skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That guarantee until the latest generation was the only thing protecting the hardware. It has never been altered or hacked that I am aware of. Doing so would require modifying the physical construction of the chips on the device.

Possible? Maybe, but if it was that simple the FBI could simply change the signing key. It's not, and they can't.
I'm also surprised how often I ear about this "patent" argument while actually "the world except US" don't recognize software patents. It's really a "US only" problem, the rest of the world don't care about this.
> It seems to me, you deny objective ethics when it conveniently justifies your behavior.

I deny objective ethics always, regardless of whether it justifies my behavior.

> Only a very sad and miserable person must beg for an explanation as to why inflicting suffering is wrong.

This is what I mean. There is no real explanation as to why inflicting suffering is inherently wrong, so the natural resort (probably the evolved retort) is to assume I'm evil/wicked/sad/miserable. That's the natural response to anyone who doesn't fit in the prescribed norms, but that of course does not make it objective.

> Perhaps you are yourself trapped in a cycle of fear, apathy and pain, so you don't recognize it in others?

Well, I feel happy. :)

There is no connection between virtuosity and happiness, though many ancient writers dearly wished there was, unless society consistently punishes people who violate norms. That's been known at least since Ecclesiastes.

> I hope you will have the humility to watch the documentary I suggested after all,

Even disregarding what I said, I don't watch documentaries. Any documentary. It takes too much time for too little content that is too easily edited into propaganda, and though I don't think it is the case here, they are too often the sources touted by conspiracy theorists.

I recommend reading something more outside of your stream, perhaps Zhuangzhi or Nietzsche.
The FBI use NSLs fairly freely and nobody really seems to object. The first amendment doesn't really seem to help us here.

I think the only reason this wasn't done under a gag order is the FBI wants to use public response to win this case since it's about a terrorist attack (IIRC, they tried the exact same request about a Meth dealer and it was refused) so they can set a precedent. You can't set a precedent for open court and rally the public behind you if it's all secret.
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> My impression is that Apple's position is that its technically infeasible to make this exploit, which isn't really true.

They've been perfectly clear that they could do it, and then explained why they feel it would be wrong to do so, nothing to do with it being technically unfeasible.
Their man researcher has a PhD in Neuroscience and the lead guy has been researching and developing audio-neuro software for over 11 years.

https://www.transparentcorp.com/company/staff_details.php
Sorry between Mint and Gnome 3 - Gnome seems to have better HiDPI support, but cinnamon is close :)
I seriously doubt real, production SDCs from the likes of Ford, GM, et al., are going to lack manual controls. Consumers will simply not accept them otherwise (I know I won't).

If I'm wrong about that I guess I'll continue to drive myself in an older car as long as it's legal, which should be for a long time to come. Hell, at the very least, buyers of Ferraris/Porsches/Corvettes (or even Ford mustangs) are not going to want to sit idly in their sports cars and be chauffeured around at the speed limit all the time :)
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57$ million of profit with just 150 employees too! I'll take 380k per head any day.
How I almost got caught up in that VC game but then didn’t …
American Glue and the German Startup Ecosystem: Interview with Andy Goldstein
This is the worst idea not proposed in jest that I have ever read. Uber and the "gig economy" are the death throes of an economy that is suffocating itself with rotten ideas about globalism ("We can all be rich if we stop making things and have other people do it for us!") hatched by corporate economists... Suggesting that we should all do each others' laundry more is just a brutal exacerbation of the underlying problem no one wants to confront. We need farms, factories and things so that the work of everyone can participate in creating actual value and system can create more value for the people working again.
I'm disheartened that my site seems scary to you -- the "we" referenced is myself and some friends who have signed up as slush readers. I'd really appreciate it if you could let me know what information I could publish that would give you confidence in the site. It sounds like I should put up an 'about' page with some information about myself and my readers. For now, here's my linkedin page, to put a face to the facelessness: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joestech
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Remember, opinion pieces in the NYT are not fact checked and the authors can be lying through their teeth, or should I say, expressing a heart-felt opinion.

> But these are relatively minor burdens compared with the potential benefits of reducing criminal activity and tax evasion.

The same justification which complicates my life, as an overseas American, since I have a bank account and retirement savings in the country I live in, and which costs me several hundred dollars each year to get a US accountant to handle my taxes.

Obviously I want a more concrete justification than "potential benefits."

> There are now so many ways to pay for things, and eliminating big bills should create few problems.

What are the other options for the 10 million unbanked or underbanked American households?

Or those who travel overseas and don't want to depend on the credit/debit card working? For example, I was in Germany once and the ATM ate my card, because my bank back in Sweden had issued a fraud alert. I had to borrow money from my co-workers because I wasn't going home for a couple of days and, silly me, hadn't brought extra cash with me to change into Euros.

