skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No that's just silly.

I wonder if there is something somewhat related. It's not just A Phone, once they have the access method then virtually all other phones of that kind are open.

They are using a High profile case because it's easy to find an echo in their petition. They probably want to see many other phones, but this case goes deep in the mind of the people. From the start it seemed off to me that the suspect was cautious to destroy all the other information but leave the phone... there.

The phone might be just a normal one and have no clue at all.
I think you're right. Treating your work life as a separate component of your life is not something that's natural for humans and our social traits. Treating work life as part of your life does not imply anything about how long you work.
Python: Why can’t we write list.len()?
> rather than terrified of our future as human batteries in The Matrix

Humans make terrible batteries, therefore its more likely we'll just be exterminated.
I'm happy I have a habit of clicking through to the HN comments before reading the article, then.
Also discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135078

and here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10626291
yes, lets all base our understandings on shaky legal speculation.
Do you know of any good resources for learning about using P2P and WebRTC to cut down on livestreaming bandwidth costs? This is highly relevant to something I'm working on at the moment.
I figured that's what you were wondering. Nah, it would take new leaks for us to know about that. Gets less likely as they put their people under more intense scrutiny.
> "Should the FBI be able to compel technology companies to use their resources against their own and their Customers right to Security."

That's far too long and complicated for average citizens to parse and grasp implications immediately and intuitively. The second half of your question veers heavily into leading a person toward the conclusion you want them to have. Not ideal. Moreover, I think an average poll responder would get confused by the second half of the question as you've phrased it.

Perhaps try to phrase it like a simple headline or poll question that gets to the heart of the matter:

"Should government be able to force companies to change or disable your passwords?"

Here, I think, you have a much greater chance of grabbing the attention of the casual onlooker. Admittedly, it's a mostly true statement of the core issue here, while leveraging the need to hook a reader at a glance. An article/reporter/anchor can dive deep into the case particulars or not, cover and present its view of what's at stake in asking the question, include discussion of a "right to security" that may or may not be enjoyed by companies and individuals. But you want citizens to immediately grok what you're asking, and be able to, on their own, extrapolate possible implications that matter to them. This is going to be far more powerful in getting people to invest themselves in the issue--they must be able to imagine, see, understand that what's at stake could affect them.

The first half of the battle is this: You've got to get people to fucking care. And you can't get them there if you confuse or lose them at the start.
I need friends like Aaron
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> I realized quite some time back that my reading time is far more limited than I would like for it to be...I intend to spend the time I do have reading the best I can get my hands on...

As readers we have to come to terms with the fact that we will miss out on many good books, there just isn't enough time to read them all in a lifetime. I decided stop reading the ones that aren't that interesting to me after reading (roughly) 30%-40%[1] of the book. If after this it hasn't grabbed my interest then it just isn't my kind of book, at least in my experience. Will I miss out on the rare book that gets its act together after the 60% mark? Sure, but in my experience those are very rare and I'd rather miss out on them than spend the remaining time chasing the elusive "it gets really good after the 60% mark" books.

> I've yet to be disappointed, even when the topics are somewhat outside my everyday interests and hobbies...

My experience has been the opposite of this. I have found a lot of duds in those lists (I'm talking about fiction books specifically)...

[1] All percentages are approximations.
This is super cool! I can imagine loading a web page in the next few years and hearing my GPU fan kicking into turbo and wondering what damn website is sucking up all my GPU cycles.
Plugin-driven HTTP client toolkit for Go
That is true. I recognize that to some extent I was talking past you, but I really just wanted to clarify where the responsibility lies when there is an objc runtime.
“Alleged insurgent” is a terrible description for “some crazy couple with guns”. They clearly weren’t part of any serious organized rebellion against the state (cf. any dictionary definition of “insurgent”), however much they had been inspired by ISIS or whatever.

How about just “San Bernardino shooter”?
> As the article states

The article is plain wrong.

> if every application has it's own language and syntax that is a huge barrier for others coming to work on it

And this is quite obviously not true. A well designed (note the emphasis!) DSL makes any app/problem domain/library/whatever much more accessible than any kind of a "general purpose" language can. Simply because DSL does not obscure the essence of the problem.

> Beyond that you come to issues of code

Code reuse with DSLs is way beyond anything the inferior languages can achieve. I witnessed cases where 30+ years old DSLs got revived by reimplementing them from scratch, immediately making an entire (huge) code base available on a new platform, with new tools and bells and whistles.

> and skill reuse.

