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Same here.

There's some interesting discussion to be had in this space, but any source that unironically uses the word "bankster" doesn't belong here.
Well if you made a cashless society like that you would just have "digital cash", and then there would be no reason for banning "analog" cash :-) The whole idea about banning cash seems to be to avoid tax avoidance and money laundering, and you can't do that if the goverment & police is not allowed to watch your bank account.
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What is always left unsaid in the article: they're farming lettuce, a food that has 59 calories per head and is 95% water.

One can hardly call that farming in the sense of the word people expect when hearing about robot-run farms. This thing doesn't really produce meaningful food, it produces fluff in a salad, i.e. when you eat half a lettuce on any given day, you'd get about 1% of your calories that day from lettuce.

Further, the robotisation isn't really meaningfully new, either. Controlling lighting conditions for food? Old news. Moving around plants with machinery? Old news. It doesn't get much fancier than that. For example this factory-farm still requires you to plant the seeds yourself, no giant innovations here.

Is it cool? Absolutely, and it's fun to explore. But I'm not seeing the thesis on a new way of farming that I'm hoping to see. The economics and sustainability of traditional farming, when done well, seems overwhelmingly better, and the practicalities of producing real food in meaningful quantities, economically and sustainably, in an automised facility, is far away and quite different from this project.

Lastly, as most Guardian articles on tech, completely devoid of technical/economic details. What's the lettuce going to cost? Who knows.
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I'm sorry but "Smartphones, led by iPhone"? Bit presumptuous.
450 ml of milk would have 25 grams of sugar.

12 fluid ounces of coke (a 'can') has 39 grams of sugar.

The 600 ml has less sugar than a can of coke too. Lots more calories though.
It helps to have coffee that is actually decent, which you don't get in Starbucks.

A lot of low quality food and drink seems way less satisfying, so people make it up with quantity.
No, because the flash chips are only decryptable when they're installed in the phone. The user's passcode is tangled with a long key burned into the SoC, so you need both to decrypt the flash.
Mind you, if you like the taste of coffee, Starbucks isn't that great, unless you like burnt flavors even in your medium roasts. I've heard their new Clover machines, at some locations, offer better flavor -- but Starbucks' regular coffee seems tailor-made to at least drive you to their espresso products, if not well into the land of sweetened drinks.
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Could you provide some notable examples where violence has resolved issues in the long term and did not lead to more issues/violence?

Was the original question. The point is that while it solved one conflict, it deferred and prolonged another (quite major) one -- which might well had been resolved had the colonies not seceded from the Crown.
As a former recruiter, I can't second this enough. Applying online is like shouting into a black hole. Pinging a real person with sincere, earnest content and talking to them like they're a person is so much better.
May be I needed to be more clear. Of course there can be variations, but the maximal potential iq is static throughout life and we can't change it. Good nutrition, good environement will help someone achieve it, I don't know about exercise.
If it is possible to build the requested OS, then it can be said that the iPhone already has a backdoor.

If the device were truely locked down, there would be no aftermarket solution to unlock it.

My understanding is that Apple was asked to supply software that would prevent their software from destroying evidence on a particular device. They should comply with this order, especially given the device in question.
I feel like this approach is easier for smaller startups. But what about bigger places like google, apple, or facebook. My background isn't your traditional CS background but I have over 4 years of experience on a site that does million+ in traffic but I can't even get my resume sniffed at by those companies.
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5% sugar by weight is quite a bit, GI is calculated for the "Food" not for the sugar it self.
Commercially available lactose comes with a GI of 45-50 granulated white sugar is 55-65, it's like saying that "brown" sugar is better than white sugar it isn't it has lower GI because it has more moisture in it so you have less actual sugar per volume/weight, but this is more about how they are refined and processed as a diabetic you don't want to use any of them.
The status quo is largely-absent enforcement.

Aside from the fact that you have no data or sources to support this contention (it's just hunch you have), your logic is incredibly convoluted here.
Errr, sorry I think it's called iCloud now :P
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> Once services have been rendered, it's illegal for someone to not accept cash as payment.

That's actually incorrect. "Legal tender" has a much more subtle effect; what it means is that an attempt to pay in cash meeting the other legal requirements for a tender of payment has an effect on whether and how much damages may be collected if the creditor later sues the debtor for the debt.

