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I use the first Moto G LTE they came out with. (The specs really don't change much from phone to phone.) It works for me the only other phone I've used before it was a Galaxy S III US Version.

At first it had a horrible bug that unloaded apps all the time. I and many others assumed the 1GB of RAM was the culprit. It wasn't. Unfortunately, we had to wait for the Lollipop update for it to get fixed.

If it weren't for the firmware issues and the fact that they waited so long to fix it I would buy another Motorola/Lenovo phone to replace it. Since it broke sometime ago.
But it's still faster than if you use OpenGL. For now all they did was write a simple wrapper to use vulkan instead of opengl. They are still working on improving it just like they did with DirectX 11.
iOS Brute Force is already possible (why the PR, Apple?)
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> Phones generally are not recyclable.

People recover the gold. One ton of ore gives one gram of gold; you get about a gram from about 40-50 smart phones.
I'm not good with economics, do you have any link which explains alternative models sans banks?
I don't think you can get the exact same syntax without using a macro. But couldn't you have just your entire assertion in a function and pass in the conn, method, route name, and expected json status?

Then you just wrap that in your test "..." form.

I don't see much gains from writing a macro, I see more drawbacks.

Pros of just using function and wrapping it in test form:

* It's just a function, easier maintenance. If you write a macro, you have to debug not only the macro but the code your macro writes.

* You gain more clarity into what each test is testing when there are failures. You hard code the "requires authentication" part as your test string. To write a macro that is flexible enough to also allow the user to specify the string here would end up defeating all purpose of it.

* You unquote the three arguments you pass in to the macro immediately. That's a red flag to me that this shouldn't need to be a macro. It's just to avoid the test boilerplate.

Cons:

* It's syntactically longer

I'm coming from a Clojure perspective, I've dabbled briefly with Elixir so let me know if I'm wrong. I wanted to get into Elixir more but the community's pervasive use of macros is keeping me from embracing it. They say Elixir is less magical and more explicit than Ruby and while that's not an untrue statement, I'm seeing too much metaprogramming already with macros. I'm not saying all macros are bad, it's just the vast majority of them are unneeded.
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Is there any doubt that when the FBI brings up a law from the 1700's to justify breaking digital encryption in 2016 that they are completely making it up as they go along?
Also note that new iPhones default to 6 digit pins. Still possible, but harder.
It looks gorgeous on A0. I almost want to get one done on flimsy paper so I can have trouble folding it, but that's a little too close to Martian rambler cosplay.
it's a slippery slope.
Speech recognition? It's hands free and harder to brute-force than a fingerprint.
> I agree, they should have changed the verb "aufwenden" to "aufwänden", to make it completely consistent

But then you also have to change "wenden" -> "wänden" and "abwenden" zu "abwänden". If we conjugate this, we get "ich wände mich ab" (1st person singular). But unluckily "ich wände mich ab" is already the Conjunctive II of "abwenden" (also 1st person singular).

So the consequences of changing the the spelling of "aufwenden" are much deeper than it looks on the first view. My answer is rather to find an abstract, but completely general rule from which words adjectives are to be derived: the noun or the verb.
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And to think, just two weeks ago that same enforcement which prevents compromising the secure enclave was the target of vitriol right here on HN (Error 53).
The FBI's position seems entirely defensible. The phone data may yield important information - accomplices, contacts etc.

It also seems pretty disingenuous/hypocritical for Apple to plead "customer privacy" when the ENITRE BUSINESS MODEL of much of the smart phone and app industry (from which Apple directly benefit with a 30% commission) is predicated on abusing customer privacy.
Yes, that's true, one definition of literature can be anything that is written. I'm not trying to have a semantic argument with you though. Use whatever words you want, but if you think of this long form journalism as a form of... let's call it art writing, then maybe it would make more sense. If you want to say that having magenta pull quotes makes it not art then I can't help you.
Dude, this is _Hacker_ News. Who cares? This is cool!

Also: Their latest release was 0.3.17 in 2014, with the 0.4.0 release candidates coming out late last year. So it hasn't been 10 years between releases, but around 1.5 years.
It's a high risk method. But it's much more effective than traditional job applications. So if you weigh the time spent (10-20 hours building custom thing for company) vs spending 10 hours filling out 30 applications, I would guess this is a better approach.

