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Actually, part of the new bill allows this to all happen without judicial oversight or process if the case is "urgent" (aren't they all?), at the sole behest of the home secretary - with an ex-post-facto judicial review. They can indeed force you, and if you won't present, they can then hack you, detain you, do whatever they wish, essentially.
Not sure if it's right to post this. Small typo in Making Money section:

... if your product if your product is easy to sell.

Should be

... if your product is easy to sell.
BIOS updates for security issues are not new by any means. With the advent of EFI firmwares, we're seeing more security issues than ever.

Here's a revision history[1] for a laptop model I work with. The previous model's history is much the same[2], except the updates stopped after Sept. 2014.

[1] http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5...

[2] http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=4...
T-Mobile already has many millions of real routable IPv4 addresses, so it's not like they would have to put everybody behind a single NAT.
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that was partially my point, they paid the ransom, now they are subjected to another attack. If it is a new attacker perhaps they knew that a ransom had been paid therefore it was worth the attack, perhaps on the basis that any new attack may not even have to last as long as the initial attack.

Personally the problem should rest with the data host, if the issue spills over to other customers then they need to mitigate that how they see best, I dont see it as being ProtomMails fault.
Will this impact governments' efforts to move to open source?
Looks cool, but i am curios what the hell is happening with the Cyrillic letter Ы when i enter it?!
Perhaps, since he tends to be on the logical side of things, his version of that would be "I couldn't care less about it."

That's so obviously not what he's saying, though, but rather that it's never something you can "win" and that you just have to be rigorous in how you mitigate it.
Technically, yes, of course that is correct.

But regardless of how rational it seems, some people just want to avoid heavily refined pharmaceuticals that have gone through chemical processes, regardless of how 'benign' we are (currently) told these are.
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As pointed out in the article's comments, this[1] is a more readable version.

[1]: http://siderea.livejournal.com/1241996.html?format=light
I tend to be more enthusiastic about my job when I leave something for tomorrow. Like a "To be continued" episode that gets you hooked, if I leave at the end of the day with something to finish the next morning, I look forward to it much more than if I push through and get it done before leaving.

I also find I'm more interested in my job when I take a little time each day (15-30 minutes) to read a programming book about a technology I'm working on. Learning is something that I value highly and it makes me more interested in the work when I learn something new that I can apply or know that I'm getting a little bit better.
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>This prevents a country from forcing somebody like Microsoft or Apple to give up their source code for "inspection" in order to access their market.

Since when is that a good thing?
That was fun! I can't decide if it was a joke, though.

It's still funny.
Currently "urgent" refers to situations where someone is in immediate risk of death or severe harm. This is unlikely to change - they don't have the staff to include more stuff.

I agree that it's a very worrying bill with several attacks on important civil liberties.
It also would prevent government agencies from demanding i.e. the source code of a car's ECU to verify its safety and emissions behavior.

The only way out of this would be to declare car ECUs (or other systems) as "critical infrastructure", the definition of which I'm sure will be subject to many political tug-of-wars once this is implemented.
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Hey, don't forget the wild profiteering WorldPay are engaging in - taking a slice of the entire damn country's tax revenue! Quite the gig.
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You can write all of your Qt logic in javascript if you want to. It will probalbly still be much faster than a browser. But the thing is that Qt allows you to write your logic (and your ui) in C++ if you need to. It gives you somewhere to go when performance is an issue. And on mobile or embedded there is a high chance that only a compiled, no-vm, no-gc language like C/C++ or Objective C or Rust will give you the performance you need. One thing is for sure: If you have to build a cross platform native application be sure to first prototype the performance and processor/battery use of your technology choice. Even if you don't choose something like Qt at least you can write your backend in C++ and write a different native front end for each OS. But if you use e.g. web technology and don't prototype first there will be absolutely fire escape later. A lot of people have learned this the hard way.
I have migraines now and again where codeine is the only over the counter painkiller with much effect, but even at the small doses that are available, the after-effects are so awful to me that I hate taking it even without any actual tolerance problems. Codeine is a nasty drug.
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"Western-style" is what everyone called them when it made a difference. (In USA they're called just "toilets"; perhaps Europe is similar?) I've seen the hole-in-the-floor type in a fancy resort in Japan. Is that also the case in Italy? Keep in mind this hole still has standing water and a trap and still flushes. It shouldn't be confused with the vault style you see in more rustic locations, with or without a "toilet" seat.
The stupid thing about web history logging is that it is not web history logging at all. It is internet connection logging. The analogy made by Teresa may that it is an "itemised phone bill for the 21st century" shows a complete lack of understanding of the difference between circuit switched networks (e.g the PSTN phone network) and a packet switched network (e.g the internet).

