skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believed in the EM drive in the same way I occasionally buy lottery tickets: there's no way I could win, but wouldn't it be _so cool_ if I did?
My favorite example of this is line 2 of the Beijing subway system. It's a circular route approximately following the old city wall. During planning, there was a great debate over how to build it. Boring tunnels would have been too expensive, but the cheaper cut and cover would have destroyed many homes. Instead, they just demolished the centuries-old city wall and built it there.

I don't mean to praise that decision, but I think it's a great example of both the advantages and disadvantages of that sort of dictatorial decision making.
Although I’ve never been labeled as “toxic”, I’ve been a development manager that had to help coach “toxic” individuals and have worked with numerous toxic team members throughout my career. Here are some things to keep in mind:

1) It is really hard to go from toxic to non-toxic within the same organization. Once your peers and management have formed that impression of you, it is difficult to get rid of it.

2) Engineers typically undervalue the importance of communication skills and interpersonal relations. You need to cultivate these skills probably more than you realize and they will become even more important as you advance in your career. The way to cut through road blocks and bureaucracy in the real world is through relationships. Ever notice how some people can just make a few calls to resolve issues?

3) The “golden rule” is just as important as it was in elementary school. Keep the tone professional at all times – especially over the phone or when emailing or texting. If you have problems with this, try to talking to your coworkers in person.

4) You probably need to better understand the business side better. Your employer wants to get the best return on their investment. Sometimes that means that it is better for you to develop the Pinto instead of a Cadillac. Developers have a really hard time with this because we always want to do things the “right way”.

5) Instead of complaining about the incompetence of your management, try explaining the limitations of their decisions and offer some alternatives. Once a decision is made, however, drop it and just do your job.

Good luck. I recently saw this: https://hbr.org/2015/12/its-better-to-avoid-a-toxic-employee.... Getting labeled toxic is definitely something that you want to avoid.
The comments about honor killings and stoning for adultery are a bit ridiculous. Honor killings usually happen in tribal and rural segments of Pakistan--not the kinds of people who use Muslim Match. Not all of the users are even from Pakistan, many were probably from the US and the UK, and a lot of the people on there were just genuinely looking for a spouse.

Do you guys really think that nobody has premarital sex in places like Pakistan? All that surfaces in the media are stories of some poor raped woman getting tried for adultery (usually in a Gulf Arab country, not Pakistan), or stories of honor killings. Those are real problems for sure, and the cultures of most Muslim countries have devolved during the past century in many ways, but a catalog of dramatic headlines doesn't capture what actually goes on in these countries and how people actually live.

I would expect the jump from "Muslim dating site" to "honor killings and stoning" from the comments section of a common newspaper, not Hacker News.
lol no generics
I remember that quote too, and the key take aways always seemed like: in science you always learn something.

Taking the EMDrive as an example -- we have measurements that contradict current theory, so we are either going to discover new physics or we are going to learn something about the art of making very precise measurements of force in complex mechanical systems. In no case do we learn nothing.
Paradox Entertainment also puts out games with linux support on day one. The last ones were Hearts of Iron 4 and Stellaris.
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Google has explained what is going on:

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=84...
Awesome, can't wait
I'm going to hazard a guess. The french did found something useful to crack google down in that raid and gave their buddies in Spain a nudge so they can combine the efforts and maybe strike a big one against the Double Irish.
Gibson did not write "prior to the PC era", whether you mean PC either to be "personal computer" or IBM's brand. I was using both by 1984. He was writing prior to the Internet as we know it existed, though (although its precursor ARPANET already did).

As for Stephenson, he was writing parodies of cyberpunk, not cyberpunk itself, and unlike Gibson, his work required no foresight of the future because he just had to look around existing geek culture to get his ideas -- online communities and multi-user dungeons already existed by 1992.
>> "You're absolutely correct, but I really wish we could get away from this idea that anything on the Internet can be private."

I don't think that's possible. It's too integral. Think about communications you make that are intended to be private between you and the person receiving it (your doctor, the government). No matter how important the communication I think in 10-20 years there will be no option to snail mail that. Snail mail could be 'hacked' much easier but there are laws in place to prosecute people for violating that expected privacy. The same thing should happen with communications online. Of course this all depends on your views on privacy. I believe privacy is a essential right, one which we must defend or there will be severe consequences. It's very difficult to do that online but just saying 'anything you post online should be considered public' erodes privacy rights massively as it is such an important communications mechanism.
You're right. Let's take a second to go over the issues:

1. The arbitrary code-execution in TZ has already been privately disclosed and fixed.

2. As for the second issue - I would argue that it's not an issue at all. TZ should be updated (otherwise how would they fix the TZ code-exec vulnerabilities?).

