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If you remove negative gearing for property investment in isolation, sure, agreed. But I think there are ways via taxation and other policy to effectively nullify any advantages to shifting to assets such as shares.

I mean, the general problem you describe is that money creates means, to create more money. How do you solve this problem now that existing policies have resulted in a skewed distribution of existing money?

Absolutely agree though that owner occupied houses should be massively incentivised compared to investment properties. IMO it's advantageous for society to have most people owning property. I think a good goal would be to have most people both owning property, and not being cash-poor at the same time.
This is mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116390
I have a Vaio Pro 13, one of the last Sony models. I bought it over two years ago now. It works very well under Linux. Initially there was a small issue with CPU frequency scaling because it was basically the first Haswell ultrabook, and I had to patch and compile my own kernel to work around it, but that was mainlined after one or two months. I got a version without a touchscreen and I consider it one of the best ultrabooks available, even today.

I also have two older Vaios, a P (yes, this one http://www.getitnow.gr/MEDIA/content_CustomProductCatalog/m1...) and an EB (17" laptop), which both work well under Linux.

Reagarding the newer models, I have no feedback yet but I hope they will be fully supported, if not at the time of release then a few months later at most.
Still not convinced about this. I can get a pretty beefy server from Hetzner for 60EUR per month. Skylake 6700, 64 GB RAM, 500 GB Raid1 SSD. One time setup fee of about EUR 100 but can be canceled on months end. On AWS an equally specced machine would run >300 USD per months easily. So it really only makes sense if you can scale your usage up and down a lot during the day. Does not make sense for most of smaller projects. Most of the companies i worked with had an EC2 setup of 3-10 instances that were mostly always up, which is way more expensive than doing the same thing on Hetzner. Basically they just did it because of free AWS credits for startups.
This. Is Cook's letter an apology for what they already had to do (but could tell no one about)?
Unless there is a bug in their hardware implementation of AES-CCM or (shudder) some sort of crazy disclosure vulnerability in the APIs they provide, there is (presumably) no way to get at the UID. Even if you were to decap the chip and get at the UID physically, you still aren't any better off as it derives the actual encryption key on boot from the UID.

The Secure Enclave is essentially a hardware security module, in more general terms. The only thing that leaves its boundaries are the results of crypto operations, not the parameters that went into calculating them.
I can't read it from the letter - are they going to refuse to cooperate? Can they do that?
wow, honestly, you are one of the first people i hear talking good things about the concave-chiclet-keys. Good to know it. for me the keys are already too spaced out and the travel is so low and i would have welcomed flat or convex keys. ideally less space (so larger keys) and convex to prevent mistype.
Off-topic: I always open C++ projects from Google - they are always so tidy and clean. It just feels like a work of craftmanship, if that actually exists in software: https://github.com/tensorflow/serving/tree/master/tensorflow...

OTOH, I have a strong prejudice against Javascript on the backend... And its not due to it being dynamic - the same doesn't happen with Python codebases. It is completely irrational.
The problem is with the legal prescident this would provide. Although right now it's just limited to once specific use case, this ruling could and would be used in the future to require Apple (and other tech companies) to compromise security in ever increasing scope.
It's not possible because pretty much all baseband processors (radios) run nonfree software.
Come on. It can be iOS update that waits until you enter the code or use touchID - and then sends the keys or decrypted data somewhere.
If there's one thing that we have learned over the last few years from Snowden et al, we have learned that it is safe to assume that these state actors will be trying all the avenues that you or I can think of, and spend years discovering new ones that we have not thought of.
As far as I'm aware, the most proper attacks here are, in order of cost:

0) Find some errata. Apple presumably knows as much as anyone except NSA. Have plausible deniability/parallel construction.

1) OS level issues, glitching, etc. if the device is powered on (likely not the case). Power stuff seems like a particularly profitable attack on these devices.

2) Get Apple, using their special Apple key, to run a special ramdisk to run "decrypt" without the "10 tries" limit. Still limited by the ~80ms compute time in hardware for each try.

(vs. an iPhone 5S/6/6S with the Secure Enclave:)

3) Using fairly standard hardware QA/test things (at least chip-level shops; there are tens/hundreds in the world who can do this), extract the hardware key. Run a massively parallel cluster to brute force a bunch of passphrases and this hw key, in parallel. I'd bet the jihadizen is using a shortish weak passphrase, but we can do 8-10 character passphrases, too. They may have info about his other passphrases from other sources which could be useful.

While I'm morally against the existence of #3, I'm enough of a horrible person, as well as interested in the technical challenge of #3, that I'd be willing to do it for $25mm, as long as I got to do it openly and retained ownership. In secret one-off, $100mm. I'd then spend most of the profits on building a system which I couldn't break in this way.
Even if my laptop would have 24h batter life, I just do not want the mental hurdle of anyway always thinking "will it end now, when was the last time it charged, how much is left". Fuck that.

