skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your post is WAY more complainy and whiney than the iFixit post.
The cost is not just in the form of development expenses. It's about having to support two systems, creating a confusing message for consumers, having to foster and support two different app ecosystems, marketing two different competing platforms, etc.
It also neatly solved iFixit's problem of having an app out there that they had abandoned and was giving users a defective experience. Pulling your own app from the store will make someone angry at you. Having Apple pull it is about ideal.

They could spend $100 for a new apple id, fix up the code enough to pass muster, and get it back in the store if they wanted, but like they say in the post, the mobile web is fine for what their app did and they don't want to spend any money on the app.

Tangential, it would be nice if Apple left a tombstone for vanished apps. If I read somewhere to get the iFixit app, I'd go to the store now and download an app named "iFixit!" which is apparently some random collection of manuals.
I think his questions were quite serious. I do hope you will answer them.
I would have to disagree. They broke an NDA by tearing down and publishing the internals of a device not available for public purchase. I don't they they had a legal 'right to tinker' with the developer unit they received. It'd be a lot different if they bought an already released device from a store and did the same thing. With that being said, their response just sounds like they're trying to save face after screwing up.
Aha, thank you very much for this. :) I quite enjoyed it.
I find it insulting to any logical concept of justice that people who murder other people deserve what they willfully deprived of their victims. Nonsense about forgiveness and "becoming one of them" is just that... nonsense.

Now everyone wants to defend this man's life, a man who intentionally took the life of another by hiring a hitman. He doesn't deserve life. Why should the victim's family be obligated to respect the right he willfully deprived the victim of?

Queue the "because forgiveness herp derp civil society" comments. Spare me. An eye for an eye does not make those blind who didn't poke someone's eyes out.

If you take a $500 item from me, you owe me $500 not $250. If you take my life you owe my family my life, instead of being housed, clothed, and fed on my family's dime.
The governor's tweet has been deleted. Anyone have a screenshot?
Have you really seen an employer not willing to pay relocation costs for software engineers? I haven't.
> right to tinker

Would that be the right that they (presumably) signed away when accepting pre-release hardware?
For some reason, all the replies to this are focused on how I described the title and description strings. Which is... not at all the interesting part of this, and not something I gave much thought when I wrote this comment.
So much value can be unlocked by automating the ports that there would be plenty of room for a negotiated settlement to make the unions happy as well.
Hate to be that guy but just wanted to point out the typo in the console message/userscript title:

"arificial" should be "artificial" (missing 't').
Or people could .. You know... Use their platforms existing copy functionality.

I know it's only existed on desktop computers since the Apple Lisa, and 30 years isn't very long for people to grasp the concept of copy and paste without a button to do it, but I have faith in people.
Most people won't care but let's say the Samsung gets another half hour of battery life. For some people that may be worth the hassle of exchanging (and restocking fee?).
Does Google not have any sort of terms of service for prerelease hardware?
Doesn't matter.

Following that same hypothetical, you alone can dodge the bombs but most people can't, because let's face it - you're not colluding with others.

And unless you're up to date on bomb tech, even you are eventually going to get hit by a smart "ad".
I like how they played it off by playing up their mobile site, and then reminding us that their API is available to anyone who would make an app.
> saying "base52" is misleading. It implies that there is a source data that's been encoded

No, it doesn't. 0xFF is a number I just made up, no source data at all, I promise. Also, it's base 16 :)

Anyhow, the source data was most definitely base 2 (as is your computer's memory, I assume) and later encoded into base52 to be represented as a string (unless someone at Microsoft wrote it in base52, which seems unlikely).
> You ignored clear text from me saying that it didn't necessarily indicate GM was at fault. What am I supposed to infer from that?

I didn't ignore anything.

I said the source of data is not irrelevant. That's my entire argument.

And I was specifically refuting your thesis that the source of data is irrelevant.

and, "as to the matter at hand", yes, driver habits can account entirely for the discrepancy in numbers. Flawed data can account for it. Poor sampling can as well.

The report seems to have come from a self reporting site in the EU. Are you asserting that a US car manufacturer has sold a uniform distribution of make/model/engine cars across the globe?

Are you also asserting that this site is getting a proper randomized sample of the car-buying population, such that they don't all have a similar complaint? In my experience, the people who report such things are one of two cases 1) Extremely Satisfied, or the much more common 2) Extremely Dissatisfied.

Are you then also asserting that if GM optimizes for test conditions, which they believe to be similar to normal driving habits, that their engines would be optimized to perform well under conditions that people actually drive in? That's just sloppy. That's like comparing data from your Dev environment to that from Production, I believe there have been a few academic articles to refute that as well.

