skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, if privacy advocates lose this fight, we have a greater chance of losing the next one.

I agree it should be the user's job and not Apple's to enforce security, however I also think that is something that we can focus on later. We can both support Apple now in this fight against government overreach and put pressure on them later to make their phone securable by the user. Those two ideas are not mutually exclusive, despite appearing to be both pro Apple and anti-Apple.
I couldn't stand taht default view it used to have and it was slow
star and cdrtools are developed by someone who really loves Solaris and wants to make Linux more like it. Relicensing then under CDDL is just part of it; cdrtools also use Solaris-style device names even under Linux and he got quite angry with distros for patching it to use Linux's native device naming.
OpenWRT Router SBC Mixes Cortex-A5 and FPGA
> To be clear, I'm against the backdoor, but as an engineer I know that Apple could give the data back if they wanted.

What do you know? How are you suggesting they can extract encrypted data that requires a passcode to decrypt when no existing version of iOS allows electronic brute forcing?

Tim's already attested that they don't know any other way to access the data:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/exclusive-apple-ceo-tim-coo...
Improving a network costs money. Are people willing to pay enough money for a faster, TV-less network to justify that investment? Nobody in the industry operating at scale is showing that in their economics.

People don't want wired Internet without TV, or at least not enough to pay very much for it. People in the HN bubble don't really get that. I live in a building where I've got a rock-solid 50/20 FiOS connection with amazing pings that never goes down. But in Baltimore Verizon doesn't have a cable license, so it's just Internet (which is fine, because I'm a cord-cutter).

I also have the option of Comcast, which struggles with Netflix during prime-time, for twice as much money. When I first got FiOS installed, the installer was surprised to find out that the ONT on my floor wasn't even configured, because none of the ~50 units on that floor had ever subscribed to FiOS. Everyone subscribes to Comcast, because they want TV.
SparkPost/MessageSystems claims to have the highest inbox rate in the space, and their customer list backs this up. It's much more impressive than Asana, Desk, and Minecraft (think LinkedIn, Facebook, Zillow, Pinterest, etc).

They absolutely recognize that ESPs are a commodity, even reselling delivery to ExactTarget, Responsys, etc, as the "pipe". It's hard to believe your reasoning when the industry leader is saying something different.
I'm interested in your experience with AWS SES. Do you see this as a viable alternative? It is just more complex than Mandrill and other competitors are?
So the point is that in a super tight housing market, it doesn't take that many outliers to have a big effect on housing prices. Obviously I'm aiming at fairly high-end developers--like people with Ph.D.s or a decade of industry experience. But there are tens of thousands of people like that in San Francisco. And I've seen google, facebook, salesforce, vmware, and the like offer unbelievable compensation to these people when I'm trying to hire them.

The pattern is such that I don't think people are lying. In some settings, lying about offers could be a way to get leverage, but these people are not trying to negotiate--they know a small company can't offer those kinds of salaries, and do not ask for a counteroffer.

That said, note that I am not talking about salary, but "total compensation." Obviously prospective employers have an incentive to paint as rosy a picture as possible about that. So the base salaries might be even slightly under $200K, but with hefty guaranteed bonuses for the first year or two plus stock grants worth in the hundreds of thousands of dollars even if the stock stays flat.

Another way to look at this is that the housing market is a function of three things: income, interest rates, and the fraction of people's income they are willing/able to spend on housing. So obviously interest rates have been super low recently, and maybe people have increased the fraction of their pay they spend on housing--but that still can't go above 100%. The main driver of the San Francisco housing crisis is soaring income (and of course inequality) combined with inadequate supply.
Linux Kernel 4.4.3 released
See that's the sort of pricing I expect when I hear "The guys that send all of Twitter's email". Promptly letting me know that you cleaned up your pricing is a nice touch.
The app is great and I actually think a business model could be found (though I can totally understand your weariness).

Have you considered selling it to another entrepreneur to carry on instead of shutting down completely?
Some non-zeppelin airship designers thought for themselves. Barnes Wallis did proper stress analysis for the R100, and invented a superior gas-bag restraining harness based on geodesic curves.
It's an interesting case because the people who are most worried about terrorists tend to be the people who are also most concerned with the government expanding power, especially by reinterpreting old laws. It needs to be clear that this is about expanding government powers to force people to work for them because so far the War on Terror has been a way to get past the opposition to expanding powers in most cases. But there has to be a line at some point where people think that it's been taken too far, no matter how scared of terrorists people might be. This idea of forced work might be that line.
So you are assuming the court will find against Apple? And that America will watch this and say they are cool with that?

