skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there'll always be groups of people like that. In my 20s there were big groups of people who's "best years" were in high school. Now approaching 30 and finding a lot of people bemoaning how good life was in their 20s when they were in college or traveling the world. For me life has gotten better and easier as I've gotten older, so far. Most of my enjoyment comes out of exploring and finding new places and getting to know people. I take any work I do seriously and try to do things that I think will matter and make a difference but I also realize I'm a small fish in a very big pond. I still have ambition and I'll always strive to be my best, but there is always the possibility of my health failing or other circumstances. I intend to be flexible with whatever life throws at me. I hope I'll be able to share your perspective when I'm your age!
>I have no idea how complicated health insurance is in the US

Exactly.
People giving 1-star reviews due to price is dumb.

Reviews should rate quality.
Given the context, "I wish the world wasn't that way" means "I wish we didn't live in a world where people could unprofitably pour money into a market to grab market share to kill off competitors."

It's ironic because it's exactly what they have done in other markets, but they're not complaining about where they were successfully the aggressor, but instead where they are the victim of the tactic.
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I don't say he didn't understand, I'm just throwing some more data to that simplified stats as they can be misunderstood
I really hate this trend.

FOSS doesn't need more bureaucracy, it needs less.
That's an odd way to put it. Exercise doesn't "wear down the body".

Running puts tremendous stress on knees and feet. I've not been able to run since I was in my 30's due to my knees just not being able to take it anymore. (I'm not overweight.)

In fact, I walk 4+ miles a day, much up and down hills, and just that has pushed my feet pretty hard. About 5 years ago I had to switch to MBT's because I was essentially unable to walk in regular shoes. And it was a complete fluke that I found those shoes.
I found this article about the changes from 7 to 8:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/why-cant-app...
I was thinking the same thing. It is good to see GitHub get new features, hopefully the competitors do as well. As long as we don't end up with another SourceForge at any point, one is enough.
Good luck getting anywhere on this front with without both working in an in demand field and having a competing offer in hand when you ask for (demand) a raise.
Hey, at least it's better than the Bamboo UI.
The car industry played the same game a while a go and failed badly.

Allow repairs of the device you OWN with parts you decide and not the manufacturer.
China is one of the biggest untapped markets in the world for just about any non-China company. No wonder they want a crack.
There are still A LOT of taxis in Hong Kong though...
Again. The user picks who they authenticate with. You (the site owner) get no say in the matter. You aren't outsourcing it to any one company.
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> Do you really believe Google will:

The same can be said about other for profit organization. If the times changes and the board changes they can change their behaviour. So, it is only ifs.

> Of course, this doesn't matter when talking about Google and their data. We already know they give data to the government because they are part of PRISM[1].

So is Apple

> As for advertisers, the scenerios "Google gave customer data to an advertiser" and "Google did the targeting work for the advertiser as a (paid) service" differ only in minor details. The end result is the same

Minor details? Yes, NOT giving access to the data to advertisers is just a minor detail /s
Anytime you use the word "just", you're sweeping a huge number of assumptions under the rug.

For example, what if you have to run code that depends on a POSIX interface? That "just" becomes a massive rewrite project.
> Companies in the grocery market have already gone bankrupt because they couldn't be competitive at billions in sales.

Google isn't entering the grocery market, its expanding its existing presence in the delivery market partnering with existing stores that are in the grocery market (some of which are already retail partners for Google Express, which has been around for a while for dry goods, and is just expanding to include fresh groceries.)
> Google makes more money from iOS than they do from Android.

Source?
I am not an insider, but I view this as, "Starting something is hard. We make it a little easier for you. You make it a little easier for the next group."

There are so many random things that can befall a startup, that any support network is great. This is no different than Steve Jobs mentoring people, because others mentored him.
The design principles are an ideal that we're striving for, and while we're proud of the improvements that we've made over the last few years (seriously, look at JIRA 7 vs JIRA 4, 5, or 6) we're always looking for ways that we can do better. JIRA as a product pre-dates not only our design principles but also our first hire of a designer by a few years :) It's one of the most flexible tools in the industry and that (currently) comes with some attached complexity tax. We're continually making improvements to highlight happy paths, simplify onboarding, and even remove some obsolete or under-utilized features, to pare back that complexity. However it takes time and many iterations to get that right. Particularly, when you have to balance simplicity with the "power features" and flexibilty that many customers count on us for. If you have feedback on rough edges or clunkiness that affect you I'd love to hear it! My contact info is on my profile.

