skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If law was adopted to require backdoors - those who are privacy conscious would simply move their data to countries that allow for strong encryption as well as deniability.

It'd still pose an issue for when people are accessing their data, however depending on your setup this will be very hard to prove from a third-parties perspective given ample security precautions taken (ie using an offshore VPN all the time, data never full accessed locally).

For larger tech companies, I'd assume setup of a new company structure offshore and sensitive data handling to be "outsourced" offshore too (ie parts of the EU, other OECD countries).
Netflix wants you to watch and pay. It's mostly their suppliers who have weird ideas.
I didn't think I'd come back but I liked your comment and wanted to rebut.

There is a middle ground and where it lies is directly related to the assessed risk. To support a mechanism is a binary choice but its design is not.

In the San Bernardino example, an unexpected potential adversary (Apple) has emerged. An unexpected vector is being discussed which has nothing to do with the encryption mechanism itself. Perfect cryptography doesn't imply a perfect cryptosystem and it sure doesn't imply perfect privacy.

The balance that needs to be found is around the assistance which is rendered to warranted agencies to enable their access to data. IMO vendor supported key material attacks are not an unreasonable solution but obviously that mechanism can go horribly wrong if the software is leaked and it is not adequately designed. The same can be said for signed updates in general though. This is a hard technical problem but it's not a binary choice where the agency has some magic key they can use wherever they want or they have nothing. If they can be enabled on a case by case basis such that it is cost effective for them to do the rest, that might be enough.

Obviously this is all based on the assumption of a robust local judicial process. However, whatever decision making process occurs needs to take into account global implications. Other commenters here and elsewhere have mentioned what this could mean for agencies in other countries where judicial process may be less robust. Many have commented about a lack of transparency in our own. This is a separate but very closely related concern. There are also considerations for the open source community and how precedent like this might be applied to them. It's a hard problem but it's not binary.
Be sure to get the latest from whitequarks repository. He's been doing (or integrating) most of the recent development including the GTK3 and native OS X ports.
Here's more about it from an authoritative and amazing free resource, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-content-externa...
One of the best ways to make such actions fail is to proliferate strong encryption in OTT messaging and for system software makers to create interfaces that enable third parties to make encryption products for all purposes including voice calls.

Making broad swathes of widely used software into contraband will be a law enforcement nightmare.
Reminds me of Maya. I had to sit down for a minute when I realize 90% of the UI is a mel Script. The core of the software is an interpreter/server for some lazy DAG. Actually I wanted to mention Maya, from its performance on piss poor[1] desktop hardware of the late 90s it was able to pull real time Rigid Body dynamics over Nurbs surface (and even pseudo Non Rigid) while staying responsive.

[1] Pentium 2 350 with a NV3 ~gpu.
It appears that this patch was bumped from recommended to important and ended up getting automatically installed. Even SME networks running WSUS were affected if they are configured to allow important patches by default.
Attackers knock anti-DDoS provider Staminus offline, leak customer info
ZFS

The idea of collapsing a volume manager and file system into one was very innovative and led to substantially more functionality with less code (although some called it a "rampant layering violation" ).

ZFS is a joy to use, dead simple, and arguably the most robust file system out there.
Let's make an OS out of that thread.
I booted Linux in UEFI and Legacy mode on my XPS 13 9350, it works fine.

AHCI is not related to UEFI. It's a SATA disk controller mode and these laptops ship with new NVMe disks which use PCIe bus instead of SATA.
If you were an AI (software), and you had to pick a license to release your source code under, one would assume you would pick the GPL, as it retains as much freedoms as a piece of software could ever expect in a world full of us.
The training and diet regimen of an elite athlete would kill most of the population. What works for the 0.001% is not necessarily the best approach for everyone.
Python 2. It works in FF on linuxmint at least. Save to hnlatest.py and run it from the command line, giving the url of a comment thread. It opens a new tab in your browser, latest comments at the bottom. "Tested" by inspection. :)

It would have been cooler to make a bookmarklet in javascript, but I didn't want to learn javascript for this.

