skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made no mention of low dimensionality. It's clearly a very high dimensional estimation problem with time constraints on measurement. There are some correlations, so you can pick the principal components that you think are most important, and measure some dimensions that are (you cross your fingers and hope) correlated with those principal components.

But, it's largely guestimates anyway. It's hard to come up with good metrics of employee performance that correlate well to company performance and even harder to come up with interview questions that have good predictive power for those metrics.

Ideally, they'd relax the hiring criteria and all employees would start as 1-year or 2-year contractors. On-job performance is the best indicator of on-job performance.
I think their argument is fourfold: one, it provides precedent (which isn't a reason in itself, really) and two is that they fear this could be reverse engineered by baddies in order to make the phones of others' less secure, three it proves to third parties it can be done and so either someone will take it upon themselves to do or someone [Big market] will require Apple to do the same --which I think will happen regardless and four it's a good business tactic [strategically, it's tough to know what a big emerging market might demand from Apple]
I've been explaining this case to others and I've come up with a good way to make them understand.

"Instead of the FBI making this request, how would you feel if the Government of China were asking? or Russia, or Syria? Do you want them to have the ability to read your encrypted data off your iPhone?"
Precedent is an actual legal term of art, where a case decision can lead to binding (in the hard sense) judgements in proceeding cases.
I was dangerously low on gas and in gridlocked traffic. Rather than risk dying in traffic, I pulled over into a parking lot a couple of blocks away from the gas station, walked over, bought a plastic gas can, filled it, and walked back.

I spent 15 unsuccessful minutes trying to get any of the gas into the tank before giving up and driving anxiously to the gas station. I seriously thought I was struggling to be a functional human being.

I'd buy a heavy duty water spout.
Right now I'm stuck at the part that asks for the first 5 digits of the square root of 2 but rejects 14142, 41421, 1.4142, and 1.41421. I'm just brute-forcing it to find the number they THOUGHT they were asking for.
I put jokes in my resume. You have to have a bit of restraint, but it can be fun and effective. An oatmeal cookie wouldn't be very good if the whole thing was raisins.
Besides the chain of custody issues with the evidence if it leaves the Government's hands, Apple would almost certainly refuse to do this just the same.
You know, your combination of (1) and (2) has been the status quo throughout American history. Companies are free to build the safest safe they can. But when the government has a warrant, they are obligated to provide reasonable assistance in opening it. I'm anxious about a move away from that status quo in either direction (either mandated backdoors or companies refusing to do what they can when presented with a warrant).
> But if we aborted every deviation from the norm, we'd probably slip into monoculture as a species, and risk falling prey to a mass extinction event, beyond our understanding.

But he wasn't talking about that. A lot (most?) people with serious disorders will not have children, and from an evolutionary perspective that's practically the same as if they died young. There's already selection against those traits.
Based on what the Gluster dev is saying and my readings, it seems like it would work great for photo or other large-ish data storage.
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Thanks for the feedback. I've had a sneaky suspicion that people weren't really getting a full idea of what the product does. I've been meaning to add more visual cues like dots on top of the image to indicate that there are multiple pictures/feature highlights.
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The phone was the property of San Bernardino County.

The county has longstanding email and Internet use policies that state, “NO USER SHOULD HAVE AN EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY”
- http://ktla.com/2016/02/18/why-didnt-san-bernardino-county-o...
> when it’s midnight and your x-axis formatting function doesn’t convert UNIX times into JavaScript date objects properly because there’s no timezone information and I dunno JavaScript was written by some guy in two weeks (yeah I ain’t afraid to call it out what of it) and your binary-search based conversion of sparse timeseries data into uniformly dense timeseries data is causing so many data points to be graphed that it’s slowly crashing Chrome and you’re watching helplessly as your RAM goes up and Chrome won’t close the tab and it just doesn’t seem right that 2016, the year of the Linux Desktop has brought us this situation I mean I thought if you had enough <something>.js libraries this stuff was meant to just scale right up so tha-

So, did you forget everything you learned about memory management? Or do you think Javascript really doesn't have sound memory management principles? Hell, it's not like you need to retain references to rendered points. Just dequeue them. Browser graphing libraries render to canvas which is just pixels.
But that's loaded with arsenic [0].

[0]: http://www.medicaldaily.com/trader-joes-2-buck-chuck-and-oth...
In terms of hours spent in an application, only Chrome and Tweetbot exceed how many hours each year I live inside iTerm2+tmux. In terms of what contributes to my ability to get my job done - and just sheer joy at using software that is rock solid, and integrates well with the tools that I use - there is nothing even close to iTerm2 - it's the single reason why I couldn't even consider using an operating system other than OS X.

