skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not only the recent fight, but the way they implemented it in iPhone 6, with the Secure Enclave. The fact that they created something that is so secure that they cannot hack it themselves blew my mind.
Ask HN: What advice do you have for an applicant to App Academy?
I have completed the first two coding challenges and have been invited for a non technical interview. Would love to hear from anyone who has gone through this process on what to expect.

If I pass the interview I will obviously need to keep coding every day until I start in March. What kind of prep work would you recommend? Should I stick to Ruby, or start working with Java or other languages? Should I concentrate on learning more methods and syntax, or on things like Project Euler that will make me think about problem solving with what I already know? Or maybe something else that I haven't thought of.

Materials that I am using now in addition to the assigned prep work from App Academy are Learn to Program by Chis Pine, Ruby Monk, and Project Euler. Would love to hear your suggestions.

App Academy claims to have an average starting salary of $105K. Do you think this is correct? It sounds kind of far fetched to expect that after only 12 weeks. (I would be happy with half that though, I'm sure I'll get more once I prove my worth.)
We pay them.

We get great SEO value out of publishing the long tail of summarized research.
I don't see a link to an article. A quick Google search found this:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-intel-committee-chairman-...
This is true, but most companies would want better assurance of their work's legality than "well, as long as none of the tens of thousands of people we just gave grounds to sue us actually do so, we'll be fine".

See also, from a kernel developer: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/700074164435091456
Web Designers who also get their hands dirty with Rails, Git?
Hello,

I'm looking for a web designer or two who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty in rails-land. Familiarity with git is also a plus.

Does anyone know the best place to find someone like this?

Upwork? If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment. Thanks!

ps. not looking for an agency and US-based is a plus due to time zone reasons.
There's a circle here that you left out:

More riders = more drivers. More drivers = more riders opening that app first. I have personally learned to check Uber first before Lyft because I know Uber drivers are closer and the fare estimate will be lower. Uber's advantage is their institutional experience pushing competitors out of markets they want and their cutthroat attitude.
I searched the article and found only one mention of "money".

My hypothesis is that libido mismatch and inability to reach consensus on household budgeting are the two strongest root causes for failed marriages.
20 million pages, not wikis -- sorry if I mistyped?
Definitely need to add that.

At the moment, we do not make that information public externally.
Cap it. Don't display numbers. Once someone is useful and helps the community on a regular basis just leave it at that.

Ironically Slashdot actually did this. Of course it had lots of other problems.
The SJW managed to alienate a lot of people the last couple of years. And now they support Hilary. And with that are doing her a great disservice.

Right now they are busy insulting their own party and their own electorate.

And even you managed to imply that a majority white state is somehow strange, undesirable and barbed fortress. That is a great way to win hearts and minds for Hilary's campaign.
The big issue I see with your argument is that volunteer work isn't nearly as scalable as large amounts of money in terms of contributions from an individual. There's a difference between writing an app in your spare time, and running $100M of advertisements.
You are right, except we can't have that conversation till the entitled techies in the bay area just shut up for a sec. Our flooding of the market has showed how the lack of supply is the problem, but like you correctly pointed out, the deportation of techies is not the solution. But we certainly should not be writing articles like this, it makes solving the problem that much harder.

There are a lot of activists (mostly behind the scenes) trying to increase the supply the side of the economics. However, the weird alliance between the NIMBY's and progressives in the city keep pointing at the entitled techies (like the author of the article) to show how the techie's are part of the problem.
Question: What benefit do you derive from using org mode format if you aren't editing it in Emacs, where you can collapse and expand?
The problem as I see it: your stuck choosing the lesser evil. I agree with you on apple's stuff. If they opened up the ecosystem more, I'd like their stuff. And Google left "do no evil" so long ago, its not even funny.

I'd love a good FOSS alternative to their software/services. I try to run my own software/services, but there are some things I still just can't replicate.
I opt for just not going to wired any more. Until the sites realize that serving off site content is bad, just don't support them.
Every reddit seems to trend towards either 100% upvotes based on agreeing with the title of posts, or 100% image memes (sometimes both!) as it gets popular. The only exceptions being communities with extremely strict moderators like /r/askhistorians.
Well sure, mathematicians are so nutty about notation, it's amazing any mathematics gets done at all.

Not at all convinced it's a feature. More like an unfortunate side-effect of tradition.
Does Garrett hold the copyright on anything that the ZFS module could be considered a derivative work of? I mean presumably the notion that the ZFS module is a derivative work is based on the ZFS module containing code that was written to work with particular parts of the Linux kernel - but it's not going to touch a lot of the kernel API. So who owns the copyrights on the parts that it does touch.
I got to ask, exactly how is this good for our economy to have an elite group which when you get membership into you get preferential treatment?

