skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure we read the same article. The author did not dismiss #1 as a plausible motive. He dismissed it as the likely motive, to give Apple the benefit of the doubt, from fear about what it would mean about them otherwise.
Looks a potentially useful resource :)

On thing—re: 'Differences in navigation are considered.' - Android now has a 'Tab bar' style UI element - https://www.google.com/design/spec/components/bottom-navigat... - so this point might need updating.
Wondered this too, it naively only makes sense for that case with neutrinos screwing your RAM over.
Can someone explain why this is illegal (besides any data/privacy breach within Capital One)?
I'm not sure "efficiency" is the right term here. My understanding is that to get "more efficient" execution, you'd have to perform better with the same amount of resources.

But parallelism allows using more resources (particularly CPU cores) for a query, while the overall efficiency (the total number of instructions, CPU time etc.) remains about the same. It's just that it's split over multiple cores.

So if all CPU cores are already saturated on your machine (e.g. because you're already running multiple queries), it's not going to improve things.
Thanks for the clarification. I think it was mostly this statement :

Assuming a lifespan of 3 years, the cost difference between a $600 phone and a $300 phone is barely more than $0.25 per day

that triggered my response. Rereading it: you're right. I'm still glad to have posted the link :)

What really riles me up is that a lot of people have no clue how expensive it actually is to be poor and how hard is it to break the vicious circle. That's in addition that a lot of poor people work equally hard as the rest of us.
At a startup earlier in my career, we generated an email address for every customer which they could use to interact with our system. The CEO wrote a script to pick words at random from the Princeton Wordnet database.

One afternoon I thought, wait a minute, what's actually in Wordnet?

Needless to say, many apology emails were sent later that day.
Just saw this on PH
> Also had someone from Oracle break a financial consolidation system for a billion dollar company - his last words were "you need to restore from tape" and then he disappeared.

Tech: "Err, boss, I just totally broke their entire system"

Manager: "That's no problem, you got them to sign that contract, right? We always pad those with more services than they have employees or customers to use, so we can use that to cover any problems."

Tech: "..."

Manager: "Johnson, I'm not hearing the confirmation I expected."

Tech: "Sorry boss, there was an issue they were keen to have me look at and... well..."

Manager: "Johnson, you get your ass back here now. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. The phone will not accurately convey the ass-chewing you are about to receive, and you don't deserve the paltry protection it would allow." <click>

Tech looks up to see local tech liason.

Tech: "Ehm. You need to restore from backup."
I think you would rather want to contact the author of the RFC than Gruber.

Author's Address

Sean Leonard
Penango, Inc.
5900 Wilshire Boulevard
21st Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States

Email: dev+ietf@seantek.com
URI: http://www.penango.com/
I think April Fools has come early this year
Seems like there should be an option to use any light source. Why is it specific to a phone?
I tell people to start with UDT when trying to improve TCP or UDP:

http://udt.sourceforge.net/

Good chance they already did what you need. On supercomputers with a distributed filesystem (Sector/Sphere) at that. :)
I think it's understandable, but also interesting when juxtaposed with Microsoft still making 32-bit versions of Windows 10 in 2016. They're supporting the same hardware that Apple won't, and also an additional 10 years of security updates (Windows 10 End-Of-Life for those 32-bit machines is October 14, 2025 [1]).

I also have a 64-bit Core 2 Duo that Apple no longer supports. OS X Lion was the last release for the 2007 MacBook 3,1.

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/lifecycle
Testing Ansible Roles with Docker
It sounds like a retelling of this story from a decade ago.

But then on September 6, 1997, something quite extraordinary happened: the graph shot upwards, recording a sudden and massive shift in the number sequence as his machines around the world started reporting huge deviations from the norm. The day was of historic importance for another reason, too.

