skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US equivalent of this ruling would be the Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International. Very similar ruling by the US Supreme Court, urging the USPTO to stop endorsing process patents in general because of their claims to abstraction.

This ruling is reverberating throughout the legal community.

It's great, and we can make real strides in the medical, business, and software fields without being hindered by trolls and monopolies.
I'm having the same issue. It makes it difficult to do anything, because I would need to move my actual mouse pointer past the edge of my monitor to get to any of the icons or start menu with the virtual mouse.
Only on iOS <= 8.1. Is there anything published that works since 8.1.1?
I wouldn't agree that it's hard to outlaw, but I would agree that when the original encryption export laws were written nobody had OCR in mind.

It seems like it would be quite easy to outlaw this, the only question is what collateral damage would result from the process.
Until your points expire or the T&Cs change - thanks Qantas.
Politicians to Poop: A Chrome extension
RSA should not have been patented because it's mathematics. Mathematics does not need a state-enforced monopoly to promote its progress. Sensibly, it is not statutory material for patents.
I'm not sure I'm reading the chart correctly, and welcome some insight.

It seems right to use the taxes as percent of GDP as a measurement. However, GDP as a whole was, I believe, more evenly spread across the population. Is that a correct view to the problem? So if the costs of running the country have increased as a whole, because fewer people are earning the most, and therefore cost of welfare and other social needs increases, does the need for higher taxes as a percentage of GDP not increase?

Please don't flame, I'm asking this as a question. I have no horse in this race, not being an American or living in the US.
Depends a lot on the version of the phone and the state that they found them in, no?
The creator of Sparrow? https://twitter.com/mronge/status/702160883888185344
Then who is working on Google inbox?
13 Phoenix Startups That Should Be on Your Radar
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11164107 (46 points, 41 minutes ago, 8 comments)
Divorce lawyers after that.
This game has ruined my life and the lives of my wretched sons
That's not quite right either because a lot of things, including radios, and electronic circuits, can be represented with a computer program these days.
I can't think of any way in which the FBI's incompetence would have legal implications for Apple's obligations. How would that work?

If they're able to help, and can be compelled legally, why would the FBI having previously had the ability to get the data but losing it to a mistake change their obligation?
Although I agree that scala compiler is complex and can be slow, isn't your slowness expected, given you're calculating things at compile time?
Well the spin game is guaranteed to ramp up. Sycophants are already laying the ground that Apple and Cook would have to accept some of the blame in any upcoming terrorist attacks. I am amazed they haven't tried the kiddie porn route yet.

Still another issue is, if they were compelled to create it they could be compelled to surrender it too. With that its a matter of weeks or months before it gets leaked to a criminal organization or country.

My long term concern is, would we ever know if they got compelled to change iOS to insert a backdoor that gets pushed to our phones. Even if we do how long before carriers are required to lock users out for not updating?
Click the lock mouse button
Don't users need to confirm OTA updates?
Nothing in this move should affect contributions of Snakebite and Luigi. If anything, it will just make them easier to use with cloud environments in addition to bare metal.

With over 20K jobs/day, Hadoop will be a part of Spotify's data processing stack for quite a while. BigQuery is just a (awesome) piece of the full puzzle.

[spotifier]
This is the blog post that video comes from: http://blog.mdsec.co.uk/2015/03/bruteforcing-ios-screenlock.... It has a bit more context.
You gotta lock the mouse. Most likely, something's emulating a physical mouse input, which is inexact.
seems that this forum is 'moderated'. Views that don't kiss the self proclaimed savior of freedom are deleted.
Or you could just say "yes." It's pretty obvious why they are asking that question and what answer they are looking for.
Watching that, especially that part starting at 1:23 makes you realize quickly that in about 10 years, 95% of all jobs can be replaced by machines. Scary and interesting at the same time.
This part is interesting...

"The judge has indicated skepticism over the government’s demands. Initially, Apple agreed to a formal order to help the Justice Department gain access to Mr. Feng’s phone, but Judge Orenstein balked, questioning whether the All Writs Act could be used that way. He invited Apple’s lawyers to raise objections."
What Would Happen If We Created AGI?
My pleasure! Questions like these are a great way to get a large set of informed opinions quickly.

Regarding your comment on considering changing your API docs: What have you and your team talked about moving to?

