skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scary parts, for me, are when he talks about things like Mexico "sending their rapists here," climate change being "invented by the Chinese to hurt US manufacturing," wanting to bring back torture and do "a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding," feeds the birther movement by claiming that Obama isn't a US citizen, responds to religious extremism by saying "you have to take out their families" and defends the tactic of "murdering women and children."

I don't know how else to respond except to say that I strongly disagree, and think many other people would find the idea of him leading three unified branches of government scary as well.
The solution to silly regulations is to change them, not to ignore them or subvert them. Think what a can of worms would be opened if regulatory compliance was contingent on some ephemeral, arbitrary, socially defined notion of "silliness."
I think most people just read /new -- at least that's what I do. And afaict, the only thing that shapes /new is time always appearing to move in the same direction.

I comment on things I'm interested in. But not always. Often, whatever I would have said had already been said by the time I got there.

I don't usually vote because I don't care about votes. Frankly, I don't see the point.
> Not even sure where to begin with this retarded comment

Creating a throwaway account so you can break HN's rules with impunity in a politically inflammatory thread is not ok.

Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all, regardless of how strongly you feel about an issue.
Goodness, what a resource hog of a site.
Also one that exposes graphics card mechanics so that higher-level tools can use them more intelligently for optimization purposes.

A good analogy is the RISC transition - implementations were made easier and faster, but as a tradeoff assembly was made much more difficult to program in. The idea being that only a small group of tool-makers with specialized knowledge of the underlying mechanics (in that case compiler developers, in this case engine developers) would ever have to deal with them.
Including the 'accounts' app is actually pretty useful. Then even a newcomer to react and redux can see how the front and back end are hooked up.

I'd encourage anyone to look at these files:

Auth action (which depends on the accounts app and DRF): https://github.com/Seedstars/django-react-redux-jwt-base/blo...

Auth Reducer (which changes redux state based on the outcome of login/logout actions): https://github.com/Seedstars/django-react-redux-jwt-base/blo...
And Advanced R is also available for free at http://adv-r.had.co.nz/
Why can't they just pull the flash memory and work on it directly?
No, that is not the consensus. R is (at its heart) a beautiful language that is extremely well suited to its domain. Most people who use R are not professional programmers (or even identify as programmers) so it's not surprising that there's a lot of bad code written in R.
Which is why I use a Mac, w/OS X. Compared to everything else I've ever tried, it's the only one that I've never had to worry about battery life, literally hours and hours of coding. Also, with two small kids I need to close it and open it all the time, it's practically instant on, and I can pick right back up where I left off, and that's without ever plugging it in.

I also switched back to Safari from Chrome b/c I found Chrome to be a horrendous battery drain.

As much crap as Apple's gotten recently for their software, the attention to battery life is a huge blessing. My MBP is easily worth $ for the time and convenience.
Can you break the Secure Enclave physically and read out the key embedded?
SciHub – Pirated Research Papers
Yeah I was wondering if overall funding has dropped that much.
Robert Graham (Errata Security)'s notes on this: http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/02/some-notes-on-apple-decryp...
It seems that the key part of your source is:

>In order to circumvent the terms of the GPL, NeXT had originally intended to ship the Objective-C frontend separately, allowing the user to link it with GCC to produce the compiler executable. After being initially accepted by Richard M. Stallman, this plan was rejected after Stallman consulted with GNU's lawyers and NeXT agreed to make Objective-C part of GCC.[7]

Given that both NeXT and Stallman changed their minds on this issue, I'm not sure that you can argue that Objective-C would not have eventually been open sourced. Especially given Clang.

I'm not sure why you perceive that I think that GPL is not Open Source. Quite the contrary. I'm basically arguing that "Free" software misses the point of open source software. Which is in counter to these very well known opinions:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.en.h...

