skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With 2G the network verifies the handset and the handset blindly trusts the network. It's not technically a downgrade, A5/0 null cypher is a perfectly valid choice of the 4 available. Sure it screws you as a user but it's not going to cost the network so that's fine.

Clarification: Notification to null encryption still exists, and iirc then it's actually mandatory. It's just that you can disable the warning by setting a bit on the simcard which it seems nearly every operator in the world does. As it was so unused the majority of even vaguely modern phones don't seem to have bothered writing the code to handle it anyway.

iirc, India _only_ uses A5/0 as it's illegal for them to use crypto [someone please clarify and educate me].
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Many (most) keyless cars don't have an ignition fallback (well, a contact fallback where the fob is inserted into a slot rather than relying on wireless signal is common, but that still requires the fob); most that I've seen have an entry fallback with a mechanical key that is normally kept in the fob.

They usual "valet keys" I've seen are for keyed ignition cars where the valet key works the ignition but not the glovebox lock.
Except the carrier, or the that case the hoster, did not break anything. It's their software that don't comply to the RFC. HTTP is supposed to be cacheable when it makes sens. With SSL to work that around you break the Internet somehow.

To me, there are valid usecase for SSL, using it to work around proxies is not one. That said, I get your point, you prefer the possibly easier and safer way. But you still might run into another set of problems (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8471877).
This could be fairly secure with an IP whitelist on the port using something like IPTABLES, right?

Of course, you don't want it on your mission-critical production machine, but then that's not really what it's for.
Awesome.

Like I said, impressive, but you'll catch a lot of flak for an otherwise impressive application by using the lightroom hyperbole. I don't think many people use lightroom to edit 8bit jpgs (changing exposure on a jpg is a bit disappointing!)
We unkilled it so discussion can continue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8517267.
"They aren't, nobody get's physically damaged by a weapon."

Err, I know what you tried to say there... but you're still wrong, because "physically" hurt is not the only relevant type of hurt.

You are not a robot. You are an emotional being, and you can be emotionally hurt by things that perhaps wouldn't hurt Spock but do hurt you. Your threshold may be much higher than many other people's. As it happens, mine is too.

But that doesn't make us "right", or better, and it doesn't mean that people don't get really hurt on the Internet when thrust into a world their brain is quite literally not prepared for. If anything, we are the freaks of nature.

Also note I didn't even limit it to insults... just perfectly normal social interaction can be quite draining. The realm of "negative feedback" is far richer than just "insults". Just receiving 4000 emails on a topic is an astonishing experience that I have but put my toe in the water of, and have little desire to experience the full blast.
Ask HN: Spend a Sunday afternoon helping Berkeley students with open source?
I'm part of a student CS club at UC Berkeley called Hackers@Berkeley. On Sunday, Nov 16th, we're hosting a free open source workshop for students at UC Berkeley, sponsored by OpenHatch and RedHat. Would anyone involved with open-source be willing to spend an afternoon guiding students make their first commits to a (popular, interesting, obscure, etc.) open source project?

Link: http://berkeley.openhatch.org/

Feel free to email me in the profile; otherwise I can try to contact you.
'the media and hacker news is united in wanting to shut down "radical Islamist forums."'

I honestly have no strong sense of the "opinion of HN" (insofar as there is such a thing) on this topic. I strongly suspect there is at least a minority that opposes that.
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Mouse move event on scaled element on Safari Yosemite seems to be broken, we're looking for a fix now.
Point! I think I found it http://www.redditblog.com/2007/08/its-slow-its-unstable-its-...

Also just as anemic as the last one. Oh well.
Major retailers actively blocking Apple Pay
What is your data type for inputHash and images.phash? ByteArray? Character array? Blob?
A passport is not necessarily enough. A passport doesn't prove that you are a resident of the state or that you have lived in your current location for a period of time, which may be a requirement. You probably don't realize this, but living in the same place every month, or even every night, is not necessarily something everyone can say, much less prove.

Know any legally blind people? How easy is it for them to find a birth certificate to get a passport?

Also many states have attempted to change voting requirements close to elections. That's one of the many reasons the Justice Department has gotten involved.

You can also look at the rules for tribal IDs for native americans.

Plus even if every requirement is free, that doesn't necessarily mean that the person is savvy enough and committed to know how to navigate the system. Free doesn't mean easy, it doesn't mean that it doesn't take time. Remember, it's a lot easier to take time off to get passport photos taken, or go down to the DMV, or request a fee waiver if you aren't working two jobs and taking care of kids on your own.

Go ask five friends if they know about the fee waiver, and then ask yourself, is a poor person more or less likely to have the education and cultural literacy that your friends have?

