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Yes, that’s how all major social networks work. Despite everyone knowing it’s dumb, it still works. They don’t mean anything except they do because people feel they mean something.

I'm still an intern in the industry but have worked for a few places, you normally start by poking around/recon, look at where things get complicated and where systems are connected because those are often the breaking points.

During recon, if you can find what tech is being used you can see if it's outdated at all or where vulnerabilities were found in the past. If you're doing penetration testing/vulnerability assessment you're not inventing new exploits, just using what's already out there and tweaking it. Research on new exploits is more rare as a job I think.

See [0] for the steps of pentesting and OWASP [1] for everything regarding security.

[0] https://www.cybrary.it/2015/05/summarizing-the-five-phases-o...

[1] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page

Also there is a big security community on twitter where you can see researchers tweet about a lot of the stuff they're working on right now.

Well they aren't related to Singapore specifically, more or less Asian culture as being more conservative than American culture. It can be really hard to meet locals here, as many stick to themselves and find talking to a stranger somewhat weird, much less making friends for no reason. This can be seen especially at clubs, where you go and hang with your group of friends rather than meeting new people. I was just in HK for a week and really liked it, it seems more vibrant than Singapore as far as the energy of the city.

Many limits I ran into were personal including health conditions and it turns out humidity really makes me sweat which I never realized. Also in India for some reason eating with my hands made me so uncomfortable, whereas eating with chopsticks was fine and I learned it quickly. The language barrier wasn't too bad since Singapore is English speaking, although the accent can be really difficult sometimes so speaking slowly is sometimes needed. I knew Asian culture was more conservative as I've been to South Korea before and have a lot of friends there from research at my home university, but I really thought I could make local friends anywhere despite a quieter culture and that turned out not to be the case.

I’m currently in my final week of a semester exchange program in Singapore (from Midwest USA). Even though I’m a student I might have a little different perspective.

As background I’ve already traveled quite a bit with 15 countries and 45 states so I knew a little what I was getting into.

I generally have loved to travel, but this 6mo period has actually made me find some limits and has been pretty tough. I really found some things that make me very uncomfortable culturally and realized I can’t live anywhere I want like I thought I could. I’ve ad some not as good experience here due to several factors, but I’d do it again even knowing that. You really find your limits and the world opens up a lot more. One of the major things for me is even though you can make friends anywhere, if I lived abroad longer I’d have to go where I know at least a friend or 2 already to help me establish roots there. Friends really make or break wherever you are.

Does anyone really believe this was done by a pro-US entity (or the US itself)? This would only strain relations more than they already are, and I wonder effect this would have in Syria where the US is leaving and Iran/Russia still have a large interest in what happens in the area. It's always interesting to think about the 2nd or 3rd level effects that whoever did this was aiming for

I grew up in Fishers, and currently go to Purdue (an hour north). I can say from what I've seen that tech really is coming here, it isn't trying anymore. I know there is a lot of 'Silicon Valley of X', but I don't think Indy is trying to be the next Silicon Valley. It feels like the people here are content at solving problems big and small, and not as focused on capital and business. Personally I think this a good thing, and prefer it. And of course as the article states, a little Midwest politeness pervades the area.

Salaries are also way higher in the area then they used to be (expect maybe $50,000-60,000 in the area, at least for new grads in the area for larger name companies). It's not SV wages, but it's not city living either, and the area is great.

To follow some of the people in the area, I'd look at @DonWettrick [0] on twitter, he's an educator in the area and a lot of his students are a part of Launch Fishers and are coming into the local start up scene. If you care about the next generation, definitely a class to keep up with!

[0] https://twitter.com/DonWettrick

I'm currently at Purdue, and these companies currently have hard requirements of 3.0. If you're below the system won't take you. Other companies have soft requirements and will take you below 3.0, which is becoming more accepted I believe.

I believe they're showing that Best Buy has intent to work with the FBI beyond what they say, and therefore can't be trusted regarding their public statement. It isn't enough to draw any conclusions, of course, but should cast doubt that they're being honest in their public statement. The average person probably already assumes they aren't being honest, but a journalist needs a reason to have such a doubt.

Definitely agree. I find when I'm downvoted it was due to being an impulsive post rather than a well thought out post.

With the amount you see people say 'I'll get downvoted for this but...' then go on to be the top post, I think the downvoted helps more than hurts.

There's groupthink of course, but I feel the HN community is more responsible with it, and that comes from someone who often disagrees with the majority (personally, rarely expressed).

They aren't meant to be consumer devices, and in fact can perform worse than a classical computer for most everyday tasks that are sequential, like loading a webpage. What they are good it is simulating outcomes, since a qubit can be in more than just 0 | 1 states.

That's why quantum computers would be good at breaking crypto, running risk simulations for business, AI/ML, etc and not sequential tasks like most consumer devices are meant for.

If you get this working my cousin teaches elementary school and I'd love to show it to her! Please upload it if you're feeling generous :)

Let's stop touting the terrible trouble with truffles.

Also is there not always a conflict of interest with bug bounties anyway, as a friend of an employee could always 'find a bug' somewhere. I'm not sure I see the how being Project Zero or a normal user makes a difference.

