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> I don't think the people who build locks should decide that that is never acceptable and decide to play parent and come up with a solution to this problem: I would prefer people to be informed about the tradeoffs they are making, but they should be allowed to do what they want.

Shouldn't Apple be allowed to do as it wants?

> what is fundamentally different is only that people realize the government might be able to force Apple to use their key.

The public already knows from the ongoing debate that the current iPhone is unlockable by Apple. What difference does it make if the key does not exist yet, as Apple says, or if it does, as you say? Everyone knows the power is in Apple's hands. We'll all demand better iPhone security as a result of this discussion.

> this enables the people who want more security ... to go "above and beyond".

I understand you are asking Apple for a specific feature that gives more security. Regardless of the existence of this particular case, you would still be trying to raise awareness and gather support for pushing Apple to implement that feature. Is that fair to say? I support you in that effort. I also think this discussion ought to be held separately, perhaps after the case, so that we can focus on not giving the DOJ any means to handcuff the tech companies. The results of this case will have a dramatic impact on all tech, and if you truly care about privacy and security, you will support Apple's stance.

Let's table the debate about how Apple needs to improve its phone security and allow users to update firmware, and focus on matters at stake: whether or not the DOJ should be able to compel Apple to hand over the key. Whether or not that key has been created is irrelevant to the fact that if the DOJ wins this case, it is one step closer to mandating that Apple make all their phones unlockable.
We could never have an 'open' or cheap medical device because of the extreme level of regulations and the tendency to pretend that the laws of economics shall not apply when it comes to human lives and medical devices.
Oh, Law360 is that site that requires noncompetes of their reporters.
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I too thought it was Python 3 only before I read it. Maybe a better title would be "Coding Jarvis in Python in 2016" and then explaining in the first paragraph that this is Python 2 and 3 compatible, with your personal focus on 3?
These days it's just as important to monitor and filter outgoing traffic to detect trojans and unfriendly devices trying to phone home.
It's not the first time. Nissan.
That is only partially the case: yes, to some extent San Jose has a high homeless population for the same reason SF does (warm climate, access to transportation and social services, more lax enforcement of certain laws), but there are other causes that are unique to San Jose.

For example, since San Jose is much more car friendly, there are far more homeless people living in cars and RVs: many are employed, while the unemployed have often held working/middle-class jobs in the past. Some have been unemployed homeless since the collapse of the 2000 boom, others from the 2008 economic crisis and the real estate crisis (yes, a few had even home been home owners!).

San Jose was hard hit in the real estate crisis (though less so than some of California's exurbs), in that this is where people who long priced out of other areas (and most risk averse, for good reasons) bought at the very peak -- when it felt the "most safe" and the housing prices, while still high, were lower than those in other communities.
There are plenty of those. Voice recognition is nothing new—I remember playing around with "speakable items" back in Mac OS 7. It did well enough to recognize certain key words and phrases.
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Etsy's tech blog: https://codeascraft.com/ is excellent.

They got me on to monitoring EVERYTHING with statsd. Great stuff.
Looking at big pages of uncommented assembly like this really makes you understand why flowcharts and waterfall design were a thing.
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>>> labeled him as "Traitor to the Free Software Community"

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>>> egularly used Mac OS X instead of Linux for desktop computing

Haven't heard of him before, seems like he's choosing being pragmatic over being philosophically right. I like this :)
My CS degree is from the College of Engineering at my university (Cal Poly SLO). So, no.
I believe you're off by a few decades. 1960s.

Auto-retraction was a thing by the mid 1970s.
Sure, but maybe the article just has bad examples. I suffer from being too logical. I'm a software person, and have many times told my friends to pretend I'm a computer, simply because I just don't want to enter their world of illogical thinking. Things like "it's the same difference", for example, mean two things are the same, so there is NO difference! It's not the same difference (this implies there is one), there is NO difference. Anyway, in the end, I can see language is simply a tool, in which words and phrases take on different meaning depending on the context. To effectively communicate, it's important to see this context, which includes the _intentionality_ of the communicators. What did that person __mean__, when they said XYZ.

I understand the article was about that, but I guess it gave bad examples. When the therapist asks "are you absolutely sure..", the therapist is not asking to predict the future. She is simply asking if you are 100% confident with your current knowledge, and assuming no unforeseen circumstances, that you will not harm yourself. It's actually logically sound. You can be absolutely sure, because it's qualifying your confidence in YOUR thinking. You can be absolutely sure of something and still be wrong. So the author wasn't even pedantic enough! Regardless, it was easy to simply ask what the therapist meant, and avoid whatever came after. But I guess the author of the article is also not a native English speaker, which I think is really the cause here, not that she's "academic".
They should move from Sphinx to Kaldi and from GMM to DNN acoustic models. Instant 30% improvement.
I understand you are writing a server. To be fair, not all compute loads are embarrassingly parallel. For those tasks single thread performance - especially from the point of view of memory bandwidth - is critical.

