skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the same way until I realized that 99% of the people I'm bantering with online are only in my life because they are accessible. Neither of us would ever put the effort towards actually meeting up and hanging out. I only have a couple of people I want to retain contact with so ditching FB and all other chats was simple. I'm able to actually DO things now instead of being in this weird digital limbo where my life is a moving data point and social media is the measuring stick. I couldn't come up with a good answer to "Who actually are these people I chat with all day?"
Wow. Death to Mandrill. That sucks so much...
Aaaah! That thing is moving! It's alive!
I just tried SendGrid out now, unless I'm mistaken you can't even see subject line in the emails that are sent, is this correct?
I worked in R&D at Philips making ultrasounds. From my experience this is definitely what it is.

The amount of people that were employed to simply test, do documentation, and verify safety alone was staggering, let alone all the smart people it took to develop custom ASICs, FPGAs, mechanical housings, image processing etc. There are physicists who do research, there are sonographers who help achieve the best possible images for clinical scenarios.

The amount of effort it takes to make a high quality, safe, ultrasound is immense. When you add in the fact that you also need to follow a myriad of FDA regulations, even small code changes often require a huge amount of overhead in documentation and review before they get checked in, and then there will be whole teams of people to manage source control.

Ultrasound companies do an immense amount of R&D, but also put out a safe, well-regulated product, and the prices reflect that. I'm surprised the the author in the article found even a low quality ultrasound as cheap as he did.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11171131
Anything that can be said with an insulting implication (I.e., you are illiterate) can be said more effectively without the personal abuse.

When multiple people miss the point you're trying to make, it's safe to assume that you haven't made your point as clearly or convincingly as you'd hoped.

In which case it's perfectly fine to respond and further develop your point, but your point will carry much more weight if you're polite and respectful in the way you phrase it.
"Consider...illegal" sounds like a trap. It should be illegal, and is definitely wrong.
The thing to look out for is Congress taking up legislation to compel such capabilities, not the DOJ.
And one cannot use the Internet at all without giving over information to a third party. I'm going to go ahead and say we've all been "dirt roaded" by this interpretation since now we can't even watch the modern equivalent of TV without "giving away" our privacy under it. That is a step backwards to say the least.
Here are a few more reasons:

1) High touch sales process, slow sales cycles - ultrasounds take a long time to sell to hospitals/clinics so the sales process is very high touch and requires a significant number of demos and in person time. Those sales reps are usually paid on commission. Cheap products don't make sense to sell this way.

2) Lack of competition and high development cost - Ultrasound machines are a Class II medical device and so are regulated by the FDA. FDA requires compliance with most relevant ISO standards, and there would probably be a dozen relevant standards for an ultrasound machine.

3) Liability - complex medical devices that are used for critical diagnoses create big liability problems for the hospitals/clinicians. They have no incentive to choose the low-cost model sold by a startup. No one ever got sued for choosing GE/Philips/etc.

4) Lack of price transparency - its often hard to find prices for big ticket medical devices, so the natural pressure to reduce costs through competition isn't as effective, especially with a high touch/high cost sales process.
Yea NO. NSL's can't do that. At worst they will tell you to release and data that you have and your private keys. At best they will tell you to make sure you archive everything and don't permanently destroy records in case they are required in the future.
They cannot force you to add backdoors or create a weak crypto , although they can indirectly suggest you to do that and its then on the company if they do so.
> All bets are off if the iPhone is power-cycled. Best bet if you're pulled over by authorities or at a security checkpoint is to turn off your iPhone (and have a strong alphanumeric passcode).

Excellent advice. Even better, if you're about to pass through US customs and border patrol, backup the phone first, wipe, and restore on the other side. Of course, this depends on your level of paranoia. I am paranoid.
> Alan Truing

Poor guy. His name autocorrects to one of the best-known names in computing.
NSLs can only ask for information, not force a company to build a product. That kind of request would have to come through legislation and apply to all US companies in a similar situation.
A few months ago I almost ended up with a functional one from a local maternity ward for less than $100 on publicsurplus.com. I didn't realize the thing weighed =~ 400lbs until after bidding on it. Thankfully somebody else got the auction at the last minute.
You don't need a degree to be called a coder.

