skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say every single company sitting on billions of assets are on the target list. Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Uber, everyone (although Microsoft is the least attacked here). But the illusion here is we only see the big guys, we rarely question the smaller guys, unless someone publishes a CVE or publish a disclosure.

Many users are paranoid about ToS and how companies (esp the big guys) make money either by learning your behaviors (search preference, sites you visited) or selling your data to a partner (Foursquare, although they claim to only sell location data which are anonymous). We have a blind-trust with service providers. We let service providers to collect everything about ourselves, but internally they can decide whether to discard "sensitive data" early on or not during data processing (but web logs would have the trace).

Has anyone every inspect the traffic, or reverse the API in <your wearable device> (e.g. Fitbit?) What about file sharing companies? Are they storing your data in a secure way and without reading what's in your file? What about sites that let you compare prices across multiple stores? What about medtech startups? What about when the company is acquired?

Because the giants are more eye-catching, we don't see the smaller guys; but we are willing to give away sensitive and private data to the smaller guys because? If the argument is "well the big guys should have known better and have more resources to do the right thing", then I argue that by 2017 the new startups are doing the right things (not making the same well-known security flaws for example). I have doubt; I doubt many achieve 50% of what is on the imaginary checklist. The claim "we build MVP" is the equivalent of the big guys saying "we know what we are doing, don't worry."

No, we don't know better. No, your MVP should be secure enough so users can trust you. I almost never try a newly launched service because I really don't want to be a lab rat. I am sorry if that sounds cynical, but I don't trust myself doing everything right. If you let me choose between a new file sharing startup vs others, I'd go with either Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive (FWIW, Google is replacing Drive with a new service). Why? Because if the big guy is compromised, well, shit, thousands or millions will be affected. The least cynical version is, well, they are too big to do stupid things (of course not true in reality).

Our biases create illusions.
The FTC should treat sites which offer reviews and have affiliate links the same way they do as celebrity endorsements on social media: They should be required to disclose that, and fine those who don't.
You can buy a whole shipping container of Memory Foam mattresses like the Casper kind for about $200/Queen, $100/twin, $250/King from China. Log on to Import Genius and you can find all kinds of excellent suppliers. In Canada they get them in and wholesale them out. They typically sell them for about $400 for a Queen. I have one in my guest room. Doesn't smell, is comfortable if you like memory foam. My guests so far like it. I like to sleep on individual pocket mattresses (traditional).

Anyway, the other mattresses I bought for my dwelling in Toronto was from Queensway Mattress Warehouse across from Ikea in Etobicoke. Double size that is completely organic cotton with individual coils with a thick pillow top and box spring for $600 CAD. It is the best mattress I have eve purchases in my life.

My primary dwelling in DFW has mattresses that cost 3 times as much and are half as comfortable. I have come to realize that there are only 2 or 3 companies that sell mattresses in the USA and that is why they are so expensive. Total ripoff in America when it comes to mattresses.

Casper doesn't seem like anything special since anyone can buy from China and mark it up and sell it in a market like the US for a big profit since there is no competition really.

Casper just has good marketing.
According to the notification letters on that site, those three incidents all involve Google employees' information being leaked by third parties, not Google leaking users' data.

Here's a quote from one of them:

"We recently learned that certain hotel reservations made for Google business travel were among the many reservations affected by a security incident impacting a third-party provider’s electronic reservation system that serves thousands of travel agencies and hotels. This did not
affect Google’s systems. However, this incident impacted one of the travel providers used by Googlers, Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT)."
I read this is currently a big problem in California, most marijuana growers do not see the point in registering and doing it legally. It's just more paperwork and less profits. There's even less incentive now that the punishments have been reduced.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/09/us/california-marijuana-g...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15210418
Well let’s get some examples then...
Those just sound like feature requests to me, rather than criticisms. I think the idea and execution are clean and effective. Not that you're wrong. Those are good ideas.
Agreed entirely. Amazon search is better than this one.
How about this: never post anything on Facebook. Just stop using it. Facebook causes cancer. You're better off without it.
> I remember when they adopted the 55 mph speed limit. Some truck drivers in Michigan decided to protest it by obeying it. The resulting congestion was pretty painful for everybody.

Some people actually did this on an interstate near Atlanta, Georgia a number of years ago and posted it on Youtube [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoETMCosULQ
It just so happens that I need to go into town on Monday. I'll stop by my local bookstore and see if they have a copy or if they can order it.

That probably sounds archaic but I try to purchase all my books there. There aren't many local bookstores left and I'm partial to it, so I hope to help keep them in business.

