skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notches are hideous, and so are rounded screens (and excessively rounded designs in general -- just look at Chrome). It would be fine, though: more choice for those who prefer it, if were not for the fact that this is how "fads" and "marketing-imposed trends" work: I have no choice to buy a non-notched, square screen phone in 2018.

I pray my current phone holds for another couple years, until this fad goes away.
Another very good recent article: http://blog.maxniederhofer.com/fear-and-loathing-in-venture-...
I agree in general, but what free ad-supported services do Adobe and Microsoft offer?
I hate my telephone. Please don't ask for my phone number.

cool. he's one of us.
Right, but is there any indication that they understand this?

This seems like a hard question for a discussion thread, what kind of answer are you looking for?
Fear and Loathing in Venture Capital
No, but all that does is ensure we all lose collectively
Built vote by mail website for Florida (https://www.stampthevote.com) using a single JSON file with 1500 zip codes and Gatsby.js and deployed with Netlify.

Great to be in the future and not have to worry about hosting a server for such a simple site.
I'm not sure it matters to me whether the original article is 100% correct. What I think the original article points out correctly is that the Chinese supply chain is possibly a pretty easy vector for hardware based hacks. I would suspect most nation states have the pull to bribe/blackmail contractors to make malicious modifications. Though the chinese gov. would be the most likely culprit.

It also seems plausible the NSA would prefer techies not to look too closely at their hardware *removes tinfoil hat
You mean if a H-1B immigrant's kid gets shot fatally in the next school shooting or a spouse is killed in a bar, "simply move back to India"? or do bullets fly only towards lower income people?
A brief romantic encounter at UC-Davis triggered an absurd Title IX process
Improving Mental Healthcare WithAI
This headline really says it all, there's not much more to add. George Orwell's Big Brother looks quaint in comparison, besides the fact that the populace consists mainly of believers and fans.

If there has ever been a case for the existence of Free Will, FB membership only supports it. Human freedom is not proven by the great and lofty choices we make, but by the truly shitty and questionable ones.
It is not that cut and dry though. By publishing this story, they are asserting that the hack happened. They are not saying the attack is possible. They are saying it happened and that halved SMCI's market value. If they are wrong, Bloomberg is going to pay through the teeth for this one.
Curious as to how you lump Adobe in with that group. Last I checked they just wanted everyone to buy photoshop, did something change?

EDIT: Damn, F Adobe
One thing I miss is Vue like v-bind directives that sync with a property on the state. I hate writing a function just to sync the current value with the state.
Here's my generic cynical HN comment:

Every Google feature is predicated on large scale user data collection. Who asked for a phone that would answer itself or cloud storage for pictures that also processes and trains models on all of them? These features are something Google wants, not consumers. When drones are able to target individuals based on facial profiles, I'm going to think "my selfies helped with that".

At least it has front facing speakers.
There's an educational complex (including for/with medicine-healthcare), a manufacturing line of people's education towards "higher education." I am not saying this is inherently bad, however it has allowed indoctrination and stagnancy in practices to take hold in some areas - and which other means of education haven't caught up (via the private/"free" market) to counter-balance this for the mainstream masses to use and benefit from; programming has easily become a decentralized task with platforms like Codecademy, as one example.

There is also a difference between healthcare in countries like Canada vs. the US, where you can compare how "free market" the different systems are - see where more innovation has occurred or stagnated due to policy or other.

My point is that it's dangerous to blindly trust professionals - professional titles that were/are created and maintained through systems that include indoctrination - and just because they have a degree in something doesn't mean you should trust them (on a simpler level, just because someone has their driver's license - doesn't mean you should assume or trust they're a good driver). And obviously I'm not relating this type or level of trust to say someone who's gone through schooling who's a brain surgeon, to trusting someone else who just claims to be a brain surgeon but has no references or experience.

The problem with indoctrination is there is new knowledge and tools being developed every year, however that knowledge is not distributing - it takes far too long, in part, because of indoctrination.

There's indoctrination within individual organizations/companies as well, with like Theranos, where the VCs and controllers must not have understood the science themselves - or had trusted parties they could refer to outside of the company - and so it could grow to the scale it did.

The free market can counter these complexes, it's just not going to be a simple endeavour, it will be complex. And just because the free market can solve these issues, doesn't mean there shouldn't be societal changes and rules enacted, and doesn't mean that this same free market and say health-care industry can't be part of creating problems that then need to be addressed.
Serverless SDK integrations for Gmail
Portable software agents: A 'Goldilocks' approach to IoT connectivity
https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2018/08/17/heres...
You left off Amazon from the “can’t trust” list. IMO they would be there even if they hadn’t recently started expanding into advertising, because their business model seems to be to expand existing operations until there’s a critical mass, then slither off into an adjacent sector and repeat.

