skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting.

I was checking various sites benchmarking VPNs and I remember them reporting IVPN speeds being around 3Mbps. Good to know that's not the case.

Couple of things that are missing. I use IPSec/L2TP. Does not seem to have columns tracking these. I did a bunch of sorting and filtering and the following seem to be the only providers that check all the marks for no logging and good business practices.

* AzireVPN

* IVPN

* SecureVPN.to

* Trust.Zone
If yes (and it's a big if) that's just one data point. You can just as easily argue that the industrial revolution changed the labor landscape and personal rights would have entered british common law either way.

Another law that defended the rights of feudal landowners was the fugitive slave act so if there's a pattern here I'm not seeing it.
Virtual Number and Number masking models
> and actually well within the rights of the govt

[citation needed]

It's also entirely possible Apple can't easily give them the key, since from what I've heard the key only exists in HSMs. Presumably they have more than one HSM, but I imagine the fact that they'd need to physically give the FBI hardware that's normally used in the course of their business would complicate matters.
Dear GitHub, I guess you deserve a omnibar
5 Years at the Internet Archive: The Party
We been there before and unfortunately Apple will lose. One word: CALEA [1]

USA telecommunications providers must install new hardware or software, as well as modify old equipment, so that it doesn't interfere with the ability of a law enforcement agency (LEA) to perform real-time surveillance of any telephone or Internet traffic.

Change to: USA cellphone producers must alter their hardware or software, as well as modify remote equipment, so that it doesn't interfere with the ability of a law enforcement agency (LEA) to perform real-time surveillance of any telephone or data traffic.

Carriers are responsible for CALEA development and implementation costs.

AFAIK nobody opposed CALEA and its been years since 2007 when it was implemented.

So unfortunately Apple will lose and their standing that corp cannot be forced to write a code or alter it because of their free will or cost possibly incurred, will not stand the chance :(

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...
Oh we're on a collision course with reality, and it is not going to be pretty. Buckle Up and Enjoy the Ride.
> There's a valid court order, there's a clear reason for this order to be executed, and the request is restricted.

All three of these are in dispute.

1. I do not think that this is a valid court order, as I do not think it comports with the text or spirit of the All Writs act. Apple is not specifically inhibiting execution of the court order; the act in question that ostensibly inhibits government action (manufacturing a device with a particular configuration) occurred long before the acts against which the warrant was issued (the act of criminal violence).

If this is within the purview of the government on this basis, then it leaves little imaginable human activity that isn't subject to the government's whim via the All Writs Act.

2. There is no clear reason for this order to be executed because the crime has already been occurred and the subject of the warrant is deceased. Like so many search warrants, the government's request in this case does not name specifically the "things to be seized;" instead, the government wants to seize each and every thing on this phone. Presumably the government wants to seek evidence about accomplices and circumstances surrounding the crime so that it can prevent similar actions in the future. However, in order for this to pass constitutional muster landing anywhere near the text or spirit of the document, they need publicly explain precisely what they are looking for.

3. The request is not particularly restricted; it literally asks Apple to write new software to exacting government specifications.

So,

> I'm curious what you guys think the government should do differently here.

I think that the government is better suited to educate people about encryption, encourage them to protect their own security, and completely abandon the idea that software must ever work in a way that the government dictates. Much to the contrary, we'll be a freer and more prosperous country when software specifically inhibits the government's capacity to overreach and when it is made so that it is impossible to change by an actor under pressure from the government.
Legislation shouldn't be construed broadly or narrowly. It should mean what it says. Sometimes that's called 'narrowly', but that's probably in contrast to approaches where the law means whatever you want it to mean. The All Writs Act is a broad law. It grants the courts the broad authority to issue whatever orders are "necessary and appropriate" in order to enforce their judgments, so long as its "agreeable to the usages and principles of law." Congress is free to pass revisions to the All Writs Act if it pleases.
I'd like people to make some predictions about what an ai will not be able to do in the next 10 years.
There's never a right to rebel, that's sort of the definition of the word. It's a reaction that comes about when all the legal avenues have been exhausted or hit brick walls.
I agree, the airport restriction is heavy. It isn't really '5 miles of an airport' but just not 'in regulated airspace', which is frequently around 5 miles around an airport. Sadly, there's no provision for just flying under 100 feet.
Fantastic. Thank you for the detailed response and examples.
Wow that was hard to read. We don't need to highlight prose. We don't read prose the same way we read code.
You're jumping the gun. This case is not lost.

