skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> This is clearly a user hostile move: it makes it harder to load your own software on a device you purchased and, in my case, fix my own device.

> Just to add to your conclusion, I think Apple leads in privacy.

Its seems like a bit of a non-sequitor to go from an Android manufacturer that will (after an inconvenient interaction by email) allow you to run whatever code you want - to Apple - that doesn't allow anything of the kind?

Fwiw I do think ios is leading in terms of off the shelf security on a device. But not really in terms of privacy vis-à-vis a custom Android/Linux rom with telemetry etc turned off.
Right, so there is an example of a serious problem which I don't think is best addressed by predatory lending. Sending your child to work in a coal mine or selling them off to someone into slavery were also rational economic decisions but there is a reason that, as a society, we no longer tolerate these things.
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Exactly. In 2012 seven priceless paintings (Picasso, Gauguin, Matisse, Monet) were stolen from Kunsthal museum, Rotterdam. Speculation about 'the art theft of the century' all over the place..

Appeared they were extreme amateurs that just smashed a window, carried away the paintings in the back of their car to Romania. Didn't know what to do with them, and when one of the robbers was caught, his mother burnt them all in the fireplace.

read: https://www.nrc.nl/kunsthal-en/

At least, I guess, these guys here could meld the gold and sell the stones individually on the black market.
I disagree those are strictly the same thing.

I have a coworker, who largely does not listen to any argument I make; from my point of view, this is because I am younger, and he perceives me as less experienced because of my age. However, other coworkers are able to deliver the same argument to him, and have him listen to that argument. In that regard, they have influence over him, whereas I do not. Yet, nobody is attempting to manipulate anybody (in the sense of lie to, or attempting to get someone to hold a belief that the manipulator does not themselves hold or knows to be unsound).
I wish other car companies would create more compelling and somewhat affordable electric cars.

At least in the US, the only two cars I can think of (besides the Model 3, which is hard to come by) that move the needle at all are the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Bolt, both of which look... not great.

Why don't any other car companies offer a 'standard' mid size or compact sedan that's fully electric? Just take an existing decent car like a Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, etc. and redesign it electric? I know it's a different drivetrain/architecture, but why not a standard looking body instead of some weird buggy space-age thing?
The mid-February break GP was alluding to doesn't.
> The truly paranoid will keep their private keys on an encrypted thumbdrive and remove it from the machine after authenticating the key into their keychain

While the more secure organisations disable USB in the OS / BIOS and glue the ports shut to prevent anyone using them, to prevent against data loss by employee.

Source: worked in two different organisations that literally glued the USB ports shut.
I don't dismiss them. Such differences are both persuasive and manipulative. But I repeat myself.
This is sort of a question independent of that. The enthusiastic praise reeks of a potential conflict and I was hoping someone might have dug into it already.

And Coinbase is far from spotless. They have a track record of doing sh*tty things to their customers that you can piece together with a simple HN search. They might be the least bad option, but that truth is not nearly as ringing an endorsement as the content of the linked article.
The information regarding the subsidy limit being hit soon was freely available to depositors.
900%!!! I stand corrected. Definitely the more I'm reading the more these new models are predatory rather than assistive like the Kiva model.
I’m reading it as “we aim” sounds like a goal. They’re expecting Expecting to produce 50-55k Model 3s in Q3

Which falls below the 5000/week
I had the 9000 and loved it
I don't think that's true. Manipulation = influencing the process/behavior directly, persuation = providing a desirable prospect, or the "carrot", and let the protagonist close the gap by herself.
Just because the returns are lower doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad strategy.

As MPT states, as long as the returns are un-correlated to the stock market they can improve the risk-adjusted returns to a portfolio. Even if the return is lower (but still positive).
If someone can't afford to pay $1 per year for something that allows them to communicate faster and cheaper then they are so fucked it's not even funny.

We're talking mind-boggling levels of poverty. How are they able to even pay for a phone and mobile subscription? Where do they live? How do they eat?

It sounds to me like a made-up sad story used as an excuse for rich corporations. If there are people that poor out there, Facebook could charge the rest of the world while offering the service for free to those that really can't afford it.
Can't the third party instead raise the money for loans from investors?
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But OP is hating the game, the game that is developed collectively by MBA's who dehumanize business from what was a human endeavor into a marketplace of exchangeable values and exploitable externalities.
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Since TOTP seeds are long-term shared-secrets which are all that is needed to complete 2FA, and rarely/never rotated unless someone knows they were compromised, even years-old database compromises (old backups, etc) means current TOTP 2FA is also probably compromised.

