skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FBI had techniques to open the San Bernardino iPhone, and withheld them [pdf]
Apple Outages Resulting in PopUps on iPhones
Apple is currently having MULTIPLE Outages on their services, resulting in a pop-up for iPhone users that says:
"The iTunes store is unable to process purchases at this time. Please try again later"
even when you aren't trying to purchase anything.

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
Understanding Promises in JavaScript (with Yarn and Legos)
Did FB really give out personal data? In any case, do we even have an understanding of what is meant by anonymized data (when applied to specific datasets) anyway? I sometimes wonder if any of these firms could call it anonymized by changing the name on the profile to somebody's initials.
Sure, right up until it goes all Fukushima and people only find out because someone in Vladivostock runs a Geiger counter over their tap water.
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That was fast. Despite all his somewhat shady practices, at least he's willing to be held accountable. It's too bad we probably won't see the president own up to half the problems he's created.
Caruana is the 1 US challenger for the world chess championship since Fischer
This must be backstabbing from facebook family ?
But you often have to go outside of the public roads in the real world. Dirt roads, private parkways, underground car parks, private tunnel going into the lobby of a hotel, etc. Would be curious if it can handle that.
>Congress REALY needs to pass strong privacy regulations.

They could do that. The first thing I'll expect them to do is exempt themselves, so that the government(s) can continue to work with these same companies to violate your privacy as they have been doing.
Yes please. Third party cookies and the like are the plague. They have so few legitimate use cases.

Make it a long deprecation if you have to. Give even longer exemptions to the really big players / the big breakage / the legitimate use cases while we find better ways. But it is up to the browser vendors to remove the weapons here.
Never too old to do what you really love. While I don't personally know anyone that has done this, and certainly there are who have, I have been in your situation and would honestly recommend going for it if you truly believe your heart is in it. otherwise down the line you may regret not going through with it, and that can honestly wear on you.
Their is an excellent book called "Into the Whirlwind" about Stalin and the soviet era purges. One of the strategies of those arrested was to name 2 more. While a great concept in theory, it just made the purges worse.

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-into-Whirlwind-Eugenia-Ginzbu...

I always come back to structural regulation works best. At the end of the day, we just need to make it very costly to keep too much information. We set rates for personally identiftying attributes (e.g storing a birthdate costs x, a partial ssn Y, etc). The charge is per attribute per person per day. This should incentivize the tech companies to develop and store broad scores (e.g scores high for likes sports and classic rock, low for opera) rather than personally identifying info
Keep an eye on the used graphics card market. If we see a burst / die down the market should be flooded with excess high end cards
We need a virtual Barry White.
Presumably Lyft increased pay rates for those they identified as having been paid unequally due to race or gender.
App stores and Apple TV.
Furthermore, I'd imagine that the host might be required to retain those records for law enforcement purposes (imagine if someone made death threats, etc and law enforcement requested those records for an investigation).
Today, Google is using the Oracle-approved form. They already switched Android from Harmony to OpenJDK in a previous release.

Since then, this suit has been about (a) deciding whether Google is guilty of wrongdoing in the past, and (b) what the extent of the damages should be for that historical wrongdoing should be, if any.

The outcome here doesn't really have any impact on the future of Android (except if Google wanted to factor the suit into their decisionmaking for their own reasons).
If you switch between "Basic" and the "Wavenet" you can hear the difference noted in this announcement, it is noticeably much better.
Eve online has tons of APIs, and the entire game is very data driven with an open market, industry and more.

Its kind of a developers wet dream if you like that kind of stuff. :)
>Schools can purchase iPad starting at $299 (US) and Apple Pencil for $89 (US).

