skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US will not be getting PINs for cards. It would put liability on the bank rather than the merchant. And it only affects cloned card fraud, it doesn't affect online transactions. As far as banks are concerned, the chip itself provides enough protection, and they have no interest in helping reduce merchant losses.
What I meant by "work with" is that CEOs work in proximity to and interact with employees pretty much every work day. I didn't mean to imply that their interests were aligned.

I assume most CEOs don't talk to their board of directors every day. Most normal people will empathize with and want to please the people they work with to achieve some common goal (i.e. create a good product, grow the business, and beat their competitors). To the stockholders, that would be an undesirable trait, and so the board of directors gives the CEO stock options to encourage the CEO's self-interest to override his or her innate desire (if it exists) to treat employees well at the expense of profits and dividends.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15351141 This?
The Network State – Balaji Srinivasan
Yes, you can't tell what it being transferred. But knowing when and how much it is transferring shows that it isn't actively listening to everything.

If you are worried about companies like Amazon and Google lying about what these devices use as wake words, why would you trust Google, Apple, or Microsoft that they don't lie about the same thing regarding your phone or laptop? That is my main problem with these arguments regarding voice assistants. These devices are really just a microphone and an internet connection. They are no more a tool of Big Brother than your phone, computer, TV, Xbox, or any other device with a microphone and internet connection. In fact, many of those devices can do a better job of hiding their compromised status.
though GDPR is making more work for me I am glad to see it!
Semantics. If you're working in Facebook's offices for a large majority of your hours, you're effectively working for Facebook. They've just added the middle man to avoid paying decent wages.

Your HVAC worker who may spend 4 hours a month on the Facebook campus is different from someone whose daily job is to clean Facebook's headquarters.
They are able to do that. But, unlike the physical world, it's really expensive compared to just building a virtual one first. And then really tempting to just use that prototype, or patch it up.

If it was super cheap and easy and almost free to build things in the physical world we'd probably do the same thing and just skip the architecture and wing it.
Excellent summary of your vision.

> (1) (...) Whether you're following a famous developer or you're looking up your own sibling, odds are in 2017 you know a public definition of them: a Twitter account, Reddit account, Facebook, etc.

What do you think about OpenPGP Linked Identities proposal [0] that does exactly what you described but in a decentralized way?

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vb-openpgp-linked-ids-01
> the law allows your issuer to make you liable for the first $50

This has never happened to me, and ive had a CC compromised a few times.

If someone steals your hardware wallet, what do you consider that?
Technically, isn't the real problem is one of slander?

The credit reporting agency is slandering your name by stating that you committed a crime, be it theft, benefit fraud, or failed to pay your creditors or whatever, that you have not.

It is that slander against your good name or good credit that causes the individual all the problems.
https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-...
That sounds pretty reasonable and interesting for prototyping, but also possibly heavy weight to run as a "browser". But I think it's basically what we seem to be moving towards anyway - if we could securely run it, the simplest model of interaction is to just download a program + data and run it.
Yeah, I was about to recommend this as well. There's a ton of good content, it's just weird with how hard it is to discover sometimes.
Where I get the most resistance to functional programming is more in the abstractions: both that they are too complex and that people aren't already familiar with them. High-level/complex/abstract patterns are hard to understand the first time and FP seems to make those patterns easier to express.

I'm surprised how much we take for granted an understanding of object-oriented coding in the industry. Any graduate with a four-year degree in CS can be expected to write passable object-oriented code, but many have absolutely no exposure to functional idioms. Of course, those same people may have very little exposure to more complex OOP design patterns. I've seen people's eyes gloss over the same why when saying, "It's just a monad" as when saying "It's just an interpreter pattern".
You have a Ph.D.; I think you have a bit more options than some 20-year old that spent too much time doing the same thing for 20 years.
100% behind it. Thanks for the info
It doesn't make sense to compare salaries between US & India on a US$ perspective. Indian salaries are lower in terms of USD, but the cost of living is also lower - basically the 5$ USD meal at McDonalds in US costs maybe 1$ USD in India. If you are paid "less", but everyone else is paid "less" too, then goods/services are cheaper - so the actual goods/services you can purchase will be the same for a much lower salary in India. Lookup purchasing power parity.

It might be more sensible to compare how much more dentists make than the average income. i.e Average dentists salary / average salary.

For US I get - 175350/55775 ~ 3x

For India its 8.5x

So dentists are probably pretty well paid in terms of the standard of living they can purchase.
> failure is accounted for in their portfolio math. But you might!

Exactly. Assuming the common claim of "90% of startups fail" (i.e., assuming each startup is IID with 90% chance to fail), an investor that invests in 7 or more startups has a more than 50% chance of seeing at least one succeed (1 - 0.9^7 > 50%), whereas as an employee of one of those startups, you still have a 90% chance of failure.
It's Big Karma in action, repressing dissidents that seek to sabotage their karma farms.

