skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things - is there really need for them to be this large? They also look vulnerable? Maybe its just the look, but the blue one looks like it won't survive proper stress test...

And second thing - is exposing connector safe against mechanical damage? Will it withstand constantly being scratched by keys?
In the "passwordless" scenario... if someone stole your yubikey, could they access anything you had authenticated it for?
My point exactly. Apple forgot about their privacy values the first second dollars were in danger.
I would open up your search to different markets.

You have a significant body of work that solves a problem you perceive.

I'm not sure that the people you think will value it are the people who value it.

Why did you have to build one at your previous companies? Who drove that decision?
Correct me if I am wrong, but passwordless login is a single-factor authentication and less secure than MFA. Depending on whenever hardware key is more or less secure than the password, the mass adoption of this could make things LESS secure.
I do not understand your comment. Progressive Enhancement (and I've done it) has a lot going for it, but "easier" or "as easy" isn't the case. Thus time and resources are spent to get the same functionality.

Example: I make a form. It works without JS, so my server has to generate the form, handle the request where the form is submitted, and generate the result HTML. If I'm practicing good separation of concerns, the work is done in a service/contained library that the webserver code calls and assembles into a page. Then I go to add a "nice" Js experience: disable the normal form submit, read the form data, send the request, parse what I need out of the HTML result ("parse" = easy cut here) and replace the portion of the DOM involved. A nice, maintainable PE site. Nothing wrong with that.

But if I have the server generate the original page only, I can have JS read the form, call the service, and update the DOM. I was able to completely skip the server composing a new page. And that's for a bone-simple form, if my site has any interaction on that form before submit, each step represents duplicated effort. Checking if a name is already used? JS to call a service and add a line. Server/service absolutely needs to check that, but if we're not worrying about PE we can completely skip worrying about a nice UI generated on the server-side (which would involve re-populating the form we got, so it's not just "same HTML + one line"). And that's still the stupid-simple stuff.

To do this I need to design the application w/o JS and then find nice ways to improve it. But my designers, my PMs, they are all thinking from a JS-first point of view, so without PE when they say "do X" I can do X. With PE when they say "do X" I need to figure out how to do Y (a flow they didn't consider at all), and make sure it can behave like X. Anywhere it's hard to do so, it's on me to fix that because neither design nor business consider PE remotely important or valuable.

PE is great, and I'd love to work on more sites that use it...but I'll confess I rarely put forth the effort myself, even when I do have the space to do so in a project. Because Progressive Enhancement IS effort (most importantly time), effort that will most likely be seen by a single digit number of users and I've got a lot of stuff I want to do and a lot I need to do. Even a free hour can improve my productivity or quality for far more users if I spend it in something other than PE.

PE has very real benefits beyond just working without JS...but even those benefits rarely outweigh the time/effort costs in an industry where there's always far more work than time.
>Two areas in particular: (1) lack of a shared real whiteboard, and (2) video-call quality.

Amen to that. I recently was interviewed remotely, and the voice call quality was unacceptably low- I could barely even understand the questions being asked!
I know my market value. I talk to enough recruiters, former coworkers, etc. I doubt very seriously that the amount that I'm asking for is appreciably below market value. If so, it won't stay that way for long -- I'm fairly aggressive about job hopping to maximize salary.
The real story here is being able to use D3 in Excel. My prayers have been answered. We truly are living in the future (except in the office, where we're stuck with Excel 2010)
Have you evaluated SRTM (or some patched up derivative) for your latter use case?
As documented here (http://offlinefirst.org/sync/) there are two relatively easy options to achieve this:

1) Using Firebase, which is closed source (and owned by Google)

2) Combining CouchDB with PouchDB (which can be considered "CouchDB for the browser"), which are both open source.

Both allow saving data in the browser, and both can be configured to sync data saved in the browser with a server backend when needed.
I'm really happy to have my freedom of speech. I don't think i would do well under the classic Puritan model.

I do sometimes wonder if there's room for a special class of formal speech for journalism. Grant rights perhaps formalizing protecting a source. But also require some responsibilities. Not sure what the standard should be, but we do the same thing for lawyers and doctors.

Also "pernicious to the publick weal" is an amusing phrase.
How does that differ from a human having the same conversation?

If I call a restaurant and say "Can I have a reservation for 6 at 8:00" and they write down a reservation for 8 at 6:00 without repeating it back I won't know until I show up at 8:00 with my 5 friends.
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Notepad is a very basic editor. Likewise, most Linux distros come with nano or some other very feature-limited editor.

While I did once know a developer who used notepad as his primary editor, it was never intended to be anything but a very simple editor for INI files and the like.
Yep, like me
Yeah, I believe the future is transhumanism. Then again, I also believe that and genetic engineering could fix a lot of social problems by making humanity adapt to our environment rather than the other way around.

For example, there are problems with obesity and poorer people having limited access to healthy food. Well, imagine if they didn't need to care what they ate?

If you could just eat whatever you wanted in any quantity and you'd never get things like diabetes or put on weight because of it? That'd be the kind of miracle human society could really benefit from. Same if exercise wasn't needed at all and people could just have a sedentary without any risk to their health. Ways to reduce or remove tiredness. The possibility of existing in a vacuum. The ability to survive far more trauma than originally possible, to the point you could be hit by a car at high speed and walk it off.

Make it so humanity goes beyond its limitations, not just perfects them. So genetic engineering and transhumanism are the default, not the outlier.

Is that crazy? Probably, but so is most science and technology when you think about it. Tell people a few hundred years ago about cars, planes, smartphones, the internet, virtual reality or anything else like that, and they'd think you were nuts too.
I think they meant: are you really talking to your friend the human, and not a bot impersonating that friend.
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There is something delicious about such a comment on Hacker News. There is a direct link between The Well and Hacker News, and you would probably feel quite at home back on The Well in its heyday. What is the old saw, that fish can't grok the concept of water? Someone had to invent these online forums that attract smart people and intelligent discussions from around the world.

For a wild ride with Stewart Brand polymath of polymaths, I'd recommend the Tim Ferriss podcast episode[0].

[0] https://tim.blog/2017/11/21/stewart-brand/
So you simply tell google a cookie that it would keep safe, to prove it’s google when calling. Presumably it wouldn’t be on speakerphone at the time.

Have you ever wondered the same thing about your favorite OS’s admin credentials dialog? What if an app spoofs it?
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Lastly, I wonder whether there is a good collaborative resource providing consensus-based good parenting practises and guidelines, from a general point of view: Which, of course, would include, techniques, methodologies or guidelines depending on the age, type, culture or context where children grow up.

Am I requesting for a kind of an impossible-to-find asset?

I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(metaphor)

RMS is typically correct, even if at the time the industry thinks he is being melodramatic. Everything he said has come true. You either listen to his rants and consider the ramifications, or you watch as all your digital rights are eroded.
How? Login is not automatic, you need to tap the key. So unless you tap the key each time you view an ad, the ad company gets nothing.
Come on now, this is cool! the correct initial reaction is to be impressed.

What is concerning is the surprising prevalence of technophobic notions on tech focused boards such as this.

There is something perverse about wanting to punish a company for creating something cool, and it’s certainly not the way our society or politics should function.
Does the camera produce the same quality of image under LineageOS?
Sounds like we'll have to start solving voice captchas just to call businesses.
Users can take issue with intended behavior, as in this case. This resolves that issue, despite the old behavior working as (previously) intended. “An issue (as perceived by a user)” is not equivalent to a bug.
That's exactly what this is. From the post:

> FIDO2 is built on the same security and privacy features of FIDO U2F: strong public key cryptography, no drivers or client software and one key for unlimited account access with no shared secrets.

They should've kept all the Microsoft stuff out of the post, other than just mentioning that they've been working on the spec together. The Azure stuff seems to have confused everyone about how this actually works.

There are also other app-based ways to login to websites with public key crypto, such as https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm, or https://www.civic.com/. But of course they are less secure than the hardware/Yubikey version, for the same reason Yubikey U2F tokens are more secure than Google Authenticator for 2FA (well, unless companies act stupid and enable "SMS backup" alongside Yubikey support, in which case it's even less secure than Google Auth-only as an option).
I'm not advocating for his 2030 date, but his reasoning for it directly addresses the concern you voice. His contention is that progress in a field happens at a superexponential rate, and that researchers and/or the public tend to estimate it at well less than exponential. He believes, and tries to make the case, that advances don't just advance, but feed into the infrastructure that drives faster advances.

Also, "around 2030" does run out to, say, 2035 if you push it. That feels less implausible to me than, say, 2030-01-01.

Again, I'm not saying he's right. I'm mainly saying that he expects your or my surprise when he opens his mouth, and has something like the explanation I sketched out at the ready.
I suspect a big part of this problem is private brands. When 100 people can order the same cheap flashlight from a no-name factory in China and list it on Amazon as their own product there is a lot of incentive to fake reviews to get an advantage over the other sellers. And the huge number of product listings just makes it that much harder to separate the wheat from the chaff.

I would like to see Amazon raise the barrier to entry to prevent fly-by-night sellers from listing the same crappy products. I give up sometimes when looking for something after seeing dozens or hundreds of pages of the same thing listed under different brands from different sellers.

Is there really so much benefit to having everyone and their uncle selling on Amazon? I can go to Ebay for that. As Amazon becomes no more trustworthy than Ebay I lost my incentive to shop there.
Agency and the intent of the beneficiary strike me as relevant issues. However, one can readily imagine someone using a system like this to hold hostage the schedules of many, many service businesses. Think OpenTable with no intervening agreement between the restraunt and the intermediary.
My Android phone (and most recent Android phones I know) completely locks USB data, including from devices that had previously been granted access. You have to unlock, touch a notification and enable some file transfer option instead of "charging only". No 7 days limit, the access is denied immediately once it disconnects.
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This whole "fake news" thing is absolutely ridiculous. What's interesting to me is that I very very rarely hear a fact touted by the left OR right that is just outright incorrect. The problem is much less to do with facts, and much more to do with implications or conclusions, which many news sources dish out handily.
Since these are the people trying to lead the way, a symbolic gesture would go a long way.
I'm looking for evidence that Bitcoin is better suited than alternatives. Your example is a CEO who is not sure herself but who is currently trying to make it work... but is ready to leave Bitcoin if it doesn't change soon. She said herself that if Bitcoin doesn't change, the alternatives are better and there will be a "mass exodus". That literally proves my point.

You can say that I said "beneficial use cases" and show me that you can actually send money using Bitcoin. But that's like me showing you a 5-wheeled car and saying "see, you can get from A to B in a 5-wheeled car therefore a fifth wheel is beneficial". That's not sufficient and the CEO of BitPesa seems painfully aware of this.
I thought wordpad was also part of a standard windows install? It does support the unix style line endings. Or am I misremembering and wordpad was an add-on?
"Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts"

Thankfully, we've learned a few things since then and liberal (classic definition, not American definition), democratic minded people know how dangerous government defined truth (no matter how simple or well accepted) is.

There is a cost to this, of course - the citizenry is required to have a level of sophistication and erudition and they will be forced to make nuanced and complicated judgements about the state of their world.

If you find that too high a bar to cross, a "ministry of truth" may sound attractive. Please grow up and resist that urge. It may help to read about twentieth century dictatorships and the history of modern, repressive regimes in general.
The same applies to any set of the first n primes. Each prime generates a waveform that destructively adds. 2 eliminates all even numbers. 3 eliminates all multiples of 3 - but has some overlap with 2.

Turns out the additive sequence to never hit any multiples of 2 or 3 is {+4, +2}

Not much more complex than 'only the odd squares' yet now we are eliminating many more false positives.

We can continue to construct the additive sequences for the first N primes. This is known as the First Differences of Reduced Residue Systems Modulo Primorials. Hardy and Littlewood studied the statistical dynamics of these ordered sets.
Until you train yourself to respond with such limited set of pre-baked answers to everything!
A bit tangential, but I have been unable to find a price-friendly static maps provider for embedding in PDF and print. Anyone have suggestions?
Or it's checking the monotonic time, not using the synchronized time (which is probably recorded as an offset anyway)
I've heard the HP12c calculator also slows down its screen refresh on purpose because people couldn't believe the math was right when it first came out and it was blazing fast.
> how fast do you think you would see government agents knocking on their door?

Couldn't tell you, I don't exactly research SS response times.

> Why should a private citizen get any less protection?

Because our elected representatives determined the President needs additional protection.
I think the biggest issue won't come from phishers, but from resellers and other occupations that are helped by automation. I could easily call every hot restaurant in San Francisco a several a day to try to snatch a table.

On the other hand, most of these places have online reservations which are already extremely gamed.
Now just let us change the tab width.
I cannot seem to find the time but they did announce a new TPU and it is now even liquid cooled.

Edit: here is an article on it and they are apparently 8x more powerful than the previous generation: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/08/google-launches-tpu-3-point-...
The only reason powerful people are able to hoard power, and stay in power, is because so many other people allow this and willingly grant them this power. No one person has the ability to force thousands or millions of people to his will; they can only do this because legions of people with guns act on his behalf.

