skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrary, it says that Uber either knew or should have known that he took those 14,000 files and that undoubtedly those files were used by Uber to develop LIDAR. It says that Waymo has shown evidence of trade secret misuse enough to grant provisional relief.

It is not a knock out blow against Uber, but look at the relief granted with regard to more discover. Uber has to do a complete accounting of everyone who talked to Lewandowsky about LIDAR and the contents and dates of those conversations. They have to get every employee under oath saying whether they used any info or knew of any info in those 14,000 files.

In short, Uber didn't get knocked out by this order, but it certainly sets them up for getting knocked out as the Judge clearly is interested in getting to the bottom of this.

If evidence exists that Uber knew of or used information in those 14,000 files ... the Judge and Waymo are determined to find it. I think that is bad for Uber know matter how you look at it.
Well, I'm no expert but my thoughts are that the temperature alone is damaging for the battery (and it will be ~warm since it is basically inside the laptop). Unless you have a way to change it the charge will also be at 100% which is also not ideal.

The margins of error are quite small considering that they sometimes explode well within their intended use case (which is not powered on 24/7).

The consequences of a fire in a battery is quite severe, and unlike normal laptop usage you probably won't be around it when it starts (or, worse, you might be asleep).

So, I'd err on the safe side and buy a UPS that at least covers the intended use case. For something as efficient as a laptop it isn't expensive either.
They got to spent 2% of company revenue on research. In modern times shareholders would probably get furious at doing research.
12 people is considered a small team?
If the NSA let its hacking toolkit leak, what makes you think they can keep a backdoor key 100% secure for eternity?
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Might be easy, and I imagine they are going to shuffle employees around (they read HN) believe it or not, they are humans and make mistakes. It's very likely that up to this point in time, they didn't think to use ML on proposed ads, and even if they did, it's not like every employee working at Google has ML skills yet. The most advanced ML departments there are probably already working on their top priority issues that need ML. Second tier ML guys at Google are probably the ones that are learning ML just like many devs on HN, won't quite have the expertise to get this stuff moving quickly.

But yes, if they wanted to, they can divert their more advanced ML teams to tackle specific issues like this first and get it done. I really doubt this is a high priority issue for them.
Are you demanding the same standard from commenters whose comment screams Google, Waymo, Lyft or Tesla employee?

I agree with you that Uber employees should divulge their affiliation, but so should those with a conflict of interest against Uber.

Edit: thank you for editing your comment (after I replied with mine) to divulge that you're an alphabet employee. Your behavior is commendable.
> definitely something not transparent

> something foul

I wouldn't be so confident.

The article doesn't have a lot of information, the article was posted before, and there's not a lot to discuss except maybe local Silicon Valley politics. It comes across as a "tame rumor" piece rather than an announcement of something factual.

It doesn't seem like foul play, or that anything is being censored. It just doesn't seem super noteworthy.
>If you consider the iPad a computer, then Apple's product line is cannibalising itself, which would also be an issue.

Say what? You know Apple doesn't sell just one computer, right? They don't have any product called the Apple Computer. They have several different laptops, several different desktops, several different AIOs, and if you consider an iPad to be a computer, several different tablets. No one is saying the Macbook Air is cannibalizing sales of the Macbook Pro, or that the Mac Mini is cannibalizing sales of the 27" iMac. They might be computers, sure, but different computers are built for different use cases. There's a world of product differentiation between those offerings.
It was a lot easier in many ways.
You bought books or got training, most of which was accurate and good.
Now you read random opinions and have little idea how good the advice you find is.
For instance, there's at least one courier in the UK that gives you a one hour estimated delivery window and a URL where you can check your delivery's progress live. I find this very useful, mainly because I don't have to sit at home all day waiting.

Amazon don't currently do this where I am; if they did I'd use it a lot more.
Agreed, but is Amazon really any better? Seems like they're (Amazon) the final nail in the coffin for many local businesses, after Walmart already put them there.
my husband was cheating until someone told me about trustedhacker2016@gmail.com who helped me spy on his social media accounts and gave me all his facebook and instagram passwords , he also spy on his whatsapp and gave me his chat history , he is a guru , tell him i refered you so i can get a discount on my next job with him , spread the good news lol
QuickCheck is awesome, but is there a good Go equivalent? Anyone tried Gopter? https://github.com/leanovate/gopter
Pretty much this, before stack overflow forums were very popular for asking questions, so you would traverse forums finding someone who's asked the same question as you.
Although half the time their question wouldn't be answered.

I find Github to be just as valuable today btw, whenever I search for a problem the top result is a github issue with many comments already on it (and sometimes a workaround)
I do think that someone needs to have a good go at suing these exploit hoarders.
> [...] men earn more [...] women live longer [...] It is apposite that feminists/SJWs think the first issue is something that needs to be solved, but the second issue isn't.

