skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I agree with backdoors, but Congress should be able to. The courts shouldn't.
Very nice. I much prefer this to howdoi.

A couple suggestions:

Does the `-l lang` flag correspond to stackoverflow tags which aren't necessarily limited to languages?

This should be specified because the right tag can significantly increase the quality of search results.

Also, it would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut that opens a question/answer in the browser. That way I can easily vote.
OK, but sometimes when I send iMessages, they actually send as SMS if my service is poor or the receivers service is poor, someone is in the subway, on a flight, etc etc.

Chances are, this happened at least once over the lifetime of the terrorists ownership of the phone - thus we can at least see who they are communicating with, right?

Wouldn't that be a good starting point?

And call records - they must have called someone - if only to talk about the weather.
Your interpretation of the article is different from mine and the above commenters, and that is okay

I was just trying to help you see how it could be perceived as anti-tech. You seemed eager to learn why others felt that way.
> The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few

No, they don't. We live in nations with individual rights. The US specifically is a nation without acceptable levels of healthcare. The needs of the many clearly do not outweigh the needs of a few.

> But of course bad people can still use extra encryption, so lack of default encryption will mostly hurt good people

This is a non sequitur driven by a false dichotomy. Nobody is suggesting the removal of encryption.

> I think it comes down to how willing you are to let bad people get away with their crimes vs lose your own right to privacy in a world where more and more of your private life and thoughts are stored digitally.

How many criminals are you willing to let get away with their crimes? Apple has currently built a system that allows child abusers and some rapists to be all but immune from conviction.

Are you happy with this? I am certainly not.
If the indicator is programmable, it's no more accurate than anything else. Physical disconnection is the closest thing to certainty.
The problem with all of these, with the exception of Rust and Ada, is that it's hard to do things like, get at pointers directly, for example. For all of the abstractions OCaml and Java bring, there is an often large performance penalty to pay, and when you're pass producing an embedded product, that's money you're leaving on the table because you're asking for more compute power than you actually need to get the job done. Ada is usually a pretty good choice, but it's hard to find developers outside of the defense industry; Rust on the other hand is often view (perhaps rightfully so) as still experimental and unproven.
I don't agree with this sentiment. Rather, I'd say that she tried and failed, and that that failure was as much her fault as it was anyone else's. Saying it was "outside her hands" implies she did the best that was possible, not just the best that was possible for her.

1. She was worth less than they thought when they brought her in. They paid for someone they thought could solve their problems, and she could not.

2. She's worth more now than she was when they hired her, because she does have more experience (this point I agree on).

This means, to me that she's worth somewhere between "what she was really worth when they hired her" and "that amount plus the value she gained by learning".

Given the decisions I saw her make (no remote work, basically firing anyone that wanted to continue their remote work), I'd say she was worth a lot less than they thought she was when she started... and worth a lot less now, even with new experiences.
I mean that, e.g., recent paleographical work which medieval music specialists have done on the sources which interest them has been more or less invisible to scholars of literature, history of science, etc., and vice versa. Even when they overlap almost exactly, as in this case. By recent I mean the last 2-3 decades, not like this past year.
I think the token IT guy is not even wondering, he's pretty certain the FBI request is perfectly reasonable.

Most corporate sysadmins are BOFHs, relishing the power they wield and convinced they can do no wrong. They have nothing against electronic surveillance -- they practice it daily with gusto, they just think they're smart enough to avoid someone else doing it to them.

Hell, the whole "root" model is fundamentally authoritarian in principle, no matter how hard we try not to say it. It might have been born out of engineering necessity, but it has long generated its own cultural artefacts. It might have been balanced somewhat by historical accident (i.e. west-coast liberal culture, phreaking etc), but this balance has been eroded when the IT job market exploded and all sorts of people were onboarded.

Modern sysadmins would find nothing strange with the FBI request. They special-case their way out of ethics on a regular basis already.
If you believe you can make $19 an hour as an Uber driver, I have a very fine bridge to sell you.
> That pronunciation makes it hard to learn. Seriously, people always complain about gender of words being complex – english pronunciation and spelling is several times worse.

Are they, though?
Take a fixed set of rules for english pronunciation. Add a list of exceptions. Is this list as big as the list of nouns of portuguese, spanish, or french?
(we can define as big in number of words, or try some information theoretical construct, or even go to some psicological measure, should one exist. I am still betting that the english pronunciation, evil as it is, is not as bad as a gender to every noun)

(I am a native portuguese speaker, and only got mad about gender in nouns when leaning french)
Well, I-personally-don't know if "issue" is really the right word to use.

I will say, as someone who drinks that brand of Bourbon quite regularly-the act causes me to ask if she's spending her money wisely living in one of the most expensive cities in America if she's having such a hard time making a livable wage that she's also having to eat at work constantly.

