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I suspect that the intelligence apparatus is so influential across the administration that it's very hard for the President to rein it in.

Obama has had to make compromises on which issues he's going to push for. The disappointingly slow progress on Guantánamo Bay was an example of this... And that's a single prison camp with a relative handful of people in it. Digital surveillance is an out-of-control monster that all branches of intelligence just want to have more of, as evidenced by this latest decision on data sharing.
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I agree fully; I still buy LPs on occasion as I enjoy listening to them more - the whole ritual of getting ready for playback, the large cover you can enjoy while listening..

While not perfect, it is plenty good enough - and, my personal take is that I do not buy <insert media here> to have a perfect reproduction of whatever was created in a studio - I buy <insert media here> to enjoy myself. LPs are brilliant for that purpose.
Next step: Thought Police
I had a conversation about whatsapp capabilities recently with an assistant state AG. This person debunked the notion that whatsapp is secure from government snooping and further intoned that you don't even need a FISA court to provide a warrant to get to the target's information. Any judge can issue the warrant for a line tap and the target would never be the wiser as they are sealed in secrecy.
What is the name of the hashing algorithm broken down in the article?
I wonder what % of Apple employees hare secrecy culture and want to see it die versus the % who were hired due to a compatible attitude towards it and thrive in that kind of culture.

I'm very interested in things that make a massive ship very hard to turn. If they wanted a drastic culture shift, would they have to replace a lot of managers and leaders?
And that Cloudfront appears to hate and block those using VPN services.
The article reads like there are no noteworthy alternatives to those two. But in my experience, at least HERE Maps and Bing Maps are quite up to par. Especially HERE is quite strong when it comes to navigation.
its not :)

from what I understand intelligence agencies in some other countries work in this fashion: one agency does the "data gathering" and provides other agencies with information upon request. in theory, this means fewer agencies snooping in your private life and that there is some sort of gate keeper that limits circulation of data based on need-to-know.

so back to my not sarcastic questions: is this a good or bad thing?
Dynamic range? Post-mastering, vinyl has a larger dynamic range than any cd. Most cds have no more than 6db real dynamic range. Frequency response? How many people own speakers that can go below 70hz, or can hear about 15khz? (Midrange is where it's at) Noise floor? Ok, I can give cd that one. Channel separation? A/B and you won't hear a difference.

Moreover, anyone arguing for "realism" and "accuracy" while blasting the sound of a 100 watt Marshall stack through tinny-sounding earbuds on a recording where an acoustic guitar is louder than the drum kit and the keyboards sound like they were recorded in the Grand Canyon is really, really missing the point.
Building developer platforms is fun and exciting. Especially for the developers creating it, knowing that they are building a rockstar application for people just like them. Getting adoption and conversion to paying customers is so freaking hard and ultimately the end of the road.

I went down this road once (http://www.odatahq.com/) and loved every minute of it. I still look at what we made and find true joy in it. But the end game was typical of most developer platforms ...
It is a very fair comparison actually, with similar compatibility pains in the past due to both differing interpretation of the standard and plain non-compliance. Things are getting much better lately.
An option: Stop immigration from places that are prone to terrorist attacks happening and then you won't have to give up nearly as much privacy in the name of fighting terror at home.
That should have been obvious to you before the 2012 election. But okay.
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Um, yes? 2.5 hours is terrible. Besides a daily commute, many flights are more than 1 hour. Also, it'd be nice to not have my device die immediately if I forgot to charge it three times a day.
Nope, real-world solutions to monitor air ducts and other spaces that need to be open but which shouldn't have people in them.
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Right up until you hit the 10,000 song limit, which took me all of a couple months to reach. It's not a service built for music enthusiasts.
>It worked pretty well in the 2000-2009 period when you could just buy a WWDC ticket like any other conference pass...

It may have worked well for those who are happy to replace continued, in-depth, online discussion with travelling half way around the world to exchange a few words with someone after paying a ton of money for it.
Well unless proven otherwise I'd just assume it wasn't meant to be particularly political/strategic and leave it at that.

The only potential "anti-Trump move" angle I can see is it directly empowers the intelligence community only. So if Obama is counting on a continued strained relationship between the Trump administration and the intelligence community insiders then this could be it. But I wouldn't personally believe it to be too likely.
> Not everyone should vote. If your views are substantially outside the mainstream there is no point in voting.

That's funny. Reminded me of this: https://twitter.com/sinderbrand/status/819315489021325312
> I would jump on this if I had more time to game.