However, in this case gaining code execution in the TZ kernel directly leads to the disclosure of the keys which are meant to bind the KDF to your device. This is in direct contract with Apple's KDF. The key here is that software shouldn't be trusted, by design.

3. As for the last issue, I would argue that this is just a clever form of social-engineering. After all, who's to say they didn't just swap the phone with a dummy phone to make you insert the correct password?

However, in Android's case, you wouldn't even need to cooperate. OEMs could simply flash the new TZ code, extract the KeyMaster keys, and bruteforce the key. All without having any help from you.
I am not a neuroscientist, but believe the following to be mainly noncontroversial:

When you speak to another person, there is a neural activation pattern distributed over space and time which encodes, somehow, a sentiment to be expressed. There is also a multistage neural structure (L) that converts that pattern into another, more sequential pattern that drives motor neurons to articulate a series of phonemes.

Sometimes an activation pattern will drive this sort of conversion to yield a serial, phonetic activation pattern, but activity elsewhere in the brain that interferes with the final stage of structure L to prevent the actual articulation from happening. You could call this "covert speech".

You probably perform covert speech at least occasionally. If you stub your toe, you may have the sense that you have just sworn/cursed, even if there was no utterance. (This might be because the processing in earlier stages of L leads to a brain state encoding an expectation of hearing the utterance, but this is getting a bit speculative.) I'll call this sort experience "hearing your own covert speech".

It may be the case that certain types of cognition, like multistep logical deduction, are performed by use of L. This is a small minority of human mental activity, but it is probably the mental activity that we are most aware of performing.

If people go through the day being totally unaware of most of their cognitive activity, but "hear" their own covert logical reasoning whenever they do it, I can see how they would form the impression that they "think in English".
You are probably looking for http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=847...
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The section on extracting the key mentions the "Widevine DRM application" and "privilege escalation from QSEE"

Could the problem be fixed if the manufacturer used TrustZone exclusively for store key/encrypt/decrypt operations, eliminating the support for DRM and Trustlets?
if I'm not excited/motivated by it; yes. if I am excited about it, I'll dive in and only get distracted by the sun coming up having forgotten to sleep.
Utterly missing the point, goodbye.
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I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting. The universe and the science that describe it are the same thing. Much as I am the same thing as the chemicals and reactions that describe me. However, our understanding of the science may be flawed, and perhaps that's what you're really meaning to say.
I don't think they are comparable at all, their pricing model is very archaic compared to Twilio.
Ill add to that this: Lifetime Conversation Guide by Van Fleet. Crammed with many times more techniques plus examples of using them in various situations. Also illustrates personal goals and benefits each helps with before the technique so you can prioritize the reading. Motivation, too, of course. Probably a few bucks used by now.
Neat, but I always went for function over flash. Which is why I use the excellent Unicomp keyboards.

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They're (relatively) cheap, virtually indestructable, and as good as a gaming keyboard, if not better, and much less flashy. I would say they're the best keyboard on the market right now.

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"Poor" Spain.
It is one thing to be passionate about your work, and another thing trying to rescue the world (or your company, or your product). Your analogy with traffic is actually a perfect example: you want to change the whole traffic (when, where, and how all other people drive) instead of focusing on how well you drive in the given environment. You are not the mayor of the city, and even he can't do much about the traffic.

You will become much happier in your work if you simply report blockages to the responsible persons (usually to your boss, sometimes to others), but don't worry about that anymore. Instead, view it as opportunity to do things you wouldn't have had time for if everybody around reacted instantly. Every motivated person finds ways to improve the product he or she works on which is in their direct reach. Pursue these opportunities when you are blocked. You can even use the time to learn something new that you can apply to your work in the future. The main thing is the perspective switch: blockage might be wasted time for your employer, but for you it is actually a gift that frees you from your regular duties for a while.

Of course, if it becomes impossible to perform useful work because of the surrounding environment, leave and find another job.
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A box from Jameco with a few Z80 chips, some SRAM and some EEPROMS showed up on my doorstep yesterday morning. Yep, I'm going to take a stab at doing a homebrew Z80 based machine. :-)

Assuming I get something useful built, I guess I'll try to get CP/M up and running on it (it's that or try writing my own OS, I suppose), so this may be very useful.

