skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may have read it incorrectly but didn't Lexmark sue a reseller, not an end-user?

I don't think it changes anything -- my thinking is that suing over what is likely a trivial change made to allow them to screw their customers by giving away the printer and hiding the true cost of ownership in obscenely priced ink by abusing[1] the patent system.

[1] Perhaps this practice is so common-place and blessed by the courts that this is what the "patent system" has become so it's not really "abuse", but if the patent system's design was to encourage expensive R&D by allowing for a brief period of monopoly then it's rarely used for its original purpose.
This is such nonsense. Zenefits allegedly broke the law under Conrad's leadership and he was ousted. This is not a sign of any macro changes - companies that break compliance regulations that could send their employees to jail have never been in fashion.

Read Ben Thompson's piece about how this differs from more "gray area" compliance breaches:

https://stratechery.com/2016/zenefits-and-regulation/
This is a common problem in marketing. Given marketing unseen soft skills it's common for people to feel they can be great contributors. I've literally had an occasion when a exec waited til marketing left the building and held design/programming staff back the night before a launch to implement his messaging, look and feel which had been previously discussed and rejected. And no joke, he had the gall to criticise the marketing team for the launch when it didn't get the traction expected. My jaw still hits the ground someone can be like this.

While not normally as bad as that example, executive input is acceptable at some companies, typically from those people we've all seen whose confidence clearly outweighs their ability (though to be fair some people give great commentary too). In areas like brand its very difficult to 'prove' bad suggestions right or wrong as measuring impact/result is difficult given so many variables, and for what you can measure you'd have to run the alternate to truly know results, which is unrealistic. The other one I see is sales management get promoted to run marketing as many operations/finance leadership dont realise how different the skillsets are, assuming 'selling is selling'.

For this, life is a bit easier in the performance marketing channels vs brand type channels. I've found the best solution is, rather than fight the political fight to keep them out, simply build what they want (assuming digital campaigns) and A/B test their campaign version. Afterwards be sure to present the results at a suitably high/wide level. Its win/win as if they contribute good work the company benefits from their insight which is great. And if they are the manager sticking their untalented nose in repeatedly, after several presentations (all done in a genuinely friendly manner) the bad internal press tends to keep them quiet, at least for a while.

And to be fair, some marketing people are not the best themselves and probably deserve micro-management...
Beware Bitdefender MIMT SSL Traffic
can anyone using Bitdefender Total Plus can confirm this?

The CA

Subject : C=US, O=Bitdefender, OU=IDS, CN=Bitdefender Personal CA.Net-Defender
Issuer : C=US, O=Bitdefender, OU=IDS, CN=Bitdefender Personal CA.Net-Defender
Thumbprint : 647AEEAD9C828817D6CA53AD4A9028777DF52B09
FriendlyName :
NotBefore : 1/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
NotAfter : 10/20/2025 1:58:43 PM
Extensions : {System.Security.Cryptography.Oid, System.Security.Cryptography.Oid}
My name is on a pile of US patents, all assigned to whomever employed me at the time that they were filed. It's always been a condition of employment that I would disclose inventions and cooperate with the filing of patent applications. And now there's a bunch of good ideas that I know are not being exploited for value by anybody. I feel as if I have somehow betrayed the scientific Enlightenment by doing my duty by my employers.
Hmm? I'm not sure I care if the "industry" is pissed if said industry accepts regulations that we all agree are silly

P.S: I'm totally for sensible regulations. However, sensible regulations usually require wide amounts of nepotism, cronyism and backstabbing to break. If a regulation is important enough that people could be hurt by it, then it should not be circumventable by a web script.
So provide optional non-binding arbitration instead of forcing binding arbitration and forbidding class action.
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And now compare average software developer salaries between London and San Francisco, you'll find the SF one about 50% more.

I'm not sayin that SF, or NY doesn't have a housing crisis, they have their own problems too. But the problem or rather the solutions required are different in each case.

I don't think it is OK to hand wave it away with "it is OK just buy the crash" as someone further up did.
I agree, as it stands - I will not vote for Hillary if she wins the nomination, I'll write in Bernie, and hope he runs independent - if any candidate had a chance of winning as an independent it would be him - especially if Trump runs as an indy-then it'd be a 4 person horse race for the presidency that would be something to see!
Why wouldn't the FBI just clone the phone disk contents and crack the encryption on more dedicated systems?
Google search.
A number of commenters here have compared Zenefits' questionable compliance with Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb. What Zenefits was doing is fundamentally different, and much more problematic.

Lyft and Uber skirt similar kinds of seemingly useless regulation but they're completely up front about it. They don't pretend that their drivers are licensed or get any benefit from having licensed drivers in any way. They're simply offering a different product than what taxis offer - getting a ride with a random unlicensed stranger.

