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Note I said "BSD World" :) FreeBSD is already using LLVM (Clang) instead of GCC, and support fewer platforms - I think this would be a more pragmatic place to push something new like Rust.

If it works out there, OpenBSD could audit and import things at their leisure, at least in theory.
They're really hurting themselves with this legislation, I for one welcome it.

If pirating Beyoncé will put you in jail, more people will be willing to listen to all of the great free music on sites like bandcamp and soundcloud.

That's the major benefit to this legislation as I see it. Overpriced pop media garbage will become decreasingly popular in exchange for better but less-popular works. As recording and film companies see large swathes of the population leaving their works for independent producers, they'll lower their prices to try to stay relevant.

I say this even as a frequent media pirate -- this is not the end of the world, far from it. If this legislation has teeth, it will birth a new world of free creativity, of the people and for the people.

Edit: The same, I propose, will be true of opensource hardware.
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Great, then the social contract is clear. I can click the back button.

There is a lot of good content out there that is not ad-dependent. If all ad-dependent websites made a clear declaration that "you are not welcome, go somewhere else" that would solve my problem. Not theirs though...
Well, it can happen: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nsa-remotely-turn-on-phones,news...

and http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...
Link for the lazy: https://cantheyseemydick.com/
Thanks—we appreciate that. These things are often not obvious up close, and we're all learning to develop the HN culture in the desired (high signal-noise) direction together.
> abstracting away DOM manipulation, which was never a real problem in the first place

Until you try to build a large app and get murdered by maintainability problems (eg. treating the DOM as a store of mutable state, managing event listener binding lifecycles, etc) and performance issues (eg. DOM reads and writes to occurring in an interleaved fashion inside inner loops)
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Oh absolutely agree with the point that was made above -- just saw this story recently and thought it was relevant.
What about security updates for recent vulnerabilities like Stagefright? - are Google and the manufacturers going to resolve those?

I sure hope you don't mind bringing what is essentially a vulnerability vector into whatever wifi networks you connect to...

Not changing my policy to deny wifi access to Android (or Win10) devices visiting my house.
I don't have more information, I guess. It was just a thought that popped into my mind when reading the article. If you still want to discuss it further, then please provide your contact details in your profile. I'll check it later.
Careful on the zeros... .00001% of 318,900,000 people (current population of America) is 31.89 people, and even rounded I suppose they get a few more than that.
> If he doesn't do it, who will?

I love this myth of the one-man army.

Really, it's idolatry of single points of failure. Who would knowingly design infrastructure in the same way that these "hero CEOs" position themselves?

SpaceX and Tesla employee 16,000 total humans, and talented ones at that. Does every single day really require Musk's visionary direction? Nobody else's will do?
Because this isn't a static site. Updates are being fed to the client via websockets.
Alas the first application of much cutting-edge technology is in the service of authority. I hope you are at least a bit comforted by the fact that the technology is making its way slowly to you.
This isn't true. I think you need to expand your horizons beyond the tech world :) I suspect if you ask someone outside of the tech world in the US, they'll tell you Facebook. Outside of the US: WhatsApp.

Twitter: 500M tweets per day
https://about.twitter.com/company

WhatsApp: 13B messages per day
http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/06/whatsapp-now-has-700m-user...

Facebook + FB Messenger - WhatsApp: ~30B messages per day
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/22/facebook-voip-not-facebook-...
More generally, to access and edit app settings.
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This is true, but I think it's an important distinction that store cards are typically opt-in (I haven't come across a store that requires such a card to shop there, except maybe Costco). A facial recognition system would, presumably, be automatic.
It's going to be ridiculous that people will go to jail for this and not any of the people responsible for the subprime mortgages.
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Most politicians aren't interested in money as much as they are in power. The money is nice, but for most there are easier ways to get it.
"One thing about a positive P=NP proof is that it would necessarily be constructive"

I don't see why that would necessarily be true. For example, let's say that I show that, if P != NP, the set of all NP-complete problems can be split into N equivalence classes and then produce N+1 NP-complete problems that are pairwise in different equivalence classes.

Alternatively (and, I'm guessing, slightly more realistic), one might define a Turing-equivalent machine and show that, if there is any room between P and NP, for that machine, any program that solves a NP-complete problem can be reduced to run for one less time step.