Single core is not 'past'. 1. CPU:s are not getting that much faster every generation (one could argue that this means parallellization is critical, but...) 2. The number of cores on the average desktop is not that much. One of the reasons I think is that in many cases the individual tasks that must be performed sequentially in a typical desktop program are so tiny or hard to split that that the platform overhead and complexity of multiple threads cause the benefits from actually utilizing multiple threads to be a bit harder to reach than just using a language with a nice parallellization story. By 'benefits' I mean making the program actually faster for the user.

Of course, I'm talking about Amdahl's law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Thanks for the feedback; I updated the blog post.
I might face the decision of incorporating soonish. My current plan was to just incorporate in my country of residency (Germany) as that's the easiest route. How hard is it to migrate an existing company to Dalaware-C (D-C) which seems to be the gold standard for venture backed startups? Or is the recommended way just becoming a D-C from the getgo?

I'll gladly take tax cliff notes on being incorporated in the US as a non-US citizen starting a business.
Basically if it doesn't screw me tax wise I wouldn't mind incorporating as a D-C from the getgo. US taxation seems a bit scary and I don't think it's all that easy to research. Would love some advice from Germans/people not living in the US that are incorporated in the US.

Between the recent "legal papers" post from YC and this it seems like it's never been easier to do the non customer facing stuff of a startup. Very good as this is something I'd worry about way too much.
I wouldn't judge a competitive threat solely on a V1 implementation, given it's from a company with engineering chops like Amazon.
call me a cynic, but I'm not buying "somebody at the county screwed up"
Useful doesn't mean it can be monetized. Google has killed literally dozens of products that lots of people used, simply because they couldn't monetize them. Smaller companies do the same all the time.
You have made a really good research on authors background. His previous post really support your point dude.
It sounds like you could really make use of that key
After going back and forth between weak and strong (static) typing (php, js, java and scala) i would say weak typing lets you code quicker because you can be less explicit about what you're doing, but strong static typing lets you make code production-grade sooner because of all the additional checks which catch bugs. Weak typing feels more productive while coding, but when all is said and done often ends up being less so.

In php you can do strict typing at the function call boundary, which is where it really matters, but you need the discipline to do it consistently. I like scala's approach of inferring types as much as possible and only stopping you when you're trying to do something semantically impossible. Scala often feels like a weakly typed system while coding, which is why it's so fun. For that matter, functional style java 8 feels the same way some of the time.

I think the ideal system is strongly typed but maximally inferred to minimize verbosity and maximize coding productivity. Scala is too weird to be that language though.
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Incorporating in Delaware is not moving to Delaware. And entrepreneurs aren't going to move to South Dakota if that state starts making favourable laws, because that's not where the population centers are (and hence markets for both customers and talent).

Yes, you can "factor in a state's laws", but you're missing my point that no significant demographic of migrants will bother with "oh noes, that state broke into a criminal's iphone". The "invisible hand of the market as applied to the electoral system" does not apply in the OP's given context.
Just a nitpick, but 1984 by G. Orwell was first published in 1949 what makes it even more impressive.
The first web devs you're talking about are already using Atom and Sublime Text.

The other devs are still using a better terminal editor.

As a personal anecdote, I did give VSC a try when I had to write some TypeScript. Installed a couple of plugins for Neovim and I was both at home (which means, more productive) and still had the same functionality I used in VSC.
I can't say I "love" TechCrunch, but it is built on WordPress... Although, I see your point about generic themes.
Is thread safety a concern with Ruby? Or are you thinking of multiple ruby processes using the same Durable?
Embrace, extend... I will be interested in seeing what happens next.

No sarcasm intended. This is not an attack or a warning. This is curiosity.
That is correct, Angular leaves a lot to be desired. The tooling is just not there and the developer is usually left to do due diligence on their own.

React/JSX and TypeScript are a response to this and it's fair bit more pleasant when either of them are involved.
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Aww shit.. embedded crypto hypervisors all up in this hood.
I'll be honest and say my key learning here was that astronauts don't earn all that much money (and presumably none of them are homeowners in SF!).
Sounds more like a "PHP isn't fun" post than about go. You ever try C#?
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It's known as Lean Manufacturing. People bang on about how that's about reducing costs & wastes etc. but really the heart of lean is synchronised production to smooth out demand variation.
I came to this realization a few months ago that I had been riding for several years on the wave of retrofitting and then migrating the desktop-focused web to mobile devices.