And primarily I object to Stallman's hijacking of the term "free" where the only thing I see is control.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11111846 and marked it off-topic.
It sounds like since the UID is fused it cannot be erased; it's probably the GID that's erased, and it sounds like the GID is known to Apple.
Your first part doesn't really follow, in that if those methods were independently discovered or otherwise leaked, they wouldn't be illegal. Individuals don't have nuclear weapons due to more than not knowing how to build them.

I'm not opposed to your idea. I just don't see it having long-lasting effects given how laws get perverted. Rather than things being simply not illegal, draconian regulatory regimes are created around them - eg Colorado's recent pot "incorporation".

A "rammed" backdoor seems unlikely to me, if only because it would be an immediate rallying point for the entire tech community, businesses included. A creeping regulatory regime that slowly boils the frog is more worrisome.
> As an Australian a work visa is significantly easier for
> you than lets say a British citizen.

Why so? (British, and not planning on it, just surprised.)
> There is an authentic need to get at the data on that phone

What is the authentic need? The shooters are dead. Do we have reason to believe that there is evidence of any pending crimes or any old unsolved crimes on the phone?
Might not be my actual longest (and certainly isn't anywhere near the stories that I'm sure others here have to tell), but my favorite debugging problem was one I worked on a couple years ago. I had a Python service that was doing a bunch of number crunching, so I used Cython to speed up the math-intensive portions of the code. Added type definitions, referenced several C math functions from math.h, and it was working great on Windows. Set it up using the side-by-side file approach, which lets you leave your original Python files alone, and add all the type info in a ".pxd" file that has to match the exact name of the original ".py" file. So, if I had "FileA.py", I'd also have "FileA.pxd".

Unfortunately, when I went to run this on Linux, it compiled fine, but started throwing some weird exceptions buried deep down in the code. I hadn't actually written the math portion of this myself, but traced it pretty far down. Finally concluded it wasn't finding "cos" somehow, which didn't make any sense, because I was explicitly importing the C function from math.h if using Cython, and importing the normal Python function from the "math" module otherwise.

Took me about 6 hours of tracing, investigating, and steadily growing confusion before I finally figured out what was going on: there was a single letter casing mismatch between a .py file and its corresponding .pxd file. One had a capital 'O', the other had a lower-case 'o'. Worked fine on case-insensitive Windows, but under case-sensitive Linux, it never actually found the proper .pxd file, didn't get the right imports, and thus stuff eventually exploded.

Definitely a pretty high hours-of-work to number-of-characters-changed ratio :)
There's nothing there for any phones to connect to...
Why not Asus? (Never got one, have a MacBook.)
Why the worry about auto-wiping? Is it not possible to make a copy of the encrypted data and then play around with it as much as you want?
Wanted to try this out. Had avocado at home. Paired with Almond. Picked the top recipe. Loved it!
Honestly I swear by my Surface Pro 3. Maybe learn to hack some device drivers and get Ubuntu running (better) on a device like this. Some people already have it working:

http://www.geek.com/microsoft/linux-users-rejoice-heres-ubun...

In my opinion it's the most well-rounded device out there.
That's actually a good idea if you don't need too much extra horsepower. You get a good keyboard, an acceptable display, and a lightweight machine for a don't-care-if-you-drop-it price.
I'm finding $300 Acer laptop (or netbook, one of their Inspire line) loaded with Linux surprisingly usable. (It was preloaded with Linpus, but I've replaced with my own.) At 1.10 GHz Dual-Core, 4GB RAM, it's a bit slow at times, but as long as I'm not running intensive process on it, it's very usable on the go machine. (Mainly, TeX, translations, web stuff, browsing, and occasional spreadsheet, is what I do on the machine.) I do have a desktop machine for things that requires more power.
I'd say there's a better way if you're on a budget:

http://outlet.lenovo.com/outlet_us/

http://dell.com/outlet/

http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals

etc.
The Power of Buying Less by Buying Better
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11109294 and marked it off-topic.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11111884 and marked it off-topic.
Sure, of course that's a legitimate concern: they may have talked to other people planning attacks.
> Anyone who thinks the young have it nearly as good as baby boomers hasn't done the maths.

