skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

-- The Declaration of Independence

In an American context, human rights are often thought as coming from a God or Creator. They are either preserved or infringed upon by the state, but aren't granted by the state. As a practical matter, just government is required to safeguard those rights.
I think you are missing the acknowledgement of the understandable myopia that most greenhorn Austinites have.

Austin has had many years of tech manufacturing and roots for large enterprise companies, so in a sense it has been heavily a tech hub for decades, but not when it comes to software and startups for which Silicon Valley is known for.

Your pretentious and heavy-handed description description of the suburbs and outer environs ignores the beautiful nature trails, pristine open-land, outdoors-oriented, and mostly nice attitudes of comforted Texans.
The code appears to be some of the most ancient Unix Kernel Source Code yet found. This is previous to the PDP-11 1st Edition. Still, many of the familiar bits are there (ed, cat, etc..) A pretty historically significant chunk of code!
Smartphones last years, too. My 2012 Nexus 7 (I use a tablet + $20 dumbphone combo, not a smartphone) is still going strong - even after being literally submerged while turned on! - so I'm not planning to upgrade it any time soon.

Around here, we pay for our smartphones out of pocket (the vast majority of people have prepaid SIMs, not contracts), so you can bet we're not replacing our phones every year :)
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> You don't need a firewall on individual machines either; just don't run network-facing services in the first place

I disagree. Firewalls fail closed under user error. The solution you proposed (we'll call it conscientious-wall) fails open under user error. That's to say, once a firewall is set up it will protect me from outside intruders unless I specifically tell it not to. A "conscientious-wall" will not protect me from outside intruders unless I specifically remember to apply it whenever I install an application or download a software update.

I'm still firmly in the camp of having at least an inbound firewall on every machine.
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Seriously folks, this is awesome. Does anyone have a recommendation of a USB microphone/headset that will work with Ubuntu so that I can start using this a bit more comfortably?

I did not know voice typing was possible before, this has made my day. All I need now is to invest in a decent microphone!
Would really like to see some methodology here. I find it extremely hard to believe that programmers can only afford 4% of SF's housing stock, but doctors can do 41%.

Sure doctors might make an average of $175k while programmers pull $100k, but by the time the doctor exits residency, the programmer will have earned about $400k+ post-tax while the doctor is $200k in debt. It'll take quite some time (12+ years) for a post-tax salary difference of $36k to make up that imbalance.
At my first job, the only one-on-one I ever had with my manager was a yearly scheduled "performance review" (in Swedish, the word used is the same as that used in grade school), during which we assessed my competence.

When a higher level manager wanted to know why the product development wasn't as good as it could be, an external consultant came in to observe for a couple of weeks. He actually did talk one-on-one with each employee. He asked me what I thought really needed to be done, in a genuine way.

He produced some kind of report. We asked for several months to see the report, but it never surfaced. Then I left to join a small startup...
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They did not even attempt to get it to send a fresh backup to iCloud before they reset it making it impossible.

[0] http://daringfireball.net/2016/02/san_bernardino_password_re...
Here: https://medium.com/@ChakibBenz
If companies like MS were willing to allow this to happen they would. MS could publish their API and allow third party clients tomorrow. By the end of the year they would be numerous Linux clients for the Skype service. I just can't see this happening.
I'd definitely start developing for Windows Phone if they made Xamarin free and cross platform like .net. We're missing on a not completely insignificant part of the market that currently isn't worth the development and maintenance cost. If we could develop it from Mac and Linux boxes using the same codebase for the logic, we would most likely make the jump.
> After finding the average annual salary for each profession in each city from Glassdoor...

Yeah, they don't take into account critical factors such as estimated student loans or time invested.
That word doesn't think what you think it means.

> That device practically screams, "hack me".

As in, "That device practically screams, 'please find a way to tweak me to overcome my restrictive and unreasonable limits (embedded in what is otherwise a functional device)'"

Or in other words, "hack me".
This had been announced back in September 2015, albeit from a Google Docs for Education point of view:

https://googleblog.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/google-docs-classr...

Under the first video, see "With Voice typing, you can record ideas or even compose an entire essay without touching your keyboard."

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It seems that what's new are the "Voice commands" to Select Text, Format, etc. etc. That's really great! Take a look at the commands here:

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/4492226
That would an amazing feature add.

