skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s nothing preventing the FBI from writing that hacked software itself, aside from budget and manpower issues.

My understanding is that this isn't correct, and is in fact the focal point of the order:

> 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.

http://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/02/17/apple-can-comply-with...

Is it possible for anyone to load a modified firmware without Apple's signing keys?
What threat model do you work under that an attacker would have physical access to the device long enough to replace an entire sensor, but would not have the resources to just take your fingerprints off the physical device?
Ask HN: What do you expect from a meaningful technical interview?
Recently there was a post regarding technical interviews (how performance is arbitrary) and it got a lot of responses from HN'ers. So I wanted to ask the community how would they design a great technical interview? Disclosure: The reason I am asking is I am thinking of starting a service that provides resources for companies that want to hire technical talent but are not able to suitably test candidates for technical competency. These interviews would be tailored to specific needs. But I am not sure if there is a need for it in the industry.
You are mistaken about the presence of locks and memory deallocation in real-time functions. I invite you to point out specific lines of code and I'll help you fix your understanding.
Fwiw it's called the Tendernob because it is on the border of the Tenderloin and Nob Hill.
We're talking about advancing science, not startups. A lot of the research is publicly funded.
In general you have a point, but in this case the research was conducted at "major U.S. universities and academic hospitals".

The funding rules for academic institutions should be changed to require pre-registration and disclosure of clinical trials; because that will better further the academic community's ultimate goal of expanding our communal knowledge.
10 Key Things about New York City, USA
From the article: "In a nutshell, zero-rating plans exempt particular data from counting against a user's data cap, or from accruing any excess usage charges.

The most dangerous of these plans, such as the AT&T and Verizon offerings, only offer their users zero-rated data from content providers who pay the carriers money to do so.

Such “pay for play” arrangements favor big content providers who can afford to pay for access to users' eyeballs, and marginalize those who can't, such as nonprofits, startups, and fellow users."
Thanks. I read it again, not sure why I got that impression.
Aside from proprietary codecs and DRM, what exactly does ChromeOS implement that Chrome does not?
Show HN: Domp – Scraping and DOM tree manipulation
I disagree that spending on the homeless incentivizes homelessness, or homeless migration. If the benefits were wildly better one city over, maybe, but honestly the biggest thing is the weather: winter doesn't kill you in California. Everything else is secondary.

Homeless people live where they do for the same reason renters or homeowners do: friends, family, history, allure, and so on. If, say, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, announced and financed the biggest homeless benefit program in history (they won't, but bear with me), then would California's homeless people leave their warm, blue skies? Would homeless people in New York uproot and move halfway across the continent?

As an aside, my idea wasn't to take homeless people in SF and transplant them to LA, but to edge them out to elsewhere in the Bay Area. If the whole region took on SF's lead, then the other counties would do the same until there was a location with either enough space/tolerance for the homeless, or a population that couldn't or wouldn't join to pay in the same benefit scheme. And if they want to move back, they can use their regular income to help them get a job and a place to live.

Interestingly, the SF Gate reported that there are around 7,000 homeless people in San Francisco. If each of them were paid $500 each month to avoid the city, that cost would tally to $42 million per year. For the legions of wealthy tech workers and venture capitalists in San Francisco, that would barely be a drop in the bucket. For cleaner, safer, and more pleasant streets, is that not a worthwhile investment?
I think the more important part of that sentence is "or misleading".

"We don't know what happens if you drink cyanide." is different than "You should drink cyanide."
> The same can be said about other for profit organization.

Only those for-profit organizations that are keeping personal data for long periods of time. This is not at all universal, and nobody[1] is collecting data on anywhere near the scale that Google is, across such a wide range of data sources. How many other corporations have entire browsing histories (google-analytics), email histories, and phone call and location logs?

Do you deny that the aggregation of this data is a risk, should someone abuse it? Do you think this data is going to ever be deleted? You call this "only ifs", but this is a constant risk as long as the data exists. The numerous leaks of personal information we've heard about in the last ~year prove this risk exists. I suspect that Google will do a better job at securing their valuable data than most organizations, but nobody is perfect.

> So is Apple

Entirely off topic. The fact that there are risks when giving data to other businesses doesn't make the risk of giving data over to Google go away. While it is a common meme recently, appeal-to-popularity is still a fallacy.

> Yes, NOT giving access to the data to advertisers is just a minor detail /s

Advertisers... like Google.

[1] save for a couple other corporations that are in the data-collection business
The best part with Gravitational is that you don't need to "migrate" to our platform.

