skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does make sense to hire a guy who has had great success in Security. The chat app is just one of the use cases which he handled, and a good experience in designing secure software always helps.
Several Horror Stories about the Encrypted Web [video]
I don't care about Apple but I hope this won't end bad for Signal.
It says "The best way to explain Ethereum is by contrasting it with Bitcoin." but then it never does the contrasting. I'm supposing they meant they part where it says "It turns out that this approach can also be used to create binding self-enforcing legal contracts between people..." but that isn't contrasting with bitcoin, since they say it is something that is enabled by the approach of bitcoin. I mean it got me to go read about Ethereum but I am still confused by that line about contrasting bitcoin with Ethereum as the best way to tell me what Ethereum is.
I've read a lot about habits lately and I just wanted to know whether this is new information for me or not. It turned out that it is the latter in this case, thus my comment.
I think they go with a write cache.

I recall some distros tried to mount USB drives with the sync option back in the early days of USB media.

Problem was that this, in combo with FAT, would basically kill cheap drives lacking wear leveling.

This because every write action was accompanies with a allocation table update. And thus whatever flash cells housed that table would see a massive amount of writes.

Actually i think the mount man file still have a warning about this in the sync option entry.
Frederic Jacobs has been planning on moving away from Open Whisper Systems for a while. They didn't hire him away, he took another job.
How about the first paragraph?

> Apple hires plenty of interns all year round, but one particular addition
> revealed this week caught the eye given the company’s current position
> opposing a controversial order to enable the FBI to access the iPhone used
> by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

// Of course it's worth writing about, but it certainly would have been higher quality reporting if they didn't immediately link it to the FBI story.
Are you implying that Apple, Facebook, and Google aren't?
> Keep in mind that this Xeon (E5620) was released in 2010, whereas the Cortex A7-Quad seems to be from 2015?

2015? Cortex A7 was released in 2011 to be a lower performance energy efficient in-order core. It's significantly slower per clock than Cortex A9 released in 2007!

If you want fairness, just compare it to any Xeon available in 2007 running with just a few watts.
Apple Goes to Court, and F.B.I. Presses Congress to Settle iPhone Privacy Fight
You wrote very well what I have in mind.

I think the direction they are taking is not the right one. One step further, I suspect the oil lobby pays for this kind of studies.

Maybe it will have other usages than car, but I think that's the vast majority of them we are talking about here. Electric is today's way to go.
I think it's idiotic. Are you idiotic?
Frederic Jacobs announced he was looking elsewhere some time ago. I don't have any insight into Open Whisper System's internals, but considering they've still been committing code and they're still posting new job openings, I doubt this has anything to do with Open Whisper Systems and more to do with Jacobs wanting a change of scenery.
Haskell running on top of Apache Spark
top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11180170
When did the Apple and F.B.I. Fight Really Began?
I have three comments:

- This is great, I think. It seems like a good way for small businesses to get money without being under the unethical wip that many angel investors place over them.

- "If either your net worth or your annual income is < than $100,000, then you can invest, in any 12 month period, up to the greater of either $2,000 or 5% of the lesser of your annual income or net worth." - This leaves me in a not so great situation of not being allowed to invest. I have plenty of money, but I live frugally and have very little income... That's just silly. Most people wouldn't be in this situation, because most people have their net worth in mutual funds, in which case they have income too. But trust fund kiddies, people with their money in real-estate, and people who's funds comes from a non-spousal familly member might have no or little income/net worth at all...

- This is actually something that makes the US look like a good place to do business...
Almost for sure it would be a case of the "blind leading the blind" and it would start with quantity over quality but might get better and provide a lot of inputs.
Wikipedia¹ lists a Cortex A7 „designed specifically for Raspberry Pi 2“. The Raspberry Pi 2 was released in 2015, so the CPU was released in 2015?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A7
Have a look at pip-tools https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools which does basically that and a bit more.
Wow! Something from Mozilla that is not an awkward GUI change, a stillborn mobile OS or otherwise useless.
Ah, my apologies then. This explanation sounds very different from your original suggestion that people need a basic understanding of encryption/security. I think we are quite close in agreement here.
it's is mostly a business and pr decision

"Apple had asked the FBI to issue application for iPhone passcode cracking tool under seal, but government made it public, prompting Tim Cook's public remarks"[1]

so no, apple doesn't really have the security of user in mind, it's just turning this on its head and putting up a show

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/technology/how-tim-cook-be...
It seems to lack a defining characteristic of your typical 2-stroke though, that the fuel is initially drawn in below the head to lubricate the crankshaft (this require mixing oil in the gasoline, done automatically on modern mopeds).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stroke_engine
some data grabbed from wherever they could hack data flows != every single bit out of phone memory
> ... verified by Reality Keys. Etheropt has no owner. Its entire operation is described and executed by an Ethereum smart contract.

