skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That the data and transport layers are almost always intermingled, because the "OSI network model" you were taught about in school is basically a lie.

(At least inasmuch as it is claimed to describe anything in the real world. As a source of vocabulary, it's at least OK, though it does suffer from people using numbers where I would rather they used the names of the layers. Much like RAID terminology is still impenetrable to me despite the several dozen times I've read the definitions.)
It's not a weird corner case for the female co-worker with whom I was discussing self-driving cars. I'm generally very optimistic about the positive impact SDCs will have upon society and I was surprised when my enthusiasm was met with her statement, "I will never own a self-driving car."

Her main concern was safety. Regardless of "shady neighborhood" or just someone looking to hurt her in a better neighborhood - the concept of not having some kind of easy manual way to get out of danger made the SDC a non-starter concept for her.

I have to admit that after that conversation with her, the helpless lack of control of the SDC has figured more highly in my thinking about the subject.
What sounds hostile about it? They are describing the challenges Apple are facing, not judging them.
> Mint is famous for it's volume icon that includes album art for what's playing, various other info, and controls to let you pause/skip tracks.

GNOME and Unity also have that, probably KDE too.
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Surely it's the latter. Driverless cars that rely on Internet access would not be feasible, for obvious reasons.

Driverless cars will likely eventually communicate via some peer-to-peer wireless technology, but I would assume that would use a different set of protocols than our mobile phones do.
> Why fear the police?

Are you being sarcastic?
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Thank god this is becoming common knowledge. I'm gonna be extra peeved if a programmer tells me she used a certain conditional because it was closer to the number line.
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Curious, did you review your filing documents before submitting? Was it something inconspicuous?
Directive 1: Serve the public trust

Directive 2: Protect the innocent

Directive 3: Uphold the law

Directive 4: (Classified)
I was asked to do a similar thing; hired in October, marketing wanted the game I'd just started designing on the shelves by Christmas. It was already too late. They didn't understand the business they were in; they didn't know anything about engineering, or game design, or what customers wanted. Atari did not hire very carefully.
My claim is that the resources required to steal Apple's keys are significantly higher than the resources required to modify iOS in the way required. Since an successful exploit requires both modified iOS and the keys, if I am correct then creating the modified version does not significantly decrease the resources required to exploit.

When I claim it can't be used by anyone else, I mean without Apple's signing keys. There are no shortage of jailbreak developers that would be happy to work for whoever pays them, and could build tweaks in to iOS with the signing keys.
Do you have any links to further reading on that? This is the first time I've ever heard anything like that. It's pretty alarming.
> To argue against that, you'd need to claim that precedent makes it easier for the later court to fail.

No, I'm arguing that incrementalism means the court doesn't have to fail (as a court) - the follow-on steps that I outlined and you found perfectly acceptable will not stop wherever you personally think they will, nor have I outlined (or even imagined) all the incrementally creative applications of this case that will likely follow. I'm also arguing (which you didn't counter) that this case lays the groundwork for the FBI to request _new_ products from companies.

> This is the part that doesn't follow from precedent. Giving over control of the tool to the FBI who could use it without a warrant is novel, and would require a judge to justify it.

I was being brief to illustrate, not to set a literal expectation of progression; I'm not here to present an argument for court. Giving the FBI control over the tool could be argued at any point in the very long lifetime of this decision, be it tomorrow or years from now. Perhaps after the courts have decided to allow for multiple devices or when suspect X is holed up for weeks in their cabin eating pizza and playing candy crush and the FBI cannot reach them by normal investigative means.

> Pure tinfoil material here.

Perhaps. Consider the probable value of the data on the phone beyond what's already available externally. Consider that the FBI could have simply requested Apple provide the data on the phone instead of specifying the mechanism and thereby creating precedent that they can compel a company to create something new. Consider that, in spite of generally dim views of the FBI's technical capabilities, the FBI usually provides sound, conservative advice with regard to electronic evidence (as a forensic analyst I've been party to a lot). Consider that over the past year+ the FBI has been protesting with little effect in congressional hearings that $todays_crime_buzzword are "going dark", that technology companies need to cooperate with them, that "securely insecure" (my words) systems are possible if created "at the design level" (not my words). They were nearly shouted down in those hearings. Consider the subsequent public visit the FBI and others made to Silicon Valley, extending an olive branch and returning effectively empty-handed.

Then consider that this case, involving an older and still-vulnerable version of a technology the FBI has been warning about, suddenly falls into the FBI's lap. It's politically and emotionally charged, it involves terrorists - they can ask for the world and society will rubberstamp it "because terrorists."

