skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nissan LEAF owners portal stores passwords in clear-text
Nice work there Nissan, and I was just starting to like my car.
I think this company is interesting but am disturbed by every time I read an article about them, they just laugh off privacy concerns.

It's not 2013 I'm worried about with someone accessing this data, it's 2023.

Says Andy Page: "I view this as a tidal wave of inevitable data and a trend in the marketplace. The technology is available; the price point is decreasing. There are so many organizations and engineers and companies that are focused on this."

Of course you see it as a trend, or at least your pocketbook depends on it being one. The fact that he isn't responding with all the robust steps they do to protect data leads me to believe there's not enough concern at this company for privacy to trust them. Maybe that's okay when it's yet another SV social bullcrap site, but for medicine? Nah.
I also looked at Alexa's ranking which has global scope and the prevalence of .info was pretty much the same as US (see http://natereport.com/2013/10/top-20-global-tlds/).
Global prevalence 1.17% vs 1.18% in the US.
I'm not sure what would be preferable. They could sell you metered bandwidth; but everyone always complains about metered bandwidth, and no one wants to accidentally have their 14 year old nephew who comes to visit for a week blow out your caps and cost you tons of money because they left Bittorrent seeding a bunch of popular movies.

They could just sell you lower bitrates. But then everyone would suffer, as they wouldn't get the short bursts of quick bandwidth they need to browse the web or download files.

Or they could do what they're doing, which is sell under separate residential and business plans. The residential plans are sold under the assumption that you'll be using them for ordinary personal use by you and your family, and that you're not going to build a data center in your basement and start reselling bandwidth to people colocating servers in your basement.

"Business" and "residential" have fairly well established meanings. There are already plenty of zoning laws that make business vs. residential, or residential vs. commercial vs. industrial distinctions. Selling a residential plan that includes in its terms of service "you may not use this for commercial purposes" is not unreasonable.

Now, I do object to residential plans that unilaterally block ports without recourse, or disallow any running of "servers", as there are lots of valid reasons why someone would run a server for personal, as opposed to commercial, purposes. But I can't find a good way to allow everyone to share a larger pool of bandwidth at a lower price for home use, without allowing some people to take advantage of it for profit, without making the business/residential distinction.

And sure, there will always be grey areas. What if you work remotely? What about personal uses that are abusive? These are things that need to be dealt with on a case by case basis, or spelled out clearly in the ToS. You can't really include the entire complexity of the ToS in a single ad, so I'm not sure you can claim false advertising just because there are a few terms in the ToS which weren't unambiguously stated in any "advertising" about the service.
It wasn't enough, so they wrote about this very website (HN) later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6549922
It really didn't seem like it. Some people seem to think that if you are afraid of crime, then you are a wuss, and I think he might be one of those people (based on this comment and others). He lives on the Oakland-Berkeley border, and seems proud of his lack of concern about the area where he lives. It's probably a lot easier to feel this way if you are tall and male (he is both), but of course neither of those things helps very much when guns are involved.

Or maybe I completely misread his tone and it was a joke. That's possible.
Nice bait-and-switch. The article isn't "The San Francisco Net Exodus", it's "The San Francisco Exodus". Just because there's no net outward migration doesn't mean that the outward migration occurring isn't notable. Note that I'm taking no position on whether the current overall migration situation is good, bad, or insignificant, just that migration of a certain part of a population (in this case, income level) can be worth studying/discussing, even if they're more than replaced by others.

As an example, if migration between Canada and the US increased a thousandfold, but the net migration stayed the same, you can be damn sure I would think it was interesting and worth looking at. Big changes in demographics and migration patterns are always interesting (for better or worse), and net migration is never the whole picture.
Thanks Solomon! It's a great tool to use, and I'm glad to see that Docker gets wider and wider adoption at Rackspace. As a data point - almost all projects in SFO office have adopted it one way or another.
Oh and the follow-up made me giggle: https://twitter.com/daveisangry/status/389873206468694016
I had always assumed the advertised speeds were likely (according to an unregulated definition), but not guaranteed. Even if the ISP gave me an SLA (maybe they did?), they couldn't make promises regarding the performance of any external network anyway.