I know what you're thinking... "why, for the love of FSM, would you build an 8-bit microcomputer today?" In my case, it's partly for fun, and largely for educational purposes. I've been a software guy my whole career, and while I've dabbled with some hobby electronics stuff, I never really learned a lot about the low level computer architecture stuff, and the hardware aspects. So I want the understanding that comes from literally building a machine from IC's. I want to understand more about how the data bus works, how I/O works, the timer for the CPU, interrupts at the hardware level etc.

And interestingly enough... I've done some searching and have found some cool projects where people have built Z80 machines and added things like USB support, PS/2 keyboard support, SD card interfaces, etc. Not bad for a CPU that's 30 some odd years out of date.
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People trading marriage proposals doesn't seem that salacious, unless Vice is just picking uninteresting samples.
Incidentally, the response of somebody with ADD to Adderall is completely different compared to response of a normal person to amphetamines. It is more like "relaxed concentration" than stimulation.

Therapeutic dose of Adderall is way smaller than "recreational" doses of amphetamine. It has to be carefully calibrated by therapist. Higher doses will lead to headaches and, paradoxically, tiredness and drowsiness — not stimulation.
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IMO Google is so rich and so profitable that it could afford to pay all taxes due in all countries fairly, without any "optimization", while staying profitable and not undermining any R&D program or long-term project.
They do exist. Abundantly.
YEEZ. If one can't be bothered rewriting the title from a site that fails to use CSS to make an article title all upper case, view source and copy it from the page title element.
If hard drive is encrypted (and like most companies like Google, almost certain they would be), then you wouldn't be able to get much unless you someone got them to disable screensavers/computer sleep and keep the machines on for awhile
I regularly contact humans at Google for support for my clients. Telephone rings, human operator picks up ... of course my clients are paying for their Google services, so if you're relying on the free version this doesn't (and shouldn't) apply.
>Not sure why you're being downvoted.

HN is pretty intolerant of anything that isn't the far left, which is a bit ironic for what's supposed to be an entrepreneurial forum. This change seemed to happen a year or two ago. I suspect HN has been fully "redditized" now with college identity politics being the prominent narrative. The drive-by downvotes are just a symptom of that.
They could always use a platform that is pay-per-action, so that you aren't paying unless people actually buy things.

(I work on the ad systems team of an affiliate marketing company, where essentially all advertisement contracts are done on a PPA basis, rather than PPC)
I'm the guy who consider finance a waste of math and physics grads. Now I'm reading this and thinking "what an idiot. He thinks its crucial to society to make best use of MBAs". Then I realize I'm making a similar judgement about math and physics. Is society objectively better off if we do more math and physics? Hard to say yes. I'm biased as he is.

Even so, assuming Harvard MBAs are a valuable national resource cracks me up. I've dealt with a few
In a software environment as regulated as controlled as iOS this isn't caps lock worthy.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby while coding (or relaxing after work)
> Properly measuring things can be hard.

I think, if nothing else, this is the take-away from the entire EM-drive analysis. I like it because it applies to many things, including software.
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As a Google shareholder, I'm quite happy that they optimize everything within the bounds of the law.
'Explained' may be a bit of an overstatement for that page. 'Acknowledged and provided timestamps' is more like it.

EDIT: Although it does look like they will update it with more information soon.
Thank you all for the answers (below). Now it makes more sense to me.
> Since the security of Android depends on hardware and OEM software not under Google's control, depending on FDE is apparently pointless.

For 99% of the users, this is complete nonsense. Why do we encrypt the phone? Are we afraid of the NSA or whatever agency cracking our phones? No! The reason most of us encrypt the phone is to prevent others from posting our pictures or reading our mail.

When somebody else finds my phone, or steals it, the four digit PIN is enough protection. Then again, I don't use a four digit PIN, but something longer, and from six or up it's really strong enough for manual unlocking.

People who have the means to read contents from the memory chips, they probably have the means to use other measures to get what they want.
"Delusions of grandeur" come to mind:

At some point in the course of that year, my younger son and his classmates wrote poems about their parents, immortalizing their most salient aspects and traits, and in my son’s poem I am depicted, arrested for an instant in the midst of the eternity it must have seemed to him, “reading Finnegans Wake.” If in his poem he erected a kind of statue to his father, then Finnegans Wake was the pigeon that had come to roost on my hat.

“What’s it about?” the same boy asked me, not long after the omnipresent bird had first alighted on the paternal tricorne.

p.s. I didn't look at the article's author until I finished it, and I cannot believe he is the writer of something as good as "Kavalier & Clay"... Maybe Chabon wrote in an obnoxious way to mirror the obnoxiousness of FW.
I used it 2 years ago, in its early days. The selection was great and I was able to buy some great pieces at very good prices including free delivery. But after a while it was just large numbers of office furniture or ikea pieces.

