skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Here is what we do on our platform. Here is what an unnamed search engine company does, or might in theory do, on their platform. You will probably agree: what we do is better in multiple, obvious ways. To be even less subtle, I am indeed trying to cast our competitor in very bad light."

If they're willing to walk the walk, I don't even mind how transparent this "privacy as a competitive advantage" strategy is.
It is interesting to me that 3 of the 4 non-war outcomes were all within the last 50 years.
If any jobs are so unpleasant that people voluntarily quit them en masse, employers will have to increase wages, automate, or eliminate those jobs. This is how a market is supposed to operate.

Why is it a bad thing that women (or indeed men) look after their own children?

Do people mind paying taxes? They'd mind a lot more if their country was invaded, members of their family were attacked, or they faced death because hospitals no longer existed.
They have no business model based on consumer information. Guess who does? One of their big competitors, Google, whose revenues are 90% made up of advertising, thrives on this data.

Further, privacy is obviously a hot topic, well at least in tech discourse. None of my friends are really bothered by any privacy concerns and couldn't care less if Google mines their email to provide targeted ads, honestly... But to the extent that privacy is meaningful to people, safeguarding it is obviously a benefit and thereby something one can sell, and seeing as there've been so many different scandals people probably are at least somewhat sensitive to privacy-centric marketing.

In short, they're selling a consumer benefit while taking a jab at the competition. Not a bad deal, there are barely any cons. Apple never really got into the advertising game, doesn't need to and unlikely plans to. They've had some ad products and neglected it for a long time, probably in large part because ads are a shitty consumer experience and Apple tries to offer the best experience even if that requires higher consumer prices. And finally it's completely in line with Apple's business models on content in the past, creating walled gardens to push paid content (music, books, news, apps), advertising doesn't really fit into that context.

Consider also that it's obviously in line with Apple being the 'nice guys', who recycle materials, appreciate diversity, the artists who just want to be free blabla. Businesses or governments tracking users doesn't fit that narrative and protecting users from these parties does.

And finally, I do believe they genuinely care without any ulterior motive and are willing to push for the things they care about if it doesn't hurt them (much).
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That is all probably confidential information.
Google is far from the highest paid per employees in the US.

New York-based law firm Skadden Arps, rakes in over $180,00 a year. But Netflix, Mozilla, and VMware are are all well known tech companies that top the list.

Google is not even in the top 10. http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/americas-15-highest-paying-com...
Unfortunately if you remove the walls from the garden you get a malware, crapware, and (ironically given the topic) spyware explosion -- a tragedy of the commons more or less. Mobile devices are used by over a billion people, most of whom don't know much about computers. From the perspective of sleazy marketers and black hat hackers that's a lot of fresh meat. They're better than PCs since they're studded with sensors, allowing the user to be tracked and spied upon to an unprecedented degree.

Look at the Google Play store and the Android ecosystem, which is comparatively more open. If you don't know what you're doing and install apps from the app store without examining them closely, you'll get random ads, trackers uploading your geo-location constantly to god-knows-where, etc.
ESLint is pretty awesome - the project has a great team and always adding new functionality (cache and then parallel linting sound great)!

Although it isn't unique for all the features listed, as JSCS has the same things: an autoconfigure feature, built-in (as well as user created) presets/configs, multiple formatters, custom plugins/rules, custom parsers (esprima/espree/babel), autofixing of almost all rules. Hopefully both projects can benefit or integrate better together more in the future? (I contribute to both!)

I think autofixing for all rules (maybe with https://github.com/cst/cst) would be a nice goal for the future when thinking about the next-generation of linters. Making it easier to update configs when new rules/options are added would be nice as well.
I think that what Apple has done here is an acceptable tradeoff. The app store trades a small amount of privacy for a lot more security. Looking at Android's perpetual issues with this makes me think that Apple made the right choice.
I wouldn't necessarily say, they have suddenly realized this; they have been leading by example for user experience for awhile and are now just being more public about it.

Nobody that really understands the problem of no privacy between government or another collecting agency knows enough to weight it on purchasing their device or going with their OS for their phone, tablet, or laptop.
If more people knew, how it could be for collecting every single thing from a user, i'm sure apple products would sell more, so I do agree with your point, that it is better to now advertise this.
Didn't Android already have this* exact feature? I use it when I'm traveling and it keeps my battery going for much longer.

* http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-enable-battery-saver-on-an...
Managers find a way. They will just use (or invent) another tool that lets them do it how they want. Now you have two tools, and some poor schmuck (or the developers) will get stuck with the job of keeping them in sync.
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Houston,,, not really a desert:http://web2.airmail.net/danb1/annualrainfall.htm

I lived in both Arizona and Texas, and the issue is only supersonically the same. But even given that, I must agree with the spirit of the parent comment remark. Though, having spent some time in both Tucson and Phoenix, I'd strongly argue that the heat island affect just makes a bad situation worse. Replacing concrete with parks is a win virtually 100% of the time in that regard. Not to mention quality of life. The out door shopping in AZ and CA is much more pleasant than that of the strip mall experience.
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Neither Amazon nor Microsoft rely heavily on advertising income.

