skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You people seriously want me to believe that it was the fbi's incompetence that led to the gov throwing away their only get in free card for the most popular American phone used to coordinate the only substantial ISIS affiliated attack on US soil. Come on now, do you guys seriously think that this was unintentional?

You don't put rookies on this and I'd seriously be surprised if the NSA wasn't involved in this matter personally.

The government wants a back door installed into all iPhones period. I mean how do you expect apple to build a tool that can bypass the same security features the government is trying to deal with right now without them inadvertently letting everybody and their mother know that there is some fatal flaw in the security layer of every modern iphone and/or iTunes.

There's no magic way to fine tune a tool like this and if out spy agencies don't know this then god help us all. Isis is probably gonna win. rolls eyes

I mean jail breaking is one thing. This is vault busting and once people know there's a bug and where to look they will find it and exploit it.

And apple's only remedy will be to patch the backdoor. Which is obviously what the gov is trying to prevent apple from being able to do by getting a precedent established in the courts that wags a finger at Apple saying "ah, ah, ah you didn't say the magic word"

Please goddamnit!

The gov doesn't want to be Samuel l Jackson anymore. They want to reverse the roles and this case is the perfect cover. Just like the gov exploited the bombing on 9/11 to pass the patriot act. This is no different.
USDCHF Faces Pullback Threats Below Key Resistance
master and origin are mere conventions, you can call your upstream remote and upstream branch whatever you want, although it's good to respect convetions. I make this comment because the guide does not make note of this fact.
It's funny how often Brits get offended at that and "American" spelling in general. They don't know enough history to realize they actually invented them and changed, not Americans.
Extremely interested and slightly wary as to how this will affect ppc. My informed predictions:

- CPC increases across the board

- CTR increases across the board

- AdWords loses smaller ad buyers who simply can't compete for a top 3 spot

- More stringent requirements about ad content

- Awareness ads (not directly leading to a purchase or conversion) will be unable to compete on cpc

- Longtail keywords become more important, overall number of keywords brands are targeting will increase

Ultimately I think this helps big brands who can afford top spots. They can afford higher cpcs, and better keyword bid strategies. Google's revenue will increase, but the number of ad purchasers will decrease. Ad quality (if there is such a thing) will become "better" by aligning more with users search intentions (Read: ads looking more and more like organic results).

I work at a digital agency, so these are only 90% bullshit predictions.
I'm not saying that taking the job was a good decision. But it isn't just because of her personal situation, I just don't know who this job would be good for. It wasn't a good opportunity for advancement, she found out she had to wait a year before she could transfer. It didn't pay enough so people could afford to live without getting money elsewhere. And I don't think going into debt for this job would provide any benefit for a career. Sure, that specific job might be great for a few people in very specific circumstances, but it didn't look like Yelp was concerned about job fit. And her coworkers were having problems too. So what is screwed up is a company expecting people to make major financial sacrifices to work there. It look like yelp is taking advantage of their workforce.

I agree with you, if this is a really accurate picture of what it is like in SF, it might collapse. But I think companies will have some responsibility, not just workers who took bad job offers.
There has never been a state that even claimed to be unqualified Marxist, all the states that claimed something derived ultimately from Marxism have claimed descent through Leninism, which threw out the fundamental prerequisites for Marxism of a broad movement in an advanced capitalist state in favor of a system that was premised on an elite vanguard operating in a precapitalist state.

Socialist movements influenced by non-Leninist Marxism (though rarely as the sole Socialist influence) have been quite successful in the developed world, though they don't tend to set up one party states even where they are influential, again, because that's something more associated with the authoritarian paternalism of Leninist vanguardism than it does with non-Leninist Marxism.

So, its perhaps fair to say Leninism has been tested and failed; far less so for Marxism.
Are you an iOS developer by chance?
I'd almost forgotten about the Kinect. After a lot of buzz about hacker applications of a Kinect at first release things seem to have gone quiet over the last year. Kind of surprised not to see more oculus dk2 / Kinect v2 mashups - maybe they'll be a resurgence in interest when oculus gets a full release...
9th European Lisp Symposium (9-10 May 2016)
We were at peak TED before TED even came into existence, with the amount of "progressive" blabber in the world.
Since you collect... be sure to check out the open sourced Harlequin MLWorks: https://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mlworks/ and https://github.com/Ravenbrook/mlworks

There are some branches on the repo with more recent work to get it to compile on other platforms.
No need to do networking and all that. Just apply to every public company in the valley and interview with who ever calls you for interview. If you pass the interview, they will hire your as Senior Software engineer or as staff engineer. These jobs will fetch $150K+

Of course, you can apply to startups also...but I am not aware of how much they pay.
Your comment reminds me of the question: The Greeks invented the steam engine, why didn't they have an industrial revolution?

