skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other ways to interpret it, which might soon be attempted.

The 5th protects you from being compelled to be a witness at your own trial, it does not however protects from destroying evidence, interfering with a police investigation or hindering justice.

If you intentionally destroy incriminating evidence that's a crime, if you prevent the police from executing a search warrant that's a crime too, a court can order you to present existing physical evidence including private diaries, recordings, or anything else and refusal to do so is a crime.

Now while you can say that a code is "speech" it's wouldn't be that hard to claim that it isn't, handing out a code isn't baring witness, this isn't speech in any sense, you can already be compelled to give DNA and fingerprints.

That code essentially is a device that serves only 1 purpose and it is to unlock your phone, if you build your house in a nuclear silo and refuse to give the police the keys when presented with a search warrant they'll lock you up, quite a few constitutional lawyers can argue that this example can also be applied to passwords, encryption keys, and other similar devices.
pedantic but relevant: presumably you mean a "predator".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402933
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I come from a technical background and would like to move towards a technical marketing role.

The courses at General Assembly look pretty good. Does anyone have experience of these or are there alternatives out there?

https://generalassemb.ly/education/digital-marketing
No fly lists are a conspiracy theory? You have got to be a troll.
Is there any actual reason why /dev/random doesn't do that?
That's still tautological. What does it mean to choose? What is the "I" that is doing the choosing? Those are the crucial questions that underpin the whole idea which you aren't explaining.

From here it seems that you're being deliberately obtuse. You reply to a phrase in my comment without considering the thread of questions and answers that led to it and ignoring the rest of the comment where I previously answered the very same question.

The "crucial" questions have no interest at all. I use the terms in their common colloquial sense. There's no explanation needed: we are intelligent animals, complex machines that select the options that we perceive as more favourable for us and reject the worse ones. Choosing is the fact that we selected lemon ice cream instead of orange ice cream. "I" means the 80 kg of biomass, the brain in particular, that is typing this comment.

Do all animals have free will? And what makes these a free choice?

Freedom is the absence of obstacles. Compared to humans, animals have a more limited set of choices, a lot more obstacles to overcome and less understanding of what they are and who they are. So they're less free.

If you're saying that, assuming I have food and sex readily available, and I choose food, that I could have chosen otherwise given the same circumstances?

Again? You asked for a definition of choosing and it's you who's mixing two different concepts to reach confusing conclusions.

"Giving the same circumstances" is the trap. If I get to choose food or sex, the outcome will depend on my tastes and the circumstances: Do I like the sex partner? Had I any sex in the last month or year? Am I really hungry? Do I like that food? Is it any good?

Freedom means that if presented with an attractive partner and disgusting food I can choose sex. Nobody forces me to do what I don't want to do. Your frame is so absurd that you try it to mean the opposite: that I'm free to eat disgusting food instead of having sex with an nice attractive woman.

We're not "free from ourselves", we're free (or not) from external interference. We weren't free to choose our rising environment and once the circumstances of it internalize, that's part of us and our will.
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I've done two sessions in one of these and can't recommend them highly enough. For me, two hours is the appropriate minimum time (and I'd like to try longer). The first hour seems to be getting settled down and in the zone, the second hour is much more enlightening.

It wasn't exactly what I expected going in but was actually much more revealing. I found myself coming to head with some very powerful emotions... gut level instinctual emotions that reside in more than just the brain. After getting settled in well, these seem to come up on their own with no connection to external thoughts. It was quite an exhilarating experience seeing what it really is that drives me (us) around. It definitely helped change my attitudes on some things and let go of some negative feelings that had been pestering me. For a couple of days afterwords I felt so aware, so present and I got a whole lot done.

I have done yoga off and on for 20 years or so and engaged in meditation with about the same intermittent frequency, so I think maybe that helped the experience. IDK. I understand everyone doesn't get something out of it, but for my part, I highly recommend trying a float tank if you can.
Not that I can afford a Tesla anyways, but... I really like my old Toyota 4runner for the same reason you like a traditional key.

I like being able to open it up and follow very clear mechanics while generally understanding what I'm looking at.
TouchID requires a passcode after the phone has been locked for 48 hours or so.
I think medium won, not us
"because the blocking behavior virtually never helps security but always reduces reliability."

I like how you put that. Best way to because infrastructure reliability is way too important to sacrifice over questionable security gains. Puts a QED on the whole discussion.
But that would be a miscarriage of justice. To leave the men responsible for, say, robbing and stabbing to death five people at a quiet bar is grotesque.

