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We are talking about physical phones produced by Apple, to which law enforcement has physical access. From my understanding this is more about Apple as a hardware manufacturer, who just happens to also produce the software for the same phone.

I fail to relate the scenario we have now to software project (though no doubt the FBI will try to).

With hardware you typically have a clear manufacturer. However things might get interesting if more people make their own hardware using open-source designs.
>> Let them upload their resume, then force them to fill out an unbearably redundant form containing identical information.

That sounds like JobVite.

During my recent job hunt: for a few places I applied to, I tried to find company's CTO/engg-head on Twitter, asked them for their email & mailed them a link to my pull-request to one of their opensource projects or stuff they use. Best response rate I've had.

Sadly, when the process was passed on to the HRs. They delayed continuing the process by weeks and I had already picked up a job at a place liked.

When being interviewed, I learnt a lot about what not to do as an interviewer. When I've been interviewing people recently:

* looked at their previous work before the interview (GitHub/Behance/Dribbble usually shows their code & quality of work)

* had casual chats about their hobbies and projects

Infact, my co-workers may laugh this off. But a casual chat with people about their work/hobbies/life, can tell a lot (interests, opinions, what-does-he/she-want-out-of-the-job?, looks for problems?, self-learner?, can-debug?, interesting hacks, etc). After all, we are going to spend a lot of time together. So I try to become their new friend.

Ofcourse the above process is broken too. But atleast it is open-ended to allow them to express what they know or are good at, instead of judging them by what I know.

P.S: Never judge people by their past workplaces.
I know this is going to sound crazy, but there are parallels here between Apple vs. the FBI, and Superman vs. Batman.

Superman represents an unchecked power, and Batman finds this unchecked power to be unacceptable as a risk, in case the power is ever used against humanity.

Is this a subtle marketing ploy from DC Comics‽
Not exactly about the electron, but if you want good fiction about singularities and the like, find books by Greg Egan. /Incandescence/ is about a civilisation living near a black hole. When you read it, keep a paper and pencil handy. Egan's web is at http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/.
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In the age of 4.3 GB drives that cost $750, unlikely.
This is awesome. Thanks! I kind of figured they'd apply the algorithms behind big dog et al to bipedal. But I guess bipedal is completely different.

What do you think it would take for robots to walk in a similar way to humans?
Thanks for your input austin. I'm already using amazon and google cloud free tiers, also used heroku too at the beginning. The site gonna enter production soon and the free tiers will not be enough. I completely understand, that users should keep the site "alive" but at the beginning this is hard to reach and I also expect flood of users (for moments) that are gonna be impossible to keep up on this conditions. That's why I'm worried, and want to be prepared, problem is that I don't have many options. I'm not new to developing sites, but I have no idea how to start my "thing" with almost no resources(founding)
So if the FBI drops a confiscated laptop and the hard drive breaks, can they compel Seagate to recover data from the drive?
"The Government" is just a collection of people, and the judicial branch (this judge) is especially distinct from the executive branch (the FBI).
Are they known for the customer service with AWS?

Anyways both companies provide SLAs, phone and email support, and consultation for a price.
It's tricky. The All Writs Act clearly must have some boundaries as to reasonableness and the due process of the defendant.

What Apple is being asked to do here isn't simply to unlock a phone. They're being asked to use their engineers, money, and expertise to build a tool to defeat the very encryption they developed.

It's not clear the All Writs Act enables the government to simply order a search warrant recipient to create new technology for them.
I'm not sure why you are big on the 380. To me it is a long load/unload and (unless you are in one of the airlines that flies a nice F ... spending $10K+ on your seat) it is just like anything else inside. I'd take a 777 or better yet 787 any time. Even the newer LH 747-8 to India is better than the 380 hard product IMO.

What airport depends on what airline alliance you fly with though. I'm StarAlliance so not much CDG or AMS unless it is O/D.

For * A I personally love FRA, but I've been through it 40+ times and know it like the back of my hand. I don't mind the A-B-C pier walks really, and most of the time landing in B and going over to the Schengen gates at A is not that big of a deal. MUC is much nicer to navigate than FRA but the connectivity is not as good.

If you are sticking to * A the new terminal at LHR is not bad, but most of the good connectivity in on BA and taking a bus to T5 and re-clearing security is terrible.

Instead of GVA or ZRH, whose connectivity is pretty mediocre on Swiss, someone flying * A should really look at IST. The Turkish lounge is excellent and the connectivity to EMEA is far superior, and lots of NA airports have a direct connection.

All this just reminds me I have to fly to EWR tomorrow :(
If the new software they are to write also tried 10000 pass codes, would that count?
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Not sure why this disappeared from the HN homepage so quickly.
Octal. Aaaand they dropped one.
Not if they think you're mentally unstable enough to warrant them administering treatment, regardless if that treatment ends up being necessary or not.
That struck me too. Not only did they have a laughably small sample size, they didn't compare the results they got against gold-standard venous blood tests.
My issue was resolved eventually (took about a month with one week lag in their replies and it was me who figured out what was going on, not the support).

It looks like the App Engine documentation was finally fixed. It used to say "If you do not specify a class, F1 is assigned by default." as recently as a few months ago. For a long time the default was actually F1. Then one day my costs went up unexpectedly. The default instance class had changed without notice (at least none that I ever saw). I didn't know that's what had changed though and I emailed billing support just asking what happened. Canned reply email after canned reply email with requests for tons of information they already have (including information I typed into the original support request form). They also had me take screenshots of my console (can they really not look up my information?). And sending me the canned emails takes a week for some reason.

I should probably point out this was billing support. I'm not sure if that's a different department or what but I'm pretty sure they have no idea what they are doing over there (or, at best, just don't have the time or interest to help smaller paying customers).
Seagate has no special ability to recover data as far as I know. The case isn't comparable.
Not the same. This is more like if the FBI wanted access to investigate a space murder and demanded Virgin Galactic to build a special shuttle to allow the FBI's equipment to the station, something only Virgin Galactic can do because they're the only ones who have the key to the space station.
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Does the translation come for free? If not, it's probably complicated to reason about.
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It's also, most confusingly to me, the name of Facebook's datacenter design.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/facebook-fabric-an-innov...
I wish I had a timeline that showed me the frequency of stories coming out on this.

I am only spitballing here, but does anyone else think the heat has risen for federal law enforcement to set some precedents on this stuff now that Antonin Scalia has died? My hunch is that with another liberal judge on the Supreme Court there may be a push to have some of this type of case heard at the highest court.
When I search for the Virginia DMV I have to scroll past a lot of very scammy looking AdWords links. I accidentally clicked DMV.org once or twice.
Now every arsehole spammer will add the words "I'm OK me my" and when a major accident occurs the mode of transport or disaster related noun to their tweets

And this is why we can't have nice things. Twitter doesn't kill spam bots fast enough and Twitter spammers and slimey SEO douchebags crap in their own backyard. No wonder Twitter is going down: between the gamergaters, doxxers, trolls, female hating mysogynists, outraged eavesdroppers, rape loving, NLP wielding pick-up artists, swot-abusers, and vapid, brain-dead, useless celebrities - how does Twitter even exist?

It's truly amazing how a medium with only a 140 character limit can a. make money, b. communicate anything really worthwhile, or c. be read by anyone with any serious intent! Several years ago the criticisms were that everyone tweeted about mundane crap and it went down frequently [1], now it's being abandoned because it's no better than swimming in a sewage system [2].

1. http://youtu.be/b5Ff2X_3P_4

2. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/stephen-fry-quits-twi...
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A distinction without a difference. The FBI wouldn't ask for the modified software if it wouldn't allow them to easily unlock the phone.
I don't think so. So far the history of technology has proven that Balkanization doesn't last and that the markets gravitate toward a dominant technology (TCP, HTTP, Windows etc...).

Your average everyday person doesn't care about back doors and that's where market share is.

Governments accept some level of foreign penetration. The whole spy thing is just a complex game - trust me I know I played it.
I really think this author's post was very selfish, as evidenced by its, well, selfish content (and resorting to begging), and it's fine for us to agree to disagree on that matter.

But do you really think she was directing this to help others or 'expose the truth' as you say? Like was it a secret that the entry level customer support job was actually entry level, with wages to match? She knew before moving to SF that she'd be making SF's minimum wage, not SF's living wage.

I don't think anything is being exposed here, and I don't think she's going to start a movement to get enough people to complain enough to get things to change.

If we are talking about the fundamental issue of people not being able to make enough money to live a proper existence within the constructs of our society, I agree with her and you in that it sucks and needs to be fixed systematically.

But this didn't really seem to be a commentary on that. It seemed more like a pity party anecdote with undertones that she knew would stir up that narrative.

Do you see where I'm coming from? It's just hard to pity someone that thinks it makes sense to move to SF at a minimum wage job, in her own apartment, eating out at restaurants every day (see her instagram), while her dad lives there, and then asking for people to directly send her money because of her hardships.

I dunno. There are a lot more people much worse off and this person made clearly awful decisions for her well being. It baffles me that people are pitying her, and I'm being called heartless for this.

I'm curious what you mean by:

>There's a whole lot of history of this happening with regard to working conditions.

This person was working at a place that provided unlimited coconut water to everyone all the time, and she complained about it. I'd hardly call that harsh working conditions.
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I am not a lawyer (and not even an American), but from my perspective, I don't see how they can loose. They have a warrant. I used to work on telephone switches and we added code that would allow someone with a warrant to record conversations all the time. We even had a generic facility for it.

The main difference, of course, is that adding an ability to allow someone to intrude on privacy for a service is different than adding functionality to a product that allows someone to intrude on privacy. The service provider can act as a gatekeeper to ensure that a warrant is provided. If you make a special build that anyone can load onto a device, then, of course, there is no gatekeeper for the warrant.

The key is that I am aware of no law that requires a gatekeeper. Services ask for warrants out of respect for their customers. Often they don't respect their customers and provide access without a warrant. It's not like the software we added to the telephone switches requires some kind of special key or anything. There is no oversight and there has never been any oversight.

The thing is that (as an American in US) you are under no obligation to hand over your cell phone, unless the police have a warrant. Once they have a warrant, then I don't think you have any recourse. As we have seen, you can be found in contempt of court if you do not reveal your password anyway.

So from the perspective of the law, I think it is relatively straight forward. It's going to have to go all the way up to the supreme court. I imagine that the supreme court would choose to hear this case. Essentially you will have to argue that compelling a company to create an exploit to satisfy a warrant constitutes an unreasonable search if that exploit can also be used to perform illegal searches. I think the case would be heard, but I doubt very much that the argument will succeed. If the exploit is constructed on the condition that it is only used to satisfy the warrant in question, I'm pretty sure that it will be acceptable. We all know that such a condition need not be followed since the FBI et al don't care if the evidence they gather is admissible in court. However, I doubt it will matter legally.
I don't think I'd be worried about this if I were running a company like Theranos. There's probably still a huge market for that kind of multitest product even if the draw was venous.
Not sure if this is helpful, but Firefox uses the pdf.js extension to open pdfs within the browser. Perhaps other browsers have extensions based on pdf.js?
Most important is to ignore a candidate's proven ability to deliver real solutions and instead focus on contrived tests that bear no resemblance to the actual work they'd be doing.
Couple investigators after that, then divorce presales.
The VR age will be a dream and a nightmare
Windows before 30 years of updates that were created with a need to maintain backwards compatibility feels so cohesive. I mean, that control panel is just so clean.

Also, would be interested in seeing the orginal Win 95 (before OSR2). It was way way faster than win 98.
Close5 would be similarly risky if they don't vet either.
Google seems to be facing a trust problem here that its competitors don't, due to its history of shutting down popular services, even those that were being used internally and even those that it had been recently hyping to the press. Due to this unusual context, perhaps it would help if Google were to increase this promise from 1 year to 10 years (or 5 years or 3 years).
Yeah, I'm reading this story (and some of these comments), and I have been in language comprehension mishaps before, but only because I was being obstinate (and was aware of it).

I can't think of a situation like this where I couldn't intuit the desired answer the authority questioning me was looking for. I've often chosen not to give that answer for various reasons (I can be a prick, usually), but there's never been a situation to my recollection that I've been genuinely stumped.
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There is also a first amendment angle in that due to the previous crypto wars code is considered speech so the act of forcing a developer to write code could be considered compelled speech.
Then let's say the FBI handled a confiscated SSD drive wrongly, and some of the communication circuits of one of the flash chips holding the data got fried as a result. Your only bet to get data off that chip is the manufacturer of the chip. Could the FBI compel them to try?
It's disturbing. Sure, Google is worlds away from where it started, but to violate trust in search is a bridge too far.
It is disconcerting because it is a reminder of the war on general purpose computing and devices where the user of the device does not have control of what software is running on the device.
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Seeing this makes the web suddenly feel so dark and disorganized. It makes me feel sad :(
What are your system specifications? Runs in less than a second for me?
> run
[info] Running HelloWorld
Hello, World
[success] Total time: 0 s, completed Feb 23, 2016 11:09:23 PM
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There was a recent podcast (Freakanomics) that went into some depth about this concept, and it focused on a story about a pencil describing how it gets made, and the millions of people who are involved.

The moral given in the podcast is to "tread carefully" when attempting to fix something, because there are often many moving parts which can't immediately be observed.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/i-pencil/
I taught that class once. It does have some prerequisites, but not a ton. I think it could be taken as early as second year, first semester at that particular school.
Instead of renting, it would probably make more sense for you to buy the tool, use it for a while, and when you're done with it, resell it on Craigslist. Given all the hassle that goes with renting (as you mentioned), reselling on CL is probably no more hassle. And you'll wind up saving a lot of money too.
European trust in US is being harmed
Copyright is different from patents.
What are you afraid will happen? That a JavaScript developer will get lazy and store function definitions in some globally-writable place, allowing untrusted logic to be injected into systems via some embarrassingly accessible route?

Because, yeah, that would be an awful thing to happen to shell utils.
I fly long-haul more than most people, albeit mostly in business. I started taking valium for flying 7 years ago for a fear of flying when I was flying mostly economy. I started with 2mg, which was completely ineffective for anything, and then went to 15mg.

At the higher I didn't notice any effect, until the plane started bouncing, and then I realized I didn't care, which was perfect. I didn't notice any drowsiness at that level, which may have been due to adrenaline.

Over the course of 6 years, my regular dosage approached 50mg as I kept upping it whenever I started to get nervous flying. If taking it while I got on a plane, I didn't feel drowsy. It became not always effective.

About a year ago I made a conscious effort to wean myself off it over the course of 12 weeks, by flying a return business long-haul flight every week, and taking a little less each time, practicing the principles in Dr Claire Weekes "Freedom from Nervous Suffering" (essentially breathing exercises, although it's a little more nuanced), which is in fact a book for agoraphobics which someone had suggested to me. I got down to zero, but found under 10mg then turbulence still had fairly heavy emotional and physical effects on me.

Now I take 0-10mg when I fly. I don't notice any effects, other than I am less sensitive to turbluence. However, I exclusively fly business class rather than economy, which I suspect helps a massive amount.

During this time I also tried Propanalol at some high doses. I found it ineffective for fear of flying, but very very effective for giving presentations. However it started to make me short of breath, so I ditched it.

In terms of intoxicating yourself for flying, I have found Ambien to be highly effective. However, it seems many many people have bad side-effects from it - sleep-walking, etc - so unless you're totally certain you can handle it well, I don't know that I would recommend it. These days I'll settle for 10mg of valium and some alcohol.
> better knowledge of a language should expand the amount of people I can communicate to, not decrease

I actually think the opposite: the more knowledgeable you are in any area, the higher your standards and your interest in details, things that people with lower level of knowledge are not appreciative of and hence not interested in.

As for case of language, I wasn't referring to everyday casual chit chat at lunch or at a party but half serious discussion with people about a mutual area of interest.
I imagine the judge isn't oblivious to the potential weight of precedent here.
Excellent use of interrobang!
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Perhaps because the FBI's error deprived them of the only clearly legal means of recovering the data.

Their mistake shouldn't confer access through arguably illegal means (the legality of the court order compelling Apple not yet being settled).
Another president will be in office before any case resulting from current action will reach the Supreme Court.
How much do Americans really value their online privacy?
"over 40 per cent of all new mortgages originated have been interest-only mortgages."

Well that's not good.
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Ask HN: What's the best selling HTML5 game so far?
Hi HN,

I'm planning on making a game that actually sells (ie. not some demo or PoC), and have been looking at a number of open source HTML5 game engine options. Unfortunately, most of them are either immature or no longer well maintained. The only viable solution I found is Phaser, but looking at its showcase I failed to find any commercially successful game, or even any commercially available indie game I've ever heard of.

So here I'm wondering, what are some of the best selling HTML5 games ever made, and what are the engines they use? This information will be vital to my decision of whether to pursue this idea of making my game using HTML5. Thanks!
Can't you do both?
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In the US, these are three distinctly different things:

1. A person's "papers," memories and life details typically lives as data on their personal smartphones and other devices. Currently, a phone/laptop seems to be treated as pocket lint and other personal property, so a warrant is typically not needed to access contents, i.e., airport enhanced security screening, traffic stop, etc.

2. Important papers may reside in a home in a safe or filing cabinet. A warrant or probable cause is needed to search a home.

3. A search warrant is not needed to search a vehicle, only probable cause. All kinds of road vehicles including van conversions and RVs are considered vehicles, not homes, even for the folks whom dwell in them, and so there is currently little protection.

The fourth amendment needs an amendment to explicitly include one's personal electronic devices, hosted servers and cloud data in order to be congruent with the spirit of the law, because LEAs clearly do not respect sensible boundaries.

Furthermore, the Apple refusal is mostly a protest stance but moot considering the offensive LE tools industry jumps with glee at every opportunity to provide solutions... if the 10x-wipe retries counter is unencrypted, it will be broken by third-parties. (I hope this is not the case, and that it is an encrypted token of some sort)