skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, I've been saying for a while now that just such a thing is going to be declassified soon. My generations SR-71... equal parts beautiful and horrifying.

For the cost of one fighter jet you could have a swarm of air-to-air/land combat vehicles with semi-autonomous swarm intelligence attack and harry enemies into submission. Air supremacy would be a doddle with a drone that can pull orders of magnitude more G and react almost instantaneously compared to a manned fighter.

The last time something so disruptive came along was during the dark days of WW1 (machine gun) and WW2 (aircraft)... don't get me started on WW3... but this next one is shaping up to be a real nice specimen for our peace loving super advanced cybernetic progeny. I, for one, welcome our new overlords.

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although to actually answer your question as I think it would be an interesting thought experiment: The laser technology I've been hearing about recently has been fascinating - the pope protector, Roman Abramovic's boat, the TOF mapping devices used on automatic cars/trucks. And other technology seems to be coming of age too with microwave guns used for riot control and rail guns seem inevitable. Although unlikely to help in this situation, I don't think anyone here can begrudge me a rail gun on my hypothetical throne of warfare!?
Mr Dickinson tweeted disparaging comments about female developers (while serving as CTO and thus being in a position to hire developers). He tweeted out sarcastic comments about the "Passion of the Christ" with a racial slur against blacks.

Oh, and he did this from a twitter account with mini-bio that featured his position as CTO of Business Insider.

I'm far from politically correct, but if I were CEO and this were my CTO, and I heard about this, he would have one and only one chance to make his account anonymous and disconnect it from my company and my brand. Personal views and "your own time" is one thing, but when you put your professional title (especially at CxO level) and your company name in your twitter bio, you're representing a brand whether or not you want to be.

He wasn't fired because liberals engaged in Crocodile Humor. He was fired because he made an unprofessional social media decision and attracted a hurricane of shit from a broad swath of the internet that spilled over to the brand of his company.
It just shows Barclays adverts for me (UK IP address)
Yes - I have been following Miguel's work for some time (and apparently he checks out my work sometimes too) :)
I already told you what I was doing, which is pretty much everything I can. Being that I'm not management, don't run a company, don't have anyone reporting to me, and am generally low man on the totem pole what I can actually do is fairly limited. Further limiting that is the fact that as I said, I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with the tech industry that's actually a fault of anything the tech industry is doing and as such changing things in the industry will have no impact at all on the problem. If I was someone in charge of education policy, or had any kind of pull with the media I might be in a position to do something, but I'm not. I also can't do anything about the war in Syria, the crazy politics over in the middle east in general, or Russia's stance on gay rights, and frankly I don't see where wringing my hands about it and making a bunch of pointless rants on the internet is going to do any good either.

You keep trying to fix what isn't broken while ignoring what is, just don't go harassing everyone who's trying to get things done, or get upset when everyone else thinks your nuts for tilting at windmills.
It's a hyperlink. Do you use hyperlinks?
I can't imagine why I'd need to ask my SO's PIN or she'd need to ask mine - I actually would, as you say, probably give it without even thinking about it; but if you have a healthy relationship then noone feels any need to check the other's phone/email/diary/whatever.
I don't agree with the fear, I'm just saying it's more likely somebody can be nefarious with your fingerprints than other things, regardless of whether you personally authenticate with them. For what it's worth, I don't agree there's an issue - I just don't think it's reasonable to compare fingeprints and eye colour.
Well it was interesting. He asked us if we had a link to the drug dealer article. We looked and couldn't find one. I was in contact with him the whole time, sent him links to other criminal results and even offered to do the interview over and be less specific and say "criminal" instead of "drug dealer". I told him the merits of the story were still true, we could still show that Pete shared google results with a criminal, and we even put him in touch with the person who worked at the company who found the results. Instead he posted the article implying it might not be true, and said when he asked us about it "we went silent". I followed up with him after and he said that he didn't seem my emails (even though he answered some of them)...

We were worried that people would feel the same way, but in general we only got good responses from the interview. We signed a lot of people up, too.

That said we've been careful to be much more specific in the future. We don't want to mislead people especially since it could hurt our brand. The truth is, Pete's results were a mess and it was hurting him. He shared a name with several criminals. There really was a drug-related article about a Pete Kistler but we can't find it (we never thought to keep it)--so now we only say "criminals" and link to the articles we HAVE found
I suppose for me there are several categories.

1) If other data or significant user input of any sort is required or possible get a log in so that progress can be recovered. Shopping is probably an exception, I don't generally want an account just to buy the thing.

2) If it is a webservice or API or something similar I won't sign up generally until I have seen a) the pricing b) some documentation and c) had the option to review the terms of service. Going back to an earlier post today about improper use of Google's maps API. Don't hide your sales information (and that includes technical documentation) behind a sign in without a good reason.

