skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just in the San Bernadino case. There are a lot of perfectly reasonable cases where you might need to get into a locked phone that do not involve terrorism.

Examples include investigating the murder of the phone's owner, accessing financial information of a parent who has passed away, or recovering corporate passwords from the phone of an ex-employee who cannot be located or refuses to give them up.
Does anyone know to what extent this affects news organizations in Hong Kong?
Yeah, you can tune the front page. But it's filled with popular subreddits by default. You'd have to opt-out of the frontpage by manually pruning your settings.
Expect cost per clicks to skyrocket.
I have participated as a seller.

I offered some of my exercised options for sale on SharesPost [1]. The SharesPost representative contacted me; she said that she had a potential buyer interested, but the bid was slightly lower than my initial ask and the volume they wanted to buy was a little lower than what I had offered to sell initially. We agreed on the deal.

I filled out some paperwork and sent proof that I was a legitimate seller. SharesPost representative got in touch with my employer. My employer had the right to first refusal which they waived. The process took few weeks with escrow etc, but was smooth.

SharesPost charged me a %ge fee. I also had to pay for the escrow service.

[1]: http://sharespost.com/
When has it ever not been like this? They aren't going to change for a while longer.
A review of photography of the earth from sounding rockets and satellites (1964)
Terrible analogy.

You're talking about a sign with practically no legal meaning.

This discussion is about a law which does have legal meaning.

To fix your analogy, it would be "If there's a law that says only explicitly authorized cars are allowed in a car wash; else 5 years in prison, and I have a car wash and say 'only red cars' ...". Of course, that still doesn't properly capture this since the intent of the law also matters and that law would be senseless, and so interpretation would be less obvious.

The better analogy is the one below about breaking into homes being illegal, but what if you happen to have a key that fits the lock? (though that also is a bad analogy in its own way).

Basically, making physical analogies for technical matters is rarely correct. It's often the best way to convince non-technical people of a matter without them needing to actually understand it.
Gravitational waves: how we did it
Two things in their "What We’re Doing About it" section really surprised me because they are things I would have expected a company of their size and sophistication to have done long ago:

> we are taking advantage of our payment processor’s tokenization feature to remove the risk associated with storing credit card information

> we are hiring a senior-level security expert
I think he's right. Harper Lee was supremely significant and impactful. GRRM is just entertaining. If they wrote exactly the same, it would still read better coming from her.
You can ask that in any number of countries. Yet the US and Americans try convincing Ukraine, Libya, Syria, Russia, China, etc..., that they'd be better off overthrowing their leaders.

As for the US, they just need to 'open up' their political system. Maybe some sort of proportional representation to break the 2 party system. Eliminate lobbying, which is really just institutionalized bribery.

As it stands right now the US has 2 parties which are bought by the same corporate interests, the largest police state and prison system in the world, unrest and protests fairly often, in multiple cities, and so on.

For the record, I'm not advocating armed revolution, that usually ends up rather poorly. However the US needs to stay out of China's business, and let them sort it out, gradually, the way they do. The decision to ban foreign media isn't some sort of nefarious response to unrest, but rather a direct response to increased anti-China propaganda coming from the west.

Yet all throughout this thread there's tons of posts shitting on China for all sorts of reasons, when much of this can be seen through the lens of history and common sense.
Dolphin Progress Report: January 2016
Mark Cuban says Apple deserves a 'standing ovation' for fighting FBI
I was hoping to click on this and find the same page in Comic Sans
In principle I don't mind sharing my business with a cofounder -- but I just assumed that hiring someone is easier than finding a cofounder. What are the odds that I'll find someone who shares my vision?
The artifact colours are quite off as well, so I suspect the card used was not a real IBM CGA card.
On my ATi Small Wonder and Paradise PVC4 cards, I get the exact same Kefrens bars, with the top chopped off.

