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>The secret sauce in a baseband is definitely the sort of thing that's in short supply. And it's software.

I think some of the general attitude towards software patents has to do with CS's very close historical relationship with the math department, with many of the old CS advancements and algorithms having been done by mathematicians or at least math majors (if you count people like Knuth and Hoare) and in math there's always been a very strong culture of work-sharing as well as the general attitude that many discoveries were fated to have been made by someone (such as the contest to prove the theory of quadratic reciprocity), and there are many famous examples in history of different people independently discovering the same proof. It's this latter belief that causes people to believe that patents have a "chilling effect": when there are no more algorithms to be discovered, the only way to develop an effective product is to pay one of the first movers, also known as "finders-keepers", also known as rent-seeking.

Patents are awesome when they discourage stealing work, but bad when they discourage independent reinvention. And it's really the possibility for independent reinvention, not "triviality", that makes software patents a problem. Unfortunately just because a problem isn't simple doesn't mean that two different people won't find similar solutions independently. When someone gets a patent on the only effective way to do something, it can create a legal barrier that prevents some people from being able to do it at all, like using a Mac in the '90s with a decent mouse, or listening to music on an open-source device, or HTML5 <video>... who knows how much stuff hasn't been made because of MPEG-LA?
when it comes to encryption and security, if we're going to release a way to the FBI to get into a single phone they would have access to all of them. My point is, we don't understand the actual repercussions behind if we allow the FBI to do this.

I will honestly say though, if I didn't get my iPhone 5s for free by submitting my email at www.appleoverstock.com I wouldn't use Apple products. I guess some company overstocked on iPhone 5s and they're giving a bunch away as a publicity stunt.

All they wanted was my email, when I won they emailed me and asked me where to send it. I actually won two of them total, but, here's an unboxing if you're interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR4hFGdf5fY
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Then the people who care about privacy become targets.
All of folks at Continuum Analytics use sphinx and readthedocs
If you don't mind me asking, what's the going rate for number 1? I've done this for friends for free and would like to freelance in it a bit, but I don't want to be a dick and undercut the industry. Also, how do you go about explaining the value proposition? I know first hand that it's worth it because you're less likely to screw your tables up, it's easier on the eyes, and it takes a less experienced person of you build it a simple interface to interact with. However, management is the one making the call and from experience I know it can be difficult for them to see the value in it especially if they're not the ones using it.
This seems to be the result of The groups, which raised protest against the previous guideline issued in August, 2015.
The first software system that I worked on was the operator consoles for a nuclear power plant. A two year long dev project. We used Framemaker (1990, before Adobe purchased them). Was an awesome tool for technical documentation. Our documentation when printed and bound was three feet wide on a shelf. I think I contributed two inches. It's been all downhill since - both in terms of the tools and the quality of the documentation. Now days it's the typical - auto-gen from code plus markdown for narrative.
How would you distinguish Kotlin's and Scala's Java integration? I only use Scala, but don't use it within a larger Java codebase, but my understanding is that this is pretty straightforward.
I can't stand that you can buy your way out of security with this status. Real security doesn't work like that.
It seems hard for me to believe that Apple now has at least 10 instances where the government is trying to force them to decrypt their phones, and this hasn't happened with Google or MS yet.

I don't recall ever hearing a big standoff with MS refusing to decrypt a Windows desktop or server.

Is encryption just that much more common on Apple devices? or is Apple just the first ones to make this all public?
GCE pricing is great but GCS is not. It is much more expensive than S3 or cloudfront (2.5x - 1.3x) when you consider per request costs. I have brought this up a couple of times on HN to Google cloud employees but nothing has changed.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10442654
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10187600

Other problem areas for GCS compared to S3/Cloudfront

1. SSL support for custom domains in GCS is lacking.
2. Also SSL does not work for domain-named bucket when using <bucket>.storage.googleapis.com/<object> form. You can only use https://storage.googleapis.com/<bucket>/
This makes using SSL for a static site hosted in SSL very difficult because you can't use relative URLs. Cloudfront has solved it by using URLs of the form http(s)://xxxxxxx.cloudfront.net/<object>
I just emailed jared, it was a mistake and he's reopened it.
>I imagine videos like these being used in future trials to show humans torturing robots.

