skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the slippery slope here. The government is asking Apple to do something that is both possible and reasonable. I see no slope to that from other typical court orders.

Giving the government a way to brute force PINs wouldn't break the trust of every iPhone owner, merely the owners of iPhones with pre-A7 CPUs. And great, if they trusted Apple on this their trust was misplaced. You can't trust companies not to unlock stuff when the government requests it with a legitimate court order. If you want Apple not to decrypt your data, the only way to ensure that is to make it so they can't.

Again, Apple has (so far as we know) made it so they can't, on newer hardware. But this phone that the FBI is trying to get into is older hardware and built such that Apple can get into it. If you're looking to point fingers, blame Apple for building not terribly secure hardware. But don't point fingers too hard, because they're doing it a lot better now.
"From what I understand Tim is doing, and I greatly admire, is trying to avoid a judicial requirement that they be able to do this on demand. The so called "back door" requirement, because he knows, as others do, that such a feature would be used by more than the intended audience, and for more than the intended uses, to the detriment of Apple's users."

To be fair - the only reason he's doing it is because it would cause a significant drop in sales for Apple devices. People overseas would immediately stop buying because "The American government is listening", and that's assuming countries like China and Russia wouldn't ban them outright.

This is the big thing American politicians are missing or glossing over in their campaigns to get re-elected: Forcing American companies to compromise their products will result in a significant loss of revenue overseas. Microsoft, Google, et al, have already reported it and foreign governments have already started banning goods/services (due to the Snowden revelations).
Does anyone know what the consequences for Apple will be if they keep refusing, but the courts say they must?

Massive fines? (we know they have the cash to cover it)

Jail time for execs (whoa!)

?
Debian implements the comical definition of Bureaucracy really well. Missing the forest for the trees and thinking that every single piece of software is built and released the same way.

For a Linux distro that has been around so long, it's mind boggling they still don't understand that. Wine used to have the same problem - Wine's cycle had the Chrome-like cycle before Chrome even existed. Release every 2 weeks like clockwork. Releases are not any more or less stable than the previous one, but they implement more functionality and a newer release will almost always be better than an older one. Wine's "Stable" releases are meaningless, other than "We spend a month working on bugfixes/regression instead of features before a stable release".
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Simple, we also need a : 'Employees Harness big data to predict which employers are most likely to do crummy predictions'
Except for all of the times we see articles going on and on about how China's growth and dominance is a threat to us.

I agree the articles we see are biased, and there's an undercurrent of fear in trying to downplay China's rise.

That said, I feel that the forces trying to explain away or ignore China's outright fabrication and lies about its growth are more, how shall I say, insistent.
Bitcoins? Dummy companies?
So this was a work phone owned by his employer. Does that change things? Surprised they didn't have IT software installed already to monitor the device.
What impresses me is decades ago a lot of food chemistry work went into figuring out weird tastes to mask the taste of caffeine and so on. So that's why Mt Dew and energy drinks taste the way they do, to cover up the bad flavors, make it drinkable.

More recently there must be a lot of research going into how to pack 25 spoons of corn syrup into a drink and still make it drinkable, or even taste good. It is impressive purely from a food science / chemistry standpoint, no matter how unhealthy it may be.
I have been just doing dup on OpenSUSE for over 6 years without a single issue. :) I am getting rusty on rebuilding server skills.

Debian's update system does drive me nuts, but I have never run a Debian server for longer then 6 months.
> tabs in the background should use less CPU

That is a naive view on it. Javascript can be doing a LOT of things. It could be rotating a product carousel; or it could be running a browser game. In both cases that's something that can use a LOT of CPU, but in the latter case the user might want it to continue processing in the background. How is the browser supposed to differentiate this on its own?
Linux enthusiasts have had a very bad time when wanting to try a Ubuntu phone because you had, to do so, to activate an account with a valid email address. As you may imagine these Linux users are concerned by privacy issues, so it was a definitive problem.

Other early reviews of people who could get past that were usually not good because of not-consumer-readiness and low-specs of the phone, making usage a slow torture.

I hope these early reviews should be forgotten, so wait and see.

BTW, the fact that FXOS is heavily reliant on android was revealed to me as a cruel joke: you need to use a Microsoft only program to be able to unlock your FX phone. Hooray for free software!
I'm curious to hear how you would describe Clubhouse relative to the competition. Are there aspects that are fundamentally differentiated? Or is it more a matter of making lots of little improvements, which add up to a much better experience overall?

I ask because project management software is a super crowded market, with a lot of products that seem only subtly different from each other. On the surface Clubhouse also seems like it's only subtly different from other products. I'm curious about strategies for navigating these kinds of markets. Is high-level differentiation useful? Or are the details more important? Or is it really all about marketing and branding?

