skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an ridiculous suggestion. Apple's products have had minimal data reporting and a focus on privacy. They even conceded awkward UI and bugs around messaging for the sake of keeping it secure. Their advertising project failed partially because of their unwillingness to track users. They famously took the US government to court and won in order to prevent them from being forced to unlock a phone, for fear of the precedent it would set.

What possible reason could you have to assume that they would sell health data, for which all of the same reasoning applies as well as it being more heavily regulated by the government?
Non compete clauses are unenforceable (especially if the state has a right to work) and I simply do not sign them. For me, it's a deal breaker. If you have a right to fire me for any reason, I have a right to leave and go work for someone else, including a competitor in a the same industry in which my skill set lies for any reason (especially if that reason is higher pay).
Can you go into more detail about the type of highly available code that you write?
Great! Thanks for the detailed response!

Expect-CT is one to look at as well.

Basically just tells the browser that Certificate Transparency should be available through the provider (DigiCert in this case).
I started using Kotlin because the author of MapDB did

https://github.com/jankotek/mapdb

Scala was around for a long time, perhaps if I could look at it with fresh eyes now I would consider it, but somehow I always had a feeling that Scala isn't for me. And now as Kotlin gaining momentum I'd rather stick with Kotlin.

I want first class IDE support and straightforwardness in my workhorse languages. For hobby languages I'd rather play with something like Red or Perl 6.
> remember google street car password gathering?

What? Wasn't that "SSID gathering", as in "the name you give your WiFi network, which is then visible to anyone that passes by"? How could a streetview car gather passwords?
> afaik, `shred` doesn't do anything useful on SSDs

It does effectively shred your SSD. In that it will fail sooner and sooner the more you run that command.

SSDs have a sector erase command. I don't know how it's exposed on the CLI, but it exists and will effectively erase anything that was removed. Most of them will run it automatically on the background after you delete stuff, so it's normally just a matter of keeping it powered for a while.
People often confuse copyright infringement with theft, also thank to the silly Hollywood scare ads.
> Even if you are doubtful of 'forced upgrades', you can research for all the evidence yourself.

The fact that people claim -- or journalists report -- forced updates doesn't make their claims true. Everybody who deals with real users knows how unaware they are.

Having said that, I agree that the "dark patterns" were a really bad idea. Microsoft actually does know how unaware real users are, and its upgrade offers should have reflected that.

Whether it was worth turning off security updates is another matter, and would depend on the circumstances. For most users, my opinion is that it was stupid.
The best layouts I've seen have had 1- or 2-person offices around the perimeter of the space, with shared spaces (open spaces for collaboration when you actually need to collaborate and for big stuff, conference rooms, break rooms, etc.) on the interior, because people shouldn't always be in them so they don't need natural light as urgently.

Requires a decent amount of space to do correctly, though.
The thing I'd like to see Github focus on with their API is granular permissions. There are many SASS integrations that I am just not comfortable with granting access to because I don't want to have any more than necessary 3rd parties having access to repositories. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but every time I grant an application access to my Github account, it automatically has access to all repositories I have access to. I know there are ways that organizations can set permissions such that they can approve app integrations. Still, there are private repositories I have that I would prefer to not have 3rd party integrations be able to access. With 3rd party SASS providers having access to private repositories, it would be trivial for code to be stolen or sold to competitors. If they wanted to be real nasty they could rebase and force push, delete branches, tags, inject malicious code. There are so many potential ways that providing full access to everything you have access to in Github could be exploited.

I would love to see Github add permissions to apps requesting OAuth permissions be able to restrict access to the repositories the 3rd party app has access to. It would also be nice to be able to revoke individual permissions.

[Edit] fixed some grammatical errors.
The guide tries to make things seem really complex but the reality isn't so bad.. Anker fully replaced their single-tier Astro line with their two-tier PowerCore line.. that's way simpler than the branding situations with the vast majority of consumer electronics companies. The only real cause of confusion here is retailers continuing to sell their older Astro products as if they were the latest models, which is hardly Anker's fault.
The question is do you want to survive or do you want to be more super. IMO the gene-editing/eugenics topic falls under the latter.

No one is saying that curing diseases is bad. But the fact is our lives will always be blighted with something, if not Disease A then it's Disease B and if not Accident C.

Nature has a wonderful way of intervening, somehow or another. If you find one, then it'll just get more creative. And by the way, I would argue that most of the current ailments are human-generated - like climate change and lung cancer caused by smoking.

The only leeway I can sort of accept is serious hereditary diseases like madness passed down through generations - but even then I'm cautious that it'll open the floodgates.

No. The risk is too much - a new human race with a clearly defined code of what's good and what's not good for them? What about those who can't "make it"? What about the rest of us who can't afford fancy genes?

