skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the FBI doesn't have access to our every thought and desire more criminals who are legitimately guilty will walk, which means that all of us will be less safe.

Therefore it is reasonable that the law enforcement should have some ability to access our every thought and desire with approval from the judiciary. We don't want to endanger ourselves in order to protect our banal private thoughts or dissemble the legal systems for the sake of keeping our sexual desires private.

Also, something about "think about the children!".
If the ONLY evidence of something is "encrypted information", doesn't that rule out a lot of crimes, including all physical violence?

> 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.

Yeah, and the same goes for when the kidnapper isn't dumb, or doesn't leave their phone behind. Sometimes it's tough. But that doesn't warrant everything.

> We don't want to endanger ourselves in order to protect the banal communications on our cell phones or dissemble our legal system for the sake of keeping our sexting private.

What you call banals is not banal to me, not at all. I would even say hundreds of millions of people having no expectation of privacy is a much bigger issue than all unsolved crimes in the US put together. And then there are past episodes like COINTELPRO, are there not. I would say that unbreakable encryption, combined with other things of course, makes a lot more impossible than just catching petty criminals via them making silly mistakes. It is also one sandbag against tyranny, and that is also a ticking bomb scenario. That bomb is far from being defused.
I clearly need to learn a lot more about FreeBSD (and it's cousins) but unfortunately we're committed to Docker for server deployments.
Uber for movers
Consumed: A meditation on being eaten
Well, the green party isn't using the word "Multikulti" a lot these days. I do hear it a lot when people want to justify racist beliefs, though. And a lot.

The pure fact that there are multiple cultures in Germany is very evident. And it's not just immigrants. Point is: You can't get rid of people that don't suit your cultural preferences. You can't force assimilation. Instead, this constant "assimilation debate" is more a means to scare off foreigners.

You didn't say anything about genetics, but others do. Especially the "Sarrazin school" of racism. Strongly associating faults and delinquency to cultural backgrounds or religion isn't that much better, though.

Most (purportedly) muslim students don't exhibit mysogyny against female teachers. It is simply wrong to ascribe most or all of these problems to misogyny, even if this explanation is so simple and logical.

It also doesn't point to a solution for these problems.
I feel like I'm repeating myself too much in this thread, haha, but only because it seems like no one is acknowledging that you can combine both forms very easily and produce very clear results. You just replace the staff notation with tabs, but keep everything else.

I took a quick screenshot to show an example[1]. I think here you can tell very easily what fingerings to play, what the note duration is, and when you should sustain notes over others. The difference between slurs, slides and whammy bar bends (The V symbol you see next to notes like in meas 3), muting notes is an x, yadda, yadda. I'll stop going on about tabs now.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/yog4v5n.png
Thank you, I knew I was missing something. Also, I found that iOS 8 (mostly) fixed the backdoor:

http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=3820
> distinction?

Yes, in the first paragraph is implicitly assumed
that law enforcement didn't have a warrant.

But eventually I also wrote "if they don't have one of those warrant thingies. Even if they do have a warrant, do I have to decrypt the data for them?"

So, there I was considering the distinction.
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No power user ever uses spotlight to launch apps? Those are some awe-inspiring mental gymnastics you're doing to take Apple's side here.
Ask HN: Which companies are awesome at mentoring?
Hi, HN! I’m hoping some of you can help me.

I’ll be graduating with a Masters in CS in May. My goal is to become an excellent software developer as quickly as possible, and I believe that being a part of a company that encourages mentorship within its culture will help me achieve this. However, as I’m researching potential employers, I’m rarely able to get an understanding of which places would be ideal.

Do you (1) know of any specific companies that place an emphasis on the development of new grads, and/or (2) do you have any advice for me as I continue to conduct my research with a focus on those companies that promote mentorship.

Thanks!
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>...it is impossible to create a back door into an operating system that eliminates the possibility that other unauthorized access will occur...

This idea of back doors being opened up to black-hat hackers seems to be the crux of the current leading argument against key escrow. Even the EFF is beating this drum.

Bear with me, I'm not disagreeing with that argument, but isn't there another point to be made here? And that is:

Key escrow systems ask us to assume that the current "good" guys in positions of authority will always remain good. Isn't that a bit too much of an assumption?
What the article describes is not an Ebola flight ban.

A true Ebola flight ban would halt all commercial air travel in and out of the affected nations. If you wanted to get in or out of there, you'd have to be authorized to board a US military flight.

A ban would not be hard to implement. Liberia only has 11 airports, and only one (Roberts, in Monrovia) is an "international" airport.

Assuming that the safety and security of Americans is your primary consideration (for non-American readers, replace "America" with the name of your country), what's wrong with locking these places down completely? We would not be restricting our ability to fly in food, medical teams, soldiers, etc., as those things don't need to go over commercial flights anyway. Even if commercial flights are slightly cheaper, why be penny-wise and pound-foolish, given that the lives of many other people around the world (and eventually our own) are at considerable risk if this outbreak is not controlled? If there aren't enough military flights, why not simply order more planes into service? It's not like we don't have enough planes, pilots or fuel to do that.

A lot of people in West Africa are facing starvation due to internal restrictions on movement and economic activity. Why not make a trade with these nations? America would give them food, medical assistance, and help with security, if they agree to let America lock their airports and shorelines down (the neighboring countries have the border crossings taken care of).

And aren't we doing most of these things anyway? Why not do this last thing (a full flight ban) so that we're prepared for the worst, which looks like 10,000 new cases a week in less than two months?
The "No one really knows what you do anymore" is a murmur that follows senior leadership role all the time. And while it CAN mean that you're not doing anything, in this situation I think it was a case of some people struggling to assess the value of all the activities you do through their own lens. More likely than not, you were making valuable contributions to the company; much more so than your employees realized.

So when they weighed their perception of your contribution against their negative feelings towards you, the fulcrum was positioned against your favor.

Departure like this can be a turning point for the company for worse, especially at a small company like this. I hope this isn't the case.
Anyone know where to get the Chinese board they were using? Seems pretty actually useful.
The problem with sqlite for this is that as you write more and rows into a table then the writes get progressively slower -- it simply isn't able to do O(1) writes over a long period of time so you'd have to rotate the database files themselves.

I've been solving this problem by writing a non-pretty printed JSON blob to one line in a log file. Structured, but still text and very easy to stream. I build a separate binary index that gives more efficient time based lookups, but it isn't needed to understand and process the log file.
I've never heard of that company before. That that link is disturbing. It makes me wonder how many apps are doing the same thing as Whisper.
Who defines reasonable? My guess is that it'll be the ones with the power and it'll suit their needs over anyone elses.
I'm curious about the initial 'success' of the fund raise before the unfortunate issues that occurred. Any thoughts on the reason they exceeded their goals so quickly? Does this support indicate there is a substantial demographic of privacy advocates who are interested in personal solutions to privacy? Or, are we looking at a more widespread support of any project (given they don't misrepresent their claims) which advocates a more generalized freedom of information?

Personally, I'd order the thing because I don't trust my router's software and want something quick and easy to deploy.
Yeah, I think they just don't want or can't pay for the bandwidth. Or, perhaps they are trying to make Twitter feel bad and buy them. Either way it's a bad situation, but isn't necessarily evil on their part to not want to put anything more into a dying venture.
I think the assumption is dumb criminals are likely to leave other traces. Personally, I would rather pay a little more for policing than give them free access to any and all data.
Why does anyone care about "Google Piracy"? The whole concept of Google aiding and abetting "piracy" is rubbish. Do sidewaly-concrete-contractors need to have a "Senior 7-11 Robbery Counsel"? No. Why should Google be subject to absolutely ridiculous red tape like this? Infringement happens, get used to it, dipsticks. Just be grateful that you can easily find infinging materials, give Thanks to Google for doing that for you, for free.
There was this photo with the caption that only generation 1 was stock hardware, heavily implying the rest was custom designed: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/002/617/995/b560c4715481...

Right below it is a statement "By our fourth round of prototypes we had created a model with 64mb memory and a 580mhz CPU" which uses the word "created" not "found" or "utilized".

Then there was this AMA on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/anonabox/comments/2ja22g/hi_im_augus...

In it he says things like:

1. "I am claiming my device is not the same as the wt3020 off the shelf hardware yes." Self explanatory. He then states that "maybe" the only difference is the amount of storage, which is odd considering he just denied it's the same thing.

2. "Yes that is my picture and yes, I am claiming that the anonabox is not an off the shelf WT3020" Ditto.

3. "Yes honestly that does look like the same circuit board. I can't help but wonder if the factory that we sourced is going to try to sell them too." Here he even infers that their design was stolen and being resold behind their back. Again, this heavily infers they created/designed the board, and clearly denies knowledge of any other existing boards like his, meaning they didn't simply take an existing board and ask for more storage.

THEN he starts to walk it back, admitting to Wired they didn't design the board as they had first claimed as noted here: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/tiny-box-can-anonymize-everythi...

Which has the line "This piece has been corrected from an earlier version that included his claims that both the board and case were custom-built for the project." Note the explicit statement that they designed everything.

