skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he's not even saying the warrant is unreasonable. It was issued, therefore probable cause must have been presented.

What he's questioning is whether the government has the authority to conscript a third party (Apple) and force them to execute the warrant.
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Having been a bureaucrat, this article was spot on. Of course some jargon is necessary to communicate ideas in a particular domain. But many domains are now using fancy words merely as a social norm which serves to distance and elevate the clique.
Give me complicated syntax over unclear ideas any day.

There are a handful of truly gifted writers who manage to write simply about complex ideas, but complicated ideas tend to force you into a really tedious process of making distinctions, or repeating which one of a set of closely related ideas you are referring to in a given clause.

So yes, academic style is often more readable for professors than the alternative. That doesn't mean there isn't crap out there: that Flaubert piece does not feel like it's using jargon in a way that clarifies anything to anyone, academic or otherwise. However, it's not my area of expertise, so I can only voice a suspicion.

(Not a professor, but I spent four years in grad school, originally hoping for a PhD and research position).
Brian O'Blivion: The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena: the Videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television.
Also, see UK non-domiciled status.

- Suppose someone has significant assets in, say, Canada.

- They move to the UK and claim non-domiciled status on their taxes, which means they only need to pay taxes on income which is moved into the UK.

- They stay in the UK for 7 years, leaving their assets in Canada.

- They then move back to Canada

Because the assets were never moved into the UK, there is no need to pay UK taxes on the capital gains/income, under the non-domiciled rules of the UK.

Because they were non-Canadian residents, there is no need to pay Canadian taxes on the capital gains/income. (Only the US taxes non-resident citizens)

In other words, they get 7 years of gains/income which get 0 taxes.

I use Canada in this example, but this works for a large number of source countries. No wonder certain neighborhoods in London are filled with Russian oligarchs...
If you have any programming experience you can hook into AlchemyAPI's machine learning services. You can make 1000 api calls per day for free.

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Relevent xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1133/ (also relevant: http://xkcd.com/547/, http://xkcd.com/722/ and http://xkcd.com/1436/).
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It might help your case to pick an example other than trotting out the old paedo boogeyman. I can see the point you're making, but there's a red flag for "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" fear-mongering.
So the question should come down to the admissibility of evidence gathered from access to a device. Rather than "search this device" it becomes "search this device's photos" where if the authorities then dug through GPS data for instance it would be a warrant-less search.

The same principle already applies both in the UK and USA to physical searches of your person. If you're being searched for a weapon then patting down is a sufficient search, a strip search is not.
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A dead man's switch addresses this threat model. If you don't enter the passphrase every 24 hours, the phone resets to factory default.

The powers that be would be highly unamused. It would make for some interesting case law.
Fine then, stolen at the click of a button. Oil is a finite resource, software isn't. We create our own scarcity. Oil = software is a lazy metaphor.
If I couldn't afford both an apartment and office i'd get something like this http://www.podtime.co.uk/

That's assuming I was doing IT work which required having a business address.
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Take a look at Laravel in PHP and also Lumen. I have been working with it for API work for past 2-3 months and I am amazed at how good this framework has been. yes it is PHP but Laravel has redefined the php framework space.

If you like Python, then Flask framework is the way to go. Another great framework that I have worked with and love.
Even more relevant, should Houston become more preferable to New York, you'll see the same silly regulations and rules crop up to keep the riff-raff out.
> it doesnt matter how you acquire a work, if its copyrighted and not authorised to share, your liable

You are only liable if you make a copy of the work without having the right to do so.

If you receive/acquire, you are not liable. But if you make a copy to share, then you are.

It is the right to make a copy. Not the right to obtain a copy.
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>> but a contractor is nowhere near as productive as a full-time employee

I disagree, also speaking as someone who's seen a mix of runs as a contractor, consultant and staff employee. It's the individual who is very productive or not, not the role they are filling.
It would be excellent if each discipline had a globally reachable dictionary and published works directly referenced that dictionary.
Research says 'WhatsApp' is taking its users data
Removing the flash chips wouldn't do anything for you. The encryption key is combined with a UID value stored in the Secure Enclave (assigned during manufactoring). The Secure Enclave is a blackbox which receives values, combines them with its secret key and then spits out the final value. [0] A high iteration count is also used which also makes this process take around 80ms.

Cracking of the passcode must be done "on device" unless someone can extract the UID from the Secure Enclave. Additionally, any device using an A7 or newer has incorrect passcode rate limits enforced by the Secure Enclave as well.

