skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the program actually encrypted, or just compiled? I assume it's just compiled.
Though the last paragraph is interesting that there relationship is now "stronger". I wonder if Apple was just using this to say "See, it needs updating."

Who knows....not I.
"Everybody thinks they are countercultural rebels, insurgents against the true establishment, which is always somewhere else"

This is a fascinating point, and predicts the crticisms here about how "elites" are defined. All the successful people i know in the tech industry feel like outsiders and rebels. And as such, it's an interesting question whether the tech industry feels more of a motivation for success than we feel a responsility to society. I don't know that we don't, and I don't know whether some "elites" of the past did. But it's an interesting perspective on meritocracy.

In the tech industry we can be dismissive of bankers, but what an interesting thought if they too feel like rebels and outsiders, rather than being the prep school squares we might envision. When I think of the finance folks I know, they really are more similar to tech folks than different.

I can't help but feel that much of the criticisms here are semantic in nature and result from zeroing in on sentences and phrases rather than the central idea of the article.

I certainly dont have the answer, but David Brooks is making an interesting point. Values are important. And this reminds us of Peter Thiel and Max Levchin advocating for real progress rather than quick wins.
a) I fail to realize why any of these features were "important problems" of Unix shells.

b) Passing byte streams between programs is a very powerful idea and transfers the responsibility of interpreting what the input is to the program parsing it.

b) is an important problem. It means that there are zillions of implementations of various parsers. That inefficiency costs money. Worse, not all of them are without bugs. For an example consider the problem of searching by file name in a script. I guesstimate that a large proportion of Linux installations has a buggy version of it somewhere. Doing it reliably (file names can have spaces, may contain control characters or slashes) involves, IIRC, setting $IFS.
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We're looking to do online escrow for a site connecting freelance developers and entrepreneurs (matchist.com). Haven't been able to find anything that allows for credit card payments (escrow.com only does wire).
I'll bite too: state that theorem as its inverse and dare to argue for it: Demographic uniformity is a good thing.

"Lack of diversity" means that people are excluded from a community, either actively or passively. That's a "bad thing" pretty much by definition. You're thinking about the metric ("how many women?"), while the author is thinking about the mechnism implied ("something is keeping women out").

The former is data, and I guess you can argue that it's neither bad nor good. But surely you agree that the latter is bad, right? If there were something keeping women out of the community, you'd want to fix it. Right?
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I think many people misunderstand where the glue is in the Retina MacBook Pro. They say things like “The display is glued to the case.” which is wrong.

The display assembly (the actual screen where the lights shine true) is glued together. I’m not sure but I think that part of the display is always pretty tightly integrated, probably even glued together. (I tried to find information on that and I would be very glad if someone could point me to resources about how laptop displays are usually built.)

The difference with Apple’s design (as far as I understand it) is that the frontmost layer of that assembly is also the front glass of the screen. Other laptops with glass in front of the screen put an extra layer of glass in front of the display assembly. The Retina MacBook Pro doesn’t have that extra glass. (My understanding – but please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m really not sure and I would like to know more – is that old displays had a sort of plastic outer layer, now Apple uses a glass outer layer. But that’s not that a big deal, as far as I know, since on the inside all LCDs use glass substrate also – so it’s not as if Apple introduced glass into the display assembly, some was always there, they just added more. But maybe I’m wrong about that.)

That display assembly is screwed – not glued – to the case. Behind it are the LEDs and light diffusers.

Here is a teardown of the display: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Retina-Di...

The battery is glued to the case - but it seems to that it is eminently removable with the application of some force. If you don’t care about breaking the laptop (since you want to recycle it) that should be no big deal. I mean, Apple replaces the battery for $200, no questions asked. I don’t think they replace the whole Retina MacBook Pro every time they do that, so they must remove the glued-in battery, and that inside a working laptop. If Apple can do it, so can you (especially with a laptop that’s beyond repair).
From my perspective, Reddit is qualitatively different from all the sites you mentioned. Reddit is the first large news site which allows its users to create their own communities.

Most of the content on Reddit these days isn't technology- or politically oriented at all. This has changed over the last year or so - there are subreddits for pretty much anything. What makes these communities special is that a lot of them have very specialized and very diverse knowledge, not necessarily related to the subjects Reddit's early adopters were interested in. There are subreddits for science, fitness, finance, sex, art and just about any other subject people would be interested in following. What gets to the default front page doesn't even begin scratching the surface of what the ecosystem has to offer.

