jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can't seem to find traces of the original statements that went into much greater detail, but there is one case that sticks out, that of an Australian teen who accessed an internal system at Apple through unauthorized means and was on a Mac while doing so: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-teen-h...

The statements i recall strongly indicated that Apple was aware of many machine identifiers which would have been impossible to log otherwise such as the serial number of the system itself and other such revealing information.

If that is not convincing enough, there are plenty of tales of proprietary, unexposed APIs within the Apple stack itself that "ping home" with sensitive device information, the most recent example being one where any executable on a mac was deliberately blocked (a bug) until validated on Apples end.

If you are looking for a smoking gun, i'm afraid, i cannot provide that, and i apologize if that's what you took away from my comment.

On the other hand, as someone who understands software and the systems here, you may draw your own conclusions, given the two examples above on how hard it would be for someone at Apple, with a bit of motivation and access to do precisely this, ie, derive the information (inferred or direct) about device location through the find my app or other deeper layers of the stack where its stored, or, use the find my network to find devices such as MacBooks that they suspect were involved in activity their security teams dislike.
Seems like good numbers and big study.

Covid-19 Hazard Rate vs influenza seem to be 1.2 - 2.5 for most outcomes.

If HR (hazard rate) vs influenza is 2.5, and 0.2% of influenza patients have the outcome, 0.5% of covid-19 patients have it.
One can enable compression by default for all ssh connections by adding

Compression yes

to ~/.ssh/config

It can pipe many megabytes of text output per second on relatively slow channels (`ssh -vv` prints the total data transfer when you close the connection), as long as it's not encrypted or unable to be compressed for some other reason (which is pretty rare for text output).

Scrolling very large files in vim becomes much faster, for example.
Someone should make an online "real book" for electronic music production, with a bunch of popular beats and instructions for how to reproduce them in a DAW. Does such a thing exist?
My impression is that Python is certainly not a better language than JavaScript. They both have their quirks, so it ends up being a matter of preference. For example Python doesn't have real lambdas, on the other hand it has named parameters.

The only reason to use Python that I can think of is maybe SciPy.

I made me sad to witness Python gaining so much in popularity as a beginner language in the last year.
Specs have holes and ambiguities. And C++ in general likes to avoid guarantees to my frustration. In this case, we're not even guaranteed which specs apply.

In this case, the C++ standard references the C standard contains the (optional/normative) Annex F referencing the IEC 60559 standard (which has the same content as IEEE 754). Annex F defines float and double in terms of the IEC 60559 single & double formats... and the standard C++ operators in terms of their IEC 60559 counterparts... and recommends long double be implemented as an extended double format (such as the 80-bit format commonly used by x86.)

Annex F also mentions allowed optimizations, disallowed optimizations (involving various corner cases, rounding modes, implementation defined signaling exceptions, etc. ad infinitum). I don't see temporarily handling a double as an IEC 60559 Extended Double format anywhere on the allowed optimizations list, but I can't tell for certain if it runs afoul of any of the specifically disallowed optimizations of Annex F either.

I'm guessing /fp:strict is meant to imply strict compliance with some standard, but MSDN talks about /fp:precise maintaining enough precision to be within "strict ANSI compliance" as well (under Annex F? Or perhaps they mean within Annex E's epsilon precision requirements...)

MSVC (2008-2013) doesn't appear to define __STDC_IEC_559__ which would definitively bind it to Annex F, but it does define std::numeric_limits<...>::is_iec559 = true for float/double/long double, which at least binds it to IEC 60559...
I figured since Someone already did this, it could be done better. Platform is built in Laravel + Stripe took 3 days about to build.

Features: Order glitter and get shipped to frenemies. Order multiple quantities -- and have 1 envelope sent per week till order fulfilled.
Plans:
- Ship Poop, and other Trolling-snail-mails in the future.
- Tag shipments with "Hints" -- if user guesses you sent it, they can order/ship a revenge package at a discount.
- Choose colors of glitter - for instance -- if you're a University of Utah fan, you can send your BYU friend an envelope with Red and White Glitter and a note that Byu Sux.
- Etc...
I read it primarily on my iPhone and the app has this built in.
The standard was set last summer. Leftists spent three months torching police stations, attacking courthouses, looting businesses, and confronting politicians in their homes. I continue to be assiduously reminded that none of this constituted terrorism. Don't see why this should be treated any differently.
How does it integrate with Slack? This would be interesting but details are sadly lacking.
We need a CUDA alternative for non NVIDIA gpu's, specially on a Mac.
Joel is a family friend. I personally don't know him very well but I remember a great demonstration of his encyclopedic knowledge of the classics at my bar mitzvah. Great to see him getting published.
Indeed. Do you have a point?
Fascism does not see the problem, it is the problem.