Which is not true of some other 2FA mechanisms (which is my point - I never thought about it before, but TOTP has a specific failure mechanism that not all 2FA mechanisms have). I still prefer TOTP to auth codes over SMS, but I wish there was something better (TOTP with seed rotation, auth codes over more secure channels, etc).
>Bank do refuse to lend to large segments of the population which can be lent to profitably.

>In China, part of the reason is caps on loan interest rates.

How exactly is that the reason? I thought about it, and guessed that you may mean that it is because lenders cannot charge high interest rates to those segments, but if they are a risk anyway (guessing because poor or have unpredictable income), why would banks want to lend to them? I mean, even if banks were allowed to charge higher interest, the borrowers could default on the principal or the interest, right? [Not a financial expert here.]
I worked at Motorola on the team building the Envoy GM device.

When GM first proposed the idea of a handheld digital assistant in the immediate pre-WWW era, e-mail was catching on as the hot new novelty, and GM's pitch to its partners was that you could go to the store, buy a device and have an e-mail account by doing little more than turning the thing on. Easy enough for Grandma to do was the idea.

When I came aboard the project was 18 months along and they thought they were on the verge of shipping. But the software was buggy and the API unstable, so partners had a hard time integrating it with their hardware.

Another 18 months went by before devices finally shipped, still buggy. But in that time AOL had grown exponentially and captured the concept of easy e-mail access in the minds of the masses. GM had no compelling alternative story they could replace their original pitch with, and their partners had lost patience and interest. Motorola put only minimal money into marketing the Envoy device.

That's my recollection of the dynamics that led to GM's failure.
That is incorrect. The plains bison herds expanded to match the carrying capacity of the grazing.

Now, there are a lot of other cattle that aren't being grazed on the historical prairie. You might have a point with those, but it's not relevant to the point under discussion.
Is that graph of their market share true? Do they really have a ~50% market share? It sounds really high. At that sort of percentage can they really grow at the rate they need? I know they say things like

> We are drawing customers from many other segments, including non-premiums sedans and hatchbacks.

Is that the source of growth at this point?
Credit card debt is generally dischargeable if it wasn't incurred in the 60 days before filing, wasn't fraudulent, and doesn't fall under other exceptions (such as charging your tuition on your credit card). Unfortunately the nature of the original debt carries through to the benefit of the new lender and the debtor still has to file a motion to determine dischargability with notice to the P2P lender if she wanted to discharge student loans converted in the manner you suggest.
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> I think Apple leads in privacy

How do you know that? Unless you have some special access to see the source, you are just taking their word on that.
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Sure. So do centralized, mobile-only systems, where your id is a phone number.
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In their defense, being able to successfully identify a customer is who they say they are is a difficult problem that is only compounded when you might only speak to a customer as infrequently as every few years. 2F devices and codes can be lost. Passwords and pins can be forgotten. Answers to security questions can change. Have you ever tried to access your own account with a company like this without this data? There are few things more frustrating than being locked out of your account because you can't recall what you said your favorite movie was in 2012. Throw in the low odds of actually being targeted in a social engineering attack and companies optimize for customer satisfaction and convenience over security.

Blaming companies for responding to that incentives isn't going to accomplish anything. The way to fix things is to change the incentives by either increasing the punishment for falling for social engineering or create a system that makes it easier to remotely identify people.
This was a fascinating read! I was pretty blind to these signs until recently when my 5-year old son started asking me what they say. There are a number of "We Buy Houses (xxx)-xxx-xxxx" signs where I live. I bet it's a similar type of operation.
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Is that kind of thing going to get an actual random sample of people in difficult economic situations?
> that can slowly and widely ruin society.

There is nothing to say these "big data silos" will run "slowly." And even if they ran slowly, the impact they could have on your life would likely be far larger than the more immediate impact of an employee reading your email.
Probably not representative but in my circle, 90% people did pay for whatsapp before FB bought it out. The rest either had lifetime subscription through iOS AppStore or changed their phone numbers every year just to use whatsapp.

Whatsapp is the only software I've seen Indians pay for without thinking twice. 60 rupees per year is very easy to shell out especially when it replaces SMS which would cost you many times more.