I have the contrarian opinion that Reddit won't be displaced for a long time in the realm of primarily text-based news sharing and discussion.
"Surely paying a pen tester $5k is much better than the amount of negative publicity you get when you lose $350K"

Depends upon who you're "losing" the $350k to.
Absolutely. Digg became so bad that if it were the only news web site on the net then newspapers would've had nothing to worry about.
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George Orwell was talking about removing important words from the language. For example, removing any words relating to democracy and freedom from the language would prevent people from expressing what they thought they might want the government to give them. This isn't just reducing someone's vocabulary. This is targeted destruction of a language's capacity to express specific concepts. When you learn a language, you learn the important words first.

We can make an analogy to programming languages. The reduced vocabulary (if any) from learning two languages at once can be likened to the fact that when you learn two programming languages you will probably not be familiar with as many modules from each language that you learn, whereas focusing on one programming language would allow you to deeply learn all the modules available. However, you would still fully learn the syntax and most of the core features of both programming languages. In contrast, the analogy to what George Orwell was talking about would be removing features from the core language to the point that it is no longer Turing-complete, and is only capable of expressing "approved" programs. Kind of like HQ9+[1], only instead of "hello world", quine, and 99 bottles, it's "The government is great", "I love the government", and "All power to the government". The plus can still increment the accumulator, but the accumulator represents how much you love the government.

[1] http://esolangs.org/wiki/HQ9%2B
On the other hand, if I forget my phone somewhere or it's stolen, I'll probably know within hours, if not minutes. If someone steals my password, who knows how or when I'll find out.
> "Wall Street firms, for example, now hire on the basis of youth and brains, not experience and character."

I don't know if it was any different 50 years ago, but that's exactly how they hire now.
Hm, I think you have a point. I’m reading tea leaves. I still think that’s an interesting point to ponder, even if the results are probably highly subjective and very much open to interpretation.
You can criticise the design of Reddit a lot, but you can't criticise the UI. It works brilliantly.
This makes it sound like the author hasn't really used Salesforce or other tools, which go way beyond CRM in delivering productivity tools for sales people. There is an entire ecosystem around extending the Salesforce platform to service particular needs that throughout and organization. IMO I think this startup would be better served by establishing credibility in their market space instead of making dubious claims and dogging the market leader.
I'm doubtful the link actually shows what you think it shows. Besides, it takes "identity diverse means functionally diverse" as a given, while the parent is asking if that is true.
Ok, but no way to handle the case where it is comprimised? Why use the device id, why not just generate a uuid the first time the app is run? It seems like there are some issues to work out with this scheme, it may be slightly premature to declare logins dead.
To tell the truth, I wasn’t aware of the "other" Skeleton.
Code blocks with syntax highlighting is super easy to implement. Styling images should be done with CSS, no? Also, you can add HTML in Markdown so you could easily just do:

< img src= "..." class="align-right" >
The point is not that startups should make sites that look exactly like that, but that initially they can get away with similarly low production values.
Recognizing a huge mistake is one thing. It was the publicly admitting it that is un-Apple. They could have just silently stayed the course for awhile before announcing they had changed they're mind.
Was Apple able to re-categorize the compliance issues as misunderstandings? Did Apple agree to make product modifications or agree to follow standards in future designs? Or did Apple coerce EPEAT to just change their ratings?
Lots of ways, but you'll only remember the one that fits your worldview.
> It's only in America that certain news organizations pretend to be unbiased arbiters.

I don't think that's only an American phenomenon. For example, Germany's Der Spiegel is somewhat famous for projecting a neutral/serious/nonpartisan image (though it also gets criticized for that).
Regulators were part of the problem leading up to these disasters.

aka regulatory capture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Until we start punishing regulators and the politicians who push these policies...

Hate the game, not the players.

The correct answer is, and has been, to have a balance of powers. The forging of the US Constitution has been described as an "orgy of mistrust". Having mutual antagonists playing off each others, preferably in a three way fight, is the best medicine devised thus far.
The fact that not everyone is using fish instead of the ridiculously inflexible, unintuitive and underpowered bash means that the shell mustn't matter that much. I'm just glad I found out about fish.
> Almost every video leaves me with a feeling of wonder. Culture at it's highest.

Pop culture, yes. There is a whole world of knowledge behind TED's glossy sheen, and that world is found by looking up original sources. Don't read the Wikipedia article on Gödel's incompleteness theorem and stop there. Read On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I. It will be hard, but it will be awesome. Don't watch a cool TED talk and immediately show it to all your friends: look up the journal paper the presenter was referencing and actually see what happened. You will find out something along the way.