We port your application deployment to work with Google Kubernetes. As long as the app works on Kubernetes it works with us too on AWS, Google cloud compute and bare metal servers.
I miss Stevey's blog rants

His blog was by far my favorite. It touched on topics at a much deeper than anybody else and it's clear that he looks at the world from a brutally practical and realistic perspective. Something that's sesperately needed in an industry dominated by math/CS purists and architecture astronauts.

I hope, one day he leaves the Borg and continues to contribute meaningful commentary.
Are you saying that Zephyr is Rocket? I didn't see anything in the press release saying that, and I didn't see anything on the web site saying that (admittedly, I only spent a few minutes looking...).

If it is Rocket, is it a product that couldn't get traction so now they are giving it away?
This is all great in theory but real-world application is so painful and does not scale if it is anything more than a literal set it and forget it deployment. I currently work in K12 and have looked into CloudReady for the last 3-4 months. We abandoned it mainly because deployment was unbearable if imaging or running around with a dozen USB sticks. If you choose to go the managed device route you pay twice, once for the Neverware license which can be transferred to another laptop if the original dies and once for a Google console license which is non-transferable (for the type of license we typically purchase). We are currently working on rolling our own district specific Chromium deployment full with managed updates.

If you take away the money factor the sheer frustration of having to keep polishing turds and putting 6-8 year old hardware out there can be overwhelming whether it's as light as Chromium or still a bloated Windows image that takes 3 hours to deploy with all the hacky crap that has to happen to run outdated software. Keys come off, laptops get dropped, motherboards get fried from being on & closed in a laptop cart for 5 years and first-gen mSata SSD's fail. And then to do this with a staff of 6-10 people with varying skills for thousands and thousands of devices in some cases.

Better off biting the bullet and buying proper Chromebooks for ~$300 and be done with it. Windows is done in education as a standard. Lab environment, sure. Office 365 will fill the role for learning the "essential" Office suite. The kids are ready to move on. It's the adults making the curriculum and trying to teach it that can't get beyond what they already know.
Just because expert C programmers were able to make it work doesn't mean that C is the best way to write secure code. I say this as someone who writes quite a bit of C (though I don't view myself an expert in it yet).
I stumbled across a post ending in your quote. Looks like somebody started a foundation which turned up on a search of Michael Schofield's name; you might be thinking of this post: http://janifoundation.org/blog/
Check if this works for your case:

echo > myfile

P.S. not the "solution", but may help in case you fill the disk by accident, and need to make some room before a remount cycle.
P.S.2. this could help also when your disk is already 100% full, without enough space for deleting files -not enough space for new inodes- (I tested that case on ZFS NAS with no left space at all, and worked).
Some times A players can fall to B or C due to life circumstance.

Sometimes whole teams are formed with B and C players because company cannot pay A wages/benefits, and it just stays in B or C arena.

I always strive to have people better than me on my team, and support them and keep them happy.
Title needs (2012), I'd love to read a more recent followup if anyone knows about one. My brother didn't show signs of his schizophrenia until his teens (it may have been triggered/hastened by drug use, I haven't kept up with the literature around that theory), it took over 10 years for him to get to a stable place with my mom's great efforts. The end of the article is encouraging, modern medications and ratios have gotten better and it really helps when the person is a minor. Keep the love and support going, and don't discount her not being a good sister in the end.

"There is no cure for schizophrenia." Yet.
One of the things Reddit failed at was miscommunication and low transparency between the admins and the users.

In that case, why are the vote scores on Caucus submissions blatantly inflated? There is zero probability scores are in the hundreds for completely random content. (glancing at the number of unique accounts who have made submissions, I question if 100+ active accounts even exist.)
I tend to prefer the following:

1) Phone screen

2) In person interview with 3-4 people

3) Take home coding question
Yes, all Ubuntu derivatives use the same repository so you should be set.
In the '80s I did a back of the envelope calculation on living in Merced and commuting to Silicon Valley.

It looked like that for less than the cost of owning a small house or condo in SV, one could get a big house near Merced, on several acres of land, buy a private plane such as a Mooney M20 (about 50% or more faster than a common Cessna), buy a car to keep in SV at an airport, and pay the operating costs and parking costs and such for the plane and the second car.

That would have given something like a 40-60 minute commute between Merced and an SV office (depending on just where the office was relative to a general aviation airport in SV).

If a train will let one get a similar commute without the need to buy an airplane the numbers will be even more favorable. Madera is not as cheap as Merced, but a quick check on Redfin turns up a lot of houses that are large and almost trivially affordable by even entry level bay area tech workers.
There are probably little-to-no applications of Hilbert SFCs to image compression (in the sense of increasing compression ratio or something). The main benefit of using something like the Hilbert SFC is (2D) locality. That is, "close" points in D where D = [ d0,d1,d2,d3,d4,d5, ... dn] will also be "close" in D2, where D2 = [(x0,y0),(x0,y1)(x0,y2),...(xn,yn)]. NOTE: The converse does not hold. Closeness of points in the D2 plane does NOT guarantee closeness of points in D.