Also, why no class or module docs? I find a docstring at the top of the class that talks about it's implementation, usage, etc very helpful.
Ahh, well alright then :). Thx for the info.
> “What we discover is that investigation into one crime often leads into criminal activity in another, sometimes much more serious than what we were originally looking at,”

They want access so they can go fishing too? They're really not doing a good job of sticking to the 'necessary and proportionate' line.
> Software patents provide no benefit to society

Deployed correctly, they can spur competition. Finance has no concept of intellectual property. If a small shop invents a security, and it does well, the big shops copy it overnight. This is good, from a product-diversity perspective. It is bad, however, from a firm-diversity perspective. Balancing those perspectives is what this debate is about. Slanting to one extreme or another isn't helpful.
Judging novelty or obviousness of software is an intractable problem placed on the patent office. There are too many people "inventing" diverse software too quickly. If millions of people carried gene labs around in their backpacks it would be an intractable problem for biology patents too.
That's really interesting. Wasn't expecting to hear Gitbook. Why Githbook?
None of the journalists I have met or worked with in six years in publishing and investigative due diligence know about the tools you are proposing. I recognize regex, because of a problem I needed to solve (that later became two problems), but I would love to learn more about the others. If you would consider writing that up, I would happily edit it for you.
Global warming on Mars?
Bare-Knuckle PR Tips for Your Growing Startup
Why are you calling someone "problematic" for not being neurotypical? Do you really think that's helpful?

As far as I can tell, the person you're responding to hasn't said anything offensive nor criticized anyone, so I can't understand why you're responding with insults and criticism.

And further, it sounds like they understand the situation pretty well, and I doubt your "explanation" is going to help anyone negotiate social interactions more easily by "getting with the program" or whatever.
Did you see: http://uk.businessinsider.com/talia-jane-fired-yelp-eat24-2-... ?
Indefinite detention on US soil?
As someone else in this thread noted, this also includes police and other authority figures, but it can also include family and friends.
An investor buying $200K preferred equity at 5 million pre is not implying that investor would buy the entire company for 5 million cash. The preferred equity makes high valuations possible as the first $200K goes back to the investor.
> By the way, why does Google NOT provide this link when I
> search for "Untied"? [1]

Top result for me. Maybe you visit united.com a lot (I maybe never have, I'm in the UK) so Google assumes you meant "United"?
Are you sure they moved from Scala to Python or they're just Python shops using Spark? (I strongly suspect the latter)
Apple does have a point. I probably won't own a device with a known vulnerability even if it was at the behest of the government.
Currently, 91 prisoners remain in the prison, down from a peak of nearly 800. Of those who remain, 35 are currently approved for release and transfer to a third-party country. Many have been awaiting transfer since 2009. The administration’s plan would release these men quickly while identifying more who may be eligible for clearance. It would also wind down the prison population to a smaller number of detainees who would likely never be approved for release. These “forever prisoners” would make up the population of the future prison facility somewhere in the United States.
Don't you generally have to give consent for medical treatment?
The guy has a compelling story and his team obviously worked hard on it and it may well be an awesome game, but we don't price things in a market economy based on effort. This is similar to, but a better story than, seeing a couch on craigslist and the seller basing the price on the original purchase price, not on comparable couches for sale.
Reminds me of a colleague who was filling out a medical form for his son. He got stuck on one question, so he took it up to the front desk.
"This question," he said, "asks, 'Are you concerned about your child's health?' Well as a parent I am concerned, but I'm not _real_ concerned."
To which the receptionist responded, "Are you an engineer?"
"Yes."
"Just put 'no'."
The parent comments are using the term "NFA engine," not "real world engines." NFA engines indeed cannot support backreferences for exactly the reason you specified. They simply aren't powerful enough. (The top comment in this thread mischaracterized regex engines, which is a common confusion.)

And there are plenty of "real world" regex engines in wide use that don't support backreferences.
A bit of a meta question, but what is the current thinking regarding the use of PCA in understanding data(sets)? My recollection is that PCA was somewhat en vogue in astronomy 8–10 years ago. I saw it applied to various mid-infrared data, but it seemed difficult to actually translate the principal components into useful physical knoweldge about the datasets or the astronomical objects. Since then, I rarely see astronomy papers with PCA analysis, and even then, the PCA analysis doesn't seem to contribute much to the physical understanding of the objects being studied.

Is this just a case of PCA being ill-suited to the analysis of these datasets in astronomy? Or is it a more general problem that PCA can reduce datasets to arbitrary component vectors but those vectors may not contain easily-quanitifiable physical information (but might contain predictive power, if an understanding of the underlying physical system is not the goal)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11164107
Note how Android unlocking demands never came up in this discussion. That's because the phones are vulnerable.

I am a Nexus user.
Court Filing Reveals Apple Faces 12 Other Requests to Break into Locked iPhones
Surely doctors would learn to expect the numerous false positives after a while. Or does the question not really relate to reality?
The requests listed on the chart were filed in New York, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, and Ohio, in multiple different districts.

The device models ranged from an iPhone 3 to an iPhone 6 Plus, as well as an iPad 2 with Wifi capabilities — and one phone whose model hasn’t been identified yet.

