skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an alternative to this method of providing a free service: Mining cryptocurrency on the users computer. Yet doing that, even floating the possibility of it, is met with great, vociferous anger. "How dare you use my CPU." Even if you are up front and ask people first. And so joining a massive surveillance system is the alternative left. People are their own worst enemy. No one is putting a gun to anyone's head to use facebook, and even when people find out what's going on, 90% keep using facebook.
Yeah, and people likewise discount the deaths caused by cancer and heart disease because these are diseases of old age. People generally think humans aren't supposed to live forever, so they see old people dying of these diseases as "natural".
This comment is a bit old now, but I want to clarify some things that I completely skittered over and just didn't explain adequately.

It isn't a case of "not clicking on someone else's link", it's a case of never receiving someone else's link.

As it is, clueless people will forward their links in attempts to let others read their messages. Of course this won't work (I don't expect so anyway).

But, if person A and person B both receive the same short code, which would (obviously/presumably, in such a scheme) unlock different messages for both, that would be a very confusing user experience.

Given the "enterprise security" standpoint this (somewhat) confusing feature seems to be marketed toward, I can see this being the exact kind of situation that enterprises would never want happening (the resulting executive paranoia would undermine the perceived security of the system).

And so this folds into the global social graph thing I was talking about.
I don't know exactly what happened in this case, because they're not sharing details, but I've done similar things in a lot of pen tests.

Your assumption is pretty accurate. Whatever internet-facing device is compromised is then used as a gateway onto the internal network, and a conduit for getting data back out if necessary. With access to the internal network, it's usually much easier to find things like systems with default/weak passwords, exploitable services, and so on.

It usually takes a couple of steps, like hopping from the initial system onto something that has interesting credentials stored/cached on it, and from there on to the things that are actually of interest. Every once in awhile, I'm lucky, and the initial point of compromise has super-privileged credentials on it, but that just makes things easier.
Bolo for the #yolo! I'm gonna have to pick one up next time in Texas or Nevada, or Iowa! I'd like one with an Egyptian looking scarab beetle or maybe a sort of butterfly or bird motif?

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Wicked to know we're representing on all levels. I'd best start with cowboy boots though..

I had this idea of wearing a camelhair jacket; the bolo would a absolutely kill it.
Pennies on the day is a significant underestimate of how much value you are providing to the company that provides the service. That would be ~$7.30/year.

Actual revenue per user for Facebook in the US and Canada is $26+ / quarter or over $100/year... That is on the order of $10/month [1]. So if a company wanted to be as profitable as Facebook, and not make money from advertising, they would have to charge $10/mo. That is more than I am willing to pay for Facebook -- my friends have my phone number.

If you think profit of providers like Facebook should be limited then that's a regulation issue. Personally I don't think that should be the case.

It is possible to provide the service Facebook provides in a fully encrypted manner. Individual companies would require subsidies and audits to ensure encryption. Essentially regulation.

Another alternative is fully encrypted, distributed services where personal CPU and storage are used to support the service. This is possible through systems like Diaspora or Mastadon, but there is an ease of use / network effect issue there.

I just don't think it is as simple or inexpensive as pennies a day. Or to push a company to charge that little would require regulation.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/01/31/fac...
For the bank world in the context of HW it's all about latency, I'm not sure what apps they run.
The problem with the entertainment system hack is that the can bus used in vehicles uses a priority system that is designed so that higher priority device can always claim the bus. If I remember correctly the entertainment system hack moved up the priority of the entertainment system on the bus so that it was higher priority than whatever nominally controls the car. A can bus isn't robust against bad actors and should have been air gapped to any external connection.
This is a job that is ripe for automation from deep learning.
> You don’t see a difference

I don't know how to reply to this. That's the opposite of what I said.

> It’s kind of sad to see a lot of people enjoying

I hope you're not talking about me, because I wasn't expressing a preference between entire systems. I was just pointing out a single aspect.

(If you must know, I think having a court system is best, but having the EIP system is better than nothing.)

It's confusing to see my comment go from a positive score to negative while replies show up all agreeing with me...
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Though with an old car there is a moderate chance of you being able to reach the right nut and possibly even stand on the ground in the engine bay.
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Banks can afford to spend whatever it takes to secure their infrastructure. Open source projects can't.