Engineer simply means it's more code than Photoshop.

I prefer UI Developer.
Sounds like you're in the same boat as me.

Just quickly tried out Mailgun and SendGrid today as alternatives. SendGrid looks more stable, but Mailgun has the advantage of at least being able to see subject lines in emails sent (which can be a great help when troubleshooting for clients).
Most Hacker News commenters don't understand the dynamics of unions. Don't bother trying to explain it to them, they are too smart to understand.
No, although I'd love to see a HealthKit app that uses your Apple Watch as a dead man's switch, and disables Touch ID or powers the phone off in the event the watch is removed or your pulse is no longer detected.
If the closed-source world is so great, let it build an equivalent to the Internet without any of the open pieces the Internet relies on.
I'd love to have a long passphrase that has to be entered after booting and every 48 hours, and then a 4-digit pin that's usable when TouchID is for when I'm unlocking my phone with my nose.
A turning point in my perception of the culture around software engineers (from mostly positive to negative) occurred during the last garbage strike when I witnessed the majority my overwhelmingly well-paid and relatively (compared to people who sling garbage cans full of rotten food and dog poop into trucks in the hot sun...) not-hard working coworkers rant freely about how overpaid garbage workers were. The sense of entitlement was obnoxious. That strike and the public's reaction to it turned the mayoral election results from left to right, and we had to suffer through Rob Ford for the next four years.
Are there any built-in functions that do floating point comparisons with rounding? Calling abs many times seems incredibly inefficient.
They already do, on phone bootup. You can use the fingerprint the rest of the time instead.
Perhaps for a middle-end device, but the iPhone is a flagship device that's the main revenue bringer for the Apple.

You don't compromise there, it's against your customer base and your product positioning, and furthermore it dilutes your brand.
Bernie Ipsum
Those ridiculous pricing policies are necessary to recover the cost of regulatory compliance which is seriously huge component of anything medical in USA.

As a side note, I know a company in India that manufactured a state of art blood test device. They tried to market it in USA and eventually gave up. Currently the company has tie up with Singapore hospitals which send blood to India for testing via flight and reports are mailed electronically automatically. There is a rig of blood testing machines in Powai-Mumbai which tests thousands of blood samples each day. This machine clearly can not be sold in USA (last time I checked was 6 years ago) because the cost of regulatory compliance is prohibitive.

If the medical device manufacturers indeed made windfall profits I would love to invest in their stock but they don't seem to be doing as well as the hatred directed towards them.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Sits Down with David Muir (Extended Interview) [video]
Now, you can be the customer and the product!

Innovation: Only From Microsoft.
Yes, Silverlight has been abandoned.

I would argue that Winforms is now a mature technology and requires little upkeep, but it is still a part of the stack.

WPF development has slowed significantly, but still proceeds.
> It would indeed be a hard task to define what is "mismanagement", but spending billions of tax money earned by hard workers all around the country on salaries of incompetent people and fees from incompetent consultancies has at least to be slowed down, if not stopped. As civic responsibility is not enough, a higher level of control is needed.

Much of that waste is a product of the "higher level of control" adopted, in law and policy governing government IT work, in response to previous failures, which has mandated additional bureaucratic process, and causes more and more decisions to be made farther and farther from the people with either the specific business knowledge or the specific technical knowledge of the project being executed as more layers of "higher levels of control" are implemented.