Usually this has applications when dealing with things like file systems and databases. I've seen some people that argue that using something like Hilbert curves in compression algorithms will yield less compression-induced artifacts because the artifacts, as you can probably already guess, will "snake around" the image, being much harder to detect visually.
> 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.

Yea, probably. He's done pretty well in most markets, but China isn't most markets.
Basically nobody wants ads.

But if nobody wants to pay for a service, then maybe it isn't as useful as we thought.
I would be interested to know how he trained a fear detector.
There are a lot of companies that develop software that track facial expressions.

It is conceivable to use Affectiva's SDKs to automatically annotate data for facial expressions and then use that data to develop models that correlate facial expressions or facial expressions of emotions into things like performance prediction ...

http://developer.affectiva.com/metrics/#facial-expressions
Business always finds a way.
It seems unlikely that any sensible system would use fingerprint data for security, given how easy it is to spoof. You leave your fingerprints everywhere and can't protect them once you've left the area.

Authenticator + smart phone is not ideal but it's still better than fingerprints. It's harder to steal a phone from somebody, while it's almost impossible to prevent the theft of your fingerprints.
Although I find build Go code with go tool very nice, it is in no way part of language specification. Just like in c you can build your own object files and/or archives and link them as you please. How go the tool does it is not the only possible way. See this example I've prepared on how to manually build go code: https://github.com/tumdum/go_build

You can read more detailed explanation by Dave (author of alternative Go build system - gb) here: http://dave.cheney.net/2013/10/15/how-does-the-go-build-comm...
> "We have a fierce competitor that's unprofitable in every city they exist in, but they're buying up market share. I wish the world wasn't that way." (Uber's CEO)

I'm sorry but... isn't this exactly what Uber has been doing to their competitors for a long time in most markets?
Also, Reddit ads are among some of the least intrusive on the web. Every sub is filled with posts not everyone cares about, the ability to ignore the ads if you aren't interested in is built into Redditing
And unlike skipping a class, the people negatively impacted by the cheating aren't the student. That in itself is a vary significant difference, without considering the fact that they sell health insurance.
So what you're saying is it's possible, but your speculation is different to my speculation?

I'm not sure it's useful to have a battle of hypotheses and assumptions couched in the language of confidence and certainty.
Upon further consideration, this pretty much describes a an authentication method based on a client certificate. Unless i am missing something - i am not sure how to apply this to our problem space. We have traditional type of users who are used to username/password authentication. Solutions that we consider have to build on that as a fundamental model.
Roughly because the evidence indicated that those regulations were intended not to protect whites from black competition, but ALSO and perhaps more importantly to preserve a economy in which "white trash" was prevented from forming meaningful economic relationships with blacks.

The whole point about any form of cronyism is to prevent people from engaging in trades they otherwise might.

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/re... covers the theory that Jim Crow was needed to prevent these exchanges
Here's an uncomfortable thought: an effective 1-to-1 mapping between men and women probably doesn't exist.

The fact of the matter is that women are primarily interested in a top smaller percentage of high value men (this is called hypergamy). This smaller group of desirable men would most like to have multiple mates (this is called polygamy). Marriage, and the accompanying culture and customs, 'corrects' this by trying to create a 1-to-1 mapping. Both extreme strategies described are traditionally shamed and discouraged.

Why? Because marriage (monogamous long-term bonding) is good for society. It incentivizes the largest amount of people to be productive, and reduces civil unrest by distributing sexual access to women across as many men as possible. For more on sex and society, check out J.D. Unwin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Unwin

Now, how this relates to the OP. The fact of the matter is that people become unhappy in a relationship of any kind when they think they are getting the short end of the stick, and could be doing better. They'll rationalize it six ways to Sunday, "my partner doesn't understand me", "my partner smothers me", "they don't do enough chores", "we don't understand ourselves", whatever, but at the end of the day they think they ought to have a better mate, and are fed up with their current one!

This is especially true of women, who, by pure numerical inevitability, largely marry below what they would prefer. We know that women initiate most divorces too, at ~70% (fun fact: among college-eduated couples, that number rises to 90%). A smaller amount of men end up locked to one person too, when they know in another world they could have more mates. Such are the sacrifices for the monogamous society (often referred to as patriarchal, because women are more sexually restricted).