The first is a possibility, of course. I don't think the second is likely. I personally do not plan to stop shouting about this, and informing my representatives on my position.
Google has been awfully silent about the whole thing, how secure are Android phones (Nexus phones in particular) against a similar attack?

I'm wondering if they are so easy to crack that this hasn't been a problem for Google. Either that, or their phones are just as secure as iPhones, and they caved to FBI demands immediately.
> People don't want wired Internet without TV,

Why not if they can get video through that very network? When video services will go through the network, to get to them people will need access to the network first. Which means network owners won't lose any business.

> Everyone subscribes to Comcast, because they want TV.

FiOS isn't the best example since they actually don't try to compete much on the network side of things despite using good technology. Where is their gigabit for affordable prices? Where is their IPv6? Even Comcast already has the later. They simply don't put any priority on it as I said. Their mind is busy with wireless toys.

> Nobody in the industry operating at scale is showing that in their economics.

It will come out with time. With regular TV drying up and moving all to the Internet.
So have they figured it out? I couldn't tell from reading the article.
Ultimately, supply is the only solution. But there are very tricky political issues involved. See, e.g., http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/
Trump/RMS 2016!
This is exactly the opposite of what the article says. Please don't try to hijack it with pro-military stumping.

Excerpt:

As the researchers studied the groups, however, they noticed two behaviors that all the good teams generally shared. First, on the good teams, members spoke in roughly the same proportion, a phenomenon the researchers referred to as "equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking." On some teams, everyone spoke during each task; on others, leadership shifted among teammates from assignment to assignment. But in each case, by the end of the day, everyone had spoken roughly the same amount. "As long as everyone got a chance to talk, the team did well," Woolley said. "But if only one person or a small group spoke all the time, the collective intelligence declined."

Second, the good teams all had high "average social sensitivity" — a fancy way of saying they were skilled at intuiting how others felt...

That is way more fluid in terms of authority and touchy-feely than rigid military hierarchies.

Which makes sense given that roles are much more fluid in creative enterprises and there's no life-or-death quick decisionmaking that favors decisiveness over debate. Not to say that there's no creative thinking in the military, but role and responsibilities can be more clearly defined at the outset.
I think the video on that page would be incredibly more effective and helpful if it didn't use "encryption" so many times, and tried to explain to people what encryption is. As it stands, it just repetitively uses the term to tell people when, where, or how they use it without realizing. I think the former point is more critical, and the latter less so.

As it stands, meeting encryption feels more like spotting Waldo than actually meeting encryption.

(PS: Hi, James!)
I liked that as a background for the BMAA concern, but from here [0], it looks like BMAA is actually caused by contamination and is not directly produced by spirulina itself, which I didn't know.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_(dietary_supplement)...
Scheme and the Art of Programming by G Springer is a great book. It's more formal and structured as compared to other well known popular alternatives.After this book, SICP will be a walk in the park.

You can find solutions to the first 7 chapters here: http://playpen.sixbit.org/studies/aop/
Erlang: Pi2 ARM Cluster vs. Xeon VM
Definitely tepid, only visible response from Sundar's tweets: https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/700104298600886272
According to whom?

More accurately, some people think it is a GPL violation.
There is no clear cut answer. You can get legal "opinions" either way.

My personal view is that it is NOT a GPL violation.
This is implied for reading the Linux source code, which explicitly allows for non GPL kernel modules.
i thought ocaml ain't pure like that?
As others have mentioned, dedicated IPs are anything but a panacea for deliverability. There is an incredible amount of care and planning that must be taken when using a dedicated IP. Shared IPs that are well managed (ie no spammers) are often better for low-volume senders because they don't require warm-ups, constant deliverability monitoring, etc.
How to add a stretchy flair to your UICollectionView
Unfortunately those have already been decided and are unlikely to be reversed by this case. This case is currently about the AWA. A previous decision using the AWA, USA vs. New York Telephone, notes it can compel companies to act, given some constraints,

"We agree that the power of federal courts to impose duties upon third parties is not without limits; unreasonable burdens may not be imposed"

"The order provided that the Company be fully reimbursed at prevailing rates, and compliance with it required minimal effort on the part of the Company and no disruption to its operations." [1]

We already know law enforcement can get a warrant for access to information, and that people cannot reasonably expect privacy of information given to a 3rd party, including information on computers. Those decisions, unfortunately, have already been made and that's not what's at stake here.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
A good point. This is about where public and private ends on the internet, and that debate is still very fluid.
So there's an encrypted blob. The way you input a password has nothing to do with that blob or the encryption that was used to create it.

