who think Elon Musk is the new Steve Jobs, or thinking Apple should buy Tesla so Elon could be CEO of Apple, you should think again.
Doesn't regular soda fall into these categories, too?
Is this coming from a general Luddite-type stance or something more interesting? Care to dig into this more?
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I don't understand this obsession against ads on HN. The only countries that don't have ads in the streets are North Korea and before that the Soviet Union. It's a great way to let people know about your business and participate peacefully into the free exchange of goods and services with our other fellow human beings. And in computing it allows to offer amazing services to the poorest for free (google, facebook etc). In Peru for example where I used to live, students had to buy expensive books before or just couldn't find good source of education for free easily to help them with their studies, they now can and it really changed people's life (eg my wife's :)).

Edit: no need to downvote just because you disagree...
I was a teaching assistant at UC Santa Barbara for 3 years, I can tell you, students might slug through the calculations , but none -- or a precious few -- really get the big picture.

Mostly, it is that calculus pedagogy is a disaster. And it hasn't been updated to include recent advances in technology (such as Data Science)

Strang is an amazing lecturer. I can tell you, that far into your Masters and PhD these same basic issues resurface. There's at least one project I can think of where the entire problem hinges on taking one derivative.
You can have it behave like a keyboard and simply 'type' the characters of the one time password in. I don't know how locked down your systems but usually keyboards are allowed.
IIRC, the main reason that accessibility software doesn't have access to login screens is because malicious software has historically used accessibility APIs to steal passwords (e.g. by eavesdropping on a login screen, or by presenting a fake one and then using the accessibility APIs to pass through the password to the real one).