But, ultimately, are you asserting that we should just accept the source of data as a source of truth, and never question whether or not that it's valid? Should I just go buy a bunch of tabloids and take that as my "new news", since.....the source is irrelevant, right?
If you assume perfect burning then all carbon burned will turn into CO2. Therefore more CO2 may actually mean more efficient burning and smaller fuel usage (for the same amount of power i.e. less CO, less other particulate matter).

This could happen for example when the engine could not take enough air to burn efficiently (for example because it is stationary).

Unless we have also fuel consumption we could not know which case we are dealing with when we only see CO2 emissions.

For example when the test only measures (and prioritises) CO2 emissions, injection software may decide to use more fuel in inefficient manner to reduce the CO2 emission and then use exhaust filter to capture the extra particulate matter. Well, it is only a wild speculation, but it could be.
Why Twitter fired Jack Dorsey in the first place
Yeah, the European cycle has been known to be a joke for quite some time. The US results are actually quite achievable. Their highway cycle max speed is very low (I think it assumes you don't exceed 55mph), but there's so much slowing and accelerating, even on the highway cycle, that you can easily obtain US highway numbers on an open road if you keep it to say 65 or even 70.
The Flame in the Flood: Indie Game from Bioshock Devs
It's sad to see that some companies so brazenly abuse their customer's trust, and there are no consequences for them.

Users trust Apple to protect them from malicious and perhaps from low-quality apps, and instead Apple abuses their power to try to silence those distributing information they don't like.
One contributor is an increase in the amount of heat flowing from the North Atlantic into the Arctic ocean. Another factor is that the volume of old, thick ice has been declining as well, so the ice present in 2015 is younger than what was present in 2000. This ice is less likely to persist through the summer melt season.
That's awfully cynical.
Freedom of association should be an enshrined right that is not open to negotiation or compromise, and a counterbalance to capitalists overarching influence in their lobbies and trade associations, and also a neutralizing force for the excess in labor supply as a consequence of population growth. However, unions desperately need some serious and urgent reforms to join the 21st century and leave behind these old habits and antics for it to succeed in securing workers rights.
pg seems to have read one side of the story and been completely convinced. :-/

edit: Downvote all you like, but his discussion doesn't even mention any dissenting views. Nothing is one-sided.
Yes, definitely. Anonymity is like pseudonimity, you don't lose any rights only because you choose to put a different name on your work of art.
Monitoring gnatsd servers with nats‑top
aha ya honestly I hit skip after the first 2 screens... but worth it
Why I don’t care if my employees come to work
Well, we know that it was a test update that was released unintentionally. http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-accidentally-issued-a...

So the question is why a test update would have "hidden" meaning underneath the random-looking strings.

As for the flaw in your methodology, Your ent command (not familiar with this, so just basing this off what I see) is assuming full use of the binary space (hence assuming 127.5 as mean of random data). No base52 data will use the full 256-value space, by definition. Base52 (azAZ) will actually have a mean of 93.5 for random data, extremely close to the measured mean. Serial correlation coefficient should also be higher for azAZ than 09azAP, because more of the alphabet is contiguous.

I did a little bit of analysis on the data as well to determine if the data was random or gibberish typed by a human on a keyboard, and found that most of the data lined up well for true (or pseudo) random. (Ugly code here: http://pastebin.com/9YN93xhi)

Home row % expected: 34.6%
Home row % actual: 38.3%
Expected upper: 50%
Actual upper: 47.7%
Expected sequential case match: 50%
Actual sequential case match: 55.7%
Good point! And this is actually the short version of the intro, the first one was like twice in length... :)
Disabling it would increase the attack area for a malicious app that could somehow gain elevated access.

Since it is possible to disable, why not disable it as-needed rather than always?
How is that possible with the current gas prices ? I can't even comprehend that. I would have thought gas mileage would have been a very important issue so that entire countries can save money.
They do, but the EPA also spot tests cars, and the system works pretty well. They recently fined Hyundai for not matching their quoted numbers. The EPA test cycle is not particularly representative of real-world driving, but it's far better than the European tests are, which easily allow you to game the system.
Seems like the system works quite well here in the US, even if you might quibble with their idea of a city and highway drive cycle.
the ancient Greeks actually had a fully-developed LISP, there's really nothing new under the sun.
> The part about what he did is completely irrelevant.

Unfortunately, actions have consequences.

> Sparing a life is the point regardless of what the crime was.

Most people would disagree with you here, word count or no.
OK, what about one of the crime mapping apps? Random example:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crimemapping/id452856454?mt=...

Should that be pulled too?
Sure, Mark Twain was able to ascertain copyright.
Another type you might want to mention: Ladder Logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_logic
<< And nobody's keeping him here, I'd surely like him to go away and stop being Putin's PR boy. But he won't, and we all know the answer why.

Everybody but you, since you seem to think it's for a reason other than fear for his life. Do you think the powers-that-be in the US are joking when they say that they're going to execute him?
A woman was executed last night in the US, even after the Pope asked for clemency.

