TheLoneTechNerd
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Comment · 7 years ago
"Whole Foods" has earned its nickname of "Whole Paycheck" (https://www.fastcompany.com/90305918/whole-foods-is-becoming...) although they've tried various ways of combating this, some mentioned in that article
Comment · 7 years ago
I know a lot of people that don't. Now we can have an anecdote duel!
Comment · 7 years ago
Yeah I'm honestly not sure why people would be surprised at this comparison - Whole Foods and Trader Joe's are specialty stores. Nobody goes into them just to buy a head of lettuce.
Trader Joe's has their own in-store brands for tons of products, which has spawned various guides on what should/shouldn't be bough there (https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/save-money/what-to-buy-at-tr... for example). CVS, on the other hand, is a far more general store. They both sell food, but they're not in the same market segment - so the comparison is strange.
Comment · 7 years ago
Honestly? That would be awesome. I already have security cameras set up like that (although not wireless) - just home devices that do things for me and report back to a central server in my home. That server can connect to the internet (when I want it to), grab new firmware for the cameras, then disconnect and send out the firmware.
That's pretty much all I want from home automation as well. I see the value in being able to say "Alexa, turn down the lights" and having AWS do the voice recognition - but given that I can't trust services to stay more than a few years, I'm not going to invest in it.
Comment · 7 years ago
"The majority of the population is Level 1"
Yes, and those people might visit a website, which asks for...shudder...cookies. If you can show that the cookies do something nefarious, I'd be interested. Do you think they general population would even get to the point of installing an APK?
"Consider what that means for Mossad"
At this point, you can't even prove that the APK does anything nefarious - and it would be dangerous for the Mossad if it did, because the challenge is literally to decompile the APK.
Comment · 7 years ago
Level 1: The people who just go to the site/download the APK
Level 2: The people who realize that the requested actions are likely unsafe, and complain about it
Level 3: People who realize that this is part of the challenge and just use a VM
Nobody on HN is "this dumb", if you want to participate in a challenge with an intelligence agency, take the proper precautions
Comment · 7 years ago
Of course not, it would be prohibitively difficult to deconstruct the apk from the phone itself.
Comment · 7 years ago
Removing my comments because I can't seem to delete them...
Comment · 7 years ago
Does anyone have insight on why they're making this change? All they say in this post is "In our effort to continuously improve customer experience". From my point of view as a customer, I don't really see an experiential difference between a subdomain style and a path style - one's a ".", the other's a "/" - but I imagine there's a good reason for the change.
Comment · 7 years ago
At 32 seconds into the video, you can see a few frames of a Google Sheet where one column is the name of the sport (you can see "Quidditch" quite a few times) and a second column is a rule, like "The Chasers are there to try and keep posession of the Quaffle...". Looks like one row per rule. Teh filename is "AKQA AI SPORT".
No idea if that's what they used for the actual training, though.
Comment · 7 years ago
First, amazing post, I want to see a blog post of someone's day entirely like this.
> That isolation is great though because I went straight back to enjoying my beer.
Second, I find the isolation to be a bit leaky - rarely am I immediately back to my normal operation. Maybe I need to reimplement my VM.
Third, isolation in theory is great, but in practice requires far too many resources. I agree that the "internal virtual machine" metaphor is fantastic, but if everyone is running it to fit in with society...we're wasting a ton of brain space at the societal level.
Comment · 7 years ago
I think you'd get far more traffic if you linked to a page that actually has information (https://code.headmelted.com/) instead of to the list of builds!
In any case, this is awesome and I'll definitely give it a try
Comment · 7 years ago
I've written this type of script before - I didn't need too much in the way of debugging. Mine (similar to GP, it seems) didn't actually do the registration, just save the current state of known divs or even the whole page. Then it would send me an update if that changed.
So, I didn't need to debug what happens when the class shows "open" - I just saved the div that said "closed" and sent myself an email/text any time it didn't say exactly that.
Comment · 8 years ago
Clickbait title - the "this" referenced is Instagram, and other social media accounts.
"...hiring managers are more likely to check your Instagram account."
"...38% search for social media accounts..."
"When evaluating a candidate, I check for a Twitter profile to see what types of articles are shared, where he or she gets news, what content is of value to the candidate, and how he or she engages with other people"