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I think that one founder had an array of reasons to leave China. This was not the only result of said array of reasons, which infuriated another founder. Regulations were met. Now one founder wants to undo unwelcomed results. It is his doing and what other founders and shareholders think gets circumvented through elegant solution implementation. Be evil by appearing good.
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Better phrasing of what I meant: I think the authors of the Patriot Act had pure motives.
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... maybe. Maybe they were pre-orders waiting for customers to come pick them up. Who knows. Either way, still kinda tacky and in poor taste, imo. Grief shouldn't be a sideshow for kitchy photo-ops.
Google (and every other major search engine) already provide a way, i.e. reverse DNS lookup, to authentic bot ownership:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en

AFAIK no content provider actually does this check though.
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No tinfoil intended here, but it strikes me as very unfortunate that the Supreme Court Justice most likely to be opposed to this recently passed away last weekend.

In my not-a-lawyer opinion, I think that Apple will absolutely take this as far as it can. With only an 8-member court, Anthony Kennedy becomes even more important than ever.

We should be lobbying SCOTUS harder now than ever before. We need them to rule against this far more than we need to be calling congress people.

We need the Supreme Court to act with the effect of precedent. But I'm not optimistic. We would need Roberts and Thomas to back off their national security platforms, and we need RBG and Kagan to understand the problem better.

Kennedy is a wildcard, but if we can explain the issue in plain English to those key people and get them to agree, this is doable. Alito and Sotomayor will fall in line.

If we do our jobs as members of the body politic, write amicus briefs, and hound the members of the court, this is doable.

Thomas and Roberts can be swayed. So can RBG and Kagan. It would be an easier 5-4 decision with Scalia still around, but this is possible without him, and we need to focus our efforts.

I'll be putting my money where my mouth is over the weekend and creating a website that submits comments to the individual justices. I'll also be asking for help/edits on the boilerplate I'm offering as a starting point.
Yeah, I know. I wouldn't think of living without roommates in the bay area at her age.

It sounds like she moved to the bay area with a fantasy about what her life would be like, and some optimistic ideas about work, and she never stopped to do the math.

Hopefully she'll learn from this experience. Everyone has to learn the value of planning and thinking strategically at some point in time - for some it's 14, for others it's 40.
This may have been mentioned somewhere but I don't see it on the pricing page: is there limit on how many campaigns or total messages I'm able to send in a month, or do I just pay per subscriber? For example, if I have 100 subscribers and run a single campaign at the end of every month, that's a lot less volume than having 100 subscribers and running a campaign every day. Are both options still costing me only $10?
On the other hand, she only had to lose an $8.15/hr job, or $16k/yr to speak her mind. It's different if you were going to lose a $150k/yr job.
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Hmm, from Gladwell's article I did perceive his aim was at the naive interpretation of the novel, not at the novel itself nor Lee. To me the article was very informing; when I read the novel I did see it's not just about what's right and wrong, but had a feeling that I didn't really grasp the nuances.
You have actual timers for each parking space?

I haven't seen any if those in ~30 years. All parking here in Sweden give you a paper reciept with the expiration time to place in your windshield.
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If you're sensitive to office noise I strongly suggest getting good noise cancelling headphones.
I had the same problem about a year ago, bought bose qc 25 and while a bit expensive it think it's money well spent, I'm much less aware of/annoyed by the noises around me
If the government hacks the iPhone themselves, they don't get the legal precedent they are so desperate to establish in this case. This paves the way for legislation that forces technology companies to install backdoors in software/hardware. This case is not about the data on the phone itself, the government is simply continuing its march towards comprehensive surveillance systems.

Secret Memo Details U.S.’s Broader Strategy to Crack Phones

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-19/secret-mem...

"Silicon Valley celebrated last fall when the White House revealed it would not seek legislation forcing technology makers to install “backdoors” in their software -- secret listening posts where investigators could pierce the veil of secrecy on users’ encrypted data, from text messages to video chats. But while the companies may have thought that was the final word, in fact the government was working on a Plan B.
In a secret meeting convened by the White House around Thanksgiving, senior national security officials ordered agencies across the U.S. government to find ways to counter encryption software and gain access to the most heavily protected user data on the most secure consumer devices, including Apple Inc.’s iPhone, the marquee product of one of America’s most valuable companies, according to two people familiar with the decision."
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I don't think you can lobby SCOTUS. Theoretically you could present an amicus brief but I think the bar is very high

It's probably a good thing we can't lobby them
C++ if far too volatile. Stick to Common Lisp instead, it is a living fossil.
As many open source projects have demonstrated, even if the company backing the project fails, if the community is strong, the project will continue to evolve. Same can not be said for Github. Gitlab while does provide free sass services, their servers are notorious in terms of reliability. Many Gitlab users like it because we want to host the application ourselves. There was always bitbucket for free private repos. People are not moving because it is free, they move because they have great control over their code base.
I also grew up poor, and I also worked hard, and I've made my own luck. But the system is rigged, my friend. Only some of us will be able to "make our own luck." Are we not supposed to look after those of us who have failed?

