skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought the original jawbone for my partner.
She loved it but 1-2 months later it stopped charging. Took it back to the Apple Store in Sydney and they replaced it with a new one.

A month later I had to go to the store again for the same reason.
Apple Store staff said they were seeing a lot of returns like that.

Third band died just as quickly but we didn't bother. Downtime moved the product out of the "habit zone".

There was also a techcrunch article about their terrible quality [1]

With so many chronic issues I'm surprised this company is still in business. Haven't they been acquired by Fitbit or something?

[1] https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2013/06/12/th...

Edit: that was non-wireless version, but I think it was called 2nd gen
I created a tiny language (assembly level) when I was fifteen years of age. It could convert simple postfix mathematical expressions, including trigonometric functions into machine code for a Zilog Z80 processor inside Sinclair ZX Spectrum+.

I was unaware of compilers at that age, and came across a machine code sample which ran about two orders faster than BASIC. That motivated me to "invent" a compiler and create this proof of concept.
> A hacked computer can avoid armed conflict where people die.

Yet we see armed conflicts with CIA origins within plenty of history books...
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Unfortunately it's required for the file deduplication.
Although it slightly degrades the security it's not serious enough to impose any security risks as the attacker would already have to know the hash of the file which almost always requires them to know the contents of the files.

Random strings and numbers are also securely generated through a CSRPNG with window.crypto.getRandomValues().
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Well, maybe. I don't think smoking cannabis is really seen as rebellious these days, though.

I don't see any reason to believe that legalizing a drug will stop people using it, or cause them to use it more responsibly than they do currently. We have a case study in the form of prohibition in the US. There's certainly no evidence that alcohol use declined following the repeal of prohibition.
The Document Outline Dilemma
Yes, every time I do something in Forth... :)

The same thing technically applies to any extensible language (i.e. Lisp) but a Forth programmer goes in with the expectation that the first task will be to create an application specific language. Since you have to pretty much create everything you are best off doing that in an efficient way.
Health literacy can be a matter of life or death
But the tower solution doesn't need a concrete/steel pressure vessel capable of withstanding whatever the pressure is at 700 meters. Just a bladder would do.

They're in the Alps. Why not just put a bag of water uphill. Fill it using excess energy. Drain it to run a turbine.
Michael Hastings? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)
If people are getting murdered in your home and the cops catch wind of it, your privacy will be compromised whether or not you have an Echo.
CIA's vim user tips published by WikiLeaks
I'm glad that feature worked for somebody--that's definitely a different use case. For smaller documents it's more effective just to reread the doc carefully.

Spell checks on the other hand are invaluable, especially since you can extend the dictionary to cover new words like "deserialization."
So you didn't read any of it nor wait for anyone else to but have already come to a number of overarching conclusions and dismiss the release as whole?

I guess we can go ahead and close this particular thread then. If you don't want to read any of the source materials, you could possibly at least make the effort to respond to the various philosophical or policy questions this poses, that takes only an opinion.
I'm surprised so many acronyms from their org chart are missing.

FINO is Financial Operations Group.
FIO is Field Intelligence Officer.
ESD is Executive Services Directorate.
Don't see a single term that anyone who spent any time in the intelligence community wouldn't recognize.
A slight correction: "Germany is an US occupied country since the end of WWII".

This is the truth about Nato, friendship between US and Japan, EU countries, South Korea, etc... There are no friends in geopolitics, only masters and slaves.
I created a language that better expresses server side web programming issues (exactly for that reason).

https://megous.com/wl

I also created language for describing processes (company processes).

Mostly for fun and to scratch my own itches.
Waiting for: IBM/Maersk blockchain bug caused 548,000 containers to end up in Lagos.
A government would only ever disclose a vulnerability once it has a better one to replace it. The government needs a method to counteract an attack from another source(thats their reasoning).
> Typically the victims are low-margin businesses operating in old buildings that were designed long before ADA exited

That's not really true. Under the ADA, buildings built before 1992 are generally not required to perform renovations for compliance unless they are already performing renovations, at which point they are required to adherence to the requirements. And the amount that they are required to spend on compliance is a function of the amount that they are spending on the other renovations.

It's actually more complicated than that, because there are two sets of requirements (1993 and 2010), with different safe harbor provisions for each, and renovations to old buildings may or may not invalidate the 1993 safe harbor, but that's the general idea.
Trump should be taken to task for illogical stands, but you're dreaming if you think things would have been better under Hillary. Pharma was paying her to help keep pot illegal. At least Trump is capable of bending since he serves no one but Twitter.
We are past the point of holding them to even basics ethics. The CIA and NSA already see the people as cannon fodder at best. If we can no longer expect moral behavior concerning issues like black sites for torture, drug trafficking, or setting up murder and rape regimes, then why even waste the breath asking for cybersecurity ethics?
More, being those tools not effective, development and maintenance is stupid spending, and certainly the tools are having other uses.

