skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's outstanding that Apple is standing up for this.

Will they, can they do anything about data in iCloud as well? While you can turn off iCloud I'd guess the majority of people are using it. Given you can access much of it at iCloud.com that would seem like whether or not you can unlock an iPhone most customers' data is available directly from Apple. Mail, notes, messages, photos, etc. No idea about other apps data that get backuped

Again I'm applauding Apple for standing up for encryption. If they could some how offer the same on iCloud I'd switch from Google (Google is not encrypted either. My point is I'd switch to a service that offers it)
Next thing you'll complain about would be on how absurdly explicit the x86 ISA is. So many instructions just to get "Hello, world" printed.
Pilot fights against heavy crosswind
Samsung S7:Artistic llama makes an appearance in bizarre advert for new phone
Apple ordered to break into San Bernardino shooter's iPhone
wow that's shady!
> ...valuations often became detached from the underlying fundamentals...

The most valuable asset of a startup seems to be hot air.
Company Adopts Rescue Cats to Help Employees Unwind and Improve Productivity
Sprout Social Raises $42M for Its Marketing Tools
If you are spending more than 3-4 hours per day on your laptop, you should really be using a desktop, for the sake of your long term health....
Possible or not, the FBI seems to have formalized the issue using this opportunity. They are asking the questions they have been wanting to ask since the release of smartphones.
>2) At least 32 GB ECC RAM, 16 GB is so 2010

This is the major drawback of lenovo X1s - they only have 8GB of RAM max. In today's world. Crazy.
Asus also often has many sub-models specified by a suffix to the main model number. And what they show on their many inconsistent marketing websites often won't match what's actually available in your country. Not to mention that it appears on the website months before the product (well, a slightly different, less attractive product with a similar name) becomes available. Asus are bad for this.
Bombardier to cut 7,000 jobs worldwide
The second home tax is a 3% surtax on the purchase price. If the property isn't ~350K, the tax isn't ~10K.
Let's say I'm Chinese and do not set foot in the UK and you are my tenant. You pay money into my bank account. I do not file a UK tax return. how exactly am i taxed on this rent.

Capital gains do not apply to companies. I own the property through a company, whence no tax.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/09/counterintuiti...

or : http://people.ucsc.edu/~msmangel/Wald.pdf
I meant it can decode 1080p video.
Vulkan 1.0 Released
The usual expression is "fool proof", rather than "fullproof".
As was pointed out before, those are unpublished results. We cannot extract any significant information from this article. For example, in many early phase trials, the standard treatment is often given WITH the new drug (or vaccine), so we'd have to know the response rate of the control group.

As other pointed out, blood cancers are very different than solid tumors -- they've historically been easier to treat. That's probably due to the tumor micro environnement that makes solid tumor a very different process. To put simply, I would not assume for a second that outcomes for blood cancers can be replicated for solid tumors.

Immunotherapy is all the rage in the cancer world right now. It resonates with patient that "their own bodies can destroy cancer". It's almost romantic. Kinda like when anti-angiogenesis drugs were all the rage a few years ago...

The "cancer vaccine" has been tried many times before. Pretty much every time the cancer finds a way around it. Sipuleucel-T is a commercially available cancer vaccine for prostate cancer. It adds a few months for $$$, but newer, non-vaccine treatments are now doing better.

We're unlikely to find "a" cure for cancer; we'll eventually find "cures" for cancer, but it will be small, incremental steps. In the meantime I'll go back to my clinic and continue to enrol patients on clinical trials
And it can reportedly grant itself new permissions without the user's knowledge, bypassing a fundamental security mechanism of Android (any Android devs know how this is done?). http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/balky-carriers-and-sl...
I found out exactly the same problem :)
Accepting the first offer that came through, every time I went job-hunting.

Nearly drowned in toxic work culture..
N.S.A. Gets Less Web Data Than Believed, Report Suggests
Would this really be true or is this just a decoy, to let you believe there is no backdoor?