I am not really sanguine about the prospects of more of the approach that has made things worse suddenly making things better instead.
Or they did, and are pointing out your mistake. It wasn't Berry in the interview scene.
http://0.30000000000000004.com/
market forces
Any device that relies on hiding secrets inside the silicon itself is subject to hacking. Several secure-enclave like chips have been hacked in the past by using electron microscopes and direct probes on the silicon. If BlackHat conference independent security researchers have the resources to pull this off, Apple and the NSA certainly can. Exfiltrating the Enclave UID could be done by various mechanisms at the chip level, especially if you have access to the actual HW design and can fab devices to help.

I mean, we're talking about threat models where chip-level doping has been shown as an attack. This just seems to be a variation on the same claims of copy protection tamper resistant dongles we've had forever. That someone builds a secure system that is premised on a secret being held in a tiny tamper-resistant piece, only the tamper resistance is eventually cracked.

It might even be the case that you don't even need to exfiltrate the UID from the Enclave, what the FBI needs to do is test a large number of PIN codes without triggering the backoff timer or wipe. But the wipe mechanism and backoff timer runs in the application processor, not on the enclave, and so it is succeptable to cracking attacks the same way much copy protection techniques are.

You may not need to crack the OS, or even upload a new firmware. You just need to disable the mechanism that wipes the device and delays how many wrong tries you get. So for example, if you can manage to corrupt, or patch the part of the system that does that, then you can try thousands of PINs without worrying about triggering the timer or wipe, and without needing to upload a whole new firmware.

I used to crack disk protection on the Commodore 64 and no matter how sophisticated the mechanism all I really needed to do was figure out one memory location to insert a NOP into, or change a BNE/BEQ branch destination, and I was done. Cracking often came down to mutating 1 or 2 bytes in the whole system.

(BTW, why the downvote? If you think I'm wrong, post a rebuttal)
How about an Oculus Rift app with a 3D circuit?
Baidu’s and Don’ts: Privacy and Security Issues in Baidu Browser
Disclaimer: I work at Google.

Have you looked at Google at all? Cloud Bigtable runs the whole of Google's Advertising Business and could scale per your requirements.

https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/
Enflux (YC W16) Makes Exercise Clothing That Tracks Your Movement in 3D
Nope, still the dumbest thing I've read today. That is basically the position of not being an asshole renamed to sound like, well, a religion.
Can't songs just be changed from the lockscreen (i.e., no unlocking needed)? Either way, your point still stands...
Huh. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/what-y... says

>Importantly, my defense of the third-party doctrine implies an important limit: The doctrine should apply when the third party is a recipient of information, but it should not apply when the third party is merely a conduit for information intended for someone else.

Sourced from http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_data_question...

The linked argument (which is one half of a debate), argues that the third party doctrine should apply to things that you wouldn't be able to hide without third parties. So metadata is covered, because you can't hide who you communicate with, but content is not. The data collected here is metadata (who connected to the site), so it seems they would consider it collectable legally.
You are talking about destkop technologies that are necessarily tied with their desktop offering. When it comes to the backend/server side of things, Microsoft has making huge pushes to open source/extend their tools so that they can be used in other operating systems (mainly Linux.) My belief is they realize that the war for the server OS is kind of lost already, so they might as well offer tools that everyone can use on any of the many cloud platforms out there, while providing good tooling for their own PaaS solutions and make their money that way.
Medieval Muslim graves in France reveal a previously unseen history
IBM's Watson to Power a VR MMO
Should it be illegal for a private person to do so? If it's legal to run a single relay, what changes when you spin up more?
Could the Police consider it a distraction much like a smart phone is a distraction? Pull you overt for using it and give you a ticket?
Big Changes in Goldman’s Software Emerge from Small Containers
But the article also talks about the many other potential uses of ultrasound machines. For hobby use $1000 is still a bit steep, but for classroom use that might be doable.
Fuck this. Fuck this so fucking hard.

Fuck you, Mandrill. Fuck you.