Tell me if I'm wrong but isn't your trusted third party now simply Reality Keys?
This is all a waste and show off as far as I'm concerned until they go open on everything.

With this move, they will also waste very valuable developer's (crypto experience ain't cheap) skills.
From the Wikipedia article:

> Broadcom BCM2836 (quad-core A7 + VideoCore IV GPU), designed specifically for Raspberry Pi 2[7]

No, it says BCM2836 was designed specifically for Raspberry Pi 2. Cortex A7 is a pretty old design, probably that way RPi 2 costs could be kept low.

Edit:

Here's Anandtech 2011 article about Cortex A7:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4991/arms-cortex-a7-bringing-c...

Wikipedia's Cortex series DMIPS/MHz table. It says Cortex A7 (1.9 DMIPS/MHz) is roughly as fast per clock as Cortex A8 (2.0 DMIPS/MHz) released in 2003:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ARMv7-A_cores
That is hardly a misinterpretation of events. They're just saying,

"hey, there's this software developer who's done some work in the field of security on an app which is famous, and he's going to work at Apple during a time when some issues with Apple's security are in the news. And we noticed and we want to share that with you"

It's interesting. Tech Crunch can write about whatever they want. If you don't like the article, downvote it and move on. Perhaps Ian is just jealous nobody is writing an article about him, because he is clearly smarter than this developer.
Apple is not known for high salaries, so I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. There are lots of reasons beside money why people switch jobs...
$30,000 locked up in Ethereum casino site after failure state in smart contract
It's true that not all of my criteria are included in the scorecard. For one thing, it's based on the statements of the developers, so if they say "it's encrypted", the EFF takes them at their word, and doesn't investigate the quality of the crypto. It also doesn't consider usability issues (secure defaults).
Hmm, what will happen with Opera Mail? I don`t really feel comfortable using it anymore now. And there is nothing that suits me better on Windows...
Still waiting for async/await. Also doing multi-precision numbers by default would be nice.
> I'm inclined to think the clojure repl is more conducive to experimenting.

I'm inclined to think the Clojure REPL is more conducive to flailing around. Now, this might sound like derision, but it isn't intended that way: Flailing around can be a very time-efficient way to familiarize oneself with an unknown domain, especially if the cost of making wrong design decisions is small.

But at some point one has to consolidate what one already has, and, in my experience, Clojure makes this very difficult.

> I guess one programmer's sandbox is another programmer's hellish nightmare of mutability.

If you absolutely want mutable definitions, you can have them in Haskell (with some noise) and ML (with no noise) too: http://pastebin.com/00ScnFxC . So a Haskell or ML programmer always has at their disposal whatever they think is the best tool for the job.

Can I have it the other way around in Clojure?
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To back that up, it was release in October 2011:

https://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-unveils-its-most-ener...
These data are for academics only.
Filesystems often have a 'dirty' flag which is cleared as the very last write when unmounting cleanly, to let the OS know whether the filesystem might need to be checked before mounting it next time.

Also, unmounting helps you to be confident that nothing's started doing more IO since you ran sync.
Interesting. So how would a reasonably new ARM core compare to this? The point is, the Xeon is definitely outdated and the Cortex A7 seems to be a little bit dusty as well, so…what exactly was the point of this comparison? Two CPUs from two different (or equal, if you take 2010/2011) points in time are roughly comparable?
I agree that a private company should be free to choose to not deal with some people because of their political positions. But I also think a private company should be free to choose to not deal with some people for their sexual choices. So a bakery can do whatever the fuck they want if a gay couple ask for a wedding cacke.

Personally, I would never do business with a company that is racist, sexist or discriminatory in any way, but I defend the right to be racist, sexist, discriminatory or a general asshole in your private endeavours. I value freedom over feelings.
Yeah, Wikipedia says, that ARM designed a processor specifically for the Raspberry so it must be right.

Stupid.

ARM design cores since years as IP cores. Then there are chip makers who decide to use these cores or not depending on business opportunities.
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I can read 780 wpm, and I read most of HN this way
One of the performance improvements [0] is pretty crazy! Up to an 18,000% performance increase.

[0] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5123
Scr*wing around on your boss
I disagree and think this is potentially big news. You push us to relax security...we push back by trying to make a play in the secure chat (for everyone not just iPhone users) market which would make your life a lot harder.

The market is tough but it would be interesting if Apple would actually enter it. They have enough power to seed the network effect needed with a large enough user base.
I think this entire saga has actually opened up a nice spot to push really hard for the positioning slot of "secure by default". It's been done by a lot of people including Apple before but I think we're at a point in time where the media echo might be good enough for a big company to make a true positioning play.
It's also a great differentiation against Google/Facebook. Apple has voiced the "essentially our competitors are in the we make money off privacy violations business" (in other words) but they might want to hit that harder soon. A bit fickle since you need FB/Google in the "security now" alliance but still interesting.

I'm still skeptical about closed source software for secure X but I guess it's better than nothing.
bundler has many more features, for instance it provides a sandboxing mechanism and it allows for breaking the app boot if a dependency is not correct (which is a super good thing, I can't count the number of times I had a different egg than another developer and it was breaking things...)

edit: you're totally right tho! that was just a complement
Kong 0.7.0 released
Used a bloom filter to see if a password was correct to get into their bitcoin stash.
It is a strong signal to the market that they aren't cooperating and actually, actively hiring to get to market with something that is non-trivial to break into.

I don't know about his engineering abilities but the interview I read and some of the news articles presented him as quite a talented person. Signal, if it is as secure as the EFF audit suggests, would be one way to shore up older iPhones.

> I think TC's characterization of it was idiotic.

I mean, if we grade it on the TC scale it wasn't. It is hard to say it is unrelated. Their communication device is very publicly being regulated into compliance and they want to hire all the good people they can get. This is good on 3 levels, solid engineer, strong communication to market and that commitment brings in other solid engineers.
Yes, but it breaks some cases. I'd recommend to wait 5.7.1 (https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5400)
Sprite TM did the same thing several years ago:

http://spritesmods.com/?art=macsearm&page=3

https://youtu.be/9pJHqaF23B8
Only materials related, but at http://www.citrine.io/ they do something like that. I recently attended a talk given by one of the team members (Bryce) and they seemed to be quite open to discussions.
Large datasets - https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-t...
I would say that this has been Tim Cook's narrative for a while,

While part of it may be PR, I also believe that these are Tim Cook's values shining through. Having an orientation that gets you jailed or killed in some countries, makes you value individual freedom and privacy.

It's great to see this new Apple.
So this implies that even in windows one needs to safely unmount external media that were originally formatted using parted/gparted?
This is a very interesting use case of the new static pointer feature in GHC:

They first generate JVM bytecode from the Haskell source using their own code generator. This code is then shipped to the Spark cluster which executes the bytecode until it hits a static closure, the JVM will then call back into Haskell using a static pointer to execute the closure and will then continue with the bytecode.
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Understanding the Net's Disruption of the Power of Narrative
The 1GB was later or implied compression IIUC. First models, in the floppy disk era, were 300-400MB. Still would have been a beautiful computer storage device, but Sony sonied.
It will probably take years for async/await to become part of Node.
actually gas to electric efficiency is max 50% (60% if co-generating heat)

source: www.eurelectric.org/Download/Download.aspx?DocumentID=13549
OK, nice talking and all, but we need solutions applicable in real world, not something looking nice on paper (we ALL know this is best, and I hope most see it's unrealistic to expect mankind to behave like this... we never did and never will).

So I could say OP is more off than you think, and he could say... whatever. The worse the situation will get, the more people will be willing to sacrifice their well-being, invest in groundbreaking expensive new tech etc. We are not there yet, not the nations holding most of cash in their pockets.

Oh, and don't get fooled - you can put any cancerous lung photos on cigarette packages, I don't know a single smoker that would change their habit based on this. They ALL know it's bad and can kill you and go on nevertheless, don't treat people like stupid children.
The webpage you linked is parked.
Is there a summary for this? I've read 3 sections but it only contained fluff about people and not the point of the article.
Play nice How the internet is trying to design out toxic behaviour
Would love to see a whole lot more of repurposed, upgraded old tech. VHS, audio tapes, you name it. My latest thrill is the pico8 project. Low res, 8bit games but with the extra compute power of today, it yields funny results.
http://spritzinc.com/

really?
I'm pretty sure there are people with children who weren't born the last time I heard HoTmEtAl mentioned...
Regarding this:

Most small software companies have a single entity and only choose to spin out when a new product becomes a truly independent operational unit, when it receives investment, or (for branding purposes) if it ends up eating the business that spawned it.

Is there any legal ramification to "converting" product X, originally under the umbrella of Y LLC, to its own new X LLC?

Thanks
I was going to recommend the same. If you have a small number of servers and services, Rancher is the perfect solution.
This is all a waste and show off as far as I'm concerned until they go open on everything.