I'm imagining how easy it is to lose a 'pencil' in a school - at $89 each!
Well, as a comparison point I've completely eliminated paper for note taking in classes and general math/engineering work. The iPad with a quality Pencil-aware application (GoodNotes is nice) is better than paper, and doesn't feel any different to me in terms of weight and handling. The added benefit of, for example, being able to lasso and rearrange ink on paper as you work puts it over the top.
So you're OK with causing massive problems to anyone trying to provide alternatives to proprietary APIs just to stick it to Google?
Custom type errors and input validation in TypeScript 2.8
In college I researched Abd Allah Ibn Buluggin, the last of the Zirid rulers of Granada (ruled 1073-1090). He wrote a snarky memoir in exile (1091-1095) that describes his travels, a bit, but mostly lists all the people who did him wrong during his rule. It feels like you're reading the diary of a teenage girl who has been kicked out of the cool club. This led me down a rabbit hole of reading all sorts of Islamic scholars/travelers' works, and the overriding feeling in all of it is that we're all, deep down, pretty much the same. (you can read the diary here: https://books.google.com/books?id=ltcUAAAAIAAJ )
> I don't remember it saying anything about the data "existing"; nor could it given how backups work in our industry.

You just store the keys separately, assuming one-way encryption (losing the key) counts as deletion.
He’s quite aggressive, but he does have a point. Apple doesn’t serve at all the bottom 20% of the world. Maybe, maybe it does so through the second hand market, which doesn’t really count cause every other manufacturer also has it.

You could argue that by pushing the high end the low end is also pulled up slowly. Still doesn’t seem like a great argument.
I miss this game moreso than probably any others in the series, maybe any game at all outside of perhaps Chrono Trigger. There were trainers and what not, but I remember after playing through it trying to create a "godmode" character proper (no trainer) by specifically hunting for tomes to increase spells. That was probably the thing that bummed me most about D2 and subsequently D3 in that leveling spells after you'd "maxed out" was still something you could grind in D1.

Vaguely related but mildly funny anecdote, I got into this game really late (basically, when it was cheap). I remember buying it from Wal-Mart and also buying one of the bigger bags of crispy M&Ms (Wikipedia says those came out in 1999 so I must have been even later than I remember). The game was incredibly good, but the first couple times playing it, I'm going through said bag of M&Ms because the game felt like a pretty intense movie at the time. Ever since that point, anytime I played that game, I'd crave crispy M&Ms, which went away after a while (though have since come back apparently).
They also ship with a cord adaptor for charging with a plug. I never plug mine into the iPad, which charges fast by the way, like 15 min.
Nostalgia overload...

How would I play the full, original Diablo now on my MacBook, if I wanted a trip down memory lane? I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Was there a "/s" hidden in there somewhere?
As an avid movie watcher, this means nothing to me. Gatekeep your self-indulgent, self-congratulatory, award shows. Pontificate all you want about what "film" is or isn't. I'm not going to movie theaters on a regular basis because they are noisy, expensive, and often not worth the price a premium ticket. The genie is out of the bottle.
And here they are with their outer clothes removed:
http://www.tapedeck.org/

(and no watermarks)
I just tried again, but still no email. Don't your metrics on sign-up rate show a problem? Or is it just isolated to me somehow?
Correct. Some economists from Stanford & Uber actually did a fascinating analysis of the gender earnings gap for drivers.

tl;dr - Men earn 7% more:

> We find that the entire gender gap is caused by three factors: experience on the platform (learning-by-doing), preferences over where/when to work, and preferences for driving speed.

https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/UberPayGap.pdf

Edit - I originally found out about this study from a Freakonomics podcast. These economists are chomping at the bit to get newer data (which will include tips). Their hypothesis is that women's earnings will increase, since women's tips are 10-20% greater than men's. However, they also say tipping increases the supply of drivers, which will serve to decrease utilization rate and thus lower hourly pay.
Will New Zealand Be the Top Favorable Environment for Blockchain Technology?
When you take a bet, you play the odds. You evaluate your expected return should you take many such bets, and if it's positive and you can afford to lose, the smart money is in taking the bet.