One should never care about those pitiful "language" skills. They're worthless.
>>The only reason to write a quality book is vanity at this point.<<

No, not always...the reason some strive to write a "quality" book, is not money, though for some that would be nice...a bit of fame, as well...

Money is not a god...it's a fungible thing that people can use to buy almost whatever they wish...things to play with, time to pursue interests, security for those they love...

Some are "driven" to write, and for such people writing well is the goal...this is because they see what can happen when a writer writes well...a great work can define a time, change minds for the better, illuminate otherwise overlooked aspects of life...and lives...

Writing is a passion, for some, just like coding or problem solving is to some of us in this community...or, like hitting a "home run" financially is for entrepreneurs...

They didn't choose this passion, it chose them...

I admire them...let's not sell them short...they're much like us...passions differ...
"Thst grant application was ambiguously worded."

I was commenting on the actual application. Its pretty normal for what you submit and, yes, technical perfection is not a hallmark of granting. Ambiguously worded happens a lot particularly if there is a size limit to the application. I didn't comment if the intent actually matched what they told other people. If they mislead people is not really something I have knowledge of.

I will say once again that I doubt they (or their successors) will have a shot of outside grants given the governance problem and the negative light it cast on Knight Foundation. It is an amazingly small world of grant organizations.
Y Combinator accepts first tech diversity non-profit
I'll be using this - thanks.

Please keep working on it!
Somewhat fair points, with a couple of key pieces of data left out:

> one is about a device the FBI has, the other is about everyone's device

Except that one Apple claim is making, whether realistic or not, is that once the "device the FBI has" is unlocked, it potentially exposes "everyone's device" to the same exploit

> If you want a gun analogy can the FBI force a manufacturer to tell them the proper disassembly instructions for the gun

Except that in the case of the gun, this is information the manufacturer already has. In Apple's case, they are claiming they do not currently have this information, and would need to do work to create the information being requested.
I wouldn't see an issue with removing junk data, but removing data to improve the results, especially if what bloombergs claims in correct (that those supposed "junk" listings" are back on airbnb) then Airbnb is not acting in an honest way to the community and their customers.
Sharing economy for day space?
What are the most promising sharing economy for day space platforms? I'm looking spaces to share with small schools and playgroups (e.g. art galleries closed during the mornings, nursing homes, afterschool programs, even apartments will do)
Great, thanks for your reply!
What an amazing woman. She tries to downplay her accomplishment by mentioning in the comments that she was only responsible for grabbing over 20 million papers. Nice try, but that's still a remarkable job!

Edit: not sure if the commenter is her, but she's done amazing work regardless.
Why would Oracle spend any time correcting it? If you haven't figured out by now Oracle won't spend money on anything they don't think will make them money, I'm not sure what to tell you. And clarifying this doesn't seem like a path that would make them any amount of money.
Suse does use Btrfs for /home..
The "breakthrough" AI of today is deep learning on massive amounts on data applied to two areas - speech/NLP and vision. How this generalizes to a super intelligence that can take over the planet is so strange. Does a child need to look at billions of images to figure out what a chair or cat is? Will this AI figure out how to select a good business partner?

The problem is that you ask someone who is good in one field (say electric cars or theoretical physics) to opine on something like AI. The correct response is to say that you don't know anything about AI. But, the ego of being an public intellectual prevents that. So, what is the safest option to not seeming dumb - say something like we need to make sure safeguards are place to protect AI from becoming dangerous and kill everyone.

Meanwhile people who actually build these systems know that these systems not are generalizable to variety of tasks (like humans) and they are not intelligent. Best case, they augment humans in their tasks.
They did, because "corporations are people" was not something Citizens United invented.
Your own link contains this:

It's important to note that the expectation of privacy discussed here means something different than when it's used in connection with searches by persons acting on behalf of a city, state, or federal government.

So how is it relevant? They clearly say the definition discussed is between private individuals, not the state and individuals.
Are you sure? (Other than your inflammatory "involuntary servitude" silliness.)

A warrant actually can compel third parties to help in a search. What do you think happens when a business gets a warrant? They have to assign someone to go search for and find the records the warrant asks for.

Or if you serve a bank a warrant to open a safe - the bank has to go and help open the safe.
Exactly, you don't own enough of the code to change the license nor do you have the power to just magically change the license texts to allow them to become compatible. We can't allow this one violation without allowing all.
My point was that no-one knows what the French and German governments are upto in secret, because it is still secret. It hasn't been leaked. The only reason the US and the UK are getting so much press is because their programs have.