Wired further stated "he clarified that the router was created from a stock board." Clarified from the original statement that it was all custom designed.

Wired ends with "Germar also says now that the case was supplied by Gainstrong and was not custom-designed by the Anonabox developers, a partial reversal of how he initially described it to WIRED."

So, yes, he DID lie. He explicitly claimed it was all custom hardware multiple times, even when DIRECTLY confronted with evidence to the contrary. Only after several days of this did he begin to walk back his comments.
D'you think such locks (fortresses?) don't already exist?
Pretty much all of them https://pythonhosted.org/pyobjc/
API: The fastest YouTube to mp3 convertor
It's currently listed on Ali Express (NEXX WT3020) [1]. Can't vouch for if it would arrive or not.

[1] http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Brand-Original-WT320...
You can buy the product hardware here:

http://www.atupapa.com/17043400030en.html
This page says Gainstrong: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/tiny-box-can-anonymize-everythi...
The 4 S's of a Good API Demo
also data corruption... which happened to me on Skydrive (now named Onedrive)
You're a SEO expert, yet your website design is very... basic... and your Evolvement site took literally 20 seconds to load.

If this link was an attempt at drumming up some business, I'd suggest taking a look at those items.

If you were trying to get inbound links, I guess that's a huge fail anyway since the links are nofollow'd here.
I wouldn't quote me on this, but if I remember right the original kickstarter did make a claim about it being custom hardware. They removed the few sentences talking about it from the kickstarter page once people started asking about it.
Oh good grief, really? Every thread, including this one, has been full of links. Here's one I have at my fingertips: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/507595291634040832

People have been trying to talk to him since the day the announcement was made.
I wasn't concerned too much for publication date, but more so about the time between touch-down and the thermal camera going "click"... in terms of thermal loss comparisons to the NASA space shuttle.
It doesn't work like that. "Systematic academic discrimination" and "unequal abilities" are undistinguishable, so you can't really prove or disprove either.

There were instances where children from Roma families were put into special education without any examination.

It's impossible to determine genetic differences in intelligence between different ethnicities. Twin studies don't work for that. One study which compared children of German women and black US soldiers did not find a difference between those children and German children raised under similar circumstances.

What we do know is that differences in ethnicities don't tend to hold up against other explanatory factors.

We also know about the effect of subjective bias on student-teacher relationships, and a strong tendency of believing other ethnicities to be less intelligent.
i agree. what's so important about foodie pics, selfies, and baby pics you should have backed up already. Trust me, nobody will notice if Twitpic disappears overnight. Stop putting so much importance in such a trivial company.
Atomic Franklin [pdf]
Board and case: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-2014-300Mbps-WT3020A-Mult...
Tim Cook is a Nike board member.
Apple sells your data to themselves, to show ads for music and apps. It's not so different from showing ads for other vendors, except in that the ads only appear in Spotlight
I read the Whisper CTO's StackOverflow link[0], and kCLLocationAccuracyHundredMeters does seem like the most conservative GPS-enabled choice, but IMO it still raises questions about why GPS accuracy is required, and why they didn't fuzz the location app-side.

Also all the analytics stuff is troubling, in an app that supposedly focuses on privacy.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3411629/decoding-the-cll...
I hope it bodes well for Torcoin... :)
How would you have it? I am thinking that a really good way to dissemble your legal system would be to dissemble the rights it is meant to protect. What is your opinion on other wide-spread encryption schemes like SSL?
why do you say this? nothing in his post implies that this was what happened. in fact, he says that he joined as vp, which i read that he wasn't the original founder.
What kind of software do you want to develop?

If you want to learn how to build end-to-end products right away, you should (in general) look for smaller companies.

My friends at larger firms (Activision, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft) never write anything larger than a module or widget in their official capacities. Any bigger things they do are on their own.

That said, you should write the kind of software you want to write in your spare time, regardless of where you work. If you run into a snag, you'll be able to ask for help online as well as among your colleagues.

They're not going to frown on you coding in your spare time, and they won't be upset if you ask them questions.
> This means that more criminals who are legitimately guilty will walk, which means that all of us will be less safe.

Serving prison time actually increases recidivism (by increasing debt, straining or severing ties with family and community, creating ties to other criminals, making it harder to find a job, etc.), so it turns out that in practice sending criminals to prison makes us less safe.

> The entire system is built around the idea that law enforcement can search and seize evidence if they have a lawful warrant from a duly appointed judge. Unbreakable encryption fundamentally threatens that framework.