(I hope it's clear enough that I'm _parodying_ a conspiracy theory. Not that the idea of conspiracy theories is ridiculous, but there definitely is a signal/noise problem there.)

My explanation for this happening using the axiom "no conscious manipulation is taking place": it's being upvoted for the emotional response the title gives some readers, and perhaps a portion of them didn't even read the article.

One possible interpretation of the sentiment (of just the title) that has a high emotional value: "Americans should be knocked down a peg". This would resonate with those who are against (all forms of) nationalism, like for instance most communists, or those in support of globalism.
It is a good way to track customer's buying habits. eg how many people go weekly, or to different stores, or buy same products etc. eg HomeDepot tracks credit card back to userid https://consumerist.com/2013/01/16/home-depot-sort-of-explai...
iOS lets you keep a semblance of privacy without hurdles. The walled garden even contributes to it's security.

I think more people who have a passing interest in privacy would rather take a walled garden on some of the best hardware out there with a rather enjoyable, if not powerful, OS.
Would you mind expanding on that? I'm on MacOS and neither Cmd-. nor Ctrl-. seem to be bound in Firefox 57.b03. Is there a way to list all keybindings that are in effect? Cmd-click on a link does work for me as a way to open a new tab in the same container, which is a possible workaround. Otherwise this is making containers very hard to use for me.

EDIT: Cmd-click on the "New Tab" + icon does open a new tab in the same container.
Well, no, because then they aren't a startup but a small business, surely?
Counterpoint: I'm 48. I work in the Valley. I do wear suits and dresses because that's what I like. (Some days, you can catch me in jeans and t-shirts. It's rare). I don't pick up hobbies I don't care about just because "everybody does it". (Looking at you, bicycling!). I'm not even male.

I still (just verified :) ace my interviews. I'm well respected at my job. I've got a decent income and a decent set of responsibilities.

Maybe I'm an exception. But, alternative thought, maybe the "youth obsession" is also partially created because everybody thinks it exists.

Yes, I'm wondering what happens when I get post 50 as well. But mostly I'm thinking that because everybody tells me it will be bad, not because I've seen actual evidence. I've got wonderful colleagues who are 50+, and nobody would dream of firing them. I've got industry contacts who are 50+. So, I guess I'll find out in about two years.
Bird scooters flying around town (Santa Monica)
And health insurance companies have capped profit rates - the only way to return more money to shareholders is to cover more expenses. A $10 treatment means the insurance company gets to send about 80 cents to the shareholders, a $100 treatment means they get to send $8 to the shareholders. Is it any surprise that they don't really care about prices when they're incentivized to make prices more expensive and the law stipulates that you must buy health insurance if you can afford it?
Introducing full-computer backup with Sia
This is farcical.
How well does vespa handle time series data, compared to, say, elasticsearch?
They are typically PIN-protected. And you can back them up by writing the 12/24-word seed in a safe/hidden spot.
I guess I'm a Ninja Pirate.
What happens behind the screen where one country is able to groom healthy medical/ insurance system and other countries get infected with so called insurance systems. Is it about the consumers being weak or is it about the service providers being strong?
$4 billion is the lowest estimate I've seen anywhere. Most analysts guess it's about twice that based on what they pay out in ad rev share.

And yes - Wojcicki did say they are still investing in YouTube. Specifically she was talking about adding VR functionality.

YouTube is probably profitable.
> prolific publicly in everything he preaches about.

I think that's the key point: he's private where he's given no consent (i.e. being tracked on the web), and is public where he has chosen to... preach.
It could be a replacement for the 'E', but the APIs are different enough that there's no drop-in replacement for the 'L' and 'K' and creating or making those compatible would be a significant effort. Would be great if someone did though :-)
>You may have heard something along the lines of “Most >startups fail, so just join a team you like and enjoy
> wherever it goes.” or “The equity is just a bonus in case >something comes of it.” These assume you are incapable of >assessing a startup’s potential, which is an incorrect
> assumption.

Really? Yes, as the article points out, SOME VCs do actually manage to correctly assess startup's potential. But that is literally their entire job - 40+ hours/week. And a breathtaking amount of VCs fail at that. What hope do you have, as a prospective employee?

Do you think the VCs limit themselves to those quick questions? No. They get full financials, projections etc. And still get it hella wrong.

The article fails to mention ALL the engineers who went to work for startups that failed, thinking that they had evaluated it correctly. I bet the failure rate here is significantly worse than for VCs, who at least can demand much more detail than can a job candidate and spend (paid, working) hours assessing those details!

Does that mean you shouldn't ask good questions? Of course not. Ask ALL the questions you can get away with. Ask the hard ones.