3) In some cases I understand the the email address and permission to send me further marketing is the price of access to some information. I understand this and if the offer is good enough I may expect although I will probably decline four out of five times.
Backdooring iPhones does sound fantasical but that is not the only means your fingerprint data could conceivably make its way beyond your iPhone. I like that my fingerprint data is on precisely no computer anywhere. You don't have to be a massive conspiracy theory nut to feel slightly uneasy recording your fingerprint on anything.
I knew there was something that was bothering me about the way they abuse the word privilege, I just couldn't put my finger on it, thanks for pointing that out.
Yes, because there is no one in the U.S. willing to work for $65k/year.
Did you guys evaluate ZeroMQ? IIRC It's made by the same guys that originally designed AMQP. If you did, I'm curious to see what your conclusions were.
oh look, the daily HN spam from docker blogs

/has karma, uses it.
Obligatory "CNet has ads? I use AdBlock!" post.
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MOOC's are a response by the market to some of the problems of the current system. Time will tell just how well the MOOC phenomenon will turn out for us, but I suspect we're better off with them than we were before.
I'd guess false negatives. You _really_ don't want persistent false negatives. I wonder what's the solution to the `I cut my index finger' problem. Does it require multiple fingers to be enrolled?
This obviously depends on your travel plans. For the US, for example, CBP can only search your belongings on entry into the US. If you are traveling from the US -> wherever -> US then you only need to secure your laptop for your return flight.
You don't _have_ to. You can root your iPhone and log all packets sent from the phone, and block out any stuff going to Apple (turn off iMessage, iCloud and Siri). For downloading apps etc, you can do that through iTunes and sync your iPhone using a cable.
ssh-copy-id is made for exactly this:

ssh-copy-id - install your public key in a remote machine’s authorized_keys
I hate creating new accounts with passwords, etc but I don't mind "sign in with facebook/google/something most people already have".
Apple's fingerprint scanner may be the biggest leap in payments since the C-Card
Yes you are right.. I was mostly considering the iPhone 4, 4S and 5 as 3 different models. But I agree. It is more like 2 (4 & 5). Considering the iPhone 5C is a quite different.
Also it isn't slave labor because H1-Bs can leave and get another job of their liking or go back to their home country when they wish.

Please tell me you were born in a third-world country and that your parents wages were so low that they could barely afford to feed you and your siblings while you were growing up. And you would not mind going back because you so loved the living conditions before moving to the US that you would love your kids to grow up in a third-world country, with all its disadvantages.

You, dear blinkingled, clearly have no clue what you are saying when you say what you said there.
I'm not sure what the 'necessary credentials' for a remote customer service assistant normally are - anyone know?
Very interesting and spot on. I've always thought that most interviews (especially at the corporate level) do a pretty poor job of determining who would actually perform well in the specified role, and I imagine a whole host of qualified folks don't even get in the door based on a variety of circumstances that could be out of their control...
Never. The claim that the NSA has infiltrated everything has the right amount of truthiness, and pushes all the right buttons, to give the HN/nerd crowd such a sense of unified culture, justness of cause, and "us v. them"-ness that it literally can never be replaced now. It's like asking when Christianity will finally get over this Jesus fellow and his crucifixion. That is the cause that transformed a bunch of heretical Jews into Christians.

HN, similarly, is just going to be the place where a bunch of libertarian-leaning programmers became, from my perspective, conspiracy theorists. But more charitably, maybe, we can say they are now radically opposed to government invasion of privacy.

The Snowden revelation, whatever you think of it, has been one of those events which divides time into before and after for this crowd.
>Fortunately it is not [yet] a crime to think ahead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_%28crime%29

In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future.
Even in the braindead idiocy of government, which I can confirm from firsthand experience, that would not constitute a "terror network".
Most of those topics are not sidelined by "everything they tell us is a lie and should be replaced by uninformed speculation." If we're discussing the importance of battery life, a comment such as "How do we know they aren't lying? Maybe the new iPhone doesn't even have a battery and requires you to turn a hand crank." is not helpful.
What? Is iPhone leaking emails and browsing? Can you provide me more information on that?

If you're talking about ISP monitoring, that's not specific to the iPhone, and not relevant to this discussion.
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Looks like you'll be using the passcode as usual.
Wow that's awful. I do hope amazon is working on it. They're usually pretty big on interconnectivity between their services.
What about the iPod line? (that made Apple what they are today)
Typical initial outrage at something new. The phone already logs your every move yet people have already forgotten about it and clearly don't care.
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It's great to hear that someone who didn't have the creds was able to get hired at a start-up. Too often the best people don't get noticed.
I'm pretty sure the necessary credentials are exactly what he showcased -- the ability to write a legible, coherent email in a timely fashion.
The assumption is that you are okay with having your laptop seized.

