skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with point and shoot cameras is their lack of interaction with phones.

This may not be an issue today, but for the last few years people ask me what cool camera to get that's under £250. I ask them what they want to do -- mostly portrait shots and kids action shots indoors (play areas for toddlers), and most importantly just click a button to transfer the photos onto the phone for facebook. There isn't a camera that will do all that any better than an iPhone camera. Sure a DSLR will take a nicer photo, but dragging that massive £2K weight around for a 10% better photo. Or for most people they can't even see the difference. I love me a bit of bokeh, but for 99% of people, they simply don't care.
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> Nobody has completely nailed the UX for long-term long-form conversations, but services like Signal are designed with those kinds of conversations in mind.

No, they're actually not designed with any kind of "long termness" in mind! Case in point - one cannot move to a new device and still have access to conversations that happened on the older device with Signal. All old conversations just have to die with the old device, and the new device starts as if Signal was installed for the very first time - including starting conversations with people, getting into groups, etc. Backing up the old device and restoring that into the new one wouldn't help for this. There is no message migration feature available (separately) when one changes devices, and what's worse, in my limited observation, the Signal team just closes feature requests and issues filed on this front on Github. The ugliest part is that this is not even explained when someone installs the app or activates Signal on a new device.

So Signal is good only for ephemeral messaging where one doesn't care about past messages and their availability. Wire has the exact same problem too. One might as well treat apps like Signal and Wire like voice call apps rather than as text/photo messaging apps.

It seems like these apps make some naïve assumptions about the target user either not changing devices for many years (self-defeating in a way with smartphones, where security updates stop after 4-5 years, maximum) and/or not caring about having access to older messages whenever the users gets a new device.
I think tptacek thinks in a way where he's giving you charity in an uneven discussion, so he's not obligated to go further; perhaps harsh, but his reputation warrants a little pause before simply saying "bullshit".
I would not recommend SAF anymore. The reason is that their (effectively) lobbying wing, CCRKBA, had also endorsed Sessions, using even stronger wording than NRA.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ccrkba-urges-members...

"Instead of promoting or defending schemes that impact law-abiding Americans, his track record shows that he will go after genuine criminals."

Note that the man who said this is Alan Gottlieb, who's also effectively the head of SAF.
I'm speaking in practical terms here. I haven't read the actual order, but I understand the language of the order may technically require him to do the work necessary to render his drives in a decrypted state. That's because they expect the only requirement to be entering the key.

If he had a password hidden on Mt. Everest and demonstrated that to the court's satisfaction, and then cooperated with the court's order to reasonably assist in decryption (e.g., allowing the court access to the sherpa that routinely retrieves this key and enters it to decrypt his disks via some remote mechanism), I assume he would be considered compliant.
Emogi | Infrastructure Engineer | New York City (NYC) | Full Time

We’re a consumer-first data and content company that helps people find and share innovative and useful content in their messaging experiences. Our products, the Emogi Conversation Graph and Emogi Content Studio, let messaging apps build deeper engagement with their users, and brands connect with audiences.

I'm looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help scale infrastructure and mature our release management - a hybrid role that's part Tech Ops, part DevOps, part QA automation. It's perfect for someone who wants to grow their skillset in new disciplines.

You can expect to:

* Build, Provision, and Operate Infrastructure. Use Chef and AWS OpsWorks to manage configurations. We may evolve into a hybrid cloud.

* Own deployment workflows. Build workflows from the time the source code is written 'till it is delivered. We use Jenkins CI and AWS CodeDeploy

* Branch & release management. Manage our release process so that we get the right bug-fixes and features deployed.

We value:

* Speed to market Security, monitoring, and CI/CD deployment are key so we can ship product faster.

* Team orientation. We believe that if you want to go fast, you go alone, but if you want to go far, you go with a team.

* Intellectual curiosity. Innovation doesn't happen without curiosity. We think abstractly and reinvent continuously. You should too.

We’re open background and experience but experience with the following buzzwords are ideal -

* AWS Service Soup - EC2, S3, CloudFront, ELB, VPC, etc;

* ElasticSearch/Solr;

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Sounds interesting? I'd love to chat or buy you coffee if you’re in NYC. Email me (I'm the hiring mgr) - peter attt emogi.com. Sane interview process.
"Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost."

– Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator (1940)
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1. Employees don't vote for their CEO.
2. There is strength in numbers. Your message might not get through but if it's the same message as 1,000 others it will.

