skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SPJ about Comic Sans:

> This is a very funny question, "Why use Comic Sans?" So, all my talks use Comic Sans and I frequently see remarks like 'Simon Peyton-Jones, great talk about Haskell but why did he use Comic Sans?' but nobody's ever been able to tell me what is wrong with it. It's a nice legible font, I like it. So until somebody explains to me ... Ah, I understand that it's meant to be a bit naff, but I don't care about naff stuff, I care about being able to read it. So if you have got a sort of ... some rational reasons why I should not then I'll listen to them. But just being unfashionable? I don't care.
As a start, how about once we run out of unskilled work that people are willing to pay minimum wage for, but which isn't performed?

Concretely, I'd pay for twice weekly house cleaning if it cost me $7.25/hour. An actual housecleaning costs me about $50. Most middle class homes in India are cleaned daily, which suggests this is very achievable. Many working women would happily pay $7.25/hour for child care. Lots of folks would love a driver while they sit in the back of a car and work, as several of my work colleagues do. Etc.

Are there no tasks in your life that you'd be happy to pay $7.25 for a human to handle for you?

(India has a labor scarcity too. Why isn't someone cleaning up all the garbage?)

I'm curious because in a time where there are 7 billion people I have rarely, if ever, seen someone say on the whole there are too many jobs and not enough laborers. Rather it's more often said that there are too many laborers and not enough jobs. Which is precisely the type of sentiment that drives anti-immigration xenophobia.

This is because most of those folks simply want to protect a privileged position they were born into. Rather than competing in the labor market with a Mexican or Indian, they'd rather have someone threaten the Mexican with violence for the crime of economic competition.
its still pretty raw. check out cve-2015-8660, which basically let unprivileged users bypass normal file permissions without even trying. it's fixed in mainline now, but still hasn't hit a lot of distros.
I suggest not counting. Don't use your mind to tame your mind. Try to ride a tiger and it will only eat you.

Escape conceptual thought entirely.
Don't forget that the phone the fbi want to decrypt doesn't have a secure enclave. If apple agreed it would be trivial to write an OS without the exponential back off when entering incorrect passcodes
Well, GRRM did that one better and had everybody die in the beginning!
Is there any idea how long al-jazeera america will continue to publish online? I'm sad to see them go.
1 + 1/2 hit
Also her recently published prequel.
And she did a fair amount of the research for In Cold Blood.
Didn't work for Carly Fiorna, either at HP, the Gov of CA, or her (now) failed presidential bid.
Vote for HubSpot please
> For example, distributed freely by fee-supported professional organizations or else by the author him/her-self as a tool for self-promotion/brand building

Content made to promote something, isn't that an ads? Sure that could happen but hell nothing stop ads from being more high quality right now. I much prefer to watch content that's primary goal is to entertain, teach, etc... and not to sell you stuff.

> I don't see any reason why high-quality content can't survive on non-ad revenue, given that there are plenty of counter-examples.

Well nothing stop them to exist right now. The reverse is false though, content funded by ads currently only exist based on that good ad targeting.

Personally I seriously hope Google push more Youtube Red and Google Contributor. Ad work for people that can't pay for it (or don't want to), we only need something for people that doesn't want ads but can pay instead.
Mostly the kids are using emojis in IMs these days. I can't really tell what they're trying to say, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for anyone.
We had a similar desire: secure, performant egress from S3. We ended up using CloudFront. You can configure cloudfront with signed URLs, that will access private buckets with a special S3 user (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Developer...). Any app that holds the private key can sign URLs to download from CloudFront.

It works great, but it really bugs me that we had to do that. The default download speeds from our buckets on S3 are atrocious. We store big datafiles in S3, and our development flow involves downloading them lot. If Amazon had an upgrade to S3 so downloads by chosen users weren't throttled or slow, we'd pay for it in a heartbeat.
Released today: CF2016, or 'ColdFusion (2016 release)'
I'm pretty sure this "babying" is a relatively new thing. I've read a few books written by and/or about people growing up in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and once you were a teenager, you were treated like an adult by all other adults. Sure, a "young adult", but an adult nonetheless. You matured pretty quickly, because you had to in order to survive. But a college degree wasn't necessary back then to make a living on your own income; you could get a job and support yourself through manual labor, and live pretty comfortably. Today you have to go through at least 4 years of college if you want to do that, so you don't really have to grow up until you're in your mid twenties. Plus it's easy to get a high-interest credit card to buy your adult-starter-kit expenses. The result is that you end up with a lot of 30 year old adults who are just starting to grow up, who've only been working for a few years, and who now have massive debt, because they didn't really have to work hard to earn anything until now, and now they're just starting to learn how to work hard in order to pay off all that debt. Source: just making stuff up off the top of my head, ignore me.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge from Every Angle
It's trivial to redirect a network to ask your own server instead of Apple's. That's what tinyumbrella did while it still worked. So they wouldn't need to change those clusters, just set up a single machine signing only that device (which is easy enough that tinyumbrella did it without Apple's help), and give it access to Apple's signing key.