Bring a cable where ever I go, never think of battery life.

btw, Dell Precision M4800 is a beast, evil mean machine, its the best computer I ever had, macbook pros are trash in comparison. The keys are so soft, so finely grooved, so silent, so evenly spaced, the screen color reproduction is best ever, and its heavy, it doesnt feel like a toy to toss around, it sticks on the desk where I put it. It has 3 mouse buttons, on two places. Who can work on a computer without middle click to paste!? To not speak of the internals, i7, 32GB ram and so on.

Highly recommend Dell Precision M4800.
Everyone thinks about food in terms of economic costs. Few people consider the time that's involved. Yes, yes, yes, food is already cheap, but it isn't free because of the time humans spend involved in its production.

Imagine removing humans from the food equation. Production (vertical farms), harvesting (automation), distribution (electric vehicles), clean energy inputs (geothermal, solar, fusion), and maintenance (growing crops that can be used to manufacture replacement parts [e.g., organic polymers and carbon-based electronics] combined with modular robotics) needs to be addressed. Difficult, but not insurmountable.

Once food is actually free (not merely inexpensive), how will it affect the economy? A large part of our economy is based on trading work (indentured servitude!) for food. Such trades probably predate agriculture.

Hunger, humanity’s everlasting, unrelenting stressor is timeless and impelling. Hunger calls us all to consume, to feed corporate machines. Machines that were forged in the flames of the Industrial Revolution, when rich men hammered out schemes for our future. Their plans,
perhaps unwittingly, followed the template of slave-driven civilisations wrought throughout the ages. Caste societies wherewithin the wealthy commanded the masses through control of food and knowledge.

The printing press and, on a larger scale, the Internet liberated our minds. Wholly automated, indoor farming has the potential to liberate how we spend our time.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger (a national security operative of the U.S. government) once proposed rationing food in developing nations to restrict population growth. Starve people today to prevent people from starving tomorrow. How brilliant. Decades later, researchers learned that empowering women to make educated decisions about their own wombs reduces birth rates. Imagine that. Kissinger was shown to be wrong, but it took time to discover the flaws in his logic, the errors in his proposal.

With the pressures of work, family life, and other societal impacts, time is the most precious of commodities. What if the majority of the world didn't have to work for food, but, instead, could invest their time dedicated to something they love? (Yes, there are people who have the opportunity to love their work, but I assure you, when compared with the global population, they are an insignificant minority.)
That is the whole point of warrants. If apple made iphone with unlocked bootloader it would have been really impossible.
crapware (see preinstalled apps)
Pro tip - along with auditing add permissions and security. For example Github charge twice as much for 50 repositories on the Organisation plan as the personal.

One of the downsides of many startup types never having worked in a traditional enterprise place is they don't appreciate the features that will move you from the "small team in the company using" plan to the "whole department / company" custom plan where you're charging hundreds of dollars per user.
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This Apple?

http://www.opensource.apple.com

https://github.com/apple
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That's the current state of affairs. I know of no baseband manufacturer who has ever offered (nor seemed open to the idea of releasing) source for their chips.

Basebands aside, the rest of the device is somewhat feasible to see being open.
Since Apple is part of PRISM[0], the FBI can just ask the NSA.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PRISM_Collection_Details....
Seems more like another of the typical schemes to put development world countries into debt. The book Confessions of an Economic Hitman by a former World Bank contractor gives a lot of details of how these deals work. (An on the surface bona fide project that no one would contest, a dam, urban development, highways, bridges. A 'sponsored' consultancy is sent in to make favorable projections. Key government officials in the target country take a couple percent of the loan for themselves, the public is on the hook for the rest forever, as the project inevitably fails to make economic sense.)
They will probably produce some China-only version to please the government. A open letter like this, will instantly end their relationship with the government, they won't even attempt to do it.
Mystery 'hobbits' not humans like us: study
Does anyone have a decent architectural overview of iPhone (6)? Security - these enclaves etc sound good but devil is in the details
> and everyone has to use Google Play Services anyway

This isn't true. You can stick to app repositories like F-Droid and use Raccoon to download Play Store apps via your desktop without using a Google account on your phone.
Yeees, I'm asking why he thinks there is little hope that they will stand
Absolutely. I'm quite amazed they had the guts to go through with this and I applaud it. I will support them with my dollars as much as possible.
he barelly mention asus, toshiba, dell, sony, etc. and all those are already better know then lenovo for linux (& windows) laptops for some years.

i'd even rater a surface than a lenovo nowadays. ...just get me the pen and gpu working fine in linux and i bite the bullet btw.

anyway, with lenovo everything is wrong. with the other manufacturers just the flood of models and the sales is wrong :)

ok, basically i agree with his post in full. i just wouldn't have spent so much time on lenovo.
I think Oletros understands that perfectly, but is wondering why OP feels that the situation appears to be hopeless.
My favorite thing about the air vents is that when the Macbook is in use (opened), the backs of the keyboard and display close in against the vents, creating a natural barrier to prevent most things (like bed sheets) from blocking the vents.

It seems really minor, but it's seriously prevented my Macbook from overheating probably dozens of times by now. I can't say the same for my PC, which has the flat ventilation panel on the side and has been killed by bedsheets many times.

A minor detail, but a really clever one. I like it.
You should read your link, because this is not what it says
If you are doubting the documents, then exactly what evidence will persuade you? Sounds like your mind is already made up.
To be fair, I don't remember that the circumflex should signify a change in pronunciation in standard French.
What's the closest one can reasonably get?
Not quite, but you can come close. I have Cyanogen installed on all my Android devices and I try to use as little proprietary software as possible. However I am patiently waiting for the Neo900, which is a free (libre) hardware design based on the Nokia N900: https://neo900.org/

According to them, there are unfortunately no baseband modems on the market that can legally have their firmware distributed as free software. Their workaround is to keep the modem as isolated from the CPU/RAM as possible.
What I think Apple should (also?) do is appeal to both the law enforcement themselves, and the government - basically go "All secret communications from law enforcement and government figures - up to the President - would be at risk", or something to that effect.

I doubt the ones giving these orders would be comfortable with their own privacy being at risk.
I think the reason Uber/Lyft are especially vulnerable to this is because they present an easy target for politicians who are being held responsible for a crime in the area. Its much easier for politicians to respond to such a crime with "we're banning taxi apps" rather than identifying and tackling root causes.

Case in point - when an Uber driver raped a woman in Delhi, this is exactly what the Delhi government did.
My takeaway was that the single JBOD approach won't work in next generation systems as a JBOD of SSD/NVME/PCI-SSDs will be greatly limited by the controller, and that infrastructure complexity will increase presumably by having many JBODs with smaller number of disks.

Which is silly, because controllers can simply be designed to handle more data, and likewise they can be made more power efficient. So, far the only real limitation has been the interface, which off-course can be changed.
No phone on earth runs the open source version of Android that you can download from git. They all run custom versions that include not only closed source personalizations to the system, but they also run lots of closed code as root (play services first and foremost).

The reason why this doesn't happen with Android is much more mundane: most Android phones are not encrypted so the FBI doesn't need help to read all the customer data. They just need to open the phone and dump the flash.
> According to them, there are unfortunately no baseband modems on the market that can legally have their firmware distributed as free software.

What is the legal restriction here? (It sounds like you're referring to some restriction beyond simple copyright protection on some of their components - are there FCC regulations regarding the firmware?)

EDIT: Ah, of course, the FCC needs to certify devices before they can actually be used.
Yeah, yeah. London is amazingly expensive. And in CPH buying is "cheap".
How one company is building a safer Bitcoin in Hong Kong
Just because it's open source doesn't mean it's safe. You have no control of what happens to that code before it gets installed on a phone. Samsung, whomever can and do modify the code -- those modifications aren't generally open source.

Ruby on Rails is open source but that doesn't mean that all applications on rails are open source.
Apple to oppose order to help FBI unlock San Bernardino shooter's phone
I have trouble understanding your point. What's the alternative to trying to minimize the probability of crypto system compromises?
> Apple is not doing this out of goodwill, or because they believe in protecting privacy.

Personally I think this is ridiculous.

If Tim Cook was born in a range of other countries around the world he would be persecuted and quite likely killed (and not in a pretty way). As such I am sure he is very aware that for many people their privacy is a life and death matter.

Also there would be many people at Apple who would've been dealing with China's aggressive attacks against their users and their own infrastructure and not be too pleased. And to a lesser extent their own government.

I can't imagine the extra few billion that comes from goodwill being a major factor in their efforts to go to all of this trouble.
The reason I specified large software companies, is that support and customization works well up to a certain scale, but won't give you a "big five" size company. A software Mittelstand which profits from support and customization might indeed be a possible future, but I think is far from a certainty. Also, I wouldn't consider that to be without disadvantages.

Two example disadvantages:

1) As it is, support and customization for specific non-technical paying users are among the things many top engineers least like to do. The reason being that it takes away from time solving the problems of the large mass of non-paying users. Even under the support & customization model versus the proprietary model, the number of paying users is much smaller in the first case in general, which creates a smaller "high priority" class of users.

