skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if a lot of things that we use daily requires coding. Let me expand on that. When computer was invented initially, it was not a basic skill to know how to use a computer because only a few elite had access to it at the time. So no need to learn how to use computer. Then it became a commoditiy and now everyone needs to know how to use a computer. So now "how to use a computer" is a basic skill.

Same will go for coding. If the next 10,20,30 years of further technological evolution makes it easy to start coding on the fly on any device, we might as well call it basic skill then ?

Until then, may be not so much even though coding is a good way to sharpen your analytical thinking and logic building.
They could, and that may be the plan.

But ultimately it's about impressing customers, not Wall St. And Apple has been getting less and less good at creating products that do that.
OK for whom? The US gov't clearly does not think its OK. I doubt the employees think its OK. I don't think its OK. We need cars now. In the present. Not in a decade or two when the major ones manage to make affordable electric ones and when our electric grid can handle that.
Additionally, if you want to freak out the competition & their investors and leave them wondering, this is one approach. :)
In emergencies, should you trust a robot?
One of my favorite quotes -ever-:

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacher
More competitive pricing in any region would mean lower pricing everywhere in the world. Apples products are extremely fungible.
Is there a plan for Node.js to get `import` any times soon? Will we need babel in order to use this for months? years? ever?
iPad Air 1 is $120 to fix; newer ones are $260. The reason for the jump is that Apple moved to bonded technology (backlight, LCD, digitizer, glass is all one piece bonded from the factory) in the newer iPad Airs, so the parts are more expensive. The older iPads have separate glass/digitizer and LCD/backlight.

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There was the same "horrible" thing going on with Uber's financials a while back. The last sentence by TechCrunch back then "...If the readings....are correct though, Uber is in fantastic shape...". PR nicely done.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/04/leaked-uber-numbers-which-w...
Yes, I think this is one of the issues related to Internet archeology. Not equal but similar to the recovery of Usenet discussions.
Wow. While the bias was tiny, I expect more from crypto software. Calling it a "non-problem" is very strange.

Edit: submitted another patch https://github.com/SpiderOak/Encryptr/pull/263
use babel-node (babel-cli) against src/ in dev, build and run against dist/ in prod.
I like to leave little hints for those who try. But you also don't know what it looks like yet. That's going to be quite the reveal.
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I am not blaming Netflix. I even don't blame corporations holding the copyright, as they'd also want to sell as much as possible. I blame international copyright law, which at this point amounts to outright discrimination, not unlike racial discrimination laws some decades ago.

If history is any teacher, it is impossible to fight immoral discriminatory laws legally. Peaceful protest works much better. So, go pirate, history and truth are on our side.
Apple is not doomed, but I think they've taken their eyes off the ball a bit. Watch and iPad Pro are me-too products, and the switch to flat interfaces cost them a lot of differentiation IMHO. They've cheapened their brand and they don't seem to know what market they should really disrupt.
Ah ok I understand. That's true.
Pouët
So tired of this bullshit. You and your boss Matthew Prince make money off booter websites, actively host known ISIS sites, yet blog about how bad they are.

You know the illegal websites on your network, you knew the ISIS websites. And the booter sites as mentioned are obvious.

But as long as your marketing team can blog something cute up, you don't look like the shysters you are. Take responsibility for your network and stop using the 'reverse proxy' file a legal request course. There's due process and just hiding behind the DMCA to host terrorists and booters alike.

You shits know that someone who is being attacked, or knows of an ISIS / extremist website they won't go through the full legal written request. That's when it's your term to police your own network in some way.

Hiding behind asking for a legal written notice makes you and your Abuse Team sound useless, like you are.
This was inevitable for Apple; their stratospheric valuation has expected growth priced in. Given the company's inability to foster the same ambition Steve Jobs instilled in it, they can only ride on their existing product line for so long.

I do find their lack of acquisitions strange given how much capital they are sitting on. There are a lot of markets w/high barriers to entry they'd have no trouble getting their foot in the door(Gaming, On Demand Streaming, etc...).
This is a brilliant idea. First I've heard of it, and I run NewsBlur. Where were you when the RSS spec was being worked on!
The era where cell phone companies offered phone subsidies as trade for a customer's long term commitment has ended. The impact this is having and will continue to have on smartphone sales is profound. It is much more likely that customers will upgrade their devices less frequently. We are already beginning to see the impact in Apple and Samsung earnings.
This local networking app aims to bring our degree of separation from 3 to 2
It'll probably be about 5-6 years until all of the features I use today are in supported in browsers and the last of IE has fallen off. I'm surprised SNI haven't pushed XP and Android < 3 out faster.
It needs to be implemented in V8 before Node.js can support it.
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That was condescending. Let's try not to make generalization about a large portion of the country.
No, I never said I thought it was good business practice. But I'm saying it's not good business practice to ignore it. If you can afford to ignore it, then there's no issue, but there's plenty of sites that don't have protection against this, and have money on the line if they get taken down.

