skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all iCloud Data is E2E encrypted, most iCloud services actually work on the web if you go to icloud.com. In fact E2E encrypted services are still the exception, not the rule: https://support.apple.com/de-de/HT202303

It's frustrating that Apple does not let users disable iCloud tabs without also disabling bookmarks and the reading list (which I am fine with being synced on US servers).

Workaround: Toggle mobile Safari into private browsing mode and use apps for everything that needs a login, use private browsing mode most of the time on macOS :/
Or buy April puts at a $5 strike price for $1, which I did this morning. Corpse of a company goes from $3 to $10 overnight? Should be a no-brainer. We’ll see come April. :-)
Video "tour" here (still doesn't show it flying): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elhiaxMiRuY&t=19s

Also, the inaugural flight at CES was scrapped due to a "light sprinkling" of rain:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42616034
It's a robot; what does "human kindness" have to do with this?
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I'm not sure how many people conflate adultery with pedophelia but, in any case, we will never know if WJC would have won a third term.

We do know that it was HRC running for the presidency in 2016.

>early in her legal career she worked tirelessly to provide legal defense

She was a defense attorney. Even "bad" people are entitled to earnest counsel. It's how our legal system works, otherwise it doesn't work. An attorney defending her client is not an endorsement of his behavior. Obviously.

Suggesting otherwise means you are ignorant WRT the U.S. legal system, willfully spreading Cosmic Pizza type conspiracy theories, or both.
Apparently not : https://thinkprogress.org/kris-kobach-voter-fraud-findings-e...
> I very much doubt that you would be arrested if you tried to drive a car without a license.

Without a valid driving license you will not be able to get insurance, unless you stole an insured vehicle from your parents or off the street.

Patrol cars in the UK and Europe have cameras that read number plates and check a database against all insured vehicles. If the car is not insured you will get pulled over, upon which you will be asked to present your driving license.
ok, thanks for the assurances; I'll forward all insurance claims to you
538 has recently produced a podcast series† that dives quite deeply into the question of gerrymandering. I found it really insightful and helpful in understanding a lot of the issues involved. They address North Carolina in particular‡, as well as Wisconsin, California, Arizona, among others. I've come away with a much deeper understanding, from a variety of perspectives.

† https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-gerrymandering-project/

‡ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-gerrymandering-the-b...
I met Hitchbot in Salem, MA at the bon voyage party. Sad times we live in. Screw Philly.
It'd be interesting to know how many human interactions or trips the robot had in each country.

Because even with a 0.1% fatal incident rate, with enough interactions you could expect a decapitation.
Sure, but there's no reason to believe that the Dogecoin network is not able to handle 30 tx/s.
Will this improve remote X11 display performance for Firefox?
It's certainly not an issue recently, but the UK used to have lots of issues with it, see rotten and pocket boroughs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs).
Forcing bicycles to follow rules designed for cars is often silly and sometimes actively dangerous. For example, the bike route from downtown to my house involves making a left turn on a busy street. For a mile and a half, the street is nice and wide, with generous bike lanes in both directions - sensible and safe. But the moment I have to turn left? By car laws, I need to stop in the middle of the road, with traffic coming up behind me (often at 40+mph), and wait until I have a clear path to turn left, which can take a while. This is deadly.

So I do the illegal. I turn right on the quiet side street and immediately u-turn to the stop sign, to wait to cross both sides. It's not a dangerous maneuver for me or anyone else, although it would be dangerous for a car to do so.

See the problem?

edit: A car waiting to turn left is in considerably less danger. It's much easier for traffic coming from behind to see, so it's less likely to be hit. And if it is hit, the driver is protected by the car itself. At worst, the car gets totaled. But a bicycle hit at 40mph? The cyclist is likely going to be killed. It's not just silly to follow the car law - it's hazardous.
I found this odd too, so I was skeptical of the claim, but I found this sentence on the home page[1] that mentions Apple as a founding member:

> Founding members are Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix and NVIDIA.

A similar sentence exists on AOM's about page[2].

[1]: http://aomedia.org/
[2]: http://aomedia.org/about-us/
Exactly. As a European I can't get access to Hulu or Funimation.
Exactly, owning a car in a city can easily cost 25+$/day. That buys a lot of public transportation.
Ask HN: What are the least covered infosec topics by online courseware?
I left the question open ended. To narrow the scope a little I am interested in hearing about under/poorly covered topics that would be of value to:

1. software developers
2. vulnerability researchers
3. malware researchers
My comment was prompted by the fact that the majority of comments in this thread relate to HEVC vs. VP9. It was my mistake to post it as a top level comment rather than a reply to one of the pertinent comments in the thread. You're right in saying that I'm in effect responding to a point that is tangential to the contents of the actual article.
Revolutionary one - unlock the iphone bootloader and let users use their devices in the ways they want. Which will make it a lot harder to censor in a central way.
> You are talking about a problem affecting many people as nothing more than a mistake that we should just let die basically.

