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I know how hated negative gearing is in Australia but I believe removing this is solving the wrong problem and may exacerbate the top end owning a greater proportion of real estate over the longer term. It;'s a different view but hear me out.

Once negative gearing is removed, the wealthy can simply debt shift against asset classes that still allow negative gearing. e.g shares. The very wealthy have this asset base to increase debt ratios against share type assets, then buying property for that cash borrowed, effectively leaving them with the same negative geared net benefit just more higher leveraged against shares (and likely debt covenants against the property for collateral). Meanwhile the middle class can never do that so you just knocked them out of the property investment game reducing competition for the wealthy.

Secondly, removing negative gearing doesn't stop property hoarding of all those people that own a bunch of houses debt free.

Ultimately I believe the goal should be to allow people to own a home if they wish, and this group should always have a financial advantage to doing so over someone simply investing/spectating as residential property should not be a speculative asset class.

The best way to solve investment hoarding of residential property is to remove/reduce land tax on owner occupied houses, and place a premium % land tax on investment properties. This will influence people buying both with and without debt. Further it will be easier for government to increase/decrease the % land tax differential to get the ratio right between investment opportunity and not overheating the market. Whilst Removing negative gearing is a one time move.

I'd also look to do the same deal for farmland or we're likely to find rural Australia largely owned by corporate interests over the next couple of generations.
I'm having a hard time believing that you're commenting in good faith here. Yes, the police will easily get warrants to search whatever property of a mass murderer's they feel would be productive to search. No, that does not mean they can randomly get warrants to search random houses in high-crime neighborhoods. Privacy rights for mass murderers: not a high priority of US constitutional law.

Is there some other issue we're missing here, or does that pretty much wrap it up?
Homebrew is certainly not as good as a regular package manager you get in Linux. I'm not sure how you can argue otherwise.
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Well we've long proven throwing money at education is an effective strategy [1]. Many existing elementary, middle, and high school teachers are more then capable of teaching computer science [2]. This will surely be a smart usage of the United States budget surplus [3].

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[1]: http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/08/27/343549939/the-l-a-...

[2]: http://nypost.com/2015/09/20/the-folly-of-teaching-computer-...

[3]: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.ht...
How is it not as good? I'm genuinely curious because I've used apt on debian derivatives and rpm on red hat and I prefer brew to both of them.

My favorite is actually Nix/Guix but I haven't bothered to set it up on my daily driver.
Oracle JVM/OpenJDK and .net CLR are deployed in production at basically every profitable company on Earth.

PHP... Is deployed because it's perceived to be easier and friendlier than other religions, and so wins with that popularity war (as MySQL did). Facebook HHVM is another approach. Folks know the likely warts and mitigate to shrink the attack surface by defending deeply from front layers down to backend services.

Postgres was harder to use in the 2000's despite having a clean codebase but got mucb easier to use, in large part due to MySQL, while leading on features inspired by Oracle DBMS and more recently NoSQLs with hstore.

Attacking popularity for what gets the job done is moot because defense is never ending vigilance for anything real.

Perhaps the focus should be on starting to formally-verifying core libs like zlib, OpenSSL, OpenSSH (portable), glibc, etc. for correctness and resilience against side-effects and ABI promises.
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Only good for specific tech jobs. For sales, marketing, product management, PR, HR, etc... they don't do squat.

Prediction: All these 'hiring startups' will pop like a soap bubble and leave behind as much once their raison-de-etre vanishes and hiring stops being hot.
Surface are great but you are severely limited in screen size. It's great for portability, but if you need a little more screen surface it's not a good choice anymore.
Judges are not strict compilers. They will interpret "submit passcodes" to mean what a lay person would read it to mean: if the submitted passcode is correct, the phone will be unlocked.

Games like this will get you contempt of court. I don't know if an obstruction of justice charge could come out of this, but I wouldn't test it myself...
great analysis, and if you are cost sensitive, be sure to have a much smaller dataset to practice the pipeline and subsequent queries on too! Blowing $300 per failed attempt can get expensive
Similar shit, different bull.

Both examples fall under the same umbrella of IP laws run amok and impoverishing society rather than bringing more creation to the public domain.
I thought they pay in the 100-110k range for new grads, which is not great by any standard (given how 'selective' they are)
See this is ridiculous. In Ontario property taxes are paid by the landlord. It's easier to enforce when you are dealing with the owner.
It's hard to say since I mostly use it for heavy-drain stuff. Streaming movies on Netflix, building apps in Android Studio, etc. Always have Chrome running with a ton of tabs.