One answer is that slave labor made a steam engine unneeded: any work the engine could do was already being done by slaves. Similarly, Cicero had no need for a printing press, any time he wanted to print something (election pamphlets, for example), he had an army of slaves copy it over and over by hand.

So maybe rich people have the same thing: they don't need someone to code them a train schedule app (or whatever to empower them), they just tell someone to figure out their schedule for them.
So is that to say that it's completely a choice and so we should treat these people as criminals and simply jail them with harsh sentences if they don't conform to our societal norms?
Everyone has their favourite explanation of how git works. Mine is:

Knowledge is Power: Getting out of trouble by understanding Git by Steve Smith [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sevc6668cQ0
On NPR, there was this Selected Shorts story read by William Hurt. I really liked it so I looked into the audiobook version. It was read by another actor and it was like night and day. I realized how good William Hurt was.
Interactive guide to Git branching
The Natural Outcome of the Encryption Wars in the U.S
I worked with someone whose approach was very interesting: he committed the .git directory of a newly initialized repo to a separate, newly initialized repo. And then watched what changed when he added a file, changed things, branched, etc, in the committed .git directory.

It's always seemed worthwhile to me to dig into git's model more, but if you're already comfortable and productive with stuff like detached head/rebasing/basic workflows, it's hard to justify when you're already trying to find time to learn new languages, frameworks and devops tools ...
The “L” word – latency and digital audio systems (2003)
No, and nobody else does. There's a lot more baggage and feature check-boxes tied up in that name.
It's not the same thing at all, some things are exempt from tax this is a "smart" tax policy that is instituted to ensure that people save money, in the US you have an IRA in the UK it's called an ISA, most countries also give you tax credit for participating in a pension scheme.

If you want a good analogy on a "personal" level (even tho there isn't really one) is that if you would transfer all your property to an offshore trust and they pay yourself rent deducting the rental costs from your overall taxes under various schemes.

If a normal individual would play the same game they would be singled out for tax evasion, and while if you are wealthy enough you can hide behind off shore trusts and shell corporations you money is often tied down considerably more than the money of a multi-billion dollar corporation.

Google can't really move that money easily either if they want to move it into the US they'll have to pay taxes eventually but as long as they keep it offshore they can use that money for credit as well as actually pay out any debts they might have to presumably other multi-billion dollar corporations without having to pay taxes on it.

But what usually they do is either wait for a "bad" year or when they have enough carry over deductions to move their money back in without paying any taxes due to deductible or horde it until they'll get a good deal and only have to pay a fraction of the tax that they would've normally pay (and every couple of years you read that corp X has came to agreement with country Y to pay couple of billions in tax, what you often do not read is that amount is usually less than a quarter of what was actually due).

Now don't get me wrong Google isn't doing anything illegal, and unfortunately as a public company they are pretty much forced to do it because otherwise they open the selves to their investors because if a company "intentionally" waste a shitload of money it will have to answer to their investors and the board can kiss their positions and bonuses good bye.

The problem is that international taxation is complicated there isn't a single good international tax treaty and when you involve multiple jurisdictions you complicate things even further because even if the US will have a treaty to collect taxes from say an Irish subsidiary when it does not generate any taxable income in Ireland because it's in account debt to another subsidiary in Bermuda there's nothing you can do.

One of the "good" sides of the TTTP is that it actually gives (at least the US) quite substantial tax collecting provisions as well as limits the taxes that can be set on US goods, while this might help the US many of the other countries might get screwed over this because it doesn't necessarily works both ways.
Usually the tricky part is when you have to decide licensing. Eg for Amazon, most of (all?) the site is developed in the US, so every local subsidiary has to license it.

How much this license is worth is the whole question. Some gov would like to say 0, so they can get a higher share of the tax, companies might say it is worth all their local income (so they pay 0 tax locally). The truth is probably in between.

Other issue might be that this IP often ends up being owned in a tax heaven, instead of the US which would be the logical owner.
For anyone looking for a video/demo on this, here's a great presentation by Tim Berglund - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYP56QJpDr4
It's more the case for other packages in the ecosystem (especially when combined together) which is part of what this react change aims to help, I realize. E.g. react-router is something I've had trouble with over time, as one example. Getting hot loading set up also gets trickier with each new project (which I'm sure you have experience with ;) Getting react transform running a month ago between all the version incompatibilities was pretty tricky. Following a chain of deprecated projects is not super easy generally.
I'm not sure how relevant lesson from Patagonia are to a more mass market retailer. I like my Patagonia gear. I also bought most of it at outlets where it's merely expensive. It's certainly a high-end retailer. Making similar tradeoffs at a Sears or, as was recently the case, JC Penney's don't necessarily work.
Paedophiles are attracted to pre-pubescent children. Hebophiles are attracted to post-pubescent children, but possibly under the age of consent.

