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One very strong point which not that many discuss here is how awful websites of non-Apple manufacturers are. They are a strong indication of how bad things are organized and developed at those companies, if they can't make a nice website answering all your questions in an attractive manner – how can they expect you to buy stuff from them? Always impressed me.
Well, I meant: when you learn French in France _as a stranger_, they don't talk about the history of the language, thus the concept of a lost letter doesn't stand.
Just noticed chapters can be downloaded separately.
This is so far the clearest and easiest to understand explanation of the Apple/FBI case I have come across.
Great read.
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> Not entirely true, publishing the code isn't the same as allowing its modification. Code signing can be used to limit which versions are allowed to run.

If I can't run my home-compiled versions of your code - whether because of code signing restrictions or because of federal law prohibiting firmware that hasn't been certified - it's not free[0]. So without without reproducible builds, providing the source code for the firmware provides very little benefit (since I have no way to prove that the code corresponds to what's actually running on the device, nor any legal way to install and run it on the device myself.)

Reproducible builds could in theory work, but actually getting builds to be bit-for-bit reproducible is not an easy feat. I'd be very surprised if firmware were capable of this.

[0] This is a great example of why a free software license doesn't necessarily mean that the software is free. It means that the author has waived his/her ability to restrict your freedom to use/modify/distribute the software, but that doesn't mean that third parties (ie, the government, or a patent troll) have done the same.
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Interestingly, I have a $99 smartphone with quadcore 1.3GHz cpu, 1GB of RAM and a 720p 5" screen, and it works marvelously. No lag, keyboard works as it should, can play 1080p video without any issues, 2100mAh battery lasts for a day. I don't think that 2012 phones are the same as 2015/16 phones. As a x86 dual core 1.6GHz cpu from today and 4 years ago is not the same.

edit: cpu 1.6 to 1.3 ghz
Yes, you can download chapters separately.
This limitation must be built into security hardware used by iPhone so software couldn't do anything about it. I was under impression that it's how iOS security model works. If it's not and in fact this check implemented in iOS itself, it's much weaker protection and it's really looks like an intended backdoor from Apple.
Side vents are better than bottom vents, though macs have vents from top border of the keyboard. That's pretty ingenious design.
And that's one of the main reason for Apple to say no to that.

There is no way that a backdoor like this could not be exploited by someone else if they found out the way to do it.

The other one is that there is no way the government can guarantee Apple to only use in the "right" cases after they have access to it.
Could you elaborate on how's that prevented? I'm quite curious. [Or did someone already explain in some other post somewhere in this thread?]

edit: self-answer: the following post seems to have an answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11115579, although it seems to describe a newer device than the one in the case; but I was interested in how such protection is possible at all, so that seems to answer it for me.
Talk is not cheap when you have to back up such talk with a substantial legal defence.

And any stockholder with an ounce of intelligence will understand that Apple's choices here are both morally right and effective marketing. As the information age matures, privacy is becoming a valuable asset, and Apple is starting to gain a positive reputation in this space.
We can and we do to some extent. The problem is that on the high seas it is the country of registration that you need permission from to board. It wouldn't cost much to offer the poor countries that register the worst offenders to either stop registrations or be more permissive with boarding rights.

It doesn't even have to be governments, Sea Shepherd do some good work and show what can be achieved.

The other problem is poor countries not able to secure their own territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zones. For instance in West Africa many navies and coastguards have ships with endurance measured in days. If you're up to no good you just wait for them to come alongside. RUSI are currently floating the idea of giving them proper offshore patrol vessels paid for from the aid budget to enable them to actually patrol and secure their waters.
Less cards ftw.
This is very disappointing letter for me. It means that Apple can indeed build a backdoor into existing phones, they just don't want to do it (or so they speak). I was under impression that Apple employs security hardware which protects keys and makes impossible to penetrate that defense. If it's not the case, iOS security is not as good as it could be.
Wouldn't many countries like Russia and China stop allowing the sale of iPhones or at least their use by government officials if the FBI succeeds?
TLDR: he didn't do much research.

It is true that there is a lot of crap out there for PCs but there are some decent laptops, it's just harder to find them.