If you'd like to read a bit more about Design @ Atlassian, our team posts pretty regularly over at on Medium. This one's a good read if you have a design bent: https://medium.com/designing-atlassian/product-to-platform-e...
It's not just a waste of funders' money; it's not just an ethical problem because subjects expected to be advancing science; in my view the real problem with this low disclosure rate is that it skews the publicly available literature, almost universally in favor of the proposed new treatment. The low disclosure rate is the flip side of publication bias. It has the tendency of favoring the interests of corporations selling treatments at the expense of patients who end up wasting their money on ineffective (or less-effective-than-expected) new drugs/methods/procedures.
It would be easier to take seriously if it wasn't a pseudo-clickbait title. It's practically; "You won't believe what scientists think about these results!"
Interesting to see how Neverware has changed over the years. If I remember correctly their V2 product was about replacing old computers/laptops with virtual machines running in the cloud. They have a new solution but they're still solving the same problem.
Most people who think about this stuff often seem to think that TAO already has access and the only purpose is to create a precedent to use this legal process against anyone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11125063
I understand the technical issues, and understand the broader implications...

But, one thing has been bugging me about this case and your comment that Apple questions the "lawfulness of this particular request" leads me to ask:

Does 4th Amendment protection end at death...?...the terrorist is obviously dead...

I've been looking and don't find answers that satisfy me...?

Anyone?
Social media strategies are pretty degraded to begin with...
So does Tokyo, yet there are still tons of cabs.
I actually mentor at one of the schools mentioned in the article (Academy for Software Engineering in Manhattan). Really cool to see it featured here since they incorporate CS into their curriculum throughout all four years of high-school. If you're in the NYC area I would encourage you to check out iMentor and get involved with the school... They're always looking for more mentors!
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As I said, nice cherry-picking.
Is it that different that a Harvard or MIT alum taking a call from a student looking for an internship? They take the call because someone took their call years before. Are they over-hyped old boys networks? I'll leave that to others.
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I can't emphasize the legal framework enough. I'm currently in Thailand and the laws here are like sewage cologne for startups.

One Thai investor perceives China and India as poor markets to enter. They're big enough to stand on their own. Don't bother making software for that market, they have enough minds and startups there. (His perspective)

The Philippines is less developed than Thailand. I talked to a startup there and learned that something like 90% of their citizens don't have bank accounts. They send money across the country via cash deposits at 7-eleven.

The story I'm told is that Thailand is up and coming after Singapore for startups, since Singapore is so expensive. Having been here for a while, I have my doubts, but I'm still observing.
This is equivalent to allowing any party in control of your device to circumvent its security by installing a fake fingerprint sensor.

No thank you.
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Might be a way to get unofficial feedback from the community as the news spreads and make final tweaks before they release it.
> Basically you take the general, composable API functions and generate specific equivalent code that avoids the overhead of dealing with abstract interfaces like Iterators.

That's pretty cool. Similar to what Rust already does when the compiler elides allocations for chained iterators. I wonder if value type support in the JVM would avoid the need to do this type of code gen.
They might not own the openzfs patches but they definitely own all of the zfs code. They had all contributors sign CLAs to reassign copyrights. That's how they were able to end opensolaris.
>they pitch up everything under the F/OSS banner

Do they really pitch anything under the F/OSS banner? I don't understand why Google has this reputation. Android is OSS, but that's a fairly recent addition, and it's not really played up very much.
Awesome... I can think of 4 or 5 times I have been away from my laptop but still need to update a photo for a client. Glad to see this, otherwise I would have never known it had been added!

Slightly brings up an interesting point. With native apps, I usually review release notes upon updating. Webapps get to release whenever they please to little notice of the end user (for better or worse). With releasing new webapp functionality, bug fixes, etc "continuously" I think some cool bits get overlooked...
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Very cool! I've been playing around with nginx-lua to handle our shortened URLs without having to invoke the upstream application.
Even if it's fake, it should simply transmit fingerprint data to the CPU and not more.

What am I missing here?
So serious! I think we can make jokes and still have a serious discussion.
OTOH, on a trip to Alaska with multiple connections, my white, Irish-Norwegian descent wife was searched every time she went through security while I, her black husband, looked on with veiled amusement.

YMMV.
I trust that comex knows what he's talking about : http://www.ijailbreak.com/developers/
> Google makes more money from iOS than they do from Android.

I think that statement's based on an old stat that, at that time, Google's revenue from licensing (Apple was paying for Maps) and advertising (including web and search advertising, and at the time Google was the default search provider on iOS and this was also before Siri was around to displace some web search) to iOS users was greater than its revenue from Android.

