skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Citing Snowden's documents would involve actually giving me a link.

I gave you a link to a slide diagramming PRISM and a link to the document describing the email envelope program that had shut down.

> I did not say PRISM was mass wiretapping but it is indeed part of the surveillance suite of NSA programs.

I understand you now concede that PRISM isn't the nefarious new-datacenter-requiring mass data collection you originally claimed it was, that the actual surveillance itself is carried out by the FBI, and that PRISM just enables the NSA to search the FBI's data collected on specific foreigners with a court order.

> I also don't understand why you think that the NSA was not mass wiretapping both of those telco's major junctions. It's a known thing.

If it's a "known thing," where is the evidence? None of your links claim that the NSA is mass wiretapping the telcos' major junctions. Mass wiretapping Americans would violate the Fourth Amendment (the ACLU successfully sued over phone metadata collection, and collecting voice content would be a much bigger issue), so if you have any evidence at all, present it or be prepared to be labeled a conspiracy theorist.
You can if you fiddle with default apps to open a given link. It seems like those can get deleted on certain updates or at least that's happened to me before.
> No, but a reasonable person who buys a car like this should at least skim the manual once, looking for info on what to do in an emergency, precisely because in an emergency they won't have time to look up such info.

The door release cable is not even denoted as an emergency procedure so it is quite possible that they could have "skim[mmed] the manual once" and missed it.
LinusTechTips just tested this (video is not on YT yet though), and their benchmarks show that it's only really useful as a HDD cache. When used as a SSD cache the only real difference can be found in synthetic benchmarks.

It's unfortunate that it's only available for Kaby Lake, since I imagine that most people in need of a HDD cache run much older systems.
Ask HN: Which CEO have you met that impressed you?
Stewart Chiefet of "Computer Chronicles" has said the people who went on his show and know the least about the products their companies sold were the CEOs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdtHS_X1ibg

Have you ever met a CEO that surprised you on their knowledge of their products? If so, which company was it?
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I have worked on large codebases. You sound less like you have a solid opinion backed up by experience and more like you enjoy spouting platitudes and best practices in meetings without getting dirty with too much code yourself.
Lol. So true. I might use it for my marketing purposes :-))
I looked around but didn't find anything I liked. The regexp article [1] uses jgraph [2] to plot the data as eps, then ghostscript to turn eps to png. That no longer works in a world of variable-dpi screens, so for this article I generated SVGs and inlined them into the HTML. The SVGs are generated by a custom program I wrote for the job [3], to mimic the old jgraph graphs. It's not pretty code, but it gave me a lot of control over the presentation and produced decent results. You're welcome to adapt it if you like.

[1] https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

[2] https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/jgraph/jgraph.html

[3] https://research.swtch.com/globgraph.go
For anybody who attending a community college or University for technical courses, you would have realized that overwhelming majority of your Professors (aka computer scientists) are 40+ with a large chunk being 55+

I think human beings have infinite capacity to grow intelligent - that is until our bodies start shutting down (e.g. Alzheimer) but nobody knows at what age that happens (it can happen when a person is in their 20s or 80s or may never happen until one day the person simply stops breathing).
Prior iOS development certainly helps a lot. From my experience, a lot of time were spent debugging on Xcode to build the app itself.
Not under Trump's tax plan:

> Right now, freelancers, sole proprietors, unincorporated small
businesses and pass-through entities are taxed at the high personal income tax rates. [...] The Trump plan addresses this challenge head on with a new business income tax rate within the personal income tax code that matches the 15% corporate tax rate
Ai: Sorry, your brain is not a computer
30% and 30% for subscription for the first year and 15% after 12 months of subscription.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-changes-app-store-reven...

AKA Highway robbery and Google doesn't do any better. It should be in the single digits.
Translation: why don't many normal people have trust funds, expensive educations, the disposable income and lack of financial responsibilities to be able to work for free for extended periods of time, friends in industry, investor class connections, or some combination of all of the above plus a shitload of luck.
>For my apps, I used the affiliate program to get back some of the Apple tax.
>So from my perspective, this is just the latest in a long line of developer hostile developments from Apple.

