skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good to see Notes with a lock (fingerprint). It would be great if Apple decided to add fingerprint app locks as a feature for any app that one may want.
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The NSA's utility overseas during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan with cell phone targeting <--> drone strikes was incredibly valuable IMO. They've put other countries signals agencies to shame by comparison, which is a very valuable national security advantage and provide an effective deterrence from superpower threats such as Russia/China, beyond simply nukes.

In war time I believe there is no doubt of their value.

But the lack of tangible tactical results in terms of data (in the broader fight against terrorism, domestic and otherwise) they have so far provided to the public is almost sad and embarrassing... considering the expenditure. So far they can only point to a small number of "real" terrorists or threats which they neutralized.

Results should be the only thing that matters.

Most of it would be in trade deals and other global political diplomacy that we'd never know about. Regardless of the technical capabilities that Snowden revealed.

The singular thing that scares me - that I can say with absolute certainty is immoral and dangerous - are secret rubber-stamp FISA courts.
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Has Apple been known to pay to license patents from small startups? The fact that they've licensed from Amazon isn't quite analogous, since Amazon clearly has the ability to enforce their patents in court. A small startup may not have the resources to do this.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is an FFRDC affiliated with MIT just as SEI is an FFRDC (of which CERT is a particular division) affiliated with CMU.
The full quote is "Like cavemen following mammoth across the Bering Strait, early developers were following their prey. “Who’s moving north?” Mr. Barr said. “It’s the wealthy and the middle class. If you’re an insurance salesman, do you really want to be traipsing through the slums of Five Points or the factories of Soho to get to work?"

The author is talking about the historical drivers of Midtown's development.

Soho has only been an expensive neighborhood for ~15-20 years, a good century after the rise of Midtown. Back then it was a light industrial district of warehouses and factories with dirty streets, high crime, and high noise. It's important to note that this is pre-containerization, so ships from all over the world docked along the East River and Hudson River, supplying and shipping to/from the factories of Lower Manhattan. The streets were filthy and filled with heavy freight, and its main redeeming value is proximity to the ports.

After containerization and the ports moved away, Soho fell into disrepair as industry moved to be closer to supply lines. In the 60s and 70s artists took over many of the spaces because they were big but the area was undesirable enough to be affordable. It wasn't until the 90s that the area started being gentrified, and it wasn't until the 00s that the area became outrageously expensive.

Ditto Five Points, which doesn't even exist as a discernible neighborhood anymore. Nowadays it's the giant court house complex, but back then it was a poor and dangerous neighborhood.

The NYC from 2000-2016 is not at all like the NYC from the 70s and before.
I would agree with you if the software in question wasn't a pw manager. If you publish a software whose focus is security and show that you don't understand basic security issues then some direct words seem quite appropriate to me and the reaction from some [business] users might be much much harder.
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Do you have children Dan? In this case I think I would have failed if I had not spanked my son.

The reason why spanking is so effective is it ties the action and punishment very close together. Children get pretty used to you yelling at them to stop doing something they want to do, so when they do something really dangerous you need to have someway of getting across to them that whatever they have done should never be done again. Spanking is a tool that should be rarely used, but I have no issue with being used in the appropriate situation.
Performing inference with deep learning modes is computationally costly as well. Its a reason why NVidia has two streams of business, Tesla / Titan / upcoming Volta GPUs to train models and Tegra boards to enable near real time inference.
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Break their mobile apps. Use their own API key against them. Also break their websites.

For example, for Google, look at Google Keep – that one leaks API keys directly in the list of accessed URLs, the key has been the same for years, and provides access to Maps and Keep. Same with YouTube (the app packages an API key for the v3 data API) or the WolframAlpha app. Many more apps, from simple "what’s for lunch at my uni’s cafeteria" to Transit apps all leak API keys. Preferably you use the key of an app from the same company which maintains the API, so you can guarantee to always find a recent one.

I spent a few weeks last summer extracting API keys for next to all services out of apps, and breaking some DRM solutions, just to get experience with reversing software (which was something I had a course about at uni at the same time, and the experience helped me with homework).
Artists, as a group, unquestionably add value to a society. Whether or not a given individual artist adds sufficient value to society to justify them "deserving a good living" is a very different question. A question that is not to blithely glossed over with vague assertions about sizable classes of people.

An album in which an artist has key creative control is not bespoke labor. It's self-expression, a very different form of work. Software engineers generally perform bespoke, custom, specified labor for others who control what that labor looks like and produces. For this, said engineers are compensated for their time and labor. Said engineers do not generally expect to own the result, just as a portrait artist does not expect to own the commissioned piece.