I'm embarrassed to admit it's been about 5+ years since I last made a donation, which I'm fixing right now.

Thanks so much for iTerm2 - it's made my life better.
Foo is less bad because bar and baz are so much worse is a terrible line of reasoning
You know what I'd prefer? An explanation of why exactly these things don't work. Not a page long rant that vaguely covers some problems and then goes on a tangent to the effect of "government makes me sad".

Now, I've never had to deal with the new gas cans- I still have some old ones from the 90s. And, full disclosure, I just read over this now, but the overall theory behind the can seems like a pretty good idea- unlock the spout thing, and press the spout down and gas comes out. Take pressure off, and the spout closes, thus preventing spillage.

I will concede that there's a more than unnecessary amount of child-safety things and locks. Not only would they not stop a very determined child they're just kinda silly. Additionally, the lack of vent seems like a design flaw- and a simple one way valve would solve the problem. Or you could use a mechanism like an olive oil bottle.
http://previewcf.turbosquid.com/Preview/2014/07/07__18_44_07...

All this is to say that I really hate posts where someone talks about a problem vaguely, and then rants about the government without proposing a solution that isn't "go back to the way things are." Is it a solution looking for a problem? Yeah, probably. Did a bunch of unnecessary stuff get tacked on? Seems so. But it doesn't mean there isn't a problem to be solved.
Doesn't the fact that Apple is capable of unlocking the phone mean that a backdoor already exists ? Then it's just a question of a lone wolf telling the FBI how to do it, maybe along with using some secret keys that could be stolen if Apple is hacked like Sony was. I would like a phone that is unhackable even by its creator. Anything else is just a question of time to get broken into.
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You just solved a major mystery of my youth. Thank you!! :)
The shoe is on the other foot now. The FBI compels Apple through the courts to help them bypass security measures in the iOS operating system and now a judge is compelling the FBI to reveal how it exploited Tor, which they'll conveniently just ignore.
There're decent Spanish and French reds at Trader Joe in that range. I haven't had a bad Rioja one yet.
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There is no reason why a China, Russia or India cannot not make this request from Apple in order to allow them to legally sell their product in those markets. And as sovereign nations they have a right to demand such, provided that's their law and in turn violates no international law they've subscribed to.

Countries in the ME and India[1] demanded such from RIM/BBM.

[1]http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/11/blackberry-in...
And my answer would be: but it's not the government of China, or Russia, or Syria? It's our elected government of the United States asking for help with the investigation of terrorists.
I'm very familiar with the good Mr. Shaw at this point; looking for something "fancier". Great rec though, it has unparalleled value.
> Mandated backdoors must be a red line, but this is not a request for a backdoor and actually seems pretty reasonable.

This request is not so much a red line, it's more of a yellowy orange line. A yellowy orange line that takes us one step closer to crossing the red line without even realising we are doing so. See: http://imgur.com/xWpvw

There is a real danger in accidentally building the infrastructure for a future totalitarian regime.

Full credit to Apple for actually seeing this and being willing to make a stand.
Irrelevant. He has no 5th Amendment standing vis à vis the deceased shooter's work phone.
Spotted some mistakes even in that article:

In acpi_package.c 83 they write that the fixed version is "bzero(dst, sizeof(*dst));", but dst is a void pointer. That won't work either.

And the "This is a nonsensical comparison: pointer >= 0. geom_vinum_plex.c 173" explanation looks suspicious. Even if sdno is not accessed later, it was just calculated - having an assert on it may be a very good idea. The issue is that the pointer is being checked, not the calculated value.

It's also cool to see that clang already warns about a lot of those situations. Especially most of the logic / signedness issues are caught and reported.
One thing people forget is that in historical societies, the number of men would be less than women. This is due to war, other violence against men, etc. This left surplus women who were more inclined to the alpha males/royalty and fewer men without partners.
This style of writing is so entertaining; it's like a funnier stream of conscious of what goes on in my head when hacking things like this together. If OP is the author, please write more.
If any of those governments were attempting to track down accomplices to a known mass murderer and terrorist??? At least a little part of me would support it.
I'll save up and give it a try, thank you!
What Is Your Definition of Adventure?
Fun fact: until 1960s, North Korea had a higher GDP per capita than South Korea. Somehow I can't find any definite source on the web, but here's one phrase I found:

https://books.google.com/books?id=D1dOCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA191&dq=d...

> By the beginning of the 1960s, North Korea's economic development was much more impressive than was South Korea's and would remain so until at least the mid-1970s. (...) As these data make abundantly clear, without foreign aid, the DPRK could not have achieved its ambitious post-war reconstruction.

