skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were "in" the Google ecosystem you would just need to type "Home".
Both TCP and SCTP are in-order, which is what you frequently want but not always. We don't have a good, reliable messaging protocol that allows out of order messages, which can lead to increased latency that isn't necessary for some use cases.

This can cause much larger latencies for messages that have arrived but aren't delivered to the application because a previous packet was dropped and is awaiting retransmission
You should be off Python already, no need to wait for Rust.

Ocaml, F#, Common Lisp, Scala/Clojure (if JVM) are languages that blow Python out of the water for anything that's not scripting/throw-away code.
Optimal obfuscation: a theory in political economy that posits where there is policy transparency, propose something just complex enough that it will be difficult for opponents to discern the downsides.
That book is worth a read.
If you have to go back almost 90 years to prove a point about contemporary cultural standards, you are really delusional.
I think you are way over thinking it. The NSA's internal slides said nothing about Apple helping the NSA at all.

I read these statements just a Mr. Cook laid them out.
Samsung unveils robot sentry that can kill from two miles away
Who needs threads when you get drumroll poor excuse of an asynchronous event loop!! In 2014 no less!
The paragraph he quoted notes that Apple does not have the keys.
Here's what Apple Store employees have to do on iPhone 6 launch day
Ha! In my case it sometimes insists that I travel to work at random places at not really normal office times. Wish I could tell it I work from home or better yet it figure that out!
And Apple can say "Nope" and make it all very public and take it all to the SCOTUS.
That's fascinating. Can you link to more information / data / anecdotes?
For any person who claims to have years of Unix experience, they can easily do anything they want using man pages. Though I agree with you on the general premise though. One must be allowed to look up information they need to solve a problem.

>>I've had a "real-life" test where I wasn't allowed to verify or look up information, or where I'm giving a very short time to execute, and I've always thought those were absurd.

You certainly haven't worked at major IT services firms here in India. I spent early part of working years (around 2006) coding by purely reading books and discussing things with folks on internal mailing list. Because only managers and levels above were allowed internet access.

>>The idea that you would ever have to do something like this in a bomb-diffusing type of scenario with no internet and a ticking clock, would only test if you have already solved the problem before, not whether you could investigate a new problem.

This is unfortunately true even for coding interviews. Most algorithm questions are impossible to answer unless you have rote memorized the algorithms and their implementations.
It's 2014, Python still has a GIL, Guido thinks asynchronous event loops are hot stuff and you're talking about quantum CPUs?
Thanks, that is actually a very nice article with a refreshing take on the problem. I wonder if there's actually any good arguments against what he is proposing (giving convicts a choice to be lashed to reduce jail time).
Not if you look at how it actually works. Apple is involved in the process in a way where they don’t have to do or know much. It seems it’s deliberately set up that way.
It would be useful to know the commands that were run for gdb, lldb, and so on to do our own comparisons.

I also have need of being able to run a program under a harness that, should it crash, lets me get the stack and other details. Bonus points if I get to set up my own code to help decode and pretty print my own data types. But for my purposes, that needs to be something under a more open license which is why I've been working with LLDB to date.
After a few months of frequently working weekends, Google started giving me directions to work on Saturdays when I stayed at home. I very much like the idea behind this kind of prompt but something like this has so much surface area that it's mostly impossible for them to handle every single edge case (like ours).
google analytics or may be check out logs from your host provider.
The drivel about Instagram ratios hurts to read.

They're Internet Points: inherently worthless, and they exist to manipulate your brain's pleasure centers.
Best Job Posting Ever Seeks Sex-Loving Pothead
no ad-block unless in low bandwidth situation.
always block plugins by default.
Besides the fact that they can't (as we have seen with NSLs) admitting that the outcome is contingent on policy means the (technical) security is broken.
Those marriages were made to pass on pension benefits.
With my iPhone, I've noticed that the device itself will notice things (though perhaps not as much as Google), without necessarily reporting this information back to Apple.

For instance, it does the content recognition and offers to create calendar events for phrases like "tomorrow", "September 18th", and so forth out of my email. Also, it knows where I live and where I work and tells me how long it'll take to drive back and forth (which isn't helpful to me because I walk), but it also notices when I'm spending the night with my girlfriend because it starts telling me how long it'll take to go to her place.

Perhaps for the level of sophistication Google offers, they need to keep your entire life stored in Google's data centers. But the kinds of features you point out, by and large, are more than possible without it. Your iPhone would know when you have a flight booked, because your boarding pass would be right there in Passbook. It would know when and where you land, because it has GPS. Google might have more clever technology for aggregating and displaying that information, but it doesn't inherently require sending all that data to Google's servers, and the fact that they do so is telling.
One wonders what Google's cost is to run these services, what margin they'd be happy with, and whether people would pay that in exchange for privacy.