And we can still argue, quite reasonably I think, that attempting to put back doors into all encrypted communication methods is a game of Whack-a-mole that we cannot win.
Remove all elements from linked hashset
Parenting and Happiness
The life of American workers in 1915
PlaNet – Photo Geolocation with Convolutional Neural Networks
Show HN: Create challenges and compete against your friends
The phone was owned by the state.
+1000 This is how a proper professional does it.

I always have turned down homework assignments. It just feels insulting and disrespectful. Even whiteboard crap is useless but I'm OK with it considering they've paid for my travel expenses etc.

If you think about it ... homework assignments are a classic case of B's looking for C's. A's wouldn't need to resort to such silliness. They can identify (as an interviewer) and exhibit (as an A interviewee) with just an intelligent conversation.
Also interested.

I would love to have more clarity on release schedules for enterprise in general
We use NordVPN running on OpenWRT box. Very happy so far
This is tptacek's talk on getting into the software security industry. The talk was given in Canada, hence the title.
They also have walking directions that work offline as well as transit schedules.(Also, MS never bought HERE, it's an independent company)
This is my struggle! I write fiction and it is excrutiating switching to analytical intensive tasks while managing to be sociable.
About losing a bank account:

"HSBC shuts accounts of Muslim organisations, including Finsbury Park mosque":
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/30/hsbc-shuts-acco...
OwnCloud 9.0 Features
One reason not to opt for Paperless.
Thats nothing remotely new in games though.
Account holders should be able to submit affidavits of their own accounts.
The problem is, if you use italics/bold/underline remotely as often as necessary to convey intonation or emphasis, you read like you're a loon or crank. Bolding is the green ink of the Internet.
Let the jQuery revival begin.
Not knowing what they're doing is pretty much par for the course for Obama's DOJ. It's the most poorly-run Justice Department in recent memory.

Also nice to see the random comment downvotes continuing without anyone bothering to actually respond.
I'm not a lawyer, but I found the ruling from New York pretty interesting.

At the heart of the matter seems to be: should congress have to explicitly disallow the government from doing anything it wants? There is extensive legislation saying when companies like (or similar to) Apple need to comply with law enforcement. They are relatively new (the 90s). This means congress has considered the issue extensively, and ultimately decided to not force a company like Apple to comply with law enforcement in certain circumstances. The DOJ wants that to mean that they can still force them. However, the Judge is saying that, effectively, since the issue has been debated and congress has not forced companies Apple to help, this is a legislative choice, and thus being able to force Apple to help through the all writs act would violate the separation of powers.

Basically, if you believe the DOJ's line of thought, congress could decide not to pass a bill giving the courts the ability to do something, then the courts could still use the all writs act to give themselves that power. Because there is no law outlawing it.
You may be interested in BeeLine Reader [1]. It puts a color gradient on alternating lines to text to hopefully let you read faster. I think it works a little bit. When I really want to read an entire article but don't want to invest too much time, especially if it's somewhat fluffy, I'll use Spritzlet set to 700 wpm [2].

1: http://www.beelinereader.com/

2: http://www.spritzlet.com/
No. It has never worked. Sadly all these people fail.