Lyft, Uber, and Airbnb are betting that reputation systems (ratings, reviews, etc.) will provide assurance for consumers just as well if not better than government regulation. So far the market is showing they just might be right.

Zenefits seems to have been driven by a similar cultural distaste for onerous and probably out-dated regulation - who can blame them? But instead of letting the market decide how valuable that regulation actually is they simply cut corners when they hoped no one would find out.

That deceptiveness, more so than the regulation dodging itself, is ultimately really bad for a B2B business.
of course not.
Yeah -- I'm arguing for composition because it's harder to screw up, at the cost of being less pretty. The manner and order in which composed objects are delegated to is crystal clear if you're wiring them yourself (or with your IDE). I've seen some messy, confusing code involving traits and just slapping 'with Thingy' 10 times in a row. The phrase 'emergent behavior' is how I would best describe it.
I don't know about that but I'd be fairly certain a court would just order you to unlock the phone regardless of whether it's your finger locking it or a password.
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I still don't see how the macro allowed them to do anything different from just scrolling to the end of a list of terms and conditions. AFAIK, they still had to pass an exam?
My answer to London was to find a cheap, multi-bedroom flat and sublet the rest. After that I wound up paying about £300/week, or under half what you pay. 2009 Whitechapel, near Brick Lane.
Actually in SF, you can have your cake and eat it too. If you live in a rent controlled apartment but can afford to purchase a single family home, you should stay in your rent controlled apartment, buy the house and rent it out at market rate since single family homes are not subject to rent control.
A lot of solar power is coming online. China is adding a significant amount, for example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China

Apple is building a couple hundred megawatts in China:

http://fortune.com/2015/10/22/apple-china-solar/

The problem is we need an awful lot more without breaking the bank.
The 5-hr battery life is a huge let down. For most developers, a faster CPU/GPU is just a marginal improvement. But being able to leave home without the charger and not having to look for power sockets is way more compelling.
They're effectively asking for a backdoor, plain and simple. I'd be highly surprised if Apple complied with this court order.

Even if they removed said feature, the only way to decrypt the FS would be if and only if the owner had a weak strength passcode.

Can somebody explain to me how this warrant is not a direct violation of this individual's 4th amendment rights?

This seems like yet another case where the rights guaranteed by the Constitution are selectively applied based on your skin color.
So does this court order indicate that they can simply write a blurb indicating that they may only be used for a "Single Drink" and they can proceed to sue anyone for infringement if they fail to abide? That's reductio ad absurdum, of course

I can't think of anything that would distinguish the little plastic cup case from the case just decided. This ruling is already reductio ad absurdum.
> Arbitration clauses are wrongly maligned ... The major arbitration companies are fair and professional.

I'm gonna call [citation needed] on this. The recent NYT series on binding arbitration claimed exactly the opposite: that arbitration almost always rules in favor of the company and that arbitration companies which do rule in favor of individuals quickly find themselves getting no more business. They cited peer-reviewed sources and law professors, so I want to see yours.
Is there any good use case of having ssds in a data center, if you did not care about cost?
Almost everything, service or product, begins by first appealing to the top 10%. It moves down the line from there. It holds true to a nearly universal point.

AWS, for example, was so expensive initially as to be ridiculous for most purposes unless you had a lot of money to waste. It was a 10% service. Now it's a 50% service. Tomorrow it'll be a 75-90% service.

The examples that don't follow this pattern, are usually riding on previous examples of the pattern that already became cheaper (such as mobile phones -> smart phones).
That depends on your use case. Intel Xeon E5-2602 V4 is rumored to be clocked at 5.1 GHz, with four cores.
I understand the idea, I'm just looking for confirmation - more than one vague, uncited sentence on Wikipedia whose meaning is unclear.

Have you worked with these?
> If that training program is any bit as useless as "online driving school", I can sort of understand how the Macro came to be...

One of my proudest hacker moments* a while back was taking online defensive driving school (to have a speeding ticket excused) and figuring out what to type into the Javascript console to make the 'next' button clickable before the timer on the page ran out. (This technique would have been subverted had there been any server-side checks whatsoever, but nope...they completely entrusted the client to keep the time. I suppose they don't have much of an incentive to make it any more difficult given that the government probably doesn't have a very rigorous accreditation process for these courses.) That cut whatever was left of the required 6 hours down to about 20 minutes. I guess I'm an unethical monster that should never be allowed to run a company. :\

