skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't make up the term "emergent." AFAIK it's an established type of AI.

http://chetansurpur.com/blog/2013/08/emergent-intelligence.h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence#Computer_AI

We're not using that term anywhere in the marketing either.

This is just me talking here man. I'm not a marketer, or even really a good businessman. I did this for 13 years and we're just now taking off. I do music and programming, that's it. :)

But I do think Junaid did a great job on the site. Yeah there's more work to do, always is.

Tough crowd here at HN.

- Adam
Because you're a good person, perhaps?
Wait what?

This doesn't sound right to me at all.

There is no arbitrary skill ceiling that can only be achieved by being a native speaker.
Apple has explicitly stated they can do what is asked at every opportunity.

You ever been responsible for writing secure software? It isn't easy. Locking it down to a single device is in principle possible. No one wants to be responsible for really doing it though if they can avoid it. Especially not when it is obvious this is not a one time thing. Not at all. You think every device manufacturer can do it without error too? There will be a lot of secret cracking tools if this gets started.
Maybe you should put a blog with Google maps which shows the hidden routes you can take to reach those private beaches.
IotPOS a Point of Sale for Raspberrry Pi ZERO
Southern California is a different planet, though. They have all kinds of bullshit going on down there, like these road signs that are lies http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02005/hollywood-...
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Probably wouldn't have the effect you are looking for. Corporations are constituents, too, being legally a person. Even if not, the owners are certainly constituents, and most large public companies have a large number of shareholders. 55% of Americans own stock (down from 62% in 2008) [1] So if that 55% constituency demands laws that you don't want, the result is that you are outvoted.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/182816/little-change-percentage-a...
Hardware chips with tamper protection can hold encryption keys which Apple wouldn't be able to modify. It is technically feasible and I'm pretty sure this is why people are saying Secure Enclave protects against this in newer iPhone models.

This is also the idea behind TPM chips which are in almost every phone/laptop these days, so consumers couldn't tamper with DRM and other similar crypto systems.
You don't need to miss it, as 携帯 is still an acceptable term to describe a smartphone, and frankly I'm not sure スマホ is on track to being a fixture of the Japanese language. Adoption of the term seems a bit spotty. Which I think is nice, because I agree with you that スマホ is a distinctly stupid word.
How symbols can affect how we think about math
How does one make "non-Dutch" cocoa?
In case you somehow missed it, it's a picture of Swift on Rails for a project called Swift on Rails.
The correct answer to her complaint is a
matter of historical record.

When the peasants (employees) complain that they
cannot afford bread (groceries), the proper royal (CEO)
response should be: Let them eat rice.
Yaron Minsky of Jane Street Capital explains why they use OCaml for trading
It already has a turing complete pure functional sublanguage in it's templates. Probably closer to the worlds worst ML than a lisp, but it's still along the same lines.
No. vi has a grammar, like all natural languages, including this one I guess. vi's is simple, mostly combining a noun with a verb, plus some simple modifiers. It sounds like the interesting thing about this language isn't that it has a grammar, it's that it has so few (and well chosen?) words that virtually every noun and every verb must be expressed by combining these building-block words. vi doesn't seem like that to me.
I'm pretty sure iOS updates are signed per device, as that's why everyone backs up their signatures for old versions (so that they can go back while Apple isn't signing them). So Apple could only sign this backdoor for one device.

http://www.saurik.com/id/12
but it wasn't a brute force attack those 70 times so how is it the same thing?
I think the complaintent is right that an image like that might drive some people away.

Of course I don't really think that repelling hyper-sensitive social justice warriors is a negative thing. Folks like that are going to burn up far more project bandwidth on debates like that than they could ever possibly contribute. The last thing your open source project needs is a 200 comment thread on whether or not all occurrences of master/slave should be replaced with parent/child, doh I mean, primary/secondary.
Cool. There's a similar project put forth by linguists in the early 70s called Natural Semantic Metalanguage, with about 70 "primes" that all other words can be factored out as, like you would have to do if you wrote a dictionary without circular definitions.

Unlike Toki Pona or the other languages mentioned in the article, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is mostly used for thought experiments and to analyze existing languages for ambiguities and double meanings.*

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_semantic_metalanguag...

*"Double meanings" may not be the right word, but is there a word to describe what happens when a system is non-orthagonal and the same piece winds up with multiple responsibilities?
To be fair it's better than "rewrite everything in Rust"
FYI, just because Apple said it doesn't necessarily mean it's true.
A friend of mine helped out in Uganda and you are correct. If India, or wherever they are targeting is similar they will have limited electricity and limited clean water.