In fact this is true of most anything you do in life - when you drove to work this morning you played the odds and the wager was your life against your salary. I'm sure you didn't think about it that way, but you took the bet
If its that important to you then you should back up your catalog locally.

Did you post anything that violated copyright? Recently a lot of sites have been cleaning up house due to the following:
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/59...
The Lightning Network – Ep1 – Why Do We Need It?
Panasonic and Ford own copyrights on their CAD drawings for those items. So I can't just CTRL C and CTRL V and send them off to a manufacturer to get my own stuff made. I can, however, measure those things and create my own drawings without violating copyright because I am not reproducing the work.
The whole sentence is "The new iPad is more versatile and capable than ever, features a large Retina display, the A10 Fusion chip and advanced sensors that help deliver immersive augmented reality, and provides unmatched portability, ease of use and all-day battery life." I read "that help deliver immersive augmented reality" as referring to the display, the chip, and the sensors as a whole.

Even then, the "new" just refers to the new iPad, and doesn't say that "immersive augmented reality" is a new feature. Apple's been touting AR for a while now, introducing ARKit with iOS 11, so it's not surprising that they'd include it here. It's a press release, and should be read as such.
But why would self driving cars be significantly more expensive than regular cars? Most of the technologies they use are typically technologies which cost reduces dramatically when mass produced. Electric cars will be more expensive, but the price will likely converge in the long run. I am not entirely convinced car ownership will go away. The main argument in my mind is that most of the commute in a city happens at the same time. So if you want a car guaranteed, you kind of need to lock it in somehow.
> I'd love if someone could explain how this price difference is somehow reasonable, because this just boggles my mind completely.

On regional differences, I see price differences as usually a combination of charging what they can, who they have to or want to compete against, cost of doing business, and how seriously they take the market. Or put more simply: either they have optimized for most money or they don't care enough.
Based on this reddit thread in r/apple [0], it seems it is more than just service outages. iPhone users are actively being interrupted from unrelated work and forced to deal with popups it sounds like. Not just outages for App Store etc, but massive usability bugs in iOS are appearing and making iOS sound awful to use right now.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/87lafa/issue_with_ap...

Edit: Aside Rant: At what point does the OS need to get out of the way and stop trying to earn money but just let the user use it? Bugs like what people describe in r/apple sounds completely unacceptable from an OS-user standpoint.

Here's a quote from a user in that thread,

> I had to turn off my phone. I am getting it every ~15 seconds. It's infuriating.
It's kind of expected, right? Here's an industry that is existentially threatened. It's natural for them to lash out at the companies that are thriving
> Some never come out on streaming sites.

I'm sure that's not the fault of the streaming services though. They want more content.
Do you think they actually mean 900Gb/s (Gbit) here? 18 ports of todays ~50Gb/s serdes would give 900Gb/s. And that'd be twice the bandwidth of their Nvlink 2.0 stuff (~25Gb/s), which would seem a reasonable evolution.

Edit: Turns out that a single Nvlink 3.0 port is 8-bits wide and since 144 50Gb/s serdes on a (big) chip is perfectly doable - 900GB/s must be correct.
I bought an iPhone 7 from AT&T, and the device is not compatible across the major carriers.
There is no group referred to as specifically disconcerting. And both the relatively high pay of white males (in the body text) and Asian of both genders (in bold callouts on the graphics) are highlighted.

White males are the comparison baseline, but Asians couldn't be used for that because they don't have data for the first decade+.
This is exactly the business model many GPL users follow.