The problem in India is not that people won't pay for whatsapp, it's that majority of the people don't have a way to pay. Very small percentage of whatsapp users own credit/debit cards. If a service could integrate with telcos and let users pay through them, I'm sure a lot of Indian users would pay for a lot more services than they do right now.
Sure, and it's fully refundable. So there is no reason not to put down the deposit and then cancel if you don't take delivery by the time the incentive starts to phase out.
And they say that they "have repeated weekly production of approximately 5,000 Model 3 cars multiple times" in July.

But they expect to produce 50-55k Model 3 vehicles in Q3 (i.e. ~4000 per week at the midpoint), so it's not clear what those 5000 or 6000 per week really mean.
> Because the bison were between 3x to 4x less numerous than cattle

No, they weren't. You need to count only the cattle that are on the land under discussion.

> lived far longer lives than the average 2.5 years to slaughter of a cow

Irrelevant. One bovine is the same as another as far as the impact on the prairie is concerned. That's sort of how an ecosystem works, dude.

I'm skeptical that they lived "far longer lives", by the way. If they were anything like the wild grazing/browsing animals with which I am familiar (moose, caribou, musk ox) a WHOLE LOT of them died in their first year, either through being taken by predators or simply not surviving a harsh winter.

I strongly suspect you're using a lifespan figure for modern bison herds that are protected by human beings.
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Reddit says user data between 2005 and 2007 breached
I've actually wondered about that too! My uncle has a bunch of old rifle optics equipment. Very unusual reticles on some of them!
Reddit had a security team, they just haven't had the position "Head of Security" until now[0]. They did have a policy of using TOTP but couldn't enforce it on certain providers (applications?) [1].

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/93qnm5/we_ha...

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/93qnm5/we_ha...
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This is a bit of a challenging read-as I think the author and I use two different definitions of the term 'microservice'. The piece went on to describe things like SaaSes, APIs and authentication platforms as microservices, and finally announced that

"A CMS is the perfect example of a microservice (or set of microservices) that is not a differentiator for most businesses" and that's when I had to stop for a moment.

Maybe it's my understanding that needs re-alignment, but I don't consider many of what the article promotes to be microservices as actually being microservices-but my mindset is in a specific context of DevOps and Site Reliability.

Is the term really used so...liberally? This is new to me.
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Or the Honor 9 lite which BTW also belongs to Huawei. Amazing value for money.
It's available online for free from the publisher:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html

(I wish I'd kept my Knight of the Lambda Calculus button. Even having had prior programming experience, 6.001 was not pleasant.)
> Loss aversion is real, and people aren't going to be happy about being asked to suddenly pay ~20% more for the exact same car.

It's 10% more at most, and they are making it pretty clear now that the Short Range model will not be available before January 2019. Even then, many people can't even realize the entirety of a $7,500 tax credit. A single person needs $60k in income to generate $7,500 in taxes due after the standard deduction, and a married couple needs $80k to reach that point. Most people who are holding out for the $35k Tesla because that's all they can afford are also going to have a Tax due of less than the $7,500 credit.
France is a country where failure is a taboo. People see
it as unwise to start anything and will try to discourage you

Actually, once you have the "fuck you" attitude, this kind of environment pushes you in the right direction...
Innovator’s dilemma. EVs compete against existing combustion vehicles and all of the capex and supply chain that goes with it.

Have to be willing to cannibalize part of your own market to succeed. Tall order for most.
Toyota has a Corolla hybrid option now too, which seems to further support your case that they could do a full electric conversion as well if they really wanted to.
It could very well be the MBA's who designed the incentives program.
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Studying SICP in Python is kind of like reading the Odyssey via Google Translate. You'll get the gist of it, but you won't feel the earth move.

Python is a "Lisp lite" and the parts of Lisp that Python leaves out or cripples are incredibly important.
Cellphone accounts can be readily compromised via social engineering (aka tricking the CSR into changing things).

Here's a pretty hilarious and effective example where a crying baby background was used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7scxvKQOo
In developed countries with effective credit scoring methods, this is true. In developing countries, the banks don't have good methods of effectively scoring vast chunks of the population, plus the amounts poorer people would want as loans is smaller, so it's easier to just ignore them in favour of bigger clients. Tech companies are now trying to step in with innovative ways of credit scoring through phone data analysis(e.g reading through SMS for mobile money transactions, gambling transactions etc)