Or, if you guys just wanted to make something you like and are hoping enough other people like it too so you can pay the bills, and you're really thinking strategically about growth fight now that's cool too.

I haven't really tried Clubhouse yet but it looks really nice. And I certainly have yet to fall in love with anything out there. I will definitely give Clubhouse a try.
Neural Network in Quartz Composer, by Mike Matas
In Slovenia it is illegal to use cash for [business] transactions bigger than 100 or so euro. I moved out soon after that happened for unrelated reasons, but I haven't heard anyone non-shady complain.

I haven't heard of any definitive results in driving down corruption and the grey market either though.
Which jobs will AI (Artificial Intelligence) kill?
We are just using the site as set up by the Apache Infrastructure team. I'll file a ticket to see if they can add the clone URL there.

Here is a page with the clone URLs: https://git.apache.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

I don't think you know a lot about iq.
Is this "just" new software compatible with current devices or new hardware altogether?
You have things backwards. To "be in a reasonable commuting distance from work" you must stay far from those cities. Well, assuming you want a family. Commuting into SF from some place in the central valley is not reasonable.

Pick the middle of Florida's east coast though, and you could afford a big house (perhaps half acre, 4 bedroom) within a mile of work. Yes, there are jobs.
Angular 2 Example using ZingChart JavaScript charts and beta-6
Anyone have a good explanation of why, in the Python example, they recommend `hmac.compare_digest` instead of `==` for comparison?

Is there something obvious I'm missing here?
>I'm not sure where the click-bait is. The title of the article is consistent with the content, i.e., many beverages at Starbucks have a lot of sugar content. Whether that comes from adding sugar or adding ingredients which are naturally sweet is not the point of the article.

A glass of milk has more sugar than it than a can of coke, and more fat also.

>the "special" milk which is used by some coffee places has about 9% fat and 2-3% carbohydrates which makes it worse than coke on it's own,

Not necessarily different breeds of cow have different amount of butterfat and sugar in their milk, the milk that you get in the store has for the most part been sifted for quite a bit of the goodies in order to make cream, cheese and other dairy products you are almost sold leftovers especially if you say buy skimmed milk.

>Confirms the point above.
No it doesn't skimmed milk will either have less sugar removed from it than whole milk, or the cow breeds that will be used are those which produce sweeter milk naturally

>Perhaps not for the same volume. Many fast food chains sell sodas in cups that are 2-3 times the volume of a 33cl can.

The article compared it to a can of coke which is 33cl not to some bucket you can buy at your local big belly burger joint.

>Again, consistent with the article's point. The numbers are there, and they seem to be higher than the recommended daily amount of sugar intake.

The article point was look Starbucks is worse than soda so you might as well drink coke instead.

I don't think any one thought that drinking a liter of milk is "healthy" or a good way to blow about half your caloric budget, if they did they need to be educated about nutrition in general not thought to stay away from Starbucks the local artisan latte that is served in what else would be considered soup mugs is just as bad at the end of the day doesn't matter if it has 2 teaspoons less of sugar than Starbucks.
Want to know what has even more sugar? that "sugar free" smoothie or freshly squeezed juice as it has over 2 times the amount of sugar as most soda per unit of volume as easily 4-5 times more sugar per serving.
Heck a decent sized apple or an orange have more sugar than a can of coke should we stop eating apples?
You pay in advance if you want to pay cash. Or, you give the pump your credit/debit card (which is also paying in advance).
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Way to go Apple.

And Edward Snowden just tweeted this a few minutes ago in response to another tweet proposing Google back up Tim Cook: "This is the most important tech case in a decade. Silence means @google picked a side, but it's not the public's."
Absolutely, always find the outliners and see how they did it.
I think the upvotes are coming from an interest in this particular subject more than the source. I would like better material collected on the subject. Anyone have an alternative choice for research or discussion on this subject?
> How are people going to buy drugs in the cashless future?

Barter (including exchange of services as well as goods).
It was mentioned in a few places, but very briefly as well. Which is a bummer because Neil Stephenson could've afforded to push a few details more into the story.
How a painting can sell for $300M
I put a ton of sugar in my tea, but tea is so diverse I enjoy all the different kinds. I think I am now down to only one teaspoon per 8 oz.
The obvious you're missing: Catching a few bad guys isn't worth putting everyone at risk. It's nobody's business what I spend my money on. And the real bad guys will still find a way.
I'm not a python person but it is probably a constant time comparison. If you compare things in such a way that the time it takes to complete increases with increasing prefix match than timing attacks are possible to recover the secret.
Recovery mode with DFU and the like results in a device wipe.

