skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given these points:

- The whole shutdown / acquisition / shutdown saga
- Tepid response wrt getting compensated to export data

Someone's still holding out hope for an injection of capital. Because once the export happens and the data is gone, the value is entirely lost.

I wouldn't bank on getting any traction on paid exports until the last possible second.
I did not see a save icon in this icon set. Could this finally mean the death of the floppy disk?
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Check out CloudFlare, they've been offering free one-click SSL for a little while now
> Even if the FBI got warrants from multiple respected judges, they couldn't go through that phone to look for clues about where kidnapper may have taken the child.

Sure they could. They might not be able to practically decrypt it, just as legal warrants wouldn't magically make them able to practically decrypt encrypted notes on paper in the same situation.

> The bottom line is that our justice system is based around the idea that a lawful warrant allows law enforcement to search or seize anything that could be useful in a time sensitive investigation.

Which encryption doesn't change. However, our legal system is not based around the idea that everyone has a positive obligation to surrender tools to a third party so that anytime law enforcement has a valid warrant to search and seize something, they also have a third-party other than the target they can go to in order to get assistance interpreting what they've seized.

The fact that they ever had that ability with phones is simply an accident of the fundamentally broken approach to security taken previously with mobile phones, which also made them vulnerable without a legal warrant. The correction of that vulnerability may inconvenience law enforcement, but it does so in a way consistent with the inconveniences law enforcement has always faced with the hardcopy documents that were the primary form of data that they might seize for most of the time our legal system has existed, not in some way that is somehow novel or inconsistent with the history of our legal system.
Knowing how to spell doesn't make you a writer. I think the parent is trying to explain that there's a cultural bias and inscrutability with respect to how music theory is taught. Does learning a notation system make one a theorist? One can be a western musician in, say, a jazz tradition, understand theory, have theories and play music and have never used the system of notation explained in the otherwise awesome comic.
Before this article informed me of it, I saw no such message. Or rather, I saw it, but didn't read it because it disappeared as soon as you hit your first keystroke in Spotlight. I'm not even always looking at the screen when I trigger Spotlight and I don't go reading the Spotlight popup for fun because I know what it's supposed to do, and what it's supposed to do is a local search without reporting my search terms to Apple. Changing what it's supposed to do in an easily-dismissed way is exactly the shitty, sneaky thing you're defending them for.
Hooray. This project was misleading and naive in many ways, and it definitely seemed to violate Kickstarter's rules against resale. But that's not why I'm happy this project got killed.

The much bigger problem was the open SSL account and sheer misguidedness of running all network traffic through Tor. This project risked causing real harm to people thinking that this would safeguard their privacy.
So basically this game is creepypasta where you are supposed to get horrified about how violent and uncaring gamers are, have a meaningful conversation with your friend where you just try to understand his problems (video games?) without getting frustrated, then call your mom to save you in order to win. Then it lets you go back to save your friend from video games because you understand.

THEN you find out it's all just feminist propaganda to talk about how horrible the gaming industry is.

I thought it was pretty interesting in the end but it has not convinced me there is any issue with video games. I grew up on Nintendo since I was 3 years old and would certainly consider myself a gamer. I believe it has had very positive influences on my life, and I also believe that a lot of the power I have supposedly lost is superficial anyways.

There are plenty of good influences that can be gained from video games, and it's especially disheartening that the author blames Nintendo, which is not even responsible for the violent/repetitive gaming culture. I honestly don't have much of a say in this recent argument because most of my gaming was done from 1988~2011, and from 2002 and beyond it has been majority MMO and rhythm games (I have continued to play MMOs - FF14! - when I can, but I'm currently taking a break so I can progress in the game of life)...I did play through GTA4 with a friend and would like to play GTA5 when I have free time again. I suppose that people that are choosing to play these mainstream violent games a la Call of Duty and the ones the feminists are talking about may be negatively influenced by them, but I'm more in the camp that the video games let us immerse ourselves into worlds where we can just enjoy and challenge ourselves, and take part in amazing creative stories. They are sort of virtual reality books, and books have the same spectrum of playing with our human and animal mind, appeasing to us however we are instinctively prone to being appeased. They are a good way to relax and stimulate our brains. Meh, like I say, I'm not really part of the demographic that is playing these games that feminists have such a huge problem with anyways.
As for google's paid distribution, quite a bit of that goes to Mozilla which most around here would say is a "Good Thing". Most of the rest goes to Apple for Google being the default search engine on iOS.

Besides and instant revenue loss, Apple would build an absolutely awful search engine so it's great news that they haven't tried yet. I mean, look at how awesome they did with mapping.
There are namespaces, but you have to put your code in a package to use them.
power users just hit it and go.
On the topic of Chrome performance tips, if you always have dozens of open tabs in different windows, this nifty extension will freeze them out (unload them) until you actually want to look at them again : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

In theory, this is what memory paging is for. In practice, this is higher level and seems to work much better.
If nothing else, and it seems like this specific project could be salvagable at something closer to Germar's original $7,500 level, Anonabox has proven that there is large, consumer-level demand for online privacy.

A better (more secure) consumer solution may be developed by an established company as a result. More desirably, though sadly less likely, governments may take notice of what the people they serve are demanding.
How is it sarcastically impressive that I hit cmd-space and typed "it" for iTerm, like I do every time I start up my computer and have for the last two years? How is it sarcastically impressive that I just start typing into Spotlight, because I know that's what Spotlight is? And what makes you think I've gone to Spotlight preferences since upgrading to Yosemite? I had my preferences the way I wanted them, why would an OS upgrade make me psychically know to go there?

Going further, what makes you think I give a material shit about Apple's PR materials? I don't read about OS X releases, I upgrade when they show up because I trusted (past tense) Apple to do the right thing. Something you can bypass without even acknowledging it is at best sneaky. If Apple thought this was seriously all that and a bag of potato chips, an opt-in is real easy.

Be better than defending this, man. It's dirty.
Hi,

Thank you for taking the time respond, and for your impressive body of work.

My knee-jerk reaction to everything about this site can definitely be attributed to ignorance. Something worth considering, in my opinion, for the goal of the project.

fix-osx: I didn't know it needed fixing (in the context of what this site declares is wrong). I am open to being wrong, and that it would need fixing, but my gut response is that it doesn't. It is not intended to attack/dispute your messaging, but rather explain how it could be read by someone unfamiliar with how it is indeed that way.

Expanding on that, I don't hold that OSX inherently betrays user privacy. While this can be considered a privacy leak by ux design (it is, I agree), it's not something that would lead me to the conclusion that the OS has no privacy by design. I'll be looking more into this now, however.

Regarding the disclaimer... That backstory certainly validates the tone, but a disclaimer for the disclaimer would be nice for the uninitiated :-

Best,
Amazing. What about the proper file creation? (Although that's not that hard with a couple of calls to "cat" but getting the order right is hard for people who haven't done it before).
I use a kitchen analogy. Writing software is like cooking in your kitchen. You dirty dishes and utensils, use up ingredients, and the sink gets crowded with detritus. Refactoring is washing the dishes, buying new ingredients, and straightening up the kitchen.

In professional kitchens most chefs enforce the clean-as-you-go rule[1]. The same rule should apply to professional software development.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/food/features/cleanliness-is-next-to-impo...
Max Tegmark has some really good writing on this. I quite like the idea that the "universe Hamiltonian" acts deterministic in phase space such that the universe's wave function evolves deterministic. From the "inside" of the system, the atoms in our brain are just carried along on a stochastic path such that the conscious awareness we currently inhabit is one of many the many possible paths through the large phase space. From the "outside" the universe is a infinitely dimensional, phase space that evolves deterministically through time.

That way I reason about it is that the big bang was a single "pixel" of super high energy in an infinitely dimensional phase space and the laws of physics are a Hamiltonian "kernel" that evolves the phase space in a similar way to the heat equation. Thus this kernel acts on the phase space from the big bang, mechanistically acting out the laws of physics, all the way until the heat death of the universe: effectively the fixed-point of the universe kernel.

This may all sound like bullshit to a physicist, but it's the application of my limited understanding of physics and mathematics to the thought experiment.

Good reading here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesi...

http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/mathematical.html

http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0646
Wonder how many entrepreneurs are looking at this and seeing the awesome market validation of the idea. I know there's some debate around whether this is technically possible or not, but hopefully some smart hacker somewhere can figure those issues out and make a success with this.
specifically designed for analytics. Not necessarily user-level, human-level analytics. The chinstroking that follows was risible consultancy-baiting.
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It's the same security model as downloading a binary and running it.
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My view of this part of the Constitution is that the person and their device are protected and law enforcement is wrong.

You seem to not sharing the Constitution's distinction between warrantless and warranted searches. The complaint being fielded by some in law enforcement is that recent changes in encryption mechanisms in iOS and Android will render many warranted searches useless.
Anyone know in what form lead occurs in the residue/vapour at gun ranges?

Is it all native Pb, or are other more soluble compounds formed during firing?
The FBI recently rewrote its mission statement to reflect that fact that it is now an intelligence agency in addition to being a law enforcement organization.