If you want change, cynicism like yours is crippling.
How else is it supposed to work? Other than selling your browsing habits to third parties so they can advertise to you.
Alternatively they could have named themselves "tautology"
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I wonder if companies will ever take a page from the public sector and offer crucial employees pensions based on staying on for a long time.
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You are taking what you personally consider to be a guarantee and applying it to mean what everyone else considers to be a guarantee.

Unless you physically inspect each and every device (since they could easily run multiple lots) your faith is in the fabrication of all of the ICs used in the design. Not to mention that the computer you stick these into suffers from the same problem. On the theoretical side, all of the math which this is based upon is probably taken by most people on a faith basis. There is a lot of faith to go around. It just depends where you draw the line.
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> What’s out there

> Grep

> Paid logging services

> Self hosted

> Our Solution: The ELK Stack

So, basically, what everybody else is doing. Nothing fancy.

Also, you may discover that grepping through the logs for processing them can
actually be faster than using Elasticsearch (and I haven't mentioned the speed
of storing them yet). I've seen this happen.
Here's my hands-on review with the new YubiKey 4C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13637771
This is what my wife bought last year to address this [1]. It doesn't detect breathing, but it goes off if there's no movement for 20 seconds (from breathing). It goes under the mattress and you calibrate it by draping a towel over the bed--it's that sensitive. It'll also act as a baby monitor (audio) and air temperature sensor. It is annoying when you pick up your child, you have to reach over to turn it off or the alarm will go off. We've never had it actually go off for stopped breathing, but we definitely sleep better.

[1] http://a.co/4pdu0nI
> repos being taken down via DMCA or Russia blocking GitHub until they started to cooperate with the censors

Is this not the case with other hosts? If Gitlab got a DMCA notice, would they not be forced to comply? I don't think this is a good argument against Github.
Facebook domains are the first thing I'd block.
No but that shot on the DL has to be AMAZING compared to the phone. Otherwise people will just use their phones... another bit of equipment to worry about, to figure out how to crop a photo and upload it to facebook. It's too much effort for most people.
Damnation, I was hankering for the DL 18–50. I'm an ultra-wide-angle addict, and that would have been an amazing "I'm packing really light for this trip" camera.

Thom Hogan, a longtime Nikon pundit, has good thoughts on how badly Nikon is handling this disruption. (I think smartphones are one of the best examples of Christensen disruption; they started out awful, are still relatively awful, but they are cheap, ubiquitous, and get the job done of getting photos of your cats and kids to Facebook instantly.)

http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/dl-turns-out-to-mean-dea...
If there weren't these rules about not killing pedestrians or ramming buildings I could make a robot car myself! Another small business smothered in the crib by government overreach.
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The pagination would be a lot more useful if every load wasn't random. I've seen the same sites multiple times across different pages.
I'm afraid I don't have a good (as in, satisfying) answer to this question. I do have a more broad answer, however:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13536435
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"Fake news, hoaxes, ..., etc." These issues are all symptomatic of people who FEEL increasingly left behind by society. While a small percentage of the population you allude to are probably not capable of separating truth from fiction, far more are fearful of a society shifting any further from what they grew up with. Specific to the US elections, they looked for someone like President Trump to act as a patriarchal figure who would tell them "everything is going to be okay". They WANTED and continue to want the message that they won't be left behind.

Moving yet further into a society of "machine-people" is not going to allay fears at all. To the contrary, it will push them further in the opposite direction.

Missing from the discussion of AI's integration into society is that people want to feel socially useful, part of the pack if you will. It gives them a connection to their society: the feeling that they have a place in it. Taking away their jobs and leaving them without this connection, I fear the consequences of that backlash.

Sorry to stray slightly from the topic, but these thoughts have been ruminating in my head for the past couple of years. While I think AI applied to specific problems will lead to advances in medicine, for example, that will be of great social benefit, I think we need to treat its use in society with kid gloves.
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The first thing I did was search for the title when I saw the price and this link was what I found.

I doubt that I'll ever get around to building one but now, I have the option.
What kind of features are included in government sponsored spyware vs the regular kind?
> Are you familiar with 4th generation war theories? If you're interested drop me a line at gmail and I'll direct you to some fascinating reading.

Would you mind sharing a bit here?
Pretty funny, thank you for sharing this practical information.
As usual it sounds like the story is more nuanced than the headline.

A more accurate phrasing might be
"One reason staffers quit google's car project? The company structured their pay so that an intermediate project milestone was treated like an IPO event."

It's not that the employees got rich so they no longer cared about money, it's that they basically got their maximum bonus from Google, so they were better off taking their talents elsewhere to get the next big payout.