I'm currently sending 150k/mo with Mailgun and log everything for 6 months. It's rarely accessed, but invaluable when it is.
There's a great EconTalk podcast episode about Matching Markets with Alvin Roth (the Stanford economist mentioned in the article):

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/07/alvin_roth_on_m.htm...
Thanks. That seems really interesting! Added to my amazon wishlist.
Can't see any good part of it, the worst for me is probably the massive price hike. Then there's the blatant disregard for customers...
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I would like to use this kind of thing even if I had to type the commands... anything to avoid mousing, and holding down arrow keys, and all that tedious stuff. Typing sentences is totally natural for me, I can do it all day. For years I've been dreaming of a renaissance of ed-like editors.
That's akin to saying suicide is a solution to any of life's problems.
yep, denial mode. there is no proof. no one is credible. it's a scam. there is no theory. things didn't happen before we had theory for them. what a bunch of scientific bigots.
The Boston Big Dig was a great improvement -- buried the highway and revitalized downtown and Seaport.

Maybe Austin should do something similar. It can narrow the streets and build some underground highways. Leave the above-ground for pedestrians and bicycles, traffic that can actually stop if it spots something interesting. Cars mostly go from here to there, never stopping in-between.

Buses are much cheaper than trains and can be re-routed if it turns out the population centers shift.
I don't understand the whole debate about Apple security:

- Apple is required to have backdoors, at least on iPhones sold in foreign countries, isn't it?

- Even if the SE were completely secure, a rogue update of iOS could intercept the fingerprint or passcode whenever it is typed, and replay it to unlock the SE when spies ask for it. As far as I know, the on-screen keyboard is controlled by software which isn't in the SE.

- Even if iCloud is supposed to be encrypted, they didn't open up that part to public scutinity.

- Therefore a perfect security around the SE only solves the problem of accessing a phone that wasn't backdoored yet. There are all reasons for, say, Europe and CIA, to require phones to be backdoored by default for LE and economic intelligence purposes.
Yes, the Galapagos phone is where ガラ comes from.

I've heard people calling them ガラクタ (crap) phones before. It's obviously just slang...
Missing Malaysia plane photos after disappearance? Seems so
For a mistery beyond the deep, there may be a solution that exceeds current ideas.

Look at this two photos:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/61506776@N06/14431425868
Photo clearly showing 9M-MRO (MH370 registration number) at Istanbul Airport on 10 July 2014 - months after disappearance. I contacted author/spotter channel and I am waiting for answer about EXIF/date proof.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/saints09/19819662655 Photo unclearly showing 9M-MRO/Q (Q was not there that day, that time) at Melbourne Airport on 10 July 2015 - more than one year after disappearance. Shutter Count for this second photo has been checked and matches/follows the one of other photos.
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It does support both "Brasil" and "Portugal". Have you tried it out? Does it work well in Portuguese?
I have tried some React Native demos and they all performed slower than similar Xamarin demos.

Better than HTML5 is still not good enough.
Yes, i read it. But i am not talking about browser. What about IoT? What about mobile? Running python in mobile? No one will do this as it is just non-professional for majority of mobile devs. Some niche mobile apps on python is cool, but you will never find python iOS developer and you will never bundle python to your app.

Protocol and some clean reference implementation without dependencies will be neat.
I'm surprised that this isn't up on the internet of shit twitter yet[1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Maybe change the title, too? It's absurdly inaccurate, just look at how all the comments here are completely unrepresentative of what is stipulated in the article, everyone has read only the title and assumes:

* Ads are popping up on the desktop ("full-screen"). Which they are not - it is restricted to the lock screen. Neither the tweet nor the article mentions "full-screen" once.

* You can't opt-out of this process. The central point of the entire article is how to opt-out.

* This is new. I personally opted out of this feature a while back.

Possibly something like: "Windows is Showing Lock-Screen Ads (How to Opt-Out)". As per the guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

This post not only fails to adhere to the guidelines, it does the exact opposite by changing the meaning of the article entirely. It should actually be deleted and I have flagged it due to such a blatant disregard for the guidelines.
TL;DR: 'habits books' market is huge. Then the author goes through a looong comparison in the recent literature and sums up what every author says. Conclusion: differently from the past, in modern times there isn't basically any moralising tendency when teaching about breaking habits, and this is worrying for the development of society, or maybe not.
Not available for me, menu item grayed out. Austria/Europe here. Language is set to English/USA.
I think they have accounted for that. FTA:

> After finding the average annual salary for each profession in each city from Glassdoor, Estately then determined how much people in each profession could afford to spend on a home
Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in Croatia?
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"with exceptions for intentional servers, which should almost never happen on a client system"

