skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just rewriting the info from the EFF report, without even doing them the courtesy of linking to it: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-pack...

Discussion from yesterday (same report posted on boingboing): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22165985
I went for a couple of weeks in 2000, tagging along with my dad who was working there in the oil industry.

I absolutely loved it - it's a large and often beautiful country, of which I only scratched the surface. The people were without exception polite and friendly, and the food was simply amazing.
It's no use for technical books but for all normal text I use (the real) Kindle for reading most of it, with Pocket for web pages synced over to it via p2k and non mobi books converted via either Amazon through email or Calibre or online equivalent for epubs.
I didn't mean to trivialize the effort, or diminish the amount of work. I just mean that most of the hard work has been done by being thought of already.

Leveraging spam detection algorithms across all accounts is a brilliant idea, and a paradigm shift from what people were doing. A genius thought of it. Relatively speaking, it doesn't take a genius to replicate.

Also worth remembering that AJAX/XHR technologies were very new when Gmail was being built. Fleshing out the interactivity on the site was a herculean feat relative to the amount of effort it would take to rebuild the thing today in React, Vue, or Angular.

The groundwork they laid in building Gmail is now available to the commonfolk, so yes, replicating the effort today would take considerably less time than pioneering the effort then, and I don't think that's pejorative in any way.
> I see nothing wrong with professors communicating the value of what they are building as effectively as possible.

Oh for sure, the grad student get value out of it because there's someone established advocating their work. For people w/ no reputation and marketing know-how, being cross-selled like this is of value, in fact it's one of the primary value add of the PI.

> The media lab is made up of a large number of research teams doing very different stuff.

Yeah fair, wish I knew more about cryptography so I can comment. In general, I don't think narratives are "bad" per-se, or they are strictly less valuable than rigorous mathematically proven technical work. For example every nation has a shared myth/narrative right, and US's myth of freedom of thought and social equality encourage lots of people to try hard, which I think of as a good thing in general.
Two-finger touch anywhere on the keyboard also turns it on, though I usually find that pretty awkward.
This is pedantic.
The Ring Doorbell doesn't function without the App.
Thank you, you're right. Edited out.
I've never seen any indication that Ted has implemented any of his own projects. ZigZag's first demo appears to have been built by Andrew Pam, and a later Java implementation was done by some others.[1]

The page for the Xanadu demo a sibling comment mentions says "The enthusiastic and talented programmer, Rob Smith, of Manchester England, did a beautiful job combining a lot of our ideas" but "Unfortunately this made it a very complicated package, eventually too tangled to improve further, and Rob had to get on to other things. John Ohno and Jonathan Kopetz, in Connecticut, spent several years trying to refactor it, but it's beyond fixing" [2]. I read this as 1) someone implemented a demo for Ted, 2) some other people tried to fix it but gave up, but 3) there's no sign of Ted actually doing any of the work.

If there's proof Ted has actually implemented his own ideas in the past, I'll retract my criticism and refrain from posting it further. I certainly don't argue that the man has been influential, in any case!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag_(software)
[2] http://xanadu.com/xuspViewer.html
> whole separate realm of high total comp.

In that case, I wonder how Apple made the cut but not Microsoft.
You make pitch and ask someone else to present to you. You being Investor! And also reverse.

Have solid answer to questions, product market fit,etc. I'm not sure what they will ask here.

Find all available and relevant presentations on internet and take any idea that applies and appeals to you.

Base your presentation on data that you can backup. Try to show that in interesting way where you balance between too much optimism and reality.

Be ready to be thrown curve balls at you dismissing your idea as naive or doesn't hold true. You will be asked hard questions. Learn how to handle them.

Ask someone to attack your idea and try to get better answers to handle such questions with data and story and whatever that can break there mindset.

Be confident and All the best!
I think the issue is that Sudan has a very different dynamic with the US with respect to military intelligence/affairs. I don't really think Sudan is considered a sophisticated threat at the moment.
If you are funded by a grant process (or similar), you are shaped by it.

The most common complaints form the inside are political games or PR games... like here. Either whoever has the best connections wins or whoever has the best (most?) image wins.

Remember Banksy's shredder prank? He shredded a multi-million-$ drawing at the auction. Presumably this was some sort of angry gesture towards the art-buying world. I think it's the same sentiment Ted expresses here.

A lot of researchers are idealistic, like many artists. They don't like "hype and hokum," and they take offence at how much influence PR has. It's cheapening. The value, potential or importance of research is being determined by a spokesman who doesn't understand (or care) about his own inaccuracies. The granter is obviously dumb too, judging by the dumb PR used to court them. Neither seem to care about truth. How is it possible that these dummies decide so much.

