skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hypocrisy at the end of the article is astounding: "Right now, we’re not planning on it. [rebuilding their app]. Our APIs make it easy for anyone else to build one, though. (Our old app is open source if you’d like an example to build upon. Just respect our license and don’t put ads in it.)"

They blatantly violated the agreement for obtaining the pre-release hardware, and then expect people to honor their own license terms?

IMHO, they are extremely lucky the worst thing that happened was their developer account getting pulled.

[Edited for clarity after feedback]
I agree-Manhattan has far too many cars. I think they should shut down 1/2 of the avenues to car traffic a la Amsterdam.
Ah, I thought that was something new. I remember reading something about a manual parser a while back. Thank you for clarifying.

Would there be a benefit to moving from hand coded to something like parent project for rustc? IIRC the rationale for hand-coding the parser was mostly speed (and a wish to avoid external (to rust) dependencies)?
Why would it? People are wrongfully executed all the time, but can you off the top of your head name one governor who has become known for that?

Executions serve no purpose for society except to satisfy our thirst for revenge, it makes little difference if the person they kill is innocent or not.

If he turns out to be innocent, they can always execute someone else to save face. Not the ones responsible for his execution, of course. Ironically, wrongfully executing someone doesn't carry the death penalty.
While I agree with the opinion, what makes pg the person to quote here? There should be a little filter before we all just latch on to what pg says. He has great experience with technology and startups but how does that make it something for us to care about? Is he involved in this case at all or an expert on human rights issues?
There are also a lot of items on that list that do not fit. As far as I know, you can quit/retire from the job -

The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt iin order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.

‪ Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.

‪ The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.

‪ The group is preoccupied with making money.

‪ Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.

‪ Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.

‪ The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group.

EDIT removed (was editing the wrong comment).
I'm glad game center.app is so well protected.
Jobs was an investor in Pixar. He didn't run the company.
The whole controversy is over manufacturers reporting false numbers, i.e. lying.

No, actually it isn't. The controversy is over manufacturers tuning their vehicles' engine behavior to give economy for the tests and for the tests only. By your criteria, that's not a problem but VW has already been bitten really hard by the revelation that they did this.

...You would have to prove that an improvement at throttle position 0.10 over 5 years equates directly to an improvement at throttle position 0.40....

The EPA has essentially said that if this isn't a least somewhat true, the manufacturers are breaking the law.
This is required reading for every promising young hacker. The more promising, the more required.
There's Path Finder, but the Finder is pretty central to OS X, so it's going to have its rough edges.

However, Spotlight + unix + the dock does wonders for avoiding needing to browse at all.
But probably the McDonald's employee would have a lot more difficulty committing this crime.
Are there secret trials in the US? Secret extra-judicial punishments? If not, then yeah, those are the cases the FBI decided deserved their resources.
This is a really good point, and the better conversation to have than broad brush dismissal of anything but raw hypertext like the comment I replied to. Graceful degradation is a user-friendly, competitive, and all around fantastic feature. It is also expensive, and may or may not belong at the top of the list of things to optimize to improve user experience. Eliminating everything but raw hypertext may be a cheaper solution, but it isn't a good one.
I find it interesting (if a bit sad) that your reaction to that earnings disparity is, essentially, "Union workers make too much money" rather than "Everyone else makes too little." In the free market, it seems everyone is allowed to negotiate the price of their goods except the wage-workers.
Pipedrive's pipeline metrics are to be digested with caution
Why compare Rotterdam (Europe's largest) to Oakland?

Let's compare to Los Angeles (America's largest) instead ...

Rotterdam moves about 50% more containers, but services 36,000 ships vs. Los Angeles 2,100. Los Angeles sits on 7,500 acres with a 3,200 acre harbor while Rotterdam sits on 13,000(!) acres with a 13,000 acre harbor.

Dunno, for all that automation, Rotterdam doesn't look that much more efficient--and it uses a lot more land and water to do so.

If we include Long Beach which is effectively next to Los Angeles, the two ports combined move MORE containers in a year than Rotterdam while sitting on less land and harbor space.

So, as we can see, the antiquated, evil longshoreman's union is ... more efficient than the best automation in Europe.

Ummmmmmmmm.

Now, quit reposting this agenda driven hit piece.
I'd appreciate a link to that myself. All the stories now seem to be extremely one-sided, and I seriously doubt it's that simple. It never is.
What's specifically objectionable about that? If the NYT app mentions the location where someone was murdered, would that be grounds for removal?
Just to be aware: If you use Pipedrive and drop a deal in the pipeline, move it back and forth between 2 stages it counts as 2 deals moved forward. their wording is wrong.
Why would you assume iFixit didn't violate the NDA? The NDA said you couldn't talk about your Apple TV developer hardware until the final Apple TV shipped. It hasn't shipped yet, and won't for a month or so, while iFixit already posted their teardown a week ago. That's a pretty obvious violation.

