skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> recently we have been exploring how we can integrate client software on desktops and mobile with cloud service approaches to evolve what Firefox can do for people.

It will be interesting to see how the deliver those services while providing end-user control and confidentiality, and even monetizing the services at the same time. Even if they don't gain a lot of market share, the solutions to those problems could be very valuable socially, and Mozilla of course will liberate their tech and ideas so that everyone can benefit.
Supremely useful reference: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/
Yes but that's Google. I'd be surprised if Superfish had resources like that, or could generate that much traffic from their servers and not be noticed (by, say, Google). I could be wrong.
Asus is about it.
Stupid. I don't understand their motivations - are they making such a huge amount of money from this?

Lenovo doesn't stand out as much as they used to. Dell/HP/Apple make pretty great business laptops these days. If everything else is equal and I know the competitor (for example) won't install adware, then why would I ever buy Lenovo again?
Cool, I agree that checks are terrible, but I still get more customers paying by check than any other method :)

Regarding item 1: Just curious- Do you mean Mitek and/or USAA have a patent on the process? Or do they own the only technology approved for some back-end process by the Federal Reserve?
I was thinking the same thing. The bottom two posters are much easier for me to read than the top ones because the fonts are more like the ones in my textbooks or in the newspapers.

That said, the top two posters' typography is much more interesting and a native Japanese reader would have zero difficulty reading them.
"But I had to add some tape, as it wasn't strong enough to keep itself in place properly"

I hope it was duct tape, otherwise it may not last for too long. Funny project, done in a cool way, and a great hack.
> Go find a good psychiatrist, ... who will give you a proper ADHD assessment and with whom you can work on medication if needed. ...

As one who does the assessing, I'd endorse your advice. It is of utmost importance to rule out concurrent conditions, but it's a fact that "comorbidity is the rule, not the exception". These other conditions like depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, etc., need to be addressed to really solve the problems.

> ADHD assessment takes at least few hours ...

That's actually an understatement. It may take weeks, months, even years to adequately understand a person's experience and the nature of dysfunction. In this clinical context, there aren't simple tests that reveal the subtleties involved in human behavior, thought and emotion. It requires careful observation, and collaborative communication between the healer and the sufferer to accomplish the task.

It's kind of like software development, an incremental process filled with tweaking parameters and testing the result. Usually over time we arrive at a stable and satisfactory working solution, but we'd never pretend it's an "answer", certainly not one that is "permanent".

Finally, I look at medication therapy as a tool to achieve a goal. Tools are wonderful and interesting artifacts in their own right, but useful only to the extent we employ them skillfully toward achieving a defined purpose.

By themselves medications will not solve the problem, there are many things the patient must practice and learn in order to get better. This is essentially what you said and I think it is spot on.
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Unless things have changed, usually the sticker key is only valid for a certain kind of media. E.g. VLK's only work with VLK images, retail keys only work with retail images...
From the linked XKCD : "Could not be reached for comment" => "is guilty and everyone knows it"
Sure - if you own a bond maturing in 10yrs and paying a coupon of 2% yearly, what you have is a series of cash flows of 2 2 2 2 2 ... 102. In other words, a treasury bond can be decomposed into a series of zero coupon cash flows (interest payments+principal re-payment). The price of a 'whole bond' is the sum of the prices of the different zero coupon cash flows.

A bond maturing in 30yrs has at least 10yrs of cash flows that line up with the 10yr bond. Since coupon interest payments can be 'stripped' from one bond and 'reconstituted' in another bond through the federal reserve, the price of matched-maturity zero coupon cash flows, even if they are stripped from different bonds, is the same. If they weren't, there would be an arbitrage opportunity to buy the cash flows of one bond and sell the cash flows of another bond, exchange them at the Fed, and lock in an immediate profit. Sometimes arbitrage opportunities like this do exist, but typically it's due to liquidity events where it becomes impossible finance offsetting positions. There's a good article on this called "Notes on Bonds: Liquidity at all Costs in the Great Recession" by Musto, Nini, and Schwarz
Why so small? I want a large eink display for text editing for long periods of time
Clevo makes high quality laptops that are also very reasonably priced when bought barebones from the right vendor (they don't do direct consumer sales). Sager, System76, FalconNW, and a whole bunch of other boutique laptop companies are actually selling rebadged/modified Clevos.
I know exactly what you mean. So many companies have this culture. I really paid attention to this years back when I sat next to a great worker that would always be gone by 4pm. They came into the office and charged through things and didn't faff about on the unimportant. I saw the reality that prioritization is as important as hours. Problem is it's easier to judge someone on hours in office than output.

