skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not anywhere near 99% of the way there; they've destroyed the heterogeneous decentralized ecosystem that broad security requires.

Locking themselves out of the Secure Enclave isn't anywhere near sufficient. As long as the device software and trust mechanisms are totally opaque and centrally controlled by Apple, the whole thing is just a facade. There's almost nothing Apple can't push to the phone, and the audibility of the device is steadily trending towards "none at all".

If the NSA pulls a Room 641A, we'd never know. If Apple management turns evil, again, we'll never know. If a foreign state use some crazy tempest attack to acquire Apple's signing keys ... again, we'll never know.
"Why is custom software so expensive to produce? Open-source components are free, so the final product should be, too!"
Yes, yes and yes. That's exactly the "secret" of Chinese economy boom miracle: despite all the issues in this country, it's people feel safe enough to invest time and money in some activities that may improve their life, and usually does.

And notice that while still useful in some cases, charities and NGOs didn't play a major role in taking a billion of Chinese out of poverty. Mostly they were given a stable enough environment and did it themselves.

[Edit] And infrastructure, yes again. That's very stunning, when comparing China and, e.g. India.
part of the reason thermal cameras are cheap and ultrasounds are not is that thermal cameras have consumer uses. One can use thermal cameras for hunting or determining home energy efficiency, an ultrasound can pretty much only be used for medicine. Although, consumer sonar for fishing(which operates at lower frequencies) is still fairly expensive[0].

Second, your estimate on the price of PZT elements is not necessarily realistic as the transducer is rather large(22 mm in diameter). A 10X10 array would be impractically large. One can buy PCB mount piezo elements for motors for cents per element in bulk[1]. It might even be possible to modify one of those expensive components into an array as was done in this homemade STM[2]. Although in both cases there are bound to be issues with impedance matching and potentially changes in resonant frequency.

[0] http://www.westmarine.com/sonar
[1] http://pcbmotor.com/applications-and-solutions/smd-piezo-com...
[2] http://dberard.com/home-built-stm/
Far Cry Primal Review
All of those are illegal under the CFAA, because they accessed a computer without authorization. In this case, every use of a computer was authorized.

If someone's calling up random numbers and talking into them, my predicting which number they'll call and buying it, then listening to it doesn't violate any laws (although you can argue it should).
None of these are good technologies if you want to stay up-to-date. You could also write your site in IE6 compatible HTML which was quite mature but that seems a really bad idea.
Well, I think the semantics of your class hierarchy are not what you expect. You're saying FruitHolder can hold any kind of Fruit but then you're trying to "take back" that definition in PeachBasket where you're saying "just kidding, it only holds one kind of Fruit".

It's better if you explicitly start with the definition that a FruitHolder can only store a type of Fruit, but then use inheritance to abstract your fruits.

This works fine:

class Fruit {}
class Peach: Fruit {}

protocol FruitHolder
{
typealias FruitKind
var fruits: [FruitKind] { get }
}

class PeachBasket: FruitHolder
{
typealias FruitKind = Peach
var fruits: [FruitKind] = []
}

class FruitBasket: FruitHolder
{
typealias FruitKind = Fruit
var fruits: [FruitKind] = []
}

var fruitBasket = FruitBasket()
fruitBasket.fruits += [Fruit(), Peach()]

var peachBasket = PeachBasket()

// ERROR:
peachBasket.fruits += [Fruit(), Peach()]
If I move state, it won't be because the state government broke into a cell phone.

Police in certain areas in the US have shot innocent people in the back, yet those states aren't seeing huge exfluxes of population due to that. If the public aren't going to move state due to an innocent being shot by a macho cop, they're sure as hell not going to move because a phone got examined.

And in any case, if you really want to change this stuff, don't vote with your feet, vote with your vote. A politician doesn't care if a detractor goes elsewhere. It doesn't hurt. A politician does care if detractors vote against them - they can lose their fat-cat job. A small percentage of outraged citizens leaving the state is actually better for the politician than that same percentage creating a swing against them in the election.

