skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People who need to hide things have encrypted options. People who don't, also have options. I don't see the problem.

This viewpoint is tricky. This basically turns encryption use into a big target on a user. If only people who have something to hide use encryption, then everyone using encryption must have something to hide.

Also, your argument makes the assumption that everyone grasps the value of all of their information. Not everyone understands how much of their life can be found out through their Google Maps history.

I prefer to look at it from the perspective of my life not being anyone else's business. If my local MP came up to me and asked me who I'd talked to and where I'd been for the last week, I'd tell them to sit and spin. Why should passive surveillance be any different?
They are also considerably more expensive than a Tesla.

http://raconteur.net/infographics/the-economics-of-formula-1
I'm seeing merits to land tax, inheritence, financial transfers, and either a corporate or corporate transfers tax.

Allowances for that which is reasonable. Disallowances for that which is not.
As expected, the stuff that you really want to be able to replace (Screen, SoC, and RAM) are the ones you can't.
I'd rather have the fire hose with the bad that comes with it than what came before - severely limited information, often old or stale, often requiring travel to find it.

Having the wealth of the world's information LITERALLY at your fingertips is going to come with some bad. But holy moly is it just so much better this way.
Couldn't agree more. It honestly still seems nuts to me that the browser hasn't taken over the whole OS experience. It's clear that locally installed software is going away. But it's happening on a system that was designed decades ago to request a single markup document, and return it in a single response.

Obviously, the browser has matured. JavaScript has matured. We now have more protocols to work with than just HTTP (SDP for which WebRTC, perfect example. WebSockets). But in my mind the Chromebook is the first step in what is going to become all of personal computing.
My sister works in a semi-developed area of Africa where electricity is unreliable in quality and presence at the best of times, and it's turned out the computer equipment she brought over years ago was pretty ill suited to the conditions and developed problems immediately. She went with all Apple because that was the craze at the time, and most of it was inoperable by the end of the third year.

After listening to her describe the conditions and her needs, I suggested a few changes: transition to lower wattage mobile equipment, integrate redundant, portable power, and more effective use of solar. This boiled down to Chromebooks, portable APs, and certain smartphones, marine and other LA batteries, and lots of lithium USB power packs.

In return, she shipped me her old Mac hardware, which I opened up and emptied of all dust, sand, and scorpions before diagnosing most as damaged from overheating. It was awful how poorly those glossy screens held up to environmental abrasion, and the one unit that survived, the smell still hasn't left completely.

The Chromebooks (K1 based), which held charge on testing for 8-10 hours under heavy use, are light yet durable, have no moving internal (or servicable) parts, are or can be sealed against the environment, and are passively cooled. They also run the full Docs suite offline, take excellent dictation for transcription, can remote into her other computers, and they look nice. The model was just under $300 and had a 1080 screen, better than decent speakers, and most importantly, it plays x264 video so she can catch up on her shows.

My only concerns were for the lack of non-removable batteries and the very narrow cylindrical DC plugs the chargers use, but battery diagnostics have been great, and since they never all have to be charged at the same time, about half of the chargers can break (though none have, yet) and not cause any issue.

I don't know how most people on HN live, if they have good electricity, air conditioning or potable running water, whether they own vehicles that they can drive to pick up and haul perishable groceries around in, or if they can cheaply or quickly replace equipment that dies sooner than it should, warranty or no, within their countries. But for anyone who doesn't have all of those things, I'd say Chromebooks would be an exceedingly appropriate choice.
I'm referring to the thing the attacker computes right before that sentence. The attacker has computed:

C_1 ^ C_2 = P_1 ^ P_2

The right hand side is known; it's the two ciphertexts. The right hand side is hence also known, but neither P1 nor P2 is known. Except, of course, if you have a plaintext that has a lot of Z's in it, because then I know one of P1/P2, and I can cancel out the Z's :) Is that what you mean by "indirectly"?
In fact, just the other day I got a ball park estimate for a web dev project. We agreed on a discovery rate and a ballpark figure. And there is an asterisk next to it that later is explained to say that the price is subject to change based on the discovery work.

This is all very reasonable and we are happy.

Communicate, be reasonable, and people will generally understand.
At one a depressing and terrifying view of what a systemic cascade failure looks like. Economic failure -> social breakdown -> healthcare breakdown -> addiction -> bad hygiene practice -> epidemic.

Among the reasons you want to treat elements such as living wages, employment, housing, and healthcare as public goods or social objectives. Also why criminalising health-related activities and behaviors tends to be counterproductive.
I get those as well but it's because we actually have a bunch of things in common.
Does it bother no one else that this is so locked to the Google eco-system? Perhaps more than any other device on the market is locked to an eco-system, including Apple's iOS walled garden?