Isn't that a benefit of the blockchain? Since its inception in 2008, Bitcoin's database has never been hacked. They don't need to spend money on security, because mathematics is the security. The chain's integrity is powered by decentralized nodes and proof of work. At scale, while Proof of Work is increasing in cost, it is still probably cheaper and more secure than the aggregate cost of securing money at banks, servers, overhead, etc. And there are opportunities to make it cheaper through concepts like Proof of Stake.
I've read several articles about the 10,000 year marker system, but, this is the first time I recall "Ray Cats" as a potential solution.
If vendor's website has a vulnerability like CSRF (which are very common because browsers allow cross-domain GET/POST requests by default and developers often don't realise they should block such requests) then the attacker can gain control over IoT device if they make an employee visit their page.
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He does all types of hacking according to what he told me, which includes Facebook, Snapchat,mail,Instagram.He also hacks phone, bitcoin address, western union to increase money, and CCTV,also iPhone and Icloud hacking,he also does grade upgrading and changing.
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contact him and I bet,you’ll tell a success story, because he has never failed in all he did for me.
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I think that this comment has been downvoted is highly unfair.
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He does all types of hacking according to what he told me, which includes Facebook, Snapchat,mail,Instagram.He also hacks phone, bitcoin address, western union to increase money, and CCTV,also iPhone and Icloud hacking,he also does grade upgrading and changing.
money back guaranteed.
contact him and I bet,you’ll tell a success story, because he has never failed in all he did for me.
cipherhacker1@gmail.com that’s his mail.
Hello, Owen, from another Owen!

I actually find this pretty funny as overrepresentation of certain causes of death is something I've been talking about to friends and family for years, and I was actually recently thinking to compile some data on it. Hilarious that another Owen beat me to it!

One thing I've been meaning to write about for a while is terrorism specifically. I was thinking of writing something refuting the idea of "so few people die of terrorism because we spend so much, if we spent less it'd be a massive problem." Is that something you've thought of at all?

Have you thought of using this data for anything else? Maybe writing some blog posts about the data or looking at a wider range of publications and comparing them for which are more "accurate" in their articles on death?
And then take that answer and invest even less given that, as an employee, you are already exposed to downside risk.
It could just be ease of maintenance; if a server on AWS goes down, you can fix it from anywhere, or fall back on blaming Amazon.

If an on-site server goes down, odds are you might need to go on site, especially if the whole thing is separated from the internet to avoid leaking "anonymous statistics."
I would imagine if you could trigger something that required going there, brain might be able to allocate a spark that can re start the network provided no brain damage?
Until 5-10 years ago, pharma companies were vertically integrated players doing everything from early stage research to commercialization. Then they realized they were no good at research and stopped doing it, instead buying companies like avexis to do research, and then using their commercial and clin reg engines to get products to patients

No one knows whether the gene therapies will actually be one shot cures. we know they'll be one shot, because the immune system will reject the viral vectors after the first dose. We just don't know if they'll be curative. If not, then the investments in gene therapy platforms will look quite different
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I'm predisposed toward decentralization and personal control, but I have to admit centralization has benefits. It depends on the situation / market.

A concrete example is AirBNB vs. craigslist for apartment bookings. I'm going on a trip to the east coast for a few months (from SF).

Now craigslist has existed for a long time, and in theory I could book an apartment I found on craigslist for a month. Indeed, I looked on craigslist.

But I've been advised not to do that, for reasons of trust. But I'm comfortable doing it with AirBNB, since I've used them before and had more or less good experiences. They do provide some service in case things go south (last minute cancellations, etc.)

(And the AirBNB I booked is a legal one where the person owns the place, since I don't want to risk being kicked out during my trip.)

Craigslist is more decentralized than AirBNB -- anybody can post a listing and anyone can contact you and try to book your apartment. But the decentralization doesn't mean it's a better system.

I think it boils down to the details of a particular market, and decentralized vs. centralized is not always a helpful way to think about it.

With regard to currency, I imagine BitCoin is better than the currencies of some governments. I don't think it's better than US currency, by a long shot. US currency has flaws, but I don't see that BitCoin actually addresses them. It's morphed into something else. Maybe a different system could address those problems.
Ludicrous. That would leave 1% of the population unimprisoned… who are atheists.
Yikes. What a minefield that is. God help you if you dare to tread there. No amount of facts or rational evidence will save you from the zealots.
Here’s an example reason why someone might take an earlier offer: A new job starts July Nth. It’s now mid-April. The family needs to be moved before July. They don’t have a lot of months left to close a deal.
Those IoT devices are getting more and more computing power. They can run the server software (like Web UI) on the device itself. For example, they can serve static SPA that would connect back to the device via Websocket. So you don't need a sophisticated web server and can do most computations in a browser.
You can’t really mess it up - it’s an assembly line process like everything else. You’re not even turning single bolts like you would at a hot rod shop, they have all the tools for each station calibrated for that certain part.