Anecdote aside, this is an example of VW trying to break this culture to make better workers: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16314901
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Its never been possible to be humorous without content that would alienate someone; nowadays, its just that communication is more ubiquitous so you're more likely to reach that person and hear back from them.
I don't see myself ever bothering to keep the default windows install on a thinkpad but this really hurts my impression of the company regardless. I've had my eye on the new X1s and had planned to upgrade my X201 this year but now I'm having second thoughts.

Who if anyone has taken over the place of great laptop for linux / development?
It's highly likely that their map-reduce framework is tightly integrated with and dependent on their own infrastructure (e.g. GFS, BigTable, etc).
Thats pretty slick.
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Exile was great. Good to see Vogel is still out there making games.
Instructions are apparently in the .ZIP file for the download :-)
I'm curious, are those payments for work you've done for a US company?

I do love what transferwise is doing, thats awesome that the banks are riled up about it :)
but apparently no one did a security review

It doesn't take a "security review" to spot a gaping security and privacy violation like this.

Any engineer with even the slightest clue of how a browser and "the internet" works would have called this out during the first "How does this product work?"-presentation.

Let's not pretend Lenovo is staffed with monkeys.
Is it even possible to buy a Windows laptop right now with only the OS installed?

This is exactly why I've been recommending Chromebooks to anyone who asks my advice for about a year now.
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I don't think this is quite analogous. For one, first-order arithmetic doesn't seem a uniquely human invention. Instead, it seems like it is mathematically universal in a certain way—induction is a thing that appears across all sorts of different logics, and is usually tied to a marked increase in logic strength.

And, there are plenty of logics that are complete, like presberger arithmetic; these logics just happen to be weaker than first-order arithmetic.
Superfish. How apt.
Interesting this appears to only be on the consumer grade laptops. I know at first glance I saw nothing relating to it on my W540 that I bought in November.
Would it be correct to assume that this doesn't affect any of the thinkpads used at IBM?
I thought that had to do with the fact that they're a chinese owned company and if say the CIA makes a large order (or any order really) the chinese government might step in and force malware to be installed.
Microsoft sell their own laptops, in US. They are said to be good.
I use both: SGS5 & Samsung GT-E3300

I've been running a candy bar for about 6+ months in conjunction with a smart phone (work and personal sims). I did this as I got tired of having a smartphone on 5% battery when I needed to make/receive an important call. I now forward the smart phone number to the dumb phone so I'm always available on both numbers. This has removed the low battery stress from my life. The downside is getting texts on the candy bar. Using keypad is a pain so I tend to call people rather than text or give yes/no replies to anyone not on a messaging app like hangouts where I can text via the smartphone. Also I dont get MMS people send to this number.

It's been handy but I'm tossing up trying a dual SIM as battery life improves or getting a Windows/Ubuntu/Sailfish smartphone with small screen (for better battery) as the alternate just to play with a new OS..
I think Microsoft sells those in its stores but even then I'm pretty sure they come with a few things but mostly from the manufacturer.

It would sure be nice to bring home a Windows machine that only had Windows on it and any necessary but minor applications from the manufacturer (like a settings application or drivers and not some photo sharing spyware).
I've had great experiences with the ThinkPad T420, but after this news I'll likely never be buying a Lenovo product again. A damn shame.
Nice! I'll finally be able to implement Glitch for the web (glitch is like react but uses replay to shake out data races).
Start your very own Uber like Taxi service
Another thing I discovered over the years is many people who work all the time are really trying to avoid people/things in their personal lives.
Free? I thought that was only if you already had 7 or 8 installed.
I thought so too, but my recent experience with a Zenbook has changed my view. WiFi drivers were so bad it took half a year after my purchase before the connection became stable (not dropping every 15 minutes requiring a reboot). Touchpad drivers were also a mess with awful kinetic scrolling. And just couple of weeks ago it stopped booting Windows altogehter (something related to ACPI I guess, Linux works if I don't use suspend). Conveniently one month after the expiration of the warranty.
A coincidence of units makes interstellar distances easy to visualize. One light-year is ≈63,240 AU. One mile is 63,360 inches. So if Earth was an inch from Sol, Alpha Centauri would be four miles away. Voyager probes would be 100-ish inches away, traveling about 3 inches per year.

This also gives you some idea of how tiny parallax[1] is. Parallax to Alpha Centauri is equivalent to looking at something four miles away and moving your head two inches. This is where the parsec comes from. If moving 1 AU causes an object to have an arc-second of parallax, that means it's 3.26 light-years away. An arc-second is a tiny angle. There are 360 degrees in a circle, 60 arc-minutes in a degree, and 60 arc-seconds in an arc-minute. To give you another point of reference, an arc-minute would be about an inch separation at 100 yards. Current instruments can use parallax to measure distances up to 300 light-years. The Gaia mission should be able to measure angles as small as 20 millionths of an arc-second.[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_parallax

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(spacecraft)
Huh super interesting. It looks like currently TurboFan is competitive w/Crankshaft on the asm.js benchmarks, and much, much slower on everything else. I wonder if the V8 team expects TurboFan to someday beat Crankshaft on the asm benchmarks, given current perf differences.
George and Amal Clooney reportedly building panic room
One of the many reasons I like uncluttered and ornament-free interfaces is precisely because they are boring - these are tools at the end of the day and tools should strive to disappear; they are, after all trying to be extensions of myself, not fully realised personalities themselves.

