skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks very much. I'm guessing the reason you don't see more open posts is that most acquired companies probably don't have the luxury of writing exactly what they want to - Zumper gave me pretty much free reign, they didn't even have suggested edits when I showed them a draft. I think if I submitted this post to BigCo's PR department, it would have come back thoroughly lobotomized. Bodes well for the future of PadMapper, I think.

If there's any part you'd like to hear more about, let me know!
They should be thankful since no other people would make a buy-out offer like this.
You are confusing generalised surveillance with an action taken as a result of a warrant.

What's being asked for in no way allows the government to view your private records without a warrant.

The FBI didn't ask Apple to decrypt the device because that would be impossible.
No, I didn't mean to imply your experiences aren't valuable. I am the one who should apologise.
Adding insult to injury, 2015 was also an abysmal year for Android performance, largely due to Qualcomm, uh, how do I say this... sucking.

"I don't think there's any way to sugarcoat this, but 2015 has not been a particularly great year for Qualcomm in the high-end SoC business" -- http://www.anandtech.com/show/9837/snapdragon-820-preview

If you compare geekbench single threaded performance numbers, you can sure see why Google is anxious to build their own silicon.
200,000 emails at Elastic Email = $33.25/month, a private IP would cost you an extra $17.70.
Those pay charts obscure the near-match of base salary for Basic Assistance for Housing (untaxed!) and free medical, $300/mo grocery allowance, etc.

That E-5 is earning comparably to $65k or so, depending on the locality.
Early Medieval Muslim Graves in France: Archaeological and Palaeogenomic Evidence
> Presumably, you could employ the same systems for both pieces of data, since it should all stay within Apple.

That's not what Tim Cook is saying. I trust Apple here. They have more information than anyone else, and their reputation is at stake.

> I'm just pointing out the kinds of arguments that reasonable, non technical people are making.

Fair enough.
My current company consists primarily of people who got the shits with our previous, much larger organisation. The problem is any new hires will be years behind on organisational culture (clients, history, in-jokes, references, shared adversity, etc). Still, 'having a strong team' is one of those good problems to have.
> So, any knowledge that could save a life should be freely available?

its not free. taxpayers have paid for it (and are not getting it for aforementioned reasons)
> I didn't see anything wrong with 'Should Apple be forced to give the Terrorist's phone data to the FBI'

Thats really not even remotely a legitimate question in this instance. If Apple "had" the data Im sure they would give it up readily (and probably have already in this and other instances). But they physically or digitally do not have the data to give.
wget, curl, whatever. If I'm the attacker, I ask for a new one from my server each time and put the result in the form I serve your browser.
Wireless has rather fundamental latency and of course shared medium issues, not convinced at all it will take over from wired as peoples expectations are in lockstep with mobile standards evolution.

On the spectrum issue, I suspect we'll see some old users kicked out for wasting space that could enable economical growth in the billions (and indeed net states billions directly, through auctions).
> But in case of a true terrorist, the answer should not be not that hard.

In the cases of true terrorists, having access to phone records and even having the father of a terrorist report on his own son hasn't been enough to stop attacks.

So, you should be asking whether or not you should be giving up your right to privacy and awarding the government broad powers that, based on historical data, won't reliably help prevent terrorist attacks, but that will be used far outside the original scope for which they were granted.

You should also not just be asking about the current government, but all future governments, and be able to trust that they will only act in the best interest of their citizens.
> but in corporate environments the best ideas come from anywhere

I think the difference is that is important to have a clear process to make decisions. It doesn't need to be hierarchical, but it should avoid analysis paralysis or other ills of uncertainty.
Omg, I had no idea. Awesome!
pcwalton, are you able to share the rotating 3D test you used in the talk? I'm building Servo now and would love to have a play with it.
Try cancelling.
No syntax highlighting here either, Firefox 44.0.2, console shows that loadJS is undefined
Exotic four-neutron no-proton particle confirmed
All mid-to-late-stage startups have data engineers, typically they feed the analytics / dashboards that drive company finances.
Distributing a binary version of the nvidia kernel module is a GPL violation, too.
For Airbnb all listings are public. In this app everything is private until you let specific users be able to view it.
> With tv service going over the internet, the ISPs are going to have a hell of a time getting that much revenue back.