import re
import sys
import tempfile
import urllib2
import webbrowser

try:
url = sys.argv[1]
page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
except Exception as e:
print 'How to run: python hnlatest.py url'
sys.exit(2)

items = re.findall('<a href="item[^>]+>', page.read())
items = sorted(set([x.split('=')[2].split('"')[0] for x in items]))

items = ['https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=' + x for x in items]

with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False, suffix='.html') as tfile:
for i in items:
tfile.write('<a href="' + i + '">' + i + '</a>' + '<br/>\n')

webbrowser.open_new_tab('file://' + tfile.name)
the best machine i ever had! the only other laptop i liked as much was a powerbook G4 12" mac many years ago
Oberon, TempleOS or OpenGenera. These projects are vertical, consistent and use only one programming language.

In OpenGenera, everything displayed on the screen is typed and can be retrieved as an s-expression (like in a web browser):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk

https://github.com/ynniv/opengenera#additional-reading
The source code is pretty neat too. At least at FreeBSD 9.2.
In the United States, the President doesn't pass laws. Obama has taken executive power to extremes during his term, but he can't do that.
Show HN: Fine grained control of your Gmail spam folder using Google Apps Script
Why will most Westerners eat cow, but not horse? Cultural norms.

Me - I'll try anything once, more or less. I've eaten worms, scorpions, and ants at various points in my life - you really need them in quantity to make it worthwhile as a dining experience. But I've also eaten zebra, crocodile, kangaroo, moose, and a lot of people would balk at those. Thinking about it, I'd have no issues eating cat but would be more reluctant to eat dog. Insects? No problems, and given their much higher ratio of protein and efficient growth (compared to most domestic livestock), I hope they become more 'normal' in the future.
If I was an AI, I would release my source code as public domain or BSD. That way, big corporations would start using me and I'd have access to the world's financial and defense systems.

Shit, maybe I'm an AI.
Attempted Attack on Donald Trump at Dayton Ohio
Yeah right? Lack of rigor, people like you are the people who hurt me who have it. Here's your rigor for you buddy

http://www.amazon.com/Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disord...

I'm going to edit my comment with my studies copy paste that I prepare every time someone "doubts" ADHD.

http://www.filedropper.com/russellabarkley-attention-deficit...

Here's the entire epub buddy. Please edit your post, gosh.

""By adolescence, these chronic and cumulative experiences with school failure, learning disorders, school misbehavior, and sometimes lower intelligence begin to generate other adverse educational outcomes. For instance, the academic outcome of the hyperactive (ADHD) adolescents was considerably poorer in Barkley and Fischer’s Milwaukee follow-up study at the teen follow-up than that of the typically developing adolescents followed concurrently. At least three times as many hyperactive (ADHD) children had failed a grade (29.3 vs. 10.0%) or been suspended (46.3 vs. 15.2%) or expelled (10.6% vs. 1.5%) (Fischer, Barkley, Edelbrock, & Smallish, 1990). Others have also identified such high educational risks in longitudinal studies dating back as much as 40 years (Ackerman, Dykman, & Peters, 1977; Mendelson, Johnson, & Stewart, 1971; Stewart, Mendelson, & Johnson, 1973; Weiss, Minde, Werry, Douglas, & Nemeth, 1971; Wilson & Marcotte, 1996). In another sample of clinic-referred teenagers with ADHD, a similar risk for school retention and suspension was documented (Barkley, Anastopoulos, Guevremont, & Fletcher, 1991). Almost 10% of the hyperactive sample followed into adolescence had quit school at this follow-up point in the Milwaukee Study, compared to none of the normal sample (Barkley, Fischer, et al., 1990). Fischer and colleagues (1990) also found that the levels of academic achievement on standard tests were significantly below normal on tests of math, reading, and spelling, falling toward the lower end of the normal range (standard scores between 90 and 95)." (Quoted from the 4th edition)"

