skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just before the conclusion he addresses that; there was a revised/improved version in 1997 that was a commercial failure. Presumably due to the 555's ubiquity.
Why would you ever do this with the real device without thoroughly testing the circumstances with a stand-in first?

From a technical perspective, it seems very simple and easy to replicate before actually doing it and locking yourself out completely like they seem to have done.
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has anybody any experience with running the evernote desktop client using wine ?
I once lived there for a few months. The first day I arrived, I opened by window and looked at the view and thought "Wow this place has a beautiful view, no buildings, all nature... wait... what are all those things on the ground?"
Homeopathy successfully turns water into a placebo
Montaigne isn't pedantic and doesn't use fancy words.
A wacky idea: I'd like to see some product lines and perhaps some product types protected by law - so that they can only be sold at physical stores and not online. The idea is to get a minimal subset of products so that physical stores can stay in business. Ideally, these would be products where there is a benefit to buying them in-person (perhaps product expertise, fitting, visual considerations, or shipping.)

I understand that France still has bookstores because they set minimum pricing on ebooks. Perhaps a more "fine grained" approach might work to keep some US business alive. (Though I would also require community ownership and community management - we have enough billionaires trying to maximize profit at our expense.)
I hope Sweden leaves too, and/or Brexit causes the union to collapse. We have paid billions in aid to the poorer EU countries for years and all we get back are refugees, Romanian beggars and criminal gangs from the Balkans.
> If it's basically the output of magic levers and knobs and processes which are not allowed to be inspected or questioned or understood by the jury

I specifically edited my comment to say that I was not trying to imply that juries should not question processes of evidence gathering. To state so is disingenuous.

Look at it this way: If can assume that few readers of HN are in chemistry, and any of us were on a jury of a case where a chemist was comparing trace chemicals found in a container that was owned by a defendant on trial for some heinous crime, we would want to know the methods used to gather and inspect those trace chemicals. But what would you think if you were the chemist and you were asked "Why couldn't you just use a cotton swab and look at them under a big microscope?" when the process involved a complex series of baths to hydrate the residue on the container and then separate and concentrate the combined compounds into individual and inspectable forms? I know, if I had spent most of an afternoon talking about the process I had taken to do my work, and was asked that question, I would feel frustrated and defeated. Clearly that juror had no idea of what I was talking about.
Yes. Changed from http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/19/fbi-reveal-code-lawsuit-d..., which points to this.
"Research"
Well, there are lower power CMOS versions of the 555 available.
Confessions of a Google Spammer (2015)
"... in programming there is a widespread first order theory that one shouldn't build one's own tools, languages, and especially operating systems. This is true --- an incredible amount of time and energy has gone down these ratholes. On the second hand, if you can build your own tools, languages, and operating systems you absolutely should because the leverage that can be obtained (and often the time not wasted in trying to fix other people's not quite right tools) can be incredible."

- Alan Kay, in http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf
> “It’s very strange, and I cannot understand it,” said Ahmed Othman, the commander of the U.S.-backed rebel battalion Furqa al-Sultan Murad, who said he had come under attack from U.S.-backed Kurdish militants in Aleppo this week.

This seems like an appropriate time to quote Major General Smedley Butler:

> "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

> "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

And perhaps even more relevant:

> “Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the "war to end wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for democracy." No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United State patents. They were just told it was to be a "glorious adventure".
> Is kind of a case where beyond being a manager, you need to be a psychologist.

Not beyond - good understanding of psychology is a core competency for any manager.
Chinese will not play EVE anymore?
We’re working on something like this: http://www.officehours.io
Some do and some don't. I haven't personally tested any of these, but according to the application database, only Photoshop CC 2015 has reached "Gold" level of compatiblity.

Photoshop CC 2015 will work with some issues on Arch Linux[1], After Effects support is limited to version 7[2], Premier CS3 appears to be the only version with any support at all (Bronze)[3], Illustrator CS 6 is the latest supported at Silver level[4]

[1] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

[2] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

[3] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

[4] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
Though I now have an extra if statement in my code to detect and log this type of 'hacking' attempts in addition to some others, the code was never vulnerable to this in the first place. No file contents are displayed at any time anyway.
Any re-spin will cost money (and a lot of it). As technology improves, the old processes usually become cheaper too.
> Small note - in the case of this particular phone it doesn’t have a secure enclave.

