skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Under which religious or political umbrage do you reside?

Very vanilla and mainstream, religiously and politically.

> What if you had something on your phone that isn't illegal now, but is tomorrow?

I'd delete it? But I probably wouldn't have it in the first place, for the reason above.

> 15ish years ago, certain states might have pressed charges if you had a dildo in your sock drawer.

And that would be wrong. But it'd be the law against the dildo in the sock drawer that would be wrong, not the general principle that the government has the right to search your sock drawer so long as it obtains a warrant based on probable cause. That principle has worked pretty damn well for 200+ years and I see no reason to change it now.
The Chromebook Pixel and Surace Pro lines are what I am lookin towards to solve this very issue
Congrats on shipping and taking the time to post and answer questions here.

Looks like a nice step forward. I am looking forward to trying this out!
It's at least 3.5x as good as the best advisor. Better to have 93% of something worth 10MM+ than 100% of 100k.
Thanks for the datapoint. I concur with your friends, I wouldn't ask that question. IMHO even if you get a perfect answer, all you can be sure of is that the candidate has a good memory and happened to read the right books last night. I'd be more interested in a much simpler problem but with some modifications that prove there's original thought going on.

There is a (surprising?) latitude given to interviewers to ask their own questions however, and the best advice I could give to interviewers and interviewees is that the question should really just be a seed to a good technical discussion.
>Machines, of course, are incapable of true randomness

Is there a proof of this? I have found articles (googled) that talk about the subject, but no formal math proof
I'll definitely have to check this out, a personal document manager is something I've been meaning to write for years. I'm incredibly tired of hard copies but I'm also a packrat- documents for my cars, healthcare, family affairs, etc. It would be nice to be able to hang on to scanned copies of everything that doesn't need to be a hard copy (great for receipts, still doesn't work for birth certificates or vehicle titles).
> If you consider that to be a problem

I do consider it to be a problem, but since reality is problematic I think policies that force people to rebuild all binaries before they can redistribute them are harmful.

> How do you know that the source code provided actually corresponds to the binaries unless you compile them yourself[ with a toolchain you compiled yourself [...]]?

I don't, but I also don't have a verifiable path to bootstrapping a toolchain. I trust that Canonical haven't backdoored their packages.

> You might be more effective trying to deal with the overall distribution of how software is done rather than imperfections in community leaders.

I'm interested in it being straightforward for people to produce modified derivatives of the market leader, ie Ubuntu. I can achieve that in two ways:

1) Helping convince Canonical to change their IP policy
2) Helping convince Canonical to rearchitect their entire distribution infrastructure

(1) strikes me as being easier, so that's what I've chosen to work on.
It's not your age; tons of people don't like Civ V. The game has a serious problem when it comes to the marginal utility of individual moves. There's way, way more things to do in the game but most of those are obvious moves in the execution of your larger strategy. This is not a good recipe for fun!

Alpha Centauri was always my favourite game in the series but these days I find myself playing a lot of Master of Magic, a game with way more tactical and strategic variety than any of the Civ games.
Boy, lately things haven't been going well for Apple.
> much friendlier

I'll say. Just watching the video I felt like I had a peek into developer heaven. Pretty nice amount of polish there.
Why not just use your operating system's firewall? Why install some 3rd party firewall?
Perhaps they will like your simplifications, and could merge them.
Assuming you're in the US and have a favorable tax environment, you might have some luck with Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. It's generally an earthy wine with relatively low acidity and tannins which means it will be easy going. It's usually more interesting than similarly priced New World wines. It seems pretty hardy as well -- I've only bought one bottle that was faulted (out of many, many bottles) and that was just a little Brett and it was still drinkable.

You might also be able to find a $10 Chianti Classico. That will give you more structure which will make the wine feel a bit more "refined".

Also check out Cotes du Rhone reds. These will often be cheaper than the more famous regions in France but share a lot of the "refined" characteristics of their more well known counterparts. One of the best wines I've had recently was Cotes du Rhone (sorry, didn't get a pic of the label) and held up favorably to a Burgundy I had brought (to the lunch) at 4x the price.

Echoing what someone else wrote here, find a local wine seller. Wine is such a complex topic you really need someone to point you in the right direction. Wine is also a great way to meet interesting people. A local wine seller is a good place to start.
Yes, an accident, just like using ONE fraction of a millimetre shorter screw under a spot of PCB containing 8 tracks.

http://hackaday.com/2014/10/19/using-the-wrong-screw-a-painf...
Open letter to a guy who wrote an open letter about homelessness
Not mentioned yet is that nearly all object stores (S3, GCS, etc.) are pretty awful for small, random reads and writes. For workloads like rendering, the renderer is often reading a small tile of a texture (an EXR or tiff) with about 32x32 pixels (so anywhere between 1 KiB and 16 KiB depending on precision and compression). Object stores on the other hand are tuned for big files and so often work in 1 to 4 MiB chunks at best.

