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I am not confused. Please reread the thread.

You asserted that iOS is "unfixable" because the ObjC runtime cannot prevent apps from using "private/internal calls that your app is not supposed to use," whereas "Android gets code access control for free with Java."

But as I showed, Java access controls are easily bypassed, so they do not provide any security. This is by design: security is enforced at the process boundary, not by the runtime.

My hope is that you now appreciate that neither the ObjC nor Android Java runtimes are a security risk, because they are not responsible for enforcing any security policy.

> Also my larger point was the iOS security is not fundamentally better than anything else

iOS security is fundamentally better. You can read the whitepaper to understand the ways: data protection classes, the Secure Enclave, and lots more.

But here's a damning fact: iOS encrypts your data by default, Android does not. That by itself makes iOS fundamentally more secure.
I might even agree with you. But that's no reason to resort to name-calling. Attack the reasoning, not the person.
Author here. My goal is to (eventually) host a toy key:value store on top of a unikernel. So the KV store would need to persist data to a writable file system. It's great when you don't need to alter state and the unikernel can be immutable (baking config into code ala Mirage, etc)...but something like a KV store can't get away with that.

But, the KV store + unikernel is mostly for fun, so may not be the most practical of real-world ideas anyway :)
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There are good number of employers who have some other illegal holds on their employees. Such as bonds, compensation agreements or in some cases financial deposits
1. Organic, Pure, Maple Syrup at Wal*Mart

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Pure-Maple-Syrup-12.5-...

2. Pears in pear juice (no other sweeter). WalMart's own brand:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Fruit-Pear-Halves-Bart...

3. Organic sprouted whole wheat bread: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Alvarado-St.-Bakery-Sprouted-Whole... (All bread needs some "sugar" for the yeast to work on. Some that say "sugar free" get sugar from milk or fruit juice.)

"Healthy Life Sugar Free 100% Whole Wheat Bread" http://www.walmart.com/ip/Healthy-Life-Sugar-Free-100-Whole-...
The accidental complexity here is due to Windows, not Python. Python would rather generate an error than give you garbled output without your knowledge.
> Should it be left to Islamic religious leaders who can leverage Islamic texts to spread a more peaceful (and accurate) teaching, or should the focus be to discredit Islam from the outside?

Here you are attempting to equate accuracy with peacefulness, with nothing given to support that link. To be clear, I don't have a strong opinion on whether Islam is a peaceful religion or not. I have not done enough research to be confident in that sort of claim. I do, however, find it disingenuous to claim that the ISIS interpretation is wrong when the only support given for that claim is that it differs from some other muslims' interpretations.

> It is no less valid to talk about a correct interpretation of religious texts than it is to talk about the correct interpretation of any other text.

Sure, it's reasonable and valid to say "Here's a thing ISIS believes about Islam. Here is the context around that thing. And here is the reason ISIS is wrong." That's not what's happening here, though. This is more like "Here's a thing ISIS believes. I promise you that there is some context that makes them wrong. See, other Muslims agree that ISIS is wrong."
Are you saying they can leave with the same ease that citizens can leave? That's not true.
In addition to what torgo said, there are a few countries that have only upheld UN directives and treaties when it suits them. The US is a example of this.
I really wonder how many subscription box businesses really make any money.

While the model as a whole is valid, the way it has been glommed onto by the folks selling shovels to gold miners definitely makes it feel reminiscent of other big fads that have hit the "internet marketing/entrepreneur" circles which are filled with people looking for "get rich quick" schemes.

Not knocking a service business that is doing template design, but can't shake the feeling that the only ones making money are the ones selling the services to the box sellers.
I believe they fixed that in 3.1, so it's no longer impossible: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0383/

Regarding the huge mess, that exists with or without Python 3 if filenames use unknown, incorrect or inconsistent encodings. To treat a path as as text, e.g. to show it to a human or send to another system, you have to know its encoding. Python 3 and GTK (with its
G_FILENAME_ENCODING and G_BROKEN_FILENAMES) make this clear - some other software (like Python 2) just silently uses and propagates the broken data.
I downvoted you, but I'll explain. I don't think it's right to share what Adam probably expected was a private conversation with the world.
The SF bay area is plagued by a severe housing shortage, but building up is the solution, not building out. The bay area is not dense at all.
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I paid for Pixelmator after deciding to no longer pirate Photoshop; what makes you prefer Acorn?
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Just FYI, if you have the Genius or Recommendation features turned on for your library, iTunes will connect to the store to grab that information. If you don't want it to do that, just sign out of the store and turn those options off (but maybe not in that order). That should stop it from trying to connect in the background.
Yes, this is indeed what a typical staffing company does -- except citizens at staffing companies can jump ship anytime when a better opportunity comes their way. H1Bs, while not shackled, have a lot of tethers to their current employer which makes switching very difficult. Their lightly-tied handcuffs also make it very difficult to find better jobs/salaries/negotiate and result in holding wages down.
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Yes, transformers allow you to get it wrong, too. But at least there is a way to get it right with them.
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In the path from special to general you have to give this point of view up.