Why not just let people compete on their own merits rather than the merits of the group they belong to?

"Elitism is the belief or attitude that some individuals who form an elite—a select group of people with a certain ancestry, intrinsic quality or worth, high intellect , wealth, specialized training or experience, or other distinctive attributes—are those whose influence or authority is greater than that of others; ."
Very interesting point. The only reason I have not donated to volunteered for Rand Paul is because I was foreigner.

Also, I think candidates must show responsibility and least make everyone sign that they are US nationals.
There is a ruling where they refer to it as providing intent and color, but not law. And cases can only be decided based on law.

I don't think you can make a decision based solely on the "pursuit of happiness" phrase from the Declaration of Independence, but you could use it as a supporting argument for your claim.
yes...will edit, and thanks!
If you're comfortable with the tools around it I'd highly recommend looking into LetsEncrypt[1]. Doesn't cost you a thing either.

[1]: https://letsencrypt.org
The Euler's formula one is amazing. That is such a simple explanation.
The big problem with modern politics (US or otherwise) is that the issues are
bundled together without any regard of being connected other than "it was
always bundled this way", like gun ownership with gay marriage with market
regulation.

Society can't hold politicians accountable for specific issues, it's always
a package. The (hypothetical) guy did a good job on banking regulation, but
made sh&t all over intellectual property, and he only can be "fired" as
a whole, by not being elected later.

And now try to rally up enough force because of the IP bill! You won't get
much leverage, because you attack him, which includes banking issue, so
you'll get an opposition that doesn't care about IP, but likes his work
about banks.

Why not reward him for the former action and punish for the latter?
Hello George, many many thanks for all the hard work you've put in. Yours is hands down the most heavily used application many people's macs.

Is it possible to try the beta while still having around the normal version? Is the configuration compatible between the two?

Again, thanks!
Seriously? Getting down voted for merely asking a question and trying to provoke actual thought?

I've come to realize that the HN community is void of intellectual thought and discussion and is mostly an echo chamber.

I feel like I've already outgrown it and I haven't even been a part of it that long.

Eternal September?
> But Uber is not really blocked in China at all. They worked really actively with their government and even throw in a DC in China.

Uber is not blocked, for now. That can change in a whim. The Chinese government can simply create regulations that apply to them that do not apply to their local competitors. This has happened many times before in the past....

>Unlike the fact that China still cannot make a smart phone as good as iPhone, or cannot make their own OS like windows, that's they Apple and MS thrived.

While the Chinese did not design the iPhone to say that they "cannot make a smart phone as good" is completely false. For one, the iPhone is largely manufactured in China and has been for a few generations now. Second, some of the best iphone competitors / android devices are being made by Chinese companies.
>I disagree with the Citizen's United comparison, since donating time towards a campaign can't be pocketed the same way money is. You can't commoditize already-spent labor in that way.

But if it displaces another expense, it causes them to pocket the monetary savings from that expense.

>Every candidate's expenditures are diligently recorded and easily audited if necessary, and it creates a level playing field.

Even the independent expenditures? Like, if someone goes around buying ads because they just like Candidate X so much, does that count against X's budget? Probably not, hence why that approach doesn't quite resolve the Citizen's United issues -- the problem was the advocacy of people unrelated to a campaign.
> If Sanders ideas can work so well, why don't all these eager people first implement them at a local level where they have more immediate power? Nope, they want to go directly to the executive because it is a figurehead.

Lots of people don't pay attention to or vote in local elections so those aren't even on their radar.

You raise a good point though. There's discussion in the Sanders subreddits about doing exactly this, both as a way to channel the energy of his supporters if he doesn't get elected, and as a way to support him if he does.
It's not entirely clear cut, but IMO apple was also in the right when it came to the ebook price fixing.
It's been >5y since I used KDE, but iirc the default terminal there had regexp you could set to trigger any action you wanted. And links were automatically clickable.

Can anyone running KDE confirm?
Great app. This announcement reminded me that I use it every day & hadn't donated yet, so I did. $10USD won't be retirement money, but at least have a beer & tip your bartender:)
IBM open sources its blockchain code – the non-crazy part of Bitcoin
It stops between Nov and Dec. Looks like they haven't tested those improvements on Linux or they're Windows specific.
People use YC for a myriad of reasons. Some use it to raise capital so they can build a product that requires upfront capital. Some use it to jump start growth for a product they know is useful already. Some use it because they are complete noobs, are technically capable but have never built a product before. Those are all places YC is hugely helpful.
> The value of money being cut in half is what's referred to as 'inflation' and it's not what is being discussed.

