skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you social engineer a dead guy to unlock his phone?
I wonder how this would work under shared storage model for container clusters (eg. Mesos). NFS does not cut it for all use cases (eg. DBs).
> There is a lot of material on the subject, but it all disagrees ever so slightly on one thing or another, or skips over something essential. I don't think anyone or anything is to blame for this - that's just life.

Isn't this precisely what you said wasn't the problem? The resources out there all differ slightly on one thing or another. I suppose you mean small semantic differences? I think when I wrote this article originally I intended superficial semantic differences in the math to count as well as notational differences. Doing math for too long has made me think of these as the same thing, since the true underlying insight doesn't depend on either.
>Second, some of the best iphone competitors / android devices are being made by Chinese companies.

Such as? Even if true they are running non-chinese OS software...

Making the iPhone in China means they could make iPhones, not necessarily that they can design and build their own full stack phone without "borrowing" heavily from foreign cpetitors.
I love Airbnb - simple, straightforward and easy to use. Their app on the iPad needs some work though, but other than that their design is quite simple and easy to follow. Their customer support is awesome - the other day I had asked my renter to check if there was a key and she didn't find any. A few weeks later, when she found it, airbnb immediately reached out to me to let me know something was up.
>So does that mean that the spiky periods are times when people are online the whole time?

I'd be inclined to think so, but I don't work for Facebook, there may be an entirely different reason :)

Edit: or maybe, maaaybe, it's the point of time when people fall asleep over their mobile - they've stopped interacting with the app, it still sends a few keep-alive requests, and then logs itself out.
Thanks for the history lesson. I am fully aware of what stage it's at. I am commenting on the solution and what appears to be a meandering target, with huge holes. It's currently at RC but no support for F#, no support for SignalR, VS2015 tooling is comically bad, cripplingly slow build times, and now a totally new toolchain (dotnet-CLI) that doesn't support the same dependency system that dnx supports.

That doesn't sound like a RC to me. I have a general feeling that the RTM standards are slipping massively at MS. Windows 10 was a dog when I tried it - and obviously not finished, VS2015 is very unstable, then the issues above... It feels like stuff is being pushed out the door much earlier than it previously would have been.

I do appreciate the direction they're taking, it just feels rudderless atm.
Here are my main gripes:

1. Configuring build plan branches is a pain, and the way that builds are associated with branches is not obvious.
2. It always takes a few clicks to get where I need to go.
3. We use the Artifactory release plugin. To get to it, we have to go to a build, click on a TINY (5x10 pixels or so) light gray arrow on the far left of the window, click on the build result there, and then the tab for the Artifactory plugin will be visible. This could be partially on the Artifactory folks, but it looks like there was only so much they could do with the API provided to them.

Those are the things off the top of my head. OTOH, it is functioning fairly well for us, once we've learned the quirks. We're in the process of scaling it out to the rest of our 25-developer team—we'll see how that goes...
I think papers are primarily aimed at other expert researchers, who actually do prefer brevity.
You came up with some genius model and proved it, and after all that work you decided that your name and some greek letter are what people need to think of when they hear about it and not anything about what it is? Fuck you Kronecker!

I believe the usual story is that Kronecker called it a delta function, then someone other than Kronecker decided to call it a Kronecker delta. It would be ridiculously presumptuous otherwise!
This is what happens when you reply to spam email (funny video)
Not sure if this has been discussed, but it seems that the only reason this is an issue is because Apple has the ability to install new software on a locked device.

Couldn’t Apple simply remove the ability for a software update to take place without the device being unlocked or wiped?

Obviously this wouldn’t apply retroactively to old IOS versions, but it would be consistent with their change in policy from IOS 7 to 8.
Why are you concerned with Sparkle? Is it because it's a third party library or whether or not iTerm2 makes HTTPS updates?

It seems a little debugging with LittleSnitch/Charles would glean an answer how the requests are made and what, if anything else is. Perhaps a ticket https://iterm2.com/bugs is warranted.
> How about the possibility that they are tired of their partner?

Then that goes to point #3. People who are "tired" of their marriage are the type who have little patience, persistence, hope, tools to fix their marriage. That is why they keep divorcing, because they can never feel complacent with what they have.

As far as the insecurity goes, it is like a pandora's box where all ills are born. They don't just affect marriage. They affect everything.
And it's seen 6 minor releases since then. Probably more stable than this kernel.
I'm with you 100% on all of those ambiguous terms.
Conventionally, arcsin is now used.
Log(x) edit: was presumed to be base 10 in most domains. Historically a carry over from when logarithmic tables were used very often by those who operated in base 10 (*edit: read down for a historical exposition). Mathematicians were concurrently publishing with log(x) with e as the base. Calculators ultimately (legend has it, at least) formalized it to log = base 10 because engineers designed it not mathematicians, though it might just be angry mathematicians who perpetuate that lore ;). Some subsets of mathematics might use e as the implicit base, but it'd be obvious from the context of the paper. Ln is e. Lg is 10.