It's not perfectly clear what your objection is, but if it's the sort of thing I guess then I think you're wrong, for two reasons.

Reason 1

Here are some more things "feminists/SJWs" mostly don't see as problems to be solved: Men are taller. Men are stronger. Men score better in mental-rotation speed tests.

These are all advantages men have over women (you might disagree about the first, but all else equal it generally seems to be an advantage to be taller). So why are "feminists/SJWs" not trying to change them? Because, at least so it seems, they are fairly direct consequences of biology and are not going to be changed by any plausible sort of social action; especially not if you want them changed by making things better for women rather than by making them worse for men.

I suggest that this is also a reason why "feminists/SJWs" are not making noise about men having shorter lifespans than women. It seems like a biological rather than a social thing -- it's not like men have shorter lifespans because women keep shooting them -- and so the sort of activism that defines "feminists/SJWs" isn't likely to make a difference to it.

(I bet there are some people who would describe themselves as, or at least assent when others describe them as, "feminist/SJW", and who are working on improving men's lifespans. Those people would be doctors, biologists, and medical researchers. But they aren't doing that work as "feminists/SJWs"; why should they be?)

Reason 2*

Let's suppose, arguendo, that reason 1 doesn't work out somehow; let's in fact pretend that women's longer lifespans are as plausibly the result of discrimination as men's higher pay. Would that mean that "feminists/SJWs" are being inconsistent or insincere if they focus on making things better for women, even though there are things that could be made better for men as well?

Of course not. People specialize, and there's nothing wrong with that. And part of what it means to call someone a "feminist/SJW" is that they have chosen to give their attention to problems faced by traditionally-marginalized groups in general, or women in particular. What's the problem with that?
Bah, we circlejerk on rumors of AAPL and Musk news all the time--it's a little late to put that genie back in the bottle.
> How many people in USA work for the FBI, CIA, NSA, police departments, have top secret security clearances? Millions of them.

Top Secret clearance && millions of people?

unlikely. maybe some level of clearance && millions.
They usually take a pin or two out from square-matrix pinouts to create sufficient asymmetry to prevent you from inserting the chip rotated 90 degrees.
Maybe people flagged it as not all HN readers live in US and care about US politics.
I agree it's not that uncommon to see stuff flagged and removed, especially of political nature, especially when it's something not viewed in a positive light by the moderators in HN. It's not exactly 'free speech guaranteed' on HN.

From guidelines:
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

This allows them a lot of leeway to take stuff down.
Use Tails or Whonix. Buy Bitcoin with cash via mail on Localbitcoins.com. Depending on your level of paranoia, don't use bills directly withdrawn from the bank/ATM.[1] Be careful to not get fingerprints/hair/traceable writing on the envelope. What I've done is ask someone at the store (buy a card/envelop at CVS or something) to write the address for you. With BTC-via-mail, the only thing you leak is a rough physical location. Running the coins through Monero or something should blind things and render all this moot, but hey just in case?

With anonymized currency, then you're free to start signing up for stuff. If a site doesn't accept Bitcoin, use Localbitcoins.com to buy a prepaid debit card (Visa/Mastercard). If a site insists on a phone number for confirmation, use a darknet market to buy a pre-made Google Voice account. You can't access it over Tor or it'll get blocked, so use darknet markets to rent a Windows client box ($10-20 a month) so you have a "clean" IP and Google won't block you.

Then it's a matter of not giving away your info. You should adopt an entire persona when you're doing anything related to your site. Come up with a backstory (name, location, etc.). Ideally, none of this would matter: You're over Tor and using an entirely separate system for everything related to the site. But from the indictments I've read, it seems like a lot of first steps in finding someone's ID are just going off small hints. The way they write, mentioning the weather, etc. I would assume it to be very effective to fake these things. (For instance, notice a flood in a part of the country. Stay offline during the flood. When you get back on, write a small note that you had to be away due to flooding.)

None of this will protect you from an adversary that can correlate your home-connected-to-Tor times with site-gets-updated-times. But it'll stop people without that access, even if they're willing to fake a subpoena/warrant/etc. to your registrar/hosting provider (easier than you'd think). And hell, it doesn't always take a legal order to get those details; social engineering can do it just fine.

The Whonix wiki goes into lots of details on all this: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/DoNot

1: I asked Wells Fargo and they claimed they don't keep track of serial numbers and have no way to do so, but it seems so trivial I wouldn't believe it.
> Unfortunately, the nature of the world is such that if you allow users to control sandboxing, the next wave of attacks will come from applications that kindly ask users to disable the sandbox because of $reasons.

You can make the best locks in the world and it's all for nothing if every time an attacker knocks on the door the user opens it up and lets them in, but the solution can't be to weld shut every door.