I learned this from a Netflix documentary.
Just so i understand, your point is it's much better to have nothing, than having a poor copy of the original object?

That makes, well, not much sense to me. but ok.
No, I design iOS apps and use Testflight, but not xcode.
Reasoning About Code
This is an absurd waste of energy.
"Oh, you wanted to increment a counter. I'm sorry it's not that simple Dave" -- distributed computing literature
Yup. I think it is the alternative definition of a "hack". :)
This is the first time I've ever been accused of being a pirate! There's a first time for everything I guess.

To be perfectly honest: I vaguely recall source of an older Solaris version being passed around the user/hobbyist community, but I wasn't the originator. I'm sure I downloaded it at one point, but don't remember ever doing anything with it OR putting it up for coworkers to browse.

Like the (released and quickly discontinued) version of Solaris 2.6 for PPC that ran on certain RS/6000s, it was "out there" and easily obtainable by anyone in the hobbyist community if you asked enough people.

No idea what was done at TN after I left; I had issues with how management treated the technical staff and resigned in late '98.

It's been 18 years, my memory is a bit fuzzy.
Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1
I think we should have a steep uncanny valley before a computer model can impersonate the presence of a person on a screen, I expect to be old or dead by then.
Beware of hacked ISOs if you downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th
If I recall correctly, the idea is that the Ur-Quan aren't entirely clear as to what parts of human history are factual or fictional, so they destroy both sites of real historical significance and areas that are prominent in human myth, including the lost city of Atlantis.
This would be absurdly cool if it pulled in Wikimedia images and/or called up the corresponding Wikipedia articles in a frame.
The article does not support the HN title.
They have surpassed Japan since 5 years ago
It's the responsible thing to do for their shareholders if they do not play the same game anyone who owns a Google stock could get their board hanged.

If a company intentionally does something that results in a financial loss they are liable to their investors this is how the market works.
Only my "nerd" friends are even remotely active on Twitter, and even then roughly 50% of my "nerd" friends don't even have a Twitter account, and zero of my friends who are outside tech ever use it at all.

To me Twitter has always felt like primarily an echo chamber for Silicon Valley hipsterdom, which eventually added-on a sub-culture of celebrity narcissism.
I know, I know, when I have time... pull requests are also welcome : )
So basically it has nothing to do with what we're talking about. You just think a completely hypothetical system which has never existed, let alone been subjected to any kind of attack, would be a better alternative, and so you think that what Apple is doing is in error.
Luckily there's also the git manpage generator for helpful documentation:

https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

(to be clear, this will randomly generate a nonsense fake git man page, but it's hard to distinguish from the real documentation)
Adam Savage (of Mythbusters) did a hilarious fake TED Talk at the Amanda Palmer ninjaTED show the other day:
https://huzza.io/amandapalmer/live-stream/amanda-palmer-ninj...

"What if we could use data, to build the perfect snowboard?"

"In the average Silicon Valley tech company, 95% of time is wasted building tech products"
The problem is with the laws. Poorly written, lazy or "bought-for" laws are being used exactly as they are worded. If you want better laws, you need to write better laws - not just hope that people will follow what each law intended.

For the people that claim that the tax loopholes are something that the companies lobby for - again - it's interesting that people are upset with the companies who lobby for this, rather than the fact that politicians are receiving the actual money.

The problem is not with the companies - it's with the politicians that allow money to influence themselves. It's laughable to me that politicians denounce "money in politics" with one hand and are busy recruiting, fundraising and accepting it on the other.
Although I doubt you are correct, I didn't actually make any claims about mental illness. You seem to be arguing against something I didn't say.
http://www.newpalmyra.org/

> NEWPALMYRA is a Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS.
I've worked for foreign publishers here in China. I've worked for foreign publishers that have been raided and shut down by the publishing bureau in China. I've continued to work for the same foreign publishers, operating essentially the same business, even after they were raided, and seen them continue successfully for more than a decade.

There are rules and there is implementation. Reality in China is not so cut and dried.

I share pbkhrv's sentiment about this possibly being a preparation for a rash of bad economic news late this year. I have it on very reasonable authority that the RMB will tank at least 15% by end of year.

The view from here in China is basically the same as ever... nobody with money really cares about foreign journalism and reporting, only food prices (steadily increasing), education (crisis), health (crisis), pollution (huge) and inflation (big). Transport is also a problem. They just try to get their money out.

