skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with your healthcare analogy. It is in the interest of the many for the US to have widespread, cheap, available healthcare. It would give our citizens longer, healthier lives, which from a purely economic standpoint would allow them to work longer and increase GDP.

The US already spends significantly more per capita on healthcare than countries like the UK that have socialized it. Right now, the needs of the few (for insurance companies to make huge amounts of money) are outweighing the needs of the many. I suspect that will change over the coming decades, but there's a long political battle to fight before we see any real change.

Edit: one of many sources for info on healthcare spending
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/...
This is about what I think as well. I don't walk around telling everyone that AGW is a hoax but in technical forums I sometimes ask only to be met with downvotes and quotes about 2500 scientists can't be wrong.

That said I do a lot of the right things for the "wrong" reasons: I recycle because I don't like wasting perfectly good resources, I take the train because that means I can code on my way to work (and I don't enjoy driving when tired) etc.
I like exercise ;-)

If we wanted a self-assembling orbital solar array to provide that much power, it would need to be almost half the surface area of the moon.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.5%C3%9710^18+J++%2F+8...
"expecting workers to involuntarily support welfare recipients is not. Could you explain that?"

Could those workers get a similar income and similar working conditions without a functional society? Unless those workers are subsistence farmers, the answer is "no". Society is supporting them, so forcing workers to support society is not exploitative.
Those are great!

And glad you like Brain.fm as well :)

To my great surprise, silence is actually the worst performer in our research and for other researchers I've talked to. check out our focus study, and also if you hit the "more" button you can see a kind of bibliography (that we need to organize better).

Silence can be a distraction in itself. Counter-intuitive, I know. I actually think I remember an article about this popping up in my news feed recently, trying to explain why. I was in a hurry so couldn't really read it, but I'll try to find it again after all this craziness dies down :)

But anyway, everyone's different, and different situations call for different tools. When the noise level is just too high for me (like, construction outside, vacuuming, etc) I use those crazy earmuffs meant for gun ranges. A shopvac could be right next to your ear and you wouldn't notice hah
You know what, you're absolutely right. We don't get to judge her her financial acumen. We don't get to judge her on anything really that doesn't impact other people in a negative fashion.

I'm just evaluating various externalizes of her situation and how she responded to them and considering how they may ostensibly contribute to that situation improving, or failing to improve accordingly.

So yeah you're right, it's not the story here...it's just something ancillary. I suppose it's a good thing I was only answering tangentially hypothetical question.
My Charge HR counted 21 steps during a 2.5-hour drive on Saturday. Yours might be a defective unit. If you're getting tons of steps from chopping celery, is your tracker on your dominant wrist? See about adjusting settings: https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-accu...
Tie that into the above theory you get: destroy players perceived identity (Snake); connect player to nerd character that plays VR games (Raiden); let him win in a lame way furthering identification with him; bash him in next game; make player's new identity unplayable in MGS4. Yeah, the guy's an epic troll.
>How many criminals are you willing to let get away with their crimes?

So you are saying Apple is only helping criminals with encryptions?

And because weakening encryption can not only be used in special cases (you mention child abusers and rapists in an attempt to appeal to emotions), you don't fear encryption being used against the average person?

For example if the police would search your phone in a traffic stop, that would be okay?

The amount of cases you could solve with a crypto backdoor seem very small in comparison the risks for the average citizen. Privacy is an important right for everyone.
Yep, that is wired for you. As far as I can tell, this plan was first proposed in the '80s. The technical challenges of a 1.21 jiggawat laser, and a gigantic sail have led to it never being attempted even though it is probably theoretically feasible.
What work do you mean? There are already extensive reporting requirements for pretty much any entity involved in a situation where someone might make income. I think pretty much any tax document an individual receives has also been provided to the IRS.

(For instance, stock brokers must now track lots for their customers, employers withhold payroll taxes and report income, etc)
To some extent. But less because the British forced it on everyone than because Nigerians, Indians, Filipinos have all found it useful for their own purposes: these are all polyglot societies in which the elevation of a regional language would advantage one ethnic group over others.

But how did English become so dominant in Europe? It seems mostly like the Nordic countries heavily adopted English as an international language, and this was a major beachhead for English. German and Russian had historical baggage, but why not French, historically the standard?
> Are you willing to create value for other humans at less than your time is worth? Because that is what you are asking them to do. If it was worth their time we wouldn't have to threaten them with pain or death to incentivise them.

Friend, hunger pain and risk of homelessness are what motivate many people to drag themselves to work. Without that threat, many people choose to be unproductive, and it makes society as a whole poor. If you take too heavily from those who are productive to enable this, it dicencentivises them. This has been demonstrated repeatedly -- in the USSR, in China's old system, in Cuba, in the DPRK, in Saudi Arabia (who, with less oil money, are having serious problems), and even in the Internet's beloved Denmark ... literally over and over and over.

