skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should we stop referring to adhesive bandages as Band-Aids? J&J has certainly made its share of controversial moves over the years.
I am not sure how to interpret this statement:

"Yes, we have benefitted financially from our work, just as many others in the jailbreak community have, including tweak developers, repo owners, etc. Any jailbreak from us will always be free to the users but we believe we have a right to be compensated in an ethical way, just as any other developer. "

In my world view people do work in exchange for money, there are two sets of people, people who make money through legal means, and people who make money through illegal means. On the border of those two realms are people who walk back and forth over the line between legal and illegal. If you're 'productizing' a jailbreak (nominally legal in some countries, illegal in others) the people you're going to get money from are the folks on the illegal side of the line.

Given that world view you want to be compensated in an 'ethical way' by people who threw ethics out the window? That is what I have trouble with.
The internet is for cat and food pics. I'm pretty sure an old RFC mandated it so.

At one point, Facebook had catbook and dogbook apps. No idea if they are still there.
Democracies can be characterized by "one person, one vote" whereas at best markets are "one dollar, one vote."

The public does not share equal responsibility for decisions of markets. Not by a long shot.
I come at it from a different angle. I support and assist open source projects where possible, I use an unlocked Nexus device and will be buying a Jolla phone ASAP. I don't like the trend towards closed devices either.

I think the "war on general purpose computing" was a term coined by Doctorow (or Stallman?) and I have to agree with it in principle. I just can't go all the way and use a Longsoon-based MIPS device because of performance concerns.

It's not quite black and white. I can quite happily buy a PS4 (did you see the list of open-source software they used?) and still support the FSF and EFF as necessary.
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A simpler implementation off the top of my head, although I can not verify immediately how good the results would be:

Instead of generating a convex hull, use polar coordinates and generate points in a circle or ellipse with a random radius modifier (since these tracks don't have overlaps this method should work fine). You can pretty easily control the spacing and delta in the radius and theta, and then just use Bezier curves from there which should not have weird cusps that the author describes if your spacing is correct. With a few modifiers (like using Manhattan distance for the radial measurement) you can make some variations like more "square" tracks although this would introduce (potentially) new complications.

That said, the author's implementation works great regardless of complexity and would probably fair better with more complex track types.
It doesn't take an overtly political article to upset ideological sensibilities. Since technology is inherently intertwined with ideology, it's not possible to have a fruitful discussion on any topic concerning technology (perhaps aside from certain pure technicalities) without stepping on any ideological toes.
This was both humorous and interesting. The people complaining about the wheelchair aspect need to stop and think about their own projections around the word "wheelchair".
The railroad has been there for 125 years. Warren Buffet merely owns it at the present.
It's all just relative though. If the resource is the job itself, then you have CRUD over REST for the job resource. The queue processing the job is a RESTful consumer as well, updating the job with information about the resulting new resource.

That is all RESTful. Whether or not its useful is a different question.
On a related note, I remember when Buffet started investing in rail.

As with virtually everything he does there was a chorus of analysts calling him senile and subsequently laughing at the lack of instant returns.

Although his incredible bankroll surely affords him an ability to invest in ways others simply can't, he consistently seems to "get it" in ways others just don't.
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> why executive compensation in the US is so much higher than in Europe

+1 for something actually interesting to ponder in this whole thread!
Even funnier, WebRTC was originally open sourced by Google [0].

[0] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webrtc/2011May/00...
Did they change the text? What I'm seeing is:

> SaurikIT had been in talks with Chinese companies regarding potential partnerships, made a counteroffer. We believe they share our views on how a relationship with companies in China currently utilizing jailbreaking might benefit everyone in the community. Unfortunately, the negotiations did not work out. A few days later, we received information that SaurikIT was working with another group to release a jailbreak ahead of us. We decided to release, knowing that Cydia, MobileSubstrate, and jailbreak tweaks would be updated after a few days, just as it always has in the course of jailbreaking.

Which seems honest and clear enough (financial incentives and potential loss of the contract motivated the release) without the whole "shame on saurik" thing.
I'm 54 and am an old fart.

> This morning, I walked four miles in the Seattle rain.

Ya got me beat. I was waiting for things to dry up a bit before going running.
We're just speculating here :)
It depends totally on how your local legal system meddles with the market.

If you rent money from the bank, there are all manner of crazy terms ranging from fixed to adjustable to a variety of bankruptcy inducing option / balloon payment schemes. In Europe they only offer short adjustable terms. You never signed a contract with the local taxing authority you're renting the land from; some places thats stable, some not. I pay about $300/month rent to the city to rent the land my house is on. If you don't believe you're a renter instead of an owner, go ahead and try not paying your prop tax and see who really owns the land.

