skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will see very very many Apple devices at every CCC event, used by the hackers themselves.
> The only lever the APA has is to revoke membership of participants

They have a voice and influence. They could push hard for these things; they could have pushed hard when they were happening. Certainly they have the resources to address my third point, about the welfare of the victims.
Protection rings are a lot older than x86. They were first used on the Honeywell 6180 for Multics back in the 60s, and used in pretty much every sufficiently large processor. The Vax had two-ring layout, as did the 68k, so the seeds for OS development in the 80s were already pretty soundly planted.

The page faulting was also on older systems, because putting those things in hardware is a lot faster than doing those things in software, plus controlling memory access really should be a privileged activity. Interrupt handling is in a similar situation, and even there, you still need some process handling the interrupt vector table. It's possible to make most of an interrupt handler a user-level process through page table and interrupt return address hacking, but for the moment, it's unfortunately rare.

As for your desire for a replacement for one exclusive, reserved kernel mode, there have been a few OSes that have tried to break that pattern. OS/2 used Ring 2 of the x86 for drivers, but unfortunately that bit wasn't added to Windows when they were forking NT. Being able to put semi-trusted drivers in a separate area, and perhaps even a user session manager too, could allow for some interesting security experiments that don't rely on (para)virtualization.

Hardware-wise, it would be useful to have hardware contexts, like sparcs have, so that the group of registers a process has can be swapped in and out a lot easier. Context switching is expensive, and building processors that realize that the modern user tends to have more than one task running would be a pretty good performance win.
The "war on drugs" has easily been one of the largest institutional failures of the late 20th century and is on track to be one of the major failures of the early 21st. It has single handedly shown to snyone who will look that the entire system is tainted past the point of self-repair. The loss of liberty, the mass invasion privacy and the subversion of the the post-justice system are just the most obvious side effects of a government determined to judge-dread first and seek approval later.

The war on drugs is just a manifeststion of what is possible if the system is willing to turn in ward for its own benifit. How long will the lower class continue to be segregated and disrespected in the name of a lost and poisonous cause no major politician has the self respect to stand up against? How many more people will we label sub-human and dispose of in all but name for the supposed benefit of society?
Make your apps resilient, the Shopify way
Footnote one should be put more generally, biases in the performance metrics (either appearance for women vs ability for men, or how many words of the US national anthem someone knows for US citizens vs rest of the world) will cause this method to fail. Unfortunately, unbiased performance metrics are quite hard on single dimensions, let alone when moving to multi-dimensional metrics
Well at least it's not the Q4 2016 :) https://xkcd.com/678/
I'm not sure the status of the shitware since I installed Linux over the Windows install immediately, but the Dell XPS 15 is a great laptop worth looking into.
> In context, you are saying burning coal should be illegal.

In context, I'm saying mining coal should be illegal, but sure, I'll add that burning coal should also be illegal.

> You need to either a) describe, in detail, what would happen if burning coal were made illegal

No, that's impossible because the effects of illegalization would depend very heavily on how it was illegalized. Obviously I'm not proposing an immediate global ban, that would be stupid. But something along the lines of the Montreal Protocol[1] is certainly doable. Even illegalization over the next 50 years would have some positive effects. It would be quite difficult to find a solution to this problem which is less effective than current pro-coal policies.

> (bonus points for discussing how this changes depending on which countries make it illegal, since getting China on board might be rather difficult)

You're proposing a perfect solution fallacy[2]. Of course it would be hard to get some countries on board, but even getting just the EU or the US to illegalize coal would have a significant effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy#Perfect_soluti...
Isn't every selection process based on experience, knowledge and/or mood and therefore baised?
Lots of screenwriters are techies, manage their own websites, install WP tools, etc. Not necessarily programmers, but I can think of many mainstream writers who would (and possibly already are) using git.
The specific reasons for rejection:

> The following content was criticized by Apple in its review:
>
> Hardware attacks: hacking chips on the (very) cheap (https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2015-6711-hardware_attacks_hacking_chips_on_the_very_cheap)
> Bluetooth Hacking – The State of The Art (https://media.ccc.de/v/22C3-536-en-bluetooth_hacking)
> Hacking Medical Devices (https://media.ccc.de/v/MRMCD2013_-_5209_-_de_-_gate_104_-_201309081123_-_hacking_medical_devices_-_flo)
> Gamehacking & Reverse Engineering (https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn15-6940-gamehacking_reverse_engineering)
> Crypto-Hacking Export restrictions (https://media.ccc.de/v/1114)
> Jailbreak: eine Einführung (https://media.ccc.de/v/hackover14_-_6494_-_en_-_raum_1_7_-_201410251615_-_jailbreak_eine_einfuhrung_-_erik_e)
> Social Engineering und Industriespionage (https://media.ccc.de/v/MRMCD15-7034-social_engineering_und_industriespionage)
> $kernel->infect(): Creating a cryptovirus for Symfony2 apps (https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2014_-_1436_-_en_-_hs6_php_-_201408231115_-_kernel-_infect_creating_a_cryptovirus_for_symfony2_apps_-_raul_fraile)
Apparently they reuse the primary wallet quite frequently:

