skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A380 passes overhead here every day on final, it is uncanny how it just seems to hang there on account of it being so large that relative to its speed it takes a while to move it's own length. Sure it's still going quite fast but it doesn't seem that it does and this sets of some 'it's going to fall' alarm at the back of my mind. Weirdest feeling.
The FBI looks as if they are lying about the situation. The lawyers who started this adventure deserve to be jeered. We don't need people like that in our government.
All the crypto code you've ever written is probably broken (2012)
Is this the same bug where things randomly stop rendering properly if lots of tabs are open?

I find that I'm having to close a whole bunch of tabs in order to get pages to properly render. It'll work for a while then stop working again. Really quite annoying.
Who said they aren't paying for the exploit?
We were discussing microkernels vs monolithic recently with BeOS as example. Opponent believed compilation times and apps doing many file accesses (web server) should be really slow on such a system vs Linux or Windows. Did you do either of those on BeOS and alternatives? If so, what was your experience with that?

Note: BeOS is a special case since the filesystem is a database. So it cant prove his point unless it has XFS or something. But still curious.
Solving Tetris in C
I meant operating costs.
China does, however, widely use UnionPay, which is Discover-compatible.
Hey guys! We're a team of 4 former scientists, university administrators, and hackers who are working on building a better system for science funding.

We're starting with a set of features we think will save researchers a ton of time. 1. We match researchers with perfect grants 2. Researchers can apply to their matches via easy online applications form 3. We handle any required formatting and make sure the application is complete before sending it off to the funder.

We'd love to hear what folks on HN think.
A deep analysis of the FBI efforts to unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone
Ask HN: Why is Netflix actually requesting the phone number?
I noticed that Netflix started to ask for the phone number (in my country at least).

Their pretext is that this is to restore my password. I find this is ridiculous.

I have restored my password several times already without a phone by using my email address. So I do not have to give my phone number for that (side note: suggestions like this make some users feel that they are treated like full idiots).

So I am wondering why are they doing this.

Are they trying to con out my phone number for what ever reason? That would be pretty low I think and I would like to assume that company like Netflix would not do that.

Also they do not have to prove that I am a real person. They already have my billing information.

Are they really trying to somehow "improve" the password restoration? I think that the restoration procedure over the email works also pretty well. So what would be the improvement? Would I have to manually enter some additional number to annoy me more over the fact that I choose a bad password and how it would improve my security?

Or is this just another example of their bad UI? Like not having an option to automatically remove movies from "My List" after I have watched them. Or showing a special notification for the new movie that I just watched.

So what advantage would having my phone number give to the Netflix? Any ideas?
I am still negotiating. We are all in dif places.

Currently I am hoping for:

Until next round:

650 cash a week.

1500 allocation for new macbook.

Deferred compensation:

Basically a lump sum backpay of the difference of the 650(pay from above) and 1150(60k annual salary) multiplied by the amount of time they can't pay. This should be about 4 months. Somewhere into month 6 we would possibly die without funding or rev anyway.

Then the equity offered was 2.5% 1 year cliff 4year vest. I asked for like 1.4% of the next raise instead. Capped at like 20k.

Then we would renogotiate. For continued employment.

Small things like ~100$ of software.

Does this make sense?
Earlier, he claimed he would use social engineering to unlock it, not some technical hacking [1]. Much more believable in my opinion. But the timestamp on the parent's article makes me skeptical that that proposal stood much ground.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-ill-decrypt-san-b...
Apple's basically saying "Here are a bunch of bugs that are not fixed in the version of the phone the FBI has. You don't need us, or source code, or anything other than to hire someone to take advantage of these holes. Go away."

Nice timing.

