skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seems like a perfect thing for "market forces" to decide

I'm not sure about that. Consumers can easily tell which phone is less expensive, which one has more storage, etc. It is much harder to know, much less decide based on, which ones will last a long time. Especially since by the time we can confidently say "these last 5 years", you can't buy that model anymore.

This is a problem with nearly anything more complex than a kitchen knife.
That still doesn't consider pay differences between two completely different jobs.
rrggrr is worried companies will say "1 year contract, $10,000 per day first week, $0 per day subsequent 51 weeks" and jump to the top of the stack as they're paying $10,000 per day.
These sorts of "highest salary wins" rules should typically be crafted in an industry/sector-specific way. So schools have to compete with each other on salary but not with tech/finance/med. And then there are caps by sector.

The problem with this approach, of course, is that you need a judge/executive who follows the spirit of the law so that I can't get a bunch of cheap tech workers by saying "oh, job ABC in town XYZ is its own industry/sector and not comparable to SWEs at Google".
At least Victorian "monoculture" varied by region, city and often each estate or build. Style, architecture, features, layout, colour and grade of brick or stone and slate would all identify where in the country you were. Even trivia like windows, mullions, ridge tiles and so on were of the region, and sometimes even more local. This continued until maybe the 1950s.

New build use the same standard, shite, boxes across the whole country. 5 sizes and styles of shitty box per estate. If you live in a National Park or similar your standard shitty box will be clad in local stone tiles.

Trouble with losing the Victorian build is they were built to last much longer than those 1960s on. Current build are to a price (lowest possible).

I agree we should go back to regional and small scale development, and for planning regs to require regional sympathy once again. I don't agree Victorian buildings are drab. I'd far rather live in one of those than anything post 1970 as they tend to be much more solidly built. Sure they have a few issues stemming from being 120 years old - the roof might be due its first replacement by now (if slate) etc
Adding another request to a 3rd party server that could be down is a very bad idea
How does access to the source code help?
I think the main issue is that he's singling out the iPhone as if it, outside of any other smartphone, is somehow more difficult to use than any other ultra-complex piece of technology and then proceeds to demonstrate that, poorly IMO, by pointing out several edge cases that the majority of users will never experience. His first example, case in point, is that users are never asked about text size when that's demonstrably not true. New iPhone users are presented with that during on-boarding and existing users have already made that choice. Changing it is in the settings. It's not Apple's or Samsung's or Nokia's fault if someone has another person set up their device for them and choose their preferences. The WiFi example is another one. The entire premise of those features is that users prove that they're capable of navigating to the manual selection of that feature because they need to do that at least once in order to turn the auto-discovery off. That's very intentional.
I think Black Widows are more common in the American South West than anywhere else. I'm in Tennessee and brown recluse spiders are very common, but I've only ever seen one black widow, ever. Black Widows are less aggressive afiak and are usually outdoors. Brown recluse love cardboard boxes and storage areas, indoors...so their bite is more common.
I'm OK with manufactures not providing full-version/new-feature updates to old phones, as long as they provide frequent security fixes - which is one thing Google is doing right with Android security fixes.

Samsung could trivially provide security updates on old version as Google does most of the heavy-lifting so they have no excuse for recommending upgrades on older, slower phones. Apple doesn't presently have a mechanism for this on iOS, to my knowledge.
Just as fast, sure, but holy cow the number of WebKit exploits in iOS will leave myself scared shitless that you’re running that thing on the internet still...
> skilled labor does not want to live in rural and middle America.

I'm unsure about this, and think it's kind of a chicken and the egg problem. I know tons of people who are from the midwest that would prefer to be there, but tend to flock to the coast simply because it's hard to find as rigorous of a professional environment back home.
Over time the resources required to run the OS itself should go up slower than the hardware has increased in capability in the last few years.

While the next iOS release may require an iPhone 6 or 6S, I expect it will be quite a while before it changes base requirements again after that.
Sure. Cold water there but the climate is warm. That works for me at home in the summer where I live but not winter.
English needs to do the same.

Why? Because less than half a percent of the population would prefer it? I don’t think so. That part of the population should be respected and referred to as they prefer, but I’m not interested in them dictating how the other 99.96% of the population refers to itself.
The Hate That Is Consuming Us
Pine64 Is Working on a Linux Smartphone Running KDE Plasma
That page references John Boehner and Mitt Romney, who don’t have any influence in Republican policy anymore.

The current administration has repeatedly demonstrated their antipathy to legal immigration.
Don't ever forget that this isn't a benefit, it's the loss of a benefit. Let's say you don't take vacation out of guilt or events - under the traditional regime, you'd at least get the hours as accumulated salary. Not any more.
Because a smartphone is a conglomeration of billions of design decisions, and there's only a couple product choices today when it comes to smartphone ecosystems. If your answer is "market forces" for even 3 different attributes of the phone, then the market simply cannot support being able to control them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)#Law_of_R...