But what if parent's premise is correct?

What if these areas cannot support a local economy that justified the rapid build-out?

What if these areas will never be able to support that?

Sometimes the truth is hard. That doesn't make the truth-bearer "cold-hearted". Indeed, sticking our heads in the sand seems even worse, from a moral perspective.
No it can't be. I have prove that education still exists. If we look at education as a life long process, starting but never really stopping we would have a better educated society. LA Tech News strongly supports early and continuing education at all levels.
https://latechnews.org/eric-garcetti-helps-youth-find-tech-j...
https://latechnews.org/stem3-academy-open-house-november-4/
Yes! I love it, even if there were meager returns; basically identifying the algorithms for encrypting/signing the blob and that's all.
IIRC the three slice solution is: I cut a piece. You decide if I get the piece or half of what’s left. The third guy cuts and whoever else doesn’t have a piece now, choses.
Can confirm - with my colleagues laptop - much to his amusement :)
> it has the potential to take a significant, long-lasting role in the global economic system.

What role, and why is it uniquely well suited for that role?

Speaking for myself, back in 2013, I was excited by what I saw as its potential for micropayments on the internet. That is (and was) clearly wrong - it can't do the transaction volume, is too hard to safely acquire and use for most people, and is too volatile.

Its current role is "hype-y speculative security". I don't see a significant and long-lasting need for such a thing, or how bitcoin is uniquely qualified to be that thing.

> I would advise anyone to only invest in what they know.

What is it to "know" a thing? Put another way, what exactly makes it such that you "know" bitcoin? Put another way, what useful information is there to know about it? I understand the details of the whitepaper and the block-chain concept at a technical level, because I find them innovative and fascinating, but I think any translation of that technical with knowledge of its value as a security is illusory.

I'm honestly curious about this: I've gone from very bullish to very bearish over the last 5 years or so, while I've watched the population at large take an opposite course from indifferent and unaware to very bullish, and I'd really like to understand what I'm missing.
We have a rule that we never announce anything before we're ready to ship it.

That said: the general scale of our ambitions is "incorporate a majority of all Internet companies, worldwide" and "materially impact global macroeconomic indicators." Anything needed to accomplish those things is in (eventual) scope for us.
It works now!
`brew tap mkchoi212/fac https://github.com/mkchoi212/fac.git && brew install fac`
As Electric Cars’ Prospects Brighten, Japan Fears Being Left Behind
He appears to be living on a mattress in a family car (for the last 3 months). I think he’s definitely in that “situation”, with severe mental issues to boot.
> In a general case though, requiring cyclists to have a licence would reduce the number of cyclists, probably significantly. This would correspondingly increase the number of motorists.

Most cyclists are licensed drivers, and a test for cycling licensing would, at worst, probably be no more difficult than that for driving. The impact on the number of cyclists would be minimal.

A bicycle can injure or kill a pedestrian or cause a motor vehicle accident. What is the justification for licensing motor vehicle driving but not bicycling when done on public roads? I cannot think of anyone who fails a motor vehicle licensing test that I consider competent to not cause others harm while operating a bicycle on public roads. I would much rather suffer the 'dangers' of increased carpooling or public transit use.
Content-Types Matter More Than You Think
I honestly don't think people understand why Bitcoin is like gold because Bitcoin shares almost no characteristics with gold.
His reasoning is that by definition speculative excess is irrational, therefore who is to say irrational markets can't get more irrational, particularly in the short term.

In the short term markets are voting machines, in the long term they are weighing machines. Therefore shorting bitcoin is fairly stupid, as you can easily get run over and margin called or financially ruined if speculative excess continues and increases even if irrational.

By going long, long term put options, unlike shorting a stock, on 5 year puts you a) cant get margin called and lose your shirt and
b) They are long term enough that the whole speculative mania is likely to die down over time. And if it doesn't he would only lose the option premium, not an undefined amount of money.

Finally, he considers assets that produce cash flows to be investments, while assets that don't (like gold, fine art, or bitcoin) to be speculation. And while there is nothing inherently wrong with speculation, he doesn't believe it is particularly enrichening either, and that purchasing productive assets is a far better use of his money.

As a student of history, he has read about and witnessed many speculative manias that have ramped speculative assets (as well as investment assets far beyong anby rational value of their cash flows), and presumably think this one is likely to go the same way.
I have a feeling this isn't actually that High Sierra is that much worse, but more that people are now actively pen-testing macOS to find the next embarrassing bug.

And that scares me even more because of the unknown of how long such bugs must've existed in the system.

Is this Apple's Windows XP moment? (Like when MS stopped everything and did massive security training that resulted in XP SP 2 being worlds more secure?)
Nope. The idea that it's a necessary "measure that would make elections less easy to rig" is a bogus talking point.

