skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is falling prey to the naturalistic fallacy, which is the belief that because something is "natural" that is is therefore the best. Cooking food, for example makes it much easier to digest and more nutrient rich, but is cooking food natural? Remember that the most "natural" state involves dying to any number of diseases, malnutrition, or predation.

The heuristic of "the less natural the worse it is" is not a very good one.
This looks actually pretty cool. It ooks like its focussed on developers - reminds me of Stripe, but for bank APIs.

I'd be curious about security as few of the URLs here shed any light on the topic and from my experience it often is rather INsecurity circus.
If I only have to be homeless by surfing on friend's couches in the until a specified time period of homelessness to get a free housing?

I'm not sure about you, but where I come from, we call that a bargain.
doesn't this approach have some geographic restrictions? With the centralized hiring approach, aren't applicants still only willing to work in certain locations?
Apple’s FBI Battle Is Complicated. Here’s What’s Really Going On
The 7% really is not relevant. Getting useful people (for many contextual definitions of 'useful') to care about your success could be a direct reason for your success.

That's really the model of YC overall - the money is just "don't die before you start because of something so simple as money"
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/29/9413655/apple-privacy-poli...
In the US, your yoghurt also likely has some combination of pectin, gelatin, and xanthum gum as well.
I was being hyperbolic, but the point remains: I don't want to work in a place where my behavior outside of work - as long as it has no effect on my performance and/or publicly embarrasses my employer - is a part of the evaluation regardless.
>We're unlikely to find "a" cure for cancer; we'll eventually find "cures" for cancer, but it will be small, incremental steps.

I completely disagree. There will be a "cure", but it'll be a while, and it won't resemble current medicinal methods at all. I predict that in another century or so (assuming civilization doesn't collapse like the Roman Empire and send us into another Dark Age, but on a global scale), we'll basically become cyborgs, with nanites implanted in us to augment our natural bodily functions. These nanites, basically being nanoscale robots, would improve on or replace our immune systems, eliminating cancer, as well as most aging effects.
Revealed: how Project Goldcrest helped Amazon avoid huge sums in tax
How come these services are unwanted/not tolerated? This sounds interesting.
Phelps is more analogous to having a nitrous injection system in a super-tuned competitive racecar, as opposed to a typical high-powered sports car.
> Update: A new support document on Apple’s site has been issued that details the causes and repair methods for Error 53.

Links to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205628
Neck electromyography is an effective measure of fear behavior
A DNA-Based Archival Storage System
If the OCR is good then they're totally burying the lede, it's pricing is 100x cheaper than commercial OCR APIs.

It's potentially a game changer, plenty of industries have piles of scanned documents. Cheap OCR means this data suddenly becomes accessible even if the value per individual document is low (i.e. for input into machine learning).
> The reason California in particular has such a large population of mentally ill homeless people is thanks to a
few extra years of Reagan

Reagan was the governor of California 40 years ago, and has been dead for 12 years. Why hasn't anyone undone what he did 40 years ago?

In reality this is an example of the law of unintended consequences, not a case of "Reagan did it." I think the best way to view our current homelessness problem is as a vast failed social experiment, not a case of partisan politics. Everyone thought deinstitutionalization was a good idea at the time.

Deinstitutionalization was pushed for by mental health professionals, who believed that treating mentally ill people in the community with newly developed drugs would be more effective than mental hospitals. Patients were being pushed out of the mental hospitals before Reagan even took office, and Reagan was happy to go along with the recommendations of the mental health professionals since the state saved money. Win-win, right?

In California there was also the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act (written by two Democrats and a Republican, signed by Reagan), which limited the ability of the state to involuntarily confine people to mental hospitals. This act was hailed by the ACLU as a positive step forward, and again Republicans were also willing to sign on for the cause of smaller government.

The policy of deinstitutionalization continued under Reagan's successor, Pat Brown (a Democrat and father of current governor Jerry Brown).
So people trained google images that Comcast = nazi flag. I guess we need to send in an OCR of a nazi flag and see if it comes back Comcast?
It does seem like that wording could potentially cut two ways though.

"We're the good-old-boys network, and if we like you, we will show you the secret handshake to get into the club, and our club has made-men in the investor and media communities."

Undoubtedly I am way off base here, but I wonder if others got a similar vibe from that statement, and if there would be a good way to reword that.
> So basically, landlords collude with local governments all over US (I don't know how it is in other countries) to prevent the real estate rents/prices going down by making politicians restrict building more housing wider, and building more housing higher.

At least in the Bay Area, it's the NIMBY homeowners that block new construction, not a conspiracy of real estate dealers.
That's the thing. The problem is obviously getting worse every day, but it's not a new situation and people still deal with it. Let's see what the breaking point is.

