skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, that's much clearer than before. I guess the issue was the word "study" which has no English definition which refers to the kind of naive physics learning you referenced above.

To be clear, you mean: it's a poor analogy to say we don't need to know physics to drive, because we have thousands of hours learning physics from our normal experience. A better analogy would have been we can use a combustion engine without knowing the science.

I think you're right, then.
You only get that dialog for the devices you add. The public key added by the NSA or Apple themselves does not trigger the dialog.

(explanatory note as the sarcasm in the comment might not have been obvious: I do not know whether such a facility exists in the services or not, so this might or might not be true.

But: The fact that it's possible that this "feature" already exists or can easily be added in the future, potentially even without an update of the client leads me to my current opinion which is that iMessage is not secure and all traffic is open to Apple, rogue employees at Apple and whatever government Apple is cooperating with).
Yeah quickcheck (and smart check which minimizes the counterexamples) seem like places where mathematica could shine bright for software debs.

I would absolutely adore seeing smart check implemented in Mathematica. Please make it so.
>But the system is not currently designed to allow message interception. The details about how it operates can be found in the iOS Security PDF from February

The system is currently designed to allow very easy message interception by just sending both Alice and Bob a fake public key of their respective communications partner.

You have zero control over what public keys your phone encrypts data with.
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You can only know if it is a "terrible" phone until long after you have bought it.

Most people don't have the ability to make an informed decision about a phones purchase (or they want to buy an iPhone or Nexus but they simply can't afford it).

I bought a Google Nexus at USD650 retail - a perfect counterexample to your advice.

I recommend iPhones to those who can afford it (purchase price, insurance, screen replacements etc.).

I recommend Huawei Y310/320/330 for those who don't have much.

In between there are too many other factors to make a straight recommendation (e.g. buy second hand iPhone versus a Moto G).
No way. There's thousands of drugs companies which are not global and do no business in the US. They operate in the black, at profit, like any other company. Collective bargaining rights won't put them out of business. That's so false.
I think you're being downvoted because you got a little too excited while bashing Apple. iMessage is most certainly more secure than plain text in most cases, save for the VERY exceptional case where the NSA might be watching IF they do have a key on your phone. Plus, anyone who's used Apple's partner portals knows they're just as capable of shitty design as everyone else.
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Nothing your post gives a reason as to why she left with the children without saying.
Might that not be a disgusting thing to do to a father?
Assuming there was no violence in the relationship I have no problem with the father using all and any means to find his kids.
Zero, which is why lasers would help — moving leftward (i.e. more machine-like) is one of the three ways out of the uncanny valley.
I don't understand the line of thinking that went into that. How on earth is minecraft going to save windows? It is available on windows so everyone will suddenly throw common sense out the window and buy windows PCs for no reason?
I had to go hunting big time to find that there even existed an option, in this case, sonic.net who had service where I live (culver city, los angeles). It's not like they had a prominent billboard campaign and youtube ads.

I had to read a bunch of forums, go through a bunch of reviews, dsl report web sites, etc. Finally found out that they do. At that point it wasn't a question of whether the company "sonic.net" did - it was "what can I get that's not comcast and not at&t."

Anyway, the point is, that I thought I was in the boat of "nothing. you are screwed", I really believed it - but I wasn't. Finally found them. Felt great.

So I say to you, keep digging - they are out there. And if there isn't, then a guy named Paul Cienfuegos has a formula for successful community rights movements http://communityrightspdx.org/ that's one of them. Fight for a municipal broadband - regardless of whether the state bans it.

What's the state going to do? Bring in the national guard to protect the rights of time warner by blocking a city truck from installing fiber? Seize city assets? Arrest the city council? No, of course not. They'll give you the finger and move on. Look into it - the "fuck you, we're asserting our community rights" seems to actually work.
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Took me a while to get a hang of things... nice work !!
Yes, new ideas are always popping up in my mind. If the idea won't help me focus on my current project, then I write it down and research it later to find out (1)if the idea has already been executed well, (2)if a better idea has been executed, (3)how I can modify and improve the idea, (4)if the idea wouldn't work and should be discarded.

One way of thinking that helps me generate ideas is to determine the objective, but don't limit yourself to current technology that is used to achieve that objective. For example: near light-speed travel is often imagined in a ship that can accelerate to that speed. However, digitally uploading one's mind, 3d printing a new body with organic materials at the destination, transmitting the mental data via light, and downloading the data into the new body before recycling the old body would achieve the objective in a totally different way.

