skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The winds in the dust storms were mad strong – I think Sean battened it down with the straps for safety. I still regret not getting a photo when he initially had the panel tipped forwards towards the camera (worse for generation, better for photos...).
On mobile, there's no hover, so HTML mail means I just have to guess if I think the link will go where it says or not.
>What use is an unnetworked phone?

I love it how people ask rhetorical questions without thinking through what the answers might be, and how those answers might undermine their points.

A few things journalists could do with an un-networked device: take notes, take photos, record audio, record video, show people pictures and other things stored on the phone, look up information that is stored locally, find contacts numbers and then call them from a different device... the list could go on, but is that not enough?

It's an interesting effort. I don't see a need to diss it, even though the usage scenarios seem a bit arcane.
How is this idea of personal property a reasonable reply to criticisms of capitalism? Capitalism is about private ownership of means of production and core resources and is a mere subset of the wide range of economic structures that include personal property.
This is apparently an upcoming feature in iOS12 but doesn't work in iOS11 now

What does work is putting the wrong finger on your sensor until it tells you TouchID is disabled and needs your passcode (which is 5 times) or rebooting your device without logging in.
Would you accept a browser plugin that reads only the certificate information and makes a decision to alert, or block/override the DOM rendering to protect the user?
>The funniest part of this ongoing debate I see -- to me, at least -- is that the end result is, effectively, one of two options. Given the way we as a society use technology, today

Speaking more generally, rather than specifically about CA chains, I respectfully disagree with you there.

Imho, what usually happens in a sane world, is that we spend most of the time between these two extremes, in a pendulum as we balance one way, get burned, go back the other way, get burned again and repeat.

Im fine with it being that way until someone releases a true ground breaker and redefines what we are balancing.

>But honestly, my go-to strategy these days is mostly "whenever most technical people try to give security advice and speak on behalf of most users, almost always: do the exact opposite thing, in order to keep the users secure".

I think I understand what you are saying, but that comes across as you cherry picking the bits of a technical persons advice that a layman wouldn't understand. The "exact opposite" is sorta hard to define.
Ask HN: Security job without a degree?
Hi everyone,

I have been working as a freelancer and in some firm as a penetration tester. From the last couple of months, I've been trying to make a switch since I want to explore and learn more. 2 years back I had zero knowledge about the word security and if someone said words like 'hacker' etc, the only thing that came to my mind was terminal screens with super fast scrolling text in green. I was blessed with a friend who taught me few stuff about mobile application testing which led me to keep learning about new things on my own. The issue is that I come from a non-IT background, with no degrees to back me up which has been a major roadblock for me in securing my next job due to which I grabbed up few technical certs from Offsec and eLearnSecurity to back me up in my next job hunt. I am fairly competent and have good hands on offensive part of computer security. I'm trying to contribute on my blog which also acts as my personal notes on : offensivepentest.com

The one thing I do not have is a degree which is acting as a major roadblock everywhere. Even for organisations that say that they hire without a degree, in the end, ask for a degree. My applications have been ditched even before landing at the interviewer's desk by the HR alone. Even if somehow it went through and even the managers are ready to hire, HR comes to the rescue again and kicks me out. Even if somehow both agrees, they want me to work for them at a much lower pay which wouldn't be the case if I had a degree. Even if I manage to pass all the challenges put up the employing agency to evaluate the candidates technical expertise, I will be the least preferred option against someone who was able to crack less than half of it.

All I am, is looking for a job. My finances have been dwindling and the job market in my country is not so good. I am ready to work almost anywhere and am ready to face interesting challenges into tactical information security and all I need is a platform to perform.
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I've come across a number of products that sell themselves because they've solved a problem I was having. A lot of these went on to unsell themselves with things like "contact us for pricing". A sales team might be better at maximizing sales, but that isn't necessarily a good thing.

One that's bucked this trend lately has been atlassian, they're a 5 billion dollar company without a sales team that operates in a space that typically requires sales teams. Transparent pricing is a huge part of their success.
In CA eggs are about $1.50 at T.J. and $3.00 at W.F. I buy the cheapest eggs. Not sure about comparison at all the other egg types. Cali has some kind of "be not so evil to egg laying chickens" proposition, so I think the lowest level eggs are the same eco/ethical level
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This is a broader question of pedagogy. There's first-principles approaches to teaching and then there's example-based, case-study and other approaches.