I'm glad the OP wrote this article. Sure, I disagree with their choices, but that doesn't matter. I'm hearing about these kinds of stories more and more in SF. When are we going to do something about it?
Why'd you get it? Do you enjoy it? Is it interesting to you still? Are there any risks?
absolutely nothing, the fbi lied to congress and no one is in jail.
Adams' were 'Thomas Jefferson still survives', even though Jefferson had died hours before.
Most middle managers can't get away with using the deaths of others to promote their departments.
So with the advent of OSX, i.e. GUI+Unix, the Mac combined Catholicism and Protestantism again in one ecumenic world church of operating systems? ;)
Bembo. Impractical as it may be sometimes, I just adore the capital R.
Braintree is awesome and their customer support is stellar. I don't work for Braintree, but I've used their production API in an extensive project where Stripe basically told me to go fuck myself because of this so-called jurisdiction.
Everytime I hear such stories remember about Overton window [1], its a way from unthinkable to policy,

Around 10-15years ago privacy issues were almost unthinkable (phase #1) (average person didn't think about privacy too much), then wikileaks came out, then Snowden (phase #2, radical) and so on.

Sure FBI has access to phone calls in San Bernardino case, but they are making buzz in news, in order to step to next level, probably from sensible phase into popular, then naturally next step would be `policy phase` and surveillance would be totally legal and everyone will accept this, if not we, then next generation would accept it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
I think it really depends upon the codebase. Libraries are easier to test than applications in general, since you have a published API to throw at testing. One approach (and it seems to work for LuaJIT, a mid-sized C based project) is to just collect test cases as bugs arise (create the smallest input possible to trigger the bug in question) and as changes are made, rerun all those cases as a type of ever-growing regression test.

Or, you know, run a fuzzer.
You absolutely can write letters to the members individually. Perhaps lobby was a bad word for it.

Perhaps my idea is broken on the face of it. But an amicus brief put together by the HN community doesn't seem completely unreasonable.

My point here is that there are things we are capable of doing that might affect the outcome of such a court case.

For those of us who care--in either direction--it seems reasonable to try.

What I'm going to try to research and build this weekend is the most effective way of contacting the court and sharing your opinions.

It could very well fail to be effective, but that's not going to stop me from trying.
Thanks a lot that using PlatformIO for that long period.

We are from Ukraine and do legal business. PayPal is not allowed in our Ukraine :(

The other option is SWIFT, however I'm not sure that it makes sense with donation. In other cases, please contact with us http://platformio.org/#!/contact. I hope we will find solution in this situation.
Toward the end of the essay there's an excellent and provocative summary of the way forward:

My concerns are not merely organizational. I do think we
need to start investing significantly more in mitigation
technologies that operate before memory corruption has
occurred. ASLR, NX, Control Flow Guard – all of these
technologies are greatly impressive, at showing us who
our greatly impressive hackers are. They’re not actually
stopping code execution from being possible. They’re
just not.

Somewhere between base arithmetic and x86 is a sandbox
people can’t just walk in and out of. To put it bluntly,
if this code had been written in JavaScript – yes, really –
it wouldn’t have been vulnerable. Even if this network
exposed code remained in C, and was just compiled to
JavaScript via Emscripten, it still would not have been
vulnerable. Efficiently microsandboxing individual
codepaths is a thing we should start exploring. What can
we do to the software we deploy, at what cost, to actually
make exploitation of software flaws actually impossible, as
opposed to merely difficult?
I am stuck with Win 7 world. Microsoft turned against consumer by serving them subscription based products Office365 and Windows 10 that also spy on consumers - no thank you! They force others to over only Win10 ready notebooks, with locked down UEFI BIOS and crypto module - try to boot Linux, good luck.
Interesting, how does that work exactly? I would've thought with an accurate map of the chip package and a precise grinder you could shave off just what you wanted to expose.

I mean it might take a lot of practice but if you have the time and money and chip samples to practice on...
It's insane. You literally leave one Target parking lot, drive under the freeway and turn into another Target parking lot. I would have decision paralysis even picking one.
Is he really saying that Greenland melting would lower the sea lever in the near surroundings by 30-50m, or was there a conversion mistake?
The way I see it, donations are pretty similar to investments (without the expectations of returns). In other words if you are serious about giving and want to approach it systematically to optimize effect, do the same thing as investment - first do your research, and then spread out your donations over a reasonably wide range of options, instead of lumping it all into one charity. If you're very serious, keep monitoring performance. Of course this is all easier said than done and is also an oversimplification
Good question. We have restrictions on campaigns. Our Starter Plan contemplates 36 campaigns - each additional campaign incurs additional expenses.
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It's certainly confusing to novices when the phone says one thing, and the community says something completely different.
I would be very interested in hearing your research - good luck
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Anything I don't need to extra pay for!

