skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think free market has always done a better job of protecting Individual liberties from the government. In fact a lot of Americans take for granted what these profit mongering corporations are doing for them. If this had to happen in China or India the corporations would bend over and grease up because there you wont succeed without government's approval at every step.

I really wonder what Apple would do if Chinese government asks similar backdoor. May be they have already complied.
It is a file system, consisting of file system objects, like files and directories.

Already exposing processes as files is an abstraction. It somewhat works because you can imagine the file representation being maintained by the process. But it is an abstraction, because a process is not a file.

But what is more important: A file system is a hierarchy. At the root is the most fundamental object. Each level has subordinate objects. That the model you expect.

Having UEFI variables mounted as a file is a surprising loop back to something even more fundamental that the OS itself: The firmware of the physical computer. It a breach of the mental model.

It breaks one of the most fundamental principles that should be followed in man-machine interaction: The principle of least surprise.

I have a machine. I have installed an operating system on it. The OS manages several disks. On the disks the OS manages file systems. I expect the files of that system to be managed by the OS.

I do not expect that regular file system actions have effect outside the hierarchy of the directory on which I perform the actions. Specifically I do not expect files on that system to manage the physical computer.
Have you even looked at the source code to glibc? It's stuffed full of macros and #ifdef hell. Not to mention symbol versioning, the use of gcc-specific compiler extensions, and ancient-UNIX-beard performance hacks. You'd have more success teaching a chimpanzee to play the violin, than automatically translating glibc into anything.
"Does the world produce enough food to feed everyone?

The world produces enough food to feed everyone. For the world as a whole, per capita food availability has risen from about 2220 kcal/person/day in the early 1960s to 2790 kcal/person/day in 2006-08, while developing countries even recorded a leap from 1850 kcal/person/day to over 2640 kcal/person/day. This growth in food availability in conjunction with improved access to food helped reduce the percentage of chronically undernourished people in developing countries from 34 percent in the mid 1970s to just 15 percent three decades later. (FAO 2012, p. 4) The principal problem is that many people in the world still do not have sufficient income to purchase (or land to grow) enough food."

Taken from http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20f....

I did not want to just say 'there is enough food, but the distribution is not fair'.
Nazism has nothing to do with race and nationality. It appeals to a certain type of mind.

It's not Nazism that should occupy the thoughts of intellectuals. It's the underlying psychology of the in-group/out-grouping and jingoism. There's nothing qualitatively exceptional about Nazis. They were just one point in a spectrum of behavior within the range of possible human behaviors. The challenge to society is that society itself is made out of the psychology of human group cohesion. We are immersed in such psychology, and taught almost from birth to regard such things as akin to ground truth.

As 21st century intellectuals, we need even more to be self-aware of how such group psychology distorts our perception of reality.
Unless you are sterilizing everything entering the cleanroom, that is simply not possible. Fungal spores, bacteria, and viruses are everywhere. If one of your workers is a smoker, they can spread Tobacco Mosaic Virus, for example.
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Ironic that so many of the personality flaws listed in this article apply to today's caste-worshipping Zionists.
Attacks on Artistic Freedom Almost Doubled Worldwide in 2015
It's not copyrighted, so the intellectual property is in the public domain. But this doesn't mean they are prohibited from hiding the object, or making people contractually agree not to take photos.

In the USA, there are certain fair use rights that let you copy a work without a license. It's a big gray area, usually it's OK if it's for purposes of commentary or education, and not for commercial use. Other jurisdictions are probably more strict.
A compiler has more than syntax though, since it understands semantics and does a lot of checks. I think the parent comment refers to something a little more rudimentary, like a macro-based system to do a rough translation of code.
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That 50% stat is made up stat. 50% Americans probably cant spell "encryption" properly.

It is very easy to make people bend over and grease up by threatening them that some bad people are planning to kill them.

Defending liberty does not need 50%. You need few extremely vocal people willing to fight the good battle and help the discourse.
The difference is that corporations have (mostly) voluntary membership but unelected leadership, whereas nations have (mostly) involuntary membership and elected leadership. So it still stands that it should not be the expected state of affairs that corporations are seen as stewards of the common good, rather than the government. It really ought to be the other way around, and the fact that it isn't is sign of a problem.

I don't remember who said it, but there is a quote along the lines of: "People should look to the private sector for growth, and to the government for justice. Increasingly, they look to the government for growth and to the private sector for justice."

Edit: Found proper quote and source thanks to mbrock's pointing out where I likely heard it last.