Check out the Tonowanda engine plant online
It's likely that was the protocol, but it wasn't followed. It usually comes down to actions of a Pointy Haired Boss rather than some glaringly obvious hole in their security plan.
Well, right, the embed is hosting on facebook servers, and like I said, they collect access logs... So they are necessarily "collecting information on non-users" if they implement any sort of rate limiting based on fingerprinting for non-users... Which is more or less industry standard...

Not saying any of this is how things _should be_, it's just a little bizarre to make it seem like some sort of stealthy data harvesting scheme.
Most people aren't getting their assets seized, that is until a national crisis occurs, ex. Greece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gW2UnmVuwI
Primarily support for drivers, I think.

https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_History and https://www.reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS/History were interesting to look through.
it’s possible to be both. society is structured in layers, some centralized some not. same with the human body.
Or to try and explain that better... It's not a chart library, but a framework for wiring up dynamic data to collections of DOM nodes (either HTML or SVG) in any way you like. eg you can write specific chart libraries using it.

It is oriented around the lifecycles of instances of data - eg entry and exit hooks to run as data appears and disappears, and it has a lot of powerful lower level functionality.
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Why would we boycott Getty simply for having an image of a fish tank in a casino-looking lobby? That seems .. stupid.
I had a friend who chose the latter during the dotcom boom, and he lost everything when the market crashed. When the company we were working for got acquired, he couldn't believe he was getting a second chance and kept telling me to cash out so I didn't end up like him.

If you really believe that the company's stock price will do well in the future, go ahead and keep some shares. But I would still put a significant percentage in safer investments.
While not exactly the same, this write-up does give an example of the steps invovled: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XWzlOOuoTE7DUK60qTk1Wz1V...
Exactly, the cryptocurrency told us the code is law, but in the ETH, the Lord can change the law whenever he wish.
It looks absurd.
Yeah, people arguing against this are so far removed from what the vast majority of people want that it's not really possible to have a discussion with them.

Most people like that you can have your bank or credit card company hold or reverse a suspicious transaction, and don't regard that as evil statist chains of slavery.
There is a way, actually. Browser crypto mining. People just seem to (IMHO irrationally) hate it even more than surveillance and data gathering.
NEO can't do 10,000 tps. The entire network has gone offline, multiple times, when handling a single token sale:

http://storeofvalueblog.com/posts/a-definitive-guide-to-neo/

It's easy to benchmark massive tps rates on a closed testnet, as in this case of removing all safeguards from an Ethereum private network to get it to 1.5 million tps:

https://medium.com/@suchi.blackwing/cryptocurrency-scaling-e...
That may be an exaggeration but it was certainly a movie that had, to a greater degree than usual, one or a few things had gone a bit differently it would have been totally forgotten.
Tomato makes this very easy. I've set up an "untrusted" network, devices in which can't connect anywhere, neither to local nor to remote machines (only I can connect to them).
To my understanding they're also responsible for getting the "View Image" button removed from Google Images
Which museum did you take the class at?
That source doesn't say anything that adds credibility to your point. It's just waffling about the US's involvement in the civil war. By contrast, the WikiLeaks dump of the 1973 diplomatic cables undermine what you're saying.

It's no longer a question of whether or not the US supported the Khmer Rouge. The question now is how much did the US support them. Some members of the state department at the time suggested that the US orchestrated the whole thing. While that seems unlikely to me, it's worth wondering about.
Isn’t that just a long-winded way of saying that early investors, who take on more risk, earn superior returns?

As for the barriers to the general public investing in risky startups, that’s a feature not a bug. Look no further than dotcom 1.0 or the present day ICO market to understand why.
Instead of an alternative OS, we need a company that will make good hardware (comparable to Samsung) and not lock down their android system and provide open source drivers.

That will satisfy most tinkerers, since they can modify anything they want and even load their own images since the drivers are open source.

Android as an OS is good enough. Just that every single manufacturer has opted to lock it down.
>You don't see a difference between banks that undo transactions constantly

You should use a different bank if this is actually true. This is not a common experience.
This is something you can believe only if you think the vast majority of startups are making these returns. The fact is the lions share of risk also goes to VCs.

If you gave an average investor the kind of deal flow that big name VCs have access to you’d fry their central nervous system.