Even if it won't be that much, with pure Internet they'll make enough profit, since Internet usage will only grow. And you don't need caps for it. Some resort to caps simply to rip people off, it has nothing to do with recovering expenses. Also, gutting TV they'll avoid paying retransmission fees and such.

> So Fios might be making modest profits now, it probably won't be in 5-10 years.

I expect the opposite.
Perhaps the very tactics currently sustaining the reporting industry will lead to its downfall.
But the FBI's request isn't limited to only phones used by categorically proven terrorists. They want to be able to unlock and unencrypt phones that pass a much lower bar regarding evidence of criminal activity - arguably to the point where they have a backdoor to any phone they want to look inside of. That's why Apple has to fight this case. It isn't about terrorists, that's just the PR spin the FBI are using. It's about much more than that.
> I don't want to drag in a social graph along with identity auth, but YMMV.

As I read it, that's completely optional, and I think since that doesn't exist yet (right?), having that option sounds great. I'm probably naive to dream of diaspora etc. and Facebook getting along, but even just smaller sites playing nice could make this very useful.
Except that they've colluded with the Feds to hand over your phone logs over the past decade and a half, so are being protected by the government for their complicity.
Just asking for an example. I don't have a legal background. No need to get defensive about it.
Note that the article doesn't actually go on to clarify or accurately state what his opinion is.
DirecTV makes a lot of profit for low capital investment (i.e. high ROIC): http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/11/19/does-directv-pass-buf... see also http://www.netcaucus.org/conference/2012/Bernstein_State_of_... (pages 16-18).
> U-verse subscribers fell 4%, the worst loss ever, as 240,000 customers canceled service

I was one of them. I cancelled my U-verse TV service a few months ago. They did all they could to lose my business. I had a price quote in writing and they refused to honor it. I've dealt with some bad companies in the past, including several pre-reform credit card companies, but I've never encountered one that was so in-your-face about it. Even when I called to cancel, when they tried to keep me as a customer, they weren't willing to say "Yeah, we quoted you a price in writing, so we'll refund the overcharge."
If tax payers fund its construction, it's a bit ludicrous to suggest that they should be unable to reap any benefit from it, especially when the purpose of much research is for the public good.
Opera hasn't been Opera since version 12.
I would really appreciate a write-up, or link to a step-by-step guide on this as well.

I have a 5820K as well, with a GA-X99-UD3P motherboard and 32 gigs of quad-channel DDR4 RAM, and I dual-boot Linux and Windows. Windows just has Steam, and I do all my work on Linux. It would be wonderful to not have to reboot and switches OSes and just run Windows off a VM with full graphics performance! :)
It does. We haven't rolled out the fix that Nick described (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11178922) because it will probably break a bunch of the third party apps and scrapers that give people alternative interfaces to HN. Those have value and I'd rather not make their lives more difficult unless/until it's necessary.
Why wouldn't psychological safety include feeling safe that the truth won't hurt someone's feelings?

edit: or if it does hurt their feelings, that they'll be able to express that safely, and you'll all be able to resolve the conflict.
I always wondered why, for the longest time, they thought competing with Chrome and Firefox was a good idea when they didn't have any compelling durable advantages and had distinct disadvantages like not being able to set alt search engines as default until recently and it's basically Chromium with "richness" tweaks and branding.

Their investors were lucky to get an exit.

