skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure there's an official code for it in the States, but it definitely happens. In this case, Apple is spending in excess of a hundred million - $66M on things like infrastructure and low-income housing, $35 incentivizing alternative transit to work, and $15.4M annually to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/04/apple-campus-2-7k-employee...).

In some cases, companies get sweet deals from locations to move there - Tesla is getting a whopping $1.2B from Nevada. But in Apple's case, they're paying.
Really? Just because you have helped over a dozen people it means that this issue doesn't exist? Did you bother to check every local file on the person's drive that you were helping? If you didn't know about the potential issue how would you know to check. The author isn't saying its intentional hs's saying this is a side-effect of this model. Incidentally this is not the first type questionable practice from Apple Music. See this:

http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/02/apple-music-vs-itunes-match-dr...
Norway is part of the European Free Trade Association. It has access to the EU market but it means it has to respect certain laws and there is freedom of travel/work.
I had an iPod that I won in a contest ( I don't think Apple hardware is ever worth its price, wouldn't buy one ).

My sister borrows my iPod, plugs on her Windoes machine that had iTunes, and it offers to sync, and she clicks "ok" on autopilot.

ITunes couldn't recognize the iPod, since it was mine, not hers, and decide thr best course of action is wipe it clean...
The worst part about this is he is playing so loose with words that it gives no closure at all. For years there will be people, especially newbies, that will believe Craig and will treat circumstances surrounding the whole affair, like the "leaked" and "hacked" documents alleging his involvement, as at least potentially true. In my view, anyone or anything that lends any legitimacy to Craig as far as bitcoin goes should not be trusted at this point.

For that matter, I believe most public people involved with bitcoin should not be trusted at all either, but that is incidental.
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As a long-time CouchDB user, I'm going to assume that by "weird failure modes", you mean "conflicts". There are some awesome aspects to using CouchDB, but getting used to conflicts certainly took some time. In short, your application needs to include the code to resolve problems that arise due to network partitions or concurrent writes to different nodes. On the other hand, it's a really stable platform and the write-only database files worked really well (we lost zero data in over 5 years of operation ... even with tests that included powering down a node while in use).

But ... I also believe that CockroachDB is going to be the project to finally solve these problems and it's got an SQL interface! I'm waiting for SQL joins, and then I suspect I'll be moving at least some of my clustered PostgreSQL instances to CockroachDB.
> my friends had to spend it training to be slaves

Oh, get over yourself.
Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'
"I would unlikely have learned english unless it had been taught at school"

You could as well play a lot of video games in English and dabbling in programming. That's how I learned.

Everybody who relied on school for learning English - still barely understand it.
I can't believe Apple is wilfully not paying property taxes on their headquarters! That's quite illegal, and I'm sure...

...oh, they are paying their property taxes? I see. So which taxes, precisely, are they not paying the Cupertino government?

Oh, there aren't any taxes, but you sort of wish someone with the authority to do so would pass a law making new taxes, but they won't, so you're mad at...Apple?

'k.
I owned my first MacBook 3 years ago. To me, the MacBook "just work" as much as any new Windows laptops I came across. So I'm clueless as to where did the phrase "just work" came from. Maybe Windows has improved over the years, or maybe a lot of things are done of the web now, the OS doesn't really matter as long as there is a browser.
Is this a suicide note?
I would say, our brains use quick estimations of statistics to calculate confidence and rationalize decisions.
The government wants to sell your fingerprint to unlock your phone
That is the best suggestion.

Just enabled it on my domain, will try tomorrow.
That is an interesting point. I only learned to read when I was 11 (never had any need to, before that) which is strangely late. When I went to school at 12, I found I was the fastest reader, and tested as "University +" reading level, which is the highest there was.

By learning independently of school, I learned way later in life, and learned in a way that was right for my stage of development.

My anecdote about it not being productive is purely subjective, but the science on development theory is clear. If left to their own devices, almost all people learn native language, writing and math on their own timeline in about 100 hours. School makes this process far less effcient, and teaches things like grammer that program the brain to read slowly and without depth.

Obviously my anecdote is hyperbolic, I speak primarily as someone who had a great unschooling experience and then went to school and saw the difference, and a little bit as someone who has read extensive child development theory.
You might argue that the mayor is abusing us because of the cities housing restrictions.
Well, simple way to stop most of it would have been to prove it. That's all.