If I want an experience, I'd rather go bungy jumping or parachute diving or whatever. When I want to get on with some work, I want to just that; not participate in a shallow, "user experience", desperate to justify its existence to itself.
>Excluding 90% of the population from enjoying these areas of the game would be a horrible plan.

Welcome to the golden age of Entitlement where everyone thinks they deserve a trophy no matter how badly they perform.

This is the attitude of a generation of kids raised on participation trophies who expect rewards just for showing up rather than for accomplishments.
It's valid until you find a solution to this problem.

A solution can be to accept to suffer and die abruptly after making a load of money in a short spark.

Or you can get a maximum of money and influence in a very short spike and use your position then to block concurrents from catching up while your reputation goes down the hill.

Or you can grow the company responsible on good bases, make sure you won't get displaced/disrupted, and then go full shady.

Or you go full shady from the start but have some entity protect you from the consequences and let you grow untouched.

A good reputation is a business advantage, but it's just one among others, and you can compensate for it if you have other strong cards to play.
TerrAvion (YC W14) Is Hiring Summer Engineering Interns
Why entrepreneurship feels like bungee jumping
One more good reason to not buy a laptop with pre-installed OS.
Oxytricha trifallax has an encrypted genome
Why do we need monads?: http://stackoverflow.com/a/28141248/176876
While the tech looks sketchy, the company looks even sketchier. Look at the About Us page - https://www.theranos.com/our-company

One employee listed and a whopping sized board of directors, most of which come from the government or the military. Smells like something straight from the military industrial complex.
1. I connect to https://encrypted.google.com/ on Firefox and the certificate says it is verified by SuperFish.

2. Also, my broswer.newtab.url was changed to some URL (http://homepage-web.com/?s=lenovo&m=tab) instead of the default about:newtab

Steps to remove VisualDiscovery / Superfish

1. Home menu, search for Administrator tools
2. Open services
3. Find the VisualDiscovery service. Stop the service.
Right click properties. Set "Startup type" to Disabled

4. Start -> Control panel
5. Add/ remove programs
6. Find Superfish and uninstall
Just one more very good reason why the first thing I do with a new OEM machine of any kind is reformat and reinstall from my own media.
So, where I can get those API? Can you get me link or something?
Why did they use to force you onto Google instead of giving you the option?
>They install a web proxy which MITMs all web connections, including HTTPS by means of a pre-installed trusted root certificate.

That's the odd part of this. Browser plugins can modify the DOM (insert ads, change search results, etc) without proxying anything. So why do it? I wonder if they were fishing for an NSA contract to further monetize the installs.
Hey there, I'm one of the technical cofounders of Giveffect. Good questions!

The reason why our clients are choosing the "all-in-one" solution is because they are fed up with disjointed systems. Why shouldn't their fundraising pages on the frontend automatically talk to their CRM on the backend? Our solution is integrated in the "NGO's website automatically" as we are a complete white labelled solution powering the entire fundraising/crowdfunding/campaign-style experience on their own website.

The email marketing solution is something we're still building out, and while still in the early stages we have integrated with some cool patent-pending technology that provides deep insights and analytics. We can gather data such as which subscribers have read the email, how many times, duration spent reading the content, on which device, location opened, whether or not they clicked through any links, and furthermore converted. All of this feeds back to our integrated CRM to further segment high value, highly engaged contacts.

Currently we use PayPal as our payment gateway because they were the only ones to offer a low NGO rate for our clients. Plus they have a long standing trust with nonprofits and donors, and most NGO's already have a PayPal account with many using it as their donate button, making it an obvious choice.
This is like the Avast spyware story: once you break trust, it's really difficult to get it back.
The government needs to run clean, standardized auctions on seized property to make sure the entire thing is impartial. What if these weren't bitcoins but instead cars? A government official could sell them to his brother at "a fair price" aka 1000s under market.
Metadata regime open to abuse: insider
The article misses the point (or skirts it).

India has the resources to provide electricity to every village. The problem is that politicians have created a system where there is little or no incentive to do so.

Electricity is a heavily regulated sector. Power producers cannot charge a fair price for electricity, instead they are required to comply with a complex pricing structure that forces them to give electricity free to some people, and below cost price to many others and recover the loss from a very small percentage of their customers who pay several times the fair market price.

