skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Annoying that the article tries to connect the fire to the batteries because other electric car fires involved batteries. It certainly could be battery related, but the fire seems forward enough that it wouldn't be my first suspect.
The majority of stake in Xtreme Labs was bought by Chamath Palihapitiya one year ago for $20 million.
http://allthingsd.com/20120925/chamath-palihapitiya-personal...

Now it's being sold for $65 million. I'm wondering what made Xtreme Labs three times as valuable in a year? And why Chamath sold it so quickly?
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Like I say in the article - mileage will vary depending on usage, and GPS still sucks the battery. However, 4 days on normal usage is a nice achievement :)
Indeed. But that's not the case here.
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Do you really think that the SSL private keys turned over for this legitimate and specific warrant wouldn't have found their way into the warrantless wiretapping program?
That's rather the point of democracy, to remove choice about some things from the individual and make them together because it's better for us all despite what any one individual might choose.

Which is exactly why the phrase "tyranny of the majority" exists, and why "democracy" is just a euphemism for "mob rule" at the end of the day.
It would have enabled to government to listen in to everyone using the service, not just get the information of the intended target.
Note that its not just about coming out on top of benchs.

its also making you believe you gotta change phone because the new ones are so much faster.

I wouldn't be surprised if next time we see 20% improvement "due to cheating" instead of "just 10%".
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Given the reported "accuracy" of HP scanners and others on the market - i.e. see recent posts on HN - I think that would be worse than typing it out by hand with a magnifying glass.
I like how they still let you go to their website and use their product. Most companies that are acquired don't let you do that for some reason.
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Ross Ulbricht apparently wasn't smart enough to not do business at an Internet cafe a few yards from where he lived. I'm not sure he'd be that fascinating as a protagonist.

But I admit I'd still watch the first episode to find out.
Real throwaway accounts usually are not active for 544 days with karma levels of 1100.
I'd describe him as someone who has actually been around the block, as the saying goes. Compare that with this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6486142

Kinda speaks for itself.
...and now Fox News can quote you out of context saying "...I hate the US government... I might be a terrorist".
Mobile malware is overrated. People have been making a lot of noise for a long time, there's hardly any actual infections observed in the real world. http://chazlever.com/publications/traffic-ndss13.pdf
You're arguing that they should be acting rationally if they're sniffing UAs and blocking Chrome specifically? That's inherently irrational, once you cross that line you can't assume anything.

Anyway, this seems to be resolved, so it's unimportant.
Redlines smalltalk on the JVM is cool. You can also use Smalltalk on the web browser through Amber: http://amber-lang.net/
maybe jwz's site is designed this way to keep "looking for ways to be offended" people away?
Don't play Ingress.
have you used haxe? it was positioning itself as a viable actionscript replacement back when actionscript was relevant, and it already compiles to javascript (and a bunch of other useful platforms).
It's worth remembering this didn't occur in a vacuum. From Senator McCaskill's open letter to the head of the FAA last December¹:

…I urge the agency to embrace the expanded use of PEDs…

…the public is growing increasingly skeptical of prohibitions on the use of many electronic devices…

…such anachronistic policies undermine the public's confidence in the FAA…

…absurdity of the current situation…

…It is my hope that the FAA will work, with the FCC and other federal agencies where appropriate, as expeditiously as possible to implement common sense changes…

…I am prepared to pursue legislative solutions should progress be made too slowly.

␄

¹ http://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1757

Contemporaneous HN posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4914344
What is true of any new system? I don't know what point you're trying to make.
I agree on the last point: ACA probably actually helps them by making this kind of analysis possible to automate, since it gets the plan data into some kind of commensurable, analyzable form, and simplifies the answers to all kinds of eligibility questions. Once you have a standard format for health-insurance offerings, one analogy could be with air travel, where people build sites like Kayak and Hipmunk on top of ITA's systems. That isn't possible to do adequately if every health plan has its own custom set of terms written in English/legalese.
S2 is at least 2 years old. Whatever battery (1650 mAh) it came with is probably due to be replaced anyway.