But holding the proof and then such a dramatic exit, playing the victim? Wow.
Of course that would be absurd and unfair. That's why property taxes exist, to pay for local infrastructure. Apple pays a lot of property taxes in Cupertino.

Property taxes are based on the value of (and in some cases the type of use of) local property, that's reasonable because the costs incurred by the local government to build and maintain infrastructure is related to their use of land.

His argument seems to be that because Apple makes a lot of money they should also pay more taxes, luckily for him that's the way the system works! Apple also pays corporation tax on their income.

Unfortunately for him that tax is federal and not local so he doesn't get any more than any other local government does in federal contributions.
> Maybe if he described what these problems were, he's get my support.

I believe the city's infrastructure is struggling to cope with the city's growth. There was mentions of poor and congested roads.

> But considering that he can't even get the support of his own citizens at Town Hall meetings, nor the support of his fellow council members, methinks he's simply incompetent.

to be fair the article points out Apples image as a stumbling block to bring reform:

1) "In the case of Apple, people are so enamored with their iPhones that they can’t see the company. And year after year these companies are voted most respected, most trusted" - Matt Gardner

2) "he tried to organize a rally outside Apple. “But Apple has a pretty good image,” Chang said. “No one wanted to go"

> So here's a special +5% tax on all corporations in this Town

Chang has come up with such a proposal already, albeit it won't levy the extra tax on companies with less than a 100 employees.

> a problem here. And it isn't with Apple. Its with the Mayor.

That could be the case, though I'm leaning towards the Mayors side. This article doesn't go into much depth, and yield enough detail for me to come to a conclusion. I would do some background research but I honestly can't be bothered today. I have a feeling this isn't the last time we here of this, so i'll keep this in the back of my mind for future reference.
The power of backups! Also the power of not using cloud services...
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Ugh, I hate target="blank". It takes the control away from the user. I want to decide how to open links. If I want a new tab I will do so. If I just want to follow the link I don't want a new tab even if the link takes me away from the website I'm surfing on.

Now it seems I have another reason.
Yes. But it's usually handled at a higher government level than the local council of a 60k person town. :) California, in particular, is somewhat famous for having an enormous number of state agencies; I rather assume one or more of those made the deal with Apple.
I remember reading "In the beginning was the Command Line" and the description of Apple products being hermetically sealed boxes sticks to me to this day. Even though the author said that the essay was obsolete within a year or so of release (due to Apple and OSX), it proves that even over 17(?) years in technology, some things never change. Almost every other ecosystem doesn't obsessively hide every adjustment knob and switch and force you into submitting to their way of doing things like Apple's does.
You're just applying at wrong companies.
Feynman Nano sounds awesome - anything with the potential to save lives is fantastic. Good for them!
Doesn't change the fact that investment returns are still getting very generous tax treatment...
If the real Satoshi is still around, he musst be cringing at all this. The man can't even accurately describe how SHA256 works, yet claims to be the mastermind behind all this.

Geee Craig, stop playing silly games. Sign the message or simply stfu.
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I created this little swift logging library, https://github.com/goktugyil/QorumLogs
It allows you to save your critical logs to Google Drive very easily.

I also created a little public demo sheet, so people can test their logs.
https://github.com/goktugyil/QorumLogs/blob/master/Log%20To%20GoogleDocs.md

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rYRStyI46L2sjiFF9DTDMlCb2qR2FMtKrZk3USRdXkA/

For months, users just tested it casually on the demo project. Today some dude decided to send his logs which includes passwords and usernames in the public demo sheet. At least the app isn't live yet. :)
This is ridiculous, but that's what you get by trading ownership and privacy for convenience. I keep all my music in .mp3, movies in .avi and books in .pdf, which means I can access them on any computer, using any software and I don't need to worry that one day I may loose access to them. The world is going mad, I wonder when (or if) people will realise how much control over their stuff is in 3rd party hands, and it's just the beggining - we're now entering the era of IoT, autonomous cars and so on. Fuck all of that, I'll use "dumb" stuff as long as possible, even if sometimes it's less convenient - at least I don't feel like a sheep following trends while getting more and more dependant on corporations, whose only interest is to squeeze you as much as possible.
This is not an apology or admission of guilt for conning people with his ridiculous stories. This is an enigmatic exit, complete with him still tacitly claiming to be Satoshi. Quite pathetic.
Fellow iTunes Match subscriber - been using it since the release with zero problems.
Learning how to get computers to develop new and useful materials
Agreed. Which makes me sad. The funds do exist, but it all goes to public education. One cannot opt-out of school taxes, even when one opts out of school. It is not just an issue that is purely economic, the money exists, it just does not exist in the hands of the parents.
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Read this before you send another cold email
I honestly don't get why tax breaks of this level matter for companies of Microsoft's level. I get it for a company like Tesla building a huge battery factory when they are not yet really profitable. Every penny counts at that point. For Microsoft, it seems like the millionaire superstar who refuses to tip the waiter nicely.
It depends. If the mayor has been rude or dishonest himself, it isn't. And as someome said, this does not quite pass the smell test.
Here's some of what I've been able to find.