It's not like iFixit went to a store, bought something, tore it down, and are getting punished for publishing the pictures. They got prerelease hardware for free (technically for a dollar plus sales tax) in exchange for an agreement not to talk about that hardware for a while. Then they talked about it anyway.
Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day
Since many B2C IPO strategies seem to benefit from generating media buzz, I can imagine the keyword tie-in to Twitter only helps.

Also, the CFO is probably just as important if not more for getting the company ready for IPO.
It’s Time to Say Goodbye
“Kotlin in Action” Book from Manning Is in MEAP
It's not that it's Volkswagen Emissions. But if people are compensated on dealflow, that's a great way to fake it!
Wow. This is how you write an announcement delivering bad news with class. They are unapologetic for exercising their right to tinker, but feel no need to whine about Apple's response.
I upgraded to the gold master a while back on an iMac and didn't run into this problem. Do we know if it is different for the final release. Oh and a sidenote, my unix tools were not broken after this update. They typically are and need to be reinstalled
If you'd like to get a 50% discount on the book, you can use the coupon code 'mljemerov'.
The best defense is a good offense. Why secure the whole world when you could just secure yourself and your allies, and keep everyone else full of holes you already know about?
Now it's your turn, Tumblr!
It can't be that hard to obtain a wildcard certificate and enable SSL on Tumblr.

If there is any remote content that might not work with SSL, either inform your users about it, or use an SSL proxy like GitHub's [0].

0: https://github.com/atmos/camo
He won't talk? Time to grab my wrench...
I found it useful, the evernote browser exception let's you save recipes without the crap and the food app let's you quickly find them and it kept the screen on while you were cooking.
Womensex video with anmials
Is this before or after the Internet-Social-Media era?
Thanks, I didn't know about that.
I've since written a blog post to explain how to do it in Swift (also because I wanted to try it out) here (http://appventure.me/2015/09/30/getting-iphone6s-foundry-fro...) I've included your helpful info. Thanks!
> I have a CVT transmission and while I'm sure it is very smart I still feel like I could do better with a manual. I don;t like my car vey much, but it is too practical and cheap to change.

Is it a actual Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) or an automatic transmission? There's nothing 'smart' in a CVT since there's gears to shift between, and it's highly unlikely you're going to do 'better' under normal driving since the point of a CVT is to allow the engine to run at ideal RPM's no matter the speed.
No, just as Safari isn't removed because you can visit porn sites with it, but an app that was dedicated only to porn would be. Are you being intentionally obtuse?
Why bother breaking into a phone manually when you already have access to all the data it sends, receives, and contains (especially now that cloud storage solutions are all the rage)? What do passcodes and fingerprint scanners even mean when the target data is already being made accessible to national governments through more convenient channels?

In my mind, the only reasons tech giants continue to force centralization on their users are PRISM and data mining. Today’s devices have sizable internal drives, so all personal data could realistically be stored and processed locally; and secure, distributed systems have been proven to work for data transfer (BitTorrent), monetary transactions (Bitcoin), message boards (Aether—sort of), and more. Hopefully solutions like Copperhead OS and Blackphone that secure our mobile devices and communication channels, respectively, make it to the mainstream.
Wow, this is sick. Quite a wordy intro, however. I kept thinking that most people would ctrl+a backspace rather than try to delete the whole thing by holding backspace, especially considering that it doesn't 'accelerate' like holding backspace actually would.

Minor problem though, since you can skip the intro.
There's a Bumpy Road Ahead for Driverless Cars
Ask HN: A corollary to 'Change Your Name', what besides the .com?
I just came across Paul Graham's essay titled 'Change Your Name' from last month where he makes the case for getting the .com domain.

I'm actually in the opposite situation, I already got the .com and .net a few months ago when it was only an idea and forgot about getting anything else with the knowledge that we have more important things to be getting on with. Now we are beta testing and I've had more time to think and I could get the 10 next most popular say .org , .info, .biz etc, but where would it end? There's countries too like .co.uk, .de that are popular in their respective markets. Getting a few more is no problem of course, but there are something like a 1000 tlds, $10,000 / year is probably a bit much for most of us.
> I probably would have never seen
> the comment otherwise.

You might want to look into HN Notify[0]

> I'm more interested in the "We know
> there are all these really hard
> problems and how to solve them, but
> we just don't have the computational
> power to solve them" aspect that
> typically comes along with P v. NP
> discussions.

OK, that makes it clear that I really don't know what you're asking for. The point is that there are all these problems such that the algorithms we have are exponential, which makes them infeasible. In that sense we don't know how to solve them. Why do you claim we do know how to solve them?

