skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They implemented the wrong thing though. And now you ask "What's the right thing?" to which I will say "Nobody knows yet"

X = proposed solution by users, Y = guessed problem by users, Z = actual problem nobody knows about yet.

The proposed solution is only maybe a solution to the proposed problem, probably not. Because users won't go and try things out and then come to you and tell you what they found out. They have a feeling in their stomach and they tell you about it. The same goes for the problem they tell you about. It's maybe not their real problem but a symptom of another problem. You need to go and solve the actual problem.

Example: Patient (=user) goes to doctor (=github) and says "I have a headache (=Y), please give me some pills against headaches (=X)". Well, headaches can be because of lack of sleep, lack of water, too many worries, an infection, or maybe even cancer. Now the doctor's job is to figure out which of the actual problems it is. He talks to the user, does some analysis and figures out the actual problem is lack of water (=Z!!!). He tells the patient to drink more water (solving Z, Y is indirectly solved, and no word about X). Patient goes home, drinks more, is happy, doesn't come back to the doctor.
Maybe not. Government phone in a social services organization without MDM? Holy incompetent batman.
Not to be condescending, but I don't have a network and I think you're logic is wrong. Networking is a waste of time for rank and file workers in certain tech jobs. If you're not in a position of power or in a "social" profession no one gives a shit about networking with you. It is all about understanding how the industry works and what people's motivations are. What are the conditions under which some company would find and hire you at the salary you want? What are all the conditions. Is there a person out there that if you sent one email can and would hire you at the salary that you want? Just go to that person and forget everyone else. The only people that will want to network are the people that can't give you what you want. So it's just good for your personal life but not your career.
That's been covered by most of the articles on the topic, but not very clearly in this article.

Removing the storage chips from the device would mean breaking a very strong key, perhaps 128-bit AES, which is not a desirable offline brute-force attack.

That strong key is derived from the PIN combined with a unique device ID which cannot feasibly be extracted from the processor. So an offline attack needs to crack full AES, but an online attack by running modified OS code on the device itself means only the weak PIN needs to be attacked (just 10,000 distinct combinations, roughly equivalent to a 13 or 14 bit key).
The key derivation function involves a key which is burned into the CPU, and which cannot be exported from the CPU.
I can't find it.
Scientists have found a mysterious boiling river
I'd have chose "oversimplifiction" well ahead of "exaggeration".

But yes, yes, yes. I could not agree more.

Heller's book is the last thing I'd read on it, and it emphasizes the economic well over the... naval.

As an American, we tend to attribute military success to economic power.
Which also has other benefits like getting more Vitamin D and lowering stress, anger, anxiety, depression, etc. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_bathing
Did she actually get fired for writing this? I agree it was in poor taste. I think a lot of it was trying to be funny, but failed.
Tech workers have it better than many, worse than some. But hardly the most spoiled ever.

If you're the type of person who values kegerators and nerf wars more than salary, benefits, and professional status, then I can see how you would have your perspective. I can only guess you're much younger than some of us. Personally, I'd rather finish my work and leave the office to go home and buy my own beer with a bigger paycheck than act like I'm in a frat-house.

As for comparing someone writing a dating app to a teacher, I in no way implied that programmers create more value than teachers, or that somehow salary directly reflects the value people contribute to the world. But I think both contribute some value, and neither deserves to get demonized for just doing their job or even advocating for their own interests.
By 2050 everyone will have implantable lenses, so it won't matter.
Sounds like a great idea, and the screenshot of the transcript looked very fluid. I'm interested in seeing how governments react once this goes live. I feel like parking tickets and that sort of thing are really a desire to tax driving, by not levying a real tax (unpopular!) and instead picking unlucky people to "win" the lottery and pay for the infrastructure. I don't drive so I could be wrong, though.
I've been wondering this as well. Even with the key derivation function, I'd imagine the CPU also has some secure keys stored in it as well, and these keys are so long that it wouldn't be feasible to brute force it. I'm not sure if thats how the architecture works but thats what I'm thinking.