The argument that this would be some kind of cryptographic back door seems a little specious to me, and I'm usually the biggest edgelord imaginable when it comes to decrying government surveillance.

If we were talking about a safe somewhere, and the government asked the safe manufacturer to create a physical device that makes it easier to open existing safes, that would not seem reasonable to me, but it also would be ludicrous to claim that represents a "back door." If that's a back door, then the back door already existed.

So in Apple's case, the government says "we need the data out of this device" and that's apparently a solvable problem. Can someone please remind me why it's so cut and dry for Apple to just say "no" and that's supposed to be OK?
It's still anecdotal, unless those 384 people were chosen in a statistically rigorous way from the total population.
In theory, you can charge your average lifetime value upfront.

In practice, for a good app the lifetime benefit to users vastly exceeds what anyone would reasonably pay upfront. For example, I've paid hundreds of dollars to Dropbox over the years (and feel like I've gotten well over $1,000 of value)—but I would have totally balked at paying even $200 on signup.
Your "molecular metaprogramming" presentation is, without exaggeration, one of the most beautiful lectures I've ever encountered.

You've instantly inspired me to change career paths. This weekend I'm going to set up a home chemistry lab so that I may one day contribute to the amazing body of work you've started.

Does anybody on HN have some recommendations for learning intermediate chemistry? or setting up home labs? Just for context, I have math/CS degrees and have already taken introduction courses to physics, chemistry, and biology.
I don't see anyone anywhere suggesting it is Apple's job to enforce security. Perhaps I misunderstand what you mean by that phrasing.
I haven't used SES, but I'm guessing it is complex, and "bare bones".

I got the vibe Mandrill didn't want to send any business to their _actual_ competitors.

The time period to make this change sucks. I accept they want to change, and they can do that. But I have paid them money for a service, and the rug is being pulled from under my feet with such a short period of time to work out what to do, and do it.
That is a significant and incredibly poorly defended assertion that you're making there, sir.

Given that there are dozens if not hundreds (possibly thousands) of open journals, many of which are heavily digitally based, well tied with distributed storage, and willing to work with any significant publication – the claim that "this plan would likely require significant amounts of additional funding" doesn't even pass the first smell test.

You don't just get to assert things without support. That's not only not good science, it's terrible argumentation.
There is no such thing as perfect team. A perfect team in one context can become an average team in another context. Good Teams embrace values as they solve problems while still having fun. End of story!
Excuse the self promotion, but if you're interested also check out a UI Docker/K8s deployment tool my team open-sourced earlier in the week. It's opinionated, but it might meet some of your needs:

https://makers.airware.com/open-source/vili/
IT and OT, Friends or Foes in the Industrial Internet of Things?
Winning troll of Yelp employees letter to CEO
What's the worst that could happen for any of these companies or their senior executives if they refuse to cooperate?

Most corporate criminal penalties we hear about these days have become minor costs of doing business. And it's not like the olden days where senior execs often ended up in jail for corporate wrongdoing.[0]

The largest monetary criminal penalty I could find after a quick search was the 2013 settlement between JP Morgan and the Justice Department for $13 billion.[1] That's about 25% of Apple's net income last year, hardly a death sentence.

EDIT: I am not a lawyer so I'd appreciate any insight on this question.

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/business/in-corporate-crim...

[1]: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/06/23/a-list-of-the-bigg...
> If we were talking about a safe somewhere

This has been discussed. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11178475
Ever think about contractualizing the things that concerned you (like user-treatment) and getting a conditional employment contract, which also featured a limited term?

I hear you on the time point. Thing is, it's hard to get to that place where you have an offer on the table. Starting over would have a time cost, so over the long term, you might've been able to buy yourself more time with the time you'd already invested.

Of course, that also depends on the amount of the offer.
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I did not say it earlier, but this loophole would theoretically allow Oracle to publish a new version of the CDDL that is not open source at all and all software under the CDDL without a version peg would be avaliable under it.

I just consulted with another OpenZFS developer. All new files will be CDDL version 1.0 only. Consequently, this loophole is being closed.
I am as well!
Rubicon Global Picks Up $50M for On-Demand Trash Removal
1. I am not writing a parser, one already exists and can be brought in about as easy as your code sample.
2. I am translating the AST to rdf which lets me work on the AST with production rules
3. If I wanted templates I would use templates. What I do do is start out with an abstract representation and then apply say 20 simple transformations that step by step fill in the details to get to code. Speed is OK because we have indexes, rete networks and other tricks.
4. People are not doing it yet and this is why people are saying code reuse is hard, etc.
5. The transformations are written in a sparql derived rule format that itself uses the transformation system to add features by composition.
It's working for me
To bad, app with the best landing page on the web is going away...
Happy to see that fasthttp (Go) and Phoenix (Elixir/Erlang) are now included! fasthttp boasts some impressive some performance! The results of Phoenix are not really reliable yet, because the implementation seems lacking (178000+ errors!).
Depends how you count - significant number of the staff (myself included) were first volunteers in the movement.
Yeah, good point. Kudos to Zumper!

