skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I'm sure they have found allies and people that agree with them. That doesn't mean the debate is over or lost. If everyone in government agreed on this issue, they would have passed it years ago.

Obama's whitehouse was the reason the FBI never got very far on this issue. Even up until he left, all he could agree to was that it was an issue and solutions should be looked into. Obviously Trump is much more open to passing something on this than Obama was. But note Congress never put a bill on Obama's desk... even the floated Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016 got little congressional support, and ended up never being introduced.
That's not really a good reason to cooperate.

One thing that's also concerning about the situation is now Apple really depends on China for growth so who knows what kind of additional things they can wring out of Apple if they wanted to. If they decide they want data about Chinese expats for example is Apple willing to lose access to the market that's 30% of it's sales to protect them?
"This situation can’t endure for long – years, perhaps, but not decades."

Time will prove this to be nonsense.
Is this a cheaper substitute for having armed guards and metal detectors or a preferred tactic instead?
I could have done 10x work working alone. I speak from experience. In my current company we use Kanban, and I am super productive. We only do things which are useful for us.
I don't believe Apple invented differential privacy, though they have applied it and helped popularize the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy
At least indirectly about their bottom line: Apple can't control fb. They need fb to exist on their phone or their phone is broken for a lot of users. They can look at things like fb tracking every phone call you make and sms you send [1] and be really unhappy about what is happening and yet lack much practical ability to do anything about it.

Also, how long before every lying cop with a 2-bit circuit judge who signs every thing in front of him figure out they can get this data out of FB rather than Apple?

It's also possible to be offended by the fact that I'd bet 99.99999% of users had absolutely zero idea this was going on. The US needs something like the GDPR where uses of personal data collected need to be simply and clearly disclosed instead of buried in 40 pages of bullshit that I can't possibly be seriously expected to read and understand.

[1] https://twitter.com/dylanmckaynz/status/976368845635035138
True, but these are wealthy and calculated individuals we’re talking about. Wealth insulates a person from fear and shame. Intelligence encourages calculation.
I started http://fairpixels.pro - ui design firm for startups, for less than $100. Before we had a website, we were profitable and quickly grew to $10k/mo in a few weeks. like mentioned in the article, cashflow is key here. It allows you to reinvest earned money and keep growing. Startups shouldnt raise IMHO before reaching product market fit. Ive made that mistake in the past myself. Having a lot of VC money in your bank that you can burn through while looking for a business model sounds fun, but isn't.
> The historical record of the left is extremely pro-state, pro surveillance

I think the problem with your comment is that you're flat-out misrepresenting the 'reeeally left wing'. There are plenty of 'leftist' movements that are just as opposed to 'the state' as they are to our corporate overlords. Arguing otherwise is either plain stupidity or intentional misrepresentation.
It's a bit scary but if you look at house prices vs median income in most cities you'd need at least 2X-3X inflation to fix the discrepancy. We may well see early 80s inflation soon.

Houses and rent will be reasonable again. A loaf of bread will cost $12.
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I'm going to bet that this law will come with a provision that says researchers that try to break or report bugs in whatever system they come up with could get jail time.
> That fun quote of another layer of abstraction...

Haven't heard, please elaborate.
All my side projects and any projects I control use exclusively social login. Here's why.

1. Its way easier on me. I don't have to worry about password resets or users hacking an account in the site. OAuth and be done.

2. I don't have to deal with any outgoing or incoming emails and complaints dealing with login.

3. I don't have to worry about scammers, since google/facebook pretty much require phone, a non fake email, 2 Factor auth, etc to sign up. So I can put all that overhead onto google and get the added benefit that most of the users signing up are legit.

4. Legit users. I can't say enough how much having legit users helps the overall quality of almost any platform. Allowing people with a fake-email to sign up and create accounts allows for all kinds of headaches that are largely avoided by using exclusively social sign in.

5. Simplicity. One Click login, where the user immediately sees what information I want to collect and can say yes/no. Login/Sign-Up is done in literally one click.
Interesting, so you would tend to agree with the parent comment, especially if you hadn't known anything about the author beforehand? It's a great illustration of the range of interpretations possible of any artistic work.

I've also read that Demons expands upon many of the ideas in C&P though I had a bit more trouble getting into it. After hearing about these newer translations though I might have to give one a try.
Yes. Pair programming works well if someone is being mentored or you are facing a very hard problem. In other cases it is a waste of time. You can read a lot of studies about this topic.
The issue is the constant need for new features. Much more cost effective to add a tab vs. modify code.

I think something lost in this conversation is how spreadsheets are largely a part of general primary school curriculum. Generally people have a feeling of confidence around them that is lost with other tools. Particularly "easy database" applications that attempt to replace spreadsheets.
I first learned about this scam/business strategy in around 2008. I'm from India.