It was my understanding that the village my friend worked at had a rationed power supply for the wotkers and medical clinic that was run by a generator.

Do this is my point. Literally providing access to water with a hole and pneumatics was such an improvement in quality of life I am not sure what the usecase for this is.

* complicated totally foreign technology

* lack of charging ability

* likelyhood of downloading the cracked screen app is pretty high.

* using low cost satelites and repeaters has to make more sense.

So I am not sure what communal charging is, but if it is a crank box or generator, In the hypothetical we have just invented it would almost certainly be cheaper (but way less sexier) to just build low cost suburban housing like the hexayurt and provide education and technology from existing infrastructure.

How Silicon Valley is a distributed drone based LAN that provides a hookup app to people starving in the bush, or in the sluns of India.

The tech is intellectually stimulating, it is one if the main usecases for Planet Labs Api, but maybe im missing something, but how does this make sense.

Also, how does this operate in production, these things fly around and then link to eacjother and towers recharging several times a day?

Those are real questions. What is the application and ehat does the implementation look like?
They are pretty good with customer support and transparency. It's just that we have hundreds of sites, and about half are on a dedicated server. We asked that it be moved to Portland when they opened up a new datacenter there, but they moved it to Virginia instead - I guess Portland wasn't ready or something. Anyway, our sites were in Virginia and our database was in Portland, and the latency between the two got out of hand. We had a lot of down sites and a very stressful week or so for me and my boss. Problems continue with the shared server upgrading to a version of PHP that doesn't work with our sites - we can't really blame them for doing that and there was plenty of warning, but it added more stress to an already stressful month.

On top of that, our server in Portland STILL isn't ready, and we don't have an eta on when it will be. There's been a couple of other little things too - basically it feels like a major problem with the server every other day, clients are mad, and we feel out of our depth.

Anyway, I leave work at 5pm but my boss doesn't and I don't want him to die of a heart attack. So. Digital Ocean is being investigated.
> [...] a group of people, of which Assange is one (as far as I can tell), who believe that spying is wrong [...]

Obviously he doesn't, because he does what many people would consider spying.

I suggest that he has a more nuanced view that some spying is bad, and that you might want to consider that his support for it depends on how it serves the people.

> It's not a simple bijective mapping between the thought-movement Assange is with and the goal of governmental transparency; there are profound nuances [...]

Well, actually, no there aren't. Lying to bypass limits on your mandate is a crime, if not treason.
and are awesome at alliteration
Based on my reading, only the std library has the behavior unsuitable for a libc type role. I would think a libc replacement would use #[no std] and have the finer grained control.
There's an app called "Our Malibu Beaches" with all the relevant info
Interesting. For many years I anxiously awaited online editing so I could leave the desktop metaphor, specifically windows. I loved web technology.

Then Atom came along that allowed me to create my own awesome editing environment using web technologies. So I'm still on the desktop (although now linux). Now there are multiple decent solutions to web editing.

I'm so conflicted.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds doesn't really care about open source
Now wait. If the passcode is complex then it is secure, which is a very typical requirement for security.
C++ still can't prevent things like iterator invalidation which are impossible in Rust. While I like modern C++, Rust really addresses a lot of problems with the proper design from the ground up, which C++ can't do. What Rust so far lacks is better OOP mechanisms. C++ beats Rust in that. For instance Rust is still missing something like virtual structs.

See https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/349
Did you miss the part where the government said they were fine with Apple keeping the custom iOS software version in their possession, and not giving it to the government?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/02/20/us/politics/ap-us...

"Apple may maintain custody of the software, destroy it after its purpose under the order has been served, refuse to disseminate it outside of Apple and make clear to the world that it does not apply to other devices or users without lawful court orders," the Justice Department told Judge Sheri Pym on Friday. "No one outside Apple would have access to the software required by the order unless Apple itself chose to share it."
Corruption. Obviously we're both speculating here, but accountability is a serious problem with NGOs, along with corruption/graft/general-wastefulness. So if the US suspected massive (tens of millions of dollars, or more) corruption, that's a plausible reason.

I'm not saying it's likely, just that there are possible reasons out there in the world.
Different evidence, same fear. Assuming trend continues, is there any alternative to war?
Are we really "moving to support all of Slash's features" with folding comments? It's hardly a radical feature - most comment systems support it in some form, and many users are already running plugins for it on HN. I don't see anyone arguing that the Hacker News Enhancement Suite is threatening to doom us all.

