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One way to think of ME is, we all woke up one day and discovered we have had high resolution night vision spy cams installed in our bedrooms.

The next realization is there is no way to turn them off or remove them. It’s posisble even moving won’t help.

And yet we really don’t seem to care much. Lesser issues generate national outrage and high volumes of press coverage. Why?

HN may be uniquely positioned to show us the answer. Take a community of people with generally above average interest and/or knowledge in this stuff, and the comments are filled with questions asking what the hell ME even is.

Apparently, ME is the perfect combination of opaque, obtuse, and obscure. It’s not rocket science, but complicated enough it’s hard to explain well quickly. It’s easy to be a highly technical person yet never have the need to cross paths with the subject. There has been some press, some activity, but all of that is simultaneously dampened for the same reasons.
I should use meetups more too. One mistake I have made is assuming that the first people that respond positively are going to be good friends, and compatible. Some natural sifting and more effort is needed even then. And self-examination and feeling as to what you want! I think this whole process helps us feel who we are. And projecting that, attracting similar-accepting humans. (while working on listning more and becoing better humans too!) / I think a bunch of people on here struggle, for obvious reasons no fault of our own, but there are definitely solutions to be found (see my other comment on this too nearby for one more). I'm reading and learning more here also.
>Yuichi: There’s a manual for everything in this company. We use psychology to determine the optimal outcome. In this case, the standard tactic is to make me look like a yakuza [gangster]. Typically, I arrive with the wife, and the husband is there, and suddenly I will just bow then deeply apologize. Usually, the husband will berate me, but because I appear to be a yakuza, he won’t pursue the matter further.

Ethical questions aside, this is dangerously brilliant. Better hope the actual Yakuza doesn't find out...
Here's hoping. Intel did a great job hiding the thing and making it all but impossible to remove (at present if you nuke the firmware, the CPU will totally fail to initialise. Thanks Intel!). That said, we're talking about an embedded device with very low-level code, and any 'disabling' code is probably going to be distributed in binary form. Stands to reason somewhere along the lines, someone is going to turn that around for their own benefit.

In tin-foil hats, we trust, more like!
> If you trust the government to secure a massive stockpile of NBC weapons [etc]

Physical security and digital security are very different. Someone stealing a bomb is still only one bomb. Securing that bomb involves fortifying a well-defined local border. Attacking it requires personal risk that is hard to parallelize.

Digital networks can be attacked at any time from any number of opponents. These attacks are usually automated without the risk of being found by a guard with a machine gun. Stealing the escrow key database isn't merely a single bad event; it would allow access - possibly retroactively - everything supposedly protected by those key, which is presumably "everything".

> key

You seem to be using "key" to mean several different concepts.
I wonder if the source of the accident is really aware of the accident?

Without knowing a lot of the details, is this something that could happen if a naive, or lazy, employee just decided to incinerate waste? Is this something that could happen if someone was goofing off? Is this something that could be undetected, due to lack of monitoring equipment, at the source?
In theory it would be that they believe they can kill two birds with one stone.

1) Take out competing power lines in the family. As a kicker they get to seize upwards of $300 billion that can go into the remake-Saudi-Arabia-fund for Mohammad Bin Salman (likely several times what they'd get initially from the Aramco IPO).

2) Neutralize concerns over that by covering it in a guise of cleaning up the kingdom. Most likely the kingdom has always operated by these means and they're simply throwing a switch and choosing to selectively prosecute.

Their plan bets on the second part being an acceptable cover story. They're betting some percentage of people will buy the premise outright. They're betting some percentage of people will find the cover story good enough to provide their own personal cover to continue working with the Saudis ('just give me some kind of rationale I can take to my people'). It would all rest on the notion that given enough time and stability afterward, that the vast majority of people that do business with Saudi Arabia now, will let this slide.
Well, they could be a solar power house, I imagine.
> If they set the tip for you, that's pretty much setting the price, isn't it?

I forgot HN is mostly an american place.

Tip in most Europe is voluntary

We don't force people to tip
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I get the impression they are enforced, when they exist. But are less likely to exist in the first place. IE, much of the US is right-to-work with little employee protection.
I was mistaken, my microwave makes you press somewhat hidden button if you want cook something longer than 6 minutes, not 10.
Yes, without hesitation.
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I'm not intimately familiar with UK labor laws, but isn't they key difference between contractor and a "disguised employee" is that who gets the payment money? If you get all the payment (excluding tax etc.) for a work done then you are contractor, if the third entity takes a payment for your work and pays you percentage of it, then you must be employee and that third party - employer - is responsible for taxes, insurance and other duties mandated by labor laws. The latter part is what Uber tries to avoid at all cost. For the same reason employment agencies are also not allowed to take fees for finding a job and required to pay no less than minimum wage[0].