I'm guessing Banksy hates that idiot art dealers and buyers decide the value of art.

Them's the breaks though.
Why? Do you think it would reasonable to require that all homes be paid in cash? Should we ban auto loans? Why is the government different in this regard? There is nothing wrong with using debt responsibly. I enjoy the opportunity this affords me to buy the debt. it's a good investment for me. When mixed in the proper ratios with the remainder of my portfolio in combination with reasonably applied leverage US debt provides a safe, stable, and inflation protected place for a great many of us to store excess earnings.
libuv (http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/design.html) is pretty much this in action. Event loops are not necessarily easy to debug though and message passing between event loops will force the use of concurrency primitives such as mutexes and/or memory barriers (lock-free) anyway. Also, working with event-driven architecture requires a more functional approach since the handlers are all short-lived. Reminds me of Erlang. I think the deck downplays the complexity of building such a system.
The user data for Google is just crashlytics

Is there an opt-out? Or, more importantly, was there an explicit opt-in?

Data from crashes on my device is still my data, not Google's. Google can pop up an alert telling me things went pear-shaped, and then ask to send it back to the devs for analysis.
It's because of things like this that I won't play closed-source games anymore. The modding community has demonstrated repeatedly that they are willing to maintain ports of these things, but only as long as the source code is open so they can actually, you know, do the port properly.

And before someone rails on me about anti-cheat, or about reduced profits because of the whole game showing up on torrent sites, I'm not talking about that stuff -- I'm talking about the bare minimum client code that is required to run the game.
1) this study only had a six month follow up. Where did the headline pull five years’ from?

2) there was no placebo group, just low dose and high dose. The investigators called low dose “placebo like,” which anyone familiar with microdosing knows is bullshit.

3) the study size is still fucking tiny. With less than 30 subjects per arm, you can’t take the central limit theorem for granted. With 566 patients screened and 51 accepted, I’m particularly leery - especially since they offloaded all discussion of their exclusion criteria to a supplement no one ever looks at.

4) They used a crossover study. What this means is, as per their methods:

Patient enrolled at week 0. Got low dose (or high dose) at week 4, on average. Got the other dose (high, if the first was low) at week 9. Follow up with outcome measures at week 24.

Crossovers are used to amplify your sample size IFF the effect of the drug is expected to be significantly shorter than the time period between administrations.

In this case, that’s not true: NO previous research suggests that the mood effects of shrooms last significantly <4 weeks. And they know that, which is why their follow up was at 6 months.

In short, this study wasn’t “high dose shrooms show improvement in mood for six months, as shown by comparison to placebo.”

It wasn’t even “high dose shrooms show greater improvement in mood at six months than low dose shrooms”.

It’s “people that take high dose shrooms and then low dose shrooms show better mood in a few months than people that take low dose shrooms and then high dose shrooms, with statistically invalid tests, and no placebo to show that this wasn’t just baseline improvement because, hey, people do cope over time.”

Shit study. Shit shit absolute bullshit.

Edit:
My bad.
I was looking at the original crap study. Not the 5 year follow up of the crap study. Old crap still crap.
With psychedelics, many people say, "you don't find it, it finds you".

If you are not averse to mysticism and observation-creation and all that stuff...

Just mindfully, focusedly set an intention and then keep your eyes peeled.
Ring doesn't upload data unless you pay for a cloud storage account.

You could argue that the doorbell transmits the video/audio over the internet, but that transport is encrypted to the Ring app, and its deleted off of AWS after its viewed on the App.

If you really want privacy, you should also return your cellphone and go back to using a flip phone.
I don't like this argument. Can I apply it to free speech then? It's either a level playing field, or it isn't.
He wasn't convicted of that, so...
Do you have any evidence to suggest that the Feds intervention at the short end of the curve is depressing the dollar's value?
About as stupid as microsoft "loving" linux.
Same, 1Password has been pretty awesome.

I used 1Password at home first then we started using it at the office and it makes life much easier and cleaner.
Ahhh, thank you, that clears it up.
Vanuatu Travel Guide: What to See, Do, Costs, & Ways to Save
If user base on those platforms is very small then it makes no sense for the developers to spend resources to keep it updated. At the end of the day its about demand and supply.
Terrible geocoding -- the one case in Sydney, state of NSW, is drawn as a dot in what is guess is the centroid of the state, hundreds of km away from anywhere.
Trump Proposes Palestinian State with Capital in East Jerusalem
> Microsoft already was already old and boring

I'll leave "boring" to other judges, but Microsoft predates Apple by all of one year in the 1970s.
I'm probably misunderstanding here but these guys said they had $1 Billion in sales, their margins are 30% ... but needed 15 million from you?