Thanks!
Huh. Why do you think putting a bunch of services all inside a single Docker container is a good idea for production?
He's not appealing to the free market to fix the problem. He's appealing to his city's government, to whom he pays taxes and has a reasonable expectation that of dealing with problems like these.
Well, apparently the "Secure" Enclave isn't quite that secure, and its firmware can be modified, even remotely:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160218/10371233643/yes-b...
Absolutely, but any music you compose probably also has an element of originality in it, or at least draws inspiration from something that is non-musical in nature. For a trained AI, the entire model is just a derivative work of all the training data. It's not as though the AI had a lover who left them and drew inspiration from that experience to become a more effective AI.
Investing in Delivery Management Tech
Moved where, do tell...
Actually it's pretty easy to sniff out "salesmanship" in the interview process. From either side, whatever the format.
I have a more complicated theory: What you're talking about (size of the circle) is liberal/conservative/libertarian distinction. Left vs. right is more about if you care about power imbalances (such as economic inequality) within the circle.
Eh, most of my post was an emotional response because of my hatred of the java language. Your reasoning I mostly agree with.

I do agree, the JVM is a solid language choice. I also don't think going with too esoteric of a language is a good thing. Probably a little early to bet a company on Idris or Ceylon.

Still, I apologize for my tone. Let me give you purely anecdotal information about me, so you can at least see where I'm coming from with regards to my anti-java stance.

After doing java/C# for many many years, I will not do it again. I'm much more productive in Scala/F#/ML, it's more pleasant to use, and I believe the average programmer using those languages ends up being a different caliber than the java programmers.

There are absolutely good Java programmers. They just probably work at Google or Facebook and you'll be competing with Google. I would take less money (and have, though not too much less) to not work at Google because I get to use a functional language.

shrug

If a startup is using java, I think to myself 'why java? why not Scala, F#, or C# at the very least?'. Usually the answer is 'scala/F# programmers are too hard to find', but that's not really true, what they mean is they're not willing to pay the 20% premium for them. That's a strong indicator that a start up doesn't value talent.
If you want to be more comfortable with it, one really cool API you should check out is Clarifai (someone else already mentioned it in this thread, but I'll bring it up again anyway). They're really highly regarded in terms of classification, and the API is pretty simple to use, too. Like if you just make a quick cURL request:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer {access_token}" --data-urlencode "url=YOUR_IMAGE_URL.jpg" "https://api.clarifai.com/v1/tag/"

...you get the top 20 tags for that image and their confidence levels, too. Their homepage at Clarifai.com has a pretty good demo that lets you see it in a more visual way.
It's on record that Apple has chosen to avoid the business model used by Google in order to avoid this compromise.

Apple chooses a business model that is aligned with what it thinks is right, not the other way around.
> You can generally do far worse, say french fries and slushies and Oreos.

Yes, the breakfast of morbidly obese champions.
I don't understand why this is so often misunderstood.

The parent poster already stated the opposite.

ECC and ZFS are orthogonal. ECC ensures that data in your RAM is not corrupted (or rather detects corruption) it helps whether you use ZFS, EXT4, NTFS etc.

ZFS increases your data safety whether you use ECC or not, but if you have to have maximum assurance that data is fine you should use ZFS and ECC.
I almost couldn't go on reading when I saw that. Definitely had to cringe. Look, this company makes reasonably decent tools for the enterprise but I seriously don't get how they justify what they call UI design.
Docker switched to Alpine Linux by default, so there's that hurdle... Not to mention the giant legal question mark of loading CDDL code into a GPLv2 kernel.
Is there some agreement from Google not to analyse student computers or are you assuming Google wouldn't stoop so low? Is it a general position for all educational users?
Gmail skims the contents of emails and uses them for targeted advertising. Same with searches of all kinds, and any other data they get from you.

Google's targeting would be less effective if they gave everyone PGP keys and locked themselves out of the conversations they host.
Unlocking the phone isn't the same as decrypting it. The article merely states that Apple extracted unencrypted content from a locked phone. In this case, the content is encrypted.
It's becoming a huge problem in Portland as well. We've always had homeless but recently this situation is becoming worse and worse. I live close to the city center and my neighborhood resembles a shanty town with all the homeless people camped out on the street. It sucks because it seems like the city is doing next to nothing to resolve the problem right now, we have a lame duck mayor that doesn't want to touch the issue.
Yes, fair point. To get the network effects (lots of pre-screened candidates ready to hire, lots of relevant jobs for a given candidates) recruiter needs to have a strong presence in every city it operates in
I'm 41, was born in SF and have been living back in the bay area since 97.