Geez, this is Darwinian struggle taken to the extreme.
I think Uber is on Apple's shit-list ever since the device ID tracking incident where Cook dressed down Kalanick directly. I imagine their app updates get extra scrutiny and probably something like this would be caught and denied.
The memo is from Brian Katz, who leads some kind of internal security team. He's the "Global Investigations and Intelligence Manager".

There was an incident with a lost phone that doesn't paint him in a particularly good light. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224589/Google-threa...
Having lived in both Canada and the US, it's a reasonable counter-argument, but I'm not sure "bigger" is really applicable to this argument. Most of Canada is empty, the population lives on a narrow strip of land near the US border. And having driven most of the trans-Canada, I'm not really convinced the infrastructure is good.
Some terms are absolutely enforceable. The cost and time to defend yourself from lawsuits is also not free.
I'm off of it and I could not be happier about the decision. Concerns about privacy aside, I realized how much time I was wasting scrolling through ads and news stories instead of photos and thoughts from friends and relatives. I didn't mind the Facebook of old where the content was mostly interesting to me, but today it is mostly full of ads, memes, fake news, and clickbait.
Why did you create a new account just to say this?
Out of curiosity - roughly what year was that and what percentage of the customer base would you say was still on Windows XP at the time?
It seems people that work fewer hours often work on side projects in their spare time. Does that mean such a developer is working too much or employers are leaving money on the table by letting employees leave early?
I was wondering about that. Thanks for the info. :)
> But square feet cost $$$ and switching to an open floor plan is an immediate cost cutter.

This reminds me of the time companies used to try to save money by buying low powered computers. They didn't realize that carbon is more expensive than silicon.
Consulting can sometimes be arguably worse than the job in that aspect. At least with a salaried job some ups and downs is expected, with consulting if you are charging by the hour people demand value by the hour. I was thinking more in terms of running a SaaS or similar.

What I love about that is that you have long-term goals but it doesn't matter how you get there in the short term. So you can work like a horse for 4 days and rest for the remainder of the week. Or maybe another week you work a little bit 7 days a week.
It requires ~3500 hours of study in a law office or judges chambers (spread over 4 years), but California has a non-tuition path to the bar:

http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Admissions/Requirements/Education/L...
How many serious jobs allow only 40 hours a week? I haven't seen many.
Definitely part of it. Businesses are afraid developers will come to regard themselves, and to be regarded, as real professionals, like doctors, lawyers, some categories of engineer (god forbid they stop cowering around the MBAs or start questioning the ethics of... well, anything, really!)

Systemically keeping their tastes and station "lower" than that is probably part of what's going on, especially with the bigger companies. Developer pay may (sometimes) approach or match upper-middle, professional-class level, but (self-)respect for developers can't be permitted to reach those heights. Better their conditions are kept closer to, say, mid-20th-century secretary pools.
In ‘Enormous Success,’ Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence
Since the Fed Circuit has jurisdiction over the whole country, it makes sense that the SCOTUS overturns it so often. SCOTUS takes cases mostly to either overturn bad decisions or to settle Circuit splits (disagreements between Circuit courts). The later doesn't apply to the Fed. Circuit (very often). SCOTUS wouldn't take a case just to confirm the Fed. Cir.
This article is primarily discussing stopleaks@google, a for employees to report confidential data that has been leaked to the public. I suspect they're part of the same broader team that investigated the Waymo leaks, but stopleaks@' focus is definitely more on loose lips talking to the media than profit-driven corporate espionage.
Hum, no. Some time ago you needed multiple uncorrelated overwrites to hide your data. Then as HDDs shrank you strted needing less and less passes up to today that you just need to clear it once.

It's not about people thinking unrealistic things. The command was created for defending against a demonstrated attack.
How Stack Overflow Flipped the Switch on HTTPS
At the risk of repeating myself, I will recommend that people read Cal Newport's blog, and his book: Deep Work.

Here is a good blog post on office design that supports deep work:
http://strongproject.com/blog/how-cal-newports-deep-work-con...

If I ever get a chance to design an office, it will be something like the above. Small risk of that, however.

At the risk of sounding like I want to dehumanize work (quite the opposite, actually), I'd like to point out that anybody thinking of adding, say, a new milling machine to a machine shop, would look at how much space you need for it and around it to work productively and have quick access to the necessary accessories. Yet, we don't put any analysis at all into what it takes to maximize the productivity of people. And too often, we go for one-size-fits-all solutions. I can imagine a high-functioning dev-ops team really benefiting from the instantaneous communication of having all 8 people on the team sitting within a short chair roll of each other in a common space. For the people who need long blocks of unbroken concentration, that kind of space is not as functional. "Interrupt driven" work and "deep though" work are two different kinds of work, and it should be no surprise that a single space is not optimal for both.
I haven't tried Kotlin but Scala works with IntelliJ pretty well. I'd say it's pretty comparable to VS/R# with C#.
Well, can't really fault Victorians when in 2004, 100+ years after them, a little tit from Janet Jackson was made such a big deal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime-sh...
One of their drivers called me at 9am telling me to meet them outside on the corner because they couldn't find the apartment building entrance. There are only four sides to the building, not that hard...
> I think we tried the roll-back too and that failed.

