skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would certainly be interested to read a comparative analysis of service lifetimes of various appliances, as long as it’s backed by hard data.

Otherwise, it’s just survivorship bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
The threat model is an accusation. You are toast if you even get one accusation because it is cheaper to just get rid of you even if you are innocent.

Frankly, I think he is not being cautious enough because the term "sexual harassment" has also moved into the realm of disagreement. Maybe you don't like her work and criticize it or maybe you are her boss and not agreeing with her performance. Most women quickly figure the criticism is being levied because he is overtly professional with them and also because they are women. I have had many women come to me and tell me these stories with this line of reasoning.

Most women aren't like this but the threat model the OP is using is legitimate. In 2017, if you get accused, you are done. Your family is done. Just move to Bermuda and retire. It is not something you can recover from.

> we do walking meetings around the block in public areas.

Please don't do this.
That's bad for developers, but good for consumers.

Is it? I'm a developer --- and a consumer, as are most --- and have always kept to the principle of as much compatibility as possible, mostly by not gorging on new features for the sake of new features, and a "do what you can with what you have" approach. To me, spending a little extra effort to get much more compatibility is well worth it, since I've been on "the other side" and know the horrible experience of not being able to use something just because the developer didn't bother to think about anything but the "new and shiny"; that seems to be something a lot of developers completely ignore or even oppose.
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Making it easier for users to run software with unpatched vulnerabilities, even accounting for some extra slowness, isn’t a good thing..
The best resource I've found is Reddit's personal finance forum, and specifically their "How to Handle Money" guide - especially the flowchart and "simplified flowchart".

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics

I've found a lot of other great individual articles, but no other "how do I even start?" resource with much value.
As Jane Austen said, "People want different things."

I don't want to run my own company. I don't want the headaches. And I'm definitely in it for the money, but not because I don't want to work for someone. I'm in it for the money because my life is rather expensive. I can't take a gamble on a startup turning golden sometime down the road; you've got to pay me well, now, or I'm not interested.

But I'm also not interested in just showing up, putting in 8 hours a day coding something that will never ship, and cashing my checks. That's really cynical and depressing. I want to produce something that will matter to at least a few people, and that has a realistic chance of actually being shipped.

I want to work somewhere that has management that knows what its doing. I don't like working for incompetent management - they waste too much of my time and effort. Even if they pay me well, life is too short to merely sell my time for money.

So: You're not happy. It sounds to me like you may need to hire a technical manager or technical lead, to take the load that you hate. Or maybe even you need to replace yourself - hire someone to take your job, so that you can do things you enjoy more. You're probably going to need to stay available as a consultant, though, to give some continuity and guidance to the startup.
Your guys are so right about fx’s ‘Poor man’s README, I will update it soon. Long story short, you can deploy fx on a host (cloud or localhost), then you can deploy a function to be a service in few seconds, just like AWS lambda ( but Poor man’s lambda).
That is an optical illusion, if you are seeing that. Isometric view is a rectilinear, not perspective view. Apparent object size will not have any change in the z-axis, so there should not be any foreshortening.
The worry for me is the way this thread plays out is pretty much the textbook case for how pharmaceuticals manufacture demand for a drug.

1) Develop a drug (or find one to remarket). Find a disease that it treats or invent one.

2) Pump money into advocacy groups devoted to the disease.

3) Find research that supports the use of your drug.

4) The advocacy group spreads awareness of the disease, even if it's made up, and people start asking their doctors to test for it. Some may even receive a diagnosis.

5) Public pressure reaches the FDA, AMA, et al to consider the use of the drug for treatment.
> make sure you did your homework

I don't even have the foundation to do my homework; I'm not a psychologist.

I watched several of the videos. I can't say they kept me up at night (but that doesn't mean anything in the context of the discussion). I have no idea by what mechanism these would traumatize children; perhaps someone more familiar with child psychology could think of something similar? If these videos are completely unlike anything before them, any conjecture is meaningless. I'm in no way saying that they are or are not harmless.

I'm more concerned that any knowledge that can be gleaned about this phenomenon is being buried under emotionally charged moral outrage

> We live in a world where people physically throwing out poisoned bait for dogs is a thing.

Red herring.

> As in singular?

I mistakenly mixed my tenses, I said "videos" and then "video." My apologies.

> "Detrimental to children" in light of these videos, and their sheer amount, is like calling mass murder "not very nice".

To be clear, are you comparing the effect of these videos on children to 'mass murder?' I can't make heads or tails of your analogy.

As a thought exercise, there are a lot of commonalities between these videos and the average commercial that plays at 8pm:
- 'sheer amount'
- revenue makers
- children might watch hours of them if unsupervised by parents
- people think they will destroy the minds of the youth using some unexplained power
- mass murder for young minds (unverified)
Does uMatrix really give a lot more security on top of uBlock Origin, in exchange for all the inconveniences?