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine.
Establishing a Manichean media narrative framing Apple (and by extension all crypto providers) as enemies of America who hinder the righteous war on terror. Then if their legal case fails, public outrage, Something Must Be Done, legislative action rendering the AWA moot, achievement unlocked : all your phone are belong to US.

Or is that too tinfoil hat ?
Please don't throw around the word 'psychopath' as a personal slur on HN. Personal attacks are not allowed here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11129670 and marked it off-topic.
Faster (at least it's attempting to be) without losing any quality metrics.
Apple used to help the FBI get into iPhones all the time and it didn't destroy their reputation.

> A law enforcement source in the San Francisco Bay Area has confirmed to CNET that Apple has for at least three years helped police to bypass the lock code, typically four digits long, on iPhones seized during criminal investigations.

http://www.cnet.com/news/how-apple-and-google-help-police-by...
Is the reader written in Javascript? Very laggy on mobile.
> What a horrible mindset you have.

This sort of rudeness is not allowed on Hacker News. Your comment would be a fine one with just the first sentence.
I too am using ABP with firefox, yet I can see the "LetsReach" annoying notifications :(
Which ad-blocker are you using ?
First time I meditated was one month ago. 20 Minutes. It was a pain, doing nothing, just breathing, keeping focus on your breath and body. I was suffering every second, doing nothing, having no thoughts, no mind wandering. It was so hard and awfully boring. Once finished I went back to my Macbook welcoming me with an open Facebook tab from my last session. My first thought:

I didn't do that shit for 20 minutes to be now on Facebook—and closed the tab.
This isn't a grab for power — this is a power that they already have. They went through the courts to get the proper order, following the letter of the law. We give the government the power to open bank safes, seize property, and wiretap; but we make laws that allow them to do so only when it's in society's best interests. If you don't think the law serves society's best interests, it's up to you as a citizen that your government represents to help change it. In this case, I think you'll find that a majority of people will say it is in society's best interests to open the San Bernardino shooters' bank safes, obtain their phone records, and decrypt their phone in order to look for accomplices.
> Did they think perhaps there would be public outcry the other direction meaning Apple would look like it was harboring terrorist information if they didn't comply to a public request?

This is exactly what is happening. It's a political hail mary to get the easiest-to-see use case of forcing privacy violations on american corporations and users legally protected in court precedent. Of course, under this interpretation, there's the disturbing implication they had to wait this long (after the revelation about PRISM) to find a case that so well matched their political agenda.

It's also a little worrying that they are going public, because normally that's not necessary for court verdicts. Perhaps they're preparing for legislative action if the case fails?
Yeah, I'm sure they'd shed a tear over that.
I've got a feeling we're being manipulated by someone with an agenda at play.
If you take the plot from an episode of Star Trek and modify it such that it fits into the Dr Who storyline, you've created a work that's derivative of both Star Trek and Dr Who. Similarly, if you take code from Solaris and modify it such that it tightly integrates with Linux, you've created a work that's derivative of both Solaris and Linux. Since ZFS can only be distributed under the CDDL and since GPLv2 requires all derived works to be distributed under the GPL, you can't satisfy the license.
The Google Adwords of Buzz Marketing
I never was a Civ player, but through involvement in a different gaming community (Descent) I ended up as friends with the guy (Bob "Sirian" Thomas) who led the Civ IV alpha-testing effort. He noticed that they didn't have any inexperienced testers to look for the sorts of things that would make the game hard to understand for new players, so he asked me if I'd be willing to get involved.

In the middle of all of the balance tweaks the expert players were calling for, the devs took the time to listen to my newbie feedback along the lines of "every so often this chart showing political alliances pops up, but I have no idea how to trigger it intentionally" and they added easy-access buttons to the HUD for me. At one point I counted something like a dozen minor UI improvements that had come out of me saying "I don't understand what I'm doing". They, of course, didn't make any game-balance tweaks for me because I had no business even attempting to comment on game balance.

The fact that they knew not merely to listen, but what types of feedback to listen to from which testers, really made the game shine. They listened to experts when it came to strategy, and noobs when it came to discoverability, and all sorts of players when it came to general aesthetics and coolness. IMO a lot of game-design efforts could learn from that.
Yes, a document or entire case being under seal doesn't affect the legal process itself, only what the public gets to see.
The major problem is that people from other cultures won't get the jokes, and when you aren't in the know the colloquialisms add ambiguity.
I was really disappointed this wasn't Lazarus Form Recovery back from the dead. What is this project about?
Does this not basically say that javascript is still being used but people are opting to use transpiled siblings?

