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The interesting thing in the CA case that's not getting a ton of play is the FBI has the support of the phones legal owner (a government agency) but the owner doesn't know the passcode in this situation.

If the suspected terrorists owned the phone themselves, we'd also have the 5th amendment wrapped up in that case too.
If I take a chapter of a textbook, modify it to be a standalone volume in a collection of books and start distributing it, I am distributing a derived work of the original book, not a derived work of the collection of books. The latter constitutes an aggregation and unless there is some license (superseding doctrine of first sale in the case of books) that prevents it from being redistributed with such things, it is perfectly okay to do that.

Similarly, the original code was taken from OpenSolaris and was adapted for Linux. No matter how we change it, it is a derived work of Solaris. Furthermore, it is distributed as part of a mere aggregation, which is okay with OSS under the OSD and also okay with the GPL under the GPL FAQ. The only time you can claim a combined work is formed is when the module is loaded into a running kernel, but the GPL does not restrict non-distribution and the kernel with the module loaded into it is not being distributed.

As for removing it from the Linux kernel, given that it is an entire storage stack between the block layer and VFS, you would need to replace everything there (including the disk format), but yes, you would have a working system.

As for all calls to Linux kernel symbols, those are provided to LKM so that they can function and they cannot function without it. There are symbols not provided at all, symbols provided only to GPL software and symbols provided to everyone. ZFS only uses the last group, which is intended for use by non-GPL software.

You can design software to load a LKM from an arbitrary. FreeBSD had done that with Windows kernel modules for wireless drivers at one point. Wine does that for certain Windows drivers that do copy protection. There is nothing stopping you from creating a kernel under a difference license that loads modules in the LKM format of a given Linux kernel. Although the usual case is to port the code to another kernel's own LKM implementation. Attorneys with whom I (and apparently Canonical too) have spoken think this is okay.
This article is funny and spot on...

My house is on 35 acres, which I maintain...at any given time I have around 20 gallons of gas in 5-gallon cans, and 10 gallons, or so, of diesel in my barn...fuel for the mower, Gator, tractor, garden tiller, etc...

>>government “fixed” the gas can. Why? Because of the environmental hazards that come with spilled gas. You read that right. In other words, the very opposite resulted. Now you cannot buy a decent can anywhere. You can look forever and not find a new one.<<

This is so very true...I "baby" my old cans...I want them around until long after I'm gone...

The only real solution for reliably pouring from the new cans, especially into a car, is a long-necked, broad-mouthed funnel...

I've decided to also baby the funnel, in case changes in it's design are mandated at some point... :)
If it uses Falcon under the hood, why not just use Falcon?
We looked at Watson a few month back and it didn't seem as good as some of the other image tagging APIs. Maybe we should look into this again.
One of those sides is being fatuously disingenuous.

The San Bernardino shooters demonstrated rather competent op-sec, and the 5c the FBI wants Apple to backdoor was a work phone, not even a personal one. I'm spectacularly skeptical they used that phone in any way whatsoever relevant to the attack. More to the point, the attackers are already dead. There is nothing to prosecute here.

They picked this case as the one to push because they thought it had the best PR value for their purposes, not because of any exigence or concern over further impending attacks.

That is to say, the FBI is cynically leveraging the outrage at a mass-shooting, inflicted by "brown people", to further their anti-crypto, "We must have access to ALL OF THE THINGS!" agenda. It's pretty disgusting, frankly.

EDIT: snark.
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Even so, it only pays to be conservative via an overly selective filter if that filter actually selects for what you want. If you zealously apply some filter, believing that you're being extra cautious, but the filter doesn't actually select for what you think, or the filter isn't actually as selective as you think, then it's just a form of selectivity theater.

I've met plenty of ex-Googlers who were great at reciting CS trivia, but actually not very good at real life engineering. Granted, that may be why they were ex-Googlers, but it still doesn't speak well of Google's hiring process.
I have gotten it to run in Wine before, after struggles with `lsans.fot`.
I'm no professional mathematician, but, as someone who studies mathematics in his free time, I've never struggled with “scary-sounding” terminology that tells me up-front how abstract a concept is. On the other hand, I have struggled with familiar-sounding names being used for unfamiliar structures. For instance, non-Hausdorff “spaces” totally baffle my (admittedly not very well-trained) geometric intuition about space.
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If the suspected terrorists owned the phone themselves, we'd also have the 5th amendment wrapped up in that case too.

