skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turin did some anti-competitive tactics like block the production of generics. So they weren't just capitalizing on market inefficiency, they were causing it to some degree.

That being said, bad faith can simply be determined by a vote, similar to how Uber drivers are expelled if they act in bad faith (bad ratings).
None of this should be a surprise. We should expect that any device with Internet access can be hacked by someone, regardless of their intentions. If it isn't the NSA it's Chinese "patriot hackers" or Russian cyber-criminals operating with the consent of their governments. Or many others. Instead of seeing this security state as a binary, we should always consider two questions:

1: How much do we value our privacy and security versus the needs of society (in the case of backdoors and so on), and,

2: How much do we trust the people whose business is having the ability to break into our phones? I don't like how invasive our security agencies are but if they end up preventing major crimes or terrorist attacks I can't say what they do is wrong.

At the end of the day, I want the people defending me to be more powerful than the people attacking me, but I don't want my defenders to use their same tools against me.
The all seeing eye...
note http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-09-06-zeroing-buffers-i... too though?
Health Care Slavery and Overwork
This guy went out of his way to buy something with a trackpoint? Surely this is a hoax.
When an algorithm isn't
There is an excellent LSE debate podcast on TTIP with the chair of the Uruguary round. I have posted it before, and I will dig out the link, (http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2014/11/20141124t18... ) but listening to the folks who built the WTO and their views on the current rounds is salutary.

The gist of the podcast (from memory)

- Fair Trade is good for us all

- Global trade agreements benefit the poorest the best because if everyone is included, it's rare for the clauses to include "screw those guys over". Small poor countries usually get screwed over because all the effort goes into the big agreements between big trading partners (naturally). Global agreements usually get you the same good deal as Canada gets.

- we have mostly solved tariffs on traditional physical goods. The WTO has done a good job on this. It seems a bit self congratulatory.

- the TTP and TTIP (Pacific and Atlantic) are best we can do after WTO Doha talks basically collapsed. Global is better.

- In general negotiations proceed to move standards upwards - European Chicken farms are fine for me in the UK but apparently the US consumers think we grow our chickens in faeces. As such the standards negotiated usually end up being the higher of the two, not the lower.

- TTP and TTIP should never be negotiated in secret. Most of WTO was not and it is a political failure to do so. But the outcomes probably won't change much as frankly it's not that interesting to follow trade negotiations

The upshot is the old guard of WTO basically announcing that the politicians set the stall out badly and should reboot, but the general direction is positive, that there should be a general default to take the "highest quality" standard in any negotiation.

So please when seeing the phrase "negotiated in secret", see where it sits in the history of WTO negotiations, and pester congress not to kill it off for cheap political points but to pay more attention to their guidelines next time round - and damn well make sure the whole world is included, not half and half solutions.
British Airways' new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner assembled in time-lapse video
Thanks for the info, I will give it another try.
I read your article in full. It is mostly about the broad collection of data passively (e.g. from smartphone apps, or other leaky sources). It has two slides at the bottom hinting at phone plants, but that isn't really what the article is about and it doesn't spend a lot of time talking about them.

I'd agree with the above poster, your article is mostly irrelevant if otherwise interesting. I will say a lot has been said about phone plants previously, but your article isn't about that really.
Of course they can. Even the iPhone, Apple can easily push an invisible update and install a bot on your phone if asked by the government. As long as you don't control the backend and even the frontend, you're at the mercy of whoever controls it (Apple in this case). That's why all the Apple talks on privacy lately sounds like not much more than good marketing to me.
Request HN: A compelling up to date video on Internet Safety
Hi guys,

My wife teaches students aged 16-19. She does what's called PSE which is like career advice, sex education, university (college) advice etc. Next week she's got the subject of Internet safety.

These kids are 16-19 and she doesn't want to just give them a boring presentation. She wondered if there's any really good videos out there (that are not tedious and boring to kids). Any one here know of any? She'll obviously research it herself as well but I thought I'd ask the community.

thanks!
Ask HN: Is Hacker News biased against new member?
I notice here that if you are a new member,People are less likely to read/comment/discuss the article you submit no matter the important of it? Does anyone else notice this? Is HN readers favor old-timers to newbies?
Yes I know that's what is being discussed. However, even if the tobacco industry is exempt from this particular trade deal, it's important to consider which industries are not exempt.

BAT suing Australia over plain cigarette packaging wasn't a one off case of ISDS being used to sue a country. Another example would be Lone Pine Resources suing Canada $250 million (USD I believe) over Quebec trying to ban fracking.

In other words, whilst I'll be glad if the tobacco industry aren't able to use ISDS to sue a country, there are plenty of other industries that could cause problems with this clause.
> I don't see a way out of this without regulation, and I don't see that happening when the pharmaceutical industry has been so effective at influencing federal laws.

