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Your description needs work:

ServiceBot is a platform for a business to sell their services and automate the administrative tasks such as billing and invoicing.

This really gives me no idea what on earth you do. What problem do you solve? What value do you add?

You don't want to say something like "This tablet has an 8 inch screen." You want to say stuff like "This tablet fits handily in your pocket while having a larger than average screen size and is easily readable in full daylight." Your current description is the "8 inch screen" type description. It is not informative and it is not compelling.

You need to find a way to convey to people what you do for them. Time saved. Money earned. Problems solved. Convenience. Portability. Reduced headaches.
Many phone companies will allow you to (a) add an annotation to your account to declare the number you are using should never be ported to another company, and (b) add a password to the account that you will have to provide to customer service representatives when making changes. This helps to minimize the chance that an attacker can use social engineering to redirect your number to a system under his or her control. If these are not options for your phone company, find a better phone company.

Even given that, since it relies upon human choice and behavior, and does nothing versus attackers with assets within the phone company, it seems a bad idea to have 2FA via SMS.
The scheme is very elaborate, multi-step process so the risk is quite low. Once in motion it is nearly impossible to prevent by a bank, but it would be trivially preventable by Facebook, if they just bothered to check the url and warn if they find them suspicious.

EDIT:

BTW this shows that sites like Let's Encrypt, which automatically issue certificates to websites kind of defeat the whole purpose of certificates - they only check that the site exists and requestor has admin access to it, but do nothing to check whether it is legitimate business or scam.

A green padlock in the address bar should mean that the site is trustworthy. Now it only means that site admin knows how to setup https.
Agreed, unlike other administration-heavy fields such as academics and government, STEM really can't sustain a net-negative contributing subset who are a natural baggage of egalitarianism. Considering the dangers in fields such as engineering and medicine and the many important systems that software fuels there are serious consequences when competency filters are devalued in the name of some idealized form of equality or other social hierarchies or attempting to fulfill some artificial processes in the name of risk aversion.

But in a more practical sense life is too short to be a smart person without having a bit of elitism. Which is both a result of optimization and a bit of cynicism.

You can indeed be a mathematician without being a genius. In the sense you can understand the field and convince enough people of your value to keep you employed.

Every field has tons of busy work and not particularly challenging jobs but jobs that none-the-less need to be done and are ultimately an important piece of the puzzle. So it's true that any field, even STEM, shouldn't be hostile to the 9-to-5ers and the 'middling' bunch, merely because they aren't genius.

That said - if you're going to push those fields forward and make real progress like these two:

> Andrew Wiles, who is credited with solving Fermat’s Last Theorem, and I met Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincare Conjecture

you have to be top tier. Or close enough to it to feed off the top tier. These are typically the people pushing industries forward which generate work for the middling level tiers who weren't child prodigies. In math meaning the people to work out the details of proofs and finding real world applications.

Talent shortages are usually the result of the work of this tier. So it will always be a symbiotic relationship between the genius/elite and average person. The problem largely then isn't so much the elitism, or the fact their is an elite, but merely that the field was given a false image as being limited to only those types of people. Rather than one that needs (and welcomes) the average-person as much as any other field.

More of a marketing problem than a systemic one.

The people doing middling busy-work aren't going to fill pages of Bloomberg or fill the pages of books like 'Men of Mathematics'. But regardless the fact is there are a small subset at the top are doing pioneering work and that is what makes them interesting. Why else would New Yorker write an extend profile on Grigori Perelman and Shing-Tung Yau? They are interesting because they a small group at the top. If there were a bunch of them then Grigori wouldn't have a million dollar prize for his work nor would layman be praising them.
How is that difficult to turn off?
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I think the general reputation among the, say, postdocs (generally intelligent and creative but cynical and past the naivete of the grad student) in synthetic biology whenever Professor Church makes an announcement, is that yes, that was something we had mused about but we know already culled it as a bad idea or an idea not worth pursuing at the moment ("I can't believe he actually had the audacity to propose doing that"), and a generally feeling of pity for the grad students and postdocs who are obligated to work on it. Of course that limits the pity to the seen; think of all the poor souls tirelessly working on the project that either totally failed or were a just a cog in the machine on a giant effort that would probably have taken less time and less effort if only the community had waited for the tools to become marginally more sophisticated.

Of course when you are as politically connected and as well known as Professor Church, you can afford to burn people on these impractical efforts, which of course cements your reputation as being successful at doing the marginally possible (or unuseful but with a wowworthy headline), which attracts grad students and postdocs who either blindly or cynically chase working for someone who will improve their reputation, and also makes it possible to further secure funding for crazy projects that anyone else would be laughed at for pursuing (if they were unsensible enough to do in the first place).
You say that, and I'm aware of the historical context. But you cannot deny that the majority of the text is devoted to questions like which verbs are appropriate and how words as used in mathematics relate to their notions used in math.