As far as I'm concerned we will still be adhering to all the core language constructs for the most adopted interpreter until a viable ancestor arrives.
DOWNVOTES!?!?!
>You wouldn't blame the gun if you shot yourself in the foot, would you?

If it was unreasonably easy to do so, then yes. This is why there are gun safeties. The phrase "hairpin trigger" or "hair trigger" derives from guns with light triggers that made a premature or accidental discharge too easy.

"A poor workman blames his tools" only works if you have real tools. It's OK to blame tools when you're forced to use a twig as a hammer.
This is random, but....

Nice with this data I might finally and truly finish my Social Alarm Clock idea and do so in which it truly improves the sound of your alarm clock; one that always makes you smile, laugh, etc.

There's been tons of social alarm clocks(from Justin Bieber to Nestle to Sony to Wakie, etc) since releasing sleep.fm in 2007 (a century ago in Internet years) yet no one has executed on the idea properly.
You can make a window without a title bar now, if that's what you mean. It's one of the window styles in Prefs>Profiles>Window.
HMM?????????
The what-if scenario was if the suspected terrorists owned the phone (as opposed to the deceased's employer). The living neighbor is a suspected terrorist. If he owned the phone and let his now-deceased neighbors borrow the phone, the complications mentioned above could arise.
Product Hunt 3.0
If someone is behaving irrationally, 99% of the time its because they are subconciously insecure about something.

Or because they are sleep-deprived. I guess that applies more later once you have kids though ;-)
Ladies who Linux
Any insight into which presidential candidates have the most privacy-friendly views here?
That's actually a great way of putting it.
Mention for Slack: Real-time monitoring and real-time chat
One of the main differences is this one uses lookup tables for faster decoding of Huffman compressed data as opposed to using a tree (which is what the stdlib one uses). It also offers some additional encoding options for users that want more control of header field indexing.
It's your aversion to C, because the hint thing does not do what you think it does. It doesn't assign three fields of a structure, it pulls three fields out of a structure (and in my opinion, making a function just to do that is silly---it's not an opaque object (as it's documented in man pages as to the fields it has), hides the intent and further more, clutters up the code.

If you make this "accessor" function static [1], then you have to include the test code in the same C file (cluttering that file with code only used for testing [2]) or you clutter the C global function namespace with a function that's quite possibly only used on one location (and thus, can't be inlined at all due to C semantics---just some of the realities of attempting TDD in C).

[1] Functions and variable marked as "static" are only visible in the file.

[2] And you end up with pretty much dead code in a release version. You could exclude such code from a release build, but then you can't actually test the release build of each function.
I have a joking-but-kind-of-serious theory that javascript popularity peaks at about the same time as the market does: 2001 you had peak DHTML, 2008 you had peak Web 2.0, now we have the SPA-pocalypse.

My joking-but-kind-of-serious explanation is that there is a common cause: irrational optimism.
This is a trivializing form of argument. You can't abstract things out of their original contexts like that without destroying their meaning—at least not at any level higher than, say, the lambda calculus.
IIRC, this particular guy had a separate personal phone, and he thoroughly destroyed it before the attack. That does seem to imply that he had used it for all nefarious discussions, not the undestroyed work phone.
Once enough people have access to the software, it could be eventually leak. Then everyone's device will essentially be backdoored.

Right now we assume no one has developed the capability to exploit this weakness. By forcing Apple to develop this capability, the security of everyone's device is compromised. This assumes that Apple is uniquely positioned to develop the exploit, or at least they are the only ones who can do it quickly/cheaply enough to make it worth it.

At the very least, forcing apple to do it publicly demonstrates the feasibility of the exploit to third parties.
Only Apple is able to sign iOS updates. The FBI wants Apple to make an Evil Update and sign it with their key so the phone will accept the update. Apple has to hold the signing key so the phone can reject Evil Updates in general.

Does this count as a "backdoor"? It's built into the way signed updates work. Nobody stole Sony's master signing key for the PS4, even when their entire network was pwned. They're probably stored offline in specialized hardware.

(as I understand it, newer iPhones use crypto magic + special hardware to make it arguably impossible to update the phone while it's locked, so they're more secure against Evil Updates, even ones signed by Apple)
Oh my. I wish I could always do this on the plane. In reality, I rarely have the time to do that "full immersion", but when I do, I love it.

I started with Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon, and Civ I, and kept playing them until recently. I love these games.
I think if China required Apple to let them read data off iPhones, Apple would do it secretly.
For apple to do it,they have to make some signed software that can then be installed to the phone as an update which then allows the crack. If this is considered a back door, then everything that will accept signed updates has that same backdoor, which is a lot of things.

Theoretically yes,a lone wolf plus the FBI could do it, but they would need to get the software they make signed by Apple or steal the key to make it appear so, which would not be simple.