Correct. Should have said this explicitly. They could use the precedent of bypass functionality in this instance to have it ship with new phones bypassing SE.

I think the enclave is probably an enclave, but if it is secure they are going to want access to it. Picking a 5c in this instance and getting the Supreme Court to grant this would be a good way to make a defacto law that applies to a markedly different set of technology sets.
I read the book by the Patagonia founder, Yvon Chouinard, where he described how they had to send people to their manufacturers to be involved with quality, and how even then they would get bad batches and be forced to dump the clothes at a big loss and switch manufacturers. So it can be done - but perhaps that isn't what would be suggest by Ayn Rand. It isn't selfish enough.
What is the basis for your assertion that standing out is their motivation, as opposed to wanting to offer their guests a fantastic culinary experience?
Indeed. Border control policies end up being a tit for tat affair.

The only reason EU countries have border controls on flights landing in their respective countries from the UK, is because the UK applies border controls on their citizens entering the United Kingdom. I can fly from Germany to Spain without ever showing my passport at my destination, but if I fly to and from the UK I need to show my passport on both sides.

I expect this to become 100 fold worse in the UK tries to leave the EU.
Heh, for a second I misread: "The Roman coastline could be under the influence is local Teutonic forces".
var array = [];

client.addListener('message', function (from, to, text) {
var time = Math.floor(new Date() / 1000);
var obj = { nick: from, message: text };
var item = '\"' + time + '\"\:' + JSON.stringify(obj);

array.push(item);

fs.writeFile(file, '{' + array + '}\n', function() {
// console.log("updated");
});
});

This will buffer all the messages in memory (in the variable "array") and rewrite the file on every message. Besides the lack of atomicity mentioned in another comment, that's also really inefficient and will eventually run out of memory. Plus 1000 incoming messages will lead to 1000 sequential rewrites of the same file!
I was asked in an IT interview what games do I play, what books do I read and what programs do I watch, totally weird but I guess she was trying to figure out if I would fit on the team. I got the job in the end. Out of curiosity, what position are you hiring for? And whereabout is your company located?
Show HN: Geo.lua – helper library for Redis geospatial indices
A Lua library containing miscellaneous geospatial helper routines for use with Redis. It requires the GEO API, available from v3.2.

In broad strokes, the library provides:

* Polygon search on geoset members

* Navigational information such as bearing and path length

* GeoJSON decoding and encoding

* A playground for testing experimental geospatial APIs

Would love to get your feedback/fixes/ideas/etc...

Source: https://github.com/RedisLabs/geo.lua
Colma was the inspiration for Buckethead's best album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKQypgRJ9vU

^ excellent focus music!
Noma was never vegetarian, but now appears to go in that direction: http://www.eater.com/2015/9/14/9324311/rene-redzepi-closes-n...
Twitter is struggling, probably because normal people don't know how to use it
I really enjoy watching him smash those sticks up with rocks
>This is also while ritual denunciations of "homo economicus" are really quite sophomoric...

Admittedly, this is because "homo economicus" is sophomoric in the first place: it proposes an actor who has no computational or informational bounds and sees the world only in terms of a single real-valued variable called "utility", which is generally constrained only to be any monotonic, continuous function of their monetary net worth. This actor then optimizes expected utility with no regards to modeling causal structure or to which observables are actually ergodic.

No such creature ever has, or in fact ever can, exist in the real world. In limited domains where ergodicity holds, computational needs are few, and small sample sizes can yield very good inferences, we can do thought experiments about what such a creature would do, and act according to those if we please. But holding that such behavior is the normatively correct way to act when it's actually impossible is the kind of religious thinking one gets when composing "normative theories" without experimental basis.
This is how business is conducted in mainland China. Want to publish your blog - apply for a state license first.
The code is only useful on the specific iPhone in question if it is in fact signed, and Apple does not have the technical capability to sign an update for a specific phone but not others; they all trust the same keys. And Apple would deliver it to the FBI with a signature, so there's a high risk that the signature wouldn't be redacted before being available to the public.
A research workflow with Zotero and Org mode
The life expectancy of anything
Fortunately for the China, it did not happened.
Thank you. Wanted to double check before wasting any time. :)
Maybe was the most popular chip for a while until the 90s, but these days they are not in very many things that sell in high quantities unless it is like a really cheap toy or something.. smartphones for example don't have 555 timers in them. Battery charger IC's probably are the biggest total seller.. but many companies sell similar types under different names, so not sure if you could call them all "one chip" like you can call the 555 timer and all of its clones..
As a maintainer of a >130kloc Haskell codebase spanning thousands of modules and hundreds of packages, I avoid TH primarily for one reason: slow builds. Painfully slow.