My conspiracy side looks at CIA like a public sector (state owned) company in Brazil: they are not owned by the government, but by the chaste of unionized workers that work there.
Creating Your Own Scaffold Generator in Rails
I would also add a note on the bottom of the page to time-shift industrial electricity use to take advantage of new peak energy availability.

If you're going to use a great deal of electricity from the grid but don't particularly care about when, right now it makes sense to shift your use to the night-time, when electricity is cheaper. Solar power inverts this, and encourages more daytime use, and even waiting for sunny days if you have enough flexibility in your schedules. There is an inflection point in the difference between daytime and night-time cost (which we might not ever reach) where it stops being worthwhile to run a third shift at a factory, because the difference in energy costs is more than the cost of just building another factory, in the long term.

So if we rebuilt our civilization to take advantage of renewable energy and solar power in particular, we might find ourselves needing less base load power than we do now.
Trends Trump Goals in Software Metrics
> People keep saying that their financials are terrible, but last I checked they were killing on Revenue

How is having more revenue without profitability a positive sign?
I've created three instances of what I'd consider to be programming languages.

The first was something I did in an intro to CS class. I asked the professor if I could use C++ rather than Pascal for the assignment, and was, of course, turned down. I'm not proud to admit to this, but in a fit of pique, I decided to write my own programming language in Pascal than then submit the assignment in that. The result was something called 'SeqTl', for Sequenced Testing Language. It was basically a stack oriented language somewhat analogous to Forth. There were two stacks, one for numbers and the other for strings, and the interpreter worked by continually parsing strings of tokens. (Think Tcl pre-8). (I did get an A, the professor said I should've gotten bonus points, but in retrospect he would've been within his rights to fail me outright.)

The second was about five years later, while working on industrial process control firmware. My company wanted to allow our customers to specify control algorithms that were able to be guaranteed to run within a given time bound. To achieve this, I wrote a simplified language with a C-like syntax. It lacked constructs like unbounded loops, and the compiler would run an analysis of the control flow graph and throw an error if the longest path exceeded a given projected execution time. This language also used value/status tuples rather than raw scalar values, so it could do things like propagate bad data information through a calculation. (Think NaN propagation through floating point math, but more expressive.)

The third was/is an ongoing project to write a Scheme-like language.

https://github.com/mschaef/vcsh

This codebase started out as George Carette's SIOD interpreter, although I've made a bunch of changes since. (There's now a compiler, first-class hash tables, the reader and writer are now in Scheme rather than C, there is a test suite including benchmarks, a decent REPL, etc.) Back in 2001/2, this started out as the core of a shareware calculator program I was attempting to sell online. The tl;dr on that is that the design was way too ambitous, the market didn't support it, and I didn't have remotely the bandwidth necessary for either the development or the sales. It was and is still fun to hack on, however.
Standard Notes has support for code, can theoretically support a LaTeX editor, and has a clean UI (but no dark mode yet). See extensions: https://standardnotes.org/extensions
> Nespresso machine

I got one of these as a gift and ended up giving it away after realizing how much garbage I was generating from it with those disposable one-use cups.

I don't mind the 30 seconds of ritual to enjoy a cup of coffee/espresso.
Sublime Text puts in the lines natively. It's really useful.
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You don't need to self-host on Standard Notes. The app is focused on privacy and longevity. Check out https://standardnotes.org.
Working on automating software development, I created YSLT as part of the YML project: https://fdik.org/yml/yslt – this is just syntactic sugar to make XSLT usable.

Now I'm creating Intrinsic, a programming language with a modifiable grammar while runtime. Because I found no tool chain, I published pyPEG, which is an compiler interpreter https://fdik.org/pyPEG/ Intrinsic will have a generative paradigm.
Integrating Azure Authentication with Realm
My instant pot was my second pressure cooker. The first was a cuisinart, which was a nightmare to use -- it wouldn't secure the pressure valve without.. encouragement.

I'd love to know what your favorite meal is to cook with the pot. Mine is chicken tagine.
Contamination is a big issue. Lowly McDonalds changed to a 'flavor robot' shake machine, where the ice cream(sic) is always vanilla and they deliver other flavors (chocolate, strawberry, mint etc) through tubes for each dispense.