Damn, you guys have a lack of empathy. Life isn't absolutely perfect for you, so whine whine whine.

Medicare?

Gay rights?

Indigenous rights?

Advances in medicine?

Equal rights for gender? Same wage regardless of gender? Women even being able to work at what they want?

End of the WAP and far greater multiculturalism?

Strong public attitude shifts against domestic violence?

Global travel? Cheap travel?

Legal abortions?

Working in airconditioned offices instead of brick factories being the norm?

Cheaper food and clothing? Much cheaper technical doodads. Colour television as standard?

Vastly greater entertainment offerings, and cheaper too? Entertainment on demand?

Food revolution? Coffee revolution? Bars closing later than 6pm?

No conscription?

Safer vehicles?

The bloody internet?

But no, you guys can only see the one issue right now about house pricing. ONE problem, and bam! it's 'worse than the boomers ever had it'. Whine whine whine; it's the only thing the young have to say about the difference between the generations. Show some empathy, and have a go at understanding how it was for the people before you. Then you'll better understand how things got to be that way today - and you'll start to see a lot of the things that you take for granted today are considered luxuries by the boomers, and you'll start to understand why they say "work harder". Whether or not they're right is a different thing, but jeez, the whining.

Instead of just focusing on this one issue and assuming they had it better than you, tell them to shut up and show them that you are already working hard - show them the hours or the effort. But most importantly, try and understand where they're coming from, why they say what they do. Show some damn empathy instead of just complaining that you didn't get dealt a perfect hand.
I can't figure out whether this is malicious intent or just incompetency. Regardless, we really need consumer protections for software flaws.
mortgage interest

And once you've paid off your mortgage, there's still investment opportunity cost. I agree that owning may be the smart thing to do on balance (though things like stamp duty add too much friction for me), but it isn't a slam dunk.
If you do this on purpose after asked to unlock your phone you will probably be charged with destruction of evidence or something like that.

However, while a court is (afaik) able to ask you to put your finger on the fingerprint reader, you do not need to tell them which of the fingers the correct one is. So instead of purposely using a wrong finger, I'd ask the court to explicitly tell me which of my fingers I should use to unlock the phone.
Some of the compliance training I've had to take didn't have an exam. But the software tracked how quickly you went through the training. If you went through too quickly, you didn't get credit.
>Maybe I'm missing something, but the flexibility of renting seems a lot bigger advantage than the small advantages of owning a house.

This varies a lot.

I don't actually care to own a house too much but we are going to buy one soon because the rental market in my area has gone in-fucking-sane in the last few years so its ao much cheaper to own in my neighborhood, I'm basically lighting dollar bills on fire every month with how inflated rents are.

Oh, and landlords are so stupid. We are model tenants, both very high income... but we have a cat so we are ineligible to rent 90% of properties, no exceptions.

That is because it is a landlord's market right now.

I don't think governments have any business promoting home ownership though and society shouldn't make you feel like you didn't "make it" until you are strapped with a mortgage you can't afford.
What do you think of the Novena?
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena

If you want to make a good laptop, there are people doing that, in an open hardware and open source way.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11108656 and marked it off-topic.
I think, and I'm pretty sure most of R core would agree, that building and maintaining their own runtime _was_ the right thing to do. Otherwise R would have been at mercy of maintainers who were interested in problems other than creating an expressive language for data analysis.
"in USA". Luckily such madness tend to stop at the EU borders.
Longest so far has been two weeks spend single stepping assembly code and viewing memory output. Turns out in the latest OS release memory was not initialized to 0 which caused junk to get copied allowing the program to execute with out crashing but not give the expected results.
I'm very happy with my Asus UX305F. I have Linux installed, everything except brightness keys works perfectly. Great build quality, mate screen, battery lasts very long. And it was cheaper than most of what people mention here. For CPU intense task, I just use my desktop.
will energy harvesting ever go mainstream (ie move out of the microwatt and nanoamp realm), or is it forever relegated to fringe applications?
The countermeasure is for the authorities to push your finger of their choice by force.

