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V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's phone without Apple
My statements purely state that the FBI is very aware of how to take actions and make statements that are true, but misleading. What is the issue is that the OIG took statements that were clearly meaningless -- but assigned meaning to them.

In fact, if you read the report, which includes these statements, "In the (FBI elite hacking unit) Chief’s view, the fact that he was not asked for help sooner was not a mistake in judgment or communication breakdown on CEAU’s part, but rather the result of a long-standing policy that the ROU Chief understood created a “line in the sand ”against using national security tools in criminal cases." -- which if true, given the events were a known terrorist attack, would have made the events a national security matter.

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's phone without Apple
The FBI's chief of its elite hacking unit has a clear conflict of interest in stating what the status of hacking into the phone related to the San Bernadino shooting -- and unless the OIG confirmed the vendor's status at that point forensically, verbal statements to me are meaningless.

Saying that the vendor was "90 percent of the way toward a solution" could mean anything; for example, they had the hack, but were testing it to see if would work for all iPhone models.

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on The Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades
Likelihood is irrelevant -- what matters is if it was covered. For example, if he bought "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found" on Amazon, was doing Google Searches for it, etc. -- seems not only worth further investigation.

Research shows that if for example during an interview his wife said it was possibly a suicide, that the odds are good it was: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_...

Faked deaths happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faked_death

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on The Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades
Report clearly states he needed money and the captain though it was likely the company was going to screw him over based on verbal second-hand accounts of drinking under his watch.

Near the section you referenced it does state that the investigators checked the captain's most recent medical exam report.

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Tesla's $2.6B Musk Award Too Costly, Glass Lewis Says
Appears Glass Lewis & Co currently maintains approximately 37% of the market share for proxy advisory services - but does that mean that all of their clients vote as per Glass Lewis reports recommend? If so, given they collectively advise $20 trillion worth of assets, would someone please explain why this is not toxic to a free market.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Lewis

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2013)
This is the "online" (abridged) version of this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Bayesian-Methods-Hackers-Probabilisti...

There's a full version of another good book ("Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics in Python") available as a PDF from the publisher here:

http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-bayes/

(related Amazon reviews)

https://www.amazon.com/Think-Bayes-Bayesian-Statistics-Pytho...

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on The oddness of Isaac Newton
"Lex talionis" sounds a lot like "an eye for an eye" - which I might be wrong, but that phrase/idiom has religious origins.
V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month
Just noticed the "spin a sale" email for prize link in the footer, how is that working out?

https://www.spinasale.com/

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month
Have you experienced copycats, and if so, what do you believe is the number one barrier to them competing against you?
V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month
@patwalls: Curious, how're you finding founders to interview? Anything you've learned building out StarterStory.com that you didn't expect, and if so, what did you learn?

(patwalls is Pat Walls, the founder of StarterStory.com)

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on The Algorithm Design Manual (2008)
10 years ago being 2008 - and the second edition also appears to be the most recent edition too; age of the edition though appears to have no impact on its value.

SOURCE: The Algorithm Design Manual 2nd ed. 2008 Edition https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena...

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Y Combinator is accepting applications for S18
Starting point for understanding why YC would want startups to move to the Bay Area would be be to read "Why to Move to a Startup Hub" by Paul Graham, one of the co-founders of YC:

http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on New research reveals how gut bacteria can control our genes
Here's a link to the research: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02651-5
V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away
Anyone able to provide any context as to why the cartels would care about a town like this?

As far as I am able to tell, the town is not: a tourist area, on a main route to anywhere, bordering the US, etc.

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Ink/stitch: an Inkscape extension for machine embroidery design
Anyone know if this the best "consumer-level" machine for this sort of stuff?

https://www.amazon.com/Brother-SE400-Combination-Computerize...

If so, what would be the next likely step up?

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on A.I. And Big Data Could Power a New War on Poverty?
Poverty is a social issue, it has almost nothing to do with tech fundamentally and tech normally only amplifies social beliefs, it rarely fixes them.
V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on The web is dying, but mesh networks could save it
"increasing the bandwidth, overhead, surface space for security, code to maintain, etc."

Web is a massive set of code, much of which is built around are the things that are wrong with the web today; for example, any native support for "cookie" like tech for starters.