Of course, the NYT reported on problems with US credit cards when traveling overseas, eg, at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/travel/credit-card-problem... , so it's not like this is an obscure issue.

And as everyone has pointed out when this topic comes up, cash is king in the German speaking countries. The last few times in Switzerland I stayed at B&Bs, where the practice is to pay in cash on arrival. 4 nights @ ~$120/night is about $500. But that's okay, since the Swiss ATMs give out 100 CHF (about $100) bills. Which are accepted everywhere I tried.

So yes, if you are a rich business traveler (like an editor for the NYT) then there are many options for you. But that's the 1% speaking.
I don't buy enough in a year to justify it.
Then the FBI claims the process is too slow, they have too many requests, and have a judge order Apple to provide the OS digitally. Even if they promise they won't go to a judge for that in the future, they could change their mind. As Cook said, once created, it exists and there is no protection against it getting out in the wild.
Nitpick on the nitpick. If the Git blobs were the source of the memory leak then this would, in fact, fix the memory leaks.

Pretty aggressive stance when you may, in fact, be wrong.
Here's a video of an actual one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD6VKLoS59g

It does look very realistic, but makes me wonder whether having an uneven light distribution is desirable or whether it's something that's needed to trick the body.
Apple Has Already Won, and the FBI Has Lost, Say Forensic Experts
The contradict themselves:

> Is it technically possible to do what the government has ordered? … Yes, it is certainly possible to create an entirely new operating system to undermine our security features as the government wants.

And yet:

> We have done everything that’s both within our power and within the law to help in this case.

If it's possible for them to do it, then it's within their power, and it's perfectly within the law for Apple to write a custom OS and deploy it onto a device with the device's owner's permission (in this case, the owner is the County of San Bernardino).

They don't want to do it. Heck, I don't want them to be able to do it. But they can, because they designed a system which they can backdoor.
This is very promising.
Thanks!

Consensus seems to be we can ship it somewhere this week.
What is it the fbi is after? What data exists only on the phone and no where else?

Phone call, texts, or data logs? Subpoena the cell company or the ISP.

Email? Subpoena the hosting provider.

Any communications used on that phone traveled over the Internet, and the logs are most likely preserved. They could get all of the logs of outgoing requests from the cell company and then go to each service provider and demand dumps of data from any accounts that Phone logged into right?
"I'm curious who this author is, a lobbyist for Uber?"

Actually, yes, pretty much.

"Derek Khanna (@DerekKhanna) is a former congressional staffer and IP litigation lawyer in Silicon Valley who spearheaded a campaign that enacted the last technology bill into law (P.L. 113-144), and Cesar Conda (@CesarConda) is a former Senate chief of staff and White House policy adviser, founding principal and policy adviser of Navigators Global."
The issue is the precedent that is made. Once they create the special firmware, even if it is locked to one device, they have stated that law enforcement have already told them they have hundreds more devices they want unlocked. They would have a much easier time going to court and compelling Apple to resign the existing special firmware they made to work on these other hundreds of devices. Apple could no longer argue they had to create something to fulfill the warrant, since it was already created.
I was surprised to learn that iOS 4 - 8 permits updating the firmware without first entering the PIN.

Device Firmware Update mode
https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/DFU_Mode

This technical factoid is relevant to the current discussion. I did not understand how creating a custom firmware was useful.

To further ground the discussion, I found this informative:

Legal Process Guidelines U.S. Law Enforcement

https://ssl.apple.com/privacy/docs/legal-process-guidelines-...

Whereas before I was firmly against Apple helping to crack the San Bernadino iPhone, I'm now merely mostly against.

I don't understand how this action can help FBI. What additional, unique information could possibly be on this phone that they couldn't discover by alternate means?

I don't understand how an error by FBI obligates Apple to clean up their mess.

My understanding is that iOS 9 changed things so that this kind of forensics backdoor is no longer possible, mooting this discussion.

FBI should take their lumps and learn from their mistakes.
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How would the phone know that the password was changed if it was off the whole time?

Either 1 or 2 must be true for my proposal to fail.
I recall seeing elsewhere that the employee wasn't fired for blogging about starving, but that she was found to have used her personal account to leave-in some cases-distasteful comments on some customer pages, and outright offensive ones on others.

Attempting to recall and track down where I saw this.

edit: user carl_13 has links in his comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11151531
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Documentation: http://pygeno.iric.ca/
Is GPG security through obscurity, since it only relies on you not knowing my private key?
Our newest hire is a bot – will it pan out?
If you use our GitHub importer, it will migrate your code, wiki, issues and PRs. It can do it in batch for all your GH projects.