No we wouldn't. The "suspected terrorists" are dead.
Reminds me of the old-school user tracker (whose name escapes me) that would give you a bar graph of your friend's online/offline presence when AOL Instant Messenger was the dominant chat client.
Probably not "hard". Delphi/FreePascal interop with C apis just fine, and even with C++. For example, all the VCL (the GUI toolkit on Delphi) is based on the WIndows API, just with better feel
I worked in finance for ~15 years. The short answer is that it is largely the same as any other tech. industry. To make "big" money in finance, you need a couple of things 1) be in the front of the house, that is, things that are trivially tied to revenue. 2) be attached to a profitable division (this is good advice generally by the way)

Most large comp numbers in SV come from stock grants, most on Wall Street come from profit sharing bonuses. This is double edged, when profits go away you don't make good money & you frequently lose your job.

Happy to answer specific questions.
> 7% is a large amount of equity to give up for the money they're giving you

The value you get out of YC isn't really the money.

7% is a lot.
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I used to think this way, but what happens when they become dependent on you for emotional/financial/whatever sustenance?

I think those who are 'fun' to 'fix' are therefore at risk of dependency on that. Like a drug.
Also worth mentioning Master of Magic. It's Civilization I with spells.
I read a lot of papers about programming recently, and the weird kind of math people use there is a huge barrier. So, no even math related to programming is readable by programmers!
Many of the replacement screens available on the market are from iPhones where the top layer of glass broke, but the LCD is still intact. These broken screens get purchased from screen replacement stores and sent to China, where factories carefully adhere new glass to the top of the phone and ship it back as a replacement screen.

Both Chinese distributors and some less-reputable cell phone repair stores love to advertise these screens as "OEM." However, they are NOT, because the new glass doesn't come from Apple. It can't, because Apple doesn't sell replacement parts. So, while part of the screen (the original LCD) may indeed be "OEM", the entire screen--as a whole--is NOT. And that is why we do not call it "OEM" and I will publicly call BS on other places that do.

Again: OEM replacement screens do not exist unless you go to an Apple Store. Apple does not sell the parts. High-quality replacement screens with Gorilla Glass are pretty much indistinguishable from the original, but they are not 100% OEM and should not be labeled as such.
LEGO. I'd say on average developers/engineers like LEGO more than non developers.

I'm a sucker for furniture that I can take apart and put together again. There's German brand (http://www.floetotto.de/en/products/profilsystem/) who make the same product line since 30+ years. Impressive resell value on ebay, I bought 20 year old spare parts. Same for http://baltonliving.de/baltonbroschuere_e.pdf and some product lines of IKEA (less durable). Maybe it's the adult version of LEGO?
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I thought I was just dumb when I kept spilling gas when trying to fill the lawn mower with an odd shaped spout.
Thank you for all the work. Finding a specific setting in the settings panels is sometimes hard. I wish you could add search for setting items sometime in future.
> the poors are human beings getting fucked by surging costs they literally have no control over.

Just like they have no control over committing crime? Give me a break. Bad things happen to people. Use that as an excuse to terrorize residents and you're a far bigger piece of shit than someone who is being "insensitive" to their feelings.
With a program, you can always write test cases and run them to ensure they all pass. If your tests are solid and plentiful, the computer will catch your mistakes and you can go fix them.
There is no corresponding “proof checker” for mathematics. There is no compiler to tell you that it’s nonsensical to construct the set of all sets, or that it’s a type error to quotient a set by something that’s not an equivalence relation.

This is something that I have been noticing for quite a while. As I got out of high-school and self discovered programming - something that I gradually realized is that programmers have an infrastructure of tooling setup to help themselves. They made their things to help themselves. Compiler compilers (and cross-compilers!) simply blew my mind away.

I joined college after a gap of an year, and as I faced Physics and Mathematics again, that feeling strengthened. I now sometimes think of a very strict compiler for mathematics that catches errors from the math lingua. Could possibly be extended to Physics too. Don't even know if that is feasibly possible, but I find the idea intriguing.
They may call it RC, but it's barely beta. Recently they said they'd take their time to get it right - less conference driven development. This is a new start, SignalR will come after RTM, so lots of things won't be there. Think of it as version 1 rather than 5. There's currently no VB support either, so F# may take a bit.
ECC is just as important for EXT4 and NTFS as it is for ZFS.
I'm not the author, but I'm pretty sure GIFs start to inflate when you increase colour depth.

GIFs we see on social networks are typically captured from videos of real-life objects, places and people, so the source colour-depth is pretty high (to account for the necessary shades created by varying exposure to light in three dimensions) and thus even a poor-quality GIF is going to be quite big to represent the source media with any discernible accuracy.

Since that terminal sports very few colours, it can be saved with low colour-depth and thence remain very small, despite size and length.
Nobody else has mentioned this, but something Civ has taught me is how to appreciate realpolitik. Nothing makes it more clear than when you catch yourself having thoughts like:

- "Washington spawned too close for comfort; they're a threat to my peoples' long term security. Annihilate them first."