That doesn't mean that it is illegal not to accept cash, it does mean that not accepting cash for a debt already incurred may, under certain circumstances, negatively impact the availability of legal recourse to collect the debt.
...whilst maintaining the conditions that actually make them sick.
Nice share! I don't think people will ever openly discuss their struggles and will continue to have issues doing so in focus groups. The answers and solutions to mental health are complex and need serious discussion in society and any material that can probe that discussion is another step forward.
Had to dig a bit to find but seems Apache 2.0 licensed https://www.zephyrproject.org/content/zephyr-kernel-v100-rel...
Because it's Apple who keeps them, not FBI.

Nobody in FBI would give a damn about leaking the patched OS image: it's Apple's reputation on stake, not FBI's.
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A glass of milk has more sugar than it than a can of coke, and more fat also.

5g of sugar and 1g of fat in 100ml of milk, 9g of sugar in a glass of coke. Fat is not metabolized by the body in the same way as sugar, so putting fat together with sugar is a bit misleading.

Not necessarily different breeds of cow have different amount of butterfat and sugar in their milk, the milk that you get in the store has for the most part been sifted for quite a bit of the goodies in order to make cream, cheese and other dairy products you are almost sold leftovers especially if you say buy skimmed milk.

But several type of processed milk have ranges of fat and sugar percentage that determine their classification, so the fact that these amount vary (by how much, anyway?) can only be measured against said classification.

No it doesn't skimmed milk will either have less sugar removed from it than whole milk, or the cow breeds that will be used are those which produce sweeter milk naturally

It confirms that in order to make the beverage more drinkable there might be more sugar added. Again, the article reports on the total sugar intake.

The article compared it to a can of coke which is 33cl not to some bucket you can buy at your local big belly burger joint.

The point was that the proportion would make it for the amount of sugar in a mid-size bucket, which is also not considered healthy.

The article point was look Starbucks is worse than soda so you might as well drink coke instead.

I don't find "drink coke instead" anywhere in the article. Not in the title (which is different from what posted on HN) and not in the article. Coke is used for comparison purposes.

I don't think any one thought that drinking a liter of milk is "healthy" or a good way to blow about half your caloric budget, if they did they need to be educated about nutrition in general not thought to stay away from Starbucks the local artisan latte that is served in what else would be considered soup mugs is just as bad at the end of the day doesn't matter if it has 2 teaspoons less of sugar than Starbucks.

I consider this article useful in learning what fast-food restaurants are giving me in terms of sugar, so reading it was quite educational. There is of course much more material to be read.

Want to know what has even more sugar? that "sugar free" smoothie or freshly squeezed juice as it has over 2 times the amount of sugar as most soda per unit of volume as easily 4-5 times more sugar per serving. Heck a decent sized apple or an orange have more sugar than a can of coke should we stop eating apples?

Glass of coke: 9g of sugar

Glass of apple juice: 10g

Glass of orange juice: 8g

I just googled this up, your numbers seem a bit off. Also, apple and orange juice have more to offer (vitamins, magnesium, calcium, iron...) so no, we should not stop eating apples.
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I'll stick to rules and avoid this situation on the future.
I was the customer, it was my money, they were required to have cash on hand, I made money when my money was loaned, there were no fees, like - NO FEES - and so on...
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We user Pivotal Tracker but at 15 people switching to this would be over twice as expensive.

It looks really nice, I'd love to try it. But we're a small startup (many of the 15 people are part time or consultants) and doubling our expenses on this is more than we can afford.
Profoundly creepy.
It's funny that Twitter is doing a GIF search because Twitter encodes GIFs as MP4s for bandwidth/performance reasons: http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell...

I am assuming from this announcement that Giphy's Series C pitch deck was just one slide saying "we have a partnership with Twitter; give us money."
I think CEOs (and even senior managers) end up communicating in writing to most of their teams most of the time, so clarity in written communication is essential to top tier people.
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> The problem is that once created, it would be easier for future warrants to ask Apple to simply re-perform the same trick it's done in the past.

That's not a problem at all. The issue is how the existence of the tool affects warrantless access.

Where did we get the idea that it's bad in itself for law enforcement agencies to be able to break crypto when they have a warrant?
Would it still let you sneak in if the hash was rubbish? Say it was just a simple md5 of the password. If you could do a timing attack you could use rainbow tables of the hashes and whittle down the the possible set of passwords really quickly, right?

So if the timing attack has told you that the first letter of the hashed version is 'A' then you find another password from the table that hashes to AAxxx, ABxxx, etc.

Obviously that depends on you being able to precompute all the passwords in a consistent way as the hash being used.