For many of these generic drugs, this is a case where markets have literally already solved the problem. They're available from European and Indian manufacturers at extremely low cost.

All we need to do is lower the trade barriers.

Remember, these are drugs that are already FDA approved. But the manufacturers can't sell in the US because the ANDA approval process is too onerous.
I agree with your post but you left out "How much should we trust companies who are intent on slurping as much data as possible, storing it insecurely, with the main purpose of selling it".

NSA's / GCHQ's work is made easier by companies who ask for too much data, and who don't know how to send that data securely or keep it secure on their servers.
I have one of those. While they're very much a descendant of the Model M, I'd say their quality control is lacking. The PageDown key on my keyboard is much lighter than all the other keys, it feels really mushy and doesn't have the same tactile feedback that it's supposed to have. All the other keys are fine. I can live with it, but I never saw such an issue with any of the Model M keyboard I've used.

Also, their USB firmware sucks. Sometimes it won't work during bootup (say, if I want to go into the BIOS or pick something from the GRUB menu), and only gets properly initialised when I get into linux or windows. This only happens sometimes. Other keyboards work consistently, and the problem disappears if I plug the unicomp into a KVM switch that actually shows up as its own HID device instead of just switching the USB ports around. I've seen other keyboards with similar problems but for such an expensive keyboard, it's really quite annoying.
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What makes a good landing page for a SaaS startup?
I'm starting a SaaS startup that primarily targets property managers and was wondering what content and information should be on the page. Also,would love some design suggestions.
As far as I can tell, we aren't licensed and bonded economists either, so there's no ground to take down another not-an-economist (No True Economist?).
Does Linus ever make mistakes and does he receive the same treatment?
I keep wondering if this is going to be like Marissa Mayer joining Yahoo - much fanfare, some movement, but at the end of the day she's been unable to significantly move the needle. I just wonder if Twitter fundamentally isn't as scalable an idea/product as Facebook et al. It's obviously Jack's job to make it that - but what if the basic form of Twitter just isn't as compelling, no matter how you change it or dress it up?
I'm not saying that male journalists are somehow not at risk, merely that the non-profit that distributes this app seems targeted at women.
Essentially, anyone could create a page about anyone else, and leave any kind of feedback they wanted on it.

Kind of a combination of involuntary facebook account and unselective LinkedIn testimonials.
Though I agree with you, The SCOTUS would seem to disagree with you ;-)
Google to Apple Could See Tax Loopholes Curbed in OECD Proposal
Agree ! this looks like amazing app , please provide demo speed access to the app without registering.
For me HN is about keeping up with the present and seeing into the future.

The future is a trend line drawn from the past through the present and projected forward in time.

Now look at this article again and project the role of Islamic power and culture into the future. Scary shit if you ask me.
I loved the idea of a googol and a googolplex when I was a kid. I may also be remembering incorrectly that a googolplexplex meant a 1 with a googolplex zeros after it. There was also the notion of the word googolplexplexplex... (Appending a googol 'plex's to 'googol')

Tidbit: my iPad tried to autocorrect 'googol' to 'Google'
I hope you don't get downvoted. That is an exceptionally fascinating answer for me! I wouldn't call it creepy at all, just... unusual. It took a fair bit of effort for me to come up with at all, given that #2 is my typical feedback approach. I have a feeling that giving #1 as feedback on a student's assignment would result in a disciplinary hearing. :)

Very fascinating! Thanks for giving me something to chew on!
This needs to be added to the app store reviews.
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One funny story. Our vision system relied (heavily, not exclusively) on sensing prominent horizontal features symmetric about a common centerline. (Cars and trucks, especially at the time, have a lot of horizontal lines: bumpers, window top/bottom, valence, etc.)

During a test on the Munich airfield, we had had rain overnight, but that had stopped a few hours ago and the demos were going well. As my boss^3 (unsure if it was Herr Dickmanns or not) was on-board watching the demo, standing between my position mid-ship and the two front seats, and as we completed a turn from a taxiway onto a disused runway, I watched in horror as the vision system "locked on" to some prominent horizontal features provided by the uneven drying on the pavement. Almost immediately, this lock turned into a "valid" signal post-filtering and induced a panic stop of the bus. The boss^3 fell forward and it had to be very uncomfortable though didn't seem injurious.

After we came to a stop, the vehicle refused to move as our (my?) vision system was convinced there was a car immediately ahead. It was like a $2MM recalcitrant horse...

That day was not my best demo ever. ;)
> There is no barrier to entry into this space---any competent web developer could make a non-scaling Twitter in an afternoon---except network effects

As a backend engineer, I feel offended by this statement of yours.
Why do people seem to overwhelmingly consider this such a bad/despicable idea? Doesn't it seem like it would prevent some motivation for people not to be assholes? Are people worried about inevitable misuse (bullying?)?

