skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2014, Congress had a ~5% approval rating, and a 95% re-election rating.

"Kick the bastards out" works well in some democracies, and less well in others.
Updating Ember Apps to Ember 2.x
It's not really a laptop, really a portable all-in-one desktop with a battery, unless you're talking about that very expensive wood & cork thing. Nice that it's not Intel but you will take a speed hit for that.
Anti-Vaxers Aren't Stupid
As long as there is no law that mandates that a phone must be unlockable to be sold in US (which probably FCC has authority to insist for) - if there is technical capability for a device to be unlocked - it is manufacturers' fault and they must comply.

Apple chose themselves to have total control over the device, signing and ecosystem - now it backfires.
While you're mostly correct, it doesn't prevent people from "trying" this sort of scam. IIRC Square had to fight many battles like this, where fake "merchants" would open a Square account, swipe stolen cards, move the money away from Square and close their account. It's many small time crooks, not one big operation (it doesn't take a genius to figure this out), so it's actually really hard to fight.
I think it's the other way around; people have begun thinking of soda as problematic because of the sugar. So making it clear that a drink exceeds a coke in sugar puts the drink over in the problematic bracket.
Just curious, why do you consider the T440s unusable? I have had mine for years and, while it's not perfect, I don't have any big complaints about it.
Actions speak louder than words. The most revealing test of the strength of a company's commitment to privacy is how it handles situations when privacy can conflict with profits. Privacy on the internet relies critically on browsers only trusting trustworthy certificate authorities. When CNNIC breached its trust as a certificate authority last year, Apple sat tight waiting for the furor to subside (https://threatpost.com/apple-leaves-cnnic-root-in-ios-osx-ce...).
Recent HN discussion on for and against: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758278
There is the most master of all keys - the one they sign the bootloader/os with.
There's a huge distinction between Google (Android) and Apple (iOS) though: Apple affirms they don't have your keys, and this case bears that out (else the FBI would obtain the keys via subpoena to Apple rather than asking the court for a circumvention tool). Google is ambiguous about whether they have your Android keys; they claim they don't, however if you forget your device password it is possible to unlock your device via your Google account on a PC[1], and that alone is telling. If this were an Android device, the FBI would have already unlocked the phone with a simple subpoena.

Beyond that, Google definitely has the keys to your encrypted backups on their servers, so access to the phone might not even be necessary.

[1] http://visihow.com/Recover_Android_Device_in_case_of_Forgot_...
Formlabs cofounder here.

Of course, there is a difference between a demo focusing on implementing new features then the software that we are shipping. But yes, it was extremely impressive and it's no surprise that he is leading much of our engineering team (beyond software, as well) today.
very funny, you made me smile :)
I haven't connected battery life to opened tabs before. There, this link was worth something to me.
Please see this link[1], Apple explains exactly how keys are stored in their datacenters (Hint: it is not in clear text). They use HSM's which destroy the user's key after 10 failed attempts.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
It's not globalization, it's our awful government and inter-generational and inter-class theft.
The over-arching collaborative project (hyperledger) seems to have multiple competing implementations: https://github.com/hyperledger/hyperledger

So it seems this is just one of them.
What a clickbate...

It's probably important to note that it's not only "flavored" drinks, milk has quite a bit of sugar in it naturally, the "special" milk which is used by some coffee places has about 9% fat and 2-3% carbohydrates which makes it worse than coke on it's own, normal whole/semi-skimmed/skimmed(skimmed usually have higher amounts of sugar to make it not taste like well the water it is) milk has about 5g per 100g of sugar which is more than half the sugar content in coke, so when you add even a "bit" of sugar to a milk based drink you get well more sugar than what coke has for the same volume.

