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Ask HN: Are you more or less likely to use Nest products now?
Google acquired Nest for $3.2B.
As a rational person on planet earth I can safely assume that if your country is not too broke to afford a spy service then it has probably attempted to spy/spied on the US at some point. That's what countries do when they don't know something that someone else is unwilling to tell them.

Do you really think that the US is unique in spying? or that the scale is even unique? Pro tip: if you do you're wrong.
Como proteger seus equipamentos de raios e tempestades
And I sure as heck don't justify stealing just because you don't like the price.
Yes, if they don't ask me for a Google+ Signup
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And yet they have very little to show for it. I'd say that at the very least there needs to be a discussion about how cost-effective this whole operation is.
Uber co-founder said to launch on-demand doctor service
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This example is cool— the trigger here is an useful information worth sharing. You need more of theses :)
I don't believe that the NYTimes article [1] supports Al Jazeera's title of "US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers". That seems to be the total number of CNE operations, not just those using hardware devices.

> [NSA] has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world [...] While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has increasingly made use of [covert radio channels]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-c...
It's likely their implementation of Java will add constructs to aid parallelization, but Java already has very robust threading support with no GIL.
there is a national healthcare system, just not 'free' healthcare.
You are completely right, I was confused by the first 1788 proposition. See edit.

Also, the weird thing was that, although they decided that an hour is divided in ten "parts", and each one of those in ten, and so one... they gave the name "minute" to the part of the part of the hour (so that 1 hour == 100 minutes), and the same for the second vs the minute.

I wonder how people managed to get a hang of this mess...
It seems to do COW and checksumming of metadata, but not of data. According to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-n... there's a feature "integrity stream" which is opt-in per-file (or per-subtree and inherited by all files) checksumming. It doesn't seem to do COW, but can be paired with "storage spaces"[0] from which bitrotted files can be recovered.

[0] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/05/virtualizing-s...
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So someone should plan to launch a VPN service that will pay telcos so its traffic doesn't use any of its customers' data plans. Configure the mobile device to route all data via the VPN, encrypted. It'll charge its customers for access to unlimited apps, sites and streams without incurring a data plan hit.
Something I never thought about is that there are differences between metric countries too in usage.

E.g. in italy you refer to a glass of 200ml, 100 grams of pasta and two hectograms of parmigiano, while in hungary they routinely use deciliters and decagrams, which I'd never seen outside of school.
Well, maybe you should try with: https://racklove.com/stolen-bike-finder/
There's no real certain solution to this that could work!! At least not at the present.
The ~235 ppi of the Retina display probably isn't there yet. The human eye is really a nifty organ. For example, it increases the spatial resolution of perception above the density of the rods/cones by sampling from slightly different viewpoints and integrating over time. See: http://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html.

Also, there is the fact that you can move your face closer to the screen to look at something small. The eye can resolve over 800 ppi at 4". Finally, the fact that the eye can resolve say 300 ppi at a particular distance doesn't mean that's the best resolution for the underlying screen. If you want to render without tricks like anti-aliasing, you want to have enough resolution so that you avoid visible artifacts. E.g. imagine rendering two adjacent thin diagonal lines separated by 0.3 arc-minutes (the spatial resolution of the eye). You want enough resolution so that you can render those lines without their touching anywhere.
Stupid me, I was thinking about something else when I commented.
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> "It's odd that I even have to say that to be read correctly."

This is IMO a sign that a discussion has jumped the shark and is no longer worth participating in. Once you get to the "you're either with us or against us" point people have picked their sides and you're arguing against brick walls.
Try to learn new technologies, make yourself more employable.
Hang on, I'm in the UK and I've had flu shots, but surely these are effective only against the standard seasonal flue strain de jour, not H1N1.
A very large percentage of infections are viral and antibiotics would be of no use. Hence the reason antibiotic abuse in humans is so common.

I suspect antibiotics in livestock/food supply are an even greater contributor to resistance, because they are used as preventative medicine in that sector, but really, neither is good.
Again. It's like people have Photoshop/Illustrator and Helvetica and get an itch to either redesign boarding passes or Craigslist.

Pretty and some good thoughts (like the passport integration, though not relevant for domestic U.S. flights), but the same limitations always pop up (carrier independence, legacy printer hardware, etc.).

Apparently smartphone ticketing doesn't exist in the EU, yet, though. I can't remember the last time I had a paper ticket.
By what means did you self-diagnose MRSA? At a hospital, that would involve a Gram stain / culture/speciation / sensitivities and take a few days.

Gram stain, because it's very fast (minutes) and can tell you, e.g., that you have Gram positive cocci in clusters (thus, likely staphylococcus species).

Culture, then, to grow the bugs and see what nutritional requirements they have and what biochemical modifications they make. Catalase producing? Likely staph aureus.