The well-upholstered lady sung the swan song, I'm afraid... I hope those guys refocus on something that does change the world for the better rather duplicate what others are already did.
Out of curiosity, why did you use a custom virtual-DOM implementation instead of one like React?
Corny but he nailed it....
I wouldn't worry about it until you have assets in one entity to protect by having separate LLCs
It's more powerful and customizable than Mailbox. Most importantly, it doesn't have server side access to your email or email account! I left Mailbox a while back for that reason and for lack of IMAP support.
IANAL, that said, at the end of the order, it says

"To the extent that Apple believes that compliance with this Order would be unreasonably burdensome, it may make application to this Court for relief within five business days of receipt of the Order."

Since Apple has presented such an application, they are now supposed to return to court next month to argue their position.
The syntax is the same. Both are s-expressions. The difference is how a particular implementation interprets them. In this example, it would depend on the semantics of def.
Keys to a Successful Viral App with Snapchat Investor Jeremy Liew
Yes, but parsing Java into an AST is much harder than parsing S-expressions into an AST...
It is vaguely mentioned in the article but I think controlling for the type of schools that students are exiting from is an important factor in determining if there is a "pipeline" problem. For example it was mentioned that Black and Hispanic Tech graduates are more likely to end up in office support roles. Out of the top 20 engineering/computer science programs in the country I doubt almost any students are ending up in those type of roles. So likely Black and Hispanic "Tech" graduates are much less likely to be of top engineering programs. There is an enrollment issue. There is a corporate bias and culture issue. There is a primary school issue... the list goes on.
From working in management consulting I can tell you that even when name-blind resume reads are incorporated and diversity programs are really emphasized (Which they are), the issue comes to when candidates from Black and Hispanic backgrounds show up to an interview they are relatively VERY poorly prepared. This is usually because the student groups at elite colleges that prepare you for tech/consulting/banking jobs are pretty bad at reaching out to minority (Black and Hispanic) students.

The problem is systemic from pre-school to the career fair. I believe it will change. But no one lever will do the full trick.
> When wireless networks will compare to them in capability, pricing and etc.

The capability that people want is mobility, which wireline does not offer them. That's why people pay $150 cell phone bills but would balk at paying a $150 wired internet bill. Verizon and AT&T diverting capital investment to wireless is literally just giving customers what they want.
has almost zero life sciences content
Someone emailed me to say that someone that Oracle might be able to change the terms of the CDDL for all software licensed under the CDDL as per sections 4.1 and 4.2. My discussions with lawyers thus far had focused on whether Oracle could change the license for just the OpenZFS code base (the answer is no) without any other copyright holders agreeing. Whether Oracle can change the definition of the CDDL for all software licensed under it (without the statement "version 1.0 only") is something that I need to run past a lawyer, but that might be possible.
Here you go:

Wireline’s revenues decreased $0.2 billion, or 2.3%, and $0.6 billion, or 2.2%, respectively, during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, compared to the similar periods in 2014, primarily as a result of declines in Global Enterprise, partially offset by __higher Mass Markets revenues driven by fios services__.

Mass Markets revenues increased $0.1 billion, or 1.8%, and $0.4 billion, or 2.6%, respectively, during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, compared to the similar periods in 2014, __primarily due to the expansion of fios services__ (voice, internet and video), including our fios Quantum offerings, as well as changes in our pricing strategies, partially offset by the continued decline of local exchange revenues.

http://verizon.api.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EdgarPro.dll?Fet...

FiOS is profitable.
I don't understand this issue of "rotting copper plant". My home has original Illinois Bell wiring. It is 40 years old. My phones (and DSL, when I had it) work fine. One of the things my ever-increasing phone bill is supposed to go to is maintenance on the plant in the ground. The fact that AT&T or Verizon would rather spend this maintenance money on new wireless hardware doesn't automatically make it "too fucking expensive to maintain". This is the line of b.s. used to justify letting the copper plant decay.
Then give me your credit card information, because I have no health insurance and it has been 5 years since my last checkup.

Edit: The parent's reply was "yes" when I replied.