If you rent a box from a landlord, there are a variety of lease terms which depend on local and state law in addition to whatever deal you make. I lived in a bachelor pad for six years and had my rent locked in for two. Its a big planet, I suspect there are strictly month to month rentals out there, and there are probably also five year lease terms, if you want extremes.

It is true that all things considered renting is more flexible but each division has more internal diversity than the average difference in diversity of both classes.
Cool, you can buy CC's there using bitcoin (also Western Union, MoneyGram, and Lesspay). Explains why you can't do the reverse (buy bitcoin with a CC).
the overwhelming majority of those $37 million dollars per day is going to go toward philanthropist aims once the man croaks

Is it better to distribute economic surplus immediately through higher wages or later through philanthropy? Economists have probably studied this question but I don't know how to find that research.
I like Thoughtbot's dotfiles. https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles
Pretending that one can live in a world that isn't deeply political requires a massive amount of privilege, ignorance, or both. Discussing those who are left out or even harmed by the economic and technologic trends that our industry contributes to is a lot more important, valuable, and relevant than reading about some kid's failed startups again and again.
Chrome (and Firefox for that matter) are doing what they should be. The default encoding for HTTP is ISO-8859-1 and the Content-Type header doesn't specify a charset, so that is what the browsers are displaying it as.
>This isn’t about gentrification, as some people are making it. It’s about how pissed people are a Google.

Above statement is false, no matter how much author or submitter want it to be true. The author insinuates he left because of rent, but more digging reveals another cause.

People aren't smashing bus windows because of NSA revelations or other privacy violations, it's because they are being hit hard in the wallet and the buses are a visible source of it.
Just to point out that evad3rs are basically the core group within the iPhone Dev Team. I wouldn't really trust future Dev Team jailbreaks anymore either.
Wow, I'm shocked by the destructive anger in your post. Does it really bother you that much that someone owns a Land Rover, so much that you wish someone in the Mission would vandalize it? It's not enough that almost everyone owns a car these days, the cars have to all be equally good or we're going to start damaging the ones that are better because you think it's unfair?
Yep. When Fairchild Semi was founded in 1957 most of the county was just orchards. It's only been half a century but there are no remnants of rural life in any vaguely flat part of the Bay Area.
The Navy has been having a lot of problems with their officers:

http://www.navytimes.com/article/99999999/CAREERS/302050309

USS Enterprise captain relieved:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/04/navy.videos/

USS Stennis Captain and his boss get into a biggest dick contest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/us/rear-admiral-charles-m-...

Pacific commanders:
http://nation.time.com/2013/10/03/second-warship-commander-r...
If SF was undergoing business-as-usual capitalist growth, a lot more housing would have been built, and fewer people would have been displaced.
This source is... less than reliable as they have no idea what they're talking about. It's not hard to find high school students with a better grasp of this subject than this reporter, sadly. Apparently there are still many sources that have yet to figure out that things like dosage, length of exposure and type of radiation matter quite a bit, though oddly enough, it seems like many would be more likely to understand this if it were ordinary toxic chemical exposure.

That said, I wouldn't weigh things too heavily either way, just because these folks are breaking the news. I very much doubt we have the whole story here and I would prefer not to weigh in until all the information is out. Other commentators on HN have noted that this was a nuclear carrier, so there should be proper records of their exposure (not to mention alternate routes of exposure...) which should be properly evaluated before rushing to judgement here, but there are simply too many possibilities to sensibly evaluate them all without more information.

For example, the article makes it sound like they were exposed to radioactive iodine (due to the thyroid conditions), something I would have expected the carrier to detect, and for which we have reasonable counter-measures (iodine pills). I do not have any insight into what went wrong, but I would focus my investigation on their records of exposure, any treatments, etc. My gut tells me that someone screwed up here, but we lack information sufficient to determine who, and everything is suspect.

That aside, radiation sickness is a terrible thing, and hope they are able to recover.
Who said the world isn't political? Did I say that? Did I say I don't care about politics?

Pretending that Hacker News is the whole world is kind of bizarre. I do not appreciate your condescending attitude.
Hi Walter. We've never met, but I recognize your name from things you've done in the Seattle area over the last 20 - 30 years. Good to hear from you.
While this may be somewhat useful (particularly due to more fine-grained auth), I believe Redis is already being mostly-RESTful as REST is not about transporting data using HTTP. It's - going by Wikipedia list on REST constraitns - client-server (check), mostly stateless (check; states are only for pubsub and transactions), cacheable (uhm... partially), layered (check), and even has code-on-demand features.
Once upon a time "Escalator" was a trademarked brand name. Kleenex fought hard to retain it's trademark, and Coca-Cola lost the battle for the word "Cola", keeping only "Coke".

