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We are going to have to look hard at contract law versus the Constitution and its amendments.

All sort of contractual gags that keep people from commenting on bad and sometimes malicious behavior. Because it's the only way to get the job they're trained for, etc.

Companies insisting on the contractual right -- in small and seldom-read print buried within a sea of other print, for an "everyday" purchase -- to essentially violate the 4th Amendment (I'm thinking; maybe I've got that wrong) against unreasonable search and seizure. I guess that right was targeted against the government, but it seems it should apply to these government-size corporations and multi-nationals, as well. Selling us what has become an essential service; try living most people's lives in the U.S. without a cell phone.

And hey, we know governments are making use of those data, as well. A typical government ploy; purchase data from a private, third party that the government is not allowed to directly collect, itself. Sorry, that "scrubbing" indirection shouldn't disqualify it from constitutional protections.

Divide and conquer. Whereas solidarity actually requires some privacy and wiggle room, to function effectively and autonomously in the real world.
That's a fair point, I guess I'd make a distinction between similarity and compatibility
summary to save everyone the click:

Kid in his 20s (intelligent and likely suffering psychological conditions) fools a bunch of rich people and collect money for exotic travel ($20k each, from the article figures, which is peanuts for exotic travel. it doesn't even cover a 1st class ticket to a mundane city) and disappears.

Then the article keeps going about how clever the disguise was, when it really was just "i am rich and won't talk about my family"
There are drawbacks to be sure. Yet you don't refute my examples.

> Nobody outside onionland handles commercially-significant crypto transactions.

I've bought computers, books, clothes, games, online services and made significant donations using cryptocurrencies. I have also received several refunds (they were priced in euros and so I received a matching amount in cryptocurrencies).

That's just an ignorant and wrong statement.
And the Chinese immigrants were met with the same fierce racism that meets Hispanics and Arabs and Africans today.
Senate Confirms Gina Haspel to Lead C.I.A. Despite Torture
> I know that my plan is two max at the moment strictly because total cost per head is roughly $500k in today's dollars (including total private college costs, which account for half of that).

So double the kids for same price assuming they go to a public university? Sounds like a good deal to me.

FYI, you can cut that down even further if you go to a community college for the first year or two and then transfer.
The stuff I want to background is not music, lately it's been a lot of conference talks, and most of the time there's not even an ad.

Even when I've used YouTube for music, the ads are always pre-roll. If I watch the pre-roll ad, why not let me background at that point?

Google could allow backgrounding for content with no ads. They could allow backgrounding of non musical content if you've watched the ad (they can detect if it's music and what song it is, that's how they pay royalties to labels on songs uploaded by random people). They could allow backgrounding of musical content if you've watched the ad.

YouTube doesn't attempt to handle any of these scenarios. Handling these scenarios would involve an investment of software and possibly legal resources — only to improve the experience of millions and millions of users, and to conserve tons of energy, without making Google any money, and even potentially reducing revenue to YouTube Red (or Premium or whatever it is next week). Why would a company in a monopoly position do that? I get WHY Google won't do this. It's not about licensing, it's about money and motivations. But I'm not going to pay into it.
People default to the idea that illegal == wrong.
I think we agree that if the alternative was nobody watching, it would be a net benefit to get anyone in the seats...if they bought concessions.

However, I think we disagree on whether a person using MoviePass would be more likely to buy concessions. In my experience at my local megaplex (where tickets are $18 for matinee!) MoviePassers usually sneak in their food, even though they just saved $12 (or more) on their ticket and the beer and food is actually reasonably priced for the quantity compared to what you'd get at a nearby restaurant. While the small boost to ticket sales is a net benefit to the theater in the short term, it's clearly a net loss in the long term if they lose concessions revenue because now they're not just sharing the ticket sales with the studios, they're splitting it with a third party. (On average, theaters usually don't make a profit on the ticket sales for the first few weeks a movie is showing--they rely on concessions to make up the shortfall and push them into the black. Theaters only make back their money based solely on ticket sales on long-tail movies that spend a few weeks in the theaters.
Some other recent HN article did an interesting presentation on the reason so many Infomercials for products seem so weird is that the only way to sell some of these products designed specifically to help the differently enabled have to be sold as if they were for particularly lazy fully capable humans. In order to try to get the product to market at all, they have to market to the weird/lazy/strange mainstream target market you see in Infomercial pitches, and often you miss that little bit of "originally built to help my elderly friends or invented to help someone after a stroke".
Great article. I would just add that using a service like DocSend will give you a great visibility into which slides your investors spend the most time on, hence allowing you to fine-tune your messaging over time.
I think GP meant Discourse.
Note that his article isn't about self checkouts, it's about "Mobile Scan and Go" which was some sort of "use your phone to scan your items as you shop" scheme.
i don't understand what you mean by "app based (rather than web)" and app that you can make a website? vix.com kind of? if i'm not remembering this wrong, i used to upload my .html files to geocities.

