skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your monthly "rent" isn't fixed though. Most people have both HOA and propter taxes, both which increase year over year. Not only do these rates increase over time, but as the value of your home (which you often don't own in any significant way) rises, so too does the assessed value. Do they increase as dramatically as rent? No, but they do still increase.

Then you've got the 10% or so of "homeowners" with variable rate mortgages.

Even if you own a home in a major city you can easily end up paying $1,500/mo in "rents".

Buying a home makes sense for a lot of reasons, but general finances usually aren't among them for most people today. What it DOES do is force people to save who might not save otherwise because they lack the discipline to do so.
Fair use is hard to determine before you get sued. There is no black or white rule. There are 4 (or more) factors to consider. Some are in favor of it being fair use--a)Amount and substantiality* and b) effect upon work's value. Some go against fair use, like commercial nature of the work. The fact that Giphy is just ripping off other people to get funding is bad for their fair use argument.

How a court would rule isn't clear.

*assuming they are copying a clip from a movie or show. Ripping off someone's original gif would turn this factor against them since they copy the whole thing.
This suggestion is as extreme and misguided as suggesting that this suggestion is harmful.

(This is not a typo :] )
I really respect Jan. I saw him talk at Startup School a few years ago and what really impressed me was his non-traditional path to becoming a tech billionaire. He had a long career at Yahoo! before founding WhatsApp. He's a role model we should be looking at. Not young college kids who can dupe old investors into giving them millions for vaporware.

It's also important that he's speaking out in opposition to these government tactics. Hopefully Zuckerberg will follow suit but if history tells us anything it's that Facebook is rather compliant and doesn't take security seriously.
What about splitting the product and offering the results for free and the convenient auto-cancel as a one time fee.

Also I'd feel better if you didn't store anything long term, I'm more interested in this as a on-demand service than as something that constantly pulls my data.
This is one of the few tech sites where you can post something positive about Microsoft and not get moderated into oblivion.

I agree that there's some "groupthink" going on here, but it's not nearly as bad as any other sites I've used.
The majority of federal government travel is done with commercially available rental cars.

The likelihood of the federal government driving a GSA-plate vehicle from Maryland to California to meet with Apple is about zero.
Compelling speech is a thing that happens under certain circumstances. E.g. subpoenas, witnesses in court. Though those are clearly different from a canary, not least because producing such a canary would not just be compelling speech, but compelling a lie.
Go programs can link the Qt library, specifically the GUI components, statically? ... it produces one output binary per target OS?
I would argue that the hole is the fact that Apple can even load new software that allows this attack. It already exists.

But I'm not sure that distinction is important. The other comment you linked to lays it out pretty nicely and it doesn't rely on a hole existing it being created. It's ultimately just about compelling creation.

I wonder, what if the FBI just requested the relevant signing keys and source code? That seems like a much worse outcome, but at the same time less of a reach.
I've been evaluating the new Docker platform for a few months, and I definitely prefer it to anything else I've used. It fills a void that I was frustrated existed - there aren't, or at least weren't, any CI hosts that would take a repository with a docker-compose.yml file and let you run tests against the services defined therein. To be clear, Jet doesn't do this exactly, but it does let you define services with the same format as docker-compose.yml which I've found to be even more useful.

Currently we use a custom AMI (with docker and compose installed) running bamboo on bamboo's on-demand service, but we've been bitten a couple of times as Bamboo updates their protocols without notice and causes our agents to start failing. It's not an issue if you use their official AMIs, but maintaining your own is not as easy as you'd hope.

That said, I have had some problems with the support channels at CodeShip. I know I've just been a free user evaluating the service and am probably not a high priority, but my experience hasn't been positive.

After activating Docker builds for my account, I was unable to get a test build working. It turns out that this was because of an unusual bug with service names (if I named my service `web`, it would attempt to load up what looked like an internal codeship container instead of the one specified in my config), but I didn't know that at the time.

My first support request was simply ignored. After a couple more months I decided to try a build again, but the bug was still affecting me. My second support request was dismissed as a temporary problem with the docker build services ("running out of resources") which seemed unlikely given the circumstances.

Through trial and error I discovered the service naming issue and followed up on my support ticket to report it. No response to that, either.

All in all I came away thinking it was a pretty nice service with pretty lousy support.
Wow, ok - go ahead and down vote me on that without commenting. I was genuinely curious if there was some part of their site that actually was 100mb (it sounds extremely crazy but sadly feasible).
HN Search can: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=glibc&sort=byDate&prefix=false... -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11109967.
Yeah, I think that that print(2*71) might also be just as useful as print("hello world"). But I don't really think it is any more useful than hello world.