"Social fascism"[0]

"After Hitler, Our Turn!"[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_fascism

[1]: https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/world/ch12....
Gosh it certainly reads like one. Same text is hosted at his root...

http://www.drcraigwright.net/
How is this not the first thought people had? Poor guy, with a lot of signs of mental instability. The amount of animosity people have had towards him on HN (and elsewhere) isn't tempered by how obviously imbalanced he is. I think it's because of the disproportionate amount of media attention he's received for something he didn't earn.
... where I am from, elementary school is basically obedience training for high testosterone boys. It is a battle of wills that the boy almost always loses. Eventually, they rebel hard. I upvoted you though because it was hyperbolic, this subject is just very passion-inducing for me.
That's one of the reasons I rarely plug my iPhone to the Mac. What does "sync" even mean? If I deleted a few songs from my phone, does "sync" means copying the deleted songs back to the phone? or delete those songs from the computer as well? or does it do nothing? I really hate that word.
In my most recent job change, I interviewed with Nava. Due to some family circumstances, I wasn't able to continue at the time, but they were great - responsive, friendly, understanding, and the interview felt very collaborative. I'd recommend checking them out.
Wow. It's hard to believe they were capable of fooling us this long. I mean, how can we rationalize after they saying they will keep our files and if we end business with them, good bye?
This should be unacceptable, things like this makes me sympathize a bit more with Stallman's hardcore philosophy about software.
> iCloud Music Library is turned on automatically when you set up your Apple Music Subscription…When your Apple Music Subscription term ends, you will lose access to any songs stored in your iCloud Music Library.

That wording does not suggest to me "all of the music in iTunes will become part of your iCloud music library." You can't sue for damages, but you can sue them for lying or concealing information in the EULA
> but if the universals that are now commonly used have turned out to not actually be true wouldn't that mean huge swathes of researchers have to retract/redo their research?

Reproducibility is a major concern. Many experiments are poorly designed.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716

So, yes, about 60% of research needs to be redone.
Could you clarify this vs aiohttp (aiohttp.web)?

http://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Here's a good example of use:
http://igordavydenko.com/talks/lvivpy-4/#slide-1
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This whole article is U.S. centric. Is there any meta analysis of global PISA scores and hours spent on homework?
Yes, distributed joins are well understood. But I'm not at all convinced that the relational model is a good fit for a scale-out, widely distributed, fault-tolerant database. The engineering decisions for each of these aspects add enough latency to the process as it is.
People shouldn't buy a computer with only 128 GB nowadays and have to use the network as storage. Ok, they want to sync across devices, still having at least one of them with a large storage makes sense.

SSDs are getting cheap http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E1T0B-A...

That's $320 for 1TB. Still 4x than a HDD but the difference in absolute price is getting down.
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Yeah, kind of angry after reading that.
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The same could be said of terms like "racist", "liberal" and "conservative". There's no Godwins law for these.

Tribal-labelling is rife. Banning mention of the Nazis, as opposed to labelling (as "Nazis" or otherwise), has more effect that excluding the above list.

I'd also have doubts with regards to the terms: "many people", "Often" and "especially vulnerable". Is it possible that use of these weasel terms is in itself stereotyping?
It comes as a surprise to me that this is too close to religion.

Some trustworthy people saw Jesus, God and the miracles. Some people did not believe and some people might have claimed that it was fake.

But most people believed it anyway, and it's still believed by a big number of people to date.
Sounds like a suicide note from a distraught individual to me, leaving aside the lack of Satoshi's grammar. I do not know enough about his background to contact the police for a well-being check; does anyone here?
He is.
I did not expect to be the first one to bring it up. People are being very clinical here.
Mind you (and AndrewDucker) being occupied with something else which is more interesting to one is not the same thing as thinking it is torture.
It's great that Atul feels checklists improve his work, and that he's been able to show efficacy in studies he directed.