Lato is nice - it's on Google Fonts.
I also agree with this, though that is to be expected. This whole case is massively problematic because the guy was guilty beyond doubt and in a nasty way. The law should not be punitive though, we want justice not revenge. We should not compromise our own standards to pursue potential guilty parties.

Summary

EFF supports Apple's stand against creating special software to crack
their own devices. As the FBI's motion concedes, the All Writs Act requires
that the technical assistance requested not be "unduly burdensome," but
as outlined above creating this software would indeed be burdensome,
risky, and go against modern security engineering practices.

So the FBI says the law suggests it not be "unduly burdensome". The EFF response is that they agree it is burdensome but they did not mention unduly so that won't pass. Then they suggest it is risky and goes against modern security engineering practices both of which are irrelevant to the FBI and the law.
Shouldn't competition take care of the $2,000?
It's a lovely place. I've got several family members buried there, and the graves are well looked after.

As a non-American it reminds me of how everything in America is bigger. Haven't looked at the numbers, but it's probably bigger than even the WWI memorials in northern France.
I suspect that like most things the reality is somewhere in the middle.
I enjoy using "Duru Sans" whenever I need to write some paragraphs.

For headings and titles I like a clean "DejaVu Sans"
come work for me. you'll have to work remotely cause a mountain view office is still in the planning. i will gladly compensate you for your efforts at a rate of 5 cheetos an hour.
Looking in that thread, it seems no pictures were ever posted (or if they were, they are there no longer).
And depending on location, religion and gender. And obviously, how rich do you look?
Most of the reasons why you have to type v4 addresses are irrelevant in a v6 network. In a small to medium network you just plug in the router and you're done. No picking a suitable private network, no configuring a DHCP server, no typing in manual router addresses. SLAAC is very nice like that.

If you need to connect from machine to machine in the lan, use mdns and host names. This already works out of the box even in v4.
And that's economically efficient. Parking tickets are just a more expensive form of parking to people with enough money.
Welcome to USA. Why would they replace them when they work just fine, from their perspective. And even when they don't work properly, it's you that pays the price not them.
I always thought very funny to imagine, say, Turing say 'let M be a Turing machine'... but in general you quickly discover that most named mathematical principles were named afterward by respect for the author.

And then you have some who reinvent calculus and name it after themselves...
Decreased selection pressure on passable eyesight due to the wide, continued availability of corrective lenses?
The 5% percentile of US population in terms of yearly income.
Understand how this could help you find a buyer, but if I were in this situation I'm not sure whether I'd want to put that on my LinkedIn profile.
It's probably worth mentioning that very recently Eco, along with other writers such as Hanif Kureishi and Tahar Ben Jelloun, decided to leave his long-time publisher, Bompiani, and start a new publishing house, named "La nave di Teseo" (Theseus' vessel). It did that at 83, investing 2 millions euros in the process. Remarkable.
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I'd say access completely lines up with their reprints. Also I from what I've heard about their business now that having the PDFs for sale is probably one of the few ways to get "new" conent for now. They do seem to be in some what of a holding pattern. Not a lot of new content and a lot of what is generated is contracted out.
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I will share what I come up with over the next couple of days.

Hell even if it doesn't turn out well, it will be an interesting thing to put up on github to help me get a job.
What is the ruling that prevents this exactly? There needs to be some basis, and considering the circumstances (individual warrant, not even property of the terrorist) I have a hard time seeing the constitutional argument here that is related to any right to privacy.

Based off of the ruling handed down by the judge, it sounds like you could only rule that the work demanded of Apple is too onerous... I feel like that won't accomplish much though. I feel like this situation is pretty orthogonal to a ruling against any "Mandatory Backdoor" laws (which is the holy grail for us at this point)
> I guess they still had a few other opportunities...school, picnics, sports, swimming down at the creek, church, civic youth groups, summer camp, etc...

Most of these are also pretty modern things. Long education and leisure time did not exist for most people until somewhere around ons hundred years ago, depending on where you lived. Stuff like boy scouts was not invented until the beginning of the 20th century and it took time for them to become popular across social classes.