Anyway, I'll probably keep what I've bought for many years. Thanks again for subsidizing me, VCs!
Well my etch-a-sketch is 56 years old and it hasn't suffered from ANY malware ever. It's also more useful to me than the last iPhone I tried out for a few months.
First of all, let me explain what I mean when I say the word "intelligence". ...I'm talking about increasing your fluid intelligence, or your capacity to learn new information, retain it, then use that new knowledge as a foundation to solve the next problem, or learn the next new skill, and so on.

And when you define intelligence this way, it turns out that the best way to increase your intelligence is to practice learning new things.

But what if you defined intelligence as depth of insight instead? It would seem that were one to define it that way, dropping new skills as soon as the novelty wears off would be counterproductive.
> the primary purpose of your headlight is there to help you see where you're going.

Sorry. Didn't see you.
I would hope Vice is being prudent in their examples. It'd potentially be hazardous to expose people's privacy even more.
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Its also a law problem, so I would have expected Apple to have solved it first.
Humans have a knack for selfishness and war, it's more likely there will be much needless suffering and death along any path to an eventual solution to those problems, which will likely be a solution that most suffer under.
THAT'S BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO KEEP THEIR DATA SAFE. GET IT?!?
> LED glow or area lights are probably more effective

Based on what?
The github repo: https://github.com/aaparella/carve
Sounds like you're gonna have some huge fun time :) Same here, software developer turned hardware tinkerer.
A previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10196305
I hope that too. But I don't think it's very likely. I guess we'll find out via the coming experiments.
I AM SURE THIS IS JUST A CLICKBAITY ARTICLE TO GET THE FOAMY MOUTHED FANCHILDREN FROM THE iOS AND Android CAMPS TO CLICK ON IT.
4G is fast enough for me right now. My problem is the ridiculous pricing of wireless data. In ideal circumstances, I can hit nearly 75mb/s over LTE... but that just means that I could burn up my entire 3GB allotment in under 6 minutes. At $15 for the next 3 gigs, my marginal cost is nearly $1/minute for full-speed 4G data.
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Pretty neat, but no need to yell about it.
why the shouting :(
Actually I read somewhere that it differs by country. I think the UK is legal by default unless the law specifically makes it illegal. While in Germany its illegal by default unless it is specifically made legal. (I am no expert, it was probably a comment I read on here).
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>usually

That word is the sad qualifier to this statement. There are plenty of instances of this happening in popular areas, even outside a well protected courthouse in Pakistan's second largest city by the person's own family: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pregnant-pakistani-womans-public...
> The only solution to this problem if you do have corporate income tax is to establish how much profits Uber actually made in each country, and have the profits taxed correspondingly.

The problem is that's not how profit works. There is no "in each country" to calculate. They paid $15B to employees in 20 countries and then made $20B in revenue from 20 countries. There is then $5B of international profit, but how much of the profit belongs in each country is completely arbitrary. There is no objective reason that it should be where the software was developed vs. where the software is used vs. where the owner of the company lives etc.

The standard they try to use for these things is what would be negotiated in arms length transactions, i.e. as if each of the subsidiaries had separate ownership. So one entity pays $1000 to develop software, another can make $1200 in revenue if they buy the software, what price do they negotiate? It's ostensibly going to be something between $1000 and $1200, but whether it's $1020 or $1180 is down to the negotiating skill of the parties. Both numbers are completely reasonable and might be seen in actual transactions. But the difference determines where 90% of the total profits go! It's clearly then going to be quite plausible to arrange for the profits to end up where you want them, which is what happens.
For this to work they only need one little chip that can do what the secure enclave does. They can then require that chip in Android phones. That's a lot cheaper and easier. Then they need to control the manufacturing of this chip, not outsource it to China.
Of course premarital sex happens, but I think it's one of those things that people know happen and allow to happen so long as it's not flaunted.

The jump may be an expression of concern for the people who could be negatively affected by the disclosure of their activities.
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At the risk of making a tenuous (and inflammatory) connection, I'm struck by the difference in tone between this and the Ashley Madison leak.

Here, there's sentiments of "how terrible", "leaked users might have severe consequences", and "this ruins the privacy where people get away from repressive social mores".

Ashley Madison, by comparison, was met with sentiments of "good!", "glad we're outing adulters", and "these people are getting what's coming to them".

Yes, I know AM was explicitly based on having an affair, where this dataset might just include people who are committing adultery (with varying cultural definitions of "adultery"). But other than impressing our own values on the situation (e.g., "cheating on your wife" = bad; "premarital relations" = ok), how do you explain the difference?