skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so much a scam per se, but a colossal example of correlation does not equal causation. At least for the old world traders. Newer hedge funds are definitely churning out returns that indicate something proprietary is going on. But anyone bragging about a gain of +2% over the market is kidding them selves.
Thanks, really appreciate your comment. I'm trying my best to raise awareness, and help Apple protect the user's privacy
It's easy to spend money that you didn't earn on a business that has no legs. If he'd earned that money the hard way I'm pretty sure that he would have made damn sure he wasn't wasting any of it.
What stops your program data from being modified or tampwered with without ECC ram, bypassing your checks?
iOS settings has data usage by app, including several “system services.” Do those numbers not add up?
Both Iron Bot and krais0 have one helluva Terran mech (tank/Goliath/Vulture) push. Do you think a Protoss AI can defeat it?
The US is 61% non-Hispanic white, which is not a single ethnicity but a grouping that includes everything from Irish to North Africans. And of course there is a long history of race-based conflict between those groups (e.g. see the local politics in Chicago or NYC).
To be blunt, I see a lot of irony in your post.

> People decided these ORMs were amazing and then completely
> ignored all the bugs introduced by this layer and effort
> spent trying to figure out what the ORM was doing and how
> to make it do the right thing.

For every person that did this, I've run into at least one other that was convinced that ORMs were the most evil thing ever and that they should roll their own little Object Mapper. Every one of them would then completely ignore all the bugs introduced and effort spent trying to train new developers on their slightly unique thing and how to coerce it into doing the right thing.

"I've come to the conclusion that people have this tendency to decide X is bad and then go completely out of their way to avoid X. [...] Take the Hibernate example. Once you bought into that framework you had to do all your data access that way or you broke the caching."

There is nothing about Hibernate that requires you to fully buy into caching, or even to fully buy into its abstraction. In fact, I've generally avoided caching in Hibernate in order to retain the flexibility to do what I needed without it when I needed to.

Usually about 90% of the code ends up being really boring CRUD with trivial queries. The last 10% could be implemented with whatever crazy approach made sense.

And this isn't to knock those other frameworks either. iBatis and quite a few other early Java ORMs were quite good and arguably better than Hibernate was at the time, but Hibernate was marketed more effectively.
> For the sake of example let's call that app LinkedIn.

It’s bad that LinkedIn has such a reputation that I automatically assume they likely did just as you alluded that they might’ve done.
Do you have a source for this? I've not heard this before. The Wikipedia article on FQDN doesn't mention ti.
I saw someone suggest on Reddit, "What if after someone is released from prison, we paid the prison a bonus every year they go without being convicted of a crime?"

Seemed super smart to me. Incentivise the right behavior.
I don't prefer either.
Gordon Ramsay has so much experience and good advice in controlling costs. As he says, you can make the best food in the world but if your restaurant can't turn a profit how stupid are you going to look?

Back in his starting out days he was so concerned with portion control and food costs he wouldn't even let the pasta dough that gets stuck to your fingers go to waste. Just every little detail. He couldn't afford truffles so he'd buy the broken pieces from the truffle dealer at a huge discount.

He talks about when he worked with Marco Pierre White at Harvey's that MPW had to have the best of everything and the food was amazing. But that place never really made any money despite being sold out every night.

He breaks the restaurant business into 4 weeks per month: Week 1 you make enough to pay your staff for the month. Week 2 you make enough to pay your food costs for the month. Week 3 you make enough to fund the operation (rent, bills, etc) for the month. Week 4 should be your profit.
Can you cite any evidence or well-reasoned analysis to support this conjecture? The piece linked in the comment you replied to lays out a pretty rigorous case to the contrary.
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A phishing dialog could fake the drawer. Apps can and do regularly use the full screen which is something web pages don't do and which will require extra user confirmation for precisely this reason.

Denying apps full screen access is very detrimental to the overall UX so that's not going to happen.

The other solution is to have apple never prompt for that password aside of during the initial setup process after installing an update.

Then you could at least give the advice to never enter your Apple ID-Password anywhere unless you've just re-installed the OS.
This is the approach my bank's login uses.
My wife has some crippling mental issues (severe PTSD, anxiety, depression, etc.). I've found supporting her through it has pushed me to be better at everything I do in life.
Isn't this one of the oldest tricks in the book? the following story is completely made up...

When I was in college me and a friend re-made the win2000 login sequence in visual basic to play pranks on people. After typing username and password it pretended to load and then just quit itself so the desktop would show so it looked like everything was fine. We'd then go in and do the classic "take a screenshot of your desktop, set it as you wallpaper and hide the icons".