As to what is different between iOS7 vs iOS8/9, I'm not entirely sure. Matthew Green speculates[1] that they may load special firmware that bypasses the "lock" screen which is purely a UI hack. Apparently before iOS8 only a subset of user data was being encrypted compared to what is being encrypted now.

[0] https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

[1] http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/why-cant-app...
Amazon made 17 cents per share and that was enough to convince you? "strong profits"? Drink the koolaid much?

I'll sell you some shares in my software company at the same multiple. We've even got better margins. It'll be great. I promise.
What does JIRA mean?
Don't particularly care for the example.... but going with your example: Assume the peadophile has photographic memory (or even just an active imagination). If we had the capability of reading out wetware memories from their biological brain (eg. via neural stimulation & recording), would those be searchable with warrants too?
I know but each of those fields communicate their findins through ex. writing, which is what adds to the ongoing complexity of the writing.

Not really sure what you take issue with.
Its apparently not based on you wanting things to get done either
I think the content of messages, images, etc. on a phone are pretty close to the meaning of "papers" in the quote from the constitution. Not unreasonable to demand in a warrant.
It's called evolution. Species killing other species has been going on for hundreds of millions of years.
You can check out the stack on BuiltWith:

http://builtwith.com/notcrud.com
I don't think I've seen anything that has the same traction as rails, but strongloop's loopback framework for nodejs was pretty good for best practices (I think their enterprise version has some api extras as well)
Secrets don't need to be actively hidden. It's reasonable to talk about the secret world of E.R. doctors not because there hiding, but because it's not widely known.

Sure, the rules may be public the play is not.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if all the capable technical staff at Apple refused to unlock the device. Would the court pick one at random to compel?
Not quite: the article discusses how magnetic poles are arranged at the molecular level. At the human scale that molecular structure "averages out" to whatever material qualities we can directly observe.

In this case, I would guess it averages out to something non-magnetic (the article doesn't mention it so don't take my word for it). However, as the article mentioned, it also has distinguishable properties regarding reflection (which is how this new phase was detected), and the arrangement could lead to an explanation for high-temperature superconductivity.
>The discarnate TV user lives in a world between fantasy and dream, and is in a typically hypnotic state, which is the ultimate form and level of participation.

>The inner trip is not the sole prerogative of the LSD traveler; it’s the universal experience of TV watchers.

-McLuhan
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Well yeah, cat's are not known to hunt humans in packs, or murder children, or severely damage adults. You really need to provoke a cat into defending itself, whereas dogs tried to attack me even when on a leash with the owner attached.
Of course there are different solutions. But is the solution really to travel more? ... and even more, when the rents in the adjacent areas also have gone up?
According to the FAQs, the pod's internal temperature matches that of its surroundings. So, unfortunately it will still be brutal in the winter, albeit better than exposed directly to the elements.

But more importantly, where do you put this thing? If you were living in NYC without an apartment, I can't imagine you could just plop this down in the middle of Central Park.
Right. And the 4th amendment is only tangentially relevant to that question, because Apple has no 4th amendment rights over the phone (it's not Apple's phone nor Apple's data on the phone).
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That made me laugh out loud because it's clearly so correct. Sigh.
Good analogy, though in this case I think the argument is that the police can't compel a professor of obscure language to help.
And again, the UK's hypocrisy is unbelievable. Trying to shut down other tax heavens while one of the biggest is right there...
Interesting, motivating read, especially in connection with http://avc.com/2015/10/software-is-the-new-oil/

However they raise some questions :

1. Who will benefit from these trends? Who will loose and is this loss inevitable?

2. Does the term "software industry" still have any useful meaning if "software is easing the world"?

3. Shouldn't we reconsider the meaning of "startup" if more then 1/2 of US stock is venture backed and employs more than 1/3 of US workforce?
In Chrome I am running ABP, which can't be very uncommon, Evernote web clipper, rest console, xpath helper, and a bunch of Google's own shims. I will file a bug later today if I can repro the results.
Preloaded HSTS entries are filtered out https://github.com/diracdeltas/sniffly/blob/c645af76cb53a21a...
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So when is "peak software"?
I agree. Why not just have an interface like encrypted = encryption.encrypt(bytes)? Deal with getting a certificate and storing it for me, the reason people don't encrypt everything today is because it's a pain in the ass.
> The official client can be ran in 'auth' mode

I know, I just think "auth mode" could be a separate tool to improve usability. It might just be an alias, I don't care, but it's easier to remember "get-cert" than yet another double-dash parameter IMHO.

> They also use Mac on their servers?

