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Ask HN: Please critique my personal digital security strategy
Hi

After the latest events, I thought I'd share with HN what I do to protect myself from identity theft, and ask for suggestions. I'll try to be brief. The goal is to be in a sweet spot between convenience and security:

- Froze my credit on the 3 agencies

- My personal Google account is the central hub of my online identity: all accounts are hooked to my gmail, and I keep sensitive documents, including financial statements and contracts, on Google Drive. The Google password is complicated and as a MFA I have Google authenticator on my phone and printed backup codes. No recovery phone/email address set.

- I keep all my passwords in Lastpass. I really love the app and how well it works on mobile. As a MFA I have Google authenticator on my phone.

- My phone is secured with touch id and long pass code, and automatic data deletion after 10 failed attempts

- I use a lot of services, I just counted 430 online services. Each one ends up hooked to my gmail and a random password that I don't remember and store right away in Lastpass (including various bank accounts). Whenever available, I always enable the following MFA methods in order of preference:

* Google authenticator on my phone (e.g. Facebook)

* Email verification on my Google email (e.g. bank accounts)

* Text verification on my Google Voice number (e.g. bank accounts). I don't use my non-gv phone number because of how easy it is to trick call center operators into transferring the number away from a given SIM card. Seems very sad.

What do you think? It seems pretty secure to me. If I were to lose my phone, I'd recover Google via the backup codes, and all the other accounts via the google email.

Thanks!
There are tons of laws and regulations that only affect companies above a certain size. Are these not satisfying?
When can we expect this class? Also, Jeremy Howard recently commented that they were redoing the first Practical Deep Learning for Coders class, is this going to be the same course or will they be separate?

Have loved your material, thank you very much!
React and react-dom  =  44.2 kB (gzipped)
The baker is still getting paid.
I'm sure the maths work out at an individual level, but have you considered the effect on pricing being a debit-first society would have?

Most merchants/payment processors include a premium for handling the edge cases that arise from credit-linked misbehaviour. In the same way you sometimes get a cash discount, removing the merchant/provider protections should show up in your wallet as a good (and surprisingly high) surprise.

As I understand it (please correct me), the party who gains for the furtherance of this agenda is the financial service sector who has another opportunity to insert marginal fees and more importantly, a direct access to your transactions without necessarily having the same fiduciary duty or alignement of goals than a bank teller/account manager would have.
So many of the oil companies have left downtown I have to think Amazon could snap up a good chunk of it. I moved away years ago but did anyone even fill up Shell Plaza after they moved out?

That said, I doubt it'll be Houston.
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As if 6 dollar loaves of bread even come with a sticker. For that price I'm getting an artisan boule that is tossed into a paper bag.
Striking parallels to the issues farmers had with John Deere tractors [0] (they ended up hacking them).

[0] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-americ...
I had thought you were saying that American food is better than Japanese food, my mistake. Yea as much as I love Japanese food, I wouldn't agree with the statement that NYC's best is superior to Japan's average.
>>I think to me, the difference is that in ICE vehicles, you're often tuning them up (requires additional research, testing, warranties) rather than tuning them down. I also assume there's some additional hardware to support the increased stress from higher performance.

In the case of the Golf/GTI, there wasn't. The hardware is virtually the same in both, the only difference was ECU tuning. This is the same as the Tesla, it's not tuned up or tuned down... it's identical, just rolls off the line with a different body, accessories, and ECU.

>>In the case of the tesla, they're taking something good and just tuning it down.

That's exactly what VW and car makers have been doing for decades. And Intel, AMD, Western Digital....

>>I wonder how people would react if they did this with the next iphone - i.e. it only charges to 80% unless you pay for an upgrade.

