skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His brother and family don't believe the conspiracy theories. If there was any evidence, I don't think they'd be scared to say so in such an emotional state.

Also in the police report, I believe his brother said he had been using DMT and he tested positive for what was likely Adderall. He was in a unique state to truly be paranoid and throwing psychedelics in the mix could cause one to try to cope in ways that challenge reality.

Of course, this also would be the perfect time to stage a murder and it's not improbable that someone did discuss killing him. Also DMT only last 5-10 minutes, he certainly wasn't driving while doing it and if anything, it can give you a sense of peace and acceptance to the craziness of life.
Sontaran and weeping angel? Well somebody go get The Doctor.
Translation: "Why did Trump win the election even though he and his policies are obviously nuts?"

Seriously, not trying to inject politics or my opinion on Trump, but there do seem to be a lot of these "why do people make act so crazy" articles lately. I too am trying to make sense of it all and failing.
Give one example of a war where both sides had a justifiable and morally good reason.
And even better, he's the damn president - he can pardon whoever he wants for whatever he wants.
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I like the march-in rights idea. It sounds similar to eminent domain. If eminent domain can be used to expropriate private property for public use, it seems like there could be something similar for intellectual property.
I agree with your overall point but

> If it's safe enough for Western Europe, it's probably safe enough for Americans.

Tell that to all the thalidomide kids in Europe. That's probably the best example of where the FDA saved a lot of lives.
Agreed, signal on iOS->iOS still seems unaffected.
> We used to believe that free and open societies would naturally prosper compared to authoritarian/totalitarian societies but what if that was all a lie?

Then give up your freedom and start advocating for monarchy in America.
Even using facts, not biased opinions, vastly different models can arise.

If the sampled facts that give rise to the models are random, then the models will tend to be similar.

However, if the facts that make up the models are selectively placed in the models there can arise dramatically different models pulled from the same facts.

Since all models are simplifications or subsets of all facts in reality they will always be prone to this fact selection bias.
Heh, I found your comment from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5746020
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If the government really wanted to lower the price of drugs it would pay for the FDA clinical trials[1] and lengthen the amount of time a drug company can collect royalties. I remember when I was at a place that did clinical trials the cost of one protocol was $50,000 a day because of all the test kits that needed to have lab work done each day and the drug company only really had 3 years to get back its investment (plus pay for new research and have some profit) before the generics could happen. Cost of manufacture and distribution (just like software) is not the problem.

With the extends royalty period have a required pricing structure that has a set price to prevent gouging.
I think the key here is to keep up-to-date and constantly learn new stuff. You need to keep your skills sharp and keep learning new tech. Simply put, you have to learn something new all the time to keep current. If you stagnate, you will run out of options. See my post here http://www.selfstarter.ca/
> Here is my take as an information lawyer and (slightly-higher than script-kiddy-level) web developer

as a "(slightly-higher than script-kiddy-level) web developer" I'm going to guess that he doesn't actually know very much about AOSP, the Linux kernel, or indeed GNU/Linux security in general. So his emphatic statement "Compare the security of Android - which we now know to be 'owned' by the US Government" is pretty much worthless as he's very clearly speculating about things that he doesn't understand.
I am surprised it took this long to leak. There is no possible way they didn't expect this to happen eventually.
If 30 helens agreed, it would be a different case.
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Which makes perfect sense. Any weapon leaves some trace (even if only new theory as to what is possible), so its use against a party that does not have that technology but is capable of understanding the technology at some level will always give information to the enemy.

Using a modern missile against an indigenous people will only impart that you are capable of that type of attach.

Using a modern missile against WWII Germany would likely quickly result in refinements to their V2 Rocket program, given enough remains to study.

Using a modern missile against Vietnam era USA would likely result in advancements in miniaturization and computation, given enough remains (even if they did not have the resources/facilities to capitalize on some aspects of those for years, I think it's likely it would advance the fields by a least a few years).

One of the biggest advantages the Allies had in WWII was that they had cracked the "uncrackable" Axis encryption. Even though they were able to decipher enemy messages, they often didn't act on that information because that would tip their hand. The strategic value of reading the enemies messages is enormous when the enemy doesn't know you can do it, and much less so, and possibly even negative when they do know.
> Years ago I learned that my family motto from way back was “through faith we are free”. I found that immediately alienating because for me it was always “through doubt we are free.”

From my own experience as a reluctant religious agnostic, I see the faith/doubt-freedom issue as less clear-cut.

Some Christians I know appear capable of doing things that I, as an agnostic, cannot. The first thing that comes to mind is showing care for people I find unlovable.

For those Christians, either their faith or (if real) the Holy Spirit in whom they have faith allows them to act in a selfless way towards such people. Those Christians have a freedom that I don't.