Another fun fact: even with all the help from the US (for which I'm grateful), South Korea went though an unbelievable amount of death and suffering all the same, and our first president was a first-class mass murderer who would have been quite at home in the company of his Northern counterparts. So, yeah, somehow we ended up all right (after decades of tyrants and struggles), but the history is a lot more complicated than good guys saving half of the population from bad guys.
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Civ 5 is definitely the weakest game in the series. I think Civ 4/Beyond the Sword was the highest point the series has yet reached.
Baba Yetu, the theme song of Civ 4, was the first video game-related song to win a Grammy. Rightfully so too, in my opinion.
> The FBI's stated position, "These people did a terrible thing and we have to investigate it" is pure PR

How is this not a fact?
> Congress has so far given the tech industry the benefit of the doubt

I think it's more they listen to the NSA rather than the FBI, as opposed to giving the tech industry any sort of benefit of the doubt.

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/21/nsa-chief-stakes-out-pro...
That is highly misleading UI.

You can have a magic algorithm, that's fine. You can have it rank submissions behind-the-scenes, that's fine. But you can't copy Reddit's UI/UX and claim it doesn't behave the same.

(Also, PageRank is based on relationship networks, which makes no sense for a link aggregation where each link functions independently from each other. Saying an algorithm is sophisticated requires substantial proof which you do not provide.)
Storage is big, but disk bandwidth and network bandwidth are still limiting factors for many applications.
That's not how genetics works in a sexually reproducing species. Most selection is via modifying allele frequencies.
"One thing I hope can be clarified: Is the FBI asking Apple to patch iOS on this one device, one time only (in a way that can not be reused)"

This must be weasel-word day. The FBI is asking for patch, hypothetically just for this phone. But only in this post have I seen anyone imagine "a way that can not be reused" since the point raised stated by the parent article is that such a patch could inherently be reused.
> That's completely ridiculous.

What is completely ridiculous is claiming things without any proof

> it's still generally accepted that Google makes a significant amount of its mobile revenue off of iOS

This is not your claim

> Doubly-so since it doesn't even matter what the numbers are,

Oh, no, it matter when you have made a very specific claim that can't be supporte
It's also worth pointing out that apparently in some later editions of the game they have reimplemented this bug as a joke. (Not a very good joke, IMO.)
Why, it's almost as if government bureaucracies were low-accountability compared to businesses that compete for consumer dollars.
I'd suggest a read through some of their forum threads.

I legitimately can't tell if it's damage control, or delusion.

[0]https://forums.comodo.com/news-announcements-feedback-cd/com...
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Agreed, Go's strong standard library also helps avoid dependencies.
It all depends on how you define a backdoor. The 5c doesn't have the secure enclave†, so all of it's encryption routines are done in the CPU, as software/firmware.

That software doesn't contain a backdoor, but the fact that a new software load could be created and installed could be viewed as the backdoor itself. But if that software doesn't currently exist, is the mere potential of it a backdoor? Somewhat of a philosophical question.

If Apple prevails and doesn't write the software the FBI is demanding, then the backdoor is not there.

The later iPhones with the Secure Enclave may truly be unbreakable if they protect their secrets with hardware in the chip.

But my understanding of it is that Apple is NOT capable of unlocking the phone right now. The FBI is demanding that they develop that capability. So I guess they're capable of being capable...

† At the risk of being an armchair SE expert...
Once you're on to training and not using off-the-shelf models, there are several good open source packages out there, from digits to deepdetect. It is not that difficult anymore to get at least a first model with decent accuracy.
Buzzword bingo is somewhat helpful but it doesn't increase mastery without some additional work

As one example, not all ECC is created equal: Chipkill|not, at rest&|inflight, data&|control lines, end-to-end&|link only, which component(s) are convered, correct how many error(s) < detect how many flip(s), probability of undetectable corruption, cost to implement, and so on
There's nothing to investigate. Everyone except the conspiracy theorists have stipulated that these two committed the attack, and they're dead so prosecution is moot.

Referring again to my point up-thread about the shooters' op-sec, there wouldn't be any useful intel on their (once again!) work phone, anyway. "Investigation" is a red-herring to disguise their actual motive.
If you're in the US I highly recommend checking to see if you have a local owner run wine retailer. One that preferably hosts wine tasting nights. I used to sell wine b2b and was amazed at the level of care most of them have for their trade.

