skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> passwordless login is a single-factor authentication and less secure than MFA

If you go from MFA to fido2, maybe. If you go from single-factor password, to single-factor fido2 - it's likely security will improve. A lot.

> Depending on whenever hardware key is more or less secure than the password

It is:

A password can be sniffed, filmed, inferred from sound recording.

You don't know when someone knows your password; a key will be missing (or copied, but that's supposed to be Very Difficult (tm)).

A password is unlikely to encode as much entropy; certainly any password/phrase you actually type in. 128+ bits of entropy is surprisingly hard to encode in a manageable size (it's 16 completely random binary bytes).

Now, if the assumption is that the alternative is a ssh key locked on a device, additionally protected by a pin... Maybe The fido2 is slightly less secure.

But if you try and list the failure modes / do some threat modelling ; I think you'll see it ends up a close race.

It would certainly pair well with "something you know" - eg a pin/password with somehow proper rate-limiting.
But then you'd be stuck in a bubble of people who already think like you.

While there would be flame wars, you might get some good ideas from people outside your network.
How much emotion should I be showing when making an appointment. I could see your point for familiar shops like a frequented salon or something.
I can't remember the last time I depended on Google Maps for directions.
Interesting, many people here seem to be fascinated by this and I am sitting here thinking: Oh my good, I hope I will never have to work on a phone receiving such calls.

The technology is kinda cool, but when I think about the poor sound quality of some calls and my experience with voice assistants, I wonder in how many cases this will end in just garbage appointments or very poor experiences for the human on the one side of the phone.

Besides that, I like how Google is pushing to change the current way of making appointments. Maybe this will drive more small/medium businesses to use online services for appointments.
...Say you connect your headphones to your device, Android will surface an action to resume your favorite Spotify playlist...

...but what if we could surface part of the app itself...

What is it with the repeated usage of 'surface' here, instead of the more obvious and common word 'show'? Is it something to do with Android API naming, or something else?
Study Suggests Jupiter and Venus Affect Earth's Climate
Not the person you are replying to, but I find in Vancouver it does that a lot as well.

Instead of turning left at an intersection with a light and dedicated turn lane, I find it will often suggest I turn left then right then left to skip the intersection. It always turns out worse.
> they can now automate gathering information about businesses in bulk without having to rely on any APIs or user supplied info

Besides the business-side run-your-business-like-a-callcenter application, this is the "caller-side" application that's going to make money for Google. The others (virtual personal assistant) have been historically hard to get mass consumers to pay for.

It's straight out of the StreetView playbook... industrialize the scale of data collection, give the results out for free, then monetize the eyeballs (eg more accurate yelp).

Then again, Google ran that free 411 service for a few years that turns out was just a massive natural voice recording data corpus miner...
Magic Leap First Livestream
If you want to compare conditions, were any of those videos taken without moon light? How do we know the city didn't increase the street lighting following the incident?
It's google IO. So no. It's not silly.
Yeah when I started working at a big tech company I had the illusion that everyone knew what they were talking about and would have a nuanced opinion about hype/buzzwords of the time. (They must! They're technical people) I quickly learned that not only are they just as susceptible to hype as the average person but that they actively perpetuate it!
They did it for sysinternals
Fun by exploring new ways. It implies not to follow the majority.

If it's boring, do it differently.
By all means, post funny jokes. But don't make the same mistake as op00to and post jokes that aren't even remotely funny.
I like ask and answer at https://parenting.stackexchange.com/ - there are some good advice there.
Can you explain to us exactly how fast TPUv3 is compared to v2? There's been some confusion over how much of the increase is per chip vs sticking more chips in a pod.
Public IP + ethernet/wlan depending on which one you're connected with.
Not really comparable in term of resource utilization
You're welcome to challenge their items on a line by line basis. Type it out, I'll wait.

There are also lots of other sources. I think playing up a 'no true scotsman' just empowers the liars because at a certain point you're just arguing that truth cannot be verified by anyone.
And the price is vastly inflated. More likely you will end up sub $10K, which makes your payback with continuous use about 180 days. And typically people that are busy with ML will buy these cards because they intend to use them full time. Model training takes insane amounts of computing power.
Actually I hadn't even considered Kanye. I had to google that because I'm not really a big follower of pop culture. (I'm WAY past the age where I'm keeping up with that type of thing. So I had no idea what you were talking about. It's clear we've been coming at this discussion from different contexts. You're concerned about pop culture, and I'm concerned about compelling companies to post nonsense.)

