skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing "more" to know, people do not like being spied on and no one would sign-up to have someone watch their home if that meant everything they said was being monitored. People understand and are afraid to say something for fear that it will come back to haunt them.
In today's world we can assume that the number of programmers with deep knowledge of systems is only going to dwindle

I shudder to think of code written by interns

But why would they split 'Open' and 'File'?
> Also, not going to lie, my #1 use of the IR camera will be for real-time fart detection.

The popular video of this is a fake.
It's not just old habits -- there is the issue of the quality of the phone call.
It's been my experience that cell phones mostly suck w/r/t phone call quality. Android or Apple, cheap burner flipphones or high-end igadgets... doesn't really seem to matter. From the poor speaker tone (tinny and/or lack of volume), to the digital compression artifacts (yeah yeah, I know it's the fault of the carrier), and the lag time which simulates an intercontinental analog phone call from the 1970s, a home phone is often a superior experience when it comes to simply talking.

It's the reason I keep a phone hanging on the wall.
(Fear for) 'Terrorism' is the Swiss knife of government/law enforcement. They can use it to justify/enforce ANY policy they would normally not be able to.
Are our operating systems so vulnerable? Even if we're talking about governments, how is it still possible for someone to 'break' into my computer without me doing anything stupid. How do they plan to install Trojans into my computer?
b is correct.

Further, this is a 5C and doesn't have a secure enclave, and even if it was a 6S they could still get access to the phone by doing an OS update.
I suspect that they're right for certain brains on certain types of LSD, but as someone who once had a pipeline to the stuff, there are many different formulations that produce dramatically different effects.

Distinctly, I remember watching Mars Attacks in theaters (which should date the experience) on what was promised to be a "special" blend... how it was special, I have no idea, but the visualizations were very unique.

In lieu of the strobe effect this article discusses, everything instead morphed. When someone turned their head, for example, my eyes (brain?) saw their head briefly in both positions (with no gaps), and then they morphed from the first position into the second position, its path being trailed by a ghost of their heads.

It was unique, different, and I've never had another experience like it. Perhaps there was something in the mix that wasn't purely LSD, I honestly don't know, but from my (admittedly naive) understanding, not every trip produces the same effects as every other.
I think it means "better aim". "Passgenau" could mean "better fitted fit" which is actually a tautology because a "fit" already "fits".

Legal German is like any other "legal Language". Not for human consumption. ;)
Apple losing to feds in court of public opinion
Well oddly the other day NASA claimed that the climate change is also slowing down the rise that should have occurred because 3.2 trillion gallons have been soaked up by parched continents.

too be honest I am not sure who to believe and when anymore. Why do they always ratchet this stuff during US election cycles?

Still being in an interglacial time period we should expect warming, perhaps we are helping it along but cooling would likely be more devastating than warming. The odd thing about reading about glacier melt and such is that the effects are greater on your shoreline the further you are away from the affected glacier.

http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/why-our-intuition-about...

That linked article just leaves me in the dust at times, the connections made are just making me rethink how it all works. That we can look back at Roman actions and see that a lot of increase is recent is really cool.
Well, because the data source for the battles is clearly western-centric, it'll just show up with correlations with Christianity.
I can confirm that absolutely nothing of import. I think that the attention shown to my rant is overblown, although I do enjoy the good points made by a lot of commentators here.
It's (b) but they can't unlock the phone. They can make it easier to perform a brute force passcode attack against the device. The method to do this would be to restore the phone with a modified (and obviously signed) version of iOS that bypasses the passcode failsafes: such as wiping the data after 10 failed retries, and the exponentially increasing password retry delay.

The hardware imposes a limit of ~80ms on password attempts due to the nature of the hashing computations. So a four digit passcode could be brute forced in a maximum of 15 minutes if Apple were to install a purposefully hindered version of iOS on the device.
Highly recommended: the Adobe Color website (before Kuler): https://color.adobe.com/explore/most-popular/?time=all

Also the mobile app is extremely well done (can create color schemes from picture or live from the camera)
It's one of his projects: http://tholman.com/giflinks/
I've had that for as long as I can remember, I'm pretty sure its a light reflection/refraction kinda thing.
I'm sorry if I sound lay here, but I have probably the most basic question of all:

how do I know if it is actually working? How should I feel while (or after), say, I listen to the Intense Focus loop?

I actually tried a both Quick Relax and Intense Focus (both with earphones). For the latter I even did the registration and survey. I put the Quick Relax 15 minutes track, on first, closed my eyes and laid my head on my arm. Ten minutes in I wasn't feeling more relaxed either physically or mentally. So I tried again, but the track that came out this time felt a little unpleasant so I gave up.