For cases where GHC.Generics is an option, I always take GHC.Generics over TH. Yes, Generics can be slow at times too but this somewhat controllable with various GHC_OPTIONS. Either way, there is no loader and interpreter overhead... and a lot of Generics code compiles in less time than it takes TH just to load `text` or `aeson` ;-).

Other reasons:

* Some TH libraries add implicit dependencies that are not tracked by the build system
* GHCi/TH's loader is different than the OS loader, sometimes causing failures if a TH dependency touches C++ libraries
* No cross compiling ability... not an issue for me but it's painful for those targeting Javascript (via ghcjs), ARM or smaller x86 embedded systems
Several commenters here protest that the information might not be readable by any devices 50 years from now. But the application of the tech isn't a new media player. It's preserving the literature of our civilization across potential dark ages. If future civilizations discover these media, they'll easily discern that they contain encoded information, and crack the code. Imagine we were able to recover indestructible, encoded books from the library of Alexandria. Cryptographers would soon discover the code.

The intent isn't to illuminate the dark ages when it might be impossible to decode the texts. The intent is to preserve for a time beyond the dark ages, when knowledge and culture return.
Ideally, yes.

However , I don't think you can code something to solve the trolley problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
"ludicrously hyperbolic" - talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
> How can a developer be that stupid? [...] This code makes me want to puke.

This comment breaks the HN guidelines so badly that we could put it on a poster of how never to behave here. It doesn't matter how right you are if you express it this abusively.

Since you've done this more than once before, I've banned your account. If you don't want it to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that your comments will be civil in the future.

All: In addition to
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Where did all the HTTP referrers go? (2013)
I agree with you. But it should also be remembered that one reason the sanitariums were closed down was because of big abuse scandals.
Yes, viruses in Wine actually happened.

That is the reason I'm still dependent on VMs. I don't want to compromise my main OS.

For further information: http://askubuntu.com/questions/562388/do-wine-viruses-only-w...
If you are referring to the software Apple is building to circumvent their kill switch, I don't believe Apple is required to give the FBI access to the software.
Completely right.

Sad HN down votes truth.
Mine, too. He gifted me the book, along with one called something along the lines of "learning how to write for left handed people". I browsed both books, gleaned that if I followed the practices I could improve my handwriting, but didn't care enough to actually do it.

My practical experience demonstrates that as long as I can read my chicken scratching, that's plenty. For stuff I want others to read, typical engineer block print is perfectly ok.
I've worked with the FBI and the Secret Service investigating computer crime.

The Secret Service is extremely competent when it comes to computer forensics, and when they don't know what to do, they don't guess, the consult with experts.

The FBI is the opposite in every way, mostly because of budget constraints and the subsequent lack of training. I hope that this is a good learning opportunity for them and a chance for them to increase their training budget in this area.
Wired reports: "...the company’s engineers had first suggested to the government that it take the phone to the suspect’s apartment to connect it to the Wi-FI there. But since reporters and members of the public had swarmed that crime scene shortly after the shootings occurred, it was likely that any Wi-Fi there had been disconnected" [1]

[1] http://www.wired.com/2016/02/apple-says-the-government-bungl...
Show HN: Heade.rs – Returns the HTTP headers, the body data, and the IP address
I do consulting - and I spent some time with the Sears data science team. Don't get your hopes up. A broken culture is hard to change. They seemed pretty "downtrodden". (I should add that they were all good people. I would work with any of them again.)
But even if it was incompetence, the February 19th Motion to Compel they stated that the owner of the phone tried to reset the password. Which seems a bit disingenuous if the FBI told them to do it.

PDF of the motion to compel (Page 18, footnote 7): http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Apple-iPhone...
Wonder if folks realize this is the work phone not the personal one. The personal phone was destroyed by the terrorists. I doubt there's anything of value on the work phone.