It's also probably worth noting that a Starbucks "Venti" size is more than double the the volume of a coke can to begin with so about 680ml (espresso shot which is used as the base is only about 30ml) of milk + couple of sugar spoons to make it sweet can easily get to 2-3 times the amount of sugar in coke without even having to go overboard with crap like whipped cream and syrups.
yea there is sod all choice outside of the US from what I've seen.

most RFID wallets seem to be an extension of Kickstarter's obsession with them a couple of years ago, and most manufacturers and sellers seem to be North American-based.
Google Wallet / Android Pay users are similarly very familiar with the chirp emitted for every transaction.
Wired to ad blocker users: pay up for ad-free site or you get nothing
Today there is no way to increase your iq. Exercise may improve your attention, emotion regulation, reduce stress.
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And that's why the value of the transaction is limited
Large companies don't have to stay in one place. If the USA were to force their hand, they have the option of leaving the country.

Chinas behaviour made HSBC, the worlds 5th largest bank, move to London. It's not an unheard of move.
The important point was Sugar cane is not better at photosynthesis than other plants. It simply 'wastes' less energy on growth and 'life'.

Break even would take 50% efficient solar collectors and 90% efficient lights including transmission and conversion losses. Clearly, we are nowhere near that point.

PS: The only reasonable option would be solar collectors that focus on different parts of the spectrum and let light through to the plants under them.
Thank you for the elucidation. This is the kind of quality reply that makes HN great.
exizt88 is correct. I can't swipe to go back a page. And if I swipe up, the page seems to want to continue scrolling at the same speed, it feels different and not fluent.
This fits very well with my anecdotal observations throughout my own live in years where I've done more or less exercise of different types.
Also, this means that the Venti White Chocolate Mocha actually contains less sugar per unit than Coke:

12oz Coke contains 39g sugar[1]

-> 39g/12oz = 3.25 g/oz

20oz White Chocolate Mocha contains 55g sugar

-> 55g/20oz = 2.75 g/oz

[1] http://www.coca-colaproductfacts.com/en/coca-cola-products/c...

edit: formatting
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It's nice if you use the weird keys that are far from the nubs - like F10, F11, F12, or anything where the grid doesn't give you tactile wayfinding.

For example, I use the backlit keyboard when I'm debugging at night, because hitting the wrong key carries a penalty, and F9 is not nearly as heavily used as 'A'
Is there any reason why it should be common knowledge where Marie Curie was born? Is it common knowledge in Poland where, for example, Alexander Graham Bell was born?

Objectively it's hardly the most interesting or significant fact about her, is it?

As for Enigma, as others have also stated, it's virtually impossible to have heard of it without hearing about the Polish involvement, to the point where it almost seems like the British role is being denigrated.

Here's a story from 2012, for example, on a previous occasion where Poland was repeating the story that's "hardly never mentioned":

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215003/Secrets-Enig...

But now [4 years ago], the Polish Government has launched
a campaign to highlight the important - and overlooked -
role played by its nation in solving the Enigma code.

No wonder people were checking the date on this submission.

And a brief Google on BBC site alone produces these headlines and stories:

2014 Poland's overlooked Enigma codebreakers
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28167071

2011 Bletchley Park remembers Polish code breakers
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-14141406

2009 How Poles cracked Nazi Enigma secret
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8158782.stm

2000 UK gives Enigma machine to Poles
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/930873.stm
>So... great? All true, but why is this on HN? This is the sort of tip which belongs in a "...For Dummies" book.

Because apparently the kind of people who spend the most amount of time idling/voting on tech websites and are newbies.
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You say HTML is data? That's funny, I always thought it was code.
squats and deadlifts, please be squats and deadlifts.

I'm of the belief all you need to do is compound lifts with occasional cardio. Deadlifts are amazing for your health if you learn how to do them without hurting yourself.
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My point being that human beings writing native desktop and mobile applications, device drivers, games, vertical integrations, plugins for commercial software are developers as well.