The grandiose, arrogant, and blind social elites calling out the popular masses to be socially alienated.

Whose social alienation it would be?

Of course such masses will be of service to any any much significant opportunist group.

People will vote even for a devil himself if one promises to get rid them off such elites.

Just like that, 20 years ago, in a country far, far away, the destitute populace decided, in its sane mind, to vote into power not anybody, but an ex-officer from a mafia-like intelligence organisation people worked so hard to remove from power just 10 years prior.
> Note that Banxa performs their own KYC for their own MSB services.

Ok and so does Coinbase. So at any point I, an American citizen, must do some level of KYC.

Is the idea that I can simply buy Crypto from another exchange and then send the hash to another wallet on your platform (where KYC isn't performed)?

> Search your smartphone's app store for ShapeShift and give it a whirl yourself :)

No offense, but I won't. It's hard for me to trust a wallet that clearly (or technically unclearly) is operating in a grey area of the law.
Not everyone on HN is the same person. So, different people can believe each without any contradiction.
No probably. Presumably you're doing this for a cut of the action, so that's income on one side, then there's your out of pocket costs to run the system etc. Knowing how these two compare can tell you all sorts of things, including how much you can safely take out for yourself if things are going well enough, vs. knowing you'll have to pay next month's co-lo fees out of your pocket.

Now, of course, at that level something as formal as a general ledger isn't quite required, but you still need to do the same things in e.g. watching the organization's bank balance.
Yeah, I don't think anything has ever come of the handful of issues I've filed with open source projects over the years. It's either silence or a WONTFIX/works as expected.
>- Internet Explorer starts using an
open-source rendering engine

I think this is more likely to come true through Microsoft open-sourcing Trident.
Does the bug still happen on Android 5.x? That is now available for the Nexus 4.
The attacker can essentially "seal" the firmware in by writing a modified BIOS that either skips executing option ROMs, or write-protects the flash before executing them (as Apple's firmware should've originally done); then you'd need to use hardware to reflash.
It is systematic abuse; I'm not sure it makes sense to talk about it being abused...
No, I don't wear a helmet when walking, but I do when cycling. That is because my speed is much higher when cycling, and because it is easier to fall.

And I've experienced that a cycling helmet is good to wear. There was this child that appeared from a bush to the bike path. I hit the brakes and went over the bar. A slight bumb in the head but no injury there; broke a radix bone though.
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that is a great question. there are two sides to this argument. one side says if they block you, you should block them. the other side says blocking trade backfires and that open markets create more opportunity even if you can't sell into their market
Dreamweaver will exploit your skills. Don't go for so called _WYSIWYG_ editors. Try Netbeans, textmare or even notepad++
Verbz beta user here. Here's the problem I was having when I first met the team:

- Fully remote startup. I'm cofounder and CPO and running between meetings. Drowning under Slack, Asana, and Voxer.

I realised in our team context, voice was a really great way to put context into async collaboration, but really annoying to have to sit and listen to the whole message in realtime. Conversely voice-to-text alone misses the context of being able to listen when I want to. I wanted both at once.

I also realised that voice is super easy to send while in transit. And text is super easy to read. Best of both worlds. And then with Verbz automatically assigning tasks just by listening to my message, that was a breakthrough moment. Likewise just taking notes for myself it's great, as I hate typing on my phone when I've got lots to express, and I hate how iOS voice memos name and store. Plus I rarely actually go back and properly manage them.

Verbz is a no-brainer. The challenge is implementing in our team in a way where it doesn't get in the way of our JIRA-as-atomic-units-of-work workflow for the wider team. Our core management team however seems to fit this model nicely.

It's easily a product that the other apps will copycat as it gets traction. But it's not jammed full of ads or leaking my data so I'm happy for now. The team is really responsive, which is the bitter sweet part of early stage products - getting to feel like your suggestions are heard, but knowing that as they grow that's no always going to be the case as they get big. In the meantime, it's an instant RIP to Voxer for us.
Artefacts and stamps bring joy by being able to show your friends, maybe your friends like looking at your wallet, but mine wouldn't...
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing. :)
I wonder if we'll see the same thing with other remote work hotspots like Thailand.
I really hope my next phone to be a real Linux phone like Pinephone/Librem (or apparently you can even install Linux on my Oneplus 6T), so I could run android-only stuff in the VM and have a real computing device in my pocket.
There were black car services that covered the entire city. The further out you got the cheaper most of this services would become.
Everybody here should read this comment by Steve Yegge: http://groups.google.com/group/seajure/msg/145c06c54847c048 (original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2466731)
I'd wager that "large" SmugMug is vastly smaller than Dropbox (probably comparable to Dropbox of a year or two ago). I'm certain Dropbox is storing orders of magnitude more data than SmugMug at this point in time.
Check the revision history on my post; that Dr. / Mr. thing was corrected in under 15 minutes (22:07 to 22:22) ... whereas the reply referring to it was submitted at 23:00, 8 minutes AFTER it was already corrected. But who needs facts when you have drama? http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/posts/1993/revisions
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2466556
That doesn't make sense. The main benefit of Groupon, et al is finding new customers.
The police said: "But to prevent being sexually assaulted, avoid dressing like sluts" and people heard "Women who dress like sluts have no right to be left alone and not be raped."