I happen to have sympathies with first-principles, but I've learned over time as a teacher that it can be quite flawed. I've grown to embrace statistical learning: show lots of complex real-world cases until the aggregate makes the statistically-significant patterns common to all the cases clear to the students. That's often actually superior to the abstract fiction of first-principles.
That would only reinforce the point.
One person did that. Just like one AntiFa asshole hit a guy with a bike lock. You can't take one action committed once by an individual and use it as a cudgel to eliminate speech you find distasteful.
Machine Learning Classifier on a Table from YC HARC's Lab
Eric Schmidt Didn’t Want to Build Google Chrome Initially (2009)
Based on national test scores, what we know works in a small homogeneous country at least is professionalizing teaching - raising the standards to become a teacher. They didn't raise salaries to the same level as other professionals like lawyers and doctors, it's about the same pay as the USA, but Finland managed to go from worst to the top in Europe in one generation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/the-cas...
>how can anyone realistically trust any phone they buy, ever?

Trust in the sense of feeling (not knowing) that there is a reasonable chance that the phone might be secure?

Here's how:

Walk into the store and buy it on the spot. And definitely choose your OS vendor wisely... get your phone from a company that has its own stores, controls inventory in those stores tightly, and does not use the customer as its product. This way you at least maximize your chances of being secure. Do not order the phone online, even from the vendor's web site.

Trust in the sense of 100% absolute knowledge that there is no compromise? Realistically, there's no way to know 100.00000%
So I can load that url on a high-traffic page and IP block all visitors to my page from yelp?
> Chrome has a good permissions model that i don't think can be much improved on. An ad-blocker needs access to data on every page you visit in order to do its job. I don't really see a way around it

I don't imagine an ad blocker needs the ability to send data over the network.

I also don't expect it should need to alter cookies or local storage, though perhaps there's a random counterexample somewhere?

Most importantly of all, I think disable forced auto-update of extensions would help. It would make things a lot safer if users had control over when their extensions were updated. That way a malicious version could be taken down without having affected too many people.
GChat used to be great - it was simple, relatively lightweight and quick. Then it was rebranded Hangouts and became a little muddled and unwieldy for a brief period when Whatsapp was ascendent which nearly overnight caused my entire group of friends to switch.

You're right about the IM apps being not great. This and the poor state of desktop email clients on Windows and Linux are my pet hates
Is that a TLDR for others after you read it or your own statement that for you it was TLDR and so here's your superficial impression?
That involves the rather large and utterly baseless assumption that users look at the address bar at all. You probably do. Does your somewhat less-savvy next-door neighbour?
I've met quite a few software developers who pad their estimates heavily and then coast when the job is complete.
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Nope, you are using it the right way. Apparently it is not for everybody, but some can use it without being distracted.
Tamilnadu Newspaper
விருதுநகர் மாவட்டம் முத்துலிங்கபுரத்தை சேர்ந்தவர் போஜராஜ் (வயது 50). விவசாயி. இவருடைய மனைவி பாக்யலட்சுமி (48). கணவன்–மனைவிக்கு இடையே கருத்துவேறுபாடு ஏற்பட்டது. இதையடுத்து போஜராஜ் தேனி மாவட்டம் தேவாரத்துக்கு கடந்த 2012–ம் ஆண்டு வந்தார். பின்னர் அப்பகுதியை சேர்ந்த ரெங்கநாதன் (55) என்பவர் வீட்டில் வாடகைக்கு தங்கியிருந்தார்.
Or labour history back further...in fact, I specifically want you to look at Europe ~1790-1855 around when the craft guilds collapsed and mass protests started happening.

Police, as we know them today, were literally created in this period in response to these crowds of lower-to-middle class workers who were disrupting society.

They had to be because the armies that were sent in were ordered to shoot people in these crowds...and you had things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre
Remove boring Android 8.0 “running in the background” notifications
Experian != Equifax
> I wish browser vendors would let me choose a trusted entity and make it simple for me to trust only CAs that my trusted entity supports, or the intersection of what multiple trusted entities endorse.

This is an idea that I hear in variations from time to time, yet I think it's utterly wrong and goes against everything we know about IT security UI.

The reason why HTTPS works at scale and is - with all its weaknesses - a crypto success story is because it works automatically. Unlike other things like PGP that ultimately expect from the user to get an understanding of complex concepts like public key cryptography and web of trusts.

What you're trying to do is move HTTPS away from "it just works" to "user has to understand what a CA and a PKI is".

Fortunately none of the relevant actors or browser vendors is moving in that direction, the opposite is happening. HTTPS is becoming the default, it works automatically and the security improvements that are being deployed (mainly CT) are systemic improvements to strengthen the whole system.
What happens during the packaging/handling that couldn't be killed by cooking? Is that where the mercury issue is (I thought tainted water was the bigger issue)?
Take a look at the wine aisle in Safeway. Every single wine is always on sale. I would not think that is even legal in the US but I guess it must be.
>The first edition came out many years ago. Since then, the world has provided a few case studies on the matter. For example we've been been watching the slow-motion train wreck that is Venezuela's economy

Venezuela's economy already went through this period in the late 80s/early 90s. The collapse of oil prices and its subsequent effect on the economy and the government's ability to maintain services is partly what led to an infuriated populace electing Chavez.
Quite recently I lived in a small town far from cities with almost no street lights.

