skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read a book at one point about amassing wealth. One of the principles it said was critical was to always make contractual agreements that are generous to yourself and the other party (something like that). I think there’s something at play with apples products in that regard. Back in 2003 when I first bought a Mac privacy wasn’t a sales point for their hardware. But overtime the profit margin on apples products may be why they haven’t felt the need to “sell their users”. There’s wisdom in being willing to pay fairly up front.
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It’s funny they used that metric because Manhattan itself isn’t very big. It’s roughly 2.5 miles wide by 12 miles long. 150 years ago it was even smaller.
Apple phones are still available in China.

China blocks WhatsApp.

"Privacy"
Military pensions continue to be the top reason why most young people across the world are attracted to join the forces.

But there is a catch though. You really have to serve the minimum time. And like you said most get either fed up, or they are discharged early. The other part is in many parts of the world, there is relative peace, so its a safe bet. Plus most of the times apart from the training days, they actually see good physical exercise everyday to its like a win-win job.

In India armed forces have asked for a kind of roll over pensions, where every year your pensions are revised and you are paid as much as the highest paid servicemen retiring in the rank you retired from. Of course there is a lot of opposition from the civilian side for something like this.

Given the relative peace in the Indian subcontinent, in most cases its possible for many people to make it through without much risk, and if you join early, you can come out by 40, with a neat yearly increasing pension for the rest of your life.

They also have short service commission jobs in the Indian army, which don't carry these benefits. And they often go unfilled for the obvious reasons.
> And then people wonder why millennials are waiting longer to date, lose their virginity, and get married.

it's the housing market
> Impressive to see a detailed page dedicated to affirming privacy as a "right"

That's just marketing speak for "we failed to make a business out of tracking you, so now we're spinning that to our advantage". If Apple had succeeded with iAds, you wouldn't be seeing this page now.

Just business as usual.
This is a bit overkill. If you look with rose colored glasses at what it did in the 50's, spot on. As time went on and the revolution it helped push along progressed, Playboy stayed where it was and became progressively ... grubby. In relation to society and culture around it. Plenty the brand had to offer was quite far from high art and you only have to look at Hefner's relations with women himself to realize there is something quite wrong with the whole thing.

A dirty old man is dead. A long time ago he helped make some progress away from destructive societal and legal ideas, but he wasn't a saint and the things he created are now nothing to bring pride to anyone.

There are plenty of publications today (not to mention advertising in public) which don't bat an eye at publishing nudity. Much more across the Atlantic. Things might even progress one day to publishing nudity with disinterest as though nothing hidden was being revealed.
You'd be surprised how many people will buy them. I used to work with a guy who had more or less automated dumping whatever memes were current onto Teespring and spinning up new Facebook pages to sell them. For a monthly $500 FB ad investment he claims he was turning $1500-2000 in revenue - closer to $9,000 when the whole Harambe thing happened.
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Thanks! Glad to know that this simple project is useful to people :)
Don't fall for the marketing spin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/business/apple-china-data...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-apple-china-vpn-201...
Yeah but another idea is that it is isotropic, which is borne out by observation. This leaves a few obvious possiblities:

1. It's infinite and homogeneous
2. It's finite but periodic (like the Earth; go straight long enough and end up where you were)
3. It's slowly varying, so that within our Hubble volume (the volume within the horizon receding from us at the speed of light, beyond which we can't see) everything looks isotropic; in other words, it varies, but slowly

So what you're saying is true from our position in space, but it should also (if points 1 and 2 are true) be true everywhere in space, and the question of the large scale structure of the universe remains valid.
Yes, it’s been that way until now. That was my point.
Tough crowd here. I do believe the people at Apple feel strongly it is their mission to do things in ways that are great for users, and not because it makes money, but because they want to make insanely great things that are wonderful to use.

I understand the world has cynical people in it. But that doesn’t mean every person is just as cynical as you seem to think. Same with companies: I understand there are big evil companies in the world. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible that a company could be run with the principle of putting users first, and with sincere intent.
I'm guessing since digits are pretty finite (0 - 9) and people aren't really that random with their PINs, so it's not bulletproof by any means. You really are better off of using actual password to unlock your phone.

This being said, I think 6 digits with the wipe after x wrong guesses is pretty solid for your average bear. Most users' PIN will never get tested and it is enough security so pick pockets can't get into your stuff.
Preference seems unrelated to respect. As a ~straight male I prefer female breasts but I can still respect a chiseled male chest.
Please don't downvote this comment simply because you disagree. It's on topic, not a troll, and is asking a legitimate question.
If a chunk of ice the size of Texas broke off, much of the coastal states of the US would be under water.
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Ultimately I believe Tim Cook is a good human who really does want what he says and leave the world in a better place than what they found it. He routinely does things he thinks is the right thing to do, which is often contra to what Wall Street wants and that of a purely for-profit enterprise, e.g:

> He said that there are many things Apple does because they are right and just, and that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues.