Voting with your feet also doesn't help if all states are going down the same path (eg: current concealed carry laws are spreading like a virus)
Tim Cook's interview on ABC News about iPhone's case
For what it's worth, "Cloud Haskell", the project, corresponds to the distributed-process library, which may be easier to search for than cloud Haskell. The API is described in chapter 14 of Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell, by Simon Marlow. (I haven't been paying close attention to the distributed-process library, so I don't know whether that chapter is up-to-date with recent versions of the library.)
What you say is true but I don't see why people make assumption 1. Does anomalous thrust tell you it can accelerate linearly to power?
It might be helpful to elaborate on what applications a 3d ultrasound scanner would have.
The $500 Freewrite word processor is pretentious hipster nonsense
Those actually are the design problems a UX designer working on a company's marketing site will face on a daily basis. That's why all the interesting UX work has moved away from "web design," as discussed in the article, into designing the types of tools you link to.
Microsoft doesn't make that.
I don't have experience with MailGun but I do with SendGrid. I have been very happy with SendGrid.
Reading only half a comment and forming your conclusion from that? That's illogical.
Does the database grow 50GB or is that the size of the text files?
Xamarin offers common APIs for platform-specific behaviors when using Xamarin.Forms, otherwise, when targeting Xamarin.iOS or Xamarin.Android, you're developing with pure-native APIs. You will need to use the native provider for whatever action you're executing. If you'd like to be able to reuse common concepts cross-platform, then you need to write your own interface and provider model.

Xamarin is the equivalent of a thin wrapper/intercace over the platform-implementations. Xamarin doesn't really "do" much, it just calls the underlying API which maps to the specific behavior. The type and method signatures for Objective-C and Java are very near synonymous in Xamarin/C#.
At least the EmDrive is legitimately difficult to verify. It's claimed to produce tiny amounts of thrust. That requires extreme care to measure and makes it hard to see if it works as claimed.

The e-cat, on the other hand, is claimed to be a megawatt nuclear reactor. Verifying it should be easy: let it run and see if it produces power. Let it run long enough to rule out trickery like hidden batteries. If it does what the creator says it does, it should pass this test easily.

But for some reason they won't do this. They run all sorts of other weird tests but won't just demonstrate power production. To me, this makes it obvious that the "some reason" is because it doesn't work. If it worked there wouldn't be any question.
MailChimp's pricing is best suited for companies that send a lot of bulk messages to a relatively constant number of users (subscribers). This includes weekly newsletters, catalogues, etc. In order to justify the cost, you need to send at least a couple of bulk emails to your entire userbase every month.

Mandrill was best suited for companies that usually don't send anything to their entire userbase, only random notifications and verifications for individual users. This probably includes most non-annoying web services. The only time they need to notify everyone at once is if they'd had a security breach or if they're shutting down.

I'm not sure whether there's a large enough intersection between these two sets to justify treating the latter as an "add-on" to the former.

Of course it's MailChimp's decision to make, and they might have found that the first set of customers actually make them the most money. But given that people around here seem to be increasingly wary of bulk email of any kind, I wonder if that will continue to be true in the future.
And the annual tax is if you're doing business in CA, even if you filed articles of organization in another state. Once you clear $250k it goes up to $1700!
Postmark (https://postmarkapp.com)
It's more expensive than that for MailChimp, if I understand things correctly. On top of $20 for 25,000 emails you have to have a paid monthly MailChimp account. Or did I misunderstand something?
Pouchdb/Couchdb can be used to build a self hosted alternative. With pouchdb you get replication to any couchdb like backend, offline storage in the browser (which neither parse nor firebase offer yet), and it runs on a number of platforms - browser, mobile, standalone server with several backends including levelup/down and SQLite. There are a number of node modules that will allow you to build a PaaS like self hosted backend (if thats even a thing), one such module is superlogin, https://www.npmjs.com/package/superlogin. It offers an angular client, I'm also building a vanilla js version for it that can be used without angular - https://github.com/dryajov/superlogin-client. That said, Parse server has been open sourced, and it might just suit your needs.
This is precisely why my household got cable, and precisely the reason why years later we stopped having cable.
Anonymous location based posting with Ionic/AngularJS
I haven't used Mandrill extensively so I don't exactly know how it compares, but I've had a lot of success with Mailgun. That said, I've heard great things about SendGrid as well.
Who needs NLP for comments when you have this kind of supervised learning going on with the classification that Reactions provides.
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself"