But these light bulbs _are_ servers. With IoT, everything becomes a server. Your home system will have to be able to query your couch and your smart watch whether someone still is there and awake, and control the tv, the lights, the curtains, your fridge/microwave/phone (to call emergency services, if needed) accordingly.
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A utility to convert JSHint and JSCS files into ESLint files and vice-versa
from a 'top' comment (http://goo.gl/t3WvOL): "This will double the number of people at Microsoft who love .NET and don't think .NET developers are dinosaurs for not wanting to switch to a scripting language invented in the '90s."
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That's accounted for in the study. They looked at salary info from Glassdoor for each profession by city
Ok, from the sounds of it, all MailChimp has to do to keep our business (and thousands others from the sounds of it) is to change the requirement to a Free-Tier MailChimp account instead of being a Paid MailChimp account.

I get their desire to have a single unified system that manages everything, but our situation is: we use Mandrill to send the System Info emails on https://www.whatismybrowser.com to thousands of people per month. We have absolutely zero requirements for a mailing list.

If they're asking us to pay for a whole system we won't use; it's not even a discussion, we'll be leaving and they lose money.

Go figure.

MailChimp's competitors must be rubbing their hands in glee.

Personally, I don't blame them.
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I hear their ads constantly on This American Life, Radiolab, Serial....or simply high quality general interest podcasts covering a wide range of subjects. I'm just guessing here, but I imagine the typical audience might be people that are educated, interested, curious, with good taste, somewhat close to the pulse of time, without necessarily falling into hipster territory, ...and not afraid of trying to build a website on their own (I'm guessing that's how they see using Squarespace), whether for their small business or their personal blog for niche interests.

Sure, a very general and possibly very wrong assumption on my part, but I think it makes sense to target those listeners.
Does this work without an internet connection (once downloaded)? If yes, How big is the downloaded footprint? I still haven't gone through the webpage carefully.
Astronauts aren’t doing it for the money. The government doesn’t pay it’s people well for risk. Contracting with the government is much more lucrative in this regards. Military can often pay less than $50k a year[1] to people taking a ton of risk when a contractor taking significantly less risk is making $1000 a day. This is one reason privatizing so much of the military is corrosive.

http://www.militaryrates.com/military-pay-charts-e1_e5_2016
both op and you are the same person?
> What's the downside?

If you're used to dynamic imperative languages, you have to learn a lot of new concepts, ways of thinking and new kinds of errors messages. Also, it's hard for ecosystems for strongly typed languages to compete because of current popularity.
The Little Schemer

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/
Ask a tax counsellor who knows about online business (there are shockingly many who today still have no idea about it).

That said there is no straightforward, easy way to deal with this. The whole process is an insane mess. You can do everything correctly and still have problems with your local tax authorities afterwards (partly because they don't really know how to deal with these regulations themselves).
Yes, I know :-)
>programmers pull $100k

My understanding is $110k is an unsurprising entry-level salary; people who are mid-career would be making quite a bit more.
> The only risk is compromise of the signing key, and that's the same as any iOS update.

I disagree. If the DOJ gets a signed copy of the software, that's a very different level of risk. There are all kinds of issues with software development we often underestimate. The issues aren't always technical matters. Sometimes they are human.

This court case isn't just about software development. It's also about what the DOJ can demand, and how that impacts software development. The DOJ could very well demand that Apple hand over a signed version of the customized OS. After that, how can Apple be expected to secure their product? They can't.

The last relevant case using AWA was USA vs. New York Telephone. Have you read OK's review of that case as it pertains to a potential USA vs. Apple? [1]

This is from the judges' concluding remarks, which help define the AWA as it will be used today and in the future:

"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."

n.b. compliance with it required minimal effort on the part of the Company

Consider the burden Tim Cook and Apply will bear when he compels his software engineers to remove password-entry safeguards and release the signing key that they have guarded so carefully. Employee morale will tank.

> Do you have any other justification for your belief other than trusting Tim Cook?

I trust Tim and stand behind him when he says it's time to stand up to the DOJ. These cases have been heard behind closed doors for years, decades, have hurt business such as Yahoo, Skype etc. and have never been shown the spotlight that this case has. Everyone knows what an iPhone is, from the US to Cambodia, and they will all be following this case closely. It's time to share what we know as techies about the inner workings of the devices in people's pockets and the unchecked surveillance systems of our government.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Restaurant servers at zero percent? I know some who own houses in the Bay Area. Shit, I don't own one, but I know multiple restaurant workers who do. Granted, these people don't exactly work at the Olive Garden (we're talking at least one Michelin star), but it's not as simple as this article makes it out to be, not by a long shot.
The audio feature is great - for a low volume blog, it's a fantastic idea.

