skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, considering that it's beta, where should I expect rough edges? Is there any list that shows what's missing to go from beta to full production? I'm actually really interested in trying this out, but I want to know what potential issues I should expect to deal with.

Something I found really awesome about Google's services is that they provide fake local implementations that you can run from the CLI. This means that you can run tests without having to hit the outside world!

Somewhat related to that, if you're using S3, check out s3rver [0]. It's a node implementation of fake-s3 [1], which is a local implementation of S3 that you can use during development and testing.

Looking through the examples, I'm confused about the deployment strategy for SPAs. Looking at the webpack example [2], you build the frontend app every time the server runs? That's REALLY slow for any reasonably sized SPA :(. It means you generate a new build each time the server restarts, and for something like node that's really common. (AFAIK, the suggested strategy is to just let it crash and restart quickly.) But it also means that you might have multiple servers running different version of your dependencies (since there's no shrinkwrap). Even worse, if you're running multiple servers with slightly different dependencies, it might also mean that you'll end up building slightly different versions of your SPA in every server for any given release! I'd love to see an example where you build and tag the SPA in a single place, and you make sure all the servers are serving the same bundled code.

[0] https://github.com/jamhall/s3rver

[1] https://github.com/jubos/fake-s3

[2] https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docs-samples/b...
I think what jlgaddis was trying to say is that by getting certificates issued for the major browser vendors, you're much more likely to get them to pull this CA out of the trust store.
The justice department might not need Apple's help for the San Bernardino iPhone
This is an out-of-core problem.

What matters when sorting a billion numbers is wallclock runtime from the start of the sort to the end of materialization (see http://sortbenchmark.org/) or iteration. And it means, almost always, materializing or iterating the entire result set.

it's not clear to me any haskell programs have won any real awards in sorting modest amounts of data, since you have to visit all the data and compare nlogn times.
So the math in play here is "what are public goods? non-rival and non-excludable.

There! Done in one :)
I'm not familiar with swift, but Python doesn't have C style for loops either. People just write:

for i in range(10):

instead.
The experienced developers at Apple are no different than the experienced developers elsewhere. They use the LLDB command-line and write their code in Emacs.

I've never liked Visual Studio, and the last time I worked on a serious Windows product most of the experienced developers used WinDbg and cordbg rather than the neutered Visual Studio debugger. And some guys still wrote their code in Visual Studio 6 rather than the newer .NET IDEs.

My problem with Xcode today is that it's too much like Visual Studio. I'll take Xcode 3 with LLDB any day.
Is that investment gain net of the fund manager payment? Because an S&P 500 index fund would have returned 13.5% that year[1], or ~$3.5 billion, about the same as $4 billion minus the half-billion hedge fund managers costs. And presumably they had to pay other investment managers (for non-hedge investments), and the money in HFs is significantly less liquid and accessible and more volatile.

[1] http://performance.morningstar.com/fund/performance-return.a...
This is impersonation using a computer. Surely that's about 3 levels of computer fraud under US law, isn't it?
I would say yes since Racket is a Programming Language for making Programming Languages :)
What does that have to do with release schedules?
I tried the Motorola Moto-E here in the US, hoping for a quality (Motorola) small (4.5") phone.

It's junk. Didn't last one year. I'm getting used to the N5X now.
I hope your company motto is "Move Fast and Break Things."
The FBI admits it can unlock the San Bernardino iPhone without Apple's help [pdf]
z0a, or anyone, is there a way to remove/obfuscate my submission somehow ?
I've lost the edit link btw. Thanks
I just noticed that the domain iphone.se is up for sale. (I'm not affiliated.)

More info: http://www.iphone.se/till-salu (Swedish)
Conversely, when I went for an SSL cert for my company, they called me (from Israel) on a phone number for our company taken from public sources, in order to verify we were who we were. Compare this to some other SSL providers, whose certification process is "can you give us $600?"
From my limited exposure to them, they hadn't for some time before the IPO either. The fact that they considered an IPO was probably a bad sign.
Sure, but (by most metrics) hedge funds are going to be riskier/more volatile and you have to lock up your money for longer. So the same return would count as worse performance if placed in hedge fund (and that's not even accounting for differences in expenses yet).
I read a lot about DodgerCMS right now, then I discovered it did client-site rendering. Not that this is a bad thing, but it makes the job of implementing a site like this so much easier that I got angry.

Now I don't know if Tumbless does everything client-side too. I guess the other way is way too hard (recompiling everything every time, finding what to recompile etc.), like I tried to do and failed with https://github.com/fiatjaf/coisas
Oh boy, lots of hackle-words in that. "Think tank", "global challenges", "US State Department"...
>Am I missing something obvious?

John McAfee did promise to do it for free. /½ s

The guy is eccentric but I don't think he's an idiot and I do think he is likely talented, or at least rich enough to hire those who are.

