skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're leaning on an ideal case example to try to set precedent. Nothing would work better than one of the extremely rare terrorist cases. They don't have many such cases to leverage, so they're trying to abuse the American public's fear of terrorism with what they have. It's equivalent to the 'think of the children' approach in politics. If you want to try to do something wildly unconstitutional, play to terrorism fears. If Apple refuses to cooperate, then they try to make it look like Apple is making the American public less safe and bolstering terrorists.

All of the terrorism laws they've passed for example, have ended up being used for everything else. It has happened that way by design, they desperately want more power and reach. The FBI is attempting to do in their own area what the NSA did with mass-surveillance. They saw how successful the NSA was and how little push-back there ended up being to the vast privacy invasion.

If they're given a foot in the door on this specific example, they'll use it for almost everything else imaginable.
Nick Denton's phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers (2013)
>solve the same problem in the private pharma industry just refuse to approve any new drugs from any company unless all trials are reported within x time period.

I'm assuming that they would also have to register what their trials will be ahead of time? Otherwise there's no way for the regulators to know what trials need to be reported.
I would find a job that paid more and put the money past 45k in the bank. In a few years I suspect you will have more money.
Struggling to keep up...

Your solution to regulatory capture is to abolish government appropriations? Consumers, erm citizens, would then get essential services from corporations directly, mooting the need for governments?

I think I've seen that movie.

PS- Sorry about your Chertoff. Talking about it is an important part of the recovery process.
You have a fair point in regards to responsibility. I'm guessing that I think similiarly to you that these experiences are subjective?

One person's addiction with a 4x strategy game is another's gateway into a lifelong fascination with building complex information systems. One person's compulsive Facebook checking leading to depression is another's connection with family members when they're working overseas.

There is an ethical responsibility in creating technology, but there are many shades of grey in how people use it.
I love this point tying it to the Second Amendment. Originalists won't. Someday we'll remember our history and not just recite the words.

Which reminds me, this brings another lens with which to examine the next Supreme Court appointee, as they'll likely see this case.
Just curious - what features are you missing on Linux that are available on Iterm2? I've used Iterm2 quite a bit and while I think it is more full-featured than my linux terminal, I don't find myself using any features which are not common to both.
> I was not interviewing for a high theory/deep algorithms [...]

Implementing a well known data structure is pretty far removed from `deep algorithms' and `high theory'.
The way Civ let you email a multiplayer round was awesome when connectivity was an issue.
I noticed immediately because it looks terrible on a high-resolution display.
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I agree with you! Many European countries (and I think Australia, though don't quote me) use government funded social housing as part of their HF programs. To me, that seems like an obvious solution to the supply problem though others in the anti-poverty community point to the stigma of housing projects in the US.

I've never lived in a housing project and to tell you the truth, most of what I know about them comes from hip hop. But, I'd rather live in the projects than under a bridge...
thanks for the tip on spectacles. I've been using sizeup for the same functionality for years bit it looks like spectacles does the same thing for free. How does paw compare to postman?
I'm not sure what you are calling for here. The YC interview process is a merit-based system.

It doesn't matter who you are, where you went to school, or what family connections you have. It's an open application available to anyone in the world to sell some venture capitalists on the merit of your ideas. How does it get any more merit-based than that?
Looks mildly inspired by itty!
As someone who makes a lot of casual edits via the web interface, I was really sad that to fix an image file once, I had to install the desktop client and clone the entire repo. This is a great change.
I started playing civilization when I was 12 or 13 (Civilization 1), and still, to this day, the closest thing I have to meditation is playing Civ V.

I travel a decent amount, and one of my great joys is being on a plane without wifi but with inseat power (Civ V on the mac is a ridiculous power hog), and knowing that I've got X hours of civilization to play with no one to bother me.

My strategy isn't great, I have everything set to Random, and I just drop into whatever situation and work it. At the end of a flight, I close that scenario, and rarely pick it back up - I start a new one. And I feel relaxed and my mind is clear. It's amazing.
But that was exactly my point. That:

a) It appears to be standard procedure in the aftermath of 9/11 to keep the cabin doors locked at all times.

b) Many of the cases mentioned where this is useful are cases where the cabin crew are incapacitated due to, say, hypoxia or some other malady.

Given both of these I fail to see how this skill is as useful as others appear to be claiming it to be.
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai agree on the issue of backdooring. Does that mean that either of them wants to give their job to the other?

If you're campaigning issues, then you'll get candidates on board that support those issues. It shouldn't be the other way around.

