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Ask HN: What is your online privacy toolkit?
Here’s mine. For mobile on iOS I am trying the following setup:

Browser: Abine Blur (blocks trackers on the web like Facebook’s tracking widget while still allowing you to stay logged into sites including facebook)

Masking emails: Also Abine Blur

VPN: ProtonVPN (using paid plan that works with Netflix, but not Hulu unfortunately)

Email: ProtonMail
Hard question for me. Trying to reach for help https://clojureverse.org/t/how-do-you-introduce-clojurescrip...
Google is still the top of the field. Many people go entire careers without publishing a paper. You are probably smarter than average and get paid accordingly.
Their documentation for their API and authentication is horrible.
He opened up two subfields of AI, GANs and adversarial attacks, and coauthored one of the most recommended books. His fame attracts more researchers and for lower salary, just to work with him.
...Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One...
>The earth should actually be a very easy function to optimize. Since the earth is primarily covered by oceans, more than two thirds of possible valid inputs for this function return the optimal cost function value.

I guess if you're going to count the surface of the oceans as part of the descent you have to remember the surface of the ocean is not uniform in altitude neither due to tidal forces nor other factors.
I have this idea that the only way to create true AI necessarily results in something that has feelings.
yeah, but they generated money while they could. For a short term flip it's not a bad play.
Stripe is so profitable that anything else they make will look like a joke for the first few years. It is easier to pivot from an unsuccessful product.
This is amazing tech. Kudos for the theoretical foresight and the execution to make it come to life.
Yeah, the reality check in that video was eye opening. Clearly it’s a deliberate strategy to roll these things out at flight schools at first, so they’re always circling within landing range.

Electric planes will definitely graduate to short hop commutes eventually though and not just be niche training vehicles, especially when you consider how much safer they are than jet engines: they have way less moving parts, require less maintenance, and most importantly, they don’t stress the airframe nearly as much.

And that’s just with current airplane designs retrofitted for electric (which is essentially what these training planes are) instead of the upcoming designs that are built with many small electric motors and not the giant jet engines.

Lilium is an example of the new style of electric plane, with motors distributed through the wing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohig71bwRUE
Ask HN: When do you use a library vs. implement something yourself?
At one end are single-function npm libraries that led to the left-pad fiasco[1].

At another end are things that you should only be implementing yourself in highly unusual circumstances, such as cryptography libraries.

Where on this spectrum do you usually implement the thing yourself, and what is your thought process?

What are the costs of importing a library, and how are those costs different for different projects? Are there security risks? What are the benefits?

Conversely, what are the costs and benefits of implementing something in-house?

Has there ever been a case where you've tried to roll your own and it ended in disaster? Or where you'd wished you'd never added a dependency on some library?

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
No one currently polices whether or not I accept a particular friend request on Facebook except me. There is no way for me to guarantee that the person I am accepting a request from is who they say they are and isn't going to scrape all my posts, personal info and photos.
You seem to be ignoring the many, many AI applications that are already working with just fine accuracy in the real world. They are quietly working in the background where you don’t notice them.
The transmitter and the receiver are in close proximity. Whatever transmitted, the eavesdropper can observe nearby anyway.
I love the new keyboard, as well as the ultra-low profile of the new macs.
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What about spoofing or jamming the signal?
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Humans are _amazing_ because they are able to correct the deficiencies of their perception with high level cognition augmented with memory of past experience. Machines can’t do cognition, and they can’t effectively use past experience either, to say nothing of doing a combination of those two things.

Current “AI” is basically function approximation and nothing else. And humans do everything they do in a 20W power envelope.
Creating a micromanagement AI is only the first step. This must be piped into a macro AI, which produces the units with with micromanagement can be done. Then, another critical layer beyond micro or macro is scouting the opponent and predicting what their plan is. Next, you need to adapt your own strategy, which must also be planned at the start of the match since you can't scout instantaneously or perfectly. Finally, your own initial strategy choice must be tailored to the map, to the player you're playing against, to recent games/strategies other pros have exposed as powerful/weak. There are an incredible number of layers of complexity to what a truly fierce Starcraft AI would need to do.