I do believe there is no backdoor for when a city court requests it, but i don't really believe that the FBI or CIA doesn't have access to it.

Considering that iPhone already exists a long time, they must have some means to backdoor the "iCloud"...
I'm making my way through "Statistics for Dummies" right now..
It implies that the FBI wants Apple to do that.

Tim Cook doesn't offer an opinion about how possible that might be. As a matter of principle, he doesn't believe that Apple should be forced to make the attempt.

That doesn't stop anyone else from doing so, however. And I suppose that the FBI could seek discovery on all requisite information, take depositions, etc, etc. However, I vaguely recall that discovery can't compel production of new work product. But maybe that's just a limitation in civil litigation.
Courts already have ways to balance requests for information (by the government or another litigant), with the burden on third parties who might have to undertake expenses to get that information.
Hmmm

https://support.lenovo.com/at/de/documents/pd025709

Don't think I'd be comfortable blocking those for extended periods.
Malmö is cheaper because you get to "live" in Malmö, which I could never recommend to anyone, especially jewish or gay.

Yeah but at least the UK got a rental market, think about it.
Stockholms market is scattered and hard to come by without connections or help. But not only that, most people who rent out their apartments in Sweden will either go through the Co-op board and only get a year, or do it under the table, both situations adds a lot of insecurity to the tenant.

In Singapore, there is a broad market from super cheap and shitty, to super expensive and amazing.
Having a broad, free market helps consumers a lot more than having it closed down for a queue-system.

Sure, I can get a closet space with no air condition and no kitchen for a 1/5, or I can pay 3/5 and get a condo, at least there is a choice.

I can't speak for rest of Scandinavia, but I know in Stockholm that choice doesn't exist. You're forced to buy.
You can install Linux on a Macbook, but you'll fight with drivers and end up with less machine than you would using OS X.
A total mystery:Father of the bride goes missing at California wedding reception
>Say they decide to have a massive sell of at a strategic moment.

You can't sell into a vacuum. Hence, if they are "selling-off" at a strategic time, then there is someone "buying up" at the same strategic time.
Yeah that's the same in Stockholm. Does Denmark have Bostadsrätt (Co-op) that have requirements on renting it out? E.g max a year, and etc?
Indeed, this is precisely why Apple is writing an open letter. If this was an iPhone 6, they would have simply told the judge "no" and that would have been the end of the story. But since its a 5C, it is possible and Apple doesn't want to do it to avoid setting a precedent. If they cooperate with law enforcement to backdoor this phone, then they would face much more pressure to comply with any future laws that require backdoors be built-in.
Does Apple do an amazing job protecting their users' privacy? Yes! But frankly in this case I find the FBI makes more sense than Apple.

Apple says:

All that information needs to be protected from hackers and criminals who want to access it, steal it, and use it without our knowledge or permission

As I understand, Apple complains about the introduction of this new threat model:

1. criminal steals someone's iPhone,
2. gets hold of a special iOS version that Apple keeps internally to assist the government,
3. pushes the OS update to the iPhone by themselves,
4. uses some tool to automate brute-forcing the user passcode

At least that's what I get from these excerpts:

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 government would have us remove security features and add new capabilities to the operating system, allowing a passcode to be input electronically. This would make it easier to unlock an iPhone by “brute force,” trying thousands or millions of combinations with the speed of a modern computer.

Now how serious is this threat? And how useful is it to have the FBI be able to look into a phone when they have a warrant? Does the balance between the right to privacy and the need to assist criminal investigation really tilt towards privacy in this specific case?

Meanwhile there are serious threats that do affect a lot of users in practice, where Apple does a good job but could do better still such as:

- Remote code execution on iOS (6 vulnerabilities in 2016 so far[1])

- Phishing, brute force and social engineering attacks (the improved two-factor authentication is not yet available to everyone[2])

Am I wrong in thinking that users are way more likely to be affected by these threats except when the government has a warrant?

