skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - We never see or store your admin password. The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple).

To clarify for others: In /Library/DropboxHelperTools, you'll find a folder for each user full of setuid tools which run as root and do various privileged things. I assume that the client is presenting the normal OS X "ask for elevated access" UI and then using that elevated access to configure and install these. (I don't work for Dropbox or anything; I've just been poking around.)

> - We use accessibility APIs for the Dropbox badge (Office integrations) and other integrations (finding windows & other UI interactions).

@newhouseb, I don't have Office, so I've turned off the badge. Is Dropbox now going to leave my accessibility permissions the way I set them? Or is it going to reactivate a permission behind my back that it no longer even needs?

I understand the desire to make your features "just work", but circumventing the user's privacy controls to do that is never acceptable. Especially accessibility, which is basically a general warrant to snoop on everything the user does. You wouldn't be on my system anymore if my work didn't require Dropbox. You're going to lose a lot of trust over this, and it won't even be half of what you deserve.

And it's not even in your interest in the long term. This fiasco has probably made it more likely that Apple will further lock down the accessibility APIs, possibly even making them unavailable without an Apple-issued, potentially App Store-only entitlement. Since Dropbox can't really do its job when it's locked in a sandbox, I really don't think that's what you guys want to happen.

Teams like yours are why we can't have nice things.

(P.S. plz respect NSFileCoordinator this isn't Tiger anymore kthxbai)
> they have all your files already

Hell no they don't? They have some shared folders between classmates and a few encrypted archives for personal backups.
Off topic, but her head sure looks like a mushroom cloud.
While I think it's the best of what's available, it still misses some features. No downvoting, no flagging, preformatted text gets mangled, and the own comments/conversations view is not ideal.

It's so close...
Traditional power stations aren't exactly small, either. In fact, people will think you're a lunatic if you start talking about nuclear or coal in "per square meter of land" terms.
Visualizing All the Non-Renewable Resources We Have Left
I buy artificial flavors all the time, for adding to yogurt or shakes. It comes in little bottles in spice section of any American grocery store. There are various fruit flavors, plus vanilla, almond, cinnamon, root beer and mint.
It's definitely the most feature-rich HN client. Sad that something comparable is not on iOS :(

(But the ones on iOS aren't bad..I've had the most luck with one called "Hacker News" by Premii)
Why would they need to save the password?
I get this on clicking the link
<Error>
<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Request has expired</Message>
<X-Amz-Expires>300</X-Amz-Expires>
<Expires>2016-09-09T21:15:45Z</Expires>
<ServerTime>2016-09-09T21:54:39Z</ServerTime>
<RequestId>... </RequestId>
<HostId>...</HostId>
</Error>
What was the other vanpool/private bus company that was recently selling off their vehicles on ebay? They had really pretty buses and were in SF only.
My take is that this law would force companies to structure their services in a way that made plaintext recoverable. And then intelligence agencies could continue to use National Security Letters and their special secret court to get the material they wanted. Or do their fancy hacking.

In other words, a side-effect of the law is to outlaw NSA-hard security design, and that's enough for them.
not keeping the money but taking it for the sole reason of financial gain (bonus tied to quotas) is close enough, it seems to me, to "stealing money for themselves"
This new startup lets you try out furniture before you buy it
I wonder if it has to do with people using linode as a way to get around a particular country's censorship.
Time to give up fish.
This got downvoted and I'd like to know why. This was one of my first thoughts as well while reading the article: what if Dropbox gets hacked? Their client apparently has access to everything.

What if the hack pushes a rogue client? Or one CDN endpoint serves a malicious update? Or a little bit of code is sneaked into the development process? Or an employee gets sour? Or a million other things that you hope never happen. There is a reason we don't run apache/nginx/any networked service as root. (You don't, right?)
I'm having a tough time understanding what you're saying. You're saying that the decisions of a company are made due to cultural norms, and not individual consciences? And that Zuckerberg doesn't actually have any power, because the shareholders would out-vote them? And the shareholders make their decisions based on cultural norms? Then where do those norms come from? What leads those cultural norms?

