skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the OP uses the word "password" incorrectly; they're talking about the device passcode. The details provided in the post indicate they do not know the Apple ID's password, and are unable to perform account recovery (ie: password reset) which requires answers to security questions and/or access to the email address's inbox.

Edit: Another comment chain noted that the OP says the Apple ID was locked as well. It's possible they did know the account's password, but it looks like certain situations may require one to perform account recovery to unlock an account[1].

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204106
Yeah, if your app is shutdown, you may as well disclose the name here. Something feels off.
I'm sorry to hear mate. More generally, the war on VPN has indeed started, as a continuity of the war on privacy. Hang in there, tough days ahead.
Sure, it’s fine if you need to do something nobody wants. Great.
Steam engine made operational cost of transport an order of magnitude cheaper (while capital expenditure was two orders of magnitude higher) by using coal instead of oats (and locomotive instead of a horse-driven cart).

Self-driving cars will lower the operational cost of transport by another order of magnitude, but barely raise capital expenditure, actually probably concentrating it dramatically (as Waymo will probably build cars that cost double and can drive ten to a hundred times further).

Self driving car is essentially tele-transportation in your sleep.
Python's lambda was pretty sad last I looked. Has it caught up with Lisp/Clojure's? And has the BDFL stopped trying to eliminate it altogether? I heard he regretted adding it and wanted to yank it at some point. The D in BDFL looks a lot bigger than the B.
There are pretty complete alternatives to all Google services in mainland China, well, because the Great Firewall blocks Google. I doubt if anyone really want to move from Google to those Chinese alternatives though because privacy is even worse.
reject[ing] giving more power to the EU is not the same as being anti-EU. I think there's a broad understanding that the EU isn't perfect, but that it's better than not having an EU. Britain is the one exception to this of course, but that depends on who you ask ... but even of the 50% who voted to leave, a large %age of those didn't really take stock of what it entailed.
Ops, I though the Johnson Amendment had been repealed, but did not realize it failed.
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You can still encourage Sen. Merkley, since you have two Senators.
Yep, you have to babysit the code forever or it dies...
That's not that bad actually. Apples routinely loses "small" cases [0](recent) [1] (2012, unfortunately seattlerex.com is off)

[0]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3yadk/apple-sued...

[1]: https://consumerist.com/2012/04/17/seattle-man-victorious-ov...
"How come that developers give away half of their earnings to the monopolist platform and are still treated like kids"

I don't mean to troll, but the answer to that question lines in the uncomfortable economic reality. Apple did the hardwork to centralize a massive user base on their vertically integrated devices and protocols. And you the developer has chosen to buy into that closed door, centralized, ecosystem for easier profits and access to their users.

Don't like it? Help the world move towards a free and open model.
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There's more research linked here, with mostly good news for you:
https://examine.com/nutrition/are-eggs-healthy/

E.g.:
"Observational studies in middle-aged Japanese people and in people on a Mediterranean diet found no association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease. Another observational study found no increase in the risk of stroke or coronary artery disease in people consuming 1–6 eggs per week, whereas “greater than 6 eggs per week” appeared to increase the risk of coronary artery disease only in diabetics."
There's a book: 7 Languages in 7 Weeks that tries to pick a language from different "domains" (functional, imperative, prototype...)

Might be what you're looking for, a quick way to asses the landscape.

As for mastery: yes, you need to be able to master at least one language, and plan to always master the language you are going to use the most.
Isolation does not mean other groups don't exist. It means lack of contact, and the adults don't need contact and as I have said children can move as happens with many territorial animals.
I believe that Eudora used the standard email format of the day (RFC822), so it was really easy to extract emails to use/store as you wish.
That’s very broad. We don’t actually know what you are exactly doing. Did they provide an exact reason? What do you think is the exact reason?
The rule which you have violated is a dangerous one:

> 2.5.1 Apps should use APIs and frameworks for their intended purposes and indicate that integration in their app description.

It is all encompassing and actually often violated. But it not new that apple shuts down apps that use APIs for novel purposes. Most famous is probably the usage of VoIP or background music playing in order to keep apps from sleeping.

Nevertheless, it is never a good idea to use an API for something that goes out of the line. It is where the innovation and money is, but the risk of getting shut down like you did is real.
I don't think that's very useful - you see that it doesn't have any kind of sophisticated error handling simply by looking at the method's source code (which you need to do in order to see the comment).
I forgot to say congrats on the launch, and best of luck with the project!