Having said that, the fact that the music slows down noticeable during the moire-effect seems to indicate that indeed some instructions are a few cycles off here and there.
The DK1 had an effective focus distance of infinity, but i think the DK2 reduced it to about 1-2 meters.
Yahoo, under fire by investors, takes steps for possible sale
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm personally a fan of the style, and like explicitly seeing where the fault points in functions are, rather than having to memorize what exceptions might get thrown by what. But it can definitely cover many complex situations.

That sucks to see people making a mess with error handling code, but there are examples of good uses out there. This [0] is one I quickly found.

[0] https://github.com/schachmat/wego/blob/master/we.go
Or maybe, you know, spend more time outdoors in the presence of intense light?
It's subjective to the individual. It may be wrong to you but to them you're the one that is the fool for not enjoying life to its fullest.

Some people are motivated by taking trips, others by the big house. Personally I don't care for traveling and find it boring and at best a hassle. I would much rather have the bigger house.

People have different risk profiles and needs for material possession. Some people rather have peace of mind, others don't really care and rather have material comfort.

I think the important thing is not to judge people based on what is important to them. Just because it is not what you think is important doesn't make it wrong.
Your other examples are obvious. This one is not.
"Short sighted" is the common term for myopia in other (non-US) English speaking countries. I would describe myself as short sighted if someone asked why I needed to wear glasses.
cf, Jeffrey Arnett "Emerging Adulthood"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_adulthood_and_early_a...
Is there a secure enclave in the 5C? My understanding is that there is not, and that if there was, then what the FBI is requesting simply wouldn't be possible.
The difference is intent!

The law says "authorized access" and the WSJ authorized Google to access their content in order to index it. The WSJ did not authorize that content to be presented, for free, to you, an end user, necessarily. I don't know which way a court would rule on it, but it's definitely not black-and-white.

Sure, it's technically similar, but the court doesn't care. The court doesn't care if the law makes no technical sense, because it's a law, not a program.
I got my previous phone three years ago - the battery has gone to pot and Verizon has been telling me I'm reading for an upgrade - but I kept putting off going to the Verizon store to get a new one. I thought, sure, I'll go for the secure phone which is the product itself, and not the one that is created by companies that wish to make me the product.
That's pretty wealthy by most standards, isn't it?
> I don't think China has any intention of attacking and occupying India. I'm sure they are more than capable if they wanted to but there is just no incentive.

They do not. Conquering and occupaying a country with the size, population, and nuclear weapons of India would be a massive undertaking, I think the largest such war in history. And remember that China would have to cross the Himalyas to reach India, maybe the most difficult geopolitical obstacle in the world. Finally, China is just developing its military and their capabilities are limited (but growing quickly); many experts believe Japan is more miilitarily capable than China, for example.
I don't think the author has thought this through.

If they don't have the licence to show something in a particular place, then they must at least show that they're actively trying to stop people in that region accessing the content. Which is what they're doing.

No point in throwing toys from the pram.
Not one to respond to things like this, but in this case the post was written a little less than 2 weeks ago [0].

[0] https://gist.github.com/rezan/b744c513045ea97e87ab/revisions
"no evidence" or insufficient logging. The wording is spun to their favor throughout the entire advisory. Like "Security Investigation Retrospective" making it sound like they have the whole thing wrapped up. Also that everyone will be fine once their passwords are reset, when it sounds like they still don't really have any solid idea if they fixed the problem or not.
Similar: there are lots of stories of implanting magnets under the fingertips, to 'feel' magnetic fields.
Definitely not true. The only reason why stock has gone up is because Alibaba valuation went up during her tenure. It has nothing to do with Marissa. If you listen to her analyst calls, she keeps on talking about her Maven strategy and that has gone nowhere - wrt the rest of the market.
Hmmm. Yeah unfortunately this isn't one of those "I just learned 1000 ways of how not to make a lightbulb" kind of things.