I don't fully understand how the UK does it, and maybe it's not any better than what we've got, but when you have people flagrantly buying bills and politicians in Washington then we know at the very least that what we have now does not work. If we can't find some way to make it work, then a drastic change is in order.
If I take a chapter of a textbook, modify it to be a standalone volume in a collection of books and start distributing it, I am distributing a derived work of the original book, not a derived work of the collection of books. The latter constitutes an aggregation and unless there is some license (superseding doctrine of first sale in the case of books) that prevents it from being redistributed with such things, it is perfectly okay to do that.

Similarly, the original code was taken from OpenSolaris and was adapted for Linux. No matter how we change it, it is a derived work of Solaris. Furthermore, it is distributed as part of a mere aggregation, which is okay with OSS under the OSD and also okay with the GPL under the GPL FAQ. The only time you can claim a combined work is formed is when the module is loaded into a running kernel, but the GPL does not restrict non-distribution and the kernel with the module loaded into it is not being distributed.

You can argue that GPL advocates did not intend to support a license that allows any of this. However, I expect that you would have trouble finding an attorney that will interpret what the copyright holder thought the terms said to supersede the legal meaning of the terms unless explicitly stated.

If you make a license for the kernel that does not allow derived works of other platforms' software to be distributed as ports, you would violate #9 of the OSD and could not call it an open source license:

https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
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Hi, I tried to get that automated workflow process with pull requests going between my team's bitbucket and jira last year, but it didn't seem possible without other tools.

Can you point me at any documentation that can help me get that set up? Thanks!
And because everything is base 10, 6 times 9 is 42. In base "A", it's 54, but we're using base 10, not base "A"
You can see the video here:

https://youtu.be/SPmKCh5BOjo?t=1991
Those are pretty amazing click/follow through rates, and I'm not surprised because they're 100% deserved. This is a great app clearly made with care and dedication, thanks for all your hard work!
So intolerance exists only through violence? That seems wrong on its face.
> Let's not forget about the older non technology savvy immigrants that typically could make a living with taxis that have now been put out of a job since they may not know how some app works.

If only taxi regulation was like that..
Love iTerm2, upgraded and donated :)
VeilEm, would you email me so I could ask you a few questions about your experience? Andrew@mixergy.com

You raised a counter-intuitive issue and I want to understand it.

I do interviews on Mixergy.com and I need to hear about experiences that contradict mainstream thinking so I can make sure what's taught in my interviews is true to reality.
In theory, this is what Ordoliberalism is about (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism).

(Also called Neoliberalisms, but that word has been used differently recently.)
A counter-example is "Currying"/"Schönfinkelisation" (although it is also a mathematical concept).
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This looks amazingly comprehensive and high quality for a non mainstream language. I wonder how difficult it would be to get something like Rust, Nim, D or Crystal to be able to call the FreePascal ABI and link with this.
On Apple and the FBI
Yes the author seems to have a bit of fun with what he does.
By removing varnish aren't you now exposed to that risk once again?

I feel like I am missing something.
Except it is not the equality operator, but a special case of an indicator function (c.f. comment by pash).
Honestly, I'm not surprised. 滴滴出行 is throwing a lot of money at buying people. I downloaded the app in case I can't get a cab in Beijing, and they keep bombarding me with "15RMB voucher", "50RMB voucher", "50RMB voucher", "25RMB voucher" just to get me to start using the app.

Regular cabs are cheap and plentiful over here. I can go from here to Sanlitun for about 150RMB, which is about 30km. Within 4th ring road, flagging one down (outside of rush hour) is trivial. Public transportation is cheap as well (1RMB for a bus ride, 3-10RMB for a subway ride all over the city). That means that neither Uber nor Didi are competing on convenience, they're competing on price till they've got the market cornered.

And every app over here does it. Wechat pay got themselves advertising spots during the New Years Festival Broadcast last year and has been offering discounts EVERYWHERE last November. McDonalds, Subway, Paris Baguette, literally everywhere. This year Alipay got to sponsor the New Years Festival Broadcast, so they're in catchup mode right now.

Uber may have used the strategy first, but they're late to the party in China. As a foreign company in China, they should have positioned themselves as a premium provider. Look at what Apple did. It's a thing of beauty how obsessed Chinese people are over their iPhones.

So how would Uber have gone about that? Offer premium rides first. Nice climate controlled cars with properly screened chauffeurs. Aim for the people that aren't quite able to afford a full-time driver. Didi can be nicer than cabs, but it's a little hit or miss sometimes. Remove that ambiguity.

Open up an Uber store in Sanlitun. Does an Uber store make sense? No, but then a lot of things do not make any sense here in china, and they still work somehow. Nice modern store, a fancy car somewhere on display, and what would it sell? Gift rides and vouchers. Exploit the Chinese habit of giving gifts and regifting(you can buy fruit in boxes for Chinese new year, why not Uber rides in boxes?), and go wild with it. Wooden box with a red sleeve, containing a scale model of a car with minimal uber branding, some assorted status object and then a red envelope that folds open to reveal an Uber voucher in the X000RMB range, or some fancier rides you can't book through the app (eg. armoured cars/vintage cars/sports cars/helicopters/etc.). In a sense, Didi is already doing some of these.

