skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If before using a strip you make a prediction how accurate is it? I only ask because I know diabetics who say my blood sugar is low/high but I am guessing that's not enough information in your case?

Edit: I also know a diabetic that went blind, it's a serious disease and I am all for staying on top of it. I am simply curious in this case.
It is true that the ext4 filesystem driver is a large attack surface that is probably not well-vetted for the possibility of a maliciously-crafted filesystem (since the usual threat model comes from the opposite direction). If it has vulnerabilities, this could allow someone to create a USB stick that pwns the host system when inserted.

This is, of course, equally true of all the other filesystem drivers. But fewer total drivers available clearly means less attack surface.

So, yeah, it's a legitimate concern.
agreed about "best" but in terms of population it's not a "relatively small group" it's the majority.

They are all working to sell stuff - digital marketing for other companies or having ads as a core income for a site. They don't need to be devising the advertising frameworks, they just need to be thinking "how to make people click on ads".
The paper really isn't _that_ secure. A large fire in a paper archive is only really a once every 50 years phenomenon, tops. Besides, look at the already-existing boring-as-hell absolutely-paramount-to-nat'l-security nuclear missile program to see the grunts running it will be easy social engineering targets. None of them will care.

Be careful with your wishful thinking.

You want a least worst escrow? How about an escrow where the keys aren't written down. How about you just restrict your salt to N, N+1, .., M and have the TLAs brute force it? Actually trust no one.
Earlier today there was a HN discussion[1] about a rather average Techcrunch article about the internet of thing.

To me, one thread stood out. There was a suggestion[2] about the amazing and undeniable benefits an intelligent toilet would have (stool samples can be analysed for bowel cancer, and early detection dramatically changes the projected outcome for bowel cancer).

The sad, tragic response to a truly life saving technology was this: How about not just "no", but "hell no"? This is the surveillance era - do you really want the NSA logging a continuous stream of your health data?[3]

I don't want to get into an NSA discussion here, but instead relate it to the linked article. Increasingly I see a rejection of real technological improvements because of fear. I think this is similar to the rejection of science: some industrial applications of advanced science created risks and when those risks were realised people reacted by rejecting science.

Now we see technology being used to surveil us and there is a rejection of technology itself, rather than looking for ways to address the genuine risks that it can bring.

It makes me sad. I believe science and technology can bring a better life to everyone, and rejecting it rather than solving the problems associated with it leaves us no better off than we were yesterday.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8442266

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8443063

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8442266
> So unlike the graphs you typically see in chrome network inspector where one resource request ends and another begins, frames (the unit of data) from multiple streams are sent in parallel.

Connections are already processed in parallel whenever they can. That is, when the browser knows what to request, and it fits in the execution model. If there's a huge number of assets on a single hostname, this has been a limiting factor because the browsers have limited the number of requests to a single hostname to avoid overloading the server. But that will remain an issue even if the requests are multiplexed over a single connection.

Most of the time when I see graphs in the network inspector that aren't massively parallel it's because nobody have spent time optimizing where/how assets are requested in ways that will make them just as bad with connection multiplexing.

There certainly can be benefits to reap from it, but the worst offenders are already ignoring best practices.
This gives opportunity to a lot of individuals who wants to share their skills and talent on startups company.
It's not that bad in practice ;-)... Let's assume random distribution of used features among your customers.

If you shoot randomly at your users with a 2% hit rate [alienate them by dropping a feature], your user will stay with your product with 98% probability. Do it 50 times, any user will have a 0.98^50 = 36% chance of not having been hit [having at least one important feature taken away from him that makes him stop using your product...], so only (100%-36%) 64% of users will drop your product and go elsewhere.
I'd be interested to know how common "correcthorsebatterystaple" has become as a password now.
To be fair on him, Diogenes never said they couldn't, he said he couldn't.
https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/master/example/src/main/...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Networking/http2
I was amazed by this paragraph, "Shortly thereafter, someone came running into the room and ... was worried about an attempted breakin."

Just think of a Network Administrator doing this every time there was a root login attempt that failed. They'd get a lot of exercise these days, that's for sure.
Perspective.

That's what this great article delivers to us. We are not living in the most important exciting times in our respective fields. We've only just scratched the surface.

With a bit of perspective, and thought about how humans think, you will agree with me that we always think, at the time that we are living in, that the time that we are living in is the most important and exciting of all times.