GPL users charge money for a license on the implementation, not on the API. Or do you know any charging a license for the API itself?
Google specifically decided not to use 'interoperability' as a functional objective constraining their code design because there was a wall of evidence against that interpretation. There's a comprehensive write-up elsewhere in this thread about it.
Mark wants to surpass $100 billion in lost stock, like a champ
The article says that this vulnerability was patched in March 2018, so at least there's that.
God’s Plan, Drake’s latest single, is a huge hit
Do firms that pay less company tax create more jobs?
Supposedly, they are switching to OpenJDK. But that doesn't erase their past infringement.
The data OFA got wasn't just a list of your friends, it was their photos, posts and likes too. The Obama campaign's strategy revolved around using that information about your friends' social media - what photos they were tagged in, who interacted with who, etc - to figure out who was closest to which of their volunteers in order to work out who could best convince them to vote Obama. Which isn't what CA was offering, of course, but still seems rather creepy.

The other difference is that based on what we know, the Trump campaign didn't actually have any interest in using the CA data in question. The head of their campaign has quite consistently said he thinks CA's psychographics was worthless nonsense, and I'm not aware of anyone finding evidence contradicting this. It's quite possible that, in fact, the 2012 Obama campaign was the only US presidential campaign that systematically gathered information on people's Facebook friends to feed their campaign machine.
It seems like there is some ambiguity around the purpose of the reactor:

"It has the potential to make 25 to 30 megawatts of electricity, enough to power a small town. The plant could also potentially produce about 20 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium each year"

A bit further down the article says:

"Analysts also found some evidence that could support North Korea’s assertion that the new reactor would be used for power generation. Satellite images appeared to show that power lines and a transmission tower had been erected around the site."

Without weapons inspectors, or some other outside group taking a look, there is no way to know for sure.
I just use versioned Makefiles for my very simple personal projects with my artifacts and configs in git. Pull the repo to the box, and run the make file. I commit config file changes then pull and make as needed. Everything is simple, it's manual automation so there is nothing running, but it's repeatable.

I put the bootstrap into an OS package and my server images point to my personal repo so I can configure run and build time dependencies as needed. At the end of the day, I can get a new server, run update, install my package and walk away and everything should be running, but it takes almost no additional overhead over doing it all by hand the first time.
> China’s ... support of anti-American political parties in e.g. Cuba and Venezuela is certainly enough to warrant Stephen Colbert's suggested title "frenemy", not to mention their continued international temper tantrums over the status of Taiwan.

How can you not see the contradiction in this sentence? You say that China supporting anti-US elements is them being aggressive—sure. But then you characterize China’s opposition to Taiwan, which continues to exist arguably solely because of US support, as a “temper tantrum.” How is this supposed to be Chinese aggression, any more than the Civil War was the War of Northern Aggression?

The GP’s point is that it has mostly been the US being aggressive towards China, rather than vice versa. It is definitely possible to argue against, and it is definitely possible to argue that China should try to get along with Taiwan. This I would agree with.

But your argument is self-defeating and plain inaccurate. (Also, characterizing the Open Door Policy as not an aggressive action is also plain wrong. Would you characterize Commodore Perry’s expedition to Japan as non-aggressive as well?)
There are T-Mobile plans that work this way.
> What would have been weird is a finding that they're not copyrightable

Nothing weird with that. APIs are meta tools, not actual tools. That's what "I" in the name is for. They are interfaces for a reason. It makes perfect sense for interfaces to be non copyrightable. EU courts got it right:

Computer code itself can be copyrighted, but functional
characteristics—such as data formats and function names—
cannot be. "To accept that the functionality of a
computer program can be protected by copyright would
amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas, to the
detriment of technological progress and industrial
development

> And by every indication, we're right on track.

We are not, until Supreme Court will overturn the current ruling and will clear APIs from copyrightability for good.

> I'm done commenting further here.

Sure, you brought no arguments to defend the illogical position of APIs copyrightability anyway.
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Better ones. As in more precise.
Tesla is just months from a total collapse, says hedge-fund manager
Here is the 2017 iPad press release: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/06/ipad-pro-10-5-and-12-...

