skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'd agree with this phrase, when it's taken out of context, the analogy the author is making is a horrible one. Skipping past the fact that it completely diminishes the near infinite complexity of the human brain, the clear problem is the ease of root cause determination for both situations.

A analogy which would make more sense, albeit still horrible would be: you feel pain in your arm, and decide to wait, until it gets so unbearable, that you see the doctor. The doctor asks you to try and think what could be the cause, and after some time and much thinking, you finally remember that you broke your arm that one time in the 3rd grade, but didn't go to the doctor, because it healed up itself.

Hence, you have a improperly resolved (cured) childhood trauma, that manifested itself after many years, without my immediate recollection of the root cause. In this case, I would only go to the doctor with the symptom. And, while there is one primary root cause, I'd need some pain relief to at least start thinking straight.
So, the US DOJ has in hand an exploit which allows them to access protected data on an iPhone, access that Apple and the phone's designers clearly did not intend to be allowed. Ethical behavior would have the US DOJ describe the exploit to Apple immediately so that the flaw in the system can be repaired. Publishing the exploit in publicly available documents would speed Apple's efforts to repair the fault.
make ?w=1 a default behavior

haven't tried other alternatives but a happy gitlab user. you guys rock.
the latest gitlab is much faster.
How could FBI hacked into IPHONE
But a hooker won't look like taylor swift while your VR CG GF will look like whoever you want.
Hence why I said it was more complex and expensive if you are going to quote some one please do so in full.
Additionally NAND doesn't have an "API", NAND mirroring works by desoldering the memory hooking it up to a device and mirroring it to another chip by flagging the mirroring bit.

There are other ways to attack hardware, you do not need to get a SEM(or AFM for that matter).
Devices that probe transistors on a microscopic level exist in the industry (e.g. http://www.tek.com/sites/tek.com/files/media/document/resour...), hence the more complex and expensive part.
I agree that implementing a simple API endpoint is easy.

Running that endpoint is not easy. Once it's live, you're dealing with an entangled system of API, user, network, database, server, full moon, voodoo curse, and God knows what else. It's a giant flaming tumbleweed of pain.

Clearly IFTTT agrees, and that's why they're trying to make us do it for them.
There are actually a number of factors that go into which you might trigger the most, our primary source is Yahoo! but we also pull from Bing and Yandex in certain regions, as well as information from 400 other sources including Wikipedia, and our own crawler. You can read more about the sources here: https://duck.co/help/results/sources

We try and provide the best results for a query in a region/language regardless of the price. The only caveat is that we will only pull from sources that allow us to continue our privacy commitment to users.
Yes. But sometimes they disappear!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Boots
You mustn't make too many assumptions about people with no information in their profiles.

But you should read about the witness testimony in this case before you leap to conclusions.

Have you seen my post history? I'm highly skeptical of state actors, including the American police. But in this case, there seems to be several witnesses backing up the police story.
At least there is a tradition of stating your affiliations and monetary interests up front. But still, good point. Recent bitcoin debacle is a good example - with both parties accusing each other of staging a FUD-spreading campaign in social media and on discussion sites.
Depends on how you buy it. If the phone is mail ordered, it would be possible to swap with a compromised device during shipping. NSA's Tailored Access Operations group is known to perform this sort of attack [1].

If you want to ensure you get a phone from the standard supply chain, buy it in-person at a store where you can see someone take it off the shelf.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-...
Nice report, sounds like a nightmare scenario. You seem to take care to don't mention any names of the used technologies/vendors even though the report specifically says they have admitted to misleading you. Is this because you have reached some kind of settlement with them?
It's a very old strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule
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I just ran across credit card information that appears to come from someone running a facebook scam :-(
I feel almost hesitant to write this - but these executives have figured it out and it does not bode well for Canada.
You guys are competing with India where you could pay people 1/4 the salary in Canada and get access to high quality talent. And there are so many so Valley expats who are dying to return home, that you can get access to senior management talent for India ver easily. CXO level salaries in India match that of the US - especially with the Flipkarts and OlaCabs out here.
And cost of living is obviously much lower.

Long term, Canada will need to grow it's startup ecosystem and domestic markets. The top employers in India are all domestic at this point.
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If you have a broken bone, it causes you serious problems outside of the pain. The pain is mildly important to alert you, and not very important after that.

Setting the bone is important, but if the pain makes it harder to fix the bone, drug it away asap.

