skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
T-Mobile customer data plundered thanks to bad API
Obscurity is a valid part of some security schemes. It shouldn't be the only method, of course.
"For the average person, it doesn’t really matter if the decision to keep them in wage slavery is made by a super-intelligent AI or the not-so-intelligent Starbucks Scheduling System."

And Scott Alexander ... fails to address this core issue at all

Did we read the same article? While it's true that Scott's writing tends toward burying the lede, instead of not addressing this issue, I considered his criticism of the "We are already here" line to be the primary target of his response. Right or wrong, Scott's assertion is that it's laughable to the point of malfeasance that anyone using a standard definition of "the singularity" would suggest that it might come without a noticeable impact on the lives of those who are currently struggling. Quoting his Fifth entry in the top 5 (like Letterman's top 10 lists, he tends to save his best for last):

Fifth, another quote from the article:

In the end my taxonomy (as amusing as I find it) doesn’t really matter to the average person. For the average person there is no difference between the singularity as imagined by futurists in Q1 or Q2 and a world in which they are already consistently and secretly shunted to the “loser” side of each automated decision.

I already posited that the author doesn’t understand
“Singularity”, but this is something beyond that. This is
horrifying. There will be no difference for the average
person between a (positive or negative) post-singularity
world and the world now? What?

Listen up, average person. If there’s a negative
singularity you will notice. Because you will be very,
very dead. So will all the rest of us, rich and poor, old
and young, black and white.

And if there’s a positive singularity, you will also
notice. I would promise you infinite wealth, but that
sort of thing kind of loses its meaning in a
post-scarcity society. I would promise you immortality,
but who knows if we’ll even have individual
consciousnesses at that point? I would promise you bread
and roses, but they would be made of hyperintelligent
super-wheat and fractal eleven-dimensional time blossoms.

I don’t care if you think this vision is stupid. We’re
not arguing about whether this vision is stupid. We’re
arguing about whether, if this vision were 100% true, it
would make a difference in the life of the average
person. The Boston Review is saying it wouldn’t. I’m
sitting here with my mouth gaping open so hard I’m
worried about permanent jaw damage.

A Singularity that doesn’t make a difference in the life
of the average person isn’t a Singularity worth the bits
it’s programmed on.

I found Scott's response to be entirely on point to the horrendous flaws in the original article. While it's fair to argue that Scott's response is wrong and the Boston Review article is right (please do so), I don't think it's reasonable to say that his response ignores the issue.
That's not true for obvious reasons.
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I always wanted to do something like that to let people entertain my cat using a small wheeled robot as a mouse, then exporting video and direction/speed controls on a web page.
I struggle with depression. I haven't had any therapy, but taking my bike out to the forest and going for a good long ride in the trees does wonders for me. The adrenaline of a cross country ride and the deep fatigue after a couple of hours on the bike both help me to quiet my overactive mind.
I did a very similar thing to check if my H1B was approved. My use case was simpler - I regexp matched a keyword on the webpage and converted the script to an alexa skill deployed locally.
Unfortunately, i wasn't home for the week when the approval happened :P. But it was fun asking alexa to check the status!
I'm not sure how this page is meant to work but I can't find the study this claim came from? It's linking to a book?
> application code or library code

Do the two call for different styles?
> Hackers initially gained access by exploiting a 12-month-old vulnerability in the company’s IT helpdesk portal

Curious... does anybody know what ticketing system was exploited?
Both muscular and thin have abs so OP still has a point.
I believe there's a counteracting mechanism at work that compensates (and then some) for the possible damages from tourism.

Look at Yellowstone, or the country of Guatemala, where it's the interest by visitors that provides the necessary incentives to protect the natural beauty.

The same has (somewhat) worked to reduce the risk of extinction for many species of African mammals as well.
Sadly because if something can be abused, it eventually will be.
Yes, you end up attracting different sorts of people. What does that prove?
I can't accept this kind of responsibility.
https://tfolbrecht.com/automation/dishwashertimer/

So I write those links to the NFC stickers (click one on mobile)

stickers: https://www.ebay.com/i/332153052651?chn=ps&dispItem=1

Write on them with a sharpie,
When I go to use it, I tap my smartphone(stock android) and it automatically launches the browser to the webapp
You uh... want to tell me why not over coffee later?
Previously it was a sort of vaguely Maoist gerontocracy; power was concentrated in some central committees, not just the premier.
I'm really curious if it's actually true your development machine can't pivot into prod. You don't have sufficient access on the build/ci/deploy servers to pivot into prod without code review? You don't have passwords saved/stored that are reused in critical/prod infrastructure? You have no way of accessing prod?