Find one that knows his range and visit/talk to him regularly and he should be able to point you in the right direction. I've always found the language used to describe wine outside of expert to expert to be too imprecise, and rely on comparison too much, to be useful. A retailer however will be able to pick up from you trying X and not liking it and trying Y and liking it, that Z is a good next purchase to try.
They offer the exact level of security any other SSL certificate provider offers.
Apple was probably able to unlock devices previously (prior to iOS 8) because of a lack of encryption on the user partition.
Personally, I prefer V's combat mechanics over IV's, and V sure looks prettier.
When it comes to freedom and privacy, Linux is a luxury brand. This can be a blessing(if you want that userbase), and a curse (if you don't want to live up to the expectations).
Their tens of billions in revenue suggest SOMEONE must be paying for them.
I had been using Cinch. This seems pretty similar
I wonder why the OP chose to say "snapchat users". It's not mentioned in the article, and it seems from the pictures that there were dozens of people - I can't imagine they were all Snapchatting. Weird.
Snappy and DragonDrop
I think in this case they are saying it would only target this one IMEI, not that the method cannot be recycled. Apple's argument is that this could "leak out" and allow mischief.
Oh, no, I haven't really browsed SomethingAwful before, I just um I dunno make a lot of parody websites
Lets get rid of the notion that Facebook doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.
Nice TextFace™
But a chocolate chip cookie would be decent if the entire thing is chocolate.
I'm not considering it a fact. I consider it a fact that the FBI would not physically be able to use this tactic without an explicit court order.

You don't have to trust the FBI at all.
The D IDE Coedit is written using Lazarus:

https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit

It reuses the Lazarus code editor and other things I am sure. I'm not entirely familiar with language constructs of D, specifically reflection (RTTI in Lazarus) and properties/events which are the magical glue that makes Lazarus work the way it does.
Strategy games in general seem to have hit a slump for some reason.
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Child onset is likely due to a variant of large effect. Adult is not. The glass is half empty, half full. Some schizophrenia is probably screenable most is not.
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That's a very weak argument. Individuals and companies testify in court all the time. They could lie and plant evidence, but in most cases I'd still trust them more than the police who kind of has an incentive to find somebody guilty.
I'm torn with respect to Coursera. Some of the treatment of topics is light. "The carrot and the stick" are lacking.

That might be just my experience and may not extend to others. However, it should be clear that time is better spent in choosing a good learning source than wasting time trying to make up for it later.
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This appears to be an ARG promoting / recruiting for (probably recruiting for) Nona Creative: https://twitter.com/sasquatchsaskia/status/69774709349511578...
"shoulder surf protection"?
Is there any reading about how this is safe against side channel attacks? My go-to assumption is that any device in the physical possession of an attacker is only as safe as the attacker's motivation X is below the required amount of work Y to do a side channel. I wonder though why the FBI aren't just doing this - is it really not possible for them, or is this all just a bluff to make their targets feel safe using an iPhone?
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I was hoping it would be Pythonic, but it has a "directive" feature which appears to be an ad hoc extension of the python language.
> Part of Tim Cook's argument was once they release the patch into the wild, it could be reused in other cases

This is a common (and completely understandable) misunderstanding of the relevant paragraph:

"Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation. ...

The FBI may use different words to describe this tool, but make no mistake: Building a version of iOS that bypasses security in this way would undeniably create a backdoor. ...

The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone. But that’s simply not true. Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices. ..." [0]

Notice how the first sentence of the last paragraph talks about "this tool". "The tool" is the specific version of iOS that the FBI wants Apple to make that would only run on the phone that it wants to unlock.

Notice how the third sentence talks about "the technique". The change in terminology isn't accidental. "The technique" is "the act of demonstrating that Apple can create (and can be ordered to create) a backdoored version of iOS that bypasses tamper protection features of iOS".

The particular software that Apple would create can surely trivially be restricted to run on only a single iPhone. Unless there's a way to make iPhones run unsigned OS code without wiping the device, the only way that the image that Apple provides the FBI could be modified to run on a different iPhone is if someone got a hold of Apple's code signing keys. [1]

The problem to which Cook refers to is -therefore- not that there's a risk that someone might steal the image Apple provides to the FBI and use it to pwn more phones... it's that the government will do as it always does and keep coming back over and over and over again, demanding that Apple produce yet another image that unlocks yet another single phone of interest, regardless of whether or not they expect that the data on that phone will be particularly crucial to their case.

I expect that this would be disastrous for Apple's reputation. It certainly would not be good for society as a whole.

On the one hand, I can see how denying the government's request would be good for the industry and society. On the other hand, if the courts ultimately asserted that the FBI's request is legal and proper, it might spur Apple (and other similar companies) to ensure that the parts of their devices that handle device encryption and unlocking were not upgradable by any means... making generation of software to bypass features of those parts next to impossible.

OTOH, such an assertion would leave software-only privacy software (like Signal, GPG, WhatsApp, et. al.) in a really bad spot.

[0] http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

[1] If someone gets Apple's code signing keys, many people are going to have many bad days.
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The emergencies-at-all-times doctrine of political manipulation.

Equivalent to designing your entire life and all choices around the notion that your house is going to be on fire and burning down every day.