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I worked with multiple agents (FBI and Secret Service) in 1999 - they were not competent back then. I'm glad they have improved.
The problem is, Apple has to fight this now because once they've done this once, they're in a losing position when the government wants it done 800 more times.

Right now, Apple can argue undue burden. Someone needs to sit down, nop out a bunch of security measure in an older branch of iOS, add boot and installation tests that lock it down to a particular serial number in a way that isn't vulnerable to any easy spoofing, test it all, and finally sign it.

If they do all this now, the second time the FBI shows up at the door Apple can't decide to then start arguing undue burden. Any government lawyer could win the argument that Apple already did all the heavy lifting, and that merely changing the serial code checked for could obviously not now constitute an undue burden on the company.

Once they've started down this road it's just a slow frog boil of "obviously not undue burden" small changes to "here's a list of 500,000 potential terrorists whose data we may need to access. Push an OTA update to them that has bypassable security"
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Does anyone know where one can get a free wildcard certificate? Need it for development and foo/bar/baz/biff.example.com change names regularly (they include the hash of the code commit) so I would like to get a *.dev.example.com wildcard cert. (one that won't give warnings that scare the business types who are testing the code, and won't understand what self-signed means.)
Seriously - what do you think? If it was in the US, what would you bet on - it being a guy from the mafia or from the CIA? "Mafia", obviously (or whatever you'd call Israel's somewhat-organized criminals.)

It's not about "being above the law", either, it's about the criminal being better protected by the law, in this instance, than the victim. The policeman likely told her the truth - that no action taken against this guy based on her reported threat is going to deter him from fulfilling it, likely the reverse, so she better be careful.
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The functionality on the 555 can be replaced by any basic microcontroller hence only the cheapest products have a 555 timer.
That's a good idea. Thanks
I think it's already happening with Rust. People are doing really cool things with it.
The idea of basic income is popular on this site and has many ardent supporters here. Whichever side of the debate you're on, please bear in mind this topic needs an extra effort of patience and civility to have a productive conversation. Politicized topics like this break down into angry confrontations very easily.
And we can totally be trusted not to share your house keys with anyone.
You make a good point but how do you figure that sounds conservative? Also, liberalism and socialism are opposing ideologies.
Most of his stuff is great, but his nitroglycerine video made me cringe. He's dealing with fuming acids inside, WITHOUT a fume hood, and (IMO) doesn't have respect for the danger or the repercussions of that substance. Other than that, I like his videos.
> And do you think that if someone cannot find employment because there are not enough jobs in the world that they should therefore have a shitty life in their one and only finite existence?

I think it is pretty clear from what I wrote: "delivering a social safety net to those who need some assistance" that I don't think that.
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Why do you think that people's jobs are increasingly pointless? It seems to me that the opposite is true, since types of jobs disappear when they become much more efficiently performed by machines. To me, having someone plow a field by hand or operate a telephone switchboard is very pointless.
How do you expect people to survive if all they get are bad job offers? Sure she should move to a different city, but it's really screwed up if a city is unable to provide decent jobs to an entire group of people.
I started writing a sort of tutorial for the NE 555. Most documents give you just the formula to have the values (multiply the value by Ln2 and stuff), not how we got there.

It's not finished yet, but here are the first few pages:

http://j.mp/ne555calc

It will also deal with duty cycle and things like that.

Here's the French version (old lab report when I was in college):

http://j.mp/ne555fr
probably because the pool of candidates for positions that imply better wage is much smaller and it's harder to find and recruit a candidate, so such small things like free beer and snacks become more important?

ps also, most likely wage of those making the least in the company has no correlation to goods such as free food etc.
Well he is wrong then.
does this mean the code will be open source and we can hack it around. i like the idea of adding my own functions to the ROM.
Amazon Cetrificate Manager seems to do this, but it's only available in one region right now.
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I am genuinely concerned for the millions of Americans who drive for a living. Autonomous vehicle technology is a clear and present risk to that class of work. Like the rust belt of the 80s and 90s as manufacturing moved out of the US, there will be a major shift in where people work and what kind of work they do. Many, if not most, of those affected will go through hell getting their lives sorted out again.

There are other affects of autonomous vehicles to consider. Labor is a major cost of shipping or taxiing. Accidents and the resulting repair, liability and insurance costs are expected to come down with autonomous vehicles. So the cost of just about everything we buy will come down, and we'll spend that difference elsewhere. Those 'elsewheres' will then see more employment.

What we can expect, at a macroeconomic level, is not massive national unemployment, but a transition period as the work opportunities change.