Could apple just make a dialog style unique to OS level prompts? not foolproof, but you can't customise os blocking dialogs from apps so you couldn't replicate the behaviour if you tried to fake it.
Suggest change title from tracker to trucker.
Leasehold improvements aren't always split; it's better to negotiate those during the lease discussion. In our restaurant, we got ZIP back from the landlord for leasehold improvements.
I own a food truck, and I can say it's definitely not a 'boring' food venture, although it's definitely a lot cheaper than starting a physical location. You have to ensure that you can get decent parking spots for lunches, book good evening events or be willing to deal with drunkards on weekends, and be able to put out a good quality product quickly and efficiently. Getting the truck built out and going through inspections is nowhere near as expensive as doing so in a storefront, and you can run a much leaner crew (ours is me, my partner, one employee, and occasionally our spouses helping if needed - and I still have a day job on top of this).

We're doing fairly well for ourselves - nobody's getting rich, but it's fun and the income is enough to keep us from wanting to shut down, so I guess we're doing something right.
I don't know how Wikipedia shows that - following the links at the bottom gives 33599 US deaths in 2014 with 270-310M guns for ratios of 0.0001244 - 0.0001084 deaths per gun.

For Japan in 2014, 6 deaths in 2014 with 710K guns for a ratio of 0.0000085 deaths per gun.

Double-checking, the US has 5600 x more deaths with 380-435 x more guns for a ratio of 12-14 more deaths per gun.
School performance is in fact hereditary, possibly because rich people go to fancy schools and their parents can afford to help them with homework and so on. A good intervention might be to improve the schools that poor people go to.

But if poor students are just intrinsically more stupid for some biological reason, a good intervention might be to improve the schools that stupid people go to.

Since it turns out the bad students are poor students, the interventions end up looking mostly the same. For example, hire more teachers to reduce class size, provide more nutritious food, or remove lead from the paint and the pipes.

Just because something is "biological" doesn't mean it is immutable. In fact, as technology advances, we might end up wishing bad school performance was due to genetics so we can fix it with gene therapy instead of complicated finicky societal interventions.
I used to be like that, too. But I've been working primarily on my 15" MBP for the past 4 years and I love it. I still have a triple monitor 27" iMac sitting in my office upstairs, but I hardly ever use it. I find the ability to work out on my patio much more relaxing than sitting in my home office.
Did you blog or write about your experience at all?

Are these projects you were working on before the trip - or were they a full time gig already?

I'm always curious how people are able to do these sorts of things!
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Have you been able to get in touch with Apple about this or were you told to just submit a radar? Do you have any sense if this is something Apple might fix sooner now that it's getting some exposure?
> It appears blacks committed 52.2% of homicides from 1976 through 2005 while representing 12.3% of the population .

We can take this further: It should not be compared against the total population, but segmented by traits known to be associated with violent crime, like poverty. But even then, since violence is itself cultural, I'd expect certain area's to be more unsafe than others, despite similar levels of poverty. So we'd need to look at blacks and non-blacks in those specific areas and compare those specific traits. I'm _sure_ someone has done this study, does anyone have enough familiarity with this area to provide some high quality references?
>This discovery has unveiled some of the dark matter as baryon particles in a plasma. So some of that dark matter is now known.

The article clearly points out that this is not the case. The amount of dark matter is still the same.

>Dark matter is simply unaccounted for mass in the universe.

The article clearly points out that this is not the case.
That's good advice in general, not just for SQL.

For example, I often write my 'rm' commands as 'ls' at first and then swap out the command once I know it gets the right thing.
>* Where's the best place to get data for testing purposes?

If you open and fund an account at tradier.com they give you access to a REST API that includes some good stuff. I also pay $50/mo for some additional data from ycharts.com. But you can also use some free libraries that pull from yahoo and they sorta work.

>*What kind of trades do you do? Is it mostly buying and selling actual stocks, or do you go after more complicated trades like shorts/puts/options?

My algorithms are long-only and I buy stocks and hold them for at least one year. If the algorithm could exceed the high cost of short-term capital gains, I would hold for a shorter period.

You could also try quantopian.com for some super short term trading. I personally think that is a poor use of time.

I REALLY wish there was some place I could enter competitions and make my trades public. I'm using motifinvesting.com for now but would enter trades at other places if I could.

I played around with instavest.com (a YC company) which was promising for a while but it stopped working and I suspect they are on life support or something.
How successful has this approach been? Specifically point 3
Suggest tracker to trucker in your title.
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Well then the other way to look at it is that we are all stupid. The point I'm making is that the term itself does not mean what its users intend it to mean. It is actually a way of excusing our own lack of ability to communicate in a meaningful way.
Other projects by the same person, demonstrating additional potential security issues.
> Do you have a source for this? I've not heard this before. The Wikipedia article on FQDN doesn't mention it.

