skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, all you have to do is review the government statistics on vaccine injuries to see the list of all the people who got GBS from the flu shot

https://www.hrsa.gov/advisorycommittees/childhoodvaccines/Me...
Ok, but besides my main point (regarding doing a cost benefit analysis), from your comments I doubt you understand herd immunity, and probably should not be attempting to teach others about it...

If the virus is too infectious you need very high rates of immunization for it to work.

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

Most of the time those R0 values assume "well mixed populations" (any one person is just as likely to contact any other person) amongst other things, so don't take them too seriously. However, the basic idea that you don't automatically get herd immunity is simple enough. Eg, just what I found quickly on the topic:

>"Whether vaccination of healthcare personnel can lead to a herd effect reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza among patients is still inconclusive. Pooled data from a Cochrane review of 3 cluster randomized controlled trials showed no reduction of laboratory-confirmed influenza (OR 0.86, 95% CI 0.44–1.68; p = 0.66), lower respiratory tract infections, admission to hospital (OR 0.89, 95% CI 0.75–1.06), and deaths from pneumonia (OR 0.82, 95% CI 0.45–1.49) in patients when healthcare personnel were vaccinated [35]. However, given that mathematical models suggest a herd effect [36], more rigorous studies need to be conducted."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3171704/
Course to take?
Hey guys,
I realized this has been asked before, but the answers are mostly dated and online ed is changing fast, so I figured I would ask: what are some good video based online courses to take? Can be anything, from a site like coursera/udacity/etc. or one posted by a university like Stanford, can be free or paid, anything at all. I personally am a CS student, so would appreciate some options outside of introductory CS/Math skills (for which there are a TON of great online courses), but I figure other people may also use this as a resource, so if you know a good one go ahead and post it.
A couple of years back there was a paralyzed guy who went to China and got stem cell injections and was able to walk again. He did an AMA on reddit and the whole thing was full of people gaslighting him that he wasn't really paralyzed, or it wasn't really permanent, or he wasn't really healed, etc. Then we did it in the U.S a couple years later and claimed we're the first. Gibson's observation that "The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed" applies here.
YC is a great option to build a business. There are more paths though, so don't be discouraged. Stream participated in Techstars NYC. The MD in NYC (Alex Iskold) is excellent. It's been 2 years and he's still helping us out. YC does a great job of selecting companies, but they can't always get it right. Qualifying early stage companies is very hard. I'd definitely recommend giving Techstars some thought as well. They really go the extra mile to help you succeed.
Disappointing (lack of) response/fix

Would have assumed they'd do better given how polished their consumer products are
Bitcoin and proof of work consensus is just the tip of the iceberg. Since then, lots of advancement happened in the field. You can easily choose from different implementations of prof stake or DAG systems.

You can have a bird's eye view of most common platforms on this infographic:

https://medium.com/world-of-blockchains/the-history-of-block...
Btw it's not like the BMW is the only one charging for the mobile connection in the car... it's basically another cell phone + monthly plan, they are not free.

CarPlay is some firmware, and whatever it costs to certify the unit through the Made for iPhone program. After that, everything comes off my phone including any data. IOW, the Pioneer head unit that has CarPlay I bought for one of our cars doesn't even have a slot for a SIM, because the phone takes care of all that.

So once the R&D is paid for, which I'm happy to pay for (with a suitable margin for BMW) once, CarPlay is essentially free of ongoing costs to the manufacturer.
A light emphasis on the first syllable would be correct. It shifts to the second syllable in a word like "heretical" (he-RET-i-cal). Webster's dictionary and Wiktionary seem to agree. Oxford would be authoritative for English itself, but I don't have access to that.
>There are still millions of apps so discoverability is impossible

I know it doesn't really help, but Apple has started to remove old, abandoned apps.
edit: sorry, this is not directly responsive. I intended to post at the top level.

I own this scale, and am bummed. I finally figured out how to reliably (as in, repeatably) get it to work, by first letting it measure my weight, and then bracing myself against the wall to prevent minute movements that tripped it up. Without doing this, and instead treating it like a normal scale, it had a poor track record of successfully making the measurement.

They claim they were not prompted by the FDA, but made an internal decision based on the possibility the feature would run afoul of regulation in certain unnamed jurisdictions.

I'm trying to decide the odds that they're being straight forward, or covering for inaccuracy of the device that they've decided will be a liability.

I wonder that, because I'm curious whether it's worth the effort to prevent the scale from receiving the destructive update.
Net Neutralitiy is pro-buisness and pro-consumers.