Much thanks for the recommendation. I've never read it and I am almost done with my current nightstand book. (Battle Cry, Leon Uris.) If they don't have it, they should be able to order it.
Good sir, please note that I was not about to seek stock images that were worse off than what I could present without presenting images that may have disgusted my visitors, though I know the situation could definitely be presented much worse and it certainly is.

I do not seek to argue with you, or pretend I know everything.

I only know that I lost two my of best friends to the opiate epidemic, one of whom was a veteran marine, and I also lost a cousin who happened to be an army veteran due to overdosing on prescription pain killers.

I have even more Facebook friends, who happened to be acquaintances in my life, whose profiles are no longer active because they no longer are alive.

I do feel that if they were able to seek the help they needed, they would've done so.

If you wish to argue, than argue with logic and facts, not calling people "normies" as if they don't know what drug addicts go through. I myself was getting addicted to oxycontin before I was able to ween off of it.

My condolences to you for those you have lost in your life, good sir. Or might I add, I hope you are able to deal with your own demons in an appropriate manner.
I think the point of markup languages is not so much about convenience for writing (assuming that's what you're talking about) rather than readability in pure text form.

HTML is readable in pure text but it does not look that great.
...that would be at odds with the reality that much of these currencies are hoarded.
Tangential at best, but in 1998 or so I was working at a large company with a small, nimble Internet team. We had a website before most companies had heard of the Internet, we had Usenet feeds, a class A network...

One day the team was invited to lunch, where we were informed that our efforts were appreciated but it was time for the adults to take over. Marketing was stepping in to manage everything properly.

Our consolation prize? A motivational screen saver. I long thought that, if they had at least been clueful enough to give us Doom or something on those CDs, maybe the team wouldn’t have felt quite so humiliated.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310664

650+ points, 570+ comments
Demonstrates the easiest way to success. Just tell others how to be successful - live a crazy life that seems awesome and blog/write about it! Pretend you know something they don't so they stay hooked on your "personal brand". Voila!
It could be that their sample is biased to start with. According to one of the studies they took it from an online dating website.
FWIW I'd consider it the opposite of selfishness to want to improve accessibility.
> I think the lgbbq movement was a cultural Marxist conspiracy against the institution of the family unit

Have you ever considered that, oh I don't know, maybe it's just that people would like to live their lives in peace, the way they want, fucking whomever they want without bothering anyone else or being bothered in return? What on earth possesses you to attribute this to some sinister decades long underground plot?
Regarding the 'correct information' you mention... I have never had a very 'active' credit history, I just don't borrow a lot. But when I went to buy my house, I pulled my credit report to see what its status was and do a sanity check. When I did, I found an error. What surprised me is that it was an error that was false on its face. It was an impossible entry. To this day I am perplexed how such a thing could exist on a credit report at all without being caught by even the most basic data consistency checks. It claimed, roughly, that on say July 2000 I had a balance of $0 on an account with a furniture company... and 30 days later, on August 2000, I was more than 180 days overdue with a balance of -$300 with that same company. Given that it is quite difficult to pack more than 180 days into the span of 30 days, I can only conclude that they just accumulate errors and do not value either correctness or basic sensibility.

Luckily I was able to easily get the error removed, but it seems absurd to me that a clear system error of some kind had simply persisted on my report for years.
Easy enough to install on Linux there are plenty of guides. Just a few commands to grab the source and tools to build it and then compile the binaries.

Once you have that, there's a tool (python script I think) to extract the hash from the wallet.dat. Then you run it against that.

The hardest and most important part is seeding a proper word list for it to work off of. The default dictionary probably isn't going to crack it.
MS had nothing on Sun’s Dev Guide, the easiest and best GUI dev tool i’ve ever seen.

I say this because it took me zero effort to use due to how intuitive it was to get started...
You've given a clear, easy to understand example of something, and you've told people that this something is a zero-knowledge proof.

Anyone who doesn't know what a zero-knowledge proof is will give you positive feedback, because they had an easy time understanding the example you presented.

People who do know what a zero-knowledge proof is will correctly point out that the thing you described is not a zero-knowledge proof.

I think this explains the gap you're seeing between the feedback here and the feedback in "less technical forums." It's difficult to come up with real-world examples of zero-knowledge proofs, but there are two good examples on Wikipedia and one here (the "Where's Waldo?" example).
I try to leave them unset where I can (probably doesn't help over the phone; I'm thinking more of online accounts), such as on eBay which keeps prompting me to set security questions but going back to the homepage lets me avoid doing so.