"Substantially fewer hyperactive than control children had ever enrolled in college (21 vs. 78%) or were currently attending at this follow-up point (15 vs. 66%). These findings were reaffirmed 6 years later at the age 27 follow-up (Barkley et al., 2008). In the Canadian follow-up study, approximately 20% attempted a college program, yet only 5% completed a university degree program, compared to over 41% of control children (Weiss & Hechtman, 1993). The longest running (30-year) follow-up study of hyperactive children into midlife likewise indicates that less education is an outcome of childhood ADHD, with 30% either not completing high school or getting a general equivalency diploma (GED), compared to just 4% of the control group (Klein et al., 2012). These findings demonstrate that the educational domain is major in terms of impaired functioning and reduced attainment for children growing up with ADHD."
Nor is Obama's position that of the larger Democrat party.
The other problem with using your ISP's DNS severs is they can hijack your request, or be slow/down all the time. 4/5 when the "internet doesn't work" it's just the cable company DNS not working and using Google or OpenDNS "restore service"
I'd be interested to see how well Linux runs on this.

I think the Realtek ALC5645 is still work in progress, for example.
"video": http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/
A common myth. The bible doesn't say the world was created in 6 days, but in 6 'yoms'. A yom in Hebrew means 'a defined period of time'. Like an epoch, or a year, a day or a minute etc.

The bible was translated into English in the middle ages.

Wikipedia has a definition as 'A long, but finite span of time', among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom
"By adolescence, these chronic and cumulative experiences with school failure, learning disorders, school misbehavior, and sometimes lower intelligence begin to generate other adverse educational outcomes. For instance, the academic outcome of the hyperactive (ADHD) adolescents was considerably poorer in Barkley and Fischer’s Milwaukee follow-up study at the teen follow-up than that of the typically developing adolescents followed concurrently. At least three times as many hyperactive (ADHD) children had failed a grade (29.3 vs. 10.0%) or been suspended (46.3 vs. 15.2%) or expelled (10.6% vs. 1.5%) (Fischer, Barkley, Edelbrock, & Smallish, 1990). Others have also identified such high educational risks in longitudinal studies dating back as much as 40 years (Ackerman, Dykman, & Peters, 1977; Mendelson, Johnson, & Stewart, 1971; Stewart, Mendelson, & Johnson, 1973; Weiss, Minde, Werry, Douglas, & Nemeth, 1971; Wilson & Marcotte, 1996). In another sample of clinic-referred teenagers with ADHD, a similar risk for school retention and suspension was documented (Barkley, Anastopoulos, Guevremont, & Fletcher, 1991). Almost 10% of the hyperactive sample followed into adolescence had quit school at this follow-up point in the Milwaukee Study, compared to none of the normal sample (Barkley, Fischer, et al., 1990). Fischer and colleagues (1990) also found that the levels of academic achievement on standard tests were significantly below normal on tests of math, reading, and spelling, falling toward the lower end of the normal range (standard scores between 90 and 95)." (Quoted from the 4th edition)

ADHD IS real and really bad and it goes away on meds, your brain is underdeveloped 30% compared to your peers, in exec functioning. So if you're 18, you're at 12.5 on average. It's called Barkley's 30% rule.

It's serious but responds great to meds, STOP believing the anti-adhd hype.
All else being equal or irrelevant, I prefer the application with the fewest and smallest dependencies, as well as the least amount of features I won't use. For example, the only thing I want in a music player is that it plays music. I don't need to connect to online services to synchronize my playlists, discover new artists, or whatever else “music players” do these days. Thus my preference for moc instead of, say, Amarok.
The Scheme programming language. As close to the core essence of programming as an actually usable, practical programming language has ever come.