- "Hmm, the Mayans have some strategically valuable territory..."

- "Hey, the Persians are way back in the Renaissance, while I'm in the modern era, and they have luxuries I need. Let's send a few battleships over there."
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11131353
Reminds me of a similar English saying: "How do you make a small fortune in the airline business? Start with a large fortune!" I imagine we can generalize that to transportation in general.
I was thinking at the same thing today reading some tutorial. You have these serious ass tutorials that are an horror to read. And then you have these gems, these very informal tutorials with jokes and slangs and ... and reading them is a pleasure.

I guess if you're a serious company like Apple, you can't really have that kind of tutorial for iOS dev. But that would really help.
Its also the same argument regarding the war on drugs. It never works but thats not really the point. The point is to create options to apply pressure whenever government decides it wants to.
Sorry, Abel! I was on vacation at the time.

OK - I replied...
Virtual teams do not need to deal with immigration. So, what's next? Immigration offices on the backbones of the internet?
As someone who is not personally humiliated by my interest in computers/tech/programming, I wasn't really entertained by the constant "oh yea lol it's cause I'm a waste of oxygen that I know that, don't you hate me as much as I hate myself?" Maybe I know too many nerds with actual self esteem issues to find it funny.
Is Microsoft doing well? Their products are popular, but they have trouble getting anyone to actually pay for them.
You mean like the US Dollar?
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I don't know why I swear by gnuplot and tikz. I feel like the more you use them, the more you will know how to use them, and the faster you will be.

But then I use some wysiwyg and I make something much nicer in no time... Should I really give up on these tools :(?
Going by the score I am getting, we are in the minority.
Can you please post the link?
> I respect that you have a different opinion but you shouldn't assume so easily.

You are assuming my opinion is easily formed, when it is based off of lots of experience in China and discussions with a wide network of people with even more experience in China.

Uber may succeed in China, but it will be at the blessing of the CCP (another HN commentator raises one possibility: if Chinese investors own a majority of the company). To think "Travis and his team" have any real control in China is - no offense - totally naive.
Maybe you should go out more?
Philippines is thawing a bit

Fuck 'em. We had a big air base and a big naval base in the Philippines, and they kicked us out.

But, as Henry Kissinger frequently reminded us, we don't have friends or allies, we have "interests". And I'll grant you, right now it is very much in the US's "interest" to have an expanded presence in the area.
The fastest code is the one that doesn't run. Joking aside, there have been numerous low level improvements with Ben making big contributions - thanks Ben!
Many Tumblr users are still angry about what they saw as an attempt to get rid of all of the porn there too.
Uh oh they know
The socio-politics won, not the war. By your own measure, only half of Korea won - the other half didn't win.
Were you equally aggravated by the people who said how much they liked the writing style? Sorry, won't be able to get into a long conversation, I'm heading to a bar.
Depends how far you're Stockholm-Syndrome'd into using them =]
"Have fun" != "fix". If those concepts are crossed in your mind, that could be part of the problem. Just don't date the people who need fixing - or if you do, make it clear that they are responsible for fixing themselves and you're not going to do it for them.

There are lots of people in this world who don't need fixing and can be quite fun to hang with.
Who is to say the data requirements of an AGI won't be massive? Figuring out efficient 50PB sorts might just be a required step.

Even if it isn't, it's unreasonable to expect the world to stop spinning in the interim.

If a superintelligent AGI is born tomorrow, it might just establish itself as a singleton, prohibit other AGIs from exisiting, and then take an indefinite vacation. If that happens, we'll continue to work on seemingly mundane, non-important problems (such as this one) for humanity's foreseeable future.

Don't forget that Google owns DeepMind. If there was a way to divine who's closest to AGI at the present time, the answer would probably be them (even if arrival is ultimately far off).
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If you don't link to your answer many people are just going to discard your comment.
Evolution has already proven that strong AI is possible. It is up to us to discover how. It is only a matter of time.
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I find criticism of Canonical interesting. They are one of the most freedom respecting software companies out there. But people don't compare them to almost any company, they compare them against Red Hat. It seems that Ubuntu gets criticized not so much because they are really bad but because Red Hat is so awesome.
This is getting downvoted, but I really thought D3.js was the most popular library for doing that kind of stuff? I'm a bit outdated I still use gnuplot :/
The ironic thing is that Microsoft is pretty universally considered a software company, yet their hardware is far superior in quality to their software.
Both sides are positioning themselves for maximum advantage vis a vis their publics. Neither one is acting without self interest. The USG says it wants to prosecute crime and associates, Apple say they want to protect the privacy of their customers and not doing so tarnishes their image which damages their business proposition.