The UK's surveillance program was even ruled illegal once it was found out what they were doing. So what if a lot of the German public are against surveillance - so are a lot of Brits - they just don't know what their government is doing in secret.

I'd bet everything I own the French and Germans and every other major country are doing the exact same stuff.
Good PR, Amazon! They just made me read a tutorial of how to upload a book to their side, and convinced me it's easy enough to give it a try if I ever wanted to publish a book.
Of course I can. If my tools are communicating with my compiler, they know everything it knows. I have a single tiny generic Emacs mode (and a similar Visual Studio extension) that handles all the languages designed on top of my extensibility framework.

It's trivial. Any PEG parser I add on top automatically communicates all the highlighting, indentation data and all that to the tools (and it's inferred from the declarative spec, no additional user input is required). Underlying typing engines do the same, for the nice tooltips and code completion. The very compiler core doest the same with all the symbol definitions, dependencies, etc. Easy.
You don't have to be convinced to be respectful. It is certainly not their job and probably not their goal to convince you.

Also, it's not obvious at all that there's a messaging problem. I get that a bunch of white people don't like the message. But a bunch of white people will dislike anything black people do to push back against a system that harms them.

For decades white people have been telling black activists that they're doing it wrong. And their main cited evidence is that white people are uncomfortable. MLK got a lot of that, and he responded to it here:

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....

I certainly agree that the "Black Lives Matter" slogan makes me, a white person, uncomfortable. But as far as I'm concerned, that's just what it should be doing. If other people are being maltreated by a system that I have the power to change, that shouldn't feel warm and fuzzy.
Abundance is killing us.  the innovator's dilemma
Excerpt from this article below.

http://www.businessinsider.com/too-much-free-stuff-is-destroying-america-2016-2

"Here’s the perfect business idea for this environment: Open a Hundred Dollar Bill Store™. You sell hundred dollar bills for ninety dollars each. You’ll lose ten dollars per transaction but you’ll do a trillion in revenues in year one. Maybe you show an ad to everyone who walks into the store and you break even. User growth with be on the order of 1000% per month. A billion users. You’ll be the biggest IPO of all time when Goldman’s underwriters get wind of that growth rate. Go public and let someone else worry about a competitor selling hundred dollar bills for eighty-five.
I've worked in a similar situation, providing pricing/inventory information to buyers from vendors, and it's hellish as a middleman with limited clout to ensure vendors remain consistent in transmitting up-to-date pricing and inventory. When one side encounter inconsistencies, middlemen always get the blame despite the other side being responsible for providing the information. Hence why I sympathize with the app developer.
> yes, lets all base our understandings on shaky legal speculation.

That is what the SFC did when it suggested that Oracle was unilaterally capable of changing the license of ZFSOnLinux.
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On top of that, RoboVM uses its own LLVM-based compiler rather than Apple's. So if Apple throws us a new compilation requirement, similar to the requirement to provide bitcode for watchOS and tvOS, then we're stuck until RoboVM is updated. With j2objc, you're using Apple's compiler to produce the machine code.
Thanks - thats really odd to me.

The whole timeline reads really weird to me as well - with people entering and exiting the WMF so fast - I am of the external subjective opinion that at least some of them were simply extracting money from the WMF.

It reads as if they may have negotiated some exit packages and literally just took them.

That is a LONG list of "directors" which I could be completely off-base here, but unless the env was far more toxic than is being presented, SOME of these people certainly extracted personal value from being there a short period.

The fucked up bit though is none of that; it is that wikipedia is now a foundation of who we are digitally as a species, and to see that there is SIGNIFICANT apparent risk to it falling apart is extraordinarily alarming to me.

One of the emails sent said that the risk to domain/innate/tech memory leaving with the exodus impending from eng is super scary prospect.

If I were someone well monied at Google, I'd step in and buy the whole ordeal as it is a major part of who we now are, both digitally and organically.
I had to Google the Blub Paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_%28computer_progra...) but I see what you mean. It's based on the idea that someone who disagrees with you about something can't be acting rationally, rather that they are somehow incapable of perceiving your wisdom. Sometimes that is the case, of course, but I don't think that explains why Lisp isn't the universal language that everyone writes everything in.

I have a lot of warm fuzzy feelings about Lisp as well, but a lot of Lisp advocacy has been of the "One True Language" variety as opposed to "right tools for the right job, and here's why Lisp might be the right tool for you". It doesn't affect my perception of Lisp, but it doesn't help market it either.
The Murky Waters of International Copyright Law
I haven't ever wrote an Android app (just toyed around and patched a few projects, but never had an idea and a necessity to do a full one from scratch), but what's the limitation here?