The point is, if you're trying to get into the Chinese market, don't get into mudfights with Chinese competitors. They'll fight dirty, and if you fight dirty, they'll fight dirtier. Apple didn't come out with a discount phone to beat Xiaomi (which btw, fights REALLY dirty. They sell to distributors ABOVE MRSP to cut their margins. the distributors have to put up with it).

No, go premium, and come early. There's an entire part of the Chinese tech industry that calls itself C2C - Copy 2 China. The moment your startup hits techcrunch, there'll be a Chinese copy of it. That is a law of nature. It will happen to you.

Uber should have known this before throwing down the gauntlet over here. It's not going to be a fun ride for 'em.
Can you provide bar numbers of lawyers who would make that claim?

So far, Matthew Garrett has yet to claim that any attorney said this is a problem. The only claim he has made (after I got him to clarify what was said) is that he met some attorneys who said that they were not absolutely sure that there is no problem. There are likely attorneys out there that make similar claims about the GPL software in general, so I really am not that concerned that he found a few attorneys that said that they were not sure.
How so? If I don't lift a finger against you (and that includes voting to use government-based force against you), then why is it important for you to control what opinions I can express?
How Tim Cook Became a Bulwark for Digital Privacy
> The ~450 NBA players are set to make more than all the Fortune 500 CEOs combined in salary terms, with the new TV rights.

Are you sure about that? How much do the CEOs make?
Thank you. It's actually more involved than i thought it would be on the client side, but a good use of the OS' functionality.
> My advice is simple: no. What you should probably do is make sure you understand how to do basic math, know how to write a basic SQL query, and understand how a business works and what it needs to succeed.

There is an assumption here that people want to work with data and would be happy doing simple SQL queries with sums.

It's good that the author is happy with their job, but I I don't know how "having highly trained people doing menial tasks" is a good thing.

I think that most people who want to get into "data science" don't just want to write SQL queries and do simple arithmetic, but are interested because of all the recent advances in computing that have made machine learning more tractable. If the best they can hope for is to be doing SQL and simple arithmetic, then maybe there just aren't enough interesting jobs and the advice should be to avoid the profession entirely.
Once the iSpecialPhone is unlocked, can't the FBI image it and diff the hack out of the image?
Knowledge and skill, evidently.
Let me explain why YC is coming out with this now.

In the wake of the Zenefits scandal (which is only just beginning) there's going to be a lot of scrutiny on Y Combinator and the entitlement culture (and, hence, the cheating culture) that tends to emerge from an old-boy-network.

They're trying to put a good foot forward and distance themselves from the culture that created Zenefits and (more importantly, in the long term) from the appearance that YC is just a bunch of companies buying each others services at high prices, like artists who'd buy each others paintings at high levels (to bolster each others' reputations) while secretly settling the bill.

I don't fault YC for doing so, and I doubt that they had any official, direct responsibility for the Zenefits fiasco (although I certainly don't buy that Mr. Conrad acted alone.) It's just useful to be able to read between the lines and see what's going on. Y Combinator's PR wing is definitely going to be active as long as Zenefits is in the news.
This is one of those cases where evidence instead of supposition helps a lot.

> The odds of first marriage are better than 50/50

That depends on a shocking number of variables. For example, http://www.maselliwarren.com/2014/03/20/divorce-rates-increa... "60 percent of marriages for couples between the ages of 20 and 25 end in divorce. For couples who are even younger, the prognosis becomes bleaker still."

http://www.maselliwarren.com/2014/02/28/factors-affect-divor... "“Marriages are more likely to last for longer periods of time when people marry at an older age, have a higher education and earn more"

There was another source citing evidence that too much relationship experience prior to marriage can confound marriage happiness somewhat, but it was from a Christian (and therefore biased and/or scientifically suspect) source. Here's something more scientific:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7893...
Have you tried it with Wine? Wineskin (http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/) lets you package Wine installs as self-contained Mac apps, which takes most of the hassle out of it.
So to make it useful it just needs to find the pairs of people who ,,go to sleep'' at the same time
HighCharts is awesome. I'm a big fan as well.

I've used it for school projects and work before, and was amazed by the documentation and API capabilities. Everything is configurable and easy to figure out.
The ML module language, as well as the scientific literature on it, consistently uses analogies from category theory. For instance, mappings between signatures (viewed as categories whose objects are structures) are called “functors”. Also, the act of making a signature less abstract by specifying one of its abstract type components is called (parameterization by) “fibration”. This analogy has some merit. For instance, the technique of structural abstraction shown in section 10.2 of Okasaki's book “Purely Functional Data Structures” can be viewed as defining monads - in categories other than Hask (or Scal or whatever)!