0. https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/rights-at-work/agency...
Thanks for that interesting bit. Any links about what happened after? I guess it's lost in the history now, sadly.
> Pipeline operator is often superfluous if proper object oriented programming is used.

Well, I have just replied to somebody asking about the differences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15669886

> Automatic currying is dangerous

On languages that don't enforce numbers of arguments. That's Javascript, Python, and I don't think there's any other.
Had it for a week now and really like it. All the gestures feel very natural. And within a couple of hours you have forgotten all about a home button.
The verification process should really be for everybody.
Nowadays trolls or bots go after anybody and everybody with fake almost libelous accounts.

I suspect they have more important things going on after deactivating President's Twitter by a disgruntled employee.

Then the increasing the tweet character limit also seems like a bad move.
I'm really questioning leadership at twitter. I don't mean Jack alone,since I doubt he is responsible for everything.
I find that in the US, friend and acquaintance is hard to tell apart, because people are friendly and open in some ways. So I often can't tell who actually likes me well enough to figure out on deeper friendships.
It's more often a question of whether it's worth using a robot instead of humans. I'm pretty sure it's already possible to automate much more than what's already automated in a car production line. Sometimes, for a given task, it's way simpler to use a human worker than to design a state of the art robot for this one task.
> I think HN is uniquely positioned to show us the answer. Take a community of people with generally above average interest and/or knowledge in this stuff, and the comments are filled with

I think it's even more sinister: I would argue that a higher percentage of users on HN might be sworn to secrecy about any knowledge they might have anyway.

So you end up with very smart people who're either sworn to secrecy or who aren't; those who aren't are asking questions (and very few have answers, and those answers are partial or incorrect). Those who are can't answer them honestly or fully.
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In certain areas Uber strongly incentivizes drivers to only drive for Uber. This is done by making driving only cost-effective at 40+ hours a week.

I understand this doesn't happen (or doesn't work) in some areas, New York comes to mind, but I've never met an Uber driver in the UK for whom it a) isn't a full time job, and b) who drives for other companies as well.
I actually think it owes to the fact that it was never reasonable for any worker to work “overhead” all day, unassisted; the human body can’t take it.

Working with your arms outstretched in front of you, Minority-Report-style, has been determined to be not feasible due to fatigue, so how is working overhead reasonable? I’ve never been in a car factory or on an assembly line, but from an armchair it sounds bound to lead to a lot of strain.

Why not have workers lie on their backs on carts or something?
No, it didn't. It also isn't that easy, I've seen some papers about tracking Monero coins.
It is at least a hypocritical opinion. Podesta's emails were not bulk released. Wikileaks did put their own spin on them.

Do you know that they leak what they get? Cause there are credible accusations by former members that they do not.
As far as I can tell in the UK there aren’t really alternatives. Maybe in parts of London? Outside options seem to be mini cabs, traditional black cabs, and Uber. Lyft for example doesn’t run here.
It's mostly the stupid criminals who make the news. Otherwise they would get away and for reasons of ongoing investigations, there would be no news.
> That sounds like in the world of stocks, a competitor could come along and decide to split the stocks of MY company from the outside, driving down the price of my stocks (me as the company's owner or investor) and there's nothing I can do about it.

It's more like someone saying to all the shareholders of Apple "hey, you like companies that make mobile phones, and I've started a great mobile phone company, and I think it'd be great if you were a shareholder in my company too, so I've sent you some shares in my company too, I hope you like them!"

Is that a thing you could do? Yes.

Does it benefit you in any way? Probably not. There's certainly no reason to think it increases the value of your company.

Does it hurt Apple in any way? Almost certainly not. I mean, if everyone decided your startup was much cooler than Apple, then it might, but it's hard to see how you mailing strangers shares would bring that about.

A bitcoin fork is, in some ways, a little bit like a stock split or a dividend, but it's a lot more like someone randomly mailing strangers scraps of paper which are almost certainly worthless.
That's so good. That offers such an insight into lives from long ago. It's weird how I suddenly felt so attached to the business frustrations of the ancient babylonians!