The airbnb's of the world don't post on Reddit asking for help, they get things done.
I see this mentioned often, but it just isn't the case. In order to effectively implement negative interest rates, we will have to modify the exchange rate between physical cash and bank deposits to remove the incentive to hoard physical cash above the amounts needed for normal daily activity, but we will not need to ban it outright. This paper[0] from the International Monetary Fund explains in more detail the steps banks will take to implement the changes.

[0] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2015/wp15224.pdf
Even properly done human models are very challenging. You can spot a fake 3d actor in no time, even in movies.
You've missed GP's point.

If the DoI is a reflection of understood common law, and it asserts a right to rebel (which, of course, it does), then there is a right to rebel.
Minor correction: HERE Maps got spun out from Nokia and were bought by Audi/Daimler/BMW late last year:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/business/audi-bmw-and-daimler-h...

Great maps, they include much better gradient data than other map providers - lots of logistics companies use HERE Maps because accurate gradient data turns into significant fuel savings if you're planning routes for 20+ ton freight trucks.
Emac’s Org Mode will improve your software engineering
Assume she is informed. Assume she doesn't really care about the outcome of this case, but is after a particular precedent.

At this point her actions become a lot easier to understand.
Standard aviation approach glideslope is 3degrees.

Usually approximated at a 1:60 rule. So every mile is 300 feet.

1 NM = 6076ft
tan 3deg = 0.0524

So 318.4ft/NM, or 276.68ft/statute mile.

So at 2 miles(nautical) out an aircraft ON the glideslope is at approx 600ft. A GA pilot flying VFR may be a little off.

5 miles doesn't seem a terribly bad exclusion zone here.
I realize that Snowden has done a lot of good by releasing the information he has, but I really don't care what he personally has to say and his controlled release of the information demonstrates to me that what he's do is as much for attention and his ego as it is anything else.
Your rant makes no sense. I flip a coin 100 times and it comes up tails 99 times. You are basically saying that asking "Is the coin more likely to come up tails" isn't a real scientific question. That's just silly.
China’s $336B VC fund is a recipe for disaster
This is the best javascript video i've ever seen. if you wait they do deals all the time, no need to pay $200 it will go on sale usually around $15-$20

https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/
"The second half of this is largely hand-wavy technobabble. The first half or so of it doesn't apply to the system we're describing."
"Similar song to the first one: Oh so much of that is completely unrelated to the topic at hand "

You got a talent for dismissing without reading. If you did, you'd have guessed that I implemented the second scheme in something. That actually included signed messaging and code operating at 10Mbps wirespeed. Besides, if an 8-bit CPU can do ECC/RSA ops in 0.x-3sec, then why would you think GHz CPU's w/ HW acceleration couldn't do a few hundred signatures a day? You running your infrastructure on 4-bit CPU's handwired with TTL chips or something?

"high-volume (think hundreds of signatures per day), very low-friction, audited code signing system that creates images signed with what is -for all intents and purposes- the same key that's used to sign the official, aboveboard builds of the software)."

You said low-friction, high-speed, no "techno-babble," and implied it shows resistance to NSA/FBI scheming. That's impossible to answer given your constraints.

"I also notice that you didn't answer my question."

A non-technical, low-friction answer to that is possible. Let's revisit it.

"If a manufacturer ships a crypto system that cannot_ produce plaintext on demand (and cannot be modified and field-upgraded to do so) and requires physical access and sophisticated hardware tampering to defeat, will this be considered a "refusal to allow a search"?"

No law says it's illegal for private party to buy intercept proof equipment unless it's radio. There's foreign countries that don't restrict crypto. So, buying one from a foreign country is legal if it passes import approval. Using it is legal. When hit with court, one must show reason other than dodging the law that the information can't be produced to dodge obvious prosecutor argument. My prior scheme on that is resistance to attacks on personnel by organized crime or foreign spies via extortion, kidnapping, torture, etc. Easier to resist them compromising everything in permanent, stealth fashion if that's impossible at manufacturing time. So, legal to buy, a justifiable reason for it, and finally great lawyers for presentation. There you go.