They were running operating systems ranging from iOS4.2 to iOS9.1 — iOS8 being the level at which Apple says it cannot retrieve the data on the phone because it is encrypted, and only the user can unlock it.
Sure, I used an easy case as an example, but it's not always so trivial to guess at the other person's intent.
Threat to humanity should trump all the garbage Apple and its lackeys are spewing out. Terrorists are not human.
Great answer. Has the acronym "IANAL" ever been tested in court in such a way, to your knowledge? Now you have me curious, and that'd honestly be quite amusing.
Sometimes I don't even feel the need to read the articles because the comments are so good. Good stuff guys.
Another thing you need to be clear about is that data is permanently removed when a user closes the account. "Your photos might stick around for years after you click delete" works for Facebook, but not for you.
well you are just replacing your dependency from cygwin to node.js

think of it, what is the utility to implement shell commands in a cross-platform way ?

only for Windows

You don't need an ES6 implementation of `ls` on Linux and Mac OS X, the tools are already there and yeah they are "ugly" compiled to native executable, but it is exactly what you want for shell commands

so you are basically trying to solve a Windows problem, but sorry you're doing it wrong

Windows problem is not about lacking shell commands, it's about lacking a POSIX environment

sure you want command line utilities like `ls`, but those are mainly useful when run inside a POSIX environment, and that is exactly the problem that cygwin have solved.

Now about some statements

"No ugly DLLs":

try to do a `ldd /bin/ls` on a Linux system you will see dependencies on `libc.so`, `libselinux.so`, etc. having tool like `ls` being dependent on `cygwin.dll` etc. is perfectly normal, nothing ugly about it

"Works in any terminal":

all the cygwin binaries can work inside a `CMD.exe` prompt, just add the "C:\cygwin\bin" path to your environment variables.

when you run Bash shell like Mintty, you also have access to the `CMD.exe` environment on top of the POSIX environment, for ex: you can call powershell scripts.

"Let's mix some Windows & Unix commands together"

`$ ipconfig | grep IPv4 | sort` works perfectly fine under Cygwin with bash

"but I only want certain commands"

maybe use package management, for ex you could use apt-cyg with cygwin, and do things like `$ apt-cyg install ncurses` or `$ apt-cyg remove ncurses`
Perhaps luck (trying birthdays), perhaps getting pin numbers from other services (ATM card) and trying those...
There's little doubt in my mind this technology will be employed to exterminate villages full of "terrorists" by the US military in the future. You don't even need to invoke AI for that scenario, just VR and maybe whatever Google puts into their autonomous cars.
The U.S. Has Gone F&*%ing Mad (On Apple vs. FBI)
A mardown-based wiki under version control and code comments. Everything else likely isn't worth docummenting or just merits direct person-to-person communication.
Rumor has it that Halliburton spent almost $100mil ( or was it $900mil I forget) on trying to do an ERP upgrade so I'm not surprised at all.

It's not just about the money though, it's also about having the mandate to get shit done (and probably hurting a bunch of feelings/fiefdoms) along the way.

Keep in mind, there's not this one magical system that keeps things going that by getting a bunch of really smart guys will right itself.

Often times, it's a combination of COTS and custom software that has grown organically over the years.

So take for example, one of my previous projects, which was to spin up new IT for a PE spinoff. There were over 70 major applications to account for with tons of associated business processes, functionality etc. It was a massive undertaking but yes, it's doable.
Perhaps you want to look at something like Hashicorp's Terraform (https://www.terraform.io/) which will do most, if not all, of what you're looking for.
Plain Text Accounting, a Guide to Ledger and Friends
I thought even Windows was more secure by default these days. Is there reason to think the German government can actually install trojans remotely, especially if you decline any offer to click on interesting emails?
The difference is that when people talk about hardware, they're talking about the equivalent of film, not abstract "this is central to being a camera which works with visible-spectrum light" concepts.

> you will always have [...]

> memory, storage

First, making a distinction between memory and storage is not an "at all times, in all places" kind of thing. It's more "this is what we do now, in the past, on some systems, it was different, and it may be different in the future" kind of thing. Single-level storage is not currently popular, but it was in the past and may yet come back. It already has, in some limited contexts.

Second, we've already seen home system storage go from paper tape to magnetic tape to magnetic disk to metallic magnetic disk to solid-state NAND Flash or close equivalent. Each has vastly different performance characteristics and details in every detail.

> human interfaces

I'm sure there are some iron-clad universals in HID. I don't know which of those translate from CLIs to touch-screens to gestural interfaces to speech recognition to pupil tracking to...

> power management, booting

Two things which have changed quite a bit even in the lifetime of "vaguely IBM PC-derived" desktop computers, and even moreso if you widen your scope up and down the power curve to include handheld systems and, you know, Real Computers What Do Real Work.
I didn't mean to compare native mobile apps to web apps (though I see now how it could be read that way). I'm talking about native software in general. I chose smartphones for the comparison because they're the most notorious about being slow, even as their hardware performance approaches what PCs were like just a few years ago. Although even some desktop apps manage to be as janky and dog slow as almost anything from the Win98 era, e.g. iTunes until a couple of years ago. By contrast, the cheapest Third World market smartphone would run Win98 apps blinding fast.