If you want to make an internet startup in a NN jurisdiction you won't have additional costs to deliver the service to customers. For what reason would NN make be anti-buisness?
>> Social Media giants) exploiting dopamine triggers and psychological drives for social validation

> Isn't that a fancy way of saying they are making their product do things that people enjoy, so that people will use the product?

No, It's actually a fancy way of saying they design their products to be addictive, like slot machines are for many people. It's not true enjoyment, but mindless engagement exploited for profit.
Hey Rahul,

Sure! Skype is isaacalbets. Are you avail tomorrow around between 1-3 p.m London time?
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The biggest difference is, that Android's build system is completely avoided as of now. The system consists of small packages, and you can easily modify those parts without rebuilding the entire system.

Regarding blobs, right now there are no blobs running in the userspace. Firmware blobs are needed for Wifi for example. There are plans to both allow proprietary blobs in userspace (to get accelerated graphics for people who want that trade-off), but at the same time to make these entirely optional.

Relevant part of the post[0]:

"In contrary to most Linux on smartphone projects, almost all these photos and the video are taken off devices which do not run proprietary code on the main CPU. The only exception is the Droid 4, which @NotKit owns. He is actively working on making proprietary Android drivers usable in postmarketOS with libhybris. Libhybris allows devices lacking FLOSS drivers to make full use of their hardware."

"While we don't welcome binary blobs and prefer to sandbox them where we ship them at all, we embrace this solution for people who want it. However we intend to keep closed source components entirely optional, so you can run pmOS as libre as you want it."

[0]: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2017/12/31/219-days-of-postmar...
I don't know why this got downvoted, this is a pretty common theme across America. Look at the Alabama senate race and pretty much every race in North Carolina for examples. This, as well as gerrymandering, has lead to the disproportions in the house and state governments. Democrats being concentrated makes it much easier to have close races in terms of total votes cast per party, but disproportionate representation.
Clearly running stateful services is hard on something like Kubernetes without delegating volume management to something like ceph.

Would something like Mesos resource reservation mechanism with persistent volumes do the job? When you run on premise you usually want to recover from a temporary failure or reboot and maybe run a special admin script if you feel like the node is not going to come back anytime soon.
They don't seem to be dying
Nope, "real" molds are made out of tool steel. Corrosion isn't really a problem since machines are typically stored indoors.
Intel's announcement never mentions the word "microcode". There's no reference to specific identified patches. Given that, one has to assume that the recommended remedy is not to use certain Intel hardware. PR, like contracts, has to be given the interpretation least favorable to the author.
PyTorch was born from Lua Torch but they're not interchangeable and noting installation issues regarding Lua Torch when the article is discussing PyTorch is likely confusing.

PyTorch helpfully provides clear installation instructions for each platform and package manager at http://pytorch.org/ and the team have consistently been careful to ensure they work simply.
"Fermi estimate"? You know that Fermi was known for backing up his talk with numbers, right? How can you say that then "surely it's a few cents"?
He didn't declassify them. They were scheduled to be declassified. Trump's involvement was that the IC asked him to stop them from being declassified and he ignored their request, probably out of spite for the IC.
> Being able to call out bullshit doesn't mean having to curse it out

Sometimes this is actually necessary to get heard, and have the issue taken seriously. It helps providing the feedback that something REALLY wrong just happened and needs to be addressed immediately.

Imagine a sergeant talking to a trainee. What's the most efficient ?

- "Dear soldier, I think the way you handle your weapon is going to get you killed in a few moment. You should probably change that appropriately. If I may provide you this advice, of corse."

- "Stop this shit now! You're going to shoot yourself!"
> Want to learn to code? There is no better time to start than right now... (snip) Don’t let these illustrations scare you.

(emphasis not mine)

Great sign for the industry when newbie material starts out like this. \s

Nowadays I actively scare people away who ask me about getting into web dev. "Well, first you'll need to learn about 12 different technologies... you'll get your first job based on 6 of those and throw away the other 6, can't say which... then you'll replace those 6 with 6 more that do pretty much the same thing... then a year later when the industry changes you'll throw away 4 of those and learn 4 more which do, like I said, pretty much the same thing..." By this time the person is already changing the subject.
The main threats are protocol and network level. For example, request-smuggling and hi-jacking attacks can take the form of bugs in proxies and servers that allow requests to be smuggled because they don't escape newlines in headers and so on. With signing, these requests don't validate.

It takes a much smaller TCB, and no connection state, to AAA a signed request, but with mutual-auth you need a state machine and the TCBs for X509/ASN.1 validation tend to be huge. That's not what you want in a security critical control. Honestly, enabling normal TLS mutual-auth likely degrades security in most cases, as it opens the server to whatever attacks the X509 processing is vulnerable to. ALTS mitigates this somewhat by using Protobufs, but that's still a very very big TCB. Compare that to say the TCB for validating HMAC or ed25519.

