skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a dedicated "Privacy" setting in the Settings app. You could disable everything from there, including some Location Services, even the ones used for system services like Cell Network Search and setting the time zone.

Additionally, you can turn off Siri completely under Siri settings. You can also turn off Siri and Bing/Spotlight suggestions under Spotlight settings. iCloud could also be turned off.

That said, by turning the above features off, why are you using a smartphone in the first place?

Apple has been making great strides in user privacy lately, and I think they genuinely care about our privacy, what with them encrypting everything and not having the keys to decrypt it themselves (so they say).

I choose to trust my privacy with Apple. They've given me no reason to doubt them, yet.
Public anonymity is actually pretty useless for political dissent. If a statement is made anonymously you can't know whether it is the work of the freedom fighter or the government propaganda office. What you want for political dissent is not anonymity, but separable identity bindings (c.f. Satoshi Nakamoto).

Public anonymity is useful for one thing, though: providing plausible deniability for the distribution of pirated content and child pornography.
Interesting, where are all the conservative politicians? Or would supporting this poor kid "upset" their base?
I've used git on repos far less than 2 billion lines of code and it was kind of a nightmare to clone and do basic local checkouts and normal everyday stuff. Out of the box, git's design is not well suited to large repos.

I know there are various workarounds for dealing with large repos but having had some experience using git on big-ish projects I can certainly understand some possible reasons why it wasn't their first choice given the size of their codebase.
Then cite that rather than an unscientific, non-rigorous "study" (read: anecdote).
I really like services that make things simpler. Each company seems to have a different process for managing conference calls, so anything to make it easier is a win in my books.

That being said, the issue with conference calls has never been about the interface or the cost; people will learn and companies will pay. The issue has always been the network. Dropped calls, bad reception, bad internet, etc. I don't see anything in SwiftCall that addresses that.
A source I read earlier said that he also would not be charged with "intent to cause alarm". Although the clock did have an alarm function (it beeped in class and the teacher that reported him commented on it). You can't make this stuff up.
The bad news is that this amount of revenue will become the new normal, i.e., future budgets will always assume this amount of revenue or more. I think the novelty factor wearing off and other states legalizing marijuana will put a dent in this number in the future. So hopefully the government won't go too nuts assuming hockey stick growth.
Where did I say that race doesn't matter?
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Who are you talking to? This is a link aggregator.
It's incumbent upon the person updating the library to get all users migrated to the new one. There are a few strategies for doing this though, including temporarily having two versions of the library.

There are also tools for making large scale changes safely and quickly.
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> We took a conscious decision disabling the scrolling wheel as zoom in/out because otherwise it would have triggered too many "refine searches".

Tip: Any operation that's reliant on mouse events should be throttled or debounced -- they are just too noisy. For mapping, I have done debounces as long as two seconds without the delay being obvious. I suspect due to the style of user interaction in combination with the loading animations from the map itself.
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Fair enough. I was alluding to some other comments I had seen.

As for your evidence, I think you're going out on a limb with "whites get favored in pretty much everything". While that may have been true up until the 1960s, we've progressed to Barack Obama and Oprah. Still a very long way to go with regards to the specific things you mentioned (some of which may be more socioeconomic factors rather than skin color), but your claim just doesn't hold water.
Well, at face value this could be construed as an act of "Affirmative Action". Some people in non white groups could view it as patronizing or condemn as an act of "white saviorship" or an extension of the "white man's burden" philosophy. Other critics on the other end of the spectrum would view it as counter-productive and enforcing of racial division lines or taken to an extreme as "reverse racism".

I on the other tend to give people the benefit of doubt before rushing to judgements. The fact that they excluded Asians whether for the East or the South from the preferential treatment makes me think that they're acting in good faith and with the best intentions till further notice.

BTW: I am not Caucasian. Since we brought up race in this discussion.
It doesn't take a subject matter expert to realize that electronics not attached to an explosive of some kind are just electronics, if all you see is a clock, then its just a clock.
Really awesome stuff, great example of how well composability works with traits and the nice handling that tagged unions bring to state machines.
As someone who is both (afro-latino), I'm really excited about this. After reading the majority of the comments, I'm a little disappointed. It seems that many do not understand that being white and male in the United States, by default, affords many privileges that monitories struggle to obtain. If there any questions about this, I'd be happy to answer.