The quote is:

"We have come to rely upon capitalism for justice and the government for economic stimulation, precisely the opposite of what reason would suggest." - Donald Kaul

And it comes from here: http://articles.philly.com/1990-10-17/news/25891604_1_budget... (Timothy Taylor did quote Kaul in the podcast mentioned in the comment below)
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I had this when I was a kid and it cost about $20. It's called a walkie talkie. The only people you can talk to with this is other users.
Yes. As this article shows, signals intercepts are enough material to "annihilate" your opponent in negotiation. In diplomacy, information is a weapon. Information known only to you, is a nuke.
Dutch process neutralizes the acidity of the chocolate, which might be what you perceive as losing the kick; in any case, there's plenty of debate as to which makes better hot cocoa -- you certainly aren't alone in preferring natural to dutch process for that use.
> No, you appear to be purposely taking my words out of context.

Purposely? You didn't provide much context. Apparently you include some large exceptions whee you do trust the government.

> you do too.

I've already told you I don't, because the government has a pattern of behavior that suggests otherwise. What is the basis for your trust that they wouldn't go after Apple's signing key? (or any other key)

Did you forget that the government forced Lavabit to turn over their private key?

> they could make their own firmware change

I've already addressed that, but I'll add that they could still take that route in the future.

> Now that is some tin foil hattery

Insults like that do not help your argument.

> It's a big leap from where we are now.

Perhaps. I don't think it's a very big leap at all to suggest that the government might repeat tactics they've used in the past.

> Is your problem that you don't like the ability of the government to get and execute a search warrant against a person?

Of course not, that's stupid. I have no problem with most warrants. I do have a problem with the general warrants being used by the FISA court, which were the reason we have the 4th Amendment.

> they can demand for example that your landlord grant physical access,

That's correct. However, this case isn't about Apple simply granting access to some of the property they own.

> make it so the phone can't be unlocked by Apple.

In the future, that would be a good solution (zero-knowledge techniques are always a good idea.
Off topic, but it's surprisingly refreshing to see someone put "Christian" next to their name in the same place they put "Mozilla hacker." The vast majority of programmers either aren't religious or hide it so well that you couldn't possibly tell if they were. (Not that being overt about it is better, either.) I understand that it's generally best not to talk religion in the professional workplace, but a person's own blog is a more neutral place to bring it up, so it's nice to see that here. It's also refreshing to see that there are other adult converts to Christianity in the programming world, as opposed to from it, which seems to be the norm in general but particularly in this field.
No governments around the world have any credibility defending the liberty of its people.
I'm not sure if that's available in the UK. But I have tried many different cocoa powders, including some expensive ones, and by far my favorite is Cadbury Bournville. It's lighter colored than most and has a stronger flavor. Maybe it is non-dutched, or at least less so than usual?
Self-sign custom your Android ROMs, so that not even Google can roll it back
My assumption is that for JS single quotes are used because double quotes are the standard for HTML, and this allows for easier use of JS code in HTML attributes for JS events (e.g. onclick="alert('foo');").

I assume JS allows both because of the languages that came before, such as Perl, where it was a convenience to make it easier to include either double quotes or single quotes (contractions) within a string without escaping (but Perl goes much farther than that with the q and qq operators).

In other languages, such as C/C++ single quotes aren't used for string, but for character literals.
Though I was working in marketing research/intelligence on both agency and in-house sides, I had the similar thoughts. However, it's rather the side-effect caused by fields everyone in. When we are in business, which means a field targets at money and whatever exchange in a timeframe, only the exchange matters. That's the most important field. All other things compromise to it to some degree. The contribution factors from other fields are necessary, but have to be balanced. I believe it's easier to understand what I said from another angle, think about it outside the field we are in. It took me years to get that. Just my 2 cents.
But it could influence the longer term effect that they're studying. They address this issue in the section "Secondary Analyses":

> In a secondary analysis, we asked whether cognitive performance predicted chocolate consumption rather than the other way round. This analysis was conducted on a sample of participants who had completed a cognitive assessment in waves 1-4 of the MSLS, but also completed the dietary questionnaire at wave 6, a mean of 18.0 years later. Cognition was assessed using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)... There were no significant associations between chocolate intake and the total WAIS...

Seems like the chocolate eaters weren't more intelligent to begin with.
yeah this is like a recipe for turning an N-pass compiler into an N+1 pass compiler
Agreed, and more on the topic: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-nitrogen-pr...
What can we do with a quantum computer? (2014)
Maybe 13th century England was not supposed to be a government of the people, but arguably all governments claim and have always claimed to be for the people.
Yes, that's why I put "organic" in scare quotes. George Carlin's piece food lingo said it better than me:

Natural

The last one of these bullshit food words is natural. And these comments are directed at all you environmental jackoffs out there. The word natural is completely meaningless. Everything is natural. Nature includes everything. It's not just trees and flowers and the northern spotted owl. It's everything in the universe. Untreated raw sewage, polyester, toxic chemical waste, used bandages, monkey shit. It's all perfectly natural. It's just not real good food. But you know something? It is zesty. And it's tangy, too. Bon appe'tit, consumers.