I also fear that between this and iOS, we are starting to see a divide between production and consumption devices more than ever. I don't consider that a good trend.
You draw a clean divide but be wary of things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism
Yeah, watch the hilarity ensue as we pit the two most negative political animals against one another. Pray the electorate doesn't get a clue about your guy before Nov, is all I'm saying.
I bought a cheap Chromebook to play with and for a lightweight disposable travel machine but ended up using it for programming/web development for a time. A nice secure reliable browser environment plus secure shell in combination with online services isn't perfect but it is doable.

They work better as a secondary device for power users but I suspect the number of people who can use them as a primary device isn't negligible and will increase as the platform matures.

I have mostly retired my Chromebook for a higher spec laptop running a full linux desktop. But I can see a lot of potential for Chromebooks and with some nicer models coming along with access to the Android store I can see them replacing both laptops and tablets for family.

They are secure, practical and low maintenance and I am not at all surprised that they have done well in education and I expect higher specced ones have a very good chance in enterprise.
Unfortunately that will just teach them to do it better. The important thing is that they are usually sloppy so if you are resourceful you will be able to take care of yourself.
Yes, it's happening: http://www.research.ibm.com/quantum/
I hope the product I'm building will have a big impact within a year, but I'm biased. Adoption is easy because Ethereum-based apps can be plain old websites. The hard part is building something compelling.

I don't think it's really about replacing governments or companies. I view this technology as a way to empower individuals. Think of how marketplaces like eBay, Uber and Airbnb have empowered individuals to trade without an employer. Imagine those without the monopolist middlemen taking a cut and kicking people they don't like out of the market. Imagine open, efficient marketplaces for every kind of trade that free more and more people from the soft feudalism of corporate employment. Imagine new kinds of incentive systems to get more good outcomes and fewer bad ones.

Our economy is our collective nervous system, and we can now program the whole thing without permission. If you want to see this technology to succeed, you can help build products that use it or be an early adopter whose feedback helps guide products in the right direction. We'd love to have you in r/Ethereum.
Developing software for something other than a Linux server is not some bizarre edge case. I was reacting to your unqualified claim that a Chromebook is "a more real development machine."

My "special needs" was running popular and well known Linux software. Many people in this thread have said that running Crouton on a Chromebook is just like having Ubuntu or Debian. But this is not so:

1. Google does not reliably update core software

2. It's harder to get help when things go wrong, because the system is sufficiently different from an ordinary Linux box

For those reasons, if you want to run Linux software, it's better to use a familiar Linux distribution, and not ChromeOS.
Damn its refreshing to hear this.
I'm sure that's what happened, and I'm projecting my own paranoia. But it seems like it was kind of an acrimonious break-up, which would prompt some ass-covering.
Locally installed software is, if anything, more prevalent than ever before.

Let's put aside mobile for a minute that so changed the landscape towards locally installed that it put Google's revenue model on its heels.

You see WhatsApp, Slack, etc., releasing Electron apps just to try to appear locally installable. If there wasn't such a high demand for it, and people weren't clamoring for a stand-alone app instead of a browser tab, companies would never invest the time and money.
It's best to flag off-topic comments. Especially ones that make the conversation personal.
(Q from a beginner Japanese student: where's the fourth syllable in ディーブイディー? Does ブイ count as two mora and ディー counts as one?)
Ask HN: Why companies don't want to hire remote employees anymore?
I've been trying to apply to many different startups lately but I can't land on any job, they all require the employee is in the US.

Anyone else having this problem?

I'm a Rails/React/Node/Java developer with an average of 17 years of programming experience.

It's really depressing as there are not many local jobs in my area as well.

Any suggestions? Moving is not an option.
Great! May be I am the only one in the nerd cicrle who dont want ICE cars to die and Electric cars to take over. I want, better and hugly more efficient engine along with cleaner fuel.

In the comment section someone pointed out about vaporized fuel achieving much higher efficiency, why is that not being used?
Deeply ignorant question: Is this not of the sort of distribution where those are related, somehow?
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Median != mean. Usually, "average" is expected value, or mean.
I would love to hear more of the reasoning as to why Theranos thought Dr. Ionnadis, famous for being hugely skeptical of medical research claims [0], would be someone to reach out to (assuming they weren't intending to just buy him out). There are plenty of other medical experts who would have cooperated with Theranos (given its pedigree) before the WSJ investigation.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/?report=...
I'm not an optometrist but I imagine your lenses are working against you so you need to compensate extra. Also: your eyeball shape is working against you.

Not all focusing happens in the lens. The eyeball fluid does malt of the work actually.
Interview with ALex Komyagin from Mongo DB
Tasker is excellent, and AutoApps looks like a useful extension.

