skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There used to be a Canadian chain called Consumers Distributing that did that business model in Canada/US - I remember loving their catalogues as a kid. They closed in the '90s.

I think the business model works better in Europe where floor-space is at a premium. Here in North America, they just build gigantic warehouse-styled stores with wide aisles and spartan decor and let the customers pick up their own crap. Presto, Wal-Mart and Costco.
8KB of ROM, 128 bytes of RAM.

It doesn't even have a screen buffer, just a half a line buffer. You have to count scan lines and keep track of what's being drawn on a cycle by cycle basis, then update the line buffer live to get what you want on screen.
In a similar vein, the same producers also made Sneakers, which also holds up quite well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)
He was fired from the CIA and jailed for a leak. Now he’s trying to hang on
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Despite the obvious application of Hanlon's razor, the latter is simply not plausible. The release statement opens with a stone cold lie.

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/70115236890220134...

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/70115264061335142...

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/70115296105404006...

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/70115860701918412...

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/70115891912992768...
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> ... instead of going to Congress for a new law

I hate to be in the position of defending the FBI, but this new law would be irrelevant if it's ex post facto, yeah?
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Well, they DID get sued by Nokia for IP infringement, and lost. And has paid Nokia hundreds of millions of euros. So in the strictest legal sense, yes.

(Obviously when not being overly legalistic it is clear that Apple created an entirely new device with the iPhone, but it was built on a foundation that wasn't theirs to build on)
Yes, Tim Cook is lying (EDIT: perhaps not lying, but being creative with the meaning of "potential").

The software asked for by the FBI would only work on one phone because it would both have a check for the specific phone, and be signed by Apple (so can't be modified).

The software would need to be modified and resigned by Apple to be used on another phone.
"free same-day shipping"
Woah, what items do you get that on? I always wanted that so bad, but have never had anything delivered same day. Are you referring to Amazon prime now? Is same day shipping one of their Seattle only offerings?
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Older people care about convenience, rather than the "best" product (I know this as an old person). If Yahoo had a decent breadth of product offerings, and if they marketed it correctly, they could keep most of their customers in their ecosystem. It won't work with kids that are used to 5 different chat clients at the same time, but for the people that don't care as much about flashiness and care more about integratedness and convenience, they could definitely win the way against single apps.
Actually, the light is set at a certain angle and can't be changed [0]. They let you choose between different angles – 60º, 45º, and 30º (mounted on the wall). They say that they are working on allowing for light adjustment in the future [1].

(Not your fault though - their website is pretty sparse on information.)

[0] http://www.coelux.com/en/solutions/index

[1] http://www.hispotion.com/coelux-artificial-lighting-system-t...
Have never had prime subscription. I try to combine if possible, and if not, just pay the shipping charges once in a while.
Prime Now (the same-day 2hr service to deliver items from a local warehouse) seems to be basically the same thing without having to pay for the physical space required to have shops with storage in the back.
>the difference between serious research and Wikipedia

I think for much serious research you could start with Wikipedia and then read the linked sources. Wikipedia itself is only an informal summary.

(I just read their summary of TE Lawrance's article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_and_tactics_of_guerri... . Shame the original is paywalled)
Yes, Apple's signing key + the lack of user confirmation for OS updates is the master key + backdoor here.

User confirmation has come in later OS updates it seems, so the actual backdoor has been closed.
That's why vanadium exists (and is being invented). Http://v.io
Might be better to show some actual Atari 2600 demos:

http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?platform%5B0%5D=Atari+VCS

Here's one of the higher-ranked 8k demos:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=32203 (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WogMZn87hkk )
The Prime-nag-screen on every checkout is so annoying as well. The "no thanks" cancel link is very small and changed its location the last few months. Increasing the delivery time just to introduce Prime (I lived in an early test region of Prime back then).

Loyal customers that buy from the online shop since 1999, don't count anymore. If I as customer decide that I don't want your subscription service, better respect it!
This comment will never be a reply to any other comment. However, if I wrote it because the fbi told me to, why wouldn't I reply to absolutely any other comment the fbi told me to?
I love Amazon and I love Prime (the included streaming services and ebooks are great, on top of free shipping). But, lately I've been noticing cracks in the armor of Amazon, where they're leaving openings for competitors.

I have, just in the past year, ordered a huge variety of things from other vendors, because Amazon prices were far from competitive. And, with free two day shipping from merchants partnered with Shop Runner (which I get free when I pay with my American Express), the difference in experience, cost, and time to deliver is competitive. NewEgg got my server hardware purchases, saving me several hundred dollars on a ~$3000 order. An RV parts vendor sold me an RV air conditioner for ~$200 less than Amazon. I'm shopping for a tankless water heater right now, which is about $160 less from other vendors. And, on the lower end, when Amazon first started doing subscription groceries, they were competitively priced; now, not so much. I find I prefer just buying what I need when I need it from local grocery stores.