At a micro economic level, it will be very painful for millions as they go through the transition. I don't know if a basic income can make this transition smoother for the country, but it is worth studying.
This is why we're not using Let's Encrypt for internal/sensitive non-user facing services at the moment. Wildcard instead.
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I was kinda one of those guys.

I never used ALN (Authority Link Network), but I used smaller-tier services. And I ranked well for quite a while in my low-to-medium keywords -- things that I loved, used, and believed in (and still do). Never touched crap like HCG or Acai.

So here's the truth: It took me exactly 3 years to get back to the pre-Penguin traffic levels. Only difference is, this time I've done it with an actual brand and legitimate content: Breaking stories, researching things never heavily-researched, getting quotes from sources, and exposing scams and scandals as well.

Building a small brand is a chore, and we still have tons to do, but it's SO worth it. This isn't some-scumbag-domain.com - it's a real brand that has its own personality, fanbase, and return visitors who regularly come back to read new stuff and use our services. People Google for our brand more every month... We even have our own haters!! That's like the highest honor!

Branding is hard work, but it's FUN. Repeat: it's FUN.

I still get emailed and asked about SEO frequently. My simple advice is this: blow the lid off of something. If none of your content isn't worth real people legitimately sharing... if none of your content isn't worth an experienced user from a niche forum reading it and saying "wow"... then you might as well not even waste your time.

Who needs to build links when you can write (or code) so damn well that people build them for you?! What's better than that?!

Thankfully, when I was doing well, I wasn't stupid with my money. I invested into the future, and was able to handle the downturn without getting a job.

The lessons learned from this:

1. Many entrepreneurs make their most serious money in SHORT bursts of time. No matter what it is, it can dry up, so don't go buying cars just yet. Get financial help from someone who knows what's up (not easy to find)

2. If people aren't searching for YOUR brand name, then you're not doing "SEO" right, or you have ways to go.

3. Despite all this social media stuff, Google still controls some of the most valuable traffic. Don't do things that piss them off!

4. You can have your filler content, but on frequent occasion, you must write full-tilt content like this article here - fresh, insightful, and worth sharing and posting to a number of sites and forums. Otherwise, you don't have a real content strategy. You have a WOMBAT strategy. (Waste Of Money Brains and Time)

5. You can hustle for short-term money, but if you do that, you MUST re-invest it into the long-term game. If you don't, you'll just turn into that old guy spinning and hustling until the day you die. And at that point, you're not an entrepreneur, you're just a hustler.

Dang, maybe I should get back into blogging. So much to say...
I'm confused. Is this the Arab equivalent of The Onion? There's little 'secret' about airplane flight and much of the article is nonsense.
https://focusatwill.com -- they always have a beat that fits my current energy level.
Werkzeug is also under Mitsuhiko's control and has similar maintenance problems.
Isn't that a bit like saying that professional athletes or entertainers have their lifestyles subsidized by those who are forced to take basic jobs because they lack the athleticism or artistic skill of the professionals? Or would you say that athletes and entertainers are okay because their success is based more on their own merit?
The cheapest ones at Digikey are going for 10 cents (compared to 35 cents for the cheapest small microcontrollers [PSOC or a 10F200]).

So I guess they still have some use.

Probably sell mostly to hobbyists, universities and old designs though.
Both Cosmoses (Carl Sagan's and Neil deGrasse Tyson's) also give a decent high level overview. The latter is still on Netflix I think.
Overlords (damn, I always make tons of typos on HN).
> exactly whom do you think is going to fill this role under the parameters the employer is offering? Would it help you be happier if it was someone in the same situation who chose not to raise the issue publicly?

Thats something for employer to think about and solve, not internet mobs.
>The problem is, Apple has to fight this now because once they've done this once, they're in a losing position when the government wants it done 800 more times.

Since each of those 800 times will used after court issued a legal warrant, that is actually good.
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>it's unclear why any well funded tech company in San Francisco is paying poverty wages

Because they can? Isn't it how it works.
Someone replied and then deleted (which is fine). IIRC they said something like "a/this court order isn't creating a master key." (my words, summarizing from memory).

Which is technically true. But consider each event a black box, into which you throw a targeted phone, and it comes out unlocked. Whether that was through unique effort for each case, a general capability developed and archived by Apple, or even an actual backdoor/masterkey developed by Apple out of exasperation from the expense of being legally compelled in each individual case and others to come, the effect is the same, the phone is reliably opened.
Quality of life across Europe plummeted? Factories weren't manned by force except that which drove people to avoid starvation in the face of a pitiful agrarian lifestyle.

As T. S. Ashton pointed out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Ashton) in 1948, the industrial revolution meant the difference between the grinding poverty that had characterized most of human history and the affluence of the modern industrialized nations. No economist today seriously disputes the fact that the industrial revolution began the transformation that has led to extraordinarily high (compared with the rest of human history) living standards for ordinary people throughout the market industrial economies.
> receive an income from the government for simply existing

well, what about "have access to food and basic resources". It's not like all value in the world only comes from labor.

http://ninasadventures.com/inventionofwork
That's the nice thing: http://musicforprogramming.net/
when all else fails, pull out the appeal to emotion card.
anyone know of any MD frameworks for desktop app development. Been looking at qml-material. any others?
That's a good point. The unique device ID is baked into the hardware, but it doesn't look like it can be read directly, so it might not even be able to put in logic based on the ID into the firmware anyways.
Basic income only works if everyone receives it. If it's like welfare and you lose it if you're employed, then no one works. If it's truly universal basic income, it actually encourages work because any additional income increases your standard of living.
A similar project was a winner in Gopher Gala https://goad.io/
What if they use a custom process so that the binary with the standard process will be a "little" bit different?
Actually both used the same source, but a different set of tooling, maybe even a special plugin for clang to get ubuntu.com somewhere into the binary file. is the binary still copyright fee or isn't it? actually what if it is gpl, does gpl also mean, that the compiler needs to be gpl? what if the compiler adds something, i.e. a ubuntu trademark?
I mean i could even sell the binary. i just need to give the source since gpl only applies to the source level, the question about the packaged file is actually left out and I don't think I could resell it without recompilation if somebody copyrights 'his' binary.
Holy crap, dude, calm down. "India-born Bill 2.0 from a high caste", really? I hope someone flags it. I may or may not agree with some of your points, but there is no need to pepper your argument with gratuitous racism.

MS has always been an aggressive company doing some bad things. I'm far from a MS apologist (where were you in 2000? I was in a social squat learning about Linux...), but I'm old enough to give props where props are due regardless of my "religious beliefs". MS docs are still way better than Oracle docs, to mention but one "bad" corp doing "bad" things. That's all there is.
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This seems like a difficult moral argument to develop precisely. At what point in history do you prevent the current suffering, even if it would have resulted in a huge subsequent increase in quality of life?
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Quote: "I'm not really seeing how it's different from other high-end restaurants doing unscalable things to stand out." - my emphasis.

I did not post this, but from my perspective there are very interesting parallels between the hacker approach to problem solving and the way noma approaches cooking.
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Chris Gammell (of Contextual Electronics) and Jeri Ellsworth (of Technical Illusions) held a really neat 555 timer contest a few years ago. You can see some of the results here:

http://makezine.com/2011/04/21/555-contest-winners-announced...

http://makezine.com/2012/08/22/555-timer-contest-highlights/
I believe there is precedent for companies having to share/reveal their own encryption keys or in this case the certificate necessary to create a firmware update. The certificate is something Apple owns.
Right - that's the point.

The jobs which actually need to be done in order for us to feed and clothes ourselves are increasingly done by machines. In some cases overseas labour is cheaper than automation, but we're still progressing there.

As a result, because we're clinging to the idea that a person shouldn't eat unless they perform labour, we have to invent more and more categories of employment which become less and less essential - basically, people work in luxury sectors.

I don't think we've quite reached the point at which the world can spin without unskilled labour, but I do think we can now afford to compensate it appropriately, and I think that giving the lower classes negotiation power via the basic income is the best way to achieve that.
Well, consider. If I go to NK and in doing so help the regime by $5, but I get to talk to a few people unchaperoned, giving them some exposure to the outside, is that worth it?

If instead, it's $5,000 - is that worth it?

So on and so forth.

You also have the consideration as to where that money goes - if 90% goes towards maintaining infrastructure - even if it's infrastructure the average person never gets to use - is that worth it, for the future of the country, regardless of government? But what if 90% is pocketed by corrupt officials?

Passing judgment is complicated.
I did. Read what I said again. "This is just not the way to deal with the problem, shaming the CEO and company publicly in full view of the Internet, more so when you're a current employee of the company.
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Downvote this, but it doesn't change the fact.
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Appropriately enough, this page triggered >400 requests blocked by my various privacy tools.
What happened with Deconstruction? And why is so much academic writing bad?
If you are from the EU any EU ID is sufficient to enter the uk you do not need a passport.
Even if the original software was built to work only one device, if it's ever leaked it provides a roadmap for targeted attacks which may apply similar workarounds though other means than the update path.
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While BI may not discourage work for most people, I don't see how it would encourage work for anyone, given the marginal utility of money.
I have listened to In Motion so many times it's not even funny.