So the FBI asks for something small but very specific, and in doing so "happens" to set a precedent that they can compel companies to create a new product to bypass the very security measures they've been arguing vehemently against. Do you really think that's accidental?
I use them because my apartment is in a secure building and the office closes before I finish work. If lockers didn't exist I would order less stuff from Amazon and just drive around looking for the locally-available version. Now I can place an order and stop by 7-11 on the way home a couple days later.
Maybe the movie and music industry can learn something here. Make your product available and affordable and people will buy.
They already outsource fixing the errors made by their algorithms to customers and the businesses that ship for Amazon.

Lol.

"Hey, lets merge these two colors, what could possibly go wrong?" is an algorithmic decision made by Amazon that happens far too frequently after I've gone home or to bed. :p
But the answer to the latter depends on the answer to the former. For example, if people tend to rely on review sites to make their choices, you should make sure your product compares favourably to the competition, and then solicit reviews for it. (And if you can't do that, maybe your product isn't worth buying.)
Today's C is still C.
Maybe for this particular use case, I don't really see how it says anything about the UX for actually using GitHub for it's intended purpose.
I've always felt that imperative programming is more in line with the way the overwhelming majority of people are exposed to algorithmic instructions; cookbooks, furniture instructions, Lego construction, driving directions, pick-your-own-adventure books, etc. Especially given how piss-poor most mathematics instruction is, unless you happen to be a mathematician and have put in the effort to recast your brain along those lines, it's easier to come to grips with the imperative style vs more mathematically inspired paradigms.
Right - I can see that's the belief you hold.

The part that I disagree with is the 'even if the alternative is poor'.

I understand that tolerating non-free software could be seen as moving us further away from a world where free software is the norm, but I also disagree with this.

You are arguing against Apple when the problem you are actually facing is a failure of the free software ecosystem to produce a viable alternative.

From an ideological perspective I would prefer free software too. My argument 'in favor of Apple' isn't really in support of Apple. It is against trying to tear down the current best option in favor of an alternative that doesn't exist.

There is a real fight going on right now, and favoring the government over Apple in this because you prefer free software seems like an extemely counterproductive move.

A free alternative can just as easily be outlawed as the non-free ones can. What matters is the legal and social precedents.
Hey, I agree. I even wrote up a lengthy diatribe once about this issue [0].

But the reality is that people hire by bullet points and no engineer involved in the hiring process is going to miss a chance to assert superiority by asking about something obscure, or some riddle, or some on-the-spot whiteboard hazing.

In well-known languages, you can at least study what the hazing will consist of and memorize parts of it. But with an obscure language like Haskell, you're at the complete mercy of your interviewer. They largely can pick their own idea of "beginner" and hold you to it. I feel like it's much harder to do that for Python, Java, C++, etc.

[0] http://suitdummy.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-unicorn-inequality...
I am actually looking for people who are susceptible to VR motion sickness, I worked on a VR project where we tried to make it as accessible as possible. It would be really useful for me to see how it is for people who are particularly affected by it. You can grab it from https://share.oculus.com/app/super-turbo-atomic-ninja-rabbit... (I defiantly agree that a lot more work needs doing to work out how to tell stories effectively with VR).
There's a long list on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_notable_fo...

A close friend of mine worked on PaintBrawl, which made the list (#2.11). PaintBrawl is a first person shooter but used paintball guns since WalMart wouldn't carry violent video games in the 90s.
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> So, my most recent stint at Microsoft just didn't work out.
The tech was cool, but the day-to-day workflow was tedious
and torturous.

This sentiment will typically go unchallenged because we all know that micromanagement is here to stay. Still, please do share the juicy bits that led you to become dispirited.
I have just installed Manjaro and find it to be fast, stable and easy to use.
For me at least, the $100/year is quickly made up in those instances when I need overnight shipping. Prime gets you free 2 day and really cheap ($5 or so) overnight.

Having some random part break and be here the next day is a godsend.
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Pretend I'm the token IT guy in your friend network,

"The FBI request to unlock Apple phones will not make you more safe. Criminals will use an alternative encryption device or app to communicate, or create their own."

It shouldn't take long to disprove the government's claim.
Just to add the anecdata for the topic, I will confirm this.

I've traveled to Canada for one-week SharePoint teaching gigs and to present at conferences. One visit, I was teaching a class for the government and had a letter from the project leader describing the work done, the duration (one week) and how a non-citizen was chosen to do the work. I was held up in immigration for over an hour and almost sent back home.

