skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying there is not a general problem with internet addiction, however:

The sample size is ridiculous. 27 participants is--as far as my understanding goes--not very representative. To make a news article based on this sample claiming that half of US students could be addicted is really a stretch. I understand that the researchers acknowledge this and have followed a qualitative approach (focusing on stories, backgrounds, etc. rather than facts and numbers), yet the title misrepresents that.

To anyone who's interested in what the Compulsive Internet Use Scale contains without having to go through a paywall, here's what I found after some random googling:
http://www.aerztinnenbund.de/downloads/1/meerkerk_11.00am.pd... (Slide 7).
There may be a grey area between "manipulating" and "changing view", but in the case of advertisement this this clearly on the "manipulation" side, almost by definition.

Ads are fully paid by the seller, and exist by definition to serve solely the seller's purpose. In addition, ads are expected to "look and feel" like they were in the customer's interest, which makes it even more clear that this is all about manipulation.
It takes mere minutes for us to crack the 4- digit passcode on the iPhone 4 (which I only specify as that's where we were last able to easily do this in the jailbreak community; it might be faster now), and most people likely don't use terribly strong passwords; the FBI might also have "leads" on what the password is, but not good enough ones that they feel confident dealing with ten attempts. This is a backdoor to the lock: you can quibble with me over the definition of "unfettered" (I do not consider "it will take some time, but I absolutely have a 100% chance of getting access without fail" terribly "fettered", but it definitely is more than the people who are frustrated with this situation seem to want the FBI to have).

> FBI demands from Apple to change their product (iOS) to make the encryption cracking attempts by FBI easier.

... and we should be thankful the FBI didn't simply demand the 4096-bit key Apple uses to sign firmwares, because that's all they actually need--nothing more than 512 bytes of data--in order to accomplish the thing everyone is upset about here.
That's a very interesting idea. The smallest real Smalltalk I've seen ran on the 286 in protected mode. It's the only app I've ever seen that actually used segmentation usefully --- each object had its own segment descriptor, so it was limited to about 32768 objects. That's still way more than will fit in an MSP430.

[Aside: I wish they made MSP430s with more RAM. It's a lovely architecture, and I'm not just saying that because I'm sick and twisted and like devices with 20-bit registers. An MSP430 with a whole megabyte of RAM would be awesome.]

I do know of Timothy Budd's Little Smalltalk, which is an ultra-lightweight pedagogical Smalltalkish, which has a core image of ~90kB and 3500 objects; but that's still rather big...
Is it possible to type the sentence, then delete the last words and retype different words?
Also show the blinking caret/cursor when typing or deleting characters.

I.e. something like here:
https://www.particle.io/
But no emacs lisp, lisp, clojure, ruby, c(89|99|ansi) cheatsheets... very fishy!
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> I'll even go so far as to say that we actually already have all the tools for this lying around for the iPhone 4, and with only minimal changes made by even less qualified engineers they would probably work on the iPhone 5C.

Then there's even less reason to use All Writs to make Apple do it, unless it's to make the precedent to force the device makers to backdoor their products.

Just do it, for all of us, make that tool for 5C. But don't support FBI using this case to make "All Writs able to change products" precedent.
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Technically, but not practically.

You'd have to have some government involvement here so that all batteries are owned by the same entity, so you can swap batteries from different manufacturers, at any energy station.

You also have to standardize on only a few battery types, which makes it harder to design the car, since you can't custom fix the battery to available space.

And that means future battery advances are impractical - who wants to use a battery that can't be part of the swap network?

It's not realistic.

A hybrid power system is more practical - use hydrocarbon fuel for >50 mile trips, and a battery you plugin at home for shorter trips.
Ask HN: How to market remote software development coaching services in Europe?
I have a small training business and I'm looking for ideas on how best to market it. We put together custom courses based on our clients' technology stacks, and offer one-to-one remote coaching to their employees (new hires, cross training, advancement). We are based in Europe and want to market to companies in large western European cities.

First, assume that I have identified a need for this style of training and that I have run a pilot project (ie. business is viable and ready to run).

I'm specifically thinking of Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, London, but am open to other cities. I have an affinity for Spain and have lived there. Note that I do not live in any of these target cities but some amount of business travel is possible. The coaching being offered is specifically remote and in English.

Ideally I would like to directly find businesses who need my services. I think these are late-phase startups and small/medium size businesses who are interested in training/retraining/cross training of their workforce.