Can you explain?
Anyone can suggest brands for high quality fake mustaches and asymmetric sunglasses? ;-)
If you strip any situation of context it can be called hypocrisy. 'The U.S. used to war with Japan and were the greatest of enemies... Now the U.S. guarantees their safety! What hypocrisy'. Time is a factor, interests are a factor. U.S. hypocrisy is best highlighted by the propaganda pushing for democratic republics while simultaneously undermining the democratic process. Of course the real aim of the U.S. or any nation that has the power to influence is to back those they find favorable to themselves by whatever means, natural democracy be damned.
+1 also MMS does all this for you. https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/
That and the pricing model for multiple device types (see post above) are my biggest grievances.
There was a comic recently that had a main character who had little emitters constantly blasting his face with IR radiation, so it would just turn up as an overexposed blob on surveillance cameras. Of course all they need is an IR filter to combat this, but the idea is fun.
How reliably does dick pic recognition work at this point?
If for no other reason, video is a much more ubiquitous format. And due to our social norm if an agency was to ask for video record for "some reasons" it would be far easier both technically and politically than asking Walmart to extract all customer data from date X to Y.

Besides, your face is (for all practical purposes) all the data needed to identify exactly who you are, you name is just a few bit (albeit extremely discriminating one) of info and can have collisions.

Being able to efficiently do thing that was possible but inefficient is a huge deal. Especially since the government was designed with inefficiency in mind as a check of power. Removing them means increasing their power, and absolute power corrupt absolutely.
The Constitution is pretty explicit in stating that it limits the scope of government, which is the opposite of being a starting point.
Well, I believe that there will obviously be an effort to scapegoat some low level suckers, and, as such, the whole effort is garbage.

The basic principle is liar's reports are worthless. When reporters want to create a particular outcome (no executives should do hard time), what you end up with is fundamentally dishonest. And since we have reasonable doubts about the integrity of the investigation -- it's being performed by employees of the original deceivers -- the whole thing is garbage. You can't take it and unshade it a little bit; people who have proved their untrustworthiness simply cannot be trusted. Not just a little bit; not at all.

ps -- what constitutes a believable report? One done by criminal investigative services belonging to a country where the government doesn't own a major stake in the company being investigated.
Quite so. I guess it depends on where you draw the line at "modern". I was implicitly lumping anything past the jet age in as "modern".
Perhaps the niqab (face-veil) will see a rise in popularity...
HusbandWatcher - provide a photo of your cheating husband, and we will scan hotel, car and street surveillance to show you who he is with every moment he is out of your sight

Employee-motivator - using simple webcams we can monitor the facial emotions of your employees moment to moment. Are they reacting positively to your email about the new executive jet purchase? Are they showing signs of morale fatigue as they fall behind their schedule? We can send them morale boosting emails such as ... "Smile, you still have your job".
Sure, but my original point is that greed/power are not the only reason to take these finance jobs.
> I'm back to iOS and the "evil" walled garden that respects my rights as a network user.

bad news: iOS has always granted network access by default.
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“There is no 48 hour waiting period to remove negative comments. There is no way to even make negative comments.”

No way to make negative comments? So what's the f-ing point of this app?

Kind of ironic that the founder complains about the backlash while her whole idea is an app to rate people.
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Err, I'm kind of new to this and don't know anything about this discussion, but... the transcripts linked in the article do talk quite a bit about the assassination attempts.

So what exactly are you saying, that it wasn't talked about?
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The poster was stating that writing Twitter was easy, anyone can do it, the only thing Twitter really has going for it are the network effects of having a huge user base and lots of visibility.

I do think that Twitter's biggest asset are the network effects that it currently enjoys, but I don't think that it would be trivial to recreate what they've done in order to create a Twitter competitor. It's not insurmountable, but it's not trivial either.

The original comment was clearly meant to trivialize the engineering. "One guy can do it in a weekend" is hyperbole, it's something you say when you're trying to communicate that anyone can do something in a relatively short amount of time. If there are a bunch of downvotes I would assume they're more for the hyperbole than people actually disagreeing with whether or not one weekend is enough time to write "non-scaling Twitter", which isn't specific enough for anyone to argue about how long it would take to do.
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You can “say that this sounds like people not taking responsibility” all you want, but that doesn’t make the problem go away.

When there’s a society-wide systemic “failure to take responsibility”, it becomes everyone’s problem, and trying to blame individuals accomplishes nothing except to make whoever is doing the blaming feel smug.
If you pull up a tear down of an iPhone 6 you will see the Qualcomm MDM9625M is clearly an entirely separate chip from the Apple A8, and is halfway across the circuit board.
This. So many clients refuse to host their data in the US because of the gov't .
I'd have to abandon my GF which I am not really willing to do yet. If it gets any worse I will start looking in other places but until Dec I don't have to worry about paying my loans off so I have a bit of a break.
In what other facet of human life would you be held responsible for something you had no knowledge of?
I think the point of the refactoring was not to "solve" anything, and certainly not to make anything more abstract. Rather it was to make the code more readable. For me, a Clojure newbie, it succeeded admirably at that purpose.
Now I'm even more confused. Exploitation films are a cornerstone of "genre pictures." They focused on a certain subject/group. This is just sexy ads -- sexy ads have been around for ages (Abercrombie and Fitch did nude ads in the early 2000's). I guess I'm not sure what makes this company so different from the others, aside from their founder making news. Is this more like a prime example of advertising going to far?
Well, our base tools are crap.