No guarantees, though. Our laws are subject to court interpretation. That can be good or bad for the accused.
I didn't know about this. For those that are looking:

http://fle.github.io/git-tip-keep-your-branch-clean-with-fix...
Have you tried gaming through the VPN perchance?
They're exploiting the weaknesses of the American military, as they must, since the alternative is suicide and assured defeat. It's unreasonable to expect your enemy to present himself so that your advantage is maximized. If there's an American insurgency against the government, I'm certain they'll employ similar tactics, rather than gathering in fields and waiting to get killed by a drones.
Many of the founders detested slavery.

Also, most of them would be appalled at the size, scope, and influence of the federal government/bureaucracy and the Supreme Court.

Of course a better appeal would be to the principles of liberty outlined in the founding documents of the United States -- principles most of us take for granted.
The issue is there's no way to limit the hack to "particular devices." The software that the government wants could be used to hack any iPhone.
I think you misremembered it: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/01/conclusionblind.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/11/results-blind-peer-rev... Nothing about accepted only if they rejected the reversed version; just that the pro & con versions be supplied (first post), or a paper sans conclusions/results (second post).
Consoles are on a 6 year upgrade cycle, if you wait 10 years your going to be skipping a generation. PS 1994, 2000, 2006, 2013.

That's still probably faster than PC as a 1000$ gaming PC from 2012 would have 4 or 8 GB ram, 1TB HDD or a small SSD, ~570 GTX 2500k CPU. Which can still play new games but your going to want an upgrade soon ish.

Cheaper games, no subscription fees (X box live), and your going to want a PC anyway means consoles don't really save you money.
E-cigarettes have a problem: They keep blowing up
If and when we fight an anti-encryption bill, we will be fighting that alarmist view.

Somehow technologists have to reframe the discussion. Up to now the government decides the emotional context, sells it to the people, and forces tech companies to react within that context. The government portrays itself as the good guys, or the protectors of society, or the moderate ones, or the fair-minded ones. To the extent that they are not protecting, moderate, or fair-minded, that's what needs to change. The government's disinformation campaign needs to stop. I don't know how to do it, but the technology world needs to set the stage, make its case, and invite the government to meet on technology's terms, not the other way around.
Bernie Sanders would have the most leverage. His stance on privacy: http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-privacy-and-digital....

If contacting the campaign team directly doesn't work, you can make a thread on /r/sandersforpresident or join the Coders for Sanders slack group to influence that group. The devs behind berniesanders.com are active on there too.
Markdown is fine for books, but not for technical docs.

Techdocs have lots of cross references and other similar elements, their implementation in all markdown “standards” is really bad.

ReStructured text is much, much better.
Add smart filters to your Apple Music library
Sure, move everything and leave just a shell behind. Or nothing. But where would they go? Russia? China? Build an island somewhere? And what about defense?
I'd be stunned if the Feds didn't already have it, but it makes perfect sense that they'd never want to give that fact away.
A travel writer or vacation journalist. An Idiot Abroad, etc.
I didn't pull from the actual CFR, but, from the FCC UAS section[1]:

Don't fly within 5 miles of an airport unless you contact the airport and control tower before flying

But, for example, there is an airport near me that is not a controlled field, yet it is marked as a no-fly zone in DJI firmware. Some helipads are marked also even though they are not controlled fields

I paraphrased the rest from memory, left out the 55lb restriction(55lbs is pretty reasonable I think). If you are flying large(>55lbs) model aircraft, there is a clause that permits it as long as it is designed, inspected, tested, and flown within 'community-based safety guidelines'

[1]https://www.faa.gov/uas/model_aircraft/
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I mean, it cuts both ways. By drawing it out, Snowden got the story get a lot more attention from the media and general public.
The story is that the last piece of advice jobs gave tim was to do what he thought was right. I don't think he's trying to be a martyr or anything, but I bet he's trying to do what's right in the situation. Knowing they'll fight this sort of battle really had me considering apple products again honestly, and I gave up that train long ago.
Steve did the DMV with his fleet of non-registered cars

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/27/mystery-solved-why-st...
A website with a nice infographic and a few FAQ's explained in relatable layman's terms(with references) would be great. Give it a straight forward domain like backdoorsaredangerous.org or whyencryptionisimportant.org or maybe both with respective information on each.