Obviously the best approach is to just not have your laptop.
Makes sense. I think it was the part where this is nothing new that was confusing me.
I'm not sure this will be particularly successful. Looks like well over half of the content on the CNet homepage is iPhone related. That's the kinda of advertising only Apple seems to get, much better and a lot cheaper. The amount Samsung has to spend to overcome the "organic" Apple advantage must be rather large.
There are a lot of interesting things you can do with a massive address space even if you don't have the RAM to back it. You can mmap massive files. False pointers are virtually nonexistent for conservative GCs in a 64-bit environment (I believe modern Objective-C is compiler supported refcounting though so this doesn't really apply here). You can virtual alloc a 4GB array and just let it grow in physical memory on demand.

There is also a new instruction set to go along with the bump to 64-bits which improves things. However, I remember Herb Sutter saying that, in the case of x64, Microsoft generally found that the improved instruction set performance gains were a wash due to the increased cache misses caused by the doubling of the pointer width. I'm not sure how much ARM 64-bit instruction set improves things.
Why bother paying a ton for ad space on the day when you know that the site will basically be a giant ad for you anyway?
> feel slightly uneasy recording your fingerprint on anything.

I assume you mean digitally record, unless you're wearing gloves. ;)
That's exactly what we thought, too. We only understood we were a bunch of stupid fucks when we got older. We're all stupid when we're teenagers :-).
Actually, random banknotes can usually be traced to a specific person, so any DNA traces could probably be linked - there have been experiments that show that majority of non-tiny banknotes are [A] put in ATM [B] given out to a known person; [C] given to a shop/vendor; [D] retrieved by the bank. So, given multiple banknotes, they could reasonably list the identities of people who shopped in that shop, simply by looking at the banknote serial numbers.
> I'm also not so sure whether a fingerprint can't still be easily faked

How to fake fingerprints from ChaosComputerClub: http://dasalte.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren?langu...
That's not really true. There are plenty of services which exist to sell you things that still make you sign up.
And also, while you're doing all that, don't leave in any exploitable breaks.

Don't accidentally hardware RANDU as your PRNG, for instance.
Interesting, so precog breaks JSON objects into columns dot-named by their path. I wonder how rethink does it, internally?
I thought so too until I actually saw the page. Every single article is about the iPhone, it's actually hard to notice the Samsung ads (imho). I still think it was worth doing on the part of Samsung, but they'll probably get more traction from the press about buying all the ad space than the actual ad space itself.
I like the linguistic ambiguity here. Of course, you are talking about a legal birth date and how in practice that is what matters, but really, what the government thinks has no bearing on your actual birth date.
Can someone knowledgeable comment on whether Intel's foray into the realm of ARM and embedded systems is significant? Will anything substantial change as a result of their entry into this already populated market?

(I guess one thing the article mentions is that Quark is potentially more secure than the alternatives. Presumably embedded systems security will be a bigger issue as we approach the future Internet of Things.)
Yeah, you have a good point there. Speculation in discussions about smartphones is rather unprecedented isn't it?
I definitely think this is going to be a success. I don't actually doubt it.

The disappointment is that I usually look to Apple for inspiration, and lately, I don't feel it. I have been looking at other companies. Google and Tesla are increasingly inspiring me more often.

Lately, I feel more inspired by Nokia, than Apple, which is depressing to say the least.
Congrats! Awesome story and very encouraging. As an employee who was hired based on a "list of credentials" I know how intimidating it can be to apply for jobs. I've heard quite a few of these cases where a company has diverged from the traditional hiring process and has had success and I think it's awesome. The current traditional process is definitely broken and needs change. Enjoy your new job!
The title is very bad as it doesn't say anything. It should be something like this:

"Hack to legally publish that you received a National Security Letter"
Hack to legally publish that you received a National Security Letter
This seems like not just good for applicants with weaker resumes, but for all applicants who are serious about a particular job. One problem with open job hunts in the Internet era is it's too easy to apply - applicants can resume-spam companies easily, applying at hundreds of places, and then the companies end up wading through a thousand applications - of course they'll just get discouraged and hire someone they already know. Making it a little bit more difficult to apply for a Job - cant just forward a generic résumé and cover letter - means companies might get only a limited pool if applicants, who actually want THAT job - so if you're one of those applicants, and it's your dream Job, you have a much better shot a really being seriously considered.
yFiles has been around for many years, and the yWorks free-to-use diagramming tool based on it named yEd is in my use-it-everyday list.
A Simpsons' quote is also probably directed a little more towards the humour end of the scale.
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Not publicizing it would massively backfire as soon as the first teardown happens.
It's chicken and egg problem - the vendors won't offer services until a majority of phones will have the [rather cheap] NFC hardware; so this Apple decision effectively means a significant global delay until such wireless services will be available to me and everyone else.
The cynical side of me says that Apple won't introduce NFC until they can sort out the licensing deals that give them a cut of every transaction.
My point is that the author of the paper wants to be paid to work for an NGO but doesn't believe in actually solidifying their opinion. Listing a bunch of stuff is not the same as saying this list means you should a) Build a product in this country, or B) You should not build a product.