Can't a native library call just anything from the Android/Java world?

I mean, NDK library has JNIEnv* pointer and it can call FindClass/GetMethodID/Call*Method. And it can create objects/functions if it needs to be called back. Of course this isn't fun in the raw form, but don't see any reason it can't be well sugared.
If only Twitter joined them.
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> Most languages won't let you write mathematics exactly like mathematicians do, but the closer you can get the better

See Wolfram Mathematica for example.

Also, one of my usual DSL tricks is to allow arbitrary TeX in identifiers, which, combined with the literate programming tricks, allows to write very idiomatic mathematical expressions as a code.
> It is clear that the court does not understand how the Tor network works. The entire purpose of the network is to enable users to communicate privately and securely.

The order demonstrates a perfectly adequate understanding of the technology: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/carnegie-mellon-university....

Tor does not actually hide your IP address from the public Internet. Someone technically ignorant might believe that (in which case, his expectation of privacy is based on a false assumption and is thus objectively unreasonable), but that's not the guarantee Tor provides. What onion routing does is ensure that someone sitting in the middle cannot identify both the source and destination of a packet.

But the legally relevant technical question is not whether someone can track the packet from the source to the destination. It's whether the user's IP address has been revealed to the public. That's necessarily the case even when communicating over Tor; that's just how the Internet works.
And by your logic, also what Canonical did. Wee! Why are you still commenting with legal speculation? You realise your name is attached to it, and you are potentially liable for misleading people?
I understand the reasoning, but I don't understand how the lines are drawn here (or how they could meaningfully be drawn).

Distributing two pieces of source code with different licenses is ok. Distributing them in a way that they can trivially be combined (e.g by compiling automatically on the receiving end during installation of the latest Ubuntu) can't be considered different from a distribution where the receiver takes more manual steps to combine them.

I'm curious why Canonical have to use binaries if they could easily just produce them on the clients machine and thereby not violate any copyrights? There has to be something else to it (or they just want to test the limits of the license conflict here, as a useful experiment).
I like your enthusiasm but look at the number of images again, and remember that Google is notorious for trying hard not to use humans. I think the statistical significance will probably overwhelm moon pictures, and that's what they'd use long before some human starts poking around for weird data.
If by "entirely virtual" you mean "sight unseen", I wouldn't do it at all.
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That is why userspace programs are explicitely declared to not be derived work in the Linux kernel license https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/COPYING (right at the top)
The last that I checked, SUSE used XFS for /home and others are saying the same here.

Given that you seem to have registered solely for the purpose of posting replies to me, would you care to say who you are in a manner that can be verified and provide citations, or do you just intend to troll?
What if the phone belonged to an abortion clinic bomber?
tl;dr: JavaScript test runner that runs tests concurrently and is designed with ES6 features in mind
How far could the FBI use this case as a precedent if it goes through? Could they demand to get stuff signed and put on Canonicals repos? Could they demand to get a MS-signed EFI?

Or could this case just be used as a precedent in cases that clearly only involved one (1) specific device?
Virtual CloneDrive seems to be an Elby product? [1]

[1] https://www.elby.ch/en/products/vcd.html
Ask HN: Best Object-Oriented Programming Book
What's the best book for getting a handle on object-oriented programming? I'm an experienced web dev but new to OO.
We actually aren't doing any path rendering yet; CSS as used on the Web is all boxes and triangles, aside from glyphs. One of the neat things about WebRender is the observation that triangles are pretty much all you need for CSS.

A future extension to support SVG and glyphs on the GPU would be pretty interesting though!
Write down the business plan, show it to people that can lend you a few grand, e.g. your bank.

If he business plan and the demo are good, people might feel safer to lend you money.
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Did you watch the full interview? Cook is saying the AWA should not be used to compel Apple to act. He's saying that there should be public discourse and that congress should make any necessary laws so that the public has a chance to weigh in during elections.

The government is using courts to decide this. Judges are unelected officials, and that is absolutely in the process of happening.
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Is there any geo-blocking? Can I subscribe to this from my country (Germany)?
See, this is why unquestioning free-market worship bothers me. The claim is always that free markets provide the greatest good for the greatest number, but in your own hypothetical the person-with-less-money is automatically an undeserving "squatting slob" compared to the person-with-more-money.