There are many ways to redo the firmware, but every single one of them, by design, requires wiping the phone to implement.
For anyone who reads the comments before clicking the article, the subject is storing your users' passwords, not managing your passwords for a variety of services. I had interpreted it as the latter. A better title might be "How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016".

(Title is currently: "How to Safely Store a Password in 2016")
Centralized Logging and Monitoring
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Using `object` as the keys of another `object` in JavaScript
I think this is extremely important. We all want answers and want to know how to do something and the Internet puts that information at our finger tips, the problem is that it's 99% outright bad advice.

Watching some talks from Elon Musk lately trying to find "the secret" and it's amazing how little secrets they seem to be from people that aren't trying to sell you some kinda info product or brand in the long run.
Open source back end as a service – back{4}app
Yes, because your buying into their FUD. Getting rid of physical cash would make it far easier for central banks to go negative with interest rates. Why would they do this? Because the idea is to force people to spend money to prop up the economy instead of government looking to see it itself is the burden through excess borrowing, taxation, and regulation. Also, with a purely digital system you could not escape negative rates or bad money policy because you don't have it in any real sense.

The real threat however is they could simply ban the sale of any good or service by flip of a bit. Let alone the surveillance possibilities, everything you buy would be logged and could be used against you at a later date and not just by government officials but in any court of law or hacker. They could impose fees or penalties and there would be no escape from it. You could not simply pull your money out of the bank because there is no physical representation to hold.

Cash is freedom. Freedom to associate and support whom you want without trace. That is not a freedom we should ever give up lightly.
As long as there are politicians, there will be cash.

You can't (or don't want to) accept bribes, buy votes or hire hookers/strippers with traceable payment methods.
> why authorities are dealing with Apple at all

I'd guess "security by obscurity". Just because they have the device rooted via SIM card doesn't mean they have available a signed build of a multi-gigabyte OS with most security libraries expunged.
== in python will stop comparing after the first character mismatch. You can use that fact to test byte by byte your password knowing that the more good characters you have, the longer the comparison will take, which is called a timing attack.

hmac.compare_digest is a constant time compare, in that no matter if there is a match or not, it will take the same amount of time.
Considering the last distro upgrade had Apache going from 2.2 to 2.4, which introduced considerable changes to the config file format, "upgrading the servers" is not something that can be done in _all_ cases.
They are, but if you look at Clubhouse's UI there are exact analogues to almost all of Pivotal's UI. Didn't Pivotal invent some of these terms, too? I could be wrong.
Why is this a surprise? They have nutrition information for all their products on their website. Not news.
I found the tone problematic, and the "About" page even more-so. The blog covers, among other things, "important issues from 9/11 Truth and false flag terror".
My understanding is both, but the new hardware isn't a consumer device, it's a component meant for integration in a VR headset.
Your argument is a little extreme, but with good testing you might be able to prove it in most cases.

A few interesting concepts:
Cost of carriage: a fistful of cash is easy to carry, but a truck full of benjamins is not.

Should it be possible to make recordless transactions? What kinds of transactions? Are there exceptions?

Who should profit from containers for cash? (Visa network fees, the cost of a leather wallet, the cost of computation for BitCoin, the bank)

I've run out of time to keep whiteboarding ideas before I catch my bus, but, to summarize, I sympathize with your desire to do good in the world but there are a lot of ways cash is used that you might consider as you work on this idea.
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Does Clubhouse have any features to help show a product roadmap to other teams? For example, something that shows the priorities and queued work for the next six months that can be referenced by an inside sales team.
If she's looking just at the posting part, she should try Buffer/SocialPilot.co/HootSuite. That should do the trick. If she's looking to monitor for replies and engage with the community overall, then she might need to use more than one tool.
> Why would they do this?

Because every true banker salivates at the thought of giving you a savings account that earns -1%.
Right, but the FBI knows they wouldn't. This whole situation is generating good PR for Apple. Getting people elected that can change things would be a waste of their money because if known, it is very bad PR (the public is generally against lobbying like this) and the good PR created by this "fight" ends immediately.
don't paint over mold. It's dangerous stuff, get mold removal products or a specialist in; better yet, make the landlord pay for it (which he should, because if his property becomes uninhabitable by mold he's screwed).
Literally right below that it says: "To address this packaging issue, once a ESR cycle is over, Debian has
been accepting uploads of new ESR releases in the stable release."

As in, they accept and release new versions from upstream instead of maintaining their own fork with backports.
I don't think the safe analogy holds up, maybe someone can help me understand why it would, given:

A safe is a container filled with physical objects: property. Property is subject to search and seizure with appropriate warrants, levies, writs, orders, wants, etc.