Maybe buying mid-tier bourbon that can run anywhere from $28-$40 (depending on the size) on liquor isn't the best way to behave financially. I wont comment on what this means as far as her relationship with Yelp, since I don't know their policies on drinking at the office.

I suppose then, if there is an issue, it's one of the credibility of the source.
> They either have a fantastic shipping deal or they really have deep wallets, the latter is probably true.

Both are true.
Or better yet, make "ssl_letsencrypt on;" the default. Make it so that newbies can just apt-get install nginx/apache/lighttpd/etc. and have https up and running, no questions asked. The real reason https adoption isn't up to par has less to do with people not willing to spend money, and more because it's not up by default. Now that https is free, please make it enabled by default.
The issues described are not going to impact the average user, and due to some of these issues Mint would probably be more convenient, for the average user.
Although focussed on the Secure Enclave, this may be of interest: https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2016-02-19-what-is-...
As a separate root branch, it would work nicely. There are huge benefits also in that you get an inspectable history of issues. From GitHub's perspective, it would be more difficult to authenticate issue changes—they'd need signed commits and pre push validation, right?
> Chances are, this happened at least once over the lifetime of the terrorists ownership of the phone - thus we can at least see who they are communicating with, right?

Is that really acceptable to you? Maybe they accidentally screwed up once so it's OK to keep the private affairs of a dead terrorist secret for no good reason?

> Wouldn't that be a good starting point?

I would have thought the best starting point was unlocking the phone, given the owner is dead and committed horrific crimes.
Could Apple alter the icloud account in question such that a login succeeds with any password or session key? I wonder if there is some variant of that which would allow the remote backup strategy to work.
When I go to github, there's a search bar at the top to search for the public repo I'm looking for.

I can't find the search feature at gitlab.com. How do I search for users or public repos of interest at gitlab?
It is a risk to trust stories to someone who doesn't have a public track record. I'm guessing that the majority of my initial submissions will come from authors who know me in person, and know that I'll pay them and publicize their work. Hopefully after the first few issues it will be clear that I'm serious about supporting this genre!
Still using redmine + gitolite here but have been watching Gitlab for a while, in fact I tried it yesterday and it's still quite resource hungry and slow(using DO's default installation with 1GB memory).

Redmine+Gitolite has nearly everything I need but Gitlab's code view interface is better. Redmine's backend seems running more efficiently but its interface is not modern enough at this point, especially on how to review git repos.
Me too! I started using TurboTax years ago, and have always grudgingly paid the ever-increasing fees for the service. They're so slippery about state filing fees.

I estimate I'll be saving about $60 as a result of this article this year. For TurboTax, because I have a small mutual fund account, I have to upgrade to the "Premium" option just for those extra two or three boxes. H&R Block had similar pricing last year. TaxAct has a similar pricing strategy but much lower prices: instead of $50 for the federal and $40 for the state, it's just $15 each (or something like those numbers).

I'm thinking of it like this: TaxAct needs to afford their $200k houses in Iowa, while TurboTax needs to afford their $1M houses in the Valley.
Oldie but a goodie "Economics of Nanotech and AI" (Robin Hanson, Foresight 2010) [0].

[0] https://vimeo.com/9508131
Interesting; I've always had a bit of an issue with the lines between Science Fiction and Fantasy, in that the former is far more interesting to me than the latter. For instance, I enjoyed the movie Lucy as entertainment using a science fiction anchor, and was utterly bored with Guardians of the Galaxy which is a fine and dandy space/fantasy type of thing. I love Hackers as entertainment in spite of its drastic flaws that were obvious then and still are in the 'scientific' context.

Asking for a buddy: Would a computer/technology driven crime and character driven story be applicable in the 'science fiction' wide definition?

Hope you get what you're after and help break some new folks into the scene. Nice that you're up front about the rights too. I know my buddy would love to get paid and then take that money and register his story with WGA West in case of screenplay potential.
suggesting that people currently producing nothing will do laundry for people who actually are producing things

This is called a "job". If we could find a job for everyone, we wouldn't be talking about unemployment. Unemployment is when people are not able to find a job.
To quote Glenn Reynolds, "I'll believe there's a crisis with the people who say there's a crisis act like there's a crisis." These are the people who lecture about sustainability but fly 1500 private jets into Davos in the age of Skype.
> Someone poured their heart and soul into something that may not make a profit!

Sorry but that's irrelevant. A homeopathy practitioner could say the same thing.

Their site front page says in big font: "Dramatically improve focus, relaxation & sleep". And it says science all over the place and contains pretty sciency charts. An intentionally wide range of charts. Vertical and horizontal bar charts, pie charts, line graphs, all to make you go "this looks legit science!"

So where is the peer-reviewed, randomized, controlled, double blind trial to support these claims? The only study that tries to compare it with placebo music seems to be unpublished as of yet and all we can see is some charts. We don't see their methodology, the results, significance etc.

I would have no problem with this if they didn't brand it so extremely heavily on science.
This is just another form of victim blaming, isn't it?
I used a VAX in college, and the DEC operating system had built-in support for file versions. E.g., something like: when you write to a file, that creates FILENAME.EXT.5 where before there were FILENAME.EXT.1 through 4. Compared to Unix it was harder to accidentally wipe your data. (It's been so long, and I didn't use it so much, that I won't opine on how much harder. But the Unix Haters Handbook ragged on Unix quite a bit for this sort of thing.)
Do you really not understand how precedent works or are you being deliberately obtuse?

The criminal act being investigated is irrelevant. They want data on a device in their possession that they have permission to search. That is all that matters. It could just as easily be a drug investigation or, as Comey said last week in front of congress, investigating a car accident.
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Sure, but that adds substantial bulk, hurts efficiency, integrates poorly, and is stupid ugly. Not really the same as building a bigger battery into the phone itself.
Our forthright discussion on this issue on HN, while valuable, will not help the broader problem of educating the voting public. It's kind of like John Oliver's interview with Edward Snowden[1]. This issue needs to be translated into "pics of my junk" and become a sort of meme. Is the issue being framed wrong more of a problem than it not being framed at all?

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
It isn't just England. Even in many areas of the states getting a good cell connection can be frustrating. Half the time if I need data while on the road I will end up at a McD just to get a good connection.
This comment simply makes claims like altering data in transit inside the architecture of the CPU.

Yes, if you can do that, then you can flash anything to the phone. When someone shows me that happening, then I'll believe in this technology.
I think you can be a bit more charitable in your interpretation.

Think of it this way: By no longer loading large Git blobs, it prevents known memory leaks and prevents known timeouts.
As much as I love the idea, it is fairly impractical for the reasons that other commentors have noted. Call me greedy, but within the constraints of a balanced budget, I would like to see an increased portion dedicated to science (be it a 'cancer moonshot' or an actual marsshot) vs social programs ... maybe we could find some real solutions to these issues. In my own life I have a tendency to skimp on the 'now' in the name of investing in the future, so this is probably just me applying my own financial philosophies at a larger scale.
The official let's encrypt client is very heavy-weight. In my case I've build a much simpler thing using acmetool (https://github.com/hlandau/acme) which is mcuh simpler to use and nicely runs without root rights.

In my case, a lot of the routing of domains to customers is stored in a postgres database and a trigger fires an event anyways, so I have a little daemon that listens to these events and the fires off acmetool as needed in order go generate certificates.

I just completed this last week, so when I've seen this article here, I thought that I just wasted some time over this because now there's an integrated nginx solution, but thankfully, this is just an article about doing what I was doing using a tool that's more complicated to use and brings half of an OS installation as dependencies.

For those interested, https://gist.github.com/pilif/1e2610dd7aa57323e0b2 is the script in question. It's really a quick hack, but it works very well for me to auto-create nginx config files.
We don't get to judge her financial acumen. She's young, she buys booze. Big whoop. Maybe it was for a present for a sibling's wedding. Maybe a close friend. Maybe she just makes bad financial choices.

That's not the story here.
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Still waiting for issues priority levels. Without it, the issues page is just a mess.
...Making what argument? I don't understand. I guess I don't understand what positions are on the table, much less which one you support.

That's pretty direct criticism of your writing style, I guess. I'm doing it because you are talking about subjects I am interested in, and I think we're on the same side. I'd like to see more and improvement.

Cheers.
Thank you for your advice, you're absolutely right. I will add some more personal information to the site this evening.
Pretty lame! But, musicians are always desperate to stand out somehow and this is far from the bottom of the barrel.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." Cardinal Richelieu

According to http://www.amazon.ca/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1..., a typical American commits three felonies a day.
Naturally "can't create" is better than "won't create", but this case is about the precedent and not this particular iPhone.

If a court can force a company to create new technology that didn't exist before, what other tools might they be forced to build?

1) Stream keystrokes, audio, video, location to law enforcement prior to encryption

2) Replace actual search results with government-approved results

3) Force Apple to create target lists of suspects based on their location, apps installed, sites visited, keywords typed

Bad things happen when the government can force private companies and individuals to create new tools for law enforcement.

There is no technology that prevents Apple from subverting Apple's security. If Apple loses, the new precedent could open Pandora's box.
You should know that you can't say you like .NET on HN without getting a bunch of replies telling you why .NET sucks.
gitlabs minimum requirements are 2G of ram (although that's for 100 people).

