skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And odds are, if there is just one player in the market they're not very good. Simply by virtue of being the only one; the odds of that being the case simply because they are amazing and perfect is so miniscule. It's most likely that no one has bothered, or had the effort to out-do them.
> If your adversaries want your data, FDE will help them and not you.

Sorry to nitpick, but it may confuse a casual user: FDE will not help your adversaries, it just won't help you. That is, in those circumnstances (i.e., when your disk is mounted) FDE won't have any effect.
I assume it's easier to MITM everything.
Ripped from yesterday's headlines ...

... rewrote the hard-drive firmware of infected computers—a
never-before-seen engineering marvel that worked on 12 drive
categories from manufacturers including Western Digital, Maxtor,
Samsung, IBM, Micron, Toshiba, and Seagate.

The malicious firmware created a secret storage vault that survived
military-grade disk wiping and reformatting, making sensitive
data stolen from victims available even after reformatting the
drive and reinstalling the operating system. The firmware also
provided programming interfaces that other code in Equation
Group's sprawling malware library could access. Once a hard drive
was compromised, the infection was impossible to detect or remove.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hacke...
Sam Harris simply ignores the Is-Ought problem like most Utilitarians. See this comment to understand his error(s): http://www.project-reason.org/newsfeed/item/moral_confusion_...
Researching creative thinking processes over the last decade, this is a no-brainer (pun not intended).

There is so much complexity to the brain that it's hard to imagine a time when we, as human beings, will ever really understand how much of it works. It's no surprise there's a lot going on "behind the veil" of consciousness, and I'm glad researchers continue to show this is the case.

Similar studies have shown that the subconscious can recognize ambigious shapes without the subject consciously becoming aware, solve problems completely before raising solutions to the consciousness, and more.

How exciting to be driven by (or driving, depending on what you believe) such a vastly complex thing.
I got it all set up, thanks!
How a refugee’s son from a small Indian town became Deloitte Global’s CEO
Honestly, I think that's unlikely. This is far too sloppy to have been intentional. There are much better ways to implement a backdoor when you control the OS image. This is just incompetence, plain and simple.

Superfish looks like the kind of crapware that pays OEMs to include it in their bundle. Lenovo took the cash and didn't bother to review the code. Superfish, for its part, probably doesn't have the best and brightest engineers working for them. They probably tasked a junior programmer with working around SSL, who then committed the first solution that worked without ever thinking about security implications, and they shipped it.
Blood testing is ideally (and realistically) something EVERYONE should have access to, and should probably be done yearly. The potential market is anyone who receives health care.
OP here: yes, I agree and I was thinking of something like DFD myself, I just wondered if there were anything comparable/better considering that these date back from the '70s...
> It's a wonderful laptop at a great price, just too bad about the software.

Lenovo's hardware support for Linux is great so unless there's something keeping you on Windows switching to a good Linux distro usually works fine on these laptops.
Fair enough, though I'd bet they aren't smart enough to have actually blocked the header. They apparently don't even support WebSocket.
IIRC, that article is a fine combination of bullshit and technically correct. There is a "written ban" purchasing equipment from anyone not on the approved vendor list. Lenovo didn't ask to be on the list, they're not on the list, therefore they're banned. As am I. As are you.
Is there reason to believe that the same key is used on all machines?
Mumbling Is a Data-Compression Trick
Why not link directly to PNAS article?
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/48/19614.abstract
Personally I don't like the BBC, if HN is going to censor RT it should censor rag BBC.
Well, it seems as though this [superfish] is categorized as a virus on most websites. From their own description:

"Superfish Window Shopper is a free browser add-on that instantly compares prices and shows similar items on ANY product in hundreds of U.S. online stores including Amazon.com, Best Buy, Macys, Nordstorm, Overstock.com, Staples, Target, and Wal-mart."

So if I have this right, this is essentially a massive affiliate scheme to produce revenue for the company? If it compares prices on all these sites, affid='s are injected for Lenovo and a % of the sale is given to them?

Edit: doing the math here on this for the last few hours and even if just a few million units have been sold, this has to be 10's of millions in dollars (being very generous) over the past few quarters.

There reviews are horrible as well. All spam / annoyance related.
I would say culture plays a bigger role, we have excess food grains rotting in government warehouses yet lot of Indians die due to starvation. We simply do not care about our fellow Indians.
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Hannah fry the mathematics of love
Given that antivirus products detect this as malware, does Lenovo not install any antivirus on their systems, or do they install a substandard one that fails to detect it?
When gatekeepers step aside, the local crowd flourishes
It's a big company doing, so it's gonna be fine.
Lenovo was the last respected PC laptop brand. Is there anyone I can trust to sell me a well-made laptop anymore besides Apple?
or a mac. Apple will do something like this when hell freezes over.
"Optimal" based on what criteria? Most moral philosophy that calls itself that (rather than theology) neither assumes the existence of God nor inherent purpose in the universe, however, it does (necessarily) start from some moral axioms (without ascribing them as purposes of the existence of the universe).

