skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice down votes for answering a question differently then you. Apple absolutely tried to brick jailbreak phones in the past.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2541099/mobile-wireless...

> "Warning: Apple has discovered that some of the unauthorized unlocking programs available on the Internet may cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software," the message read. "If you have modified your iPhone's software, applying this software update may result in your iPhone becoming permanently inoperable."
> And zfs.ko, as a self-contained file system module, is clearly not a derivative work of the Linux kernel but rather quite obviously a derivative work of OpenZFS and OpenSolaris

I don't see at all why that follows. Why not both? Building a kernel module requires including headers and writing glue code to conform to the kernel API, which is licensed only under the GPLv2. It strains reason to argue that a ELF binary with Linux metadata and Linux module entry points registering functions to implement a Linux filesystem is "clearly not" derivative of Linux.
I follow Freenode somewhat closely and I am not aware of any of that either.
Obviously the word obvious is used incorrectly most of the time.
> He just can't say as much because it would have made it easier for Tesla to argue he's squatting

Has nothing to do with it. There is allegedly an NDA is the reason. Once the sale is done you can say whatever you want there is no action the buyer can take. Price if high enough might end up in some other document though.
check the add-on modules: https://www.crowdsupply.com/ugl/ultimate-hacking-keyboard/up...
The power of the courts to compel cooperation in civil and criminal investigations predates the Constitution. Courts routinely order banks to drill into safe deposit boxes, for example. They can also force your accountant to hand over records about you and testify against you. The limiting principle is whether the cooperation imposes an "unreasonable burden" on the third party.
I think a case should be made for a right to strong encryption based on the second amendment. If anything, encryption is far more relevant today to personal defense than gun ownership and does far more to protect your individual rights against both government excess and private attacks.

A gun won't stop a government from watching your every move by converting every device in your house into a surveillance device and then using "parallel construction" to persecute you if some political apparatchik doesn't like your views or opinions. A gun also won't stop a criminal from emptying your bank account or stealing your identity, attacks that can today steal far more from you than a home invasion. A gun won't stop a stalker from hacking your home devices to secretly record your kids playing, or hacking your e-mail account to spy on you, etc. Encryption on the other hand can stop all these things. Cyber-attacks today are potentially even more damaging than non-violent physical invasion (burglary, etc.).

Not only that, but we are very close (if not already there) to a world where you can kill someone by hacking a device. Self-driving cars, Internet connected buildings, etc., could all be used to conduct a homicide remotely. If, for example, the signing key to a car's firmware were to be leaked, then hackers could remotely flash a person's car to murder them on the highway and make it look like a hardware failure or a freak accident. A government could even do this and have almost no chance of detection. The opportunity for corruption both public and private is fairly large given how clandestinely these kinds of attacks could be conducted.

Crypto is the new "well armed militia" and the new right to personal self-defense.
> how do I evaluate these two opportunities?

Three basic criteria to score-

- The Work: is it intellectually challenging? Can you see yourself doing it everyday? Will it stretch you professionally?

- The People: Are they decent, smart, trustworthy? Will they help you up your game? Can you help them?

- Compensation: Beyond the dollars (include perks, benefits, options, bonuses). On asking about comp, simple - "what's your budget range for this position?"

Check Payscale for a quick benchmark >http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer_%2...
The request is to provide alternative software that bypasses normal security features of the system; that qualifies as a backdoor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_%28computing%29
Public opinion is plainly part of the definition of justice. cultural norms are frequently cited in decisions.
OT -- My mouth waters just thinking of ume... how can someone not like it!
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to buy a new gaming laptop?
I like gaming laptops because, apart from very occasional gaming, they are my favorite type of laptops for daily use - slim, powerful, well designed.

I have taken a look on Amazon.com and other sites to decide which one to buy, but the experience is awful.

There's no way, as an example, to know on Amazon if a laptop is new or not; some of them are ridiculously priced (e.g. launched a year ago, still the same price despite there are new models that cost the same but with better specs).