Maybe they should be required to report a sharing ratio in addition to bandwidth and latency within the ISP's own network. Any thoughts on how that would look, or what formula might make sense?
I'm deeply moved by this oh so socially responsible attempt to force German internet traffic through specific networks. I'm sure it has nothing to do with Telekom operating one of the largest backbones in the country, and the hefty peering fees they ask for.
Actually, it is more general than that. Any polynomial time algorithm that takes as input a sequence and which has access to a unbounded source of uniform random numbers (i.e. a "true" random number generator) should output a 1 when given a uniform random sequence with "nearly" the same probability as when given the output of a PRNG ("nearly" here means within a negligible amount e.g. the algorithm might just try to guess the PRNG seed). In other words,

Pr[A(prng(seed, n))] - Pr[A(uniform(n))] < 1/negl(n)

Where for all polynomial functions p(n), there exists an N such that for all n > N, 1/p(n) > 1/negl(n); uniform(n) is an n element long uniform random sequence, and prng(seed, n) is the first n elements of the output of the PRNG for a (uniform) random seed. This is a common definition in cryptography and a variant is mentioned further down in the paper in Section 2.
Major self-selection bias in this poll. People who don't care about bitcoin (and therefore own zero) won't click on the poll.
Took a reload to get it chugging on my firefox. Win7 64.
I think the author was more talking about the difference between consuming information or consuming narrative even though he didn't quite phrase it that way. Learning about a new piece of regulation that just passed on immigration reform is information. Learning about what the sheriff of Arizona thinks about illegal immigration is narrative. Someone somewhere crafted that piece for you to consume and is spoon-feeding it to you. It's like the junk food of information.

We like narrative, because its fun and exciting and designed to appeal to us, but at the end of the day has very little information value.
The OP's argument is a bit weak. Really, you would search for opinions (e.g. finale of Breaking Bad) by looking throughout Twitter? That's the OP's idea of efficient consumption of information?

Twitter is great for what's happening right now. In any case, when I want to know that kind of thing with some immediacy. it's good enough to search for "Breaking bad finale" and Google would've gotten you some of the latest reviews from half-decent publications, and those reviews and their comment sections would make for better reading than tweet streams.

I do, however, agree with the OP that the knowledge silos are getting much better. But when I have a slightly obscure technical question, I never go straight to Stackoverflow...I use Google, and 80% of the time it takes me there. But for the harder problems in which my exact error message may have been discussed in a technical forum, Google is great for sussing it out. But as the silos get better, I wonder how that hurts Google's bottom line? By using Google as a way to get to StackOverflow, I'm consuming Google resources but not clicking on any adds. There's only so much use they can get out of my usage data...
Sorry, I wasn't disagreeing with you per se, just writing down some thoughts.

> well let's say that if people learn that human's emotion might in fact be a giant mess, that we're not particularly irrational nor simple, that would still be some understanding, isn't it? :-)

Yeah, I think so. But I have to say that I think character's behavior should be relatively consistent and that Irrational incomprehensibility can be a consistent behavior ;)
How does no one understand that what he's saying is that the product regular ISPs market is 'internet w/ fine print (i.e. no servers, etc)', versus uncapped, open 20x20mb line, without fine print?

The point is exactly that everything advertised by Comcast comes with an asterisk and fine print which you must agree to, to use their service (making it not false advertising).
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It's not really a dark pattern when the Acrylic plate is the product that most people are trying to buy - without it you don't have the physical numberplate you can put on your car.
Actually, you're the pretentious one here, using a device specifically labeled for emergencies to complain at someone every day about the cleanliness of the elevator. They're telling you it's not their job because you're ringing the fucking police, not custodial staff. You are diverting police resources away from, you know, responding to rapes and stabbings because you're a precious snowflake that can't handle a bit of piss on his way to work (undoubtedly in a city that also smells like piss). I'm surprised you haven't been arrested or shot yet, particularly since you are arrogant enough to believe that the rules do not apply to you. Take your bike in the elevator and suck it up. I bet you sneak on with your bike during rush hour, as well.

Those of us that ride BART daily are smart enough to understand that BART has culturally drifted into a transportation service that is inappropriate for children. Particularly during rush hour, BART is an extremely unsafe place for children, and the reason you are disgusted by bringing your children onto BART is because you are taking an unnecessary risk by doing so. You are correct that it shouldn't be this way, but you are a terrible human being for abusing BART employees for the situation in the manner that you do.

We get it. BART is disgusting in some places. You know what? It still beats the hell out of traffic for me every day that I rode it, and I don't walk around making my problems everyone else's problems because I expect perfection out of everything I do. It's a public transportation service, not your personal train. Hop off your horse, get in line with the rest of us and shut up, or go on Craigslist and buy a car, for crying out loud. You're a technologist. You can afford one.