It has no references to augmented reality. The only reference to sensors are for the Apple Pencil.
Looks pretty nice for the price. I'm still waiting for a new Mac Mini though.
Before people using the car for work or just for commuting to work make the switch to ai cars these need to provide some serious sla guarantees, because the cost in lost opportunity for a no show can be quite high.
"mic drop"

Yeah it's basically weighing the cost of something expensive that probably won't happen (a claim) against the cost of something expensive that definitely will happen (premiums). If you can possibly save enough to "self-insure" against major expenses, you'll always be better off than paying for it.
As far as I know, a reactor can be used for both purposes at the same time.
Shinobi – The Open Source CCTV Solution
I did not work on this but you'll need to take in mind that this was a fixed resolution game with 2D sprites. There is no 3D art in the final product. Finally this was just the proposal, Blizzard bought Condor and published Diablo (1) and if you check the mobygames entry (which is usually a pretty accurate copy of the in game credits), it has a much more extensive list of software developers in the credits (three! people on the installer, though to be fair, I'm pretty sure all the guys were down at Blizzard South providing a lot of the low level libraries). IIRC the networking was also outside the scope of Blizzard North's expertise at the time and most of that part was done by Blizzard South via Battle.net.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/diablo/credits

edit: it also took them about twice as long including pre development time.
What were the odds when you made the bet?
> There's no reason to force people to wait to stream a movie

Wait, what, really?

> maximizing cinema profits

Ah, no, there it is.

This is a fight for survival. Cinema can't catch up; it's an industry that was built for business conditions that existed in a bygone world, back when the equipment for distributing and viewing high-quality video recordings was so prohibitively expensive that it didn't make sense for people to have it in their homes. It's going to (largely) disappear, but it can maybe squeeze out a few more years of existence by trying to use regulation, business deals and whatever other tricks to try and create a simulacrum of the conditions its existence is based on. Like for any middleman, those conditions are precisely a lack of consumer access via alternative channels.
The ability to create and share a netflix playlist, effectively user-created "TV networks", would be absolutely awesome. Most would be crap, but the same can be said for youtube playlists.
This should have been the tl;dr on the page itself :) upvoted!
Being killed or locked in prison (where the likelihood of rape skyrockets) seems objectively worse than any of those things, does it not? Why is it that you are so eager to ignore the inequalities against men in favor of women?
I suggest you revisit this post in 12 months time and determine if your instinct is accurate on this one.
Any indication of whether this was actually exploited?
I really don't want to do a full key-rotation routine.

Also, does windows 7 map the entire address space into kernel memory? That is, would this have enabled direct memory access to other processors.
If you want something high-performance that you can have running quickly, you can do this with a Turris Omnia router + Pi-hole (DNS ad-blocker). The Omnia is about $300. I've done a blog post explaining how to get everything set up here, and it's CC0 public domain licensed so you can copy or adapt it however you like: https://www.tombrossman.com/blog/2017/how-to-install-pi-hole...

No surprises, the Omnia updates itself and reboots automatically (you get an email warning of you want to intervene) and everything 'just works'.
iTunes App Stores issues this afternoon: It's not just you
I know about the multi-account container extension.

A google one would be so much easier for setting-up and forget it. The facebook one is really nice because once installed it auto logs out then automatically puts facebook.com into its own container everytime I type the url or visit it (even if the active tab is in another container).

With the multi-account extension I have to actively manage containers which becomes annoying quite fast.
> The outcome here doesn't really have any impact on the future of Android

While most of your point is true, I disagree with this part. Using lawyers to tackle companies that succeed with only parts of your technology may send a chilling effect towards future uses. Also, knowing that you are not allowed to partake certain independent directions in the stack you choose for your devices is a legitimate reason to fear the continued use of that stack. Some are OK to them (e.g. conforming to the GPL on Linux) and some may not be (e.g. not being able to write portions of the stdlib without dealing w/ OpenJDK stewardship). I don't think these are their own reasons as much as they would be the reasons used by anyone who fears technologies stewarded by litigious outfits.