> "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind," he said, "I don't consider the bloody ROI." He said that the same thing about environmental issues, worker safety, and other areas where Apple is a leader.

> "If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock."

- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/03/at-apple-shareholder...

Under Cook Apple's approach to privacy has never wavered, they've always been staunchly pro-privacy even when it was unpopular to do so during the FBI terrorist attack. So I don't think their stance on privacy is a marketing strategy, IMO he really believes we all have a fundamental right to privacy and that they're doing everything in their powers to ensure their customers get it.
As the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he has demonstrated a disdain to these important public interest principles that he's supposed to be upholding, and it shows a disregard for the innovators in America that are striving so much to build the economy of the future. The public interest mission of the FCC is encoded in the agency's DNA. The law created the FCC and clearly states that the agency's mission includes promoting equal access to communication networks for all people around the United States.
I theorise that the viagra must have acted as some sort of preservative. Downside is now his coffin is going to have to be a funny shape.
Well I'm not sitting in judgement of Apple at the pearly gates, I'm a consumer trying to decide what brand of electronics to get. So I think it is fair to say it impresses me on that level to see them so committed to privacy.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison owns 97% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai, which measures in at 140 square miles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai

So we're talking about an iceberg that's about three-quarters of an ellison.
Hey all, middle class here and I would most certainly take the tax cuts.

Appreciate the out of touch media speaking for me as usual though.
This document has more information on the Secure Enclave.

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
Not trying to be an apple fanboy here, but that seems like a business decision concerning Chinese citizens to keep operating in China, having nothing to do with non-Chinese citizens.
>I don't think Germanic culture has yet figured out the art of embracing failure.

I don't think this is quite true. If I fail my business, I'm liable to some extend for it. I could loose huge sums of money but I also have the reassurance that the social safety net will prevent the worst.

Plus, if worst comes to worst, I can declare personal bankcruptcy, which allows me to manage my debts without loosing my entire incoming and going out debt free at the end of a couple years (7 if I'm recall correctly)

>The state decides who goes to uni and not by the time you're a young teen

The state does not. The uni does. What counts are your grades when you finish previous schools, ie, you well you did in education and that only when there are more student applications than they have room for.

There are certainly kids of poor families too, many grants, even government ones, allow anyone to go to university without worrying too much about money.

>Uni is 'free' but they send fewer kids there.

It should be noted that the base level compared to the US is higher and the german school system specifically is focused on getting kids into a job as soon as possible and with the lowest failure rate possible.
> For instance in Australia they sometimes check for people not wearing seat belts with similar camera arrangements.

I live/drive in Australia and I've never heard of such a thing - neither location or anyone fined by this method. Do you have an example location where this is in place? Or an article describing it?
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Are you just typing random words or do you have a point? How do any of these things relate? Or are you suggesting that Apple should withdraw from profitable China market, since Chinese government dictates certain monitoring "features" on products sold there? How would that help with anything? All of their user base would just move to Android, which is even less private.
Figure artist here. After many years of pursuing traditional representational study, I've more or less concluded that it's fertility worship.

From the woman of Willendorf to Courbet's Origin to Heff's magazine, there's a running theme here; one more fundamental than sex-for-pleasure.
Within google, google’s own open source software is treated as “third party”.

https://opensource.google.com/docs/thirdparty/
I get where you're coming from; I too feel a great cynicism when it comes to corporate proclamations of values. However, I also think that balancing out ever-present greed and short-term thinking are people who sincerely believe in the values presented; people working at Apple who believe that those values will lead to greater value over the long term; people working at Apple who believe intrinsically in those values being greater than the profit motive.

I think that though it's useful to a first approximation to think that a corporation always values profit uber alles, it's also helpful sometimes to step back and realize that a corporation is also in sum the actions of people who work for it. For example David Atkins has made a career of holding corporations to their own statements of values and pointing out to PR executives when 1. their actions are in conflict with their stated values and 2. when that conflict is/can lead to worse profit outcomes. After all, a corporation is not a perfect profit-maximizing entity, and can often benefit from external signals.

In short, I think that though it is easy to cynically dismiss Apple's statement of values of privacy as a human right, that statement itself can have real world effects and consequences if we choose to hold them to it.
"As a whole, the middle class doesn’t want a tax cut. It wants better government."
This is a link to a cargo scanner for a video game. The op posted a project that displays the cargo for real ships.
No, generally speaking everyone is, else you starve as an infant.
Personally I disagree, but mostly because I think the `unsafe` model Rust has is worth much less then people give it credit for.