I'm getting it as I hope having a portable console will give me more time to game. It'll fit in my suitcase and plug into nearly all hotel TVs. That is pretty awesome.
The majority of leaks are by Apple themselves. The same goes for other smartphone brands.
Did you mean for this to be somewhere else?
Its available from the AUR but idk about others.
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Business tends to be cyclic. Tech has been in a big upswing since the early 2000s.
If anything vinyl has more of a problem with dynamic range. Most LPs are cut with a variable width groove, ie. the grooves are actually cut closer together during softer sections so that more music can be cut on the disc. As long as the groove doesn't pop out (as would happen with a large stereo separation in the low frequency content) or physically meet the other groove then not popping out is just a matter of correctly weighting your cartridge (more weight wears the record out faster, though. So having no dynamic range would actually make it easier to cut and ensure that this doesn't happen.
> However—and this is especially troubling—“if analysts stumble across evidence that an American has committed any crime, they will send it to the Justice Department,” the Times wrote. So information that was collected without a warrant—or indeed any involvement by a court at all—for foreign intelligence purposes with little to no privacy protections, can be accessed raw and unfiltered by domestic law enforcement agencies to prosecute Americans with no involvement in threats to national security.

Sweet, Thanks Obama.
Not only that, this seems like a deviation from Consumer reports' normal policy of testing the end-user experience. If an ordinary end-user ran into an edge case which caused the battery life to plummet beyond the advertised level, as a number seem to have, Apple wouldn't rush to find and fix the issue. They're effectively retesting with a special fix aimed at their test process, and there are so many ways this could be rigged (for example, by throttling performance during the test).
Just use the design of the old G5 Tower, but a bit smaller! And in Silver, Space Grey, and Jet Black.
There's a lot more to mastering than "sent through the last loudness war compressor", for cd as well as vinyl. Not a guess - I've sat in the room with a mastering engineer while working and talked to him about it.
Also note that being paid out for earned PTO is as state-specific thing. A fair number of states do not require this.
I'd go further and say Moxie is complicit by way of negligence. It's unethical to assist in the implementation of your protocol when you can't guarantee its privacy protections will actually stand. Otherwise it's free PR for Facebook to tout "Snowden-approved crypto".

I have no doubt Moxie acted in good faith and wanted to expand encryption to a large number of users, but this is just another example of why proprietary software cannot be trusted.

Any and all proprietary implementations of the Signal protocol are now suspect. OWS should denounce these implementations as least as firmly as they do interoperable open source Signal client forks.
Secrecy has always been an advantage. If he doesn't like this, of course, he should leave. Nothing wrong with the two things.
agreed - there is a kind of socially enforced apathy here as well as a separation of 'us' and 'them' when it comes to politicians and government - we let them get away with murder and never hold them accountable because raising a ruckus and making a big deal out of a thorny problem that requires a nuanced solution is seen as a sort of intellectualism. and your average Australian fucking hates an upstart know-it-all wanker.
Err, if you follow through, it's a movie, not a game. The cheapest console+game on the top link is 230, and most are 250. These are also the previous generation of the PS4.
What was “the product”? They got a ton of attention initially but it really felt like that was squandered by the poorly defined message about what you were paying for — especially when many proponents reacted to early “it's like Twitter but open” stories by saying they were wrong and it was something else entirely, possibly only for developers.

The primary memory which I have of that era are people not wanting to pay for something which wasn't clearly useful, shrugging, and going back to Twitter where most other people were. By the time app.net finally launched the free tier the self-inflicted damage was already fatal.
Yeah, sharing a link to a book or an album doesn't exactly have the same heft as handing or shipping a physical copy to someone. I think it's good to prefer physical (when possible) with stuff that's more personally important.
There were many people pointing out the dangers of consolidating so much power into the Presidency over the last few years but most of them were told to shut up with their paranoia conspiracies and racist rhetoric.
The 9/11 hijackers were mostly on tourist visas from a place with almost no history of terror attacks: http://www.fairus.org/issue/identity-and-immigration-status-...

And of course most deaths from terrorism in the US are from "mass shooters", who tend to be self-radicalised US nationals with fringe political beliefs.
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What do you actually listen to? Do you listen to a lot of rap? If so, that's likely to cause your discovery issue.
I comment a lot on machine learning but I don't actually work in the field actively. I did some research in college.

There aren't many active researchers/experts commenting on HN (better things to do), which is IMO a big issue with the ML-related discussion quality on HN (it's basically 90% futurism/speculation).
Really super stuff. I like that you're building a workflow from Blender to the Browser like this. Also that it's threeJS free.
they left out the Simpson's chess set.

https://www.amazon.com/Simpsons-Chess-Laminated-fold-up-play...

http://www.simpsonscollectors.com/releases.asp?id=36
When you can't control secrecy that much, you do exactly what they do - you submit multiple false leaks! And you are terribly not right that they do not surprise anyone. They do. The fact that you are technology guy that is somewhat informed doesn't change the fact that the ordinary user like my mother doesn't get surprised.
> StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.