Indonesia executed a multi-national group of people five months ago.

Saudi Arabia beheaded an Indonesian maid with no legal representation five months ago, a group subject to so much abuse that Indonesia made it illegal to move to Saudi Arabia to become a maid.

In weeks nobody will remember Glossip either, least of all people getting their news from reddit.

In weeks state-sponsored execution will still be a national sport in these countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_country

Citizens of those countries won't even remember to be embarrassed, let alone who the victims are.
Why do you want to delete Game Center?
The death penalty only further erodes our respect for life. It coarsens our culture and diminishes our humanity. Simple like that.
I don't think so without losing their anonymity. I'm kinda curious though? Any lawyers want to take a stab at answering?
It is your filesystem, but these are system files. Is it really important to you to be able to muck around the OS? If it is, then you go find a way to disable the protections.

Windows also has the System Integrity Protection equivalent.
Yeah, mileage computers in cars are known for being a bit optimistic. It's not hard to beat the EPA highway number for your car. Put it on the highway, cruise at 65mph, done. The EPA test cycle doesn't even exceed 55mph, but it has quite a bit of slowing and speeding up, so you can beat it with a consistent cruise a good bit over their 55mph number.
It ships on the system. Everything that ships on the system should be protected. Among other things, it prevents system updates from having problems when the apps they're trying to patch are missing.
Not all the time but sometimes for fun. I would do it a lot more in an electric because the "gas" is "free" (assuming it is charged with solar). At least it is something I can legally do, as opposed to going 155mph.
Again, MDIL falls into the VM research craze, it's a no doubt useful bytecode for Microsoft's purposes, but not a radical rethinking intrinsically. Microsoft has a tradition for language extensions, so C++/CX seems right at their ballpark.

I concede these are all noteworthy tooling improvements, but none radical, nor all relevant to the subject of microkernels. C++ as backbone is quite clearly an incremental evolution and not even much safer.

Everyone is so high on Docker, yet I was using HP-UX containers in 2000 aka Virtualvault.

Basing your assumptions on Unix work over Docker woo is like basing Microsoft assumptions over Slashdot comments.
A Quiet Port is Logistics’ Nightmare
Glad to see a critical eye on these sorts of things. I had a question about the choice of loss function. So regression is definitely the wrong choice since our outputs are binary (0 or 1) and not real-valued (0-1).

We could use a softmax classifier as this is meant for multi-class binary classifications. Each class in this case would represent a neighboring pixel, a classification of that class would represent activating that pixel. However, softmax assumes one-label and the probabilities add up to 1. Our problem is a multi-label multi-class binary classification.

We could train 9 of such softmax node groupings for each neighboring pixel but that immediately seems to be a bad idea.

Another awful solution - make each possible pixel configuration (2^9 of these) a class and do a standard soft-max.

I can start to see why the author chose to use regression loss as a sort of hack to get this to work, but I'm trying to think out the best, proper solution.

Any thoughts?
For accuracy's sake, he must live in the Tenderloin then, maybe at the NEMA apts. Twitter and Square are both in the Tenderloin, the Mission isn't really walking distance to that area (right on Market).

edit: Alternatively, he could live in the mission and then walk between the 2 offices during the day, they're right next to each other.
How Much C4 Will a Mac Pro Hold?
Why are you even asking this? Don't tell them what you're currently making. What business of theirs is that? Giving them that information will only give them additional leverage in the negotiations.
I don't disagree, but you need some numbers to back that up.

You have to get the containers out of the port as well.

So, can the rail system or trucking transfer point handle another 25% in volume?

To top that off, these ports are some of the biggest pollution sources. What happens when you add 25% to the traffic?

These things aren't simple choices.
I wonder if there will be review on Arstechnica after Siracusa?!
You already couldn't modify most system applications or they would fail code-signing checks. This is merely preventing malware from modifying them.
We have an issue open to improve the journalism exaple: https://github.com/unlimitedlabs/orchestra/issues/32. If you have concrete suggestions for how to make it better, we'd love to hear them--especially for documentation, which can always use work!

Also feel free to reach out to us on gitter (https://gitter.im/unlimitedlabs/orchestra) if you're having trouble getting your local setup to run the workflow and we can talk through the details.
Why would you ever tell a recruiter how much you're currently making?
Well, so is capital punishment, in fairness.
These people are perfectly sane, reasonable and content with what they are doing

That could be said of cult members, gang members, alcoholics, crack addicts, and others.