(I'm a lil mad)
Misconfigured CORS, Stealing User Data from the Alexa 1m
The Essence of Apple’s Standoff with the FBI, in One Comic
How I hacked physical life with a Minecraft theme park ride
@jzdziarski: "NSA isn't about to divulge their capabilities by burning exploits on a case that, thanks to FBIs ego, is high profile."
As a long time user... What the hell are they smoking over there.

Edit...

Just read the full thing. I'm now a very fucking angry customer. They are destroying basically all of the value their product had for me. I was raging and ready to comment on their blog post, but oh look they have comments turned off, how convenient, let's ignore our customers further.

Dear Mailchimp... Fuck you.

Since there is fuck all chance they will backflip on this, who should I migrate to, I've honestly been using mandrill for years and have no idea who offers comparable services because I was so fucking happy with mandrill I didn't need to look elsewhere... I hope a mandrill employee is on HN because if this actually happens they're going to lose 10 paying customer accounts when I find someone else hope your shitty management plan is accounting for loss of goodwill and loss of customers.
Yeah, I saw your other post... same boat. It was so nice to confirm emails were sent/received while testing.

There's one project we integrated a private messaging system deeply into their APIs. There's not gonna be a choice on moving that one, but all others will move.

Not sure if it's more greed or incompetence behind the flippant decision.
Ok, so tell me, what is the "right size" that will make 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3?

Because, in binary, I don't think you'll be able to answer.
The way you can make your voice - and everyone else's - heard is in votes. Organize a coalition against a politician you think is bad. Get donations. Run ads.

Not saying it's easy, but when it comes to election day, that politician truly does hinge on the majority of people filling in the bubble by one name. If you can make that not happen a real threat in the candidate's mind, they'll listen to your desires.
Talk about "Lies, damned lies and statistics." Why do these reports always understate, by many orders of magnitude, the number of U.S. patients killed by medical errors every year?

440,000 patients are killed by avoidable errors each year in hospitals alone, according to a 2013 hospital industry organization report.*

And don't forget about non-error-related iatrogenic fatalities, such as fatal cancers induced by CT scans, which the Archives of Internal Medicine estimates to kill 15,000 patients per year.

Or about non-fatal iatrogenic injuries, both error-induced and non-error-induced, many of which result in mortality in subsequent years.

No exaggeration to say that U.S. healthcare workers are one of the most lethal forces on Earth today.

Sources:
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/why-are-medical-...

http://www.hospitalsafetyscore.org/newsroom/display/hospital...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ3Gh7a-FVQ
A secure passphrase requirement would kill Apple overnight.

Low-friction UI has been Apple's differentiator for years. If you have to take the time to type out a secure passphrase every time you want to interact with your phone, people will stop interacting with their phones (or use phones that suck less).

Why do you think they built Touch ID? Because typing even a 4-digit PIN is too annoying!
Telemetry: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...

Can't disable unless it's Win10 Enterprise or Education editions (does any PC sold come with Win10 enterprise or education editions)?
This post reads like the author has never heard of Servo, but it seems unlikely that someone who has done this much research wouldn't come across it or mention it. It's planned to deprecate Gecko, it's faster, and it's designed as a drop-in replacement for embedded Chromium.
Wiping the phone doesn't help you. Using the strong password renders the information inaccessible, at least as inaccessible as your phone backup is. Touch ID isn't re-enabled until the phone's passcode is used. Presumably if the authorities have access to your phone's memory they also have access to your laptops, and neither will do them any damn good.

And it's paranoia if there's a legitimate threat, that's just called due diligence. ;)
Also after 5 failed attempts - you can test with an unregistered finger
All of what you said is true, yet none of it has anything to do with what I wrote. If we replaced the term webmasters with Content Engineers, and started calling designers/developers/server admins Content Engineers, you'd have a point.

Web developer is a broad term. UI/UX Engineer is a specific term. Yes many people specialize in frontend or backend, but both of them are still web developers. Calling both of them UI/UX Engineers is dumb.
Could DOJ slap Apple with an injunction forbidding deployments of new iOS releases until the San Bernadino case is concluded?