http://www.coindesk.com/cryptowall-325-million-bitcoin-ranso...
Article title is: "Why this 'well-kept' secret for programmers is suddenly popping up in the Fortune 500" which we are happy with. Maybe HN title can be changed.
Note that while Guix, the package manager, has been successfully ported to the Hurd, GuixSD has not. Still some work to do there, but I invite anyone interested to join in and help it make it happen.
There's a nice python program that can turn Fountain files in to PDF, HTML or FDX files: https://github.com/vilcans/screenplain/
If you want to solve global warming invest in nuclear power and make it so that I can drive to any gas station and have a new battery put in my car that can take me as long as a tank of gas, in a car that isn't far more expensive than my current car.

Then maybe we can talk.
If students of Asian origin outperform the whole student body, can we conclude admissions folks are biased against students of Asian origin?
>> "This is a wildly impractical idea. It's so bad, it hardly deserves any serious consideration."

But arguably it may be more effective than the political process.

>> "and encourage the creation of new mines all over the planet. In the process of restricting supply, it'll lift coal back to highly profitable as an industry, and it'll fund the creation of new mines."

If you read the entire article, it mentions that purchasers should consider buying the more harder to mine deposits first, to counter your concern:

"Harstad thinks that his coalition should lease or purchase the hardest coal to access: In other words, the coal that’s most expensive to mine. Then, as demand for coal grows and the price rises—and mining companies start to look more more difficult reserves—they’ll find that coal is already locked up."
Burning people is lossy oppression; I expect better from PNG.
Not all platforms aggressively censor content to benefit the owner of the platform.

I can easily use Google search and YouTube to find out how to block Google's own ads[1] and to root Android phones. Google doesn't censor information that hurts Google's interests.

Microsoft's Bing has information on how to replace Windows Media Player with free and open alternatives like VLC.

Bing even suggests searches to prevent Windows 10 from spying[2].

It is possible to run an ethical platform that doesn't tilt the playing field to the provider of the platform. Apple most definitely does not provide an ethical platform.

(By the way, YouTube has a CCC channel[3].)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=block+google+ad...

[2] http://imgur.com/K1fGwFt

[3] https://www.youtube.com/user/CCCdeVideos
For the record, it's the FBI's advice on cryptowall, cryptolocker and their ilk that it's easier to pay the ransom because it's largely automated to the point that no human is directly involved in processing your ransom and returning the keys to your files - the web site you're directed to even gives you one single file recovered for free. Isn't technology grand? Aren't the disenfranchised youth of Eastern Europe (the primary agents responsible for crypto-ransomware) generous? So unless you had backups from before you were infected, pay the automated system its Bitcoin. It's a shame that so many people have this as their introduction to cryptocurrency.
I wondered why that happened... kinda obvious now you mentioned it ;)
Google is going for a cars as a service business, Tesla is going for a cars as a product business.

That means that Google is happy with cars that only work most of the time, and only goes to some routes, as long as they are fully authonomous and reliable when they work.

Tesla, by its side, is happy with cars that are not fully autonomous, as long as they work every time, and can go to any route.

Of course their products are different, and they'll not become alike if none of them change their business.
If a psychologist is running the risk of losing his license to practice, why would he cooperate?
> $125/month - 8 seat van, 40min journey, shared, up to 1 vehicle change

This is interesting -- it's basically a little autonomous bus, for essentially the same price as a regular one, that might pick up/drop off at a more convenient location, minus someone there to supervise. I kind of like having a bus driver.
> Buying coal has a global impact; ending US subsidies doesn't (in fact, it would make it cheaper to burn elsewhere).

I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that 17% is insignificant. Yes, coal prices elsewhere would go down, but at the very worst case that would mean that demand for goal rises to match previous prices: at the very worst coal usage stays the same. And if even 5 of those 17 percentage points end up not getting burned, that's still pretty significant.

Meanwhile, the US is where a large portion of the research into renewable energies occurs. If subsidies to fossil fuels were redirected to renewable energies, the research that would result would have global effects.

So ending US subsidies absolutely does have global impact.
On the face of it, without having any knowledge of the amount of coal out there or the cost of extraction for various amounts of reserves, this seems like it could be feasible. I say that because of the ways to keep this potential carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, there are three points of intervention:

1) buy it and prevent it from ever being burned (cheaper than the coal itself)

2) capture it as it comes out of the smokestack. Estimates I've heard of this are ~$0.06/kWh, which is pretty much the same cost as the electricity, so this is more expensive than buying the fuel before it's been mined

3) extract the CO2 from the air or oceans. Engineered, electricity-based processes for this will likely cost 3x-6x as much energy as the coal generated originally. Biostorage (forrestation, etc..) may or may not be cheaper than this, depending on how effective we can make CO2 sinks.

