skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "legally and practically prevented" is key here.

Not sure if anyone noticed but this article is like a continuation of the story from days ago [1] when the judge in the case "questioned the government’s authority to compel Apple to unlock a seized mobile device using the All Writs Act" [2] and "called on Apple to weigh in about whether it is even capable of bypassing the lock screen in this case" [2].

Guess Apple has weighed in now as to its technical feasibility. Now it's up to the judge to decide whether it is an unreasonable burden on Apple, and whether it violates the Constitution, as to whether to compel Apple to help in the Justice Department's investigation.

In this one single case, the iPhone has an older iOS, so maybe it's not an "unreasonable burden".

But if it was iOS 8 or later, it might be deemed an unreasonable burden to compel Apple to brute force or otherwise crack the password, even if it was somehow technically possible. And "forcing Apple to push backdoored updates would constitute 'compelled speech' in violation of the First Amendment" [2].

So it does look as if Apple thought it through, and made iOS 8 so that they legally and practically cannot "betray their customers' trust" as you say.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10383253

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/judge-doj-not-all-writ...
There's a song about that...
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The OP article is commentary on the intercept piece. You can see that the logo on the intercept piece is the picture from the OP article.

This might be surprising to a technologist who thinks that all information can be objective, but sometimes, when humans learn information, they are compelled by the morality that we evolved so long ago to protect one another and establish our species, not as a sequence of individuals but as cohesive units, to act based on that information, to change the world so that the information they have learned is possibly more or less true. It is not always possible to remain on the sidelines. Information can compel you to act, or at least, compel moral humans to act.

So, to many humans, this "activism" is not a blemish, but a point of pride. Try to understand why and you will grow towards humanity.
I was born with the same defect and had noninvasive heart surgery to close it over a decade ago, shortly after the procedure was approved. I'm not sure it can be done for toddlers, though definitely at a young age (I was 12).

I don't remember what it is called (I believe it's a mini thorocatomy) but they used a camera through my esophagus and a catheder inserted through the vein in my leg to inject the device to close the hole with no open heart surgery, only a few days recovery time in the hospital, and a few months before I was finally able to play most sports.
When Snowden, Manning and Binney happend I was hoping that one good thing it might produce is encourage others to do the same.

So it is good to see this happening.

I looked at a few parts from the link. Some parts I liked:

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... 75 percent of operations in the region were strikes, and noting that “kill operations significantly reduce the intelligence available from detainees and captured material"...

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It looks like these drones besides being controvercial are also pretty crappy when it comes to gathering extra intelligence for other future missions.

Also interesting is this: targets seem to come from 33% CIA, 40% NSA SIGINT, 17% NSA partner (presumably other countries' intel). So a good chunk of info used to kill comes from other countries telling us who when and where, and we use that to blast away people.

One more interesting excerpt:

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Hellfire missiles—the explosives fired from drones—are not always fired at people. In fact, most drone strikes are aimed at phones. The SIM card provides a person’s location—when turned on, a phone can become a deadly proxy for the individual being hunted.

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Hmm, I remember Russians in Chechnya killed the first president of a Chechen republic that way. Intercepted his satphone signal and used that to target him.
All of the operations in the plots are being calculated using tiny arrays. Even 128 elements is pretty small. Additionally, I'd be interested to know how they compiled NumPy, and which BLAS implementation they linked against.
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Granted I haven't read the linked documents, but how does the cited 90% link or compare to other tactics? If the target of your operation is to kill an enemy commander, and you kill 9 of his bodyguards as well, then 90% of the people killed weren't your targets, but I'd say that they weren't even 'collateral damage' - more an 'extra bonus' (sorry if that sounds callous). I mean I can think of several different ways to spin this number just being an uninformed citizen who knows nothing about the topic at all, so I'm hesitant to take the implied claim that drones kill many more innocent civilians than alternative methods do at face value.

It could very well be true, intuitively I'd even say that yes drone strikes will have lower precision, I'm just saying that if this is the smoking gun - then it's not very convincing.
What if there is a machine malfunction? Lack of proper maintenance? Operator error? Sure there should be fail-safes, but accidents happen.

Bouncing around in the back of a van, something goes wrong. Instead of a rapidly moving beam of x-rays that doesn't stay in one location long enough to cause problems, you get a focused beam.
A lot of people are noting their interest in seeing a certain database tested. Sorry to say so, but:

>> Can you test X next?