Or you can just trust people when they tell you there is a problem.
I see that the term 'self-awareness' is being used a lot in this discussion. Can it be defined simply?
Is it basically a mechanism which divides intelligence into two parts one of which is 'observing' the other ?
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Yeah, fair point actually.
I think this is largely a case of too much proprietary technology and "security through obscurity". Open protocols like WPA2 for WiFi are reviewed by many cryptographers even before they're implemented, so any flaws can be quickly discovered and corrected.

Ideally keyless entry would involve being able to buy a generic keyfob which works for any car it's paired with, and the authentication would work with an open protocol much like with WiFi. If people can setup WiFi encryption+authentication, they should be able to setup new keys for their car.

(Personally, I'm not a fan of keyless cars. There's something really satisfying and secure about the feeling of putting a physical key into a lock and unlocking it.)
Prototype of the Apple Watch interface as the iPhone home screen
I posted this, but only to note that it's a bad analysis.

The author notes "this number counts companies that didn’t take the tax exclusion like Uber and Square". Those 2 companies account for a huge part of the higher tax of that area. But it's unlikely the tax break had anything to do with it. Uber & Square moved into the (same, particular) building because it's one of the only buildings in SF with a giant floorplan. So it's unlikely that even Twitter's presence there made a difference in their decision. They moved there because they had to, to stay in SF.

In that sense, it's a strong argument against the tax break. These companies would have located in mid-market anyway. Even Twitter.. no chance in hell they would have moved to Brisbane. They would've lost so much talent, which would have been far more costly.

Also, another tip-off to the author's bias: she calls the people who argued against the tax break the "far left". Like, communists?
There is a miasma of fakery and posturing in the startup world about making money, everyone pretends as if they are so passionate about what they are doing and not interested in money at all, even though they are almost certainly interested in money to some degree. I guess they feel that being at all motivated by monetary gain cheapens their image. Reminds me of an article I recently read about attitudes surrounding money in French culture, pretty interesting:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/12/no-exit-3

You can be passionate about what you are doing and interested in making money as well, it isn't either or. Personally I have no shame admitting I would be delighted to make an obscene amount of money in a short period of time, because to me money means freedom. I could spend time with people I love and do things I find interesting and enjoyable, rather than living for the next paycheck and having money end up owning me and my life as is the case with so many people who pursue high stress, high paying long term careers to "provide for their family" and end up miserable and distant. Another reason is that, call me entitled and selfish, but I don't enjoy the idea of working for someone else, likely doing something I'm only marginally passionate about, and having them take majority of the value of my efforts while giving me a fixed salary, though for many people I'm sure the stability of this is perfectly acceptable.

However, I do agree probably nothing good will come of you if you are motivated purely by profit with 0 interest or passion in what you are doing. I select projects that I am personally interested in simply because I find it extremely difficult to work on things that I don't get excited about.
I set an alarm at 4AM NZ for the OnePlus preorder, it was a huge pain in the ass. They were running Magento (!) on what appeared to be AWS and expecting Cloudflare to magically pick up all the slack. Guess they never heard of load testing (or at least a static PayPal cart as a bulletproof failsafe).

Apparently they also had a bunch of staff in the office at the time; wonder if they at least attempted to spin up a few more servers and increase the DB instance size?
Twitter is going to generate a Billion in sales this year
Yes it's constant. One # per card-device combo.

Of course it also sends a unique cryptogram alongside it with each transaction which is what makes it super secure. Even if the merchant is hacked, the device account # is useless to hackers. But it can be used to track your purchases.
Yep, sorry I took a shortcut, I was referring to using table as a positioning method for the layout. Of course table are perfectly fine to display tabular data :)
Oh please, no. The fact that every VST maker creates their own custom GUI from scratch was the best and worst thing to happen to VSTs. All of a sudden I have a gazillion different plugins each with their own idea of how user interaction should work, meaning I learn a new interface for every single plugin.

At least a wall of homogenous sliders doesn't require me to learn how the widgets work.
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Masculine men don't cut it for many women -study results
So here's an awkward story. I worked in a hotel for a year. It was a roughly 50/50 mix of housekeeping & handyman. Not exactly the 'american dream', but it was smalltown-nowhere, and I'd rather work than hold my nose high.

I'd been working there a while, when my greencard happened to come up in conversation. It did happen from time to time, mostly because I found it (and still do) to be a complete novelty. It's an interesting bit of kit, with a whole bunch of different things in one big kinda hologram on the back. From one angle you can see my face, from another angle, madame Liberty, etc.

(It also came up when a gas station wouldn't accept it as proof of age for smokes. They wanted An American ID. How do you argue with that?)

At the end of said conversation, my boss turned around and said .. well I guess you'll have to pay tax then. It seems they'd just assumed up until that point.

