skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, her other post is also excellent.

I wonder if we could ever create a culture that doesn't oppress anyone (with the obvious exception of murderers, rapists, cannibals, etc). I hope so. But in light of our vast differences and the ease with which we hurt one another, I suspect we'll have to settle for a culture that doesn't oppress anyone too much.
I think you're painting it a bit too black. Having both sides agree to the fact that it's an estimate (and not an exact prediction) does help. And if you make the client understand the contingencies and unknown factors, you may get around the expectation to make an accurate prediction — which nobody can give anyway, except when doing the same thing the umpteenth time. Communicating often on progress that you actually do make can still give the client a good sense of confidence and control on what's happening.
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Not sure if that's the correct amount, but its definitely in the billions. Seems like a good idea except when you try and pair items with giftcards that have a balance of less than $2.00. The problem is real, not sure if this is the solution.
If it affects every single non-Apple app then there are no alternatives out there.
That's very unusual — I've never had a non-Apple app ask for my iTunes password.
Some messages in the thread mentions:
- iTunes Store
- Mac App Store
- Apple Support
- Game Center
(https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6868907?start=45&tstart...)

Of these I have only tested "Mac App Store" and "Apple Support" and they don't seem to work.

I could log into the Apple Store though.
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You probably have a signature check cached that's still valid.
It's about being tied to a third-party service. Currently, the one causing you a problem is Apple's. It could just as well be Authy's.

With standard TOTP, you could pull out a paper backup and use it to make any TOTP app on any platform work. But with Authy, you're screwed if they're down.

And it sounds like you're screwed right now because Apple is down. Again, this wouldn't be an issue if you were using standard TOTP.

Meanwhile, if I'd given in and setup 2FA on my company's CloudFlare account, I wouldn't be able to access it right now.

So yes, I have an axe to grind -- with CloudFlare. We pay you $200/month, and the only reason we can still access our account is because I've refused to setup 2FA on it with Authy.
Why do apps need me to be authenticated against iTunes to work at all?

I guarantee that someone would be screaming at Apple for not authenticating against iTunes under circumstance X, Y or Z.

I'm not sure whether it's better to be inconvenienced for a day, or for Apple to attempt to cover your back if something looks amiss in the iPhone's systems.

(which, from the sounds of your upgrade and hard crash, this may well be - or "simply" some form of empty cache)

It feels a bit like six of one, and half a dozen of the other, the painful bit being that ideology doesn't help you get your work done today!
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I don't know about that — I've never personally encountered an issue with Apple's cloud services, despite using them for years. Hell, I'm not even experiencing the problem that apparently hundreds of other people are.

Are there other examples of Apple's cloud failures?
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Paper.li is on the decline. Why?
There are applets embedded there that help you play around with visualizations; they're not required to read and understand the text though, just helpful.
But doing that would limit spreadsheets to a tiny subset of what they're used for in the real world. If you have a permanent header row then you limit yourself to one table of data per page, which you often don't want.

Excel's tables are probably similar what you mean, but Microsoft rightly allow them as elements on each sheet rather than basing the sheet around one table.
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I can hardly fathom how many sales this downtime is costing Apple and developers.
I know astronomical and spherical projections well, but there is whole new world of 'architectural' projections:

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/Projections.html
Yeah, tech went mainstream and blockbuster movies are made out of cult classic books. That's one of the points in the post, those things used to be signals of particular kind of person but are no longer.

There are no three cliques against other! There are many ideas, associated with different stereotypes, let's try not to pit armies of stereotypes against each other, and be open to the ideas!

In broad strokes I agree with you. For a few reasons, not the least of which because I don't exactly agree with the authors analysis. I differ from you in specific as there is a difference between being accepting of the ideas and people who live them, versus adopting it for myself. Being "open to" an idea means the former, yet often euphemistically implies the latter.

I see the author's point in the way people with more social power than myself ask for my conformity, to their benefit and my cost. It's framed so politely, everything is these days, but sometimes I don't want to adopt another persons standards. Only then do you see how serious they are about getting you to conform.
I'm gonna drop a train on you. Unless you're seriously suggesting living in an anarchic society where might means right, there is no such thing as a "free market." There are only differing levels of regulation. At a very minimum you need some body to enforce contract law. More specifically to this issue, you have the problem of running lines to peoples' houses. With no regulation and no sharing of poles/lines, you'd have very high barriers to entry (read: monopolies, bad for consumers) and dozens or hundreds of poles and lines in every yard (bad for the environment and the people who live in it). So okay, you build a few lines and enforce the line owners to share the lines equally to create a "free market" in the service provider space. But now you've introduced regulation and destroyed the "free market" in the line and pole provider space.