I'd say 6h of use in Ubuntu. The reviews I read say that the battery is better using it with Windows 10 (closer to 10h) but I just can't get my work done in Windows.

Overall the battery is not disappointing. Not sure if I can change the battery by myself but for $750 I don't intend to invest much in repairs. I'll just ride it until it dies.
I understand how encryption works :)

I was talking specifically about this scenario where the phone pin may be 4 or 6 numbers and Apple is helping them.
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If it was just a question of hardware performance the PC would have crushed consoles long ago. Form factor matters, in fact it's one of the reasons mobile took off in the first place.. and it's one of the reasons mobile gaming is limited to a subset of genres and games.. at least until we can project it seamlessly onto larger screens or something.
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Renting for less than the mortgage is de facto operating a housing charity or speculating on house price increases. You must rent for a good deal more than the mortgage to cover all the expenses involved.

Run the numbers on your scenario without handwaving and you'll show the homeowner taking a stark loss over the renter.

1% rule is a good place to start. That would estimate the rent would have to be 4400/mo minimum for that 600k property to cashflow. 2600/mo? no way.
I'm quite happy with my 11" Macbook from 2012, she's quite the lil devil still. I stay on Yosemite and my machine is strong enough for me. If the author requires power, he/she could build a decent Xeon desktop and keep it at home, then just remote into it for intensive development. I keep a backup Core 2 Duo at my appt for work and play and it's still packing enough of a punch to do most of my work (only bottleneck is latency).

To be honest, sometimes I even think my MBA is unnecessary and contemplate a cheap Asus Eee PC netbook because I live in the command line (and consequently don't need to load up heavy IDEs). However, I understand if that approach is too much work for most people who just want a simple solution without all the fuss, but where's the fun in that?
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There is coverage. The plane was pinging a real working comms satellite, its just at the time nobody was paying attention. This will change.
>After five failed fingerprint attempts, your password is required to unlock the phone.

How is that actually enforced? Is there an if statement and a counter somewhere? Couldn't that just be disabled by a sufficiently advanced attacker?
All the court cares about is for the person to supply the one that unlocks the phone, they're not going to play guessing games.
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I worked in government mobile security for many years, until last November. Many agencies are indeed rolling out iPhones and scaling back on blackberries finally
There are many independent laptop PC manufacturers in Japan. Panasonic Let's Note (cf. http://panasonic.jp/pc/ ) is known to have excellent battery life while being decent. Laptops from Mouse Computer (cf. http://www.mouse-jp.co.jp/ ) have almost no pre-installed crap. Unfortunately, many of them don't sell outside the country. They're probably too small/thin to Western people. People tend to think a 17-inch laptop "giant" here.
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The Amazon link presented in the article has no reviews of this product that explain what it does. If anyone decides to buy one to play with, it'd be good to leave a warning to others about this sort of behavior. The product does not appear to be available in the US for whatever reason.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0162AQCO4

(Link has been shortened to use only the ASIN.)
Yes, and when they do force you to give your fingerprints they don't ask you what finger you want them to print they tell you which finger and when to print.
Same experience here. 1 MBP has outlasted (and is still working like new in most important respects, including battery life) the combined lifetimes of all 3 plastic garbage Windows laptops I've owned before getting this one. That's 5 years and change, still counting.

I'm no Apple fanboy, but the difference in hardware quality is incomparable in my limited experience.
The analogy is wrong because most all languages are Turing complete, and therefore equivalent despite paradigm and feature differences. The main reason seL4 was written in Haskell and again in C was to cross-verify behavior. C might be legacy ubiquitous, however it doesn't have to be the last word in shared library development by any means.

Any language which has a toolchain which produce flat binaries or use link scripts to specify sections can potentially be used for kernel and os dev. Bonus points for a toolchain which can compile itself.

There are kernels written entirely in Rust with some assembly glue. Others are writing production embedded domain-specific OSes in Haskell, OCaml, etc. for real, mission-critical systems right now and have been doing so for the last 5-10 years.

C inherently or inadvertently leads to giant codebases and subtle bugs when used too liberally, as opposed to higher-level, statically-compiled languages like Haskell and others.

The main issue with legacy code is how we choose to either keep investing effort in putting fingers into the levees or try something new in an incremental fashion.

PS: I would like to see Go get with it and support non-usermode, self-hosted and embedded development without including a giant, hard-to-port runtime in everything.
I'm using a Microsoft Surface Book. Works great.
A seventh: What if there's influence from super-secret organizations to make those FEDRAMP-style standards less "tamper-proof"? Then a court wouldn't even need to be involved: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/eff-joins-call-nist-we...
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Homebrew is really, really good about about giving you guidance to fix failed installs.