I can honestly say though every single one of those ambiguities I had an issue with in the past. This post reignited latent of ire of mine which I haven't experienced since 16. Denotational semantics are important!
Man pleads guilty in international financial hacking scheme
>without an effective and compelling brand, you're a nobody

Tautology. Not having a brand is the definition of being a nobody. That doesn't mean you can't make a LOT of money.
iterm is the best terminal i have found. well done!

ps. people should run iterm, and then press cmd-/ to see something fun! ive seen them change a few times.
Several of the companies I've worked at had this exact issue. So we'd hire a few people fresh out of college train to them to an acceptable standard, then watch them find another higher paying job. Leadership refused to pay good developers, their market worth. It might be important to note the CEO from the uk, where I hear developers are paid less than America.
> They are just as dangerous as the wrong person for yourself.

Sure. Remember these words when someone drains your life savings to pay for a cocaine habit. :)

If you're able to see through people a mile away and completely avoid getting mixed up with ones who are either wrong or just wrong for you, then it doesn't make a difference.
I believe you are correct:

The legal doctrine of respondeat superior is recognized in both common law and civil law...it translates, from the Latin, as "let the master answer"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respondeat_superior
This was the funniest writing style since the WAT talks lol
Apple actively fights with 3rd party repair services. At the same time there is a huge list of things that make you lose coverage. From famous Pink Dot moisture indicator (changing color due to sweat/climate) to scratched laptop lids.

What better way to make money than forcing your user to upgrade every time product dies?
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FWIW, it never happens that someone names a mathematical thing after him/herself. It is almost always named after them by a subsequent author as a sign of respect for the inventor.
I agree with your last paragraph except for one point. Libido can and does change, but it's (from my experience) not controllable. OTOH, you can work on your communication skills, or even convince someone that, e.g. spending more money on trips than on clothing is better (i.e. influence one's values). Not even great communication between partners will fix a libido mismatch, it's not something that can be rationalized.
I almost google this economist, Walter White. :)
I think they have already done this, but the phone at the center of the current controversy had not been updated to the new version of iOS. (In the new version, in order to update the OS on a locked phone you need to enter your passcode).

Edit: No, apparently this is wrong. I got it from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... , but that article has since been updated.
Don't beat yourself up. Life's no fun without a little sarcasm. I don't think your intentions were misplaced and I don't think the rules are there to prevent fun. Just to put a reasonable limit on cynicism / negativity.
Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All the Time
Announcing NMREPLAY, a netmap based pcap player
Is Twitter “Shadowbanning” Conservatives?
Nice little investigating!

Personally, I have chat off all the time on FB, and I don't have the Messenger (or FB) app on my phone either, so I guess I'm always sleeping :)
That you consider it a fact that law enforcement obeys its judicial constraints undercuts any argument you might make
I linked to an hour long lecture from a domain expert who offers a thorough, evidence based critique of modern research practices in the health sciences. I hope you watch it, because it raises important problems in current research practices that many are not aware of (or not taking seriously enough).

Either way, I resent such an empty appeal to authority on your end. As intelligent, educated adults I'd like to think we're capable of arriving at our own conclusions. One can be critical of someone's methods without sharing their domain-specific expertise. Science is not meant to be an old boy's club, it's a communal activity; it belongs to everyone and it's up to everyone to scrutinize.

That's not how science works no matter who reviewed what. It doesn't matter if Francis Crick himself was brought back from the dead to review this paper: until this line of research is investigated further, experiments are reproduced, modified, and analyzed from every reasonable angle, the data is meaningless.

Perfect example, straight from the article:

> “We found that the published literature bears little imprint of an ongoing controversy, but rather contains two almost distinct and disparate lines of scholarship.”

> This finding arose from their review of ten "systematic reviews" of the evidence that have been conducted. In systematic reviews, scientists collect all of the primary research on a topic and, in effect, weight it on the whole. But there appears to have been widespread disagreement about what research papers ought to be included in a systematic review. If a research paper was selected for one systematic review, it was more than likely not selected for another, the researchers found.

Thd researchers choose a narrative and stick to it. i.e: Domain expertise is the problem. If it's not up to outsiders to point this out, then who?

The current trend of careerism and domain myopia, this pressure to churn out original research sausage factory style (again, presented in great detail in the talk I linked to) is not science, it's actively hurtful to science, and actively hurtful to people whose health, even lives, depends on this research.

I personally have gone through the medical system for reasons I won't go into, and have seen first hand the very real consequences of good and bad science, which is why I feel so passionate about these matters.