I did a few roll-backs to test the system and they worked perfectly. However, if you're upgrading 400 million PCs, there will inevitably be some errors.

This is why we have backups ;-)

> evidenced by the sheer number of people fooled into it.

How many do you think there were, and what's the percentage error over 400 million or more upgrades?
ND is in a weird place thanks to the oil fields. I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and while it was a pretty good living and I never felt like I was in a developing region, there were places that was closer to reality.
State of Internet Bonding in 2017 and Beyond
Seems like jobs installing and maintaining solar and wind farms could solve both problems. There are probably already local projects going on all over the developing world that don't get much press. Something Facebook discovered when they tried to parachute in with their perfect, locked down internet solution and discovered people were already working on the access problem.
An insignificant minority will care about the website of a power bank product.
> "One account, all of Google", not if the account isn't a Gmail account.

Having recently been burned by this, I can wholeheartedly agree. The list of features that don't work if your Google account is not "@gmail.com" has caught me out so many times. The problem is even worse if you are an Android user and have a bunch of app purchases tied to a non gmail google account - as I recently discovered when trying to add my old Google Apps (custom domain name) based Google account to our Google play family plan.

The lack of documentation on what works/doesn't work is staggering as well.
I mostly care about it just being too crowded and shitty rather than people starving.
>Wow, what a double standard. A woman wearing wet clothes is considered more scandalous, than a totally naked man?!

Well, males are very "interested" in the female form.

Females in the male form, not so much beyond a certain point (for the same reason males enjoy lesbian porn, but women don't particularly care for gay male porn).

A few exceptions aside, most males just aren't that interesting to look at.
I never had Facebook. Ha!
VSTS Demonstrates How Microsoft Loves Java
A map of that area (the red dot is the temple.. left is 70s, center 90s):
https://witnesstreephotography.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/m...

We have an area similar to that in the US..

Louisiana 1932:
https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/LandLossinSouthe...

and in 2011:
https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/LandLossinSouthe...

And land loss along the atlantic coast:
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/atlantic-coast

And increased coastal flooding (note, some cities being flooded 40 days out of the year.. thats pretty significant):
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
Apple doesn't even have an option for connecting to DisplayPort screens. I need it because the UP2414Q runs 4K@60Hz over DP with multistream transport. It will only run at 30 Hz over HDMI.

Apple sells a USB-C to Thunderbolt 2 adapter that looks identical to the mini-displayport connector on my previous laptop but is only thunderbolt, no video modes supported. A lot of unhappy reviews on that one.

They dropped just about every ball possible with monitor hookups. I actually haven't bought a USB to DP cable yet because last time I looked they weren't well reviewed, had gone out of stock, or cost like $40. I'm debating whether I should get one or hold off for the TB3 docks to show up.
You do know Instagram is owned by Facebook right?
It's even worse in the new building I think.

Lovely park on the roof, great amenities, but cluttered open-plan hell at every desk area.
I'm going to start talking to a few people that might have good input and have a swing at writing a comprehensive draft specification, as best I can. Might not be a bad idea to have a proof-of-concept/reference implementation being developed alongside. Wanna take this to a different medium? Skype, wickr, steam, email?
I bought an Anker laptop battery four years ago. It still works great. I don't remember any other non OEM laptop battery lasting that long.
Probably nothing except more people using it, it doesn't have any (to my knowledge) unique features that Twitter and co. don't, so I don't think people are going to move there; rather I expect the same users of Twitter to go there and keep both their accounts; a few people I know have deleted their Twitter accounts to switch full time to Mastodon, with varying degrees of success.

So I'll echo what was said elsewhere: people aren't going to move and abandon their old social networks, at least in my opinion.
Queue the onslaught of "I haven't used Facebook in.... years!" comments. You're probably already hitting the down-vote button.

I wonder why there's so much anti-fb commentary on HN? Maybe it has to do with the software engineers tending to be less social and introverted, therefore a social service appears to have less worth? Just speculating.

As for me, Facebook creates an emotional connection unlike any other service out there. I get to see my friends kids grow up, comfort lost friends when they lose a parent, share with my family when something great has happened. It's absolutely amazing and there's nothing out there that comes close to its reach.

If Facebook were suddenly gone tomorrow, I would feel devastated (so many memories of my kids, deceased father, mom, all would be gone). The only other sites that would provoke a similar emotional response from me would probably be Google and maybe Github.
not to mention there's no apple way to connect usb-c to displayport 1.2. Honestly should have been one of the main adaptors they made. HDMI is great but unless it can pump 4k at 60hz it's no good.
Back in 2013, I decided to delete my account because was spending more than 8 hours per day on it (mostly on groups and managing pages for fun).