Dell XPS' are good. Surface Book is totally equivalent to a Macbook Pro in terms of build quality.
Can confirm - ASUS declined my warranty on a keyboard problem people complained about (basically sending thrash instead of pressed keystrokes); I had to order a new one from Asusparts and replace it myself; all within 3 months of purchase of their most expensive Zenbook. They even attempted to sell me a "repair" of motherboard that would cost almost the same as a brand new Zenbook (yet the mobo works fine since I replaced keyboard). Horrible, horrible experience.
HP's website should be discussed in UX curricula as best example how to never, ever, under any circumstances including death threats to design a website. From crazy URLs to crazy design to absurd uptime issues to random slowdowns, the inability to use it for anything made me go away from procuring HP products.

Lenovo's is not quite as bad, but the article already highlighted the worst offences. At least I've memorized what to augment my google searches with to find the specific page I need. (I know, I know.)

From the "enterprise" vendors, Dell is the best, because you only need to navigate through a single poorly worded drop-down menu to find somewhere to enter your service tag. Their shop, on the other hand, is absurd (clunky interface and zero configuration options) and seems to solely exist to make you bother a Dell reseller instead (who have better prices, more options, and are, despite email ping-pong, faster).
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Always good to see more support for 2FA. If anyone wants a list of services that support it then take a look at: https://twofactorauth.org/

For Android users I'd also recommend the Authy app: https://www.authy.com/
Incidentally, this topic gave rise to a much larger theory, namely mirror symmetry (unrelated to reflection at everyday mirrors). Please take the following account of the history with some grain of salt, I'm not an expert on this topic.

After counting lines on a smooth cubic surface, you could also count lines on other manifolds, for instance three-dimensional ones given by a quintic polynomial (these are examples for "Calabi–Yau manifolds"). Also you could count curves of degree two, three, and so on instead of lines, which are curves of degree one. The calculations get increasingly harder: The case of degree two curves was only settled in 1986.

It therefore came as a surprise when a group of physicists (Philip Candelas, Xenia de la Ossa, Paul Green, and Linda Parkes) announced in 1991 a formula for calculating the result for curves of any degree. They did so by inventing a new technique, mirror symmetry, in which one relates the "complex geometry" (as in "complex numbers") of the manifold on which you're counting curves to the "symplectic geometry" of a certain other manifold, dubbed mirror of the original one.

Many aspects of mirror symmetry are still widely non-understood and many conjectures are motivated and made plausible by physical arguments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_symmetry_(string_theory...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homological_mirror_symmetry
> evidence that would be the result of a search

No one is advocating warrantless searches or not requiring reasons for warrants.

If I want to get a warrant to see who you're calling, it is inherently a broken system that requires the list of people that you called as cause to obtain that warrant.

Any kind of reasoning allows wholesale collection of communications if you misread it properly.
Only until the next round of closed trade agreements come into force. ACTA, TPP, CETA and TTIP all do their utmost to bring US-style law tactics to the rest of the world.
>The fact that they can push weak OS updates to a locked phone is the backdoor.

This times nine hundred and eleven thousand.
I have a cheap Asus tablet with a quad core 1.3 ghz mediatek CPU and 1 gb of ram that is perfectly usable. It is not as smooth as my iPhone and there are delays but nothing like you describe.
He's talking about a difference of 40K between the hot water out of the cooling and the ambient temperature.
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One thing Apple does very well is simply not shipping crap products. It's forgivable from Asus since they started out as a budget brand, but the premium PC brands like Sony have really dropped the ball.
For me Retina meant that I stopped printing papers, now I can read PDFs comfortably straight from the screen. Not sure it's better form my eyes, but it saves time a lot.
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The issues in the 2012 N7 are related to the flash memory used. As this device doesn't specify I think that's an unfair pre-judgment.
AFAIK your issues with the 2012 Nexus 7 are well known to be caused by the storage memory of the device, it degrades really rapidly. Upgrading to 5.1 just makes it more pronounced. Other devices of the same age don't suffer from it.
3G is already faster than "broadband" in most parts of the world. It's good enough.
But what if you need the blockchain to crack it?
Has the quality of laptops really been decreasing or are we just remembering "the old days" with nostalgia? Seems like a perfect question that could be easily answered with proper research.

My guess: if you're prepared to pay several thousand you can still buy quality modern laptops today (like ThinkPad P70.) Or do it the cheap way: buy old hardware that's known for its reliability like used ThinkPads (currently using a ThinkPad T520 myself.) There's a good guide here for choosing a ThinkPad model if you're a fan of solid laptops that will last: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/images/8/8f/Tpg140901.png -- it's a bit memey but has solid advice.
Use Linux Mint with Cinnamon - HiDPI is awesome there, Linux finally looks good! I switched development over there from OS X & Win, on three 4k monitors and a notebook with 3200x1800 resolution.
I preferred the old list style layout as I'm not a big fan of Horizontal scrolling.