So I went to try the Intense Focus thing, and I have been listening to it while reading all the comments to this reply and some others below this one. Once again I don't really feel more focused or anything. I'm sorry to say this but I even find some tracks unpleasant to listen to.

Am I doing something wrong? Are there optimal conditions I should put myself in for this to work? Does the fact that there was low noise (TV in the other room) around me might have prevented the Quick Relax from working?

I don't mean to sound to negative here, mine are just genuine questions from someone who would really like something like this to work.
> "They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case."

Was hoping Gates would be less naive in thinking this legal precedent has anything to do with this specific case which has close to 0% chance of providing any real-world information and more to do with the fact that this tragedy is used as political theatre and being exploited for maximum PR and political influence.

> "Should governments be able to access information at all or should they be blind, that's essentially what we are talking about"

That's one way to frame the debate, the other is "Do We Have a Right to Security?" https://securosis.com/blog/do-we-have-a-right-to-security

Given the US Govt is coming from a position of no trust who've shown a willingness to over reach and break the law whilst continuing to deceive and mislead the public - US citizens have every right to privacy that's insulated from the Government: http://blog.easydns.org/2016/02/22/the-us-government-has-no-...
Yes, someone with Apple's signing key can write new firmware to the device which disables the auto-wipe and PIN retry lockout features, which is what the Feds are asking for. Apple has never argued that it is impossible for this phone hardware with this OS version, which is why they're (correctly IMO) arguing that it would set incredibly bad precedent for a court to force Apple to create a tool to destroy their own security.
Engineers are paid six figure salaries but you're not willing to spend $600 on a display?
This is awesome! (However, talk about a back-button hijack)
It's ... full of bombs...
> "basically we now have the skills in an area where we did not have this kind of skill...

when we were STASI
German courts routinely differentiate between things done automatically at high-speed and the same action performed manually. While the former is theoretically equivalent to the latter, in practice it's impossible to do large-scale data evaluation by hand so it's not reasonable to judge them by the same criteria. Additionally, in Germany the state and the people are barred from using certain kinds of information in mass even if they had been publicly displayed.

Just as a more concrete example, I'm not allowed to point a camera out of my window and film the things happening at the lively public street below me 24/7. A single short clip of the general area on the other hand is completely fine.
This is just friendly chit chat/small talk on the sidelines of a UN event not the draconian and sky-falling issue as you portrayed it.

Don't you think that something that grave would warrant official communications instead other than informal exchange of words without a single mention of refugees or immigrants?

Much ado about nothing!
I realize this is mostly frustrated satire - but it is an actual issue when working with coders of different skill levels.

The solution is to simply drop the use of flatmap (or any other function which eliminates loops). In my experience, that level of abstraction is the kind of thing which confuse new developers who have not (yet) been exposed to the terminology introduced by functional programming. It comes across as "clever" and "obfuscated". And it really is quite clever - you turn a 4 line for loop with accumulators into a single line of code. But it's also legitimately obfuscated as well, until you grok how flatmap works.

Ultimately, a for loop can be understood by almost any programmer you will encounter. There's more code, it does the exact same thing as a flatmap, but (as the OP points out) the function is still pure.
> Should governments be able to access information at all or should they be blind, that's essentially what we are talking about

Actually it is not what we're talking about, because they're not blind, they can use usual means of inquiry, and the technology. How comes already there are no firearm firing sound detectors, or remote-controlled drones with tasers in major streets to react instantly, ect...? There are ways to act which don't strip citizens from their power, as information nowadays is power.

A handful of people died because they lacked this power, and this will always be the case that people will die because of their lack of power, no matter what they have.

At the end of the day, there is 7 billions people, and only one world, one humanity, one future, so protecting the people from the government is more important than protecting the people from the people, at least as long as it stays manageable.

Every month, the world gets more peaceful, and more educated, we just didn't always have the internet flashlight. Making such a backdoor, it's another leak to oligarchy, because security and corporations can ally and spy the rest into uncompetitiveness. Ect... I will worry when I see blood on the street.
The map has a dot in the center of Alaska (64N 153W), which refers to a battle on Kiska Island. The event linked to has the correct coordinates(51N 177E), but the map has differing ones, and no apparent way to edit it. Similarly, the battle at the top of the state appears to be misplaced.
The problem I see with these unikernels is that they all necessarily have to reimplement things that have had decades of testing like TCP/IP stacks. This could be problematic and contain MORE vulnerabilities than the alternative.

So I would say that the factors in a decision to use a unikernel are likely:

1. Speed/cost
2. Space
3. Security (or lack thereof)

I would guess that the cost difference needs to be so convincing that people will be willing to work around potential security issues.
What is your recommended course for Data Science, I'm looking for the best materials out there...
It would be interesting to hear more about the micro-dosing part.