Some historian argue that even childhood is a modern invention.
Yup, that 250 million deal went down about a week after I relented. :( I'm just a programmer dude. I need to get some legal help, obviously. Lawyers just make my skin crawl though. I look forward to the day we have replaced most of their function with neural nets.
Plan B seemed to be "wait till terrorist action occurs and use it to make it look unreasonable to prevent back doors". This always works, in about every country.
Huh, yesterday's submission of the same thing got no attention at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11125050

Transcribing my comment from there:

I really want to see some papers, models or simulations to illustrate some of these effects - starting with the gravitational influence of ice sheets on sea level. This shouldn't be a difficult thing to illustrate numerically, but wow it would have a big impact on how (at least I) perceive the ice sheets.

So far, I haven't been able to dig anything up - there's some prose at [1] but nothing hard. A poster at [2]. Mitrovica's website [3] doesn't seem to have anything. It's late, so I'll have to postpone the search for now, but here's hoping other readers can help me :-).

[1]: http://sealevelstudy.org/sea-change-science/whats-in-a-numbe...

[2]: http://geo.orst.edu/files/geo/Mitrovica-2009-Science.pdf

[3]: http://environment.harvard.edu/about/faculty/jerry-x-mitrovi...
I just enjoy writing code using "Monospace".
Oh how I wish it was like that here! Unfortunately, those with the most money write the laws here.
> This paves the way for legislation that forces technology companies to install backdoors in software/hardware

But... the fact that Apple can do anything is a result of the OS update backdoor in the first place in this case! If this were a 5S this entire court case wouldn't be possible. This court ruling is not "Apple needs to install a backdoor". It's "Apple needs to exploit the backdoor they have a key to".
Did you see Robert Cringely's article where he comes to a very similar conclusion? Ironically, although he sees the same gambit, the two of you seem to be interpreting the situation completely opposite. If I'm reading you both right, you believe Scalia was the most likely to side with Apple, whereas he thinks Scalia was a sure vote for the FBI?

What’s going on is Justice Antonin Scalia is dead.

Had Justice Scalia not died unexpectedly a few days ago
(notably before the Apple/FBI dustup) and had the FBI
pursued the case with it landing finally in the Supreme
Court, well the FBI would have probably won the case 5-4.
Maybe not, but probably.

With Justice Scalia dead and any possible replacement
locked in a Republican-induced coma, the now eight-member
Supreme Court has nominally four liberal and four
conservative justices but at least 1.5 of those
conservatives (Justice Kennedy and sometimes Chief Justice
Roberts) have been known to turn moderate on certain
decisions. This smaller court, which will apparently judge
all cases for the next couple years, is likely to be more
moderate than the Scalia Court ever was.

So if you are a President who is a lawyer and former
teacher of constitutional law and you’ve come over time to
see that this idea of secret backdoors into encrypted
devices is not really a good idea, but one that’s going to
come up again and again pushed by nearly everyone from the
other political party (and even a few from your own)
wouldn’t right now be the best of all possible times to
kinda-sorta fight this fight all the way to the Supreme
Court and lose?

If it doesn’t go all the way to the Supremes, there’s no
chance to set a strong legal precedent and this issue will
come back again and again and again.

That’s what I am pretty sure is happening.

http://www.cringely.com/2016/02/19/the-fbi-v-apple-isnt-at-a...
The problem with this and other initiatives is they don't really have a good story for what happens with a lot of data-lint regular people have. They make broad assumptions that we have near limitless storage resources (including those needed for redundancy) when private users definitely don't have that and even at enterprise levels, the story is still fairly complicated.

Immutable is an interesting idea - it's a lot less interesting when 100 different copies of the same slightly changed RAW file from my digital camera are using up 100s of gigabytes. Or I misclick and something goes into the public store which shouldn't - I might not be able to get rid of all of it, but I should be able to undo it a little.
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> It's curious that anyone took it upon themselves to initiate the password reset without authority

The phone is critical evidence, according to the FBI and the legal actions around this phone. If the phone's password was changed after the crime without authority the person who did this would have been charged with tampering with evidence.

> I'd bet they have simply forgotten what they changed it to.

What possible reasoning are you using to conclude that a government employee changing the password of a phone after it was known the phone was used by a terrorist would have "simply forgotten what they changed it to"?
Whilst the FBI are trying to get into the phone it's actively offering advice for getting off charges. Nice.
Until the phone image loads (which took 6.1 seconds according to chrome timeline on fast internet), the page looks not so great: http://i.imgur.com/8aIDB4Y.png
Honest question - would this case look like if the iPhone ran some GPL3 FSF-friendly OS? Since all the source code would be publicly available, and the FBI would have installation privileges thanks to the GPLv3, could they just install whatever they wanted?
User data stored on an iPhone is encrypted using a key derived from the passcode, so somehow taking apart the NAND chips would not help a bit.
Oh, thank you so much! I will be sure to check it out.
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Apparently this iPhone 5C pre-dates the "Secure Enclave." So the key is somewhere else. Possibly a place vulnerable to a physical readout, possibly not.