Well, I would love to read about keeping focus, high productivity and a lean team after 7 years. I just love stories about high-productivity small teams. On the technical side, the PHP to Flask migration would be very interesting too.
I use both, for different things. Clojure is more easily concurrent, and I love ClojureScript, so I tend to use it for web applications. OCaml is extremely useful for native code (I write a lot of personal productivity tools in OCaml).
Does Sci-Hub practice what it preaches? Do they provide a means of downloading their entire repository of research papers either via torrent or SFTP? Because if the entire repository isn't available to everyone, then how can we be sure that once they get raided those papers aren't lost forever?
BMI Is a Terrible Measure of Health
Yeah for an example of what I would love to be able to use on both android and ios : http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/01/free-audiokit-lets-ios...
SeaWorld Admits Employees Posed as Animal Rights Activists
It seems to make sense to not cite that as an additional factor, given that it is almost fully mediated by one of the factors already listed. There is an interesting observation in here that women have on average higher social sensitivity, though it looks like measuring social sensitivity directly in job interviews and other team building processes is just more effective than looking at gender (though a bit harder to do, I would guess).
> In writing a publication ...

And then the reviewer says "you should compare this to papers X, Y, and Z", each of which costs $35+ for a non-subscriber to read.
The feature set of Facebook is much more complicated than WhatsApp. Most of WhatsApps features come out of the box with ejabberd too (which is what they used in the beginning). Is it really a fair comparison?
ParseHub is much better at getting websites from shitty, complicated sites. Kimono was great for something simple, but I found ParseHub to be a more powerful and flexible web scraper.
This doesn't contradict it at all and you are confusing line-infantry with SOF, which is specifically what I am referring to.

CONOPS (Concept of operations) planning goes exactly like described with equality of input throughout the process. In fact it goes beyond that with team members continuously providing input throughout the run-up and execution of whatever operation is in play.

In many cases during whatever operation is happening, any team member, regardless of rank, can call "knock it off" if something is not going well and the team will respond to that.

That is way more fluid in terms of authority and touchy-feely than rigid military hierarchies

Again, this rigidity of hierarchy is a myth within high performing SOF teams (CAG (Delta), DEVGRU, 75th Ranger Regiment etc...)

there's no life-or-death quick decisionmaking that favors decisiveness over debate.

Again, this misrepresents how battlefield decisions get made and overplays how democratic decisions are within [insert startup]. There is advantage to "violence of action" - meaning making a decision can be made and emphatically executed quickly - but it's not the case that it needs to be approved by TOP (the leader). One of the key benefits of SOF is that everyone has the ability to make a decision that might veer from the plan without it being insubordination or some other offense.
Can I use this to go from my docker-compose setup on a single machine straight to kubernetes on multiple?
That only applies to browsers. I can request it from my server just fine. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11178922
Plot twist: US companies and the US gov play a game whose only goal is to reestablish lost trust since Snowden to make more $$$ again and sell more hardware with US backdoors again.
How to Vanilla Install EL Capitan on Hackintosh with MacPwn
That works if you have sessions. HN doesn't.
Ask HN: Please increase the amount of time “edit” is available on comments
there is no good reason to timeout both editing and deletion of comments. Please increase both settings at least tenfold, if not just remove them.
The Obama Admin's Attempt to Bring Tech Companies to Fight ISIS
I think it's pretty unfair to categorize the prior comment as "pro-military stumping". It read to me like the commenter was providing some possibly alternative information from a different field that might provide interesting insights others could use. There was no strong pro-military tone that I can see after a couple re-readings. Moreover, the items the commenter laid out weren't inherently the opposite of what you provided as an excerpt. The original comment doesn't say anything about equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, or intuiting how others felt. I mean, item #2 is advocating the benefit of constant communication among the team ... so it actually sounds like it could complement the article's findings.
Forming Storming Norming Performing

Oh boy, that's a huge piece of teambuilding training throughout the military. It's a good description of how new teams form. Unfortunately most teams don't get past the storming phase.
> The feature set of Facebook is much more complicated than WhatsApp

But the feature set of Facebook is not all implemented in Haskell or OCaml either. There is lots of PHP etc.