May you have a long and prosperous career in which you fit your business model to the times in which you live. With luck, you'll even manage what the rest of us have - a way to profit from your passions.
You set a scenario for a potential disaster but what has surveillance done to protect those in times square on new year. This question has no answer and the answer if it exists is NOT something a democracy has access to.

So if surveillance is an answer to a potential terror plot then what needs to be known is whether it can actually be effective. Terror plots are not the norm of human life. They are feared more because we humans are designed by nature to be afraid first when we see a lion, run away and think later. If we stood there contemplating the possibility of of having a deep conversation with that lion that lion would have managed to have a meal deep in its stomach. Thought is very low on mother nature's agenda. Even other great apes don't comment here! Basically we are more afraid of the danger because we are primed to be so. I guess what I'm trying to say is that while fear is a danger is a logical thing it shouldn't be the only thing to consider when deciding on surveillance. Currently it is the only reason presented to the public and it is not good enough on its own.
Was looking for some backgrojnd and found an overview presentation [pdf]: http://netlipse.eu/media/77918/11nwm-bratislava-lex-pepping-...
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Yes, it's still the case. Moore's Law is still alive (e.g. Tegra X1 vs K1).
However, this paper is not about using specialized architectures, it's about compressing weight matrices and putting them in cache.
It's not quite that simple. The law of gravity will not be permitted to apply to you if doing so will cause too much damage to too many people.

But several times the "bailout" kept the institution alive, but wiped out the shareholders. I thought that was at least somewhat reasonable. Wipe out the senior management too (which I don't recall whether that was done), and that might be about as good as can be achieved.
When I see "update" in a headline from a Silicon Valley business I wonder what or who they are getting rid of. Or is "An update on X" just a Googlism?
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> No one's worried about writing C++ for Windows, but technically you're using their APIs and hooks that could be dropped in the next release.

Well, Valve was, justified, worried about that, and built SteamOS.
I'm a huge fan of Google Keep. It's by far my favorite tool outside of Gmail that Google has released.

For me it's the best todo list, shopping list, notes of all sorts, url bookmarking, collaboration tool, etc.

Good to see competition from Apple in this regard.
>Is it all just a sham?

Yes. There's hardly anything* local to a client worth paying money for that will make you more secure.

*--> hedging for a miraculous product I just don't know about
Monad transformers are not the only way of combining effects.
Still waiting for the ability to close a browser tab by swiping.

AFAIK, the fastest way to close a tab is to push on the screen to get Safari's bar on the bottom, push on the multiple tabs, then swipe right to left or click the X on the tab I want to close.

On my mac it's Command-W. Which is a lot easier and probably why I prefer to browse a lot on it.
Except this isn't a brain scan in anime. It's basically a mathematical model based on prior criminal history, gang affiliation, etc.
I really like that metaphor!
I was really thinking the same thing. Just like electronic products have UL[1] certification, there needs to be a few labs that really look at how these products are architected and the data exposure is like. Then rate them accordingly.

[1] http://ul.com/
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Not only that, but the private APIs f.lux was using led to a really awkward implementation, complete with huge gotchas like the phone waking up every time the color profile changed.
Note that there's not just shoot to kill response.

They specifically mention "property records". For me, that works out pretty well, I have enough money to afford enough property to indicate I can easily afford legal representation and will be treated as such by the police, yes mr vlm, no mr vlm, you are free to go mr vlm, have a nice day mr vlm. On the other hand, people verified to be dirt poor can expect dramatically different treatment knowing they cannot afford legal representation. On the downside I can expect no mercy WRT ticket fees, because they'll know I can afford it. You can envision traffic cameras lighting up when I drive thru a speed trap village, between my age, clean criminal record, and property ownership they'll know they can collect quite a toll off me at zero personal risk.

Aside from property, anyone who's ever posted anything vaguely drug or alcohol related on the internet, ever, now has perpetual probable cause for a breathalyzer test or a drug test down at the hospital. This is perfect for police harassment.
Some more examples of clueless morons being 'terrorists' are the 'underpants bomber' from a few years ago, and the idiots in Glasgow that crashed a car containing some propane cannisters into the airport terminal.