I'd be happy to do this, but I honestly don't understand all these issues well enough myself in order to do a good job scaring people as much as possible while keeping it truthful.
looks like VR/AR is (finally?) the new gold rush! any recommended starting point for Web/mobile dev like me who's interested to try his luck?
It's a great idea in theory. Can you reach him or someone on his team?

I've tried to reach Bernie but have no contacts. Supposedly we're 6 degrees apart but I don't know the path. I tried contacting Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's, who is one of his supporters and an activist himself, but didn't hear back.

People are reluctant to address the issue on his subreddit. I've tried posting extensive information on the subject twice already [1] [2]

His supporters are not even informed enough themselves.

It's up to us and the EFF to get the message out there.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/474b28...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/49otvu...

EDIT: I'm trying via the coders for sanders slack group now
We are simply going through a Cambrian explosion in the JavaScript ecosystem.

Today there is huge demand for the ability to develop desktop standard applications inside the browser. At some point in the last few years we hit a tipping point where the potential to do this was unleashed. I am not sure exactly what the technology was that tipped us over, maybe a combination of several. Was it fast JavaScript performance, AJAX, client side frameworks or NodeJS? Whatever the cause the dam has broken.

In a few years the winners will emerge. But it is impossible to know if the current leaders are going to win or if another champion will appear tomorrow.

I intend to enjoy the ride and look forward to the improved productivity and capability of web apps that results from the chaos.
I guess markdown is nice for unstructured text.

When you think you can learn a job (technical writer) by doing it bad rather than not doing it at all, you just take bad habits.

Serious technical documentation are structured. Pictures have captions, graphs have legends... It is cumbersome, it requires more data but that is the price to communicate (wait for it) INFORMATION to other humans.

Yes, writing structured documentation that can be easily used is part of what information technologies are. Structuring information from data.

Information is still analogic at the end and rst is just a typesetting chain designed for a domain specific kind of documents called technical documentation.

I am totally biased. I love readthedocs, I love POD, man pages, ISO documentations, IETF RFC, ASM papers, all kind of scientific papers, useful instructions that can help me do my job faster by following well known practices to be consistently readable without strain. And rst for this level of requirement is less a PITA than doing it conscientiously by hand or with markdown.

But I agree, I totally love the artistic freedom of markdown for writings too. But in a Museum, or as grafitis.

We talk about documentations right? Not art? So the title is accurate.
The "Price and Availability" section doesn't seem to mention anything about the price?!
Not that international law is the same as contract law, but if you view the federal system as a treaty between each state and the white house, violation of the treaty terms could void the agreement.

The federal system does guarantee rights to the states, but treaty enforcement goes more to balance of power than the text of the agreement. Early on when the local militias were our primary fighting force and we had to hire pirates to be our navy, state rights were secure.

These days not so much. For example, I wouldn't bet on stop and frisk to stop the Army Rangers if NYC voted to return to dutch rule (or Lenape).

Also, not to be a textualist, 'right of the people to alter or abolish'.
I would prefer it that way too but whiteboards aren't getting replaced with take-home assignments. Instead they're a step towards the whiteboard stage. The whole process is just getting sillier compared to other professions.
See part re: master keys of iOS. Would not require any work on part of Apple.
> any time you change the password is encrypted with all the appropriate user's public keys, so if you store the DB in a shared place everyone who has access to a given password will have access to it as it changes over time.

This works exactly like Pass. There is builtin Git support and credentials can use multiple PGP keys.