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How is Microsoft more trustworthy than Google? Google's involvement in OSS vs Microsoft's time-old approach tells a huge story to people who write software.

I trust Amazon less than I do Facebook. Facebook lets me see exactly what kind of advertising data they have on me and lets me export all my data. Google does the same. Amazon just shows me recommendations and tries to sell me android tablets full of crapware or sneak their crapware onto Ubuntu. If you've ever worked at Facebook you'll know internally their culture of openness is very similar to Google's "Don't be evil" ...but less explicit. And explicit company values matter, so that is a knock on them. But yeah, Amazon seems worse. Compare their internal cultures because it does affect what direction their products take.

Apple is trustworthy only in the sense that they make hardware devices that, if backdoored, would be terrible for their business. Their cloud services have the same incentive structures as Google so I feel they're fairly equivalent (plus under the hood Apple uses one of the major cloud providers).

Apple > Google > Microsoft ~= Facebook > Amazon.

This ranking encodes:

1. Which physical devices I would trust more (iPad > Fire Tablet).

2. How wary I would be of using their services (e.g Google Search > Amazon Shopping).

3. Whose culture is better for user trust (Google's track record >> Microsoft or Facebook's track record).
If it is not SpaceX’s fault in this case, what exactly do you think it is reasonable for them to do?

It’s weird that even your reply seems to assume it’s SpaceX’s fault. Why? (“I don’t like to see SpaceX fail...”)
I use Snapchat and my friends use it. It feels much more personal than Instagram or Facebook, which are social media platforms that extend beyond my close friends and include acquaintances. People can't comment on your story - they have to message you if they want to say something, and group chats in particular keep me using Snap.

I will say that their Android app is more or less garbage and should be an embarrassment to the company. It doesn't function right, it's slow and clunky, and it's infuriating to use and I've moved to IG more and more as its gotten worse. I know Snap is addressing that issue by rebuilding the app, but they have only started caring recently.
Donald Trump is deporting fewer people than Barack Obama did
Also, after a couple of years of trading in a range in the low to mid-30s, in September the stock began a surge up to $47+. That's a pretty good time to sell off a large chunk of stock regardless or whether he knew anything about this defect (he knew).
Used to work in the industry. I could have missed something but none of this, feels new or novel. Systems like this have already been in operation in places like Dubai and Singapore for years

The industry also has issues which may or may not have been resolved by now:

1. It's not an industry that attracts creative or innovative talent.

2. They're not willing to pay well for AI talent (this may have changed)

The end result is that you get mediocre implementations with horrible or mediocre UX. Depending on how you feel about surveillance this is either a good or bad thing.
Generally speaking it is SpaceX. However, due to the very sensitive nature of this payload, the satellite's manufacturer supplied the payload adapter (the bit that handles the detaching) and did the processing themselves (mating the two together, etc).

So, in this specific case, if it was a failure of the payload to deploy properly, that would almost certainly be Northrup Grumman's "fault".
Haha. Very possible, but also depends if people feel inconvenienced enough to be angry afterwards. If it also improves traffic flow, it might be a win most ways.
Can you explain why they would be so easily detectable?

my understanding is that many space vessels use micro-reactors for power.

Couldn't you just use plutonium warheads so that they look like one of those?
Headlines get many more clicks if they have SpaceX in them, basically associating anything with Musk is clickbait gold.
The survey asked for both SAT and IQ scores, but both questions were optional.
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What do you mean by #2? They distribute the product as a git repo and users have to pull on it?
Author here: In the last 3 years or so I've been working on a decompiler, and it is like a compiler in complexity, engineering, and testing. But different.

Since that URL is to a wiki, this is a better forum for comments. So I am happy to take comments and corrections here.
Damore’s claim was that the evidence justified specific corporate policy responses, including rejecting several of Google’s public core values.
I'd say it's not a matter of people trusting Google. It's an absolute distrust in Facebook.
Civil liability will be on company bottom lines (or their insurers), yes you can't put a price on life but you can punish non-criminal negligence financially. The insurers make their money by raising premiums on those who are higher risk, so there is still a financial disincentive to not screw it up.

Civil negligence can turn into criminal negligence when deception is involved (see VW).

Self driving cars are the ultimate in road safety though, I mean, you cannot encode them to willfully disobey traffic laws (or doing so would be criminal negligence). Pretty sure they will initially be fleet vehicles anyways. The death rate will surely go down, no one with any credibility is predicting otherwise, but there will always people berating the few deaths that remain.
It's certainly not cheap, but if you're doing things like replacing appliances, countertops, sinks, and windows, I can't imagine it costing anywhere near as much as what your friend experienced.