More exactly, special relativity starts with the assumption that there are special inertial frames of reference, here is what they look like, and here is what they look like relative to each other.

General relativity starts with arbitrary coordinate systems, and ways of expressing physics such that whatever was measured in one coordinate system can be translated into what should have been measured in another. These coordinate systems can have any mixture of weird effects.

The physics involves something called a metric. General relativity is what falls out if you insist on the following statements:

1. "Locally" things behave like special relativity.

2. Given only low velocity and low mass, things behave like Newtonian gravity.

3. The terms of the metric satisfy a first order differential equation whose definition is independent of the chosen coordinate system.

This gives you general relativity up to an arbitrary constant of integration (the cosmological constant). And in the presence of mass it gives you the prediction that no truly inertial frame of reference exists over any region with matter in it. (The effects of gravity are all due to stuff being non-inertial.)

From that prediction we find that the point of view and understanding from special relativity is only a local approximation. You can't really describe any interesting system that way.
> It more or less proves (to me at least) that the government(s) and the various secret services have absolutely no idea who to monitor specifically. So instead of targeting their operations they want to monitor all of us, just in case something of interest pops out that then allows them to focus their attention.

Except that most of the recent terror attacks have involved at least one person known to the authorities. One of the Paris attackers even had an international arrest warrant out for him.
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The lines are infinitely thin. Equivalently you can imagine the paper is divided into regions of width L, and the question is whether the needle will cross a region boundary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon's_needle).
Okay, but that seems equivalent to saying that ISIS isn't actually wrong in their interpretation, just unpopular. :\

The biblical literalists are not wrong when they say that the Bible tells them that God created Earth in 6 days. That is what it says. The more common "metaphorical interpretation" is more recent than the acceptance as a true origin story.
As a mere point of interest, that is logically equivalent to:

When not only the criminals have X, then X is not illegal.
First, you seem to be going out of your way to pretend the First Sale doctrine exists.

> MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc.

That was 1993. Several cases have handled the issue of temporary RAM copies since then. In particular, Cartoon Network, LP v. CSC Holdings, Inc.[1] found that the MAI case didn't address how RAM copies only exist for a "transitory duration", and thus are not eligible for copyright. Using software normally is patently fair use. Again, this supposed license requirement doesn't exist in most cases.

Besides, this entire line of argument is strange; pretending that normal use of a product infringes copyright sure seems like a claim that the product was not fit for purpose.

> those rights also extend

Up until the first sale. Generally, anything beyond that point requires a contract.

> distribution of copies

> creation of derivative works

I'm talking about use; these are not relevant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_Network,_LP_v._CSC_Hol....
I'm not sure what you mean by "There is essentially no dispute over the facts any more." As far as I understand, no-one has been able (yet) to make a prediction based on the many-worlds interpretation that could (even in theory, with infinite resources and time) be tested experimentally. Same goes for the Copenhagen interpretation. Thus neither of these are proper scientific theories (in the sense of Popper), and so we call them "interpretations". In light of this I don't understand how you can claim it is settled in favor of one side or the other?
Currently, there is almost no delay for the rest of the world outside India, Mainland China and The Philippines – by the time the PERM request is approved (which in itself takes at least six months,) there should be a green card visa number ready.

Assuming no complications, the full process from LCA to a status change could take as little as a year (but 18-24 months would be a more realistic estimate).

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bull...
You nailed it, I think. If surveillance works, then Paris, Beirut, Bagdad et al wouldn't have happed. Realizing it's a pipe dream, I'd love to see a world accept that we the west have done so much damage that nothing will stop terrorism.

Accepting that means we can throw those wasted resources at things that have a better chance of working - throw the tech that detects copyright infringements at detecting pro-ISIL sites, and use DCMA-style tactics to take them down. Fund new research to put effective bomb and weapon detectors into every doorway. Because protecting borders doesn't work either (crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside). Build schools, instead of bombing them. Stop selling weapons to the very people that shouldn't have them. Teach politicians to value non-American lives as much as American ones. Stop honouring violent death, and honour the deaths of people who move humanity forward instead.