For sites that force you to set them (and where I care - otherwise they just get random nonsense), and for my bank, I have a set of plausible but false answers I use. Not bulletproof of course, but definitely not googleable and avoids the "I just set it to something random" attack.
To clarify, it's the IDE plus the live environment plus the layout and design tools.
For better or worse, the flag and anthem are representatives of the ideals and the Constitution. We are pretty nationalistic. That's not necessarily a bad thing, in and of itself.
Apparently we can accurately determine a child is a psychopath from an extremely young age now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/can-you-call-a-9-...

There's no question that the next 20-30 years will be overflowing with cans of worms.

The next step after early (fetus or embryo stage) diagnosing of X thing, is that we're going to soon have the genetic alteration power to do something about it courtesy of CRISPR. It seems practically guaranteed that authoritarian societies will begin forcing parents to alter their unborn children to eliminate all sorts of attributes that are considered undesirable by whatever regime is in power.
5k/mo is pretty much rich from starting at 0. There’s many ways to aggregate that to more money beyond that. It’s like saying find a way to pay all of your bills and have 5k left over per month to be rich in the long run. Yeah, okay, but that’s pretty much a tautology.
I consider myself pretty good, too, but had to take a community college class to force myself to spend the time to learn website dev. It's an abortion. HTML/DOM/CSS + JavaScript? Back End / Front End? You simply must use a framework to do anything real. In class, we developed without frameworks, to see how the guts work. Like real guts, Web guts are ugly (although perhaps utilitarian) and not especially streamlined for their job; but given they evolved from simpler times, maybe pasting over the cruft with more cruft is our only salvation today.

I normally do embedded, and, to me, the Web Browser is just an app. Anybody could write an app that accepts text as input and output formatted text, graphics, pictures. It certainly could be optimized for within-the-app apps. I'm not sure why this hasn't been yet done. JSLinux is a proof-of-concept: https://bellard.org/jslinux/
gt_,

It is my understanding that there is a much larger organization at work here... these are just the small guys sending the emails, hoping to earn their paychecks. There has got to be some larger organizations considering that there are millions to billions of dollars being stolen every year.

This website I created was to simply bring about more awareness of it.. at least to make known the "type of messages" being sent. I wish our governments could fight against the scammers and spammers, but it is a fight that has been going on since the dawn of the Internet.

My vision was that a person could search a portion of the message and find it on ScamShare so they are aware not to pursue or proceed any further in their actions.
> Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, and Kroger, the second biggest, said they were comfortable continuing to send Equifax their payroll data.

Kroger has a large union workforce. It will be interesting to see if their unions make this an issue and force the data handover to stop.
Basic Category Theory for Scala Programmers
They also lose all ego and eventually become beings of pure energy.

People are competitive and do foolish things because of it.
Agree 100% on the SSDI - it all comes down to the specific condition. Some are easy (Blue Book listings with definitive diagnosis) and some are not at all. Getting Medicare through SSDI will take ~30 months so not too helpful.

Medicaid at least, the only qualification is not having too much income. Medicaid I think is way better than Medicare, at least in the states I would live in.
I wonder if we can do the same thing with the common cold…
Can a model predict someone is Gay? Who knows. Can someone create a model that looks legitimate and then has false negatives and positives? Absolutely. Also, they will probably be able to sell it to countries.

This reminds me of a movie called The Final Cut by Robin Williams. Its where everyone has an implant for recording everything and you get a face tattoo to bypass it. In this case you would get a face tattoo that would intentionally misclassify you as whatever orientation that you want.
First rule of corporate America is the corpies always win in the long run. (Also we’re all dead in the long run)
No, Google has far fewer features. They didn't omit anything I miss, but it's lighter than Office.
Your perspective is very interesting to me. It makes me think that as software gets better/easier to write, as web development has become lately, people want to question why it is becoming better/easier. I think this self-reflection we have all been doing on the web is what is causing people to post so many threads and articles with this being the topic.
J-life has proper futon filled with cotton. Not the western couch thingys.
They could adorn their jackets with sponsor logos and change hats frequently. It'd be like automobile racing!

It might actually get more attention that way. The scientist could show up and do doughnuts in the parking lot, squirt champagne on the crowd, and get a trophy. I'd watch the hell out of that.
> Happiness comes from intangibles, like experiences, relationships, activities, not stuff.

Experiences don't make you happy. It's one of the mistakes millennials make. Vacations are exactly the same as buying shit - you're just buying more shit, except your buying a pre-packaged consumer-friendly vacation. Taking a vacation to south of France isn't going to make you happy. You'll be just as angsty there as you are in your current place - don't need the south of France or Machu Picchu to tell you your life is empty.

My advice: Create.

That's happiness right there.

If you want experiences that result in happiness, create some new experience. You know you're doing it right if you actually make the news - when someone ELSE gives a shit about your experience enough to report about it.

