skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its too easy to hijack someone's phone number by socially engineering a phone company (ignoring routing/signaling vulnerabilities). A quick search brought up this article:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/06/2fa_missed_warning/
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That's a fair assumption.

I asked a friend of mine who's a Sci-fi enthusiast. He said ' I think SF creators have the unspoken idea that there will be no such thing "in the future"...'

The author of the linked article addresses that: "Contrary to ableist opinion, a utopia is not a world where disability is a problem that’s been solved; rather, it’s an inevitable expression of genetic variance, and disabled humans are not just welcomed but fully included."

I showed that to my friend and he didn't really respond to it. I was kind of hoping to get more from him on the subject but he seems reluctant to explore it.

The truth is, most people don't have close contact with people who have disabilities. It's not something we deal with or think about on a daily basis so I suspect that an author who's not close to anyone disabled isn't likely to ponder how a disabled character might fit into a story.

I think if one did ponder it they might find some very interesting avenues to follow, and if this opinion piece sparks some thought along those lines that's a good thing. But my attempt to discuss it with my buddy didn't reveal much curiosity for exploring it.

Hardcode sci-fi fans tend to view opinions by casual consumers of the genre (like me) as an annoyance so I don't push too hard to discuss it with them.
Anyone acting like DuckDuckGo provides even close to as relevant results as Google is lying to themselves.

This also doesn't mention Maps, YouTube, YouTube, or AdWords/AdSense which make up 95% of Google's non-Cloud revenue.
If you don't know of the database compromise, the technical term for the steady state you are operating in is "owned". 2FA isn't doing anything for you.
I know it's an oldish movie, but that's really an unnecessary spoiler.
==Using Finland as an example is absurd. Finland has a very wealthy, very homogeneous population.==

Finland is 21% less wealthy than America on a per capita basis.

Finland GDP per capita - $35,964.77

US GDP per capita - $45,759.46

-http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Finland/Uni...
>I don't know any bank that supports token-based 2FA

Wells Fargo supports RSA SecurID tokens.

Source : I have one.

However, they also support SMS as an alternative. I'm not sure if SMS can be disabled..
For whom is that the primary business model, instead of an addition though?
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I keep coming close to trying to divorce myself from Google but it always seems to be too hard to complete. I have tried Fastmail and I like it, but my recipient likely uses Google. I never used Google Docs so that doesn't really matter. I use Google Photos, I could drop that but I don't know of a comparable alternative, I do keep a copy of everything on my NAS too with Lightroom but that falls behind. I am trying to use NewPipe on my phone for YouTube. I try and remember to use OsmAnd but a lack of transit instructions means I can't completely convert. I should be using DDG and Firefox but I have issues with U2F on Firefox and DDG normally ends in frustration.

I would like there to be an iPhone I'd be happy owning instead of my Pixel 2 XL however being stuck with Safari and needing a macOS device to do any development doesn't sit well with me, I suspect Mail.app would be an improvement though, even if it doesn't do GPG as K9 does, K9 just has an ancient UI. I have tried LineageOS on my old Nexus 4 with microg and it's completely usable however my Pixel 2 XL isn't actually supported, besides LineageOS disables security features such as verified boot. I am curious to see if RattlesnakeOS (CopperheadOS "successor") continues to be supported, if so maybe that's an option in the future.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd be very happy to hear.
Is this for businesses only, or can individuals with a Twilio account also make use of this API?
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17664346 and marked it off-topic.
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Thanks! I appreciate the positivity. :)
Yeah, I gave up on DDG recently. The results were often useless and I was typing "!g <query>" 90% of the time. I decided to just save myself the trouble and set Google back as my default search.
That might be a good chunk of it, but what I was thinking about was the traffic lighting that is around the schools and how that is oriented. It becomes highly congested due to the time that it takes for people to get into cars, and the lines that form for people that are trying to get into the lots. This backs its self onto main corridors.

Busses would address this due to the density of students per square foot.
That's where regulation helps that defines minimum standards so you know that the plan is reasonable when you buy it. A lot of US plans seem to be designed so they don't have to pay when the patient gets sick.
The vast majority of customers would switch off Whatsapp to free competitors if the service had a price. If more companies go this path, sure, but the market has shown so far that people are willing to put up with ads in exchange for not paying money. We see this in pretty much every industry from TV to online content. Whatsapp does not have enough of a competitive advantage to charge a premium and hope to keep its customer base.
>Google can choose not to operate in countries where the rules are too egregiously antithetical to their mission.

