skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can measure outcomes without specifics of who was impacted. The doctor actually as a bulwark in this case and only provides the data specific to the devices as a report. I.e. we performed 175 hip replacement surgeries using x device. During that time there was a median issue rate of x percent. This is within x range of standard. This would have the added benefit of evaluating the medical professionals against similar circumstances especially if you factors in removing outliers that have a higher risk profile.
People love trading other people's freedom for security. Especially if it has to do with immigration.
It's interesting news to me, as a potential buyer who doesn't (yet) frequent those sites.
In the meantime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombeavers
It's also has separate legal frameworks for drugs and medical devices.
Well, I'm not sure if one wants to just call security approaches "tricks". A "trick" approach is often one that can be undone if your adversary knows about it (keeping your files hidden somewhere in your luggage would be a "trick"). A cohesive approach should be unbreachable if minimal conditions are met.

If you can assure a "trustworthy" base computing environment (one that isn't keylogged etc), then having your valuable files encrypted in a remote location should work (which is the idea of tailsOS boot + a remote drive). How determined the adversary would determine how hard they might fight again you getting such a trustworthy environment.

Just sayin'
Flashrom – flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM and expansion cards
Reasons for this: "Ranching, mining, soy production". The world eating more meat is probably a huge driver for this demand. We will literally eat the planet to its death.
I Have been learning about various systems theories over the last two years and it is a massive field.

Starting of with a general theory of systems all the way to the present. The practical use cases are immense. Complex adaptive systems is just one of the many perspectives.

Reading the post it seems the assumption is “the system” can be controlled with the “requisite variety”. This is very much a hard systems stance. Useful when people are not involved, and to keep variables within an acceptable range.

The soft systems perspective is very different, rather than viewing the system as out there in the world it begins with the assumption that the system is actually a construction in our heads.

With different people operating from different mental models of the system. Differences and tensions stem from this.

Rather than being a negative this diversity is actually a positive as one can see a More holistic picture of “the system”, the tensions between perspectives on the system are opportunities for creativity and innovation.

Put another way. In the soft systems view, the system is actually the process of inquiry. The inquiry process defines the system in our minds. Thus, it is a process of learning that is recursive.
Where can I find groups and followers on Facebook who are fighting Facebook?
I have never been a huge user of Facebook but several months ago it managed to reach out and do enormous damage to my life anyway. I think this horrible company needs to go down, but am not a big believer in the "delete Facebook" movement- I think it should be fought from within. Are there any people or groups here on Facebook I could follow, and perhaps be followed back by some? I would be interested in making "friends" there who primarly post about Facebook issues and give people advice on how to get off or use better technologies. For me, this is a combination of politics, revenge - but also opportunity. The way I see it, two billion people are going to need lifeboats, and someone will have to design, build and operate those lifeboats. Strangely, I have found nothing by search engines so any help here would be appreciated.
I wonder whether that effect should be normalized against a profanity baseline for the given person.

i.e. I find it somewhat plausible that in an individual, swearing more than usual is positively correlated with being more honest than usual. I find it less plausible that people who swear a lot in general are more honest than people who don't.
I don't think it is true. Just a cursory google search suggests that the market, at least globally, is a lot flatter and is likely flattening. Not everyone has an iPhone or Samsung. [0]

Similarly, those large cities he lists (LA, New York and San Fran) have relatively low population growth, at 0.67%, 0.25% and 1% respectively [1]. Large cities like Phoenix, and Austin have around 2% growth.

This makes more sense to me. As these cities become crowded and expensive, people will naturally look for a better deal.

These types of articles are just lazy. The author doesn't even seem to bother doing basic research.

[0] http://zindagi.online/2018/12/03/gartner-global-smartphone-s...

[1] http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/
"While silver is potentially toxic to humans at high doses, the risk of serious harm from low doses, given over a short term, is slight". If something does no identifiable harm, and is a sign of high social class, wouldn't "idealizing" mean exaggerating argyria, not hiding it?
> any sexual depiction of fictional minors is illegal, and that can include stories or other text

So the bible and the quran cannot be imported legally into these countries?
In a world of scarcity, wouldn't your decision be based mostly by just "does it do what I want it to do"?

Yes but also "can I afford it?", "is it available?", "will it be shipped on time and to my address", etc. When you reach real abundance and everything is at your fingertips, the only factor that matters is whether you want it.
ICBC? You mean the Chinese bank (aka, biggest bank in the world)?
What's wrong with ACM Queue?