There's an endless stream of ideas of what we could do, if only we actually wanted it.
I'm troubled by it too. There is arguably some merit to exposing the latent bigotry of HN's users --- which, if it helps, is less about Islam specifically and more about Islam's utility in constructing facile arguments about the whole concept of religion --- but I think that merit is far outweighed by the enmity these threads generate.

I think the mods should reconsider whether threads about religion are appropriate for HN. Lots of other totally legitimate discussions aren't legit on HN; for instance, I can talk your ear off about horse-race politics in the US, but am glad that the topic finds no purchase on HN.

As long as there are threads about religion (or, worse, political Islam) on HN, the good-faith users of the site are going to be saddled with the task of trying to flag aggressively uncivil comments out of the threads. It's just too easy to score easy points by snarking about religion. It's hard to keep up, a giant waste of time, and I think pretty dispiriting for everyone involved.
The BBC in the UK had a show about this. It was supposedly by an ex convicted burglar and he would break into people's homes to show them issues and how to protect themselves (reality TV style, but BBC so very subdued).

The alarmist nature of the show not withstanding, it was very interesting to see him at work. Very rarely did he do anything technical, complex, or time consuming.

MOST of his entries: Press the doorbell to make sure nobody was home. Walk around, hop the back garden fence. Walk up to a door, turn away from it, bend his foot back, and kick the bottom of the door with his foot until the frame gave in (1-2 minute entry).

Rarely he'd break windows, screens, utilise a small crowbar, or utilise a ladder left laying down in people's back gardens to break into upper floors.

The most complicated break-in I witnessed on the show was via a motorised garage (essentially just used a crowbar, and then leverage to force it up, then slide under).

Never once did he use a lockpick, or do anything that a teenage couldn't have done. A screwdriver and or tiny crowbar are his only tools.
The major difference is

(1) The laws are designed to eliminate choice and freedom to pursue other jobs for the people being placed.

(2) "Staffer" company is able to take their 50% or more cut from their salary for entire decade or more every single month.

Imagine if you were running staffer company with this business model where law says that workers can't leave the job you placed them and you get to pocket major part of their income for decade or more.

Technically sure they can leave your employment but practically they can't because they still get paid bit better than their home country although much less than prevalent wages in US even after staffer takes his 50% cut.
The number of extra, unnecessary clicks spawned by the lack of a back button must be in the trillions. It's the one thing I truly miss about Android. But the back button is really the industrial design side winning over the UI side anyway
That's been a theme lately. You could give the iPhone true all-day battery life by making it what, 1mm thicker? Give the MacBook Pro easily replaceable memory and storage for about the same increase. Give much nicer travel on the keys, etc. But they don't want to do that. They want to make something that other companies can't replicate, so they squeeze every last fraction of a millimeter in order to stay ahead.
Startups have already been in a position of being able to do this. Basically another way to reduce the cost of engineers. After all, it's not a sustainable business unless your MBA's and management are making many multiples of the rank and file employees.....dripping sarcasm.
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> Biblical literalists are generally not accused of "misinterpreting" the Christian Bible.

Yes, they are. Particularly by other Christians.

> but it's hard to accuse someone of "misinterpreting" something because they follow its literal meaning.

No, its quite easy: outside of the context of religion, we see it all the time when people are accused of misinterpreting something by treating either one-off metaphors or colloquial figures of speech as if their meaning was what is suggested by the literal meanings of the individual words. Or when one of many possible literal meaning (words often have more than one nonfigurative meaning) is chosen, despite the fact that the context (possibly very broad context) suggests a different interpretation, whether a different literal interpretation or a nonliteral one.

Its no harder to accuse people of misinterpretation for pursuing a particular literal interpretation when the thing being misinterpreted is a religious text.
If only I'd known of this two months ago, when making slides in PowerPoint for a talk. I ended up doing manual syntax highlighting!

–———

Somewhat relatedly, it's sometimes annoying how OS X love preserving styles when copying text. I may be misremembering, but I think text copied from Terminal.app uses your terminal font.
IANAL, but you can apply for a transfer without the original employer knowledge, and once that transfer is approved, then the previous employer can do nothing about that.
I largely agree, and it is the same problem Microsoft faced when downstream OEMs put their OS load on their hardware, adding in their own drivers and "features". Even today people like Lenovo get smacked for adding things like Superfish. But the underlying OS has gotten much more reslient. Anyway, that is why, to me, Google seems a bit like Microsoft in the 2003.
a more complicated matter than simply trying to exploit the lands for money.

Every rule change has winners and losers.