i agree with the themeatic part and i believe that's the part that makes those sites unique. nowadays all look the same. i can't believe i'm almost missing ugly personal websites.
IIRC there was a Guardian article a while back about people using Instagram to pretend to be rich and then use that to perpetuate MLM schemes, but this Vanity Fair piece from last month covers something closer to this con, though in that case the woman started with check kiting and moved on to scamming acquaintances.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16838046
This is such awful advice. In my mind, your university matters as much if not more than what you study.
Chinese school uses facial recognition to make kids pay attention
I for one am fine with the idea that 'phone' means something different now. That's how important smart phones are. They changed the meaning of 'phone' in under a decade. I disagree that this skews the conversation about them. People know how often they use the "phone" app. Nobody thinks "phones taking over our lives" means people are using them for voice communication too much.
The Light Phone 2 features are very poor[0].

Any dumb mobile phone from mid 2000s has those that are guaranteed in [1], they also don't run a modified Android but a bespoke locked down OS, cost less (Light Phone 2 is available for $300 as preorder on IndieGoGo and MSRP seems to be $400), have a physical keyboard, some games, colorful display, email, etc.

There are even some not so bad smart phones that cost less than $200 or $300.

I'd also expect things like calculator, GPS, unit and currency converters, weather, dictionary, directions, maps, etc. to definitely be in since they don't fight for attention and are pure utility tools that one only uses when absolutely needed, not to procrastinate.

I also own an old 8 GB black Creative Zen Style 300 media player[2] from like 2010 or 2011 that is like 7x3x1 cm, cost me like 180-190 PLN (22% or 23% of that is VAT) or so at the time and it decimates Light Phone 2 with regards to almost all non-phone non-online features.

I'd consider myself as audience for a featureful utilitarian dumb phone but not for something like Light Phone.

I wish there was an ARM flip phone (I love these as long as the hinge is good and the plastic thick), with physical keyboard (I love them when they're good), dual SIM, 1 or 2 GB of RAM, few GB of storage, SD card, low res software rendered displays (main one and one on the back when flip phone is closed) that you could code yourself against almost bare metal in pure C, calling some built in APIs when you want to make a phone call, use data transfer, access storage, etc. to truly own and personalize every aspect of it.

[0] - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2-design#/

[1] - https://c1.iggcdn.com/indiegogo-media-prod-cld/image/upload/...

[2] - https://imgur.com/a/QdMdHxN
The problem is that the address associated with a publicly trusted cert _has_ to be universal. We can't give users certificates for `https://192.168.1.1/` or `https://my-router.local/`, because then attackers could get certs for those names as well, which would defeat the whole purpose of HTTPS.

DNS is well suited for allocating unique, memorable names to devices, but, as you said, it _does_ rely on third party services (registrars, at the very least) to operate. If we don't want to rely on third party services, we'll need to come up with an alternative to DNS that accomplishes the same goals.
Hello HN! Atrium CEO Justin Kan here. Happy to answer any questions about the article or help coach you through the process live in our next Atrium Scale program.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but do we know if this location was collected by the operating system of the mobile devices? Or was it being collected simply by data from carriers? Also since this was just an API vulnerability would I be correct to assume it's still being exploited by this companies customers?
I want to understand counter steering so badly... I think I do on an intuitive level, as I have ridden a motorcycle for years but I just can't wrap my head around the concept.
Some parts of NAFTA might eventually be renegotiated but it won't be repealed any time soon. In the USA it was implemented as a federal law (not a treaty or executive agreement) and there is very little Congressional support for a repeal.
I don’t know if it’s toxic so much as business as usual in any mature company. A lot of mature SV companies want to be different on this front but they just fundamentally aren’t.
>because those two-parent families tend to vote for the other party, and one-earner families have kids that vote for their party

This confuses cause and effect. Two-earner families tend to be two-earner families because you need two incomes in expensive cities (which vote D regardless of familial status). Single-earner families get much on much less in smaller cities and rural areas that tend to be more conservative.
The solution to being Googled by everyone you meet is obviously to have a name that's common as mud, or alternatively to share the same name as someone famous.
Yes I think some of the coins caught onto this with DPOS. Have a couple dozen block producers who will run fast servers and can be voted out. Then don’t worry about total decentralization and your performance is 100x the competition.
+1 for IntelliSense, especially for C#.
> I never hear about TSA thwarting terrorist attempts. Either they keep it under wraps or nobody is trying because they perceive the security to be too high. Or they get caught before they try.