Once every business with deep pockets in my circle had sufficiently mobile-optimized their website, my services were becoming less and less urgent.

I've been freelancing / consulting for 15 years, so having to re-skill or market myself differently is a periodic necessity. But generally I'm accustomed to making moves into other web-related areas.

There's a new reality evolving that I'm not accustomed to dealing with. No growth in investment, no new bleeding-edge tech or hip design trend to sell to clients. The people who need web talent every day already have them in-house by now. The ones who don't, hook together SAAS products to get what they need done.

I've become very skilled at hooking together SAAS products for online marketing use cases, but the more I do it the more I realize I'm slowing chipping away my clients' need for hiring designers / developers.

The market is becoming increasingly saturated with competing talent, a lot of whom were sold General Assembly type training as an easy solution to low employment prospects, on top of experienced folks who are scratching their heads over the stagnation like I am.

Really thinking it might even be time to jump ship into another business altogether. I feel bad for all the folks who are entering the market right now, must be so disappointing
Every one except the real professional occupations, like lawyer, doctor, pilot, auditor, ibanker
Awesome thanks! Exactly what I was looking for.
My impression is that the super accurate stuff like Google's voice recognition and Siri are all feuled by masssssssive amounts of data. So you build up these recognition networks based off of a bunch of data sources, and get better over time, but the recognition is more based off of the data than the code.

It's the whole "Memory is a process, not a hard drive" thing: Voice recognition as it is today is a slowly evolving graph from input data. You could in theory compress the graph and have it available offline. But it would be hard to chop it up in a way that doesn't completely bust the recognition.
Me too. I guess I figured astronauts must get risk pay. If you're an astronaut you have a sizable likelihood of dying on the job.

Then again, this is probably just supply and demand. Every kid growing up wants to be an astronaut, and very few get to.
as far as I know "Televideo" (teletext by the public broadcasting) is still active in Italy, and useable via web too

http://www.servizitelevideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/index.jsp

I join the other commenters in remembering with nostalgia looking up sport results and weather forecasts.
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Thanks for the feedback. Sure, there are other ways to accept EULAs, but we chose Atlassian Account since it will enable us to integrate other services like Bitbucket and JIRA more seamlessly with SourceTree in the future.

Unfortunately we can't talk about those great features at this stage since they don't exist.
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Google Now has been used as voice reminder keeper by me for a long time!

There are cases where it can still miss by a large margin, but general usability has greatly improved over past 2 years.

I would love to see that this thing become smarter, that it can detect you are saying a list of things then format them automatically. That well be truly AMAZING!
That was really fun, thanks.
Astronauts fly very rarely though. Most of them are training for years and get very little chance to be actually sent to space.
They all live in Houston (or near it), so they make a decent wage for being there.

But yeah, you don't enter the Astronaut core to get rich. :)
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The average person has 1 testicle an 1 ovary.

That one is obvious.

But you have less obvious non-representative means: average # of sex partners (Pareto distribution), average life expectancy (bathtub curve), average autism-spectrum quotient (camel curve). In all these cases the averages obscure, rather that elucidate.
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Thinking of Mountweazels and trap streets, I wonder if a similar concept exists in software. Maybe patents with non-obvious but critical flaws or useless embellishments put into the documents, or interfaces with extra fields or methods to trap wholesale copying.
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Yeah that's definitely an issue. A way Tokyo has solved this is by building buildings underneath roadway/train lines. Things like cheap restaurants, cafes (and of course the train stations themselves).

This works pretty well because you're usually close to a station so people wanting to use these facilities don't often require parking.

EDIT: A particularly clean example of this is 2k540 in Okachimachi. A bunch of kinda artsy stores, lots of lighting... kinda feels like a small mall except it's outside.

Some pics : https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=2k540&tbm=isch
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This is becoming a common theme in critique of "self-help." See also the charge against the mindfulness movement that it neglects the allegedly important ethical principles of the religious context of its origins.

I think the reason these critiques don't really work is that they aim at symptomatic expressions and look past the difficult cultural problems at the root... which is kind of ironic, it seems to me.

Alisdair MacIntyre's After Virtue, the 1981 "revival" of virtue ethics, is quite relevant. He starts by asking why discussions of ethics today end up as mere clashing subjective claim-making and position-taking, and he traces that back to the "failure of the Enlightenment project of justifying morality." Then he goes on to advocate an Aristotelian view of virtue as excellence in the context of life narratives within traditions and societies.