Finally, sensitivities: resistant to oxacillin? MRSA.

One could imagine PCR-based tests, too, though at my institution such a test is not in use.

Getting back to my question, how did you successfully self-diagnose MRSA?
Was it in a relevant geographical location?

For instance, in Amsterdam (NL) there is a well-known black market for bikes, and when a bike is stolen there is always a good chance of finding it there.

On the contrary, for example in Paris (FR), my advice would be to forget about it — people even steal the heavily-impractical public rental bikes.

General advice for your next bike: take appropriate security precautions (more insecure neighbourhood -> bigger chain), and try to have it look cheap and dirty to discourage thieves.
A nice time capsule of who ruled the net in ~1996.
Meteor Example: open-sourced old, hacked together Meteor production app
I'd seek context: Overpaid compared to what? Or whom? In what respect? What would need to change to make the person feel I was adequately paid?
Myself and some guys with a telecoms background spoke to various telcos about that ~2 years ago. Feedback was that they were already so over stretched with data usage they weren't going to embark on any projects likely to increase it until there had been a lot of network upgrades. May have changed since then though.
Really, you successfully diagnosed yourself with MRSA as opposed to a methicillin-susceptible Staph infection? And how exactly did you do that? Non response to one antibiotic?

This is exactly the problem with people self treating. Without a proper workup, which in this case would have likely involved some sort of diagnostic microbiology, people end up over- or mistreating themselves.
Are passwords stored in ____________ safe? No. Next question. ;)

Are they "safe enough"? Maybe, it depends entirely on your use case.
The background on this issue: http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/doclicense-20100323/ and rationale: http://www.w3.org/2010/01/licfaq.html#consequences
12, 24, 60 are all used because they are cipherable using one's fingers.

To cipher on 12, pick a hand and assign the values 1 to 12 to each finger joint so that the tip of the index finger is one, the middle joint of the index finger is 2 ... the base joint of the little finger is twelve. Use the thumb as pointer to a number. Add and subtract by moving your thumb as you count.

Cipher on 24 by using each joint on both hands.

Cipher on 60 by using one hand to cipher on 12. The other to cipher on 5 in the traditional way but value each finger as 12. Example: Base joint of pinky on right hand and ring finger of left hand is 48.

To get the full Babylonian number system allow the exponent to float based on context. It's really just an extension of the move from ciphering on 12 to ciphering on 60.

Exercises:

1. [M05] Where are the indexes after adding 13 and 8?

2. [10] Change the system to use natural numbers.

3. [50] Is abandoning sexigisimal ciphering for decimal ciphering the oldest case of changing a computational system so as to make it easier for beginners at the expense of vastly reduced expressive power?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_number_system
Certainly not from this. The military most def (via the NRO) has their own "classified" maps for all of these sorts of things. If you think the US military is using google maps or OSM data for this, you are sadly mistaken. I know this first hand having flown a non-weaponized drone ~12ish hours per day for a year overseas.

- Former Shadow 200 TUAV Operator with 482 combat flight hours in Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003-2004.
When actions taken based on the perceived self-interest of individuals put the public health at harm, any public health program will probably be perceived as paternalistic.

The cavalier approach to antibiotic custodianship you are describing is exactly why we have limitations on antibiotic availability in this country.
As with any product or service, marketing is very important. You could start your own coin but you'd have to promote it well.
Why don't we just agree that it is legitimate to call it a scam (leaving the question of whether it is a scam out of the issue). I know that this is devolving into a semantic argument, but it clearly isn't a Ponzi scheme, as a particular type of scam.

A Ponzi scheme is an investment that represents account balances that are satisfied from a cash pool that only grows from new investors, and provides fictitious returns on the balances.

This really is quite a simple scheme, but alarmingly effective, because as long as people trust that the account balance is legitimate, and the returns are good, people will not exit the scheme. Sometimes, as (apparently) in Mr. Ponzi's case, this emerges not through an attempt to steal money, but in an attempt to buy time to recover from trading losses.

Do we disagree on the definition of Ponzi scheme here? If we agree on the definition, then I don't see any way that you can claim bitcoin/dogecoin/litecoin is a Ponzi scheme -- there are no account balances (in anything but the coin itself), there's no promised return, there's no cash fund that is satisfying investors making exits (unless there's a massive conspiracy of exchanges).