And yet, something similar may have been said about Go, Chess, Checkers, Poker, Jeopardy, or many other games before this. If enough talented minds and powerful devices focus on Starcraft, how would humans compete? Does anyone here think top pros would win in a best of 7 or a best of 11, for instance? Which top pros, and BW or SC2? To me, I just think it'd be arrogant to assume SC is different from all the other realms in which humans have been bested by machines.
I'm really impressed with the bandwidth. Being analog and only having back-scatter for the modulation, I thought it'd be way worse than current digital or old analog schemes, but from the paper, they're saying 2.8Mhz worst case for 720p@10fps, 0.98Mhz on average.
It's crazy what you can do with such little power. Basically these cameras need no power at all.
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There are RPMs for all sorts of general purpose software, of course, but it's rare to deploy one's own apps (as in the one that runs your product or whatever) via RPM.
I’d settle for probabilistic, context aware cognition, myself. Sadly (or thankfully, depending on one’s perspective) this won’t happen in my lifetime.
I'm not sure why my advice should be ignored. I run an on-call rotation at GitHub and could definitely be a customer. One of their examples regards Splunk and PagerDuty, both of which we utilize and know the learning curve is up there anything to reduce the time needed to respond to an incident would be great.

At first glance you could make a case this may be a product from Stripe. When I am evaluating a product and it doesn't showcase a lot of creativity I have a hard time taking it serious or recommending it to colleagues. I'd also imagine most of the audience they are marketing to _has_ heard of Stripe.

For more constructive criticism, the landing page is full of skeleton UI and it's hard to imagine what I will get out of the integrations. I realize it's a mockup, but I'd imagine you already know what would be in those boxes. Instead of the 3 gray boxes, show me as a user what I will see. Is it a summary of the integration? Is it an individual issue or pull request? Is it the most recent activity for that integration?

I'm also not a huge fan of the letter spacing site wide, I think removing it looks like an immediate vast improvement when removed.
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I want to clarify why I characterized this comment as snarky. The comment implies that high standards at Amazon has created a corporate culture of employee abuse. This makes no sense -- high standards and employee abuse are orthogonal.

Employee abuse is morally wrong and almost certainly illegal. It needs to be exposed and challenged whenever it occurs. But be careful about taking stories published in Business Insider (or any similar online publication) at face value. Consider if this is a reputable source before repeating their claims.
I see that you don't understand the problems raised.

About accountability: if YOU are compromised, your friends' data are compromised, and vice versa. Are you saying that the median security skill of your friends are higher than Facebook? Because any of them can leak your data unintentionally.

About encryption: it's freaking useless in this case. Remember, some people fall for Nigeria prince scam. And what happen when their keys are compromised? See above.

That's the crux of the argument: you can't guarantee that your precious friends and family can safeguard their keys (in fact, I doubt my personal security practice is remotely as good as FB or Google or Amazon or MS or Apple). In that case, by the virtual of distribution, your data is copied everywhere, waiting for any key to compromise.
Nice. Related, have you seen Sibbell (https://about.sibbell.com)? What are the strengths of Release Monitor compared to Sibbell?
This. I noticed that I have gone for over fifteen years through some pretty tough jobs, but never needed to write any Leetcode binary tree problem from scratch in thirty minutes in my work while being questioned. I normally freeze up because I worry about current best practices every step of the way.

In the end, I scored a job with a FAANG company literally because I didn't want to work there. A friend warned me away before the interview for work-life reasons, but I decided to go ahead with the interview anyway as practice and I nailed it. There's no reason to stress if you don't want the job. Another friend who worked there later convinced me to take the offer.

What bothers me is: you're basically the same coder both before and after competitive coding practice. You're only more marketable with the same skills.
We already hit a wall - neural nets are easily hacked. The field is called Adversarial Attacks and Defences of Neural Nets. There's no perfect fix yet and it is a major security flaw.
How about through a wall? That would make security applications in an apartment a bit less attractive, and I’m sure there are others. I wonder if encryption would be possible without much extra power overhead.
> Where are the hydrogen-powered cars?

I personally see them pretty much every day, mostly Mirais. But then again, I live fairly close to one of the fueling stations.
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Frankly if you were to ask anyone their virtues what often comes to mind is their personal aspirations not necessarily the habits they mastered.
Disclaimer: I'm not employed by anyone in this space; I'm a consultant who focuses on AWS bills, but I've no formalized business relationship with any of these providers past tiny accounts on all of them for a few ridiculous purposes-- mostly comedic.

Google has amazing technology-- but I fear they lack the ability to execute operationally at a level that makes me comfortable trusting then with a business's livelihood. They turn things off too frequently for comfort; they fail to realize that sales are relationship driven in ways that algorithms fail to satisfy; they don't demonstrate a dedication to customer success that makes me take their cloud offering particularly seriously.