Along the same lines - could you use a timing attack to figure out a salt? I guess it's near impossible?
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> That is not exactly true. They wrote the OS, they designed the phone, they know where the JTAG connectors are. Cracking the phone apart and putting is logic board up on a debugger would likely enable them to bypass security.

Is this true? That would have to mean that either the passphrase is stored on the device or that the data is not encrypted at rest. Neither of these sound likely, frankly
> They wrote the OS, they designed the phone, they know where the JTAG connectors are. Cracking the phone apart and putting is logic board up on a debugger would likely enable them to bypass security.

When a passcode is entered, the SoC queries the Secure Enclave with the passcode. If the passcode is correct, the Secure Enclave responds with the decryption key for the flash storage.

The best Apple could do is sign a malicious update to the Secure Enclave firmware that either removes the time delays or dumps the keys. However, some people suspect the SE erases its secrets on firmware update, although this behavior isn't documented in Apple's security reports.
Is there a list of sensibly built phones available? I'd like to buy a phone where the modem and SIM do not have access to main memory (AIUI most phones use a single-chip SoC with a built-in modem).
Tell that to every government agency.
> I really believe that there should be a way for law-enforcement to get access to specific devices in response to a court order as long as the solution doesn't involve weakening the encryption for everybody else.

This requirement is self-contradictory. The device has no way to determine whether the attacker trying to gain access is a good or bad guy, nor can it.
Ok, so I completely fail to see how a random crazy guy with a gun who shoots up a bunch of unarmed people has "national security implications". This seems to be a "fact" that everyone wants to agree on, but is frankly a load of BS if one considers the government probably already has his entire call/texting history for the last couple years.

I see this as just another "its for the children" ploy, of which I'm completely sick of.

In that I fully support Apple/etc for finally gaining a backbone. If more people stood up, then I wouldn't have to be naked body scanned at the airport, or the dozens of other privacy invasions the government performs on a daily basis simply to give themselves something to do. So, rather than admit they won't ever be able to predict or protect the population in any meaningful way from random people willing to give their lives to make a statement, they waste our time and money coming up with ever more invasive ways to peek into everyone's most private possessions.
I've got an original Leap and it worked fine for me.

It makes reference to needing a mount for the VR attachment, but elsewhere on their site they teach you how to DIY the mount with duct tape :)
InfluxDB up until the recent 0.10 version was quite brittle, sometimes it would crash or leak - other times it would appear to be up but no new points would be written to it (or one of the databases you created in it).

Anyway, Grafana v2.6 and InfluxDB v0.10 seem like a good stable combo that works well together. And both are a simple yum install away.

Docker doesn't get you anything in this instance.
Congratulations HN, OP, we DDoSed the debian bug tracker.

Please be considerate when linking to webapps. If there's a static or cached version available, please post that.

In this case Debian's tracker mirrors everything to publicly mirrored mail servers (which are static), ie: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.o...
Seems a bit fishy to me as it felt from the article that they only found correlations between negative emotions and positive performance and then came up with a rationale (vs testing for negative emotions first...)
But this all hinges on the naive assumptions that this is a one off and will never happen again, and that later generation devices are immune from any circumvention attempt. History says this isn't how this plays out.

If you crack the encryption once you'll get orders to crack it again and again, and in much lower profile and lower stake cases. Look at the prevalence of espionage tactics such as Stingrays and "parallel construction" by law enforcement. There may not always be someone you can pump up into an crack international terrorist, but there's always some low level drug courier, or a "quality of life" criminal to use your new toys on.

Also you're saying hat this doesn't set a precedent, but it does. Sure there's not a court case to point to, but it's a precedent none the less. It's that the company not only has the means, but the will to do it. What's stopping the government from coming back a second time, or a third time about this? What argument do you have on either a legal court or the court of public opinion to make when you stand up and say, "That first time was an exigent situation, and so was the second, and the third... But this time, the fourteenth time, THIS TIME we really mean no more!"

Finally, I don't think this trick only works on older devices. The FBI wants them to be able to brute force the passcode through a USB connection instead of making some sort of robot to tap the screen a bunch of times. Also presumably the FBI wants the the two many incorrect attempts lockout feature disabled as well, otherwise their just going to be waiting for hours on end. Why wouldn't this rather low sophistication approach work? from a technical stand point this is no more complicated than a mouse jiggler[0]. Of you're arguing that iPhone 6=< have some sort of "Mission: Impossible" self destruct mechanism, I'm sure it could be disabled given enough resources and motivation.