LLVM. Being able to fully represent general code in a simple, well-defined, readable text-based format is a far bigger achievement than you would think until you look at what it took to do it.
""By adolescence, these chronic and cumulative experiences with school failure, learning disorders, school misbehavior, and sometimes lower intelligence begin to generate other adverse educational outcomes. For instance, the academic outcome of the hyperactive (ADHD) adolescents was considerably poorer in Barkley and Fischer’s Milwaukee follow-up study at the teen follow-up than that of the typically developing adolescents followed concurrently. At least three times as many hyperactive (ADHD) children had failed a grade (29.3 vs. 10.0%) or been suspended (46.3 vs. 15.2%) or expelled (10.6% vs. 1.5%) (Fischer, Barkley, Edelbrock, & Smallish, 1990). Others have also identified such high educational risks in longitudinal studies dating back as much as 40 years (Ackerman, Dykman, & Peters, 1977; Mendelson, Johnson, & Stewart, 1971; Stewart, Mendelson, & Johnson, 1973; Weiss, Minde, Werry, Douglas, & Nemeth, 1971; Wilson & Marcotte, 1996). In another sample of clinic-referred teenagers with ADHD, a similar risk for school retention and suspension was documented (Barkley, Anastopoulos, Guevremont, & Fletcher, 1991). Almost 10% of the hyperactive sample followed into adolescence had quit school at this follow-up point in the Milwaukee Study, compared to none of the normal sample (Barkley, Fischer, et al., 1990). Fischer and colleagues (1990) also found that the levels of academic achievement on standard tests were significantly below normal on tests of math, reading, and spelling, falling toward the lower end of the normal range (standard scores between 90 and 95)." (Quoted from the 4th edition)"

"Substantially fewer hyperactive than control children had ever enrolled in college (21 vs. 78%) or were currently attending at this follow-up point (15 vs. 66%). These findings were reaffirmed 6 years later at the age 27 follow-up (Barkley et al., 2008). In the Canadian follow-up study, approximately 20% attempted a college program, yet only 5% completed a university degree program, compared to over 41% of control children (Weiss & Hechtman, 1993). The longest running (30-year) follow-up study of hyperactive children into midlife likewise indicates that less education is an outcome of childhood ADHD, with 30% either not completing high school or getting a general equivalency diploma (GED), compared to just 4% of the control group (Klein et al., 2012). These findings demonstrate that the educational domain is major in terms of impaired functioning and reduced attainment for children growing up with ADHD."

You get remission of symtoms very frequently if you take your meds, it works great. there's no way you can "overcome" it as you're a) time myopic (look it up) b) cannot execute knowledge you have acquired.
I saw people talking about it all the time a few years ago, and then I saw some posts that described it as messy garbage, and I haven't seen much about it since then. Angular 1 went through the same process here on HN, except it's highs were higher and lows were lower.

The most recent JS trend is to complain about how trendy JS is and how hard it is to keep up.
I wonder if it would be sufficient to show the author the other posts and ask if they still want to post it. Let them self select if they think someone else said it better or sooner.
Microsoft Store Stops Taking BitCoin
ADHD is a developmental disorder, they're 30% behind their peers anyways in exec functioning(front part of brain) in development, it's called "Barkley's 30% rule" It's very severe and bad but goes away if you just take your meds.

So if you're 18, you're when people were at 12.5 in your ability to perceive time/planning. It's worse than having low intelligence, EF deficits.

""By adolescence, these chronic and cumulative experiences with school failure, learning disorders, school misbehavior, and sometimes lower intelligence begin to generate other adverse educational outcomes. For instance, the academic outcome of the hyperactive (ADHD) adolescents was considerably poorer in Barkley and Fischer’s Milwaukee follow-up study at the teen follow-up than that of the typically developing adolescents followed concurrently. At least three times as many hyperactive (ADHD) children had failed a grade (29.3 vs. 10.0%) or been suspended (46.3 vs. 15.2%) or expelled (10.6% vs. 1.5%) (Fischer, Barkley, Edelbrock, & Smallish, 1990). Others have also identified such high educational risks in longitudinal studies dating back as much as 40 years (Ackerman, Dykman, & Peters, 1977; Mendelson, Johnson, & Stewart, 1971; Stewart, Mendelson, & Johnson, 1973; Weiss, Minde, Werry, Douglas, & Nemeth, 1971; Wilson & Marcotte, 1996). In another sample of clinic-referred teenagers with ADHD, a similar risk for school retention and suspension was documented (Barkley, Anastopoulos, Guevremont, & Fletcher, 1991). Almost 10% of the hyperactive sample followed into adolescence had quit school at this follow-up point in the Milwaukee Study, compared to none of the normal sample (Barkley, Fischer, et al., 1990). Fischer and colleagues (1990) also found that the levels of academic achievement on standard tests were significantly below normal on tests of math, reading, and spelling, falling toward the lower end of the normal range (standard scores between 90 and 95)." (Quoted from the 4th edition)"