"Homebrew failed to do thing...here's exactly the commands you can run to make this thing work now though if you are so inclined."

apt fails? Good luck
> Building a specialized building is a compromise putting you into an uneconomical position, you'd only provide additional light to the top-most layer of plants (small operating savings) at the cost of building specialized architecture (large capital expense).

Couldn't you improve upon things by redirecting the light with fiber optics? Of course, I suspect there's a surface area problem with scaling something like that, so perhaps not.
Courts care about precise distinctions of law (that's their purpose!). Seems clear that fingerprints aren't protected, basically the same thing as your face in terms of privacy given a good enough camera.

But they would effectively be asking you the question "which finger did you use to lock this phone" to which you may plead the 5th.
That's not how quantum crypto works (it's based on observation of state, not the algorithm). Further, we've had cases of quantum crypto that just wasn't good enough to stop an observer from MITMing the internal state.
Big problem. People will generally stop using phones of which they suspect that they are back-doored. At the same time, it would be a hopeless endeavour for law enforcement to get a swarm of (Chinese or other Asian) companies to help with unlocking their phones. They would literally not even answer the phone. Therefore, this may very well spell the end of highly centralized, Apple-style companies that can be effectively pressured and browbeaten into "compliance".
This means you need to be darn picky when applying for jobs. You may need to go far into an interview process to find out they use dogShitJS and you then turn them down.
A few reasons:

- you have way more packages on any Linux package manager.

- Linux package managers do not mess with /usr/local as expected in a UNIX compatible OS. Homebrew does. Linux package managers run as root, not in user-space.

- Apparently Homebrew gets broken by Apple software/OS updates.

- Linux package managers are an integral part of the OS environment and update process - it's structured this way even for critical system and kernel patches.

- Aptitude, for example, gets rid of older versions of packages, while Homebrew keeps all previous versions and simply changes the symlink. Cleanup is also automated in Linux package managers, not Homebrew as far as I know.

- Homebrew sometimes pulls up sources to compile software locally, while Linux distros usually pull up binaries (except AUR on Arch or Portage on Gentoo, or Sbopkg on Slackware). While compiling from source is nothing wrong, it can take a lot of time depending on what you are building.
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As long as the function is doing one thing conceptually, I don't see the benefit of breaking it up into multiple routines just because it's too long (for some arbitrary length). Not only do you have the cognitive overhead of trying to come up with a name [1], but passing in all the required parameters to the function. And for this function, I personally don't see any good "breaking points".

At work, I have to deal with a code base where code is split up like that, and it's a royal pain to follow, and the resulting functions aren't usable by anything else.

[1] The two hardest problems in computer science is cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors.
Also, it's really easy to reset a text string and rather difficult to reset a fingerprint.
Why no one is attacking on hardware level? Cut the processor to get the GID and UID, dump the flash, pregenerate rainbow tables with pin, power flash chip externally and give the codes ...

Yeah it is expensive, but I would not be surprised if there aren't such labs that could provide such service. Why does FBI goes trough such pains?
+1 to this machine. I bought one for my wife last June and so far it's been great.

As a side note: Asus's naming sure could use some help. If I search the Microsoft Store's website right now, there's a Zenbook UX305FA, 2 UX305CA's, UX303UB, and two Zenbook Pro UX501JW's. I'm sure if I searched Amazon I could find even more unique names. I consider myself a pretty savvy PC shopper and even I find that incredibly confusing.
> Edit: AFAICT a lot of the battery life on a MacBook comes from the way OS X works - friends who use Bootcamp tell me it significantly reduces their battery time.

It's not just OSX—even using Safari instead of Chrome or Firefox adds over an hour to my battery life (god knows there's no other reason to use it). As of ~1 year ago when I worked somewhere that required me to use lots of tablets from both Apple and a variety of top Android manufacturers on a regular basis, battery life (especially idle battery life) on the Apple devices was borderline miraculous while the Android devices seemed to treat the battery like an infinite resource—the difference was not subtle.

I'd love a world in which it seems like any company other than Apple holds battery life as a high priority. My observation has been that we do not live in that world. They're the only hardware manufacturer I've seen that gives more-or-less honest battery life estimates in their marketing, and those figures are not low. It'd be really, really hard for me to jump ship solely for that reason.
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Ok, but IMO this is a much lesser evil than (1) compulsory lawful-override of encryption/back door or (2) legislation to exclude devices which don't provide back doors.

