skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I on the other hand love it. I use Linux, Windows and OSX on a daily basis. I use an iPhone and an Android tablet. Each device has its purpose, and levels of trust, and a kowegeable buyer knows the strenghts and weaknesses of each platform going in. If you're getting upset that Apple is enforcing its rules for what it views as a security concern, is silly in my opinion.

If you don't want someone overzealously protecting you, then don't get an iPhone. If you don't want all your data sent to a server, then don't get an android or windows device. No one is ever forced to use an iPhone personally, and the flux devs knew they were breaking a set of rules which is why they were using the approach they were.

No rose coloured glasses here, I just don't get worked up over things I could have seen coming a mile away.
I've been spending some time trying to understand this today, and I don't understand why such users don't just go buy a device they can root and take full control that way. Why blame a vendor that doesn't ship what you want? Why not just... buy what you do want?

Separately: The DMCA needs to be dismantled, absolutely.
Maybe. It's not clear to me how many people would go to the bother of unlocking their devices and then complain to Apple when something went wrong if there was some trivial roadblock.

I'd also, on an ideological note, be inclined to be cautious about separating the consumers and the producers any more than they already are. One of the big promises of computers is that you can automate so much - granted a lot of people are cut off from that power - and I'd want to be going in the direction of making that power more accessible to people rather than less. If I'd had to, for example, buy a specialised programming computer with a programming OS when I was young... I'd probably not be a programmer today. That sort of thing seems like it would be very expensive.

But you may very well turn out to be right - maybe most people can't be allowed to have nice things. :/ Depressing, if true, but not entirely implausible.
Like chris_wot below, your comment reads as if you're talking about DDG.

So you downvote me? Nice. #not
This strategy is also only distinguishable from the "there's always a bigger fool" strategy in retrospect.

Have zero profit to drive growth, growth brings investors, rinse and repeat. Just make sure you're not the last one opening up your checkbook...
Freedom of Speech is a wonderful thing. Those who oppress it know not it's true beauty.
I'd love to read either your writing or case studies of fast-to-revenue companies if you have any to share. Thank you.
No, you misremembered it. Apple set up a meeting with Panic (makers of Audion) but they had to cancel because they were trying to get bought out by Aol. Apple ended up buying competitor SoundJam to use as the basis of iTunes and then still offered to hire the Audion devs but they declined.

https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

If you're looking for 10-15 year old story where Apple famously ate someone's lunch then Sherlock/Watson and Konfabulator/Dashboard are some of the more prominent examples but those are fairly obvious directions for OS makers to fill.
The power of developing platforms, not products
sha256sum of f.lux-xcode-master.zip and every file inside, downloaded just a few hours before the original link went offline: https://gist.github.com/raamdev/97c625b323fa288cf785
relevant pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

This is a complicated topic, but my take is that the downside of political correctness is a potential for a loss of absolute correctness, while the benefit is respect and erring on the side of not doing harm. Those things need to be balanced and we have do decide as individuals and as a culture how we make those trade offs.
I think one of the biggest tells would be if the VW cars with the software issues weren't equipped well enough to deal with the emissions regulations. In other words, if the cars provably did not have the right equipment to meet emissions requirements, AND had the software issues, I think this would prove beyond reasonable doubt that VW was maliciously trying to circumvent the tests.
I use Lux on Android without root and it works perfectly.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux&h...
Last year we moved from a huge house in the boonies to a shoebox in a prime location. We still don't miss having the extra space. We spend 99% of our time at home in the family room just like we did before, and the small house is much easier to maintain.

Also, having a lot of living space makes it hard not to stealthily accumulate junk. I had always prided myself on not doing this, but when we moved we ended up filling an entire 8'x30' dumpster with crap we no longer had room for and didn't really need.
It's not really practical to do that.

It really is quite simple to live without FB.
It really is a fantastic story. I can't recommend it enough.
My PC must not be "proper".

Aw, snap.
Mine does -- I have an X200 I freed myself using a beaglebone.

But you are right: no-one has properly owned their own devices since the 80s because no-one can verify them using primary sources.
No, they don't. Twilight is working on my phone and it's completely stock.
You simply can't disable it in future versions of Firefox.
US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Yes, this is hugely important. If any photos are being uploaded without my explicit action, I consider it a huge violation of trust.

I've disabled every permission messenger has until there is clarification here.
That most people rarely think of you. People tend to think most of themselves, you included, me included. Not family, or loved ones of course, but the 95% of the mass of people we see on any particular day.

It's very easy to see one's own shabbyness of clothes or behaviour. Well, because you're right there, up close, all the time. Now, do I recall any stains on someone's pocket or thread hanging down on a dress. Maybe, but it's rare, and I have to be looking quite closely.

