skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You see here, in all the apologists for those who violate privacy the real truth of the Hacker News crowd. Their hatred of Apple exceeds their desire for privacy, security, and an end to the intrusive police state we have.

For years, literally since the days of the Apple //e, I've seen people online (BBSes then) attacking Apple because they couldn't afford one and got something else. This didn't stop when Apple started shipping better quality products that could also run windows for less money. It only got worse when google decided they wanted to counterfeit the iPhone and started this anti-IP ideology. (yes, it didn't exist as a movement outside of Stallman before then.)

Mac users just wanted to be left alone, but the Cult of Apple Hating would use any opportunity to bash Apple. This has been going on for 40 years now, and the claims are still the same "costs more does less!" (even when both are false, as they have mostly been for the past near 40 years.)

Apple has gone from a startup to the most valuable company in the world in that time period.

And what do the cultists say? "Oh, people are just stupid, they like shiny things" (of course they don't say that when people were buying huge android phones with big screens-- a necessity to have a large enough battery given the terrible battery performance of android, no they simply ignored all the things that sucked about android and pretended simultaneously like it was superior to iOS, and that it was a direct ripoff was ok because there's no such thing as intellectual property")

You lot are a bunch of god germans.

Celebrate your USA FREEDOM ACT and your USA PATRIOT ACT that Obama extended and renewed-- how many of you voted for him, anyway? Any of you regret it?

Mac users just wanted to be left along to use their macs. They weren't going around saying that windows sucked, or that microsoft was going under. They weren't claiming %100 marketshare when the truth was Apple hat %25 market share at that time.

You've sold your principles, your integrity and your honor. And for what? Because the computer that worked better was too expensive when you were growing up?

Well, you can afford one now.

So Shame on you.

I for one am disgusted at this massive endorsement of the violations of your privacy and your security, simply because you were jealous when you were 14. SHAME.
Re 1 - I agree that is by a mile the most problematic part of Google's business. It's not a problem that Google knows what's in the emails I store on their servers -- of course they do, I put them there -- but it is problematic if they know I go to www.controversialsite.com when they should have no reason to.

But the implication there is that Google's most privacy-invasive product, by a mile, is Google Analytics, which doesn't really help Cook's case in any meaningful way, because that has nothing to do with the Google services that compete with Apple.
As magicalist points out in his response, you are taking Schmidt's quote completely out of context. Don't feel bad, you're not the only one.

Schmidt (and Google) are extremely pro-privacy and against sharing information with the government. Google must have like ten lawsuits going on at all times on the entire planet trying to fight intrusive data request from governments. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to prevent governments from gaining access to their data.

At least with Android being open source, they have a reasonable track record of transparency (obviously, that doesn't apply to their search logs, which are still proprietary).
There's a slight difference between "pro-developer" and "pro-company-that-develops-things". Microsoft has always provided excellent corporate support. If you have an issue and you're paying lots of money, Microsoft will move one and zero to fix your problem. Early and recent Microsofts, though, have a feeling that middle Microsoft didn't where they're friendly directly to the people writing the code. Better documentation, better quality-of-life features (ssh, headless, Visual Studio), more listening to the community. I mean, ssh? A build specifically intended for the raspberry pi form factor?
In the active v/s passive debate it has now become widely clear that passive wins ALL the time when controlled for risk.

I wonder what the market for such a product is compared to main stream actively managed funds. Why should I choose some unknown "expert" off the Internet instead of say Bill Gross, Peter Lynch or John Neff?
both fb and google login change language is @ bottom

google's at bottom right

fb's at bottom with largest languages, and a button that opens a modal for the rest.
You just listed a bunch of broken products that do nothing but make me skeptical of apple even being able to properly store my data, let alone analyze it.

imessages is notorious for not even being able to deliver messages in order many times. It is easily apples worst service, and should be brain dead simple.

App Store is s bare minimum store that's only real change since its inception was just now supporting videos and a higher reliance on curation (because they can't possibly figure out more automated ways). It loads horribly, and barely has any helpfulness in suggesting new apps. Search is a mess that will often not give you an exact string matchas the first result. It's a joke compared to a real online store like Amazon, and it doesn't even have physical products or difficult problems like figuring out shipping.

iCloud has had repeated public embarrassments, and can't seem to guarantee basic uptime and service despite being overpriced, and IsItself the result of several relaunches due to predecessors making such a bad reputation for themselves (.mac, MobileMe).