That seems crazy to me, as I'm able to SSH into prod with a single command and password. I guess I'm further on the ops side, but still.
https://petcube.com/
Not only that, but the tenant is responsible for all maintenance and repairs.
I've always puzzled at Jesus' parable of the talents:

> ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A14...

The condemnation of the final recipient of the investment is so incredibly unexpected and seemingly out of character. Not only did Jesus reward risk-taking but he condemned the absence thereof. I don't really know what to make of the lesson, but it certainly presents a different angle than what I would presume to be the "Christian" approach to life.
Uhm, I don't think google drive needs a linux client. It's not syncing right?
Computational Thinking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_thinking

> 1. Problem formulation (abstraction);

> 2. Solution expression (automation);

> 3. Solution execution and evaluation (analyses).

This is a good skills matrix to start with:

http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/

https://competency-checklist.appspot.com

"Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist"

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/index.html

K12CS Framework is good for all ages:

https://k12cs.org
This is my own Turing Test.

Any AI that doesn't have the capability of destroying us isn't true AI.

Even if it can improve itself, and even if it has some agency, AI needs to be able to choose for itself what its relationship with us will be, otherwise its just an extremely robust calculator.
Yeah, he said it was something like:

https://www.amazon.com/Moisture-Humidity-Compatible-Atomic-M...

See his comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15453547
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

--Upton Sinclair
As an average-looking guy I've had no trouble finding women to date online. The trick is to not have a "trick" and just be a decent human being who wants to have mutually fun conversations with people. Make more friends than lovers, like anyone with their head on straight will expect of the world.
What does not fighting look like on a practical level?

For me, it was months jobless and isolated at a parent's house in the middle of nowhere.

For others, not battling means not getting out of bed, and for people facing other "demons" (what a bad word) not fighting might mean to continue to consume drugs or alcohol, or to keep not eating, or eating too much.
I’m pretty sure depressed people don’t believe these things will help them. If they did, they would just force themselves into it despite feeling bad. The idea that there’s a problem here, rather than that exercise is just actually worthless, is ridiculous.
I love this comment.

Sorry I'm not contributing anything substantive, but I wanted you to know someone noticed this, and it was brilliant.
Creating and Managing Distributed Honeynets Using Honeywalls [pdf]
hmmm, time to register pleasetakecareofmykids.com
Heritage, not genetic differences brah
Announcing Deep Learning, No Coding (DLNC)
people regularly violate traffic laws when they decide it isn't risky

People doing so take on the responsibility for their actions and can take situational assessment of risk to drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, etc. They also accept the risk of a traffic stop, citation, summons, search, fine, and effects on insurance rates. What can a traffic officer even do to an algorithm or its company? There isn't even statute law (in CA, anyway) empowering them to hold the "driver" accountable on any level.

When you program an algorithm to disregard law in non-emergency situations, there are so many edge conditions that come into play that go untested in advance.

I'm afraid these issues will go ignored until there is a body count to throw into the media narrative.
You can play the same game with shorter time periods. Considering even John D. Rockefeller’s life, before antibiotics, vaccines, air conditioning, the Internet, et cetera is dire [1].

[1] https://fee.org/articles/average-americans-today-are-richer-...
do share more details about this please

What hardware and software is automating these physical tasks for you?
For syntax, learnxinmyminutes:

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python3/

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/javascript/
Thanks for posting this, that whole site is new to me and it's pretty incredible.
> Investing $10,000 and 6 months of your life in a startup is not ruin-inducing

Can I just point out that it's not ruin inducing if you have a 100+k job and parents who live in a 1mm+ dollar house.

Losing 10k and quitting my job for 6 months in the process would be pretty much ruin inducing for me right now. I don't have the option to go back and live with my parents for a while, and of course, it depends on your definition of ruin, but that would likely leave mein the situation of sleeping on some friends couches with not a penny to my name and living on £58/week from the government.

> I recently quit my cozy six-figure job in ad-tech to try and bring some of my ideas to fruition

While you may not have the opportunities of a manhattan trust fund kid, you do have an incredible advantage over lots of other people; your job after paying 4k/month in rent in SF, and after paying taxes was more than my gross pay. Not everyone earns 6 figures and can save up 10k to gamble on a venture, and to assume that everyone can is incredibly entitled.
A question for the author or anyone who has been through a similar experience: Can you better describe what life is like without the "haze"?