I think that I need either:
- To communicate directly with the businesses who need my services
- To communicate with business development people who can help me connect with appropriate potential clients

I have a website, promotional video, and teaching platform that can be demoed.

I don't believe that spending money on an online advertising campaign (via Google, Facebook, LinkedIn...) is going to produce the results that I would like, but I could be convinced otherwise. I'm much more interested in ideas about how to network and socialize the idea, how to make the relevant connections, how to effectively communicate the idea to the market.

Thanks so much!
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As long as you don't care if someone can attempt to pull the data from your phone like this, then sure: go ahead and buy that phone. The people generally in these threads, however, and apparently the opinion of Apple itself, is that the FBI should not be able to get the data off of this device; as it stands, Apple can guarantee their eventual success.

> Better, they can even root it! Make it even more insecure! Install pirated software that hides malware and will steal their ids or their money! Now THAT's choice and power to the user!

This makes no sense. Sure: someone can make their device less secure if they want. I absolutely support you doing that. They can also try to use vulnerabilities to take back control of their device and make it more secure (though with an iPhone there are some serious issues with this, due to how almost impossible it is to lock Apple out). But what does this have to do with the conversation at hand? Can you connect any of this back with the FBI discussion?
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That's stretching the definition of free market a bit. You could apply it to real estate property rights too and argue that a corner shop isn't in a free market because the owner has paid for a monopoly on access to that building which is most suited to selling things from. His property rights are protected by the police to stop competitors sending their goons in to take over the building. The same goes for any business that owns any sort of valuable property, especially if their ownership gives them exclusive access to it. So I think a useful definition of free market has to include various property rights, including IP. As long as people can trade those rights among each other, whoever holds the patent would probably have spent a fair amount of money to either invent or buy it.
I used to do it to heavy metal. I joke it keeps the little nagging hyperactive creature inside my brain entertained so it doesn't mess up the rest that's trying to work.

I immediately imagined an Inside Out-like scene where one feeling is trying to concentrate and an army of other feelings plays tuba, rides bikes, cooks, sings, asks about opinions...
Yes I do agree with you.

Nowadays I only use C++ for hobby coding between Android and WP nowadays, or when I need to step out of JVM/.NET worlds, so I missed to follow up on it.
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Definately agree that the focus of the reporting is disappointing.

> Wikieaks has never really had a moral agenda like Snowden in regards to why they are releasing the information in the first place. Assange has repeatedly stated that he simply believes all secret information should be released. In the process they hope to expose corruption in the political systems

This isn't a fair assessment. They do have a moral agenda, though perhaps haven't been very good at explaining it to the public.

You should read Julian Assange's short essays written before wikileaks was started to get a picture of it. There is a strategy.
https://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf
I agree that it would be upsetting if precedent was made, but I believe it is technically feasible to build a device whose keys are only known by an end user. The FBI is basically asking to go down legitimate update channels to brute force their pass-code, and while that's still a feasible option, of course the FBI is going to ask to use it. Updating the security model of the secure enclave to either destroy keys on flash or disable the flashing mechanism all-together would render the ability outside of even apple's reach, then it goes back down to a question of if you can be compelled to give up your encryption pass-phrase, which I believe precedent has already been set on (please correct me if I'm wrong).

As an aside it bugs me to a fairly large degree that we still attempt to apply very old laws to something they were never designed to address the things we put in front of it. It feels very akin to trying to jam a square peg in a round hole.

Ever play with a wifi pineapple? Ever build one yourself? Congrats! You broke a federal wiretapping statute!

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2512
This is perhaps the first actually interesting sensor/add-on I've seen for a phone. I'm picturing myself running around the outside of my house looking for hot-spots to re-insulate and hence justify to my partner the purchase price of the device. Or hot electronic components. Or playing a TSA creep and looking for ill people on public transport. What fun! (I hope other manufacturer's race in to this market.)
> It takes mere minutes for us to crack the 4- digit passcode on the iPhone 4

Please make it then for iPhone 5C. You would do the world a favor.

If you claim you don't have the needed RSA key, then you confirm that the encryption actually works. And you know that your "tool" wouldn't work on the copy of the encrypted data, too. Nice for consumers, isn't it, hardware-dependent functioning encryption by Apple.
Yes, a free or static member function that returns an Either-like object is the way to maintain strong RAII invariants while avoiding exceptions. Either, named Result, has been proposed of the next standard.