I'm always excited when something that would be extremely valuable is considered impossible by nearly everyone. I don't waste time thinking, "It's impossible and may never be possible." I convince myself that in this or another universe/time someone has figured it out. I try (often in awe of this imaginary innovator) to discover how she/he did it.
Thanks for the insight. Rather than excitement, I am actually most disappointed in Apple caving into the PRISM scheme because I hold them to a bit higher standard than other companies when it comes to privacy.. kind of like being told that Santa doesn't exist.
Not to be overly negative but if I had to guess the extensions system will be hobbled and sub-par. This is just based on my years of experience with IE and other MS products.

If it had an extension that could give me the hours of my life back that I have spent trying to support their awful browsers that would be great though.
This American Life actually did a pretty good story on patents. I'm pretty sure part of it explained the historical reason for why the ninth circuit gets so many patent cases: patent cases are lower priority on dockets, so if plaintiffs ever wanted their cases heard they needed to find a court that had less higher priority cases to hear.
Is Quora the new way to publish papers?
In a data center, it probably makes sense to cool this stuff only as much as necessary. I bet the 60-70 degree figure is the result of some extensive analysis and experimentation by Amazon.
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No, I was addressing the idea that Steve Jobs had demonstrated subsequent success. Apple didn't come crawling back screaming "mea culpa"; without secondary success as a founder, Jobs would be a few paragraphs in Apple's wikipedia entry.
Microsoft too detects them now. Too late, but at least they are updating their signatures fairly rapidly.

Interestingly, both files were first uploaded to VT in 2010, meaning that AV vendors have had chances to analyze them.
Hi i am a long time web dev and otoh looking for a biz/product partner. Interested? Maybe HN is the place to find a cofounder. I tried on cofounders lab but to much spam there
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make mass surveillance harder in general

More specifically, it makes it so that Apple is not forced to conduct mass surveillance by giving up everything when they receive a legal wiretap order, in the vein of Lavabit.

If you see someone else running a message system that has no way for the cops to read it, that should be a sign that it's insecure -- not technologically, but architecturally.
Do you have a list of these thousand drug companies and the countries they are located in?
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> I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 (i9100 model), the last non-nightly CyanogenMod update was over a year ago now.

Same. The newest version which supports my phone is years old, and there are major usability issues, particularly in the dialler interface. The manufacturer (HTC) UI was miles better (i.e., actually usable).
As Firefox saved us from dangerous browsing circa 2004m from IE5,6,7, now I may save us from obsolete Android stock browsers. At least that's what I use.
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I have a startup in energy, and one thing that I think entrepreneurs outside of energy don't understand is just how ridiculously high the ceiling is in this space.

In our lifetimes (~40yrs), we will have to replace the 87% of the energy sources that are adding carbon to the carbon cycle[1]. That's ~450 Quadrillion BTUs (QBTU) per year[2]. No matter what, this will happen.

Do you know how much solar the US installed in 2012? 30 Gigawatts[3], which equals ~0.9 QBTU/yr. Even if solar eventually only amounts to 20% of the total fuel replacement (~90 QBTU/yr), that's a 100x growth in 40 years for an already huge industry. That's Internet revolution scale growth.

And that's only one industry. What about energy efficiency? There's so much opportunity for tech disruption there, and the ceiling is just as high as solar.

Why the hell are entrepreneurs (and investors) trying to make the next big app when the ceiling is so much higher in cleantech? The next Google will be an energy company.

[1] - http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=11951

[2] - http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=44&p...

[3] - http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/24/npd-solarbuzz-predict-ma...
The price paid by Microsoft is approximately LEGO'S yearly revenue. A bit too steep?
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My one year old Nexus 4 is on KitKat. I guess you're talking about the Galaxy Nexus. While I agree with you that they dropped the support a way too soon, being the reference phone you'll have no problems in updating it with CyanogenMod, which is a really good distribution btw.

But as a slight counterpoint, given the fast release cycle, you can't expect them to support a phone forever. You mentioned iPhones. Well I have an iPhone 3GS. It's a perfectly capable phone that still works and that was still sold as the low-price alternative after iPhone 4 happened, yet Apple stopped supporting it as well. But I can understand that, because these OSes get more bloated with stuff and it leads to a shitty experience. I was able to upgrade an older Galaxy S (first generation, shipped originally with 2.1) to 4.3 by means of CyanogenMod and it was unusable due to the less than capable hardware.

Google did drop the support too early for the Galaxy Nexus, but try out CyanogenMod. I'm even thinking of installing it on my Nexus 4 because the Android on this device is bloated with Google-stuff that I cannot uninstall and it pisses me off. It's also enlightening to install CyanogenMod without Google Play, for an all open-source experience ;-)
He's known as a bit of an egomaniac. If you fancy some entertainment, go looking on reddit or whatever for testimony from former employees.
So we don't do jury trials in criminal cases where the jury can get the crime (96% pleas), but when it is about complex and bullshit IP laws, where even very savvy person will be confused - fire away.

Something is very wrong with that system.
It's also much more convenient for REPLs.
Just the goal:

My goal has been to decrease the effort required and increase the quality produced.

and the Basic Principles:

* Keep it Simple
* Do Not Speculate!
* Do It Yourself!

Are worth a read.

The work of C.Moore around Forth/Stack Machines and overall, doing more with less, as always amazed me!
The syntax will be almost entirely interchangable with MathJax; we also have a lot of content in MathJax-flavored-TeX and need it to work. However there are a couple small things that MathJax did strangely that we'd like to fix.

However, there are some features we don't support yet, notably environments (with \begin/\end) and some symbols. If you're using more advanced features, you might hit some snags. If you're trying to do something simple and it's not working, feel free to submit an issue on github, we'll see what we can do for you.
CyanogenMod changed their release versioning. There are no more "stable" builds anymore, at all. You're supposed to run "monthly" or "milestone" or whatever they are called. Yes, I think they could have communicated this much better.
That Business Insider post about the Pedro Bravo case is false. It was widely reported that Bravo asked Siri "I need to hide a dead body". But actually, he just had a screen shot of Siri. It was in the cache of the Facebook app on his iPhone.

Here's the story that BI refers to:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/flo...
The Independent eventually corrected their story, but Business Inside didn't bother to.

Here's some other stories:

Media mistake goes viral: Pedro Bravo did not use Siri to search for spots to hide a body
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20140813/ARTICLES/1408197...

No, Pedro Bravo Didn’t Ask Siri Where to Stash His Roommate’s Body
http://www.wuft.org/news/2014/08/13/no-pedro-bravo-didnt-ask...

Murder accused DIDN'T ask Siri 'how to hide my roommate'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/14/siri_how_can_i_dispo...
> If you see someone else running a message system that has no way for the cops to read it, that should be a sign that it's insecure -- not technologically, but architecturally.

What's that supposed to mean? What about OTR or TextSecure or PGP over email?
Minecraft is the gateway drug for a generation of hackers and makers. And that creative activity is still best done on a real computer, not a gaming console or phone.

If Microsoft actually provided a free, first-class development environment for modding Minecraft it would be a big deal, and it would win them a lot of exposure and goodwill among the next generation of programmers.

So I don't think it will "save" windows, but I do think it's a potentially smart move that gives them direct access to a self-selected audience of the right people.
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I tend to agree, it's much easier to just assume all online commutations are monitored than to try to escape the gaze of the five eyes (of Sauron).

Maybe this attitude means they have already won?
But at least there is the choice with Apple. You don't have to upgrade, but if you want the new security fixes, you have them.

With Android, if you find a beloved phone by many, you will be supported for YEARS. My gTablet was being updated by the community for 4 years after the last official update. My Galaxy Note has nightlies from multiple different projects. My wife's Sony Xperia Arc S has consistent updates still. You find a phone that people fell in love with and you will have your updates until the hardware is dead.
And anyone running the stable builds have therefore never been updated to an at all recent build… sighs

And looking at my phone, I have no idea how I'm meant to update to the milestone builds. The updater lets me select "stable" or "all (inc. nightly)", and nowhere do the milestone builds appear…

None of this is helping me believe there's really any decent security story. Abandon all users who don't check the website (or whatever) to find out about releases, trusting the built-in updater to provide updates. Never publish any security advisories that cover your distribution…
But the Nexus devices are just as bad as the others. If you had bought the latest model last year you'd be screwed on updates by now.

I'd love to buy an iPhone but I want to run Android software so Android it is.
How would this be exploited? Can you read the contents of a webview in another process? Your users would have to navigate somehow to an exploited page (via an ad)?
The fact that Apple could in the future modify their system to permit them to read iMessages (e.g. by interposing themselves between sender and receiver using fake public keys) is not really a fair basis for alleging that Tim Cook or anyone else is telling "half-truths" in respect of what Apple is currently doing. He has said they are not reading them and that, at present, they cannot read them. I'm not aware of any basis for impugning his credibility in that respect.

But it remains the case that anyone seriously concerned about security should continue to guard against that possibility in the future.
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Mindshare and omnipresence. Think of it as a gateway drug. When I began tinkering on computers at the age of 14, everything was based on Microsoft. The iPad (and Apple) has utterly destroyed that notion for today's youth. Today's 11 year old picks up an iPad and starts tapping away. Guess what they're going to want to build when they're 18, or 21?

Windows (and any OS for that matter) is only as good as the apps (read-> solutions) that reside on it. As more and more kids lose their attention on MS products to Apple ones, it means less awareness of MS's flagship products (Win+Office).
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Right. Oxygen was very bad for life when it appeared. Oxygen is good for life now, that evolved in its wake. I don't want massive quantities of stuff appearing that is bad for life now.
Well, here's my 5 year old attempt to do exactly the same thing: http://floating-point-gui.de
I wasn't saying that I think no one should do things that benefit humanity. Rather I was saying that you should only do what is meaningful to you as an individual.

Musk clearly finds what he does meaningful to himself and is not doing something he does not enjoy simply for the greater good of humanity.

Notch did not enjoy being part of something so large. I find it odd to belittle him for choosing the path of doing small things, since that is where something as impactful as Minecraft was created in the first place.
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Tcl's built-in "clock scan" command offers the same function. Even does stardates.
So the solution is to label nothing, and actively mislabel everything? That doesn't sound right.

https://www.google.com/search?q=john+oliver+food+labels
I think it takes a certain degree of courageousness to pursue entrepreneurship in the first place, and that shouldn't get dwindled down when applying to YC as you have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
My commentary, unlike yours, is informative (viz aespinoza).

Further, the cfaa case has been hashed over (conviction vacated in april), and the linked article pretty much says he left the states and may or may not do things. It's a discussion of weev, not the cfaa.

If you're so upset that weev's behavior towards women keeps getting brought up (and you can't even pretend it wasn't news to people right here), perhaps you should do some introspection.
It's even more puzzling when you consider that Minecraft is written in Java, so it's platform-agnostic for the most part.
And if you find that individually meaningful you should go for it!

Notch however, clearly did not enjoy working on something with so much publicity whether it benefited humanity or not. I don't think we should belittle him for that.
Plenty of stuff on the front page is merely 'interesting' and will never gain traction.
It's a very valid point. However, here's my armchair conclusion - energy efficiency is crazy hard. I invested in a solar company about ~5 yrs ago and watched as the market rarely met expectations. No idea where it is now, but my general conclusion was that the cost to do business in this area rarely outweighed the benefits (i.e. profits).
> I can't think of a modern analogue.

There are plenty.

Ironically, building a medieval cathedral is one of those analogues. Yes, we can build a cathedral with modern equipment, but we don't know how much of it was done without it. Much of the knowledge was considered too commonplace to be worth writing down.

A modern one ... how about a Saturn V rocket. We no longer have the steel mills with big enough tooling in order to actually build such a mammoth beast. We would have to reinvent much of that tooling in order to do it again.
For some reason I think only diversity may help.

1000s different systems built differently are harder to milk for useful information if user is smart.. Centralization is the enemy of privacy (centralized = compromised).

Unless they have an AI which can analyze such systems' patterns at the speed of light and present solutions (which is not as unbelievable as self-conscious AI) but it's still more of a fiction.

Really, the problem is not in tech, it's in people. We're not fixing this one anytime soon.
I actually went nuclear on a large rails project and migrated it from custom rails 2 fork to rails 4, it was a mess but we're glad we made the whole deal once instead of migrating slowly to 3.0, then 3.2, then 4. It took ~ 6 months as well.
Really? This is definitely not true in my experience. Most startup employees I've talked to absolutely know that 1%, 10% 30%, whatever, of nothing (or practically nothing) is still nothing. They're not in it for the rare chance that their 0.5% or less earns them upwards of $1M.
I'm unclear as to what you mean by that last sentence. If someone is running a message system that is distributed and keys to encrypt and decrypt are store locally, not on the server, then why wouldn't it be secure? The message system may be anything as simple as an addressing system

Ex: Email, which is run by any number of providers, however if an email client is configured to use PGP and access is via POP/IMAP and not webmail, it's still secure as far as we know. A message system that may not be email, but still doesn't store keys on the server, still provides no way for cops to read it. Except perhaps to see some message was sent, not what the message was.
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I believe the process will crash.
That's only your fake human skin atop your true Lizardman exterior.
Actually, the father being the kind of person to use his job to stalk his ex sounds like good enough reason to leave, and save any other sentients from him in the process.
Would the issue be framed in the same way if they were deleting profiles because someone used a name like "Thug Money" or "Street Playa"?
The part where he called her a bitch didn't seem like a clue? It does to me.
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I think I read about seizures from cold turkey which required a 35 week long tapering schedule to avoid. Checking for a source I don't find this mentioned in official side-effects, only less formal guidance for addicts. Strange.
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That is reassuring. I'm really ok with them having access after early childhood.
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No, you label things when there is scientific evidence, of the peer-reviewed and -reproduced kind, that there is a non-obvious risk associated with a given foodstuff or other item. GMO labeling falls well short of that standard.
The only substance it mentions is coffee.