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This sig at the bottom of Tavis's report:

> This bug is subject to a 90 day disclosure deadline. If 90 days elapse

> without a broadly available patch, then the bug report will automatically

> become visible to the public.

According to the sidebar the issue was reported on:

Reported-2016-Jan-19

and:

Deadline-90

Today is only 30 days since the initial report, why is this revealed today and not in another two months?
The fact that Apple has made this issue very public (with http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/) is unprecedented almost (Lavabit and SOPA had some similarities). I applaud them for taking a stand and not just giving in.

If this legal precedent gets set that the FBI can force US tech companies to break into their own customers' encrypted data, you can bet the industry will lose millions if not billions of dollars worldwide in tainted reputation.

Who's going to buy US companies' devices that claim privacy via encryption if they're easily backdoored at the FBI's request?
Should be mentioned that FreeCIV is roughly equivalent in rules to Civilization 2. Which is perfectly fine since some afficionados consider that to be the best installment.

But Civilization 5 is an entirely different game with different rules (and hexagon grid).
What you describe is the same as how I would describe riding my bike. I generally have a heart rate monitor on and I focus on keeping my cadence high and my heart rate steady (in whatever zone I am working in at the time). Up until 24 hours after riding I feel clarity in mind and body.
Any details on the graphics chip it apparently uses to drive the HDMI (so much for "workstation grade"…) output?

Libre graphics hardware is quite rare, virtually everything on the market requires binary firmware blobs.

(As do all mass storage devices…)
Impressive. Kudos to the author.

p.s. I am hiring ;)
That's not going to domesticate them. You need to put them into a fenced in area for long periods of time, and control the population. Selecting the ones that are the tamest around humans, and killing the ones that are the most aggressive or uncontrollable.

The indians could not have accomplished this (easily.)
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Which is stupid and counterproductive, because it makes the reader spend much more mental effort when reading math than necessary. A "machine" could verify parts of formulas, basic assertions, and also provide additional tools like syntax highlighting, inline docs and auto-completion.

There is no saving maths notation now. It will die out and it will be replaced with a machine-friendly notation because benefits are too huge to ignore in the long run. Meanwhile, mathematicians will throw tantrums in defence of their notation, like all single-language users did throughout the history when their language was being replaced with something else. I wonder, how do math polyglots - the ones who know both normal maths notation and alternatives (like Mathematica and programming languages) - feel about this.
Social engineering, in the context of information security,
refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing
actions or divulging confidential information.

I don't see how this is social engineering at all.
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Oh you!
2 options spring to mind for me
1) Placebo effect - you know it's expensive, so your mind makes it taste better
2) It's expensive /because/ it tastes better

edit:

Although, if we run with the hypothesis it only tastes nice because of the alcohol content - alcoholic drinks are usually taxed according to their proof (in UK at the very least), therefore a wine with higher % will be more expensive than a weaker wine, all other things being equal.
The one unit per stack thing really shows it's flaws when you have lots of large civs fighting across a landmass though. The land can become 'clogged' with units to the point where it can be hard to move around properly.

Couple that with Civ V having possibly the worst AI of any Civ game to date and it's a recipe for frustration in many cases. The AI civs would never use naval units properly and it made a large portion of the game easily expoitable.

Civ 4 was the other extreme, where with many large civs you would end up with the 'stacks of doom' on a single tile containing dozens of units. Obviously this wasn't ideal either.

Some sort of unit stacking limit would have worked I think. Some mods exist that allow you to stack between 2-5 units on a single tile in Civ 5 but I'm not sure how well they work or how the paltry AI copes with the change.

Still, I always felt like stacking by combined arms would have been better, like a stack of 5 units limited to 2 inantry units, a cavalry or vehicle unit, a ranged unit and a siege weapon.
"Apple is a very rich company"

I'm sorry, but this strikes me as wrong, if they were not rich, would they not be compelled todo this, or would they not be able to argue against it as visibly? (I personally think the second would be more likely).

Civic responsibility? What is next? Agreeing to some idiots religious views and blocking anyone from seeing nudity?

I am sorry, but they are a company, not an elected group. If they are not breaking a law, well you can take those arguments of civic responsibilities and shout them at a tree for all that it matters.

I am trying to resist the urge to bring up some hyperbolic argument against this, purely as i am so shocked someone on hn would try an argument this rediculous.