- George Orwell, 1984
- Apple, 2016
Congress can do it. It's happened before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...

This is something Apple practically guaranteed by using platform DRM to turn themselves into a critical single point of failure.

CALEA was extended to ISPs once ISPS consolidated enough; now that Apple has consolidated central control of mobile devices in a similar fashion, it seems quite likely that extending CALEA to cover smart phones will be on the table.

I'd be extremely surprised if Apple's management wasn't very aware of the CALEA precedent, but they chose to go down this road anyway. I find that rather unsettling.
Perhaps i phrased my question wrong. Are those test strips connectable in any way to a home-brew device?
Oh great. Now we'll have to go and touch a system that has been working flawlessly for years. That'll end well won't it? So as a big thank you I'll migrate it to another provider while I'm there.

There is something off in the tone of the announcement.
Sure, you can. It all depends on who gets to define "torture."

If they can find a judge who believes the iron maiden isn't torture while the anal pear is, then guess what... the government will use the iron maiden.

Even if they can't find such a pliable jurist, they'll have no problem getting a John Yoo to write an executive memo that justifies whatever they want to do to you, and let the courts sort it out later. There's no downside from their point of view.
Dear Stripe UX/Design team, please consider whether light grey text on a light grey background is a good idea. See: http://contrastrebellion.com/
Arguably, with where the TVs nowdays are going; that story haven't even started the plot.
Well this makes an idea of mine ... freakishly more useful... Couldn't have come at a better time.
Manchester historian deciphers hidden 'Plato Code'
When I hear excuses about how some diagnostic test is expensive because the machines are expensive I think of airplanes and rental cars.

So you say your ten year old ultrasound costs $50k? I can rent a $50k automobile for $150 a day, not for just ten minutes. And rent a space on a 120 million dollar airplane for a few hundred. And seriously, mom was an accountant. The capital cost of a $50,000 ultrasound machine is about $20/day.

Meanwhile I have about $50,000 worth of test equipment sitting in my office. I'd never think of charging a customer a $2500 spectrum analyzer fee. Or a $400 oscilloscope diagnostic fee.

Please.
somebody gets it
That's not really true; as evidence, I give you Room 641A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

"Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency"

As long as you have a backdoor, and Apple does, shady government agencies can and do come knocking. We've got plenty of shady government agencies, and can never guarantee that we won't have more in the future.
Purpose-built robots for things like "making sandwiches" will always be cheaper than general purpose robots. There really isn't a culinary task today that can't be fully automated (you can look at the frozen food section of a grocery store for examples of almost every cuisine type). The reason this hasn't happened at your corner diner is that manual labor remains much more inexpensive in the short and long term for low volume production (ie, restaurant vs food factory). Additionally, before it becomes cost efficient to build a customized culinary robot for a restaurant, it is still less expensive to design a custom culinary tool for use by the human staff that will net 99% of the efficiency of the purpose-built robot.

Barring "replicators" (a la Star Trek), or labor costs rocketing through the roof (perhaps from something like a "minimum income") I don't expect the general composition of restaurant staff to change in the next hundred or even two hundred years.
I don't, I've written a prototype for my lib a year ago in C# and probably have that lying around somewhere but since then we've ported it to C++ and done heavy refactoring/development - I could probably spend some time and try to get that prototype working on JSIL but I need to see how the xamarin story plays out before I invest significant time into this.