I really like the collections feature - but I wish you could do a reverse collection search e.g Click on a Product and see what collections it appears in
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This post could be titled:

"Backdoor in DVR firmware sends CCTV camera snapshots to email address in China"

OR

"Backdoor in DVR firmware sends CCTV camera snapshots to email address"

Notice the difference?
Without even passive vents? Which exact models?

I might need an additional laptop soon and would love to know about anything comparable to a MBP 13 retina but doesn't have any vents on the bottom.
Well, their bankers making the bad loans and the people failed to repay the loans might go the jail or got executed when illegal lending involved. Here bonuses are reduced.
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With a tiling window manager, the window is not the width of the screen.

Acme has no horizontal scrolling.
I have one of those. Root password is "juantech". Did not know about the shell, how useful! The telnet daemon crashed quickly on mine last time I played with it.

... :-/

Fortunately, I disconnected it from the network a long time ago. Works well standalone, the UI is ok.
> sets a horrible precedent

That's a large part of the fuss!
Do I understand it correctly that Gentoo does not plan to push out a fix for this sooner than in 30 days?
Pineapple juice might be easier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelain
Can you share what exactly smartphone do you have?
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Thanks, I just figured out that it's for Quater HD, not Quad HD.
> Startups are reinventing the business of retail banking.

Sorry but this is complete bullshit. Both cooperative banks and public savings banks are both bigger in retail than the private banks. Then you still have some special banks like the federal KfW that offers cheap loans for things the government wants to promote.

The whole article actually only concentrates on the private banks and ignores the existence of public and cooperative banks that had significantly less problems in the crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Germany#Market_over...
Are you sure? That work via sat data (not cell)?
If Windows gets bad battery life on MacBooks then that's an indictment of Apple's windows drivers.

Just one poorly written driver can ruin your battery life, and that's a place where the MS "hardware manufacturers write the drivers for their hardware" model really falls down - there are Windows laptops where you can nearly double the battery life by fixing the touchpad driver, or the webcam driver, or, .... In theory a manufacturer/integrator should be auditing the drivers they're shipping and making sure the whole thing works together. Maybe the signature edition programme will improve this.
Erlang/elixir is getting some awesome love from hacker news. <3

This is pretty sweet for testing repetitive tasks and also to get starting with macros on elixir.
The actual flash memory device is flawed?
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Good for them.

Personally I feel the Entscheidungsproblem was more important work but that's not such a great story.
Just look at it. It's gorgeous

Meh. The pictures are pretty, but other than that, what's so great about it? The stuff moving up and down as you scroll is just dizzying, and the tech specs page is way too sparse. Frankly, I prefer the ASUS notebooks site.
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I saw a documentary about the company behind Minecraft, and when they interviewed the owner about what kind of advice he would give to a game developer starting out, he replied: "don't listen to advice". I became an instant fan.

When I was running my startup about 15 years ago, I totally subscribed to the "never give up" mantras, and other myths about success. I read everything there was to know about the titans of the software industry, and how many of them managed to become successful after stretches of adversity.

This caused me to become very unreasonable and eventually drove the company into bankruptcy. I ended up with a lot of debt that I never really recovered from. Had I instead tried to connect to people who had failed before, I might have learned things that are actually valuable, such as what the warning signs of impending doom are, how to judge your prospects realistically, and when not to put your personal fortune on the line.

Instead, in a delusional rush to compare myself with highly successful people, I ignored how even in adversity they had a lot of things going for them that I and my company simply never had in the first place.
I do a load of work with high throughput genetics sequencing. One of the programs that processes the data for a sample is single-threaded, but requires about 40GB of RAM. I currently have a server with 384GB RAM and 64 CPU threads, so 6GB/thread. RAM capacity is a definite bottleneck, since I can only run 9 at a time, instead of 64.

It all depends.
In fairness, the polish contributions were completely sidelined in The Imitation Game.
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> I live in the command line and use a modern toolchain. Package management has no bearing on my development. mvn, npm, composer, gem, and pip all work just fine. Home brew gets you the OS packages and I've yet to run into an even remotely popular package not in a Homebrew repo somewhere.

When you're building for a managed runtime it's fine. When you're building native code not so much.
I had Moto G 2nd gen which is similar specs. Said I had, because it was so slow I couldn't use it at all.
So slow that calls would drop because phone app took 10sec to open.
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Except for the sharp edges, I really like all of those features.