The Invisible Hand worked great when you had 1000 people making hammers and sewing pants and harvesting wheat. It doesn't work so well when you've got 2 multi-national companies producing handheld supercomputers.

Writing a regulation or law is how the market (i.e., the people collectively) tell an industry that it needs to do something, always. The industry can't just hide behind "I'm going to do things A and B that you hate, because I'm also doing things C, D, and E that you can't live without".
Ask HN: What's the grandparent friendly online password security solution?
A friend's grandparent sent me a scary sounding email. Basically their password was in a public breach.

I'd want to recommend 1password to them but I know them and I know that it will unfortunately be too complex.

What's the basic version for people, that sacrifices some security for much more usability?

A physical notebook of passwords with photo backups on their phone?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe one develops Type 1 in this case from general organ failure, not simply because the pancreas itself is being exhausted.
So, the NSA was able to build and deploy a backdoored version of this software to their targets without the trouble of reverse engineering and modifying it. Nice
I don't see why it's any different than a photo-editing app that applies a watermark to the free version. It's intended to let people give the software a try, and if it seems to meet their needs, they buy the actual product.

As for sharing the source code with the NSA, I think you have a better argument there. That said, it's kind of like helping someone install a secure lock on their door to keep out criminals, yet being willing to share a master key with police if it's a matter of life and death.
can you please add jchao@tresl.co thanks.
"But there’s still one thing that continues to nag me after all these years  -
how the hell did Dave track me down 3,000 miles away from home after midnight
on that hot summer’s eve in Bristol, Connecticut?"

Assuming the author flew cross-country from California and his brother had a phone number in the family name, it doesn't seem too hard to piece together with good old fasioned detective work - on top of good old fashioned databases open to the NSA. I wonder if Dave got it right on the first call?
emacs ;)
attempting to find bugs (likely cryptographic weaknesses) that will let them crack the encryption faster.
They are fixes to bugs that already existed. Not having them doesn't make the phone less secure, having them makes the phone more secure
I haven't watched the video myself, but he could be referencing Nick Hanauer, a venture capitalist from Seattle, whose speech at the TED University conference titled "Rich people don't create jobs" was deemed "too politically controversial" to post on their web site.

I clicked your link. Even though there is an article at the bottom with "inequality" in the title, I tried doing a search but couldn't find a single talk with "inequality" in the title. It is a possible tag, but cannot be found in the title.

Edit: Snopes says the story of "censorship" was disseminated by Nick Hanauer's PR team after TED decided not to promote the story: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/banned-ted-talk-nick-hanau...
Nice! This is much simpler than faster. Thanks for dropping the link here.

I really need to revive my multithreaded, SIMD-ified Rust PNG decoder someday with something like this…
Spotify with 160 million users in 2017 paid out at least 2.225 billion in royalties to rights holders (It’s probably a little higher). That’s around $13.90 user. YouTube provides the same service (except with video) and CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube has 1 Billion MUSIC users a month.

The article is completely wrong. The blog post referenced (1) says only that "more than one billion fans come to YouTube to be part of music culture and discover new songs and artists". This doesn't translate into YouTube Music having 1B MAUs, nor it translates in any way to Spotify users.

The article is just a piece of low quality rubbish:

This is Google: Second largest corporation on earth, manipulating children to protect one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history. Disgusting

(1) https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2018/10/a-final-upda...
Looking for bugs. Promising avenues of attack.
That entire article is a left wing puff piece, not an editorial on language.
IFF you've enabled Siri.
There are thousands of use-after-free (or generally more pedestrian) bugs for each spectre-like bug. Let's not make perfect the enemy of good.
That's the main direction I currently seem to be coalescing on based on feedback I'm getting. That said, one person on lobste.rs suggested trying to play with Linux capabilities, to make the filesystem immutable... now that would be a seriously fancy trick if it works!
It could be done properly for us (techies), but this would go over poorly for normal people.

"Why do I have to click through all this mess when I just want to post this picture I just took to Facebook?"

"I think I set it right but now Facebook can't see the picture I wanted to post"

et cetera. These granular controls aren't something that regular people want to deal with.
Google Earth didn't update its image of a military installation for eight years
Sure, they don't hate the idea of helping houseless people, they just hate the idea of that help being legally prioritized over their RoI.
>Not some huckster MLM agent that selling good knows what.

I'm just curious where you position naturalist stores? I can go and buy lavender essential oils for <$5 that will last a long time with using it multiple times a day.