Neither does IBM, HP, Oracle, Cisco, Salesforce, etc.

In fact when it comes to "major US tech companies", either by revenue or by market cap, I can only think of Facebook and Google that make money mainly from advertising income.
They are not standardized. However if you'd like to render your graphs in this tool refer to this doc: https://github.com/anvaka/pm#your-own-graphs
It's interesting to have someone comment on the history of Dyson a little. For me, when shopping for a vacuum, Dyson looks like the Bose of the vacuum world: it works pretty well but is way over-hyped and certainly over-priced. But, I forget/am too young to appreciate that before Bose/Dyson got their bad rap today they were market leaders. Gotta keep that perspective sometimes.
I think they see this as a key differentiator between iOS/iCloud and Google services and they want the public to know about it. In a post-Snowden world, it's worth noting the difference between platforms that prioritize user privacy and platforms that share user data with advertisers in return for additional services.
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It can be done, but it's much harder, at least in my experience. You're 100% right about being an outlier. People who go this route are going to work much harder as their similarly skilled, but degreed colleagues at everything (proving themselves, earning respect, getting raises, having people even listen to them.) Anyone who can go without accruing a mountain of debt should do so unless you're naturally incredibly talented or have Zuck-level support.

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Lawyer fee is expensive. Discovery is expensive. Patent discovery can run from weeks to months of expert time. Those can quickly add up.
I don't at all mean to sound condescending, but I'm genuinely curious how much of an issue battery life is for people nowadays?

Using a 6S, I'll comfortably get through a long long day without the need to plug it in.

But that's not my point. The point is I'm constantly around an opportunity to charge my phone. Everywhere. The only times I can see this being a real issue anymore is when you're travelling long distances without lounge access.. maybe? But even then, a battery pack solves all those woes.

I just personally feel like we're at a point now where batteries are a non-issue. Does anyone else have major issues with newer smartphone batteries? I just don't feel like it's a thing anymore.
>Personal computing devices shouldn't have artificial walled gardens.

I couldn't agree more with this sentiment. Requiring that all software on your device be signed by a single entity (i.e. apple) is horrifying when you think about where that might lead to in the future.
> interoperate

That's what we're calling online profiling now?
There's no such thing as a single "African" cluster

There's a large cluster (with, of course, lots of subclusters) that includes almost all sub-Saharan Africans—basically, everyone except Khoisan (Bushmen) and Pygmies. As Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza puts it: "differences between most sub-Saharan Africans other than Khoisan and Pygmies seem rather small." Even then, the African supercluster is still distinct from Europeans, and indeed from everyone else. Cavalli-Sforza again:

The most important difference in the human gene pool is clearly that between Africans and non-Africans

For more on this important subject, I recommend these two short articles:

http://www.vdare.com/articles/052400-cavalli-sforzas-ink-clo...

http://www.vdare.com/articles/053100-cavalli-sforza-ii-and-s...
In that case, why are they supporting CISA? http://fortune.com/2015/09/24/tech-vendor-cybersecurity-bill...
I've worked on the same stack in PhpStorm, and autocomplete was instant for me.
>Generally you move to a larger hash table long before you get that much key collision. Which is a big cost once, but the amortized cost doesn't change much.

No, it's a big cost every time you pass a threshold, which happens an infinite number of times, because big-O assumes numbers can be arbitrarily large.

>But in general with these discussions, you assume that certain operations are constant on your "machine". For instance, addition is usually considered constant even though it isn't if your numbers are larger than your machine's word size.

As long as the max number size is orthogonal to the number of elements n, you can assume a bound on the time for an addition operation, and then it becomes a constant in your run-time expression with respect to n. No sleight-of-hand there.

>In the case of the hash tables, you assume your hash is constant, even if, as you note, it isn't really. But the fact is, the coefficient for the O(log N) term is so small, that it doesn't really offer any useful insight towards the performance of the algorithm.

All true, but the spec for big-O doesn't say "assume away stuff that doesn't matter in practice". It says, "as n gets arbitrarily large". When you make inconsistent, varying assumptions between problems, you're not doing STEM anymore; you're doing memorization, the kind of thing STEM isn't supposed to be like.

If "the" definition of big-O consistently included a definition that "we never have to deal with more than 2^64 elements", that would be fine. Instead, we have to memorize "the right answers" for when you can and can't assume that, and only then does O(1) for hash lookup pop out.

And if you really just care about in-practice, then you can no safely assume that a typical balanced binary tree lookup takes fewer ops than e.g. SHA256.
Almost. In simple terms:

// this
var x = await promise;
callSomething(x);

// translates as
promise.then(x => callSomething(x));

Under the hood, the entire "async" function is turned into a state machine instead of creating a lot of callbacks. It's more efficient it can do some optimizations that would be boring to do manually.