When I was in 10th class, we got a printer for my dad's office work. The printer was for around $40 or so. I was really excited and printed out a few full-page colour images of animals. Then my 4-years-older sister told me that the printer used ink and didn't run indefinitely.
Okay. I didn't know that.
I stopped using the printer after that.

Eventually, we ran out of ink in 2-3 months.
The cost of new cartridges? $50
The cost to get those re-filled in a local shop? $2. It voided the warranty? Who cares - a new printer WITH new cartridges would be cheaper than purchasing separate cartridges.

We re-filled those cartridges around 7-8 times over the next 2 years after which we threw away the printer, and it worked perfectly during the time.
Google Groups was great when they first acquired all those archives! It just got progressively worse and worse over time, and I've never understood why. (Stagnation I could understand, but how did the same searches get less effective?)
> If you want to learn, you have to try harder.

Rather than learning being pointless, I would focus on this.

In a world of instant gratification we are fed the idea that if learning isn't fun and easy, then you are teaching wrong. Granted, a lot of material can be optimised, but I concur that people should expect to have to make a bigger effort once you pass the superficial stage.
> It is historically accurate to identify the extreme left with the ComIntern, i.e. the Soviet communist party, ruled during his lifetime by Stalin.

No, it is absolutely not.
I’m neither right or left, but I am an optimist. I guess only time will tell who’s right.
Fair enough. I definitely enjoy pairing with some people & not others.
> why bring -isms to the study in the first place?

The article isn't bringing "-isms" or ideologies into the article. The article intended to contrast the Modern West's economic system [0] with the Feudal System. But you are interpreting the article to have contrasted Private Ownership with Public Ownership.

> the claim that it's a "myth of capitalism" makes no sense.

It makes sense under an interpretation you seem to have missed. Colloquially, "Capitalism" means different things under different contexts. Furthermore, it's possible to classify types of economies along boundaries other than Private Ownership vs Public Ownership. Analogously, there's more colors in the rainbow than just Red and Green. Attributing a property to Red doesn't necessarily attribute the opposite property to Green. Consider the possibility that your interpretation of the text was not the intended interpretation.

[0] which in reality is not a Free-Market Economy, but more accurately described as an Industrialized Mixed-Market Economy.
The main determinant of the stickiness of a social network is the network size, and having to click each icon to find this out is stupid when there are oceans of space that could present this information on the main page.

That said, this is a sad commentary on open source social networks. The largest would appear to be Mastodon at ~1M 'accounts'. Facebook is what, ~2 billion active? if you want to believe their numbers.
Yeah–the comment didn't use talk about "reeally left-wing". It was "reeeally left wing anticapitalist idealists and antiauthoritarians".

The description uses "left wing" to help you conjure up the right mental image. Because "anticapitalist idealists and antiauthoritarians" would also describe buddhists and anarchists.
For those not familiar with the case, the two songs referred to are the following:

Marvin Gaye - Got to give it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp7Q1OAzITM

Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU
You will not be surprised by artificial intelligence
I’m sure you’re aware of the logical fallacy there, but I’d also like to point of that being the CEO of a public company only allows you so much leeway to inject your own morality. Respecting the laws of countries you do business with is part of the job.

Do you also have issues with Apple providing hardware to the US Military knowing it will be used in combat that leads to civilian deaths or engagement in wars you don’t agree with?

That said, his argument for regulation in the United States where this might be a possibility is a good one and something you completely ignored in favor of arguing against the messenger.
I had to disable the "Smart Referrer" Firefox Addon to get the table to load in Firefox :(
We started my current business which now does around $5M p.a revenue with $3000 in 2005. It's definitely doable!
Speculation without any new data.
Interesting, I’m from the US and I’ve never heard WC (or seen it in a toilet come to think of it)
The navigation is a bit confusing. I didn't know the landing page was the "Naughty List". And I was expecting each "category" to filter the existing list, not show a new list of websites/companies.

Also, the ranking list isn't that helpful when 20-some companies are tied for 3rd.

Do you work with any UX designers? Get some feedback from them. It's not about making it pretty as much as it's about presenting the content in a clear way.
Wow, my home state of South Dakota at the top of the rankings.

Snow days must have something to do with it.
I think you misread my statement or intentions.

> Do you believe a person's personal beliefs can align with a company's goals?

Absolutely. I'm not sure when I implied otherwise ?

> Do you think a CEO or other employee should surrender their morals for the bottom line?

For 99% of employee no. For CEO, or other employee who speak in the name and are identified as such, no they should not surrender their morals, but yes in the context where they speak as the employee and not the person they should keep to the company's line (when answering press question for PR, but admittedly pretty much anytime they speak for a CEO).

