skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the appearance so much as the behavior. For example, I have (probably like many) an intimate muscle memory associated with the sensitivity of my touch pad for scrolling. The deviation from how I expect the software to behave using the same physical interactions I normally use suddenly makes me feel like a clumsy oaf.
That's a very big question. China has exchange controls, but only for residents of China. If you have access to Hong Kong, which the rest of the world does, you can exchange yuan for other currencies at market rates.

China's exchange controls are leaking at the rate of about $500bn a year.

It's worrisome that China's rich people want to get their money out of China. China is growing faster than the dollar or euro zones. Yet rich people in China are overpaying for US and UK real estate. What do they think is going to go wrong in China?
Well, in keeping with Mr. Pearlstein's desire to identify things "universities should do" in a vaccuum of authority where neither of us can enact change through a dictate by fiat avenue, I'll take a crack at four even more aggressive and not-likely-to-happen scenarios, and I'm not even getting paid to write them!

1. Downsize course offerings in areas where graduates can not be reasonably expected to recoup the cost of a University education in the forseeable, full-time job market - such as journalism.

2. Perform genuine, rigorous auditing of participating in NCAA sports for cost-benefit analysis and completely shut down programs which do not recoup or actually cost money.

3. Become fiscal mentors to prospective and current students by engaging in hands-on financial counseling with respect to private loans and income earning potential.

4. Drastically reduce the number of Freshman and Sophomore students and aggressively recruit potential graduates through the Community College systems nationwide.

I mean, there are a lot of ways to save money, and while I can enjoy comfy-armchair musing as much as the next guy, sometimes articles like this one just seem so out of touch.
Yes. Of every possible reason to eliminate the headphone jack, the idea that a $200bil company wants to make a few extra million dollars is literally the only reason I'd conclusively rule out.

It would take a $2bil product to even change their revenue by 1%. They're not going to make a big strategic move for a few million.
Comparing Apple to Qualcomm, Facebook, and Google is a mistake.

Apple is a consumer electronics company. Typically consumer electronics companies don't R&D their components. iPhones use Qualcomm baseband chips. Apple does design some of their components, but that's actually atypical for a consumer electronics company. Even then, Apple needs someone like TSMC to fabricate them.

So a lot of Apple's revenue goes to buying components of companies that are spending a lot on R&D. Qualcomm is making the components. They are doing the R&D because they have to. TSMC is R&Ding building 14 nm chips. Hynix is creating bigger NAND flash drives.

Google and Facebook are different because they sitting on monopolies that print money. They also do much more in house because it's easier to.

Apple has some ability to use their size and existing products to capitalize on new technologies. But it's probably better to just return their profits to their stockholders and let the market fund new R&D.

Then again a lot of cool tech came from monopolies playing around excess profits (Bell Labs, Xerox, etc.).
So?

Isn't a society that can allow itself better alcohol, expensive medicine, better weapons, has more liquid cash, pays more in brutality suits (and pays them at all, to this matter), and spends more on daycare objectivelly better and more well-off than a society that doesn't have these things?
Adware disguised as media player hits Android
http://i.imgur.com/glHzNoe.jpg
re: Athletics: I'm not sure I agree.
Kids that wash up out of minor league baseball (instead of attending college) end up with nothing. Kids that play college football at least have a degree from a college which is worth something.
If anything, I feel the college football players get exploited. They create a hugely disproportionate amount of value to the amount that they receive in return.
This looks like exactly the kind of vulnerability that Tony Arcieri is, correctly, saying doesn't happen with modern ciphers.

HTTP2 doesn't "use IVs" at all, in that encryption in HTTP2 is provided by TLS. TLS does use random IVs, and modern TLS uses them correctly.
The mistake you're making in your analogy is comparing a group of people to a single person. ISIS is not one united front, and most of the people who actually fight -- not the leaders making videos, but the people doing the killing -- do so for much less grandiose reasons.

Casting the rise of ISIS as a black-and-white, good-vs.-evil struggle allows some very clever politicians to have their way: torture some folks, spy on citizens. But if we look deeper at the situation, we'll see that motivations are more complex. In doing so, however, we (the West) must confront our role in the situation.

"For the first time since he came into the room he smiles—in surprise—and finally tells us what really motivated him, without any prompting. He knows there is an American in the room, and can perhaps guess, from his demeanor and his questions, that this American is ex-military, and directs his “question,” in the form of an enraged statement, straight at him. “The Americans came,” he said. “They took away Saddam, but they also took away our security. I didn’t like Saddam, we were starving then, but at least we didn’t have war. When you came here, the civil war started.” [0]

[0]http://www.thenation.com/article/what-i-discovered-from-inte...
No, he just kept on pulling and then another paper would be within reach until the drawer just about emptied. Similar to how folded napkins are all separate but you can pull one out of a container and then the next one will be pulled into place by the previous one. That's on purpose and this is accidental but the mechanism would be much the same.
I love when people who are obviously of the engineering persuasion write Amazon reviews. I came across this one when shopping for an automated litter box recently. A list of issues, with hardware fixes!

http://www.amazon.com/review/RF24V0C0EGNKP/
I drew a line in the sand some months ago, and it was we will not turn our product into a spreadsheet.