For example, if the translation were simply "turn into callbacks", this:

var p = getJson();
var x = await p;
var y = await p;
var z = await p;

would translate to something like :

var p = getJson();
p.then(o => { var x = o; });
p.then(o => { var y = o; });
p.then(o => { var z = o; });

but instead, the code runs more like this:

getJson().then(o => {
var x = o;
var y = o;
var z = o;
});

I say runs like because the compiled code is more complex than that, it will still call functions, etc. It will also handle exceptions, which would add a lot of boilerplate to this code. But have in mind that because this is generated by the compiler, this code will in most cases be more efficient than anything you try to write by hand.
It doesn't have to happen that fast to be bad. Such bacteria would be like rust to metal. A lot of our things are based on plastics; it would not be good if suddenly everything started to "rust" and break.
And where is that?

Like he said, any back door for the good guys is a back door for the bad guys as well.
It's interesting that this appeared on the front page at the same time as the announcement that Amazon would stop selling competing streaming video devices.
To take that idea a step further, you'd be really impressed at the complexity on the other end of the power cord. I once heard it put like this...

Nuclear power plants (I suppose you could say the same for any other, but this example was given using nuclear power) exist basically so that, a few miles away someone can plug their vacuum cleaner into the wall, hit a switch, and have it work, without having to give it any thought whatsoever. All the complexity of nuclear power, so that you don't have to think about it.

I think this analogy is especially appropriate here, as the design goals of Dyson are similar. Intense engineering so that you have something that does a simple job exceedingly well without additional problem solving required by the user.
Why would you simply rely on extensions instead of, say, also the file's magic numbers?
It's crazy to think that a major breakthrough like this with a factor of seven increase in transistor density is little more than four years of progress as measured by Moore's Law.
Actually, no. This seems more like when Apple stopped allowing Kindle books to be sold through an iPhone:
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-you-cant-buy-kindle-books...
From: http://9to5mac.com/2015/06/10/xcode-7-allows-anyone-to-downl...

"Apple has changed its policy regarding permissions required to build and run apps on devices. Until now, Apple required users to pay $99/year to become a member of Apple’s Developer Program in order to run code on physical iPhone and iPads. As part of the new Developer Program, this is no longer required. Apps can be tested on devices, no purchase necessary."
There's a reason that in order to become an actual engineer you're required to pass a professional engineering exam. In many states you're literally breaking the law if you put PE on your business card[1].

Putting it mildly, with all of the asshats that can barely create CRUD apps calling themselves software engineers and making an amazing salary when compared to their pathetic skills its a wonder the median salary hasn't plummeted like a rock.

I honestly think having someone legally responsible is necessary for proper programming and security practices to be put into place. It works with HIPAA and the real engineering profession. The people going through these classes are no more than weekend woodshop students and the spaghetti they string together will show them to be.

[1]http://sce.uhcl.edu/helm/SWEBOK_IEEE/papers/10%20reprint%205...
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Continuous Delivery versus Continuous Deployment
They did have a pretty bad incident not all that long ago with private celebrity photos being leaked.
Apple actually has a solid argument when they say "Our users are not our products". Very little of Apple's revenue comes from ads so they really have no need for the infrastructure. However, considering they are one of the largest companies in the world with hundreds of billions in the bank, I seriously doubt it would be very hard for them to setup that sort of infrastructure.
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A quick perusal does not lead me to see how it's now worse. Could you explain why you think that?
I have a 7 year old Bose radio that still sounds friggin amazing and looks better than me most days. Worth every penny.
I have no idea what kind of ads will be shown with "Acceptable Ads" turned on. Good thing he allows to turn it off.
That is not my understanding of what most large companies do. Over and over I talk to people who have to deal with fixed dates and fixed scopes. The common outcomes seem to be:

1. Wait until the date is close. Redefine scope in a panic so that success can be declared.

2. Wait until the date has arrived or is past. Have rounds of tears and/or shouting; pick a new date and scope, often as illusory as the first.

3. When the date arrives, ship whatever terrible garbage you happen to have and declare victory. Spend the next N months "fixing bugs", which mostly means "finishing half finished features".
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Apple has also failed in their own advertising efforts (iAd) and additionally failed to catch up in the software service business (almost all of the mass market services are monetized via advertising). Their privacy stance is the only move left to them.
It seems to me that the idea of the bounty wasn't bad, the problem is just that it was too high. If they just decreased the bounty to the point that raising cobras was no longer profitable rather than all the way to zero, people would still turn in the cobras they had rather than releasing them. And they might still catch an occasional cobra for a small bounty, if the opportunity presented.
Tabletop games fill the niche left by typical LAN party / split-screen games as more and more of them move to only allowing internet connected matchmaking rather than some local network equipment / friends that won't look on your half of the TV.
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I agree, but only because Civilization V is a train-wreck. Civilization IV is by far the superior video game. Even then, I would much rather play a game of Agricola with some friends than Civ.
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Apple might just be better at covering it up. I would rather see it implemented like GateKeeper on OS X is. Safe store with the user having the power to decide if they leave the store or not.