Given that their CFO discussed these payouts on the earnings call of a company with $6.6 billion in operating expenses, it sounds like these were entering the $100million range. Makes sense given that Google was trying to recruit and motivate people to work on startup projects, while overall Google market cap wasn't going to grow exponentially the way that a 2011 facebook or uber might. It probably wasn't a bad idea, they just executed in a way that only incentivized employees to get partway done.
Pretty sure the author means that NSO Group's primary customers are government agencies.

That said it's still more of a buzzword than a qualification.
Where have I said anything of the sort? For all the accusations of hyperbole you're throwing around, you sure do seem to be more inclined to answer the points I haven't made than to answer those I have.
I've been writing PHP for over 10 years.

1) PHP is slow, uses too much memory. (I wrote the MicroMVC framework and IOSQL)

2) Makes concurrent (and especially parallel) computing hard (file locking and pcntl_fork())

3) PHP isn't well though-out (like Javascript) so you are always second-guessing the std lib because of odd/short-sighted design choices.

I moved to Go and lost nothing.

However, PHP is (like Javascript) improving and will probably eventually (like Javascript) get parallel computing right.

Where the users are the features are. That is why PHP, Java, and Javascript aren't going anywhere fast.
You should be using Signal on a phone if you're trying to use a secure messenger.

I am not trying to use a secure messenger. I am trying to use a good one without ratting on my friends to the worst (as in size x badness) company I am aware of. Ohh, and I don't want to be be part of their network effect either.)
> EFF has criticized WhatsApp for being closed source, but not for this particular aspect of the key exchange functionality.

The articles I've seen appeared carefully worded so as to achieve some balance, but did express some criticism and concern.

"Nevertheless, this is certainly a vulnerability of WhatsApp, and they should give users the choice to opt into more restrictive Signal-like defaults." from:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/google-launches-key-tr...

Key change notification concerns paragraph from:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/10/where-whatsapp-went-wr...
Wouldn't it make sense to share this over https though?
"Action cameras- Not sure why this is a category"

Plenty of us have need for cameras mounted to ourselves so our hands can remain free for work, such as sitting inside of a highly dangerous mine while trying to extract 20+ pound chunks of fluorite and capture the awesomeness of pulling the mineral right out of the ground after millions of years of formation.
Ask HN: How to avoid 16 months in jail for not providing a password?
I read the article about a man who is jailed for more than 16 months for not providing his password. I wonder if this could be avoided if you can prove you do not have the password anymore.

1.) Do you know about a service which permanently destroys passwords if the account which stores those passwords has not been accessed for more than X days? (for example: a self destructing LastPass)
2.) Would it be sufficient to use such a service to proof you do not have the password anymore?
3.) How could you prove a data carrier was encrypted with such a service and the master password is permanently destroyed?

I truly believe data carriers containing personal beloningings are extensions of our mind. It is a poor man's implementation of the Black Mirror episode 'The Entire History of You'. The data carrier is not intertwined with our minds yet, but this is just a matter of time.

Being able to restrict access to your mind is very important to me.

If you have any ideas how to protect data in such a way access to the password gets destroyed, I'd love to hear it!
Might be worth explaining the steps in writing if you're able to do so.
Sorry about that. Someone seems to have put it on GitHub with some fixes:

https://github.com/makefu/tiddly_store

https://github.com/makefu/tw-upload-plugin
These taxes often include taxes on sugar-free versions too.
I encourage friends and family to install ad blockers. I've been asked numerous times over the years to look at a computer that has either died or just isn't working well anymore. I always offer to install an adblocker after the actual problem is addressed and about everyone leaves with an adblocker.

Its not technically difficult at all. It takes a few clicks to install and one click to disable on the minority of sites that don't work with ad blockers.

I highly doubt I'm entirely atypical.
Right, however.. Most of those high-end cameras have Wifi on the device that can transfer to the phone. I would still argue that they're for different use cases.
I don't think Verizon specifically agreed to it. It is just that "change of control" severance was already committed to employees in a way that a buyer couldn't undo it.

Like this:
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Yahoo!_(YHOO)/Change_Control_...
I didn't get the "table" joke, what is it about?
> This article is written in a way that suggests engineers should be paid less so that they remain loyal...you know, like slaves.

Isn't that the argument behind Daniel Pink's book?
Although, it is not a security vulnerability to leave it permanently plugged in.
If the idea is to reduce verbosity, I'd much prefer CSON. YAML just has way too much "magic" parsing behavior.
"There isn't a camera that will do all that any better than an iPhone camera."

Kodak had EasyShare which did exactly as you described if you had the Wi-Fi SD adapter.
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Per RFC 5321 (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), e-mail addresses are ASCII-only.