My only point has been that there are some "unmitigated evils", as you call them, in this world. There's no angle we can look at them and make them NOT evil. Genocide. Slavery. Rape. Etc etc etc. And when you try to equate them with bail bondsmen or what have you, people are going to naturally tune out your argument. I mean, no one is going to allow, for example, genocide speech on their servers simply for the purposes consistency with your thought process. You can have ads for bail bondsmen, or NOT have ads for bail bondsmen. You choose. But under no circumstances will anyone in their right mind tolerate you advertising slaves for your fields or for your domestic needs, or advertising genocidal cullings that people can take part in.

Regardless of whether or not you choose to see it, there is a material difference between those classes of ads. You can't just say that every company should be compelled to post whatever speech anyone cares to put up. It doesn't work that way.

That's just reality. You're going to HAVE to accept SOME "censorship" if that's what you want to call it. (It's not even censorship really. The only reason young people call it that is because the young today were never really taught the concept of private property in their civics courses. But that's a whole other issue.)
There is no consensus on parenting. Every family and every child is different.

The one piece of (still opinionated) advice I give is to keep in mind your goal - it is not to raise "good children". It is to raise 'good' adults, capable of living their own lives, with success, and adapting to all life may throw at them.
>Deluding themselves as far as the viability, or as far as whether it would be a good thing?

Both? I think that most people would like to avoid dying if you gave them the option, but even if it were possible, who's going to pay for that with all 7 billion of us and counting?

Nobody - there isn't enough money in the world. It'd just be yet another mechanism of multi-generational oppression and exploitation.
Coded this website about toy cars
I'd suggest that even if you love your job, set limits. Your longevity as a professional depends on it.
>the citizenry is required to have a level of sophistication and erudition

Conveniently 17th century colonial Massachusetts had that too!

> the Puritans were a religious group that drew disproportionately from the most educated and education-obsessed parts of the English populace. Literacy among immigrants to Massachusetts was twice as high as the English average, and in an age when the vast majority of Europeans were farmers most immigrants to Massachusetts were skilled craftsmen or scholars. And the Puritan “homeland” of East Anglia was a an unusually intellectual place, with strong influences from Dutch and Continental trade; historian Havelock Ellis finds that it “accounts for a much larger proportion of literary, scientific, and intellectual achievement than any other part of England.”

> Furthermore, only the best Puritans were allowed to go to Massachusetts; Fischer writes that “it may have been the only English colony that required some of its immigrants to submit letters of recommendation” and that “those who did not fit in were banished to other colonies and sent back to England”. Puritan “headhunters” went back to England to recruit “godly men” and “honest men” who “must not be of the poorer sort”.

From: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-see...

Puritans were the original high-IQ eugenicists who wanted to go LARP in the woods. And they did.
He's also the fellow who wrote this:

"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."

Source of the "information wants to be free" meme.

I carried around a copy of "The Next Whole Earth Catalog" in my backpack in high school one year instead of books. Yes, the big one.
It only has to be as secure as password reset.

Passwordless login is just password reset without a password, neatly removing the weak link in the chain.
> highly anonymized global corpus of consumer email.

I read this as confirmation that, if I were a Gmail customer, that you would indeed be using my personal emails to train your models.

For me, I then have to wonder what "highly anonymized" means in this context. Does this means that users' emails are put through yet another processing pipeline to separate emails into anonymous / not-anonymous buckets or to redact personally identifying information?
Experts released an unofficial patch for Zero-Days in Dasan GPON home routers
On the other hand, the credit card system's backcompat does mean that you can still accept credit cards when the power's out. You just write down the number (or use an imprint machine) and let the customer go. And the semantics of credit mean that you can still make that charge even if an online transaction would have resulted in a decline—offline transactions are never declined, they just cause overdrafts.
Good start, but that doesn't say that night driving isn't safe. It says that most accidents happen at night. Accidents are rare.

The page also lists drunk and drowsy driving as one of the major reasons why night driving is less safe. These are correlated risk factors, but neither has to do with the conditions being inherently unsafe.

The page doesn't talk about the extent to which drunk and drowsy drivers account for nights being dangerous.
The job of the registry is to be a reliable structured storage with access control and other features. It is not responsible for the things that go into itself.

Here is the API.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms7...

Could you point out which one of these doesn't work as intended?
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The bot can gather this restaurant specific information over several conversations with the restaurant. This wasn't possible before. This domain isn't too wide.
You are correct about HK (in fact I think the higher crime rate was much older that just the 80s and dated back to the 50s and mass emigration caused by the successive troubles in the mainland). I do think it's a great story, as it demonstrates an administration can completely turn around a police force from utter corrupt to highly professional in around a decade. In Western countries where the worldview is often 'static' it's also a good reminder that societies can change quickly.

And yes in Singapore the laws (and their enforcement) are much more strict.
So just put it in the hearable spectrum. Phones already make all kinds of sounds that no one under the age of 35 has any clue what they mean or why they are needed, and frankly they aren't.
We might be talking about different types of epoxy... I have two part "high temperature" putty epoxy at home that is stopping a loose bracket from rattling on my furnace. Significantly hotter than a hair dryer in that spot. It was $5 at Home Depot.
Maybe I'm a robot but i feel like I would have answered similarly to Duplex. I expected to be able to make a reservation but got told I have to walk-in instead.

I'm actually quite surprised it asked for the wait time afterwards, I'm not sure I'd remember do such a thing.
the email template is $$$
If you were at all skeptical about this technology, their first "Designing for Spatial Computing" livestream will convince you to join the true believers.
It is going to be "better." For Google.
> Why shouldn't news organizations be held to a similar ethical or moral standard?

At best it gives an imprimatur of credibility to unreliable information. (E.g. as with the food pyramid, doctors' recommendations regarding salt and eggs, etc.)
They are mortgaging the credibility of the primary brand they built with years of direct retail of verified goods to prop up a marketplace for third parties who disrespect it and take their money and run.
Does the Google Cloud API for TensorFlow expose any hardware details? I am just curious why Google announces these hardware details at all.
Besides creeping dystopia of it, I find this aesthetically disgusting most of all.

If you listen to the sample call, the computer voice sounds incredibly _rude_, at least to my ears, especially at the end of the call. I would never speak to a service employee that way. I try to always say a clear and proper please and thank you, and would never ever want a robot to subject somebody to an"uhhhhh, thanks <hang up>" on my behalf.

It seems like in addition to the globalization of Californian social and moral standards, the world will now be subjected to Californian manners. What a pity.
DigitalOcean Introduces Load Balancer Support for Let’s Encrypt and HTTP/2
I don't know. Can't we just use common sense instead?
Just a quick note on Ronald M. Krauss, which is mentioned in this article. He has been working for the National
Cattleman's Beef Association and the National Dairy Council since 1990, so his "research" is heavily biased towards his sponsors. https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2014nl/mar/140300.pdf

This information can be also found on his own page here: http://www.chori.org/Principal_Investigators/Krauss_Ronald/k... in the Other Activities (since 1990) section
In the whole eight days that you've had an HN account, you might not have noticed that every time Google/Apple/Microsoft/et. al. have a dev conference, the front page of HN is loaded with $COMPANY_WHO_IS_HOSTING_CONFERENCE news.
As far as I can tell, it's an Android thing. They even call their display manager thing (I don't know the right term for it) SurfaceFlinger: https://source.android.com/devices/graphics/
Exactly. You can have a rock-solid password login system, but pretty much everyone has a reset feature which kicks a link to the email address, and allows that user to change the password. It's no less secure than that.
Perfect for Tom Hanks.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms7...

Could you point out which of these doesn't work as intended?
Use the following websites for problem sets:

[1] https://uva.onlinejudge.org/

[2] https://icpcarchive.ecs.baylor.edu/
The feature I want can be found in Microsoft's MapPoint for DOS back in 1993: the option to plot the shortest route based on distance. I drive a slow, old truck that tops out at about 60 on flat roads and I prefer to avoid interstates and to take the shortest mileage route, since the lower speed limits of small roads are rarely applicable to me. On a drive from the Midwest out to the western deserts, 150 miles makes a big difference.
We don't know each other (I don't think!), but trust me, no one who knows me would believe you if you said I'm at risk of that!
Seems like you want a mail merge feature, which does exist for emails.
VS Code seems like less of a general-purpose text editor, though (and is also much "heavier")
I don't want to get too technical in my assessment here, but: holy shit that's cool.
Why not? If something works, why break it? HTTP uses CRLF as well. Should we redesign it?
A coworker keeps telling me (I'm a parent of one, and intend to stay that way) that having a big family like his is easier, since the older kids can take care of the younger kids.

Which sounds totally plausible and correct, 'cept it'll take you awhile to get up to that sort of economy of scale :P
It definitely could be. Apple literally admitted to slowing down older generation iPhones. I don't know how you can really consider it a non-factor.
Being a freelancer, why on Earth would I accept credit card payments? Extra fees, charges etc...
You just saved the parent commentor $10k. I hope he gives you a commission from the savings!
That's a generous offer, and one that I'd echo. If anyone is unsure where to start, or wants some advice, I'll be glad to help you with domain registration and email hosting MX record setup.
Unless you're asserting that the hardware token is just as crackable as a password, it's not a 1:1 replacement. The problem with passwords is that you have 10,000 users and more than one of them has a bad password. The problem with hardware tokens is that I've stolen your token. So passwords are vulnerable to bots, while the hardware token requires a human to find/steal something and connect it with a specific account.
If you're referring to 'Shush' I'm excited for that purely for convenience sake. I see a lot of my friends use that same action (flipping phone over on table) when we're holding a conversation/eating/etc.
> spanking children makes them more likely to have problems with aggression.

I don't spank, but up until 30 or 40 years ago, spanking was a perfectly acceptable form of punishment, and probably most kids were spanked at one time or another. And it wasn't like society was significantly more aggressive than it is now. So I don't know how you can make that sweeping generalization -- at least post links to some studies.

Here is one study that found that the link between spanking and aggression is greatly determined by the context in which the spanking occurs: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED415019.pdf
You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
Maybe it's a filter?

The people who get distracted too easy won't reproduce, so only the rest remains ;)
My assistant is another human being, theoretically acting on my behalf, but at the end of the day, acting on their own behalf. My recourse if our needs don't align is to fire them.

As we already have assistants who transmit our desires by proxy, I don't see much difference between a human and an automated script in that context---certainly not enough difference to justify the need for special-purpose law to clarify the nature of my assistant (and definitely not enough difference to justify shutting down the technology with only vague risk and no instances of social problems introduced by the tech).
Amazon can fix this, but they have no incentive to. It doesn't matter who make the sales, they get 15%. If the seller uses FBA, Amazon get a cut there too.

An example of a fix could be take into account of reviews to sales ratio and flag those products with high reviews to sales ratio.
Don't just look at the problem, itself. Look at the circumstances.

Get yourself healthy. Get some balance -- social interaction. New and different and positive inputs.

I think you'll sit down to the problems you're working on, refreshed.

And problem-solving might have renewed purpose. Improving the world you're engaged in.

Best wishes.

P.S. Another way of looking at this: Get some "domain expertise". I was always a lot more effective when I had a domain to which to apply my skills -- and that motivated me to improve those skills, to improve the domain or the instance of the domain with which I was engaged.

Also, what was it Larry Wall said?

http://threevirtues.com/
As far as I know there is no way for Erlang to automatically cast between types (except numeric, but these are treated as one type with variants), so by any definition that I know it is strongly typed language. Dynamically typed, yes, but strongly.

About other languages that are weakly typed in "current use":

- JavaScript is still weakly typed as far as I am concerned, nothing prevents you from 0 == "" and get true value.
- PHP is still weakly typed, with optional type hinting but still sometimes can bite you in the ass

Erlang + Dialyser can be read as quasi-static typing, but it is still strong one.
Sweet, thanks! I'll just keep hitting reload till I see it. ;)
If it's extreme it's because the status quo swung so far away from anything reasonable in terms of what people can expect.

What can be kept for legitimate business interests, security, etc. is quite extensive. Really the key is being transparent about it and making sure that people have the ability to know what is being kept and why.
This page is just a list of ads for Google's products; I was expecting something more like a discussion about the design intents behind good tech products, from a site like this.
I feel like this is going to make the world even flakier than it already is. If I can waste people's time without even the few minutes it normally takes to make a phone call, what's to stop a restauranteur from effectively denial-of-service attacking competing restaurants, or what's to stop me from booking 100 dinners for Friday evening because I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to want to eat (or who I'm going to take out for that matter -- smartphones make it easy to punt on that decision too), so I retain optionality.
Just wait for the business to install Duplex on their end, and realize that we have just created the least efficient computer communication protocol ever.
> (bsd libc still 20% faster with modern CPUs

You have a source for that? it wouldn't surprise me, GNU code tends to be more bloated than a similar BSD licensed project.
Thanks! I understand the potential conflicts on different approaches at so many different discussions.

However, as you've mentioned, it would be awesome to have a resource putting different opinions together.

As per in one of the comments below suggested, I've created this repo: https://github.com/davidpelayo/awesome-parenting so I'll be tracking all the info posted here and others findings.

Thanks for reading.
The ultimate inefficient API.
Plenty of the "Amazon's Choice" flags are...a little deceptive. Maybe not deceptive in a conventional sense, but say you see a product in the search results on Amazon and one has that flag. You click on it, because hey.

Then you notice the keywords attached to "Amazon's Choice". Oftentimes, they're strange and esoteric. Oftentimes, that flag is put on what appears to be a random off-brand item sitting right next to a much, much better product more deserving of that "Choice" insignia.
Chrome OS is getting Linux app support