Probably about as poorly as this is being received, even though it's been going on forever.
I visited Pittsburgh recently, and I kind of fell in love with it:

1. Beautiful, unique geography, with a ton of outdoor stuff to do (granted, at least in summer).
2. Gorgeous architecture all around.
3. Great public transportation.
4. Lively nightlife, lots of options.
5. Relatively cheap

Pittsburgh basically has infrastructure for a city twice as big, but has managed to transition from its industrial past better than most rust belt cities.
Most rich people are rich because they are frugal, save money, and invest. The person this is about is the exception not the rule.
On a related note, their App on Android is shit, utter shit. I have a budget Moto G and my phone lagged till i uninstalled messenger. And on top of that, Facebook won't let me access messenger from their mobile website. Firefox used to work for me, but it doesn't anymore. Have to resort to mbasic.facebook.com.

So much for mission of connecting the entire world, Zuck.
All depends on your perspective. Unlike many on ycombinator, I voted for Trump. I suppose it is more accurate to say that I actually voted for his Supreme Court justice list -- I viewed that issue as far more important than the president for the next four years. I lean libertarian, and while Trump had several justices that I'm OK with on his list, Hillary had no list and probably wouldn't have nominated anybody that I like. I live in Michigan, and I'm proud of our role in getting him elected (and getting a justice with a strict interpretation of the constitution nominated).

Also, please don't crucify me for admitting that I voted for Trump. I usually don't tell people IRL, because most left-leaning folks are extremely intolerant about it, many to the point of anger/hatred and possibly violence. If you want to know why you can't find the trump voters out in the real world, I think that's one of the big reasons.
It's amazing what happens to rendering times when only the actual content is being loaded.
Not a scheme at all. My parents lived comfortably off their investments after retirement. They had accumulated close to $2M. Combined income never topped $75,000 in their best years. How? They lived modestly, spent money judiciously, and always saved for tomorrow.
Footfall had some politics, but a good story. Fallen Angels didn't have many redeeming qualities, IMO.
A genocide against the Rohingya may be looming
It seems that no small part of most people's social nature is aversion to perceived unfairness, from within or without.
We don't know either way. The camel-llama hybrid takes a lot of work, artificial insemination etc., and they've only managed to make 5 so far.
/r/LateStageCapitalism is not about breeding hate against the rich? I just went there and not a single post on any page I went to had a hateful post towards the rich.
Maybe there's one or two posts occasionally but there's 180,000 subscribers....
It's actually a really good subreddit about legit problems we're facing in ....Late Stage Capitalism.
Related, has anyone done napkin math on aluminum air batteries, assuming excess electricity from wind and PV?

Aluminum air batteries are not really rechargeable (you have to reduce the oxygen out), but at some point I think they may make some sense.
I think Rahm might be able to pull it off for Chicago. I could see Amazon moving into the Old Post Office, partially for the symbolism, partially for the convenience.
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I think there's something wrong with having many cars that you don't actually use. The externalities of manufacturing are quite out of proportion with the enjoyment of the car collector. It's not wrong per se to have more money than others, but it does morally obligate you to spend it on things that are net positive for society.
The problem is that it gives large multinational companies a strong competitive edge over single-national companies, and it makes tax money bleed from high-tax countries to low-tax countries. Both of these things are also self-reinforcing, accelerating the process.

(Not that I have any solutions to these problems, I'm just pointing them out. :) )
https://i.imgur.com/OdUWQrE.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6yly20...

Godda deport 'em! Kick those rich people out! They're destroying America. Get rid of those scumbags before they destroy you!

Come on now. That's exactly what they're doing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6yly20...

"You spelled "confiscate their property, send them to gulag, and allow them to work their way back into society" wrong. Deporting the Bourgeoisie only inflicts them on another country."
Buying NFL Jerseys from Right Suppliers
EDIT: As I wrote this, someone deployed a server-side rendered version of the site. Now the site is perfect. :)

This site appears to load ~350 KB of JavaScript, which I think is a bit excessive for a "lite" text-only site. From the sourcemaps, I found a long list of libraries, including:

* react

* redux

* redux-thunk

* react-router

* axios

* base64-js (why not window.atob/btoa?)