If Apple can't launch new iOS versions, can they still launch new iPhones?
Thanks, just what I needed to push me to build my side project. I think I need this on a shirt.
I upvoted because I think you are absolutely correct.
Better security could be had with a two-factor system -- plug the phone into a cryptobox to decrypt. Having everything in one place is vulnerable.
> Ubers and airbnb's

Uber and airbnb were not profitable right away but their mechanism for making money couldn't have been clearer. Uber -- sell rides, get a cut. Airbnb -- sell places to stay, get a cut. These were not 'let's get a bunch of users and see what happens' kind of deals.

That's exactly why Homeaway and SpareFoot got funded. Still a hard problem building that two sided marketplace and reaching profitablity...still a risk. But the mechanism for making money couldn't be clearer.

A better example would be Waze. Offers great value but how how do you capture that in terms of profit for the company? Waze would probably not have been funded. But it worked out since they were acquired. But counting on getting acquired is a sure way /not/ to get funded in Austin. The business has to stand alone.
OK that makes sense. Probably this reaction is common among people who know a lot about the domain and have criticized research with less serious problems before?

But to be fair, I see a lot of far-out claims about the capabilities of computers, the NSA, and so on. While I'm not going to encourage unfounded speculation about the stuff I'm more familiar with, it isn't unexpected and I guess it can make for a lively discussion.

I do want to see someone try the EmDrive in orbit.
It is not a good bet if you're pulled over by the authorities to be doing something with your hands that they can't reliably identify as different from preparing a weapon. Particularly if not white.
I don't disagree with you. These things are expensive, and I don't own a camera or a GPS or an ebook reader for that reason.

I will say this, though. my MP3 player cost $30 (+$50 for sd card) and my nokia 208 cost $30 on ebay. I'll use my mp3 player for years to come, and if I didn't go back to a smartphone I'd be using that phone for years, too. I imagine a good camera, ebook reader, GPS, etc. would outperform smartphones for years to come, too.

It might be more expensive in the short term, but I think it can ultimately save money.
Good points all around. As a small web shop, and I'm currently overflowingly busy, as I have been for the last few years. It's probably partially luck, but I'd like to think that there a certain value that I, as a web person, brings to the table that makes it worthwhile for my clients.

And let's not forget that while everyone may not want a custom design for their sites, there are a lot of people out there that don't want to maintain their own sites, and would rather pay someone else to do so. When that happens, what's the difference between building something custom vs. WordPress and a nice theme vs. SquareSpace and their offerings? The value isn't the deliverable as much as it's the comfort in knowing your web stuff is taken care of and you don't have to deal with it.

I suppose at that point you're not talking about "web design" per se, but a "small web business." But I'm OK with that. Additionally, there is still room with those options to provide value more than just set-up and maintain. Writing good content and creating good IA is still a challenge for all of those products. To me, all of these things are part of being a small web shop, and from what I can see are things that won't be going away or automated any time soon.

Although the once automated, we'll essentially have robots (creating content) fighting robots (search engine spiders), which I think is something we can all agree on as being fun to watch with a drink in hand.
Not that I'm saying unions are the answer, but in a broad definition, unions are part of market forces. As is cooperation between companies. It just happens to be that the US prefers to introduce regulation with the stated intent of moving the economy closer to "perfect competition". Although clearly some regulation moves us toward monopoly, and all regulation has unintended effects, and obviously stated intent is different than actual intent. Phew. So many disclaimers in this comment...
Doesn't this system use https?Hence why the author used 'fiddler'.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, such as snarky generalizations about the rest of the community. If you want to explain something, that's great; if not, it would be better to post nothing.
That sounds amazing. What's the price point you're targeting?

I think we paid ~$13K for our Atlas OCT (Placido Disk), and ~$43K for our Cirrus OCT (Spectral domain). Both refurbished, a few years old.