The actual process of creating something new is what makes you happy.
Nothing against your PR, but the default cascade-on-delete behavior is my least favorite thing about Django. :(
These are both helpful mnemonic tricks. I always forget links' syntax.

More generally in this post I find Markdown has a pretty short learning curve, is highly readable and logical (EG. I like the number of `#` for level of headings). My biggest issue with Markdown is the different interpretations and how they're represented. Eg. Github vs. someplace else vs. Markdown-viewer apps. Org in comparison looks more concise, but less readable, IMO.
ISPs can't add cookies to encrypted traffic going into a VPN relay.
Have you heard of Rat Park?

https://imgur.com/gallery/pI8Nm

TL;DR rats trapped in cages will self-administer drugs, often to the point of death. Rats which explore freely have a much lower (order of magnitude) rate of addiction.
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know if they still use Perl? I think the BBC iPlayer used it.
So much paid software has awful interfaces as well though
In the short term, yes. Not in the long run as early investors sell their coins.
Is it actually difficult for tech startups to obtain capital? My impression is that it's not. Non-tech small businesses are the ones that seem to have more difficulty getting off the ground with loans, and it's not clear to me that shareholders/corporate executives getting fat bonuses from dollar repatriation would put that cash into small businesses.
You may not have a need for a duck press now, but that looks like a good one if you did.
Why limit it to just the credit system? Security is always an afterthought. Even if a company is marketing itself as a security oriented company, you can bank on the marketing itself being valued more by the organization than any sort of safeguard for protecting the customer ('subjects' may be a more apt descriptor in this case.)

And while I'd love to blame the bankers on this, I feel the blame is 100% at the feet of sysadmins and developers who decided getting paid was more important than doing the right fucking thing.

Now gimmie my downvotes, you spineless bastards (and the sociopaths you bend over for).
> How about healthcare for everyone, then we can figure out basic income.

They address different issues, but there is substantial overlap in support for BI and support for universal single-payer.
Thanks, that's useful.
I had access to a milling machine so it was easier and cheaper to just carve it in a cheap block of machine brass. Crypto steel is an option though.
Yeah I often try to double check things like that before asking for help. Other wise there are too often silly things wrong like config settings not pointing to the db I think they are. But still end up with egg on my face far to often.
Safety was the pitch. That’s literally the only thing the company does. Gathers and stores information for you to access when you pay.
Steam wishlist? ;)
Paper wallets expose your key though because you need to use a computer and printer to generate and create them.
A system to identify concealed gun carriers from video should be possible. It's not hard if you can see someone step up or down; the inertial effects of carrying a big weight show.
I honestly looked because of the other comments here. I'm definitely grabbing this.

Great idea
Easy Meditation Bench: Everyone Can Meditate
The black and grey markets represent nearly 1/3 of the world's economy. They cannot be shut down. The war on drugs is an excellent example of this.
You're right, but as soon as you introduce anything more than you could have done on a typewriter, most of these formats stop looking great pretty quickly also.
I haven't read much Ayn Rand but what I've read so far seems pretty straightforward. I'm curious to learn more, could you tell me about some of the problems you've found with her ideas?
But it does matter where it goes. What if it all goes into real estate (again), for example? Then you get another housing bubble and even more unaffordable housing for middle Americans. You're also assuming that cash being spent on things like luxury goods is flowing into the US economy as opposed to the global economy. Globalization has changed that dynamic significantly.
AucTeX in Emacs can do this, and it’s really nice.
As a human I can’t predict whether someone is gay or not most of the time. Most gay people I know don’t show any of the stereotypical “gay” cues. I don’t see how a machine would be able to determine something like this, so this story just seems like meaningless clickbait to me.
That is complexity. It's layers upon layers upon layers of dynamic runtime interactions. Try working on maintaining/extending a web application that's been developed over the course of many years, during that course of time using all of those technologies in many different versions, with the many different styles of architecture and best practices that were 'the right way' to do it at the various points in time when those parts of the system were added. You'll find all kinds of complexity in there, even without looking at the server-side.

Then you mention the modern ecosystem of javascript tools with all of its glued-together hacks, dependency nightmares, grey boxes of 3rd party code that you can look at but don't have the time to understand fully (all of which use different styles/techniques). That is complexity.

The alternative as described by the article is traditional development where you have a language+IDE+GUI design tool that compiles applications into a single file that, if it compiles, just works (except for any bugs). People who haven't developed in Delphi or similar environment have no idea how much less complexity there could be.
> Now gimmie my downvotes, you spineless bastards (and the sociopaths you bend over for)

Just please leave this off. The guidelines ask us to, and if you're worried about down votes, being aggressive and rude isn't going to help matters.