Far as I understand it, the current draft will require ISPs to log all IP connections made, and some other metadata from the packets.

This will be a potentially huge amount of data that ISPs will have to store for 12 months, and it will largely be useless data; as by the time this is enshrined in law and ISPs have this implemented, we will be a lot further down the path that we are currently headed with regards to increasing use of HTTPS and HTTP/2.

All you will be able to gain from this information is ip addresses & hostnames connected to. URLs and other information are all transmitted inside the encrypted session.

Aside from this, terrorists, nefarious types, and increasingly; any technically competent, law abiding citizen with a reasonable desire for privacy will use VPNs, TOR, etc, making it even more pointless.
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>And tell me about all of those wonderful command-line games!

You can pry my MUDs out of my cold, dead hands, thank you very much.

More seriously, it simply says {applications, games} x {desktop, web, CLI}, where the (game, CLI) tuple is left for the reader to filter out. Obviously it primarily means CLI applications. I think you're being unreasonably pedantic.

And yes, server-side programming is part of web programming.

I really see nothing wrong with the new Guile website. In fact I think it's excellent both in information and artwork. :-)
This is what I am talking about. The article you are referring contains image of the 19th century, it has nothing to do with the original telescope.
My personal view is that software is mathematics without proofs.
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>You can create applications on the web with Lisp? Really?!?

You do realize Hacker News itself is a Lisp application on the web?
Grsecurity languishes in (relative) obscurity because no distribution ships it. I know several people who know about it and would pick the option if it was distro-supported. If you don't get automatic updates it's a non-starter.

Popularity in distros would put a lot of pressure on the mainline kernel and might get things moving there.
Comparing the sum of economic transactions to government income is not relevant. Just as with anything in economy you have to think in the margins (marginal demand, marginal tax rate, etc.) I'm not saying that taxes are the only demand. USD has value! It doesn't matter if you are Chinese! I have another thought experiment: imagine that the US (or any other country, you can think of a small country as it will be more evident) decides to issue a second currency, but you can't pay federal taxes with it and there is no fixed exchange rate to the USD (notice that it's not a bond, it has no maturity).
In any case, there is no need for thought experiments with bitcoin. Reality will show you and me if bitcoin has any sustenance. I think it's an amazing technology, but bitcoins themselves have no value (in the long term).
Although any nation state that does not like capitalism, surely would not be signing a trade agreement to open up trading markets.
True, and opium is much less addictive than refined products such as morphine, heroine, oxycodone and other potent opioids.

I'd also hazard an (uneducated) guess that the number of seeds (and hence land area) required would render this unpractical for most people?
You mean like Sesame Credit in China? You may jest, but if they aren't already secretly doing this, it would be of little surprise if they decide that what China are doing is a Good Idea, and adopt it.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d412385a-6e54-11e5-8171-ba1968cf79...
Because (a) the browser can't guarantee to support image formats, since it depends on what's available locally and (b) a flaw in an image decoder on one OS is essentially unfixable by the browser creator. Today they can roll out a new version which patches that flaw.
> I wanted a life beyond work. Hobbies, family, and intellectual stimulation and pursuits beyond Hacker News, what the next-next-next JavaScript framework looks like, and how we can optimize our signup funnel.

> and pursuits beyond Hacker News

What foreign language is this?
Financial news without the bullshit. Thoughts?
I also suffer from occasional migraines, and neither NSAIDs or codeine do anything for them. If you can, try something more specifically for migraines, such as sumatriptan (I get it on prescription) - it works for me every time.
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FreeBSD did not have serious problems, they were doing reasonably well. Clearly they can do more now but that is definitely not true.
Indeed. Probably has something to do with the fact that they quietly (and not so quietly, in some cases) took an axe to the judiciary a few years back.

It could also be argued that if someone is a terror suspect, then there may be an immediate risk, but to know so they must have more access, so it is therefore urgent that they do. This is the kind of Kafkaesque circular logic I'm increasingly coming to expect from the state.
But should the facility exist to force one to testify against themselves?
Grsecurity's approach is superior to OpenBSD's, but both are acceptable.

FreeBSD is actually behind Linux - it lacks an effective access control framework and did not have ASLR until the latest release. At least they're working on it (TrustedBSD, Capsicum).
C++ 76.4%, Python 10.6%, Dart 5.7%, Java 3.0%, Objective-C 1.7%, C 1.2%, Other 1.4%

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Think of education as an end-in-itself, rather than a utilitarian thing that delivers certain outcomes.