But I'm just getting this from talking to friends who have done it; no first-hand experience here yet.
I wish there was a cheap phone that had huge battery life and ran Calls, SMS, WhatsApp and Signal and that was it. Both are now such an important part of how people communicate to me that it's impossible to ditch a smartphone.

How come no one was built a mobile app that locks down all apps other than those you select (e.g WhatsApp/Signal) for X amount of time until you put a code in or (even better) a partner/friend sends you a code. Would be great for enforce non device time.
Startups are not working on the big problems in education, healthcare, housing/homelessness, income inequality, etc. because those are not problems you can solve by bringing innovative products and services to market, they're problems you solve with different public policy.

The space of problems that could hypothetically be addressed by a free-market actor is pretty well tended already; it isn't crazy that we see free-market actors working on things that look unimportant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/science/its-no-accident-a...
Punishing the driver would make drivers join with residents in fighting for speed control. The current state is a huge privilege for drivers at the expenses of pedestrians, because drivers aren't required to care about safety.
And SC had the highest. Couldn't find comparable numbers for the rest of the EU.
I am sorry if you read my comment literally. When I said the names above I've got in mind something exactly opposite. That they are often used while they should not be. That people should understand better, but instead they choose to use names. I should better shape my thoughts.

As for the fate... I think we should change the angle a little bit. Autistic brain walks different paths, as you know already. The transit driver may not care what his peers are thinking about his interest. There are no peers anyway. I could assume that fate of the closest relatives is not an easy one, but the transit driver himself might be a happy person. He can follow his "special interests", he is focused, he's doing what he likes whole day - this is what keeps him satisfied. You may be happy about social interaction you have been able to pursue. But there are plenty of others who don't care about that aspect of life. Even more, they value a solitude better than being with the crowd. For a neuro-typical person his state of mind may be treated as disability, for him it might be a blessing. On the other hand many autistic adults, especially if they aren't diagnosed (or not properly so), have a lot doubts. They are aware about their peers, social circles forming above and below but very often out of reach, about loneliness. They have to live their lives with constant feeling that there is something wrong with them. I know people, and read about them too, an adults that got revelation after stumbling upon ASD traits list. Many claim this event was a life changer.
What do you think about your email signature?
So, I'm in charge of collecting feedback on about email signature. We're trying to do something for sales and marketing in signature.

Do you give attention to your email signature? I would love to hear any feedback you might have about it.
which mobile apps exist specifically for HN?
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Meh to a certain extent but I'd rather use a giant Wacom on my desktop with all its processing power when using something like Zbrush then to do it over an iPad. Same with music, it's a lot easier to present dense amounts of information when you actually have the real estate to display it.
I don't think the legal principle rests on where the trash lies (public or private property); rather, on the idea of abandonment.

In many US states streets were never formally deeded to the municipality when the lots were platted, and there's a long standing legal principle that the lot owner has a fee-simple interest to the middle of the street. (Washington included, not sure about Oregon) ie, it's not public property, it's private property with an easement dedicated to the public.
I’m surprised they aren’t releasing it for free to align with their mission of connecting the world, always on, all the time.

Of course the catch would be it watches you, knows you by your face, and builds your advertising profile.
FBI chief calls unbreakable encryption 'urgent public safety issue'
> How come no one was built a mobile app that locks down all apps other than those you select (e.g WhatsApp/Signal) for X amount of time until you put a code in or (even better) a partner/friend sends you a code. Would be great for enforce non device time.

Isn't that exactly what the kid-friendly modes of the various mobile OSes do?
I don't know in this case because it was/is a secret mission and we probably will never know the whole truth ...
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Hi HN! This is a Show for the 2.0 release of ReactiveSearch.

What is this for:

- Building data-driven apps with React (or React Native), e.g. search UIs, dashboards, feeds.

- Building Elasticsearch UIs: components can query an Elasticsearch index that is hosted anywhere and supports all major ES versions (v2, v5 and v6).

Key highlights in this release:

- Compatible with any Elasticsearch index hosted anywhere.

- Comes with over 30 pre-built components which are common in building data-driven UIs.

- Can be extended to work with your own UI components. (Really handy if already have a designed component and want it to work with Elasticsearch).

- We also provide designer templates of all our components, which is helpful for creating pixel-perfect UIs.

- Consistent API for web and native mobile apps (Native version of the lib is in alpha today)

You can see a post for building an e-commerce UI using Reactivesearch - codeburst.io/how-to-build-an-e-commerce-search-ui-with-react-and-elasticsearch-a581c823b2c3.

A lot of sweat and love has gone into building this, would appreciate any helpful feedback, improvements we can make, or issues you may be seeing. :-)
Security I would imagine.