Dunno, that back button behavior seems wrong in terms of user expectations. Are you sure you are using react-router correctly? If so, I would find something else. Sites that trap users like that seem like scams. My 2, anyway.
>made it unbearable (yellow on blue...)

I take you are not color blind (I never considered it bad at any rate). Also it was configurable, iirc
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That's actually not the case, the PIN doesn't lock out your iOS device. iCloud Activation Lock does.

It requires that if you factory reset the device (without first disabling icloud activation lock), you must authenticate with the same iCloud account it was previously using to "unlock" it.

This is designed precisely to make stolen iOS devices (and logic boards) worthless.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201365
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For anyone who has the space (and they don't need a lot of space), I recommend getting your own hens.

Great fun, and about as hard to look after as a rabbit. Plus the best eggs you will have ever tasted.
vk is big in Russia (and some other parts) because they are proper Russian, in Russian and for Russians, and they are largely unmoderated, so you can easily find nice and nasty in the same place and also all the warez, porn (incl revenge and child) etc you will ever want. It's really the "wild east" there; I was pretty shocked when somebody started spamming child porn vk groups to one of the websites I moderate (and they were active weeks later still).

Then again, I was told by some Russian acquaintances that vk does not try to push American/European morals (like no nudity for America, no "hate speech"/gore for EU) and that really is how they explain it is so popular (then again, of course you wouldn't want to run an LGBT community on vk). Other folks from the West and Latin America found it useful too. E.g. I read that some German Nationalists/White Supremacist fringe groups moved to vk because it will not crack down on those groups, unlike Facebook.

But back to my point: if the EU really cracks down on facebook so that it is (forced to) stop(s) being available in the EU, then some new player from the EU might fill the gap and the network effect of friends and family may drive people to the EU version that anybody can use and away from the US version that EU cannot use and is a privacy nightmare anyway; so the effect may point in the opposite direction this time.
I know the likelihood of this happening is pretty low, but a lot less low now with the GDPR and the EU politicians' new found interest in facebook's business model.
Your exposition of Dawkins' ideas is neat, and probably helpful to people in an introductory biology course. I'd like to help clarify some of your comments on the genome.

> Even your DNA is not really a unified whole, it's a bunch of genes that have glommed together in a cooperative effort to reproduce themselves, but it's not an organized or homogeneous effort. That's why you have freeloaders ("junk DNA") and defectors (cancer genes) who put their own interests above those of the group.

"Cancer genes" don't exist in the sense that there aren't genes that specifically cause cancer. If there were then every individual with a full gene complement would get cancer. What you're referring to are certain alleles that can arise which change cellular processes so as to break cooperative patterning of cell behavior. If you're lecturing in evolution it might be nice to use a technically correct description to match the Dawkinsian semantic splicing you're resting on :) Call them "oncogenic alleles" instead.

"Junk DNA" is a blind concept that conflates sequence complexity with function. The argument goes that these pieces of DNA are just copies of each other and serve no obvious purpose, thus they are junk that "freeloads" off their host. This ignores the fact that these elements exist in virtually all complex organisms, and have lineages that last tens or hundreds of millions of years, which is longer than the lifespan of most species. If they were only an energetic drag on their host they would be selected out over these time scales. Instead, they appear to serve important purposes in genomes. There is a huge amount of evidence that this "junk" is also an "organ" of the genome that provides essential function in an evolutionary sense. This perspective is old, more than 30 years, and the first reference to it I'm aware of is from a study in 1983 that showed that Escherichia coli with transposons evolved faster than those without: https://www.nature.com/articles/303633a0
As a Brit, the only thing that would really draw me to America is the fact that they speak English and I can pick a state where the weather is nice. There are two absolute things that would stop me though: The lack of annual leave, and the lack of social healthcare. Maybe if I ever get rich I'd move, but I really don't want to be a poor to averagely wealthy American. I'd rather be a poor to averagely wealthy Brit.

[edit] My brother moved to Orlando a few years ago, and I love visiting for the weather and Theme parks. I took a greyhound bus from Tampa one day and an immigration officer came on the bus and aggressively demanded to inspect my passport. Pretty crazy. I've never been randomly forced to prove I'm allowed to be in the UK in the nearly 40 years I've lived here. Yet, a few short stays in Orlando and I experience that.
I opened this link in Melbourne, Australia, never been to this page before in my life, and it downloaded almost instantly. Do .mil domains get some kind of special preference, or is my brain just glitching out?
Since when is Macron anti-EU?
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You should tell your friend to look around for a better job. It’s amazing to me how work hours are relative. 25 at a terrible place is worse than 50 at an awesome one.
I'm not a crypto-apologist, but this use case I can see (sorry if it's a little rambling).