So your claim is that low interest rates aren't a cause of inflation?
It gets harder to measure, but on the argument of scalability, that varies dramatically.

If I wrote an app that was as popular as GMail, it's very possibly much more impactful than a $100M worth of advertisements.
Coming soon: Nulabox – Social feeds for your website
Java 8 Library for Building High-Performance, Thread-Per-Core Applications
Why? It's kind of hard to do all the finger positions and you end up being needlessly rude when you reach 4. I prefer the system where you count on your right hand's phalanges with your thumb, giving you 1-12 and use the fingers on your left for how many dozens you've counted. This lets you go up to 72 without much trouble.

To expand:

Touch your right thumb to the small bone on your right pinky finger that is closest to the palm - this is 1. Move it up one bone (phalanx) - this is 2. Move it one more to the tip of your pinky - this is 3. Then you continue with your ring finger - 4, 5, 6 and when you reach the tip of your index finger, you're at 12. Now raise one finger on your left hand for 1 * 12 and continue with your thumb on the first phalanx of your pinky - 13. Once you've raised all 5 fingers on your left hand you're at 5 * 12 = 60 and when you then place your thumb on the tip of your index finger, you're at 72. It's easy and quick after only a bit of training and lets you count practically all numbers you'll ever want to count on your fingers.
Thanks for making a great app.

Where's the place I can report issues in the beta version? I noticed a small graphical issue with the cursor when using a certain font.
Water at a Crisis Level: St. Lucie FL Declares State of Emergency
I have seen an increased number of people getting visas based on extraordinary abilities. Some only have a news paper article that someone in their country published and some interesting project they did and that ends up qualifying them for an O-1 visa. You don't have to have a PhD or Nobel laureate to get these.
Since the labor is an independent expenditure built on public data and the only thing Sanders did was link to it, the expense displacement is effectively nil.
You are not describing a shortage as defined in economics. Re-read my previous comment.

You are not even describing a monopoly because there are still alternative brands, even luxury brands, which people can buy. Otherwise any brand would be considered a monopoly.

EDIT: used "scarcity" instead of "shortage"
You missed the second half of the quote.

Breaking changes to the language syntax/semantics.

I'd expect breaking changes to apply to core APIs and/or to external tooling as both could probably use some revision now that the fundamental issues with the language (ex utf8 support) are mostly fixed.
There are no 802.11ac radios that are as well-supported as the ath9k 802.11n radios. All 802.11ac radios require closed-source firmware. Qualcomm-Atheros, MediaTek, and Marvell 802.11ac platforms are getting the most open-source attention. QCA chips are really popular and the drivers are pretty mature, MediaTek's firmware is flexible enough to make it one of the more hacker-friendly platforms, and Marvell's radios are often paired with their really powerful (by router standards) processors.

Unless you really need the throughput of 802.11ac or a more powerful processor to keep up with faster WAN speeds, ath9k 802.11n devices are still a pretty good choice.
Yeah, I suspect Conrad is falling on the sword to save the company.

I suspect if it goes to a real investigation, lots of people at Zenefits are in deep trouble.
this is totally feasible with a custom .car file that you can embed into your program. The problem is the titlebar text.

I hacked together a working SIMBL script back in the 10.6 days that fixed the problem, but it's probably lost.

Interestingly, Apple's current DarkAppearance.car (/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources) that ships (but lies unused) in OS X 10.11.3 suffers from the same problems. You can copy it over into GraphiteAppearance.car to test it out. White titlebar text is still glitched to hell.
Nobody really - but after the epic geniusness of Kayne West asking over twitter for a billion $ investment in his ideas from Zuck, I should follow Mr. West...

I've literally put my cloud deployment plans for 2016 on hold until his "Luxury Cloud Services" product can be launched!!

Did you know that gold is a good conductor of electricity?

We used to say "nice grill" to those thugs who had gold teeth, haha jokes on us!! but now it will be the new gold-plated faceplates for Facebook's latest release on the open compute platform.

The faceplates, which Facebook stupidly got rid of in open compute, will now be gold plated. This will ionize the air providing a luxury environment for these select 1% of their data center infrastructure along with gold plated monster cabling and exclusively hosted in a Kanye approved luxury cluster.

This will allow his "Luxury Search Engine" exclusive access to all the au domains he hosts from there where he can influence such things as Home Holograms and Personal Protection!!!

The Internet is such a beautiful place!!!!
It's a reasonable precaution no matter where it might be made. You never know who might alter the device in transit.
This looks great. Will applescript support be coming back? I'm using consular iterm to start and stop projects. https://github.com/achiu/consular-iterm

Can anyone recommend another macro tool that can set up a bunch of processes running in tabs?
> Essentially a show stopper for professional audio work (...). Trying to completely escape disk IO in those uses is very limiting.