(Yes, it's also a miscarriage of justice to wrongly execute the innocent—and to wrongly imprison the innocent, and to fail to execute those guilty of certain crimes)
Too many failed attempts (three, I think) and the phone reverts to requiring a password. So unless they can get it right on the first try it would still be a bit of a risk — because even using your actual finger can miss at times.
Yes, thanks. Unfortunately I can't edit my comment anymore.
Is that rate limit hardware based? or implemented in software? If it's software, they can update it at any time.
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Very possible. Not suggesting that Wool was entirely unique, but more specifically, that Snowpiercer seemed to have taken the entire idea of Wool and just shifted the axis from vertical to horizontal.

There were a LOT of copied ideas. Perhaps none of them were original to Wool, but Wool was not (to my knowledge) as much a clone of any individual work as it was the compilation of a lot of tropes.
I replaced "alcohol" with "sex", and "drink" with "lay", and it worked out remarkably well, with appropriately humorous results.

I invite the reader to do the same.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

It's like you went to a website of logical fallacies and said to yourself, "how many of these can I commit on a single HN thread?"

Fly away, troll.
Don't be so stupid. Men and women both enjoy sex but pregnancy involves a lot of extra physical work for the woman because it takes ~9 months to grow another human being (or more than 1) that's 5-10% of the woman's own body weight, not to mention that human infants are completely helpless for a long time after birth, in contrast to many other animals.

This is just a fact of biology before you look at any of the social contextual factors.
> A school-year later, he was purchasing a 16-foot 2006 Ford with $US157,000 miles on it.

Hm... "domain-specific" CMS that assumes all large numbers are money, or strange writer error?

And yeah, that is really spartan. I personally feel spending more money to make more homely would have been a good investment, but to each their own. Maybe get an RV or RV-converted truck (less obvious) to start with.
I've updated the benchmark to include riofs
PS: Due to homeostasis you generally get less than 1/500th Banana equivelent dose from eating a Banana.
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DNA folding and adhesion governed by certain base pair sequence motifs and the CTCF protein

EDIT: It's not a great title but I don't have access to the full article (http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674%2814%2901497-4) so I can't tell what the particular sequences are.
Previous discussion on uBeam[1].

As someone who isn't at all educated on this kind of thing, I'm eager to hear whether or not the FAQ sheds any particular light on the issues.

As I recall, much of the theory behind it incited rather polarizing discussion.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542091
C'mon man, I at least critiqued my own wild-ass idea, you can do the same instead of dismissing it.
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Default is too strong of a word. If you meant that it can be installed from the FD 1.1 Install CD, then you are correct.
how can they achieve occlusion?
Restrictions on speech, specifically with NSLs, can happen to only a few people but still be extremely significant. The example of the Lavabit email hosting service comes to mind. He was served with an NSL requiring him to nefariously gather the private encrypted emails of his users. He was a single person with an extremely important thing to say with drastic implications, but was legally barred from doing so. I would call that significant. Multiply times thousands of people and you have thousands of very important things being censored.
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Well no, you have already detailed the crucial vulnerability in this panopticon: the devices can not be trusted. Trying to do encryption and secure communication with untrusted devices then is utter folly.

I'm just astonished by the breadth of vulnerability in modern smartphones, particularly with Googles handling of Android security. We haven't even gotten into baseband vulnerabilities yet because the whole applications processor security thing is just an entirely crumbling piece of cardboard.
> We have secret courts that authorize the killing of American citizens

You say this like it's an everyday occurrence, something that happens repeatedly, many many times. But it isn't - it happened once when Anwar al-Awlaki [1] was killed in a drone strike. [ EDIT - should be "happens rarely" not just once ]

As for the 'electronic police state' comment, again this is untrue. The purpose of the bulk surveillance is absolutely NOT to gather evidence against citizens. In fact, it is used agains foreigners only for national security and intelligence purposes. In absolutely exceptional circumstances it is permissible to search the collected data for records pertaining to citizens, but we see in the Snowden documents that there are legal safeguards and procedures to protect against accidental or inadvertant surveillance of citizens.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
Some (but not all) user data on the phone is encrypted with the password, so no update would extract it all.
There's a little bit of helpful background from the EFF here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq. I'm not a lawyer. :)
I agree. For phones "unlock" means removing carrier restrictions and getting information off is something like "decrypt" or "crack."
To everyone replying to this comment saying that you can set a limit and then the phone will wipe itself after the limit has been reached - that point is moot. Although I wish it wasn't so, there are a couple people who were able to setup a mechanism to brute force an iPhone pin by shutting off the device before it registered an unsuccessful attempt therefore ... giving you limitless potential.
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These are mostly moot points. They don't have robots trying millions of passwords on phones. They make an image of the phone's memory and brute force it elsewhere. Even a 6 digit code would be cracked in seconds, at most.
Assume there are a billion places on Earth. (As there are ~7B people, each of whom lives in a "place", this is already an underestimate.) If it takes a single byte to store the distance between each of these places, you would need an exabyte of storage just for this single byte.
I feel like you're rejecting a strawman, rather than basing it on an honest "suspension of disbelief" experience at a well-regarded agile shop.