We all do this rating in real life. Sometimes people talk about their ratings of other people with each other ("yeah, I know john, he's really annoying"). You know which of your friends are good and which are not... Why not make this open knowledge?
I think we're basically in agreement.
to further your point (i think) app.net tried and failed build a competitor:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/app-net#/entity
Your perseverance in this article's comments is something else, kudos.
Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion?
> "Similarly, the ISDS tribunals are agreed to by elected representatives."

They agree about who represents them in the tribunal, but I don't think they have much choice over whether they are sued or not.
Depends how you count it. The pricing structure of cell phones is pretty unfriendly in the US.

You can get a 1GB plan from T-Mobile for $50; or a $3GB plan for $60 or 5GB for $70 or unlimited for $80. [1]

So, the average cost is close to that $22/GB number, but the marginal cost is closer to $5.

You can find some prepaid voice+data plans, but their prices are not particularly competitive in the 2GB range.

I did find some cheaper data-only plans from T-Mobile at $10/GB[2], but that's not really what people are buying.

[1] http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/individual.html

[2] https://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-internet
Disguises – for ads and for devices – are becoming a bigger part of mobile ads
I'm not familiar with camlistore, but a first glance at the project website tells me that it has way more features and serves a different goal.

YouTransfer is basically a very simple hit & run file sharing application. The goal is to make uploading & sharing files a matter of 2-3 clicks. The files will be stored with a configurable retention time and will be deleted from the server after they expire.

YouTransfer it's not meant to help you organise your digital life, or have access to all your files remotely. It will only help you share files in a more convenient way compared to SFTP or email.
There is comparatively strong theoretical and empirical evidence that people become terrorists not to achieve their organization’s declare political agenda, but to develop strong affective ties with other terrorist members. In other words, the preponderance of evidence is that people participate in terrorist organizations for the social solidarity, not for their political return.

Well this is probably true for any organization, and for culture in general.
Facebook reaches deal to beam internet to Africa from space
That's not what I was saying. I was saying that government shouldn't impose so much red tape that small companies need a committee assigned to help them, when it is not known whether that committee will necessarily get them through the red tape as efficiently as a big company that has more resources available.
I think you may have missed the point!
I came up with it trying to think of something vicious that contained absolutely no insight about how to be better. It doesn't actually have any information about what the bad mistakes might be. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole idea that that'd work for some people.
Why DevOps Needs Dataflow Analytics
The cost of living in India being much lower than the US, what prevents people from engaging in medical tourism for prescription drugs combined with a nice trip abroad?

I think ultimately this is what will keep caps on the price that can be charged -- if your treatment plan costs you $1,800/month, and a return airfare from the U.S. East Cost to Delhi is $600 return on a budget, I'm surprised people are not booking trips right now.
He already told you the reason, he doesn't have time to read it right now.

Did you read the link you posted? Because I read it, and his skimming is 100% accurate. The article talks about Angry Birds, Facebook, google maps, and other social apps leaking personal data by transmitting it over the internet and being intercepted. Completely different from the new BBC article.
Setting up a mesh network using ham radio's is rocket science for most people.
Yep, I have one of those strong, vivid memories of my 7th grade math teacher telling us about it as one of those fun tidbits for the nerds to latch on to. I recognized it and thought it was clever when I came across the search engine a couple years later, but I thought the spelling was right.
"Of course they can. Even the iPhone, Apple can easily push an invisible update and install a bot on your phone"

... or on your SIM card, which is a full computer with CPU and memory and can run arbitrary java programs that your carrier can upload to it.
sssilver, you are a fucking moron. I'm amazed your ancestors managed to not only crawl out of the primordial soup, but to reproduce successfully enough times to bring you into existence. Christ, take a moment to realize that just because you have a masochistic desire to be abused by your coworkers doesn't mean everybody else feels the same way. And your stupid desire to suffer assholes is just setting yourself up for a life of being shit upon.

(Is that more to your taste? ;-) )
While civil conversation is generally important, trying to be overly nice in some ways can make it worse. The trick is to detect the point of the message and not get offended.

The larger a project gets, the quicker it is needed to root out some things.

Good projects are not democracies. A leader isn't going to get everything right, but accepting everything is probably worse. I think in many environments people DO want to be more blunt, but because they are representing an employer, they feel they cannot. And this sometimes leads to compromise and less desirable results.

When everything is communicated in exactly the same "business professional" tone, you have effectively reduced the bit depth.

The way you deal with things is by being logical and having supporting evidence, but I don't believe communities have to be for everyone and work for everyone.

They should accept all groups of people, but if some people take energy out of the project, the project should get to decide where it wants to go.

While I like being nice, I think if you are not occasionally very blunt.

So there's a spectrum. It's a spectrum I think you can understand better if you've run a project with a couple hundred or more contributors. You have to preserve your energy.