Has the work been replicated? My research indicates it hasn't yet been tested enough to be proven [1]

His book promoting checklists seems premature without sufficient replicated research.

My gut tells me that a checklist would improve patient care when the carer is focused on the list. I feel this is already known. The problem is not that medical professionals do not know cleanliness is critical, it's that they're not focused. Introducing a checklist does not guarantee focus. I feel Atul's research is colored by the fact that he's probably a good teacher and he is instructing those who are directing the studies. It seems unlikely to me that checklists will be the savior of doctors' lack of focus. Better for this is rest and increased awareness by doctors that they do sometimes lose focus and forget. We can do this by sharing research showing that basic steps are sometimes not followed.

The thing that's worked best for me to increase my focus has been meditation and hobbies like running that take my mind off of everything but what I'm doing at the moment. That may not be true for everyone. The same can be said for checklists.

From the article titled "Hospital checklists are meant to save lives — so why do they often fail?" [1]

> Some experts suspect that the failure to replicate could be a matter of how the initial trials or the follow-up studies were designed. Gawande's pilot study of the WHO surgical checklist, for example, was not randomized and had no control group. Instead, it compared complication and death rates before and after the checklist was introduced. Critics say that this makes it difficult to determine what other factors might have influenced outcomes.

> Gawande acknowledges the limitation, which was due to cost restrictions, but he points out that many subsequent trials, including ones that were randomized, have also demonstrated large reductions in complications and mortality following the introduction of the checklist. The list works, he says — as long as it is implemented well. "It turns out to be much more complex that just having the checklist in hand."

Atul himself says it is not so simple as you and he originally implied.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/hospital-checklists-are-meant-to-...
Why do you think that is? Have you spent much time thinking about what would make you happy?
no op, but personally I think an increase in automation will simply push human endeavours upward in Mazlow's pyramid of needs.

ie. prior to the industrial revolution most human activities were related to satisfying our physiological needs. When that was largely automated we worked on increasingly abstract desires (eg. TV/entertainment industry, social media)

In a post-robotic world I think we'd focus on more human-centric activities. Eg. what if we had 10x or 100x the number of teachers, and the educational system was more like 1 on 1 tutoring rather than large classrooms. What if food became more like music in that its physical reproduction is automated, but humans are paid to design it.

ultimately the luddite argument belies a lack of imagination. Most jobs that humans do today didn't exist 100 years ago. If and when humans truly become redundant in the face of strong AI, there wouldn't be any point in worrying about whether all humans can remain employed.
It is a known fact that Apple tries the same ideas more than once, sometimes years apart. If at first they fail, they will try again.

I recall an idea from the past where they wanted users to disclose to them all the user's non-itunes music in return for some perceived benefit. At the time I thought of this as a way for someone at some company to assess out how much CD-ripped, Napster-shared, or other indepedently-sourced music was still out there. Needless to day it didn't fly.

I have never in my life used itunes. I can tolerate most of today's "walled-gardens" but not one that seeks to place a surcharge on friends sharing music, which has always been the essence of how my music collection was built (pre-digital). I would give up music before I would sign on to letting Apple control my music collection.

If there were a robust, tiny command-line version of "itunes" that would run on any computer, I might reconsider. But that's not happening either. That's the true reason I have never used itunes. Strong distaste for the proprietary Apple-only graphical software.
he has some serious issues
The original - linked in the comments - is better written: https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/
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You're right, I'm lumping them together, as per the article:

> Then, a text from Viv piped up: "Would you like toppings with that?"

That's not a very good UX in my opinion.

*

> Think star trek 'Computer show me a map of the omnicrom system and highlight possible habitable planets within 10 light years of our current position'

Yes, it would be a nice additional input method , although sometimes pointing things out (like selecting with the mouse or finger) is a lot more efficient than trying to explain it - "highlight that one.. no, no, not that one, the other one! ... stupid toaster!"

I can see voice input being useful when combined with all the other input methods plus good realtime visual feedback.

My prediction is that we'll have really interesting programming environments and programming languages based on voice input in the next couple of years.

Still, voice input is practical in an isolated space, were there are no other people using voice input as well, so although I see a niche, I don't see it replacing mobile devices just yet.