Thumb and index finger should cover 98% of people.
> It doesn't mean all startup ideas for wealthy, time-poor consumers will cross the chasm, but it seems to be a lot more feasible to go from wealthy consumers to poor ones than the reverse.

See also:

Tesla Roadster -> Model S -> Model X -> Model 3
What would be the best way to include some form of web sockets server/realtime pub-sub into this á la Socket.io? What's the best way to do this in Django? I feel this is an important component of any new modern web project, but it seems to be ignored here.
Chennai based startup is on a mission to create Pied Piper
You might enjoy purrr, https://github.com/hadley/purrr, which is my attempt to make FP tools in R more consistent.
Yeah I've got the same question. Is there some hardware safeguard that prevents copying the memory itself? You'd think the first rule of crypto forensics is to work on a copy.
"HP makes the elitebook, magnesium construction a la thinkpad."

I've been burned so badly by an HP laptop, that I'm unlikely to ever buy another HP product in any category. It is horrifically bad. Damned near everything is wrong with it. It also had some crapware, and the system restore partition didn't work...so I had a dead laptop for two weeks waiting for physical restore media to arrive (that I paid $10+shipping for). Specs were great, among the highest end available at the time. The quality, on the other hand, has been worse than any computer I've ever owned.

I guess is isn't all that constructive as comments go, but I feel ethically obligated to steer people away from considering HP laptops.
Is Samsung Series 9 still a thing? When I bought mine it was thinner than the MB Air at that point, similar rigid aluminum build quality.
The only downside is that the consumer never has a choice in the matter of arbitration at all. There's a take-it-or-leave-it EULA, which if you reject you cannot legally use the $300 item you bought. The consumer never has a chance to choose if they get arbitration or not. The consumer never has a choice of the arbitrator. The consumer does not have a choice of venue. The only choice the consumer has is to whether or not to file suit.

I've been dreaming about a ballot proposition which says that if a person agreed to a contract that enforced binding arbitration, and was never given an opportunity to amend the contract, then the consumer would be eligible to pick the arbitrator from the set of licensed arbitrators. The company still gets its cost savings from avoiding court, but is not in effect buying a whole firm of arbitrators. The consumer at least can get some attempt at a fair choice in a case of a complaint, which is more choice than they have now.
Chrome now disables extensions not from the Chrome Web Store by default
Can someone answer this? Raw read the memory to an external device and then brute force that shit using super computers until it cries.
> Enterprises don’t want to pay a different higher price, why would they.

They would. The people buying products on behalf of enterprises aren't spending their own money, they're spending their company's. They'd happily spend an extra 10-30% (or more) if it means better support, easier setup and all-around less stress or headache for them.
musl isn't without resolver bugs either. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/30/3
"Visiting moo shows us a curious image of a cow."

That image isn't so curious. Try 'apt-get moo' on any debian based box.
Just for added context citi & jp Morgan paid over 2 billion in penalties as well.
Move to Canberra. Get a 80K job and get a 2 bedroom townhouse with a 15 minute commute to work for 400K.
I'm surprised not to see a link to the Librem laptops: https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-13. They're an attempt to solve the problem being posited, AFAICT, though they ship with Linux, not Windows.

I gave $10 to their initial Kickstarter but have never used one.
Honestly, our production systems are 256GB RAM and 16 GB/Core.

So no, I don't think so.
How does PHP have dynamic scope? It's been ages since I touched it, but if I remember right...

Global is just a flat namespace. Functions have their own, separate flat namespace each. I tried the following in a REPL:

function two() {
echo $a;
}

function one() {
$a = 1;
two();
}

one();

as the standard dynamic scope example, and I get an "undefined variable" error. Did that use to be dynamic? (I wouldn't be surprised, though, especially given PHP's implementation history...)