I really don't see that paying them for a higher support tier is likely to mitigate your issue...
Somewhat related, a few days ago there was (is) a Kickstarter for a wireless 1080p surveillance camera that last a whole year with a single charge. Eufy

Edit: Added name
https://github.com/fugue/credstash

https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/
If you drop out of grad school is there a way to prove you were ever actually even in grad school? Or can anyone say they were in grad school but just didn’t finish?
Is one of these Elon Musk's electric jet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuG2AVFB-g0
herd immunity is a thing that you're not taking into account. It's rarely about single indviduals, but the entire group.
This is pretty freaking cool.
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This is one product Google should kill, although it would be better if it had just never been launched in the first place.
This is a very cool first effort. I don't think it's suitable as a security system yet, because it seems like it would be so easy to overwhelm the relevant spectrum. Eventually maybe.
What do you make for github resume?
Very cool to see you on Hacker News. I listened to your piece on Medium (great narrator btw) and loved it. It's started some lively conversations
I too believe our brains are hardwired to be receptive to certain power structures/belief systems. Science can be a religion-- you be a zealot about anything if you try.

Global warming, true or not has all of the hallmarks of a religion-- which is why I think generally, religious folks aren't as receptive to the idea-- that need of theirs is already filled.
From the general feedback I've gotten & my own experience, the summary is -- people hate bad PowerBuilder apps.

In the same way they'd hate bad apps written in any other framework.

PowerBuilder's honest biggest problem is that it was likely used by internal and consultant teams looking to quickly deliver value, sometimes to the detriment of solid architecture decisions. And that the resulting applications have been useful enough that people are still running them (without updates) a couple decades later.
Some sort of directional shielding? Isn't backscattering light directional? Someone knows more about backscattering can have a better answer.
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It is hard to imagine one could become so prominent, accomplished, and well respected without having good habits and virtues. It would be odd he would share virtues that were not attributable to his personal success.
Haha. I guess if I had to ask any question about python, it would be, "why on earth did they do that ridiculous unicode thing in version 3?" Most builtins should use bytes, and the few that can't should just use bytes annotated with an encoding.
The solution to that problem is not battery-free video streaming.
I'm super impressed with all you've done. I've been white-boarding similar ideas for a couple of years from the other side concerning protocol security, secure messaging, user identity management and related which utilizes Curve25519 and related crypto.

I think these ideas will change the world for the better.
I like it. Throw a bunch of these around the city and you have some interesting applications.
That's impressive! Are you going to contribute your changes to foundationdb back?
Ive been grinding away at these for months... coming out of freelancing, latest contract with a startup that hit its burn rate and failed, and having beeen unemployed for almost 6 months (except not really unemployed, since contractors dont actually collect unemployment...).

So many companies have these assignments. Theyre infinitely better than whiteboarding, or hacker rank tests, or "pair programming" on some crazy abstraction for only 30 minutes. Some of them are so much work - I am working on my 20th hour of a really involved full stack project, and still think I have about 6-8 more hours before its "pretty".

Then I have 2 more to do, and I told the HR people at those companies Id do them 3 days ago.

One weekend I spent 12 hours doing a SOA example project, and on Monday, the owner simply deleted the upstream - and my fork along with it - and said nothing back to me. I hadnt even turned it in yet!

Hours, weeks... its been months of this. Im working for free and its just energy that goes into thin air.

Not once has anyone actually done a real code review, I suppose they just get buried in hundreds of these little projects to review and select someone and just never get back to you :-/

Next week I have about 6 interviews lined up. Cant wait to see how many unpaid hours of work I get to do!

...oh, and I have > 12 years of industry experience, have built multiple applications that garner 50mm requests per month (I can almost guarantee you, that youve been on at least 2 of my websites before), have worked with IoT, HIPPA medical, ecommerce, greenfielded, been on big teams, worked internationally, have buttloads of experience, and every person Ive ever worked for praised and lauded me plenty. Yet I cant get a fucking job for the life of me because of these paint-by-number processes.

Yah anyway, back to the grind, for free...
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Using multiple .replace calls on an array of variables in JavaScript / jQuery?
The biographical sketch you linked to references Benjamin Franklin's wife's name as Rebecca more than once. His wife was named Deborah.

Is it possible this biographer (and lots of others more concerned about gossip than reality) missed some other important facts about the man?