I still buy a lot of stuff from Amazon, but it's much less than it used to be. And, I don't know if Amazon knows what they're doing or not when choosing to lose these sales. Presumably the increased margins make up for the lower sales (or at least the loss of sales to me, which may not necessarily be the same as decreased sales overall). Surely they're doing the math.

This is the same thing. I bought from Amazon before Prime partly because of the free shipping. The further away the free shipping gets, the harder it would be to choose Amazon over getting it local or from another vendor, I think.
I guess the battery swapping could be useful, but I'd rather spend the money on quality components in it from the get-go than have the option to buy extra, replaceable components.
I don't like it, but I think we're better off if the courts side with FBI on this case, because it should accelerate the inevitable: either Apple and other mobile device makers give up on privacy and governments around the world get whatever they want, or they make zero knowledge devices that can't expose their data unless the user complies.

In the meantime, FBI losing this case just means they try again. And again. And so will other governments, not just federal, but state and local. And foreign.

The reality is Apple can change the software to in effect cause the data to become accessible. Apple doesn't have keys to the front door. But they have the power to weaken the hinges. Saying they won't do that isn't the same as it not being possible.
I'm confused. Both I and my computer just send a request "may I have this article/video", and the server responds "yes" and sends the data. However, it also sends along a bunch of other stuff (advertising).

At no point in this did I ever agree to have anything other than the requested data sent to me. And at no point did I see a screen that said "please watch this ad to view this content." The ad was just sent anyway.

If you need me to pay money to consume some content, then why aren't you asking me for money? Or if I'm "supposed" to view an ad, why isn't that agreement formalized?

Basically, it's my computer, and I'm not restricted by any kind of agreement to watch ads. So why should I?

What possible moral grounds are there that says I have to allow you to serve me extra garbage data that I never consented to receiving, and even more extreme, that I am somehow obligated to consume the advertising that I never consented to receiving?
Reasonable according to whom?

This is why we have Rule of Law. There is no "we follow the law when it seems reasonable". Whatever the law is, it should be followed, and it does not matter at all what anyone's personal opinion is regarding what the law should be.

Perhaps it is more complex than this, for example in cases of civil disobedience. However, civil disobedience is for cases of conscience when you cannot personally participate in something that is immoral, so you refuse to participate or you protest it. The key here is that this is ignoring the law to resist immoral uses of power, not ignoring the law to remove intentional restrictions to the application of allocated authority.

This applies doubly to the legal system itself. An appeal to the inability of legislatures to "get things done" has been the argument of every tyrant since Caesar.
A few things. If you want to make your argument legit, refrain from calling the other person names. Second, besides drinking and making yourself essentially useless, what are you doing to improve this situation. One person may not be enough to make a difference but its better than zero.

America is entirely being driven by fear and anger. The current presidential race is a perfect reflection of the hate, anger, and fear that Americans believe exists. The system is a reflection of what the "good" people allow to happen.

The FBI has a job, and Apple has a commitment to its customers. Technology is going to get more advanced, does that mean that we should let it be a tool to obstruct justice. You may not trust the people tasked with the investigation, but people should also look at the fact that the encryption here is obstructing justice.

Tomorrow if a criminal kidnaps a bus of school children and the police are able to get a hold of a locked phone that holds their location, would you be as opposed to the current situation?

The creation of a method to disable the phones encryption is a slippery road, but the option of not aiding the FBI is also a slippery road. This is a organization created to protect the people.

We need to have a open discourse on how the information can be taken off this phone while minimizing the loss of public security and privacy . This is not a black and white issue like many people are treating it.

And just to make it clear, I do agree that the government has done extremely questionable things as well as committed offenses against the publics privacy. We need to fix the issue of distrust, because a lack of trust in our system is equal to cancer within a body.
All the items were eligible for free shipping, according to Amazon. Some of the items were from individual merchants, but all of those were FBA (so they were warehoused at an Amazon facility).

It's possible that even though they were eligible for free shipping, they weren't all in the same facility. If that was the case, I would understand why they were put into separate boxes.

What doesn't make sense is removing one item in a box by itself causing the shopping cart to reshuffle so a different item was placed in a box by itself.

I was irked enough that I want to find alternatives.
One part of this that will need a lot more work is the visualization of all this data. All the seminal dataviz works (Tufte, etc) emphasize the 2D world.
Coming soon to the office of a CEO near you.