It has been operating as an intelligence agency for a long time, they just finally decided to own up to it.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/quick-facts
> Encryption like this is a drastic change in the legal landscape.

It isn't a change at all. You have been able to anonymously rent a locker at a YMCA or a self-storage unit or a cabin in the woods since forever. Evidence of a crime stored there is inaccessible to law enforcement because they don't know where it is. There is no practical difference between "don't know where it is" and "don't have the password." This is not a new thing.
Are you talking about the same FBI which tried to blackmail Martin Luther King from giving up his campaign for civil rights in the US - many of those rights ones everyone already theoretically had under the US constitution and court decisions?

You're talking about entrusting a government organization which has already repeatedly betrayed that trust to not interfere with political affairs in this country. They've already over-extended themselves in terms of what they can investigate, now you want them to have control of everyone's lives so they can't have any privacy if they wish.
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You can always switch to notation mode and work out the fingering for yourself, just like you normally would. The programs can also allow you to move notes between strings, and it will shift the tab so the note played is the same, even in alternate tunings, so you can quickly try different positions on the neck. I also know Guitar Pro has a feature where you can enter notation or tabs and it will attempt to work out the best fingering for you. I don't know how well this feature works, though.

If something is tabbed inefficiently, that's a problem with the author of the tabs, not the format. I'd say incorrect tablature is similar to incorrect notation. Just because someone can notate music incorrectly doesn't mean that sheet music is a poor format.

The fact that tabs imply a certain fingering is a larger benefit than an issue. Many riffs are only realistically playable with one specific fingering, and a tab can help you figure this out much more quickly than you could with your ear or notation alone. Especially when it comes to deciphering whether something is using techniques that can produce the same notes, but different sounds or ease of playing. Like sweeping as opposed to tapping, or songs written in alternate tunings.
To manipulate VIX price, don't you need to buy/sell an order of more magnitude of SPX contracts. On the same topic, I'm not a big fan of the RLS of RUT contracts as it gives so much uncertainty on settlement day.
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With TouchID in all new Apple devices, it is much easier now to have complex passcodes without sacrificing usability.

Also, some of these vulnerabilities are slightly outdated with iOS8.
Yea, that could have been more clear. If a large fund want's to maintain say 5% apple stock and 5% IBM in their portfolio and consistently balances their portfolio based on a set interval after market changes or even at the same time every day you could discover the pattern and exploit the behavior.

EX: In the next 1/2 a second their going to go from selling at 15 to buying at 16 that's almost free money.
Very nice! I notice that some bugs have been fixed since I last tried the latest development version(~4 months ago).

I really like the enhancement to C-x TAB to use the arrow keys to adjust the indentation on the selected region.
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>The point that James Comey was trying to make is that we don't want to live in a world without warrants.

>Sealed court orders and proceedings for google, twitter, apple, dropbox, yahoo.

>NSA scandal.

I would rather have a few criminals go free (if the only evidence was on their Apple device) than unfettered access to my data. I guess I just enjoy the little bit of freedom I have left.
Change your expectations from short term to long term.
Grugq has been working on this since -- 2012. He's had working code; it was just a problem of getting COTS hardware which would support it. Making custom hardware is a bad idea for this for a variety of reasons.

Grugq, Marc Rogers, and I have shown a (much more functional, actually secure) version of this, called PORTAL, at a couple conferences this summer, and will have a retail version on Amazon by December -- none of this presale BS.

Free downloads of the firmware for some of the most commonly available routers out there, and sold at cost ($20-25).
I'm thinking a nice combo would be an ipad like device for the display side, and an Intel CPU + storage and extra battery in the keyboard base, with a magnetic link for power/data/physical support at the hinge. The handoff capability in Yosemite is an interesting precursor for the type of integration it would take to get that hardware combo working smoothly...
www-start looks like a good quick start to building a HTML5 app.

In the README, you should talk about how it helps you get going faster.
I truly don't see many people talking about leaving go after getting frustrated with no generics. If this were survivor bias, where are the casualties?
The first time I clicked spotlight after upgrade to yosemite, I was clueless what to do with the pop-up. closed, clicked spotlight several times until i realized i need to start typing and then saw the cursor. something weird about the whole UI changes. I prefer the old look and glossy icons. what's up with flat everything.
The first thing I did was disabling the web search in spotlight.
I have zero issue with this, and it's clearly labelled and explained. Of all the breaches in my privacy, this isn't one I'm worried about. Google gets 100% of my searches and email messages, so it's a question of who you trust.
Related NYTimes article from April 2014: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/business/a-thriving-market...
Slime is really amazing. It provides tons of features of which here are a few (these work with Common Lisp, I have no clue if they work with Clojure).

Inspector[0]: You can click on objects to "inspect" their values. This includes hash-tables, arrays, and closures. In addition you can execute arbitrary code on these objects at any time, even while a program is running.

Trace Dialog[1]: Most Lisp implementations already provide a way to trace procedures. Tracing normally consists of printing the input and the output as each traced procedure is called. Slime provides something much more powerful. Slime's Trace Dialog is similar to trace in that it creates a buffer of the input and output, but instead it is provided in a tree menu format. In addition it is possible to inspect all of the values in the Trace Dialog with the inspector.

Debugger[2]: When an error is thrown in a program, a window pops up which provides several things. You can click on a stack frame to see all of the variables in that frame and then inspect those variables with the inspector. You are also provided with a list of restarts[3]. In addition, you can return a value from a given stack frame, or retry a procedure call on the stack frame (you may have modified the definitions of some procedures before you did this), and have the program continue as if nothing had ever happened.

There are also many other features, such as the ability to macroexpand code by clicking on it, to look up every procedure which calls a given procedure, to look up every place in which a given variable is set, and many other awesome features.

[0] http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Inspector.html

[1] http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/SLIME-Trace-Di...

[2] http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Debugger.html#...

[3] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Common_Lisp/Advanced_topics/Con...
I've said this in other threads on this but I think "lying" is an extreme exaggeration for what happened here. I've read the whole listing and I see nothing claiming that he designed the whole thing from scratch (and he would be an idiot if he had tried to, as all of the parts are commonly available).

Basically he offered a router that was pre-configured to use TOR. There are lots of people not comfortable with/capable of flashing their routers to use tools like OpenWRT or DD-WRT...and for good reason, as a novice could pretty easily brick their router. It's obvious by the response that a plug-and-play solution does offer value to some people, whether he painstakingly designed the hardware or not.
The secure area of the CPU contains a key that is combined with the passcode so the passcode by itself can only be tried on the actual device, which has speed and retry limits. If the data is copied off then the key is passcode + unknown number from secure area and the entire key length has to be brute forced (as if the user entered a longest, most random password possible).

So even a 4-digit passcode with wipe on too many failures is secure except to hacking the OS from the lock screen, which is pretty difficult to do. Even then the cracking has to be done on the device, so while a 4-digit code could be cracked even a 6 character alphanumeric even will take days and longer passwords are basically uncrackable.
Power users use Alfred or LaunchBar (or Quicksilver, IIRC that project was resurrected).
We have rights against unreasonable searches, not undesirable searches.
INDOOR ranges, to be clear. I don't know how people can stand shooting in them because of the increased percussion, regardless of lead poisoning.
thanks, I am in the process of writing documentation right now.
I don't normally like horror games but that was great!
"The US Air Force's X-37B appeared at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on 3 December 2010"

Picture is from a while ago.
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Not nearly as often as stupid actions are believed to have malicious underpinnings, they aren't.
Did you notice the people trying to contact Noah Everett?
>>but hopefully some smart hacker somewhere can figure those issues out and make a success with this.

Isn't security so complex that it's unrealistic to expect "some smart hacker" to figure out the issues?

My understanding, at least from reading tptacek's posts here, is that you need a very qualified team of experts to tackle the difficult problems in the security field, and then have their research findings and inventions validated and vetted by the security community as a whole.
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I don't know about that. I think every major composer up to the mid 20th century gets a fair shake - and are undoubtedly not in the same league as the aforementioned 3. Composers from the last 70 years are harder to evaluate owing to the 'post-melodic' trend.
Hugh takes his abilities personally. That's what makes him great. He's not building for a disability. He's building for extraordinary abilities. Started with rock climbing with protheses then to something as subtle as how an old walking prosthesis would drop the foot on lift. He's an inspiration. Taking a horrible accident and making many lives better and for many generations.
So, the title, as well as being innuendo, is false - it's not 'by design' it is 'by default', and only for search terms.

I think it's fair enough to point out that these search terms are transmitted to Apple. It's also reasonable to complain that the option is hidden, and the terms and conditions where this is pointed out are glossed over.

This site, however, is counterproductive theater designed to look hackerish and scary, as well as to mislead users. It commits exactly the same error as Apple is accused of committing - it hides the fact that there is a simple UI to control this function, and that users should be educated to make the choice for themselves.

Whoever did this is making things worse.
In six months, since the Jan radar, it went from Assess to Trial, so that's a pretty rapid advance.