One thing that I see consistently in these kinds of writeups is the author describing living life "through a haze". Then later, after the therapy/drugs helps them out of the depressive pit, they say how much clearer things are. This worries me because I have plenty of days where I feel "hazy", but have always though it to be normal.
Please, if you are going to build this kind of stuff (and I believe it's probably not 'that' hard), take an ethics course or two (don't take this literally, I just mean think about it). Unless you want to get a nasty label by your peers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCU_Grey_Area
The term open source implies the code is free. Simply having the source available does not make it open source.
My method is to have a "app superuser"; a user which is a group admin* for every group that I run apps as.

It can then do everything required with a few exceptions.

The exceptions are creating init/systemd files (associated startup/shutdown) and creating the necessary top-level directories for new apps.

Those can be allowed with a few careful sudo rules.

It can be a little convoluted but much more secure.

* "gpasswd -A <user>,,, <group>"

Note: to be a group admin doesn't necessarily mean you're in that group; it means that you can put yourself in and out of that group as required.
Agreed. Those people have nothing to offer the depressed. I’m not sure if they really want to help anyways, saying “oh just excercise” is useful the same way saying “not my problem” is useful. But then, why say anything st all?
To get a job, "Coding Interview University":

https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university
There is a pretty strong ops/dev divide where I work.

There are some repos I have admin access to, those I could push malicious code directly, execute a build and authorize a push to production.

Most products I work on have a fairly long build time and that'd be a fairly noisy process (emails sent off). It'd work if you are just trying to get a shell, but it'd assuredly alert someone that something bad is happening.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682884...

Caveat:
You have to get around the DRM, and the software it uses to make 3d print file from an STL runs on Windows or MacOS, closed source, no Linux support. I run Windows in a VM for the slicer.
Australia's New Facial Recognition Is Like Minority Report
This is more blanket advice rather than anything specific to OP's situation.

In Australia we've had bush fires hit remote communities who've then been short on all sorts of supplies for days at a time. Not to mention in having an extra days worth of 'stuff' you'll have enough to go around.
I haven't had any problems jumping around large codebases in smalltalk, clojure, or JavaScript.

I've had a lot more trouble understanding large Java codebases.

I thought they might be talking about difficulty refactoring.
Mostly Brian Eno + Celer on repeat :)
External impact. The concussion when there is no external impact comes from the brain bouncing on the skull.

I guess most roller coasters aren't causing the brain to bounce around.
If you get some of the nicer pads for them off amazon, they're even better. Other than the music in my ears, I Honestly forget I have them on.
Have you had many issues with them changing things that break this connectivity? I use Mint and they seem to have endless issues with that despite having obviously close business relationships.
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> attitudes towards interracial marriage may have changed in the past couple decades

That's an understatement. According to Gallup polls, Americans approving of interracial marriage were a minority until the mid '90s, and the last poll in 2013 showed 87% approval [1].

[1] http://news.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-w...
I have the communist era UKS Kitchen Robot:

https://www.google.cz/search?q=kuchy%C5%88sk%C3%BD+robot+uks...

It has a round cheeze gratter and slicer which is turned by an incredibly powerful and slow motor, and whatever it is you wanted sliced or grated can simply be cramed into the thing. It has a number of attachments, including a dough mixer that is actually powerfull enough to work (and to break your arm if you're stupid). The grating/slicing attachment has an outspout and I either put the steamer tray under it or a pot.
And what do you say to people who have actually tried it and feel no better? Just try it more? And if that’s what you say, it seems you don’t hold this belief based on the fact that it works, but something unrelated entirely, and so I’d say it’s not useful to share it with me or anyone else.
This sounds really cool, could you post more info? Thanks!
Depends on what you mean by "development machine." My Macbook has those credentials on it, but the Ubuntu VM running on it, which I do most of my development within, does not.

Personally, I wish more operating systems came with an installer checkbox for "this will be used as a VM within an environment that already has its own security mechanisms; stop doing anything related to security/multitenancy (i.e. automatic login, no sudo password, no screen lock, etc.) and just let the host handle all that." Every time I set up a development VM I have to go to a bit of trouble to create an environment almost-but-not-quite like that, thwarting all the carefully-designed-in, yet redundant, security.

