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Security is relative; there is no absolute security.

SMS 2FA is not perfect, but it's MUCH better than what it replaced (nothing). ANY system with a human component will be at risk to social engineering attacks; not just SMS-based methods.

And shifting the attack surface to depend on social engineering (SE) adds important rate limiting; it's difficult to automate SE attacks.

Friction is also a critical factor: a low-friction B+ security solution may be better than a high-friction A+ solution. Consider total risk, not just point risk.

SMS 2FA is like a CFL lightbulb. It's 10x better than what it replaced, it's what we have now, but we know it's not the endgame (LED lighting).
For several years I've been playing around with something like that as a side project — see http://www.CommonDraft.org (which isn't especially pretty; I'm in the middle of refactoring it to make it more Lego-like).
HN 3y ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9387160#9389678
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Doesn't this radically change the constraints of the dining philosophers problem?

The existence "fork <- revoke" calls mean that you're no longer designing a solution for coordination/resource management (the usual aim of dining philosophers); you're designing a system in which a higher-permissioned administration system manages resources for lower-permissioned users.

The untrusted-peer problem is interesting on its own, but my gut says it's different from the usual aim of this puzzle: to figure out the simplest/best strategies, or simplest/best means of central administration, required to manage resources effectively.
The summary via google translate is intriguing. Is there more information in english somewhere?
It's not that the pesticides are more likely to end up in the produce, just that more is used while growing.
I believe the root (pun intended) issue is the soil biology. In a no till environment where bacteria and funghi are present and healthy, they make soluable the micronutrients needed by the plant. In an unhealthy soil environment where bacteria and funghi are depleted, the plants are dependent on being fed soluable forms of all nutrients. The fertilization regime likely isnt incorporating them all.
>Will it have wifi?

Certainly
You must be describing some unique situation. Sugar beets don't do well if they are planted year after year, but they are included in crop rotations with no fallow years, never mind 5 or 10.
Sometimes I feel like social media actually makes us more lonely and disconnected from others.
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People spend good money on cars, electricity, and rocket launches.

I think the last one is a particularly good business because even though the US military has understood that cost reduction is job #1 for the use of space, the conventional cost plus model of developing rockets and then building and launch them can put stuff in orbit but cannot do cost reduction.
> I don’t believe so, nor do I believe it helps anyone to describe it that way.

^The op-ed writer's buried lede.
There is a huge difference to me in taste between the iron oxide salts, the "lava" (charcoal) salts and regular sea salt. I've always had a really sensitive pallet though. However, to my understanding, you wouldn't add these salts to change the flavor of food in which you add salt as an ingredient. Instead you sprinkle the crystals over meat, desserts, and other small portioned foods to get the color and a specific flavor on surface bites.
You're not alone. In that thought.
> what Prime Minister Theresa May called the “sad reality of modern life.”

That reality is mostly for men as it’s becoming increasingly harder for men to find a partner, or even friends for that matter. The women I know have to turn off their dating apps as a result of getting so many matches. The men I know rarely get a match, and these are men who are normal looking with high paying tech jobs.
The world of computing may well be moving back towards this strategy currently. The rise of single-static-binary runtimes (Go, Rust, new Java) and container runtimes (ad hoc, informally-specified static linking for sets of programs) seems to indicate that static linking is far from being consigned to the conceptual rubbish heap.
Replying to the phrase "anti fluoride in the water" with the specific chemicals that are added to the water while pretending to have no clue why they're there is more like something a conspiracy theorist would do.
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We know that picking produce before peak ripeness results in lower nutrient densities. And from a logistics point of view, higher yields almost inevitably mean earlier picks, to compensate for the more intense logistics of serving geographically larger markets from the same source. It makes me wonder how much of the nutrient decline is due to sampling baseline changes.

I'd be interested to see if there are significant differences in nutrient density for canned produce, which should significantly cut down on this potential error. Canned produce is almost universally canned and sealed within 24 hours of pick, and as such they almost always pick right in the window of peak ripeness, as opposed to several weeks before like most "fresh" produce.
A helmet is a must. I also added a seatbelt to mine, but it really doesn't make sense, the most common thing that will happen is it flips if he drives off a tall curb, and in that case you want to be able to easily get out from under it.
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If you make a claim, you provide source to back it up.

