skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a ridiculous "study"; no wonder it hasn't been mentioned much in the scientific press.

1) population was an obscure breed of mice that was prediabetic at study onset.

2) carb content of the "paleo" group was 100% pure sucrose. For the control group, 2% total simple sugars.

3) saturated fat was just 1.8% of calories for the control group but 45% of calories for the "paleo" group.

4) whereas any real-world paleo diet will be higher in protein than a control diet, in this phony study, the control group diet was almost 50% higher in protein than the "paleo" diet!

5) the study was NOT CONTROLLED FOR EQUAL CALORIES between "paleo" and control! Mice were allowed to eat as much as they wanted.

I can hardly imagine a more concocted, phony "study".
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"I have no network" can be an important issue. I have similar problems, and don't know where to start. It's easy to give tips like that, but how in practice you'd build the network? You don't want results 20-30 years from now.

I got into most places by reference. That doesn't mean success - no high salaries, no good prospects, just barely managing to find the next place. I wouldn't say I'm too bad socially; young nerdish traits waned enough already. But with growing age finding Bay Area-adequate salary - kids, you know - is harder, not easier, even though experience and skills grow.

It's a real problem. Would be thankful for a good advice.
well, that's just uncanny :)
This comment may be lost, but for Google posterity, it appears that this feature only sets the window titlebar if you aren't displaying the tab bar. Otherwise, the escape codes set the color of the tab.

It would be nice to have separate escape sequences for the window titlebar and for the tabs.

My interest in this is to dim the glaring-white strip of the Mac OS X window chrome when I have dark tabs, a dark-background terminal, and a dark menubar. If you have many such dark terminals open, the Mac OS X window chrome really interferes with the visual consistency of the setup.
The article is heavily biased. It is not balanced in any way. They start with a desired conclusion, and then work backwards to construct the answer to the questions.
I found this confusing too. Some ideas:

- The recent melts have only been of a relatively small mass of ice, and the two effects on rotation aren't linear,

- There hasn't been enough time for the Earth's shape to have changed in response to the recent ice melts.

I'll admit I'm a bit suspicious, though.
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That doesn't seem to correspond to the attitudes of salesmen vs engineers. I'm not sure what salesmen you're thinking of, but few of the people in sales I've talked to can have an in-depth discussion about how React.createClass vs Class ___ extends React.component will effect "this" context, and how super(props) pattern works in the latter. Furthermore, lots of engineers who work with any given language/framework can't explain it either, and many of them have basically been copy-pasting until stuff worked their whole career.

I've found that most people who have poor communication skills are not good engineers either* and the two might actually be related.

*Except for substack
Skylawn [1], a few miles south, is about the same size as the biggest cemetery in Colma, and it's still expanding. The scale of the place isn't visible from the highway. It's on Lifemark Road (Their slogan: "Every life leaves its mark") off of CA 92 at the summit near CA 35. Their section with sample gravestone sculptures is worth a visit. Some of them are humorous.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/T971V3ChLL62
This sounds shockingly familiar. Closing lots, overselling permits, closing local neighborhood streets, implementing an inadequate shuttle after years of student complaints.... My experience is not with a community college, though, so I can be fairly certain we're thinking of at least two separate examples of pretty much exactly the same thing going on in different college/university towns.
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#haskell has always helped me, provided that I did my homework first. If they don't tackle your question, wait a little while and break it down into smaller pieces. It makes life easier for everyone, and usually allows them to help you faster.
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I arrived in Mountain View tonight. I want a job. It must involve Haskell. Anything else is a waste of time. My prediction: Haskell will be ready for production when people are ready to engineer code that lasts 1000 years.
As an update, Talia has now been fired for writing this open letter asking for a living wage for Yelp/Eat24 employees: https://twitter.com/itsa_talia/status/700862005834444800
For an average American with household income $50k, getting a $1k raise (after tax) is probably not trivial. For techies in SF, definitely spend time on building your career, negotiating compensation, and try to save on rent.
Forgive me if I nit-pick this a bit, as we are probably saying the same thing two different ways.

iCloud backups are not protected by your iCloud password. I know this because I've personally reset my password and then successfully recovered an iCloud backup to a new phone with the new password.

However, the auto-backup feature, which would have pushed the most recent data from the phone onto iCloud just by leaving the phone powered on... apparently that is disabled when the iCloud password is reset. Which makes sense if you think about it, the phone still has the old iCloud password, and it would need the new password in order to authenticate to iCloud. So they inadvertently disabled the backup feature by locking the phone out of iCloud!