Maybe you can switch to comparing cryptocurrencies to pump-and-dump schemes? Or just call it a scam, an attempt by the creators to create wealth out of thin air by preying on the gullibility of libertarians.
Video games will save the world
A very intersting article about the business side of video game creation, whick looks like a parallel world from the classic HN startup world with a lot of things to learn, and about how solving issues in the game creation can help people to solve issues in the real world.
Serious because they invested $3.2 billion in cash, not 20% of a brilliant engineer's time or released a niche product for developers and techies. I'm not trying to diminish the importance of these, I'm just trying to clarify the difference between Google Glass (amazing technology, but not a huge investment or profitable endeavor for Google) and Nest (huge investment, already profitable and comparatively ubiquitous tech)

I agree, and I think the author of the article agrees that Motorola was another step in this direction, except it also came along with an added bonus of a large patent portfolio.
Here’s why Yahoo changed the timeline on its malware breach. Again.
This is the best possible thing that could happen.

Perhaps we'd see startups aimed at building out solar capacity, grid-scale storage solutions, electricity-to-fuels solutions, solar-powered airships, high-efficiency wind-steam hybrid shipping, high-efficiency retrofits to existing building stock, and management or treatment for TDR-TB, rather than an endless stream of privacy-invading "social" surveilices, games, and new forms of intrusive and annoying advertising.

Though building out an alternet that bypasses the telco's "authorized" channels wouldn't hurt either. Mesh and darknets.

Get cracking, HN!
Another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7063539 ) seems to imply that special forces soldiers avoid seeing army docs because any recorded medical problem might hurt their career.
By your definition, Java is a "scripting language" too.

I don't think anyone who's ever programmed in Java would actually consider it a scripting language.
Shouldn’t this be a poll?
Pity that's not an open standards multi-platform browser or I might try it.

But good to know.
I think the Blackphone is a fantastic reaction to the problem of corporate and government spying. It will build awareness of privacy issues, and pave the way for other more secure offerings. A great first step.
It's really just the 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon that is annoying to remember. All of the others are just 2 or 4 of the one below it. A week and a restaurant and they start becoming quite natural.
Here's another example: One of this past weekend’s NFL games had a final score of 23 to 10. A nice, natural measurement that's easy to grasp.

But under the metric system, the score would have been 14.38 to -6. Completely awkward and out of touch with the human scale.
On some level, certain things could be automated but:

1. It definitely violates Google's TOS: https://developers.google.com/maps/terms

2. Also, in my opinion is contrary to the spirit of the OSM community

A more powerful approach would be providing resources and tools for teachers and students to map their communities and places around the world. The map data becomes more robust, and students get a great opportunity to learn about new places and geography.
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Well, I'm no fan of losing net neutrality but if the worst thing that happens is that lame VC pitches are no longer funded, I'm OK with it.
I did not go see a doctor.
I don't live in the US, so I can only tell from my country, that I think is even more what pisses you off.

I don't think, that every use of medicine should be regulated, but antibiotics I see different and I am really not amused hearing, that you can get them in fish stores ...

The problem of modern medicine today is, that more and more resistances occur. The reason is: Overuse or wrong use of antibiotics. That problem is already causing many, many deaths and extraneous diseases every year. The problem will grow.

Of course, the main reason is -- as much I know -- the use of antibiotics in meat production. But even then, when everybody would have free access to antibiotics, the problem would be worsen a lot, since most people even in western world are not ready to handle them right.
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Cups are nice because it promotes a "feel" for cooking rather than treating it as a science where the recipe must be followed exactly.
Still though, surely all of this could be done over DMs?
This looks like a really good tool that I'll make a note to try! Just a pointer: you might want to elaborate more on how time is logged and show people how it works. At first I was thinking it was only measuring the time I was actually hammering away at my keyboard with maybe 30 seconds until it stopped the timer or something.

Also, I haven't checked the Vim plugin yet (so this feature might already be there!), but if it's possible, you want to have a little icon that shows when it's tracking time, and maybe even the ability to log time manually from within Vim. Having said all this, I've never written a Vim plugin, so I'm not entirely sure what's possible.
I get that this is an issue, but I'm a little curious why AT&T's stock price didn't pop as a result.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=T+Interactive#symbol=t;ra...
A question - how long of a lifetime would this sort of operation expect to even have? If you're shipping units en masse out, it seems rational to expect that eventually the cover would be blown when supply chain analysts send components to a reverse engineering company and get a report back.
I would be surprised if they didn't simply have them installed in all machines and only have them activated in 100,000 devices overseas. Logistically seems simpler to coordinate if component-cost is a non-issue for the agency.
Can anyone shed any light if deniable encryption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption) would have been useful here?
More like the last episode of the 1988 TV show Max Headroom, “Baby Grobags”.
Njay - It's a pretty bad problem, but I think keeping tabs on your groups and making sure you are only posting relevant content (ie, if the group rules state no links, don't post links) then you have a good chance of avoiding it.