Security commonly fails at UX. We could do better.

But at some point, if you ask the user "should this app access your private information" and the user says yes, that's what needs to happen, and the user needs to learn when to say no.
Thing is that a synth is a sealed package built to do one thing.

With General Purpose Computers, there is a ongoing Jevon's paradox. As hardware improves, software is changed or introduce that gobble up said improvements and then some.

Thus software outpaces hardware to a massive degree.

We can see this in how as time march forward, what used to be done using dedicated chips are done using a GPC and software that emulates the dedicated chips.
I wouldn't bring it up for no reason, but if someone was droning on and on about how Amazon Prime is the best thing ever, I'd certainly mention that Walmart has the same thing but free, and then have a discussion with them about how it is or isn't the same thing , but you have a very good point about branding.:)
Ask HN: List of standardized front-matter fields for static generators?
I forgot where on GitHub did I see it, but someone made a list of frontmatter fields with their most common meaning. So it listed stuff like: "title", "author", ..., and some more exotic stuff people came up with.

But I didn't bookmark it :-(

Does anyone have a link to this repo?
this is dead wrong. "Textbooks are not written for students" yes yes they are. unless you reading an review written last year summarizing the last ten years for a very very very specific sub-field....YES THEY ARE WRITTEN FOR STUDENTS.
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The only way to ensure people are using the latest version is to stop giving them a choice. You can't always rely on people making the best choice for themselves.

Agree with the first part, the second needs a very twisted definition of best or themselves.

Offer something people want and they will upgrade. This alone tells very much about the win10 situation.
Microsoft game is lock-in, if the cost of leaving their garden is trivial they are doing something wrong!
>My experience has been that the high-productivity, specialty specific apps I would use haven't caught up

Strong agree — lack of robust development environment for DEEP apps is holding iPad back.

Yes, iPhone has plenty of apps. Session times on an iPhone are short and it's enough to have just app-ified websites like Facebook app, Instagram, Snapchat, banking apps. Even transformative truly native apps like Uber do not require much development on the mobile platform side (the real work is in the network).

On an iPad your sessions are much longer and there's room for more expensive apps you spend more time with. Truly great games, for example. Art, media creation, notes, documents of all sorts, but most of all things that we can't conceive because they're only possible on an iPad. But there's a void here. Free to play dominates gaming, and the result is a lot of crap, with even the gems tarnished by need to drive in app purchases. The "pro" apps are too few and far between.

Why? Well, insufficient developer buy-in due to the crappy landscape. You have an app store with weak discovery driven by a combination of whims of a small team of editors and easily gamed, lowest-common-denominator popularity charts. You have uncertainty in the development landscape due to Apple fickleness (store rejections, opaque and changing rules, etc). You have weak cloud tooling from Apple so simply saving state becomes a unique snowflake challenge for each dev.

The iPad needs a killer app. The fact that most people can replace one with a knock-off Netflix/YouTube machine is damning. It should be good at more than that. It should be brilliant.
On medical devices, where the PC is a terminal or controller for the rest, like RTG or CT machines, you don't get Windows shell and launch the app. You boot the computer, it will boot straight to the control app and the app actively prevents switching to something different. You can only use this controller app on the machine.

The folks at hospitals are not going to fight with such an expensive machine, not even for updates - if something goes wrong, they would be to blame, they can live without that.
That whole story stunk anyway, we still don't know if the FBI withdrew the request because they just found some other way into the device that they wanted to access. So forgive me if my first thought in the midst of all this chaos is not to praise Tim Cook's name.
> and it is possible to turn it off

I have this dreadful feeling that Microsoft is A/B testing this stuff, making sure that there is just enough inconsistency between sites to sow doubt and confusion.
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There's one reason I'll probably not get another iPad and that's because I can't copy files to and from it easily. And no, I'm not installing the monstrosity named itunes to do so.
> How many people in USA work for the FBI, CIA, NSA, police departments, have top secret security clearances? Millions of them.

To be fair, the number of people who had direct access to the NSA/CIA exploit archives was probably in the hundreds. TS information is usually compartmentalized so only the people who need to access it can (known as TS-SCI).

Still bad that they have that many who can access it, but not in the millions.
People have been eating roots and plants to help with digestion, anxiety, etc. since before the invention of writing and probably before the invention of fire. Of course there's going to be a bajillion remedies asserting something to that effect. We've been at it for a while.

Products are vague about their wording because they're legally required to be.
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(Fitting the rule, I'm a googler).