>If they do it wrong and the SHSH blob/update gets in a bad state, they could end up accidentally wiping the phone

How many hours does it take to test on a spare phone? 5?

>I'm guessing you haven't worked at a large company before?

No. But this isn't something that's being rolled out to millions of users. The team doesn't need to do anything that affects other users. They can have their own SHSH server offline, and sign everything offline.
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Notify TRAI ?
It doesn't. It 1) penalize WSJ, 2) personalize to WSJ subscribed Google users.
People already say "React 13" and "React 14" colloquially so we figured calling this one 15.0 would cause the least confusion in the long run.
the name in itself shows this is not a viable concept at all: a global filesystem? the web was all about getting rid of file abstractions and introducing hypertext. the world (and the net) isn't about just data. its about code, security mechanisms, etc. etc. filesystems are not part of the puzzle, they are just old abstractions the computing world hasn't get rid of yet.
They don't block foreign VPNs?
In capitalism, market share is determined by company decisions that create different amounts of value for consumers.

Thus, any decision that a company makes is in effect "marketing" if the goal is to grow/preserve market share.

It's unfortunate if the underlying mental model of employees of the Justice Department is that we should all sacrifice our privacy (and that of our customers) for some notion of the greater good.

It's scary when anyone thinks that his/her own job interests represent the greater good for everyone else... even worse when that job is a position of governmental authority.

Sorry, blind allegiance to the government is not a religion I want any part of. It's also odd to use the anti-capitalist smear technique of labeling something "marketing" to undermine it.
5 Reasons Why My IoT Startup Failed
In the original context the quote was fine.

> NP: Do you advise startups on domain name acquisitions? If so, can you share some of your common recommendations?

> Jason: I do this often, and the conversation is usually “fake it until you make it.” So, there is no problem being TeslaMotors.com forever. Obviously the car and people who make the car are the most important aspect of the success of that company.

> However, if the person with Tesla.com decides they want to buy a nice condo or house, sure, it’s a great idea to spend $500k or $1m buying that name. If the person with Tesla.com waits too long, they miss the opportunity to take 10% of the purchase price in stock (or some kicker like that). They also risk pissing off the management team at a startup, who will eventually realize, “well, our cars are the best in the world and this domain name is not essential.”
If it's an effective marketing strategy then what might that indicate about people's opinions regarding the intentions of the US Justice Department?
If you don't want your code compiled and sold by others, don't give it a license that allows that. It's hardly immoral to do something the author explicitly allowed.
U.S. Escalates Bid to Force Apple to Open Attacker’s Phone
The point is perspective.

Yes, a country that started further behind in development is objectively 'worse' than a developed country.

But China today is objectively better than 20 years ago and will likely continue development. Meanwhile western countries aren't a panacea.

My wife comes from a 3rd world country where people immigrate to China from. A country that constantly sees its population decline from the exodus, where you can drive through entire abandoned neighborhoods. A country that's behind China on basically every metric you can think of, and where the only development that happens is paid for by China, who constantly forgives their debts. There's always going to be someone that's better off, and worse off than you.

The point isn't to shit on anyone or say China's great, but only to say that different countries have different levels of development, and the 'grass is always greener' mentality leads nowhere good. In 2000 everyone said China wouldn't continue its growth for various reasons, but it did. Today we're saying the same thing, with no recollection of past failed predictions of doom.

China is too big, too educated and too dynamic to stop developing. Yes quality of life isn't that of Canada or the US, but that doesn't mean they're not on a good path.

Just because X country is poorer today than Y country doesn't make X a shitty place.
I find hard to believe that nobody is interested. Are your conditions realistic or you're living in a place of full employment maybe ?

Anyway HN might be the best place ;-)
Good luck arguing that in court. Esp against the multiple lawyers a corporation will be able to afford.

If you don't get it, court doesn't care about what's reasonableness, technically correctness, etc. Only if your lawyers can convince jury/judge. Twinky made me crazy, It the gloves don't fit... and so forth.
I made a general claim based on a widely-held belief in support of the notion that Google doesn't care if people switch away from Android because Google still makes money off of those people regardless of which platform they choose, as they'll still be using Google products. Please stop trying to nitpick about specific irrelevant details such as how accurate the numbers are that have been reported in various articles.
Maybe there's a different piece of legal justification elsewhere, but in this particular case it rests on the "All Writs" act. That act does not say that you cannot create a system that the government can't get into. It says that courts are allowed to compel you to help the government in a legal investigation. The extent to which that act allows a judge to compel Apple to assist is what is in question.