Morality doesn't require the universe have a purpose, but morality has to have a purpose.
Mozilla.com redirects to Mozilla.org. Mozilla have the dual structure, but when it comes to their web presence, I don't think they are making too much of a distinction.
Cannot see how this could possibly be true. Having been privy to OS bundling for products, I can assure you there is lengthy contracts, and negotiations, about exactly what is happening. You do no simply walk up to Lenovo and have your "software" installed into the OS without a very detailed contract and pay structure. There also looks to be js injected into pages, which is serving up the ads, and a comment about Lenovo [1]. Think about what the means. There was a project at this company, where they had meetings, project plans, testing to make sure it worked, and a very detailed idea of what was going on. Never mind all the ramping up capacity due to new Lenovo's boxes coming on-line. There is zero chance this was some low level junior programmer fly by night operation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9072542
Jebus, how far the might IBM laptop line has fallen under the leadership of Lenovo. There was a time when a ThinkPad was arguably the best laptop money could buy. Many companies, including Google, would offer a choice between a ThinkPad or a MacBook, because those were the really reliable choices that were free of shovelware.

I even considered buying a Lenovo recently when a pretty nice looking ThinkPad was on sale, but a couple of friends have had very bad experiences with their Lenovo laptops. Both have had to go back to Lenovo for repairs; one of them had to send it back twice, and on the second go around demanded a new one instead of a repaired one, because the "repaired" one was worse than when it went in for repairs.

That said, there's "bad QC", which is forgivable with time and a sincere effort by the company to correct it, and then there's "evil". Intentionally shipping adware is evil.

Given this, I can genuinely think of no way for Lenovo to ever get my business for any product.
We need a support group
If you don't mind abstract mathematics, the category theory lectures from https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Ky8lYL8-Oh7awp0sqa8... were what made monads finally click for me.
You dont even have to talk an Indian Villager, people living in metro cities also experience 2-6 hours of power cuts.

When I moved from Mumbai which has 24 hrs of electricity to Pune with 3 hours of power cuts ever day, couple of years back. The first thing that came to my mind when I was sitting in the dark was that "so this is how it feels to live in a third world country"
I thought that there was going to be a simple tip. Looking at bem.info I have no idea what is going on...
This feels like its solving a real problem that the founders understand. Great work all around. Minor nitpick: I see why "Shopify" was chosen in the tagline but I think its more confusing than helpful at first glance. After reading up, one gets it but a tagline should work before reading the article. Teespring/Kickstarter/Indiegogo seem closer and have the added benefit of being related to what one might associate with a nonprofit i.e. fundraising. What do you think?
Some people are so poor that they cannot even afford to keep livestock.
In my first startup we came up with a cure for this:
"Get to the problem"

Don't solve for problems you don't yet have. Solve for immediate problems first.
Nowadays it is impossible to be humorous without alienating someone. For any attempt at humor, I can find someone who will feel oppressed.
There's been a lot of concentration in assets under management among a few top buy-side institutions while dealers have reduced their risk tolerance/balance sheet and been displaced by electronic market makers, relative value hedge funds, and proprietary trading shops.
Airbnb pays tax bill of 'tens of millions’ to S.F
For the first time ever I had my sleaze senses tingling after a recent Firefox install. There is now advertising on the new tab page. And why was I forced onto yahoo search instead of giving me the option?
Also, cars.
You can still wipe the hard drive and replace it with a Linux install (or a fresh Windows install, if you must).
Look how far we've come since the early 90s. Like, no, really--this is the sort of arcana that we can basically ignore today completely.
'The key word being "part", so the headline is incorrect.'

That's a ridiculous argument. Parsing the spec like that is meaningless.

"While it was the main innovation in 2.0, EDR was optional in the spec."

Can't argue with non-reasoning like that.
Show HN: Lua/C for mobile devices – Please tell me what you think
What do you mean by "cost"?

The article does mention the cost to the Israeli water authority:

Sorek will profitably sell water to the Israeli
water authority for 58 U.S. cents per cubic meter
(1,000 liters, or about what one person in Israel
uses per week)

One has to believe that the cost to produce the water is directly tied to the sales price. I'm sure that this plant couldn't have been built without some sort of long term guarantees as to price, and I'm sure no rational government would have agreed to buy the water without the price paid being tied directly to cost of production plus some reasonable rate of return.
6 tips to success for student web developers
Theoretically both works - the single system depth will allow you to encounter new issues / see how the stuff you developed panned out.

But that's too slow a process IMHO due to how organizations work and i wouldn't do it unless the field, you are in, is really deep to start with eg gaming/distributed computing etc. You also face the risk of being in the same rut over and over again and all of a sudden the rug could get pulled from underneath you (hopefully so that you will learn new things).