I like vanilla, but can't get it any more. I get a mixture of vanilla and whatever-the-last-guy-got. Because, tubes leak/drip/have to void of the previous flavor.
The lawyers refusing to represent themselves makes a lot of sense. With another lawyer you've got the potential to argue on appeal about your counsel, and they are also potentially freer to move and communicate than a hypothetical lawyer charged with a crime. Plus there's the network affect from your lawyer's additional experience and contacts throughout the system.
I worked on a compiled, statically-typed Python-like language, called Runa. It has a compiler in Python which compiles to LLVM IR. It's similar enough to many of the ideas in Rust that I stopped working it and decided to go code Rust instead.

https://github.com/djc/runa/
That transactional view of love is exactly the sort of technomyopia I would expect from the HN crowd.
Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed
So run the linter locally, either on-demand or using git hooks in addition to CI?
That has less to do with how I feel and more to do with how the CIA is setup. Their role in domestic affairs is severely restricted, that is primarily the job of the FBI which has more requirements to conduct "searches". For them to be operating to the fullest extent of their perceived role, I can't find myself to be upset.
For all you know, it could be recording all the time, and since it's a closed device, you can't prove otherwise.
There are plenty of sites not offering rewards that get used for piracy. There are other ways to monetize, and many pirates don't do it for money anyway. Don't expect that to keep pirates away.
I bought an Instant Pot after reading a recommendation on obesity researcher Stephan Guyenet's blog: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/instant-pot-...

I've been using it regularly since then and I highly recommend it. I had a manual pressure cooker many years ago but I rarely used it because it was too much hassle. The automation and easy cleaning of the Instant Pot makes a big difference. I rate it second only to the microwave oven as most useful cooking technology.
The article claim 120 drinks pr. hour, which certainly sounds like more than a human could do.
Well, maybe I was indeed too optimistic about a field that's both open source and has the word "crypto" in it :(
There's so little innovation and so much to improve in home appliances it's ridiculous
Secure IoT Connectivity with ESP8266, Crypto Chip, Mongoose OS, and AWS IoT
You are assuming that the people prescribed oxycontin are following the label.

If they go through a months supply in a week, then suddenly heroin is the next best option.
I always find that dismantling, washing, and rebuilding the food processor takes more time than just chopping on a board and then washing the board.
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Social acceptance has never been easy. You either have to submit to the tyranny of group identification, or go forever lonely. People are looking for a magic solution, something that will allow them to find love and acceptance without actually being forced to give any back.

It doesn't matter whether you're joining an 18th century gentleman's club or looking for a healthy relationship. Love and acceptance comes from understanding and meeting the other's emotional needs. If you think about what it takes to actually do that for another person, you'll find out why people watch rom-coms. Meeting someone else's needs feels like living under a dictator.
My Starbucks Idea: Tell me which tables are open before I get there
I guess it really depends on the person. I've been on Adderall for the past several years (overall positive outcome) and I don't get a kick/buzz from it. Early on it felt akin to morning coffee where it perked me up but as I adjusted to it, that has gone away and I'm glad because I don't want to get attached to any sort of buzz or whatever.

But if I go off it for more than a day without any sort of tapering off, I feel like a zombie for quite a while. Last time I was unable to fill a prescription while the pharmacy was behind on supplies, I felt as one might expect after using a drug to adjust neurochemistry for a long time - the symptoms I'd originally been treating multiplied due to having adjusted to the medication.

It's hard to describe but it was like being tired, having the worst "brain fog" in history, and the occasional mild tics. Not sure how long it would've taken me to readjust but it's apparently longer than a week. It's made me more aware of the relationship between medication and my natural state and it's one of the main reasons I've never wanted to abuse this drug by taking more than I need for improved function.

If I ever decide to go off it for good, I plan to wean off to avoid the barely tolerable but unpleasant symptoms of abrupt withdrawal.
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I created a non-Turing complete programming language for editing animations, implemented as a GIMP Script-Fu script (Scheme, basically). Here's the documentation: http://tshatrov.github.io/animstack

Why? Because in GIMP it's annoying to edit animations with many layers, so I wanted to write a script that would do what I want. But rather than hardcoding a specific action, I wrote it in an extensible way, and the rest is history.

In general, I think non-Turing complete (always terminating) languages are super useful and should be used more often.
In the US, most employment is 'at will' and employers can and do fire without cause. In this case, a marginally sophisticated employer could readily cast what was written as justification for firing with cause. And because of the way unemployment insurance rates for an employer are set, the employer has a financial incentive for so doing. On top of that, those lawyers would have access to historic chat logs to back up the company's interests.