EDIT: This seems like a pretty good primer on iOS full disc encryption.
http://www.darthnull.org/2014/10/06/ios-encryption
I hadn't really looked at the details, because the fundamental question of "Can the courts compel work/backdoors from Apple?" is much more important IMO, but this really makes it feel like a fishing exercise from the FBI. Though possible, the chance that the attackers used an employer-owned phone to discuss/plan/coordinate the attackers seems rather remote if they a) had personal phones, and b) took the time to destroy them.
The graphics situation sounds rough. Good on printers and sound. And this...

"JIT support for ppc64el is good because of IBM support. It has jdk and v8 ports."

...I didn't even think about. Of course IBM's components might be usable for the desktop. ("Doh!") Thanks for the info.
Is McAfee the Donald Trump of the tech world?

#MakeSecurityGreatAgain
You might get stability. But if the population is already disillusioned with you, you might get less stability. The way I understand it, many people already don't believe what the government says; what happens if you have a large population of people who assume the government is not tell the truth whenever it opens its mouth? Whatever it is, I don't think it is stability.

I have heard it said that people don't need to get their way, but they do need to feel heard. The more you can't express yourself, the more things can get out of control quickly when an opportunity finally arises to vent.

A laser gets its coherence from the atoms being in an inverted population: they are all excited, so when one drops down and releases a photon, that photon triggers a chain reaction of all the other atoms to release theirs. I worry that this is what will end up happening. Someday, something will happen and maybe the censors are a little behind or something, like the high speed rail crash near Shanghai, and it triggers everyone's pent-up disillusionment and feeling unable to change anything. I don't think this would be a happy time for anyone, and, ironically, is just the sort of thing that the control is intended to prevent.

I hope the government reconsiders this idea.
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Wow, when I posted this she hadn't been fired yet. That didn't take long.
It feels like open core is the new "embrace, extend, extinguish". ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish )

On the other hand, the economy just doesn't incentivize open source communities to build the very best software for average users, compared to say, making a billion bucks with by building my new shiny walled garden social network. Anecdotal examples and lots of great FOSS project aside, cash is king and capitalism doesn't favour open source.
>But the FBI wants to use the case to give it one more go at pushing for backdoors.

Really? The FBI said it was 100% totally fine with giving the phone to Apple and just having remote access to the phone in this one specific case. That is to say, not having Apple turn over the tools of the trade.

I feel like a lot of people here should try to play devil's advocate on this case. I'm (kind of) for Apple in this case, but I think the general representation of the gov't's stated request has been completely morphed from what was asked.

The devil's advocate is that this is an Apple PR move. Apple spent a bunch of time trumping up how safe their new phones are against this very thing, and that they even backported most of it. But the fact is that Apple _can_ install a backdoor without even requiring the phone PIN code! On the older phones at least. The FBI asked for the contents, not the tool to get the contents.

A thing that has been mentioned elsewhere, but: by fighting this case (a single phone unlock with a specific warrant), we are mixing this case with the more dangerous and important fight of having backdoor laws be codified. As it stands, Apple _can and should_ make the most un-backdoorable phones possible. Legislation that could be enacted because of this fight could make us lose the war on the right to not have backdoors.

The fact is that the iOS update mechanism _is already a_ backdoor. Which exists for many reasons (and, to my understanding, is already mostly fixed by asking for a PIN code when updating now).
Projects can also be mirrored on Github[1], so even if the main repo is somewhere else (e.g. GitLab or Bitbucket) contributors can still be credited via Github[2] and the project can still get the publicity on Github.

[1]: https://help.github.com/articles/about-github-mirrors/

[2]: e.g. https://github.com/dsandler?tab=contributions&from=2015-10-2...
I heard someone say that if you meet 100 people a week you will be unstoppable.
I dunno why you're getting down voted here. There is definitely some major nerd cognitive dissonance going on. The ability to have full control over one's own hardware is supposed to be a core tenant of hacker-dom. Amazing how quickly it's been thrown out in this case.
That's not unbelievable.
My first thought: Apple should buy this company and integrate legal advice into Siri. "Hey Siri, I've just been pulled over by the police." "OK. Here are your rights:"
> who are getting absolutely crushed by the cost of living in the Bay Area

Outside the bubble, New York has always been like this, and it's not because of the tech industry.

Like the Bay Area, New York appeals to a lot of people, and with the appeal comes competition for housing. The Bay Area is a desirable place to live -- the weather is always excellent, there's plenty of stuff to do (try finding a mountain to ride your bike up in New York City), etc. People pay it because they like it. I don't think it's because tech is there.
I feel like we don't really place any emphasis on the pragmatics of seven billion people having ideas. In reality you probably have a million truly unique ideas that should be explored. People don't really read much anyway and don't think for themselves as much as I like them to. Then there's also cultural bias and societal bias and of course all the many levels of peer pressure.

The fact that people feel good wearing "good" clothes is telling, no? Unless I'm missing something there's no real reason to wear "good" clothes and feel good about it.
1 billion is a massively variable population in it self.
> It's relatively cheap for the immense value you get by living here.

What value? For a mediocre, provincial city with terrible public transit, crap nightlife, gross streets and a homeless problem? SF isn't that great for the $$...
Both the ratio of your amount of available credit vs. used credit and the total amount of credit that you have available feed into your FICO score. From the lender's perspective, someone with a lot of unused credit is a better candidate than someone without. One of my cards recently announced a change that caused me to start looking around and its replacement had a substantially higher limit which unexpectedly gave a significant boost to my score.
This is super cool. And even if the parking aspect may have an coming expiration with the rise of more autonomous vehicles. I hope he and others continue to expand this out to a lot more areas quickly.
Would it be possible to physically "scan" the secure enclave chip to determine the secrets contained therein such as the burned-in unique device key and PIN?

Like, is there some kind of chip microscope or reverse engineering process that can not just look at circuitry, but also detect flash memory state?

UPDATE: answered earlier by tzs: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/519201/tamper-proof-chips... It's expensive, but seems well within reach of governments for targeted investigations.
In reality this doesn't mean much because I can order a blood test online and a doctor's approved receipt will be available in under a minute to take to a local lab. I doubt the doctor looked at anything except his bank account. And this process is legal in most US states.
Illuminatus! is a work of satire, so it not taking itself seriously is part of the point. If you want to really get something out of it you have look beyond the psychedelic sillyness, and read up one some of the countless philosophical/occult concepts and historical oddities referenced in the story.
> I have heard it said that people don't need to get their way, but they do need to feel heard.

But this is in itself an illusion no? It's equivalent to not being heard anyway, just that you could be heard.

Now that I think about, yes I agree that's how I would prefer to feel.
Absolutely key to my ongoing information ingestion process. http://www.inoreader.com/ FTW

[edit] and I gladly pay a few $/yr to keep them going
Can self-driving cars use bots to automatically fight traffic/parking tickets?
Spotify premium account information of several users leaked
Kickstarter goal reached in 2.5 days! I know, "only" $10K. This thing has merit AND cool open source tech.
The killer feature is open source which allows an excellent channel for the community to get what they want one way or another. Gitlab CI is pretty awesome too, we'll see what other surprises come out in the next release.
No problemo.

I noticed that the Features page is a bit broken, probably not finished yet. The markup is a bit odd-looking to me. Not because Angular's involved, but because it looks like it tries to re-invent some wheels Bootstrap already has covered.

I'm not an Angular developer per se, as I've largely avoided frameworks by rolling my own over the years, but I did mock-up what might be a simple but effective way of structuring the page using Bootstrap's grid system.

The trick would be to use whatever the Angular equivalent of Bootstrap's jQuery-based tabs is.

Hopefully it's of some use as well:

https://output.jsbin.com/sekato

https://jsbin.com/sekato/edit?html,css,js,output
It's uncanny to me that Jani hallucinates cats and rats... Toxoplasa Gondii evolved in cats and rats, and is linked to early-onset schizophrenia (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16920078). Makes me wonder...

T. Gondii is known to cause infected rats to become attracted to the smell of cat urine.
Agreed...

This article is fascinating...this man--Jerry Mitrovica--is obviously a genius...the techniques used to arrive at the conclusions he's reached...just wow...

My takeaway is that the gravitational attraction of ocean waters that the Arctic, Anarctic and Greenland ice sheets currently provide will diminish as those ice sheets melt...

This means that water previously attracted to those ares will move south...

The polar regions will experience lowered sea levels...the temperate regions will experience a rise well beyond what was earlier predicted...

Sobering news...
We have one of these in San Francisco. I got an advertisement on my windshield along with my ticket, funny enough. Brilliant advertising. I signed up immediately.

Now I don't even need to scan my ticket in the app. It searches court records and auto-appeals for me.
Never let a good tragedy go to waste. As they say.
True, so why not make a good notational standard so that everyone is at least not unhappy?
> D-wave claims 512 qubits today. I don't think it's out of the question that NSA is far ahead of both of them.

I don't doubt that NSA have some techniques that are not public knowledge, but is it feasible that they are that far ahead of academia/industry? (IIRC, D-Wave cannot run Shor's algorithm, so is not particularly useful in breaking cryptography). Even if they are, I would expect them to be having these legal battles hoping to win - if there is a plausible, non-classified, way to access the data, maintaining secrecy of these techniques is much easier.

> that something as inevitable as letsencrypt and an iPhone passcode could make it all useless.

Widespread, well-implemented crypto is probably less inevitable than this makes it sound. letsencrypt etc. probably make the surveillance dragnet less useful, but sloppy implementations and unforeseen weaknesses (e.g. Heartbleed) probably render it still rather useful.[1] Encryption usage, through increasing, is also not a given for people who may be targeted by NSA et al.[2]

[1] In terms that it can be used to gather information. Whether it is actually useful from a security standpoint, and if it is price worth paying, is something I strongly doubt.

[2] See, e.g., https://theintercept.com/2015/11/18/signs-point-to-unencrypt...
So who changed the password? And why hasn't the FBI asked for the new password?
The Joy and Agony of Haskell in Production
Not speeding, but breaking a similarly stupid law to split lanes on my motorcycle can save 50%+ of my commuting time.
I agree, the post was a terrible idea. And yes it comes off as a bit whiny and yes there are certainly improvements that can be made to her personal finance skill. All that said, your comment is not fair.

Have we reached a point where only those with STEM degrees and $100k+ salaries deserve to live in SF? You didn't just work hard, you were lucky enough to have the aptitude and interest in a field with stable job opportunities. Others may not have the same interests or abilities. And how boring would it be if we were all engineers anyway?

The author is frustrated with student debt, stagnant wages, and an inflated SV housing market. All valid concerns that millions of other Americans are echoing today. To top it off she is treated as expendable and fired as soon as she starts speaking out. Given that, maybe you could have some compassion? Or at least not resort to making an ad hominem attack?
At the end of the day it's all farming. Granted one region can have more consistent rainfall and temperature but there is still a pretty wide variance. Even in the same area one winemaker may be more talented and know when to pick, etc.

I think certain areas are very overhyped and thus receive a price premium. I tend to enjoy the general flavor of Paso Robles more than Napa for instance even though the 2nd is usually much more expensive.

At the end of the day making wine is still very high touch and manual and I am happy to support the industry. I do miss the days not so long ago when wine tasting was at most $10. Last weekend I went to a place in Napa where it was $40 and they only had one wine to taste! O.o
It depends on what kind of data it is, but sure, Google DC is fine, as long as you use software/crypto that is considered to be secure and encryption keys are truly yours.

But I'd say to look at how people hiding their money from their governments are doing it. Or look at Snowden. Let the law help you, even if it is the law of another country.
Just one way I can think of would be to dump the contents of ROM chip, bruteforcing the encryption key by checking all possible PINs and comparing the decrypted data against some known plaintext that would be present on all iOS devices. (this would require the FBI to know what key derivation algorithm is used on pre-secure-enclave devices, but that's not outside the realm of possibility).
I don't know why they didn't just take this opportunity to call it version 1. It seems like the right time. The React Router folks just went through this, with a significant struggle in moving quickly from version 1 to version 2. But it turned out OK.

It seems like there's a fear in making the call. Version 1 should be celebrated.
A problem to prepare talented probability students for the realities of the kinds of probabilities actuaries actually calculate for a living...
I think that quote refers to the cumulative amount swindled by the capitalist class, not the particular amount that an individual member may get away with.
I order blood tests from my doctor, a couple days later I get the results with two sentences, probably pre selected from the app they use. The doctor adds no value, but creates costs.
Tumblr always seemed to me like IRC in the 90's or BBS's in the 80's. It exists as its own subculture. It's not influentially creative - there's very original works - but just exists as more of a commentary subculture.
I wonder if you could do this as a business venture. At what point would you have to be a certified lawyer?
Big Victory: Judge Pushes Jewel V. NSA Forward
I don't like that a company like GitHub has access to all my code and things which may include personal information (I sometimes type things in LaTeX and put it under version control). Running GitLab on my server brings my code under my control. Sounds fair? It's the same reason why some people refuse to use Google services like calendar or photos even though they offer convenience.
GraphQL and Relay: Deep Architecture for the UI
Apple: We tried to help FBI terror probe, but someone changed iCloud password
I think it would be nifty to treat it as if it were a specialized form of embedded media like pictures and videos. Wall of text as a media type, and maybe even support links to, say, pastebin-type sites (or don't, this parts not critical). Then you still have tweets as the basic unit of Twitter and preserve some consistency.
At $60 dollars a barrel coal can be profitably converted into oil. Germany did it in WWII and South Africa's Sasol refined the process during the embargos.
You don't think they are doing independent research at NSA?

When I look at the technical problems they solved 10 years ago when they were first setting all of this up, I'm nothing short of amazed. Say what we will about the ethics behind it, I have no doubt that they've got a handful of the best minds in the country over at NSA.

Like I said, this is all conjecture on my part. They probably can't break all of our encryption. But the places that NSA is drawing lines seem a bit out of place to me.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/19/apple-executives-say-new-ip...

7th paragraph or search the text for "One such method."
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I am guessing Spain/Italy/Greece
I started using it today and seems nice and lean. The only problem I have is the amount of projects trying to fix data permanence.

IPFS
Tent
BigChainDB
etc.

Right now I'm starting to use camilstore, what if in the future I want to move to another project? I hope there will be tools to do help with migration.
See: http://indiewebcamp.com/monoculture
Happy to be locked in to github. There is a tipping point where value gained exceeds the risk of vendor lockin, and in my case there is no question the benefits outweight the risk.
The FBI said it was 100% totally fine with giving the phone to Apple and just having remote access to the phone in this one specific case.

It's really up to the court to decide that, and this post makes the argument that it may not be possible to keep the tools under wraps if the case progresses: http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=5645
We used Github enterprise at my previous job, GitLab at my current one. The only driver - GitLab is free. GitLab is painful if you have a lot of experience with Github. Feature comparison is pretty similar, but then again a feature comparison with any SVN web interface is pretty similar too.

I can't pinpoint it, but I'm much more likely to browse, review, and offer pull requests in a github instance. It's intuitive and I'm used to it.