I would say stick around until you gain expertise (and actively do so) in the domain and know its problems and its typical solutions and then move on 3-4 yrs ?

I was shoved around due to market forces ... its the best thing that happened to me IMHO
Oh, let us not forget the crap PC cleaner program that gets included in the Superfish install ("a Microsoft Partner"):

http://i.imgur.com/7cFlZLr.png

http://i.imgur.com/R4sHowP.png

So on a fresh Windows 7 virtual machine with zero apps installed, this program gives me 200 some errors and wants $49.99 (-$20 for instant savings) to register the program. This keeps getting better. Typical scam.
I sure hope they've vetted Mark Mayo to ensure that he doesn't hold any problematic political opinions.
While it is akin to playing whack-a-mole, it's nice to see them seriously considering blocking this cert so users who get a theoretical update in Firefox would have it simply be removed. Granted Superfish could update and get around it but that would require effort and considering the PR nightmare Lenovo is going to be fielding I doubt they would do so.
Required Reading. :-)
.press? Dammit, ICANN.
1. I believe you can turn the ads off. Firefox needs revenue, like any other organization with employees to feed.

2. I believe you can change your search provider. Yahoo search was made the default because Yahoo pays Mozilla a lot of money for it. Mozilla needs money, see #1. If we can diversify the search market while supporting free software, that's fine by me.
Ask HN: Are there companies that discourage working overtime?
In my 8 year professional career as a software developer I worked in a big corp, a late stage startup and a very early stage startup.

In all the teams I worked with I always found a good amount of members (senior and quite good at their craft) who constantly work overtime, by pushing code and sending emails at night and during weekends/holidays.

I have always been more than willing to work nights and weekends occasionally, and I reply to important emails from my phone when needed, but I am very efficient and focused in dealing with the tasks I am assigned to, so I am always able to finish everything on time with my 8-9 hours of work a day.

I don't feel that at the end of the day I'm getting rewarded less than the other members who always work overtime, because I consistently get excellent performance reviews and generous raises, but still it "selfishly" bothers me because this working overtime thing clashes with my ideal company culture, and it negatively affects for example junior developers, who are now pressured to work overtime as well. Heck, even if I'm quite senior and at the moment one of the most respected members of the team, I feel pressured as well sometimes. I've seen this consistently in all the 3 companies I mentioned above.

As a full disclosure, I know for sure that these people don't have significant equity in the businesses or big bonuses related to performance, it's just "what they do".

In my ideal world I would like a team of talented developers in a company culture that says: "You work overtime, it means you are either trying to play politics or inefficiently managing your time"
That's funny. I felt almost the opposite, coming from Chrome. I completely blanked out the new tab page in about 5 seconds, and I was able to switch away from Yahoo in about 10. I'm not a big Firefox guy but was swayed by a recent writeup lauding the "Firefox is great for heavy tab users" aspect.
Oh I'm sure they had lots of meetings about the contracts and pay structure, and they may have done testing to make sure it didn't break things, but apparently no one did a security review. Sadly, this doesn't surprise me that much.

If they did know about the problem, they could have fixed it. If the app simply generated a new key as part of first-time use, then it would just be run-of-the-mill crapware rather than a gaping security hole. Even if Lenovo has malicious intent, it would still have been in their best interests to do at least that, yet they didn't. Hence I assume it was incompetence.
I don't know, I've worked on some large government projects where things like this could have possibly slipped through because an engineer or two thought it was a clever way to workaround the issue. Granted they should have known and may have known but I'm not convinced they had to have known.
why risk it.
If you're into this kind of stuff and you're in Tokyo I suggest you check out the ADMT (ADverising Museum of Tokyo). It's in Shiodome, walking distance from the Shimbashi station (and many other stations). Last time I was there they had a large collection of ads from that period with similar styles.

http://admt.jp/en/index.html

Also it's re-opening in 2 months at/near the Tokyo SkyTree but the Tobacco and Salt Museum used to have books and books of old cigarette covers which lots of art from that period. I assume the new one will too.

http://www.jti.co.jp/Culture/museum_e/index.html
> "achieved positive growth again ...

My understanding from reading Mozilla people, and from my own intuition, is that without significant market power for Firefox, Mozilla loses influence for all its priorities, including the open web, end-user control, etc.

Firefox's market share is very important to Mozilla, to everyone who shares Mozilla's priorities, and to everyone affected by them (which might be, simply, "everyone").
T-Mobile CEO Slams AT&T, Verizon Spectrum Stranglehold
You're absolutely right, as a transfat HAES advocate genderqueer, I feel extremely triggered by the author's fat-phobic and gender-normative oppression. The author needs to check his privileges and rephrase to:

"You're healthy at every size! Continue being body positive, healthy!", "You're supposed normal. Pfft, society has an unrealistic standard of beauty!" and "You're absolutely perfect with no flaws, defects, or relevant analogies that can be made, congratulations!", "Sure, we could just type them all out but obviously that's not a solution for genderfluid feministia who demand equality from all xer programming languages."
Thought experiment: why is texting more popular than email?
I recently did business with a guy that uses email in essentially the same way most people use text.