What would that bring them? Other companies would rip off iOS, bastardize & put their slow skins on it, and never release security updates (or modified source files).

I agree that opening up security infrastructure would be good though.
So having his work on billion of devices is a waste in your view? Ok.
The worrying this is that Apple really has a terrible record of making their solutions available to other platforms. A secure communication software that will only work well on Apple platforms and have a half-broken solution for perhaps one more is not really the direction we want to move to :/
I would love an async/await feature. Though generators have been added, and they are currently optimization killers in V8: https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k...
As a thought experiment: What would the repercussions be if Apple did pull iPhone sales out of the UK?

I'd guess that there would be huge complaints from the populace. I'd guess that Android providers would swoop in.

However, given Google's support of Apple's position here, would they too try to influence the hardware providers to pull out too (not bloody likely, I'd hazard.)?

Given that this election cycle seems to be leaning toward a 'burn the place down' mentality, I wonder if now is not the perfect time to be drawing lines in the sand…
Assuming you mean iOS app which is hard to update instantly. Maybe he would benefit from creating his own middle-man server-api that the app talks to. That way he just needs to update the server-code and the app will still get the right values.

Just some thoughts, maybe it doesn't apply.
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On a rate from 1 to Guantanamo, how illegal is this?
async/await isn't part of any standard yet. It's a stage 3 proposal at this time, which means it may not even land in ES 2016: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262

The last thing we want is native support for pre-standard features. As long as it's not in a spec (or draft at least), it's sci-fi.

Besides, node doesn't implement language features, V8 does. Here's the relevant issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4483
Thanks. In the mobile app, if you click "learn more" on the post preview, it takes you to "spritzit.com" instead.
Yup, pretty close. Just to be clear though we don't generate any JVM bytecode for any of the Haskell code - we compile that to native code using GHC as per usual but then we dynamically load the resulting shared objects into the JVM.

The static pointer thing is what allows us to share (practically) arbitrary Haskell closures with Scala/Java. And more than that - to get Spark's Scala code to ship these Haskell closures between machines across a cluster.
Vengeance is fine for its deterrent use. I would be more worried about Victorious.
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This is somewhat impaired by "airplane mode".
No offense but this fairy tale ideal that the city centric bunch always comes up with completely ignores that so many items people want or use in everyday life won't be made in their own city let alone one near by. Throw in the higher costs of living in the city both financial, mentally, and physical, and I still have a hard time justifying it.

Improving efficiency helps everyone because there is not going to be any overnight and likely within one generation shift to another lifestyle. You will never have all the jobs needed within a city to support all the people who live there. As in, your electronics, your food, and many other items, will be produced elsewhere and have to be sent there. The only things cities can self support usually are services.

Cars became popular not because fuel is cheap, they became popular because they represent the freedom to go where you want when you want. You are not restricted to some bus or train line whose routes and times are determined by a government agency.

So efficiency of the internal combustion engines is a needed move simply for the reason that not everyone can be put on the same schedule to change to the next means of individual travel.
insecurity != openness
oops, yeah, that is totally a parked domain. WTF?
> I know it from myself and don't think I have to to provide evidence that by large most people work like this. Reading and interpreting text is just WAY more complex a process and thus much slower than associating a shape with a meaning.

I don't think there is a difference in speed between reading "sum" and "+". You don't read the word "sum" letter by letter: you see it as a whole token and your brain recognizes it instantly.

> For example, application designers have known for a long time that it's important to build a symbolic language (icons etc) because that's just way faster (once you have learned what the symbol means, for example with the help of a tooltip).

You're talking GUI, which is different than writing and reading code. There are, for instance, much less GUI elements visible on the screen than there are identifiers even in a short snippet of code and there is much more context available for deduction in the code than in the GUI. I don't think the two situations - recognizing GUI features and recognizing and understanding identifiers in the code - are comparable.
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I am not, nor have I ever been, a big fan of Apple. (apart from all the usuall complaints, I am one of those freaks who just doesn't like Apple's interface & design). But this is a step in the right direction. Would it be better if it were more open? sure. Is it useless if it isn't? not really, it still protects the users and puts pressure on other manufacturers to do something similar.

Who knows, maybe internally they're even looking at making things more open but that could require a lot more work w.r.t. scanning for patents and such in their code and perhaps they want to have a strong solid release of whatever they would consider a "full system" before they put up their code for all to see.

Apple doen't, historically, have much of a history of opening up but they did open up Swift recently. Perhaps new winds are starting to blow like they did at Microsoft.