If your videos are on youtube, if someone copies the link they can just publish it somewhere else, or make a public playlist of all your 'paid' content.
It is based on a look up table. Each year starts with a 'day' (Sunday, Monday ..) and the pattern repeats every 7 or 8 years, so if you know the look up table for 7 or 8 years, you can go back forever.

You can also check if your son has "Eidetic memory" . It comes in very handy sometimes ;).
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not sure I understand the part about the text in 3 or 4 subtitles. You mean section headings on the wiki page, right?

If that's what you meant that is done now. Yes, I think that helps.
When the alternative is investing it in compromising my own security and freedom, bring on the bonfire IMO.
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Can anyone tell me what eelo is?

Edit: nevermind. www.kickstarter.com/projects/290746744/eelo-a-mobile-os-and-web-services-in-the-public-in
Plenty of people have made donations to Terry, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.
> For one, Ethereum is unable to access real time data from outside the blockchain. Developers need to rely on trusted third party data providers, called oracles, to provide smart contracts with outside information like weather, random numbers, or currency values.

I feel like this is more of a feature than a bug. If you're weaving applications into the blockchain, would it really be wise to have that chain communicate with abstract data off of the chain itself? Seems an unnecessary burden for the chain to bare!

Great article. I've recently gotten into Ethereum Dev and Solidity. It's really fun, fun stuff. This isn't directly addressed in the Ethereum portion of the article, but it's good to keep in mind that these things are all works in progress. Limitations today are non-such tomorrow; we don't quite know where the train is headed.

You, Developer, can help it get to wherever you feel it needs to go. Remember that before deciding not to contribute. :)
Then let's standardize generic ways that permit things like upvotes without reloading the page and without executing externally supplied code. :-)
>Incidentally, digital cameras with electronic shutters can do this much cheaper, but for various reasons nice cameras do not generally use electronic shutters.

I admit that I haven't thought about this for a while (I don't actually use flash a lot) but my impression was that most focal-plane shutters are rolling shutters or moving slits of some sort; at high speeds there's no point where the frame is completely open. Whereas leaf shutters have that at all speeds.

Most of the leaf-shutter lenses I have are for my old MF and LF film cameras. He's right about them being like watches. One real issue with using older lenses is that there aren't a lot of good repair folks left who know how to service them. I've got a real nice vintage Konica rangefinder with a busted shutter and there's literally one guy who might have the parts.

P.S. see above comment for better explanation.
Oh? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/20/london-now-danger...
Of course no one says that on their deathbed. Many people on their deathbeds have been retired for more than 20 years.

People in their 20s often care about their career. People in their 80s often do not. Who's right? It's often a trade-off. The goal is not to be happy on your deathbed; it's to be happy throughout life.
> Anyone else find it strange that the author used SAT scores as a metric for intelligence

Since SAT scores are very highly correlated with IQ test scores, and they are often more available, no, not at all.

I'm much more concerned with how the sample (if it can even be called that) was generated, which kind of makes the whole thing worthless. The pointers to peer-reviewed studies (even though almost certainly cherry-picked) are more useful than the original “research” reported.
Yes, I think they discovered that people update their tasks right before lunch and right before they go home.
Did you establish your company before or after Afghanistan was given "freedom"?
Many complexes along El Camino on the peninsula seem to be increasing rent wherever possible. They "renovate" (add stainless appliances basically) and it lets them increase rent for a unit by a few hundred dollars at least. They also charge 200-300 more for a parking spot (I've spoken with complexes before where one unit without parking was 200-300 less than another with one spot, or a unit with an extra/second spot).

Some of these areas (Redwood City in this case) are next to major Caltrain stations with Baby Bullet stops. But they're also convenient (technically speaking) for going on 101S/N to work, etc.
3 : one of a pair: such as
a : either member of a couple and especially a married couple
b : either member of a breeding pair of animals
c : either of two matched objects

Seriously, what's wrong with that?
The whole west works different I think. I mean, who in their right mind would build their house right next to the highway (without a fairly long highway) if they didn't have to? As long as you have the land, you would build it 50-100 meters back!