We were working out the terms of a contract and it had the feel and immediacy of a typical text exchange.

I started thinking about how much better the tools are for email and how the two technologies essentially satisfy the same need.

What is it about texting that is superior to email?

Less spam. A higher expectation of immediacy. A much higher open and read rate.

But the tools for email are far more sophisticated.

What does it take to make the arguably superior technology capture the advantage that texting currently has?
See calling him a refugee's son doesn't make any difference. His father was running a factory at then (1948) that's a big deal in India and if you are an Indian you know it very well. Second thing is that his father was still running a factory in Haryana even after funds became low. Moreover, he was living in Haryana hence I can assume that they were having lots of land under their possession. Still he has done a great job. I am not saying that he is not a great man. But what I am saying is that calling him refugee's son and giving it a different tone won't work. There are people who have risen from very low point to a pinnacle and he is not among them. He was having an advantage and writer of the post has tried his best to put him in that category however, unsuccessfully.
unfortunately you're completely correct.
Are you sure? Android Chrome proxies all non-HTTPS traffic through a third-party server, by default. So it isn't like the traffic volume is impossible.
You were forced into google search for the last 15 years but did you complain? It's simple enough to just switch it.
That was sure a crazy situation in light of the fact that they have now partnered with (i.e. receiving money from) Yahoo. And it'll be interesting to see what happens in the future with the Yahoo / MS relationship.
Seconded, BBC science articles are dreadful. I am sick of their 1-2 sentence 'paragraphs' and dumbing down of concepts. There is better science writing in the Daily Mail, which is a depressingly low standard to be beaten by.
That appears to be the act of a nation-state though. I don't really sweat those, because I'm pretty sure if the NSA really wants in to my machine, I can't stop them.
The argument for being corporate cant go both way tho.

What matters is how public perceives this, too. Posting corp stuff on the org domain/site means that then they are fully corporate-like. Which maybe is simply the case.

You can't justify that its not the case because Mofo owns Moco.. then say both Moco and Mofo share everything without implying its all just a corp. (or the opposite, but not both).
Microsoft itself has provided Windows installation media for download since Windows 8, including Windows 7 media. All you have to do is read your key off BIOS or the sticker.

And of course Windows 10 will be a free download.
Really awesome story, I can relate. One thing I learned after the umpteenth time falling in the pit of picking a technology: do it in PHP, it's fast, I'm good at it. It's going to invariably be the wrong choice, which will become apparent at some point in the future, but in the early stages of a project speed is the most important thing. Your technology is a tool to create the product, not the other way around.

One more thing, you should spend more time defining the product/business before you begin implementing or even thinking about technology. Bounce the idea off of smart people, use usertesting.com (I'm not affiliated with these guys but I use them a lot) and do market research. You don't want to realize that your idea sucks after a few weeks of development because you'll be discouraged from fixing it at that point.
Even if your team is self-organizing, eventually you'll need a "Tech Lead". This person really isn't a boss. They're more of a facilitator that handles all the cruddy work so that developer productivity is maximized and the dev team is free of distraction. They also manage the "politics" of the dev team to the outside -- like making sure strong devs get recognized for their performance, and weaker ones either get mentored (or if that doesn't work out, fired).

I've worked under 30% leaders before and didn't care for the experience as a subordinate. I always felt like POs and PMs broadsided the team, good people weren't recognized or rewarded, shitty people got to hang on, etc. The experience wasn't awful, but it wasn't that great. It would have been much happier had our boss spent two fewer hours each day coding and 2 more hours managing each day.

Also some 30% tech leads tend spend that 30% needlessly micromanaging developers on their team by doing stupid shit like constantly having them move classes or modules around the codebase for no rhyme or reason towards better "organization" rather than just telling the team "I think the way x y z exist is messy. When you have downtime, or are sick of working on whatever and need a break, can you folks think of a better way to re-org and refactor them?"
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> Our options are Nihilism/Zen/Absurdity or Theism.

Utilitarianism -- and many others -- are equally possible. You can assume any set of moral axioms (including those of utilitarianism) without assuming God (the defining assumption of Theism) -- and, in fact, Theism in and of itself gets you nothing, except that it usually is coupled with assumptions about what God wills and the moral axiom that what God wills is what we ought to seek.
Wow. Way over the top socialist screed. Some good observations, a lot of drivel.

It's Salon, so this is isn't surprising, but I've also read many well written articles there. This isn't one of them.

PS: from 2014