> Tests take about a month. I do take suggestions into consideration, but I can't promise you anything. Backlog is a few years long at this point.

(from https://aphyr.com/about)
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Do schools I the US teach children how to safely ride a bike? When I went to primary school in Germany we had a cop cone by several times and we went to a parking lot that had fake roads painted on it and he taught us about traffic rules and we ride bikes around the lot while he gave us feedback. We learned about right of way, arm signals etc.
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1) Asians are a protected class. We are a legally protected class. There is a difference between affirmative action and protection against discrimination.

2) Sure, you and I have our anecdotes, but there are systemic disadvantages against Asians in the tech industry. Remain humble and stay quiet? That's some Uncle Chen BS.
It's rather ironic; as I student I don't think I ever had a bad experience when professors selected books OTHER than the latest edition Pearson/McGraw was hawking. It meant that they actually put some effort into the course, rather than just taking the materials from the publisher and making it up at they went along.
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Apparently midazolam isn't a good choice, they tried it in combination with another drug during an execution and it took forever for the guy to die.

I'd suggest nitrogen asphyixiation. From what i've read, most folks who accidentally get exposed to 100% nitrogen atmospheres, don't even see it coming. Probably not that great for the execution witnesses as i'm sure you'd thrash about beforr dying.
it has a dialer and tcp/ip stack built in along with support for various network cards. Ah...DOS
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That may be incorrect in Washington, but it is correct in California. See CVC 21202.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/vctop/vc/d11/c...
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"Don't worry, the spec'd dose rate from this Therac-25
is way below Denver background levels... No need for a dosimeter here..."
Obviously the Citi example was a joke, but most actual certificates I see are to "R L Media Enterprises" or whatever the D&B name of the business is, which is opaque to me anyways.
I live in one of the Colorado counties mentioned in the article as already having this law on the books. The law works fine up here in the mountains, and we have a lot of cyclists and a lot of seasonal traffic. Of course, we don't have the traffic of a big city like San Francisco. Still, we don't have a lot of bike-car accidents or bike-pedestrian accidents at our intersections.

The thing is, the stop signs are treated as yield signs. If a biker just blows through the stop sign without yielding right-of-way, they can still be ticketed. So as far as safety concerns, I don't see it making any difference. The people who would ignore a "yield" are the people who are already ignoring a "stop" and are subject to being ticketed if they get caught. If you dart out in front of a car and get hit by that car, you'll still be found to be at fault (and you're the one who is going to wind up in the hospital)
Not to turn this into that discussion again, but helmet do not substantially improve safety while they do significantly reduce acceptance of bikes as a mass transport mode.
> but I'd say that they weren't even 'collateral damage' - more an 'extra bonus'

I think that exemplies exactly what is wrong here. The attitude that once we push a button and kill one Yemeni person, we won't feel a lot guilter if we kill 9. We are already killing, might as well "err on the side of caution" and kill more, just in case those are dangerous body guards there.
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Fair point. For RethinkDB, I think there's a good business case for getting it tested sooner than later (on both sides). For aphyr who's leaving Stripe, I think it would be reasonable for RethinkDB to compensate him for an unbiased study, given that they have $12M+ in funding. A positive report could generate a lot of attention for RethinkDB and give confidence to larger enterprises who are very hesitant of trying anything remotely "new" or "experimental" in the DB space.
Flite is not Festival. It is a very cut down version for embedded machines.
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That's not an 'except' kind of argument, more 'as a second order effect, there is also...'.
What are you, 14?
I wonder if Carly Rae Jepsen is aware of the legacy of her song in the software world...
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Educational back-and-forth, although unnecessarily biting.

TL;DR - Aphyr thinks Damien Katz never read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_%28computer_science%...
But it's not $2 billion into that specific wind project, as the title implies.
An RV is actually quite pricey in many ways. But, an A frame that you can tow with something like a Subaru Outback, would be pretty nice for something $10K or less.