There aren't enough high profile companies for Mrs Mayers to expend until she acquires those skills, which we know she doesn't have. If for some reason she acquires them in the future, good for her. I wouldn't invest on that hope though, and you have no argument to convince anyone that they should.
Most judges and legislators are fucking morons. Legal systems aren't a science. I wrote a thing on it a few years ago:

http://khanism.org/security/legality/
> in what sense is that assessment objective?

There's no easy way of answering that on this kind of medium (an Internet forum). I took two graduate seminars and wrote several papers on it :) But as a primer, I strongly suggest reading Hume's 'Of the standard of taste': http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Hume/hmMPL23.html

In that essay, he attempts to provide some clear-cut criteria for an objective judgment of art, food, and literature.

(Note that there ARE people that are relativists and they have a somewhat compelling argument. That's perfectly fine. I just don't buy it and I think they're wrong.)
If there would be no debt on common products, then there would be no market growth, then capitalism would fail?
Isn't that true ?
:D

I skimmed through a little bit of that book and that is one of the ones I remember seeing that was very interesting. I should finish reading through it.
Why you think any other company would hire her to turn things around given her performance at Yahoo really baffles me? And you are even jumping the gun by suggesting the name of companies?!
The solution is to only allow firmware updates when the device is already unlocked.

To avoid bricks, a full device reset puts the security chip into an unlocked state after erasing the encryption keys.
> And yet about once or twice a week there's someone new
> coming with some demand, backward idea or GPL evangelism,
> who gets aggressive when challenged.

You forgot to mention the people who try to spam the lists with propaganda for their own rando OpenBSD fork or derivative.

As a regular reader of openbsd-misc, considering the relatively low volume of the list, the frequency with which
people just storm in with batshit craziness is indeed boggling.

I mean..in the last three days alone, look at this[1] and this[2]. wtf!

[1]: https://marc.info/?t=145589643700008&r=1&w=2

[2]: https://marc.info/?t=145564257000002&r=1&w=2
Nitpick: subjunctive _mood_, not _tense_.

From the Wikipedia article on English subjunctive: "The distinction between present and past is one of tense; the distinction between indicative and subjunctive is one of mood."
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/mcewen07.htm

The above is just an article published to a government website.

And of course in Canada there are limits to foreign ownership of media outlets (foreign ownership cannot be majority), as well as foreign content in media.
Curious as to why the reading time is estimated as 2 minutes and 96 seconds. Wondering if it isn't supposed to be 3 minutes and 36 seconds?

I plugged one of my own posts in and it read 3 minutes and 166 seconds (5 minutes and 46 seconds).
Agreed. There must be a cryptographic aphorism along the lines of John Gall's famous saying about the provenance of complex systems that work.

Something like: "Usable secure systems are created by iterating from secure unusable systems, not by iterating from insecure usable systems." Someone must have said something like this before, and put it more eloquently.
Keep in mind that 0% interest isn't the same as free money. Usually a 0% interest deal comes with "finance charges".
Here's one site apparently in the works:

Rent a Coder

http://www.rent-acoder.com/project.php?id=44657
Hostname discovery (mdns), etc solves it on local networks.
If DNS is down or broken, it would be difficult for me to "use the internet", and I'd have to copy and paste a lot anyways.
I also find it difficult and unpleasant to read, particularly as body text.
To be fair, if the company doesn't have the masters any more, but they want to give people legal access, they need to start somewhere...
After they have a scanned copy, they at least have the ABILITY to re-type the text, fix the formatting, etc.

I empathize a lot with what they're trying to do.
Imagine if you're a passionate employee, who cares about the books you grew up with. They're fun to read, and you really want to give more people access to them.

After months of pushing, your bosses give-in - Sure, sell the only stuff online.. But this isn't likely to make much money, so we're not giving you a budget for the project.

This gives them a way to get started - If the titles sell, and are popular, they can go back, and argue that it's worth improving their quality. If not, at least they're legally available at ALL, and that's better than letting them be forgotten.
Virgin Galactic Unveils the New SpaceShip Two, Named the VSS Unity
It is not about the money anymore. That milestone was left far behind even before she joined Yahoo - she was worth $250M then.