Then there's the basic stuff I already pointed out, like sessions lasting longer than their credentials are valid for. The layering violation invites these kind of issues.
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Ask HN: Is there a legal way to get paid for social engineering?
There are various websites, bug/exploit payouts, contests and other prizes for technical security bypassing. Is there a way as an individual to get paid for auditing security or otherwise winning prize money for primarily using social engineering?
I'm curious about your EEG research. I remember getting one of the original emotiv epocs but being really disappointed in it.
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Wow, that's awesome, I've never thought of that! I guess it's similar to how a prism deconvolutes light eh?
It was also turned into an animated short, directed by Ralph Bakshi[0]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MNNl-oOI7I

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butter_Battle_Book#Televis...
This describes my experiences perfectly.
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I live here and have some familiarity with the ISP landscape. I'm going to bet that all* ISPs operating in the state are going to have contracts with the state.

*Well, all ISPs of any consequence.
Could it not also be a filter for expensive? Do you think if you do the prep etc, they may find another way to filter out your expertise?
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It won't work. I know a lot of educated folks who believe the fake news. Politics has for a long time lied by omission in the national press. Now they just blatantly lie. The stuff we see today is propaganda dressed up in identity politics. In addition, there are plenty of fake Facebook accounts and other avatars on comments sites that may also be Russian trolls pushing disinformation.
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It ends up doing kids a lot more social harm than good if their non-native speaking parents speak to them in their non-native language poorly -- you end up with a child who speaks their parents non-native language badly, and who doesn't even know their mother tongue.
the DNS rebinding vulnerability exists in applications other than Blizzard games, such as this one in Bittorrent Transmission also reported by Tavis Ormandy....

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468

Seems to be a quite prevalent issue...
Could someone explain in the most accessible language, how a problem like this could even be fixed?
,>vastly underestimating the cognitive powers of young children.

I have been wondering if education in a single language is not a inhibitor of development much beyond anything that we can presently suspect. My pathetic reading of history places human development where either languages are daily flux, along trade routes, else in close proximity and contact even as created in wartime alliances. How easily do we attribute to the national character our perception of intellectual capacity and style. The joke about Hungarians being perforce genii the complexity of their language demanding that agility. So should I expose my infant son to as many spoken languages as possible for the longest time?
> The very strong 45º lines in the rotated image are probably mostly artifacts caused by the image edges seen in the rotated version.

I think this is correct, and there are also some (more subtle) artifacts in the unrotated version for the same reason. The thing I don't understand is why this occurs for 2D images, but there are no artifacts created by the "edges" of a 1D sound (i.e. the start and end of the clip).
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Lol that's actually what we used initially (still do). We rolled our own way of processing the EEG signals (which are notoriously noisy), then we used a technique to remove movement.

Now typically those type of analysis are done post run. However,I worked on it for a while and now in real-time we can do error correction based on movement. This enables those EEGs to be within spitting distance of medical grade EEGs.
I disagree. Stepanov wanted to write that kind of software. He would have done it in any vehicle he found suitable. If he hadn't started with Ada, he still would have wound up writing it in some language.

And C++ was among the better candidates for the language to use. It was more suitable than Ada.

And, do you have any basis for the statement that Stroustrup advocated C++ to Stepanov?
So basically this is a local web server that is used for IPC? Is there a reason to do local IPC over TCP/IP, rather than over named pipes / unix pipes, other than not knowing about the existence of named pipes / unix pipes?
The only surprise here is that it's so little. I wonder how much higher that number will go.
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Keep in mind that most ISPs get contracts with state government and are generally subsidized by state contracts, especially for city and rural rollouts. Notably Verizon gets a number of complaints in NYC and NJ for not fulfilling contracts. It also opens the doors for other smaller ISPs to get those contracts and create more competition.
Is there a list somewhere? Do some of them do ICO
Don't know why you're getting down voted because that guy was onto something. He wanted a pickup too, which is a requirement for residency.
If enough people believe it it must be true, right? Right?
> That’s why if someone who knows a language never speaks it again after age 7, there’s a good chance they’ll forget most of it. But if you yank them away around age 12 or older and reintroduce them to it 30 years later, there’s a good chance they won’t miss a beat, Hernandez says.

This squares with my experience. I learned Kannada from age 4 to 7, living in Bangalore. My sister, 4 years older than me, also learned it, and can still read and understand the language. I, on the other hand, had forgotten Kannada within 8 months of leaving Bangalore for Mumbai, where it's not commonly spoken.
Ah, I think I completely misunderstood you. When I read

> From what I gather, some of this is cultural. His country of origin is just generally blunt and direct about things.