It's also a method described in "guerrilla marketing for job hunters". There's others in the book if you're looking for a little lower effort non-traditional methods.
why can't they just use a pin code robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_n5W69OdKM
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Thanks for sharing. I agree with doing the unconventional, and I think it comes down to making a very clear case to the founders that you can add value off the bat when joining the company. Given the limited time and resources, it's hard for the company to pass on hustlers who can get shit done right away.
+1 for Thinkpad T450s
You probably don’t put your “Linux ISOs” in the backup.
I have both Thinkpad T540 & MBP. The thing I miss the most is the dual mini-display port for support triple monitor (2K) desk work.
> The point is there currently is no backdoor. FBI wants Apple to create (and sign) an OS update with a backdoor and install it onto the suspect's phone.

If this is possible without the owner's permission, then the update mechanism is the existing backdoor. It just happens to also be the front door.
I am wondering if there is no other way to get in. There are lots of security researchers out there who can hack in to iOS or any other mobile os. Would not be it simpler to hire somebody who could do it? There are probably many ways to get access to this device other than guessing the pin.

Update: In the meantime I was talking to my security engineer peers and it is not feasible to carry out an attack this way. The user partitions remains un-mounted until the PIN is provided after the boot.
Any space faring nation has technology to intercept LEO satellites. That doesn't mean a tricked out ICBM has any use in intercepting manuvering fighter jet.

The original HQ-9 interceptor is stated to have 200km slant range, just as the Russian missile it was faithfully copied from.
> I'd much rather let language evolve naturally.

Spelling isn't natural though, as there are many humans without writing but practically none without language. Writing has always been at the whims of standardisation, whether "officially" so like the French Academy or Sejong did for French and Hangul, or just by convention like Webster did for American English, simplifying the spelling that Oxford had previously promoted.
China's claiming the entire sea, though, and building new islands to extend that claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...
I didn't downvote but Cook's letter suggests that the backdoor needs to apply retrospectively to existing phones (not just future phones).

Hence the parent post's suggestion that the argument is moot -- if Apple has the capability to retrospectively backdoor existing phones it would imply that Apple didn't secure it in a foolproof way in the first place.
The government might want to subsidize some programs to fix the issue with the Indian people shitting in the street first.

"Indians like to shit on streets -- no doubt. They would rather spend monies on Iphones that get themselves a toilet."

[1] http://theplanetd.com/india-is-filthy/

[2] http://veritas-lux.blogspot.com/2013/11/indians-and-their-sh...
> It also seems pretty disingenuous/hypocritical for Apple to plead "customer privacy" when the ENITRE BUSINESS MODEL of most of the smart phone and app industry is predicated on abusing customer privacy.

Apple uses privacy as a major selling point. Apple has also proven very bad at abusing customer privacy for profit, they have even shuttered their own advertising service.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, but yes, of course. The same issues can be found everywhere.

It isn't just startups themselves that cause these issues, there's a predisposition. My cofounders way back when could handle the pressure just fine.

I'd recommend anyone who is experiencing mental health issues to talk to a therapist. CBT is good for panic, and psychotherapy is good for anxiety and depression (imo.)
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I know there are some good tuts and courses out there, but I'd like to find a tutor. Someone who can help me get the environment set up.. I'm on Windows so of course nothing works right when following the instructions.

The courses don't work well for me, I still have too many questions.

I've googled this haven't really found any decent looking options.
The other thing lacking is Linux multi-monitor support, I see gnome crashing all the time.
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A whole article on semantics, obviously there is no such thing as what he describes. How much thought and time you put in before starting is a spectrum.
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Consistent and straightforward orthography is the solution rather than the cause of spelling being used as a social marker.

English has no academic body enforcing standards and is a pretty anarchic language, and yet learning to spell and decipher spellings is still something which every native speaker of English spends years learning (even to the extent of national competitions!). Spanish does have an academic body regulating the language and yet the much more consistent Spanish orthography is too straightforward to waste much time learning (and the pronunciation of unfamiliar words is pretty straightforward as well)

If the Académie française didn't exist, privately published dictionaries and educational curricula would become the new de facto norm, as in English. If they differed widely in spellings, then consistently following the appropriate one for a particular context would be even more of a social marker.
Not to mentioned they dedication to green energy.

http://grist.org/climate-energy/china-is-totally-crushing-th...
These regular changes are one of the most awesome things about French. As the language changes, as all living languages do over time, they change the spelling to match actual usage. Show me a random French word and I may not know what it means, but I do know how to pronounce it, or at least how the Parisians pronounce it.