2) Certain features and applications, such as traffic-aware maps or voice recognition engines are easy to build by huge centralized organizations which hold all the necessary data. They are challenging things to implement for loose collectives of smaller software companies, specially in a privacy-aware way.
>The US doesn't grow its own food, and we should keep that in mind when reading stuff like this.

Not sure what you mean by that. The US is a net food exporter by more than 70 million metric tons.

Yes, other countries have more people in farming by percentage. But those people will be pushed out of farming by automation whether or not there are robotic farms.
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This only tells me that it is not the right API for putting one triangle on a screen. Sounds okay? APIs (or programming languages or frameworks or ...) which are build for "big things" often have a certain amount of boiler plate required that looks absurd when you use them for something extremely small, but doesn't matter for something bigger.
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Why is the situation hopeless? Google, for example, has been undertaking efforts for years to improve security on the Internet, in part for the purpose of protecting privacy. Seven days ago they were featured in an article about how they're going to warn users of Gmail whose incoming emails are not protected by SSL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067050 - this is part of their Safer Email initiative. Some time ago they released a Transparency Report as part of that initiative describing which senders to/from Gmail support encryption: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/ - and that's not to mention their efforts promoting HTTPS.

I see these efforts as Google going far out of its way to support privacy and security on the web.
They're not 'refusing to cooperate' in the sense of just ignoring the court or something. They'll file a motion to have the order lifted, with their reasons. If that's refused, they'll presumably appeal the refusal to a higher court, and so on, to the max extent they can. That's not being obstructionist, it's their legal right.
One way around that is for Apple to make it extremely costly for courts to issue many of such orders, because after all Apple are free to charge whatever they like for doing this service.
A 13" macbook air with 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Core i5 processor costs $1 299.00, so more like 60%.
There also seem to be some small things where Asus is saving money: It uses a SATA SSD instead of a NVMe PCIe SSD for instance.
There are parts of Android phones that are closed and proprietary now. Even CyanogenMod.
I didn't know whether or not it would and for the 10 minutes it took, it was worth it to not have to stand in the Apple Store and explain why I was running Windows and not OS X.
Compiling to NaCl or asm.js doesn't make an arbitrary C program memory safe. It "merely" prevents any memory safety failure to affect anything outside the container.

This is different from, for example, java bytecode which is verified and guaranteed to be memory safe.

This is not a mere technicality: an heartbleed vulnerable version of openssl compiled on top of asm.js or NaCl would still leak secret information.

edit: typo
For one, advertised components are not always in the actual phone. Two, licensing fees are probably not paid, given that they are ~7$ for a 3G handset.

Still, $4 is undoable. Cheapest Spreadtrum 2G SOC with WiFi/BT/Sim holder/camera will go over that amount.
Wow! I am extremely surprised to see this. If this device actually works, it will do a lot to push internet connectivity in India.
Ah I see, no I wouldn't mean to take it as the IMF although they may have been part of the loan. A big chunk of the money is from climate investment funds (CIFs), which come from IFIs, of which in particular the regional IFI, the African Development Bank, in addition to private loans from Saudi Arabia and Germany. In fact it's co-owned by some of those companies, e.g. the saudi ACWA Power, the Spanish TSK etc.

Anyway, it doesn't matter as indeed all of those could be dollar denominated. I don't know if they are. It's extremely common for, particularly in english/international reporting, numbers to be reported in dollar equivalents. Whether that's the actual denomination of the loan I don't know. I do know Morocco struggles deeply with hard currency scarcity, particularly in the realm of necessary energy imports every year, so they're well aware of the issues surrounding obligations in foreign currency denominations. There's a lot of fluff pieces on this project but sadly little deep insight in how it's all structured.

Thanks for the book reference. I'd not read it but I've been introduced to the issue in college classes many times, it features heavily in international political economy classes for example of which I took a few. I hope to find some time this semester to look into all the resources you linked me, thanks for that!
The Polish mathematicians were truly great. It was Rajewski and crew who broke the enigma codes.
Thank you. So you mean to say that making an electron micrograph of this chip will not even reveal it's secrets? If the data persists after removal of power, some physical structure contains the data. Somewhere a hash of the fingerprint/password needs to be stored, then somewhere the function to compute that into an AES cipher needs to be stored.

I'm going on and on about this because I see no way in which this problem is not down-boil-able to brute-forcing the password the user puts in.

Actually Apple admits this much! They can build a work around! What stops the three-letter-agency from building it?

There must at some point be a complex user entered passphrase if you want to be safe. This can be a fingerprint of course but there is always the 4 letter password/passphrase that is the weak point.

I could be completely wrong, so far I'm not convinced I am.