I don't know how to make you stop thinking in a utilitarian way. There are other philosophies, you know?
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> While the votes are good news for muni Internet proponents, Community Broadband Networks pointed out that the state law forces communities to "spend precious public dollars" on referenda.

This is the most they could come up with. I really can't figure out which sector I have the greatest disdain for - TelCos, insurance companies, or mega-banks.
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I totally agree with you with regards to the language itself sharing similarities with C#, and you make a good point about avoiding all the FFI native calls hassle.

I couldn't find a whole lot of independent benchmarks but I'd suspect that at least in Chrome, it does outperform V8.

I guess I'm just not the target developer for this, though. If I want optional static types I can implement typescript incrementally into my existing stack, while retaining the code portability benefits. For desktop apps, NW.js is aiming to plug that gap, and I wouldn't have to give up my npm modules.

Another poster mentioned waiting until it sees a push at Google I/O before taking it seriously. I'd settle for them just to explain the problem case that drove it's development.

EDIT: I hadn't spotted harryf's reply below that makes the point about transparency better than I have above, kudos.
Holy hyperbole, Batman! That article took a long time to get to the point, and I'm a touch hesitant to use the same breathless tone as the author. As I understand it, the model is the same as Elm. Separating specifying the computation (in this case, defining the event processing graph) from running the computation is an old trick in FP circles[1]. It's great to see JS libraries moving forward, but it would sure be an easier read if the author dropped the embellishment.

[1] Blog post about this: http://underscore.io/blog/posts/2015/04/28/monadic-io-lazine...
My vote goes to Spender.
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And the leader of the Opposition is a Marxist as near as damn it. They have a great tradition of human freedom and anti-snooping or perhaps not.
I don't quite understand that analogy. In other to while trying to understand the assembly code that was generated.

STL, on the other hand, is a text file that can be imported for most 3D design tools and hence you can modify it.
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At one point, I required an obscene amount of opiates to function. If the pain was too steep, you would pop a breakthrough right away. The number of times I found myself sitting at my desk and wondering how I got there were too high.
On the contrary, they are a very underrepresented group in corporate upper management.
They can still do this. However VW can later sue them for damages equal to their lost profits in a secret court.

It will certainly make it a lot easier for VW lobbyists to kill legislation intended to regulate them this way.
> It also helps to prevent States from demanding and acquiring encryption or other private keys

boom, encryption done wrong!!

Look at PGP, source code is open. Nobody can crack it yet.

But DO we know if Apple is really on "our" side or are they just marketing it? Well, if our governments could see into the code. They could tell us.
And if you tell me. Well there could be some people working for the government that could leak the code. Well then I tell you, just don't hire people who worked for a company for many years as their lead [[something]].

> Not everything in the TPP is bad.
I go by the rule. If it is a big thing and will alter a lot of stuff. It primarily is bad, very very bad. And they got to convince they are doing good.
I think it primarily bans states from using access to the source code to prevent vendor lock-in. States tend to invest in enormous software projects. If they need specific new features, and the original vendor is unable or unwilling to provide those for a reasonable price, this would prevent the state from going to someone else to continue development. The original vendor will be able to ask unreasonable prices.

When Peru made a law demanding that the state has access to the source code for that exact purpose, Microsoft was upset, because they didn't want to play by those rules, but also doesn't want to lose that market.
You might be correct, although accidentally.

He cares.
Or just ad-blocking, which is less drastic.
Can you fix the links? For some reason the browser URL doesn't change to reflect the fragment, so the back button is broken.
"heavily refined products that have gone through chemical processes"

You mean Vodka? :)
This is a number I had on my head from the "Using the NDK Performantly (Big Android BBQ 2015)" talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb5HAI73QRE&list=PLWz5rJ2EKK...

From some examples using buffers, maybe I am wrong.
Can't EDIT, so here is this:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/22/india-protect-t...

"In the first step by a developing country to stop multinational companies patenting traditional remedies from local plants and animals, the Indian government has effectively licensed 200,000 local treatments as "public property" free for anyone to use but no one to sell as a "brand"."
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One small suggestion: Eliminate "published and outa here," the policy where students have to publish their MS and Phd work in order to receive those degrees. All that does is to fill the journals with crap.
Dragnet surveillance data must be used selectively: you don't want to use it against your "confidential informants", after all. That would ruin their testimony in later cases, and give previously convicted "perps" grounds for appeal.
This is rendering performance.

