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I can't speak for Facebook, only for why we at Amazon have s2n. TLS/SSL is a critical piece of internet infrastructure and it involves some reasonable complexity: cryptography, networking, and state machines.
When you have billions of users and trillions of connections, the weight and importance of solving security, performance, and compatibility issues is pretty high.

Some examples: s2n is about 2% more efficient than OpenSSL for what we do, that might seem small, but even if I just measure what means for Amazon S3 cost savings, it's more than worth our development time! Another is extreme compatibility, for example we go out of our way to fingerprint the hello messages that come from certain Java versions, so that we can work around performance issues for those clients.

When we do make backwards incompatible changes, like retiring insecure cipher-suites we can do it in painstakingly tedious ways, like making it the least preferred and instrumenting clients so that we can figure out exactly what's left and why. This isn't always easy or obvious; retiring RC4 wasn't just flipping a flag but also chasing down how to prevent playback from stuttering on underpowered third-party Amazon Video clients that suddenly had to do the extra work of AES as well as rendering MP4 in real time. That's just one example to give you an idea.

TLS1.3 is itself a good example of where the priorities are different. TLS1.3 0-RTT has some real safety/security issues around replays. For us, we have to take those issues very seriously because AWS vends protocols over HTTPS that actually implement transactions, and sensitivity to replay has to be very precise. Internally AWS is also a lightning fast network and response times tend to be dominated by application latency, not network round trips. Facebook on the other hand has a lot of mobile clients over distant, awful, networks, and wants to improve that experience a lot. They also have full control over the requests being issued.
I try to parallelize as many tasks as possible. My SO absolutely hates this a lot of times because it means you have to work for longer period of times instead of breaking up tasks. But stuff does get done in less absolute time.

Example: We're baking something. Say cornbread. My usual thing is to immediately wash the dishes after putting the stuff into the oven. This means two things happen at once: dishes and cooking. Then when while we're eating, the dishes are drying. So then someone can put away the dishes and then the other can start putting any other dishes we used into the sink.

Basically, I just try to parallelize tasks as much as possible. Grouping them is good too but sometimes mentally it's too much to wait for the grouping to occur. I do cost benefit analysis on things like multiple trips vs one heavy and awkward trip. Sometimes multiple trips is faster and less stressful. Try to factor things in like: well if I have less stuff in my arms I can /run/. I can't do that when I have a bunch of stuff in my hands.

Other things I do are like: try to step up 2 steps at a time at the pace of doing 1 at a time. Basically 2x up stair climbing performance. Run/jog to various parts of the home or between the car and getting inside. Just trying things to speed things up and get little bits of exercise in.

Unfortunately, I live in very small spaces so I frequently optimize for time over space (cost of being a newer resident in the Bay area). Very small cache here so no option to buy in bulk. :)

Oh and other unusual things: try to do stuff with your non dominate hand. I only brush my teeth with my non dominant hand. Incredibly difficult at first with a manual brush (small circles are hard!). But after 10+ years, much better. I try this with various tasks just to try to up my dexterity and keep life interesting.
An innovative project called Golem (golem.network) is working on distributed computational power with data privacy and verification. They seem to be ahead of the pack and think this could be the future of computing.
They didn't give any reason for doing so that I'm aware of. Maybe they have ambitions of their own for streaming thier games as a paid service and don't want competition.
How does a distributed market (like OpenBazaar) deal with trust? Is every transaction put into escrow?

The idea of a open, distributed market, is great. But the reality of scammers, cheaters, etc. is a big hurdle to over come. One of the great things about Amazon is the customer service, I don't really worry about not getting a product, or if I need to return an item to Amazon I am also confident that it won't be an issue. This seems really hard to accomplish in a distributed system with lots of small "shops".
Rainway is software you can install on your local gaming rig or cloud provider of your choice. Once you've installed the Dashboard on your PC, we establish a P2P connection between it and the connecting client.

Then we utilize your existing computer hardware and games, and you can play them instantly inside of a browser via low latency, high fidelity stream.
Regarding the commentators, I saw that part and took it as them having fun with the situation, not really making a statement about how the technology works. Esports commentators tend to be more jokey/entertaining than traditional sports in my experience.
nope... uk gets something right I guess
Who cares about downvotes?

>My biggest concern is that this crackdown on a crackpot will set off one of his high-functioning, mentally ill fans to pull a Timothy McVeigh type of vigilante response on one of the companies who have canned him in the last 24 hours. Is my concern unwarranted?