* core-js

* fbjs

* react-hot-loader (should not be in a production build)

* ...a bunch of other smaller modules

There's only about 10 KB of non-library application code. Note that I ignore gzip when evaluating this sort of stuff, since that many bytes of code still need to be parsed, no matter how much it compresses.

For the person who made this site, I would replace React with Preact (or Inferno), which should remove most of the bloat. Server side rendering would also be nice for those who don't have JavaScript enabled and would also improve the loading time.

At least it's still better than cnn.com. http://www.webpagetest.org/result/170910_C8_e78305788a19b0fb...
Wow. After all these years of taking steps backwards, finally 100 steps forward.
I wonder if there is a study of these "sweetheart" municipal discretionary tax incentives deals? I have to imagine very few, if any, ever achieve the ROI the politicians claim and usually on top of non-tax incentives.

Would be interesting to see some actual data.

These people in power make these deals with little public oversight, usually negotiated in secret, knowing full well they won't have to deal with the long term impacts.
Cheers, well met. :-)

Here's to many more long-enduring quality comments.

(It blew me away when I realized that computer text isn't writing! English is so well served by ASCII, and has been since so early on, that the assumption that bytes are the same as writing just gets lodged in there, unexamined.)
I guess.

Many years ago, an ex girlfriend got back in touch, and wanted sex. Just once, it turned out. Then, I was diagnosed with Chlamydia and HSV. And later, I hear from mutual friends that she was bragging about infecting me.

Anyway, that I feel dirty about. Because I will have HSV for the rest of my life. Maybe that was rape, but in a devious way. And I get that forced risk of disease is part of the trauma about rape.
There is wrong. Read the article. Most of the people interviewed are said to have inherited wealth, in the millions of dollars. More wealth fell into their lap than the maid will ever earn in several lifetimes. This is deeply unfair. The economic system that promotes this is deeply unfair. Wealthy people benefit from a system that perpetuates their wealth. They actively influence decision making to favour themselves. They can buy power, influence, to a point 99% of the earth's population can. Notwithstanding your opinions on socialism (dirty word I know), Marxist class theory is real: the "owners" and the "workers" are as clear-cut social classes as the peasantry and nobility of yore.

Also, about that subreddit, I have never seen any post calling for "killing rich people" or any nonsense like that. It's just a place to post examples of capitalism gone awry. Perhaps it just touched a nerve?
If you offer services in France and accept payments from French citizens then you're pretty much operating in France.

If not someone should figure out how to put a server on a satellite so they could claim no taxes are due as transaction is extraterrestrial.
This was a good move on Tesla's part, but the dark side of this is that they could also "flip a switch" to reduce the range of cars. Presumably they could also disable the car entirely, disable the brakes or rev the motor at an unsafe time, or cause the battery to catch fire.

All of this seems very implausible for a company like Tesla, but cars can last a very long time and companies and society change over those time scales. It's not hard to imagine an authoritarian government forcing an auto manufacturer to mess with the cars of protesters, journalists, or anyone else they don't like and to use the implicit threat to encourage compliance from everyone else.

I'm not saying this is a likely outcome for anyone who buys an electric car, but it is new failure mode that didn't exist in older, non-internet-connected cars.

It's kind of frustrating that there doesn't seem to be a middle ground between giving an enormous amount of power to supposedly-benevolent-for-now product manufactures or finding and disabling the car's antenna and not getting any updates again ever. (Hopefully the car doesn't just refuse to function if it's not able to phone home?)
One thing that many wealthy have that I hope technology will allow more not-quite-wealthy people to have is someone to clean and cook meals on a daily basis.