Villagers are one of the categories of people who get electricity free (or subsidized, in some states). This is why nobody wants to bear the expense of running power lines to the villages.
From what I understand, you need to go one further and spelunk through your local machine certificate stores and remove any Superfish certificates. They are not uninstalled.
Lenovo going down the drain. All they had to do was continue the Thinkpad legacy left by IBM. It's honestly breathtaking how badly they've fucked up. After the touch-based function keys, ruining the trackpoint buttons and now this. It's unbelievable.
I'm confused; if Firefox doesn't use the system certificates, shouldn't Firefox users have been seeing visibly broken HTTPS from day one?
> Observe that asm.js is very verbose, define a simple binary bytecode for it.

I suspect that is never going to happen, for two reasons:

1) verbosity, on its own, does not make a difference on the web - HTML and Javascript are both generally super verbose, and haven't had any accepted "simple binary encoding" designed for them in those 20 years. What does get implemented is minifiers and compressors (gzip encoding or otherwise), both of which will provide benefits to asm.js comparable to what a bytecode would, and would not require any buy-in from browser maker (the same attribute that has made asm.js successful and PNaCL unsuccessful so far).

2) Historically, anything that is not backwards compatible and does not degrade gracefully is NOT easily adopted by Browser makers, or by websites, unless it provides something that cannot be achieved without it (e.g. WebGL gets some adoption because there is no alternative; but ES6 will get little to non in the next 3 years except as a source language translated to ES5)
"Until now, the closest that the market has come to online shopping for new vehicles has been third-party websites like TrueCar Inc.,"

Someone should tell that to Tesla Motors.
Have you any references you can share for further info / to back this up?
I own two Asus products - Nexus 7 2012 and a K55VM series laptop. Both had problems with charging and used to get hot pretty soon.
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> How exciting to be driven by (or driving, depending on what you believe) such a vastly complex thing.

Dancing with.
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Not until Windows 95 OSR2
https://web.archive.org/web/19991013115738/http://support.mi...
I'll just leave this out there : http://www.komodia.com/products/komodia-redirector/
I posted this link a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9056041
I can imagine all the ways an os can leak information if it isn't fully encrypted at a sector level.

Just having the filnames is an serious risk.
“Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.”

Remember stuff like this:

http://www.cryptofails.com/post/70059600123/saltstack-rsa-e-...

(Which, possibly unfairly, is one reason I'm leaning more towards ansible than saltstack to this day -- I mean, if stuff like that got through... what else, in more complex areas of the system?)
Samsung Acquires LoopPay, Maker of an Apple Pay Competitor
as for Salesforce, though they offer it for free/discounted to our clients, the solution requires a lot of customization and training before it is effective for nonprofits. Most of our clients struggle to figure out the best way to optimize/integrate Salesforce into their workflow. A turn-key solution is what our customers are looking for.
You're so optimistic it hurts

"Any engineer" means something in HN, but we're not talking about "people who read HN" levels of engineer here, don't be mistaken.

Some people that have had no or limited experience with software are assigned to software projects, and that's
the issue with companies like Lenovo.
Interesting contrast to the Dropbox / Condoleezza Rice backlash. And Theranos has access to your DNA...
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Also the author is not from the US, so you can’t sue him to terrorize him with opinionated morals.
See Jonathan Bush (CEO of Athenahealth) Explaining Software a a Service (SaaS)
The $4,000 bachelor’s degree
will there be an Apple Watch version?
Unfortunately they have no competition in terms of a quality laptop to run Linux on. None of the competition offers similar features as my current x230 or the x250 I'm probably going to pick up later this year. If you could recommend a replacement that has a good keyboard, trackpoint, 12+ hours of real battery life, i7, etc. I'd be happy to hear about it.
Is there no video of the guys playing Street Fighter on the piano?
> It's that the most powerful search robot in the world,

So, other search robots doesn't do that?
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Despite the initial problems, I like my Zenbook.

The WiFi drivers are made by Intel, but yes, they were
terrible (blue screen). I had to downgrade back to the drivers that came with Windows for while but the latest versions seem to be fine. I'm using some stock touchpad drivers that don't seem to have any kinetic scrolling.

But I'm the person who brought this to the attention of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8546702

Basically after installing just about everything the laptop comes with, it seems to be running great. :)
> their secure HTTPS connections are being MITMed intentionally

of course they are - Lenovo customers have signed the agreement that this is ok when they started the machine the first time </sarcasm>
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They brought the trackpoint buttons back on the latest line and you can switch the F-keys back to being the defaults via a bios setting. Just in case you were curious.
Notch loving programming life post-Minecraft
Hopefully Redmond will give hell to Lenovo for this.

Also, apparently this is just the start for crapware on new PCs - Paul Thurrott said on the podcast Windows Weekly about a week ago that crapware is going to get a lot worse this PC cycle.
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How do I check the authenticity of this engine ?