Vouching up dead comments was potentially a much more volatile change but it seems to have worked out for the positive. I also remember people complaining that Show HN was killing the site literally on the day it started, yet it seems to have become an accepted part of the culture. What makes Hacker News unique is its connection to YCombinator and Paul Graham. Without that, it's little more than a poorly designed Reddit clone.
My understanding was that the malformed update would allow them to bypass the 10-attempt limit and also the delays between attempts, allowing a brute force attack. Meaning a device with a sufficiently strong password would still be capable of being secure, barring any secret government technology that we don't know about that can crack 64 character random passwords(which probably does exist).

HOWEVER, if I'm not mistaken, the newer iPhones (the one in question is a 5c) hold the delay-between-attempts limit IN HARDWARE, so a firmware upgrade would do nothing. The encryption is all done in dedicated hardware on the device. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
It's amazing we spend 50% of our income on something which, from a first principles perspective, could asymptotically approach free. Too bad housing markets aren't actually efficient.
By your definition then, the iPhone doesn't grant real security since Apple is capable of installing this modified iOS version.

So given that the iPhone is not secure, what do you think about whether Apple should execute this court order?
It remains to be seen whether that approach will guarantee memory safety. Last I checked, it had gaping soundness holes related to aliasing. (Note: most of the complexity and innovation in Rust is about controlling aliasing.)

When all the soundness holes are closed, then we'll have to evaluate whether it's usable to program in. At the very least, Rust is years ahead here.

Even if those hold up, you have to consider whether rewriting your C++ code to fit the safe subset is actually worthwhile, compared to rewriting in Rust which gives you additional benefits.
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It is about the precedent. Consider that the current fully secure Apple device situation is point A, and the fully exploited your private data is easily extracted by criminals easily cracked Apple device situation is point Z.

The FBI is currently arguing for point B - just this device. The argument is - it is so close to point A, there is no issue!

If the FBI wins point B, then they will argue for point C. - it is so close to point B, there is no issue!

If the FBI wins point C, then they will argue for point D. - it is so close to point C, there is no issue!

Repeat over and over.

At about point M or sooner an exploit or the extraction processes to the gradually less secure device would probably become available to governments through means legal or otherwise and we would probably hit point Z straight away.

Apple are trying to stop the inevitable by not starting, the FBI are arguing for point B.
I thought the book was alright but spent way, waaaaay too much time on chess.
Khlosa has always had a reputation as not exactly he nicest of people in his profession and that hasn't prevented his success. I doubt this will change anything.
This is an old story, going back at least a year: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Martins-Beach-owner-ch...
The problem is, Apple designs the software, loads it onto the device, and gives it to the government so they can do their brute force on it.

What's preventing the government from just copying the software off the device and keeping it for themselves? Obviously they'd have to do some work to make it universal, but do we really think an agency with pretty much unlimited budget, and brilliant mathematicians, couldn't get it done?
I guess that assumes that the phone's drive is encrypted with the hardware key? Otherwise the software could just ignore the hardware.

I find it ironic that this argument in support of TPM, etc. is being made for phones (not necessarily by you), but this same site has vigorously opposed it for PCs, especially Linux.
It's pretty obviously staged, and also much more reminiscent of a Western where the focus is the woman being rescued, not murdered. I wouldn't really call it a violent image. Maybe I'm just insensitive.
We also worked on a few samples that you can check out and give feedback: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sql-database-samples/tree/mas...
Best YouTube channel on military strategy I know of.
Good for Mark. Not an easy position to justify to shareholders. I can think of one ceo who is outrageously cowardly in contrast.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/att-ceo-wont-join...
> But when I hear Bernie speak, I feel like I’m the problem with America. I’m one of those millionaires he mentions who should pay more taxes. I’m the bad guy.

While I empathize, this seems like an emotional problem on his end, instead of an issue with the actual message.

Given that there is no quote mentioned anywhere, I have to wonder if it mattered what was said, or if the issue is what he sees the man as representing.
GitHub repo of the page: https://github.com/molly/wikimedia-timeline
Now You Can Confirm Railway Tickets for Emergency Travel
I agree that articles like this usually suck for pictures. But in this case the video attached actually provides a great summary and a good deal of close ups.
This argument just doesn't add up to me.

Regardless of this court order, Apple already has possession of keys that can sign iOS updates to disable security features. So this "master key" already exists.

Meanwhile the government is saying that Apple can delete the tool the moment after the court order is executed, so then what is there to steal?

I just don't get the argument that this tool is any more of a "master key" than the actual "master key" Apple already has.
Hey, thanks! I appreciate that. I played classical guitar as a kid - still do. And Bach is definitely a favorite, though one of the most difficult. You just know he composed those lute pieces on his damned organ, where he could use 2 hands and 2 feet ;)

Yeah, I have to say it has not been a great experience here at HN. But, maybe I'll win them over yet. After 13 years, we're finally taking off, and the first thing I did was pour everything in the science, so we'll be there soon.