You should ask good questions of any prospective job, and these are particularly well suited to a startup.

You should ask a lot more than that. You want to make sure that not only is the company not completely unlikely to succeed, but ALSO a decent working culture, good people to work with etc. Gates, Zuckerberg and Kalanick revealed themselves pretty early on to be horrible people. IF you're going to work with/for someone like that, and you're saying to yourself - this will work out because I'll get hella rich and retire in a few years... well, how much worse will it be in the MORE likely outcome that the company fails AND you invested years working with someone like that?

If anything, this article reinforces my belief that equity should be treated and viewed as a bonus in the form of a lottery ticket. Get yourself paid a reasonable, if not above market salary for the risk and opportunity cost, not to mention the extra work you expect to put in at a startup.

Surely a reasonably skilled engineer has options these days. So yeah - ALSO don't go work for a startup whose product/service you don't believe in - either economically OR morally. But don't delude yourself that your belief in the product/service gives it anything like a higher chance of succeeding, even as a skilled "in the industry" person.

Remember all those engineers who believed in all those failed startups.
but, the ones who are leaving now -- weren't they initially thrilled too? retention can be pretty important.
My twin can't use his house key to get into my house.
Physically stealing a hardware wallet is typically not usefull because they are PIN-protected. And you can back them up by writing the 12/24-word seed in a safe/hidden spot.
So basically all our problems will go away if we return to UML and requirements documentation that's hundreds of pages long and edited for ages before anyone writes any code.
Countries like The Netherlands or Germany are considered so stable by the financial sector that they can get loans at negative interest rates. At that point, why not get the loan?
Of course you can do that too. Leisure is awesome. I think I'd do a lot of that myself.

I don't think I'd give up programming though. I really enjoy it. Maybe after tinkering on a bunch of my own projects that nobody ever sees, I would get bored of that (pretty sure I would anyway). I'd probably get an itch to do something that other people can use too. And then it's likely there'd be money involved.

But also, "going to 3 different part time jobs" isn't really a good way to look at it. If someone asks you "hey, do you want to help me build a deck?" , there's a world of difference between saying yes because you need the money vs. saying yes because you enjoy the work and want something to do.

I would not underestimate being in the position to walk away. Even if you never act on it, that feeling of control is worth something. (see also: "fuck you money").
I think you're conflating self interest and best interest.

In the case of banks, you have execs acting in their personal self interest and not in the long-term interest of the bank. Their long and short-term interests were not in alignment. This could be addressed by compensating execs with shares that are locked up for a period.

To blame failure on irrationality is to not understand the motivations of the actors involved. Perhaps the risk of going out of business was mitigated by knowing they're "too big to fail". Perhaps it's not the banks that are irrational but the incentives given to them.
2016 Underhanded Rust contest: the results
So psychoanalysis is not dissimilar to a startup.
An alternative - a partnership with Canon on Nikon where they would build a shell around the iPhone that would accept DSLR lenses, and build an iOS app to have all the DSLR features, with deep integration (like panorama, could make use of the other lens, AI, etc). They make more money on lenses anyway, let apple sell razors while they continue to sell razorblades. Furthermore, the case itself would cost $100-$200, which coupled with the phone would be > $1000, while the "normal" DSLR sensor shell is already about $600, so it still leaves room for both products. Also, it would even lower the barrier to entry to purchase DSLR lenses for current iPhone owners, which would increase lens sales. Assuming it works from a technical perspective, I don't really see a downside with this business model.
Putting tape over a microphone doesn't physically disable it. People have been able to get audio out of a room by watching the vibrating of windows or simulate a key logger by listening to the sounds a keyboard makes. If you are worried about being actively spied upon, nothing short of physically disconnecting the microphone is 100% secure.
Which is why we created a system with enormous first mover advantage such that the people who joined first see 1000x or more returns on their investment, ensuring that the distribution of BTC is wildly unequal and why people who simply own BTC have literally zero say in its operation?
I just want a JBL speaker with bass and Google Assistant with a battery.
I believe violent versus non-violent crimes should be treated distinctly in terms of evaluating (a) rehabilitation and (b) future offense odds. For non-violent crime, I think rehabilitation is the answer. For violent crime, I'm more comfortable with a model that involves sequestration, i.e. keeping the offender separate from society until their risk of re-offending falls suitably low.
I don't see your email address on your profile what's the best way to reach you?
It's amazing in low-light, but I find the colours are pretty washed out and the image can band pretty bad once you apply post processing to get it looking half decent. That's been my experience with it anyway. Didn't know they have a new model - great to hear.
That's a ridiculous standard. How much money do you make? Do you live on the bare minimum necessary for survival and donate the rest? If you do, then kudos. If you're like most other people, you probably indulge in a luxury once in a while that you wouldn't otherwise buy if you couldn't afford it. That's not unreasonable. If your income unexpectedly declined, I'm sure there's a number of expenses that aren't strictly necessary and could be given up without too much worry.

