skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, couldn't resist. Shameful self-promotion, but this is why companies shouldn't implement their own two-factor authentication. Getting everything right is hard and chances are that you aren't reading or informed of the latest attacks.

At Authy we are obsessed with Two-Factor Authentication and spend a huge amount of time looking at whats happening in the ecosystem, which new attacks do we need to be aware of etc. It might look easy to build a quick two-factor authentication system, but history will repeat itself, and like passwords we'll see lots of bad and insecure implementations because its harder than what people think.
It's relevant because of the WhatsApp market. This kind of device could be the difference between 1M and 100M installs.
Building a single page is just the step 0 of building a native apps. Rendering the DOM efficiently is another issue much harder to solve.
I believe the last time something like that was contemplated the analysis was that the energy you could extract would make for very very slow going (not surprisingly it requires a lot of energy to bore through rock and remove the excess). Assuming a return pipe to the surface the deeper it is the higher the boiler pressure you can support since you can use the cold water return column to pressurize the feed. Of course at some point your at the limit of your boiler as well.
I like to call it the "forbes law": relevance is inversely proportional to the number of ads / trackers on an average article page. Forbes regularly clocks in north of 40 on both Ghostery and Disconnect.

(Ghostery reports 19, disconnect reports 19 for wired.com)
Before you dismiss it so fast, the question of how can a person live on $7.25 an hour still deserves some thought? $1,200 barely enough for rent, food and a bus pass.

Maybe $25 is too high, but $7.25 is low.
The Sunnyvale Library loans out kindle books.
2.3 stopped months ago. 4.0 is the current min (more like 4.2).
C's standard library is meant to be small and only include essential things. I remember the C99 standard being widely criticized for including support for complex numbers, a feature considered to be special purpose and thus unfit for the C standard. The following C11 standard addressed this, making support for complex numbers "optional" i.e. a standard conforming C compiler is no longer required to support them.

C++ used to follow a similar mindset but this has changed. So we might see built-in fixed point support there in future.
Interesting article, I've always thought that phones are one of the weaker links in the 2FA chain (but a lot cheaper than dedicated tokens).

The general use of SMS/voice mail has another potential weak point which is where people start using VOIP services a lot. If an attacker has compromised someone's client computer with the usual set of trojans and they use something like Skype to receive SMS and voice calls, 2FA which relies on tokens via SMS or voice could be easily compromised as the attacker will already have access to them..
In the markets that Ada is used, the prices are a drop into the ocean.

There are required certification processes in place that most FOSS will never pay.

For example, if you go the C or C++ route, the code has to be validated against the MISRA standard, with specific tooling.

This is another game league than the app of the day thing.
He didn't dismiss anything. He simply provided a relevant comparison of income levels and cost of living.
I didn't dismiss anything, and I'm not saying $7.25 is okay. I'm merely saying that cost of living should be taken into consideration when comparing countries' minimum wages.
> This actually came out about half-way through last year.

What do you mean? I don't doubt you are right but the article doesn't seem to mention that anywhere.
Actually I learned about this from an askreddit thread a while back. I tried it, and it worked. Skipped to the menu when the menu button wouldn't.
Robbing a drunk man in the street: Illegal + Immoral

What Soros did: Legal + Immoral.
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Having people type in some sort of auto-generated confirmation key might give them pause, seeing as the technique is seldom used.
Authy is an awesome piece of technology, I definitely think some day it will be the standard.
> Also how does tmux handle copy/paste with vertical splits?

This drove me nuts until I found block select. (Option-Command drag in OSX). That pretty much eliminated that problem for me.
I find it interesting you are using kickstarter to fund this, when everyone (and their dog) seems to get ridiculous amounts of BTC thrown at them when they post their project ideas to bitcointalk. Why not raise funds in BTC?

Also, in this thread you say "There are proof of storage techniques" - I have seen others talk about this (paying people to store data: StorJ, maidsafe) and it seems flawed - you can never know how many copies of your data are truly floating around. If you give me a financial incentive to store "multiple copies of data" I will do it in the cheapest possible way, which means storing it on 1 machine and lying about it.

There is a big difference between storing 20 copies of a file on 1 hard drive vs 1 copy x 20 hard drives, but there is no algorithm that can tell me (the file owner) which is occurring. How do you plan on monetizing "store other people's data" fairly?
So I have been downvoted even though all I offered was facts.

You appear to have been miffed by the word "autobiography". But I think you know which volumes of books I am talking about.

> Not to mention these books are not considered as holy as the communists would consider Stalin's work for example.