It happens. It's part of language. Over time, former brand names lose their significance and slowly slip into common use. That is a perfectly valid way for words to be coined, and probably is the most common way. That's how language works, and it seems that the word "Google" is going that way too.
Forget VoLTE now there is VoDKA :-)
This is going to be downvoted, but it needs to be said: voting and petitioning is part of the political process, but so is participating in politics as an elected or unelected official.

Being a politician gives you an entirely different set of powers, because you get to decide what people get to vote on. You can put facts on the ground. "Direct action" also puts facts on the ground and gives some balance to the political process.
Is that the goal of life? Incessant scientific progress?
It takes a lot of balls to stand up to the US government, under the threat of jail time and huge fines. Full respect to Ladar Levison.
I have, I agree. However the common design patterns for REST APIs encourage canonical URIs for resources, and discourage the same resource being retrieved from multiple locations - which heterogenous collections inevitably lead to.

Perhaps I should have said discouraged in the common patterns for implementing REST and REST-like APIs.
"I played a central role in setting up this all-encompassing surveillance, but now that it's been in operation for years, I realize it could be used for naughty things. It's time to blow the whistle on this!"

Binney's case is interesting, to say the least.
Its not nitpicking the title. Its nitpicking the argument. While I don't live near San Fransisco and can't immediately relate to the geographical arguments around Philadelphia I have heard the same arguments for the past two decades. Neighborhoods protesting because they are "forgotten" as anyone with the means to do so leaves the mess of crime, drugs, and poor schooling. Then as the neighborhoods are revitalized bringing with them the resource to tackle those problems the same residents complain that they are being displaced and that its just a conspiracy against minorities, and the working man.
Well, it's simple.

-Greedy elites in England monopolized land and subjected working people to indenture, peonage, servitude, and low wages. The elites got richer and richer as living standards stagnated.

-Urbanization and the early stages industrial revolution created opportunities for working families. Wages were driven up in the countryside. Elites wanted to import slaves to drive down wages but the English people blocked them.

-Elites formed colonies in America and imported slaves in vast numbers. African-Americans eventually gained citizenship and freedom but are still exploited as a low wage class. Civil rights measures are only slowly improving African-American wages.

-As African-American wages started to rise, elites in America wanted to import a cheap underclass to drive down wages of working people. The Reagan administration and Congress agree to stop enforcing immigration laws so that big employers can exploit millions of illegal immigrant workers from Latin America.

-Latin American immigrants are attracted by the promise of eventual amnesties and then exploited by a system that expels them from the country if they demand their rights as workers. The civil rights and labor laws are effectively nullified and a vast underclass develops.
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Can anyone with a line in on how much jail breakers make for these contact me? john@techcrunch dotter commer. Thanks.
BTW, if anyone was going to post this to reddit, don't bother. I posted it to /r/technology and /r/apple but davidreiss666 removed both links with no explanation.
"intrinsic value"

Intrinsic liability, you mean. My little plot of land comes with a $300/month prop tax liability aka "rent" in addition to the costs of ownership. And of course land comes with unlimited legal liability unless you pay $50/month or so for liability insurance.

BTC of course costs nothing to store, although most people who will store it for you would like to skim, and/or there is some fundamental lower limit on the cost of storing/maintaining a wallet.

As for gold, you'd be shocked what can be fit into a mere $25 credit union safe deposit box and for the $350/month that my land costs, I could get a safe deposit box big enough to park a motorcycle or scooter in it.

In some ways gold is free, in the same way that unless you're a lunatic you have some kind of off site digital backup scheme with flash drives getting rotated monthly or so into a safe deposit box so the empty space could hold some coin. Of course in the same way BTC is free because you've got a backup scheme anyway and a wallet is pretty small. Either are much cheaper than "owning" land.
open croquet, now developed as open cobalt http://www.opencobalt.org/
It's all a part of being a self fulfilling media node :-) surprised that no one has rebooted Nathan Barley yet.
>> There's little evidence the true motivation was to defeat terrorism