I joined Pivotal Labs a skeptic. Now I'm a proselyte.
Fascinating article. The thing that upset me is that the guy works for Intellectual Ventures, which is more patent troll than anything else.

Finally toward the end the article does acknowledge this:

At its best, IV saves lives. At its worst, it can be a bully. It owns patents in software, medical devices, and other areas, and licenses rights under those patents for a fee. Companies in Silicon Valley, in particular, have complained that IV’s stance is basically, “Pay up or we’ll sue.” The bulk of its revenue comes from these licensing deals. Wood prefers to keep the conversation on IV’s weird, wonderful ideas, leaving talk of this side of its business to Myhrvold.
That link is completely unrelated are you sure you've linked the correct one?
It does sound...vintage. The male voice (especially in The Chaos example) sounds exactly like the computer's voice in WarGames.
Don't talk about what you don't know.
Ah yes, the infallible password that's really small and hard to see. I'm sure the guys at the NSA were all "man we'd need, like, a microscope or some shit to read that!" and just went to lunch and called it a day. There is literally nothing Apple could do to have a key of some sort on their processor that wouldn't be laughably easy for a well funded organization to get access to.
> If so, are there consequences for identifying and making it known to those nearby that "this van is scanning you without your knowledge/permission?

IANAL, but I would ask one before you do this unless you don't mind an obstruction of justice charge.
The update could wait for the next time the user types in that password. If you own the phone (which you do if you can push OS updates), you can own the data on it. There's no way around that, unless the phone is already confiscated or the user knows to not type in their password.
How are free speech zones a "restriction on [...] expression"? Surely they are the very definition on the LACK of restrictions on expression, the physical embodiement of the freedom of expression...!
Sorry, did you mix something up? I'm not even mentioning the age of the earth anywhere.
Paying $1000 / month for rent is expensive? For a GOOGLE employee?
There are tons of examples of US agencies compelling service providers to make backdoors in their software to intercept encrypted information.
I was recently looking at voice generation. The newer Festival is better than the one that's probably in your package manager.

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/morevoices.html

I wonder if we will see any of the deep learning libraries try to do voice recognition, a good open source implementation is lacking, or voice generation.
Oh, it's more complicated. Talking about time gets weird when masses and energies are in the relativistic realm.
When I first heard of uBeam and their goal I did some back of the envelope calculations. Setting aside the safety issues (which are not settled, start-up CEO claims to the contrary), the biggest problem is conversion efficiency. Using some optimistic assumptions about conversion efficiencies and beam steering accuracy, I don't see how they're going to achieve even a 10% net conversion efficiency at useful distances. So I've been very skeptical about the prospects of success, yet I am very interested to be proven wrong on some of my assumptions. But the longer this product launch gets stretched out the more skeptical I get that this will ever be a product that anyone would want to buy. This is starting to feel like Theranos- the time has come to put up some real evidence.
That post listed a lot of things other than no fly lists...
The BuzzFeed News division is solid. There is a surprising amount of investigative journalism.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/news
The only direct quote in the article that offers any real context:

"Forcing Apple to extract data in this case, absent clear legal authority to do so, could threaten the trust between Apple and its customers and substantially tarnish the Apple brand"

This quote, granted taken without full context, seems to indicate a pretty clear stipulation of "clear legal authority". Not sure what to make of that, but I do think that in matters of privacy and surveillance the words are always chosen very carefully indeed.
As much as I love El Reg, here's the actual subject matter being reported:

http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1002.pdf
North America is ~9.5 million sq mi and Africa is ~11.7 million sq mi according to Wikipedia...
> If I did, would anyone listen to it here ?

Maybe not here, but people would read a good paper on Arxiv.
He won't, don't bother yourself with such issues.
got quite some downvotes here, just wondering why, I read the blog and asked a general question, what's wrong for that...anyways it's getting boring.
It's a fair point to highlight what constitutes a true transactional email, but the content of this guide does cover both transactional and triggered emails (Welcome or registration email is one example of a transactional email covered).
> i've seen exactly 0 of this type of projects you describe in corporate multinational environemnt

I work in Pivotal Labs.