And how connected do you think computer science and mathematical education should be? I think they should definitely be different subjects, but they are definitely related. I'd be really surprised if I found a cs student from a decent program who graduated without realizing how connected they are. I'd expect the average cs student to have more programming experience than the average math major. But I think most math majors have some of the same general skill sets, and would have done well in cs classes.
Hmm, the website says "Elive is not made for newbies".
These Images of Sound Waves in Water Are Hypnotic
First, CockroachDB's time api is based on the Hybrid Logical Clocks paper: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/tech-reports/2014-04.pdf

This paper is one of the most interesting published in the last couple of years IMO. I remain surprised at how many people have overlooked it. I'm not sure why this blog post makes no mention of the work, in the past the Cockroach folks have been quite explicit about crediting the research documents they're drawing from.

Second, cloudera has a patent on this work: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2015/0156262.html
I have never been more proud to have worked for Apple. Tim isn't afraid to give the government the old double forks when it counts!
uClibc is a fork of an old and obscure libc, which later incorporated some code from glibc and a few other libc implementations. They're all GPL'd so the mixing of code probably isn't carefully regulated, and figuring out what stuff is appropriate to submit upstream or what is even derived from a particular upstream source is probably not trivial.
uClibc, which was what OpenWRT used as their libc, shared quite a lot of code with glibc. They don't use it anymore because the project is dead though (no releases since 2012, no commits since mid-2015) so they switched to musl, which is looking really nice.

uClibc was mainly trying to be a cut-down version of glibc, but musl aims for correctness (which can be difficult when a fair bit of software out there relies on glibc's quirks and bugs).
Looks really nice, but what's this creepy right sidebar (which obviously lists wrongly guessed pseudo-contacts)?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bv82he6wlcea3d2/Screenshot%202016-...

Looks like it cannot be disabled?
No, that needs to stay. Just so My Brother, My Brother and Me can continue answering them.
It's not even goroutines. Its the scheduler. I am continuously impressed by the amount of quasi-generic performance they can get out of something so simple. You can understand the entirety of the golang scheduler in minutes, and it works out of the box for most of my golang use cases.

That said, the JVM scheduling is pluggable, so I have options for a much bigger variety of use cases. With go if the default scheduler doesn't do what I want, I'm stuck.
Here’s Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Response to the Apple-FBI Controversy
"The Design of Everyday Things" is still a great place to start if you're looking for a broad, general overview of UI and UX.
Lots of places OUTSIDE the US will care, though. This is exactly the sort of $hite that is causing European companies and governments to avoid dependencies on US providers: there's no way to garauntee freedom from US government surveillance.
Yahoo circa 2000 was a social network, with your yahoo account connecting messaging, chat, games, websites, and loads of other stuff.
I once ate a watermelon seed and then 20 years later i have a paunch belly and am bad at sports. Coincidence? I think not!
Yahoo has digital magazines ?

Why would a search company have junk like that ?

How much other worthless baggage do they have ?
TRUMPed Domains: Why the little things matter
> Fun fact: some of those browsers have been open for over 18 months. We’re not sure why. Someone should go check if those developers are still alive.

How is that actually possible to keep a single TCP/IP connection open over 18 months?!
Yes, they're some of the most educated people in the world.
That's roughly the plot of Wall-E.
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I'll set your less civil commentary to one side and simply ask this:

In what programming language could Emacs possibly not be feasible option for a seasoned Emacs user?
They've already got Tumblr; they just need to... do something, anything at all with it, rather than just letting it sit there. Integrate Yahoo's various news properties into the feed, and vice-versa. Make all of the commenting on every Yahoo property into gradual-engagement reblogs on a Tumblr blog you're not even realizing you're creating as you're creating it. Etc.
Short-lived processes are an issue, because while startup time can be ok, code won't perform well until it's hot enough to be JITed.
Never Trust a Dev
Fdroid is wonderful. They even strip ads from otherwise foss projects since the licenses are usually not compatible.
Nice writeup. I disagree that we need chip-scale, atomic clocks. My idea was a dedicated, battery-backed piece of hardware that reliably stored time plus could sync other machines. Plugs into an interconnect with ultra-low latency. One for each datacenter.

You can plug them into each machine in the cluster periodically to sync them. Or you can plug it into a master node that connects with low-latency management interface separate from main data line. Occasionally, time server gets exclusive access to that line, assesses latency, and then syncs its time. Time server might be custom built to avoid its own skew or keep one of the timekeeping devices attached. Those are periodically shipped to a central location to resync themselves against an atomic clock or each other.

What yall think?
You Dont Need Legs?
Please do not editorialize the titles of stories you submit here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Against a sufficiently capable adversary, tamper-
> resistance is never infalible, but good crypto can be.

Nonsense, it all comes back to "sufficiently capable", every time.

To a sufficiently capable adversary, _all_ crypto is just "mere security by obscurity".