If Apple is actually worried about the FBI getting access to the modified iOS version, they should focus their complaint on that and propose to do the whole data extraction in-house.

[1] http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-49/pr...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915
Show HN: A REPL for JSON, HTML, CSV Files
To be fair, Polish jokes don't work as well if they get a reputation as being smart.
I had a Thinkpad T440s running Ubuntu and then Arch, and now I have a 13" rMBP. I love the glossy screen, vivid colors, and most importantly, battery life. OS X also has the advantage of everything just working perfectly out of the box so I'm happy.

I don't think I'll go back to Linux any time soon, though I do miss tiling WMs.
Taking Creepiness Out of Computer Voices
there is this line, when Turing is talking about his machine:

"It’s inspired by an old Polish code machine, only infinitely more advanced. "
3 ways of achieving code correctness
Unlike Datawind, this doesn't seem to have announced any Government affiliation. If government has subsided any of its costs then government is in a lot of trouble as transparency is the key to democracy and nothing about such a project was ever announced.
The two thugs are not equivalent. And yes. I would have US govt. over Chinese govt. any day.
Must be the tablet version, mine doesn't have those.
Machine Learning that Matters (2012)
I think the person you are responding to is simply saying some things are more complex than others and require more understanding and experience. R apparently falls into that category. If the author wants to gain that experience, I think the time spent on this blog post may be better used to reading a book on R. Fault might be a strong word, but the author has certainly made a decision on what they spend their time on and the results are as expected.
Death march (project management)
From a forensics point of view that is a very risky path. You risk destroying the evidence and you're tampering with it.
All the good bits are there, I hope it gains sustainable traction :)
Perhaps you heard about the blockchain technology banks want to implement for doing transactions between eachoter, sort of a replacement to SWIFT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R3_%28company%29

If this is the case, this is not bitcoin, but a derived tech that the banks are thinking about using.
No worries, thanks for the feedback!

To add to sytses:

- We're introducing some more pagination over infinite scrolling. If we see this is successful, we might continue that trend
- eventually we will replace the icons with svgs, probably when we switch to our inhouse icons. There is no due date for that, though.
well, and now let's look what their "competitor" (west) have done during those hundreds of years of presence there...

Yes Chinese are not saints but pure capitalists, I see no evil in their actions. On the other hand, white man's actions there were evil on quite a few occasions
The Gas Holder
That's a good point. I guess I figured if they simply can't do it why not say "it's impossible by design," rather than argue the principle?

It seems like their stand would be better saved for when a compromise is requested that is actually possible for them implement.
I'm sorry, but isn't this just bigotry?

Why is China a thug of a government?
> yet it's almost unknown that she was Polish in the West

Sorry, this is complete nonsense.

I can only speak as someone from the UK, but I'm willing to bet almost every schoolkid has heard of Marie Curie, and everyone who has heard of her knows that she discovered polonium and knows why it is called polonium.

I'd be surprised to find out the rest of Western Europe is any different.
I find this trend very disturbing. In Norway the largest bank has called for the outlawing of cash writ large. There have been similar statements by other bankers here in the US.

This all serves to give banks more control. Ability to impose negative interest rates without individuals hoarding cash, ability to greatly lower the risk of bank runs, etc.

But for the consumer and for privacy rights its a dangerous direction.
... Let me guess, you are not Chinese.
>They're playing a very long game, and they're incredibly good at it.

People underestimate the ability of a country like China to utilize decades of modern economic thought and their willingness to apply it.
Lenovo only inherited the name from IBM. It's not the same as it used to be... I really wish the author of the post looked beyond one or two laptops given the title he used for his writeup.
That's D3D12, presumably.
My understanding is that the iPhone 5C is not _simple_ to brute force as sold from the store. The FBI is asking Apple to weaken the software in this particular one enough for them to be able to brute-force by creating custom software that would allow them to try millions of passcode combinations rapidly.