*I know, it's pretty lame in comparison to, say, figuring out how to jailbreak an iPhone, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't proud.
In London, cheeky people used to live on canal boats, but even that has become expensive. There are a few great documentaries out there on living small, though mostly US-focused, and mostly "avoid housing regulations by living in a trailer-mounted mini house and calling it a vehicle", there are some interesting exceptions.
Remember Javascript before ES5? 99% of "web programmers" didn't know the language either.
s/much more slowly/much more quickly/
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This is definitely useful, although maybe not for purchasing. It lets you know which smart attributes are most useful, for example. Also, given the periodic reports, you can make judgments about how brands are trending (although you have to be careful about age factors). I think their reports showed 3tb drives are not great as well.
I'd say it's too much to ask at the application stage. If you want to give a code test after a phone screen, that seems more reasonable. Both parties have more confidence that the position is a good fit, which makes the time required a fair request.
HK's answer, post-bubble, was apparently nearly free loans. Now that it's losing business to Shanghai and Guangzhou, and being flooded by mainlanders, we'll see how that goes ...
Converting+Units+with+Scale
> And because patent infringement generally does not require “intent,” a consumer could be liable even if they never saw the notice or agreed to it (for example, if they bought the product used without the original packaging).

Can it? Who can prove that there was such a notice, long after the packaging is gone?

Maybe almost all units had such packaging, but I carefully inspected the box before opening the one that I bought, and didn't see any such notice. Can you produce my original packaging to show me the notice?

Or how about: I got it out of box for a reduced price. At the time I completed the sale, there was no packaging. No implicit contract can possibly bind me to a time prior to the sale, when persons unrelated to me in any way removed the packaging.
Nice speech though I note Snapchat and Pinterest that he says have no revenue presently each have of the order of $100m.
And this is why Amazon or REI should remain the preferred option even if the price is higher or the selection isn't as specialized. It's really strange that people would think online shopping is now a universally safe and hassle-free activity just because some reputable merchants do exist.
Looks like the article linked from the main thread on this has it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11114756.
They're used in DCs plenty when speed is required
Are there tools to dump and resume iPhone/Android states? Could easily dump state, null "tryCounter++", and resume cracking?
My data science group is currently transitioning to Python-based development from R. It's actually amazing how much faster Python development is, because of two things:

1. R libraries (and even rarely the R interpreter itself!) tend to have really weird corner case bugs that crop up every couple months, and

2. It's REALLY easy to write unmaintainable code in R, and so strange cruft creeps into the code over time.

The Python interpreter and Python statistical libs are rock solid in comparison, and with it we don't spend weeks debugging things caused by unnecessary idiosyncrasies. I just wish we'd started switching sooner and saving our time.
All that being said, when your frickin business is selling HR stuff, you should be on top of compliance. Jesus.

They had people selling health insurance without a license. This isn't just a failure to sit through the "don't bribe foreign officials" training.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11106677
In 2001 I wrote a 10,000 word series of articles for the physical security industry on emerging computer-based threats. Apparently they didn't read them.
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My impression is that "chinese cabbage" more often refers to napa cabbage, which is different.
Agreed, it's not the end of the world. The biggest headache I get from CGI-style app runtimes is that most do not allow me to open and use a database transaction across multiple requests. They tend to be designed around the assumption that database connections are stateless that keeping one open is only effecting a sort of cache.

If it's not clear why I'd want this, it can be nice for integration testing (each test happens inside a transaction, aborts the transaction to clean up after itself) and you can extend those transactions as a feature to your user interface, let users start a transaction begin making changes, interact with the domain model inside their transaction but still let them confirm or revert the set of changes, or in the typical usage where an exception of some kind reverts the transaction, but where the exception and the changes that the exception should cause to be aborted might occur in different requests.
Exactly, transit cost is the big killer.

AWS/GCE/Azure are all really expensive compared to even good multi-homed transit. If you push more than 10TB and you don't need multi-homing you are already ahead.

If you do need HA multi-homed transit you are looking more at 50-100TB or so but still, there are a lot of places that easily do that every month, especially if you are doing cross-DC storage replication for example.
pure capitalism = best politicians money can buy
> Can somebody explain to me how this warrant is not a direct violation of this individual's 4th amendment rights?

The person is dead and it's reasonable and the 4th isn't even applicable (depending on the interpretation of "make a backdoor in a product" as opposed to "we're looking at someone's data they own on a device they own"). Even the very liberal interpretation of the 4th doesn't apply here, when the right violation would be the act of accessing the data, not just asking to have a way to look at it.

Techdirt is full of fiction by design, so I'm not surprised by the confusion.
Hehe... Okay, buddy. Want proof? That "issue", which is merely a suggested adoption of someone else's function, isn't even 18 months old.

You are unnecessarily hostile and misrepresent facts. As other commenters here have already noted, you clearly cannot be trusted.
Found it: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2714005/SB-Shoote...