In all my years in living in SF, or the bay area at large, I have never once had an altercation or otherwise problem with a homeless person.

In fact, I give them stern talkings to occasionally; Two days ago there was a homeless person on Market whos pants were falling down - I told him very sternly "Pull your pants up" and he did so.

There was a drunk guy wobbling down by the ball park and I commanded him to drink some water and gave him a bottle of water.

I almost always give away any left over food I have to homeless people I pass if I have left a restaurant.

I've told homeless people to not pee on certain places etc...

I have found when you interact with them in a straightforward way, and dont act fearful or contemptuously of them - they are just people who have a shitty support system (gov and people included) - but they still need a bit of direction.
I think it's likely that the tech industry downturn will make the show less funny. Like that oil show.

But if anyone could do it Mike Judge can - that guy is a genius
Hi. Hoverfly author here. I agree, messaging is vital in micro-services environment. We chose HTTP(s) as the first protocol to "virtualize" to help us better understand what additional functionality is needed (like hoverfly middleware).

The problem with 0MQ/RabbitMQ is that it's not that straightforward/transparent as in HTTP proxy. Initial thoughts to capture messages would be to use something like this http://api.zeromq.org/3-2:zmq-proxy as a forwarder.
Ionic 2 Authentication: How to Secure Your Mobile App with JWT
Re lock-in: I agree. I attempted to switch to Android (Nexus 4) several years ago from whatever iPhone I had at the time. I had no issue transferring data over (or data I cared about, at least). Services (mail, chat, etc.) mapped just fine. My primary complaint, at the time, was lack of a well-performing PDF reader/viewer, and a handful of apps that I'd become semi-dependent on and had trouble finding suitable replacements for (e.g., Omnifocus - which has nice intregration between the mobile and desktop versions). I only wanted to change my mobile workflow, not the rest, so I switched back to iOS (I also found the interface grating at the time, not certain why anymore).

This is not, strictly, the fault of Apple, but of app developers and myself. Either for not making multi-platform a thing (Omnifocus), or for others not stepping up to compete, or for my inability or unwillingness to continue my search for suitable alternatives.

All this said, most of my coworkers use Android devices, and several want to switch to iPhones, but have run into the same issue I did, but in reverse.
Corporate BS Generator
Sorry, perhaps I was unclear. I mean, there were no C-based extensions not under the control of the same project as controlled the JS engine, so one entity can both JIT a JS engine and simultaneously make whatever modifications it took to make them work under the new engine. Python has an enormous amount of external C-based extensions not controlled by any one entity, which constitute huge swathes of core (in importance, not in "under control of the core team") Python libraries. It's difficult to imagine what a JIT looks like that still works with those. You don't have one entity doing both the JIT and all the C extensions.
Who actually buys the explanation that this was not intended to leave the factory?
Full Throttle’s Great Relationship
it's a matter of risk.

when you're trying to be a billion dollar company, you have to take big risks. in that context, the risk of getting caught for breaking the law becomes palatable.

when you're trying to create a stable, profitable, but more modest sized company, that risk becomes a threat to your business.

it's a big problem when these types of risks start to make sense from a business perspective, because it's the public, not the people that create this environment, that end up suffering.
Who is stronger Corporations or Government?

The largest company by revenue would rank 28th in largest country in world by GDP.
What it’s really like to be on Shark Tank and why entrepreneurs should go on it
Common IRC bot URL title vulnerabilities tester
The system is destroying itself. Nader likened in 2000 to two drunk boxers who are leaning on each other for support.

The constant state of "phony war" means that politicians can get legitimacy by participating in symbolic fights over unimportant issues and thus don't get called account for dealing with the problems in front of them.

At point it is breaking down. Right-Wing hysteria is revealing itself to be a scam like Scientology.
Suggestion from the third (non-quote) paragraph: "Tipping marginalizes those who depend on it." This seems to be the central thesis of the article. Or at a higher level: "Interview with Saru Jayaraman about tipping".
Do you think they choose to ask Apple to do this in such a public way, because they are very confident the phone will contain information that will help with the investigation, which will make a positive precedent about this method for future requests, and also provide 'lobbying power' when new laws will be considered?
> What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks

And here I believed that the difference was that one sells hardware and the others software.
They have a ~10% stake in Imagination. That's pretty close to a controlling amount for practical purposes for a publicly traded company.
But you know nothing about how to treat these people and all you can do is blame them for their own predicament. What use is that?
Well, there would be generally less tensions with many other countries acting in an expansionist manner than with Israel doing so.