Google's latest quarterly website revenue is about US$11B; assuming 500M active users, primitive math gives $88/user/year. Interestingly, that number is right between Google Apps' two paid tiers. However, I'm not sure if adopting paid Google Apps means you've totally escaped the advertising and privacy implications of all of Google's services.
Fair enough. I agree with you.
FYI - Neither Eliot Spitzer nor Charles Keating were ever legislators.
For example, a network adversary can make a list of everyone who was interested in Apple's government data access policy. They can also tell which of those people accessed that policy from an Apple device, thanks to unencrypted user-agents. One practical use of that might be in planning future investigations.

More generally, there was the report of an XKeyScore rule to identify people who were interested in Tails. It's hard to know what a particular network adversary uses that information for, but it's disquieting to think that, partly because information about OSes, privacy policies, and communications security measures is served up unencrypted, it's possible to profile people based on their platforms (or intended future platforms), interest in particular aspects of privacy and security, and technical sophistication.

Because of TCP fingerprinting and unique file sizes, as well as sites that have information only or mainly about a single topic, it may be hard to fix this problem with HTTPS alone. But it's important to think of the fact that someone read something as privacy-sensitive even when the thing they read is available to the public. If you don't care for the communications security examples or they just strike you as too meta, try browsing around WebMD for a bit. Nothing there is secret or even customized for any particular user!
And each time you swipe it away, it'll ask you if you no longer want to receive directions to this location.
For a moment I thought John Cormack replied :)

Thanks for the info.
I write mobile apps for a living. My desk is littered with iPads, Android phablets, etc. I've tried them all.

You can drag the e-ink display Kindle from my cold dead hands. Nothing is better for serious book reading. It's the only screen my wife and I allow in our bedroom, it's the only electronic device I'm bringing to the beach. I'm very happy to see Amazon continuing to refine them.
Don't underestimate the self-delusion capacity of the semi-affluent. How long has the "pay me something to be published in our folio of Very Important People" scam been going on, with a never-ending line of suckers willing to pay to be included.
Isn't that 5.5 years of sequential trying? This is a parallelizable problem. There's also no restriction on how fast a cracking machine is allowed to be, so I doubt 80ms is the lower limit.
Cool stuff. I once had something similar for the scary-sounding Jenzabar LMS that I used in college.

Have you tried this on other Blackboard deployments? Looks like the QuikPay stuff at least is U. of Rochester-specific.
Commitment and capability are two things.

I am not saying Apple does not have the capability to protect user privacy, but I trust Google more in term of their capabilities.
IOS8 breaks all file uploads from Safari
How exactly would it make predictive typing and Siri better if Apple decided to invest engineering resources in new and clever ways to sell your private information to advertisers?
From Apple's site:

> Even if you choose to use a third-party application to access your iCloud data, your username and password are sent over an encrypted SSL connection.

So user/pass is sufficient to access cleartext of your data, and Apple definitely has that.

This should be obvious: If there is any way to recover your data when you lose your phone (without using a secret key that is never shared with Apple) then the security is broken.
Facebook's flow, new JavaScript type checker
doesn't make any sense to me. mobile devices are like the new PC industry all over again..they become more and more powerful with each generation. only now there's a power budget handicap unlike on PCs. in time to come, they will probably enter intel territory in terms of power budget and compute. the problem then will be, has the world switched to ARM software, or are we still using x86-64? its a cop out, but i imagine the world is not likely going to replace essentially all its software anytime soon.. i mean, there could be ports, but as long as i have a x86-64 machine and the software works, why would i switch? unless the ARM port is much better? i fail to see how its going to happen.. all in all, intel just has to wait for mobile devices to catch up with existing PCs..if i were them i'd fund all sorts of battery tech to help mobile computing on its way...

separately, i thought intel always was ARM capable only they made hardly any ARM chips(i think they sold strongARM a long time ago)..and also a big difference between the ARM ecosystem and Intel is Intel is a fab as well..and a darn good one.

the only thing(ok this can't really be true) Intel doesn't seem to be able to do is make a good graphics processor..
plain and to the point? please, it's obvious that they're now working with Al-Qaeda because the statement didn't explicitly mention them.