Well, enjoy Brain.fm! And feel free to drop me a line with an update any time.

- Adam
The website started consuming my CPU and RAM so badly. Goodbye
$720 Nagra VI battery pack opened to reveal $32 worth of batteries
It's not just the FBI. If Apple builds an OS update to make that specific iPhone easier to unlock, they'll be setting an international precedent for all countries that they do business in. So the Russians, Chinese, Saudis, etc will see it as an option when they want access to a phone that they see as in their national interest to unlock. This could even lead to a phone with US state secrets being cracked for a rival country.
From this reddit thread, which is pretty entertaining: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/46x2sl/what_was_...
> they produce something of value is their compensation

Your argument 'I produce something of value to society' means 'I am fairly compensated' is a very odd one.
I'll be thrilled when Herb finally releases his lifetime enforcement tool, but until then it's too soon to celebrate. The mystery surrounding the details of Herb's approach still raises unanswered questions regarding the soundness and practicality of such a tool.

It's also evident that Herb didn't bother trying to learn from Rust in the slightest back when devising this tool, see his own remarks on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/3m0d41/writing_good_c1...

Furthermore, the tool in question does nothing to improve C++'s capability for safe multithreaded programming, which IMO is Rust's actual (yet so often overlooked) ace in the hole.
> With milk, I just want to know the cow is happy

This is idiotic. Organic farmers can't use chemicals to stop ticks, lice and other pests.

The cows can be living in hell to keep you happy.

They don't care about the fact they are eating a, basically religiously created feed.

For happy cows drink soy or plant based milks or non organic.
Yes. I'm agreeing that it's hard and takes a lot of energy. But people are doing it.
Once you admit unsafe blocks, you admit that Rust is unsafe. The value of porting from one unsafe language to another is probably only marginal.
Nice.

You know you are getting old when you say there should be blog/site for that instead of saying there should be an app for that.
Wow. You literally think selinux is bad because it uses strcmp and enums? Maybe you should read a book about C sometime before you make a fool of yourself on the internets.
Or the asia crisis
More Support for Justice Department Than for Apple
Single quotes have been mainstream in JS for much longer than AirBnB has been around. Take for example, the Google style guide[1]:

> For consistency single-quotes (') are preferred to double-quotes ("). This is helpful when creating strings that include HTML

Or take the oldest version of Prototype JS I could find (a JS library from the old days), version 1.5 from Jan 2007[2]. A simple search of the source shows 690 occurrences of ' and 48 occurrences of ". jQuery 1.0, dated 2006[3] is a counter example which has many more occurrences of double quotes, but I believe single quotes were generally more common even before that.

I think, in addition to the HTML thing mentioned already, PHP also had a lot to do with it, since single quotes would be encouraged in PHP when you just want a plain string.

[1] https://google.github.io/styleguide/javascriptguide.xml?show...

[2] http://prototypejs.org/assets/2007/1/18/prototype.js

[3] https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.0.js
Genuine question: What do virtual objects enable that cannot be done through the Trait system?
Forgive everyone if they fail to believe that. The NSA has been shown to be lying with everything else it has said so likely this is somehow a lie as well.

No, it's far better to keep an eye peeled on everything they do now that they've been shown to be trying to slip their mandate.

> Therefore one has to wonder what Assange's motivation is behind this leak [...]

No, not really. His motives are really clear. Force the liars out into the light of day. The US Army was actively collaborating to frame innocent Iraqis with terrorism charges - something which directly contributed to ISIS, and they hid evidence and lied to the press and US investigators about it.

Honestly, your motives are more in question. Assange pointed out that our government was lying to us and you heap blame on him.
This (longer) version [0] is more precise (e.g. Historia Civilis' one mentions "messengers sent out to call reinforcement", while on [0] it correctly states that about 15,000 cavalry units were sent out to call reinforcements).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut9GdMywFj0
Interesting question. I don't know the answer but would be interested to hear anyone with more information weigh in.
I mean, a site would have been fine also, but in this case the mix of information and location mapping while on the go is a perfect use case for a phone app
I'm glad to see you're so concerned. Truly, you are the only one watching out for the Wikileaks members.
I think you mean 1932 instead of 1938? Hitler had a pretty strong hold on power by 1938. I think all candidates by at least 1936 were required to support the Nazi party.
I mean, using a 44 ft long antenna is kind of what I was talking about. This thing has zero external antenna.
It's been ported to be an addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa... (GitHub repo: https://github.com/Quicksaver/Tab-Groups )
It's Vinod, not Vinad. Someone please correct the title.