TED has its place in getting people excited about things, but there is much, much more beyond it. Not all knowledge is packaged in neatly-produced 4 minute feel-good videos. Go explore :).
http://mises.org (economics and politics) and http://volokh.com (law)
No, actually that was a very crude looking page in 1998.
Before people start saying that CDs are dead, keep in mind that the types of people that (a) shop at Best Buy and (b) still aren't using Chrome are those likely to still have an old computer with an optical drive. In fact, they probably feel more comfortable installing software from a CD than downloading it from the internet because it's more "physical" and is endorsed by an "authority" (Best Buy, FWIW).
Another former Digg user who never saw anything of the sort, and in fact saw far more pro-Apple stuff than anything else.
geez apple, get it together. i was mildly impressed by tim cook when he took over, but now i'm getting the impression that he is apple's steve ballmer. this was a ridiculous and trivially preventable gaff.
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Only if baby Jesus is using an open source BSD. Bash is standard on all Linux and OS X installs, and vastly more featureful than the POSIX sh standard. If you're a decent bash hacker and really in a situation where you can't rely on a better scripting runtime to be installed, you'd have to think really hard about whether FreeBSD/OpenBSD is worth the hassle.

Honestly, the BSDs need to get their act together on this and either bash-ify their shells or just use it. Their existing environment is pretty poor.

(I guess an argument could be made that Android is another non-bash environment. But the shell there is so terrible that I literally don't know anyone that's used it for anything in production.)

(Edit: I guess technically I should include Solaris people in the list of bashless victims. But, well, yeah...)
"Our relationship with EPEAT has become stronger as a result of this experience, and we look forward to working with EPEAT as their rating system and the underlying IEEE 1680.1 standard evolve"

Reads to me like EPEAT is moving (a bit) in Apple's direction with the new future IEEE-standards.
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Those aren't values, they're PR techniques. This whole non-event is made entirely out of image vapor and really shouldn't be hard to handle.

They've got a top-notch environmental story regardless of what sticker is on what webpage. They're clearly trying in their designs to use less toxic materials. They're clearly working on energy efficiency. They buy back almost any old equipment. They recycle any old equipment for free, including free shipping for chrissakes. And they're swearing up and down they're not just binning their recyclables and washing their hands as it ships off.
Thanks! I took a screenwriting course a couple of years ago, and the first exercise was writing dialogue as a 17-year-old girl. It was rather mind-bending. While developing BrainTripping I was often surprised by word combinations that are second nature to me, but other people never use (and vice versa).
Not that I’m aware of. Feel free to open an issue https://github.com/EtienneLem/skeleton/issues and we’ll try to figure it out
A short blurb explaining what the website does wouldn't hurt.
Maybe I misread the article but I don't recall him saying he's trying get rid of his goofball image altogether. I'd say he's trying to gradually tone it down and keep it controlled to certain situations (i.e. although it may be a part of who he is, it doesn't need to apply to Groupon).

I'm glad he did this interview since it is putting faith back into investors and the general public. It's pretty apparent that he is looking to do more than just sell daily coupons or sellout to a company offering him billions of dollars. He seems genuinely interested in doing something good with Groupon. Though he still has a ways to go, I give him respect for doing it for the right reasons.
Opposing fraud and for the "free market" (aka laissez faire) are mutually exclusive. Just wishful thinking.

On open market requires regulation. For instance, we need contract law, transparency, fair and impartial court system, for the market to work efficiently and effectively.
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Evernotify is that one feature you have been missing in Evernote. Its especially aimed at those who track their TODO's and IOU's in Evernote. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Evernote sent us reminders or alerts about the pending items in our notes? Well thats where Evernotify comes in.

All you need to do is connect your Evernotify account with Evernote and tag your notes with 'evernotify' and leave the rest to Evernotify. It will extract your todo's and iou's from inside your notes and present it in a nice readable format. You can then set how often you wish to receive reminders about your pending items. Please feel free to give it a try and let us know what you think of it.
Unfortunately, they are. However, I don't think most insurance companies put you into a lower category based on BMI alone until you hit 27 or so. It's still possible to be at a healthy body fat percentage and have a BMI of 27 or higher, but obviously it's not as likely as it is at the cutoff of 25.

Overall, I think BMI is probably a pretty good overall metric, just not a good diagnosis for an individual. For instance, a physician might notice that a patient has a BMI above 25, but then see that waist to height ratio or a bf measurement looks very favorable.

From a broad numbers perspective, I think BMI is probably very useful - for instance, if you notice that a higher percentage of a population has a BMI in excess of 27 than in previous years, you can safely estimate that the population is becoming increasingly overweight. I suspect that the situation where people have high bmi's with low body fat is limited to a small number of athletes who are not typical of the population at large.
I think there's another factor that is subtle but powerful: comments are forever. You can't edit or even delete your comments. So unless you really screwed up and convince a mod to delete it for you, that comment's going to be up there attached to your handle. At least for me, that makes me much more careful about what I say. Not that I'm in the habit of deleting or second guessing posts after the fact on HN or elsewhere, but the awareness that you're chiseling in stone makes for a different mindset.
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She (?) is hardly the only one who'd noticed:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/the-ipads-name-make...