That said, I wish she would have improved and processed the recording a little further. Noise reduction, a basic compressor and gate would have gone a long way towards making it sound a little more professional. Still, very nice feature.
Only opens an ad in Mobile Safari on iOS/iPhone.
Yes. I actually mean both. Thread safety does and doesn't matter. MRI has a GIL so appending to an array across threads will "just work." JRuby doesn't and it won't end well if you're not giving it thought.

But yeah, multi-process web servers absolutely trample over each other. File access would need to be coordinated / synchronized.
It's still strong in Germany and even available over the web (http://www.ard-text.de/) and a mobile-friendly site with the same content: http://www.ard-text.de/mobil/100
LibreOffice is a better MS Office in many regards. I'll give you Adobe tools, but Krita is better than Photoshop for people doing mostly tablet art and you've brought up Gimp in a transition period, where they're doing a huge rewrite to support GLSL that allows them to extend their codebase a whole lot where previously it was not possible.

Also GTK is a toolkit firmly linked to Gnome. The best toolkit currently available for Linux is Qt, and it's also cross-platform and integrates well with all desktops and operating systems it supports.
DRM for your own data is called privacy.
If you are after some cheap 'ok' wireless bulbs take a look at MiLight / LimitlessLED (they have various brand names). You can pick up bulbs for under $15 and the bridge for about the same from AliExpress.

They have the same issue as these in that white and RGB are seperate modes (so you can't control the saturation), but other than that they work fine and don't have any cloud "features".

The protocol of the bridge / app has been reverse engineered, and there are various libraries on GitHub:

https://github.com/mwittig/node-milight-promise
Sure. But when you do fly I’d say it’s pretty risky.[1] Even some of the training can kill you. Seems more risky than a typical desk job, but maybe that depends on how deadly boredom can be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
teachers in general earning $50k, either teachers have to super good in U.S. or this doesn't include everything like high school, elementary schools, kindergardens and whatever else there is.
Indeed, "The County was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI's request." https://twitter.com/CountyWire/status/700887823482630144
Silverlight was essentially a polyfill for back when browsers weren't very capable. I did a ton of work with Silverlight - streaming video, vector graphics, cross-platform front-end apps with back-end integration... all stuff that was pretty hard to do back then, but is now widely available in all modern browsers.

Also, both the JavaScript language and runtime were pretty hard to build reliable, performant apps in back when Silverlight was introduced. The JavaScript language and runtimes have matured considerably since then.

If it had been my say, I'd have kept it for a little longer than they did, but by now I'd say it's no longer necessary.

There were always two camps in the Silverlight world, both inside and outside of Microsoft: those that saw it as a way to make browser-based applications more awesome, and those that saw Silverlight as a way to get away from that yucky HTML/CSS/JS dev. I was always firmly in the first camp, and from that side of things I wouldn't take back a minute I spent on Silverlight dev - I got a jump on video, vector graphics, browser-based apps, etc., long before it was practical to do that in the browser. When those technologies hit mainstream browsers, great!

Note: Microsoft employee but definitely only speaking for myself here.
Why in the lower chart there's only one salary figure for each profession, without different values for different cities?
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To be honest, the vague statements on pricing, blatant disregard for customers, and functionality from them have sealed the switch away for me.

At least this crappy company has viable competitors. Imagine what we'd be saying if e.g. Adobe did this. Oh wait..
Apple is not required by any country to have a backdoor and I am not aware of any agreement from Apple to install such a back door for anyone
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>it's RAM is on chip (not shared with it the main CPU, and probably has ECC)

Apple's security guide would indicate otherwise, look on page 7. The secure enclave encrypts its portion of memory, but it isn't built into the secure enclave itself.

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
I didn't see the images at first and wasn't sure what it actually was, mentioning the iOS alternative `UISegmentedControl` would have helped me there.
On the bright side, it hasn't burst into flames yet.
I always say to people "Name me one normal person." (They usually can't.) And if they do name one that could qualify: "It's not normal to be normal."
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there are ~25 square miles of america most techies would consider acceptable.

different strokes.
It is just a library that is constructed in a way that is not obvious to the programmer who uses it.

You can build that sort of library in any language.
Get a Blue Yeti.
Restaurants with Michelin stars are so rare that their servers, even if they do better than others, probably won't make a dent in the zero percent. Their impact on the average earnings of restaurant servers is negligible.

Overall, this study is very US-specific, of course. In some industrial countries the norm is to rent and only a minority own their homes anyway.