For it was the same day that an estimated one billion people around the world watched the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey.

http://www.rense.com/general62/bbox.htm
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
https://science.slashdot.org/story/05/02/12/2344224/random-n...
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_...
Is there a large group of people that prefers diphenhydramine over the newer drugs?

I've used it occasionally for bee stings and the like, I would rather suffer through hay fever than take Benadryl every day.
Interesting. I've been toying with a similar, but slightly different pay per article microtransaction idea. I guess I might as well see what the competition is doing.
It's all cool but what for? I might have needed a 3D printer once in several years. Those who need it regularly for hobby buy a professional machine.
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Even when you feel its fiction, it just sounds like something that I could be reading off tomorrow's newspapers. This was a great read!
What could I build with this that's actually interesting?

Who are these people who need tiny crappy plastic objects on demand?

I get 3d printing on serious hardware for more complex objects. This kind of stuff just seems like a novely for toy projects.
It's clever but so impractical for consumer use. You're going to put away your phone for a few hours while this prints and be OK with that?

And if you're going to have to buy another device just to use this in a practical way, why not already just include a cheap android wifi-only device into the base?
It's in the article:

'The "misappropriation theory" holds that a person commits fraud "in connection with" a securities transaction, and thereby violates § 10(b) and Rule 10b-5, when he misappropriates confidential information for securities trading purposes, in breach of a duty owed to the source of the information. ... Under this theory, a fiduciary's undisclosed, self-serving use of a principal's information to purchase or sell securities, in breach of a duty of loyalty and confidentiality, defrauds the principal of the exclusive use of that information. In lieu of premising liability on a fiduciary relationship between company insider and purchaser or seller of the company's stock, the misappropriation theory premises liability on a fiduciary-turned-trader's deception of those who entrusted him with access to confidential information.'
see section 3.4 here: http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-4.9.1/doc/design_princip...

"3.4 The Restart Frequency Limit Mechanism"
$200? That's a lot of money for many people.
Red Hat is focused on contributing to all its upstream communities, and their software is also generally very good, open, and almost exclusively libre.
Does Engineering Education Breed Terrorists?
Thanks! I will update that.
It depends on the kind of worker. For someone that relies on Uber or the like as a main source of income, it's not pretty. But if you're a stay-at-home spouse and you spend a fair portion of the day running errands, doing a little Uber work on the side can help offset your costs, especially if you're one of those strange people that actually enjoy driving.
This piece was written by Robin Sloan, who is an author of fiction. :) Great story.
Here is an article that talks about possible mechanisms:
http://sci-hub.io/http://content.iospress.com/articles/journ...

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Oh, duh, it explains it in the article: "misappropriation" insider trading
Right. I was initially credulous to the idea that there is data in the system after the present, thinking, "Holy crap! That means that some other department in Facebook consists of chatbots which have randomly woven themselves into peoples' lives and have advance-scheduled chatter!"

But once it was like, "hey, we're predicting the outcome of a sports game before it happened based on this" then it's like "ooh, this is a cool fake story which just took a turn towards the supernatural, I get it..."
I guess the point of the question is really a flippant "why is this on Hacker News?" You can call it defining away if you want, I don't think it's charitable to assume "party line" means "what the peer reviewed scientific papers say in their shortest summaries." A quick google search found http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2004/climate.shtml where "it is impossible for an ice age to strike within days, as happens in the movie. They warn, however, that climate change may have significant consequences for society in coming decades." Emphasis mine, since it's pretty much the same warning as the title. It was interesting to watch the first comment's vote tally fluctuate, anyway.
True, after version 7 iOS became too demanding. Ironically I had much love for first OSX releases that got better even on 1st gen iMac until 10.5 I believe. Apple put that gene to rest ..
It's funny because I'm still using a giant MacPro from 2008 (yes... the tower) as a home machine. It's crammed full of high density storage and I've added aftermarket RAM to the box to max out the slots. It's the last mac model that allows you to upgrade easily.