Actually it's right there in the Wikipedia article [1]...

The DNS root is unnamed, expressed as the empty label terminated by the dot. This is most notable in DNS zone files in which a fully qualified domain name must be specified with a trailing dot. For example, somehost.example.com. explicitly specifies an absolute domain name that ends with the empty top level domain label.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name#Sy...
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Man I wish this had been seen and acted on! Would be an excellent feature (and one I’ve thought of myself before).
Where I live OpenStreetMap data is superior to Google maps. There are streets that are several years old that aren't in Google maps yet, and their satellite photos really needs updating too. Strava uses Mapbox instead of Google, and it's much better because of it. I'm happy for the competition in the maps space, and the promotion of open data.
1. Electron but obviously not a decade ago

2. All out. A couple contract jobs until ramen profitable.

3. Scratched own itch

4. Growth kept happening.
The reactions I have regarding the urgency of this are:

1) Have there in fact been any known phishing attacks in Apple's App Store using this method?

2) Wouldn't Apple's app review usually notice something like this before allowing it into the store?
That would make safety an "opt in" measure, it should be "opt out" instead. Make the CSV format stop interpreting formulas unless you specifically ask it to. Most people don't put formulas in their CSV files anyway.
I researched this. With a decent battery and solar system you can power a monitor and laptop all day long.
Yup. It's a bunch of docstrings and ReST docs and Jenkins fires off the Sphinx build to make beautiful HTML and PDF documentation every time anyone updates it.
Can someone explain more about what Voevodsky is being credited with when the obituary says his work "changed the meaning of the equals sign"?
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> That's slightly different though, in order to do this you need to have shell access on the target's computer.

But I suppose any application can write to the current user's .bashrc file right? Then it can also set the alias whenever the user opens a terminal.
In an article about Medical safety I read they mentioned the numerous (!) times that someone got the wrong leg amputated, and at least one of the medical staff in the room knew that it was the wrong leg but were scared of being targetted for abuse if they publicly corrected their superiors.

This doesn't fit my personal definition of "professionalism".
>Please don't post joke comments on HN.

- surrey-fringe, 2017
As far as I can remember, 3rd party keyboards are not allowed for password prompts.
I think it will match their version of success when they run out of money and are no longer able to support their users.

I don't know about the case you mention. I do not think that Apple manage their developer community well, but most issues like the one you highlight are generally edge cases - users doing something that isn't clearly defined by Apple rules. What was the company and what did its apps specifically do? If it was fraudulent adware do you not agree that they should be removed?
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I remember seeing a research group that was working on creating an out of band password prompt for desktop computers at NC State. Basically the OS had a syscall to pause everything the kennel included and a separate module would basically dim the screen and show the password prompt over what was currently on the screen. I forget the exact details but it was neat.
It's well worth educating yourself about eBPF, how it's functionality provided in the kernel (not systemd), but has only fully landed in the kernel recently. Hence, this timing makes perfect sense once you understand it.
Most franchise owners work long long hours inside the restaurant. The idea of a hands-off owner is a non-starter.
At Mapzen, all our code is open source, from front-end UIs to back-end "glue." Have a look at:

- web and mobile SDKs: http://github.com/mapzen/

- map rendering library: http://github.com/tangrams

- map tiles: https://github.com/tilezen/

- routing/navigation: https://github.com/valhalla/

- public transit: https://github.com/transitland/

- search/geocoding: http://github.com/pelias

- gazetteer: https://github.com/whosonfirst

FWIW, we do have a few private repos, to protect some ops internals as well as upcoming blog posts.

(I work at Mapzen -- and am also a happy user of Mapbox's open-source libraries.)
8.20 to 2-3ish then homework and sometimes they have soccer practice, chess, art etc. So they have long days in school.
Was hoping this would be about Mark Wahlberg.
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> when no one wants to be a Hajime?

I understand the author is using hyperbole here, but it's a little ridiculous to write that no one wants to have vacillated between billionaire and near-billionaire.
> 1) Have there in fact been any known phishing attacks in Apple's App Store using this method?

no attacks are known. But that doesn't mean a thing. It's very easy to do this, so you'd have to assume that it is being done.

> 2) Wouldn't Apple's app review usually notice something like this before allowing it into the store?

no. As the article says, this kind of functionality is incredibly easy to hide.
What if the phone/iPad belongs to your kid and you don't want her to be installing apps without vetting them beforehand? That's a legitimate reason to ask for prompts. Should be a setting though (if it's not already)
And once upon a time, people built automobiles with hand tools instead of power tools, conveyors, and robots.

You can still do that, of course, but you will not be competitive with the likes of Ford and Toyota.