In my experience, logic falls into two catgeories: using math to study a formal system of logic; and determining "foundations for all math" and determining what is an "irreducible form of nature" and other such prosaic things (can the phrase "such that" be defined?). In my humble opinion, the former is mathematics and the latter philosophy.
Also amazing is that McMaster has been like this since the beginning of time. Or at least 2001 when I began ordering from them. I've been waiting 16 years for Amazon to achieve similar fidelity in their parts catalog but it has actually become significantly worse in recent years.
I gather some banks have fraud detection systems that will flag suspicious transactions, triggering a phone call to the customer.

While I haven't experienced that personally, a friend reported getting such a call from his bank after he ordered $400 of fireworks online.

Unfortunately it's all pretty opaque and bank dependent - as far as I know, there's no way a merchant can trigger such a call, for example.
If I was stuck with 40 hrs/wk + 2 wks vacation a year I would be pretty miserable, and it occurs to me that this is something I had to recognize and take action on personally.

Well don't keep us in suspense, what'd you do about this?
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What settings exactly do I have to change to get GMail to never unlock my account by SMS alone?

I have enabled proper 2FA on my Google account with U2F, but I haven't disabled everything else yet because I only have one token, and I still need something like TOTP for stuff that uses Google accounts, but doesn't support U2F.

As a closely related remark, I wish U2F would just get popular enough, it's pretty convenient, isn't vulnerable against the kind of attack SMS-based 2FA is, and protects against phishing. But almost nobody outside Google supports it, and OS/Application support is rather incomplete or requires additional setup.
Sure, in theory, but how do you solve a problem like this in practice? What is it about a given URL that makes it suspicious?

Is there a whitelist? Because then the press and the rest of the internet will cry censorship and stifling of innovation.

Is there an algorithm? Then the scammers simply learn how to game the algorithm and defeat it easily. (This applies to some easy checks like domain registration date too.)

Is it a team of humans? That's a lot of sites and a lot of humans to employ. What about user-reports? Now you have to deal with false reporting and abuse.

While it's possible for some combination of approaches to succeed here, it's not nearly trivial.
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I thought technically you can do it in less than N^3 (with a huge constant factor). See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppersmith%E2%80%93Winograd_a...
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This 'tree' has the environmental benefits of a forest
Same here. 90s were me working my butt off to get a Ph.D. which I didn't end up using, and watching my pals who worked at X, Y, Z cashing out. Some very good times were had for sure, but I don't feel nolstalgic about times when I was eating ramen, working 36 hour shifts at the synchrotron and driving a $200 car.

I do feel a bit nostalgic about the 80s; the music, the big hair, and feelings of immanent nuclear doom, and the eventual fall of the Iron Curtain: a very unique feel to this era. Granted I was a teenager for most of it, so maybe that's why.

As for age: the main thing I've noticed is my hairline and my joints aren't what they used to be. Exercise, eating right and occasional fasting seems to stave off msot of the physiological effects of aging. I'm pretty sure working in a creative field (and being around a lot of younger people) helps a lot with the psychological aspects.
IMO, each generation faces different landscape of software and hardware infrastructure and end-device. The existing social net work and communication solutions can't meet the delta of this generation's needs against previous ones, hence there comes the big unmet needs from the emerging generation. However, solution builders have to be close to this generation enough to have enough sense/instinct of the delta to build products that can actually cover those delta.

Just my observation and not being described accurately and clearly enough here. But I hope you get what I'm trying to say.
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I edited the post because I hit a rate limit on HN. I don't like it either, but I have to choose my use of replies carefully.

The problem you miss is that people have different identities. And people want to interact with others, to communicate with people, through those identities. Locking up your kinks in a vault isn't really an option if you want to share them with a community of like-minded individuals. But just because you do, you don't necessarily want your family to be able to look them up on Google.

People have different even potentially public personas, that they still want to keep separate. Under a variety of names, I'm involved in a variety of different communities, some of which I don't really want people I know IRL to know about, some which I don't mind. But all of them are out there on the Internet, because that's how I interact with them.

Actually, apart from the Google-centric notion of it and the lack of multiple identities (exacerbated by Google's "real name policy", Google+ was probably the closest Google got to getting this right: I could put specify which Circles people belonged in, and share information with each independently.
I don't think they can. Netflix needs Apple more than Apple needs Netflix.
The amount isn't the issue here, it's the fact that the so-called fake in this case is exactly the same as the real thing, since likes are just integer values.
I use DDG on all my devices at home and work. This whole thread has been a learning experience to me, because I never experience the various problems people have been reporting with AMP.