Boy, this is complicated, isn't it? It's almost like "free market" isn't a magic incantation that fixes everything.
Here's a chart of beef prices over the last 10 years:

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=beef&months...
There are two ways to interpret this. One is the very literal level. Comparing a boys scream to a girls scream. This is what you and many others in this thread do. Is there anything unique about a little boy's scream over a little girl's scream? They're of slightly different pitches but there's hardly any real "difference" that makes one unique and in need of protection from being "washed away".

So then you take a step back and stop being so literal (which is also nonsensical because the scream of either young child would suffice in the example) and say "Why is the expression always 'scream like a little girl' vs 'scream like a little boy?" Why would a grown male say 'little girl" and change sexes in their example? It's because we have a stereotype of girls being more fearful and generally inadequate when faced with such things than boys. A small girl screaming is cute and funny because it reinforces stereotypes around them needing protection and not being self sufficient. A small boy screaming is not cute and funny as boy's are expected to be brave and not scared - it's a sign of weakness if they do. It's an inaccurate stereotype and slightly demeans girls and/or sends messages on our how they're supposed to act. "Screamed like a little girl. Throws a ball like a girl" It's death by a thousand little subtle lashes.

So "would scream like a scared little child" conveys perfectly what you might want to get across without demeaning one sex over the other. If you want to be sex specific then use your own vs feeling the need to switch to the other side.
The person I replied to set the value of the 10-20 channels at "worth paying for" at the price set, so the value beyond that is irrelevant for this discussion.
*about 4k

64k on linux these days.
I don't think many of my customers know what a confidence interval is.
David Wheelers work is very interesting, but it does not solve all the fundamental trust issues in computing.

It allows us to check if our compilers, linkers etc are maliciously modifying the programs being handled in a way not represented by their source code. It does not help us to determine if the firmware or CPU microcode, for example, have backdoors.
>it seem like everyone else just puts FizzBuzz in an iPhone app and gets $100k funding.

Sometimes I get the impression that simply getting funding is the goal and symbol that you've "made it"; a viable business is secondary.
What is the difference between setting a high FOV and using a Pannini or fisheye projection ?

Does that mean there is less distortion towards the center ?

I did not watch the video yet...

How difficult would it be to integrate a 170 pannini camera using shaders instead of using quake ? I don't understand why he used quake for this...
See my additional comment above in this thread.
Last I knew they didn't have much in the way of defence against timing side-channels, which pretty much rules it out for any real deployment.
I can already see the future: IP packets with prioritization and billing information in their headers.
mine seem fine as well. I have a handful in common with that list. fingers crossed that they don't have to re-auth
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Blacklisting on a network like Skype is going to be mostly automated. Anything automated will have bugs.

I'm not saying I know what's happening for sure, but it's likely that Skype has automated security, possible that dx.com was added to it, and possible that it was accidental.
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> “Matt Murphy said he had looked at the company before, and that the founding team ‘wasn’t business minded,’ and that they would not be able to generate revenues and create a sustainable business.”

This honestly seems dead on about the past Twitter. It wasn't until they killed most of their API clients with enforcement bots and login token limits and forced in advertising and required display formats that they were really business minded. I don't think the article is helping to make it's point by claiming it is incorrect.
Meanwhile, if I'd given in and setup 2FA on my company's CloudFlare account, I wouldn't be able to access it right now.

That's not the case. I'm in that position because of the fact that I got my phone into a bad state and can't reauth to iTunes. Others in the office have no problem at all and by talking to the technical support guys I know that I'm in an unusual position otherwise our customers would be very upset.

So yes, I have an axe to grind -- with CloudFlare. We pay you $200/month, and the only reason we can still access our account is because I've refused to setup 2FA on it with Authy.

What exactly is wrong with Authy that makes it completely unacceptable for you to use?
Sites get blacklisted all of the time, IME typically due to malware being present in advertising or promos.

I'm almost 100% sure that this filtering will have taken place because something malicious has been observed on dx.com.
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Your mouth and gut microbiomes have a signature
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> The moment you're thinking in dichotomous terms like "the organizers" and "the attendees"

Hold it right there. I run the space, I raise the money, I sign the contracts, I'm can be held responsible if someone misbehaves (morally and legally) and I'm the person that doesn't watch the talks, but uses them as a time where they can actually make sure that the next person has their time and the tables are clean?

And "organizer" and "attendee" is a dichotomy? Both are roles and forcibly assuming that everyone plays the same role is harmful.
Gambling addicts can't opt-out very easily, and it causes them to pay tax rates frequently higher than 100% of their incomes.
My Apple TV has just randomly rebooted. Wondering if that has anything to do with this...
I keep hitting this error http://i.imgur.com/D6TWBuF.png
So I guess it poisons his view of the entire gender.