YC, for all it’s prestige, has only had one startup actually IPO, and only recently. Can an average investor survive this kind of torture? Never knowing if maybe one day all the money they put down will actually net some return? Knowing that they will have to continue investing or else hang all their hope on what they’ve invested in so far?

There’s plenty of sure money to be made buying post IPO, be content with that.
Cool, I'll just watch a 75 minute video so I understand a poorly written title, that's reasonable.
C&C Red Alert 2, both 1.0 and Yuri's Revenge: rating "everything works": https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
I did assume exactly that.
I mean like Hangul
- Version 1.0: Game saving is broken, everything else works: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

- Version 1.1b (retail): Copy a DLL over for working sound, then everything works: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
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I don't think paid-for services are going to solve anything. We pay up and out the ass for television, which obviously has ads, but I'm sure they're tracking as much as possible too.

Unless you've been extremely diligent, there's no way you're going to escape a targeted invasion of privacy when someone, or some group, government or not, wants it bad enough. Trying to stop that would be exhausting and futile.

Right now, we're allowing highly coordinated, highly detailed, nearly invisible, for-profit, stalking to take place legally. There's no doubt that's bad for society. We have anti-stalking laws for good reason. It's worth doing something about the current state of things, even if it doesn't bring the tracking down to nothing. The free market and tech has failed to fix it so far. They don't have forever to keep trying. Laws are the next line of defense. Laws might not stop criminals from crimin' but I'm sure the Tim Cooks of the world aren't going to risk their company profits (or personal freedoms, if the laws are strict enough) to get a little extra info on everyone.
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I'm not sure I understand the point you're trying to make.

Are you saying that dying of heart disease and cancer are over-diagnosed? Why does that matter in the context of this analysis? It's a comparison between CDC data and news coverage -- any "over-diagnosis" (or under-diagnosis) should be reflected in all datasets equally, so it doesn't really effect the overall review.
Like a sibling comment mentioned, it wouldn’t be the first time MS has done this sort of thing (XP on certain SKUs of Vista or maybe it was 7). I assume they already have a serious team backing tons of legacy Win32 cruft. So, instead of maintaining that, they freeze it and shift it into a VM. MS gets to cut down modern Win32 to something closer to the UWP subset, and users that want it—-make it an optional subsystem—-get better legacy compatibility than they have had in years.

Maybe the 2020 win7 end of life would be a good time to do something like this. I don’t know if there is a good enough financial reason for MS, but from a user’s perspective I think it would be better than the situation today.
PSA:

The best way it seems to check the AppDB is to do something like

site:https://appdb.winehq.org "simtower"

and

site:https://appdb.winehq.org "c&c" "red alert" "2"

(The search box on the website is just google custom search)
> (There is a small group of researchers who believe viruses may even have come here from outer space, an idea known as panspermia.)

Fred Hoyle [1] is one such researcher. He is an astrophysicist who was the first to demonstrate how elements heavier than helium are synthesized by nuclear reactions in stellar cores. He holds a number of non-mainstream scientific beliefs and one involves
the source and evolution of life on earth. He discusses it, along with other evidence challenging the neo-darwinian theory of evolution [2], in "The Intelligent Universe" [3]. I'm reading it now and highly recommend it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_synthesis_(20th_century...
[3] https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Universe-Fred-Hoyle/dp/00...
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But then it can either only be accessed within the same subnet, or you are going to have to do some port forwarding. Which is too much to ask for 99% of users.
Which is OK in this case but for any of the arch independent (SWAR) bit hacks it would probably be better to have a loop to align.
Ha, I was telling my wife about this article and read her this comment, knowing that she would get it. Right on cue, she replied, “ugh, me too.”
How the hell do they get PCI certified with ReactOS?
Exactly. From personal experience, "wealth managers" are a scam. They're just below the scam scale from mortgage brokers and real estate agents.
I am not speaking about romanization, although it would surely be nice if all the cultures in the world used the same writing system. I am referring to what korea did with hangul.

Of course you address some of the pain points like the fact that China is way more literate than Korea was when Hangul was introduced.
If you use your laptop on the flight, get an app like redshift, f.lux or similar and force-enable it. I find it much more comfortable in the dim lit cabin.

Also I found podcasts / audiobooks better than reading on long flights.
I work rotating shift work, totalling 25 days working per 35 calendar days, done as 3 7-day weeks and a 4-day week with weekends of varying lengths interspersed. I average 56-60 hours per calendar week, which works out to be approx 7x11hr in a 7 day work week.

On weekends I work out, cook, do laundry, and spend time with my wife if we're not on opposite sleep schedules.