In the past law enforcement could use their own tools and Apple didn't have any legal way to say "it is beyond our ability to break it so we can't help you" anyway. After their name showed up on that slide in the Prism leak without their cooperation (meaning they had been stepped around by the FBI. Some of the earlier companies had willingly volunteered data), they stepped up their game and deployed end-to-end encryption and secure enclave to have the ability to say 'we can't help' when forced to.

This technique wouldn't be possible on the iPhone 6 due to the encryption keys being in the hardware secure enclave but they are putting their foot down now so that a legal precedent isn't established forcing them to weaken other models too. That's my understanding of it right now.
2 - 3 months where I was primarily "focused" on the issue which was ongoing for the place I worked at the time (ongoing being years and multiple people).

It was an embedded system problem and I didn't fix it and I don't know if it ever did get fixed - sometimes I wonder if it ever was figured out.
- We just got Dell 4k/60Hz monitors. Most of our MBPs can drive them just fine via DisplayPort, others can only do it at 30Hz, if at all.

Intel claims that the i5-5200U included in the Zenbook UX305LA is capable of driving 3840x2160@60Hz over DP.
That view of the US Constitution is eroding quickly, if it's not gone already. People are more interested in magically finding new things in the Constitution than amending it to correct oversights.
I really miss Wakemate. Despite the wristbands being not terribly well-made (I went through three of them), it's the only system that did exactly what I needed it to do, which is to wake me up within a 20-minute window at a point where bodily movement is higher than usual. Worked like a charm for me. There are apps that do this but they require you to sleep with your phone next to you on the bed, and I can't imagine that they work as well as a wristband...
Make them stronger, use only coinage....;)
There seems to be something up with the display driver in Windows relating to sleep. Sometimes after I login, Windows proudly tells me it's recovered from a display driver problem. Other times the screen just won't turn on (the keyboard lights come on, and the IR light that Hello uses comes on), so I have to keep restarting the machine. I'm guessing this will get fixed eventually though. Only seems to happen after disconnecting from the charger.
> If Apple could in fact write a software backdoor, doesn't it mean that the backdoor exists

Schroedinger's Backdoor? ;)
"But Christensen says no large organization in any industry has ever been successful in building disruptive technology on its own"

Counter example: an iPhone.

There are a lot of examples like this.
"OpenZFS" actually means ZoL, the only way to legally ship meant dkms until now, unless there has been CDDL/GPL reinterpretation, a different codebase or agreement with Redwood Shores. The three concerns are stability (battle tested in production at scale, not just some home torrent servers), performance (which wasnt yet up to other production fses) and lawsuits from the Emerald Kingdom.

If it works, great, but there's been ppas for ZoL and the docker zfs backed for a while (we've tested it but decided to go with whats faster and more supportable).

I guess this also means ZoL may be able to drop dkms after they consult their own lawyers, because I'm not entirely convinced Canoncial has this right.

Edit: confirmed this is actually CDDL ZoL code linked as modules, so perhaps Canonical lawyers reinterpreted zfs and spl binary modules shipped to users are still not part of the kernel to be copacetic. http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/zfsutils-linux

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS
Courts already have ways to balance requests for information (by the government or another litigant), with the burden on third parties who might have to undertake expenses to get that information. Generally, third parties are required to take reasonable measures to help.
If they provide to the government what the government wants now, next year the government will come back with even more ridiculous request. Mr.Cook is right - it'd be great if we can avoid creating a precedent.

Oh wait they already did by providing their clients' data. Trying to stop the government now is like trying to stop a high-speed train. Still, good luck to them! Good to know they are not just pushed around without any resistance.
After searching the web and comparing the different price rates, I just found a lowest wildcard SSL at $42/yr. at https://www.ssl2buy.com. I hope that you would not find cheaper than this wildcard SSL. As they did not charge any extra beyond the price and helped me to secure my number of sub domains. Even the backend technical support was good enough.
Нотариусы в Кривом Роге
Crapware is usually found on consumer machines, where installing crapware pays for the OS and reduces the price. Pro machines from Dell and HP generally don't have crapware apart from anit-virus), in my experience.