"Oh, mwa-haha, they obscured their password amongst these millions of possible combinations, thinking it gave them security - how quaint. Thankfully I'm sufficiently capable.", she'll say.
As Wikipedia puts it, uClibc was mostly written from scratch,[5] but has incorporated code from glibc and other projects.

I didn't bother to check in detail it but it could mean the getaddrinfo() was taken from glibc, and later fixed, but fix not backported to glibc. Just a guess though.
thanks. this is very nice and i wasn't aware of it

note: need to pipe it to "less -r"
Cairncross smuggled out raw Tunny decrypts performed by Collosus.

However Cairncross worked in translation not code breaking and did not have access to Enigma decrypts

He is unlikely to have comprehended nor been aware of the role of the method or the role or existence of the machine - due to the excellent op-sec secrecy separating huts.

Anyone know of a good cold war history of encryption ?
Apple Pay Has Expanded to China
Been looking at Ember, Angular 2, and Backbone + React. It's all just such a CF though. I was reasonably okay at Angular 1.x apps, but the learning curve is just so steep with these new frameworks that I don't even know where to begin. I've been making okay progress with Backbone and straight jQuery, but jQuery is slow and huge, so I'm slowly coming around to the idea of replacing it with something else.
No floats?
Snapchat Marketing: Do You Know How Consumers Are Really Using Snapchat?
Too bad we can't apply this standard to politicians and judges :-(
> Most people have both HOA and propter taxes,

Most people may have property taxes, but while most new-built homes are saddled with HOAs, I don't think most homes are.

> both which increase year over year. Not only do these rates increase over time, but as the value of your home (which you often don't own in any significant way) rises, so too does the assessed value.

Property tax rates often don't increase year over year (in a number of jurisdictions, including California, the rates are capped, and usually at exactly the cap, so the rates do not rise at all.) Assessed value does increase with value increases (though may jurisdictions, including California, limit this as well -- e.g., in California, this is limited to 2% per year, regardless of how much the actual value increases -- making property taxes far more predictable in worst-case behavior than rents.)

> Then you've got the 10% or so of "homeowners" with variable rate mortgages.

These are easily avoidable.
Cruise (YC W14) is hiring software engineers power the driverless car revolution
Actually Giphy has a pretty sound business model. They are already integrated into most of the large communication services used in the US (facebook messenger, twitter, slack, kik). When a movie studio wants to promote their next film they are going to pay Giphy a lot of money to make sure their gifs are featured. It's not inconceivable that that Giphy and it's like (Riffsy, PopKey) become a massive advertising channel for movies and tv. $300m seems like a lot, but I don't think it's ridiculous.
Curl -4 http://wttr.in/London
As a further correction, the Lavabit founder's name is spelled Ladar Levison.

Rather than making assumptions, you can read about the specific kinds of legal process involved in the Lavabit case at

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

You can also read the Fourth Circuit decision on his appeal, among other things.
Visualizing the mechanics of on-demand pricing in big data technologies
I presume it would just be significant fines, or perhaps some FCC or FTC regulations that would harm Apple's business.
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The bug tracker has basically one maintainer who is quite busy with other stuff. This is the case for a lot of Debian infrastructure unfortunately. Unfortunately maintaining services isn't a particularly well-staffed job, especially for older services.
In the 90s maybe? Even CATIA doesn't officially support UNIX anymore.
I've been waiting for this, I donated money so they can reach the 0.4.0 version.

They have made a lot of improvements on it and added more hardware support like USB and Sound cards. Even added a virtual 16 bit machine to run DOS code.

It is not ready for prime time yet, but it can be run in a virtual machine. It is a Windows alternative that can run some Windows programs and shares code with the WINE project.

It uses a low memory footprint, so you can install Apache, MYSQL, PHP etc on it and use it as a server.

They are trying to make it XP/2003 compatible. So it is really designed for older Windows technology.
> I'm not being negative.

I was. My previous message is an arbitrary combination of HN clichés, of which "opinionated" is one. It's gibberish, devoid of content but written in a fashionable way. It got zero down-votes so far. Maybe something to think about.
> The counter from the governmental side is "we will give your company massive fines until and unless your company complies".

At which point is becomes worth it for Apple to pay an engineer to do the job. I doubt it wouldn't take much of a bonus to get someone to do it.
I tried it for months (like 5) with the BQ Aquaris E4.5 and ended up flashing Android on top. It got me raging.

Most reviews are from folks who had it for a few hours and then go back to their usual feature-full system.

I did an honest effort though. It's not even about the apps. I could manage without them. The problem is Ubuntu phone was utterly broken. Slow as hell. Everything browser based, but they provided the worst browser (it couldn't even parse css for some sites). The team behind was like 10-15 people. You cannot pull this show with such a small team. The phone email app was left to the community. They have only recently figured out how to provide email notifications (this is the extent of brokenness - a mobile OS which cannot notify you of new emails...). There were problems with the calendar, the Wi-Fi, the contacts sync.. The gesture system was awesome. but the UI was laggy, buggy. The idea of scopes was nice, but they were broken: the news scope didn't pull the news, the one showing the weather didn't show the weather etc. to the point I just left the app list.