For one, there is the current problems of documentation - it's not documented what features/invariants the optimizer and language actually require to be true, and the nitty gritty details are very fuzzy, so switching from `unsafe` to `safe` is error prone and you're going to get it wrong. The more you do it, the more likely it is your code will be broken in the future when you find out something you thought was OK isn't actually something the Rust devs like or isn't something they wanted you doing. If you do more of the `unsafe` work in one big `unsafe` block rather then jumping in and out, you're less likely to have issues in the future because there's less points where you have to ensure all the Rust invariants are met.

But the bigger detail for me is that, even if the above problem is fixed, `unsafe` doesn't really denote the areas we would consider the `unsafe` areas anyway, so "getting out of there ASAP" is not always a helpful mindset and can easily be counter-productive and result in you marking things `safe` when they're not actually `safe`. For example, dereferencing a pointer is `unsafe`, but doing pointer-arithmetic is `safe`. So you can easily just wrap the dereference in an `unsafe` block and your technically good to go (You can even wrap it in a pretty interface, like I've seen people do). But all the spots where you do pointer-arithmetic can easily introduce bugs into your `unsafe` code, making it hardly any better than C code that could have the same problem (Half the point of using Rust is to avoid bugs from unchecked pointer-arithmetic!).

My point being, just because your `unsafe` blocks are small doesn't tell you anything about the correctness of them, and it likely means they rely on outside information to be correct. And if that is the case, then that outside code is effectively just as dangerous as your `unsafe` code. This may be obvious to you, and I apologize if it is, but this is an issue/misconception I see a lot. IMO, you should mark anything `unsafe` if using it within the bounds of `safe` Rust could potentially cause `unsafe` code to fail, even if the code itself is completely `safe` code. Only if you have an interface the meets all the invariants that Rust requires should you allow it to be considered `safe`.
If you ever feel you need a phrase and "a phrase" in the same sentence, chances are you won't come across perfectly clear. You are then either implicitly contradicting yourself, or bringing in a statement about your perceived validity of the very same statement you choose to use into your writing. Whatever it is, it's not clear writing.

Hence, I would say that the meaning really isn't clear, especially not in the context where it's stated. This lack of clarity is further bolstered by the blog post linked from the project webpage where they mention it's going to become open source, there they spend a fair amount talking about exactly once delivery and how important it is. It turns out that exactly once is not a feature covered by the Apache license.

Almost every project containing both for-payment parts and open source parts split them into separate repositories, it's a good practice when there are different legal agreements involved, and I see no real reason for not splitting it up, except possibly that pony might be one of the opinionated languages where you can't build things if not everything is in the same folder?

If that is the case, those constraints are - as in go - rather shortsighted. The world is a complicated place, simple solutions rarely work as well as one might hope.
More that he was promoting a what I would call a neo aristocratic lifestyle and that this sort of lifestyle was something to aspire towards. I don't care about what he did in his life, but I do care about him promoting it.
And the great science fiction... Playboy had some great science fiction over the years.

You young people may not realize this, but there was a time when we had to work for our porn. Porn wasn't always available. Hardcore porn was as rare as hen's teeth. Hell, in some places, it was illegal!

Yeah, you'd have to travel to the big city of you wanted hard core porn. Want to see an erect penis or a shaved vagina? You needed to go to a physical store, bring ID, and wade through a bunch of rubber prosthetics, whips, masks, blow-up dolls, and then you'd get to the magazine shelf.

Eventually, there were videos. They were in the back and actually showed intercourse, in all the blown-up hairy details. Even stranger, they had plots! Not good plots, and they never did eat the pizza or fix the cable.

It took years of fast forwarding before they just started skipping those parts.

You can thank Playboy and Hustler for this. Hustler pushed the limit even more than Playboy. They even dared to show an interracial couple. That got Larry shot and paralyzed, by the way.

Yeah, we had to work for our porn. It was like the forbidden fruit, too. If you had a Playboy, you had companions. Those got passed around more than a football, and probably had more germs per square inch.

If there is one cultural difference I can cite between the generations, it's immediacy of access to pornographic material. For us, it was a quest. It was a coming of age. It was a subject we'd discuss for hours. I'm pretty sure it was not mentally healthy to have such an idolization about it, but it's a little late for that now.
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Apple definitely takes privacy seriously. This is the company that practically invented creating buzz around a product through secrecy. They’ve gone to great lengths to keep their on goings secret aka private.
Texas is 0.2% the area of the oceans. Large icebergs are about 500' thick. 3' is not trivial, but no, coastal states would not be underwater.
Well, that's half the problem down, now they just need to ship Xcode for Windows or Linux.