UNIX having a cli doesn't do anything to help us.
XPoint still wears down; it's said to be 1,000 better than NAND flash but that's still highly finite.
Naiveté is a useful quality in a candidate for the right company. It signals the potential for loyalty. Once you've had your idealism broken by corporate bullshit, there's no easy way to get it back.
I was never a big coffee drinker, but when I did I'd drink a "foo-foo" coffee drink which was usually a turtle latte or something similar. I figured if it was only once in a while I was fine.

Then I read the nutritional information and nearly fainted: https://www.cariboucoffee.com/menu-nutrition/beverage-food-d...

630 calories, 65g of sugar, 21g of saturated fat, 195mg of caffeine.

If you do the conversion where 4g of sugar = 1 teaspoon, then this drink has 16.25 teaspoons of sugar which is pretty close to the figures in the article.

Needless to say once I read how much sugar was in these drinks, I promptly stopped drinking them altogether.
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Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Polish_death_camp%22_contro...
That's essentially where I am. I actually want a simple camera with options for standard format streams over IP so I can connect them to a NAS on its own LAN, hidden in a closet for a cheap security setup using hardware I already own.

But so many of these things are pitched as "oh so easy to set up! Just plug it in and open an app on your iPhone and you can monitor your house from anywhere!"

It's bad enough that this app-centric branding/marketing pitch ignores the fact that you never even see the popup saying "for security purposes, change your password", much less mentions just how this easy access works.

Sure, it's easier to just plug something in and get a picture with no more action needed than pointing at a square on a screen. But even the ones that can be made moderately secure (at least versus casual Shodan searchers and Google dorks) by setting a password and turning off DDNS, telnet, ftp, etc. are often left in their wide-open setup state by users.

On the flip side, I don't want something that only works with a "cloud" subscription or by going through a third party that I may or may not have to pay for monthly. I just want to be able to pull an mp4 or mjpeg stream from an old computer running iSpy or my Synology on the local-only LAN.

tl;dr: these things are affordable and very useful if you know how to set them up but by default they're wide open and often irresponsibly marketed as plug-and-play and never actually configured.
What are you talking about? Why should should apple have to contribute anything to the safety or wellbeing of the peasant American society? /sarcasm
All right you made your complaint. Now flag the article if you must and let it go, please.
I think it's both. I mean, just look at the variance in response to caffeine that people have. The nervous system clearly comes into play in all this.
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It's impossible to design an appropriate algorithm ahead of time capable of accepting all of the possible inputs that might occur.

Which isn't to say that we shouldn't do our best. We shouldn't just throw up our hands. But I think it's important to admit that judges will always be necessary to handle inevitable ambiguities.
This is a great idea, and a concept that I'm ready for (my phone and tablets are already more powerful than the first 20, or so, desktop computers that I've owned, including machines up to just a few years ago). But, this particular device probably won't do, for me. It's as big as a full-size laptop but has a lower resolution display than I'm willing to use for laptop work today. To be clear: the size of it is fine, but only if it provided a reasonably high resolution display (which, I guess, would it much harder to hit this low price point).

I also wonder why it isn't fully functional with an Android device, and seems to only support display. I have a little keyboard and standing case for one of my tablets, and it works OK as a "very tiny laptop" (though not being a full-size keyboard makes it a non-starter for any real work). Why wouldn't this work for that, too? Does Windows phone have some specific functionality that makes it more appropriate for this kind of thing?

Anyway, this seems pretty close to a great implementation of a great idea. Maybe after launch they'll make a 1080P or QHD version for a little extra money. There's a lot of possibility for making this a great laptop replacement; they could stick a battery in it for longer working time, it could provide USB hub functionality for a mouse and other devices, etc.
Yep same here. Make something good and I will be customer of more then one device. But I really need review by gadget blog before I will consider buying.