Telling people to go and verify for themselves a claim that you made is just lazy and disingenuous.
Certainly, the term "organic" is abused, much like the term "natural" (which also doesn't mean what people think it means). However, surely the kind of pesticide you use matters. And while nothing in principle guarantees that naturally-sourced pesticides are guaranteed to be non-toxic (except the pests in question, etc), the ones that are generally used[0] are undoubtably safer than "conventional" pesticides.

[0] http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/xerces-orga...
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Lobbying in the US is just legalised bribery.
The soil around the launch site must be loaded with acidic exhaust particles and other residue, yet grass still grows right up to the edge of the platform. That's one tough variety!
The downside of that approach is that it only works because shells try to interpret files if a simple execve(2) fails with ENOEXEC. If you wanted to use your fancy .go script with a program that just does execve(2) you'd be in trouble.
Pitching your early stage startup (Stripe Atlas and YC)
I think “it’s” is confusing because adding apostrophe-s to a noun is normally how you make a noun possessive, so it can seem logical to do the same to the word ‘it’.
Ask HN: Do you know any framework to write content with a clear structure?
I'm looking for a framework or a helpful questions list to make sure I can lay out the information I have in mind in an understandable manner for the reader. In my mind, this all is pretty clear but when I start writing it gets difficult. Can you advise me something to deal with this struggle please?
It's newsworthy to discuss the degree of change in common usage and especially the degree to which publications or usage recommendations are changing practices because of common usage.
I severely recommend using a mirror, that's how everyone does (and did) it.

A well cleaned mirror won't look any worse than straight through the lense.
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If anything the opposite is true: severe lack of alone-time. I'm surrounded by humans all the time, even in your time alone you can't get away from people due to IM, social media, etc.

I try to minimise the amount of social activity as much as possible, but I'm still getting overloaded and am slowly going crazy.
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This is exactly how you don't do science!
> not any sort of fundamental algorithmic paradigm shift

I think I cannot agree with this. There has been a lot of improvements to the algorithms to solve problems and the pace has speed up thanks to GPUs. You just cannot make a neural network from 15 years ago bigger and think it is going to work with modern GPUs, it is not going to work at all. Moreover, new techniques have appeared to solve other type of problems.

I am talking about things like batch normalization, RELUs, LSTMs or GANs. Yes, neural networks still use gradient descent, but there are people working on other algorithms now and they seem to work but they are just less efficient.

> This is similar to how the integrated circuit enabled the personal computing "revolution" but down at the transistor level, it's still using the same principles of digital logic since the 1940s.

This claim has exactly the same problem as before. You can also say evolution has done nothing because the same principles that are in people they were there with the dinosaurs and even with the first cells. We are just a lot more cells than before.
"Dew heaters" are already a thing!

http://philhart.com/content/dew-heaters-night-sky-photograph...

https://www.amazon.com/COOWOO-Warmer-Heater-Universal-Telesc...

From the reddit thread where the photographer posted this, they're planning to get some:

https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/81fu6u/the_res...
This article gets its facts wrong. It was the 1986 MARCH Meeting in Las Vegas where this happened. I was there.

A friend of mine overheard the saleswomen talking in the lingerie shop (dressed as you might imagine) "I could be stark naked and these guys wouldn't notice me".
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> but so far the key points made in the book about the genetic existence of race have not even come close to being debunked.

Some would strongly disagree: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-r...
The problem with moving away from SMS authentication is that not everyone in the world has a smartphone or is able to use something like a Yubikey. SMS is the lowest common denominator that allows most people in the world to use 2FA. If you require 2FA and don't allow SMS, you cut off access for a lot people, including the poor and likely the elderly.
I developed meli[1], which is a docker-compose alternative.

1. https://github.com/komuw/meli
You're correct, but you've missed the point. Google is the only search provider (or at least, the only one anyone uses), and so they have the power to decide what you are allowed and not allowed to discover. You're right that Google should not be forced to allow content they don't want to promote into their search results - and I don't think the article or anyone in this comment thread has argued that they should.

But that's not the problem. The problem is that Google has this monopoly in the first place. Big monopolies and oligarchies are anathema to both democracy and to a free market.
Just so I am clear, my concern comes from observation of the farms I work. All the usual caveats of anecdotes apply. It is not something that I have formally studied.

With that said, I think fertilizer is a big part of it. While we always used some synthetic fertilizer in my lifetime, the needs are greater now. Another thought is a greater opportunity to diversify the crops grown in the rotation. Things that humans can't eat, but animals can. There seems to be a difference in growing food for people for a few years and then growing food for animals for a few years over trying to grow food for people every year, where the choices are much more limited.