Unfortunately C++ still doesn't have good facilities for dealing with monads (i.e. do notation) making working with Either (and futures, and optionals) quite awkward.
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> Additionally, participants had to report experiencing at least one health, relationship, or emotional problem because of PIU.

To me that sounds like they pre-screened for probable "internet addicts". Wouldn't that make the actual number way lower than 50%?
I think that having a political agenda, and stating that they were loyal to an organization (ISIS) that is calling for acts of violence in order to achieve political aims is what moved San Bernadino into the category of terrorism, and something that was missing from Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook.
> FBI would have done better to ask Apple in secret. Apple really made the only possible choice when faced with a public request.

I agree. I will go further and say that I hope Apple would make the same decision in secret. I believe Apple in general and Tim Cook in particular to be not just moral, but "principled", in that I feel like he's unlikely to back down from a moral argument without being beaten into submission. I hope Apple fights this one to the death.

> Thing is, this entire system is based off of trust. If people lose trust in Apple, then they lose trust product. While even Apple can't decrypt the data, existence of malicious signed code means you can't trust signed code.

The question at hand is whether it makes sense to trust a company when their government wants them to do something and may technically have the law (as broken as you or I or even "almost everyone" feels that law is) on their side. This is the same discussion about putting data on servers in other countries run by companies that might bow to the will of some oppressive totalitarian regime, only the server is in your pocket and the regime is the United States through the FBI.
> I believe precedent has already been set on (please correct me if I'm wrong).

No, as far as I understand, this now would be a new and dangerous precedent:

Nobody was ever asked to alter their product using All Writs.

That's what's here all about.
> The evidence that they produce something of value is their compensation

Isn't this the same argument car vendors use to justify why car sales shouldn't come straight from the manufacturer?

Basically, a lot of people's careers are based on this and if you deprecate that business, they'll be out of luck. But that's the only reason, that too many people have become too reliant on a niche that shouldn't exist in the first place.
Translating is often more than mechanically trying to convey the rough meaning. You want to capture the rhythm and flow and poetry (or lack of) in the original. You want to try to map idioms an word play from one language to another, and so and so forth. This requires a near-native level of understanding of the language you are translating to

I have a friend who is a translator and one of the hardest things for him in the beginning was not to act as a editor. If the original has a long, badly structured sentence with a misplaced comma, then you have to try to translate that into a long, badly structured sentence with a misplaced comma.
How does native ES6 performance compare with the performance of ES6 compiled into ES5?

Because right now there isn't enough cross-browser ES6 support to be able to use it reliably with compilation; given that the compilation procedure is easy and relatively pain-free (at least until you see the horrifying code that Babel produces when you ask it to transpile generators), I'm wondering how much of an issue ES6 performance is in the real world.
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Thinkpads are still black bricks, though. Just fibre-reinforced plastic bricks instead of magnesium bricks.
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I'm coming to the end of my PhD, and have been contacted by a few recruiters for various hedge funds. It seems like a shame to leave academia. Realistically though, most people will be stuck in a series of ~18 month postdoc contracts, with little prospect of getting tenure. Add to this the poor pay, and hedge funds start to seem pretty attractive!
It's really cool that Telegram is growing, even if it seems nowhere close to WhatsApp or Facebook. I keep recommending Telegram to people I know, but familiarity and the network effect keep most people on WhatsApp/FB.

My ultimate goal has been to move to Signal, but Signal being quite slow in the development and the infrastructure fronts, it's not a viable option for mass adoption right now.

For all its cryptographic weaknesses, I find Telegram to be a better choice. Message delivery is super fast. It syncs messages across devices. It's available on popular smartphone and tablet OSes and also on the major desktop OSes. It's also available on the browser (need phone to activate it for use, whereas in the other cases one single activation will hold good almost forever). Telegram has been adding new features (some of them are probably catch ups with WhatsApp) at a good pace.

My wishlist for Telegram is two fold - a) make the crypto better (or try to work with Signal and adapt that) and b) introduce a monetization plan so I can support the app financially for all the worth it has provided and keeps providing.
Something I've been wondering:

If I create a generator with 10 possible unique outputs, and each output is substantial enough such that it would qualify for copyright protection had I created it directly, do I have any copyright over the outputs of my generator by virtue of creating the generator itself?

What if I build the generator but don't actually run it myself, and instead other people run it by clicking the "generate output" button?