But when customers need certain capabilities, sometimes the "obvious" solution looks exactly like a spreadsheet, since we deal with sets of related, domain-specific lists.

Those are always product-breaking, lazy-minded solutions that in the long run won't serve the customer well and generate mountains of technical and UX debt. Like a "miscellaneous" category for UI actions, they indicate a shortage of insight and imagination.
I don't spend a lot of awake time in my hotel room when I'm in NYC. But my point was that if I have a cheap room in NYC (and $200 is quite a cheap room) my expectation is that it will be quite small.

I actually often stay at a hotel that has small [edit: 170 sq. ft] but deliberately engineered for the size rooms and I rather like it.
If it's good enough for Snowden, it's good enough for me.
> Except apple has gone their own way of making everything proprietary.

USB? FireWire? Mini DisplayPort? Thunderbolt? FaceTime (before they were sued)? WebKit? Darwin?
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5lbs is a large number in this context.
They're spending less per dollar of revenue, but the amount they're spending in absolute terms is totally comparable to other big tech companies.
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>And finally the author recommends to drop research and go back to teaching.

That struck me as pretty disingenuous too, considering how lightly he glossed over the real-world problem of "labor as a cost of doing business" mentality that has shifted teaching toward adjunct staff members. It's almost like he doesn't care those starting out in their career, who would likely become the next generation of great teachers at a reasonable price are pretty much being shoved into poverty from the get-go. No intelligent, worthwhile teacher/professor can withstand that kind of lack of support all while being fed lines about how "we have to cut costs" like the examples mentioned.
Nontraditional students add minimal administrative overhead. There are plenty of schools that are dysfunctional or pad their budget for various reasons, but done well this is really cheap.

Universities spend ungodly amounts on things like recertification, advertising, internal busywork, fundraising, government requirements etc. Abstractly this stuff adds zero value for students, but good luck telling an auditor you have better things to do with your time. And internal politics is all about how someone changes things not how this pet project actually helps students.
Funding free software
There were summer courses for grad school. I think undergrad didn't have any summer classes. (My experience is from 15 years ago so maybe things have changed).
That's not quite right what I have in mind. It solve part of the issue, the maintainability of 10+ integrations, but it is not really the biggest pain point.

The biggest pinpoint is having 10 different service that gives you quite the same answer but:

1) they cover different needs and you need a patchwork to customize to what you need (and when you are small it is not even sure you know what you need so the patchwork is biggest than needed).

2) they measure things in slightly different way making comparison difficult.

3) they have vastly different interfaces, thus requiring a lot of time to learn them (I like to learn new things, but my time is valuable and better spent on product features)

4) they create a mess in your code. This is the problem segment try to solve. It is relevant but not top priority. Actually, I'm not totally sure of the effect of inserting a level of abstraction doesn't actually make more complex to solve point 1 and 2 (it is not a critic, just a real problem I faced when I tried to abstract the analytics call in the app with few functions).
No, that is not a realistic vulnerability. I am now regretting nerding out about AES upthread, since I seem to have created the impression that there is some risk to having every HTTP request start with a fixed string. There is not.
Should Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Be Fired?
My own mail-server, accessed via desktop/mobile client. I also have GnuPG support on the desktop client. That's as good as it gets. If I had to use a web-based mail client, I would go with mailpile.js although it's far from a complete replacement.
› Today, the commuter-rail system that once made it comparatively easy to live in suburban New Jersey and work in Manhattan is falling apart, and commutes from other New York suburbs, whether by road or rail, are also becoming unworkable. Increasingly, this means that only the very rich can still afford to work in Manhattan, much less live there

I don't find this to be true. New York City subways are better now than they were in the 1970s. Public transportation into Manhattan has not changed much in the past decades, although the prices have risen. There are plenty of places to live for working class people with decent commutes to Manhattan. I know plenty of people at startups who lived in Manhattan - engineers could live by themselves, others needed roommates. You're not going to live on 5th Avenue, of course. I live in the suburbs so my apartment has some space, not due to expense - I could rent a smaller Manhattan apartment for the same price.
Hmm, this sounds like the kind of idea that's great in theory, but flawed as hell in practice. I mean, the crime issue has already been brought up, but this sort of thing means you're a great target for the local muggers, gangs, armoured car robbing thugs, etc. You'd turn your users into the replacement for ATMs in more ways than one...