Every other time I answered their queries about my visit honestly, I've been treated with varying levels of suspicion, from the "ol' stink eye" to almost being tossed out. And none of those visits were set to be longer than a week.
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Yes, all of the Lit2Go ones are public domain--it's how they are able to legally produce them.
I did that once and the review got removed for "not appropriate" or something. I'm sure the seller flagged it for review for amazon knowing since I reviewed the seller and not the product, he could get it removed. (Which doesn't really make sense, because in buying the product I got harassed by the seller, so it affected my enjoyment of the product).
It's odd, yesterday they had a fairly prominently displayed piece praising it (at least for the UK):

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/21/apple-s...

If you look through the other articles it's all been fairly pro-Apple:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/apple

It's a bit strange that a business writer has been allowed to fairly anonymously attack Apple, in what has been a pro-Snowdon/privacy paper.
In the intended workflow, the PR itself is a very small part of the process. You fork the repo, study it, analyze it, work on it, test it, ..etc (99% of time spent), you create pull request (1%). Plus there is a reason for the PR - you describe your changes, provide reasoning for them, allow many parties to review them.

With the concert request there is nothing to do, just create the request with specific data (something that would work MUCH better through a web form) and there is no reason to have it public as only relevant people to comment are you and the band's manager (something that would work well through email).
Good to see this is alive.

Old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11016350
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I think he means that he has a job and Mint devs on Mint in his free time.
Their site is unbearably bloated with scripts and whatnot, I don't know why more people don't complain about that. The site is also filled with dishonest merchants peddling their misrepresented wares on it. I've had more issues with merchants on Amazon than on ebay.
Agree, I've wonder this too, though I'm guessing Apple is very aware of this and actively takes steps to make this near impossible. That said, I have never seen any public statement on the topic from Apple why this is the case; I asked them before and got no answer.
> We also provide guidelines on our website for law enforcement agencies so they know exactly what we are able to access and what legal authority we need to see before we can help them.

Why is that sentence objectionable? Every tech company has guidelines like that on their website.
"I'd rather have someone transitioning to DevOps with more SysAdmin experience than Dev- the cleanliness and composition can be learned a lot faster than the networking, security, and other topics that most Devs have never had to maintain first hand."

Totay agree. It's a lot easier to pick up enough Ruby to be comfortable with Chef than it is to learn the thousands of different things about networking and security - and probably the OS your average developer has been using for a long time too - that a good sysadmin knows.
I think it's a very useful little note between Gen X and Gen Y, because that 78-82 group isn't quite either in my experience.
Only against imperfect spoofing.

A GPS receiver in Los Angeles sees the same set of signals as a receiver in San Francisco - just the relative arrival times of the signals are different by, at most, a single-digit number of milliseconds.

So an attacker just needs to do a replay attack, and all the almanac stuff checks out fine because it's a perfect replica of the authentic signal.
"Obvious"? Now you are turning criticism from the thread into FUD. I used mint for a long time and really liked it. By issue with it was twofold: old packages and non-rolling release. But if those are not immediate concerns, I'd still recommend it to anyone wanting to try Linux.
Ray tracing zombies and monster trucks
Ahh, good old AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer.

http://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/3.2.0.BUILD-SNAP...
Use pinboard's Read Later or Save to Pocket and forget it forever.
It seems that we should just require any company providing taxable things to common people (e.g. employers and banks) to do all of the work. Then the IRS can just figure it all out from that, you have a few checkboxes for if you have dependents, and it does all of the math for you. That way we have a smaller set of organizations doing the work once instead of every taxpayer doing it independently.
C++: RAII without exceptions
This is the first relevant article I read [1]. I've since gone through google scholar and there is lots of relevant research. "Alarming" doesn't begin to cover it.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/persian-gulf-temperat...

Edit: as a summary, researchers claim that parts of the Persian Gulf will reach the "threshold temperature" within the next 30 years, hampering human development in these regions. "Threshold temperature" is the temperature where the human cooling mechanisms shut down, i.e. 35C at 100% humidity or 45C at 50% humidity.

Once you reach this temperature, even healthy individuals are at risk of fatal hyperthermia. Note that this doesn't have to be sustained over the whole year - even a few days per year will likely trigger mass-migration. Climate change is likely to be the single most important issue we will have to deal with in the near future (we = human race).
Yeah you're right. Downloading Ubuntu now.
Given one of the OPs annoyances is the continuing churn in tech tools, please don't waste time with Rust. The premise of the language (safety) is seductive but it comes at the cost of complexity. I am an experienced dev that spent a month evaluating it and then decided life was too short. Frankly, it is easier for someone with a C background to work in C++ than it is with Rust. That's because you can use the simple features of C++ to get going and add on complexity as you learn more/need it. With Rust, you get thrown into the deep end right at the start with the complex borrow/ownership system. There is no proper book yet on Rust (some good online sources where I commend the people on effort ... but there is no K&R).