That was an interested realization that the world of "under the table" labour is a whole lot less clandestine than you might like to think. Which kinda goes back to my original point - That was not an intentional act on my part. The way other people approach the subject has a huge impact.

(The forms you mentioned, I took a google - I don't recognise the I-9 at all. The W-9 looks familiar, but that might be because of its striking resemblance to my stack of W-2's, which I dragged back to europe with me for some unknown reason. This isn't to say no to either of them, just that this was 10 years back - I remember human interactions much better than paperwork.)
Not sure why they show a DJI Phantom when it clearly wasn't one.
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My favorite Neuromancer Time/Tech signpost is when the narrator mentions that the protagonist Case has a couple of Megs of hot ram he's looking to fence. I absolutely love this, because it worked at the time, but it seems horribly antiquated now for those of us surfing on the wave of progress described by Moore's Law.
I've just tried and it works perfectly.

Any suggestions to decide on number of threads other than trial and error ?
Real ID is just another attempt to create the id nightmare. There's been some minor backlash against it, but...
GP was not only trivializing, but also begging the question.

All you need to solve the technical problem is the solution to that problem. Easy.
Ask HN: Why do we use interpreters instead of compilers?
Compiled code would run faster, and would be good for the processor cache, why do we still use a lot of interpreted programs at servers and in web world.
Yes JIT compilers are available, but still why are interpreters more popular?
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Mobile links are in fact quite often backhaul limited. Especially as you make cell sectors smaller (and in particular with T-Mo, which uses higher frequencies and needs to deploy smaller cells), getting data off the cell sites can become a significant bottleneck: http://www.pcworld.com/article/251838/analyst_mobile_network...
Wonderful idea and Wonderful App!
FYI: This was all over TechCrunch, so if someone knows the BufferApp team, please tell them they'll need to file a Form D 506(c) exemption with the SEC.
A wonderful idea and wonderful App!
The Wikipedia article for A5/3 says it has been broken in a way that is repeatable with average equipment. If the Washington Post can't be bothered to do 5 minutes of fact checking before publishing it makes me distrust them more generally as a reliable news source.

The headline should read "TMobile replaces bad encryption with bad encryption"
> On a totally separate note, I feel like you guys are positioned in a spot to solve the photographer storage problem as well, which is detailed remarkably well here: http://paulstamatiou.com/storage-for-photographers/ -- a service like this is something that I know I would pay for and I'm sure it's the same for a number of others.

The workflow feels a bit contrived and the whole problem based only on the cramped space on the SSD disk. I find storing previews on SSD and then the RAW files in the catalog on a huge mechanical drive works perfectly. I can't shoot pics fast enough to cope with the drop in storage cost on mechanical You get 1Tb drives in cereal boxes these days.

Ths library is then just backed with a good backup solution (NB: NOT just a sync provider like DropBox/OneDrive/...). I use crashplan, but you could use BackBlaze or any stand alone backup package to a sync provider. I also sync to my NAS, as per the "store everything in 3 places" theorem.

A problem I would like to solve (well) though is the first part of the article, where he shares pictures with his relatives. Email SUCKS for this. I use zenfolio, but creating galleries just to share a few pics is tedious. I'd like something more integrated with lightroom, and less tedious/crappy than zenfolio (better raw support, simpler/better style support etc).
I think you're going about it the right way. Document everything, although it's tedious, and if it doesn't settle down then ask HR for guidance. Good luck!
Stealing cultural treasures, artwork.
Yeah, since humans of today have been shown to break any/all (?) existing sandboxes, how could we even try to create a sandbox that is unbreakable to an accelerating, self-improving AI?
Well, someone had to sit down and do a lot of thinking about how to rank relevant search results from a huge set of data.

So it seems to me that philosophers and computer scientists share some key behaviors.

Based on your own theory of shared behavior, computer scientists are philosophers.

Therefore, quite a bit of philosophy was required for google search.
Thanks. I guess this is based on "The new Terms will become effective thirty (30) days after we post the notice on our Site."[0] in the Terms, which also seem to incorporate the Privacy Policy I linked, which is stated to take effect immediately. I don't know which statement about effective date takes precedence (another sign of sketchiness/sloppiness?), but at least I know what you and the Guardian are talking about.

[0] http://whisper.sh/terms
Isn't SURF patent-encumbered?
I'm a bit surprised that there aren't purpose limitations in the enabling legislation for the most controversial new government investigative authorities.

The Wiretap Act has an explicitly enumerated list of offenses for the investigation of which wiretaps may be authorized:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2516

The default is that a wiretap is not available to investigate an arbitrary crime. (Of course, there's been a lot of creep and wiretap authority has been expanded to more and more crimes.) This is based on the idea that a wiretap is uniquely and intensely invasive compared to other law enforcement techniques.