C is awful. Linux is awful. Docker "containers" are awful (i.e. fancy branding around cgroups; no actual 'container' at all unlike solaris zones which did everything properly 10 years ago plus Crossbow networking 5 years ago).

We keep using (and inventing) quick hacks promoted by braggadocious personalities instead of stable infrastructure or proper tooling.
I would vote for you, based on that merit alone.

I often hear people say things like, "If Republicans and Democrats (or the house and senate) could work together, they'd get a lot more done.", and I think to myself, "Is a 'productive' congress one that passes thousands of pages of legislation?".
I am aware but it is hard to show that if I don't have the experience for a resume. I work as an intern for a company that won't hire me but since I can't get anything else I am stuck here just indefinitely in limbo.
> Android is far, far behind the competition when it comes to device security.

No, it's not. Carriers and OEMs that have picked up AOSP and bloated it needlessly are the ones who are behind. You wouldn't blame Linus Torvalds for all the computers out there running outdated kernels, or for anybody still using git 1.x.

The difference is that downstream companies have decided that since the have the source, they might as well add a year of dev work on top of Android to "improve" it. If they had these options for Windows or iOS, I'm pretty sure they would do so (ever bought a new windows laptop with no crapware?) and bring security updates for those devices to a grinding halt.
And just like single points of failure in infrastructure, single points of executive failure can be good for startups.

You can leverage your risk, and accomplish more in the short term, but long term, it's clearly not sustainable.

Sounds like Musk needs to learn how to pivot into "big corporate". I don't think he ever has in the past, has he?
yea, i know, i read it. wasnt much there. already know what all the tools did.... by why jump to this stack from one of the other 15 that came out this year?
Plenty of people were mad about the Chinese guy's comments about the stock exchange too.
For a cheap hosted option you can setup a Digital Ocean droplet at $10/month and use Meteor Up (https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up/tree/mupx) for your deployments. This will include the database as well.

That link is to Meteor Up X(development version) which uses Docker just like Galaxy. Once it's stable it'll be merged into Meteor Up. I've been using it for prod/staging pushes and it works great even with SSL.
So this sounds like using one of the Youtube Downloader applications could land you in hot water -- even though there isn't any cryptographic DRM on youtube videos, it could be argued that since there isn't a Download button on the page, this is an "effective DRM measure", and that the downloader app could be a circumvention measure.
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That's not true. The murder-for-hire scheme wasn't simply "related conduct": it was also a predicate of the conspiracy charge, which had to sustain a "reasonable doubt" standard at trial, and a sentencing accelerator that met a "preponderance of evidence" standard during sentencing. Both are discussed in the transcript.

I do appreciate the color from your own experiences. It's certainly not my contention that sentencing is in general fair, or even that this particular sentence was fair. Certainly: sentencing for computer crimes is egregiously unfair.

But the Ulbricht trial gets past a lot of these issues. The judge notes:

* Ulbricht paid to have someone killed. He was told that person had a wife and child. Ulbricht paid anyways. The money was taken. There is no evidence he was role-playing.

* Later, Ulbricht paid to have someone else killed. The would-be assassins informed him that the target lived with 3 other people. Ulbricht paid extra to have those people killed too. The money was taken. There is no evidence he was role-playing.

At this point in the transcript, it's like: what do you think is going to happen?
A good read about baseband RTOS: http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...
On iOS you can enable the revert-colors option (three taps of the home button). This is what my wife does on her iPad at night and it works pretty well for reading.
No downvote even if I disagree. Once your platform begins to become ubiquitous (Facebook Messenger), it starts to have certain responsibilities, similiar to a utility but not quite that far.

Now I'm prepared for the downvotes, but I don't think its wrong to expect certain behavior from tech companies in certain segments once they reach a particular size.

A compromise would be to allow Facebook users to get verified (similar to Twitter's verification), and then groups and communities could exclude non-verified profiles by default while allowing those non-verified accounts that they'd like to on a case by case basis.
So, I've been wondering about this. Who, exactly, would you want to see in jail for "subprime mortgages" and on what charge?