I legitimately don't understand what you're saying.
Is it worth playing online? I play solo (couch) but was wondering if it is any good to get PS online subscription for this.
Doesn't that doctrine only apply to the Ninth Circuit?
Why would the government want to make practical and common practices illegal even though compliance is infeasible?

Why are speed limits set so low? Why is tax code so full of questionable loop holes?

It provides a mechanism to target whoever you want to target for other, unrelated reasons.
Perhaps this is your point, but what exactly is the difference? Whether you're building a factory or building a house, you're you're getting a regular income as a reward for creating utility generating capacity. What makes one honourable, and the other "rent-seeking"?
the report is about UCSF, which is in the center of Bay Area.

How much does the postdoc earn there? about 50k.

How much does a 1b1b cost in SF? It is all over the news.

You may think why is this related to the news?

hint: Could they hire any local IT guys with 50k?
Nit: The inalienable rights of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is in the Declaration of Independence. None of those things are broadly recognized as rights in the Constitution. I have been unable to determine to what extent referencing the Declaration of Independence is permissible in questions related to constitutional law. I'm inclined to believe that it depends on the party involved. (Scalia certainly objects to Declaration of Independence having legal sway [1]. Surprisingly to me, Clarence Thomas goes the other way [2].)

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-138.ZD1.html
[2] http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/373697/clarence-th... - I wasn't able to find a clear opinion from Thomas citing the DoI, but I am not good at searching through opinions.
Possibly stupid question for you.

Why did you chose Atlas (ie US Incorporation), giving those micro-scale multinational issues, rather than incorporate in SA?
And still some people says video games are not art.
US House of Representatives, not the UK House of Commons. But... yeah, same question applies :-)
Take a look at: http://sparkjava.com/

It is my preferred java microframework and probably the most used of its kind (in java)
Thanks for sharing your solution!
The US has actually has three independent power grids: East, West, and unsurprisingly, Texas.
1. Dropbox asks for root

2. Dropbox does not use sandboxing (at least, the one I have doesn't)

So, they do.
This is correct. Three factors drove the bubble in aluminum and other commodities: Increased energy expense, speculative and fraudulent investment, and some increased consumption. However, three factors are likely to continue to drive aluminum and other commodities under the mean: Lack of confidence, spectacular debt burdens and deflationary trends across commodity price inputs. Its likely to be years before a stable mean is established, despite the occasional mirage of stability from month to month.
This is FELONY theft in some states. This man is an absolute idiot for not calling the police on those who set out elaborate schemes to defraud others.
I closed my account when they put a former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor on the Board of Directors for no apparent reason.
I wonder how a hybrid model would sound, where the net generates parameters for a parametric synthesis algorithm (or a common speech codec) instead of samples, to reduce CPU costs.
I used master but seems like r.0.10 seems to be solving the problem for most.
Facebook Backs Down on Censoring ‘Napalm Girl’ Photo
Coal also requires humans to transport lots of fuel to it, and lots of big machinery to get that fuel.
If you do not use your emotions when investing you will lose buckets of money.There is a difference between being highly emotional, and using your emotions to guide your intuition. Chances are if he felt upset enough to sell, so will others, and he is wiser (and wealthier) because of it.
"Olive oil" by nature (without even getting into fakes) has a fairly wide expected gamut -- extra virgin, virgin, refined, and pomace oils (all of which but the last can be marketed as unqualified "olive oil", though in practice that generally mean either refined or a blend of mostly refined and some virgin.)

A place that is doing something like artisanal premium extra virgin olive oil (which is what it sounds like you were getting) should have exactly the relation to generic "olive oil" that you describe, even if nothing involved is fake or adulterated in any way.