Also, A Familiar Taste is good, and Magnetic. I think Magnetic is actually my favorite track but In Motion definitely hits the spot like right when I open up my editor.
Perhaps you can do:

voldemort=$(echo Ubxntx | sed 's/x/u/g')
...
case $voldemort)

and not have an issue. Their trademark exists in computer memory, but not in code at that point.

I think if the compiler optimizes that out to not have string replacing (not valid for bash, but for other compiled languages), that makes it more interesting since if they're claiming the compiled unit is of issue, well, that unit now might have the string "Ubuntu" in it depending entirely on optimization.
Most of these ultimately come down to a Ship of Theseus problem - how many changes can something be subject to until it becomes a different thing altogether? Is the European Parliament of today really the same as the unelected body of 1962? Is the judicial system really the same one?

Clearly you think that it is the same body. I hope you can also see how others could be cynical about this expanded scope and view it as surprising and undesirable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
src: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Transatlantisches-Fre...
Suffice to say, we appear to be operating off of entirely incompatible definitions of "good"
They're already developing autonomous weapons. Once countries no longer need poor people to make up the military and police force, there'll be no incentive to help poor people. They can live in cloistered communities, and with all the means of production as well as war machines, there'll be parallel worlds - one ultra rich, one ultra poor.
I've found this related IC to be useful in modern circuits: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tlc551.pdf

It's a low-power version of the 555. It runs down to 1.0V!

I've used it in inductor circuits to chop-boost small voltages.
Indeed, the expected number of fix points is the same for both permutations and mappings. Quite curious when you think about it, because the distribution of fix points is obviously different! (Consider the case n = 2 for the simplest example: there are mappings with exactly 1 fix point, but every permutation has either 0 or 2 fix points).

Note though that a correct block cipher is necessarily a permutation, because it's invertible (by definition, a permutation is just an invertible mapping with domain and range equal). A hash function on the other hand needn't be a permutation even when you restrict the domain to inputs of the same bit length as the hash output.
Versus existing programs that are poorly structured (some existing programs are poorly structured, some aren't), an unconditional program would remove some disincentives to work where increased work income leads to cuts in benefits and a net lower standard of living.

(Of course fixing poorly structure programs is going to be easier than implementing a basic income)
I have that kit! It was great fun to build it, make some simple circuits, and trace the voltages through the "chip". The kit is really nice quality and thoughtfully designed.

This kit is actually from Evil Mad Scientist [1], the same people who make the EggBot and other nifty stuff. Their own site has a lot more information about it, and they sell it cheaper than Elektor. [2] They also have a similar μA741 op-amp kit. [3]

Back in the '70s I used to make blue boxes [4] with a bunch of 555s in them. This was probably not the best way to design a DTMF box - I remember I had a heck of a time keeping the frequencies stable. Woz's blue boxes probably worked a lot better!

[1] http://shop.evilmadscientist.com/

[2] http://shop.evilmadscientist.com/tinykitlist/652

[3] http://shop.evilmadscientist.com/tinykitlist/762

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box
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I... am not at all sure if this is some kind of satire, that's trying to prove some kind of point, or not.

At first I thought it's Onion-style funny and waited for some kind of "misogynistic" punchline, but it never came. So... I guess it's serious?
I would expect Paypal/ebay are involved in umpteen investigations at any given time, from money laundering to fraud to drug dealing and so on.

Reddit is also a cesspool of activity from all sorts of people, so there might be some monitoring involved there.
Athletes and entertainers are mostly struggling people. There's tons of talented people who don't get rich at all. The smaller number who get rich are winners in a largely winner-take-all media system controlled by big corporations.

Even most NFL players aren't rich, only the stars, the others just make a decent living but then have to quit at a young age and live with concussions. The best collegiate wrestlers are athletes of the highest order and have no living from it. And so on and so on.

Regardless, these spectacles are barely productive or valuable really. They are mostly escapist distractions. The circus part of "bread and circuses". The idea that you can look at this completely unjust system and say "oh, the Gladiators deserve their fortunes though" is absurdly out of touch.

> because they lack the athleticism or artistic skill of the professionals

Your comment implies that we could have a functioning society if everyone were rock stars and athletes. That's absurd. The role of rock-star and athlete is a zero-sum game. We don't need a billion rock stars. If everyone were virtuoso musicians, then a few of them would still win the lottery as being the ones that make it over others, and nothing would be that different. We'd still be having the same discussions about economics etc.