Goddamn I hate the tinfoil-hat nonsense that happens here...
The way user data fits into Apple's business model (ie. to make the product better vs. generating ad revenue) is appealing, but unfortunately it's gotten to the point where pledges of privacy from US companies have a hollow ring to them. I expect a gradual migration away from US-based SaaS/PaaS and OS offerings to open source alternatives and self-hosted utility computing, particularly for business and government applications.
It's a shame Newegg is rarely the place to go for actually good prices these days. I find I'm buying something like 80% of my computer parts from Amazon now as they consistently beat Newegg on the price of nearly everything barring some extremely rare (and randomly timed) substantial sale on Newegg.
Just forwarded an email to our company wide listserv. It should be fixed soon.
Moto X review from AnandTech
I'm probably dating myself a little, but this was true for me as well. Pre-college, everyone used AIM. During college, most social communication happened on email lists, with some 1:1 communication happening through the first version of google chat ('gchat'). As in, the one with the desktop client.
Considering the median cost of a house in, say, Reston VA is almost $450k, you can see how someone there would have a million in household assets without any other trappings of wealth.
iOS Security – September 2014 [pdf]
The key now for any Mass-Market printer manufacturer is to "go apple". Support a proprietary format so you can only print those out on their printer, and have a "store" full of stuff you can download and print off. Populate the store with unbelievably professionally modeled thingamabobs to kick it off. Let people put up their own models, and even set price points to download the model, but don't charge for each copy.
Maybe it's just me, but his answers are hilariously terse.

> Are you interested in cryptography?

>> Not so much.

> Would you describe yourself as famous now?

>> Yes.

> Would you accept a medal?

>> Yes.
I don't see that implication at all.
"we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services" seems to rule that out.
I've suffered with Filezilla for a long time. I say suffer, but it was great.. until I found Transmit.

Transmit has streamlined so many processes for me now, some by milliseconds, some by minutes, some by hours. I don't have to think if Filezilla will throw a fit over something, I just let Transmit do it's thing.

I'm sure you might have your personal reasons to complain but all i'm seeing here are good things from other users.
Snowden pretty much validated those tinfoil-hat people's worries.
I think the CW overestimates drug crimes, and also overestimates what those sentenced for drug crimes would be doing with their lives otherwise. Having read through quite a few criminal files, I can think of only a single example of someone that made me think: "gee, he's in jail solely because drugs are illegal."

I support legalization and oppose three strikes laws because they fuck over a small minority of people who don't deserve it. But it's a small minority.
Whoever did this at Apple, I tip my hat to you
I agree, it looks fantastic! I really enjoy all manner of Intel®‎ products, and am a firm believer that if it has Intel Inside®‎ then I'm super charging my projects. As the inventor and leader in microprocessors, Intel®‎ is really showing how their expertise can unlock the potential of my projects through the utilization of Intel®‎ Edison technologies!

;)
Apple Pay is actually designed specifically so that Apple does not see your individual credit card data, purchase history, etc.

Apparently they will know total aggregate spending through Apple Pay since it's been reported that they get a cut. But that's completely different from, "Hey we noticed you just bought X, why don't you also buy Y, or maybe next time get a better price at store Z"... which is more like the Google approach, and my personal preference is to avoid such 'features' like the plague.
Hmm, yes. That makes sense. Being able to retrieve from a different device would blow the 'by device' idea apart. And you're also able to reset your password and have access to all of your stored information, which I think just further enforces the concept that nothing you're storing is unreadable by Apple(Or any requesting agency...).

I'm not sure how anything could be safely stored on their cloud(or any cloud), given these features.
Good stuff..
It just shows how that if you do something with nothing to loose, you always end up doing your best..
Well I didn't want to oversell it. :-)

Seems like every time someone compliments the OS X Terminal, someone else pipes up with a list of commands and utilities it's missing or several versions back on, compared to a Linux distro.
After reading the links, seems like they are paid very little (60 cents/day). Also, I feel training them to get higher level jobs could be more beneficial. e.g. Freelance PM/Designer/Dev could earn a lot more while working remotely with little background checks.
There's actually an option for this in the Google Now settings, but I don't have my Nexus anymore so I can't tell you exactly where. Should be something like unchecking "give me recommendations based on where I go" or something. I know you can also set home and work locations manually.
I haven't tried it on other Blackboard deployments. I hope if someone is interested in doing so they may try it out, either as a fork or by making bb more general. I would expect to find issues with differences in the HTML which would have to be handled appropriately.