Edit2: I am unsure which "free" you are referring to. Maybe all knowledge should be "libre", but I hesitate to say all knowledge should be "gratis".
What stops an attacker from requesting the CSRF token?
What dilemma?

I don't do research, but from my point of view the issue is pretty much settled, there's no reason to doubt. Current publisher are just plain wrong and don't deserve people to feel bad over them.
I understand completely. I feel most people's threat models stop even before 'threat has physical access'. The chances of both your computer being stolen and the person who stole it being tech-savvy enough [0] to break into things may as well be 0 for anyone who isn't the target of a state actor or working in a security field. At that point the only people who care are the people who care about security or slim chances like that occurring. :)

[0] Or the thief selling it to someone who is tech savvy enough. Still practically 0 for most everyone.
Apple: The FBI Should Ask the NSA to Hack Shooter’s iPhone
Winning the Copyleft Fight
No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that they caused the situation to exist in the first place, whether or not it is deliberate is anybody's guess at this point in time.
You're assuming that this request is at the bottom of the slippery slope rather than at the top.

The FBI made clear that this was a special case, just one solitary phone to decrypt from a nasty terrorist. And no one likes terrorists, so we can all agree that we need to read his secret data.

But then it's revealed that there are dozens, perhaps even hundreds of these requests in queue, and few involve terrorism.

And after the government is successful at coercing Apple into creating special software, why do you think that the next stop won't be to coerce apple into handing over signed code that will work on any phone (or even signing keys themselves)? After all, if the government needs to read data off of thousands of phones, surely they can't wait for Apple to do them all.

> The FBI didn't ask Apple to decrypt the device because that would be impossible.

Decrypting the phone is only impossible if the user had a strong passphrase, which is unlikely, so if Apple turns off the brute force checks, decrypting the phone means only cycling through 10000 or 100000 passphrases. A few hours or a few days at most.

If decrypting the device is impossible, then the FBI wouldn't be asking for Apple's help.
As much as I agree with you, successful CEOs tend to be very good at never accepting responsibility for any failure and accepting credit for everything good that happens.

Jeffrey Pfeffer's "Leadership Bullshit" expands on this sobering reality in more detail. As much as I like to believe that righteousness, honesty, and integrity matter for leaders, the realities of modern business do not reward the most honest people as reliably as those that know how to work systems and crowds.
Nothing but a PR stunt.
How in the world so is Java better?
Well also WhatsApp handling 1B+ users with Erlang, and with (what used to be?) only a handful of engineers.

But somehow the Haskell, OCaml and Scala users never want to include Erlang when talking about "functional". Even though it is probably the most practically used functional language.
Terrorists cannot be innocent. /s
This is why I love HN! Amazing video, and that project sounds fascinating. Where can I go to keep an eye on it?
With webrenderer and asm.js/webgl, the last couple of years have been great for rendering in a browser and it has all been led by Mozilla. Keep it up.
If I'm moving towards getting funding or need to sign compliance documents for the business, is there any downside to signing as my agency with a DBA vs a standalone LLC?
> Verizon and AT&T diverting capital investment to wireless is literally just giving customers what they want.

Only in part. Since they at the same time neglect their landline services which a lot of customers want as well (especially those who are stuck on DSL and etc.). As I said, it's a simple conflict of interests. They can make money on both, but wireless brings them more fast profit, so they neglect landline altogether.
Those are awfully hard lines to draw. The reality of grant-writing is that it's always a bit vague and a bit dreamy. If you get too specific about things, you might get held uncomfortably tightly to them.

Grant writers know this, and the foundations who give the money also know it. If you weren't on the committee that worked on the grant application, I don't think you can draw any of A, B, or C with certainty. They are not exhaustive of all possibilities, so there's no logical imperative to accept one.

I've written and received grants from the Knight Foundation. Everyone involved understands that there is flexibility in scope from the planning to execution of a project.