"It's not hard to get" is the other fallacy, which is subject to huge selection bias "because I found it easy and so did all the people that I know". Many comments here exhibit that, and I can't tell if they're made in good faith or not.
My understanding is that transitions between C++ runtime and JS context are relatively expensive.
Some more incoming personal anecdotes from California

I briefly rented a small single family home from an 85 yo woman (managed by her son who lived a few towns away). We quickly found out there was black mold everywhere from a bad leak in the garage and a small one in the kitchen, and that she smoked her whole life in the place. She had no interest in keeping it up, she just "wanted to rent it out." Her son had no interest in dealing with it either as he readily admitted to us. I don't think he had seen the place in a long, long time considering the state of the damage.

We ended up recouping our costs and moving after a few days. She bought it for $150k 20 years ago, pays $600/year in property taxes so there's no incentive for her to give it up (prop 13). It's valued at $500k and was renting for $2500/mo.

Our new place is owned by chinese investors, and also has issues which they aren't interested in fixing. They haven't responded to a single email (I think they are in their early 20s, live in china, and i'm not entirely sure they speak english), we also tried to go thru the property manager who said he won't fix stuff since the landlords are unresponsive. We gave both of them 30 days notice that we need about $500 worth of things fixed. We never heard back, so we did the repairs and just deducted it from the rent, as you're legally allowed to do... come to thing of it, I could propbably not pay rent and squat the place and I'm sure they couldn't give less of a shit.
People who want to live in the cities are moving to the cities, and so house prices in those suburbs are dropping and people who can't afford houses in the city are moving to places where they can afford houses. Both of those seem like good things. Of course if you look only at the suburb then it looks like a decline.

A country that has built enough housing for its population should have empty houses, should have houses that are not worth keeping up slowly falling into disrepair, available on the cheap to anyone who decides they do want them. Build more houses where people want to live - the cities. Let them rot where people don't.
A lot of UGC is video. If uploading (or just storing) your videos in an industry-standard and very efficient format for free can get you in hot water, or require shady downloads of cracked / banned software, users are going to be unhappy, and would cry and protest. Remember the early days of mp3, or DivX / XviD, banning of VLC, etc.

You get a much wider and more loyal user base if you're smart enough not to enforce such silliness anymore.
The postmortem comment to this thread, is kind of buried in the distressed communities report posted today from The Atlantic.

Page 35, pretty much sums it all up.

http://eig.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-Distressed-Co...
You can run any Linux binary you'd like if you bundle it yourself. Just use the built-in node runtime as a shim to run your process. It doesn't have to be newer node version Node either ... you can use it to run any standalone executable.
It's a shame that updating node via homebrew is such a pain that I probably will skip this version.

Maybe it's just me, but every upgrade corrupts the global node_modules.
Examine.com is a good starting point https://examine.com/supplements/vitamin-d/

If you scroll down to human effect matrix you can find links to studies based on results found.

The summary at the bottom is also pretty good.
You always need trust, how do you know you're talking to your friend?
There has to be a solution where we can remove the A-pillars entirely and have a single unbroken window. I know it doesn't mean much, but I would pay significantly for that, for peace of mind and safety.
Cord cutting typically refers to PAID TV, not OTA. OTA has seen increases because people are getting away from cable.

https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Study-Broadcast-Only-Hom...
"No Patrick... "

If this is, indeed, a Spongebob Squarepants reference, it is calling me an idiot. That is the very first thing you did. It never got any better from there, only worse.

No, you aren't sorry I am having a hard time. If you were, your first impulse would not be to defend and justify your string of ugly remarks.
Look at the counterfactual, is having multiple languages stopping google to do business all over Europe? No.

Is having a different language a big deal? Also no.
I absolutely believe Apple's foray into China is a huge misstep for the Apple brand.

Imagine when all the censorship and surveillance and the actions taking with personal data start surfacing, they're going to very quickly try to get out. Apple pulling VPN apps off the App Store is just the beginning.

It may be a big market, but I think Apple shouldn't be there under the Apple name, because stuff like this shows me that it's literally a different company.

It's simply not worth the business.
Cmon Apple I know security people are in short supply but:

A) You have the resources
B) This is the type of bug that any semi decent QA process should catch anyway
The interesting implication from this is that while it works for the App Store preferences, it doesn't work for the others, showing that there is a manual check that each pane is doing. Why aren't all of these calls identical? If each has to be handled manually, it's no wonder that there are bugs like this appearing.
Do Raspberry Pi offer adequate security features?
>> Internet advertising firms are losing hundreds of millions of dollars following the introduction of a new ...