Its akin so 'someone think of the children', in my mind, and as baseless as that sort of argument.
You can use Einstein's summation without superscripts though. Example:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EinsteinSummation.html

Anyway that doesn't invalidate the point that mathematics often has highly ambiguous and hand-wavy notation, whereas programming doesn't.
Yes, and they don't need a stake in the company, as long as they are responsible for more than 10% of the revenue of the company, they basically have a say in the roadmap.

If they ever chose to release their own GPU, they'll be sure to sell their stock on the same day the device using it is released.
It is a well known phenomenon depending on which body of literature on meditation you study. It is also one reason I avoid recommending meditation to people in general.

http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/dharma-wiki/-/wiki...
Exactly. I'm guessing the reason is that a funny style implies a more personal and subjective sight on the things it describes, and that means it often distinguishes the important and complicated parts from the trivial ones. Serious texts often tend to threat everything the same and you have to think of the practical impact yourself.
Interesting... but I see only two reasons I'd get it at that price. If I actually expect cover channel data exfiltration, or really don't trust in generating crypto keys on standard Intel architecture. But the second one is solved by HSMs too.

So does anyone know why one would prefer this board?
> I've done meditation retreats and the like. I do find it slows down my mind, but can also surface things that frankly I'm perfectly happy to leave under the surface.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but to me, that sounds less like meditation and more like sitting with your eyes closed. If thoughts arise that cause feelings of fear, anger, shame, panic, etc… those thoughts and feelings can be noticed and observed (just like breathing or any other sensation). Once you do notice them, the experience is very different.

> Sometimes the best sanity-preservation mode is to ignore it until enough time has passed when we have the mental tools to face it.

I think Eugene Gendlin[1] put it best:

> What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

– "The Listening Manual" in Focusing (1978), p. 138.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Gendlin
That means the authors of those blog posts have made the mistake of conflating popularity with usefulness, but I don't think the problem necessarily extends to "most JS developers".
I would have put it a little differently. It seems more about image to me than strictly "joking isn't appropriate in business." Apple has an image that is one of sleek, refined beauty. The style of writing used in this article would totally clash with that, causing nothing but confusion and weak branding.

On the other hand, there are brands out there with the exact opposite approach. Cards Against Humanity comes to mind first. Their image is explicitly one of mild carelessness and apparent candidness such that anything written too formally would seem out of place.

But indeed, there do seem to be more of the former brand type than of the latter. Having a neighbor who speaks constantly with a similar tone as the writer of this article, I can say that trying to hold my own in a conversation with him is really tiring. You eventually just run out of witty remarks. Is it possible it's more an issue of skill and time? As in, are there fewer people out there with the skills necessary to make good silly writing than there are people who can write seriously? And does it take them longer (and thus cost even more) to make writing in this style?

I rambled a little, but I think the issue is a combination of people equating seriousness with importance, as well as a general lack of creativity.
This is interesting and new to me:

> For iOS devices running iOS versions earlier than
> iOS 8.0 [..]
> Please note the only categories of user generated
> active files that can be provided to law enforcement [..] are:
> SMS, iMessage, MMS, photos, videos, contact, audio recording, and
> call history.
> Apple cannot provide: email, calendar entries, or any third-party
> app data.

What is the difference between the two categories? Are email and calendar entries encrypted on iOS7 and below?
Ubuntu is based on Debian. If Debian acted the same way to 'raise barriers of entry', Ubuntu would be much worse off for it.

If you're a Linux company, you don't have to restrict access to your code to make money, you can make money by offering something the community does not: support contracts. That's how Ubuntu makes its money now anyway (as far as I know), opening up access to the code will not affect that.
This looks fantastic.

I've been working on a similar tool, but command line based. The idea is to create predefined profiles (e.g. bills go into a specific folder, with specified tags and specified resolution) and then just issue "$ scan bill" on the commandline. Never finished that one so far though. If Paperwork works for me, I probably won't :)

Edit: By the way, OCR-ed PDF archives in a directory structure can be searched nicely using pdfgrep (https://pdfgrep.org/).
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Just wanted to +1 that Headspace is a very good app for starters like me. Very useful is bringing a rhythm to things.

And once you get the hang of it, you won't feel any external force to drive you in meditation.
Hi,

This would be a best way to promote products in online. Great feature by Facebook.
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I'll repeat what I've said previously which is I'm still hoping for an app that combines the features of Ricochet, Signal and Burner with multi platform support.