I mean calling Android APIs via JNI vs calling them from Java.
Not sure about the coffee in those prisons, but for tee there is Chifir'[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifir'
What is the point of this article? None of it seems to be relevant to any actual event; it's just random android bashing from random people.
>I heard rumors that in russian prisons people make this condensed coffee drink that acts as a sort of meta-amphetamine replacement.

Probably, you are referring to the "chifir": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifir'
It is prepared by boiling tea leaves, rather than coffee beans.
Chifir is indeed a stimulant, although totally unrelated to methamphetamine (which, by itself, is not popular or easily obtained in Russia at all).
Yes this is precisely how I feel. I have spent days trying to get a decent development platform (can't remember how I got breakpoints to hit, I think after upgrading to 1.4 things stopped working) so I have completely given up. I can really see why development is typically iOS first and then Android second.

And I say this having written Android applications in Java (no problems there really) and now getting my feet wet in iOS with Swift/ObjC.

I agree with you about the NDK being a thing they never wanted to support. You can see this in the documentation where they state that applications should be written in Java for Android, first and foremost. But given that the underlying libraries can be compiled under Windows, OSX, iOS etc it makes sense to have a C++ system for Android too. It's a pity that it's such a complete mess, and is at best a complete joke.

I really am giving up on it.
> Linux kernel is a joke security-wise, one can find reliable vulnerabilities in a few hours

Do you have some details on this? I did not realise the situation was so bad.
I love the "timekeeper" feature, only because it looks so retro at this point that I hope it never goes away.
I can't see how this about capitalism. Showing source code to anybody (government or end user) does not make you loose your rights to that source code or the compiled application.

This is about freedom and the right to self-determination of governments/citizens (and thus also about democracy).

I would like to point out that our patent system is basically something like this: We as a society will protect your intellectual property rights for your machine only if you show us your blueprints.
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this. There really is nowhere that is safe, is there?

Your last statement is absolutely correct -- time to fight back!
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The Actual Thesis: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.04771v1.pdf
> you do want to have a relational storage by default

No I do not, thank you very much.

> The concept of NoSQL databases has been around for a while

For far longer than the concept of SQL databases.

> Alright, so are NoSQL databases really schemaless?

All the classic document-oriented systems had very strict and complex schemas.

> The first one is data (referential) integrity

Enforced by a schema. SQL is not any special here.
can you pay others with the api? schedule payements? set limits and have multiple accounts.
The good news is that github puts a uuid in the url, so its unguessable.

Slack, on the other hand, didn't have a big unguessable number... they had a very small number you could brute-force.
Ho come on, that's the flutter sources. Why is it so popular on HN to "debunk" points with irrelevant statistics? As if numbers win arguments no matter what?

The point is that Flutter application code is intended to be 100% Dart. Just like React Native application code is 100% JavaScript (and React Native itself isn't).
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It might make more sense for Chrome/others to whitelist .onion as a domain that is already encrypted and thus features shouldn't be restricted based on its TLS status.

Using TLS to connect to Tor hidden services is completely pointless. While I don't disagree with the article, it's probably the wrong solution.
> I for one would much rather use a plant, rather than opioids that cause addiction, physical dependence, and potentially a life-ruining downward spiral of misery.

Cannabis has HUGE side effects! After consuming cannabis, I feel good but I'm also totally worthless and incapable of doing anything constructive. That'a serious side effect and unless I have no other option, that's a state I'd like to avoid except for recreational purpose.
I don't see what is bizarre about the argument at all. It doesn't discount that it's illegal and wrong now, it only speculates that the increase in availability will increase the incidence of these actions. Could you expand on how this is not so?
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There are trade-offs in this. It means states cannot require code for certification, inspection, and continued development in case of abandonment. But it also means that states cannot require code for copying and illicit use.

I prefer the more open options.
Perhaps the way to push security into the industry is to use consumer's rights to their full capacity.
In the EU if you buy something, you get 6 months of warranty and 24 months of implied warranty.

If you buy an Android phone and stop getting updates after 18 months and there is a new security hole, you should return the phone to your dealer and demand your money back. After all, it's relatively easy to prove that the defect (the security hole) was already present when you bought the phone. The dealer must fix the defect. If he can't, he must take back the article. He will then complain to the manufacturer. The pressure from these complaints hopefully lead to a change of behaviour by the manufacturers (i.e. provide two years of security updates, for example, even if you buy a new phone that's already been available for a year or two).
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