Do you have any suggestions on how to search more effectively?
What are your career goals?
I like my job and building software in general.
Never get bored, always have challenges and new, interesting things to lear.
However, I cannot see any future more than this.
No Big Thing.
Like doctors saving the most lives, or astronauts flying to outer space, etc.

What are your career goals? Or dreams?
Harper Lee eviscerates it herself in Go Set a Watchman.

However you approach her second novel, it's worth the read to understand her outlook on life in the South.
I don't actually take it as a critique of the novel. To me it makes the novel far deeper, since it portrays a realistic and historically plausible Atticus Finch, in both his virtues and his limitations. It makes the moral of the story more nuanced.

And the critique of Atticus Finch I don't even take as some kind of heavy-handed moral judgment. The article's byline isn't "Atticus Finch was a bad person," it's "Atticus Finch and the limits of Southern liberalism." A person trying to stand up for the right in this way can do some good (And Jim Folsom did some good). But an accommodating, non-confrontational approach like Atticus will have its limits.

I also don't feel that the article's conclusion implies that people should be 100% uncompromising in their principles all the time. Pragmatically speaking, that's unlikely to maximize the amount of justice in the world.
But, are you more likely to answer you hunger cues by eating a salad or veggies, or eating crap? I bet it's the latter. If you can change this to genuinely prefer healthy food, even if you eat a lot of it, you shouldn't be fat. I am at healthy weight, but I can easily eat 2 pounds of veggies in one sitting (that's in addition to meat, and I am a woman). On the other hand, I can also eat 2000kcal of pizza in one sitting, and this is why I avoid eating pizza or cookies. I know in advance that if I start, I'm going to eat entirely too much. So I am what article declares as "consciousness of what I eat".
What worked for me was basic yoga asanas to loosen up and then closing my eyes and focusing on relaxing every area of my body from my forehead, eyes, jaw and so on. I would do this thing where I wouls stretch my arms up as high as possible and tense up and much as I could and then relax my body as if to touch my toes. Works great if you have a tight neck or back.

I never saw a need to go beyond 30 minutes. In my opinion there is no right way. The breathe is key. Irregular breathing is a problem for many of us if we spend most of our day sitting in front a monitor tightening up.
I wonder if this uses GPIO display. I learned the hard way you don't get any sort of graphics acceleration on the pi unless you go through the actual hdmi port.
Apple cannot do the unlock. They're attempting to force Apple write new software that will make it easier to brute force the passcode.

Whether they force Apple to also do the brute force themselves, or the FBI does the brute force, is not really the important part.
Weekly Top 10: Considering Microservices? Some Tips from the Community
I still miss the Logitech Marble FX (out of production)
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-TrackMan-Marble-FX-Trackball/...

But it would be a terrible 'center' trackball.
Product Hunt's greatest success is being the perfect reflection of the Silicon Valley industry and mindset that surrounds it. Whether you consider this a feature or a bug is a personal judgement.

Personally I'm glad it exists because it seems to divert at least some of the vacuous SV sycophancy away from Hacker News.
A couple years ago I sold fullscreen.com for not much. 15 years ago I had applied for a trademark, but was refused, the USPTO said it was a generic computer term. They mailed me a photocopied computer dictionary with the term full-screen highlighted. I wondered about windows, but gave up there. I used the name briefly for a software product: screensaver & wallpaper 1-click installer.

Then a couple years a ago, a new fullscreen had somehow gotten the trademark. They said that I should sell the name because they had a trademark. Not being very clever, I sold it. I'd even been using the name again selling apps -- but my first use with the apps was a little after this new fullscreen got their trademark.

Maybe I screwed up -- but it felt to me like whoever had the money for lawyers was going to win a battle like that.
I posit that no one is really able to achieve, 'the removal of all focus on thoughts -- for 1.5 hours at a time' every day. Even serious gurus. This is not at all my own observation, this is what I've heard directly from longtime teachers from several different traditions.
tesla.com is a better primary domain than teslamotors.com, as they have the powerwall available as well as autos.