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-27/tech/apple.ipad.reaction_...

Sample comment: "Are there any women in Apple marketing?" asked Brooke Hammerling, founder of Brew Media Relations, a technology public relations firm. "The first impression of every single woman I've spoken to is that it's cringe-inducing. It indicates to me that there wasn't a lot of testing or feedback."

(google iPad + feminine hygiene for lots more examples)

Generally, I think your comment, while perfectly sensible, highlights one of the main problems touched upon in the article.

The author is trying to tell us is that it's important accept the reactions of those who have first-hand experience at face value. No need to apply a rigorous is-this-a-100%-rational-reaction test every time someone says they feel a certain way.

Finally, it is absolutely not necessary for Apple's entire marketing department to be male. The parent could be talking about focus group input, not employee input. In fact, it's likely that iPad's cringe-worthiness was immediately apparent to the women at Apple but they didn't speak up simply because it's embarrassing to talk about periods at work.
Well what do they expect if they kick out a perfectly good elite hereditary monarchy and try and run their little colony with a bunch of meritocratic presidents!
it should be noted that they didn't explain. They left. They came back. They apologized. They never explained.
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reddit is still a great site once you remove the default subreddits and find some of the more active but smaller subreddits. /r/truereddit regularly has in depth articles that are still accessible to a general audience.

Science subreddits with a cognitive barrier to entry like /r/neuro are a great source of news specific their scientific communities. Geographic subreddits such as /r/[yourmetro] are also a great way to keep in touch with the general vibe and events of your city.
Apple fanatics have similar brain patterns to religious people. No amount of logic and reason will sway them. I recently had discussion with a bartender who was asking about my rubber case that was on my iphone. He didn't like it because it didn't have a cut out for the apple symbol to show through. I asked him why does it matter and he replied "i want people to know i use apple products because it represents who i am". Criticizing Apple would be the same as criticizing them in their minds.

Article on brain scans
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-causes-religiou...
A lot of times founders don't have the knowledge to know the difference between a good designer and a bad designer. So I can try to pick one of the 10 I talked to and get one set of designs that I have to pay for or I can go to 99design and get 100 to look at and choose one to pay for. Once I get that design I can go back to a designer to tweak things if I need to, but more likely I will reach out to the person on 99 that designed it to help.
Hand waving without substantive evidence to support your position is generally frowned upon here.

I do not see how the non-support of WebGL and Ogg supports your position that the IE team is dragging its heels.

Chrome and Firefox do not support CSS Grid Layout or CSS Regions by default, but that doesn't mean their teams are dragging their feet.
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In coffeescript 1.3.1 this code:

a = 3
b = ->
for a in [6,7,8]
c = a
b()
console.log(a)

would print "3". In coffeescript 1.3.3 it prints "8".

The solution is either to rename one of the 'a' variables or add

`var a`

in the b() function.

Coming from C where I always (ok 99% of the time) do:

for (int i=0; ...)

the loop scoping rules in the 1.3.1 version of coffeescript felt natural. The 1.3.3 change feels stupid.
> Apple replaces the battery for $200, no questions asked. I don’t think they replace the whole Retina MacBook Pro every time they do that, so they must remove the glued-in battery, and that inside a working laptop. If Apple can do it, so can you (especially with a laptop that’s beyond repair).

This is the best explanation I've seen. Somehow everyone has forgotten this.
Absolutely agreed on Parse. My only criticism is bookmarking doesn't work very well.

Mashery also puts together some solid docs via their iodocs system - https://github.com/mashery/iodocs/
Because if you guess my PIN correctly there's not much you can do with it unless you also have my card.
Love the ability to download the trip so I can add it to my own site.
Digg did not kill Digg. Nor did Reddit, nor Facebook. People using Digg killed it. The same people are now killing Reddit, making it little more than a place to regurgitate memes, nerd pop culture, and rage comics. Reddit and Digg both used to be places to go for interesting discussion based off decent links. Over time, good and insightful discussion gave way to quick-to-consume, funny one-liners. You can see it happening in popular subreddits. Recently the moderators of /r/science started taking a heavy hand and deleting irrelevant comments.

This isn't a problem with the sites, it's a problem with the users of these sites. This is democracy in action. It's cable news. People voting don't want to see challenging, thought-provoking content. They want to see things that confirm their biases, or things they can repost to facebook for quick laughs from their friends.