skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More specifically, any functions that end in Sync should be avoided.

Unfortunately a lot of people think that these functions are a simple way to "not have to deal with callbacks", which is not correct...
> Being financially independent can be done on a median wage, full stop.

Do you make median wage?

If so, good for you.

If not, why don't you go do that before telling people how easy it is.
Why npm scripts
That's not how canaries work. You don't delete them, you fail to update them.
It's standard to refer to the outcomes of evolution as having been designed by evolution, with no one assuming that requires a "designer". Perhaps it's just easier to say than "emergent design", but it also communicates more about how evolution actually works via this metaphor. The system as a whole designs complex solutions to problems, without self awareness, that's the amazing discovery.

For what it's worth the entire field is fine with this language and no one takes it assume any superstitious beliefs.
How many you can see, being "successful" raising funds while they don't add or give back anything to the industry and have a mediocre market and technology. But hey, they are on Techcrunch.
*Meyer
> What happens if Apple says they aren't paying these unjust fines?

Then they'll be subject to additional penalties, seizure of property, etc., and quite possibly shareholder lawsuits stemming from the decision to incur those losses.

> Sure the gov't can make arrests, threats, seize assets -- but in the end, the gov't still don't get what they want

Maybe, given the recent discussion of mandatory limits on encrypted communication services without up-front backdoors, what the government wants is a clear demonstration that the operation of those services interferes with evidence and intelligence gathering in terrorism cases to build the case for new laws restricting the operations of such services.
The First Amendment doesn't protect written works, it protects expression. Non-written works can be expression (black arm bands worn in protest), and written works can be functional and non-expressive (e.g. a legal contract). Code is only speech when it's being used as a form of expression. If it's just used to make a commercial product go, it's not speech.
It is worth pointing out one salient fact: the phone in question did not belong to the shooter, it belonged to the shooter's employer, which in this case is the county government. That makes Apple's position much less tenable because the owner of the phone is (presumably) consenting to -- maybe even actively encouraging -- the recovery of the data.
I assumed it was boilerplate. For the record I've also never had an employer have a problem when I notified them of outside work.

That might be different if the outside work in question was an interview for a new jib though...
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Codebashing – Online AppSec Student Edition
Apple's OSs are closed and therefore inherently unsecure. When Apples caves, and they undoubtedly will, it will have the beneficial consequence of being a boon to open source communications software.
there's a student edition of 20 modules available from their website... its an interactive, online appsec/secure coding training platform for software devs... everything runs in a modern desktop browser.
Because it has the under tone of, a kind of revolving door where you were once fined for something and are now being offered a pass if only you hire this company run by the guy that used to fine you.
Apple unlocked iPhones for the Feds 70 times before
Nicely defined.
Seconded — Miguel's blog is terrific! Major chunks of my (very simple) website's code bear a suspicious resemblance to his examples.
I cannot agree with this hard enough. When I went back to my old iPhone 5S after breaking my 2nd Gen Moto X's screen, I was astounded how fast and smooth everything was. I love the flexibility of Android, but there's no doubting it is significantly worse than iOS (and WP) in terms of overall UI performance.

Although the sheer awfulness of the iPhone default keyboard and the flakiness of its implementation for 3rd party replacements continues to amaze me.
Get famous; then you still don't know anyone, but they "know" you.
Move to DC. The amount of single woman is crazy.
Posted this a few weeks ago! Very cool company :)
The thrust of my comment is that resolving bad debt isn't merely a painless exercise in monetary policy. Resolving the bad debt requires somebody to absorb those losses through reduced future consumption. Who absorbs those losses is essentially a matter of public policy, not monetary policy.

The only thing that is special about a central bank is that their special relationship with the government exempts them from the regulations that apply to other banks. However, they still have a balance sheet with debts, which are deposits with the central banks and federal reserve notes (cash) and assets which are assets and loans that have been purchased on the open market.

The central bank also has a small amount of capital which is the ownership stakes of the member banks. Half of which is on deposit with the Federal Reserve and half of which isn't invested but can be called if required. That ownership stake has a guaranteed 8% return (and an effective 16% return) which is a nice deal if you can get it.

Due to its special status a central bank can't be subject to bank runs or be forced into receivership by regulators but it can still be balance-sheet insolvent. And a balance sheet insolvent central bank is a wounded central bank because it loses some of it's ability to control monetary policy through reducing its balance sheets.

In severe deflationary conditions a central bank may take more risks that may put it in a position of being balance sheet insolvent. For example, through the purchase of long term zero coupon government bonds at face value. The effect is to tell the markets that the central bank is putting a ceiling on interest rates long term regardless of inflation which encourages speculation.