The first question this raises is can the auto-backup be made to start working again by Apple changing their backend iCloud authentication code to specifically allow this device to login to iCloud with the "wrong" (old) passsword? That would not involve touching the phone and seems like a much cleaner solution. Unless there is code on the phone which disables or destroys the iCloud authentication token / stored password after encountering a login error, which really would surprise me, because API errors could be spurious, but I guess it's possible if they are looking specifically for an "invalid login" return code and then dumping the old token in order to trigger a UI prompt to enter a new password.

The second question is why are the existing backups a month and a half old? Doesn't this imply the device was not even turned on or connected to the network for that last month and a half?

The other interesting tidbit in the article you linked is the statement the FBI was able to verify that the phone was never paired with any devices to obtain data. How in the world could they know that?
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Does anyone know who's funding http://savetheinventor.com ?

This must be a group of patent trolls or maybe certain large companies. My money would be on patent trolls.

The tv commercials spin a tale of how small businesses are being crushed by big corporations stealing their genius ideas.

Anyone know who's funding this nonsense?
The information on the backup had month-old timestamps, while the iPhone was in use more recently. Thus, the backup must be old.
well now it's top comment. funny how that happens.
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Mechanical entry would take time as well if it is a alphanumeric code.
You might be interested in the work being done at the Giving What We Can project: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/research/methodology/
By changing the iCloud password, the device is no longer able to upload a backup to iCloud, since the device doesn't know the new password yet! The new iCloud password IS required to re-enable auto backup, but you need to get past the PIN screen first to enter the new password.
Thank you. This is the reason I read HN.
From the article: "I wrote "your data is accessible", but actually I should rather write "your data is currently accessible". Theoretically, nothing prevents GitHub from removing programmatic access to parts of the data they host."

Do their terms of service permit them to do that? Unfortunately, yes: "GitHub reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, your access to the API (or any part thereof) with or without notice. ... GitHub, in its sole discretion, has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service, or any other GitHub service, for any reason at any time. Such termination of the Service will result in the deactivation or deletion of your Account or your access to your Account, and the forfeiture and relinquishment of all Content in your Account. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time. In the event that GitHub takes action to suspend or terminate an account, we will make a reasonable effort to provide the affected account owner with a copy of their account contents upon request, unless the account was suspended or terminated due to unlawful conduct."

That's a problem. A management change at Github could have a big effect on open source software. This isn't a theoretical issue; Google Code was shut down, and Sourceforge turned to the dark side and started bundling adware with downloads.

It would be useful if a nonprofit such as the Internet Archive or the Wikimedia Foundation mirrored Github periodically. Just in case Github management got uppity.
You're 800% more likely to get robbed in Colma than in the average US city (based on per capita crime stats).

I always found that as the fun fact nobody mentions about Colma. It's usually just graveyard talk.
We have more pot shops in Los Angeles than we do Starbccks and McDonalds combined. On Van Nuys Blvd I counted four of them between Victory Blvd and Sherman Way. (1 mile block) Most of the shops are in poorer neighborhood, opened without the proper permits and then get shut down after making god knows how much money.

They are not non-profits either and you would think that drug dealers could afford better signage.
This was raised and discussed in another thread and I believe this to be the case. Walt Mossberg, a pretty well known verge reporter who wrote one of the articles that was circulating a few weeks ago about the decline in Apple software, was discussing this on his podcast.

The idea that actors move forward with a specific case was new to me, but I obviousloy never thought much about it and it seems pretty intuitive when considered. Roe v. Wade and the Rosa Parks case were raised in the other thread as well as, IIRC the Brown v. Board of Edu.

What happens is that the prosecution or another actor can Appeal to the supreme court (or choose what case to prosecute etc.) with the ultimate goal of timing sentiment, finding the perfect array of facts and discovery, and having everything align perfectly. They then push up to the supreme court with the best chance of getting a binding ruling that would become defacto law.

In this scenario (and from here forward is my non-expert opinion) the data is probably in a best case scenario for the FBI slightly useful. However, not getting this data is pretty much meaningless. So they are likely to:

* Use public sentiment and the recent terrorist attacks as a catalyst for their demand (you quite correctly raised this point).

* The suspects are dead. So while they may not be guilty in the court of law, it is pretty obvious that they did it thus there is no risk of them being acquitted.

* Most evidence suggests a fairly lone wolf attack scenario, so if they were working with anyone the data would likely be on a computer or in call logs. Thus the minimal gov't gain which would be maybe mapping a name to some of the numbers.

* They have a successful narrative to frame and this coincided with a bill to limit encryption.