Of course none of that applies outside the US.
Susan G Komen is the reason I stopped donating to large charities. Not that anyone would notice the funds I can provide...
I posted the arstechnica [0] article but I think this one has more architectural detail. I am actually surprised since I stopped visiting Tomshardware a while ago due to lacking such detail. Has the quality improved lately?

The memory, IO support seems impressive with Naples. Lets see what the clock speed and raw performance looks likes once they release the product. I guess for servers the more important factor would be how much acceptance it gains from the vendors.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/amd-n...
Firefox 52 released
In this case it is because Amazon resisted the request from the legal system for the data.

The owner of the device giving consent to Amazon to release the data avoids having to play out the legal process of obtaining the data (it's likely the request would eventually have succeeded).
Taking It Back: Why This Xoogler Is Joining Mozilla
That's turning interpersonal relationships into romance quests. That's an especially terrible idea.

> I wish the internet would grow into something like that

That could be great, but how would it be paid for?
what is the point of the numpad?
Minnesota Senate again rejects federal REAL ID compliance
I have proofs that their support took 4 months to respond to an issue I had. So yea. [Edit] They didn't even fix it.
Yes, at least compared to Earth; orbital speeds are about half that of Earth, so a mass driver would only need to be a quarter of the length (because length climbs with target speed squared). Additionally, the far thinner atmosphere would allow vehicles to lose far less energy to aerodynamic forces.
I don't usually post, but please don't use a pressure cooker for canning as it can cause botulism if the food isn't sufficiently acidic. The only safe way to can non-acidic foods is with a pressure canner, not a pressure cooker.
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Wireshark on Ubuntu [Wikileaks on CIA]
I hate the pods, but they have a recycling program. Unlike K-cups.
I had the same thought. Rest in peace.
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As I understand it, the electronic ones are not recommended for pressure canning because you can't be absolutely, positively sure they reach a certain pressure. Best stick with your old-school model for pressure canning.
You need it for a follow-on course, Theory of Computation.
In these kinds of cases it's mostly about simplifying transactions or contracts via hash-based signatures.

Scenario:

1. You request service A from me

2. I confirm receipt of service request

3. I provide service A

4. You confirm receipt of service A and provide payment

5. I confirm receipt of payment

Since each block of a blockchain is dependent on the previous blocks, it makes it impossible for me to go back and adjust the record to say, claim you never paid me, or change the order quantity, or for you to go back and claim you never ordered a thing.

It makes 5 depend on 4 which depends on 3 which depends on 2 which depends on 1 and altering any of the steps "breaks" the later steps in such a way that you not only can tell they're broken, but also at which step did the chain break.

In this sense you can basically use math to provide enforcement of the kinds of transactions that might occur during a sale. With shipping containers you can simply put in movements of the container, or manifest of the containers or track bill of lading [1].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_lading
Do you have any examples of them being glossed over?
Not necessarily. The reasoning should surely be that if we can discover it and use it against them, then they can discover it and use it against us, therefore we should notify the vendors and have the vulnerability removed.
It's not a zero-sum game. By all means raise attention to the environmental issues but being against this does not mean there's no attention being paid to other issues.
I've got an ancient steel one that you have to put on the hob, and even that has pressure release valve.
Don't be sad, it's just an electronic pressure cooker, not a magical device. You still need skills, accessories and good taste to produce good food :)
Yes, in fact it's surprisingly difficult to buy a small one that is still feature rich.
The docs are from 2014
How do you prevent fraud? What keeps users from uploading copyrighted material or using the site as download-mirror?
They provided an overview which I read through, but I find it a bit silly to expect any single person to read through the entire report and fact-check it as well. That is what journalists are for.
Landing page == news feed -> nope
The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.

With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from.

This has interesting implications for the claim that "Russians" hacked the election (although I can't imagine the CIA wanting to hack the election in Trump's favour).
Really interesting about the border. Do you have a write-up anywhere? I'd love to hear more about it.
How does Tunnelling get protected from Earth Quake?
Create your own burglar alarm
> The F-22 avionics are mostly Ada.

Yes, including the piece I directly touched. It was deemed to minor to be worth the cost of rewriting.. Hell, when I left the program we still had an arthritic VAX to build on, should we ever need to rebuild the code.

As for your last line, see my comment elsewhere about blaming the carpenters instead of the tools. :-)
And how exactly is forcing felons who have served their time to become homeless due to a complete inability to become employed good news?
Show HN: FSMonitor: New macOS utility to monitor all changes to your files
After reading 'add HN to cart' I really wonder why this is #1
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