So in conclusion, what bothers me about articles like this, who delve deep into rationalizations instead of simple mate value and attractiveness, is the implication of a 1-to-1 mapping between men and women. Is there a right person to marry, for most people? Probably not.
Check out Discord. It's like Slack for gamers, I've been using it with some friends. It's written in React Native, and uses regular 'ol React on the desktop. Feels clean and like a native app.

https://discordapp.com/
That might become the norm for the next few years in a slower VC market. But, at least in SV and NYC, it's been pretty common to raise multiple rounds before profitability.

Companies can choose to not be profitable on purpose though, by re-investing revenues back into the business. Heck, Amazon's basically never turned a profit.
Absolutely! Patient education is one of the biggest issues around treatment in my opinion
It's unfortunate that they don't have the numbers for Linux and instead used the Windows operating system. I'd like to see the Linux benchmark be on par with Windows (or ideally better) but I'm not sure if there is an interest from Microsoft to meet or exceed performance of Windows with a Linux based host.
Ah! Thanks I knew I had seen this tactic before, but I thought this is a new attempt.

Regardless it's still a well done effort.
I always thought autgenerated tags would be good on posts - I could filter on keywords
How Far Can DRAM Shrink?
I don't think either Redux or Flux are related to FRP at all.

That said, your point still stands. RxJS has very smart people behind it and at least one big company that uses it heavily (Netflix). Its newest releases include modularized loading for smaller bundle builds.
Interesting! This part got me thinking though:

>And last summer a map compiling all the Sanders campaign happenings across the country, built by volunteer Rapi Castillo, a Philippine immigrant living in Queens who isn’t an American citizen and can’t vote this November, became the official “eventslink on Sanders’ website.

So a foreigner is effectively giving an in-kind campaign contribution to a candidate? How come people (and the law) lash back at monetary contributions but not this kind?
Ask HN: Who do you follow on Twitter?
I think there might be simpler explanation. Consider that starting and especially leaving a relationship has major time and emotional costs. So we're simply biased to commit to anyone we happen to be with. Similar to why we work the wrong job, for example.
This would be like saying Google's Search Index is a copyright infringement. Or indeed, anything that utilizes any public copyrighted information to infer any details.

To me this is taking copyright protection way way too far and the kind of system that could severely gum up progress and innovation.
Luma Lab Incubator to Launch at Howard University
The problem you had sounds like the mistake that was made was in what you learned from those customers. It's not an acquisition strategy, it's a strategy to get early users who will give feedback on the product. Figuring out how to sell it into non-YC companies is a separate challenge, but it comes after building a useful product.
True, that interviewer should either not be interviewing or perhaps not even be working in this industry then...
http://www.alltrials.net/ <-- Relevant site
Well, we've actually been using AlchemyAPI for this exact function for some time now. They were recently acquired by the IBM Watson team, so it's kind of a pain to get set up through them now (you have to go in through the Bluemix control panel to create an account and set up billing). They're probably not as accurate as Google, which is why I'm going to be spending tomorrow implementing this and comparing the results, but they are pretty darn good.

http://alchemyapi.com
Learning or Memorizing? How to Teach in the Innovation Economy
Protonet becomes a YC company
It's on! Waiting patiently for the Techempower entry...
This is friggin awesome! Thanks for posting. Gives me inspiration to take some more Math courses on Coursera.
It's only unfair if it's someone else doing it.
You need to think of it as product development. It's hard to get users to use a product that no one has heard of. The YC network will actually try it out. This is important because even if they aren't your target market, it's still use of the product - which will always teach you something.
Linux was represented on this graph from the article:

https://d3renderer.azurewebsites.net/plaintext/v7?src=1
My interpretation was that it would affect future iphones, not current ones. This is less to do with what was said, and more to do with what is practical.

It would be absolutely trivial to disable security features before selling to the customer. Afterward is more difficult.
YouTube Copyright Complaint Kills Harvard Professor’s Copyright Lecture
Touring revenue, in this article, references artists/bands performing live music. Probably obvious, to most, but my first thought was cycling-related, ala Le Tour de France.
Do you have a "family of 4"?
Off-topic, but any relation to the runescape legend Zezima?
How would you know you're dealing with an incompetent broker?
We use a similar set-up at work, but we don't do the image resizing in nginx, rather we have a python backend that it proxies up to, that runs a tiny wsgi app that uses requests & pil to do the resizing and transforming. It uses proxy_cache_lock to dedupe requests to the backend.
I love iTerm2, I keep up with the "current" beta versions, using them all day in production.

I would love it if they'd make a "dark" titlebar version of the window chrome. My setup currently has windows without any titlebar at all (thanks to iTerm for that feature!), but it makes rearranging windows challenging.

I look forward to trying out the newer features!
Make sure you check out the one on counting in binary on your fingers. This is a skill all programmers should have, obviously.

Linky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SMmc9gQmHQ
A tentative notion of move-independence