The facts on which all that was based (market share, basis of iOS revenue streams, etc.) have changed substantially since then.
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Given the SDR hack described above, it seems they barely even tried to make the thing secure.

I guess anybody wanting to sell wireless IOT stuff better be advertising how their device pairing is robust or be getting heaps of criticism.

(I think it must be possible to robustly pair devices, I would be interested in discussion of why it wouldn't be possible, and in discussion of user friendly ways to do it)
If you look at it systemically, the puzzle disappears. It's not hard to see that the system Jim Crow laws were part of was more harmful than the system taxi regulations are part of, however one dislikes taxi regulation.

Feelings like the one you describe are often better at giving us information about systems than an analytic view (e.g. measuring comparables, in this case comparable regulations). Emotion can be irrational and take us further from the truth, but it can also take us closer. It's a question of the quality of the emotion, and one can learn to distinguish these things.
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If anything deserves an upvote, it's this :-)
Your comment just drips with enlightening anecdotes and interesting exposition explaining how picking health insurance is so much more complicated than all the other financial advice that today is basically little more than:

Put client's answers in brokerage program

Choose highest commission in top 10

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More nodes = more backend servers?
That article is pure speculation and is pretty much worthless.

It's claim that the Secure Enclave is comprimisable is based on Apple releasing a firmware update that "increased delays between passcode attempts". From this the author then assumes that Apple then has the ability to "disable passcode delays and auto erase". There is no evidence for this. And there are plenty of other scenarios like their being a hardware minimum attempt delay, auto erase not being possible or the maximum attempt count implemented in hardware.
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I got the impression that that isn't the case, but as they want to improve in ways that would be unhelpful to LEOs, what you described will be the setup soon.
Hey Dan

The 2 comments are us asking for feedback and 2 are friends which we have asked to delete their comments but we have not been pushing for votes.

Thanks for the heads up!
I would think that this sort of feature was underway well before most of the negative feedback came in. This might be the reason they announced the feature before it was live though.
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Oof. Clickbait headlines are like watching evolution in action.

The article is a better read than the title suggests.

Of note, the extra cold spot in the North Atlantic is proposed to be connect to the extra warmth of the Artic.

This radical and swift change to normal conditions is troublesome.
I see that the exact other way around. With other languages, every project decides on their weird local directory layout for no good reason at all, and then everyone has to write build scripts to keep things working.

Learning from C++ builds seems like a cruel joke – not sure if trolling or not ;-)
I've always been impressed with how often they release new features, it actually seems like a weekly thing for GitHub. I don't think that the events of the past two weeks accelerated that process at all.
Weird. What changed in the last 10+ years?
Am I the only one that signed up but cant have access to it ?
Uber is amazing in China. We used it all over Beijing
Your own reading comprehension seems rather lacking. All that was being said was that it would to good to get empirical data to see if the anecdotal evidence presented is backed up - it's good to validate the perceptions of the person on the coal face. Nobody is being dickish here, though you are getting very close.
Forgive my naivety (and I'm fully aware of IT people's tendency to declare all other fields "easy" and "why don't you just"), but why wouldn't the following work?

* Wireless system

* Active heartbeats saying "no alarm", with proper crypto (eg. signed message which contains a monotonic sequence number)

* If the sensor detects a problem, it sends an alarm message

* If the sensor is jammed and "no alarm" heartbeats can't get through, it's treated as an alarm.

The only unavoidable problem I can see would be that someone with a jammer could always jam your signal to generate alarms on demand.
It would be entirely possible for the secure enclave to refuse a firmware update while the device is locked. Or as an alternative to refusing, it could ensure the NVRAM is reset in the process, rendering the encryption keys permanently lost.
It's been stated in numerous articles over the years. I don't have any source offhand, though a quick DDG search gives me a story from 2012: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/03/29/iphone-4x-revenue-an...
> I don't understand why Google has this reputation. Android is OSS, but that's a fairly recent addition, and it's not really played up very much.

In addition to AOSP, Chromium (and Chromium OS) are open source; while App Engine isn't, the App Engine SDK is, and Google has supported an open-source reimplementation of App Engine. Dart is open source, as is Go. And a lot of other stuff.
If you're interested in this subject, here's a post I wrote two years ago about how bad the U.S.'s strategic position in the South China Sea vis-á-vis China was even before these new missiles were deployed: http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/08/stovl-the-f-35-and-how-wer...
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This seems like an instance of Job's "A players hire A players, B players hire C players." [1] Results will vary by who is hiring.