A phone is a container filled with information. The only physical property relevant to evidence consists of the electromagnetic state of the memory on the device. This would be no different from the bioelectric state of the neurons in the human brain, which coincidentally, also is a container filled with information. In both cases, there seems to be easy precedent to state that the information in those containers represents protected information, as it pertains to the possibly incriminating testimony of that information.

A safe can be physically removed and brought to a place where there are more specific tools available to access its physical contents. I stipulate to that.

A phone can also be physically removed and brought to a place where ... What? What tools exist to interrogate the electromagnetic state of the phone that aren't already accessible? Asking Apple to create some software allowing them to unlock and read the information is tantamount to asking a neuroscientist to create software allowing them to unlock and read your mind.

Not trolling, these are my sincere beliefs. Are they wrong?
A pity that the WM totally sucks and does not even support themes or configurable behaviour
> Ah, the panic attacks. If I don't wake up with one at least once every three weeks, I feel I'm not working hard enough

I really hope this is sarcasm, because I feel like this is a terrible mentality to have.
The fact that people don't understand the risks they're exposed to doesn't make those risks go away. And once the data is exploited it'll be too late.
Nominal value was the important term in the parent, i.e. a 100 dollar bill can't become a 99 dollar bill.
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I am not-so-proud owner of Meizu MX 4, it is the worst phone I ever had, and probably worst phone on the market. Although I have paid for it as little as $300 it is terrible phone ...
Battery life is unpredictable, you can take it off the cable, and it will show it is completely charged, in next moment it is flat zero. Sometimes it will run for day on 10% constant and just shut down. Charging while phone is turned-on does not work well, so not sure what is going on. I have tried contacting company but no one responded at the end I will need to buy another phone.
Also lots of apps are not there, skype is almost unusable, there is not WhatsApp or Viber, maps ... running application or anything else is not there ...
Only thing good for is that you have Console, and that is all ... you can write bit of code and play with ssh but overall BAD exp ....
Fed can buy all the bonds it feels like so there is no way to 'flood' the market with T-Bills. Net result would be China selling off it's reserves at a huge discount which would be good for the US.
I'm definitely NOT buying an RFID-blocking wallet if they have to do marketing with hoaxes like this
I'm not super convinced OP's SAM architecture is that revolutionary. It will take something waay better to displace the current champion: React+Redux.

And speaking of the champion, here's a good write up[1] about tfb's helper library 'react-redux-provide' that automatically matches names in this.props with Redux actions and reducer outputs. It's a simple thing, but tremendously reduces the wiring boilerplate for React+Redux apps.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11098269
They don't even have to do that. They wrote the OS, they have the signing key for OS updates. All they need to do is push an update to the device with a backdoor that allows reading off the unencrypted contents post-boot (possibly with the addition of a judicially compelled fingerprint scan or PIN brute force to get the encryption key out of whatever on-device escrow it's stored in).

The only way to secure the device against that would be to have the users manually memorize and key in a complete 128 bit encryption key, which they could then refuse to provide.

I think we tech folks were fooling ourselves with the idea that Apple had somehow delivered a "snoop-proof" device. They really didn't (no one can!) as long as they're subject to government or judicial control.
The Great Suspender is indeed great. I also like to use Session Buddy so I can preserve groups of hoarded tabs without actually having them open.

edit to add link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...
Oldest reference to it I could find is this blog post (in russian) quoted a deleted facebook post (also in russian)

http://www.yaplakal.com/forum23/topic1310380.html
Censure the FBI and James B. Comey for actions related to mobile cryptography
How do avocados fare as a substitute?
>Am I missing something obvious?

Freedom
hmac.compare_digest is constant time whereas == will return as soon as a mismatch is found. The difference in return time can be measured. The key phrase is a Timing Attack[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack
I would not mind the problem as much if Banks worked like banks of old rather than opinionated service provides. Banks today limit how much cash is withdrawn and for what purpose, and any transaction is added to a permanent record. This record is then turned into precious customer data which can be used for any internal purposes, shared with partners (like insurance providers), and given to several government departments like tax collection, social security, the local police, secret police, national spy agency, foreign police and spy agencies, and so on. The customer has zero control and is barely recognized to be a stake holder at all.

It is possible to create the cashless society without the above problems, but no governments or banks are interested.
When do you think Parse will open source its Dashbord?
Its an feature to users who want to continue using its amazing tool to update/evolute his apps.
A glass of milk has more sugar than it than a can of coke, and more fat also.

Could you please go look this up? When I check at https://www.google.com/search?q=milk+nutrition I get a small glass of milk having ~1/3 the sugar of a can of coke.

An equal volume of that milk would have ~1/2 the sugar of a can of coke.

Of course the lack of fat in Coke makes that part true, any milk fat will be more than the fat in the soda.