I wanted add Locale. I find Tasker is easier to work with for edge-based transitions - reactions to events - while Locale is easier to work with for level-based states, i.e. to enable some setting when a certain set of criteria are true, but go back to defaults if they're not.

I use Locale for toggling wifi when leaving home and silencing when at work, for example.
> You are saying, from your citation. That the fire department decided to collapse a building with their own personell inside, and without telling any of the surrounding personell... logic for the win!

I am not saying that. The silverstein quote isn't saying that. No one is saying that. There are many statements that have been retracted, this quote was not retracted but ascribed a different meaning. However to your point: the quote seems to indicate that Silverstein suggested the fire department install controlled demolition.

It can be assumed that even though he made several billion, his allusion to safety probably mean that he also thought that it would logically make sense for the fire department to leave the building after installing the explosives.

> hope to setup a controlled demo so quickly without anyone noticing the amount of people and explosives required... ?

There is an answer, not neccessarily what I believed happened, but certainly plausible:

All of the people who fled the fucking terrorist attack weren't there. A small team swept the building and installed the charges. The remainder of the fire department was focused on rescue attempts in 1 and 2. After the charges were set and the building was garunteed empty (or reasonable confidence) the order was given to drop it.

Why? Well, there was a massive fucking rescue effort underway so having a 750ft 47 story building randomly fall into the rescue effort (due to weakened asymetrical damage on the struts facing towers 1 + 2) they decided to use charges to control the footprint, limiting blowback and impact on ongoing off site efforts.

Idk how long you think it takes to set up charges but the building collapsed at 5:21pm and the attack occurred at 9ish. in fact, almost exactly 8 hours later. So, I am not saying this is exactly what happened, I only contend there are severe issues with the official story, but I do believe a highly trained team of demolition experts could set up and demolish a building with ~6 hours prep time.

I also have difficulty interpreting anything from myself or the quote even remotely intimating that this should be done with people inside. As to alerting their own personell, again there may have been an announcement, I don't fucking know as I don't have closed feed gov't radio recordings from 1.5 decades ago.

edit: Would emergency services not have noticed demo experts with piles and piles of explosives entering and exiting the building?

I mean, again, the entire air was full of dust and smoke and anyone not fleeing was looking in the rubble for people. It wouldn't be unreasonable to see other people with gear heading into a building in the distance (if this were in deed the case) and not wonder what that gear consisted of. Largely, because you are standing on the mass grave of >1000 people trying to survive long enough to save a couple more peole before you pass out from exhaustion.
> If you received a similarly detailed profile on everyone who was privy to yours, it wouldn't be so bad

Except it would be because some entities posess much better capabilities to leverage that data.
That's interesting. My problem is that I suffer from a connective tissue disorder. And, as it happens, it was the connective tissue between the lens and eye that gave out.
But still, no inflation for us. Nope.
Not really. Ideally you go into these things with your eyes open. I can see our house going from five heavily used Apple devices to zero in the next couple of years. If the barriers were as bad as people pretend we could not do that. It probably helps that I have an awareness of the issues involved and haven't bought in too heavily to the more restrictive services.

I likely will have to buy some of the kid's games again for Android but they have outgrown a lot and as they grow older anyway. Having a device with a keyboard that can run minecraft pe, or access the web or be used for school work, or run a linux chroot seems like a huge leap forward over iPads.

My Chromebook was surprisingly hackable and getting a shell is pretty trivial. You can easily live in a chroot on a model with better hardware. Sometimes selling a tiny bit of freedom or privacy for trivial entertainments or day to day practicality is a reasonable tradeoff.
Wow, what a simplification.

What about us who have and want to use massive libraries of existing Python 2 code?

"Just upgrade your libraries!" is not realistic for everyone, especially those who have to justify a mostly idealogical conversion to a similar language, and spend real time and money, outside of actually developing the end product, to do it.

Four more years of official support is a long time.
Rapping, deconstructed [video]
Holmes probably (delusionally) believed she could convince Ioannidis to recant his comments in the February 2015 JAMA article regarding "the rationale for promoting massive diagnostic testing," and maybe even the criticism of stealth research, by demonstrating how ground-breaking their technology was, and that the IP needed to be "protected."

At its time of publication, that article was (I believe) the only one in the scientific literature that said anything about Theranos, and the company seemed to be pretty disconnected from the mainstream biotech research community. Holmes was probably only vaguely aware of Ioannidis' background.
Use `git rebase -i` but don't squash PRs.
No, it's mostly just not allowing for relatively small bumps in the road. A water heater here, a transmission there, next thing you know...
If only CPython3 wasn't completely blown out of the water by Python2's production-ready PyPy. That said, my tests are the exact opposite of what you're claiming- I've been doing the same benchmarks on all the CPython3 releases since 3.2. I think you're the only person I've heard make that claim in fact.
Having a function/operator return different results depending on the type seems a bit insane, from a non-C/Python perspective.