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on The web is dying, but mesh networks could save it
Every single thing you add increasing the bandwidth, overhead, surface space for security, code to maintain, etc.

"Keep it simple, silly."

So, being a decentralized web enthusiast (per your profile) what why focus on reproducing the whole web, to start, the web was just a simple layout, text, web links, and people links (mailto).

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on The web is dying, but mesh networks could save it
Why save the web? Seems like a better future would be to do end-to-end encryption over a peer-to-peer network.

Yes, in understand that it could be blocked in a number of ways, but so could mesh networks too.

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Questions to ask yourself when writing tests
>> "For every part of my code change, if I break the code, will a test fail?"

Since "breaking code" is super subjective, and generally speaking, trying to "cover everything" is a recipe for hell.

Anyone able to expand on what the author meant by this?

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Ask HN: It’s 2018, what to build now?
>> "My last product was a hypothesis that never gained traction"

Best place to start is where you already are, not a new venture - what exactly was the product and what did you do to gain traction?

EDIT: You posted a "Show HN" linking to the site below [1], is this the project you're referencing?

[1] https://www.helloreads.com/

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Engineers Create Stable Plasma Ring in Open Air
Here's the research paper: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp400001y

TLDR: The initial stages of the electrical discharge that produce this 'plasmoid' have many similarities to lightning. They're just electric arcs - in this case, electric arcs to the surface of this solution of electrolytes. And then what happens is this plasmoid emerges from it. Ball lightning is used almost generically to describe phenomena seen in nature that aren't described by normal lightning, bead lightning or things like 'St Elmo's fire', or aurora. And likely it's not one thing but several things that have similar observables. The US Air Force Academy team hopes its new approach can help science to better understand this strange spectacle.

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on How Hotmail changed Microsoft and email
Anyone interested in story behind Hotmail should checkout:

"PS: I Love You. Get Your Free Email at Hotmail"

https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/18/ps-i-love-you-get-your-fre...

and here is the story of how Microsoft acquired Hotmail:

https://twit.tv/shows/twit-bits/episodes/4597

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Ask HN: Quantum entanglement
Believe this article was the best they were able to offer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040860

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Best Idea Wins
It's not the best idea, it's the last "good" idea used.

For example, Google may not be the last search engine, nor may it be the best search engine, but for the average person in the US, it's the last "good" search engine they have used.

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss
The official opinions of EFF and EPIC on the case:

* EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/judge-cracks-down-link...

* EPIC: https://epic.org/amicus/cfaa/linkedin/

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered
Is anyone aware of a reasoning of why a usable planet would be a requirement for space exploration?

Sure, if a "clone" of Earth is found, it would make things created here more reusable on the new planet, but seems like a pretty limited way of viewing the potential for ventures in space.

More to the point, is anyone aware of the requirements of non-planet staged space operations would look like and how viable such plans would be compared to planet dependent operations.

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Keeping a Lab Notebook [pdf]
Fear of having any record used against you by a third-party is a completely rational fear, since as you noted, regardless of your intent, simply viewing third-party IP that is publicly viewable, such as an existing patent, introduces potential claims of theft regardless of the facts.

On the flip side, if done correctly, such records can provide supporting evidence that the claimed conflict did not occur.

For similar case law, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design#Case_law

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Ask HN: Measuring Absolute and Relative Basis for Scientific Claims
In the past, the closest "universal" study/work that to me fit the topic was:

"Why most published research findings are false"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15602364

V2hLe0ThslzRaV2··on Inside the Mind of Thru-Hiking's Devious Con Man
>> "As she went through Caldwell’s things, she found a little black notebook of Caldwell’s in the backseat. It contained all of his contacts and even some of his passwords. On July 26, Trent used the information from the book to access his Facebook account, which had become, in recent years, a living record of the man that Caldwell longed to be. Trent decided to start editing it, to make it reflect, more clearly, the man who he truly was. She took down the profile picture of him as a bearded mountain man and replaced it with a shot of him in an orange prison jumpsuit."

Guessing few will make it to the end of the article, but was shocked to read the above, since the victim literally provided statements and evidence of them committing a federal offense.

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