Curious to why the word Hispanic was used instead of Latino. If you are unfamiliar with the difference, read here: http://www.diffen.com/difference/Hispanic_vs_Latino
I think you can't look at open office hours in a vacuum. YC does tons of outreach - for example: college tour, startup school, Stanford startup class, speaking at conferences around the world, blog posts with advice to founders, etc. Most importantly, YC has an open application process and you don't have to have any sort of connection to get in. Open Office Hours is just another tool we can use to do outreach to startups and when considered in combination with our other efforts I think it's only fair to conclude that we are trying to make YC assessable to all (regardless of background).
I'm not sure how I can simultaneously be "putting words in your mouth" and pointing out things that you actually do believe.

Your examples were bad. I'm going to go ahead and assert that the "black church" example shoots past "bad" and reaches "offensive"; predominantly black churches do not exclude people of other ethnicities.
I get what you're saying; that the VC industry should "just do it" rather than make a splash by announcing a program. However, if someone is in one of these minority groups, and has tried to raise funding in a very white, male dominated VC industry, I'd guess that when pitching, sometimes either the rapport was off or they felt that the other side didn't wholly understand you.

I'm not saying that it's intentional on the VC end, because it's human nature to go with who or what you understand and feel comfortable with.

By announcing a program like this, it may encourage minorities to seek advice, when they otherwise might not have.
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Perhaps. Can you give me a concrete example of "white privilege"?
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It's turtles all the way down, and also includes all the hardware and people.
ugh, summer argument.

First: teachers typically work days not on the student's school calendar, so it's more like 39 or so weeks by your calculation.

Second: they work WAY more than an 8 hour day. Last night she did 7am - 4pm in the building, then 2 or so hours at night grading. (and that was a light day since she had gotten her planning done previously this weekend).

Third: summer is where you can finally catch up and plan classes. Girlfriend did a major revamp of her AP US History class so she was in-line with the new standards. Last year was Western Civ revamp. Next year will be the standard US History class.

You're right, benefits are in-line (not better, just in-line) with corporate america. Mediocre, but existing health care. A pension style retirement plan that's reasonable, but at the mercy of underfunding by politicians (which seems to be expected at this point).
The normal office hours ARE elite. They're available only to people who have been accepted into YC. The goal of the program is to make more of those (A) group people members of underrepresented demographics.
Not really, because the reference is their email (and the receiver has to 'receive' it), no?

I'm talking about giving someone your bank/branch/acc number and send them a payment.
Neither is black or hispanic. The entire debate around 'race' in the US I find is riddled with outdated concepts and semantics. In many developed countries's dialogue on these issues the semantics rarely touch on race anymore as it's quite meaningless and scientifically untenable. Instead when we talk about different peoples in socioeconomic debates by referring to various ethnicities (which are quite flexible, you can group people on ethnic bases by culture, religion, language and indeed nationalities or continental heritage like Asian although it's not recommended as there are obviously gigantic differences between say China, Japan and Indonesia that too broad terms become meaningless, too). The US is one of the few developed countries that really uses the word 'race' a lot and still defines people by race. Here in the Netherlands the only time we refer to the word race is when we use the word 'racism', the only word that really stuck and encompasses discrimination on ethnic basis, not race. The notion of typifying people as 'black' or 'white' in the Netherlands is not-done.
I am unable to believe that Google has 2B lines of original code written from scratch at Google.

Maybe they are counting everything they use. Somewhere among those 2B lines is all the source code for Emacs, Bash, the Linux kernel, every single third-party lib used for any purpose, whether patched with Google modifications or not, every utility, and so on.

Maybe this is a "Google Search two billion" rather than a conventional, arithmetic two billion. You know, like when the Google engine tells you "there about 10,500,000 results (0.135 seconds)", but when you go through the entire list, it's confirmed to be just a few hundred.
What you described sounds an awful lot like the Michael Scott Paper Company, which, ironically, was quite a success (all things considered).
As several people keep hammering into my head, inflation is not the same thing as what people would consider "growth".

Depending on your school of economic thought, inflation represents the increase in money supply. So, if I took away every $1 bill and replaced it with a $100 bill, the willingness of everyone to now pay $100 for a coke is inflation.

It seems to be an accepted principle that we want to keep people from hoarding cash, so inflation of ~2% is wanted. It gives everyone a nice buffer to avoid dipping into deflation.
The difference is that it actually won't,

I disagree. I think having more companies (especially successful ones) founded by black and hispanic founders will help everyone broadly, for this reason: It will provide young, potential founders, who might not otherwise have pursued entrepreneurship at all, with positive role models, and will show them actual live examples of how success can be achieved.