Not so long ago such ludicrous incidents would have been written off as being the misguided actions of 'nutters'. Now of course they are 'attacks' by 'terrorists', prompting hyperbole about 'heightened terror threat levels' and Al-Qaida cells.
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I wonder how long before New York City walkers realize they can safely cross in front of Teslas without worrying about getting hit.
Do you have a good GPU?
It's primarily a talent identification exercise. Helps them find the next generation of z/OS developers that they could potentially hire to replace the ones who are retiring.
> 2/ Also the single person does end up having more capability but also protection from them is also more possible.

I would like to believe that, but for now if it comes to biohazard events, I'm not reassured. If we had good enough mitigation strategies today, people generally wouldn't catch communicable diseases so much as they do. And I haven't heard of any potential research on something that could tip things in favour of defense. Again we encounter the same dynamics that make airport security theater ineffective - the assymetry between attack and defense. The defender has to handle all possible attack variations, while the (either human or random in nature) attacker can just focus on one strategy, a strategy that will not be known to the defender beforehand.

For now, the best short-term strategy is infrastructural - basically what the health services are doing today, but even more of it.

I totally agree with you about present surveillance situation being a total Wild West. I have no clue what to do with it, and while I don't really mind data gathering per se, I'm very much against the shenanigans governments and private companies are pulling on us with said data. We desperately need to figure out a good solution.

I think that one obstacle on the road to that solution will be attempting to protect the idea of privacy at all costs. I think we'll end up having to give up a big part of it, or even the whole concept entirely - in exchange for reducing the power it gives to the governments and corporations. For instance, you can't really blackmail people with stuff everyone knows everyone does, because nobody will care.
You can swipe up from the bottom of the screen, and on the menu there enable the orientation lock.
This is an excellent example of how not to respond to being downvoted.

Take a step back and a nice deep breath and consider why you might have been downvoted. It may have more to do with the tone of your delivery than the actual content of your message.

Lashing out at those who disagree with you with baseless accusations is counterproductive.
From what I've gathered, TOR is pretty robust at least on paper, and when explained in an academic way it has me almost convinced that the apparatus does what its supposed to, except for the part where it catastrophically fails when put into practice, like when:

1.) Custom Firefox 'Browser Bundles' which do not auto-update and ensure latent vulnerabilities are left un-addressed

2.) Trusted 'Third Parties' running exit nodes who we hope and pray are doing their job correctly

3.) Weird and non-innocuous looking domains on the wire that do nothing more than alert the neighborhood that somebody's using TOR (Unless everyone's using it you stand out like a sore thumb)

4.) Sybil attacks in the form of people-with-more-money-than-you polluting the network

5.) ???

6.) Any number of other issues (which have since been patched in the past), but still work if the TOR user is uneducated about how TOR works (traffic analysis / correlation attacks / zero-knowledge-proof attacks, etc)
Wow. It's actually a miracle that this works most of the time. That suitcase is pretty standard, I could imagine a million ways how some backpack or other unusually formed piece of baggage would jam that thing.

And how on earth do they route individual packages through the system with that speed? Is there some pattern recognition system that identifies them on the fly and then routes left, right, left right, etc?

This reminds me of a funny part of a book I read about automation (and its impact on human labour), which described how modern corn mills identify bad grain: they shoot every single grain through a high speed tunnel and identify malformed (bad, moldy) grain with pattern recognition and then filter them out.
There is still so much more to do that won't require gargantuan cpu/storage/io/screen/etc. resources, that I don't think we are in an "end of history" phase yet with the current conceptualization of these devices. Just a few personal itches off the top of my head that have yet to be scratched:

* There is still not a good solution for group-transactional data over the devices as a first-class citizen feature in the system. Live, collaborative editing with versioning of just a list, for starters, is considered an app'able feature worth $50 USD per year per person.
* Internationalization still takes a back seat. Calendar apps still don't pick up that if you set an appointment for someone in a different time zone than you, you are likely scheduling to a time convenient for them. There should be an option to auto-detect and display applicable time zones as you create the appointment.
* Customization still takes a back seat. When I add custom phone types ("concall", "support", "after-hours support", etc.), it ends up UNSORTED in the list of custom phone types when I go to choose one. That's just the tip of the iceberg of enhancements. For address records of people in a specific organization, I want to be able to set only a certain list of custom phone types for anyone in that organization.
* There still is no sense of tracking versions of information. I have thousands of contacts, and I keep track of old addresses for example; it helps me orient myself to the possible cultures someone has experienced. But only the here-and-now data is recognized.
* Linking data between apps takes an explicit act of coordination between app developers; the Newton data soups were particularly good with breaking down this artificial barrier.
* Deep-linking into your own data from within an app in general is not very well-recognized as a use case. Not to speak of deep-linking from an external laptop.