OTOH, their faith (or the Holy Spirit, if real) also constrains their actions and thoughts in ways mine aren't.
You described a feature that good engineering practice says should be eliminated. Features have costs (the most significant of which IMO is learning an unfamiliar feature when you read other people's code), thus only features that allow better (less error prone, more maintainable, faster) implementation of applications should be included in any language.
And it's a rare case where FUD is absolutely applicable:

Fear that using a "secure" messaging app on your rooted phone will expose you to consequences.

Uncertainty that your communications are secure when using your phone with the "secure" messaging app.

Doubt that using the "secure" messaging app is secure.

yes, it's FUD.
I'm sure the NSA will get a kick out of this one

def dcode(data):
key = 20
newdata = ''
for i in data:
i=ord(i)
if i< key:
i = 256 + (1)
newdata += chr(i-key)
return newdata
def ncode(data):
newdata = ''
key = 20
for i in data:
i = ord(i)
if i + key >= 256:
i = i - (256)
newdata += chr(i+key)
return newdata
A person with a clearance can get in trouble for knowingly accessing or spreading the data, even after it is already released in the wild. The data is still considered classified, even after the leak. So those who are entrusted with a clearance still have to fulfill their duties to protect it.

But, yes a random citizen has no responsibility or rules they most follow.
If they emphasized that no app is secure if the phone itself is compromised I wouldn't hae a problem with it. By calling out specific apps it could cause someone to switch to a less secure alternative not mentioned.
You don't need to record 24/7. A well planned spying operation would involve multiple devices and connections, location discovery, proximity with other devices etc.
Phones, tablets, Home and laptop PCs, Car PCs, Smart TVs, and pretty much every connected device, can be hijacked into becoming a bug or cooperate with any of them if in proximity.
The victim cellphone could establish a secure connection via WiFi or Bluetooth with the Echo o any similar assistant, grab the audio data to transmit, alert the user some important upgrade is needed on the phone then start transmitting the data and fake some random download just to make the downlink act as it's receiving something. That way those 12 megabytes of data would remain totally unnoticed.

This is of course the product of tinfoilhattery at its finest level, until someone does it for real.
We solved this by creating a separate channel for gifs and news. Those interested can participate, those not interested can just mute the channel and ignore it.
> Narcissism: when you finish the game it sends an email to the creator about how much you love his work.

Ahhh, thank you for this list. For me (playing in Firefox), the narcissism ending just opened an empty Chrome instance...
What's the difference to the decades old Rice cooker you can find in any Chinese home at least once?

Really weird that this doesn't seem to get mentioned anywhere in the comments or article. It Looks so much more like a Rice cooker than a pressure cooker.
As far as I can tell, my question ("which line of code is broken?") is also not answered either in the NYT piece or the wikileaks release. If I'm wrong, do you have a link?
I feel like this is about as relevant to this discussion as someone arrogantly interjecting, "Oh I don't own a TV," when talking about Netflix shows.
My experience of installing VS Community Edition several years ago was that it downloaded a lot of dependencies when I requested a fairly basic C# and C++ environment: versions of SQLXML, Windows SDK, etc, which had to be managed and upgraded separately.

Is it much more self-contained now? perhaps via nuget?
I've heard of people using it for massive batch jobs and freezing the now-sealed contents. Like gallons of chili. Or 10+lbs of chicken and seafood. Now prepped and portioned and saveable for the freezer.

Personally I use it for more niche goals.

Taking cheap steak cuts and getting a perfect internal temp as well as batch cooking chicken works out really well.

Getting a precisely boiled egg is amazing (see http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/10/sous-vide-101-all-about-e...).

I also set it up in a cooler and do 3 racks of ribs for BBQ events. Don't worry that the Anova claims it can't control that much water. The insulation of any cooler will let you far exceed it's ratings.
Right, but it's an allocated section that doesn't get stripped like debuginfo.
They'd need to port at least COM, .NET, and XAML/WPF to Mac to do that, so I'd say that is never going to happen. Also, you'd have a very un-mac like experience.

OTOH, Microsoft is the one company I'd trust with refactoring a gordian knot if neccessary. Look what they're doing to the console subsystem, the windows system DLLs, the ~25 year old C compiler, and so on (granted, some are different teams, but still...).

Maybe they'll be able to salvage some cool parts (the extention API, Intellisense, ...) and make them modular or put them into VS code or Xamarin Studio. I don't know, they probably don't have a complete plan themselves :-).
I am not talking about ChromeOS - I am talking about the Chrome browser. Localstorage, last I checked, which was recently, is plaintext.

> ChromeOS and Android both implement FDE

Which is irrelevant if the runtime is compromised, which appears to be the case.
I've been running a public file hosting site for 11 years, I've always treated it as a side project to use for playing with technology.