I don't see why that pattern hasn't been repeated with other investigative authorities. In the case of section 213 of the Patriot Act, described here, the effect of the new law was to amend 18 USC §3103a

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3103a

to allow for "delayed notice" when a search warrant was used. But that section authorized the issuance of warrants for "any property that constitutes evidence of a criminal offense in violation of the laws of the United States" (emphasis added), that is, for the investigation of any Federal crime. Presumably it would have been easy for section 213 to have taken a Wiretap Act-like approach and said that the delayed notice procedure was available for investigation of crimes x, y, and z, but not other crimes.

(I work with the author of the original article, but we haven't discussed this topic.)
It doesn't matter, it's a breach of my privacy regardless of what they use it for.
Just a 64 bit integer (BIGINT).
Cost seems like the biggest reason to me.
While I get that Heinlein may have intended to make genuine predictions...

"Heinlein carefully points out that all good science fiction writers tell a story first and prophesy second, using arguably the greatest of them all, H.G. Wells, as an example."

There's something I really dislike about evaluating science fiction as prediction in general.

A work of fiction can't be right or wrong, just more or less similar. Flying cars and geopolitics in the year 2000 are no more right or wrong than the color of imagined character's eyes.
The difference between `path-abempty` and `path-absolute` is bloody confusing but I think you're right.
Argghhh! This is EXTREMELY embarrassing... and you're not the first to point it out. I've just corrected the post. Thanks :) Quick question: do I need to return my mathematics degree certificate by post? Or do they send a courier?
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We changed it back.
> Without ID there's no way you can even know that's happening.

Untrue. If you have voter rolls and a system that records the identities used in voting so that only one person can vote under a given identity, and go further and make those lists public so that everyone can know which identities voted in any given election, its quite possible to identify cases of people voting under other people's identities without voter ID requirements. In fact, unless you have IDs that can never be forged or stolen by people who can pass for the identified person, you still need all those features to catch people trying to vote under someone else's identity even with voter ID.

I mention that because the status quo system in all US jurisdictions I am familiar with already has these features.

The particular problem that "voter ID" is supposed to address is (1) a problem that the status quo is set up to detect, (2) a problem for which there is no evidence that it exists in any significant way in the status quo, and (3) a problem for which voter ID is not much of a solution even if it did exist.
I agree their financing path is unique to the way they've built their product and team, but I think parts of it can still be replicable to other startups. ie not gearing the whole future of the company towards the big exit, but using VC money to create a more organic route..
The fob for my car has a valet key of sorts. It's so I can lock the compartments inside the car. I hand over the fob and keep the key. They may easily take the car, but dang if they'll have to work at getting that glove compartment open.
Every couple of month a "newsitem" appears writing about criminals having a "special device" that allows them to unlock cars. In the end, it just turns out the owners forgot to lock their car, lost a key, or the key was simple stolen from their home/pocket.

I remember about 2 years ago there was a media frenzy (at least here in The Netherlands) about criminals having a special device that allowed them to detect whether a car contained a laptop or tablet in the trunk, even if the device was fully turned off! In the end it was found that the thieves simple observed the parking lot and looked for people stashing their laptop bag in their car.

Modern keyless access systems are actually pretty good and cars are much, much harder to "crack" then someones front door. Breaking into a house to get the car keys is usually much more easy to do.
So, it's worth pointing out that it may not _just_ be about whether or not it's economical to get everyone in a room and giving them photo IDs. You mention it's been politicized -- that's probably a large source of argument, as Red Team has to battle Blue Team and Blue Team has to battle Red Team.

But I think there _is_ a principle at work here, even if it's far removed from the actual discussion.

> Democrats argue that people who are poor, elderly, or disenfranchised are the least likely to have ID, which is true enough - for someone who doesn't have current ID renewing it can be a major inconvenience. But if they spent half the effort they put into complaining about voter ID requirements into actually assisting people to get ID, then the problem would go away.

So, in the US we've historically had MAJOR issues with using voting prerequisite laws to disenfranchise people. Personally, I think having illiterate people decide who runs the country doesn't make the system work better -- but a system that uses that criterion to functionally deny people the vote... isn't great. I (personally, and I do NOT speak for all Americans) would not support a literacy test, despite it making object level sense, even if was accompanied by a program to boost literacy rates.

This is why

> But if they spent half the effort they put into complaining about voter ID requirements into actually assisting people to get ID, then the problem would go away.

wouldn't end the discussion, even if it were true (turns out it's hard to actually round up a lot of the working poor, they're busy and in this specific case, the government doesn't know their address because they lack, wait for it, government issued ID).