It helps that Google employs about 10x as many people as Uber does. Its the same reason you see lots of Microsoft SWEs here.
Do you honestly believe that complaints are not classified and plugged into some sort of analytics system at the absolute minimum? I could never imagine that any company with half a clue would not be trying to quantify their support requests in some way.
I remember the CPU itself was like $35 USD and could easily overclock to 415MHz. It and the Celeron 300a were some of the best bargains ever in computing due to a binning oddity on Intel's part.

But he's probably talking about the cheap eMachines that were sold with rebates along with dial up. They went for something like $300 iirc.

I had a nearly identical experience to the grandparent post, except I would build/upgrade my computers with whatever parts were cheapest. I also remember there were a few services that would mail you a CD or 2 of your favourite distro for $5 which was amazing if you lived somewhere with terrible phone lines/no ISDN.
Good process - meaning testing by people motivated to find bugs would do hundred times more for security and quality then certification of individuals. Houses are not safe because of schools, they are safe because of building codes and fines of you break the code.
I had no idea. Last time I used Walmart.com (maybe 5 years ago?), I had the option of in-store pickup if it's available, ship to store for free if it's not (sometimes takes several weeks, what's up with that?) or shipping to my house (5-7 days).

Maybe the problem with Walmart is they have a toxic brand for a certain market segment. Even with free same-day in-store pickup, I would still use Amazon's two-day shipping in order to avoid going into my local Walmart.
It isn't just the order to return the documents. Uber is compelled by June 23rd for a complete and chronological record of everyone at Uber or on behalf of Uber who discussed LIDAR with Anthony and what they talked about. They have to question all of these people about knowledge about those 14,000 files and contents.

Under oath. How many employees do you think that is? How many people?

If Anthony discussed these 14,000 files with anyone - which is not a stretch to think that he has - then they have to admit it under oath or deny it under oath. You think others are going to want to perjure themselves for Uber?
sigma is one character versus at least 3 for "sum() function". it literally takes 20 seconds to figure out what the symbol is...
The reason the attack happened to including British National Health Service hospitals was because they didn't follow manufacturer's instructions (in this case Microsoft) and upgrade their Windows XP software to Windows 10.

The only people to blame are those that don't follow manufacturers instructions.

They were warned ahead of time. There were even news reports about this.

Target and Home Depot both had credit card hacks precisely because they did not follow manufacturer (again Microsoft) instructions of upgrading Windows XP embedded to a supported version of the OS.

I don't understand how hospitals can get accredited if their IT systems are not up-to-date and verified by cybersecurity experts. Since the companies and the NHS can't be counted on to follow manufacturer instructions, this is extremely important.

May 11, 2017: British Medical Journal: The hackers holding hospitals to ransom - Hospitals need to be prepared to avoid shutdowns
http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/357/bmj.j2214.full.pdf

Also: Hospital accreditation
http://www.uktreatment.com/why-the-uk/hospital-accreditation...

EDIT: The computer systems are capital equipment and like any other form of capital equipment (eg, vehicles in the motor vehicle pool) they must be maintained. Complex machines undergo changes over the life of the equipment and manufacturers issue updates (eg, field change orders) that should be followed by the purchasers of the equipment.

Regarding proper cybersecurity, that would include hardware upgrades since later Intel CPUs incorporate hardware that assist with proper security that is taken advantage of by later versions of the Microsoft OS.

The problems of hospitals both in the US and in Britain were because of a refusal to follow the manufacturer's (Microsoft's in this case) instructions.

Those familiar with the hacks of Target and Home Depot would know that they were hacked because Target and Home Depot refused to follow Microsoft's instructions to upgrade their point of sale software from unsupported Windows XP embedded to a later, supported version of the OS.
"As many as 4 million people hold "top secret" security clearance, of which 500,000 are private contractors. One reason for this trend is that the U.S. government has become so reflexive about classifying information, much of which is not nearly as sensitive as an NSA spying program, that clearance are required even for totally banal work."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/06/12...
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I was mainly replying to this line:

> I should be able to tell my friends "yes, you should turn on auto updates, there's absolutely no reason not to"

The anniversary update was mainly a shit show. It was a staggered update that cause issues for many folks. Some people kept getting fail update errors. Others got stuck in boot loops. Others lost certain device functionality. If you were able to get it to successfully install without hitch, it broke some things for a non-trivial amount of people.

Your comment is spot on, but it's not what I was talking about.
That's only second-order responsibility, and assumes we accept that Microsoft is the primary cause of the problem.
I miss those simple naive days of the unhyphenated internet, when you could find the answers to difficult questions on ExpertsExchange.com, and order tools that were mightier than the sword from small bodies of land surrounded by water on PenIsland.com.
I don't want to sign up to read a document either, thanks.
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Amazon used to be a very dependable market for quality goods, but you can no longer depend on getting a quality product.

I find Costco on-line to be a very credible Amazon alternative. Costco now fills the niche that Amazon did 2 years ago.