I know this is a common practice but it's not the intended use of the tool and therefore I think it's quite a stretch to say this is a "hostile development towards developers". I understand the frustration, though.
Many in the thread have said what I would say: Don't mix your email with the sending of transactional emails. If you're comfortable with Heroku I recommend staying there and using something like SES, SendGrid, or Mail Gun to send the account registration emails.

But, also remember, for most transactional email providers you could allow it to send as your employees if that is an important part of your needs. That way you can keep them separate and keep the ability to send email as your employees.
Apple takes 30% of the purchase price for app sales on the app store.
Successfully competing for a slice of the rock means not getting wiped out. Billions of people are currently competing in this fashion.
I meant, where was the driver when it came to helping the couple out of the wrecked vehicle?
You're kind of right - my point isn't so much about proper English (whatever that is) as it is about clarity of expression. Essentially, I wonder if you would have a better chance of getting into Y Combinator if you had a good editor proofread your Y Combinator application and your website.
Can you point out individuals who hold both positions, or do you just expect the entire community to be consistent for some reason?
well my startup is bulding an electrical self-flying fixed wing part 103 compliant for $40k, much more versatile than Kitty http://bit.ly/2pdeml5 we will be doing pre-sales soon, maybe you would like to be an early adopter.

It can be adapted with floats if you wish.
Lots of great advice to you has already been given. But one thing to add - the walking may be good for your heart, but it's burning calories. You need an energy surplus (more calories coming in than going out). If you are walking a substantial distance to work, more calories are going out. Again, I'm not here to discourage cardio activity completely, but that's not the exercise you need to focus on.

Saucisse is right - you need to eat more and more frequently. And to ensure that doesn't all become fat, you need to lift heavy - focus on compound exercises like squats, deadlifts, bench press. Stronglifts is a great place to start. Good luck!
A Successful Robert Pirsig Rethinks Life of Zen and Science (1974)
Review sites good and bad. I feel like the good ones will be the first one's out.
I assume they'll reveal that information once the library fixes the issue.
Even for older Android devices like my Nexus 9, or wireless headphones, I'm now only buying USB-C wall adapters and using them with USB-C to Micro USB cables (like this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WJSPW8Q). If you have an older wall charger that dies consider spending a few extra bucks and moving to USB-C, it'll futureproof your purchase.
The Concern Around Availability and Reliability of Government APIs
50 and coding. There's nothing more satisfactory that carefully crafted code. Or maybe just releasing something and mostly never looking back because it. just. works.
What this likely means is that the engineers at Square get some kind of vesting stock options (i.e. golden handcuffs) that are valued in aggregate at less than $3 million. It also means the engineers get to have a well-recognized brand on their resume, and not a gap of a few weeks to months that then needs to be explained (not to mention the hit their bank accounts would take). This is generally what's called an "acquihire."
Do you have sources? The paper cited in the article only tangentially talks about byproducts:

> The most frequent hydrocarbon bond is the CH2–CH2, as in PE (Figure S1B). Although the molecular details of wax biodegradation require further investigation, it seems likely that the C–C single bond of these aliphatic compounds is one of the targets of digestion.

Which seems to imply methylene(o) as the byproduct?

Also burning plastic releases more than just CO2:

> The most dangerous emissions can be caused by burning plastics containing organoch- lor-based substances like PVC. When such plastics are burned, harmful quantities of dioxins, a group of highly toxic chemicals are emitted. Dioxins are the most toxic to the human organisms. (i)

(o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylene_(compound)

(i) http://www.wecf.eu/cms/download/2004-2005/homeburning_plasti...
> AKA Highway robbery and Google doesn't do any better. It should be in the single digits.

