skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, by looking at Apple and its products in isolation the author is missing the big picture on how the company itself could be disrupted.

> the theory of low-end disruption is fundamentally flawed

Android phones started eating Apple's market share from the bottom-up aka 'low end'. While Apple may have created the market for smartphones and tablets, fact is both iOS and iPad are conclusively losing market share.

- http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/29/apples-ipad-market-share-c...

- http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24257413

The standard response to Apple's falling market share has been "Market share doesn't matter, only profits do."

That argument was demolished by Samsung when it overtook Apple a few months back to become the most profitable phone maker in the world.

- http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/26/samsung-ap...

It's easy to overlook those trends because the overall market is growing so fast, to the extend that Apple's fall in market share is masked over by its growth in revenue.

As I see it there are two parallel trends that are taking place - (a) Apple's products continue to 'disrupt' an older generation of competitors like PCs and featurephones, while (b) a newer generation of competitors led chiefly by Android continue to steadily disrupt Apple.
So you're going with a slippery slope argument? This thing could cause that thing that could cause that bad thing, so this thing is bad? I suppose that is something that could happen in the future. It's not a likely problem to complain about with this particular implementation.
If the majority of other states lost jobs, then it's quite feasible for any state with positive job growth to have created more jobs than the rest combined.

edit: It's also feasible for the state which lost the most jobs, to still not have lost as much as all the other states combined.
Actually the truth is almost exactly the opposite.

Every government in history has not had the ability to monitor and record the majority of conversations people have; the cost would have been too great. The USA with the NSA is the first to approach that ability.
Online educational videos.

99.99% of online educational videos suck. For example, watching the video is so painful that all I can think about is "how do I get out of here?". (Possibly I am spoiled from watching too many popular vlogs on YouTube.)

The other 0.01% of online educational videos that don't suck prove that it is possible to make such videos. The best examples I can find are RailsCasts and "Math Antics" (the first is for grownups, the second is aimed more at children, but I would watch something like Math Antics that had more advanced content).
I hate to burst your bubble: http://www.idsia.ch/idsiareport/IDSIA-12-06.pdf
Come to Texas, follow the grackles, bring a broom. you can get crickets by the truckload.
That's a pretty hard judgment based on, well, nothing.
Was checking to see if someone had put this out there. Avid user of the Action Books, highly recommended.
"In Sydney you think it is a comedy. In Canberra we see it as a documentary".
He's also very normal on a human level if you just step back for a moment.

He's a programmer, so being awkward in interviews makes sense when he's starting out. He's young and arrogant, and therefore there's probably records of dumb comments he's made. He's also getting older and more mature, so I'm sure he's changed his mind on a few things.

All of this strikes me as a normal, reasonably honest person, and really that's about as much as you can ask for.
Despite all the claims of how insecure this is, I've just checked a bunch of my stuff. I cannot find a single clear print. There are a few smudged prints on my laptop and coffee cup. My phone is just smudges all over.

So what is a realistic way to clandestinely grab a print?
As with all acquisitions, if they give them a healthy amount of autonomy and give them more resources than they would've had as a startup, then I can see this going pretty well. Huge and improbable "if", but it's worth pointing out.
> Asked by The Hindu why a friendly country like India was subjected to so much surveillance by the U.S., a spokesman of the U.S. government’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence said: “The U.S. government will respond through diplomatic channels to our partners and allies. While we are not going to comment publicly on every specific alleged intelligence activity, as a matter of policy we have made clear that the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations. We value our cooperation with all countries on issues of mutual concern.”The DNI spokesman chose not to respond to questions about how the NSA managed to pick so much data from India — 13.5 billion pieces of information in just one month — especially from its telephone networks, and about whether it had received the cooperation of Indian telecom companies.
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I really have no friends or family that I can rely on here, my family is toxic. So going anywhere else isn't going to make a difference. I mean, I am approaching a point where I'm just going to go off the deep end, so really anything looks good right now.
This seems incorrect, unless you are prohibited purely by fiat (in which case it's a demonstration of how hostile your particular business is to the AGPLv3, not vice-versa). Requirements of GPL or AGPL licenses don't encumber you if you're not interacting with others (distributing software to them, or - with AGPL - providing a service).
I don't know, reproducing a fingerprint is relatively easy to understand (just scan and print), while cracking a password can be more exotic to 'traditional' thieves. When today they'd just wipe the phone, tomorrow they make take the extra step of pulling out the SIM card and unlock with the fingerprint, and sell the data as well.
Why not? We switched from PayPal to Braintree explicitly because PayPal was too broken for our use case. Is there some indication to expect that Braintree won't be integrated into the rest of PayPal in the case of an acquisition?
I lived in Mexico for two years after the crisis of 2008. It was already obvious then that the median college graduate in Mexico had a higher material quality of life than the average American college grad.

The wages are lower but the Mexican cost of living hasn't been bid up by severe development restrictions, badly planned infrastructure, and finance industry corruption. Middle class life south of the border is more comfortable than in the USA because prices for housing and transportation aren't driven by status bidding wars for the limited set of safe, quality locations and good school districts.

Unskilled workers still make a lot more in the USA and have a richer life there, but the smaller Mexican educated class is maintaining its quality of life as it expands. It already matches the wealth north of the Rio Grande.

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I should add an example.

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For example, imagine we're comparing LA to Guadalajara or SF to Mexico City. With a degree from a good school, a civil servant might start out making $750 a month in Mexico or $2200 a month in the USA, after taxes. A decent small shared apartment will cost $200 in Mexico or $800 in the USA. The American will need a car for at least $400 a month, but cheap, efficient, and somewhat comfortable public transit is available all over Mexico. Electronics and internet cost the same. Splurging out at a nice restaurant can be done for $15 a person in Mexico that compares to $60 a person in LA or SF. The Mexican will graduate without any student loan debt while the American is paying every month, so that nice restaurant will be out of reach in El Norte, anyway.

A fairly well paid engineer in Mexico might be making $2200 a month while his American equivalent makes $7000, after taxes (think $100k-$140k US salary) . A nice apartment in a fancy part of Mexico City suitable for a family might cost $800 a month, but development policy has kept single family homes equally affordable in central areas, too. Nice apartments in SF cost $3500 a month and houses cost much more. Most professionals in urban Mexico don't need or want a car, but in SF the engineer and his spouse will both spend so much time in one that they'll need two nice cars and dedicated parking. Okay, I already can't figure out how the US person can afford to have a family at all; maybe that's why they don't. The Mexican engineer will be living pretty and thinking about a third kid. And Gosh help the American if he ever needs health care.

On the other hand, the minimum wage for unskilled labor in Mexico is about $5 a day.
> From what I've found online, chip-PIN does indeed reduce fraud, but when fraud does happen, it becomes extraordinarily difficult for the cardholder to get a refund from the bank.

I live in Europe, and twice in the last two years or so my card details have been compromised, and both times my bank has rang me to notify me of suspicious transactions before I'd even noticed. It depends on the bank (and the country most likely) with regards to getting a refund. I got refunds no problem, but I've heard people having problems in the UK. The fraud happened online (not sure how, I'm reasonably tech savvy and careful with my card details).
I've already done so much traveling, I don't know if that would help me. I mean, I basically live pretty cheap right now where I am. Depending on how well my investments do, I'm probably making 40k per year. I guess I could, I'm just worried I would go further down the spiral. I'm pretty worried about my life right now.
This is just awesome. Right way of getting streams into your head. In just a day, I could complete the first two tutorials and I feel more comfortable.

Thanks.
No. It's appeal to authority.
Don't mistrust Mozilla because of their Google relations. Such conflicts of interest are complex, but this is a case where things are quite complex. It may be less than ideal, but Mozilla is still overwhelmingly positive.
That I completely agree with.

Every tool has a scope that it has to be used on. If you use Excel in situations where you need team collaborations, stability, or other really advanced stuff, you're doomed.

However, if you just need to check a quick hypothethis, or mock up a solution, it's really the best tool for the job.
It removes proprietary parts of the system.
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Except, there is a larger point that CCC is making:

> fingerprint biometrics is unsuitable as access control method and should be avoided.

What happens when the next set of hackers figure out how to remotely access and extract the fingerprints (hashed, secured, whatever) stored on the iPhone itself?
This is a pretty well known phenomenon.

http://www.npr.org/2010/10/02/130272928/midnight-shopping-on...
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> Stallman has always believed that software should not be sold

There is very little in this world any more completely and clearly false as that statement. Stallman has himself sold software and advocates that others do so too, in fact selling software is one of the freedoms he advocates that must be protected!
It's actually a pretty remarkable claim. Anyone know where these numbers come from? Or why they use the phrase "the past few years" instead of something more precise? I'd like to use this fact in the future, but first I want to verify that it's not a weird statistical artifact.
I'd speculate that India was targeted given the ratio of Indian nationals in the tech industry. Maybe they are easier to blackmail into assets for the NSA, or it could just be simply due to numbers... but given that there are so many Indian engineers with H1Bs - it would be utterly incredible if we were to see a leak where an H1B recipient was "handled" through coercion by "You'll get this H1B if..."
I don't really think it is relevant. The iTunes authorisation for example wouldn't be sent the fingerprint information, it would be sent the response 'yes the person passed the test'.

The fingerprint information stored in the 'secure enclave' of the A7 is a combination of the data related to the fingerprint combined with unique information for that specific device. So even if the data could be extracted, using it for any purpose other than unlocking that specific phone would be impossible.
One day a payment company will refuse to be acquired and give paypal a run for their money. Paypal fees are just too expensive and I have to believe there's a company who will want to disrupt and take on Paypal rather than succumb to them.
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UI on the web is dead
Literally every single update to an existing website/app is less usable/aesthetically pleasing from the one it replaced.

Stupid shit like making keyboard shortcuts unusable (yahoo mail). And this new ios update is horrific.

Am i the only one that has noticed this? Im so sick of this crap.
http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/inseption.png

I like how it says "Your drawing looks good". Why doesn't gcc ever compliment my code?
Just really curious, I don't know anyone who hates PG... Who would hate him, and aside from envy, why?
Instead of using a corpus, why not select tweets from a list of followers and re-tweet them? This would make your encoded messages more like a natural twitter stream. You could curate followers lists to be themed around a subject (tech, gardening) to make them more naturally align with the rest of your twitter stream.

Edit: oops, this idea was already mentioned by akkatirk elsewhere in this thread.
You can solve this by going back to old gmail via chrome ext

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fix-compose-for-gm...

I love it.
Healthcare: Cancer treatments and cancer drugs for fixing cancer and improving the patient's life. Sometimes, Chemio can be devastating.

Self-treatments on demand: someday, you wont need to go in a doctor office for diagnoses, medical check-ups and treatments.
I think he's got a point - users won't jump ship because Braintree (and Venmo) are now PayPal products, they'll jump ship because PayPal ruins them with fees, long payout times, etc...
You have got to be kidding me. The machine this server runs on must have a lot of RAM!
No, it's not. The one in Speyer is 0.02 OK-GLI, forgotten and found again in Bahrain (which is a whole story by itself).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-GLI

(BTW: living in Speyer is very cool for tech-freaks: every once in while, they bring in a new plane, or a submarine...)
As someone who's tried to explain this issue several times to laypeople, there's not much else that can be done. It really just does not resonate with anyone who isn't in the field and doesn't understand what software really is or how copyright works; most people not in the business just download everything on filesharing networks anyway, they couldn't care less about software licensing.

The only thing that really can be done is to fund and promote the development of free software replacements for software that everyone wants to use, which the FSF is already doing and has been doing for quite some time.
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A lot of companies we often hear about aren't profitable.
>I don't really think it is relevant. The iTunes authorisation for example wouldn't be sent the fingerprint information, it would be sent the response 'yes the person passed the test'.

No, it wouldn't send that response at all. That's called a client-side security control, and I'm sure you can think of why that's out of the question in any system.
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This was with Twisted 10.1.0 and Python 2.6.6. I remember being in extreme disbelief when I found that it was using select/poll instead of epoll (who does that, especially when they already have epoll support?). I ended up writing this:

for reactor in ["epoll", "kq"]:
try:
rn = reactor + "reactor"
getattr(__import__("twisted.internet", fromlist=[rn], rn).install()
print "Auto-selecting reactor: " + reactor
break
except ImportError:
pass
Not really, the type of animations they're doing are very cheap and can be performed entirely on GPU, without using much memory bandwidth, I/O, or CPU time.
That's why you need a unlock pattern that intersects / overlaps itself. (Not foolproof, just makes that attack harder.)
Mark is younger than everyone on that list, so I'll suggest that it has more to do with age. Everyone has insight in their respective fields, but I think a certain level of adversity and time is necessary for one to turn a lot of that insight into wisdom. Tesla and Spacex almost didn't make it out alive during the 2008 financial crisis, and I recall Musk mentioning that when it looked like his two companies would be a failure, he'd wake up with tears on his pillow.

I think at the moment, Mark is definitely trying to not upset his share price by saying something that doesn't need to be said. We don't know how he is internalizing things right now. Hopefully we will get more wisdom from him in the future, that stuff doesn't just grow on trees.

Gates is pretty interesting from whatever talks/interviews I can remember.
Your random thief is more worried about cell phone tracking than any data you have on your phone. They will wipe it as soon as possible today, and probably for the next few years; they don't give a crap about your cat photos.

Even if your phone was unlocked, they probably wouldn't bother more than a cursory glance. They have more phones to steal than to bother with is on some random person's phone. When the data is important, the theft will be more targeted.
Yep, this was on a Debian 6.0.2 install, with packages from apt.
I don't subscribe to the belief that people deserve to die for driving off the cliff. The reality is they should just take the bus.
At some point the motivation for verifying transactions (mining) will become the attached transaction fee.