How about if my generator has a million possible unique outputs? Or ten trillion?
I occasionally meet bankers here in London and I can't help but think to myself what a waste of time and effort when there are actual problems to solve. Bit rude I guess but a whole generation of bright people reducing the latency of trades or compliance software or a new trading algorithm does not move us from zero to one, maybe more zero to -0.3 or something.

How people can claim the market allocates money correctly I do not know, it doesn't seem possible with the rigging and illegal activity that's been going on.
When you're distributing something that the government doesn't want you to distribute.

Could be a super cool mesh network thingy, (wasn't Diaspora supposed to do this?) bitcoin?
I think there’s probably not enough effort put into retaining graduates in Wales but then again that’s probably due to the lack of tech sector jobs compared to London so it’s a catch 22. Maybe the Welsh Gov needs to be more aggressive in attracting tech companies, startups and investors. But as @ch215 pointed out, traditional sectors that can absorb the readily available semi-skilled work force will most likely be a greater area of focus.

Also the Universities in Wales probably need to attract more lecturers who are pioneers in the field who would normally choose to go other universities such as Bristol, Imperial, etc... (we had Professor R.A. Falconer at Cardiff Uni for instance).
But how will you watch 4K video streams on the go, when you don't have a 4K screen to admire the "Buffering…" notification?
"No computer will ever need more than 640K memory"
- Bill Gates 1981

"There is no future in the Internet."
- Bill Gates 1988
You seem to still fundamentally misunderstand the situation, as you seem to be challenging me to build the tool today and get Apple off the hook, as if that was all that mattered.

I can build the tool. What I can't do is sign the result. The only thing any of us are missing is the 4096-bit RSA encryption key used to sign the firmware. The way we load this tool onto the iPhone 4 is using a vulnerability in their bootloader that lets us bypass the signature check. There is only 512 bytes of data at question here, not some insurmountable amount of work.
I think this is great news. One thing that looks suspicious is 15 billion messages a day. It must count group messages as a multiple of all subscribers and maybe some other dirty tricks. Can't believe that an average user sends 150 messages a day.
We should use anything edible for feeding people, not burn it for driving cars. Solar cells are far more energy efficient per area (about 10x) than any agriculture. And, while "grown" fuel might be CO2 neutral, it still produces the same poisonous combustion byproducts as fossil fuel (NOx, fine particles).
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Nobody on the Linux side is opposed to TPM, Secure Boot and everything like that. The controversy is about who controls the key.

Apple can either create a special update key for the TrustedZone and distribute it to User (SmartCard in the package you buy the phone in) or they could just put in a non-upgradable system.

Both would work.
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I'm using Actor these days, made by former Telegram developers.

Coming along very nice in my opinion :)

https://actor.im
I wish Signal would hurry up with their web client. It would really boost adoption.
It must cost a lot in domains ! Each of its "Useless" projects as one.
> he only thing any of us are missing is the 4096-bit RSA encryption key used to sign the firmware.

Ah, so Apple's encryption does actually work.

That's the essence of the good encryption: everything is known, except the key. You are not supposed to have it. FBI, hopefully, isn't supposed to have it too. That's why we have laws. Checks and balances and stuff. Laws made for specific cases, not "we can do anything."
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“You might say that a car is a space that's used for movement, tomo tawa”

Luckily, it is not widely used. Otherwise, it would be a nightmare of translators, especially for Google Translate developers!

Before I wiki it, I thought it was a language used by the tribes in Africa or ancient civilization, but it was created in 2001!

Find out more about it on Wiki:
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>Two and a half years after launch, Telegram is delivering over 15 billion messages daily – that's roughly the number of push notifications that are sent by Telegram each day.

https://telegram.org/blog/15-billion

So it's push notifications/notifications.
Similarly I've been scrambling to keep finding new feature phones with rubber-sealed keypads for my dad (car mechanic).

Every seam is an invitation for steel dust, and touch screens are useless when you're wearing thick work gloves.
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Sadly, Telegram is barely what they claim. They're very good at marketing it as an open and secure messenger, but it really is not.

Here is a brief summary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10639688

I assume the HN folks are already aware of the crypto-wise downsides of Telegram.
Dunno but jasonkester has a blog with some info http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/
I use it, I like it. It is simple, not riddled with ads/useless functionalities whatever, I does 1 thing and does it well. How are they going to monetize it ? I'm not sure though.
I think the Secure Enclave is still upgradable. Seems to me that apple should either make it non-upgradable, or give the upgrade key to users. Both would stop the FBI from comming to Apple with locked devices.
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