The only time I see otherwise is if mountains or rivers are involved, or there is density (in which case it is sure to be zoned!).
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Thanks for the reply, I think I've got it now: the ultimate attack is still to read arbitrary memory, and the part about defeating typechecking and crafting a pointer is intended to expand the range of memory that can be read.
No it's not; that's a pretty circular definition. Determining the market rate involves comparisons with similar units in the same neighborhood.
I don't think unshielded nukes in orbit are easy to detect. Back on Earth you need to get up close (within a few meters) in order to distinguish the radiation signature from the background radiation, and in space the background level is much higher. Source: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/R40154.pdf (see page 78 and onwards for a discussion about detecting nukes at a distance)
I have driven through such areas (mostly in Texas) and I found it very unsettling that the speed limit was so high. In other areas, it's not uncommon for the speed limit to be reduced to 25 (or maybe 35) in a residential area.
The parent of my previous comment claimed:

> [...] it really feels like people love to watch Space X fail.

which is why I said that...
If you're just interested in the data and not the long article, here it is:

https://www.scribd.com/document/368759484/Snapchat-Data-Lore...
From hearing how much Spiegel & leadership hate leaks, I wonder if they have some kind of watermarking in place for sensitive data. E.g. a trustworthy leader has access to the full, real data, and each engineer/analyst upon querying for dating receives results slightly fuzzed by a known amount. If that data is leaked to the press, the fuzzing could let leadership burn the mole.

Has there been any proof-of-concept or product for data watermarking at the DB level?
Awesome. Thanks for chiming in.
A few general principles of biology examplified:

- When there's food, someone will show up to eat it.

- Almost everything is food for someone
> On the webcast, the host went silent for over a minute when fairing separation should have occurred, before coming back with

Or the host was not cleared to view the fairing separation/payload themselves and had to get their information from others.
When I use a microsoft product, I'm more likely to be paying for it, unlike with many Google products. So for whatever reason, I'd like to think they are protecting my privacy slightly more.
Not all creeps and weirdos (or nerds) have autism. And many high functioning autists are not creepy. Some are, but not enough to make this assumption fair to all of high functioning autists who while a bit weird or hard to date, are not creeps.
Not for their lack of trying though, with their efforts in Bing and Windows 10 telemetry. It’s ony because no one uses their products that rely on personal information compared to the number of people who buy office and windows licenses.
Sure, but that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about building automation to actually make decisions on legislation, or on things like "input evidence -> here's your prison sentence".
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How about this?

1. Actually effective regulation takes money and resources. E.g. it requires hiring scientists and doing tests to measure safety, staff to administer compliance, etc.

2. There isn't much money or resources going to the regulator.

3. Therefore, de facto there cannot be much real regulatory oversight, since the money to measure and enforce the things you care about isn't there.

Like sure, you can wave your hands and say these things were de jure FDA approved or GRAS or whatever, but that could just be what an overburdened and underfunded agency just does by default.

We can debate whether ~$1bn is an adequate amount for the FDA to keep us safe from all the bad things it's supposed to, but certainly at some level of funding this argument must be correct. E.g. if your regulator was funded with $1mm / annum there's no way there was any real regulation.
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Hello, api.

You might want to check this page out:

https://www.stateofthedapps.com

There are 938 projects listed that leverage Ethereum/Solidity.

One of my personal favourites is: https://colony.io. The whitepaper is a fun read.
They act like it does, though. Makes me think their target is data, and not operating systems / hardware.
My favorite part about the blockchain is that it is a standard building block for decentralized byzantine consensus. Throw Ripple's XRP Consensus algorithm at 50-100 nodes and you know that 30% or more would have to be compromised to break the guarantees.

That's really cool because I can code the rest of the interface (front end etc.) with sloppy security and then ACTUALLY BOLT ON a secure layer with guarantees at the end.

Makes development much more streamlined. As the author of a huge codebase (https://qbix.com/platform) I worry that there are lots of security holes. With such a large attack surface, most new open source projects are swiss cheese, like early Wordpress (which is still full of holes from plugins).

Here, we just build our MODEL layer with a blockchain and KNOW the rules are going to be enforced.

Combine that with IPFS and a token and suddenly you don't have to pay for hosting to scale to billions of people. It's nice.
I'd believe that if advertisers weren't shifting their budgets over to Instagram Stories at Snap's expense [1][2].

[1] http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/snap-stock-pr...

[2] https://digiday.com/marketing/scale-matters-advertisers-opti...
Yes, there has been a substantial shift. I found the book "Cherubs, Chattels, Changelings" to be a good treatment of the difference.

Suffice it to say, we have a very unusual society today, compared to the arc of human history.
Agreed, but that can also be replicated, whereas most platforms would be very hesitant to switch to disappearing messages by default. I think this is a (if not the) key differentiator.

If you couldn't tell, I'm big on snapchat as a messaging platform, not as a social platform.
I have the a trash can too. I was considering what to do about that. Can you share what linux distros you are running and an example linux compatible usb wifi dongle?
You are right, Snapchat's failure to monetize their inventory has nothing to do with either Google or Facebook, simply because neither Google or Facebook has access to the Snapchat inventory to begin with.

I believe advertisers are not jumping on Snapchat's inventory because the perception about said inventory: kids chatting with other kids and porn. Why would you advertise on that?