The QuikPay and Sequoia stuff is specific to institutions/installations that have integrated with those companies, which includes some other than rochester.edu, but of course not all.
It must feel great to have a excuse for everything ever. Just utter his name an all your paranoia is legit!
I got the DX because I read a lot of PDFs and Word documents that don't fit on a small screen. It ended up being my favorite ereader ever. The big screen lets you pick a big font, which makes for a super-easy reading experience. The battery is a problem, though, yeah.
"Check connections" used to be the first rule or something of debugging
The aggressive location-of-work detection is something I've run into as well. Last year it took four trips in three months before my phone decided that I worked at the airport.

Air travel is the context of another "overly helpful" issue: The "remind me where I parked" feature doesn't seem to make any attempt to distinguish between modes of transport, with the effect that when I enter the airport terminal after a flight my phone invariably decides that I need to be reminded where "I" parked the plane.
The comparison was against the U.K. I'm not an expert in turn of the century British criminal law, but I don't imagine you'll find that it was particularly oriented toward rehabilitation. Yet, their homicide rate has always been dramatically lower.
How many roads to hell have been paved with the statement "simple encryption"?
I run into this despite having set my work location manually. Either it's failing to handle identical work and home locations or it ignores the manual settings given enough "evidence".
iCloud backups aren't encrypted with the same key as on device storage.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you implying there is evidence showing that smoking one cigarette causes you to be permanently unhealthy?
Apple will no longer unlock most iPhones, iPads for police
I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're saying here, but I think the difference you're noticing is due to co-variance, and the fact that this calculator doesn't take it into account (or just assumes that it's 0).

For example, when you use covariance properly you could say:
x=2+/-2
x-x=0

since covariance = 1

But this calculator assumes that covariance is zero, so it does the calculation
(2+/-2) - (2+/-2) = 0+/-sqrt(2^2 + 2^2) = 0+/-2.8

If I'm misunderstanding and this is another problem, please help me, I'm not all that good with uncertainties, but am trying to learn more in this area as it's very useful.
AT&T Patents Technology to Keep Torrent Files Alive
I use homicide because good records have been kept of such crimes over a long period of time. More recently, homicides have tracked the overall violent crime rate pretty well: http://www.volokh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/vcrime500.j...
Along the same lines, there's no point in comparing the effectiveness of different forms of birth control because only abstinence is 100% effective.

Sometimes people want to eat and drink things because they taste good. There's nothing wrong with that, and we should be supportive of making marginal improvements rather than dismissing anything other than radical change.
The few seconds of manual verification can add up, especially when millions of users do it. That effort could be better spent in auditing a middle-man tool and fixing it for the benefit of all.
Quickly Find Mobile Device Repair Shops
Mozilla Labs Closed and Nobody Noticed
There's a lot of research on the optimal line length for reading but there are a number of other considerations that go into website design. For example:

Many sites (including both Wikipedia and HN) practice responsive design, where the width & layout of screen elements adapts to the size of your window. There's a good argument that providing the user control of their own situation outweighs the consensus research on the "average user". After all, you're trying to make each user happy, you aren't trying to make a hypothetical average user happy.

Most of the time, users skim sites, they don't read them. Optimizing for reading is counterproductive when the user just wants to find a sentence or two and go away.

Sites can become aesthetically unpleasant if they have a small column of text and a gigantic amount of whitespace. Nobody reads the site when the user bounces.

Sometimes sites are set up to use indentation to convey hierarchy, eg. in comment threads. These can also look awkward if the right margin keeps shifting over with each new comment. (Although personally, I prefer that to having tiny little comments that are 2-3 words wide.)

There's a meta-point here: oftentimes, academic research into one specific area is not relevant to a larger product, because there are other trade-offs that have to be made. When I first went into software, I wondered why all this cool academic research into programming language design was being totally ignored. It turns out that oftentimes the really cool language features like macros, type inference, predicate dispatch, tail-call optimization, etc. have side-effects that make them impractical for use in a real software system.
Well, that might be the most impressive official comment I've ever seen from a large business. It wasn't too technical (from a legal or technological perspective), but also wasn't too dumbed down. It was clear and frank, and not once did my "BS alarm" go off.

But I'm generally a fan of Apple, and a frequent user of iOS devices, and I've always liked Tim Cook. Maybe I'm biased.
I would switch from python to Go but

- Type system needs to be improved e.g. generic code

- Verbosity, duplication of code are painful

- Lack of functional features

- Tooling

- Maturity
Ludobots MOOC
Same thing. I have the DX and love it. I can't complain about the battery, it lasts at least 3 weeks of 1 to 2 hours of reading every single night with the 3G off.

The only thing that pisses me off is that I could not find a decent reading light to accompany it until today.

I ended up using my IPhone a reading light which is not ideal.