It is about power.
Yeah, I went and looked up. The details are hairy, becuase Xilinx. But a KC7K410T part, which is roughly their mid-range offering has 63550 slices, where IIRC a slice has two LUTs (pay no attention to their "logic cells" number -- that's a normalized thing scaled so as to be linear with the old 4-input LUT design from long ago) and 28620kbit of block RAMs, where each block is 36kbit.

So that design uses 308/(2*63550) =~ 0.2% of the logic resources on the FPGA, but 4/(28620/36) = 0.5% of the RAM.

Not nearly as imbalanced as it sounded to me originally, but still: the LUT numbers are spun by more than a factor of two. The design is more closely equivalent to "640 LUTs". Which interestingly is very comparable to the equivalent transistor count on the original part from Intel.
So... "incomey" individuals then?
As ctskippy speculated, I too think this is less for archival and more for "LIMITED EDITION : 500 COUNT REPRINT" commercial repurposing. However, for posterity, I certainly encourage you scan that work and submit it to as many trackers as you can and/or archive.org. Don't strip the binding and what not, of course, but you can achieve pretty high quality scans without damaging the integrity of the book nonetheless.

I never was too much into gaming but my friends have tons of good memories from many'a'Saturday spent with a good DM. It'd be great if the next generation had the same resources to play around with.
Hunger, filth, fear and death: remembering life before the NHS
Linode dropping the ball with PagerDuty is huge.

I can't even begin to imagine how much money your customers could lose if PagerDuty infrastructure went down.
mDNS is slow and unreliable and on large networks it doesn't scale. I personally don't find it very useful since half the time it barely works even on wired LANs let alone big WiFi or distributed networks. It's also prone to naming conflicts (is this linux-1, linux-2, or linux-3?) and other OS configuration issues and is not secure.
Same reason people don't manage their weight better; the bad behavior is instantaneous and easy, the good decisions are extremely lengthy and difficult.
Are your Mozilla users paying for access? Are the Chrome users with the fake agent strings obtaining paid-for content for free? The use of forged agent strings isn't the offence.
Not working here either. I tried wiping out cookies and cache, and Chrome is sending the right user agent (Googlebot).
Data for Justice: Unlocking police use of force data in the US
Depends on the terms under which the employee is issued stock. From a 2014 article[1]:

Two months ago, an early Uber employee thought that he had found a buyer for
his vested stock, at $200 per share. But when his agent tried to seal the deal,
Uber refused to sign off on the transfer. Instead, it offered to buy back the
shares for around $135 a piece, which is within the same price range that Google
Ventures and TPG Capital had paid to invest in Uber the previous July. Take it or
hold it.

The employee also learned that Uber had amended its bylaws more than a year
earlier, in order to restrict unapproved secondary sales. It was unclear if the
bylaw change actually applied to shareholders who had not been party to the vote —
lawyers seem to disagree on this point of Delaware law — but Uber threatened
litigation if he tried to proceed. So he held. The financial and reputational
hassles of a lawsuit would have just been too much, even if he had won.

[1]: http://fortune.com/2014/06/20/uber-plays-hardball-with-early...
Hosting Files on Parse Server
I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with what React did just now -- they have used the system effectively. (The only problem is that they waited this long to do it).

They realized React is _already_ used in production, so it should _already_ be 1.0, and they should be using semver so consumers know when there are breaking changes between versions and when there aren't.

They did exactly the right thing.

The semver doc already says:

> If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be 1.0.0. If you have a stable API on which users have come to depend, you should be 1.0.0. If you’re worrying a lot about backwards compatibility, you should probably already be 1.0.0.

But it is true that this is frequently ignored by people who otherwise think they're doing semver.

I guess _one_ way to deal with that would be to remove "0.x" from semver altogether -- the first version you are allowed to release is 1.0, and it must follow semver rules.

But there are plenty of people who don't use semver at all, that would just increase if you removed the availability of pre-1.0 unstable releases.

