skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see a transcript [2], or list of participants [4] and find out which representatives present lean towards Apple or towards the FBI.

I skipped around the video. I mostly saw support for Apple, with a few exceptions, one being Mr. Sensenbrenner.

Mr. Sensenbrenner, a House republican of Wisconsin, asked Apple what legislation they would support, and Mr. Sewell, Apple's general counsel, said they support debate on the subject [1]

The congressman was clearly bullying Mr. Sewell here and using his position as congressman to make it appear as though Apple is not being agreeable. Well, encouraging debate before writing one-sided legislation sounds like great teamwork to me.

The congressman should have been reminded that not supporting new legislation is a valid position, and that every problem we face need not be solved with new laws.

Perhaps Mr. Sewell is trying to be respectful to the congressman. But I think he should not shy from responding in kind. Treat others as they treat you. No one will judge you for it. I think Apple missed an opportunity here to say they do not feel new legislation is needed, since guaranteeing back doors into devices would be an abridgement of consumers' right to privacy, and Apple's right to create safe products for consumers as it sees fit.

Overall though this seemed like a productive session.

Mr. Gowdy, a House republican of South Carolina, also bullies Sewell in the same manner [3], literally asking Apple to lobby for legislation.

In other words he is saying, get some lobbyists, do my work for me, pay for my next election campaign and solve your own problem. I don't know how you could be more blatantly obvious about being a corrupt, useless politician.

[1] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h59m30s

EDIT transcript here, though no speaker names are given and quotes are cut short

[2] http://www.c-span.org/video/?405442-1/hearing-encryption-fed...

[3] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=4h36m35s

EDIT list of participants:

[4] http://pastebin.com/raw/rHqYpv3g
He may very well be mentally ill. This sounds like something a trump supporter might say
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Lol, Microsoft doesn't do enough:

Assails them for being behind the times, using dated methodologies.

Microsoft tries to shed old business model and get with the times:

Microsoft is desperate!
stephen levy's book 'crypto' is pretty nice which can give you a sort of 'fly-on-the-wall' view of the whole thing :)
Agreed. I actually hope it provides the screen sharing capability with the possibility of video also. There are tons of non-developers that I always feel like I wish I could just Screenhero them and show them something, but having a random person take over your computer can be a little jarring.
just curious, is anyone wondering why ralph-merkle is not here as well ?
"FORGET ABOUT EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS OF SOLUTIONS" what? most important thing about differential equations.
>If her local police was ignorant of actual laws applying to her case, as she indicated, couldn't she just tell the officers under which exact laws she is making a complaint?

To me at least it's been conclusively demonstrated that 60-90% of police are completely incompetent.

I would not trust them to do the right thing even if you mentioned the law.
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TL;DR: "Yadda yadda terrorists something something guns kill people blah blah blah think of the children yadda AMERICA."

Truly, I'm getting weary of all the nearly-identical news of Uncle Sam's assault on digital privacy. If the strategy is to desensitize and wear down the US populace, it's working.
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Show HN: JsonTree, a tool for turning JSON data into a collapsible html tree
I know this is entirely inadequate, but what about suing for defamation?

The police, I fear, want to start getting a bit more proactive. When someone is able to get away with sabotaging someone else's life with complete impunity from authorities, a lot of people take actions in their own hands.
I don't see why it's a joke, personally. If you want to know what's going on, flying a drone over their fence is an obvious (if illegal) thing to do.
Fucking bullshit.

I will freely admit my algo knowledge isn't where it needs to be. But I know an algorithm's need where I see one, and consistently. The problems always contain a very specific problem space:

1) sorting

2) Large tables of information

3) categorizing

In nearly every case, the appropriate, well researched, proofed, Ph.D approved answer is a quick google away. If you're asking algorithm questions in your interviews, all you're looking for is someone's ability to conjure from memory an appropriate approach. Congratulations, you hired a flash card.

You know who I want to hire? Someone who shows creativity and drive through their experience (usually surfaces as having their hands in a lot of disciplines both CS and non), and someone who learns quickly. If they can implement an algorithm (not needing to conjure it on the spot), that's all I need. By the way, no self respecting algo researcher/analyst sits down for 45 minutes to come to a correct and efficient solution to an algorithm problem.

Enjoy your grad students. I'll take a maker any day.
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Strong username for this reply. If you don't think women are socialized to be accommodating you have your head in the sand. Look at profession choices, look at the plethora of anecdotal stories, and look at how parents interact with their daughters.
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This was quite the sensationalist piece. Maybe something is going on, but maybe the explanation is more boring. Since everyone is taking wild guesses, allow me to partake:

The building is Apple's HR center. The people there mostly write reports on health insurance utilization.