You'd think with those margins and sales they'd have 15 million just lying around ... for pizza parties or something.
Transparency should be FREE if its the only solution. It really should become a protocol and not Amazon-specific so that other vendors can jump on board. Right now nobody wants to do this unless the majority of their sales are Amazon.

Also, Amazon charges $0.05/UNIT for this!

Source: I am a consultant for Amazon Suppliers. The problem is not as bad as OC exclaims, but its slightly annoying.
I am not encouraged by an application that promises beautiful designs, when their home page features hard (for me) to read grey text on a black background.
There was a single death of someone in their 30s out of 100+. And I don't even know if its been confirmed if they were immunocomprimised or not. Every other person to die was 47 or above, many of who had previous health issues. 1 out of 100 is is a pretty good indication that it mostly dangerous to the older population. The fact that no young children to have died yet, which also tend to be a vulnerable group for viruses like influenza and SARS is also worth noting.

Also, you should be more precise in your wording. 3-4 orders of magnitude worse than the flu is absolutely not true. The mortality rate for the flu is around 14.3 per 100,000. With this as a baseline, 4 orders of magnitude is 143%, which isn't actually possible unless you are aware of people being able to die more than once. Even 3 orders of magnitude is 14.3%, which is higher than SARS. The current estimate is around 2%, which is more like 2 orders of magnitude.
Not sure why you think indicators suggest a strong economy - if you dig into most of them, the US isn't actually doing that great after you discount for the artificially easy money situation created by the Fed's actions for the last decade and its knock-on effects (ex. debt-funded stock buybacks).
Ah, so your parent was just too young, dumb, and boring to appreciate the magic. Subtle.
Just disable javascript. The article loads fine without it. Most articles on most websites load fine without javascript; I find it productive to have uMatrix block all javascript by default.
I'm in EU and the link Slowrobotahead provided works for me.
Diagram of fruit fly’s brain, 25K neurons and 20MM connections between them
Well that's certainly well deserved!
Rust does a great job here, but so do languages that make multithreading safer at a higher level -- Erlang/OTP and Haskell are two great examples. Immutable data may not solve every concurrency problem, but it sure goes a long way.

I also have a lot of respect for Ada's task-based concurrency approach (independent actors, communicating by rendezvous). You don't get the flexibility to roll your own concurrency strategy in Ada, but the language's support for its chosen mechanism is truly excellent. Even if you'll never use Ada, this part of the language is worth studying just as an example of great engineering design.
The source of the problem is very banal, people don't want to take effective measures against climate change. Trump and other politicians are just the reflection of that sentiment. Same in Europe, in my country the first reaction to anything climate change related is: "ecoterrorists", "climate alarmists", "something something Merkel", etc.
I understand the concerns here given the track record of the Chinese government. But, there is (AFAIK) not a single proof of a backdoor currently installed on Huawei telco equipment. Whereas there is a huge number of security bugs, hardcoded passwords (looking at you, Cisco), dubious certs and other nastiness discovered in equipment of other manufacturers. .

So really, given the amount of auditing that has been done on Huawei equipment recently, we could almost say that their equipment can be trusted more than that of other manufacturers.
What about switch and ps4? Are they being dropped? They don’t support direct x 11.
That's like saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you don't have anything to say
Nor even charged
Alcohol in urban Iran is kind of like weed in parts of the US. Either you have a friend or family member who makes it at home, or you know a guy who delivers. In either case, if you want it, you can get it pretty easily - although the variety may be limited.
I just completed my first Hackintosh in many years. I have perfectly serviceable iMac in the family room (2015, 32GB, 1TB Fusion), but wanted more.

I have a beautiful case (Corsair 570x mirror black tempered glass on 'all' sides). 8700K, 64GB memory, 4TB of SSDs, Vega 64. Runs just as silently as you could hope (H150 closed loop water cooling).

Like you said, Apple gives you the finger for a lot of things. I've lost track of the number of iPhones, iPads, MBPs between my girlfriend and I (but probably at least five each of the letters, and most of the iPhones). But I cannot stomach, in good faith, the world's richest company charging me $1,000 for 56GB of RAM (8->64) when I could buy high end or even faster memory for $250 for 64GB.

And, following some guides? It "just works". Continuity, Handoff, Apple Watch unlocking, iMessage, Sidecar. Clover Configurator is awesome, and if you want to be/feel even more native, OpenCore is even better (though requires manual work, whereas Clover can have your system booting into macOS in 40 minutes from building your USB).

So could I spec out a new Mac Pro that outpaces this? Sure. As could I grow this machine (it's just been my Windows workhorse for about 18 months).

