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Ask HN: Recourse for compromised iCloud?
A high profile friend called me last night minutes after their iCloud was compromised.

Some things we learned:

1. Apple will not help figure out anything that happened. They won't even tell us the vector by which the password was changed, though we think it was the security questions.

Apple has a "devices" feature that is neat and will show you currently signed in iCloud devices and a button to sign all other web sessions out. Unlike Google, however, you have no access to IP addresses for the devices, and no access to see what or how many web clients are logged in whatsoever.

2. As long as you don't fail the security questions 3 times in a row you can just sign out and sign back in again. Apple will keep letting you try and won't even give you the same questions necessarily (they provide 2 out of 3).

Google no longer allows password resets with security questions.

3. Don't get hacked after 10 PM pacific. There is literally nothing Apple will be able to do until the next day Apple Care is open.

Google and Facebook both have fairly awesome workflows for getting your stuff back and in order. They aren't perfect but facebook.com/hacked is amazing and will even hunt for recent vandalism on your account. Google has a similar process that walks you through it and checks for open "back doors", like someone setting your gmail to forward to them before they log out.

4. Apple has 2 different, additional security options you can enable. Incredibly, they are named "two-step" and "two-factor" authentication and they are different in that one uses SMS only and one uses trusted devices.

5. If you have a habit of taking photos of important documents like 1099s or ID to send them to someone quickly, you may want to stop.

6. It is nice knowing that past text messages were not likely compromised.
Progressive consumption taxes based around this enjoy a great deal of support among economists and very little support among politicians, unfortunately.
So you vote with your pocket :)
Consumption taxes are quite regressive. The wealthy have the means to define consumption down.
That exact statement applies to the work of stealing a painting. If you want to defend investment as productive activity, you're going to have to be a little more thorough than that.
That's declared income. If it's sheltered, than who knows what they are paying.
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Right, I'm not saying that everyone pays themselves $100/mo; clearly that's not going to do a thing. I'm saying that I think the same set of people who receive the money should be taxed to pay for it. The thing of UBI is that it will be paid by your average person who isn't wealthy, it will be paid by the upper middle class.

Your example of people volunteering for a study that costs them money is exactly the problem that I am describing, and for a system such as this to work, that's how it would end up--taxes go up for people who this doesn't benefit, and as much fun as it is to assume that "other rich people" will pay for it, it doesn't work that way. That's why I think a better test is to select a group of people to self-fund their own UBI -- some people pay $140 and receive $100. Others pay $20 and receive $100.
Waiting a longer time between regional rollouts (so monitoring systems would have time to detect serious failures) would sacrifice deployment latency, but not deployment throughput (assuming deployments can be made in parallel). For continuous deployment, throughput really matters more than latency.
And yet, such studies as exist show that this does not, in fact, happen. Did you read the article?
Women in tech: What's the real problem?
There's huge swaths of single family homes in SF; just not in the areas of soul-less high rise hotel/condos that young tech people seem to prefer.

You do realize there's a Costco in Soma right? It's swamped with people. I go, and I live in Russian Hill.

I agree with the rest of your statement, but they're only building in a very small part of SF and catering to a narrow demographic. Soma 1br condo prices can implode, but RH and Pacific Heights 2-3BR places will only go up.

Don't buy the nicest place in a bad neighborhood. Buy the most modest place in a nice neighborhood. Let everyone else bring up your home's worth.
> What happens is that winners demand the full lump sum. For the lotteries that offer it, the lump sum is less than the total winnings paid out over the years. (Something like 10% less.)

Hence proving the intuition that the people who buy lottery tickets are bad at math.
This will hopefully be a more useful critique of your idea.

This wouldn't be practical unless it could be optimized "to the nines" to be very fast. The previous Linux scheduler ran in O(1), the new Completely Fair Scheduler runs in O(log N). The scheduler has to be able to run every CPU tick, so it has to be fast. A machine learning based scheduler does not sound like it could be made to be that fast. To put this into perspective, on a regular x86_64 the CPU tick in Linux 1000Hz.
are those numbers including all the tax dodging?
Does anyone actually get offended at being called a "redneck"? (I'm not from that neck of the woods, so I have to ask.)

(Btw, according to QI the statistic for, uhm, "having sex" with a chicken in Iowa/USA was actually something like 1 in 6.)
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Her name is Ayn Rand, not Raynd.
You'd be remiss to not also point out that there are kurdish groups that blow up bombs with the intent of killing civilians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Freedom_Falcons#Atta...
They must not know SF's history...
I highly agree. We depend so much on consumerism and planned obsolescence. We cannot have infinite expansion/growth. Sooner or later we need to make things that last forever, lower the number of factories (a good thing).