Why single digits?
I've been pretty happy with an Anker 60W for charging my 15" MBP; it doesn't charge as fast as the stock charger, but it's good enough and it's $40 shipped: amazon.com/Anker-Premium-Charger-PowerPort-Delivery/dp/B01D8C6ULO
FWIW, the globset crate works by converting globs to regexes (so it is therefore also linear time). The downside is that you need to pay the overhead of regex compilation. In general, it should be pretty small since globs probably don't result in huge regexes, but I bet compilation is slower than what's in the `glob` crate currently. (I've never benchmarked it though, so I'm just guessing.)
The common case in buildings (the ones that aren't prisons) is that anyone, without any knowledge of arcane emergency procedures, and in a power failure, should be able to exit via the door they came in, regardless if that door is latched and locked. :)
The loophole allows self-dealing transactions to move local profits offshore.

Apple US buys iPods for $10 from China and sells in USA for $100. $90 profit, taxable, right? Wrong. Apple US licenses the Apple name from Apple Ireland for $89/iPod. Final tax sheet looks like:

Revenue: $100 cash from Apple store in San Francisco
Expenses: $10 Apple China, $89 Apple Ireland

Taxable profit in USA: $1 (minus labor and such, of course)

Taxes paid to US government: minimal.

The profits from firms that do lots of business in the USA are being paperwork-shifted outside the country to evade taxes.

This has been covered extensively in numerous in-depth articles about major corporations and their tax schemes.
Pity, mainly because there seems to be a market for local anonymous communications, but a relatively small, and very vocal subset of users can ruin it for everyone.

I wonder if some sort of anonymous reputation system could have saved them from making product decisions that were counter to the reasons for using the app in the first place.
From my perspective (I've TAed a bunch of intro-level courses, taught in various languages):

You can tell them, yes. But as you rightly say, an important thing is to experiment and (IMHO) to see for yourself what works and what doesn't. And that part works best if it fits their abilities. Experimentation should lead them past what they've learned from you, but not into to much confusion, which for absolute beginners can be incredibly demoralizing.

More talented students will go into different languages and weird stuff anyways, I'll help them when they ask questions or I see something they are doing I can contribute to, but I can't run a course matching their abilities as an intro-course.

Again, I'm not saying you can't do it in JS, but it's not a decision of "let's use JS because I want people to learn JS". And if having JS in there is the goal, nothing wrong with running a course using multiple languages and using JS as one of the later ones. Ideally, after a good set of intro courses your students have seen enough that they can pick up most languages relatively easily, and then, when they need them, learn what current best practices and their ecosystem are.
It has no choice. Kids are growing up thinking the sky is grey instead of blue.
Shareholder's are speculators, speculators speculate.

Most US public companies do not pay dividends to shareholders. An "investment" in this scenario is not an investment but speculation. You are speculating that you can convince others to pay more for my shares than I paid for them.
Not even close. Tons of peripherals are still being actively manufactured in older usb interfaces. It was pretty ironic to be buying futuristic Bluetooth headphones with old usb ports.

I recently compiled all my usb devices and the result is depressing:

https://github.com/paradite/my-usb-life/blob/master/README.m...
pretty sure we could come up with another type of liner
A few hundred euros a month is not a business model.

OK maybe it's different with something high volume, perhaps a large volume popular website that focuses on apps... two seconds on Google reveals "Touch Arcade" is a large volume and popular website with such a focus. Well they are saying the commission schedule puts them in "incredibly scary financial territory."

https://toucharcade.com/2017/04/24/apple-slashes-referral-pa...

Maybe there is a larger volume example? I don't know, but that website seems very popular (124,000 twitter followers, high rank on Google) and if they can't make it work, who can?
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As I understand it, Trump's tax plan changes this so that S-corp income is only taxed at the 15% rate:

> Right now, freelancers, sole proprietors, unincorporated small businesses and pass-through entities are taxed at the high personal income tax rates. [...] The Trump plan addresses this challenge head on with a new business income tax rate within the personal income tax code that matches the 15% corporate tax rate
IANAL, but:

Someone else can do it with the legitimate copy you own, e.g. I take my cartridge to the copy shop and the tech copies it to a floppy for me. The fact that someone online could send me exactly the same data is irrelevant.