That being said - he admits he was full of shit [0] and then claims that he has a proper method that isn't full of shit but which he didn't want to disclose. Chances are he's probably full of shit on that one too, given the track record, but who knows?

[0] http://www.dailydot.com/politics/john-mcafee-lied-iphone-app...
I did mention it, and when most people speak of education they are usually referring to the learning aspect.
My thoughts exactly. They've already started going that way with ARC; this looks to me like everything converging.
I run most things maximised because, even on a Macbook retina display, I only get 1280x800 effective pixels, and that's just not enough to run more than one window at once. If I had a 5K desktop, it might be a different story. The only things I ever tile are side-by-side Finder / Terminal windows. Never see my wallpaper.
I see a lot of senior engineers with just a couple or a few years of experience. This is interesting...
How do they calculate the number of times it's been pirated?

> We take overall amount of activations minus legit sales per platform minus 10% (to offset for people who activated a legit copy on more than 1 device).

An assumption of 10% multiple device activations is begging the original question.

Pirating on Windows, Mac, and Android is pretty easy, but on iOS it requires jailbreaking, which is pretty limiting these days. I doubt his piracy numbers are anywhere near what he's claiming.
Those in the top 10 as ranked by Forbes are not super admins as much as they are highly privileged users. Bloomberg might be considered an admin of sorts due to his fortune being made on financial software.

The real super admins are people like the current US Treasury Secretary who has the highest voting power on the board of governors of the IMF. This particular super admin made a fortune at Citi by betting on the global economic collapse of 2008 while hoarding cash in British tax havens like the Cayman Islands and was then promoted to his current administrative post.[1]

This is a (sub) prime example of a super admin purposefully crashing the system in order to gain more power; greatly increasing global inequality in the process. This is a cyclical use case which has been occurring for hundreds of years in the global paper-based markets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lew#Between_Clinton_and_O...
This is ignoring a lot that goes into investment management. It's easy to say S&P would have done just as well on that particular year, but what about every other year? What about years with big losses? Additionally, investment managers do things like create portfolios for you that match your risk tolerance or other special needs/requirements.

Overall, it's true that managed investments don't do as well as index funds, but it's ignoring a lot of the risk management that goes into being actively managed.
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The internet has already driven the cost of education to zero, what schools are really selling are degrees. Anyways, Yale only spends $170 million on tuition assistance, but in reality ; Yale covers full tuition and housing costs for students who's family income is less than $200,000.
If the FBI is playing games with the court system, could Apple call them out on it and convince the court to rule on issues anyway?
This is my understanding about Google Cloud services;

- Alpha means sub par quality / rough edges / unresolved issues.
- Beta means fairly stable but no SLA, no guarantees from Google.

So I'd guess it's fine to use now.
It's a US law (Washington State) that 13of40 cited.
Youtube did something similar for 'interesting thumbnails' last year with deep nets (many uploaders do not specify a good thumbnail preview), and reported that it gave a nice performance boost.
Does anyone else get almost irrationally angry about this? I HATE that the freedom to modulate our own minds was taken away from us by these awful politicians for such terrible reasons. Not only has the War on Drugs ruined countless lives through incarceration and overdosing, but so many potentially helpful chemicals have been hidden away from society. It isn't just about getting "high"... it's about unleashing our full pharmacological potential in a safe and productive manner.

The War on Drugs is so fucking stupid and so many people are paying the price. I don't know if anything makes me as angry as this.
clickable: http://www.fairtread.com/
Except that you'd also get the stock market's volatility.

I get your point but you can't really make that argument without considering volatility. Endowments in particular, need fixed income-like payment streams, as they're funding salaries and grants, after all.
Has the FAA given any indication on what the decibel threshold might be to potentially reverse the overland ban on supersonics? You had mentioned in another comment that the tipping point might be the feasibility and eventual popularity from going LAX/SFO - Tokyo but that in and of itself may not be enough satisfy residents and other groups.
4%-6% is almost certainly sustainable. Higher pay outs expose Harvard to wealth dilapidation.

Companies, institutions and even empires come and go. The most successful adhere to conservative governance and plan for the next century, not the next semester.

Harvard was founded in 1636. So far, it has survived 380 years. That's pretty impressive.
As a rational person, I'm going to be honest in an interview, and if the interviewer doesn't value that, then they can just suck a turd. :)
It doesn't make sense to me to apply the word "shortage" to a situation where you're taking reservations for a product that isn't yet released. Their steady state for the past couple of years has been a wait of a month or two from order to delivery (for American customers, people overseas have to wait a lot longer for transportation) which doesn't seem like it would be in the realm of "shortage" for a car.
Attitudes towards blacks and Mexicans certainly played a large role in the illegalization of cannabis in the 1930s. Attitudes towards the Chinese likewise played a role with the illegalization of opiates before then.