I'm all about fairness. Right now, Chinese companies have way more freedom in how they operate in West, than Western companies have in China. All I argued is that is fair for Western governments to put pressure and stand-up for fairness.

>Facebook is responsible for the damage because Facebook built the tools that enabled bad actors to hack democracies and Facebook profited from it (in the short term)

Yeah. They really dropped the ball on that one eh .. how could they have not foreseen being targeted by a major world power with limitless military, cyber and espionage resources. Are you nuts? Tech companies building photo-sharing social networks for grandma should not be left to deal with blatant attacks from belligerent world powers. Defense is the primary function of the nation state, not Facebook!

>ure, they can claim they're "only following orders" but when has that ever worked out well?

What are you talking about? What orders?
> FastMail has other, excellent security standards. They probably don’t take part in intelligence-gathering for nation-states, like Google did with PRISM.

Google also had the NSA wiretapping their fiber optic cable connections between data centers[1], inserted NSA insiders as Google employees, wiretapped upstream internet providers(LEVEL 3), etc, etc. I don't think fastmail could ever defend against the NSA even if they are not voluntarily giving up user data.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_(surveillance_program...
I’m in the same boat. I’ll be moving from the US to the UK shortly, and my options for what to do to keep my US number (and keep it functional while I’m in the UK) are pretty limited outside of google voice. Especially since, as you noted, Twilio isn’t really priced for personal use.

GV isn’t bad, it’s just my absolute last resort given how capricious Google seems to be with these non-core services.
Unknown, it's not currently public pricing afaict. Probably behind an NDA or variable,
What about Vimeo, Twitch, and other video sharing and streaming sites?

I'm not really happy with youtube. In my opinion, it's hard to find quality content if you don't already know what you're looking for. They do have lots of content. The platform itself is the definition of "meh". They have their userbase and massive infrastructure... that's their edge.

There was a recent post to HN about alternatives to Maps. Maps might be the best, but it isn't like other maps services aren't just as good for most users.

The real elephant in the room is Search. I haven't really used another search engine in years.
If UBI is not universal there is no point to doing it -- it would just be a complicated welfare system, and we already have one of those, and we certainly shouldn't throw it out just to end up creating another one.
Interesting, I'm surprised to hear that this happened. In my recollection, most of the mentions of "voter suppression" had to do with things like voter registration shenanigans, not so much political ads. And voter registration shenanigans are definitely voter suppression.
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Not 5% for everything, but "5% in our store" are common (Amazon, Best Buy, Lowes, etc.) and of course tons of cards do categories, so I can't exclude the case where however the service is classified (I have no idea... is there a category for government payments?) it fits one of the categories. In fact, some card might even run it as a promotion - with suitable limits, it's no more expensive than any other 5% deal...
FWIW, here's the university press release about the initially submitted article (although I'd guess it'd best to now ask /u/goedelmachine to submit it as a new story, this one is too confused already): https://news.umich.edu/memory-processing-unit-could-bring-me...
Yes! There are an awful lot of web sites out there--including the one we're on right now--which are, well, web sites, not web apps.

I have a strong suspicion this conflation comes from reasoning kind of like this:

(1) My web site would benefit from some kind of API.
(2) Hey, if it has an API, wouldn't it be simpler if it just had an API, and all interaction was through clients?
(3) So, [insert JavaScript framework] to the rescue! It'll be just like the original web site, but better!

Except that it isn't automatically "better" for either performance or usability. Content-focused sites tend to perform very well using the server-side model.
> But if it's most reasonable economically, for a company to pay someone to dump their taxic waste into the sea, that doesn't mean it is morally OK to do so.

True, but what are you getting at? It has happened and it does happen. The fact that it isn't morally OK doesn't change the facts on the ground. It's like the bicyclist complaining that he had the right of way vs. a car that hits him.
That article is written very strangely. The middle of the article talks about how people mistakenly believe the motto was removed entirely, but a reader who only read the title and first couple paragraphs of their article would likely come away with the same mistaken belief.

They're entirely truthful. It's just oddly structured.
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It's much noticeably worse at locality. Trying to find the happy hours times for a bar around the corner? Good luck on DuckDuckGo.
Do you mean on the web? Are you looking for a web API or a mobile app? I argue that Apple Maps is a reasonable alternative for many... (Then again, I'm a biased Apple user so I could be mistaken)
OT: The image paired with the articles is captioned as an ad from 1973, which is which it is clearly not. Editors?
> we hired our very first Head of Security, and he started 2.5 months ago

He started before the hack happened
> To play devil's advocate, probabilistic reasoning (probability theory, stochastic processes, Bayesian reasoning, graphical models, variational inference) might be equally if not more important.