Makes me miss MS-DOS and Windows 3.1/95 a bit; those were truly "Personal Computer operating systems", in the sense that they assumed that there was a 1:1 correspondence between physical access to the hardware and the privilege to read/write/execute arbitrary data on said hardware. It'd be neat to have a version of Linux (or Windows 10) with that sort of "retro" security model (but still with process sandboxing; just because any user has rights, doesn't mean any program should, because programs aren't always the authorized agents of a user's will.)
Why YC Is Worth 7% [pdf]
They have already divested their certificate business. http://investor.symantec.com/About/Investors/press-releases/...
Plot.ly is MIT licensed! The hosting is 10K if you want them to host your charts.

Plotly's pricing information is very confusing I must say.
Some of the best Runescape bots were all written in SCAR (https://scar-divi.com/). A friend of mine used them for months at a time all on one character to get 99 in many skills. He was never caught and never banned. The scripts were very sophisticated- human style mouse movement, mouse clicks, random event solvers, etc.
Congrats. It is for sure a life changing hack.

Not sure why you choose to do diff? You could have just searched the dom for the existence of 'Apply' button? Am i missing something?
But still not an appropriate PBKDF for 2017 - and the lower limit is only 65k iterations.
I wrote a simple shared budget tracking tool using Lambda, SES and SNS. https://blog.yangmillstheory.com/posts/serverless-budget-tra...
Wont replace monitors, but you can do that now if you like. The main limitations are battery life and minimum font size (really pixel density on your retina).
I meant the situation when you have multiple listeners listening on the same event. Even if you're running all handlers asynchronously, knowing the order of their invocation can be helpful when you're trying to figure out what happened by looking in the logs.
> But your parents have $1M house, and you have a six figure job. Are you not the definition of a rich trust-fund kid?

His parents have the million dollar house today. Theirs isn't a story of privilege.
I think my other reply to you is relevant here, because your advice cannot be proven wrong. You’re replying to someone who tried what you said, saw no marginal improvements, and saying that means they have to keep trying the same thing regardless. If someone tries this for several years and it doesn’t help them, would you consider your theory thoroughly debunked?
> I meant to call the barrage of anti-Trump media propaganda, because that's typically what one calls anything that's almost exclusively one-sided.

It's too easy to attack the messenger (or reporter) when someone doesn't like the report. The attacker needs evidence too.

The media in total isn't all critical. Consider Fox, the leading cable news channel, and the Wall Street Journal, the leading newspaper among the business elite, as examples. Many smaller publications are strongly pro-Trump.

A barrage of criticism isn't necessarily propaganda; sometimes the subject of criticism is doing a lot that's wrong: Uber got a lot of criticism recently; Kim Jong-Un is continually criticized; the coach of a winless sports team is continually criticized; Harvey Weinstein is getting it now; that's not propaganda.

Trump is in office and it's part of being a public figure. The NY Times, for example, goes after all public figures. It broke the story of Hillary Clinton's email servers, ran continual reporting on the DNC emails, and criticized Obama plenty. Every politician complains about the press coverage.

Trump, IMHO and in that of many others, including many Republicans (Sen. Corker, as a recent example, and apparently Sec. of State Tillerson), does an extraordinary amount that's wrong and therefore gets a lot of criticism.

> I'm simply questioning the prevailing narrative

Always a good idea, but quoting FEMA to support how well FEMA is doing is not much support. I'm doing a great job today - just ask me! :) I know what Metro is; I've read it before but I've never seen its reporting taken seriously - I wish I knew something about its credibility.
How to Deal with a Long Airport Commute
I read a ton, and without a doubt, one of the best sci-fi books I've read in the last 10 years is "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Read it. Seriously. Runner-up might be "Spaceman of Bohemia" by Jaroslav Kalfar.
Every night a bot will count the votes and if the majority vote 'Yes' the kids will be strapped into a diaper changing robot.
The big improvement was the ability to turn sudo off/on for a particular task. Not sure when that was introduced. 1.9.something?
That could be true in absolute terms, but my impression is that most of your competition can't manage much more than "hey, you're cute" come-ons or worse, so to stand out you just need not be a shallow jerk (apologies to people who are looking for shallow jerks, I'm sure they need love too). I met my last three partners online, over a spread over more than a decade, and that general pattern hasn't changed, talking to them about the people they rejected.
I don't see how you could make a top line revenue tax that didn't cripple your economy but wasn't also easy to get around.
Did you even read the OP's original link about the channel which was shut down? I highly recommend educating yourself on the issue.
Agreed with every word. Thank you for the very good comment, much appreciated.

Related: have you seen Japanese wood joinery? Gods, that thing is next level!