First of all, these books are not discussed in detail at any camps just like Vector Algebra is not discussed in any nursery. What is your point? The leaders of RSS have consistently espoused a bigoted and fascist agenda which you have convinietly skipped over while wondering what "Hindu religious viewpoint" people are clamoring about. Please be clear: being against RSS is not being against "Hindu religious viewpoint", it is being against 'muslims are breeding like rabbits we need to control them like a pest' and 'Hindus are being attacked we must rally and unite behind a common cause of controling muslims like a pest' mentality. Let me know if you think RSS disagrees with this ideology and I will stop this discussion right here.

Also, Stalin's work? You meant Marx? I have yet to meet a liberal (which is what RSS means when they talk about commies) that has ever read Marx.

That _should_ shatter your understanding of whatever you have understood about 'commies'. Imagine how much wrong you just might be about the rest of it.

> and Secular.

And what are the characteristics of these 'secular'? A politically loaded term that has no place in a discussion grounded in reality.

> For example US denying visa to Modi...
F*ck US visa who cares about it?
Automation is never bad.
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Personally, I liked more the Slate version from an editorial point of view. Since there was no lifting involved and the Slate version is stuffed with links to the original version, I made a choice. Ironically the Atlas Obscura Facebook page links[0] to the Slate version.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/posts/1015244661763772...
Having done both, this is laughable, native is always the correct way, you may get away with HTML5 for a few months but it will not scale, ask Facebook.

I can't be bothered to go into a full reply but...

Continuous deployment: No, your users don't want their apps changing on their phones without any interaction. "Why did app XYZ just look totally different, I didn't update it" ? They are used to an update strategy and they might not want your amazing feature you just wrote.

One code base: I get this, but this is not the way you do it, you should create a library and your applications are thin views of this, using cross platform tools like Mono-esq.

Design advantage: Meh, you have design patterns you must follow on each platform, the amount of HTML5 + Phonegap applications that look like iOS on Android on Windows phones is laughable. You can do exciting things on the platforms without thinking that CSS3 is the only way to do it.

Speed and user experience: Never in a million years, I'm not a purist, I tried using Phonegap for projects, but it always came down to speed on all devices being less than native, so why would they use ours?
Fellow Brit

Some think the gold selloff was an under the radar bailout

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/thomaspascoe/100018367/...
This is the key sentence in the article:

>However, 90% of Swiss workers earn well above the proposed minimum and are already among the highest paid in the world.
Although I'll miss Hadfield's rendition, I'm a lot more worried about zombie copyright than copyright being exercised by living artists on work they created. (Create, in this case, when the artists was significantly less well-off than Chris Hadfield.)

Get angry about Sherlock Holmes and Donald Duck first.
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FWITW, I stopped reading almost anything from wired because the website is excruciatingly slow on low-spec hardware and most of the times articles are just two paragraphs of text surrounded by a gazillion of links* and pictures that are too distracting for my taste.

* And I am under the impression that the character count of those unrelated links is higher than the character count of the article itself.
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Let's say the Swiss set the minimum wage to $25/hr or even half that, $12/hr, what kind of ripple effect would we expect on other salary groups? Would they increase by the same proportion?
Everything on Wikipedia is interesting to someone... what I'm interested in the most right now is what the purpose of this "experiment" was and how it ended up infiltrating the front page.

Instructions unclear: post the link to comments or as a new link?
The BoE was the one trying to manipulate the market and the market reacted.
And in the process lower the standard of living of the rest. Or tank the tourism sector, since they might have trouble paying this wage to the low-skilled workers they need. If they don't have that trouble, then even immigrants don't care, most of which already earn well above the proposed minimum wage.
This article is mostly rubbish (sorry) but the point about conintious deployment raises some questions. Does anyone have any ideas or experiences about continuous deployment with native apps? What's possible (on iOS and Android) with self-updating apps?
The vote is tomorrow and has almost no chance of getting passed.

http://www.gfsbern.ch/DesktopModules/EasyDNNNews/DocumentDow... [german, pdf]
And what does it mean in Standard [FIPS186-2] [SEC-2v2] terms?
That one should avoid using sect{163,233,239,283,409,571}k1 and sect{163,233,239,283,409,571}r1 curves?
But there are also rumors that secp{192,224,256,384,521}r1 are backdoored by NSA.
This leaves only secp{192,224,256,384,521}k1 which are considered "unsafe" by Daniel J. Bernstein [safecurves].

So the only hope is to wait for [Curve25519] to be widely supported?

PS. Bitcoin using secp256k1 which is Koblitz GFp curve.

[FIPS186-2] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/archive/fips186-2/fip...

[SEC-2v2] http://www.secg.org/download/aid-784/sec2-v2.pdf

[safecurves] http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/index.html

[Curve25519] http://cr.yp.to/ecdh.html
The HN title of this leaves out a key adjective: How Wall Street recruits so many insecure Ivy League grads.