IANAL, but I suspect it would be a much larger jump to try to use this statute to ban the creation of an encryption system (as opposed to helping to defeat one). If they wanted to do that they would almost certainly have to go through congress or find a different statute.
A one-armed man trying to climb a fence? It's not at all obvious that the official story was the real one.
And Larry Ellison is worth what, 40billion or something silly? He still works like a beast at Oracle every day.
15 sets the right impression. Because it's high, it implies that it's changed 14 times already, and will probably do so again in the future.

I've been burned badly before by breaking API changes in patch releases. (Rails 2.4.5). If you're not afraid of bumping the major number on even a minor API change, then it makes it more likely that you will actually do so rather than paying lip service to the idea of semver.
Are we reading the same "critique"? I don't see much in the way of extraordinary claims. In fact, most of the claims come directly from the paper! None of that post was criticizing the paper -- it was primarily clarifying the one sided news coverage.

The study says that crickets are not that much more efficient converters of plants->protein. The "clarification" accepts and applies the information from the study. It then takes into account an understanding of current processes in chicken cultivation to argue that overall impact on the environment would still likely be substantially reduced, especially with better technology.
I find myself a bit bemused that the article specifically mentions student debt as an example of something that people can refinance but don't. I hadn't ever had any student debt until marriage, but since then (and until recently) my wife and I have been working through a great deal of it together.

As someone who has worked through paying down a large amount of student debt, I can tell you that student debt is very difficult to refinance. Our student debt balance was much higher than the median, but I believe that our experience with refinancing was very typical: we couldn't refinance our student debt at an interest rate that was even remotely attractive.

We reacted to the dearth of refinancing options by deciding to eliminate our debt as quickly as possible, and when we first got married we dumped about $35k into debt reduction. We chose to go after the high interest rate first, which was also the largest loan. Had we gone after the smallest loans first we could have paid off several of them instead of merely making a (significant) dent in the higher rate loans, and this is where the psychology comes in.

Dumping a ton of money into a debt without changing anything but your principle balance is discouraging. It was for us, and it is for nearly everyone else too. Personal finance counselors like Dave Ramsey actually instruct people to intentionally pursue the smallest debts first because the feeling of momentum helps most people to maintain dedication to getting out of debt, which in many cases will more than offset the difference in interest rates (paying down faster due to more resolve = less interest overall). We sold stuff and skimped like crazy people and we killed our debt, but it's a very common thing for people to run out of determination before they run out of debt. Since that's such a common problem, I'd say that it's not necessarily a bad thing that people pay debt in a financially non-optimal way if the method is at least psychologically optimized.
Comparison between Quill and other Cassandra libraries in Scala
You can have compelling characters and plot points but still do a shit job of writing them down. GRRM fits this description perfectly imo.
I want to play devil's advocate here, just a bit. Looking at it solely from a stock price perspective, she's done remarkably well: the share price roughly doubled during her tenure there. Obviously there are a lot of other metrics to look at, but if you're a struggling company as Yahoo was, that's probably enough to consider hiring her.

Not to mention, I think a lot of people would argue that Yahoo was a sinking ship regardless of who was running it. She'll probably spend some time with her family, and eventually pop up at some other company that's looking to turn things around.
Too bad Camille stepped down, but I'm sure Rent the Runway could use some serious new talent.
I suggest something unrelated to programming. Ski, hike, etc. As for me, doing anything physical has generally made me happy about life which in turn has made me a better programmer.
I do not understand why no one is talking about this possibility. This is a much more terrifying option, the precedent already exists (lavabit), and it would enable a much broader application of different versions of FBiOS.
... and many photographers have successfully sued for various websites using their imagery without permission - regardless of whether or not it was publicly available on the author's website.

The fact that copyright is violated on a regular basis does not make this case any more or less excusable.
If for each phone to be opened, the government must first get a search warrant, and second approach Apple with phone in hand and request that only that phone be cracked... this does not constitute a backdoor. This is just due process.

If Apple does not comply, the courts might 1) reject Apple's claim they cannot open the phone and respond to that (e.g. do nothing or jail Cook for contempt), or 2) accept Apple's claim and respond to that (e.g. do nothing or demand that Apple develop a means to crack only this phone, given that model and version of iOS.)

As additional requests to crack other phones arise in future cases, this new Apple service is likely to be requested again, with new court order in hand. But adding such a capability within the services that Apple Corp. provides to law enforcement does not constitute a "backdoor", at least not in a technical sense. It becomes a backdoor only if it's accessible to others without following legal due process. That's the theory anyway.