I thoroughly enjoyed being able to simply look up and gaze at the glorious Milky Way unaided.
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You might be able to find a credit Beaureu that does not report to equifax. Might be better off calling your representatives in Washington and telling them we need better consumer data protection regulations. Good luck.
Nano ID:  A tiny, secure URL-friendly unique string ID generator for JavaScript
Scrapers can be pretty shady, so they're isn't a good way to ensure that web traffic is coming from a legitimate human using a browser. To the server it's all just bits on the wire.
For perspective, I teach music (quite distinct topic). So, keep in mind that the following points have nothing to do with political perspectives.

I used to focus on "basics" and "first principles" and over time I've come to realize that it's better to teach all sorts of complex actual real-world music that doesn't sound like exercises. I just do a large quantity instead of perfecting a small number of pieces. Students learn the common patterns through statistical learning (and some explicit instruction about the fundamentals).

The idea that you should first be taught the principles is itself probably the MORE indoctrinating approach. It sets the assumptions in place and then gets the student to force all examples into the box created by the assumptions. Starting from complex topics can actually be better and far more neutral, letting students make sense of things without preconceptions — if it's done well.

The only principles that should be taught at the beginning are the ones that are absolutely 100% certainly true. In music, that's stuff like basic physics (strings vibrate at different speeds). Certainly we should avoid implying that any cultural and/or debatable stuff is fundamental (in music, that would be stuff like chord patterns or common scales or rhythm patterns etc). When we teach these cultural or otherwise general (but not universal) things, it's best to do so via examples and take care not to overemphasize them.
An over engineered solution for what is super easy with Powerpoint and Notepad++.
Well, they can receive without electronics.
What if they decide to dump the toxic waste into the ocean ? Aren't we then pretty much back to square one ?
Why so many cars? 300!
Free speech doesn't mean you get to keep your job when you say it. It means it isn't illegal or impossible to speak your opinion. That doesn't mean being as ass has no consequences.
I think it's more of a 'quick and painless exit' option rather than the potential of being crushed alive over the course of hours.
What if Apple also added a feature for showing an innocent/clean phone if a specific password is pressed? How would the law enforcement know the difference? You only need to show the cellular call log, because they already have it and could use it to prove that you used the "mode".
This is a can of worms. What if the equipment malfunctions? What if you misconfigured it? What if something else triggered it? What if you take the shot yourself, but squeezed too early because someone shot a rifle?
My guess is that those with money and effort to spare will not be required to endure this ritual (they know who they're dealing with).
Or convert the ".ps" file into ".jpeg" instead ?

4. Using ghostscript:
gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dJPEGQ=100 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -r300 -sOutputFile=filename.jpg filename.ps
Is it not still possible to set up an AppleID with gift cards you paid cash for? As far as I know it used to be. I still have an AppleID I set up in another country using a free iTunes download code I got from a bottle of soda iirc, never used a credit card and downloaded a free apps that weren't available in the country of my main AppleID.
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The author could have avoided this whole mess and just lied and said that he took the photo

"Yeah I made up the story of the monkey taking the selfie, I actually took it myself"

It's not like the monkey can refute that story....
>Wouldn't the lack of general consumer transactions ruin the economic viability of most tokens? If so, then there is definitely a case for a bear market.

That argument could apply to many high end and luxury goods, yet there are plenty of companies existing in that sector.
I think you've confused several different trends with each other. I can't see a coherent point here.
Can we get "ICO" or "Currency" added to the title? Crypto is generally synonymous with Cryptography. An article title including the phrase "Crypto Regulations" is rather misleading if it is in fact about financial regulations.
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Curious, when was this first made? The first reference is from 2008 but the archive doesn't have a screenshot till 2014.
The same in Poland actually. I don't think there is a minimum payment for contactless.
Have you ever considered reading the article?

"you have to start fresh, with a brand new install of iOS."
Most economic assumptions are pushed for propaganda reasons. In physics you can assume the non-existence of friction and build a functioning model that approximates reality in certain situations. In economics, the existence of "perfect competition" or "perfect information" is simply fantastical, yet even at graduate level there are students building elaborate mathematical models with assumptions like these built in.

The reason these things are 'assumed' is clearly not because it builds simple models that approximate reality in any situation. There are no markets with perfect information nor competition. It does function to conceal sources of profit, though.
You are reminding people of serious security issues, but comparing them to Adobe? That's going too far.