I tried several times, but ended up sticking to a sandbox (firejail) + uBlock Origin + HTTPS Everywhere.
You're right about Moto. Ill fix my post. Can you send me a link to this source for A1? I'll try to check on it.
> I don't say that's 100% proven or anything.

You previously said it was "to the point of being a tautology."
That is a bit ridiculous. It shows everyone who the project is tracking, and how inline with reality estimates are. I am not sure why you guys find it so hard to comprehend why that is useful?
I'm just saying determination of market is hard, it is responsible for endless arguments in trade and tax law.

I used to think we should have a form of progressive taxation based on market power. Incent, but do not mandate, smaller firms. Tax anticompetitive potential to siphon rents.

I still like the theory but now worry it would be unmanageable because market determination is an unsolved problem.
So this can't solve anything more than the most trivial boards? :/
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There are two problems with this narrative:

1. As already mentioned, it helps ultra-wealthy and people in red states at the expense of the blue states. But by crippling the tech economy, the govt. would harm their own long-term ability to collect tax revenue to invest in other states. Right now, CA provides more tax revenue than it takes back and this money pays for federal govt. projects elsewhere.

2. Many people would get bankrupted simply by vesting. It's one thing to tax people once they have money. But most options are not liquid. Many people would simply not have money to pay for options that they cannot sell and will not be able to wait for some hypothetical IPO or buyout.

Let's just be honest about what this is: it's a vindictive and cynical move to harm the economies in blue states and only marginally help those in red states, and then only in short term (until the tech economy in the US contracts and moves elsewhere).

If this passes, I hope those who support it enjoy their feeling of revenge, because that's all they'll end up with. The rest of us in tech sector will just find another place to grow our business.
Well, that's not a real issue, is it? It's purely a decision from the manufacturers to be assholes to their customers. There is no technical need that'd prevent them from creating updates. Especially Samsung (which also produces the SoC in-house for all relevant markets).
For historical flavor, Destiny had a widely reviled endgame early on too. On release, Vault of Glass did not exist, nor a lot or the daily and weekly activities. Not saying that excuses a similar dearth of content in d2 but it is worth knowing.
Not the original poster, but...

I have 9 virtual desktops; I typically have browsers in 6-7 of them for various in-progress tasks. That's somewhere between 6 and 14 browser windows (I can fit two side by side on my screen), with multiple tabs in each.

Finding things is easy. Even ignoring the per-task categorization by desktop, Firefox lets you search all your tab titles/urls: just type "% " in the URL bar followed by your search string. If I'm looking for something specific, this is the simplest way to find it.
These guys are all pretty obviously guilty, so I don't see the need to worry. Just follow two simple rules and you'll be fine:

1. Don't sexually assault / harass anybody.

2. Maintain clear boundaries with anybody you have a position of power over - even if it seems completely consensual you just can't hook up or have a romantic relationship with them.
It would have to be a convincing reason to Apple, though. In Uber's case, that convincing reason was providing a better Uber experience on the Apple Watch, which is something Apple would go for. I'm pretty sure Apple would not go for "let us listen to the microphone at all times so we can tailor advertising by spying on the user's conversations."
I actually designed one of these with the opposite mindset for a longevity researcher friend of mine. It was her 30th birthday and I was unable to attend, so I told her I would make sure to attend her 130th birthday instead and I gifted her a clock counting down until then.
I worked for a company where RSUs did not vest until liquidity event. There were a lot of earned options that people still haven't been able to exercise. People that have been there for over 8 years. I just forfeited mine and moved on to a different company.
ProtonMail or Tutanota are great replacements.
I have a rooted device, so I can basically make apps do what I want and stop them from doing what I don't want. IMHO that's far better than Google's vision of "security" where they want to be in control and even consider the user an attacker.
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The USSR is a powerful counterexample. In 1914, Russia was a backwards agrocentric economy that was one of the poorest of Europe. 25 years later, it's an industrial juggernaut on par with, or perhaps even (especially as feared by many at the time) better than the US.
Using 57 for few days, speed improvements are impressive.

But two things which is going to stop me from complete switch.

1. There is no native websocket inspector. websocket-monitor[0] add-on which supported websocket inspection is not compatible with quantum. Really wish they speed up native support development[1]

2. Double tap zoom really makes it easy to find UI issues. Really wish it get implemented in firefox too.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/websocket-mon...

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885508

[edit] corrected link
Or reputation insurance products pick up, anybody interested?

Asking for a VC
Not cautious enough?
KRACK is essentially irrelevant, the security models of the OS and any sane applications will assume that the network is compromised (e.g. starbucks wifi).