Compare that with the abomination that is English spelling.
We had the same thought and so we created tools to do exactly that. Expect some more soonish.
iPhone 5s and newer have a Secure Enclave, which limits brute force-ability and can not be changed via a software update (there is a belief, though undocumented, that any firmware patches would also wipe the stored keys). Apple could not help the FBI to get into these phones.

The phone in question, however, is an iPhone 5c, which does not have a Secure Enclave.
I agree with the article. I switched to Apple because the OS & hardware were superior, but they aren't anymore. Hardware vendors are catching up and Windows 10 is actually not that bad. OS X is actually getting worse.
Wait till 2022 to compare?
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While usually I'd agree with your snarky comment, I am genuinely curious about this too. It's not some yetanother.js hacked together in a night but years (decades!) of man hours.

What's pushing them and stopping from giving up?
Why do you say that?

I imagine the banks view dealing with this type of business as high risk. I also imagine that there's a substantial amount of work to maintain legality in this type of business, monetarily. I read the things you cited as merely saying this guy has the background to be capable of putting in the work to maintain legality, potentially lowering the risk of involvement for banks. Maybe I'm misinterpreting.
What does the FHA have to do with anything if they were putting 20% down payments on the properties?
>They analyze things on a human level

This (and the job prospects) are the reason I choose computer science/software engineering over being a lawyer even though most people who commented on what I should be say I should be a lawyer. The law requires not just thinking like a human, but accepting such thought as valid. To me the logic is exactly the same behind any racist who makes special exceptions for all minority people they know while still holding their view in general. In effect the system is built on a mix of emotion and logic, and in doing such it is insanely unjust to those who fall on the unpopular side. A President who admits to smoking pot leading a government that ruins the lives of people who use pot... it is just as bad as some older men I know who admit to having tried pot but who think anyone currently trying it deserves to be put in prison.

Analyzing something on the human level is always a horrible standard when viewed outside the context of our own emotional fallacies.
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I wonder how soon we will see the inevitable convergence of RAM and "storage". XPoint is still slower than RAM, but is a path towards unification.
it would take forever. there's a timeout penalty for entering the wrong code.
I know my opinion is probably not popular, but if there was a way for Apple to physically install a firmware on a single device to allow for brute-forcing and if Apple did that in response to a direct court order, then this is probably the best compromise we can get.

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.

I'm absolutely against backdoors, secret* keys or similar crap. But physically access a single device in order to make brute-forcing it possible, that seems acceptable to me as that won't affect any other device.

That would be similar to a court order allowing law enforcement to enter your premises and take out the safe in order to pry it open at some other location where specialised equipment is available.

If this is all law enforcement wants, then maybe it's time to hand this over before law enforcement wants even more which will doubtless pave the way for mass surveillance of devices.

* until they leak. Then everybody has access.
Perhaps the phone in question has a 6 digit PIN, so it's useful to try it non-sequentially.
> There are probably many ways to get access to this device other than guessing the pin.

It's encrypted data using the PIN (and a key embedded in the phone). There's not another way in.
a rooted android is probably easiest to own over the air with a push notification, so yeah, that's a great idea! NOT
Of course they did because it's not possible? Topic is super misleading. The FBI did request that apple add a security backdoor, something hackers gleefully waiting for. It'll be like christmas, hannukah, and their birthday combined if that happens.
I have a similar Asus machine. Nice build quality. Lasted 3 years of fairly hard use so far. Shiny screen could be improved, that's about it. Would recommend Asus highly.
I think it is more like economic long term insurance than power.
ReactOs is still in alpha stage, so I don't think it's ready for everyday use. Also it has not been 10 years since the last release, it has been 10 years since the last mayor release.
I'm quite impressed that they can load graphics drivers now. Those generally seem to be arcane as heck, delving deeply into the internals of not just the applications they support (e.g. games), but the operating system itself.

Although I guess this is a more basic level, i.e. not using Nvidia drivers to run 3DMark...
In the US it is considered bad form to date someone who is in your close circle -- to the level that it's called "friend-cest" where I am from.

Many Americans believe that by having your romantic relationships come from outside of your circle you're assured that you both remain independent, and it gives your relationship a sort of 'hybrid vigor'. That is, by drawing from a larger social area your relationship gains a greater vitality.

What's more, it is considerably less complicated socially -- e.g. there are no exes to worry about, or if you break up you don't have to worry about friends choosing sides.