It's nice, but it's not $30,000 nice. Still, the cost of LEDs per lumen continues to drop. LED auto headlights are now below $100.

There's a market for this in hospitals, to keep patients in intensive care units in sync with the outside world. Fake windows with lighting tied to the day/night cycle have been used. Here's someone looking for funding for a startup to do a really good virtual window.[1]

[1] http://windways.org/personal_page/virtual_windows/
I find the argument really odd.
For eg: India's borders were drawn by the British in 1947. Is the British responsible for the staggering growth rate of India or any success attributed to India since.

Same thing with Saudi: US or any other country did what they did, I am sure taking into account their interests.

Since both India and Saudi Arabia are sovereign nations, it is their actions that have either propped them up or otherwise.
To put it another way

"I don't know why we need HIPAA because it's pretty rare for insurance to divulge health information."

Of course you don't see insurance companies doing stuff like that anymore because of HIPAA.
Apple's just that kind of company. For some reason, they don't seem to need to advertise their products. Not sure why that is ...

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Customer service is way all over the place. I had a shaver that I wanted to return. It was a gift bought from a Prime-connected account. After 3-4 emails of getting nowhere, one rep finally told me that shavers can't be returned due to health hazards and they refunded the buyer the full cost of the shaver. Since then I've also had them unexpectedly give me 2-3 full refunds for things I threatened to return. I think they're trying very hard to retain prime members.
The article author is incompetent, it's all about private keys, not 'source code'. Neither Android OEMs nor Apple allows the user to set their own root cert.
You build against a fixed set of packages defined by "Stackage" so that you only need to build them all once. While this set evolves over time, if many (or all?) of your projects target the same Stackage LTS then you won't need to rebuild dependencies.
But they could reverse engineer it and reimplement it without the device-specific restriction.
My family and I love et. Once you rtfm, its pretty simple yet engaging. I can think of dozens of games that are worse.
Answered in detail above, but to sum it up, all the items were either Amazon supplied or FBA, so they would ship directly from an Amazon warehouse.
This is true but, in terms of security, is meaningless. If they can order Apple to unlock one device this way, they can do it again, and once they've got a precedent, the next time won't be national news, it'll just be routine.
Yes, it's a false dichotomy. Either we have a police state, or the terrorists win, take your choice! Don't forget the children, and the .0001 % chance of horribly brutally muderdered by terrorists!
No. The ex post facto clause of the constitution only forbids certain types of retroactive criminal laws. See Calder v. Bull for the details.
No, the man who made the worst video game in history was Hideo Kojima with Metal Gear Solid 2. Hardcore fans of prior game(s) felt a combination of let down, shock, and anger at the details. Imagine my surprise when I find out it very well could've been an ingenius plot to screw with the players. As others noted, the games overall plot against the protagonist was what he was doing to the players. Start here on a nice analysis here if you're curious why MGS2 had the effects it did:

http://www.deltaheadtranslation.com/MGS2/DOTM3.htm
MGS2 is quite possibly the best example of a postmodern video game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-2YuPGYabw
Turn that around: lets say you know Swift because you're an iOS developer. What web dev languages or platforms can you use?

The same argument was made about Node.JS, that backend services already had great languages / platforms / ecosystems.

It's not about existing experts in the area learning a new stack, it's about enabling experts in one domain to reach 'good enough' in another rapidly.
No, it suggests that nobody wants to think about a better shape these things could be.
I'm sure the FBI would like to minimize the "work asked of Apple". Ideally, they'd have a system to:

1) Identify target phone and obtain warrant to search.

2) Invoke Apple<-->FBI-specific api to initiate OS image generation to the specified target phone. OS image would be automatically downloaded to target phone.

3) Once downloaded, OS image would present FBI-specific API to allow exfiltration of any desired data.

This might not violate the 4th Amendment ("The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects ...") because they'll have a warrant, but IMHO it's a clear violation of the 5th ("... nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself ...").
you might like to check out secure-scuttlebutt : http://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebot/

it's a gossip based network / database.

Check out our first active app : http://github.com/ssbc/patchwork
Security vs privacy is a false dichotomy here. Backdoors can help law enforcement achieve some goals but weaken overall security. The debate is security vs security, and framing it any other way reflects either willful deceit or ignorance.
I'm not going to get into a flame war here but history has made me very cautious of Samsung and from what I've seen they've been one of the worst offenders when it comes to security updates, add to that the large number of custom software they bundle with their devices and you tend to have quite a large attack vector.