I don't think you can attribute the entirety of drug policy to identity politics (especially with opiates, where people were indeed getting hooked on various "quackery medicine" type formulas peddled back in the late 1800s - early 1900s). I think you can attribute some of the draconian, moralizing, punitive approaches of our current drug policy to identity politics, though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318378
Are you in China? (This is not a criticism) your grammar sounds as though you may be Chinese.

I wonder how many people in the China tech scene read HN?
You are now encountering the concept of a safe withdrawal rate. If you have money and want to spend it effectively, the best course of action is not to immediately spend it all, but to invest it. Then, once a year, you'll want to take the profits, reinvest a sufficient amount such that your capital doesn't depreciate due to inflation, and then to spend the rest. A more conservative strategy would have you reinvesting even more.

What's the point? Well, suppose you have $100. You could spend it all now. Or you could invest at a 7% profit rate, reinvest 2% for inflation, and then spend the remaining 5%. This lets you spend $5 a year, inflation-adjusted, for the foreseeable future -- so if your timeframe is longer than twenty years (20x5 = 100), it makes sense.

That's not to mention that having a lot of money in investments gives a school substantial practical/political power.
FBI says it may be able to unlock iPhone without Apple's assistance
I am guessing they caught wind of possibly losing the case and don't want the precedent set. That's what this was always about, right?
It's probably the hardware bruteforce unlock that's been floating around for about a year:

Example:
http://blog.mdsec.co.uk/2015/03/bruteforcing-ios-screenlock....
Cursor navigation with 3D touch is very nice, and a long time coming. Tap and hold the keyboard when typing to move the cursor around.
Did you say free drugs?
How does Apple still not have support for WebRTC in Safari?!?
I love my Z5 Compact as well, primarily for the small size. I completely agree with your comment about the Sony brand here in the US. Totally anecdotal but at least 90% of the comments about my phone are asking if it's a Windows/Nokia phone. Although that could be because I got the yellow one.
Ha, that is what I get for not paying attention over the past four years.
Can you put a vague description of what you're doing so we can get an idea of what job can command this level of compensation?
It's weird that the offer to help was publicized before any solicitation for offers to help. Assuming that number 3 is the case, that ups the likelihood that the exploit is coming from a government insider (likely NSA, although ex-government security researchers are also likely).
No, I really didn't. Coming up with ideas, then iterating on them, is itself a form of work. And when done well, it is a more productive form of work than figuring out technical challenges.

Take my Steve Jobs example. Do you really think that he didn't work hard?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11332965
The best thing about this release is CSS Variables support:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/General...

CSS variables are a great way to do theming and cross-scoped styling for Custom Elements and shadow DOM. Polymer's had a shim for this for a while, but native support is much faster and more flexible.
You can e-file for free yourself. There are digital versions of forms like the 1040, schedule c etc...
4. They don't want to allow precedents to be set that aren't the precedents they were looking for.
Thats my guess. They are waiting for another "golden" case to use.
> and here's the gist of the scam. It's a pyramid scheme where the new entrants i.e. the young people pay for the old people's costs.

No, it's a scheme where the least expensive people pay for the most expensive people's costs. Insurance is like that.
They could just contact geohot...

In some ways I suspect that the FBI's arguments are a smoke-screen to keep us from talking about the fact that unknown 0-days exist and perhaps the NSA even has a few.
> Money management is not what the universities are good at, and it's not what they are for.

Isn't that precisely why they pay other people to manage it?

> It's as if the purpose for which they were created has become an afterthought.

I sometimes wonder what that purpose is. What do you think?
Digital currency as a method of economic stimulus in developing nations
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on startups
He is an eccentric idiot. I am just enough not of an idiot not to bet my shoe for dinner that he had nothing to do with this, but I'm really close. If I had smaller feet, I'd take that bet.
Hedge funds as a group are only risky and volatile compared to mutual funds. Their degree of riskiness varies tremendously, and there are a great number of them that would offering investment management that is tremendously less risky than an index fund.
(3) isn't at all implausible.
What 2001: A Space Odyssey got right about our future
Successful startups: Reddit AMA with a serial entrepreneur
Could you elaborate on what you mean here?
How could anyone who pays attention to modern computing not understand that zero-days exist? How can anyone who knows what the NSA is not think that they stockpile them?

I will clue you in: NSA has a lot of vulnerabilities vendors don't know about.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206166

Given the existence of these is disclosed now and the suspect's iPhone can be prevented from auto updating I think the FBI will have an easier time attacking it?

Looking at the first one itself they might just have to attach a malicious USB device to execute arbitrary code.
Pivotal is the new Thoughtworks.