Given the history short (modern) history of Israel and the religious animosity of the neighbors etc. it would be certain to inflame more hostility internationally than Rawanda taking a piece of Burndi for instance. But I'm sure you are already aware of all this. I went back and read your previous posts. It seems you may be looking for an anti-Semite under every rock. Well... next rock. I'm just pointing out practical reality. I don't have an axe to grind with Israel existing.
While I wait for the pages to load...
Any fintechs (or other) actually planning on implementing this API?
What is the relationship like with the industry? (Is there feedback being implemented in the API?)

More information would help. There seems to be interest around the world to change/modernize the financial industry for consumers.
Thanks for taking questions.
Yeah, I apologise for the title change, but the original Medium title had about 93 characters in it, whereas the title limit here is 80. So I had to condense it somewhat.

But yeah, it's an interesting response to Paul Graham's comments about the show from someone who's been on it with their own business.
> What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks is that it's the only company that stores the data in way that Apple itself cannot read it.

FWIW, Mozilla does the same thing for Firefox Accounts sync data - it's an opaque blob that we couldn't decrypt even if we wanted to.

(Disclosure: Mozilla employee)
Running hourly, daily, weekly and monthly snapshots is reason enough to choose ZFS on Linux for me. And ironically, it runs better on Linux than it did for me on Solaris - I used to get occasional pauses every few minutes when streaming media. Memory utilization for cache purposes isn't fantastic since it doesn't interact well with the rest of the kernel's logic, but everything else is pretty good.
We came out and vocally supported Apple on our blog yesterday. The response from our customers, mostly consumers and small businesses, was overwhelming. Many long comments and passionate views.

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/02/wordfence-supports-st...

I'd encourage every other tech company who has the ability to talk about this (in other words you don't sell to the intelligence community), to also inform your customers and take a viewpoint on this issue.

This is obviously nothing new, but we're finally at the point of inflection we've all been anticipating. If Apple caves, it will set a precedent that the government can use a law from the 1700's (and anything else they can dredge up) to force surveillance and backdoors on tech companies in the name of security. For startups alone, even if you ignore the chilling effects and impact on privacy, to simply comply could be onerous enough to hurt innovation.
Not sure, but I think it means they couldn't make an apples-to-apples comparison. To them, they wanted some Coca Cola and instead were presented with a pair of Air Jordans. Sure, they are nice shoes, but they wanted a Coke.
> I'm waiting for the day that nutricionists find out that there are different kinds of people with different nutritional needs.

The nutritionist side of public health evolved to deal with questions where this isn't true. Everyone needs vitamin A to avoid beriberi and vitamin C to avoid scurvy; no one benefits from polluted milk or polluted water; that sort of thing. Now, the big problems have been solved, and nutritionists are trying to treat semi-ideopathic diseases of affluence as if they were the immense, obvious dietary scourges of a hundred years ago...

This is true of the whole field of public health, to an extent. Cholera and yellow fever are under control, smallpox is all but extinct, polio is on its last legs, and now we're trying to use the tools that defeated those diseases to fight drug addiction, lifestyle-induced diseases, diseases of aging, and STDs.

At least things aren't as bad now as they were. Traditional public-health approaches look nonsensical when used against 20th-century issues, but they did a wonderful job against 19th-century ones.
Depends on completely - but device that does not store critical encryption keys and allows users to set their master keys is a good start. The problem for apple is that every device that could be secured against malicious apple cannot be forced to be part of their walled garden.

Or just some honest marketing. Like - your device is not secure if we cooperate with LEO and let consumer make their choice.
Don't want to limit by price at this time. Revenues in low millions, several thousand customers.
The cheap gas in Vz sounds great but has many horrible effects.

In Brazil you'll zoom about in clean, small alcohol-compatible cars. But in Caracas, people are driving around in 1980 Chevy Impalas spewing thick black smoke. They only recently stopped producing leaded gas. I was reacquainted with the "black boogers" I had not experienced since a trip to India in the 90's.

It's disgusting really, and a shame for country that should have so much going for it.
Meanwhile fsck on a traditional filesystem will gleefully mangle data that's actually fine in face of transient corruptions.

I've had this happen more than once, both with bad RAM and bad IO controllers - previously fine static data suddenly being detached from the filesystem and appearing in little bits in lost+found, because bit flips effectively causes it to hallucinate problems to "fix".
Regardless of how the binary is shipped (which could be legal), their aggregation of the source is likely not, since it almost certainly is a derivative work at that point. The fact they have a public git repo where the two codebases touch is probably enough to bait a lawsuit from Oracle, in that they're distributing CDDL code in a way that is against its license.

There's a reason LLNL developed their branch out-of-tree - it's just not worth the legal headaches to aggregate the source like Canonical just did.