I assumed you meant

> His country of origin is just generally blunt and direct about things and that is sufficient justification for his using a rude tone on a public mailing list

and I was also rather confused because this seemed to be a non-sequitur. I thought you had indended to reply to one of the other comments criticising his tone. On rereading it now seems that you were saying that

> His country of origin is just generally blunt and direct about things and this is why his is good at calling out bullshit when he sees it

Sorry for a double misunderstanding. If I hadn't made the first one I wouldn't have made the second one either.
It varies per device, but the wiki also has some information about which firmware is needed/where more research needs to be done/which free software re-implementations exist.

One example:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_SII_(samsu...

(I'm a developer)
Bitcoin Client, Critical Unflipper Vulnerability Steals Coins

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16206743

Apparently, the Federal Government, Amazon, Google, and Facebook have known about the security issues of directly using unary negation without the gg-flip table driven approach for some time.

The link claims Shodan found over 20,000 vulnerable government servers and to apply gg-flip immediately.
If enough people believe something it must be true, right?
Absolutely. They may even go as far as saying it around the office and to all their friends. ;)
> if your company is already incorporated as a non-United States company, to participate in YC you will need to convert your foreign company into a United States corporation

I have always wondered what this means exactly. If I'm the CEO of a company outside the US, that is unrelated to what the startup would be doing, does it matter?

Is it just a question of who owns the IP for the startup? And even if another company owns the IP, can't the IP be transferred/sold without converting the company itself?
Agreed. I tried automating an installation of some software in powershell. I kept getting different errors on different windows machines depending on what version of Windows they were on and what features they had installed. Ended up rewriting the whole thing in C#. Runs everywhere I need it to and zero issues.
>It has become clear to me that sub-40 hour work weeks don't really work from many perspectives. The most important factor is that many jobs require a minimum degree of attention. More focus does translate into better results.

I work best when I'm relaxed and able to focus. Long workdays are very detrimental to my focus and attention.

I wish I could remember where I read it, but I did see something about the ideal workday being around 6 hours at the most. Any longer than that, and the extra time is simply wasted on not being productive.
I of course agree. But this isn't a serious argument against banning them.

With a ban, there are legal routes that people can take to sue their governments to enforce the law.

Unless you mean to imply the ban will be completely ineffective. I think that would be absurd thing to argue, as there are an uncountable number of instances where laws have been effective.
That's because for decades binding to localhost has been taken to mean "only users on the local machine can access this". Now chrome is breaking that assumption through a leaky sandbox, and demanding everyone else change rather than fixing their own security issues.
Everything I've heard and read is that it's used only at the end of the season, and just before harvest. Snopes seems to poo-poo this idea. So killing the wheat isn't the issue, it's already dead.

No idea why glysophates would be used as a desiccant over other dedicated products... Again, I will be seeing my friend (works in GMO crop industry) in about 2 weeks, and I will discuss this with him in person, since that is who I got this information from.

Edit: I suspect that large companies have little motivation to ensure food is clean and healthy in the same manner as a small farm does. And if you want to play funny numbers, if you do the math, a _large_ percentage of farmers may not use glyphosates, but since there are very few large corporate farms, then that is where Snopes gets it's "small percentage of farmers" comes from. But ignores the fact that a large percentage of the wheat comes from them. Just a logic thought on statical manipulation.
And it is also difficult to get started with a new project. You need to setup multitude of tools just to see a production worthy `Hello World` app.
Nothing you said is really related to the topic... classic computer viruses are a thing of the past and there are so many other attack vectors.
There's also entertainment (music, kids shows).
> ICE has a chance to wreck YC..

What would wreck YC is if potential foriegn applicants actually listened to the FUD and then decided not to apply.
When I combine all tx/s of all the cryptocurrencies I need even more energy.

Also Visa is only just one company, there are also Master, American Express, Paypal, SEPA transactions and a lot more.

So I don't understand what you try to tell me and how screaming improves your argumentation.
I've never been more disappointed in a product than the Nest Cam. Nest's lack of panning and zooming, and a subscription service PER camera? False alarms so frequent that i ignore them now, which defeats the purpose? I don't know if it was marketed as a security device or i just assumed it would be, but its far from a good security device in my case.

I used to have 3 Foscam's (now rebranded to Amcrest) recording to a local central server, backing up to an offsite location, and tried with some success to get imageMagick to weed out any duplicate false alarms. Thought the NestCam would be make things more friction-less, but its worse. (I lost the old setup but am probably going back to the new ones soon).

OP: to get around your notification rule, you can try IFTTT. I've had various levels of success: it always seems to work fine for a week, and then something changes (android update? ifttt update? nest app update?) and it breaks until i notice it again.