Just in time for Fedora making Wayland the new default :)

Seriously though. Someone please make a good, working Wayland tiling WM.

Wayland is just super nice compared to X11 for enough tasks to justify using it.
It's CTRL-SHIFT-T on Windows but same idea.
> Heart experts said at-risk patients should be helped to manage stress.

Is there any high-quality evidence that "stress management" interventions actually lead to a medically significant reduction in biological stress? I see this sort of thing mentioned in passing in lots of places as a potential mitigation, but studies that actually examine its effectiveness seem to be in short supply, and what I can dig up quickly seems to be low-quality (underpowered, not randomized, not controlled).
Be careful. Especially if you have some money, it's really tempting to go "Wow, I have some time off for the first time in ages."

On the one hand, you may come back and land a job in two weeks and you might kick yourself for jumping right back in. However, just as possible--and it's easy to get a distorted view from sites like this--the process could take quite a few months. And, if that's the case, you might regret adding a month to the process, especially if events happen in the interim that make finding a job harder for whatever reason.

You absolutely can take some time off and work on projects, go hiking etc. For technical professionals, it's probably not that useful to make direct job hunting an 8 hr. per day task.However, there are advantages to making it a continuous process even if it's only part time. (Also, as someone else mentioned, there may be reasons to make it continuous because of unemployment benefits.)

If one is comfortable financially, I certainly wouldn't say you can't take off on a modest vacation. But it is a bit of a gamble.
"We kill people based on metadata"[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQiz0Vavmc
> If your views are substantially outside the mainstream there is no point in voting.

There's still a big reason to vote: pick the candidate with the least amount of problems that has a chance of winning. But I do agree that voting is usually too-little-too-late if you don't already have the majority of voters knowing about your cause.
This is great news. Except now, how do quell activity in the amygdala?
"All the parts about atonement for our sins is theological constructions to make Jesus match the prophecy."

No, I was just quoting from Isaiah there. That's Isaiah speaking many years before Jesus, describing and requiring the Christ to be a Suffering Servant.

Not many ancient historians would contest that Jesus was a historical person, or have any reason to question that he died the way he did. Nor would they contest the public life of John the Baptist or Pilate or Herod for that matter, or that the New Testament documents contain eye witness testimony, as well as incidental historical detail in the form of taken-for-granted shared understanding of historical events in the minds of those who were then alive and able to contest and examine the facts. Many of those who witnessed to Jesus suffered for their convictions, and faced tremendous pressure and incentive to quit.

"And you have to ignore or gloss over the parts that does not fit: 'He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth.'"

Have you read the remarkable account of Jesus before Pilate?

At the end of the day, you must decide for yourself.
What does my boss actually know about development?
It sounds fourth amendment activists need to learn from second amendment activists and develop a bloc of voters for whom this is a key issue.
I still use a pair of speakers from a stack like that. They're almost as old as I am and still sound great. Still have the EQ and dual tape deck with the soft open, too - I even still use the latter, to rip tapes of stuff you just don't easily find in any other medium.

I would've sold a kidney for a component minidisc recorder, back in the day. The ones you could plug a keyboard into, so you could title tracks without poking at tiny fiddly buttons on a pocket recorder for hours at a time? Oh, I'd sit staring at a catalog and dream.
> Optical media also means you aren't portable

Err, the PSP would disagree with you. So would a whole generation of portable CD players.

I agree that SD is a better choice, or even the current gen of DS carts, but optical is not necessarily a killer.
I wonder if it would be better if voting cost a small amount of money, say $50 (everyone can easily afford to save $50 once every two years). That would encourage those who choose to vote to research the issue (if they care enough to pay $50 they likely care about the choices).
What exactly are we going to be seeing with VR that we can't see on a regular monitor now?
You kinda have access to USB power on a flight. It should suffice I think.
Abstract at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AAS...22942405V
> You're implying that WhatsApp, Inc. gave the Egyptian government the ability to remotely retrigger this backdoor

It doesn't have to be THIS particular backdoor. "Why build one when you can build two at twice the price? Only, this [second] one can be kept secret."
How difficult is it not to issue an Executive Order 10 days before leaving the office?!
From a users point of view there is little difference between software that crashes because its garbage and software that crashes because it is in early stage of development but otherwise a good solution.

Lennart should write more robust software and maintainers should do more QA when doing this type of system-wide changes.
This is really a walk through of the SHA-1 algorithm.