With coal CO2, prevention really is the way to go.

Of course, if we had a carbon market where fossil-fuel CO2 emitters had to pay the cost of CO2 extraction, or sequester the carbon themselves, the market would allow quick and efficient solutions, letting innovators profit as they improve CO2 management.

Coal/fossil fuels/CO2 emissions are not moral evils that must be stopped at all costs, they must just be stopped at their true market costs.
Deutsche Telecom targets startups after Europe agrees net neutrality rules
So why would people want to invest in Apple if the long term goal is not profit?
Wikidata Third Birthday
Twitch Installs Arch Linux Is Live
In working with RF, the test gear you need to see what's going on costs far more than the radio gear itself. The prices go way up as you get into the GHz range.

There's a lot of filter adjustment, antenna tuning, and shielding placement as you look at a spectrum analyzer and see spikes that shouldn't be there. This is why there are little RF modules in cans for many applications. Someone already did that work for you. Some vendors: [1][2]

[1] http://www.rfdigital.com/
[2] https://www.linxtechnologies.com/en/products/modules
The core of bikeshedding is continued nitpicking at the trivial by those who can't understand or don't know enough to grasp the its actual significance. And it's not just leaders.

Certainly change would be bad if the programmer in question blidnly modified existing systems. But I don't see any of the reactionaries asking that - they just assume the worst and go off on how unsafe it might have been.

But a new webapp bundling data from other systems into a new view? It shouldn't be any problem at all. The professionals on the phones are the very ones who would have to evaluate the information it returned so there's no way around letting them use it.
You've got a point. Juxtapose this with contemporary Eastern European corpse mutilation practices which are purported to serve as protection against recently deceased relatives morphing into a vampires and feeding on their kinfolk:

see video (Vampire Legend) at: http://www.pbs.org/topics/history/world-history/

And note in this PBS documentary how the local villagers sanctioned the fugitive's behavior and motives. Curious also how the old 'deviant' burial evidence in Britain and elsewhere imply these same practices have been going on for millennia throughout Europe. This suggests, given suitable context (as in Salem, US not that long ago), such 'unenlightened, uneducated PNG primitives' conditioned behavior could manifest anywhere at any time. /s
The vast majority of the "hackers" never see you signing in and paying the Bitcoin. The systems are automated to the point that paying the ransom triggers a process that results in the browser passing the decryption key back to the client-side malware which then decrypts your file. Electronic software delivery is a much more economical way for these enterprising thugs to be profitable at scale.
CPython internals: Codewalk through the Python interpreter source code (2014)
O+οργασμός+της+Κίρα+Νάιτλι+που+είναι+υποψήφιος+για+Όσκαρ+-+Golden+Diamond+Escort
The car can drop you off at your destination and then go park wherever it's convenient. It can take as long as it wants since you're no longer waiting on it, so it doesn't have to worry about navigating "unparkable" areas. It could go to a networked garage where the cars stack side by side without space even for the doors to open. If your visit is short it could just drive around the block a few times. Alternatively, it could go pick up another passenger.
Here's the text of the referenced section 3.2(e) of the developer program license agreement:

(e) You will not, through use of the Apple Software, services or otherwise, create any Application or other program that would disable, hack or otherwise interfere with the Security Solution, or any security, digital signing, digital rights management, verification or authentication mechanisms implemented in or by the iPhone OS, this Apple Software, any services or other Apple software or technology, or enable others to do so;

It looks like the reviewer thought this was a jailbreaking app.
A related observation (which I've been making for a long time) is that the absence of mediocre women in positions of power is strong evidence of bias. Men can succeed when they're mediocre, but women have to be exceptional. Likewise for minorities.
What's stopping a victim from paying the ransom and still going public and asserting that the ransomer didn't decrypt the hard drive which hurts the reputation (ha!) of the ransomer and causes other people not to pay?

This might be one of the smarter moves to make so long as you kept your identity as a victim anonymous so you don't get retargeted by the ransomer.
YES!. that is what I think as well!
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but putting the OTR plugin in the middle of a list of pre-existing software makes it look like they used one. There wasn't one and they had to write a new one for InstantBird wrapping libotr:

https://github.com/arlolra/ctypes-otr
Ask HN: Why is this person making fake GitHub PRs?
This GitHub user, first active today, is making huge PRs in random (?) projects with plausible descriptions but incorporating dozens or more of other people's random existing commits.

https://github.com/HarryHamilton

Is this common now? What are people hoping to accomplish this way?
MUSLIMS+CREATE+PANIC+THE+WORLD+OVER+-+YouTube
Dispute resolution is a problem where there are always more disputes to resolve than there are resources to do them adequately. There's a reason lawsuits are the exclusive domain of the wealthy, because if we let everyone use the system, it would collapse under its own weight.