Not every ACM journal is excellent and I know we're supposed to hate everything that's not arxiv, but TEAC is a good one too.
https://aws.amazon.com/windows/

We run nearly 2x more Windows Server instances than the next largest cloud provider, according to an IDC report.
As a cautionary note, consider the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease. It was founded by parents of a CFS patient to research CFS. In 2006, this institute found the XMRV virus in CFS patients, showing a physical basis for CFS and the potential for a cure. Unfortunately, XMRV turned out to be a lab contaminant, leading to retracted publications, people being fired, and a big mess.

Of course, this indicates nothing about the current result, which hopefully pans out.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned https://www.libib.com/. It comes with a mobile app that has a barcode scanner with an option for manual entry.

Yes, some older books, especially in languages other than English, are not in its database, leaving you with the manual option, but it will let you index the books that are there in no time.
Not to mention that a person who’s cost conscious about their phone won’t have a contract that included “free” upgrades anyway.
The more I learn about the 1970s the more the 1980s makes sense to me.
More importantly...users don't read walls of text. this article was just a concise list of cliches and counters.
Anybody involved with Tesla in any way should at least watch The Fantastic Case of the Missing Tesla by Rich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezqwfha-BZ8
UX for laptops/desktops was solved in the early 2000.

In the early 2000, my music library was a few dozens GBs played back using mpeg123 or something. Nowadays it’s a Google Play Music subscription. Things have moved to the cloud, a lot. That’s a huge change in how computers work, requiring some serious UX changes. I too hate gratuitous UI changes, but things need to keep evolving.
That was the whole of science before about 1850.
I would predict things tend toward the bi distribution the article talks about during market lulls and that competition rather than abundance creates the gaussian distribution. In the example of smartphones given, there hasn't been the same rapid progress as there was between each generation even a few years ago. So most middle of the road smartphones are all fairly comparable. That said, if someone wanted to take the energy and time to find the best available of this mid tier I'm sure they could, it's just the majority seeking the middle of the road find the average of this tier good enough. If any revolutionary comes out again soon I would guess there would be an immediate gaussian distribution again
That's too bad. I can see it being a huge boon in places where getting screwed by taxi drivers is common, especially at airports (e.g. Manila...).
You can get the fix without telemetry. You just have to wait until the update goes through the update channels, as usual. Going via telemetry just speeds up the process. What you asked for is something different: security updates without feature updates for your chosen release. Forever.
Sounds reasonable to me. Would love too see that information on the official Mozilla blog for the post-mortem. I personally think it is great to have a mechanism to push fixes quickly - whatever the name is. I just don't understand why this mechanism can't be the regular update mechanism.
Remote wipe might not play very well. If it was detained in relation with a crime, they might go with 'attempting to destroy evidence'.

Look at it this way. Suppose the seizure of the phone was totally reasonable (because that is how they will think about it). Now, that suspected criminal who apparently had something to hide decided to remotely tamper with evidence after we lawfully detained it? That is subversion of justice!

The above is an argument I'd expect to hear from them.
Even if the population follows that distribution it doesn't mean the comments follow a homogonous reflection of the dominant opinion of the population.

I apologize if the apologism comment went too far. It is my perception in reading HN comments, and is not meant to be a normative view of the facts, and especially not meant to be nationalist comment.

You also did not add anything to the discussion by trying to call me out as "disrespectful." This just further derails the discussion. I don't know what the goal of your comment was, but to get the discussion back on track I'll just add more sources to bolster my position and let any substantive discussion follow:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-12000...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/muslims-in-china-p...

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-xinjiang-...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06gds2h

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/28/a-summer-vacation-in-ch...

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2018-06-20/ree...

https://www.ft.com/content/ac0ffb2e-8b36-11e8-b18d-0181731a0...

https://chinachange.org/2018/08/10/a-call-for-a-un-investiga...
And lack of interference to other services
The world's largest owl (2013)
speaking from experience as an engine mechanic for a small chain of shops in the midwest, ive done "Tesla authorized" suspension work before and its a hassle to say the least.

Normal cars and hybrids are mostly an in-and-out kind of thing where the billable hours are fixed/known and you get a real choice in parts. Bilstein vs generic shocks or holly cams for example. With tesla, everything has to come from California. Control arms for example, which i could probably find one that will fit any Tesla, must be shipped from a warehouse certified. This took 5 weeks to deliver and the customer was furious that we would not keep the car in our garage for that long. Luckily they were close to the shop, so we waived a second tow charge and after a seriously long wait for parts, got the vehicle back on the road again.