Blueborne on the other hand, is very scary.
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I trust the community on XDA composed of actual users and developers who are also users, more than the faceless corporation whose profit largely comes from extracting as much of your personal information as possible and monetising it.
I have moved entirely to Firefox Focus. My only problem is that the GOOGLE BAR on my home screen still throws trending suggestions and opens up chrome. Does anyone know if I can change this?
My 5X bootlooped, so I bought a Pixel. I want to go back to the 5X, that was the best phone I've ever had.
The QA effort to support 3-4 of the most recent OS’s isn’t “a little extra effort.” It can get pretty expensive, too, since you may have to have devices for all supported OS versions and possibly idioms (e.g. iPhone, iPad).
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That "isn't a good thing" is paired against another "isn't a good thing": forcing people along an (expensive, disruptive, often utility-losing) upgrade path simply to drive revenue goals.

Perhaps we might look at this as a set of goals:

1. Users shouldn't run software with unpathed vulnerabilitities.

2. Users shouldn't have to discard devices after a small number of years (1-3, from date of purchase, in many cases).

3. Hardware, OS, and software vendors should have a functioning ecosystem in which they can operate profitably.

Unfortunately, the economics of hardware + information goods with an ongoing support liability but a one-time purchase point are pretty much pathological. This isn't a new problem. It's one that AT&T and IBM solved, in the 1930s and earlier, by leasing rather than selling hardware. IBM has continued that model through the present, for its enterprise computing hardware. There are few general-public devices that fall under this category, though.
I avoid women in my professional life as much as I possible can. My work is in politics, and if I absolutely must work with a woman, I do all I can to make that interaction as open, transparent, documented, and inclusive with others as possible. You will never catch me alone in an office with a woman. I know colleagues who refuse to even interview or consider women for positions because they are afraid of anything that might be said or implied later, and becoming a liability.
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You're making three specific claims and have provided zero evidence: that it is impossible to develop fire underwater, that it is impossible to develop chemistry underwater, and that it is impossible to build a technological civilization without these things. I say hogwash; show me the proof for your claims.

Your proposed alternative is to play "what if" until either I come up with an imaginary scenario that strikes your fancy or, more likely, you reject out of hand anything brought to you and claim to be right by default. Well, that's hogwash too. It's certainly no way to advance a scientific claim, let alone three of them.

I'm particularly skeptical of the claim that you could not develop chemistry underwater; it seems equally as implausible as saying that you could not develop chemistry in air for exactly the same reasons.
Funny idea. My takeaway from the article was similar. Touch ID was already Good Enough for me, and it sounds like Face ID is quite a bit better. Which is, oddly enough, exactly what I expected.

One thing I'd really be interested in learning about is how much time and how many attempts it took them before they could successfully unlock the phone. And more pertinently, what those values might look like once they get some more experience with it. In a real-world scenario, they only get 48 hours and 5 attempts, so any technique which takes more than that is still nonviable.

It will also be interesting to see if Apple is able to improve their defenses against this. I get the sense that they couldn't improve Touch ID much because a good fake fingerprint looks just like a real one to the sensor. This mask definitely does not look much like the person's actual face, so they may be able to tweak things to be more resistant to this attack.

Which is not to say that this attack is pointless or these guys are dumb or anything. I'm impressed with their work! It's just not a game over situation the way they make it sound in certain parts of their writeup.
I was talking more about a model that works similarly to advertising (pennies/fraction of penny per page view)

I'm more of a fan for direct payments, though I think a lot of sites would struggle with just that.

How many people will subscribe to Android Authority directly? Lots of sites basically get views from searches , but little long term engagement. Those sites are still useful, but only have ads as a revenue model that's "viable"
This doesn't really affect RSU vesting much for publicly-traded companies. Under the current regime, RSUs are taxed on delivery; for a publicly-traded company RSUs are usually delivered at vest time.

I don't object to taxing NSOs at vest time all that much; for rank-and-file employees ISOs are the norm, and NSOs are usually for highly-compensated execs whose grants easily pass the ISO per-year vesting cap. They're the kinds of people who are likely to be able to afford these taxes without liquidity, and who are probably able to take advantage of a bunch of other tax loopholes anyway.

The downside there is for companies that give employees more than 90 days after termination to exercise their ISOs (which by law must be converted to NSOs after 90 days)... I imagine that conversion might trigger a taxable event under these new laws.
The real problem with it is Linux. Here's a few facts:

The Kernel has no stable ABI for drivers.

Manufacturers only ever develop a driver for their chips once, and then send that to the OEM. They never update.

The Linux Kernel LTS gets 2 years of updates, Google's fork about 4.

From the day a Kernel is released, to the day it ships in a phone, usually 2 years are spent integrating the blobs and code drops from the chip manufacturers.

