skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Let's take this current tech you described and apply it to this situation, what happens.

You did some unspeakable act and you are dead.

* You have securely enabled touchID

Even if you have 10 tries, barring using random appendages your phone can be unlocked right?

Edit: on my phone so far it is password OR touchID. Making this easily defeatable with the physical device and my:

1. Hand if I am dead or alive.

2. A copy of my fingerprints on file with the gov't (true for me)

3. A non-gov adversary with literally anything i've touched.

Maybe I can enable both, but currently it is either or.
Interesting. Let's take this current tech you described and apply it to this situation, what happens.

You did some unspeakable act and you are dead.

* You have securely enabled touchID

Even if you have 10 tries, barring using random appendages your phone can be unlocked right?
Why isn't there a Linux distribution that's specifically for installing on Macbooks? Given how few Macbook models there are, you could include exactly (and only) the correct drivers. Optimize everything to work perfectly, including things that often require tweaking to get working correctly (WiFi, screen brightness, power settings, etc).

If I knew it would not be an adventure installing Linux on my MBP, I'd pay good money for such a distro!
I don't think they included a safety switch on those things.
Damn, that's a great idea. Talk to you in a billion billion years.

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1279619
Use of buzz phrases is generally the mark of "crazy conspiracy theorists" (your words, not mine) or: people who generally have a tenuous grip on concepts like burden of proof and recognition of confirmation bias.

I have yet to see a single thing in this thread that suggests my initial read was incorrect, or indeed anything to indicate your rant contributed anything to the conversation. (Hence: uninteresting)

Like a single link to support your assertions, for instance.
Dell sputnik. It's great.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11109967
True, there should something to rival Apple in the laptop arena.

Unfortunately there isn't. Apple just makes hardware that's so sexy and intuitive to use. Example, Apple TV. I never used one before but I demo'd one at Best Buy the other day and in 10 seconds I knew how to operate it. Apple does this best, their earnings prove that.

Just buy a Macbook Air, sturdy as hell, long battery life, and great Unix-enough-y OS.
Not necessarily. My budget is pretty finely calibrated at the moment - my desktop is going to remain pretty broken for a while so that I can get a new laptop.
There's a brief clip of pornography near the beginning. We watched it on the bus ride for a high school trip. The teachers quickly turned it off upon noticing.
yes or e3
Going through a few thought experiments, one might think they could adapt by dusting it for prints and requiring you to use the one they found there.

On the other hand, one might habitually touch, but not register, random fingers to it, while registering some fairly unusual finger as the real one, while using the dominant hand's index finger to "unlock" it.

Finally, someone might decide that if you fail the unlock, they'll just inspect the fingerprint module in isolation and if it works, they'll assume you did that deliberately.
I'm living in western Sydney at the moment, it takes 1:20-1:30 each way to get to my office in north Sydney. I can live with this because the distance means my rent gets me a house with a garage instead of a one bedroom flat in inner sydney. By reasonable I just meant that for the money id say where I am is the best value in terms of house size and area where I live.
Unfortunately, there's no good outcome here.

If Apple can unencrypt the phone, it will prove to everyone that backdoors exist. If they can't, and they tell the FBI as much, it will just give politicians more reasons sound off about how we have to have backdoors, because this shooter was a "terrorist" after all, and we just have to suck it up and do whatever is necessary to go after people like that.

Either way, we end up with backdoors.
After 5 tries with your finger, an iPhone will require passcode for any further unlocks.

Also, after 48 hours an iPhone requires a passcode to be unlocked, even if TouchID is enabled.

So you have limited time, and have to hope you guess the right finger to use and it reads the finger within that 5 try period.
That's just not true. Israel's annual budget is $88 billion. Even if American aid was just tossed in with no strings attached, as opposed to all the indirect-subsidy-for-American-defense-corporations requirements, it's around five and a half percent of that amount.
Freedom 251, India’s most affordable smartphone launched for Rs 251
> mortgage interest

Which is subsidized by the US Government in the US in the form of tax deductions.
Python with the Flask framework is great, very easy to do the API endpoints. The whole app can fit in one .py file of about four lines plus 3 per endpoint, see the sample at http://flask.pocoo.org/.

You can host it on Heroku in their free tier of service if it's just for testing. That includes a PostgreSQL instance if you want one.

I don't know much Javascript but with the Flask framework, all HTML/JS/CSS files are static templates that sit in a folder with your app's code. You can deploy with Git or even with Dropbox if you want it on super easy mode.
That seems to be a long article series. I've read most of the first article but haven't come across the data you referenced.

Would you mind highlighting the article with peer-reviewed sources and law professors explaining 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"?