The big issue is that once it is signed by Apple, it could then be used to crack any phone it was installed on as a trusted update, which it is because it was signed.
"there is a lot of new information in this article relative to the previous articles this week"

Didn't see the previous ones, [0] and lots of them. What did stick out, was this quote:

"“Why are you guys so fucking bush league?” Dalgaard said, according to Conrad, who recounted the conversation while on stage at a software conference in February 2015. While Conrad had planned to hire 20 sales reps by the end of 2014, Dalgaard said the target should be five times that. “You guys gotta get your heads out of your asses, start focusing on going big here,” Dalgaard said, according to Conrad."

The expectation from Lars Dalgaard of Andreessen Horowitz to grow big at ^all costs^. VC money egging on the unethical.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zenifits&sort=byPopularity&pre...
Tmi!
Reminds me of all the good stuff I liked from node's restify. I've used allot of python api frameworks and I definitely like the direction.
Human evolution is more complex than the survival of an individual, since many of our adaptations are transmitted as ideas not genes.

Following that line of thinking leads to notions about the presence & importance of second-order interactions (especially the impact of ideas on the survivability of a group); these make it hard to reject the hypothesis: production of outlier individuals is essential to our species.

Sadly outliers occur on all sides of the distribution, including the unhappy ones.
It's private.
Nginx can cache static content of any type, so it can act as varnish for both his blog content and images and resize them on the fly instead of relying on multiple image sizes on disk or a separate app to serve images. Nginx is a highly efficient webserver when it is already holding the items in cache (and otherwise, it passes off dynamic content just fine but that is then up to the underlying application to perform as well).
Quest to Discover a Link Between Fish and Land-Animals
The FBI is making a court case out of it because they want to obtain legally-binding precedent which will allow them to force companies to make it as easy as possible to access locally encrypted data. If the United States cared enough, they would undoubtedly have the resources to perform any needed attacks themselves. I'd be surprised if the NSA didn't already possess a copy of iOS's source code (Apple was a PRISM participant, which means prior to the Snowden leaks, they were voluntarily transferring all user data to the NSA for analysis; just seems iOS source isn't such a big deal after that).

The FBI is taking this public at a politically opportune time to try to make it so they can order this type of thing for any digital device they physically possess.

There's also a bit of me that thinks the timing is also a convenient way to influence the presidential election. Law enforcement groups are heavily Republican. Encryption has been a topic brought up in the debates. Dems usually say things like "We just need to ask nicely and they'll help us out, I know it"; to your average voter, this is proof-positive that that's not true, and it gives the law-and-order candidates remaining in the GOP field (which, I guess remaining are Cruz and Bush? This would've helped Christie and hurt Fiorina) a very powerful amplifier for their anti-crypto positions.
Parent comment meant Microsoft's revenue in China. While exact figures are hard to come by, they most certainly do not make tens of billions of dollars from China.
Perhaps, but that would be a strong incentive for government to mandate that devices have to have a backdoor in the future, or that they can't use strong encryption so devices can be read without a backdoor. I doubt the FBI see losing this particular battle as the end of the war.

There's also another possibility, albeit less likely, that the FBI know they'll lose but they don't care because they can already read the device and they want any terrorists to believe they don't have the information on it. That's a pretty full-on "tinfoil hat theory" though.
This open letter is from Jim Gavin, winner of the 2015 North American Literature Prize.
Ask HN: Is Braintree as evil as PayPal?
I'm thinking about using Braintree for a new project in a jurisdiction where Stripe isn't available. However, I'm turned off because they're a PayPal company and have been for a while. Does Braintree treat their customers well, or are they just PayPal 2.0?
This is beating a dead horse at this point. We get it. Hypergrowth at all costs is not cool.
Product Hunt has been rightfully accused of being elitist due to insiders submitting startups they have personal relationships with the startups where they submit, and everyone in their network upvoting them.

Product Hunt's solution to this problem to set up an interest graph so content from said people in the network is put first on the front page.

...

Wait, what?

Ryan Hoover's response to a person pointing this out:

> our primary goal with this change is to increase post discoveries (the number of products, games, books, and podcasts people view)

That's not the definition of discovery. Ryan knows better than that. I'm legit disappointed.
They have tens of billions in revenue in China?
How many common "first instruments" are there for kids? Maybe 5? There's a pretty good chance you'll get it right without doing any research whatsoever.

It's not quite as bad as asking "what species was your first pet?" but not much better.

This is the real problem with security questions; the answer space is often so very small, and can be narrowed down even further with a little research.

Questions like "what was the first name of (your maternal grandmother, your first best friend, etc.)" are very common -- well, there are stats on most popular first names of given generations in different places. If you know what country the person is in, you can make a good guess at these.
and not to be confused with Paperless, upvoted a few days ago on HN as well (similar to Paperwork, but with less features).