Siri was a purchase, and despite having is integration does not compete that great against Google now. Same goes with mapping of course.

Apple may get good at services someday, but that day is not now.
I faced a similar problem with a different model recently. This forum post [0] helped me. You can probably do something similar, or maybe even used the linked binary blob.

[0] https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=206667#p206667
You didn't. I was the one being a little cynical -- there's obviously more "known unknowns" in the world of science than those that get funding, and science does occasionally go after blue-sky research. ;-)
The checksum happens when you upload the firmware to flash. OP did not brick router.
Braid was fun, but it didn't tie together very well. The mechanics are disjointed. From an artistic point of view, Limbo outshines Braid.

I've replayed Limbo, but never Braid.
PayPal's New Agreement. Thoughts?
We're releasing a short preview of investment ideas this week (so you can see the type of ideas you can replicate on Instavest).

The reason we're not 100% open is that our lead investors put lots of time and effort into the research they do. We want to protect their efforts. Also, there is so much junk online for investment ideas.. We want to insulate our community from this.

Investor profile pages are public though. They feature realized returns and what someone has co-invested in, as well as the investments they have lead. Right now, clicking them leads to a login screen. In the near future, we'll show previews.

Thanks for the feedback though. We're aware of this and working on it.

EDIT: we will also make this stuff more discoverable... Feel free to email hello@instavest.com and we can keep you posted.
I've seen this debate from both sides. I worked as a self taught programmer for about 7 years before I went back to college.

College forced me to learn the all the (seemingly) boring parts of Computer Science that I'd skipped over while teaching myself. Some people have the discipline and drive to spend time proving that an algorithm is O(n^2) or that a grammar isn't regular--most do not.

My CS degree filled in so many holes in my background that I didn't even know I had, and most of the other self taught programmers I've worked with weren't too different from me. Many times this is the difference between spending a week banging your head against a wall, and taking 10 minutes to realize your particular problem was solved 50 years ago.
Sanders won't win, but it will be nice to be able to vote for someone I don't hate for once. In an ideal world it would be Rand Paul/Bernie Sanders race. Two people who actually believe what they are saying.
To be pedantic: the Halting Problem for Turing Machines is undecidable. There are simpler computing models for which we can decide halting.
As a programmer, I have high hopes for HSA. I wish Intel would adopt it or join the HSA consortium and get onboard. That would push APUs forward for everyone.
> Apple has a vested interest in not collecting, analysing

Do you seriously believe that? They are doing this non stop. Not a month goes by without my iPad requesting my iCloud password so it can back up my entire tablet, even though I've repeatedly declined to provide it.

They are collecting and analysing PII data all the time. They need it because it's an arms' race. They will only stop if compelled to do so by governments or by a privacy scandal.

> "We" are not all prepared to hand over private information.

Unless you tell me you never, ever use a search engine (not just Google, could be Bing or Yahoo or whatever), I am pretty sure you are in denial about that compromise. You are giving away private information all the time, you just don't realize it, or you are okay with the fact that "Getting good search results for this query is worth Google logging my IP".
iAd gives developers an easy way to run an ad-supported game/etc in the App store without the compromise in personal privacy (for the player/user) that comes from an ad network like Google's, that is heavily focused on highly targeted ads.
My buddy Tom and I went to the same college at the same time. I graduated; he didn't. We've worked at 7 different companies together over 20 years, at essentially the same level. Sometimes I get hired and get him in; sometimes the opposite.

But I have to admit my graduate credentials get me the interview sometimes, and that's what gets us in. So not having a college degree can be a bar to entry. A very real problem.
That's very much a modern view. And not shared around the world at all. Racism is of course wrong. But social norms are the glue that holds us all together, to a degree. Its not black-and-white.
You aren't choosing an unknown expert. You can examine their track record and investment rationale, and copy them on a trade-by-trade basis.

Think of this as an idea surfacing website, not a place to just blindly copy people (although some people may choose to do so).

Our thesis is that our platform will surface interesting small-cap investments that would otherwise be undiscovered by the average retail investor. There is a huge advantage to managing under $1M.

“If I was running $1 million today, or $10 million for that matter, I’d be fully invested. Anyone who says that size does not hurt investment performance is selling. The highest rates of return I’ve ever achieved were in the 1950s. I killed the Dow. You ought to see the numbers. But I was investing peanuts then. It’s a huge structural advantage not to have a lot of money. I think I could make you 50% a year on $1 million. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.”