One more possibility: the TSA is horribly incompetent and have a low detection rate for true-positives.
The stereotypical American setup is: Man helps by going to job, paying bills, doing "male-coded" household work(handyman, auto maintenance, etc.). Woman does "female-coded" equivalents(cooking, cleaning, shopping).

In my own family the actual way it worked out was that both of them indulged their fixations and muddled through the rest without much discipline or mutual encouragement. This was imperfect but mostly worked for me up until my teen years, at that point I was neither something to indulge in or make plans with, unless one of them had concocted a story involving me - and then I was obliged to go along with it. That was not great for my psyche.

And I presume in more dysfunctional families they end up getting into an argument about everything, or one is an abuser and gets away with doing less.
"- Energy consumption forecasted to hit 0.5% of the world’s electricity consumption by end of 2018"

One can make the same argument about anything. "Look at all the fabric wasted on beanie babies that could be used for clothes" one could have argued in 1998. if Bitcoin is just a fad ,energy use will plunge due to difficulty decreasing. The energy consumed on mining represents a an input cost based on an expected return on investment, like energy spent on car manufacturing, for example. if the return falls, so will input costs because no one operates at a loss for long.
As someone who's traveled quite a bit (26 countries, 5 continents), one of the first things you learn is how to be skeptical of people and not get scammed. I guess the difference between me and the extremely wealthy people who fell for this is that my threshold for feeling angry about getting ripped off is somewhere around $100, meaning I've had a lot more chances to develop my sense of skepticism. I'm not excusing what this kid did. He seems like an asshole. But honestly, it seems like the people who fell for it have had the privilege of not having to develop their sense of street smarts and now they're paying for it. Part of me just wants to say "Serves you right!".
Couldn't they just have done the calls in a different state, where such a recording is allowed?
The problem of a community like this is the future growth. How will you attract more HN'ers after this submission is buried?
> To add a personal story, when I was college we had about 20-30 people living in a medium sized single family home.

How many bed rooms and how did the actual sleeping work?

A "standard" 3-bedroom house would have 7-8 people in it per room (assuming you use the family room as a bedroom too) which means either bunk beds or wall to wall sleeping bags? Also 30 people sharing two bathrooms doesn't sound fun.
I have a half off topic question: how are you doing this in light of the CFAA and what happened to Aaron? I truly wonder.
It's like you've never been ripped off by someone selling you a watch on an internet forum.
Honest question, why? Surely some would benefit, but the average java dev hacking on a spring app? Not so sure. Would love to hear your thoughts tho
Why is it in the best interests of those developers to persue an academic degree rather than real world experience, setting aside the rather hefty financial reasons for a moment? That seems to be the underpinning question here...
Reminds me of the Jurassic Park PC game where you could look down and check out your character's gender.

Given that you had to enter pin codes by setting the hand to pointing mode and move around with the mouse, i wonder how it would translate to a VR experience today.
That article is not particularly reassuring. Although the rate is declining in sub-saharan africa, it is very slow and seems to be stalling out. The example of Niger is particularly concerning:

[...] the shrinking arable land beset by frequent drought, is supporting a rapidly expanding population. [...] expected to grow from some 16 million today to 55 million in 2050, reaching 140 million by the end of the century

A 10x increase in population, decreasing farmland, and then add the effects of climate change on top...
Ah, I hadn't realized that Cannoli is also using Rust-style memory management. In that case compiling to Rust would certainly help a lot.
This argument comes down to "we can't regulate anything if we don't regulate everything". You could use the same argument to say everyone should have nuclear weapons if they're allowed to have toothpicks. It's a slippery slope!

Given that we all accept some things should be regulated/disallowed, we can set aside the slippery slope argument and try to decide what the threshold for societal good or harm should be. Should you be allowed to dump CFCs into the atmosphere? How about lead in the drinking water? Can you defoliate the rain forest for your own amusement? Can you fire machine guns into the air over a city and let the bullets fall where they may? People disagree about where the threshold is, but they generally agree that there is some threshold.
Where can I read more about this ethos? I'm interested.
I love DocSend. Highly recommend the service.
It's mentioned in this article, as well, because Copilot was partly built to enable someone with one of these Adaptive Controllers to keep using the Xbox controller inputs they are comfortable with and extend them with this controller for the more uncomfortable ones. Then the designers realized there are plenty of other reasons people might want to pair controllers and there was no reason not to release it as a general feature for everyone.
"going to school but not paying attention because you work two jobs and take care of your siblings"
One of the greatest and most common fallacies I see Silicon Valley companies make on a regular basis, is assuming that human beings are purely rational entities. To be more specific, in many cases, they ignore mental health.