And that's not even getting into the issues if this system has a security flaw that criminals can exploit.

It's a neat idea, but perhaps an example of a service that doesn't really work out well when done in a 'peer to peer' way.
I'm quite curious about how this applies to Canada, where the weather is generally always colder than it is in the U.S., just the degree of cold.
No, it has increased a lot. This is a Dutch newspaper, but you should be able to read the graphs: http://static1.volkskrant.nl/static/nmc/red/frameset/2015/te...
In contrast to the fancy Apple screws in the article, the Fairphone 2 is the first iFixit reviewed phone to get 10/10 for ease of repair.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Fairphone+2+Teardown/52523
Not the commenter above, but I would certainly be interested in reading your full thoughts on this! As an entry level developer I send feedback up the chain by default.
When I was in grade school, I started reading library books, and gravitated towards the programming books. They were mostly BASIC on Apple IIe hardware. I used BASIC on whatever hardware I could get my hands on, and my mom bought me a calculator that had a BASIC interpreter. Even once we got a PC, its capabilities were sub-par. I didn't get a machine that reflected the state of the art until I built one myself in the late nineties.

Having severely-limited hardware made me invest lots and lots of time into figuring out how it worked. I would like to pass that experience on to my kids, so they can be masters of their own technology world instead of passive consumers of other peoples'.

Did you screw up your machine? Do you know how to re-install the OS? Here's a printout of the page that tells you how. Have data you didn't back up? Well, here's a protip, you can mount the hard disk on another machine, maybe your sister will let you use hers.
I see. So he should have simply stonewalled at the very first request, not wait until it dealt with someone he wanted to protect.

On the other hand the story above does not relate whether or not there were previous requests there is a passage that indicates that the operator of the service had knowledge of the person involved.

"Nick wasn’t sure why the FBI was demanding the information, but he knew a little about the subscriber the FBI was apparently investigating, and he doubted that the investigation was a legitimate one. "

He also wondered why the FBI did not involve a judge and in the Lavabit case a judge clearly was involved.
I don't understand the desire to get ever thinner. I truly don't. I never ever hear anyone saying their iPhone is too thick.

This is my experience as well. I have heard people complaining about battery, screen size, and/or durability but never thickness.

To me (an adult male) there are only really two sizes of portable objects: things that fit comfortably in my pants pocket and things that don't. The iPhone has passed that test for years and years now and making it thinner will make no difference to me.
Hardware isn't the problem and hasn't been for some time, software is. Partly because Android is Linux for chip manufacturers. Once there is something software wise that enough people want to buy and use the hardware itself is, at least somewhat, straight forward.
I don't want to speak for vinceguidry but when I was a teen my first car was a Mazda RX-4 with a blown tip seal. My job (with Dad's guidance) was to swap the blown motor for a fresh one and if I could get the car running it would be mine. I remember fondly both the car and the time I spent wrenching on it with my Dad.
In most cases, nothing in particular (the file manager is a bit different, as it needs work at the operating system level). But software projects competing in established markets which require many years of development to catch up to “industry standard” tools are hard to get off the ground, because new untested ideas are risky and there are few short-term payoffs. I would love to see new products competing in all these areas.

The one I’m most familiar with, Photoshop-style image editors, is based on core abstractions dating from research done on 1970s graphics workstations with far-too-literal adaptations of darkroom photography practices with 19th century ideas about how color works embedded deeply, and there is huge room for improvement if someone is willing to reimplement everything from scratch on better foundations. It’s a several-year multiple-developer kind of effort though.

I’m sorry about Apple in particular because it seemed like their Mac application software teams were on a roll from ~1997–2005, but have sort of stalled since then. (Some of what they’ve done since has been awesome, but overall in my opinion there’s been substantially less great stuff in the past 10 years than in the 8 years before that, and many apps feel severely neglected.)

I am thankful that Apple (with help from Qualcomm, Samsung, Intel, etc.) keeps pushing the hardware side though. The new stylus, “retina” displays, better battery life in thinner computers and tablets, etc. are wonderful.
> Of course, to believe that, you also have to believe previous groups that espoused philosophies with similar conclusions (Al' Qaeda, etc) were lying - as we haven't kill all of their members and their terrorist & militant activities have fallen off.

Well, to be fair, for part of the time al-Qaeda was dominant in the threat list, the group now calling itself "the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant" was calling itself "al-Qaeda in Iraq".
I have a touchscreen laptop, so the inertial scrolling often gets broken when sites scrolljack. That said, styling the default scrollbar (except in Firefox, where it can't be done) is a different behaviour, and whilst imho it should be discouraged for "regular" sites like this example, is totally fine when scrolling small widgets.
Apple is a marketing arm of Samsung.
EarPod cameras?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcPhMqLPuvQ
If you're vacationing to NYC from Kansas for the first time, you might book the largest affordable room in the city and be shocked at how small it is. Conversely, if you are familiar with NYC and travel to it enough, you might recognize that a 400 sq. ft. room for $200 a night is an astonishing bargain.