The answer isn't limiting peoples' lifespans. Indeed, we've had autocratic rulers in our history who were considered excellent leaders, and people who lived under them experienced a "golden age". The problem was usually when they died, and their incompetent heir took over.

The answer is to come up with better governmental systems, not rely on limited lifespans. Doing the latter certainly didn't spare us from the horrors of the wars in the first half of the 20th century.
I would expect things to be more secure in many cases. People are pretty good at keeping physical items somewhat safe and notice when they’re gone. Yubikeys cannot easily be cloned. The password cannot be attacked remotely. 2FA is certainly safer, though.
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I don't have such a list, sorry.

Learning about this stuff basically requires a huge time sink per country in reading local laws, as well as a cost of paying a lawyer to verify your assumptions. It is unfortunate. A "tldrlegal" site for entity creation and employment laws would be amazing.

Also re: France... yeah, that is a tough one. We're just about ready to hire there. The whole process was very difficult, on the harder end of the spectrum that we've experienced so far. :)
Someone has already done that:
https://chicago.eater.com/2018/3/5/17078210/opentable-reserv...
But could you build a bot that calls and is convincing enough to trick the target into actually accepting the request as genuine and reserving the timeslot?
What's P? Pudding? Pecan pie?
From TFA:

FIDO2 adds more options to the login process:

Single Factor: This only requires possession of the security Key to log in, allowing for a passwordless tap-and-go experience.

Second-Factor: In a two-factor authentication scenario, such as the current Google and Facebook FIDO U2F implementations, the Security Key by Yubico is used as a strong second factor along with a username and password.

Multi-Factor: This allows the use of the Security Key by Yubico with an additional factor such as a PIN (instead of a password), to meet the high-assurance requirements of operations like financial transactions, or submitting a prescription.

It's an option, not a requirement.
Co-author of whitepaper here, welcome any feedback and thoughts! Or questions!
There is the "nano" version available which is a lot smaller than the one advertised. The ones that I own have held up just fine for the past year on my keychain.

https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/#yubikey-4-n...
I salute your approach to engineering but that's certainly not how employers view it.

I am not saying that frontend engineering is trivial. It clearly has many overlapping and non-overlapping requirements. But they non-overlapping part is large enough to require dedication and specialization.

DevOps and DBAs overlap with backend but it would be weird for a backend engineers to call themselves devops engineers or database administrators because of that. The latter suggest specialization.
I'm making a prediction on what's likely to happen based on well-researched human psychology. Again, the keyword is "cognitive dissonance". It encompasses all aspects of human life, the petty theft is just an example.

The moral dimension to this is entirely besides the point, the fact that you even bring it up tells me you are probably "suffering" from what is called a "Moralistic Fallacy".

I'm not making a moral argument or judgment here, but there's certainly the related question of whether someone who believes their own lies is truly a liar.
Exactly how do you propose for an immortal dictator to "enslave billions"? Seriously, I want to hear your detailed answer here about how one person can do this.
That is confirmed in the "How does this work?" section. Your concern is addressed in the "Why is this important?" section. The key is definitely more secure against cracking than a password. It is more vulnerable to being physically stolen, but for most people, that is a lower risk.
For what its worth, we did do this though it is in part a sort of detente between prosecutors and journalists.

This wall has been eroded, with some of the most striking erosion happening around the threatened prosecution of James Risen for refusing to disclose a source.

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-ti...
But you just conceded that there are things that people are justified in having strident beliefs about. When you conflate those things with something like, "are bail bondsmen good?" Or, "is colonialism good?" All you do is make people think you're not engaging them seriously in the discussion.

Because bail bondsmen can be thought good or bad for society. Everyone here can take his/her position and then debate the topic in a serious fashion. But no one is going to take seriously a desire for discussion when you begin by asserting that slavery was good. Or that the holocaust was good.

As you said, there exists a universe of things that people are justified in having strident beliefs about.
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> Unlikely, but not absolutely impossible. Correct?

Correct but irrelevant. Winning the Powerball 100 times in a row is also not absolutely impossible. Nonetheless, it won't happen.
Because language is the only meaningful model of computation we have made sufficiently versatile to program with?

Do you think we should be drawing spreadsheets or talking to the machine like Scotty... Oh computer!

Nobody who complains about this seems to have a serious idea about a better way to program a computer than a keyboard thus far. If you have anything novel to share I'd be interested.