> Finally, we are currently experiencing a memetic explosion with regards to the use of micro-doses. .... A more noticeable enhancement would be observed on artists, writers and possibly mathematicians. It is genuinely exciting that there is a new wave of attention to this particular application of psychedelics: General, all-purpose life-enhancement.
I don't think anybody ends up looking cool -- more like an idiot.

So it's mostly "to vent my frustration for other aspects of my life in needless negativity and aggression in an unrelated topic".
In my post I suggested to watch a presentation. Watch it, you'll understand what Kate Gregory argues, and I completely agree with her point of view.
In Germany any kind of data collection must be backed by a cause. So automated license plate scanning was illegal since it allows creation of movement profiles by the state, something that is very much frowned upon.

Putting fixed cameras up and filming the public is not legal either in Germany - you can't have a surveillance camera pointed to public space, for example filming the boardwalk in front of your house. Whether dashcams are legal is still contested [1].

Whether large=scale manual collection would be legal is an interesting question which has - to the best of my limited knowledge - never been put to the test :)

[1] a fairly ok high level summary in german: https://www.adac.de/infotestrat/ratgeber-verkehr/verkehrsrec...
I think many people do not understand. What seems obvious for us may be difficult to grasp even for programmers. Almost 20 years ago, I have received the virus "I love you" in my mail box. For me, it was obvious it was a virus and that it was "safe" to save it on disk and open it using notepad as long as I did not double click on it. I was very surprised that for most of my colleagues, it was far from obvious. I am not against giving powers to police, but for me, giving a backdoor is completely unacceptable.
The U.S. Government Is About to Start a Tech Civil War… We’re Siding with Apple
Nice work. The author's non-euclidean ray tracing engine looks crazy and cool too. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2jjug9/i_wrote_a_s... (watch the video and imgur)
VW Memos Suggest Emissions Problem Was Known Earlier
Someone trying to make it profitable: http://www.planetaryresources.com/#home-intro
they discuss open-mindedness in the context of current american politics -- virtually impossible. outrage drives viewership and revenue, so the outlets peddle extremities and political division.
Boy, this describes some people I've worked with to a T.
Pervasive automated license plate scanning is a qualitative change. It's one thing to have a chap by the side of the road writing numbers into a piece of paper; it's another thing entirely to track most of the routes of all vehicles in a city. You can't trivially extend the principle of one to permitting the other, since it's not feasible to flood an entire city with spotters with notepads.
It's a bit awkwardly worded but what they mean is this:

The hypothesis was that the sea is rising faster

The scientists confirmed the hypothesis, for some level of accuracy

That level of accuracy is "most likely"
With ice cores, we have an Antarctic temperature history going back 400,000 years. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Vostok-i...

These ice cores show sudden, massive ice ages every 100,000 years. We are currently near (or overdue for) one of the big ice ages.

In such a case it would seem that a warm world, even with a higher sea level and the human movement that would require, would be less disruptive than much of current civilization being under 200 feet of ice.
I'll need an interface for that so I don't have to read into the code to see what it does.
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Neat visualisation (look at France for the range 1914-18 and see the range of the trenches) but I found it really difficult to focus on the dots with a mouse pointer.
Could they be made to scale with zoom level?
Well, if the functional code people are complaining is on the same level as the one the author used on the post, then I agree that a quick pair session is enough to "solve the conflict".

But IMO there is problem when (assuming Scala here) you include a library like Scalaz on the codebase, and then start using more abstract functional concepts. While I think these concepts are amazing, I usually don't use then on my day job as I know that my team don't have the knowledge nor the timing to quickly grasp such concepts without impacting the project's pace.
We won’t really go nuts over this – the trojan is so bad, it won’t do any real damage.
Forget Freedom 251, Here Comes Freedom 651
The Game Boy, a hardware autopsy: Part 1 – the CPU [video]
Well, you're lucky. Every so often SBT loses its mind and starts throwing spurious errors. Or, runs out of memory.

Solution: restart SBT, wait for a minute for it to recompile the project definition; rebuild
project. That inconvenience wears on you.
How comes already there are no firearm firing sound detectors

There are:
http://www.shotspotter.com/

Though results are mixed at best:
https://www.cctvcambridge.org/DoesShotSpotterWork
It's time someone from a major publishing house wrote a similar article titled "If you hate online ads, tracking and malware, you'll love this new tool designed to waste the publisher's money", and then mention that the tool is called an "ad blocker" and provide links to the good ones. :)
The data being from Wikidata, another way to read the density of battles on the map as the amount of historical information we have about every region of the world (at least, the information available on Wikipedia)

Unfortunately, large parts of the history of countries like Morocco was lost, and of what was written a very small portion is actually on Wikipedia. (in contrast with Europe, the US, etc. who have more contributors)
> such as map, fold, filter, pattern matching, control of side-effects, etc.

map and filter have become natural parts of my thinking, fold too is getting there, and avoidance of side-effects even gives pleasant tingles to the math-guy in me, but I've never understood what pattern matching brings to the table. In my admitted limited understanding, they seem to be a syntactic sugar for if-elseif branching that ends up scattering the logic of a function to multiple blocks of code, while bringing no obvious benefit compared to them.