The primary reason it's still alive today is out of obligation to the URLs (2 million or so) that call it home. If you don't already find this fun and don't feel the same obligation, then you'll join the thousands of others littering the web with 404s.

Also, be aware that people will upload bad shit, and you can look forward to phone calls from the FBI and others.

The site is open source, maybe you'll find it useful: https://github.com/kudos/hostr
One very serious shortcoming of this article is the claim that the theoretical spirit of taxi regulation is exclusively (or even primarily) rider safety. Regardless of how we believe it has all worked out in practice, taxi regulation has long been earnestly pushed for a multitude of reasons: traffic congestion, driver pay and rights, consumer protection (from fare abuse), road safety (independent from rider safety), and, yes, the kind of rider safety that Uber is far better at through GPS tracking and driver reputation.

There are many attitudes to have about taxi regulation. Some would argue that the market will eventually provide better solutions; even for issues like traffic congestion. Others might contend that the regulation is necessary because the market will either not find solutions or the cost of finding those solutions via the market is prohibitive. Some might take a less principled approach and consider whether the current regulations are better at solving problems or creating them. Regardless, we have to honestly consider the whole story. It's easiest to argue for Uber's approaches when you consider only the small part of the argument where Uber and its ilk clearly best the entrenched taxi system.
How could any gem that size even low quality be worth "a couple hundred bucks"? Or rather, how can the range in value be so insanely large?
All software is different. I'm only replying because my first answer is "nothing", then I thought about it.

One data point from my experience:

- developer time to prepare, document a build, release notes

- build engineer to submit, check build, co-ordinate

- build machine hardware

- build machine OS license

- cryptographic signing hardware

- QA engineer time to test

- QA automation engineer's time to set up tests and maintain them

- QA test suite of machines for compatibility matrix

- technical writer for documentation

- distribution infrastructure / CDN

- support calls for new version

Another data point from my experience:

- about 2 minutes of developer time

- gratis open source build infrastructure
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Wouldn't you also need an encrypted os for your phone?
The OS these services run on isn't secure, so wouldn't these services by definition not be secure?
Yup, this is the last ESR before that change is currently expected. Things could change over the next year of course.
might be because cereal is more of a family/kids decision versus say laundry detergent or lunch which is more of a shopper decision.
Placebo medicine does work for some people, so it's not surprising that some people get better after taking homeopathic pills. But there's nothing about homeopathic pills that makes them work - anything with a label "medicine" glued to it would have worked, if placebo works for you.
That's part of the NSA's mission.
There is a balance -- one is reminded of the constant "data charged may apply" footnote to so many free services. The same goes here: you really shouldn't tout your impenetrable security without also informing users that things external to the service may undermine its utility.
Accurate, but dangerously misleading.
Well I think they put out the article first and get experts to correct the finer points later. I don't agree this is the best tactic, but reporting first is important.

They have changed the title. Currently: "WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents"
Yeah but those companies sell their drugs for a lot more in the US than elsewhere.

Basically, because the US is wealthy and much less regulated, drug companies from around the world make up a lot of their costs by selling things for more here, especially since private insurers have to pick up the tab in most cases.
I'm super excited about VS2017.

But excuse me this launch video (beginning, with Chinese presenter) is super cringe-inducing. Horrible.
I think it's a little different when the person "looking over your shoulder" is omnipotent.
Reading the leak, these are very clearly tool manuals.

Some of the technical documentation is better than the official stuff!
There's also the part where youtube videos keep playing if you move to another tab or app
We really need Qualcomm and others to document their hardware interfaces for modems, baseboards, and SoCs so that open firmware and drivers can be developed for these devices.
How well does, say, Postgres scale on such hardware? Is anything more that 8 cores overkill or can we assume good linear increases in queries per second...
I hear this all the time and it boils down to what another poster said. I can monitor all the traffic going through my network. If the device was constantly streaming audio it would be very obvious.

To which someone once replied to me: "But what if they aren't sending traffic through your network? What if they are using 4G or something like that?"

To which I replied that while I have not personally done it. You could scan using software defined radio to detect that sort of thing. And if it was doing that someone would notice. Plus if you tore down the hardware they would notice the antenna.

To which they replied "what it it uses something you can't detect with that?"

To which I walked away because I didn't feel like explaining how physics works.
Peter Thiel associate Jim O'Neill is under consideration to run the FDA. He wants to go to a progressive approval scheme that could significantly shorten the time to market for new treatments:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickcox/2016/12/14/trumps-fd...

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-12-07/trump...
That's now what this is. They're breaking the law and willingly serving the penalty. You can argue that the penalty isn't strong enough, but then your issue is with the legislature, not the criminal.