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

If I divide 1 in half, I'm left with 0.5.
Thanks. Has there been anything where you actually miss the horsepower?
The problem is that Python Unicode strings are indexable with integers. They support random access. Each element contains one character, not one byte. The implementation chosen for Python 3 is to handle them as arrays of 1, 2, or 4-byte items, automatically expanding the characters based on the widest character in the string. In Python 2, the options were to build the environment for 2 byte or 4 byte Unicode characters.

This could have been done differently. I would have been tempted to store strings as UTF-8 in Python 3, but hide this from the user. Most of the string functions, including regular expressions, don't really random access a string; they're sequential and forward only. They could work on UTF-8. The ones that return a string index should return an opaque type (say, "StringPos") which has a reference to the string and a position in it. The string functions should accept that type as an index.

If someone applies "int()" to a string index, or performs arithmetic on it, or indexes a string with an actual integer, then it's necessary to scan the entire UTF-8 string and create an index of where each Unicode character starts. This should be a rare event. Especially if there's support for adding or subtracting small integers from a StringPos by walking the string forwards or backwards, rather than building the full index.

Examples:

s = "This is a test" # Unicode string, internal represention UTF-8
i = s.find("is") # returns a StringPos, not an int.
# no need to index the string for any of these
s1 = s[i] # StringPos selects the char found by find
s2 = s[i:] # No need to build an index for this
s3 = s[i+1:] # Adding a small int just walks the string
# these force generation of an index
# the first operation like this on a string is expensive
# comparable to a UTF-8 to rune array conversion
j = int(i) # converts a StringPos to an int
s4 = s[i*2] # again, expensive

In practice, those expensive operations are rare.

This would cut Python memory consumption way down when processing mostly-ASCII Unicode data. It would also make it more efficient to input and output UTF-8, which is usually what you want.
Are they really even lenders anymore? I'll refrain from colorful characterizations of what they might be. Real
lenders throughout human history want a nice predictable retirement of the debt so they can use reserve multipliers.
Perhaps because I was around before the net and have known people who have done wicked things. Whenever I hear "social media" I think well thats a good way to get stalked and killed,but thats just me.
Is this a JS blog? It suddenly started talking about JavaScript for some reason.
Imagining....
Why not have "print thing" to "print(thing)" just be an automatic conversion though?
Sigh. I remember when font color used to mean something.
I had the same problem with a fairly 50/50 read/update database, about 20M reads/20M updates a day. Brought it to it's knees. Postgres handled it no problem.
Progressive Web Apps across all frameworks – Google I/O 2016
Does it really work in code?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11737493
In the scenario that you describe, you muddied the waters of Junicorn without properly cleaning up your mess during the breakup. That opens you up to claims like these, which is probably why this happened at Cruise. As soon as you have an adverse relationship to a business partner, it's time to cut bait, get releases signed, or do something completely unrelated.
Or good with buffering/saving.
> It's the same language.

No it's not. The syntax is what defines the language:

In linguistics, syntax is the set of rules,
principles, and processes that govern the structure
of sentences in a given language.

It doesn't have the same syntax. It's not the same language, by definition.
IIRC they had registered in Delaware as a Kyle = 100% split, and then never signed any paperwork after that. That's a very different situation.
Hey so which snap on modules do I need if I want it to look like an iPhone?

Oh right but I'd still have to run me-too, I mean, Android.

Never mind.
Are you referring to the kinds of "regulations" that led to the entire Gulf of Mexico becoming contaminated with oil?

It doesn't matter that it CAN be done safely. No one in their right minds trusts either the companies or the government not to eventually cut corners and make severe mistakes.
In libertarian system you can sell your "mountain view" to a developer.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. It is a fun problem to think about - you don't want to reveal the target, but you also don't want to be detected (gotta poison backups)... so indiscriminate destruction doesn't work.
Of course, everything doesn't need to be a lightbulb moment either. That is also part of this issue. We use all these apps to keep us constantly productive or more efficient in finding things that make us happy. The drive is to read reviews so we don't waste our money on a bad dinner or product or experience, or to follow the right people on twitter so we get lots of high quality content and less cruft. And by and large I actually think the modern consumer ecosystem is good at accomplishing this.

But we have to ask ourselves if that's a worthwhile end goal. Perhaps a bit of detour is actually what we need.
Next time think short sale. Although I hope there's no next time :)
It says something about GM's due diligence skills (or their desperation to be seen as a player in self-driving cars) that they were even willing to talk to a company in this position.