I also know a number of bright individuals who have left the world of academic research due to their disillusionment with the system. There is a very real brain drain going on, and God bless those who stick it out. But if more outsiders (and disgruntled insiders and ex-insiders) don't speak out more, people will continue to get hurt (many already have been -- it's not difficult to find articles and books on this subject). This isn't pure maths or theoretical physics, this is medicine; and we must hold it to the highest levels of scrutiny.
I like to do this sort of web spelunking all the time.. But the writing and humor really make this more enjoyable than it should be! Of course Facebook leaks info to you about your friends - that is the sole attraction for people to use it! Seems like you could turn this thing into a browser extension as well if you felt daring.. Like some sort of FB snooper.
I think you make an excellent point...

>>if Apple loses the kind of device you're talking about might be by extension criminalized depending on the breadth of the ruling - or explicitly criminalized by congress.<<

I can easily see this going in that direction...
I agree to disagree. It's impossible to predict the future but if I was forecasting Uber's future in China, I believe they have a good chance of succeeding. That's just my opinion.

I respect that you have a different opinion but you shouldn't assume so easily.

I recently worked for a Chinese software company for over three years. I helped them IPO in China last year before the Chinese stock market collapsed. I know how hard it is to breakthrough in China because my last company had more success in North America and EMEA than APAC. Chinese regulation is hard but I'll side with Uber any day because I believe in Travis and his team, even if you don't.
Amazing series.

I still recall being able to recount all of the 7 wonders, all of the large Greek city states, and all that other countless historical context that the developers packed into the game that gave me a slight leg up in middle school history class.

And of course I'll encourage my children to play someday. No childhood is complete without having to fight back Gandhi's unrelenting hordes of musketmen with stealth bombers.
I came perilously close to failing several university assignments thanks to an unhealthy obsession with original Civ. And I loved every minute of it.

I still play the newer versions now and then, but the original stands out as a paragon of game design. It was grid based, so unit movement was easy with keystrokes. That along with hot keys for everything meant that you could play a complete game without a mouse. This was particularly useful at keeping the endgame speedy. Something that I think is missing in later versions.
I get the appeal of simplicity,but why not try newer-but-still-simple Civ like Revolutions or something?
Define: "Great Programmer"
Define: "The System"
The type of CS interview questions they ask aren't any different from what to expect at Facebook, Twitter, or any other tech firm in the valley. Many of my friends who are nowhere near the best CS students at my school passed their interviews without any problems. Is it perhaps remotely conceivable that you simply weren't well-prepared?
He actually has detailed plan to address the issues derived from TPP.

If you are into wonk talk you will dig this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctvZuQMmY90
"What does it matter, if those were the trials that didn't find anything interesting?" -- grant writer
Precisely. Repairs are a cost. Turning people away because of pink dot, visible signs of 3rd party repair or Error 53 avoids that costs and provides opportunity for a new sale.
If you don't mind me asking, what do you use for all of those applications in your terminal? I love to know what other people use for email, irc, etc.
FCC Voted to Open Cable Box Manufacturing
Note that the purpose of this case is not to get the data, the FBI have other options for this specific example. The purpose is to set a precedent, and to get the backdoors they want created. This isn't some haphazard accidental "oops, we didn't mean to go so far" situation, this is the FBI getting out the hose and the slip-n-slide and pointing a gun at Apple to get on.
Kanye Magic 8 Ball Twitter Bot
iTerm2 is full of surprises. Double click the tab and you can rename the session.
I'm not sure it's accurate to say it was "controlled" by Oracle but a lot of--though certainly not all--active development came out of Oracle at one point, notably by Chris Mason (who is now with Facebook).
Creating your own IPython server from scratch
The article mentions that Wikipedia has a "POSIX implementation" but that code has been scrubbed from the article.

I dug around in the history and was able to dig it out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Circular_buffer&o...
Most (all?) logs I encountered (in mathematics) were base e, simply due to the fact that base 10 isn't special in mathematics, but for base e, you have log' x = 1/x. Also, it seems very common to denote the inverse of a function (even sine or cosine) with f^-1.

See also Wikipedia on that subject (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm):

>The logarithm to base 10 (that is b = 10) is called the common logarithm and has many applications in science and engineering. The natural logarithm has the number e (≈ 2.718) as its base; its use is widespread in mathematics and physics, because of its simpler derivative. The binary logarithm uses base 2 (that is b = 2) and is commonly used in computer science.
Using U2F doesn't mean you can't have a fallback to email.

There will likely be a "I lost me U2F token" reset on websites which allow you to register a new U2F token/password.

Personally I'm not holding my breath though, people hate extra steps and don't even use password managers when companies pay for them.

In the corporate space I feel like they compete with 2FA and it's not obvious this will come out on top in most environments.
It makes me happy to see .net developers get nice things.
The link is broken for me
Well, if you hadn't heard http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/huge-number-of-mac-a...