My feeling is that this promotes entrepreneurship in general among increasingly larger portions of the overall population... and if you believe that technological progress in general is basically a net positive for humanity (a position which I admit is not without controversy, BTW, although I personally adhere to it) then this is a Good Thing. More smart people working on new ideas, and creating things to solve problems? Yeah, I can accept some private companies engaging in a little "affirmative action" if it supports that.

is to make these sorts of initiatives open to anyone disadvantaged (such as the poor), and invest in programs targeted at children in minority communities.

Having grown up "white but dirt poor" I mostly agree with you, in the sense that I think addressing poverty - regardless of race - is also a valuable thing. I'm just not sure one approach is more or less important than the other. I think both are valuable things to do.
> Let say you are a terrorist, would you try to bring a bomb through security like that? Situation A: They mostly never check bags because they need to close the airport for it. Situation B: They mostly check bags.

B doesn't exist though. The TSA has an abysmal record of passing tests. They mostly don't check bags, and if they did check one with a bomb, the attacker could make it go kaboom. You don't think that would make the public fearful? "Bomb at Security Checkpoint" as a headline would be terrifying to most people.

> Is it really? I'm not that good in physic but a plane that explode, or that's hijacked does at least 100 deaths, and has the potential to do even more. Could you do that at a security checkpoint?

Have you ever been to a security checkpoint? At a larger airport there is easily hundreds of people in line, usually in a confined space.
I really like the sound effects, and like others have said, really great polish.
How are changes that affect sensitive code handled? Are the owners of that code on the hook for making any API updates that the person pushing the change can't make?
Oh come on. Think of the children should be 4th comment in any cryptography critique. Not first. But at least we know Directory Comey's HN handle now.

But anyway - a situation like Iran, Turkey or Thailand (were slandering the royalty is a persecution tool now) will allow to tell political jokes safely.
I also agree especially as this includes the whole Google software ecosystem and Microsoft has their own ecosystem. Microsoft's whole ecosystem of products that work together and run on Windows is much larger than Windows itself. Might not be as monolithically developed, though.
> The bad news is that this amount of revenue will become the new normal, i.e., future budgets will always assume this amount of revenue or more.

That's good news, not bad news (for legalization advocates). It becomes the new normal, which means that if anybody wants to reverse course, the burden is on them to find alternative sources for $50-100MM in tax revenue.

And a major chunk of the tax revenue is explicitly earmarked for public education, which is makes it that much more difficult for a politician just to ignore the tax revenue and repeal Amendment 64 without finding an alternate source.
That, or they just didn't like that someone illegally installed money-wasting software on school property without so much as an approval request.

PS: Money wasting from their point of view, not making any judgement about SETI here
If the novelty factor starts to wear off, just smoke again so everything seems novel.
To be clear - these are office hours - YC is still the same program for all who participate in it. Regardless of their background.
The people doing that labeling are (a) not the minorities themselves, and (b) cheerfully oblivious to the fact that college recruiting programs at elite schools with 4-7% African American or Latino populations is itself a targeted outreach program that helps the overrepresented majority.

There's something especially galling about the repeated concern that targeted outreach to minorities will somehow label its beneficiaries as "inferior", since one expects that most of the time it's exactly the people raising that concern who are rushing to get the ink in their label printers refilled.

It's like saying "this makes African Americans inferior, but you don't get to hold that sentiment against me because I couched it as a concern". At least have the spine to make the meanness plain.
Since when can anon's can post on HN?
Where's the word "probably" in my response that set you off?
How can or why should I respond to you about assertions made by others?

Please stop projecting your need for social justice on me, for or against - my only assertion is 'follow the money', and that's more of a fact of life of living in the USA than anything else.
They do it without asking (the Federal Reserve Act was passed Christmas Eve 1913 - around the same time the IRS came into being, what a coincidence) and most people do not understand the harm in it (even here on HN).
You are correct - we should have used the word Latino
Where was the implication that they aren't welcoming? The point was that a black church is not "all white male all the time". It feels like you're looking for something to be offended about.

>Your examples were bad.

I'm glad we had this productive discussion.
> it will create a stigma that groups 'B' and 'C' must attend only those designated hours

Any data to support this?
Google has tons of services internally that talk via RPC. The monolithic repo means that it's much easier to hunt down and find people that are (say) using an outdated RPC method and help them fix their code.

(Just one example of how it's useful even when things are mostly services.)
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My point is, what about all the other people? The world is not divided into White, Black, Asian and Spanish-speaking. There are Indians, Central Asians, Arabs, Persians...