Not as nice as an RV, but still much nicer than that truck.
This is definitely true. When I'm cycling in to work, for a 2-mile stretch I have a choice of two roads: one is a major thoroughfare with lots of stop lights and a lot of traffic, and I personally find it extremely irritating to ride on. My other option is a parallel road which has very few lights but a large number of stop signs, and has significantly less traffic even though in theory it could carry almost as many cars. The cars would rather drive where the traffic lights may allow them to continue going for long periods (the light timings are actually pretty decent), but cyclists definitely prefer the road with the stop signs.
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Agree on the first. On the second, "And people don't learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know.". I disagree, I like to solve problems more in Java. I tried several including Python over the years. I'm asked to do something in Python I will but for my money, Java is more readable than Python. It's an acute and false observation that he made. Less common does not necessarily equate to smarter/better/faster.
(Not author) but from what I remember PostreSQL was a bit of a funny case. It was about partitions between clients and a single database server. In most other cases, it was analysis of distributed back-end server instances. Not that those failures are not important but it is just harder to compare it seems with the others.
I don't support the death penalty, but your comment about a "must-cause-pain execution method" seems completely off-base based on everything I've read. If you've kept up with the news, the argument is actually that the procedure MUST NOT cause pain to the condemned, and that's actually very hard to do while still ensuring death. The prototypical "three drug protocol" starts with a deep sedative that is supposed to render the person insensate (feeling no pain), then a paralytic to stop them from convulsing (the paralytic alone would actually cause death by asphyxiation in most cases), followed by potassium chloride which induces cardiac arrest.

If you wanted to kill someone painfully, you could just skip straight to the potassium chloride. It would burn like hell and they would have a massive heart attack while fully conscious.

Can you provide backing for your statement?
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Type a description, so people can see what you're posting about.

Is this somehow made difficult by the site?
Beautiful.

If you zoom at the last 100 years, the point form something that looks like a voice recording. I wonder what the history is telling us?

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Here's a thing I always wanted to see but am too busy to do myself: an explorable map of the world with different overlays you could toggle and a separate temporal scrollbar. Something I could use to see e.g. how the borders changed over time by dragging the scrollbar (and that would be accurate - e.g. took into account that nation-states are a recent invention and borders had a different meaning in e.g. medieval times). Or follow the battles of World War II all over the world. Basically, interactively explorable history of humanity.

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Here's another, simpler idea, of something that I really would like to get around doing eventually, but maybe someone will beat me to it. There is a power metal band, Sabaton, that is known for writing historically-accurate songs about historical military conflicts[0]. I would love to see all conflicts referred by them in their music plotted on a map, in a way that would let you select one and listen to the song[0], with lyrics displayed on-screen, along with additional historical information about a particular battle/conflict. Explorable chronologically.

[0] - They've covered World War II and later conflicts pretty well, but also did songs on WWI, earlier wars and particularly they had a whole album concerned with the Thirty Years' War and the history of Sweden. The angle varies between songs and albums - sometimes it's about the tragedy of war, other times it's about individual acts of heroism. They often cover aspects not mentioned in schools during history lessons.

[1] - Since you can find good fan-made music videos portraying the events described in the song you could embed them, but the best would be to get the band itself on board and prepare some professional-quality videos. That's not needed for the MVP though.
Slava @ Rethink here. Talked to Kyle yesterday, he's doing RethinkDB analysis next. You should see something in a month or two.

EDIT: don't mean to speak for him though; I hope this is ok.
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Amen. These types of posts are annoying as shit, because they seem smug and presumptuous.

Not reading this, because I'm not going to run around and do the poster's work for him.

The attitude!
You can look at the recording here: https://www.livecoding.tv/video/live-with-stephen-wolfram-oc...

There was some audio mishap, so you won't hear anything until 12:30 in.

He does some basic analysis on some biometric data that he's been recording for the past year or so using sensors like the Basis watch. It's very much a live-coding exercise with all the struggles that go along with it, and sort of interesting to see how he works through some technical problems and keeps things organized.
You're right that bike lanes don't fix intersections, and much of the problem stems from the New World-style grid city layout. Roundabouts are much safer for cyclists, although not a panacea of course. It's also a chicken and egg problem: right now there are enough cyclists in 'cycle-unfriendly' cities so to say to be dangerous, but not enough to find safety in numbers. Inner cities in much of Europe are cycle-friendly because there are so many cyclists that they interact with other agents in the transport system as swarms more than as individuals. This makes the reactions from other agents very different.
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Implicit typing is not dynamic typing, or even "pretending to be dynamic". It's also, I think, off topic - as the example seemed to be talking about mutability in JS, with no C# for miles.
The only thing that passes Jespen: vim.
I suspect you don't actually hold true to this policy of not consenting to "any form of non-necessary irradiation, regardless of the quantity."
How is yield a fuzzy rule? It's simple: if nobody is in your way, then go. If they are, you need to wait till it's clear, then go.