The courts, the congress and the people will ultimately determine who prevails.
Im still trying to tell myself that the time played clock is because I left it open all night on accident... a few times...I didnt.
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There was an article some time back saying CEOs are basically psychopaths, then this software should not work that well.
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Then show us the data. Feelings don't count for much.
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Yep. I get what you are saying. A lot of disreputable crap happens in this industry, and it's unfortunate.

We have gotten to the point with our distributors where we order in such large quantities that they know us personally--and they also know we're going to send a screen back if it even has one dead pixel. So they send us their best stuff. We still have a small failure rate, which we mitigate by testing each screen as much as we can before giving it back to the customer and then offering a 1-year warranty for manufacturer defects on the screen as well.

It's the best we can do--no matter what technology you buy, unfortunately, it's never going to be 100% perfect. You buy from the vendors that are the most consistent and you pay a bit more for a higher quality product. And, as a customer, that's why I always recommend you read online reviews before you take your phone or computer to be serviced somewhere. The good places have great reviews because they take care of their customers.
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I count myself as reasonably informed about security threats, I've been recommending Defender / Security Essentials to people instead of AVG/Avast/Comodo/Symantec for home users.

Dismissive, brief statements like yours don't really help - they don't give me enough information to go research whether I should be recommending something else (including offering financial support to pay for subscriptions)

I know that Defender doesn't have the world's best detection rate but isn't it better than an expired copy of McAffee?

Should I be recommending EMET? Virtual Machines? Qubes OS?
The GPLv2 does not restrict placing things under GPLv2 incompatible in the same tree. It only restricts distribution of binaries that are derivative works under copyright law.
Taxis are indeed cheap and plentiful, but the ride sharing services are somewhat cheaper and somewhat easier to hail. Plus, the customer base is so gigantic that there's room for many players. It's not like some US cities where Uber is displacing traditional taxi services that charge $400/mile to ride in a broken-down Chevy driven by an escaped axe murderer, but you don't necessarily need that much of an edge.
Valid points but I think you're underestimating pop culture and how things like gifs are being used by the masses.

Users always end up having value because of ads. People always pay for that.
Just one summer of study and it'll be solved, right? It's always been "one summer away" for the past 60 years.

Get back to us when you have an algorithm for love and art and petrichor.
You can't pre birth screen for schizophrenia. Child onset schizophrenia is incredibly rare, normally manifesting between 16-25 in males and 25-30 in females and there is no consensus on the causes of schizophrenia.
I use iterm all day, everyday. Thank you!
That's in the article
I'd say it's certainly possible, just difficult. Considering what Chris Tarnovsky has done as a hobbyist (with a focused ion beam workstation) to hack several TPM and smart card chips and get their secrets out the FBI has to be incompetent not to be able to do the same thing to Apple's hardware. Or this is just a fishing expedition because doing that is difficult and doesn't give them any more power.
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Big exception being federal property.
I said can be, I did not intend to whitewash every Microsoft installation.
It is remarkable how the win-or-lose outcome of the game changes the player's mindset. In the normal course of real events, I probably would never kill billions of people, but if I have 60% of the world population and I need 64% to win the game, it actually makes perfect sense to just nuke everybody, to bring down the denominator.
You'll note that I didn't dispute Apple's self-interest in their position. But they're being up-front about it: "Our customers will lose trust in us if we do this thing, and that hurts us as a business, as well as them." That's not merely PR. That's a fact.

The FBI's stated position, "These people did a terrible thing and we have to investigate it" is pure PR; the phone the case is proximally about is not at all what it's ultimately about.
> Such as? Even if true they are running non-chinese OS software...

Huawei M8 is nice and well made.

> Making the iPhone in China means they could make iPhones, not necessarily that they can design and build their own full stack phone without "borrowing" heavily from foreign cpetitors.

I generally agree with this, but you may be underestimating how quickly others can catch up in this globalized world.

Plus the blueprint has been well established by the other big Asian tech companies. Look at how quickly Samsung "caught up".
My "bless it" was serious, not sarcastic. Windows defender is an excellent product. It obsoleted much of the industry.
Running a VPS / web server for an initial (web) seed isn't free - and then you're relying on popularity to keep the files available. I should check whether the Internet Archive will host things.

I've grabbed 5 year old tarballs off SourceForge before. I know there are 5+ year old torrents that still have peers but that's an exception to the rule.
>Which isn't peanuts, but shouldn't figure prominently into the decision to buy a home or not.

No but the point is the government literally pays you (maybe not much, but a few $k) to own a house. This is a form of discrimination against renters and causes the marginal guy ("should I buy a house or rent?") to lean towards "buy" for no good economic reason.
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