It's pleasing to think that ineffective activism is zero-sum. In reality a lot of people have been turned off to ideas that fit their principles and ideals. Getting them back is going to take much more work than it would have taken to appeal to their principles before they got burned.
This is incorrect, the larger the number of decks, as a general rule, the smaller the advantage of card counting becomes.
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If you're curious about the CDC 6000 series, and have that usual itch...

Desktop CYBER emulator

http://members.iinet.net.au/~tom-hunter/

http://www.cray-cyber.org/systems/dtcyber.php

http://60bits.net/
I'd translate "wo sind meine Logs? Wieso hab ich hier plötzlich systemd und warum hat der meine Logs weggeschmissen!?" like so:
"where are my logs? why do i have systemd here and why did it throw away my logs!?"
That's weird, isn't it? You wanted to know how to use a feature of bash and didn't check the manual?
Siri isn't very helpful this morning either. I don't think she can talk to the mothership.
I'm having problems every week with Ulysses' iCloud sync: syncs that won't happen, lost data... I back up my data by hand to text files just to be able to recover. It's insane how much it fails and how little visibility over what's going on it offers.
Hillary Clinton's email was unencrypted for her first 3 months of office
If that's what counts as aspirational around here, I'm in the wrong job.

Consider that one of the jobs most frequently posted on HN is for ZeroCater which seems to love the tagline that they are "help[ing] feed the world." In fact they exclusively deliver food truck meals to startups in SF & the Valley.

Nothing wrong with that, but "feed the world" is beyond hyperbole.

The "making the world a better place" statements of many startups is embarrassing. Silicon Valley parodied this trend best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXuFrtmOYKg
One of the first things I checked was the hearing range article on Wikipedia. Seems like cats would be able to hear the tone too.
They are all hobby, on top of my work time. Many of the attendees are there for fun, especially on eurucamp, off their own pocket. Obviously, 3 days of meeting with 300 international people isn't going to be all random (even things like the CCC only _seem_ hackish).

I do help and attend spontanous meetups of all forms and fashions as well - still, they all have rules and they are all better for it.
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Mhhh I think, I had crashed the Application. Sry for that. But why can I make searches with billions of dollars?
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I'm not sure what you mean. The "infosec scene" has always had stricter social codes than any other form of hacking.
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> generally their cloud services are rock solid

Rubbish. I just sold the kids' MacBooks and iPads because iCloud and Pages/Numbers is a piece of shit from a reliability perspective. Add to that the WiFi stopped working reliably with 10.10.
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> So net neutrality is really a side issue to competition.

No, net neutrality is not a side-issue to competition.

Competition would mitigate some of the harms of non-neutrality, but it does not address the full picture. Non-discrimination is essential both for consumers and for content producers[0]. Non-neutrality has an incredibly chilling effect on business, even if it only applies to a portion of the population[1].

We need both neutrality and competition; we can't sacrifice either one for the other.

[0] ie, web companies, startups

[1] https://avc.com/2014/01/vc-pitches-in-a-year-or-two/
Salesforce may have been a lean, mean sales ops tool back in 2004, but as the company has grown through acquisition and its own sales force has hugely expanded, it's platform is just not viable for many potential customers.

1) Implementation absolutely requires assistance from an integration partner.

2) Developing on top of it is an exercise in patience and futility. Their dev platform & APIs are inconsistent and half-baked.

3) You can't just license a la carte. No matter what you think you need, you end up being quoted and convinced you need the kitchen sink instead.

4) It is prohibitively expensive compared to pure focus CRMs like SugarCRM, and doesn't have nearly the engineering polish (I can't believe I'm saying this) of things like Microsoft Dynamics.

5) If you aren't a multi-thousand user customer, Salesforce's sale folks don't take you seriously and it's hard to feel like you mean anything to them. I have never received such poor support, and this includes other companies famous for poor support (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle).

It's like they're still pretending to be a lean, mean, sexy startup when they're firmly in enterprise territory, yet they refuse to behave in ways appealing to enterprise customers. Moreover, they have spawned a whole slew of SAAS providers whose sole purpose is to interface other things into Salesforce (like 4Bridge from 4Thought, which connects Eloqua (lead generation on the web) to Salesforce. Sure, Salesforce has some huge customers -- at Dreamforce a few years ago, Cisco claimed to have something like 30,000 seats and Dell had 20,000 -- but that's not the entirety of the market. To me, Salesforce is the embodiment of the perception that many SAAS companies exist solely to support other SAAS companies, and that they bring little to no value to anyone.
My Roku box wouldn't connect to Netflix this morning either. I wonder if there is something else going on here. :/ Maybe there is a problem with AWS or the internets in general.
I have one of those that I use as a portable serial terminal. I've connected it, for example, to RAID units that refuse to talk over the network for some reason. Sadly, the tip of my stylus broke and it won't stay latched in its slot, but other than that, it's in great shape.
It's interesting, because I only use iCloud sync heavily with two apps, but I never have issues with with either of them, which leads me to suspect it's partly a development issue. I hesitate to blame the app developer per se though, because it's also Apple's responsibility to ensure that iCloud integration is easy to set up and difficult to get wrong.
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Is this guy a bioinformatician? I think he's a bioinformatician.