It's not natural to think that in 100 years time things will be more exciting and important. It's not natural to think that in the 1980s, people were thinking that they were working on the most exciting and important times. It's not natural that we don't have perspective of the past and in particular the future, with regards to how the humans will be perceiving their present. But this thinking - that right now is the most crucial time in history ever - is not objective - it's not true - it's because our brains lack perspective.
Hammerbacher said best minds of his generation. He is Gen Y. And the problems you listed require more domain expertise than most Gen Y people have today. I mean, pioneering surgery techniques? One needs to be a surgeon for a few decades before they can pioneer anything in that area.
The rationale behind using MTP is that "in the old days", the android device had to unmount its "/sdcard" partition and hand over the block-device to the PC, that mounted it just like any single-partition usb-stick. Downside is, that a) the PC mounting the android device could arbitrarily corrupt the filesystem structure and b) all programs accessing the filesystem on the android side needed to shutdown, and c) you only could use a filesytem well supported by all major computer operating systems: hence FAT.

MTP doesn't work on the level of a block-device, but rather works like, e.g. "rsync/scp/sftp over USB". So the Android handset can leave the partition mounted, all program can stay running, any filesystem can be used on the handset side, and potential for data corruption is minimized.
If it sounds too good to be true, it is - they had to break a perfectly good protocol by making it closed and requiring a costly license to use it. If we want good, consumer-friendly IoT, it needs to be built on a protocol that people are free to hack on in their garages.
There's a better picture of his wheel (I assume - it looks the same) here: http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/odyssey/images/ramellibook...
It is true that the ext4 filesystem driver is a large attack surface

The problem is that reasoning can be applied to any feature you want to get rid of. A good reason would be, we had N vulnerabilities in ext4 in the last six months, which is more than the kernel FAT support, which had only M vulnerabilities.

Besides that, the attack vector seems fairly theoretical to me. Most users will take a blank SD card and format it as ext4 themselves.
A lot of companies don't want to go anywhere near that minefield, even with using GPL3 software internally, which suggests that it's a much bigger problem than the FSF doesn't want to discuss.

Nonsense. The GPL terms have never applied to internally used software.

Besides, you make it sounds like discouraging companies that live on proprietary software & patents from using GPLv3 licensed code is somehow an unintended and unwanted consequence. The whole point of the GPL is to prevent proprietary software from capitalizing on Free Software. That they won't use it internally either sounds like a feature, not a bug.
I'm pretty sure I used a desk with a sloping top at school in the late 1980s or early '90s. It looks like it was probably 30 years old though.

Form memory it was ok to write on, great to read on and terrible to put thing on. But it had a self underneath where you kept things (and could hide novels to read during class).
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Even if I didn't care about Ext support, there's no way I'm going to buy into Chrome OS now. Who knows what other important features they'll remove in future for the sake of "simplicity"
https://storm.apache.org/
I am a day late (and I might be Hell banned?), but Blindsight by Watts ought to be mentioned. It was a total kick. It might be space opera, but with little of faked science.

People's taste either seems to go literary (e.g. Hyperion) or ideas/science (Benford). I do both.

Edit: I should add that Blindsight is available under an open license from the author's website.
Ask HN: Share the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system
It's YC application time and this one of the best questions on the app. I love reading people's life hacks. Please share :)
I do, from time to time. But it is rather boring since i don't comment, just the raw game stream
http://www.twitch.tv/kwaynesc2
From the stuff I've read, it's normal to think about being infected with this. The symptoms are very vague sounding, after all.

In reality, the effects of Toxo are very subtle. A team of 50 research subjects are needed in order to detect a statistical change in behaviour.

More here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3515034/
I was thinking workbenches, and tools, if the wheel can lock into place with a spring loaded foot pedal or something.

Spin the wheel get your SMD rework station, spin the wheel get your RF test equipment, spin the wheel get your connector assembly workbench, spin the wheel get the fastener screwdriver and wrench shelf.

I enjoy unusual carpentry projects and I'm now thinking about making a 3-wheeler for my library room in my house as a big project. Wouldn't that look interesting? I'm getting a dark stained oak and brass fittings feeling about the whole project.

Maybe start on a much smaller scale with a kitchen spice rack at 1/4 scale.

One operational problem is I read recreational books one at a time on kindle app or real space, not 18 books in parallel, and if I do anything academic enough to require actual citations or verifications that's exclusively browser tabs online. I might end up building something really cool that I won't actually use.
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It's putting a positive spin on Xeno's Paradox. 100% minus 2% leaves 100% of the remainder! Until you remember that the quantum of a user-base is a user.

I really don't know why they haven't adopted the (already existing) code from Android, or maybe even Gnome, KDE etc. that seems to solve the problem they purportedly face. If other projects (one of which is also a Google product) have solved this, why can't the ChromeOS team? I may be being naive, but why hasn't this issue arisen in other, similar projects?