I think they continued to sell it until 2012 or so but then fixed the "oversight" with an art deco piece of a "desktop" computer with no room for upgrades. I still buy Apple laptops because work involves dealing with Xcode and iOS stuff but for any personal use, no more Apple hardware for me.
When investors wake up to the importance of profits over valuation, this bubble will begin to die.
The iPad 2 was sold side-by-side the iPad 3, 4 and iPad Air in Apple's stores. The iPad Mini also is essentially an iPad 2 in a smaller form factor as well.

So if you had gotten an iPad 2 on day 1, I feel like you would have had a reasonably long life on the device.

Your case with the iPad 3 is a little unique. It was the first device with a retina screen and was arguably underpowered for that task. This is why apple replaced the iPad 3 with the iPad 4 just 6 months later in the same year.

The iPad 1 and the iPad 3 are both underpowered for their typical workloads. The other iPads however have stood the test of time fairly well. My iPad Mini 1 (which is essentially an iPad 2) is a little slow, but serviceable and my wife's iPad 4 still works great.
The answer is right in the article linked:

"People have asked me if this is insider trading and, you know, sure it is? (If the allegations are true, I mean.) This is not "classical" insider trading -- trading or tipping by an insider at Chipotle or whatever -- but rather "misappropriation" insider trading..."
The only hardware in my house that needs to be replaced (which includes both PCs and Macs) of that age is...

... my original iPad. Because Apple left it to die - even the last update means it can't run Apple's own store or browser without crashing and I can't get versions of software that previously worked because they're not supported or offered any more as Apple forced developers to move up to all of the new API's.

Yes - I can see exactly why I should spend yet more money on something that will intentionally become obselescent in the future.
> Yup. Clock-for-clock, Skylake is about 10-20% faster than Sandy Bridge

Sorry, can you elaborate on this? Is Skylake somehow performing multiple instructions per core per clock cycle somehow?
Another way of looking at it is that maybe the tools available to entrapreneurs have advanced to the point where a lot more is possible in 3 months. Therefore a 3 month old company today looks like a 12 month company of 3 years ago.
Ask HN: Most calls I get on my phone are bots/spam. What are my options?
Over the past few years, I have gradually been receiving more and more spam calls. Some are robo ads trying to sell me something ("I'm your local Google specialist...") and other times there is nobody on the other end (which I've heard is one way spammers check to see if a number is active).

Things have reached the point where I would estimate that the substantial majority of my phone calls are now bots.

What are my options for fixing this?
Other people are questioning the "visible light cure" resin. Assume that it exists and works fine, it's a bit of a handling hassle, as you need to treat it like unexposed photographic film. As soon as you open the lid to take your print out the unexposed resin in the bottom of the box is going to start curing.
DevOps Dashboard Hygieia Aggregates End-To-End View of the Delivery Pipeline
Well with the shit some carriers pull, from injecting personally identifiable information in HTTP headers (http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/why-are-website...) or code injection in the website content (http://www.infoworld.com/article/2925839/net-neutrality/code...), I sure benefit from an HTTPS connection everywhere...
> I can see that the majority of consumer and business workflows only involve running one or two applications at a time, but the extra cores and hardware threads can make a difference if you need to run multiple applications simultaneously.

If you need to run multiple applications simultaneously and they do sufficient amount of computations to generate noticeable load.

> Office applications may be single-threaded, but if you need to open Word, Excel, and Powerpoint simultaneously they can each use a separate core.

And idle. Unless you're actively editing a document, the applications are doing exactly nothing with their separate cores. And so far, our attempts to create four-armed employees able to write two concepts at the same time have hit some unexpected difficulties, so generally only one document is doing any CPU intensive work (and promptly hits 100% load for the single core it can use).

Excel would be an exception, if we did any heavy processing in it – which we don't. We have real databases for that. (And Postgres does scale nicely on its Xeon servers.)

> As for "Windows ... is still single threaded", I'm not sure what you are talking about.