It's not unwarranted. But nor should our society walk on eggshells for fear of upsetting these people. It would give a lot of power to a very extreme minority... and probably not a minority that can be expected to be responsible with any power...
I'm curious what people would propose we do about this? What if it turns out that doctors of the same ethnic group treat their co-ethnics better, even if it isn't conscious? I fear the conclusion people will draw is just a new form of segregation in every area of life.
Support your local credit union! Though it's still worth shopping credit unions for ATM coverage and fees, just to be sure.
Wait, am I understanding this right? Apple is doing exactly what they forbid iOS developers from doing for years? Downloading code from the internet and executing it, in order to make runtime decisions or to allow live upgrades? That's just hypocritical BS right there. But the comment thread in the tweet is wrong about it being dangerous. Lua can be sandboxed like any decent VM in 2018. "Danger" isn't the problem.
I don’t have sources but I remember reading that heart issues manifest differently in women than men and that women weren’t taken as seriously when explaining their symptoms (indicative of heart issues) to male docs. I think that would explain why the reverse situation doesn’t arise.
I find that most of it strengthens my opposing view and a sliver of it makes me reconsider my own beliefs.

I find radio which has a perspective that matches my own to be insufferable. It’s not funny, it’s uptight, it’s often miserable in it’s Subject matter.

I just prefer my entertainment to be creative people arguing absurd points over boring professors explaining climate change.
>I am pretty sure that the net economic value created by Apple has far outstripped any alleged deficiencies in they taxes.

That's not how taxes, or any law for that matter, work. You don't get to steal from the society that created you by screeching "but look at the JOBS I created!"
> The researchers divided 500,000-plus cases into four categories: male doctors treating men; male doctors treating women; female doctors treating men; and female doctors treating women. “All of those are statistically indistinguishable except for male doctor–female patient,”

> Female doctors may also simply be performing at least some parts of the job better than their male counterparts do. In the new study everyone was more likely to survive if they saw a female physician, and a study published last year in JAMA Internal Medicine indicated all patients of female physicians had lower mortality and hospital readmission rates.

Both of the above findings are at least somewhat contradictory, given that the first study found no statistical difference between male-patient-outcomes when being treated by male vs female doctors. Before jumping to conclusions, I think it's worth studying this effect more rigorously first. The female cardiologist they quoted said it best:

> It is a little early to say male physicians have trouble treating female heart attack patients based on these data alone, says Michelle O’Donoghue, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School who did not work on the new study. “Spurious signals sometimes come up [in research], so this should be replicated,”

Or as xkcd would put it: https://xkcd.com/882/
thanks for the answer, that should be stated somewhere :)
This is great. Paying twice as much for a processor with twice as many cores makes a lot of sense in this case. I'm glad it wasn't more.

I've got my costs down for a TR machine and it comes in at around $4K CAD.
> That and our hilariously large military.

Due to treaties, the US protects one quarter of the world -https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/05/30...

Also, provides defense to the world's oceans.

And employs millions as a massive jobs program - https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2010/0813/Am...
I've ridden a lefty a couple times, and apart from the visuals, it didn't really feel unusual. I more or less didn't notice that I was on a lefty.

Here's an article that looks at it a bit more in depth: https://factoryjackson.com/2016/02/18/cannondale-lefty-the-s...

I haven't tried a 2WD, but everything I've read suggests that the added weight and friction delivers pretty limited utility, at least in non-electric versions.
A terrorist attack without terrorists. We're doing this to ourselves.
I think it's time to make the gun illegals on the street on a massive scale.
How big of an area is this happening in? Would police saturation of the area be practical and effective?
That's something that Apple forbids app developers from doing (unless the lua interpreter is running in a webview).
Moreso, why on earth would they then need this data in the first place?
It’s nice that Apple isn’t tying this functionality to OS updates. It was pretty bad a few months back when typing prediction went haywire and we had to wait weeks for a fix.

Separately, I’m surprised Apple didn’t do this with Swift. I thought one of the goals of Swift was to be a good language for low level code up to high level scripting.
Or there are people like me who hold their business & personal accounts at wells fargo, but have savings accounts at banks such as ally & citizen's access. You don't have to go all in on a single bank.
Read Rocket Fuel. Its a book I am sure the HN crowd will critique but it has made a large difference in how my biz operates and how multiple founders fill roles. I am very much an "integrator" from the book. I am less of the massive, big picture and more of the day to day execution. Good at growth/maintenance. Not great as a true "founder". And I have managed through near death and it seemingly took years off my life so I'd prefer not to go back to that one!
Sadly developer productivity is a problem to have, only if you have a legit business case, which most startups don't have.

Truth is, Python or Node or Go doesn't matter. Your customer won't care if it takes some input and output something they expected. Technology is cheap.
never say never...what you're saying could 'never' happen, already has.
My own silly analysis: monetisation can come at a later stage. Since the server is running on the customer's Window machine they won't have much infrastructure costs to support even if they get very popular. If the main product is free then revenue can be added through extensions like hosted service or parnership (eg: integration with Twich or another video game streaming service).
Yeah, it's broken. You will get matches for one letter, but not for 3. It's ridiculous.
That would probably be worse. At least the weird contraptions they drew are (even if only vaguely) recognisable as a bicycle.