Which is not to say a lot of what you are buying as generic "olive oil" might not be fake (there's plenty of independent reason to suspect that), but what you describing doesn't really indicate that.
>You have to draw a line somewhere. No naked children or gore seems reasonable.

You, as a user, can try to draw the line by controlling your feed, that's your responsibility. But you agreed to be exposed to other people's content when you joined the site - that's the entire point of it.

We, as a society, have no responsibility at all to "draw a line" anywhere to cater to you, and neither does Facebook (nor should it, in my opinion, except where the law forces it to.) Freedom of expression is a right, but freedom from offense in a public space isn't.

"No naked children or gore" is not at all reasonable, on a site with over a billion users, and a billion different use cases.
You could say that anything is theoretically possible, but the entire extended history of the world contradicts that idea. Economic progress is about as universal as anything in the man-made world has ever been. There have been setbacks, sure, but they have invariably been limited and short-lived. I'm sure there was a large drop in GDP during WWII, and I'm also sure that shortly after, it recovered and proceeded to climb well beyond where it was before the war started, as is the case with every other war ever fought, and any other type of catastrophe you can think of.
I always wonder about why Einstein is regularly named as of the smartest person ever. He was clearly super smart so he deserves to be in the list. In this list Goethe came on top, not an absolute true rank for sure, but ask 10 random people who the smartest person ever was and most will say Einstein not Goethe.

I suspect his ability to promote himself while alive is what keeps him in our minds. What do you all think?

By the way, where are Feynman and Bohr.
Some employers will run credit checks on prospective hires.
Or like throwing your change in a bucket every day for a year, and then pretending like the money came out of nowhere when you cash it in once a year and blow it on something you wouldn't normally buy.
If your only real exposure to history was through primary and secondary school, you really owe it to yourself to explore the space yourself.

It's not just late 20th century history that's elided, I'm finding (despite some exposre) that my knowledge of Greek and Roman history, of the post-Enlightenment era in Europe, much of English history, the late 19th century, 20th century issues of labour, race, drugs, culture, immigration, women's rights, and more, was tremendously elided.

* James Loewen, Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything your American History textbook got wrong is a good start. http://www.worldcat.org/title/lies-my-teacher-told-me-everyt...

* Howard Zinn's A People's History has its own biases, but they're a strong antidote to the traditional view. http://www.worldcat.org/title/peoples-history-of-the-united-...

* Will and Ariel Durant's Lessons from History is a short (115 pages) overview of major themes from history. It's a wonderful introduction to the Durants' broader works. http://www.worldcat.org/title/lessons-of-history/oclc/336824...

* James Burke's Connections and The Day the Universe Changed are good introductions to histories of technology and philosophy. From these, continuing the PBS series mode, I'd recommend Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man. These are truly excellent productions.

* Daniel Yergin, The Prize, whacked me over the head with just how tremndously momentous the discovery of petroleum in Western Pennsylvia was, and the impacts across the last quarter of the 19th century and all of the 20th. Follow this with a more technical exploration in Vaclav Smil's Energy in World History and Manfred Weissenbacher's Sources of Power.

And that's only the barest start.
If they could have caught this in QA, they wouldn't have had to replace devices either.
No, this sim is done using GIZMO (a derivative of the GADGET-2 code) which uses a hybrid of SPH and AMR methods: http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~phopkins/Site/GIZMO.html
Voting isn't some fuzzy cost-free civic participation ritual, it is an exercise of power (or more accurately, a demonstration of power in lieu of its exercise). If you want to be ruled by someone who cannot figure out the mail, or cannot manage their affairs enough to sustain employment, can't get the same ID they use for any other institutional interaction they'd want to do, or doesn't speak the language of the people they're ruling, OK I guess, but a sane society does not. The less correspondence between what the voting pool desires and what those who pay for / enforce / submit to be regulated by their schemes do, the less reason there is for them to obey the results of the election.

You aren't upset about the technical nuances of proof-of-residency requirements for people who move the week before the election; you're literally making a moral claim to be ruled by the retarded as long as there's enough of them.
Not a VAR of Dell, I assume.