Finally (for real this time!), making a big stink and then capitulating is never a PR win. You just look like a tool to everyone involved. To the anti-encryption side you're a weak and can be rolled, and to the pro-encryption side you're a sell out.

[0] https://www.elie.net/blog/security/what-tools-do-the-fbi-use...
> but your release cadence shouldn't be considered some immovable law of nature.

I agree, but I think it mostly depends on the product. If you have a bulletproof software implementation of, say, a finances managing system, then you will rarely need to update it -- as long as it has no bugs then the users will be happy with it.

On the flip side, if you have a program that has to be both secure, but also have a lot of features, and is used by a lot of people, then I think you will find yourself releasing every few days -- even if you just stick to staying on top of any vulnerabilities and bugs that could occur.
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What are the odds that Apple has been ordered to do this before, but every other time they were asked it was in a FISA court? That would mean that this is the first time they've been allowed to talk about it.
Don't want to rub salt of people's wounds here, but remember when you guys screamed on the top of your voices that real estate was a bad instrument. This is basically what happens when you follow that line of thinking, when your demands start popping up later in life you realize you could have easily made those investments a few years back, but you didn't. And may be even watch people who made far lesser than you in salary having better house than you.

May be if these under-35's had saved some money instead of blowing it all on "enjoying their lives", "travelling the world" and on those new iPhone models every year they would have a decent sum for a downpayment somewhere in the out skirts.

Also note that most landlords themselves probably went through hell to build themselves this portfolio for their rainy days.

If you think you can't buy yourself a home, you need to drastically rethink your priorities. Because like it or not, anytime is the best time for these things. Its about timing, location and money. Earlier you buy, the better place and lesser price you get to buy. For the perspective of the next decade now is the right time.

You an tax the rich as much as you won't, no matter anywhere in the world. Most of these people will never come to own a home. The true reason why these people can't afford a home is not because its expensive, but because they refuse to commit themselves to any kind of a long struggle, that doesn't interfere with the privileges they think they are entitled too.
Passwordless isn't so much a scheme as a simple quest to revisit basic UX assumptions: why have both passwords and a "Forgot Password" button when you can drop the passwords and only have the "Forgot Password" button?

Maybe there will be something new and shiny that will come later, but likely it wouldn't be a replacement to Passwordless, it would be an augmentation or a expansion to it, because really it doesn't get much more simple than what Passwordless is encouraging.

The problem is that passwords don't have any advantages and aren't working. They aren't working for us as devs (see the article this is attached to), as password data security gets increasingly harder every year in a war of attrition with black hats we maybe cannot even win, and they aren't working for our users. Users don't remember passwords and they don't want to remember passwords and they have so many passwords they possibly need to remember that they aren't going to even try to remember passwords these days. Power users rely on password managers (and don't even know their passwords; removing it as a "something you know" factor and moving it to "something you have" weakening any supposed 2FA) and average users use the weakest passwords they can get away with and/or already rely almost exclusively on your "Forgot Password" button (or sometimes worse, your "New User" button).

It's 2016: passwords aren't working. They haven't worked well for us in years on the web. (Citation: the bundle of new "Please reset your password because we were {breached, forgetful and stored our passwords wrong, found your password in someone else's breach, expecting a breach}..." emails every year that are becoming the new normal.)

Passwordless maybe isn't the long term solution, but it's a better default security stance than our existing preponderance of databases storing some variation of large lists of hashed passwords, and its about starting with not lying to ourselves that we are more secure than we actually are. More often than not, passwords are security theater these days and it's time we did something about it. I'd love something more secure and capable than Passwordless (a wish for a distributed federation system that worked and passed mainstream scrutiny and acceptance), but I'd settle for something like the Passwordless approach as a near term solution.
The Surface Book and the Dell XPS 13 were not mentioned, while they're easily both in the top 3.
I mistakenly thought this would be about startups addressing mental health. We need more of those.
Except that there is no proof of this. It was stated as false by John Kelley, an ex Embedded Security engineer at Apple: https://twitter.com/JohnHedge/status/699882614212075520

For all we know so far, Apple could still provide a signed firmware bypassing the bruteforcing delay implemented by the Secure Enclave.
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I wonder if making it less of a taboo to talk about your wages would help.
What evidence do you have that the people that complain about the reform are the same that unconsciously leave away the accent circonflexe? I rather think these two groups are rather disjoint.
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