I hear people say the general statement a lot, but I'm not sure who specifically they're talking about.
This also helps prevent cache side-channel attacks like the one that led to stealing RSA private keys by probing the L3 miss times.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/898.pdf
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NewRelic graphs are another highly misleading example. They average the response time across all endpoints and make it very hard to understand the 95th percentile for a specific endpoint.

They also don't let you exclude static assets from the graphs, so the numbers are fairly unhelpful when trying to understand performance bottlenecks of a dynamic application.
Citation needed.

In any case, even the non-Muslim Arabs at the time also acknowledged this fact. As such, given that Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon him, is a descendant of Abraham, Peace be upon him, and both are Muslims, it follows that they would have similar traditions, coming from the same source. Reclaiming the Ka'abah as a place of worship for Muslims is in accordance with this.
Well, it's a sort of institutionalized resignation... I mean, if there's nothing you can do about it, what should you be doing? Switching to a blackphone? What if your organization doesn't support a truly secure option?

It's like hearing that Microsoft and the NSA had a backdoor 20 years ago - at the time I didn't have an option for my work machine, so I just grunted and went along.
As I stopped knowing anything about datacenters around 2001, can anyone tell me what a network operating system is?

I am going to guess large high throughput switches and some degree of software defined networks that knock putting your printers on one C-network and your servers on another into a cock hat

Apart from raw power, is there some way I can reconfigure my network without moving a cable that I previously could not?

(It's late, so just to be sure, I'm not trolling)
No, that is honest to God truth. Reddit is known for doing orders of magnitude better coverage of pretty much everything than mainstream media in the same way Hacker News is orders of magnitude better than any tech-related media source. I always thought it was an obvious observation, but it seems not, so let me list some reasons for why this is so:

- (an important point to start, because it's what many people are missing) ignore the frontpage, head for topical subreddits; pretty much any topic you could imagine has a moderated, HN-quality-like subreddit for it

- you can't really spin an agenda on Reddit; too many people from all sides participating -> bullshit is eventually identified as such

- like here, content on Reddit is created by people who care about the issue at hand, unlike media outlets which usually care about influence and advertising money

- unlike mainstream media outlets, Reddit users aren't under direct or indirect pressure from governments and corporations to spin the story in a particular way

- there are lots of actual experts on Reddit, from every occupation imaginable; so for instance on /r/spacex you'll find actual aerospace industry professionals, actual historians on /r/History, etc; they all participate in their free time and have no incentive, monetary or otherwise, to bullshit, nor their contributions are twisted by editorial staff to say whatever the outlet wants them to say like mainstream media does all the time

- whatever bullshit the mainstream media publishes, Reddit users will find and debunk (again, just like we do here on HN with tech/hard-science-related news)

- Reddit does even care about the form more; the main post on the TPP will likely have less typos than the main article in NYT

Anyway, what I expect to happen is that the discussions on TPP will quickly turn into a group organizing around a subreddit that will collect and summarize analyses of experts both from mainstream media and Reddit natives. Like usual, there will likely be a sticker post with a huge FAQ directing to detailed answers to all the questions you could possibly ask. All information in one place, throughly verified and free from bullshit.

TL;DR: people accusing me of being sarcastic are probably missing out on one of the few bullshit-free sources of information on the Internet.
Typically ignorance of the law is not an excuse when found disobeying it, and there are more laws than any reasonable person can know.
Fascinating article—a really good read. I definitely want to check out the work at rumpkernel.org. I do have one quibble with this line, though:

> Even on the desktop, the square peg is not the correct shape: we know that the system will be used by a single person and that the system does not need to protect the user from non-existent other users.

I don't know if this is really true. Many desktops are shared (e.g. by members of a family). And of course data centre machines are shared by multiple users, although often those users are all using processes operating using the same OS credentials.

Wouldn't it be interesting if processes running on my behalf within Facebook or HN couldn't access other users' private data, rather than relying on the programmers at FB or HN to get it right?
The Selective Service frequently reminds me that ignorance of the law is no excuse to break the law.
"For more than a year, Volkswagen executives told the Environmental Protection Agency that discrepancies between the formal air-quality tests on its diesel cars and the much higher pollution levels out on the road were the result of technical issues, not a deliberate attempt to deceive Washington officials."

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Volkswagen-...

So VW is telling us that this year of lying to the EPA was done completely by these two engineering managers and nobody else in the VW executive staff?
I was ready to stop reading The Circle after a bit because it was so over-the-top. However, as the book went on, I found that it kinda worked for me if read as a deliberately and wildly exaggerated cautionary tale parable of sorts--rather than as serious speculative fiction. Still wasn't enamored with it but possibly worth a read.