Probably pissed off a bunch of the intelligence community today.
Alphabet Partners with Cuba on Google Cardboard, Chromebook in Museum
This is what I've got installed at the moment:

Games I play:

* Carcassonne
* Angry Birds
* Monument Valley
* Kingdom Rush (plus Frontiers, plus Origins sequels)
* Creeps
* Rebuild 2 & 3
* Strategery
* Mahjong
* Solitaire
* Sudoku
* Civilization Revolution
* XCOM
* Battle Hearts
* Battle Hearts: Legacy
* rymdkapsel

Games I’ve downloaded:

* Riven
* Ocean horn (I have a Nimbus controllers for my AppleTV I figured I’d use for this one)
* DOOM
* SpaceMarshals: Turn based team shooter games can be fun
* Space Age: The graphics remind me of the original XCOM games
* Legend of Grimrock: Looks like old "Lands of Lore" games?

Occasionally I'll see something on the App Store that strikes my fancy. But usually I just check out TouchArcade every month or so and see what the top rated stuff is and go from there. I end up with a lot of older games that way, but it's all NewToMe™ So that works.

The one routinely annoying thing on the iPad Pro: When it wants to capitalize something, it's gonna do it, like it or not. Back-spacing, holding SHIFT and typing the letter again has no effect. See the "So" up there. The only way to get around it I've found is to type the letter twice, then cursor back and remove the capitalized one.

I'm not sure if it's an option in auto-correct settings I can disable but it's not enough of a nuisance to bother to check yet so there's that.
People buy the Surface to run the desktop Windows apps though - which is something Apple can't offer. If we were talking Surface RT exclusively it'd be different...
I got you. So it's not tge architecture or how threading worked under hood but the developer experience the API's forced was bad? Right?

That could be fixed easily in a knockoff.
I have all of that stuff, but does an out of work coal miner in Appalachia have that? Does a street kid in New York City?

Radio is a technology that connects communities much more than television or Internet access can, especially during times of natural disaster or crisis.
Yup, and they've been called out on it, too, by others in the government even: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/former-cyber-czar...
Which is just a SaaS version of PrinceXML (http://www.princexml.com/)
They certainly got a clue they weren't going to win - so can Apple now do anything to push the case forward for judgement?
> I don't really care if universities hire hedge managers to manage their endowment, but it's absurd that schools with multibillion dollar endowments still charge tuition. Yale has ~12,000 students and a $26 billion endowment. Tuition is ~$45,000 per student. $45,000 * 12,000 = $540 million. They can't spend 2%(540/26,000) of their endowment per year on free tuition? What is this money for?

It's mainly a tax on rich people. Students from lower income households don't pay that tuition.
When flying in from Amsterdam that 'famously fast security' takes more time than the actual flight.
A slight tangent, but I am still shocked that many open source projects lack downloads via https (including PostgreSQL). Sure you can offer some layer of security by signing the distributions, but ultimately users are lazy.
You're kidding, right? Being surrounded by empty platitudes with the expectation that they'd motivate me would serve only to demotivate.

Try giving your developers responsibility, autonomy, trust, and respect. You'd be amazed how far a little self-determination and native pride in ones work can go.

And if your developers are incapable of handling autonomy or have no particular desire to take pride in their work, your problems run way deeper than motivation.
Because they want flexibility, for example to push a VIP to the front of the line, or prioritize deliveries based on proximity to the factory, or to avoid holding up the line if you suddenly decide to sail around the world solo at the time your delivery is due.

Since this flexibility goes both ways (you can cancel at any time for any reason and get a refund), I don't see what's so weird or upsetting about this.
I love that table column names: "sell in", "sell through", "why not both?"

Edit: clarity
Lots of questions here:

What are your goals/timelines with regards to funding (Very different than SAAS)? For a new plane won't you need hundreds of millions of dollars before you even get a prototype flying?

Why haven't Boeing/Lockheed/Northrup built a plane to fly supersonic ?

Is the execution of building a new plane or patents going to be your path to success ?

Wasn't Warren Buffet investing in this space a few years back ?
> Do you actually think most anyone can afford $5000 round trip to London?