Windows Defender / Security Essentials is singlethreaded, throttling all I/O to 50 MB/s effectively on an i5-6200U (and inducing crippling latency). Windows Explorer is singlethreaded (or has very unfortunate locking), so a single stalling I/O request (spinning up disk/CD drive; SMB over WAN) hangs up the device's entire UI. Windows Update is singlethreaded, resulting in hour-long churn while computing applicable updates. And so on. While you get some noticeable improvements from using a dual core, and a few more from using a dual core with hyperthreading, a full quad-core (with or without HT) is just a waste of silicon for our Windows clients.
The big short, Facebook edition.

Entertaining read.
> There are really only two reasons why people might have a computer that’s more than five years old: 1) They can’t afford an upgrade. 2) They don’t need an upgrade.

There's a third: they wouldn't trust an upgrade :) Just where to draw the line isn't obvious. But it's probably closer to 10 years old than five.
At first I thought it was plausible their internal reporting system had some sort of bug that just happened to "predict the future" by accident. But yeah, it's just entertaining fiction :)
Someone should reply "tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 100ms" in the original thread [ https://communities.vmware.com/thread/519888 ] and link to the blog post. Ideally that person would know enough about tc to suggest how to do it only for outbound tcp6 handshakes too.
Possibly something to do with privileged information. Keep in mind that even things such as intent may get you on the wrong side of the line*

* example: you post a trade but you don't intend to execute it but instead hope to fool the market, then you cancel the trade and switch to other direction. forgot what that's called exactly
Not being able to use your smartphone during hours is just the worst. constraint. ever.
World Restore Day April 1st
Building a Great Team
Storing Private Keys via QR Codes
Made that mistake once. I was interning at the IT Helpdesk at a Pharma Startup. Our CEO calls us one day, informing us that he deleted a slide deck, and was wondering if we could do anything about it. We dutifully attempt to restore from tape, to find the tapes blank and that our backup has done literally nothing for the past month. Thankfully, the data loss was nothing more severe, but the lesson stuck.
I like adding garlic to my passwords, gives them a kick!
> it's just never really been that much of a problem until now

That's a reasonable excuse in the 90s, before automatic updates over HTTP were common. Our industry now has decades of experience securing HTTP updates and package managers, with various Linux solutions demonstrating good practices.
HTML caching at nginx level would do the trick as well, assuming you have enough bandwidth.
NPM, in Shocking Turn, Complies with the Law
If you're logged in, if you call it with an argument that isn't already in use as a module name, and if you specifically enter the full path to the script (you don't have cwd on your $PATH, do you?). TFA would make more sense if it contained a warning not to run random scripts that one downloads without reading them.

As it is, TFA seems like an attempt to invent malicious rumors about a completely innocent person.

[EDIT:] you're still wrong; in order to be equivalent to "curl | sh", x.sh or its equivalent would have to be referenced in the "scripts" object in "package.json".
"Mapping. Phone. Internet. Email. Alarm Clock. Calendaring. Photography."

You realize those features are not unique to iPhone... right?

"Maybe we could quibble about whether they should have an iPhone or some cheaper smartphone. I am just saying, it could be more for utility than image."

The whole point is that buying an iPhone as opposed to an equally capable cheaper smartphone is done for branding and image.
... also :)

"A single font is used throughout the app"

not sure how useful this ⤴ advice is—for example, an app could use different fonts from the 'San Francisco' typeface - http://codemotionapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/San-Fra... - for a consistent design with no real detriment to 'UX'
Ask HN: What to do to protect against NPM malicious activities?
Hi, yesterday's episode showed us how risky using NPM is. What would be a strong and practical alternative? Is it to save the node_modules and use that instead of downloading the packages while building? Thanks
MITRE rolls out new CVE system after Reg reveal
Is mobile making graphic design flat?
Maybe they haven't added music playback to the iPhone because then some fraction of owners might not feel the need to buy an iPod?