Docs here: http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/importing/import_projects_...
I think easier to automate than to do by hand.

All of this can be automated with sh, git & sed.
> Heck, I don't want them to be able to do it.

Why? Having talked to a lot of people who hold this position, the only underlying thought I've been able to discern is that you can't conceive of any time someone else holding encrypted data could hurt you.

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?
This partly shows what a poor term 'tech worker' has become.

"Customer service agent fired after blogging about low wages" is a story that could be written anywhere in the country.
I can't help but feel you are being extraordinarily uncharitable to what I think is anything but a slavish attack on the tech sector, and rather a fairly accurate description of some of the issues it is going to face. This article does not in anyway advocate against encryption, and instead point out – completely correctly – 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.

tech doesn't exist without encryption.

The Guardian is not arguing against encryption. It's pointing out, completely correctly, that in increased availability of strong encryption raises issues that we have no yet dealt with.

It isn't hard. The case is a right to privacy, which also happens to be a huge part of ANY tech company's business. The reason we use so much tech these days is because of the privacy controls. Also, Snowden and others pointed out the FBI probably has all useful the information it could retrieve about this terrorist anyway, so the work phone is relatively useless.

I don't agree – it is a difficult case to make. I happen to agree that access is not justified in this case, but it's hardly completely obvious that this is the case.

Translation - "tech companies are creating problems in modern life akin to oil companies' oil spills"

No – this states, again quite correctly, that increased presence and use of the products provided by tech companies means that the decisions they make have wider impact. It's a traditionally unregulated, not-really-seen-as-worthy-of-regulation sector, but as the decisions and events surrounding these companies gain more public awareness, there will be increased pressure to deal with the outcomes.

"Tech companies are in a weak position and will probably lose this battle"

Again, just no. This argument clearly points out that the FBI case has brought a simmering matter to a bit of a head, and that it's difficult to see a way in which Apple will come out of it looking good. Either they are "helping to shield terrorists" or they are "signing away customers' privacy".

"What if" sounds like the author is warning of impending doom on the tech sector.

That's not an anti-tech, though. It's a good point – what happens when something unambiguously bad happens in the future? The Guardian is not saying "we can't have encryption because this might happen" – it's saying "This might happen in the future, how will tech companies cope?"
I would think an up front calculation of cost of living in San Francisco (in top 5 highest in US) vs offered salary would show it was not feasible to take that job.
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Apparently her poverty is a bit of an exaggeration.

http://alotofrice.pixieset.com/thatsalotofrice/
Are you saying the Government has no legitimate interest in the contents of a suspect's or deceased's mobile phone?
If you know you will kill 400,000 and make millions homeless in Syria, would you act because of the claim of the "chemical war" on a few village? That sounds absolute "evil" when it came out of CNN, ABC, NBC. Those news reports are a lot worst than the claim "Brutal tortures".

Would you act to completely destroy a reasonable stable society.

How many Iraqis do you need to kill to justify the WMD?
And to add to that, I'm not hunting around the Internet for the best deal, because I don't want to hand my card number out to everyone online. I'm willing to pay a little more to know who has my credit card number and who doesn't. The time it takes me to cancel a card, get a new one, and change all my auto-payments to reflect the new card is worth a few dollars more.

I didn't get a Raspberry Pi at launch because I had never heard of RS Components or Element 14, and I sure as hell wasn't given my card number to someone I didn't know. If it's not on Amazon, Newegg, Sparkfun, or Adafruit, I don't need it.
They pay for placement with gratis or discounted hardware, not with dimes.

A long, long time ago, I did data entry for a local newspaper of campaign contributions records. At that time, I learned what an "in-kind" contribution was. This was when someone would, for instance, provide food for a campaign event. The candidate who benefited was required to report the dollar amount of that food as an in-kind contribution.

Payment in kind is another term for barter. The reporting requirement is so that public political campaigns could not hide sources of support by failing to report barter-like transactions.

And you shouldn't mislead people by saying Apple does not pay for product placement. It does pay. It pays via barter, rather than with cash, but it pays.
>so it is about marketing

I read that line the same way. Under everything, their business isn't privacy; it's making money. They just happen to take a strong public stance on customer privacy. That seems really difficult to explain to readers without patronizing.
> This FAQ has more than 1000 words, but these are the words that matter:

> > The only way to guarantee that such a powerful tool isn’t abused and doesn’t fall into the wrong hands is to never create it.