God, I hated people like you when I commuted daily on BART. People like you are too self-absorbed to realize that they make everybody else's commute suck by broadcasting and/or protesting how much the commute sucks. If I had a dollar for every time someone tried to sneak a bike on during rush hour and then had a standoff with the train operator, making the rest of us miss our transfers, I could buy a car.

The only person broken in this situation is you. You wouldn't last a second in New York. I'd think twice about letting these comments stand attached to your name, because they make you look really bad. Like, I hope I never interview you bad.
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He also mentioned what a huge role luck plays. I found the article's honesty refreshing personally.
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Should Apple not have gone to a 64-bit operating system because of hardware like the first MacBook Pro, with a 32-bit processor and RAM that maxed out at 2GB?
The OP is stating a truism that I agree with (true with all truisms). Google is your default search engine for any query where (you believe) Google offers the highest probability of delivering the intended content/ answer.

So any product, in any vertical, that can respond to a query with greater utility than google - and condition it's userbase that that is the case - has the potential to supplant google for those queries. Great example is the drift of search traffic for flight travel on google to direct traffic to sites like kayak and expedia. (another example is the shift of people search).

The challenge of competing against kayak-like companies that offer great products in specific verticals, will only grow. So if you believe search traffic will not naturally decline over time you are effectively arguing that google will be able to outperform the pace at which new products will be built that have kayak (flight search) / linkedin (people search) / coverhound (auto insurance search) - like potential.

And I think Eric Schmidt would agree. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeIIpLqsOe4
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Distance runner here. This may may not seem medically sound, but I have this theory that mental exhaustion and physical exhaustion are inversely proportional to an extent.
Why not cut out the middle man? I don't search wikipedia, I just immediately land on the article I need. I have wikipedia built into my browser's address bar so why bother?

Using browsers without customizable search (tablets) is painful.

Same thing with other silos.
The flipside of his argument is, of course, is it really a good idea to rely on silos like Twitter, Yelp, StackOverflow, and Wikipedia for all our knowledge resources? Those then represent single points of failure, which can be taken down by an errant backhoe or intercepted (and surreptitiously altered?) by the NSA. Google, on the other hand, will aggregate more sources of information than just those, and it's unlikely they can be taken out by a backhoe. (The NSA is still a problem, at least for interception, but perhaps not for alteration...)
Interesting. I started with $scope.$watch(attrs.myBinding) first, and switched it to isolate scopes after doing more research.

I'd be interested to hear if someone who knows for sure could chime in as to what the best practice is and why. I can update the article to match.
I've often thought that while everyone complains about how hard transit is in the bay area, we're kind of screwed by geography.

The Bay is this big asshole sitting right in the middle of everyone. All of our development is spread out in a ring around the bay, which inflates the distance from one place to another. If you took a map and cut out the bay, then pulled all the shorelines together, it would only be 15 minutes to get from San Jose to Oakland or San Francisco. But nope, we have to go in a big damn ring.
I consciously try not to use Google but when I do it's with ad blockers. For products is Amazon directly--they are usually #1 anyway after the many ads Google puts on top. Ironically Google is training people to go directly to the top sites by putting them on top for virtually anything.
The insight needed here (and alluded to by GP) is not into startups and emerging markets: it's about what you can actually do with DNA and the DNA analysis that's being done by 23andme.

In my opinion (as a statistician with minor bio experience) the future of predicting health things based on just DNA is uncertain, except for direct remedies for known current conditions like certain forms of cancer. (i.e. as a response to disease, in actual personalized medicine)
It's worth noting that dealing with email addresses like this affects other parts of the site. For example, I was signed up with Zappos with a blah+zappos@example.com email. Everything worked perfectly other than some of the links in the email, which didn't escape the '+', meaning that it was interpreted as a space. E.g.

"https://example.com/unsubscribe?email=me+example@example.com"

vs.

"https://example.com/unsubscribe?email=me%2Bexample@example.com"

[ On the plus side, Zappos was really responsive, and fixed the issue when I reported it. ]
Well, a scientist (or other person concerned with the underpinning of fact claims) might note that the supposed exodus that is the factual premise around which the value-based arguments here revolve is not evident except in anecdote, and that in fact SF's population is growing rather than showing signs of an exodus, while Oakland, the supposed destination of the out-of-SF exodus, is shrinking.
I'm curious how you think this worked in the specific case here of Scott Adams. His Dilbert has been on a decline for ages, and it still manages to be one of the most consistently funny comic strips out there. In his heyday probably half of the tech guys in the US had one of his comics posted on the wall of their cubical.