The noise is office remodeling. They do it at night because people are working during the day.

I have it on good authority that there are several capacitors in the building. They're mostly used to filter the output of switching power supplies. Why right now, there are probably hundreds of capacitors inside your house!

Give me a break.
> However, when there is a legitimate question, it's not up to law enforcement to make the final judgement calls. It's for the judiciary to make that call.

That's not actually true. The executive and the legislature all have to swear to uphold/defend the constitution and it takes all three branches of government to violate it. If Congress says that something is unconstitutional and refuses to pass a law permitting it then the executive can't do it. (The FBI is nowhere in the constitution, its very existence is at the will of the legislature.) If the executive branch says that something is unconstitutional then they can refuse to do it. Nobody can force the executive to prosecute someone under a law they think is unconstitutional.

People only see the courts as the arbiters of the constitution because they're last. You only get there if the legislature is willing to pass the law and the executive is willing to enforce it. But that is a piss poor excuse for the other branches of government to neglect their oaths.
I shouldn't do this, but I will.

In the specific case mentioned here, where state and Federal law enforcement won't take charge, why shouldn't she find a professional investigator to confirm who the perpetrator is, then use the same tactics he has used against her against him?

After all, law enforcement refuse to take action right? So it appears that law enforcement wouldn't care if she ensured that he is kept out of the picture.

(for the record, I'm playing devil's advocate)
Employers, please note if you respect the 8 hour workday or if you do not. Many of us do not want to work for you without pay.
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I'm loving the simplicity of Quip and the more visual card-based flow of Trello. Any other winners out there people love?
A society that will not take intimidation and threats to someone's livelihood seriously has already regressed to the level of tribal societies with vendettas and blood-feuds.
Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison.
Microsoft does allow the option to remove a license from a copy of Windows on a PC and change the key:
http://www.howtogeek.com/124286/how-to-uninstall-your-window...

http://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/3721/Can-I-transfer...

In a word the EULA says you can't transfer a license to a different PC, but it hasn't been tested in a court yet. People have transferred an OEM license and activated it. So it can be done, but the question about it being legal might vary by nation as Germany allows it if other nations do not.

But since it hasn't been tested in a court yet, nobody can say how legally binding it is or is not.
It's not about sealing a security hole. It's about increasing the cost and decreasing the value for abusers, to reduce the amount of abuse to a sustainable level.
For those who don't know the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A. It's definitely in the hacker spirit.
How can that company have more than 100 employees i don't understand.
Agree with this, but men are victims of stalking as well (considering the theme of the article). Perhaps the article insisted too much that it is a women's problem. In any case, if the laws related to staking don't exclude male victims, good enough.
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The easiest way to pick good colors is to copy good colors that someone else picked. There are many resources on color theory, and they can help a person understand why some colors work together and what someone who knows what they are doing did. Itten's Elements of Color is the only formal book on color in my library. It's useful, but there are lots of other things out there.

Color wheels are kind of cool and cheap: http://www.alvinco.com/Shop/Products.aspx?GID=5993

The Munsell system is a bit pricier: http://munsell.com/color-products/color-communications-produ...

Pantone is great for specifying print colors: http://www.pantone.com/graphics/process-color?from=topNav

On the other hand, one man's sand is another's off white. Naming colors is a whole 'nother ball game.

Good luck.
It is a bad idea, but without legal recourse someone will eventually provide the service.
When I'm looking at prices at an online bookstore, I don't care what the list price is, I care what the price I have to pay is.

When a physical object that has to be manufactured and shipped costs more than a text file, I feel ripped off. Especially since I can lend a physical book to someone or sell it to a local used book store, neither of which I can do with an ebook.
I'd like to hear how you interview candidates and what has been your success? The process could certainly be improved since we have very little time to really know the candidates.
These things aren't mutually exclusive. I think there are events that occurred around periods of climate change, which may have caused changes in animal or human migration. This could lead to warfare, or even more simply disease transmission.
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They probably need at least a copy editor. (Typos are really annoying and you just can't deal with those without help.) But, yeah,for some genres, people with at least a niche following may do better with cutting out a lot of expensive "middlemen" who provide incremental improvement.
I don't get it, either. Bessel functions certainly do have engineering applications.
It is certainly true that a common political tactic is to attempt to convince people that there was some time in the past when they were better off than today. Remarkably, people are far more willing to believe this (even in the face of all the data which inevitably shows it isn't true - in the UK we've been on a near-vertical climb for a century with even the recent economic messes being little more than a quiver), than they are willing to believe that things could be made better in the future.