- Warren Buffett

Finally, I agree passive management is an important part of someone's portfolio. I'd argue it should be the majority of most peoples' portfolio, but I would never say its a silver bullet. In my personal Instavest account, I search for higher returns in small cap, less efficiently traded companies.
Analytics uses first-party cookies for the site's domain, not your google cookie(s). And you'll have to take them at their word, but they don't combine it with some IP address trickiness or whatever (though that would be a pretty bad idea if you want decent profiles anyway): https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
That's not actually clear! Homo Sapiens adaptation rate increased 100-fold once we started this civilization thing. And for most of that time our social evolution was very slow. I guess today it might have turned around, but that's a blink in the history of our race.
Frankly, I think 15 years out from school the most important thing I got was the 1 line on my resume that says `BS Computer Engineering`. Everything else I either have forgotten because it wasn't applicable to my daily life, or was basic enough that a few months in the "real world" would have either taught it to me, or I have since moved far beyond.

But, that one line keeps the door open when I need to look for jobs. I have an ex-coworker with similar skills, experience, etc. And when looking for positions I get about 2x-3x as many callbacks as he does. HR departments seem to throw his resume away, and the only thing we can think is that it must be the lack of degree.
>40

Triple digit version numbers are just going to sound ridiculous. I really hope someone reigns this back in at some point.

I'm keen to test some of these new features out though. The tools in Firefox have always been a bit hit and miss for me and I've actually never went out of my way to use Chrome or Firebug.
> The idea that all these companies want private info and thus are all going to be evil is cynical.

"cynical: believing that people are motivated by self-interest"

In a free trade, capitalistic society, companies are by definition cynical, because the ones that are not go bankrupt.

> Apple is different because for nearly 40 years they have been honest and forthright and treating people different. Google says "don't be evil" and then goes out and does evil. Apple doesn't say it, they just don't do it.

I was with you until that last part. I would totally be on board with you if you say Google and Apple are both equally evil because they are looking after their own interest. The fact you think that google is doing evil and Apple is not makes me think you're a bit too far gone on the fanboy side.
Despite the Silicon Valley's somewhat undeserved reputation for breaking with tradition, at least having attended a top university is so close to being a requirement in SV that it might as well be. Try getting a job at a top-flight SV company without a degree, or even with a degree that wasn't from an Ivy League school...you'll find it nearly impossible. There are exceptions to every rule, but if you don't plan to work for yourself, you'd better either have a decade or more of solid, demonstrable experience that yielded exceptional results, or have a degree from a top school.
The government doesn't force Google to run their business the way they do, dependent as it is on such huge amounts of personal information, to provide "better" (for some peoples value for better) targeted ads.

If Google don't track/store what I search for, what results I click through to, etc, it doesn't matter what the US government asks them for - they are technically unable to hand over data they don't have.
Most of the Coursera and EdX lectures are actually college lectures, just put online.

I know as a TA, it can be hard to answer some questions via e-mail, so I'm assuming it would be difficult to do in a web forum as well. I once spent several e-mails trying to explain something to a student and after failing, asked them to come to my office and explained it in five minutes in a way they understood. So, while there might not be the difference for a lecture, it's the things around the course that can make the experience better.

I know Khan Academy has some problems (at least in the past) with some of its material. One example is discussed in,

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2012/12/khan/

I can verify what he's saying is correct as I used to be involved in teaching the same material.

I first learnt C++ in an in-person corporate training session and it was excellent. I think it all depends.
I think, sadly, that's not true. The government can force them to change their business, and begin recording personal information that passes through their hands. Its very strange.
Yup. I looked at this while doing design work for a certain highly visible gaming product. You want the responsibility for block leveling and transactional goop close to the device, where the firmware can know stuff about device geometry and other nasty bits that affect reliability.

Putting that stuff in the OS puts you back to, oh, the same wicked stuff that people had to deal with for MFM hard drives (remember cylinder, head and sector counts? Only probably ten times more complicated).

A block level abstraction is fine, as long as the abstraction can make some transactional guarantees.
Sorry, but I don't see anyone using this ever. Managing money is mostly about making constituents feel comfortable and this does not. This doesn't strike me as the type of subject matter to do as a side-project or hobby.
> Schmidt (and Google) are extremely pro-privacy and against sharing information with the government.

Privacy doesn't mean "don't share my data with the government".