Ultimately if a central bank has a consequence free way of creating all the money they needed at will their would be no need for taxes because the central bank could just give the government all the money it wanted.
I think you're describing a separate issue.
I'm not sure I understand the distinction he's making. G will comply with "valid legal orders"; what is not "valid" about the order Apple got? Why is granting law enforcement different from hacking devices, the point of which is to gain access to data?
If that is what makes you happy, then more power to you.

The real question is was the American dream really open to you? Was this life choice made easier because what was the american dream has been so diluted as to make it unpalatable?

Is the current craze in tiny homes because people really like tiny home or because it is the only realistic option for a lot of the enthusiasts. For some people the former is true. Other are at least in part rationalizing their belief ex post facto.
Or ELI5 on reddit, which does occasionally have very interesting questions so I'm not knocking it or anything, but it seems like what he's asking for is already done well in a lot of other places. No need to repeat it here.
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another jewel:

> Moreover, as mentioned above, Einstein would have been in complete agreement on this point.
Zippers and Lenses in Haskell
No because you can't easily pass multiple return values as parameters. So annoying...
See, this is the problem with the entire business model. Your friend has now put the onus of paying her living wage on the consumer. I don't want to hire a personal delivery person for $10/hour. Unless I've got a $100+ dinner bill, tipping $25 sounds crazy to me. Calling people "cheapskates" for not doing so is completely unfair–especially when these people are already paying a delivery fee. Do you honestly think families in Omaha and Birmingham are gonna pay to have groceries delivered AND want to tip 20%?

To be clear, most of the blame falls on Instacart. But your friend should find a new job. A tip-only contractor job is as bad as a 100% commission telemarketer job (maybe worse).
> These preparations should take you half an hour or so, a small investment that can make a significant difference in the quality of the people you hire.

Sounds more like it would take thousands of years if not eternity to prepare, as it involves a) accurately identifying personal characteristics related to professional success and b) predicting the future.
No it cannot unless you pay for commercial. This is because of Qt licensing last I knew. So ta not totally static but no worse than C++
Defopt: a lightweight, no-effort argument parser
I would say that the same does apply for native code as well.

Developing native code means writing code, reading code and documentation, and interacting with the build system / debugger. Those tasks need to happen directly on the developer's workstation, but not the actual building and execution/testing of that native code.

This is better done in an environment with known state, i.e. either an isolated local or remote VM that will have the environment set up as required for production, and likely multiple different, incompatible environments, or some external hardware for many use cases of native code. Best practices and a modern toolchain would imply things like reproducible builds which you can't really have if you're building and running C or C++ code directly with whatever setup and libraries each developer has on their own workstation, no matter if they're on linux, windows or mac.
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The development of such language ("content verticals") indicates the transition of a maturing industry from the founders/builders to the executives/gate keepers. They create such language to inflate the value of their executive work which is necessary in corporate politics, as opposed to the value creation process of founders who build new things and call them simply.
Oh, there's plenty of ad revenue around some of these sites -- but does Yahoo's board actually care about the content of any of them? Any of them?

That's what distinguishes legitimate news or entertainment outlets from "content verticals."
You can serve any sort of frontend from Flask. Personally, I prefer Emberjs and have been serving Ember apps from Flask for sometime now. It's as easy as pointing your Flask app's `template_folder` at the compiled frontend folder. If you're using Emberjs, this is the `dist` folder.
> That is completely not true. There is no way to make such a thing that can only work on one particular phone

The technique that makes this possible is described in Apple's iOS Security White paper, page 6 ("System Software Authorization"): https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

This mechanism explains why you can't take an old release of iOS off a different phone and copy it to yours.
The $4 smartphone
The security architecture described here seems pretty clever. Is this degree of security unique across mobile devices? If the phone in question was from a different manufacturer or ran a different OS, would the FBI have to ask its creator for help?
https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/02/how-safely-store-password...

How does that look now?
TP-Link begins router firmware lockdown due to FCC proposed regulation
also see reddit.com/r/vandwellers
Google AMP Drives Debate About Open Web
Space Shuttle Pathfinder
You can't, that's the point.
Bingo. There was only one bathroom on our floor, and we shared the floor with another company, some busybody at the other company complained, so the building manager banned me from using the women's restroom.

That's illegal in Dallas.
Sneaky Change to the TPP Drastically Extends Criminal Penalties
Ugh, I really hate to complain about this, but "an gmail address" in the HN headline is hurting my brain.