So yes. This was a strategic move. If John McAfee is to be believed, and on one hand he sort of fucking isn't, but on the other hand I actually do but mostly on faith, he and his team can successfully decrypt the phone.

He has publicly offered (possibly taking out an editorial but I did see the article at least) that he would unlock the phone for free if they would drop the case. Now, even if they gov can't get in (and they can), it isn't unreasonable to not give the phone to a suspected murder.

That said I think John McAfee and probably a few people on here could get in, so the tl;dr is ya they coming for that secure enclave.
I would assume they have found that person. It's curious that anyone took it upon themselves to initiate the password reset without authority, but I'd bet they have simply forgotten what they changed it to.
The line between the two is gone today. The CIA now both collects information (spy drones) and acts on it (armed drones). The FBI both investigates crimes and acts as a go-between between federal and local agencies via fusion centers. Since 9/11 everyone is all about information sharing. That means law enforcement now give intel to the intel community and that the intel community does likewise. Even lines between military and civilian worlds are blurred as contractors bounce between the two. We really are slipping into a world where feds are feds and the letters on the hat no longer matter.
"Github was a trailblazer that deserves its position as market leader, gitlab can make no such claim."

The idea of first mover advantage is not that we all get together to recognize the first mover and give it our business because we are so impressed by it's first moving ;)
Ways to earn more money where I come from but probably applicable to SV. Some ideas:

1. Get a job where people report to you

2. Get a job with company with bigger budgets e.g. Google

3. Get a job where you are closer to the money making e.g. sales, finance industry jobs

4. Do something else where you control the flow of money rather than just get a paycheck. I am thinking real estate development or renovations, for example.

5. Live somewhere where the cost of living is cheaper but earn the same money. You could get a remote job in SV then go move away. I don't know US that well but isn't Oakland cheaper? Or if you are remote working just go live in some dead town somewhere.

6. Get a job contracting using some arcane skill that no-one wants to work with so it pays more. E.g. Microsoft SharePoint.

7. Become a business analyst / project manager etc.

8. Become a corporate C*O.

9. Get a 9-5 tech job (literally) and then get a second job.

10. Get a 9-5 tech job (literally) and do a side project money making.
You're both correct.

The NSA is doing this as a bit of a show, as an illusion of the judicial process which you point out.
Such as? For an example to the contrary, see rayiner's comments on this issue. The only people I'm seeing that think this case is precedent-setting are tech bloggers who don't know any better and lawyers who were given a short time to respond and didn't know what the FBI was actually requesting.

The only restriction on this law that Apple could claim (aside from legally out-there options like equating writing software to forced speech) is "unreasonable burden," but this is something that almost any of us could hack up in a day given access to Apple's release build system.
Agreed. When I first saw the title, I was wondering if I missed something from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

And it doesn't really qualify as a paradox in my opinion. Perhaps briefly counterintuitive. But the real question of "X is free and does the 'same thing' as Y, which is not free: so why are more people using Y?" Is perfectly easy to explain via UI/UX, discoverability, ease of install/uninstall, or network effects (all my friends/coworkers use Y, so I will too).

This seems like an uninteresting question named after a very interesting writer.
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No, the public has to be scared into standing by while the courts force Apple to unlock a phone for the FBI, so there will be adequate precedent for doing so later in in more mundane cases, like drug dealers, gangs, and so on.

The thing that scares law enforcement is that in recent years, they've been handed piles of easy evidence that is recorded permanently and easy to access. While before you actually had to do an active man-in-the-middle attack, known as "wiretapping", and that required a court order with good evidence, now there's a ton of communication that is already recorded on persistent media, and all they have to do is find some excuse for taking a look at it to get a lot of extra information without much trouble.
Google also specifies the ip ranges of their boys; just UA checking is sloppy
He's such a genius that he uses Newton's gravity instead of Einstein's.
Is SO free? The paradox is referring to free as in speech, not free as in beer. Free browsers in that sense are also in the minority these days.
>The FBI said

(Ooh, you almost lost me. They say all kinds of stuff. You should not necessarily take it at face value.)

They are fine with having Apple do it because what they really care about is being able to say, next time, "what's the fuss, you've already done it once for that other phone that other time."