I understand there's a hangup with science-oriented people on natural/holistic therapies, but I feel like you're misrepresenting things to support your biased mindset.
What about the immigrants? It's a huge benefit to them!
> offering most users a free version with weak encryption just so they can pay for the premium version

As long as that wasn't a hidden fact from the users, I don't see the issue.
According to the World Bank[0], the US produces 75% more CO² per $1000 of economic output than the EU.

The US should be able to reduce that inefficiency delta to just over 5% by cutting CO² emissions by 40% without any impact on luxury whatsoever. This alone would cut worldwide CO² emissions by about 5.73%.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.KD.GD
Your library is actually mentioned in the linked article

> Another crate, with considerable overlap in goals, is simdeez. This crate is designed to facilitate runtime detection, and writing the actual logic without duplication, but leaves the actual writing of architecture specific shims to the user, and still requires nontrivial unsafe code.
Not sure why you're grey; you are correct about why it's not introductory.

Overlap between permutations is why it's not as simple as it first sounds. For example, to borrow the wiki example, "121" includes both "12" and "21" permutations.
If you read down in the comment thread on the Hackaday article, they make it clear that Fords after about 2002~2003 have an attempt limit. I happen to know that my '05 did, at a bare minimum. It's still deeply not secure, but nothing about a car really is... It's intended to make my life convenient and keep the honest people honest.
Anyone with a CS degree can write a fizzbuz
What I find a bit weird is that they don't split the brands of the main Buzzfeed stuff and the more serious journalism.
the cynic in me thinks they could use the source to plant a backdoor in, then try to manipulate known targets into installing the tampered software under the guise of an update
That's how an agile introduction should be done but almost never does.
This person is either lying or delusional, or got pranked really hard. The "details" provided, while they make great story, simply don't cohere with how the NSA operate.
Yes. Yes. And decades of accumulated grime.
Your arguement is true, but it is also, IMO, the intended behavior.

Having higher paid workers push out the lower paid ones, is kinda the whole point. I want more skilled labor to move to where they are in demand.
you can get the same effect on salary by making it easier for a H1B recipient to leave the company that brought them over. Right now its very hard for a visa recipient to move companies so they can be given sub market rate salaries, if you make it so once they show up they can move to get a market rate salary then the companies who make a pratice of hiring foreign talent and paying them below market rates will end. The companies will incur all the cost of bringing in an H1B and some other company can just pay them more and receive the benefit.

This also addresses the concerns about salary differences between different industries and regions.
Close. The autoimmune system attacks and kills the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.
That's basically what is proposed in this paper except with a USB stick or SD card instead.
I don't know what I'm voting on this yet, but it's certainly not a simple matter, and there are many smart and compassionate people who don't support the measure. Here are the mayor's thoughts on homelessness (https://medium.com/@LondonBreed/a-bold-approach-to-homelessn...) and why they oppose the measure (https://medium.com/@LondonBreed/statement-from-mayor-london-...)
As I mentioned I don't know which side I'm on yet, but to just lash out at someone who opposes the measure as "disgraceful" means you're either uninformed or unwilling to consider other reasonable perspectives as legitimate. Either way, you can do better
The author's theory there about user behavior seems dangerously wrong.

I'm quite careful writing command lines because the whole experience of the shell is that of working with sharp knives: you get a lot of power but if you screw up, you'll feel the pain. The point of this tool is to take away a lot of the pain that teaches people caution. Its whole theory is "just try a lot stuff as you explore what you want".

In their shoes I'd look at using some of the container/security magic as a way of nerfing commands. If the on-a-keypress runs work in a way where they can't make changes to a filesystem, that seems way better to me. Even better if the tool then reports, "Would have deleted 532 files in a warning color at the top of the output."
Developer is the next blue collar job?
Apple Kills 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack
That by definition is called a “market force”. They should pay them more once trained.
>Written on my iPhone 5S (2013) running iOS 8 (2014) - it is still a phone and is just as fast as it was in 2014. Is that planned obsolescence?

No. But it probably has known unpatched vulnerabilities, and you're putting yourself and people around you in danger of a security hack.
What courage are you talking about?

I just stated a fact about how many companies state they do agile, SCRUM or otherwise, while reality shows otherwise.

For those companies, the definiton of done is management slideware.