Arrogant absurd process with no basis or evidence in reality.

You either drink the kool-aid and march in line or you are "not with the program"

Someone who will donate ten hours to an interview is someone that is "malleable" enough to be told how to think.
Oh, I'm not saying this is an overnight thing or that Oracle will be destroyed. In fact, I don't want to see them destroyed, but what I am interested in is that their market power and influence wanes over time. Ironically, this will be good for Oracle - they will be forced to dump immoral and illegal business practices.

The problem commercial businesses have when it comes to open source is that you might be able to reduce customer take up, by you can't compete with it like you would other businesses. In the closed source world you can purchase a company and shut down its product and thus kill off the competition.

As Microsoft have found, with open source software, that's not possible.

The other unfortunate thing for Oracle is that when they attack Postgres they have to publish lists of competitive advantages. All this does is give Postgres developers a todo list, and they then work towards implementing the features that matter.
Food delivery and valet parking startups are turning out to be 'donkeys
My guess is he doesn't interview at companies like that.
So basically they're saying, "This isn't going according to plan. Let's wait for another opportunity and try again."
I tried the demo many times with uBlock installed, but didn't see the error. I was just redirected to the normal website address.
To look on the bright side, this obviously-bullshit maneuver still weakens FBI's position for the next round.
This is the outcome I was hoping for... Apple is not weakening their products and the USA is getting intel.

I would probably bet theyre getting in via an exotic side channel attack of some sort to spy on the keys.
Oh Angellist, how I will avoid you now like a plague.

I had such high hopes for you. Sigh...back to face to face networking.
I think your math is a bit off. A refurb or MNVO 5S costs about $200 right now. AppleCare costs $99 + $79/replacement up to two on top of the phone. So, if Apple sold you a new 5S for $250, you'd pay $349 for it, $428 if you had to replace it, and $507 if you had to replace it twice. Replacing once sounds nearly breakeven until you factor that the price of a refurb 5S will continue to fall but the deductible on your replacement will stay fixed.

Two breaks would still justify AppleCare, but the odds are pretty low.

I understand if you just greatly value getting service from Apple and want to pay for that privilege, but if you won't buy a 5S only because it's risky, then you should reconsider.
There is not an infinite supply of money at the state level. Unlike the Fed, California has no ability to create money out of thin air. Therefore, choices must be made.

IMO spending money to maintain BART, which is used by many people every day, is much smarter than funding Governor Moonbeam's train to nowhere.
We'll put this deck chair over here, and that one over there.

There's no way this ship sinks now, the Titanic is truly unsinkable.
Bit twiddling hacks (2005)
- Drugs: Not designed to be harmful. Can be dangerous.

- Guns: Designed to be harmful. Can be safe.

I'm not saying that you can't argue that drugs are so dangerous that they should be prohibited or that guns can be safely used and should be allowed. The topic is the same but the starting point is not.

Your examples are of things that are dangerous, not of things that are designed to be harmful.
I'm willing to bet <5% of the readers of HN can use a 1040EZ or 1040A.
Since in these breakdowns they invariably seem to be using stats collection from the games themselves, I would love to see how many of the pirated copies progress past the fist X% of the game, or continue playing beyond 24-48 hours, whatever the devs would consider around the mark for what they would consider releasing a demo for.

Not that I think all the people that pirate are just demoing, but I think without question many more people pirate than are actual sales, and those that stop early lone are the type of people that probably wouldn't have generated many sales anyway, possibly stopping after the demo if there was one or not have bought it at all.

When these discussions are housed in terms of making enough money to continue, and loss of revenue, ignoring that aspect is ignoring a large part of the picture (even if it's still morally valid).
Yeah, that point is probably occurring as we speak :-)
Yes, that would be part of the challenge. A safe way would be to require some comtinuous physical interaction to activate the mode. More sophisticated would be a neural network that decides whether you are trying to communicate with your phone. Also note that it doesn't directly have to be an interface that allows you to accidentally detonate a nuke while you think you are waving to a friend passing by. Limited versions of this have been proposed for cars and trucks in the form of detectors that detect whether the driver is awake and attentive to the road.
Yup, FBI wants a do-over next time one of the "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse"[1] emerges.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
It's not a crutch. Separation of powers is a desirable thing because it tries to prevent the concentration of too much power in a body, group, or person. The Bill of Rights and constitution specifically LIMITS the powers of the federal government. America is an experiment in government that is no longer running, but its edifice is still there - which does not scale because it was designed _not to_.

Any power or service the federal government was not designed to own is reserved for the individual states. All the wealth transfer programs, pension plans, and public services we have now federally can be delivered by the states. So yes, there is a "design" there, we're just not adhering to it.

And when it all reverts to the states, then we can have real fights over what's the "right thing" for the state to do and where the dollars go.