skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some more friendly options than Google Authenticator if it's a hassle to keep setting up over and over.

I keep my 2FA in 1Password, and it works pretty well. I can access the codes from the desktop app without getting out my phone, or from my phone or tablet if I'm mobile.

The only scary issue is that all that information is encrypted in Dropbox. And I use 2FA on Dropbox! Hello cyclic dependencies! As a result, Dropbox is the only 2FA that I don't store in 1Password.
I think with graphic design becoming a more common skill, the industry's culture has indeed gotten worse. People are more desperate for work and conform to an image and language.
This might be a blow back for Kalanick resigning from Trump's advisory council?
I concur - native en_GB speaker here. Auto(mobile) is probably avoided as a general synonym for car because we use "automatic" to differentiate from the default "manual" AKA "stick-shift".

Having said that, this is probably only modern usage. The AA (Automobile Association) and RAC (Royal Automobile Club) both feature "automobile" in their names and are both well over 100 years old.

I suppose (without doing any research) car is probably short for carriage.
If there's one area where I trust the GOP, it's to use procedural and spoken inconsistency for political gain.

Donald Trump in this regard is an exemplar of the Republican party.
Sure, but, I mean, will we get it sooner if private companies are not working on it at the same time as public research institutions are? If we don't have access to the tech because it is being hoarded, or because it does not exist, the effect is the same. I also think it will be hard to hoard it for long, particularly if it really works the way people are assuming it will work ("immortality serum" style). I think that's wishful thinking for now, and that at the very best we will get the Xerox PARC of ageing research, which, honestly, would be victory enough.

> It might be kept completely secret instead.

Easier said than done. Very few technologies are kept secret in that way. Keep in mind that even for the fission bomb, the Soviets got it fully replicated after just 4 years, and other countries soon followed suit. These days we are all in panic because even marginalized states can afford to build the damn things. The only reason not every developed country has a nuclear arsenal is not secrecy, but legal arrangements and joint defense treaties. Now remember that is literally the strongest conspiracy for scientific secrecy in the history of mankind, with good reasons and everything, and it involves a device for which manufacture is insanely expensive, not just R&D. Medical research is even easier to replicate given even partial information about its workings.
Phreaking in 2017, interesting. The golden age of phreaking ended with SS7. SS5 was very insecure, people could just emit tones in certain frequencies and pull off tricks like calling for free. Maybe this is the beginning of a new era.

I think major websites should stop using SMS and ask for just an authenticator app or secure keys. SMS should be regarded as a bad security practice.
Travis seems more than capable of destroying his company on his own without resorting to fantastical conspiracy theories.
This is really big; if they were misusing credit card records like that, they risk losing accreditation from their PCI systems. There is probably some criminal aspect to violating PCI as well. Does anyone here know more about how PCI works?
You're projecting far more into my post than I said. I have not proposed banning HFT, for example.

Also, you really need to work on your manners, which is why I'm not going to bother addressing the rest of your remarks. Perhaps we can have a more constructive conversation some other time.
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It doesn't require it, but Google makes it better. If you're just looking to make your life easier and not paranoid, there's no downside to having google in your dialer.

and no, i'm pretty sure there's nothing "sacred" about your phone.
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> "People who choose poor lifestyle behaviors"

Most of the healthcare costs are from behavior, a much smaller proportion is from genetics. Insurance should be for insurance not to cover the negative externalities from choice.

Do you really think that people who don't smoker, don't do drugs, don't abuse alcohol, don't drink Coke every day, etc should subsidize those that do? If that's the case, then we should be subsidizing people who speed and drive recklessly.
I'd do neither. It's not necessarily a privacy thing because my health info isn't very sensitive and FB already knows absolutely everything about me.

It's more that Facebook is a place where I socialize, read news, and find local events. Booking a doctor's appt is a totally different use of the service and feels as weird as, for example, doing video calls through YouTube.

I also think people have been burned by the "I think I'm doing something private on FB, but it somehow got published" experience in the past, and this would make them super nervous.