But this is speculation on my part.
Just being aware of what you are doing:

https://www.headspace.com/blog/2015/10/01/brush-brush-brush-...
The US federal government learns from the states. Obamacare is largely from then-governor Romney's healthcare plan for MA.
Phone I get but not email. I don’t think I can ever permanently close my email at this point.

The problem is 2FA is used to protect my email!
I got infected with malware and appreciated by its author
From their technical methodology note[1], they require their data sources to account for "state capture" and the usage of "public office for private gain". Take that as you wish, and feel free to look further at their sources[2]; however, I'd assume from that statement that they do account for lobbying and donations.

The US is not unique. If you see something happening here, it is almost always happening in other western countries, and acting like we are the only to have a problem does a disservice to worldwide development.

[1] http://files.transparency.org/content/download/2183/13748/fi...

[2] http://files.transparency.org/content/download/2183/13748/fi...
i think at least 1% of people get their news only from FB. 1% is millions. is that large or small?
They'll still track you without an account.
Some remarks:

First of all, cryptocurrencies are a new paradigm and a threat to bans so asking Bank of England is like asking taxi drivers their opinion about Uber.

Secondly, regulation means that they are accepted as legal tender, asset or money officially.

Lastly, any country that will try to outright crackdown and ban them is at a very great risk of economic exclusion and being left behind.
Loneliness might be the logical conclusion to a society going more and more towards metrics. Likes, dislikes, upvotes, downvotes. Dissenters are punished, perfection is idolized.

Research is pretty conclusive that to have tight friendships you need vulnerability to some degree, yet if people want perfection that implies invulnerability. If you accept these premises to be true, then it seems loneliness is inevitable.

As an aside, I also think income inequality might lead to more loneliness.
Phone-number-based two-factor authentication almost locked me out of my PayPal account. The account was registered to my home phone in Canada, but I was traveling in Asia. When I tried to log in from my seemingly suspicious new location, PayPal required a confirmation by calling my number and announcing some digits. Very fortunately my home phone used Voip.ms, so I was able to log on to that account and redirect the call to the physical phone I had on hand. Ideally I would decline phone 2FA because my home phone or cell phone number could become unusable and lock me out of accounts.
Doing infrastructure piecemeal is surely the most expensive way of doing it. It should require more than a whim for a politician to put a halt to an infrastructure development or to screw with the brief half way through. Same goes with stuff like NASA. Things that take longer than a political campaign to plan and execute, should require a defined formal process to be followed in order to screw about with them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16517929
Even if, what does that have to do with the parent posting about "modern standards"?
EV has been proven a lot less useful than thought : https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/nope-...
It sounds like you know the reason we should swallow those specific chemicals? Perhaps you'll be the first here to answer the question.
Bitcoin is a first iteration of a greater group of technologies. Latest versions do not require extra energy at all.

But even Bitcoin uses much less energy for transmitting money than bank buildings etc.
back in 89, I worked as a farm hand for a season which was a fascinating experience for many reasons. But I remember the farmer complaining about the tomatoes grown for export were tasteless and devoid of nutrition and he hated them with a passion... But they packed well due to uniform growing shape, looked good - perfectly round, had consistent color, and lasted longer without spoiling.... And supposedly this is what the consumer wanted. When people go through the produce section, its almost all looks and price that the majority of people judge fruit on.
Although now, people do seem to be thinking of and talking more about how their food is made. But I am not sure how much of that really is a general trend and how much of that is the company I keep or the country I live in.
Verizon plays shenanigans with it's prices though [0]. Initial pricing that skyrockets after 12 months, for example, and other hidden costs.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15423998/verizon-70-gigab...
> Where I live is irrelevant as this speaks to the point that "profit-focused corporations can't provide the same quality of service."

Um..not sure how validating your evidence is irrelevant. Or even wanting to know more about it.

And to the other poster's point, personal experience impacts interpretations a lot (in both directions). I myself consider the govt inefficient but reliable when compared to private companies. I'm not a libertarian because I trust the govt, but because I trust companies less. I've spoken with people from countries with lots of govt corruption and they find the idea of a reliable govt to be a joke. We each have a lifetime of experience to support our positions.
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Looking at that original wetland map makes me better understand the liquefaction zones south of Santa Monica. I'm very happy that my apartment is on the original surface bedrock, but it's amazing how much has been built on relatively baseless infill. That's going to be huge trouble during the next big earthquake.

http://geohub.lacity.org/datasets/4842ad85584c43048124685228...
By some measure Gates has none, as he bought a product and called it MS-DOS1, with the profits of that hired other people to make everything else. Zuckerberg at least personally made the thefacebook complete with algorithms a friend drew on a window.
This is a first iteration of technology. Early connected computers and internet routers had security problems too. That didn't stop evolution.
This is a much more likely and testable hypothesis than the linked article.
I know it's not easy for grandmas/etc, but I personally love classic TOTP solution. It's stupidly simple to backup[1], works on all my devices - even my desktop if I want, and is completely secure[2].