The cost of paying off (a semi-probable) attack, might be better than going down the next day, and having to firefight it.

I'm playing the devil's advocate here. I would not pay x thousand dollars because of an email from said group, but I can understand it slightly better than sending money for nigerian scams.
Can you go into more detail about this? Because I hear "biased RNG" and the switch that flips in my head is "never use this thing".
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You never know... I used to work with a smart bunch of IBM guys who were marked for RIF due to some crazy corporate politics.
Where do you source parts from? Does Apple sell these like a car manufacturer would?

The whole electronics repair business seems rather immature and shady compared to something like car repair. For a car make, you can easily get the software manufacturers give to repair shops which has all sorts of exploded assembly views, instructions and part lists.
'Why I'm Leaving [Insert Tech of Choice]'
Nicer to hold in hands? It's the exact same frame. Are you confusing the 6 and the 6 Plus?
Personal pet peeve: Please don't set the node engine field in npm packages. It potentially breaks your package whenever there's a new release candidate because `node@7.0.0-rc.1` is less than (!) `node@6.0.0` when it comes to npm's handling of this field.
This is great. I was hoping this would happen. The reason was a paper posted here in the past tracing its development from 8-bit days. I was impressed but knew it needed a community and OSS license.

Good.
>There is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure.

for each cancer you can google and find things like this:

http://www.cancer.fi/syoparekisteri/en/research/breast-cance...

"In addition, a significant two-fold increase in risk was observed, during the period 1997-2001, in the most contaminated districts (average cumulative dose of 40.0 mSv or more) compared to the least contaminated districts"

>more cases can be expected during the next decades.

yes. We're about in the middle right now - following known models of radiation exposure health effects the total numbers are projected to double over the next 20-30 years.
> Groovy, so when your pipeline grows in complexity/sophistication, you can manage its complexity and keep it understandable far easily

Scripting languages like Apache Groovy don't scale, instead bring technical debt, complexity that must be fixed up by someone else in the future.
My God-Awful Year with the Apple Watch
> another big pain point is battery (and battery consumption)

True, but you could easily make it less of a pain point by making the device 1mm thicker ;-)
NewsBlur has an organizer that provides this exact info. Just sort of last update (or even stories per month) and mass delete. It's somewhat new but it makes a world of a difference. The organizer is on web and just launched on iOS. See http://blog.newsblur.com.
Nonputing. Ubiquitous invisible (hopefully secure).
mathematically, if your "range" is one of the ten numbers 108, 43, 21, 18, 32, 40, 79, 50, 94, 59 then it is just as broken as if your "range" is 110-120. it's not considered fair. fair means random and evenly distributed. (when it comes to dice and coins.)
So your argument is that only one man (at a time, in a lifetime? unsure here) will attack a woman for this?

Earlier:

> Nobody gets harassed because they're good at their job and go out teaching others etc, etc.

The mental gymnastics you're doing to find a way to disbelieve this whole article are impressive. But ultimately, you're tripping over your own feet.
You keep confusing "being entitled to content" and "being entitled to equal and non-discriminatory treatment". Do you understand the difference?
Clearly, Node is widely used. It would be silly to deny that. The real question is to what extent is it being used, i.e., is it used to write large, mission-critical systems, is it used beyond developing client-facing web applications (which tend not to be very big), is it used company-wide in lieu of previous language infrastructures such as Java, C#, Python and C++? Now, that would be impressive.
I'm curious what other people think about the ecosystem as a catalyst, in particular Apple Pay. It seems to be that squeezing between iPhone owners and everyday purchases would be very lucrative.
Why are we so bored?
Such things can get painful for github

https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm...
I've always been afraid of updating Jenkins or the plugins because things always broke. Always.

That being said, I updated a few instances to 2.0, immediately applied all plugin updates and things kept working as before. That was a surprise. I was already prepared to spend hours trying to find why our jobs were failing. That was nice.
I've been a "mobile is the future of everything" skeptic since the iPhone first came out. Lately I'm feeling slightly vindicated. These things are awesome for navigation and rapid interactions with services and of course chatting. But the totally jailed OS and tiny screen and the rest limits mobile to those kinds of interactions.
Er, really? The 6S is almost identical to the 6; the primary difference is that it's 0.1mm (!) thicker and 14 grams heavier.