It was never about terrorism. In fact, governments like terrorism because it gives them an excuse to grab more power and strip people of their liberties. The surveillance is about control, power and maintaining it. It's meant to be used against the general populace.
Haha. I love it!
How does this make someone a meme..?
If I were a city planner, I'd require that all new (or renovated) appartement buildings include a percentage of "affordable appartements", with fixed limits on the cost per square foot. That's how cities like Vienna keep rents affordable.
Tim Cook tells employees Apple has ‘big plans’ for 2014
funny how the anti gentrification activists are all white where are the latino and black people who have been gentrified or where they gentrified out a generation ago so they dont count any more?
This is great! I used Sense (chrome extension that does something similar) to define my Elasticsearch behavior a few weeks ago, but this looks like it has more going on so I'll definitely bookmark it and pull it up next time.
It's only 147 pages. Is this Vol I and II?
I find your closed mindedness disturbing. I have tons more sympathy towards people struggling against gentrification, however they believe is appropriate, than overprivileged silicon valley employees who believe the world is anything approaching a meritocracy.

You and others can believe that those of us who feel this way are noncontributing leeches or don't belong here or what have you, but I am a Google engineer who works hard in this industry. There are things that are downright unfair in this world and the continuous displacement of peoples, many of whom have had little opportunity and faced constant oppression, ranks high among them in my book.
Returning from a function is calling the caller's continuation. If functions take multiple parameters, why not continuations?

Semantically I think it's a lot cleaner to make every function 1-in 1-out. Multiple parameters are just a disguise of passing a tuple. In dynamically typed languages, though, it's difficult to make it efficient.
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Unless you want to play in 4k
Unless you want to play in 4k.
Standardized testing will quickly get subverted, with people "studying for the test." It's almost a theorem that any proxy for assessment will become subverted, with people passing the test without actually possessing the necessary underlying skill. In math people keep complaining about "teaching to the test" and that people pass the tests, and yet don't have the skills.

Same will happen if you try to standardize computer recruitment.

Hasn't the industry effectively done that already? Doesn't the fact that almost anyone of reasonable ability[1] can pass an interview after studying something like Cracking the Code Interview indicate that you can successfully "study for the test"?

[1] I am assuming that, even when "teaching to the test", a certain amount of baseline ability is still required to actually pass.
Is it just me or does it fail to explain just what it is, exactly?
> From this defined retangle, generate a collection of random points inside it

That immediately defeats the "Without Noise" requirement.
i want f.lux sooo bad, i would definitely jailbreak only for f.lux.

However, what keeps me from jailbreaking is 'using my banking app' on my iPhone :'( Unfortunately the jailbreak also opens the phone operating system to spyware/viruses etc.
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How much paper waste does Celestial Seasonings save with unwrapped tea bags?
> Interesting that it's cheaper for the banks to buy back their own cards than reissue them during giftmas.

They are not "buying back" anything. The cards can be resold at will.
Beat me to the punch ;-)
This exploit was already patched by Apple in the next version, as far as I understand.
The term is used very loosely.
The justification of their actions, to renumerate developers for their work, is of course a sentiment of paramount importance. However, clearly, the way in which it was executed (bundling a questionable foreign App Store) wasn't the best, and in my opinion they should look to more interesting monetisation avenues than sponsorship.
WebRTC is still in the process of standardization both in the IETF and W3C. That said, my understanding is recent versions of chrome and Firefox have inter operating versions.

A technology is not a service. User discovery, nat traversal, signaling and others may be needed depending on the service.
I have pretty much not done it since I was 14 years old. I do from time to time, but it is not the same thing. No human relation, no body heat, no love (or fake love), etc.

I would rather not rely on masturbation for a living.

(That being said, I have never ever went to a prostitute)
You seem to be missing the larger point. Nobody is proposing that secure messaging apps should not exist. Everyone is better when more people try, iterate and fail (then recover and fix) to create secure messaging solutions.

What's unsafe and unproductive is when bozos jump in the pool, apparently ignorant or otherwise misrepresentative of the reality of how difficult it is to create a correct solution -- and confidently declare their implementations to be trustable.

If the messaging on Telegram had been, the world needs a secure messaging solution and we're committed to building it starting with this thing which we think is pretty good for XYZ, nobody would be objecting. Instead, these guys presented themselves as having solved a problem which is known to be difficult, and moreover using an unlikely method.
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I did have a look at your submission history, thanks, some nice reading there.

Quote from OA

"...one in ten mortgages was foreclosed in San Pablo. At the same time San Francisco’s rate of foreclosure was a mere 2 percent."

Those rates are huge! At the worst of the recession, we hit about one per 300 in the UK, and that was considered bad enough for urgent action to support arrears and find ways for people to restructure their debt.
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