The right way to solve resource allocation problems is through the market which inevitably makes tradeoffs. Arbitration is just such a market solution. What's nice about market solutions is that we can regulate them. But it takes a long time to know what the regulations should be. Until then it's buyer beware.
I briefly looked before making my comment in another thread, I don't think the APA has any say over licensing (it's done by the states).

As to reasons why they might anyway, they believe the interrogation is worthwhile, a sense of duty to country, money, etc (I'm not saying those are reasons I agree with, I'm saying they are reasons someone might use to justify participation to themselves).
I think HN changed the title.
May be due to Hacktoberfest? [0]

[0] - https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com
Since there are exactly 4 PRs, I bet he wants a free t-shirt.... https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
Universities getting Koch cash for libertarian economics
It's certainly possible, but that would make me personally feel very uncomfortable around these people, and I would eventually float towards working in a more tightly coupled team with relationships that transcend work.

That being said, many people actually prefer having that distance. For me I find that distance bothers me, and that may be a cultural thing.
Or we could just regulate sane minimums and then not have to worry about it at all.
While Iraq was being a fine country they were gassing hundreds of thousands of people.

And theocracies and kingdoms are slave states by definition, so most of what was around them is the same or worse.
> There is no mention of, or stated process for, secession of states in the Constitution.

You're exactly right! And the Tenth Amendment states quite clearly, 'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.'

Since the Constitution gives the United States no power over secession, and does not prohibit it, then it's clearly reserved to the respective States, or to the people thereof.

Secession is 100% legal; Texas v. White is no more compelling a precedent than Dred Scott v. Sandford. There's simply no other unbiased way to read the Constitution.
The software engineer has a habit of imagining bow he would design a system, and then assuming the real system is built without any of the flaws he could design against.
That's understandable, but I guess if you're staying for that reason the title of the article might better have been "What it feels like to finally get fired from Google after a couple of years of barely hanging on to my job."
This is both enlightening and depressing.

We need to redefine "speedy trial" with a more common-sense definition. Six months, even without the technicalities of clock-stoppages, is in no way, shape or form a "speedy" trial.

I'd argue something like 30 days is the upper limit of "speedy". If our courts are too backed up to support this, then we ought to readjust our spending to prioritize "justice for all".

New York State's courts have a budget of about $2 Billion/year[1]. In comparison, the state's annual budget is almost $153 Billion/year[2]

[1]: https://www.nycourts.gov/admin/financialops/BGT15-16/2015-16...
[2]: http://openbudget.ny.gov/spendingForm.html
I wouldn't use the word "torture", as there is a big distinction between the work psychiatrists at Guantanamo did and physical torture, even if the two overlapped (e.g. drown the person and then revive them for some psychological objective). I can imagine how the physical techniques used in "enhanced interrogation" might actually not be the most morally abhorrent ones.
Its just a vritual machine.
He makes a few assumptions. But he is probably correct within those assumptions.

We assume all candidate pools are homogeneous. If all members of a certain subset A of a global population P is simply better at a task than any member of another subset B of the global population, we will see that this holds true for members of our sample as well. Thus, members of A in our sample will consistently outperform members of B in our sample. Does this mean there is a bias against A? Well, yes because if there wasn't then there would be fewer members of B or perhaps no members of B in our sample based on this result alone.

However, real life is not one-dimensional. Sometimes we need to consider other factors as well.
Scientists who found gluten sensitivity evidence have now shown it doesn't exist
Apple is not an abstract concept, it's run by people. I'm curious why, in your opinion, those people's decisions on behalf of apple should not be subject to moral judgement?
Without significant political change there will not be significant economic or (positive) environmental change.

The article proposes paying the people who are destroying the world to stop destroying the world. But even if we could make a significant dent in coal production in this way, what's to stop the coal companies from reinvesting that money in finding new coal sources and lobbying for continued lax policies?

Relying on private property and market forces is generally the proposal of people who have a lot of private property and are therefore favored by market forces. I'd rather take the money away from the people who are destroying the world and devote that money to saving the world.

If you want to use market forces to drive up the price of coal, how about lobbying for taxes on coal, and having the money from those taxes go to renewable energy sources? Billionaires can lobby, and at least that way, they're ensuring that the money goes somewhere useful.

Let's stop pretending government isn't a market force. Coal companies have no qualms about lobbying government, why should we?

Capitalist solutions to this problem have been tried and have done shit all. It's time we tried something else.
I've been very happy with Asus laptops and ultrabooks, and they lack garbageware as far as I know.
Actual real world example (and application of an antidote) of this basic idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule