skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tracking the number of tenants in each building is an enforcement nightmare once you add a financial incentive to misrepresent it.

Just add a low density housing tax. Wait, don't call it that - call it a land-use tax adjustment. Measure ability-to-house-people as some combination of square footage of habitable area, bedrooms, bathrooms, and number of rental units. Divide by the lot size. Multiply by a large enough negative number to incentivize building, then add a constant to make it revenue-neutral instead of a subsidy.

This would effectively subsidize people who build higher-density housing at the expense of people who own parking lots or commercial real-estate. It's a little troubling to tax commercial development or offices, but it's already much easier to get approval to build jobs, so cooling that down a bit shouldn't be a huge issue. Besides, you can dodge the tax with mixed-use buildings, which is generally something that you want for efficient land use.

Land-value would be a better way of assessing the multiplier, but that's not constitutional for California to enact because of Proposition 13. So, it's back to a square-footage with a housing capacity offset.
Another solution is to not compile drivers that you don't need, and to take minimizing kernel attack space as seriously as running a firewall. It should, in my opinion, be routine to run a reduced kernel in production, however most of the industry appears to use stock kernels from a few major vendors. The likes of CoreOS are probably helping here. Keep it up.
> It seems to me that the real issue is that "rm -rf" should by default not recurse into mounted filesystems, but should at most try to unmount them.

There is a --one-file-system argument that skips directories not on the same filesystem. You could add this layer of protection by adding it to an alias in your shell.
Totally agree on the project discovery bit. Noticed the same thing when I played with it. I added a couple tickets to try and encourage them to fix it.

* Increase the prominence of gitlab hosted projects on about.gitlab. Project search, trending, curated lists. - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/558

* Trending project data by language (js, ruby etc) - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13475

* Allow projects to flag themselves as looking for contributors - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13502

Give them a +1 maybe they will put resources on making gitlab more oss friendly
Did you read the whole article? I was composing a similar comment in my head, but then got to "switching from conventional milk to organic milk would increase omega-3 intake by only very small margins... protein levels were lower in organic crops such as wheat... from a health perspective, what you eat matters more than whether you choose organic or conventional."

I agree that any science-for-the-public reporting tends to do a bad job of conveying the inherent uncertainty in current research, but I feel like this was not terrible.
> Under penalty of perjury, not really.

Since you're quite obviously having to dance around how to communicate the fact that you've received NSLs and invocations of CALEA that made you feel queasy (I feel your pain for similar, vague, hypothetical reasons), perjury isn't the legal concept that you're after there. You want 18 USC 2709, and for those keeping score at home, to my knowledge nobody has been prosecuted for violating (C)(1) which would test that law on appeal. The Internet Archive famously challenged the nondisclosure itself and won, which is a bit different.

I honestly don't know with what they'd charge you. Obstruction, maybe, but there's enough national security buzzwords in the (again, I've heard) letters and law to give me pause on considering civil disobedience there. The law does say in 18 USC 3511 that they can invoke a district court to force compliance, and then contempt can follow. But unclear on the nondisclosure part in the absence of a court order, and that's scary.

(BTW, IANAL, just an ex-hoster with a penchant for policy, and I'd love to hear someone like rayiner's view on this.)
However, there's also an argument that this difference is largely mitigated by the extra gas you burn fueling the farm equipment, largely due to the lower yields from organic farming. I'm less certain that there's a strong argument for organic once you consider the overall impact.

For example, pastured livestock on a commercial scale, such as what this article is promoting, is an absolute disaster form a carbon footprint perspective.
+1 on the point about execution. So true.
Lecture videos are in Flash. Sigh
ETFs are a broad topic. They still bring liquidity to market, but they are a trading vs. investment opportunity. Like any other financial vehicle, they are subject to abuse, but are not the cause of such actions. The FED purchases numerous bonds in some of these portfolios, and therefore some of the costs are hidden. These do not reveal themselves in the market, and as such are bad trades or investments.
I'm an experienced programmer but I never got into the "flow of open source development". By that I mean some github users who's profile has consistent green squares for so many months in the past (meaning regular and frequent contributions).

I think it may have something to do with the process or some habit or approach that I'm missing:

- TDD?

- agile? ship it quick?

- divide a big feature into multiple small features, each consisting of well-tested small-size commits?

- what about documentation? pseudocode?

- how much time do they spend code reviewing pull requests? how do they make sure their code stays high-quality (doesn't become spaghetti)

- how often do they refactor?

- etc, etc, etc

I also have a habit of not settling down on a toolchain and then I end up exploring new tools more often than actually writing code and making a working product or feature.

Any comments/advice highly appreciated.
America needs to work for everyone. If you are motivated and smart and able bodied then you can probably make things work, and that is a great thing. Those who are disengaged, not all that smart, and or disabled also need to get by somehow.

Possibly the best analogy is to literacy. Getting our society to 90%+ literacy is extremely expensive and dominates public accounts in most US jurisdictions, but it is worth that investment many times over.

So also transitioning from work being the only recognized value to humanity itself being enough is going to be extremely expensive, but it will be worth it. Perhaps most important to remember is that those in need will not horde their gifts, but immediately circulate them in order to keep going, so the humiliating confiscation of taxation will result in swarms of new potential customers thus energizing enterpreneurship.
They were eventually able to get into the phone without the backdoor. The shooter's employer was able to change the iCloud password on it because they issued the phone in the first place.

The FBI initially wanted to get in by having Apple build a backdoor that could be used to defeat the security on ANY iPhone-- that's the bad thing, and it's still a bad thing.

And re: "thanks for the downvote"-- stop digging when you're in a hole.
Apple believes they are serving the people by protecting their privacy. The FBI believes they are serving the people by hunting down terrorists.

Just two different beliefs in what serving the people means.
Doesn't chocolate contain caffeine? Would that fact explain this result? Ie. Is there a similar effect from just consuming the equivalent amount of caffeine.
…something something eternal vigilance…
Who owns the phone is irrelevant in this case. Apple doesn't want to be forced to build operating systems into phones that break Apple's own security model.
Aren't corporations people now anyways[1]? Basically, it's just people protecting themselves :).

[1] - http://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-b...
There's good evidence that the losers in the hft game are retirement funds and other large, conservative beats that don't have as much access to the inside track. The secret market orders in flash boys are a perfect illustration: market manipulation makes the cheaters rich at the expense of almost everyone else.

Finance provides some liquidity to the market, sure, but is largely parasitic. Just like anyone else with a get rich quick scheme, really.
I don't often find reason to praise Facebook, but this would be one.

When news of the FBI's demands to Apple first appeared, I hoped to hear from Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon, as online service providers. Mozilla and Wikimedia as related infrastructure. Also Samsung, LG, Lenovo, and Dell, as hardware providers, and T-Mobile as a mobile services provider (AT&T and Verizon are assumed to be in the tank with the FBI/NSA/CIA).

This puts the list of supporters at Twitter, Google, and Facebook. Good work.

Waiting on Microsoft and Amazon.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/PyMCaHdE...
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"A mathematical one" in a simplified analysis which assumes a rational actor model which doesn't model what people actually do.

Or if you want to use the model, the deadweight loss in your evaluation can instead be interpreted as the price that people are willing to pay for the good feelings of knowing that everyone in the country has accessible and affordable basic health care.
Here's a useful list of other shortcuts that DuckDuckGo provides: http://techglimpse.com/duck-duck-go-search-engine-goodies-tr...

Some of my favorites:

expand [shortened URL] - (ex: expand http://tinyurl.com/urlwiki) - See where a shortened URL points to

password [length] [weak/strong] - (ex: password 15 strong) - Generate a password of n characters (with the usual disclaimer about generating passwords from a website)
Sure, as far as the FBI getting this being reasonable I don't think we need to go much further than the user being a butcher of humans. But there's no way for Apple to comply with this order without putting everyone else in danger either through the exploit leaking (and what an incentive to steal that exploit there would be!) or the legal precedent leading to our government (or others!) asking for more.
Depends on the package used it may be possible to reprogram the UEFI chip in situ with test clips[1]. But of course one will still need to acquire a reprogrammer and a know good copy of firmware.

[1]https://www.digikey.com/product-search/en/test-and-measureme...
There's not really anything you can do about this unless you want Wmail to have to stand up a server to authenticate with, at which point you're no really getting any additional security because Wmail still needs to store some sort of credential on your machine for persistent login that an attacker could steal to authenticate with Wmail on their own machine.

An attacker would have to steal your access token stored locally on your machine to use with this public client id and client secret, and if you have software that's maliciously scraping credentials from your machine you already have a problem.
Fixed, although frankly perjury may apply if I went too far given.. handwave.
I have actually started to do this to see for myself how much work it would be

http://blog.dkhenry.com/2016/02/17/deciding-to-rewrite-getad...
I think your being downvoted because the techies on hn are concerned with security, not ownership. Apple complying with the government makes everyone less secure. We aren't as worried about judicial over reach as we are with creating tools that will be used to commit crimes.

Good security will keep out anyone that does not know the secret. That includes "owners." The concept of ownership is irrelevant to the design of a secure system.
Wanting to recover the data, I don't think anyone actually has a problem with - not even Apple, if I read the letter correctly. It's wanting to force Apple to create a tool we'd rather didn't exist.

If you or I asked Apple to recover data from our phones, they'd just act sympathetic until we went away. Perhaps walk you through some of the backup options.
Why is Mozilla not on your list of supporters?

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/19/467318811/mozilla-foundation-b...
Indeed. I know exactly what you mean. Relatedly, I hope you were able to avoid situations that required you to talk to NCMEC. (I wasn't, and I carry those memories with me now.)

To others: Don't go into hosting, particularly the abuse side, if you value your sanity and a positive outlook on humanity in general.
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It's certainly possible to incrementally rewrite an OS distribution in Rust, or even smaller projects like glibc.

Anyone want to set up the infrastructure so it's easy to take a library or a .c file and start hacking, and see if you still get a working OS in the end? I suppose part of the problem is defining "working OS" -- I'm not sure I know of any great test suites that check to see that a GNU/Linux distribution continues to in GNUy/Linuxish ways, which is usually what you want for a large-scale rewrite project.
I certainly like Jetbrains, but is it a "unicorn"? I doubt it has a billion dollar valuation - not least because it is a private company.
> rely on corporations to protect the people from an overreaching government?

Corporations aren't fundamentally different from the government. Both are just groups of people, at an abstract level.

It's actually not uncommon for local governments to literally exist as incorporated entities. Or for corporations to serve as the de facto government for a region.

It's a relatively recent phenomenon that we view these as completely different concepts, but they're not as distinct as we often think. It's more accurate to think of government as a special case of corporations rather than a completely different concept.
Wow. Delphi was one of the first programming environments that I found was productive. It's amazing that the company has continued to chug along in the face of the web, mobile apps, massively dominant platform players like Microsoft and the low barrier to entry of the open source world.
A corporatocracy.

It's not so surprising when you consider that corporations can span many countries. Apple doesn't need the U.S. nearly as much as the U.S. needs Apple.
No, there are cleanroom indoor farms. No bugs.
Another (much more expensive) "standard" reference for synthesis algorithms is Curtis Roads' "The Computer Music Tutorial" http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Music-Tutorial-Technology/dp/...
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>“I don’t think building back doors is the way to go, so we’re pretty sympathetic to Tim and Apple,” said Mr. Zuckerberg

Shortened the article for ya.
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I recall a C++ book saying something like "ignore it, log an error, or call exit()" to handle an error in a destructor. In other words, there is no correct answer. In practice, the operations usually performed in a destructor are unlikely to fail, and in "typical" programs one of those 3 solutions is probably acceptable. But it's a serious issue in software that is supposed to be 100% robust, i.e. [1].

[1] http://250bpm.com/blog:4
This is obviously hyperbolic.
I think it's because of the pharmacy benefit managers mentioned in the article. You use your card, you pay the negotiated rate that they have with the insurance company. You pay cash, you pay the rate Walmart is willing to sell it at.

Of course it makes no sense that the fiddly details of how you buy medicine matter to the tune of 5x. I guess part of the problem is that an awful lot of people are insulated from the costs of their medical care.
GPG has no central CAs, but relies on a "web of trust" situation. In reality, there's no one central that everyone trusts, so unless the keys are signed by some individual you personally trust, you're down to being reliant on getting valid keys.
Are you using food kilocalories for hydrocarbon energy or normal calories?
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Sad. Turbo Pascal and later Delphi were immensely popular in Brazil in 90s and 2000s. Many small software houses depended on it. I had a bunch of old Turbo Pascal / Objectvision (I think that was the name) manuals, and a guy actually bought them from me because they were useful for his small team (I put them to sale thinking about collectors).
Microsoft did put out a statement that was industry wide, not just Apple. I don't know why people want Microsoft to specifically name Apple when Apple is one of dozens the government wants backdoors from.
There are compromise moves that are possible with political will. Eminent domain + temporary relocation assistance + a guarantee to be able to own a unit in the newly constructed building.

Knock down a 2-story house, replace with a 50 story one. Give the former owner a 1 or 2 bedroom in the new place, and put them up in a hotel while construction is underway. A small price to pay to get a whole lot of new units.
While we're talking about Digital Ocean, how has your experience been? My company currently uses Dreamhost, but we've had quite a few problems with them lately and we're thinking about switching.
FWIW I didn't allow the flash to run and it plays fine using html5 video.
Just like governments, corporations are groups of individual people nominally organized around a common goal. If the government overreaches to a degree that will have a significant negative effect on corporations' bottom lines, as would Apple being forced to backdoor its software, we should absolutely expect corporations to step in on the side of their customers.

Of course corporations will be pragmatic about when they step in to "protect the people" as you put it. But let's not kid ourselves about governments ever being fully (mostly, even) on the side of the people.
It was, but the React support is still pending.
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Even if the nutrition is the same or worse ("organic" or not), varieties of fruit and vegetable that aren't big, brightly colored, perfectly round, non-bruising, transportable, shelf-stable, beautiful, tastes-of-nothing garbage are better in my opinion.

Why? Because if they actually tasted different to all the other processed junk out there, then maybe people would choose them instead.
Yes they definitely can and I've battled them indoors myself but I'm thinking about the real high end grows that make the chances extremely low for pest invasion. Or any indoor grow in theory that doesn't happen to have a bug problem where things like humidity, temp, watering, airflow, air quality, feeding etc. are all controlled for "optimum" growing conditions. Is it really optimum after all
Yippers, hosting anything for the general public as a pretty brutal business to be in. I didn't enjoy any aspect of my job that required dealing with the judicial arm of any government. I'm incredibly happy to see apple going to town on this issue. I wish people knew what a fucking mess it is.
That's an extenuating but, so far as I'm aware, both moot and nonessential criterion.

Virtually all the relevant phone data and metadata are available from other sources, including call, message, and email data, and backups until six weeks prior to the attacks.

Apple could have provided a data extraction on request, as it has done previously. This wasn't what the FBI had demanded.

Due to the FBI's own actions and direction, the data on the phone has quite probably already been destroyed.

Legally, my read is that the request has few or no merits.
I work there and I'd agree, as a whole, it is not yet a tech company. Many departments are really trying, however.
Before an interview I make sure that I have caffeine and chocolate while driving to the interview. I always seem to communicate better when I do this.
Semi-related topic - hot chocolate (the drink). Am I the only one who actually prefers the taste of the non-dutch (non-alkali-processed)?

If it's processed, it loses all its kick. Also I suspect processing reduces whatever benefits it may provide.
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Most of what DDG is doing is great, and for a lot of things it's just as good as and often better than Google. It's really good to see how far you've come.

A few times I've found the instant answers are just plain wrong, and even though I've hit feedback they never got corrected. Hopefully you're trying to improve how you react to feedback? It's partly because you do so damn well on things like single link for a song lyric search, or just the answer snippet you need like an IP address, and highlight it better than Google that it becomes so noticeable when you do get something wrong.

I'd be hard pushed to remember a specific broken search to point you to as last time was around Christmas.
Thanks, do you have a link?
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I wasn't aware they'd put out a statement. I was rather hoping they had. Thank you.
Well... yes, they are groups of people, but governments are rather different. Governments include everyone and act on their behalf. They are also responsible for creating and enforcing law. The distinction is valid.
Where can I get some of the hot chocolate you describe? I've never had it and it sounds interesting.
You're drawing a false dichotomy when you talk about technology and policy as separate issues. If you are unable to overhear my encrypted messages, were you stopped by the technology of the Salsa20 algorithm or my policy of not giving you the keys? Or were you stopped by the government's policy of not compelling their production for you? Maybe you were stopped by your own policy of not beating people with rubber hoses?

In the hypothetical that Apple did not have the capability to defeat the 5C's passcode counter, is the FBI thwarted because of a technically secure cryptosystem or because it is the policy in the United States to allow such cryptosystems to be marketed and sold?

Policy and technology do not exist in a vacuum. Apple is obviously going to close the custom image loophole in response to this "debate"; so clearly the boundary between technology and policy is fluid. But merely taping a policy out for silicon, as Apple is going to do in the next chip, does not address any of the underlying issues. Sure, in the instant case Apple "technically can" unlock the iPhone, but that is always true: we could create a law such that all phones must be backdoored for example. Assuming Apple loses here, mark your calendar, because we'll have that battle next year when a terrorist uses the new silicon.

There is a line somewhere for what is reasonable to compel. Reasonable people can disagree about where that line is, but let's not paint "people in technology" with a broad patronizing brush of "it's not technology, it's policy, therefore your rules don't apply". Technology is merely policy that's machine-readible.
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It sure does if that signed malicious firmware ever got out. And it will eventually since once it's written it will be requested by every police department and federal agency for ever increasing trivial cases. Every government in the world will want access to that piece of code.

If Apple really can tie the firmware to a specific piece of hardware with no possibility of it being modified I would be impressed but even still a little cautious.