Without trying to appear as if I'm defending gitlab itself, I've always been of the notion of "Do it right and then do it fast".

This is how postgresql is starting to beat the ever-loving crap out of mysql now, it used to be the slow option, now it's the one that wont eat your baby.
The ID can be easily changed. A quick Google search will easily confirm this.

The question is can you change one devices ID to exactly match another. This might require hacking the BPP or finding a SHA1 hash collision, both of which are absolutely possible but not necessarily trivial.
Can We Really Blame DNSSEC for Larger-Volume DDoS Attacks?
This truly does enslave the lower class. I'm far from a bleeding heart liberal but this just trivializes everything they do.
Make the first vehicle nothing but a giant mirror, crash it into Mars and then reflect the laser off the debris to slow down the second vehicle?
Whoa. Hold on there buddy. Are you implying that someone actually take personal responsibility for their actions and financial decision making? You better hope that twitter doesn't get word of this.
Of note: Project FI has been plagued with short SMS issues for the past year. Some are reporting that this has been fixed, but does concern me if Google is going to get into this space.

I'm saying this as someone who is a Android advocate and developer.
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I agree. Content marketing on social media is becoming a big thing. Moreover, its usually much better than a display ad and has some interactions capabilities -- like any other post/tweet. Source: working for a company that is build Marketing As A Service software, first product is around social media.
Feedback:

Website is a little wordy. Also, close.. but no cigar! Badumtsss

http://i.imgur.com/8oplfDL.png
To reduce travel time from 9 months to four would be incredibly helpful to sending people. To halve that again to two months even more so. But after that, faster has lessened benefits. One month makes it easier on the human body, less than that is more convenience than anything. We'd be better served putting our money elsewhere. An Earth-Mars cycler would be a great start.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler

And for unmanned missions, faster is of marginal benefit.

If I were setting up such a system for planetary flybys and extra-solar missions, I'd put the laser on one of the lunar poles
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A start would be your name, the legal entity's name, an address - that way at least you're putting your personal reputation on the line.

Glad that you're trying something - will try to submit if I have time to write and am happy enough with the result.
I think its not gona be easy as that - there has to be some croned process and some kind of error handling. (I created https://hub.docker.com/r/analogic/lemanager/ which does both but i am still waiting for some better "native" solution)
Either GPL so can't be used commercially, or they do not have both android and ios support.
Even LTE is including Vehicle 2 Vehicle (v2v) communication and Vehicle 2 infrastructure (v2x) and so will whatever 5g becomes of course (5g will be the continued evolution of LTE + mmwave physical layer basically)
No, I proposed 3 different ways of hacking the UDID in that comment. 1) disrupting the read of ECID in transit, 2) re-writing ECID by hacking the BPP, 3) a SHA1 hash collision. Any one of the 3 will do.

Even then you cannot "flash anything" to the phone. But you can flash a build signed by Apple which hard-codes a UDID check.
If you're in the US and one of the 43 states with shall issue concealed carry laws, what you do is get your handgun ready and you and the robbers are in for an interesting night....
Use explore to search for interesting projects (and the people that have them in their namespace):
https://gitlab.com/explore

Press `s` to search for anything. However we only support search for people in places where you immediately need them, like when adding to a project.

I created a feature proposal to also search through people:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13672
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Awesome to see how PS can preserve stuff like this. I plan to do this for some older texts I have around .
I can see the utility for intervals, but for simple checks I think clarity of intent trumps all. Sometimes if foo.value > bar makes more sense. THis is especially true when foo is the subject of the method.

Someone already submitted a PR to the Ruby style guide for this, and I can't express how strongly I disagree. https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide/pull/546
It is proprietary I guess, but I don't really mind talking about it :) I did a talk recently at Northwestern (The Garage) and they were interested, so I spilled the beans. I'd like to get that talk up actually.

I used the Bach's harpsichord concertos - Allegro/Presto/etc, since we're doing focus in that case. It's actually the 2nd most popular theme on the site! I made that one for myself to be honest - I grew up with those things and it was a labor of love, that one. Took some major reconfiguring, but it was worth it I think.

You're definitely not listening to the same thing each time. There's a huge variety. It doesn't generate the sessions in real-time (audio processing of this kind is very, very CPU intensive), but we take the data we get and process it for later use. At this point there's so many sessions "cached" that you get huge variety right off the bat and we're building up an infrastructure to create more sessions faster

I'll be adding more "themes" later. To explain, in some cases there are sessions that use a specific protocol, like the harpsichord one. That's static. But other themes are more flexible, and so different protocols can be used for the same theme. By protocol I mean what we're actually trying to stimulate in the brain.