It's also worthwhile to note that the statement that a hash takes a string and reduces it to a fixed length string is a little misleading. They really work at the binary level and this is seen in the example where the input is converted to binary assuming ASCII and the output hex encoded.
They could surprise your mother without the layers of secrecy, assuming you use as an example of someone who doesn't read tech blogs and finds out about products when they're advertised or discussed in broadsheets
Solar and wind power can be cheaper than coal (by spot price) in certain limited areas at certain times of the day. The problem is that solar and wind are incapable of providing reliable base load capacity. Once you add energy storage (batteries, molten salt, pumped hydroelectric, etc) to provide power when it's dark with no wind blowing the costs go way up.
If male and female identity would be identical, then neither would be male and female identity. It would be human identity, for which both women and men should equally be happy with.

If we treat women as men, we are also treating men as women. A major part of the equality feminism (the dominated faction within feminism until the start of the 21th century) had this as their primary concept. People gave kids either gender neutral colors, or switched them randomly and had both girls and boys wearing pink and blue clothes. However, this practice and theory of feminism was dethroned by difference feminism that believes that people are different, should be treated as different, but end up with equal results. This was then incorporated as part of the modern feminism practice, for which postmodern feminism (current minority faction) is rejecting which also happens to lean towards equality feminism style of practice.
The fact of the matter is - voting did work, for Republicans and the right wing.

This environment of abridged civil liberties, police militarization and increased surveillance is what many Americans wanted, post 9/11.

Donald Trump's election signals a successful vote for more of the same - although one that assumes, in ignorance, the commonly held belief that Obama as a Democrat weakened and undermined the surveillance state and that a corrective policy shift to the right is necessary.
It is just as easy to have the clients send a copy of all generated keys to a central server for storage, no need to bother with this re-transmission subterfuge at all.

What you are seeing is not some vast conspiracy, it is a compromise made by some back-end engineer to get a front-end product manager off their ass without anyone thinking through a better UI option.

"So if a user loses their phone you are telling me that all unread messages are lost forever?"

"Yes."

"That won't work. Users will complain, someone will have to deal with those complaints, this just won't work."

"Ok, maybe we just push the unread messages back to the sender's phone and automatically re-send when the recipient gets a new phone."

"Sure, that works. So, about this other problem..."

In retrospect, it is fairly obvious that the send needs some control over re-transmission, but if you have never been a situation like this it is only because no one uses your code.
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Like "Use of SHA 1 and 1024 bit DSA". Ouch.
Three.js stuff always impresses me, I've been learning blender for about a month now as a hobby. Thanks for another thing to put on my list to learn from.
The first listed issue is "Use of SHA 1 and 1024 bit DSA", which they admit are "considered weak by current security standards".

Not sure why the OP has been downvoted. Definitely something interesting to note.
>The new keyboard mechanism is a slight modification of the keyboard on the existing Macbooks. The touch bar is new, granted, but it's riddeled with bugs and the usability is low.

Usability might be low, but it's a whole new subsystem. It will have some bugs, that will be ironed out in future updates (and those are software bugs anyway).

>The new laptops are thinner, but the overall chassis design is the same and is getting very stale.

On the contrary, it's timeless. Even in 20 years, with 5 new redesigns in between then and now, they will still look good, like a 2000's era Powerbook or a metallic G5 still does 10+ years on.
It's working wonders for designers!
They are around at conferences. They just don't make a big deal out of it and generally don't appear on stage.
Ask HN: Are “Show HN” getting more and more sophesticated?
It maybe just me, but I have noticed that small and "unfinished/unpolished" projects are not getting as much traction as they used to a few years ago.

Is it becoming harder for small-libraries and unpolished projects to get traction in Show HN?
That game made me want to pull my hair out - the time limitations made it stressful, and I eventually just gave up.
A lot of those reports are just rumors and the opposite pans out.
You're absolutely right.

The moment they allowed free accounts was the start of the end. The spam and the noise came. All the things we were trying to avoid. But they just wanted beefier numbers to throw around.

I developed quite a few apps on the platform and made a few thousand in the process. It more than paid the fees back and was totally worth it.
Well this is kinda cool. I wouldn't use it (in its current state anyway), but it's cool. It seems like they're trying to turn a browser in to a type of desktop, kinda like Chrome OS I guess. My first impressions though are the left sidebar is incredibly unresponsive, and both the left and right sidebar need to be able to be hidden so the browser window isn't so small.
> They presented evidence suggesting that if Planet Nine is out there, it is likely a rogue.

But the evidence seems kind of sketchy. In their simulations, a rogue was only captured by the Sun 40% of the time. Thats' better than 4%, but still not great. (Or is that actually a really good result? I don't know.)

I wonder how long it would be before we could reasonably send a probe to explore a potential rogue. New Horizons managed a fly-by; how plausible would entering orbit around something that far away be with a reasonable time to get there?