In general there's an arms race between hardware getting faster and native developers getting more and more lazy about efficiency. On the desktop, the hardware is finally winning--it's just too damn fast. Hopefully that will happen with smartphones too.
How to improve iPhone security now
Tech interview torture chamber
Gearing Up for a Distance Race in Brutal Conditions
I've had admin on an account that did about half a million USD on AWS monthly in the past; we cut it down a lot by expanding physically and going in hard on reserved instances, but my view into things started around there. I'm unsure if we ever attempted to negotiate a SLA, but we paid for premium support just like you (despite having a dedicated, and great, sales rep) and got kickback credits from the general SLA policy[0] just like you. Nothing special.

If anybody has a special deal, it's probably Netflix. I suspect even half a million monthly is a smaller account to Amazon.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/sla/historical/ specifically, not the current (better) one
As long as the "delete after ten failed attempts" feature is off, you can try as many times as you want. It'll be slow going (the phone institutes delays after a bunch of failures), but I'm sure feeding SSNs, phone numbers, birthdays, etc. into it gets decent returns.
EU doesn't have software patents by law either. They're being granted in violation of law.
Question which I can't get out of my head: It would stand to reason that the ruling on this case would affect other commercial phone and/or OS manufacturers, but how would it reflect on some OSS projects, where the coders are not necessarily employees of the project?
Is it possible to collect geo IP data to map to city level accuracy easily?
Hi,

I'm from a small country.

I want to get geo IP accuracy to city level for just two cities to provide ad targeting service.

The two cities are not that large. One is 10,170 km2 and another is 163.84 km2.

How should I start collecting IP address for these two cities?

Will I need to contact ISP?

Can I have people running all over the cities to collect IP address and their location?

Thanks.
This is the way I always phrase it: "Airline status simply means I'm treated like a human being."
This sounds exactly right. From an article I posted earlier[1]:

> In interviews with BuzzFeed News Wednesday, the former officers with the FBI and NSA acknowledged that U.S. intelligence agencies have technology that has been used in past intelligence-gathering operations to break into locked phones. The question, they added, was whether it was worthwhile for the FBI to deploy that technology, rather than setting a precedent through the courts.

This article seems to confirm that Law Enforcement is going to do its best to set a legal precedent.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11163338
I think you're overreacting quite substantially here. They used the word "problematic" once, and you're calling that "responding with insults and criticism".

Also no one mentioned anything about anyone being non-neurotypical before you.
If you care about your 'status' with a business, then you don't have much of a status.
How I landed my first JavaScript Development Job and got 6 figures for it
The patent office has just re-affirmed the law, not changed the law (because it cannot). Software patents have come up time and again and every time, the parliament has rejected them.
This person is talking about for applications, to which many users have "automatic updates" turned on; this is one of the places where Android is fundamentally by design more secure than iOS (though by implementation has often been weaker :/ see the Master Key family of vulnerabilities).
Agreed, most companies are this way in general. But that's why I'm surprised to see such hype around the alternative.
Incredible stretch huh?

I bet any living noun knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who is a paid assassin.

So heck yes we definitely should search noun's phone.
> This article seems to confirm that Law Enforcement is going to do its best to set a legal precedent.

What do you think the odds are that the gov. wins?
Really enjoyed seeing the photos, especially the black and white images which likely were taken earlier in Levitt's career vs. color shots. Her style is reminiscent of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was also working in that era, pretty good company indeed.

Unfortunately the article provided only sketchy info about the artist and the work. I suppose its purpose is prompting readers to find out more about the artists mentioned, certainly it taps into my interests.
Do you have any references for further reading on the Android side of things?
Using libuv with C++
This is insightful and informative, thanks. I am relatively new to startups, but at 25 years old, most of my peers seem to be in the category I've described and seem to think that is clearly the best way, if not the only way, to start a company.
doing about the same here but using only cygwin and cygrunsrv to run sshd

it work quite well, and yeah ssh to a windows box with a real shell is definitively something you want :)
I would think so. As long as you don't distribute in countries which do have software patents.
I couldn't find the information about the working prototype in their page. Do you have a link?
Those would also be the fundamentals of theatre, though, and film as a medium is essentially defined by its divergence from theatre. The fundamentals of film are cinematography and editing, but even this is theoretical compared to the craft of film-making. Just as CS includes the behaviors of Von Neumann machines with tapes, which is abstract compared to the science of e.g. processor die doping.
A dream come true
EU doesn't have software patents either. Even US law is now turning around (see Alice case).