Personally I dropped a lot of Google products with the Snowden leaks revealed to shocked Google engineers that they shouldn't have been sending unencrypted traffic between data centers and assuming it was safe because it was on leased lines. There's bugs, and then there's just negligence.
While idly thinking about light pollution a while ago, I thought of a ridiculously impractical solution:

Mandate the replacement of all outdoor night-time illumination with LEDs that are pulse-width modulated at a low duty cycle. Synchronize them all to an accurate global clock (e.g. from a GPS receiver), so that for instance, all of the lights are simultaneously turned on for the first tenth of each UTC millisecond. Then an image sensor with a sufficiently fast global shutter could disable itself during every brief pulse of light, so that it picks up 90% of the incoming starlight, but almost none of the light pollution.
For a sense of history, here's the General Motors introduction ceremony for the 1953 models.[1] This was a Big Deal in its day. National TV coverage.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCutLTuIqOo
No chance of this happening, but the ideal is on the other side: customers should refuse to buy from anyone who gets a commission. The conflict-of-interest is too strong. If customers all really understood that, then all the sales tactics that get commission-based sales people to be so rich would stop working. Then, you wouldn't need commissions.
Yikes. Culture starts from the person at the top and flows down.

Curious to see how and if the cultural narrative within Silicon Valley companies will change one year from now after all that's happened. Will there actually be meaningful change? I don't know, but I'm hoping so.
It is quite popular in fiction, bit it is not well-regarded in history or theology. The reason is it is pure speculation. Eg. you might posit when Jesus walked on water, it was actually ice. Sure, this makes the story more believable, but you have no way of proving this was the case, and it is clear our best sources did believe he actually walked on water.

You might just as well claim the event never happened at all and is just a legend - you cant prove that either, but it is just as believable (if not more).
MITs Forbidden Research is awesome. If you haven't checked it out head here:

https://www.media.mit.edu/events/forbidden/overview

Kind of like Defcon for grown ups.
I certainly agree that something that just works is by far the most important priority and do worry about anything that could muddy that message. On the other hand, I suppose what the parent proposes could be useful for users with heightened security concerns even if they are only a tiny minority, similarly to how tor is useful (and, in fact, using this setting would be less conspicuous than using tor and also less suspicious since there is no way of using it for criminal activity).
Honest question, why have local scopes at all? IIRC, Lox is a dynamic object-oriented language.

Python has a flat scope per function, and closures aren't all that common in idiomatic Python code. Objects are much more common.

JavaScript also had a flat scope per function until ES6. On the other hand, closures are very idiomatic in JavaScript, and objects are a little weak.

Looking at the previous chapter [1], from someone familiar with OOP, the makeCounter and Point examples just seem to be awkward ways of writing classes, no?

Particularly for an educational language, why have two ways of doing the same thing?

[1] http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/functions.html
Using Windows or OS X clipboard works perfectly fine, the author just uses applications that don't work as they should together.

I can easily do the same with Notepad++ and Powerpoint, just need to copy-paste in RTF.
You might be underestimating the size of even a small tectonic plate. Large explosions will cause seismic waves, of course, but to actually move anything, I believe you'd need a spectacularly big one - bigger by far than anything we've detonated before.
What are some of the worries you bring home?
What are the tons of benefits? Besides not having to print cash or accept it? Or taking cash back and having to exchange worn out bills with new notes?
It's not a step in any direction. You still need to burn fossil fuels to mine the materials needed to produce electric cars, and you still need to burn fossil fuels to manufacture and transport them from point of manufacture to sales.

Not to mention, you also need to burn fossil fuels to charge them, at least primarily.

It's also worthy of noting that even if we remove all automobiles from the planet, it will do exactly nothing for reducing global warming.

All electric cars do is trade one form of pollution for another, and isn't really anything more than a bandaid solution for a gaping chest wound.

Indeed, green is the new brown.
Google appeals record €2.4B antitrust fine for manipulated search results
You literally didn't read a very short article I linked in the comment you objected to; in that article the date of cca 8kya is mentioned at least twice very clearly.

But like I said, that's ok.
But beware, not only it's a beta from September 2016 vs v1.0 as HTML on the site but it's a PDF and not an epub. Not exactly the best thing on the screen of a phone.

Funny thing about the registration, passwords must be between 8 (ok) and 16 characters. Why in 2017 do we still have developers thinking that there must be an upper limit on password length? First it's bad for security, second even a one megabyte password gets stored as a few bytes hash. Are they concerned with scrypt/bcrypt performance?
s/anime/youknow/ aka Rule34.
Everything we expect from Apple’s big iPhone event
Sorry, unless you back this up with data (that is, numbers), why should anybody believe your assertions?
I'd let the sales person generate the $10 million elsewhere and get the commission.

Because I can guarantee you that you'll make more profit from the low pressure sales.

Commission based sales leads to a turnover based culture and as the saying goes - turnover is vanity; profit is sanity.

If you want to align sales people, give them equity and pay a dividend.

Or run a cooperative. Then everybody gets a share of the spoils.
Do you have any proof that they are just cherry picking?