And, just to round out the list, Netflix looks like one that’s actually trustworthy. They don’t advertise, and the info they have on me is pretty limited, anyway.
Researchers demonstrate first example of a bioelectronic medicine
Seems more problematic though. You'd have to manufacture the doctored boards, extract them from the normal shipping process, keep them hidden somewhere, then swap them out for the ones destined for the target customer(s). I guess it could be done, but it seems risky.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/adobe-gets-its-company-sna...

Edit: changed link from wsj to tc
Facebook Workplace adds algorithmic feed, Safety Check and enhanced chat
as long as it's not OLED like new iPhones.
I think most of the concern comes from Google shutting down services and apis pretty regularly. I wouldn't use it for large projects or long term projects because of how differently you need to write things to effectively work with it.
Introducing Digg User Recommendations
Yeah, agreed -- I think ads would be insufficient. Right now we're planning to have a paid monthly subscription model. We'll probably scale it based on how many pictures actually get ordered through your account each month, up to some pre-defined maximum monthly quota.
The other side of the coin is that this will burn operations that were years in development and possibly bring to question all intelligence gathered by these agents without multiple confirming sources.

This can set back Russian operations for years and will cost them millions.

So it’s quite possibly that western intelligence agencies tipped them about the database in the first place after they leveraged it to its maximum useful potential.

The CIA nor the FBI will never come and publicly burn 300 potential spies however using the media to do so is definitely in their game book.
And to think a couple of weeks ago I was called a lunatic for saying that backdoors are purposefully put into hardware by government actors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17736721
I keep getting comments about this, but it's not that simple. First of all, unless you're overcommitting, those stacks consume more resources than one might think at first blush. Second, the apps I am familiar with (on the Java side) get pretty deep stacks (you can tell from the stack traces in exceptions!). Third, if you want millions of stacks on a 64-bit address-space, I'm thinking you'll want larger pages if much more than a handful of 4KB pages per-stack get used (as otherwise the page tables get large), and then you're consuming large amounts of RAM anyways. I may be wrong as to the third item, but I suspect the actual depth of the stacks as-used makes a big difference.

The point is that thread-per-client is just never going to scale better than C10K no matter what, and that the work we see in this space is all about finding the right balance between the ease-of-programming of thread-per-client and the efficiency of callback hell (typical C10K).

For any size computer (larger than tiny), C10K designs will wring out orders of magnitude better scaling than typical thread-per-client apps no matter how much you optimize the hardware for the latter.

Thread-per-client can only possibly compare in the same ballpark as C10K when the actual stack space used is tiny and comparable to the amount of explicit state kept in the C10K alternative, and even then, the additional kernel resources consumed by those per-client threads will dwarf those needed for the C10K case (thread per-CPU), thus adding cache pressure. In practice, thread-per-client is never that efficient because the whole point of it is that it makes it trivial to employ layered libraries of synchronous APIs.

Now, I'm not saying that the alternatives to thread-per-client are easy, but we should do a lot better at building new libraries so that async I/O can get easier.
> isnt a benefit you would think of until youve tried it.

I used an Android device full time until about a year ago, so believe me when I say I know how it works, and that I don't really miss it.

> "Hey google, gift mum a copy of Almost Famous." (google remembers that my mom likes text messages, and has vudu.)

These conversational examples always seem bizarrely contrived to me. But either way, part of the argument against this is that I don't want Google to know these things. I value privacy. I don't gift my parents movies often enough to make the trade-off worth it for me - I'll just do it manually the one time a year I do it.

> Even iMessage only works from Apple hardware. Useless.

Very obviously not true. When the vast majority of your friends and family are on iMessage it is, hands down, the best messaging solution. Better than anything Android can offer, because less tech savvy people don't even need to think about it. It is very far from useless for a lot of people. It just isn't useful for everyone.
East Wind is secular. It's parent commune, Twin Oaks, was in part inspired by a behaviorist novel. The early days (1960s, 1970s) are described in "Walden Two Experiment". In brief, the behaviorist theories were mostly abandoned - there are still sweets in the workshops - and the community is still there.

The Federation of Egalitarian Communities includes these and other allied income-sharing groups.
I've noticed prolog being mentioned here and a bunch of other places, but haven't really found any good introductory books on the language.

Does anyone have any recommendations?
The Pixels get 3 years of free full quality photo uploads and after the 3 years, any new photos uploaded from the phone are compressed. Existing photos do not get downgraded.

See the fine print at the bottom of these pages:

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_2

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_3
Google aims to create 'closed loop' for user data with new security chip
Sorry for the late reply.