I used a Mac for work for a couple years 5-6 years ago. It wasn't horrible, but it definitely grated in areas. Mainly in how the window manager switches applications, and windows within the application with different commands, and for my usual workflow (lots of terminals and a browser) that was extremely annoying. It might not have grated so much if I wasn't coming from a custom FVWM config I had been revising for over a decade, but the limitations of the OS X window manager were maddening at the time.
> Things might even progress one day to publishing nudity with disinterest as though nothing hidden was being revealed.

Philosophically, doesn't that require society to give up clothing?
Yes. That's the one I think.
$50k earner and $150k could have the same retirement schedule if they have different lifestyles. If both can live comfortably on the same proportion of their income, then they can retire at the same time. If both had expenses that were 50% of their income, for example.

If both want to live a lifestyle where they spend $75k, then the lower earner will never retire.
The average proportion still doesn't make sense. Because the large population depresses the national average income greatly. On the other hand if you are comparing spending power I feel it should be more accurate to include GDP Per Capita (Purchasing Power Parity) in your calculations.

US GDP per capita nominal = 57.5K USD, US GDP per capita PPP = 46K USD. This gives a PPP-to-GDP ratio of 0.8. The average dentist salary is 175,350 USD (nominal). So the US average dentist salary (PPP) is 140,280. This finally gives you a dentistSalary-to-nationalAvg (PPP) of 3.

Now, I'll do these same calculations for India. GDP per capita (nominal) is 1.7K USD and in PPP terms it is 6.1K. This leads to a PPP-to-GDP ratio of 3.6. In India the average dentist salary is 312,797 INR according to payscale. This is equivalent to 4750 USD (nominal). In PPP terms, this is equivalent to annual salary of 17.1K USD (PPP). So finally we have a dentistSalary-to-nationalAvg ratio of 2.8 for India.

So our metric is 3.0 for the US vs 2.8 for India.

Most statistics were obtained from Tradingeconomics.com which also appeared on top of google searches. I may also have screwed up my calculations somewhere, but I don't know.
> how did a man with that lifestyle live to 91?

Plenty to live for? Regular vigorous exercise? A healthy lifestyle surrounded by people actively trying to stay fit?
Even if an illegal search of your phone led to new evidence, in the US that new evidence would fall under a legal doctrine known as "fruit of a poisonous tree".

Fruit of the poisonous tree is a legal metaphor in the United States used to describe evidence that is obtained illegally.

For example, if a police officer conducted an unconstitutional search of a home and obtained a key to a train station locker, and evidence of a crime came from the locker, that evidence would most likely be excluded under the fruit of the poisonous tree legal doctrine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

Border agents operate under a different set of rules and have been searching mobile devices without a warrant or even probable cause.

However the ACLU and EFF have filed a new lawsuit challenging this behavior, now that the Supreme Court has ruled that the police cannot conduct warrantless searches of cell phones inside the US.
> You can now get a network pipe in to a system that a rather beefy multi-core CPU using a user-space TCP stack can barely keep up with.

I'd love to learn more about this. Can you please point me to some links that elaborate on this point with benchmarks? Thanks much.
If Arianna Huffington had nude chippendales style pictures separating the Huffington Post's stories or an entourage like this one every time she was photographed: http://www.gettyimages.com/event/vegas-magazine-launch-party... (obviously that's not Huffington, I'm using that as an example) - would you think any less of her as a writer and editor?

Would you think it's "sleazy"?

I don't know the history of it well, but the idea that it's hard to see what's "sleazy" about a magazine like Playboy is hard to buy.
A man who made an empire out of institutionalizing the objectification of women is being glorified with a veneer of civil rights activism. Since when did marketing nudity become a praiseworthy thing? Or asking that is too politically incorrect these days?
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I agree with both of these statements.

My hacker side wants to get an android for all of the obvious reasons, but I really appreciate the fact that Apple's marketing interests are aligned with my privacy. I also appreciate that they are making a point of actively crusading for it. It's a fully selfish, profit-driven move on their parts, which is precisely why I like them: I don't have to trust them and their capricious future stockholders to "do the right thing", because they already make money by doing so. We're in equilibrium already. I am often disappointed by Apple's decisions, but their strategy is working on me, and I don't feel that I have a realistic alternative to protect me from hackers and over-enthusiastic government agencies (at least in the near-term future).
Apparently Google is also ditching the headphone jack[1] on the new Pixel line

[1] http://bgr.com/2017/07/27/pixel-2-rumors-no-3-5mm-headphone-...