This isn't license to be smelly and gross, not bathing and wearing clothes with great greasy stain all over them. Instead it's about the +/-5% of wiggle room we get from not being under the great sharp spotlight that it feels like we're under because, well, we're ourselves.

All that said, it's a great idea to pay special attention to one's self for an interview. Because you'll be under great scrutiny at that point, naturally.
I dunno.

My main circle of friends, clustered in our late-40s for the most part, use a variety of different online media. Facebook and email are primary, though I wouldn't say either is ahead of the other at this point. Texting is of course very common. Facebook Messenger has been our primary chat for the last couple years.

We're also on Twitter and Instagram, at least big chunks of us are. One connected subgroup of us with a common interest have been on a private google groups for a long while, and a private yahoo group for years before that. We set up slack for the group this week.

In other words, we're using whatever seems handiest at the moment for whatever it is we're doing. It's not a particularly tech-savvy group of people, though nearly all of my main circle is quite well-educated.
Yup. I left my job to start my own thing in about 2001, but then got a job after about half a year. My main challenge was getting into the games industry, but there seemed to be no shortage of non-games jobs.
I think the other way around this is to simply have less employees. This is the path of many "lifestyle businesses" (VC speak for small business that happen to be tech-oriented).
> so raising money almost certainly means higher salaries for employees

> but otherwise the whole thing seems pretty hollow

uh, what? why? how did you come to this conclusion? you're wrong. not only are you wrong, you are also assuming he's being cheap to his employees. you just made up this fact in your mind, and assume it to be true. quite frankly, that's you projecting.

we're bootstrapped and we pay people higher salaries to incentivize them to work for a smaller, "unstable" company. if we raised money tomorrow nobody's salary would change. my salary as a founder probably wouldn't change. i'm pretty sure that anything beyond a nice dinner to cap the occasion, i.e. just paying ourselves more because some new money showed up, would be frowned upon pretty heavily by anyone investing money.

and i am aware of several name-brand funded companies that pay people less than market just for the privilege of having their company on a resume.

bootstrapping doesn't mean "be a cheapskate and pay everyone under market" it means "earning and using revenues to grow the company at the early stages and possibly beyond". you can bootstrap and pay people above market salaries, or pay yourself a wildly inflated salary if you are the owner.

you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how modern small businesses work, probably because you have never run one.
Anecdata:

I don't use FB, but it turns out that people can form pretty strong bonds over incidental things. At least those bonds appear to be strong to the people on the outside, and that's all that really matters when you're talking about social stuff.

At this point in my life, the costs are negligible, but ten years ago those same cost would have been closer to 'devestaating'.
Not really rude
No chance...
Should Entrepreneurial College Students Go Big or Go Small After Graduation?
This is what people mean when they talk about "technical debt". Many of us have realized that when mistakes are not fixed early, we end up doing 10x, 20x, and even 200x the amount of work in dealing with the consequences of those mistakes.

In Software Development good tools like an IDE with static code analysis and good practices like unit testing + integration testing + functional testing + automated acceptance tests help us to avoid that 200x downside.

DevOps is not all software development, but part of it is, and so it should respond in the same way to good tools, and good test practices. For the rest of it, there are lots of old practices that do make a difference such as having regular backups of everything, having live-live standby servers, hiring a DBA to clean up the mess in your data models, NEVER patching the database except using code that has been unit tested and which generates a script to undo everything that it has patched along with a hash check of the database to guarantee that the undo step worked. And so on.

Maybe the cute moniker "O-ring economics" will help to explain it to management types better but the jury is still out on that, IMHO.

But what manager would NOT want everybody to work as a team, to learn from their mistakes, and to constantly up their game, as a team? Call it Agile or call it something else, but this is what is proven over the last 70 years or so (perhaps even longer).
> In terms of public posts everyone projects their "best life", so you're browsing through a catalogue of amazing experiences while you sit at home feeling a little fat.

Or they're all posting negative stuff about their own lives/society. Either way it's lose/lose.
I still don't buy this justification. Sure, maybe a little. To me it's still mostly just a way to avoid spending money on an operations team.
I'm all for rolling out opportunistic STARTTLS, but I don't see how you can surface it in the UI in a way that's meaningful to the vast majority of users. If STARTTLS was not used, the message might have been intercepted. If STARTTLS was used, it's less likely it was intercepted, but it still easily could have been. (How much less likely? No one knows for sure.) How is this information helpful to users?

Let's get things like DANE and pinning deployed first. Once Gmail can make a strong assertion that a message was securely delivered, then it can surface this information.
Is Wall Street Beneath Business Students' Standards?
A ton of data, but doesn't track dark-hits, so missing a big part of the market!
Yes, of course. Perhaps "while the O-Rings hadn't yet catastrophically failed" would be the more accurate way of phrasing that.
Here's my biggest secret. I almost always use Chome's URL address bar as a text buffer. Not only to make sure what I copied is what I expected, but to remove new-lines, and if it's a terminal command, to allow me to edit the arguments in free-form before pasting into terminal.
Don't be ridiculous, the rendering engine is much more complex and many more lines of code than the GUI features. And browsers have had bookmarks, tabs, and password managers for a decade now.