> I understand many of the theoretical
> problems (3-coloring, subset sum,
> subgraph isomorphism, etc), but I want
> to know what practical problems do we
> have that we don't have good solutions
> to, simply because NP problems are too
> hard for us to compute.

??

What do you mean when you say these are theoretical? If we can 3-color then we can perform better packing, better scheduling, better layouts for processors, we can break crypto-systems, in what sense are these not practical?

Can you give me any example of anything you would call a practical problem?

[0] http://hnnotify.com/
Do you mean you have no idea what I find easy to follow, or that you can't understand how I find it easy to follow? I don't have any trouble at all with the typical Github or Discourse thread, and I don't think there's anything confusing about Gmail. On the other hand, when I go to Gmane or someplace, things seem all over the place. But I recognize that my experience isn't universal. Like I said, we'll never all agree. I really like the idea of leaving it up to a client to organize things however works best for an individual, but I'm not aware of a good implementation of such a thing.
Awesome Windows: Curated list of applications, softwares, tools and shiny things
Show HN: Homemade Hamster Activity Tracker
I have to agree --- apart from anything else, 'base-52' doesn't make it clear that the encoding alphabet is, in fact, made up of letters. It'd be just as valid to use 0-9, A-Z and a-p.

'base-64' is at least a defined term with a defined alphabet.
for me, the Google car looks much better on pictures then when i see these cars on the road. In real life it looks like a monstrous blob, a phone booth on wheels, nowhere close to cute or whatever impression they target. Again, obviously it is a matter of personal taste. May be it is a forward thinking design that is going to change how the cars designed in the future...
Presumably that's the large dataset he was referring to.
Safari doesn't create the content its users view with the app; the New York Times does. They aren't the same thing.
I think it is very reasonable to distinguish between a political, social, or religious group and organized crime. The later is a conspiracy to commit crime.
I don't understand the mentality that says "the person I'm trying to reach has blocked me, so I will subvert the method they are using to force them to view my ad." Isn't the whole point of an ad to persuade someone to buy your product? Why would anyone think this hostile approach would achieve that?
This situation is a bit reminiscent of the Randal Dale Adams[0] case, which was the subject of the documentary The Thin Blue Line[1]. In a nutshell, Adams was sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer based on the fabricated eye-witness accounts, and more importantly the testimony of another suspect. Won't spoil it for those that haven't seen it. It's a good documentary though, albeit with somewhat cheesy reenactments.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Dale_Adams

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Blue_Line_(1988_film)
The series of problems in al-Khwārizmī’s Algebra
The FHS defines /usr thus[0]:

> /usr is shareable, read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to.

Pretty much all modern unices consider that /usr, aside from /usr/local (which the FHS defines as "for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated."[1]), is part of the operating system.

It is thus very much unusual to modify /usr[2], and in line with current practices to lock it down tightly.

/usr/local is not under SIP.

[0] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04.html#pu...

[1] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s09.html

[2] in fact the FHS specifically notes[3]:

> Software placed in /usr may be overwritten by system upgrades. For this reason, local software must not be placed outside of /usr/local without good reason.

"we specify that the system can overwrite or remove anything you put there" is pretty much a dead ringer for "modifying this is unusual"

[3] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s09.html...
Well, I mistyped it should have been MDIL not MIDL.

MDIL is the Machine Dependent Intermediate Language, which was the
format produced by the Sing# compiler in Singularity, given as input to Bartok,
the native code compiler for Singularity.

The work was reused for Windows Phone 8 to generate .NET applications compiled ahead
of time in the Windows Store, using just a dynamic linker at installation time on the devices

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-an...

WinRT is the second coming of Ext-VOS, the initial idea that triggered .NET by making an OS ABI based on
an improved COM. Then .NET happened and the idea kind of died.

With the going native wave gaining speed back at Microsoft, the project was reborn with some improvements like C++/CX
and using .NET Metadata instead of the old COM type libraries.

Since Vista, the majority of new APIs are COM based and with WinRT, Windows is one of the few current OS with an OO ABI.

One of the driver validation tools makes use of the Z3 theorem prover as its verification engine

https://github.com/z3prover/z3/wiki

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/z3/s...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff...

.NET Native might be just yet another compiler, however it is the continuation of the work that started in Singularity
with Sing# and Bartok, followed by MDIL in WP8.

Also shows the direction of having .NET Native and C++ as the backbones of the OS, while moving away from C.

I am ignoring the work in free UNIX, because from the outside they appear to keep on copying commercial UNIXes.

Everyone is so high on Docker, yet I was using HP-UX containers in 2000 aka Virtualvault .
Doing an HD remake the right way
I'm not sure whether evaporative cooling [1] could be a result of that, i.e. that if the sane quit, you are left with the insane. If that's the case, such a campaign would make things worse.