Per RFC 6531 (SMTP Extension for Internationalized Email), this is not a valid address either.
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I've probably posted this a dozen times, but Dustin Kirkland (the Linux encryptfs maintainer) so eloquently put it that fingerprints (and all biometrics) make wonderful usernames, and horrible passwords:

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...
I don't think it was the engineers getting paid huge bonuses, but the project executives.
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At the time, Turkey (Which shared a border with the USSR) had US missile bases, full of nuclear missiles pointed at Moscow. [0] When the situation was equalized, the US lost its mind.

Meanwhile, in the present, 21st century, the US is busy building a missile defense shield in Poland. [1] (While claiming that it is built to defend against, of all places, Iran. [2] Seriously?) It is intended to neuter Russian nuclear capability... Meanwhile, Minutemen ICBMs continue to be able to strike Russia.

I ask again - how would the US react if China, or Russia started building army bases, and anti-ICBM installations in Canada, Mexico, and Cuba? How would the American empire respond to a political incursion into its buffer states?

[0] http://www.ww.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defens...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_missile_defense_...
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Why would it be relevant, then, for a programmer to know that?
Is there a point to the paragraph about the calf, squirrel, lizard, trees etc.?
Jack Barsky was interviewed for the behind-the-scenes podcast for The Americans. I think he might work as a consultant for the show, but I'm not sure.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/03/24/a_former_kgb_...
yes...i think the parent is referring to humans, not aliens.
...assuming that you are being asked to create it. If you want to deliver to another server, keep the left-hand-side exactly the way it is.
There is some obvious "activism" behind such list, mixing valid technical specifications, politics, opinions and gender theory. But I guess it is a political correctness guide for people who believe in a specific political line, also a way to shame publicly those who do not by using that list as an argument of authority.
Thanks very much for the links, and for the substantive comment! I look forward to reviewing them at my earliest opportunity.
To be fair, I've been using a Panasonic DMC-GM1 with a 14mm pancake for a few years and I don't really see how the DL would have improved on that... A bit more speed, but then again the GM1 is not even on sale anymore and Nikon failed entirely to release their take on the ultralight 4/3 equivalent...

Years too late!
S/MIME works fine. Key management isn't a big of deal as many make it out to be. You can pin your key to your linkedin profile or facebook or whatever. Or have a one-time plain-text email asking "Hey, whats your public key?" Right-click, import. Call them on the phone if youre worried that one email was fake.

The problem with HN is that its mostly web-dev startup scene and college students. They've never worked in a company that took security seriously. S/MIME implementations are everywhere in these types of companies and work fine.

If you wanted encrypted email right now you could have it trivially. The problem is that most people don't value it yet. Considering all the hacks and leaks we're seeing, I suspect encrypted email is going to be part of HIPAA or PCI in the next ten years. It makes no sense to use plaintext email in a business setting.
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NSO says it sells only to governments and law enforcement. This includes by definition a lot of unsophisticated actors.
One of my favorite assignments in high school (2007) was after reading 1984 and Brave New World. The teacher of our Dystopian Literature class prompted us to elaborate on who we thought was right overall, Huxley or Orwell.

It was a sobering exercise realizing that there's a fair amount of Orwellian and Huxleyan prophecies in our modern world, but we tend to focus more on the 'scarier' Orwellian ideas.
https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-be...
Ever heard of Nicaragua and Iran Contra?

Even if it can be largely attributed the Bush Sr, Reagan was still President and ultimately responsible.

The strikers banned for life?
THIS.
Everything that you have said here, I completely believe in that too. If one observes the world and tries to find a pattern in it, the findings will align with this theory. Would you please share in which teachings exactly did you read about this. I mean specifically about the one where they state that God is the universe itself and not a person who is different from it. Was it the Upanishads? Is there some specific book or source ? Thanks for your input.
> no offense to Bakersfield buts it's hardly a holiday destination

No, it's not. I was born in and grew up there, and I'm glad I left (though as a kid, I thought it was a nice place to live).

But it (and Fresno, and the CV in general) does have something that the coast and SF/LA doesn't have: Low-cost housing/property.

Imagine being able to live in Bako, Fresno, etc - and commute quickly to SF or LA. By high-speed rail, it'd probably only take an hour or two each way. Provided that it didn't cost a lot (or you could get monthly 2-way passes), it would be a great way for those who want to work in SV or such to do so, and be able to afford to live comfortably in a home with a family.

In fact, the idea is interesting enough to me to consider moving back to California (I'd love a tech job in the SF area, but the cost of living - mainly housing - just blows that idea out of the water).