More importantly, the rendering engine is what matters to the "open web", if you care about that. If there's only one rendering engine which "everyone" uses, then websites are designed to the bugs and quirks of that engine, then that engine need not fix any bugs, then those bugs become the de-facto standard. Then users can't use the web from the platform or browser UI of their choice if the only web rendering engine of note doesn't support it.
Am I the only one who is concerned that Facebook is going to eventually turn into a passive surveillance system for the government? I don't think it would be too difficult for Facebook to silently alert authorities when particular matches occur.
Mach Match:  Did an XP-86 Beat Yeager to the Punch? (1999)
Let's assume the leadtimes in the pipeline differ dramatically. l_1 ... l_n-1 take just minutes and l_n takes some days.

Maybe its a huge simulation or learning of a neural network.

In this theory the leadtimes are getting normalized and multiplied.

But in this pipeline, the process n is overweighting all the other processes, so that the leadtimes of the other processes are almost irrelevant compared to the leadtime of process n.

a. Lets assume leadtime of process 1 is missed by 50%. So it takes an additional minute.

b. Compared to process n, missing leadtime by 50%, taking an additional week.

Expected Quality would be the same for a and b.
But the overall leadtime will differ in one week.
> public transportation, Uber/taxis, Zipcar, and conventional rentals

That doesn't add up to something more expensive than a car? I was in ny recently, and a train ticket on the LIRR cost ~20 round trip. That's $600/month. But, it's better overall because of the traffic to and in the city.
> meanwhile, some developers complain that they didn't sign up to "be on call", despite that they are only being tasked with such for their own team's code

If they didn't then how is that not a legitimate complaint? If I take a job with the knowledge that oncall is required then it's fine. If I take a job and 6 months later they hand me a pager and say starting now you're oncall one week a month I'm going to get upset.
I live in Columbus, and I looked at a bus route to work, and it was about 1.5 hours one way, with a transfer. For me, it's a 20 minute drive to work.

Also there is not service to/from most of the suburbs.
Well I got screwed and couldn't obtain the original version (was in airport at the time) but I seem to have obtained an alternate. Been waiting for this for years, no surprise Apple tried to screw users immediately.
Partner Solutions Engineer
What if I don't want somebody "protecting" me but I also don't want Google or Microsoft taking all my data?

Apple enforcing its rules by forcing somebody to take down content hosted on a web page, content which does not infringe any copyrights or trademarks or other IP, is stepping out of bounds, in my opinion. There are a lot of things I dislike about Apple, but this crosses a line for me.
What do you expect, it's a buzzword.
Why the shock? This is iOS.

There are a lot of compelling and expedient reasons why iOS is the way it is. Apple isn't the only player on the market, and they aren't misleading or a monopolist like IBM was in the 80s or Microsoft in the 90s.

As for why can't you do on iOS what you can do on your Mac... Apple doesn't want the types of problems that android has.
Jokes are also against the HN guidelines.
You used the original title, as recommended by the site guidelines, but most of the times it's possible to use small variations, that don't editorialize it or make a linkbait title.

I think it would be better to use this title: "Popular herbicide (Glyphosate) doesn’t cause cancer, European Union agency says"

(The mods may decide to change it back anyway.)
If, in the director created when you unzipped this, you did:

find . |xargs shasum -a 256

And then posted the output, that would be helpful to people that want to verify these files.
I am talking about closed-source freeware only. f.lux is closed source. Nobody can verify whether it does what it says. Apple clearly does not want to set a precedent.

Open source is fine. If f.lux published the source code, then we could compile it ourselves, and Apple would be happy (they recently made the iOS Dev Program free of charge to allow sideloading in this manner.)
Things are changing.

Also, if you're on a patent, you get the cube (and the cash).
This used to be Apple's key offering. They sold systems which were suitable for the skilled and the naive alike. It was wonderful because it meant that the naive could smoothly transition to being skilled, and the skilled could have all the comforts and ease of something suitable for the naive.

Sadly, Apple seems to have given up on this and is now catering exclusively to the lowest common denominator. There's plenty of power left in their stuff, but it's all left over from better days, and is slowly slipping away.
I usually don't get annoyed at fans wearing rose-tinted glasses

You realize that darkly tinted rose colored glasses would actually work better than f.lux?