$5k is fairly standard for a first class ticket purchased a few weeks out. It's also much cheaper than a private jet and would yield the same, or similar, or possibly better results.

Here's another interesting subtle side effect. People on this plane would see it as an exclusive networking "club".

I can easily see finance professionals and executives loving this the whole concept.
They're doing the same for the Model X. P90DLs got priority, then P90Ds, and now I believe the 90Ds are starting to show up. 70D orders will probably be waiting until the second half of this year.
>Tuition is ~$45,000 per student. $45,000 12,000 = $540 million. They can't spend 2%(540/26,000) of their endowment per year on free tuition? What is this money for?*

Most schools with that size of tuition don't. Stanford (http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/04/02/3642085/stanfo...) is free is your household income is less than $120,000, and cheap from there on.
This was never about getting access to that phone's data. It was about getting tools / precedents set so they can use them on every other phone the seize in the future.

Just cause it's cynical does not mean it's not accurate.
How many of you guys continue to interview when you sense that you're either being insulted or your interviewer acts like a jackass and thinks that he's God's gift to this earth? Has anyone politely walked out?
Yale's financial aid is extremely generous. It's free for HHI below $65k per year. It's $12,500 per year up to $150k. It's half-price up to $200k. I'd argue it's better for families making more than $200k/year to be paying in than to give them free tuition.
You can, on developer or nightly. Regular users get a safety on the footgun. YMMV, but it really isn't the end of freedom that people like to play it up as...
The slight danger of this "post your salary" trend is that it's really difficult to make comparisons out of context. Someone is going to go to their supervisor and say, "Hey, it says that a senior dev is getting paid $200k/yr at Company X. I want $200k too!" and then their supervisor is going to say, "Well, we don't feel that you're worth that much money."

And now what? The supervisor could be 100% right, and maybe the employee just isn't worth that amount of money. Or maybe it doesn't make for the company to pay that amount of money. The employee could claim discrimination for any of a number of reasons, and it's almost impossible to prove that person X isn't worth as much to the company as person Y is to a different company. It seems like it could just create acrimony in what was previously a good relationship.

Transparency in pay is important, but it's almost impossible to evaluate in an empirical way, much less a scientific one. Not to mention that there is wide discretion in compensation. It's illegal to pay someone less because of their race or gender, but employers can pay someone an extra $5k a year just because they liked the color of their tie during the last negotiation.

Get paid what you're worth, but don't depend entirely on others to find out what that is.
That was the intent and solution I had in mind. Appreciate the positive feedback as I might do it myself given all the ridiculously tiny web servers people have made.

My favorite trick I saw was one that replied directly with TCP/IP packets pre-encoded from the HTML. Cool, huh? That could even be done with highly assured tools in safer language as part of CMS or web build system.
What powers would you say the AWA grants, then?
If you're considering algo trading as a career then be sure to talk to a lot of people doing it. I spent several years trying to break in to the industry at a few prop firms with only middling success. Here are my observations:

1. The vast majority of firms only hire people with CS or math degrees from top 10 schools, with an MS being the minimum. There are few exceptions.

2. Nobody is making as much money as they used to.

3. Depending on what firm you end up at you will probably spend a lot less time building cool strategies and a lot more time trying to shave off a few microseconds here and there.

4. Be prepared for a pretty rough work environment. Swearing, violent outbursts, people being secretive and not sharing ideas.

5. If you're lucky, management will be STEM people. If you're not, they will be former floor traders who have managed to stay alive this long.
Not foolish, but would Apple really agree to the "we found another way to backdoor the phone" messaging?
There's a big difference between the actual details of the case (which few outside of the technology fields understand) and the public perception of the case. To the public, it was:

FBI: We need Apple to hack this terrorist's phone
Apple: We could, but we won't"
>I'm pretty positive I'm in full control of this company

That you don't know pretty much guarantees you have zero legal control. I assume the corporate entity is not in your name. Domains, hosting, etc are all very easily gotten from you by a single letter from a lawyer. You will likely hire your own lawyer, and you'll essentially be paying him to tell that you have to cough up, because you'll lose in court, in addition to tens of thousands of dollars and a ruined reputation.
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Not sure that'd work. Lets say it was $700k, and I adjust it by 50k to remain anonymous (I'd be more inclined to pick last year's salary, so at least it was a true number, but anyway). I'd guess my company only has a few engineers post $500k, so chances that I'm alone -- and identifiable -- by posting a 650-750 range seems high.