And, finally, I'd imagine this would violate HIPAA laws because Facebook's DB would be holding sensitive health data about your users, so I'm not even sure this is legal without a partnership with Facebook and their own HIPAA compliance.

Edit: HN is also a bad place to ask about this because a lot of people here are privacy wonks and won't even use Gmail or Facebook. Researching products for general consumers is fairly uninformative here.

Edit 2: Actually, I'm sort of horrified if you don't already know the HIPAA implications. Doesn't your company deal with those every day?
Yes, it teaches you to manage your precious time to the second, but it also teaches you how to effectively get things done when you only have sparse 15-30 minute chunks rather than long stretches of time to concentrate. It used to take me 30 minutes just to "get in the zone." Keep that up and you'll never get anything done as a parent. You need to be able to snap yourself into the zone in 30 seconds, get something accomplished, and then go deal with throw-up.

Your life becomes interrupt-driven rather than batch processes. Even if you have the same quantity of time (you won't), you need to live differently to handle it.
The paper is dated 94 which is the same year as the original implementation as the C++ STL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Library#Impl...). So it's a fair bet they didn't have access to that. I would think the entire difficulty of the exercise would change with that.
I think you're confused about the meaning of "value".

HFTs don't provide any value, but they do extract a lot of money from what used to be called a "market".
I keep reading about software developers who sleep every night and work 8 hour days. Both are completely foreign concepts to me.
The honesty in this post is really refreshing and insightful. There are a lot of people in tech who would kill to be in your position (see every monthly-ish thread about how to make passive income or how to make money off of an app). It's interesting to think about what proportion of those such people who achieve their goal would end up feeling like how you feel - having a lot of free time, and spending a large chunk of it worrying instead of being as hyper-productive as they imagined they could be.
If these backup codes are in your password manager, you're effectively* back to 1FA. Same with putting the TOTP seed into it.

* Yes, technically you need the 1Password file as well. But someone who compromises your machine will get access to both. Or if you have it synced to your phone and both are unlocked with a fingerprint, all someone needs is your device and a little effort to fool the fingerprint sensor.
What I am always curious about are all these rentals on AirBnB owned by the people renting it out? As I am renting myself and my rental agreement clearly states I can't underlet it: "Not assign, underlet or part with or share possession of the whole or any part of the Property."

Ain't this a normal item in an agreement? How does this work? Are they just breaking their agreement?
Not that I recommend SMS, but if thieves steal my phone I turn off its Google voice connection and it stops getting text that particular phone #, which I can still get just fine in Google Voice. More to the point I do tend to feel like N-factor auth is often a sort of Matryoshka doll thing on one end or another more than anything.
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I would say it's more likely if he had stayed the politics could have stopped it. Now that he quit, he doesn't have the boss's blessing so they are free to pursue.

This is exactly what K street is paid to stop.
Feels odd to see this posted today (it was written in January).

I have a lot of respect for anyone trying to help in the healthcare sector, but IMO today has shown that all the well meaning Silicon Valley rhetoric and VC cash in the world means very little in a sector dominated by partisan politics.

If you want to fix healthcare the best thing you could do is run for office. Anything else is just window dressing.
Meaning they'll eventually become capable of digesting sucralose? Or that the artificial sugars are killing our gut bacteria. One I care about. Haha.
>the Greyball technique was also used against suspected local officials who could have been looking to fine drivers, impound cars or otherwise prevent Uber from operating, the employees said

Doesn't Uber have a responsibility to protect itself and its drivers from fake riders looking to do harm even if they're government employees??

I think going after average or in many cases poor people trying to make a buck driving Uber is an "aggressive tactic"
RICO laws are pretty broad.
they have a lot of leeway in establishing jurisdiction

use of the internet in general being one of them. "but that means the feds could..." yes, yes it does
Godwin's
Hmm. But local taxi regulations are not federal law, so what's the underlying federal crime being committed?
> No one outside of very limited subsets of the software development community uses it.

Well, sure, but there's nothing wrong with that, it doesn't mean the language is bad, and it certainly doesn't mean that it's wrong to use it.
They are a bit hard, but filling. I microwave my chocolate chip ones to make a cookie.
I studied economics. Also, I used to install trading systems for hedge fund managers. Your reply is not responsive to the question I posed, and tells me nothing I don't already know.

And yes, people do die from drinking too much water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Yes, I used my credit card, though. I already had too much trouble with Paypal (after two years still they frozen my account) to avoid them
Is there a petition somewhere I can sign to support the acquisition of a new laserhorse?
I think are pretty large barriers to entry to hft. You need enough capital to develop a sophisticated, heavily error checked trading strategy, set up your own network to ensure low latency, the IT infrastructure/engineers to manage this,.. it's not like a few burnt out traders can open up hft firm in their garage so I think any stampede is unlikely
"Auto" maybe but "mobile" and "phone" are definitely equally used synonyms along with "mobe" in all the areas of the UK that I have been to (most).

"Landline" is seeing a resurgence as general parlance for the thing gathering dust, which used to be simply _the_ phone.
It would depend on the software. Pilots can only rely on their own personal experience, plus anything they might have been taught, overheard, or read about somewhere.

An AI pilot can learn from every mistake made by every AI pilot, can absorb everything important from their collective experience.

It's not a fair fight. If the designer set about testing the AI's ability to land on water, eventually it'd find a way of doing it, and then that could become part of the corpus of experience.

AI pilots stand to theoretically be better than any pilot ever. If there's ever a better human pilot, their experience can be documented, examined, and imported into the core AI.
Even mindfulness meditation can stimulate the vagus nerve:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201602...

Since psychological factors have a large effect on vagus tone, it's important to do double-blind trials.
This is exactly the problem with technology. Asshole companies have to productify everything. It's not about being paranoid, it's about operational simplicity. Dialing a phone is dialing a phone; not everyone wants Google to think for them

The act of punching in a number should not require any outside services or assistance or requirements. If there are value-added components to add then they can manifest as modular extras or in another part of the device. This is a violation of user expectations and runs contrary to 75+ years of muscle memory. (And to add... dialing a phone should be a core, fundamental, and inviable aspect of smartPHONE and its OS, not something OEMs can swap out)

Watching technology companies supplant (erm, "disrupt") established and proven tech with their crap is extremely depressing. We had nice things, and then we threw them away because we are stupid and lazy. Why do "technologists" ruin everything?

"Smart" my ass.
It's the other way around. Higher GI carbs will absorb quicker and cause spikes in blood sugar levels. Maltodextrin is considered a complex carb but it breaks down quickly into glucose so the impact on your blood sugar levels is on par with dextrose.

Every time someone talks about Soylent I always bring up the main ingredient, Malto, it's such a terrible substitute for real complex carbs (oats, brown rice, etc.). You may as well be pounding sugar all day. Maltodextrin is what I use in my post-workout shake to spike my insulin.
Note to anyone considering vscode; educate yourself on the telemetry and tracking embedded in this app before blindly installing it
I don't think greed or spinelessness have anything to do with it. AI is similar to nuclear weapons : Any country that doesn't have military AI will have a huge disadvantage against a country that does. Every country rationally believes that AI will improve their military chances, and every country rationally believes that every other country desires AI for their military as well.

China and Russia will certainly build AI drones as soon as they possibly can. The only thing that happens if western countries don't build them is that they are at a significant disadvantage.
Wow, jeez, the ratio was so close I just assumed. You select a Canadian flag on the website, pay with a Canadian credit card, deliver to a Canadian address, and they charge you in US dollars without mentioning it anywhere (and all prices unmarked USD vs CAD). Unreal.
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Right. A programmer will never "emulate consciousness", not directly anyway. Rather, a programmer will create a "software brain", which, then, will be subjected to all kinds of experiences, which, in turn, will result in this brain becoming conscious - gradually.
At first, it seemed like legitimate software to assess spam until:

> For example, it mined credit card information to see if the owner was affiliated with a credit union used by police and checked social media profiles to assess the likelihood that the person was in law enforcement.