I still love Apple products, but I don't feel any particular remorse for doing this, versus plonking down what most likely would have been $9,000 for a similar Mac setup.
U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as part of trade deal
>Probably doesn't work in some urban sprawl American suburb

yep, hi. It's also the same kind of area where road maintenance is the highest problem. Lot's of road wear and tear, and not enough funding to maintain properly
CSAIL alum here, at the risk of being accused of inter-lab rivalry, I have got to say the Media lab has a reputation of being the "Marketing dept of MIT". A Wired article a while back referred to them as "all icing and no cake". The "sixth sense project" for example, was one I thought was more worthy of an undergraduate project, than MIT Doctoral research.

I wish Media lab refocuses in enormous resources & talent on advancing science, and significantly dial-down the show-biz aspects of the Media Lab.
Justworks
" Ring doorbell 'gives Facebook and Google user data"

I hope I really don't have to explain the implication in this statement of how the doorbell sits there, records/listens, and then sends out data to FB/Google.

Versus saying that a smartphone app collects tracking analytics, like pretty much every other major app out there.
Well I don't really want my home IP anything to do with my websites (don't want to deal with dynamic IP or whatever) so I just route traffic to a GCP instance (pretty small one) that routes to the internet (meaning cloudflare).

GCP instance is like the main Wireguard peer and I can easily add my laptop to the VPN so I can remotely ssh into my server.
This is sort of a sobering response and wake-up call for all those people going, "You don't need Slack, just use IRC!". Well, here's a company that was using IRC and had to switch over, for reasons they articulated pretty well. IRC needs to fix the checklist in this article before it can claim to be a serious Slack alternative.
So there is the thing. Knowing an alphabet isn't enough for anyone to read Greek or any European languages.

Knowing Chinese character however, you would be able to at least make sense of ancient texts, knowing what roughly the underlying text is talking about.

I think you have confused with my claim. It is about continuity. Chinese culture's strong consistency makes it very easy to create a narrative around its histories that it is episodic in nature.

After all, your identity is a collective imagination, it is your belief. It is not an easy sale to German/French people that are bounded by blood because they share some ancient Rome heritage.

In China's case it is an easy sale. The history is written in this way already
Do you have a link to the bug issue? ZFS purpotedly never had any corruption issues on release versions, so that makes it a really interesting case.
Right? Every fiber of my body screams "JUST INCREASE THE TAX!". Figure out the fuel usage drop, if any, and adjust the tax accordingly. Hell, I'd pay double fuel taxes if I didn't have to fight red lights anymore.
FWIW, I use the Smart Keyboard Folio from Apple for a somewhat different use case (pure writing) and I am pretty comfortable sitting down in a coffee shop and writing a few thousand words. It's certainly not as good as a mechanical keyboard, but it's convenient enough to make me comfortable traveling with just the iPad.
I literally have no idea how any newbie will know how to use the iPad via the array of gestures to show the dock, go home, switch apps, move an app over another, move them side-by-side, know that you can use mutliple fingers on the keyboard to use it as a cursor pad.

I used to think the meaningless icons with zero text or popup hints were bad (they are!) and the zero differentiation between a UI item and ordinary text (a button or link just looks like ordinary text, so you have to fumble around with the UI to guess what you can press; horrible flatness) was bad, but the inability to discover gestures other than behaving like a 2-year old with their first "feeling/textures" toy is the worst.

It just isn't obvious.
Great project! In general I love the style of Hacker News and like how you copied it.

But if there was ever a site that it made it worth it to embed videos, this would be it.

I don't want to have to click each link to go to a new tab. I would love to just auto play all these videos in a playlist right from the page.
Let me know when they approach VMWare’s market share, texture, third party acceptance, and support. I’ll switch all our servers over right away.
Switch and PS4 players make up more then 0.3% of their playerbase, unlike Linux and Mac Users, so they will be supported.
Sure. I'm just saying tariffs don't work as simply as most people, notably including the current President of the United States, seem to think they do.
In C++ it has become way easier to manage some of the issues mentioned since 1995, namely by using atomic, future or even locks.
Thank you. Especially for mentioning serotonin syndrome. I've had supposed pain specialist doctors give me a half-dozen serotonin-affecting drugs, and then get aggrieved and hurt when I ask about serotonin syndrome. I've had something approaching it one night, and it was a terrible experience that I never, ever want to repeat.
The author of the deck is Dr. John Ousterhout, who wrote Tcl, which had an event loop way back in the day.
Web Designer vs. Web Developer: What's the Difference?
He paid off hit men to murder other people.

Fuck him.
> It is pretty straight forward if you are purchasing components specifically for hackintosh

Definitely this. There are "golden builds" where people have ironed out components and steps exactly so there's barely any more pain than installing Windows.