In practice, would this create a vulnerability that could be abused outside due process? Probably yes. But what's more likely and more dangerous is that the US government would continue to say, "Fuck due process", and once the tech exists, they would hack it themselves and then invite every law enforcer down to dog catcher to circumvent due process and abuse the system, the way it has with the Stingray program among numerous others.

So yes, I agree that this would be a very bad precedent. But I think it's imprecisde to call it a technical backdoor. It's more a pre-malicious legal loophole, like so many of the practices adopted by US law enforcement since 9-11.
Agreed. I have a sister who every year around Christmas, like clockwork, begs for a "loan" with the promise of "I'll pay you back with my tax refund". Many years and thousands of dollars later, in 2015 I finally said no. We no longer speak to each other, and I was publicly (via Facebook) labeled the ungrateful brother who only thinks of himself.
I myself has been doing Taoist Tai Chi for 10+ Years and I remembered this video http://youtu.be/7PSjQAscVL8 that a Chrohn's sufferer made about how the tai chi had helped him.
Videos are more relevant to rewatch than articles are to reread. One needs to output more articles than videos, because articles must be "fresh" or you'll lose an audience. Nobody is printing 40 year old news - people are still watching 40 year old movies.

Playing devil's advocate here. Pricing for many online goods is almost completely arbitrary and varies with little accord to service/product quality or even what that service provides.

Another related example of arbitrary pricing: people will pay $2 for a soda from a vending machine but won't pay $1 for a useful app on their phone.

There's something going on there... The sooner the $1 app's figure out what makes people buy $2 sodas is the day they become rich. And the sooner content providers figure out why people will pay $20/month to stream media (Let's say $10 to Netflix, $10 to Spotify or something) and charge people $20/mo for their articles... things will turn around for them.
I left it out? I put a brief rundown of the bullet points in 1 line between parentheses.

Fact remains, we're shitting on China for banning things that are already banned in many non-totalitarian countries.
Haven't read those. I read about enough deaths in the news, to be honest, to be interested in having too many in my fiction.
Stuff like this is why public libraries are important and not a "relic of the past".
Accelerometers and Randomness: Perfect Together [pdf]
Feel free to suggest a viable alternative.
One obvious reason would be if they don't trust the book value. For example, if the assumptions made in computing the book value are systematically wrong in some way.
Those who know don't care and those who care don't know.
“Insulting others” is illegal in Canada?

Edit: “Insult” and “slander” are two entirely different things. To insult is to speak disrespectfully or abusively about someone. An insult would be something like “Donald Trump is an asshole.” To slander is to make false defamatory statements about someone, e.g. “I saw Donald Trump kick a puppy.”
Breaking news: IPFS partners with Wolfram, and ditches JS for Wolfram Language. Your new browser is Mathematica.
Can someone give me a cliffsnotes summary of Virgin Galactic's MO vs say, SpaceX. What are both companies trying to accomplish?
Perhaps they can go for joint speaking gigs[0], now that they both have plenty of free time on their hands.

0: http://fortune.com/2016/02/11/carly-fiorina-speaking-gig/
Wizards is partnered with them now. The DMGuild thing that the page is under is Wizard's platform for letting people publish original content coupled with WotC IP not covered by the OGL. I have some issues with how they handle IP once someone publishes something to the DM's Guild (or whatever the actual name is), but the idea is pretty nifty.

Also, WotC has been selling classic (pre-3.0) D&D books through DriveThru for at least a year (but I feel like it's been longer).
_netblocks.google.com includes only the servers that handle Gmail and corporate email.
In this case, the government isn't ordering a safe maker to build a safe that can be broken into. The safe maker already built a safe that can be broken into. The government is just ordering the safe maker to take advantage of that fact and break into it.

Many people equate this to demanding that Apple create a security vulnerability, and I don't get it. The vulnerability is already there. The iPhone 5c is already insecure against an attack by Apple. The government is just ordering Apple to exploit that existing insecurity.

There are compelling problems with that too, but it's not the same as requiring Apple to build something insecure.
As you've indicated, a request can only be considered malformed if it doesn't conform to the standards. Here is what the relevant RFC[0] has to say about the User-Agent header:

> Likewise, implementations are encouraged not to use the product tokens of other implementations in order to declare compatibility with them, as this circumvents the purpose of the field. If a user agent masquerades as a different user agent, recipients can assume that the user intentionally desires to see responses tailored for that identified user agent, even if they might not work as well for the actual user agent being used.

That sure sounds like impersonating other user agents is allowed, but not encouraged. That is a clear distinction from being malformed.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.5.3
I mean, minus the parts where the libraries wouldn't get any funding from this, and DriveThru/WotC are making all the profit off sales.