And sometimes non-broken bones ache. No need to suffer it.
Probably huge the same way the 3D TV became huge.
True. The desired outcome is to create massive instability there, massive loss of life, and to deal a crippling blow to a region that the US wishes to dominate from afar.
Start working as a contractor for your employer, and you get +600 points for having a job offer from your me.ltd contractor company.
I studied Journalism and trained as a Journalist a lifetime ago (1999-2002), before the internet really (technical term looming) fucked everything up. Thing is, even back then we were studying the impact of the 'Janus view of the Press' - this concept that any and every news publication was a two-headed beast, seeking to find the balance between great, objective journalism ... and money to keep the lights on.

Back then is was more philosophical than existential - we debated whether it was morally acceptable for a writer to take into consideration the size of a company's ad account when covering them in a story; now that the focused channel of broadcast media has been fragmented, so advertisers no longer pay a premium for access to readers and viewers of the nightly news, every journalist has to be mindful of their commercial impact (though this still needn't impact their writing choices) because they may be out of a job next week.

Plus ça change and all that. I'd like to see more debates around how to fund the new model (now that we've discovered it was the channel, not the content, that people actually valued for a couple of hundred years), not all this hand-wringing about the impact of money on objectivity because that's an old, boring conversation. Ultimately, advertising has been funding journalism for a long, long time. I wish it wasn't so, but I also wish it rained doughnuts.
It's happened four times, of which the first went to the House to decide, and the 1876 and 1888 were in a time of widespread corruption, but nonetheless it's still very rare, especially in the modern day, and I wouldn't expect it to happen again in our lifetimes.
One question I'm not seeing often ...

From here, what's stopping the FBI from claiming they found X, Y, and Z on the phone, and further claiming they were all important pieces of evidence, that could possibly have prevented the attack, etc., etc., when they really didn't? Then, use that to bolster their arguments against encryption and privacy?

What means will keep them honest about what they did or did not find?
Please note, "the United States" isn't just the federal government, but the federal government as well as the governments of the 50 federated states of the union (and tributaries/territories).
I like the idea of deducting karma for a downvote. However, forcing a comment on downvote, while perhaps leading to less downvotes, might also just lead to many more comments that are not thought out and simply put there in order to downvote.

Maybe we need more nuanced voting options? While this could get a bit complex, such a system may function better. People could upvote a post as it is well written/thought out and/or is provocative/clever/interesting, but downvote it as they disagree. The overall comment karma would balance out, rather than it just being downvoted as lots of people disagreed with it.

Facebook is now using a similar type of system with their multiple emotes. I think such a system would work well with the HN community. It may lead to more thought out comments, as simple opinions can be expressed more accurately via the voting system.
It's not just that. A place serving maggots several times a week simply does not exist. At least not in the developed world. Or even in the US.
I loved TNG, but it is also one of the most outrageously politically correct and moral relativist shows I've ever watched. And Voyager was even worse. One particularly sorry episode featured Janeway willing to sacrifice members of her crew, just to avoid turning off a holodeck that spawned interesting characters. In another episode, the captain would again rather let crewman die than use a medical treatment derived from historical unethical research. One episode of TNG comes to mind, where Picard is unwilling to beam a kid from his crew out of prison on some ass backwards totalitarian planet, where they are planning to execute him, because of the prime directive and "respect for their laws". Are you kidding me? Of course in the show, there's always some deus ex machina that saves the day and none of the good guys have to die. In fiction, you can have your cake and eat it too. In real life, bad decisions have real consequences, like people dying.

Another line comes to mind now, where Picard wonders in amazement about how silly we were to let differences about "economic systems" drive us apart during the Cold War. Star Trek is like the poster child for wishy-washy moral relativism.

I'll take my political and moral cues from reality, not fun scifi shows written by an eccentric with a political agenda.
What turned me off from Hong Kong so far is the mandatory yearly audit for your limited which will cost $5000++ (USD, not HKD).
Unfortunately mercury isn't soluble in water. You would have to use trialkylmonothiophosphates instead of water. (Google makes me dangerous).
The article is talking about ongoing the emotional effects of ongoing circumstances. I'm not sure how the concept of recovery can be applied when the cause of the state has not abated.

It isn't a clotting disorder if your foot keeps bleeding because you haven't taken the tack out of your shoe.

I don't know how accurate the author's characterisation of depression is, but I don't think a useful analysis will result from applying that definition of the word depression so literally in this particular case.
There are no shortcuts to solving brain drain. Find a compelling way to solve it (paying more, giving more opportunities to grow is a good start) and let's talk from there.
"you need to talk individually to early adopters to make a really good product"
The text is really about this.
Na actually I am referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing)
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Legacy support is work, and ifttt would rather not do it, of course!
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> I'm sorry to hear that story. I hope this doesn't come off cruel because it isn't meant to be, but there are always outliers -- people for whom the gold standard, or any standard, just doesn't work.

I urge caution. The Chief 20+ years ago was darned well informed. Talk therapy and anxiety disease had been going for most of the 20th century. I don't know when cognitive approaches started, but, since they are an obvious approach, gotta guess that they have been understood for a long time.

> It's not a good idea to dismiss a well-studied treatment universally shown to be effective because we don't know if it'll work in a specific case.

Right, "dismiss" would be wrong. Trying it as a first step, if only since it's relatively easy and just a mild intervention, sure.

If you and the NLM, etc. link are correct, then it's news in the last 20 or so years.

From the Sheehan data, the Chief, and some more evidence, I have to guess that often, not just for an outlier, genetics can be an important cause. Sure, even then, maybe something cognitive can help one compensate.

My main point here is simple -- IMHO, the OP looks too simplistic.
What would be the reason for such domination ? Is America really imperialist at its core ? do they wish for resource independence (again) by disrupting this region ? The Syrian war has ripples up to Europe core now. I'd be surprised if minds would keep on pushing a direction that could create a worldwide chaos.
This isn't quite true. The Pentagon's only supporting SDF fighters from the cantons of Jazera and Kobane. These guys were from Afrin, which is separated from the other two cantons by a pretty big strip of IS-controlled territory.

http://warontherocks.com/2016/03/are-cia-backed-syrian-rebel...
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This is great advice, cross-check it but thanks for posting nikanj
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Some companies game the voting system on HN. You only need a few/dozens accounts with 2000+ karma to create group thinking by down-voting non-popular opinions that may harm the reputation of the company. We can regularly see this behaviour from a certain company from Redmond, their news on HN are heavily "moderated", and "not so great" news about them get flagged from the HN frontpage in no time and at the same time they release another "nice" news blurb that gets many votes in seconds. The HN users were more in favor of the competition, and since Build'15 a swamp of new HN accounts got created to form the opinion about new products, and give them a positive spin while on the same time hide and downvote all true comments about the evil spy features of their OS v10 and their other newer products that cannot be turned off by end consumers.

HN needs more logging to detect such coordinated (down-)voting rings to avoid group thinking and opinion shaping orchestrated by bad players.
Well, you gotta grow the next generation of terrorists, don't you?
No, it just means they could unlock the phone without triggering an auto-wipe after 10 incorrect entries. Keep in mind I don't think any way to know if auto-wipe is even enabled on a locked phone... For all we know, they finally tried entering the PIN '1234', and the phone unlocked.
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This is ridiculous. The amount of data accessed by all Tesla vehicles combined is miniscule compared to the fiber capacity in this country. This should be flagged.
I've had mixed experience in Canada. Yes, the companies here are traditional and salaries are low, but that isn't all of the market. I have interviewed at a few exciting companies, all of which pay good salaries. Not SV-high, but higher than what Canada is used to.

I'd much rather take a pay cut, than spend 17 years to get residency in a country that doesn't want me.
Canadian tech workers are underpaid and the weak dollar is making it even worse. You can practically double your purchasing power by going over the border and working in the states.

In my experience, finding a job here in Toronto as a programmer/developer/engineer/whatever has been VERY tough without a CS background (or any degree for that matter). Despite launching an app in the app store I still struggle to get interviews for even junior level positions, which in Toronto translates to around $50k - $60k. I could make the same amount of money waiting tables if I really wanted to.
The C API can be used from Lua with LuaJIT, right? It seems like this is the way to go to create the bindings.
I don't understand if your head or your entire body rotates: if it's your head I can tell you that is not e good idea. I have bad neck just with 3 monitors...
Another take on this (for Forth and concatenative languages in the abstract): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377604
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I just launched GradeHero on GooglePlay, check it out and let me know what you think.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.gradehero
A bit ironic. Teach students how to sue and you get sued.
For learning purposes being able to run zOS would probably be of considerable interest. If the machine actually requires 6 kW to run then I guess the electricity costs would be on the order of $1 per hour, depending on your local rates. Maybe you could set up a service to sell login access.

Note that I'm only speculating here. I'm not a mainframer, just a guy who's had a passing interest in these systems and when I was reading about them it appeared that the difficulty of gaining access to these environments was a significant obstacle to learning about them, whether for professional or hobbyist reasons, that despite the fact that there appears to still be quite a bit of demand for mainframe programmers.
You write your little glue code, then you spin up a server to run it periodically (which costs money), then you're forever on the hook for patching, restarting, adding features, dealing with api changes, etc etc etc...

As opposed to "set up, forget about it, have a beer".
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Companies are are only for open borders and easy immigration because they want to push wages down and replace people who expect to be treated well and paid a fair wage with people who will get kicked out of the country if they step out of line and who are just grateful they have something to send back home to their families.
I found the tone refreshing, personally
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> [intent was not] suggest an actual bet
>AR is already widely deployed and in mass use. Any HUD is a form of AR (this covers everything from airplanes to cars to robots to google glass, camera viewfinders, etc...).

I would nitpick this.

Regardless, I don't see anywhere near the level of give a shit for AR that there is for VR from the press and investors.

Supremely frustrating as an AR dev.
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> The idea that reference counting is somehow not GC is as far as I can tell a recent one (popularized, I think, by Cocoa and iOS?)

I remember seeing lots of "but Python doesn't have REAL GC" arguments years ago. But Cocoa's foray into GC, subsequent retreat back to manual ref counting and then ARC probably have affected this too, yeah.
If I look here[1] the 'much cheaper' seems not to be that much. And ofcourse on the comparison part here [2]. I am currently around close to Shanghai but I live in Europe and the prices are quite comparable to north EU/US if I would want the same living standard. In the south (GR/ES/PT) and east of the EU it is cheaper than here and I find it's also cheaper there than in Beijing if I compare living standard again.

[1] http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings.jsp
[2] http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp
I'm like 60% tongue in cheek, because the reality is, for every interviewer who will filter you for being too aggressive, two more will filter you for lack of confidence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11372714
WTF-8 is great, and lest anyone think that it's intended to be a joke it's worth mentioning that it's actually a very useful thing:

"WTF-8 (Wobbly Transformation Format − 8-bit) is a superset of UTF-8 that encodes surrogate code points if they are not in a pair. It represents, in a way compatible with UTF-8, text from systems such as JavaScript and Windows that use UTF-16 internally but don’t enforce the well-formedness invariant that surrogates must be paired."

Though note that it's only suitable for internal usage (as in, you wouldn't expose an API that uses WTF-8), so it's not something that you need to actually think about when learning Rust. :P
In the 8th century Spain was conquered by Muslims so they probably knew about them before the 16th centure ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_conquest_of_Hispania
Yeah that is a fairly standard PR technique. "We are dealing with something very new and very complex".
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Ahhh, thanks for the find/replace.

Why is he not using public key authentication? Or even better, limiting access with a firewall.
The value seems to have depreciated even faster than for consumer hardware. I think you would expect to pay a bit more than $2 for a working laptop that sold for $2k in 2004.
When I saw you guys at Pycon last year in Montreal, I thought you had a great product, and a catchy slogan that I kept repeating to myself, especially after I was laid off.

Everying is going to be 200 Ok.

And it will be.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11372294
I have interviewed (phone screened) at Asana. It was delightful. I really liked the people I met there and enjoyed the problem I worked through over the phone. It really did feel collaborative and like we were solving a problem together just as software engineers do when they're not in this artificially combative environment we often create when interviewing.

Regarding the problem, I didn't have the best approach out of the gate. In fact, I had a vague memory of the right approach ("I seem to recall it uses two data structures, and if I really stretch I think it was X and Y, but I don't remember the details.") That made it harder to get to the final solution. The interviewer was very good at at talking things through with me in a way that didn't seem like they were frustrated or otherwise grumpy that I didn't know this particular problem cold. They apparently thought the results were encouraging enough to move to an onsite, but I got an offer from my current employer (where I am working with close personal friends) and had to pass on the chance to find out what that would be like.

All in all I think Asana is probably a great place to work. I also like the product, although it seems like you need a whole team to adopt it to make it sticky.
Considering that there was an "Islamic" nation (in one form or another) in Europe for about 800 years starting around 700AD, when the Umayyads conquered 2/3rd of Spain just a stone throw away from then England (even tho England didn't really exist yet) it is quite unclear who the hell fact checked this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate_of_C%C3%B3rdoba
Ha, I remember when we picked nginx because it was small, fast and simple years ago (compared to Apache). It is interesting how the cycle repeats. This is the new fast and simple, kind of what nginx started with.