I wish everyone used semver, and I wish everyone who said they were using it actually were using it, and I wish everyone using it followed that part about "If it's being used by tons of people in production and/or you are thinking about backwards compat at all, it should already be 1.0" But what can you do.

The semver spec is good already -- I don't agree there's a "fundamental problem" with it in the area you speak of, the problem is people not caring about semver. Changing what's written in the spec won't improve people's behavior in these areas, alas.
> ad-hoc local networks

Actually that's not a problem for that. Since people who are actually using them have no idea about IPv4, too and just copy addresses.
Actually you could create local address with everything prefixed by fd + 40 bit which could be just fdff:ffff:ffff:ffff::1 which isn't really hard to remember.
Heh, I'm not 'poor' but how in the hell is 199k/year not 'wealthy'?
Malariaspot.org A game to help diagnose malaria
Reform Tax Credits with a Negative Income Tax
> SHA-2 for password hashes

They're moving on from them, but they're going to leave SHA-2s sitting there and wait until everyone logs in to upgrade to bcrypt hashes at rest.

Not getting a super competent vibe off of these folks.
It is by one of the CoreBoot developers, who considers an entirely blob-free open source system to be secure.
Meh. Why not all of them?
Agreed. Most of them I have seen range from really terrible to only just crappy.
Fraud statutes do exist and the CFAA is in direct correspondence with them.

If there's anything the tech sector should be able to come to agreement on, it's that lock metaphors in a situation with absolutely no hidden knowledge or private tokens make us all dumber.
Sure, but when was the last time Y! had a successful CEO? Terry Semel before people he fell out of favor? Lasting 4 years is pretty good.
The thumbs are in fact the strongest and most dextrous fingers on the hand.
How to install WebGoat on Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04 and 15.10
... newspaper/website, rocket ships, ...
> What sort of work could this be used for?

Computer hardware can be used to run computer software.
Apple Rejects
Yes. I run a private Fever install - http://feedafever.com/
>Why index something if the vast majority of users cannot access the pages behind the links?

So people can find it? I'd be pissed if Google de-indexed something like IEEE because it has a paywall.

Assuming the internet has to be freely available is a mistake. Especially with the continued growth of an adblocked internet. We could be facing an internet with significant paywalls in the future.

I'd support a "free" search term to weed out paywalled results.

Furthermore, Google shouldn't be making normative judgements about what people should see. It's an abuse of their monopoly.
It's not showing x minutes AND y seconds, it's x minutes OR y seconds. Minutes is just there for someone who doesn't need precision and can let the API handle the rounding. Seconds is for people who want to do more advanced stuff.
Reminds me of the old joke:

"If you had stopped smoking 10 years ago you could afford to be driving around in a Ferrari right now."

"Do you smoke?"

"No."

"Then where's your Ferrari?"

Point is don't sweat the small things. Sure they add up, but you should dedicate a portion of your cash flow towards investments at the start of the pay cycle, not "what's left at the end." Then the rest can be spent on anything arbitrarily with a clear conscious.
Good point. Also, at least in my county a bank may look at limit of the credit card rather than the actual borrowings when deciding whether to give someone a new loan (say a mortgage). So if you have a couple of 10k credit cards, and one has $200 owing you can just pay it off and cancel the card, and potentially could be the difference between getting a home loan or not. Again this is along the lines of increased liquidity.
> If they don't have the licence to show something in a particular place

There's no licensing problems for self produced shows, except maybe the soundtrack - but then again, Netflix isn't stupid and has negotiated for worldwide licensing. At least I hope so, because failing to secure these rights would be... epic failure.
A thoughtful rebuttal by Comic Sans:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
“Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List” (2014)
Are network visibility tools like Pre-Crime in the Minority Report?
You live in downtown Manhattan.
Me too (for about 5 years), but this was the last straw. Seriously. Recently moved to a dedicated kimsufi (worst support but great VFM hardware-wise).