A higher-resolution screen, positioned closer to the eyeball, can substitute for a larger monitor. But even then, that uses only a fraction of my available visual field. VR technology could eventually solve the monitor area problem in a van-sized workspace. But for now, parent post is correct, screens with smaller pixels are the way to go. Just stick your face closer to it, and it will look bigger. This probably means you'll need an external mouse and keyboard, though.
Native American English speaker here - I don't think I've heard of this one.
If you have keyloggers running as SYSTEM you've already lost.
I'm guessing you wont be part of the servant class
I agree in sentiment. This is why I love i3. Just the will down I want where I want. No OS fluff.
>well if he had dropped out he might've been bill gates, instead of just running an RND department at IBM

Respond with:

"And if only you were dyslexic you might be running an RND department at IBM instead of doing whatever you're doing now."
Since the author spent so much time on the optical character recognition step, it's worth mentioning that you don't even really need OCR for this task.

You can just find the squares, group the characters in the squares into visual equivalence classes, assign each class an arbitrary number, solve the puzzle in terms of those numbers, then fill in each empty square with the (average?) image of the equivalence class it matches.

This would allow you to solve a Sudoku puzzle with letters or WingDings instead of numbers, and the output font would naturally match that of the original puzzle.
> I gave the original post to my wife and her first question was “How’s the guy coping to live alone?”

My knee-jerk response is, "blissfully."

I live with my wife, a 19 month old, and two cats. I love them, but I would love, love, love to spend a week entirely by myself - going to bed and waking up on my own schedule.
It's an interesting question whether the first person to set foot on mars will expect to return to earth.

I expect it would be easy to find people willing to make a one-way trip. However, I have two reservations.
The first is the acceptance of society of sending someone to their death. The second is whether it is responsible to use essentially suicidal people for such a mission. These missions take a lot of mental resilience, and generally, we consider being suicidal to be a mental illness.
That is really good advice. I have also found that it is good to do this with file delete commands (ls before rm).
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> What about less tangible (measurable?) factors like happiness?

A primary goal of school is making kids smarter and ultimately a functioning adult. Including being employable.

I don't think "happiness" is the job of an educator. The parents, absolutely. The local government? Maybe.

But if "good citizen" is a desired goal, we might be able to measure that. With surveys of alumni about current events, employment rates, financial principles, etc. To measure whether well-equipped, life-long learners are produced.

But I'd rather schools stay out of holistic goals better reserved for families.
>This is non sense, the life for the rich is far better than for the poor.

But is it far better than the life of the upper middle class?

People have lots of problems in life. Money solves a minority of them.
I’m not saying it does. The parent post raised the issue preemptively.
"the profit margins for my single-player SaaS business were somewhere around 90%. "

Thos are not 'profit margins' - not even remotely.

Maybe you mean 'gross margins'.

But even then, software is an inherently IP-based business, it's about as appropriate as saying: "Hey, this $25 book only costs $1 to make".

That 'software' is open to anyone, anywhere, means it's just that much more competitive, and margins are not 90%, on average they are probably negative.

Twitter has yet to make a dime. They are a few billion in the hole still. I think the same with Square.

Has Uber turned a dime in profit yet?

It's only a very hardened and entrenched few that get into solid, positive margin space.
Explain to me why humans have to be the ones to write proper syntax and escaping, instead of their editors. Do you do this for other formats, like RTF? What is this obsession with hand-coding complicated formats :)
Smart phones followed a very different path of evolution that was heavily influenced by cell carriers. Apple had to fight really hard to get the iPhone carried, and to do that they had to lock it down to comply with what I am sure were a long laundry list of carrier demands.

This was the era of flip phones when carriers had full control. They really didn't want to lose that control. I doubt a company smaller and less influential than Apple could possibly have gotten a full-fledge computer of any kind onto cell networks.

This led the entire mobile ecosystem down a path where the device is locked down by design even though today carriers are less able to influence that.

Add to that the emergence of surveillance-driven advertising as a way to monetize "free." It's very hard to compete with free (or subsidized) products. Most people compare price vs feature set, not privacy or security. So there was a huge economic incentive to turn phones into little surveillance devices to siphon up data to be used to drive advertising.

Without surveillance capitalism most apps would cost money and phones would probably cost a lot more.
Here it's the opposite; i have a full degree in software engineering and over 13 years of doing it professionally, yet some Finance graduates, friends of mine, are earning much more (i.e. as CFOs of companies);

Sometimes i think i should have studied Finance instead!

The reason i do this (all software related activities) is because it's my real passion. I see many people engaging in "coding" bootcamps but only because of the market demand, not because they are passionate in any way about doing it, which is sad.
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Keep in mind that more severe visa restrictions might apply to the OP than to you.