It's a shame so many people have no clue you can (and should, imo!) backup your TOTP key.

[1]: just copy the string and store it however you want.
[2]: as far as I'm aware. I'm not a security professional, of course.
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That's quite cool, but minor point of pedantry: that's not a shebang. A shebang is interpreted by the operating system, which uses it to find and launch an interpreter for a file.

Compared to that, the example snipped you provided is doing many more, and different things:

1. Launches a shell language interpreter: usually the system default POSIX-compliant sh, but could (rarely) be something else. Compared to "read the first line, and if it's a shebang launch python or whatever" in the kernel, this is massively complicated: it starts another whole runtime. Run "strace" on a file that just does "///bin/true; sleep 1000" to see exactly how much is happening just for that shell launch.

1. Executes /bin/true. It's probably present everywhere, and probably the right program, but still an assumption.

2. Evaluates a bunch of string slinging statements in the shell to interpolate arguments, then replaces itself via "exec".

3. Launches /usr/bin/env (hopefully the right program, and hopefully in the right place) to find the go interpreter.

4. env (hopefully) also calls "exec" again and then launches the go run command to start the compilation/execution sequence.

That's a lot of stuff. Pretty garden-variety stuff, but still a lot of additional complexity. A shebang adds none of it, though "trampolining" shebangs (which themselves are just programs to do basically this) can reintroduce some internally.

That's the beauty of the shebang as a trick for truly interpreted languages: it's extremely direct and simple as a means of getting your code executing on your desired runtime.
It's not a payment for if they get rid of you like a golden parachute. It's a payment for if they want to use the legal system to prevent you from earning a living by working for another company.
Opera was the first browser on windows to use tabs.
Tabbed browsing was introduced years before in iBrowse for the Amiga.
Same for me. I used to work from home and did a lot of stuff after work together with people. Now I am working at an open office and due to noise and constantly interacting with people I am way too exhausted in the evening to do anything. I just want to be alone in peace. The result is that my social life has almost stopped and I feel quite lonely.
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> Many people from thousands of kilometers away, liberated the Netherlands from Germany...

Analogously, Indonesia should be grateful to the Japanese for traveling thousands of kilometers to liberate them from the Dutch Netherlands.
In other words, you are suggesting the technology take up more room than needed. Your loss, I suppose.
The article you quote describes how resistance came about via selective breeding and other such mundane techniques and makes no mention of x-rays. Comment above mine was specifically saying that radiation based mutation is widespread in organic agriculture.
The service is the transaction boundary. If you need "transactions" across services then you need to start looking at Sagas/Processes.
There may be other explanations, but the article denies the truth of the data to claim this point.
I think it’s a “rally the supporters” type of thing.

CNU — the Congress for the New Urbanism — is a group of people who would like towns, cities, etc. to be designed differently.

So this article suggests the attractive notion that the opportunity to redesign these things is “coming soon”. So far, so good.

But then it takes an odd turn and enumerates two ways NOT to redesign things. That seems to really blunt the force of the message. But perhaps they are having a hard time agreeing on a vision, and this is a baby step toward narrowing down the range of the debate? It’s always easy to assemble a group of people who are dissaisfied by the way things are. But much harder to get them to agree on the way things should be.

Personally, I’m somewhat doubtful of “urbanism” at all. Perhaps wide-spread remote work and remote shopping will weaken the need for people to live in specific area near where the jobs are and near where the stuff is, and perhaps without those forces, the downsides of urban living may override the upsides and urban centers will no longer hold together. (Just speculation, though, of course.)
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That's just your personal experience and not an objective one. I'm lonely for severe lack of being around humans all the time, and when I am around humans they're often distracted by some form of entertainment.

There's nothing that indicates either of our experiences can be generalized.
I'm conflicted about socialising. It seems at best shallow and trivial. At worst downright exploitative. It seems like a politician's game, or a gangster's.

Yet occasionally I enjoy the warmth of catching up with an old friend.

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