That would be my dream app.
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How many work on indexing? I'm guessing like 100 tops? (Genuine guess/curiosity, not sarcasm.)
I agree. Will point out though that Linux Mint is also made available without the proprietary codecs included:

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
What interests me most about this is that even now we are so lacking in our understanding of the function and dysfunction of the human mind that there are not even good words, robust descriptions, or any scientific metrics or diagnostics for what is going on. Words like engagement and violence get thrown around without quantification and a parade of categories are fitted and later abandoned much like Jani's imaginary friends. It is important for us to understand what the mind is and how it is evoked from brain function, but now we are mostly helpless.
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Second Riesling - if you like them sweeter, I'd throw out Liebfraumilch, Hock and Gewurtzraminer too.

I'll also mention you want European Riesling - the bottles from New Zealand/Australia can tend to have a slight petrol taste to them.
The difference is this: When I write code that has an error, I usually get either a compile or run time error. Not so with math!
That's awesome. Completely different perspective that what I have heard so far, thanks.
Yes, but it's unsafe for another reason. The new syntax can be verified statically by tools like Pylint. A call to locals() is hard to verify.

The locals() function itself could for instance have been replaced by something else. When using locals(), you won't know until execution time if a local variable, required for the interpolation is missing. Even worse, linter tools (pylint, pyflakes, jedi, ...) are now going to tell you that certain variables are not used, and people are going to remove it without thinking that somewhere a locals() call is going to use it. This is very bad. Actually, the effects of using locals() cannot be verified statically, even more because locals() is also a writable dict.

For f-strings, the name bindings are static, and editors are going to understand it while editing.
And closed-source.
@mistertaco we are working (hard) on it!
This is very well written, intelligent, and very entertaining. It's almost like he channelled Deadpool. Kudos.

Oh and did not know about the Copy as cURL feature on Chrome!
I am only going to reply to 3.

Why would any company have a moral obligation? In fact, what if they are saying this is their moral obligation? To not bypass the security they told customers they had put in place?

I think they by using the term moral obligation, people are trying to negate the meeds for laws or rulings.

In my opinion: There are no moral obligations for companies, just laws they have to follow.

After it is made law, it is the companies choice to do business there or not.
Just below that:

> Today (12 hours ago) tav...@google.com

> Update today:

> Hello Tavis,

> Regarding the vulnerability below, we have issued a hotfix on 10th of February.

> GB 4.25.380415.167 has the required fix and 90+% of existing users are updated as of now.
I don't consider it mumbo-jumbo. But I feel it doesn't fit well with my Western mindset: it costs a lot of time, and is that really the best way to spend that time?

I'd rather go out and walk, and think about problems I want to solve. Or use the time to get something done.
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Reading the first reply:

>Regarding the vulnerability below, we have issued a hotfix on 10th of February.
>GB 4.25.380415.167 has the required fix and 90+% of existing users are updated as of now.

Since the issue was fixed and rolled out, it was reasonable to reveal it instead of waiting.
Looks nice! I wasn't aware of Heka either (I've been out of the Elasticsearch world for a year or so), so thanks :)
iTerm2 was my first choice when I joined a company where most of the people were doing all their stuff on the CLI and started my own journey into the CLI. I never looked back since then.

Thanks a lot for creating a wonderful piece of software which I use on a daily basis at work.
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So, do I get this right - the bug has been fixed since mid 2015 but the ticket wasn't updated?
...and then storing it in plaintext in the registry, to top it all off.
How well it understands types? Could I generate TypeScript interfaces for each API call?

I'm not that interested in RESTfullness, but rather easily navigable API through auto-completion. E.g. /users/save/ would become "Users.Save()" in JavaScript/TypeScript, with interfaces.
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Can't the FBI then subpoena the signing key?
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When i read "Password Manager" on the iterm2 V3 announcement page i hoped to read about 1Password integration! PLEASE PLEASE George Nachman - i would donate (again) for iTerm2! :)
Sorry that's just not how targeted advertising works. Seriously with MySpace you had TONS AND TONS of data about posting history, likes, affinities and such and it made virtually no impact on monetization. Things like attendance are laughably irrelevant to ad dollars.
I really like the fact that Lazarus is easy to build (even on my Windows system).

1. grab the source code
2. make install LAZARUS_INSTALL_DIR=C:\lazarus NOGDB=1
3. done

Anyway, it's nice that we have an open source, cross platform Delphi-like environment :D
Regarding 64-bit/ARMv8: it was just the better choice, for many applications: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/4

I don't see why it would be more complex coding, I'm pretty sure the move to ARMv8 was transparent to most developers (as it should be).