At this point laws of supply&demand become applicable: If the number of miners gets small, transaction fees will rise and mining becomes more profitable.

Of course this is all theoretical. The network might die if the number of people accepting bitcoins as payment becomes too low.
Since they'd reverse the charges anyway...

You're baselessly asserting your position, though.

If you write your pin on your ATM card, they will not refund you. That is policy and they ask everytime you lose your card. The bank views this as lack of due care. Likewise, if you leave copies of your fingerprints on your payment device, they could argue that you are likewise acting with un-reasonable care.

Now that this has been (so easily?) spoofed, is it reasonable to believe it is secure? That is a valid concern. Unlike a pin, you cannot reset a fingerprint security mechanism. So when it is compromised, it is over. So, the result is messy in that it puts you in a problem using today's standard practices, but at the same time, the standard practice "defense" is not applicable, and lacks an obvious alternative.

This is not a strawman, its a legitimate edge case.
Could you run a successful business with your ex-partner?
When I heard the news of BBM for iOS launched, I did search in App Store, nothing but just could see a white blank screen. Then I used google to find the direct link, can't even open that in App Store.
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Pricing underpins everything you do
If I were a Braintree customer I'd jump ship now before things get bad. Why wait? PayPal have a long history and are a known entity. There's no reason they wouldn't turn Braintree into something that feels like a PayPal company shortly after the celebrations are over and the ink is dry.

If you're a Braintree customer, jump ship while times are good before the storm arrives.
I think it's quite clear what I'm suggesting and if you think that it's above Google to take part of some tech conspiracy, well bless your little soul.
He became an investment banker. He became a capitalist.

He is in the trade of making percentages off of real work.

Envy? No, I would never be a person that depended, even in the slightest, on fictional gains based on spreadsheets.

He is a creature of greed. And yes, pg, I'm somewhat confident you'll read this.
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That's not true. Most non-idiots that I know have no idea what an ESN even is.
PayPal's problem isn't so much their fees (although that's an issue) but their utter disregard for their customers. The fact they'll arbitrarily freeze an account for seemingly nothing more than shits and giggles is counter to the kind of stable experience you'd expect and want from a payment provider. The fact there is little recourse when the fuckup fairy strikes is what's most concerning though.
I wouldn't cite Lawrence Lessig as unbiased.
Altered processing of sweet taste in the brain of diet soda drinkers
That is a problem with your employer, not a problem with the AGPL...
Snapshotting and log replay should be fairly straightforward, if you save all sql statements in their entirety. Snapshots would stop the world, which might pose a problem, but I presume this is no different to other event sourcing solutions. Given the concurrency of a db, I'm also not sure that there's a strict ordering of all incoming statements.

Edit: Seems like at least Oracle is already doing this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redo_log
I would love to hear DHH's thoughts on this because:

a) He recommended Braintree from Day 1 as an interesting payments company.

b) He liked that they were Bootstrapped.

c) They took a lot of funding and that seems to have gone sour.

d) They are being acquired - in what looks like a desperation sale.

e) They are being acquired by Paypal - which I am sure I have heard him hate on.

If he will talk publicly about this...that would be quite interesting.

I imagine now, he may consider moving all his payments to Stripe.
Oh, for fuck's sake.

Comrade, I look forward to reading your riveting manifesto .. elsewhere.
Ah sorry... I was just being sloppy, what I wrote doesn't make sense. What I meant was "order of magnitude", but I'm not sure how to write that; Big Theta says two functions grow within a constant factor of each other, which is vaguely similar to the notion of order of magnitude. Maybe it should have been "$~10^9$" or just "$10^9$".

(By the way, my reasoning was 10^4 for current cryonics prices, times 10^7 or 10^8 people, times 10^-2 or 10^-3 assuming a fee of 1% to 0.1%.)
I think he has to open it up and shake it out every week or so or it gets clogged.
Broadly speaking, biology.
The Cortex exoskeletal cast
Ask HN: Website that generates promotional screenshots on Apple Devices
Hi HN,

A little while ago somebody created a site that enabled you to upload an image ie a screenshot of your web page and it would automatically overlay the image onto a photo of a guy's macbook... or ipad or whatever else you wanted it to be. I can't for the life of me find it again.

Does anyone have the link to it?
I'm guessing that you could get by with some pretty simple caching. Judging by the timestamps of the new comments, there don't seem to be more than say 2 comments per minute. I'm guessing that there are even fewer new posts and probably more upvotes. But I still feel like you could get by with very little in terms of HW.
Yet 85000 people die each year of alcohol abuse. Legalizing marijuana as a substitute for alcohol would save thousands of lives each year. I would pick my battles, this issue seems very minor in comparison to the real problems.