skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't make crypto behave slower on repeated attempts but you can still make each attempt more expensive. For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography)
If you're ever in that situation again, take it to the seller, mention the sales of goods act if you have to. Warranties aren't how things are supposed to work in the UK, it's the seller that carries the responsibility and so they're generally a lot better at it.
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I have Moto G 1st gen, and the phone app starts instantly, loads fully in around 1sec. You probably have some malware running, or forgot to close all the apps in the background.
Nope. If the attacker (Apple in this case) can replace the OS, they will just do so before the phone gets wiped—replacing the OS will remove that wipe feature.
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What's more evil: China following unethical economic practices to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty, or China following the rule book and letting hundreds of millions languish in poverty?

From where I stand, China NOT being pure capitalists for the good of their citizens is more evil.

It's well and good when a developed country talks about ethics and capitalism - they have the luxury to. But when a country where millions live in humiliating poverty, don't have enough to eat, and have no hope for the future, it would be far more evil to follow the book and let down these millions.
Being German, I find the idea interesting, though not without flaws. There will have to be lots of exceptions to your proposed rule (s before consonant is spoken "sch"), where the s has to be spoken "as usual":

"sk": Skelett (skeleton) or Skunk (skunk)

"sl": Slowenien, Slowakei (slovenia, slovakia)

"sm": Smaragd (emerald), Smegma
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the second software like this exists that was signed with Apple's release key, the second they can no longer control it
Exactly. Wealth transfer and mobility for some, but not growing a middle class sufficiently to realize these artificial investments. China could invest more in better equiping people to make and earn more value, so they can afford cleaner/nicer cars, homes, factories, etc.
Thanks for the full picture!

I have been relying on these drives for 10+ years too and hope Toshiba keeps producing them.
That's exactly how I feel about it.
I mean Show HN in my opinion is a much better vehicle for product feedback.
Correct. What this letter says is that if Apple wants to get around the wipe restriction because they want the data themselves, they can do it. This means that they will build the backdoor as soon as they are legally compelled to, but in the meantime, they can use it for a PR stunt.
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Wouldn't be the first time Hollywood glossed over contributions for a better story.

Regarding Argo: “In the movie, Canada and Ottawa didn’t exist,” said Kenneth D. Taylor, who was the Canadian ambassador to Iran at the time and helped six Americans who escaped from the American Embassy as it was overrun by militants to flee the country. “It’s a great film, it’s great. But at the same time it was a Canadian story that’s been, all of sudden, totally taken over by the Americans. Totally.”
As a company trying to get exposure :)
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I'm not against having a rule; I think the current set of "rules" (really, a collection of historical accidents that have no consistency and no fundamental "meaning") are not worth the time needed to learn them.

I wish orthographe never happened.

I don't have a solution for where we are now.
The reason Uber became so successful was because it became cheaper than a cab in most major markets with world class service

I'm not sure that "cheaper than a cab" had anything to do with it. You're the first person I've ever heard to cite pricing as a reason why people use Uber; everybody I've spoken to has cited the quality of service as the reason.
> I don't expect a $4 phone to be fast but unless there are some major differences, I think you'd just get $4 worth of frustration

Ah, but frustration arises when you know there's something better.

If you've never used ANY computing device before, you'd think the 20 second delay was normal.

This phone is targeting people who've never used any computing device other than a dumb phone. Some haven't even used dumb phones.

I can't believe people are knocking this phone here for its "eh, it's slow". You are NOT the target market. You are so, so not the target market.
Makes you wonder why the FBI bothered with the bit about submitting PIN guesses electronically, and didn't just ask for a firmware that looped over all 10,000 PINs until it found the right one.
Ok - :-)
In case anyone did't get the "disputed" part, Vietnam occupies most of South China Sea islands especially in the 70s and 80s around Sino-Vietnam war. China (actually Republic of China) claimed them earliest but didn't occupy.
I don't know a government that is not thug.
Then, don't buy it. I have a laser printer for exactly this reason.
On a lighter note, in Britain the peak is at about 9pm when people put on electric tea kettles after football and soaps. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
How more retarded can a comment be?
- From the article, how could you have intelligently drawn the conclusion that "Chinese thug of government"? Off the thin air? The territory, is at most, as described by the western media, "disputed", while in my opinion, it's simply part of China. Comparing this to the shameless invasion of Iraq, by this logic, U.S. is way much much more a "thug" of a government. (No, I'm just illustrating the logic of the comment, not endorsing this conclusion).
- And if a government is a "thug", then it's nothing of "misery" sort, let alone "to be put out of".
- And, if not that obvious already, this has nothing to do with democracy. So talking about that simply makes no sense.
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TigerText are way ahead of these guys.
Best of luck to them though
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"The SIF will be loaded via Device Firmware Upgrade ("DFU") mode, recovery mode, or other applicable mode available to the FBI."
Was going to point out that you spelt "prosecutors"as "persecutors", but then realised you might have genuinely meant that spelling!
lawishere@yeah.com

yeah.com is early free hosting and email provider in China.

maybe the same person with an avatar http://tieba.baidu.com/home/main?un=lawishere

maybe his blog http://blog.csdn.net/lawishere

lots of C/C++, mpeg, streaming stuff.
What makes you think competitive markets keep entities from becoming "too big to fail?" There are enormous economies of scale in nearly any business. There is a reason there are just a handful of companies left capable of gabbing their own chips. Same with say Amazon and Wal-Mart. The market equilibrium in any moderately capital-intensive industry favors just a handful of huge competitors.
Yeah, spelling - woops.

Not sure how else to fix it. The UK is very wet, houses are stone and cold. Condensation is almost constant and mold pops up most winters. We used to run a dehumidifier and it would collect water, but as soon as you open the front door another houseful of wet air comes in.
Debit cards can be accepted and is not the same as a credit card transaction.
Last year some kids went skinny dipping and one never came back to shore.
On the other hand, not too long ago Turing's contributions were neglected as well, and before that, Bletchley as a whole was neglected as it remained classified long after the war ended.
> the 2012 Nexus 7 which is basically unusable with Android 5.1

Really?

The 2013 works with no real issues.
Why the downvote? That is what I said. I merely used a slew of different words.

> The FBI is asking that it be built now

Because it's not possible _now_.

> and then loaded onto the already recovered phone.

Thus it becoming possible after they have built the new version of iOS, and since they cannot go back in time and build it, it would indeed be _in_the_future_ that it became available, if Apple complied, that is.
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Great provocation. I really missed the references for the algorithms, dataset publication and breakthrough announcements. Interesting follow-up here https://twitter.com/drewconway/status/699728784455573504
I use a MacBook Pro like this every work day. Plugging in four cables (power, 2x DisplayPort, USB) is not really that big of a deal.
Don't swallow the SIM or the government will be able to track you forever...
Or any rooted android. Good luck in defeating LUKS. No custom firmwares will help them.
I've got a MBP from around 2012 and a big problem is that when running any OS besides OS X, it runs very hot with very short battery life because it can only use discrete graphics (NVidia) full time. The integrated graphics is disabled in Apple's efi (maybe by Bootcamp?), and I don't know that anyone has ever found a workaround. There's an extremely longstanding Apple support issue still open about it.

So if planning to run anything other than OS X via Bootcamp on a MBP, do beware this issue.
This observation is orthogonal to the original article but: often DRYing tests is a bad idea. Two principal reasons: 1) if you need a lot of boilerplate, you might need to look at refactoring your classes to reduce dependencies 2) non-DRY tests are often easier to read due to increased indirection.

None of which means that I don't reserve the right to DRY tests out when I think it's contextually appropriate.
That Nigerian astronaut that got lost in Space
There is this supposedly Nigerian email scam talking of an astronaut that got lost in Space. Well, apparently, this is not a new story: a google search reveals that the Register was, probably, the first to post the same in 2004. Currently, the same story is doing rounds on the Internet with the credit going to Anorak. I could have sworn I first saw the same courtesy of HN, about a week ago but I can't find the same on HN. Others have also been posting the same over the years. The Register's link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/16/cosmic_419er/
She signed. Does that mean it was processed as a credit-card transaction?
Why care about "stuff" once you are dead?
Blogging with an onscreen keyboard is painful, and carrying around tablet + bluetooth keyboard is more cumbersome than a 9" or 11" "ultrabook". The ability to run old binary-only windows/x86 programs comes in handy too.

What do you do for a phone? What works for me is: 6"+ phone that does anything I'd use a 7" tablet for (smartwatch means I don't need to take it out my pocket as often), 11" ultrabook for doing things on the go, 18" "desktop replacement"/"gaming laptop"/"luggable" for home and the occasional longer trip or LAN party. (I do have a desktop/"home server" but these days it's pretty much an oversized NAS).
They realized they were monetizing the wrong way. Make customers pay for a better customer experience always rubs me the wrong way.
> "The market equilibrium in any moderately capital-intensive industry favors just a handful of huge competitors."

That's why it's necessary to occasionally clip their wings. Even if capitalism left unchecked results in large concentration of power, the role that government plays in regulating these markets is to enable (or at least, should be 'to enable') new competitors to emerge that can compete with established players, in order to maintain healthy levels of competition.
Every couple of years Intel hardware keeps changing my mind from "I'll just rent everything in the cloud" to "I should build a server from this and keep everything in house!". And vice versa.
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The blockchain element mentioned further down in the article seems intriguing, but also looks a little like window dressing. Can someone more Bitcoin literate than me explain from a practical standpoint what they are actually doing and what actual benefit is provided by the blockchain integration?
Excuse my ignorance, but is there still a sizable community building new coldfusion sites?
I should point out that Ross Ihaka along with Robert Gentleman created R.
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The problem in the new German spelling was rather that lots of things simply did not make sense.

For example: "Gemse" (old spelling, which is also how you speak it) vs. "Gämse" (new spelling that was "intended" to be derived from "Gams". Unluckily "Gams" is a dialect word, while "Gemse" is the original German one).

Or an IMHO even more drastic example "aufwendig" (old spelling; also how you speak it) vs. "aufwändig" (new spelling). The official reason is that aufwendig/aufwändig is derived from the noun "Aufwand". But you can also give good reasons why it makes sense to derive it from the verb "aufwenden". No person could explain me the reason why the noun was chosen over the verb.

So yes, I am open to a sane spelling reform. But the one that was implemented in Germany clearly wasn't. If you want to do a spelling reform for the deep impact it will have, it must be (nearly) perfect - an analog in software engineering is "lots of nines of availability". If you are not able to reach this gold standard you better leave it.
I'm not at liberty to say. :)

That said, Apple's enterprise business grew 40% in 2015 to $25B. (http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/27/apples-enterprise-...). .gov is a big part of that. When you attend Apple enterprise-focused events, the attendance has grown beyond the old media/field service crowd to include finance,police and .gov attendees.

If you need to comply with various federally mandated compliance regimes, (ie. FIPS 140-2, CJIS, IRS Pub 1075, etc) iOS is very clearly the easiest and most straightforward platform to achieve that compliance on. It's not as trivial as it was with legacy BlackBerry, but it's pretty close.

With Android, the carrier and manufacturer variance makes it more difficult to achieve, demonstrate and maintain compliance. That said, Android offers a number of advantages from an application perspective, but when in production, you'll commonly see licensed third party software in place to perform typical mail and other functions.
"there's no way to make repeated attempts more computationally expensive"

That's not true actually. For example, the industry standard for storing passwords on a server (bcrypt) is specifically designed to slow down password match attempts.
Like you, I appreciate the sentiment - happy to hear Apple speaking up. However this shouldn't change how we use Apple products. I operate under the implication that the device is compromised from the factory. Closed source software cannot be trusted, good faith is not enough.
Would it be infeasible to construct part of the private key out of hardware-specific id's + time-of-creation hashes? I assume it's not only the PIN?
Did you read the release? They are up front that its entirely an issue about setting a bad precedent. Its completely and totally about the fact that it would be used over and over again, and nothing to do with the fact that is it possible. Your overly cynical stance on this is misguided, as you seem to not have grasped the information in the letter.
Google Play Store manages the permission dialog for apps installed via Play Store (Play Services is one). It just doesn't show it for Play Services and just auto-accepts installation.
I thought @csoghoian's take was interesting. The FBI doesn't want one specific phone unlocked, they want precedent.

https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/699841360963108864
> It's not complete nonsense.

I'm not saying everyone would know, but an unsubstantiated sweeping generalization that almost nobody in the West knows where she was from is patently complete nonsense.
this is an interesting vector of attack. Can by software modify those limits?

Instead after 5, make it after 100; instead after 48 hours make it after 40000.

And then, can a fake finger with the correct fingerprints be made so it fools the reader? Lets say make it of silicone or gummy bears?
Thanks for the post. I think, we need more of these. I too have been feeling that the companies in a sense "aren't even trying" to show some care and respect for a customer. We agree to pay money for "hardware", they accustomed to "assemble together" some electronic components. There's no inspiration, no consideration, no ambition to provide experience that lasts (despite that hardware is fast-to-become-obsolete, the brand image and the impression you leave can be relevant for a much longer time).
For me personally the only decent machine out there is MacBook Air. It does not make false promises about performance (like other laptops do, only to fail miserably later).
My ideal machine would be lightweight plastic with mechanic keyboard. Performance is not really critical. Something like Surface pro with 14 inch display and mechanical keyboard (touch-screen is not necessary; good, macbook-like touchpad is) would do.
Erlang has always done well on HN. One time the whole front page was Erlang submissions after pg asked for more Erlang.
That movie did a vast disservice to everyone featured, including Denniston and Turing.
The iPhone uses AES encryption which would prevent cloning the flash storage [1]. There was an informative discussion of this over on AppleInsider - http://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/191851

[1] http://www.darthnull.org/2014/10/06/ios-encryption
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actually, there is already a Swiss bank that wants to do just bitcoin in the process of getting licensed http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-27/switzerland-open-bi...
Can they publish a copy of the FBI letter. Otherwise, Apple's description feels a bit circumstantial and opinionated. I feel like I can make a better judgement on this whole issue if the request is made public.
I guess my family will take care of my physical stuff. For the online part, some of it can probably be handled through support (facebook, etc...), and the rest will stay as is until it is deleted for lack of use. Or never deleted. Both are okay.

Leaving a physical trace of my passwords is not only bad practice from security point of view, but quite useless since I know them.
Also, my online accounts are useless if I can't use them because I'm dead, so I don't really care if no one can access them anymore. What happens to important things such as banking is already dealt with.
Any polynomial of degree n has n roots, but some of them may be degenerate, and some of them may be complex.

So, how would that translate to the cubic-surface situation?
Are there cubic-surfaces that are "degenerate", and thus have actually less than 27 lines?

Are all the lines expressible in real numbers? Or do we need complex numbers, like it is the case for polynomial roots?

Just some questions that popped into my mind.
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Price is definitely the dominant factor for Uber's Growth.

They achieved 2 things, the appearance of being cheaper(by putting a lower price, but making "surge pricing" look like a special thing), and eliminated price sensitivity from the customer.

In a cab you are constantly reminded how much its costing, so you suffer the price every second. In Uber/Lyft you dont even know until you left the car, so you are willing to pay more. I think this is an unfair advantage to UBER, in detriment of the consumer.
A few other passwords too https://github.com/simonjiuan/ipc/blob/master/src/cgi_misc.c...
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6. Wrong, Yes they can, a company can suspend public trading of its stock any time it wishes.

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/suspensions.shtml
Well, for a day or two ...
Its a 4 year old article and R has changed a TON with new things BUT.... R has grown a ton in users as well as features.

R really is a functional programming language that people don't take advantage on. All languages have strength and weaknesses and YET the complaint is R has too many ways to do any one thing which allows us to have data.table, dplyr, ggplot2, magrittr (pipping %>%). [EDIT RStudio and RServer are also a big example of R growth in features and quality]

As I learned R my code has changed dramatically and I think R has one of the largest gap between the code you start with and when you are proficient. My starting R code is really embarrassing.
My summary of the paper is this: technology has always eliminated the lowest-skilled jobs, freeing people up to work more rewarding jobs. Today's information technology tools are opening up tremendous opportunities for rewarding work. So don't pay attention to the people worrying about technology putting people out of work, because they have always worried and things have always turned out fine.

I hate to be the one to make the argument that "this time it's different," but this paper has a huge blind spot in its analysis. What makes technological progress in the Information Age different is the fact that the people loosing their jobs today are the highly-educated. Paralegals are being replaced with search algorithms, doctors will soon be replaced with IBM Watsons, and my entire career as a software developer has been to automate and eliminate office jobs for people with college degrees.

You know who isn't being replaced? Fast food and retail workers. Low skill and super-high skill jobs are fine, but the middle-skill jobs are being automated out of existence. Perhaps these IT tools we all develop will eventually open up new mid-skilled employment opportunities, but when I see the anger and populism fueling Trump and Sander's campaigns, I see people who are genuinely hurting because they are being left behind. We can't just shrug and tell ourselves, "Well, it's always gotten better in the past."
I've legitimately tried using my bellend and it doesn't work, unfortunately.
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