Since you mentioned your success explaining the justifications for these things, I thought I'd take advantage of that here. :) Could you explain what I'm missing with pattern matching?
Thanks for sharing - are you referring to work or personal e-mail?
I would imagine the firmware signing key is stored on a Hardware Security Module (HSM). Devices like that are tamper resistant (for example, they might be configured to delete the key if someone is messing with the device).

HSMs generally support signing operations, so it's likely the key doesn't leave the device at all. They might be using a configuration with shared secrets (smart card + PIN, etc.) where at least n shares need to be present to operate the HSM. Those secrets are probably held by a small number of high-level Apple employees.

It's probably similar to the DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony[1]. Well, hopefully slightly less insane.

[1]: https://www.cloudflare.com/dnssec/root-signing-ceremony/
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The failsafes as I understand it (from recent reading here) also include the inability to programmatically attempt login. As shipped, they will only accept such attempts from user input (keypad UI or fingerprint scanner).
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I think they used the German word "Fähigkeit" which better translates to something like ability (of an intelligence service).
How to Think About Bots
IMO, A large part of the problem is people of different political views don't talk, face to face, enough. Like in war, it's easier to kill a "gook" or "haji" than a person.

The Internet makes it easy to dehumanize the other side; they're just avatars and words on your screen. It's a lot harder to hate an actual person, especially just for having a different opinion than you.

[Edited]
And not just a few years ago, this is an ongoing issue. For instance, a government minister in Hessen tries to ensure that this politician from AfD (in opposition to the ruling CDU/SDP coalition) should not be able to work as a teacher.

http://www.focus.de/politik/videos/er-hatte-sport-und-geschi...
Bridging a Digital Divide That Leaves Schoolchildren Behind
This seems to be a common question and I've seen it answered incorrectly a number of times.

The simple answer is that Apple has the key to sign software that will run on iPhone boot, AND Secure Enclave boot. Neither technically require the phone to be unlocked, and SE updates do not (currently) wipe secrets.

Lots of talk about 5c vs 5S onward phones, but Apple can remove bruteforce protections from all iPhones currently on the market.

The answer is B (though they can only update the software to remove bruteforce protections in this case).

(That said, I firmly believe that won't be the case for long)
React.js Conf
I guess it goes from both ends. From what I understand, Marty Friedman (of Megadeth and Cacophony fame; there are few metal guitarists better than him) is now playing J-Pop, not even pretending to be metal.
> We wrote a AS3/Flex to JS/HTML compiler. I looked at open-sourcing it because it's cool

I'd be prepared to chip in to a crowdfunding campaign to get that released.
We have always been at war with Terror data
Thanks!

Hope in the new phones they'll just enforce the important constraints right in the silicon, effectively closing this gap.
Sounds like the author is sharing a personal story here. I'm guessing he wrote some FP code and one his coworkers complained about it.

OP, two pieces of advice:

- Ask yourself why your coworker went to your boss instead of talking to you directly

- Work on your communication skills with your coworkers. I'm guessing you have an attitude that's rubbing them the wrong way (I've seen a lot of this coming from people who are trying to impose advanced techniques upon a team that's not ready for those).

It's startling how so many bright programmers possess so little social awareness.
Similar results in Birmingham, UK (second city). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9497318...
I'm sure if the German gov really needs to know something they ask the Americans.
Solar power, both day and night
The Hunger Games – The unsettled science of weight control
clicked, 20 mintues later, what was I doing?

It's a great simple idea executed well.
"capability" would probably be the best translation of "Fähigkeit"
This is exciting!

A few years ago, someone created dotc [0], which lets you use node-style require and export in C.

With that said, from skimming the document, I'm not a big fan of this variation of imports. You're dumping everything from the library into your environment. IMO, this makes it really difficult to trace code and figure out where stuff comes from.

For comparison, with ES6 you specify what you're importing and from where you're importing it:

import * as Foo from './Foo'
import { bar, baz } from './Bar'

When I see baz() used in my code, I know that I can look in the Bar file for its definition.

Isn't this a concern? I must recognize, though, that I've barely touched C++, so maybe I just don't know any better.

[0] https://github.com/substack/dotc
I don't see Polymer going anywhere either. The hype about web components have been drowned by React, which is here, now, and also solves several other issues that web components don't solve (especially along with something fluxy).