I think that this may even be possible before we have truly general AIs. My own view is that the main thing holding this back is combining the latest advances in neural networks with some AGI concepts and then more biomimetic and performant artificial muscles and limbs. For one thing maybe activating like real muscles, a bit away from the joints, to provide more leverage versus motors in the joints. I don't know exactly but I think going more close to biologically inspired mobility for robots can reduce the gap between robots and animals in terms of dexterity and power-to-weight ratio etc which seems to really be lacking.
I love this patent grant Facebook uses!

If you are a criminal and want to use software patents to attack innocents, I couldn't care less if Facebook throws some lawyers to hunt you.
I'm getting a totally blank page on Android 7.0 chrome 61.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6yly20...

Boy I wish I could dig up that comment about killing Musk. It was under a thread titled "We won't take kindly to defending your tech bros here" or some nonsense. It was about how if you come in there to say anything good about Musk, expect to get banned. The subthread devolved into talking about stabbing capitalists.
Nope I meant wider, with respect to what responsibilities they take on. Elm does more stuff. It's a language and framework/architecture for building apps. Reason is just a language, though with a more powerful type system, which perhaps is what you meant. Unlike Elm, it's meant to be paired with React or other frameworks to get the job done. It has a narrower scope because it does less stuff.
33 ideas that will change the world
You're seriously this upset about (i) use of irony and (ii) commenters on an online forum?
Yep, that's correct. Doesn't change the math though.
Do you really think being rich is the same as being born black?

Inequality has a lot of messed up effects, such as rich individuals being able to destroy the planet's ability to sustain life in pursuit of profit, in a way the only through the magnification of capitalism is such short sightedness possible. A community would never vote to destroy itself, but in the pursuit of profit, it is nothing for the wealthy to pollute and destroy a land that is not their home.

Secondly, the drive of technologly (drives all change and overthrown feudalism with capitalism) will make the exchange of labor for money pretty much obsolete for increasing portions of humanity. The question is, do we waste the human wealth generated by education and innovation because we can't find a way to make a few bucks in sweatshops anymore? This again, is where inequality is facing drawbacks.

Don't be so comfortable, tomorrow is coming soon.
Serverless quantum computing containers.

But you have to use the alpha beta double nightly for things to actually work.
Why do that when it could be usefully used on the ground to generate electricity?
Bookmarked. Please drop the excessive JS and image tho cnn.
1985 Mexico City earthquake
Since Bezos has a house and newspaper in D.C. but D.C. itself isn't suitable, I'm thinking "distance from D.C." is a major unmentioned criteria and the main point is to get suburbs and nearby cities to compete. I'll guess Baltimore.

Unfortunately, I suspect a lot of places will offer plenty of bribes ("tax benfits") that should be illegal.
Happy to see Columbus on the list, shame our tech growth isn't quite at the other state's levels right now (although I think it will be in the future!)
Did my statement say there was something wrong with being rich?

This is about people who feel embarrassed. I doubt they are feeling embarrassed because they feel that there is nothing wrong with their extravagance....and their solution to this embarrassment is to hide their extravagant spending, not by altering their spending or generosity.

But I also empathize. I've done the same when I walk past the homeless, or past fieldworkers...and me a poor post-doc.

Hating the rich...Well now there are multiple types of rich, aren't there. There are rich that were born to their money, treat investments of that money as "risks", look at the rabble and sneer because she/he is so obviously better, because look at all that risk that payed out...that type is easy to hate. But money makes money and I find the rentiers worthless. Then there are those that worked hard, and got lucky, and still remember what it is like to wonder how the hell you are going to fix the brakes on the car, how to lose weight while working two part-time jobs with hours that change weekly.

In any case, hate of the rich is not driven by envy or driven by the fact that they are rich at all. The hate is driven by the excessive inequality, not just the exaggerated inequality in pay, but exaggerated inequality in opportunity, in legal representation both in the courtroom but also in the making of law. They are angry because the fix is in, and they know it in their bones.
You are the first person I have seen that has given supreme court justice list as reason fo voting trump and it seems like a pretty kosher reason.