So the fact that people don't seek out ethical advice to personal problems might itself be a symptom of deeper cultural changes. For an anecdotal example, I never have an obligation to report to a boss by 10AM, because I work for companies that don't have such structures. I have a hunch that most people who tend to read self-help books about habits work in such unstructured situations.
Got the mail this morning (Europe) and my first thought was "WTF"? Then "How the hell do I migrate all my customers"?

I've used Mandrill for transactional mails for 4-5 years now. And always when I've had a project that requires some kind of e-mail notifications, password resets etc. I've always recommended Mandrill to my customers.

So here I am, running and handling 8+ Mandrill accounts (many customers requires exclusive access to account, have one for personal projects etc. ). A few of them in the free tier, most of them payed.

These changes will involve a whole lot of headache for me, and will sadly affect a few of my customers too.

Firstly; from around $40/month as our e-mail costs are today; to more than a total of $240/month. Not the end of the world in itself, but:

Secondly: NOT A SINGLE ONE of my customers, or me, want or have any use of MailChimp. They are two very different services with two very different purposes. Now I will have walk through with my customers on how they set up a Mailchimp account, explain to them why they have to do this and merge the account with their Mandrill one, explain to them "Oh, no – this is just a $10/month service that you don't need, or want, but have to signup to to enable those password reset emails or yours".

Oh man... Of course I will change service in most of these cases, but that's also a pain, have to get in touch with the customers IT-departments to change DNS-settings, verify senders and all that – not a great start to this day...

The whole idea is what we in Sweden call "hål i huvudet"; "Hole in the head" (as in missing a brain, not shooting someone).
Exactly, BWStearns. That the ARS writer doesn't understand this makes me question whether this wall's in place there?
I'm not a user of it, so please excuse the question, but what is the worst part of this?
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He just suggested that now is a good time to give jobs to people who are losing them as a result of market conditions beyond his control. That is a strange definition of 'vulture'.
Of course we want! Then only I am in the power to chose who can access my personal data. What forbids you from leaving your private keys and passcodes to the next of a kin? Furthermore, if information in your phone is important to more people than you only (family photos etc.), it should be backed up somewhere else anyway, you don't keep all eggs in a single basket. The real problem is that cryptography is very powerful tool and we need to educate people how to use it properly. Of course, it's naive to hope that it can be done overnight, but small, incremental changes might be done imho. For example, before asking user to create it's master passcode, emphasize in big, bold letters, that it's your reponsibility to keep this password safe and accessible, because if you lost it, there's nothing can be done to bypass it. Keeping user key/password backup (aka MS style) is a sloppy security tactics.
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It is just stunning seeing how many people drive. 90%+, across professions.
@saurik:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11171131

:)
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Please don't link to Forbes.

They've decided that they don't want people to see their articles without advertising.

We should respect that and quit linking to them.
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In Portugal, at least back on my university days, the only bad ones which might relate to a pure US CS theory only degree was "Mathematics degree with specialization in computation".

On my case beyond Architecture design, there was hardly any "how to write good code" lecture.
> Has any city jumped from regional center to international metropolis so quickly, without ever passing through a period of being a national city? Austin has emerged as a world-class destination and a world-shaking center of innovation in a decade.

Why do I keep hearing this, but only from Austinites? I put Austin in about the same category as Minneapolis; I'm vaguely aware it exists but not of anything going on there.

What are the major globally relevant corporations headquartered in Austin? Major NGOs? Famous cultural events? (Compare the level of coverage of SXSW to London Fashion Week). Dominant, influential film studios or publishing houses?

Why do I keep hearing Austin talked about in the same breath as SF or New York as a major global city? It's not even a "national city" to me.
The method I'm thinking of is:

1. Get a dump of the encrypted data.

2. Try to probe the hardware, potentially destroying it.

3. If the probe works, we're done. If not, put the encrypted data dump onto a fresh iPhone and repeat from step 2.

This way, you effectively get unlimited shots at an otherwise risky hardware probe.
>Sharp is dull and has been for years, and all the money in the world won't resurrect this corpse.

Reason why no domestic player wanted to touch them with a 10foot pole though jp corps being sitting on huge mountains of money. What honhai did is secure the lcd fabs, get the patents (which seem not to be properly managed atm) and buy into japan inc. The revival of sharp as a brand seems like emotional lipservice to the japanese public.
I bet it doesn't support Portuguese in all its variants.
I couldn't agree more.

In my experience, most of the people that really love Austin are the types that have never lived in a large diverse city before. Of course Austin is great compared to some small town. There's no point of reference.

/lived in Austin for 12 years