Each property/car could essentially be represented by its own smart contract, initially held by the mortgage lender. When you pay an instalment of your mortgage, it executes the contract to "release" the equity to you.

When it comes to selling, to change the name on the contract, the buyer would pay based on the split between the lender and the owner, or pay to the owner who has to close the contract with the bank (in the event of moving to a new property, the bank and owner get their relevant proportions on Property 2's smart contract, and it goes again).

You could then "lend" out the equity you've earned from the bank, and use it as collateral for something else, getting it back once you've satisfied the terms of that agreement (meaning, if you don't, the person you lent it to is a creditor on the selling of the house/closing of the contract).

It's essentially automating/giving an interface to an existing contractual relationship. I think this interface might actually be clearer for some people who are financially uneducated, as it expresses their ownership percentage, debt obligations, and potential secured borrowing options in one go. Whilst a lot of it could be done without the crypto side of things if everything happens with the same bank/group of people, with buying and selling assets, you're working on trust with a bunch of different organisations and people, the ledger aspect could help with this.
One of the Star Treks visited an inhabited rogue planet. If life could find a way in such circumstances, I’m sure it would be very interesting. I imagine it would also be uniquely likely to visit and leave star systems.
Nursing comes to mind. I generally think of it as a high-stress but also pretty highly-paid profession in the US (can do 100k+). In Europe pay is shockingly, appallingly, pathetically low (true of tech as well, but you can get out of that if you push hard enough, and I find the work culture superior).

I mean, I left the US, but my general experience has been that if you work in the dregs (and I've been there) you're better off in Europe, but if you work in a somewhat well-paid field, you'll make more in the US (whether you're "better off" is a more complicated question).

Not sure what opportunities there are for a former MP like yourself though.
A friend actually worked on mass producing for a musical instrument, they included feedback loops to verify the note was correct by playing them. You can do similar things with wood, it just costs more and wood shaped is good enough for the price point.

However, I am saying workshop with apprentices is mass production because they involve standardized products and a two or more step assembly line. Otherwise the Aprentice would be working without supervision or quality inspection.
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Don’t learn languages, learn frameworks instead. Pick a problem and find the most popular frameworks that are used to solve it. Learning language just for the sake of it is useless.
> These donations can add up. Mr. Rubin said his show makes at least $30,000 a month on Patreon. And Mr. Peterson says he pulls in some $80,000 in fan donations each month.

It won't be long until the censors find out and start demanding Patreon to no-platform them.
Draconian? Just because we got laws in Germany saying you need permission to store personal data and you need to make available that data upon request and/or remove it upon request?
I don't think the author, Erica, uses "he".
Perhaps someone could write a program that writes trivial comments like that. It would allow me to tell my boss that my code is commented :)
Valuable yet vulnerable: Pro's and con's of storing your data in one place
And then you sell it to someone else (as happened in this case) and don't update the record, and suddenly you're locked out again.

But it's possible that there are specific lessons to learn here, so it's always worth examining failure cases!
In picking a language, look for

1. Ecosystem. You _will_ need help

2. Friendly (to you) syntax

3. Target to achieve (in your case, it would mean a language that is frequently used in distributed system/data engineering)

Regarding "I find myself going through the crazy articles comparing languages and lose focus and give up.", I hear you. I've been there. Pick two and run with them. Once you start learning a language, stop reading articles on what other languages you can be learning. There is always something better down the corner. That doesn't mean you lose focus and drop whatever you're doing midway. Persevere, and you will prevail.

Finally, my recommendation, based on your requirements would be

1. Python (for data engineering - numpy, scipy, tensorflow, pandas and whatnot)

2. elixir (for distributed systems)

Hope that helps. Good luck!
>I get the advantage of being more prepared to apply GDPR but that lasts 1-2 months max.

The advantage is in having a sustainable business model that isn't based on exploiting user data.

With GDPR-compliant privacy controls in place, it'll be a lot harder to target advertising or profit from user data by selling it to third parties. Companies that provide a "free" service based on these revenue streams will face a long battle of regulatory enforcement and dwindling ARPU. They might have no choice but to completely pivot their business model. If you just provide a service in exchange for money and take reasonable steps to protect your users' privacy, it's business as usual.