I wonder when they will make the full switch?
Also thumbs are kinda fat, and don't have tons of dexterity. Using them exclusively for Space is reasonable.
Overnight Success – Is it possible?
Kids learn the periodic table with crayons
People often miss the obstruction of justice at the end. Lee is brilliant in writing a novel about justice then sliding it past the reader as something we deem acceptable because of circumstance.
I fill up a lawn mower ever week or two in the summer and don't find the tab difficult to use.
Yes, in the case where you have a old domains and you want Google page rank juice (via 301).
While this is tragic news, this really doesn't feel at all correlated to HackerNews.
Teardown of BB-8 and Other Toys
"Not so far in the future", says the futurist.

The issue with KPIs is that it focuses attention on a single indicator, which is what most business in the world revolves around (a stock ticker is a good example). Businesses run in a holistic way tend to do better, such as those explained in Good to Great (productive paranoia + empirical creativity + fanatical discipline). The same holistic approach could be applied to our economy, but lots of moving parts is going to make it hard to tell when, or if, things need to be changed.

I expect a financial meltdown to be the thing that causes a revisit to exploring new business and economic models.
It is easier to understand if the same task is rephrased.

"Apple ordered by Chinese government to disable lock on phone seized from undercover CIA agent."

The act is the same. Being a multinational company, the result is no different for Apple. A government is legally requiring Apple to make decryption possible, but suddenly the people crying for Apple to unlock this phone will take an extremely different stance.
You can use something like:

https://github.com/grangier/python-goose

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/textstat/

+ using word counts that adjust for reading ease
Another suggestion: how about simply calling it "iTerm". This can be version 3. I know "iTerm2" was a fork of the defunct original iTerm. But now that you're pushing through to v3, in kind of makes sense to reclaim the title.
Gymify – GET FIT. HAVE FUN
This is not true, the french mobile operation Free Mobile already started doing since early 2013

http://www.numerama.com/magazine/24803-free-propose-aussi-le...
To those folks saying, "this is easy to code up in JavaScript" or "Pelican already does this for you" -- does it do it for you for other people's content?

I like this because I can just plug in the URL of any old article I might want to read and see what I'm getting myself into, e.g. http://klopets.com/readtime/?url=http://www.newyorker.com/ma.... Now that I know it's a 15 minute read, I'll probably save it for later.

This would be great as a browser plugin.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11134231.
Senate intel chief backs off on bill criminalizing refusal to aid decryption
Will airbnb allow their hosts use 360 Virtual Tours?
> like the governer at that time, weren't actually doing anything to achieve true equality

I think that overstates the article's position. The article mentions several things the governor did to works towards equality:

> He worked to extend the vote to disenfranchised blacks. He wanted to equalize salaries between white and black schoolteachers. He routinely commuted the death sentences of blacks convicted in what he believed were less than fair trials. He made no attempt to segregate the crowd at his inaugural address. “Ya’ll come,” he would say to one and all, making a proud and lonely stand for racial justice.
Cultural norms are not the same thing as public opinion. Or do you want the FBI to run attack ads against Apple? Your tax dollars at work taking care of that pesky "public opinion".
I like the idea however it is confused by messy HTML such as:
http://klopets.com/readtime/?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016...
Optimization Opportunities for C Compilers by Randomly Generated Equal Programs
Seems like starting with something like FreeNAS would be easier and then they have no GPL exposure in the core OS.
It's too bad OpenHunt didn't take off. But of course why would it? With no public commenting system it simply isn't "sticky" enough.

https://www.openhunt.co/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10759879
The mystery of the exploding teeth
Granted, if you don't have a network, your submission is stuck in the "upcoming" purgatory, so that issue already blocks the probability of a serendipitous upvote.
Simplicity is a good thing. A service that attempts to do one thing well.
https://github.com/ericdouglas

He used to commit every single day until November 26th, so its absence is worrying. I hope he's fine.
I understand the idea of setting a precedent, I just don't see how the precent set here could translate into preventing Apple from building secure devices.