Is it at all possible to make it "an @gmail address" to match the article?
Sundar just came out with public statements on twitter http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/17/11040266/google-ceo-sundar...
Sure it can, http://play.golang.org/p/T6WIcT_8q5 works just fine!
Yeah, Visual Studio is definitely the right candidate for a cleanup tool. I guess Microsoft learned their lesson. It's a shame every vendor doesn't put as much effort into cleaning up their crap as they put into the installer, but maybe they figure if you're removing it then they couldn't care any less about you.
> We assume.

I bet if Apple is forced to comply with this order they will make sure that they will find a way to design the iPhone such that they physically can't comply with similar requests in the future.
This doesn't seem like a story worth sending a live truck for, but OK. Do you know what station it's from? The story would also probably be posted on that station's website.
When entering any questionable law enforcement situation (TSA, walking near a protest, traveling internationally) I always switch my phone to not use TouchID. Say what you will.
I really wish the restrictions can be reduced or removed so @pmarca etc can tweet more on the companies of which they are the directors of. Same for the CEOs itself, and CEOs and other executives should be allowed to tweet at board of directors and vice versa.
To be honest, food science has been making people survive and thrive on disgusting barely edible things since the first monkey threw a rat on fire. "Here we have some rotting carcasses and roots, dried seeds, with more rotten things for flavour. Let's have a feast!"
Earpieces are probably worn routinely, just as many other people you may see walking around.

Large organizations typically procure fleets of vehicles that are all the same model. This reduces development and maintenance costs.

Many institutions, particularly law enforcement, have strict dress regulations and many distribute their own uniforms appropriate to the particular position.
Actually you can: https://play.golang.org/p/a-qhe_vRvo
Nope. I see 3-4 tourists taking pictures of the "1 Infinite Loop" sign every time I go to the main campus, yet not one of them took a picture of the giant motorcade that allegedly hung out in front of IL5 for an hour.
I agree, it's exactly why I stopped using the language. err != nil checks all over the place gave me a headache. I since moved on to Elixir and it's really great. I just wish that it would allow me to have just a single deployable binary. That's something I really miss about Go.
Google's DNS relay may take steps to sanitize malicious DNS responses.
That would be nice but that is not Google's business model ...
Based on the rest of the comments here deriding the growth over revenue strategy I think it's very important to bring up that risk is proportional to reward, and by definition any business that can be cash flow positive early on is unlikely to be very risky - and thereby not really what VCs are in this business for.
Yahoo hasn't been a search company for a very long time, having used Google's search results as early as 2000 and having used Microsoft since 2008: http://searchengineland.com/library/features/google-yahoo-se...
Google never was 'social' in any way shape or form, Yahoo at least always was a portal and social has been a function in many portals historically speaking.

Whether they could make it work is a different matter altogether, critical mass is a hard thing to force but Yahoo seems to be in a position to do at least that.

Even so, I highly doubt anybody would anchor their little home on the web to a sinking ship. It's a bit late now. Right after Mayer took over they might have had a shot at a move like that.
The "web" link under the article title does a Google search for the title; arriving via Google usually bypasses paywalls. It's still a pain, but not as much so.
Property taxes are what keeps housing affordable. Look at California for an example of what happens when they go away.

To be precise, property tax increases the liability of holding a house as an investment relative to other investments, so higher property taxes make capital that was invested in real estate move to other sectors. That means that fewer properties are owned by speculators, so more are owner-occupied. This is why California has one of the lowest homeownership rates in the country (alongside New York and Nevada, which are much more urbanized than Cali):

http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/rates.html

(Homeowners don't like to believe this, because the economic reality is basically that investors can buy whatever they want and the middle class picks up the scraps; that's sort of undignified, but true, so people should get used to it)
Let's just recap what happened to Yahoo since Marissa took over:

- wasn't able to turn the company around

- wasn't able to monetize tumblr

- wasn't able to capitalize on Alibaba shares

- wasn't able to deliver return to investors

- was able to parachute out of Yahoo with hundred million dollars+

Someone tell me, what CEO out there actually does anything that justifies their insane pay grade because often it looks like someone just waving a baton thinking he/she's a conductor despite how much the orchestra sucks.

Maybe if it actually began investing what it paid out to a revolving door of CEOs looking to make a cool hundred million dollars....just then Yahoo will be a stock worth buying.
You haven't responded to my comment at all.

You said:

> There's no likelihood at all that other users will be impacted by the backdoor

The backdoor, a "master key" as Tim Cook put it, that opens all pre-5S iPhones affects millions of other users.