Back then there was no option to remove it - the only option was to convert it to a page with the mention that all your friends will become page likes. Then you will lose all your content posted (statuses, pictures, messages, etc). It was written red on white as a warning prevention. They said it was not possible to revert back.

Id did that, and the next day I felt so good afterwards. No guilt or fear of missing stuff. There were other means to stay in contact with people.

Forward two years later I wanted facebook back because I moved to another country.

I searched if there is an option to recover an old profile, and it was (even before they explicitly said there is none, and all your data is lost). I got back all that I've posted, only friends I needed to add back manually.

Now I use news feed eradicator and I don't see anything. Also, I don't have that urge to scroll feeds anymore. Basically, I wanted only messenger, but back then there was no such option.
It's interesting to me that this seems to cross the threshold for human brain hardware equivalence at reasonable cost. That's based on Hans Moravec's quite reasonable calculation of 100 teraflops. All we need is some smart hackers to bring on the AI apocalypse ;)

(Moravec's thing http://www.jetpress.org/volume1/moravec.htm)
> 15% annual return on nothing is still nothing.

This says how disconnected you are from the reality. Many Americans don't even make $100 a day. $10,000 investment plus $10,000 margin multiplied by 15% is significant for many people to buy food and pay rent.
I <3 Anker products, own quite a few of them. You can tell the R&D has been done... Every single product I've bought from them continues to function flawlessly. They're a breath of fresh air: a startup with a focus on quality/price, not flash.
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WOW is dead simple TCP with smoke and mirrors.
All of our chargers and cables at the office are Anker, so far pretty happy with them.
Polo: Dual pane file manager for Linux
Winners of the Orwell prize in literature
Yes, that is what I had in mind, but could not remember any more the details how it used to be.
The unpleasant, unintended side effects of many "good" policies often surprise activists: protectionism and orthodox equality leads to decreased trade and removes incentives to increase productivity. This is a surprise to many people who then try to deny the existence of these side effects because they think they are only advocating "good" policies so the bad results are someone else's fault.

The pleasant, unintended side effects of globalist capitalism and economic liberalism are in fact not that much a surprise. Just look at the track record. Is it bad if good outcomes follow as unintended consequences?

Arbor ex fructu cognoscitur.
Not sure that Apple really competes in the low-end accessory "game" - I don't think they see it as worth their time/brand value to offer cheap dongles at low margins.
I actually went to Joe Walker Middle School, he certainly wasn't forgotten then.
Its predecessors, yes, many times. The brand new shiny $100 Sculpt? No.
Watson is actually the most heavily-advertized name in the AI game. It's invisible in IBM's financial results, which have now shown declines in turnover for 20 quarters in a row.
Install mpv and use Shift+Q to exit. That way when you open the folder again in mpv it will start exactly where you left it.
For those that hate Anker's relationship with Amazon, please note: many items Anker makes is also sold first party through Walmart.com now and is even in some Walmarts.

Anker has finally arrived.
Mechanical Watch, How It Works Documentary
Can you recommend a portable USB charger of there's? I sold my wife on getting one when she needed to replace her's because of their solid reputation, only to have it break three months later.
There is some better basis for anti-whistleblowing in the lawsuit. [1] I'm not sure why they chose this particular email. This snippet from the suit better illustrates it:

Indeed, a second training program entitled “You Said What?” specifically states that Googlers must “avoid communications that conclude, or appear to conclude, that Google or Googlers are acting ‘illegally’ or ‘negligently,’ have ‘violated the law,’ should or would be ‘liable’ for anything, or otherwise convey legal meaning.”

[1] http://www.bakerlp.com/Google-Blackout-Case/2016-12-19-PAGA-...

Edit: I'm not convinced the above is particularly huge evidence of anti whistleblowing. It is at least in that ballpark though, versus the email in the story, which just isn't at all.
Unfortunately, none of my friends and family members who are on Facebook really care, and the reasons cited in this article aren't going to sway them. They don't take privacy seriously, and view people who worry about privacy as paranoid kooks.

They also see Facebook as the way to stay in touch with their own friends and family, and that's probably the biggest draw to staying on. Until that changes, I don't see them leaving.
Agenda testing approach makes your tests more readable and maintainable
That webpage looks to be an affiliate seller page, so their lack of clarity benefits them if people click on their links to figure out what's really going on. All they need to do is get that referrer cookie set and their job is done; understanding powerbanks is secondary (if that).
It's a pretty high standard for operating. You have to have employees or a place of a business in the district. If you have one location and sell via delivery services, you are only vulnerable in that location.