On the other hand, super excited that we can have something like this. I was thinking about what it would take for me to use Raspberry Pi at work.
High risk? Really? What do you have to lose? Time spent doing what you love?
or maybe a well constructed fake using a finger print on file
Ask HN: Good Social Engagement tools for non-techies?
My mom recently got a job where part of her duties will be managing the twitter/facebook/email communication and engagement for a nonprofit. She's 55, quite tech savvy, but not likely to be writing any code any time soon. Do any of you have recommendations for tools to help manage these things? (For instance, I recently learned about TinyLetter and it looks quite promising)
Smart Phone at $3.67, 1 GB RAM and 1.3 GHz Quadcore Processor
Google worked with the NSA and Facebook not only worked with the NSA, but now has ties to China and the Chinese government (which have the most advanced spying and censoring Internet technology around).

So, I'm doubtful.
I guess. Are they always failing/breaking? Then again, those things are by-products, Razer's peripherals are its main business.

My guess is that the Razer thing is based on a Clevo frame. If that's the case, I'd somewhat trust it.
We stopped using that for lack of security, plus I think signing the receipt (and carbon copy) is time consuming, right?
I really dislike this line of shock tactics. You can drink a hot chocolate. or a can of coke, or eat a chocolate bar every now and again with no real change in your risk of diabetes - assuming you aren't already ticking the other risk factors (genetic, overweight, etc).

Blanket calls for abstinence with threats of disease has not, typically, been as effective as helping people make properly informed decisions.
Of course apple could do this. If hn wasn't such a nauseating circlejerk people here would have realized this earlier in the comments instead of banging on about muh encryption.

This has nothing to do with the security of apple devices and everything to do with apple putting its.concerns over the US government's
These contactless cards can also be used on TFL (Transport for London) Underground entry points, directly debiting your bank account. There is no mechanical degradation associated with using a contactless card whereas in my experience swiping the mag-stripe is problematic.

However as many have pointed out, there are potentially a boat load of skimming issues.
Whats on the phone that isn't already on at least one cloud server and on NSA spy servers and telco records? That's the real question that everyone is carefully avoiding.

I mean, you could break into my android phone at enormous effort to use my phone to access my gmail app, but isn't it easier to just ask google, and I'm sure the telco and NSA are already logging everything anyway?

You could break into my phone to use my phone to use my facebook app to look at my uploaded pictures, but isn't it a million times easier to just contact facebook to access my facebook account?

In this new era of dumb terminals, its like a FBI agent demanding access to the terminal settings screen of a vintage VT102 in order to track terrorists or whatever. Or a demand to know my modem init string. It demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the entire ecosystem from top to bottom.

The purpose of all this drama is to avoid discussion of the insecurity of cloud services.

It might be that apple people use the cloud a lot less than us android people. I'd be interested and surprised to learn that.
AFAIK 'points, stories, epics, workflow' are generic 'agile' terms rather than specific to one particular tool.
I'm fine with some people using Ad-block because they don't like ads. But, when it's automatically installed on masses of computers, it starts to really become a problem.

This will only create a fractured Internet and make it difficult for small startups to survive.
I've just been testing this out.

It works.

Not perfectly, for me, so far - it's a little wobbly, and I heartily recommend clearing your desk before beginning. With a headset-mounted Leap the close distance isn't particularly close, and it DOES work fine at arm's length. Unless what's sitting at arm's length is an expensive condenser mic, in which case you will a) fail to grab the block you're reaching for and b) punch your microphone.

Also, calibration is about as much fun as it is with most optical devices. For anyone who has never had that particular joy - it's not much fun. Tip if you're doing this - rotate the Leap, don't just move it around. Also, I had to iterate through about three allegedly reflective surfaces to get one that worked - ironically enough I ended up using the screen of my Surface Pro.

But it's orders of magnitude better than the last time I tried the Leap, and I suspect with a darker room it'd work even better. No latency I could feel, and I could throw blocks around and build towers in VR fine.

Very impressed indeed.