[1]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beli...
I read this yesterday and it was useful:

http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/10/10-6244.pdf
If TrueCrypt authors are anonymous, can they even claim that they own that codebase?
Probably because it's the same principal of creative content consumption.

Sure you've got your go-to artists and albums, but music discovery is so much easier when you have an all-access pass to everything.

Same goes with the news - you'll always have your BBCs, Reuters, etc. but you also want to see something new and creative, which [probably] wouldn't have got off the ground if it required paid consumption models.
Merits of the arguments aside, righteous indignation is one of the worst tones you can choose for a persuasive piece.

Edit:

Rather than just being snarky ( which I love sometimes ), I found an alternative piece which I find much more compelling/more reasonable in tone:
https://pleblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/i-have-read-prop-f-...

I don't know enough about the whole situation, nor have I read the original proposition so I can't say if this opinion piece is more correct.

What I will say is the SF housing market seemed to be in dire straights ( due to government regulation? ) long before AirBnB hit the scene.
I mean that my idea of 'easy to follow' is far enough off yours that I haven't looked for what you're looking for, and I have no good way to really evaluate any examples I could google up.
So, I hate to beat this dead horse. But, evidently I don't hate beating it enough to stop. Here goes:

The poster came to you with a very specific problem with his particular startup which is in a funny space. He has a mining pool which needs hashing power, he has incentives, but he needs traction which is hard because those incentives don't start to kick in until he has a certain level of traction. He has given a very specific amount of money he'd be willing to pay to find that traction.

You, a self proclaimed expert in accelerating startups, then give him a rather bland and generalized "internet marketing" blog post. How does this solve his problem? "Trying some other channels will certainly help you get the users you want." Really? How? Will targeted blog posts incentivize users with large hash rates to come to his service? Are you suggesting his real problem is that he is not well known in an overly saturated market? Maybe speaking engagements might be a better choice? Why?

Maybe you're right he should try these. But the important part is the why.
Jay Abraham's Sticking Point Solution; great food for thought when you're at a loss for growth ideas> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6515635-the-sticking-poin...
On windows it is so so, but some programs are terrible, back in the day I had to use eclipse and it would autoraise when you moved the mouse over certain widget boundries.
Funniest part was when he talks about creating a new ultrasonic sensor that works through metal -- silence. You can see Elon sorta motion as in "hey... this was a bigger accomplishment than the seat design" but no one really catches on.

Reminds me of the Apple launch event for ApplePay where the presenter showed the current "bad" way of paying with cards. The crowd went wild and he sorta looked at them like "uh, that was the bad scenario... don't clap."
Thanks. I will disable it. Not to be rude, as I appreciate the advice, but what would you consider:

> a really good reason?

I think access to my own filesystem is good enough. I admit when I looked at the reviews, I made sure there were no major issues before upgrade but missed this "sys integrity" thing.
Neat! How did you clear the music with copyright owners?
Thanks for bringing this up, I just cancelled my download. There is no way I'm going to run an OS that attempts to limit my power to delete or modify applications. I think this may be the final straw for me and OSX.

I very recently had to attack GarageBand with a hex editor to disable app sandboxing so I could use third party VST plugins. I realize System Integrity Protection can be disabled by a kernel boot param, but this really, really, sticks in my craw.
Lyft Heads to Nashville and Seattle While Uber Goes to Oakland
Why Reverse Engineer?
To me it doesn't matter if the rules were unreasonable or not. If you accept an offer under specific rules, you have voluntarily bound yourself to them (moral, regardless of legal).
Wow, that's some pretty blatant hypocrisy. I didn't notice that bit.

I don't know about the downvotes. I upvoted you to try to compensate.

I think people are misunderstanding what happened here, maybe thinking that Apple is punishing them for disassembling retail hardware or something.
Only one off the top of my head. Pilot did get pretty famous for it though.

edit - Vlad the Impaler probably also counts, given he was the Voivode of the Polity of Wallachia, so he was basically a military governor.
What I take from this post is that they were ready to move away from their own mobile app anyway (like almost every other publisher who built an app over the past 5 years), and figured this would be an interesting and fun (and attention-generating) way to do so.

We can't see it in the App Store anymore, but how many downloads did the iFixit mobile app have? How many active users? What did it do that a mobile website did not? As they admit, not really anything.

But they're in good company there. There are a lot of content publisher apps still limping along in the App Store, despite delivering little value to their publishers.

Generally speaking, content apps lost and connecting apps won. Everyone just reads their content in their social network or aggregator now. NY Times has to inject their content into Facebook to grab mobile mindshare, even though they have had their own NY Times mobile app for years.