And that's not even the main issue. The issue is the precedent it sets, which endangers a lot more than just a few million users or a few specific models of iPhone.
No, it's simply on HN because Yahoo is still a very large presence on the web.
I would say I prefer the latter. When I look at the load average, I don't really care what exactly the number means as long as it goes up when the system is more heavily loaded in a way that reasonably correlates with the magnitude of increase in load.

Over time you know what is a "normal" value, so checking the load average is a nice quick health check. There are many other better defined metrics to look at when there's actually a problem. If there is a problem, even a well-defined load average is too coarse a metric to give particularly meaningful insights.
Not only that but there's a bug between Gmail and Firefox that causes gmail to freeze on "Loading ..." after a while and not update anymore. I believe that's what GP is referring to and it is infuriating.

It's depressing. I switched back from Chromium to Firefox and been getting tons of small issues like this...
> Megacorp X ... couldn't begin to give a toss about the actual content

If they did they probably wouldn't be in this position.
I have always been impressed by the way django does it.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/auth/passwords/
Get WineD3D's DDraw.dll with the needed dependencies and it will run.
People do believe such things, yes, despite how absurd it is as you've shown.
Why not just say sandals instead of huaraches? I know what the word means but I suspect a lot don't. The word is really neither here nor there.
Shareholders, which includes Tim Cook, all get to choose what they care about. Humans have complex motivations.
Me too, and I'm still stinging from My Tracks being shutdown because it doesn't allow Google to monetize my fitness data (all the apps they recommended in the notice were social/cloud apps). Thankfully, I just the other day found a replacement app (Locus Map Pro).

I cannot see myself ever using Inbox. I tried it and I just did not like it.
You could always just use Werkzeug directly if you're just building an API.
> If we want cheaper housing, all we have to do is legalizing the building of it.

I wish it was that simple. But experience disproves this theory. It's like saying "if you want cheaper cars, build more Lamborghini's".

For instance, the article you link to complains about Seattle being unaffordable. Which is ironic because Seattle is building apartments like crazy. Something like 8,000 new apartments opened last year, and another 11,000 new apartments are scheduled for this year.

If "housing gets cheaper when you legalize building it", then why are the cities that are building new housing never becoming any cheaper?

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Even in my tiny midwest town, they're building tons of new urban-ish apartments. And the rent in those units is always $1,000 over the average for the area. It's sending the entire towns rents up (even for ancient, crummy buildings).

Most people prefer urban areas. For every one new apartment built downtown, three new households decide they want to live there. You can't outbuild demand, because the act of building increases the demand.

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I'm not suggesting we stop building -- we need the housing, we should be building up. But it's clear to me that building new housing alone is not enough to help with affordability in any way.
> Can a candidate lacking the technical skills go deep into details the way the parent commenter describes?

That's what most bosses/salesmen excel at doing everyday.
"Google has a raging hard-on for academic credentials"

Google is a big place, lots of different tasks. The credentials part is useful as an SE. One place I can think of hacking ability over the latest academic credentials wins out, DevOps.
There's an option to stop the redirection. For people that try but do not like the new interface.
A downvote for correcting an error? Why? EDIT: Ahh ... because the original was correct ...
>Someone tell me, what CEO out there actually does anything that justifies their insane pay grade because often it looks like someone just waving a baton thinking he/she's a conductor despite how much the orchestra sucks.

Hard to say what is and isn't related to the CEO. Microsoft's new CEO seems fantastic but it's hard to say what is and isn't contributed to him. I guess ultimately all the good and bad is contributed to every CEO regardless.
I can't help but wonder: what proportion of the population has a place that they can truly, and with love, call home? Somewhere they feel alive in, and grow in, and feel confident raising a family in. Somewhere that persists. How about 30 years ago? 2000 years ago? 20,000 years ago? I think the visualization of this data would be very interesting indeed, albeit impossible to create.

It's my impression that it gets harder and harder to create a place called home for the average person, as wages go down, available jobs are more competitively sought after (especially the ones where you feel like a human doing humane things from day to day), and real estate & rent around urban centers goes up.

Count your blessings if your field of work is amenable to being done remotely, and start building out the skills, habits, and resources needed that go along with it asap.
Granted it's a machine with 768 GB RAM.
Launchpad pushes people into two options:

- Receive all emails about this bug except comments
- Only receive email when this bug is closed

There's also an "this bug affects me", which records that and then gives you the option to subscribe to either of the two options above. Seems like a happy medium.
Right, but the point is, that effective imputed income is probably going to be much higher than your investments will throw off, especially after considering taxes.
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It's another word for corporate hashtag.
Walking in on your parents having sex again
It's Mayer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer