skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From
the first page, (and the same sentiment is found throughout the whole document)

> the relief the government seeks is unavailable because Congress has
considered legislation that would achieve the same result but has not
adopted it.

Bingo!

I've said it on HN since the beginning of this case [1,2,3], and I'll
continue to say it. This case is about making backdoor legislation
palatable. Don't get caught up in the precedent set by this case, it's
more or less inapplicable when Apple (etc.) can't flash the device without
effectively wiping it, which is where things are headed. [4]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11139515

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11139497

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11164617

[4]:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/24/apple-is-said-to-be-working-o...
You seem really intent on not getting my point.

My point is that for this particular thing, location is of supreme importance. Skin color is really, really far down on the list.
Female-named hurricanes kill more than male hurricanes coz ppl don’t respect em
> You're ignorant.

Thanks for the ad-hominen - it really advances your position and lends credibility to your argument.

> Mate there is no scientific consensus that organic is more nutritional than non-organic.

By moving the goalposts this way, you have ensured both that your statement is technically accurate and that it is irrelevant to this discussion.

Needless to say (and it has been rehashed over and over), nothing in the world enjoys scientific consensus. Not climate change, not vaccination efficacy. Nevertheless, reasonable people make decisions based in part on positions that overwhelm, with solid evidence, the contrary position.

Organic food is not designed to be more nutritious, although it often is (at least according to the EU study which came out this month and which is by far the largest and most rigorous study on the matter - http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2016/02/15/more-omega-3...). It is designed to be less toxic, not only for the consumer but for the farm workers and the land.

There is overwhelming evidence that organic farming achieves these goals.

The one major study (the Stanford study, linked above) which deviates from this position is quite controversial (for the reasons I have also linked above). On the other hand, hundreds of studies around the world have shown that organic farming is effective. Here's one from two weeks ago:

http://blog.journals.cambridge.org/2016/02/16/health-benefit...
The UI slows down gradually until the whole thing is unresponsive, reproducibly. IIRC disconnect the analog input, and the UI picks right back up.

I've no idea if it's a priority interrupt firing too much, body diode current weirdness, or some thermal issue. And I'm certainly not going to keep teasing the fault to figure it out.
I'm with you up until the software being inherently unsafe bit. I've seen a lot of code I wouldn't trust with anything, let alone my life, but in your own examples: trains are partly safe due to automation, warning systems, etc. and cars have gotten safer at least partly due to things like ABS and traction control which rely heavily on algorithms. However, those are relatively simple systems compared to a self driving car and a lot more "bugs" will likely show up as more AI drives more miles.
(sorry had to somehow shorten the title to fit in the form)
Oh dear, someone can't just copy off Scalia's work anymore.
Payroll data leaked for current, former Snapchat employees
That's a motion from a case in California. This ruling is from one in New York.

It's confusing because the Goverment has advanced this All Writs theory in 9 different currently ongoing cases to try to get it to stick.
Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition open for pre-order, shipping March 30
Damn I'd love 4 acres instead of a tiny flat in London :-/
Yes, but they all sit idle the same 95% of the time. Everyone needs a ride at rush hour.
NY judge rules feds can't force Apple to unlock an iPhone
Properly lol'd IRL at the Chuck palaniuk comment. Harsh but very funny.
Have you ever read anything he's written while on the court?
So here's what I wrote in my 5 minute session. I like the App, it forced me to do a more introspective form of writing I'm pretty sure I would have not done otherwise. It's also a nice way to see just how much stuff can be written down in 5 minutes if you don't care too much (or at all) about content.
I don't know if it has any applications beyond the novelty of the concept but it could be an ice way to do some journaling/get some stuff out of your head.

Lets see how this works. It counts my words per minute. Im slow. I guess. I dont know. Jason sneel seems to be faster than me. hmmm. I¿ve run out of ideas and everything is sloooowing down. also id like a nice mechanical keyboard if only for the hipsterness of it all. and maybe i wouldnt get confused about keyboardlayout then. maybe I would, who knows.
All I know is that I should really be working right now. Also: Why am I writing in English instead of Spanish or German? Is this really the language I can most comfortably express myself? I guess 8 years of GIBS and a lifetime of consuming american media has taken its toll. Not that I'm complaining. I like English, its fun, its easy. There is no formal way to adress people and there is only a single article. Using the for everything is great. It spares me from a lot of problems. Also not having accents. Thats super nice. Only the occasional ' which I am completely ignorning at the moment. Oh and capital letters, there are none. Except. At. The. Beginning. Of. Sentences. Thats super neat too. Everything that keeps me from thinking too much about how to write lets me think more about what to write. I wont complain. I am seeing that you can write a loot of stuff in 5 minutes if you dont care about the content. This is probably mostly gibberish but there might be something useful in here. Im still slow though, right now stabilizing at around 60 wpm. I can type faster but I am still thinking too much. Mostly about the keyboard and the placement of my fingers on it. its not entirely comfortable. And im done.
> Yes, but they all sit idle the same 95% of the time. Everyone needs a ride at rush hour.

Disincentivize rush hour using congestion pricing.
Engineered Mini Flying Wing
The main rule for all driving is to assume
everyone else is actively trying to kill you.

If you were really doing that you'd never drive down an undivided road when a car was coming in the opposite direction, in case they swerved across the divider at the last second :)
Actually, assuming you're not just maintaining a code base (i.e. you're mostly adding features or making something new), the cost of software development is typically an asset on the balance sheet
Apple's slide-to-unlock patent held invalid in US
Who said there is a shortage of developers? Especially PHP developers?
Thats essentially what IPFS is (content addressable by its hash).

http://ipfs.io/
Outside of a few hot areas, total compensation for even the best people is usually 85% base salary.
This is incorrect, the Sony case affected employees[1]: "the exposure revealed personal information for an estimated 3,000 former and current Sony employees."

[1] http://deadline.com/2015/09/sony-hacking-lawsuit-settlement-...
I've adopted a similar mindset. My rent is about the same and it lets me save like 60% of my salary less taxes. I grew up in coastal California so owning a nice home has never been on my radar. I'm hoping to retire around age 40-45 and rent indefinitely.
Kicked out in America
What I said is that conversation isn't code. Not a commutative statement!

That is, you seemed to be arguing that there was redundancy in my comment, similar to what I called busywork and noise in code. An interesting point, but my comment was conversation—not code—so it struck me as a non sequitur.

Your comment hints at an insight into why we make code overcomplicated. But the superfluous complexity I'm talking about rarely strikes me as nuance, i.e. valuable enhancement for humans. It's mostly boilerplate to satisfy machines. It's no accident that "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute" is a line that came out of the Lisp mentality.
You're Going to Die, Stop Wasting Time
Note that this is not the San Bernardino shooter case but just the drug case in NY.

Still, Judge Orenstein gave some extremely important arguments regarding the All Writs Act (AWA) that the government tries to use:

"The plain text of the statute thus confers on all federal courts the authority to issue orders where three requirements are satisfied:
1. issuance of the writ must be "in aid of" the issuing court's jurisdiction;
2. the type of writ requested must be "necessary or appropriate" to provide such aid to the issuing court's jurisdiction; and
3. the issuance of the writ must be "agreeable to the usages and principles of law.""

"As set forth below, I conclude that in the circumstances of this case, the government's application does not fully satisfy the statute's threshold requirements: although the government easily satisfies the statute's first two elements, the extraordinary relief it seeks cannot be considered "agreeable to the usages and principles of law." In arguing to the contrary, the government posits a reading of the latter phrase so expansive – and in particular, in such tension with the doctrine of separation of powers – as to cast doubt on the AWA's constitutionality if adopted."

In short, he recognized that "All Writs Act" can't mean "we can order anything we want to" to allow (in this case) DEA not following the laws that already exist (which specifically don't prescribe what DEA demands from Apple).
>> but so much physical, legal, and regulatory infrastructure needs to change

Let's go with that. Say that tomorrow Google finished the development of the car. It works very well.

Than it just need to find a single city that would agree to a wide scale deployment. And I imagine there are plenty of reasons why a city might want to do that. Heck if Google cared, they could legally bribe politicians. And it doesn't even have to be a city in the west. It could be a city ruled by a dictator somewhere in africa. Or it could be a self driving car created by a chinese company, and china would be willing to take the risk to lead in this field.

So maybe the first city isn't as hard as it seems.

Now what happens after a car has proven itself in a city for a year or two ?Showing almost zero accidents, and all the other benefits of a self-driving car. How much will people everywhere would want it ? how much political support would it gather ? i imagine a lot.

Would such support and proof be enough for relatively rapid deployment of self-driving cars ?
> So outdoor advertisers can potentially pixel customers who see an "impression" like they do for online ads and track conversion behavior if they ultimately walk into a store?

Yes, this is possible today.
Holy cow are you a character from Portlandia?

I mean I was fine with most of what you said until you literally wrote, CAr-ifornia. What? People actually use that word and expect to be taken seriously?

I mean maybe there are people who talk too much about VCs, but your post didn't make you sound any better than those people. Talk about exclusionary.
The Free State Project
ذكرى+افتتاح+أبراج+الكويت+
Note: These are separate from the look and feel case against samsung from design patents.

As a result of this outcome, apple now owes samsung for infringement, and samsung owes apple nothing :)
> The thing that DHH is failing to mention is that Monoliths work great when your application looks something like Basecamp.

The thing that people fail to grasp is that (almost) everything DHH writes is in the context of "when your application looks something like Basecamp" :-)
I've been following 37signals/Basecamp since 2002, I think (long before Rails) and they've always made it clear that their opinions/advice are _not_ universal, because they only speak from experience - _their_ experience.
So, if you're not in a similar situation as theirs, then of course their arguments are going to look strawman-ish to you.
I would feel a lot more confident about the US's overall state of corruption if the defendant in this case weren't the largest capitalized company in the world.

Would this case have come to the same result (which is likely to be appealed) if it was say UnluckySmallCo. instead of Apple that was on the receiving end of the government's pressure?
(a) is fixed because there's probably no-one for the Texan to talk to on the bus. For trains, the person to talk to is on the platform, and can simply let the train depart (example: Copenhagen Metro, although good luck spotting any staff).

It could be more easily fixed by accepting foreign credit cards (Gothenburg manages this, London if the card is contactless) or telling drivers not to wait.

(b) is partly solved if the cost of running buses/trains is significantly reduced, as that leaves money for extra vehicles.

(c)... well, who will notice?
"424,331 miles, according to the report"

That is a useful data point. Extremely optimistic bystanders think self driving cars will lower death rates to zero.

Statistically about 7 people die on the public roads per billion passenger miles. At half a million miles, assuming the miles are statistically random and indistinguishable from the entire country (sure, summer in socal is as hard driving as a winter in a blizzard at night in Montana, sure...) then 424331 death free miles means that technologies death record is no worse than 336 times worse than human drivers, at least so far. Perhaps its only 335 times more deadly than human drivers. Even drunk people aren't that dangerous.

Or in other words, the self driving car can be summarized to lots of predictions based on very little data.
There's a lot of negativity and people poking holes in the promise in this thread. I'm glad that Svbtle is taking steps and thinking about the (really) long term. So kudos for that.
This is why I hate driving in those types of areas.

A good percentage of the time two people end up trying to enter the intersection at once because hand signals are not a clear communication method for signaling right of way.
[this is a tweet]

[@zippergz this is a tweet]

[this is a tweet for @zippergz]

I have no idea if these are different. I know my followers get to see the first example. But do they get to see the others?

I have no idea what happens if I post these as a reply to a tweet that you posted. Do I need to keep the @ handle in there? Or is it being a reply sufficient to trigger an alert on your end?

I just now got followed by a porn account. So, I'm not interested in the porn they produce, and I'm never going to tweet to them. Either they're spammers who are just following everyone, or they've seen some sex industry relevant tweets I've retweeted (because another person I followed researches the sex industry) and thought I'm worth following. I have no way of knowing. So do I block them? Or just ignore them?
> It's confusing because the Goverment has advanced this All Writs theory in 9 different currently ongoing cases to try to get it to stick.

The only one I've heard about is the San Bernardino shooter's phone. What are the other eight cases?
It scares me that this could be used to justify stock options as having a value other than $0, and could be used to drive down real actual cash money salaries. I'm fine with the current situation because I have no plan to act on the options anyways - I don't invest in lottery tickets either.
Let's say for instance we wanted an RFID indicator for each lane every 200 feet.

You're talking about 13 million RFID chips that would need to be installed on 164,000 miles of roadway - just to get the interstate highways covered.

Now think about the fact that these chips are going to need to sit static and not be replaced for more than 15 years at a time. So you have to come up with a way to house them such that they will not be affected by > 150 degree heat or by < -50 degree (F) cold.

And then think about the fact that it takes ~6 months for the government wheels to spin in the right direction for a pothole to be filled in.

The project to put RFID, or any new technology on the roadways in the US will have to involve federal cooperation as well as the governments of 50 states and countless local governments. It will be 100 times more expensive than any other venture using the same technology.

Look at the Big Dig project in Boston. It took 25 years, $24 billion and several acts of congress to get it to a state where they could start working out the kinks like "why do the guardrails keep killing people".

The scale of solving this problem "the right way" is incredible. I don't disagree with you entirely. But I think any change like that is a solid 100 years out into the future.
Everyone knows it's true.
(1) has actually been done a decade ago, it was called "Starkiller"

http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/Projects/starkiller.pdf
BONUS FUN:

If you want to play around with lisp interactively, I reccomend checking out the program Emacs. It's a little lisp interpreter written in C, that comes with a text editor and such. Download it and run it. When you write some lisp code into the editor, place your cursor after the expression and hit Ctrl-x Ctrl-e. That is read, eval and apply what the expression, and display the result in the bottom of them window.

Here is a screenshot of me doing that with this code (apply (quote +) (quote (1 2))) ;; http://i.imgur.com/SrhMxS8.png

Play around with that - it's fun enough for an evening.

Some other fun code to run is this

(reduce '+ '(1 2 3 4))

(defun say-hello (&optional name) ;; a wild lambda appeared!
(if (stringp name)
(concat "hello " name)
"I'm a lonely program"))
(say-hello "Martin")
(say-hello)
"The ones who just want to live more cheaply end up miserable because this is not California North." Why do you think that is?

I'm interested in it due to the lifestyle but also the idea of being able to afford to bootstrap my next company in the next year or so. My gf had a friend who moved up but couldn't stand the lack of sun (former San Diegoan) - this has made her reticent to make the move from our rent-controlled shoebox...
This seems to be the core point here — the US Code is a whitelist, not a blacklist:

"The government's position also produces a wholly different kind of absurdity: the idea that the First Congress might so thoroughly undermine fundamental principles of the Constitution that many of its members had personally just helped to write or to ratify. Its preferred reading of the law – which allows a court to confer on the executive branch any investigative authority Congress has decided to withhold, so long as it has not affirmatively outlawed it – would transform the AWA from a limited gap-filing statute that ensures the smooth functioning of the judiciary itself into a mechanism for upending the separation of powers by delegating to the judiciary a legislative power bounded only by Congress's superior ability to prohibit or preempt. I conclude that the constitutionality of such an interpretation is so doubtful as to render it impermissible as a matter of statutory construction."
Sandstorm's Security Track Record
There's a new generation of web devs that are starting to feel old and cranky. jQuery will be 10 years old this year (I KNOW!?); Gnarls Barkley's Crazy was on the radio then.
It seems that applications for search warrants are also USA vs <property-to-be-searched> cases.
The law still won't take cyberstalkers seriously
React did make me sad, I was confused and frustrated configuring my app instead of building it. I switched to Vue.js and now I'm happy again.
An attacker-controlled domain, say snaapchat.com, can pass DKIM, SPF, and DMARC if configured appropriately.
Interesting and well formulated words that are worth being said. But you are addressing (western?) humanity in general, and not the nerd group GP was wondering about. Do you see an emprical link between nerds and stubborness as GP does? If so, I would be interested in your thoughts.
> They are not worried about the data on the San Bernardino iPhone, because if they were they would have had it by now.

I wish this was the point made by more mainstream media outlets. Not for the reasons the article author posts, but rather that the SOP for Apple devices involves bringing it to a known access point and powering the phone to allow an iCloud backup to occur.
Seems like the website publishes similar lists for various countries. I don't think it's intentional, but it's weird that it made it to the frontpage of HN.
Great stuff.

I've personally had to deal with these decisions and know many friends who struggled with figuring out how they could possibly pay for exercising their vested shares, in some cases after they were laid off and had no choice in the timing.

If I were getting a job, I'd only consider offers with extended exercise windows. If they combined it with a more back-loaded vesting schedule [1], I wouldn't mind and would evaluate that. But dealing with the 90 day exercise window is black and white: it isn't worth all the potential trouble and risk you can be forced to take on.

1: 20%/20%/30%/30% instead of 25%/25%/25%/25%, or 6 years instead of 4 years
Apple Doesn't Have to Help FBI in New York iPhone Case, Judge Says
I think he meant to say "not talking about just Pi development -- developing anything for embedded systems on Windows is a huge pain"

or

"...developing anything cross-platform on Windows is a huge pain"
CIA and NSA Directors Blame the Media for Terrorists Using Encryption
I'd actually love to see this one make it to the supreme court, where I have pretty much no doubt, they would reach the exact same conclusion.
A New World Record: Fastest Ascent Made by a Drone
I believe most companies whose stock is publicly traded provide this for their employees. If you have stock in, say, Google, when your stock vests, you can have it sold and take the difference directly--no loan needed. I've never done such a thing, so it's only hearsay on my part, but that's how I've understood it to be.
Furniture, rent-seeking and the problem with laws
Many years ago I was almost taken out when a driver did a very unexpected U turn into the gap he thought was there. Trouble is, the gap in traffic was actually me on large motorbike. So it can happen :p
Rental-Car Olympics
I'd be interested to hear more about your experience using Maya LT for a 2D art flow to Unity. Does your art start in Maya or are you importing from another application?
For what it's worth I unflagged/vouched for the article because I think the premise and the comments refuting it are an interesting discussion.

Even if he's wrong, the reason why he's wrong is informative.
Also revealing, Apple documented to this judge other AWA-based requests made in the last months:

"Apple identified nine requests filed in federal courts across the country from October 8, 2015 (the date of the instant Application) through February 9, 2016. Id. at 2. In each, Apple has been ordered under the authority of the AWA (or has been told that an order has been requested or entered) to help the government bypass the passcode security of a total of twelve devices;

in each such case in which Apple has actually received a court order, Apple has objected"
> sudo do whatever I want

What a fantastic way of putting it. Makes the point and good for a chuckle.
I know several people who have full-time employment as technical writers. The downside is that they don't get to choose what to work on.
BitPay is an even more brazen example, using the "unlimited" and "forever" combo together in the same sentence.

September 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20150709093806/https://bitpay.co...

A free plan with unlimited processing, forever

February 2016: https://bitpay.com/pricing

FREE: 30 Transactions / Month, Up to $1,000 Daily