Furthermore, even if it was true that "arbitration almost always rules in favor of the company", why would that alone be the sign of a problem? We shouldn't just assume that, for example, half of the victories will go to the company and half to the individual; we shouldn't assume any particular percentage breakdown without more information about who initiates arbitration and why. (The "priors", to make an analogy to Bayesian statistics)
The overall goal of reducing deployed LOC, complexity and low-level boilerplate is laudable and doable so by using a C isomorphic linking language (can call into and can call from) to gradually, experimenting by converting one module at a time and increasing tempo of semver API refactorings for also reducing code and features to the essentials. "The journey of a thousand miles begins..."

Also, we need more unit testing, fuzzing and formally proven correct libraries (a-la seL4). Most C development is really bad about unit testing and fuzzing because it's incredibly laborious and verbose, even when it's known to be a good idea.
If you plan to sell, the calculation is much more complicated. I wouldn't buy a house unless it was one I was keeping (which is what I'm doing now). It's equivalent to a very expensive savings account. What do you get at the end of 30 years of renting? A big fat goose egg.

Rent cost has to be insanely low to compete with owning a house in the long term.
Yes the 30 year mortgage is a creature of extensive US Government involvement in finance. 30 year mortgages wouldn't' exist if they had to rely on private money for funding.
The article I read that in originally references a mixture of private and "IFI funding"[1] which I took to mean International Financial Institutions (which includes IMF/WorldBank etc. who make loans denominated in USD)[2].

The book I referenced above is by John Perkins who worked as a consultant for a company who would justify huge loans denominated in USD for power infrastructure to developing nations, but a significant majority of the work and materials would come from US companies. So the World Bank or the IMF would loan tonnes of money to someone in USD, much of it being transferred directly to companies in the US anyway, and leaving the nation with a large debt to service in a currency they do not issue (leaving them vulnerable to pressure from the US to export goods, for example, even though people require them locally, to liberalised trade agreements, or even to be allies in conflict etc. all sorts of sordid shit; the John Perkins stuff is well worth reading).

When governments take on large debts denominated in a currency they do not issue, it's always a cause for concern. That's why MMT academics were against the Euro[3], and why so many developing nations are now locked into crippling debt service that they cannot possibly keep up with.

Countries like the US, UK, Australia and Japan who only issue debt (ie. all currency or treasury securities) denominated in their own currency, have no risk of insolvency and no trouble servicing the debt[4] -- they can choose to stop paying interest any time they want and indeed the "debt" people refer to in those economies is really a "buffer stock" rather than a "bond market"[5]

When a nation that does not issue USD (ie. any nation other than the US) takes on USD denominated debt, with interest payments denominated in USD, they're up shit creek without a paddle.

[1] http://www.worldfinance.com/infrastructure-investment/projec...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_financial_instit...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Eurozone-Dystopia-Groupthink-Denial-Gr...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i35uBVeNp6c

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soVyyyXrcwo&index=6&list=PLo...
For the most part these issues are all fixed in recent kernel versions (> 4.2). The default trackpad driver (synaptics) is indeed buggy, but the newer libinput driver (available in the Ubuntu repos since 15.10) works perfectly. The WiFi card is a bit annoying if you want to build the driver yourself but it works out of the box on stock Ubuntu 15.10.

Admittedly there were some issues early on, but now that issues have all been patched it's an excellent laptop. Fantastic build quality, great battery life, and the display is the best I've seen on a laptop.
Sorry, I don't get this. Two companies sell basically the same thing. Both will give you all the usual marketing crap and slightly hidden actual specs. One will also give you actual opinions of people who aren't hired to take your money away. How is the other one better?

I get the whole apple cult idea and buying a status symbol. But if anyone is going to compare the products, they'll just go to another site and see exactly the same ratings. Allowing ratings on your main page even allows you to respond to some specific issues. (wifi 5G disconnects often -> we published a bios update for that here/link)
It's used in the book I linked to above (and stands for "economic hitman", an industry insider term; or so claims John Perkins who used to be one -- interesting book and worth a read)
Did you read the article? The court didn't order Apple to decrypt the phone. Instead, Apple has to disable the phone's feature that automatically wipes the hard drive after 10 failed password attempts. This is so that the FBI can brute-force its way into the data.
> BTW that link to "a kernel module wrote in Ruby" is pretty much all C with a few lines of Ruby on top.

Did you just look at the language stats? That project implements Ruby using mruby in a kernel module. Of course it's written in C, Ruby is written in C. The few bits of Ruby are just a hello world example.
TouchID requires passcode after 48 hours.
I don't think there's much of a difference between asking someone to reveal the correct password and asking someone to reveal the correct finger.

There's a huge difference. Authorities can force you to give up your fingerprint, but not your password[1].