IIRC LLILC is ways off from actually being usable as a static compiler and you'll still have to figure out how to ship a runtime and do GC in asm.js (realistically can't) and not to mention it's single threaded so it's a question if you can even get CoreCLR to run in such enviroment without heavy modifications.

It would be huge if we could just write everything in C# (frontend/lib and backend) but I don't see this realistically being possible for at least two years given the development pace of webasm.
Open Source does not really mean better and open. The role of Google as Gatekeeper remains. Android is Open source too but how many non-Google controlled Android phones do you see on market ?
No, I don't care about the weirdness, really. Weirdness isn't some commodity. Things are just weird or they're not. Maybe that's what makes me weird. But anyways, if you are enjoying Austin more and more as time goes by, you should try living in Los Angeles. You would really like it.
> When someone passes away, for example, it would be a terrible compounding tragedy if all their photos from their whole life passed away along with them, because they didn't tell anyone their password or where they kept the backup key. So Apple wants and needs to provide an alternative way to recover the account. (For example, they will provide access to a deceased person's account if their spouse can obtain a court order proving the death and relationship.)

A pretty interesting point.

Photos are probably good to recover... unless they were photos of something horrible you did (beat up someone, sent photos of your anatomy, etc.).

What about text messages? Again, it could express what kind of person you are. Do all iOS users have unwitting diaries that will be unlocked at our death in the form of our iMessage and SMS history?

In 400 years, will our ancestors point out, "Wow, great-great-great-grandma was pretty awful, did you see this text they sent once?" in a way that removes context from the message written at the time. This is something we can't know about our ancestors... and probably for the best, since otherwise we might be disappointed in our ancestors.

Or maybe that's an okay thing?
>> the best of which is a device that barely does X for $200.

OK, after we did the bid, and that's the result, why can't i just go buy something if it's less than half the price ? even if i buy it from my buddy, as long as it fits ?
So rural voters are more susceptible to populism than urban voters?
Not to mention the steamapps folder is easily transferable (copy+paste)
Tim Cook says FBI wants Apple to create the ‘software equivalent of cancer’
android youtube and maps were all acquisitions.

i think it's confirmation bias you don't really think of all the many successful acquisitions only the bad ones stand out.
If Apple actually wanted to demonstrate their privacy protection, they would make it physically impossible to turn on the webcam without turning on the light instead of protecting terrorists' phones....
Chris Lord is well aware of Servo. He's a Mozilla Corp employee. He's been a part of Mozilla since at least as far back as when HTML5 video was first starting to become a thing and Firefox was integrating WebM, which was first announced at Google IO 2010.

He focuses on Gecko here because Mozilla's relationship with it is something that will continue for some time.
if (abs(a-b) < FUZZ) { }
Yet another malicious activity that TLS prevents! It's quite wonderful.
> Twenty minutes of debugging later, it turns out I’d forgotten to call .show() after creating a Toast.

It amazes me that people still think that strong typing isn't useful.
Last time I investigated about a year ago... I saw some MAJOR as in "DO NOT USE, UNSAFE, WARNING, DANGER WILL ROBINSON", issues in this project... Silent data loss/corruption type stuff, and I did not see sufficient activity on a project of this complexity to make me feel at all comfortable using it.
Really, the 965 supports it? I have the 970 and was under the impression the Phenom II's in general just don't support it. Can you show me where you found that information?
Which, ironically, is exactly what Apple is protecting here. DRM.
I'd go even further. No one cares about the website of the plumber. Full stop. People find the plumber on Yelp!, Google Places, Facebook and other business profile pages around the web. None of those require any design work to bring in business.

There's still a disconnect on the part of some small business owners...they think that their website is important. But a lot of them are realizing that nearly all of their inbound leads are coming from other sources and that the website is just an expense that isn't really necessary.
The Bay Area other than South Bay is difficult. My city, San Leandro, has public/private "partnership" fiber in the ground [0] for businesses. When I contacted them about residential, they let me know that they'd had a look and the demand just wasn't there.