Not sure about the 4 year damage offset but hey, it is better than voting for him because wall
My laptop can run computationally-intensive physics simulations and play streaming hi-def video with no problem, but if I click a link to a mainstream news article it just about keels over and dies. How did our grandparents ever manage to load the news on an underpowered machine called "paper"?
PCI is why we have weak passwords that we have to reinvent every 90 days.
You do realize that the concept of fairness is subjective and multidimensional, correct?

Who are you to decide what is or is not fair? Is it fair for me to build an empire and be barred from passing on what I've worked for to my children?
It appears from this Quora question[0] that it it is, in fact, not dangerous to fly OVER a hurricane. The keyword is over.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-dangerous-to-fly-over-a-hurrican...
>> At least it's still better than cnn.com.

That's literally the entire value prop of the website. The author isn't obligated to use your personal list of approved web tools.
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Does this belong to CNN? It's great to read news without clutter, just clear contents. I hope there are many sites like this, it saves you from load the whole page then click the reader mode or similar.
Well they could in the ocaml to js translator.

IMHO, Typescript exists and is of similar quality, far higher community mindshare, and moving from TS ->ES6 is much more easier (in an emergency).

If you write in Reason, the ultimate risk is if you think you will ever be acquired by Google, Microsoft, etc
We are under no moral obligation to spend our money in any way. Where does this sense of entitlement come from?

Do you believe that your morals are truely absolute?
As long as your empire needs laws that everybody needs to agree with to exist (or to be passed on) then yes - it is fair to limit what you can do with it.
Here's what I almost tacked onto the end of my original comment:

"In before someone defends them by saying it's sarcasm. Oh? So the people in /r/coontown who were being sarcastic about killing blacks is reprehensible, but this is somehow ok?"

I didn't want to construct a strawman argument, but there you go.

Dismissing online forums seems silly. Both HN and reddit have had a huge impact.
I dunno, ice cream stigmata does sound pretty bad to me. Though, on second thought it seems like it wouldn't be as bad as regular stigmata.
Try noscript, ghostery, or the other one that escapes me at the moment.
News sites in general have about twenty JavaScript ad trackers on them each.
At least for home computers, much of the schematics and manuals have been preserved through the dark ages of the 90's by home computer enthusiasts and put on the internet thankfully.

For instance (not Soviet, but East German): here are a few links to manuals and schematics for the East German KC85 computers:

http://floooh.github.io/virtualkc/p060_links.html

But this sort of detailed schematics 'coming in the box' was also common for Western home computers, and it's all preserved. The same for reference manuals of CPUs, and especially support chips. Without these, writing emulators would be much, much harder.
You posted three links link to the same post on a subreddit of 180,000 people...

Why not just say the entire site of reddit hates rich people because of that one post?

Or the entire internet?

You're literally demonizing an interesting sub-reddit that discusses legit issues regarding late stage capitalism over one post that you read.
I don't have anything against the wealthy, but it kind of irks me when people with inherited wealth try to maintain some illusion that they're financial geniuses.

Personally, I grew up thinking my grandfather was a great businessman but eventually realized he inherited everything from my grandmother's family.
The funny thing about worrying over the $6 dollar bread: what it really shows is that they have no idea how much anything costs at all for normal people. $6 is not a crazy price for a loaf of bread, which is a lot of food, and a loaf of plain, off-brand white bread costs $3 in NYC.
It doesn't even matter whether someone posted that: You can always find a post on the internet from someone posting a threat against someone else.
It works like a gas; the performance-sapping computations on the articles expand until they fill up all available human latency tolerance.
This is better than CNN.com, but the big problem with CNN is that it simply isn't very good. If you're haven't tried it again, let me again strongly recommend a subscription to the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, or the New York Times. You might be as surprised as I was, once I was free to click around the sites without thinking about paywalls, how much better the reporting is at real newspapers than it is at free news sites.
This is great. I'm sick to death of clicking to links on news articles and having some auto-playing video read it to me...