This kind of character bashing is not unique to Benjamin Franklin. Ty Cobb is another example that comes to mind: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/who-was-ty-cobb-the-history-w...
Losing the Nobel Prize
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All the more concerning that the Pentagon plans to have autonomous killing machines "ready" this year (hint: they won't actually be ready, but it's not like they'll tell us how many innocents they'll actually kill, especially with their very loose definitions of what a target is. They are yet to do that with the manual ones after all).

https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/04/16/drones-will-so...
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You can say the same about Jobs, but people still go on and on about him on this site.
Not 95, XP:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041204064837/http://www.pcwelt....

http://web.archive.org/web/20041210045441/http://www.pcwelt....
Seems like this could be useful for AR. I'm sure adding two front-facing cameras to the Vive Pro cut into both power and bandwidth budgets. I'd love to hear from an AR expert on this!
How do you fit the BLM in the mix then? Tons of grazing happens on BLM land. Quarries, mines, and oil/gas wells happen on both USFS and BLM land. Recreation happens on both. It seems like one agency administrating public lands makes more sense.

Different agencies results in different responses to the same problems, for example, white nose syndrome affecting bats in caves.
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Sounds like you joined during a wave of new people and were only getting posts from your shared pubs. Did you contribute any content yourself and build out a network and thus increase your feed? I've been on for a year now and there is a ridiculous amount of information to read.
Thanks so much for the feedback! We are definitely iterating on our messaging and I value this feedback, we know we're not 100% there with the messaging.

The primary problem we're addressing is that of "too many apps" causing scattered information and often redundant workflows. Slack does a good job of allowing very specific "hooks" to be created, i.e. a bot which updates a channel of specific activity in a specific app. Likewise, Zapier allows users to configure "one-to-one" type automation.

We designed Nifty to continuously scour all your teams' data across all of their apps and then automatically predict relevant actions or information as user's are using their existing apps.

In short, Nifty is designed not just to allow the configuration of one-off, "one-to-one" integrations but to continuously suggest any number of helpful actions or data across all of your apps without any manual configuration of the integrations themselves.

I know it's a wordy description and, again, we're working on that but I wanted to make sure I communicated to you the difference between our product and some of the existing solutions out there.

Thanks again for taking the time to leave your feedback, it's greatly appreciated!
Send file to client after AJAX response?
Hmm, I don't quite understand, sorry. As far as I can tell, the code in TFA takes the pipe output up to one second and then kills the student code if it hasn't exited by itself. That's what my examples do too. (Happy to be corrected on either point.)

Another solution: give students some simple test cases and the test environment.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Research Scientist in AI and Data Scientist are completely different jobs.
Factory operations. In absolute seriousness! If you want to get years ahead in Ops, learn queuing theory and applications years ahead of your CS peers :)
I'm pretty sure I ran across malicious Chrome plugins being mentioned before.

Eclipse and PyPy has a problem with it too[0][1].

Apple with their walled garden also isn't a panacea. They let a very glitchy and broken version of cuphead onto the app store (so much for manual review and flawless experience) and there apparently is a known repeated offender whose MO is to port popular indie desktop games (maybe because it's Unity3D games it's easy?) to iOS hastily and sell them[2]. They also only last year banned the fake anti-viruses (the "speed your phone up by clicking this red button in this free app and paying us $10 to remove 1337 north korean backdoors, viruses and unneeded programs!1" clickbait kind, the one that targets low tech people).

I also wonder how far you could maybe get with some really great game in a native executable for Windows on itchio or Game Jolt (or maybe even on Steam, they are really bad with catching broken, bad, etc. games and have a very hands off approach to everything on there) that was also packed with covert viruses/trojans, people download and run those very willy nilly on their computers, don't keep themselves up to date (thanks to Microsoft making updates obnoxious and doing crap like installing Candy Crush 325254th time, I know I removed one from my laptop like twice or thrice now) and I wonder if there is any security scanning on those sites to try detect viruses in uploaded files (I wanted to try with EICAR but it kept getting nuked by Windows Defender and I don't have the patience to try make it leave my EICAR file alone).

[0] - https://eclipse.org/org/press-release/20170814_security_bull...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15256121

[2] - https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/18/16790052/cuphead-fake-ios...

[3] - https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/15/16314034/apple-developer-...
were you doing your master's or your phd when you dropped out. likely phd but just curious
cultivated bacteria (suggesting a laboratory was involved)
The power requirements of a camera aren't even a tiny amount of the complication of retrofitting existing cars.
Is Enumerating Resources on a Website “Hacking”?
Why not have Google provide an option to notify users of pulled store content and optionally remove it for users?
Setting Your JavaScript Free
> A team of senior engineers without junior engineers is a team of engineers.

This snarky bit seems like a derail in the middle of the article. Also, other than the enhance strategy (which is not illustrated other than a picture), there's nothing interesting said.
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+1. Sometimes the feed URL is revealed by Page->View Source
Good point. It really is a commodity service: treasury services and risk management.

And most of that should be fairly autonomous. The fat will eventually be trimmed. Just like at Etsy.