I'm glad a support group like this exists. Some people need help getting out of situations that are otherwise reasonable. Some of them may want a regular job but are unsure how to switch careers, maybe there's some questions on how clearances work if they want to work for a different government department or if that's event possible, etc.
Are you on public beta or developer beta? Those instructions appear to be for the public beta program. If you were using the developer beta, I expect you have to reinstall the seed configuration utility (if you don't still have it) from https://developer.apple.com/osx/download/ and use that.
I think the same applies to TeX distributions. It awfully slow for some reason, perhaps it double checks each file to avoid bit errors in system critical files?
I read years ago that pulsing was the most efficient strategy. Engines have very different efficiencies at different rpms and power settings. The idea with pulsing is to try to operate it at its most efficient rpm and throttle setting, which of course rarely corresponds to the speed over flat ground you'd like to be travelling at. Hence pulsing.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/09/os-x-10-11-el-capitan-t...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10296815
I can't upvote this enough.
>You are not considering the implications of how synching works.

Actually it's because I'm considering it that I advocate this.

>How do you know you lost files?

You look for them and they can't be found. And keeping a tally and/or checksum per folder in your backup doesn't hurt either.

>Meanwhile if there's a synching problem and files get eaten by my file synching service Time Machine will happily assume those files were removed by me. One year later when I go to find some picture of my daughter I took and the file is gone you tell me what backup I go to to restore that file.

In your case it's simple, you can just go to Time Machine, as it archives all versions of the files, changed and/or deleted or not.

>You have 1 year's worth of hourly backups? I don't.

Actually with Time Machine you sort of have.

But, more essentially, you don't need "1 year's worth of hourly backups?", unless you're doing something very important and create new such files multiple times per day (e.g. if you're a business and store customer data, or a new site and you have your news database).

For stuff like "archived projects", "family pictures" or "music collection" just take incremental backups of them, and set your backup program to never delete any files during sync, but just put them in a "deleted" folder.

For stuff that changes fast, like working documents, emails and such, take backups with Time Machine (which happen in "real time"). Every few months take a full backup.

Besides network backup, never backup in just one external disk (and test your backup disks from time to time), and don't keep them in one place.

That is, if that stuff is very important to you. Some people can lose most of it, as it's mainly them hoarding digital BS.

If you're a business, OTOH, backup is PART of what you should do anyway.
Isn't that sort of what a "state" is? In the absence of a state, individual humans would occasionally have to end the lives of other humans, but if one exists it will jealously guard that prerogative for itself.
Thanks!

This is actually a long topic because Muki contains a mixture of ripped vs sequenced tunes, etc. I've contacted some of the authors of sequenced tunes for permission, and also taken great care of crediting both the source where I got each one plus the company who holds the rights for the original tune. You can see this by clicking over a song's name when playing.

That said, I'm definitely not an expert on copyright so if there's something I'm missing please let me know! There's also more info about this if you click on the "about" link.
Wow, review is already there.
I'm not sure what your definition of alter is, but for me to alter means to lie.

They weren't simply optimizing for test conditions, they were outright lying during test conditions.

that's what the EPA is saying is against the law.

Here's the thing, and this is my main point:

If the EPAs test conditions reflected normal driving habits, there would be zero difference between Manufacturer reported numbers and real world reported numbers.

If the EPAs test is completely different from normal driving, then it stands to reason that there is no inherent correlation between manufacturer numbers and reported numbers.

IDK if you've ever been through an emissions test (like the ones GM actually goes through), but they're a complete joke as to simulating real world behavior.

Edit:Format
Wait, feeling that this update is better is OK, but I don't really understand how formatting could improve thing is such a significant way.
Show HN: Brozip, CLI to concurrently {de}compress files using Brotli Algorithm
You can delete and modify non-system apps just fine, FWIW. I imagine Game Center.app is not locked down for some nefarious reason, but just because it falls under "system owned" list.
He's just giving his opinion, which other readers thought was something worthy of sharing... perfectly valid.
Price drop on 3d printing.
Thank you very much sir!
It seems an appropriate response to the ultimate cynicism, capital punishment
With SIP off it's pretty easy to social engineer your way into the user's system, especially on dev machines - we all install all kinds of stuff that requires sudo, but until now sudo will let you at literally anything - including replacing core OS files with malware replacements, and most installers are pretty opaque (not that you have the time or inclination to closely examine all installers anyway).

The current state of affairs means that users - even non-technical ones - are routinely asked for their admin pwds in everyday use, but every time they enter it they are susceptible to be totally and utterly pwned.

Even expert users fall victim when they turn off system safeguards - XcodeGhost being only the most recent example, where only users who actively disabled Gatekeeper/codesign checking were susceptible.

It's kind of annoying for power users, but time and time again I think we've proven that power users aren't in any way immune to social engineering or simple blanket malware attack.
it's like adding fuel to the fire to their immigration crisis...
Ugh this is the worst, I genuinely do not understand buying that huge car and being so incredibly afraid of a pothole.
Takes as long as the bus, because I have to change and shower when I get there and I have to have spare clothing if/when it rains.

Besides I didn't spend a ton of money on a drivers license (they are really expensive in Denmark) to Cycle.