I'm personally gravitating back towards making my information in my Emacs Org mode buffer the primary system of record, and the phone is just a thinly-sliced perspective of that.
This video of the T5 system at Heathrow is better and shows equipment just as cool (though no robot at the end)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8qogHH9bM

Oh and if you want a REALLY crazy version of the Schipol video, this one is actually a 360 degree live draggable version of it - no kidding!

http://www.schiphol.nl/Reizigers/OpSchiphol/Bagage/BagageVid...
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No, security products are not typically developed by people who understand secure programming, even at companies that employ teams of people to do vulnerability research. The people who build security software are the same as the ones who build everything else.
There's some annoying glitches in the Mac OS implementation. In particular, the profile gets reset to normal for a second or two when certain applications (particularly OpenGL games) start up or exit, and when the screensaver is unlocked.
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> Is it possible for a mere mortal with an equivalent amount of cash to get ahold of Z/OS to play around with

As a former IBMer, believe me, you don't want to. We all dreaded the "such and such doesn't work... when running on Z" defect that would roll in every now and then.
Do you think dash cams + automated flagging of such incidents by the software could counter that?
To elaborate: Bright blue light causes much faster bright-adaptation of the eye, interfering with rod vision.

Or in other words, after a short zap of a smartphone display, you won’t be able to see very well in the dark.
Perhaps the value is in the distribution, rather than the content.
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Can anyone speak to the limitations for the tight spot the car will park into? Could there be a situation where the spot is tight enough that you can't get into the driver's seat?
Also, I've looked at f.lux'd screens set to the reddest possible setting through a 470nm narrow band filter. There's still light at the worst color band which gets through. If you are exposing yourself to light over an extended period of time, it doesn't take much to suppress melatonin secretion. (One study found suppression at levels low as 0.5 lumen or lux -- one of those two. Either way it's not much. About commensurate with the light from a brightly lit hall coming in through the gap under your door.)
I can't remember, but it's all on youtube now: https://www.youtube.com/user/RedGreenTV
I've been saying for years that unregulated information security will lead to an Enron-level disaster and eventually result in legislation similar to Sarbanes-Oxley. It's a shame it will take a huge disaster for this to happen.
Facebook did not just give every "fan" page an equal-sized traffic haircut. They started limiting page content in accordance with how much organic (non-paid) engagement it gets.

So for example Facebook pages like "Humans of New York" or "I Fucking Love Science" or "Amy Poehler's Smart Girls" still get popped into a lot of timelines despite (to my knowledge) not paying at all for boosting. Why? Because a lot of people love that content.

But if some other Facebook page saw a huge drop-off that stayed dropped off, then maybe that content is just not as interesting as other pages (like the ones above for example).

And in fact this is why Facebook made changes to page content visibility in the first place. Most pages posted boring obvious ads instead of interesting content.

Pages can still pay for higher visibility, but those are ads. Just like people can pay to "get into the New York Times"--via ads, not articles. And just like the NY Times, there is only a fixed amount of ad inventory at Facebook. Even when pages are paying, Facebook limits their audience, in order to keep the audience happy. No one wants to see a newsfeed full of 100% ads. Or even 50% ads. Or 25%.
Anecdote is not data, but for Emacs has been pretty bug free. My impression is that things that get used tend to be robust and my belief is that bugs in code that isn't used isn't a problem. From the discussion on the proposal, my guess is that the people who tend to use obsolete packages are people who have been using Emacs for a really long time, and my feeling is that such people know what they are getting into.

That said, I guess my premise is that Emacs is a bit unlike a lot of software in that new users encounter problems with features and only very experienced users are likely to experience bugs. YMMV.
I deliberately made my analysis overly conservative because I didn't want to come off as a paranoid nut. I could have easily come to much higher figures.

Here is an example. Let's suppose that we're observing the USA at a random point in its history. Then there is a 10% chance that we're looking at it within the last 10% of its history. The USA turns 240 this year, so that means that there is a 10% chance of it collapsing in the next 24 years.

That figure is much, much higher than the 1% odds I used of collapse in the next 30 years. It is also likely to be more realistic. "Stable governments" survive in periods measured in centuries, not millennia. However that number is so high that it would have left me more easily dismissed as a paranoid nut, so I avoided it.

History demonstrates that humans tend to over-estimate the stability of whatever exists now. And are surprised when the present turns out not to be permanent. You should try to compensate for such perceptual biases when you find them in yourself. And should try not to trip such biases in others.