When applied to dispassionate entities this type of reasoning might make sense, but real people:

- Experience anxiety. Chilling effects, stress, etc. become abundant when we have no internal life; no room for our minds to move and experiment and be messy without being locked into step with the outside world.

- Are changed by observations we or others make about ourselves. Our minds are not static systems, they are infinitely recursive and dynamic. Observation of our own minds - even perfectly accurate observation - influences them. The cycle keeps going, ad infinitum.

The world is simpler when it's homogenized. It's easier to reason about. I sympathize; I'm a programmer myself. But these aren't just approximation errors. These are ways in which recent technology actively damages the human psyche, both on an individual and a societal level. The Olympians of Silicon Valley are trying to shape the world in their own image, and they'll burn it to the ground before they admit their fault.
Do you think your graduate degree was necessary to find this bug, or could any idiot with devtools open find it just by trying to automate the site?

Your descriptions thus far are pretty vague but man... it sounds like there is a VERY high likelihood that this was being exploited by malicious actors on an ongoing basis.
We actually were meta-gaming at a high enough level: rush through the tech tree with massive resource expenditures and no concern for the side effects, then curbstomp all our problems with nanotech and space travel/megastructures. The problem is we stopped.
The same author has another post that describes in more detail his views on sheep and how the modern popular connotation is not at all the way sheep actually behave.

http://epsilontheory.com/sheep-logic/
I am not sure how you are implying those two things can be seperate. All immigrants have a source. Throughout US history there has been waves of immigration. Where that source is has changed along with the resentment of that source. It is not from any particular source that resentment occurs, but that there is immigration from a source at all.
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No, they absolutely are not. One person using their free speech to call out another person for something shitty they said is not "attacking" their free speech. It's exercising free speech. The only way you can believe those sentences are contradictory is if you believe that only some people have free speech, and everyone else just has to sit there and listen to it.
Consider this as honest feedback on your writing: the way your first post is written heavily implies that something malicious and conspiratorial is going on, in such a way that is not defused by saying "I'm not saying something fishy is going on".
Maybe they even don't sell the data, it's a vulnerability of SS7 protocol.

https://www.ptsecurity.com/upload/iblock/8c0/8c065c70984c93d...
That's not how peering works, economically. When Netflix's ISP sends a movie to my ISP, is my ISP doing Netflix a favor? No, it's doing me a favor, or both of us a favor. So who should pay? Backbones who aren't either of our ISPs complicate it further.

The backbones charge the ISPs for traffic. That doesn't change what I said before. Instead of A and B
having a peering agreement, they both have peering agreements with C. (A<->C<->B).

ISP should be able to charge a fair price for providing connectivity across their networks, but it's not at all obvious what a fair price is, because it's not clear how expensive each packet delivery is and whose packet it is. That's why capitalists/right-wingers say "free market sort it out" and socialists/left-wingers say "government should decide rules about what's fair".

Net Neutrality doesn't have anything to do with the government deciding how much ISPs and backbone providers charge each other. Net Neutrality is about charging for each packet at the same price and with some exceptions not prioritizing one packet over the other based on origin.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/08/tiered-pricing-c...
VR games that allow you to physically move around are immersive in a way that is unprecedented, IMO, even with very simplistic graphics.
How to Determine the Location of a Mobile Subscriber [pdf]
The information is likely to be provided by an API from AT&T and others, which is obtained from cell towers.
>some major chunk of the population

There's about 1.3 million active service members.

There are more than 200 million Americans of military age.

I wouldn't call that a major chunk.

Even if you look at the number of people who've served for any length of time at all, the number is very low. It's not a viable option for a significant portion of the population, because personel numbers are capped.
This is a great point, and one that is difficult to answer.

The biggest reason I did a PhD is the freedom to explore the problems that I wanted. I didn't want to be told what to do or worry about short term contributions to a product/company. I imagined it a bit like doing my own startup where I have 4-6 years of funding.
IIRC, Apple has the cash but I doubt they'd be any better in terms of protecting consumer data.
I disagree with you. The company has identity. Would I had misrepresented you if I had said that we are the best search engine in the world ?

I tried to give a balanced viewpoint so that I don't project more than what has been accomplished, but I feel personally offended when I read we are faking demos, and I instinctively desire to defend to the best of my abilities and without revealing non-disclosed information.

I'm looking past your ``poor taste'' editorialism and I apologize if you feel that I offended you or singled you, or a part of the company, out.
I think the author left out something.

Agile involves getting the customer deeply involved from the start, so that after one or two spins of cycle, they have a more sober view of what the magicians are doing, and how little they, the customer, get to ask for in the real world, if they want the project to be done this century (and they do.) Done well, it's the equivalent of sticking your dog's nose into the mess they made on your rug; where dog=client.