Is it possible you mean to compare the iPhones 6S and 6S Plus, which actually differ in size?
No surprise. I mean... at the end of the day these are flat touch screens... it couldn't last forever. This is great - onto the next!
I understand that some people argue that the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to members of terrorist organizations; that it only applies to members of a sovereign country's military. Regardless, it reflects badly on us.

Torture is wrong; no matter who is doing it or who it is being done to.
Six Great Books for Coders That Aren’t About Coding
This is better observed as having a separate standards compliance check and 'reference implementation'.

The standards compliance check evaluates if a given program or module complies with the written standard. The reference implementation is free to be more fault tolerant or otherwise assume that invalid input is allowed to produce undefined results (as long as they are not clearly the wrong behavior).
The iPad Pro is actually really awesome for artists. Pro + Pencil is a better experience than a Wacom Cintiq display, and it's a whole tablet for about the same price point, not just a display.
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You are failing to read the "thoroughly discussion", the hack was just the tip of the iceberg.

Also, kernel.org was hacked because a rootkit gained access to their servers, not because they used a weak password like `upMint`, so you shouldn't compare both incidents.
Yitzhak Rabin's - his assassin succeeded in halting the peace process Rabin was leading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin
yup. reminds me of http://members.founderdating.com/discuss/5081/Do-you-think-I...
Security lessons from the Masters: Play through with your plan
Node v6.0.0 (Current)
that's surprisingly dumb, isn't it?

semver.satisfies('7.0.0-rc1', '>=6.0.0')
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I think the point they are making is that the 'high-end' / cutting-edge is the same price as it has been.

You couldn't get $2,300 for a 33MHz machine now, just like you can't sell a Galaxy S1 for a $700.
I can't agree with that, even if the results are good. And for the record, I am an organ donor.
Dijkstra's Law: "Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better."
Battery technology is already five years ahead of predictions. If Tesla can make a $35K electric vehicle that 400k people are waiting 2 years for, why can't major automakers?

Also, the current electrical grid (at least in the US) can easily support 100% of light vehicles if they all transitioned to electric vehicles. The DOE did a study on this about 6 years ago. Need more power? Build more solar and wind, and use electric cars to soak it up.
Singapore is weird to me. It is fostering a multiethnic society and put this even above the freedom of speech and the ruling party officially rejects the idea of a liberal democracy, with quotes from its leaders which sounds like libel for the people of Singapore.

Also, the PAP is ruling the country for almost 60 years now, the first prime minister was in office from 1957 to 1991. Usually this goes with corruption, maybe not the open and direct one but basically if you want to change anything in the country you have to talk with the PAP. You could call it a monopoly or corruption or both. Especially since there is no real opposition. I think one president got elected simply because no other candidate was considered eligible for the office. (I'm still wondering how he could have become president, if he agreed to this system)

And I don't even have the space to talk about the capital punishment in Singapore, which seemed to me like that life is worthless there.

And such a regime gets access to a vast array of sensors throughout the country. With nothing stopping or controlling it. For example, what could such a system do if you start a public protest or a strike or a rally for something.
Stop the “Women in Tech” Hysteria
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The article states its reasoning, you choose not to accept it.

What reasons would you accept?
Landsat-util: cmd utility isi to s, dl, and p Landsat imagery
Forget "nationwide", China is currently getting ready to drop like a cliff. That they are buying fewer iPhones isn't surprising.
I wouldn't say it is perfect, but I haven't seen a better looking linux distro.

The main reason is consistent looks. They have chosen to create a very flat ui, thats a good choice for enabling consistency. Flat ui happens to be the design trend nowadays, which makes it also fashionable.

Manjaro still managed to make the icons look distinctive enough to be useful. Further strong points are good spacing, good use of fonts and consistency throughout the whole interface. The file manager is more powerful than the file explorer from mswindows, but the gui is still cleaner.

This video shows some of the looks. http://linuxscoop.com/video/manjaro-15-12-kde

Manjaro offers a pleasant surprise to people coming from windows (like me).
I have tried mint, ubuntu, elementary os, and manjaro but I feel manjaro looks like the most modern and advanced desktop.
After a brief flirtation with Outlook Express when I got my first computer in the late 90s, I started using Netscape’s mail client. Over the years since then, I used Seamonkey and briefly played with Eudora before settling on Thunderbird when it came out. I’ve been a very happy user until a few months ago when I decided to try out Mutt, a command-line email client.

It has every feature you could desire in a mail client and a correspondingly steep learning curve. It’s biggest strength is that it is terminal-based so it runs on all Unix-like platforms (including Cygwin on Windows) and requires very few system resources. It’s biggest weakness is that it runs in the terminal so you’re limited to whichever mono-spaced font your terminal application uses.

Steve Losh has written a great HOWTO for OS X users (it’s also very helpful for users of other platforms) to get started: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/
I just made it up.
They have way too many products out now particularly the iPad line.
It'd be not super useful yet, because there's no good way to minify ES2015 code.
Personally, I wonder who though Apple's growth would never end. This happens to every company sooner or later.
It seems to be that squeezing between iPhone owners and everyday
purchases would be very lucrative

And something that Banks will very strongly oppose. How many places can you use Apple Pay right now? I love Android Pay, but the only store I can use it at is Walgreens -- no where else I go takes it. Banks still hold a huge amount of power at the point-of-sale market, and they will not give up their margins to Apple.
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For free? It clearly says Veertu is $39.99 on the app store.

Nice try?
Twitter Posts Disappointing Revenue and Forecast
FBI Decides Provisionally Not to Share How iPhone Was Unlocked
Yap, well done. A bit transparent and obvious though.

This is how government disseminates some news They are "leaked" via "unnamed govt officials". Doing it via a "leak" works in some cases better.

The other use of leaks is to public opinion. "Leak" a little bit of a story. See how public reacts. If doesn't react well, re-phrase. If it does, do a full release.
What is the easiest way to access such a store from a phone?

Assume I have synchronized the encrypted files myself.
>Apple said it would raise its quarterly dividend 10 percent to 57 cents a share and increase the amount of stock it buys back to $175 billion.

Surely that's the NYT's typo and they mean million with an M, right?

EDIT: Not a typo, see mbrubeck's reply below.
Everything you need to know about Apple's huge second-quarter miss
Are there any plans for V8 to do that soon?
It seems to be, at best, something you try and use as a value add to your real service like DB consulting.
The End of Numerical Error [pdf]
If it becomes successful it has potential to dwarf the historical growth in smartphones. But the question is if other players in the field can prevent Apple from getting traction to enough extent.
The future will be one port on everything breakout dongles everywhere.
And this is why when they raised the price of the iPad Air 3, I mean iPad Pro 9", they should have included the pencil. I like Apple products and want to try out an IPP with the pencil, but it's not priced to try out at all.
$175 billion in buy backs?! Wow, its expensive propping up the share price to keep Wall Street happy...

There is only so much hardware innovation, there are only so many people on the planet with $600 to spend on a mobile phone.

Apple should really move whole heartedly into services (as evidenced by revenue up 20%); build a gmail / dropbox competitor - stop thinking of itself as a consumer hardware maker, that era is over.
That might have been the argument 15 or even 10 years ago; but in the age of Netflix, Amazon and Spotify, the real reason is only one: price segmentation.

Differentiating by country is a straightforward way to price-segment to account for (immense) income disparities across the world in order to maximize revenue and publicity. Everything else is an excuse to justify this state of things without calling it with its real name.
I don't really buy that. Can you point to any evidence people are updating devices less frequently? Apple sold more iPhones in Q1 of 2016 then they did in Q1 of 2015 so are you extrapolating from a single down quarter?
Any experience on the Microsoft Surface? It seems it works very well for artists also.
> Google’s Android operating system continue to challenge the company with powerful, lower-price devices."

Apples customers barely complained on slow iPhones, and even less at their pricing level, where many knew apple margin is 40%. "Normal" company cannot withstand such high margins because of competition. Jobs achieved opposite where many people just said "oh screw it - it will cost me plenty, but I really want it!"

As of the lack of growth, I agree with you. It doesn't mean they are in serious troubles, just like a light caught doesn't mean you have a throat cancer. But the truth is that their products lost plenty with Job's departure.

Apple growth barely been done due to progress, but rather because of evolution! First mass-scale touch device, first mass-storage music device (I know, there been Palm and others; but ask 10 people - who ever heard of Palm?). Those were steps of evolution. Before you couldn't type with a finger. Before you couldn't store 160GB of your music in your pocket. Etc etc.

Now Apple is all about growth. There is no more evolution! There is faster CPU, if you really needed it. There is lighter phone, if you really needed it. There is faster GPU, if you really needed it. There is more fancy front-facing camera.... BUT none of those things are evolution; its just a progress. And that won't catapult Apple sales into previous levels. It simply can't.

Would we see the same "disappointing" sales numbers had Jobs still be here? Most likely not. By now we would steer the "i" devices with our eyeballs, and mind control that really works and is friendly to a customer would be just around the corner...

As of today under current management... it's funny, but my i device doesn't even have an FM radio built-in.
Very interested in this one as well.
Thanks for the two parent comments for relaying their experience. I'll keep it in mind should I need to upgrade this box.

I was already prepared to spend hours trying to find why our jobs were failing.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm not prepared for, and trying to avoid. :-) No one pays the little Mac Mini on my desk much mind...until it doesn't work.