Apologies, I've stolen it myself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15669759
How to explore new songs??
am not able to find single platform where i can explore new music coz all the apps,youtube etc are showing the song which i ve already listened
Well, enough accounts with enough karma obviously don't want anything favorable about WikiLeaks on HN. But then, HN has no pretensions about impartiality. And I must admit that, overall, the system works quite well.
So a Bitcoin fork is a kind of a git branch or at least one could think of it so. In this sense, it would be interesting to implement this possibility as a feature. Then everybody could start a new branch using new software branch. What is important, all such forks/branches will share the same parent paths (previous transactions). Essentially, all transactions will be represented as a git-like tree where each branch is managed by the corresponding software version.
TBH looks fishy to me. Article claims there's 10 princes and 38 officials. But there's hardly 5 beds on that video, which could just as easily be stuffed with cushions. And why are there guns lying on the corner with the guard being on the other side?

Looks like PR work while they stay in their nice rooms.
For not returning the stolen car and using a stolen item? That's not illegal in the US? (European here)
I'm surprised Alwaleed bin Talal arrest hasn't affected tech stocks yet.

The big question to me is what the kingdom will do with all the assets they confiscated.

EDIT: I think they'll start liquidating large assets for their
http://vision2030.gov.sa/en plan.
Enterprise motherboards had IPMI forever. None complained until laymen found out the same thing sits inside -their- computers.
I wonder whether the complaint worked.
I don't think thats the right attitude. There's a difference between being able to open a machine to install malicious hardware / steal hdd's or just plugging in a generic USB stick to pawn it.

I know some of you might argue that even generic USB sticks can do damage and, whilst I agree, this attack is still a degree worse than most of those.

Thus far the most damage an unknown USB stick could do was type commands as a fake keyboard (visible to user) or exploit a driver vulnerability to silently cause mischief.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but those cases could still be trivially stopped by a security policy set by administrators disallowing unknown USB devices. (Of course, how many places would use this is another matter, but it's still very important for places where this does matter.)

This attack on the other hand would seem to be able to completely bypass your operating systems restrictions on USB ports.
I just get tired of being ridiculed and then 10 years later vindicated.

In Faraday cages we trust.
From what I understand, Tesla is working its way towards this. And there are already lots of sophisticated robots used in car assembly.
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Distraction and procrastination. I'm not sure I'm smart enough to qualify for your "smart people" designation, but those are two ailments that are affecting me. :) Perhaps being smart is being not easily distracted, then I'm very dumb.
The H2O build produces libh2o and libh2o-evloop. The latter doesn't depend on libuv.
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THE PENTAGON OPENED UP TO HACKERS–AND FIXED THOUSANDS OF BUGS
Border Agents make 90K a year?
I'd think more like 60K.
You can't really ask the hard questions during the interview phase. Before you get a job offer, they have all the leverage, and people don't like being asked hard questions when they're the ones interviewing.

Best thing to do is try to get a contact inside the company, then when you get the offer, call back and start asking those questions.

Even better still - don't agree to an interview unless you know in advance that the job will move your career in a good direction, then don't even bother asking questions. It's not like they have to tell you the truth anyway.
You're of course completely correct, but I feel like that misses the point. The great thing about this algorithm is not that it works - there are plenty of ways to figure out the binary representation of a number. Rather, it's that it only needs operations that are easy to perform and requires little state to remember. I'd much rather divide by two and round down than subtract the largest power of two that's less than my number from it. And I don't have to remember which power of N I last worked to know how many zeros I need to add before using the next power of 2 that fits in my number.
There are valid reasons to sign a CLA, though they are vary rare. I believe the FSF CLA is the only one I would ever feel confident signing (because it very strongly restricts what they can do) -- mainly because it means that the FSF has a much stronger case (legally speaking) if it decides to file a copyright suit against an alleged infringement of the work. From my (not-an-American-and-definitely-not-a-lawyer) understanding, American copyright suits are much stronger if you hold a majority copyright over a work rather than only having a very small set of contributions you own.

But really, licensing things under GPLvX-or-later is the best way of handling licensing updates with many contributors.
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Unfortunately I'm not a set theorist, so I haven't done any deep dives into the NBG/ZFC equivalence. My area of expertise (Lie theory) doesn't really require detailed knowledge along those lines. I'm only really aware of it because I'm a category theory enthusiast.

That said, my intuition is that NBG is finitely axiomatizeable with equivalent strength precisely because of #1: it has a bigger ontology.

From what I remember of grad school set theory, working with proper classes in ZFC amounts to clunky manipulations of formulas in the language of set theory, because there is no such thing as a class in ZFC. A proper class is a well-formed formula that fails to describe a set. It can be described in the language, but cannot be constructed by the axioms. Axiom schemas give one axiom for all formulas in the language of ZFC.

Meanwhile, classes are an actual object in the language of NBG, so an axiom of NBG can just say "for all classes x..."