The analogy isn't 100% precise, though: If structures with the same signature (and perhaps equational laws) form the objects of a category, then what exactly are the morphisms? There are several possibilities. My favorite one is pre-ordering structures by the asymptotic complexity of their operations. (Every preorder can be viewed as a thin category.)
Were any .md files really a thing before Github? Every pre-GH OSS project I can think of had a simple text file, or sometimes, HTML.
Are you my twin? Playing my pirated copy of Civ 1 in the basement at 12 or so most have occupied hundreds of hours of my childhood. These days Civ 5 on the Mac almost brings me back.
That all depends on what the definition of "is" is.
On Windows, check out ConsoleZ.
Would you agree that having a device to torture someone, and using a device to torture someone are different things?

Apple doesn't want to build a device to torture people. They're worried that if they build a device to torture people, that they will be told to torture people all the time, and will be barred from disclosing the fact that they're torturing people.

> The fact is that each time this tool would be used would require a federal district court to specifically order it. That eliminates the slippery slope risk.

I can't imagine why you think this. Getting a wire tap used to take a warrant. Then it took a warrant in a secret court. Then it took a warrant in a secret court, which could be granted after the fact. Then blanket permission to wire tap every overseas phone call was taken. Then blanket permission to wire tap every domestic email. I just don't see how you think you've ELIMINATED a slippery slope, by starting at requiring a federal district court order.

Congressmen are already gearing up to write laws. McAfee is already volunteering to do it for free.

> or any other blatantly illegal purpose

Torture is blatantly illegal. Waterboarding is torture. So is forced anal feeding. I haven't seen any prosecutions, under military code, or otherwise, of people who admit to authorizing torture. If the courts aren't punishing blatantly illegal government action, what's to stop the government from more blatantly illegal actions?

> Apple already has the capability to do this.

I have the capability to torture someone. I don't care if the courts order me to do it.
I still haven't really been able to make the jump from Civ 5 to Civ:BE. BE's civ and tech choices somehow manage to feel painfully samey and confusingly unorganized all at the same time.
Meh, that's a stretch. Much of the material on that page dates to 2014. I think a more plausible reason is to attract more talent for the Summer 2016 batch - the application deadline is next month.
I really don't understand this line of thinking. What is the scenario you imagine where the question of "which finger?" is relevant? I'll lay out the beginning:

- Police want to get into your phone for some reason
- You refuse to help them based on 5th Amendment or admiralty law or whatever
- They go to court for a order compelling you to operate the touch lock to open the phone
- You receive the order
- ?

Please lay out the "?" part, if you don't mind. I'm highly curious.
The law of averages will tell you that the more metrics (however random) you throw into your prediction engine, the closer your prediction will be to the actual result. But it's not very remarkable and it will never put you ahead consistently.
Comment I was replying to was talking about software, not hardware, and said (quote):

the phone at the center of the current controversy had not been updated to the new version of iOS

If the phone was on iOS 9, as the article claims, then... that's the latest version of iOS.
Yup. There are many fantastic 'cheaper' wines, and even many French winemakers are now producing non-traditional, cheery wines meant to be consumed immediately.

I know I'm not always in the mood for a 'big' wine, with all the fanfare and ceremony. Sometimes something light and easy drinking hits the spot.
It's very short, but you can checkout my post on vim + [iTerm](http://arianv.com/post/My-First-Month-with-Vim/)

Basically, I really love the fullscreen keybinding, hotkeys, colors and search ( though the default terminal already has this I think)
This is a very cynical and hostile view of Apple fighting for the privacy of its customers. If Apple were prioritizing defending their walled garden over privacy, they wouldn't have put strong encryption on iMessage and other services.

Apple's walled garden in itself is a privacy/ protection mechanism for their customers. iPhones and iPads were made to have the average in mind, so loading bespoke software removes the risk of spyware and adware that plagues devices without these protections.
This was painful - I read the first point, skimmed the second and forwarded reading a sentence of each point further down the line.

Anyone giving out bullet points about marriage needs to back it up with some credentials - who are you to be making these statements?

This comes across a lot like self-help advice from someone needing some help.

'Learn by teaching' is a disaster in the making - you simply don't have the life experience to teach anyone anything but what a thousand thoughts going in a thousand different directions look like.

The heavy-intellectualizing of this post and the pomposity of 'book of life' - please take a look in the mirror and humble yourself, whoever the author may be :)
>>> Apple also argues that since its reputation is based on security and privacy, complying with the court’s demands based on an expanded application of a 200-year-old law could put it at risk of tarnishing that reputation.

One one hand, a corporate reputation. On the other, people from the FBI saying they need access to prevent terrorist attacks. There are many arguments to be made. This is not the winner.