We tried getting a second quote, and the VAR said: "Dell tells us you are already speaking to another VAR about this equipment, so they won't supply us a quote."
??? You absolutely have the right and ability to host your own content on your own page. Facebook is incredibly popular, but it's not the "centralized" communication medium. If you want to make a political statement or whatever, you absolutely can-- presuming you can get people to actually come see what you have to say.

People use Facebook or other social media because it's significantly more convenient to do so. And distributing content on Facebook/Twitter/etc. is much more effective than trying to get people to go to your own personal website.
It isn't very hard to pull off dumping, it's game that's been played for centuries. That's why all modern governments disallow it. China especially does it all the time, here's an example with solar: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/business/energy-environmen... .
What I imagine is something like the Procfile for Heroku.

The app decides what it runs and how, you can set configuration like domain, whether the application is public/private etc...

Once you push the application to the scheduler it will handle the rest.
Level up my skills and creativity to create a "lifestyle" business that I can be passionate that also provides enough for me to pay my bills and more, be my own boss, own my time, etc
This is a SLOW process. By the time tariffs are enacted companies (and jobs) can be wiped out.
Ah, the the alienated joys of capitalism.. and the bloody stumps we call hands and minds.
Good article. Confronts the emotional reality of brutal trauma without being invalidating.

Just one critique: why does Maria have to be dressed like a "sexy librarian"? This risqué suggestion is jarring and out of character with the rest of the piece.
I wonder if the aggregate cents saved per unit still amount to a profit despite a black swan like this. Based on how much they ship, and this only hurting a single product release I suspect it might
How Richard Feynman thought
Opensource canary-testing system Vamp moves to Beta with v0.9.0 release
I once heard that a physicist calculate that at current rates of growth the oceans would evaporate in about 400 years. Obviously a "growth-based economy" is not sustainable.
This is correct. Dumping is very easy to pull off because it takes a long time to obtain a remedy and much damage is done in the meantime.
I'm against rewards cards on principle. I think it's basically a legalized bribe.

But, when I said I pay my bills on time, I actually meant that my bank pays my bills on time. All of my regular bills are paid automatically through my bank.

For travel, airfare and hotels do go on credit cards, but more often then not, we drive and stay with family or friends. (Excluding work travel... but my job pays for that.)
Can someone ELI5 this example?
So exactly how did you get "burned" in real estate? Sounds like you made profit.
If I were a German engineer, I'd be more than a tad miffed at the executives who are flushing down the drain the reputation earned by over a century of unparalleled excellence.

Oh well. Sic transit.

"German engineering!"

"Ah, ah, ah. The VW kind?"

Sad.
I think you're wrong. It's a bit vague with all the unfamiliar systems (I have no experience with OS X), but root is mentioned in a few places:

> "The allow-root property specifies whether a right should be allowed automatically if the requesting process is running with uid == 0. This defaults to false"

So the agent does not (by default) make an exception for applications running with uid 0. It does not say anything about modifying a certain file, it's just about the agent (if I understand it correctly).

> "In other words, if allow-root isn’t explicitly set, the default is that even a process with root user privileges does not have the right to perform that operation. Since that’s not specified in the default shown above, then even root couldn’t add Dropbox to the list of apps in Accessibility preferences."

Same thing again. Agent won't allow, but file permissions are not mentioned.

> "Root wasn’t allowed to override Accessibility, and authenticate was on, so it couldn’t be this way that Dropbox was hacking my mac."

Same again.

And that's all places where root is mentioned. Later on, however, sudo is used:

> "To insert an app in the list, you grab it’s bundle identifier (in the case of Dropbox, that’s com.getdropbox.dropbox), and issue:

> sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db “REPLACE INTO access VALUES(‘kTCCServiceAccessibility’,’com.getdropbox.dropbox’,0,1,1,NULL, NULL);”"

So sudo, which makes a command run as root, can modify that database.