This also raises the question of what you'd get if you asked drivers to draw what they see when they're sitting in the driver's seat.
IME gamers are those who most likely are willing to shell out noticeably more money for something which they perceive may potentially improve their game performance.

Statistically I’m pretty sure most of them aren’t too scientific about their assumptions.

Hence the huge market for lots of HW which no normal person would buy, explicitly targeted at gamers.

TLDR: reality doesn’t matter as long as the x CPUs are faster :)
There's no point in doing that, because if you can do that you can do $$ <--> $$
I was happy that they finally added a simple search tool for their tools on their homepage.

It wouldn't be a very sustainable business, but you could make good money selling a chrome extension that cleans up AWS similar to what Reddit Enhancement Suite does.
A bit off-topic. I've noticed that P/E ratio (Price / Earnings) is pretty decent for Apple and it doesn't change much. In fact, since 2009 till today P/E stays in corridor between ~10 and ~20. What it means is that $1TB market cap is relatively cheap price for Apple. Their stock price merely reflects growing net income, so their EPS (Earning Per Share) growing steadily over years:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/pe-rati...
You aren’t understanding it right. That isn’t forbidden.
Hmm, this isn't great. Currently using Azure Kubernetes Service and we haven't had many issues so far, but we just made the shift.

Hope I don't have to move over to Google cloud.
This is a honest question: how could banning radio shows from social media possibly be not meant to control discourse?

Just imagine they do that with future political campaigns. That'd just be a sudden, corporate pre-approval process of potential future electables.
there is decent amount of startup activity in the midwest and growing

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-venture-capital-deal...
Why? With a sufficient sample size you can demonstrate even low power effects. The magnitude of the difference does not prevent good scientific analysis at all.
When you look at how wealth is built, perseverance approaches (hard work) usually win out over attempts to avoid hustling. The idea is to build a vehicle, like a company, that can then continue to generate income without direct application of effort. This vehicle can only be built through hard and smart work. The startup community also likes to focus their efforts on ideas that can scale to more broadly socially-useful ideas.

What wealth buys you is the ability to employ someone else to do the grunt work. But to get there the grunt work needs to get done.
Designing the Death of a Plastic
What is the model?
Given the number of times the post mentions Machine Learning (ML), I'm surprised they didn't skip the P for Pie and go straight to naming it Android ML ;)
The article was interesting to me because of its focus on how the two companies were using their respective advantages:
Amazon and their cloud computing platform + Whole Foods, Walmart and their large number of stores.
While there are multiple steps and items that can be combined together in your example, it does reinforce why I make sure to use cash for some transactions. I really don't want my ad targeting profile to change to "likely has children" when I buy things for my nieces and nephews.

A few years back there was the case where Target was using mailed ads specific to the profile they'd built for the recipient, and a man went in angry about the pregnancy stuff being advertised to his daughter. He went into the store outraged. Turns out, she actually was pregnant and hadn't yet told her father.

Ever since then, I've been more conscious of my purchasing patterns. I'm sure there are still technological advancements to track cash transactions, but it at least makes it more difficult.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
I recall attending a lecture with Ed Lazear at Stanford GSB about his front row seat to the GFC as chief economic advisor to the Bush White House.

Talk about an incredibly frightening description of events as they unfolded.

He even mentioned how Hank Paulson had been vomiting before having to front the nation/world on TV with the plan to keep the wheels from falling off the global economy.

One thing I recall from the lecture was how the White House and entire government by extension were completely incapable of understanding the types of insanely complex financial instruments that had been created and used.
Haven't RTFAed (on mobile with shit internet). Does the gender of the ER doc effect a change in male mortality rates as well?
Had almost the same experience. Someone came to us asking if we could build an app, but wasn’t willing to pay full price. We decided to do it for a minimal fee, but under the condition that they’d keep paying a monthly fee per user, and now here we are with a b2b SaaS product and a few more paying customers (it’s been passive income next to my day job for the last few years, revenue allows us to buy new laptops every year, not new cars :)

On doing things manually: i send invoices once per year by hand (few hours of work), do accounting in ledger for 1h once a quarter, and handle uncommon requests directly in the DB (rails console is amazing for that, this happens about once a month), but have automated password resets as we were getting too many emails on those.
that's my question?
Or JavaScript.