Reminds me of the time that I was working at a large (5K+) org and we found a virus to be circulating that was spread by custom scanner software that was really just bloatware / trayware that came bundled with various models, it hardly ever got updated and it did crazy things like run a local (custom) http server etc... what a nightmare.
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It depends on what strategy you are trying to implement. I wasn't particularly thinking real time. I'm more of a value investor at heart and was thinking of something like it looking for stocks where the valuation is underpinned by assets and buying when they are near the bottom. So the inputs would be something like some numbers from the income and balance statements plus the price graph.
I wonder if it's still stuck on a USB2 bus though...
His autobiography, "Wings on my Sleeve" is a very good read.
I'm sorry if you feel gcc maintainers are unappreciated, that's not good. Clearly no compiler can rescue programmers from every security mistake they might make.

But raising security concerns is not "entitled," insecure-by-default is not okay, and "it's fast and the standard lets us get away with it" is not a sufficient defense.

Maybe non-conforming code should be penalized by making it slow, not by causing another large-scale public scourge like Heartbleed. Such risks are not just between gcc maintainers and inept programmers, there's a lot more at stake than that.
Dependencies are downloaded and compiled once for all your projects using the same Stackage release and are shared between projects.

In the end you still might have duplicated dependencies if you use different stackage.org releases but it's a much better situation than using Cabal sandboxes where every project has its own copy of dependencies.
Really?

You really, honestly, truly and genuinely believe that if Apple just does this for them, just this one time, just for this one phone, then that's the end of it? That the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies would never, not once, not for the rest of the lifetime of the universe (and certainly not, say, about 24 hours later) come back and say "Well, we're glad you helped us with that case, now here's this list of other cases we'd like help with, and now you've proven that you can do this we're going to be bringing you a lot of these"?

That's what Tim Cook is worried about: it won't stop with this one phone unless it's stopped before that one phone gets unlocked and becomes the precedent that makes this just another routine thing. Every now-routine violation of privacy and security was originally marketed as "just this one case, this one's unique and special and sensitive and we absolutely have to get it done, just this one, trust us" and eventually morphed into "eh, it's Tuesday, time to ship off another truckload of requests to have this done to people".
jet.com is OK. For most of the stuff, they are reliable but books, they rely on Barnes and Noble and at times there is delay in delivery.

Also your discount increases the more items you add to the cart, so jet actually encourages you to make one big shopping cart with their system.
Reasonable engineering practice requires that that software be tested before it is used. If it is handed over untested, and bricks the unique device, Tim Cook is going to get found in contempt. The order as written says to only make one specialized version, but also requires delivery of a working version---and that means a general purpose version that can be tested.
This one? http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-286104992/stock-photo-beauti... Hard to be mad at them when it's a publicly available stock image...
>Neither Android OEMs nor Apple allows the user to set their own root cert.

Where does the article imply it does? It states correctly that the FBI would have easily hacked it had it been an android.

edit: I'm assuming you're going from this line:

>Although user content is encrypted on Android devices, too, Android is open-source software. Theoretically, the government can produce its own version of the system that would make it possible to hack the encryption.

This is poorly worded, as is the line about how all encryption can be hacked, but he gets the point about how Android would have been vulnerable. I think some of that can be chalked down to writing for the public and not a technical audience.
The book Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman is also fantastic.
I would not describe this as the best product name. Hearing this, I wondered if it was some sort of Facebook-like dating site for people looking for serious matches.
There's a certain hypocrisy I'm noticing in these forum discussions whereby many of you are distrusting the FBI, but apparently you're fine with Apple having the best chance of cracking your phone.

Everyone is going on about encryption, but notice it's not just encryption that protects us, but also vendor-controlled measures such as self-destruct.

I prefer a level playing field in these matters. I don't want the FBI to have a better chance at cracking my phone than anyone else, but I also don't want Apple to have the best chance either.

It's all or nothing. My vote is for strong encryption, but up until that point, everything else should be on the table for all parties such as crime investigators, not just exclusively controlled by tech giants.
> Maybe the phone holds the clue to finding more terrorists. Maybe it doesn’t.

Interesting admission that they don't really have "probable cause" here, rather they apparently want to go on a fishing expedition. I guess if the owner of the phone is already established as a terrorist then that is cause enough, but I still would have expected them to be arguing they have specific reason to believe the phone is necessary for their investigation.
It's not the shape that people are looking at. It's the materials, chamfers, finishes, and marketing images.
> the encryption here is obstructing justice

No, it isn't. The phone they're trying to break into was the shooter's work phone, provided by his employer. He physically destroyed his personal phone before the acts in question. The idea that he kept relevant information on his work phone, which he left intact, is absurd.
Maybe it will do better in Australia and the UK :) [edit: Argentina is gonna love it too.]
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