The bigger problem isn't my individual case, but how many other engineers are in a similar range and never participate in surveys like this. I don't know.
I reckon they think whoever has interest in watching a live keynote is already an Apple fanboy/customer.
He prolly didn't wanna bore people.
No. The government is the moving party. If the moving party drops it, the court drops it.
Great, thanks! I'll check it out.

Unfortunately I've not had much luck getting pnpm or ied running on Windows due to the symlinking stuff (though the installation portion is super quick), so hopefully the speed improvements here can help lessen the blow a bit.
Actually, Signal uses bloom filters to do "offline", private contact discovery[1]. That's why their contact discovery is rather bandwidth-intensive, as @praseodym mentioned.

[1]: https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/
IIRC you can only e-file for free if you can use a 1040ez, which has some pretty severe limitations. For instance, you can't use it if you're claiming the very common mortgage interest deduction.
thought_alarm got it right. The experienced developers probably use open source editors / debuggers, unsuitable for the masses. Not an Apple-only tool, but still not XCode.
> Perhaps Apple should close this vector.

Perhaps. However, it's very likely that receiving SMS before decryption is not a bug, but a feature.
It would give me anxiety if I dropped AU$1400 on a phone I couldn't interact with properly.
Compare places over time (using SfM)
Graphene Wristband Senses Your Blood Sugar--and Treats It
This address? http://www.mit.edu.demo.fairtread.co/
Thanks for checking it out. We've gotten many requests to add other enemies (especially Hill). But we ran out of time on this unfunded project (for now). We do plan to keep updating it with new features as time allows. For example, we just added Bernie to the powerup delivery animations for each level :)

Since the game is 100% free, open source, and not being used for commercial purposes, we hope to avoid any litigation. However, if we receive any requests that we remove copyrighted material from the owner(s), we will be happy to do so.
Same here. The 6S is just too big for jeans pants pockets, at least for me. I'm wondering how much it will be to trade in the 6s for the SE...
Fair enough. In practice though even if the theory doesn't hold up, you'd need to work pretty hard to get charged with possession by the feds. Even if you punched a federal judge while holding a bag of weed, they'd probably still toss the possession charge just to keep jury nullification types from trying to get seated.
Signal tried to avoid uploading contacts by downloading an encrypted bloom filter to match contacts on the device instead. Unfortunately this doesn't work out with many users (causing large downloads), so they ditched the feature.

Reference and more details: https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/

Commit that removes bloom filters (unreleased, will be in version 2.4):
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/commit/26f9207c...
Pornhub one was funny
As an aside, why does npm check-in the node_modules folder into their repo?

I was under the impression this was generally considered bad practice, so it seemed weird seeing it done by the package manager itself :)
Andy Grove has died
Aaaand, he's getting divorced a third time (just in the news).
Long-hold was always one of the most annoying parts of smartphone interaction in my opinion. 3D Touch means you get instant feedback, which is more useful both when you know that a UI element supports it (so you don't have to wait when you know exactly what you want to do) and when a UI element doesn't support it (so you don't have to wait to find out).
It's funny, I really feel until open source became widely known as a viable thing that patent reform was dead and non-existent. Not only that, but things like the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act passed just before the start of the true mainstreaming of open source culture, but wouldn't fly now.
I find this a very descriptive trait of the western world. We rationalize, and diffuse through indirect means and ways. It feels a lot less barbaric than just cutting someone's hand for a bad article or what you said. The root desires are the same, the way to express them not.
Obligatory reference to my CT monitoring service:

https://ctadvisor.lolware.net/
The Scary Efficiency of Autonomous Intersections
"Heads I win, tails we flip again" -- how can we counter this? How does it become a game they can lose?
Liberals aren't really for social freedom. They're for a different flavor of social control.
Science funding has never been tighter: This company sounds amazing!
Super Mario Kart Clone in HTML5
" If you’re going to copy, copy the really important stuff like a diverse workforce."