It's basically the same as a stop sign, except you aren't forced to artificially stop.

In practice, many people treat stop signs as if they were yield signs ("rolling" or "california" stops). The real problem is when people treat yield signs like they just plain don't exist. Or when they treat them like a stop sign at freeway on-ramps.... but that's a whole other discussion.
It's being discussed. Oklahoma has legalized it as an alternate execution technique, and is reportedly considering using it if they can't acquire the necessary drugs for lethal injection (earlier this month, the execution of Richard Glossip was called off at the eleventh hour because of a drug screw-up). I'm not actually sure that you would thrash around at all, since there's no suffocation reflex -- according to Wikipedia, you pretty much just lose consciousness and that's that. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation)

For the record, I think we should abolish the death penalty, so I'm not supporting this option, just sharing the data.
Heh. Well, there's always an outlier.
> A positive report could generate a lot of attention for RethinkDB

A negative report could generate the opposite though. Are they ready to bet the new $12M+ on that?

Then also if they compensate him, not sure how unbiased others will think (and we are talking about perception here) the study will be.
> A negative report could generate the opposite though. Are they ready to bet the new $12M+ on that?

Slava at RethinkDB here. Yes, we are.
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I would like to point out my favorite designer's quote:

> "[A designer] is a planner with an aesthetic sense."

- Bruno Munari

But Benson's quote from the article is more effective and human.

> "As system designers, we have a responsibility (and opportunity) to design systems with stronger values. They may not change us (we are old), but our children will see the values in these systems as normal. That is both scary and exciting."

- Buster Benson on Eric Meyer’s XOXO 2015 Conference Talk

There's a valuable opportunity in designing for future and for empathy, and while I think Munari didn't see that in his time, it's my hope that others will.
Didn't PG himself sing the praises of good PR firms during his Viaweb days?
I second that, you beat me to it.
Canadians? Or the British?
This was dramatically more true of Python when he wrote it than presently. FWIW, I've recently been using Python for a job and find it deeply unsatisfying. I'm inclined to think that current-gen Java may well be better; the last time I used Java in anger it was basically a different language. Though to be fair, truly modern Python is also a bit different than what I've been working in.
This makes me wonder if I was scanned on my way through one of the many tunnels in NYC earlier this summer while I was vacationing there?

There were about 15 lanes of traffic (toll lines) converged into two lanes to enter most tunnels. If what you say is common practice for the NYPD at events, certainly they would have something setup at tunnel entrances too.
The previous post was talking about motorcycles.
I've spent a fair amount of time now trying to reproduce this on iOS 9.02 on a 5s, and I can't make it work. I can easily get to the clock by asking Siri and then tapping the clock in her results, or by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, but either way when I press the home button it dumps me back to the "Enter Your Passcode" screen.

I don't mean this as a claim that the iPhone is a secure device, since it obviously isn't in several different ways, but rather just that I can't reproduce this specific behavior.
This tweet is not mentioned in the article, but contains quite interesting bit of information:

"We are working on a P2P solution that will make the service unblockable. It'll take some time."

https://twitter.com/durov/status/656583952950513664
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I continue to find it improbable that even a recorded fingerprint that's not a high resolution scan would suffice for touchid spoofing.

Of course if ever you have an opportunity in an arrest you should shut down the iPhone... Unlock would require passcode.
This is true. However, you can get to any topic you want easily using the search feature. A Table of Contents is provided, making front-to-back reading by topic pretty trivial.

I've taken many university courses using this book and managed to read all the required material on NCBI without much effort.
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No, I won't. This scares me too much:
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-53/p...
A while ago, I had occasion to look for Haskell programmers, to hand off a project to. Despite promising to offer substantially below market rate, with no chance of a major pay-day, I got quite a pile of seemingly serious applicants for the position, some quite impressive. While the project had some non-profit volunteering good vibes around it, I think the experience is still worth noting for those interested in the ease of recruiting developers of niche languages.
He's starting a company around jepsen so it's a bit different now:

> For folks who would like to pay for a Jepsen analysis, email aphyr+jepsen@aphyr.com. I've got one client lined up but I'll keep in touch. :)

https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/656279505879744512
Good answer! I want to see the results.
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