Thanks!
As Apple says, it's not feasible to try 50,000 fingerprints since you only get 5 tries. But you can try a lot of passwords.

Anyway, how does any of this prevent rubber hose cryptography?
You'd probably need a kernel mode debugger.
I imagine just about every company, startup or not, has compliance issues; it's just a matter of degree. (Then again, I am an environmental compliance consultant, so there's some selection bias in which companies I interact with.)

The qualifiers in "successful startup" and "serious compliance issues" make it hard to say whether the statement is objectively true or not, but I see two factors that probably exacerbate the problem for startups: regulations designed by established companies to thwart upstart competitors, and the "disrupt"/"move fast and break things" attitude that doesn't mesh well with red tape.
Please don't be uncivil. The question was sufficient.
Ask HN: What was your longest time you've spent debugging a single bug?
I'd only do that sort of thing if I felt there was a decent chance I might get the job. The application stage isn't far enough along.
Quantum cryptography would be fullproof. Any attempt to view the algorithm instead of using it would render it useless.
How about because memory typically starts at 0 so this is "closer to the metal".
> Oh and '<-' just drives me nuts...I will never understand the choice of two characters where one is entirely sufficient.

It's true that '<-' is a strange choice, but you can use '=' for variable assignments as well.
This is apparently called "Scan SSL" by BitDefender. Their recommendation, once you find out about it, is to turn it off. http://www.bitdefender.com/support/what-to-do-when-security-...

This (mis/)feature has been disclosed at least since 2013 http://web.archive.org/web/20130115023957/http://www.bitdefe...
If you read the iOS security guide you'll know Apple built the phone in such a way as to wash its hands with these types of request. They'll say it's impossible and they won't be lying. Nothing is ever impossible, but it will be very impractical. The hardware and software is built to ensure this.

I think the real game here is to compel Apple to build a backdoor into future models. I expect to see a lot of rhetoric around this fact, until something forces Apple hand.
> They display low ratings for their own products on their own website. What.

How is this a complaint? I'd love other companies to post both good and bad reviews without filtering.

> Except that page is deceptive, because that's actually the old X1 Carbon

Don't know about other locations, but here the X1 got a really nice discount once the 2016 model got announced. (also visible in the screenshot) I got it and I'm really happy about it. It has a high res screen (WQHD), so the same as the 2016 model, so that note in the post is also a mistake.
There's a single thread score you can see by clicking each link.

(I don't know what this measures, though. It seems to be about 1,900 to 2,100 for the newer chips - even the one in my laptop. The score doesn't vary us much as the clock speed, though clock speed seems to be a factor.)
The ruling in Citizen United was that they had the right to buy ads and pay to have the movie televised. The law that the Supreme Court struck down banned corporations and unions from paying for candidate ads during the last 30 days of a campaign. The ruling found that 1) paying for TV time is equivalent to free speech and 2) a corporation is equivalent to a person for the purpose of the constitution's "We the People".
I agree this is a real issue. I've worked remotely for years and the thing I had to get over was getting on weird sleep cycles. You work later and wake later until you're day sleeping and you can detach from the rest of the World.

The one thing that makes this easier is having a team I find. They keep you on a regular schedule and provide companionship.

But I'm aware of the problems that can creep in and I chat individually to our team about it regularly. Today I did a call with someone checking in to find out if they have decided if they want to get office space in town to work from or shared space. (They decided against it) Also to find out if they need any furniture for their office (they may get a standing/sitting desk or an exercise ball) and to schedule them going to a conference to get out of the "office".

We're still figuring this stuff out and I think as we go the main thing is communication - checking in periodically, chatting about it and sharing ideas to make remote working awesome rather than a chore or problematic.
In this case, the part where the phone's owner is dead.
If your a software engineer:

Come to Seattle. Reasonable housing costs, cheaper everything else and high american software engineering salaries.

SF has crazy housing costs, higher salaries, better weather and a bit higher cost of everything.

As an Australian a work visa is significantly easier for you than lets say a British citizen.
In the USA the courts treat passwords as testimony, and in most cases you can invoke your 5th amendment right and refuse to provide passwords or encryption keys, given the state does not already know the contents of the device. This same protection does not extend to physical keys, which I think fingerprints would fall under.

http://www.uclalawreview.org/the-fifth-amendment-encryption-...
I thought the Religious Wars (like the 30 Years War) were early modern? Or which medieval wars are you talking about? The crusades, or the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, or the fall of Song China?
Does Apple get to bill the FBI for the time that their engineers and legal department will be busy on this request?
I always wondered why more people don't go around bricking iPhones by entering the wrong pin several times. Same goes for any other lockout. Why not do this to someone famous by constantly logging in as them from a botnet?