For intuition, particularly if you care about vision applications, I think one field of math which is severely underrated by the community is group theory. Trying to understand methods which largely proceed by divining structure without first trying to understand symmetry has to be a challenge.

I'm biased; my training was as a mineralogist and crystallographer! But the serious point here is that much of the value of math is as a source of intuition and useful metaphor. Facility with notation is pretty secondary.
I don’t enjoy math and I simply don’t have the intuition for it. Every time I attempt to do math in my head my brain groans and says “It’s the 21st century, jackass. Use a calculator.”

I do, however, have a talent for language.

The reason I am a good developer is because I can communicate with different machines through different programming languages in the same way I can communicate with different people through different human languages.

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Thank you, this looks promising
I would like to challenge you on your belief - YouTube offers an Ad-free mode and the subscriber numbers are still considered to be abysmal [1], considering that it has 1B+ total users. What makes you think charging $5 to $10 per month would retain enough users?

Moreover, Google made ~$15B in Q2 2018 in USA alone[2]. 86% came from ads, so let's assume Google made ~13B from ads in the USA in Q2-18. Even if we were to assume that each of the 240M internet users in the USA pays $10/mo to Google (an obviously false assumption), that is still only $7.2B for Q2-18, or half the revenue they are making from ads.

[1] https://9to5google.com/2018/01/22/youtube-tv-300k-subscriber...
[2] https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2018Q2_alphabet_earnings_releas...
Anarcho-Capitalist pt.1
“Average age of 27” ???

This is hardly the summer camp the title would lead you to believe.
It was both really. I’d have customer care reps reach out to me via whatsapp in some situations.
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splice is implemented as a pipe, that's why. I think it's a beautiful design because pipes have been around forever and they just work.
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Anecedotal: I think Duck Duck Go (DDG) is adequate for most of my searches... I still switch to Google to check when DDG doesn't satisfy...
See also this column, also by Matt Levine, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-31/sometimes..., where someone made a typo which changes the payout of some bonds issued by a company from $640 million to $3.9 billion. Oops.
It's one thing to get owned by 0 day and lose the stuff you were working on last month. If you lose stuff from 10 years ago you absolutely had it coming.

The way you protect old data is by routinely auditing what you have. You make sure each department is on top of organizing its data. If you're not sure what it is, you offline it. It can always be brought back online if necessary. Even lowest-common-denominator schemes like ISO 27001, a system designed to allow management that doesn't even know how to turn on a computer to manage information security, covers this basic idea. It would be one thing if a non-technical department had leaked some ancient folder full of reports containing some sensitive data, but this is a database dump of one of the most highly trafficked sites on the net. Reasonable people should expect the custodians of those sorts of things to know better. To anyone with technical knowledge, minimizing your data exposure should be as natural as breathing.

And yet again this time we get the usual "the attack was so sophisticated" refrain. Oh, the defenders were so careful, and tried to take every precaution for sure! The attackers hacked the 2FA! If that's true why didn't the attackers get the 2018 data? Frankly I don't believe the Reddit management. They probably left that old database dump on some old system they forgot about that tons of people had access to.

How many breaches to we need to remind us to be aware of what data we are managing and take precautions? How many more is it going to take before we collectively stop being so careless?
Is this against Facebook/WhatsApp's policy to use this as a business?

From: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/overview

"Please note that if you use anything other than the official WhatsApp Business API or other official WhatsApp tools, we reserve the right to limit or remove your access to WhatsApp as this violates our policies. Please do not use any non-WhatsApp authorized third-party tools to communicate on WhatsApp."
As long as they don't start showing ads in my contact / messages list, that's fine. As soon as that starts to happen I'm gone -- that's why I left FB Messenger. Or at least give me some way to pay to turn that off.
> Almost all countries require compliance with some level of government mandated censorship. Why is China being singled out?

Because the purpose and intent of the censorship matters. China's censorship is about suppressing dissent against a human-rights violating authoritarian regime. Western censorship is about suppressing harmful crimes like child abuse and sometimes intellectual property violations. Those goals are not comparable.

Also, China is massively powerful and influential. Many of the countries with similarly strict censorship regimes are so small and weak that they'll never attract the same kind of attention.