Ultimately states will develop the capacity for brute forcing and you have relatively little recourse. While I hate the idea of a three letter agency doing this at any scale large or small, the potential for corrupt local LEOs to abuse their power with an encryption backdoor is very great.
Random thought... Sending in a team of marshals to fetch a guy that owes $1,500- aren't you spending more than that to pay for all these people's time?

If the aim isn't just to collect debts, but to send a message- what message are they trying to send?

Who's sending the US Marshalls in? You'd think it'd be the federal government, but is it possible that they're collecting debt that's been privatized?

Not a lot of details in the article- but it sure seems like doing this would be a good way to get the villagers to start sharpening the pitchforks.
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The article ignores the Surface Book (thought it does mention the Surface itself), Razer Blade and Dell XPS lines which are all pretty renowned for their quality. OEMs make some crappy PCs, no doubt...but it has gotten a lot better in the past 2 years. HP's Spectre is also a really nice device.
Nobody would have to go to jail. They'd hold Apple in contempt and charge them a non-trivial sum of money for every day they refuse. If they continue refusing, the amount increases exponentially until the company is threatened with bankruptcy.

In short: they can't refuse without a justified explanation of why they are unable to comply.
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It's fully grated, isn't it?
I guess that's my question...is there really no way to get the secret off of the hardware so that the function can be reproduced "offline".
In my jailbreak days, the DFU update did indeed wipe the device. I don't know how it works.
Thats the thing - you'd still be liable.
I'm really happy with my Toshiba Tecra Z series. The article totally missed Toshiba, which is still a decent manufacturer.

I get 5-6 hours of battery life with real usage, close to 10 hours in "green" mode, I've got a 15.6" screen, a keypad, 16Gb of RAM, an i7 processor, and a 1Tb SSD. And it's just over 4 pounds and pretty thin. I have NVIDIA graphics. The Tecra Z has an available 3K touch display, and its HDMI port can power a 4K monitor at 60Hz (even while its internal monitor is still going, and its USB3 port is powering a third monitor; that's my office development setup).

I've had it over a year and a half already, and it's still going strong.
I'm in China for the same reasons, and to start a company. European, not Australian.
I own a UX305LA and have owned two previous models in the UX line. Glad to see it mentioned, I like them all very much.

The battery is proprietary but easily replaced. My main issue with my previous UX31 was with the SSD. It died within a year and was no longer readable. It was a piece of proprietary SanDisk crap. Googling around about it yields various complaints about it (http://www.pcper.com/news/Mobile/Be-careful-which-ASUS-Zenbo...).

Battery life: I run Arch Linux with LXQt and get about 6 hours on a full charge. It's not great but IIRC I was getting better on Windows so it might be a software issue.
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Previous discussion before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074638

And the one before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070192
> I'm having a hard time believing that you're commenting in good faith here.

You can feel free to disengage from this conversation if you find it troubling. If you are incredulous that someone might be concerned with the privacy of these people (and their friends and family) in the particular way I am, then I'm not sure what I can do to make you believe.

I am a person. These are my true thoughts. I actually and honestly believe them.

> Yes, the police will easily get warrants to search whatever property of a mass murderer's they feel would be productive to search.

As I said earlier to you in another branch of this discussion, I am not disagreeing that the police CAN get this warrant. They appear to HAVE gotten this warrant, so I guess that's a historical fact. I'm trying to have a discussion about what we think is just and fair and right, as well as trying to find out if there is any evidence of a conspiracy. I have not followed the news on this shooting, so I would not be shocked if the answer were "yes, there is some evidence of a conspiracy". This is why I asked the question, "Do we have reason to believe that there is evidence of any pending crimes or any old unsolved crimes on the phone?"

> No, that does not mean they can randomly get warrants to search random houses in high-crime neighborhoods.

I did not ask if police CAN randomly get warrants to search random houses in high-crime neighborhoods, I asked the commenter if he or she thought they ought to be able to do so. If the answer is "yes, they ought to", then we might have a different discussion than if the answer is "no, they should not". I have met people who would answer "yes" and I have met people who would answer "no". Neither answer will cause me to accuse the commenter of commenting in bad faith.

> Privacy rights for mass murderers: not a high priority of US constitutional law.

I'm not talking about what is and is not a high priority for the justice system. I'm trying to engage in a dialogue about what we think the requirements for a warrant SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT BE and whether or not there is any evidence that the phone will provide information that will help solve or prevent crimes.

> Is there some other issue we're missing here, or does that pretty much wrap it up?

I'm sorry if this conversation is upsetting or troubling to you.
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