Which is exactly the main theme of Foley's talk.
Pretty obvious answer similar to what google does, show alternative views and account for vote inflation.

e.g. if you get 1000 upvotes in position 1 those are worth less than 750 votes in position 2 because its expected that users will lean towards the first answer presented
Hidden social media accounts
Is there a way to see a list of all the social media accounts that your sugfficant other may have
I have found paper by Raúl Rojas, which is also a good start to learn λ-calculus. Here it is http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03/alpi/lambda.pdf
Thanks, that answers my question.
Robin Hood of Life Insurance
The apps are signed. If you modify them and try to install an updated version on top of the one you already had from the Play Store, it will not match the signature and fail to install.
That's an entirely different problem, and switching H1B to an auction will only exasperate it without solving the task that H1B is intended to solve.
Apple has put forward numerous systems for publishers of all types to make money on their platforms, some successful, some not. iTunes, app store, Newsstand, iAds, Apple music, News, iBooks.
You'll find Americans to do the work if you pay them enough. Why undercut their wage demands with scabs from foreign countries?
Hmmmm. It's hard for me to imagine a scenario that's so bad, but still the fault of the intern alone and not actually the company's fault for lacking proper controls, code review process, and backups and so on. i.e. an intern accidentally deletes the production database, or writes code so bad that it takes down critical software. Whoops. Pretty bad, but if it's a larger software company or larger IT team then they should've had processes against big mistakes.
Decades ago tech companies like IBM would hire entry-level software developers with zero coding experience based on the results of aptitude tests. Then they put the new employees through internal boot camps. There's no reason a similar approach couldn't work today. Employers just generally got lazy about workforce development while the economy was slower and they had an unlimited supply of applicants.
s/want/choose/ in the original, I think.
I'm pretty sure this (as well as most of the other replies) is a total misunderstanding of what vmaier said. They avoid communicating with people who demand that they use "they". They don't care about other people who use "they".
I think that just meant he was against tariffs and trade wars...
MongoDB: We think it is time for an extension of copyleft
In theory it is not very complicated for a H1B to change employer. It simply requires the employer to file a petition to sponsor the H1B. It doesn't count towards the "seats" available yearly, and it's almost guaranteed to be granted. There is a small cost, maybe a few grands. If you think about it, it's way cheaper than paying recruiter fee fo example.

In practice you're right though. Most companies have limited experience with this process and just don't want to get into it.
Yes, I agree that there is a nuance to it. But, if they said "We'd like the United States to stand up for the privacy of its citizens and create a law like that if GDPR. Apple is in full support of it because it helps our business too(it is our competitor's weakness)" I'd agree that they are talking the truth. But, writing that we "absolutely" care about your privacy, and that "caring for privacy is in our DNA" and so on just to turn around and give up the same principles to an authoritarian government(one that is building Social credit system nevertheless) is just plain hypocrisy IMO. I know several American and European friends that trust Apple as if they're infallible, and will protect their data in a war. That's what I think is wrong. Apple will give up its users, DNA, principles if there is enough money to be made or leverage to be taken.
Android has dozens of manufacturers, each making changes to the underlying os (which is why upgrading takes so long). There are small manufacturers like the essential phone and that 50000$ phone that is supposed to be secure.

While apple is definitely a monopoly in the ios market the phone market as a whole is definitely not an oligopoly
Maybe the water is tainted and staying dehydrated is a matter of survival.
Reminds me of Van Halen and the infamous "no brown M&M's" clause of their contracts. They didn't really care about M&M color, but they did care that people setting up shows were paying close attention to detail because the shows had lots of complicated equipment and effects that could be dangerous if not set up properly. If they saw brown M&M's, they knew the contract wasn't being followed and stripped everything down to do a safety check.
That's seems pretty convoluted. Are the any companies that can take care of these things for you?
California is an at-will state and all that, but surely executives and business consultants can structure some sort of incentive package to cause workers to stay for at least some minimum duration?
Sounds like you need to pay more, have a better working environment, else work on your recruiting pipeline. A phone interview should be able to sniff that out quickly.
Sorry to be dismissive, but this is basically what the internet is for content creators. There's a reason the *AAs of the world resort to sending automated, often stupid, blanket takedowns -- computers make copying easy.

At work, we've used MarkMonitor to try to solve similar things, which is sometimes useful and sometimes results in our secondary apps getting taken off Google Play.
> These updates often contain security fixes. You risk by not updating on time.

Maybe they ought to unbundle security fixes from feature-upgrades. It's not a technical hurdle, it's a cultural one.
I use to work in the midwest before moving to the west coast.

We had a guy come in for a programming interview. He claimed to have 3 years experience with a programming language we commonly use. We gave him a simple challenge (connect to a database using a database connector, read some fields and update another field based on data from the read fields). We told him it's fine to use google, and left him alone for four hours with a computer.

He asked to expand his interview time at the end of the four hours, we grant him an additional two hours. At the end he didn't have code that compiled, much less connected to the database.

This story is not atypical from my experience.
alias rm to rm -i (always prompt)

I don't do this because my idiocy must be punished disproportionately. Also, you end up automatically pressing y enter.