There is a difference between surrendering your morals, and aknowledging that when acting as a representant of the company you are to act in accordance to the company's rules.

To expand on my position, and hopefully make you understand me better, I'm also against doctors who refuses to carry abortion for moral belief where it is legal, and I was against the proposition in french law which would have allowed mayors to refuses to marry homosexual couples for personnal belief reasons. They are free to have the belief they want, but when acting on behalf on someone else (a company, or in my other ex. a state) you are expected to act according to the will of the entity you represent and keep your opinion to your own time.

If you can't do that (eg because the view you have to defend goes too far against your personnal belief), then you should change job.

> the first [that Apple's is for such regulation] doesn't matter

That's not what I think I said, nor what I meant. What I meant is that while it's great, it's also unsurprising.

> the second is expected

I don't understand your statement here ?

> Is this how you measure your own morality and ethics and how you choose to do business? Is this what people should expect of you also?

That, if I say "I will represent [entity]'s views in front of X", I then do so, or refuse the task if I can't (eg if it goes against my belief) ? Absolutely. I have no intention to say that I talk in the name of some entity, only to say the contrary of what that entity believes.
Heavens, no!

Ever heard of PL/SQL? Same thing.

Oracle ripped the entire ADA language into their database.

IBM DB2 clones most of it, courtesy of EnterpriseDB (Postgres bolt-on).

People forget this enormous ADA audience.
Yeah, in a lot of technical fields in particular--especially early on--you just have to take a lot of facts as given, memorize formulas, etc. because you just don't have the background in that subject or related subjects to understand the underlying mechanisms or derive equations from fundamental principles. For example, as I recall high school physics, you memorized a lot of formulas because most students wouldn't have the calculus background to derive them.

I'm not sure what I think of this article though. I read what he's saying as along the lines of a lot of people who find essentially pop science about some subject interesting would find developing true expertise about the topic a real slog. That's doubtless true but there are relatively few things that any of us have the time or interest to go deep on.
Dejanews was simply fantastic. When Google embraced and extinguished it and then later killed the discussion filter from its front page I finally realized the Internet as we knew it until the late 90s/early 2K was dead. It transitioned from an instrument I could use to find people exchanging genuine opinions on stuff to a way to inundate my search result with biased people promoting or selling that stuff.
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Of course it is. Even if you didn't know that sex lead to pregnancy or about contraception or, again about abortion, you still choose to keep the kids in your life. You could choose to give them away, loose them, kill them, run away. You could keep them but neglect them. Having kids is a giant process in which you are involve all long the way.

You may say that it is unthinkable. But it's just you choosing one cost instead of another. Being a decent human or not is a choice, being a single paying alemony or a couple hating your kids is another choice. And there is a price to all of them. That's what a choice is.

A choice is not about doing whatever you want. That's omnipotence. A choice is chosing what to do with the piece of block the life tetris gave you.

But of course, none of this argument matters because I'm answering to HN readers, a niche a very educated people that know all about pregnancy, contraception, abortion and that having children has a huge impact. This post is, after all, about somebody interested in the process enough to trigger a whole debate it.

So my comment is to be taken in that context.
I used to think social login were a must. But email login still seems to be very popular. Many users told me they wouldnt sign up unless there was an email option
FB pages stopped being useful years ago
François Chollet: The more worrying issue with Facebook
If you think it's sad, wouldn't you better off trying to change things? It's becomes more tempting to just move on if you have more services reliant on/tied to those accounts.
Why doesn't "government" go against bittorrent? Oh, I forgot, they can't! Nevermind.
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I LOVED Rudin. It was a long time ago, though.

At the very least, it has great exercises.

I also loved Spivak.
You should take a look at notmuch [1]. It takes a little bit of time to get started (I recommend afew [2] for initial tagging), but I don't think I could ever go back to another mail system. It changes the way that you go through mail, no more folders: between tagging and extremely fast searches, there's no need. Just like an application launcher on modern desktops, there's no need to go through a big menu: press your search key, type what you're thinking, and there it is.

It doubles the size of your maildir with the indexing, which is a downside if you're crunched for space, but maybe that gives you an idea for just how much is indexed and how fast you can expect searching to be.

It's fair to say that the most popular interface for it is the emacs interface, which is great if you're already using emacs for mail because your workflow won't change substantially. There are other interfaces available, I have used one called alot [3] and find it to be very good as well.