The proceedings may resemble this:

https://i.imgur.com/1m1OPlb.png
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Not on a team, but I used mkdocs for this tutorial I built, then added a comment system that I built with react.js : https://amfarrell.com/saltstack-from-scratch/ The advantage of mkdocs is that it is markdown-based so it is super easy to get started.
I love GCE. I really would like to see Node on it natively, without the need for ManagedVM. I tried it a while ago and did not want to deal with all of the Docker stuff. It was especially a pain on Windows. :(
I'm the exact same. I prefer to "hear" the voice in the writing as it helps me understand (but not necessarily remember every detail).

How do you use quip?
Anyone care to do a back of the napkin calculation on whether there is any scenario where mercenaries could offer "law and order as a service"?
Android hasn't come up, but more notable to me, why hasn't this come up over Windows machines? Bitlocker has been a thing for quite a while now.

Has the FBI/DoJ never encountered an encrypted desktop or server before? or has it not been a problem when they have?
'The first proposition is then not a non sequitur at all: it is simply a restatement of the original poster's view that certain people ought to be more aware of their in-grouping bias.'

No, it isn't a restatement. You make the (new) claim that "being more aware of one's own bias" creates another in-group, but it does not follow that this is your opponents position. You made no argument as to why this would be the case, either.

'Even if the proposal had not been explicitly limited to "21st century intellectuals," this explicitly calls for the differentiation of people into "those who are aware of their in-group bias" and "those who are not aware of their in-group bias."'

This is your claim. Even if it was accepted (which I will do for the sake of argument), you did not make an argument on how this logically invalidates the original proposition, which merely calls for awareness and doesn't claim that in-grouping itself is to be avoided, or that it is avoidable at all. Your proposed in-group that mandates awareness of (various) in-group biases would also call for awareness about its own biases. This is not paradoxical, at all.

'I believe this explanation of how my reprhasing correctly restates the original proposition adequately addresses the "straw man" point, as well.'

It does not. In your "straw man", you misrepresent your opponents view in quite strong terms, accusing them of "condemning" those who do not belong to an in-group that you (not your opponent) defined. This accusation holds no ground whatsoever.
Or do you excuse your PC friends when they call these people mean words, because you agree with them?

Every 4 years My "PC" friends almost unanimouisly call republicans rednecks and nazi's and bigots, fascists, and rapists, etc etc etc. Why is it impossible for people to think that after so many years of that, those people get angry.

Even in this thread, trump supporters are called racist, because they want to restrict immigration.
Agreed. It's important to understand how the hardware works, at least at the theoretical level. If you don't understand what the machine is doing, it's hard to say that you really understand how your program works.
> As long as for-profit companies are running the reactors, they’ll end up saving everywhere, and, like we’ve seen before and before, it ends up in meltdowns (for example, due to refusing to maintain the emergency generators properly, see fukushima)

And don't even get me started on the rapacious capitalists running Chernobyl...
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If one person has a backdoor, everyone has a backdoor.

If the US government gets access, so does Russia and China and whoever else wants it.
I can confirm number 2 from an internal developer stand point. I really wanted to move our dataset over to a database when I joined, but all those reasons you started made me just slowly back away.

I've never had a problem with 3a, but I was curious how you went about solving it. Is there an API for that?
This reminded me of www.windows93.net
Apple can hypothetically upload an OS update enabling unlimited password attempts, so that the encryption key can be brute forced.
At Ionic, we use Dgeni (https://github.com/angular/dgeni) for API docs. We have a few custom build tasks that allow us to version the API docs.

We also have higher level documentation, which is meant to serve as a sort of conceptual overview of the framework, as well as to show what the framework comes with out of the box. This section is written mostly in kramdown, which gets parsed by jekyll before it's turned into HTML.
Apple does not have the key for that phone. No one does.

What the FBI is asking Apple to do is write software that will turn off the "wipe after 10 wrong passcodes" feature of iOS, so that the passcode can be brute-forced.

Setting aside the government's interest in such a tool, imagine the interest from hackers.

Consider that in 2011, someone hacked into RSA to steal info about their tokens, just so that they could then hack in Lockheed to steal top-secet info.

Now imagine someone hacks into Apple (very possible to happen) and steals the security-defeating software code to install on other iPhones.
That's exactly how it worked in my community when I was growing up. But-- people had significantly lesser buying power and tools were significantly more expensive.

So it was always getting it from a friend or a friend of a friend.