And of course, that's also wrong. The only way to guarantee that such a powerful tool isn't abused it and doesn't fall into the wrong hands is to make it impossible for such a tool to exist, not to refuse to create it.

Right now, today, Apple has the ability to create such a tool. Some finite number of human beings at Apple have the ability to create such a tool on their own initiative, e.g. were they disgruntled.

It should be impossible for Apple, or disgruntled Apple employees, or any nation state, to create such a tool.

Otherwise, it will eventually be created, because if something is possible then is eventually probable.
4-5 pieces per month, posting them for free on the site but charging a subscription for kindle and other e-reader versions. Since this is a hobby all proceeds can go back to paying more authors and buying ads to promote. If that model doesn't work I may have to change it down the road. I'd also like to eventually have pieces read for a podcast, but not initially.
Writers are paranoid. I played around with a self-publishing site last year (http://webfiction.co) and was surprised more than once by how worried writers were about getting ripped off, losing control of their work, etc. I think there are so many shady characters in the space that everyone has been burned.

Basically everyone wants someone else to take a chance on you to provide social proof. Consider tracking down a well-regarded writer and commissioning something?
It's a gig band. They play bars and clubs for whatever money they can get from cover charges. Limiting the number of places that can book you is dumb. Plus, its not like they have to book everyone that requests them.
> They could get all of the logs of outgoing requests from the cell company and then go to each service provider and demand dumps of data from any accounts that Phone logged into right?

The primary service provider being Apple, who operates a fully encrypted messaging system where the cleartext only ever exists on the device.

It's a child abuser's wet dream.
Pretty much, as far as I'm aware; the device ID cannot be changed. Bear in mind that this entire discussion is applicable only to older iPhones, in any case.
Apple Has Already Won. Now It Should Crack the San Bernardino iPhone
I don't understand this - Yelp provides free breakfast and lunch to all employees in their SF Office. Why would she be starving if her employer feeds her two meals per day for free ?
My point is that it would also apply in a smaller cases for a different reason than simple precedent: it would require no significant work not already undertaken.

This is the crux.
I live in Singapore and the free shipping to my country is USD $125.

Sometimes I really wonder how they make money when the items they ship are so heavy.

In my country, the shipping cost would easily be 2 to 3 times what Amazon would charge for their paid standard shipping. E.g. The box that I received recently would have cost USD $30-50 to ship from my country to USA. They either have a fantastic shipping deal or they really have deep wallets, the latter is probably true.
For Europeans, [Interlingua][0] would be ideal. The people that made it looked at a bunch of European languages, and look a least-common-denominator approach to lexicon, phonology, and syntax. The resulting language looks a lot like Spanish lexicon and phonology, with simplified English syntax.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua
The same product is often sold by multiple sellers, though.
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Ubuntu mate has the same desktop environment as Mint with Ubuntu underneath it.

https://ubuntu-mate.org/
He describes the co-evolution between platforms and applications. The lifecycle these platforms go through, and which ones might become the next successful platforms: AI (deep learning, theano, tensorflow), Cars, Drones, Internet of things, wearables, VR & AR.

I don't believe the statement that we'll see fully autonomous self driving cars on the road in 5 years. My gut feeling there is that the step from something which works 95% to 100% will take a very long time.

Most bullish about the AI & VR trends. Especially since VR allows so many more processes and experience to be moved online.
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For me, it's very clear how work/life balance is affected by working at home vs. working at the office. If I work at the office all the time, my home slowly becomes a mess: I'm always running late and I don't have time to clean up and organize my home. I don't eat. I start hating everything. I'm less productive at the office because I didn't eat and probably didn't sleep well. I can't concentrate. Forced socialization makes me miserable. When I go home I get depressed because I find a mess and I don't have energy to clean up. However, if I work at home, I work very happily, ideas start to flow, I concentrate, I take my breakfast when I need to, I take breaks not just to drink coffee and do the small talk thing some like, but to clean up a bit my home, eat, do errands, etc. If I stay at home, I'm happy, my home is clean and organized, I eat, and my balance feels right.
Someone poured their heart and soul into something that may not make a profit! Don't be such a cranky scrooge just because they confess that.

An ex used to run neurological studies, and they are incredibly expensive. The small survey groups will no doubt improve with time. If you don't believe the hard science, then try the product and see if it works for you compared to the music that's linked to in the above posts. Further criticism is unwarranted.
Fallen to what?
I will! We just launched, and have a handful of submissions so far.
There are many excellent, paying science fiction/fantasy collections out there. You need to set yourself apart in a way that convinces people to trust their stories to you (who we know nothing about) instead of someone else.

Especially since the established collections prefer/require first publication. Why should we risk that you'll publish and fail to pay?
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