I understand that they want to keep the codebase simple, but keeping HFS+ and VFAT while ditching ext* due to possible future security issues seems like a cop-out.
Well, right now there are three top-level comments, and the one you refer to is the only one of those presenting more than a sentence. Also, it seems to be no longer ranked first.

In any event, I must say I like this kind of comments: a bit opinionated but putting forth some rationale, and hence inviting a healthy exchange of opinions.
This issue was closed July 21st, 2014 - anybody care to comment what inspired its discussion today?
Use the landscape, Luke
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About: Alan Kay, “A User Interface: A Personal View” (2013)
I wonder if they will also buy Xamarin and Unity3d to become the best cross-platform development solution.
Multiple parallel connections increases the likelihood of packet loss due to network congestion, is also imposes a larger load on servers and intermediate proxies.

A TCP handshake has to take place for each connection and this isn't cost free, and there's the SSL negotiations on top (though techniques like OCSP stapling help)

Going massively parallel isn't free - Will Chan of Chrome did a good write up here: https://insouciant.org/tech/network-congestion-and-web-brows...
I work in this space, and I will say that consumers can do a lot here to change the behavior of these mega companies when it comes to treatment of farmers. Consumer choices and/or bad press makes big companies move, sometimes very quickly, especially on their premium brands.

Due to some earlier PR debacles, nearly all (all?) Nespresso coffee is now Rainforest Alliance certified. A very large amount of coffee at many supermarket chains in many european markets is certified by FairTrade, RFA, or UTZ.

Certification isn't the answer to all the problems in the coffee world. I'd rather drink coffee where the small independent roaster is buddies with the premium quality grower, but I don't see this becoming the norm. It'd really make my day to see all coffee from these big actors (not just their premium brands) certified under a 3rd party scheme.
Of all the genres of journalism to get so passionate about ethics about, you choose this?
What they should do is recycle the freaking unused IDs. Also introduce follow/retweet-only accounts without IDs.
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Only one will be at the ergonomically correct height.

Unless your "real project" is making a variable height powered automated chair. Which is an interesting idea.

Given an infinite amount of cheap space (coasties need not apply) something like a teeter-totter with a counterweight to lower static torques to practically nothing...

A motionless chair might result in less sea sickness when combined with a moving rack.

COTS is boring but COTS you can buy half racks and lift tables with multi ton capacity for moving machinery (think like, engine blocks) You'd want some kind of shielding to keep kids and pets out of the works. And you'd need some kind of interlocking to prevent forcing a open laptop thru your lap when lowering.
Of all posts on the internet you choose to comment this one?
Pitched surfaces were definitely a thing in schools until the middle of the 20th century.

Check out these images from a Bavarian school museum, showing classrooms from 1875 and 1920: http://www.schulmuseum.org/raeume/

That’s not 45°, but still slightly pitched. Also note that bench and table are one massive combined piece of furniture, with two (or more) students sharing one bench. That makes the classroom layout completely inflexible.

I think flat tables (and individual chairs) in schools can also be explained by an increased desire to reconfigure the classroom on the fly, moving tables around to make working in groups easier.
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The title of this article is needlessly inflammatory. Can some mod change it? ChromeOS is not dropping support ext* at all; its files application that is meant to be used with external drives is. That's a pretty huge difference.

I actually think the rationale for this is pretty good:

> Re #19, we understand that this was an undesirable decision for some users, but we sometimes need to make a product decision like this. Chrome and Chrome OS strive for simplicity. Every feature comes with complexity. Complexity adds maintenance cost, QA cost, slows down development, and adds surface of security exploits (as mentioned in #12). We should add a feature only if its benefit clearly outweighs its cost, but this particular feature was slipped in for some historical reason.

It's a shame for the people who were actually using this. But lots of people are overlooking that this is just about the ChromeOS files application: ChromeOS can still mount and access ext* drives in general through its Linux kernel and utilities, Crouton and the likes can still use it, and people who specifically need to use the files app for whatever reason have plenty of choices for a file system.
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Very good point. It seems that this was tagged "Type-Feature" which is meant to mean "Request for new or improved features".

I'm not sure how removing functionality is a "new or improved" feature, except from the developers POV due to reduced complexity. This is probably not how the users would define "new or improved".

They possibly need a new tag for "Type-FeatureRemoval" or similar.
I'd guess because it's a low level optimization, but I'm not sure.
Well,I didnt talk about AngularJS. I talked about SPAs and the fact that I dont like React templates and JSX in general.
That's basically what wkhtmltopdf does.
for passive users?
It's the nurse who took care of him.

What about the 10-15 cases of bubonic (black) plague in the USA each year? I don't see any crazed news covered of that.
This guy doesn't cop to bullying and death-threat-dealing, but claims its 'part of the nerd culture'. Why? I don't do it either, and I'm a nerd.