Tesla sometimes makes you do weird things like ship the old arms/linkage/etc.. back to them. Other times you might need to take pictures expressly for them, or call them after work is completed. Its a serious PITA for a car that could easily just get TRG or Moog aftermarket arms in about 3 days, but if you do, youll lose your "tesla certified" status in a heartbeat.
I think it’s more to do with my ability to produce certain sounds that various swear words make easier. It’s not that I’ve any major hang up about swearing. The mental hang up is elsewhere, such as feeling anxious ordering food.
You don't need "full" disk encryption on Chromebook devices or Android phones. Both ship with file-based disk encryption for all user data, on-by-default for all recent devices.

When I travel out of the country, I reset my phone and Chromebook to their factory defaults and then provision a decoy account. Once I'm across the border, I provision my primary account.

Even if they image my devices, all they'll get is old encrypted garbage for which the key is unavailable because the key was rendered inaccessible when the device was reset to factory defaults.
There is also a Dutch Tesla rental company that recently decided to close shop because they couldn’t get replacement parts for their fleet.
> Wechat pay is quite popular even outside of China

You have to be a Chinese tourist to use it. It isn't used by locals or tourists from other countries.

Other countries solved the cashless problem long ago with credit cards, which just never caught on (mainly because of horrible banks, ICBC AmEx places the burden of proof on card holders for fraud).

I've only been to an ATM twice since leaving China in late 2016. As a foreigner, WeChat never worked very well for me (they want a copy of my Chinese ID card????), so I had to carry lots of cash. Heck, before around 2012, I was even paying the rent with cash (pay once every 3 months, need 20k+ RMB...ATM has withdraw limit of 3K RMB per transaction...ugh).
> most people are technically criminals.

Wat?
Snowden revealed that the government is capable of planting malware in peripheral firmware. So you can have a hacked bios/EFI, system controller, security chip, hard drive, SSD, GPU, WiFi/networking card/chip that is virtually impossible to detect from the main OS.
Can You Keep Bitcoin in a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy?
They have certainly changed – the .NET installer used to ask if you wouldn't mind participating in their product improvement program by sending data to Microsoft (defaulting to disabled by default), but now .NET Core will send your data to Microsoft by default without asking:

https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093

The data is supposedly anonymized, except sometimes (according to comments on above-mentioned issue) when it accidentally isn't. You can also disable it, except when the disabling mechanism is accidentally broken.
No value to society? Every single business uses marketing to grow, including the one that employs you if you have a job. How about the shareholders who benefited? That includes pensions, retirements, insurance and other funds that you have an interest in.

And what about all the other stuff that you get for free, including the majority of the content on the internet? What about all the other services like Gmail and the technical projects that have been opensourced? What about all the people who got rich and went on to invest in or start their own companies?

There's no "right" thing to work on. It's like asking why do we have astronauts in space [1] when there are problems here on earth. The truth is that it takes all kinds of people to make this world work and we're all better off if people get to do what they want to do, and hopefully it happens to be what they like doing too.

1. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html
No wait - the scientist was a father of a person who had the illness, and the father had a team of scientists willing to work on the issue he himself decided to work on.

You on the other hand are selling it as if all of those researchers were working for free at the time.
I think people could argue that even years ago many workplaces have been sort of bifurcated between people that would be "first to fire" and those that were "integral", but these days it appears that its become more institutionalized by the use of the contractor and full time employee classes -- I would say generally not a great trend.. seems better to at least allow the illusion to people that are initially considered as less important to have a chance to become more important within the company..
I think we simply don’t know in this case.

But if a super sophisticated approach is used, they could just as well catch and prepare your computer before you receive it i.e. if you ordered it by mail.
Spotify and Google Play Music are a kind of worse version of UI of Foobar2000, with much limited features. There was a huge UX regression coming with the move to the cloud. I'm all for things evolving, but it's better if they don't devolve.
Pdf for those unable to access article http://www.storyofsnow.com/media/blogs/a/March2011/Why%206%2...
She might call her bank and ask. Now bank will know that something is not quite right. There’s no way to distinguish developer from user. But yeah if user opened developer console in his life, you might treat him differently. That’s one possible approach I guess.
I mean what counts as work and where it occurs are becoming very difficult to manage? What happens if you have to do work while on a real holiday, should you be deported for this? Is it valid to allow these searches for these sort of offences, it seems like at some point everyone will be guilty of doing these things.
That small experiment in my post does not include a correct latency estimation. I just configured all three transports with the desired latency. Actually I'm thinking about writing a tool for such benchmarks that will measure the overall latency (PA + network + PA).
Tesla needs to develop a network of partner garages where mechanics are properly trained, needed parts are supplied quickly, and car owners can get to in a convenient manner. Post sale experience is just as important as show-room experience. Tesla focuses more on pre-sale (ludicrous mode, autopilot) because the garage experience is only visible long after sale.