Just get an extended battery such as Qcell [http://www.amazon.com/QCell-Samsung-SGH-i777-Extended-Compat...] (a whooping 3600 mAh!) and have same 4 days charge with all the updates/gps/bluetooth/etc enabled, all the time.
Lavabit had already defied court orders BEFORE they were asked for SSL keys. So it is kind of a moot point. Had they complied with the initial order, SSL keys likely would not have been requested.
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I see this argument a lot: people go without care, or delay early treatments that would be cheaper, because they can't afford to go to the doctor. I'm sure this is true to a degree, but making terrible diet choices, being sedentary, and being 100 lbs overweight is not a consequence of not having health insurance.

And I really don't see the avoidance of primary care being primarily financial either. A yearly routine physical is not very expensive, and is often free at many public health clinics. Likewise common preventive care like flu shots, pap smears, and prostate exams.

A big reason a lot of people don't go to the doctor is that they don't like going to the doctor. I'm in that group. Having insurance doesn't change that.
You wouldn't be able to build up the necessary military force without expending massive amounts of money and drawing negative attention to yourself. Investors would not want to be involved with a company creating a PR nightmare and wasting their money on evil. Customers would boycott, the company's stock price would drop, and they wouldn't be able to carry out their plans anyway.
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I don't think there's a move to single-payer in the US. ACA didn't reduce the number of payers at all.
There is a misunderstanding here - this is not any different than how most companies use github.
Are not you guys worried about the customer`s and your company`s privacy when using these kinds of services? I think that customers have right to privacy as much as you do and these kinds of services are very questionable since they become the middle man,and I would be extremely cautious in the age of NSA runring the internet.

just curious why everyone is so eager to outsource every script every font on the web to some server run by third parties?
I think things from the study like this are probably more relevant.

"In addition to a lack of exposure to these 30 million words, the words a child from a low-income family has typically mastered are often negative directives, meaning words of discouragement. The ratios of encouraging versus discouraging feedback found within the study, when extrapolated, evidences that by age four, the average child from a family on welfare will hear 125,000 more words of discouragement than encouragement. When compared to the 560,000 more words of praise as opposed to discouragement that a child from a high-income family will receive, this disparity is extraordinarily vast."
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“This includes turning off radios when there is no data activity and other services as needed. ”

Yeah, right… Forget about push notifications, push emails, IM, video/VoIP calls, background updates.

Why not get a feature phone then? It lasts weeks between charges.
I used it a lot, that's why I made my research. I was surprised to found it and more surprise that we don't have anything similar nowdays.
It appears that in this case the difference was that rather than ask Lavabit to turn over information they already had, Lavabit would have had to actively modify their system to record the information that the FBI wanted.

That's why the FBI changed tack and asked them to turn over the SSL private keys - because that was information that Lavabit already had, and the FBI could use those keys to record the information they wanted for themselves.
This is big news for John McAfee and his new enterprise. Once again he'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
I don't see why employers and insurance companies wouldn't worry about costs. And also patients who pay a percentage of their bills.
> It's interesting that the worlds most popular operating systems, Windows, iOS, and Android

It's interesting that all of these OSes are provided TOGETHER with the machines they are sold with and therefore completely remove the possibility for the user to "choose" something else. Of course on a PC you can always install a Linux distro, but it's not like most consumers know about it.
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What about holding the stakeholders personally responsible? Could it be done without too much side effects?
Rather than simply have a "looking for hitman" service, DPR would have been wise to have an Assassination Market (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market). It's much harder to assign criminal liability in these types of prediction markets, and given that transactions in SR were denominated in bitcoins, it may have been an interesting way to cover his tracks.
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Google and Facebook have good app install ad formats:
http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2013/03/01/mobile-app-adve...
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/10/17/drive-i...
Dan is right. I assumed that was why I was hellbanned and I was clearly behaving poorly in that thread. Fortunately, since they brilliantly combined a hellban with a slowban, I knew immediately. I'm not really sure why I keep posting - figured I goofed [that thread is embarrassing] and I'd feel dumb groveling to have an account unbanned when people create one-off troll accounts everyday here.

Though it is frustrating when I see entire threads go on about bits of technology and then my comment is the only one pointing out some super relevant related tech. Oh well.
If you think these rules are absurd, you should see the FAA regulations on equipment you can install into private planes. NASA allows new tech into space WAY faster.
I think many/most would disagree with your contention that other countries have a lower standard of care. It's particularly annoying that your so matter of fact about it.
Is this related with Silk Road problem?
What's your screen-on time in minutes or hours?
What's your screen on time? Most phones will get 4 days easily if you never use them...
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http://xkcd.com/538/

(in this case the wrench is metaphorical)
No I don't at all, not at least without serious oversight by a federal judge and even then I'd prefer not to have to rely on that. But according to the article, they didn't originally ask for SSL private keys. They asked for Lavabit to give them Snowden's password the next time he logged in. They only resorted to that after they decided Lavabit couldn't be trusted for delaying and refusing to comply with the original court order.

Suppose Lavabit was a bank who got a court order to hand over the contents of a safety deposit box belonging to Snowden and refuses. The FBI demands Lavabit now open the safe that contains all the safety deposit boxs so they can go throw and find Snowden's box and open it. <Edit> and you just have to "trust" them they won't open everything</edit>. This is roughly what happened.

Lavabit is basically claiming that the FBI started out with the break open everything tactic. They are, if the article is true, lying.
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https://github.com/Quartz - I guess this is 100% of their codebase....
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You are spreading FUD and misinformation. Shame on you. The non-aggression principle does not work like the laws of physics, so just because someone steps on your land, it does not give you the right to shoot them. You are arguing from absurdity. The non-aggression principle is about not committing force, fraud or coercion against another human being. It's really that simple. You may use force when someone is directly threatening your life. That's how it's been discussed in the forums and videos I've been exposed to. Stop holding principles regarding morality to the same standard as the laws of physics.
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Agreed - I'd like to think both this, and the Lavabit being coerced to hand over private SSL keys news elsewhere today - indicates that TOR and SSL are still "as secure as needed" against even targeted FBI attacks.

Unfortunately that all now needs to be viewed with the suspicion of "parallel reconstruction" - I'm somewhat less convinced that if the NSA targeted someone specific that SSL and TOR would resist their efforts (and that for something like Silk Road, that the NSA wouldn't happily break and read everything DPR did over his SSL secured TOR connections, and "share" just the right tidbits with the FBI for them to go and create a plausible explanation involving google searches and old forum posts).

Welcome to the post Snowden era - where we know that our governments not only don't have our best interests in mind, but have sophisticated programs in place to lie to us about how they arrive at the evidence they present (in those annoying occasions where they have to use courts who aren't just rubber-stamping everything they're told too).

(Edit: on reflection, it's kinda sad that this might well have been good detective work by diligent, talented, and persistent FBI investigators doing exactly what he taxpayer employs them to do - but that effort is now permanently under the dark cloud of suspicion of unconstitutional dragnet surveillance and morally corrupt processes like "parallel reconstruction".)
Thanks! I don't think I've ever donated to a legal defense fund, but this one seemed like a no-brainer.
It didn't make much sense.

Toy version of the conversation.

FC: Give me money so I can pay my debts.
DP: Lemme talk to your creditor.
RW: I'm FC's creditor, whats up.
DP: I don't owe FC money. Rather I want him dead. Can you do this.
RW: Sure. $250k.
DP: I normally pay 80k to kill people. Split the difference?

... uh. wtf? The whole exchange really makes no sense, unless you assume that DPR knew he was talking to the same guy all along and was working on terms that would make the guy not bother him by scaring him off.

Edit: Nevermind! Apparently the 80k "hit" wasn't just a negotiation technique: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bal-sil...
In essence yes at least in the context of this case, as it is essentially segregating those who wish to expose the illegal activity of the government, and those that wish to turn a blind eye.
Remember, the NSA lied to congress, which is not only illegal but immoral in itself. Think about it, you get to sleep in your bed tonight, Snowden who knows where ?
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Intel simply doesn't provide an OpenCL implementation on Linux, and there's no free one (as yet, and for the future).

OpenCL support on Linux is an unmitigated disaster; I worked with it this summer in a different KDE program. I wouldn't get your hopes up.
As soon as stakeholders are personally responsible, you suddenly have no protection afforded by the corporation.

"That's Great!" you might say. "Now everyone will make more careful decisions."

Except what will actually happen is people will stop forming companies, since they will be completely liable for things outside their control, like the bad decisions of others or stock market crashes or the weather.