1. http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/telecommunications/court-...
In which dystopia does it cost you $1000's to fly locally, as many would do? I can cross my goddamn continent for $600 return and that's over 4000km away. Going interstate costs $200 return on a good day.
So when technology arises that can scan a person's brain for memories and thoughts, that will be evidence admissible in court?
"forever". What hyperbolic drivel. Ultimately we will find the plane, be it by deliberate searching action, or accidental discovery as we further map the oceans or whatever else draws us below the waves.
Hell, even now the possibly best laptop, the Dell XPS with that sexy edgeless screen, still has a shitty ass touchpad compared to even a 7 year old MBP. And let's not get started on the fact that the best quality control of PCs is so shit that you're almost guaranteed to have regrets. There is simply nothing that even comes close to Apple's build quality. You can use a 5 yo MBP and it still run just as good as a new PC laptop for all the 80% of task you would need it for. It's really pretty damn amazing.
2003 Trojan Games
The Secret to Moonshots? Killing Our Projects
Polish codebreakers 'cracked Enigma before Alan Turing'
Intel's desktop/laptop chips have gotten far ahead of Xeons, so Haswell Xeon is still "current" (for a few weeks).
Easy, just borrow a little PR for Windows 10 privacy concerns. "Mvpower 8 Channel Security DVR collects information so the product will work better for you."
China's Subprime Crisis Is Here
Which really only benefits the rich. You have to itemize to take advantage of the deduction, and then you're only saving money over and above the standard deduction. Unless you buy a really expensive house, or have lots of other deductions, then you save a couple thousand dollars a year at most. Which isn't peanuts, but shouldn't figure prominently into the decision to buy a home or not.

Always run the numbers. Numbers are the difference between emotion and logic.
All I'm really saying is that the complexity of your passcode matters a lot in this scenario, so anything you can do to increase it will tend to pay off.
Cite your source(s), please.
How will Bloomberg manage the content of these animation/graphic heavy articles?

Talking say 10 years from now.

These articles go way beyond standard text/image content.
Not disagreeing with the premise, but just want to plug a machine I am very happy with.

I was a lifetime mac owner (since OS 9) and my 2010 Macbook Pro finally broke down this year. It made it that long because I doubled the RAM, replaced the battery, and replaced the HDD with a hybrid drive. Finally the battery puffed up and exploded. I brought it to the Apple Store and they were beyond useless. The new MBPs are not modifiable in any way, and Apple's customer service is not what it used to be. So I decided to get a non-Mac for the first time in my life.

I ended up with an Asus Zenbook UX305LA. It's a 13" 1080p screen, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Core i5 processor. Cost me $749 and I dual-boot WIndows 10 and Ubuntu (spending 95% of my time in Ubuntu). It costs about 50% what a similar specced Macbook would cost and is similar size/weight to the Macbook air. Build quality is fantastic (open with one hand, good keyboard, glass trackpad, etc). The battery life is not quite as good as a 13" MBA but better than a Macbook Pro. Overall I am extremely happy with it.

Considering that my last MBP cost me $2200 up front plus ~$300 in repairs over time and lasted me ~4.5 years. That's about $500 a year. This machine cost $750. If it lasts over a year and a half, the experiment is a success. So far it's been nothing but great.
The court order refers to the need to load the custom OS image via DFU (device firmware upgrade) mode. I am not an iPhone user but I'm assuming that is exactly what the name implies. (some pre-boot recovery environment)
Plus, they're the number one poster-child for AWS. Netflix running on AWS makes AWS safe for CTOs everywhere. So, yeah, they're definitely getting a deal.
For developers OSX will almost always be worse than a Linux distro, if only because of package management.
Agreed; the Surface Book seems to fit the bill perfectly. A bit more selection in terms of size would be good, but hopefully that will come.
A desktop does nothing more than marginally better for my work use cases; I have one that's literally strictly for video games, and I don't care in the least about making those portable. But I care about going to my client's office and being able to work. Why would a desktop be "better"? If a desktop was sufficiently "better", why would I buy a good laptop? If I have to buy a good laptop, what delta exists, for me, to incentivize buying a good desktop as well? This is of course not an answerable question for you, because you have no idea what I or the literally hundreds of millions of people on this planet who own laptops do with our computers--so why did you then act like your preferences are so universal?

Past that: it costs me three hundred dollars, round-trip, to fly from Logan to Reagan. Where does "thousands" come into it? Why would somebody who occasionally fly for business necessarily have the cash to burn on redundancies? Why would having that money imply that one should?
Here's a Republican who disagrees with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11096355

"I voted for Bush twice, McCain, and Romney, and I'll vote for either Hillary or Bernie (two candidates I can't stand) over Trump, and I'm far from alone."
$4B “Computer Science for All” Plan
How about MS Surface Book? Fits all the criteria that OP is looking for.
Can someone tell me why is it such a big deal when person sells an insurance without having a proper license? Its not as if the insurance policy itself is fraudulent. The buyer is buying the insurance policy and not the credentials of the broker.