To achieve that goal, where the software sits doesn't matter.
Can you please advice how its different from CallLoop.com?
To everyone criticizing the author for various "failings" such as lack of personal finance skills, getting an English degree, choosing to live in the Bay area: exactly whom do you think is going to fill this role under the parameters the employer is offering? Would it help you be happier if it was someone in the same situation who chose not to raise the issue publicly?
Precedent applies when you have facts that are fundamentally equivalent. Forcing Apple to hack a particular phone is totally different from forcing them to ship phones with backdoors.
How common are VPNs and proxies in China? Is there a lot of demand for getting around the great wall?
The problem with parking tickets as a tax is it isn't at all fair. If you mega corp CEO or even well paid startup techy, getting a parking ticket of a few hundred dollars isn't that big a deal. To someone on minimum wage it would be a significant part of their income.
Because if Apple somehow is compelled to create the functionality, but then fucks it up and the device gets wiped, that'll go down just wonderfully. So yeah, they'll just load up a quick build off a development machine and start entering PINs and hope it works!

The creation of this backdoor would likely rank as one of the highest pressure coding events in the security engineering groups lives. Yeah, they'll just whip that up in no time.

Anyone who codes these secure systems would reasonably estimate the perfectly safe removal of all these security features combined with adding an automated PIN entry system, and then lets not forget the creation of a secure environment to isolate this code from any possible misuse... somewhere on the order of man-years to develop, test, document, and deploy. Much can be done in parallel, so it's on the order of a team of 6 - 10 engineers working for at least two to three months straight.
How do things get down voted? I never see that as an option...
iCloud backups are not protected by your iCloud password. I know this because I've personally reset my password and then successfully recovered an iCloud backup to a new phone with the new password.

However, the auto-backup feature, which would have pushed the most recent data from the phone onto iCloud just by leaving the phone powered on... apparently that is disabled when the iCloud password is reset. Which makes sense if you think about it, the phone still has the old iCloud password, and it would need the new password in order to authenticate to iCloud. So they inadvertently disabled the backup feature by locking the phone out of iCloud!

The first question this raises is can the auto-backup be made to start working again by Apple changing their backend iCloud authentication code to specifically allow this device to login to iCloud with the "wrong" (old) passsword? That would not involve touching the phone and seems like a much cleaner solution. Unless there is code on the phone which disables or destroys the iCloud authentication token / stored password after encountering a login error, which really would surprise me, because API errors could be spurious, but I guess it's possible if they are looking specifically for an "invalid login" return code and then dumping the old token in order to trigger a UI prompt to enter a new password.

The second question is why are the existing backups a month and a half old? Doesn't this imply the device was not even turned on or connected to the network for that last month and a half?

The other interesting tidbit in the article is the statement the FBI was able to verify that the phone was never paired with any devices to obtain data. How in the world could they know that?

(Cross-posting this comment from another article, because it's more relevant here)
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This completely depends on where you are located. In NYC there are many, many areas with unclear signs or unclear rules that not everyone knows, and are ticketed because of this. In addition, some departments are simply corrupt.

For example: Seaside Heights, NJ.

A few years back my mom went to the shore and parked in a metered parking area. She put in 2 hours worth of time and went to the beach. She came back 1 1/2 hours later, and the meter was expired with a ticket waiting on her car. She fought the ticket and found out that the meters were broken and running too fast, and the parking officials knew about it.. but continued to write tickets. Their justification was that "All people have to do is dispute the ticket and we will drop the charges." but how many people simply pay tickets without fighting them because of a lack of time? Scumbags.
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"A network where devices eventually become existential threats is a network that eventually ceases to exist."

I imagine this only if these devices can't be disconnected. Life creates its own existential threats in a lot of parts of the "network", but they are contained or fixed eventually. Diversity is the key, and even though all life we know has the same fundamental building blocks, so far it worked out. The internet is not that fundamentally different. So instead of working on ways to increase maintenance, continue to make the internet a highly diverse place.
Signed up! :)
On the surface we operate on different business models. CallLoop charges a flat rate per month with overages charged on a per message basis. That means they charge you a flat rate whether or not you succeed with your target subscribers.

We charge you per active subscriber per month, meaning that you only pay for people who have agreed to receive your messages. We have skin in the game to make sure you do well. If you don't, we don't get paid.
I'm a network engineer and I work with IPv6 often these days. I think it's a good notational standard. I don't care about the difference between dots and colons. That's much more of a programmers fetish type of thing. As a general rule I think network engineers, who actually have to work with this stuff, just want consistency. If IPv8 wants to replace colons with middle finger emojis sure OK. Whatever I don't care. Just let me know. I'll figure it out.
> They really don't seem to want to share with their influential users the value they generate.

I have never understood why tumblr doesn't simply offer optional ads for blogs, and revenue share with the authors.
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It's not medieval philosophy, with "years after that conversation was set", the poster you're replying to means 600 years. The book should not be seen as an historic work.