Insecure is an important one, without it, I clicked thinking that the "how" should be obvious, and the the right question is "why."
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There's some confusion going on here. This algorithm:

- Has nothing to do with elliptic curves.

- Has virtually zero repercussions in any real-world cryptosystem.

- Is a mostly theoretical refinement of the 'cryptopocalypse' Joux algorithm, which only affects some special kinds of fields (namely small characteristic).

- Is only being reported again now because the paper has just been presented at Eurocrypt.

Here are some previous threads on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6240434
Cheap smartphones are going to change "everything?" HN still has a wired.com problem. I flag pretty much every single wired.com article that pops up past the new page. I really think wired.com is gaming the system they pop up so often.
Usual fluff. Only relevant part is,

With the MOOC movement healthy and growing, I now plan to dedicate more of my time toward AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine learning. I will be joining Baidu as their Chief Scientist to help build out a research organization, headquartered in Silicon Valley. Both education and AI have been longstanding passions for me. I believe some of my skills will allow me to make a contribution to the latter.
That sounds like you are abusing flag. Most Wired articles are written well enough, even if written for a more general audience.
thanks, you mean we can join YC in China？
Switzerland's need to export stuff and to do business with the surrounding EU-countries is bigger than the EU-countries' need to do business with Switzerland. Putting a minimum wage this high will naturally impact the prices on goods leading to a shrinking export market.
I wonder how they came up with $25/hr and not, let's say, $17,50/hr?
There seems to be a pattern here: Swiss referendums more often than not follow the opinion of the government. In cases where they don't, they seem to be quite problematical.

In the vote for "restrictions on EU immigrations" the swiss want to throw out immigrants. But not those they know personally. Or those on whom their economy depends. So basically the government has the choice between not implementing the proposal as intended, or to harm the economy badly. As far as I know, they haven't solved this Dilemma quite yet.

Maybe this "element of direct democracy" has less impact on the actual "democraticness" than some believe it has. At the very least it poses a serious risk for long term investors or entrepreneurs. Any harebrained idea that comes up in this process has a non-zero chance of being implemented just by the power of low participation or ambiguous opinions.

At best, governments already take the "pulse" of public and expert opinion when setting policy, making referendums futile or redundant.
The people who stick around Wall Street are the people who fit the stereotype. The others are people like my brother, who went to Stanford, wanted to learn something, and had a passing interest in finance. They paid him well enough to set him up to be able to take a pay cut (on a total comp basis, not hourly) for a better lifestyle, and gave him a ton of really valuable training. After 2 years, he moved on to private wealth management, and loves it. He may not be a stereotypical example, but he didn't go to Wall Street in a risk averse move. He went because it let him learn while being paid well.
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Also, working for TFA in the Mississippi Delta after living in LA, NYC, or SF, you can easily save a ton of money simply because staples and housing cost so much less (my roommate at UCLA did Mississippi Delta, and while he probably could have made more somewhere else, his savings after 2 years were pretty impressive - although that may have been a skill unique to him).
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Government intervention in the free market is never a good thing. If i would have a citizenship i would have voted no.
Bitcoin uses secp256k1 which is over Fp, not F2m. secp256k1 is a Koblitz curve which is usually over F2m, but I think not in this case.

From the SEC spec:

Parameters associated with a Koblitz curve admit especially efﬁcient
implementation. The name Koblitz curve is best-known when used to describe
binary anomalous curves over F2m which have a,b {0,1}. Here it is
generalized to refer also to curves over Fp which possess an efﬁciently
computable endomorphism.

[1] - http://www.secg.org/collateral/sec2_final.pdf
http://www.swedennotswitzerland.com/
Switzerland is already very expensive; a meal at McD's will run you at least 12 CHF. This rise in the minimum wage is not going to affect exports at all (which are all very high end...and how many bankers make minimum wage?); it will make some things slightly more expensive (on top of already being pretty expensive).
I see, Thank you. Somehow I was under the impression that automating and scaling the tedious work of analyzing and restoring boot sectors and the like couldn't be done. I suppose that it's easier to plan for though if you restore a whole drive from a backup image rather than restoring a random set of files by going on a sector hunt ?
> we are all working a lot more

the ones who have jobs ...

that is not surprising. In a society where ones identity is tied to ones job as tightly as it is in the US, its not surprising that as the job market shrinks, the people with jobs will tend to work harder and harder to justify having said jobs.

And when i talk about this scenario, I'm not talking about 10 20 or even 30 years. I'm talking 100, maybe 150 years from now that this becomes a reality.
>> A lot of kids graduated with a degree in sociology or English literature and feel they don't know any skills that will help them get a job.