FWIW, MMM did blog about giving away $100,000 of his blog windfall last year (https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2016/10/26/notes-on-giving-a...) and plans to give away more.
Well, apologies. I got the impression that your argument was that you make a messages easier to understand by shortening them. I just gave you a concrete example of when a message got harder to understand because it was shortened.

But good job on deliberately missing the point as a discussion strategy. That too, was very twitter of you.
Point a similar device at someone's face. Now you have their facial structure. You can open up their iPhone, desolder the FaceID hardware, and feed the leads captured inputs. Boom, phone unlocked. Even if they have some defense against that, you can just 3D print the person's face in a few hours and be done. Easy to write the data down in a less secure database somewhere, too.

This is trivial to do if the person is in custody. You could also profile a specific target and get their face walking past them on the street. You could do this in bulk in a public place.

Now your face is compromised and the person who stole it likely posesses your phone and is unlocking it now. You can't change your face, but it's too late anyway. You live in an oppressive regime, they found out you're gay from what they found in your phone, and you're going to be hanged in a week.
If FireFox provided a formal model of how it lays things out I can prove I use it correctly in my code. It's about trust and providing models for other programmers to use in their proofs along with our code. Or code and proofs can be even more intertwined, since they are very related.
> These ideas are salvageable in part, IF one keeps in mind that their original goal (building a psychotherapy oriented by leading patients to sudden insights) has long been known to be a dead end.

^^^ Yes. My favorite example is that Freud's original name for "The Oedipus Complex" was "The Nuclear Complex" -- it demonstrates that he came up with the idea by noticing an interesting pattern in contemporary society (relating to the nuclear family). My speculation is that he renamed it because he believed himself to be doing Science and Medicine, rather than pure Philosophy or Sociology, and wanted the theory to be seen as more serious (and what could be more serious than invoking the ancients?).

In particular, reading Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" after having read Foucault's "History of Sexuality", a lot of the issues and commonalities Freud identifies are not so much medical conditions as they are deep insights into how living in modern society shapes us.

It's interesting to see how much of the rhetoric around "mental health" still directly stems from his writing. Such as, specifically and most controversially today, the idea that mental illness is a strictly physiological illness requiring medical treatment, rather than a set of patterns emerging from our shared social and developmental conditions.

Dream analysis is also a fun hobby, and a lot of his ideas about free association seem interesting and personally useful, although they are certainly not serious science.
I'd be interested in doing something like that. I'm not sure that they'd let me, as I have firearms in the home, though they are secured in safes and the ammunition is secured in different safes,

I'd not want more money than it costs for upkeep and I'll not be a physical caretaker - I don't wash asses. Still, I've got plenty to keep someone occupied and they'd have to be alone when I travel. I guess I'd want to be pretty selective, the person(s) would have to be interesting and intelligent.

I'm not sure if the missus would be happy about it, but she might be. She used to work with the mentally ill.
Game Dev Secrets to Indie Success
Timelock stops bullets and knives.
If someone commits fraud in your name, and you suffer the consequences of their actions, then you're one of the victims of their fraud.

Noting that things bundled under "identity theft" are actually different crimes isn't a novel observation; the whole point of that label is to group the class of crimes where a criminal uses your personal information to perpetrate various kinds of fraud.
Week 38 in Information Security, 2017
If everyone does that, then you have just started running faster to stand still. They should back initiatives to build more housing in the area.
Nah, we'll just have a transpiler and PerlPack™ and PPM
The news looks bad, but reality is worse. Remember that huge trove of NSA hacking tools and exploits that dumped last year? And the numerous follow-up dumps? There are LOTS of new weapons in the hands of everyone from everyday script kiddies to organized crime to enemy nations.

It's possible Equifax was the only credit agency with enough information to require public disclosure... if Transunion doesn't have the right logs or monitors, they may never find out they've been breached, and nor will we.

At this point, I assume everything on a computer can become public.
For this one, you can turn off "automatically check for updates" in App Store preferences.

(It's my least favourite notification too.)
100% of the bitcoin thefts up to this day could have been avoided if people had used hardware wallets. I'm serious when I said hw wallets make theft a non-problem.
Louis Theroux did a 2 part documentary where he visited an Ohio psychiatric hospital that housed people who were found not guilty by reason of insanity.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4546868/
The reason cited seems much more a case of moving call-management into a high-level software system that didn't have the same sort of rigor that telecom systems traditionally have. Maybe it did and someone missed this? It's hard to know. In short it feels a lot more like a management failure than a failure of software.
What happened to Cyrix Processors?