And as far as I know this makes sense, because at least in Linux file permissions are simply not checked when uid is 0 (root user). Darwin/BSD might differ, but my unix family tree knowledge doesn't go that far.

Also, how else could Dropbox do it? As mentioned in the article, one of the helper applications contains an SQL statement (see the part about running "strings"), so it does seem to be directly modifying that database.
Hasn't been an issue in my case.
> I found it interesting that intelligence and terrorism investigations would no longer be covered by the bill.

Hardly surprising though, counter terrorism was never the true motive.
It is, in the sense that curbing CO2 emissions is the justification de jour for the current arbitrary fuel economy regulations for new cars sold in the US.

Here, it's more like: "you are free to drive the biggest and most fuel inefficient new car you like, that can be built without the government fining the manufacturer into insolvency."

The backdoor efficiency standards cause OEMs to spend more money on making lighter cars with smaller, more complicated engines, which end up being less durable and more expensive to repair.
"All of 5-foot-2 and dressed like a sexy librarian — snug blouse and pencil skirt — Maria usually counseled homeless patients at Bellevue Hospital, the institution famous (and infamous) for treating New York City's poorest and sickest."

I do not understand why the author made this characterization. It seems to undermine their point.
Except humans are the most important thing in the world. It's not narcissism if it's true.

What's the point of even having a world if there are no humans in it? (Any conscious being, not just humans.)

Animals don't care if they exist, they just do what they were born to do, they don't ponder existence. Neither do plants or rocks.

Humans are the only ones (on this world at least) who actually care, and notice.
I did understand. Like I said it was a style choice. I could've just as well have said "What kind of project is that successful and can't scrap together $230/mo?" and avoided the "your project" reference altogether. Choice of style. Didn't think you'd get hung up over it.
glad I'm not the only one.
This reminds me of the 2013 Goldman Sachs aluminum story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/a-shuffle-of-alum...
> I haven't played a more unapologetically "gamey" video game in a long time.

I agree. There's games like Rocket League (which is amazing), but that's a silly concept from the start. But you rarely see "hardcore" or dark games that are willing to admit that they are indeed a video game.

I love the mix between high quality, photorealistic graphics for the majority of things, and then the "gamey" elements, like glowing armor packs just floating and spinning in mid-air. Also other elements like the pre-recorded voice for the security system having dialogue for "Demon Invasion".

It's got a perfect balance of just campy enough to be hilarious, but without turning the game into a joke. Like Cabin In The Woods or something.
Is that microeconomics ? If the answer is yes, can I ask why are you interested? It's a set of broken theorems based on a extremely simplistic perception of reality.
Can you define precisely what you mean by "be a tech company"?
Are you presently worried about someone robbing you because they are starving? In the third-world, absolutely. In the United States anyone who's starving has ready access to SNAP, food banks, or (worse-case scenario) dumpstered groceries.

I'd be more concerned about being robbed because someone has a serious substance-abuse issue, was raised in a broken single-parent household, there's a complete lack of entry-level jobs, or something of that sort, none of which is aided (but rather is perhaps aggravated) by increased levels of income redistribution.
Also a option to download all comments, rather than have it download as i scroll.
Yeah I think it's just my gaps in knowledge that make it hard to follow, thanks for the explanations :)
Any chance you could go a bit deeper on these issues?

I particularly don't understand the "complex front-end" part. What about django's templating system hinders implementing a rich javascript based UI?

I've been quite happy using the templating system to deliver data to the front end and then using whatever js libs / frameworks I've needed to display the data to the user....
It's good that we caught the one single person responsible for this scandal. Yep.
Not really a good sign if it takes a country's PM to complain before they reverse their position.
My entire career, as short as it still is. In the last 8 years I've worked for 3 companies. Every single new project I've worked on has suffered from continuous feature creep; irreconcilable contract disputes; or immediate obsolescence.

My wins are fixing little bugs, I have no career achievements.