skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not associated with Signal or Moxie (though I've been a silent fanboy for ~15 years-- [[hey Moxie if you're reading this and still are hiring, ping me - contact info is in my profile]]), but I'd inherently trust the application more than an average application or company because:
a) Moxie has a track history of having a lot of personal integrity with regards to security. Some might say this is blasphemous but I'd put him up there with Bruce Schieder.
b) The whole source is available on GitHub, compile the APK and see if it matches.
c) it's incredibly easy to take an apk and disassemble it, to see if there are backdoors to begin with if you are really that cynical.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a tinfoil hatter. I use GPG, run my own MTA for anything even remotely important, use DDG over Google, donate to the EFF and use their HTTPS Everywhere plugin, have all of the Ad-Opt outs enabled that Google/Doubleclick/etc make available but try to obscure, etc. I'd be willing to bet that Google is collecting way more information than Signal is.

But hey, that's why rev-eng is so important. A wiser man than me once said "Don't turn it on, take it apart" ;)
This is such an old BSD vs GPL flame. And it's irrelevant here. You will run into the same issues when using a high quality, cutting-edge, BSD-licensed MTA.
They still profit from it, and they are ultimately (legally) the owners and controllers of the company. It is ridiculous to say that just because the responsibility is diffused we don't need to think about shareholder responsibility at all.

The way to help is to make companies that source palm oil from these terrible places to go bankrupt. That way, we clamp on demand for palm oil.
I really don't understand the rationale. You have this product, OneDrive, and one of the purposes is backing up all your photos and video, especially from mobile phones. The marketshare of Windows Phone, the only OS that includes OneDrive tightly integrated, is irrelevant compared to Android and iOS. And these two don't include OneDrive; you have to entice Android and iOS users to download and use the OneDrive app by offering something more than the built-in apps. So what's Microsoft answer to this? Make OneDrive worse than iCloud! Imagine how OneDrive is going to look if Apple next year decides to upgrade the free-tier iCloud space.

And downgrading the space for existing users is another terrible move. Good luck telling your users to actually delete photos and documents (not all users are tech-savvy enough to move data between services).

I understand giving things for free is bad for business, but this move is the worst possible response. Killing unlimited? Ok. Downgrading existing users space to iCloud levels? Terrible.
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my cost of living for that long.

Is the cost of living really that high in Austin, TX?
> switch from the walled gardens of iOS messaging and WhatsAp

Doesn't Signal require my phone number? Isn't it dependent on the Whisper servers? Why isn't it a walled garden then?
I think putting more effort into Avian would probably be time better spent. Their static code-gen is lacking (it currently just runs the JIT ahead of time, instead of taking more time with something like LLVM), but they've got a lot of things going for them including a superior GC.
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There seem to be concerns about the security of it.
And this is the exact reason I will not contribute code under a CLA that gives a project the right to re-license my code as commercial.
"Sky" is also a massive thing that is visible around the entire earth made up of kilometres-thick gases and physics stuff. It's older than satellites or broadcasting. It's silly that such a word gets protection.
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Japan's big problem here is that they don't see a need for a car when a horse works just fine.

And if that's the world they want to live in, that's fine - no judgment here.

I, however, choose to live with and embrace a culture of advancement and change. That requires living in the USA. Maybe in Europe.
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Yeah, and how, instead of cutting off a small number of users, they are gonna cut the limit to right around the average use, guaranteeing customer pain. Bizarre, terrible management.
I'm waiting for the first real 32-bit colour monitor, the one that becomes transparent when alpha is set to zero.
Since the guy with the locked iPhone already plead guilty or whatever, can't they give him immunity for anything new and force him to unlock his phone that way? I'm no lawyer but as I understand it, that's how prosecutors can generally go about forcing people to give evidence about co-conspirators. From there it's a straightforward contempt charge and the guy sits in jail until he gives up the passcode.
It's not smoke and mirrors. It's akin to the audio world where the final product (an CD or MP3) is mastered in 16 bit audio, but is mixed and edited at a higher bit depth, often 32 bit.

In the color world, most of ones job is about mapping what a sensor captures (most modern DSLRs are 12-16 bits per channel) onto the reduced palette offered by 8 bit color. Actually, most cheap displays are 6 bit color with some fancy techniques to help fool our eyes.

Research banding and dithering with respect to color to get a better idea of the subject.
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It uses Google Cloud Messaging. There needs to be a server in between and I believe GCM is free. Consider a situation where Bobs phone is switched off. Alice sends a message and turns off their phone. Now, Bob turns in their phone. How do we get the message Alice sent to Bob?
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I'm really curious how they are going to reduce accounts with 15GB of data down to 5GB. We get to keep our data for "1 year" apparently - so what after that? Are they going to physically delete half of my files? Or will they be held ransom like a crypto-locker scam? I don't quite understand how they plan to pull this off without hugely pissing of a very, very large number of people.
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How do you feel about UK banning encryption for internet?
No one has that
I'm not sure what you're saying here, because that seems to me to be exactly what the article is saying in the first page or so.
Reverse engineering binary or obfuscated code does take long chunks of unbroken time and a lot of attention. You have to fill up your short term memory with many structures seen or guessed at in order to begin making connections between them. Making diagrams can help, but mostly it’s reasoning through things step by step while jumping around the code and learning to recognize patterns. Sometimes little scripts can be useful for globally altering the code or testing an idea.