How did his (alleged) people, connections, and family money make that happen? Have they been hiring funny people to ghostwrite the strip? Did they make sure funnier writers were blacklisted? Did they somehow send him to a mystical funny school? If people were being paid to hang up his strips on their wall, I never got my check...
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A very good point; thank you for making it. For people like me who don't keep track of the exchange rates for BTC at all, it fundamentally changes the way the poll looks.

At first glance it seemed to me this poll said pretty clearly that HN doesn't trust BTC (and to an extent, it still does, it just softly suggests it rather than shouting it with irate certainty). Having this context makes the result less interesting but at least frames it appropriately.
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If all things are equal and the advantage of the foreign competitor is based entirely on cheaper labor and efficient production then fine. Let the market sort it out. There should however be protections against the outsourcing of pollution. You shouldn't be able to undercut local products by dumping your waste stream in a river. Which is often the case. There should also be some basic standards for the foreign workers who produced imported goods.
and elected mayors who cared about fighting crime more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States

It's not at all clear that the drop in the crime rate since the 90s can be solely attributed to greater policing.
Likewise. I will often use the site: operator in Google searches if I think it will lead to more interesting results, although a lot of the time, those results will pop up high in the SERP even without the qualifier.

Wikipedia generally takes care of itself. However, I find the qualifier is sometimes useful for StackOverflow and HN. E.g., if it's programming, then SO. If it's a more general industry or platform question, then archived HN discussions will likely be interesting and lead to other links.

However, I do use Twitter search from time to time. Due to its real time nature, Twitter search gives you a different view. It's useful for watching breaking news, even though the short URLs will sometimes annoyingly lead to the same articles posted over and over.
Alright, pg, I had enough. I looked at the list of Russia's billionaires. At least 5 of them had humble backgrounds. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gutseriev) 1 has a Muslim father. Some have Jewish sounding last names. Some of them had no early data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_people_by_net_w...

EDIT: Will check my hypothesis that Communist politburo members had an even more varied background, to support some extreme conclusions.
We have been using Zenefits for a couple months now and I have to say I am incredibly impressed. They are lightning-fast on customer support and their onboarding for new employees is super simple. They have saved me many hours and at least part of one tree.
It's all who you know? http://sivers.org/xn

"Luckily, who you know is up to you, not luck."
Yeah I bet there are some surface mounted resistors you could desolder. Also, boat anchor?
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And business journalists are writing like sports columnists.
This may be countered by the fact that people who sign up and log in to HN (and most other sites that allow user commentary) in the first place tend to be vocal about their opinions and predilections.

I don't have much faith in BTC and don't own any, but still participated. I'm not saying the bias you mention doesn't exist, but it's not as black and white as you state.
There are YouTube videos I watch recreationally that I don't necessarily want to attach to my public identity.

Wait until what you viewed is broadcast http://uk.news.yahoo.com/google-users-stars-online-ads-14411... all over Google, and maybe the web via Adsense ads.
If everybody here had ~10 bitcoins, that would only be enough for ~1,100,000 people in the world to own bitcoins.

If Bitcoin ever becomes mainstream... most people will have well below 0.01 BTC in their wallets at any given time.
> Lloyd made his pitch, proposing a quantum version of Google’s search engine whereby users could make queries and receive results without Google knowing which questions were asked. The men were intrigued. But after conferring with their business manager the next day, Brin and Page informed Lloyd that his scheme went against their business plan. “They want to know everything about everybody who uses their products and services,” he joked.

I'm confident that wasn't just a joke. That's what Larry Page thinks is Google's direction, and I think he's wrong. I was just telling a Googler friend that this is the wrong way, and in the future they will face increasing criticism for it, especially if the Internet's users en masse decide to switch to a much more secure, much more private Internet, where user tracking would be very difficult.

When that day comes, Google won't be a friend anymore for web users. They'll be the enemy. And I'm saying that as a still somewhat loyal Google user right now.

The problem is Google has always "won" by being a friend to web users. If they are the enemy, they will lose. That's why it's vital for them to find a way to make money, that doesn't automatically make them the enemy of a much more secure Internet.
One of my coworkers lives near us, and I believe they were told to list a dozen schools in order of preference. Given the lottery nature of the system, they didn't get into a single one of them, which forced them to go the private school route.
Took me another 30 seconds just staring at your post here to work it out.