I'd say its part of the sociopath culture, and some sociopaths are nerds.
> and hence inviting a healthy exchange of opinions.

There is no "inviting a healthy exchange of opinions",he is basically just trashing the project.There is nothing interesting in what he is saying,though he's free to say whatever he wants.Proof is the answers to his comment.
Back to reddit.
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Yes, some old pitched school-desks were definitely hanging around in the '80s, but my impression is that their manufacturing was another casualty of the '60s/'70s. (That seems to be when the two-seating, flat, Formica-surfaced table came in as school furniture: so modular! so modern!)
How to run a photography contest to get good photographs to use in website?
Does anybody know how to run a photography contest as a way to get good photographs to use in your website?

We are a start-up just building our website and are considering whether to run a photography contest to help us find a good photograph for the home page of our website.

Does anybody have any experience of running a photography contest in order to achieve a similar goal?

And if so, what is a cost effective, successful and easy way to run such a contest?

All advice and suggestions will be well received.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux
If Bruce Schneier became aware that a drug cartel was using one of his crypto algorithms, isn't he too an accomplice? In what world is someone who willfully helps the cartel conceal their activity not an accomplice?

Do you really think crypto authors should get off scot free when their software is at the crux of criminal communication? They know exactly what they are doing, don't they?
That's just wrong. I've written shells. I've written tools. I started in this business before IDE's existed. Some folks grow out of it, some stay because its so cool to know what all those switches mean.
"but the kindle is.."

Currently cheaper than some of my hard cover textbooks, and I graduated in 2005, so I imagine its worse now.

So that is expensive in a absolute experimental sense but not excessive in the book industry as a whole.

Also carpentry project expenses can add up if you make things fancy, so I can imagine spending about as much on the raw materials as loading a wheel with kindles.
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>> "The biggest, fastest-growing companies in the world are run and staffed by us, and mainstream culture has shifted from mocking us to respect. ...We’ve won. We’re still behaving like the rebel alliance, but now we’re the Empire."

The author has clearly never met Big Finance, Big Real Estate, or Big Insurance. It is flattering to inflate our (nerds') importance to Darth-Vader like levels, but frankly we're still a sideshow.
This is the single best article I've read that explains why I'm writing the novel I'm writing.

It's called Solarversia, and it's about a game played in Virtual Reality by 100m people in the year 2020. I'm going to publish it on the same day that Oculus Rift goes on sale to the public, and plan to make the game for real by using the profits from the book / film to form a company (the same one mentioned in the book). My entire marketing plan is based around the book and my lofty (naive / innocent / stupid) aim is to create "the" VR app, or at least one of the VR apps that everyone knows and loves.

It's the first time in my life (I'm 38) that I feel like I'm ahead of the curve on something. Exciting times.
Here's a good one from FamilyLeaf's YC app: "We used a comedy twitter account to get meetings with tech superstars who wouldn't have returned our emails. In the week before our YC interview, we started @YC_Y_U_NO as a joke with the tech communityand ended up featured on TechCrunch -- and more importantly (coupled with serendipitously meeting FredWilson at the airport, who tweeted out Readstream) used cold DM's to build relationships with brilliant startuppeople, angel investors, and VCs (along with more than a few YC alums/Garry and Harj)."
What a worthless post. I read it and I don't know one single new thing that I did not know before. Drama, drama, drama.
How can this land on top of HN?
I believe there is a parasite that infects snails that similarly alters their brain chemistry to drive them to reckless behaviour (if that doesn't sound too comic wrt snails) such that they are more likely to be spotted and eaten by birds, thereby enabling the parasite's dispersal.
In fact a hell of a lot of biology and evolution can be seen to be driven by parasitism. The book "Parasite Rex" is a good if unsettling source.
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Agreed. I think you quoted one of the best, most telling lines. Another insightful bit was the paragraph about traditional Nerds Vs Bros, how Bros don't victimize successful Nerds, and how Nerds stop recognizing them as Bros... ...leading to the paragraph about the traditional Nerd need for evidence, which may be waning as Nerd culture grows.
IPv4 addresses that could go way higher than 255 per segment. Yeah, real hacks.
> Most competitive makes don't sell their devices on their website at all. That really doesn't demonstrate anything.

And yet, Apple does, so it's a hint. They've been selling 4S on their website up until a month ago.

> I would cite this, but you can find references everywhere and with ease, so that hardly seems necessary.

It took you longer to write this than it would have to google a reference and post it. But then you would have noticed that (a) it is all rumors, and (b) it is from February - 8 months is a long long time in manufacturing.
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Resize the browser window as small as you can to get your present.
Anyone know if it's possible to play it anywhere in London?