> outstanding professors or researchers

Works if you have published papers referenced by 10 people. I don't have a PhD but I know a couple of people, one really close friend who did this. In most of the cases PhDs do end up with published papers that get referenced by others. It took couple of years for him for the whole process as an Indian.
Yeah, I honestly appreciate Samsung for not jumping on those trends just for the trends sake. Samsung really lead on the thin bezels, and hasn't adopted another of the more ridiculous fads.
I also depend on noise to mask my tinnitus. However, depending on the type of noise, it doesn't take much. I've found certain genres of music (e.g. noise rock) to require less volume than white/pink/brown noise to have the same masking effect.

I use an earmuffs/earbuds combo for travel and certain office environments as I find that grants me the most control over the noise my ears are exposed to. That way, I can limit noise to useful/intentional noise, and keep the volume as low as possible.
I think the difference is between "DoD IT projects" and DoD projects that have networked computer systems. My hunch is that most of these vulnerabilities are in systems that are not labeled as "IT projects".
They have trackers, as documented on https://better.fyi/trackers/
>I sent him a link to Mouser, a catalog where you can buy a 0.006 x 0.003 inch coupler. Turns out that’s the exact coupler in all the images in the story.

I did a super quick search, and sure enough, yep- the images in the article are most likely a $0.38/each 0603 coupler.

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/TDK/HHM2510B1?qs=sGAEpi...

I'd imagine it's mostly for illustrative purposes, but Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect in full force here.
FTFY

>Long story short: it's one of the best countries in the world to live in, by almost any metric.

Yeah, I'd take that deal.
Are you using the Optane SSDs for Ceph as you mentioned in your original comment? Curious what benefit you're seeing if not for Ceph, and if for something else, would you mind commenting? We're looking to share best practices with the community we're building over at acceleratewithoptane.com on how to take advantage of Optane SSDs.
Things get voted on and positions change so I have no idea what you're referring to with "the below," but it's much simpler than trying to protect "the government's image."

If you're attempting to hack me or steal data from me and I know you're trying (specifically as would be the case with this chip if the story holds up) then I'm in a much better position to try to figure out how, or provide misinformation, or try to turn someone in the chain of custody if anything needs to be physically handled. Or at the very least, if it's an espionage or military situation, it makes it easier to know who to kill.

All of that goes out the window if you immediately disclose every threat. Whoever is attacking you will simply use the means you haven't discovered yet and stop using the ones you have.
I love how Netlify allows you to use the benefits of static site technology (like distributed version control) while allowing for dynamic site functionality like forms. I looked at the documentation for forms https://www.netlify.com/docs/form-handling/#receiving-submis... and it looks very easy.

I can see how people would use Netlify over GitLab. By the way, in GitLab we allow you to test a branch with a review app. In fact for 11.5 we're planning to show you a direct link to the page that changes https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/33418 and someone contributed the option to make the static site that is generate with pages private https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/33422
That's certainly one way to look at it.

I guess I'm projecting some semblance of humanity onto them. I'd assume even the most evil would usually want to hold off murder till nothing else works. Hopefully karma is about to catch up.
Bing?
IANASecurityExpert but one one the named sources of the original claim also came out to say that the 'original attack' was a conceptual idea he had but that doesn't even make sense to apply in practice (considering better alternatives) http://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/08/security-researche...
Looks like I was remembering the wrong acronyms. It was information assurance training. We had to do it every 6 months, and like twice in a month when Snowden did his thing.

My first year there it was a goofy flash game with uncanny valley cartoon characters awkwardly telling you not to share secrets at the bar to get laid. Every year I stayed it seemed to get longer and more awkward. At some point they added a boxing minigame that didn't have any training value. Nothing was optional.

It became a goal of mine that they'd let me remake it in a way that was... not patronizing... I never found anyone who knew who to talk to get me the project though. :(
>Virginia is relatively better than the alternatives.

Having lived in Northern VA for 7 years I do not think NOVA is any different than
> New York, Massachusetts, Canada or Maryland

in fact - out of that group....Maryland is far better than Northern VA in regards to governance... which is the only place in VA I could possible imagine.... especially with the location of international airports being a requirement. In Maryland...the BWI airport in my opinion has poor transportation options in my opinion unless Amazon is okay with employees driving instead of using trains/buses.

In any case... what we say does not impact what HQ2 will choose... I hope... unless the decision makers are reading this, in which case -- its time to get real and build your own island in international waters and stop this bs with choosing somewhere in NA :-)
A notch is necessary for the faceid sensor array. If you don’t need a foreword facing sensor array you should get rid of the notch.

If you have a finnger print sensor on the rear why not make a no-notch phone with an edge to edge display and no notch?