No, but very often they develop and try new tools on their Macs. By blowing the mac experience you're forcing them/us to spin up a vm (if you can) and repeat the installation. This raises the bar for adoption a little bit. In these fickle times, it can make the difference between "oh wow this is magic" and "can't be arsed, will check it out later/never".
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The Excusinator 3000 (friend of mine told me you guys might like this)
With regards to Excel, many "in the wild" Excel workbooks will contain multiple worksheets, so it's not really practical to export a CSV for each one. Would be worth considering doing this well and supporting workbooks with multiple worksheets (same applies to Libre Office as well).

Can I also suggest you let folks play around without having to create an account (I abandoned at that point so haven't been able to play around), or at least provide a demo account that mops up stuff older than 24 hours.
Could you clarify a bit the state of JS on ClojureScript land?

I just spend a weekend watching videos about Om Next and Devcards. I got Om Next inside Devcards working, but the journey from there to getting my JS based React components there was less than smooth.

I believe that things like GraphQL, Relay and Redux could provide what I have been missing on my web development story, namely code working with the data regardless of client/server separation. Om Next looks to give these things with a better language.

I'm now starting to build things with Om Next, since playing with Cljs on Devcards was really fun. I just had to rage quit a couple times trying to use my existing stuff.

I saw support for directly importing JS modules mentioned, but I could not find docs on how it could be used. Other option was to modify build configuration to get my JS files inserted into package space or converting them (I assume) to Clojure packages with CLJSJS. Finally I just mangled several build configs together which somehow worked.

I realize trying to keep one feet on JS land and other on Cljs side might not be high in your priorities, but my use case happens to require this. I keep trying, though, so thank you very much for what you've done.
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Probably would be a better ideia, in terms of software reusability and security, to put a lets encrypt module on apache or nginx rather then put an apache or nginx module on lets encrypt.
I'm just reading that at the moment. So far it's doing a great job of explaining the concepts in an approachable way.
Well with regards to #1 a lot of vendors with your revenue find themselves able to negotiate better rates with payment processors, particularly in combination with a merchant account. Shopify have obviously negotiated a deal with their payment processor based on their volume.

People build their own still for a multitude of reasons, one of these being may be that they don't want to be locked in to a single platform. If Shopify shut down tomorrow, would your business be in trouble?

People also want custom features, better analytics, control over SEO, and all those extra things that aren't currently possible with Shopify.

At 500,000 a year, a sum like 5,000 is nothing, especially if you feel that you can increase your revenue by 1% or more with a new custom site.
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day job - full stack developer for a local company that develops worksheets for k-8 teachers

side job - full stack developer for a website that provides continued education for dental students and dentists

I'll generally take the random freelance job that comes around, both remote or local - building a Wordpress website for a local plumbing company this week.

If those 3 aren't consuming all of my time, I've been planning an idea for a programmers network, but i haven't had much free time lately :(
I agree. Btw the author is a she. She has many articles and any info on this topic by a subjective author is interesting.
http://works.bepress.com/brooke_harrington/

I hope she has a follow up article with more meat.
Assumes that software is a tangible item, when a more suitable term for it is the wetware between the CPU and a user's screen? This connotation of software with some form of product is analogous to selling sand to The Arabs. There is more than enough to go around, and it is not scare. Soo leave it alone and create products borne from soft, not make the soft the product.
software is definitely a lot of snake oil.
A theory I have heard in the UK is that brewers put chemicals in beer specifically to give you a hangover, so you think you must have had a good night.

Whilst I think that is, ahem, unlikely, the monopolisation of beer production by a shrinking cabal of vested interests is hammering beer quality here. And the evidence certainly suggests that unwanted chemicals - either in the product itself or introduced through badly maintained pipes in pubs - have a significant part to play. The article references 'congeners' as the culprits here, but it is noticeable that, eg, one can go on a significant bender in Germany and come up fresh as a daisy the next day, presumably thanks to that nation's enlightened beer purity laws.
From a quick look at the protocol, it shouldn't be an issue to run the ACME client on one host and scp CSRs from your servers to it, hand them to lets encrypt, and move the results back. So yes, you have to touch or run it every 2-3 months, but it doesn't have to run on all your servers.
My day job: front-end developer, which means different things to different people. Mainly do JS work right now with Angular JS on a large enterprise transactional application.

My side project: Working to create an agency that helps a specific niche business. We already have close to a dozen clients on a monthly subscription that are generating a good chunk of revenue. A few more clients and I can forgo my current contracting gigs and do it full time.
I'm glad to hear that, and I believe it. What I'm very sad about is, its the first thing that's brought up whenever housekeeping is mentioned. The casual assumption that its a huge problem, happens all the time and is the major issue.
Doesn't the official client need to have access to your private key?
It sounds strange, but there are lots of potential explanations:

1) The pre-k program is "teaching to the test", focusing on higher scores but not the core skills that matter by third grade.