In the guess of a cpu emulator, it’s actually much simpler, there’s extremely comprehensive documentation on how the 386 is supposed to behave. In this case I simply had to recognize the clever tricks used to emulate such behavior efficiently in software, e.g. using XOR operations to efficiently simulate the behavior of the translation lookaside buffer (TLB). It was mostly just reformatting, documenting and renaming things intelligently.

I have to confess that I find it all therapeutic in a way. Normally I read papers and do experiments and attempt to design things in biology, where nothing is clear at all, ever. We have the genome, which looks simple, but no way to simulate anything usefully (microscopic physics is hard and traverses a vast temporal hierarchy in “running” a cell). We’re left with uncertain measurements of the behavior of enzymes and molecules to guess at what’s going on inside the stochastic, dynamic maelstrom of a cell. It’s still reverse engineering, but it’s so much slower to do on an alien, practically uncomputable architecture than in a synthetic universe made by human minds to be understandable by human minds.
Even more seed rounds, is it going to be used in the valley?
A funny note: During Longhorn (PDC 2003), some MS devs indicated that the color pipeline for everything in Windows was moving to a 128-bit pixel struct. Some floating point part, I think. Course that never shipped but it sounds cool.

I think Carmack mentioned that in some extreme-but-possible cases, 64-bit isn't enough to represent the results correctly.
It's high everywhere when you are a Starbucks tenant. ;)
Public blacklists are fairly standard, based on DNS. Removals less so but tracking down the right form is usually simple.

Large providers, however, either aren't using these or augment them with in-house, non-standard, and undocumented lists and mechanisms.
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This is an interesting about-face because just about a year ago Microsoft was boasting about eventual 'unlimited for everyone'. I guess that's why people can't have nice things [eg http://forums.windowscentral.com/onedrive/335647-anybody-suc...]

Having been a (paying, ~250gb) user of sky drive for as long as service has existed, I am upset - I'll still use it, but my recommendation for it as defacto cloud storage for someone needing to send a file is gone.

Most crucial is recent screw ups with office having its own sync engine with one drive-stored files (even if opened locally from onedrive folder) that often creates conflicting upload with default win10 onedrive app.
Centralisation and expansion of political power /= concentration of it in the hands of the few.

Political power is far less concentrated in a big government elected on a wide franchise which legislates and redistributes in a way not seen as conflicting with the perceived interests of a diverse majority than if wielded through a set of local private or quasi-private enforcement services effectively owned by those with the means to purchase their decisions.
>Why isn't it a walled garden then?

Because the client and server are both OSS?

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Server
I wonder why it's not ARG10101010 for 10-bit RGB + Alpha

Surely it's not actually 2 bit Alpha in ARG2101010
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Cars are much safer than horses:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990DE0DC1E...

And they produce more jobs, from all of the people needed to create the plastics, glass, metal, to the engines, etc. and the oil companies, quicky-marts, etc.

However, horses are more environmentally friendly, as long as you don't mind their feces, urine, and gas.
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It's a shame. I live in Germany, and just heard of this for the first time at HN. I can't believe it... we are discussing stupid things in politics, the refugee "situation", Ukraine and Greece. I even heard of the recent earthquake.

But Indonesia burns? Not even worth a mention. Not a single word.
Is this a case of small founder led companies being happy with the way things are. The thing is if the environment is stable then the healthier more change adaptable companies will find it hard going.
Perhaps there is a birth of a more modern business ecosystem in Japan?
At the same time, however, there are plenty of companies that use software released under a permissive license without contributing back -- they release none of their improvements, they don't contribute financially and so on. GPL adepts hope that it will force these "malicious" companies to comply, while doing no harm to the ones that would contribute anyway. Or, in their own jargon, that the freedom (to reuse that software for any purpose, including commercial ones) which made this possible is preserved.

The results have been... mixed, as far as I know. Permissive licenses do allow many commercial players to "abuse" the system -- and make no mistake about it, especially companies like Google or FB are entirely disinterested in charity. "For the community" is a convenient PR stunt, but real life has consistently shown that every large company has enough ulterior motives to make community service an accident, not an intent.