Perhaps my results could have been loading faster? I'm not willing to make a deal with the devil to find out. I'm pretty satisfied with what I have now.
I don't agree with his post. However it was clearly a reasonable position and not "unsubstantive comments and rants" as you are claiming. That is not a reasonable claim at all. Your post is unwarranted and is highly abusive. Just stop. Bullying valid minority viewpoints is not cool and does not contribute to the quality of polite rational debate and discussion.
Don't people do that anyway. I am not dropping any wisdom, I am telling you how it is. What you do about it is up to you. From a societal perspective we are already doing things to make the dominance hierarchy of the corporation more amenable to humans. Stopping bullying by higher ups, harassment, etc. are all about that.

What prevents more of that is the nature of the game of business and the competition that goes with it, which is dog eat dog. Businesses would go out of business very quickly if they catered to the social needs of their employees rather than the business itself. The point then is to design a business process which isn't that ruthless with different objectives.
My argument is with the notion that if government didn't fund X, X never would have happened. The existence of the internet is the epitome of this kind of thinking. It's like saying if someone paid by the government had an idea to connect two towns with a road, therefore nobody would have ever had such an idea otherwise.

This fallacious reason is obviously false, as FidoNET proves, but that doesn't deter the notion.

The cherry-picked examples are classic confirmation bias, and are non-falsifiable because nobody can go back in time and defund a government project.

There's plenty of non-government money being plowed into basic research - just look at the endowments of top universities like MIT. There would likely be much more if the government did not fund it, just like I'd not be willing to fund a road between A and B if there's a way I can get the government to do it for me.
Also, Google only supports U2F in Chrome – even if you have an addon to support it in Firefox, Google won’t support it (because they activate it based on Useragent, not on actually available functionality)
I spent some time recently trying it on my XPS 13 and I noticed that the mouse would freeze sometimes as well. Also there are some weird glitches when using apps like Steam, but that's not a major issue really.

Probably the two things (which aren't sway issues) that kept me from continuing to use it are that wayland doesn't work properly with Synergy (which I use a lot) and I'm not an i3 user and I'm a lot more comfortable and familiar with XMonad but I'm sure I could configure it to my taste given enough free time.
> I hear German is very grammatical, and that Hungarian is ... erm odd ?

Just want to point out that "grammatical" probably isn't the word you want here. Every language is grammatical by definition in the sense that there are rules that govern its sound system, word formation system, syntax, etc.

The concept you're getting at, though--that some languages are easier for computer programs and/or speakers of Indo-European languages to understand--is sound.
Or is it that faculty are diverted into keeping the roof on the lab that the post docs and assistant professors work in?
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A perfect illustration of "what gets measured, gets done".
There’s a far worse example:

PayPal only supports SMS based 2FA, or, if you dig through their old website with archive.org, you can find a way to use one of their proprietary 2FA devices.

Support for TOTP? HOTP? Nope.
Interestingly, the stereotype, has caused a large dent in the country's reputation (Paypal won't allow Nigerians to recieve funds) and there's a percievable reduction in the number of scammers from Nigeria. I believe many scams that claim to be Nigerian now are only taking advantage of the stereotype.
This stereotype has also made getting jobs considerably harder for sincere freelancers like me. And if I happen to find a client, I treat them like gold; I always work beyond expectation in an attempt to prove I'm not a stereotype.
It's frustrating though.
As I've come to realize -- or, accept more fully -- in the last few years, morals take a distant second to personal welfare and convenience, for most people.

Uber is emblematic of today's world.

Which is the same world it's always been. Different day, same shit.
I'm on Lexapro (very low, 2.5 at the moment but normally 5mg. 7-10 mg causes tension headaches for me) and have also taken zofoft, celexa, lithium, and also the usual Ativan/Xanax thing as well as a bunch of other meds years ago. The SSRIs have side effects for me so I battle with them constantly, going off for many years, getting back on, etc. However, they are side effects I know very well and are all fairly benign compared to the kinds of side effects associated with other antidepressant classes. And they work, they make it more likely that any given thought or sensation is just going to be... What was I thinking about? Like that. My depression / anxiety are very ruminative. When outward stressors are lower, I like to lower my dose which leads me to be a bit more creative and also reduces other side effects, but I become more emotionally reactive - a thing i practice a lot in trying to recognize in a flash and control. It's a lifelong struggle.
how long have you been in witness protection, and at what point did changing your name to FOSS and writing open source articles appeal to you?
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He's not doing it because of that, though. He's doing it to get money. If he really felt that way, he'd be living to remove those laws.
I'm guessing it's something like "X has certain tax implications, so if you are in situation Y then maybe Z is better".

It's often fairly specific though. Which is why it's not much good hearing what someone else got out of it.
No, the point is the plutonium is gone because you've fissioned it in your reactor.
Not answering security questions truthfully is tricky.

Yes, it's a problem that security questions turn hacking into a simple public records search.

BUT most terms of service have a line like 'you warrant that you've been entirely truthful with us' or something. If you give the wrong security question to your bank, they potentially have grounds to freeze your money or screw you later.

Why isn't the answer 'consumers have the power -- punish services that don't support FIDO by not using them'.

At best this article is saying 'don't connect anything to anything'.
Feeding a machine for fake likes, just like the advertisers on facebook.
It might be intending to express that informal dress keeps people overconcerned with dressing standards at bay. Informality is a refusal to compete.
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> I think the point he's trying to make is that the definition for the word "genius" is very clear. It's defined as an IQ >= 140.

Where did you find this definition of "genius"? Maybe someone decided that "genius" means someone with and IQ >= 140, but I haven't found any evidence that it's the definition.

For example, Merriam-Webster's definition [1] seems to be closer to tacomonstrous's usage. In fact, the only mention of IQ it makes is "a person endowed with extraordinary mental superiority; especially : a person with a very high IQ".

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genius
We are two.
Or lack of one apparently...

( Two hours and I'm somehow still submitting too fast. )

If I am not allowed to fail, how can I learn what is considered "intelligent" humor here?

I guess that's why I don't remember having seen a joke here beyond my few attempts...

edit:( anyways as unoriginal and stupid my joke may be, it can also be seen as a comment on the subject of overchoice of the submission by a reference to its opposite too )
Inspired. Microsoft should learn from this and include the "Reinstall" button in the start menu of windows 11.
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The funny thing is Hammerbacher worked on trading problems which have tons of super fun CS problems even if it is a bit nihilistic making rich guys richer ... then founded Cloudera, which, I dunno, seems pretty "beige" as far as CS goes. Didn't realize he did a stint at FB. That could suck the life out of anyone.

Physics has the same problem. Upwards of 20k people in the APS... most working on very obscure problems spraying "shittonium on silicon 111" or making no progress in various theories of everything.

Still plenty of important and interesting problems in CS, some of which I've been lucky enough to work on.

Blockchain stuff is pretty useful and interesting, though it could all fall apart with some breakthrough in crypto.

Machine learning is mostly used for stupid stuff like getting people to click on ads, but there's lots of interesting use cases for it which haven't been explored yet.

There's also a lot of work to be done on the core tools used in ML; while everyone babbles about deep learning, boosting, PGMs and topological data analysis still have a lot of low hanging fruit IMO.

One that people don't think about enough: non-standard computing architectures. Quantum computing hasn't produced anything of note yet, but it's hardly the only potential area of research here. Simply using stuff like old school Harvard architectures has tremendous implications for security (no more buffer overflows, yo), but nobody bothers thinking these things through and implementing.
Would love to hear people's thoughts on this. I don't have the mathematical background to understand this work.
"If Travis loses, it will be a teachable moment for other unicorns. What lessons can we learn about what he did incorrectly in stacking the board? How can a CEO/founder prevent a coup?"

Maybe not foster a culture of sexual harassment? Maybe not hire private investigators to tail reporters?

Seriously, everything bad that's come on Uber lately is no one's fault but their own. They, and no one else, performed these actions.
Cuddy's work on "power poses" has failed to replicate in larger and more rigorous studies [1] [2], and one of the earlier researchers of such effects considers them to have been an artifact of poor study design and analysis rather than a real effect [3].

[1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797614553946

[2] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550616652209

[3] http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/dana_carney/pdf_My%20positi...
The steps, I am a privacy junkie myself and I want to have location services off most of the time, apart from when am gonna use uber or gmaps. Even for me that I'd go the extra mile to turn it off, it just puts me off that you have to go through so many steps to do it.
Since the list is only rarely updated, this seems a perfect application Botelho's for minimal perfect hashing algorithm[1]. At about 8 bits per item storage and constant lookup it would be quite practical to use the top 32 Million list (appeared at least 10 times).

[1] http://cmph.sourceforge.net/papers/tr06.pdf
Crashed (or rather made it unresponsive pegging the cpu) my firefox but not sure how it could possibly crash your OS.