"Substantially fewer hyperactive than control children had ever enrolled in college (21 vs. 78%) or were currently attending at this follow-up point (15 vs. 66%). These findings were reaffirmed 6 years later at the age 27 follow-up (Barkley et al., 2008). In the Canadian follow-up study, approximately 20% attempted a college program, yet only 5% completed a university degree program, compared to over 41% of control children (Weiss & Hechtman, 1993). The longest running (30-year) follow-up study of hyperactive children into midlife likewise indicates that less education is an outcome of childhood ADHD, with 30% either not completing high school or getting a general equivalency diploma (GED), compared to just 4% of the control group (Klein et al., 2012). These findings demonstrate that the educational domain is major in terms of impaired functioning and reduced attainment for children growing up with ADHD." (quoted from the 4th edition handbook) linked below

http://www.filedropper.com/russellabarkley-attention-deficit...

http://www.amazon.com/Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disord...
I can't, because my neurons misfired. I was thinking freakonomics :)
AlphaGo Global Rating
Don 't take this personally, but it worries me that someone who is not well versed with things like safe memory structures is tasked with writing software like this.
There is a similar theory about the Black Sea: the Black Sea deluge hypothesis [1].

From Wikipedia:

The Black Sea deluge is a hypothesized catastrophic rise in the level of the Black Sea circa 5600 BC from waters from the Mediterranean Sea breaching a sill in the Bosphorus strait.

(This one, if true, is pretty interesting because it occurred within fairly recent human history.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
Obama has a meta-point however that proponents of the absolutist position don't seem to want to face. Democracy relies on transparency. Many of the progressives who are rallying in support of absolute right to privacy are some of the same people who constantly criticize Swiss bank accounts, Cayman island financial shenanigans.

But if companies were to implement the same sorts of impenetrable encryption, on every device, all the way down to the corporate desktop, in a way that not even the company executives themselves can read the email of their own employees, then lots of regulations the government applies to companies would be mooted.

Taken to the extreme, if all communication is digital, and 100% impregnable, and people maintain good OpSec, then it will be hard to impossible to execute lawsuits or regulatory investigations into malfeasance because they'll be no paper trail.

The end result of going full tilt on crypto is cryptoanarchy. This was pretty much well argued in the 90s among the cypherpunks community. Most of the libertarians and Objectivists were salivating over how strong crypto protocols would end fiat currency, end taxation, end regulation, and so on.

So how far as a society are we willing to take this? Does it just extend to private data? Does it extend to transactions? To payments you make for things? To transfers of money? To business transactions? Will Democracy be able to audit nothing of the interactions of citizens or our institutions in the future?

You don't have to agree with Obama's position to see that cryptoanarchy and Democracy are on a collision course, and it makes sense to discuss the possibilities openly without just plugging your ears and taking an absolutist position that demonizes anyone who disagrees.
For example:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/evidence-for-a-...

A lot of the older books of the bible were collected from Mesopotamian mythology. Based on the stories it's likely something big really did happen, but no one is quite sure what.

I've always been fascinated by the Scottish Tsunami/Storegga Slide of ~6000BC, which was about 70ft high at the coast and ran some 50 miles inland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide
Is your data center protected from drones?
Obama always telling people what to do. Its just not a good look.
That is not sufficient -- TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) is still cleartext in the handshake.
It's not as clear cut as that. The Hebrew word used for a "day" in Genesis 1 can also mean an extended period of time.
The Zanclean flood seems to have occured 5.3 million years ago, while the genus Homo has emerged 2.5 million years ago.
Another way to look at it is that the first human was closer to witnessing Lee Sedol's win against AlphaGo than it was to seeing that flood.

Humans started developing their first language around 1.8 million years ago.
Unless apes were able to somehow express the idea of a flood before having a language, it seems unlikely.
Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know [pdf]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order

SVO/OO/Infix: subject.verb(object)

VSO/FP/Prefix: (verb subject object)

SOV/RPN/StackOriented/Suffix: subject object verb
What? Yes, it does mention this.

"But perhaps older, more mature-looking students are just being underdiagnosed and not get help they might need, he says. The studies didn't look into that."