In this case, ecotourism over mining, ranching, etc.

On behalf of all conservationists everywhere, I apologize to the citizens of the proud state of Utah for protecting their long-term tourism revenue at the expense of political campaign contributions from a few of cronies looting the public trust.
Incidental to your point but I wouldn't characterise Office as bloated or slow. Word, Excel, and PPT 2016 are all super snappy.
Thanks for the feedback. The reason the email box is there is we built this on Wordpress using Easy digital download and the plugin to offer the free download is built with the email box. We hear you that it is more inconvenient and will work on putting a pop up box that offers the choice for a free instant download or send to email.

The site is very much a work in progress...in the meantime if you don't feel comfortable putting your email in, perhaps you can wait for us to fix this and come back at a later date. thanks again!
> When Ben Carson says that the world was literally created in 6 days, lots of people say he's crazy, but the only people who say he's misinterpreting the text are people who want to push their own interpretation

Yes, it is trivially true, by definition, that the only people who say that someone has an incorrect interpretation is people who would portray a different interpretation is correct. That's what saying an interpretation is incorrect means.
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Fictional sources are not evidence in a debate or argument.
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Well, my town has been reliably voting to do just that sort of thing, absorbing public & private land in and around the town into "open spaces" that do put limits on recreation. I'm wholly in favor.

At only 30% of the land area vs the BLM, the NPS is hardly about to swallow the BLM whole.
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If you're running easy-in, fast-fire, then you should pay 2x-3x continuously during the trial period, just like you would to a freelance consultant doing the same work.

But if you're running a real hiring process with accuracy as a goal, as you probably should be, then the 2x-3x payout at the end of the trial program at least fixes some of the incentive problems, and, if you're running that program in good faith, you're doing it because you expect most people you extend offers to will pan out --- so you'll rarely pay that bonus.
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So, a blow-torch then. Not a light sabre.

Nothing [apart from click-bait] to see here. Move along, please.
In no particular order:

Craving a warmer climate.

Not feeling fairly taxed. (My marginal income tax rate is 58 or 60%, I forget which. And it will increase next year. And then again. And so on.)

Having stock option vestings taxed at my marginal income tax rate PLUS an additional ~30% for the company's social security payments.

Not feeling very hopeful about the economic future of Sweden, with the current flow of economically speaking worthless immigrants/"refugees". (A third of them or so satisfy the UN critera for being a war refugee.) For the past month the rate has been about ~2k/day. It will likely go up exponentially over time unless policies are changed. In Africa alone there are probably half a billion people who would prefer Sweden.

Living in a country that has become so twisted that it is social suicide to publicly suggest that having a 10-20x higher immigrant rate of illiterate and uneducated people from e.g. Somalia and Afghanistan than the rest of Europe might be somewhat problematic in the long run.
Ok, try running this in a program like so:

d = {chr(i):i for i in range(65,91)}
print(d)

Do it with python2 and python3. You'll see that the output in python3 changes every time.

If someone was relying on consistent ordering, they're going to have a bug.

Python2's ordering is deterministic[0]

[0]https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#dict.items
We have at least redis in rumprun-packages -- https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun-packages/tree/master/r... -- which AFAIK was packaged based on a non-toy need.

Yes, the need for persistent storage for persistent values is quite solid ;-)
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Android's system security design is inferior to that of iOS.

But, iOS's superiority (a) derives in significant part from Apple's total control over the hardware platform†, and (b) comes at the cost of a lot of user control tradeoffs that nerds like us tend to hate.

Really, to suggest that Android's security is at parity with Apple's, you'd have to be arguing that Apple does a terrible job at exploiting their inherent advantages of control over hardware and control over what's allowed to run on the platform. Apple does not do a terrible job at those things.

† Yes, Google controls some of their hardware, but they have an ongoing support requirement for a lot of hardware they have no control over at all, and will have that requirement forever, which limits their options.
I think they should dress seniors in Stormtrooper outfits and such. They could be designed to give them additional motor support and they would look rad.
Sure, may be it's not as bad as slave trade of 17th century. But imagine this for a bit: You need employment to pay your bill. What if the law allows you to work for only one certain company and you have no ability to negotiate your salary or get another job or ask for promotion for most of your productive years of your life. What would you call that?
To be fair, "just" reading Russian isn't that hard. A grammar textbook and a dictionary gets me through polyphonic greek lit and modern german lit. Try it! You might be surprised at how easy your brain will pick it up.
You're correct, but lock picking is useful for criminals who are looking to break into a building without leaving a trace (for whatever nefarious purpose).