Presumably both of these have more overhead than Apple wanted in this case, but it does seem odd.
What specific policy are you proposing?
I feel like our impressions might be slightly thrown off by the fact that the two numbers are percentages. It's a difference of 0.4 percentage points, but that works out to a 4.2% increase in mortality, which seems a bit more substantial.
Interesting point. We currently direct a lot of our customers to Opternative (https://www.opternative.com/) to renew their prescription. Medium term, we might look into doing some of this in house.
This is an area which exposes how subconscious discrimination is itself a significant problem, not just overt sexism. Doctors who don't take women's reported symptoms as seriously results in more women dying, without any malice or intentional discrimination.
Of course, it is their platform. The reason they prevent runtime/live updates is because 3rd party developers can and will easily inject malicious code.

Apples owns the entire platform, I have no problem with them having "root" privileges. Honestly I'd rather have a closed platform with strict guidelines than the wild wild west that is Android.
The good news then is that you don't have to, each service has done so for you in the TOS that users sign.
It is. We test on Azure quite a lot and are working on getting an AMI created for easy distribution.
At least we are not like China, we just censor for the good reasons.
If I was opposed to the Sicilian mafia, that doesn't make me racist against all Sicilians. I don't understand how this is different.
I greatly prefer The Power of Now over his other books. IMO he does not practice what he preaches as much as he used to, and that influences his writing in small ways. Just my unenlightened opinion, though.
Agreed, it's a bit too involved for a solution that's meant to be all about not worrying with paying for tickets. I just wanted to point out that some of his complaints were addressed in the article. It felt like a comment complaining about moviepass without actually reading the article.

I personally don't have any interest in movie theaters, I'll wait for the home formats, thanks.
We're transitioning to a new website ( which is already live on mobile devices when you go to https://beta.jetlenses.com/ ) . It's probably order of magnitude better and the logo is rendered as an SVG :)
Like this [0] issue, but for heart problems specifically? How pervasive is this...

[0] https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi...
iOS's Swipe From Left works differently than Android's (at least 8.1 Oreo's) does, but often accomplishes the same task. It's pretty equivalent to Android's back button in a lot of cases, acting as hierarchical navigation and back to previous screen when applicable. The difference is that it only works within an app, which means it won't kick you back to a previous app (unless it's opened in a web view) and won't take you back to the home screen. I typically found iOS to handle it more elegantly than my <=Android8.1 phone, but I haven't updated to Pie yet to see how it's different.
One purpose for making Swift was because Objective C is dynamic, and they thought they could get a speed boost by going fully static. The other is because they were having a hard time evolving a C-based language because C is full of plot holes. Swift is meant to be efficient but still allow abstractions, which C is really bad at. (The best you can get with C is leaky abstractions.)

This should be dynamic, but it shouldn't be LUA. It should be something like JSON. Although Lua is sandboxed, so it's safer that way, it is still an easier and bigger attack vector for hackers than JSON would be.
The discussion behind the discussion here is that nobody ever reports confidence intervals... When you don't have them you just have to guess what they are based on what's usual for the field. We're having this entire discussion here but unless the error bars show up it all ought to conclude nothing.
Here is some more info about the vulnerability from the ubuntu log https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2...
this was a full self-join (SELECT * FROM blah a, JOIN blah b WHERE a.id = b.id). I ran strace on it, for each a item, it was doing a seek to each b row and reading a whole page. By pre-sorting, I increased locality.
The other interpretation of those stats is that women with male doctors are 4% more likely to die (0.5/11.9), which looks like a pretty meaningful difference. And the sample size is pretty huge especially by medical study standards at over 500k patients.
Wow that was kind of stupid of me to miss that.
I think it's just saying it won't come up in Thunderbird's own internal updater for now.

This shouldn't affect you if you've been installing/updating from a package manager.
Also Seneca's Moral letters to Lucilius. The great thing about this and Meditations is that they're freely available online!

Meditations: http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.2.two.html

Seneca's Moral Letters: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius
Spoken like a true ignorant.
What prevents 3rd party developers from embedding "malicious code" in the binary itself?
An objective test would fix the problem (removing subconscious bias).

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/more-sensitive-blood-test-di...

> A new high-sensitivity blood test for heart attacks successfully diagnosed heart attacks faster and more accurately in the emergency room than the existing test.

> The new high-sensitivity blood test for cardiac troponin, given in a hospital emergency room, was also found to be safe and effective. When patients present to emergency rooms with heart attack symptoms, doctors assess them in part by using a cardiac troponin test to measure a protein released into the blood when the heart is damaged.

> “We did not miss any heart attacks using this test in this population,” said lead author Rebecca Vigen, M.D., M.S.C.S., a cardiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. “The test also allowed us to determine faster that many patients who had symptoms of a heart attack were not having a heart attack than if we had relied on the traditional test.”

I would even advocate for this test being administered by EMTs and other first responders, instead of waiting until the patient arrives at the ER.