The rest of the chapter is here if you'd like to read it: http://pastebin.com/jejt4dfm
I think what GP is saying that you'll have problems in logic or other typical programming problems and that it isn't a lack of language features/safety but rather time/money being thrown at these libraries

I imagine the top two reasons unsafe memory access happen is:

1) other complicated logic seeped into the memory sensitive area or causes programmer fatigue

2) memory management is hard

Rust helps with #2 but let's not kid ourselves, what percentage of a library like glibc would be spent in unsafe blocks? Drawing attention to an unsafe area can help though.

As you can see, I'm running around in circles. Just like every discussion about this does. Until an avid Rust user puts their money where their mouth is, we're all just playing Armchair Programmer.
Is there a "glibrust" or equivalent standard library for Rust, yet?
I haven't been through airport security yet, haha.
Does this mean that the electrons experience infinite acceleration? I know very little about graphene, but this seems to violate some basic laws of physics. Do the electrons actually behave this way? Or is this description of constant velocity electrons simply a close approximation/good analogy for what is actually happening?
I don't know much about glibc, but since you can call rust from C and vice versa, it seems like you could reimplement a few functions at a time, incrementally phasing out C code and replacing it with rust. Assuming, of course, that you agree with the author's thesis. This approach lets you reuse the same tests and do things like benchmarking etc to make sure the implementation is performant and compliant.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11053415
It hasn't been off, that's been established already.
That makes sense. Cheers!
For step 0, look at Rust's libc crate.

For step 1, you'd need to carefully look at glibc's ABI, which is even more complicated than its API due to backward compatibility and symbol versioning.
Thank you, I appreciate your response.
Timothy Taylor talked about that idea as guest on the 1 February episode of EconTalk with Russ Roberts.
Memory safety problems are the low-hanging fruit of vulnerabilities. A re-write by unskilled programmers will not guarantee the code is safe, because they will introduce many other kinds of vulnerabilities.
Agreed, the hope is that the combination of Rust + a rewrite, you'd be in a MUCH better place than where we are now.

I think an interesting question is, why are there so many contributors to the Linux Kernel in comparison to something like glibc? Both, I'd argue, are equally foundational.
you can load the mp4's in VLC as well
Ubuntu's ZFS reference guide
I hope the same faculty understand that here are not many science jobs available.
I got it because it seemed like it'd be an interesting experience, and it has been. It's still interesting, but not as much as it was, and I've been beginning to think about removing it; if it ever becomes a problem for any reason, I wouldn't hesitate to do so.

It's not a hugely risky thing. My biggest concern is/was the bioproofing on the magnet becoming damaged.
Very interesting to hear this from a contempory standpoint. Nazis as so often portrayed as purely evil that it's difficult to think of them as real people that willingly accepted that way of thinking.
>It isn't today, but it may be at some point. We tend to underestimate the effects of monumental shifts like we've had in IT. This project represents the first steps in that direction.

But what makes pharma expensive and time-consuming is the regulatory process. Producing drugs is easy - meth dealers do it all the time. But spending a decade getting your drug through the federal system is expensive, and there's no technological shortcut. I'll take more interest when they stop "investigating the feasibility/cost of getting this through the FDA" and publish a plan to actually do it.
You have to dumb down some of the technical aspects but this isn't a particularly complicated topic.

Think about something like climate change or vaccinations. You probably have no actual idea how it all works. But with some explanations you can understand the gist of the technical sides of those issues.

The main disconnect between the tech crowd and the general public isn't technical knowledge but values. A lot of people in the tech community put a lot value on absolute privacy or secrecy. The general public doesn't. Especially in a case where the privacy or secret information is to a 100% certainty related to an actual mass murdering terrorist.

I'd bet if anything, the general public would overestimate the privacy risk the apple crack would cause. They don't know about signed updates, for example.
I guess you could take a look at complexity theory.
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It was just a couple years ago that the FBI was lamenting the fact that it was having trouble hiring hackers because they all smoke pot. I only cite that as it asserts that the FBI does in fact employ teams of digital hackers. The NSA surely has better/more, but if the FBI needs into an iPhone I'm sure they could do it on their own.
Finding experts is indeed tough -- I remember trawling around freelance boards with very bad results. It got a lot better when I discovered premium job boards + done for you services online.