Could you expand on that?

I mean, an hour of mono uncompressed 192 kHz/24bit audio is almost exactly 2 GB. Compared to professional audio equipment, 128 GB of RAM isn't very expensive ( < $2000), and that would let you keep 64 one-hour maximum-def tracks in memory. Why do you need to read from the disk with any frequency?
Show HN: Lightweight AngularJS Entity System
McAfee will break iPhone crypto for FBI in 3 weeks or eat shoe on live TV
Hi! Thanks for the good work! If you ever accept feature requests, I'm annoyed when I have multiple iTerm2 windows opened on another desktop, and I swipe to that desktop. I have the "focus follows mouse" feature enabled, but in the situation above, sometimes it's not the window under the mouse that gets the focus. I realize however that this might be a hard-to-solve problem (because of how the OS works)...
8 months in Microsoft
You can either create your own tracking solution, load one via 3rd party, or load a 3rd party via your own domain making it seem 1st party.

In general tho, most systems use a lot of JavaScript, and you'll need to figure out how to best capture the data and record it. Depending on the volume of traffic, you could easily create pretty sizable amounts of data.

I help do this kind of work, at work, and you need to realize you'll never get 1 to 1 data for all visitors, but you should try to get as large a sample as possible and use statistical reasoning when discussing issues.
I think this is a great step, for several reasons -- both corporate and user-facing.

(1) It is true that this is more likely to turn GitHub into a generic file-dump place similar to DropBox. GitHub's infrastructure is sufficiently good to handle this, and this new addition is unlikely to disrupt the workflow of veteran users. However, since it is likely that some companies will use GitHub for file dumping, GitHub will be justified in charging companies a fee for particularly large repositories -- capitalizing on the file-dumping. I sense an alternate revenue stream coming in for GitHub.

(2) I've often run into situations in which I had written a small script and wanted to quickly turn that into a GitHub repo. To do so, I'd have to go through the online interface to initialize a new repo, and then make a folder on the command line, type a few commands, etc. Though it's a very short process, I couldn't understand why I couldn't just use the online interface to type up a readme and then drag-and-drop my script into the repo. The update smooths this work experience.

(3) Obviously, it'll make GitHub far more accessible to less technical users -- some users are intimidated by the Git learning curve, and this update makes them much more likely to use GitHub (and then slowly learn the ropes of using it via the command line).

(4) By inviting more non-technical users as in (3), it becomes more likely that (1) succeeds.
Sadly any VC backed internet "service" seems to turn into some kind of soapbox or megaphone for corporate marketing.

And when that happens, all the "objectionable" stuff gets cleared out. Can't have them associated with those "wholesome" corporate brands after all.
Yes, same goes for my brother, but I don't know how much of it relies on premise, that they can't live without each other anymore, because their life's are so entangled.

I mean he is 31 and they came together when he was 16 and she was 15. They experienced their whole adult life together. They split for about 4 months but came together again, probably because of this.

On the other hand, I'm the complete opposite, so it's hard for me to understand.

I had my first relationship with 19 and we were together only one year. I'm 30 now and had about 7 relationships. Right now I have my two longest relationships of 2 and 2,5 years.

Maybe it's a good thing to get together with 15, so you make the most important experiences in life together, to weld you together more strongly.

When I started dating with 19 I already had many expectations and a own life, which needed another person to fit in somehow. And most didn't...
Go has its own crypto library that's maintained by a real crypto expert so that might not be the best example. Still, if they do find a bug, there will be a new release of Go and you (or your supplier) should be prepared to recompile.

Running unmaintainable, unfixable binaries may be standard practice in other places but for Go it's not really viable. It's a different culture with different practices.
X Prize and IBM Team Up on a New, $5M A.I. Competition
You know iTerm is a tool I use so often that I've taken its existence for granted. Thank you for all your hard work over the years. You've made a beautiful piece of software.
You're being really fragile about this. A "bro" is someone who's out of touch, not a sub-human creature. If this person doesn't want to be called bad names, they should stop being bad things.
Ah, you're right. Russia annexing Crimea outright and pseudo-annexing eastern Ukraine (and the resulting rise in tensions) is totally nothing like China annexing the Spratleys.
Applescript support is improved, not removed, but incompatibly. https://iterm2.com/applescript.html
fwiw — and I say this as a cofounder in probably the least successful YC batch of all time — the stuff coming out of the program these these is years ahead of what it was then.
Yeah, sounds like an OS bug, but file an issue at https://iterm2.com/bugs.
https://iterm2.com/bugs
John McAfee: 'I'll decrypt the San Bernardino phone for free'