P.S. I used Go for some projects last year and found the situation to be much better. The Go book that's available on the website reminded me of K&R ... readable in a weekend of two. This should be the criteria for new programming languages IMHO.
Just speculating, but if they changed the password using a "forgot my password" email verification method, then there may no longer be any record of what the old password was.
Chinese domain, sparse on details, cites "military experts."

Meh.
My best guess is how the NES was marketed, to boys. Here's a link to an Adam ruins everything video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i08CVkBxvBM

Did I guess correctly?

Sidenote, somehow googling "youtube video nintendo marketing video game crash analysis boys" had the video I was thinking of at the very top.
It exists (e.g. Which? in the UK), it's just undervalued because advertising already provides a low quality but free source of information.
Atari didn't have source control. AFAIK, it just didn't exist. The VAX or DG mini that most people used for cross-development was probably being backed up at least weekly, but if you accidentally wiped out something important, like all of your source code, you were likely hosed.

On a project like this, adding people to it will make it later. The 2600 is a different beast from something that you can divide-and-conquer using APIs and so forth. A typical commercial 2600 game is a holistic, byte-shaved monster piece of spaghetti code, full of tricky timing and other traps. Hard to imagine that any collaboration would have resulted in a better game.
Given they stole the full specs years ago, this is not a surprise.
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Hindsight is 20/20. Plus, you learned from his mistake and now, anywhere you go, you can remind the unix gurus to prevent that type of thing from happening.
> I'm just hoping that 3G will eventually make it to England.

3G is a useless technology and absolutely pointless in perusing at this point. It's cheaper and better to just go with LTE and there is a bit of room for upgrading in that stack.
I never played MoO so I had no basis for comparison. I should probably rectify that :)
This is totally wishful thinking.
No one in industry has a slightest idea what 5G will be.
We keep throwing fancy terms like eNodeB virtualization and then we have a reality check - LTE userplane cannot be virtualized due latency and performance reasons (LTE PHY on x86 - yeah, right...).

Same goes to those mm waves with beamforming - no DSP (IP core) can handle it now and even soon. You need to stick with very expensive FPGAs. Besides that there is WiGig coming and you can offload traffic from LTE to Wifi - investing in those mm wave small cells seems rather pointless.

Beside that you can get those multi-Gbps with new Rel13 LTE carrier aggregation (up 32 CC).
Quote:

That being said, Russia, China and others are developing advanced UHF and VHF band early warning radars that use even longer wavelengths in an effort to cue their other sensors and give their fighters some idea of where an adversary stealth aircraft might be coming from. But the problem with VHF and UHF band radars is that with long wavelengths come large radar resolution cells. That means that contacts are not tracked with the required level of fidelity to guide a weapon onto a target.

As one U.S. Navy officer rhetorically asked, “Does the mission require a cloaking device or is it OK if the threat sees it but can’t do anything about it?”

http://warisboring.com/articles/how-to-detect-a-stealth-figh...
What do you need Ubuntu for? I loved the Cinnamon experience and was used to dpkg/apt-get, so wanting a rolling release with up to date software, Debian was the easy choice. Choose Cinnamon in the installer and basically you're set.
AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other
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Airware Makers
I'm wondering how driverless cars would be "evil".

Uber isn't hiding their own efforts on that front. Maybe they aren't blaring trumpets about it when they pay their human drivers, but we know where things are going.
No, CS2 has not been released for free. The activation-free downloads were offered to support existing legitimate CS2 licensees.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2013/01/07/...
You need to look into industrial automation / measurement device manufacturers. Custom Windows software, PC-only, well defined interfaces[0].

[0] Relatively speaking ...
I put my parents on Xubuntu about 5 years ago on a whim, then moved them over to Mint about 2 years later. About a year-ish ago, I saw that Xubuntu was using whisker-menu (main UI menu with a search box like Windows) I put them back on it and went back, myself.
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Thank you, that was indeed a typo I wrote as I rushed to get out the door earlier. I obviously meant to write "if you're downloading the public key" (indeed, I referred to "download the public key of the signer" in two paragraphs up, so I suspect that was clear to most people reading). The hashes for each new version are what are signed, obviously (with the private key of the maintainer).

My sentence about "trusted signature" could have been clearer, too. You have a public key that you trust, that you leverage to verify any new materials signed by the package/distro maintainer. So by extension, you can trust the signed hashes.

I've been using PGP/GPG on a regular basis since 1998, so I'm pretty used to the workflow by now and not at all confused about key pairs and signatures (although I will admit that I sometimes got confused about the point of subkeys until I read this a few years ago: https://alexcabal.com/creating-the-perfect-gpg-keypair/)
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