Legally I'm pretty sure that lending a physical copy and making a digital copy are incomparable. And to be sure, a copy is made when the server sends you the ROM.
I played with it briefly, curious about whether it might on any way become similar to the "local" view that was in Google+ for a while, but it seemed mostly to consist of dig jokes and a little bit of high schoolers trashing mostly students from other schools.
> Think of a prominent global-company CEO. Sir Martin Sorrell? Indra Nooyi? Elon Musk?

> Now, name the CFO and CMO. I bet you can’t.

I can't, but it's because it's not the CFO and CMO representing the company on the public realm, so they're not the faces and names I see when there's news about a company in which I do not work at or with.

If this "exposure" happens within a company as well, that's an issue for each company to assess and deal with accordingly.
That business owners are floated on the backs of their employees seems pretty obvious.
I turn 50 this year. Learning clojure and competing on Kaggle. :-) Just completed a Machine Learning Engineer nanodegree on Udacity.
Maybe some people just aren't interested in doing that? Many entrepreneurs don't want to be employees and maybe many employees don't want to be entrepreneurs. I think both groups should be happy that the other exists.
they do. you just don't read about the successful entrepreneurs that grow their business from 1 gas station convenience store to 4 gas station convenience stores.
Needless to say their (login) servers crashed from the pressure of people resetting their credentials.

"Hey, you know what might be a good idea? Let's email all of the accounts at the same time using an Appriver blast!"

Atlassian. I hate to hate you.
Er, ongoing, new emails?
> The volume needed for that to be any sort of business model seems extraordinarily high.

If it can be easily automated that is not a big deal.
Tell me about it. You ever try making croissants?
It makes sense from Apple's perspective, but kind of sucks for everyone else.
Huh. That's super weird. What's the difference between an S-Corp and a C-Corp then? I agree that this part of the plan is dumb (Trump proposes a dumb thing! News at 11!). I can't imagine that this part of the proposal will get anywhere.
Well thats stock statement written by a lawyer. YC should spend time letting founders know where they failed, and what can they do to improve. We spent days to write the perfect application, why cant they spend few minutes for the feedback? StartX does it. They called me for a 15 min feedback and told me where I was wrong. I loved it because I came to know my blindspots.
I copied the glob implementation from one of the BSDs - I believe FreeBSD - into a standalone C program and ran that program on the same Linux system as the rest of the tests. Here's the version that tests the system glob. If you run it on your FooBSD systems you can see whether it runs quickly or not. The program assumes that you've already done:

rm -rf /tmp/glob
mkdir /tmp/glob
cd /tmp/glob
touch $(perl -e 'print "a"x100')

And here's the program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <glob.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <time.h>

int
main(void)
{
glob_t g;
char pattern[1000], *p;
struct timespec t, t2;
double dt;
int i, j, k;

chdir("/tmp/glob");
setlinebuf(stdout);

int mul = 1000;
for(i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
p = pattern;
for (k = 0; k < i; k++) {
*p++ = 'a';
*p++ = '*';
}
*p++ = 'b';
*p = '\0';
printf("# %d %s\n", i, pattern);
clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &t);
for (j = 0; j < mul; j++) {
memset(&g, 0, sizeof g);
if(glob(pattern, 0, 0, &g) != GLOB_NOMATCH) {
fprintf(stderr, "error: found matches\n");
exit(2);
}
globfree(&g);
}
clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &t2);
t2.tv_sec -= t.tv_sec;
t2.tv_nsec -= t.tv_nsec;
dt = t2.tv_sec + (double)t2.tv_nsec/1e9;
printf("%d %.9f\n", i, dt/mul);
fflush(stdout);
if(dt/mul >= 0.0001)
mul = 1;
if(i >= 8 && dt/mul >= 10)
break;
}
}

I won't be filing any specific bugs myself. I mailed oss-security@ this morning, which should reach relevant BSD maintainers, but more bug filing can't hurt.
Oftentimes that's exactly how acquihires are structured: the acqhiring company grants RSUs to the engineers they want that are worth $X00,000, making up for them forfeiting their stock in the acqhired company. It effectively amounts to a signing bonus, since engineers on the open market that need to be enticed to join may also be given similar offers.