I disagree. We shouldn't be pushing for a 'diverse' workforce. We should be pushing for a merit-based workforce where the best person gets the job regardless of gender, sexuality, or race.
Why stop with drugs? I would include pointless war on sex workers.
I thought it was used because they didn't want the brits and french to have the market for these planes.
Can someone explain to me why is it wrong (cynical) to think they didn't have this capability all along?
I thought this was going to be a joke: pie + ratio = pirate.
A bit tangential, but don't donate to Ivy Leagues. I get that you might feel a sense of pride in having graduated from the school, but with a 11 digit endowment, you can rest assured that the school will be there for future students in perpetuity.

Rather, give to state schools or community colleges or really, any other school. Help them serve students of all economic backgrounds, not just the elite. The most important consideration for spending money is generally its marginal benefit (obviously equal amounts are worth more to poorer institutions) but we could also think about this in terms of marginal students - how many more students can attend/graduate with less debt because of our donation?
Ipad 2 updated but not activated yet.. Trying this for 4 hours
Rootstock Raises $1M to Bring Smart Contracts to Bitcoin
However you can't zoom, adjust layers, and make queries of a picture of a map. Ideally you would have both. Print the map... Put a QR to the enhanced digital version in the corner.
We're around to answer questions! Also, please see the discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4be9lq/onesignal_usin...
Uh, iPad Pro cases are like $20 on Amazon. I found one for $15.
> From what I can tell there are no instructions in the app that tell you about this feature

It's fine for secondary controls (other ways to zoom). I'd say Google learned the lesson with the now discontinued Menu button on Android. Application authors would sometimes hide critical functionality behind a Menu button press, and sometimes the Menu button did nothing. This lack of discoveribility and inconsistency is bad for User Interaction
Also the font rendering is horribly aliased in Chrome, but that's more of Chrome's fault.
Is it possible that Apple could file for a declaratory judgement with respect to the All Writs Act, to remove the potential of the government filing substantially the same request at a later date?

Until that happens, it seems like a very real risk to Apple's security claims.
I would assume you make that much because you bring that much value to the company. I doubt anyone who's a supervisor of yours would see it, care if the saw it, would be willing to fire you if they cared, and would be willing the risk a lawsuit for firing you for an illegal reason (in the US it's illegal to discourage salary discussion). Worst case scenario you leave a toxic environment behind and get a similarly paying job at a better place.

In summary, I wish I had your problems :)
Just wanted to make sure I got the dates right -- today isn't April 1 right?
> Or you could invest at a 7% profit rate

Tips welcome.
No, the site was riddled with 500 errors, their CDN was down which made all the fonts not load, etc. They had it on their Twitter that they were having a weird system outage after I realised and was sure after I tweeted them they would refund the domains. No dice. 100% refusal to refund.
Scala.js Is Important for Cloud Services
You're taking this tweeting thing too seriously. It's not like someone wrote a nobel prize winning discovery on Twitter and someone else stole it to publish on Nature and took the credit. That aside, based on all the downvotes I received I guess I'll get downvoted again for this but just gotta say this. I didn't say you were wrong. I said there are other people who feel this way and was just sharing another point of view. And you are the one who's refusing to accept there can be other perspectives.
It looks like in 9.4 PG went after the document databases and now they are after Oracle. I don't know why I get excited with point releases of postgres, but I do.
Ask HN: What should I build next?
I'm thinking to start a new side project. Help me with ideas!