[1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
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With the massive drop in oil prices, global oil consumption and carbon emissions will continue to trend upwards.

In aggregate, the American consumer is certainly not showing any concern for climate change:

Americans Revert to Buying Gas Guzzlers: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-revert-to-buying-gas-g...
Does the current publicly released version of Vector support BPF? Or is there perhaps a PMDA that allows BPF support?

I'm following along with all of this pretty excitedly, and crossing my fingers for a Linux tracing book with BPF, ftrace, perf, etc. to read through and keep on my shelf next to your performance and dtrace books ;)
From Apple's letter [1]:

> Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation. In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession.

> The FBI may use different words to describe this tool, but make no mistake: Building a version of iOS that bypasses security in this way would undeniably create a backdoor.

So it's not a matter of technical impossibility.

[1] https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/
I see a file upload banner when I look at my repos. Probably A/B testing
Apple is great at manufacturing and logistics though, so the parts are probably pretty cheap for them even though they're also good quality (well, likely better than you'd find in the aftermarket or on eBay). The repairs they do are fairly simple, so combined with their ability to control the experience and make sure it doesn't suck for consumers helping their brand, it's another revenue channel for them.

Edit: even if they're losing money on every repair, it might be worth it to them to give people the peace of mind of knowing that they can "take it back to where they got it" to have it fixed if anything bad happens. That's not a common thing with electronics these days.
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"joyLikelihood:VERY_LIKELY"

While this technology is fascinating, I can't help but feel a little unsettled reading that.
> "I wish the world wasn't that way" means "I wish we didn't live in a world where people could unprofitably pour money into a market to grab market share to kill off competitors."

I don't see how you've come to that conclusion without asking him to clarify what he means.

Everyone's down voting me like I'm an evil person. I'm just defending him because I think it's lazy to attack someone's point of view with the withering criticism of 'ironic', when the actual words on the page don't really support it.
> Google doesn't care. They're the "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, and you better not fear advertisers, because we just told them all about you" crowd.

Still with that out of context quote?
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If you use a CDN such as Cloudflare, you can do a similar trick but forget about the proxy cache (and associated storage needs) - as long as every image at every size gets a unique URL and you control http cache headers correctly, Cloudflare will store copies of every image size ever requested across their CDN network.

In terms of this blog post, you'll only need the "resizing server". This is a very simple and stateless way to get image thumbnailing to work. I'd also personally not bother with all the API key stuff - how 'malicious' can it be to generate a thumbnail of a public image?

This will even work with 3rd party images (the case of the app I used this for, it was product icons from Apple's App Store). If you somehow want to use images hosted elsewhere inside your app, but worry about speed or about hitting their servers too much, proxy them with Nginx and let Cloudflare handle the rest.
Uber already knows this. That's why they've partnered with Baidu and raised $2B from Chinese investors recently.

You really think Travis is going to lose in China? This isn't Google China in 2009. Travis partnered with the crazy guy who got Google kicked out of China.

I won't speculate that Uber will be dominate in China but there's no way they're going away anytime soon.

Reference to Li (CEO of Baidu), expiring Google in China - https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Google-blocked-in-China
> If that's the case, then why doesn't the FSF sue Linux kernel developers over licence violations?

I don't understand. The Linux kernel developers hold the copyright on the kernel. If someone sues someone else, it's them --- the kernel developers -- who have standing to be doing the suing. They didn't give their copyright to the FSF merely as a result of choosing to use the FSF's license.
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.
if the gov were capable of doing this themselves they would have done it already
> This seems like an instance of Job's "A players hire A players, B players hire C players."

Tangentially, I've always wondered, in that model, how B players ever get hired.
I have an old netbook that came with Windows but runs Lubuntu now. Why the excitement about Chrome OS compared to other resource-light Linux distros? I can run Chromium on Lubuntu, so doesn't that give me access to all the Chrome OS software plus a bunch of other Linux software too?

I don't understand why Chrome OS is considered to be something revolutionary.
Fair enough, it's certainly possible that the stat is no longer true. Unless they've talked about it recently, it's hard to know for sure. Here's an article from May of 2015 that says that 75% of Google's mobile search revenue comes from iOS, which probably hasn't changed too dramatically since then, but it may no longer be accurate: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/05/27/apples-ios-drives-...
Weird I have the same habit however what clued me in was the images too forever to load and they were pixelated before they were fully loaded.