It's called an "acquisition" as a face-saving mechanism for the company's founders and investors. It lets them go to investors for their next startup [or fund] saying "Yeah, we [our portfolio company] were acquired by Square", which sounds a lot nicer than "We shut down the company and then Square hired all our people." The acquirer wins, the employees win, the founders & investors save face, and the losers are future investors who don't delve too deeply into what "acquired" means.
thanks! this is really good news. I'm sort of in the same shoes as you. I work as an iOS developer and I wrote React for fun on the side.

Knowing how easy to is to ship to Android Studio is an added benefit.
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I am also a small business owner. Agree, everyday expenses I don't evaluate against how much in taxes I am going to pay. However at public companies scale and the rule of large numbers applies. It makes a significant impact to bottom lines and profits of corporations.
Fred Brooks wrote about that idea in 1975. It seems that the management side still has not learned the lesson.
Any chance of a link to some examples of second simplification characters?
comment karma like here on hackernews is sort of an "anonymous reputation system" is it not?
And where would you get a glass breaker? I wouldn't be surprise if you had one on your keychain, but is the expectation that most people will?

I don't understand the mindset where commenters chime in with what they'd do in the situation (most of the time they've read the manual front to back, they have a dozen gadgets in their cargo pants for just this occasion).

Isn't it more worthwhile to discuss what the expectation would be for the average consumer? Imagining someone like my grandmother in that situation tends to set expectations well.
This is reminiscent of auteur theory in film, which essentially says that the director is the author of the film. Similar to corporations, making a movie requires a lot of people with different skills/talent. The director overshadows everyone and is the person primarily credited with authoring a film, they even overshadow the writers of the screenplay. One of the leading arguments for auteur theory is that the director has the vision of the film and they set out to create it. This is the same narrative used in the startup world: the founders have the vision. So this extends to why we credit founders for the invention of products, just like how we credit directors for films.

Maybe 100 years from now we will say "Steve Jobs invented the iPhone/smartphone", just like how we say "Thomas Edison invented the light bulb" or "Martin Scorsese made Taxi Driver".
> Chromebook Pixel and Apple’s original 12-inch MacBook had no issues working with each others’ chargers, but HP, Dell, and Razer all gave us fits

This is why people pay the Apple tax (although Google does just as well). Why are the other manufacturers so incompetent?

(This was last year's tests though, this year's look better across all manufacturers).
IIRC Korean alphabet doesn't distinguish tonality of vowels, so you can't actually use it at all. If you want spelling reform, bless the canonical latin spelling with tonal markings as the new way to spell Chinese and be done with it. It's as much of a departure from the current system as any other phonetic system you come up with and you can enter it on most PCs already, no need to add to the Unicode standard, no need for new keyboards, etc.
College student, it was fun for a year or two and then pretty much everyone gave up on it.

The unique commentary was what made it, there was essentially humor that everyone could relate to and the unique perspectives people felt were too uncomfortable to share with their persona attached. It was fascinating to watch what would come up over the day
Ask HN: Does anyone have any hacks for helping people who are chronically ill?
Hey All - my mom, fiance' and sister all suffer from autoimmune diseases. How it all came about is a long story... But I realize I'm probably not the only one to deal with this stuff so I wanted to reach out and ask the HN community about it.

I'm looking for software that can help with day to day life for chronically ill people, how to mentally support them, and really any kind of help. Trying to crowdsource it to some extent. :D