The current request is for Apple to build a special version of their OS which can be loaded onto the suspect's phone. It seems to me that the precent this would create would be for similar actions: providing custom software. The gulf between that and altering the public builds of iOS is vast, and I don't see how the former precent could possibly lead to the latter. In fact, the order in question explicitly states that the software provided by Apple must be tied to the specific iPhone the FBI wants to crack.

The precent of providing custom software for a specific device could very well be dangerous in and of itself. This comment does a good job of discussing the possibilities there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11120036

In short, the precent set here could very well lead to requiring Apple to turn on suspects' microphones remotely, or loading software that scrapes data as the user uses it. That could certainly be bad. But it's a huge leap from that to somehow preventing Apple from ever building and selling secure systems.

Edit: thinking about this a bit more, here's what I see as the really simple version of it all. The FBI's order is compelling Apple to build something, and the worry is that it sets a precedent for building more. But forcing Apple to build insecure devices in the future is not the same; that would be preventing Apple from building secure software and hardware, not compelling them to build something insecure.
Embryo Selection for Intelligence – Gwern
Yeah, this is Tony calling up his friends and asking for defense pieces.
THE VOID
Radically Remote: Building Workplace Culture When “Place” Is an Idea
Big Data and Logistics: 7 Current Trends to Watch
Dang, not even a link back to my post on using nginx as a thumbnailing, caching s3 proxy. That's weak, varnish.

http://charlesleifer.com/blog/nginx-a-caching-thumbnailing-r...
2015: The Year of the Hardware Revolution
If people find the submission intellectually gratifying then it conforms to the spirit of Hacker News submission guidelines. Given the impact of Harper Lee's writing on US culture, it is not surprising if many people do.
Our First Video 'Dev Diary' Introduces Personas in KUBE
MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues: Extended to 31 Dec 2016
Hmm.. I agree with this a bit, but I think (like all things) the answer lies in the middle. Speaking purely from anecdotes, I'm well versed in the math behind interest rates and debt management, yet I still find myself with urges compelling me to pay off smaller debts first. This is even when it takes no mental energy for me to manage my current situation because my payments are set up to automatically deduct. I think my own urges come simply from wanting to feel like the money I spend on a car payment is suddenly "freed up" and available, despite losing money by allocating it from other mathematically better uses of that money. I recognize that this is a misguided notion, but it's still tough to get away from, and I believe it has some to do with how my brain accounts for losses versus gains.

Now I'm also not saying that your situation doesn't happen either, so I'd still say this article is useful if it helps anybody who is truly misevaluating their debt situation to rectify it and pay less interest overall.
I'm referring to the laptop version. I guess the battery, hinges, keyboard, and trackpad fetch a premium. I don't think the CEED is as appealing as the laptop version (which is probably why it is priced competitively).

Yes, the CEED would still make a great educational tool, but if the child doesn't use it; it's worthless. My niece and nephew aren't that young any more, so I have a feeling that the only way they would use it, is if the pi-tops were in laptop-form.
JSON for Modern C++
"isolating closed regimes is like 'threatening a drowning man with a lifeboat'" - Ian Bremmer, the J Curve: http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1071855.html
Outward aggression can have internal reasons, too. War with a "foreign aggressor" is a pretty good way to get a fractious polity to pull together, historically speaking.

The trick is to find a "foreign aggressor" who's powerful enough to scare people into putting their internecine disputes aside, but not so powerful that they stomp your regime like a bug.
Potential customer here. One guy's experience.

As a technical founder of my own company, the founder of Zenefits ( reportedly, they maybe use that line but coming from standard sales reps ) reached out and suggested I take a look at Zenefits.

I looked. I asked two different "startup CFOs" about Zenefits.