[1]: https://notmuchmail.org/

[2]: https://github.com/afewmail/afew

[3]: https://github.com/pazz/alot
I don't think the crimes were 'structuring' or some technical violation. They moved millions of dollars into offshore accounts (some of which appear to be the financial proceeds of the crimes you mentioned above), while failing to report the income or the accounts to the IRS.
Don't get me wrong, I hope Apple (and the rest of the tech industry) try to kill the baby in the crib. But it'd be sticking your head in the sand and intellectually dishonest to say that law enforcement doesn't have a legitimate interest in pursuing this and are just going to give up because some tech people say it shouldn't happen.

At least this way something of value is gained.
that's ok, US is aiming to be carb free and protein rich
Not feeling safe is a valid reason to avoid large physical cash deposits. Many businesses do the same. I doubt a jury would convict.
This makes no sense, because JupyterLab provides Jupyter notebooks as one of the key file types.
Too early to tell. It took almost a week to get a warrant to raid the CA offices, and while I do sort-of understand why, it's not promising. Furthermore, the Snowden revelations didn't have as much of an effect as I'd hoped, and once it 'blew over' it largely stopped being a public concern.

The same could happen here. Perhaps Zuck will be fired or we'll stop hearing about his (alleged) ambitions to enter politics, and that will be the end of it.

Let's not forget that CA is just one company. As long as Robert Mercer can continue doing what he does under various shell companies that are easy to register, we really haven't gotten anywhere unless regulations are implemented, and somehow applied globally.
"Also, Ada’s strictness and correctness may be perceived as an anti-feature. When talking about general-purpose programming, businesses need fast development cycles and short delivery times. For the companies, to be successful, it’s far more important to be ahead of the competition even with an incomplete product than to let the customers wait and eventually abandon the project."

That is not necessary true when it comes to aerospace and defense projects. In these cases it not important to be ahead and have short delivery times, so here Ada is still suitable.

That the language is a general-purpose programming language does not mean that it is suitable for all application domains. You always need to use your common sense and experience too to choose the right tool for your task.
That's the problem that I've always had with the "learning should be fun" slogan. Yes, a lot of teaching isn't well done and ideally it would be a lot more individualized. But learning a topic to any real depth is also a lot of work which is absolutely not going to be "fun," at least as the term is usually used, all the time.
Have you written much about your site/service elsewhere?
Basing it off not just the IP allegations but the history of these two companies, linked from the article, but also (mostly) from my own experience and that of pretty much everyone I've talked to about dating apps.

I don't know too much about the case. It could be, as others here suspect, that this is just a savvy PR move and there's a valid IP claim. I kind of doubt it, but either way I think the article touches on larger points about gender politics (esp. that of dating apps) that are worth talking about regardless of the merits or outcome of this case.
Haha, I was right there with you. Ah, those fleeting moments of naive optimism.
My point is that destroying evidence may make sense if you're accused of serious crimes. It doesn't make any sense if your employer is accused of civil law violations. And I'm actually in the EU and believe my representation of the law to be mostly correct.

>> The only way to possibly way to square destruction of evidence with rational thinking is the possibility of CA having engaged in things worse than currently known.

> Why are you assuming that this is unlikely rather than most likely?

I don't want to extrapolate from the known into the unknown. Also note that I didn't actually give an estimate on the possibility.
In CoCalc, I did a complete new implementation of Jupyter notebooks from scratch, but with tracking of exactly when each cell runs, and all past states of the notebook with a slider to move through them.
Just to make myself clearer if need be, I was not aiming at Apple specifically, they're merely the one in this particular article. As far as companies goes, Apple is not one I consider "bad" in regards to privacy.
I highly recommend Francis Su's Real Analysis Youtube lectures, on Youtube [1]. He is an amazing teacher.

I first started trying to learn Real Analysis from Baby Rudin, but I couldn't understand the point behind the ideas introduced there. Then I started watching these lectures, which are based on Baby Rudin and mostly follow it, and it helped a lot (together with reading the main text itself - a crucial step).

The only bad thing is that only half of Rudin is covered - the other half is covered in Real Analysis 2, which is unfortunately not online as far as I can tell.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqEyWLGvvdw&list=PL0E754696F...
The purpose of copyright law has never been to protect the public domain. Its explicit purpose, as even stated in the Constitution, is the protect the profits of the IP owners.
10-minute walk / walking meditation (Simple Habit app)
I'm impressed that Giganews maintains a 10-year archive of Usenet, I suspect that would break most newsreaders.
One of the side projects I currently manage has a social login implementation and ~40% of the users use it, the remaining use the standard email flow.
I am not a lawyer, and have only watched these things from the sidelines, but my understanding is this:

As this was a circuit court decision, its precedent is only binding within that region of the country. The best chance of this being overturned within the court system is for a judge in a different circuit to create conflicting precedent there, which will make it more likely for the Supreme Court to take the case and unify the rulings.

Alternatively, Congress can amend the law which will force the courts to base their decisions on the new text.