And the worst was the lock screen. No pattern unlock. instead a circle which would show a text in the middle informing you of how many pictures you've taken or how many messages you've sent. But no way for it to provide actual notifications!

This was an OS that was live, commercially sold, and in reality it looked like a pre-alpha build of a proof of concept.

I am sure some things have improved (cannot get worse), but Canonical has clearly not the muscle to take this idea anywhere and is of course leveraging on community to do their job while milking whatever profits from the few adventurers who pay for it. I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped the project entirely at some point. I'll be sorry for the people which have contributed apps to this ecosystem. Ubuntu phone pretty much killed the reputation that Canonical had left for me.
It's not necessarily deleting anything. Reddit states in its transparency reports that it has not received any NSLs. The idea is that if they ever received one they would simply omit that clause from the next report (not remove it from prior ones).
Should be ok now :-)
We assume.

I'm also confused by a lot of this since don't you need the password anyway to upgrade?
Yahoo considers itself a "media" company. And therein lies the problem.
Are you saying the article is wrong or did you not read it?

"As many jailbreakers are familiar, firmware can be loaded via Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) Mode. Once an iPhone enters DFU mode, it will accept a new firmware image over a USB cable. Before any firmware image is loaded by an iPhone, the device first checks whether the firmware has a valid signature from Apple. This signature check is why the FBI cannot load new software onto an iPhone on their own — the FBI does not have the secret keys that Apple uses to sign firmware."
Ad space. They need to do something with their audience. They tried various content niches. Some failed, some didn't.
Anyone have any images of the event? Was anyone able to actually photograph the event, and of so, when can we expect to see the images?
"Gmailify : The best of Gmail, without an gmail address" because for Google doesn't matter if you use @gmail or not. What matters is the permission to read your inbox and harvest your messages. Please prove me I'm wrong.
Unsure:

Google 'appeared' to have a negative reaction to the NSA jacking their inter DC lines which at the time were not encryoted.

Google will not make public claims on their infra regardless

Google may stand up to the .gov but it may choose to be more quiet.

Anyone that stands up to the police-state-mentality is honorable. The situation we have now is fucked.

Its not "Armageddon" or anything - but the situation is fucked.

Do you have any idea how many people at places like goog and fb and appl are very progressive - dont give a shit about pot, molly, lsd etc as they have all been partying and have had growth experiences due to this? a fucking ton.

It is disingenuous for these companies and their employees to not have the balls to stand up to the government's over reaching BS. EXCEPT that they all share a tenuous thread of "employment status" with a corporation... thus they dont speak up.

Hey Obama, you smoked pot, (That was the point), so release anyone who has ever gone to jail for pot -- or go to jail yourself?

so tired of this hypocrisy
> It may be time to look at applying antitrust laws to rental real estate.

My town sorely needs this. Virtually all of the non-college rentals there are owned by a single large company, so they can basically set whatever rent they want.
If an order is directed to Apple, and Apple fails to comply, the court can order sanctions against Apple for contempt.

The authorities don't have to "come for" any person (they might follow up with orders directed at particular persons, in which case those persons would be at risk of personal sanctions, as well.)
No functional programming, or language features borrowed from there.
Did your source take anyone photos of the event with their phone?
"It requires living in nice rural communities where you will never, ever meet a new person, though..."

Or Pittsburgh. Note where it ranks in the list of highest home ownership and cheapest rents.

(I live here, and there aren't as many tech jobs as SF or NYC, but maybe more than you would expect.)
We are an Italian startup now in San Francisco. We use Facebook friends and interests data to help people looking for a room and roommates.
Despite the assertion of this article, it doesn't actually give any evidence to support the claim that Apple is capable of writing this backdoor. The important question is whether it's possible for Apple to update the OS on the phone (or to load a program into memory that runs on the phone) via DFU mode or something similar without triggering a wipe of the phone. And this article doesn't even acknowledge that question, it makes the blind assumption that this is possible. But is it? As far as I know, nobody has ever updated an iPhone over DFU mode without erasing the phone. It's plausible that Apple has the know-how to do that, but it's also plausible that the device firmware may have been written to trigger a wipe the moment any modification is made via DFU mode.

As a side note, the author mentions that Apple has updated the Secure Enclave with increased delays in the past without wiping data, though they state that only Apple knows how it really works. I just want to put forth the theory that maybe the Secure Enclave allows its firmware to be updated if and only if the user's passcode is provided at the time the OS tells the Secure Enclave to prepare for a firmware update. That would be a reasonable way to ensure the Secure Enclave can't be subverted.