(ref for Denmark, since I know that will be one of the more contentious entries on my list: http://www.businessinsider.com/free-universities-and-no-stud... )

Asking them to take what someone else is willing to give them for their work, without the threat of imprisonment from the government to motivate the giving, is not asking them to work for less than they're worth. Quite the contrary, it's asking them to work for an amount that exactly reflects the value other humans assign to their labor.
How does this relate / compete with Whatsapp?
Sleep Tech Will Increase the Gap Between Rich and Poor
As someone who has been on the job market for a long time recently, I am not encouraged by this.

What I've observed is that in response to chronic talent shortages, larger organizations prefer to downsize, cut corners, scale-back offerings, and produce output of lower quality. Meanwhile, smaller organizations do not have the budgets necessary, so they try to portray working for them as a lifestyle choice. They offer foosball, on-site beer or coffee, and meaningless amounts of largely worthless equity.

What both types absolutely will not do is to compete via wages, benefits, or healthful employment accommodations (for example, private working spaces instead of undifferentiated desks in an open-plan office).

The "challenge" of recruitment is not how to attract qualified (let alone 'the best') candidates ... rather it is how to reframe the business such that high quality is not required for executives to maintain their lifestyles.

It's a massive flight from quality. It's very frightening.
Whether the exploit is single-use, about a phone, Apple, the 5c, or any other specific parameters is fundamentally irrelevant.

What this case is doing is setting precedent that the courts can compel a company to _create_, no matter how trivial one may think that creation may be today. _That_ is the precedent so many draw exception to, because stare decisis is also a doctrine of incrementalism, of gradual expansion of interpretations. Today Apple is compelled to create a very controlled firmware; who's to say in the figurative tomorrow that Samsung won't be compelled to create and send a firmware update to a specific Blu-Ray player that creates an air microphone out of the laser? Where does it stop?

To be complete (as was pointed out in another sibling thread) incrementalism may be curtailed if implications are carefully argued and acknowledged by the judge. I am skeptical of the value of that approach, but have no hard argument against it.
Kanye Goes Agile – Ships an album with continuous improvements
Atari's contempt and disregard for its programmers at the time has become pretty legendary. Ray Kassar[0] (president and CEO) famously rebuked a group of programmers complaining about work conditions as being no more important than the assembly line workers who put the cartridges together - which then led to the formation of Activision. Atari also refused to credit programmers for their work (leading to the first easter egg in Adventure[1].)

Given that atmosphere, Atari would have probably just given the job to someone else (on the same deadline, of course.)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kassar

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_%281979_video_game%2...
This comment is not meant to be the main judgment on what is otherwise an interesting update, but:

> To focus on your content

shows a screenshot with extremely long text lines that are far harder to read than than when the sidebar thing helps keep the lines to a still-too-long-but-not-as-bad length. How does nobody at GitLab realize that you need some max-width or a container or something to keep text line length comfortably readable‽

(the same can be said for Hacker News, but everyone seems to know that it's ugly already)
Let's not pretend that this is a new issue for American society. We have almost 250 years of making these sorts of decisions.

For example, we know that bad guys use guns to commit crimes, yet we're very very reluctant to ban guns. Bad guys use cars, but we don't require cars to come with remote kill switches.

Bad guys use encryption. Shall we therefore ban it? Or destroy its effectiveness? Do any good guys use encryption? And should we take those uses in to consideration as we think about public policy?

The President of the U.S. uses an iPad. Millions of federal employees, including FBI agents, use iPhones. Let's think about the implications of punching a hole in the security of those devices.

It's very easy to make decisions when one ignores the broader context and consequences. That doesn't mean it's the right way to make decisions.
>We take the data we get and process it for later use

What data do you collect/use to make the music?
Comments where someone you don't approve of is mentioned totally neutrally, in passing? I dunno if it's going to have the intended effect, friend. People mention people, it's just kinda how folks work.
Turn the craft around halfway to your destination and burn to decelerate at the same rate you accelerated. Keeps a nice 1G on the body the entire time.
Nice. I was aware of the style, but not the name for it.

Also liked the first line of the criticisms:
`Critics of Yoda conditions see the lack of readability as a disadvantage that outweighs the benefits described above`
Show HN: Pouces – alternate input method for iPhone
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/28/man-starved-t...

>Mark Wood, 44, who had a number of complex mental health conditions, died at his home last August, months after an Atos fitness-for-work assessment found him fit for work. This assessment triggered a decision by the jobcentre to stop his sickness benefits, leaving him just £40 a week to live on. His housing benefits were stopped at around the same time.