Other wise it seems to me that is requirement is just as unnecessary as requiring cosmetology license for hair braiding ( see http://www.texastribune.org/2015/04/06/bill-would-untangle-m...)
Damn. I underestimated GCE. Thanks for doing the research, you cleared up my naivety on this.

The per hour pricing is especially surprising.
> reading your communications has a pretty high likelihood of turning up something useful in preventing future incidents

Would you agree that "high likelihood" is too low a bar for justifying searching the phones of people who live in high-crime neighborhoods?

> If this doesn't clear your hurdle for reasonable search then what would?

Evidence of a conspiracy would help. You said they declared allegiance to an organized group. When they did that, did they say or hint that they had been in contact with that group, other than, say, watching public YouTube videos?
Thank god I am 48.
What you don't quite get is that you are tired of other people having to deal with your demands and not even helping those who need the help. You think the 80% of these colonists that are male and paid thousands of dollars to get to Europe are really the needy ones? ??? Just to be clear... not the women and children that were not among the ones arriving in Germany after passing through dozens of countries where they were safe. You are supporting the squander of other people's tax money on freeloaders and benefits shoppers that are colonizing Europe and leaving the most vulnerable and weak behind where they came from. You want to help people, try not being ACTUALLY selfish by making this about making yourself feel better about how good of a person you are for taking in people ....... who don't need to be taken in, while those who do need help are left destitute where they should be taken care of in the region.
Homebrew is pretty good.
Well I'll put it this way: I've owned three Windows laptops and one Mac and the Mac has outlasted all three individually, two of them combined, and on track to outlast all three of them combined in the next year.

It also has yet to slow down.

But that's just my anecdotal experience. Think of it what you will.
How will we connect the next billion people? (INFOGRAPHIC)
Presumably you are flying more frequently than once per computer purchase.
For the Asus Zenbook UX305LA, how flexible is it ? Can you open and change the battery by yourself, for example ?

You mentioned the battery life is not great, can you share some numbers on Ubuntu ? How much time do you get on a full charge?
Think about what we want as a society though. If you did commit a crime, we want to convict you. The reason the 5th protects you from compelled self-incrimination is to prevent unjust interrogation and investigation techniques from the cops[0], not to make the overall likelihood of conviction lower, although it incidentally has this effect.

From a policy standpoint the ideal world would be one where all criminals are convicted and no innocents are convicted. In our system we try [see 0 again] to err on the side of letting criminals go rather than convicting innocents.

One of the interesting things about the new normal of everything being recorded always and everywhere is how this might change our laws. Laws are supposed to accomplish something, speeding law is supposed to improve road safety for example. If automatic enforcement instead imposes massive taxes on everyone while not improving road safety, society (should) modify the law since it didn't get them to where they wanted to go.

Sorry, long winded way of saying, our electronic artifacts aren't really all that different than letters. If I wrote an email to my friend demonstrating premeditation in murdering your puppy, you and everyone else have an interest in that email being valid evidence. That's a wholly separate discussion from the encryption debate. I definitely you're right that we need to think about it but I just wanted to play devils advocate here for why we might want to think twice.

[0] Yes, shit still happens, but the system is SUPPOSED to limit these abuses.
Yes, and that's effectively the same thing. Bypassing controls counts as a "backdoor".
Maybe, but only marginally so. In an age of cheap virtual environments of many flavors, this objection seems minor to me.
It's been a few years since I looked at DFU, but my impression was that installing a new OS via DFU would have the side-effect of erasing the device.
This is certainly not true. You can basically get any package with Homebrew that you can on Linux, (assuming it's on GitHub, you can get all of them) in fact there's even a port of it to Linux for people that love it on Mac.
This could be example of parallel construction[1]. They may already have unencrypted it via a backdoor, but they wouldn't be able to use anything they find as evidence in court because they'd have to reveal the backdoor. If they can plausibly show they brute-forced it instead, they keep the backdoor hidden.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Relevant: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-PC-equivalent-of-a-MacBook...
Post didn't address - buy apple hardware, run something other than OS X on it.

Seems simple. Sure you are locked to apple hardware issues/resolutions, but Apple today is what the Thinkpad was for years (pre-Lenovo), hardware mostly just works.

Insert arguments of customization, configurability, etc... Most people don't care. Lenovo doesn't deliver as well as IBM did on the Thinkpad line. What's the alternative besides Apple?
It's the "which finger" that becomes similar to a password, not the fingerprint (ianal)