Was this number calculated by the same people that calculated that media and software companies loose billions due to piracy?
There were no comments, so there's no point linking to it.
My best guess is fuel efficiency at small size scales and is probably the same reason that make them economical in large buses, but not small cars. The usual intuition is explained using the Reynolds number, a dimensionless quantity that can help to predict the possibility of maintaining laminar flow or wether the flow breaks down into turbulence in the generator, drastically reducing efficiency in the compression-combustion-expansion cycle. As a side note, when I did a type rating on the Eurocopter AS350, I learned that the gas turbine could also run on normal automobile gasoline instead of Jet-A 1 for a limited amount of time in emergencies with drastically reduced limits on altitude, torque etc...
> most of the country it's trivial to buy a half acre (or larger) lot with water and sewer hookups already

Not really. Having just gone through this process myself in the midwest, we found it impossible to find land within a reasonable commute to the city that was not already owned by a major developer. The handful of plots a year that we came across were basically the undesirable ones that you'd have to be desperate to build on, or that required a private road to be constructed for access.

We got lucky and a town close to the city parceled off an old park. But it took years of looking to stumble upon this. We were honestly beginning to look into the cost of demoing an existing house.
I hold a small percentage of my net worth in cryptocurrency so I'll answer it from the non-speculative side.

>>why do you think that Bitcoin is undervalued

There's no way to know this. Or really, know that about any asset.

>>why should it produce solid future returns

No evidence it will.

>>why do you think it is a good investment for someone with (comparatively) little investable cash?

Ah, that's a different argument.

The total market cap of cryptocurrency is $726 billion with a 24h vol (as of 9:08 AM PT 1/10/2018) of $52 billion, with 33.8% dominance by BTC. Let's just go with the top two currencies, BTC and ETH, with $245b and $129b in market cap, respectively.

Can you find assets with similar volumes and market caps that are legal and easy to invest in that you would ignore in a balanced index fund approach to retirement? Probably not. Neither would a responsible financial adviser. Yet because it's BITCOIN, we're supposed to think it's stupid, dumb, valueless, etc (not saying you feel this way, just saying that's the stuff I hear) without just looking at the market signal that's being sent: A hell of a lot of money.

IMO, the real speculators are the ones blithely ignoring the three-quarters of a trillion US dollars being traded on cryptocurrencies and thinking it's a bunch of crap. They might be right. But that runs counter to sound investment strategy, which is to own the market and to cover all potential areas of growth, because as history shows, a vanishingly small number of equities/assets is responsible for a huge part of the return on investment of capital.
K-Means Clustering with Scikit-Learn
It would be interesting if correlation of vocabulary were used. It could effectively optimize suggestions based on inferred dialect influences.
Never forget. Never forgive.
some of the daily caller complaints seem to be google trying to text match the fact checking to an article and matching too liberally. i guess they are trying to do this because the url in the fact check site pointing to the original article sometimes becomes dead and maybe also because the same incorrect claim gets copy and pasted into other articles.

but i'm surprised they didn't go for the simpler version of just matching by the URL to start off with. i guess if you have cool text processing / AI tools at hand then you have to use them.

also, its quite possible that conservative sites aren't getting an unbalanced number of fact checks. the daily callers methodology was probably looking through a bunch of emails and tweets pointing them to fact checks on their property. they probably checked other sites by just putting random terms into a search engine. they shouldn't be surprised one of these techniques is going to generate more hits than the other :/

i'm also not sure how google could have provided this in a more fair way (ignoring the bad text matching). like a lot of the fact checking sites (snopes, polifact, etc) are considered biased by conservative sites. so there doesn't seem to be a way to provide third party fact checking without being attacked for bias.
Being anxious about losing your job doesn't justify getting somebody else fired. Specially through vile means such as character assassination.

Edit: Besides, those same arguments apply against the diversity advocates. They openly claim that white men dominate the industry because of sexism, that they don't hold their positions because of merit but because of bias. They're guilty of the same crime they accuse Damore of committing.
If you read the notes:

This only appears to be when logged in as a local admin.
Tested with a non-admin account and I cannot unlock the prefpane with incorrect credentials.

So basically they are checking to see if you have credentials already. I guess this is a caching issue since you locked it.
Effects of the Scale Invariance of the Empty Space: The Fall of Dark Matter?
Kind of a silly title "AppStore Preferences lock is a lie" -- it isn't a "lie" unless Apple intended for it to not lock correctly. But obviously, it's a bug. It isn't like Apple is trying to deceive users.

Interesting bug, unnecessarily hyperbolic title for it.
Which is why you put $2k in, and don't bet your house on it. Or if you do bet the house, be aware you could lose it all (or be set up for life, of course)
No. It would make more sense to incorporate in SG or HK and then use Stripe since it supports both of these countries. The only reason why you want to incorporate a C Corp in the US is if you want to go big: Get investors, sell ownership (stock), IPO, etc...