This applies doubly to startups. If a service like Snapchat or Instagram were to launch next week, potential investors will be asking a lot of questions about how their revenue model will hold up against GDPR. The old approach of "grab a ton of users, harvest a ton of data and figure out how to monetise it later" doesn't really stack up when your ability to financially exploit personal information is severely curtailed. If you decide to fence off EU users and exploit everyone else's data, you're playing a risky game - the regulators will not react sympathetically if it turns out your geofencing technology is imperfect and you've been illegally harvesting EU user data.
https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/05/07/-eggs-not...

Well, according to this study, eggs do not do anything for diabetics.

I'm pretty sure all of those observational studies (including the one I cite) are severely flawed.
> don’t tell me user knowledged it

you are doing a disservice to this noble noun
Totally agree, they're great fun. :-)

It's also why I don't agree with the moral argument for veganism - happy hens lay eggs too and eggs gotta be eaten!
What's even more simple is to punch the URL in ASCII numbers to the cards, and put it in the "RSS" deck, then on every Monday morning press play on the program tape, that loads the URL's from the card deck and after a few hours prints all new articles on the mainframe's printer.
> Physical possesion of a device should never equal direct access to all its data.

Apple appear to have extended this principle beyond the data and are preventing use of the device entirely. It ought to be possible to wipe the device and start from scratch with a new Apple account.
They won't do this for the same reason Googl won't remove Pinterest from SERP in spite of them violating their ToS.
Facebook wants your naked pics (to fight revenge porn)
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Make it easy to regain access to a device under these sorts of circumstances and, instead of this story, you have one about how a thief was able to gain access to my stolen device even though they had almost none of the information they should have needed.

The more forgiving you are the more exposed you are to social engineering and other attempts to work around security systems.
I love those new features. However, I'm not sure everyone will like the collaboration on email like envisioned by Spark developers, also not sure how many will be willing to pay for just that.

Calendar functionality are really buggy, hope they can fix it soon.
Microsoft demonstrates a chatbot that converses like a Human
> Personally, I am way more worried about Google.

The reason I'm not is that Google appears to be a /lot/ more willing to respect their user's privacy, and were ahead of the curve with allowing opt-outs of personalized advertising and the likes...
I've made this transition over the last few months.

For the past eight years, aside from dabbling on my own, I've been a .NET developer. I've worked in startups, agencies, and good-sized companies, and have delivered more projects than I can count. I've also given talks at user groups, and have delivered open-source tools. I wasn't an expert, but I'd say that I knew C# and .NET reasonably well.

However, I always felt a bit of imposter syndrome. While the .NET world is more open than ever, you still feel like you're an apple in an orange-infested world. Literally everyone else builds on Mac/Linux, and while the tools differ between languages a PHP developer would have more in common with a Python developer than they would with a .NET developer.

So, I left a senior role and took a standard dev role in a software house with zero .NET tooling, and have forced myself to learn different languages in anger, instead of restricting myself to only learning in my free time.

It's been hard, but I feel like I'm learning loads every day. I've also learned things I would've probably ignored if I was doing this in my free time, like Ruby and Rails. I still feel like an idiot most days, but I'm hoping that in the next few years I'll go from being a solid C¢ developer to a solid developer, and that alone will go a long way towards getting over that imposter hump.

So, my advice is to try and learn what you can on your own, but if you feel that you are better served by working with this tools "in anger" or around a team that really knows its tools then look for a job that both allows you to do this. Once you reach a point where you're comfortable in a language, move to something new, but keep that language to your free time.
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Most don't give any feedback for rejection
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"2.5 Performance" is a long section with various ways your app might violate this clause. In no part of it does it specifically mention VPNs. So you're going to have to a bit more specific here.

I can assume that your app falls under this part of 2.5.1:

> Apps should use APIs and frameworks for their intended purposes and indicate that integration in their app description. For example, the HomeKit framework should provide home automation services; and HealthKit should be used for health and fitness purposes and integrate with the Health app.

So you're running a VPN using the NEVPNManager API, and I'm guessing your app does something such as monitor traffic or speed or something like that by routing all traffic through a VPN so you can "listen in" to get your reports.

Apart from appealing the ruling, I think maybe if you could be more specific as to what your app is collecting and why, someone here might help with figuring out an alternative way of doing that so that you can get your app back in the store.
As in the thing you do with a paring knife.
Can't the device be reset another way? Im sure most phone theft is to sell hardware, not get data.
It's a heaven for gun collectors.