I rarely click buttons with trackpads, only when I drag things. I almost always tap.

The power button is both a keyboard button and a pure hardware button if you keep it pressed for longer. Don't let the look of it scare you off.

The keyboard keys are quite clearly separated for me. I can't really use mechanical keyboards very well.

The home/end/page keys are replaced by cmd+directions. Delete is Fn+Backspace. If you're using emacs or vi, it won't matter either way.
Yes but they would have to sell it on a secondary market. Those only exist in New York and in London, and what our research found was that the liquidity in those markets was enough to handle a selloff. The short version is that the Chinese are limited by the markets that they are able to sell these instruments, and not vice-versa.
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Also rich desert nations that normally depend on food imports, like Saudi Arabia. Solar PV + being able to grow food with minimal water waste is sure to make sense.
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If the UK record on anti-terror scope creep is anything to go by, not creating this backdoor is a very good idea.

In the UK, laws originally intended for surveilling terrorists were/are routinely used by local councils (similar to districts I think) to monitor whether citizens are putting the correct rubbish/recycling into the correct bin. [1]

This is a pandora's box, and the correct answer is not to debate whether we should open it just this once, it's to encase it in lead and throw it into the nearest volcano. Good on Apple for "wasting" shareholders money and standing up for this.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-counc... - and lest the source be questioned, this is one of the more reactionary newspapers in the UK.
Just piping in to say that this is correct.
"In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession."

Someone who believes in conspiracy theories would make a statement that "now it is official" :)
Not quite the same, I can appreciate, but inroads are being made with the UK Digital efforts being mostly open source.

http://blog.quickpeople.co.uk/2013/05/17/the-uk-government-p...
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Prices are determined by marginal buyers/sellers. And a lot of the economy is driven by expectation.
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yes - I have a fully kitted out one (16GB, 512 ssd, quadro, hidpi etc) and it hit me for around 2000 pounds at the time. Same price as similar MBP. The only issue I've had is that I couldn't get CUDA running properly under any Linux flavour when I also had an external monitor plugged in. Completely frustrating so the quadro 1100 basically goes unused. Other than that, I like the machine a lot. It's superseded now but the new one looks even better. I don't honestly think I'll need to replace this for another couple of years so 4-5 years for this to me makes the initial outlay easy to justify.
No, unfortunately that is not the case. Lookup happens at execution of the byte code, because variables cannot be looked up at byte compilation. Consider the following case:

x = 1
local({
assign(user_input, 2)
print(x)
}, envir = new.env(parent = environment()))

If `user_input` is “x”, the lookup of `x` in the local scope finds a different variable, in a different scope. Hence this lookup needs to take place every time this piece of code is executed.

I’m not sure if Python suffers from similar problems.
It sounds like it is built into hardware with newer iPhones containing the secure enclave, but not for an older phone like the iPhone 5C.
Such courses tend to be very utilitarian, and not go into a language's history much. Although I guess it might actually be helpful to know while learning French as an Italian.
Ah, so you do agree with the premise that there must be compelling evidence to warrant a search?

In that case, all you(pl.)'re haggling over is the "price point" of how much evidence is required to support how invasive a search. I'm unsure how that results in the kind of heated debate that seems to happen here.

Oh well...
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Nowadays it's mostly only the case on the letter <e>, where it indicates a pronunciation of /ɛ/.

In the past, when put on a <a> it changed it from /a/ to /ɑ/, however that mostly fell in disuse in most French French dialects and I can only hear the distinction consistently in Canadian French dialects.
Poor sales, major benefit of blackberry overshadowed by other services (BBM), late to adjust to the times, etc.

I doubt you were suggesting that BB's downfall is rooted in their encryption, however. In the slim case that it did, they didn't speak up about backdoors and letting .gov into their devices until 2015, way after their market share has shrunk.
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Well, it's the same as everyone using the name "Marie Curie" even though every Polish child will tell you her proper name was "Maria Skłodowska-Curie". Curie was her husband's name, and she explicitly used both names on all of her work, yet it's almost unknown that she was Polish in the West.
You are almost proposing to adopt Dutch spelling. :)
Even if you know you want to buy from Lenovo... have you ever tried it?

In Europe that means interacting with Digital River. It's extremely common that your first order will just be binned by their fraud squad, and from there if you persevere you'll be welcomed by even more pain and torture until the laptop eventually arrives and your view of Lenovo is already very negative.
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