Even 19th century racialists in their ignorant understanding of the world didn't lump 2/3 of the world's population into a miscellaneous category.
Again, I think the outreact YC is doing is amazing, and I applaud them for doing it. I'd rather have this kind of conversation (about the wording of something like this) rather than not have the outreach effort exist at all.

Honestly the point of my comment was to do with tact and wording. It's super clear that YC is trying it's best to be accessible to all, and to do the right thing by groups that may feel marginalized (whoever they may be) -- however with the current hubbub (that has no end in sight) around these issues, a great deal of tact should be applied.

More than 0 people feel that the whole "diversity" spiel is antagonistic, as well as more than 0 people feeling that it's completely justied/the opposite. It's a touchy subject, and I feel that wasn't respected by this post. Yes, you want to help a specific group of society that you see struggling, but it's also divisive to make it seem like a group is inherently more valuable for no reason other than the color of their skin, or life choices, or whatever.
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I smell a buyout or merger coming. They can't take on Uber individually.
"The Fed is by definition the safest place to put your dollars in the world—because it has the ability to create any money in might need to pay you back." This is fantastic. "The Fed can only pay interest on reserves to one type of institution: banks" This is not fantastic. Why can't I as a simple citizen, put my money at Fed and take advantage of the safest interests ever known to man ? This discrimination has to cease or am I missing something ?
I am saying that if you apply that argument inductively, then nobody should be able to do anything because there will always be someone to object to it. Public money can't be used by anyone for anything because someone will have a problem with it. You do see how that could be, don't you?

I am in group X and I object to things that you value in group Y. You in group Y object to things that I, in group X, value. What do we do?

Once you have a particular group that claims to have the moral high ground for some nebulous definition of "the high ground" the whole argument is lost because so few people agree on so few things.

I get that creationists are annoying, but I'll give them credit for not demanding that science not be taught, just that they wanted their pet theory taught too. That looks a lot more reasonable (from a certain perspective) than the evolutionists who insist that evolution is the only possible explanation ever, with quite religious zeal, despite having only circumstantial evidence. Evolutionary science is nowhere near as rigorous as physics and won't be for thousands and thousands of years of highly accurate recordkeeping. At that point the creationists will have suffered a thorough defeat, but until then, well, truthfully the science isn't settled. At least to the degree of rigor that I would personally care for.
Thanks for your reply, and sorry for the delay in mine. I would be happy to speak with you in more detail if you'd like (I can also share my experiences with you in case they are of value to you should you pursue a security startup of your own). I did not find an email address in your profile however.
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Being able to make sweeping changes to a shared piece of code, and ensure that everyone's up to date (Hi, Rosie!) and not broken by your change (yay TAP train!) is phenomenal as well.
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Some have argued that the reserves no longer exist in practical terms. [1]

[1] http://www.ny.frb.org/research/epr/02v08n1/0205benn/0205benn...
tl;dr "They attribute the diminished force of the requirements largely to the spread of "sweep" arrangements—a banking innovation that allows depository institutions to shift funds out of customer accounts subject to reserve requirements."
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How does this program define Hispanic?

Does it include the over 100 million Spanish speakers in the Americas of European descent? What about the 26 million white Americans of Latin American descent?

What about 100 million "Latino" Portuguese speaking Brazilians of other than predominantly European and Asian descent?

French is also a "Latin"/Romance language. Do the predominantly white Québécois count as Latino? What about the Métis, who are both indigenous Americans and speakers of a Romance language.

What about Native Americans who speak English rather than a Romance language? What if the Native Americans learned Spanish in high school?

What about the hundreds of millions of people from China and India and elsewhere in Asia who grew up in materially worse conditions than any ghetto in the United States?
Just one data point, but I have a machine I run Folding@Home on most of the time, and that is plugged into a Kill-A-Watt. The difference between idle and full folding power is about 70W, as I recall. Not trivial, but 1/5 of what you've estimated here.

15 years ago, the power difference was probably smaller, maybe quite a bit smaller -- modern CPUs are better optimized for low idle power.
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I built something similar as a hack project... Closet dome light fixture turned upside down. Rip out the innards. Install RGB LED. Connect LED up to Arduino and pull information from an API. Adjust LED based on your conditions. I spent around $75, but that was years ago, probably far cheaper now.
You cited three cases, it's anecdotal evidence that says nothing about the efficiency or intelligence of administration.