I would just like to know before I install. I don't think it is too unreasonable of a prerequisite.
I played with iTerm2 for a while (coming from Linux) because I was told I had to have it. I switched back to Terminal.app after my last clean install because I didn't really see what I was getting.

For someone who tmuxes for tabs and splits, what am I missing?
It doesn't look like any libc is included. Which means it will probably be a pain to port any other languages a libraries. Right?
Revolutions was too simple for my taste.
free & opensource version: http://www.freeciv.org/

web version: https://play.freeciv.org/
How does corrupted memory affect ZFS's performance? Much of the replication state is stored in memory; is it possible you could lose data from a single bit being flipped?
After I graduated to dwarf fortress, I never looked back.
We stand with tim_cook and Apple (and thank him for his leadership)
Seems like the biggest thing of all is forgotten here - people change. Even if you marry the right person, they won't be that same person a year out and you won't be either so it doesn't really matter who you married or who you were when you married. Sure there are some people who are really really wrong for one another but outside of that, everyone is going to "marry the wrong person". If they're not the wrong person when you marry them, just wait longer. There's a book that covers this as well as a lot of other misnomers on marriage and how to work through them, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0054TVVPK
Apple's opposition to FBI request sets stage for broader fight over encryption
From TFA:

The California case, in contrast, involves a device running iOS 9. The data that was previously accessible while a phone was locked ceased to be so as of the release of iOS 8, when Apple started securing it with encryption tied to the passcode, rather than the hardware ID of the device. FaceTime, for instance, has been encrypted since 2010, and iMessages since 2011.

So Apple is unable to extract any data including iMessages from the device because all of that data is encrypted. This is the only reason that the FBI now wants Apple to weaken its security so that it can brute-force the passcode. Because the data cannot be read unless the passcode is entered properly.
If you have something useful to contribute to this conversation, then it would behoove you to put your cards on the table rather than just tossing around generic claims. For example, are you claiming that the secure enclave in A7-based devices is nothing but a sham? If so, what is this based on?
At a quick glance, this reminds me of bottle. The fact that it uses falcon as a basis for the engine is great too. I get the feeling that you could write up an API with this in a day and it would perform well.
> As a sidelight to this debate, I want to ask why is it that Apple, of all companies, is the one taking such a strong stand on this issue?

Eh... Because the shooter was using an iPhone?

If the shooter was using an Android device, FBI would be insane to ask Apple to decrypt data.
Honestly I'm mosts impressed that the example gif is only ~480kb despite being high quality and pretty long! How did you do that, author?
I'm an Engineer I have NR sitting on my desk shelf I refer to it often. A lot of my peers use it as well.

NR is hugely helpful. One example a few years ago I needed to implement technique from a math paper in some C code.

The paper included such classic math terms like "Tridiagonal Matrix" and "Cholesky Decomposition" I'm sure they mean a lot to someone with a math background but baffled me at the time.

It wasn't until I pulled out my handy copy of NR I was able to even slightly wrap my head around just what the hell a "Cholesky Decomposition" even was. Let alone how I would code it. And even then I had to dredge up my old Linear Algebra textbook from Uni to re familiarise myself with basic Matrix operations.

The code I wrote ended up being full of comments like this:

"/* Newton's method to compute positive root
f(p)^2 = (u^T)(Q^T)(D^2)Qu and F(dF/dp) = (u^T)(Q^T)(D^2)Q(du/dp) */ "

Which is basically me trying to wrap my head around just what the hell the mathematical paper is talking about whilst writing the algorithm programatically.

Even now opening the .C file some years later it took me a few minutes to make sense of that comment I had to realise that U^T was shorthand for transpose of Matrix U.

Numerical techniques are hugely complicated especially when you don't deal with them every day I have yet to find a book better than NR at breaking them down and presenting them in a way someone like me (with Science/Eng background) can understand them.

I'll gladly take any recommendations you have for updated references. As far as I know NR and the GSL (GNU scientific library) documentation are considered the gold standard by all my peers.
>Programming is different because you can use a text editor with copy, paste, autocomplete etc.

But we don't do this. We use abstractions. Why doesn't the mathematician? (And you'll say of course they do). In which case we go back to the original question of why dense notation?
Pivotal buys another software development agency, Neo
In my opinion this is the best game humanity ever managed to design. I've never played anything that I've enjoyed more.
I don't have a Facebook account, but is there really no way to not share your available status to your friends? In Gmail you can simply sign out of Hangouts.

On a side note,

> If you’re wondering why the response starts with “for (;;);”, it’s to, among other things, encourage developers to use a quality JSON decoder, instead of like, y’know, eval().

This is wrong, as I commented on the linked StackOverflow post, perhaps a bit too strongly. But it's really frustrating to see that people have misconceptions because of incorrect answers on StackOverflow.