On the other hand, GPL (rightfully) scares companies away. Even fair players shy away because of the complexity and difficulty of the license, and developers are sometimes put off by the amount of politics involved. These things discourage legitimate contributors.
Is an $80,000/year salary "that high"?
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I wonder if that's the norm rather than a Japanese peculiarity.

it's a bit like that in Germany too - mostly small and middle sized companies are dominating, and people don't like to upgrade that much over there. The end of support for Windows XP last year used to be a major shocker, so the issue got some media coverage and reports were generally speaking of the danger to smaller firms [1]. Still nowadays only 17% of all installations are running XP (down from 26-30% last year). [2]

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http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/windows-xp-eingestellter-suppo...

[2] http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_presse/archive/2015/04/...
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> I am an Office 365 subscriber that is not affected by these changes (I use far less than one terrabyte).

Same here, and my O365 sub runs out in a month, so Microsoft has just made my decision to switch for me. I was fine with paying $70/year for 1TB of storage (with a welcome, if barely used, Office install). I don't actually need 1TB as I'm barely hitting 30GB with OneDrive right now; 100GB would be plenty of headroom for my needs. But the fact that they are punishing free users as well as those who abused the "unlimited" paid option means they would have no qualms about limiting O365 accounts in the future. I don't need to stress over whether I'll have to change providers one day; I'll just deal with it right now.

I've been toying with a storage instance on Vultr, $5/month for 125GB storage and enough CPU and RAM to install and run OwnCloud, though I've also considered SparkleShare since the majority of what I store is text and images. I think I'm going to spend the rest of my off duty time today working out the better solution and start migrating my OneDrive files.
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Why is a browser extension needed in this case? Does not the browser expose a source of randomness that would be enough to write the rest of the crypto in JS and use that?
Page 5 of the report:
"The subject provided informed consent"

The real problem is drawing any conclusion from a sample size of 1.
Every so often, in places where I can be seen as the sum of my history (especially places with reputation scores), I create a new account with zero history. It stops me self-censoring on the basis of not wanting to damage my own reputation.

It's ridiculous; it's a line of text on a screen, and everyone here is a stranger, but I still feel myself caring. Can't stop caring, but I can start from fresh every so often.
Same reason we focus on oligarchs, kings, central parties, capitalists, castes. Because there’s unequal power relations where elites dominate those underneath.

Those on the bottom must obey bosses (if they indeed have the privilege of wage slavery), treated as prisoners in school then thrown into prison, homeless, open to abusive predators of all sorts, sex slavery, in fear of drones blowing up your neighbors...
I think those articles just show the authors didn't want to think a bit about all the direct effects.

Sure, by boycotting a business, the workers of that business (may) see their paychecks lowered. But the workers of the competing businesses where you'll be eating/staying instead will have more customers.

In fact, by going to that business instead of the one you'd go if you were boycotting the first, you are in fact doing the same to the later business as the boycotters are doing to the former.

So I can see how the boycott might be bad for the workers of the boycotted business, but it's neutral to workers in general.
Spoken like an academic.

He was never a serious contender. His angle was as an independent agitator.

Ralph Nader was never a chance, but he changed America based on his campaign tactics (which I personally disagreed with - he split the Democratic vote).

Lessig needs a dose of 'junkyard dog'.

This setback could have been the fillip a better, more aggressive candidate would welcome.
Can I download the the Signal client from any store and then point it to my own server instead of Whisper's?

Did anybody try to run his own server? Can such setup really work?
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In addition to what @newjersey said, you also need to handle push notifications, which in the context of a mobile phone aren't cheap at all. This is because you need infrastructure and because keeping connections open drains your battery and making it work well is wasted developer effort. This is why it is better to use whatever is available, like GCM on Android, APNS on iOS, or maybe Pushy (see pushy.me) or whatever Amazon does if you want distribution on alternative stores.
See here for a version that uses websockets instead of Google services. It's usable on Blackberry OS 10 so should be usable on other non-google devices.

http://forums.crackberry.com/android-apps-amazon-store-apk-f...
You would think they could do something along the lines of a complete ban on any kind of commercial activity or exploitation of land that's been burned for the next 20-30 years. Wouldn't there be no more reason to burn after this?

I suspect the politicians of Indonesia and the corporations in neighboring countries have other motives in this - and it's a quite a bit more complicated then the world looking away.
On the one hand, $5.2B in 2 weeks is an unreasonable amount of money, and virtually everyone agrees that the value is only that high because of the kidnapping of the Finance Minister.

On the other, MTN's service has been atrocious for the last two years or so (I've been a customer for about 15 years).

$5.2B is too much, but they really do deserve a massive fine.
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This issue is intrinsic to the security model of Android before Marshmallow.

If an app is going to be able to send a contact, share a location, make a phone call ... all these permissions need to be demanded upfront, which I understand can be scary.

You also need to keep in mind that nobody is going to use "secure messaging" if it's a pain to use. You obviously don't want to be copy pasting contact information in the app for instance.

I'm glad to see that Android is following iOS's permission model where permissions are only asked at run time.
I sense sarcasm but I can't be sure...
Making push notifications work well is hard, so it's better to just use what's available. There are alternatives, but the alternatives aren't free at all. See: https://pushy.me/