>The Oxfordshire coroner, Darren Salter, said that although it was impossible to identify the cause of death, it was probably "caused or contributed to by Wood being markedly underweight and malnourished". He weighed 5st 8lbs (35kg) when he died; his doctor said his body mass index was not compatible with life.
It is possible to do compliant LTE phy on x86, of course it is not so energy efficient. Also x86 + fpga SoC is coming soon and could be interesting for that kind of purpose. Though I don't think baseband virtualisation will be something big in the near future.

And LTE CC is not the necessarily a good way to get multi-Gbps due to radio complexity.
The problem with US used to be some people were richer the others while in Soviet Russia almost everyone were equally poor, wasn't it?
To add on to that, if you qualify for the free tier and used TurboTax in a previous year, they make a point of showing you all the information they can prefill from your last tax return. Then, they tell you that they will delete this information unless you upgrade to a paid version.

Way to reward loyal customers. I found another provider to do my taxes this year.
Yeah, a very fishy company. Stay away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboTax#Controversies
Supposedly http://www.fillerchecker.co.uk/ will help you find products to help hit that £20 total but a lot of their numbers seem to be off.
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As i understand the situation, the FBI only wanted Apple to create a operating system that lives in the devices ram that removes the wipe after 10 tries. This would not comprimise Apple's encryption since the operating system would still contain Apple's private key (and the FBI added one time use provisions, also that this could happen in an Apple Facility).

Hence the question is, Does Apple have to make a different OS (so that the FBI could brute force) to see what is contained on the particular device?

I think they will be forced to, and i don't know that i have a problem with it.
Are you Kudu-ing me? (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Database)
Oh cool! Another dystopian policy idea! My first thought was, doesn't the person advocating for this realize they are rooting for the bad guys in the film? Then I realized, in science fiction, the bad guys often don't realize they're the bad guys. They are industrialists, or wayward idealists, or Ayn Randian capitalists. They are made villains by their philosophical tunnel vision and the belief that money is more important than human suffering.
We don't live in a society in which there is enough paying jobs to employ all able bodied people. We also don't live in a society in which every apparently able bodied person has the emotional/intellectual/motivational capacity to work. I'm content to let some tax money pay for food/tv/etc. for those at the margins. I don't want those who don't want to work alongside disgruntled people who are there because they are forced to be there. I think it doesn't make sense in terms of overall societal emotional well being.
They could have/should have circumvented all this by not allowing firmware to be forced onto a locked phone without it wiping its own key store.

Admittedly users could also solve the issue for themselves by using much longer passwords instead of short passcodes.
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I thought this was being able to get rights to use a frequency band ...
I think maybe you were thinking of a different site link, because this is the first time we've been on HackerNews to my knowledge, and our shortest sessions are 15 minutes, and they never loop. If I'm wrong then really sorry about a bad experience, must have been a bug. Give it another shot if you have a moment :)

Lots of science to this. Here's a good start: https://www.brain.fm/pdfs/ResearchLibrary.pdf

We're still organizing it. Apologies for any inconsistencies. There's still stuff we need to add as well.
> If this phone instead belonged to a living rapist or paedophile instead of a terrorist, and was the only evidence proving their guilt, would you feel the same?

Yes. There are many cases where the only evidence against someone lives inside his own head, and the State has no right to compel someone to give evidence against himself. Likewise, there are cases where someone has encrypted the only evidence against him, and the State has no right to compel him to decrypt that evidence.

How often is any crime perfect, anyway?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/09/david-c...

>The coroner said that when David Clapson died he had no food in his stomach. Clapson’s benefits had been stopped as a result of missing one meeting at the jobcentre. He was diabetic, and without the £71.70 a week from his jobseeker’s allowance he couldn’t afford to eat or put credit on his electricity card to keep the fridge where he kept his insulin working. Three weeks later Clapson died from diabetic ketoacidosis, caused by a severe lack of insulin. A pile of CVs was found next to his body.
A Q&A about Security First's Umbrella App
> The needs of the many clearly do not outweigh the needs of a few.

> How many criminals are you willing to let get away with their crimes?

If the needs of the many don't outweigh the needs of the few, then why does the total number of criminals matter?

If I want to buy strong encryption with no backdoor, and I'm not a criminal, then why would the issue of crime matter at all?

You're not being consistent in your logic.
the difference between the US and Russia is that in the US, anyone has the opportunity to change their own economic situation if they want to.
No, not programmable. That was what I meant "hardware indicator". Maybe I should have said "hard wired". If the device is active (even if there is nothing receiving the output), it should be indicated without exception.
Are you willing to create value for other humans at less than your time is worth? Because that is what you are asking them to do. If it was worth their time we wouldn't have to threaten them with pain or death to incentivise them.