This evening I'm going to give it another go once the irritatingly persistent IR emitter in the sky goes away, and I'll also be trying their Warlock Battle game, which looks like lots of fun...
Wow. It certainly gives their "Life is short. Stay awake for it!" slogan a rather dark twist!
At this pace it'll be your grandchildren that will test it.
If what happens to the economy, and Apple sales--I feel comming. I think you might see, a Mac that's easy to upgrade/repair be suddenly available. I just hope they don't wait too long, and their stores look like Sears.
We're currently using Clubhouse (and very happy with it), and one thing it does extremely well is the Github integration; you can assign steps in your workflow to events in Github, including merges and pull requests. For example, in our setup, if you tag a commit or branch with a Clubhouse issue number, then the issue automatically moves into "in development", then if we open a PR from a branch to our development main branch, it moves into "ready for review"; once the PR is closed it moves into "ready for deployment". As a developer, it means you don't have to micro-manage your issues most of the time, especially if you have more than 3 steps in your workflow. This is a very nice experience, and I don't think I've seen this in other products (apart from tinkering with APIs and Github webhooks of course).
Does "DNE" mean there's no patch coming at all, or none yet? What about pending?

Also, why is all this important and useful information scattered all over the place? Ubuntu people, if you're reading, on this page: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libc6 I think you should have a history of updates to the package, and which security vulnerabilities it covers, with a link back to the above linked page. Looking at this page, looking at my system, looking at the news, I kind of have no idea what's going on.

I was going to complain that this people.canonical.com CVE page should also be linked from some sort of Ubuntu security bulletin, but I googled first and found that that's exactly where it's linked from. Still, I somehow reckon I would have never thought of that if not for this conversation. It should perhaps be linked from the packages page, though I'm not a UX guy, maybe that would just add confusion. But, this CVE page, with the domain "people.canonical.com", linking to launchpad pages, it doesn't look like it's made for users. You could make some improvements to make it more user friendly like the packages page. You could make it explicit: "Here's the packages you need to upgrade. here's the command to run to upgrade your whole system. Here's the command to upgrade just this package." As it stands, this doesn't even tell you what binary packages to get (libc6, I think? I'm still not even sure!), this just lists the source package (glibc). And, change "DNE" and "pending" to indicators that are more clear to us. Or, make a new page if this one is not meant for users.

For security stuff (not just Ubuntu by any means), all sorts of useful information is scattered all over the place. To name a few questions that I never determined clear answers to:

* What about this Android MMS attack that was supposed to be catastrophic and so easy to mount, that supposedly like half of all Android users are still vulnerable to? We've not heard of a single actual exploit in the wild. Where's some sort of official source downgrading its severity?

* If the libpng thing was such a fiasco, why were there no updates in Ubuntu for so long? Did it turn out not to be such a serious attack vector? Where's the documentation on that determination?

* For heartbleed: I recall having to poke around looking at the "built on" date for my openssl packages to see whether I was upgraded or not. That's not an acceptable state of affairs.

I'm not looking for answers to these particular questions now, I'm just wondering, why do we all have to rely on rumors and advice from random people in discussion forums for this stuff? There's a recent trend of understanding that improved UX can improve security (Signal, etc). Here's a good place to make some improvements, IMHO.

Sorry if I've come off as entitled here, it's just a source of irritation to me.
I'm not sure the backup would be much help even if you could break into it, I believe it's encrypted with the same method used to protect the keychain and is tied to the victim's Apple ID. I attempted to help a coworker restore their device with my Mac and couldn't because my iTunes was using a different Apple ID than the device and the device's backup.
Apple also has a form of resistance not available to you or I. They don't have to fall on their sword. A sword as big as theirs can be used it to decapitate (or, more aptly, recapitate) the FBI. With a 12-figure bank account, you can get a lot of people elected...people who will be more than willing to replace those in charge at the FBI.

What's more, they don't even have to actually do it, they just need to make the FBI believe that they actually would do it if the FBI presses the issue.