But then again obviously FBIs long term goal is to break in all the phones regardless of the circumstances.
But the version signed could check the id of the phone and shut down if not a hard coded id.

Yes, it could be installed on any phone, but it would be useless on any other phone. And in order to modify it to work on other phones (even with source code) you'd need Apple's keys.
What got me was the PhD requirement. I've worked for some big names in a range of industries and to think that they only had "PhD preferred" while Sears is requiring for a large team (~15 people) strikes me as a bit odd (and indicative that they don't know wtf they are doing in this space either).

Full disclosure: I'm a PhD dropout. Hasn't hurt my salary; probably has helped since I got 3+ years work experience by dropping after quals.
A 555 timer chip can deliver 200mA at the output, so it can drive small lamps and relays directly. The output load usually dwarfs the current used for timing. So, for most applications, a lower power version is pointless.
Some contextual notes on how this compares to today:

* American citizens have been denied access to anything except specially chartered train cars since 2013.

* Train service runs daily between Pyongyang and the Chinese border at Dandong. It takes much of a day to travel to the borer.

* Train service from Rason up through Tumangang runs twice each month, and a car from that train will hook up with the next trans-Siberian train outside of Vladivostok and continue to Moscow.

* It shouldn't be expected that the same train runs from Pyongyang to rason as onwards to Russia. The state of the tracks between rason and Pyongyang have apparently deteriorated (largely in terms of intermittent power) such that it can take several days to make the trip down the east coast.

* Russians in the Pyongyang embassy regularly book train passage between the city and the Russian border.

* Standard visas issued by DPRK continue to list tumangang as a valid port of entry.
In privacy fight with govt, Tim Cook plays game with global implications
Dell Asks Customers to Report “Service Tag” Scams
Where is your company based and what other positions if any will you consider hiring for?
I know a few people there and no, my hopes are nonexistent. I'm honestly amazed they still exist.
Did they email you that your order was in, or did you just go on the basis of an estimated arrival date? It sounds as though checking for an online order is not one of Walmart's core strengths. I would imagine there's a system that they use: order arrives, gets processed in the inventory system, gets placed in a particular spot at customer service order pick-ups, customer is notified. If you came in before that process is complete you probably caught them unawares. It does sound needlessly awkward, though.
Cameron started treating it as a game. I just want to play in such a way to make it best for europe. I am sick of British blackmail. Pax Britanica is over. It is a small regional player. And I want it seen treated as. such. And if minority protections are so important said minorities should have done more for preventing him to come to power.
if you are interested in software freedom and think Ubuntu has a problem, then please explain how this redhat export control policy fits into your world:
http://www.redhat.com/licenses/exportcontrol.html
I'm pretty worried about this. I don't think most of the public are well enough informed to make this decision and I can't really blame them given all the propaganda. I could see many people making their decision based on immigration alone. One place that's going to be particularly hard hit by an exit will be Northern Ireland considering it shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland. In order to keep the current abilities to travel across the border with zero restrictions (the border is essentially invisible currently) I'm sure a lot of new laws will need to be worked out. I could also see a lot of businesses simply shifting offices 50 miles across the border to keep business within the EU.
If you analyze malware for a living, then the assembly is the source code. :)

It's really not that much of an issue. It makes things more fun.

I am curious about whether they developed the malware in-house or if they hired a contractor. Is there any information out there on this? I wouldn't be surprised if they cut out parts, which may hint at a particular contractor having developed the malware.

Also, I still do not understand why TOR Browser Bundle allows scripts by default.
I've never visited any such countries, but the argument could be made that every tiny bit of foreign exposure the residents get helps to counteract the local propaganda, even in tightly controlled settings like Pyongyang.
Nice article comparing the best bluetooth speakers of various levels
This begs the question of how legacy something would have to be for them to initially setup the project in such a shitshow fashion in the first place. Too cheap to buy VS licenses, back when the community edition/express editions weren't a thing?

Or maybe that I have so much Stockholm Syndrome from living inside Visual Studio world for too long.
True, but only where you and WotC reside! Libraries are funded through local property tax (at least in the US).
Probably a coincidence, but 0x555 == 0b010101010101. Just like the flip flop output signal.