Can't be sure if he is a bioinformatician because he never really mentions that he is a bioinformatician.
Still confused.

What is a user in your reply? I mean, an end user / my mom isn't going to call strtonum? Some developer does. And said developer can absolutely ignore the string's content?

Test for success: errno is 0, errstrp is NULL
Handle error: Use errno or errstrp - the latter gives you a bit more information (reports a different error for invalid ranges, too small vs. too large).

But if you don't care, errno is fine, no? And we're still talking about the programmer here, as far as I'm concerned.

Ted has a description of his intentions here [1]. I guess I'm confused why there's a fuzz about it, because technically this method should be good enough? I do have to shake my head at the "Even if intmax_t probably would have been a better choice, I think we’re sticking with long long just because it frustrates people unwilling to admit it doesn’t make a difference." remark, but .. other than that? Does it .. matter?

1: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/the-design-of-strtonum
Windows needed to kill the legacy control panel for a long time. They've put some new (worse)) front ends to it over time but once you click down to it there's some ancient non-resizable textarea to read something important in.

They should rebuild it in something powershell can poke so every single windows setting can be done from the command line, slap a gui on top of that and manage it all with DSC. Much like how all the new server orientated features have gone.
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No Windows Phone client for a start.
I can't wait until the Apple Watch comes out and the next quarter sales results are released. I think almost all of the bloggers / news writers are gonna eat they're lunch.

Will it build a 1 trillion company? Only Apple knows that. Will they sell a ton of them? You bet.

Honestly - I love love love my Tag Heuer Formula 1 edition. I wear it every day; casually with a hoody or dressy with a suit. The Apple Watch IMO isn't a fashion item until you get to the Gold edition, which I have no intention of purchasing.

The Apple Watch IS IMO an extension of my phone. If it helps me be less distracted during the day; great! As a programmer, every time my phone vibrates, I need to attend to it, and it vibrates often. If a quick glance at my watch tells me if I should take action or not and keeps me focused on my work; it's worth the cost of entry and potential upgrade path every year or 2.

Personally? I'm in for the 42mm steel with Milanese band ($700) - hate leather (my skin is to oily and they get destroyed) and I'll buy a synthetic band for $50 in addition for when I'm at the beach / working in the yard / doing something where the metal band is inappropriate. Feeling the white for the synthetic. I don't think I'm gonna pre-order - as much as I'm 99% sure I'm buying on the 24th, I still wanna try it on - my Tag is 42mm in diameter, but the Apple Watch is a square face, not round. I may go with the 38mm.
iTunes Connect is down as well. I've been unable to login.
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It's because the device has tried to get authorization for running the app (a unique, per UDID signature) and has made the assumption that for whatever reason your access has been revoked. That will normally never happen, it's just an odd side effect of whatever this downtime is. People not seeing this just happen to have hit a local cache of some sort and will eventually get it the longer the downtime goes.
That's basically all mentioned in his post about the design [1] from 2011 and he seems to dismiss all these cases.

Is that reasonable? No clue, I don't write/know/do C..

1: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/the-design-of-strtonum
The tone made me stop reading. It reads like a child's thoughts in a comic book.
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Yeah, I was wondering why someone would make this blog post in the first place.
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This is already happening; I can now find labeled grass-fed beef at regular groceries as well as Whole Foods. It's expensive enough, though, that it's still relatively niche in terms of volume, especially after factoring in fast food and Sysco restaurants.
I try to read it about once a year. I always find something new before my eyes glaze over and I'm done until next year.
iMessage still suffers from massive consistency failures; due to the incoming messages not being chronologically ordered even small network glitches mean things get confusing fast. iCloud at least in part seems to run on Microsoft Azure, amusingly enough.
Darn, I was hoping this would be nearly the opposite invention.

Is there a USB teletype out there? I'm trying to imagine something that converts keystrokes over USB to ink-on-paper. Not a full-blown printer w/ PostScript, just inking one letter at a time, manual carriage return, etc.
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Your system is so messed up in the States.