Essentially he is being paid for very basic research which is not useful without an expert in the field. He wants a guy at Big Corp. to make the final decision so he can wash his hands of it.

I don't support this type of thinking. I would prefer that the author openly select the best country and stand by his opinion. Maybe it doesn't make sense to rank country A #132 and country B #135, but it definitely makes sense to give them a rating in several categories and draw a distinct line.

Or possibly, there is something I don't understand about the business.
Well done. Imagining that you're probably not going to the best candidate (on paper) but having the tenacity to apply anyway, plus being good at what the job actually needs, and, dare I say, being very inexpensive as you're looking for part-time hours and you can work from home is a powerful and heady mix that adds up to the perfect candidate for a start-up hire.

The lesson here is not to be defeated by your own (perceived) failings. What you think is a fault might not matter to a hiring manager. Don't fear rejection. Step up and apply anyway. You never know.

(Plus, if you hire someone like this, your startup gets a really good human-interest news story 18 months later. ;) )
Retina screens on the 4S weren't impressive? Certainly since then we've seen far better screens, but at the time it was quite impressive.
I'm working on to create a "Submit API" form. The Stack Exchange API is added. Thanks!
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This is a great story for the simple reason that ODesk was able to find a very effective way to "test" candidates, without going through the boring, repetitive, outdated task of checking the resume, doing phone interviews, etc.

Well done, and congratulations for your job.
I hope that many companies will be inspired by this post.
Ha! I've never seen a full size sim card before.
Essentially, yes. Sometimes as a proxy and sometimes straight from shell (irssi). My long term goal is to tailor an IRC bot to represent me virtually while I am unavailable (at work, etc).
What happens when your RabbitMQ queue goes down and messages start building up in redis? Won't that eventually use up all of the memory on the machine?

We followed a similar path using Redis as a queue, and ended up having to write a 'valve' process that watches the queue and starts popping off messages into a file when the queue length gets too long. At that point we had half-reimplemented a real queue.
Every non-x86 processor from Intel has failed, so there's that.
I thought that the whole point of the 41 megapixel sensor was to give more information to those types "software hacks"!
It seem to go a step forward over Jolla's Other Half concept, where just the back (with extra/different functionalities, like i.e. hardware keyboard or more battery) is replaceable.

Anyway, probably big companies will not want it, they want that you replace your phone from time to time. But small ones (i.e. chinese manufacturers wanting to make themselves an space) could grow a healthy ecosystem around this.
Just continues to speak to the benefit of a probationary period or some other tests that are actually applicable to the job before hiring.

Thanks for sharing.
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I was referring to the release dates of the web native products, yFiles HTML and GOJs, the companies are indeed all much older.
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iPhone apps that require me to signup or log into Facebook quickly get deleted.
> Then I can allocate addresses out of the /64 to my own instances.

I think that would call for a /48† if you're going to split it farther. Handing out /64 per server regardless of how many servers a client has seems just easier to me.

One thing they could do due to virtually unlimited number of addresses is to let you keep them (instead of reusing for other customers) even if the servers are offline. You could create servers with IPs known in advance that way.

Which actually makes it even more convenient to reserve /48† per customer and then carve out /64 per server. So maybe that's a better route.

† or /56 but I don't know if the savings are worth the potential hassle.
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I read a liveblog of the presentation, and they only mentioned using it to unlock the phone and to purchase from the iTunes store. I don't think it's usable for random websites.
Well, you can't trust _any_ device if that's your line of thinking. Not an iPhone, not an Ubuntu phone, no device whatsoever. Not unless you've baked your own chips, or made some contraption running your software in parallel on different CPU architectures.

If you're going to do anything, including working on the computer you're typing your comments on, you have to trust a lot of parties. Some of that trust involves knowing who made the code, and some of it may involve the knowledge that the NSA will not be using their best, most secret backdoors against a whole lot of people.
That usually doesn't help as a large source of the problematic parasitics is contact between the part's leads and the 'grippers' inside the breadboard. Lead diameter, corrosion, 'gripper' spring strength, etc all come into play there.