It needs to be a huge paradime shift. It also involves some huge technological barriers to be overcome: solving the energy problem, dealing with resource scarcity, etc. But I think if humanity is going to survive another 10,000 years -- we need to see an end to money in general.

In the short term, more automation and guaranteed minimum income are a start. Not everyone needs to work. We should be able to focus more on art and culture rather than polluting the world with more plastic shit.
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That specific law contains a clause which requires the federal government to give consent before the prosecution could go forward. Think of it that way: The law concerns the foreign relations of Germany which makes the federal government an affected party.

But even apart from that the prosecution is part of the ministries of justice and answers to them (usually to the state level). However, it's really, really rare that they actually interfere with prosecution. I think it's similar in many countries. This case is not one of those by the way, as said above.
Criticize them all you want but "Feels like the MS of the 90's is back." isn't criticism it's FUD meant to invoke fears of how closed down software was back then.
“Apple Sales International buys Apple’s finished products from a manufacturer in China, re-sells them at a substantial markup to other Apple affiliates, and retains the resulting profits,” the Senate report says. http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2013/05/21/apples-irish-...

They do this even for phones sold in the US. So, it really is US profits being shifted off shore.

Further they negotiated a 2% rate with Ireland and report profit from other countries there as pure accounting magic.
Yes, DNS was clearly designed by idiots who had never heard of DRY.
Essentially every language claims to be that one. Python, Haskell, Scheme, Java, Erlang, Rust .. There is no true answer yet.

MY answer though is Factor (http://factorcode.org/). Why? Because the length of the source code is about half the length of the equivalent program in Python or Scheme. And I'm absolutely sure (although it is an unproven belief) that the shorter the code, the less bugs there will be hiding in it.
This is happening within the German system of government, even if an outsider is bringing the suit. And that is exactly the point.

And what I find so beautiful is that it manages to send both the "rule of law" message and the fk you message at the same time.
Wouldn't have taken too much effort to confirm or deny the story.

The poster's SO profile is here:
http://serverfault.com/users/251721/bleemboy

That lists twitter and github accounts. The github account lists the website of: http://www.thenetworksolution.it/

Which is an Italian provider of web design and hosting services. There is a phone number on the page.
My point is that this is not the case. If you have more capital you can earn a higher percentage on that capital.
I expect that's far from the truth. It's the expected result from something-other-than-capitalism. Mercantilism is one such. Rent-seekey K-Street lobbying is another.
> The comparison with a private commercial service is flawed, in the sense that engagement with it is an entirely personal choice.

That's exactly what a lot of people are up in arms about, they get taxed hugely but get no real say in how the money is spent. Sure they get a vote, but if your candidate loses it's not as though you're exempt from paying taxes.

In some way these people are right; if they choose to engage in commerce they aren't being forced to do anything and as such "whatever the market will bear" is a good metric.

Taxes aren't about "whatever the market will bear" though because you don't have a choice to not consume and therefore not pay.
When two people order a steak, regardless of their income, they get the same thing. On the other hand, one of the largest services a government offers its citizens is protection of the citizens' persons and wealth, both from domestic and foreign threats. The value of that protection is relative to how much each citizen is worth. If you're in debt, like many Americans, you're basically getting protection only for your person, as you have little to no wealth to protect. On the other hand, if you're worth billions, the government is protecting your wealth as well. It only makes sense that the more you have to protect, the more you should have to pay.
I know of a local clinic where I live that has decided to stay on Windows XP and just told their staff "not to surf" as their way of dealing with security issues. While in the waiting room when I took my sister in for an appointment I discovered you could look around pretty much anywhere, it has no network security and the doctors computers are on the same LAN as the public unencrypted wifi.
They were variable rate loans or had balloon payments... If you get a fixed rate loan the amount you pay per month on your mortgage will not go up.
Actually

PDF/A is a pdf specification from Adobe that is intended
for archival use and rendering far in the future (fonts are
embedded in the output, etc.).

Maybe they state that, however as long as there is no reader that is working on the newest hardware this is just wrong.

And the Specification for PDF/A-1 - PDF/A-3 (a,b,u) is really really long and hard to implement correctly. I doubt that 70% of the solutions (even for money) incorrectly parses the spec.
Actually I doubt that only Adobe Acrobat (Reader) would actually print a 100% correct PDF/A-3a file to the screen.