> They spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to prevent governments from gaining access to their data

Funny how you say "Google are extremely pro-privacy" and then describe the vast amassed personal information of users as "their data", referring to Google.
For context, here's two charts covering most of Pamlico Sound: http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/11548.shtml
http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/11555.shtml

The shaded regions are less than 12 feet deep at low tide, and only a few inches deeper at high tide. There's another contour drawn in the shaded areas for 6 foot depth. A modern sailing yacht that's not specifically designed for shallow water operation will usually require between 4.5' and 7' of depth until you're looking at boats in the neighborhood of 50' long, and then the ones designed for ocean voyaging or racing can sometimes draw more like 9-10'.

While large swaths of the sound are plenty deep, you can't go far without passing through a shallow area. Many of the shoals on the charts are marked with disclaimers saying that the soundings are unreliable because the sand shifts too often. The inlets are a nightmare: the buoys have to be moved so often they're not worth plotting at all.

Around Beaufort, it's even worse: http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/11545.shtml, and I can't imagine maneuvering a 100' sailboat through the inlet or anywhere sound-side. I've unexpectedly run aground near there while in a kayak.
> I know exactly the criteria google uses to show the ad to someone, because that's what I buy when I buy keywords.

No, you know exactly the criteria Google requests from you when you buy the ad. That's most likely a subset of the criteria Google uses to display the ad (which can include things like the past performance of your ads / of similar ads, in different contexts, for different kinds of users and probably all sorts of stuff I'm not thinking of).
Thanks! I am looking for this
I'm tempted to flag your comment for the baseless and distracting claims it makes, but I'm going to hold off since it is essentially self-parodying. I am curious about the "You lot are a bunch of god germans" thing, though.
There seems to be a lot of commenters on this thread whose love for and dedication to Apple is clouding their judgement. Apple no more worthy of being entrusted with one's data than any other big tech company, for example: Google. The only difference is that Apple is not trying as hard to monetize that data, which is a huge red herring privacy wise, because it happens to have absolutely nothing to do with gov't surveillance.
'Qi', or more accurately 氣 (traditional) or 气 (simplified) dates way back to very early Chinese history and is not exclusively used in the medical or health fields.

In later and current periods of Chinese history it's usually considered to mean air or breath, but also vital energy or life force, this latter sense being the sense in which it is deployed for traditional medicinal techniques such as 'Qigong' - 氣功 （traditional) or 气功 (simplified) - which is literally '[getting positive results from] [the energy]'. However, not many people are aware that initially it was used to refer to 'sickening vapors that rise from a corpse' (an early concept for bacterial/airborne illness, a concept later repurposed in premodern Chinese medicinal thinking to describe the acquisition of malaria and similar illnesses in tropical areas).

Qi today is basically a catch-all word for energy flowing (possibly 'in a manner roughly like vapor') and could be reasonably roughly seen, from a medical perspective, to refer to the combined effect of circulatory, lymphatic and respiratory systems.

Being such a vague term, approaching it from a western perspective seems difficult. You would perhaps get further looking for western studies of the health benefits of Qigong practice.
I was shocked at the amount of registration info a new mac asks for. Haven't bought one since.
I think my comment was more for me than you! I first saw sinuses and thought "it runs into your nose?".
Right. Which puts you comfortably into middle age before you retire your student loan debt.

Which is absolutely crazy.
Perhaps a more concrete definition of an analogous concept would make this clearer: Are you familiar with the concept of a prior distribution[1]? The point of a prior is that, before you get any of the evidence, you can still have some sense of how likely each event is. If you asked me whether a microwave with more features would be more expensive, I would feel pretty comfortable saying "yea probably". As mentioned downthread, this is based on the fact that 99.9% of the time, in every single industry, products that are more functional will be more costly (all else held equal, obviously).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability
> “I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information,”

That is just really, really, REALLY RICH, coming from the company who's behind this kind of shit: http://i.imgur.com/1lGp7ps.jpg

Yep, to turn off ad-tracking, you have to go to... Settings... then 'General'... and then... About. Wait, "About"? Yes, "About", then "Advertising" ... and then do "Limit Ad Tracking". "Limit Ad Tracking", what a wonderfully clear label huh!

Of course that's coming to you form the individual who likes to give lofty speeches about how he and Steve Jobs led in 'advancing humanity through the equality of all its employees' [1]. Because let's please just forget about how Apple had its part in collusion over hiring policies [2].

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/technology/tim-cook-making...

[2]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/04/23...