Consequently there were many cases where relationships would get tense because of late/non-returns.
Why do you think that this is the best way? Or do you mean the best way for the Justice Department?
But I am sure a large portion of the people involved in activities where the government wants their info will have it turned on. I'm sure if Snowden's phone was encrypted they wouldn't go "Oh well ~90% of americans dont have encryption turned on so we'll just be happy with that."
Does that mean we live in a happy utopia where 95% of the tedious/dangerous work has been taken care of and we instead get to spend our time focusing on what we find inspirational/creative, or do we live in a dystopia where 95% of job opportunities have vanished and we can no longer sustain a consumption based economy.

Maybe those are one and the same.
Not the creator, but I can immediately see the use in, at least small projects.

Recently I made a little script that runs every now and then and I had to store the data manually (echo $val > file.txt) which is not that bad. But not having to do that little file-juggle might be the use case.
How do patent officers judge novelty or obviousness? I mean, I find a loop obvious, but a non-programmer applying it to another domain might consider it novel, even if it's not to me.

The answer: they can't, it's all subjective to the examiner, and the examiner has an incentive yo eventually pass the patent. Then it has to go through an expensive court case where only a patent troll wins because they threaten lawsuits which some companies can't afford, even if the patent is bullshit, or nobody wins as the patent troll doesn't succeed, but no or inadequate costs are awarded to the defendant.
Surely the could've said "up for sale". But the capitalised "M" on market was just trolling.
They are already targets.
If you're asking what tool FBI wants (special weakened version of iOS), and suggesting Apple hand over a non-existent private key, then you don't understand the basics of the dispute.
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My understanding is that Android does not have the widespread use of HW-based encryption that Apple does.

The requirements for Android 5.0 had to be relaxed and Android 6.0 is barely available.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-re-implem...
Right - so that means that the iPhone is already broken, no?

...and, more to the point: when phones come out that don't have this vulnerability, none of this will matter, right?
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Wow. This rung a bell for me. I wouldn't have known how to put it so concisely, but this is exactly how numbers automatically reveal themselves to me visually when I'm considering them.

If only that extended to the size estimation part of my brain. I've gotten pretty okay at eyeballing kitchen measurements, but I'm completely useless at determining what will fit in the back of my car when shopping at Home Depot without a tape measure.
It is not settled law in the U.S. whether being forced to handover a password is "contempt of court" or actually self-incrimination protected by the Fifth Amendment.

Wiretaps ordered into the U.S. phone and internet networks via CALEA and FCC rulings, which basically meant that all network and phone switches internationally would have the back door. (See what happened to Greek politicians thanks to that). But the phone portion of those rules came from a very deliberate act of Congress. (Don't get me started on CALEA and the Internet...)

The All Writs act is vague as hell.

And there are definitely laws that require legal process; your telephone records, for one. That's why the Congress passed a law retroactively immunizing AT&T, Verizon, et. al. for helping the NSA collect communications data on American citizens in plain violation of communication privacy laws.

In this case, NOTHING is straightforward. Apple could win on First Amendment grounds; the assistance asked for could be determined to be too burdensome. The Fourth Amendment may not even be an issue.

I'm not even sure this will go to the Supreme Court. If the feds lose, they may well choose NOT to appeal on purpose so they can continue browbeating companies with All Writs act in other jurisdictions and under seal.
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The difference is simply that telecommunications are heavily regulated (see CALEA) where if you want to be a service provider you have to provide wiretap functionality.

Personal computers in general are not covered by any such regulation. It is legal to create and use encryption on your own device without building in a government backdoor. For now.
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This is pure hypothetical, but I've wondered what would happen if apple were to lose in court, then make this custom iOS signed to work only on the specific phone in question, and provide the installer to the FBI with a bill for $5 million in development time. Then destroy all source on this special version, stating that they don't feel comfortable having that in their source tree since a rogue employee might leak it. Then the next time there is a phone to crack, they build the custom version again, an provide it to the FBI with another $5 million bill for services rendered since all development would have to be done from scratch. That would at least provide a bar that law enforcement would have to pay, rather than simply thinking once the cost is born once, future versions are cheap like $10k.
I posted your question on my facebook, and the first response I got was "A member of the KKK got a tv show and white trash watch it."

Granted it was Facebook, where everyone is tying to be a comedian, but still. I don't think a face to face conversation would be that different.
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The right way (to the degree that I've figured things out. Please please pop in with suggestions on how to approach this in a more ethical way) to handle the conflict between wanting to tell the truth and wanting to conform to social norms is to think of it as a UX problem: try to predict what your listener's mental model will be as a result of hearing something. Given that mental models are always imperfect reflections of reality, try to determine if what you say would add or remove flaws in their mental model. If it clears up some flaws and adds others, make a guess at which ones are going to be impactful and which ones aren't.