It is also considered a very serious faux pas to date someone you work with. That will very often lead to both people being fired if it is discovered by management.

As a result, that means you need to look outside of your social network for romance. Hence, the existence of dates.
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Apple does not use customer data as part of their business model. This is a unique Google/Android feature.
Would you?
They first have to guess which body part needs to be placed on the TouchID sensor! :)
HN is the first place I came to for discussion on this and I just wanted to thank you all for keeping it civil, intelligent, and objective
> every single person I asked what nationality she was said "uhm..........French?

Well French isn't a bad guess, is it, considering she moved to France, married a Frenchman, became a French citizen, took his French name and probably spent most of her life in France?

Ask people what nationality Einstein was and many will say American, despite his German name, which is also not necessarily incorrect.

That doesn't change the fact that most people who learn about Curie or Einstein at school probably learn about their origin. That people don't remember everything they learn at school isn't particularly remarkable.

As for polonium, it's practically a pub quiz question who invented it and why it's so named.

> the Polish part of her surname is omitted from nearly every mention of her I saw over here so far.

Where her Polish name is being "omitted" I suspect it's more for reasons of simplicity than any 'Western' conspiracy to keep Poland down.
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> and we complain for them being uncomfortamble to have on our bare laps...

"lap"tops.
> I mean, the triple s, I understand, but the ß, it was hard to know when to put one before, but I find it even harder now

What do you mean with triple s? Triple consonants only occur (and only in the new spelling) if you concatenate a word that ends with two of the consonants with one that begins with the same, as Fluss[-]strecke or Schiff[-]fahrt. Very easy in my opinion.

Much more interesting is the question when to use ss vs ß. Here the new spelling is in my opinion more logical: If the vowel before the ß was short in the old spelling (such as Kuß (kiss)), it is replaced by ss in the new spelling (Kuss). If, on the other hand, in the old spelling the vowel before ß is long (as in Straße (road)), the ß is also used in the new spelling.

So the only remaining question is when to use single s vs. ß in words. Here I openly don't know the exact rules (but people told me there are).
This would have been great with free basics. But thanks to post colonial Indian white suspicion, that's not about to happen.
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Because you don't want to make a difficult situation even harder for your relatives?

See, for example, the people who know they're going to die and who leave their iPads to their relatives in their wills. Apple doesn't take grants of probate as sufficient legal documents (everyone else does (eg banks)) and insist on a court order.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26448158
While I only have anecdotes, when I've encountered governments rolling out Apple devices it is far more about being able to have an Apple device than any technical ability it provides. This comes from talking with those in charge of the roll out who admit such. Granted, this is only 3 very much non-random anecdotes.
I would say it is somewhat Chrome's fault, since tabs in the background should use less CPU. They also don't give users any control over resource usage, or notify them which tabs are using resources (except in that task manager thing which is hidden away, and not very reliable in my experience.)

Actually Chrome does slow down tabs in the background. On my computer whenever I put a CPU heavy tab in the background, it crawls to a snail's pace. And if you don't touch it in a long time, it is suspended and saved to the hard drive.

Which is why this story is weird. This shouldn't even be an issue.
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Is there a Windows equivalent process?
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Given the self-imposed limitation of being a "90 Minute Guide", this is great stuff. Very readable, even entertaining (at least to me), without giving me the impression of being talked down to.
The Feds will always try, but in this case there is some push-back. The fact that this case has been made public and Apple is fighting against this is a victory in and of itself.

EFF to Support Apple in Encryption Battle-

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/eff-support-apple-encr...
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The problem is that you are thinking of offline access when encryption is relevant, what I am thinking about is online access, for example let the device boot, connect it to a familiar wifi access point that is modified to redirect the normal iOS traffic to a site that infects the phone with a malware that opens it to unauthorized access. I am not sure if it is feasible though.
AKA, ".... with one simple trick!"

I wish Firefox had an ability to see which tab was hogging resources.
My 2015 MBP opens to 120° which seems like it'd be enough but I haven't purchased a stand yet so I'm not sure. Good to know since I've been looking at the Rain stand, which looks like it's pitched at 30°, so the laptop screen would be perfectly upright at most, as shown in images of the Rain stand: http://cdn1.bigcommerce.com/server800/c1529/product_images/u...

Not sure if that'll be okay, it is helpful to be able to angle the screen backward a touch if you're close to it and higher than the screen. That's probably less often the case with a stand since the laptop will be higher but helpful to keep in mind.