I happen to be working on such a project with one of the world's largest financial firms. Across the hall from me is another team working with that company. Behind me are three teams working for a retail giant, in front two teams working for a large insurer.

In the same office I've seen everything from iphone scroller games, to startup apps, to microservice migrations, to entire product categories, being created this way.

Collectively, Pivotal Labs has helped develop thousands of products for hundreds of clients with a collective business value in the billions.

I invite you to visit any of our offices to see it for yourself. Email me: jchester@pivotal.io and I'll set it up.
I worked support for a consumer facing startup. Several of our most vocal advocates were formerly angry customers who were treated as human beings in support messages.
I was amazed recently. About 3 years ago, my town in Japan had no maps on OSM at all. I set about adding in the routes that I rode on my bicycle, but it was pretty pathetic. I went to the UK for two years and when I came back somebody had finished everything. All the public paths and everything are clearly marked. I think the only thing left is to tag the stores.

The really nice thing about OSM is how easy it is to contribute. There is a famous bicycle route that goes through my town, but it is also famous because it is non-contiguous and completely unmarked on any map. The only way to find it is to ride on the roads and follow the signs (some of which are hand written by residents who live in the area). With OSM it was easy to mark the part of the route that I knew about and now I see a lot of touring cyclists coming through. It's incredibly empowering.
> The 2012 film Argo, directed by Ben Affleck, played up the U.S. spy agency’s role in the escape at the Canadians’ expense, omitting Sheardown’s role in the caper and falsely implying that the Canadian government was willing to leave the six Americans behind after closing the embassy.

THAT. Argo really was a horrible belittlement of a predominantly Canadian operation. Artistic license is one thing, but re-writing history simply to appeal to certain demographics (ie American film audiences) is cowardly. Any number of films do this, but it is always wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Caper
In this case, and many others, Google's code style guidelines are controversial...
Many of us believe that killing is never justice, whether it's committed by the state or not.
The city leadership and police department leadership being 100% unapologetic and unwavering in their actions says otherwise.
Why not? Transparency and efficiency are good.

It's not like the current systems are reward paragons of virtues with a visa.
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Another benefit of the Concorde is that you were exposed to that radiation for a much shorter time than the passengers flying at 40k feet for hours longer.. I'd like to see the comparison but am too busy to do it myself tonight.
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> He was served with an NSL requiring him to nefariously gather the private encrypted emails of his users.

Should really be:

He was served with an NSL requiring him to gather the private encrypted emails of one of his users.

Rather less inflammatory, and more accurate - the NSL really only affected the person (actually, it may have been slightly more - two people?) using the service that was being targeted. The reason the service was shut down was because of the precendent; the request was definitely not for blanket access to all users communications, which would be blatantly illegal.
I am no expert in that sort of stuff, so I have no estimate of the difficulty of it. I'd imagine it's too costly to be worth doing on every random iPhone in every random investigation, but if someone really really wants it, then yes. The weakest link most of the time remains the stupid unencrypted iCloud backup.

If you actually care about security, use a long alphanumeric password. It's not a big hassle when you have Touch ID. If you are ever in trouble, try turning the iPhone off immediately or quickly touch your fingerprint reader a few times with a wrong finger or enter the passcode wrong five times (so that Secure Enclave discards the cached decryption key and no longer accepts fingerprints). Also, use Apple Configurator tool to make your iPhone "Supervised" and don't let it pair with any new computer. And disable iCloud backup entirely.
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This is very interesting... I was just researching per-pixel classification, and remote sensing seems to be the field where that gets the most action.

I guess my question would be to any onlookers that would know better... is there any sort of python or Java or C# (or something scripty) library for general purpose per-pixel classification? Maybe on texture or colour?
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Good memories, I used to run this from a DOS tools rescue disc I maintained up to about ten years ago.

At some point I moved on to Linux full time.
> An OpenSSL API emulation could then have been layered on top.

A major problem with OpenSSL is the API. It's hard to use correctly and encourages bad code. Effort would be much better spent transitioning applications away from that API than trying to emulate it.
Home solar is more valuable with an attached battery. Without it, most setups as sold will shutoff if your home loses grid power. A battery is not the only way to solve this but it's the best solution if you can afford it.
Ignorant me was glad to read that part. I saw Argo and with my very limited knowledge of what happened assumed that what I saw was pretty much what happened. Glad to read that and am now curious to learn more.
For those who have questions about "Couldn't Apple just do X or Y?", Apple has published an eminently readable whitepaper on the software and hardware components of their security: https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

Of course, Apple could be implementing things differently from as described but the whitepaper lays out what is and is not possible in the described system.
They do a fair amount of counter-terrorism work;

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/administration/counterterr...