There is an explicit "static" modifier that looks dynamic, but I couldn't get it to run that way. It seems to just retain state in recursive calls of the same function, or something?

[edit:] (And PHP doesn't predate Javascript, but regardless, "no first-class functions" isn't "no lexical scope".)
The data the DOJ wants is encrypted with AES, so all the phone has to wipe is the key; a copy of the encrypted data is useless.
IOPs
Is the Dev edition the same as the Skylake 9350?
1 question hack to usability testing
That quote from the article makes sense if the author is thinking about virtualization. He is imagining running 16 VMs on it.
You are right, in the announcement he does not imply that. In my previous post I have written "it seems that" where maybe it should have been "it seems to me that".

However please consider that:

1. he made the announcement just a few hours after the logo was presented to the public

2. according to numerous reports in the press, Kalanick closely managed the redesign.

For these reasons I believe that my claim is not completely unfounded.
I only recently got a touchID iPhone so I'm still having fun with it. But I did my right thumb, index, and middle finger, and left thumb and index.

If under police duress I keep trying to unlock a phone with my pinkie finger I think that would be suspicious.

If I have that much access to the device I should just force-reboot it by holding the lock and home buttons for about 2 seconds. Or maybe have done that before being arrested.

Upon a reboot the iPhone will always require its passcode.
Can you get IPS screens on those?
If you can come up with a non-malicious intent scenario why the images from the first camera would be mailed to some address I'll be most impressed.
That seems to be representative of the only actual ruling on this topic that I can find

>The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives people the right to avoid self-incrimination. That includes divulging secret passwords, Judge Steven C. Frucci ruled. But providing fingerprints and other biometric information is considered outside the protection of the Fifth Amendment, the judge said.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/31/judge-rules-suspect-c...
Why not by a Chromebook Pixel (2015)? Seriously.
On IOS this would only wipe user data and reset to factory settings, not wipe the entire filesystems.
It would be a very long and involved case, anyway.
> they may have talked to other people planning attacks.

I'm not particularly concerned with crimes that we believe "may have" occurred. Of course, they may have. Anything may have happened -- I'm asking for more than just correlation that criminals know criminals. Do we have any evidence, or even any hints or clues, that the phone contains evidence that would help solve or prevent any crimes?
I was introduced to latex by a German student in my telecoms lab. Armed with a handful of examples I wrote all my papers from then on in Tex. The thing that really struck me, I concentrated on the content not the formatting. Word etc require so much fiddling to get it looking right, it takes energy away from actually writing your paper!
I think the court would similarly consider that obstruction and contempt. If they tell you to unlock your phone and you try to play some "first you have to guess which finger's the right one!" game, the judge will slap you with either contempt of court or refusal to comply with a subpoena.
In the Strand, the section you're talking about is called "Literary Fiction." Since we're talking about sets:

literature ⊃ literary fiction

There's plenty of literature that is not fiction.
Yeah, I did. He did shout at Apple too, and people in his software teams (ie, non-iOS iPods) did work ridiculous hours 7 days a week for months before each iPod shipped. It was less of an issue because less things went wrong, though.

IMO this was because Apple knew how to make hardware, generally, and hence things didn't go far off the rails - he got a lot of support from Apple.

However, Tony didn't know the first thing about software and appeared to assume that it was something you threw new grads at because they'd hammer at it until it got through QA. Each year the teetering pile of crap grew higher and harder to ship...

Now he's master of all he surveys, he's worked out that actually consistently delivering complex projects (which have rather more complex software than an iPod) is damn hard. Shouting is his reflex reaction when this doesn't go well.
The HP consumer and enterprise lines are vastly different in terms of quality.

By the way, upon first boot of an HP laptop you will be prompted to burn recovery DVDs. $10 is actually pretty reasonable compared to what others would charge you.