For example, I was on the board of an orchestra that won several grants to put on "a performance of the Verdi Requiem." Surprisingly, that can mean different things to different people. What we ended up doing was an interactive multi-media presentation that focused on the history of the piece and its performance by captive Jews at the concentration camp at Terezin. During the course of which, we did also perform the requiem itself.

It was not anything like what you would see if you bought tickets to the NY Phil to go hear the requiem. I can see a reasonable point of view where a person at that event could say, "That was not the Verdi Requiem." And to that person, I would say that it was never our intent to do what the NY Phil would do. We always intended to do something very different. But in my opinion it still counts as "a performance of the Verdi Requiem" and was totally in line with what we requested the grants for in the first place.

I'm not saying this is the situation with the Wikimedia grant. I'm saying that it could be. And you should be careful about trying to draw bright lines around a topic that's pretty hazy by nature and about which we have very incomplete knowledge.
I do not like the Direct TV DVR interface. The DVR interface for U-Verse is much better.
> Also, gutting TV they'll avoid paying retransmission fees and such.

TV brings in way more revenue than the content costs. If you look at a cable co like charter, which doesn't have its own content arm, they'd be deeply in the red if they got rid of TV revenues even accounting for the decrease in programming expenses.
Why We Chose Kubernetes
With the DirecTV acquisition, AT&T's greater leverage over the networks and studios would allow them to better negotiate for true, Internet-based IPTV distribution, ala Dish's SlingTV. They've got the infrastructure in U-Verse video, already an IPTV product. Not much would prevent them from opening the firewalls and allowing subscribers from outside the AT&T network. Who needs STBs? Just have subscribers purchase a Roku-type device.

They're throwing away a ton of potential here. Satellite TV, in its current form, is not the answer.
>> they thought competing with Chrome and Firefox was a good idea

The reality is that they pre-date Chrome and Firefox, but never gained much traction.
There was an interesting study done on the Norwegian Naval Special Forces Command (Marinejegerne). Some years ago, there was a national plan to fold the branch in under central Special Forces Command in Norway (FSK) -- but there was some push-back from the Navy branch. In order to better quantify the cultural differences (if any) between them and other Norwegian Special Forces (eg: Army) -- they did the sensible thing: they reached out and got an external anthropologist (Tone Danielsen) to do a full anthropological study: http://www.ffi.no/no/Rapporter/12-00516.pdf (Summary in English in second paragraph).

Article about the study in English: http://sciencenordic.com/tough-special-forces-don’t-strut-th...

As for the sibling comment in this thread wrt: "breaking down and building up tweens" -- while the training to get into the Norwegian Special Forces training is though, and the subjects are often young -- I think there might be more of a cross-over in organization/leadership/group dynamics than what might appear on the surface.

There are a couple of things that are needed for military operations that are different from similar activities (eg: search and rescue) -- and parts of the military mind does go against what could be considered a sound human mind in today's society. War is inherently about violence and murder. But even if we do not want our programmers to actually be assassins/ninjas -- don't want them to actually have a killer mindset -- much of military training is about changing one's idea of what can be achieved by an individual and a team (to realize that one can indeed do the (previously) "impossible". To not give up, and part of the intense drills are part of making someone an expert. In physical arts, intense drilling is required for technique to become "good enough" for expert level (this is also AFAIK true for dancing, for example).

One should also remember that as long as the organization in question is able to do meaningful self-reflection and improvement, training methods can change and result improve.
So why don't we write all binary operations that way? eg. x f y instead of f(x,y). I've always felt more comfortable with prefix notation, especially because it easily generalizes to more than two arguments. I think infix notation is an accident of mathematical history.
Ku Klux Klan – Hacked by FTA? Whos FTA? New Group?
A new possible group possibly known as "FTA" has hit a new target today that reveals private information regarding members of the KKK and other private information including emails, phone numbers, passwords, and much more.

Sites Affected:
kkk.com
kkkradio.com
americanheritagecommittee.com
and a few more popular KKK websites.