The article doesn't propose threatening anyone with pain or death. Did you read it?

All it proposes is requiring people receiving free money to be willing to work for money instead (same as the people who are forced to give them free money).

The person with $10 mil. will not die or be in physical pain without that money. That money is worth less to them than it is to the family that very well might die, or at least be in pain, without it.

What about the marginal utility of time? The person with $10M is probably working hard. In contrast, the welfare recipient with copious amounts of free time will not die or be in pain if they spend some time working.

Why do the time rich get a free pass while the money rich are forced to contribute?

(The article explicitly advocates that people who will be in pain, i.e. those physically unable to work, would be exempt from such requirements.)

I don't know why this concept is so foreign. It is the same reason protection rackets are illegal.

A protection racket is when you threaten a person with violence if they don't give you money. Kind of like how tax financed welfare works, and not remotely like how the proposed "uber for welfare" works.

In a protection racket, I am worse off than I would be if the racketeer and I never encountered each other. In the proposed uber for welfare scheme the recipient is better off.
I just ordered a few things from Jet.com and it was split into 3 shipments. A shipment of 1 item came within 2 days. A shipment of 3 items is on its way somewhere (although the tracking number gives no real details). The final shipment of 1 item is still 'processing' 4 business days later. It was supposed to be 2-5 day shipping, but I don't see the third item getting to me by tomorrow. We'll see, I guess.
It's a long road to the Supreme Court. You can crush a lot of dissent and ruin a lot of lives on the way.

And if they decide to hear your case, it's entirely possible that they won't even address the primary complaint, instead choosing to rule on some other factor.
Todd from the Kudu team here if anyone has any questions, I'll check back throughout the day (or tweet at @ApacheKudu)
Care to Participate in a Study on Mobile App UX vs. Help?
Living in a car for 5000 miles
Can someone ELI5 a typical opinion in support of the Government's case? I've read through various comments and I haven't seen a concise opinion in favor and am genuinely curious.

Does it boil down to (1) trust that the Government won't abuse the existence of the tool and (2) trust that the tool will never be leaked?

Or is it more fundamental - that the target data is so valuable that the ends justify the means?

I know it's more nuanced than that, but I think - in particular -someone's view on the All Writs component just follows their view on the above in most cases.

[edit]: I'm considering this a research sub-thread, not a debate sub-thread. Trying to understand, not convince. So forgive me for not responding one way or the other.
As anyone who works in technology will tell you - "its turtles all the way down".

As long as the internet is held together by duct-tapes - I do not think there is going to be a shortage of jobs.

I always find it amusing when tech people think they can make someone else unemployed with a script.

Oh gosh - this package manager is awesome - said no one ever.

The real reason for job losses is with income inequality caused by dysfunctional govts.
Claims based authentication and authorization is all the rage.
Comey says the FBI doesn’t want to break anyone’s encryption
Revenue - COGS is a lot more interesting for a (relatively high end) consumer electronics company.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/coroners-ground-breakin...

>A coroner has demanded that the government takes action to prevent future deaths of disability benefit claimants, after concluding in a “ground-breaking” inquest verdict that a disabled man killed himself as a direct result of being found “fit for work”.

>It is believed to be the first time that a coroner has blamed the work capability assessment (WCA) process for directly causing the death of a claimant.
Could those non-workers on welfare get a similar income without a functional society? Society is supporting them, so forcing welfare recipients to support society is not exploitative.
This article ... point out ... that the increasing influence of tech companies in day-to-day life is going to mean they start coming under pressure in ways they have traditionally avoided.

It's also worth keeping in mind that this greater scrutiny of practices in the tech industry and how ethical and/or legal they are is probably no bad thing in general. In this particular case I expect most of us on HN would see the wider implications and side with Apple. However, the fact that Apple and other big tech firms are having to make these kinds of changes in the first place, to actively defend their customers' security and privacy and thus protect their own reputations as trusted suppliers, is itself a consequence of greater scrutiny in recent years and the tech industry no longer having carte blanche to make its own rules.
Ah, the 'parallel reconstruction' approach. That's an interesting consideration, but I don't think a domestic phone for a domestic entity (employer) would probably get scooped up in the collection. An interesting thought though.
I certainly do.
It's "Andre Norton", not "Andrea Norton". Her real name was Alice.

It'd be nice to think we'd advanced far enough that females wouldn't feel it was necessary to use male pseudonyms, but it's "JK Rowling" not "Joanne Rowling" to avoid scaring off the boys.
As soon as you publish your work online -no matter how promising the security of the platform is, you just don't know how and who copied your work then translated somewhere in taiwanese and started making the £££ which should be in your account.

Writers, why you just don't stop writing for Internet? Self-publishing can be more promising than online publishing, ain't?