They use the best of Imagination because of the ambitious goals, and because no one is even trying to push the boundaries; I'm not sure they have exclusivity on the designs, they just have a better SoC integration team, while TI choked on OMAP5 after the years of delay.

Another bet for which they were the first: UFS PCIe storage, on mobile. The storage performance crushes all competition, it's sad.

Honestly, most people don't know what a SoC is, so no, it's not a marketing ploy, even if Apple is marketing company. It's a (huge) technical bet.
I would consider that a security hole by now.
If you define worry as "the state of being anxious and troubled over actual or potential problems", then I'd argue that worrying in itself has no positive effect on the 'real' problem anyways.

The only mechanism by which 'worry' might be useful is if it triggers the problem-solving part of the mind and ultimately leads to actions that solve this problem. In my opinion this mechanism is highly inefficient and in fact often backfires: we focus on the worry instead of thinking about solutions, let alone implementing these solutions.

Meditation, and a mindful approach to life is first of all useful as a debugging mechanism. As you train your ability to direct your thoughts and pause them, you learn to discern what kind of thinking is useful, and what isn't.

So, for example, you might realize that you've been caught up in worry and just the act of being aware of this pointless train of thought might prompt you to sit down and create an action list of how to get out of this situation.

Another benefit is that frequent meditation somehow improves the connection between the thinking mind and the subconscious, as well as the body. I've had moments where meditation helped me suddenly realize a solution to a problem that I couldn't previously solve. And almost every time that I meditate, I will be aware of hunger, or thirst, or some other feeling or physical need that I would otherwise completely neglect.

Now I'm a particular type of person, so these benefits might be more explicit to me, but from what I understand most people will experience these things to some extent.
It's interesting that homelessness started to become a problem in the 80's around the same time of Reaganism. The US probably needs to become more socialist to solve this but people there tend to equate socialism with statism of the former USSR maybe as right-wing propaganda or a throw back to McCarthyism. Everybody is not a winner in a market fundamentalist society - it's mainly the big guys who win as there are barriers to entry. You need to soften it's edges.
Yes, I and my fellow Muslims and Arabs all expect that Egypt helps its fellow humans in Gaza. We expect much less from Israel, given that it is the one who built the wall in the first place.

I apologize. You are right, Israel seems to at least let some aid through.

A country border? What kind of country lets another state build a huge wall around it and doesn't have control of the crossing points? I'm sorry but you're spewing nonsense.
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While meditation may be helpful in managing stress and other aspects, I am skeptical that it will work if you just meditated for three days.
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Does anyone feel this whole incident is a carefully staged by the FBI and Apple?

I'm not into conspiracy theories, but I'm wondering on this one.

Why would the FBI, or Apple make this so public? The Apple letter seemed staged?

The federal government always seems to get what it wants in the end, especially if one has a lot to lose?

I imagine the conversation starts off with an indignant, appalled CEO.

"Hell No--I'm not giving you access to my customers data!"

Federal government counters with, "Do you want us to scrutinize your past, and present life?"

"Do you want us to look at every stock trade you ever made?"

"Do you want us to publicize the personal information we have on you already?

"You know we can make your life misserable? You know we can make your companies life misserable?"

No this isn't Russia, but our law enforcement branch of the federal government scares me, and I'm a nobody. There's been some deaths, especially in tech, that seem suspicious. The drug overdoses--guy in San Francisco that was about to give a talk on ATM hacking comes to mind.

That tech guy who died in that fiery car crash on Los Angeles.

(I don't want to argue with anyone. I have no evidence. Just a weird feeling. And yes, Tim Cook seems like a choir boy. He comes across as someone who doesn't even jay walk.)
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I'm not sure but I think the problem is that the data isn't just encrypted with the user's passcode, it's encrypted with the passcode entangled with the private key of the secure enclave chip (which, presumably, is unknown to anyone).

So they can't just attempt to brute force the encrypted data, as the encryption key would be 256 bits or more rather than just a 4 or 6-digit numeric passcode. That's why they want Apple to open the OS up to brute force passcode attempts.

Edit: there's no secure enclave chip on the phone in question, but it seems that iOS 8 and later encrypt the user data with a separate private key combined with the user passcode.
It's called PhantomJS :P
I really hope i'll be able to permablock a company that sent me a message just like i can do with a user (explicitly AFTER they send shit)
Honestly, just how braindead do you have to be to think this is a good idea?