However, they may have "useful" extra software, which I could do without. (Dell Data Safe backup etc. Lenovo is the worst.)

But you can download a crapware-free version of Windows 7 or 10 from Microsoft and do a clean installation.
While we believe the FBI’s intentions are good, it would
be wrong for the government to force us to build a
backdoor into our products. And ultimately, we fear that
this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty
our government is meant to protect.

Tim Cook

Kudos to this guy for standing up to an idea.

Now on practical notes, this is about security, providing a digitally secure platform to both users and providers, prevent tampering, keeping data secure.

Microsoft could take a cue.
Tim found dead under mysterious circumstances in 3...2....1
I completely agree. Who wants to be in a small hotel room, with minimal amenities. AirBnB you get something that is truly yours (temporarily)
Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: Rethinking Twitter, and a Hurdle for Facebook
Ideally banks should be done away with as soon as possible, that is for certain. Private institutions that control part of the the money supply in exchange for taking on the risk of evaluating and assessing worthy recipients of credit is something that made sense before there was a supercomputer in everyones pocket. There are now already better alternatives. Replacing banks should be just one example of recovering centralised power for the people by means of technology.
Please provide the estimates for its GDP then. Dismissing the work done by others (which provides an actual figure, right or wrong) is lazy.
I was a big ThinkPad guy until a few years ago, and I get why you recommend the X220...agree it's "the last good one." But can you explain what the "tlp package" does?
No.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lithub.com
Let's get behind Google, Facebook and Amazon to protect our privacy?
The big question about driverless cars no one seems to have an answer to
Sacred is the right word. It is seen as an almost religious document written by men who were inspired (as seen by some) by "Christian values" (read God) and it enshrines and protect the most basic moral values.

They look back to the men that wrote it hoping to divine their intent much like those who read the bible.
How to kill an unresponsive SSH session
Alert HN: X.org suddenly isn't resolving
First of all, I'm not experienced in identifying transient network glitches. If I'm freaking out about a temporary issue then I request the moderators to hide or delete this post.

I've verified my claim in the title via digwebinterface using every resolver.

Since it takes forever to load, here's a screenshot (1002x2394, 291KB): http://i.imgur.com/iqaGKt8.png

Text description: this screenshot shows every resolver that works (two couldn't be reached) saying SERVFAIL; the only one that still replies is OpenDNS, which returns an A record of 131.252.210.176. This uses a Location: redirect to send me to https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/.

Here are the settings I used - it takes a couple minutes to fully load, and DNS is usually fast, right? :S - http://www.digwebinterface.com/?hostnames=x.org&type=&showcommand=on&colorize=on&stats=on&sort=on&useresolver=8.8.4.4&ns=all&nameservers=

The domain seems to be registered until 2025, according to pir.org (754x882, 108KB): http://i.imgur.com/hsPqvaS.png (you have to go to https://pir.org/products/org-domain/#domain_form, input x.org and go past the captcha to reload this info)

I have no idea what's going on - I was looking up X11 documentation and thought it was my own internet when X.org persistently wasn't resolving.

All I know is that right now http://x.org, https://x.org, http://www.x.org and https://www.x.org don't seem to work.

I'm posting this in light of the recent Phoronix article outlining some ownership handover issues (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10867202, https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Domain-Woes). I'm not sure if this is related to that.

Once again if I've posted this due to misinterpretation or ignorance about networking then I apologize. (For example, I noticed that x.org uses two in-house nameservers, ns1.x.org and ns2.x.org, and perhaps those are down - but this would have had to have been for a while since 8.8.8.8 is answering SERVFAIL.)

[This has been crossposted to https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/468c78/xorg_suddenly_isnt_resolving/.]
Big wig wants to break up large banks into smaller banks.  Makes sense?
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Only Apple has the ability to sign updates to software (barring jailbreak).