2) Parents who opt to send their children to this pre-k program are less engaged than those who keep their children at home.

3) The k-3 curriculum doesn't capitalize on the skills gained in pre-k.

It's interesting because it's such a non-intuitive result. Could be bad data, but worth checking out....
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I think git is pretty easy for easy workflows (add, commit, push). I just use subversion for old projects, where porting them to git would not make any sense.
Thank you so much for posting this comment; I actually posted an Ask HN a while back to get that url, but I couldn't find it for the life of me.
2) Is very tricky to do for creative professions. Wouldn't it mean something like asking every client who uses the feature you worked on to give you a quote on how useful the part you did was to them? I'd like to hear what others think about how to effectively measure and market your contribution to management.
What trends do you base this on? What renewable energy source is on course to take over a majority of energy production? As far as I know nuclear energy (fusion and fission) are the only contenders to replace fossil energy at the moment and in any foreseeable future.
Yeah but we then assume the data is there and exists with all the context intact too. Big Data is a one way mirror into what's happening, but this just results in watching but not being able to take part. It's a one-way operation like calculating a prime
I see what you did there, but do not really see what is it good for ? It is only static data right ? Check out this: https://ipushpull.com where you can create true live data out of your excel files. I think some examples on your website would help people to understand better...
I have some sympathy with the disdain shown towards bandwagon-jumpers. However gluten has turned out to be a real problem in my own family. There seems to be a range of problems that gluten sensitivity can be linked with, even while traditional coeliac tests return negative. Our own research suggests this can sometimes mean "not yet bad enough to show positive" and that things need to get really bad for that to finally register.

There seems to be a term NCGS emerging - Non Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity. It's somewhat at the not-yet-proven-to-exist stage. For us though, we're in no doubt: given a regular gluten-containing morsel, my wife's face next day will show swelling and she'll be fatigued for days, plus be hit by abdominal cramps and various other things. Since she cut out gluten this has only ever happened "blind" btw, i.e. waking up with symptoms then figuring "ah that piece of XYZ must have had gluten" after the fact. She never eats gluten intentionally.

It's been interesting - she was all set to go onto thyroid medication for life, and had really quite severe symptoms, sometimes requiring hospitalisation. Cutting out gluten fixed them all within weeks.

We've seen it suggested that gluten proteins resemble thyroid molecules, hence the immune system's attack on gluten leading to those symptoms indicating thyroid dysfunction.

It makes you wonder: how many people with low level health complaints could do better by just trying a gluten free diet for a couple of weeks.
Many in the wild Excel workbooks will contain formulae as well. You can't export those to a CSV.
Apparently acknowledging the existence of Michael O. Church is still verboten around here...
Could be completely wrong, but I've noticed if I drink several "craft beers" I do wake up without any headache in the morning.
One of my favourite articles recently was this one by Christopher Olah http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/. As a haskeller it really helped put things in terms I can understand. I think there's also value for those who aren't functional programmers because it teases out the fundamental abstractions of the building blocks to deep learning very well.
You have two options:

1. Access the settlement. This is like an admission of guilt as they will record that you viewed the settlement. If you access the settlement and subsequently reject it, they will almost certainly sue you and win in court. The settlement offer is likely $1,750 USD or so per infringement.

2. Do not access the settlement and go underground. Then you're hoping that you don't win the lawsuit lottery of the people to whom they've sent settlement offers.

Of course, since you have admitted guilt here in a public setting, your only ethical and moral option is number 1. That said, since you have also admitted to destroying evidence in comments here, the settlement may no longer be an option, and you may have subjected yourself to many thousands of additional damages and possible criminal penalties if you haven't sufficiently anonymized yourself.

There is also a third option of disputing the cease and desist (i.e. arguing that they are mistaken), but I would wager that you would lose that argument.
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To some people, there is nothing more frightening than _lack_ of change. And age has nothing to do with it.
My favorite one is LightPaper (http://www.ashokgelal.com/lightpaper-for-mac/). With multitabs and a folder navigator, among others, I can keep and edit related documents together. I wish it had a vi mode but other than that it's perfect.
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O' the demon of rum is abroad in the land.
His victims are falling on every hand,
The wise and the sinful, the brave and the fair.
No station too high for his vengeance to spare.
O woman, the sorrow and pain is with you.
And so be the joy and the victory too ;
With this for your motto and succor divine :
The lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine!
The lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine!

Sing it with me!