What you're saying is tantamount to saying a thief who likes prison food is also above the law, because he actually enjoys the penalty for the laws he breaks.
CIA Android Exploits

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_11629096.html

As you can see they pretty much all reference very old versions of Android (v4) and Chrome.
Right, and that's really what I'm getting at. The only country in the world (except maybe NZ, who was in the process of phasing it out, and only allowed it as part of a trade deal with the US) where Rx meds are advertised to consumers.

Even with marketing spends of 20-25% of revenue, and R&D spends of 10% (and profit margins of typically 20%+), pharma has still managed to convince many Americans that they are struggling, and Americans are feeling the burden, of the US subsidizing the world's drug research (even though the two largest researching firms in the world aren't the US).
>That's why you didn't hear about the great email collapse of 2006.

Wait, is this a joke or was there really a great email collapse in 2006?
I thought they were already compromised since both these services use SMS authentication; since the defaults AFAIK aren't particularly concerned about a change in the public key, it's broken for anything secure anyway.

Tox on the other hand seems much more secure... though I guess if you're phone is compromised you're pretty much screwed to start with (which is not too hard with all the bloatware one needs these days).
Pumping air is more "springy" than pumping water. But "springy" isn't exactly the worst thing when it comes to energy storage. Pressurized air storage exists, even though it comes with certain disadvantages, namely thermal losses. Ideally you would want to somehow harvest at least some of the "cold" created during decompression. At least with the "diving bell" variation of compressed air storage, you would store some of the energy not as gas pressure but as lifted water, avoiding the thermal penalty for this part of total capacity.

But you are right, FhG are working with a permanently contained gas bubble that is compressed/expanded as needed. Many of the experiments done with the prototype where about the effect of different amounts of air and about the efficiency difference between a local bubble and a passive air connection to the surface. I am sure that FhG have put more thought into the pneumatic link idea than I could ever do and they seem to have come to the conclusion that a pneumatic connection just isn't feasible, or maybe that losses along the connection would be too big. From what I could gather from other sites (e.g. http://forschung-energiespeicher.info/en/news/aktuelles-einz... ) they seem to have a strong focus on practicality, e.g. having all the electric and mechanic components concentrated in a module that is slotted into the sphere from the top, which might make it a candidate for removal/replacement.
Since 2013, I have been leading the creation of Envision, an in-house domain-specific language, intended for data processing, reporting, forecasting and optimization for supply chains and logistics. Small intro here: http://www.lokad.com/envision-more-technical-overview

Why ? Between 2008 and 2013, Lokad provided a data forecasting API : send us your sales history and we'll respond with a good sales forecast for each product. This didn't work because:

- most customers don't have the know-how or infrastructure to clean up their sales history (for instance, by setting up adequate SQL queries when exporting data to our services), and instead either sent us garbage data, which led to garbage results and therefore lost us customers, or they cleaned up the data manually in Excel, which prevented us from being a permanent, automated step in their supply chain processes, and therefore lost us customers.

- most customers don't care about knowing the future, they care about knowing how much they have to order from their suppliers. These decisions can certainly be optimized if you have a good model of what the future looks like, but that involves even more knowledge about the customer's business and even more data (expected margins for products, current stock levels, minimum order quantities for various suppliers, etc).

Most of our sucesses in this early period were premium customers for which we could afford to write and run custom C# code that did the initial data cleanup and pre-processing, and then used the forecasts to generate a list of actual business decisions.

As you might guess, C# is not the best language for this. It costs too much to write, deploy, maintain and run. We examined the various candidates available at the time and decided to write our own language, with the following characteristics:

- 100% online, no local setup needed

- excellent static analysis to detect issues ahead of time (no type errors, null references, off-by-one or out-of-bounds errors, join arity surprises, etc)

- good high-level guarantees (no infinite loops, no accidentally quadratic operations, fully transactional behaviour)

- fast enough without manual optimization

- predictable performance (small changes in the input data should not cause major changes in execution speed)

- handle the "hard developer stuff" behind the scenes (multi-threading, memory management, error recovery, caching intermediate results to make REPL faster, etc)

- our various high-performance black boxes (such as demand forecasting) are available as functions in the language

- a small, well-designed (supply chain) standard library
If people really require security from state level agencies perhaps they should read more than the headline.
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Are we talking about parking in a spot and not feeding the meter? Or parking in the bus zone, forcing riders to wade out into traffic to board?
Intel hass had SHA1/2 acceleration for YEARS via the AES-NI instruction set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions

>There are seven new SSE-based instructions, four supporting SHA-1 and three for SHA-256:

>SHA1RNDS4, SHA1NEXTE, SHA1MSG1, SHA1MSG2, SHA256RNDS2, SHA256MSG1, SHA256MSG2