On every kernel upgrade that breaks the ABI, those 2 years would have to be redone from scratch.

Linux can't mainline support for every exotic piece of hardware that ever shows up in a device.

Manufacturers can't keep maintaining several developers to update every single chip they release.

Google can't keep Android on 6 year old kernels forever.

Now combine these facts, and you'll see the issue.
54 is not even fast compared to 57 ("Quantum", launching tomorrow 11/14). Seriously if you think 54 is fast, 57 blows it out of the water.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/quantum/

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/quantum-performance-test/
Yup. I dearly hope they come up with a healthy way of administration. Smoking is really really really bad. Source: I am an ex addict. Both Cannabis and Cigarettes.
The model I'm using, Nexus 4, was released 5 years ago to the day. Via a community ROM it still receives monthly AOSP security patches, albeit on a prehistoric 3.4 kernel and vendor abandoned binary blobs.

If I had a spare $600 I might be inclined to support the librem-5 efforts of running a mainstream kernel with lifetime updates.
> The problem is that the OS upgrades invariably slow down older phones, so even if you're perfectly happy with your iPhone to begin with, it starts to act slow as it gets the newer OS's.

This is a truism and from my experience it rings false. I ran an iPhone 5 for four years without feeling degraded.

FWIW, as background, I'm an ex-overclocking PC enthusiast and I consider myself very sensitive to any sorts of performance lag.
They fact that they have no authority doesn't stop it from being an appeal to authority, it just makes it less effective as an appeal.
I have a obscure low level Oppo device from Asia. Its hardly up to date, but it is still more than i need plus provides a 2 day battery life even after a year of using.

I think we just reached the point where phones grow in specs we dont actually need.

The thing is i use my phone mostly like a public wifi. Trust nothing.
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England, like many of the European powers, vastly benefited from the slavery in the Americas through trade. Former English territories such as South Carolina (it was theirs for a century leading up to the Revolutionary War) or Georgia, were aggressive slave states and England was heavily responsible for that condition. England was the largest slave trader in the 18th century, as such the foundations of slavery particularly in the colonies were overwhelmingly their responsibility. England's wealthy slave owners were still very active in the slave trade well into the 19th century (into the 1830s). Their direct role in the slave trade, as such, didn't cease until about 50-60 years prior to the industrial revolution (their indirect role, responsibility and benefit extends far longer than that).

European powers outsourced their slavery to the Americas, directly funding, operating and protecting it, while feigning morality about it at home.
Well, you can try the original paper that introduced the idea of capsules: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/transauto6.pdf
As a developer, I need a device that gets Android DevPreview releases, so I can see it my apps work on real hardware before users will try them. (The emulator sucks, and you never know if a bug is caused by the emulator or the app).

Currently that's tonly the Pixels, which sell between $900 and $1300 in Germany.
What about security updates?
I still have Nexus 7 running on KitKat 4.2 as I dislike material look and for newer Android versions I always go with phones that ship with customized UI that better correspond to my aesthetics sense. Disclaimer: I am a visual artist as well and hate it when somebody enforces certain style, in my case anything flat, low-contrast, confusing where my brain has to spend >20ms identifying controls.
> That's bad for developers, but good for consumers.

It is bad for consumers as well, since you only have so much time.
Yes, accusations were what I had in mind when I framed it as “threat model” in the question.

it is cheaper to just get rid of you even
if you are innocent

Is it? One clearly has some value to their employer. Replacing an employee isn’t free either. It’s also not “free” to add social friction to interactions with one's coworkers.

As best I know, this has never happened to anyone in / near my social network. That leads me to believe that this isn’t something that happens very often in the general population (unless I’m an outlier). And if it’s so rare, then it doesn’t seem to be worth going out of my way for.
The active ingredients are not water soluble so you’d need to introduce lipids or something, which sounds pretty gross.
That's easier said than done. Sexual harassment is used as a weapon, but so is the accusation of harassment. I do not put it past women to fabricate these things to get their way. The danger is just too high because as a man, regardless of the accusation, or circumstances, we are guilty until proven innocent. It takes an enormous amount of evidence to clear a man from a wrongful accusation made by a woman. There's just too much risk to even take a chance.
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Thanks for bringing that to my attention! spaRSS is a decent contender. It's pretty, fast and it looks like it does what it should. One small wrinkle: it doesn't seem capable of importing opml files on newer android devices. A bug was filed 2 years ago, but it was closed without being fixed.
How much of a solution is rooting a device for 1 billion users?
Are you concerned at all with security of the device? Just asking because I know lots of people who stick with older droids and none seem to care.
> Cool - it'd be fun to wear one of these on your sleeve...

... with your time remaining written in big green digits?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time