Putting aside that the system doesn't actually work, it also doesn't require anything you're suggesting it does. Searching a suspect's mobile device is far from the only tool law enforcement has -- and it's one that they didn't have a decade ago, so suggesting that not having it would cause the world to descend into chaos is disingenuous.

And the way the system actually does work is by creating a nontrivial possibility that committing a crime will result in punishment, thereby deterring the large majority of prospective criminals. This doesn't require anything even resembling 100% enforcement effectiveness. In fact, its actual effectiveness is almost irrelevant because people have no sense of its true effectiveness and the deterrent is based entirely on what prospective criminals think would happen rather than what would actually happen.

That is one of the reasons why the system is so broken -- the deterrent is effective even though the system isn't, so people think it's working and nobody demands that it be fixed.

> There are ticking bomb scenarios and other time sensitive situations.

Hollywood has confused everyone into thinking that ticking bomb scenarios are common. They are not. In the overwhelming majority of cases, law enforcement investigates crimes after they've been committed, not before. Basing major policy on something that occurs in a negligible percentage of cases is just silly.
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I tried googling for lies told by DARE, but it's hard to find anything more substantial than third-hand accounts on Yahoo answers or something (that cop said if you smoke a joint, you might DIE, dude!!!) What little I did find [1] makes me think that the information they gave was substantially true, or at least probably true. For example, there's the strong connection between drug abuse and crime, something any policeman or apartment landlord could confirm for you. You can probably dig up some example of a lie they did tell, but all I'm saying is that, by-and-large, it was true.

"One positive experience" with drugs could, indeed, have wrecked my life, but that one experience would never happen and could never happen. The reason is that I wouldn't have done it, pushy friend or no, because I believed what the adults in my life were telling me. Parents, teachers, and DARE officers all said substantially the same thing, and when only idiot kids were telling me different, weighing the relative trustworthiness of those groups was not especially difficult.

There's nothing arbitrary about this. It's called sound reasoning, and part of it is not taking reckless risks. There's a common myth that kids are incapable of it, but I suspect that the truth is closer to them choosing not to practice it.

[1] http://mic.com/articles/92675/the-5-big-lies-that-d-a-r-e-to...
Because the response reveals the innuendo. There is no need to credit it with some kind of point by point analysis.
You are dissembling the legal system by not at least occasionally leaving your phone behind.
Much of these difference can be explained by socioeconomic status. Germans from equally poor backgrounds don't behave any better. They may not speak heavy dialect when they disrespect a female teacher, but otherwise it's much the same.

And when you are from a muslim background and you want to disrespect your teacher, you'll choose other words and justifications than a German would. I'd caution against overinterpreting juvenile power plays in terms of religious biases though.
In Cambridge, MA, I'm pretty sure the only range within any reasonable travel time is an indoor one.
Ads? If you search for "Planet of the Apes", and you get a response for "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" as a movie available on iTunes, seems to me that's likely what you wanted, no? Calling these "ads" is disingenuous. If Apple has the data in-house to answer your query, they'll do that. Seems like a good idea to me.
There is always a chance that the key will somehow get into the wrong hands, regardless of how "good" the organization that controls the keys is.
I agree with you, but this argument seems to succeed with people of certain political orientations more than with others. Your argument requires a skeptical (or cynical) view of the (bureaucratic and political branches of) government, and possibly the voters; almost all libertarians would agree, while conservatives and neoliberals often do not (, they believe the government is capable of executing their vision of 'what should be').
This precisely what I would a physicist expect to do, Cern has >16 million lines of C++ and you can be sure that the analysis code written by non-programmers barely works and not nescessarily uses sane programming principles.
> Knowing how to spell doesn't make you a writer.

Of course. But knowing how to spell is the first step towards learning to write -- my four-year-old will tell you all about it. :-)

Music theory is more than just spelling. It's also grammar -- it puts together rules for harmony and rhythm, and allows you to analyze music and communicate ideas by giving names to patterns (such as scales, chords, cadences, functions, meters, etc.) It allows you to learn for yourself how to break these rules and deviate from these patterns.

You can learn the theory without learning the notation, which is quite common among guitarists. You can also make music without knowing any theory at all, but it is always more helpful to know some theory.

> I think the parent is trying to explain that there's a cultural bias and inscrutability with respect to how music theory is taught.

Maybe, but the parent is also trivializing what is commonly referred to as "music theory" by calling it just "jargon" and "non-theory junk."
Thanks for the feedback; I committed a rephrasing of the trademark disclaimer (https://github.com/fix-macosx/fix-macosx) and I'll push that out when I next have the chance.

Just to clarify, the submission's title of "No Privacy, by Design" doesn't represent my own position; it's not a phrase that's used on fix-macosx.com.