(I know because I have a narrowband 470nm filter and I've looked at screens under f.lux, and there is often significant blue light coming out of very red looking screens. It doesn't take much to suppress melatonin secretion, especially with prolonged exposure.)
It has a VGA port and what seems to be a verrry modest video system. However, it also has two PCIe3 ×16s, so presumably you can use your own GPU, if the software support is there. There doesn't seem to be an integrated GPU in the AMD dev kit http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/s... either, so presumably there is Linux ARM PCI GPU support out there, unless everyone is just SSHing in?
human interaction being dismissed as frivolous.

I'm not sure it's entirely frivolous...

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and...
I like tuhaybey's take on it (in the comments).
A “checklist error” did not almost derail the first moon landing
Anecdotally, I have a hard time buying the stat that homes today are only 31% more efficient than they were in 1970.

I lived in a fairly large, brand new home for a couple years, and my energy bills were way lower than my friends who lived in smaller, older homes. Some of this was a much better insulated and tighter sealed house, some of it was more efficient HVAC units. IIRC, the air conditioner installed with the house had roughly twice the SEER rating of my parents and parent-in-laws units from the late 90s. And this was in a fairly mild northern climate - you can get units with even higher ratings, and if you're in a locale such as Arizona, Nevada, Texas, etc, I think you'd be more or less priced into doing so.
If you have one of the three:

1. a one-way hash function;
2. a block cipher; or
3. a secure random number generator;

then you have the other two.

So replace "RC4" with Keccak and the argument stands. Keccak doesn't fit in a tweet but it prints onto a single page, which is easy enough to distribute: https://github.com/gvanas/KeccakCodePackage/blob/master/Stan...
Doesn't Facebook own your pictures you upload? I haven't been on there in a long time but I thought I recalled that.
History of Ideas: The Renaissance [video]
Funny story. I saw this video yesterday morning, about an hour before my topology exam. One of the questions involved calculating the Euler poincare characteristic of a 3 fold sum of RP2. Unfortunately, I had forgotten the formula for the case of m-fold sums of RP2 but I knew that it was linear in m and that the Euler poincare characteristic of RP2 was 1. Luckily, I remembered a Klein bottle is homeomorphic to the 2-fold sum of RP2. Having seen this video and knowing the cell complex structure of a mobius band ended up being enough for me to derive the answer.
Picture and  audio
>Fundraising is just a tool to accomplish your real goals, not a goal in and of itself.

I don't disagree with that point, but it's weird to say that obtaining a tool to further your goals is "not progress".
> Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you.

> That said, this study doesn't surprise me. In terms of public posts everyone projects their "best life", so you're browsing through a catalogue of amazing experiences while you sit at home feeling a little fat.

> I'm not sure what the answer to that is.

I'm not on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. (and I'm probably one of a very small minority who has never had accounts) and I wouldn't consider myself "enlightened."

I think "the answer" is to reflect on what it is that adds value to your life and what subtracts value from your life.

If your personal use of social media is focused on activities that you conclude are beneficial, there's no reason you should stop using it. On the other hand, if your use of social media is making you less happy, you should treat it the same way you'd logically treat anything else that makes you less happy.

Unfortunately, as these studies demonstrate, a lot of the people using social media aren't happier for it, and more problematically, many clearly aren't reflecting on that.
I completely agree and have a solid anecdote.

Summer electricity bill in Texas for my previous 1600 sqft house, about $100-$150 month for cooling from Texas ambient to 74 F.

For our new 3200 sq ft house, we cool to 73 F, for the same cost!!!!

That is the difference between a late 70's house, and modern construction, which is foam-filled up the wazoo.
See my comment on Generative Models above. In general there are too many degrees of freedom with modern communication channels for concealing data to be an insurmountable challenge, even if you don't have powerful Generative Models.

Keep in mind the law is targeting malicious actors, people that would likely try to use this sort of circumvention even if it isn't mainstream.
Technically, they're not manipulating the clipboard at all. That is definitely disallowed by browsers. What they are doing is extending the selection to an invisible part of the page, so you're copying more than you bargained for.

But without being able to manipulate selections, some nice features of certain sites would be lost. (e.g. the "share" link in StackOverflow automatically selects the URL for you so you only need to press Ctrl-C, instead of having to select it manually.)
What is the huge risk for users in sideloading pre-built binaries?

If you're worried about malware, sideloaded apps still run in the same sandbox that app store apps run in. Apple's review process does not meaningfully impact security, so the sandbox is all that stands between you and malware either way.
Microsoft does this
> I'm pretty disappointed you guys are missing all my jokes.

The downvotes are telling you that they're not funny.
Ah, that must be why all the developers at my Microsoft-based workplace running Windows 7 complain about it so much.
> Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you.

And now you're doing the same exact thing they are - boasting about how you're superior to everyone else.

Is it possible for us to have discussions without these signaling-laden put downs? Just say what you want to say and try to refrain from putting everyone else down.