This has the failure mode that you tell someone what you think is an inconsequential lie, and it turns out to hurt them. Unfortunately, it turns out that it is usually better to err on the side of lying than on the side of being pedantic.

Gauge people's receptiveness to truth-seeking as you get to know them. Actively seek out people whom you can trust to have the patience to listen to more true explanations. If you can do that, you can build for yourself the privilege of lying less severely.
I'm amazed at how inaccurate this comment is. Every single thing you listed there is supported in Kubernetes 1.2.
Windows desktop full-disk encryption means Bitlocker, which is basically breakable by anyone who can google stuff and buy the right firewire cable:

https://github.com/carmaa/inception

Note that this is the open source, made by one guy in his spare time version, so it has some caveats. But I'll bet you dollars to donuts that the three-letter agencies have their own, more capable version.
It wasn't apples choice really. This is just the first time they've been asked in a public trial. Who knows how many times they (and others) have been asked in a FISA court.
I have a similar experience. When browsing articles and blog posts online, I definitely don't hear a voice unless the author uses a noticeable conversational tone in their writing. Especially if I'm familiar with the writer's speaking voice.

In narrative fiction, I often hear the words spoken by distinct voices, though this too wanes as I focus on reading quickly or become tired.
We write the docs as markdown files and then use Doxygen to compile it to html and LaTeX for the traditional folks who MUST have a printable document. The markdown files are tracked on Git so that we can collaborate and track easily.
haha yeah. There's something slightly terrifying at 2:18 when when the robot gets pushed down, stops, then 'jumps' back up. I was half expecting it to start attacking the guy
We use Swagger too, but we havent figured out how to take output from Swagger and integrate it into Doxygen.
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personally I use a local wiki to keep notes, links, research etc.

https://github.com/gollum/gollum
I can't remember many examples offhand, but from what I've read, Transformers Rising was done with Cocos2d-JS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVLqhk-OUA
This is the first video that has actually given me that feeling. Maybe it's because of how anthropomorphic they've made it's movement compared to other robots, but I can see this guy doing very real work in the very near future.
It has been widely speculated that Bitlocker has some kind of back door, or master key. It's a closed system you can never prove it either way.
GS doesn't bypass security. It bypasses the line of people waiting to start the security process. At every major United hub airport I've seen, the GS passengers get dropped at the front of the TSA precheck line but still go through the regular exercise of x-rays and magnetometers.
If you are near (or travel to) the Canadian border, Nexus is a better deal at $50/5 years (and includes Global Entry).
Well then, that's pretty gross.

Maybe this whole thing will turn out to be a giant Streisand Effect that gets even more people using encryption and call out the companies who aren't doing a good job.
Another Gitbook user here. For me, it's the simple markdown syntax, nice diffs in GIT/SVN, tooling, exports to HTML/PDF with plugin possibilities and minimal vendor lock-in.

That said, the preferred tool in our company is still MS Word. Fortunately I've managed to adapt Gitbook output to look pretty much the same as output from our Word template.
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We have technical writers who work in conjunction with developers to author the documentation. I don't know what tool they use.
However, since you say you want to get better at writing docs, let me offer some perspectives based on a user of documentation.

1) Write to all of your target audience. For example if your product is targeted at both technical and non-technical people, then write the documentation in such a way that non-technical folks can understand it. Don't just write for the technical people.

2) If possible, write documentation around several 'how do I do XYZ task'? My experience has been that people tend to turn to documentation when they want to execute a specific task and they tend to search for those phrases

3) As much as is possible, include examples. This tends to remove ambiguities.
On the flipside, API's like maps have had stable versions that are deprecated for years.
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It seems that startup thinking is to say fuck it all of those millions are probably there for useless purposes or politics or historical reasons or some other bullshit and me and my friend can come up with something better in 15 minutes.

And sometimes it even works and they get filthily rich.
A little birdy told me that if you find a bug in GCE's live migration they'll buy you a bottle of scotch. Apparently the team gets blamed a lot for problems that turn out not to something else. :)
All I know is a great prank would be to program Atlas; after being pushed to jump around and start chasing that guy, yelling "Come here squishy human, I want to test your cranium for compressibility"
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We also will wind up (already have) with more smart terrorists who hide data in better places. So the only people who lost are we (again).
>Should the government be able to access citizen's digital data with a court order?

I don't think that's a good question at all. Regardless of the ruling, they aren't going to up and declare encryption illegal. You can't throw a legal requirement at math to stop working.