A few years ago I had to do some work on the suspension of my car (replace 2 springs) and everything was done in about 4-6 hours, including the regular checks and some other minor stuff. It took about 2h for the parts the mechanic ordered next to me to arrive. One acquaintance with a Model S waited ~10-12 days for more or less the same kind of work (he could still drive the car but still). And that's because we're in a region with easy access to anything, especially auto-related.
I'm a woman. A lot of men find me attractive, though my youth is long gone and it took a lot of my beauty with it when it left.

Men mostly either coo at me or treat me like an idiot who desperately needs a heavy heap of Mansplaining.

I've been on HN nearly a decade. I appear to be the only openly female member to have ever spent time on the leader board.

I am endlessly mocked and belittled for pointing out how differently I get treated from the guys on the leader board. People go out of their way to make it clear that expecting this to be a professional networking opportunity that enhances my career and bottom line is point-and-laugh worthy, never mind the overwhelming evidence that participation here routinely enhances the careers and bank balances of countless men.

So that's the lens through which I view the Theranos debacle where the world imagined the company wasn't merely a billion dollar unicorn but, instead, valued it at ten billion and called it a dekacorn. Then, overnight, it's valuation dropped to zero.

I don't think the same scenario would have flown for so very long and gotten so crazy out of hand with a charismatic man as the front person.

I desperately want good constructive feedback and mostly can't get it. I'm quite confident that Holmes was largely starved of honest and factual feedback about life, the universe, the company and how business is done.

The most recent article I read indicated she shacked up with one of the investors. Her public narrative was that she was completely celibate out of single-minded devotion to the company.

I have never seen an article that really questioned that. The media has bent over backwards to be respectful of this known fraud.

I'm still waiting to hear that the real secret of her success was sleeping with multiple powerful men who then backed the company in exchange. I think the one other time I said that on HN, it was downvoted.

Sexual politics. Can't give the obvious answer about how a college drop out with no business experience managed to "fake it" so long without ever making good on any of those empty promises, even after it has come out that she moved in with some old guy who invested millions in her company.
Even an attempt at Bribing a law enforcement officer is a felony.
So that's acceptable? Not having any easily visible marks? I'm surprised to see this sentiment on HN which is so averse to ads of any kind.
Large cities seem to also depress fertility.

https://twitter.com/Cicerone973/status/1124426697972092928
I read a lot growing up, stopped like high school to late 20s, then really got back into it recently.

I’m not going to pretend that it has somehow rocked my world to spend an hour or so a day reading novels, but... it has forced me to slooooooooow doooooown. A novel comes at you relatively slow compared to reading 15 news articles, Reddit threads, my twitter feed, et al.

It has been a peaceful experience to have a slowform entertainment medium take a chunk of my day.

And I always feel this is worth repeating, but after ~25% of a book if you’re not enjoying it, put it back on the shelf and try something else. We’re (most of us) not in high school anymore, nobody is forcing us to finish a novel. Read something because you want to.

Last note: if you’re having trouble staying focused on a book, put your phone in another room while you read. Game changer wrt the temptation of checking notifications.
that isn't a customs-related offence, though - that's an immigration related offence. Customs is concerned with the movement of goods, not movement of people.
Yes, if determined the government agencies have tremendous capabilities. But will they use it at a large scale, i.e. against an arbitrary lawyer?
Exactly. Perhaps the paper could have given a clearer message if the abstract had characterized SVMs as a quadratic optimization technique instead of as machine learning?
Thus reducing CO2 and working towards saving the planet
QR is a poor substitute for contactless. America has screwed up their chips, however, making even contactless pay too slow, I can't imagine QR codes would improve anything unless the money was onloaded somehow (like how it works at Starbucks).
Tournament wages theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_theory

This seems to happen whenever there's (a) direct competition (b) the value provided by the winner is very scalable (media, sports, software) and (c) most importantly, it can't be substituted by splitting the job among more people.

So footballers follow this model because you can only have 11 people on the pitch - there's no amount of low-wage non-first-worlders you can replace Ronaldo with. Megastars follow this model; if you want to see Taylor Swift, that doesn't substitute cleanly with Ariana Grande or your local bar band.

And software engineers follow this to some extent because splitting problems up is in itself the difficult bit.
The issue here is that if most people aren't intending on staying illegally, you need to be really accurate, otherwise all the false positives are going to drown out your true positives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
Yes, but today is an odd-numbered day at HN, so we scold the media for indecisiveness. Otherwise, it's for their consistent bias.
Humans making mistakes is nothing new. This is why the open medical foundation is so open; other people can critique and replicate the work if desired.