I found the following conclusions:

* The market is crowded. Trinet is what everyone in the valley has been using, and no one has serious problems with them. It's not like, you know, fighting the intrenched taxi mafia. Zenefits is not disrupting anything, they're simply competing.

* According to my sources, Zenefits is the hardest company to work with of benefits suppliers. Compared to Trinet, when your CFO-type calls Zenefits, they get long wait times and unprofessional answers. One of my sources was forced to use Zenefits ( by a founder ) and considered them a time sink.

* High prices. Because of a small installed base, Zenefits didn't have the ability to create a large insurance pool and have market power with insurers. They claimed low prices, and did have low prices for their service, but the numbers penciled out higher because of higher health insurance prices. If they think prices go down when they get bigger, maybe the would have needed to subsidize prices.

Not a win.

Part of our startup culture these days is "damn the law, make customers happy". I'm not super thrilled about that attitude, but it is what it is.

The zing against Zenefits in this article is poor technology ( uh, chasing MPV is all about poor technology ), and poor legal practices. I honestly didn't care about either - I care about user experience and prices.

My internal recommendation not to use Zenefits was poor user experience, and high prices. I didn't like having a sales person tell me prices were low when I had done my research and prices were higher. I didn't like being told Zenefits was easy to use when my people said it was harder to use.

And, yes, I sent a note outlining all the to the founder, in the interest of helping a brother out. I don't remember what I got back, but it wasn't encouraging.
Depends, I eat pizza or other fastfoods once-twice a month. Typically it's sandwiches for breakfast and lunch and self-made home dinner. Yep, maybe I'm not eating as healthy as I should (only veggies and chicken), but just listening to hunger would cause me to eat even more.
This is why we need to switch to https.
Thanks for posting that link - I hadn't read it before. I can't find anything, but I wonder if Malcolm Gladwell's opinion changed because of Go Set a Watchman?? I've only read Go Set a Watchman once, but it seems to me like Gladwell's critique of To Kill sort of predicted its plot.
Tumblr treated it's users very poorly in my opinion. They deleted popular blogs with no warning and no recourse. At least give the teens a chance to align themselves with the terms of service by issuing a warning first. It makes me wonder what Tumblrs real motivation was. If hosting blogs that bring fun and interest to the lives of millions of teenagers is not part of their business model, then what is it?
> The annoying thing is, even if terminals standardized on one protocol, none of them set $TERM or use terminfo properly.

This is why notty _does_ set $TERM and has a terminfo sheet.
It's sad. The response PH gave in December dodged the true question of how do things get to the homepage [1]. Defenders stuck to the concept of "Great products will make it to the homepage"–in reality, everyone knows that's complete BS.

I find myself going to PH weekly now instead of daily. It's almost predictable the things you'll see there now (yet another mockup tool, "ProductHunt for X", trivial toy app, etc.).

Maybe a site like this simply can't scale and keep this format.

[1] https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/679150836862218241
Concept video : https://youtu.be/cML814JD09g
> If you use any other keyboard for any other purpose, the more removed from the standard layout you are, the more disoriented you'll be when switching between the two.

I don't find this to be true. At all. I use standard QWERTY on my Macbook. At my desk, I use an Ergodox (tented, split, columnar/matrix, thumb clusters, etc.) with a custom Dvorak-based layout. My job frequently requires I switch between desk and laptop usage. It's not a problem and not something I need to think about. My brain and hands just do what they need to do wherever I happen to be typing.

If anything, I think the opposite of your statement is true. The further away from the standard you get in your exotic preference, the easier it is to compartmentalize that layout, the easier it will be to switch as needed.
I wouldn't call JVM and .NET platforms a niche, unless you mean AOT only languages and even in that case there are AOT toolchains for JVM and .NET.

Regarding Pascal, Delphi does have components for web development, but given its current enterprise focus they are more tailored to bring existing Delphi applications to the web, not for greenfield projects.

AdaCore has a web stack for Ada in terms of Pascal family of languages and web.