Actually this is the (inofficial/offical) spec:

http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf

It should be really close to the iso one (http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_det...)
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It was used a couple times in recent times: Chomeini, the Pope, and others.
Sales plummet 22% in SF, yet there's a bidding war on every property? This implies that demand still outpaces supply so I don't see how you could predict a crash, yet. In reality, prices only dropped 1.8% y/y. And that was for March, which is traditionally a low-inventory month. I personally think the correction is still a year out.
Right, and CNNIC.
It is? How can something illiberal and constraining be an outcome of it?
The headline is inaccurate. The headline should read "Top 1% of Income-Earners pay 45% of California's Income Taxes."

The rest of the data don't really give a meaningful view either since they ignore California's 10% sales tax. According to IETP, California's tax system is proportional or even slightly regressive. (Higher-income earners pay a smaller share of their income as tax.)

http://www.itep.org/whopays/states/california.php
Show HN: Autocomplete your code with syntactically similar open-source code
http://auto-complete.westus.cloudapp.azure.com

I'm using code vectorisation to auto complete code. I've pre-learnt the vectors from several open source projects. Do give feedback. P.S. - Saw a similar post yesterday from Kite, this is my effort but on a smaller scale :-)
Please read up what SDK means. It's worthless in OP case.
A "progressive" tax policy is so named because it hijacks the positive associations of the word for political gain. Patiently explaining why we should all love the definition doesn't actually address the point being made.
Because taxing consumption is regressive.

The real problem is the positive feedback loop where money buys political influence, which then results in laws that favor the already-rich at the expense of everyone else. Taxing consumption won't fix that. Taxing political contributions might fix it, but you can't do that because political contributions (a.k.a. bribes) are now protected under the First Amendment thanks to Citizens United. High marginal income tax rates or a wealth tax (or reversing Citizens United) are the only ways to fix the problem AFAICT.
The HN title continues the proud American tradition of conflating "taxes" with income taxes, ignoring all others. And of course this makes it look like wealthy people bear more of a burden than they really do, since other taxes hit the poor far more.

This happens constantly. I can't remember ever seeing a statement of the form "the top X% pay Y% of taxes" which didn't ignore a substantial set of taxes that hit the poor the most.

I think someone is out there manipulating public opinion on tax policy, and doing an amazing job of it.
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World population needs to decline gradually, though. Developed countries with low fertility should compensate through immigration.
>As many others have pointed out, the relevant law [0] explicitly requires an autocratic decision by the executive before prosecution can start.

Exactly. This is why the law is an anachronism and needs to be repealed. And why using it to get the "right" outcome would be inconsistent with the principle of rule of law that says it needs to be gotten rid of.
Yah... it took me all of 30 seconds to get past. Those doing this without understanding what they're doing are likely following an online how-to, and this wouldn't be that hard to explain in one.

This sort of brings me back to the days where you would obfuscate your javascript or entire page by hexing it (or even AES in one of the scripts I've seen!) and writing a javascript interpreter. One of the more clever ones I've seen was just inserting a tonne of newlines so that the actual page contents was way below the view-source window fold. I felt mighty stupid when I fell for that one.

EDIT: tone =/= tonne
US lotteries advertise the total of the payments. They usually also offer, themselves, a much smaller lump sum amount that roughly matches the money needed to create an annuity to pay the installments (it's usually closer to 50% of the advertised jackpot than 90%).

The businesses I'm aware of will offer a lump sum up front for assignment of any annuity.
Understood.

Currently, I manage several hundred logical databases for a B2B SaaS product. This has the potential to grow to several thousand over the course of years.

My customers enjoy that (arbitrary) piece of mind that their data is logically separated from all else. I enjoy not having to remember to include a tenant_id clause.

Our traffic pattern is quite steady per hour of day and per customer. That, plus using RDS for horizontal scaling (fixed # of logical DBs per host) allowed us to take this route.

I suppose the decision is a matter of circumstance and preference, but I don't think this is necessarily "wrong" to do.
"How" is that the people who make the money control the measurement methods for it. Governance is hard.

CEOs once upon a time made "too much salary" so pay for performance was used. Now this.
Exactly. Windows 8 and 10 include substantial improvements to the underpinnings that would be worth the switch from Windows 7 if Microsoft didn't basically kill the UI. This stupid desire to change stuff for a new version, as done with cars, does nobody good.

- 3D widgets serve a purpose and make it much easier to see what's a widget and what's not

- Windows XP theme engine was great and it got killed in Windows 7

- Windows XP and Windows 2000 UI was to the point and didn't waste screen real estate like 7, 8, 10 do as well as current OS X and GNOME or KDE. First we complained open source desktops had no designers, now we should curse the day we wished for designers to get involved.

- all Windows tools and subsystems got much better and featureful and there's new filesystems and subsystems, but you cannot take the core and slap on a different desktop environment like you can with Unixes. Back in the day you could use a different Windows Shell, but I don't know if that's still possible.

I have this suspicion that Cutler has a private build of Windows on his machine which still has Classic UI, but the product managers would never allow that to get published, or else they would be wrong to have killed it off in the first place. This constant desire to change the UI is unbelievable and hard to explain. Imagine if new knives would follow the same mantra. Many things work best the way they are with no need to change, and if change is wanted, something like Windows XP's theme engine is more than sufficient.
I'm not sure I buy the absolute supremacy of open formats. They are good for emergency recovery (no depending on a company that just went kaput) but they often lack momentum. MP3 is not an open format, but I would argue it's one of the best choices for storing your music because it is everywhere. MP4 hasn't gained quite the same traction yet but we're headed that way.

Now, if you are a savvy programmer and you archive the (open) OGG spec, you could argue that you can write your own custom OGG -> MP2073 encoder at any time to recover your ancient music. But that's not most of us.

Another example that comes to mind is the many MS Office replacements I've used over the years. I have a small trove of old documents in old open formats used by StarOffice, OpenOffice, & others that are a pain in the butt to access and don't always render correctly, while my ancient .doc files from twenty years ago still open in two clicks.
So this only matches profiles not resumes? This looks like it is primarily beneficial to employers and not job seekers
Yes, but at the expense of readability, development speed, and incremental updates to images (where typically the dependencies layer changes slower than your target code).
Please elaborate on how you reached this conclusion.
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They have not declined. They just have not kept up.
I used to work in the RE business and there are good agents that earn that value and there are bad agents that don't.

You are paying for market expertise, negotiating experience and arms length distance.

On a slightly different note, this podcast and the book "The Middleman Economy" go into detail about why middle men (like real estate agents) are useful: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/03/marina_krakovsk.htm...

Edit: typos
A good real estate agent you can trust is worth the 3%. They can foresee potential roadblocks, help you navigate the somewhat complicated process and really find you your dream home. The real trick is finding one of those agents.
If a site trusts a screenshot to resolve a dispute then they've got bigger issues.
The money could have come from a gold deposit 150 years ago. Who knows. It doesn't have to come from debt. The number of units of currency I have is also irrelevant. The only relevant thing is how valuable those units are to someone else. The value of the units is directly correlated to the amount of work required to get the units.
Napkin math incoming... Say you only used a-z in your token, at 1 character long you have 26^1 combinations, at 6 you have 26^6 or 308,915,776 combinations, which could easily be scanned. Increase the length to 26^ or 95,428,956,661,682,180, a big ass number, if we reserve 1,000,000,000,000 for actual items and create them over this range then the odds of guessing a correct token is 0.000000010479, then ban all the hosts which trip more than the average number of 404s.
California taxes capital gains and dividends heavily.
Yet for some reason extremely few games have followed id's example. Besides Duke 3d, what other games ever saw source release?
There's another nuance to black swan events, though. I don't recall whether this was from BS or Antifragile, but the maximum expected magnitude of an event such as a bubble pop would generally be considered to be the previous max. If the next event were 1.5x-10x larger, it would still be a black swan and could overwhelm the reasonable preparations that were made in anticipation of a repeat.
Based upon your example, you seem to be arguing for a flat (as in dollar amount) tax. I have no idea how that would ever work unless there were no taxes at all.
I agree. For the task of writing an OS scheduler, I think the programmers must list desired properties, mathematically prove that their approach has the desired properties and then, but only then, test and measure their implementation for a few CPU years on dozens of types of hardware.

And yes, that proof probably will be hairy, but that's precisely the reason it has to happen.

Also, in the likely case that the proof is for a limited domain ("at most 1000 CPUs", "level 1 cache shared between the same CPUs as the level 2 cache"), I think the scheduler should test for that at boot time and strongly consider panicking the kernel if it doesn't apply.
Yes. In a sufficiently complex environment, it's impossible to avoid deploying bugs to production. You can only hope to mitigate their impact.
I've also created a fairly comprehensive zero to nuts TypeScript + Redux tutorial that could be added to this list at:

https://github.com/ServiceStackApps/typescript-redux
CLI tooling has solved a lot of the problems that arise from many. Scripts for migration, host transfer, creation and deletion took some time to build out, but do work fine.

I suppose we are lucky to have a very consistent workload per logical database.

This allowed us to calculate our costs ahead of time. We found that we could keep DB costs at ~$1/customer/month. For a B2B SaaS product we were satisfied with that cost.