The US corporation system is by no means perfect, but the protection it allows people who are actually trying to create things (read: not patent trolls) really does foster innovation a lot of the time.
It wouldn't have to be. You can legally retain a lawyer for as little as $1. Even at a dollar a month, it would be nice for a third party email service to enjoy attorney-client privilege.
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Android is a failure. I know this comment might be offending for someone.
Indeed. If they can add Openstack support I'd personally be more interested in it than Flynn, as Opdemand actually has a history...
I felt the same way about Ray Bradbury and Jack Vance, and both of them were in their nineties when they died.
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You made a common error there, Chamath put in $20 for a 'majority' stake, which can be either 50.1% of the shares, or x% where X < 50.1 but represents the largest single block of shares (I've seen both types of stakes being called 'majority stakes')

Lets say it was 50.1% then the post money valuation of the company was $40M (not $20M) so in that scenario the growth in value was 50% (rather than 300%)

That said, since these things don't go into details, he may have lost money on the deal if the deal is structured more for retaining the talent than paying back the investors.
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I bought an EasyAcc 12,000 mAh power bank mostly for ingress....
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> Cycled the battery. After running the battery calibration app, I let the battery drain all the way to 0% (phone shutdown) and then charge it back to 100%.

This is bad advice if you want your battery to last longer until you need to buy a new one.

Full discharge cycles might give you a slightly longer charge for the next cycle but they reduce the overall lifetime of the battery as much as 3-4 drain/charge cycles between 20% and 80%. A battery that continually runs 0% to 100% drain/charge cycles will only live 300-400 cycles, versus a 20% to 80% battery that may live 1200 cycles.

You might think the tradeoff in battery lifetime versus charge duration is worth it but as the battery loses lifetime, its maximum charge will be reduced so you'll quickly have shorter charge durations.
One minor nit -- money market funds are no longer explicitly federally backed. There was a temporary guarantee program, but it expired in September 2009: http://www.ici.org/pressroom/opinions/letters/12_pss_am_bank... .
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If you don't use much mobile data turn off 3G/4G, letting 2G take care of voice and slow data.

This saves much power.
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> Is the show still worth watching knowing what I saw?

Yes.
Wow, I love the Thalmic approach. I wonder if the sensor data from both approaches could be integrated for better accuracy
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> This mild-to-moderate subgroup wasn’t one the researchers said they would analyze when they set up the study. Subdividing patients after the fact and looking for statistically significant results is a controversial practice. In its most extreme form, it’s scorned as “data dredging.” The term suggests that if you drag a net through a bunch of numbers enough times, you’ll come up with something significant sooner or later.

He could have just kept that data secret, and ran another trial but specifically targeted at people with mild to moderate illness. That would have protected him legally, and made the numbers look even better.

That's the kind of thing that many people are campaigning against. Companies should release all the research they do rather than cherry picking the useful (to them) results.
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Add 6 years and you will think like me. I used to think exactly like you. Believe me, the word "passion" was the most important in my dictionary... and still is but I'm adapting my passion to the market. I spent last years rowing against the flow and my life completely stalled (AKA not enough money to give the next step and start a family). The price/risk of that former 'passion' is too high. At least for me.
This is not constructive comment, but this is a great idea! What languages/frameworks do you provide libraries for?
Current revelations aside, when agencies are prohibited by law from engaging in certain kinds of surveillance, looping other countries in can be a way of purifying the information they desire. In other words, it's not illegal for the UK to spy on US citizens (and vice versa), so if the US maintains good relations they can get backchannel data all they like.
Why are there so many bars in airports, then?
I installed BatteryStats just now, and added a few screenshots to show more detailed usage data. It says screen is at ~20% - so about 20 hours of screen time.
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A lot of people did not donate either to Wikileaks for the very same reasons. Not necessarily on HN, but there was a lot of name calling and WL were evil etc etc. How times change.
Are you using TaskKiller? I use it to monitor "suspicious" services on my Adnroid. That helped me to disable many "old" apps that just run-out my battery.
Me too. There's some big mistake in their data here.
And you think asm.js/WebGL will be any different? The more powerful the browser gets the more open to this kind of abuse it will be. Live with it.
Yep :) I have something similar. Very useful when you travel somewhere.
I can't figure out how the license on the software is relevant to this story. It seems like you could just as easily tell this story to relate how well a lucky money-making charm works. The charm did not make you money; the hours you put in consulting did. I mean, this doesn't give me any reason to open-source any software I write outside of a specific contract to do so.
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