PoliSci major here. You don't have any skills you learned in school that can help you get a job. However, if you went to a good school, you should at least be able to demonstrate that you can learn fast, which is one of the more useful skills out there. A lot of jobs require skills that simply aren't taught in school, so being self motivated and a quick study can be more valuable than anything.
I love how Google's response is akin to "well, if the password is compromised...anything is possible" logic and tagged as won't fix. Facebook and Linkedin of all people immediately triaged and started fixing the issue.

Unacceptable response from a company promoting its services as identity and communication platforms.
Says RI. Reinforced Intelligence?
I haven't heard anyone recommending against the GF2m curve fields recommended by the IETF and NIST standards.

Take this with an appropriately large grain of salt - I haven't followed the fallout of Joux' work very closely (because I don't use anything that uses GF2m fields).
oh, thanks - I stand corrected.
The effective minimum wage (what you have to pay to attract workers) is already probably over $12/hr in Switzerland.

Everything is already expensive, so I would expect the ripple effects to be slight.
Why do we think that all work should be sufficient for a person's rent food and bus pass ?
Last comment: I majored in PoliSci. If I went back and did it all again, I'd recommend consulting (good pay, exposure to a lot of verticals). Banking would be tempting purely for the pay. I may not have worked banking hours, but I didn't come near a banking paycheck (my hours divided by stereotypical banking hours > my salary divided by a standard banking salary). Wall Street pays better than anywhere else for the background of their recruits, and the difference is so stark that unless you are a big firm consultant, the economically smart decision is banking.

That said, I'm happy where I am now, working on growth and customer acquisition at a really cool YC company, where I actually want to work all the time. I wouldn't be here had I chased banking dollars.
Native if you an afford it, HTML5 if you can't.
You should add a line in your response saying that 'Authy isn't vulnerable to the voicemail attack'. Good job for being dedicated to the service.
$7.25 is fine for teenagers looking to pick up some experience and extra cash. The notion that the minimum wage is supposed to provide a living is a good way to remove young people from the job pool.
The actual dollar amount of the wage isn't the same as real income in terms of what goods and services you can buy relative to the wage, so sentences like this are useless: "would make mostly immigrants here in agriculture, housekeeping, and catering among the world's highest paid unskilled workforce." It's actually likely that the higher minimum wage will lower real incomes by driving up production costs.
Phone for $130 is not cheap. Perhaps the title should be "The dusk of expensive smartphones".
This is one of many interesting things hiding in the stacks of the maps division of the LOC, if you ever get an opportunity for a private tour - though I'm not sure if every one of those dips into the vault.

My strongest memory is of the WW2 Normandy beaches invasion map, done as an architectural model. Also, in the reading room, they keep a personal presidential globe - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/interactive/_html/wc00...
Very comprehensive and will written post. Also, good job on the due diligence of alerting all concerned parties and posting detailed responses.

Google's reply is too complacent. Despite this being Telco's fault, Authy & Duosecurity are better at mitigating it.
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now that they have dr dre as their new visionary...
> At best, governments already take the "pulse" of public and expert opinion when setting policy, making referendums futile or redundant.

So you're saying a referendum is futile because it forces the government to (preemptively) do what the people want? That's exactly it's purpose!
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Assuming you aren't compromising someone's account that was left logged-in or a stolen phone:

Note down all information about the account creation, frequent contacts, services used .. basically all dashboard data and then contact Google. If you have a secondary recovery address, that's even better.
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Same for TheCodelessCode. A lot of these are cryptic and weird, but some are pure gold. Especially since no one understands the koans until they fall flat on their face just like the student does and a huge floodlight turns on.
Every company has to be cooperative with its government, or relocate/close.

It just happens that Google isn't based in China, therefore they were able to make the decision not to expand to China.

But in the US, Google will have to accept basically anything the government demands, as long as it is backed by the courts. (which isn't that hard since the government just invents secret courts based on secret laws that back almost 100% of the governments demands)
I would absolutely recommend it, except that international transfers seem to be quite difficult. The one time I tried to receive a wire from Europe, I had a lot of trouble and ended up with Paypal. I should say though, I didn't call support so maybe there was a solution and I just didn't figure it out. Ally phone support is quite awesome and has always been able to solve my problems.

But between check cashing via phone pic and being able to get reimbursed for using any ATM in the world, I couldn't be a happier customer.
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The way I see it all work should be sufficient if worked standard fulltime 38-45 hours a week for a person to survive with some free time to better themselves with.

The alternative is people working huge numbers of hours just to survive and having no time to improve their situation, becoming trapped in a cycle of endless low-end jobs and poverty. You can't actually upskill if you spend 12-16 hours a day working dead-end jobs.
I would be interested to know why wired.com articles have a HN problem?

The said article is not a deep dive analysis of the smartphone market, but it is interesting. Interesting enough to the HN crowd to get enough upvotes for it to appear on the front page.