There's a wikipedia article[1] that actually goes into a good bit of detail in the case of the axiom schema of specification.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_schema_of_specification
Chrome ext. turns your sad/angry reactions on FB to relevant ways to take action
almost never works.

Countless examples of where it fails.
I suppose it isn't really a GUI but it does manage them.

http://xmonad.org/
How would you improve this code? (C#)
Bouba/Kiki Effect
Could software stop school shootings?
Physically a BitCoin is, when you look at it with your own eyes, nothing, not even air. And probably everyone knows what a fork is (metal thingy for eating stuff) ... so here is your answer. Everyone else who says otherwise, is probably employed by Bitcoin ;)
GGP spoke about general levels, not specific elements, and yes, you are 100% right, a Geiger counter is a pretty blunt instrument.
The serial number is burned into the motherboard. At least in the case of Lenovo laptops I've dealt with, it seems to be possible to modify. When we send machines for repair, if they replace the motherboard it comes back with the same serial number we sent in. In some cases, we've been sent systems without serial numbers and they refuse to boot.
I personally know few quite technical people who even own some Bitcoins and tried to confront me in recent discussion when I stated that all BTC transactions can be publicly seen. They knew that BTC doesn't provide complete anonymity, but thought of it more like wire transfer, where you can only see transactions from some "authorized center", exchange or something, not that anyone can see them. So I guess this detail is easy to miss or misinterpret.
But ... Perhaps Intel has a second ME installed on the processor. The first one was just a decoy.
The person asking the question is running a "social music network where u can connect your music with your friends" mobile app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15669015)
And food producers are skewered by having to meet safety requirements when they could save money by ignoring them. Sucks for Uber that their business model doesn't win 100% of the time, but you don't allow individual entities to just ignore laws that set minimums whenever it's not the best for them.
That's very interesting, thank you
Hailo only works (in London at least, no idea if it operates elsewhere), with Tfl licensed "Black cab" drivers. You can't just decided to become one of those - you need to do years of training to pass the test (known as The Knowledge) in order to obtain your license.
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i can’t find the source for this assertion but I was lead to believe that a large number of contemporary copies of this message were made and distributed around as a warning to others not to do business with this merchant.
As mentioned in the article, most of the videos being discussed don't contain violent or sexual content - and I can understand age restricting that material, since I suspect it was never targeted to children to begin with.

But, I don't believe "creepiness" alone a valid reason to restrict content to children, if it's adults, not children, who find the content upsetting. Unless there's evidence of actual harm being done, then it seems that this content is serving a legitimate market need for parents who want something to babysit their kids, but who don't actually care about its intellectual or educational content.

And I find it a bit odd, given how blatantly these videos seem to violate copyright, that Google hasn't banned them outright, particularly given Google's own unwillingness to even defend fair use of copyrighted material in reviews and parodies elsewhere.
Here I was hoping for a review from a design site but this article is full of 2nd hand info and extrapolation from the said info.

Looking at the mentioned tweet:
https://twitter.com/JoannaStern/status/926488246204366854/ph...

Some of the actions like screenshots, notification center, wake etc don't look much different. Some will need getting used to. The only problem I see is two button action - volume down + wake for restart.
I totally stole it from pjc50: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15669352
Labor laws aren't rigorously enforced. Especially at low end jobs. People aren't necessarily aware of their rights and can't afford the potential disruption from filing complaints.
Let's put it into perspective. Paul Allen is holding $9.5 billion in Microsoft. Paul is worth around $6 billion more than Alwaleed.

That position couldn't shake Microsoft very much at all, much less the wider tech world. Alwaleed's position in Apple and Twitter are, basically, meaningless to affecting tech stocks. Apple is a $900 billion company, nearing the worth of Aramco at this point. Alwaleed's entire worth is $17 billion, barely a drop in the ocean versus tech stocks. Not to mention nobody seriously believes those positions are going to be haphazardly liquidated. If Saudi Arabia manages to seize Kingdom Holdings, they'll most likely make gradual maneuvers.
Agree, especially since many other costs tend to be more fixed (or at least grow fairly slowly as a function of income). In this case % of income doesn't seem to be a super helpful metric.
Ask HN: What are your favorite magazines?
I see a lot of threads for book recommendations, but I haven't seen one yet for magazines. What are your favorites, HN?
Never even heard of hipchat until after I had been using slack for a while. Was a user of Campfire before that so not sure how it didn't get to me. When I finally heard about hipchat there wasn't anything interesting about it.
The Economist. I think it is one of the last general readership journals worth reading.
This looks like a rip off of antd: https://ant.design/docs/react/introduce
Dual-key encryption. You just have to trust the government not to lose their key.