Still, I'd prefer to see language limited and highly offensive things shouldn't be said. But it's a spectrum.
Quality is most important relative to making everyone feel like they 'have a voice'.

Linus is doing extremely well for containing it.

If some maintainers are doing worse things, that needs to be addressed.

Problems come up when there are choke points where a lot of people want to contribute to the same thing, and that is naturally going to cause conflict -- or something like OpenStack, where it just says yes to everything and gets all confused :)

We've become a society that gets offended a bit too much. A nd as such, we say less offensive things, and read subtexts into small things, to the point where everything sounds offensive. It's a downward spiral to where all communication has no bit depth.
How to Implement a Secure Login System with “Remember Me” Checkboxes in PHP
Sure you would need to do go one level deeper if the top level is different, but you can still use pointer equality at the lower levels

immutableEq(a1, a2) {
return (a1 === a2) || all(mapPair(a1, a2, immutableEq))
}

Now if you update the value of a single element in the array a2, you would not have to check all the elements in depth (only their references):

a1 = Immutable.List(el1, el2, el3, el4, el5)
a2 = a1.set(2, Immutable.Map({hello: "world"}));
immutableEq(a1, a2) // all but el3 compared by reference equality
The companion meme came later, I think. The first references to black cats I've seen (you can see a taste of this if you read Name of the Rose) were of superstitions positive and negative) regarding path crossing and sacrificing of black cats. But by the time witch hunts rolled around, they definitely used "familiars" as evidence in some cases.

I wonder if the "cat ladies" were a part of this, and if there were "cat men" for monks.
Cold Fusion Hype Returns with Claims of Deuterium Powered Homes
Probably. On the other hand, cells which have a shorter lifespan might have more mutations, since some mutations are introduced during replication--several per genome per replication, I think? On the other other hand, if they're produced from stem cells, that would keep the mutations down.

It probably also is related to the fact that neurons use a lot of energy and have a lot of mitochondria. Energy requires oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria, which produces a lot of free radicals, which damage DNA.

Yet, 1700 (the number they reported is 1700, not 1000) is about typical. Many cancer cells have been sequenced; typical findings are that about 100 genes in cancer cells have acquired mutations, about 10 of which contribute to the cancer. Genes comprise about 1% of DNA; this suggests that the typical somatic cell has 1000 to 10,000 acquired mutations. (1000 assuming that all 90 mutations past the 10 that caused the cancer happened after the tissue went cancerous; 10,000 assuming they all happened earlier. Though that linear interpolation is a bad estimate, because genes and intergenic DNA mutate at different rates, owing to transcription and chromatin.)

However, if they sequenced just the exome (the expressed genes) rather than the entire genome, then 1000 is 10x typical. I can't tell, since their paper is paywall-protected.
When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards in Error
According to what I have read (not directly experienced), most schizophrenics experience a split - they see the world as divided into 'good' and 'evil' forces, which might manifest as spirits or voices or whatever, and might be embodied in the form of demons or the CIA or communists on the one hand, or angels/guardians on the other. I have been really into this interview with John Weir Perry, a fascinating psychologist who had some radical notions about what he called the 'renewal process' based on his work with patients in San Francisco: http://global-vision.org/papers/JWP.pdf
Some friends in Miami built this same concept 8 years ago. It was called TheGorb.com (Good or Bad). They hired PHDs to come up with algorithms for ranking, and all sorts of complex variables to factor. In the end no one cared or wanted to rate others enough to make it stick.
As far as I know IBM still sold server up until last year when that department was also sold to Lenovo. So it makes sense that they were still making peripherals for server use, they probably aren't anymore though.
To destroy the Earth
Yes, precisely. The voting system is supposed to suppress poor content, not poor opinions. I disagree with the parent's viewpoint, but it was articulated well and respectfully presented; no point in downvoting.
John Oliver talked about this site last night on his show. What caught my attention is that it seemed like the founders were clueless, but I only know it from the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnZa18F8QW4

submitted here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10331184
We use https://svyft.com/ and https://trello.com/ at office. This looks smilar but will try it for a small upcoming project. Good work.
Edward Snowden is not a hero IMO, anyone who cared to look knew for years the government had vast surveillance powers. Is anyone else tired of seeing his headlines? The guy seems to really want to be a celebrity? Does he deserve that? I'm not trying to be rude, only suggesting we rethink our attention to him.
The structure of an ion channel reveals how excited neurons settle down
How else is anyone supposed to litigate trade disputes?

The whole concept of a trade agreement is that countries agree to a series of regulations.

There is no such thing as "international law". It is entirely ad hoc. There is no court that has proper jurisdiction over international trade dispute.

Shouldn't it be immediately obvious why a company that ostensibly had mining rights in Canada can't expect a fair result to a dispute with Canada by suing in Canadian court?