It's more than that. It can be shown that information could not travel between 2 points provably, so it's not like we're missing some communication method. We can show there is no intermediate communication method.

See the MIT introduction lecture on Quantum Physics:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-s...

I believe the experiment where this is shown is lecture 1, possibly 2. It's been awhile since I watched this but a great source of information.

In a rough sense, but maybe keeping your eyes fixed on something on a high-speed roller coaster that shakes a lot would be a better comparison of cheetah vs human stabilization.

I also wonder if there is some technology or lesson we can learn from this, more than just learning about our world and the animals in it. Either way it's fine, but it's always fun to wonder about the opportunity.

Or filing of civil/criminal charges if they've been warned before. If a private entity uses public space as a private space and prevents people from using it, that's illegal. You can do a lot more than name and shame.

This is actually lower than the US in a few places, including California where the top bracket including local, state, and federal taxes can go up to 52%. On mobile so don't have a reference on me.

I don't know about hotels since airbnb is almost always cheaper, but with flying you will almost always find cheaper flights going directly to the airline or using something like The Matrix [1] than using kayak, expedia etc. These companies used to be cheaper than going directly with an airline, but since they were so easy to use everyone uses them now and they charge high margins for that convenience, so the position has switched in the last 20 years.

I also use secretflying.com which is like skyscanner but better imho. Using these flight websites I normally get flights from Chicago to east asia in the lower $400 range roundtrip, the cheapest I've seen was $300 roundtrip from ORD>SIN!

[1] https://matrix.itasoftware.com/

Honestly I hope most techies actually use the holidays for... holiday things. These are great and seem like a lot of fun! However, I can't imagine another industry where people take twelve days off to improve their work skills.

We did think of mufflers, but we didn't have them as we were using a dataset collected by another researcher, who used the same system in a quiet environment, then in a windy 'real world' environment. We used this data for training, testing and validation, but didn't have the equipment or time to make a new dataset :(

But this is probably the most practical solution, the data we have doesn't allow for it however. This could be used in the real world and the system could be more accurate, however in a crowded environment there will be other sounds the microphone will pick up, so some type of noise filter would be needed anyway.

Thank you! Diving deep into wikipedia today. It's very easy to pass the fundamentals when focusing on the end goal.

Hi everyone! I just finished this post, please enjoy it and let me know if you have questions or suggestions (especially regarding the math portions, of which I have a hard time understanding anything beyond year 2 calculus!).

Jokes aside, I wonder if we're really seeing the long term erosion of democracy because people just don't care. You can see it in most aspects of the nation, from the NSA revelations largely being accepted in a sigh of hopelessness to the several social issues that have been in the news since 2014 and haven't seemed to move. People just don't take an interest in the larger issues except to tweet their thoughts and move on. I wonder if, for example, when events like 9/11 or Katrina happened people were moved more to donate or help because they couldn't just say "thinking of the victims" in a public social media space and move on with their day. And I don't think mandatory voting is a solution to this issue because people will default to laziest method, which would probably be whose name they heard the most. The big picture idea is how to make people care, and that is probably the biggest unsolved issue of our day.

I wonder if it would be very useful in a moon base to actually launch further into the universe considering the lower gravity well. With a single fusion power point and just using moon materials to make a single launch point outside of earth. You wouldn't need to 'colonize' the moon in that a single base could make more practical sense.

That being said, how much He-3 do we really need for fusion? I was under the impression fusion reactions lasted a very long time considering the energy output to mass used, so would mining the substance once or twice suffice for as many fusion reactors as we would need on Earth? Total energy usage across the globe was about 18.0 terawatts in 2013, and apparently the ITER fusion reactor would produce 500 Megawatts of power using a 1/2 gram of hydrogen per year [1], so if Helium 3 was more efficient, we would need hardly any to cover global power generation, and even plan for future power usage.

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123837-500mw-from-half-a...

That would be really cool, I'm sure a lot of people (including myself) have never heard of an HN meetup or knew they existed. This thread is building community, and seems really cool. If there was one resource where all the meetups were consolidated, what better place to do that than HN itself. Something like the github list posted by anton_tarasenko[1] but in the menu bar would even suffice fairly well IMO.

[1] https://github.com/antontarasenko/hacker-news-groups

Great post for a quick read! You could maybe have taken your google searches from within the URL and Stack Overflow question titles and done word frequency analysis and maybe learned what languages you code in most often/what type of problems you have most as well. Good intro for a quick read though.

Siraj Raval covers PyTorch very well in a 5 min video (https://youtu.be/nbJ-2G2GXL0).

It comes down to design decisions, of which I'm not qualified to go into. This article made the front page last week, about the downsides to Tensorflow which people rarely talk about: http://nicodjimenez.github.io/2017/10/08/tensorflow.html

And this interview with a Tensorflow engineer (10 mins) explains a little bit about those design decisions (https://youtu.be/axRHotkkTVI).

That's because if the world was on fire all at once it would be weather, rather than climate.

Considering these arguments or normally made to people thinking of humanity first, non-selfish arguments wouldn't make much sense to use. Consider the audience of the argument.

That's because if they did you wouldn't know it. If a certain regulation prevented a certain action that would have caused a recession, you would never know it helped.