What the police said is not a moral argument. It's a plain fact, more or less. You don't want to walk into a biker bar and start acting provocatively. You don't want to walk under a bus even if you did use a crosswalk. And you don't want to dress like a slut, get drunk, and walk home through a quiet park late in the evening and not bother to think about your safety.

In all these cases you might very well be right but that doesn't mean you won't get parts of your body reconfigured in a number of ways. Not everybody else plays by the same rules and that's the actuality, even if it is in conflict with our moral rules such as "Don't hit people and don't rape people, but if you're assaulted you can hit someone a bit for self-defense".
Shortish article summary: no information about which performs better.
In the first sense. Does the US worry that it can't directly control the production of renminbi? Absolutely.
How come you are using all three of those languages in production rather than just one of them?
definitely the coolest cyberpunk thing ever

I wonder if it could be emulated with a shader...
Hmm, I wonder if this could backfire. If it's an <iframe>, couldn't GitHub insert code that framebusts? If it's some other mechanism, couldn't they block by referrer? If it's CORS, couldn't GitHub deny CORS requests? If it's a <script> tag, couldn't GitHub do some nasty XSS?

Edit: ooh, take a look at the more detailed look from insight-labs: http://insight-labs.org/?p=1682

It's XMLHttpRequest ($.ajax), but with dataType: "script". Looking at the jQuery docs (http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/):

"script": Evaluates the response as JavaScript and returns it as plain text. Disables caching by appending a query string parameter, "_=[TIMESTAMP]", to the URL unless the cache option is set to true. Note: This will turn POSTs into GETs for remote-domain requests.

Oh dear. If GitHub can detect this, GitHub can basically XSS all sites using Baidu's analytics.

Edit 2: Oh, the insight-labs article says the attack has stopped.
Whilst some would allow children at a burlesque - others would look at the crotch level shot of dancers in frilly knickers that fronts the video ad for the burlesque show and consider that Facebook are spot on. It's not "morality police" it's just sticking with a pre-arranged definition of the boundaries of behaviour considered acceptable in a given forum. Those sufficiently mature to choose the boundaries of their exposure to sexualised content can get burlesque in other forums that have different defined boundaries. It's choice.

Would you do a burlesque show at a high-school?

It's not porn per se, but it is an "adult live show".
Also if you are set to graduate May of 2015 but you graduate Dec of 2015 instead.. you still graduated in 2015.. so on the .0001% chance someone cared, just put 2011-2015 for years attended and it is both truthful and shows "4 years"
> [the securities market is] a vital machine on which all our prosperity depends.

I'd like to see evidence of this.
I think in general the field (maybe not HR departments) is pretty accepting of people with alternative majors even outside of engineering - I know some great folks who had music or art history degrees.

Your challenge I think is to show initial work for job acquisition purposes, so being able to point to a very technical side project on your GitHub (and of course resume) for your chosen language will be a very good idea.

What language you choose depends on what field you want to get into, specially. Python is used in various places including web and database applications, but ultimately I'd say shoot for something you like. If you can find enough companies you like that work in X language, that can be a good way to go.

Good companies will assume smart folks can pick up other tools, but I think your main hurdle is going to be showing something that counts as sufficient "equivalent experience" -- and that should be possible to do.

College is highly valuable, but all of college C.S. is not always directly applicable.
Be advised that this kind of plugging and low grade humor is frowned upon on this site. Go read the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html if you haven't yet.
They must believe that GitHub will bow to their will
[...] That seems incredibly naive.

Plenty of technology companies would. Of course, they would call it "complying with local laws in all countries in which we operate".

The only way to find out if Github is such a company is a few months of successful attacks.
I spent a few minutes going over the Dropbox Terms of Service.

The section I believe that they are referring to when they removed the public link is:

General Prohibitions
You agree not to do any of the following while using the Site, Content, Files or Services:

Post, publish or transmit any text, graphics, or material that: (i) is false or misleading; (ii) is defamatory; (iii) invades another's privacy; (iv) is obscene, pornographic, or offensive; (v) promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any individual or group; (vi) infringes another's rights, including any intellectual property rights; or (vii) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability;

...

Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Site, Content, Files or Services;

(Excerpted in whole for clarity. Full Terms at: https://www.dropbox.com/terms#terms)

Seemingly not only is posting the code for DropShip a violation, but just by me putting up this file ( http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1498040/2plus2equals5.txt ) in my public folder, I'm also violating the Terms, as I am publishing text that is false and possibly misleading.
Second that. I've already given up TV years ago for that reason. 90% is crap, and the other 10% I learned I can live without.
I've written about it at http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/ in the past.

But the Cliff Notes version is that with Apress I'm meant to get anywhere between 10% and 20% for paper copies (sliding scale depending on # of copies sold) and double the print rate for e-books (so between 20% and 40%). With Pragmatic Programmers I believe the rate is 50%.
I almost want to pirate this just to see if his "nagging pirates to buy the book" section has been stripped out.

I always think these things are funny, because the only people who tend to see them are paying customers.
Correction: now larger than any cable company was last year.

The latest subscriber numbers from Comcast [1] are from September 2010, for Q3 2010, when they reported 22.937M cable video subscribers.

It's conceivable that Comcast has been growing as well and has as many subs as Netflix.

But the media loves a horse race!

[1] http://www.cmcsk.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=523403
Link to the cached NYTimes article:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
Also posted this in the comments on the site, thought I'd join the discussion here.

I appreciate David's perspective on piracy, but I also embrace and understand where Tim O'Reilly is coming from (Far worse to be irrelevant . I think I have the solution. Why not create an entirely new genre of content that offers a greater level of utility than static digital eBooks?

Knowledge is getting created faster than it can be certified, and we need early-adopting gurus like you to light the path forward to new technologies. I'm particularly happy to pay for content on its own, particularly if I perceive that the original content creator is taking a lion's share of the profit.

I know that may not even cross many author's minds, but if there were messages like "95% of the profits from this eBook will be contributed to the author, so that they will continue producing high value content", I believe more people would be inclined to purchase.

Also I won't mention the name of my company here and get flamed for self-promoting, but I will say that I think there's a huge opportunity for publishers, authors, and content creators to disrupt a much larger, adjacent industry, education and its steady "diet" of certifications.
It's much more the packaged content model that big cable props up. It's good it you watch tons of TV. But what if for instance you hardly watch TV, but only have a set of favorite shows? For instance, I really want to see BoardWalk Empire. But I can't without paying some $60+ month, because I have to buy the HBO package on top of a cable package. My only recourse is 1) see it at a friend's place, 2) wait at least 6 mos for it become available on Netflix/iTunes, or 3) illegally stream it.

AMC does not have this problem, and I gladly buy HD seasons of Mad Men and Breaking Bad on iTunes the moment they're available (I actually prefer to pay for them, as I want to support this great content). But not with most other premium content, esp. HBO and Showtime where contracts with big cable preclude this activity.
hehe. It's funny because that's always in my recommended!
I keep hearing this, but how would that work? The US has what, a 250 million strong middle class with the highest purchasing power of any country over 20 million?

Would companies actually back out if this tax increase would somehow be coupled with a threat of blocking their business in the US? For sure they wouldn't.
My grandparents had cellular internet until they moved closer to the city. It was unreliable and they kept on altering the prices and what was in the deal.
Tell that to my work iMac with a HDD (not my choice) and a new enough OS to require APFS. The only programs I typically have open are Chrome and a music player, and it freezes randomly, and Chrome is constantly waiting on cache.
The Affordable Care Act (also called "Obamacare") requires that all health insurance plans offer one healthy checkup every year at no cost to the patient.
At a previous job, I was asked to write up a list of my accomplishments for the previous year in preparation for my performance evaluation. During the evaluation my manager and I went over this list and I commented that it seemed to me that I hadn't accomplished a year's worth of work. He as happy with my work but acknowledged that there were a lot of things I did that wouldn't go on the list and I can't be expected to be producing all of the time. I suppose that's like focus factor in Scrum.

I still think it took too long to complete some tasks. They would occasionally bog down while I had to noodle with existing code to be able to add new features. So even if I'm coding, I may not be creating value but rather I'm paying down the company's technical debt.
It's quite possible for me to remove remove Edge from my Windows install. It might not remove individual components like the browser engine, but Edge itself won't be available.

Android/iOS is a different beast, as they both have decent shares of the market; if you don't like Safari being bundled with iOS you can always buy an Android phone. That seems to be the reasoning behind it anyway.

Mind you, Windows has a smaller market share of the personal computing market today, compared to when the anti-trust cases were settled. I suspect that with Apple's currently higher market share and the fact that browsers are available on phones, pads and other devices, those settlements would have ended up differently.
I presume it’s because the M1 variant doesn’t use EFI to boot.
As an American it's amusing to me that Wanderlust means the same in German, since both words are English as well.