I took it further to see if I could get my building on it through one of the commercial partners (PAXIO) but the costs of building it out were pretty high (~$15k was what I was told) and I couldn't convince my building management that paying for it would work out for them.

I really hope Google or someone does do this for the rest of the bay area but I think it's more likely that Comcast will bring out DOCSIS 3.1 and everyone'll be happy enough that nothing will happen.

[0]: http://litsanleandro.com/
I can't help but compare this system to Datomic. Effectively, what ZeroDB is calling the "database" is what Datomic calls a "storage service"; and what ZeroDB is calling the "client", Datomic calls the "transactor."

In both architectures, "blocks" of data get pulled from the storage service (database) to the transactor (client), which decodes blocks into rows of tables or indexes, does a query which possibly mutates those tables/indexes, generates new blocks from the mutated tables/indexes, and uploads them.

The difference is that ZeroDB's blocks are encrypted by the client, obviously—but I'm not sure that this is a semantic difference in the architectures of the two databases. I'm wondering if an equivalent change could be made to Datomic's transactor logic, without materially affecting the way Datomic works. (The question is basically how much of Datomic's required block metadata, necessary for finding the blocks on the storage service, leaks information which ZeroDB has managed to sequester inside the encrypted blocks instead.)
The article doesn't cite a source. It doesn't even say that it is anonymously sourced from someone close to Apple (who presumably is leaking). That makes me wonder if the real source of this info is Apple-approved, and sort of an indirect way of engaging policymakers. I get the sense that Apple is picking a fight b/c the DOJ has violating an unwritten agreement, basically that Apple will provide all the help requested, informally, as long as the DOJ doesn't push for court orders or new laws that tie Apple's hands in constructing its devices and the software that runs on them.
Statement from the Tor Project Re: Court's February 23 Order in U.S. V. Farrell
That's correct - you also need to have a paid MailChimp account. With SendGrid, use of the marketing product is the add-on (not the other way around).
Awesome! So am I right that this is kind of how those motion tracking things in movies work? Would I actually see live data of movements?
Its difficult to give answer without understanding of data processing you want.

If you need to generate rich multi-dimension reports I recommend you create ETL pipeline into star-like sharded database (ala OLAP).

Dimensions normalization sometime dramatically reduce data volume, most of dimensions even can fit into RAM.

Actually 200Gb per day not so much in terms of throughput, you can manage it pretty well on PostgreSQL cluster (with help of pg_proxy). I think mySQL will also work OK.

Dedicated hardware will be cheaper then AWS RDS.
Lua's precision-discarding behaviour is unfortunately copied by PHP here.

$ php -r 'var_dump(1.00000000000002, 1.00000000000001, 1.00000000000001 === 1.00000000000002);'
float(1)
float(1)
bool(false)

I'm trying to change that, though: http://news.php.net/php.internals/91363
This might not disable all notifications, but for every app on my Android phone that I've wanted to block notifications, I can open the app settings (deep in some menu, or process manager, found via googling as I do it rarely) and disable notifications for just that app. It's on the same screen as doing a Force Stop, I believe.
The Constitutional argument is supposed to be based on reasonable EXPECTATIONS of the people involved. So, for example, when most phones were party phones, people didn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy and no warrant was needed to tap phone calls. This was what was decided in Olmstead v. U.S. in 1928.

At a later date, private phones became the norm. And so in Katz v. U.S. decided in 1967, warrants for tapping phones were held to be required. That is because people's expectations of privacy had changed.

In the case of TOR, people were using a service that was advertised as being designed by the NSA to protect your online privacy EVEN IF you were under attack by state actors. In fact it was widely advertised that all anyone could know is that you were using TOR, but nobody would know what you were doing with it, who you contacted, and so on.

What do you think would have been a reasonable expectation in 2014? That using TOR meant your communication was private, or publicly available?