Specifically for you, I think this might help: https://www.codementor.io/computer-vision-experts

In general, here's how I usually do my googling:
- Initial search: "<keyword> + Done for You Service" || "<keyword> + Consultancy"
- Second Search Run (if technical): "site:codementor.io <keyword>"
- Third Search Run: Go to Clarity.fm and ask some of the folks there for referrals to someone
For Apple Civil Liberties = Good Business
To a degree, yes. But even if you take a more pessimistic stance and assume that lawmakers have an agenda that is entirely divorced from that of their constituents, they still need to manufacture consent[1]. Which means that if you get enough voters to be strongly opposed to something, it does have an effect beyond what a small group of highly informed critics can have. The political system is neither perfect, nor useless, is somewhere in between, and I say so as someone who comes from a country with political process that leans way more towards 'broken' than the U.S. one does.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
I would encourage Tor users blocked by CF to use archive.org or archive.is save functions instead of solving captchas and teaching Google how to be more human.
I leave my discussion here. I recognize that there is something deeply unfair about leaving a population out in the cold. I agree, we ought to do something for them, but this is not a critique of our social policies at large. I mean to simply remark that insurance is exactly the financial vehicle that best serves to smooth out the consequences of unlikely yet expensive occurrences.

The problem as I see it is that insurers swap and reinsure risk based on classifying the customers into various tranches. If I have a lot of accidents and tickets, I'll pay more for car insurance. I can expect the same fate if I buy a Corvette rather than a Civic. If my house has a thatched roof, I might have to pay more for fire insurance. If I live in Florida, I might pay more for flood insurance but less for earthquake insurance. If I smoke, I'll need to pay more for term life coverage. But my health expenses are correlated to nothing so much as my age. There's not that much I can do to change that. I can buy a different car, or a different house, or move to a different state, but no matter how healthy I strive to be, my last year of life is virtually certain to be more expensive than any other. Very possibly more expensive than all of the other years combined.

My mother had great insurance, thanks to her civil-service career back in the 1950s and 1960s... and in the three weeks leading up to her death (of old age, more or less) in the 1990s, the medical bills probably consumed half the economic value she contributed during her lifetime. That was not a "risk"... it was practically a certainty. In the absence of a sudden cause of death. I'll probably experience the same thing, and you probably will too.

So if "insurance" is just code for time-shifting the payments that the healthcare industry will eventually demand from almost all of us -- which it is -- how can that be the right economic model? It doesn't work anything like any other form of insurance. It might not be a racket, but it's also not a free market.
They actually did this to reverse-IPO, giving all of the PE firms and partners a way to get liquidity since KCG was already public.
Friends with Zenefits.
Renting is vastly cheaper than buying in many of the most expensive markets in the USA, if your only assumptions are like "borrows 30 year fixed at good credit rating current rates at 80% of the value of the property".

Vastly. Fancy parts of LA. SF. All of New York. Pretty much anywhere in the train-serviced urban/suburban Northeast.

It might not "make sense" but it is true. I'm also sure it's not the case in most markets in the USA, but in the large metropolitan markets, it is true, and that's the point people are making when they say "you know, it might make more sense to invest your investment money in a different asset class and rent rather than pay the ownership premium here in Santa Monica/Pacific Heights/Williamsburg"
How about a re-write of coreutils in Rust?

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
"While these companies have said they would comply, when legally obliged to, with handing over information on their users, they say they believe that creating technological back doors to their digital systems can lead to potential abuse by governments worldwide."

This article is overlooking that it's not only governments that people would have to worry about if intentional backdoors are implemented.
Nice one.

And not only that, but "backdoor" isn't accurate. It's not what has been requested. "Backdoor" sounds more provocative though, and helps build numbers for the Apple side of the debate.

If Apple can crack the phone open, let's see it happen. And then after that, they should improve iOS security so not even Apple can crack it.

I'm not impressed that Apple can if they wanted to, build in a system to weaken my phone's security. They should patch that opportunity in the next release.
I'm not qualified to comment on that - but this is the core of Linux: everything is a file.

You may want to call Linux as a crazy operating system , but then you are veering close to Godwins Law anyway.
> or even smaller projects like glibc.

Umm, "smaller"

> incrementally rewrite

It is GNU LibC, even if your rewrite is GPLv1337, the toolchain isn't "free enough" for them. You will be "stopped by verbal force" in the sake of preserving an inferior, but "free" core library.
There's no link to the Wikileaks documents in the article.
Yeah, but Apple didn't fail to read the public Facebook of an immigrant to see if they were a foaming at the mouth, fully supportive of killing a bunch of civilians, crazed loonbat terrorist, before giving them the ok to come on over and kill some people.

The FBI et al did.
Just completed my first contract/charge via @bonsai, I'm in love to say the least. Makes creating a contract and getting clients setup for billing a snap
...and?