HOWEVER, if you are SWAM'd there really is no recourse. I have found that switching groups is the only solution, and it does work. Have you had issues with this?
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None of these articles about this say the source of this information was Snowden. It also doesn't seem to be his M.O. to leak about non-privacy invading bits. Like nothing here really pushes any buttons for me other than it was leaked. A separate leak?
I think maxerickson over in another subthread hit it on the head, "Active duty special forces is likely more worried about keeping a clean medical history than expense or inconvenience." These people are by definition and filtering hyper-motivated.

More generally, what makes sense for your career sometimes negatively affects other areas, but we tend to protect our careers.
This answer deserves more upvotes.
But at least with private insurance it's a voluntary contract between you and the company, and not a forced one between you and every other taxpayer in the country. While other members of your insurance group have a financial interest in your behavior, the government and the rest of the taxpayers don't.

Tobacco taxes are certainly justified in many different ways, but public health is one of those ways. I'm also reminded of the big settlement the tobacco companies had to pay to all the states about 10-15 years ago, which was justified by the extra expense imposed on Medicare/Medicaid. That wasn't a tax, though it was functionally similar.
This seems very consistent with Cialdini's pioneering work on influence and persuasion.

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~a0083545/cloud/Robert%20Caldini_...
You're probably right about what's involved in building a truly secure smartphone from scratch that we can trust.

It's an interesting thought experiment, but I wonder if we can satisfy many use cases without having to build a truly secure smartphone.

For example, if I just want to have voice calls to a handful of people with the content of the calls encrypted, then perhaps I can just plug in a "scrambler box" between my untrusted off-the-shelf phone and my audio headset?

So rather than designing a secure phone where we trust the wifi stack, the baseband stack, the bluetooth stack, the graphics stack, the USB stack, the flash storage stack because we've designed them from scratch, all we have to design is a little scrambler box that just has audio in, audio out, some mechanism for key generation and exchange, and only needs a laughably modest CPU to do the encryption.

Don't really need an OS at all - single process and static memory allocation should suffice.

The audio encoding/decoding and encryption/decryption don't sound too hard to implement from scratch. It's the interoperability with the rest of the world and the UI that makes implementing a whole smartphone so hard.

[I do wonder though how well our scrambled audio will make it through the phone network which is applying lots of clever compression designed for speech.]

If we assume we can mostly trust hardware designs that are at least 30 years old then we can probably avoid designing all the hardware from scratch - e.g. there's probably some sort of Z80 clone CPU we can copy.

The mechanism for key generation and management sounds a bit tricky though. The user would need some way to add his contacts' keys to his scrambler box.

A keyboard and LCD display to type keys in by hand would be secure but impractical for long keys.

The level of tech needed to read a key file from a FAT filing system on a USB stick might be too high to be easily implemented securely. Any ideas?

I'm aware of the famous "trusting trust" paper, but I'm not sure we need to worry too much about the compiler used to build the software running on our scrambler box. All we need to do is choose a compiler released before we started out project and never upgrade it. It is hard to imagine a compiler backdoor that would automatically recognize that the intent of our code is to encrypt data and undetectably comprise it (though it would be wise I guess to avoid any existing implementations of cryptographic primitives).

Sounds like a hardware kickstarter project :)
For all we know, it was.
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If he hadn't've already been convicted of being part of a terrorist cell planning on attacking the nation's infrastructure, I might've cared.

Given that he doesn't share my ideals, or indeed, much like anything i might be open to considering, he can go fuck himself, if you'll excuse my language.
Gamification is a powerful motivator. People will start jog/brush teeth, similarly to answering questions on stackoverflow. It doesn't work on everybody, but it works.
I would highlight my accomplishments to the business and how I see it relating to the company's bottom line. Then I'd ask the manager to explain why he thought that in excruciating detail.

I'd also brush up my resume as it sounds like his manager is out to get him. It could be jealousy? I've seen managers get upset when their direct reports make more $$ than they themselves do as well.
How is an id card different from a passport? A passport is a national id booklet?
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Yes. If you're already using NX there's nothing to see here.
Just seems odd. Along the lines of complaining about a foreign language because you don't speak it. The fact that you don't speak it does not mean it's gibberish.
Neat project. A few concerns I have:

1) ideally you would be able to measure change in every metric, not just ones you whitelist for a specific experiment. What if adding one feature changes how people interact with a completely different feature? You would want to know about this.

2) just showing change without any sort of hypothesis testing is just begging for people to draw unfounded conclusions from the results. Instead of a vague note that more than 100 sessions is necessary to get significance, you need to have real confidence intervals at the very least.
After seeing this one tweet, much less. https://twitter.com/emmangoldstein/status/423327914461908992 "So my #nest app to heat my house was disabled tonight until I agreed to new #Google terms. Felt like a military coup."
I'm in the south of the UK. I'm not really sure if there's any black markets for bikes here. I've never had to deal with something like this before.