Both types of review are valid, but the former is more valid for new-to-NYC vacationers while the latter would be better suited to those who are repeat travelers or people people who have migrated away from NYC and are vacationing home.

The complaint though, is that there's no way to distinguish between them. How big is big? How small is small? Reviewers seldom list the square footage, and the net result is that one person's anecdotal evidence is countered by another's opposite anecdotal experience. At the end of the day, unless there is an equal number of use cases, we're left reading reviews for context, which renders the star ratings useless.
A simple (gravity-powered) cat feeder works perfectly well. Unlike dogs, cats are smart enough to eat only what they need. I have to refill the feeder for our 3 cats maybe once or twice a month.
The Asus C201 with Libreboot[1] should come very close to meeting your requirements. There is still some progress to be made on the GPU driver, but it's a usable system.

[1] http://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/c201.html
Thanks for this, I'm drafting an amendment to my IRB protocol right now. Made me re-read the whole thing. Cricky...
Thanks!

I said that because my PhD advisor is a female professor and she was very nice and very helpful during my first pregnance.

I like you advice about how to bring this up. Will use it! Thanks!
Author here :)

This post of course reflects my opinion, but I have tried to be as concrete as possible in how you can identify what is a good idea and where to look for good ideas. While we can argue over what should or should not be on the list, I think the most important point is to have a checklist to judge any idea. If you don’t know what features make a good idea then it is very hard to know if your idea is a truly good idea, or just a so-so idea.
There was a time when X-rays were considered useless or nuclear physics. In addition, if you took a closer look at a shrimp on treadmills study and its rationale, you would often see the use pretty quickly.
To protect his users and avoid imprisonment, he would have had to fix both problems: not taunting and slow-rolling the DOJ, and doing that having designed a system that either (a) didn't give him the technical ability to decrypt messages or (b) allowed him to easily do that selectively.

The real problem with Lavabit is that it was incompetently designed and made security promises it was flatly and obviously unable to keep. From the transcripts, it seems like Levison tried to represent to the DOJ that his system was stronger than it was, when it was clear to anyone technical that he could easily comply with DOJ's demands.

Regarding judges: it may be that Levison happened after reform of the national security letter laws, so that simply as a result of timing, Levison's predicament had to involve a judge. However: even if that hadn't been the case, a judge would have been involved as soon as Levison (or Calyx) refused to comply.
> Drastically reduce the number of Freshman and Sophomore students and aggressively recruit potential graduates through the Community College systems nationwide.

Doing a 2-year stint at a community college is just about one of the most sane things a person can do. At the end, you still end up with a bachelor's degree from whatever university you finish at, indistinguishable from any other graduate. And you do it typically at a fraction of the cost. Oh, and often community colleges focus on teachers with industry experience, meaning that you're not learning about software engineering from a computer science academic that's never actually been a software engineer.
You have to start somewhere to be able to set your constraints. If you already know how the hardware works and what will be required there. It makes sense to do a gross estimate for the enclosure and design a board to fit.
>There is literally billions of dollars of profit at stake.

Only for the top schools in top conferences, which is a relatively small number of universities in the US.
The answer can depend on some of the architectural choices you made when you prototyped your product. If the original use-case has changed significantly, and you find yourself fighting the codebase to get it to do what you want today, the technical debt is something to worry about. The same thing applies if you cannot scale to serve clients requiring a lot more volume than what you anticipated originally. It's possible that some clients have modified the original use-case they wanted when they signed-up with you, so your product must evolve to keep serving them. This may require refactoring, whether p/m fit was achieved or not.
Quite sad to see them go, too.

There were a lot of interesting products to work on and a great community.

And being rewarded with parts of the company is such a great idea.

I guess they were missing profitable companies. There were a lot of great ideas, but they never turned into something big.

EDIT: I have to admit I haven't been to their site for a few months. They apparently removed the profit sharing part. Which IMHO was their main value preposition. I guess it's a huge PITA to handle the legal stuff of it. But collaborating on open source projects is possible on GitHub alone, so why add Assembly to the mix.

And in the end money rules the world, so getting a part of a company is a stronger incentive than just working on an open source project for fun/your CV.
What problems have you read about the U.S. facing if it stopped being a reserve currency? My understanding is that we would lose seigniorage, and maybe see a small increase in borrowing costs.

But the upside is value of the dollar would drop, making U.S. exports more competitive.
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