The Chinese government has a difficult job. They don't really do too badly when all things are considered.
Wow that talk about nothing is really well done :)
While that's somewhat true, OCaml is still a somewhat "small" language when compared to lots of other functional languages (Haskell, Scala, and even F# to an extent). At the very least, it has an agreed upon subset of the language to use in everyday code (which most languages of similar size or larger lack), which makes almost any code you find on GitHub or wherever perfectly readable.
On the other hand, the standard libraries (or lack thereof, considering there's no wholly agreed upon standard library to use) can feel at times vast and complex since every standard library alternative has its own subtleties that can make it difficult to go back and forth between all these alternatives.
Considering that Apple and others are able to get extremely high quality manufacturing out of China, it's a shame this isn't more widespread. I guess consumers don't really expect much better.
For those interested in understanding the general operation, this type of circuit is called a relaxation oscillator.
I live near one of the major Cambrian sites, Chengjiang in China. If anyone collects fossils or wants to come and visit, let me know.
Making the US tax system more competitive worldwide is very rarely brought up.

Corporate taxes aside, I think the US is one of just 2 countries (the other being Eritrea) where you're taxes personally on the money you make based on your citizenship (not residency) no matter where you live. Stuff like that is why you're starting to see people give theirs up in favor of more favorable tax codes.
Good point. In fact, just owning a car and not even driving requires registration!
I'm sure those things do actually matter(family connections could turn into a Friend's and Family round; the school you went to could mean you learned how to hack when others didn't).
Thanks for posting, ingve. I'm the author of this framework. If you have any questions about it, please ask.
Isn't that exactly what I said? o.O I said they will "likely" get rolled out with the new dashboard, not that the article said they would lol. But, they never stated when it would happen anyways, so "delays" aren't really a thing when there's no deadlines.
Ah - the old ancient proverb :)
Check out givewell.org
I really hope this is a satirical post but if not....

Allot, the US spends about $100B on scientific research per year as far as Federal Funding goes (about 2/3rd's of it goes to "defense"), if you add up Google, Facebook, Apple, Intel, Starbucks and ever other corporation that is "evading" taxes by parking their profits off shore you can fund allot of research.

Just to put into perspective in 2015 NASA's budget was set to $18B(which was a spike of 7-8B over 2014 to develop Orion) so $2.4B is almost 15% of NASA's yearly budget, imagine what you could do if you only got 10 of the "big players" to play ball, heck $2.4B is about half the yearly budget of the National Science Foundation.
I have a standalone implementation here as well: https://github.com/jb55/Data.Maybe.cs
A lot of it is what you get from it, right?

I view Tony Robbins as a mystery - because I just can't quite figure him out.

He's rich so he doesn't have to continue. He seems genuine.

And yet, his overall message seems to largely be 'YEAH, YOU CAN DO IT! WOO!'

Just take massive action baby! Baby steps, start small, build, iterate, you can do it!

I am still not sure what the content is or if his presentation is a massive distraction.

That I can't quite tell what his overall point is worries me, and yet I can't believe that he's full of shit. So he's trying to do a good thing, he is succeeding in terms of money but maybe not so much in terms of actual results...

I don't know, Tony is a mystery remaining to be solved.

Those going to his seminars - I think they're just misguided. The steps to fix your life are not at a seminar, they're in improving your life, one step at a time. It's a life decision to strive for excellence. If you haven't come to that point and you're 30, it is probably too late.

If you have come to that point and you're 30, you don't need Tony's help.

So who's he really helping but the blow-hards who want to be 'inspirational' like him?
> Yeah, like the diet that accompanies 14 hour sessions sitting before a screen.

I wasn't aware that sitting down for long periods required changes in diet. If you're trying to imply that
hanniabu is fat and unhealthy, then at least point out something that makes sense, like lack of exercise.

> But I wouldn't take advise from anyone saying 'that that' unless that that that's a stutter ;)

First is a subordinating "that", second is a demonstrative pronoun "that". Perfectly valid English.
Do agents have a legal obligation to set the customer up with the most appropriate insurance possible?

I could see how even an old-school agent could forget to mention earthquake insurance for home insurance or lack of acupuncture in health plan.
You're describing the underwriter. I think he was inquiring about the broker - why do they need to be licensed?
Quit Whining And Put On A Goddamn Coat is great too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeqwDLsZJn8
> But why should Google benefit from tax evasion at the expense of most smaller businesses, who pay the normal rate of tax?

You're assuming that because Google is being strategic in their tax planning that other people are getting hurt. This is similar to you having a good accountant who saves you money and thus are "cheating" the system because other people don't have as good of accountants.

Not to mention that it's easier than ever for small companies to operate multi-nationally.
Yes, that why they are recalling it.