Apple promote their ability and willingness to cannibalize their own products.
I think you might be right. When I picture a clothing store, the queue in front of the cash registers are lined with small, impulse purchase items (belts, underwear, socks, necklaces) that are easy to grab while waiting.
I also have 6 years old laptop for similar reasons. My primary machine is desktop workstation and older machine allows me to swap hard-drive easily while traveling. I can also take harddrive with me, and leave cheap shell at hotel room. Plus keyboard is unbeatable :-)

But I am upgrading to skylake based laptop. It finally has 16GB RAM in ultraportable with good linux support. Old laoptop will be still usable sometimes.
Pretty cool, I might use it in my next project
I really appreciate your reply!

Yeah, sometimes (not always) the more expensive option is actually cheaper in the long run, or is at least a justifiable cost. Looking at the $/day or $/hour cost over the lifespan of a product is one way to get a better understanding of the "real" cost.

The danger is that it can be easy to justify too many of those "well, it's only $0.10 a day!" purchases because they can really add up.

(In fact, car salesmen will often try to sell you upgrades in a similar way. "Well, upgrading to the leather seats will only add $25 to your monthly payments...")
It wasn't/isn't as extreme as today in some other cultures. In the orthodox jewish culture, you'll get a better bride by being very good at learning the scriptures. There's also a lot of respect for people who do good deeds.
To each his own. I do know people who use trailers for sea kayaks and it can be quite a pain getting into tight quarters. So putting boats on the roof may be dumb but it's what 98% of the people I know with boats do.
"Door number two. What Schiller probably meant to suggest was that Apple’s targeting old PC users who simply haven’t felt compelled to update yet but could afford to."

He said the second thing is what "What Schiller probably meant". Maybe this shouldn't reasonably be construed as a "dismissal". This interpretation is more generous towards Apple than supposing they mean to overtly mock the poor, and I supposed the author meant that this would be beneath them.

Apparently that's debatable :)
As soon as I read the fellow employee name, Julie Rubicon.
Scrapy Tips from the Pros: March 2016 Edition
I wonder if this is because of happy eyeballs...
The killer part is that it's only expensive to repair because Apple has opted not to streamline a repair pipeline. There is absolutely no way a digitizer glued to a piece of glass costs $500 otherwise they'd never make another iPad.

But if they price the part hideously expensively it makes buying a new one a no-brainer. Working in a school for a few years, I was amazed how easily and inexpensively I could replace screens and memory on 2008-era white macbooks when I had access to school channels for parts priced at cost (or close enough). I think we had access to those channels as a stipulation in a state contract to buy assloads of those machines for every kid in the state.
State of React and CSS
Fiction, but that was entertaining. To the author, you should probably consider writing a book in this style :)
Perhaps I have some wires crossed from too much time as a sysadmin, but I take a 5 year old (+) PC (or any machine, really) as a mark of pride, not any bit of shame whatsoever. It speaks to a high degree of reliability which often speaks well of the operator (even if just "choosing robust hardware" is a component of this)

Some stories to add some color to this:
Ran a very primitive file sharing server for my university on a dual P(2 or 3, don't quite remember) machine that was probably around a decade old by the time they finally ended up retiring it.
My home fileserver is a ~10 TB 4U monster, running on (conveniently) 5 year old hardware and very boring FBSD. Outside of moving apartments, it has not had unplanned downtime once, I will continue using it as long as this is true and would be sad if I didn't get another good few years out of it.

I _WISH_ I could get the same lifetime out of desktop PCs but I tend to find assorted parts failing at an asymptotic rate around 3-5 years. The world in which we all use <5 year old hardware is a sad one, to be avoided, to my eyes. (To clarify, I don't mean this in any luddite sense, I don't believe tech should stop moving forward, but I long for more robust products with longer viable lifespans, such that one can make a choice to upgrade rather than waiting for the inevitable.)