Do you think Apple came to the same conclusion? That a notch was a necessity to appear premium? No they didn’t because they were not copying anyone else’s phone design, they included a notch so faceid worked.
I just realized that the $549 Surface Go comes with a Pentium Gold (more powerful than the Celeron), double the storage, and double the RAM for $50 cheaper than the base model Pixel Slate ($250 cheaper if you include the keyboards). Furthermore, a Surface Pro with a Core i5, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage is $100 cheaper than the equivalent Pixel Slate, and $170 cheaper once you factor in the costs of the keyboards.
Adobe has a massive DMP ("Data Management Platform.")

I recommend taking some time to research DMPs and their place ad-tech ecosystem, if you're not aware about them, and be prepared to shit your pants at what they know about you.
Bay Area is arguably the most expensive place in the country, so it's not indicative of U.S. as a whole.
I think both of you are basically in agreement.
Clocksin/Mellish is kind of the traditional text. A bit boring conventional maybe.

Shapiro is probably the best.

Bratko is highly regarded.
Out of curiosity were those the billed costs or the amount paid by the insurer?
Attention is then, in-turn, used to get data. It's a lucrative feedback loop.
Maybe there's an opportunity here for someone to do to Facebook what Craigslist did to print newspapers. What people want is a way to keep in touch with their friends. But that's not a big revenue generator. So the "social networks" put in ads, "sponsored tweets", and other crap. Then users get fed up and leave. (Doubling down on ads as the number of users drops is called "pulling a Myspace").

A basic friends-only system isn't that expensive to run. A low-budget operation like Craigslist could do it with a modest staff. A low fee or infrequent ads could bring in enough revenue to keep it running.
I find rounded corners on screens to be quite nice. I think they will be one of the big design changes over the next few years. They make screens appear more natural / organic imo.
Considering that large scale internet companies like Amazon and Apple buy enormous amounts of hardware, it's not an insane strategy. If you compromise 1 of every 1,000 pieces of hardware (or even one of every 10,000) odds are you'll end up in a major datacenter pretty quickly.
I do something similar, but with make.
This is my question as well.

> Based on his inspection of the device, Appleboum determined that the telecom company's server was modified at the factory where it was manufactured.

Any further evidence to support that claim? How can they be so sure that the boards weren't tampered with after they were manufactured and shipped to the states? Anyone with a little soldering experience could easily replace an ethernet port.
Don't use Facebook, as simple as that. Prefer decentralized social networks if you need them, ones that aren't built around profiting on your profile.
They really need to explain why and how they define "influence campaign" to make it clear why this matters. Just because a person is real doesn't mean they're being honest, or accurate. And just because an account was a throw away account doesn't mean it's dishonest or inaccurate.
This bit is curious. I was issued a CAC while I was in, and as you said, it eliminated the need for passwords. But the internal sites (no matter if it was a laptop from the comm section, a hardwired desktop in a unit's building, or a desktop in a base facility) always failed the check for the certificate store. I always got the security warning (or insecure message) regardless of browser.
That's KLM-specific. There are no messages like that on many other airlines and the whole idea of airplane mode is RF protection. I'm happy that they basically say: it's bullshit, just ignore it, but officially most airlines still request no Bluetooth.
I'm so inspired by this vision. I'm excited to interview creator Katherine Ye [1] on my podcast [2] later this month!

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kqy/

[2] https://futureofcoding.org
As of 2013, this is incorrect in the US. Here's a FAA press release:

https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsI...

> You can also continue to use short-range Bluetooth accessories, like wireless keyboards.

I use my BT headphones when traveling all the time.
I agree ideas are a dime a dozen and are not patentable... syncing audio between devices on the same network or separate networks as an idea is not novel. It's all about the steps taken and if they are unique enough to be strong IP, as well you the inventor have access to capital for the patents and the right connections to truly make things happen. Stuff my friends and I are working on to better amidst daily life. Access to capital & more importantly those who can help here in Baltimore for audio syncing technology isn't easy to come by. Though more importantly we have reached out to those in our network who have sold companies yet none have had any experience in making deals with Google, Samsung and others(what strategy to use when all just want to know your algorithmic steps & if they are unique). It's been a crap-shoot for us and our meeting with Google was a learning experience, but a very unnecessary harsh one and worse compared to meetings with others like Samsung; all very professional and respectful!

Indeed we have not given up and the recent news that Google was awarded patents for SpeakerBlast type technology has lit a fire under us even more.

Well I'd enjoy learning what you do at Google. Are you on the Chrome Audio team ;-)

*Edit: weird your first post here was flagged.
It appears the Facebook Apology Tour continues.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-mark-zuckerber...