Yikes. I know people who have the mentality that this sort of thing is ok. Whether you're a startup that never makes it, or one worth billions, at some point this kind of stuff surfaces. You can't run a successful company and get away with this stuff, especially as a start up when everyone is out to get you even moreso.

I'm still waiting for the big one that makes me quit using Uber though.
> Can there be a way the browsers do that on download as a step rather than expecting every website owner to do it.

Browsers perform far more downloads than site admins do uploads/pushes, so it makes sense to do it on the server. Especially since these approaches are reasonably heavyweight, unlike e.g. gzip or SSL, which browsers already spend time running.

I suppose the frustration is that the majority of sites won't implement this (just statistically; nothing against the projects!), and the same can be said of many other technologies (e.g. Google's pagespeed server plugins).

I can see two ways to get the most 'bang for your buck' in this sense:

- Run these techniques in a caching proxy, like squid, and point your browsers at that. This way, you can get the boost yourself, without imposing it on others; plus it's cached and shared across browsers/machines.

- Encourage commonly-used Web site infrastructure, like WordPress, Drupal, Apache, etc. to implement these things as seamlessly as possible (e.g. an admin page tickbox), and update/comment-on/etc. popular guides and tutorials for these programs to mention that these options exist. In fact, there's probably much more low-hanging fruit to be had by optimising popular CMSs in general (especially popular themes!)
Nope. Lyft has to protect themselves from Uber drivers.
Well, it was for a project that deals with distributed low level high performance data processing. Not something a JS or even a typical application level programmer need to know about these days.
The PDF goes through different rendering paths for display vs print. It's GDI+ for display, and WPF with an XPS spool file for print. So my guess is whatever does PDF to XPS filtering/conversion is getting something wrong; but then it could be complicated by an addtitional bug in the print driver which is why the report says the bug depends on what printer is used for printing.
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> If you read an article from 10 years ago about the best way to do something in the language, that article is probably outdated by two generations.

Thank you, that is all I need to know about Haskell. I won't be learning Haskell then, in the same way that I won't have anything to do with C++. I don't have enough time to use these fashion-dominated and fad-obsessed programming languages.
> The FCC doesn't allow encrypted traffic on amateur bands

Would traffic that is not encrypted but is instead authenticated (with a MAC tag or AEAD'd) be allowed? What are the exact FCC rules and laws at work?
I kept on reading, but I instantly knew this was a vanity piece for the company. The analogy is just so wrong so it's indicative of lazy article writing.

Digression: I suppose a real "Uber of health insurance" would be an app with a map that shows doctors, ERs, walk-in clinics and other practitioners that lets you see someone immediately and also pay for it directly within the app.

...and that's a stupid idea - we already have walk-in clinics in Google Maps, and if I wasn't insured I wouldn't put a $5,000 ER invoice on my credit card without at least negotiating on it first.
Isn't the whole idea to kill Unix?

Use funding to keep keep the 'cool things' purposefully incompatible, GPL'ed, and controlled via influence by well-staffed and funded corporate sponsors..

This keeps the IT people from getting too powerful w/r/t the managers...
I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know. It just seems to me that if you use infrastructure that crosses state borders, e.g. a telephone or a computer network, to facilitate a crime committed in a state the Federal government has at least some reason to bring a criminal case. I suspect it'd be a law passed under the Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution.
True. But considering RICO's original intent, investigating a software company for evading draconian local taxi regulations seems out of scope.
In what way is it 'elitist' to dislike the pablum ditched out by television channels? Strange, the way things go. It used to be that those who did not have a television set were seen as backwards but now it seems to be the opposite.

I never liked television programming, not as a child, not as an adult. There is nothing elitist about it, I just like doing things myself.

BTW, the mere fact that you're replying to a message I submitted to this forum should tell you it I do not consider everything that comes on a screen an unnecessary diversion, given the fact that the probability of me using a screen to read and enter text here is rather high. Television is quite well-defined as being a medium designed for mostly passive consumption of entertainment and information. It is the combination of hardware and a whole industry to provide programming to animate those screens. It is the latter, the industry and its products, which I dislike. The hardware can be quite useful.