There are plenty of places in the world where living standards are low. The UK is not one of them. If you live here, even if you are the poorest person in the country, you are rich beyond the dreams of half the population of the world.

I'm not buying into any of this "life is terrible, you should give me more" meme.
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How does this differ from the built in Go coverage viewer?
Very likely a lot of it was support/sales.

When you're working with business clients who are not technical, a lot of support can come in, even if it's just to help onboarding. In a lot of B2B SAAS, the long term value of each customer means it's totally worth having support staff spend a day helping out.

Here it seems like they were trying the B2B SAAS route, and they decided against it, so are firing basically the team on that.
Timemachine is a tool that constructs a Docker image of a Debian base system at any date in the past. For example, if you want to study the glibc bug (CVE-2015-7547), you can't simulate the attack by pulling a Docker image and run the exploit because most distros have been patched by now. Using timemachine, you can roll back to any date in the past, where the glibc library has not been patched and run a corresponding Docker image for experiments. Timemachine uses Debian snapshot repository to make sure you can install a specific package version and its corresponding dependencies.

Timemachine is a part of a security testbed that we are developing. We have created container images of recent attacks in our repo, e.g., https://github.com/CSLDepend/itestbed/tree/master/repo/mitm/...

If anyone is interested in developing such testbed for reproducible security experiments, let me know @pmcao
Until you want to align code on non-tab boundaries.
Basically JaneStreet realized its a tough time maintaining the repo if they are the only ones using it.
OMG, seriously? Because people couldn't implement smart data structures before generics were invented?

(disclaimer: i think that lack of generics in Go is a mistake)
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Isn't that expired now? And if it covers p2p it's ridiculous. All PSNs are prior art
Nice list.

I saw emphasis on control, optimization,
numerical methods, and applications.
Nice.

And, sure, PDE's stand to get more.
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I don't know how it works in the U.S. but in Australia I had a situation where someone bumped into my mother on the road and intimidated her as she went down the highway.

My mother noted the time, the license plate number and ensured she called the Police Assistance Line we have, after he passed her by. They referred her to her local police station. She went to see them the next morning, but the Officer on Duty refused point blank to file a statement. She later went back, and the same Office on Duty again refused to file a statement. So did his supervisor.

I knew this was a crime, so I did the following:

1. I called back the Police Assistance Line and explained that my mother had been intimidated on the road. I explained the situation and asked if the police were meant to look into the matter. The Police Assistance line operator, whose details I took, advised me it is against the law and should be followed up.

2. I called the local police station and explained to the person on the line that my mother had had someone bump into her on the highway, and she was intimidated. I asked if this was something that was allowed, and the police officer explained to me that actually, this was something that should be looked into.

3. I then explained to the police officer that my mother had already tried to have a statement taken twice already, but it was declined each time and the supervisor would not go ahead with it either. I asked to speak to the duty sergeant.

4. The duty sergeant, after I explained the situation to him again, sounded very sheepish and promised to look into the matter.

The Police finally took a statement.

Now if that had been me, I would have taken matters further and lodged a complaint with the Ombudsman. I very much think that police need to learn that a. they aren't lawyers, and they don't know the law even though many of them think they do, and b. they also need to know that if they literally stop others from reporting crimes (not even the point of acting on crimes, reporting of a crimes) then they will be buried in paperwork because of their jerkish behaviour.
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It's kind of incredible to me that EVE Online can get this right [1], but my banks cannot [2].

1. https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/202428251-AP...

2. I have to log provide my passwords to mint.com and hope they don't misuse them.
2 interesting things:
1) Go performs better than Node.js
2) They couldn't get goroutines perform fast enough.

This is a scientific paper.
How ironic. The very person doing the stalking may well be a Trump supporter!
The publishing industry did this before by colluding with Apple. Had to settle out of court with DoJ over it.
They didn't snicker at her. They just didn't know how best to help her.

I feel your characterization portrays officers as hateful when they're really often just misinformed.

Again, just like you say, it's hard to find the right answer. And when you say you "rather they err on the side of protecting victims", there are too many people who could possibly be victims to protect. And how do you mean "protect" exactly?

[Downvoting is an acceptable response, but I was honestly hoping for an answer to the question. If I'm missing something, please let me know, I would really appreciate that!]
+1 for summer wars!
> 16,000 secret-key operations (decryption, signatures).

I have to assume that decryption or signatures themselves are more than one operation. I don't think most people have encrypted 16,000 documents in their life times.

Am I missing something? I'm probably missing something.
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ah. oops.
Yeah, that was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this title :)